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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1922 THE DAYTON EVENING HERALD pACTTTrarr-roua MEASURING MINDS Th tro meaiur cf an individual mind I to be found in its ultimate achievement nd not by means of mental and educational measuring tests. Thousands, of school and college graduates, whose standing is high, according to both the old pedagogical and the new psychological teats, fail to fulfill in activ life the apparent promise of eminence noted by their examiners and indicated by their class work. On th contrary, other thousand virtues. Like everything else, attendance may be overdone, but doubtless the great majority enjoy them dis-creetly, to the gain, rather than loss of their intellectual processes. A COMPLICATED QUESTION The traffic problem of the United States is getting to be one of the major economic Issues.

Street and electric railways have expended many more billions for right of way, locomotives, ears end equipment And now come the bus owners, whose numbers are legion, with their expenditures for automotive equipment and their demands for a square deal Naturally these interests ere confusing and conflicting. How to deal with them adeanatelv. fairly and with no spe- perts assert that airplanes soon will mak 1000 miles an hour. Sounds probable. "But is this frantic rush rHy making life mor happy? What a all so afraid of that are hurrying to get past it? It's a mad rush, by 'bundles of with destination.

"In th long run, is it any mor important than if all rabbits learned how to leap twice as far and tak two leaps where only on was leaped before? If any of th lower animals suddenly speeded up and began rushing about, as humans have in the last two decades, scientist would cry, 'Wv of insanitysocial "Not satisfied, they're carting us away in auto-hearsea. Soon they'll learn they can get us' buried quicker by airplane. "It's the pace that kills'." ACCOMMODATING A LADY When I was young my parent said r-. peatedly to me: "Th male unto, th femal se must always courteous be." My father dwelt on this at large, talked it day and night: "Unto the ladies gentlemen would always polite." So when she asked of me to play, although my bridge is shady, I undertook to play th gam just oblige, the lady. It seems they had to hav th fourth, but three of them thr were And so I took the vacant chair obliging them and her.

A pleading look was in her eye, so graciously smiled She seemed to be as tender and as winsome as a child; And though of bridge I little know without much hesitating Her partner I agreed to be to be accommodating. "A half a cent a sajd she, for cash tho lady played! But since she shared the risk with why should I be afraid? She seemed as gentle as a child I've used that phrs'q before, But when I tnwpod her king of heart you should have heard her roar; And hnt and rage and ugly looks th gracious lady fed me When I threw out a diamond card and not th spade she led m. I did not ask to join the game, I had a book to read, I merely heard a lady's plea and played the friend in need. Yet, oh, the bitter things sh said, and hateful things she did. The time she bid two dubs and then I left her with her bid? Perhaps my dear old dad was right but bridge whist never played he, -It cost me seventy dollar to aeeomO modate a lady! EDGAR A.

GUEST. (Copyright, 1923 by Edgar A. Guest) OLD AGE A TRAGEDY? "With' me, it is a tragedy to grow old." a little woman was heard to say. But it should not be a tragedy to grow old if your life has been well-spent If on has been honest, honorable and frugal enough to prepar for th physical needs of old age ther should be no tragedy about th addinf of, years to one's lif span. The person who realizes that or she has been cruel, telflsht and dis.

honest, will find tragedy in old age. The soul-stained person must xpr-lone terrible mental agonies when realizes that he must meet hi Maker face td face and explain. If more person would think th day of reckoning -which i hound to come either here or in th hereafter, and if one reaches old age and helpless, ness with a guilty conscience it means hell on earth, ther would less deviltry than there is today. A well spent life, an unselfish, honor-bright life, goes on to th end with sweetness of resignation and confidence in a glorious future, with no regrets, a wonderful dividend fof right living, and fairness tor felloWmen. TODAY'S BRIEF INTERVIEWS DR.

EUGENE LYMAN FISKE, medical director of the Life Extension Institute "It has long been evident that the life span of man is not deter-mined by a mathematical span of time but by a multiplicity of factors en-vironment infection, injuries, stains and faulty habits of Jiving. These nr mostly conditions that can' be met by-science. The proof of this is in what has already been attained. Eighteen years have bn added during the las century to the expectancy of life at birth through coftfng down th death rate of Infsnts under five years of age. If can cut dovoi the death rate A persons forty-five years old and ovv)f, then we may able to- add twenty years to lif0 and extend the period of health and activity:" ERNEST K.

COULTER, Originator-of the "Big Bwlher" have made a study of not only Juvenile but parental delinquency, and I hav found that money hunger, besetting many grown-up persons, starts their children on a life of crime. Many lit-tie ones are brought to court hy parents who comnlain f.W. V. have stolen from them. These Barents.

nine times out of ten, are absolutely responsible for the theft For they hav deprived the child of every little health-ful pleasure he might have, and hav so ground down his intelligence and mind that he does not know right from wrong. I think there Bhould be a law requiring the parent to allow the boy or girl who earns money a certain reasonable percentage of it for pleasure." LEON BAKST, Russian is the sane and healthy in art upon which I always wish to lay stress. I would rather lean to the side of healthy grossness than to the unhealthy and effete signs of degeneracy both as to color and ideas. It is curious how quickly a new phase of art lik the new art of, the theater, is born. I be-lieve that the theater is for the eye, not for the ear.

In the confusion of the two, enc suffers. The strain and distraction are too much and the i and the ark npletely. Ev i for the I of either is enjoyed incom 'as the book literature i hours at home, tpaech belongs el VI It. uw wnere than ta the theater, which should be a feast of beauty for eye and for the eve alone tho MUSSOLINI'S GOOD SENSE "The new leader of Jtaly starts th reconstruction of the government ma-chin in a promising way. Those who expected Mussolini to name a cabinet entirely Fascist have been disappointed.

Th head of the peaceful revolution showed his tact by choosing ministers from four parties and putting at the head of war and marine two distinguished men, General Dias and Admiral Di Revel, who are not associated with any particular party," says th New York Herald. "The makeup of the cabinet is obviously an appeal to all parties except the Socialist Mussolini hopes that the parliament will support his government because it includes Nationalists, Catholics and Democrats as well as Fascisti. If Parliament does not sup-port him he will be in a position to go to the country in a general election with the cry that Italy, in her hour of distress, must have a coalition government Political co-operation is even more necessary in Italy than in Great Britain, where Lloyd George is making his appeal for a return to eoalition. "There is a mixture of wisdom and boldness in Mussolini's order to his followers to return to their homes. Evidently he is perfectly confident that their physical aid is no longer needed.

The king and the army are with him. Sending back the men who won the way to Rom with him will quiet th capital and bear out the declaration of the Fascisti that they are apostles of order. "Mussolini has loaded himself with work. He is to he not only premier but minister of internal affairs and minister of foreign affairs. His course in the latter post is what the outside world has been wondering about Zeal for Italy is requisite in the rebuilding of the country.

Too much teal directed outward might cause the fall of the ambitious young chieftain of the Black Shirts. "If Mussolini shows the same moderation and wisdom in all foreign af fairs that he exhibits in his talk about i the United States and Italian emigra tion will get along. He suggests, in most friendly phrases that our poli cy toward Italian immigrants might be improved; that our quota of Italian admissions, 42,000 a year, might well be enlarged; that we could make our choice of Italy's migrants and let in pnly picked men, but more of them than are' alio wed.1 to enter now. "Such a. course, says the new premier, 'might prove a benefit to both Italy has more agricultural laborers than she can use and feed.

These are the very men that are needed in the United States on the farms and in the hard, rough work of building digging cellars and sewers; doing, in short, the hard manual labor which men of American birth will not do and for which these deep chested, iron armed Italians are particularly qualified. "The tightness of our immigration laws is such that in this region unskilled laborers of the class to which Mussolini refers are able to ask seventy-five cents an hour. Wages like this will not be reduced until th supply passes the demand, With the housing 91 me country years behind, With th increasing call for better roads, With the constant march of the American farm boy Uo the cities, the United States needs common labor. That is why suggestion should be heeded in Washington." THE CRAZE FOR SPEED An army, airplane the other day flew at the terrific speed, of over 220 miles an hour. Lieutenant R.

L. Maughan Was the pilot "This was faster than any human being ever had traveled. A great fus is being made about it, in scientific circles. Admittedly, it was an 'accomplishment But, after all, are people being made any happier Or the world a better place to live in, by American ability to travel at such dizzy speed?" asks the Taunton Gazette. "Until the automobile was invented, Bfople took life as it came calmly, happily, without any feverish rush.

"The auto, ushered in a Craze fof speed. "Everything followed the auto's lead and speeded up. Fast living, of two kinds, arrived. Efficiency experts began, adjusting the processes of life to gasoline-engine pace. The shipping clerk, was shown how to drive more nails per minute, the hod-carrier how to et more bricks on his hod.

"People began to gulp their meals, where eating had once been a delight-iul ceremony, enjoyable, lingering on each morsel of luscious food. Slow, dragging sentimental ballads gave way to Swift-moving jazz music. Dancing became faster. Life all around was geared to higher speed. And, with th process, came a nervous tension, result of noise and rush.

"The speed mania, of course, has been less noticeable on farms and in small towns than in the big cities. But they, too, are catching tho fever. Mr. Farmer wants his news by radio, can't wait until the rural postman flashes by in his overheated flivver. "Even the once plodding fisherman, who formerly purred with contentment as he rowed to his favorite bass pool, now squirms like a lad witbT St Vitus dance, until he gets a motor to hustle up his boat, also fast-multiplying reels.

"Show people how to move faster, how to shave off a second or two, and name your own price. "The auto couldn't keep up with the public appetite for speed, so the airplane is being developed. Som ex fession. His pictures did not sell readily and for a livelihood he became an Interior decorator. His new occupation carried him from city to city, but wherever he went, his letters went forward faithfully to his aged mother.

Eventually Krejci was taken as a thief and search of his rooms revealed property which was claimed by church-es of different denomination. He was sentenced to the penitentiary. Incarcerated he began again to paint He produced a few paintings and found a ready market for them. It begins to look as if, as a prisoner, he may find himself, AU the while the proceeds of his work, over and above necessary amounts he must retain to keep himself supplied with materials, go on to the old mother in Prague, who never has known that her son is behind prison walls, His art has won Krejci new friends and may vin him freedom long before he has completed his term. His fidelity, his love and his shielding of his mother, from the truth are making a new man of him, now that his art again is appreciated.

Moralists will argue whether he is right or wrong in concealing the shameful truth from her. But is it not something almost everybody does try to conceal fault and laad others to believe none exist? Krejci has found this anything but a land of opportunity. The fault rested within But dauberor artist, honest man or thief, the, great lova of his mother eventually will redeem him, for through it ho has learned or will learn that America is only the land of opportunity for those who will be industrious, thrifty and honest Eventually almost all who practice the oppo-sites of these will be found out and perhaps made to suffer. ENGLAND'S PARTIES Almost since the founding of the republic, America has, flourished under the two-party of government-There have been others in the field from time to time, but in the main there always have been two major par ties to appeal to the voters, and on or the other has been entrusted with the national affairs. In England there are three strong parties and unless all signs fall, it will be impossible for any of the number to win in the coming election.

This either will mean another election soon or the creation of'another compromise coalition such as that which Lloyd George ruled for more than six years. English government traditions have been developed on the majority rule in, Parliament, ra titer -'than the bloc systennwhich ptefaitj'in most other countries of Is' likely to force politicians and voters to reform parties and programs tintil Some party gets a majority, it is believed. With this accomplishment, the minority parties may find a common ground on which they can get together to form a second major party. Political experts say such a as this offers wide opportunity to Lloyd George if he cares td take it The war premier has been in turn radical, liberal and conservative. He also has a wide personal following irrespective of party lines.

With the bulk of the voters divided into three grdups, a personal following is doubly important By swinging to the strongest, and taking along his personal following, the little Welshman might be able to form a dominant party. He has covered lots of political ground in the successive stages of his career and nothing In his record would make this action inconsistent experts One thing is Sure. The politicians of England have made Lloyd George mighty angry. If there is a chance in the world to reverse the verdict which forced him out, he will see and take it He may be out of politics officially, but he is not down. In showing his political enemies a few hew tricks of the he may incidentally act to make its government a two-party affair, taking on the lines Which Americans have found so efficient and satisfying during practically all the years of its existence.

When a woman throws herself at a man she usually But she comes right back with an automatic and doesn't. Seven women fainted when the verdict in a Philadelphia case was announced. The jury must have found the fair defendant guilty. "Well bo back in 1923" says the head of the anti-charter folks. How far back? The "pig-farm" woman of New Brunswick is not bringing home the bacon very fast Things are getting back to normal in Europe.

The Allies have served another ultimatum on the Caste in India is something like "class" in America, only people do not have to stay classified. tmz Everybody is a strong man when it comes to bearing the troubles of the other fellow. One uses 44 muscles when he talks. The case is plain. Say something.

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OW at econd-clm matter. "TELEPHONES-ALL DKPABTMKSTS B.iiprtate branch HonPmate branch axohange il 't FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 1322 i CHANCES IN ITALY Great economic changei are expected to follow the politic! upheaval in Italy which has jrreated control of "national affairi from the Socialist I and given it to the who aw diametrically opposed to them. Among these doubtless will be the transfer of 'government railroads, telegraphs, telephones, tobacco factories and other state monopolies, even the parcel post 3and letter mail service from public to "private ownership. 'i Under the paternalism Italy has had 1 since Socialism controlled, the average inhabitant of the nation paid nearly one-fifth of his Income either in direct taxes, or in indirect charges laid on him to meet deficits caused by the unprofitable government monopolies. the fiscal year of 1021, there was shortage of more than nine and a Jhalf billions of lire, or expressed in American money at normal rates of exchange, not far from two billions of dollars.

Mussolini means to rid the government of some of its heavily losing railroads, telephones and other state utilities and business undertakings to stop these losses. He estimates that if the government will get out of business, something like three billion of lire a year can be saved. Further he believes the service given can be improved under private ownership. With all its cost, the Italian railway service is notoriously one of the worst in Europe and has been for travelers say. The same thing is more or less true of the telegraph and telephone systems and virtually every bit of work and service of all state monopolies.

Heavy taxation, inordinate bureaucracy and protected inefficiency have paralyzed every ultility on which they have laid hand. The.new premier proposes to deal with this class with an Iron hand. He says. "All the bureaucratic parasites that have arisen from the state of socialism inaugurated by Cabinets subservient, to subversives who wished td trans-" form the entire eountry into a mass of servants in order to use them as a powerful electoral machine, will be swept out" The useless ones, the drones will be the first to go. And they will be followed bf others Until the last bit of red tape is sundered, it has his way.

Mussolini is a strong man and is taking strong measures. Italy needs both. It remains to be seen if he is the man and his measures are the ones nation needs to bring it back to normalcy. In any event he is off to an unmistakable start. KNOCKING THE MOVIES The movies have suffered many a -blow in recent years, but it has remained for President Hibben of Princeton to deliver the "most unkindest cut I of all." He says they constitute an anaesthetic Here is the way he views the movie theater: "It is a wholly passive form of amusement, an anaesthetic to the intellect It is the habitual attendance at the moving picture halls, night after night, week after week, throughout the year.

It Is certainly a waste of time, fa sapping of your mental energies, and turning them wholly aside from the source of intellectual pleasures which have a 'lasting and satisfying value." Perhaps he is right in his appraise ment of those who go night after night, but how many of this class are there in America? And are they more numerous than those who play pool night after night, solitaire night after i night, read novels night after night, and do the countless other things as diversion and enjoyment, to the ex -elusion of most other things! All these things are anaesthetics, when carried to extremes, because they do not give the mind a chance for health 1'ful exercise in other fields. People be come mentally hidebound when they are tied to a single interest, and limit the mind to a single work. The picture houses are used by the great majority of people as a means of escape from the tasks and serious thoughts of life from time to time. They are great shock absorbers in helping the individual over the rough places of life as they are encountered here and there on a somewhat strenu i journey. They help to forget, for the time being, some of the disagree' able duties of the moment, and by con tering the mind for a while upon the troubles of others, make the individual more tolerant, generoas and sympa thetic The movie have a big place in America1! feationa) life in the spread-ig knowledge and understanding eaccaragemtut cf the human who failed, or were relatively weak, at the tests have turned out to be leaders and persons of distinction and of uncommon mental activity and power up- on enterinir into real life.

This applies I even in many cases to scholars in the old classic sense, and in still morejiuTii-erous cases to scientific and profes- slonal workers and leaders; while with many college graduating classes it is the rule rather than the exception among those who achieve distinction in commerce, industry; nd all kinds of enterprise. Neither the test examinations nor the probing of "trained psychologists" reach and reveal the solid foundation that is often concealed beneath an undeveloped mentality, Theje are truisms, known to every observant person, and they offer the proper basis, or starting-point for the reform of educational methods. They are facts of observation, not fanciful destructions from theories of the wildfire variety, whose chief quality is the property of rapidly spreading and kindling. If we believed the interpretation put upon the wholesale psychological tests mad at the beginning of our entrance Into th great war, we should have to confess that so far as mentality is concerned, we are a nation of twelve-year-old children, or worse. The fatal defect in such a system is that the tests are too inflexible, too unnatural, and Utterly Inadequate in number, variety and adaptability, to plumb the depths of mentality.

They fail in that respect even more notably than did Gall's phrenological system, In which he sought to corral all the intellectual and moral factulties of a man with-jn artificial fences of definition. Because a man is not a Newton or a Laplace or a Zerah Colburn or an Edison or a Standard Dictionary, it does not follow that he is an intellectual weakling, nor is he to be ranked as still a child in force of intelligence because he Cannot answer questions familiar to others who have studied them, or is not acquainted with scientific ways of looking at nd thinking about things. Ignorance is not idiocy. Charlemagne could not write, and probably could not reia, though others in hid time could dV both; but he could govern the world vUh an administrative ability such as tew mei have displayed In any age. But it will be objected that the new measures of mental power are not confined to questions about things that can be learned and remembered, but that they are specially aimed at just th things on which am insisting, the underlying powers and qualities of the mind.

To a certain extent this is no doubt true, as far as intention is concerned, but close examination will show that the testa finally do resolve themselves into a mere examination of acquired faculties and habits of mental action. They may partially reveal the stage that the evolution of the mind has already attained, but they give no information about the capacity for further, or other, evolutions that lies behind. One great fault, it seems to me, with all attempts made tht-ough the schools to measure, or estimate, the intellectual powers of youth, lies in the fact that too much stress is put upon early I would even'ay, premature development It is another notorious fact, in addition to those with which we began, that youthful prodigies commonly turn out failures in middle life, and often earlier. The strongest minds are those that develop with relative slowness. Leaving out of account the few great geniuses who have astonished the world by their achievements when they wer just passing from youth into manhood, I think it is unquestionable that the world's most useful men and Women, and most successful, have been those who ripened rather slowl, so slowly in many cases that the tests of the schools would have passed over their heads because their real stature had not yet been attained.

Young men often feel despite 'their rejection by pedagogues and psychological experts, that there is a slum bering power in them. Let them bank on that feeling; it is apt to be sound. Garrett P. Serviss. WORDS OF WISE MEN Oh, brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother, Where pity dwells, the peace of God is tajere.

Fair criticism is like a fanning mill that separates the chaff from tho wheat. Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men. Use your memory. You will sensibly exrerieace a gradual improvement while you take care not to overload it.

I This is true philanthropy that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital In the human heart. elal privilege and no extraordinary handicap, has become a big problem. According to the Illinois Central magazine, the different states of the union spent in 1921, the sum of on good roads. Only 15 per cent of this sum, $122,000,000, was con- tributed by motor vehicles of all sorts in the form of license fees. The rest came out of the general taxes, special assessment on property owners and appropriations from the government The writer of the, article giving these figures argues that the railroads pay general taxes and since the highways built out of those taxes are used by auto trucking companies, which compete di rectly for freight and passenger busi ness, the railroads are taxed, to provide a right of way for their i Nor, is it is that the only inequitable item in the account.

As re gards trucking activities, he points out that the general taxpaying public and the users of passenger cars have as serious a complaint as the railroads can produce. Road after road in the neighborhood of large cities, built by the entire community at great expense and fit to stand up under light traffic for a lifetime, has been pounded to pieces in a year or. two by heavy Here, he maintains; is a pub-lid work worn out by a special inter-est which makes no adequate Contribution to construction or upkeep. There is a great deal to be said on all sides of the question. Good roads help everybody.

Everybody has property rights, entitled to protection. The roads must be constructed and maintained, the railroads and railways must be permitted to protect their invest ment by operating at a profit, and the bus owners, in common with everybody else, have a right to use the public roads. Probably the only solution of the problem is stronger roads, higher li cense fees for trucks with sharp lim itations of the weight they ar allowed to carry, and necessary restrictions on unfair competition, WOOD FOR BOXES There is a fortune waiting' for mars who can invent something to take the place of wood for the country boxes. It is calculated that about 15 per cent of all the lumber produced in the United States is consumed in the manufacture of wooden boxes. This is an item of large enough volume to make it quite a problem as to the sources from which box lumber shall be obtained in these days of decreasing lumber production.

Basswood, popular and Cottonwood were largely used for box making a few years ago, but when the supply rarl short, the manufacturers turned to gum.1 Now the cabinet and furniture makers are complaining that ted gum is too valuable a wood to be used for this purpose and their bid ding for it is. so high that box- maker is being crowded out of the market The tendency is for box manufacturers to be driven to lower and lower grades of lumber. Notwithstanding the introduction of various Substitutes for wooden boxes and containers, the demand for them keeps up and for many purposes no suitable substitutes are in sight Florida alone requires about 15,000,000 boxes for the annual crop of citrus fruit and California requires about the same number. Oregon, Washington and dther fruit producing states of the west and Northwest also are making heavy demands on the industry. It is said that more than two-thirds of the low grade product of the North Carolina pine region is ordinarily used for box making purposes.

Nearly 50 per cent of "loblolly" or pine is used for this purpose, with another 35 per cent of the short leaf pine and about eight per cent of the long leaf pine, along with a smaller percentage of the other soft woods' of that region. Most of the other pine box lumber used in the East tomes from the second growth of white pine and other species in the New England territory. But with all of this, production barely manages to keep ahead of demand. There is a suggestion in this for the inventor. Perfect or adapt containers in which Wood is not used, and big tributes from the riches of commerce will be yours for the asking.

THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY The Missouri State penitentiary, among its hundreds of involuntary contains one man noted for three things his facility in, appropriating the property of others, his art and his love for his mother. He is Vaclav Krejci, native of Prague, artist, traveler and convict He is under eight years sentence as an habitual criminal. Krejci studied art in his home city and then toured Europe, continuing his studies. He finally came to the United States and took up painting as a pro THE INDURATE KIEFER "To him, who in the lov of orchards holds communion with their various manifestations, there must com a time when his thoughts rest on Pyrus communis the pear," says th Indianapo-lis' News. will dwell with enthusiastic approval en th Bartlett, and deliver himself of a scathing denunciation of th Kiefer.

He may not know, this tra-ducer of the Kiefer, that it, like th Bartlett, is a member of th rose family and that ther hav been pears sine th remotest antiquity. On branch of th rose family may have developed into an American Beauty or a Crimson Rambler, and another branch may have remained true to th fare- ily's earliest traditions and ideals. Certain it is that Kiefer pears have changed little since the prehistoric men of western Asia used them as ammunition to slay wild animals for food or to settle tribal differences. "The troubl with th critic of th Kiefer is the system by which it is judged. Think of it in th spring a a rose bush, crown tall.

When the winds have swayed it, the sun warmed it and the rain watered there comes a period when it bursts into radiant bloom. Throughout th Orchard there may be the faint fragrance of the blos soming apples and the cherries that vi with each other in their effort to decorative, let nowhere ia thr a more beautiful picture than a Kiefer in bloom. A rose bloom and little red seed pods form a'tcr the netal fallen. No one eat thes seed pod or condemns th rose because it is not both flower and fruit Why condemn the Kiefer when, after its flower have withered, it brings forth a seed pod that is a pear? "In autumn, when the maples, elms, poplar and other tree hav yielded their foliage to passing winds and early frosts, not even' th stately oak with its marvelous coloring outdoes the leaves of th Kiefer. Eventually they fall, but not until th Kiefer has given the naturalist a thriH such as he obtains from no other product of nature' studio.

Thus the Kiefer Justifie its existence. There Must be some us for the fruit Speaking of it commercially ther is a standing wholesale pric of $1.25 a bushel. Somebody must buy Kiefer pears and use for other purposes than offense. There l. a f.

dition that" Kiefer pears, put away in straw and then forgotten, win be mel-low and juicy about the time the new year comes. Perhaps the experiment is worth trying, but regardless of the fruit the Kiefer has its niche In the floral hall of fame, Its blooms and it gorgeous foliage are enough to win it approval." ON THE SUBJECT OF EATING "Advocates of dieting for the reduction of weight the recovery of beauty, nd the cure of ailments are now confronted with an eloquent dissenter. He says it is a bad habit this dieting, and he is no less a personage than the "medical expert" of the London says the Chicago Journal. "That 'expert' poses a aft authority on food and its Uses. He declares the habit of dieting, particularly by middle-aged men, to be dangerous.

He would hav th appetite regulate the diet, and he holds that what we Want to eat is good for us and what we do not want to eat will never do us any good. "The London physician shies a few domicks at all the dietitians. He denies that diet is a matter Of proteids and carbohydrates, of even a matter of vitamines. It he says, merely a matter of nourishment and he adds that the body is wonderfully Intelligent, uhmistakably expressing Its wants. "The Londoner will have no difficulty starting an argument, but he would seem to be eager for it With most people in the world today th question is not What to eat but how to get enough of it to keep soul and body together." THIS DAY IN HISTORY NOVEMBER 10 1777 British attack on Fort Miffin, began.

4800-Joseph H. Roosevelt was torn, Lawyer and philanthropist Founder of Roosevelt Hospital New York. 1813 Charles Deane, author and authority on early American history, was born. 1871 Winston Churchill, author, born. A popular writer of historical fiction.

DAILY THOUGHT "And many strokes, thought with little axe, Hew down and fell the bered oak.".