Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 43

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 10, 1926—PART 3 RUBBER GROWING BY U. S. IN PHILIPPINES FAVORED Hoover Agitation Arouses National In- terest in Project—Capitalists Ready to Open Drive for Proposal. BY FREDERI( ER} WILLIAM WILE. HOOVER'S British rtes today would be practically in- dependent of British rubber supplies Inquiries Useless. Mr. Haussermann th ssional investigations of problem are wholly time-wasting. He says body in authority at knows the facts—whic Iy this country dependent wards raising rubber under land that we have the ry tropical area in our own Philippines. Making faces and calling names not do the trick. Action is I takes seven years for trees to ch productive Every day of delay is The report submitted to Congre June, 1925, tr of the present smal Philippine’ rubber industry and dis cusses the extent to which it mi be expanded. With a population over 10,000,000 people gn the pines. it Lieved that the more con zested provinees, together with local might ultimately furnish a suf force to produce, when mature, 70,000 tons rubber vearly present land laws, designed to retain i diffused land ownership, do not lend themselves to large-capital of in rubber plantations. moderate sized plantations are | with foreign capital, and, u the small native planter, with encourazement. might become ducer of important further Cites Duteh certain where rubber planting tered by the Netherlands sov natives have become through planting rubber annual erops grown on cleavings. The Depar merce told Congress means might aken to encour Filipino native planters. “Suc plan,” the department said, “wou 1 harmony with the present I iey of the Philippine helping to solve the pr ing the led caingin become a permanent Iandhe carried out, would increase tive wealth of the iskinds V. G. Bunuan, one of the itives of the Philippine governn Washington to this writer Philippine Legislature so far 1 receive v formal proposition Trom American investors with rd to i vestment of capital in the ippine th vin rubl Wher will | rubber ’ ks th the | con rub useless and that every- Washir are that can become in rubber is by its own flag s revived the possi the Phil-| wide- st in ber rting srea thi W Ne leaders nditior he past hank taken atten our ex Yo have put K Wiy necess: ~ [ 1 six months he subject needed. rubber mat costly.’ direction Department re it is I labor, cient of Ready for Drive. rations Neverthe 1 sssible reover, proper pro supplies In arts of lia, fos unent prosperous with their small_fo nt Com that the same he nd pe rnment_ by m of induc Ta or represent nt i The any sented i n. The Filip ed America scnable s B of 108 have 1 due conside i inder cor capit rea uards Effort to Force Paying of War Debt And Reparations Declared Useless the w nents she 1all spre made will no 1ssistance, v i longer nd rep; amount will ¢ sion, nd upon the quest is disposed of get the promise v nental nations i d debts we are permitting t ke very large new debts to us Ang v be *y need the new loans ean undertikin old on terms which stretch payments to two But actual paymer upon capacity l in event. we a pean debts to our loans to the debtor case Britain by our purchase itish rubber at an enhanced y In the of reparations Germ: refused to pay at all under coercion. he sucgesstully forced her conq to transform the contract fc ment into such form as to protect prosperity, and she far ith the money her has had uh zones evacuated and large private loans from congquerors. In a word, the nations which conquered Ge ANy are ne supplying her with the money to pay reparations and at the same time to restore her economic life. ur} 1 eve ft n ot rcity her Ita of and us cont ¥ 1 Eurc 1tic depen « long time to « ng thie Eur Treasury i nations, or in the ice ase It has loaned return thi so only he pur 5 payvment Col tained such ol mak tle rition pay 1 appreciation | " rush anywher of past ment h Money for Payments. As for allied debts to us, we are furnishing the debtors with the money to pay the small annual installments due on the reduced debts and at the ime time lending them vast for their own purposes in retu: their payments to our Treasury and their promises to pay in the future | The difference lies in the fact that the | conquerors of Germany have learned that they cannot compel her to pay beyvond the sums she finds it profit able to remit, while Cong still thinks that there ion in which it can ations Italy owed 100.000,000; she me over here and had three-quirters the debt canceled, obtained exten arter and at nd her bar- the nee needs | req ment Furope swledge bt 1 for In a word, just led in escaping nts, and in re comparative the mon rebuild he getting s of ve us t future Are 1ce here and now ransformation. \We private investors money to Euro Europe promises to small sums annually | Thus the debt | ent is being | if the debt of | frc is being | interest | us in of th st is some foreign Borrowings cankce ormous. rom of sions for payment of the other qu that Preasury ) | | f S extending over two generations return borrowed $100,000,000 he got what she was after Congr chooses to excuse n payments by rejecting the in, she s just that much to good. That is the sum and subst of the matter. to whether Italy repayvs the old the new debt, that lepends in the last analysis upon the future capacity of Italy plus the fu ture willingness of the Italian tax { paver to pay. 3 in nerations. once to our governy ve 1, hut the United States normons ents the five | " When Cor gress intervenes t the Italian sett Wl pro- | pent Tialy Ttaly | advan. | indertook | Il succeed, £100.000.000 i Treasury | wents Jtaly poses what rom h 5 Cites Possible Reject, If. 10 yvears hence, Italy desires to make loans in our market, if her capacity to pa¥ seems to her people insufficlent, if ‘her people, for example should refuse to pay because the loan was made to a Mussolini zovernment which had been over- | thrown, what on earth could Congress do about it? What that the allies ave mnot tried and failed in the case of Germany? Nothing patently, for the supreme delusion in the case 1 of reparations and debts lies in the her past borrow- | acsumption that power lies in the to pay for hands of the creditor. It is the debtor allies under- | \who is king and will remain ith their |~ you cannot compel the debtor » wis failure | jons to pay: vou can only get them t th enti wknowledge the old obligatlon by than that, it | pribing them with the immediate tion the fact | gtisfaction of some present necessity, paid would be de- phyt is what the allies are doing with and based on rmany; that is what we are doing 1’ get Yeturn, | with our continental debtc porbuanet | (Copyright, 1926.) new loans ! e to fund old no longer werr beyond to pay for how on | States make force unabi the ling her 100k armies Ny - that cided what 1ot upon oOur form using the allied 10 compel them to obligations But to th promise Tor future payments of past debts we | have been of o make very great | present loans are lending Burope hundreds of ope_is 1 the s Eritain, nany Germany by 0 need for Many Dogs in Berlin. Recent returns from the dog show that 218,000 dogs are kept in Rerlin. The annual tax is 70 marks vearly for one dog and 140 marks for the The taxe are soon to he wereased. There afe nearly twice as make us pay |many dogs in Berlin now s there « paving us. | were before the World War, despite when Europe has | the increased cost of living. W ving g he s = heace he 1s findi il Ten will | in i ht | of | Philip- | The | her | debtor | taxes | iER. HAVE hecome hydra-headed government by or- | nized minoritie i haven for ,.v—“m.\-umuxl peddlers of morality who supply the pressure that keeps the mill of sense less lexislition ever grinding that they | may make a livi “Our present Congress introduced | more Lills in the first hour of its ex istence than are passed by the parlic ments of all_other countries of the | civilized world in a a0 Ex-Senator A, 0. nley’s reached o triumphant crescendo as he | aw “year” that shot | | tike List_out of the half | opened windows and even disturbed | | the heavy-walled privacy of his ad-| ! joining neighbor and partner, Joseph Tumulty. former Secretary to Wood row Wilson itor a lon; many laws interview he told 1 day and he would | {entered the room Senato L miniature Congressional lected about him. e ing line ready for husiness rampart of Pl [ totie’s Politics, | Record and sur | Senator pufred ve | cigar as he waite LIS J. BALLIN a la laws, st voice n the word trumpet has been talking the subject of 100 I suggested an » come back in epared. As 1 Ktanley had library col the fir- shind Avise of th 1zines. the on a black questions. Stanley while o1 When as on i = Republic mently ¢ my vears Senator has heen our | «flood | law-maki | of the Bar As-| flayed our law article entitled | which was myriad orguni the Nation's Cap- | istation all the way | ps for the unborn | ises creat pith wide at an emi exclaimed W the paid moralists forced minorities about “In the last ey, 1 began, of ‘protests ma he pre { sociation only re {orey. A year ‘Invisible ~ Gover: | an enumeration « zations anchored itol promoting les ! from better hen « chick to enter fand movement tention. A fey nent Episcop. | uptitter. These have en; ved throuzh laws held 1 il reforms a4 and the heads of fiv “the tins ident ently i t and 1 paid tical ful de hung ik harasse A blocs 1 ) legislatic | Kentucky tor T tors national le 1tio situation Wh his upor wrranted gov at the h intro- | ARMY OF AGITATORS BUILDS OF LAWS In h one Congress bills than a the parliam civilized world in.a y t St That is Senator the orgy which, he sa the Nation, can possibly is turning u of lawbreak The YEng MOUNTAIN our the present ntroduced more re passed by all ents of all the 5 former he way anley describes of legislation 1ys, is engulfing which no people obey and which s into a country ers. lish Parliament passed 46 general and 246 special law On January ninth Congr le in 1 hour ar duced a thousand bills a bills | cial world is tc by the bale, with no signs of letting | supervised or ce up. of & baby to the In the Fifty-ninth Congress, bills were introduced in less th legislative days, and during the entir session 30,000 bills went into the legis- | lative hopper. On January this | 1 Con of the 700 bills pending 628 were passed in 1 hour 5 minut In the next Con 1.904 meas ures were re d by House mittees and wer by houses. is t nizations | ) | | i islators in que pt to [ th ress | resented eternally o the v tion. Hence guided belief me Congress body in the wor you wait lish Parli 000,000, passed the only parliamentary ich enacts a lav 1895-1905 rian i [ I'he ican | considerate lating for | that they blic and | A0 G chan that moral w | tions esident sout i an an in it become 1o ¢ len n nimpor the pr 1eseap v Con arly t. con man e Dot h | reached socie n or A hat evi body Ltor vision of d ds vil and nd high-priced n: s in six years. 11 of the Fifty- ess our national rislators passed 628 bills 1d 35 minutes. » be owned, operated, snsored, from the birth burial of & corpse. he cause of this law 1 the mushroom of nfested jogxin or steps nizations officials estof some new oral apy bring in support ouzaniza reason for the mis we are the great tion the world le are humane they do not re: become dupes for i livir y « issue ut king by and e unce of accuston: \ from Lbies th izen v ecording soclety Whit licts founda U the ate is igner £ the fathe with inheren Have L man to anized and n nt where nguish i ex ling re 1 mnd « wm‘ fro teleph: in empire | | | | | and the Lifts in the las has 1 Congres committees, s bure has expended th 000,000, been people the m squane what have done fo; The enti wernment, f | Washington fo the Civil War approach « From penditur of zov from The diffe: | cost « 1916 10 s 1o rnmer, $231, ence X tray commissions ar ator Lies of seaker multiplication offic I of 167 special deputies, spectors on 0 4 swoll Three 30,000 comn als put it ndfold 5 filling tread upon each ot turn and co pernicious th Egypt inspector sleuth at W hat Q book? v duet ered numt only to But lation 1 Its We Apr ur in mani v today H"L clenc )n.‘l 1 concl m the the 1 m ranteed tion and sos ment soverny nationa their in He in ten y th n o I e the Fvery at his 1 is t whirli Vell unp dish olution the o Chec we n = of the ende Cut ¢ nd within they cost of ope his thousa towels ereated 100 missions, ho: 10 s wppalling Sum of jor part of whi 1 in doing f could and themselve: 0 P ating ¥ s the inaugura his colossal exclusive of purposes, tl visen 500 pe o $1,115 i exactly shown want and unne nd their innun and inspectors moaned in 19 of usele office “degenerate da vied out against rs “of the littl zents ¢ ment p e Gover it my of 3 and Inquisitorial bureaus an: reased nts a s and 'S heels 1 mor rerle n the business man 1 and a i el I reels, he remed - o1 windrnil Te paid uplifter £ interest of his own pock e want using onl for limiti e =n for or for ropose i nt of nter w legislation and - basic to Aen see «nd f b American Repul (o The Story the Week Has Told BY HEF [ foliow the for "RY W, is a BU brief nt sum world ' vy The British Empi The { registered unemployed in | continues to decrease rems . despite the - on December 000 than seven s ende nur erse son 21 was 1,100, L week previc the Indian national recent annual session re to the jist pre nhet prominent 1y iy har less by OF Course ss at its ted Swar embers of the con: ction with it n-co-operation ion to we ess fory sev the inter with t t comm ing same time, also passed resolutions al to the 15 follows: | ring that the decision of the | council respecting Mosul w ust, and that, if the Turks should constrained to zo to war to get heir rights, the Indfan Moslems would help them, urging, moreover, that non Moslem In s refuse assistance to| the government men or money | should war Liritain Tur- | cecur on that issue; urging that | an end be made to non-Moslem control of Trak (which is under British man-| date). and denouncing British inter | vention in the affairs of Hejaz. (B; | rec treaty h Sultan of Nejd, the | | British are to handie the foreign rela | tions of Hejuz) But for a number of re s, the explanation of which would require a good deal of space, 1 doubt there is much sincerity in the resolution of the Indian Moslems. Indeed, I think it correct to say that the developments of recent months in India have been. on the whole, such s o reassure the British Raja. and that. | |if the new viceroy, Mr. W, proves himself & man of th sence, in | formation, tact, sympathetic insight ind imagination. combined with firm- ness, thut many declare him to he, for some time ahead Britain should | find less cause for worry respecting India than for several lustrums past. Khal at | | unj; b between 4 Gen. cek con- On January Pangalos declared the stitution “null and void” and formally cumed the dictatorship. The as. sumption merely gives formal recogni- tion to a fact. Since in June last he became premier by a coup d'etat, Gen. Pangalos has been dictator in fact, and the constitution has meant nothing to him. Henceforth, says the | dictato I shall rely solely on the | armed forces and the national con- ience.” It would help us in our uneasiness about Greece if the general would | { precisely set forth what he means by “the national conscience.” Those who approve the dictatorship ve much to say about rapid growth | of communism in_Northern sGireece, especially among the refugees: to be ippressed only by strong miethod quiring Your “'strong man.” There however, zood reason for believing that this menace has been e aggerated. Nome expect ere long to ¢ Greece. is | ! that Greece will revert nstitutional monarch: It will be recalled that Venezelos ad- vised against establishment of a re- public as premature. * * China.-The commission on extra yriality prov by the ishington conference assembled | nd got to work at Peking on Friday. | It was to have assembled on Decem- | {her 18, but several of the members | were detuined at Tientsin by reason of ‘the suspension of train service be tween Tientsin and Peking caused by | of participation of represent | pea the stry ind Li service t ng Yu H Resumption ¢ Fer vie- iang followed d close on s « 14 Th complished the farn I accomplished which should in Lentire, includin s h a ] total profit presented Denioc 1) Har | Republica { tion ver vec above Only day der T ted tion of adm ment price fixi indirect, or Go selling of farn or indirect.” { the tariff b gress to the isfy But that sort c Democratic doct! the Democ | should they be r | would satisfy | mands. App &I it i by A that on issued a ing that public life an; joining his mil he provisional The nouncement Januar Assoc eSS TepOr Feng Yu zram on retir abroad, and forces to supr executi attitude Miss indicat the 1l nnoun from en R seneral oward T 1 inding Manct Yan st between 5 1 tse resio Lintaini combina T th tion in Fer generals have told him hat b in dread of (The very latest, which emphat for confirmation, is that has clearcd out for Russia) Another Associated Press states that n Chi Jui nounced that he will retire ary 15, turning over the functions to the cabinet out of joint, the but conf it right in old Chin « retirement As to turning over to the cabinet, Sis of just one mem the premier, the other designates naturally hesitating to them. [|SY8G At o9 es in that dubious galle e Again, here report of somewhat | Petdriuite 10 questionable origin that Chang Tso ; u : will | dangerously nu Lm“ s ¢ nnounced that he, too, will { [T GASTH, I means of wherewith bud. At is exceed follow is assassination. v 4 is Feng report has an on Janu- executive he world is old marshal, the skill to way they nounce one’s then forget | t t he. et ve to wii numbers suffici eratic vietory | for cong | set of ever, that as over h comi it. th e eabinet cons to an ngly Uni gress 1 The to Cong ation of $5 d States.—On January 4 Con 1ssembled after the holidays President has sent a message | asking for an appropri 0,000 to cover the expense el-Krim. | mana 1 | attack.’ has offered a investigation of sion_ by @ spec tee.” The pres rible array of commission ch; mmission. S an amendment investigation the 1 beg the United States in “a preparator: commission for the disarmament con- ference, being a commission to pre- pave for a conference on the reduc tion and limitation of armaments. which commission is to meet in Geneva in February. The matters to be examined by it “will touch upon all aspects qf the questionn of disarmament the interests of all of the the world The Presigent, it is to be noted. does not directly ask for permission to send representatives to participate in the commission. Vote of the appropri- ation would be taken to imply con- gressional grant of such authority No doubt the President seeks to avoid an undesirable discussion at this tife. Should the results of the work of the commission indicate to the Presi- dent the de: our partici tion in the later conference, no doubt ent would dir authority for such part {dle the surplu rticipation in the preparatory | Federal rm commission would commit us to | Federal farm b nothing. The coal parley n There seems to be much mis the miners’ families In attempting to give the outlines of political controversies, it is impos sible to prevent the occasional ap- ance of partisanship. Such an appearance in this summary would be | Co-operative Juite deceptive: the attitude is abso- [instructed to b utely non artisan. | designated at t Apparently the Democrats have!sell it at the wi chosen the main issue on which they | agencies woule will try conclusions with the Repub- | losses thus sus licans. . Ov. rather, in a manner of | tained by the ¢ speaking, it has been chosen for them. ! zuti The demand that things be “evened| What. then, up,” that“the Government “provide | administration that the finan | prosecuting sucl a zeal and cial committee less perturb th Representativ leader of the proposed a bill description is & Pre: through co-ope: the exportable | corn, ri swine: nations of continues ry among | to_be selected | mitted by the « “The first ste plus would be ed in one or m In And the protes ats leaders hope by in quidnunes reason nip Senator efliciency It provi e, cotton, tob: “The machiner: advi | including the Secreta vainly. | within that department. and s farm board that agencies would n fee levied on prod i the as erously e othe s ever urged, revision v classes of more mi of fuvor, or it by an arran sure sale of the the “export ndsome ma the dilemma thus Republicans the opportunity the tifica- the di- 1 the tarif might rent DS it n of th e ar in either of indicated, the invineible inistration to ng. whether direct or vernment buyving and products, either direct of course revision Republican Con- tent necessary to ants is unthinkable. »f revision is precisely rine of the holiest, and can promise that, returned to power, they he farmel ently the such repr epublican farmers in ent to insur Demo- the coming elections So according to_one it may be. how- some Republican big protestants are more vocal energzy than for or supposing them imerous, that the Re- command will find and persuasion insurgency in the rate, the de pment interesting. y a e tariff de- Democratic ntations n Having studied the methods of Abd- | high “harass King (Democrat) resolution calling for f the Tariff Commis- ial senatorial commit- umble presents a ter- sins of omission and rgeable against the enator Smoot proposed referring the proposed »emocratic un with com- ng to his own finance com- nd affect | mittee, his fdea being (we are told) | rce committee. while h an investigation with which a spe- could not outdo, would e publ e Dickinson of Towa, House farm bloc, has whereof the following iven by the Associated ides for “the disposal, rative associations, surpluses of wheat, cco, cattle and to be set up to han- would comprise a ory counc rd of seven members v of Agriculture, ses from 18 names wdvisory council. »p in marketing a sur- a declaration by the In emergency ex ore hasic commodities. then he huy the commodity so he domestic price and orid price. Later, the i be veimbursed for tained from funds ob- ollection of an equali cers. is the atiitude of the toward this © bi1? of | | dox W “may consic 1 nu ving pave s problen heard i surplus farm pr th mittir Mrs nd Mrs. M Representatives nini Florenc ry economists e . K P. Nor in ihn m the De Hot tleas and fro; different rds nd ctually $4,000 ch has the ould “ederal tion of does not figure. all ef e cost v cent it essary 1erable 08 the nd - in e band nd in ay roll rer thou e I every s and s of is ederal i furi slation ho up to con reg the the | declared themselves in favor of n ' { fication of the Volstead act, allow light wines and beer. M only The cellaneous.—There traordinary unemployed cember, as high as 1,400.000. This is prot a temporar genuine in the tc oces plot promise Kin, cepte donia bia. The Britain's were received icily, but Angora rs willing te appe 5 1 n a supreme cl: and_rascality Bor the T inkoff, M. Liaptcheft | form succeede new b Turl in ove triot a bar to improvement of relations between ish that the league council's | cerning Mosul was unju: | while not | Britain at pres key reserves the * ok ok was increase in the number ) tal now man l duri ing 1 slump, but ion alarm. Hungarian coun to go down sic of human t « ulgaria gnation es of 1 ibinet. He accept { the s Bulgaria an government wa it position to fight over the isst ht 1o r sver mode, wh v be favorable rtur for negc talk things of ng De- serhaps here is 1terfe history cupid *remier was invited to ed and | . The fact that he is a Mace. seems likely to prove trained nd - Ser declares | rd d con that, Great te, Tur- assert her | enever e. Great tiation now over, Sound Isolation Holds Before long, if Swedish expariments | suc neighbor's piano and the son of a Hope for Apartments| ed, it will be possible for your da ughter to practice neighbor the on the other side to play the trombone withont your being disturbed. Prof. Kreuger of Stockholm has conducted elaborate of so T} n he researches declares, in is much the isolation more complicated than the isolation of heat. n much s conclusions are: (1) Is insulate sound bette loose, 1 terial used sound; nging Heavy curtains wall filling walls with ) nd mate- than light; loose | absorh aces filled with cotton insulate sound. Some rooms by their shape and by the ness or the sound. the sounds to repeat. in many of wall vaul reflecting q magnify and . that a is notices ualities cause ble re bad acoustically can be made good by the right use of ‘hangings the acoustics our han n cotton say,” Prof. Kreuger declares that in both new buildings and old we have problem pretty well in manufacturing, South rolina ranks next to Massachusetts, with North Carolina In third-place, f bly | ALASKAN POLICY DRAWS SHARP FIRE IN CONGRESS Merging of Nine Agencies Now Admini tering Affairs Generally Urged as olution of Difficult Problem. BY WALTER R. McCALLUM. URNING favorit sport ment b I go ed on the 1 through “Hurry up and build that said.” T v t | | to its indoor flaving Govern policy which appears to Daternalistic savors of | here as g | special privilege—Congress has | For until tt returned from its holiday with blood in | DOt move i its collective eye and with am orb| Dack to the cocked northward in the direction of | Wint to Alaska. Taking w cue from the Presi-| 1t make dent of the United States and adding | Alaska, the 1o it allusions by Secretary of the In.| Ward purch terior Work, the legislative body, al-| Pack in 1867 Ways exercising its keenness by add.| hHings were predi ing two and twe and making four, | Jution will 10 | has Jeveled barbed sh of criticisn; | i the white por W the Natic Alaskan policy, fore. | decrease e Shadowing wi horitics heid | of development | may develop into placing of Alaskan | Ereat mineral control jovernment bu. | SOUTCes, the powers of the| perhaps opening up to | Alaska alone the St it the Nordic peoples Within the past week cropped up in the House involving a half dozen atives, and the Senate de te. is prepar should be run— And in the 1 der 1% of th the |ereit f h Deficit Is $8,000,000. Parks trictly on Work reau, increasin overnor and in depirtme have A i de Repr has | o ate | sent T \ how should not cantime, George the land cruiser and r s, who was elevated overnorship of our quite unexpectedly Feb is here in Washington survey the turn of affairs 1 ontde te orthernmost President Presid Starts olidg, eriticism of Movements. ed the of Alas Decemt as com the march of i1 me id The expendi which we inister our 1 A being Jssession: money is Spended in Alaska. It ap proportion to the its and the amou s to indicate ca previously that Alaska lost province is rup vindic cry of a Mr. Work that all Alask ties in loss and will co; road continues. ¥ parentheticall ission Ho W the from Dej cons: Forests Are Conserved conservation p tional parks ur rvic people Think of cer 300 mi X thsurdity At the same time Gov b 1 says that being net to the 1 b the chief heart accurat 1 is as a ilroad i day 1j will some ot 3,000 on T U. S Pa adway adds that the white population Alaska, 3,000 persons, more than a sixth entire population on the Federal pay roll and the rest “want | thought. to get on it.” And in the office of | decp the Interior Secretary a story goes | Arc the rounds about the Alaskanswho |sess oll. attered agencies frequently + have about the are wt w seems ngress. Problem as to Size of Doctor’s Fees Held Due to Increase of pecialists What should tie: This is & question that was ought up Amy As. sociation for the Advancement of Sci ence meeting at Kansas City last night by Dr. Michael M. Davis of the United | tutions and clinics are Hospital Fund of New York the best trained known dc Since the advent of the specialist the | tors, and their fees to the paying 1 increase in the importance of the labo- | tients aure | 1y in p ratory analysis, X-rays and therapeu- | portion to the smount | tic services radical changes have come | give away, Dr. Davis s about in medical fees, Dr. Davis said. | Studies of family In the old days. when most physicians | the averase n did practically the same work, the fees | nover 10 charged were, so to speak, fixed by | minor illnesses custom and were fairly uniform cians and most At the present time fees in citie: 1 and to a less extent in the country, vary from $1 a doctor charge his B s nd X 1 charges med its time inst 1sua doctors’ fees h penditures for tests, nursing Over a the | profession gives a p free to hospitals and ¢ before the rican auiuion " | | on 1) i These @ increased incomes show le-class 1 person ¢ any I 1 trained ed for phys 1 appr treatment ustments wi futur f s of d f | agnosis ter Important : a visit to the office of a | made in the country practitioner to $10,000 for a|the average pock major operation by a irgeon of the doctor at the same tional reputation. Other costs bésides | report showed Postal Clerks” Work. and Russia Again Menaced By Bears and Wolves In the the other day redirected ritish Tlouse of Commons zeneral stated the that 3,500,000 letters were | in the office month and 1,250,000 were returned to postmaster While pr live stock decrea ind duction | minished | revolution of fields he the and ~came more the post every during in bears waxed strong The settled var and in. wolves the senders This means about 40,000,000 letters wnd annually to be office clerks be returned. numery sparsely {and plains, but are and Leningrad distr Imiles from the cities Last season in the [ the death of cows, 4% calves, eral persons wis fore Mo a roam nw-covered in the readdressed by post not and about L000,000 to It is said, however, that the public is improving in the matter of addre in pro portion post oflice business returned letters b the post office officials: “We handle 3.340,000,- | Every peasant f involuntar 000 letters, 470,00 steards, | tax to the “gray landlords,” as the 1.163.000.000" circulars and printed | wolves and bears are called, is est apers and 126,000,000 parcels i mated at 23 cents to $2.60, according vear, so the figures for redirected|to his neighborhood. In the Hashkir and returned letters are not abor-|republic the destruction & mal.” caused a loss of $2.3 | Nizhninovgorod wild animals ed a trainload of hogs Though the season bears have heen killed | grad. The Russian wol | animal—la government parties to reduce | thrifty peasants willing t0 peint out a hear's lair to city hunters with- out asking their usual fee. sing letters Mose to the iner the nuwmber as decreased of of e nd volves Phantom Dancing Fad. atta is voungz. 130 near Lenin i= a h London has a new cri phantom dancing. Clubs have appeared with wireless installations so that members n: don headpiecs without connect- i atus, and listen to what music choose. It is an econom- ical way.to rub & night clib. | 5 = L encou ne [ the The