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towns towns. ll 'A A i M.I Wf tt publlslied Jft'thft Statel frtalty is it should be. fct today, the ninth anniversary of the is ft. that the ftfford to cftrry enace every Medium readily found thai ra Mall, in advance in fikephenteo adjoining advertising Appropriation would go Wuch further in larfef that his trad)nf flefdt fotlnd that were ted. They nuttsevibed to pipef rather than to two or three and found they wire to eet service' in otte that neither; of the predecessors had been, to War quite all th'at General man said.

It Is, and ft caiual tion 6t one's memory of the days 1SU7 and 1818 will out that sta tement. month Bayftnd states, f.w 2.80 at business office, 107 West Btepnenson Bottrt EB OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press to exclusively to the use for dlspatchea credited to tt 'ft not otherwise credited In thU -papef and also local pub- herelR. All ropubllcatlon ot Jblal herein also (ff) Atsoclatfld I ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS Ifader normal the iial'Btandard reach you proMptly and If jroa do service, notify Ss by card or telephone. will It favor. furnish from its "division of the business In thft joint field.

are being: brought about by forces outside the newspaper offices. The public demands consolidations Which eliminate weak newspapers. Every community which has brought about consolidation of newspaper properties been benefited. There Is no instance in which conditions have been reversed The buyer of space In newspaper wants performance of contract. He wants' a 'field covered, and his message presented in that field by a newspaper of progressive 'ideals.

The progressive newspapers will be found to be firmly entrenched and the weaker' ones are forgotten, soon after con- fton-cdftibatant i-nlght the dally casualty, lists; the worry and an'Xtety over absent loved tho unsightly spectacle of waxing fat a situation that wftB bringing grief arid to all of JBurope; the regimentation of mind and speech throughout this country, with. Jail sentences for who did not think the solidatlon. States Entered as second matter QctUiSO, 1923, at the- at i under act 01 llllnola. torch, 1879. NOV.

11, 19,27. (DASHING IN GOVERNMENT Irf BONDS i 1 IS" The Second Llberly bonds of the United States government will cease exist on November 35. After that Uncle Sam will pay no more in- on them. An extraordinary of- has been made by the treasury and bankers and notify the- people of ttie call of these 'bonds. Even -now' the, govern-, will pay a slight Tire- on these "'bonds to those who will turn "them on frpr redemption.

Yet It that millions obligations will not KG be presented for payment and that a. barge percentage of them never will '-be cashed. These will be gifts'to the 'government fi'om Us carelessVand negligent citizens. 'doubtedly did good In educating The" Liberty bond campaigns un- 0 'American people in bond buying but Atliey fell short With those who have 'fi laid their Liberties away and forgot, ten Herald-yews. KITCHEN BOOTLEGGING The liquor business ia sald to be passing from the saloon to the kitchen, and diminishing in volume p.nd nature.

This is true, at any rate one large city that flaunted many Saloons'for a time alter the adoption f- of prohibition, which saloons are now nearly all deserted. Authorities say it Js the same in many other places. It is explained that the majority of the middle class, who formerly the bars going, have Quit drinking. There are still many drinkers, but they are mainly the poor and "the very rich. The middle class quit patronizing the saloon becauso the supplies of, pure liquor ran out and "they had more sense than to drink poison.

The rich keep on drinking because they ai'e able to get jmre stuff and pay the prico, pat- 'vonizing aristocratic bootleggers. The poor drinkers keep on drinking --tost regardless of the quality of i booae, The saloons cannot be i up for their patronage alone. They get their supplies from tctail- crs who make or buy the bootleg- stuff Inr comparatively small quanti- SHAKESPEARE'S INCOME An American probing into the professional life of William' Shakespeare, reports' that he never received for his work as playwright, actor and manager mere than 250 pounds a year, which in, terms of our present would be perhaps $6,000 or $6,000. Shakespeare lived fairly wull, at that, takng care of his family in Stratford, paying his father's debts, buying his mother a comfortable home for her old age and paying his personal expenses He is kn6wn to have been generous, too, and rather careless, In his hardHng of money. Ben Johnson callerl him "of an open and free nature," which probably' meant, among other things, "a good spender." But if he was ever able to spend lavishly, it was probably money given him by his noble patrons'rather than his.

professional earnings. The sum mentioned is obviously sbsurd as pecuniary compensation for' successful playwright, the finest intellect of time and the greatest poet who ever hved. Frank Harris says "the' biggett thins yet done in the world" by the Englisli race, has tyeen to. produce Shakespeare. It has usually been' so, however, with the greatest artistf.

It is so today. And perhaps that is best. spoil art. We see that among some of.oiir writers. And rgrea 1 we may be'sure, has Other a.nJ higher rewards than anfl ease.

1 ft and keep It In their kltchuns. Thus prohibition enforcement a new phase. Dry agents say they are going to concentrate now on the kitchens. That raises Jresh diffloulties. It wJU new protests and possibly new abuses.

It will be more necessary than ever fop enforcement officers to act with 'scrupulous regard for law and hue rights, lest they seem to justify i pew wave of law-defiance. BRA of CONSOLIDATION the inost significant of St'fioOQinJc marks of the twentieth is the unification of news- properties, The yew 1937 thus has seen the list of American spapers diminished by more eo-rfluspenslon, mergers, con- whichever the clrcum' may have diptated, Kecent in Illinois aloner? Streator, Elgin, LaSalle, f. Danville, Bloom. Lincoln, afendpta, and brought the total newspaper towns to 80. Of cgttea and towns In the state FARM RULES Here is an interesting set ol rules that is rounds of the press, started by iQniversity of Tennessee and ironically instructing the farmer, "how to" go broke:" Grow one crop.

2. Keep no live stock. 3. Regard and a garden 4. Take tho soil, and -return nothing.

5. Don't stop, gullies or cover the top soil wash, away and then you will have "bottom land." 6. Don't plan your: farm tions. It's hard work thinking- trust to luck. 7.

Regard your woodland as you would a coal mine; cut every tree; sell the timber and wear the cleared land, out £ultivating it In corn anfl cotton. S. Hold fast to the Idea that, the methods of farming employed your grandfather are good 1 enough' th6 Uky-rocketliiff so rising faster than wages and salaries rose. And the soldier might he what.acenw of horror he can turn his mind to, our ng him. He can recall mud, fllth, the hard-boiled officers, the machine guns, the, Shrapnel and the rest; and he knows that, however many tricks memory may play on him, theie things were not pleasant.

are the memories we atlr.up for, today. And why? Not-to advance the cause of. any price," surely. Not to make 'ourselves paciflstic nation, willing to accept any situation rather than flght to end it. Simply to remind ourselves that we went through a terrible experience a few ago, and that that.

experience had a definite purpose. If we pledge ourselves again to the task pf seeing to It that, that purpose -i-the bringing of freedom and peace closer every man on brouffht nearer fulfillment, bo well. If we do not, our memories may arise to torture us again. JOHN MAftKMAM, Attorney tofli ALVIN H. BETKadN known Wall wai terloualy 1 hU MAJOR AKtHONt of man 'ANNA 4 for Alvltt MURIEL ST.

CLAlft young tlngaf CAPTAIN PHILIP. LEAC.OCK We know 'an old fellow In. the. country who speaks of the "younger gineratlon" and maybe he's right. Having seen pictures of both Madame Lupescu and Princess.

Helen of Rumania, mont American men have been convinced that Prince Carol wasn't quite all there. things sometimes remind us that there Is a place called earthquakes arid, canned salmon. There is just one place in America where we could use Mussolini and that's in the-oil Industry. fit. Glair'A LETANDBR Intimate of.Alvln MRS, PAULA BANNING A frle'nd tt ELSIE tt- tho firm, of Bensori and Cj A retired WILLIAM H.

An GEORGE! G. BTITT Of the firm of Stltt and McCoy, Public. MAURICE DINWIDDH3 Assistant District Attorney ERNEST HEAtK Sergeant of the- Homicide Bureau BURKE, -SNITKIN, Detectives of Homicide Bureau BEN Commanding Officer of Detectives assigned to District office PHBLPS, TRACT, BPRINGBR; HIGGINBOTHAM ..........4.. Detectives, as- to District office CAPTAIN expert DR. DORBMUS examiner FRANK SWAOKBR retary to the District Attorney CURRXJ3 Vance's valet S.

S. VAN DIKE Narrator ter lives sir 1 was barely audibleb "of as you baft I'm Vfild you takft Benson's houie his She looked. ups bitter in "tW," str-4 did. She, told 'me. th4 kind'of rtan he was; and tie often her come to the house here trt the to do work." sou wantM' to be there to it." worried-, Within a year now, the American people have to make quadrennial choice of the lesser of two evils.

Someone'Ought to ask Mayor Bill Tiompson Chicago if he boUeves the cherry tree story. for you. 9. Be Join only four im OOP newspappv. Wisconsin Jgiure is the same.

Wt of newe- ra has caused the greatest wUnessed In any one one, the with youv neighbors in any foiTn of co-operation. 10. Afortffage' your farm for every. dollar it Avlll stand, to buy thingB you would have the cash to buy if you followed a good system of farm- ihff. The whole 10 are not needed For general purposes the first four, supplemented by the.

nintn, will serve the purpose. Fortunately It 'is less necessary than it was a few years ago to rub it into the fanner in this way. The careless or ignorant methods recommended to insure ruin are practiced less and less. Southern farmers, formerly the greatest sinners in aev. of these inspects, have been particularly apt to learn the lesson.

ARMISTICE DAY It's so easy to forget; and 1018 was nine Jong years ago. Yet there are some' things that we must never let ourselves forget. And Armistice Day brings some of them to our minds. 'There is no danger, of course, that we will actually forget the war. Yet already the details it are getting a bit hazy for some of us; already memory Is beginning to play her old trick on us, softening the harsh outlines of pasc events and bathing unpleasant happenings soft, rosy light that makes them seem actually enjoyable, in retrospect.

When the average non-combatant thinks of the war, for instance, what are his emotions? He thinks of the easy money that prevailed then. Ho thinks of the waving flags, of the pleasant, spine-tlngjing thrills of patriotism that came to him so often. He thinks of the wave of idealism that swept the land in those days, under which the citizen could feel that he was part of a great army of brothers. All in the- war doesn't seem half bad in retrospect. And the ex-service main; how he feel about it? As like as not he, too, has mem- orlerlhat.

on the whole, are not unpleasant, The Horror and the terror time part of his life do not intrude themselves so much nowadays. Instead, remembers the easy coin- happy the hj 11- Nothing In Italy escapes of Louisville Times. In. Mexico, first you presi dent, and then you. your life, American Lumberman.

After a Soviet ambftssador to 'Paris his presented -his credentials what he do till train Detroit Good for the Teeth," says the St. Augustine Record. It's also a frequently used eye Tampa Tribune. Senator Borah he will not be a It is 'unusual for Borah to with the- majority this San Diego Union. It Is said that the- human race came into existence about 16,000,000 years ago, and there Is 'no reason why in another 16,000,000 -years it should not learn to act, like a human 'race.

Louisville Times. Politics in Indiana seem to be a matter of individual (Oa.) Pilot. The growing pains -of the Mexican Republic are, more accurately, shooting Arkansas Gazette. of oddities Is that every centenarian has 'either used whisky most his life or left it Richmond Item. Wonder If the Rockefeller Foundation discovered the.

method of fighting with Brunswick (Ga.) Pilot. English philosopher says the character of is determined between the ages of two and flve. We'll say Philadelphia Inquirer. Our prediction is that the country will never be dotted over with memorials erected to grand cy- clopses, Columbus Dispatch. We.

may sometimes criticize tho style of a Mexican presidential campaign, but at least it lacks nothing In Detroit News. Gene Tunney is going to make some girl a perfect husband. He sayo New York Evening Post. he won't marry until through Well, anyhow, we have an Idea Mexico are not pestered by life In- that the for president of surance agents. Des Moines Tribune.

The Chinese split up their government and caused a lot of trouble, and now they are combining their churches and will start a lot move. (Ga Probably Big Bill Thompson, mayor of never heard -of tUo King James version of the Bible or that book would be consigned to the Columbus Dispatch. After many yaars of study, a Vienna doctor announces that he has Vienna has done Something to atone discovered a cure for asthma, At last for Cleveland, Plain Dealer, lias THIS HAS HAPPENED Vance Markham from resting when fttory implkates the captain. It te brought out that Pfyfe had been in Alvin Bfnson's power because of a forgeil check. Leacock confesses to the murder, bat Vance exposes the confession as a lie to shield St.

Clalr, Vance prevails upon Markham 'tv, question Mrs. once- more. NOW BEGIN TUB STORY CHAPTER XLVIII "T' know, Markham, our civ is nothing more than the persistent Of everything that's beautiful and endur- iug, and the designing of cheap makeshifts. You should read Oswald Spengter's Untergang most pentratin 'document. I wonder some enterprlsin' publisher hasn't embalmed it in our native "The whole history of degen'-" rate era 'We call modern civ-iisatlon.

can 'be seen in our woodwork. 'Look at that' fine old door, for Instance, with its bevelled panels and orna- Us Ionic pilasters and carved lintel. -'And then, compare' It with the machine-made shellacked boarfls which are turned out, by, tho thousand Sic transit. Vance 'studies the door for some timel then turned-abruptly back to Mfs. Platz, who was curiously and mounting apprehension.

"What did Mr. Benson" do with; box ot Jewels when out to dinner?" he asked. 'sir," she answered nervously. "He left them' on table there." "Did kyou see them after he had gone?" 'Tes; and I going- to put fheni I'decided I'd better not touch them." "And lobbdy came to the door, or enteretl the house, -Mr. Bea-son left?" "No, sir." "Tou're quite sure?" "I'm positive, sir." Vance rose, and began to pace the floor.

Suddenly, Just as he was passing the woman, he 'stopped and her. maiden name Hoff. man, Mrs. Plata?" after Mr. Markhl.ni here asked you if Mr Benson kept any aroutti the house?" The woman i shifted her gaze.

you. were, I'll tell' you -why. You. we might think Miss Hoffman sho him." no, she cried "My girl-wasn't here, thai she wasn't She was- badly' shaken; the ner vou8 tension of a-week had snapped and "she'looked helplessly her "jCOme, come, Mrs. Vance'.

cOnsolintly, "No one for a'ntoroent-that Jfiss Hoffman hai hand Jn Benson's woman peered searchlngly into face. At first she to, believe hlm-r-lt'Was evident that Jfear ha4 on, and. It took-' quaifter of an convince' her that, what -he had said wai true. When, we left the house slu was In a comparatively peaceful of'intnd. O'n our way to Stuyvesant Club Markham 1 was; -completely engrossed with his It was "evident that the new facts educed interview with Mrs; pjate troubled him considerably.

Vance sat smoklngr dreamily, head now aftd then to inspect the buildings we passed. through eighth street, when we came abreast of the New York Bible Society -House he ordered the chauffeur to stop and that we admire it. "Christianity," he remarked, "ha's. almost vindicated, itself, architecture alone. With few the only buildings In this city that are not eyesores, are the churches and their -allied atrue "The American aesthetic credo Whatever's big is Theserdepressin' gargantuan (boxes with -holes in 'em, called skyscrapers, are "Americans simply The thing she had been dreadjnff had come.

Her face paled, her ayes wide, and -lower lip drooped a little. Vance stood looking. At her, not unkindly. Before she could regain control 'herself, he said: had 'the pleasure -of meeting your charmin' daughter' "My daughter. managed to stammer.

"Mies Hoffman, y' 'the attractive young blond hair. Mr. Benson's i seem lady with the and W. O- 1 tbat of Chicago public one whisper in his wax 'Qer- The woman sat through clamped teelh. "She's not my daughter." "Now, Mrs.

Plata!" Vance childed her 1 as If speaking to a child. -Why this foolish attempt at deception? Tou remember low worried you were when I accused you of a personal in the lady who was here to tea with Mr. Benson? You'were afraid I thought it -was Miss Hoffman But why should. y6u be Jous about her, Mrs. PJatz? I'm sure she's a very nice girl.

And you real)y can't blame her for preferring the name of Hoffman to that of Plata. "Platz means generally a tlfaugh it also means a crash or an explosion; and somethimes a Plata a bun or a yeast-cake. But a Hoffman Is a nicer than being; a what?" He smiled engagingly, and his manner had a quieting upon, her, "It Isn't that, she aaid, looking at him appeallngly. "I made the name. In any girl who's smart can get to be a lady, If ahe's giyeii a "I understand Interposed pleasantly.

"Mllf man Js clever, and Hie fact ot your being A If became known, the of yotf eUm'nutsd yourself, for you. it-'wii very they're huge. A box with 40 rows -of holeg is twice as beau tiful aisWbox with 20 Simple formula, what? Look at this little five-story affair across the street. in t'nitely and more irnpressive, too skyscraper In the city. 'Vance' referred but once to crime during our ride to the clubi and then only indirectly.

"Kind hearts, y' know, Markham are more than cororietsr; done a good deed and I tlvely Frau will sleep better tonights if been frightfully upset about little She's a doughtly soul; motherly and vail that. she couldn't bear to thihk of tb-fe future Lady Vere.de being suspected Wonder why she" worried so?" And he. -gave Markham a. sly look. Nothing: further was Said Until after dinner, which ate In tho Roof Garden; We had pushed bacK our chairs, and.sAt looking out over tree-tops of Madison Square.

"Now," Markham," said Vance, "give over all prejudices, and consider the situation as you lawyers "euphemistically put; It. To begin with, we now 'know why Mrs. Plata wad so worried your 'question regarding fire-arms, and why ahe was by my to" her personal int'rest In Bengon's So, those two mysteries are ellm'nated "How" did you find out about her- relation to the girl?" Interjected my pgling did it." Vance gave him a reproving look. "You recall that I the young lady at our first but I And remember our little discussion 'about cranial idiosyncrasies? "Miss Hoffman, I noticed at once possessed 'all the physical formation of 'Benion's housekeeper. She was she over- articulated cheek-bones, an orthog- nathous a low flat parietal structure, and a mosof rhlnlan' nose.

Then I looked fOr her for I had noted that' Mrs. Plate had the pointed lobe less, 'satyr' sometimes called the Darwin can These ears run in families: and 1 when I saw that Miss Hoffman's were the same type, even though modified, I fairly certain of the relationship. there other pigment for instance; and In both aw tall, y' And the central of each were very large in comparlaon with the peripheral masses; the shoulders, were narrow, and the. wrlstf and ankles small, while the hips were bulky. Hoffman Plata's maiden natnQ was only a guess.

But it didn't matter," a of I believe, been into English. tTo Be receittly translated Continued) The more intelligent a girl is the easier for her to remain single- CHARACTER Theve oucH a thljig It in not boriir- is formed' And it' ingrained ingr pan 1 wash out, so nothinf can. it, so fine i nothing can tarnish ,80 strong it 'ntothing in life and in death fin4l 'iiotbinf A-. 1 (.1. 1 it.SiL.'^L' Flapper The nose' without powder hinlng example.

WAR IS HELL The specific occasion upon which feneral. Sherman said "War is hell" not matter 'of positive'record, his old age he was unable to re- all how the famous epigram got tarted. Just before he died ln ie nrade a special search through iis letters and records in. a vain at- empt to find 'sj)me reference to aylng. However, John larlan, Iowa, he heard General Sherman make the remark, -According to.

Koolbeck, it 1868, after 'the -capture of Vlcks- urg. Sherman's 5 troops moved gainst General J. B. Johnson whom hey foliowed across-the Pearl river at The -army was rbsslng the on pontoon ridge and Sherman 'gat on his horse the water's edge in deep The infantry crossed first. 'hen came the cavalry headed by General B.

-F. Wlnslow of owa Cavalrj'. Koolbeck was ow's ald-de-camp And rode with'-ljim. Vs they passed Hence with the remark: "War- Is 1," The ald'de-camp stated fterwards that tho -words were loud nough to be heard by htm distinct' i Of cour.se the idea was not origr- nal. In King Henry nVI, Second 'art, Shakespeare Bays: war! liou son of hell," It Is-notjBttrprls- nij.

that General SheiTium's romurk famous. Ho did as much as ny man to make war hell, especi- lly for the enomy. In November, 864, General received following telegram from Sherman: "I start today for Atlanta, nd will make Rome howl." On Sep- ember 4 of the same year he wrote General Halleck: the people; aise) a howl against my barbarity, nd cruelty, I will answer that war and popularlty-seeklng. If tey want peace, they and thejp rel- tlves must stop the war." Tf EMPT TO SCALE HIGH PEAK FAILS THE CHILD OR HATE Daily Interview-Editorials With Big Men Today's Interview With 7 BUTTON J. HENDRICK Eminent Scientific Writer "It Is strange- to think of tho submarine as the child of hate.

And yet practically every Inventor who worked -the submarine, -was inspired by a determination and hate to destroy the British fleet and empire. "All historians attribute the original invention of the submarine to Bushness, a Yale student of the class of 1774, whose boat constructed in 1775 all the'es- sential elements of the modern vessel. ambition. sink the -British fleet 'which was anchored off coast, destroy Viconhections with-her revolting cdlonles, and thus end the tev'plu'tion at a hlow. "Bushneil's an'expe'rl menter with, the submarine was an- American, Robert Fulton.

By 1801 he had cbnstructed a boat oper ated by oars -under water wlih which He crept'up on a vessel In the harbor of attached a toKpedo, destroyed 'It and made his escape. He- wanted to, aid France In destroying sea 'power. retained Fulton for a and then dismissed him as a "Johrt Holland toolt tip where Fulton and Bushhell left Off -In seventies of the last confury tie- cause he was an ardent Irish patriot and a member, 'of thai- Fertiap brotherhood because ho regarded the destruction ot Navy as on essential preliminary' the establlghment 'freedom. it wds not- -until that tho submarine 'a and feare'd accessary of- France, trouble jvlfh Northern Afi'lca began 'to bulld'-submarines to the, -ne- glec.tVo'f^ larger craft. There -wei'e' that the end of battleships had come, but people could- not 'then fee; that for a nation -to control, the of the ocean, tt must, also control the surface and battleships were not MOTHER GETS ALL THE LIMELIGHT Why is that one almost hears about the father of a celebrity? asks Elsie Janls, the well- known, "It seems to me are just 'sort of taken for granted "these days.

We read the papers how the mother of the famous Tillie Twinkletoes, accompanies her to the theater and 'helps her I'll bet dad taught her to dance- but, find a picture of him! They tell that John Swibblewell, the famous author never delivers a manuscript to his publisher until his mother has put her. 6. K. on it. Pool- pop probably has to be satisfied with putting his O.

K. on the. Budding Balzac'a bills. "Now, there -must be a reason for the public's having to page the papa, and I think I have found it," Miss Janis continues. "Fathers may encourage ambitions, but mothers share them.

Perhaps that Is why so many celebrities cling to their mothers and write to their SYMPHONY IN STREET CAR DECORATION By NBA Service Houeton has c'omo a colorful city, literally. street that whizzes, along streets is painted In color or design, anil -the public en the scheme unqualified ap-' proval. A public official with a turn of mlntj reasoned -V people, wear colors escape monotony, street cars 1 accomplish the same thing by being painted In various hues. Operators of the system -saw- the advantage anil gave orders for tho rcdeoora- tion. NOW each line lifts different cobra.

One carries a painting of skyline in several shades'; bear painted emblems of the different- they- PUSH. Patrons approve because can recognize their proper cars as far as they c'an see them. Mothers find it easier to direct their children when they.tKiv el nlone. 'Preserve Gorgeous Bird's Beau' Ijr NBA SerYlce Lake Adolphus, Mount Robson, B. Mount Robson, giant peak of 10 Canadian Rockies, this year has urned back every party of Alpln- ute'who, attempted to 'it.

'wo recent attempts were made of the Seattle Mountain- Club, but they too met with allure. A driving rain and low-lying by the Umbers on" their aecent rom the valley floor. At high al- tudes, they ran Ipto sleet und fin- lly, when weather thvx through enow. when they' agftlnst a Uge ice cliff the 9nly approach summit. cliff Mi 100'feet Mfch and.al- cUwbera, tfeey Thia beautiful peacpek, oiie 1 of the finest specijneiis evef rained Ua's end mf-iiis normal but his ba'pmervcd.

Tlis bird been stuffed and Hie plumage i8 0C Los Anfielcs and '4 'i.