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THOUGHT FOR TODAY: He shall rule them with a
rod of iron.—Rev. 2:27.
It is
Voltaire.
firmness that makes the gods on our side.—
Read This Editorial, Fort Worth
TA1NALLY, brethren, whatsoever things are true,
X1 whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there
be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these
things.” Philippians 4:8.
W. G. McAdoo’s Speech.
Another Hattie Looms.
Meteors Have a Story.
A New Dawn for China.
ad-
New Brooms
rpilIS might be entitled “The New Broom Sweeps Clean,”
JL or “Dusty Alcoves of Courthouse Swept Out With
Each New Administration," with the same serious purpose.
With the coming of each new administration in Tarrant
County, and the same probably is true in each county in
the state, new ways and means are found of saving money
of tax payers. Of course, it must not be left unsaid that
new ways and means are also found of spending tax
payers’ money, but these are usually offset.
Tarrant County Friday adopted the commissary system
of buying its supplies. In other words if District Attor-
ney Jesse Martin wants a dozen new pencils, instead of
• ordering them himself and turning the bill into the county,
he orders them thru the recognized purchasing department.
This same plan might have been put in operation years
- ago, but it wasn’t. Handled as is planned by the present
auditor and his assistants, it should prove a real money
saver for tax payers.
If it has been done for the purpose of creating a new
job, then its purpose probably will have failed, because
’ the saving would be very little, if any, more than the
loss under the old system.
Tax payers always like to read of new plans for a city
“ or county government saving money.
About Time to Name Them
‘ “ TT7H0 or what is behind the administration in its Mexi-
t “ *.. VV can policy? When this is discovered the atmos-
phere will be greatly cleared.
Revelations of the past few days seem to indicate that
® it may be those two precious patriots, Edward L. Doheny
\ and Harry F. Sinclair.
$ Certainly, that nebulous thing we call big business has
1 , not yet been identified with the remarkable enterprise of
l ' Messrs. Coolidge and Kellogg. That is to say, big business
o as a whole has not been revealed behind the scenes.
p There probably is no bigger business in the United
States or anywhere else, for that matter, than the Ford
[ I .Motor Co.; no bigger business man than Henry Ford. In
ti the issue of the Dearborn Independent, published by Henry
b Ford, appears an editorial criticizing the course of the
administration. A paragraph reads:
“What we are now embarking upon has every earmark
a^T.;of war except a formidable opponent. It is not called
t)*"* Avar, because the opponent is too weak to fight us. And
P2*J; it is entirely satisfactory to those who have been endeavor-
£ ing for years to start bloodshed between Mexico and this
p » country. That fact alone has enough significance to give
our people a hunch.”
C,P' And another paragraph;
“It will be increasingly difficult to reveal the facts be-
r,hind such general statements as the ‘protection of Ameri-
d £’ can lives and property’. A list of these lives and property
- .-would give the American people a view of this matter that
2t-Zthey are justified in having.”
Well, you may say, Henry Ford always did have dif-
j| Ml" -ferent views from those of other big business men and
7 financiers.
But “Commerce and Finance,” a Wall Street journal,
•*”’likewise criticizes the administration’s course. It says,
■4»jj- this week:
“President Coolidge fails to realize that he is taking a
. position that ‘vested rights’ acquired under one govern-
ment regime can never under any circumstances be re-
vised or amended, a position that all history shows to be
untenable, and which it may be doubted if the country will
support him in.”
Big business lineup behind the administration’s policy
certainly is not unanimous.
RV M. E. TRACT.
IITILUAM G. M’ADOO’8
» » dress before the Ohio State
liar Association might have
been made by a paid apostle of
the Anti-Saloon League.
It lacks effect thru novelty.
The man has uot been a roaring
prohibitionist long enough to
Impress people.
The suspicion prevails that
he would not be one now,, but
for the Idea that It offers a
chance to beat A1 Smith.
, • * *
A BOUT the biggest cloud
the Democratic horizon
the prospect of another cat and
dog fight between Smith and
McAdoo.
The Coolidge myth is passing,
the dumbness of the adminis-
tration is becoming apparent,
and the rotten politics disclos-
ed in the Pennsylvania. Illinois
and Indiana primaries have
shocked the country. "But,”
asks your average man, "what
can the Democrats offer that Is
better?"
From a political standpoint
the Smlth-McAdoo row Is shat-
tering all hope of party success.
From a patriotic standpoint, it
Is spoiling the chance for a bet-
tor administration.
* * *
A METEOR landed near So-
corro. N. M., last Wednes-
day night. There was brilliant
light in the sky for four min-
utes and then an earth shock.
Students of the State Universi-
ty are going out on the desert to
see If they can find the deadly
missile.
Meteors are the only product
this old earth receives from the
outside. Where they come from,
or what gives them direction is
one of the unsolved mysteries.
They have a story to tell,
however, if we could only read
• * •
fTUIl, most significant scene
-*■ in the world,” says Sen-
ator Borah, "is to see a great
people, after years of turmoil,
strife and oppression by outside
powers, coming into its own,
and that is what we are witness-
ing in China."
The thought is worth empha-
sizing. It strikes the deepest
chord in history. There is noth-
ing in the pages of the past
that so intrigues the Im-
agination as the revival of
some downtrodden race.
Who has not been thrilled by
the story of the exodus, or the
successful rebellion of the Ger-
mans against the tyranny of
Rome?
fTiHERE is more in the Chlneso
situation than Its important
effect on foreigners or foreign
interests.
An empire has crashed, the
shackles of 40 centuries of des-
potism have been broken, a
mighty people Is aspiring to
avail Itself of modern civiliza-
tion.
Of course, there will be
chaos, bloodshed and Injustice
for the time, but those are blind
who can not see the breaking of
a new dawn.
* • *
A MERICAN education may
have produced a Joan of
Arc for the Moros.
Tarhata is her name and slip
is a graduate of the University
of Chicago.
Some weeks ago she won the
spotlight of publicity by laying
aside her modern airs and ac-
complishments to become the
fourth wife of a rebel leader.
Government authorities sus-
pect that she is the brains of
the uprising.
The educated savage who re-
verts to type Is the most danger-
ous of them all.
Gotham’s Population That
Lives on River Barges
RY Gil.BERT SWAN.
XTEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Along
IN the river front of this great
city there is a strange nomad
population, as foreign to Broad-
way and Fifth Avenue as Aus-
tralian bushmen, that lives its
own secluded, peculiar life, un-
heard of by the throngs that
come and go about it.
It is made up of the 3,000
men, women and children who
live on the coal barges that float
lazily up and down the river.
The coal barges are ancient
woodeu hulks, many of them
dismantled square-riggers shorn
of their former trim beauty, dis-
masted and reduced to mere ob-
loug boxes with rounded ends,
covered with hatches from stem
to stern uijd fitted aft with lit-
tle deck houses, usually contain-
ing a couple of rooms, each of
which measures about ti by 8
feet.
Each barge has its bargeman,
who lives in the cabin, tends the
lights, handles lines and looks
after the hulk generally. Some
of these men are bachelors, liv-
ing in solitary comfort, strange
hermits .surrounded by millions
of people; others are married
and their families live on the
barges witii them.
Some of the married barge-
men hardly have ldt q| domestic
establishments. In many cases a
man and his wife and three or
four children live all together
in the two little cabins of a
barge. This is not because of
any love for river life, but be-
cause the bargeman's wages—
around $90 or $100 a month—
do not allow a separate home
ashore.
The children usually miss
school entirely. They are out of
reach of truant officers. Their
quarters, often, are filthy hi the,
extreme. They grow up stunted,
uneducated, sickly.
Bargemen have no time off.
They are required to be on their
craft at all times, including Hun
days and holidays. To be sure,
their work Is not extra arduous!
and some of the single men en-
joy a lazy, carefree existence,
hut It Is hardly a life for a fam-
ily man.
XTEW YORK.
IN 2,000,00(1
home of some
Jews, lias Just
disproved an old tradition—
namely, that most Jews are en-
gaged in commerce.
The first edition of "Who’s
Who in Jewry," Just published,
shows that of 2,527 Jews listed
as prominent, only 60 are bank-
ers, 9 are brokers, 7 nre capi-
talists and 9 are real estate op-
erators. On the other hand.
414 physicians and surgeons
are listed, 310 lawyers, 277 rab-
bis, 125 engineers. 98 artists,
80 musicians and 93 professors.
Ninety-four merchants and 32
manufacture! s arc mentioned.
* * •
fTUlE average Broadwaylti
A might be Inclined to laugh
if you mentioned t'rawfords-
ville, Ind., to him—but three
present-day Broadway successes
are the work of people born In
Crawfordsvllle.
The movie "Ben Hue." was
written by the late Lew Wal
lace; the satiric melodrama,
"Chicago,’• lg the work of Mau-
rlno Watkins; and the new play.
"The Barker,” Is front the pen
of J. Kenyon Nicholson. All of
these people first saw the light
of day In Crawfordsvllle.
WOES OF TRAFFIC BIG PROBLEM FOR MANY CITIFH
• * * • • • ... \
WOMANS VIKWfOINT
Married Women and Outside Work
Merchants’ Daily Losses Run Into Thousands When Shoppers Can’t Find
Place to Park
i I
rilHTOll'S NOTK: ThiH In the third
of u Meries of urth'lr* on the prob-
lems that American citie* are fncing
Moduli
today.
economic and
the modern city i
In told nliut the
miericun cities art
In these urtlch'N the
indi
iiUuNtrial ebullition
iM dcNcribed, and li
.rioi
here
'oniiiiiiultieN
are doing to meet the ncedN of in-
creasing po|
to mei
•pulutiu
RY DON E. MOWRY
Secretary American Community
Advertising Association
TjYVEUYBODY knows that the
I-J traffic problem Is one of the
biggest issues facing the Ameri-
can city.
Hut did you realize how acute
it is? Did you know that busi-
ness leaders fear that "down-
town districts" in cities even-
tually may lose their value be-
cause would-be shoppers can
find no places to park?
It’s true. Chicago is deeply
j worried over it. St. Louis is con-
sidering a plan to open a free
parking space along the river
banks und transport drivers to
and from the downtown stores
to tills parking space in city-
owned buses. Toledo, Fort
Wayne, Jacksonville, Dallas and
other cities are considering
! other plans.
In St. Louis it is estimated
J that daily loss to merchants Is
| already $100,000. Authorities
there say that under present
[ conditions the downtown dls-
! triet will disappear in 15 years.
Edward S. Jordan, in a report
to the National Automobile
I Chamber of Commerce, insists
that complete abolition of
downtown parking will not be
tolerated by motorists.
Miller McCiintock, address-
ing the National Association of
Building Owners and Managers,
points out that much can be
done by physical improvements
in the streets, by rapid transit
and by scientifically designed
traffic movement.
Under existing conditions,
many cities are finding that re-
tail centers are springing up ut
a good distance from the heart
of the downtown section, and
that more and more people are
coming to prefer them to risk-
ing downtown traffic and hunt-
ing vainly for a place to park.
Washington Picked Potomac for Power Sites
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DOC CONNER
TJATTEUCAKE FLATS was all a-flutter tooay over the merger of
O Conner's Industrial League and the League for the Advance-
ment of Ilatterrake Flats.
This was made possible late last night following a meeting of
the directors of the advancement league and my-
self.
The consolidation of the two branches means
prosperity for Battercako Flats.
I was so elated over the merger that following
the meeting I Issued this statement:
"I am highly gratified by the arrangement and
feel that It marks % big step forward.”
No sooner had I gotten those words out of my
mouth than I felt another statement coming for-
ward, which follows:
"Both of these organizations have made conces-
slonTand received advantages, and It would give a splendid basis for
future work and greater advancement.
The first question asked of me by newspapermen after the con-
ference was: "Where do you intend making headquarters for the
combined organizations?"
Tills was instantly met with tho reply that both organizations
will continue to operate at their same old stands.
We can not afford to let the two sets of officers work together
In the same building. One might find that the other was not work-
ing hard enough and a row would result.
I made it possible under the merger thnt each organization shall
•lsct Its own set of officers each year, altho 1 inserted a clause In the
contract which stipulates thnt I shall pass on the officials of the
other organization.
Of course, I shall map out specific fields of operations for tho
two organizations. In order that I won't have to do all the work.
Exertion of effort in obtaining memberships for my organization
and particularly stressing the necessity of financial support of my
organization by the members of the Advancement league is railed
for In the merger.
Now that we have hut one organization operating from two
points of contact, watch us grow. DR. B. U. L. CONNER.
fPHE Princess Tarhata repre-
sents but one effect of edu-
cation on a savage or seini-
barbaric mind. There are thou-
sands of poets and statesmen to
represent a different and better
effect.
When Porfirlo Diaz estab-
lished a public school system
for Mexico, he said that lie had
done something which would
destroy him.
Ho probably wns right in one
sense of tho word, but public
schools ulltlmately will do Mex-
ico more good than harm.
* * *
fTHE advantages of education
A are universally recognized.
Even General Lincoln Andrew's,
our dry czar, believes in It.
General Andrews Is about to
open a training school for pro-
hibition investigators.
Tho course will take three
weeks and will include about
everything from the art of
smelling correctly to that of
search and seizure.
It sounds like "how to learn
cake walks in 20 lessons."
/GENERAL ANDREWS de-
scribes the enterprise as a
sort of finishing school for
those who have had more or less
practical experience.
“Expert knowledge,” he says,
"Is essential to courteous and
efficient relationship between
government nnd business.”
This is a splendid Idea. Put-
ting aside the question of effi-
ciency, there has been a great
lnck of courtesy, as nn appalling
dry ngen^.
If ever politeness and amia-
bility were desirable, it is be-
tween the bootlegger and the
dry agent.
At present they appear to be
inflicted with nothing so dis-
tinctly hs the Idea of "shooting
it out," regardless of innocent
bystanders.
By RODNEY DUTCHKH,
NKA Service Writer.
1ITASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—
VV George Washington's re-
cently advanced claim to dis-
tinction as the greatest business
man of Ills time may soon be
convincingly proved In the sav-
ing of millions of dollars to the
government and some 2,000,000
citizens.
A miniature Muscle Shoals,
which will produce electric light
and power in the national capi-
tal's backyard at about one-half
the present rate, is likely to be
developed by act of this Con-
gress or the next.
Two 100-foot dams with pow-
er plants on the Potomac river,
each to develop about 90,000
horsepower to serve the District
of Columbia and territory with-
in a hundred-mile radius, are
provided in legislation proposed
by Senator George W. Norris of
Nebraska.
...
Build Two Plants,
The program is known as the
"Great Falls project." The
Norris bill calls for erection of
a dam and power plant to cost
$13,600,000 at Chain Bridge,
three miles from Washington,
and similar construction at
Great Falls, 14 miles away, to
cost $18,616,000.
George Washington's "favor-
ite dream" envisaged the har-
nessing of beautiful Great Falls
to his country’s Industrial needs.
The foundations of his iron mill
and grist mill still stand there
us testimonials to his foresight.
Primarily, the project Is de-
signed to supply government
buildings and effect an impor-
tant federal economy, but the
people of Washington and sur-
rounding cities and towns of
Maryland nnd Virginia will reap
full benefit.
It was originally drafted by
Major M. C. Tyler, hydro-elec-
tric expert of the Army Engi-
neer Corps, in 1921, after an
exhaustive study. It has gain-
ed the approval of Qte U. 8.
Board of Engineers, the secre-
tary of war, district commis-
sioners, Washington Chamber of
Commerce, District Committee
of the House and the Federal
Power Commission, which has
special jurisdiction over such
matters.
A Huge Saving.
Approximately 90,000 horse-
power would be used by govern-
ment and other buildings In
Washington and as much again
in the hundred-mile radius, con-
taining 1,500,000 persons out-
side the capital. With both
plants in operation and with
control of water by three sup-
plementary dams further up-
stream Increasing the regular
flow of 6000 feet per second, all
this electric current could he
developed for $44,421,000, ac-
cordln gto the plan's support-
ers.
The $4 (.4 21.000 would be
amortised In 30 years, after
j which the price of current would
i be expected to drop well below
I halt the present figure. Sena-
tor Norris says that even If all
electric distribution were left to
local utility companies, the peo-
ple would save 2 mills per kilo-
watt hour with a total saving
of $1,900,000 a year to con-
sumers during the 30-year-per-
iod and $4,560,000 annually
thereafter.
In addition, the government
departments expect a saving of
$2,000,000 annually by using
their own power, coupled with
a saving of 500,000 tons of coal,
worth more than $5,000,000 at
retail, to the nation.
Most Impressive of all, con-
gressional friends of the plan
argue that if the government
should take over transmission
and distribution lines, the peo-
ple of Washington would be
saved more than $15,000,000
a year over those figures and at
the same time be paying back
the cost of taking them over.
The Norris bill has previous-
ly passed the Senate, only to be
killed In conference.
Will Continue Fight.
Norris will continue to fight
for It, however. He favors com-
plete government ownership
and operation. He cites the mu-
nicipal power plant lu Cleve-
land, which cut the cost of pro-
duction in half, and points to
Seattle and Tacoma, where sim-
ilar plants have cut electricity
costs from 12 to 15 cents to
3 and 1 ',9 centd per kilowatt
hour.
Hydro-electric power Is the
cheapest electric power obtain-
able. It saves the coal supplies
of the nation and the more It
is used the cheaper It become*.
The attorney general has cer-
tified that the government has
every right to condemn neces-
sary lands and build tin* proj-
ects for government benefit.
The Chain Bridge dam will
create a nine-mile lake of great
beauty In tho Potomac gorge,
and the Great Falls dam anoth-
er beautiful lake 34 miles long.
Major Tyler's plans call for bou-
levards on either side of c ich
lake and use of reservoirs by
the Cumberland canal boats,
thus saving about 45 miles of
canals and 18 separate locks
now existing at the lower lev-
els. The territory Is Bparsely
settled and no difficulty Is ex-
pected In acquiring the neces-
sary acreage.
BY MBS. WALTER FERGUSON
T is quite true, us an Indig-
nant woman recently charg-
ed, that the vast number of
married women who invade the
business world lessen a girl's
chances of getting a job.
While It seems only Just that
the employer should give the
preference to the girl rather
than to the wife who has a
husband to support her, still in
a number of instances, this is
not done.
Most people feel that the wife
who leaves her own job, that of
making a home, in order to
procure for herself a few extra
luxuries, is exhibiting the quali-
ties of poor sportsmanship. And
it is true that these parasites,
whose husbands are able to sup-
port them in comparative com-
fort, should be given small con-
sideration In the business world.
• • •
DUT—
-LJ The Increasing number
of married women who work
out, does not testify to the fact
that business men are always
cold and hard. It merely moans
that there are today more wom-
en who are forced by circum-
stances to seek outside employ-
ment, or that the economic
pressure has become so great
that the women of the family
must earn money, or, a fact
that Is also In evidence,
that nn Increasing number of
men are Incompetent, • without
pride und worthless. For it is
Indeed true that a large num-
ber of professional and busi-
ness women are compelled to
support dep i lent relatives who
were, prior • this decade, al-
ways looki v. ucr by the men
of a family.
• • •
A ND THEN, few are the girls
*Y who give the same sort of
service to a Job as a married
woman. And perhaps this last
lact Is the main reason why so
many married women nre wage
earners. For girls are, after all.
occupied chiefly in seeking
mates. Unconsciously ull of their
Interest is engaged In this per-
petual quest of nature, and the
life force which resides in them,
is the strongest part of their
being. They are not often at-
tached to a job merely thru
love of the work, unless they
have reached the age where
they have resigned the though^
of home and husband. They urmk
filled with the exuberance e it 1
youth, and no employer fc\
startled when they give noticV
with the excuse that they arc
to he married.
The woman who is already set-
tled in life and has recovered
l<om the fever of love can give
her main attention to the work
at hand.
The married woman will con-
tinue to fcivade the business
world with success, so long as
she gives better service than
the young girl.
Little Joe Says
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WALTER Dll,I, SCOTT
fTtllE greatest pleasure Waltei
A Din Scott, pri(Meat i>
Northwestern University, and
world famous psychologist get:. I I
Is playing tennis. President,
Scott started playing when li*- ?
was a student In Northwestern.
Altho President Scott's son.-.
John and Summer, have ranked
high in tournaments in Evans-
ton and Chicago, their father -
game is still good enough t >
beat, theirs.
In addition to playing tenr .
Dr. Scott is interested in n
ern tennis stars, and is a j. ;
admirer of William T. Tlldt...
Vincent Richards and Helen
Wills. He never lets slip an
opportunity to see them in ac-
tion, if he can spare the thin
to get to the courts.
Yon can get nn gnuwfr to nn/ quM*
f fuel or Information by writing
i I'res*. Washington
York Avenue, Wash*
lion of fact or Infi
to the fort Worth l*n
Governor Crittenden of Missouri
$10,000 for htH
Ington, a*, ay.,
Medical, legal nn
itdt ire will not he
trrs will not he an*
llurenu, 1322 Ne
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'onfldentliil, and receive personal
rw York t
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and
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All leltern
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ml love nnd mnrrliige
given, t'nalgned let-
nr« con
attentio
Q. Who discovered the Ha-
waiian Islands?
A. The original discover Is not
known. Captain James Cook, while on
his third voyage In the Pacific found
the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. He
named them Sandwich Islands after
Tyord Sandwich of the British Admir-
alty.
Q. Did Betty Compton play
the leading part In “The Palace
of Pleasure", “The Belle of
Broadway”, "Beggar on Horse-
back" and “The Goose Hangs
High.?
A. Nhe played the leading part In
the first two pictures. In "Beggar
on Horseback" she had a small part
and In "The Goose Hangs High" site
did not appear.
* • s>
Q. Where and what are
"The Iron Gates"?
A. The name Is given to a celehrst*
A.
offered m reward of *.v,vw .w,
capture, dead or alive, and tempted
l»y this bribe, two members of his own
band, Ilobert nnd Charles Ford, kill-
ed him at his own home at 8t. Joseph,
Mo., April 3, 1NK3.
* * •
Q. What is the address of
Bebe Daniels, the moving pic-
ture actress?
A. I,asky Htudlos. r.341 Melrose
Awsnue, Hollywood, Calif.
* * •
Q. How did the abbreviation
"lb.” originate?
A. It comes from the I.atln word
"Libra" mean ing pound.
* * a
Q. Arp there American ceme-
teries at Bcllau Wood and
Chateau Thierry in France?
A. There In n permanent American
cemetery at llellnu Wood In which
212 bodies of American soldiers are
re Is none at Chat*
the bodle
Old Gold
”hi>i
Thierry and
d the
hurled.
terred
ItelUu
formerly In-
have been transferred
where.
a me
pass on tlx
aova
the river
a spur of
nearly barrlcadi
> a c«
ed pass on the lower Danube
t juet below the point
sr leaves Hungary nnd where
of the Trnnslyvanlat
barricades the river.
(lie Inst great defile of the Dauhe and
Is about two miles long. In HMMI the
demolition of this obstruction to navi-
gation was begun by a Hungarian
company, and In the course of ten
yearn was practically completed. The
anlan Alps
ver. It Is
,nd
pra
work necessitated the excavation by
blasting of nearly 1,2no,<Mj
yards of rock, about half of
was in
rock, about
the river bed.
ruble
a 1$ Ich
Q. How and when was Jessie
James, the outlaw, captured?
Wood or else
Q. What are Germany's pres
ent boundaries?
A. Germany Is ttounried on the
north by the North Hea. Dei
nnd the Baltic Hea; on tin
Boland, Chechoslovakia and
by Csenhoalo'
nmark
east by
Austria;
ivakla, Atn-
the west by
•land,
on the south by Csnchm
trln and Hwltxcrlnnd; on the west by
France, Luxembourg. Belgium, Hol-
land and the North 8en.
• • •
Q. Which railroads In the
United States have the greatest
mileage?
A. Moody's latest analysis of rail-
roads give the total operated mile-
age of the New York Central ns 27,-
!»&*»..VI miles; of the I’rnnsylvanla ns
27,Ro.*».7n nnd of the Canadian Na-
tional as 2U,732,ll^illea.
TYItIGHT star! Would I were
J-J steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendor hung aloft
the night,
And watching, with eternal lids
apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless
Eremite,
The moving waters at their
priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s
human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fall-
en mask
Of sntiw upon the mountains
and the moors—
No—yet still steadfast, still un-
changeable.
Pillowed upon my fair love’s
ripening breast.
To feel forever Its soft fall and
swell,
Awake forever In a sweet un- i
rest,
Still, still to hear her tender- ■
taken breath,
And so live ever—or else
swoon to death.
—John Keats; Last Sonnet.
11 Most Anything |
A WORD FROM JOSH U IJJ
It's an ill wind th'l nev
j slops blowlif.
America grows more reffn.c
daily. We can remember when
you bought a thing on time or
on the Installment plan, but»
now the motor car companies
call it "buying out of Income.'’
• * •
A Chinese actor who ninkes
$750,000 a year in China lv-
ronilng to this country. If ho
comes x la San Francisco ho
will be met at the steamer by a
crowd of lawyers, prospectRo
receivers and mothers with JO-
year-old daughters.
• * •
Senutor Borah is again com- .
plaining that wo make too
many laws. Sure. We ought-
to have a law against making
any laws.
• • *
AFTER ALL, AS WE HAVE
FREQUENTLY POINTED OUT,
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCJ
HOW MANY LAWS V>V'
HAVE? NOBODY E V E IT
OBEYS THEM.
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