The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 19, 1931, Page 4

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All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (incorporated) Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON —__ The World Economic Crisis “Over three-quarters of the commercially important populations of the world have been in a state of social and political upheaval at some time during the past three years,” says the New York Times in a recent issue. The sentence appeared under a map of the world, projected on its front page, showing most of the nations in black. The only bright spots on the map.were North America, Australia, most of Africa and small sections of South America. The occasion for this rather sombre picture of world conditions was the meeting of the international chamber of commerce at Washington, which brought together many of the leaders in political activity and economic fhought from 48 nations. The object of the conference was to discuss the world-wide depression and, if pos- sible, to find a means of preventing a recurrence of such a catastrophe. The unsettled condition of the world since 1927 is illustrated by the following impressive list of nations that have been and still are in turmoil: China, civil war; India, nationalist agitation; Russia, economic reorgan- ization; Germany, Fascist and Communist threats; Austria, politically unsettled; Italy, reorganization of economic and political systems; Portugal, military up- rising; Spain, overthrow of monarchy; Rumania, coup detat by the king; Bulgaria, trouble with Macedonian revolutionaries; Turkey, social revolution under Mus- tapha Kemal; Egypt, political upheavals; Honduras, revolutionary outbreaks; Nicaragua, revolutions and ban- dit uprisings; Panama, revolution; Peru, revolution; Uruguay, political unrest; Brazil, revolution; Argentina, revolution, The conference at Washington did not come to any Uncle Sam and Johnny Bull H A comparison of the financial status of the United | States with other governments has revealed the interest- | ing fact that this country and Great Britain have about} the same volume of income and expense and indulge in| the same extravagance, as far as the military establish- | ment is concerned The annual revenues of each country will run very| close to $4,000,000,000, and in both countries all but a) half billion of this huge sum is derived from taxation | The United States has an annual income of $2,300,-| 000,000 from personal, income and corporation taxes,| ‘as compared to England's $1,700,000,000 from the same sources. The British, however, assess inheritance taxes} amounting to $400,000,000, which is far in excess of that | kind of taxation in this country. Another striking point of similarity between the two! nations is in the amount of customs and excise taxes| levied. Each government collects on an average $600,- 000,000 in customs duties. In the case of liquor, which England both manufactures | and imports, the customs duty is balanced by a corre-| sponding excise duty, which cancels its protective effect. | In this way both taxes contribute to Britains large| income from this source, the average being about $675,- 000,000 annually. | The United States receives each year $240,000,000 as interest on and repayment of foreign loans. Great Britain receives $17,000,000 or thereabouts on account of war debts and other items. There is one rather glaring point of difference. The postal service in Great Britain shows an annual profit ‘of $50,000,000, while the postal deficit this year at Wash- ington will be close to $140,000,000. Perhaps the most striking item of similarity in the fiscal budgets of the two nations is in the fact that of the huge revenues of $4,000,000,000 collected in each country, about 63 per cent goes for war debts and arma- ments. The sum spent annually in each country for such purposes will not vary greatly from $2,600,000,000. The United States has a federal debt of $16,000,000,000, which amounts to $133 per head of our 120,000,000 popu- lation. The British debt is $38,000,000,000, which puts @ burden of $826 on each of its 46,000,000 people. The United States is estimated to possess national wealth aggregating $350,000,000,000, while Britain’s wealth amounts to $100,000,000,000. On the basis of these various figures, the interest on the national debts amounts to $5.50 per head in this country, and in Great Britain $32 per head. ‘The figures for the United States are not so bad by} comparison, but they are bad enough. The people of both countries would doubtless enjoy a recess from the perpetual grind of footing the war debts. A Corner on Helium One of the important problems confronting govern-j ment aeronautical engineers is the production of an adequate supply of helium, the non-inflammable gas used to inflate dirigible airships. The federal plant at Amarillo, Texas, producing this gas, has a present | capacity of 15,000,000 cubic feet yearly, but this can be) more than doubled at relatively small cost. The navy | department has requisitioned 9,000,000 feet of the gas’ for the present calendar year, most of which will be! used to fill the new dirigible, the Akron. Helium is one of the outstanding triumphs of the} scientific age. To the lay mind its history seems not! only romantic but fantastic. Its original discovery was| made not upon the earth, but on the sun. | In 1868 Lockyear, a British scientist, was observing] a solar eclipse in India and using the spectroscope for the first time in studying the chromosphere. He suc- ceeded in identifying in the solar atmosphere many of the Substances which exist on earth, but he also found in the spectrum a brilliant yellow line which could not be ascribed to any known earthly element. The new element was called helium, a name derived from the Greek word helios, meaning the sun. ‘Twenty-seven years later Ramsay, another Britisher, found the same substance in a chemical solution, but the discovery aroused little interest as it seemed to have no practical value. How this country became the sole producer of helium gas is the romantic part of the story. Back in 1893 @ local company at Dexter, Kansas, brought in @ big gas well, and as a climax to the huge celebration that followed, the gas was to be lit in the evening. When the torch was applied, the gas would not burn, and for the next several months the Dexter promoters were made the butt of humorous gibes in the newspapers. The well was abandoned and the plot sur- rounding it was given over to jimpson weeds. In 1895 someone with a streak of curiosity in his makeup sent a sample of the Dexter gas to the state university at Lawrence, Kansas, for analysis. Prof. Cliff Seibel who made the investigation, found that it con- tained a two per cent mixture of helium, and he so re- ported. ‘The folks back home wanted to know what in) tarnation helium was, but nobody could explain the mysterious gas at that time. In 1916 Prof. Seibel extracted small quantities of helium by the use of laboratory apparatus, and sold it at the rate of $2,500 per cubic foot. The process was a laborious one and he earned his money. It did not enter his mind that any practical use could ever be made of this very expensive product. ‘This same young professor—not so young now—is the superintending engineer of the government helium plant at Amarillo, where helium gas is being produced at & cost of less than one cent foot. This non-inflammable gas makes it possible to build engines right into the hull of the airship, which can now be flown with perfect safety, as far as danger from fire is concerned. ‘In spite of the original discovery of this useful element |" by British scientists, the story of helium has become a purely American romance by the fact that this is the only country where it has been discovered as an ad- mixture of natural gas, and where it is now being manu- of the U. 8. bureau of mines have {durable prosperity must be had in connection with the | some of their old delusional ideas. agreement as to any particular cause for the world crisis except that the World war was largely responsible. Contributory causes mentioned by the delegates were: Excessive armaments, speculation, post-war attempts at monetary stabilization, high taxes, over-ambitious at- tempts at expansion, international debts. The causes most directly affecting the United States were, over- production in agriculture and breaking down of the machinery of distribution, described in one sense as overproduction and in another as underconsumption; also the attempts through tariffs to restrict the free flow of goods and raw materials. In his address at the conference, Sir Alan Anderson of Great Britain uttered these pregnant words: “We find ourselves today in all material things immensely rich, but we are all poor. We suffer, not because we have too little to drink, or eat, or wear, or because the goods are dear, but because our warehouses are stuffed with cheap goods that no one will buy....” On the basis of that thought, Sir Arthur Salter, di- rector of the economic and finance section of the League of Nations, may be said to have uttered the key- THE HIRST HUNDRED MILES PROBABLY WiLL. Ge HARDEST: The New Shoes Pinch! . | By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Med- ical Association, and of Hy- geia, the Health Magazine There are 10 important minerals note of the conference in these hopeful words: “Ours is the problem of the impoverishment that comes from plenty. And this, however dif- ficult, is in its nature capable of solution and offers the richest prizes if we can solve it. If only we can so refashion our system as to use fully our productive capacity to bring again into useful work those who now stand idle and ask for nothing better than to be usefully em- ployed, there will be such a leap forward in prosperity as the world has never seen, with results beyond all estimate or imagination in terms of human happiness and welfare.” In one of our spring clean-up campaigns, somebody ought to make a move to clean up the Garden of Eden. It is claimed the garden where Mother Eve ate the fatal apple was located where is now the little town of Quarnah in the kingdom of Iraq. Today it probably would take the prize as the dirtiest and most disease- ridden place on earth, Editorial Comment ‘inted_below show the trend of thought by other ‘ors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- ‘une’s policies. Among the Prophets (New York Times) We have our own immediate problems. We have our own immediate work before us. But in a larger sense the prosperity of the United States depends upon the prosperity of other peoples. Anything like general and rest of the world. What internationally minded man uttered these words? Some might guess that it was President Butler of Colum- bia. Others would say Newton Baker. Still others might think that the language had been used by President Wilson. But no, it came from the great isolationist, as he has come to be known, Senator Borah. For our part, we can but welcome this Saul among the prophets. There is no occasion to recall the senator’s past, or to press against him a charge of inconsistency. Doubtless he would be able to reconcile, to his own satisfaction, his persistent opposition to the chief agencies of interna- tional peace and cooperation with his present affirma- tion that the destinies of the whole world are bound up in one. The rest of us will find sufficient encourage- ment in the fact that a man like him has gone over, even if but temporarily and in a glow of generous emo- tion, to the conception of nations that are sovereign yet interdependent. Let us hope that Senator Borah’s broad statement of world-conditions today will put to shame and silence nar- row-minded men at Washington and elsewhere in the country who still think in terms of the parish. The general depression throughout the world was recently declared by one philosophical observer to have a “cura- tive” value. It certainly is curing many Americans of The work of healing still has much to do. There are official patients who are yet too timid, or too much afraid of small politicians, to take the stand boldly assumed by Senator Borah. In: the end they will have to come to it. The time has passed when one nation can say to another member of the great sisterhood: “I have no need of thee.” Dr. Albert A. Michelson (Minneapolis Tribune) The death of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson at Pasa- dena Saturday removed from the abstruse realm of pure science one of the most brilliant, useful and indefati- gable workers it has ever known. To the layman Dr. Michelson, like his distinguished contemporary, Einstein, seemed always an occult putterer with the imponderables| of the universe. His passionate interest in the velocity of light was so utterly inexplicable as to constitute, for the average mind, a mystery as profound as any the physicist can set himself to solve. A phenomenon ac- cepted by the world with supreme casualness and in- difference was to Michelson, even as a young student, at Annapolis, a source of never failing fascination. To the study of light and its velocity he brought the virtuosity another man might have brought to the organ, the intensity another might have brought to business, the enthusiasms another might have brought to sport or literature or politics. It was not enough for Dr. Michelson to determine the fact that light traveled at a speed of 186,000 odd miles a second; he must deal instead in thousandths and mil- Months of degrees and work toward that goal of absolute and perfect accuracy of conclusion of which the true scientist never fails to dream. Whether the man was flashing light back and forth between mountain tops, diameter of Alpha Orionis at 260,000,- figures in the passion. ‘What others thought or suspected or averred nothing to Dr. Michelson unless it could be checked and rechecked and by whose findings stein to his theory of relativity and which helped to revise our conceptions of light, of magnetism and | feclared that the visible supply is sufficient to last 200 as- tronomy. That he will ultimately be ranked, as a result, among the greatest scientists and physicists of all times is almost certain, ee OT ca involved in human nutrition. Among the most important of these is cal- cium, There is some evidence that the minerals taken into the body must be balanced in relationship to each other unless harm is to result. Prolonged giving of calcium to chil- dren is not advisable unless the cal- cium is accompanied by a physiologic equivalent of phosphorus. The dan- gers of a deficiency of calclum in the body have been proved to be real. In addition to calcium, the diet must contain iodine, iron, copper, magnesium, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, potassium and sodium. Each one of these mineral substances is definitely associated with certain con- ditions of growth, development and resistance to disease. The choosing of a proper diet is not a matter of chance. In. laboratories of research, at- tempts are being made through the feeding of animals to determine the relationships of the important in- gredients to each other, but all of the experiments must then be carried over to actual feeding of children and Daily Health Service Minerals in Food Build Bones and Aid Nutrition Generally of adults in order to determine just how these factors are concerned in the human being. The human being does not make his diet out of a mixture-of elemen- tary substances; instead he eats foods which are grown by nature and which have been found through hundreds of years of experience to be suitable as @ part of the dict. Were it not for the fact that nature builds these food substances successfully, there would be far more disturbance than there now is from diet deficiencies. For this reason the safest advice for anyone at the present time is to eat a widely varied diet, including both raw and cooked quantities of all of the common food substances. The mineral substances are essen- tial not only for the building of bone and for the replacement of degen- erating tissues, but also for the stim- ulation of the formed elements of the blood, for aid in the metabolism, sup- plying proper combinations leading toward the excretions of undesirable substances and finally for acting to promote nutrition generally. Only a beginning of the necessary knowledge concerning the actions of minerals in the body has been se- cured, and with intensive research on this subject much more should ‘be learned in the coming years. [Quotations [7 Quotations Certain people in the world may not have much money, but they have something better—they have an in- ner light —George Russell (AE). ** * A good sportsman is a good loser, but that is not enough; it is quite an excellent thing to te a good winner sometimes.—Sir Harold Bowden. * * * ‘There are quite as many banal au- tumn poems as there are spring.—Le Baron Cooke. * * * ‘The automobile industry is under the microscope.—Alvin Macauley. * * * With the projected 200-inch tele- soope we should learn whether some remote island universes are traveling at apparent velocities of 2,225,000 miles a minute away from us.—Dr. Edwin Hubble. xR Business conducted solely with a view to gain is something of a rather low order.—Dr. Nicholas Murray But- ler. ——»>—_ ra f At the Movies | UI a a CAPITOL THEATRE Douglas Fairbanks has thrown aside armor, steed, sword and buckler for the first time in ten years—has attir- ed himself in a well-fitting business suit—has exchanged battlements for & penthouse apartment topping a skyscraper—and the result is the happiest mixture of entertainment the year has brought forth. The picture is “Reaching For The Moon,” for United Artists, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, whom they call the most versatile man in Hollywood, and it opened yesterday at the Capitol theatre, with Bebe Daniels as the dazzling object of Fairbanks’ affections. The story and dialogue are smart end sophisticated, the action is ro- matic and rapid, the settings range from fashionable New York to a lux- urious liner at sea, and there is a bountiful seasoning of comedy. Fairbanks plays the role of a Gynamic young stock broker who is so busy playing the game of: finance that he has somehow. lost sight. of love. That is, until Bebe Daniels, portraying a society aviatrix comes along and makes him realize he has missed the most important thing in is life. BARBS > An optimist is a South America president who thinks the shooting outside «is one presidential salute after the other. * ok OR The fact an increasing number of phone calls are being made at the white house should convince you that THIS CURIOUS WORLD the Republicans are quite a busy party. * * * The prohibition problem for the dry agents is search and for the commis- sions, research. oR OK Those college professors appointed to study prohibition won't lose any time, of course, in putting it to a test. * * * The vogue for reducing might ac- quire some significance if it also ap- plied to heavy artillery. * Oe OK As far as most housewives are con- cerned, swatting flies will soon become the national pest-time. * * “I can’t make this out at all,” as the infielder said bungling a hot liner. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) TODAY IS THE- DECISION ON VOLUNTEERS On May 19, 1917, it was announced that President Wilson had decided not to avail himself of the authority to organize volunteer divisions. A provision in the draft bill gave him authority to form four divisions of volunteers if he so desired. It was understood that former President Roosevelt was to head this volunteer army. What the president did announce, however, was that a division of the United States regulars would be sent to France at the earliest date prac- ticable, to be commanded by Major General John J. Pershing, who had been in command of the expedition to Mexico. The Secretary of Navy also an- nounced on this day that 26,000 ma- rines would accompany the Pershing expedition. BURLEIGH IS NAMED FOR VERSATILE MAN Walter A. Burleigh Was Indian Agent, Trader, Politician, Contractor Editor’s Note: The following article is another of a daily series dealing with the history of North Dakota counties: (By The Associated Press) Burleigh county—The county bears the name of Walter A. Burleigh, In- dian agent and trader, delegate to Congress, and contractor for the b:ild- ing of 50 miles of the Northern Pa- cific railroad, east from Bismarck. This railroad traverses the county from east to west, entering’ Morton county by a steel arch bridge over the Missouri river between Bismarck and Mandan. Bismarck, the county seat, also is the capital of the state, and with its more than 10,000 population ranks as the fourth largest city in the state. The state penitentiary, and Fort Lin- coln are located in the city, which also is the Catholic See city of the west- ern diocese of North Dakota. Agricultural exports increased dur~ ing March to brighten the foreign mar- ket picture, the U. 8. Department of Agriculture has just revealed. The index figure at the end of the month stood at 87 per cent of the pre-war level, as compared with 71 in Febru- ary and 82 in March of 1930. In- creases were reported in all commodi- ties except animal products, tobacco and lard. [ "Stickier Solution} TEEHHNW. ic ITEE LLLYWPIA WHEN THE CATS AWAY ing the leters TEEHHNW and LLL SYNOPSIS: Home Run Harry, is emulate brother, him to brother of the famous big Bert Rushe, kid A. but to be a ‘and for ye ‘ventures but not the girl he wants. Gab season pay, His offer is naturally accepted. @ rival team { Dennant. Weihe’ team doesn't w WONDERED what my brother Harry would think, and say to me, if he knew of the deal I season and get no salary unless He would call me a fool, of because I had made good money. on for me to agree to such a fool stunt. about In the first place, I had made the agreement because I was dead sore over the way -Ohalmers, oviner of rune a me down after asking me 5 But the chances“ were that it good thing for It_ would play as I never played before. I would " .ve lay. Not only to win a seas son’s salary, but to enjoy the vorill of defeating the Chester outfit. I stuck close to my hotel, of the players on the Al! I knew the good ones an the weak ones, Cracken was their best bats- man. He needed more there, Iwas able to get in touch with Re@ Flannigan through Worcester friends. He hadn't sii with the Avaldas. As for Pudge Waters, I had corresponded with him and was able to reach him. Both of them were as good, if not e better, than even Jim Pearl of Chalmers’ outfit. Mr. Hadley signed them up, because of my agreement to their salaries’ out of my pocket. It wasn’t going to be a very profitable year. I won my salary it wasn’t more than what the two got. I wasn't in it for the money this ee I was in it for revenge if sible, Then I took a night train out of Allison, padently ove of the fans recognized me as the Chester team hurler of the season before and, of course, I had bee under my Bbneoe basel name of Ben was plenty of time to prac- tice. I took my little projector and slow-motion films down and visited Harry. I studied those curves and I practiced daily. Partin’ at targets. I got so that I could suspend a saucer over the corner of the plate and smash it with an in-shoot that looked like a “ball” by @ wide mar- gin—smash it seven times out of nine. I began working to im my pet trick curves and I out some erratic balls that were given weird curves with the ald of collo- dion on the inside of some of my fingers — fine itty sand being sprinkled on the collodion before it “set.” “You'll overtrain,” Harry me. “I did that a couple of times.” ‘There was a good deal of that. I began to wi Harry’s big farm. I went did so many hours of hard work out in the open every day. I ke) = iar hows aud went Gna chet, Chat @ physical culture e1 advised. ‘ortunately, Bob dley had a farm down in the state and gave his Allison team boys a little training there before the Tri-State HET nag oo Rig Cai ime go for I never felt better and I didn’t have to Allison at all, ‘My hope was to not let Chalmers find out that I was with the Alli- nope until he saw me on the ield at the opening game. Pudge Waters was. favorite at once, Red Flannigan didn’t mix so well, but he had sure improved his stickwork and all the ove took "a best to go e off their hats to him for that Ted Baker was Hadley’ hurler and @ wiry chap named Poli was a close second to him. Each of them had some good tricks. And so, when I joined up and we added Chalmers went back on his asser- tion that he wanted me next sea- son. Hadley “explained” that, nat- urally, he had me up then. Fiannigen and Walters, Hadley had lannigan an 8, the strongest team he had owned. For the 0] I was using the old name, Ben . The score cards and line-w to be printed in advance and the local newspapers had to have names, No one would si that “Rid- om ” was in real who [pened season with Pink Davis for e Chesters. “Better still, it was Allison’s turn to have the opening game there. The second game in Ghester, and 80 on. Those ten days of training down ‘on Hadley’s farm, where he had a pretty fair diamond, were wonders. We all enjoyed it. The Hogs pes to be told part of the truth; is, The ht before the Re I ve in to Allison junked in the comfortable quarters under the big where the boys had their lockers, showers and the rest of the paral I didn’t go out to warm up with the others. One or two of the in our side of the Bogen) for me for ten or fi minutes, ‘To my satisfaction, we had last inning—Chalmers’ Chester team went first to bat. The game was called. I was to hurl the first three frames. Whether I did more later depended on events, Bob Hadley not only owned his outfit, but he also managed it, As his only “business” was bowling alley and rooms, with suff could attend strictly to baseball in the season, he his bel Hadley was no amateur, He had Beer aves th sort of @ mnsuage? ant 1c his men liked. =e Recognized! I marched out from the dugout straight across to the pitcher's box after the others were in position. Some of the newspaper men recognized me, naturally. The man at the score ‘board verified it, at ing “Hushe section, where Cl his brother lay, Darwin, would Because f wanted to Lee may maid on the had made to play all my team won the pennant! course. He would say that the side was no reason ——————— weer ‘Phe tirst ball 1 threw was a freak. Like the original knuckle ball and the later w ball, it is Pied h to make it come down coring inken man, but ring like a dru Sitricae to get it over the plate. ot gee Ay * fio cae dnside ers, helped to'e give the ball its peculiar ions. Orn started to swing, and then hopped back. The ball bent in and cut the plate. It was 8 strike! As soon as possible I red down the old deep Grop, but faster than I had ever been able to handle it before. It came like a straight speee at, and ‘ihe pill aucket Under Dae iiow like a trained diving seal, ft it! te ‘That is, he guessed that it would Lo = ‘It was, but it was an out drop, ie struck low enough, but didn’t reach it. ‘The yell that went up at this was sure music to me. ‘While the next man was coming up I took time to look over toward the guest inclosure. almers Was staring hard at me and to something Darwin was saying. Having fanned Jim, I felt too sure of myself. I didn’t figure that on tes rattled after what J nau told le ‘The next lad got a neat single. I knew-him well. He had rather mec one Lear than Feil = jome run. I manage ball to Pudge Waters at short in | time for him to put the man out ’ # ‘The third man had a couple of fouls tangled up with the ow, but I finally fooled him into swinging at @ deep drop. As we were coming in I saw Chal- mers leaning away over and talk- ing with Bob Hadley. Chalmers was gesticulating. He seemed de- cidedly excited. A couple of reporters tried to slip in and get ® word out of me, but, of course, that was neither the time nor place. Hadley came back and he seemed decidedly puzzled. tdi “what's up?” T a: “Nothing—nothing ” he answered. i I knew better. Whutever it was, he didn’t want to tell me until after mm mE en we went in Pink Davis fanned me as though I were a gram- mar school kid. And he fanned the next man, Red Flannigan was new to him. Red was tall and skinny, he had brilliant red hair and freckles like old Bob Fitzsimmons. He had a trick of seeming to be about to rest and not smack the pill and gandeniy whang it with a short but power: snap that was a marvel. ‘ Red let the first one go, pur- ly. Lagan the plate clean, but Red never blinked. ‘The next one started down and Red seemed to be about to ignore it when he moved almost too fast to be seen clearly, There was a sharp “smack” and Red Flan- nigan got to third bag. jittle Pudge Waters follov:. 2. He was also new to the boys there. He seemed so small, he swung the stick widely, like an amateur, and he nicked the pill for a nice single that brought Red in. ‘That looked pretty good to all of us, It indicated some mighty swift playing and also that we were pretty evenly matched. x As I started for the box again a y « clear voice said, “Hey, Rushe!” I turned. It was Chalmers, speak- ing, through a small megaphone, ‘Somebody made a monkey of you —that l8tter you got is a forgery!” 4 His voice came clear, eve low. f understood every word of it. And as I walked into the box to hurl the second frame I didn’t know what to think! 2 Bert went ahead like a hot- headed kid on the stre1 mits strength of a sent it? An interesting explanation comes in tomorrow's installment of this exciting base- ball serial, “The Pitching Fool.” (Copyright, 1929, Graphic Syndicate, Inc.) POTATO INCREASE Preliminary estimates set the coun- try’s 1931 production of potatoes at 430,000,000 bushels, an increase of 69, 000,000 bushels over 1930's production. World demand for wheat is to im- Prove during the next two or three months, the U. S. Department of Ag- ripulture predicts, Factors rausing this favorable situation are the in- creases in the quota of foreign wheat ” which may be milled in France, re- laxation of German restrictions, and ‘9 evidences of reduced stocks in conti- nental European countries, FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: 723. U. 3. PAT:OFF. becomes ‘The singer who can climb the scale ® person of note,