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THE J)ES MOINES RKCISTKR: MOX HAY MORNING FEHIIUAUY 10. 1020. r- By BRIGGS NEEDS A FRIEND rnpyrtsht Tha Trlbuna Aaaoolatlon. Fubliihtd avery week-itny mornln. BT THE REGISTER AND TBBUNBCO.

lib. Molnaa Ldar. aatablnhtd 1S4 iTba Iowa Stale R.aUter, raiatiliHd Mil. HOOVKR'8 CREK1). New York World: New Issues usually demand new men and new methods in government.

When Mr. Hoover describes as "new" the vital Issues that bate grown out of the war he goes far toward accounting for the state of political bankruptcy the country faces. Politicians whose stock in trade is dead issues cannot deal successfully with live issues, even when they try. They seek Instinctively to reduce these live issues to the old formulas, and lhat Is why the average. American politician Is speaking a language today that makes no appeal whatever to the voter.

l. Iinnoia that ft mtehtf COURSE IT BURMS. I l-r'C. TO is I lor positive wus that Secretary rayne had been one of the numerous chairmen of the shipping board. Other facts which may be found of Interest are given by an exchange thus: "John Barton Payne was born at Pruntytown.

Fauquier county, it? ife Pe leans Va. At the age of la 'hn-ofe d'eU of the Circuit court of. Tu.Kt.r countv, West Virginia. In 18s-he was elected mayor of Klngwoo.l. The following year he removed vTed' judge of the Super or of Cook county Illlnola.

He resigned from the Dene 1 898 and shortly afterward "ram a member of the Winston, Payne, Strawn to the artistic betterment of that i "Mr Pavne retired from his law firm li 1918 to become legal ad-'XAp the director genera of Burn 1 I .1 I I BETTER AtjT list, Ing the present attitude of the public toward the prize fighters. The ancient Olympic games bad for the winner no reward but a crown of laurel. Modern Olympics have done well to keep the large money prizes out of consideration, and look to the love of the sport and a patriotic desire to carry his country's colors to the front to prompt the athlete to his best efforts. The Olympic games were discontinued in the fourth century after Christ, and not revived until 1896. In the days of the Hellenes the winner was regarded as not only bringing honor on himself but glory to his city and state.

Today our American boast Is that we have won all the Olympics, wherever held, and our athletes have shown themselves physically superior to the best of the military-bred of Europe and the natives ot less civilized countries. The professionalism of Dempsey and other boxers disgusts the public, makes them distrust the contests they see, and prevents popular interest in and public approval of tho sport. On the other hand, the purely amateur Olympic games are our finest international commerce, and encourage like contests everywhere. Mr. Bryan has announced that neither party will nominate a professional soldier for president, but General Wood's backers never did think much of Bryan as a political forecaster.

A new kind of "coroner's cock-tall" composed of nitro-benzol and grain alcohol put twenty-five Chl-eagoans into the hospital the other day. That ought to satisfy the Inventor of the drink that it's a "knockout." The next secretary of state should be wise enough to refrain from differing with the president. Indications are that while this is leap year the women are doing some careful looking before they leap. Lansing's case furnishes additional evidence that something vntitlv different, from neace Is the portion ot those who had a hand In the work on the peace treaty. Anvhnw.

hnnze that is consumed on the high seas makes no work for city police. Those friendly, notes which passed between the president and his secretary ot state remind Mr. Bryan of the time when Mr. Wilson said "God bless you" and handed him his hat. Under existing circumstances, the average man who dislikes to become a topic of conversation among the gossips hesitates to announce that he is planning to spend a vacation in Cuba.

In Now York City they are using flame throwers to clear the streets of snow. Thus a dreaded Imple ment of war has deteriorated into a mere labor-saving machine. lt'nit oro'va HtminunH nf thrpn nf February's five Sundays without onHtnff OVtltoH HVPf thft fnnl notion that every day will be Sunday by and by. WATSRTOWW MATTERS OF OPINION change has taken place and that the war has left nothing as it was. He mav not be able to analyze the character of that change or to in terpret It In terms or legislation i n.in.i.(..

Knt ha fw keen- UHU ttU lit 111 inn umi uu ly aware of the change Itself, and whether he is a nomocrai or a republican, most of the responsible lenders of his party are speaking a language that awakens In him no response whutever. If Mr. Hoover is still unable to say whether he is a democrat or a republican It Is because he is thinking in terms of issues and not In terms of party organization. He is not in doubt as to the principles or policies of government in which he believes. If the treaty of peace goes over ulnrtlnn ho.

tS for the party that stands for the league of nations, and ne is wining to take the league with "any reservations necessary to clarify the world's mind that there can be nr.U..innl rt lha uci focril lH II IJ ill 1 1 I iifTT limn i. ui provided by our constitution and our nation-old traditions." He wotiia not voie wim a party 1 11 rlnmlnutn.1 hv PmiinS who seek to set aside our constitu tional guarantees lor iree niitrcuu nn nnr.cunnlullnn hnnft to Ul HID re-establish control of the govern- ,1 Ma llieilt IUI piUllt HIHI Jlllllirho. would not vote with a party "If it were dominated by, groups who hope for any form of socialism, u.knll.n. It ho tha nallnnnll7nl1nn of industry or other destruction of indivmai initiative. Until the patties have ntade up thJr own minds where they stand.

"I must exercise a prerogative of American citizensnip ana uwnm to pledge my vote blindfold." That is the attitude of an enormous number of American (voters, and that number will Increase until there is a definite expression of political policy which will enable them to arrive at a decision in respect to the coming election. It is easy enough to classify Mr. Hoover historically. His political philosophy is grounded in Jeffer-sonian democracy and in Lincoln republicanism, but neither Jefferson nor Lincoln has a party status at the present time. The southern and middle western democrats have repudiated Jefferson, and the republicans have scrapped everything relating to Lincoln except the name, which they have retained as a trade mark for advertising purposes.

The world can think ot no more nserul service that Mr. Hoover could render than to make a concrete application of his creed to tho problems that confront the country. Nothing is to be expected from the professional candidates. They are afraid of issues and are concerned only with delegates. The surest way to get the United States out of this realm of "undefined partisanship" is for a man like Mr.

Hoover to sssume the leadership for which he is so abundantly qualified. GKXIl'S IX OREGON. New York Times: We all know how hospitable the people and state of Oregon have long shown themselves to experiments and innovations In government. Nowhere else in the United- States, perhaps, is there such political open-niinded-ness such. zeal to propose and readiness to consider without prejudice, and, if convicted, to tnjfnns.

see how the lexicographer admits his was undoubtedly tho correct pro Tho best evidence Indicates Ioway See Salter's "Iowa 1673-1846." For say Ioway but they are few and our amendments, new or revived old political machinery and methods. With an expectation ot pleasure and edification, then, do we begin to read tho platform of the united land and labor party of that ingenious and Athenian state. The single tax, to be sure, is an old acquaintance that has become a bore to most of us, and, remembering the financial beauties of Town-ley's North Dakota, the Oregon yearning for a state bank, the legal depository ot public funds, doesn't quicken the beats of any Sober heart, but who can read without refreshment and amaze this inspired project for the relief and enrichment of owners of real property: "Each owner of land shall assess his own land, with the provision that the state may add 10 per cent, to the valuation and take the land." This method of assessment is too palpably sublime to suffer comment. Jack up the valuation, let the state jack the jacked 10 per cent, pocket the money, leave, the state! To the taxpayers who remain the plan may be less inviting; but bas anything simpler, greater, grander boen begotten even in the fertile Oregonlan brain? Every man his own assessor? NOTES ABOUT WOMEN. According to a recent cens is taken by the Japanese association, there were fi, 000 Japanese womc In Los Angeles, Cal.

In certain parts of India no girl can marry unless her father has been pacified by a gift of rice and a few rupees. The Countess of Warwick has been chosen as. the prospective candidate for a Ijeat in the' British parliament by the labor party. Miss Harriet Perritt gave up teaching to accept the position secretary to tho commissioner of public works in New York City. Of the 171 members of the advisory committee on policies and platforms appointed by the republican national (committee, seventeen are women.

The League- for Social Rights of. Women In Parts, has started a campaign against Immoral dresses, those too low In the bust or with skirts too short. Mrs. Mlna C. Van Winkle, director of the woman's bureau of the Washington police department, will aid In forming Boston's new woman's bureau of police.

Lady Bingham, prominent in British society, has announced her intention of opening a military shop in order to help meet the requirements of the high cost of living. Mrs. Edward C. Griffith of New York has the distinction of being the first woman to obtain from the Cuban government a license to drive an automobile on that island. Women' In California are forming leagues, the members of which will wear mourning bands on their sleeves on the date ot execution of each murderer in that state In protest against capital punishment.

The town council of Coburg, Canada, is perhaps the first in that country to pass a for the levying of the poll tax on women over 21 years old, not otherwise assessed and who are eligible to vote. Thaugh she Is the daughter ot millionaire parents, Miss Charlotte Delafield, secretary of the president of the board of aldermen in New York City, proposes to live on her salary of $2,400 a year. When King George of England was shooting in Scotland recently, Queen Mary led the life of a pri-1 vute individual, looking up old trienas, paying private calls ana making various alterations in and around Buckingham palace. The Duchess De Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould of New York, Is being called the "Fairy Godmother" to the Kosciusko squadron ot the American aviators on the Polish front. She recently presented to them 5,000 francs which they will use to purchase food and winter clothing.

The Cleveland Federation of Women's clubs, for the first time in the history of the better film movement in this country, will sit in judgment on the merits of a film before recommonding it to its membership, instead of accepting a list Issued by Btate club authorities. Dr. Esther Lovejoy, president of the Medical Women's International association, was at one time head of the Portland, health bureau, and still retains the honor of 'ieing the first woman to hold that position. At tho age of 15 she was a shop girl. Volera R.

Nelson of Boise, Idaho, Is the first woman flyer to obtain a plloti's certificate from tho Aero Club of America. She worked in an airplane factory during the war and since the armistice has studied flying. She can do the loops, the tail spin and the lm-melman with the most expert bird-men. It is claimed that Japanese women are much more efficient than Japanese men as telegraph operators. Experiments disclosed that a Japaneso.woman could be taught the rudiments of telegraphy in two months, when ordinarily It takes two years to teach a man the same thing.

Miss Joanna C. Mackie, of the observatory staff at Harvard university, has discovered a new star, but it Is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. The discovery just made is the thirty-fifth of its kind in the history of astronomy and the nineteenth to the credit of the Harvard observatory. Besides receiving a great Income from the crown lands. Queen Wll-helinina of Holland Is immensely wealthy in her own right.

Much of her income is expended in erecting public buildings, hospitals, theaters, music halls, gymnasiums and baths besides laying out parks which the poor and rich enjoy alike. When all the 100,000,000 women voters and the oth-- millions of near voters are represented in Spain this spring one of the most notable Spaniards. Signor Golecoechea, the present minister of interior, will be one of the welcoming board to hold out a glad hand to the International group of feminists. With five different colleges asking for her services, Br. Caroline Croasdale, a Philadelphia doctor and one of the most active in the campaign for funds for the Women's Medical college.

Is now engaged In establishing a school of hygiene at the woman's college at Albany, N. Y. During the war Dr. Croasdale travelled all over the world In connection with the educational work of the commission on training camp activities. WHFM A FFT LER OUCH.

Ah IT, BUMS OO-oo Propaganda. I To the Editor: Only a few. months ago we severely cutici.M Germany, and justly so, because she poisoned the minds of her school children with military propaganda. But what are we to say of our ownselves? Are we to adopt the fallacious teachings of Germany which we have so bitterly denounced, and Invite that inevitable result which was hers? If not, why do we permit military men to appear before our young school children with requests to write essays on the benefit of enlistment in the United States army? Yesterday military men appealed before very young school children in this city and pictured the glory ot army life, misrepresenting actual conditions, and belittling the objections made by men who have ex perienced tne army me auu kuuw what it is. One speaker stated that the rhen who objected to the army life were those who could only see the dark side of It: but he was very careful to make no statement as to what the dark side was nor how big It was.

But he did state that the Boldlers sometimes had to make their own beds, and that the American boys In France had all the sugar they wanted. An immediate stop should be put to propagandists of one kind and another appearing oerore scnuui children of tender age; and the ones responsible for allowing these military men to speak In the city schools deserve the public's condemnation. H. O. Vralsted.

How to Get Sugar. To the Editor: In the years 1858 to 1868 a great amount of sorghum was raised. On most of the farms barrels of sorghum could be found. In most of these barrels fine sugar was present. The Jasper county farmers learned how to get good sugar from these sorghum barrels.

I knew of a number of tanners who went over the country buying these They would first drain ott the Borghmn, then take twenty pounds of the graulated sugar (or more), put it into a tub or bucket, pour on it a gallon of water Stir briskly for a short time. Then pour off the water (which would bo the washing of the syrup from the sugar. This would leave a mass of good sugar. The wash was reserved for boiling down again to syrup. This partly cleaned sugar was placed in a coarse muslin sack and rewashed In tresh water.

From this1 wash a good brown sugar was obtained. A second similar wash brought out a sugar nearly white. The washings were boiled down so that no svrup was Inst, and wood was plenty. I knew several fanners in Jasper county who bought up the granulated syrup barrels from their neighbors and made hundreds of dollars worth of sugar. It sugar 1 to continue near present prices, sorghum will pay.

I have seen, myself, large quantities of this sugar in Jasper county. I lived in Newton in those eurly days. Angus K. Campbell. The Narrowing World.

To the Editor: This Is to express my appreciation of your late tniwhlns the covenant of the league of nations and the public services ot wooarow mukuu. The intelligent people of the United States, so tar as mis naium in ic-iated to the league, are now thinking in world terms. Men who now and hereafter aspire to leadership in our governmental affairs must be world size in every way vision, experience, general fitness and ability Some of ou political and industrial questions have! outgrown our geographical proportions. As a nation we must think and act accordingly. We might as consistently think of putting a full-feathered pullet into the shell from which it wus batched as tn imagine thut certain of our old standards of thinking and acting will meet the requirements of today.

Members of the continental congress actually thought that civilisation would never reach very far beyond the boundaries of western Massachusetts. Even with our vast territorial domain, we know I 1 BtBSCKirilON BATES MAIL. o.nS:.".b" on. cattta month. Cuodar Rrit.r-ln row: ahortar p.rlona ona "ri" month.

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83,767 In Dm Moln HAVING GRACE OF Hl'MOK. For tho benefit of those of our readers who do not receive the Sunday newspapers, we republish (his morning the letter given uu v.KterrlaV bv Herbert Hoover in response to inquiries from his friends with reference to Btories that be la an Englishman, that he does not live in this country, that he has a fortune Invested abroad, etc. In its way It is as notable as the letter he wrote concerning the use of his name for the presidential nomination: "I'have noted your feeling that 1 should answer some or the solemn discourses on my private lite and crimes. I do seem to get into the way of politically minded foUs even when trying to keep out or things that have been said of me cause me a sense ot financial oversight. "-I have made quite careful luquliies and I regret that so far I cannot The $10,000,000 I am said to have made In my early youth or even middle age or altogether or any respectable part of it.

''fb) The investments that I am supposed to have in Great Britain. LlkVthe Negro porter who was asked to change $10, I am srate'ul for the compliment. I am soriy that these sums do not exist for they would bo useful for the children's relief. "I have also given deep consideration to the other items men- Am I a British subjeet? Did I over apply for such citizenship? No. Many generations or persecuted Quaker ancestors would rise in their graves at such a discovery.

They should remain quieted however, for no Californian touid live thnee months in London climate and become a British citt-sen. If he knew it. "One thing Unit reassureB me that this did not happen vthout my knowledge Is that the British refused to allow me to come rnto their Island during the war without an American passport. "Also I feel that my accent was disinfected of any English, French Chinese, RubbIbu or other taints by my presence in the United Slates a portion of every calendar year of my life except three -even Including the five in which that United States exercised its right to draft my services, a good portion abroad. "(b) Did I ever rent a residence' abroad? I plead guilty to this crime, but In mitigation I do appeal to the feelings of fathers who object to hotel life for babies and children.

"(c) What about that political tunch where I was supposed to have entered upon a dreadful conspiracy against the wealth of the American people? My real distress in this matter is not to prove an alibi or even to complain that my name was not even mentioned, as the guests assert, but it is that was not even invited and therefore lost an excellent lunch. "(d) I plead guilty to the criminal charge of pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts i uin I have a fervent KKUIU Willi Onif. hope that this new doctrine of criminality win not umet i tens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world. They always bring something home, and pay taxes "(e) I gather also that It is moral lurpitune on my i' i i Wire enternrlses. nuvn The hope to rise from the ranks ot labor to tne ranss ot imii' will, however, probably not bo crushed from the hearts of the American boy even by this onslaught." What marks this letter is not merely tho good judgment throughout, but the saving grace of humor.

A sense ot humor enables a man to treat Important things with emphasis by discussing unimportant things with good-natured indifference. The man without humor puts the loud pedal on all alike, and very frequently becomes profoundly indignant over mutters that ought not to disturb him at nil, and by so doing convinces his enemlea and sometimes his friends that he has been hit in a vulnerable spot. The favorable Impression everybody has formed of Mr. Hoover will be strengthened by this letter. That he is a sane, level-headed, practical man of affairs, with a keen sense ot balunce, and at the same time that his life Is dedicated to the larger Interests of America and of all the has been made plainer and plainer as the people have become better acquainted with this splendid son of Iowa.

Mr. Hoover may not be nominated for nor elected to the presi-' dency but the mention of his name has brought him much closer to the people than he was before, and the more they know of him the tuore favorably they think of him. SECRETARY PA YX K. I Changes in the presidential cabinet are occurring so frequently these days we may be pardoned (or belated facts In regard to the ew secretary of the interior. About all the general public knew the mors WW o.

abilitv of every city to get good government; and I also believe that rt wroiitpat hindrances to good municipal government, are obsolete laws which create injustice; outgrown customs which are antiquated methods and perhaps some new-fangled methods which increase the cost of city government and destroy Its efficiency. I beliefe thut graft, favoritism, waste and Inefficiency In the conduct of public affairs are crimes tha fuie numa nf A. CitV. iii, i. and that we should wage unceasing war against municipal diseases, wherever found, without regard whomsoever they muy touch.

I believe that our people should be educated in the belief that serving the city is a public duty and a public trust, and not a private snap. That, it is an honorable calling and a civic need, and that it offers Just as many opportunities for the din-play of business skill, honesty and integrity, exercise of business Judgment or the development of lie initiative as do tne counting uuuaca and the market of the world. A. C. McGown.

The Grocer. WKBSTER CITY, la. To the Editor: All men are -equal under the greatest flag on earth. One man or one nation shall not trample a man's rights under foot. But It seems the war Is over for everybody excegt the robber grocers.

It seems that all eyes are set on us as if we wore a lot of bootleggers. We are allowed 2 cents per pound on sugar. Now If we par $18 or $20 for 100 pounds of sugar and sell out in small lets, we may sell ninety-eight pounds, which nets us less than 10 per cent. As a rule, it costs lo per cent to do business. All other lines can make 2- to 75 per cent and not a word is said.

Because of a deformity it is necessary for me to buy tailored clothes. Trousers I paid $9 for a few vears ago are now $22. Let's not bo small. All of us are equal, according to Ood-wri'ten laW. E.

Edwards. Sporadic Mr. Bryan. Vinton Eagle: One paragraph alludes to Bryaf! as the "epidemic Nchraskan." But it is hardly mat serious. Mr.

Bryan is hardly more than sporadic, to gpeakexactly. your income you will find a l'1'1'6 to put down bank Block or dividends from corporations, and this item you pay only the surtax. Q. I sold a farm and agn lo take government bonds ior tM amount. These bonds are ''lly viorth 95 per cent cash value making a difference of 1,200.

May 1 discount this $1,200 from my ln' come tax? D. Panora, la. A. No, unless you sell the bonds and convert tbera Into cash, lu that event you may deduct what ya lost, or the amount that you Wst on the bonds will rediu profit on the farm, but if J'0)' keep the bonds and do not sen them you cannot deduct it. Q.

Do public school teachers pay an income tax? Do county state officials have to pay come tax? S. F. Shelirock. i- A. No, no employe of of Iowa or any county or MaJt.

ston of the government state of Iowa, which includes pt-fiic school teachers, are require! pay an income tax. Q.My wife died Jan. My income for 1919 was Do I have to pay income tax. w- A 4 'A. Yes, you will have to psT come tax.

You will be deduct 9.365 of $2,000, the $1,000 exemption single persons, for the ot the year. PRONOUNCING IOWA BY FRANK SIOTT OK MIMPSON COLLEGE. that our "border" regions aisup-. peared nearly forty years ago. We schedules of air travel.

Too many ol our wouia-De pont- IdI lAUnva ItiHiraH hv WHl'ld alnnAtifAa tn lqmm.lal.tv Ifl- diao ntauuaiua, (. i adoquate In both vision and exper- i Jul leuue, ivierw party leuueiewi. uun-ity Is not enough; the demand is lor men capable of gutlding America in such a manner that we may continue to lead in the progress of nations. Manifestly this is the great mission to which America has been called. George W.

Hootman. Consider tho Oil Salesman. To the Editor: Recently there appeared an article relative to the i protest or a certain cnurcn.againsi the building and maintaining of an oil station in their immediate vicinity. Granted the church is right, that the operating of these stations on the Sabbath is a desecration, and the influence detrimental to a community. Where does the responsibility lie? Who are the offenders? The oil companies, no doubt, would prefer Sunday closing; at least, they would be compelled to do so if the good people of Des Moines, many of them church pea-pie, refused to patronize these service nations on the Sabbath day.

Did it ever occur to you that the service man might enjoy his Sunday as a day of rest? Do you know that many of these men work from eleven to fourteen hours daily, often seven days a wees and 3ba days a year? Whv this needless waste of hu man energy? Surely by a little forethought the Sunday oil supply can bo bought the preceding day. Give the man behind the pumps the chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that the constitution of the United States guarantees its citizens. If you are a Sunday patron, don't offer him a tract on "Why People Should Attend Church." In the early Christian era a man said, "If meat make my brother to offend I will ent no meat." Does this principle still hold good In the year of our Lord 1920, in the city of Dos Moines? Mrs. J. P.

Pearson. City Government Creed. To the Editor: I believe in good ni ti i I a I government, an tl tb JXT was appointed to the ship- ping hoarn. When it comes to four cabinet changes in a fortnight, the busy biographer may perhaps be pardoned if he conies In a few days lute, all out of breath over one new official, only to find him forgotten In the excitement of a new KOKAH'H IXKilO. Senator Borah's comment on the Wilson-Lansing episode runs as follows: "Tho cabinet crisis arising out of Mr.

Lansing's resignation cannot be fully understood P'hHl. and also is tv have protested against th tre.a.ty. in its entirety. Never in the his-Srv of the wrhl has there been a treaty so rapidly disapproved either by those who had to do with writing it or by those who had to with passing Judgment upon the ones wbo wrote it. There were Home nine Un Americans gnert in ran opposition to the terms of the treatv Lansing has resigned Cle-, enceau was retired.

Orlando was retired. Lloyd George has stated that ho expects to go next. km nlv iloes this quotation con vict the senator of once again play ing personal politics, DUt "-virt the senator of once again play- distort all the tacts to that end. if there was any serious coniuti of view between the president and A CJli tho secretary ot state uouv (...7 was merely an lnciueui, and -the fact that Senator Borah tn seize on Shantung as a political weapon for himself floes not make It any more important, the history of wuson remuu" with Lansing. Moreover, It Is to be remember that Lansing negotiated with Japan the famous Lan- Blng-lBhil agreement, confirming in fur more Important way man the Shantung settlement the claims of Japan for eaBtern paramountcy.

It is not of record tnai MinHiiit, objected to his role then. nut erosser departure irom accuracy Is the sonator's inference attributing to the treaty, ana presumably to the things In the treaty that he doesn't like, responsibility for the passing of many American and foreign statesmen from front-stage. i Clemenceau is out, Orlando is out and Lloyd George is Indeed quoted as saying he expects to be novt nut since Borah has all along been contending that the fault with the treatv is that it gives tho European allies all they want and deprives the United States ot in it Rhnuld retain, by what kind of thinking Is he able to consider the falling of the allied premiers proof of his THF, OLYMPIC (i.XMKH. In sharp contrast in the news are tho reports of offers of 000 for a prize fight between Dempsey and Carpentier. and of tho plans for this year's Olympic games, to bo held at Antwerp, liei glum, Jt will tako a half million to bring the two best heavyweight boxers in tho world together for a few minutes, but for America to send 150 runners and field athletes ucross the Atlantic for a month of -nnwlnir events will Only COt $150,000.

Time was when boxing was tin derti Icon for the fun there was In It, it was play and recrea tlon. Now it is nothing but a highly commercialized profession the followers of which will not "play" until they are first prom ised a fortune. Our college sports, especially those track and field events that make up the biggest share of the Olympic games, are freer from the money urge than any others. While golf and tennis have their ematetirs. they are shnrply distin guished from a class that is Known as "professional," Including uny who obtain an Income in any way from their connection with the game.

We have been Inclined to regard as aristocratic any attempt to bar an athlete from sport just because he played for money, and the cases of Le Gore of Yale, Solon of Minnesota and Francis Oulmet a few years ago were accounted as revivals of a bygone rule that came from snobbery in 'English sports. But we can see some the evils of recognizing sportsmen who seek to make a living out of sport by not- INDIANOLA, la. To the Editor: May I suggest an answer to a question asked recently In your "Matters of Opinion" column by Curator Harlan? I am interested in the discussion of the pronunciation of the name Iowa, which was started by an article in the "Lexicographer's Chair" of the Literary Digest. Mr. Harlan puts his question thus: "In the absence of an official pronunciation such as Arkansas provided In her laws, what do you say Is the actual authority for the pronunciation of the name of our state?" There is, after all, but one authority the pronunciation of any word that is in common use.

That authority la the consensus of usage of the people who employ the word. If there is division ot usage, then there are two or more pronunciations and the conscientious seeker after correctness imist pay his money and take his choice. He may choose to be guided by etymological considerations, but it Is more likely that he will be guided by the usage of some one or some group he respects. Or he may have recourse to the "preferred" pronunciation ot his favorite dictionary. Dictionaries nowadays are simply tho lecords of usages collected by trained observers, together with etymologkul and scientific data.

Read the preface to any dictionary and dependence on popular usage in a barefaced way tlytt would have shocked old Samuel Johnson and even made Noah Webster shako his head a little. Fifty or sixty years ago, "Ioway" nunciation of the name of our state. as the etymological pronunciation. INCOME TAX PROBLEMS SOLVED Mail your questions to "Income Tax Editor, Des Moines and will bo answered in this column by Bump and Stephens, attorneys. Be sure to mention The Register If you wish an answer In this newspaper.

a llBt of sixty-four spellings of the name, with citations for each, see Hodge's "Handbook of American Indians," published as Bulletin 30 of the bureau of American ethnology. Then along camo the purist bent on softening down our rude western speech. Iowans were thereupon pereuaded largely through the schools, to pronounce the flnul consonant like the first syllable of about. Whether the result was an Improvement over the earlier pronunciation or not, (here is no doubt that the name as we have It Is a charmingly musical one. I say the name as we have It, for I make no doubt that the adherents of the old pronunciation are now In a hopeless minority.

In some rural districts there are a few who still Q. I am handling an estate. The heirs are all oi age. Should each heir handle his share with his other business or should it be handled alone? In what way and what exemptions are allowed If handled alone? Mrs. J.

B. Dawson, la. A. If the estate is now being probated and under the direction of the court, it should be handled a'i a separate transaction and alone, and you are allowed $1,000 exemption, and the amount above that you should pay tax upon. Q.i Is a traveling sajesman allowed to deduct as part of his expenses hotel bills? A.

The department has ruled that a traveling salesman may deduct traveling expenses, being railroad fare, but may not deduct meals or lodging expense if he is traveling for himself and paying his own expenses, for the reason that the $2,000 exemption allowed a married man of the exemption allowed a single man is supposed to cover a man's actual living expenses. q. i received dividends on bank stock to the amount of $1,000. Should that be added to my net Income and if bo should I pay 4. per cent if not over $4,000, and 8 per cent If the $1,000 raises my Income above $4,000.

F. E. Colfax, la. A. You do not pay income tax upon dividends from bank stock but only the surtax.

In making up dictionaries rightfully neglect them. Dictionaries are etwiietimes led into error in their records ot tho pronunciation ot place names by lack of accurate local observation. Professor Krapp's "Pronunciation of Standard English in America" is the only manual I know that gives the correct pronunciation of "Des Moines." The vowel in the first syllable is not like in set or in they, but like in sit. You never hear it any other way, I think, except in the mouths of those more or less illiterate individuals who pronounce the s's. If the loyal people of Arkansas had chosen not to follow their legislature In its queer procedure ot fixing the pronunciation of the name of their state French-fashion, the filial would be correct yet; and It is still given a secondary pronunciation sometimes.

Fiat language is seldom successful because it Is contrary the genius of language itself, which is a live, self-developing thing. Tho people who uso tho name most that Is, the citizens of a state or country or city are the authority. The people of St. Louis refuse to acknowledge French origin by dropping the g. hile no citizen of Louisville, pronounces it.

Athens, keeps the "long" a In defiance of the law and the prophets, and Hawarden, forgets Gladstone, who would have rimed it with garden, and calls It Haywarden, with the accent on the first syllable. The Bard of Avon, If he could return to life long enough to enjoy the rare privilege of looping the loops in one of those caterpillar trains they run oter the Des Molnes-Indlanola branch of the Rock Island system, would be surprised to hear the brakeman call Avon, In a way to rime with Bpavin; but so it is. Language is democratic. It acknowledges no masters save the common folk who use it most, but they are masters absolute..