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PAOfi POUR ALTON ffttfeQftAPH MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1950 ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH canter; ny man, 9B.ro ym beyond 100 weeniteliii millet the lion, Act mi Cengmi, March 8, MKMBfcft Ot tttt AttOCIATMJ PtttM 1TM AMOCUIM Pww tntwea tat rtpubllcitlon at pMntM to will til (M Uttll Advfcrtliint lUttt ififl eotUMot infofttiitlon on it builtiMt ottlct tl) urn Broadway, Altnfl fit National Co. Yotk. Chicago The tliufnl Problem of Sntilmry Coiivcnlcncex Where suburban, rural property is being developed into thickly settled communities in many ncigliborliooJii there has arisen a uc of 1 ties, one the chief of which is the extension of public facilities such as water, R(ts, electricity, Imt most of facilities. The building of ww- er facilities is possible through the action of a municipal corporation and to get such a corpor.ilion it is necessary for rural property to annex to other municipality, or to be independently incorporated. In most cases it ii extremely difficult to bring about annexation or the forming of independent municipality.

A good case in point is the territory east of Alton in Wood River township, and there are many more like it. It is not hard to discover near almost any growing municipality thickly settled, fast: growing rural areas where farms have been chopped up into building lots and people have erected homes into which they have moved without first having realized that they will need facilities, later on if not in the immediate present. The territory cast of Alton is an ideal setup to illustrate this point, It is difficult to how the territory ever can be adequately sewered unless it organizes into a village itself or annexes to Alton and then gets its built in the only practical way by special assessment, the property owners paying their proportionate shares according to benefits they arc to receive. Complaints have been numerous about sewer troubles of the dwellers in Milton Heights, many of whom have attached to the system, but with no assurance as to how long its use may con- 'tinuc before the overloaded jcwcr, incapable of carrying the unexpected load it was not built to carry, fajls to render the desired service. 'Some of the dwellers in these newly-developed, fast-growing places have been encouraged wrongly to assume that a cowotf Health District could provide them with sewers.

The only way possible for any neighborhood to have sewers, cither inside or outside a corporation, is to pay for the sewers by special taxation. No municipality itself could raise the money it would cost by general taxation, and even with special taxation the bonds issued to cover the sewer expense might turn out to be sad security for anyone to accept, just as to a limited extent proved true in Piasa Valley scwc.r in Alton, where property owners paid but a trifling of the whole of the sewer laid serve their property. Those who urge that a sewer system can be built 5n Milton Heights would do best first to arrange either for Alton, or the forming of the territory into a -municipal corporation, and it may easijy turn out that the need of sewer facilities complained of there may have to be settled in that way; but by forming a county health district, 9 body that has-no authority to levy special assessments for building: public utilities, nor power to issue It's High Time for The High Twelve Approach The High Twelve has decided to buy a hospital (maybe later, beds) which it will make available to bedridden patients in their homes. It's a swell here, too. But that isn't so much what inspired us to sit down and write something about it as the manner in the program is being undertaken.

The club, which finances its affairs out of its own pockets, wi'thout even benefit of slot machines or bingo trees, is paying for the bed out of its own treasury. It has selected a project on which it can start slowly and build up as its own finances permit, There will be no public appeal. All too many of our public service organizations these days take the opposite tack. They bite off big they soon find they can't finance, themselves, They go out and make public appeals for funds. They say "Phc-e-e-w!" They tell themselves what a big job it was to get that money.

And sometime? they have a few comments about what a hard time they had getting it out of some of the contributors. We're for the High Twelve method. In the long run, if 'more organizations would adopt that tack and finance their own public projects, the sum total of things accomplished would be far greater. This thing of having to undertake a bigger and more glorified project than the other big the public has to finance to be difficult, both on the organiv.ations and the public. Need for Bicycle Safety Stressed A tragic event has pointed up the bicycle safety campaign launched in the Alton area last week by the Explorer Scouts of the Piasa Bird Council in cooperation with the police and fire departments in cities of our area, and the PTA Council.

A boy was injured critically when his bicycle collided with an automobile at the junction of State and Belle, This incident illustrates the danger that attends bicycling on city with normal precautions. The safety campaign now under way stresses the need for constant alertness by drivers of motor and the necessity for rules for this editorial has no reference to die particular case cited, insofar as safety measures are concerned. We are concerned, principally, with the dangers SUeodinj any bicycling on city streets. These dangers may result from a fault of the bicyclist or the motorist, or both, the most important point to remember and 17, 1925 fells Rutledge gfrlckcn with al her home, Fourth and Market dnil tnkrn lo SI. Jrmeph'g honpttftl.

Miw tttitlertge fell ns she wfos RltempllnR to gel nut of bed. Her brother, E. K. who resided In the snme house, heard her fnll nnd found her lying on the floor. Mayor Klblc recalled veto of the snlsiy ordinance that hnrl been pnssert.

Oren Mf'Kowen was bavins erected on Mnln street ni I IIP end of Walnut street five room frsrne iMinKiilow. His father, Willlnm, the rontractor. Mnjor d. D. Knton of the Western Military Acndomy wns suffering from carbuncle on his lip which mflde its flppenrnncp uhlle hr was on fl busl- noss trip In Washington, D.

C. Born to Mr. and Ony of College flvenw. April 15, a daughter. Mnmln Grndl of DOR Lnnsdon street enter- Inlnod for Miss Anna Cluck, on Miss Glurk's birthday.

Five hundred was plnyd and favors were given to Miss Hose Schinlrll, Miss Tnrln Tiniper and Miss Mnyiii' 1 MellruiiR. fiiirsls Included thn Misses Knitters HoUriing, Amelln filssnl, Marie Kralrhmi-r. Ocolia Grndl, Florence Cirnrll, llorllin (inull, Kosf Schniidt. Tecln Tim per and Mamie HollruiiK The Lnf-n-Lot club mot at I he Y. W.

C. A. with Mrs. fl. Knight, adviser.

Miss Williamson of Alton Illicit School, art instructor, talked on posloix. Al Nlederkorn had departed for the Pacific const whore lie expected to rnakp nn pxtended vlsll. Mrs. Louis A. Schafley had gone lo Mlmioapo- Us In altcnd Iho funeral of her mother, Mrs.

Van Onl. Mrs. IV llanlon of 015 Highland avenue en- lerlnlnerl members of the Old Timers Club. Favors were awarded to Mr. nnd Mrs.

Kred John Eilenberger and Mr. Hanlon, who excelled at euchre. Miss Mnry Kllen Keklrh and James .1. Pnulos of Wood Hlvpr were married at SS Peter A. Paul's church April 1(i.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. P. J. Smyth. Miss Ann Keklcli was bridi's- miild nml Krnnrls Manning wns besl man.

Mrs. Charles entertainer! members of the Sylvia club In an all day session at her home on Central avenue. Andrew Craig wns confined lo the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Waller Craig on Slain street with a heavy cold.

The battle of the long and short skirls was coins on. The spring offensive In the struggle, which had been In progress for two years, showed l.bnl the long skirts had effected a slight retreat. Arbitration wns attempted but the dress ruled that It was Impossible to negotiate inasmuch as the short skirt, while an adornment to some women, especially those of slender flfiure, tended lo make others look ridiculous. Reasonably short skirts, ending about half way between the knee and ankle and the moderate width hud been the rule for the spring. 5O Years Ago April 17, 1900 Announcement was made that W.

M. Sauvage nnd F. Porter would open a summer theater at Rock Springs park. It was their plan to erect a play-house to seat 1000 on the easterly side of the park lake. Access to the site would be by way 'of a rustic bridge.

Evangelist M. B. Williams had addressed a large audience In Upper Alton Baptist church to open his second revival here. Ho had previously conducted meetings here in 1894. A choir of 100 worhen had been formed for the meetings, and was being directed by Prof.

Alexander. Matthew Wilkinson, an old resident of the community, narrowly escaped serious injury by a boulder which rolled from the bluff-top near Lovers' Leap. He was struck a glancing blow by the bound- Ing stone, and for a few minutes was rendered unconscious. Shurlleff College Board of Control announced that the now college president, Dr. Stanley A.

McKay, would be Inaugurated on commencement day, June 7. Elaborate exercises were being arranged Wood River highway commissioners organized by electing 10. P. Harrison chairman and Tobias Newman treasurer. Alton town board met.

to pay election bills but deferred a decision on the question of Increasing the salary of assessor. Mr. nnd Mrs. Alfred Aigler of St. Louis announced the birth of a son.

Mrs. Alglor waj the former Sophie Brunor of Alton. Mrs. D. Siegel of West Seventh was called to St.

Louis by illness of her daughter, Mrs. A. E. Smith. Mrs.

William Penrose was visiting In Mat-on, Mo. J. W. Schmoeller sold his (Ire-damaged shoe stock to St. Louis firm, and said that on reopening of his store after repairs, he would offer a complete new stock.

Dimmoek Burgess was appointed to a regular run as mall clerk on the Vandalia between St. Louis and Pittsburgh. He had broken in with the Railway Mull Service as a weigher. Louis Bisslnger, and his bride, the former Miss Mary Weldon of Marion, arrived here (or a visit after their marriage In St. Louis.

Bissinger, a former Allbnlan, was in business at Marlon. A marriage license was issued in St. Louis to A. M. Bates of that city and Miss Mabel'Reeder of Upper Alton.

Eugene Rice, Harry Burke, and Henry Krnnz had returned from Indian Territory, and George Lang, troubled by illness since taking a position at Venlta, 1. sent word that he would return homo In a week. Mrs. V. Rutherford was visiting in St.

Louis. The Rev, Oberhellman conducted the funeral of Frederick Hnuck, and pallbearers were H. E. Gudell, Henry Hohmniin, William Sonnlag, Nick Seibold, John Hoffman and Henry Hoehn. The funeral of Mrs.

Mary Flynn look place at the Cathedral. Pallbearers were James Cnhill, John Meehan, Pat Lynch, James Fitxpatrick, Pat Downes and Joseph Mitchell. UPPER ALTON. Melvln Wilder, a former resident, was visiting here. W.

Berner was home to visit his family. The Rev. Largo conducted the funeral of little Florence Locke. Theodore Sims was seriously ill. Lt.

Gov. Northcutt spent the evening here, calling on Col, J. J. Bronholt and G. V.

Crowe. Oscar Slaehle, long In employ of Julius Haas, left lor New York to sail for his old honic In Germany, intending to remain there. So They In future cars, a step on the accelerator may speed up the delivery bund of monomolecularly fissionable material to the atomic Dietrich E. Belscher, scientist at U. Naval School of Aviation Medicine, Pensacola, Fla, to impress upon children who ride bicycles on th; city streets is: There is danger, grave danger, which can only be avoided by extreme care and alertness.

Says Truman Hit GOP Aid on Foreign Policy WASHINGTON. April Idrnt Truman hns Just given the supporters of the "Rlpartlson" foreign policy Iden In Congress something more to worry nbout. Mr. Trumnn has chosen to nn- nouncf (hut IIP Intends lo corn- pnlK'i on foreign policy issues In the nut limn congrossionnl elections. He snid so nt meeting with members of t'.

commission to the Prilled Notions. II wns not only the wrong place for thai kind of ns politics is supposed to bo In boo in International rmiltors but the pronouncement lonx'os nn Innuendo of criticism against tin 1 entire Republican party, Including those who nre supporting the ndmlnist i nt Ion's foreign policy. The President rnmlo no differentiations. Ho did not sny ho would campaign for those Rcpub- licnn nominees who support the bipartisan or international lonccpt. Ills own efforts nnri those of tho Democratic Natlonnl Committee which he directs will bo centered, of course, on defeating nil Repub- licnns.

The President spoke extemporaneously but Ihe exact words used, as given out officially by the While House, are BS follows: We have nnother program coming up that will he somewhat similar to that of 1048. "This time we nre trying to elect a Congress thnl believes In intermit ionnl cooperation, Congress that believes Iho welfare of Iho United Slates demands continuing foreign policy that tnkes Into consideration Ihe whole globe, Inslend of jusl one country or one district or one sinl Just what did Iho President mean when he referred to "Ihls time" ns contrasted with the Does he imply that he won the campaign on the issue thai his parly nlonc believed In Internal tonal This will be news to (Jov. Dewey who nil through the campaign kept John Foster Dulles at work trying to keep politics out of foreign policy. Does It mean that Mr, Truman believes that only the Democratic parly contains members who believe "wholeheartedly" In international cooperation? If so, this will be a surprise to Senator Vandenberg and Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey nnd other eminent Republicans who have voted overwhelmingly In Congress for Iho Marshall plan and other measures of international cooperation.

The speech by the President was made to the U. S. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO. Is the American commission to be regarded as a group expected to use Its influence in domestic politics? Should 1 President of the United Stales introduce party politics and discussion of campaign issues before such a body? Is Is not likely to arouse the very partisanship which for the last few weeks prominent Republicans have been trying to eliminate from the discussion of' foreign policy? Mr. Truman may have unwillingly done a disservice lo the cause of nonparlisanship in international affairs.

What he said will encourage the numerically small element inside the Republican party who are isolationist at heart to endeavor to make political capital out of international questions. Unless he comes out for Republican candidates, he will have verified the charge I tint no matter what support, an individual Republican gives to the administration's foreign as John Foster Dulles gave In the Senate last year the Democratic party leader in the White House refuses to recognize such service in the only pla'-'e where restraint has been urged, namely, in political contests. The big question now being asked on Capitol Hill is this: When President Truman begins campaigning next month for the election of a Democratic Congress which Is his right, of lie base his partisan appeal on the platform laid down In his informal speech to the U. S. delegation lo UNESCO? If he does, then the epitaph on the grave of "bipartisan" foreign policy may have to he inscribed "killed by the leader of the Democratic party." (Reproduction Rights Side dunces AH Galbraitlt 1MO IY HU.

IMVICt. INC. T. M. MO.

V. t. MT. Off. "Those are the seed catalogs you sent for this here are the ones you didn't open last year.

Robert S. OiFtteadaelie Pen r.wn'.s- Merry-Go-ltound Slow Congress In Paris, 200 shoes, all for the left fool, were stolen from a truck. WASHINGTON. April CoriRf'ss facing an early, clcction- ypjir ndjournment. one of tlio worst legislative log jams In history is piling up In the Senate and threatening tn stn11 10 Truinun Knir Deal program.

Despite this mountain of unfinished work, however, Democratic leaders have found time to take lip two bills completely contrary lo the Fair Deal program Kerrnnutrnl gas bill and the basing point bill, driving loopholes In the antitrust laws. As a result, some Republicans are thinking of reversing the tables on Truman and making a whistle-stop campaign of their own. They would use Truman's own speeches against the 80th Congress to attack the 81st Congress. Disregarding the politics, however, here is the legislative outlook: Congress has less than four months to go before adjourning for the election campaign. Even now, senators and congressmen arc slipping away to make campaign speeches.

Nevertheless, Senate hasn't even called up the civil rights bills, the apropriations bills, or tackled the complicated task of liberalizing the social security laws to include 12,000,000 new workers and increase the unemployment, benefits. The Brannan farm plan to support farm Income and get rid of unmanageable food stockpiles is bogged down in the Senate agriculture committee, while Herbert Hoover's 21 plans to streamline the federal government are getting nowhere fast. Easter Vacations This si ill leaves the President's controversial health insurance program, the military aid program, and federal aid to education. The President also promised statehood to Hawaii and Alaska, but the hearings haven't even started in the Senate. Congress must also decide whether to continue rent controls und renew the draft, to say nothing of revising the tax structure and abolishing excise taxes.

Another tough one is the President's point 4 program to give technical assistance lo backward areas. The blunt truth is Congress, has a great deal to do, and little time to do It in. Meanwhile, the House, taking a leaf from the President's Key West book, took a leisurely Easter vacation, while both houses took time to push two bills, aiding the natural gas companies and the big monopolies. Forgot His Krieud There was only one sour note when freshman. Senator Herbert Lehman of New York took the floor to the late Franklin D.

Roosevelt on the fifth anniversary of his death. Ironically, the sour note was struck by a Democrat who rode FDR's coattails to keep his seat in the Senate. Republicans who were in the Longer of North Dakota, Hendrickson of Toonervilie folks By Fontaine tt SMITH New Jersey, Cordon of Oregon. Schopppel nnd Darby of Kansas remained respect fully in their seats as Lehman begun his memorial speech. So did the Democrats, even crochety Kenneth McKcllnr of Tennessee, who fought FDR furiously on most Issues.

The only man who walked out, rather than listen to a few kind words spoken for the mnn who once saved him from defeat, was Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma. In 1038 when Thomns faced a desperate election battle in the Democratic primary. Franklin Roofievelt his I rain through Oklahoma in answer to frantic pleas from Thomas, let the worried senator beside him on the back platform, and even made a statement about the fine work of "my friend" Elmer, But when this same President's death was memorialized In the Senate last week, his "friend" Elmer walked out. If Children Could Lead While the nation's capital is busy giving Europe the impression that we are torn by dissension and harboring spies behind every door, the American Legion has been showing Europe the best side of the U. S.

A. The tide of toys, organized by the Legion just after Christmas, has been getting a tremendous reception in western Europe, and even In some countries, such as Finland and Yugoslavia, on the edge of the iron curtain. Wisely, the legionnaires followed the old adage, "the gift without the giver is bare," took the trouble to send a delegation lo Europe to deliver the message behind the toys. In country after country, they held ceremonies, telling how American children wanted to share their toys with their less fortunate neighbors. The reception was so appreciated that Pennsylvania Commander Walter Alessandroni, who led the Legion delegation to Europe, wrote this inspiring letter: "What impressed me was that the reactions of these children, whether English, French, Gcrmnn, Italian, or Scotch, were just the same.

No matter what their native origin, they were just children, and you really couldn't tell what country they came from. "This being true, It becomes difficult to understand why these children, when they reach manhood, grow up to be different grow up to participate In their countries' wars. "If these children are the when they are children, and only become different as they reach maturity, the indictment for this change falls upon us. We hove seen a world with war and unrest Inking place somewhere in that world during every year of recorded history. America as the No.

1 nation of the world bears a tremendous responsibility in helping these thousands of -youngsters, who today are no different from ours, to grow up in some measure like our own. "Adults since the beginning of time have been shockingly unsuccessful in finding the key to peace in the world. Perhaps this has been true because it was meant that children should be the ones to find that key for mankind. Perhaps it is because we have failed to heed the admonition' and a little Child shall lead (Copyright. 1050.

by Bell Syndicate, WASHINGTON. April Robert Kerr's hill to bar federal regulation of nnturnl Ens to the pipelines had rough going in tho House and Senate, but Him was (i Sunday school picnic compared to Ihe furious melee that has swirled around the President's hfad over the legislation before he vetoed the measure last Saturday. He has been the battered center of a literal maelstrom of opposing pressure drives. Proponents nnd opponents have hammered him with everything from deluges of mail, telegrams, round-robins nnd pel il ions, to direct personal lobbying. His last days in Key Wosl wore harassed by this fierce controversy, nnri it hit him head-on when ho returned to the White House.

II is no exaggeration to say that throughout tho President's incum- lii'ivy no bill has niven him bigger headache than tho engineered by Ihe brawny oil millionaire from Oklahoma. For I his, Iho President tins only himself lo blame. Ho allowed himself lo be put In a position where, in eflecl, he was on both sides of the feme. On ono hnnd, ho rcappninlocl Federal Power Coinniissionoi l.e- land Olrl.s who vigorously opposed the Kerr bill and was rejected by the Senate because of that. And on Iho oilier hnnd.

Ken and Sam Knyburn claimed ll-ov hud promise Irom the President I hat he would sign the uro if il was passed by Congress. This claim lias nexer been denied by the While House. II is equally certain that Iho President could have klliorl Ihe bill in either House or Senale if ho had thrown his weigh) against il. Tho linos were so closely drnxxn that one hint I'roin hint would hnxe turned the trick. (KD, NOTK: This column exclusively revealed the Koir- Rayburn claim on Feb.

On the Hook Tills promise is the inside reason why il took the President so long to make up his mind lo sign or veto. After he allowed tho battle to center on him, lie discovered that he had made a commitment before he had looked. He had accepted a statement made by Kerr and Rayburn without chocking it. They had told him tho bill would not increase the price ol gas "ono Hut after Ihe measure bo- came his hot potato, trusted mem- 1 hers of his own administration produced evidence lo prove their contention that millions of i in rate boosts already wore pond- That wasn't all. Democratic 'National Chairman William Koyle, raised a question to which tho i President is particularly sensitive -political reaction.

Boyle Hint the Korr hill was a delayed-action bomb that 'could cnuf-L' havoc to Democratic election ctemces in number ol critical centers next November. A Out i This argument impressed the President. But xvhal made tho hig- i gcst impact on him xvas Ihe flatly disproving Ihe Kcrr-iJax burn I claim that the bill would not crease gas rales. The President takes great pride in being a man of his word, oven if it hurts. But if his -word is obtained through dissimulation, that's a different mat tor.

He is as quids 'o resent that as he is often in making promise's. Astutely, Iho authors of the evidence bore down strongly on thai poinl in their talks xvith him. They bluntly argued that there xvas no reason why he should feel coin- milled to Rayburn and Kerr in view of the facts disproving the statement they made lo him. Adding weight to this counsel were two other potent factors. One xvas a veto recommendation by Commerce Secretary Charles.

Sawyer. This xvas a real coup lor tho opposition because Saxvyer is the spokesman of business in cabinet and is admittedly conservative. Coming from him, the advice to x'olo both surprised and impressed the President, i The other development xvns also unexpected. It xvas a veto recommendation by throe members (n majority) of the Power Commission Vice-Chairman Moil Wallgren, one-time Senale crony of (he President, and Commissioners Clnude Draper nnd Thomas C. Buchanan.

Their rejection of Ihe bill carried woiuht because it wns directly counter to the view nf Chairman Nelson Lee Smith and Commissioner Harrington Wlmber- ily. Kerr nnd Rnyburn had made much of this Commission hacking. NOTE: One piece of Opposi- i tion ammunition drew a loud i chuckle from the President. It wns nbout the Carthage Hy- drocol large natural gas producer in Texas. Head of this company, which wns organized In 1945 with nn St8.000.noo loan from the RFC, Is Republican National Chairman Guy Onbrielson.

fuel Oil The pressure from the backers of the Kerr bill wns jusl ns torrid al that of Iho opponents. In fact, in some ways men more so. Oil money was one of the biRK'-'St souices of Democratic campaign funds in IMS. In September of (hat your, the party wns so jslinpperl llial il couldn't, pay the demanded for the President's Labor Day broadcast. A oilman not Ken) put up cash so Hint 1 ho President could slnrl his election drive.

Later, Speaker Rayburn offered financial aid lo number of Democratic congressional candidates. He didn't where the money wns 1 cor.iinu Irom. hul some of these ucro convinced it I flowed from oil sources. California oil millionaire Ed Piiuley, whom Hie President tried unsucci'sslully to make assistant, secretary of 111' 1 navy, is credited party insiders with having contributed at leasl to tho Truman campaign. Pnuley is strong lor the Kci bill.

So are numerous other oilmen whom De- t'cnso Secretary Louis Johnson lapped I'nr big chocks when he took over fund-raising in the dark ol This niny explain why Johnson's Department did pussy- 'fool on Iho Kerr bill when asked tor nn opinion by Hie While House. I The department did not say flatly il favored I IIP bill. Hut. it gave measure a helpful pat on the 'back -A nil the statement that it could not rccnninieud veto. Leslie the Biff Another potent backstage spear- head tor the hill was Secretary ol Iho Senate Leslie Bill'lo.

"Leslie Ihe Bifi." as he is popu- i larly known, is an appointive em- i ployo of the Senate. But in inner i administration circles lie swings I more weight I linn many Dernocra- lie senators. He has a direct telephone lino lo the While House, is tin; riglil'-liand lieutenant of Vice-President Uarkley and Floor Loader Si nil Lucas, and has a big hand in everything that, goes on iii the- Senate. "Jjii'f" up lo his eyebrows in Iho fight for the Kerr bill uhcn it was bolorc Congress, nnd he I was equally active in the pressure jdrive to get the to sign it. of Ihe proponents' strategy i I'onfi'ienri-'s were, hold in Riffle's office.

This office is a favorite hang-out of a number of lobbyists, some of them cloi.o friends of Biffin. He has given the job of secretary of the Senate an importance and sway it lias never before had in all its history. And lie used this influence lo the hill for Ihe Kerr bill. NOTE: The day after the President returned from Key West, he told several congres- sional opponents of the Kerr I bill I hat he wns sore about i having to "sweat out" a deci- siou on it. He also spoke i shniply about Senator Lyndon Johnson who was Kerr's chief aide in putting the measure through Ihe Senate.

'CopyrlKlil. 11)5(1, Post Hall Syndicate. Inc.i Q. What i.s tho total area of Iho tint ion's national parks and monuments? A. M.

A. The area amounts to about '22, square miles, or less than of 1 percent ol the coun- i try's lotal area. Q. Is it only the female quail that utters the bob-white call? K. A.

Sylvester D. Judd in "The Bobwnlte and Other Quails of the United States" says that the call "bob-white" Is the nuptial call; the male uses many other calls, Imitating other birds and animals. This call Is not generally used after the breeding season, although It has been reported as late as October 20. The answer of the female is a single clear whistle. How the Amazon River of South America compare in size with the Mississippi? G.

L. I. A. Length of the Amazon proper is 3Q40 miles compared with the Mississippi's 2470 miles. The volume of water flow at the mouth of the Mississippi average about one- fourth as much as that of tho Amazon.

Q. Where is tho world's highest POM office? N. C. V. A.

This distinction is claimed for Iho post office at Trail Ridge, Larimer County, which is at nn elevation of 11,797 feet. Country's Banner Answer to Previous Puzzfe HORIZONTAL I Depicted is the flag of 10 Training 11 Repast 13 Japanese statesman 14 Metal 17 Land measure 18 Political party (ab.) 19 Capture 20 Abraham's home (Bib.) 21 Concerning 22 Entice 25 Highway 2V Pronoun 28 Preposition 29 Company (ab.) 30 Direction (ab.) 31 Vegetable 33 Heal 3(i Metric measure 37 Artificial language 38 Toward the interior 41 Weapon 44 Distant 40 Group of players 47 Cow's cry 48 Furrow 49 This country is on the sea tZ VEBTlCAi. 1 Close 2 Unoccupied 3 Cubic 4 Tart 5 Grade 6 Kind of bomb 7 Gill fab.) HOne 9 Site of Mahal 11 Handle roughly 12 Unbleached 15 Vegetable 16 Require 23 It is near Costa 24 English school 25 Zwieback 26 Unclosed 31 A TUFTED 32 Sea eagle 43 Unruly crowd! 34 Persia 44 Wings 35 Rent 45 North 39 Diplomacy European 40 Persian poet SO Sun god 41 Among 51 of 42 Garment.