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'THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1921
THE ARIZONA REPUBLICAN
PHOENIX ARIZONA
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THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL. 14, 1921.
: Let us believe neither half the good
people tell us of ourselves, nor half
the evil theu sou of others.
4 - ay f
Fetitrbenn.
There Must Ba Retrenchment
The subject of taxation today ia engaging the
attention of all thoughtful citizens, and circumstances
are making the most careless of us thoughtful.
This Is always a subject of interest but now it is a
matter of the most acute interest, not only because
the taxes of 1921 will exceed those of any previous
year, but also, because the money for the payment of
the taxes will be more difficult to obtain than it-has.-
been in recent years.;
Relief must come primarily from retrenchment
and next from the adoption of more business-like
methods, the exercise of greater vigilance. We can
not take a backward step but we can continue to
move forward, demanding more for our money and
eliminating the things with which we can dispense
without sacrificing efficiency to saving. .
' The Republican believes "that the subject of
taxation and expenditures is the most important
matter before the people of this county, as It is before
the people of the whole country, and it proposes to
enter upon a constructive campaign for reform, offer
ing from time to time suggestions which will be the
products of a careful study of the subject of revenues
and expenditures.
There are many ways In which the latter may
be reduced. We may mention one as an example,
the matter of the purchases of school books, and we
select that mainly because we are on the eve of
another purchase. We should not yield too readily
to the allurements of the pleasing gentlemen who rep
resent the school book publishing houses, as we have
generally done in the past. 'We should not become
convinced too quickly of the necessity of "something
else: in the way of text books, and we should not so
blindly engage in purchases of school supplies of little
or doubtful utility.
Here is only one of the many loop-holes for the
leaking of the taxpayers' money. By the discovery
of others, by the elimination of needless attaches
from many branches of the public service and by
Insistence upon better service by those who remain;
generally, by the adoption of the same methods which
successful men apply to private business, we shall
find that our needs are much less than we have as
sumed them to be. . " .
In eras of prosperity we have only grumbled at
what seemed to be unnecessary drafts upon the public
treasury. But a time has come when we can keep
the treasury supplied only by painful processes and
by sacrifices which we feel in the pocketbook, so that
we are disposed to insist that the treasury shall not
be so readily emptied.
complicate the issue which they believed the San
Francisco convention would put forward, by a defin
ite statement of their own as to any future associa
tion of nations. They believed and rightly, that the
Democrats would accept the Wilson covenant and in
doing so would be accepting Mr. Wilson as effectu
ally as if they should renominate him. Then,' through
out the campaign, it was not at Governor Cox that
the Republicans directed their fire but at'President
Wilson.
Martyrs to Duty
-By Herbert Johnson
The Colombian Treaty
Time and circumstances alter cases, so that out
rageous as the proposed Columbian treaty appeared
in 1911-12 and later in Mr. Wilson's administration,
it now appears to be good business.
The treaty was favored in the beginning by an
element of reactionary Republicans who were at
tracted to it by the clause in it discrediting former
President Roosevelt by apologizing for the part he
was alleged to have taken in the Panaman rebellion.
For the same reason Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wilson urged
it in the first congress after March 4, 1913.
There were two grounds of opposition, one to the
apology clause and the other based upon the fact
that Colombia deserved no compensation for the
loss of Panama. Indeed the proposition to compen
sate Colombia carried with it an assumption that we
had wronged Colombia, so that the apologetic clause
was really superfluous, a gratuitous and brutal in
sult to Mr. Roosevelt.
We do not think that this principle has been al
tered within the last ten years, but the oil situation
has been groatly altered. We can only repeat that
the adoption of the treaty is "good business." It is
sometimes "good business" to yield to a black
mailer nearly always "good business" for one to
."stick up" his hands at the command of an armed
highwayman.
Not a Valid Claim -
We are not eure that the 'irreconcilables" have
' the best of the argument in their contention that the
"national referendum" last November supported
, their position against the "League of Nations"
though now they may apparently claim that Presi
dent Harding in his message has affirmed the Judg
ment of the people as rendered at the polls.
We do not believe that the people ever had an
opportunity to pass upon the controversy between
the "irreconcilables" and the reservationists. , There
was nothing before the voters on this subject except
Mr. Wilson's covenant. The vote must have been
"yes" or "no
That issue was forced by Mr. Wilson. The way
for him to do it was left open by the Chicago plat
form which merely condemned the covenant as it
was written but did, not suggest its amendment or
pledge the party to any league or association of na
. tions. In fact the use of the word ''league" was stud
iously avoided. - Nor in the course of the campaign
did Mr. Harding or any other Republican leader at
tempt to commit the party to any stand as to the
peace treaty.
To what extent the verdict of the people at the
polls may be applied to Mr. Wilson's issue cannot be
determined. There were so many other reasons why
the people might demand a change of administration.
Tbey were weary of Wilson, of Burleson, of Baker.
They chafed against almost all conditions which had
been imposed upon them, for some of which the ad
ministration was responsible but many of which
were unavoidable. We have always believed that the
League of Nations cut much less figure in the cam
paign than we imagined; that the great mass of the
voters did not take an acute interest then or that
they had ever been aroused to deep interest in it.
' It is probably true that when the league was
first proposed a very large majority of American
voters favored it as a means of escaping future
wars; they favored the covenant, as they would have
favored any covenant that might have been proposed.
But as months went on and as their memory of the
war became dimmer .the subject of the League of
Nations was crowded into the background. If they
felt any sentiment at all it was one of resentment
against people who kept annoying them with the
subject.
We are speaking' of the mass of the people, of
the average voter not of the partisan or factional
voters or of those organizations of non-partisans
who had viewed the subject apart from its partisan
aspect and regarded it only in its relation to world
policies, or who considered only the morality of it,
and not politics at all.
The Chicago convention outguessed the San
Francisco convention as to the attitude of the people
toward the League of Nations and to the Wilson
administration. The Republicans did not care to
The Restoration of Normalcy
This is written in honor of the barber of Milledge-
ville, Ga., who, as Is widely reported, is helping to
restore normalcy by reducing the prices of haircuts
and shaves. '
It is well that normalcy should start thus at the
seat of authority the barber chair. There all issues
agitating the nation are settled by the barber him
self whose opinion the citizens, lying helpless' in the
chair, smothered in suds and fascinated by the over
hanging razor, is bound to accept.
As Shaxahzai sang in "Arabian Nights:"
"The trades altogether are like a nicklace, and the
barber is the chief pearl of the strings.
"He excelleth all that are endowed with skill, and
under his hands are the heads of kings."
And how full of wisdom is the barber's own head!
He knoweth everything Babe Ruth's batting aver
age; and the time Man & War made in his last race; '
and what is good for lumbago; and the best way to
make home-brew. Also, what will redecorate any
bald spot except his own!
Nor ia he a mere encyclopedia. He is a man of
courageous opinion which he is prepared to give on
au matters and on all occasions, unlike those spine
less creatures whose opinions blow hot or cold for the
pleasure of their respective customers.
. In paying tribute thus to barbers in KeneraL wa
have ventured far afield from the original proposi
tion, namely: The barber of MiUedgeville who ia
blazing the trail to normalcy. May his tribe in
crease.
Why not check that Hungarian uprising by of
fering Carl a good vaudeville contract?
One reason the robins sing is because thev can't
congregate in great numbers like city dwellers.
Druggists asking high as $12 a quart for whisky.
Many an old-time barrel house keeper must be turn-,
ing over in his grave.
A six-year-old boy is making J2500 a week in
me movies, uur machinery of economics .rtpinW
a 101 or cogs out of gear.
There are worse things than going to school these
nice spring days, but you don't notice them until
you grow up.
Uncle Sam's aloofness seems to be bringing the
allied diplomats to time. We may yet get what we
fought for what we wanted at the peace table.
v-usuj tees 10 snip meat from New Zealand to
ban Francisco than from Colorado. Maybe the Chi
nese were wise in building canals instead of railroads.
WILL LAND VALUES DROP?
Tou who own land or are thinking of buying.
lately have wondered: "Are land values going to
depreciate along with the general deflation of prices?"
The value of farm land during the past year
decreased seven per cent, says the department of
agriculture. Here is its estimate of the average value
of an acre of plow land in the United States:
March 1, 1914 $52.94
March 1, 1916 $58.00
March 1. 1917 ..J62.17
March 1, 1918 $68.38
March 1, 1919 $74.31
March 1, 1920 $90.01
March 1, 1921 ....$83.78
The drop in farm land values has been greatest
in southern states 22 per cent in Georgia and 24
per cent in Kentucky. That's due to the cotton and
tobacco situation. Iowa has the highest-priced farm
land averaging $200 an acre, compared with $219 a
year ago.
The lowest sate of decline was in western states.
California, Oregon and Colorado even showed an in
crease. Farm land values, however, are higher now than
in any year up to 1920. The slump is due to the
crash in prices of farm products. Whether the lump
will continue during the next few years, depends on
the selling price of farm products.
Probably the depreciation is only temporary.
Single taxers, at least, will claim so. Their theory
is that the trend of land values, as population becomes
more dense, is always upward and that land values
steadily absorb all increase t in wealth produced by
man's labor and inventiveness.
As for city land, it is subject to the same economic
laws as farm land.
Land may decline in value, as measured by dol
lars, in line with general lowering of cost of living,
but the owner doesn't really lose, for his dollars will
buy more.
The French minister of labor estimates that the
number of unemployed in France is between 100,000
and 120,000.
Ketween 400 and 500 men have been laid off by
the Harlem plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corporation, says a report from Wilmington, Del.
The Bricklayers' Union at Ottawa, 111., has agreed
to accept a 10 per cent wage reduction? Present wage
is $10 a day. The Painters, Decorators and Paper
Hangers Union of Helena, Mont., has volunteered to
accept a reduction of 50 cents a day.
GopjnjM. )92l, bj Heiert Jotanoc
?ETN THE Nf W COOK At THE STATION
WITH THE FUWfi - SHE HAS J"U$T LifT A ?LAt
UHERE THEY KEEP SEVEN CARS ANP You SUSPECT . .
SHE IS GivNG THE OUt BOAT THE RA7."2-
CURWOOD'S RELIGION
BY DR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
ABOUT THEE STATE
To Continue Operating '
MPAMI It was reported this aft
ernoon that when the members of the
local grievance committees of the
miners went to call upon the man
agement of the Miami Copper com
pany recently for the purpose or ais
cussing certain details likely to arise
in the future that they were frankly
told by the representatives of the
company that there was not me
slightest intention of shutting down
the mine. Silver Belt.
Reduces Milk Price
NOG ALES The Nogales Jersey
far mannounced a reduction in milk
beginning April 15. The reduction is
made possible by loweerd cost of
feed. Herald.
Car Overturns; Three Hurt
NOGALES While motoring on the
Patagonia road early this morning,
a car containing P. L. Beardsly, J. D.
Farley and H. Goodman of Tucson
turned over near the Santa Cruz
river and the occupants were strewn
about the road, Farley receiving the
worst injuries of the trio, sustaining
a bad gash in the back of the head.
Herald.
To Increase Bond Interest Rate
YUMA At the Commercial club
on Friday evening a movement was
inaugurated to call a special election
to authorize the board of supervisors
of Yuma county to increase the in
terest rate on the $1,200,000 of good
road bonds frob 5 per cent. It has
been found impossible to sell the
bonds on account oj the low interest
rate which they carry. It is believed
that if the rate is increased to 6
per cent that the bonds can be readily
sold at par. Sun.
Asks for Bank Receiver
..YUMA Attorney General Galbraith
yesterday filed with the clerk of the
superior court of Yuma county, an
action, against the Somerton State
bank and its directors and managers
asking for the involuntary liquidation
of the bank. The complaint sets up
the fact that the state auditor and
superintendent of banks took posses
sion of the bank on March 28, and
asks for the appointment of a re
ceiver. Sun.
Condemn County Attorney
JEROME Alleged leniency shown
to cattle thieves by the county au
thorities at Prescott is the basis of
an action taken by the Oak Creek
Cattle Growers' association at a
meeting held recently at Red Rock,
when resolutions were adopted con
demning the present county attorney
and his predessors. Journal Miner.
Seek Silver Marketing Plan
MIAMI A determined attempt was
made bv the silver enthusiasts at a
crowded meeting at the superior
court thi moraine to create an or
raniz&tinn for the assembling and
marketing of the large quantities of
silver, which it is understood, can
easily be collected for treatment.
Bulletin.
Ta Retain Part Force
RT.ORE That all work in the Old
rwnonlnn mine will not be stopped is
the cheering news given to the Record
last night by General Manager v. u.
McRrlde. the company having aeciaea
to continue driving two drifts on the
twentieth level. Work in the stopee
was suspended last nignt ana me
smelter will be shut down tomorrow
or Tuesday. Record.
On Trail of Robbers
PRESCOTT Mexicans who robbed
nr..n nur Skull Valley of four
cases nf groceries ana ail tneir oeu-
rtino- are heine- mirsued this afternoon
by Deputy snenii uram
News of the theft was telephoned to
the sheriff s office this afternoon by a
n,Mnrit who nassed tne rancn
which had been robbed and who was
requested to report the matter to the
authorities. courier.
Fire Discloses Distillery
BISBEE Fire that destroyed two
bouses Thursday nignt in BUKervme,
was an efficient detective in uncover
ing a. Hum distilling piani ana
quantity of mash and liquor that was
concealed in one of the houses.
Dob.nHiK. omelled like a big brewery
when the fire reached the barrels o
mash and liquor. Review.
n Killed: Companion Jailed
PRRSHOTT Jose Beltran. aged 16
is in the morgue and Gumecindo
Villalobos. aged 20. is in the county
jail as a result of what Villalobos
tiH hi. custodians was an acciaen
il obot from a 44-callber rifle he was
h.iin. at the section house at
Ramsgate yesterday morning. Jour
nal-Miner.
tive he stood aside from the troubled! U i Vvo1 o c -f Vir ""Vin-rr'Virrion
.3 i - , . . . . ., . . I lie A3 lO uau Ul VUU4Wiuv,
uriu v luif ut current oi American me. i . .. . . , - , . , j
Life rushed by him as a mob dashes ut While lie IS repelled DV man S egOllSHlS ana
&re crimes, as are all thoughtful folk, lie is mistaken when
wo ana torn by ambitions, men ioi- vp takes these to mean tnat man is peuy
ersmfons and ism "some"" "cstacy For it is the very ruins of mankind that demon
strate man's colossal stature. "The dignity of hu
manitv " said Bushnell, "is shown by its rums."
Alwavs the Dossibilities of any creature's spiritual
height are measurable by the capabilities of its spiritual
because their futile little lives weretHpntrv
not worth getting excited about. He xt4- f 11 l,Qf PiiTOnnrl imao-ino And its most
bade them stop and notice bow beau- IlillUlC 10 an - ,
tifui was sunlight water and the amazing product is the Soul of Man.
sons of a mockinsrbird and the first r
green of spring. He suggested that
BURROUGHS
Any man's religion is interesting, if it is real.
I mean if it is his own, and he has grown it himself. I
and not merely had it handed to him.
The religion of most people is a war cry, not a faith.
The religion of all institutions (I had about said
"most," but decided on "all") is some sort of propa
ganda, which means it "is a conformity to something,
an acceptance of something.
cut every true religion is a heresy. Jfor neresy
grows. Orthodoxy is artilicial.
The very fact that Orthodoxy can outargue Heresy
is against it. It is too cogent. For religion cannot be
a matter of successful syllogisms, it must be life, and
life cannot be proved, it grows, it just is.
James Oliver Curwood, writer of outdoor tales, has
gotten out a new book called God's Country, inVhich
he tells of his religion.
His religion, he says, is Nature.
He is not a trained thinker on such subjects, and han
dling Spiritualities is quite as much a craft as handling
backwoods stories.
His work in this volume lacks maturity. It is ama
teurish in its processes.
Comparing it, lor instance, with ri. k. wens ine
Undying Fire we can see the difference between a mas
ter of speculation and an apprentice.
But for all that Curwood s work has a certain charm,
due perhaps to its very naiveness.
He approaches the God Idea with the open minded
ness of the child, and a child often sees further than
the wise and prudent.
He has sensed the unity of all life, which is the spirit
ual message of evolution; the divinity of sympathy,
which is the content of Buddhism; and the supremacy ,
of love and the other constructive emotions over hate
and its fellow destructives, which is the gist of Chris
When the book is not polemic it is neipiuL vvnen
the author attempts to propagandize from his premises
and some in anguish. Here was al
most everything save a man at peace
with himself and with his fellows.
His Creed
Burropghs, out of his vast serenity,
spoke to the mob gently. He bade
thse excited ones to calm, if only
Questions And
Answers
a
since they were here for such a little
while it might be well to pause for
a moment and to enjoy the beauty
and wonder of the spectacle of life.
All of them, he saw. were madly run
snajr iiuiu uiu inuii ui ... . -
that is, from nature, because they had 1 1
And he tried to tell them that al- (Any reader can get the answer to
though nature is indeed terrible, .he any question by wrmng
....i . -i..- -i Dubllcan Information Bureau, Fred-
..-j i.' a a I eric J. Has kin, director. Washington,
Z 'ITJ h? anyWy? FnfoCrma?r "TheTercannrglve
iv ". Iz'L ,rrT..-..- .. advice on legal, medical, and finan-
mosx oi ineni pam no " cia, matters. It does not attempt to
him. A few of them "topped and 8etUe domeatlc troubles, nor to un-
listened for a moment and then ran dertake exhaustive research on any
on. Only a very few could share and .,. a... ..,Hnn niainlv
understand the philosophy which gavel . K-i r.n.. tn nam. nri Bd-
ims oiu inio hiuvh mio ici;e dress and enclose two cents in stamps
strength of spirit. He was not cal- for return postage. All replies are
culated to influence many, not only TOnt airect to the inquirer.)
because his philosophy was too aua- q What size are the submarine
tere for them and demanded more chasers that are to be sold 7 To what
courage than the many nave, out aiso dui-doso can they be put? C. C ti
because he knew nothing about them. a. These submarine chasers, which
He was no social obuerver; he was a can be readily converted Into yachts,
recluse. He did not try to fit hia are 110 feet in .length, with a normal
philosophy to other men's lives, I displacement of 77 tons. They were
This philosophy was woven through manned by a crew of 18 men in
and through his writings. It is Just charge of two officers, but the crew
as well" expressed in this bit as in any could be reduced to 9 with safety,
other: Q. Why was the fourth of March
"Man has taken his chance in the selected aa inauguration oayi i
i-lnch ni hlfnrt Tnnttpr and the warfare M. C.
of living forma He has been the pet A. The original day chosen was not
of no gods, the favorite of no power the "4th of March, but the rtrst
.arth nr In nfvn fjravitv. Wednesday in March." This hap-
i . ..i;. k,,n. orii nened to be the fourth of March, and
crush or consume him if hia hand is although the first inauguration did
unsteady or his wits tardy. Nature not take place upon this day. it be-
has dealt with him on the same terms came the date for the quadrennial in-
... ,. m oi ausruration.
as witn an oiner iuiius ui mc sju - u ... r, .
Tra an mil I ' - a--
lfcde&$
has shown him no favor.
. . . elements make up his body and
his Dram as maw up uieirs. ana id. frrim t -tream. This
me ,, , m
name? A. M. P.
A. This old London street taKes its
small creek is now arched over and
converted into one of the large city
sewers.
Q. How many islands are Known as
By Frederic J. Haskin
WASHINGTON, April 13. John
Burroughs surely had one of the
longest and fullest lives an American
ever lived.' He scarcely had need to
read American history for he had
lived through most of it. He was
born in 1837. In his early twenties
he was writing essays and poems,
imitating the great Ralph Waldo
Emerson, who was then the domi
nating literary genius of America.
Think of a man who began his writ
ing career as a coa'emporary of
Emerson and who pur.IU.hed his last
book this year! For r.o less than 60
years almost two g n ,-ations ha
was an author in active practice.
His life was his real masterpiece.
Not that his works are not valuable.
He was an essayist of real distinc
tion and a sound philisopher. He
taught a great rojiny how to find
beauty and interest in the out-of-doors
and perhaps he taught a few
how to "accept the universe" as he
did. seeing life clearly, with all its
hazards and hardships, its soon and
certain end, leaning on no super
natural faith or- hope of future ex
istence and yet achieving serenity.
That T"as what he preached, and
whether he preached it convincingly
or not, he certainly practiced it with
dignity and success. He began life
as a poet. Later he became an es
savist. and finally his whole thought
and effort turned to science. All of
his later writings were designed to
win men over to the scientific view
nf life.
Burroughs, like most scientists, re
jected religion. He.could not believe
in a future life or in a creator of the
universe. He began his intellectual
development at a time when Darwin"s
theory of evolution was still a sen
sal ion. when religious men were still
declaiming apainst it, and scientific
men were declaiming af;;iinnt reli
gion, and some benighted visionaries
were trying to reconcile the two.
Burroughs of course took the scien
tific side and Darwin became his
idol.
JIany of his later essays reflect
this intellectual conflict of his youth.
He wrote somewhat as though the
great war of the last century between
religion and science were still going
hotly forward, as though he did not
realize that a truce had long since
been called, the scientists and the
partisans of revealed religion going
their separate ways. And yet none
of Burroughs writing seems irrele
vant or out of date. For he was al
ways trying to persuade his readers
to love nature, to understand nature,
to see that their real salvation lay
in a life of Intelligent adjustment to
nature's laws.
Not a Sentimentalist
Burroughs created through his
writings a whole army of sentimental
nature lovers of ladies who rave
over sunsets and bird songs, and tell
you how sweet and lovely nature is.
He must have viewed these disciples
of his with horror. For he saw na
ture as a mightly relentless rune, m
whlfh man is an accidental product.
He saw that the life oi man is a Dnei
and hazardous thing, subject to a
thousand chances of injury and de
struction. He saw how man, longing
to dignify himself and his life, had
come to believe in future states and
in personal creators. He understood
this longing, he shared it; but to him
all religions were merely sentimental
myths .which, in the long run, un
fitted man for survival. He believed
that man must summon the courage
to accept the conditions of life as
they are, that he must admit he has
no proof or- even indication of any
life beyond the present one nothing
but a longing for such a life.
He must realize further. Burroughs
said that this life is a thing of hazard.
guarded bv no special providence,
subject to the same chances as any
other form of life on this globe. This
is perhaps a terrible philosophy, and
one which calls for courage, but Bur
roughs believed that a high serenity
may be gained from it. that the man
who seeks to live by the laws of na
ture will in the long run be the hap
piest. His own life was certainly the
most convincing demonstration of that
philosophy. Serene, sane independent
in thought and act supremely reflec-
same are the constituents of
rocks, soils ar.d clouds. . . . How
can we separate man from the total
avstem of things, setting him upon
one side and them upon the otherr the Fijj islands? Is the climate
in me, in ttvuuii uuwu.iuwij i tropical" r. W.
recognize ourselves as a part of na- There are about 200 Islands in
ture. Our success and well being th -,. know has the FUl Islands.
depends upon the closeness and spon- Qt these, about 80 are inhabited.
taneousness of that relation. Contrary to the popular impression.
Whatever that idea may be worth ne climate is not extremely warm.
to you, it brought great peace and I The temperature seldom rises above
comfort to Burroughs. 90 degrees F. or falls below 80 ae-
srrees F.
no YOU KNOW THAT 1 Q. What is the exact meaning or
Tough meat can be made tender ti?uleiZ";M'.?:.,...- .
by laying it for a few moments in a Qf papeaua2hed to a bag or
strong vinegar water? other oblect to signify Its contents.
A pitcher or cold water in your xhe CUBtom sprang up of issuing such
room will absorb gases and purify the Blipg Qf paper to men and WOmen who
were to take part in ceremonious ar
Send health questions to Informa
tion Editor. V. 8. Public Health
Service. Washington, D. C. Give
name and address and you'll receive
a personal reply.
Removal of Moles
Can a mole be removed from the
face permanently without leaving n,"
scar? Would such an operation be
dangerous? I have heard blood poi
soning may result.
The likelihood of there being a
mark of any kind following the re
moval of a mole would probably de
pend upon the size and condition of
the mole, the manner of its removal,
and the skill of the operator. There
should be little danger of blood pois
oning if you select a competent, care
ful, conscientious specialist. Tour
family physician will probably be
glad to recommend one.
Circulatory Trouble
Parts of my body feel numb anT A
cold. "What should I do? -
This may be due to poor circula
tion, but other causes must be con
sidered. Even in cases of poor cir
culation, it may be possible to get at
the underlying cause of the trouble.
Instead of attempting to doctor your
self, you should go to a qualified
physician, have him aive you a thor
ough examination to find out what ia
wrong, and then you should follow
his advice regarding treatment. Any
other plan Is most unwise, and may
be dangerous.
nir?
Rubbing wash goods with egg yolk fatrs- These set forth the rules to be
before washing will take out spots? Mnwn, a tnn ,n individual
Sweet oil for varnished furniture
and kerosene for oiled furniture will
remove finger marks?
Adding a little lemon Juice to water
when mixing will make pastry ugntT
followed and the part the individual
was to play. In this way etiquette
came tomean forms prescribed for so
cial and official occasions.
Q. Can you tell me in what opera
it was that Mary Garden sang in
Ivory handles or Knives ana iuriws Vorlt ihaut 19087 It was an
can best be cleaned by going over opePa cf wnich I had not heard be
occasionally with wet baking soda, fore anc 0f wnich have not heard
drying them quickly with a clean, ,jnee. C. K. I.
soft, cloth?
LET'S MAKE IT EQUAL .
Nowhere on Uncle Sam's green
backs, except by the fanciful figure
of the Goddess of Liberty, are women
represeniea ,. m a excellent for the making of quill pen-
Men there are in Plenty men all mQst coramonl?
down through tne years since ine ; . , . h(1
A. Tou probably have reference to
Gustave Charpentier's "Louise,
which was first produced in New
York January 3. 1908.
Q. From what kind of birds are
quill pens made? M. E. R.
A. The feathers of the swan ar
Rupture ,
Are ruptures ever cured by medi
cine applied on the skin above the
place where the rupture Is located?
Rupture cannot be cured by the
application of medicines on the skin
over the rupture. In infants, ruptures)
through the navel can often be per
manently cured by the application of
some firm support. It is customary
in these cases to wrap a small dlac,
about the size of a 50-cent piece. In a
piece of cloth, and strap this firmly
over the navel. Arter some iiiuhi.ii.-h
this treatment usually surnces 10
bring about a permanent cure.
In dealing with ruptures in an
adult, let me remind you that the
operative method of treatment is now
so well understood that excellent re
sults are obtained by surgeons
throughout the country.
used. Crow quills are said to be bes
for fine writing and drawing.
St 1 1 1 .J tiX 1 U nUnl.
the government, its only fair that , . . . ,, a.
some of the noted members of their aw'
days of Washington.
If women are to be made equals In
sex should appear on the country's
paper money.
o
Merely to obtain practice at
climbing hand over hand, a fifteen-year-old
boy ascended a suspension
cable of Brooklyn bridge with the
skill of a sailor until he reached the
tower three hundred feet above the
water. Arraigned on a charge of dis
orderly conduct he was remanded to
the children's court.
Secret fraternities are forbidden in
the Mount Vernon high school. N. Y.,
and nny student who Joins a fratern
ity after June 30, 1921. shall forfeit
hia membership in the school.
u
Seth Tanner T
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A. W.
A. This remark was attributed t
Joseph Francois Foullon, who on Jub
12. 1789. was appointed in France a-.
Minister of the King's household. Tht
exact words were supposed to be, "I
they are hungry, let them browse
grass. Wait until I am minister. 1
will make them eat hay; my horse
eat it."
O. Where is the Oxus river?
H. T.
A. The Oxus was the ancient nami
of the Amu Darin, the principal river,
of Central Asia. It separates Afghan- I Some are moi .oj- '
istan from Bokhara, and empties into re more or less bad an some an
the Sea of Aral. In ancient and even ! found out. Speakin' o' fire risks wt
mediaeval times the Oxus was s':p- j don't see many long flowin whiskers
posed to ematv.- ij-to the Caspian sea. in tnis here gasoline age.