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BANKER FORESEE SHNE PROSPERTY Woodruff Speaks Optimisti- cally Before U. S. Grain and Feed Dealers. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 15.—Signs of the | HEence BUICAr fo o business trail reveal a period of “dis- tinctly sane prosperity” just ahead ac- cording to George Woodruff, prominent Chicago banker. ’ ‘Woodruff, chairman of ‘the board of the National Bank of the Republic, told delegates to the Grain and Feed ers’ National Association’s conven- tion that his prediction was based upon a_comparison of conditions immediately after the major depressions of 1907, 1914, 1920-21, and those apparent now. Banks at present have the highest Hquidity of the past quarter century and other prosperity factors are more ascendant now than in any simflar de- pression of that period, he said. “There were more reasons for pre- dicting ‘three long years of liquida- tion’ in 1921 than now,” the banker pointed out, “and business recovered quickly then.” Advantages of the current over pre- oceding eras of economic stress, he sald, ‘were the enlfleu of n:’tm:v industrial peace and political stal ¥, The convention delegates earlier in the day heard their association presi- dent, B. T. Dow of Davenport, Iowa, assert that “modification of the Vol- stead act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of beer, would provide a mar- ket for more than 100,000,000 bushels of small grain annually.” RADIO LAWS NEEDED Commission Holds Education Broadcasts Are Crowded Off Adr. CHICAGO, October 15 (#)—Legisla-~ tion is necessary if more educationial broadcasts are to gain place on enter- tainment-crowded programs, Federal Radio Commissioner Harold A. Lafount told a conferpnce of 75 university repre- sentatives and associate commissioners Monday. A resolution calling upon Congress to a law whereby air channels would E"[lven colleges after the fashion of Government land allotments was sub- mitted to the delegates, but later rele- gated to & committee for study. The meeting arranged by W. J. Cooper, United States commissioner of education. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOw, BITE OF DEAD DOG ADOPTED BY DRUG USERS FIGHTING HABIT Strange Situation in Cairo Found in Barber Shop, How an ingenius device for getting drug addicts of a little Egyptian village “dog-bitten” and treated for rabies, has started medical authorities pondering over whether the rabies treatment is & cure for drug addiction, is revealed in an anecdote contained in the annual report of the Central Narcotics Intel- ligence Bureau at Cairo, made public by The head of a dead dog, fitted by the village barber with a steel spring to make the jaws bite, was the subterfuge used by the drug addicts of the village 1o get themselves sent to the Anti-rabic Hospital at Cairo in the hopes that rables treatment would cure them of their craving for drugs. It all started, according to the re- port, when one drug addict of the vil- Iage,’ named Mohammed, was bitten by & real rabid dog and was sent to the hospital in Cairo for treatment. He returned to the village cured of rabies and without his former craving for drugs. The other drug users of the vil- lage were overjoyed. Here was the an- | swer to their prayers for deliverance from drugs. ‘Accordingly they went to the village barber, who is the government sanitary Revealed When Device Is Narcotics Report Shows. agent, and told him their plight. It seemed there was a scarcity of rabid dogs about that time. They wanted to get bitten, however, so the barber rigged up the head of a dead dog, applied the spring, and the drug addicts, apparently bitten by a mad dog, were sent up to Cairo for treatment. ‘The whole thing came out when & doctor at Cairo, noting the number of dog-bite cases coming from the little village, and a notable lack of dogs that did the biting (the dogs generally are killed after they bite persons, and their heads sent along with the patient for examination) questioned one of the “dog-bitten” dope-users, and the story CANAL SURVEY MADE Topographical Work Through Nicaragua Is Completed. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, October 15 (#)—Announcement was made Mon- day that all topographical work had been completed in the survey of the proposed Isthmian Canal through Nicaragua. Lieut. Col. Dan I. 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