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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR RIDAY APRIL 16 1915 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR BY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY The Indianapolis Sentinel ounded 1822 The Indianapolis Journal ounded 1823 The Indianapolis Star ounded 1903 JOHN SHAER Editor The Indianapolis Star The Chicago Evening Post The Louisville Herald The Terre Haute Star The Rooky Mountain News The Denver Times The Muncie Star those who have undertaken to regulate competi tion and rates by using tlie canal as a club They should see the absurdity to which their course lias carried them They are due to realize that the Panama Canal is primarily a waterway and should be operated as such and on equal terms to all comers An Objectionable Plan The proposition to combine on one large farm STAR BUILDING INDIANAPOLIS PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK STREETS Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffica at Indianapolis Ind Eastern Representative Kelly Smith Company 220 ilth Avenue New York Western Representative John Glass Gas Building Chicago TERMS SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday by mail one year 750 Daily by mail one year 5 00 Sunday by mail one year 250 or group of adjoining farms tlie workhouse poor asylum and asylum for the insane is not meeting with the enthusiastic reception its proponents ex pected A system similar to that is in force in England and lias been adopted by some states in this country but has not proved satisfactory in the United States New Hampshire for example followed the British lead and is at present seek ing to get away from it and others that have tried the plan have abandoned it The advantages claimed by those advocating concentration are more than offset by the ill ef BY CARRIER Daily six days 10 cents Daily and Sunday one week 15 cents Daily one month 45 cents Daily and Sunday one month 65 cents The average net sworn circulation of THE STAR for the month of March was: DAILY 7S33" SUNDAY Persons unable to obtain copies of The Star on trains or In other cities will confer a favor by notifying this office to that effect RIDAY APRIL 10 11)17 The most completely lost of all days is the one on which we have not laughed Chamfort As a mayor Dorm Roberts may be in bad but be is no quitter Count note made a groat hit in London anyway Mr Taft has joined the American Legion but would be make a rough rider? "What Germany rmeds is a couple of allies that do not require so much help 4 rom this tinm on the umpires for strict trality from all A nurmans Terre political coiutnerve rauleis and dread noughts also have been interned America is the place Avherc belligerent warships go when all the other places are closed fects it has been found by the states making the experiment If the poor asylum the asylum for tho inc'jiin onl tl 1 1 A 1 VH' I11UUD 11114 LUC II Illltl mt tVDll I IJ II Drill although each is maintained on a separate tract of ground and under its own management the three soon are associated in the public mind They become one institution or rather an insti tutional unit and all three soon will suggest the stigma of the workhouse when any one in the group is under consideration The workhouse is an institution toa which petty offenders are coirtmitted by the courts It' is a prison and commitment to it implies some degree of delinquency Manifestly it is not fair to the aged poor to have the home the county pro vides for them branded with the odium that at taches to the workhouse It is equally unjust to have the unfortunates sent to the asylum for Insane classed even erroneously in popular esti mation with those ho have committed misde meanors and are being confined in the work house The poor houses in England are known as the workhouses and the same would be true in Marion County under the proposed system It was only fifteen years ago that public sen timent in tills county forced the separation of the poor ami the insane In response to that de mand the hospital for the insane was established at Julietta Now it is being suggested that the county should either at Julietta or some other place that might be selected go back practically to conditions from which the county turned in The asylum at Julietta lias 214 inmates and is an important institution of itself import It is bound to be a tery hard job Io re strain Capt Hobson when lie rnads that Turtle Bay rumor Mr Willard is said to be making $1000 a day No not the president of the Baltimore Ohio road The I TV in Paterson bus tliroaieried to break up the Billy Sunday meetings That: is about its size The truth about the Chicago city election has just leaked out by way of Paris The allies did it because his name 1s Sweitzer Even if there were no strikes In Chicago it would be easy to know spring is here by lite water turned on the cascades at the Monument Those Terre Haute statesmen anxious for a new 1 rial may realize eventually that it does not take any longer to "do" time than it does to kill it Because of Ute lack of dyestuffs white stockings tor men and women threaten io Ij a necessity This will well the cost of living in sooty Indianapolis The ti sli government it is rpportPd will go into 1he brewery business Great Britain is making it vo hard lor Capt Hobson to preserve his neutrality A Boston girl has made a new record of 120 words a minute on the typewriter This certainly is the prize lime all good men to come to the aid of their VonHindenberg is quoted as saying that Kitchener's army is merely uniformed crowd Still he should admit that if it Is put in a trench it has quite a faculty for staying put 4 our women taken In a saloon raid have been sen tenced by a Paterson police judge to attend Billy Sun days meetings Giving Sunday a chance to show what he really can do? After reading the comment of some papers on themeeting of former Presidents Taft and Roosevelt one naturally wonders what kind of a demonstration was expected from a couple of pallbearers at a funeral ant enough to be ad ministered economically with out the necessity for combining with others The poor asylum lias 200 inmates and there are 242 in the workhouse one of the three is so small it can not be maintained to advantage by itself No doubt some saving could be accomplished by tlie proposed grouping but it would not be likely to be material and would not have been advanced as a matter of first consideration Something must be done soon to provide better accommodations at the poor asylum and the workhouse also is old and crowded As a solu tion of the problems at both institutions the plan of getting together on one big tract or on adjoin ing farms has been broached Tf that were to be adopted it would involve abandoning Hie cottage plan proposed for the poor asylum and already inaugurated in the construction of the modern building in which the forty five women at the institution are housed Those who have investigated are of the opinion that something must be done soon to re lieve conditions at the poor asylum The build ing in which the men are cared for lias been con demned by the state board of charities as inade quate There is ample room on the present grounds northwest of the city for the develop ment of the cottage plan to take care of the pauper population as it increases from time to time And many are of the opinion that more cottages or other suitable buildings on the pres ent site and not abandonment of the entire plant and the erection of a new one in connection with other county institutions are what the county needs Even if the economies of operation were likely to be of importance enough to exceed any thing that has been advanced for them by the Miss Anes Repplier tlie (list i iigiflshed Philadelphia author addresses this inquiry to the New York 'Times: Mr Wilson believe that the country bcliovcs that he believes he is Well what does Agnes think? 4 Savs a Hamburg paper: a man who has had to observe this procedure of the United States has struck the table with his And next to butting ones head against the wall th re is almost nothing so effective as striking fust on the table Some Americans May Not Use Canal advocates of consolidation the loss in efficiency iniglit be counted on as an offset Public senti ment is an important factor to be reckoned with in the development of all social institutions con ducted at public expense Public sentiment no doubt would lie against associating the poor and insane with workhouse prisoners It was even opposed to having the insane and poor in one in stitution before the asylum at Julietta was estab lished To combine all three now would be a step backward in the opinion of many who have The limit to which demagogy and corporation baiting have been carried recently in this country is emphasized in the investigation of the Inter state Commerce Commission to determine wheth er the law was violated when the steamships Great Northern and Northern Pacific passed through the Panama Canal Congress in re sponse to clamor from various sources incor porated in the Panama Canal act a provision barring railway owned steamships from the use considered the proposal Japan Reported in Mexico Japan according to the story told by a Los Angeles editor who has returned with a party of business men from a trip along the west coast of Lower California lias established a naval base at Turtle Bay 409 miles south of San Diego He reports that on instructions from Tokio the captain of the cruiser Asama ran his ship aground of the waterway It was feared that in some mysterious way never clearly set forth tlie interests of other ship owners and of the public would be injured or threatened if the railway companies were permitted to make use of the in the mud near tlie entrance to the bay' On the pretext of floating the cruiser the Cali fornians say Japan has sent five 'warships and six colliers and supply ships to Turtle Bay They have taken possession mined the harbor and waterway which they as property owners have been and are being taxed to construct The ships Great Northern and Northern Pa cific were constructed in Philadelphia and were designed for use in coastwise traffic between California and North Coast ports The boats are owned by the Great Northern Pacific Steam landed 4000 marines The cruiser it is said is not damaged and could be hauled out of the mud in a few hours It is probable of course that the Cali fornians have misinterpreted the motives of the Japanese as Tokio asserts when it says the naval base story is absurd The explanation made by ship Company The company is supposed to be financed by those back of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway lines and the boats are said to be intended to carry the traffic of the Japanese no doubt is the real one 'Die seizure of a naval base on Mexican soil would be almost an incredible procedure Japan unques tionably would like a foothold on this continent those roads into San rancisco The ships sailed recently from the Atlantic for their home ports on the Pacific coast Each carried ca pacity lists of tourists and went by way of the Panama Canal They were in reality to be re garded as so much freight and as no part of a traffic system The point was raised that they are railroad owned and the canal authorities were not sure of their right to let the ships puss but let them go on the theory that ownership was in doubt It was not contended that the vessels are to use the canal as a part of their regular route but that they were on the way from the ship yards to their home ports Now an investigation is under way to determine whether the owners should be punished for not sending the ships around Cape Horn and all because of the pro vision in the law against railway owned ships It all comes from the mistaken theory of but is thoroughly familiar with the terms and spirit of the Monroe Doctrine and knows we would not tolerate anything approaching the es tablishing of a naval base in America We made that very clear when Japanese citizens undertook to get control of the shore line of Magdalena Bay by lease from Mexico The landing of marines and the mining of the harbor al Turtle Bay as described by the Americans would lie direct violation of Mexican neutrality Japan is at war and not entitled to refuge for its warships in neutral waters ur thermore Tokio is aware that seizure of a bay on the Mexican coast would be a violation of the Monroe Doctrine of such a flagrant nature that we could not overlook it Our own safety and that of the Panama Canal would demand re sistance on our part Japan knows that occupy ing a Mexican Harbor would be a deliberate bid for trouble with us Views of the People Just daily last grips him so tight act as always to the hav loses a hand get a Patriotic our married The Woman Question To of the young wear a union How battle hut a film light for the A wife on lose Our Sawed Off Sermon to turn on the simply talking is be cause McLaughlin Bicknell Ind in tlie elm i a person ho believes that whatever is is wrung teach their babies to talk and then The Daily Novelette bo Is a member woijy about she said at length right i i I gotrlin slip murmured in a can I guide trip to seo it winter time by All communications must name and address No unsolicited manuscripts willing to serve their country in an is due to loss our chibs or large propor Ideal of mar see the rela a hi ton Rut soon the first of May will come And start folks on the move Still later on in life he finds His hopes have undergone some changes lie hopes not for a lot but still To quite a sum his fancy ranges Some years go by he finds it bard To do just what he had intended Now when he tries to make a lot Does not expect the job soon ended it What The Stars Readers Ard Thinking and Saying Such Is lAfe Sometimes A youth starts out upon trip So sure that he will do this slickly: Make one big mighty bunch of coin And do it oh so very quickly bu mending and it's a delicate job got 1u keep high enough for protec tion and yet low enough to permit a bull moose to jump into the DOMESTICITY When a married so tamed that he always tells his going before she asks him Old age at That hope for much seems mighty funny Now jll lie ants is some small job That brings to him a little money Tlie Next Move That things were quiet during Lent RIGHT AGAIN fen tune teller gazed occultly into the read you will come to a than you did in In plain English he when Wil An insane baggage master hurled himself from a fourth story window recently He probably thought he was a trunk Most men are official capacity surgeon of the Second Regiment of the Indiana Notional Guard Dr Oliver took post graduate courses in Berlin and Vi enna He is professor of surgery In the Indiana Universltj School of Medicine To insure appearance letters to the editor must be brief hereafter carry for publication returned Star Beams What a loan sum life the pawnbroker must lead I know replied his better half I wirn you to understand what ully Qualified GffioA So you want a job ch? What kind lug water on tic brain Retort Courteous said Crowells are His ifty Sixth Birthday This is the tifly sixl li birthday of John II Oliver Indianapolis surgeon He was born in Clermont Ind and after attend ing Butler College entered Wabash Col lege from which he secured the degree of A in 1S79 Eiom JSS7 to 1891 he Of a Different Opinion To the Editor of The Star: If there is no law to stop exports why do we allow England to stop our ex port of cotton? I see it dragged two more ships loaded with cotton into its harbors If you will note over carefully different conclusion Wednesday Star wants to know whv son asked us to pray for peace he didn't ask Congress to give him the power so he could assist in bringing that peace about Greensburg Ind JOHN WTTTMER Some mothers expect them to keep still A Harsh Judgment To the Editor of The Star: Answering yuur statement: is no Jaw under those in authority at Washington could stop the export of munitions not in violation of any treaty I am myself am American citizen arid born in this country so was my father and great grandfather ami I 'do not sympathize with any foreign country now at war but must Ddl you that I am not pleased with the action of the United States government still furnishing mur One hundred and three years ago today Governor Harrison issued a circular un der the heading of Orders for the Mill! which gives a very good idea of the conditions in the territory in 1812 The circular starts out as follows: the late murders upon the frontiers of this and the neighboring territories leave us little hope of being able to avoid a war with the neighboring tribes of Indians the commander in chief directs that the colonels and other commandants of corps shall take immediate measures to put their commands in the best possible state for active then goes on to make the following recommendation commander in chief recommends it to the citizens mi tlie frontier of Knox County from th Wabash eastwardly across the two brunches of the White River those on the northwost of the Wabash and those in the Driftwood settlement in Har rison to erect blocked houses or picketed The other portions of the circular are devoted to instructions regarding oth er means of protection against the hos tile Indians here is the way of it began Pcashell Wiunirk bee I alius carries a considerable sum of money along about me and always worrying that mebhc smim day be robbed Well now I thought if a regular union fortune teller tells rue thall Todail idlana History and Biography His Thirty Sixth Birthday Thirty six years ago today Lawrence Davis Indianapolis attorney was born in Indianapolis After attending Short riduc High School he entered Butler Col lege ami in 1899 received the degree of LL 13 from the Indiana Law School He the firm of rger The Battle "Mid shot and shell Men quickly fell After the fight stood upright oultl they do it pray live through it? it a European movies! His middle age comes quickly on fl is youthful hopes now all have vanished So too his hopes for much more than wages all are banished rnult rrl a tail dark man with red mustache who was standing in the hallsuiy Hud led to the front door A moment later Peashell Winnirk was looking into the muzzle of a cold not tn say glistening Eatiine calibcr while a tall dark man with freckles and a Hille rod wrmt expertly through his pockets heck that woman's a marveled slicll Wiimick said the enthusiastic wife of a unit pointed to the ring less wedding finger lady Applicant Well hardly know Until recently I was assistant instructor in a boxing school but Office Manager (interrupting) Oh 1 can use you all right Come around hi the morning and box our mail order shipments and in the afternoon you can lick destroy another This is for nothing else than to make money cart less of whether millions of human beings are slaughteredr not it shows plainly that the Amer I icau people are more mercenary than merciful Sam St Ivouis Mo Tim government may be but it continues to make more money than any other institution on earth ALLACIOUS A apt description of opinions which are opposite to those held by ourselves The most popular place to request people to go to JAMES The must popular name for a coachman or chauffeur according to novels and plays LAP Once around a race track' What cats do to milk A place for young men to hold young ladles MONKE YS What girls make out of men PRUNES Tim main stay of boarding houses QUEEN Any skirt wliu looks good to a fellow RUM A deinun TEMPER Thp easiest thing in the world to and one of the hardest things to find after its lost The most dismal letter tn the alphabet being most generally used ns a tail to What Every Actor Can Do Be good as a whole and also good in parts 'imthiuilly strike a pose without having it a hoorrmrang Have plenty enemies ton the stage) yet be made up witJi them Use a let of paint daily without belonging union Be sure of seeing plenty of scenery without Ing to Like a long ami expensive i mi a taste of summer in the ing flies arnund him every day The Proper Term queried lie callow man shave up or all dopemls Now for instance shaving you I always shave replied the sorial artist with the accent on tlie dovvh mystic wonderfull Modern Dictionary ADMIRATION What vc feel for ourselves Ui NSTERNAT1ON What we feel when the discovers a long blonde hair on our coal man has become wife where a replied nick thousand in fact is what 1 got on row" said arina in a trnnee hke whisper ware of a tall dark man with freckled face and a little red mustache Good by think it would be rather a shame to charyc you anything' As PcHslmll Winnick withdrew A DELICATE JOB Washington Siar I have just finished reading Arthur Mitins viesw on woman suffrage pub lished in Tuesday's Star Mr Main is right in calling our suffrage movement a political danger iuasmimh as it is a po iHtical move' It is exceedingly dangerous certain planks in the various platforms of the different parties He says country has never wanted for real men to till the requirements of our goven ment Tell me Nir Main are there not several vacancies of such positions in our own Hoosier state today? Never before has our country been so aroused to its need for real men to fill its governmental positions men tried and true and not their baser imitations 'lhe American race is not decreasing and never will Let us not be deceived as to that The average girl who works in shop factory or office does not work there over three years Some may work longer and some not so long When she retires eight times out of ten she gets married and goes on increasing the birth rate 1 do not think that the solution lor the di vorce evil or race suicide will be found in women's clubs or organizations as Mr Main seems to believe even though a large percentage of the women belong ing to these societies may be childless have no right to assume that all childless women are childless because of their own desires Some of them may not want children but tiiis is true of men as ui women as tor our i voice it is doubtful if this of faith in marriage or to our suffrage movement A tion of it is due to a higher riage an unwlllinemss tn tion prostituted by a dissolute cruel or unfaithful partner And public opinion is certainly back of the person as in the main is the law There is no reason whatever for be lieving that revolutionary changes are going o)i in thos? relations and activities which have been regarded as basic in woman's life She is no larger factor in imlusti ial life than she lias always been but the form of industry has changed and she with it It draws her now to the cities and manufacturing towns for the various industries have done away with much of the home labor She is more in the public eye and that which disconcerts those who observe her is mainly that she talks thinks and wants things that apparently never interested her before But again this is true of men as of women She is reacting to the new vision of possibilities in her life and who shall blame her? The old order of things is ever cliang ing We women realize it and are putting our hands in new tasks our heads to new thoughts And whatever tlie stir on the surface below the same great oc cupation homebuilding will claim its share of attention and get it too! The home of today and of tomorrow may lie entirely different from that of the past It may he a modern up to date fiat with every labor saving device imaginable or ottainnbe we may buy our food in cans instead of cooking it the wife may vote and the husband may give himself a' score of liberties an earlier generation would ha frowned upon but what has all this to do with the foundation of Each generation has had and will con tinue to have its problems to solve We can not change nature or the human heart So long ns there are men and women they will love marry make their home and rear their children Woman suf frage ran not do away with all this nor does it want to But it can assist In numerous other things and will finallv comr to pas that we may be sure 7 IWUBa lv Secrets of Health and Haziness How to Balance Diet With the Work You Do By DR LEONARD KEENE H1RSHBERG A A (Johns Hopkins (Copyrlrht ItH by Newspaper eature Service Ine I you know a bank where the wild thyme blows where the cowslip and the nodding violet grows hie you to it and save yourself disorders of digestion Muscular activity fragrant flowers and fresh air will save you the horrors of living on a diet In other words an outdoor life correctly lived will aid the most sickly stomach to complete recovery Such as have need of milk and not of strong meat are those with puny indoor indolent flesh Many a flabby money mad man when his stomach asks for bread! gives it cake lobster squabs and other iniquities When it asks for fish he gives it eels and serpents The stay and the staff and the whole prop of life is temperance in eating and drinking Brown bread and the gospel is good fare if a modicum of other food is mixed with it Humor at table is additional meat and drink for a hearty laugh will masticate hard tack A man may eat a little more food than his energy waste ami growth calls for Usual muscular DR HIRS1IBERG effort demands a little over 3000 units of calories of pabulum each day In market and kitchen terms this means a quarter of a pound of albumens and other proteins a quarter of a pound of sugars and starchy food v'itli a couple of quarts of good drinking water or milk Unhappily fr physiologically stanRaf I rations tlie merchant bookkeeper writ er typist clergyman lawyer doctor bar tender and those who have little physical exercise eat egregiously more fat pro tein sugars and minerals than this In stead of an allowance of 2500 calories a liberal diet for quiet workers this gentry eat as much as half a pound of meat even more fat and often a pound and a half of sugars and starches The Workman's Allowance The mechanic day laborer and those exposed to cold and undue effort may balance their rations in some such fash ion ns this in older to btain a quarter of a pound of fat sugar and starches and protein from each kind Meat from a quarter to three quarters of a pound to yield a quarter of a pound of protein Bread from bne half to a pound to give half a pound of starch Butter from an eighth to a third of a pound to yield an eighth of a pound of fat Sugar the same as butter to yield carbohydrate Oatmeal one half of this to give starch and cheese and beans the same as butter to yield an eighth of a pound of protein Potatoes two thirds to a pound to allow as much in pounds of carbohydrate and twice as much as potatoes Two eggs will yield 136 calories while 4S0 calories or units of heat work re sult from eating a quarter of a pound of ham Twenty five calories are the up shot of two glassfuls of good milk whereas an eight ounce loaf of bread gives 650 calories Answers to Health Questions A Reader Indianapolis The flesh of my face is loose and flabby What is the best way to make it firmer? The flesh will become firmer if you massage it each night with cotton seed oil Or olive oil Goldsmith Ind My hair is almost white It was formerly black Can you prescribe a remedy to restore it to its natural color? There is nothing known that will re store hair to its natural color but the following remedy will darken it a great Take 20 drops of tincture of chloride of iron in a wineglassful of water after meals through a tube Apply to the scalp on Monday Wednesday and riday nights a sulphur ointment arid on Tues day Thursday and Saturday nights cream made of one dram of carbonate of iron and one ounce of vaseline On Sun day nights apply both ointments Dr Ilirshburg will answer questions for readers of this paper on medical hygienic and sanitation subjects that are of general interest He will not under take to prescribe offer advice for in dividual cases Where the subject is not of general interest letters will be an swered personally if a stamped and ad dressed envelope is inclosed Address all inquiries to Dr Hirshberg care this office Disputes Engineer Jeup9s Statement in Regard to Assessments of Property To the Editor of The Star: With tlie permission1 of The Star I would like to make a briel rejoinder to your comments on my article appearing in the Sunday issue of The star on the proposed sewage disposal plant You quote Engineer Jeup as rebutting my statement that it is the city plan to assess the cost of the plant on the square foot basis of real estate instead ol assess ing property in accordance with the actual benefits derived The act of 3909 under which the city proposes to opera le in lids matter provides that the work shall be paid fur by assessing the cost thereof against all the several parcels of real estate situate within the corporate limits of the city in accordance with lhe law fir liuilding public sevens Now we all know that assessing property for trunk sewers the rule of square foot assessment against the sev eral parcels of real estate affected is the rule in force and that the amount of sewage discharged trom a given parcel of real estate into the sewer neither lessens nor increases the assessment for construction against that particular tract except when the lot or parcel abuts on the sewer when the cost of local sewer is added but this would not authorize the higher assessment oi a tract of ground occupied by a hotel or a packing plant than a similarly situated tract cheap ground of equal area occupied by a cottage A lot in the business district could not be assessed one dime higher than a lot of similar size the outskirts of the city The law would not authorize it and hence it could not be dune tlie city engineer to tlie contrary notwith standing There is not a case on record in In dianapolis where a lot in the business district situated on the line of a storm water sewer has paid a higher assess ment tor sewer purposes than a similar sized residence lot under like conditions As Mr Jeup said when before the Legislature urging the citv bill asking for a bond issue to build a sewage disposal plant: The present owners of real es tate will have to carrv the entire load of tlie building oi a sewage disposal plant anl men whose wealth is in personal propertv and those who will get the bene tit oi the plant the future will pay no part ot the expense of the plant unless the work is done bv a bond Mr Jeup contradicts himself in his late statement that tlie plan that the city' lias tor financing this work is the most equitable that could be procured under anv circumstances It the present plan is lhe most equitable that could be de vised under anv circumst anres why did Air Jeup go beture the Legislature and urge lhe bid tor a bond issue to build the plant and give the reasons have quoted above? As to the demal that the question of sewage disposal plants for cities of the size and location of luuianapohs is in the experimental stage I am quite will ing for an intelligent public to weigh my statements that question along withthe contra ipse dixit oi our engineer As Mr Jeup has well said in his orig inal statement ui regard to financing the cost ot a sewage disposal plant it should he done bv a bond issue and general tax ation so that the vast amount of wealth in the form of personal property should share a juirt oi the cost and the matter not be made principally a poor man's burden In my article 1 ut the axerage lot as sessment at $15 but Mr puts the figure at $20 per lot and I accept his cor rection on that point Indianapolis Song and Sentiment Introit 'Twpip bliss to see one lark Sour to lhe azure dark Singing upon his high celestial road I have seen many hundreds soar thank God! To see one storing begin Tn her first heavenly green Were grace unmeet for any mortal clod I have seen many springs begin thank God! After the lark the swallow Blackbird In hill and hollow Thrushes and nightingales all roads I trod As though ono bird were not enough thank God! Not one flower but a rout All exquisite are out: All white and golden every stretch of sod As though one flower were not enough thank God! Katharine Tynan More Rest for Business Providence Journal The new ederal Trade Commission is reported as being in state of In Its closing hours Congress overlooked the fact that President Wilson's pet new board needed a lot of money for running expenses There is nothing for lhe pay ment of a swarm' of investigators and lawyers experienced in the art of getting after business men The commission is unable to buy office furniture and the Item of rent is not covered As one of the new commissioners puts it the in vestigating body is by its Tlie commissioners who were confirmed can draw their salaries there is enough from an appropriation of the late Bureau of Corporations to enable a few assistants to fight tho cost of living In this there is some consolation for the beneficiaries But it is evident that with out a large appropriation the work of prving tutu the affairs of the 10000 busi ness establishments throughout the coun try can not be pushed with any degree of vigor Perhaps there are business men who think that Congress did something good besides adjourning Leaving the without funds promises help in giving Industry the cure" SAD INDEED Evening Post Magazine A' Boston school teacher had read Whit to her pupils and nt the close of her reading spoke of the sorrowful significance of the words might have She asked tho boys and girls if they could think of any four sadder words One alert youngster of a dozen years held up his hand and said two sadder are aaked the teacher TltMe remit' Newest in Science Jn the base a new shaving mug is a lamp to beat the Mater A novelty in the electric water heater line can be connected to a light socket get current and to a water supply with a rubber tube It has been estimated bv a Berlin scientist that the commercial' value ot the electricity In a flash of lightning lasting one thousandth of a second is 29 cents On a new cash drawer an electric bell rings until It is closed and locked and once opened by pressing a combination of buttons It can not be reopened if partly shut The industry encouraged by the govern ment Tunis is now producing more than 10000000 gallons of olive oil a year and expects in a few years to more than dou ble the amount Young Lady Across the Efe 1 hLt The young lad across the way says she always hates to see otic of her young tnon friends drift from one position to another and a roil ing stone never grows fat as the oldaylag la.