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Penalities for Rioters Chicago newspapers are demanding punishment of the men who instigated race riots there. Says the Tribune editorially: The Chicago public will demand of Mr. Hoyne, acting for Chicago, and Attorney General Brundage, for the state, ttiat they establish by swift and just prosecution t2ie iniquity of mocking the common will to good conduct. There may be among certain individuals a disregard for decent behavior, but it must be impressed upon them that there cannot be disregard for consequences. The law cannot prevent the individual from committing crime, but it can prevent his repeating the offense and make that offense extremely distasteful to others similarly disposed. The public will not be content with light fines and mild workhouse sentences for those guilty of bringing shame upon the city and inviting a lapse of order. The majority does not propose to permit a few lawless individuals to upset and violate the ethical standards maintained by studious deportment. Mob action is not merely an insolent disregard of the police but a direct affront to the great majority whose authority is symbolized by the police. A few policemen may be unequal to the

sudden stress, but the majority which they symbolize will be entirely adequate to enforce its will. The majority's answer will be must be relentless and unforgettable. It must be the business of Mr. Hoyne and Mr. Brundage to prosecute vigorously and to see that

punishments are inflicted of such a stern nature uer cen . eyesight 4.3 per cent ; wounds and in

as to advertise to the world that while order may jurjes to arms necessitating amputation 3.6 per lapse in Chicago as in any other city such a lapse cent . nerve diseases and shell shock 2.9 per

The most pressing issue in America today is the cost of living. The league of nations is of the most remote, academic interest, in the mind of the householder, in comparison with the problem of shaking off the strangle-hold of the pro

fiteer in lifeVplainest necessities. The problem must be solved in some way. Wages have gone up because of the need of the worker's family to eat. If they go up indefinitely, the industrial fabric will crack. The place to arrest the whole vicious tendency toward further inflation is in the traffic in foodstuffs. The attorney general of Ohio has called for grand jury investigations in all counties. He will endeavor to make the movement nation-wide. Now we have an opportunity for men of real power and genius. Have we the men ? Rehabilitation Makes Rapid Progress Before the report of the statistical department of the federal board for vocational education can be approved new figures must be inserted in the records, because of the rapid daily increase in the number of disabled men coming in contact with the board's officers. The increase of the work in June compared with the average increase of the preceding six months indicates a very gratifying progress. The total number of men wounded in the A. E. F. has been recently reported as 213,477. A large number, of these severely wounded cases are still held in hospitals. The vocational -officers of the board have made contacts with 146,931 disabled persons, of which number 99,887 have been surveyed by vocational advisors. Of these 18,763 have been reported to the central office to be approved for training and 5878 have been placed in training. The latest distribution of claims as given by the war risk insurance show tuberculosis of the lungs to be the largest single cause for disability, with a total of 18.3 per cent; wounds and injuries to legs not necessitating amputation 17.4 per cent; wounds and injuries to arms not necessitating amputation 7.8 percent; heart disease 6.3

Condensed Classics of Famous Authors

VERNE

Jules Verne was born at Nantes.

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Jules Verne, 1S2S-1905 He died at Amiens, where his 24, 1905.

February 8. 1928. Though ha had gone to Paris to study for the bar. he fol lowed in the footsteps of the legion who have found the idle moments of the law a pleasant occasion for the wandering imagination. The opera and the stage attracted him, but it was not long before he discovered a field which he made his own. that of imaginary voyages to any Impossible place to which his whimsy might direct him, for which, however, he bad prepared a timetable and made all sorts of scientific preparation in the most minute way. Such imaginary trips have been made by writers from Homer's days to those of H. G. Wells, and the guides have included such personages as Virgil, Dante, Cyrano d Bergerac, Dean Swift, and Daniel Defoe. But none have been more matter of fact or more brilliant in carrying off the matter, and the marvels of science in the present war have brought Jules Verne and his delightful day-dreams to the minds of all. Perhaps the most famous trips were those to the "Centre of the Earth," "From the Earth to the Moon," "Twi'nty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," and "Around the World in Eighty Days." All the languages of the world know the tales, and most theatres know the last named as well as "Michael Strogoff." home has long been pointed out, March

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA BY JULES VERNE Condensation by James 8. Connolly

entails immediate and rigid penalty.

cent ; insanity 2.8 per cent ; deafness 2.8 per cent ;

There must be no nominal punishments. The j woun(js to legs necessitating amputation 1.4 per

penitentiary must close on the guilty. The law must be inexorable, else we shall have done little to remove the blot on our 'scutcheon.

Spoiled Melons and Profiteering A housewife in a large Ohio city asked her neighborhood grocer the price of half a watermedon. "Seventy-five cents," he told her. "Oh,

I'd never pay that," she replied. "Well, you could stand it," he retorted. "Money is plenty." To whioh the housewife replied: "That may be, but I have moral scruples about paying such a price." In this same city, on the same day, nineteen carloads of watermelons were thrown on a dump for the flies to eat. These melons had been consigned originally to Cleveland, but because of fear that they might break the market a cent or two, they had been turned away and sent to Buffalo. On reaching Buffalo, they had been rejected again for the same reason. The insufferably high market price must be maintained at all costs. Then the nineteen cars of melons wended their way to Pittsburgh, to be turned away again. Back to Cleveland they were sent, and by this time the shipment had spoiled. Who will pay the freight on these melons for

the course of their wanderings? Does anyone believe that the consumers will be allowed to escape ? This incident illustrates the downright criminality of the profiteers, who prefer throwing away food that is desperately needed, rather than allow a plentiful supply to lower prices. It is a matter of general knowledge that surplus foods that cannot be put away indefinitely in cold storage warehouses are being destroyed or allowed to rot.

cent; wounds to the head 1.3 per cent; oil others 31.2 per cent. Occupations suitable for every type of disability have been found for the disabled men who have applied to the federal board for vocational education. If you know of one who is still discouraged give him the address of the board 200 New Jersey Avenue, Washington D. C, or call the local branch of the Red Cross or the Soldiers' Friends committee of Richmond lodge of Elks.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS

WORLD WIDE CHORUS: "HERE, TOO!" Philadelphia Record. "Leaders Exercise Caution In Selecting Mayoralty Candidates," says a headline. It isn't eo much caution as righteousness and civic decency that needs exercise here.

WHAT DID IT COST THEIR MORALE? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Curtailment of the amount of cloth used in kilts worn by Scottish troops saved the British government $115,000. But how nervous it must have made the troops!

HARDLY A SAVING GRACE AT THAT Toledo Blade. Profiteers are showing some signs of decency. Unlike the old kaiser, they have not yet claimed a divine right to rob the people.

HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES Los Angeles Times. Carranza looks like a man who had beaten the barber out of about 1,800 shaves. What he should have now is a mighty close one.

A SHINING EX POST FACTO THINKER Our nation committed a great mistake In entering the war. The Sultan of Turkey.

The People's Food

From the Washington Post. PASSAGE by the house of the resolution requesting the secretary of war to place on sale without delay the surplus food products in the hands of the war department under a plan which will insure an opportunity to the people to purchase them directly from the government should result in material benefit to the public. Assuming that the war department accedes to the request of the house and it is difficult to conceive why it should refuse there will be available for sale to the public some $120,000,000 worth of food purchased for the army, but not now required by it. The amendment to the resolution, providing that "such plan shall include utilizing the parcel post service," points out what appears to be a very effective method of distributing this food directly to the consumer, thereby enabling individuals to purchase to the extent of their means and securing advantage of the government's Tat prices without paying toll to middlemen. It will be entirely feasible for the war department to publish a price list to be distributed to the 55,000 postmasters throughout the country, and they can easily accept orders from citizens and forward them to the war department to be filled and consigned direct to the purchaser. As was pointed out in the debate, the postoffice department during the past three years has been recognized many times as the direct connecting link between the national government and the people. The president's proclamations have been distributed to the postoffices and.nosted there for general Information; army and navy rec cing movements have enlisted the assistance of postmasters; campaigns for selling liberty bonds and war savings stamps have depended largely upon the help ojlthe postmasters, and the labor department and the ag

riculture department have utilized the postal system in their work. The machinery for this method of distribution is already set up in working order. That It would not be seriously overtaxed by using it for disposing of the surplus army food is proved by the fact that during the last fiscal year the parcel post handled a total of 2,250,000,000 packages of all sizes and descriptions. It would be unfortunate if the public should become imbued with the idea that the sale of this army food will result in a general reduction in the cost of living. That It will have that tendency there Is no doubt, but when It Is considered that the total amount of such food to be distributed Is less than $2 worth per capita It will be realized that this cannot have a very decided effect upon the nation's food bill for the year. However, the fact that It is a small Item In comparison wkh the total 6um spent for food in the course of a year does not alter the claim which the public has upon it. This food was purchased with the people's money for the use of the soldiers, and since the demobilization has rendered it unnecessary it is the plain duty of the government to permit the people to buy it at cost price, and thus to that extent relieve them of the high living cost to which they are subjected The plan proposed by the war department originally of selling it In large quantities to municipalities for distribution to their people has not proved a great success, because many cities have not the funds with which to make the purchases. Sale direct to tbe consumer Is the most feasible plan, and the parcel post appears to supply the method for carrying that plan into effect. Official red tape should not be permitted to interfere with prompt and ready compliance with the request of the house tSt representatives.

I was leaning forward on the etarboard bulwark, my servant Conseil beside me, when the voice of Ned Land, the big harpooner, broke the silence. "Look! Thero is the thing we are looking for!" he cried. We all saw the sea monster, or whatever it was, which we had been hunting for months. It made off as we charged. We gave chase. Throughout all that night and next day we pursued. We stopped. It stopped. Once it allowed us to creep close to it; and as we crept, it rammed us. . The shock of the collision threw me into the sea. I should have drowned but for my faithful Conseil. He supported me to the hard metallic back of the monster. Here we were joined by Xed Land. As we were resting there, eight masked men came through a hatch and drew us down into the bowels of what we now saw was not a monster, but a strange kind of sea craft. Thus began the strange voyage with that remarkable character who called himself Captain Nemo, and in that strange wonderful ship which he called the Nautilus. The Natilus was a cigar-shaped steel ship of 232 feet in length, 26 feet beam and 1,500 tons dead weight. There were two hulls, one inside the

other, joined by T-shaped irons, which rendered them of almost uucrushuble strength. She was driven by electric engines of tremendous power. Tanks which could be filled or emptied at will enabled her to cruise on the surface or under the water as she pleased. She was fitted with all kinds of working and lounging quarters. In a library were books on the sciences, morals and literature of almost every language. There was a drawing room with a luminous ceiling which also served as a museum, and into which an intelligent hand had gathered submarine treasures of the world; the rarest shells, pearls of all colors and beyond price, every variety of undersea vegetation; also paintings of the

masters, admirable statues in marble and bronze, a great organ piano. From the inside of her a staircase led to a platform or deck from which rose two cages, partly enclosed by thick glass. One cage was for the helmsman, the other contained an electric searchlight to light the course or the ship in dark waters. On this platform also was a place wherein was stored a long boat. Captain Nemo was tall and robustly built, with pale skin, lofty brow, and the fine taper hands of a highly nervous temperament. He spoke French, English, German, Latin, all equally well. He may have been thirty-five; he may have been fifty years of age. It was on November 6, 186fi, with

the coast of Japan in view, that this strange captain told us we were prisoners for him to do with as he pleased. "And now," he added, "our course is E. N. E. and our cruising depth 2fi fathoms. I leave you to the resources of these quarters and your own reflections." We remained mute, not knowing what surprise awaited us. Suddenly a dazzling light broke in on us. We saw that only two glass panels separated us from a sea which was illuminated far to either side by the powerful electric gleams from the ship. What a spectacle! An army of undersea creatures escorted us. They were various and beautiful in the clear water, many known, but hundreds unknown to us. We heard and saw nothing of the captain for several days; then came a note inviting us to a hunt on the bottom of the sea. We donned diving suits, then fastened on a sort of knapsack which furnished us not only with air to breathe, but with light to see our way. We carried air-guns which fired glass bullets heavily charged with electricity, which had only to touch the most powerful animal to kill him. A connecting apartment filled with water let us into the sea. And thus equipped, wading on the' bottom of the clear ocean, we killed our game with ease and without danger. That hunt was but the first of the wonders of that cruise. Onward we rushed, sometimes on the surface, sometimes under the sea. There was our fight with the immense devil-fish which once in a huge school enmeshed the Nautilus. There was the visit to a wonderful pearl fishery, where Captain Nemo showed us a mollusc within whose jaws was a pearl weighing perhaps 500 pounds. Some day he would return and pluck that treasure, but not yet every year was adding to its value. We visited the skeletons of long sunken ships, the corpses of the drowned crew still clinging to the hulls of some. We hunted in the Papuan Islands, where the Nautilus was attacked by the native savages. An electric current turned them back, shocked and howling ere they could climb aboard. When one of the crew died Captain Nemo, had him buried in a coral glade in the South Pacific, where was a cross -at red coral that looked like petrified blood. It was a wonderful, solemn sight to see the pall bearers with the dead body on their shoulders, and all treading so reverentially the way from the ship to the coral cemetery, where at the foot of the cross the body was interred and covered

up. All knelt in prayer. Captain Nemo was the last to leave. "Your dead sleep quietly out of the reach of sharks," I said, when we were back on the Nautilus. "Of sharks and men," he replied. We voyaged under colossal iceiergs to the South Pole and all but perished there, escaping from an icy tomb only as our last breath of starage air was exhausted. Wonderful was our passage from the Red.Sea into the Mediterranean by means of a subterranean tunnel under the isthmus. (This was before the digging of the Suez canal.) Then we witnessed the transfer of a million dollars worth of gold ingots from the Nautilus to the vessel of a Greek diver. From whence came this store of gold? Later we learned. In Vigo Bay on the Spanish coast the Nautilus came to rest on the bottom. Here in 1702 a fleet of Spanish galleons was sunk, and here from this sunken treasure fore than a century and a half later this ruler of the underseas came and helped himself whenever it pleased him. "Five hundred millions were there," said Captain Nemo, "but not now. Do you

see now how with these and the other

treasures of my domain I could pay the national debt .of France and not feel it?" We had now been six months

aboard the Nautilus. For me, the

scientist, it M'as a voyage of ceaseless interest; but not so for Conseil and Ned Land. At their request 1 pleaded with Captain Nemo for our liberty. "You came to our ship without in

vitation. You will now remain here,"

was his grim answer. We had left the southern hemisphere and were in the waters off France and the British Islands when we were pursued by an armed warship. Flying no colors, she attacked at once. Her cannon shot rebounded from our iron hull. Captain Nemo, pointing to her. said:

"I am the oppressed, and there is my oppressor. Through him I have lost country, wife, children, father and

mother. Why should I withhold my

vengeance?

He called out his orders. The Nautilus sank below the sea. We felt her rushing forward, felt the shock of her

steel ram piercing the hull of the enemy. Through the glass panels we

saw ner doomed crew crowding the ratlines, clinging to the rails, struggling in the sea. The Nautilus passed on. I saw Captain Nemo go to his room and kneel before the portrait of a woman and two little children. "How long, O Lord, how long!" he cried out. We steamed north, to that part of the Norwegian coast where lies htat dreaded maelstrom which draws into itself all floating things. The Nautilus was it an accident? was drawn into the whirlpool. Around and around she whirled. Even her steel hull felt the strain, we could hear the bolts being pulled out from her girders. The long beat was torn from its place on her deck and hurled like a stone in the whidlpool. I lost consciousness. When I came to myself I was in a Loffoden fisherman's hut, and Conseil and Ned Land were chafing my hands. So ended our voyage of 20,000 leagues under the sea. What became of Captain Nemo and his strange craft I do not know. I hope his powerful ship conquered the maelstrom, even as I hope, if he lived, that his philosophy and powerful will finally conquered his desire for vengeance. Copyright. 1919. by Post PublishingCo. (The Roston Post). All riarhts reserved. (Published by special arrangement with the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. All rights reserved )

LEVI P. MORTON, 96, REPORTED VERY LOW

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FOUR MILLION ARE DESTITUTE IN POLAND

WARSAW. Poland. Aug. 2 It Is estimated that there are 4,000.000 destitute persons in Poland, Including 2,000,000 mothers and children. For five years the struggling armies of Russia and the Central Powers swept back and forth over the country. Thousands of bouses and buildings were destroyed. Now that peace has settled upon tbe rest of the world, Poland Is etUl engaged la frontier warfare. From the Baltic to the Carpathians, on a front three times the length of the former western one, the Poles are mobilized. Even women ttnd girls are performing military service, not as their French and American sisters were In hospitals and ambulances, but on the firing line with rifles in their hands. Despite these conditions, the new Polish government IS making a determined effort to care for its civilians,

Jwith the assistance of allied relief

agencies. The American Red Cross has already sent to Poland a dozen tralnloads of supplies, clothing, medicines, and children's food. What this has meant to the new republic Is summed up In the statement of a Polish government official who told the Red Cross workers: "You are saving a race which has struggled for independence for hundreds of years, and are winning their everlasting gratitude and friendship." Civilians In Coblenz Unearth Buried Stores

Recent photo of Levi P. Morton. Levi P. Morton, vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 an4 later governor of New York state, is ill at his country home at Rhineclit! on the Hudson.

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BY ROY K

venins

MOULTON

Several gentlemen want to stand up and fight Jack Dempsey. All we can say is that they are welcome to the job.

A resourceful feminine friend of ours has fixed up a great substitute for the saloon her own home. She has erected a brass footrail in front of the sideboard and sprinkled a lot of sawdust on the floor, moved the player piano out in the dining room and the old man never thinks of going away from home in the evening. RULES FOR HOT WEATHER Don't hang around people's offices and bother them. The more you talk, the hotter you get. Have an out-of-door sleeping porch so you will know how much cooler it is to sleep in the house. Lie in the sand where the temperature is 112 instead of sitting on the hotel porch where it is 90. Don't get all het up about the League of Nations. Remember you have nothing whatever to say about It.

(By Associated P-eas) WINNIPEG, Man.. Aug 2 Canadian Coblenz have recently been bringing to light their stores of silverware and Jewelry which have been in hiding most of the time since the Americans came to Germany. Preceding the American army of occupation were wild reports regarding1 the khaki clad soldiers and most oC the civilians, expecting their homes to be plundered, hjirrledly placed their valuables in safety deposit vaults in, the banks or in their backyards. Now that the Germane have learned to trust the Americans they are telling how and where their treasure has been hidden all these months.

MORE STATISTICS Dear Roy: Recently you had some statistics about safes, but it'seems to me that you did not quite cover the situation. For instance: "If all the safes in the IT. S. were placed in the ocran, the ocean would be a very safe place." C. H. C.

Canadian Workmen Lose $7,000,000 In Strikes (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Aug. 2. So many refugees workingmen lost $7,000,000 in wages in June and slightly more than half that amount In the preceding month, according to estimate. The Winnipeg strike alone cost the workmen several million dollars. Board of trade officials believe tha economic loss to merchants, manufac-

j turera and the public was at least 100 per cent more than the labor loss. In June, the eighty strikes In Canl ada Involved 87,917 men. women and children. The official estimate shows a loss of about $1,445,021 working j days. The average wage involved in

the Winnipeg Btrike was about $5 a day. In May there were 84 strikes involving 77,688 workers, who lost 893,816 working days.

If it comes to a fight between Dempsey and Georges Carpentier, we believe Dempsey will whip both of them.

Joe Brady wires in that he is not very fond of music, but he prefers it to jazz bands.

A woman is the Inventor of a leck nut which can not be Jarred lodse from a bolt, but can be easily removed with a wrench.

DR. HSU SAYS U. SGOT CHINA INTO WAR, DESERTS HER

Dinner 3 tones

"I like the place,' said Mr. Newliwed, "but the railroad fare is too high." "But sur?ly." said the bride, "the railroad will fix that for you when they know." "When they know what?" "That you're the man who bought five shares of their stock."

"Little Women," by Louisa M. Alcott, as condensed by Miss Carolyn Wells, will be printed Monday.

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

It is a dangerous thing, when you have let slip an unfortunate remark, to try and cover up the blunder. Mrs. G. was talking with the wife of Judge H. about her son's choice of a profession. "I don't want him to be a lawyer," she said. "Why not?" asked the judge's wife. "I think there is nothing much finer than the legal profession for a bright boy." "Well," said Mrs. G. bluntly, "a lawyer has to tell so many lies." Then it dawned on her that she was talking to the wife of a lawyer, so she hastily added: "That Is er to be a good lawyer."

CLERKS GET INCREASE.

COBLENZ, Aug. 2. Civilians in that the increase of $2 to $2.50 in the weekly wages of all shop clerks will cost merchants of the United Kingdom $125,000,000 to $150,000,000 a year.

Dr. Chien Hsu. "You brought us into the war and now apparently you are going to desert us," declares Dr. Chien Hsu, one of the Chinese delegates, in an appeal just irsued to the American people. Dr. Hsu holds it to be America's duty to use all her influence to compel Japan to return to China the Shantunjr peninsula.

E. G. Hill. local florist, was invited to speak at the Silver Anniversary of the Society of American Florists of which he was the first secretary and one of the presidents. The nineteenth child was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Lipscomb, twelve of whom were living. Dudley Cates, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Cates of this city, who had been on the staff of the London Daily

Times arrived here to visit elatives. 1 The 13th Annual Friends' Bible Institute of Indiana, Western and Wilmington Yearly Meetings opened at ! Earlham College. j The poster designed by Mrs. Elmer! Eggemeyer was accepted by the art committee of the Young Men's Business club for the poster for the 1910 Fall Festival.

The Spanish government is supporting private plans to introduce cotton growing on an extensive scale in the Spanish area of Morocco. n-

THE GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS DAILY TALK YOUCUSTODEAN Most things are offered men. Few things are thrust upon them. All the time in the world there are influences afloat, opportunities Innumerable, doing their best to find the man who will use them. So that in the end we are but custodians of what comes to us. Our talents are loaned to us. The marvelous ability of a man to make money, or to write wonderful books, or to compose soul-searching music is, after all, merely temporary. When he who takes these thing3 upon himself, to develop them and give them out, is gone merely the memory, the history and the good Influence remains. But that Is quite enough. For that is life. Ideas come to us. We do not go hunting for them. Thus we become custodians while they are with us until we have so developed them that they, In turn, go out to do their work. But with thi3 all comes responsibility. And each of us Is Judged and measured only upon our Individual handling of the things that come to us to do. Success really hunts out men and women. The foolish man Is the conceited man. The strong man 13 he who feels his responsibility and is sobered by It, and who recognizes In what he achieves 6ome master element contributed by each separate influnce upon his life. You are a steward a custodian. The thought should thrill you through and through.