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Evening star., 1924-03-02
Chap II

SuAp IL
THE pond were very beautiful bs-
hind the mud-covered Tannery.
Standing betwixt the wettest waves
could be observed one gentleman OF
bilious expression peculiar to Art
Nobody was there to care about poor
Lester. (Another person at this in
slant would injure plot.) Everything
was sad. Even seagulls. those oceanic
roosters. hop from heaven with raw
noise.
Come on Death" holla Lester.
He scrouch down. He make his
knees & elbows athletick like a frog.
Then 1eaps!!
He fell right into that wet pond.
Lowly, lowly he dip, downly, downly.
into submarine dept. of deep sea.
But when he was almost dead, what
was that?
Underneath all that his fingers
grabb a lovely face and figure. Also
. sweet personality.
What" he snagger. "A lady
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& other expense. Setting on artis-
tick platform are Pearl, getting
painted.
"Dolling," he say SO, II shall paint
you like a queen
Which queen, If any" she require
with lip.
Queen Victoria" he acknowledge.
':She were so successful"
Then jing-jing by Talefone. Lester
rush with his ear.
Must sec Hon. Pearl rapidly" say
hash voice.
She go while Lester say, "Ye gods
(referring to pagan idols) what shall
I do now without Pearl to paint?"
ChapV
Now let US watch what Pearl does.
She 60 home and see Mother pack
ing trunks.
Put on your pinkish ball gown"
she dement,, "and go at oncely to ship
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after tho war. He said he would like
much to go to America, and that his
father. King Ferdinand, had been
greatly inclined to accept the invita-
ton that he received to attend the
opening of the Panama canal, but
that the troubled times that came to
sion in Its favor.
walked with his majesty down to the
rear Of the palace, and my photog-
rapher made a snapshot OF the king.
And who are the Bulgarians. the
subjects Of this constitutional mon
arch. who rules them under a parlfa-
ment in about the same way as that
other king, George v, rules England?
They are Q nation Of 100000, the
descendants Of Slav tribes who came
from the Carpathian mountains.
crossed Russia and settled here In the
Balkans. They are q sturdy, patient,
sober people, who are proud and war
like, and who have imbibed the spirit
Of liberty from tho air OF the noun
tains in which they live. For hun
dreds of years they were ruled and
oppressed by the Turks but they al
ways fought against their rulers, and
in 1873. thirteen years after we freed
tho negro. they became practicaAy
free and established q government Of
their own, although they still ac-
knowledged and paid tribute to the
Sultan Of Turkey. Their dependence
upon the sultan continued until Octo-
Der 5. 1908. when they threw on even
that semblance Of subjection and be-
came absolutely free. with . king OF
their own.
The Bulsarians Of today realize
their independence - much rs do the
people Of the United States. The
country il divided up into . vast
number Of communities or villages.
and every little town elects its own
officials and even its school teachers.
A vote may be taken at any time and
an unpopular teacher dismissed.
The Bulgarians are we'll educated.
considering that It is only forty-six
years since they had no schools ut all
except the rude teaching OF the Turk
ish domination. Before that not more
than one man in five Of the city peo.
pie could read and write. and the
country people were almost all illit-
crate. Today % per cent Of the males
and more than three-fourths Of the
women Of the cities Of between ten
and thirty are literats. In 1879 there
was only one school In the whole
country that could be called an acad-
emy or high school. There are now
more than 500. and the elementary
schools number over 5000. There are
two universities here 1T Sods, with
about 5000 students. almost equally
divided between the boys and girls
~ II
EDUCATION 10 practically universal.
II and am told that the illiteracy
10 less than In the United States.
Eighty-five out Of every one hundred
Of the population can read and write.
Notwithstanding there are something
like 100000 Turks. most Of whom
u 4 ~ op1v $hA Koran
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was still young and any way suppose
a gal named Priscilla does, manage
to get up around her ffties and some
body takes . notion to ask her what
know and they look II up, why It cer-
Evening star., 1924-03-02
by FRANK G. CARPENTER
SOFIA. Bulgaria.

URING my stay in Sofia I
have had the honor of an
audience with his majesty,
Boris III, who is now the
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EDUCATION 10 practically universal.
II and I am told that the ilIiteracy
10 less than In the United States.
Eighty-five out Of every one hundred
Of the population can read and write.
Notwithstanding there are something
like 100000 Turks. most Of whom
learn only the Koran.
, 1924-01-05

TnAlr engines pftDl dSdlItSt SALi - A.
impulses as the Germans have devised.
London. Jan. Ist.-The Prince of
Wales. as patron of the British Legion,
has written New Year messages in the
Tagion's Monthly Journal, wherein he
expresses the most earnest hore that
before another year the Legion may be
relieved of It's heaviest burden, namely,
that of struggling to get employment for
* officers, So tat those who fought for
their King and country may live in peace
and happiness.
Cnicago. III Jan. 1st,-Damage es-
tinarpd at close to 81 900 0)l vas done
b. ir4 at ths Whiting, Inliana Pant
Of the Standard Oil Company Of In
diana. this afternoon The machine
sD1n ani ooiIQr works, including several
bindings ana most Of the machinery il
taamzwere practically destroyed md 30
Storage tanks containing about $1,000
q ions of gaSOiene were threatened o.
the flames.
NI.riq.g =, Man, Jan. LIT -B,tiag
in weather 10 degrees below L 'ro, ire
men are hghtIng one o. the most d'~aS-
tr3us fires in rgC4At yeas - Ca'5 C.t@,
80 ,ich started early tits aV.1iGg in the
Tease and Persse Wholesale grocery
warehouse, a five story structure on WI
liam Avenue. Early estimates OF the
damage pace the loss at 500 03). The
q . is unknown. No "a IJj,ltS nave
been reported.
London, Jan. LIST. -Jncltascd @ctiNity
in British trade is noted IN the American
Chamber Of Commerce (london) Deem
her report. This is espacla..3 true OF
the coal industry which IS heavily sold in
advance at increasing prices. More than
II 600 tons w,re sent to tie United
states in December and contracts have
been placed by French and .5Weilsn state
RAILWAYS. The iron aud-steel Industries
are also occupied with substantial orders
from the railways and shipyard5 The
galvanized sheet iron and TIN trades are
hooked mon rs ahead, according TO this
r-p,rt. The British Empire IS assured
of a continuous supply CT ENC in the re-
asing OF deposits at Burma and in Aus
tralia. with a production plant IN Eng
land and the formation OF a NalOnal
Smelling Company. The report also en-
nhssiZes tie great American demand for
linens and finer pottery. Activity IS
noted in the pharmaceutical and chemical
trades. due to heavy Japanese orders to
renIace stores destroyed in the earth
Franklin, Pa, Jan. 1st. Six persons.
including . woman, were XII led today IN
. nrematute explosion of nitro glycarine
- tho ''snOotino' of an oil we'll on a
, 1924-01-05

ltIlI, OdpI OI 1OUu LIti'N 'iA ID Ni'f.' ~
otAar stations and 10 tiesC'te UaysIIt~
cJrdi lily replied. 1t is estimated THAI
considerable over 1(0, coo South Africans.
British and Dutch, representa- 2 all So
tons Of the Union. visited the ships du,
ing their stay here and the whole IS
South Africa today has a realization #
what the British Navy means. Whila
would have been impossible if the Vi il
had not taken place.
Pa is. Jan 2nd.-Paris and its sub
urts, recovering from the effects OF the
New Years fro,ic woke this morning IT,
realize that something serious was gC.a2
on in the river Seine. The heavy rain
fall of the Tast fortnight had hrou2ir
down the waters into the river to sucl
an extent that this morning the aSpec}
was one Of seriousness. The officials
at the Foreign Office arriving at their
desks today, after the New Years yaca
ton. found the water was sweeping into
the basement of the building, where in
purtant archieveS were stored. The Eitc
Department was Immediately called
ulon and thought pumps to the buiIdino
in the hope Ot clearing the basement OF
water and saving the valuable papers
stored below, Fear was expressed
that the rise In the river might bring
about such a situation as prevailed in
1915. when the diplomatic staff Of the
Foreign Office had to go to their posts
in boats. The suburbs Immediately east
and west of Paris are largely under water.
They besr the aspect Of a muddy Venice.
Boats have been brought in use al
Auteuil To move the inhabitants from
houses which have been surrounded by
water. In other buildings in various
parts of the inundated area boats are
being used 70 carry food to people who
have declined to move. The great
Truck Glrden area wing along Tire ,ilsr
resem bles a vast lake. Only here and
there is there any vegetation showing
above the murky waters. Army en-
qineers are rushing foot bridge materials
to numerous suburban towns in oraer to
permit the people to circulate in the
water covered streets.
L.bdon. Jan. Ind The Daily Mail
each day becomes more excited over MIR.
AsquiJh's refusal to support the pre-
sent Government. 1t tells Mr.. Asquith
today lhat il he finally refuses to do so
his party will be faced with destruction.
We do not hesitate to say that putting
the Socialists in Office viii be the most
important ch9nge this country has seen
since the Norman Conquest, says the
newspaper. From John O'Groats to
Land~end the country would be out for
the blood of the Liberals, 1t can be pre-
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YOUTH AND WAR AND PEACE

GO1UT IN TIE WEST Of peace has forth with
W plan reduce the number of He doesn't claim his
plan would end lie merely says would reduce the
of war. 1t would make harder o
The is David Starr Jordan chancellor emeritus of
Stanford University and former president Indiana Universe
y just awarded the $4,000 prize offered by
Raphael Herman through the World Federation Of Educational
Associations for the best peace plan.
DR.. Jordan's plan chosen from 5000 because it
thought by judges practical workable
That DR. Jordan All his life he has been assaled by
his dreamer visionary deast Of
with the times.
The big idea IN DR. Jordan proposal that school books
should teach that the real of nations in science
and intellectual development He says that textbooks the
world gorify and conquest lead the minds
youth believe that gh makes right lie says that makes
for
DR. Jordan qualified to make this criticism knows
about textbooks and has written of them folks
have read Peace has been his hobby for the better Of
long lifetime lie by that hobby in unusual way.
scientist he constantly upon evidence of the
suits of War thought be survival Of the fest
That may have been in the old days when fought like
mails DR. Jordan studies satisfied him that modern machine
made war meant survival weakest in the nations that
fought The best Of youth and died Further study
led him to believe that everybody lost victor and vanqshed
alike.
From results war study Of causes
and from time time he has suggested reducing them
For his trouble he has been branded pacst and subjected
much ridicule last produced which
the judges called practical albeit others may like them
They worth consdering
First he would have a commission study textbooks
Lied if achievements Of and science
mind be glorifed least much the
Second he would have study matter
of teaching patriotism there something more to
patriotism than willingness fight neighbor nation
its people.
Third he would have established Department in
Washington of Peace which study the technique
of being prepared for peace the Army
and the Navy General Board constantly study question
being prepared for
Jordan would peaceful contests with other ma
tons debates and athletics, let
ergec youths of each nation that equally energetic
youths other nations capable Of good craftsmanship and
worth while friendship.
To some, this sort Of plan may visionary, but Dr.
Jordan says that what the youth Of the ord this year
is what the nations of the world viii be doing twenty-five
years.
What he suggests costs little in money and nothing pres
ge, why give it ral7 The old folks done much
the way reducing the number Of Maybe the young
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is THERE A SANTA CLAUSE

mo one who watched the deluge of calls from big
hearted citizens of indianapolis The Times asking that
they put with unfortunate families in order that
these families may have happy Christmas, there be little
that Christmas spirit still exists remarkable degree
Each day The Times is printing list of families who
desperately need Of help Each family has been investigated
thoroughly and found worthy Without this help Christmas
would just another day of poverty The oppOr
tunties help almost nexhaustbe They limited only
by of the citizens of Indian
apolis and that limit is wide
good deed is its reward. Making Christmas merry
unfortunate family only helps make Christmas
little for the benefactor This Is the spirit of
ing is the spirit of Him in whose memory Christmas OBJ
served.
One help recall the wonderful letter written by
Francis P Church of the old New York little girl who
asked there really Santa Claus He said referring
Santa Claus
YES Virginia he exists certainly love and
W and devotion and you know that they abound and
to your life its highest beauty and JOY
OF course, there is a Claus
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uY77QE7G

Isl OLIVER HOLMES. Senator
from Lake County, in In.
IS dianapolis Monday. said he
would introdI zee bill into the next
Legislature to prevent confinement
In county jalls Of persons held for
sanity hearings.
The same DAY tho Indiana Society
for Mental Hygiene urged State
psychiatric hospital for treatment OF
durable mental disorders.
Both would d. humane steps. For
one blot on society has been heart
less treatment Of mental DETECTIVES.
They were long treated little better
than wild animals
Mental deraneement is not q crime
its an affi,tion And sufferers
don't deserve to be jA.el like fell
ons.
or course the violent must he re-
strained But not In Jail Which is
40 more suitable detention place tos
them than FOR cousWuptiyos awolt
ing removal 20 q sauitorum
Iumaultariauism wouI howl II
an innocent, helpless tuh@rrullr wa
confined in jail Yet victims ~
mental Diseases ara subjected 10 tHa'
ind!gnity with scarcely the m.l
flicker ~ an eye.ash in protes.
Hut humane methods begin to
triumph. Another stain VII Der ~.
moved from tle -po'tv r"eurj li
mental detectives ara separated En-
theory and IA fact from the social
scum accumulated ia jalls.
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Tom Sims Saws

4 crossword puzzle day will not
keep insanity away.
What does a farmer raise when he
goes 70 town TO pay his taxes? Five
letters beginning with I'd"
Maybe this Salem man who hic-
coughed three days nistook himself
for a flivver trying to start on d
cold morning.
TT. Worth. Texas. auto victim was
put IN an ambulance and it wrecked.
The only safe place IS home.
Here's news that viii tickle the
wild ducks. Staten Island duck-hun-
ter had his feet frozen
Must be nice to be duck and so
in wading without galoshes.
News from Paris. Prize is offered
for the funniest clown. Nobody
barred, not even French politicians
. They sent a picture Of the Prince
of Wales by wireless. but those with
ordinary receiving sets only got the
prince Of walls.
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RIGHT HERE
IN INDIANA
BY GAYLORD NELSON
Reform

= ITCHELL HEATH Of Prince
IMl ton. Ind. was hauled before
49, a magistrate in that city for
"a Inisdemeanor. And was ordered
to accompany his honor to Sunday
school the next day.
Which he failed to do So yes
terday he was committed to Jail for
contempt.
No doubt incarceration in jail viii
.regenerate the hayward young man
as much as one obligatory church
attendance
There would be much less moral
oblquity abroad II more people visit
ed Sunday school regularly--in per
son and In spirit. But a single coer-
Give plunge into sanctity wont
metamorphose an old wicked weed
into a rugged moral oak.
Yet occasionally some miscreant
is sentenced to couple of church
appearances. Under the judicial
hallucination that thus can be cured
any two-legged incorrigibility
Usually the offenders SO sentenced
don't gerIninate a moral plu-feather.
Probably their wings would sprout
as rapidly II sentenced to stand ON
one foot and wlEele their ears.
Reform can't be planted In per
verse subjects by forced feeding or
hypodermic injections Of moral pre-
cepts. Character reform must come
from internal desire-n0t external
cOmpulsiOn.
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Fairgrounds adequately supervised
For, during the same period, chill
dren elsewhere were bruised, frac-
uIred and dismembered. BY trying
20 insert pastime into street traffic
Such attempts dislocate play more
than traffic
However play IS an inherent right
OF childhood And should be en-
outraged.
For children must manufacture
asile and sturdy red corpuscles
That's an open-air business. And
the product is 700 valuable 10 scat
ter indiscriminateIy on city streets
rs sometimes happens when a child
upholds bis right to play IN debate
with five-tou truck
The operation OF parks and recrea-
ton centers Is costly. But probably
no other municipal activity gives
greater returns to more people. Be
cause outdoor recreation makes
happy adults and healthy children.
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amount, and IN some instances have
paid nothing at all. Is it not por-
feCtly child-Ike Innocence to ima inc
that the taxing officers tn Wa-hu.
ton and their representatives IN the
field VIII diligently inquire into
every one Of such cases without fear
or favor when the public generally is
In no position to criticise. from en-
tire lack Of information touching the
ultimate facts or the conditions upon
which immunity either absolute or
relative. IS claimed? They May be
INDECENT or ueElectful. Worse stiu
they may be venai.
Even with the widest publicity
graft could not altogether be elm
mated. particularly as IN the intrl.
cate and involved questions Of law
and fact upon which the coutrover
sizes turn the reviewing officer might
easily Justify himself with whatev
his decision might be. The risk IS
multiplied when no one has ans uu.
poriunity 10 know anything about
the matter. save the Taxpayer im.
mediately concerned and thc other
officer through whose hands the pr
poIs pass. perfunctor'iv or otherwise.
The publicity provision must or.
crate. as It seems 10 me. first rs
constrain the taxpayer 70 make n
fuller disclosure II his income. soc
ond to constrain the taxing ON
GERS n "a mara 7iIf0ape irs,tfi,.,, into
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EyeSight

Two little peppers are working for
you whenever your eyelids are open.
They show you the way to the
things that you do. Forever they're
searching an gropin'.
Nature is wonderful How do you
know? Only because you have seen.
Eyes let you have what the world
mas TO show, with vision that ought
TO be keen
Look TO your friends. as the old
saying goes, and look IS what each
person tries. But friends can't be
seen. as a man surely knows. ex-
cept through the help OF your eyes.
No matter what trouble may come
in your way. you always can find
that there's cheer in knowing it
fades out from day unto day. Your
eyes let YOU see your way clear.
And. how are you treatin' these
peppers. OIL man? Consider it now.
ere time flies. You'd best always
give them the best that you can.
Take a tip. and take care Of your
eyes.
Copyright, 1924. NEA Service Inc)
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ITT7 A~HINGTON. Dec. 1U.-To
NV any one possessing any de-
- gree Of familiarity with the
taxing systems OF the various States
of the Union the Juror which has
been aroused by the publicity pTovi.
sion Of the income tax law enacted
at the last session OF Congress must
seem strangely bc'ated.
In the frenzy which It has excited
the idea is conveyed that ii cousti-
tutos an innovation undermining the
most sacred rights Of the c.tizen-an
assault upon the institution Of pri-
vate property, . pestiferou5 triumph
of Bolshev.sm, Communism. or some
Ike ism coming out of the infected
West
There IS nothing new or startling
about the principle OF the law under
consideration. 1t is an essential
part of tho system II property taxa
ti0u io1E iu vogue In this country,
perhaps universally pursued by the
--.-e- and dating from tho begin
uE of organized government. that
every indiWduaI natural or corpor-
ate, is eqUired by law 70 schedule
his property FOR assessment, Il re-
Qui.ement frequently enforced by
severe penalties. IA rule the
assessing officer is further author
.zed. in the absence of a detailed
statement from the taxpayer. TO
list his property upon the best IN
formation available, in either case
the original return. as we'll as its
substance transferred to the assess
ment roll. becoming a public record
to which any one moved by curiosity
or interest may have access.
Burden on Taxpayer
Thus. under the law of Montana,
the assessor must require from
each person a statement under oath
setting forth specifically all the real
and personal property owned by
such person. or in his possession, or
under his control, at u o'clock on
the first Monday in March"
The law Of the State of New York
requires the assessor to ascertain
by diIigent inquiry all the property
and the names Of all persons tax
able In his district. the result Of
which he is 10 set out in the assess
ment roll, specifying not only the
real property of the taxpayer but his
personal property as well"
To accept without question and as
matter Of course. q statute in
compliance with which every last
item of property owned by any one
is listed and his ownership made
public. and yet to arraign another
by which the bare total Of his in
come is made available to those in
terested, is just a little inconsistent,
TO say the least. Still there are not
q few people who habitually strain
at a gnat. but who find no difficulty
in swallowing a camel.
Effect is Startling
Some Of the revelations made by
the publicity which has been the
subject Of so much adverse comment
are of the most startling character.
Persons popularity believed to be the
fortunate or unfortunate recipient OF
huge incomes appear TO have es-
capped with tax perfectly trifiing in
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OF WHEAT
PR OSPER
Government Figures Show
Conditions Are Much
Better,
Times Washinoton Rurean.

1913 NttD OFb Atc-
T~|1l ASHINGTON, Dec. 10.--Ktng
MI Wheat. who occupied most Of
-EE1 the spotlight In the Farmers
Review Of 1924 viii not he backed
Off the boards an inch during 1928.
This is the prediction made in tho
yearly report Of the late Secretary
Of Agriculture Wallace, Just released
by Secretary Of Agriculture Howard
NJ Gore.
Farming as a business looks bet
ter than it has since 1920 The
year 1924-25 may actually bring q
return on invested capital Of about
3 s. per cent This will be TRUE II it
doesn't cost any more to produce
things this year than last.
Percentage Increases
Between 3 and q per cent on your
money may not look very good 10
vou. but to the farmer Who got only
siE-tenths of per cent i'm 1920-21.
Ia per cent in l921-22, and 81 per
cent in 1929 and 1924, it seems
Ike "a ray ~ sunshine on a day dark
with clouds.
Grain producers says the report,
"1rho had cash income from sales
in 1923 Of about $9200o0.0o0, may
earn this year approximately
$I.2l0 100000
'Of this prospective increase Of
sg0oo00.Oo0. tho wheat growers
stand to gain iy far the greater
share Wheat growers i'm hard