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Evening star., 1924-05-18
By HENRY w. BUM.


The following is brief summary Of
the most important news of the world
for the seven days ended May IT:
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The British Empdre.-The nrst Labor
budget has successfully resisted Con-
servative attacks. Mr.. Baldwin, the
former premier, moved to strike from
the budget the proposal to abolish
the "McKenna duties" q. e., war
duties on certain manufactured arti-
cles-motor vehicles and moving pic
ture films in chief).
Mr.. Macdonald insisted on making
the motion one of censure, thereby
it. Some Labor members were known
to oppose abolition, and many regard
employment by the premier OF such
tactics as extremely questionable.
The motion was defeated, 317 to 252.
Despite the declaration by Mr.. Snow
tion of the budget, that his govern
ment entirely disapproved of the prin-
ciple of imperial preference, Mr.. Mac
Donald has promised full debate
and subsequent vote by parliament on
| that principle. and on the recommen-
application made by the recent i'm
perial conference.
The Conservatives are not without
strong hope OF victory on that great
issue unless the government should
make the matter one Of confidence
the question of the boundaries be-
tween the Free State and Ulster,
grows blacker. Sir James Craig. the
Ulster premier, has suggested an ex-
change of Protestants in the Free
State counties of Monaghan. Cavan
and Donegal, for Catholics in Fern
augh, Tyrone and the Borough Of
Derry. At first blush, the idea shocks,
but its realization might prove hu-
name and sensible in its ultimate ef-
fects-certainly more humane than
civil war or an eternity of border
outrages. To compensate the disap-
pointment of Free State hope of a
very considerable territorial gain
through boundary 'rectificatiop. the
British government might cut in two
assigned to the Free State by the
treaty Of 1921, which established the
Free State; piece of simple 5ust1ce'
| anyway.
The possibility, however. Of such
| famed relations between the Irish
states, exceedingly dubious.
The last message from Lieut. Col
Norton, commander OF the "exped1-
ton to scale Mount Everest" was
| dated April 20. The expedition had
just arrived at the 1922 base camp
fright under the snout Of the Rong-
buk Glacier" two days ahead Of the
| 1922 time. In few days now" says
| the colonel, most Of us will be head
| ing up the glaciers. The org1niza-
tion is complete and the climbers are
| fit. The rest Is on the knees of the
| gods"
| Frsnee.-The combination Of the
| parties Of the Left and tho National
Radicals (Center) for the overthrow
Of NJ. Poincare at last Sundays cleo
| ions succeeded. Their total repre-
| sentation in tho new chamber will
outnumber Poincare's supporters by
about ninety. It has been the gem
l er1l custom for a cabinet holding
Lofiice ut the time of general elections
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The above is mere speculation, but
very plausible. BRAND might be ex-
pected to resume his policy, broken
OF when he was supplanted by Poin-
Poincare's toward both Germany and
Britain. 1t is probable that the
Dawes plan falls in with his views
more nearly than with those of Poin-
stir himself for its realization with
a purer flame of enthusiasm. A
thousand considerations are opened
by the results of the French elections.
AS for only two examples: How will
the Germans react to the apparent
policy of conciliation? Will the new
chamber jeopardize French credit by
revoking NJ. Poincare's fiscal meas
ures? 1t has to be admitted that th1
prospect is confused and somewhat t
disquieting.
1t is to be hoped that it will hap
PLY clarity itself Immediately upon
the assembling of the new chamber.
Meantime, the Dawes plan is in sus-
pense.
letter DOisy, the French birdman, was
compelled, by overheating Of his en-
gine. to descend at Rangoon, Burma,
en- route from Akyab, Burma, to Bang
kok, Siam On the 10th he went on to
Bangkok On the 18th he reached Sal
hop on to Hanoi on the 18th. He has
made an average of 725 miles per flying
day.
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GeEmany.-There was q remen-
dous Nationalist celebration at Halle
last Sunday. Seventy thousand veter-
ans VI the world war and representa-
tfves Of 500 reactionary and semi
military organizations (beIlicost sing
ing societies, so-ca1led athletic clubs)
marched in review past Prince Oscar,
son of the ex-kaiser. and a group of
generals and admirals of world war
fame. including Lu6endorf. The en-
thusiasm passed all records. Commu-
nfsts prepared to break up the party,
but ran foul Of the police. There were
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has sent 200 men there. In Los An
geles alone there are 1.10o officials of
various sorts on the quarantine job.
The internal thing might spread to
every county in the United States.
Might, I say-no one says there is
any possibility that it will-but it
might 1t might cut of our supply
Of meat 1t might close every dairy
in the United States. No other animal
disease is so easily carried. The
germs can be transported on automo-
bile tires, the blankets of tin-can
tourists, baggage of expensive people
from New York who patronize the
Sunset state when their own becomes
unbearable, on boots-on anything
that can go or be taken from here to
there.
Fivvers Spread Disease.
att is being spread in California by
the foreigners who own fifvvers," said
Dr. Mohler. ~They have little farms
and each has a Ford When a COW
gets sick the owner sends for all his
friends and relations to have a look
Then they carry the germs from the
infected COW yard to their own
healthy yards"
One was able to perceive that to a
man in his position life is not one
jest after another. Maybe it never
was. He seems to have had an in
curing mind from the earliest known
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hx hEfkbEftI SOkAh1s
Y 7 E would be a hard witness to
- handle. He certainly would.
John r. Mohler would sit in
the witness chair, his large,
intelligent blue eyes fixed on the
prosecuting attorney. his small brown
mustache immobile on a perfectly
stiff upper lip. his neat triangle OF
goatee quiverless beneath an iron
underlip, his attitude one of firm.
courteous. unyielding attention
do you know anything about this
case?" the prosecuting attorney
would ask. John r. Mohler would
reply:
YES"
The best witnesses do not volun-
teer information when on the stand.
you will recall. A humorous Chau-
tauquan, after an hour spent in try
ing to extract a laugh from an audi
ence made up of serious intellectuals
like the head of the ten-million- dollar
bureau of animal industry, would prob
ably utter plaintive squeak and dive
into the open end Of the cornet He'd
have plenty of room. too. After an ex-
perience Of that sort he could walk un-
der chiffonier wearing his high hat
Eight Billion Dollars Involved.
Tell me about the bureau of animal
industry,"I begged of DR.. Mohler.
What do you want to know?' he
asked
Well. holy mackerel, if I had known
what wanted to know-you see what I
mean. But by and by I got a SYM
pathetic slant at Mohler and his work.
There are not SO many smiles in the
management of a business which is
worth $4,000, 900, ,o00-which is the value
OF the live stock of the United States
and which touches the lives and hap
piness of every one Of our 100000 900
people Too many things might happen
Time is too valuable. A man in Dr.
Mohlers position who cultivated the
| habit Of being discursive and facetous
| might be a fine entertainer, but not so
| much as the head Of the largest bureau
in the United States Department Of
Agriculture. Which is what he is being
paid for
"A man came in this morning." said
DR.. Mohler. without a smile, almost
with a hardening of his facial express
| sion, ito offer a cure for the foot and
mouth disease He wanted 100000 for
it."
Had n Mystic Formula.
Mind you. the foot and mouth disease
| Is as much of a worry to DR.. Mohler
| and the stockmen of tho country right
| now as yellow fever used to be in the
Mississippi country.
His plan." said DR.. Mohler. still
without smile. his large, intelligent
| blue eyes slowly reducing the re-
each affected animal on q platform.
Then it would be fed an apple While
it was eating the apple the inventor
of the plan would whisper a mystic
formula in its ear.
"'What was the formula+ I asked
".Ah.' said the inventor, that is my
secret
"'Get to Hongkong out of here I
told him"
California Quarantine.
Then DR.. Mohler laughed Another
Eew slant on him. Plenty Of humor,
apparently, but it works out in its
own fashion and is somewhat impeded
by the continual necessity for EN-
cheney. Think of the job-of just one
of the jobs-that confronts the head
of the bureau of animal industry.
Sixteen counties in the state of Cali
fornia are quarantined because of the
foot-and-mouth disease. DR.. Mohler
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Convinced that a new day in power
sources had arrived, the Seneca In
dian School at Wyandotte, Okla, has
taken out all its gasoline-driven apr
paratus, both in the school and the
shops, and has substituted electric
motors throughout.
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The best linguists among the wom-
en- of the world are said to be among
those of Russia, Hungary and Turken
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Continued from First. Page.)
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The success Of the stunt depends
upon this: The ponies and the plat
form must commence together to go
around and must commence together
to slow down. If either started up
or slowed down before the other.
or Independently of the other. the
ponies would be thrown OF the plat
form. Yet there is no need of either
revolving the platform or racing the
ponies. If the platform were fixed
the ponies need not race to keep on,
or If the ponies were quiet the plat
form need not be revolved. 1t is
the same with many forms of our
so-called civilization today.
Some time the bubble is sure to
burst. The balloon cannot be in
fiated indefinitely. People will ulti-
mately come to their senses and rebel
against this foolish race into which
we all have unwittingiy entered. II
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CONTINUED from First Paee.)
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l NE evening I WAS visiting
4 Thomas ]. Edison at his
J home in New Jersey. 1t was
at the Close of a lnng hard
Evening star., 1924-05-18
BY HERBERT COREY.

BY HERBERT COREY.
E would be a hard witness to
- handle. He certainly would.
John r. Mohler would sit in
the witness chair his large
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LISTENING IN ON EYE
Happy Little Jaunt

, the dickens, so I did that lot. I'll bet we got out fifteen, times that way, most ly where it was muddy, too"
 q am very much afraid I'd have de. clined to look it over any more," said Wilkinson. "Your friend Higgins must have . sweet disposition"
 "Oh, he said things, all right, when we were behind the car," said the out. of-town customer. ~But when he an nouncedN to his wife that be thought her. imagination was too vivid and he intended to stay in the car she remind. ed him of bad accident that had hap pened to some friends of theirs the week before, and he got out as meek as a lamb. She kept hearing the noise and was so nervous and fidgety that Higgins drove at a rate of about eight miles an hour, I imagine. It wasn't the most delightful trip ever took"
 "I'll bet you wished you'd gone by train," said Wilkinson.
 "wen," said the out-of-town GUS toner, helping himself to . cigar. "per- haps she might have given mo . better time if she had held her peace, but, do you know, about six miles from any where, when we were going at a snail's pace, something went bump! thud and we stopped short. We got out to look without being told to, and found the axle busted clear through. We were away off the line of travel and not a garage in sight,"
 "She was right, after all"
 That's the first thing she said" chuckled the Out-of-town customer. "So I don't envy Higgins his future trips with her and her ears. I was the guy to get help, of course, so that's how I know lot about the scenery five miles from street car or train."
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ssTCAME up here by automobile thi,
 II time," said the out-of-town GUS tcmer. That is, all but the last five miles," ,,N "Getting stylish, aren't youT asked Wilkinson. If you are going about like that nowadays, you'll be demand. ing higher commissions. Gas comes pretty high and tires aren't given away with a pound of coffee"
 II don't know alarmed thing about motor cars,'' said the out-of-towfi GUS. toner. And I can't for the life of me understand the ways of the folks that run them. I've had the idea that people wanted their friends to enjoy driving. but I've changed my mind since this trip. But when this business friend offered to drive me all the way mn here I jumped at the chance"
 Don't blame you" said Wilkinson, "The scenery's rather good"
 'I don't know" confessed the out-of- town customer. do rememDer tnat there were some hills just about ten miles from home and l have Slvld recollection of the sand and dust i've miles out from here, but the part Tn between is something of blank. Mrs. Higgins was along"
 'Ah!" said Wilkinson.
 "I'm not what you'd call a nervous man," said the customer. put l came near blowing iip through the roof of that car dozen times.
 ''First thing, that woman began to hear something and demanded that her husband get out and see if the gasoline tank was leaking. When he climbed Tn again she said that she was sure the noise came from under the hood and he gc out again and opened the thing up and poked around with tool. making a noise like a mechanic. After that we bowled along while Higgins told me about deal we are both interested ln. He was just getting to the part l want ed most to hear when Mrs. Higgins call- ed to him from the back seat to say that we had a puncture."
 "My wife has second sight about punctures," said Wilkinson, with some pride. "She can tell the instant 1t happens, even though everybody else in the car insists there isn't thing wrong"
 "Airs. Higgins isn't so gifted" said the out-of-town customer. We didn't have a puncture.
 There were lot or small things Mrs. Higgins wanted done, too," con- tinued the ott-of-town customer. "Like tightening windows that rattled and fastening down straps that Tapped, but all the time she kept up the same song and dance about that noise she heard. She didn't seem to care hang that she was not giving me the time of my life, or that when her husband got out to butter I had to get out, too, or seem rude. had on a light gray suit, contrary to the advice of my wife, who thought it too good for such> trip, and that's at the cleaners now. As I said, don't know a blame thing about cars, but I know how to walk around a motor and squint and look wise as
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very happy, for there is nothing brings such happiness as loving friendship. Still, there is one thing we forgot and Raggedy Andy and I will wish for t with the large red book of Magic, then we will take the two magic books, the red one and the green one, and hide them some place where no one will ever find them unless we wish them to-" She smiled at all her friends and con- tinued: For, should the two books of Magic happen to come into strange hands, and especially of selfish per- son, he, or she might undo all the hap piness we have brought to you!"
 So Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy went to the back of the store and read from the large red book of Magic. Then they said the Magic words to bring what they wished.
 "Now, we will take them to see the surprise l" Raggedy Ann said as she caught Andy's hand and raced with him
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through the store to where all the good friends waited. Then they all went out side and saw the surprise the Raggedys had made with the Magic. It was lovely moving picture theatre and all the shows were free. And at each side of the entrance there was a lovely magical ice cream soda water fountain and candy store, so that no one would have to leave the theatre to get candy and ice cream sodas. The Raggedys and their friends went inside and in & short time. the whole theatre was filled with the little people who lived in the deep, deep woods. Raggedy Andy made a nice speech from the stage before the curtain went up and told every one that the theatre was their very own. Then he went back to his friends and they sat and ate ice cream sodas and candy and enjoyed the loveliest show they had ever seen; and I wish you could have been there! Don't your"
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it They saw him try and fail because he couldn't climb with only three legs, and they saw him crouch down in a little whimpering heap because he thought he was all alone. It was then that Farmer Browns Boy was sure that Bobby's hurt was really serious.
 ''We can't let that little fellow go to suffer, and perhaps die," said Farmer Browns Boy. and ran forward while Farmer Brown held Bowser.
 Bobby heard him coming and prompt ly faced about ready to fight bravely. Browns Boy threw his coat over Bob by, and then in spite of Bobby's frantic struggles gathered him up and wrap- ped the coat about him so that he could neither bite nor scratch. Bobby was quite helpless.
 "I'm going to take him home, and when I've made him quite comfortable I'll come back" cried Farmer Browns Boy.
 All right" replied Farmer Brown with a kindly twinkle in his eyes.
 So Farmer Browns Boy started for home carrying Bobby as gently as he could. Of course Bobby couldn't see where he was being taken because that coat was over his head, and of course he hadn't understood a word that Farmer Browns Boy had said. But Bobby could imagine all sorts of dreadful things, and he did. He was sure that when this dreadful journey ended the very worst that could hap pen would happen. He was quite hope less, was Bobby Coon. He kept still because he had to. There was nothing else to do.
 All the time he wondered where he was being taken to. He was sure that never again would he see the Green Forest. His broken leg pained him dreadfully, but fear of what would hap. pen when this strange journey ended made him almost forget the pain. It was the first time in all his life that Bobby ever had journeyed anywhere save on his own feet, and quite aside from his fear it gave him a very queer feel ing. He kept wishing it would end quickly, yet at the same time he didn't want it to end because of what he was sure would happen then.
 So through the Green Forest. then through the Old Orchard, and finally across the bsrnyard to the barn Bobby Coon was carried. It was the strangest journey he ever had known, and it was the most terrible, though it needn't have been If only he could have known the truth.
 Next Story: Farmer Browns Boy Plays DOCtOEs ..-
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their shoulders, and kind MT. Grote had to pat them into shape again.
 The Raggedys laughed, for, of course, it did mot hurt them even smidgen and they were very glad that the former Mrs. Hoolygooly and the others loved them, as they plainly showed.
 There is one thing we forgot, Rag gedy Andy" Raggedy Ann laughed.
 T do not believe you have forgotten a single, thing to make our happiness complete !" Granma Gazook said. I've love you both and thank you for all the nice things you have done for us If it had not been for you, we would still be unhappy back near the old Ma gician's house !"
 We are very. very glad that you all love us!" Raggedy Ann replied. That makes Raggedy Andy and me
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EpUCATING WORKMEN

The first to advocate and put into practice the education of workingmen in the application of science to >the practical arts was Dr. George Bir. beck. who was born in- Yorkshire, Eng. land, 147 years ago. He was the son of a banker and educated for the practice of medicine. While professor of the Anderson Institution at Glasgow, Scot. land, he established popular lectures for artisans, thus laying the foundation for the mechanics institution which later on came into existence all over Great Britain.
 The first lecture at Glasgow attracted seventy five artisans who went away Sc enthusiastic that some POO men were on hand at the next. Later on Dr. Birbeck's grateful pupils presented him with sil. yer cup as a token of their esteem. He extended the tourse to London, and . permanent mechanics institution was founded with Birbeck as president.
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| M Y WIFE and \ s.:s;;: s,: s:;:;ss s;:;; s..:s.' .s :,.'
CHAPTER XXXI

To an outsider it might seem that Eatalie's extravaganza had been the cause of my discontent. It had not. It was only one of the things that needed Adjustment. The vital thing was our relations toward each other. Day by day they were growing more straitened and to me at least in every way grow ing more unbearable.
 My vacation was not until the last two weeks in August. l hoped be- fore that time arrived to find Natalie resigned to the new order of things, and to facilitate this tried to be as amend able to her plans as was consistent with my scheme to reorganize our household. I had forgotten that she had appear cd trifle put out because of my at tentions to Diana Lowell and proposed that we take her to see a new play.
 Take her if you wish," Natalie said. But ask someone else. too. I don't propose to be ignored while you enter tain her"
 Whom shall I ask--Garth ?'
 ''No. Find some one who appreciates your wife, even if you do not" Her tone was quiet, not at all the tone of an agry woman, yet she had flushed when proposed asking Diana.
 T can't very well ask Ned without asking Jessie," said to try her.
 'Why should you suppose l wanted Ned? I see altogether too much of him. He bores me to extinction" gasped my surprise.
 "Suppose we leave Diana out then and go alone. suppose we'll have tc take your mother"
 "It isn't at all necessary to take her everywhere we go.'
 sh "I'll get only two tickets then" l re- piled, ridiculously happy that she was going to be alone with me-a mos unusual concession.
 had not really cared to have Diana accompany us and had spoken of hel only to assure myself that Natalie had some feeling on the subject. Not that I didn't admire the bright girl i'm mensley. I did. But far more did admire my wife, strange as it may seem
 After the play we had bite of sup per, then went home. l made no men tion of dancing, neither did Natalie She had seemed to enjoy herself, hac chatted brightly about the play and hat not objected to going and returning 1T a taxi. That of itself, trifling as it was gave me a feeling that perhaps some
 
 many of her little-but expensive idiosyncrasies had been.
 The next afternoon I stopped on my way home and brought her box oi chocolates. I had almost stopped do ing the little things I had been in the habit of doing when we were first mar ried and was surprised at the warm flush of pleasure with which she took my gift. Later she said:
 What shall we do tonight, BruceT
 ''Stay at home and read or perhaps bave some music.' I had given her a player piano on our first anniversary a wonderful instrument.
 She started to say something, bit her lip and turned away.
 "Only two or three nights week from now on, Natalie" l reminded her.
 SWhat is it you are going to do two or three nights?" her mother, who had just entered the room, asked.
 "We are going to stay quietly at home, not two or three. but four or five nights" I replied, smiling at Natalie. She had seated herself where I could see her.
 And be bored to death :" she said.
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LITTLE BEDTIME STORY
Bobby Coon Has A Long Journey
By THoRHToR v. eURegss

deal of worrying for nothing. l know I do. Bobby Coon did when he took his strange journey which I am going to tell you about.
 Farmer Brown and Farmer Browns s Boy and Bowser the Hound had watch ed Bobby crawl out of his ruined house and start of to seek new house. Of course they had seen right away that something was wrong with Bobby, for he walked on three legs and held the fourth one up.
 "The poor little chap," murmured Farmer Browns Boy pityingly. "That leg must have been hurt when the tree fell. I hope it isn't badly hurt. We'll wait a few minutes and see what he does."
 So they waited in their hidingplAce and watched Bobby. They saw him go to the foot of tree as if to climb