VOL. LI
ROCKEFELLER MEETS
OIL DRIVERS ON ROAD
Magnate Gives Employee
and Rival New Dimes.
New York.—Harold Riley, who wnfc
driving a big Standard Oil tank truck,
stopped as he rounded a turn on the
hilly road between Rlverdale and
liloomingdale, N. J., and came to !*
stop as he saw a gasoline truck of
the Tidal Oil company approaching.
Charley Stout of Dundee Lakes was
driving it.. «
"Leave any business for me?" said
Charley, coming to a stop.
"I pretty well oiled up the whole
country," said the Standard, Oil man.
A costly closed car coming from
Rlverdale stopped between them. A
door opened and an old man in a gray
cap and duster stepped briskly
out on the rond.
' Pleased by Recognition.
"We're lost boys," he said to the
two drivers. Then, addressing him
self to the driver of the red Standard
John D. Rockefeller.
Oil truck, he asked: "Can yon tell
me the way back to the Oakland-
Suffern roaMt* :
- "Go back to and take the
right turn, Mr, Rockefeller," -said
Riley.
"You recognize me, eh?" snld the
oil man delightedly, extending his
hand.
"I certainly do," said Riley.
"Glad to meet any oil pnan," said
Mr. Rockefeller, shaking hands also
with Stout, who had jumped down
from his seat on the rival truck.
"Always glad to meet a man In the
oil business, but, of course (shaking
the Standard Oil driver's hand again),
the Standard Oil is my first love."
Dimes Begin to Appear.
"Just a minute, boys," |e Bald to
the drivers. "Now, Riley, that's ftor
you." '
He gave the Standard Oil driver
one of Ills famous fresh minted dimes.
Then he Inquired about their
families—found Stout had one child
and Riley none, so he gave each of
them a dime "for the Aplfe" with his
"compliments" and an extra dime for
the baby.
Texas Cowboy, -95, Still
Active, Rides the Range
Childress, Texas.—Supple as n youth
in muscle, vigorous and hearty, H. R.
Mangum, ninety-five years old, is still
riding the range on the big ranch of
the Smith brothers, near here.
He Is said to be the oldest cowboy
still In active service in the country.
Mangum has been a cowhand ever
since he came to Texas from South
Carolina, three-quarters of a century
' - 1 ogo. He was well 'along toward middle
Ufe when the famous Chlsholm trail
was established. He went up tbe trail
with herds of eattle many times.
In his early life he worked on
ranches In the southern part of Texas.
As the wild lands of the more west
ern parts of tbe state were opened up
lie went with the venturesome cattle
men into their new grazing territory.
Ue was upon the frontier when Indian
. raids were common and when'buffaloes
populated the nnbroken region by
countless thousands.
Mungum says that be has observed
no set of rules of living. He "fcent the
usual paces" of a cowboy in the stir
ring days and has devoted himself t*
hard work and life in the Open air.
All Afw Poetic
FW V»y part, I can call no age ab-
Wihitely unpoetlc; how should it be ao
since there are always children to
whom the acorns and the swallow's
eggs are a wonder, always those hu
man passions and fatalities through
which Garrick as Hamlet In bob, wig
and knee breeches moved his audience
more than some have since done In
velvet tunic and .■. . To
be quite fair the age*, a little
well as beauty must he
" uyawed to each of them, a little im
plicit poetry even to those which
echoed loudest with servile, pompous,
and trivial prose—George Eliot.
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THE, ALAMANCE (JLEANER.
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tFc oltbftheaa of Fear
Set Forth by Writer
"I'm afraid l'm afraid —rm
afraid!"' a million times a day we
Buy it—"l'm afraid!" And 'then we|
wonder why we have so little SucceA
and so little Happiness!
If yon spend your whole life look*
Jng for Safety, then you'll get Bafety,
perhaps, and you'll find out how little,
it.amounts to.
Safety Isn't Success and It isn't!
Happiness. Safety Is a negative thing,
it Isn't worth a bean by Itself. It's 1
not getting hurt—that's all. Yet mil-i
Ikms of people waste their whole lives i
trying to be safe. ( •
The world of business is filled with!
fears. It is filled with people who are!
hiding—dodging—running for dear!
life.
In business life, as well as. on the*
I battlefield, men have shellshock and
| spasms of fear- —blind, mad, unreason
j In.T fear.
| . Most business men have these
spasms of. fear In times of depression.
Then they cancel Orders and sack em
ployees, and stop advertising and dig
themselves In.
Generally It Is not what does hap-,
pen that frightens men, but whatj
mlgto happen. Most men squeal be-j
fore they tire hurt^
The truth is that #o man can es
cape either criticism or risk. You can
never bt blameless and you can never
be safe, so why worry about it.
Pace your' fears. Walk toward |
them. And you'll be surprised to see |
how small and weak they -are.
Do what you're afraid to do.
Be brave enough to buy in a slump.
Be brave enough to sell In a boom.
And you'll have to hire a taxi to take
your profits home.
If you are in trouble, always ask:
"What is the worst that can happen?"
You'll usually find that the worst is
not so terrible.
Courage! It is the rarest and most
precious of all our real possessions. It
is not taught in schools nor in
churches. Every man must\learn it
for himself.
Danger is a tonic. It is a neces
sity of tlie inner life. You can never
learn to be a good loser until yon
lose.
So here are unanswerable reasons
why yoa should adopt this- tip as one
of the rules of your rid of
fear. No one can hutf you If you are
true to yourself.—Herbert N. Casson
in Forbes Magazine.
We adults forget. Food and drftlk
and sleep are the realities to vs. To
us there is a yesterday ;j there will be
a tomorrow. I try to go back Into
the dim and vasty past, but I do not
flnfl myself there. I ara an adult. I
have discovered philosophies that
never burdened the sweet conscious
honesty of childhood. I have dis
covered obstacles intervening between
uie and my God. The road to Para
dise Is no longer short and straight
and shining; it winds among the sha
dows and may not lead to Paradise,
after all.
Complexities have entered Into that
gentle relationship between lift and
myself that bad no existence In the
days of babyhood. A hundred hands,
atavistic and primitive, pnll me In a
hundred different directions; mocking
voices, stilled In childhood, hurl re
peated questions in my puacled ears.
Along that road to babyhood I do not
find the child I was; I find only ray
present sell Knowledge of things I
may have gained, but only "a great
bewilderment as to life Itself.—Ar
thur Somers Roche, in Heart's Inter
na tlonn l-CosmopolJ tan.
Air Mails and Ireland
Every proposal for tbe Inauguration
of an air mall service la welcome. If
for no other reason than because it
turns thought away from the nse of
airplanes for war purposes. Hence
the announcement that It Is hoped to
start such a service between Belfast,
Ireland, and England In March next Is
especially gratifying because It may
also tend to cement the two peoples
more closely together. It la sold that
already two airplanes have been pur
chased and that a third haa been or
dered. With these It is Intended to
carry on an all-tfce-year-round service.
This win enable letters posted In Bel
fast In the evening to be delivered In
London by the first mail in the morn
tag, and rice versa.—Montreal HeraM.
Corrects Receding China
Receding chins are now being fixed
by New York surgeon*. By means of
a special plate, It la passible to throw
the lower Jaw tenrard, so tMR the
molar teeth mMt In their proper posi
tion. TW» plate has the effect ef
making the patient bite forward, wfth
result. In moat caaes, that the re
ceding chin eventually become nor
mal.
Boontin Italy On
?A*pTe in Ithiy are Jest meeting
Utelr accumulated needs which >sd
mmalned naaatfsßed during snd since
the w«r. sad this hi cfvlng country
(Ml preaeut prosperity.
The Adult
GRAHAM, N. C„ THURSDAY. OCTOBER 1,1925
LAKE IN TENNESSEE
DISAPPEARS IN CAVE
Swallowed Up With Roar
When Roof of Cavern Falls.
Mayfleld, Ky.—Particulars ''have
reached here from the Idaho Springs
vicinity, across the Kentucky line in
Tennessee, of the swallowing up of
a small on the farm of C. P. Wur
fleld by the collapse of the roof of a
cave.
The lake dropped Into subterranean
regions with a roar like that of a lo
comotive's passing, according to the
story attributed to W. L. Warfleld,
who was in the neighborhood and saw
the wnter dropping Into the cavern.
In place of the lake there was an
Insignificant pool, scarcely worth no
tice. The hole when first-seen by W.
L. Warfleld was about four feet In
diameter, and the v waters rushed down
In a torrent, carrying fish, turtles and
other Inhabitants of the lake away
with the great force of the suction.
The water plowed through Its new
channel underground for some dis
tance and then found a new exit a few
hundred yards from its former loca
tion.
Old Law on "Indecent
Music" Puzzles Capita!
Washington.—The Washington po
lice have found still another "don't"
in the official records, and are prepar
ing to enforce it If they cun agree on
what It prohibits. *
From a musty file of police regula
tions someone unearthed one forbid
ding "Indecent music." Evidently "In
decent"'music without words is meant,
and some authorities say there's no
such thing while those who take the
contrary view are far apurt In defin
ing a standard of decency.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Hart
held words arie wholly unnecessary to
make music Indecent
"ITou know what I mean," he said,
"that hootchy-kootchy sort of intona
tion."
Mrs. Mlna Van Winkle, head of the
policewomen, had an entirely different
definition.
"I refer," she Said, "to that tom-tom
iny sort of oriental music that makes
men forget home and babies. The
desert natives play that sort for danc
ing, but they have self-respect enough
to dance by themselves. They would
be shocked to see the way our boys
and girls hug each other and vibrate
to the tune of those compelling
pieces."
Sergeant Phillips, the police psyco
pathlc expert, Inclines to the belief that
while there Is a lot of "crazy" music,
it would be difficult to prove that any
of It Is "Indecent."
Tax to Support Science
Commerce and Industry will be re
quired to contribute to the financial
support of a scientific research In
France, If a measure passed by the
chamber of deputies is ulsq approved,
by the senate. The bin provides for a
tax of five centimes on each 100 francs
paid In salaries by Industrial and com
mercial concerns. The sum which the
tax would raise for French scientific
laboratories Is estimated at 14,000,000
francs a year. This Is about $700,000,
according to the present rate of ex
change.
Why Bird* Are Not Stung
Birds that eat wasps, t>ees and other
stinging Ihsects do not deuend on
chance to protect tWm from being
stabbed inside tbelr throats by the
victims, according to recent observa
tions by German ornithologists.
Snrikes, flycatchers nnd titmice catch
bees and wnsps, but itiwajhi crush theu*
With their beaks before swallowing.
Bishop Brings Body
' of Saint Christina
New York. —In a plain oak
box the bmes of St. Christina,
virgin martyr of tbe Third cen
tury, rest on Amort i»n soli pre
paratory to being taken to the
Roman Catholic cathedral at
Cleveland, Ohio.
The bones were the gift of
Pope Pius XI to Bishop Joseph
Schrembs of Cleveland In recog
nition, of the 1200,000 which the
Cleveland diocese contributed to
the erection of a "house of cata
combs" In Rome.
Bishop Schnembs. lllshop Mi
chael Gallagher of Detroit and
others returned from a- four
months' holy-year pilgrimage on
the liner Homeric recently and
were met by a delegation of mid
dle western clergy and laymen.
Tbey brought the fallow hi JC
message from the pope:
"America has been the band
of Providence for the Impover
ished and enfortuhate nations of
the world, and the world wt!
never forget Amerlc^/*
HOW=
ISLAND OP PHILIPPINES »
RECEIVED NAME LUZON. — A
The Island ot Luzon, on which $
Manila, capital of the Philip- @
pines, stands, got Its name In a «
peculiar way. A Spanish mill- ©
tary expedition landing 350 §
years ago on the shore of Ma- ®
nlla bay accosted the chief of a
near-hf village, who was watch- ®
Ing Ids 4Wes pound rice (to re- ffl
move the hulls) In a huge mor
tar Ihollcrwed out from a section M
of hardwood log, a common S
practice even today. With some j5
ceremony the commander of the «
expedition Inquired of the chief ®
the name of the Jsland he was §
about to take possession of for ig
his catholic majesty. The lnno- .§
cent chief thought the com- gf
mander Inquirer! the nnme of the $
mortar, and replied laconically, jg
"Luzong." The Spaniards un- ®
derstood this as "Luzon," and X
Luzon has been the name ever
since. In the earliest maps, «
however, It appears In Latinized ©
form, Luconia, which has recent- 8
ly been by Americans w
In Manila as a good name for $
the territory.
How Buildings Can Be
Freed of Insect Pest
The Department of Agriculture has
received scores of requests for help In
getting rid of flying white ants In
buildings. These pests are not like
those that can be killed by Insecti
cides and fumigations. They can He
prevented only by constructing the'
building so that no woodwork comes
In contact with the ground.
Each spring and full these termites
emerge in great turabers from the
woodwork of buildings that have not
been properly constructed, and cause
the householder, considerable annoy
ance. They have entered because,
somewhere, there Is untreated wood
In contact with the ground.
The bureau of entomology advocates
modifications of the building regula
tions of various cities In efforts to pre
vent attacks by the insects. No un
treated wood should be on or In
the earth, and untreated beams should
have at least an Inch of concrete be
tween them and the earth. When It
Is desired to put woodwork In direct
contact with the earth It should first
be Impregnated with coal-tar creosote.
If this Is not practicable there should
be foundations of concrete or stone.
-No lime mortar should be used In
brickwork In foundations of buildings,
since termites are üble to penetrate
lime mortar that Is a few year# old.
Such brickwork, either on or extend
ing below the surface of the ground,
should be faced and capped with con
crete at least one Inch thick.
"Corn-Made" Tire» From
Kan*a# Seen if Prices Soar
Los Angeles, Cal. —Dr. Ju rues V.
Norrls, presldeat of the American
Chemical society in session here, sees
In the cornfields of Kunsus a possible
solution of the disturbing situation re
cently created by skyrocketing rubber
prices. \
If continued high prices force tire
manufacturers to appeal to the-chem
ist, Doctor Norrls said, it is > entirely
possible that a method of manufac
turing synthetic robber from corn and
wheat derivatles may be developed and
the rubber plantation supplanted In
some measure at least by the middle
western American farm. "It is among
the possibilities that our research men
will develop a valuable commercial
rubber from acetone, from which the
Germans made rubber during the
war," he said.
"Acetone Is a by-product of bntyl
alcohol, and tratyl alcohol Is produced
from grain. In other words our auto
mobile tires may yet be made from
Kansas corn."
Doctor >forrls pointed oot that crude
petroleum may l»e used ax the bane of
synthetic rubber. In which row the
corn and wheat grower* of the Middle
Wc3t will have to compete the
oil companies.
Find* Giant Redwood Tree,
Sells Lumber for $5,250
Portland, Or*. —Finding a California
redwood log la hardly leaa lucky than
finding a gold mine. George Walker of
Cannon Bench, Ore, baa proved thla
to hla .own antlafactldn. Walker re
cently dug up a redwood tog which
was t partially burled by the sand of
Cannon Beach. He worked two days
with a team and scra|»er and then he
began Mwlng It In lumber lengths. He
estimates that he baa taken $3,000
worth of lumber out of the log and
has cot 30 circular dining-room table
tops worth 175 each. A remarkable
fact Is that the log has lain In the
name place for many years and no one
realized its value. The log wua eight
feet through and 30 feet long. The
rings showed that It was five hundred
twenty-seven yean old.
College and Cathedral
Christ church, the largest and rapef
notable of Oxford Bng.) colleges, is
In the fifth century of Its existence.
For reasons of convenience the cele
bration already had been held, so the
true birthday anniversary of this curi
ous Institution, which la both a col
lege and a cathedral and yet Is callg]
a church, passed quietly during the
long vacation.
Modern Investigation has revealed a
remarkable continuity in the history
of English ecclesiastical foundations.
The Saxons built their churches on the
ruins of the great Roman temples, and
the Normans in their turn rebuilt the
Saxon churches.
This continuity Is most remarkable
in Oxford, where nearly every college
has grown out of a medieval monas
tery.
Christ church stands on the site of
a priory, a parish church and at least
two older monastic colleges. Its bells
were removed from a neighboring ab
bey, and both the stones find the funds
used In Its construction were obtained
from the dissolution of more than
forty monastic foundations.
Centenary of Match
The match recently had Its one
hundredth birthday, having been In
troduced In 1825 by John Walker, an
Englishman, who conceived the Idea
of selling his matches In boxes at 1
shilling 4 pence a bos.
The safety match, called "Swedish/'
did not appear until the year 1802.
This was the first match which could
be lit only when struck on the box.
The Idea of the match, however,
antedated Walker by nearly two cen
turies. As early as 1080 Godfrey
Hawkwltz wag using phosphorus to
Ignite Uttie wooden sticks, dipped In
sulphur. Various experiments were
made by other scientists of the day,
but 1t was not until 1825 that thl
match emerged from the laboratory
and was placed on the market.
Long-Buried Tree
Holla Fallon, employed at the Glenn
Ayr mine, near Terre Haute, Ind., was
digging coal with a pick 200 feet below
the surface and more than a quarter
of a mile back In the mine, late In
March, when be struck a substance
that was firmly embedded In the coal.
He picked at It until a piece, more
than one foot long fell out, disclosing
a well-developed tree trunk with limb
formations still Intact. The whole
tree appears to be In the coal. He took
the wood to Terre Haute and will
send It to the state museuri at In
dianapolis for further scientific re
search. The wood oozes water and Is
spongy lpstead of petrified, as would
be supposed. The find Is attracting
considerable attention from mlnera.
Hand kerchieft History
In Its earlier form the handkerchief
was merely a cloth or towel with
which to wipe the face or the hand.
The modem name is derived from the
"coverchlef," or veil, formerly used
by women for covering the head. In
the Sixteenth century this article
formed a pari of woman's headdress,
and the word kerchief (corrupted
from coverchlef) lost Its original
meaning but retained Its name as a
cloth, and the term "handkerchief*
was generally adopted, {ts prefix,
"pocket," came from the French,
"moucholr de pocha," which, trans
lated Idiomatically, means pocket
handkerchief.
Of lit Ofbn Volition
Two girls were quarreling and one
centered her attack on the shape of
the other's nose, wMch was distinct
ly of the pug variety. Her remarks
proved so telling us to retice the
snub-nosed one to the verjpe of hys
terics. "It's cruel of you to iraeke fun
of my nose," she walled. "£ didn't
choose It." "Of course )«u didn't,"
was the unfeeling retort. "It turned
op unasked."
Hie Down/all Coming
Harold, aged she, appetired ou t day
at the next-door neighbor'* dressed In
the fashionable long trousers for
•mall boya. , "My mother." be an
nounced. "suys I act Juat like a man."
The older |>eople nodded approvl.igly.
but Betty, aged five, critically looked
over the culler and then ohswed.
"You may uct like a man now, but
juat wiili till you grow up and put* un
those i.bort golf troassersr
Magnet Collect* Tacftt
A mining company In Idaho recently
performed a unique experiment to rid
ding a highway of tacks, nails nnf
other metallic objects which catne tlrs
punctures. An 1300-pound magnet
operated by T2 storage batteries was
attached to a truck »nd dragged over
the road. About 900 pounds of nails,
tacks, bottle caps and other met# was
collected on a mile and a half of .road.
Can in Cojf e Clair
A revolver Is encased in r_ 'police
man's club by a new Invention J); en
•MM him to shoot quicker ff attacked
Withering Comment on
Result of World War
The Recorder sut In a tower on the
wall of the Eternul city and thumbed
an ancient book. The book contained
the recorjl of man's achievements.
The entries were Surprisingly few.
On the first yellow page werp two
words: "Fire "discovered." The sec
ond entry, obviously made many cen
turies later, was equally terse: "The
wheel discovered." It was evident
ilhat the Recorder took no notice of
trifles and made entries only on those
rare occasions when men took a step
forward.
There was a brief note concerning
the beginning of organised govern
ment, when men sacrificed personal
liberty to win safety, and another to
mark the beginning of democracy.
The discovery of printing received
three lines.
The Recorder thumbed the pages
of his book and yawned. And even
as he yawned there was a great st+r
on the earth below and a wur was In
progress.
Natlqps girded themselves for thai
conflict und young men marched In
countless millions. Guns bellowed,
gases crept along the ground, mighty
ships were shattered. Orators de
nounced the evil that had been- let
loose in the world; Idealists pictured
a world free from human nature; val
ient men died without
cause their cause seemed Just. Cities
were destroyed; children starved;
fields lay idle.
And when the orgy of killing was
over, men gathered up the shattered
remains of the civilization Jhey had
been so long In building, taxed them
selves to puy for their follies and
wyote their memoirs. 4
The world was dotted with new,
graves; new prejudices formed. The
maimed hobbled on every street.
The Recorder, leaning on a window
sill, had watched the commotion with
some show of eagerness. Apparently
he had hopes. ,
But when the world had returned
to Its accustomed way he yawned and
closed his book.
A messenger appeared at the door
with a question.
"Tell him," said the Recorder, "that
nothing has happened."—Baltimore
Sun.
How Cotton I* Packed
Usually two packing processes are
"employed In pncking cotton, but tn a
few cases only one Is used. Ordinarily
the cotton is first put through tlfe cot
ton haling press at the gin; this packs
the bale to a density of about 12 to
14 pounds per cubic foot It is then
sent to the railroad compress, where
it Is compressed to a density of uhout
28 to 83 pounds per cubic foot. It Is
then ready for railroad shipment or
export. Sometimes a special compress
la used In connection with the baling
process, with which the cotton to
packed at the gin to a density of
about 80. to 32 pounds per cubic foot.
No further compression is required
even for export.
How Coffee Stimulates
Coffee Is more of a stimulant than
alcohol. The latter makes a man stupid.
It Is depressing and paralyses all
proper fear and restraint. While
those under Its Influence can do moire
work, they da not do It well. On the
Other hand, *>ffee Is stimulating, en
abling the user to work beyond nor
mal strength, although be ihust pay
the (penalty later In loss of sleep.
These statements were made recently
by Peen Henry n. Rushby of the Co
lumbia College of l'hormacy In New.
York city, says Popular Science
Monthly.
How Rocks Afo Formed
Rocks are formed In several ways.
Some of them, such as sandstone, are
formed by sediment In water. Others,
the Igneous crystalline rocks, for in
stance, were formed geologic ages ago
when the earth was s molten mass.
Then there are the metamorphlc rocks
which have been formed under pres
sure, heat or chemical action. Rocks
do not have life anJf consequently do
not grow in the proper nense of the
termt they increase In size only by
secretion or uddltlrn of material from
without. —Exchange.
How to Curb the' Dishonest
Why ore there so many 1 Impudent,
Idle, dishonest. worthless people? He
rn rem- they get away with tt so easily.
Ton make a mistake If you do not
promptly "mil down" the deadbeat,
the loafer. the liar; the Impolite, the
dlshom-st. To firmly rebuke all such
la the most effective way an honest,
private citizen has of preaching.—E.
W. Howe's Monthly.
How Publicity Persuades
Yes, publicity has been developed
into a fine art, having reached the
point, for instance, where It can con
vince a man who has one two-pants
suit to his name, and who never goes
anywhere anyway, that he needs a
wardrobe trunk of the latest model*-*
•Ohio State Journal.
NO. 35
PLAN SANITARIUM ON
MOUNT POPOCATEPETL
Will Be Erected at Altitude of|
17,843 F^t.
Mexico City.—At an altitude of
843 feet, near the snow-covered peak
of the volcano Mount Popocatepetl,
practical use is to be made of the
romantic lure of the "mountain that
smokes," as Popocatepetl Is referred
to frequently.
The ministry of public works makes,
the announcement that an offer has
been received from British capitalists
for the construction of a sanatorium
above the snow line of the mountain
t6 be used by tuberculaptrntlents.
The plan includes the building of an
extraordinarily complicated aerial rail
way for the. ascent of the mountain.
Part of this line is to be an ordinary
funicular or cog Incline railway. This
Is to reach as high as the grades up
the mountain's side will permit.
From there on an aerial line, cars to
be run on a cable, much like elevators
dropped Into mine shafts, will make
the further ascent possible.
The Investment is to reach $500,0001
The Popocatepetl crater will not In
terfere with the plans. It is said, as
it is proposed to build the road and
terminal on the side of the volcano
facing Mexico City, while the sul
phuric eruptions and smoke clouds
that the mountain emits continually
make their exit from its Internal cald
ron from an opening on the east side
of the mountain facing the city
of Puehla, although the smoke spqead
above the peak Is visible from Mexi
co City.
American Wanted
by Italian Officials
Koine.—ltecently a bill was Intro*
duced in the Italian senate to raise
the pay of cabinet ministers to $290 a
month. At iflfesent the salary is about
$l2O, while under secretaries receive
less than S2O a week.
Thirty dollars a week is the amount
Italy pays Slgnor de Stefan! for ad
ministering the national budget of
nearly $1,000,000,000 a year and do*
ing it with scrupulous honesty.
The small salaries of cabinet mini*
ters have been serious obstacles to the
careers of some of them. Frequently
ministers are unable to accept social
invitations because they cannot return
the hospitality in a worthy manner.
Hence It is of great practical value to
u minister to have a wife with an in
dependent Income. The ideal is ta
have an "American wife," In Italian
thought the equivalent of "mlUloo
alrebs."
A minister with an "American wife"
need not worry about the social part
of his career. It is said In bitter jeel
that the first duty of the ambitious
Italian diplomat Is to go to the tea
dances and flirt with the American'
girls.
Strangle* During Operatic*
New York.—His trachea so affecte4
that he could not breathe and with
death Imminent Samnel Grlzen, thirty*
six years old, a Janitor, submitted to
an emergency operation In an ambu
lance of Reception hospital while his
family and scores of carious passers
by looked on. The operation was not
successful and OrUen suffocated be
fore It was over.
London'a Chief Charm
London owes much of Its charm and.
fascination to its plan, or rather
lack of a plan. Much of It was built
before the duys of town planning and
before the Invention of the deadly
"gridiron" which makes hideout so
many American cities, and as Lon
don's streets, squares, places and
laries developed apparently by no
flsed plan, the buildings which face
them were built with apparent defi
ance of all rules of architecture, and
yet they possess charm ahd distinc
tion which It would be difficult to
secure today, when the world's bond
ing customs, are changed, and design ,
itself is in a state of flux. t
Forest Fires Cost
$38,000,000 in 1924
Washington. There were
nearly 02,000 forest fires in
1024, which swept 29,000,000
acres of public and private
lands and did $38,000,000 dam
age exclusive of Injury to young
growth, watershed protection,
wild life and recreation facili
ties.
The figures, gathered by for
estry officials, are said to be ac
curate and to Indicate how-crim
inal Is the carelessness of those
responsible for much of the loss.
Many of the worst fires, it
was reported, occurred in sw>
eral of the southern states and
•n California.