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-MECHANICAL MAM CALCULATES, COMMANDS INSTAMTLV AND ACCURATELY Any man Is a stronger man if he has a secret. The jy ling's life is like that of a the strong man has a hidden reserve. th A child possessed of a secret has a sense of Importance, gossip possessed of a morsel not yet made public has a feeling conscious superiority. Every witness, pumped dry by a lawyer, leaves the stana with the feeling that he has become smaller and less important. It is the reserve within you that pives you self-confidence, as the swimmer or racer finds courage in the fact that he hasn yet done his best.

Strength Is generated in privacy. Jesus spent forty days alone in the wilderness before ne began his work. Every other great philosopher of ancient days prepared for his mission in solitude. Pericles, in the golden age of Greece, remained within nis house. He knew, and said, that a great man cheapens himself and loses virtue by appearing much in public Napoleon made no boyish boast of the great things he would do.

He brooded apart, and his genius developed in solitude. He was alone in a crowd. The Wrights retired to the remote sand dunes of North Carolina to perfect their flying machine. Secrecy strengthened them and fed their determination to succeed. The bold and ruthless stroke that gave Panama to America had no prelude of publicity.

It needed unflinching determination, to be developed only in private. Roosevelt had no confidants in that business. The devout Christian amiles serenely, consclo' of strength, as he hums the song, "In the Secret of His Presence." His Saviour is by his side, and the world does not know it. Lock and bolt the door of your soul, and your strength multiplies. Whatever high resolve you make is weakened when you tell the world; if you would make your good resolutions effective, keep them a secret between you and vour God.

(Copyright, 1928) IN THE NAME OF THE LAW. Law should be another name for justice, but in the ease of loan sharks it is too" often a cloak for extracting large sums from borrowers and squeezing from them their last penny. The average premium paid by automobile owners in the hands cf sharks in New York City is $20 on each $50 borrow-ed, according to Assistant U. S. Attorney Blake, Avho is conducting a federal grand jury investigation.

One man lost his $1,100 automobile through seizure when he defaulted on a $9 payment, says Mr. Blake. No doubt the seizure was made in the name of the law. Another man paid legal expenses and repair bills of $550 for his automobile, when he found himself in arrears for a final payment of $2.50 on a loan of $225, according to the investigation. The loan sharks, it is estimated, extort a year in this State.

The sharks wave what they call the law over the heads of their victims. They demand their pound of flesh, as it is written in the bond. The borrowers do not fully understand their rights, and it is such misuse of the law that brings many people to have a disrespect for law. The criticism lies only against the loan sharks. There are many reputaole concerns and individuals who loan money for the purchase of automobiles and other purposes who do not attempt to take undue advantage of a borrower to mulct him of his money.

All who find it necessary or expedient to borrow will do well to learn the character of the lender, patronize only those who are honest and fair and keep out of the clutches of the sharks. WE'VE $ENfSflMe HUMANS LAYfAG CLAIMS TONOPMAU IMTE LLtG ENCE5, WHO CAMT SEEM, TO READ PLAtM EN6HSH IN 'WORDS OF OME SYLLABLE This Day in Elmira March 22, 1918 Ten Years Ago Today MIX School boys between 16' and 21 years old, to be released from school after April 1. for Spring farm and garden work. 400 union workmen engaged on Willys-Overland strike because Federal agents refuse to allow the union's busimss agent on the grounds. Death of John J.

Curtis, a business man in Elmira a half century. Elmira has 1307 men in U. S. Army draft class No. One.

THE BOOTLEGGERS. It is time for the public to sit up and take notice in this bootlegging business. When it comes to the point where deliberate bribery is charged, bootlegging has gone to its limit. It is then time to repress it, punish the offenders and clean up the whole sordid, unlawful mess. There is no more excuse for trying to bribe an officer of the United States Government to-let a carload of beer into town than there would be for a man to pay a government officer for the privilege of committing highway robbery unmolested.

The latter crime is just as felonious as the former and just as inexcusable. There have been too many speak easies, stills and doubtful resorts of late, liaids have brought evidence against them and their proprietors. This evidence will be taken before the grand jury and the courts. Tadlocking is to be undertaken quite generally and the dives are going to be wiped out. Fining offenders does little good, for the bootlegging business, unfortunately, is sufficiently profitable to be able to pay the fines and finds it cheaper than it would be to pay government licenses under the old system.

Shutting up a place of business is a real enforcement weapon. It hits the man who is doing the illegal business and it also hits the man Avho owns the property. Landlords don't like to lose a year's rent, particularly when the rental fee has been good and high because the lease was made with the provision that there uxmld be "no questions asked." Put on the padlocks, probe this alleged bribery business, stop the flow of the high-priced poison that is being peddled as potable drink. The bootleggers have held their high carnival long enough. Class them with the robbers, housebreakers, highwaymen and other lawbreakers of the same ilk and treat them accordingly.

There has been altogether too much tendency to look upon bootlegging as a sort of adventure; too many people think it "smart" to encourage booze-running and illicit manufacture. Lets start dealing with bootlegging as a crime, which it is. Then the dives will disappear, the bootleggers will go to work, at honest labor or on the rock pile, and there will be real respect for law. The bootleggers have enjoyed special privileges long enough. ready to strike.

Now Unc Billy is very smart, vefy smart indeed, in some ways. There is nobody who can get himself into more trouble and then get himself out again than Unc" Billy Possum. Some folks are smart enough to keep out of trouble, but it takes even greater smartness to get out of Honesty and Intelligence Go Together BY HUGH HARTSHORNE Well Known Educator and Author To a Young Student By GLENN FRANK (Copyright, 1928, by the McCIure Newspaper Syndicate) (Dr. Hartshorne has for four years been making a scientific study of character education. In this article he tells some of the findings of his investigation and declares that there is a persistent tendency for honesty and intelligence to accompany each other.) ORIENTAL ROMANCE.

That wedding of the pretty American to the dusky Hindu potentate has seemed very romantic, as the accounts came in from India and were embellished, to suit the American taste, by American news agencies. And indeed there is romance in it, of a sort. But before thousands of silly American girls have their heads turned completely, and start for India as if it were another Hollywood, it may be as well to face a few plain facts. Level-headed, grown-up Americans might be a little more enthusiastic about an American girl transforming herself into "Her Highness Maharanee Devi Sharmista Ilolkar," to an accompaniment of feasts, ancient ceremonies, jewels, elaborate robes, incense and dense throngs, if they were not aware That the "Maharajah of Indofe" is not a mahara jah any more That he was forced by his people two years ago to abdicate because of conduct unworthy of a ruler; That he was accused of ambushing and killing a dancing girl who preferred a merchant to him; That he has three other wives, of whom two consented to his marrying the American girl, Avhile the third, his "junior and went on a hunger strike That there is nothing to prevent" the uxorious ex-rajah from marrying again whenever he likes, no matter what his white "junior wife" may think about it.x If this is glory and romance, girls, go to it trouble after you have once got in. And that's the kind of smartness Unc Billy has.

Some people think him stup'-d. But that just shows how smart he really is he is smart enough to make folks think he Is stupid. Now. almost any of the other little meadow or forest people would have run the minute they heard Farmer Brown's Boy coming. They would have been so frightened that they would have tried to get away, and that would have been the end of them, for Farmer Brown's Boy would have struck with that wicked looking pitchfork.

What did Unc Billy do? He just lay perfectly still and held his breath. He was just as much frightened as any of the other little meadow or forest people would have been, but he was smart enough to know that if he didn't move perhaps Farmer Brown's Boy wouldn't see him up there in that dark corner. But Farmer Brown's Boy did see him. "Ho!" he cried. "So there's the thief who has been stealing the eggs from my henhouse!" And he lifted his pitchfork ready to strike.

But Unc" Billy didn't move, not so much as an eyelish. Instead of striking with the pitchfork Farmer Brown's Boy reached forward and suddenly grabbed Unc" Billy by the back of his neck. Did Unc Billy struggle and kick and try to use his sharp teeth? No, siree! That shows how smart he is. He just hung there as limp as if there wasn't a spark of life in him. Unc' Billy was trying an old trick; he was making believe that he was dead.

Farmer Brown's Boy held him out at arm's length and chuckled. "Ho, ho, ho! Tou can't fool me, Mr. Possum! Tou did it once, but you can't do it again!" he cried. Then he took Unc' Billy by the tail and climbed down from the haymow. And still Unc" Billy showed no sign of life.

He looked just as dead as a dead possum could look. As my son left for college I should like to say this to him about religion. Unless you are a' lifeless mass of blood and bone and the college to which you are going a mere mechanism bereft of spirit, you will leave college a changed man. In the elusive qualities of spirit as well as the of mind, you will be born again. I hope yfti will be reborn for the better.

You may-be reborn for the worse. Just what college will mean for you is unpredictable, and cannot be guaranteed by the college, because education is a partnership in which more depends upon you than upon the college. But of this much you may be sure all that you take with you will, at one time or another, suffer a sort of judgment-day assessment. Tou will find yourself digging about the very foundations of life. You and your guides in the adventure of learning will go exploring in even the most sacrosanct quarters of your world with a sort of impertinence that is inseparable from the passion to know.

In this reassessment of the issues of life, which genuine education implies, religion cannot be exempt. You cannot lock your spirit in quarantine for four years while you educate your mind. Your religion will feel the same impact of inquiry and valuation that your politics and your economics will feel. You will hear it said that many students "lose their religion" in college. I would not, if I were you.

take this too seri ously. Of this no one is In position to speak with much conviction of accuracy. The things of the spirit may elude the ready-mathematics of the statistician, and be wholly missed by that most infernal nuisance of modern times the questionnaire. You may come to the end of your four years in college, having cast aside many things com. monly labelled religious, and still profoundly religious.

You may come to the end of your four years in college having -clung to all of the things commonly labelled religious and still be profoundly irreligious. Religion is inescapably personal. "We cannot make a religion for others," Dean Inge has said, "and we ought not to let others make a religion for us. Our own religion is what life has taught us. If we can clarify this body of experience, which comes to us so turbid and impure, we shall have done what is best worth doing for ourselves, and we shall have to offer others the best that was in to give, however small its value may be." I think you will find the essence of religion Is something you must discover for yourself, not a thing you can learn in a lecture hall by memorizing a definition.

I speak with complete cei-tin-ty of only one thing you will not be able to run away from the personal challenge of relig. ion. You may lock your door against it, but it will fly on unseen wings through the stoutest panel, and perch itself boldlv on your study-table or hide itself la some shy corner of your mind. THE MEXICAN INVASION. It has been stated in debates or speeches in Congress that at the very time when unemployment was at its highest stage during the past few months, something over 1,000 Mexican peons have been pouring into the United States every week, and that they generally come witn tun Knowledge or.

wnep mey arc going to work and what they are to be paid for their labor. But another statement is also made, and that is that.the work on ranches, fruit, nut and flip Southwest: on accompanied -by anti-social behavior, and in most cases there was no relation at all between the two. The Socratlc dictum than knowledge is virtue seems contradicted here, but it must be recognized that there Is a genuine difference between being aware of adult standards or Ideal standards and ways of acting and accepting these standards and ways as one's own or even as the best. A child may know it is his duty to report another child seen cheating, and yet not himself feel it to be his duty. In other words, there is a difference between a knowledge of standards and a code.

We have some evidence for believing that codes and behavior are far more closely related. A class, for example, that is high on the average in moral knowledge will also be high in conduct even though its members show little or no evidence of comprehending the ethical significance of their account. This lack of relation between intellectual grasp on the Implications of conduct itself does not justify the conclusion that methods of character education which are primarily intellectual are all useless. These children may not have been subjected to any systematic training in morals. To check on this we selected for comparison groups which attended Sunday Schools or Jewish religious schools and those which did not.

While differences were found among the schools, the religiously trained showed no consistent superiority over the rest and In some cases there was no apparent relation between length and regularity of attendance and certain types of dishonest behavior in day school. This is not conclusive, however, as the Sunday-school children were not superior in moral knowledge scores, either. However regrettable this may be it is not surprising, as neither honesty nor tne details of ethical behavior are Specifically taught in most religious scoohls. The use of intellect in character education implies training in the foresight or prediction of consequences as they make for or against the maintenance and growth of a social order which is primarily interested in people: and the effort to discover the processes and methods or behaviors which will make such a social order possible. When children are invited by adults to cooperate with them in these indispensable uses of mind we shall have genuine education In character.

(Copyright. 1928.) Tn the course of some studies in behavior which have recently been carried on by the Character Education Inquiry at Teachers' College, Dr. May and I have had occasion to measure certain conduct tendencies of several thousand school children. Of these tendencies, deception was one. We have developed a large number of objective tests and techniques an dhave recorded the iesult3 of their application quantitative scores representing the extent to -which children -will take advantage of various opportunities to cheat, lie and steal when these are presented.

In connection with these studies we also secured sundry measures of intelligence. We found a persistent tendency for honesty and intelligence to go together. The explanation of this fact is not as simple as its mere statement. Many factors may be present such as the greater dependence, of the less intelligent on more indirect ways of securing their ends, the greater suggestibility of the less intelligent, the greater mltural opportunities and higher standards of the more intelligent, and so on, but even with these factors all eliminated, there remains a positive association between intelligence and honesty. It should not be inferred from this that persons handicapped in the matter of intelligence are not capable of high character, or that one can pi-edict a man's character from a knowledge of his mental composition.

On the contrary, many children of low mentality cheated on none of uor tests, and some of relatively high mentality cheated on none of our Just how Intelligence functions in character is not apparent from this fact of positve correlation between intelligence and honesty, but it is a natural theory that one medium, at least, might be the better comprehension of standards and ideals by the more intelligent. We measured the extent to which children have grasped well recognized ethical principles, their comprehension of their duty, their knowledge of cause and effect in the field of conduct, their, command of an appropriate- vocabulary and the like, and stated the result in a score representative of general level of ethical insight. This score we correlated with deception, and found that the association between the two was very slight. Those who stood highest in moral judgment and information did not invariably stand highest in conduct. Far from it.

In many cases, indeed, knowledge of right and wrong was Next Story Unc' Billy Possum Comes to Life. proclamation. Since that time sucli. a week has been observed each year." OF GREATER IMPORTANCE. The confidence shown by Lindbergh when he said in his short speech on receiving the Woodrow Wrilson Foundation award that he hoped before many months to see airline routes established between this country and the Gulf and Caribbean states, was heartening.

Lindbergh said that he believed the establishment of such routes were possible and easy, and he mentioned the fact that here were important trade centers, nearer New York than is San Francisco, and as yet unprovided with adequate transit facilities between this country and their own. Now this is of greater importance than any effort to make dangerous and as yet practically impossible sustained flights between European and American continents. Develop first of all short link routes where landing places are possible and where the flights need not be more than a few hundred miles. This is the greatest service that can be done in aviation. Their successful operation Q.

Are Tintoretto's large pictures Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST in good condition? A. A. I A. Nearly all of the artist's large paintings have blackened.

Ask Questions Will Be Answered In This Column. Fate Q. Why is India ink so-called? R. A. India ink is called by that name because it was originally a black pigment composed of a mixture of lamp black or burnt cork with gelatin and water, scented with Borneo camphor and musk, made in India.

China, and Japan. It was sold in sticks. will result in extension, and with use and grain areas in the Middle West; in the sugar beet cultivation of Colorado, Michigan and other states in railroad shops and repair gangs all through the West and Southwest, would not be done were it not for the peons who have been flocking north over the Rio Grande at an increasing rate during the past several years. These Mexican invaders like the United States. And they are moving here in such numbers that attention is being directed toward possible restrictive measures.

They know nothing whatever about "hours" of labor, for they have been accustomed to commence with light in the morning and cease only when too dark to continue. They follow the simple life will live in almost any sort of a shack or hut, provided with scarcely any furniture their clothing is negligible they subsist upon the very coarsest and cheapest food they have upon them few or no demands for social or religious life education is a thing unheard of; they can give the American Indian all sorts of examples in the art of getting along on nothing at all. The peons come because they have learned tfiat they can find work, and they very quickly become pleased with the better form of government. They get away from industrial slavery to their owners or creditors in Mexico. They like to settle in communities or in quarters of towns and cities where they may do about as they please and live in abundance.

They know that they are not likely to be conscripted into a bandit army, robbed of their poor possessions, and that they may have money of their own if they are willing to work for it. Their vices are many, and they leave none of them south of the border. As yet, how-, ever, they have not developed 'politicians pr agitators and radicals who "insist that they know best how to run the country, and who are attempting to engraft upon us the very things from which they fled. Now, what are we to do about this Mexican invasion? Xo numerical limitation is placed upon immigrants from independent states on the American continent, and at present we constant operation machines will be improved and a generation of skilled and reliable aviators will be evolved. Chasing speed records, greatest height, the topmost number of loops, or hops oVer thousands of miles of sea are not important in making the airplane a great commercial asset.

One lived east and one lived west. With fifteen miles between And each one rose at dawn an4 dressed Himself in linen clean. And each one kissed his wife goodbye As husbands often do. But that they soon would meet and die. These two men never knew.

Some call it fate or destiny That westward one must drive. And one drive eastward so that 'he Shall on the dot arrive. The scene for tragedy is set. Unknown to them the place Where by them both shall death be met. But straight for it they race.

Now had one paused along the way. Or had one turned aside. It is a simple thing to say That neither one had died. The ansti-crs to Questions printed here each day are specimens picked from the mass of inquiries handled by our great information bureau maintained in Washington, D. C.

This valuable service is for the free use of the Public. Ask any question of fact you may tvant to know and you zi'ill get an immediate reply. IVritc plainly, enclose two cents in stamps for return postage, and address The EhniraStar-Gasette Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, WASHINGTON, D. C.

Q. When teas the Mississippi River Commission' formed? W. C. T. A.

Congress in 1879 created the Mississippi, River Commission. It sits at St Louis. It is made up of army engineers and civilians. Q. Where is the American Legion convention to be held this Summer? M.

S. A. It will be held at San Antonio, from Oct. 8 to 12. Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W.

BURGESS (Copyright, 1928) Q. Does a woman sit to the right or left of her dinner partner? W.R. A. She sits at his right Q. To -what church did John and Charles Wesley belong before founding the Methodist Church? M.

A. A. Both were formerly members of the Church of England, which is similar to the Episcopal Church in the United States. Q. What is fcterita? G.

G. A. It is a variety of non-saccliarine sorghum native to the Sudan. It was introduced' into the United States by the Department of Agriculture in 1906. Q.

Why was Providence. R. so named? L. R. W.

A. It was the first settlement and mother town of the state. It was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, who "in gratitude to his Supreme Deliverer" called the town. Providence. Q.

What is meant by a hard spot in the stock market? L. M. A. Strength in a portion of the market as a result of considerable buying, is called a hard spot. Q.

When did Hilton write his ode. With the psycho-analysts explaining away crimes and tender-hearted juries turning the criminals loose, the detective is no longer the hero he used to be. could not prevent the coming here of all the millions of Mexican peons. Shall we shut them out and protect ourselves from a danger Which very many see in a continuance of the open door policy; or shall we make no restriction and see the present resident peons increase to 10, 15 or 20, millions, as they surely will if no bar is raised to cheek this astonishing racial movement? Of course, if Unc' Billy hadn't been up In the haymow of Farmer Brown's barn, where he had no business to be, it wouldn't have happened, because the dust from the hay wouldn't have got up his nose when Farmer Brown's Boy threw the hay down to the horses, as he does every morning. If my, my, my, what a great big little word that "If Is! If Unc' Billy hadn't sneezed just when he did there wouldn't be any story tonight.

But TJnc Billy was there, and Unc Billy did sneeze and a lot of things happened. They began to happen right away. Farmer Brown's Boy heard that sneeze. He knew right away that some one who had no business there was hiding in the hy, and he began to look, holding his pitchfork all Two strangers driving through the Unc' Billy Possum Tries an Old Trick Nothing much but quits too much, Just a little smother sneeze; As Unc Billy Possum knew, Just a little faint "kerchoo! That little sneeze was Just like a lot of little deeds, good and bad; it was not much in itself, but oh, my, my, what a lot came from it! err i. At the appointed spot At the appointed Instant meet! Did fate plan this or not (Copyright.

192S. Edgar Christ'S NHv- A. This txwm was berun Christmas. 1629. 011 Q.

When was Forestry Week started? N. C. A. In 1920. the idea of devoting a week annually to an educational campaign in the interest of forests originated in the Pacific Nbrthwest.

At first this week was called Forest Protection Week. In 1921, President Harding brought the Federal Government behind the idea and issued a It is to be hoped that the Summer will not be a succession of instances where persons fly out to sea and disappear..