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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1929 How to Keep Well By DR. W. A.

EVANS. Observations The Theater By LEN G. SHAW. By ROBERT QCHXEN. nu COIhtHn question cf gentral interest trtwiw, toMituon and Ike pt, disease.

hhert stamped and aiarfltj Of course Intolerance will end when at last we separate church and state. Look at Russia. proper limitations, Utters mil receite tonal consideration in such cases at unsuitablg foe publication, or where mil not permit. So diagnosis w'i mad and Dr. Evans wilt pet prefer, 1 Metropolitan: A man who thinks any law he doesn't like was wished on him by a bunch of darned hicks.

Just how "The Thirteenth Ticket." the Russian comedy current at the Detroit Civic theater, came to be translated into English by Joseph H. Neebe. Detroit advertising man, provides an Interesting story. Neebe has had several of his one-act plays produced in this country and abroad, and in the talkies. "The Nineteenth Amendment" is one of these, and it happened that this playlet found its way into the hand3 of a German broker who had dealings with some of the Soviet pro mil be ignerei.

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A member of the United States Intelligence service told the Women's auxiliary of the Wayne County Medical society Wednesday night that if present conditions and trends continue, another ten years will see every banker and prominent business man In this country paying tribute to gangsters. They are doing it today, as Is every other man, woman and child in this country. The speaker presumably had In mind direct tribute, which a century ago we paid to the pirates of Algiers and now pay only to the more highly organized of our domestic racketeers; but indirectly we are being tapped annually by organized and unorganized vice and crime in an amount estimated by one thoughtful and thorough student of the situation at J16.000.000.000. This sum represents what tne honest element in a nation of 120,000,000 people loses each year through dishonesty and attempting to guard against It hy police, courts and Jails, a half million private policemen and watchmen, and Insurance against theft. The aggressiveness of the criminal class contrasts so sharply with the apathy with which the public generally regards It that a prediction that in another decade gangsters will become bolder In their method of approach loses much of the risk with which prophecy proverbially Is attended.

The chief and most vi ducers. The broker communicated with Neebe to ascertain if the foreign producing rights were obtainable. Of course, with the combined Instinct of an advertising man and playwright, Neebe responded Opportunity never ends. Here the talkies have been with us for months and nobody has yet invented anything for a pain in the neck. Simile for today: As Indignant as a prominent citizen when a package comes c.

o. d. TABLE CONVERSATION. BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

The good zinfe used to say to me At breakfast, dinner time and tea, "Why like the others can't you be? "Why don't you do as others do And make some easy moncx, too? Buy U. S. Steel or British Glue? "The husbands of the girls I know By selling high and buying lozu Make fortunes every day or so. "It seems to me xve're not axvake, If others so much money make In stocks a chance we ought to take. "Why can't we zi'in as well as they? Let's buy Consolidated Hay And make a fortune right away." But yesterday I said, "I'll go And buy a stock that's quoted low." The good wife fairly shouted: "No! "To speculate we'll not commence, I'm glad I've ahvays had the sense To spare you that experience." (Copyright, 1019, bj Edgar A.

Gueit.) favorably, save for the talkie rights, which are held by Vitaphone. Then Neebe. whose interest in the theater A cynic is merely a ripe boob. All mules seem quarrelsome to the dunce who once tickled a mule's hind leg. Great men are lonelv Vmi nn'i have friends when every hand offered is palm up.

is international, suggested an interchange of scripts. Had the broker anything to submit for American presentation? He had. A bale of plays came through in short order. Several of them were in Russian, with which language the Detroiter is not familiar. But through a German intermediary he was able to choose three he thought might hit the fancy of American theatergoers.

"The Thirteenth Ticket" was one of these. Following close on the success of 'Mile. Modiste," which proved so cious effect of all the talk that has been Indulged in of Americanism: Giving athletes hard training to develop strength and endurance; giving kids a soft snap and wondering why they're no good. Maybe the senate needs the sons of wild jackasses. You get quick action with the jacks wild.

popular in revival that the Shuberts crime waves, has been to give the public the idea that It is faced with a temporary condition, which eventually will subside. The truth of the matter is, a whole sea of crime has risen about us. What we are experiencing today Is the application to the business of crime of that genius for organization and Initiative which has made Americans leaders In other branches of commerce. A recognition of this fact must precede, and ought to hasten, an equally vigorous application of that genius to preventing the dismal prophecy we have mentioned from being continued the engagement beyond the original booking, "Robin Hood" has met with such favor in New York that it, has been moved over to the Casino theater, and will be held there indefinitely. Meanwhile A fourth-rate author Is one who eats regularly now instead of getting famous after he is dead.

The meanest hypocrite Is the man who sits by an enemy at a football game so he can smash his hat in safety. You may break, you may shatter stock marts if you will, but folks will keep up with the Joneses still. An experienced clerk Is one who reaches for a size 13 when ft womnn DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE. The following points relative ta garbage were picked up at a recent meeting of the American Public Health association. The water should be drained fro garbage as promptly as possib'e Drained garbage is less offensive' ferments more slowly and is less attractive to flies.

Therefore a screen should be attached to the kitchen sink. Kitchen refuse should be thrown on this screen and allowed to drain. draining it should be wrapped in paper and placed in a covered metal can. This can should be kept clean as to it outside and as clean as possible on the inside. Garbage that is to fed to hogs or which is to be reduced should not be wrapped.

The municipality should collect garbage. Collection by private contractors is expensive and wasteful and leads to nuisance and great abuse. Disposal by burying is verv satisfactory if done properly as the case in Panama. Done i'mpror. erly it is very unsatisfactory.

The feeding of garbage to hogs is all right provided it is properly done. Garbage for that purpose must be fresh and free from broken glass and chinaware and from piM needles and other pointed me'al' The initial cost of a hog feeding plant is high. The hogs should fed on a cement feeding platform and this should be washed daily, ln the best of circumstances from three to five per cent of the hogs will die from intestinal Injuries and from infections and food poisoning. A hog will eat an average of 30 pounds of garbage a day and will grow and fatten rapidly. The Beccari method is very well suited to the needs of smaller cities where ground is not very expensive The garbage is treated with lime and sulphate of ammonia, packed away and left to ferment for 40 days.

At the end of that time It i3 ready for use as a fertilizer and, aa such, is valuable and commands a market. In many places incineration is the best method. Drained garbage wrapped in paper will burn fairly well if dried before being thrown on the fire. The addition of ashes, rubbish and waste crank case oil makes it burn more readily. No Good, But No Harm.

Miss H. I am a girl 22 years old. Would it be at all injurious to me to wear stockings of para rubber to reduce legs and ankles'' These would be worn next the skin at night and during the day exercising. Is there any danger nf rheumatism? Exercise alone has failed to reduce my legs, which are unusually large, while I am otherwise slender. This prnelle mny not do an el, hut It will not do Iwrm.

it not cause rheumatism. Cure for Toe Scald. Mrs. R. writes: I should like tell you of my cure for toe scald For venrtt haA fMa Turning Back the Pages "Mile.

Modiste has taken to the road. Lou Tellcgen has been engaged for a leading role in "Escapade," a comedy by Laurence Eyre. Others in the cast will be Pattl Harrold, heretofore identified chiefly with musical productions; Beverly Bayne, wishes to buy a collar for her hus- oana. How the race progresses! Scientists have learned there Is value in the kind of sun baths taken by the heathen 4,000 years ago. "TRUE BROTHER." At a meeting of local Democrats to plan for a "rehabilitation of the party of Jefferson and Jackson In Michigan," William A.

Comstock, twice gubernatorial nominee of his party, said that a healthy and strong minority party is necessary for good government In the state. We agree with Mr. Comstock: It is more than necessary; It is presslngly necessary. Mr. Comstock said also, "Party government has deteriorated since the advent of the primary." Again we agree, and then some.

Party government has more than deteriorated under the primary; It has disappeared, and In Its place we have personal government snd govtTnment by clique or faction; and as long as the primary system Is maintained we cannot hope for either a strong and healthy minority party or a strong and healthy majority party In Michigan. The beginning of ool and governmental conditions In this state must be the abolition of the primary system. Funny man. When a criminal Inspects him through a round hole in the door and then admits him, he feels flattered. Portugal complains of adulterated olive oil.

Maybe a few boll weevils got mixed In a shipment of cotton seed. Correct this sentence: "My children know I won't punish them before guests," srld she, "but they never take advantage of their immunity." (Copyright, 1918.) motion picture actress; Byron Hatfield and Carl Eckstrom. Teflegen, employed chiefly as a cinema actor in recent years, appeared briefly on' the spoken stage a few weeks ago, in a piece called "Cortez." Florenz Ziegfeld has completed the cast for "Simple Simon," his new musical production for which Ed Wynn and Guy Bolton have written the book, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Besides Mr. Wynn the principals will be Harriet Hoctor, Bobble Arnst, Alan Edwards, Hugh Cameron, Will Ahern, Doree Leslie and Paul Stanton.

Joe Smith and Charles Dale, for so many years the mainstay of the Avon Comedy Four that was a vaudeville fixture before they ventured into musical comedy, celebrated their twenty-fifth year as theatrical partners with a dinner on the stage of the Sam H. Harris theater in New York after the performance last Monday night. They are playing in "Mendel, Inc." Mrs. Charles Hopkins (Violet Vivian), wife of the theater manager and producer, will return to the stage In "Trevelyan's Ghost," a comedy by Dwight Taylor. Mrs.

Hopkins has not acted since she appeared in her husband's production of "Treasure Island" a dozen years ago. Ruth Selwyn announces that her "Nine-Fifteen Revue" will.be put on view in New York early in February. Fred Keating, Ruth Etting ami Dorothy McNulty head the cast. HARDINESS VS. FOOLHARDINESS.

Life's Psychology By C. J. ARMSTRONG. CQ YEARS AGO December 13, 1879 Two body snatchers were arrested at Rochester, yesterday and trunks in their possession disclosed the bodies of three persons recently burled. An explosion yesterday of three tons of nitro-gycerine, stored on Fox Island, near Anderson, was heard 36 miles away at Tilbury.

Windows rattled and doors were opened by the shock at Wyandotte and Ecorse. The Michigan Central Railroad company yesterday paved the Eighteenth street crossing with railroad ties. This will be of great help to the fire department engines in crossing the tracks during muddy weather. Af YEARS AGO December 13, 1889 Residents of Johnstown, are beginning to believe the city is under a curse as the result of the most recent calamity which took 10 lives and seriously Injured 80 when a fire alarm was sounded in a packed opera house. The city was flsst laid low by the flood and then practically wiped out by flre and pestilence.

Congressman Burton, of Cleveland, urged to action by the shipping lobby, Is proving a formidable antagonist of the Detroit River bridge project. Robert Browning, distinguished English poet, died at Venice yesterday. More than 200 packages of opium were seized by Detroit custom agents yesterday. 2f) YEARS AGO December 13, 1899 Susan B. Anthony, famous woman suffrage advocate, addressed the delegates attending the national convention of the American Federation of Labor in Detroit yesterday.

William S. Taylor was inaugurated governor of Kentucky yesterday, ending one of the most bitter political fights in recent years. Agulnaldo, Philippine rebel leader, his bodyguard wiped out and his troops disorganized, has taken to the mountains. The British again met defeat when, under the leadership of Oen. Methuen, they met a force of 12,000 burghers at Modder river.

The engagement lasted from dawn to dusk and official communications stated the casualties were "fearful." Of) YEARS AGO December 13, 1909 King Leopold, who has been seriously ill for the past fortnight, but was believed to be convalescent, suffered a sudden relapse yesterday and his condition is considered very grave. Legal warfare between the Studebaker Automobile company, of South Bend, and the E-M-F company, of Detroit, was started yesterday when Attorneys Ktrchner and Duffleld appeared before Judge Swan in the United States district court and filed an application on behalf of the South Bend company to restrain the E-M-F company from annulling a contract by which the Studebaker company became the sole distributor of E-M-F cars. The Twentieth Century, New York Central's fastest train, en route from New York to Chicago, collided with the rear end of a Lake Shore train at Northeast, last night, resulting in the death of four and the fatal injury of nine. I A YEARS AGO December 13, 1919 Preston G. Findlay, regional fuel distributor, said last night that he expected to issue an order today whereby factories closed by the coal shortage would be permitted to resume operations Dec.

15 on a three-day-a-week schedule. Resuming last week's roundup of criminals who have congregated In Detroit, 80 detectives raided 15 establishments and arrested 150 men. Five American "aces," credited with having brought down more than 50 German airplanes, urged yesterday before a house sub-committee the creation of an aeronautical department of the government to co-ordinate all aerial activities. The group included "Eddie" Rickenbacker. GESTURES.

Within recent vears Dsvcholocrlats WHAT THE 138 EDITORS SAID. There is no trouble In comprehending why "insurgent Republican" senators from the trans-Mississippi area are stirred up and dismayed, and somewhat Tocal over the action of the 138 rural and metropolitan newspapers of the northwest (mostly Minnesota) that have inserted a page advertisement In the Washington dailies calling upon the upper house to got busy at once and pass a tariff bill which will protect both agriculture and industry. Under any circumstances, a dotnand for action based on reason rather than on sectional Interest and prejudice would probably shock those statesmen from the plains and mountains who have been laboring under an impression that their constituents would stand for any sort of demagogic buncombe they might choose to serve up. But coming in the form in which It has arrived, the rebellion against their "leadership" must seem like a knockdown blow cn the jaw. The backers of the advertisement In the capital city papers substantially go over the heads of their home senators, inferentlally rebuke them in a most public way, and beg the upper house as a whole to save agriculture from the folly of Its professional friends.

To make the matter worse (from the viewpoint of the insurgents), the text of the appeal Is so moderate and reasonable that It Is quite unanswerable. Protesting against any holdup of the tariff bill in order to slash the rates In the 1922 law, because an atfempt to make Indiscriminate changes would cause a delay that would "seriously affect the constructive program of building farm prosperity" and "would Interfere, too, with President Hoover's wise emergency program for stimulating business and Industrial activity (a bitter pill this for the diehard antl-adnilnistratlonlsts), the advei-tisement says: "Aside from these considerations, however, we want industrial labor to be prosperous. The workers of the industrial centers are our best customers. We want them to be employed, busy and able to buy. Any considerable unemployment would affect us almost as quickly as It would affect them.

We know that the business structure of the country Is based largely on tariff protection; and that the structure has been in process of building for many years; and that business Is adjusted to it. We have noted how Industrial tariff slashing in times past has Invariably brought depression and unemployment. We do not want that condition to recur because many of our products are already dangerously near saturation point as regards consumption, We are better off with good customers paying us higher prices for the products we sell every day and every week, even if we must forego slight reductions in the prices of what we much less often buy from them." This gives no aid nor comfort to those who are trying to put over excessively high Industrial tariff rates; but It Is a sane formal recognition of the close Interdependence of the industrial, agricultural and business interests of the nation. Although some of the western senators, notably Mr. Norris, are trying to spar, it is evident they have received a blow which leaves them mentally gasping over the ropes.

Undoubtedly there is self-interest behind the editorial utterance from the northwest. It Is, however, an enlightened self-interest that is legitimate. It is based on the rule of reason, and will have support from sensible people of all political complexions In all parts of the country. It is fair to suppose that the sudden stand by Senator Joe Robinson In favor of protection is In part an early reaction. As we understand it, the theory of the members of the senate lobby investigating committee Is that anybody interested In public affairs is a suspicious person and probably a crook, always, of course, excepting members of the "right crowd" In the upper bouse.

In reducing Arthur C. Johnson, a "first grade" New York detective, to the ranks because he failed to "shoot it out" with armed bandits that held up a dinner in honor of Magistrate Vitale, at which he, Johnson, was a guest, Police Commissioner Whalen raises an issue of more than local and isolated UWUIJ1C or less in hot weather, and this year, have turned their attention to gestures. This phase of human behavior is not only the latest psychological fad, but it is also one of the most promising fields of investi Interest in these perilous times. gation, it seems that one's personality is with one's gestures. And nersonalitv in.

nf nrm at me oeginning of summer, I applied mercurochrome. About two weeks later I applied some more and have had no more trouble. KKI'IjV: Vou osnnot certain tmuhle will nt r.iturn. fart, in nii cw out nf ton mirh treatment a rliv rauiii-i the sympiomi to lm.ippar for u-tune, but the Infi-rMoii rfmnliu, (Cojiynirht, JOMft.) It appears that when seven gunmen Invaded the scene of festivities and two of them "covered" the guest of honor, Johnson reached for his service weapon and half rose. As he did so a pistol was thebeglnning and end of psychol pointed In his direction also; and he sat down and was disarmed.

ogy. There Is nething causeless In the world, so gestures must have a meaning, even when they are performed automatically. One thing is certain: We do not know the meaning of a given individual's As Man to Man By WILLIAM FEATHER. Commissioner Whalen, In passing sentence, said, "We don't want any of our detectives victims of gestures unless we first know the individual pretty well. It is rea sonable to conclude, therefore, that holdups," which doubtless Is a noble sentiment.

But Magistrate Vitale, who had looked Into the muzzles of a pair of pistols ami knows the sort of sensation that experience causes, commended the detective and said that if he had tried to "shoot it we ordinarily get more meaning out or a known personality plus gestures, than we get out of the gestures of an unknown individual. Voice of the People Communications are published merely as cn expression of the views of cur readers and are in no sense to be regarded as the sentiments of The Detroit tree Press. Letters intended for publication should be addressed to the lulttor, be brief and to the point, written on one side of paper only and wiurl invariably bear the name and address of the writer as exndence of good faith, even thouah an anonymous signature be requested for publication. THE EDI I OR. out" some of the guests would have been wounded In a Bense, the gesture Is asso- or killed.

The judge stood on the dictum that there are times when "discretion Is the better part of cited with stature and avoirdupois. The little fellow makes more gestures than the average sized person, while the large man makes very few. This fact, which anyone valor," and that there is a real difference between hardiness and foolhardlness. may verify for himself, leads to but one conclusion. Any form of ges It would have been easy for Officer Johnson to get himself killed and earn the funeral of a hero; and Humility is a characteristic of a first-rate man and egotism of a second-rate man.

The reason is that we swell up over those things that we do with great effort. A natural business genius will tablish and manage an enterprise of large proportions and remain humble, his achievement Let this same man write a ten-lim poem, and bad aa it may be, he will carry it around and bore his friends by reading It to them. The poem is the product of sweat and high blood pressure, and the creator measures its worth ln the nervous energy that went into its production. His business activity, being a kind of play, like the work of all true genius, doe-not inflate his ego. It is probably unnecessary to say that all first-class work is marked by grace, ease and lightness.

dislike second-rate work because it suggests drudgery and pain. We instinctively dislike good people who strain themselves to be good, while those who are good without any effort at all win oui admiration. (Copyright, 1K0.) Anecdotes SEES DISARMAMENT AS WEIGHTY TOPIC To the Editor: Your editorial in A Problem a Day that would have been his privilege if he alone had ture is an extension of the personality of the one who does the gesturing. You never see a full-grown man making gestures when he talks to boys. You find boys making all today's paper "One Obstacle to Dis sorts of gestures when they are try armament 18 a very weighty matter.

One for the leaders of thought to ponder on, especially those who consider posterity. I believe that been concerned, and perhaps even his duty; but whether a person has a right to make a grand, but fruitless splash, even to attain a moral effect, when the demonstration is likely to drag others to their graves, is a rather different matter; and it seems to us that the detective used better Judgment than his ing to taw to men. Most of the supposed race-differ The sum of two numbers is 128 and their difference is of the larger. What are the two numbers? Answer to Yesterday's Problem. ti a bushel.

Explanation Multiply 3 by 16: add to this is what he must receive. Subtract from 100; divide into J3.50. ences as revealed in gestures may the subject should get more publicity. I i a money making commissioner has shown. be laid to difficulties involved in speaking different languages.

An Italian speaking broken English will do a lot of gesturing when speaking to an Englishman. Put him with his fellows, and, if anything, he gestures less than does an Englishman among Englishmen. should not deaden our concern as to the possible future destruction of free governments. D. J.

HEALY. 1426 Woodward Dec. 11, 1929. OFFERS SUGGESTIONS Putting it all together, we may Very Modern. Clarence Darrow "the Voltaire of America." put down a very modern novel a novel that praised all its wicked characters and ridiculed all its good ones as humdrum and old-fashioned.

"Modern ideas are perhaps all right," Mr. Darrow said, "but what's going to become of the home? "A young real estate agent called on a very modern Orlde and groom the other day and tried to sell a home to them, but the bride said as she kindly shook up a cocktail for the young man: "'What do we want with a home? Listen. I was born In a maternity hospital, raised In a boarding school and finished off In a French convent, I was courted In a motor and married In a magistrate's office. George and I eat in restaurants and sleep In hotels In the morning I golf or motor, in the afternoon I do a movie, in the evening we dance, and when we're dead we'll be burled. So what good Is a home say that gesturing belongs to the psychology of compensation.

In Lessons in English BT W. L. GORDON. some cases it means a compensa FOR CUTTING CRIME To the Editor: It will help if you do away with the present 12 man jury and have eight. Let the THE FRENCH DEBT.

The discussion of the French debt agreement in the house ways and means committee in Washington elicited from the under secretary of the treasury the admission that what the United States stands to get back from France amounts to no more than the money loaned France after the armistice. When to the amount of these loans Is added the amount France borrowed in this country during the war, a figure Is obtained that makes the French debt settlement look like fifty cents on the dollar. This Is the "hard bargain" that it took the French government nine years to accept! The fact that the to us? Still have you got a garage with a Small rotator. The late Haley Flske of insurance fame said one evening in a Y. M.

C. A. address In Brooklyn: "It pays big business to be liberal. To save a dollar In a mean small way signifies the loss of hundreds of dollars in good will. "Whenever a mean, small economy is proposed to me I tell the anecdote about the Scotchman who went Into a barber shop and said: 'Hoo much for a "Forty cents, said the barber.

'How much for a 'Twenty "'Shave man tion for personal deficiencies; in other cases, a compensation of Inadequate speech-habits. (Copyright. 1R29.) majority convict. Elect good men for judges on 30 years time and JAPAN'S NEW CRUISERS. American naval architects sat up last spring and rubbed their eyes, when Germany launched the Ersatz Preussen.

a 10,000 ton treaty of Versailles cruiser that combined sufficient of the offensive and defensive powers of a capital ship to gain it the you will iron out most of the kinks that delay conviction and import Tomorrow, Graphology, DAILY NOVELETTE some Canadian Jurisprudence. G. W. W. Ypsilantl, Mich.

Dec. 9, 1929. name of "a pocket battleship," with the speed and WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Eo not say, "I -wish they would let me alone." Say, "leave me alone" OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Diploma. Pronounce the i as ir. "dip," not as In "die." OFTEN MISSPELLED: Meet (to mete (to measure).

SYNONYMS: Banishment expatriation, ostracism, proscription, expulsion, exile. WORD STUDY: "Use a word three times and It is yours." Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: CYNOSURE; a center of attraction or attention. "He was the cynosure of all eyes." aeakeeping endurance of a cruiser. They are likely to rub them again over the grim Contributed details of the Nacbt class of treaty of 10,000 Years Before Waffles.

(Great invention success.) "Splinter me boulders!" swore Knobb Knees, newly-grabbed wife of Rough Neck, the cave man. "Here Ruffy has commanded me to broil him a juicy hunkydorus steak and I haven't even seen the tail of a snizard yet!" And she raged Washington cruisers which Japan is turning out, as revealed in the new edition of "Jane's Fighting Ships." The Ersatz Preussen, although heavily Today's Talk By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS armed and armored, can make at best only 26 knots United States is getting back from the most prosperous country In Europe about half what Is rightly due It and that this "blood money" represents only peacetime transactions is not news; but it is worth repeating and remembering. The grand jury that quashed Senator Brookhart's wet dinner yarn obviously is In contempt of at least one senator and therefore presumably liable to Inves. ligation by Senator Caraway's committee. One-half of the work done in the world is done in the United States, according to a Columbia professor.

The seasonal reminder expectant youngsters hand to Santa Clausl against the 32 and a fraction knots credited to our around with her club gangling down Words from the Wise By HUGH 1. IIARLET. own latest treaty cruisers. The four Nachis already her back where it was tied to her hair for safe carrying. After tramping around all day, Knob Knees got real mad.

"This walking around will kill me." she growled. "I must take care of myself for Rough Neck'a FROM "MORNING." They sat on boughs he gathered from the cedar, Beneath the jewels of the northern light That swing around their central orb and leader, Polaris, till they fade in morning light. Her weary head was pillowed on his knees, As often on their travels she had rested; Her hair caressed by moonlight and the breeze While tired eyes by slumber were invested. The trees seemed brooding in the grayish air A hilltop loomed alike an ancient bison Beside the sea. He gently touched her hair.

When light was penciled on the east horizon. EMIL O. TOLONEN. sake, for I'm the only woman on the island and he can't cook anything himself." It may be worth while to remember that Haiti "oppressed" by the American marines Is a much safer place to live In than is the average American city without the marines. So she hunted in back or their cave for some weeds to cook.

Picking up about S3 handfuls of weeds which proved to have little If you have bought your Christmas gifts, why not wrap tip those destined for other towns and other scenes and put them in the mails at once? launched and the four building have a speed of 33 knots; and, as well as being faster than our cruisers, are more hpavily armed. They carry a main battery of ten 8-lnch guns, against our nine. They hare triple hulls and every inch has been made use of by the Japanese designers. A battle cruiser is the only ship we have to send against this type of craft. At that.

Japan has kept strictly within the letter of the Washington agreement limitations. The superiority of Nachi class cruisers over our own has resulted from the perfectly legitimate application of Ingenuity to warship designing. While American and British designers have been content to muddle along the orthodox lines of the Jutland and post-Jutland sr-Lools, German and Japanese designers have used tht-ir heads and gotten every pound of efficiency that could be extracted from the letter of tie treaties within which they build. This fact points to the danger of fixirg ratios and tonnages and parities on paper and then droppii.g off tc iep. the comr-Iar-ent id that other na'ions will cot remain a ake to the possibility of ie'erna! Friends are not so easily mad as kept, George Savllle.

Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695). "Maxims cf State." TIs never for their wisdom that ore loves the wisest, nor for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'ti 1' benevolence and virtue and honest fondness one loves people; the oth'r qualities make one proud of loving them, too. Hester Lynch Piozzi 1761. Men's words are ever bolder tins their deeds. Famuel Taylor Coleridge 1834).

"Piccolomlnl." Look beneath the surface. not the several quality of a thin? nor its worth escape thee. r- Marcus Aurrlitis Antoninus 10 A. "Meditations." Better not do the deed than it rione. Vvr.rw Prior WA-7.

i. ry ar'i Err. ma round roots. Lantern-Jaw took them over to the fire and laid them on top of a stone slab they used for a plate. (See "The First Potatoes.

Who Cooked Them and How," by Hieland Fling 'He can eat these or let 'em alone," muttered Knob Knees, "and THE DESERTED NEST. I WALKED out into the woods the other day. The earth was thick with leaves that were dull and dead. Branches that once leafed and waved In the sunlight now lay lifeless and crackled under my tread. The glorious canopy of spring and summer was gone.

Nothing remained but the bare branches above that interlaced the air. I speculated upon days that were once pregnant with perfume and beauty My thoughts seemed to be tumbling over one another in a mae of memory. I walked on, and there below the rising rocks, that formed a little valley below, was a small tree with a nest hidden away between the laiger branches. I had not known of Its existence before I wished that I had known, that I might have seen the happy workings that made that little home so important in the world as it was formed and performed its function of life. I would like to have seen each tiny brhnch selected and placed, each smallest bit of feather or discarded cloth arranged.

For It. must have been a home divine to the bird who made it. But today thst diminutive home is deserted. Its nestlings have long ago flown. Perhaps right now they are basking in the sunlight of the South.

And perhaps next year they, too, will return and build their home near to the old homestead. How indelible are the footprints of Memory! How unhappy we would be were it not possible to recall the lovely sayings, all the generous deeds, all the exquisite pictures of the past, as they pass through our hearts and before our eyes. In that deserted nest I saw labor, devotion, mither and father love as worked out In the bird world. I saw spring, budding flowers, storms, stress and fear. But the perfectly formed nest told me that all these hvl hern happily wpa'hercd.

I love oM hmr.estcads. A. you walk throtieh one you see the Invisible fie' ute the pn-t. full of all that js fir ami plndid in 'life, and you iearn 'he sacrifices and the of th-. whose hands' n-l t'-iouiht the very brarr.

and who-e irm.vn re-bind and bless all who may come to pep or to live wi'hin Fit ire ic -d r-f hi m-'-'r i that, r-f the rr ay to so Urn? f.s iove and beau'y remain a part cf the woiid. Kopyr.rtii. 1C9.) The Arkansas Gazette thinks that with the advent of winter, legs will become clothed incidents. But not necessarily so very much clothed. If you rot a reruetual calendar for Christmas, nre- if he bams me on the bean.

I'll bite a hole in his leg." she finished serve it carefully. It will be fine to pass on to somebody twelve months hence. resentfully, as Rough J.eck came bounding over to the cave from rock to rock 30 feet at r.ne bound. "Where's mv he roared. Criian? K'ai shek declares China Is safe for That is more than he has been able to nake it for the Chinese.

I'ntrue. You were my friend In sunshine, You laughed and sang with me. But now that there are storm clouds. You've run away from me. When darkness gathered overhead.

Ar.d I with trembling ran To seek the hven of your arms, You would not undeistand. At fir--' I not rcilir.e Vr -j To riit r.i.w I wns' yo'i are, jn actual would leave us' St a uri' rize, How vr, B'rah is nt a volcano, whi'h. it to ti. fierar ts frnm the approprla'tnes of the titr.f. as his hungry eyes fell on the poor little potatoes.

fr siieh thev 1 Farkirg away, Knob Knees point- ed to the slao on the fir. V.Vhout a w. i i. P. igh N'ffk lt his cpil, fir.

I' 1 Knob Kn" an ('. an landed on t-p rt the po'a'oes. great inventions! The i firs potato la revenge -l As raz'-r ir.as'jfa,,,'lrer 'i aWs. to a fa' tory in Sovit A syrr.pa'heT'.e r( tie jrlce of B.a'.'.reases day be eiiec'ed. Now tLe of the yc-zr i.n a a' sh'rili be Ijl1 to Eaite every little dollar do double duly.

Gordon Noel. Lord Eyr'f "Dca Juan." My truet in you Is d- al ALEoIA..