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lieve the body of the effects of heat.
1t causes perspiration which when
evaporating from the skin cools the
body. Care must be exercised not
to drink too much at one time.
What player in the two major
baseball leagues had the highest
batting average for the 1926 world
series?
Tommy Thevenow, shortstop, st.
Louis Cardinals.
How old Is the decimal system?
Traces of this system are found
in the early inscriptions of Baby
lonia and Egypt.
What is the meaning of the name
Vincent?
It is from the Latin and means
"conquering.'
What countries produce the larg-
est amount of corn?
The United States. Argentina,
Rumania, Yugoslavia and Brazil.
What does the term diva" sig
Nifty? t..
It is an Italian word for female
operate singer of celebrity; a prima
donna.
How old is Mary PickfOrd?
Thirty-four years.
Who was the first governor Of
California?
Peter H. Burnett, l849-1851.
What was the maiden name OF
Dolly Madison?
Dorothy Payne, daughter of John
Coles Payne.
When did the Cable act giving
women citizenship Independent OF
their husbands become effective?
Sept. %, 1922.
What President of the United
States was minister to Holland iS
1894?
John Quincy Adams?
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some ilegtimate purpose" Sinclair said he assumed
that Blackmer the company
At the time Blackner arranged the Continental
DEAL he president of the Midwest Refining CcGn-
pany, virtually all of whose stock owned by this
Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The Continental
company, which operated in New York State, e3eacted
a substantial share of its profit from company also
owned by the Standard Oil of Indiana
In other words, Blackmer seems to have squeezed
profit of $75OOOO for himself out of an oil deal engi
neered at the expense at least in substantial degree
of interests he was hired to serve.
Perhaps he legally entitled to do THIS, and per-
haps John D. Rockefeller Jr was wrong in agreeing
with Senator Walsh of Montana that his actions
were neither legally nor morally defensible."
Blackmer however is not entitled to Che doubt. He
has fouted his Government and living luxuriousy in
France has refused to give the slightest cooperation in
clearing up the oil scandals
If the law makes it possible, he should be brought
back to face trial,
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OJIp,
ITPEES
DOUGLAS FIR

DOUGLAS FIR really isn't a fir
- at all, but a sort of false hem
lock, named for David Douglas, the
young Scottish botanist who ex-
plored the remote Pacific north
west a hundred years ago.
Ranking next to southern pines
in lumber production. Douglas fir
commercially is one of the most i'm
'portant trees in America. The
present stand of Douglas fir is
greater than that of any other spe-
cieS.
1t grows in most of the forests
from the Rocky Mountains to the
Pacific coast and from Mexico to
central British Columbia. attain
ing its largest size in Washington,
Oregon and British Columbia.
Here magnificent trees, three to
six feet and over in diameter, grow
close together and often reach a
height of more than $50 feet.
0Ou6Acto III 10 oOAOlABs oLAll dIlQ
durable and is extensively used in
building, and as railroad ties, pill
ing, car and bridge material.
OF the total cut of Douglas fir
lumber. approximately as per cent.
including most of the better grade
material, is further manufactured
into flooring. interior finish, sash
and doors and other planning mill
products.
The wood is also used for pumps
and pipe. furniture, boxes and
crates, rollers, agricultural imple-
mentS and woodenware.
For several years considerable
quantities of Douglas fir have been
exported to Japan, China, Australia
and South America and in recent
years smaller but increasing
amounts to European countries via
the Panama Canal.
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Freedom and Risk

The will to believe is part OF
human nature.
AS William James said, one is at
liberty to believe anything, provided
he is willing to take the risk.
That Chicago juryman, Lawrence
OToole, who is charged with be-
lieving that this is a free country"
and that "a free American could
stage holdup if he could get away
with it," is up against the risk.
The chances are that his belief
would not have gotten him into
trouble had he kept quiet about it,
but he made it the text for preach
ing indulgence to a jury that was
trying five Chicago youths for
murder and did so we'll that he
held the verdict down to twenty
five years.
When examined, he said he had
no objection to capital punishment
and would be guided by the evil
dence. He also took an oath TO
uphold the law as it is written.
His belief, as it is reported to
have been expressed in the Jury
room fails to square with his
declarations and the oath to such
an extent that the court may hold
him in contempt.
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Bring Blackmer Back

Chairman Nye OF the Senate Public Lands Com
nittee has announced that he will ask Governor AL
Smith Of New York to investigate the possibility of
having Henry M Blackmer indicted under the crirni-
nal laws of New York for engineering the Continental
Trading Company deal.
Governor Smith, regardless of his recent tilt with
Senator Nye, no doubt will comply with the request.
Blackmer, according to testimony before the SEN
ate committee, was the guiding genius behind TIE
Continental Trading Compar-.- which the United
states Supreme Court held to have created for
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KEEPING UP
With
THE NE WIS
BY LUDWELL DENNY

TNHE coybook boast that every
- American boy has chance to
be President must be revised to
read, only rich boys or those with
wealthy friends need apply.
Senators in Washington are moved
to this observation on learning
from the campaign contribution in
vestigation that the nomination race
of Al Smith is costing sos, $40, and
Of Herbert Hoover almost $250,000.
And these expenses are less than
leading candidates usually have
spent in other years.
1t costs money to conduct an
honest publicity campaign to get
the facts about a candidate to mil
lions of voters spread over an area
as large as the United States.
Such being the case, & poor man
has no chance as a candidate, says
Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, Dem
ocrat.
What is the answer?
The Government should pay all
campaign expenses, giving every as
pirant for public office an equal
chance, according to Walsh.
This proposal is not new; sim
liar ideas have been advanced in
the past by President Roosevelt and
others
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BRIDGE ME
ANOTHER
Copyright, 1928. BY The Ready Ref
erence Publishing Company
BY w. w. WENTWORTH

Authorizations: A-ace: king; O.
than los amy '"'u ''"''
l. At no-trump play, first oppo-
nent holds; Hearts-K x x x x
ard one other re-entry. Dummy
holds hearts-Q K x. Second oppo-
nent holds hearts-A x x. Closed
hand holds harts-X x. First OPP
ponent leads small heart. Second
opponent takes with A and leads
back small heart. Should first OPP
ponent take trick with K or duck?
2. At suit play, dummy holds
x x K in trump and in diamonds.
Declarer holds A K x x X of dia-
monds. How should declarer play
to make our tricks in diamonds?
8. Dummy holds @ J x. Hand
holds x x x. If small card is led
through dummy by first opponent,
should declared cover with j?
The Answers
1. Duck.
2. Play ID Ace of diamonds; az
Small diamond and trump; 3 Small
trump and overtake in hasid with
trump; ca Small diamond and
trump.
poncnt has Che suit initiaIly.
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Machine Pioneers

There is room for debate with re-
gard to Emil Ludwig's conception.
just as there is room for debate
with regard to most everything.
1t is true, however, that Ford and
Llndbergh are probably the best
known Americans today.
The former is showing what this
machine age means by way of or
ganization. the latter what it means
by way of adventure and achieve
ment.
Lindbergh has forged his career
single-handed, and by such an ex-
hibition of the pioneering spirit as
has lew parellelS in human history.
Ford has achieved his success by
marshaling such an army OF men
and such masses Of material as few
individuals have ever commanded.
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Life and Speculation
No. 4S

TINE planets Uranus and Neptune are SO 1ar RON
the SIN that only a telescope will reveal their
existence. 1t is impossible to them with the I'M
aided eye.
Astronomers are certain that both these planets
are icy cold. Uranus is 178200O0o0 miles from the
sun. while Neptune is 27O0000000 miles. AT such tire
mendous distance the sun would lose the majesty
which it possesses for us. From Neptune the sun
would perhaps appear only as a very large star.
Let us summarize now the chances OF hndlng lie
in anv future exploration of solar system
Mercury: No life SO the sun that the rocks
composing its surface red-hot.
venus: Perhaps some form of life. But astronomers
are doubtful The planet is surrounded by such heavy
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- THE STORY OF CIVILIZATIONS -
Beauty of City Is Mi7TOr9d in Art

Art begins with masculine and
ends with the feminine, like the
gamut of civilization; life becomes
gentler and more refined as it pro-
crosses and nearS its end. Venice is
a sunset glory in the history Of the
Renaissance; no great name will APP
pear in Italian art for many decades
after Veronese, unless it is Cellini'S.
The Queen of the Adriatic might
have produced more in literature and
even in art, mad she not been herself
so surprising fair; it is fit city for
an artist to work in, except that it
lures one out OF art into life; one
feels there, more than anywhere,
the old motto. First let us live.
For life is better than art; fairer
than Correggio is the sunshine and
more beautiful than Giorgione is
the sea.
Yet when her earthly beauty has
gone and time has taken from her
even the glory of her cathedrals and
palaces mirrored in her streams,
history will remember her fondly,
not for her wealth and power. her
wars and victories, not for the Doges
that for thousand years made her
mistress of the Mediterranean but
for the painters who caught her
passing greatness and gave it to all
nations and all time, in these pic
lures of which We have spoken so
hurriedly, in these marvels of life
and color of which we have at least
learned the names and which some
cay, perhaps, we shall be blessed
enough to see.
Copyright, 1923. by VIII DuranO
ITO n
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self. It might have been the work
of lifetime. Veronese painted it in
fifteen months, receiving for the
labor 324 ducats ($8OO) and "a tun
of wine" the fee barely covering
the cost of the materials used.
He was a modest genius, if such
a thing is possible, and resembled
Titan only in his love of color; but
he had a penchant for painting
himself and his friends into the
most respectable company; once he
was imprisoned in monastery for
presuming to include portraits of
himself and other living persons
among the followers of Christ.
Entertained for a few days at the
Villa Pisani at Este. he painted a
picture of THE Family Of Darius at
the Feet of Alexander" and left it
there as his return for the courtesy
and hospitality he had enjoyed; in
our time the picture has been sold
for $65,000. The Art Museum of
New York has one of his finest
works, Mars and Venus Bound by
Cupid" Venus is an alluring figure
and Mars makes no objection. Here
Tor the last time is the perfection of
the Venetion school.
II
GEE, now, how the technique of
, painting has progressed since
Giotto; how the replacement of
frescoes with oil has produced
greater softness of surface. greater
depth of perspective, greater rich
ness and fullness of color; every
thing now is finer, except that
something of the nobility and viril-
ity of the early age is lost in the
luxury and splendor of the new.
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More Spent Befoi-e

a S for the size Of contributions,
IA they point to the Republican
contest of 1920. when General Wood
spent $1.773,o00 in an unsuccessful
attempt to get the nomination and
when Lowden spent $415,OOO with
similar result.
Most plans for Government pay
ment of campaign expenses provide
for apportionment by party on the
basis of past votes received, and do
not cover the nomination problem.
These plans are criticised as favor
ing the two existing parties as
against a new party, and as giving
the administration an advantage
over the minority party.
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EDITOR.
Who first called the American
flag "OId GIOry?"
Capt. William Driver, a retired
ship master of Tennessee is sup
posed to have first used this phrase
in connection with the flag in 1862
Is il harmful to drink quantities
of water in warm weather?
Drinking large quantities of water
is the best thing one can do to re-
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DY the side Of these men Paul
ID of Verona, called therefore
Paola Veronese, seems but a youth,
dying at the early age Of sixty. Tin
toretto saw the light before and
after him; and Titan, who was
fifty-one when Veronese came, lived
till the younger man was forty-six;
one day, meeting him in the Piazza
San Marco, Titan embraced him as
a parting expression of his sense
that a new generation had come,
and that this man would replace
him in the affection Of his country
men.
Paola had grown up in Verona. in
the house of his father Gabrielle
Caliari, a sculpture; but when he
came of age he migrated to Venice
as a field more hospitable to art.
There he entered into a competition
for painting the ceiling of the Lii
brary of st. Mark; and his work
was so excellent that his own COM
petitors unanimously voted him vic
tor.
For a time he went back to We
roma and painted there the Ban
quet in the House Of Levi and
thence to Rome, to take lessons
from the Florentine masters there.
When he returned to Venice he at
once produced a masterpiece, Ven
ice Enthroned.n Still more renowned
is THE Marriage of Cana" 100 fig
ures, each studied and painted as
if it were an individual portrait; in
deed many Of them were repre-
sensations Of actual personages-
Titan, Queen Mary of England,
Vittoria Colonna, the Sultan of Tur-
key. Tintoretto and Veronese him
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No Strings

MOST public officials in Wash
w ington admit that. while it
VIII be relatively easy to control
corruption in campaign contribu-
lions, the problem of mountain
campaign costs for legitimate can
didate activities is much more diff
flcult to solve.
They cite the cases of Hoover and
Smith, both Of whom are running
as so-called reform candidates, but
who are obliged to spend large sums
III Legitimate publicity" and to re-
ceive donations from wealthy men
for this purpose.
mo one will be allowed to con-
tribute who is taking any profits
out of the public treasury" James
w. Good, Hoover's Washington
manager. testified to the Senate
committee. There will be no con-
tributors who have contracturaI
relations with the Government.
Nevertheless, enemies Of Hoover
are trying to make a point of the
fact that he permitted Edsel Ford
to contribute $1,000. And the enc
mics of Smith profess to be shocked
that he accepted a donation of
$4,000 and loan Of $4,000 from
one of his oldest friends, who hap
pens to be a New York City con-
tractor.
Smith and Hoover advocates re-
ply that the test is whether strings
are attached to a campaign con-
tribution by which the donor eU-
poets to profit if the candidate is
elected, and state that such en-
phatically is not the case with the
Governor of New York and the
commerce secretary.
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N. Z.
TRACY
SAYS:
"Lindbergb Has Forged
HIS Career SjngIe-Hand-
ed, and By Such an Erhi-
bition of the Pioneering
Spirit as Has FetO Par
alIels IN Human History"
SAYS

TINE learned boys are at it again,
l. arguing over Immortality, just
as though they knew more about
the subject than Adam did.
Sir Arthur Keith, president of the
British Association for the Advar ce-
ment of Science says THE mind OF
spirit dies with the body"
Sir Oliver Lodge is equally sure
that the mind or spirit does not
Professor c. j. Warden of Co.
lumbia University thinks most
American psychologists would agree
with Sir Arthur.
A recent newspaper poll indicates
that most ordinary Americans
would agree with Sir Oliver.
And there you are. Scientists can
debate the question, but not on a
scientific basis.
What we do not know is still the
best argument against belief in i'm
mortality, but what we do not know
never was and never will be a sound
argument against anything.
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/. The idea of letter golf is to
change one word to another and
do it in par, or a given number of
strokes. Thus, to change COW to
HEN in three strokes, COW, HOW,
HEW HEN.
2: You can change only one let
ter at a time.
3.You must have a complete word
Of common usage for each jump
Slang words and authorizations don't
count.
4. The order Of letters can not
be changed.
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hot molten surface surrounded by many layers OF
dense Clouds the outer layers of which are icy cold
Saturn: No life. Conditions like those on Jupiter.
Uranus: No life.
Neptune: No life.
Are we TO assume then that the earth is the only
inhabited planet in the universe Well, it is the only
planet we know definitely to be inhabited. But we
can speculate if we care to-
There are 40,00O,0O0,0OO stars in our universe 1t
may be that some of these also surrounded with
planets like own SUM- There is way Of telling
but from various considerations good guess is that
out of every 100000 stars has planetary system
That would mean 10000 systems of planets scat
tered throughout the universe.
1t would seem reasonable to suppose that among
those 10000 there planets where conditions
duplicate those of the earth The universe is large
that it does not seem reasonable that this earth is the
only inhabited planet
But it is the only planet we know to be inhabited
The restN in speculation.
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laudS Ford, LindY

Some people believe that Prince
Carol is feigning a fever so that
he can stay in England little
longer. and some believe that Sam
dino is a real soldier, in spite Of
the fact that no less an authority
than General Mccoy describes him
as "a little fellow prowling among
the caverns in the mountains"
Emil Ludwig, the German BIZ
ographer. believes that Ford and
Lindbergh are the two greatest he
roes of modern America.
"Conqrerors of time and space"
he calls them, pioneers of a gene
ration which has determined TO
shape human happiness from ma
chimes"
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Believing Publicly

1t is good idea not to be too
bumptiouS in expressing a belief
unless it is with regard TO some
issue that no human agency can
settle.
1t is perfectly safe to believe the
moon is made of green cheese. that
julius Caesar was an epileptic or
that prohibition will prove effective
in 1888, but it is not safe to believe
something that can be disproved by
a record, unless one keeps very quiet
about il.
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This Date i'm
u. S. History

May IL
1621-The first marriage in the
Plymouth colony was cele-
brated between Governor
Winslow and Widow White.
1780-British captured Charleston,
S. g.
1786-Society Of Tammany founded
in New York.
1876 Congress voted $10,00O,000 for
Mexican War and authorized
a call for $4,000 volunteers.
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How many silver dollars were
coined at the United States mint
in 1922?
84,275, 900.
What song did Irving Berlin
dedicate to Constance TaImadge?
''Whatll I Do"
Where do I go to pay my income
tax? Could it be sent in by mail?
The internal revenue Office
Federal Bldg indianapolis. You
may mail money if you have the
proper income tax form to file with
it.
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ElOuQS blldb ~
may be that sun
light cam o t
penetrate them.
Mars: Perhaps
some form of
life. Recent mea-
surementS with
the thermocou-
pie in di C a t e
higher tempera-
lures than pre-
V1ouSly supposed
but the matter
is by no means
settled.
Jupiter: No
life. The planet
probably has a
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Daily Thought

Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toll not,
neither do their spin.--Matt. 6:2S-
~ e
IF you want knowledge, you must
i toll for It; food, you must toll
for it; and if pleasure, you must toll
for it: toll is the law.--Ruskin.
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From Port Arthur, Ontario comes a dispatch tell
ing of a rain of fine mud that spattered people,
houses and streets. DO they have Democrats and
Republicans in Canada, too?
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It's good thing Noah didn't have to get bill
past Congress and the President before he could build
the ark.
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With the bathing beauty contest at Atlantic City
called off this year, wonder how we're ever going to
find out who are the home girls, kind to their
mothers, love to wash Dishes" ETC.?
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Now that the Pulitzer book prize has been awarded
to THE Bridge Of San Luis Rey" there probably vii
be great fockng of ace-trumpers to buy the work