Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 18

NOVEMBER 16, 1927 18 WEDNESDAY EVENING afelanD 1 C.irdinal will jmt ou the field and on HielicncTi THE OTHER ilVill lt 'Top" Warner, acknowledged the siirowdcst football coach in the Hind. It is probable that on the California team there are more, men entitled to consideration i'he eunui.ot, Xlie TRIBUNE dliolnmt rabpousibilit; lor opinion! nA tatementl expressed in tills column. Brief contributions on current topios of interest rs welcome. Tlley will not, rule. ti printed unless acoompiinied by' the name ot the writer, which, If be witB-.

held from publication. for place on an all-star eleven than Stanford Ad Schuster possesses. Football fans would not lie sur CAN'T GO TO BAGDAD FOH HALF DOLLAR. prised, if the California line, for (lie most part, ouU'harged the men from" rl'alo Alto. Jn the baekfield the Blue and Gold has a wealth of To Editor of The TRIBUNE Before you join the number who predict the airplane will put the railroads out of business, consider this assertion by statistician 'fdr the Milwaukee line: fast material but no line plungers so heavy or I '3 l-t A nno-ton oapaaity-alrplan effective as Hoffman.

The Washington game ing 100 miles an hour continuously between Seattle and Chicago, would take about fifteen yeans to transport the tonnage hauled by a single freight train." buiiiiliu- on Continental Side ot San i nnctsio Hay OAKLAND'S "ONLY LOCALLY OWMl). LOCALLY CONTROLLED- DAILY Established. February 21, Wi4 FOUNDED BV TO DA KG 1 Ucmber American Newspaper Publishers ion Charter, Member- Audit' Bureau of Circulation Eiclusiva Complete Associated Press Scrvioe for Great Kastbay Full United Press Service Consolidated Press Association Exclusive for Great Eastbay, The Associated Press Is exclusively -entitled' to the use for republication of all news despatches cred- "Ited to It. or not otherwise credited tn this Daper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special despatches herein also are reserved.

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Ht, The Pontoffiee of Oak-irfnd. under act of Congress. March S. 1879 Subscription Itntes by Carrier! One month .85 Six months (in adv.) Three month One year (in advance) proved that the strategy of Coach Price must also be reckoned with for the mud, could only hint at the versatility of attack which A post card Informs ua that the Call in the Mayor, the chamber of commerce, and all others wh may be interested, for this is lrii-portant. It seems that "California's most magnificent theater," now being built at Nineteenth and Telegraph, was originally scheduled "to named the "Bagdad," but that the executives of West Coast Thenters, have agreed to changethe name to Oaklun'd," in compliance with the' wishes of Mayor Now Jt is just like out mayor to want to boost Oakland! but It seems to iff, that the name "Bag- dad" was such a delightful selection for the new theater that It Flatt Tire Is in business at has been developed.

A game which is first topic in the conver Champaign, Illinois. sation of the West comes with the close pf this sun iu. i -vrrc i "Couple Wed Fifty Smile." Headline. week. It is the Kig Game to meet every promise I T7 I.

Oh those hardened cynics on the for drama? romance, find excitement. copy desk! IRAK'3 DOOR." Queen Mary. Who is the1 stately lady in gray Who walks by the tulip beds 1 Subacrlptlon Rntes by Pomr Peldi United Slates. Mexico ami tanoa- ml. Mall Riiinirintlnns Are Payable In Advance) In a garden where kings and prin dom cut out of, taken from the Turks and given over indirectly to Great Britain as ces erav- Were wont to gather in ecstasy mandatory.

Over its disposition and particu their I II rV 1 IV -'5N For her the 'grasses bend larly over the disposition of oil Turkey has One month 88 gfx months (In adv.) .14.75 Three months $2.66 One year tin advance). 00 8UJVDAX EDITION MAILl flnt month .60 Six J.60 Three months $1.60 Twelve months y. .14.511 rr. TO SlBSCBIBKns Subscribers falling to receive, their paper by .6:30 p. m.

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heads; For her the lilac its perfume sheds'; made frequent protests, now demonstrating For her the haughty tulip beds Display their lavenders, golds and with troops on the border' and now defyirtg reds. CARLTON the League -of Nations. There is some importance outside of the Two men In our neighborhood WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1927: have been quarreling. wtfuld be a shame to lose the op- portunity of using it.

Wouldn't th name Bagdad attract more attention among theatergoers, and thu invite more outsiders to our fair city, than the name much as we like the latter? And where is our mayor's love of romance apd adventured Of cours we all love the name Oakland, but as we ariB quite a grown up city we do not want everything named "Oakland." We already hi.vyour Hotel Oakland, the Oakland Airport, Oakland Baseball club, but let us retain a few distinctly names also, like Lake Merrltt (think of changing It to LaKe Oakland), the Bagdad Theater, and S9 on. Please do something about thli, Mr. Editor, so that when this theater la opened we can speak of going to ths "Bagdad." What romance! Our mayor Is a good sport, and if you submit this to your readers fof their opinion, I think we can swing the mayor over. Let's hear from some others; after all, the good mayor only counts for one theatergoer. F.

M. V. promise for more oil to this country in the word that arrangements have been made whereby "Let's bury the hatchet," the milder one proposed. "Just let me catch you burying American capital wiu nave a zo per cent share it in my yard!" was the answer and the war Is still on. in the Mosul oil production.

Negotiations which KLEIN ON EXPORTS. Oakland wasfortunate in the opportunity to hear Dr. Julius of the Department of Commerce, a man whose pulse is on the nation's trade When the -manufacturer wishes to know something of 'export possibilities," he goes to have been under way for a long time are con Lexington Invaded. (From Lexington; Missouri, News.) Considerable excitement was ere. Dr.

Klein arft to the same authority go all of ated on the streets of Lexington Tuesday afternoon by the appearance of four duck hunters from Kansas City. Coming, as they did, at the climax of Lexington's labor wgmm mIM- cluded with the announcement' of an accord which means an "open door" to Irak. In the territory before if was transferred, a number of parties held oil claims. Americans were aniong the first on the ground and Were granted concessions by the Turks. On the plea that those concessions were not to be disregarded, and also on the broad principle of- the "ojien door" America asked recognition of its disturbance, great significance was attached to their visit.

"They are United States inarsbr- als," said ope man, when the quartet drove up Cliff Drive and perked their car on Main street a whole carload of federal officers in towri; with gatling guns," said next man, carrying the word down the street. "The town is full of dep uty United States marshals, all armed with machine guns," said the third, passing the news along. 'Thirty-five- or forty government men just got into town, with a truckload of guns and ammunition THE NATIONAL PRESS They are arresting everybody'they JIFINXS those who would discover answers to problems in shipping, distributing, marketing, and. estimating." His reputation is international. When' Dr.

Klein tells an audience in this city that he sees a future particularly good for the manufacturer and exporter, of this part of the Pacific( Coast, who studies foreign trade demands and goes after, the business, the utterance is placed before the whole country for that speech, delivered was released yesterday noon to every newspaper in the land. "Our exports of finished manufactures last year," said Dr. speaking of the whole country, "were more than 60 per cent than in 1922, which with falling export prices has meant an' even greater quantitative gain. In fact, our exports of finished manufactures are now nearly three times as great in value as the annual average during 10.10 to 1914." When the war closed there were predictions -that this country could. notched its overseas markets.

What Klein said here.yesterday is proof that the predictions were in error. see, was the way the iourtn man told It, and ad infinitum. Th claims; Britain, accused of seeking an oil monopoly, upheld the theoryf "open door" in the Near East and -so was mainly responsible in deciding the issue in a way which is satisfac-torv to, this country. -rf Today a policy is settled before it is determined if the Mosul fields are really rich in oil. While scientific-speculation holds fhenrtfb be-most promising there have been no spouting wells to demonstrate and' there may be none.

What is established is that the policy of "open door," the' one which applies in ChiflafisTecog-nized in the Near East. A precedent has been established. Chicago News: That there mustt States the Increase in 1926 BifEDGAM A. GUEST alarm was materially diissinjattd, hnu-pvor when thA fnnp- hnn'ui's bent on depleting the duk and SHRINKING It is my pleasure' now and then goose population on the Missouri To stray links with eolfiiiK men, river, got into the.ir car and headed the preceding year was for marriage 1.2 per cent, for divorce 3.1 per cent. For New York State the Increase was marriage 4.9 per cent, for divorce 1,4 per cent.

Apparently our own commonwealth is not gonig helter-skelter for radicalism, paganism and materialism. for their clubhouse farther down Or when the snow's on field and HAS SUGGESTION FOR ISLAND TRAFFIC HELIEF. To Editor of The TRIBUNE: Bay. Farm Island's Sunday traffic could be greatly improved. -Th.

parking of automobiles on the big highway to view the airplanes is a great menace to traffic. Last Sunday the congestion, was so terrific as to prevent motorists from passing from either-direction. suggest 'that a few traffio pf-fleers would be' of great" benefit to the Sunday traiflc on Bay Farm--Island. G. DONOHUE.

THE JESTER Hardly a Man's Work. The old ploughman had decided that his son should have a better position, in-life than -himself and, seeing an advertisement for a youth required for a lawyer's office, he called upon the advertiser. "My son is: a clever lad," he be-, gan, "and has bin in an office for a-month, but he wants more pay. What'll you give him?" "That depends upon what he can do," was the answer, "For Instance, can he. draw up a mortgage deed or a conveyance?" "Wejl," replied the parent, "I know not about mortgage, but as for drawing a conveyance, we keeps the old mare for that." Answers, London.

1 the stream. The President says ltlshis -am be a Btrong American merchant marine Is so clear that every citizen of the United States ought to share definitely in the present anxiety lest the fail to develop that, essential element of national prosperity and national safety. The immense difficulties that stand In the way of operating privately owned cargo vessels capable of transporting American products to all the markets of world make the problem extremely "tAublesome. However, it can be solved. It will be solved when the "i ridge I like a friendly game of bridge, Or, left alone within a nookti I can be happy with a book.

Oil, need I set it down in rhyme bition to go back to Vermont and Whittle, it will be all right a ot people If he practices a bit I've many ways to spend my time, first, the income tax. Hartford Courant: "lie is always willing to do little more than his Job calls for," wrote a New York city bureau chief to the director of the budget in 'Tis not the Joys of life which Irk ALL-YEAR. OVER THE SIERRA. The only here is work. Mcbbe They Were Colosltes.

(Prom Chicago 'ail. News.) Every winter sriow drops a gate 'and closes And wiille my task's not really hard Beloit, Susan Ver mending an increase in the salary tm, somehow; I regard the mountain passes in northern California. million Janesville knocked or one 01 ins il is to tie one Its sharp Insistence day by day As interference with my piny. American people and their representatives fn congress -grasp- the great unileryllng truth that their out of her shoes when she was struck by an automobile l.ere. She Why should I toil the whole day country must have ah adequate was uninjured.

through merchant marine to prevent it When there's so much I'd rather Remember the reporter who, de do? from, losing Invaluable foreign markets to the permanent- injury hoped tliat the clerk got the raise: Without knotting what pay he has been receiving we should say that he deserved Such clerks are not too common and they should be recognized when found. It" is refreshing to find them among a number of clock watchers who ma'kje it a point not td gire a minute overtime to their employers. tailed to cover the pri-e ordered tg turn his back on the of country's vital forces. I've noticed slltlna: by the pane Those short and scenic routes to Nevada become impassable and motor traffic which would otherwise flow to the, valleys and cities of this part of the State turns southward on the other side of the mountains. It is not surprising that with this annual blocking of the passes there should recur talk of all-year highway over the, mountains.

Tunnels through the Sierra are not comtemplated, Of some swift moving railroad train. Seattle Times: In San Fran ring and watch the crowd 7 Our idea of a good Job for- someone else is to write up a football game in terms of its effects upon the head coach. Instead of tillincr up the land The fellow who "is always willing cisco's municipal election, 10.526 ballots were cast for a candidate whose death had ben announced three weeks before. Thfs example The furniers at a fence rail, stand Letting the 'useful minutes fly to watch the cars go by, Prcl'crrins. that beyond a doubt to do a ltitle more than his job calls in line for a better of thoughtless voting is not with job.

lie is on the road to success. Four cheers far th- quarte. 'utlc. And the captain five. Then went into a football game! And both came dirt alive! To rooting last year's corn Hulks out 'precedent; Washington has nor -are there borate plans, for reducing had a similar experience.

How Christian Science Monitor: The general public had a good chance Ilooster. "Is thisa healthy town?" asked the newly-Arrived invalid. "I shouldXsay so." answered the native. "AVhen I came here I Jiad not the strength. to utter a word; I had scarcely a hair on my head; r4ouldn't walk across 'the room, and had to be lifted from my bed.

"You give me hope. How Ions; have you been here?" "I was born weekly. out. Oh, how men waste their lime, say, And yet I know with every day ever. It may raise doubt of the wisdom of urging everybody to go to the polls.

While 'it is generally to: see at first hand what a hold sports have on the new spaper Temptation swings 'me from my publishers when the majority of agreed that public Interest Is best served when many voters east their SKYLINE BOULEVARD EXTENSION. Extension of Skyline Boulevard, as a broad parkway, from Redwood Road along the crest of the hills to Lake Chabot and the Foothill Boulevard, is one Trf the suggestions in the Major Street Plan prepared by Harland Bartholomew. It is a picture oi many pleasing aspects, that of a parkway from 100 to '150 feet wide, with two roadways and parked area lietween, a five mile pleasure boulevard commanding a view of ocean, bay and hills. It. is understood that steps arebeing talcen to secure the dedicatory deeds for this project which is before the community as an opportunity to develop a scenic boulevard at little expense.

The present Skyline Boulevard, of thefinest scenic roads in the world, is not in the true sense a boulevard1 because is too 'narrow ant winding. on a project formerly sponsored by Marston Campbell and others, the Major Highway and Traffic Committee capitalize one of the cit's liichest assets, the view 'which is to be seen from the hills. The. point is made that unless steps are taken to. secure -right of way the opportunity may be lost.

course, i. Later to fill me with remorse. ballots- intelligently on election grades. Concrete roadways and snow plows to keep them clean are-all that is needed. There is no questioning the demand, nor the service which would be rendered.

That the plan win work is demonstrated every year in the mountains of the East. The time will come, and it cannoTtonje' too quickly, when traffic over the not have to -haltfor thew'lnter months. the delegates at the American Newspaper Publishers' Assoclati.on convention at. Virginia Beach attended the first assembly in golf I find I'd rnther Teud than write, day. Mere numbers is not the only object to be attained.

As to the San Francisco election, a way Rather play bridge with friends at night clothes and soon deserted the meet Over the Road. "In my younger days," the eld In truth, I have this mental quirk, lng for the links, the afternoon might well have been found to remove useless names from the That Let's Him Out. (From Yakima, liepubiican) Some editors habitually blame the printers every time they are made to say something untrue or even foolish. Not so here. Our printers are all competent, noble, brave and gallant, and between them and the old man there is understanding and nfidence.

Not one has -a. mean disposition. Nothing should be charged against any of them, except perhaps at a store. If a mistake ar years in the paper, the printer should not be blamed. The proper person to blame is functionary whom we have hired expressly to make mistakes' and receive all bucks which are passed.

This plan should be adopted by aU newspapers everywhere. actor-sald, "I traveled from- on end of the country to the other." It Is so easy not 1027. Edgar A. Guest.) business session being adjourned for start of the annual golf voting machine lists. "Well, the young actor re.

im championship tournament. plied "just i.thlnk of that! And New York Times: Compared WHAT IS DOING TONIGHT there were no rubber heels In those Kansas City Star: Sometimes days, Youngstown Tele- feram. TRIBUNE radio broadcast. Pacific Slope Dairy Show, Audi torlum. Lieutenant G.

6. Noville ad dresses Aahnies Temple. members. with the country as a whole, the people of. New York State marry mere hastily and repent with more leisure 'This would appear from the Department of Commerce figures on marriage and divorce in 1926 and 1926.

For the United we think a fortune might be made by a man who made decks of cards with radium-light spots, 'to he used in homes where there Is no iljum-ination except so-called bridge EVENTS FOR TOMORROW "For the first time in history" a bar of gold has flown from mine to mint, from San Andreas to San Franciscorr-And there is good reason to believe that 'after it is coined it will keep on flying. TRIBUNE radio broadcast. Antonlan Dramatic Club pre Woman's League bazaar, First lamps. Congregational church gents "A Ho ma Run," Anthony' Elks' annual charity High hall, Foothill boulevard and Blx SPIRIT STATE PRESS teenth avenue, evening. In Concord, N.

Hv Helen Gwendolyn Jones running for mayor and there are many citizens who do not know what to make of it. Helen Gwendolyn Jones wears short skirts and bobs her hair. She was school, Alameda. Sunset Rebekahs'. whist, I.

O. F. hall, Eleventh and Lonesome club, singing 8 to 8:8 The Texas Bankers' Association has Offered we read, made a cleanor p. m.y monern and ofd-time dances. Fine! He has not for a $5000 reward "for each 8:30 to 12 125 Twelfth- A REAL-BIG GAME.

erbano circle, cl ot ot sweep In the municipal elections at street. gotten how to Neither has he lost all of his illusions, for he whist, I. O. F. hall, 8:30 p.

M. whist, Joseph's hall. nonor pupil at hTgn school, is a graduate of the state university, and has specialized invcivie government. Helen is twenty-four. says: "I am not an optimist 'Native Sons' Hall association, Seventh and Chesffitit, evening.

Reading, Pennsylvania, the other day. This gives a "radical" element control of an Important city of there's-ilto'o much evil In, the world, Wedgewobd No. 604, and in me. Nor am I pessimist there too much good in the world, O. whist, 717 Fifty-fourth street; some 107,000 population, and will attempting to rob a Texas bank." Those Texani, evidently, mean ''business." Tl it is said, has been "enriched" in one year through the sale of liquor.

Now for a' definition of that word "enriched." whist, Native Sons' hall, Eleventh and Clay. Lonesome club, whist and 125 -Twelfth stree't, Whist, St. Elizabeth's be looked upon with alarm by This and That and in Happy the man or the woman who- at 75 still Elks', annual charity show, High persons who continually fear sub school, Alnmeda, evening. play, relaxation that makes It school, Thirty-fourth avenue, HJomrless Children Committee, possible' to defy- the oncoming, of versive dootrlnes are making head-w-ay in American political life. The curious fact, thoughr is that' a Socialist administration never seems to make much visible differenr-e lrw matter what previous scores may be he Big Game is ever-the-Big Game.

Tradition takes care of that. J. California's gallant stand against -Washing; a ame Avliich entered in the books of the fans as the most glorious defeat on record, and Stanford's unexpected loss to Santa Clara, have removed all talk Pf ''logical certainties" from the deciding-struggle on Saturday. The outcome today isso much iri doutit that the experts are splitting fine lilies of psychology their learned efforts to award one team or N. S.

and N. hist, Amer- lean Legion hall, San Lcandro. "eve Coolidge, whose home state is Vermont, has been offered a bankrupt Indiana farm. If the soil's the years, and- with whom at least some of 'the Illusions and ideals of youth remains ning. -rocky enough, the President might Professor D.

S. Mackay, lecture on "Philosophy and. Conduct," Wheeler hall, U. 8 p. m.

Yacs, TJrrSiness Girls' club of. T. W. C. visit Chabot Observatory.

Ernie Smith Sfefdresaps Sbriners. Loyal Knights and Ladles of affair. Milwaukee, "Wigwam." Pa make It pay. The Yakima Morning Herald. cific building, evening.

Only one eaithqliake out of one Oakland Camp, No. 8179. Roval ALL SET FOR BIG GAME. What happened, to the Stanford tbotball tearij last first, second, third teams, any and all the football that Stanford has? Vbur' guess is as good as anybody's. Figure it out to suit yourself only don't newest to take into account the football players that Santa Clara University sent into thousand' 'rdcdriled' 'disturbances The' chief difficulty confronting Aahmes Temple.

Neighbor of" America, whist. Hotel these crime abatement conferences Victor Berger as its mayor, onereci no outstanding Socialist experiments for the country to observe. Smaller cities have elected Socialist officials, with neve? any observable results in the way of Soclalr Ism exemplified. Socialism, like other' poll.tico-sonlal Ah Wah' Nee Tribe Red Men, Leamington, evening. is a failure to get the whle-heart- whist, 3256 East Fourteenth street.

Women's League bazaar. Fruit- W. B. whist, Souza's hall, this character is 0ostrurUve to any extent. During the course of a year ao.OOO earthquakes may be experienced throughout the globe, but only 31 of them will be of sufficient severity to cause damage.

This Is saicLon the expert authority vale Congregational 'qtiureh, all day. ed -cooperation of the criminals. The Muncie Morning Star. tne Stanford stadium the other the coveted "(fdge." For a fine lot of hard-play Forty-seventh avenue and East eagles- wlilst. Eagles' hall, Ala Fourteenth" Street.

rA to the numbershoiH find W.hrHd meda, evening. The influence of king's seems to theories." appears to be very vital W. whliil ai He-Slope -nnlVy-ShowTAu and stimulating until it given atantly LafUin hpi tloB. of vojnoAogyr-tleo4 r.u1iei negligible tKraif-pf isu-culled players "wh staaium at i aio im uniereuc Forty-seventh avenue and East dltorium, all day. Fourteenth street.

Contra Crista Hills club party, an actual, responsibility. Then it calms. lown to a plodding-conservatism. -r-Knn Diego when there are four of them in a poker game. The Baltimore Evening Sun.

logical Survey of Washington. Another Interesting observation from the same source states that Europe suffers greater injury from Alameda Whist club Hotel Ala- Fulton theater, evi nlng. meda, 8:30 St. Elizabeth's parish whist, St. Center, hazaar, Y.

TV. all day. Ancient" OrdeK. of Hibernians. than-dbes America, the Elizabeth's hall, 1500 Thirty-fourth avenue, 8 p.

fn. Collectively speaking "Babe" Ruth, the Nebraska egg-laying Ruth and Ruth Elder never will have another year like 1927. The Sioux City Daily Tribune. whist, Knights of Columbus hall, evening: Degree' of Pocahontas, R. A Re'rtViing man claims, to have found a process for thfo manufacture of candy that makes the sweet conducive to sllrnness- The only ones who become thlln now are those who worry every time'they eat a piece from fear that Jt will make whist, Porter hall, 1918 GroVe Benefit whist for Church of Little street.

reason being that Europe Is 'more rteiisely populated and more Intensely improved, hence man' and his works, qiiito certain to be Involved wherevTr the blow may fall on European contlneut. Japan's severe losses may be explained by the same theory. Long iieach I'rPBs-Telegrain. Flower, Rock Ridge Women's club evenlng.v Ladles' Auxiliary, Veterans of Ninetieth nvenue Baptist churcli. Foreign -Wars, bazauP, W.

O. Siiiglit be counteapn lo second -stcing Stanford, men a work-out, and maybe the first-string men some light exercise, to -Keep their muscles the "field with the -idea of playing football aiiiPtliey played it. No thing-that Stanford could oferwas toogood for them, or, as they even prav.c.d,ftol(il cno'ugh. And vVhathajTpened to California and That, anybody is tree to work out to suit himself. The net result Is that Stanford doesn't seeni, (n gpn.eralestlniBtion, to have the assured -certainty of over the University of California in the Big Saturday that was conceded to it' only as late as Saturday morning.

California has proved that it can fight: Stanford has proved that even this late in the season it can He beatin. Tne final and incontrovertible' derision of M'eciiliition tl-e iq teams will lie iy the tennis 'In We think we know of course; Stanfoid will win. Uut 1 A A A I ti.em fat. 'If someone would onl only that the game promises to be close. Tlipy would bn matlef how unevenly matched were the teams and would have historic precedent convictioirthat in 4 Pig Game the worm may turn and the under dojr nut wild for.

toueb downs. Vrs, they wiildjie there in any -event, but they lik lKst to-le jw-esent when there are hope and apprehension air. when. two trams at top form and enual reputation take the fioTdS-Stanford will put into play a. team oil lialaml with humi who nreJN.aini men rho in; hcMy, team bicb i prtibaMbi'tter' in the wide vrUtj of possible pla.i'fc hall, Fruitvale, thS coming national politiVal conventions really ought to be round-ups.

About half "the delegates will be dark horses Jos Angeles devise a scheme for removing Dad's dinner. Piedmont high school, 6:30 m. worry frorii cup of coffee at 11:45 m. Watsqnvllle Register. Edonal club whist, St.

Marx's Seventh and Grove streets. A medical authority says It is difficult for thin people to laugh often. Now, flappers, laugh, that he Charleston Post. bazaar" jpflernoon. American Legion lauxlllarjr.

whist, 20t-Broadway, evening. Harmony Homestead, B. A. whist, St. tieorge hall, evenjng.

Piedmont Parlor, No. S7, N. D. whist, Pacific building, evenln. Court Shell Mound No.

17, c' whist. Golden Gatehall, FIft seventh and' San Pablo, evening. 1 Independent Order of Foresters, -hlpt, Athens hull, Paclfle build- if tulton "Tlhe Ghost Train." i Amerlcan-J-'The. Magic Flame." D. "Tell It To Sweeney." "Soft Cushions." Htate-Plcturea and musical com SlefiiiiJison, the Arctic explorer, suggests that the shortest way to fly from 'New York 'to London or Peking Is over the Arctic region.

This, he saj'i, saves half the distance and avoids fogs and "wide Jumps' of-water." There Is also good the northern route for polar bears and walrus. -Modesto News-Hera M. Dr. Henry Van Dyke. vteacher, lecturer, preacher, dlplomatand author of much that will llveln, English literature, finds himself st 75 "tn the Indian summer of hiy re." end still bis to enjoy sweet tasting pipe," and can still "hook snd play and lend a trout edy.

Is the food supply vanishing? asks a scientist. Sure; thi-M times a day regularly. -The Norfolk fc'deer-Dispatch, I fp'n nTrTe Plrtures rnd ru. tfalU tue tbt wt lacking recently. Palo Alt Tithes.

tUs ry in tb. wufctw, I.