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watching the boy until he had breezed
into a shop.
They did not look like ladies who
had ever seen O serpent squeeze a
boy to death-which shows what en-
joyment one may get out Of a substi-
tute when deprived Of the real thing.
y 4 X y
VOUNG men of coltish humor have
their own ideas of fun. One Of
hirn-a motorman, so new to the busi-
ness that his uniform was brand
fresh-stood at his wheel waiting for
another car on the Avenue track to
have the right OF way. He was
sentinel-straight and alert, but when
a couple of women scuttled across
the street in front of him, boyishness
got the upper hand of business and
made him sound his gong violently at
the poor things, as If with the lively
intention Of soaring them to death.
They looked like women who should
have known they were safe under the
circumstances, but the sudden clang-
ing in their ears made both jump, and
so shocked one Of them that she fairly
staggered as she reached the curb.
Once across the track, the other
woman gave it to the motorman good
and plenty:
"You have heap to do, haven't
you, soaring people like that You
know you have no call to sound that
thing when the car isn't going. And
let me tell you one thing"
The car clipped ahead, but the wom-
an kept airing her mind until big
kindly-faced man poked a parcel at
her.
''You dropped your bundle, ma'am.
If was you, wouldn't bother any
more about that chap-and that other
lady looks as If she wanted you to
come along"
Also, a spry woman who was pass
ing on her way with fancy market
basket over her arm, paused to volun-
teer advice:
"Shuh! You are just wasting your
breath. That youngster isn't broke
in yet. that's all. You wouldn't
catch a seasoned motorman UP to
foolishness like that-and as to auto
mobiles-you can't go by one in fifty
but what they toot their horns at you
to let you know you got no right even
to chalked-in safety lines. | just laugh
at them and take my time"
''Well, what say is, people on foot
ought to be careful where they're
going"
This interruption came from sal
low man. who spoke as one who owns
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, large red touring car, but as HI
didn't look the part, no one paid at
tention. Then the first woman made
| another grab at the spotlight:
It's a pity those men who rur
street cars and automobiles didn't live
in the good old times when they coul(
run down a body with nobody nigh
for to hinder"
"Oh, it isn't as bad as that" put ir
the big, kindly man, whose milk ot
human kindness seemed all cream
Most of us do tomfool things, but
| reckon few of us are as bad as we
seem. I'm sorry you got so worked
up, lady. Thought first we would
have to get taxi for you, but you
are all right now"
This was a parting salute to the
lady waiting on the curb, as the
| matchmaking friend joined her
and then he went his way, seemingly
unconscious of the fact that he had
backed that great student OF human
nature in his assertion that
Most of the worlds mischief is
done by people who mean WE'LL
A PUFFY woman, overburdened by
NAkeAL SOu IlLCl dl1y CdiI u
game bag, in that it was choked ur
with trophies of the days bargain
hunt, boarded a crowded car.
No man showed symptom OF
chivalry, and as the puffy one made
distressing show of herself in her
effort to anchor to a car strap, a
younger woman gave up her seat and
took firm hold of the strap.
This act of humanity aroused nc
belated gallantry in any man pas
senger each of whom read a paper
or looked out of the window, or sat
back satisfied and uncaring-as. OF
course. he had right to do, but
After bit a man got on the car.
saw the standing woman and, having
reached her, shook her free hand with
cordial heartiness, and in voice that
owned the world and all therein,
breezed out:
"H you want to hear me speak,
here's your chance. Come on up to
Continental Hall with me. Mary will
be there"
'"Thank you, Senator, but have a
date at the British embassy for this
afternoon. Tell Mary to bring you
up to tea Sunday afternoon-only day
take time for entertaining.
Our men are not tcadies, but
everything has had exceptions, since
Adam, and the exceptions happened
to be on that car. Each newspaper
around lost it's lure for the reader
masked behind its pages. Each stolid
passenger. who had ignored the every
day woman who had given them an
object lesson in unselfishness, became
simultaneously solicitous to place his
share of the car at the disposal Of the
booning-toned Senator and his friend,
who was going to the British embassy
to a tea that afternoon.
Neither of the two paid any atten-
ton, and that was all there was to it,
except that:
1t was another proof of a now ac-
cepted fact that woman passengers on
a car are acquiring a protective ten
derness for all who are old or helpless
"a protective tenderness which has
died out with the old-fashioned men,
and which the new generation seems
TO have no use for-always allowing
for the exception that accents the
rule.
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RECORD BUILDING.

NEW YORK, April 9 LP.--A record
volume of building contracts in March
amounting to $620,73S,20O in 81 states
east of the Rocky Mountains is re-
ported by F. w. Dodge Corporation,
topping the previous high record of
August, 1925, by SO ,000, 900. This
brought the total for the first quar-
ter to $1,398,776, 100, about Az per
cent below the corresponding period
last year. An upturn in construction
demand is indicated in contemplated
new building reported in March of
$1,198, ,090,90 an increase of 16 per
cent over March, 1926.
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these quiet old
ladies you see tip
ping around, with
cord bags on their
arms.
MY goodness,
Eliza, what a turn
that boy gave me!
Looks exactly as
if he was being
squeezed to death
by a serpent. Did
you ever see any
thing so real?"
Eliza paused
from her buyings
at a fruit stand
to calculate on the
resemblance. and
followed up her
n - Z, L a l.
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Reserve Board stockholders, an
nounces that the meeting set for April
I3 at Richmond has been postponed
because an approaching convention
has absorbed all the hotel accommoda-
tions.
The Maryland and District of Column
bia Life Underwriters Association
will meet in Washington on April 2l.
The local association win meet next
Thursday at the Raleigh.
The S. S. Kresge Co. reports that
since January it has opened is new
stores. OF these eight consisted of
25c to 81 stores and seven Of the &c
and 10c type. ....-
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COTTON. GOODS QUIET.

NEW YORK. April LP).-Cotton
goods were quiet in the gray cloth
division today. moderate orders being
placed on fine goods. Wool goods
were slow. Burlaps We're excited in
Calcutta markets and unchanged here,
owing to the large shipments in March
due in the new few weeks. Knit
goods were quiet
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NEW YORK, April 9 Cp-Mrs.
Everett S. Pratt of Des Moines. Iowa,
was held in $500 bail for trial in spe-
cial sessions on a charge of third
degree assault today following a hear
ing in which her 6-year-old adopted
daughter, Roberta Jane. testified thQs
she had been burned and beaten by
her foster-mother recently in a local
hotel.
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DAvEGA RECORD YEAR.

NEW YORK, April 8 Op.-Davega.
Inc, closed its fiscal year on February
2S with the largest annual volume of
business and largest profits in its his
tory. Net income after all reserves
was 1925 ,450. Total sales, exclusive
of the recent acquisition Of Schover-
ling, Dalys@-& Gales, were $3,105,811,
against $2,426,017 the year before.
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READY TO START WORK.

NEW YORK, April GP).-Warren
Bros. Co., which has about 20 per
cent of the contract for Cuba's cen.
trial highway. is prepared to go ahead
with the work as soon as Government
engineers have completed necessary
surveys. The company already has
an investment of about $3.50, 900 in ma
chinery and labor on the job.
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EQUITABLE BUILDING PROFIT

NEW YORK, April GPl. - The
Equitable Office Building reports net
profit of $1,203,670 for the nine months
ended January 81, equal to $27.83
share on the preferred stock. Net for
the preceding corresponding period
was $886,961.
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BUTTER rs HIGHER.

CHICAGO. April 9 LP).-Butter
higher; receipts. 10.947 tubs. Cream
cry extras. 4S%; standards, ASH: extra
f1rsts, 48a4SA; firsts. 47a471a; seconds.
44a46. Eggs, unchanged; receipts,
81, ABB cases.
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MELTING STEEL LOWER.

NEW YORK, April 8 Cp).-Heavy
melting steel in 25 cents town lower
in the Chicago district, new quotations
ranging from S13 to $3.50 a ton.
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PANHANDLE PRODUCING.

NEW YORK, April 9 CP).-Panhan-
die Producing & Refining had net
profit of $325.154 for 1926, equal to
trast to net loss Of s1sS.52o in 1925.
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AROUND THE CITY
BY MAMIE LANCASTER.

1 YOUNG workman was breezing
Y along upper Fourteenth street.
u A rubber tire was hung across
4 his body. his hands were in
his pockets and his whistle
8 as joyous as a blackbird's. To
} average eye he was a care-free
lngster on the job, but--you never
n count on the imaginations of
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REMINGTON PRnFIT.

NEW YORK, April 6p).-Reming-
ton noiseless typewriter reports net
profit of $91,302 for 1926. against
$S9,1so in 1926,
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BY CnRINNE FRAZIER.

A MBITIOUS plans for enlarging
n the sphere of women in the
II field of education, business
4 "A and international affairs were
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Favorable Business Forecast.
Such developments of importance
es have occurred in the past month
in the general business situation 'all
tend toward expansion of employment
and output to where they can again
compare favorably with the record
year 1926" says the business re-
view of the current American Bank
ers' Association Journal. Few eX-
pect the year to achieve many new
high marks. but evidence is increasing
that it will not fall seriously behind
last year.
1.-The favorable factors include
marked increase in steel mill opera
tions to near capacity, increased
schedules OF automobile and tire manu-
facturers and active sales, and par
tiai recovery in new building eonstruc'
tlon undertaken. In the textile in
dustries there has been continued
forging ahead os cotton yarn and cloth
production, shared by rayon. whose
popularity is growing. and whose price
has reGained the loss of last year
The silk industry is in much better
shape than a year ago. while the
the wooden line is still handicapped
by a subnormal demand. The shoe
business is running along somewhat
better than a year ago, but cannot
yet be regarded as prosperous"
Other Financial Notes.
Victor b. Deyber, chairman of the
advisory council Of the Richmond
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rode silently out to the great pile of
stone. that had housed three gen
erations of the Maltby family.
Joyce left at noon to go to work.
The brief funeral services were to
be held late that afternoon and
Forester Maltby would rest beside
his father and his grandfather, his
short and unhappy life at peace.
When she got home that night
she found Gladys huddled on the
bed, her eyes red with crying, her
whole aspect woebegone.
Joyce kissed her sympathetically
Poor Glad" she said. you've
had a hard time"
Il had the worst time of all to-
day when she was so good to me, >
said Gladys. What did you do to
her, Joyce? She sent me a thousand
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Now tel me al about it.s's she
Jo2ce pllnge cd into her story, first
~ ling Mrs. Deacon the history !,
her friendship with Gladys.
Maybe I'm Mrong, b, she said
but q Just somehow felt that Cladvs
herself would be sorry il Size didn',
let his mother know In time u ~
/ her sa part in the funeral and every.
You are very right, my dear !.
said Mrs. Deacon. II remember the
STORY well. It was III all the papers
several Years ago, how Fprrester
maifpx had married this chorus
cir, Z how his people objected. Tben
they All rather dropped OUT Of sight
IA v y own impression was that fy,s
girl had lost interest ii him ,v,,a,,
ne Went into the sanitariunl /
Know Mrs Maltby slightly. she Is
q very distant woman. She was IN.
tensely proud Of her son. The Fam.
lily has a history of alcoholism snd
resfe,. was s $500 ",,rn Or
cause al drufk aimee, Z s = De'
s.T,,a,, , ,ss.
No. " s''S1' nag th's stroke IN
~, 4, a {. y 10y she iound chorus
nv. w WI. 1913 oFer nus apartment,
'S ", sa Z ny y = was serious blow
G i. sr nuspand ieIt AL his
Is tN, ~ ~ ~ 'rnst ZOE forrester
$3.50 ss. ols ttl's atenosncy 70 alcohol
,St', - ! ~ would account for his
iioss ma yang vg any income OF his own"
& do you think should 20 to see
her myself" asked Joyce.
n Mrs Deacon looked at the brave
little figure before, willing to face
80 complicated a situation for the
sake of her friendship. She's as
genuine as the sunshine she
Thought. Would you like me to 20
with your" she asked aloud.
oh Mrs. Deacon. IL you only
would! I've been wanting to ask
YOU but III didn't quite dare. ]
didn't know liowsyou'd feel about it,
Joy clasped Mrs. Deacon's hand in
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dollars by telegram when she wired
she wanted Forester buried in the
family burying ground. She asked
me today to wear my rings" hold
ing up her thin white hand to show
Joyce the solitaire and diamond set
wedding ring. And she told me,
here Gladys stopped for breath, "she
told me L would inherit five hun
bred thousand dollars"
"She told me that, too. It's rather
wonderful, Glad, though it doesn't
seem right to think much about it
with Forester jpst dead" Joyce
said soberly. Il suppose I'll be los
ing you soon."
I'm not going to take that money"
Not going to take it?' Joyce re-
peated.
: mot penny of it," said Glodys.
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= Shc felt that the problem Gla dys
had left her was one that WAS too
much for her to cope with. True,
she might telephone the niessage to-
MRS. Maitbv. or she might send a
written note BY a,s messenger But
sha Ipnged to perform the service
IN ,ersora !. that she might defend
GLADYS as fa.r as possible from her
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Test AnSWers

Here are the answers to Now
You Ask One" for today The
questions are printed on page Z.
1.-Marco Polo.
2. Sir Henry M. Stanley.
8. Capt. Robert F. Scott.
4. The Pere Marquette.
+ 8. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
6. Fagellan.
\ Z. Captain Cook.
5. Stefansson.
b 9. An English navigator who ex-
plored the west coast of North
America, for whom the city Of Van
couver is named.
10. In 1909.
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ly enough, The little party of four
women made its way through the
station to the Maltby limousine and
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First because l never really was
Forrest sr's wife. was fond of him
and l did what thought was my
duty to him. but never loved him.
But most of all l can't touch that
money, JOY, because for two years
I've been desperately in love with
another man."
ITO BE CONTINUED)
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(TO BE CONTINUED)

(Cop right, 1925. Famous Features
Syndicate. Iuc.)
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st. Mihiel where the American
soldiers served notice upon the
world that they were fighting
men come there to help put an
end to the worlds greatest con-
flict. 1t was there he was
wounded.
And though there was in his ma
ture something of the jungle, he was
noted for the way he stood back Of
his friends, and he did not care
much whether they we're right or
wrong, just SO they were his friends.
This is not written with any
thought OF palliating the misde-
meanors and possible crimes Bob"
may have committed nor whitening
his character which seemed mostly
bad.
But Bob" is dead now and 1t will
do no harm to keep his record
straight, even though he was black
and possibly was guilty of all the
things with which he was charged.
Somewhere in nearly every mans
life can be found at least a few
credits to contrast with his social
debts; here and there a white mark
to be chalked up against the black.
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Curing Dementia Praecox

What is the most truly important bit of news you
have seen in a newspaper recentlyP
That's rather hard question to answer. But
candidate happens to be a little story from
New York, telling how psychatrsts have discovered
a for the strange malady known as dementia
praecox 1t has been long time since we have seen
a story so packed with significance as that one.
Most people have only hazy idea what dementia
praecox is. They know it is some kind of mental
disorder, but that is ALL To read that cure has
been found seems only mildly interesting-until you
know something about the disease.
Dementia praecox once was called "adolescent in
sanity" 1t is form Of mental trouble that usually
seizes on person of extreme youth-one just enter
ing the teens-and bit by bit transforms such
person from intelligent, potentially useful member
of society into helpless defective or dangerous
maniac.
One Of its worst features is that it eflicts the
sufferer with decisions of grandeur or of persecution
The patient imagines that he is god and can do no
wrong he thinks that the world is in conspiracy
against him. with every his enemy. These two
states of mind particularly the latter one frequently
lead to deeds of apparently causeless violence.
The number of murders caused by this disease is
large To make matters worse, in most cases the
murderer is considered a criminal, where he should
rightly be looked upon invalid He is electro
cuted locked in penentiary for life instead of
being given the skiful, humane treatment which he
should have.
That is why this message from medical science
is OF the highest Importance 1t opens the way to
the elimination of of civilizations most shock
ing tragedies: and it points to the Transformation of
many men who otherwise would become menaces
to society into useful happy citizens
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A Year of Growth

The year just passed has been wonderful
year for Indiana, wonderful because truth has
dispeled the mists and fogs and suspicious
which lowered over public affairs.
1t has been wonderful year because it has
seen the rise Of conscience in public matters
and brought the firm determination on the part
Of the people to turn away from the strange
gods Of the past and rely once more upon the
traditional principles Of real Americanism.
Confidence in courts which was missing a
year ago, has been restored and courts have
shown that they are worthy Of respect and con
6dence.
1t has been a wonderful year because once
again it has been demonstrated that the people,
when they know the truth, will find their own
way to real and efficient government.
The magnificent and patriotic work OF the
Marion County grand jury will make the year
memorable
In indianapolis the people have demon
strated their ability to run their own affairs
by the adoption Of the city manager system.
That they will keep alive that same unset
tlSh interest during the coming year may VIC
predicted They have known the cost Of bad
government They have known the penalty
that politics imposes on a government that IS
partisan They will never permit that poison
to again enter municipal affairs.
The year 1927 cleared away the debris from
the wreck Of popular government in this
State and city
The year 1928 must be year of building
and growth-a building Of more sentiment for
the decent and the honest in government, the
growth Of conscience and determination.
That there will be a material expansion IN
this city is an easy prediction. The founda-
tons for prosperity are now frmer than before.
It is safer to invest There is more security
1t is an even more certain prediction that be-
fore the year 1928 comes to its close, the tame
Of Indiana as the most courageous OF States,
the cleanest in thought, the most patriotic IN
purpose, the State which dares will be even
more impressive than the notoriety of the work
of cleaning was unpleasant.
Indiana will furnish the 1928 model.
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Poor Britain

1t is rather hard the British. Now their weather
has been Americanized. Snow, heavy snow, great
drifts of snow like those western plains after
blizzard have tied up the British Isles until airplanes
have had to be used to carry food to shu-n villages,
nd war tractors have had to be turned loose on the
pads And worse, the guests of the Hunts-Ball have
al to detour for miles to avoid choked roads.
For some time there has been a very general
5mpaint of the "Americanizing' of industry. Speed
ng up application of modern machinery, cutting
Town of workers, efficiency engineering-an that
terrible Yankee stuff But the weather regarded
as something sacred something traditional something
which had to conform to precedent and happen more
or less as outlined in the calendar. But here IS
Dakota weather alongside the gulf stream
whether. as Herbert Janvrin Brown claims, it is
the influence Of sun-spots and long neglected
movements or is a bi-product of the World War. or
lust another of the things to be attributed Moscow
time only will tell But suspicion points to the growing
influence Of America in the meteorological as well as
industrial world.
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What Other Editors Think

lican politics, but who until they
read it today, knows that Bob"
also was a hero?
He was thought of while living
and he is thought of now as a
lawbreaker, and it is not denied
that he was all of that, but who
that did not know him person.
ally is aware that except when
he was drinking he was so polite
and considerate, that he we'll de-
served to be called polished" and
that he had a cheerful smile and
a winning personality which, had
he been of white complexion and
had tended toward good citizen
ship instead of away from it,
probably would have made him
a leader Of men?
Yet these things are true. He
was in the thick of the fighting
in the Argonne region and was
cited for conspicuous bravery in
action after he and second lieu
tenant had wiped out German
machine gun nest. And he was
in the thick of the shot and shell
and gas in the historic battle of
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FROM SOCRATES TO
ARISTOTLE

EEW nations have been able to
l. achieve the intellectual refine
ment and esthetic sensitivity of a
mature civilization, without sacri-
ficing so much virility and unity
that their lavish wealth becomes an
irresistible temptation to impecu-
NOUS barbarians Around every
Rome hover the Gauls; around every
Athens, the Macedonians.
Culture and art arise after eco
nomic power and survive it, as the
heat of the summer sun fingers in
the autumn sea, and the fragrance
Of flowers remains in a room from
which they have been taken away.
While Athens decayed in wealth
and power her writers and artists
continued to adorn her homes, her
streets and her life with statuary,
painting, drama, poetry, oratory,
science and philosophy.
The state could no longer afford
of art, but private individuals, with
IEe keen TASTE OF q dying clVlllZa-
ton, provided demand which slim
ulated every form of cultural activ-
ity.
Doubtless is was the diminution
of wealth which brought a close to
the great epoch of the Athenian
theater.
The economic and spiritual re-
sources of the people, broken by
devastation and defeat, were in
adequate to the careful staging of
such spectacles as had marked the
zenith of the Periclean age.
The comic theatre under the form
known to history as the New
Comedy" f1ourished on a modest
scale, and in the lost works of