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'asbiiry park r.vT!rsrn press. Friday, October 7, 1927. SOME DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS TO WHAT IS BEDTIME Editorial Digest rr, ASBURY PARK PRtOJ which are said by artists never to tve been surpassed for rigor and wet aide of the prohibition Issue." The APPLETON POST-CRESCENT (Ind arguea that "we must bear in mind that Smith has no other plat- form." The SAN FRANCISCO BUL- LETIN i Rep sums up its views: "He is handicapped by a reputation as a wet that will unite all drys against him, and try as hla friends may, they cannot extricate him from his association with Tammany." On the other hand, the ROANOKE TIMES (Ind. Dem) points out that "Governor Smith's candidacy, Inso- far as the nomination itself is con- cerned, is formidable and therefore I By FREDERIC J. HAtKIN Bcvy line, lie lai uira, in uiik In manv instances the artist m.

k.v v.i u. must nave Had to lie in ciamped position on a narrow and slippery ledge in order to make his masterpiece. But it is inside where it has been preserved from the wear of the weather and where it does not compete with natural scenery. Editorial Mirror SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Congressman James, chairman of the House Committee on Military Af- fairs, is proposing a thing which al-' most never happens In America. That is.

to make one good public of- fice where were two before. On its fighting side, the government lias a secretary of war and a secretary of the navy. If certain other elements have their way, there will be added to these a secretary of air defense. That ill make three members of i the cabinet occupying the one field of national defense. Representative James' Idea is that gether with the ultimate air depart- ment, be combined into one great Do- partment of National Defense.

In that department, of course, would be an undcr-secretary for the navy and another for the army and another for the air. But all would be united under the one head. In case of war, there could be no playing at contrary purposes by three different branches of the national defense service. Equally Important, congress would not then be rent, in its appropria- tions making, between the conflicting pressures of the different fighting de- i payments, each seeking to outstrip the other in the division of the national defense funds. On the very face of it, the James 1 play Is worth serious consideration.

On general principles a unified con- trol of the national military equip- (MU ment would seem desirable. The peal to the party member who, hav-fact that the chairman of one of the ing no counter predilections, is apt Rll SItlESSMfiMY as the Government sees it tNt5TRIE5 OF U.S. DEVELOP H3o HORSEPOWER PER WORKER Jrfott'o nf Y- Worker" AND CVENiNG J. LVLt KINMONTH, Btfitor and Ownti. Oailv St H.

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TOLERANCE Religion is generally thought of as something which had better be kept out of the schools. That, perhaps, is because "religion" is usually confused with "sectarianism" and 'denominationalibm- and outward Aifronpp are allowed to hide in- i i wara iiiiuu-o There is at least one educator in the United States who is going at the matter in an entirely different Arotrs religion into the ilC nd uses it to teach toler- si'hools a ance in a cosmopolitan population. The children are taught, thru chosen reading and open discussion, I to reverence their own type of re- ligion, whatever it may be, and at the same time to respect the religion of others. The plan seems to be meeting with much success. REVOLUTION There is a new note of romance in China.

Matrimony in the past has never had much to do, directly, with affairs of state. Now it becomes important. Two notable weddings were announced recently within a week of each other. Eugene Chen, former Nationalist minister and one of the leaders of new China, married the famous widow of the still more famous Scn Yat Sen, founder of the Chinese republic which is still striving for self-realization. Gen.

Chung Kai Shek, former commander-in-chief of the Nationalist armies, who surrendered his command to promote unity between the rival factions, married Miss Meixing Soong, sister of Mrs. Sun. The outcome is expected to be a 'revitalizing of the revolutionary movement. Here are two prominent men united apparently to two influential women. Both of the women are American-educated) bath neiuve in democracy, and botn are neart and soul for the modernization and independence of China.

Romance, revolt and statesmanship go hand in hand. When women start cleaning house, the house usually gets cleaned. When women start in the revolution business, the revolution is liVol tn keen moving along, even and backward a land as China. GOLDEN RULE It has been said that the Golden Rule is the best traffic rule. Drive as you would be driven by.

The head of big street railway company, who has done a lot of observing, puts it this way: "The first essential is orderly driving. The second is orderly walking. The third essential, which includes the first two, is to obey the Golden Rule." Another observer finds that those who obey the biblical injunction on the street are mostly the drivers of new cars. Why so much virtue? Because, not wanting to get their own valuable cars hurt, they drive carefully and keep from getting into any kind of mix-up with other cars. Those who are driving old wrecks don't mind so much bumping or being bumped.

We may expect general ooserv -of the Golden Rule, thenJ ance when everybody on the road has a new car. From which we might rise to the glorious conclusion that abounding prosperity would make a nation of Golden Rule motorists and go solve our traffic problem. MOUNTAIN SCULPTURING In the Black Hills of South Dakota work is starting on a Great American Memorial. Heroic figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt are to be carved on Rushmore cliff, a huge rock face, a natural scenic-wonder. A Confederate memorial similarly has been carved on Stone Mountain in Georgia.

It begins to look as if this were getting to be an American custom and Roon we will have sculptors at work wherever there are mountains with large accessible surfaces. One wonders whether this is either a wise or truly artistic development. Perhaps nature really set the example. Anyone who has ever visited mpuntains either in the East or the West knows how many Uncle Sams and Great Stone Faces and Indian Heads and other figures have been carved by erosion. But these figures, in order to be clearly seen, usually require considerable imagin ation on the part of the observer They add to the natural wonder of the scene.

Gigantic figures carved by human sculptors are something else and of dubious value. Prehistoric men who carvedand painted pictures on rocky walls in the Pyrenees showed better judg ment. Their pictures, some of COUNTRYWIDE DEBATE FOLLOWS WESTERN MOVEMENT FOR SMITH Same Obssrvars Regard the Development as Significant of Niw York-ar's Growing Strength Others Hold it Meaningless. The endorsement of Governor Smith for the Democratic presidential nomination by a group of party leaders of Western states has been interpreted on the one hand as what the SYRACUSE HERALD (lnd.) calls "a poetical of unusual size and portent" and on the other, in the phrase of the SANTA BAR BARA DAILY NEWS? (Pern), aa merely "the first fruits of months of clever manipulation by Tammany agents." 'Something more than a straw In the wind that is now set toward the governor's chair at Albany" is seen by the RICHMOND NEWS LEADER Ind. Dem), and the TULSA WORLD (lnd.) feels that "tha action of the Western Democrats, altho few in number, while not decisive, is in- ilit'iillve of the trend the ca is to take." The CLEVELAND PLAIN" DEALER find.

Dem.) remarks that "It Is something to know that there Is any Smith sentiment in the commonwealths which boast of many square miles and few electoral votes. Hitherto it had been silent. And, ever and anon, some Southern state pipes up with Hurrah for All'" "The Smith boom," according to the WASHINGTON STAR "is appealing to the Democrat who shrinks from the prospect of another Kilkenny cat fight such as that of 1924. Waiving the question of re sponslbility for that spectacle, the governor's friends are claiming for him that only thru his nomination, assured In advance, can another de- i moralizing deadlock be averted. And that is a moving argument." The Star also takes Into account the "ap- 1 to feel that the party cannot win win with anybody else but might with him." "It was made very plain," says the SAVANNAH NEWS -that political job holders were in the no meeting, and that the gathering was composed simply of Democratic 'workers' who want to win now and then In a national fight.

The BAL- TIMORE SUN (lnd. Dem.) points to "the notable drift now observable in Smith's favor," and the rnT-n WT (Ind. Rep.) de-I clares: "It cannot be denied that the noiuing oi corne. a territory Is another indication that Smith sentiment is growing thruout a large part of the country. If it continues to develop at Its present rate, it should be strong enough to Injure his nomination in 1928." Evidence is found by the BANGOR COMMERCIAL (Rep.) that "several r.f tYia far WnutnTl HtutFttt ftrp verv UKeiy to aenn amun ueivtsiura the convention," while the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE (Ind.) says of the seven states represented: "It is plain to bo seen that a fight for Smith will i be put up in these states and that he is likely to secure the support of the delegates to the national convention from all or nearlv all of them." The SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL (Rep.) says "it was at- tended by men whose influence on Democratic politics in those states is not to be Ignored." The MANCHES- i TER UNION (lnd.

Rep.) recalls: "The opponents of the New Yorker have had their warnings lately that the time has come for their active cooperation, if they still hoie to block his nomination. The word from Ogden is another forcible re minder of the sort." In line with the thought that the Western conference simply was a well staged bit of Smith political play, the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, observes: "The question arises as to whether the adoption of the Smith resolution was not the principal business of the conference." The LYNCHBURG ADVANCE (Dem.) adds that those who attended iave no authority to bind their state delegations to the Smith candidacy." "Modern aspirants for high offices," it seems to the WORCESTER TELEGRAM "devote a good deal of effort to the manufacture of 'overwhelming popular It Is possible that Gov. Smith's managers possess some expertness In this business." The HARTFORD TIMES (Ind. Dem.) advises: "Governor Smith should lie content to let th? ambitious and the favorite sons have their fling. There is no danger that Smith sentiment will grow less or that he will be any less impressive as a presidential figure as long as he continues to serve New Yofk as well as he does." The PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN (Ind.) believes, however, that "the Smith candidacy and platform Is profoundly alien to the bulk of Western Democracy" and that "Anti-Smith sentiment only needs proper leadership to assert Itself In unmistakable Javor." "No one will deny," affirms the HELENA MONTANA RECORD-HERALD (Rep.) "that Tammany is the backbone of the movement to nominate Governor Smith of New York for the presidency, For years it has been the ambition of that notorious and powerful political organization to have a controlling voice in the dispensing of national patronage." The ANNISTON STAR (Dem.) holds that "Democratic America Is not yet ready for a city state, or for city dominance in American affairs." Expressing its admiration "of many qualities of excellence possessed and proven by the New Y'ork governor" as an "able chief executive of the nation's greatest state," the NASHVILLE P.ANNER (Ind.) concludes: "His nomination would be a commit- taj of the Democratic party to the I creases were in the northwestern! states, especially the Dakotas.

Georgia has had the most in the south, i Iowa in the corn belt, and Maine in the east. It seems that the old story of too much prosperity enters into the pic- ture importantly. For example Geor- gla land values rose In the war boom I period to 218 percent of their pre-war average and yet, after the boom pc- Hod, Georgia led in bankruptcies In the south, Iowa land rose to 213 per cent of pre-war average value and i she suffered. These may both be considered one-crop states to a large I extent. When the cotton price trem bled a point downward on the New Tork and New Orleans Cotton Ex changes, Georgia bankruptcies were a point nearer.

When the price of corn on te Chicago board of trade shaded off a trifle, land values and pocketbooV In Iowa felt the move-! ment. I The bureau of agricultural econo- mics Is of the opinion that land values were higher than they should i be in the boom days and lower than they should afterwards. In both i cases the values were artificial ones and not truly representative of what! the land actually is worth. I With better prices this year for I both wheat and cotton, improvement Is expected with a corresponding descent In the number of farm bank- ruptclea until there comes another cycle of boom followed by depression to upset the normal level. i Any mltfi quwtlom trill n- Tta Atbur? Puk Press In-formttloa Bureau, rrefarlo I Baskln.

Dlrsctor. Washington. D. II jtsas Is si.closst with Us antrj. rns bureau cannot gtvs advice la TiedlcaL nor Onancla! natter on.

tsrtak Mkanstlve research. Owe full tame and address Reotf ertll be sent Urect te fncralrerfc How often may the design on coin be changed? E. K. a WASHINGTO Oct. 7.

The money lender is not so hard on the financially embarrassed farmer as some forensic political addresses from agricultural regions would seem to indicate, yet quite a large number of husbandmen do forfeit their properties for debt. The department of agriculture, thru its bureau of agricultural economics has Just compiled figures which show what the experience has been. It appears that the money lenders have been harder on tenants thin they have on the actual owners of farms. This may, perhaps, be accounted for by the fact that the owner of a farm is likely to have been a longer resident of his community and a personal friend of the banker who holds his mortgage or, perhaps, by a feeling on the part of the banker that the owner is likely to prove a more responsible man and able to work himself out of his difflcuTTtrr The survey covered a period of two years and three months and may therefore be regarded aa presenting a fairly accurate reflection of the situation. The entire United States was covered.

Certain sections were ttegrecated as well for more local surveys. One which covered 15 middle western states, the very heart if the richest agricultural region in the United States, revealed that percent oi uio mimci. wv I. 1. 1 farms iiiru me utiniirupwy tuum.

These were farmers whor owned their land. Of the tenant farmers who merely rented from absentee landlords, 6.78 percent were dispossessed thru the courts. Of the owner- farmers 4.JS lost ineir larmsieaas not thru imnurupicy proceeaings out bv calling in the mortgagee and turning the property over in lieu of .1 K. MflfrVinut anv legal proceedings. Of the tenant-farmers, 7.75 percent took this simpler course.

Sam Walter Foss, the Boston poet very popular 23 years ago has a string of verses about a farmer who, struggling against crop failures and hard times, followed the plan of calling in the mortgagee and simply giving him the farm. The farmer went to town and started making soap. In a few years he came back a millionaire and bought up the old farm at an increased price out of mere sentiment. One-Fifth Lost Their Properties The total of owners losing their farms thru both bankruptcy and yielding up the property is i ll percent while the total for the tenants is 14.53 percent. The total of 33.64 percent shows thai more tlmn one-fifth of the farmers in these 15 states lost their properties.

However, there is another class; that of farmers who, thru the leniency of their creditors, were permitted to retain their farms, The total of owner-farmers permitted to do to amounted to 14.40 percent and of the tenants to 20.54 percent, or a total of 34.94 percent for both. Thus, more farmers of both classes who were faced with inability to meet their obligations were permitted to have another try at it than those who were dispossessed or gave up the effort. While the war brought great pros perity to the farming industry the bankruptcies have been greater since than they were before the conflict. Some observers attribute this to the fact that, after many lean years, the farmers used their high profits to indulge in luxuries that their re sources had not earlier permitted them to buy. They overbought.

Some, thinking the war would last for two or three years longer, bought large additional acreages for which they gave mortgages. Nearly all bought automobiles and the latest farm machinery, put in house conveniences, etc. This buying was done very largely on the Instalment plan The aamo phenomenon has been ob served in the wake of other wars. The result was that the eollapse of prices, following the post-armistice period, found many obligated for land and for goods. During the ten-year period from 1904 to 1913 the average number of 0.14 for every 1,000 farms During the three-year period ending with this had jumped to 1 1.22 per thousand farms.

Better Off Than Merchants I However, the farmer has been bet I ter off than the merchant. The com parative figure for what are classi fied as business failures Is ten In every 1,000. It the progressive Increase In the number of farm bankruptcies may be taken as an Index to the advan tage of farming as a business, the decision must go all against the agri cultural Industry, and this despite the fact that there has been a con stantly increasing migration of farm ers to the city and persistent Invention of successful labor-saving devices for the farm. In 1905 there were, only 0.1J farm bankruptcies In every thousand farms. Ten years later thla had grown to 0.20 In every thousand and in 1925 was 1.23.

There is a variation in recent years In the locality of large Increases In farm bankruptcies. The greatest in- to elect the majority of the public olnciais who are cnargea wun con- ducting that business, and if poasi ble to elect a majority of the members of congress, so as to be able to pass necessary legislation. The two-party system lays certain responsibilities upon party members, In any organisation the will of the majority must determine policies un less there be chaos. The system of primary elections was Instituted so as to give every party member the chance to express an opinion In re gard to policies and candidates. Up to the time of the primary election It Is not only the right, but the duty.

of party member to make known their preferences. But once the ma Jority hns decided the minority must logically abide the decision that has been made; This not merely a political maxim, but it is based on reason and common sense. 1 1 i 1 J-J-J7 cW Mx; interesting not only to Democrats but to the country at large." The COLUMBUS OHIO STATE JOURNAL (Hep.) points out that practical men In the party favor the Smith nomination, "because they wish to have a chance to win the election, and believe, probably with good rea- I son, that the popular governor is the only Democratic possibility who would have the ghost of a chance to carry the pivotal state of New York." The WATERLOO TRIBUNE (Ind. Prog.) and NEW YORK EVENING POST (Ind.) ask: "If not Smith, while the OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES ROCHESTER TIMES- (Ind.) "and WATKRML'ltY REPUBLICAN (hid. Rep.) see no other candidate in lie field of equal strength.

To the SCRANTON TIMES (1km.) he is "beginning to resemble lie inevitable nominee." The BUFFALO EVENING NEWS (Rep.) believes that "it will take some development of startling proportions to dislodge Smith from his position of vantage Of the Western situation, the BEL- LINGHAM HERALD (Ind. Rep.) states that "he has the advantage of being virtually the only Democratic candidate in the race and ho may win the nomination almost by dc- fnili- hot should real onnonent come to the scene, the opposition to Smith', particularly in the South and West, would crystallize." Foreign News Notes DEAD IN THE ARCTIC ICE LONDON. It Ihls only now become known that the loneliest man in the world died on New Year's day, 1927. His name was Hector Pitchforth. lie died on a solitary and unknown spot on the east coast of the ice- encirciea isanm isiunu, aim "us bscih for a London company.

The news of his death was communicated by wireless to the Canadian government by the steamer "Boethik," which was on ail Arctic expedition on this country's behalf. For seven years Pitchforth lived at this place only a few degrees from the North Pole. Ttfs iHMH'hl Uveil ome only hundred miles away and the Mends he had were a few wild Es kimos and some dogs. During the whole summer of 1928 Pitchforth expected a boat which would bring him food and coal, but it never came. He was then forsaken by the natives.

The only thing known about Pitch- forth is that he studied at Oxford, and had acquired a special knowledge of astronomy, geology and topogra- rti i. 1 1 iiienioim ioi uh uiu usi time in nia aiary at unristinas, tas. At that time he was already ill and everything points to the fact that he afterwards ciicu. WOMEN AVIATORS VIENNA. One of the first heroes of the air, Santos Duraont.

declare 20 years ago tiiat aviation was "I'" tnat would ne or great merest Now-a-days there are women aviators all over the world. eyon te The Quecn o( Mesopotamia an intrepid pilot, in china and Japan hundreds of women are being educated to fly, and even Core.i can boast of a national hero-inn of aviation, the beautiful Miss Last year Miss May won the first prize the Kings Cup at the Krltish test flying. Three ladies of the English aristocracy, Elsie Mac-kay, daughter of Lord Inchcape. Lady Diana Cooper, and Lady Kinnoui were the fir.st to receive the flying patent. Today there are more than 200 women being educated for pilots in the aviation schools.

Naturally America does not remain behind in this interesting competition but there seem to bo no exact statistics. In aviators, and about as many In Po land, Estland, Holland, and Germany. The number in Austria and Italy is not exactly known. France can be proud of the fact hat It was in her eountrv that the first woman avia tor, Olga Fradiss, was educated, who received the flying patent at the ag of 22. On the other hand, the name of a woman has been forgotten, who, a hundred years ago gave the firt exhibition of jumping into a parachute.

It was Madame Elisa Gar-ncrin. STOCKHOLM AND THE ARTISTS STOCKHOLM. The Swedish papers are suggesting that a Mont-martre for artists should be founded on the craggy hills of Sodermalm, a district of Stockholm, rising on a big green Island in the lake and commanding a beautiful view over the whole city. It is feared that otherwise the picturesque old houses of Sodermalm are doomed to perish. The Idea is to let such houses In preference to artists, thus creating a colony for the Fine Arts.

TWO-PARTY SYSTEM RESPONSIBILITIES OUTLINED By SARAH SCHULER BUTLER Chairman of the Women's Executive Committee of the New York Republican Club Sarah Schuyler Butler 'is the daughter of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. In 1920, her father sought to bea delegate to the Republican national convention, she wag said to have been in a large measure responsible for the large vote her father poled. She is prominent in New York Republican circles, and is vice president of the women's state committee. Our government Is founded on the two-party system, the party In pow er and the party In'oppofcitlon, each with functions. The func-tons of the party in power are to cany on the businese of government, osMoTimely I COPVBISHT IQZ7, WASHINgTPH, B.C.

congressional committees dealing with such subjects Is for the change means that the matter will receive discussion at least. THE MIAMI NEWS AND METROPOLIS. JIMMY WALKER, HIMSELF Mayor Jimmy Walker of New Y'ork is not a great municipal statesman. He is not a Beth Low or a William J. Gaynor or a John Purroy Mltchcl.

And when Jimmy Walker gets thru being Mayor of New York, he will probably pass the rest of his days being an ex-Mayor of New York. He is not a young man with a future. He is a young man with a vivid pres- I ent. Yet there is something very engaging about Jimmy Walker. He made his early reputation as a writer of songs that concerned themselves with the sustained power of love.

His tuneful query as to whether you would love him In December as you i did In May was repeated to thfi rhythm of gum-chews on the aide-walks and in the subways of New Y'ork. And It Is said that Jimmy could trip the light fantastic, heel and toe, with the most mercurial of the gentry. I Then came his service in the New York Legislature, and his accession I to the mayoralty of New In his more serious work he has not lost his light touch. He has the levity of natural wit, and his oratory has 1 not ceased to be the natural expres- sion of the man. In other words.

Jimmy has remained himself. He may be late to mayoral functions and i he may prefer the bath robe to the robes of office, but he has personal- ity. The great need of public life win; me umii nnuu put euimil ly represents himself more than we do to the man whose personality repre- sents merely his constituency. THE 1 CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR. TAWDRY SONGS Some of the popular aons of the day are so lacking In musical worth and appeal the editor of The National Shoe and Leather Reporter turned aside recently from the troublesome questions in his special field to dis- cuss the drivel of words and disrup-tion of harmony which had become sc great that he voiced the thought that it might be well with the world if song writing should become as hazardous as aviation.

The most noticeable thing in these i discorfls from tin pan alley, as he saw and heard, Is the poverty of imagination, the crudity of the production thruout. Rhymes are poor, songs are rfceap and tawdry things, with no musical attractiveness, a sordid strain appears in many and not a few of the songs are plainly vicious in thought, word and lesson. And this man, whose daily task Is to study the problem of green and dry hides, their quality and quantity, and compile facts relative to shoes for men, women and childrenT wonders if the popularity of some of these songs is an Indication of national degeneracy or merely a foam ing froth, forced to the attention of humanity that a quick return may be made to the wealth of good music available. There will be many to agree with the editor of The Reporter that much of the ao-called popular rhyme and jingle has no valid claim Ml music and should be tossed aside as worthless and demoralizing. THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL.

What used to be known as becoming modesty Is now recognisable as a contemptible inferiority complex. THE WORCESTER TELEGRAM. Only one thing is more annoying then the buning of a mosquito. That is when It quits buzslng. THE SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT.

It's a question for debate whether the god of war is Mars or Cupid. THE SANTA BARBARA NEWS. I i A. The design of a coin can not belriod. Manufacturing plants of the United States arj equipped to develop ap- proximately 4.3 horsepower for each wage earner.

This is shown by data collected by the U. S. Census Bureau cover- I ing the maximum power rating of ail plant in the country having an annual output of at least Faw plants, however, operate at maximum rnt obtained data from each plant show- 'ng the average number of wage learners employed thruout a year pe- The largest power per worker ap- pears to be in where the rc- ports show an average of 11.2 horse- powr. Arizona ranks second with a never used a nom de theater. Q.

Who was the orator at Gettys- burg at the time that Lincoln made hls! 8hort but immortal speech? lJ A. Edward Everett was the orator of the occasion on ths day of the de- dication of Gettysburg National Ce- mctery. Q. How many books are there In the library of congress? N. M.

A. The library of congress according to statistics furnished June 30, 1926, contained 3,420,345 books and pamphlets; 985,390 maps; 1,007,007 pieces of music, and 438,132 prints. Q. When was the Septuaglnt trans lation of the Old Testament made? C. P.

A. There Is some controversy as to the exact origin of the Septuagint. This is a translation of t'-' Old Testament only, including t. a canon, the prophecies, and the writings. It was compiled for the use of Alexandrine (Gretk) Jews who had lost their knowledge of the Hebrew tongue.

According to tradition, based on the letter of Arlstldes, Philo, and Jose-phus (Jewish Historians), the translation was mads by 72 scholars in 72 days by the order of Ptolemy II who reigned at Philadelphus about 285-246 i B. C. Q. Where do most of the cranber- i rles come from? J. E.

C. A. The principal sections produc- Ing cranberries are the Cape Cod i region of Massachusetts, the Pine Barren region of New Jersey, and central and northern Wisconsin, The Industry is carried on In a smaller I way near ths mouth of the Colum- bia River and on the eastern end of Long Island and there are scattered fields in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia, Minnesota, and Michigan. rrenerio.j. M.asKln is employed liy this paper to handle Inquiries of our readons, and you ate Invited to-rall I upon him ns freely and as, often a you plessj.

Ask anything that is a I i i 1 rating of 11.1 horsepower per work er. These two states are, however, far out of line with the country as a whole and also by comparison with other states In which manufacturing is carried on extensively. In New York the ratio is 3.1 horsepower per worker while in Pennsylvania it is 3.4. The New Jersey ratio is 3.3 and that of Massachueatts 3.4. In hi0 the tt0 ls own to be ml in lninois 3 8 horsepower I'cr worker.

The iron and steel industry. wh(rh leads all other industries in power development, is located chiefly in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. matter of fact and the authority will be quoted you. There is no charge for this service. Ask what von want.

sign your name and address, and en- close two cents in etamps for return postage. Address the Asbury Park Press, Information Bureau, Frederlo J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. ABE MARTIN Csji il liliDB.Cs Romance Kn' corn on th' cob won't mix.

Kittin' a feller neuleet his business nn' play golf, it aeems like th' easiest thing is t' git th' pur- tlest girl In town put on a half bathin' suit an' Jit in a contest. changed more than once every 25 years except by special act of congress. Q. Is It lawful to use copper salts in canning vegetables? E. A.

N. A. The use of copper salts for greening vegetables Is against the law. Q. Are both I feel badly" and "I feel bsdly about it" lncorreet? R.

H. A. Both are Incorrect. The adlective "bad" should be used Q. Please tell eomething about the new Buckingham Fountain In Chi cago.

A. L. D. A. Thig fountain In Grant Park was given to the city by Kat Buck- Ingham In memory of her brother.

Built at a cost of about $750,000, It Is said to be the most beautiful and spectacular fountain In this country. Q. Please rive a Hat of flowers that might be found in an old-fash ioned garden. C. W.

A. Some of the old-fashioned flow- ers are: Larkspur, Iris, hollyhock phlox, peony, columbine, spiraea poppy, evening primrose, rocket, lupine, fox glove, anemone, bluebell, pink, mignonette, bleeding; heart, verbena, candy tuft, tirf My, and llly-of-the-valley. Q. What is the meaning of the military term, matross? J. F.

B. A. Matross was a term formerly employed In the British military service In reference to a gunner or gunner's mate, one of the soldiers in a train of artillery who assisted the gunner in loading, firing, and sponging the guns. The trm ie now obsolete. Q.

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Bill? D. V. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was an aet passed by congress In 1854, which provided for the organization of the territorial of Kansas and Nebraska. It Introduced the principle of "squatter sovereignty," or local op tion on tha slavery Question, for the people of the territories, thus abrogating the Missouri compromise of 1820. It disrupted finally the Whig Party, led to the rise of the Republican party, and was an important link in the chain of events leading to the Civil War.

Q. Is Earl Carroll the real name of the actor who lg now in Atlanta? H. A. It Is his real name. He has Views 1.