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WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH FRANCE?
France, which country was supposed to have been bled
white in the recent world upheaval—
(France, which country has suffered most from war and
which was supposed to want peace more than anything
else—
France, it seems—this same France—is now playing
the role of the firebrand in the present conference of nations
i which has for its object the reduction of armament for the
purpose of Hie better assuring Iho peace of the world.
America is surprised at France. It was supposed that
France would be one of the strongest backers of the move-,
ment to advance the cause of peace.
France has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Arm
as she may, unless there is on agreement among nations to
limit armament France will soon be outstripped.
The population of France is diminishing. The country
is suffering from race suicide, os Teddy Roosevelt would
call it. Under the circumstances therefore, what chance is
there for France if unlimited competition in armament is to
t go on?
The United States. Great Britain, Japan—all show a
disposition to look at the matter in the right light. It re- “
mains for France to throw the monkey wrench into the
machinery.
It is France that would keep the world aflame.
France, mortgaged as she is up to more than sixty per ■
cent, of her natural wealth, would continue to sink untold
billions in war preparation when all the rest of the world is }*'
sick and tired of such a waste and would get together to a
bring about relief. si
What has come over France, anyway? She says she is ht
still afraid of Germany. But Germany is helpless at present
and once Germany gets on her feet again, if there is no w orld j —
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agreement ior limitation Ol urmamum suu can suim uvurume
France and then France will be as bad off as ever. j at
France is making a mistake. She is losing much of the eh
sympathy she gained, not only in this country but through
out the world. This sympathy and friendship, that she is,
sacrificing is worth more to her than all the warships and
submarines that she can build. p°
Here’s hoping that France will wake up before it is too „r
late. She cannot afford to stand out against the other great ‘‘J
— 'powers and make a mess of the great disarmament move
ment that is now on. oh
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LEAGUE FRIENDS WILL BACK TREATY
Everv friend of the League of Nations ought also to be
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A friend of the four-Povver treaty that has been drawn up by uc
(he Washington conference on the limitation of armament. na
The four-Power treaty for the guarantee of peace in the Pa- ku;
cific proposes to do in a small way what the League of Na- ”11
lions was organized to do in a big way. If we cannot have ye,
the big wav we will take what we can get, therefore the p,.
w ork of the Washington conference is to be encouraged.
President Harding is right in saying that whether or not
the treaty includes the homeland of Japan is inconsequential, ca,
♦ he main thing is to reach an agreement regarding peace. **
Friends of the League of Nations would have a world agree
ment guaranteeing the protection of every nation and as the r> ;
four-Power treaty is a decided step in that direction it is to inf
be welcomed. ra,
The only difference between the League of Nations ad- ao
vocates and those who oppose the League of Nations but who nv
favor the four-Power treaty, is that the friends of the League
of Nations would go the whole way toward bringing about pi>
pence in the world, including all the nations, whereas those
who can see only as far as the four-Power treaty would limit
the rieace move to the Pacific only leaving the rest of the '
world to stir up as much turmoil as it chooses. Perhaps, iris
though, the real difference is to he found only in one's at
titude toward Woodrow Wilson. The Wilson haters will not
permit the League of Nations to he mentioned in their pres- th<
cnee, hut find in the four-Power treaty a move toward peace tl.
that gives them a chance to square themselves with their j?”
conscience.
There is every reason to rejoice at the adoption of the w
four-Power treaty no matter how if may he interpreted. It w
is fine as far as it goes. Some minds arc not great enough s
to grasp ttie full meaning of flic League of Nations all at <m
once: and then some minds are so narrow Hint personal
hatred and jealousy very often obscure the finer and nobler ^
things in the world. ^ i
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BRINGING MATTERS TO A HEAD
City Attorney Goldberger has acted with commendable u'v
promptness in looking alter ttie city’s interest in ttie two silf
legal actions that have been taken against ttie municipality.
Two writs have been served on I ho city, one attempting to
prevent ttie redistricting of ttie city so as to make ttie division "f.
of wards more equitable, and the other tending to prevent <- >
the city from granting one of the local industries permission u»
to lay a siding that is necessary for the expansion of the 8a|
company’s business.
Without waiting for the writs to he returnable tlie city as
Attorney has applied t<> the court for the dismissal of both. !,j‘
The purpose is to tiring both matters to a head promptly so
it the city may know what it is up against.
Every man is entitled to a hearing and ttie sooner he has [ji
^e better. It will be interesting to hear what an at- R r
,ier disinterested party, such as ttie state judiciary, has * r
>n these two projects. The city attorney is losing no >
iding out. of*
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Little Egbert's Christmas Tool Box—By Fontain e Fox.
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Owing To the fact that Dao
1 WAS TAKING A HAH AT THE- Ti ME , LlTTU
Egbert was able To saw through the.
ARM OF THE RARUoR CHAiR WiTH MoTHER
■SITTING MoT TeM FEET AWAY. t
SHOULD PROFESSORS EAT?
Daily Letter by Frederic J. Ilaskin
WASHINGTON. L>ec. £3.—A col
ro professor rang for an elevator
a lecture building the other day.
ter five minutes wait the eleva
!• came up. The operator apolo
sed profusely for the delay, but
felt that he had a good excuse.
"The electricians are working here
day,” he explained, "and one of
.m wanted to go to the basement
and you know their time costs a
W'liat the college professor said
out his wasted time is not re
rded. As a matter of fact, the
ctrician probably did cost the col
ic more per hour than its teach
i do.
rile elevator man’s idea that pro
ajrs rank very low in the scale
earning ability lies long been the
pular attitude. Hut colleges are
ginning to crusade for the rights
their Instructor. They realize
it a low salary scale for college
Dfessors is a boomerang that
ikes back at the college In one of
o ways. Either the college can
tain only experienced or inferior
tubers, cf else *t holds the self
■rificing experts who stay on and
ide their energies between their !
sses ai.d some outside work to ;
lie ends meet.
Kither way, the college with un
-naid instructors is not getting ef
rr.t teaching.
Lately, several women's colleges
ve been campaigning to make it ,
isible for their professors to earn
table salaries. A goal is set, and
dents and alumni go out and try
the ways of earning money that
ve been tested during the past
irs of innumerable drives,
each student pledges a sum, gen
lly a large sum for a girl still get
g .an education. And she prom- I
s to pay this pledge by her own !
its during the time allowed—
baps two or three years.
irassar Is now conducting such a
npaign. Her salary scale is lower
in that of any other woman's
lege of similar standards. Vassar
iws that she has been able to keep
cable teachers only because they
>rted to outside employment, as
■ ege teachers everywhere are do
Praetically every member of the
ulty at this college who has a
isc takes, in roomers, it is said. A I
ir college girls in a house may
cm things up for the professor,
iugh fa ulty members no doubt,
uld prefer a more peaceful atmos
■re at home.
How Tcucliers Make a Living
tome instructors write articles for I
es. Other girls set up little shops
and sold handwork or novelties, i
Como serve tea. .Shows and benefits |
have been given.
How i.lrls Earn Money
All sorts of talents are being turn- j
ed to account in the girls’ efforts to
earn their pledge money Alumnae
and undergraduates ate driving au
tomobiles. making and selling pre
serves and doughnuts, painting
fences and furniture a.id giving pro
grams of music and dancing.
Other gift' have gone out collect
ing The Plumbers' I nion and the
Carpenters' Union of one city each
gave $25 to a fund, because they
were interested in helping an un
drepaid line of work to attend to a
move suitable standard.
In all tl eir ventures in making
and collecting funds, the students
are getting practice in dealing with
people on business terms. They
learn souk thing of the value of a
dollar. This work is a typical ex
ample of how colleges are trying to
ghv practical experience to girls.
Tiie modern gi'lV college claims
to he a complete democracy, a small
state in its’if, with student officers
and councils, student-run athletics
and dramatics, pel heps a commun
ity theatre with girl electricians and
costume designers and all the rest of
the theatre staff* t ne college has a
census bureau which registers girls
and their abilities and inclinations.
It stes that no girl has too many
outside interests and it brings out
tlie bashful students who might be
swept along with the crowd through
out college.
The faculty members, too. In a
modern college, has to be more than
a learned recluse. The demands of
practical education bring teachers
into closer touch with the students.
Mo3t of their time is required. Yet
the instructors can rarely afford to
giro themselves up wholly to their
eollego worn. • —
Even if a professor manages to
live on the salary paid by the col
lege, he has to think of the future.
The Carneglo Pensions offer some
help. But they retire professors on
only a little more than 50 per cent of
them pay. So the college teacher
must save something for old age.
Generally bo does it by adding out
side work to an already crowded
program. The salary fund cam
paigns are not going to eliminate
Bnancial worry entirely from college
teaching, but they arc a step in the
direction of that mi'lenium.
HOW TO AVOID INSOMNIA
COMMON SENSE WAVS TO KEEP WELL
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BY DR. R. II. BISHOP
There is no known universal
remedy for sleeplessness.
A healthy child never has insom
nia. His sleep may be disturbed
but that is due to errors o£ diet or
emotional causes.
Insomnia usually arls'w from such
causes as worry, grief, overwork and
business cares. They should have
been dismissed at the bedroom door.
The mind carrying these matters to
bed turns each worry over and over
until exhaustion brings respite or
daylight comes.
Some say that if you relax and lie
passive you will thereby dismiss
restlessness and sleeplessness, but
PUBLIC OPINION
ENTERTAINMENT I\
TOTTEN VILI, E
Editor Evening News:
The average person has hardly
any idea of the tremendousgfmount
of work and worry that is entailed
with the breaking in of tlie juvenile
element for any sort of play. It
requires constant drilling and
coaching on the part of the one at
the head of it and the hardest kind
of study on the part of those in the
cast. If the rendering of such play
proves a success, well and good; if
not—good nlglil! to use a common
phrase. It is by hard work only
that success can be achieved. This
was proven beyond a doubt by the
presentation of the (,'hristmas play,
entitled "Love." at Masonic Hall on
Thursday evening.
The success of this play is pri
marily due to the constant and per
severing efforts of Mrs. Herbert A\
Haynes, who for tHo past few weeks I
has been extremely busy in making'
the various characters understand
their parts to such an extent that
each individual actually "felt” the
part he or she represented, and the
combined action of all was such a
success as is seldom found in ama
teur theatricals. The costunfca also
were largely her own creation and
helped wonderfully to enhance the
beauty of the. play.
"Love" is a pretty little story,
pathetic in a way, but full of beau
tiful bits of sentiment. Tlie love in
this play is not of the "spooning"
sort of low frequently found among
young folks in the rays of a silvery
moon—far from it. The love around
which this play circles is the uni
versal love that one is expecting to
find about this time of year partic
ularly. It seemed to have been lost
somewhere amidst the strife of later
years; perhaps hearts had been
hardened owing to the existing tur
moil and devastation of war-weary
countries, or the liner sense of those i
participating in that horrible strug- |
gle had been smothered to such ftn ;
extent that' they heeitatod to foster
that feeling of love so vital to man
kind and to the universe. Mother |
Goose. Santa Claus, fairies and!
what-not looked for the spirit of;
Love in Santa's woods, but could |
not find Love.
it remained for an American boy
(Noel Roberts) and girl (Eleanor
Ragnod) to rekindle that long-lost
but smoldering spark of love. They
found two Belgian waifs and assist-,
hat doesn't always work. It re
juires a riiental effort and may end
n increased wakefulness and dis
urbanco.
A prolonged warm bath often
relpa to lure drowsiness and sleep.
Sontctimes reading an amusing
book or drink a glass of warm milk
will do the trick.
Counting 1Q0 forward and back
ward, repeating the multiplication
able or saying some, phrases an in
lt finite number of times are possi
bilities that may be tried.
Some people have found that
words suggestive of sleep repeated
jver and over in slow succession
will often invoke sleep.
id them and eventually caused hap
piness to reign where gloom and
misery had been before.
But now to the performers: Helen
'liapntan as Mistletoe and Hazel
■teller as Jlolly did nobly, while
Kunlee Chapman certainly acted
nr part of Mother Goose to per
’eelion; Grace Hallowed was an ts
■ellent fairy godmother; Theodore
liogerstjcminded one of Charles
Dickens’ odd characters In high hat
uid the necessary "get up" of old
.ime quacks, l-hue line Newman.
\nna Wilkins and Ruth Laburh as
Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and
Sleeping Beauty did exceedingly
well and carried their parts in tine
style.
It remained for Myrtle Thayer as
Belgian girl and Eugene Laird as
Belgian boy to depict some of the
misery left over from the World
War. Both were the pictures of the
lowest degree of despair and deso
lation and finely interpreted the
parts allotted to them. But oh you
lack Frost: Here Harry Newman
proved he was* in his element and
iis he and the little fairies—with
Margaret lluirnby as queen an.l
Mildred Jjangford, Olive Gunst and
the tiny Misses Joline—danced
about in jolly fashion they were
well received. Harry was one of
the "hits" of the evening. Elwin
Hughe# as Boy Blue and Dorothy
Ogier as Bo-Peep did their part
nicely. The Spirit of lu>ve as repre
sented by Miss Louise Seiler de
serves special mention and her ef
forts were well received.
Last but not least, good old
fashioned Santa Claus; there isn’t
a boy or girl alive today who is not
aware of his doings and whose jrres
i nee is always appreciated. Mr. J.
Slay ter ("Uncle Joe” as he is more
familiarly known by the juvenile
actors) impersonated this celebrat
ed individual to perfection. If
you’d look the world over you
couldn't tlnd the equal of "Uncle
Joe." He was there in looks, gen
eral bearing and speech—even to
the distribution of toys, etc. Be
sides, it may be mentioned. Mr.
Slayter had no small part in the
general management and the
"breaking in" of tho “raw” element.
■ All through the play were hits, as,
for instance, the singing of “Up
side Down" by the two jesters—
Holly and Mistletoe, which brought
down the house. All in all, it was
i tine effort and the result was
“Success,” and each and every one
has surely earned a Merry Christ
mas. F. R, N.
Tottenvllle, Dec. 23, 1921.
vspapcrs ana magazines. aum
H of 1 hem tenon at summer
inols ir different parts of the
ii try, when they need to he reet
cr studying tor the next year's
IK.
\t Vassar there are 102 women
ehers and 22 men. The wives of
se men help. too. No longer is
• professor’s wife satisfied to sit
home ana turn her husband's
r and think of new ways to make
ad pudding. One. at this college,
is a shop where she sells baskets
I other craft work done, by moun
uers. Another writes children’s
ks, and a third is a photographer,
hit even these devices do not al
.» stretch a salary that was mea
in Ilili over n 1021 expense sc
at. Kxccpt where colleges have
dueled timers iir.d raised salaries
ructors have scarcely received
material increase in pay during
boom of salaries in most lines
work.
t is figured now that the cost of
ng* is slip roughly 73 per cent
her In 1013. It wan 103 per cent
her in 1010. and it is still drop
g a littie But the dollar will
•bably not reach the old 1013
1 for some years again.
!o the plan of Vassar to raise Its
try scale 54 per cent barely puts
college professor on his pre-war
ng scale Yet i 54 per cent raise
1 bring this college to a point
re its salaries campare favorably
h those of other colleges in its
Tho college professors are be
ning to receive appreciation, but
y are still far from Kasy Street,
"lie college girls net about these
sty campaigns with enthusiasm,
progressive women's colleges all
dent activities are now regarded
educational. Tea salary cam
gn Is betng used to teach the stII
itc thlngr that they could not
rn In the academic lecture
rses.
Cach girl at Vassar agreed to
Jge $100. It was further agreed
t the money was to bp earned. No
I was to w rite home, for a check.
It once business ventures of every
t began to blossom out. In some
the halls cider barrels were ln
iled. and quantities of fresh cider
still sold to gtrl'J who feel In need
refreshment before or after clas3
YOUTH
BY DR. W. E. BARTON
There comes a period In youth
when the young man orwoman i*
very likely to feel a sense of Isola
tion. The boy thinks hlmseff a man
rr.d can And no one who shares h:a
opinion.
. The girl thinks herself a woman
;>nd is troubled because she still is
treated as a child. They grow sad
and solitary.
Then they meet each other.
And that is a great event.
Each one discovers that the other {
also, is misunderstood.
"My father does not understand
me; my mother does not understand
me: the people with whom I Asso
ciate are all stupid and cannot ap- j
predate my high ideals; my teachers \
give me bad marks; nobody under- j
stands me but you."
They come to understand each
other so well that they cense to need ‘
language. They can simply sit anl'
rue Into each other's eyes or hold
each other's hands, and they under
stand.
All this seems to all the rest of the
world a very silly process. The rest
of the world smiles and makes merry
over it.
Hut ft is a somewhat important
piocess.
It Is one stage In the return to
normalcy: and that return has to he
made over a new rand.
It is not simply a disease of
adolescence: it is a process by whlcn
a life discovers itself In being dis
covered. i
Emerson has a chapter sonte
whede which, if you ever run across
It, is worth reading. His remark
about those two young people of
whom we were speaking. Is. that
thereafter they become good citi
Tt ns.
That is an achievement worth
while.
Learn One New Thing Every Day
BULLETINS BY TUT:
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
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I CHRISTMAS ISLAND: WHERE THE SEN MAY YIELD A SECRET.
Christmas Island, in tho Indian
ocean, one of the several bits of land
that lonely voyagers have come upon
in the holiday season and have
named accordingly, may play an Im
portant part in the further checking
up of the Einstein theory, accord
ing to press reports from London.
The Royal Observatory at Greenwich
I is planning to send to the tiny Island .
shortly after the first of the year an
expedition equipped with good-sized
telescopes to observe next Septem
ber's total eclipse of the sun. A
Dutch astronomical party may also
install its instruments there.
Tho island is the subject of the
following bulletin from tho Wash
ington, D. C„ headquarters of the
National Geographic Society:
141 iitl of Tree-Climbing Crabs.
“Christmas Island has been de
scribed by travelers as at once one
of the loneliest and loveliest spots
in tho world. And its possession of
tree-climbing crabs and a super
scented tree gives it a right to be
classed as one of the queerest.
“Java, its nearest neighbor to the
north, is 250 miles away, the little
Cocos Islands lie more than 600
miles to the west, Australia is 1.000
miles to the southeastward, while to
the south the waters of the Indian
ocean are unbroken by even the
smallest islands until tho lands
around the South Pole are reached
at a distance of nearly 4,000 miles.
The island, twelve miles long by nine
miles broad, is in reality made up of
slopes and top of a huge mountain
peak. Soundings show that if the
waters of the ocean were drained
away a rough pyramid 15,000 feet
high would stand alone in a plain,
the present island forming the last
1,000 feet of its slopes.
"The isjiwtd is believed to be
unique iri that it Is probably the
only tropical island capable of sus
taining a population which had nev
er been peopled until after its dis
covery by Europeans. Except where
sheer rock walls oceurr it is heavily
wooded from the water's edge to the
summit. Cocoanut and sago paints as
well tts many other tropical trees
grow in profusion. Beneath them is
a tangle of tropical undergrowth,
but In this jungle are no wild beasts
and only a few harmless reptiles.
"But one pestiferous creature is
omnipresent—a wicked looking red
crab. Some of these creatures at
tain a size of nine inches across the
back. They do not ccnhne themselves
to the shore sands, but range all
over the Island, and always in
groups. Sometimes armies of them
march along. They, even climb the
trees and feast on the succulent nlpa
palms. As an offset to the crabs the
Island, unlike practically every oth
r tropical land, is mosqultcless. This
boon it owes to its porous soil and
steep slopes. Even in the rainy sea
son there is no standing water.
A Vegetable Pariah.
"For one of its features Christ
mas JsTand may be said to be in
famous rather than famous. It Is a
tree, believed not to exist elsewhere,
which Is described by ono disgusted
visitor to the island as emitting 'the
most disagreeable odor in the
world.’ With a trunk as sturdy as
an oak and leaves as graceful as
those of an aspen, it gives to the eye
no indication of its true character.
But its scent permeates the air for
hundreds of feet in every direction;
and if one is unfortunate enough to
so much as touch its bark or leaves,
nothing short of repeated scrub
bings with strong carbolic soap will
make him again fit for human so
ciety.
"Rich deposits of phosphate of
lime occur on Christmas Island, a
['act to which it owes such Impor
tance as it possesses in non-eclipse
years. A phosphate company regu
larly takes shiploads of the mineral
from the island to Singapore where
it is marketed as fertilizer. More
than 1,000 coolies, mostly Chinese,
ire engaged in tho mining opera
tions, and with the overseers, Sikh
police and company agents, consti
tute tho island's made-to-order pop
ulation. The island is a British pos
session. having been annexed in 1888
ifter tho discovery of the rich fer
tilizer deposits.
“Christmas Island has been chosen
as the chief observation point for the
1322 ocllpso of the sun because it is
tot only in ihe belt cf totality but the
sun will be obscured there at a time
when it is high in the heavens
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0. Is the size of a billiard table
the same in England as It la here/
—J. U W.
A. The playing area of the Eng
lish tabl is 6 feet by 10 H feet. The
standard size in America Is 5 feet
by 10 feet. In many clubs, homes
and some public billiard rooms, ta
bles 4 leet by 9 feet ale used. In
America the game of billiards is
played on a carom table, the table
with pockets being reserved for the
Et me of pool.
Q. Where does lightning come
from?—C. McU.
A. "The Weather” by E. B. Dunn
says in part: "in clear weather the
atmosphere is almost Invariably
charged With positive electricity; In
...a.. _ ...l.u ....nil.,.,. 4 V.. 4
tions may change with the greatest ,
rapidity from positive to negative. A
The electrical discharge may take I
placo between two cloud*, or be- ■
tween a charged clo id and :hu H
earth, id which case the path , M
least resistance is taken between tlr/^P
objects. The lightning is lumin
ously heated air along the path of
the discharge.
Q. What does Rusk in say about
mcney?—K. A.
A. Ruskin says that mcney is not
a medium of exchange, but is a
power over men. If this were not
true men wouldn’t want money,
but would be willing to exchange
labor. J
Q. What is the difference between
pronouncing vowels in Knglish and
French t—B. Q.
A. In Knglish the lip* close in
pronouncing them. In French the
lips are kept in the same positiou
and the sound is short.
Q. Just what is meant by inertia?
—C. H. H.
A. Inertia, is that inherent quality
of matter which makes it necessary__
to have force to put it into motion.
Q. How man sailors enlisted in the
Navy during the World War?—ii.
O. P.
O. At the time we declared war,
there were 62,000 men in the Naxv.
409.000 enlisted during the war ami V
651.000 saw service in the Navy s
during the contlict.
Q. Have we shipped any gold or
silver to Porto Rico within the past
two years?—H. I. U.
A. No gold has been sent to Poroj
Rico during this period,, but in 192.i
$19,900 was shipped in domesti _
coins, and in the first 10 month?
of 1921 $257,850 in domestic coin:;.
Q. Plea’e tell me of n shrub or
small tree that will produce Imme
diate effect in summer ter a back
ground screen and will be quick
growing, be at least five or six feet
tall, evergreen if possiblt, and nr>t i
attractive to goats an 1 cattle as I
food?—A. M. C. JM
A. The Department of AgricuItur.BB
cays that the mountain laurel com*' ’ 1
nearer to filling our requiremens 1
than any other p’ant they know.
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Love is blind. Help the blind.
Mail robbers who want what't k
coining to us get what's coming to 4
them.
A Frenchman has made gold out
of lead. AVe saw a plumber make
$50 out of a lead pipe.
Christmas itself is quite a gift. 1
An auto is a necessity unless you
want to get run over by one.
“The sky is the limit" originated
one day when it snowed and rained
at the same time.
AA'onder if Indigestion makes peo
ple grouchy or if being grouchy
UlUKVI V>IV«M V lllUtQVOUVUt
Ford says Muscle Shoals Is good
for 1,000 years. A regular little ten
century plant.
A movie star who hires a "dou- !,
Mo” for risky stunts can't get one J
to go horn for him late at night. . ^
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We have laws to keep crazy peo
ple from marrying. But they never
know they were crazy until too late.
Only legal eye-opener • is short
skirts.
Just when everyone hoped theri P
ivould bo no crime wave this winter j
Christmas neckties appeared.
Bill Hohenzcllern's coming mar
riage shows he will die tightiug.
There is no limit to how funny
Charlie Chaplin can be. He is quot
ng Tennyson now.
Pity the poor loeksmiths. Bovo
aughs at locksmiths.
Tom Watson wanted to slap an^MM
irmy major's face for two centr^^Hj
Some private missed something by ^
>eing broke. - I
To keep your wife away from the |
>ffico hire an ugly stenographer. j
Germany says she will pay by 1,
lanuary 15. We have told many I
■redltors the same thing. I
‘‘Bandits Play Havoc”—headline. 1
hop thojilay. The actors are bad. I
Swap early. |
JERSEY TIRE CO.
Agents for
Kelly Sprinfield Truck Tires
Day and Night Service
L46 New Bruns. Ave. Tel. 2218
- j. - i -i
KODAK AXD BROWNIB
CAMERAS
it greatly reduced prices for t
lolidays. from $2.50 to S25.00 at u
CITY PHARMACY. INC.
The Home Drug Store
!85 Smith Street Corner