flfr fOLK ?BWg #t1elps FEATURES OF FUTURE CITY ?mmmmmmmm. ? Chances for the Better That Are Assured Simply by the Ordinary March of Events. Tomorrow you may not know your bwn city. They have probably begun altering It already, or are planning to ao so. If not, It doesn't greatly mat ter, because certain forces at work will compel far-reaclilng changes auto matically. Tomorrow your city will have wide boulevards cut through its narrow streets. These will accommo date four, six and eight lines of traf fic. They will start at the center and run miles out Into the country. Thou sands of buildings will be torn down. Sharp street corners will be rounded off and the circle and crescent take the place of the checkerboard. Did your cltv fathers, years ago, lay out a downtown boulevard or town with a strip of parkway in the center 7 That beauty spot will be needed for traffic. But better beauty spots will appear miles from the downtown sec tion. Slums and tenements will dis appear, too. There will be a general grading up of living; standards, and an equalization of real estate values. When you drive a car the traffic cop ? will no longer be al)le to bawl you out, for he will disappear from street crossings, guiding traffic by electric signals from a point where he can see everything but say nothlng-^-that is, if he doesn't disappear altogether, says a Saturday- Evening Post writer. For there will be doublecjecked street cross- ' Ings at congested points. And traffic at ordinary street crossings will be speeded up by diffused lighting which kills the . shadows that now make them dangerous. TREES IN BUSINESS STREET WHter Combats the More or Less Ac cepted Idea That They Are Somehow Out of Place. One of the characters In an early day American romance of the time ^hen the Stamp act was causing all kinds of trouble, is recorded as de claring that New York never would be a real business city because Broadway and Maiden lane were lined with trees, remarks the Indianapolis Star. The VanVrooms, the Stuyvesants, the Artavelts, and other early settlers of the country saved fine, trees about their homes, on the village greens, along the country roads, and in the field* But one will see no trees now adays on Broadway, and Maiden lane has been transformed from the pleas ant, tree-bordered region of Dutch homes with flower gardens Into the busiest wholesale jewelry district in America, If not in the wor*d. Beauty and comfort gave way to the inroads of commerce, not only in New York, but M most^ of America's great cities, so that today trees in a busi ness street are a rare sight. There are elm-shaded villages in New Eng land, maple-shaded towns in New York and the Ohio valley, and there are oak-tree streets to be seen In the southeastern states, but for the most part this Refers only to small towns or cities ? never to the congested centers of population where they should have been preserved. . . ? V " ? City Streets Need Shade. \A Department of Agriculture bul letin Insists that providing shade on city streets Is as much a municipal function as providing lights or side- " walks' and should be cared for by public officials. Probably the most ef ficient way of arranging for proper supervision, it says, is through an unpaid commission of three or five members which in turn employs an executive officer. Methods of organi zation are described, and numerous Illustrations show how trees should be planted. There are chapters also describing pruning, spraying, "trans planting, and other subjects of im portance to every town or city, wheth er it has trees or wishes to have them. The bulletin may be had free upon application to the division of publications, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington. Danger In Inflammable Roofs. The value of property destroyed by tires communicated through the roof, is reported as $223,000,000. Fire-prevention campaigns are being launched in a number of cities as the result of these figures. Indianapolis, Ind., began such -a campaign early last year, with the result of a reduction in 1921 Of $550, 000 in fire losses and 350 in the nam* ber of fires. During one period, oat of fires in Indianapolis, 850 were di? rectly chargeable to inflammable roofs. Affected by World War. As a result of a physical: examina tion of regular army officers recently army surgeons have found clear evi dence by physical deterioration caused by strain Incident to the prosecution of the World war. A large percentage of the officers show either excessive high or abnormal low blood pressure, Uncle Eben. vv "After an dls jazz," said Uncle-Eben, *Td like to hear a few o* dem olfl barber shop harmonies dey used U make so much fun of." _ ? - ^ ? ? ** . ? . ? ; - Flag Sunk in Battle in Berlin Museum Berlin. ? The flag of the Ger man cruiser Scharnhorst, which was qunk In the battle of Falk land, has reached the Berlin Na- i val museum after a romantic j Journey. The captain of a Bra zilian coasting vessel found the body of a German sailor washed ashore on the southeastern coast of Brazil lashed to a sea chest containing the flag. A German j resident, hearing of this, bought i the flag and offered it to the Navy department on condition that he be reimbursed for his outlay. But funds were lacking until recently, when a private collec tion furnished the -means to ac quire the flag, which Is now on j exhibition alongside the model of the cruiser Gneisenau, like wise sunk in the same battle, and other mementos of Ger | many's naval past. BOY GETS DEAD MAN'S EYES Unprecedented Grafting Operation Re stores Sight of Blind Youth at Hornell, N. Y. Hornell, N. Y. ? A blind boy brs been made to see with eyes from a dying man. That was the information given here when It was said the re markable operation on John Eichber ger, nineteen, of this city, is about to prove a complete success. About four years ago young Elchber %er lost his sight after being struck in the face by a stone/ Last August he was taken to the Mount Sinai hospital where an operation was performed. It was only partly successful, the youth being able to distinguish light from darkness. After two more operations, It was found that the irises were so diseased that the case was hopeless. The sur geons then decided to transfer live and healthy irises to Eichberger's eyes from another man ln*the hospital who had no chance to live. As soon as the healthy lris?s were connected with the live nerves sight began to return to Eichberger. Improvement was slow but steady. The case Is said to have progressed to ?uch a point that the hospital sur geons are absolutely certain that the operation wfll become a complete suc cess and that the patient will be able to see as well as he ever did. GIRL HAS QUEER PET ? i Mile. Marthe Dumont, daughter of the military attache of the French em bassy at Washington, has posed with her Brazilian monkey, the only one in this country, perched upon her shoulder. -The little animal is an af fectionate and playful pet AUTO FEVER HITS MEXICO CITY Motor Show Booms Partly Duo to Revolution Joy-Rldlng? American Cars Lead. Mexico City, Mex.? The automobile show is continuing to hold the interest of the public. American cars predom inate. The exposition Is being held in the lobby and foyers of the unfinished National theater, the great marble structure which was started In the time of Porfirlo Dlas and which was to excel any other playhouse in Central or South America In beauty and archi tecture. The remarkable growth in the im portation of American and European cars in recent years has been a source of wonder. Previous to the revolu tion there were but few automobiles In Mexico despite the faet that at that time roads were in fairly good condi tion. In 1913 the only cars to be seen were a few European models, the prop-. erty of a few rich families. - - - Dissolving 8alt Raises Ship. Norfolk, Va.? Capt tu P. Power of the schooner Cumberland Queen and hi* wife, given up for dead in the wreck of the ship, arrived in Norfolk one day recently. The ship, after grounding twice, finally sank, Power said, In the deep water. The captain and crew were 'taken to Charleston. Then the salt cargo, with whtch theTe^l was. bea?l?y Uden, dtsaolTed f^ fte light ?ned ship bobbed op again, to be res Icued bjr the coast guardsmen. ALWAYS WHITE MAN'S FRIE?$ Washakie, Left ^ Chief of Shoshonl Indiana, ame at Great Chief and Fierce Fighter. Washakie, chief of the eastern band of Shoshonl Indiana, was always friendly with the whites and magni ficent fighter against his red enemies. More than 9,000 emigrants over the Oregon trail signed a paper , extolling his kindness In helping to recover lost stock, in aiding them over dangerous I crossings, In leading back men who had strayed and become lost. This was In the Shoshonl country of Wyoming and during the great migrations of the fifties. In personal appearance he Is de scribed as being tall and powerful of build, of dignified bearing. When a young man he was autocratic as a chief and refused hospitality to any horse thief or vagabond. He retained his great popularity in his tribe, by his victories over |the Blackfeet and Crows. He was employed at times by the American Fur company, and more than once saved hunters and trappers from death. At the age of TO the average white man begins to think of retiring. Not go with Washakie. Some of the newest generation decided he should be de posed. Washakie vanished and was missing for two months. The council met to elect his successor. The old chief en tered the lodge with dramatic ab ruptness and threw on the ground six enemy scalps he had .taken while away. He continued as chlatft Men of his band served as scouts for the government after the Custer defeat.? Adventure Magazine. BROUGHT IT ON THEMSELVES According to Uncle Henry, Men De liberately Surrendered First Place to the Female 8ex. "I see where they are going to take the words 'obey' and 'serve' out of the marriage service entirely," com mented Barney, the cigar-stand man. "Not that they's meant anything for some time," he added sarcastically. "Darned If I know what's got Into the womefi lately. Before long they'll grab the pants, an' we'll be wearin' Mother Hubbards an' swapping reci pes over the back fence. From now on I won't take off anything at night but my hat, and I'm even goln' to lock {hat up." "It's all our own fault*" Uncle Henry remarked philosophically. "We started the whole business when we gave up our velvets an' satins an' turned bright clothes over to the fe male of the spedes. It was goin' against nature, Barney, an' nature never forgives. Look around yourself an' you'll see that the male bird is al ways the one with the top-knot, the long tall an' the brilliant plumage. Back in the days when we ordered our business suits from the steel mill an' It took a whole herd of silkworms to turn out a simple walkin' suit for us you didn't hear anything about equal rights, did you? No slrree, women never peeped until we stepped out of our fiery hose an' doublets an' ostrich plumes an' put on the hard boiled * hat an* pln-cfieck pants of modern civilisation."? Collier's. Sign* Rule Country Life, City Too. ?It's gotten so you can't go where you witt to around this town? or In It," complained the man. ' "What's wrong nowf' asked tils friend. "8ignsl Eternal signs! 'This way out.' *Keep to the right,' 'East bound traffic only/ 'Use other stairs going out.' Then the cop stops you when you think you see a fine opening In traffic, and again you stop and go with the mob. I "Last Saturday I went out to the country thinking that I would at least be free from the confines of traffic rules and get away from signs for one day. 'No automobiles allowed.' 'No trespassing.' 'Beware of the dogs.' 'Private property? keep out.' 'No ve hicular traffic.' 'Keep on the paths.' All those signs .slapped me in the face. More personal liberty gone."? | New York Sun. Golf Ball Retriever. | ? The golf enthusiast may save en ergy for the next drive by the use of a new golf ball retriever, fastened to the putter handle, by which he can pick the ball out of the cup or from the green without stooping, says Popular Science Monthly. The novelty consists of a small , nickel plated brass dip, the inside diameter of which is exactly the same as that of a golf ball, the handle of the putter with the retriever In place Is inserted, and pressed over the ball, which is caught in the cop and with drawn. The inventor of the retriever claims that the extra weight at the end of the club will enable the player to putt more accurately. ? f ? ? ; ? ^ -r? ? ? I . . Real Power. , Every one turned to admire the tall man with, the ilne physique. His hair had a natural/wave; his chin was cleft, his eye was ley blue, he had a skin any woman might envy and he wore his clothes well. No one noticed the small boy by his side. He was wizened and old, he looked like a withered apple, bis eyes were small and shifty, his chin was | weak, he was bald and sallow, and his clothes hung loOeely about Ms thin rorm. The small man had never done any* thing much except make about $10, 000,000, while the tall man was the traffic man who had just told him to come along to the station house ids speeding.? Judffc v 'tr &*S:i it J- 2IHI LOOK TO COMMUNITY'S NEEDS *''??? i What Has Been Accomplished at Fort Scott, Kansas, May Be Cited as Case in Point * ' '' T 4-*' * 'jr., *T \ - Half a dozen years ago there were two years when the wheat around Fort Scott -did not come to harvest and, afe wheat was the only product of the community the town was left flat. Even the merchants closed their stores and moved away. The chamber of commerce decided that the community needed more di versity of production. It studied the situation and decided that the dairy in dustry would fit logically into Its scheme. The farmers owned only scrub cattle, but despite this the cham ber went down to Kansas City and Induced the big milk users to establish three shipping stations in the Fort territory. The farmers were much surprised to find that they could get money for milk which formerly had been used' only as swill for hogs. Then the chamber of commerce took its second step. It organized an ex cursion and took forty of Its most progressive farmers to that part of * Wisconsin where the dairy industry is most highly developed. It showed them just what first-class dairy farms and first-class dal^y cattle were and how such an enterprise is properly operated. ? But the chamber did not stop here. It raised enough money to buy a train- i load of the best milk cows it could find In the United States, had them I shipped to Fort Scott and sold to the farmers at cost, which was less thfyn the price they would have had to pay If they had bought lndividuallyT^Last year this community sold half a mil lion dollars' worth of milk alone. That wealth would not have come to Fort Scott "but for the sale' of milk. It will be spent among the business peo ple who make up its chamber of com merce. The country roundabout has Just completed the laying of 225 miles of Improved roads, a thing that the farmers had formerly refused to finance. The whole community is transforming itself. All of which cotnes of taking thought of community needs and proceeding to supply them. KEEP THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Annual Ciean-Upe All Right in Their Way, but There Is a Very Much Better Method. The annual spring clean-up in Kansas City has become a well known event But why should It be an event? Why not a continuous process? Recently an excellent method of keeping the streets always in repair has been put into operation, i Why can't something of this kind be, made to apply to the cleaning not only of streets but of yards, --tpts and othef places that demand attention? There is provision for street cleaning, of course. But the street-cleaning forces do not recetve the encouragement and help they ought to have. Their work often is nullified or made difficult by 'the carelessness of individuals who throw papers and various kinds of ref use where they will be most unsightly and generally objectionable. Keeping a city beautiful and clean all the year around does not stop with the operation of any city department. It becomes a part of the civic duty of every individual; it must be checked up to every htome as well as to a health or street cleaning department. It may become a matter of habit with the people. It should be prompted by pride ; a regard for the rights of-nelgh bors; for what visitors may tfcink of . the city; for the best things In respect to appearance and public health.? Kansas City Star. ? Stimulating Home Ownership. One of the chief ways in which home ownership can be stimulated is through the education of the general public. Of late years It has become apparent to the leaders In the real es tate profession that many people have not purchased their homes, not through inability or unwillingness, but simply because of their lack of knowledge. They fear that perhaps they might find themselves engaged in a venture about ; whfch they know nothing, and hence it does not ap peal to their conservatism. The one best method of educating the public is by visualizing, the processes in volved in the acquisition of a home and home site. This is best done by having representative men In the in dustries allied to home construction 4$tffi?ht together at an exposition to show people at first hand what has been dene and what may be accom plished in the future and to give them authoritative Information and definite coats. ' * . Culture, "Don't talk to me about college^ !" scoffed the self-made man. "Look at me! Do you supffose.I would have been any more successful than I am if I'd had a college education?*'/ "No," admitted the professor, "but yon might have been less inclined -tr' brag abont it"? Judge. We Shall Double Our Effort| '';\r Arthur Conan Doyle says that there's an opportunity to work in heaven. Now that's something like a heaveiji t? Boston Transcript. ? ' -? . wv -izn FOR THE EYES OF POSTERITY Satisfactory Way Said to ,Have Boon Found to Preserve Newspapers for Indefinite Period. 1 ? - -? .? jr'^r How to so plcsle newspapers that they can be preserved indefinitely In the public libraries Is a problem which has apparently been solved, according to the American Paper and Pulp asso ciation. Eight years of experimenting, par ticipated In by three big New York newspapers at a cost of $5,000 a year each, under the supervision oi the New York public library, has taught librarians how to preserve for poster ity. newspaper files. The solution seems simple, being the mounting of I each nowspapet sheet between two i sheets of thin Japanese tissue, shut- j ting the air from the original sheets, | reducing Its legibility but slightly, and strengthening the page. Bound vol umes of the mounted page* are now In constant dally use, and are free from the wear and tear .fchlch de stroyed the untreated newspapers. The New York experiments have been so successful that a big Western newspaper has sent representatives to New York to study and adopt the practice for use there. The first investigation was made In .Boston, and the library there tried to persuade the newspapers to print library editions on an extra paper, but the Expense was too great. This is now done by a London paper, and was tried by a Brooklyn paper, but the cost was prohibitive. In the New York experiments silk was first used, but the Japanese tis sue was found the best for the pur pose, as it hermetically sealed the newspaper pages from the air. Shel lacs, varnishes and other substances were tried, with littl4 success. Under the method now In- use the operator wets a glass or steel-covered table, lays down a sheet of tissue ; with the pasting machine, rice paste is put on, then in turn the newspaper page, paste and tissue, when the page Is dried and pressed under a gas-heated man gle. . v CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY Precipitate Individual Foresaw Hard Task In Squaring Himself With His Fellow Citizens. Clad In knickers and driving home from college two girls stopped at Noblesville. While there they went into the library. ? When they came out Into the street, most of the town was out to see them. Deciding that knickers must not be the thing In Noblesville, they hurried to get under the shelter of their car. A man came up to them and invited them to stay longer as guests of the town. They refused, saying that they were In a hurry to get to Warsaw. "Warsaw?" he stammered. "Why, aren't you the two girls who are bum ming your way from New York to In dianapolis, and whose picture was In the faper this afternoon? We have been expecting two girls all day and as soon as I saw you go Into the library I thought you were the ones, and had gone In to see what the No blesville press had to say about yon, and I hurried around and told every body you were here. What'll I do?"? Indianapolis News. Walking to Learn the World. President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia has lately given another example of his practical Idealism and wise fore sight He is furnishing the funds for a walking tour of the .world this sum mer by students of Prague university. In the group are two Czechs, a Serbian, a Bulgarian and a Russian. After walking through Jugoslavia and Bul garia the students will go to 'Constan tinople and then to China and .Japan. Thence passage will be takenl to San Frnnrlsco and the leading cities of the United States will be visited on foot. Prague university will publish a re port of the expedition. President Masaryk knows the folly of national Isolation and the value of learning something about other nations besides his own.? Christian Science Monitor. Toronto's Vacation Schools. Utilizing schoolhouses, churches and public buildings, Toronto is maintain ing this summer daily vacation schools* , In the congested districts of the city. More than 3,000 children are in at tendance, says the Christian Science Monitor.. While the primary object is to proyide a place of refuge from the hot streets, the school has also a dis tinct educational value. The morning session is devoted to "play-work" and includes basketry, sewing and raffla instruction, story-telling, kindergarten activities and occasional moving pic ture exhibitions. In the afternoon come picnics, hikes and organized sports. _ Unearth Ancient Roman Barge. ? Important archeological discoveries have been made at Castello di Porto, near Rome. The hull of an enormous Roman barge has been excavated near a small lake. It is presumably m.' reMc of a mercantile fleet which was used to "ship- wheat from Sic$? *to~ Rome, before CasteHo di Porto shipped /by. the Tiber. The hull is like a sjtijk flar relic of Nero's fleet at lovely Lake j Kemi. Excavations are proceeding ! unci other discoveries are expected. Newsboy, Seventy-One, Follows Races. ' 1 David Stevens, -a seventy-one-year old "newsboy" of Dnblln, has attended every running of the Epsoih Derby for KK years. The week of the great race is his only holiday. - At all other times ho is to be found m the street corner ?; III the Irisil capital selling papertL \k / 'v - >- /v. :? ./i - ~ r^'4 &A ,'v-J MORE THAN A RAIN SHEDOEtf! ( *"? m j| I. J African Chiefs Take the Possession el van Umbrella Very Seriously, Ac cording to Reports. . Some time ago, there was what the news described as unrest In the West African colony of Lagos; telegrams \frere dispatched between that country and Great Britain, governors and deputy-governors were interviewed, and it was with difficulty that a native war was averted. The cause of all this commotion was an umbrella! >. Now, in our country, as we all know, : an umbrella is looked upon as a harm less possession?but not so in West Africa. . There, among most of the na tive tribes, the umbrella is regarded , as an emblem of royalty, and Its pos session is strictly confined to the chief or king of the tribe. - Therefore the indignation was la tense on the part of one of these kings, when he found an Inferior chief putting up an umbrella of his own. The king at once took a journey to Lagofc, to lodge a formal complaint of the chiefs treasonable conduct with the British governor. An African king's umbrella is a very elaborate affair, and it often costs large sums of money. Most of the umbrellas for Ashantl and the (Sold coast are made of gigantic size, some of them when open measuring ten feet across. \ ; The coverings of these umbrellas are of colored silk ? the brighter the better, with very deep fringes. The largest umbrellas are carried over the heads of chiefs, by bearers while other bearers steady the umbrella by cords attached to the uppermost parts. One state umbrella had for Its apex a silver eagle standing on two silver cannons, while another umbrella had a gold hen on the top, the hen being surrounded by numerous chickens, to represent the chief and his tribe. 1 CHANGES IN '<0LD FAITHFUL? Yellowstone's Famous Geyser Haa^ Slightly Lengthened the Periods Between Its Eruptions* \ * Old Faithful, ? Yellowstone's most famous geyser, has slightly changed the period of its eruptions. \ : According to the observations of the park naturalist and the rangers, the geyser now spouts on an average every 64.6 minutes. Last year the av erage period was 60 minutes. The alteration In - Old Faithful's "tempo" does not Indicate any lessen- N Ing of Its vigor or "faithfulness." On the contrary, Naturalist M. P. Skin ner's' observations show the mighty fountain to be Increasing' in volume. The change is believed to be due to an alteration in the subterranean tuba of the geyser. For the last year or so Old Faithful has acquired a habit* of occasionally throwing out small rocks. The pas sage of the rocks through the tube is believed to have enlarged Its dimen sions slightly, this 16 turn being re sponsible for the lengthened period be- ) tween eruptions and the Increased vol ume of water. A number of other interesting changes, lending a constantly varying interest to the mysterious manifesto* ' tlons of the park's performing natural wonders, also are reported by official observers, k * . ? - That Word "Corker." The American word "corker," mean ing a person or thing of superlative rquallty. is only a slang nse of a legiti mate English' word. Corker, in Its original sense, meant a conclusive ar gument. It probably originated from the finality which a cort thrust Into the mouth of a bottle stops all egrets, or Ingress of material in it The relegation of the word as used In America to the limbo of slang by the dictionary writers has neither weakened the word nor limited it* use. ' The word "corker" is a perfectly good. word. It expresses precisely a shade of meaning that needed to be^ expressed, and the chances are that It will tye a word of good and regular a standing long after the bones of tho last living dictionary writers have thoroughly bleached?Milwaukee Sen tinel. ? Newspaper Accuracy. B. A White of the Detroit News, after long investigation, finds that daily papers make only one error In every 8,250 opportunities for mistakes. This country recently celebrated! the anniversary of the landing of the PO* grims at Plymouth Rock and history has pointed out the very spot where they landed. ' Now a scientist dis covers tfiat at the time the Pilgrims landed this spot was under sea. Which leads Mr. White to ask, "If history cannot report a fact correctly in 800 years, ought we expect a news paper to be unfailingly accurate In tfx / or eight hours V* ' Diphtheria Germs In Wild Horses. Wild horses running on the open rajnge and never in contact with hu man beings have been found to be in rated with the diphtheria germ, ? cording, to Dr. H. W. Schoening of 1 pathological division of the bun plant industry, at Washington. fact, he claims, indicates that ' theris organism is widespi soil and is not cairied to the 111 some human being, as has been As She ; Appeared to- Him. Miss Sarah Bellum? No one of generation appreciates me. I too sort, ? '? v : Max Multirox ? Quite so. v you'd be a pretty young girl If you had only been horn about years later than yon ww - .? ? ? ...? ,i . - ? ,

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