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CHESTER TIMES, CHESTER, PA' SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 193 1 'FATHER KNOWS BEST (fihttf tAlfe tow Thirty Years Ago Whither the Cost of Living (Copyright, 1836, for Cheater TiraeiQ Tlmta ll or 1WW1 Where does the cost of living stand today and where does It go the Spaniih uprising will naturally be unfortunate, whichever 'side wins. When a country', resources must given over to revolution, it has no money for cars, cotton, machinery, or the other goods Spain usually buys in some quantity from the United States. Furthermore, Business Week points out that "effects of Spanish trouble on Franc anil Britain (our best customer, next to Canada) are more important to us than what happens to our own Spanish sales." Spain has been very important purchaser of manufactured Roods from England, loss of this, business will hit Britain hard, have an unfavorable influence on her balance of trade, thus reduce her buying from other countries, including the U. S. Mr.

and. Mrs, Jonathan Grant, a well known couple of this city, celebrated their fifty sixth wedding anniversary at their home, 316 West Third street, a quiet manner. Jonathan Grant moved to this city from CardlngLon in 1852, and has resided here or 54 vears. He mar the answer to the first of these questions (better than the statis LirifliTi) she wishes she knew the answer to the second. The Mine may be said for the politicians.

They know that the general jevci or prices of things the consumer has to buy, Including Lhe rent he pays for his ried Miss Aim Gartsldc, In Philadelphia, the ceremony having been performed by Rev, Mr. Winters. house, is auout ane iuin inijner to lien President day man it was rounded it7 IS'. CAB1X K.LOXG. CU rjlU.tifc Sil''.

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INC. Special Representative. Xt To Prk cuio wclt" Drl" clfvtlind 1500 Euclid Avenu Si Saa rranciiec Mon.dnock Bu.ldlo, Phumrtaait th ggai EVILLi 1 HIT HINGS IM. psu.delphla Representative I Bout rvclflh6tree r.rr at the Poitofflca at CheaUJ under Srr M. 1879 TERMS OF BE ffPT t6.W rf' cenU Cain r.

MM Coplta 1 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1936 Charles Tlhoades, member of the Franklin Fire Company and Roosevelt took office. They know SOCIALISTIC MEDICINE HITTER jso mat it win fje nignei ber. Just, how much higher no sufTerinK with severe can say. but If the advance In L1. in anrt bndv Press dispatches announce that the Public WorV food nrices strikes the pace pre was at Laurel.

vlsltlne friends, Administration has decided to push municipal powi when he fell from an apple tree to plant construction under its $300,000,000 building tnc ground, a distance oi ia luta. He escaped serious injury. The dieted by some experts, the high cost ol Jiving will be a leading Issue of the presidential campaign. Democrats may, deny responsibility and lay lhe rise In the cost of food to the great drought of 190, irogram. It is stated that it can una rice up to i it uroiects costing around iuo.uuu.kuu.

i ne uui family seems to be hoodooed at Laurel, as a number of members in the past couple oi years have fallen as to the Government's right to so spend public out of trees oil a farm at that place. funds and make an outright donation of Go Felton B. Eurlch. of Cleveland. tlngulsh between acts of God and nets of Die party In power.

The Republican National Committee Is already asserting that "tinkering it money to few favored communities), ded by the United States Court and M. A. Tyrens, ct this city, have formed a co partnership for the manufacture of drop forges and similar Iron and steel work. The fall. is difficult to discuss a questi aid tnc nations ioou nuppiy is he main cause of mounting; prices nd that the drought has merely rendered more acute the effects of firm lias leased the first floor of of this kind nvolved with nevertheless ANOTHER ROOSEVELT PROMISE Berrv build n.

on Crosby street. nKrlcii Rural policies." above Eighth, and Is preparing to from the standpoint of the principli out being accused of political bias, the principle involved in such a pro; of IJVliiK hlnce When It took, over the reins of David NulLle. the merchant on point at issue and of infinitely grc government In March, 1933, the West Third street, near Howell to the citizens of the United States than the street, has just completed making public official holding the temporary po' and assess taxes for such expenditures. present aaministranon announced thai two of Us fundamental objectives were the raising of prices of the farmers' products and the raising of the wages ot chy labor. These were the main nurnoses not onlv of a lady's injal.d workbox.

The cabinet Is very pretty and contains nlerees ot wood, it Is 15 inches Senator Carter Glass, one of the outstanding long, eight Inches high and eight of the nation, in a recent speech at the the Agricultural Adjustment Act Tatrick Henry celebration in Ashland, Virgi mencs wiae. Mr. in nine na.s presented It to Harry Thompson, proprietor of Thompson's Hotel, Third and Howell streets, nry Act (later declared unconstitutional) but also of the adminis Randolph Macon college, made a clear statement The Presidential campaign is rapidly becoming more intense and the candidates and their managers ind principal speakers Kradually pre warming up to the issues. But there must be some humor intcr into the campaign or else the American voters at large would tire. The humor came this week with the solemn pronouncement by Secretary Morgenthau that "wc have reached the conclusion that no new taxes and no increases in present tax rates are necessary." President Roosevelt and his cohorts must be genuinely alarmed by Governor Landon's progress when such a statement is permitted.

Who will believe it? What is Roosevelt's record for promises and ultimate consummation? He approved the Democratic platform of 1932 hhich stated, "We advocate the immediate and drastic reduction of government expenditures by abolish that every citiien and taxpayer tan understand, tration's monetary nollclcs. It was he said of Government spending; was not proper to take money of tit payers oi widely believed at that time that a sharp rise in the genera! price level was the only way out of the Virginia and appropriate it to pay oil mortgages lhat had been made by thriftless and unwise individuals. and John Wetherill, of the First ward, then a member of the board of education, secured quantities of fine honeysuckle, which were planted to hide the old fence to the west of the Larkln lawn, It grew vigorously and covered up the unsightly 'That is just what we are doing in this country today. The Government's nose is in ah sorts ot busi level In )C years In April, 1933. when ihe country was Just emerging from the banking panic.

Since that time prices of farm products have risen rapidly; wages have risen, more slowly, following their Initial Jump tl neighborhood went on the lawn and If Patrick Henry were living," said the veteran snent some time catinc the leaves. der NRA: and the cost of llvlne lng useless commissions and offices, consolidating dc senator, "he would not cure one evi! with a multitude of other evils." and bureaus and eliminating "exlrav gancc to accomplish a saving of not less than 25 per I has shown a genera! upward trend, which has been accelerated during recent weeks. The measure of the rise in the cost of living since April, 1933, is given In the folowiiiK table, complied from statistics or the National Industrial Conference Board. Rise of the cost of living, 1933 36. leaving the ugly boards in view.

It was about to be aTrested by Janitor Marlor and taken to City Hall when Lhe owner found It and tied It up. A number of young people took a launch ride on the Delaware on Monday even ins in John Read's naphtha launch, "Emma cent, in the cost of Federal government." From March 4, 1933, to March 31, 1036, the Roosevelt Administration created more than 50 additional bu Just why millions and millions of dollars of public funds taken from all the people of the nntioi should be dumped into power development for a fev favored localities which already have private powei development, is hard to understand. While thu re WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? By FREDERIC J. HAStlN Director of the Chester Times'. Information Bureau at Washington, B.C.

reaus, commissions, committees, boards, agen'cii government corporations. The cost of running the marks of Senator Glass did not refer specifically to (Average costs In 1923 100.) Apr. June Lunc June June Inc. 1D33 1933 1034 1035 1930 1033 36 Henrv FrysSnccr. editor of the CDvernment reached the staggering total of $8, 70S.OOD in 1936, compared with $4,091,597,000 in 1931 power, they discussed the principle involved which auch a public program is carried out.

Sooner or later the people and taxjiaye: Delaware County Democrat, of this city, Iibs been appointed a member of the committee on reception to be G1.9 G6.2 74.5 a 1.2. 89.0 43.0 occupation. Indeed, no one seemed to want th country until Leopold conceived his idea. Then arose one of the strangest states ever erected In world history. In 1876, Leopold called an international conference on the subject of the Congo He formed, at this conference, the International Association of NEW WEALTH FROM DARKEST AFRICA WASHINGTON, D.

Fresh atlention Is being attracted to the Belgian Congo, the Heart of Dark ih heoausi the vTtst productive potenti that mvstcrious resiion. and it may be that this part In his inaugural address, President Roosevelt ''Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our national house in order and Housing C4.Q 63.4 C4.0 C9.9 77,6 21.2 Clothing tendered William Jennings Bryan, possible presidential nominee for the Democracy in 1900, awaken to the fact that this issue involves the ques tion of whether they wish to change the United States form of government to a socialistic form government. All political pnrtics are involved be 61.6 77. 73.3 20.79 the Congo and induced several nations to recognize the income balance outgo." The total defii for 1934, 1935 and '1936 is 3,530,000,000. i The Felton Fire Company and the Fuel and light 83.7 S4.5 .1 Hanlcy Hose Company, which aisled While there was In fact an association, it soon be hp anrmrpnt t.hnh It was whnlW dominated bV "I propose to you, my friends, that government cause members of both parties have been flirting inc ueroic ncnis maae dv uic of the world in future will furnish a substantial por I tion ot essentitt produ which have been coming 1 from elsewhere.

TliLs would mean the failure of markets now enjoyed by others and, because of that, Industrlaiusls and traders are finding new interest in Lhe country ot Livingstone and Stanley and King Leopold II of the Belgians. vital intprpsts whir.h Amerinans have in the he made solvent, and that the example be set by the Leopold and almost imperceptibly it fell Into his 92.7 4.6 many companies to extinguish the e.or iifif i ted IJalti All Items i 1 i i with the socialistic idea. If the majority of the people wnnt socialism and want to do away with private enterprise, they will ultimately so express their wish. But when they 82.7 Rfi.o 2ft invitations hi ntle nrt the jubilee to be claimed by one man as, in eflect, his personal property. There were certain undertakings made.

He agreed to abolish slavery and stamp out cannibalism, but grave abuses were reported, especially in forcing labor to produce, rubber, take Ivory, and otherwise i Latest month for Which these fig cclebi avion, to It held in the Mqivj arc available. mental City on September 12 and Belgian Congo relate to cotton and to tin and copper, ILhoug i i rials are produced there must be noted bv our manufacturers nnd traders. vole for such a change in government, they should Food prices today are nearly 45 "nit i. Lf? ere the only nreVganb vole on it knowing what they are going to They should not, permit such a change to be thrust upon For most of its existence, the United totates nas naa ni vxluction In the world. Iden 1 re in Bali Roosevelt took of vhen President bring out great weaitn irom ine jungie.

.5 King Leopold published a will about the turn of the century which revealed that he intended to be queath his Belgian Congo to Belgium, perhaps th strangest bequest ever made. Fancy a will writteri morn during uic great lire and they lce ann expenditures lor food ren President of the United Slates," President Roosevelt said in his acceptance: speech at Chicago. The increase in the gross debt of the United States rose $12,842,000,000 under Roosevelt, an average annual increase of These and hundreds of other examples of Roosevelt's promises and his ignoring of them are suf ficieht to 'make tha "no further taxes" basis for nolh Ing more than a laugh. He cannot be relied upon; he takes refuge in the well worn "exigencies of the times" to cover up his mistakes. When the taxpayers of the country realize the 'tremendous bill they are footing for a socialistic experiment, they will study well their vote next November.

rcsent nbout, one third of the nw entina: the flames from sorendin? them under any one of the numerous camouflages that are used to hide the real intent of putting government into business to the destruction of the private line of endeavor with which government com earner's total budget. These prices It used to supply more cotton than all the rest Of the world combined; How its share has dwindled to less than half Hnd. according to some forecasters, will eontataue to dwindle. China, India, Russia, and the Africlan countries of Egypt and Tanganyika have In creased their cotter, production. Latterly, Brazil has oeenyied an increasingly important place.

The last to the outskirts of the Maryland metropolis. re sun udoih Jo per cent, below the rices of 1929, but the wage earner world's largest continent! He did and the will has held When he died in 1908 the Congo became Belgian territory and was officially annexed. T.r. oettcr ab to nav i i nHrnc rs c.r petes. It means just the same to IJepu a Democrat to see his business wipeii la Reait takes about one fifth of the on hi in wit funds which he helps furnish, under a governmental average worker's Income.

The gen mington, on Monday night. Thosi cnii Jevci of rents today is also nbout who made the trip were the Misses ANSWERS' TO QUESTIONS I Commander J. K. L. Rom still Interested In horse racing? W.

H. 'A, He is now racing no horses of his own, but i a steward of the Knutsfbrd Park track In Jamaica. country to marte a oia is me oeigmii mib, imports now are to the effect, that that jungle land can bo an important rival. Small crops of cotton have been raised in the Belgian Congo for many years but they were too in a nine ant to find a plnce in world statistics. That Hrm i5 si'nmi" in loan, the country exoortcd per cent, lower than In 1929, but Alice Morris.

Frances Shaffer. policy of competing withtho business from which he has made a livelihood. The elTcct of such a dose of socialistic medicine will be no sweeter Cor the I 1 i i i Such spending as the government is maintaining cannot go on forever. Neither can a President go on for another term, whose promises aro made with his tongue In his sheet, while the citizens of the country turn their other cheek for a resounding slap. their low for the depression.

Cloth and Elsie Diehl. nt, rcgnrdles3 of who holds the spoon. 30,000 metric tons of cottonseed and 10,000 metric eirht honr day for mi eaemt, nrjoui one eighth or the wage earner's expenditures. Pres had increased to 77,000 metric tons, and raw cotton TRANS AKCTI A 1 II LI ent clothing prices are about 25 per cent, below 1039, but 20 per cent. SPAIN'S REVOLUTION' ibove April, 1933.

One thing bothered Russian Airmen Sigisr shnwhip a sienilieant trend. 1C0 yard dash, which will take place regarded Nor did these products so solely to the Levanevsky and Victor Levchenko as they took off Dlace in several proprietor country. i.ney ruuuii in inc near uiture at ine toeaooarn baseball park, Third street and Highland avenue. York, Psnnsylvania, "Utah, Washington, and the District of Columbia. Q.

How does the number of cars per person jn the United States compare with lhe number Europe? K. F. A. In thus country there is one car for every 4.8 persons, while in Europe there Is one motor venlcift for every 76.4 persons. The Great Drouplit and the Cost of Food In Id sum mer food prices at1 usually at their lowest, for the year inmnvinnt.

ma i cfc unhand Switzerland, and Ger from Los Angeles on the first leg of their tram Arctic flight to Moscow. They feared the weathi many Dougnr, Heigian tongo cuu anu suuk ui iu tins year they are at lhe highest 1 came 10 America, joemium ami ms ftr otitin rcniitremenbi for. her im dsil i toil i ot rta it ile ii r'i mm the 1 niti States but she used to drav: much more. The fact that the The ordinary pattern of a revolution is simple and well established: Comparatively radical or liberal elements within a country rise against a conservative or monarchist government. The French and American revolutions aro examples of this.

The current Spanish revolution violates the accepted rules. The party in power in Spain "The Government" consists of so called liberals and radicals, whose beliefs range all the way from a mild inmi socialism to communism. The rebels are the The Eighth Ward Snapper Club went on Its annual excursion this morning Lo Woodland Beach on the Steamer Thomas Clyde, The cam miltec which arranged the affair comprises Thomas Nesscnthalcr, president; Brinton Smith, secretary; exile from may have been the cause of the Q. Is Emil Ludwig, the biofTapher clgian 1 ongo last year suppnea 3 per tent, ui nei ants Is rcsarded as something of a portent. If, ise in Uic cost of living during the ariler period, the most obvious lause of this summer's rUd it fh.

wouldn be bad enough. Ass'iKncd by lhe Soviet to chart the course of proposed Moscow American nirmail and passsngi line, these two flyers were wholly sincere win they told reporters, "We're out tci find lhe wor weather the Arctic can produce." They wanted, they explained, lo lp5L the wor conditions of the route for the "future guidanci ot aviation. so short a time. Corisio cotton could supplant Ameri can cotton In the Belgian market, there is a strong ciiair.cHnn Ihnh trrPnllv illc.ipnspd DrOdllction Will Crad great drought of 1936. Of the se Augur, Ko treasurer; Jam.

French, Bert French. Webster riousness of the drought, and the uaiiV oust vne American couoi: num uii rtiiu iium Morris and David Worrilow. reactionaries the Spanish equivalents Tories nnd and Mrs. Calvin Smcdlev. of other markets.

It is probably because the Belgian Congo was so rich in other products that there was so much delay In the production of cotton on an important scale. monarchists. Thu; it i lhe seriousness or its elleels upon future prices of fosd, there can no longer be any doubt. The Department of Agriculture reported on August 10 that this year's crop of corn would be the in 50 vcars; that the wheat crop would be less than Is It true lhat George Bernard Shaw, doe no drink, smoke, or et meat? R. A.

He abstains from all three and in addition drinks no tea or coffee. Q. What Is the object of the Dodj Foundation? A. Its 'purpose is to promote the well being of. mankind throughout the world, using as a means to mj nhnrii0mo pvni i tpI bious.

mlslsonarv. Atlantic tor a week or The revolution is still in full swing, and both tides are claiming great victories, both say they a of success. Normally, such civil war would "iii one. wnne wiaiayan plantation nbber has already supplanted wild rubber in world nevertheless Congo rubber has been a source per cent, ot normal; that fully fourth of the ition's pastures KEYED TO THE NATION of enormous wealth. i r.di and public 'educational activities, agencies, and in portnnce than the retail prices of foods.

Rents seem scheduled for a slow rise. The prices of clothing and other manufactured goods will also show an imward trend a trend 0j not be of any great interest to America and Europe. But the chaotic European and Asiatic situations being what they are, the Spanish revolt is of tremendous international, as well as national, significance. Yet the climate of the Belgian uongo and its sou In many parts are. conducive to successful cotton cul hlghor price: to: 111 higher ture.

Also, latj li 1 neaper uian 11, 15 any media telv. Today, roughly speaking, all Europe is divided Turn i' ot a.l r. 1 il it the Congo Ri civcswck (o primary markcus have Increased durins? Au which may be rapidly accelerated at a later date through widespread strikes, These strikes will have been generated in part by the rise In the cost of livinc, and thev. In turn. gust, atul are lively to come in flood into two camps fascists and anti fascists.

Gi Is fascist. So is Italy. So is Austria. Fr Q. What is the chief occupation ot the Hotlen A.

The Smithsonian Institution says that the life of the Hottentot tribes in South Africa. Is cenr tered on the raising of cattle. The wealth of the members of these tribes Is estimated In terms or cattle and their existence is directly connected with their herds. itself furnishes a cheap method of water transnorta tlDn. But that is not wholly relied upon.

With the remarkable development which has come to the region since the World War, railways have been built and liovernor Alf Landon gave nnother instance of his ability to think clearly ami in terms of the entire nation during his radio talk on drought relief, lie pointed out vividly the fact that the destruction dairy herds is just as much a ealamitv to business communities as it is to the fauns; and that business men nnd civic orgniuzation i must join in the labor of aiding the drought stricken farmer. matter cT xplr.nrntni.. prices ot food grain will make 'their own contribution unti fascist. The Spanish rebels, if they succeed, further rise in nriccs. Orear.l7.ed find themselves unable to maintain will establish a fascist Spai labor seems disnoscd.

hnwrvrr. to river services have been improvca. ine ueigian Conqo is coming alive. The tin resources of the Belgian Congo are assum iiien nereis, uifitrcss purchases or cat I lie and hogs by the government will fallowing the German Italian pattern, will n.c. delay Its principal until Rttcr uic cjcclioii in oracr not, to cmDar rass President Roosevelt.

The ad an increasingly important position. At present, vorld tin carte! is maintaining a production control dch keens outmit far below even present exploited through power of might, at the expense of all civil liberties. And if they fail, it will still be evident that a subFtantial minority in Spain is opposed to 'ion fhe first sUte SUD The radio talk wns terse and to the point. Tt. gave c.i me suppty oi meats available tor consumption.

And even though these purchases all rq to families on relief, as they did in 1034, rflccL will be to lessen meat buving from rei ail stores, and thus to ric prooi uiai in Aft Landon the Tailed States will have ministration can take some conuort also from the fact that, except In grains and dairy products, the largest advances in. food prices arc likely capacity, ino one Knows just wnat. uic tin ore reserves are, but it is certain they arc extensive. ported school for the blind, and many states quickly followed. Q.

Of what extraction I the family name of a resident who can think harieadv and ie gieaUv on prooiems conironting the Nation and who will te to express his solutions in understandable Copper, too, is present great abundance, 'me price of copper Is very low all over the world, as the excess stocks which had been accumulated in the last decade have not yet been used up. Nevertheless copper is moving from the Congo. Already Congo copper Is replacing American copper in some language. the election. Twice before during the present century the high cost ot living has been a leading issue in a presidential camoaicm in 1912 when LiUcr in the year and earlv next year the supply of livestock "available for slaughter will have been seriously depleted and the outlook is for considerably higher meat Republican tariff policies were held responsible by the Democrats, and Glenn Frank Editor i a I TRESSUKE GROUPS AMI UNIVERSITIES I prices in from six to eight months Alter the 1934 drought, retail meat prices first went down, then up, and John Kollcv K.

u. A. Danish. It first appears in history A. D.

600 when Rolfe Krake was King of Denmark. Q. What statement ws made by President Theodore Roosevelt when he received news of his son Quentin's death at the front? I. H. A.

On receipt of the news Mr. Roosevelt said: Quentin's mother and I are very glad that he to the front and had a chance to render some service to his country and to show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him. Q. How is it possible to control pecan rosette? otaoiy tne uerman. ine united States will be glad to get cheap tin from the Congo, but does not relish the idea of Congo copper competing with our own great supplies.

The story of the Belgian Congo Is one of great fascination, it Is curiously new. To be. sure. Trader ill liberal tendencies, favors a militaristic dictator thip. (The present Spanish government lenves much to be desired, in the light of American "and British Itlttaa of freedom, but, by comparison with Germany Italy, it stands solidly for civil liberties.) To continue, France is the last important main itr.y of Democracy in Europe.

Even now, she is bor on two sides by fascist states, which hate her ir.d are hated by her in turn Germany and Italy. If Spnin goes fascist and, as would doubtless follow, laljrs into an accord with Germany nnd Italy, France Frould almost entirely surrounded by inimical, fascist powers, all longing to tear the Tricolor from Us mast. In that case, nothing but a miracle could It is strongly rumored that both Italy and Ger lion was held responsible by the RcDiibllcans. In these vcars both 1 roiitlnued to advance or to stav inch In 1936. At the present, time.

1 have written often in this column of the Increns the and the promised mE surrender oi government 10 pressure groups. liny surplus ol cattle and Horn nnd others like him hunted and traded in tne Congo vcars ago, but it was a primitive trade. For one thing, the extent of the Congo River and the rtnnco Bn.sin is so vast that knowledge was slow in This 1 vigorous steps 10 bring prices aown SI they were returned to power. 1 pi.are is ioaa Dcir.g r.l protect ih.erv.srl rea aeainst OiortaurR ctcd a universities. later, and this may temper the na Our fathers dlsrovrrrrl the irhrviK nce in prices.

Next tn meats and diarv nrod of the general welfare. view of its past policies, can hardly promise an attack upon the general level of prices as a means of world, only the Amazon overpeertng it. There arc 6000 miles of navigable waters which are parts of the Olir Iattcr dn pn pr are discovering the Ihch 1 a 1 chords as oi croon mate. 1 iu i living, us Reliclonists. now then frlchlcneri by the proc poi a'l bread' PotatotV hav uongo and Its uiuutancs.

ineru one siretcn iuuu a breadth of 10 miles. In great part forest the Belgian Congo has a is likclv to be concentrated mlles acncs miles long. It reaches Siary have been encouraging the Spanish rebels. ess of free Inquiry, seek A. Pecan rosette may be controlled by application of zinc sulphate In any one of three ways: Spraying a solution on the trees In summer; applying line sulphate directly to the soli under the trees or Inserting zinc sulphate into the tree trunks in early Q.

What was Malcolm Campbell's last speed record? P. G. J. a Mai mini Cn mob el I drove his first run uui iaiis 01 'heir several omiuiw ratner upon the trusts and the middleman. And its principal rem Radicals seek to com infinite variety of agricultural products can be produced.

Its mineral resources arc scarcely known. promise ot h'h i The Depa whol. hrlrd Lnr," 111 proDaniy be a 5 Philosophy. production Ill 1 il. Labor conducts Its driv through the measured mile at 3W.311 m.

p. the 10 unionize tnc nation's 20 tier cent, below normal, hut a r.v. politically, tne congo nas a curious story. It is one part of the world which British colonisers seem to have overlooked. An important point about the Belgian Congo is that, unlike so many colonial possessions other nations, it Is not a liability but a huge asset.

teachers, not for collective barKainiutr 1 wages and nsld 1 ile degree oi recovery Is crnmeiH loans to consumers' eo crnmcnt loans to consume: conditions ot service alone, but to dominate the edu still possible In the northern suites. operative. i umioes snouifl not, go mucn aoove their present levels, and there will Latiunni pnnosopny 01 tnc schools. Politicians move heaven and earth lo gain control of state universities and state teachers' a presiaentiai commission 15 now in Europe studviue consumers' co provided them with arms and other supplies. In the Far East, Japan wishes to dominate the Pacific but first, she wishes to dominate Asia.

All shM prevents the fulfillment of that ambition is Rus lia, which is possibly the best armed country in the fc'orld, and which has almost limitless resources of til kinds. The experts are certain that in caso of trouble, Japan and Germany would enter into an ccovd, and the enemies of 1914 would become allies. The whole situation is charged with dynamite (here is no question but that the outlook is much larker even than in the dark days of 1913, before (Sarajevo. One of the best of the foreign observers tcccntly said that Europe has been drifting toward Var for years but that now it is marching. That no exaggeration.

And the "little Spanish match' ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Bf rmsDEKic J. MICH) in k.mu iu ujiiveri, tnc scnoois into agencies or propn operation there and particularly in Sweden, where co operatives ine moutn 01 tne ongo i aisLovcrca uy iicgo Cao, a Portuguese navigator, 10 years before Columbus discovered America, but history and literature remained silent on the subject until the beginning of the 13th Century when explorations began. There was a British expedition In 1816. but it was rspcllcd by fever and the natives. Not again for 60 years did oe nine jusiuicauon ior any material Increase In the price of bread.

Wheat prices have risen sharply, but the cost of the flour in a baker's loaf Is only about one fourth or mutt a thin tuta tart. Two can irmaUoc Bureau aoi ot tact aad stop ak our 1 ganda for their particular political and "economic philosophies. We must keep our schools from te grin of these pressure groups. have licked one trust after another and have brought reductions in prices by taktnsr a nnrt of the mid 1 idea introduced I i the lire of Uir one fifth ot the nrlce naid bv the 3Dl 10 the world Am dleman's profit for themselves. The If we do not, as Robert G.

Sproul of lhe University onsumer probably less than the ost of lhe cellophane wrapping, the report 01 me residents commis of California said the other day. those states which have radical administrations, we shall hnvP idir ai nrHiiiiu iv, arfi 1 vour letter the British attempt exploration. Then Dr. David Livingstone, in attempting to find the headwaters of the Nile, stumbled upon the Congo. Henry M.

Stanley made his famous relief journeyand remained in the Congo for years on behalf of King Leopold II of I the Belgians. While the Portuguese made perfunctory claims by. 1 rffht oc Dtcfo Cto's discovery in there was no sion wut anovrt good material for campaign speeches, and it may, indeed, provide the basis for a new' and really effective lonsr ranec formation Bureau. Predertu universities; in those states which have rcactlonar inc; i in 1 by modern administrations, we shall have reactionary univers'. baking ties; and In no state will we have any university dc Man does not live by bread alone; Do I Office0 tn JOuid explode ihe whole powder kee.

jouiu cxpii program for bringing down the tit commercial etandpoint, the effects of oci'iug uc au ucMSiiiii.cu, uincr items in ine cosi. 01 living We must, I repeet, keep mjr Khools free! 1 taken together are of Erefcter lm uvmg in in.1t unitea asaie. 1 of.