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the afflicted, has a curative power in Talk Is Talk DISTINGUISHED Englishy Alfred H. Scott, late of the I ament, has arrived upon ‘ shores and his early comment is upon our > foolish handling of our ds.” The miore opportunity you give a man who wants to talk,” says Mr. Scott, “the more certain you can be that no one will pay attention to it.” There’s a thought in Mr Certain it is that attempts -talk haven’t put down what ‘Reds’ ae and it is very likely that giving : -man all the chance to talk he w >have the same effect as in the case of a voman. A woman given to talking to her mit usually accomplishes little save that he “frees her mind.” If we have any Red menace” at all, the danger lie: ‘in the “Reds” talking, but in with bombs. Hard Workers ARMERS worked hard last year. Ag- ricultural traffic, measured in num- ber of tons originated, showed a 15 per cent inérease in the third quarter of 1924 over the same period in 1923. All other commodities, : state Commerce commission, crease. The country is glad that the farmer sticks so closely to his knitting. A good thing for city folk that he’s not lazy. aN long as it had to be something, it’s just as well it’s cross-word puzzles. Current popularity of these brain-teas- efs is making human dictionaries and en- cyclopedias out of many of us. What is more important, tho, is the fact that larger vocabularies and increased contact with books make better readers of us all. Information is not intelligence, but cross-word puzzles may conceivably give us better brains if they continue to make us exercise them. ie prog and hope itself Scott’s opin- ion o jail li s the Inter- howed a de- Brain Training Q. How many stamps are sold by the U. 8. postoftice department each| | YOU can get year? A. Including stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, 000,000. the stampa on| | formation by w postal cards and 19,000,- York ay over | 2 stamps | medi legal vice. Perso dential. All signed. Q. Who wrote “If 1 were hanged on hill, Mother o’mine, 1 know me still, Mothef o'mine, A. Kipling, in the highest O mother o'mine! whose love would follow Zeus acnt him ap) © mother o’mine.” Mother O' Mine the Hermes chained h rolled perpetua Does the wind lower or raise temperature registered on @ 7 Q. Was ¢ Q. the thermometer? Re 4. No, it \s the temperature of the|in the United St air, the wind,| statement has be that affects the thermometer 8 born in Engla see a traitor to not velocity of the fore, A. George Virginia, U. 8. was born a the time of his was a colony of Q. When were treasury certificate discontinued? A. On July 15, Q. What A. In Greek mythology, Izion, king of Lapithae, made love to Hera, and! A wheel Q. What is mea An indefinite Surpit WwW" you come to the end of a tedious day and y for the night while nursing an appetite At the noontime meal you just plecec 1 It isn’t the lunch that makes a hit, as a rule, w We're kinda glad when the day’s at end rare. We alw there It’s home that calls, It's cooked style The table's we on the homeward path you w ou're do. thru our fun to guess what ¥ te. And it's hi us smile I get at night in set and we blink our eyes meet with o Then and it always ach day new surpri (Copyright, 1925, for The Stary any question of fact or in- | tle Star Question Editor, nd inclosing 2 cents in | Hee a al letters prec: pra ees eae Centaurs, Aa a Wasihngton British ‘There's a treat in store that’s) know we can sure depend on the food that's waiting| Page the Foolk Wee ee Wash ntr and office "s table with you keep this man I you offer a more and may have thi money,” they could not insult to the presidential they now do, if the report is true ing the fund to influence Mr. Cool dge by indirection Where is the fool-killer? for him the commission wan- ton office than by rais- This job Sugar Harvest ORLD'S greatest sugar harvest is in prospect for 1925. The outlook ndi a production of 23,000,000 3,000,000 is C long tons, ore than The creased ( planting is direct the war. It was the collapse of European } duction, when a third of the world’s area was inclosed within battle lines, that gave Cuba t stimulus to make up the deficit. And Cuba will keep on going. People must buy from her when she is the lowest cost sugar producer in the world reason ugar resu world Pound at Par EWS dispatches state the pound sterling is back to par. This should be good news for most of the world, including America. To Uncle Sam it looks like a stabilization of Euro- pean conditions and a restoration of his chief market. English Helping Employes ATIONAL CITY BANK recently an- nounced that its employes would be permitted to buy stock in the company at $275 a share, compared with its market value of $410, A big lumber company distributed free between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 worth of its stock among its 124 employes. It is a dull day when the news does not bring a similar story their accumulated wealth and earning po- er with employes. A big movement, re- flecting a remarkable change. businesses sharing Answers to Your Questions M | the intermediate state, nearer hell | or heaven, according to the class of souls there detained; @ place of con. finement; a prison; a place, real or imaginary, to which things worth leas or foolish may be rele ated. an answer to riting The Seat | 1322 | ¢., Washington | reply. No || marital ud replies, confi- must \n for pd is called “Auld has been applied to Edinburgh Q. Is the Waters, nickname, nantom resembling | peculiar to the Mi is her thru whom he became father of punishment, 0. Nil Rassclas im to a wheel that Samuel in the air Johnaon in his book says: “Rasselas was the fourth don of the mighty emperor in the Fathe: Waters degine hie course” Washington those. dominions ates? a en made diet ee nd and Q. What his co! the memt born| tribe derived from their ofl A, However, he| A: It ts reported that each subject, ax at! ber of the tribe ph birth this country|¢raging between $10,000 and $15,000 England @ year. a | SMOKING ROOM os STORIES aver eee et | HERE was a man in the smoker eturning from “Yes ruined m: ferry stuck In the 10 came born Rece is th erage income of 8 of the Osage Indian lands? has an income nt by “in limbo ¢ border-region a motor ald he, “a vacation mud hole middle. A of t trip a small I tried to and got about bushes some if I would like pull me out our work's tucked lad fll wend your Way! where and asked me hi }to have business 1 | business men will] ws sp4, this, # horse: as SEES much do you charge for “Oh, $2.’ And how much do you make a unger that makes the reg'lar home-| Sometimes $24. | Just pulling motors eut of this an all men should le? "Yes, sah And what do “Me? I tantes dern good of do at night” carrie fer the Headline in at |foom Burns S108 pape 100 Men Homele 19 Old Smoky, chal “Fathers of| | if has been applied to the| | TH BEHINE 5 A REAR R BY WILLIAMS)(;- «dl J\City Heeds HEN OU! G ANK PRIVATE. tema “sy © inns wy mee At Leads Eclipses Make F olks Think CHESTER H, ROWELL How Representative Is Our Government? ine American member utiona? the president them fthe of the ame foreign mimittor the relations, fave are parties, thelr and their the other side Is a On one people, their rep resentatives ment. On handful of ables, intrenched In the senate. And, the Irreconcllables win! How representative are in- govern ruthless irreconeit so far, stitutions in which that is pos: ible? Patriotism, the Open Sesame W2% ts patrlotiam in th selfis! To country” most Be one which and unsel things the aurxe. ex cause it combine ions finhness demand “for my heart a great and noble And when those things want gives for business, what we our to benefit our taxes, or to help r of our neigh urge finds lower our get the bet rs, the altruisti no impediment When the political crook says to one of us individually, “vote and 1 will get job, or slip your firm a conces n,” wen yield, but feel shame-faced about it, When he offers the same thing to us collectively, for a communit state or national interest pond with pride and the t of having done something not But here is the real test When the something communit own business, do you with equal enthusiasm? a true patriot for me, you a ny we we re rill candidate that will help the but will burt your re 1 roposes you are Why Stop at Brookhart? I" the “regular zation wants Brookhart ed from the senate he “deceived” the people, they may find it hard to stop with Brook hart. If every candidate to be ejected whose opponents thought he "deceived" the ple, there would be few office holders left What about themse who, of orthodox voted the democratic Brookhart at least of being a on lowa or decay were these in ‘regulars’ the name republicanism, all ticket? made ry proclaimed himself a The majority of the no pretense re publican defiantly bad one. of the 1 betiren , shutting off the ght, is graphically told pictures, taken in New Dorman and M. J N pb A Service Upper left ts Then it when beh The moon as the progress tt carth nly ¢ nd by opraphers un im half-ectipse. shown in total eclipse, the corona of light moon could be « is only the ‘What Folks Are Saying apes ASE” | GOV. BAXTER, x | [Tove the state should withdraw. all | i tipends to private charitable in | nti no that they will become [self-sustaining and independent of 1 would divorce the state all local and schoc charities and sim. Maine be. | fons, state aid aiding private itals m itutions: tlar ini M | THRASHER, Universi “Bootlegging should | shable in h penaity, | fiance of national law be- |; only against serious injury peace and ty of Chicago: ¢ constituted a erime 7 | | Dr. F. | extreme cases by the Jcomex a crime not \framed Jaw health, community.” but a |to the morals, lives of the palate re eT | Telling It to Congress |] Excerpts 1 the Congressional | cord) [Ngo gi a | A GOOD PEOP It is my purpose to assert that} the Filipino p will compare, and compare favorably, in honesty, | morality, efficiency and patriotism, with other that are ‘already } in possession of their complete inde-/ pendence and freedom.—Mr. Gabal- don, Delegate from Philippines. | | races THE CANAL There no serious delays to shipping due to the faulty operation failure of equipment (at Panama and no accidents of any mo- to vessels in the locks,—Re- of the Governor of Panama} 1 ante i ack ean [ A Thought J Wcfarul acted Sages) Vear not, littl fh your Father's good plea you the Kingdom.—Luke slit, were | canal) ment port Bros o distance it is something; ind it is nothing La | Fontaine, nearby lower was taken after total unusual photograph two seconds eclipse and is a om just st that it shows th corona with prominence, one in flaring an enormous extending into space hundreds of thousands of miles th The fourth picture shows sun as the eclipse dectined. | A-1 is aman’s fav- orite sauce. The grill where he lunches serves it. He orders it at the What a sant surprise club, pled to serve it at home with the steak, You'll like it, too, Wonderful with salads, sea foods, meats or macaroni bor's ca ¢ garbag PES" mplement and arrow, of armor en the modern bat bow now p e tleship have grown obsolete, but the sword, altho now little use ¢, remains, medieval times are th swords 908, v There many Eur employing hundreds of skilled sw makers, turning thousands bindes of them rh mented and thelr into thousands The Achest swords are sold to function. aries of royal courts. Others sold to the armies of different coun tries, mostly as part of the mili- tary dress of officers, and to dif ferent secret societies. The U. army, which discarded the sword during the world war, has restored tt officers when troops are camp. in out Some are value of dollars. to in Mr. Fixips | (Column; Will Move Pole ties er to Mp that the t which eg ngs to the pe Will be don, 5 aNswerg ty call Male ¢ matter ty the bts and me. nmnised 16 tap IMPULSE BY M. W. KAPP, ¥ p | | k I was ina thes f the actors of writing o and throwing . He threw n the sereen that wanted probity. thetr hands. Pd se was quite hearty wrote another mes asked all those tha quor back agais i Ye gods! What g hink by that, that majority wanted the free liquor beck In the first place, the was a pleasuredoving would not have been there. Secondly, the eremg a led to in an impub and the mob ppink loose and for the me expressed inner desires when most of that crow uid be put to the test of ae to bring back the alcoholics, they hesitate. ima) impulse gave the m reason would give ap. 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