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'The State Journal Page Three Monday, August 24, 1925 BY. BRJGGS MOVIE OF A MAN UNUSED TO TRAVEL- Ink Alley Bj ROBERT QCILLES Journal A Fact-Flnding Xewspaper iii tc i i anu orjt i- i Tar t- I fl fo-rf. i ik irn' y7v rvil Bill Nye DR. FRANK CRANE A HAT COVERS THE SPOT AND BAIj. LOON" PANTS HIDR THE BOW LEGS, BUT A PAUNCH MUST TAKE LIFE AS IT COMES.

A rasnal stntlT.of Ihe sltnatinn arouses tlie fpar that s-hont all the world is safe for Is the time hems'. In Florida two is company and three a group of boosters. MIDDLE AGE IS THAT PERIOD WHEN VOI' FEEL TWICE AS OLD THE MORMMJ AFTER A PARTY. And so women can drive motor ears as well as men. Boys, file this in the faint-praisa cabinet.

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet their obligations. Diplomatic language Is nice. The powers call it a conference instead of a clinic when they discuss China. IF THE OTHER DRIVER IS A FOOL, TOTJ MAY DODGE HIM BUT IF IT'S TWO OF A KIND, THERE ISN'T MUCH HOPE. Once In a while yon ran nny the utt yon really want.

If the clerk happens not to be a pood salesman. Nobody really lives as long as a rich relative seems to live. THE IIOTETMOON IS STILL GOING STRONG IF SHE WOVT EAT Ay ONIOX IX LESS HE DOES. It is better to stop, look and listen. The car behind won't knock you as far as the loco, motive will.

The easiest way to remember a man's name and face aftfr a lapse of years is to have him owe yon five dollars. When they speak of turning land ai a profit, they don't mean turning ii with a plow. "As You ere 10 TEARS AGO TODAT The weather bureau today warned tobacco grow ers against frost expected tonight. Nearly 1,300 Italians Erarted a movement for a church of their own and chose Father Macesi Ser-vine of Gary as their priest. Mr.

and Mrs. Harvy Dyer have returned from their wedding trip and are living at 1119 Emerald street. A daughter, Bernlce Marion, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. E.

Conohan, 1111 Jenifer street. 20 TEARS AGO TODAT James J. McGillivray announced his candidacy for republican nominee for governor today. The concrete foundation for the sugar beet fac tory in Fair Oaks was begun. Prof, and Mrs.

Parkinson and daughter have gone east. Judge R. G. Siebecker has returned from Yellowstone park and California. 30 TEARS AGO TODAT Chicago markets list wheat at 62'2.

corn 631, oats 20, rye barley 47, higher than they hava ever been before. The Salvation Army was arrested last night and held rousing services in the police station, praying for tho city officials, for the police and especially for Mayor Alford. They were arrested for making improper noises, and for being in the way. Mr. Edwin Sumner offered to furnish bail.

Dead Lake never was so low as It is at present, Supt. R. B. Dudgeon and his son Sidney are away on a visit. The city fathers voted $50 to be used for beautifying the lake ends of our fctreets.

40 TEARS AGO TODAT Robbing and Baltzel, owners of the flour mill at the east end of Fourth Lake informed Westport farmers that they could not let down their dam to make Fourth lake and Third the same level. They have not elevated the dam Bince 184S. A daughter has been born to Mr. and Mrs. William 'Moll, 601 State street.

A party consisting of Col. William F. Vilas, Gen. Ed E. Bryant, and Messrs.

E. M. Fuller, W. H. Fitch, and J.

E. Fisher spent yesterday aboard tha yacht.J'Solid Comfort" on Fourth lake. Question Box Our Washington Information Bureau deals in facts gathering them from every possible source compiling them assorting them and filing them. Then when there is some question, of fact you want answered in a hurry the information is at once available. It it happens that the data needed are not on file in the office an experienced researcher is put on the work with, instructions to find the information desired.

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AUGUST 24, 1925. EDUCATE THE WORLD FOR PEACE Peace, justice, and international cooperation must rest on mutual protection of national rights in an international world federation; arbitration, conference, and limitation of armaments are all means to the end of international law and order and the reign of peace. LINCOLN'S PRESS AGENT IF TRUE, it is more interesting than disconcerting to learn that Abraham Lincoln had a press agent. His having had a publicity man does not. detract from his greatness rather it is further proof that he was years ahead of his time as a statesman, politician and executive.

If the author of the story of Lincoln's press agent uncovered the facts assuming the story is authentic or manufactured it from his imagination with the intent and purpose of lessening his greatness in the public mind, the literary plot failed utterly. Lincoln has always been an open book to the American people. The things he is honored for were not the fruits of a publicity man's efforts and ingenuity. The man's path was too beset with enemies, eagerly waiting the opportunity to deny the good that was said of him. The Civil "War is one of the few great historical events both sides of which are exhaustively recorded.

in history. If neither side is wholly unbiased, the two make possible the drawing of a happy medium. The Great Emancipator can not, however, claim credit for discovering the inherent possibilities of press-a gentry. Samuel Johnson owes half his fame to' Boswell, his biographer. If he lived today Boswell would hold the less dignified title of press agent.

P. T. Barnum was his own press agent. Henry Ford is the publicity colossus of his day, unless there is an undiscovered silent partner in his press bureau, i Press agents can not make the man. Be-j cause the famous have press agents does not make them shams.

The. press agent is to the I public man what advertising is to business. Both must fulfill the claims of their advertise-j ments. The press agent tells the world about the feats of his employer, just as the advertisement tells the world about the quality of the merchant's wares. SOMETHING NEW AT LAST tlFe world has found that "something new, under the sun" so long' considered non-existent.

It is only an opinion, but for originality it is incomparable. This latest creation of this amazing age is nothing more than a public utterance of a London physician: "Imitation plays an important part in the formation of habit and character among infants. If one baby hears another crying or making odd sounds he will do likewise. We had recently in the nursery training school an Indian baby who had so closely imitated the foghorn which he hoard on shipboard coming to England that the hotel proprietors here refused to keep him in their rooms. Another baby was brought to us because he made a noise like the whistle of a locomotive, a habit he had picked up because his parents lived near a railroad station." This more amusing than amazing theory, if carried to its logical conclusion would per- mit the abolition of the crying baby by the simple method of isolation during the formative years.

Unfortunately for the pli3'sician's theory many parents retain a distinct recollection that their first-born, or last-born, as the C8 case may be, proclaimed its arrival in this world with as lusty wails as can be produced by any ten-day old patient in a 'crowded public maternity wrd. GENIUS GENIUS before is unleashed from its human prison is so commonplace as to be unnoticed except to genius. That is why many creators of the immortal in literature and art have died in ignorance of their immortality. Their genius was unseen by their contemporary fellows. Unprized manuscripts and pictures have been sold for huge sums and highly prized when the work of the parent mind has suddenly burst into fame.

At the age of 19 Kipling made unsuccessful efforts to have his work published in American newspapers. The artist must create a demand for his product through direct contact with humanity and his channels are few and limTted. lie is ever, at the mercy of those channels. With the leader in industry, commerce and politics an already existing demand is filled. Genius in these latter lies in the ability to recognize the existing opportunity or demand.

Literary history bristles with instances oE geniuses who, like angels, were entertained unawares. They juietly passed out, and not until long afterward was it discovered who they were and how rich a treasure was neglected when they were underprized. So many rejected stories have become the head of corner in the literary market that it behooves one to treat nascent literary talent with great respect, in view of a possible sunburst of glory in the unpredictable days to be. A PLEASING SHOWING FIGURES gathered by the federal reserve board show that savings deposits in 902 banks of the country totaled $7,977,617,000 on July 1 as compared with $7,4.30,000 on the corresponding date of a year ago. As is indicated these represent savings accounts alone, the greater or less sums, deposited as insurance against a time when such funds may be needed.

They also represent the margin of the smaller incomes over expenditures and the gain of over $300,000,000 in one year is an accurate index of the prosperity of the country. The showing is evidence of the prevalence of thrift throughout the nation. One who earns more than one spends is pursuing the road to some degree of affluence. The money thus deposited in bank not only brings to the possessor a return in interest but it, added to many other small sums, serves to finance the great business enterprises of the nation which in turn give employment lo many and enable these also to have their savings account. Thus the savings bank depositor not only benefits himself by having the security of money in time of need; he also has a share in furthering the commerce of the county-.

Modern business could not be carried on were there not storehouses of capital to finance the transactions. In the southwestern United States are found remains of elaborate irrigation canals, reservoirs, and dams, constructed by the Indiana long before the coming of the white man. jr. jljiiii I V---" i xx Style is like flavor. You can weigh an apple and then if you take its flavor from it you might, weigh it again and the difference would be imperceptible.

The odor of the rose seems to be a small ye this rare and delicate fragrance is transmitted "from generation to generation and is somehow locked up in every seed or slip. We pass this way but once and tho best we can do is to cheer up the lot of our fellow men as we are passing. AVe can make the world smile with us or weep with us. Surely the lot of one who caused gladness and happiness while he was upon the earth is to be envied and the grave of such a one should be properly decorated. Bill Nye is gone, but his successors remain to cheer up the world.

This vale of tears is sart enough what with pessimists and realists. Wa sadly need the assistance those whose gifts lie in the way of the imagination and of talent to relieve the -constant humdrum situation. (Copyright, 1925, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) ize in that respect, just such humbug institutions as the one you name. When milk diet is advisable, any good physician in or outside of any banitarium em ploys it. That this remedial agency is seized upon hv innumerable mail order, short cut, illegitimate healers does not signify that any special knowledge or skill is required to prescribe it, but only that the dear public still likes to be humbugged.

Some Want It Prepared I am going to ask you to send me a list of pre pared foods for a man 48 years old, 6 inches tali, about 165 pounds. (Mrs. C. O. Answer.

Beefsteak, potatoes, bread, beans, etc. Cook 'em if lie declines to take 'em raw. Chiropodist Flllosofizes On my insteps and ankles appear crops of little water blisters and the chiropodist says they are due to an acid in my system and that I should eat no acid fruits. (B. S.

Answer. He might submit It to the Fun Shop or Life, or incorporate it' in a Lecture to the Horse Marines. Advice To Trie Lovelorn By BEATRICE FAIRFAX DOES DIFFERENCE IV AGES PRETEXT HAPPY MARRIAGES I Madge is in love with Jim. They've been tjie best of pals all through their course in the univer sity. Jim has asked Madge to marry him.

Madge would gladly accept Jim's proposal except for one obstacle, which she fears may affect their happiness in later years. This one flaw in Madge's hapnjiiess is her agej she is three years older than Jim. When they were graduated last June, Madge was twenty-four, Jim twenty-one. Jim learns quickly, has an active mind and was one of the youngest in his class. He and Madge are so congenial that Madge didn't realize she was older never thought about it in fact until they happened to compare ages not long ago.

Jim laughs at Madge's worry over what he calls a trifle. But Madge insists that there may be some logical reason back of the fact that a man marries a woman younger than himself. She doesn't know whether it's wise to defy such a general rule. In feudal ages, when much was made ot the idea of the superior strength and wisdom of man and the helplessness and inferiority of woman, a man felt doubly strong and protective if he married a girl much younger than he. Her youth flattered his sense of superior wisdom and power and made it more natural for his wife to turn to her husband as final authority on all subjects.

Today, the relation between man and wife is les that of superior and inferior, protector and helpless dependent than it is one of rank comradeship and equalitx. So there's no reason nowadays why a husband should be the elder if there is not too much difference in ages to admit of congenial companionship. I have known of lastingly happy and successful marriages where the wife was as much as six years the senior of the husband. All depends on how thoroughly congenial your twenty-three and his twenty-one are, how charming his thirty finds your twenty. A generation, however, is too much disparity of ages between a man and the woman he marries.

News in the paper not long ago of the marriage of a woman of forty-five to a youth of sixteen brought much unfavorable comment. Such a union cannot possibly prove lastingly happy. "Crabbed age and youth cannot live together." The constant companionship of marriage calls for similar outlook on life bet'Teen husbnnd and wife. Concluded tomorrow A MOVEMENT is, on in Fletcher, North Carolina, close to Asheville, to dedicate a monument to the name and fame of Bill Nyo. There will he appropriate exercises and a boulder and tablet at his grave in the churchyard will be set up.

Bill Nye was a funmaker. He never contributed anything to his country or his fellow citizens except good humor. As Arnold Bennett said of a certain character in his writing, "He cheered us up a bit." All-he had was his style. He could say things in a way that made people smile. But we are mistaken i we suppose that style is a fleeting gift.

All there is to Shakespeare is his style, and the basis of the reputation ot Homer and Horace rests more than anything else. The monuments of the past have crumbled Into decay. The mausoleums and other proud edifices are gone, but the stories told by Horace, the poetic wanderer along the forum, are today upon the desk of every school boy in the world. Personal Healtl Service By DR. WILLIAM BRADY PRIMERS INHALE IT, TOO Clippings of the btory of the girl who' turned blue from nitrobenzene poisoning, which she suffered because she wore shoes immediately after they been dyed with shoe polish in which nitrobenzene was a solvent, are still coming in from folks who believe all they read in the papers.

According to this now somewhat shopworn newspaper yarn, the victim of the nitrobenzene "asborbed the poison through the unbroken skin of her feet." That is just what I have been reiterating can't happen, und readers who mail me the clipping extend their sympathy and condolence over my utter confusion. The explanation that the poison is absorbed through the skin would be interesting if true, hut like a good many other things one reads in the papers it isn't interesting. The nitrobenzene is very volatile, and if any of it is absorbed, into the system at all it is absorbed through the lungs. The same fact applies to various other kinds of poisoning which are still popularly attributed to absorption through the unbroken skin and still explained ia that way by physicians who do not care much about physiology. I have not yet summoned sufficient conrage to question or deny the accuracy of the experiments ot Prof.

Louis H. Kahlenberg, who reported recently that he had been able to prove that boric acid can be absorbed througli the unbroken skin, but I do assert most positively that up to the time of Professor Kahlenberg's report we had no scientific evidencethat any medicament, poison, food, water or other substance is ever-absorbed through the unbroken skin, and I challenge anybody who entertains the contrary belief to produce such evidence. I-ead poisoning In painters, printers and various other craftsmen has often been attributed to absorption of the lead through the skin, but no good authority now holds such a view. The lead is absorbed either in a volatile state, as in the fumes from molten metal or as dust in the air inhaled or it is directly ingested. Persons employed in any of the scores of trade in which lead or lead compounds, are used should be particularly careful to avoid eating lead unnecessarily, either with their chewing tobacco, gum, candy, lunch or from their unclean fmger3.

Even when the industrial laws or regulations do not offer protection to the workers, it should be the rule never to eat in the shop or work room, and never to eat anywhere without first having carefully, washed the hands. Probably the majority of cases of industrial or occupational lead poisoning are due to the inhalation of volatilized lead from tho fumes given off by molten metal. The most effective prevention of that consists in mechanical ventilation which draws off such fumes and carries the poison out of the shop. Then there are various means of preventing or at least diminishing dust in the air the worker has to breathe, and such precautions prevent lead poisoning of that kind. Painters working in close rooms or poorly ventilated places are not more subject to lead poisoning than outdoor painters are, but they are more subject to poisoning by the inhalation of other volatile poi- sons, such as turpentine, wood alcohol, anilin, benzol, nitrobenzene, amyl acetate and other solvents used in paints, stains and finishes.

The indoor painter is more exposed to lead poisoning when he scrapes or rubs dry painted surfaces, dusty work. 51 Ilk Diet The writer would like you to advise him, if ethics permits, of sanitariums or health resorts that specialize in giving the milk dt treatment, places other than institute. (G. L. Answer.

Only shady quack institutions special-.