The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1930, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives 6MALL. SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Providing Jobs for Unemployed ‘The recent passage by the senate of the Wagner bill creating a revolving fund of $150,000,000 to be used by a planning board for public works in time of unemployment is, at least, a commendable step in the direction of solv- \ng a critical problem which the nation will have to meet possibly soon with further legislation. Or industry will have to adapt itself to the solution of ‘the gravest problem that the country faces at this time. Even farm relief takes a secondary place to the pros- pective crisis involved in unemployment for large groups of workers thrown out of jobs by the growing use of la- bor-saving machinery. Idleness of workers cuts down consumption of farm products. There can be no real farm relief until the consuming capacity of the nation is cperating on full measure, and it isn’t at that stage as jong as 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 men are out of work, as has been the case during the winter. Nobody wants this country to come to doles, as Eng- Jand has had to. They sap the morale of workers. Amer- icans prefer to earn their livings and to provide for their families out of wages and salaries, Even unemployment insurance is objectionable in a country where the spirit of independence is as strong as here. The disturbing feature about present conditions is that they are not the product of the Wall Street debacle last fall. They are in large part the result of the machine evolution in the social and industrial organization of the country. They are permanent developments until a way is found to dispose of them. In addition, the practice of employers in drawing the ‘age line on men of 40 and over is aggravating the men- acing condition. Group insurance, intended to alleviate unemployment, by a perversion of intention has tended to increase the evil. As the cost of this is based on age, it is clearly to the advantage of the employer to hire men as young as possible, so as to get a longer term of service out of them. This tends to bar men of 40 and over who lose their places in one industry from obtain- ing places in another. Mergers also squeeze out men after they have given the formative period of their industrial and commercial life to an employer but who are no longer needed when com- binations enable corporations to reduce their forers. There are several ways to deal with these conditions. Industry and business can do it or they can leave it to legislation. The latter method implies politicians and radicals stirring up a lot of rancor and trouble. Society must find the way. Business experts now are beginning to wonder if the anticipated industrial revival may not be postponed until autumn, instead of coming this spring as everyone had hoped. If they are right, it is going to be an uncomfort- fable summer for a good many workingmen. The most discouraging thing, however, is that even this revival, when it finally comes, is not going to settle the unemployment trouble entirely. The use of machin- ery in factories has developed so fast that even in pros- perous times there are no jobs for a whole host of in- telligent, capable workers. Some experts say flatly that we shall have at least a million men “chronically un- employed,” no mattcr how thoroughly we recover from the depression. Here are a few figures to illustrate the matter, as cited by Rodney Dutcher in a recent dispatch from Washing- ton: In the brick-making industry, a machine now makes 40,000 bricks a day where the individual worker's daily output has been around 450. In the steel mills you will find one man around an open hearth furnace now where you used to find 42. In the boot and shoe trade, 100 machines take the place ‘of 25,000 men. In the automobile trade, 120 men in a Milwaukee plant, using modern machinery to the fullest extent, can turn out 8,000 auto chassis frames a day. In the most mod- ern European factory, where machinery is not so widely used, it takes 200 men to produce 35 frames a day. Study those figures a minute, realize that they can be duplicated in nearly every large industry in the country, and you will see quite easily that a mere restoration of Prosperity—no matter how greatly that is to be desired —is not going to provide a full solution for the unemploy- ment problem. It is a puzzling situation. What it amounts to is that our factories are becoming too efficient. They do their work too well. Modern machinery is making it possible for mankind to eliminate much of the drudgery that has | ‘been its lot from the dawn of civilization; but at the same time it is raising a new difficulty. What good is it to be released from drudgery when you are also released from the chance to earn your liv- ing? Must Think More Maturely The census is showing us something to regret. “The Nation, just like an individual, is no longer young. It is growing up. It is getting set ways. It has come to the point where it must take more and more thought in what it does. The mistakes of youth can be corrected, but in adult age the matter of correction is no longer so easy. Perhaps that means that we must grow more con- servative. The period of experiment is past. We must come to a more settled philosophy and action. Population growth is slowing down. Many and many @ city finds itself short of the mark that it confidently expected to reach. Rural counties are, in many cases, actually shrinking. Experts predict that in two or three more decades the nation’s population will be practically Gtabilized. All of this is going to have a profound effect. It means boom-town atmosphere is going to disappear and that a more sober, thoughtful philoso- phy will have to take its place if we are to avoid trouble. We have always been a nation of pioneers—even after our physical frontiers had becn pushed to the west coast. | Always there has ben rapid growth. Any sort of city or town, almost, could leok ahead to ¢onstent increase in t ” .-President and Publisher size. ber. This affected our whole national character. It bred a blind optimism, a feeling that we could not spoil our chances, a conviction that ever-bigger things were bound to be always ahead of us. It made the lot of the pro- moter an easy one. It was a tremendously potent stim- vlant to activity—but it did not lead us to take a great Geal of thought for the morrow. Now the swing of the pendulum is slowing down. | Things won't be coming so easily hereafter. The old, slam-bang, full-speed-ahead system must’ give way to careful pianning and wise forethought. The premium on restless energy will not be quite so high, and the de- mand for cool, analytical brain-power will increase. In short, as a nation we are turning a corner. We are leaving an era behind us, and a long process of readjust- ment lies ahead. It will take some real thinking and some scientific study to get us through it without dis- comfort. A man's neighbors were always increasing in num- England’s New Poet Laureate The selection of John Masefield as England's new poet laureate meens that the high traditions of this honored post are to be maintained very well indeed. Few literary crities will deny Mesefield a place in the forefront of modern poets; most of them, probably, will agree that he outshines his predecessor, Dr. Robert Bridges. Americans will fecl an unusual interest in Masefield’s elevation because of his extensive experiences in this country. He traveled clear across the continent as @ migratory worker once, and for a time was porter ina New York saloon; and these unconventional wayfarings | have helped greatly to give his poetry its wide appeal and | depti, His wanderings hardly seem appropriate for a poet laureate, who by tradition is supposed to write historic lays about the doings of royalty; but the laureate doesn’t have to do that any more if he doesn’t feel like it, so no harm is cone. At any rate, there is no question that Masefield is an honor to the post he holds. Ominous Indications The London naval conference, even though it fell short of expectations, did at least give the cause of world peace something of an impetus forward. | But actions speak louder than words. And some of the events recently reported from Europe are rather disturb- ing. France announces a great naval demonstration in the Mediterranean, in celebration of the 100th anniversary Gosu! **: I'M HOPING FOR. AnUnofficial Observer! ‘ U.S. -MEXICO TREATY On May 19, 1848, after a war be- of the French conquest of north Africa. A celebration is proper enough, of course—but who can doubt that there is an ulterior motive back of this great display of naval strength? At the same time, the Italian cabinet approves the con- struction of 29 new warships—three cruisers, four de> stroyers and 22 submarines. * All of this has an ominous sound. If the cause of peace is being advanced in the Mediterrancan, its prog- ress is hardly noticeable. A Horrible Outbreak The lynching at Sherman, Texas, seems to have been @ peculiarly horrible affair. Not that any lynching 1s anything else, ever—but this one seems to have been one of the worst ever reported. ‘Texas has maintained a good record in recent years in regard to outbreaks of this kind. It is especially regret- table, therefore, to read of this tragedy. It is a very bad blot on the state's good name, discouraging to those Texans who had hoped that their state had gotten beyond this sort of thing. Governor Moody seems to have acted with commend- able promptness and firmness, but the mob was too de- termined to be restrained. The whole thing testifies once more to the sad fact that the “race problem” is a long, long way from being solved. | Editorial] Comment A Chicago Gangster Abroad (Kansas City Star) “The almighty dollar will beat any new broom in Chicago.” This declaration, together with additional comment on American crime, was made by one Rocco Finelli, Capone gangster and general racketeer, as he drank a succession of cocktails in a London bar. The interview, published in a London paper and cabled to the United States, was read with much interest in Chi- cago, the scene of Finelli’s operations. It was given especial attention by Frank J. Loesch, president of the Chicago crime commission, who pronounced it additional corroboration of his charge that there has been an al- alanee among politicians, police and gangsters in that city. Finelli ridiculed the crime commission. “We are able to take care of ourselves,” he declared, “and what we say goes in Chicago. We can laugh when anyone tries to stop us, too. You know why? Because the people asked to treat us as public enemies do as we say.” But times are not quite so good in Chicago for crim- inals and criminal gangs as they were before the crime commission was organized. Conditions still are bad enough, but there have been gains. Capone is keeping clear of the law since his release and his return stay in Chicago was very short. Finelli himself is not in Eng- land for his health, nor even for pleasure, as he has said; he jumped a $20,000 bond. To say the least, the Chicago commission has made a good start. It is digging into crime and its causes and its protection. It seems to be actuated by deter- mined purpose and backed by ample resources. Even money talks more than one language. The Moral Turpitude Decision (Grand Forks Herald) The decision of the state supreme court in the “moral turpitude” case, whether legally sound or not, has the unfortunate effect of enrolling North Dakota among the few states in which it is possible to send an in- dividual to the penitentiary for life for ever a minor infraction of the prohibition law, provided he has a sufficient number of early felonies to his discredit. That gives the state, in the eyes of the rest of the country, an undesirable status of harshness and bigotry. It is pointed out that such a severe sentence is not manda- |tory, and it is probably true that there is no judge jin the state who would inflict such a sentence except | upon conviction of an offense which is universally re- | garded as sufficiently grave to indicate an utterly de- graded character. The outside public, however, is not likely to go into the minutae of the subject, and the im- pression will stand that the state of North Dakota is CpeTASS, under an utterly senseless and unjustifiable jaw. The court was divided on the issue, three to two. By what process of reasoning the majority decision was reached we fail to understand. An accused person, no matter how humble and obscure, being brought before the bar of justice is entitled to the legal presumption of innocence and to have every reasonable doubt re- solved in his favor. The general assembly of the state, it seems, is entitled to at least equal consideration, and in a case involving the interpretation of a statue it is fair for the court to assume that the legislature did not intend to abandon the exercise of ordinary horse sense. If there is obscurity in the language, the statute should be construed in the light of reason, and it is not reason- able to suppose that the legislature ever intended to make possible a sentence of life imprisonment for even the mos} trivial infraction of the prohibition law. In all the circumstances the language of the statute seems clear enough. It is distinctly stated that the law shall not apply to felonies created by statute, not involv- ing moral turpitude. “Moral turpitude” is pn elastic term, but it is commonly used to describe acts which, regardless of any legal regulations, are universally ob- noxious and held in detestation. A violation of the prohibition law may be in this class. It may be inspired by malice and may be evidence of depravity. But not all | Violations of the prohibition law can be so character- ized, and there is not the slightest reason to suppose that the legislature intended to include all of them in # statute in which it specifically excepted just sul offenses as many prohibition violations. tween the United States and Mexico arising from a dispute over the boundary of Texas, a treaty of peace was ratificd between the nations. By terms of the treaty Mexico was forced to cece to the United States territory of Upper California and New Mexico, for which, moved by the pres- sure of public opinion, this country agreed to pay $15,000,000. The treaty made the Rio Grande the western boundary of Texas and the Gila river the northern boundary of Mexico. The Mexicans tried without success to secure a pledge from the United States to keep slavery out of the ceded territory. ‘The Mexican land cession included Utah, Nevada and parts of Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. Adding Texas, this region formed the broad belt extending from the Gulf of Mex- ico to the Pacific and having an area of more than 850,000 square miles, or more than the entire American re- public possessed at the close of the Revolutionary war. ‘The caterpillar of the Pandora moth is considered a great delicacy | by the Mono and Piute Indian tribes in Nevada. It is baked in hot ashes, after which it is dried and put away to be served later on in stews. Sp tna | Today Is the "I Quotations ( Anniversary of | “The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.” —Stanley Baldwin. eke “I do not desire the spotlight.”— | Rudy Vallee, crooner. eee “From the point of morals, life seems to be divided into two periods; in the first we indulge, in the second we preach.”—Will Durant, author. se 8 “A mother may disapprove of every opinion and every action of her son; but she loves him.”—William Lyon Phelps. st x ek “We are not only more free from attack, but our people are more free than are any other people in the world.”—President Hoover. ek ® “Hard knocks make better demo- cratic Americans. than diplomas.”— Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate. eee “To have a former president in Washington exercising political power would result in all kinds of uncom- fortable complications.” — Former President Coolidge. * * * “Golf's too slow.” — Representative | Howard of Nebraska. * Oe “There are social problems enough to keep an army of keen-thinking and from the haunting fear of attack; Chapman Catt. but that it is a bore. see “In nearly every case young men who have got in trouble with the law ure those who have wandered away jfrom the influence of the church.”— United States Attorney Rover of Washington. WOMEN’S TACT HELPS KEEP FRENCH WORKERS CONTENT Paris—(#)—France is saving money and contributing to the happiness and Prosperity of her working people by Placing women supervisors in fac- tories. Some 40 important industries in France now have women superintend- ents who act as intermediary between the owner or general manager and the men and women who do the ac- tual work. If a woman factory hand falls ill the woman supervisor steps in and sees that she has proper medical treatment. If she has difficulties with her husband she exercises her diplomacy in bringing about a friend- ly_ reconciliation. If an employe, man or woman, has trouble with the “boss” the woman supervisor smooths it over. Industrial leaders have found al- ready that the woman supervisor has more than justified herself. doing women busy for a generation to clear them all- away.” — Carrie se “The basic tragedy about human! existence is not that it is a tragedy, -H. L. Mencken. GOOD FOOD COMBINATIONS Those who have strong digestive organs are inclined to ridicule the idea of good food combinations be- cause they sometimes eat meals of in- harmonious conglomerations and ap- Parently suffer no immediate ill Even doctors sometimes fall into this error by trying food combi- nations upon themselves. I was, my- Self, gifted with a strong digestive apparatus and I did not realize the ince of food combinations until I began prescribing to sick, run- down patients. Those who are afflicted with weak digestive organs or who suffer from certain diseases, such as eczema, asthma or rheumatism, for example, must learn to be especially careful pied benid food combinations if they pe become permanently well. Sometimes sick individuals are so sensitive that the least mistake in combining their food produces almost and severe discomfort. It from watching this type of pa- a that I first got my clue as to importance of food combinations. Those ‘who’ are not so ‘sensitive to changes in the diet may not notice the ill effect of wrongly combining foods, but I am satisfied, nevertheless, that an injurious effect results which if not immediately apparent is cumu- lative in effect over a series of years, and gradually wears down the consti- tution so that one may become sus- sy gga to serious diseases later in fe. I write frequently in my ‘daily articles about the importance of food combinations, and for the benefit of those who have not yet learned to combine their food properly, I en- deavor to occasionally outline lessons on food combinations. You have probably heard that the digestion of food begins in the mouth. This is true, but in reality only one kind of food is digested by the saliva, and that one food is starch. Other foods, such as meat, greens and fruits are not in any way in the mouth except that chewing br-caks up these foods into small particles. The ptyalin or digestive ferment in the saliva acts only upon starch and partly converts it into sugar. This digestion of starch by the ptyalin con- tinues for several minutes after the starch has entered the stomach until the hydrochloric acid of the gastric juice becomes too plentiful. The stomach, itself, puts out large quantities of gastric juices, especially for the purpose of converting proteins into soluble substances. The diges- tive juice of the stomach has no ef- fect whatever upon the starches, greens and sugars except to make them sour because of the hydrochloric ‘The stomach’s juices do not have any action upon digesting starch as there is no part of the gastric juices which has the property to act upon starch. As the food passes out of the stomach into the small intestines, the bile, which is alkaline, is mixed with the food, and if the mixture is already too acid, the bile is capable of con- HEALTH DIET ADVICE Dr Frank McCoy 5 he Nest May to ool ROCIY WHO CAN OE ADDRESSES IN CANT OF fh PRPER acid contained in the gastric juice.|} verting it into a liquid alkaline, and the remaining food is then acted upon BEGIN HERE TODAY ware has bee: wee for this without explaining Jor hoping fer a reconeiliatio: ecusations drive hii reuse A (GEOFFREY NORMAN. to invite Alan week-en Ths . ana they forget he Seorroe CHAPTER XI ried or hanged, it came just the same, For Alan Converse, it brought a rush of work. But he found mo- ment at the beginning of the day to wonder if he hadn't over-eati- mated Phillipa West's attractive: ness, He was observing her closely while she took dictation from him. Accurate as ever. Her efficiency coming close to defeating its own purpose by being so perfect it al- most escaped notice. For it wasn’t her work he was comparing with anything of Nata- lie’s. It was her appearance. Not a touch of glory about her. Natalie —the memory of her beauty hung round him like a fragrant scent. It was unbelievable that she should doubt her allure—should be jealous of other women, Those hours when her loveliness had been less than nothing to him, had slipped out of his mind before their week-end at Lake Placid with , the Normans in their $30,000 “but,” ‘was over, Phillipa sensed his mood, knew she was at the nadir of her appeal for him, She could cheerfully have | man,” whom she blamed for taking | Alan away and throwing him into’ the Intimate company of his wife. Unwisely, she held her anger tn- tact until she reached home. Better te Husban ©°1950 AY'NEA NATALIE Grote) isles te ber her ae ation wee NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY ‘ONDAY came. It didn’t matter if you were going to be mar- SERVICE, INC. for her to have expended it in some way that would have compelled her to exercise a measure of self-re straint toward her parents. They could not compete with her in a battle of words. Thus, by letting herself go against them, she de prived herself of discipline, per mitted a dangerous habit to grow— that of ‘speaking her mind fully, once she got started. “Will you, Phillipa darlin’, just run up and sit a minute with Uncle Frank, while Mamie delivers some work?” her mother asked her when dinner was finished. “I will not,” Phillipa answered shortly. She did not even honor her mother with a glance; “I'm going to do my nails.” “Do your nails?” her father =, |snorted. “I suppose you're gonna put more of that bloomin’ red stuff on ‘em. It would do them more good, and you too, young lady, if you'd stick ‘em in the dishpan once in a while.” Phillipa answered with wuna- bridged disrespect. “Oh, shut up,” she seid. “Phillipa,” her mother began, only to be cut short instantly. “Don't ‘Phillipa’ me,” the daugh- ter cried, pushing back her chair until it banged against the radi- ator, and getting to her feet in de J throttled “that high-hat Mrs. Nor | pre, tion for an exit on the last’ word, “Do you think I've nothing to do but sit up there in that stuffy hole with a mummy like Frank Switzer? Byt of course you do.” she laughed harshly. “What do you know about the grind in a busi- ness office? What, I'd like to know? And just because I've got to keep myself looking decent, I’m in- sulted.” She glared at her father: Both parents were silent, shocked by her violent temper. “You might be somewhere in the world today if ‘you'd kept your nails clean,” Phil- Mpa raved on, “instead of being stuck here in thia beastly place.” Her father gasped. “Beastly .. Say, who pays the rent for it, me fine lady?” “Hush, father.” His wife pulled at grumbled. “Where's me pipe?” Mrs, West washed the dishes end wiped them too. Her husband took Deeks at her over his evening pa- per and shook his head. Martha’d been prettier in her day than ‘ber daughter was mow. Too bad she'd had to work so hatd. But wiping dishes was no man’s job. “I'd go up and sit with Frank,” he volunteered at last; “only I can't smoke me pipe.” Mrs, West came over and put an arm around his thick shoulders. “I know,” she said softly. “It's too bad the smell of a pipe makes bim sick; it might cheer him to smoke one. But wouldn't you enjoy yours just as much if yeu dida't call it ‘me’ pipe?” Mr. West looked up teasingly at nee Nm half,” he declared, sighed, “It’s such a little eninge she said, and patted his shoulder; “but I expect it means a great deal to Phillipa.” “Phillipa, huh? Has she been complainin’ of mygrammar again? What ails that girl, anyhow? Is she just plain contrary? Mamie tells me she. took a box of cigarets up to Frank. She knows well enough he's mot no use for to bacco.” “No, she diane know,” Martha said; “she thought it was just a Pipe he couldu’t stand.” Mr. West snorted. “Me eye! Why dida’t she take him peanuts? She was up to something, that’s why. and she didn’t give a continental damn about Frank Switzer.” — Mrs, West kept silent, remember- ing what Mamie had said. But why couldn’t they believe that Phillipa had had a kindly impulse? Had she seen Phillipa at the mo- ment, polishing her nails with a fury that fairly burned them, and had she been able to read the girl's mind, she might have agreed with those who doubted Phillipa’s kindli- ness, By. morning Phillipa was still re- sentful of Alan’s evident change of heart, but she had brought herself to a much calmer regard for it. his arm beseechingly. She knew. where Phillipa got her temper. The father wat 80 unreasonable. Phillipa always got the best of him, but he could say bitter things too; she didn’t want them quarreling. Again, because of her mother’s misguided interference, Phillipa missed the discipline she should ; have received. She tu nd lett them as if they were too contempt! ble'for further notice from her. “She's tire sized for hi work hard at the office.” “Wouldn't hurt ber to help you a little with the dishes,” the father Natalie's hold upon him wouldn't last, she believed. But how ‘about her own? That was what troubled her, Had issed her moment? Should she have tried harder to bring matters to s crisis? That night he had come home with her. “You little fool,” she said to herself before her uncertain mir- ror; “he wanted you then. He wouldn’t have gone away with Natalie if you'd let him kiss you.” She said this, but she wasn’t ab- solutely certain of it. Neither was she convinced that Alan was lost jto her. Skevtook.a little extra care in dressing. Hunter Ay pura DEWEY GROVES At breakfast her mother noticed she had on her newest dress, one that hadn’t been bought for office wear. She undertook to offer some advice on the subject of clothes. ‘Honey, 1 don’t think you ought to wear that dress,” she said hesi- tantly; “it’s too . . . too fussy.” Phillipa frowned, but she bit back Tle retort that rose to her “You said it was a dinner dress, didn't yor her mother went on, Srowing braver; “it doesn't look quite right for an office.” Phillipa laughed, a short con- temptuous Jaugh. “It’s all right,” said; “no o! going to notice. And if I don’t wear it at the office, I Drobably won't wear it at all.” Her mother, detecting the bitter. ness of disappointment behind her Temark, said nothing more. She wanted to offer sympathy, but did not know how. Once Phillipa had brought a girl from the office home with her. Mra. West had heard them talking, heard what they said. The girl was from the west. She was frankly bemoan- {ng the dearth of men friends in New York. “Men to the right of us, men to the left of us, and not a man to buy us a drink,” she'd complained. Mrs, West, taking the girl seri- ously, bad been proud of Phillipa’s by the amylopsin, steapsin, tryspin az.’ intestinal juices. These ferments chemically digest the different food Dr. McCoy will gladly answer Sr aatana lan cana ee diet addressed to tim, cars of The Tribune. Enclose a stamped addressed envelope fcr reply. elements and can handle any mixture if enough bile has been combined with it. “he chief difficulty seems tc be in getting bad mixtures through the stomach and into the intestine: without setting up a conflict between the digestive juices of the stomach and those of the intestines. Tomorrow: Proteins and Thelt Combinations. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Nervous Heart Question: L. McC. asks: “What brings onthe condition known as ‘nerv- ous heart?’ Is it the same as palpita- tion? If not, what is the difference?” Answer: The “nervous heart” ex- pression is given to describe a con- dition where the heart is irregularly slow and fast. This may come from gas pressure against the heart, or from some glandular disturbance, such as hyperthyroidism. Palpitation of the heart usually means a condi- tion where the patient feels the heart beating agains the chest and is there- fore conscious of the fact. Olive Oil Question: Mrs. R. asks: “Is olive oil too much fat for the body if a scant two ounces stirred in the juice of an orange is used every night to prevent constipation?” Answer: I see no harm in your using two ounces of olive oil a day, but this should not be necessary if you keep your diet well balanced and develop a good tone of your abdomi- nal muscles. Strengthening the Question: M. B. asks: “Will you kindly tell me what I can do to strengthen my fingers? I play the piano and my teacher says that my fingers are weak, especially on the left hand.” Answer: A_ good exercise strengthen the fingers is to spread out @ full-size sheet of newspaper and grasp one corner with the fingers at arms length and then with the fin- gers pull the newspaper to the hand, trying to crush it into a ball. (Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) — BARBS Sir Harry Lauder says that the best book a man can read is his own bank book. Yes, it should hold some in- terest. e * * * Add tragedies: the unfortdnate tramp who asked the stock market victim for a nickel for a cup of coffee. * * RY Of course you have heard of the refined panhandler who asked a passerby for 15 cents to buy a choco- late malted. s* * A chemist declares that 87 different things can be made from coal. There's a fortune for some ingenious fellow who can make a decent fuel out of it. E eliied What this country needs is a gooc definition of prosperity. (Copyright, 1930, NEA Service, Inc.) RUBBER TREE DISCOVERED THAT MAY GROW IN U. S. Washington—(?)—Experiments to grow rubber trees in the United States for economic use may find suc- cess in plants native to southern Madagascar. About 25 young trees brought from that island more than a year ago are now flourishing under the scientific eye of the bureau of plant industry of the department of agriculture. Transplanted at Bard, Cal. and near San Diego, as well as near Miami, Fla., all the plants survived under natural climatic conditions. In Madagascar where the trees have become practically extinct through commercial exploitation, they reach a maximum height of 24 feet with a maximum stem diameter of nearly nine inches, although general- ly these dimensions are less. PARASITES WAVE TAILS TO ATTRACT SMALL FISH Oxford, Ohio.—(?)—Another way that parasites called trematodes have of getting themselves caught by the fish in which they live, turns up in a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Stephen R. Williams of Miami uni- versity tells of them coming to the surface of the water, where their tails and other parts wave in a man- ner calculated to lure small fish. reply, “You're wrong, Nan,” she said; “there are plenty of that According to the American Bar As- kind.” sociation, crime costs the United “Yes?” Nan had drawled. “Well, States more than $13,000,000,000 a how do you meet ‘em?” year. “You don’t. That's why you're here gabbing with me. You want something different, and so do I.” “Yes? Well, it looks like I'll have to go back home for it. All the hombres I meet here are in the of- fice, and they're married, or just out of college—equally hopeless in either case.” To that Phillipa had not replied. But her silence hid a feeling of Secret superiority over Nan. If a girl hadn’t sense enough to pick out her man... « well! Mrs. West recalled that conversa- tion this morning, as she watched Phillipa eat her bird-like breakfast. She felt sorry for her. It was hard on a girl not to have plenty of boy friends, she mentally agreed, Phillipa, on her way to the office, felt sorry for herself. But the new dress was very becoming. It ought to be a revelation to Alan Converse —make him realize that she was not an office grub, but a butterfiy in the chrysalis stage. Perhaps it would even... Phillipa let her hopes soar high, and stopped in the lobby florist shop to buy a gardenia. (To Be Continued) FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: Women never believe in letting idle rumor remain idle,