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_ KMiMMts July 4. 1*12
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TEXAS DAILY PRESS LEAGUE
Foreign Advertising Representative*
Dallas Texas 512 Mercantile Bank Building.
Chicago 111. Association Building.
Kansas City Mo. Interstate Building.
New York 350 Madison Avene.
The Sterling Highway Plan
That Chairman Sterling of the state highway com-
mission struck a responsive chord when he suggest-
ed that the state finance a comprehensive system of
paved highways with a bond issue of $300000000 to
$350000000 based upon a gasoline tax to he levied by
the state is apparent from the flood of approval em-
anating from the newspapers and commercial and
civic organizations of the state.
The Sterling plan contemplates the reimbursing of
counties which have voted bonds for state highways
and financing all state highways without requesting
counties to participate. This would assure construc-
tion of state highways as one project regardless of the.
valuations or bonding capacities of the various coun-
ties such highways would traverse.
One of the most commendable features of the plan
Is that it relieves real estate of the burden of con-
structing state highways and places that burden where
it belongs—upon the owners of motor vehicles who will
pay in proportion to the use they make of the highway
system.
Another feature that has thus far failed to arouse
much comment and which is all important is that the
state bonds would draw interest at the rate of 4 or
4 1-2 per cent whereas the average county bond? draw-
interest at the rate of 5 to 5 1-2 per cent and road
district bonds at 5 1-2 to A per cent. State bonds draw-
ing 4 per cent would h* almost as attractive to in-
vestors as county bonds at 5 or district bonds at A
By financing a l-tftO.OOO.Wn program with state bon-l*
the state could effect a saving of approximately $4-
000000 a year on the interest. The saving in interest
alone would finance a large part of the maintenance.
Tremendous savings eould also he effected in la’rg?
contracts and the cost of paving and the burden of
the interest and sinking fund could both be materially
reduced.
Owners of motor vehicles would not find the tax a
burden. Records prove that the increased mileage per
gallon of gasoline on paved highways averages from
25 to 45 per cent and the operator of a motor vehicle I
could well afford to increase hia gasoline cost 10 or
15 per cent in order to get 25 to 45 per cent more in
mileage.
Under the plan proposed by Chairman Sterling
there would be more uniformity in construction ma-
terials and methods and in width of highway. Such
gaps as now exist north of Jim Well* county «-
through Kenedy county would he eliminated and the
entire system of state highways constructed with a
view of maximum efficiency and sereice to the greatest
number.
Texas has been endeavoring for ten years to build !
a connected system of state highways under existing
laws and the effort has proved fruitless. The pro- !
gresaive counties ha\e been penalized by the unpro-
gressive or by those which lacked sufficient valuation*
to vote the necessary bonds. There is only one way to
construct a connected system and that is through
financing by the state upon such a plan as Mr. Ster-
ling has proposed
The Corporation Tax
The small corporations of the United States will
Kail with considerable enthusixam the inclusion in the
tax bill the Garner graduated scale of rates for cor.
porations with incomes under $15000 per year. The
senate accepted the Garner rates Saturday by a vat*
of 40 to 38 every democrat and two republicans votinz
for the inclusion.
The present tax. which places all corporations upon
an equal basis has prevented the formation of small
corporations to such an extent that it has proved in-
jurious to the commercial development of the nation.
Combinations of capital from $10000 to $100000 are
practically prohibited under the excessive 13 per cent
corporation tax. Large corporations have been ham-
pered to some extent by this tax but the smaller cor-
porations have found it almost unbearable.
Under the Garner graduated rate accepted by th*
senate and soon to he placed before President Coolidge
the small corporations will pay from 7 to 11 per cent
bated upon their incomes. Those showing profits of
$15(KM) or more will pay 12 1-2 per cent but the cor-
poration showing a profit of $fi.fK)0 will pay only 7 per
cent. In the past three or four years hundreds of
small corporations unable to meet the excessive tax.
have been forced from business and the large corpor-
-tions have profited through the elimination of com-
petition.
Cleaning Out the billboards
Kansas proposes to remove the unsightly billboards
which mar the scenic beauties of many rural spots in
that state. A decision handed down last week by the
Kansas supreme court opens the way for the removal
of all advertising signs and billboards along state
highways. In its decision the court declared valid a
statute enacted by the legislature last year which pro-
hibited any kind of signs except official markers on
the right-of-way of state highways; also any adver-
tising sign within 500 feet of a turn in the road an
intersection or a grade crossing.
Following the enactment of the law. the state high-
ways commission directed the county highway boards
to proceed with the removal of signs already put up.
A sign company brought suit against one of the county-
boards and obtained an injunction through the district
court. The supreme court reversed the decision of the
lower court and removal of all signs in accordance
with the state law is now in progress.
The decision of the Kansas court is regarded as
iignificant a* the airns involved in the suit were only
20 by 14 inches in sixe. They had been placed on
fence posts along the highways and less than one-half
the 20-inch length extended over the highway right-
of-way. But the higher court held that even that un-
der certain conditions might constitute an obstruction
to the view of the motorist.
At the meeting of the Association of National Ad-
vertisers in Cleveland last week cognisance was taken
of the increasing demand for the removal of objection-
able signs end it was the consensus of the meeting
thet unsightly billboerds which mar the scenic beauty
•vrjll eventually go down before the barrage of public
* |>ptRion. It was reported that throughout New Eng-
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land the billboards have been reduced over bn per cent
the paat year and that th* end of 1921 vronld see very
few remaining.
Commenting upon the general demand end especial’
ly the fact that the women’s clubs of the country are
leading the campaign against the billboards Edward
T. Hall former president of the association said that
women's attitude on national products "is something
to always take into consideration.” Many of the na-
tional advertisers take this view and are not only con-
forming with the demand that the billboards be elimi-
nated but are adding the weight of their influence to
the movement.
Oftk®r Papers
_ _
JOHN NANCE GARNER
Down in Cameron county they have organized a
strong John N. Garner club. With his splendid record
of twenty-six years behind him a* a member of con-
gress there should be no necessity for his friendf to
organize for hia re-election for he should be sent
hack to congress without opposition. But Mr. Gsrncr
has an opponent this year and the friends of the op-
ponent are very active in their candidate's behalf.
This opponent is Mr. Sid Hsrdin a worthy young man.
and his ambition is a laudable one. But Mr. Garner
is needed in congress and his long service in that
I great law-making body hss made him the most influ-
ential member of the Texas delegation. This looks like
a democratic year with a democratic president and
congress in which event Mr. Garner would become
speaker of the house of representatives and that woul.1
mean a great deal not only for his district but for his
state and the nation. A man is elected to congress
not only to look after his district and state but to
assist in making laws for the world's greatest nation.
So well has Mr. Garner performed his duties that his
fame as a law-maker has become nation-wide and his
name is a familiar one in the law-making bodies of
the Old World nations. Texas and the nation would
feel the absence of John N. Garner should his district
refuse to return him to congress this year but this
seems hardly among the possibilities. The News does
not presume to say how a majority of the people of
the district will vote but it believes they will see ths
wisdom of keeping in congress a man who has always
j been faithful to his trust and who Kv his untiring
efforts has gained for himself a national reputation
as a law-maker and is a credit and an honor to his
state.
1
j Tk® World amd All
By Charles P. Driscoll
DIMENSIONS
The paper on which these words are printed ha-
length. breadth and thickness. Or you may call them
length width and height. Or height thickness and
width. However you call them there are three di-
mensions.
Same way with the brick in the street the build- j
ing in wh’ch you live and the objects you see about
you. Everything you can measure in three dimen-
sions.
But there has been a great deal of speculation
about the possibility of another dimension that wc
i cannot measure or sense. Is is possible that all things
or some things have qualities that might he classed
as dimensions besides ’ength. breadth and height?
• • • •
I think so. For instance consider space. Space if
it exists at ail. is just as real as a brick. But it is
infinite in extent. You cannot measure it or put it
within bounds. Perhaps it has no length or width or
height. Perhaps its only dimensions is infinity. In-
finity may be a fourth dimension and there may be
many other dimensions that we cannot sense.
There is some tendency among modern thinkers to
deny the existence of space because we cannot meas-
ure it. Persons who talk to the atom and the molecule
and the electron as if they were intimately acquaint?.!
with them are inclined to deny that there is any space.
But we cannot see the atom or the molecule or the
electron. We cannot feel these things nor prove their
existence—unless the person to whom their existence
is to be proved already believes in them.
Time and motion are not measurable in three di-
I mansions. Neither is electricity for that matter
j These things have other dimensions that we have not
learned to catalog and sense.
Love is possibly the most potent force in the uni-
verse. Doubtless it has dimensions comparable to the
dimensions of space and time. But we know so little
about its essential nature that we think of it vaguely
and in a personal way. Scientists work within narrow
limits. They are feeling about in the half-light. They
are making progress hut not very rapidly. If you
asked a scientist the dimensions of love he would ask
you to see an alienist and would turn again to his
engine or his microscope.
Tiinni©lly Vs@w§
AMERICAN HABIT OF RUSHING SCORED
By DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
Pastor of Park Avenue Baptist Church. New York City.
(Dr. Fosdick was born in Buffalo N. Y. in 1878.
He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1901
and served as pastor of the First church of Mont-
clair N. J. from 1904 in 1915. Dr. Fosdick he-
came an instructor in homiletics at the Union
Theological college seminary in 1908 which posi-
tion he held until 1915 when he became professor
of practical theology at the seminary. He has been
pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist church of New
York since 1915).
Americans need to learn that the finest and highest
things in life cannot be achieved hy our national habit
of headlong precipitancy.
If you c.n imagine yourelf nnl being AlMricun
*"d Amerie. hefor. „r
for the first time and sensitively responding to the
mental and moral climate of our people the most dom-
tnant characteristic of our life would probablv be a
certain headlong precipitancy with which we live W.
hurl overselves after the things which we want.' 'in
the common parlance we are go-getters. If we fix 1
our eye on a desirable goal we plunge for it. What
** rrr"UCk 10 8e* iS th"‘ there *°mc thing
u A J fr8t *nd hiRhe8t tb*t cannot he 1
achieved by this method of headlong precipitancy.
nt° tW° portifln*: things we '
Z P°Un7 °n theni - —t them
■ lion on his prey! second the things we have to I
get at indirectly by fulfilling prior and often remote
conditions. Some things are like catching a train—
:u;: Tr* 7k nut ?on7thiK8 ar*not that at 1
an—e get them only by indirection. Take culture '
m m>” - >««.ni
Ind a 7. *"• Ch*rm °f * fi"«* -P^ir 1
rived at J m‘ *PirUual ia «•
med at by any plunging method. Which of you hy !
ring anxious ever added a cubit to his culture? Cul-
t U*ht M08”' fac* -hen he wished =
not that it shone. I
If one of Willi.m J. L«cke'* novel there is . char-
acter who thus expresses himself: -f would like »#• '
take life by the throat and choke something out of it.- J
That is the method of direct go-getting action. But
the finest things cannot he choked out of life. xh-y i
come another way. They are the aftermath and by-
product of the things which »« adore.
«
SIGNS OF SPRING
C3or SO MANY
YEA'SS AGO—
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Muscle Shoals Dam Is Unutilized and Plant
Works Part Capacity As Policy Is Debated
Upper left view of power house floor showing eigh* generators; lower left one of the largest turbines
in the world; upper right lower side of power house and Wilson Dam. looking north; lower right scene
in liquid air building.
B> NORMAN E. BROWN
MUSCLE SHOALS Ala.. May 14.-
While congress weigh* methods of
operating America s greatest poten-
tial power source now under leash
those who visit Muscle Shoals see—
Khough power going to waste each
hour* to supply—
But the recitation of figures would
only confuse the aveiage citizen as
they confuse the visitor here.
Some things however are appar-
ent to the layman who goes sight-
seeing.
What Visitor Sees
Twelve of the 63 sp.llway* in the
mile-long dam ( Wilson dam) are
upen with thousands cf gallons of
water rushing thror.gn unutilized
svery minute.
Light giant turbines totaling 260-
)00 horse power at c;.parity stand
ready to produce power—and five are
iterating. These five capable of
producing 155000 horse power are
iperating below capacity— 120000
lorse power.
Beyond the quarter-mile long room
n which these giant turbines stand
s another room still longer await-
ng installation of 10 more turbines
is large as the eight new in operat-
ng condition.
Huge Mas* of Water
Rehind this building (a part of the
lam structure itself) the water is
lenned up -96 feet high—waiting to
>e turned loose on the paddles of the
urbines—The one constructed and
he ones to be installed.
Snuggled timidly among the giant
turbines that spin to a steady low-
ironing sound is a tiny turbine. At
east it is tiny alongside the others.
I'his turbine is the “house machine”
vhirh supplies the current for the
jlant. to light the da® the buildings
■un the elevator etc.
This turbine alone can produce
•nough power at peak load to supply
wo ordinary middle-sized towns
with their average industries. It is
isted at 1400 horse power The
arger ones at 35.000 and 30000—if
hat will help you anv.
Yet with the necessary water
ivailahle to turn IS of the giant tur-
>ines at peak load the year around
inly five of them arc in use now—
ind no progress heing made toward
nstallinr the final group of 10.
Figure* Given M rlter
The Alabama Power company now
* n*ying the government tw-o mills
>er kilowatt hour for what power is
teinf produced and sold pending
rinal disposition of the plant. This
» netting the government something
iVe $100 non per nion*h and costing
tle.onn t« produce. The added ma-
terial labor and operating expense
* ...t jj" ■ Cji.!.1 Jvj- V'M.iJ. ..y* ivirijjt'
.&■’ - rii'JiK T»;«i '.-■-’f . -I-'- I. r .ySfU..~-A..J . .r rim.
for producing twice that amount
would be small.
Adjacent to the dam and power-
house stands one of the two giant
nitrate plants capable in size and
equipment to furnish fertilizer for
millions of farmers—fertiziler pro-
duced with the aid of the current
generated at the shoals and factors
taken from the air.
These nitrate plants lie idle—
closely guarded by soldiers. Govern-
ment reservation laws exist. A negro
was court-martialed and given a mili-
tary hanging for shooting a soldier at
one of the plants. Tourists may en-
ter the grounds of the plants hut not
to linger or leave their cars.
Operation of these plants awaits
decision of the entire ptoblem. Mean-
while equipment and material is de-
teriorating and maintenance increas-
ing.
New Pam Planned
Sixteen miles above Wilson dam1
the stretches of Tennessee shoal
await the building of a third dam.
50 feet in hmght. capable of produc-
ing 25(f.00ft horse power in itself and
adding something to the production
of Dam No. 2 (the present one.)
You hear many views concerning
the reasons for the failure of those in
control to take definite and immedi-
ate action to utilize the power now-
going to waste at the rate of mil-
lions of horse power vr K. W. H. or
anv other way electrical experts
choose to figure it.
“The power companes am trying
to gfah the power.” is one answer.
Power Companies* Side
“The power companies are in the
best position to market the power at
the greatest profit to *he government
and the lowest cost to the con-
sumer” is the reply.
“It** being made a football.”
You hear hundreds of such re-
marks while walking at out. fly fash-
ion. on thw broad expanses of con-
crete.
And all the time the liberated
weters rush through the spillways
snd on down the flat bottom of the
river.
San Benito Legion To
Attend Edinburg Fete
SAN BENITO. May 14-Memhers
of the American Legion poat here
are preparing to gr> to Edinburg on
May IS. to attend the meeting that
is to be held there on the opening
of the new Clossner building.
The Edinburg legion post ia to
stage s celebration and dance on the
roof of the building and is inviting
Legionnaire* from all parts of the
Valley to be present.
I -
WHY VICE PRESIDENCY ISN'T SO
ATTRACTIVE
By CHARLES P. STEWART
WASHINGTON.—Perched on his
platform in the senate chamber ga^el
in hand presiding the vice president
gives the impression of a mighty
important functionary.
Visitors often wonder why the job's
so much poo-pooh-ed by politicians.
The politicians are right however.
What the visitors don’t realize Is
that it’s the vice presidential “set-
ting’’ they're impressed by—not the
vice president.
• a a
To sire up the vice presidency cor-
rectly it’s more enlightening to take
a look at it outside the law-making
hours.
The vice president has his person-
al suite in the Senate Office build-
ing. It's just like all the aenators*
—the regulation two rooms the
usual big desks all the rest of the
massive furniture and the customary
personal or private secretary and
several stenographers.
As you enter the place seems
thoroughly senatorial.
Then you sense something subtly
different.
The senatorial bustle’s lacking.
There’s a hint of ennui. Nobody's
waiting to see the vice president—
a mob's always waiting to see a sen-
ator.
There's no current. Y'ou're in a
governmental hack-water.
0 0 0
The reason nobody bothers with
the vice president is that he's of no
consequence. He can’t help anybody.
He can’t hurt anybody.
More nearly than anything else
he's a senator—but he’s an impotent
one—no vote no voice no nuthin’—
the one denatured individual out of
a body of nearly 100. and the rest
fairly boiling senatorial life and
virility.
If he has any influence at all it’s
on the strength of the bare chance
that fate will land hint in the White
House. It isn't much to count on
Oherwise he’s as superfluous in
Washington as the vermiform ap-
pendix is in the human system.
The senate doesn't need him.
Any time he's absent the “presi-
dent pro tem —just now • Senator
/
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K®llygrams .
By FRED C KELLY
I_
CAPITALIZING COURTESY
As I strolled along Fifth avenue
in New York one afternoon I re-
membered that I needed • collar.
I went into the nearest haberdash-
ery and frankly told a young clerk
what I had come for. He Mixed a
little box off the shelf and deftly
drew a collar from a cute little tis-
sue-paper envelope while quietly
humming a simple tune.
“That's the very latest thing” he
sighed at the same time significantly
tapping with his index finger the
collar that he himself wore. There
was no denying that the two collars
were of the same identical type.
I was really rather captivated by
the collar and inquired the price.
“Those are a dollar each." the
young man replied as he suppressed
a yawn.
Now. as a matter of fact. I never
pay one dollar fer a collar. I freely
admitted to the salesman that I was
seeking merely a twenty-five cent
collar and was unwilling to pay a
dollar even though the collar he had
just showed me did indeed make
him look wonderfully neat and at-
tractive.
At the mere mention of the words
twenty-five cents the clerk looked
deeply vexed.
“Ah" said he. with a smile of
mingled pity and amusement "we
have no such collars as that. Wo
don't touch them.” And he made a
deprecating gesture with his left
hsnd. palm outward as if the very
thought of such a collar was repel-
lent to his rensiive nature.
"You won't find any cheap collars
on Fifth avenue” he added busying
himself putting away his stock as if
the incident were closed. I gathered
from what he said that I might just
as well try to find the mythical pot
I
of gold at tha end of the rainbow
or try to solve tha problem of how
to eat one's cake and have it. If
that clerk should ever find out that
I did succeed in buying a first-rate
wearable collar for twenty-five cents
only three or four doors away on
Fifth avenue. I imagine it would
spoil hia day.
In the second store I tried the
clerk told me they had no soft col-
lars for less than fifty cents but in-
stead of seeming irritated that a cus-
tomer should appear in quest of a
less expensive collar he was apolo-
getic.
“We have a great many customers
who aro heavily infested with mon-
ey” he explained in a friendly con-
fidential tone "and they think unless
a thing is priced at an absurd figure
it can’t be as good a collar as any
man needs for a lot less money.”
You may think that this second
clerk went almost too far in taking
the customer’s point of view but I
contend that be was an unusually
efficient salesman—efficient because
he was courteous. Just because he
had the politeness to shift his mood
to fit mine. I was half tempted to
buy one of his costly collars after
all. If I ever should decide to pay
more than a quarter for a collar. I
have an idea I would rather squander
my money with this second clerk
than with the first one. He applied
the same rule of courtesy that gov-
erns the dinner host who will not
wear evening dress if he thinks one
of his guests will be less fashionably
garbed. If one should place his
guest at ease a guest who merely
comes to eat food why should one
not go even farther—looking at the
thing from a purely business view-
point—to place at ease the man who
enters one's store f«r the purpose of
spending his money.
N®w York L®ftft®r
NEW YORK. May 14.—Soma of the
things that are being talked about
now at dinners and evening parties
in New York:
The probabilities of a severe break
in the stock market. . . . The im-
provement in the quality of bootleg
liquors. . . The further deteriora-
tion in the quality of bootleg liquors.
. . . Margery Latimer's first novel
“We Are Incredible." . . .The com-
parative merits of various radio sets
and loud speakers. . . . Herbert
Hoover. . . Alfred Emanuel Smith.
. . . Whether George Jean Nathan
and Lillian Gish will ever get mar-
red. . . . The 7-cent subway fare
fight. . . . Automobiles. . . . Sum-
mer resorts. . . . The fight among
the critics over “him." lower case
impressionistic play by e. e. Cum-
mings lower case poet. . . . The at-
tempt of the Shuberts rival produc-
ers to have the police close down
“Strange Interlude.” Eugene O’NeiH's
nine-act domestic drama as immoral
on the eve of the revelation that the
piny is the winner of the Pulitzer
prme as be«t moral drama of the
year. . . . Nicaragua. ... A threat-
ened divorce suit in which Peggy
Hopkins Joyce allegedly figures. . . .
The strange financial maneuvers of a
publisher supposed to be one of the
richest men in the U. E. . . . What
will Lindbergh do next? . . The al-
leged domestic troubles of Eugene
O’Neill. • . ■ The stock market. . . .
The stock market. . . . The stock
market.
• • a
There is * marriaze broker in New
York who guarantees girls marriage
to a man of means and social position
or money back. She is a middle-
aged woman a member of an improv-
trished family with social connec-
tions m New York. Newport South-
ampton. Aiken and other colonies.
She requires that her clients be
beautiful accomplished poised and of
reputable family. The broker has a
regular systematic procedure of
match making. She entertains her
client inviting persons of high social
position including wealthy men of
marriageable age and then obtains
for the prospective bride invitations
to fashionable affairs. She furthers
her client's interests by showing her
off to the best advantage seeing that
she is at the “right places” at the
“right times.” and acting as a diplo-
matic go-between. Naturally she is
very careful of her client'a reputa-
tion.
She is credited with having brought
about several successful marriages
to men of millions. Of course her
fee as broker is quite high.
• • •
Another reason why you can't be-
lieve your eyes on Broadway is that
a considerable number of "leg pads"
are sold in hosiery shops along the
street. The pad fits very neatly over *
the calf and creates what is to the
passing eye a shapely log.
• • •
Every town has a lot of fishermen
who would love to know J. Harvey
Ladew of New York. He is spending
150000 to enjoy the fishing along th»
coast of Nicaragua which Zane Orev
says is the fisherman’s paradise. He
chartered a five-masted schooner to
take him and his friends down for
1 the sport.
TK® Grab Bag
May 14. 192R
Who am 1? When did my corona-
tion take place? In what city ia my
official residence? *
Name the present pope?
What crown prince visited the
United States in 1926?
A celebrated American patriot was
recognized as a distinguished silver-
smith. What was his name?
JIMMY JAMS
Today in the Past
On this date in 1804. the famous
Lewis and C lark expedition to the
Moses—can run things quite as well
as he can—maybe better.
The "president pro tern." now la
a man of consequence. He's recog-
nized as the majority's “big man" in
the senate. He has a vote. He has
a hand in shaping legislation. Ha
can call a substitute to the chair in
his place and make a speech. He's
a senator “plus.”
* • a
While Calvin Coolidge was filling
I out the late President Harding's un-
finished term there was of course
I no vice president.
That made the late Senator Al-
bert B. Cummins who was "president
pro tem" at the time permanent
presiding officer of the senate. He
was on precisely the footing in the
upper chamber c? the speaker in
the lower one. It’s altogether a dif-
ferent thing from the vice presidency
—a post of great power and conse-
quence.
En 1925 came the customary quad-
rennial readjustment.
Vice President Dawes was inducted
into office.
The "public printer” issued a naw
Congressionary Biryetory.
And what do you think happened?
Why the directory's editors had
fallen out of the habit of patting
any vice president’s name ir. the
volume during the two years whila
I the country had none and they for-
0
Pacific Northwest was begun. Tha
United States later profited by the
expedition through the acquisition of
the Northwest territory.
Today's Horoscope
Persons born under this sign are
quiat somewhat reserved. They
possess good mechanical ability.
They love travel and gain much in
this way. for nothing escapes their
observation.
A Daily Thought
“A certain amount of distrust fa
wholesome but not ao much of ©th-
ersers as of ourselves; neither venitv
nor conceit can exist in the same at*
mosphere with it.”—Madame Suzzane
Necker.
1Tb mo wonOCR These
\a«t>& arc fco hard To
Put-U UP —/ THE V/HOIE
WoQuD I* AT THE OTHER
CHO OF’EM-/
Answer* to Foregoing Question*
1. Emperor Hirohito of Japan; in
1927: Tokyo.
2. Pius XI.
3. Gustav Adolph of Sweden
4. Paul Revere.
got to include Charles G Ds»»*'
name in the new one.
That session'* first edition cams
out without it.
The incident sptly illustrates about
how much the vice president-"
amounts to in the calculations of
official Washington.
India Opens Bureau
To Predict Monsoons
POONA. India—(Ah—A weather
bureau i« being opened here with the
particular duty of forecasting mon-
soons.
The most deadly of world's wea-
ther terrors the northeast monsoon
it is hoped will be deprived of its
terrible effects.
The new station was the inspira-
tion of J. H. Field of the India*
meteorological department who h»*
spent two decades developing a sys-
tem for forecasting the winter rain*
in northern India and monsoons.
The forecasts are expected to pro-
tect the forthcoming regular air
service to India as well as shipp1"*
which haa suffered from the tem-
pests in the past
HUBBY SCRUBS THE FLOOR
CHICAGO.—Albert Willis testified
in hi* divorce suit that he had to
scrub the lutehtn floor twiee a week.
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