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Power From Glaciers Recent investigations of the water power resources of streams to the basin nt Colorado river by the Department of Um Interior have shown glacial lakes on the west dope of the Wind river range near the continental divide have a combined storage caped tv of more than half a million acre-feet of water and may be utilised m reservoirs tor use in irrigation or in tenerattog power. Ten power sites are

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found which range to capacity from 120 horsepower with the natural flood of the river to 24500 horsepower with regulated stream flow. Odd Rents In England. Many properties in England are still held on what seem to be the oddest of rent*. The rent of one estate tn Sussex, for instance. takes the form of a pound of biack pepper each year, while another another estate tn Leitestershire la paid tor by a garland and three roses. —

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England's State Newspaper. England's only state newspaper, as such, is the London Gazette. It to 288 tears old. baring been first published for Charles IL when it was known as the Oxford Gazette. The court nt the time had fled to Oxford on account of the plague. / Just Like That! * In moral reform, all men are this Way: They say: “We don’t mind your making experimental just so you don't make 'em on us."

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v ’VSMeli&His “Sucker Lists” From U. S. Patent Office

WASHINGTON. — Employing the Official Gazette of the United States patent office for their "sucker lists,” fraudulent patent sales and promotion companies have been gathering . a rich harvest from gullible inventors each year, it was learned here, when it was made known that the League of American Inventors had enlisted the aid of the post office authorities to combat the evil. The post office probe promises to be nationwide, as the companies already complained of are in nearly every part of the country. Some* victims are said to have been “bled” bf us much as $4,000 and $5,000 in small payments, each induced by the flattering promises of the companies. Tuesday of each week, the patent office issues its official Gazette, in which are carried the names of each inventor who during the previous week was awarded a patent. This organ the sales and promotion companies obtain and use for their mailing lists. From approximately 100,000 such names each year the lists are kept large and productive. To each successful inventor select-

How Will Women Vote in the Primaries?

A.xew and perplexing element enters into the selection of the party nominees for the presidency of the Uhited States in the forthcoming campaign. For the first time ail the women of the country will have the right to participate in the maneuvers preliminary to the choosing of the standard-bearers in the national conventions. , In 20 states preferential presidential primaries will be held in which the women as well as the men will have an opportunity to assert their partisanship and indicate their choice of party leaders. In the other states, including New York, they will have a similar although a more restricted opportunity in delegate primaries or in local conventions. , The women voters generally have not had this privilege heretofore because the equal suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution did not become effective until after the national conventions were held in 1920 and only shortljubefore the presidential election. IV nile'women in large numbers did vote for president in 1920, the slates were made up for them before they were enfranchised

Virginia Dare Mys

A DISCOVERY that it was thought might lend to solution of one of the oldest mysteries of American history was made here when a man digging a hide to plant a holly tree unearthed a leaden plate inscribed as follows: “Virginia Dare died here captlf powhaten 1590 Charles R." The inscription apparently referred to Virginia Dare, first white child born on the North American continent, and a member of the lost colony, whose fate has never )>een solved. Virginia Dare was the granddaughter of Gov. John White and was born one month after the colony on Roanoke Island, now in North Carolina, was founded in 1587. The leaden plate was covered with some substance like wax. Russell Kaufman, who found it. took it to the Smithsonian in<Htuti<>n. where the wax was removed. The inscription then became visible. Ten minutes was the time consumed

Will Hays and His Hollywood Troubles

WASHINGTON scritws apoking fun at poor Will Haysi Washington, which has known him so well; W ashitigton whose stolid pulse has never failed to flutter at some new achievement of this boy Napoleon from Sullivan, Ind., feels deeply tor Will in his new hour of trial. That he will come through it all right; no one who knows the eternal spring of optimi-ta which bubbles from fils nidiaut soul can ever doubt. It seems a long time since Will Hays was in the cabinet, since he sat in the tower-like building of the l’<*t Office department on Pennsylvania avenue and emitted dally machine gun statements of all that was being accomplished. Will started tn to build up the morale of the post office employees. The country was kept posted daily on the uplift, and so great was the admiration of the country that the moving picture magnates came along and offered Mr. Hays the Job of impn»ving not the morale but the morals of the

Unde Sam Shy on Tanning Materials

Rm EVEALIN’G a remarkable hold by foreign natural or controlled monopolies, the leather and hide division of the Department of Commerce, in co-operation with a committee of experts from the Tanners’ Council of America, made public recently a report on a world survey of tanning materials, the first of a series of reports to be made on conditions of production and marketing of rubber and other essential raw materials for American industries. The investigations were authorized by the Sixty-seventh congress in order to bring about recommendations to free the United States from foreign monopolies in raw products not pro- • duced at all or produced in inadequate I quantities in the United States. The report on tanning materials has many striking points and declares that, owing to the serious depletion ot domestic natural resources of tanning materials, the approaching eiimim ’iou of oak and hemlock barks, and the serious devastation which the blight to causing in chestnut lusts «f the Uatt- ■

ed Is sent a highly engraved letter stating that the announcement of his success has attracted the attention of the company and that it might sell the rights of his valuable patent on a commission basis. Later a contract is sent to be signed, and in it is found a flattering figure, ostensibly representing the sum for which the company intends selling the Invention. The usual 5 per cent commission is included. Fr»»m time to time thereafter, the inventor is called upon by the 'company, which asserts the sale of his patent is temporarily delayed, tc deposit with the firm money for a “patent abstract.” a “prospectus” and other things said to be essential to the sale. The price for, each ranges from $lO upward. These fees continue in series until the inventor is gracefully disillusioned, by being told the company was mistaken in its first appraisement and that It cannot sell his article. Sometimes the inventor is neglected entirely. The local headquarters of, the inventors’ league is swamped with letters from all parts of the country asking its aid in obtaining redress against these companies.

and they had to accept the nominees the men had selected. Not so ibis timp. The right of the women to take an active part is of no small concern to presidential aspirants, their campaign managers and the political leaders. In both the Republican and Democratic parties there are candidates for the presidency who welcome the advent of the women in the primaries. There are others,'avowed or receptive, who undoubtedly would feel safer if they had to deal only with the old system. In states where the old metho# prevail there is little likelihood that the women will exert any greater influence upon the political fixers than the average male voter has been able to do since the creation of the present party system. In the score of strategical states where the primary laws allow the voters to express their will ,at the polls with the same freedom that they do in general elections, a different situation Is presented. even may be enough votes at stake in this latter group of states to wield a balance of power in both major party national conventions.

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by Dr. White Hough, head of the division of anthropology of the Smithsonian institution, in effectively breaking the theory that the colonists had been captured by Indians, and upon the death of littlb Virginia Dare, tlie first child bom in America, “Charles R.” had left this tablet over her grave, or how the colony had been frightened from their original settlement and had moved along the Atlantic coast and up the Potonpc river to the headquarters of the Powhatan tribe, there to |>erish. Starting with the figure “9” in “1590," Doctor Hough explained that the person who had made the inscription had failed to follow faithfully the corn'et formation of the figure, using the modern way of writing it Instead of the form it is given in type, that of tlie figure 6 turned upside down. The rapidity with which he de--crlbed other discrepancies definitelyestablished the fact that the “historical tablet” was not authentic.

movies. It seemed a pleasing prospect at the time. The salary was a whale title was to be that ot "czar.” Nupole<>n had been only an emperor. Will was to be a czar I It was a golden opp«»rtunity. Bur Will recked not of Hollywood, it seems that Hollywood was just about ready to erupt when Will took the helm. Maybe the movie magnates knew this and wanted a czar to bear the brunt of It ail. In any event. Hollywood blew off with a loud bang. Several times Will has been there to fix things up. and always every one promised to be good, oh, so g<xxl In the future. Yet Will can hardly set foot on Broadway until the patter of bullets comes flying over the,great open spaces from out there where men are men and women are women and chauffeurs are shooters, and everything seems to go wrong. Once more Will is winging his way to the bad lands, and this time he says he Is going to ciaiup the lid down and rivet it on for good.

ed States, it 18 imperative -tnat we face the situation frankly and consider how we may prevent the rapid development of serious dependence on foreign tunning materials within the next fifteen years.” Fortunately, it is stated, the outlook is far fr«>m gloomy if American industry, American capital, the state governments, and the federal government will co-operate without delay. The report recommends federal legislation which will permit importers of raw materials controlled by foreign monopolies, natural or otherwise, to form associations for co-operative buying of such imported raw materials. It is evident that the recommendation is along the line of an amendment to the Webb-Pomerene act. which as now framed permits the organization of such associations for purposes of export oniy. The legislation recommended, the report says, mart be most carefully and wisely framed ao as to prevent the possibility of these association* creating a jritob awoopoly,

, ; — There Is No Path to Peace Except as the Wil) of Peoples May Open It By SAMUEL GOMPERS, in New York World. THERE is no path to peace except as the will of peoples may open it. The way, to peace is through agreement, not through force. The question then is not of any ambitious general scheme to prevent war, but simply of the constant effort, which is the highest task of statesmanship in relation to every possible cause of strife, to diminish among peoples the disposition to resort to force and to find a just and reasonable basis for accord. If war is outlawed, other means of redress of injuries must be provided. Moreover, few, if any, intend to outlaw self-defense, a right still accorded to individuals under all systems of law. To meet this difficulty, the usual formula is limited to wars of aggression. But justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted aggression, or where on each side the cause is not believed to be just by the peoples who support the war. There is a furtfier difficulty that lies deeper. There is no lawgiver. for independent states. There is no legislature to impose its will by majority vote, no executive to give effect, even to accepted rules. Great powers agreeing among themselves may indeed hold small powers in check. But who will hold great powers in check when great powers disagree ? I believe that we shall be able at no distant day to keep within reasonable limits some of our pressing economic rivalries by fair international agreements in which the self-interest *>f rivals will submit to mutual resections in the furtherance of friendly acco/d. Don’t Talk About Radicalism Among Farmers; the Farmer Is the Balance Wheel By H. C. WALLACE, Secretary of Agriculture. Talk about radicalism among farmers? If you take the most radical farmer and the nfost radical candidate from the farmers that any agricultural state ever elected either to their legislature or to congress, either the lower house or tlie senate, you can find a far more extreme illustration of radical voting in the city of Chicago or in the city of Des Moines or in any other city of the United States than you can in that case. Why, the farmers of the United States founded this government. They have defended this government in every period of national crisis. The farmers of. the United States have never started a war, but they have always fought the war through. They furnished, in the last war, 26 per cent of the fighting men and they raised more food than they ever raised before. The farmer is the balance wheel of this nation and in times to come, when you have disturbances in your great cities and when you have real radicalism springing out here and there, it will be the farmer who will put his foot down and settle the matter. Don’t talk about radicalism among farmers. The farmer is the last man to be radical in the meaning ill which that word is used. N “By Jove, I Believe I Could Make a Little Book Out of Those Things—” By LLOYD OSBOURNE, in Scribner’s Magazine. _ It is easy to understand what R. L. S. wrote afterward, that the time he spent in Hyeres was the happiest in his life. He was working i hard and well; was gaining recognition and making a fair income; had ' many irons in the fire, or coming out of it: “Prince Otto,” “The Silver--1 ado Squatters,” “Penny Whistles” .(afterward renamed the “Child’s Garden of Verse”) and many essays that were later to become so famous It is worth noting perhaps that lys ambition for “Prince Otto” I was inordinate; some of its chapters he rewrote as many as seven times; iof all of his books, save the “Master of Ballantrae”—and later, “Weir” i —it was closest to his heart. For the “Child’s Garden,” on the contrary, which will probably outlive all his work and has entered into the soul of the race, his Attitude ■ was more of an indulgent indifference once the poems had been collected. I remember his saying: “By jove, I believe I could make a little book out of those things if I wrote a few more; they are trifling i enough, but not without a certain charm.” Foundation Principles Upon Which Christianity Transformed Pagan State By REV. WILLIAM A. BOLGER, Notre Dame University. The divine origin of civil authority and the divine origin of individual liberty are the two foundation principles up<»n which Christianity transformed, and is always and everywhere tending to transform, the pagan into the Christian state. Man is born to live in society. This dictate of common sense from the wise pagan, Aristotle, is the foundation of the divine origin of civil authority. Men are as gregarious as birds or bees. Instinctive, natural needs of rational living drive us to social living. There is no tolerable social living without order; there is no order without law; there is no law without organization having authority to make and power to enforce law. That organization is the state.. Hence the state is founded upon the radical needs of human nature, and God, who made us social beings, of necessity wills social living, and the state an indispensable condition of social living, and wi!ls the authority of the state. In a Summary of the Middleman Proposition We Are Up Against This By DR. FRED CLARK, Northwestern School of Commerce. Tn a summary of the middleman proposition, we are up against this, it seems to me, on the whole proposition: J ust so long as we have small manufacturers who cannot market directly, who cannot market directly economically; just so long as we have large manufacturers who haven’t the funds with which to market directly or who are handling a narrow line of commodities so that it is not economical to market directD; just so long as you have small retailers who cannot afford to get in touch with the hundreds of possible concerns or sources of supply from whom they could buy; or just so long as it is difficult for manufacturers to get in touch with these small retailers; and, finally, just so long as we have consumers who have got more to do with their time than getting in touch with it, writing to or reading the advertisements of hundreds of manufacturers from whom they might buy, just so long we are going to find a need for the middleman and the middleman’s service. Mme. Georgette Le Blanc.—American men have more honesty. They will not stoop to cheat Life to them is a great game that they must play according to the rules. Consequently—they are more serious, more constant As lovers, maybe they still can learn something from the Europeans. But as husbands—no. They can never be excelled. L. H. Bailey, Horticulturist.—We remember the Bussets, the Rambo, the Early Harvest, the Jersey Sweet, the Pound Sweet, the Peannain, the Strawberry, the Sheepnose, the Seek-No-Further and many others. Where are they gone? They have fallen before the progress of eommercialism and standardisation.