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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY GO ROUND

I
shouldn't
w wanting speaker than
example oil
the house conees on the Presidents
bill appointed Representative George Huddeson who
Representative
Joseph Hooper Rany after the announcement
newspapeman Speaker
Well did really
appoint Hooper," Yes We'll hes
bee February
only General Johnson
O other small industries will be
in / General has his Among
fly handles and
Washington taking bicycles built
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greatest rivers-the OBJ, the YEN
lsei, the Lena, and the Amur-
every one longer than the Missis-
sippi-unless you count in the
Missouri.
Americans know the Volga
pretty well, thanks to the song.
They also know Of the Amur, be-
cause Of the war-Scare along its
valley. But how many, even edu-
Gated, Americans can tell off,
hand, where the OBJ is, where it
rises, and into what it flows?
Nevertheless, the riches along its
course will some day make his
tory
American women. of course.
know the loveliest furs come from
Siberia-sable, beaver, ermine,
blue and gray polar fox, tufted-
cared lynx, marten and the rest,
n
DUT only a few people have
II even the faintest conception
of its wealth in coal, iron, cop
per, lead. precious stones, gold,
silver and other minerals. On
that the endless steppes are not
perpetually frozen bad-lands, but
are really fertile plains, waiting
to bring forth bumper crops Of
almost every description.
In the area around Minusinsk
the very same Minusinsk to
which Lenin was eXiled-are ap-
proximately 500 billion tons of
coal and many millions more Of
iron. Siberia has almost as much
coal, and of the very best quality
of anthracite. or cooking coal, as
England, Germany and France
put together. Much of it is on
the surface. Hardly any of it is
deeper than 500 feet.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TINE Gregorian rule tor leap years will eventually
require adjustment according to DR.. Frederick
c Leonard Charma of the department of aStron-
omy IN the University of California at Los Angeles
Dr. Leonard tells how Julius Caesar. with the aid
Of an astronomer named SosigeneS. introduced the
leap year INTO the calendar in - 5. c. But due
the fact that the seasonal year actually II min
uteS and u seconds shorter than the Julian wear
the difference amounted 10 one DAY in 1913 years. As
result by the 1882 the first day of spring had
slid back from March q TO March II
In that year Pope Gregory XIII called in an
astronomer named Clavius and modified the caen-
Oar Ten DAYS we're dropped out of the year so that
Oct Il came immediately after Oct 4. Then a new
rule for leap put into effect so that there
should be three fewer leap years IN every four
lures
Specifically the rule for the lean wear in the
Gregorsn calendar DR. Leonard says. is that every
year whose date number is evenly Invisible by 4 but
not hv 100 unless 1t is lnegraly divisble also by
400 shall be leap year Thus in the Greeorian
calendar 1900 was leap year and 2OOO will be, but
100. 1900 and 1900 we're ordinary var
THE rule for the leap year IN the Gregonan cal
/ endar Is not exact enough to fit the case pre-
CSely. however DR.. Leonard points out.
This calendar falls behind the tropical or sea-
Sona three DAYS in three times 126 or 24S years
instead of three days in precisely 400 years" he
says. However. the accumulated inequality amounts
10 less than one day in 5000 years. nd will
have TO be reckoned with until after the lapse Of
many centuries"
It can be seen. however. that with the lapse Of
sufficient number of centuries. r, calendar dates
for the start of the seasons VIII again be out Of step
with the actual start Of the seasons This point is
the one. however which causes most concern TO
scientists The desire for calendar reform grows out
Of the inequalities in the lengths of the months
ranging from twenty-eight 10 thirty-one days
What scientists would like 10 see ou be a Svs-
tenn which would Standar6lze the calendar so that
the calendar Of any year would be exactly like the
calendar Of any other year. The most workable plan
50 far evolved. IN Dr Leonards opinion. is that Of
the World Calendar Association.
THE World Calendar. Dr.. Leonard saws. is per-
i petual. symmetrical. twelve month calendar 1t
consists o four identical quarters Of ninetv-one days
each the hrSt month Of which. hat is January
April. July and October contains thirtv-one DAYS
and begins on Sunday
The second and third months Of each quarter
that H. February. MAY August or November. and
March June. September or December. respectively.
havs thirty days each and begin on Wednesdays and
Fridays respectively. Each quarter ends obviously
SATURDAY
Thus 364 DAYS of the year are accounted for. The
last or S65th day Of an ordinary year. carod Year
End day. and dated Dec Y. follows Dec 80 every
year.
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keeps a weather eye on a lot of
things. especially federal emery
ency relief.
MORE people are angling for
Iva the job of being American
minister to the Irish Free State
than the ambassadorShip to
France. Among the fore
most candidates are Daisy Harri-
man. Dick Kilroy, editorial writer
for the Los Angeles Daily News,
and Colonel Bob Guggenhein.
member of the copper family.
Informed by an Irish friend that
he would have to be baptized a
Catholic if he got the Dublin post,
Guggenheim replied; "Oh. that's
all right. I was baptized once
when 1 married my first wife. :"
He is now living with his
fourth, General Happy"
Glassford, great friend of the
bonus army Nhen he was chief Of
Washington police, is now under
attack in the Imperial Valley of
California AS feder-l con-
ciliator of labor in that area.
Happy" is charged with sup
pressing free speech and showing
open hostility to workers. In
order to put the summers crop of
geraniums on top of the White
House wings, it is necessary to
build a Scaffolding and runway
from the ground to the roof.
Boxed geraniums are then trundled
up in wheel barrows. Presi-
Dental grandson, "Buzzie" Dali
would like to ride his tricycle. down
the runway, but his mother won't
let him
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Moscow in wooden cage. She
cut off his head in Red Square.
But he had started something
ally, agriculturally, and mill
tarily,"
Pioneers are pouring in and
settling. Blast furnaces are belch-
ing smoke and flame. Water
power is being developed at
phenomenal rate Railways and
highways are shaking out into
the Wilds.
What the future holds in store
for this colossal experiment only
the future can tell. Siberia may
not be the Eldorado which Soviet
enthusiasts now seem to believe it
is, but I found it to be at least a
land of hope.
NEXT-Siberia' Jewish Daniel
BoOneS.
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BY WILLIAM PHILIP sIMMs

II HABAROVSK Siberia May 2On the bzzadswept
N column shivering
children line
given the order.
Ahead thousands of Recovered miles beyond the Ual
Vladimir Uyanof
thirtyseven after another column
children steadily pushing Siberia directed thth
lies embned
j Square
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Recent assays reveal that there
are at least 275 100000 tons of
high-grade iron in Mt. Magnit-
maya, and that in the adjoining
Urals are upward of two billions
more.
SO we have the coal and we
have the iron to make Siberia an
industrial empire as great as the
United States.
Along with this is unlimited
agricultural acreage-enough to
support 200,000,000 population and
more.
r
MO other area has so much
~ timber. None hao so much
water power Soon, as lives of
nations go, Siberia will be in
vincible all by herself, industri-
Catherine had him brought to
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Nov look Here is the Ural
mountains, separating European
Russia from Siberia. This is Mt.
Magnitnaya.
A BOUT $50 years or so ago,
"A fellow named Ivanovich Pu-
gachev roamed this region. Be
hind him rode several thousand
rebellious peasants, COssacks,
Kirghiz and deserters from the
army of Catherine the Great.
Deciding to march on Moscow,
he first commanded his men to
halt here at this mountain and
dig Melting down the dirt, as
they called it, they made a lot Of
spears and poured cannon balls
from the ore.
"Pugachev took a beating and
which was the making Of Siberia,
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AS a matter of fact the OAR
row board proceeded to repeat
the most fundamental of all the
errors of the NRA. It tried to
cover too much ground too quick
ly. Like much of the MIRA itself.
this report is superficial and con-
fusing because it is so ALIEN
bracing and so excited. Because
there are so many codes set up
in such hurry no one really
knows what is in them all, or how
they are working, or what they
mean. The NRA does not really
know, for to know that would be
to know the details of thousands
of enterprises, and the DarroW
board deos not know, for it has
had no time to find out.
THAT the detailed report of the
i board will show many spe-
cific evils may be taken for
granted. The minority report of
Mr. John F Sinclair states that
from 80 to 90 per cent Of the COM
plants that he heard were rel
atively minor and could be dealt
with by a better administrative
procedure, but that the balance are
of fundamental Importance and
should be examined with the
greatest care.
He does not say what these
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au tho Republicans always won The state and ma
ton 90 you couldn't Get very excited about that
The gold standard the gold standard and not
worth discussing and the world had reached a stage
where war was unthmkablc
We had q Socialist club which met tepidly once
on twice year. Walter IIppmann was a member,
and 7 hung around the frnecs- John Reed never
came around. His interest lay in The better social
clubs of HE university. He yet untouched by
the urge and drive which led him later into Russia
and Communism and death by tvphus II is little
uonical to remember these circumstances.
We who gathered AT these mild meetings could
hardly be called revolutioniss but after all We we're
PLAYING around with the theme of new dispense
ton while Jack larklng it along in Boston on
some party. And now he is buried in the Kremlin
and Walter Lippmann is the Herald Tribune
Still II was the Tribune of Greeley to which Marx
contributed a European letter for many years. I
have never had chance to read any of this CORE
spondence but I am told by a student of the files
that Marx wrote his article in very lively English
and dealt with political gossip as we'll as his own
economic theories.
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But they do not go in chains
They are going voluntarily because
they hope for brighter future
there, as workers and homestead
ers. They are going in much the
same spirit that led American
pioneers to plunge into the Wilds
beyond the Mississippi and on to
the far west
"CIBERIA," a Soviet official re-
- marked. was discovered. as
a territory. back in 1881. by fell
low named Ermak. But it re-
NAMED for the Bolsheviks to dis
cover it for what it really is, $50
years later"
I asked him to explain. He led
me over to a map.
That" he said. is Siberia. It's
bigger than all the countries of
Europe combined. It's bigger than
the United States. Yet, until re-
Gently. almost nothing was known
about it-even by those who pro-
fessed to rule it.
The maps they made of it we're
wrong If you tried to G. by them,
you got lost. They showed rivers
where no rivers existed and we
have found rivers where none was
marked down.
In czarist times. Siberia was
just a prison camp. Or a vast re-
gion where a few grew rich by
scratching the surface here and
there. To the masses all it meant
was dread, exile, prison, torture,
gloomy forests, frozen steppes. I'M
utterable~ loneliness, death.
That is what the old regime
made of it,"
WE are making it quite
w something else. We are
making it place to live.
In it are four of the worlds
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Your Health
-RY DR.. MnRRIS EISHRElN

GONE indigestion victims get the idea that there
> is some one food substance that is responsible
for the feeling of fuimess, the discomfort the pain,
and the eructation Of gas that follow eating
Some force themselves to eat with the idea that
this will make them we'll: others eliminate food
substance for another with the hope Of finding the
offending food substance, thus almost starving them
selves to death
After the doctor has made a complete eXamina-
ton and discovers that there is nothing organlcaly
wrong that can be reached, and after he assures
his patient that he does not have cancer, heart
tries to find what troubles are in the family which
cause person to lose his appetite and ruin his
digestion.
In most cases Of acute indigestion it IS common
to find women who lead cat-and-dog exlstences with
their husbands and who wrangle at mealtimes
COMBINES rest or vacation will have a favor
y able effect on the person with acute indigestion
or dyspepsia. particularly If he goes away from ms
household and all the persons around him This does
not mean strenuous holiday. but actual rest.
Many persons who seem 70 be having trouble with
their digestion do better with certain amount Of
massage and mild exercise This Is particularly the
case in stoutlv built who once athletic and
who have become fabbv and fat
Most important in these cases however. is devel-
oping diet that the patient can take and teaching
MIN to eat as he should The smooth diet is the one
most frequently prescribed for such patients
One Of the largest clinics in the United States
advises smooth diet for persons with chronic
digestive trouble.
IF you are to give this diet fair trial" the clinic
i suggests. "eat no coarse foods with fiber skins,
seeds or grste Avoid particularly salads with celery
tomatoes cucumbers and pineapple many Of the
green vegetables raisins berries Jams full Of seeds
nuts, and many Of the fruits
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INSURANCE MEETING SET
Meub Agency Employees to Hear
Boston Expert.

George Willard Smith president
of the New England Mutual Life In
surance Company of Boston, Mass,
was to address the personnel Of the
William H. Meub agency here and
its agency associates at luncheon
today in the Indianapolis Athletic
Club. The Meub agency covers
three-fourths of the state.
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Walter Lippmann

THE board
plcated activities of the NRA during the nine
months Six set out the
operating through nearly 400 codes
would have had to examine than the
ground about code
of the codes
competent staff they power books
ana witnesses they might have made thorough
the steel code the coal code But
the NRA whole xperty authoravey is to ascrbe sne
human powers
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CITY WOMAN'S MATE
DIES IN SCOTLAND
Word Received Here of Death of
Professor ]. Y. Simpson.

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas G. Day have
received word that their SON law,
Professor James Young Simpson,
died Sunday in Edinburgh, Scot
land He leaves wife. Helen Day
Simpson. formerly of this city. three
brothers and a sister.
Professor Simpson, the eldest son
of Sir Alexander and Lady Simpson.
was lecturer at Edinburgh and
Glasgow universities.
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VIII take several hours to make up the tow"
he said so Just make Yourself at home there
are books and magazines in the library and the
waiter VIII bring you orangeade if you like"
The Louisiana OutWardlv somewhat resembled q
factory or refinery mounted on a raft, but inside
she was more like fairly good small-town hotel
1t was toward dark when the tanks finally we're
filled and Captain Clay his boat up to bank
where large mass of floating objects we're moored
TO a stationary concrete barge. left over from the
war Ills employees, under Ira Lloyd, the mate honpad
on to the floating Objects which now turned out to
be bargeS loaded with scrap-iron and began tvino
them together and arranging them in a long file
Finally they had big fiat barge left over There
seemed to be no place for this in the pattern 50
Captain Clay called down to Mr.. Lloyd to tie that
ball-yard on alongside
The river very dark by this time but the
men were doing their work by the glow of two big
flash lights, of a kind which neither of the previous
Mark Twains ever mentioned in any of their lore
At II, when the captain decided to 90 To bed his
employees under Mr.. Lloyd still cambernq
over the scrap-lrOn. hauling the steel ropes to
bind the barges closer together as the current dis
covered slack in the established open water between
the boats
1t was about in The morning that the waite
came up with cup Of coffee and said the Louisiana
had reached place called Island Thirty-fve which
was the most difficult stretch of the river north
Of Memphis, where the army engineers had been
changing the channel
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Girl Cut by Horseshoe

Running across a horseshoe court
in which game was being played
Yesterday, Betty Bruning. 5. Of 956
South East street, was struck by a
shoe and suffered a cut in her fore
head. She was sent to City hos
pital.
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Crew ProrcS WeHMnnnered

A this point, in trying to give half the road to
a the toWboat Talbot. which was coming down
stream. the Louisiana showed the automobile float
aground. Nevertheless Captain Clay leaned out over
the rail of his boat and waved pleasantly to the
driver Of the Talbot, who waved back very Cour-
teously The Louisiana pulled and hauled for an
hour but the big barge would not come loose so the
captain told the employees that they would simply
have to take the tow all apart up past Island
80 in pieces and tie it together again up there There
were several rather eXasperatng incidents during
this work They would tie the floats to the biggest
trees they could find and the current would swing
them out and pull the trees out like sprigs of grass
But Captain Clay nor any of his employees showed
any loss OF temper used any of the swear words
which Nh. Mark Clemens Twain claims to have
heard.
1 kept asking various employees if they had ever
read Mr.. TWans writings but none of them had and
they had never even heard Of jim Bloodsoe the
great hero who kept the of his burning vessel
agn the bank till the last galoot was ashore They
said 1t must have been long before their time.
Mr. Spitfaden of New Orleans an assistant 20
the pilot, who had made two trips around the world
IN tramp steamers preferred baseball stories for his
reading. He said ne thought baseball writer must
have the most interesting life of ALL around with
famous athletes all the time and living in GOOD
hotels.
Oh. those were the days along the Mississippi
when was serving my time on the Louisiana
Well. anyway. that was the day
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The Talk of Tigers

DUT mostly I was impressed by
ID talking to undergraduates
who told me that vast changes
have taken place in the college
mans point of view since the
year 1910. when I left Harvard
by the back door and with the
Injunction not 10 darken l. again
Back i'm those dim ages the
current interest in politics and
economies was of the slightest.
Possibly there was some excuse
lor Tho colleglate coIdness. After
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Haywood BROUN

DFINCETON Nav y We we're heading for New
/ Haven but somewhere along The line wc must
have taken Tho wrong turning for this Is Princeton
which IS not the same Yale Here 2 slx-man
unbalanced line is used and the tackles wait for
TIC Dlav 10 develop before making their charge An
other important point If difference is that Prince
ton has erer~ prospect for 2 winning football team
Icnin said that religion was the opiate Of the
people and championship eleven Is generally
sedatve m The minds Of the UNDERGRADUATE body.
But I must admit that the Young Tigers are less
luned into q state nj parochial indifference than the
present athletic proves Of the university would
warrant. 7 attended a dinner Of Whi2-Clo the
canzaton composed Of the two debating societies
and found more than a hundred young men hand
tc hear Raymond Moey Robert
loses and Herbert Bayard Swope
ak upon themes having nothing
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fair Enough
WESTBROOK PE0LER

MEMPHIS MAY 22-As memory takes me back
4VA to my day on The Mississippi river sometimes
long to return to the father of waters and see what
changes time has wrought in the life of the steam
boatmen. 1t seems but Yesterday although it was
week ago, that shipped on the tOwboat Louisiana
as she lay at the filing station taking on oil and
set out on a career on the mysterious cruel benevo-
lent force which swept me along needless of the
passage Of time and distance, until twenty-four
hours later I sid farnunll 70 liz
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had accepted Mr. Mark Clemens Twans vor-
sion OF the Mississippi The truth and expected 10
encounter only coarse characters on the louisiana
Inc captain would have great beard and would
speak only IN swear words But the captain turned
out to be a brisk young man in white linen with
out so much as faint Spric of musta ache who adj
dressed ms SubordnaeS in the tones of an executive
IN office
Captain Clay said he pushing thirteen barges
at present and was picking up eight more IN Mem
pms as soon as he had filled his oil tanks down IN
the basement of the Louisiana
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EIE WINNING OF THE EAST
med L. S. D,17e Duplicated on Vast Scale By Soviet

g the of
BY him on
his resent Of Times
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CONGRESS will be congress
~ The day the senate passed
the Fletcher Rayburn bill to put
hobbies on Stock Exchange gam
bling. the chamber convened two
hours ahead of its usual meeting
time in order to get through by
early afternoon. The reason: A
lot of the statesmen we're in 4
hurry to get over to nearby PIN
hCo 10 bet on the Preakness
Massachusetts, burlv Republican
Representative Treadwav was
once publicly eulogized by Jack
Garner as having the biggest
hood, the loudest horn, and the
least horsepower of any man l
have ever known" There is
a lot of extra curricular" activity
going on in General Hugh John
sons Office these spring days
The blue eagle boss is having his
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bankers who yelled theii
ID heads off against the stock
market bill probably will settle
down now and praise it as the
great savior of capitalism b.. That
was what they did regarding the
federal reserve system during the
Wilson administration They or
ganized the then greatest lobby in
history against it. and in SUISSE
quent yeas recognized the federal
reserve as A great stabilizer
Probably the stock market bill will
restore confidence in the same
way Colonel James Fitzmaur-
ice, the Irish Sweepstakes fler,
enlisted in the British army at the
age of fifteen and was about to be
court -martialed for striking
major Instead he was given
chance to enlist in the air force,
then considered suicide, and has
become one of the outstanding
pilots of the British Empire q.
One Of Mr.. Roosevelt's closest
friends is Lorena Hickock, former
newspaper writer, buXom. square
lawed lady who is attached TO no
government pay roll but who