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Questions and
Answers

Which school won the Indian
apoliS school city football cham
pionship in 1881?
Manual high school was the CITY
series champion in 1881. Cathedral
high school was recognized as all
city champion.
Who appoints the state forester?
The director of the department
of conservation.
What is the derivation of the
name earth for our planet?
The modern English word comes
down through the Anglo-Saxon
and back from the Germanic
tongues, from which Anglo-Saxon
was derived, to the Teutonic word
"ertna" which, in Latin is 'hertha. -
the name of the goddess of the
earth.
To what church did Woodrow
Wilson belong?
Presbyterian.
For how long was AlOnzO B. Cor.
nell Governor of New York?
He was elected in 1880 and served
until January, 1888.
What does "Auf wiedersehen'
mean?
1t is a German phrase meaning
Till we meet again"
Is the maxim, Cleanliness is next
to godIiness?" in the Bible.
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If Birth Control Could Be
Practical in a High-Minded
Way, 1t Might Do Some
Good.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24-Few will
~ disagree with Henry Fairfield
Osborn's proposition that birth Sc
lection is much more desirable than
birth control. Each, however, OBJ
viously is dependent on the other,
while both involve a sense of per-
sonaI responsibility and concep-
ton of social duty which, unless
permitted to develop through the
slow processes of education, are
likely to do more harm than good.
Most people are willing to ack-
nowledge that life would be easier
with fewer children and happier
with better children. They are not
sure that it would be healthier.
There is a defeatist element in the
rationalism which defies nature,
motive or group of motives which
spells the difference between knowl-
edge and wisdom. We have made
vastly more progress in learning
how to do things than in learning
whether they are the best things
to do.
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In those cases in which there can
be shown to be some mental rea-
son for failure to swallow salts
factorily, the condition should be
treated from a psychological point
Of view.
An attempt must be made to de-
termine the underlying disturbance
in which case satisfactory explana-
ton of understanding of the situ-
alton may bring about a cure.
On the other hand when inability
to swallow is due to some actual
change in the tissues, bringing about
narrow construction or spasm of
the muscles involved, treatment is
directed to relief by dilating the
construction or by the use of prep
arations which act as sedatiyes,
through the nervous system, and
thereby prevent spasms of the
muscles involved.
These conditions demand the ut
most care and skill for diagnosis
and treatment.
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from the hope OF new and better day. 1t springs
from the ever broadening sentiment for a world of
real liberty in which of the artificial barriers
to comfort will be set aside and men once again will
find it possible to be brotherly.
Perhaps there may even come restitution of the
social basis of the little group of brave men and
women who came to conquer wilderness
They came as equals There was no haggling over
the distribution Of their supplies of food All lived on
the same basis of comfort. The ministrations were
personal but immediate. selfshness had place in
that first service.
Since then, great complex civilization has sup
planted hardship with comfort, has made life no
longer the simple matter Of taking food from the
ground and clothes from the hides of animals
Today the world obtains its food its clothing and
its shelter from machines.
During the past year. the lesson taught is that
seshness does not pay is too costly in spiritual and
even material values.
For that, at least, be grateful
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The Case for the Doctors

Whether the American people get good medical
care depends, in the last analysis whether they
nave sufficient good sense to demand it,
mat seems to be the point of the latest report
mace by the committee on the Costs of Medical Care
rms report points out that the nation is suffering
from shortage OF competent DOCTORS dentists, and
hospal 1acitieS but it adds that it would be unwise
70 increase the supply until the public knows enough
W lslsC on nrst-rate attention and is willing to pay
lor H. as mat simply would increase unemployment
among medical practitioners.
The problem, then seems to depend on the patients
themselves Medical science can not in the lono
run, serve them any better than they want to he
served They can not get the best until thew insist
on it.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE --
Retarded Swallowing May Be Serious

1t now is realized that spasns of
the muscles may be due to the &C
tual changes in the tissues, but that
they also are due in some instances
to mental stimuli
People who suffer with Difficult
ties in swallowing are likely to do
without nessary foods AS a result,
they lose weight, become anemic
and weak.
Naturally they are without appe-
tite, and what physicians call "a
vicious circle" develops.
This means that the patient
breaks down because unable to par
take of satisfactory nourishment,
because of conditions such as lack
of appetite or weakness brought
about by the breakdown.
The introduction of any sound, or
stretching instrument, into the
throat requires the most delicate
technic and never should be under
taken by any one. except a physician
especially competent in such pro-
cedure.
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Just Every Day Sense
Mrs. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT will Sc
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

M no FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT will set a new
- ~, precedent for Presidents wives. While she is
FrsC Lazy she will also be magazine editor
according to her announcement she intends +o
give up her present teaching lob when She enters +b
Whlte House with her husband but being under con-
tract, Will continue her publishing work
ms II seems TO me, is an excellent and even
monentonS decision. To condemn anv intelligent
woman least OF all one who possesses the abilities of
ns. roosevelt TO the inanitieS of existence that
in vain ---0 - A0eA'y
we are people who talk great deal about free
oom YET we impose thousand shackes of foolish
convention upon Presidents and their wives imagine
a Dy lar the major part of the duties of the latter
are only not monotonouS but deadly bore
only a woman who had passion for parties could
endure many years of Washington official life without
reoenlng or expiring under the burden
ONE might suppose, with all the hullabaIoo we
~ make, that we permitted the fortunate CO First
Lazy 10 set her own fashions But to believe this is
TO jump at conclusions
The truth is that these already are set for her
anc II she devlates in the slightest degree from esab
hshed custom she will be subjected to criticisms to
say notnlng OF the havoc she could cause in thus
setting of political bombshells.
rut is marked for her feet and we not only
expect, but demand thst she stay in it,
II women are to be emancipated citizens they
St should free themselves from the chains of social
convention The ron-clad rules of official Washing
ton society have been worshiped so long that they
now are 1etch-a succession Of totem poles before
winch strong men and fair women bow and kneel
And few Of them can stand analysis by any rule
OF common sense or intelligence
MRS. Roosevelt, to be sure, will be spared one
dilemma She viii not have to decide the proper
seat for Mrs Gam.
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CoIIoidal Fuel

PROFESSOR HOLMES says that
n the methods of collodial chem
istry have many applications in
science and industry, particularly in
the fuel and paint industries, and in
eliminating fire and explosion haz-
ards in factories and mines where
there is the danger of dust explo-
sionS.
"Collodial fuel, announced during
the great war by Linden w. Bates
and S. E. Shepard, came into its own
several weeks ago, when the Cunard
liner Scythia successfully demon
strated it's suitability as a substi-
tute for fuel oil or COAL he con-
tinued.
I'm reality, this fuel is fluid mix
ture or finely ground coal with Or
binary fuel oil, the proportions be-
ing equal.
ITO keep the solid part from set
Ting, a small amount Of dispensing
agent, such as a soap or sulfite
wood pulp waste or suitable coal
tar derivative is added.
"Then the fluid paste can be
sprayed into intimate contact with
every little particle of coal, result
ing in perfect combustion of the
cheapest Goals.
Dust explosions in coal mines,
starch factories and plants produc-
ing combustible dust as waste have,
in some years, caused a loss of mil
lions of dollars and scores of lives.
1.-The United States bureau of
mines is teaching industry the haz-
ards of the dust of cocoa, fertilizer,
aluminium, zinc, sugar and many
apparently harmless materials
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Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

.DO the souls of people shine in
II and through their faces?
Sometimes, yes; more often, no.
What, then, it reasonably may be
asked, are faces for? One might
reply, in the saying of French
cynic about words, that they con-
ceal our thought withal.
Or that they are for the amuse-
ment of others, as in the limerick
which President Wilson was fond
of quoting about himself: my face
don't mind it, for I am behind it
its the people in front get the
jar"
If, seriously, we turn to Shakes
peare, one of the profoundest stu
dents of man, we find him saying
much the same thing. King Dun
can, in Macbeth, is a kindly, trust
full, courteous, guileless man-but he
is no fool. One Of the proofs that
he is not lies in his frank avowal
of mistake in regard to Thane Of
Cawdor.
When the news is brought that
Thane has turned traitor, Duncan
says, There is no art to find the
minds construction in the face. I"
The irony of it is that he is at that
moment repeating the mistake; he
sees in the faces of Macbeth and
his wife only hospitality and loyalty
when they are plotting his death.
n n
TT is entirely true; some faces
l. may be mirrors, but most faces
are masks. Phrenology may know
US by the shape Of our heads and
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People Voice

Editor Times-I have been a sub
scriber to your paper for sixteen
years, and think it is mighty fine
of you to give a space for the peo-
pies views. When every one is
burdened down with worry in these
depressing times, I think we ought
to seize every opportunity to cheer
and help our fellow-men.
I was sorry to see in this free
column where some people have
been misguided and allowed them
selves to quarrel with each other,
taking your time and your space
just to strike back at some one.
would like to say a few words
about little children. They are the
men and women of tomorrow. What
little time that I have for recrea-
ton ! spend with the neglected
children of my neighborhood,
I have lived in this neighborhood
for sixteen years, and the children
always have been my friends. I
have one child Of my own, just a
boy q years old, and I always have
grieved because he had no brothers
and sisters like I had.
My father was a minister and has
passed on to his reward some time
ago, but his and my mothers train
ing has been my salvation and the
signposts in the training of my own
boy.
In the Sixth Chapter of Ephesians
are instructions for both children
and parents. IF these were carried
out, both would be happier, and we
would be laying a foundation for a
better generation.
Children make better friends than
grown folk. They don't pretend to
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like you and deceive you at the
same time. They are quick to for
give and forget. If you ask them
what kind of man or woman is Mr..
or Mrs. So and So, they can tell
you much better than a grownup.
I had big swing erected in my
back yard, and the neglected chill
dren come here to swing. The
only thing that is required of them
is to see them in clean clothes;
but sometimes the poor little things
don't even have any buttons on their
clothes, and have to get safety
pins and pin their little waists and
shirts. have had picnics here
for the children many times.
don't know their last names,
but they all call me by my given
name, which makes me feel like l
am one of them and gives me a
closer feeling to them. I have had
children call to me on streets many
blocks from my home (call me by
my first name and could not re-
call where had seen them and
ask when we were going to have
another party.
If this generation of mothers and
fathers only would realize what a
mistake they are making in neglect
ing their children and letting them
run on the streets, there would be
fewer crimes committed in the
future.
The home training is what counts
in our lives. We should bring our
children up In the way we would
have them go.
We were poor when I was a child,
but the strictest attention was given
to our rearing. We thank God for
our home environment which gave
us faith in God; and when the de-
preston has almost got us down,
We can lift our heads and know that
our redemption draweth nigh. for
God has promised US food and
raiment.
He said, Seek We first the king
dom of God, and His righteousness;
and all these things shall be added
unto YOU" st. Matthew, 6-33.
NErTIE COOK,
1881 Shepard street.
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palmistry by the lines in our hands,
but we have no art, much less a
science, of face-reading.
Yet ninety-nine out of every one
hundred of us are persuaded that
we can tell the character of a man
from his face. We have to make
rough and ready estimates of peo-
pie, to get on in the business at
all, and we think we know the
knack of it.
Others are equally sure, by sad
experience, that what people appear
to be is the one thing they quite
certainly are not.
Plato, on the other side, is against
us when he says, Soul is form, and
doth the body make" but we are
unconyinced. We still dare to de-
clare that the something whose
manifestation causes us to know
and love our fellows is invisible, in
tangible, and does not always use
the face as its index.
The elusive thing in our friends,
which we love, is revealed by some
medium more authentic, because
more spiritual, than even "the sor-
rows of changing face"
Some of the most unattractive
faces have been masks for the love-
lest spirits; but Maude Royden, my
old colleague at the City Temple in
London, used to say: up to so we
are not responsible for our faces;
after that we are" But why fix
date?
lcopyright 1872. United Featura sxndi-
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
1T is rarely that paralysis attacks
l. just the muscles of that tongue,
the palate, and the throat. Far more
frequently such paralysis is a part
of a paralytic condition affecting
other portions of the body.
The physician determines the ex-
tent Of the paralysis by studying
the actions not only of the muscles
of the tongue, the palate, and the
throat, but also of the muscular
system generally.
There are certain conditions in
which swallowing is extremely diff
ficult, if not impossible, which do not
represent actual changes in the
nerves and muscles, but which
probably are due to mental stimuli
There was a time when it was Gus
tomary to treat such patients by
passing increasingly larger probes or
sounds down the throat.
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Obscene Censorship

That sprightly magazine, The New Yorker. not lono
ago recounted an anecdote which reveals the stnidi
ties OF customs censorship about as well as ANYTHING
could.
There was published in this country few months
since book of more less ribald cartoons and
SAetches The book was funny and mildly improper
out no one tried to suppress it, and to this day it can
be sold openly at any store or news stand
After American publication London firm bought
English publishing rights and printed the bool, IN
England It's humor a bit broad for that land
however and half dozen or SO of the grosser sketches
were omitted
Ihen copy of the English edition was sent to an
American-and was held up by the customs autbori-
teS VINO declared the book obscene and could not b
shipped into this country
It's rather doubtful if Gene Tunney will engage in
announcer campaign It's hard to keep present-dav
politics on high literary plane.
The Christmas season always makes bow wish
he were big like his dad-so he could get ND closer r.
the counter where they show the mechanical tovs
Wen, the change in postmasters next spring NAV
have one sautary effect They NAV nut new mems ~
the desks F'S -
II that coal bill worries you, reflect on your Uncle
SAM He's running into debt $4,000 minute
VINO SAID there was no difference between the
major parties? wag points out that the Democrats
are taking the oath of Office while the Republicans
are emitting it,
Al Capones losing weight in federal prison at
ALBANIA say dispatches. But Chicago wasn't such
healthy spot for him, either
NOW Helene Madison, the swimming chamn hoe
signed with the movies One-piece suits never both
ereo her sense Of modesty but what will hapnen To
IL when they hand her move-style evening powni
NOW Is the time for all good men to spend their
Christmas savings
sul on every farm might not solve the agri
cultural problem but it ought put two speakesses
in every garage.
Iney say an ocean liners cabin is the safest snot
IN the world and Pullman berth comes next. So if
you stay at home-it's at your own risk
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six inches back of the heroine's left
ear.
And, though I was entertained,
would suggest that if we return to
the Victorian sunset we might at
least take our own scenery with us.
But I like to see the flash of
promise that once again it may be
possible to take horses out from
the shafts. Indeed, I'd put the cri-
tics in. The steady flow of the
intellect and improving thoughts is
not to be damned to please the
nostalgia urge of middle-aged
columniSt who once drank cham
payne from the slipper of Jenny
Lind, or maybe it was some other
girl.
But couldn't we, for month or
a day or a season, forget about the
drama and get back to the theater?
n u
Sounds Like Joy Thought
A ND while we are engaged in the
"A business of turning back the
hands, l am surprised at the prim-
ness Of Mark Sullivan. He cries out
in solemn accents and warns Amer
lea that it well may proceed too
rapidly in the matter of prohibition
reform.
What we are headed for now is
deplorable," he writes. THE place
we will land if we go along the
present course is simply back where
we were in 1919, the year before
national prohibition came"
And all I can say to that is,
wouldn't that be just dandy?"
Personally I have fought the good
fight all through the dark ages, and
1 have managed to find sanctuary,
not forgetting lemon peel and a
touch of vermouth. BY taking
thought and moving from one end
Of the town to another it still i; pos
sible to keep away from the dull
solace of sleep up to about o'clock.
After that it is difficult.
And SO I would like very much
to see once more a Jacks for which
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there was no key or closing time
whatsoever. Perhaps I will be asked
about my social conscience. It does
not trouble me at all in whooping
it up for gayer days and longer
nights.
Mr.. Sullivan himself, when not
engaged in writing political articles,
has written history of our own
times in which he has paid fervent
and even sentimental tribute to the
city which was.
Social Conscience Says rye
NOR is there any evidence
~ whatsoever that the troubles
of our day can be attributed to any
lack of productive energy. Under
the curious economic system in
which we live, one may say in al
most any decade, BE thrifty, my
boy, and help to bring on the next
panic"
If we suffer from our SURPRISES
I need not blush to be one of a de-
voted crew endeavoring to think
that back in 1919 American life was
Utopian.
That year, as we'll as ours, knew
its hungry men and women. But the
piling up of pretense and hypocrisy
hardly has helped to make us any
more clearheaded in facing press
ing problems. If an officially dry
America hasn't sense enough to re-
alize the need of drastic debt revi-
sion, then let's have another drink
all around and see if we can't ap-
proach the problem with something
more of essential good will.
The old-faShioned saloon NAV
have had its bad points, but I've
heard shrewder political and eco
nomic arguments there than are
known today in the columns of
Mark Sullivan or on the floor of
the United States senate.
Copyright, 1882. by The Tines
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

Cogoid Chemistry Expected
to Play Great Part IN IN
dustry, Agriculture and
Medicine.
METHODS Of isoIating vitamins,
1Y1 identifying germs, preparing
a new type of fuel, and preventing
explosions, all recent advances in
colloid chemistry. are described by
DR.. Harry N. Holmes of Oberlin
college, famous authority on COL
loidS, in report to the American
Chemical Society.
Chemists expect colloid chemistry
to assume greater and greater i'm
portance in the future in the fields
OF industry, agriculture, and medi-
cine.
ColIoid chemistry is one of the
newest fields of investigation and
consequently one in which there is
more to be discovered than is
known.
The colloid is a solution in which
one substance remains suspended
in the form of particles or droplets
in the other.
Isolation of Vitamin A from hall
but liver oil has been accomplished
by use of porous aluminium oxide,
DR.. Holmes explains.
When the oil is shaken up with
a special form of porous aluminium
oxide, he says, the tiny ports so
small that the microscope will not
reveal them, absorb the vitamin
from the oil.
The oxide then is removed from
the oil and treated with chemicals
which dissolve out the vitamin.
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Is Ben Turpin, the cross-eyed
comedian, living?
He recently appeared in the pho
toplay Million Dollar Legs" and is
to be featured in forthcoming
Fanchon 81 Marco stage presenta-
ton.
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Ideals and opinions expressed
In this column are those OF
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this paper.-The Editor.
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Daily Thought

And he said unto them, The
Sabbath was made for man, and
not man for the Sabbath.-St.
Mark 2:27.
Sunday is the golden clasp that
binds together the volume Of the
Week.--LongfelloW.
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Need Education in DUTY

+ we had the proper respect for
4 birth selection, birth control
would take care of itself. If we rea-
lied what it meant to bring weak.
defective children into the world
we wouldn't need any one to tell
us how many we ought to have or
now careful we should be in mar
riage. =
The trouble is that few human
beings believe they will make poor
fathers or mothers. In nine of ten
cases, nothing deeper than sex an
peal leads to a wedding and moth
ing deeper than a desire to Jazz
around is back of the birth control
complex.
The crying need is not for edu-
cation in contraceptives, but for ed
ucation as to the responsibilities
which go with children. If the du-
ties OF parenthood could be present.
ed to young people in their true
llght, If they could be made to un-
derstand that the prisons and asv-
lums are filled by just such a. care
less attitude toward life as thew
themselves maintain, half the nroh-
lem would be solved.