The courier-index., 1921-06-10

miles or more with apparently m damage. But ten miles further on a tire blew out; then another-an- other-al four within 20 miles. The flrst sllvers of stone worked in like so many lath nails and my castings were practically ruined. Now, when mt such a road, l slow down and pull over on the dirt shoulders. At the first chance 1 turn off into some byway, even though it adds mlles to my trip-and l advise you to do the same.
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 ITEMS OF INTEREST
 A civil engineer, who has spent twenty-three years in Alaska, de- clared before the House Territories Committee that unless development of Alaska is stimulated soon, de- population will reduce it's inhabi- tants to Indians and Eskimos only.
 President Harding designated the week of May 22 as forest protection week. Governors of the various states were asked to arrange edu- cational and instructive exercises to place before the people the need of preventing waste by unnecessary forest fires.
 A twenty-three-year-old aviatress recently broke the worlds loop-the loop record when starting at the helgbt of 5000 feet she performed 199 complete loops before she land ed her plane. The entire flight con sumed one hour and twenty minutes.
 A tremendous avalanche, plainly discernible from Hood River, Ore gon, recently rolled down the face of Mount Adams. It is believed to be one of the largest slides ever to occur on that mountain.
 Two Bakersfield, California, high school boys recently sent out mys- terious s. o. s. radio calls which resulted in the dispatching of two destroyers from Southern Califor- mia in search of a vessel in distress. The maximum penalty for sending out false distress signals is a fine of $2,500 and five years imprison- ment. #
 Despite the fact that 28.9 per cent of the worlds savings are in this country, only eight per cent of the total number of the worlds savers are American. One of every five inhabitants of France has a savings account.
 Immigrants at Ellis Island are now permitted to cultivate flower beds and fruit. Experts from the vineyards of Italy and Greeks from the land of olives are competing in decorating the detention island The Red Cross provides fertilizer and oversees the work.
 A Cabinet chair is to be fashion ed and presented to President Hard ing from the wreck of the old Amer ican warship, Revenge, sunk by the British in Lake Champlain, October II, 1776. The skeleton of the old vessel lies on the shore of the lake at Ticonderoga, having been drag ged out of the mud twleve years ago.
 Compulsory voting is written in- to the CZecho-SlOvakia constitution. Every man and woman who is ehgi- 1 ble to vote must do so or go to jail. As a result the will of the people is faithfully recorded.
 To show the practicability of us- ing dogs to carry messages when an airplane is unable to land, a fox terrier. recently made a descent of 1900 feet in a parachute from an airplane When he landed he worked himself free from his har- ness and ran to headquarters with a message suspended from his neck. Ben B. Lindsey, juvenile judge, of Denver, recently paid a fine of $500 and costs for contempt of court. The contempt charges were the result of Judge Lindsey's refus- al to tell what a sixteen-year-old boy had confided to him in a talk having to do with a murder in the boys family. The boy was charge of the juvenile court.
 Such flood of gold from all over the world has been pouring into New York in recent weeks that the Assay Office has not kept up with the incoming shipments even by working a twenty-four hour shift. Shippers have been requested to divert import consignments to the Philadelphia mint. Most of it is coming from France, England, Hol- land, Sweden, Turkey, India, China and the South American countries.