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, MINISTER OF DEFENSE ■ 1 apilM \ T * <w IT w*W Jr ■ sS®W ..ra&w™ 'A' %* Gen. Withelm Greener, Germany’s wartime dictator of railways, who has been named by President Von Hindenburg to fill the vacancy in the cabinet as minister of defense. He succeeds Dr. Otto Gessieb, who recently resigned from that post. NONE TOO FRIENDLY ■ Gustavo Guerrero, Salvadorean delegate, generally recognized as antagonistic to the United States, who was elected chairman of the committee on International public law at the PanAtoerican congress in Havana. Acre Afeaearement The government acre is always*, measured on the level ground and to the hills the difference tn the area would be the difference between the base-oF a right-angle triangle and the hypotenuse. The acre of land to the hills would represent the hypotenuse of a triangle. Today** Sargfical Need Now surgeons can putop air info the human brains, but the great need of the times is a wav to take it out. ■' . .

Made Money in Their Spare Time i - i ”“~i! I mi # 1 V.. o^--—Wf Assistant United States Attorney Thomas Arrowsmith examining the counterfeiting outfit used by three inmates of the state prison, at Trenton, N. J., in raising $1 bills to ID’s and 2O‘s. The prisoners, Frank (“Death House”) Flanagan, Bartholomeo (“The Devil”) Fontana, and Michael (“The Professor”) Leo used paint remover to bleach the figures off $1 bills, and then printed on new figures. Babies Come in Pairs to This Woman L I ..>■-# / 1 - n'. a ■. ?/> uj JJki /•’/ Mrs. Jack J. Hanley, of Minneapolis, Mum., and her four sets of twins, all of whom were bom during the past seven years. Mrs. Hanley -is holding the latest twin arrivals, Norman and Norma. FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS

The greatest gold-producing district in the world is the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The population status of a country can be kept up only if an average of three to four children are born in each family. An English inventor of tobacco pipes made froth laurel wood claim’ -P-pv are equal to briar root pipes m ' >st much less.

On the Ormond-Daytona beach 1b Florida there will be a series of automobile speed trials in February when it is expected new records will be j hung up. The illustration shows a j view of the beach; Capt. Malcolm Campbell of England and his “Bluebird,” which he promised to enter, < and the first photograph made of the 1,500-horse power, 36-cylindered “Triplex” which J. M. White of Philadelphia has just built and will drive in the races. Frank Lockhart also will compete, driving a special Stutz.

Insects .may be found as high as half a mile above ground, an entomologist reports. During the great earthquake of Lisbon. in 1755, most of the city’s houses and 30.000 inhabitants were wiped out in eight minutes. The Village Deep mine in the Rand gold fieid' of south Africa; is 7,500 feet deep and is the deepest hole in the earth ever made by man.

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HorticuM TO PRUNE TREES DURING WINTER Orchards may be pruned any time, during winter or early spring, accord-; ing to the State College of Agriculture' at Ithaca, N. Y. Although In somei winters the wounds may dry back. It is seldom serious. In pruning apple trees, the aim should be to get rid of old and weak wood. To do this, cut only such large branches as interfere with other branches, and thin the smaller branches all over the trees, particularly on the outside. Pruning the small branches , aids the fruit spurs and thus increases the size and quality of fruit. Pear trees, particularly young pear trees, should be pruned lightly Since an epidemic of blight may seriously damage a pear tree and shorten its life, as much fruit as possible should > be obtained early in the life of the Experiments at the state college show that light pruning results in early development with quick commercial returns. Less blight is also encountered where the pruning is light. In view of this it seems best to give pear trees light pruning the first ten years, rather than heavy cutting back as is sometimes practiced. Sufficient pruning to avoid rubbing limbs and weak crotches is desirable, however. A careful watch should be kept also for blighted branches and these should be removed. After the trees are well in bearing, such varieties as Kieffer and Anjou are benefited by heavier pruning. Anjou. which frequently fails to get fruit, may often produce a crop in this way; the size of Kieffers may also be improved by heavier pruning. The trees should be kept reasonably low and moderately open by sufficient cutting back to laterals in the top and around the outer margin. Large main limbs should not ordinarily be cut out unless they are blighted. Columbian Raspberries Pruned Much Like Black Columbian raspberries are pruned much the same as black raspberries. When the new shoots are about 18 inches high they should be topped so that they will branch. In some sections it is the practice to wait until these new shoots have reached the height of 3 feet and then cut them back to 18 inches, but there is no necessity of waiting until they reach that height. By waiting the plant is merely di vitalized that* much more, says the Rural New Yorker. It is better to do the tipping when the plants have reached the desired height. Then the following spring the laterals on the canes that are left for fruiting should be shortened to about 8 to 12 inches. New canes are rooted along in August when the tips of the shoots have a characteristic “snaky” look, due to the fact that there are very few leaves at the tips. In sod these tips will catch and root, but in cultivated soil it is customary to make a small hole in the ground and stick them into it. or else to throw a clod of dirt on them in order to hold them in place. It Is Seldom Advisable to Grow Three Fruits In the case of the commercial fruit grower, dependent upon long-distance shipment, it is seldom advisable to grow more than one kind of fruit, certainly not more than .two or three kinds. This is true because each fruit requires special equipment and more or less distinct technique in the methods employed in its culture. Again, fruit production is' tending toward specialization, in which a fruit is chosen and grown because of its > adaption to a particular locality, and ; ! in which the grower himself tends his I * best effort to the production of a type that will meet competition and satisfy 'the demands of a discriminating I f trade. Horticultural Facts The first step in pruning is the removal of all dead, injured or diseased canes. * • • It is always best to buy one-year-old plants from a reliable nursery. This is usually more satisfactory than for a person to propagate his own plants. • • • Raspberries, both red and the black caps, respond very quickly to the use of fertilizer. If the soil in which the new plants are put out is not rich, one should apply a good dressing of poultry manure or some well rotted barnyard manure. « • • The peach and cherry tree crown borer has become increasingly abundant in the orchards during the past few years. • • • The Premier strawberry is very much liked at the present time. Big Joe, Glen Mary. Stevens and Dunlap are also worth considering. •* • 4 Pruning of currants and gooseberries before the first of April is recommended by the New Jersey State College of Agriculture, New Brunswick. • • • Fruit growers or other farmers who plan on new plantations of small fruits this year should begin thinking of obtaining their plants in order to have them on hand When planting time comes. z • • • It has been found that split-pits tn peaches are caused by abnormally rapid development of the pits early in the season before the stone hardens. It is most serious on trees, branches or twigs that supply large amounts of carbohydrates to the fruits early in the season.

Design for the Shakecpeare Memorial Theater nz* .-n . f sr . <4 ’** :tii. ir~ 8 I E■ E E t |7® fe ® XWi ® aK„.....gte. —i’ n . —Jsj " ‘ Ea" t :-wsy>>-z3 y . ""kt m .. ■ ,J[ l»esigti tor the ue» Shakespeare Memorial theater to be erected at Stratiord-ou-Avou. The design is the work of Miss Elisabeth Scott, a twenty-seven-year-old architect of London, who took first prize in the architects’ contest.

Thames Usually Mannerly River

Canadian Who Paddled Canoe Length of Stream Describes Journey. Washington.—The Thames, which suddenly overflowed its banks at Loudon, causing loss of life and property, is usually one of the most mannerly of rivers. “The Thames within the small compass of a hundred miles shows Just I what is characteristic tn English | scenery, history and modern life.” ' says R. J. Evans, who paddled a Ua nadian canoe from near its source at (Ticklade down to London and reported his journey to the National Geographic society. “At Oicklade the river is little more than a rivulet.” writes Mr Evans, “in fact, the local people all referred to it as ‘the brook’ and that the name was well deserved we found from personal experience Walked on Bed of River. “The first eleven miles to Lechlade is not really navigable water, and for i most of rhe distance we had to walk in the bed *•- the stream, guiding the canoe over the shallows which occurred every few yards, while, if there were sufficient depth of water, our progress was impeded by the heavy weeds, which, thanks to enforced neg lect during the war. were a formid able obstacle. “Lechlade is a Cotswold town, built around the wide and sunny marketplace, from one side of which rises the Sixteenth century church, with its spire so loved by the poet Shelley The^ houses are of stone, brick being a rlrity tn the Cotswolds. and have an air of mingled spaciousness and dignity which is most attractive. “Four miles below is the ferry where Matthew Arnold saw the scholar-gipsy ‘crossing the strifiling Thames at Bahlockhythe,’ and about a mite on the right the village of Cum nor. where was enacted the tragedy of I Amy Robsart. described by Sir Wat i ter Scott in ‘Kenilworth.’ “At one [joint we could see Oxford, i but as the river describes a great | horseshoe curve, it was some time before we approached the outskirts of the city. “From Oxford the river runs to Ittley, a little village two miles below This stretch is the scene of the college bumping races—the Torpids in the Lent term and the Eights in the summer term. Both are eight-oared

t Unique Babel Paper ? t Is Seen in France * j * Paris.—Paris bas produced £ I * the first babel newspaper print- ? ed in five languages and planned * to reach more than half of the ♦ cosmopolitan population. * L’Arlequin is rdally a mod- * ♦ ernist newspaper with cubist advertising which it limits to a * ♦ ratio, compared with news * I a space, of one to ten. Once the <♦ ♦ ratio is attained, the editors * promise, all other advertising * ♦ copy will be thrown away. £ a In the first issue was a Ger- <- ♦ man article on the Riviera, a * 4> Spanish-language lament of the v i passing of the tango, an article ♦ in Italian on gastronomy and ❖ J an English article on the new ♦ • Hollanfi vehicular tube canned ♦ ing New York and New Jersey. | ♦ The-rest of the newspaper was * ♦ printed in French. ❖ ♦

WANTED: A HOME FOR RAGS, FAR, FAR FROM POLICEMEN

Otherwise Good Dog’s Strange Eccentricity Is Abiding Hatred for Uniformed Cops. New York. —Rags, well known and generally well liked along the Bowery for the last ten years, a good, agree able, all-round dog except for one ev centrieity. Is in need of a new home, preferably a nice, quiet, sequestered home in the country where there are no uniformed policemen. The eccen tricity, as may be guessed, concerns uniformed policemen. Rags has had the quirk since he was a small puppy He has not suppressed rhe desire be hind it, however, so his really is not so bad Some civilians, in fact, may find Rags’ psychic state instinetiy refreshing Rags bates uniformed polk-enien □h, Ihjw Rags hates uniformed policemen t When he was a small puppy, it

races, extending over a week, the boats starting in a line-ahead forma lion, 150 feet apart. “In both sets ot races the principle is that - each boat endeavors to overtake and touch the one in front, and if successful takes its place on the succeeding day. Few sights are more beautiful than this—the crowd of undergraduates running on the towpath. the long string of racing boats, and the line of boats and barges crowded with bright blazers and pretty dresses. “Two miles below is Sandford, where. . from time immemorial, the King’s Arms has been the goal ot tin dergraduate boating parties. Getting through Sandford lock, we paddled on to Abingdon. “Below are the twin villages ot Goring and Streatley. They occupy what was the most beautiful spot on the Thames, but now. alas, are crowded with the houses of the uewly rich; and what was a paradise is now an inferno of money and motor cars. The country round is still unspoilt and the reaches down to I’angbourne full bf beauty. “We paddled away fast Sunning to Shiplake, where we camped on the long island by the lock, getting up early the next morning and reaching Henley in good time. “Henley is a quiet little place for fifty-one weeks in the year; but for one crowded week in July it is the scene of the first river regatta in the world, anrf here once again we have a typical picture of English life. “From the bridge there is a clear view ot the course almost down to the starting point. The course Is kept clear by white booms and posts, and along these on either side are the boats and punts of the spectators, often twelve or fifteen rows deep. “Windsor was a fitting goal The castle is, perhaps, the most regal building in the world. Founded by William the Conqueror. It has always been a favorite royal residence, and to do justice to a tithe of its inter-

Sight to Make Pirate’s Mouth Water 1 RjWg_- ■ 1 RT*I I X --1- M"“"'j 1 "' spar. ill i.? 1' k. a XHill -Me -Ct a* fHere is one of the largest shipments ot gold made recent!) from me United States, $11,000,000 in S2O gold pieces, sent by Dillon. Read A Go. of New York to the Bank of Brazil as the first installment on a bond issue of the Brazilian government. The barrels holding the gold pieces were stowed in the hold of the S. S. Pan-American.

seems. Rags was dubbed in the mouth by a uniformed policeman, losing two -jf his front teeth. Since then a still, small, but very Insistent voice inside Rags has whispered. “Sic ’em I” when ever a uniformed policeman was sighted. It has been a source of continual worriment for Michael Fosset, who has taken care of Rags for the last six years. Recently. Mr. Fosset. who is sixtyfour and lives at the Majestic hotel at Na 268 Bowery, decided after weeks of consideration that Rags should, for his own good, leave the Bowery, where uniformed policemen simply abound. So Fosset carried Rags to the Ellin Prince Speyer Hos pital for Animals at No. 350 I-afayette street. He is fairly comfortable there, since he found out the blue coated attendant was not a uniformel policeman, but naturally the hospital is not a permanent home.

Swede Solves Ancient Runic Script Puzzle Lund. Sweden.—The ancient runic script of the Vikings chipped in tombstones, recited obituary facts and was believed to possess a magic force for protection of the graves Frot. Siguard Agrell of the University of Lund has concluded. Studying inscriptions on stone slabs dating back to the Third century. Doctor Agrell bas decided that the runic letters. >ike rhe Roman, had a certain nu merical value. The first letter, he says, was a number two, and the last number was both one and twen ty-four. just as an ace is counted as one or thirteen in cards

ests would demand a volume, and that a large one. in itself. “Nestling under its shadow is the little town, and a few fields away Eton college, the most famous school in England. “Here we bade farewell to Thames, after a Journey through the heart of England, which had shown us more variety of interests—quaint, beautiful, and historic—than can be shown by any other area in a land full of beauty and possessing a noble history of nearly two thousand years.” Stork Takes Vacation in Pennsylvania Towns Monaca. Pa. —one ot the most remarkable records in the history of the state was made in Potter and Raccoon townships, this county. to 1927 when the stork failed to make a single visit. There were eighteen deaths in Potter township and four in Raccoon, according to Elmer Fishr er, county registrar of vital statistics. There are several hundred families in Potter and Raccoon townships and most of them come from the old strains who in yeu-rs past were wont to raise big families and take rhe greatest pride to their descendants. Like, the Name Bugsworth. England.—Efforts begun to 1914 to change the name of this old town, known to railway and shipping men as “Bugs.” have failed.

High Heels Spoil Shape of Knees, Says Expert Philadelphia.—ls you would have nicely shaped knees, don’t wear highheeled shoes. That’s advice to women and girls by pedriatrists. The Philadelphia Pedriatric society was told recently by Dr. J. Torrance Rugb that the wearing of high-heeled shoes caused the foqt to assume an unnatural position with the result that the muscles and bones are thrown out of balance. When that happens, he said, the knees become less stable, the knee action becomes much less secure and fatigue results. Doctor Hugh also sounded a warding against toe and other fancy dancing. none of which is conducive to normal and shapely feet, but held out a ray of hope for those afflicted with bow-legs. Such a condition can be remedied, the physicians were told, by adjusting the height of one of the edges of the shoes. Knock-knees are incurable and there is no hope for correctlor