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tary of state, who could take his
place?
Ambassador Kellogg, it has been
suggested.
But Coolidge will not have to
look that far to find a willing and
ready candidate.
Right here in Washington, ready
to step into the State Department
at any time, thoroughly familiar
with state department policies and
diplomatic procedure, having worn
silk knee breeches 'himself at the
Court of st. James, is Col George
Harvey.
Harvey surrendered his post at
London in order to return to this
country and win the election for
the Republican party. He is too
modest ITO deny that his 4logan
Coolidge of Chaos" turned the
trick.
And if Coolidge believes in graft
tude as well as common sense, the
friends of "Col." George" believe
there is but one thing to do.
"Who shall run the state de-
partment?" they as,
''Let George do it."
= T.
The very day after President
Coolidge was granted another lease
on the White House he was asked
to consider the cases of 1900 Wash
ingtonians threatened with eviction
their landlords!
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J. PIERPONT MORGAN'S
WIDOW SERIOUSLY ILL

HIGHLAND FALLS, N. Y, Nov.
15.-Mrs. Francis F. Morgan, wild
ow of j. Pierpont Morgan, i'll at
her country home here WIS 2eporto d
to be unconscious last night. y it'll
little hope held for her recovery,
her daughters, Mrs. Herbert l..
Satterlee, Mrs. Juliet Flerpon Harl-
ilton and Miss Anne Morgan, are
at her bedside. Two physicians are
in attendance.
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LOANS made on improved farm
lands at cheapest rates for terms of
5, 7 or 10 years with prepayment
option given. Money secured
promptly We have now outstanding
over $1,1O0,OO0 on farms in Sum
ter county alone, with plenty more
to lend.
MIDDLETON MCDONALD
Correspondent Atlanta Trust Co., in
Sun ter, Lee, Terrell, Schley, M
con, Stewart, Randolph and Web
ster counties. 81 Planters Bank
bldg, Americas, Ga. Phone 80 or
.211.
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Gf3a&iaym
Az hsNhGt Aple
WHITE HOUSE

We elect a president. -Four
months pass before he begins to
serve his term. This year it doesn't
make much difference. since Coo
lidge succeeds himself But when
one party is kicked out and an
other goes into power. the four
months delay is bali ard-chain on
business, and our pocketbooks all
suffer.
We have this asinine delay be-
cause, when our Constitution was
drawn up, transportation and rom-
munication methods were so crude
that it took four months to count
ballots, send word and get the win
ner to the White House. Six weeks
now would be plenty, at most. A
Constitutional amendment a'ong
this line has been proposed. You'n
hear more about it soon. It's sensi-
BILE.
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LARGE BRIMS

Very large brimmed hats with
merely bow or jeweled pin are
liked by the younger set,
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MONKEY FUR

Monkey fur is used lavish" in
Paris, being smart to form border
and collar and cuff effects.
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TO LIVE LONG

Upton Sinclair, famous So
cialist and novelist, the self
styled champion of the under
dog" has recently given his
views in a magazine article on
dietectics. The conclusion of
MIR. Sinclair, after trying every
diet from nuts to sawdust, is
that every man must study his
own stomach. eat what he can
digest; work hard, but not over
work. That, in word is his
receipt for a long life and a
happy one.
A circus man. who has en-
ployed and worked hundreds of
laborers for more than 20
years, said to us:
"The first tent that goes up on
the circus lot is the kitchen and
dining room tent. Any man,
from manager to roustabout,
may go to the mess tent any
hour in the day, and as often as
he desires, and order meal.
He may demand l egg or Is, and.
it is given him. We have no
regular meal hours and we have
found that our men eat when
they are hungry. They seldom
overeat, for they know a square
meal is waiting for them at any
hour. To that we attribute, as
much as anything else, the ex-
ceptionally good health of our
employees, That and living out of
doors. Circus people are sell
dom sick, and they live a long
time. Around me now are many
men who have been with this
show for 81 year, and none of
them are old men,"
In Anyhow the "old-timers
were always talking about the
best methods for attaining long
evity.
Almost invariably different
methods seemed to lead to the
same end.
One would say that he had
never stopped smoking and
drank liquor whenever he could
get it; another would insist that
old age was to be obtained only
by complete abstinence; some
were vegetarians and Others ate
meat,
The crux Of which is: few
ersona react sirnilarI.r u ill
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THE DRUNKEN DRIVER

On almost every page of ev-
cry newspaper one ices accounts
of automobile accidents. the
record of human destruction in
the name of carelessness and
speed.
Too often it is d case of a
drunken driver-easoline and
liquor. This shocking and need.
less destruction Of human life
grows greater. q
Another victim of reckless
driving-this time child, lit
tie girl. But no Que pays much
attention. for there are SO vic
TINS today-every day
Eighteen thousand people
killed in auto accidents this year
in the United Statesl
The horror is not fully realized
until you grasp that it means:
One victim will be killed this
year for every 100 autos. In
10 years, it's one chance in 70
of each car killing a pedestrian,
driver or passenger.
Driving a car, this is the
dread calamity that turks. The
toll of needless speed. Never
to be forgotten. Ever to haunt
the memory. The huddled,
lifeless form on the pavement.
-. A nightmare through etern-
ity.
Caution would have prevent
ed it.
Are you a safe driver2
Or will yours be the "one
car among every 100" this year
to mangle the flesh, crush the
bones and kill HUMANE
When and where will it end2
What's the answer2
With all our Wanted intelli-
gence we don't seek to be able
to cope with this problem. How
ever, the day will come when
every driver of an automobile
will be compelled to secure a
license the same as the engi-
neer of a locomotive.
And once a man is caught
driving while intoxicated, his IL
cense will be forever revoked.
That is one way to stop this
everIincreasing slaughter of
men, women and little children.
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A THOUGHT

Let nothing be done through
strife or vainglory; but in lowliness
of mind let each esteem other bet
ter than themsleves.-Phil. 2:3.
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DIAMONDS

Two diamonds, value $4,000,
adorned front teeth of Samuel II.
Lefkowitz, New Yorker. Not any
more. They're out, and in ring
now. A footpad tackled him the
other night, armed with a pistol and
dental forceps. Sam fled. Future
holdups may get his ring, but not
his chewers. AS has bee nfrequertly
pointed out, one of the chief ad-
vantage sof civilization is personal
safety. Sam probably has his
doubts.
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Noble deeds that are concealed
are most esteemed.-Pascal.
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BALLOT

In Chicago, voters encountered g
ballot as big as stove mat, with
names of nearly 500 candidates.
That's the national tendency. Each
year the ballots become more COM
plicated and bewildering. Row
many people get "balled up" and
vote for candidate sthey never in
tended? How many invelidate their
ballots by marking too r1any names:
How many know anything about the
merits or undesirable features of
even third of the candidates? Tie
total must run into mic''on
Each year it gets worse. Event
ually the national election may be-
come sort of half-blind lottery.
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DODGERS

After the Civil War, Uncle Sam
put a stamp tax on bank checks
above SIS. People lodged the tax
by paying, say, $50 debt with
four SIS checks. Supreme Court
backed them, said the avasion was
legal.
Tax lodging is nothing new 1t
used to be claimed that the income
tax couldn't be lodged or shifted.
Now we know that clam was ri
diculous. Stricter inheritance taxes
and sales taxes on luxuries may be
in the offing.
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\ The crux Of which is: few
srsons react similarly to eth
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SCHEMFR

Slaughter houses use trained
steers which. acting as decoys lead
their unsuspecting fellows to the
butchers. philadelphia has steer
that has been doing tits work for
IL years, secure and we'll fed for
his treachery.
If thi ssteer, had been born
man and a politician, he'd vote FOR
war but not enlist himself.
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TEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Monday, no paper published.
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CHARACTER

Two tarantulas were confined in
Vernon Kellogg's laboratory, says
his book, Human Life as a Biclo-
gist Sees It," One of these spiders
was by nature a sweet-dispositioned
pet. He allowed his owner to
fondle him and would walk on his
bare arm without attempting injury.
The other went into a rage and
reared back to strike with his poiSon
whenever Kellogg came near. Yet
both were tarantulas.
Environment and training are not
all, not by long shot. A lot of
what we are-our character-was
born in us, and not altogether a
matter of heredity.
Evening star., 1924-06-08

party that succeeded him. 1t is going
on now, and last year by royal decree
the appropriation of private property
was declared obligatory.
The lands are divided among the
farmers according to their skill and
ability, the size of their families and
their needs. They are graded as to
the soil and crops. and a committee
Of distribution allots them. The gov
ernment is supposed to pay the own
ers, and it does this in interest-bear-
ing notes. half of which are personal
and half payable to bearer.
The peasants will pay for the lands
on long time, the government holding
the mortgage. In all, some 10000, 900
stremata, a tract three-f1fths as large
as Massachusetts, will be taken from
the owners and sold to 100000 peas
ants. The value of the lands taken
over will approximate $30,o00,o00.
Among the other big questions are
the taxes. Everything pays. Cash in
bank is taxable, houses are taxable,
and so are the fisheries and flowing
waters. If you are a stamp collector,
you will have to pay so much a year
on your lot of old stamps. If a mer-
chant with a stock worth $500, you
will be charged tax on your capital.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Many Greek Citizens Make Money Abroad Then Spend at

best houses of Cairo and Alexandria.
There are many Greeks in Jerusalem,
and they had all the business OF
Swmrna before the Turks ousted
them. The Turks do not like the
Greeks.
A Greek merchant of Alexandria
built the marble stadium, at cost of
100000, and two ciragette kings, the
brothers Zappas, erected the Zappion
as trades fair building for the
AthenianS. 1t is now housing 1000
orphans for the Near East Relief. ]
came over a fine automobile road
from the Piraeus to Athens, which
was built by another millionaire, and
similar evidences of patriotic gener
osity are to be seen outside the
capital.
The Creek emigration to America
began as far back as 1922. and it was
at its height when the first Balkan
war came along in 1912. Then about
10000 came back. and the exodus from
America continued throughout the
world war. Many of the American
Greeks have now little businesses in
the towns scattered over the PENN
sula and the islands.
Copyright. 1924
iCarpenter's World Travels. Copyright WI
Evening star., 1924-06-08

habitants. Pianolas, Ma-Jong and
other kissing games should be fur
nished free SO that poor folks be-
tween the age of 16 & so can get
engaged without going to Emotion
Picture Theaters where war tax is
too high.
"Clergymen wishing to prove that
they are Christians. in spite of their
profession. should be allowed to re-
sign and take Govt. Jobs telling bed
time stories by Radio to DEN & Dunn
Asyiums."
"Are that all?" requesh Nogi when
/ stop.
That are all this week." pulmote.
But like Candidates / shall think up
several other things as I go along"
What would you call such a
Ticket" he decry.
'orhe Communication Ticket" / en-
large. BY such a coupon Presidents
can 60 to Washington and go home
whenever they feel tired"
From this NoEi go onwards with
his tipevriting, sipposins that / are
always talking through my collar.
Hoping you are the same.
Yours truly.
HASHIMURA TOGO.
Copyright. 1a24.l
Evening star., 1924-06-08

her people one-ffth. II the same
thing came to the United States we
should have to take in almost in q
night more than twenty millions of
people. Every family under the
American flag would have to add one
to its members, and in the majority
of cases this one would be a feeble
woman or child. 1t is something Of
a nation that can undertake such a
task and get by.
GREECE has been Increased by the
$4,000 square miles. 1t is larger than
Tennessee. The old Greece was as
big as West Virginia and the new
territory added is just about equal
to two states the size of Massachu-
setts. The country has almost dou-
bled it's population and it is rapidly
approximating six millions. II you
will take six cities the size Of Detroit
or two as big as Chicago you will
have about the total number Of souls
on the peninsula and it's islands. The
capital. Athens. Is about as big as
Washington; Saloniki, the largest
port, is as big as Atlanta or Omaha:
Piraeus, the port at the east, has 130,-
900, and Patras. on the opposite side
of the country. has $4,000.
The country is largely mountains
and lakes. 1t has many islands. and
many arms that jut out into the ocean,
Evening star., 1924-06-08

so that mono Of the land Is far from
the sea 1t Is SO rough that only
about one-flfth of it can be culti-
waited, and fully one-fourth OF 1t IL
covered with forests. Nevertheless, it
supports this large number OF poo
ple and every one of its citizens
thinks it the center of the civilized
earth.
The Greeks have been ruled by a
king for a gen GRAFTON or so. but their
government has been a constitutional
monarchy and practically a republic
Every Greek considers his freedom
equal to that of an American. He
pays moro attention to the govern
ment than We do, and as soon as he
is old enough to speak he talks
politics.
There is no political center where
the affairs Of the world are settled
each day to the satisfaction of all
the people more than in Athens.
Political discussions go on every
where, and mornings and evenings
the people come together In the cafes
and drink coffee or mastik while they
talk politics. They wait for the
newspapers that are printed in the
ancient Greek letters, and their dis
cussions are in a language that, with
a few modern Innovations. is prac-
tically the same as that of Solon and
Socrates.
The Parliament of Greece is differ
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Branching Mangrove.
T>HE trees known as "manEroves
fopm densA thicketS along tn

THE trees known as "manEroves"
i form dense thickets along the
seacoast in the tropics Of tho old
world as we'll as OF the new. They
are characterized by the production
of many prop roots from the trunks
ana branches; these prop roots reach
into the mud and form practically
Uncomfortable tangles. They thus serve
to hold the mud together and are
said to act as natural sea walls, pro-
tecttnx the soil against the inroads
of the sea. The bark Of the tree is
sometines taken for its abundance Of
tanning material; otherwise the sew
eral species are of no economic impor-
lance.
In many Of these species the roots
branch repeatedly before reaching
the mud, instead of growing straight
down. The root divides into two
branches, one Of which soon dies
away, while the other continues the
growth. After extending Tor some
distance this also divides into two,
one Of the branches persistins, and
SO on.
The Dutch botanist Van Leeuwen
had an opportunity to study q man
grove tangle near Samarang, IN java
and he discovered the cause or the
peculiar habit of root branching to
be a small beetle. The female beetle
laws her egg near the tip OF the root
1-he injury causes a new root to
soroat out Just above the tip ana
th> cid tip continues 70. gfow.
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Il SHALL BE THERE AMIDST BANZAI.-

Ladies and gentlemen separately I
shall oratorio. listen while I nomi-
nate Hon. VIM G. Mikado. the
brak ernan's friend. the soldiers bene-
fatter whose permanent motto are:
Pro Bonus Publioo. And II this name
are not popular with brickliars, paper
hangers. bankers & other members
of the Money Gang. then let me an
noy you by mentioning Hon. Jno. w.
Davis who studied diplomacy under
King Geo. before Cl Harvey got to
be a Democrat And what are the
matter with Hon. Oscar Underwood,
famus Alabambino, who. if elected.
promus the American people never
to mention the Tariff axcept when
alone with his wife? And if those
names do not hold your attention
Janus inventors like Hon. Hen Ford
Hon. Thos A Edison. Prof Mike
Pupin-!"
stop up" shouch Nogi like a
fundamentaIist. How could you go
into Conventions. expecting to make
Presidents, when you got no princi-
pees?'
Hon. Mark Hanna, Hon. Boys
Penrose and Hon. Chas. F. Murphy
never had no principles worth swear
ing at, yet they made considerable
Presidents" / combust.
You are talking in triangles!" he
hissy. How in the World On. Y. G.
Planet) do you hope to get there
among all those swelled Delegates
without even any PLATFORM"
All" L manage, II shall have
platform pretty plenty. This shall
be a economy platform. built for to suit
both parties. VIII that not please all
congressman who wish to save money
for America"
1T might, but would it?' haseitote
Nogi. What have you got on yr.
famus Togo Platform, If anything?"
Evening star., 1924-06-08

up bit Unless I much mistake. my
dear Charles Mary Felix. the world
has not finished with you yet. nor
will have for a long time to come.
You remember that morning when
you ran away from your hereditary
principality. concealed in a packing g
case and covered UP with q load of
hay? All the world roared. You
seemed all of sudden changed into
a comic figure. The uniform that you
wore, that you changed twenty times
a day, the medals which you bestowed
upon yourself, the Insignia of the
Ducks Feather which you yourself
instituted-all these things suddenly
became the big laugh.
T tell you frankly, Charles Mary
Felix, you and your baubles had
been no sooner swept into the litter
heap than a thousand new kinds of
folly sprang up to replace you. The
merry Ballahoovian and the Unre-
deemed Itchitanian are running up a
bill of taxes for peaceful citizens like
myself to pay. am contributing my
share to expeditions to Sgzieff. to
Buckoo, and to Tickletoeria and to
Terrabooba
General Choodenstitch is conduct
ing huge operations against General
Corfnsky in Heptonia and 1 can't
even remember which is my general
or where Heptonia is. / have occu-
pied Angoria and I don't want il. I
have got an international gendar-
merle in Alababbin that / think are
a pack of buns. eating their heads off
at my expense. AS to Bullgurvia,
Bekolina, and Bisseldonia, / believe I
voice the sentiments of millions of
free born income tax payers whom
say, take them. Charles Felix, they
are all yours.
The tina is coming. am CERTAIN,
Evening star., 1924-06-08

banished. Both died within a short
time.
I thought Of these things as I noted
the man standing beside me, smiling
and laughing. He is tall and slender
and strikingly handsome. He does
not weigh more than one hundred and
fifty pounds, and this thin, dark face
nose. His eyes are warm and kindly
and his personal charm has made him
q man of great popularity. He is
worshiped by his soldiers, and I am
told that his fondness for children is
such that he has adopted ten whose
fathers were killed in the war with
the Turks. He is not married and
cares nothing for women. The only
woman he loves is his mother. an old
peasant, whom he goes often to see
in the mud hut in Thessaly, where
he was born.
Since meeting Col. Plastiras have
talked with the premier and other
Greek statesmen about their country
and its prospects. They believe in
Greece, and say that it will eventually
absorb the million or so refugees who
have come and are still coming from
Asia Minor, and be stronger than
ever. 1t is taking care of them now,
and what this means you may know
IL you would imagine a similar in
vasion of the United States. In the
past year or so Greece has increased
Evening star., 1924-06-08
Insulation From Milk.

IT is said that there has been de
vised process for making in
su1ating pieces out OF milk curds.
Tho curds are stirred into a paste
with cold water, and coloring matter
is added if so desired, the result
being heated to the boiling point
After the paste has been boiled for
ten minutes, continued stirring re-
duces 1t to d uniform pulpy consist
ENJOY. This pulp il then taken while
still hot, to hydraulic press fitted
with hot molds of the shape in which
the insulation pieces are wanted. Ar
ter being pressed into this shape the
pieces are cooled and dipped into
formalin which adds the needed quail
ity Of a preservative. The product
Is said to resist the action Of acids.
to be much cheaper than hard rubber
and to be easily oodored in imitation
Of agate. marble or the like.
Evening star., 1924-06-08

There are also graduated taxes which
increase as our surtaxes do.
The Greeks are spending a great
deal on modern education. According
to law, all children between seven
and twelve years of age must attend
school. There are primary schools
everywhere. There are IS high
schools and 425 middle schools. with
more than $4,000 students. There are
agricultural colleges and art schools.
polytechnic schools, commercial
schools and two universities.
The girls schools are numerous,
and a college here at Athens which
corresponds to Vassar. Smith. Welles-
ley or Bryn Mawr has several thou
sand students. This is the Arsakeion :;
visited it this week. 1t teaches the
classics and the usual other courses
that we have, and it has also courses
in music, domestic science and thor
ough normal training for teachers.
am surprised at the wealth of the
Greek cities. This country is really
a land Of the rich. It has many poor.
but there are rich Greeks in all of the
towns and one finds Greek merchants
and capitalists throughout the near
east. Until now they have practi-
cally controlled the business OF Con-
stantinople. They own some of the