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Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday bv the independent-neWs co. Publishers of the ———— WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVISTANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH CPU NTT WEE KLI ES~ Clem DeCoudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES ~ One Year $1.50 Six Months , 90 Three Months ^SO TERMS~IN ADVANCE * ' Entered at the post office at Walkerton, Ind,, as second-class matter. This is the season when your wife decides where you are going to take your vacation. Fortunately amnesia is rarer among other people than it is among criminal case court witnesses. Business experts announce good times now and better times ahead. Nothing could be fairer. After Mary’s little lamb has been through the movie mill maybe its fleece won’t be so white. The woman who quit society for the African jungle evidently will decline to see any more lions. A few more airplane wrecks would almost convince us that driving an automobile is safer, after all. The scientist who counted 30,000,000,000 stars would be in a nice fix if somebody demanded a recount. Russia, no doubt, attributes Its unpopularity to the fact that it is right, and all the rest of the world Is wrong. “Is your skin an annoyance?” asks a current advertisement. He is, most emphatically; and we guess we will have to move. You can say this for the newfangled cigar lighter: No disastrous forest fire was ever lighted with one of them, either. What’s become of t’/e old-fashioned newspaper photographer who used to tell his society woman subject to lift her skirts a little? Butter trees are grown in Africa, according to a news item. Or. as the advertiser would say it. “When butter trees are grown, Africa will grow them.” The German physician who recommends ballooning for week-ends doubtless realizes that walking home from a balloon ride would be something of a task. Applauding in theaters hurts wrist watches, says a jeweler. A constant playgoer in New York testifies that his wrist watch hasn’t lost a second all season. The really puzzling thing about the fellow who loses his money buying a “moneymaking machine” from confidence men is how he happened to have money. Preparedness is a matter of opening one’s speech with “I did not expect to be called upon this evening”— and pulling 21 pages of notes from one’s pocket. “To find the surface of a ball, multiply the square of the diameter by 3.1416,” says an item on mathematics. An even quicker way is to stick the old bean up. A noted movie director says that for a girl to get into the films she‘must be “thin, thin, thin!” It is hoped this does not inspire another of those Kipling parodies. Perhaps we could arrange some sort of dicker with England whereby we would relieve her of the movies to 1 which she objects if she will take back the sparrows. The retired farmer had taken up auction bridge. “I don’t know,” he remarked, “but what it’s about as hard to get a good hand here as it j was on the farm.” An authority in matters of music says the Chinese scale has notes “sharper than sharps and flatter than flats,” so a ukulele is probably quite all right in China. If the Chinese war is not soon settled the silk Industry will be badly crippled, which will work a great hardship among the -working classes of the United States. “In a few years, unbreakable glass will be in universal use. Scientific item. This will be very hard on the movie ham who has always snapped the stem of the wine glass to indicate restrained ire. Chinese who refuse to buy American goods have only to wait until they are plunged into famine and ut- j ter distress. Then the American firstaid spirit will enable stricken areas te get them for nothing. Acrimonious exchanges concerning aviation achievements suggest that when flyers fall out they had better not forget their parachutes. After a prize contest for a new national anthem is over it is customarily discovered that the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph still waves. “I’ll have to get a translation of this from the Latin prof,” remarked the puzzled graduate as he laid down the new diploma, “in case somebody asks me what it says.” One reason why there is no old-time child discipline is because there is such a lack of old-time children. Or maybe it's the other way round. Another thing some have wished at times would happen, and it finally did, was somebody offering a coloratura soprano $48,000 a year not to sing. A traveler in Asia tells of a fish which, prepared in a certain way, tasted to him like veal. Well—as the French say, one man’s meat is another man's poisson.

X • MI H ct -1 ^^l7' tnhHEMSMtoSm i wM' fW': I- —Design for American memorial chapel at Aisne- Marne near Belleau Wood. France. 2. —American embassy in Paris guarded by gendarmes during the Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrations. 3. —Memorial erected by citizens of Dayton, Ohio, to the late John H. Patterson, manufacturer and philanthropist.

NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS “Air Derby” to Honolulu Is Won by Art Goebel in the Plane Woolaroc. By EDWARD W. PICKARD S' OMETHING new under the sun—an “Air Derby” across the Pacific ocean from Oakland, Calif., to Honolulu —was the feature of the week’s news. After a deal of preparation eight planes started in the race for the James Dole prize of $35,000, of which SIO,OOO was for the second to reach the goal. Four met with disaster at the take-off, hut the other four winged their way over the waste of waters. The Woolaroc. piloted by | Art Goebel, movie stunt flyer, and i with Lieut. William Davis, U. S. N., las navigator, won the race. The ; Aloha, with Martin Jensen of Honolulu as , pilot and Paul Schluter as navigator, was second. At this writing the two other planes , are missing, and are being sought by I airplanes and naval ships. These are the Miss Doran, with Augie Pedlar as pilot, Lieut. V. R. Knope as navigator and Miss Mildred Doran of Detroit as passenger; and the Golden Eagle, of which Jack Frost was the pilot and Gordon Scott the navigator. The Woolaroc made the flight In 2G hours 19 minutes and 33 seconds. The Aloha took 28 hours 17 minutes. Lieutenants Maitland and Hagenberger of the United States army made the trip in 25 hours and 50 minutes ■ several weeks ago. while Ernie Smith and Emory Bronte, the first civilians to fly to Hawaii from California. landed at Molakal island 25 hours 26 minutes after leaving the mainland. Goebel’s plane was equipped with a radio outfit that functioned well and he was in frequent communication with ships. The army navigation officers at Honolulu, who charted the course of the aviators as the radio reports were received, agreed that the flight of the Woolaroc was almost perfect and was a triumph of the highest order for scientific practice in air navigation. The plane was kept in line constantly with the radio beam beacon at San Francisco. Pilot Jensen took the Aloha by the northern route and overshot his mark ' somewhat. He said he skimmed the I surface of the sea nearly all the way. , whils the Woolaroc was kept at an j altitude of between 600 and 800 feet. I The successful aviators were given a warm welcome in Honolulu, but the ! celebration was marred by anxiety j concerning the missing flyers. — DOWN at San Diego, Calif., the navy’s PN-10 seaplane broke two world’s records and established a third. The plane weighed at the time of take-off approximately 11 tons. It carried 1,100 pounds of sand, 1,222 gallons of gasoline and 120 gallons of lubricating oil. For a plane carrying this dead weight, these records were established: Duration —20 hours, 45 minutes, 40 seconds. Distance —1,568 miles. Speed—7B.s6 miles an hour. The plane was piloted by Lieut. Byron J. Connell. He was accompanied by Lieut. H. C. Kodd, radio engineer, and Comar Vincent, aviation chief machinist’s mate. EARLY in the week two big Junkers planes, the pride of Germany, i started from Dessau to fly across the Atlantic. One, the Europa, had New York as its goal, and the other, the Bremen, was to fly as far as Chicago 1 If its gasoline lasted. The Europa ran into stormy weather and after getting over the North sea it developed motor trouble and was forced to turn back, landing at Bremen. The Bremen kept on until it had crossed Ireland and out over the ocean some distance. Then the storm grew worse, the gasoline was being used up too fast, and the aviators gave it up and with great difficulty made their way back to Dessau. It was thought a third Junkers plane might attempt the Atlantic crossing, but on the other hand experts thought the time for such a flight had passed for this year.

Acreage of Wheat and Rye Will Be Increased Farmers are intending to sow this fail an acreage of winter wheat 13.7 per cent greater and an acreage of rye 20 per cent greater than was sown last fall, the Department of Agriculture announces after exhaustive compiling of farmers’ intentions as expressed August 1. The intended acreage of winter wheat is larger than planted in any year with the exception of the fall of

THE full bench of the Massachusetts Supreme court overruled the exceptions by Sacco-Vanzetti defense counsel to decisions by Justice George A. Sanderson of that court and by Judge Webster Thayer of the Superior court and refused to grant a writ of error This meant that the two men must be executed after the termination of their respite, midnight of August 22, unless some further means of saving their lives were found. AMERICA’S greatest “captain of industry,” who might better be termed a generalissimo, passed with the death in New York of Judge Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation Though almost eighty-one years of age, he was still in active control of the mighty concern which was the creation of his imagination and genius and whose destinies lie directed from its beginning. Gary was one of the most Important figures in modern finance and business, and his part in the affairs of the nation, in both peace and war, had much to do with present industrial conditions. Though long the advocate of the eight-hour day in the steel mills and fought for many years by labor leaders, lie was held by many as a real friend of humanity, th” masses in particular, and as a philanthropist and a benefactor of church and science. During the World war he was the indefatigable aid of the government. Judge Gary’s body was taken to his old heme in Wheaton, a suburb of Chicago, ami the funeral was held in the beautiful memorial church which he built there. His successor as chairman of the steel corporation iias not yet been announced. J. Ogden Armour of Chicago, anoth- ’ er of America’s leading business men. died- in London after several months' illness. The son of P. D. Armour, famous pioneer meat packer^ he succeeded ids father as head of the business and expanded it into a worldwide organization, winning one of the country's great personal fortunes. In the period of post-war deflation this fortune dwindled with astonishing swiftness, and Mr. Armour withdrew from active participation in many of the concerns with which lie was connected, these including banks and railways. John Oliver, premier of British Columbia, died in Victoria at the age of seventy-one years. Ue had been ill for some time and had been relieved of his official duties by the naming of J. D. McClean as acting premier and leader of the Liberal party. Other deaths worthy qf note were those of James Oliver Curwood. popular American author, and Rhinelander Waldo, well-known New Yorker. FOLLOWING a conference with Mr. Coolidge in Rapid City, Director of the Budget Lord announced that the President had approved large increases in appropriations for both the army and the navy. Among the expenditures for national defense authorized by the President are: Funds for completion of the six cruisers authorized by congress in the last session ; funds for completion of the remodeling of the battleships Oklahoma and Nevada; and funds for 1,800 first-class planes for the army and 1,000 planes for the navy. There was only one naval appropriation which the President did not approve. That was for three submarines, asked for in 1916, on which Investigation work still is being done. Pessimists at once began figuring that the increased defense estimates, together with the necessity of spending a lot for farm relief, would make Impossible any extensive reduction in taxes by the next congress. But the official opinion in Washington was that taxes would certainly be cut at least S3OO.OOO.<MM> during the coming session. In order to bring this about the Democratic leaders and some Republicans will, if necessary, combat the practice of applying all receipts from foreign debts to national debt reduction. President Coolidge holds that tax reduction next year is feasible if congress does not Indulge in excessive money spending. GENERAL PERSHING called at the summer White House and discussed with Mr. Coolidge conditions of American cemeteries in France, also submitting to him the accepted designs for various memorials and chapels

1918, when 51,543,000 acres were sown. Most of the increase in intentions as compared with intentions last year at this time is reported from Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Oklahoma, where present intentions are 2,000,000 acres above those reported a year ago. Other states where farmers show intentions materially above those reported last year, include Montana and Washington, where there has been some shift from spring wheat and some of the central corn-belt states, where there is considerable land which

on the battlefields. The President went to the Pine Ridge reservation Wednesday and saw a pageant and parade in which some ten thousand Indians participated. He received from the Sioux national council a memorial reciting the loyalty and complaints of the Indians and in reply assured them of the government's sympathy and close study of their problems. Next day Mr. Coolidge, accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge ami their son, John, inspected the government hospitals for World war veterans at Hot Springs, S. D. Plans were made for the Presidential family to spend a week in Yellowstone National park. COLLAPSE of the Nanking Nationalist group in China seems imminent. After his armies, which were advancing on Peking met with severe defeats and were driven back to the south of the Yangtse, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek resigned his leadership and ap|M<a)ed for unity of action between the Nanking and Hankow factions. But the northern troops kept on going south and at Inst reports had oe copied i'ukow and were bombarding Nanking, across tlie Yangtse. Both foreign and native re>id<-nts of Hint city were Ib eing. Meanwhile the foreigners In Shanghai wore preparing to defend (lie place aga : nst invasion by the disorganized hordes of ths-ing Nationalist sol<H« rs. American, British and French troops were placed in strategic positions, the British living in an advanced line about Shanghai'.! environs, out-hie the International settlement, 'i he barricades between the French concession and Chinese territory wore reconstructed. The situation there was complicated by a quarrel tietwe«n the British authorities and the Chinese officials. An English airplane had been forced to land in Chinese territory and the native officials seized the wings and refused to comply with a British ultimatum that they give them up Immediately. The Chinese contended that flying British planes over Chinese territory is a violation of international law as well as the international airplane convention, to which both Breat Britain and China are signatories. Japan, asserting its preferential claims in Manchuria and Mongolia, has served notice that it will not tolerate any opposition there to Its policy. The Chinese, especially in Manchuria, are deeply resentful of the Japanese actions and plans, and the Mukden Chamber of Commerce stated an intention to boycott Japan. x Y THAT is denominated an “economV V ic Locarno” in the form of a commercial treaty was signed by France and Germany after three years of dickering. The pact provides for a mutual favored nation agreement on practically all products passing between the two countries and paves the way for intertrade' such as the two nations have never experienced. French agriculture will receive the greatest benefit. Practically all the tariffs are lowered, while Germany agrees not to increase the existing ones on cotton, wool, silk, leather goods and metallurgical products, soap and perfumery. PRESIDENT COSGRAVE'S government of the Irish Free State narrowly escaped overthrow at the hands of a combine of three parties after De Valera and his followers had taken the oath of fealty to the king and occupied their seats in tlie Dail. A resolution of lack of confidence was introduced and the vote was a tie which was broken when tlie speaker cast his vote in the negative. As a matter of fact, Cosgrave w’as saved by Alderman John Jinks of Sligo, a member of the Redmond party, who slipped away just before the vote was taken. He says he never had any Intention of voting tlie government out. Cosgrave Is expected to gain strength in the general elections in October. r> OLIVIA was greatly alarmed by a big uprising among the Indians, who largely outnumber the whites in that country. But quick action by the government troops isolated the disaffection in certain sections of three departments and gave assurance that the trouble would soon be quieted. Many chiefs were captured and heavy penalties were inflicted, and thereafter thousands of Indians returned to their work in the fields.

farmers for various reasons given were unable to plant to spring crops this year. In the principal winter wheat belt, the north central states, the intended acreage of 28.925.000 acres, compared with 24,942.000 acres sown last fall; south central states. 8.957,000 acres, compared with 7,942,000; western states, 0,789,000 acres, compared with 6,249,000; south Atlantic states, 2.356,000, compared with 2,201.000, and north Atlantic states, 1,G07,000, compared with 1,433,000.

j Improved Uniform International Sunday School ' Lesson ’ (By RKV H tfITZWATKR, U.U.. Dm*. Moody Bible Institute of Chlrago.) (ffi. UJ7. Western Newspaper Union.) =================== Lesson for September 4 j SOLOMON’S WISE CHOICE LESSON TEXT—I Klnps 8 4-15. GOLDEN TEXT—Happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding. PRIMARY TOPlC—Solomon's Wise | Choice. JI’NIOR TOPIC—A Young Man’s ; Wise Choice INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC —Choosing Things Worth While. । YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—The Best Things In Life. — i Following tlie death of David, Solo- j mon was anointed king (I Kings . 1:5-40). David had failed to show tlie ' people who should be king after him ' (v. 20). Though an old man. he is stirred into action by tlie combined api peals of Bathsheba and Nathan. He Immediately sent for the faithful three , —Zadok, Nathan and Beniah. and com- , manded them to anoint Solomon king I. God's Gracious Offer (vv. 4,5). Solomon made a lavish sacrifice to ' the Lord. Tlie magnitude of tlie offerIng shows that he had strong impulses | toward God and that tie was unwilling to hold anything back from God. Fol- ' lowing the sacrifice, the Lord made to him this gracious offer. This offer was not on the basis that the I.ord cared for the number of animals, but the attitude of the man's heart toward him. "Ask what I shall give thee,” placed very wide possibilities before the king. God, ns it were, signed blank checks and turned them over to Solomon to fill In any amount that his heart desired. This was not a reckless act on the part of God. for He foreknew what was in Solomon's heart to ask. This offer to Solomon is no exceptional one, for opportunities equally limitless are placed before us. Gad is saying to every one of His children. "Ask ami it shall be given you." The matter with its limitations is placed before us in John 15:7. "If ye abide in Me and My | words abide in yon. ye shall ask what ye v !l. iit.d it shall be done unto yon." ‘ These unlimited offers are oiam to tho-e who abide In Übrlst and let His words üblde In them. 11. Solomon’s Wise Choice (vv. 6-9). The Lord's gracious offer brought ! the king face to fine with the re- I sponsibllity of making a choice. There ■ was m> middle course open to him. God deals with all His children in I such away that a choice must be made by them. Solomon was keenly । aware of the difficulty and responsibility of his position. David was a great king. For a young man to take up the work of an illustrious father । ami push it to completion is a most ■ difficult task. Comparatively few ever i su«%’eed. Besides this, he had to deal ' with the disturbing elements which had been set in motion by the usurper, Adonijah. Being made to shoulder so great a responsibility so suddenly, brought him to kt*enly feel his insufficieucy. In his reply to God he pleaded that his being king was not of Ids own choice hut an act of God’s loving kindness. He argued that, since God had made him king, He was bound to qualify him to fill the place. All who have been called of God to fill positions of honor and trust can surely exercise that same boldness of faith. When called to positions of honor and trust we should humbly present ourselves before God for help. To feel ourselves unworthy and unfit for great ■ and responsible work and to east ourselves upon God for help is not cowardice. but a good sign that we shall not fail at the critical moment. Solomon's object in asking for wisdom was not for display but for the good of j bthers. 111. God's Unstinted Gift (vv. I 10-15). Solomon's speech pleased the Lord. । God gave him more than he asked. । Because he put wisdom first, God saw ; that he could be trusted with material ■ good also. Christ saw the same thing I when He said. “Seek ye first the king- ( dom of God. and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you'’ (Matt. 6:33). He who puts God and spiritual things first in time and importance can be trusted with i j temporal things. That which God | i promised him above what he asked j I was riches, honor and length of days. • All who feel the lack of wisdom can j go to God with confidence (Jas. 1 :5). I God blessed Solomon with a singular।iy comprehensive mind (I Kings ! 4:29-34). He was a botanist, zoologist, : architect, poet and moral philosopher. Those Who Are Glad Only the religious man can be truly glad. There is no joy to one who is out of relations with God; there Is laughter, noise, uproar, tumult. But as for gladness, health of soul, true, real, and abiding—this Is the child of j righteousness. The religious man has his enjoyments In the very midst of distresses. What a miracle to take i In all the black messengers of evil, set them down In the house, and see j them gradually whiten Into radiant angels of God! No other religion than the religion of Christ can produce such miracles.—Joseph Parker. Rise to a Better Life “Fear not.” A meet text for him that maketh a sermon at a sepulchre, for the fear of that place maketh us ( out of quiet all our life long. It Heth I at our heart 11kg. a stone, and no way there is to make us willing to go thither. but by putting us out of sea i putting us in hope that the great stono / shall he rolled away again from our | sepulchre, and we from thence rise to j a better life. —Bishop Andrews. Somebody Said: "Character is better than cash; morality is better than money; principle Is better than popularity.” And I would like to add that salvation is better than all. —The Gidevn.

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if a T R to keep god has got to be like something else. It \ has got to ’keep moving.’ Once a lot of students were sealed up in a tight glass room. Their cigarettes went out, the men wilted and dozed; a fan inside started and set the air in motion, and Immediately the students were as well aa ever again. It was the same air, but it was moving about. There la no dangerous amount of carbonlo-acld gas from people, even In big meetings. Just ‘keep the air moving.’ “Here is another thing which Is even more valuable to know. You realize thnt our bodies have lots of enemies. You might think that carbon-dloxide gas, which we have to throw out of us, was our enemy. So he Is. But our body la wise enough to make him into our friend.” “How ever do they make him a friend?” “Exactly like an alarm elexk. When we are asleep, if we have got our head under the pillow like the little princess in the tower, we should turn blue and die. But long before that those ugly-looking carbon molecules would have rung up central In our brain office, and messages would have gone pouring In from every side, saying: *We carbons are getting overcrowded. Something la wrong. Please breathe deeper and quicker.’ And If the brain would not listen, they would •fir up the muscles, and tlie muscles would ‘get busy’ and send that pillow flying—so, really, the enemy carbon have become our best friends. "So It Is with drafts. Too much of anything may be an enemy and destroy us. It Is for want of a draft f -LCT-T AT J MUT* S-'TTtA OUS wr BACOM F OKrstaTMot^- sagA*. j that we get so sleepy In a crowded room, where the doors and windows are shut. “Remember this, too: ‘Cold Is the friend of our bodies.’ The strong races come from the North, not the tropics. Germs cannot work properly in the cold. “Here Is a thing that the world needs to believe more than all I have told you. It, and It only, can save the world from wars and murders.” “Why, what is that, father?” "It is the one and only way to get rid of our enemies. There is an old story that to cure the cat that ate too many cockroaches, you must give It a dose of chopped-up beetle; or to cure a silly boy who Is smoking cigarettes, give him a ‘whacking big’ cigar. What did we do to save our soldiers from dying of typhoid in the war? We vaccinated them. How did the world get rid of smallpox, which once killed millions of people? Vaccinated every one. How do we prevent colds nowadays? We vaccinate against them. Yes, we make the germs cure themselves. Yon only get rid of your enemies by making them your friends.” “What are our bodies built of, father. and who does the building?” “They are built of clever little cells, which are doing the work of building and repairing all our life long. “The cells have five main wires to the central office. These are called the senses. One is for our tongue, others for our nose, eyes, ears, and touch machines. “All the tiny particles in our food are stuck together by energy. Isn’t that a strange kind of cement? But it Is really the same that keeps our old

POEMS AND DINNERS Genius Is, for the most part, better paid today than It used to be, though occasionally. It is true, masterpieces still go begging. Some of Edgar Allan Poe’s best poems—“ The Bells,” for example, and “Annabel Lee”—traveled the dreary rounds, and, as Andrew Lang once remarked, the pittance received when a sale was fortunately consummated would often be no more than enough to meet “the price of a dinner and a pair of boots” which, indeed is not very much.

world buzzing around the sun, and glues the stars in their places. Our food is like charges of dynamite, which tiny detonators inside us can force to shoot off its energy, all ready for us to use.” “Then don’t we make our own strength, father?” “Oh, no, our bodies do not create one bit of new matter, any more than an automobile does. We must put gasoline Into the tank all ready made, or th<s car will not go. Our bodies are the । jame. They are mere machines, and we get out of them only what we put In. Fortunately for the world there Is one thing in It that can create more dynamite out of waste, especially out of the waste of our bodies after we have thrown it away. You would.never guess what It Is. It Is called the ‘green-o'-leaf (Chlorophyll), and Is the substance that makes any leaf green. That is why I take off my hat to all green plants. The world could not last any time without chlorophyll. That breaks up waste, and catches the energy of the shinshine, and sticks the particles together in new blocks, and then hands them to us as new, ready made food cartridges. If it is a potato, or flour, or corn, or porridge cartridge, we call It starch. The storehouse cells keep these with the sugars. They are all labelled ‘carbohydrates,’ because there is carbon and water in them. “A chemist recently said that the necessary ingredients to make a man out of are as follows: “Items: Fat enough for seven bars of soap; iron enough for one mediumsized nail; sugar enough to fill a shaker; lime enough to whitewash one chickencoop; phosphorus enough to make two thousand and two hundred match tips, magnesium enough for one dose of ‘salts’; potash enough to explode one toy cannon, and sulphur enough to rid one dog of fleas. Even at post-war prices yon could buy the whole lot for 9S cents. "It is easy to remember that the body uses the starches for fuel to burn up meats, protelds, and fats, or hydrocarbons. “Os course every cartridge must have a cap to set it off and enable any one to make use of its energies, just as a stick of dynamite must have a detonator. That Is exactly what the supply cells do, they set off the cartridges which the plants make; or you can say that the cells are playing the great game of life, and the plants keep sending down the things to play with. Now we will label each player. H does not stand for Harvard, but for hydrogen; O not for Oxford, but for oxygen; C not for Columbia, but for carbon; N not for Newfoundland but for nitrogen. The plants arrange these players into regular teams. We start them marching down the red lane, and the cells set them free to play. The cells know exactly how to use each team, because they know how many there are of each kind of players In earii group. Thus the Starch Team has 2 C’s. 6 O's and 12 H's. That Is the team, as you now know, which gives us energy the quickest. You will learn about the other teams some day. Each has the same kind of players. (See picture.) “There are a few special things which the supply cells must have to do their work. These things they cannot manufacture; and for them we have got to go back once more to our friends the plants. These things are to put life Into the players —something like the lemons which people throw the football team at half-time—-so we call them ‘vitamines.’ “The United Cell Company are a very remarkable crowd. They not only do all the upbuilding, but they get together and practically tell you and me what they want, and make us give It to them. When they shout out, we know what they want, and we call It ‘liking a thing.’ As a rule they call up central about three times a day. for they have a wonderful habit of looking ahead, and they want to have supplies just where they can get them when they need them. Thus we call their shout for H and O being thirsty, because two H's and one O make water. By the way, do you know that about three-fourths of our whole body Is water? Sometimes they call out: ‘Sugar, please.’ “Too much fat is a sort of poison. Never get fat.” <© ^7 Bell Syndicate. Inc.)

NAPOLEONIC “NAP” The word “nap,” used In the sense of “a short sleep," is not of any AngloSaxon derivation, as might be supposed; but owes its origin to the fact that Napoleon had the power at any time, in any place, of (so to apeak) shutting down all the departments of his brain and going immediately to sleep. Thus a short sleep taken at will became known as a “Napoleon." which in due course of time was shortened to “nap” und has stayed so to this day.