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gate ^jTax Exempt Securities < ? IS r- . ?$> 'A'v ."",in,"?s till* "n a" ' r. '?> no lin * '?*? $Al l'U 1 1" I w'111 C of *<"* roauc ? F .forts >? n U\ tM ti5V ,f any ^r,,,u> of a ^Q" ?* * W n u < rtvont ?C#D^ oonvmtion at - s -r^num as to the ! \,?,tuin:.sw rosuU; fej ,1V.,,.;,:m! l"">nt # .id:mni*tra jjrio- of c.^r<>s La ?-i;i ..,nV1sM-a the jvrsonnfl -cob;-**- ... n constltn **" ;h? fU" l^0 m-r^itu'S will be ? ;n;;? m ter's session of congress. The ways and means committee maj go through the form of reporting the resolution favorably, as it has done In several sessions heretofore. It Is unlikely, however, that It will be pressed to a vote in either house. Several factors have contributed to what is conceded to be a steady loss of support In congress for the consti tutional amendment in the face of con tlnued agitation for It by the treasury. Southern Democrats, for the most part, have stood Arm against ths amendment In line with their general position against encroachment of th? federal government upon state rights. A good many Republicans, principal ly In Pennsylvania and other parts of the Kast, are opposed to it, believing it desirable to encourage municipal improvements through tax exemption of bonds. Furthermore, with one reduction from the maximum wartime surtaxes accomplished In the revenue act of 1921, another cut made In the revenue act of 1924, and prospects excellent for a further flashing of -ates In the revenue bill to be enacted next win ter, need of the constitutional amend ment Is conceded to be less pressing. I. Pearl Harbor Needs improving Kjjjion (it'sL-n-vi to make Kpj tbe .cn'n-'fit military K^t is r.*ie ?-or!t! " ill be of K t0 .vru'ress in iVcember, Etc K'-jrt'-tnr:! r; \ ?? Thomas Br of 1VM<} ?v;.n:a. chairman n;iv;ii i*' -rii r;i : ; ! K^vrs of rne house naval ?Tjji vis;': Hawaii next Eg^j !>y u :iy of t!ie Panama K ^ rr.ins;>orr Henderson, Ej fjrry tlie Annapolis prad Eg to the IVirio. Naval of l?^! :!:?? f'c.U'f that fullow ?Vjjt several defense bills ?lIstft'iuiY'j in congress. ??ts!;re Hurler said he was ?BodiMo :o collect data that ?a ?t:gi in the legislation for ? ip it# Hawaiian defenses. Hftd in ?';> opinion, there fc? o.' 'jn; re|'a redness in that Iht sbou.'-J he remedied by Mi: :he earliest practicable w jtare-d rhaf naval officers :he h"u<e committee ?kts for a t"!ir of inspection. I jfiria.'s sai'J that congress ?is. 2:tli'">ri?ef1 improvements Ivuel ar Pear! Harbor that Ik (boot J-'.'Mi.OOU. The first appropriation will be granted this win ter, and the dredging will begin In the summer of 1926. Close omthe heels of the "capture" of Hawaii by the naval forces In the I Joint maneuvers and charges that the army defenses of the Island are de fective, It was announced at the War department that officials there hoped that the house committee on military afTalrs *rould visit Hawaii before con press reassembled. Acting Secretary Davis of the War department pointed out, with refer ence to Increasing the strength of the defenses of Oahu, that the War de partment has a general project for Hawaii, which It has been developing from year to year as money was pro vided. No additional forces, however, are available. War and Navy department officials, In advance of receipt of the final re port on the maneuvers, do not believe that any striking new defect will prove to have been disclosed, but are confident that the aham battle will en able presentation of the Hawaiian de fense problem on a basis of estab lished facts Instead of theories. hoi Old Summer Time" to Be Cool? BSS se:enune signs lau, Ip Lieut. Com. George E. fcij:. aid to the naval hy fcr^Ler, this summer will |?<ind the summer of 1926 to. fif s?!ar radiation and ocean tsrfj has convinced him that r "aanierSess" 181G may be i ust Commander Brandt points tjcloaie disturbances are the i quality in the weather lU'ithat while the present s for a decided temperature ?I conditions at the time may efferent because of factors Jow unknown. toes, however, that ocean ffiw ereatly influence the ?od that the 1925-6-7 weather bwn largely determined at of the snn that was stored man 'luring 1922-3-4, when fatioE was below normal. t^-An effort to forecast ?W a p^rlori of a year or &*oulJ be nothing more than wild guessing, Henry J. Cox, district | weather forecaster here, said In com menting on predictions by others that the next two summers would be cold, and that 1926 might duplicate "sum merless" 1816. "Maybe the next two summers will be cold, or they may be hot," said i Professor Cox. "It Is a hlt-or-mlss proposition, and If the guesser hits It, he then can say, *1 told you so.' " The federal government does not try to forecast more than a week ahead, recognizing the Impossibility of It, Professor Cox pointed out, and then the data are called "outlook" and not J "forecast" Nothing had been seen In solar radiation or reports of ocean temper atures to Indicate to him that the com ing summer might be cold, with no summer at all next year, the forecast er declared. The year was starting j ofT well above the normal for the en- | tire country, he added, and In Chicago j an excess of approximately 300 de- I grees of heat above the 30-year aver- j age had been recorded since Janu- j ary L 1 Lady of the Land Likes to Walk ITT leaders of the capital, ittnmM to patterning their n after those of the first lady &e lan'!, are stumped by the Aversion selected by Mrs. ? six milps of walking dally WW of Mrs Coolldge, and We stands, so far as the de 0 the time of a President's nits, rain or shine. toiidge has refused to be s the White House. She re * executive mansion as a 1 she has maintained the slm s of life she accustomed her 'the wife of a Massachusetts Social functions she disposes face an ! ease. and she enjoys they are kept ut a minimum. *1^ a day is the favorite "Hie n.f.rninjc stroll Is con % to Mrs. Cool ^ a'T'.a with the stores ?ak?-s !;fr way about She kn iv.e ;,r. "y well what 1 l*fore fnivrlng a sales room, and takes little time in making her selection. Another walk in the afternoon usually finds her enjoying the freedom of one of the numerous parks, but the strolls are not confined entirely 0 parkways. There are few streets in the wide neighborhood about the White House, settled by every class of people, which she has not trav ersed. On these walks Mrs. Coolidge usual ly is accompanied only by a secret service man. Jim Haley, who has been assigned to look after her pro tection ever since she entered the j White House, Is tall and naturally takes a long stride, but Mrs. Coolidge apparently never finds the pace too fast. It takes extremely severe weather to deprive Mrs. Coolidge of he? walk. Unless there are guests at the White House, Mrs. Coolidge seldom uses her private limousine. It has stood in the garage for weeks at a time. Babies Far Healthier Than Boys ? vuiii lii^htT death ^ ur.Mit. jt tc iv babies than rts !??. t\rst year of Is r?;i r-.-i hy the t'bll f?iU !is .,ak- ?! \h?? facts ear^j in tW c.'.mirehensive Wurt it has yet ^^ruri'.' of its efforts to * r?e l-i the United States. wl(? to tiif sex?-s was said toa&blfe onlv i.y u difference Utility. ^ within their first l'hi)i.-s In eight cities 1 a basis fi?r the report, ^ that most rwnt statistics liT.t.M) infants under ^ ii this i-otintry annually JjJft of tt ^ fail to sur month. The cities In ** tudit?s w^re conducted i'a. ; Manchester, N. Mass. ; Saginaw, Mich.; Mass. ; Waterbury, J**1 Ohio, und Baltimore. J'Jli of the data obtained, t w ^'oodhury, former dl ^?Ucal research for the bureau, said it emphasized that ef forts to reduce the infant mortality rate must be directed equally to pre vention of specific infectious diseases, to proper feeding for reduction of gas tric and Intestinal diseases, and to counteraction of prenatal and natal causes. The latter causes, with the mother's health a controlling factor, were said to have accounted for 30.1 per cent of the deaths in the cases studied, with gastric and intestinal diseases caus ing 82.4 per cent; respiratory diseases 19.5 per cent and epidemic and other communicable diseases 7.1 per cent' Seasonal conditions were shown to have caused a variation in the rates. In the racial classification, Jewish babies were shown to be the health* lest The order of Increase in the death rate was given as '?native white, German, Italian, colored, Polish, French-Canadian, and Portuguese." "Irrespective of all other factors," the report said, "It was discovered, that the infant rate varies inversely with the earnings of the father." / EXCURSIONS IN CORRESPONDENCE By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK D?an ?f Men, UtUT?r?ity of Illinois. to Write About T HAD a letter from Walton this A morning that seemed to me a good one. He Is young, while I am past middle age, and yet, he assumes the liveliest interest in me and my affairs. Am I working hard, he asks. I usually do work too hard he thinks. Am I writing anything, and what Is It about? When do I go on my vacation, and what part of the globe do I Intend to vlait during the summer? It is a sym pathetic letter, which leaves me with le feeling that he Is really giving me and my affairs more than ordinary con sideration, and I am pleased. Then he elicits my Interest by telling me of his work, his love affairs, his plans for next year, and flatters me again by asking my advice relative to the difficulties In which he finds him self. His letter Is natural, humorous, genuine. It Is like talking to him to read It. When people of approximately the same age and position In life write each other In friendly correspondence, their Interests are lfkely to be similar, If not Identical, but If the work In which they are engaged is different, procedure is more difficult. When I write to Henley, whom I knew as a boy on a farm, I cannot dwell much on educational matters. Henley has never even been to high school, though he writes a clever letter. He has been on a farm all his life, and he has not traveled far. But he has an interest ing family, and he hunt's, and enjoys sports of various sorts, and politics, and there Is always the weather, and the state of his health, and the condi tion of the crops, to fall back upon. And I, too, If I am to interest him, mu$t keep away from books and col lege administration, and the things about which he knows little. I must find a ground of mutual Interest, as it is not difficult* to do. If I am to write an Interesting letter to him. His own particular business Interests appeal to him most, and so I try to confine my remarks largely to these. . Children are Interested most In ad venture, In that which Involves danger, and tests of courage. If I write to my young nephews during the summer, I know they will like to hear of my ex perience when ( climbed Long's peak, or visited Hallett's glacier, or caught fish In Lost lake, or slept on the ground with only the sky and an army blanket for covering. They will listen with interest to my adventures In Devil's gulch, and thrill when I tell how we were caught In a storm, and were for a time lost on Specimen moun tain. Dogs, bears, bear-cats, and wild animals of all sorts, and escapes from danger, Interest them Immensely. A child never tires of hearing what haa happened. Events must be the stock in trade of letters to him. Young people like romance, and the accounts of social activity. Boat rides by moonlight, dances, automobile jour neys, the gossip of summer resorts, make a great appeal to them. Senti mental things are pleasing to young girls. What he said to me, and how I answered back, can make up the major part of the correspondence be tween young people. Youth Is the time of romance, and the friendly let ter of youth should be full of It. Love affairs, engagements made or broken, marriages, house parties ? these are the things which we should expect to hear about In the letters of the high school, or college student. Women are fondest of personal gos sip; they are concerned mostly with things in the home ? children, the .neighbors, housekeeping affairs, dress, and books, sometimes. Intimate things are of most' Interest to them. People who are past their youth are fondest - of reminiscences ? the people with whom they associated, the roads they used to travel, the adventures they were a part of. They live over again old memories, and old experi ences. ''Do you ever go out tb Carmel Cen ter?" Ellsworth Dawson writes me. We were boys together, and I have not seen him for many years. "I suppose the old church Is gone, and everyone whom we used to know is dead, or haa moved away. Are any of the old boys still living there? What a high old time we used to have chasing around 1" And so he goes on, filling the pages with one reminiscence after another. It is best, before beginning to write the friendly letter, to visualize the in dividual to whom we ane to write, and his surroundings. We are starting a conversation with him, as it were, and^ we should give some consideration to what his interests are, what he likes and dislikes. We should not write what Is most pleasing to us, but what is most likely to be Interesting to him. (? 1925, by Western Newspaper Union) Condensations I Canada Is building up a big butter trade with Japan. The first feminine chess tournament was held in France recently. Coins dating back to 600 "B. C. were shown in New York at a recent ex hibition. More than $3,000,000,000 worth of milk is produced in the United States In a single year. Australia Is slightly larger than the United States in stae, but has a pop ulation of only 5,500,000. All the lighthouses on the coast of Great Britain are to be fitted with wireless transmitting sets. A scholarship fund has been set aside by the Rockefeller foundation for work in mental hygiene. Drs. A. Kotzareff and L. Weyl, of Paris, have developed a method of lo cating internal cancers by means of radium emanation Introduced into the blood. Though In the torrid zone, Peru pos sesses such diversity of elevations and climatic peculiarities as to be able to grow almost any product that 1* known to man. Approximately 20 per cent of the fir* students attending the University of Washington to Seattle, support themselves' entirely, while another 25 9* cent partly support themselves. MY FAVORITE STORIES , By IRVIN S. COBB 9???????e??ee??se?e?.&s??? I Copyright.) Speaking of Carrier Pigeons Speaking of carrier pigeons ? al though no one has done so lately ? re minds me of a yarn that may or may not be tru^ ? It sounds almost too good to be true ? that was related at the front In 1918. The version most fre quently told had it that a half com pany of a regiment In the Rainbow di vision, on going forward early one morning In a heavy fog for a raid across No Man's land, carried along with the rest of the customary equip ment a homing pigeon. The pigeon In its wicker cage swung on the arm of a private, who likewise was burdened^ with his rifle, his extra rounds of am munition, his trenching tool, his pair of wire cutters, his steel helmet, his gas mask, his emergency ration and quite a number of other more or less cumbersome Items. It was to be a surprise attack be hind a cloak of the fog, so there was no artillery preparation beforehand, nor barrage fire as the squads climbed over the top and advanced into the mist-hidden beyond. vBehlnd, in the post of observation and in the post of command ? "P. O." and "P. C.," those were called In the algebraic termi nology of the war? the colonel and hla aides and hl> Intelligence officers wait ed for the sound of firing. When after some minutes the distant rattle of ths rifle flre came to their ears they be gan calculating how long reasonably it might be before word reached them by one or another medium of communica tion touching on the rewults of the foray. But the ground telephone re mained mute, and no runner returned through the fog with tidings. The sus pense Increased as time passed. Suddenly a pigeon sped into view, flying close to the earth. With eager eyes following It In its course the winged messenger circled until It lo cated Its portable cote Just behind the colonel's position and fluttering down It entered Its familiar shelter. An athletic member of the staff hustled up the ladder. In half a min ute he was tumbling down again, clutching lp one hand the little scroll of paper that he had found fastened about the pigeon's leg. With fingers that trembled In anxiety the colonel unrolled the paper and read aloud what was written upon it. What he read. In the hurried chlrog raphy of a kid private, was the fol lowing succinct statement: "I'm tired of carrying this d ? n bird." The Pride of a Creative Genius A colored person of a formidable a?J pect was arraigned In a South Caro lina court of Justice on a charge of mayhem. As Exhibit A, for the case of the prosecution, the mutilated vic tim of his wrath was presented for the Jurors' sympathetic eyes. The face of the victim was but little more than a recent site ? a place where a face had been, but was no longer. When the Jury very promptly and very properly had returned a verdict of guilty, his honor, the presiding Judge, pointing to the chief complain ing witness and addressing the defend ant, said: "This la the most lamentable exam ple of brutality I have ever seen in a long experience on the criminal bench. Surely no human being, unless he were inspired by Infernal influences and hellborn suggestions, could deliberate ly work such wreckage as yon have worked upon the countenance of a de fenseless and helpless fellow creature. Demons from below surely must have prompted you in what you did. It must have been the devil himself who urged you on and on." "Well, Jedge," said the prisoner, "come to think it over, I ain't shore but what you're right. As I look back on It now It do seem lak, to me 'at w'en I wuz cuttln' his nose loose from his face wld a razor, the devil was right behind me sayin' Tha'a right, separate him frum his nose.'. An' I 'spects It must a been dem demons you mentioned w'ich suggested to me stompln' out his front teeth. "But Jedge, bltln' off his ear was strlc'ly my own ideal" When the Dawn of Under standing Came The caller was undeplabl? large. When he walked he rippled and one had the feeling that should he sit down suddenly he'd splash. Dressed In the simple overalls of s husbandman, he wallowed Into the office of a lawyer in the foothills of the Tennessee mountains. Having given his name and his post office address, he stated that he de sired to bring suit against a neighbor for $10,000 damages on account of libel. "How did he libel you?" asked the lawyer. "Well, suh," stated the aggrieved party, "he up and called me a hippo potamus ? that's wut he done, consarn his picture!" "When did he call you this name?' "It's a goln' on two years ago." "When did you first hear about it?" "That yery day." "Indeed," said the lawyer; "then why did you wait nearly two years to begin taking steps to bring suit against him?" "Well, suh," stated the prospective plaintiff, "ontll that there Rlngling Brothers' circus showed ylstlddy in Knoxville an' I went doWn fur to see it I'd thought, mil the time, that hs wuz payin' me fa compliment." Interesting Items Butternut and walnut trees produce a sweet sap much like that of the sugar maples. Three deanings of seed are neces sary to remove all of the parasites that cause plant disease. If a cloth dipped in soapsuds Is used to mop up milk which has boiled over the stove, no stain will be left A nine-hole golf course, laid out on the roof of a bull fling jfei Atlanta, Ga* Is said to be of great aid to prmo tking players. ?' cvv ' " V- , | J i V V 1 These College Girls Prefer Long Hair Here is a group of long-haired girls at William Woods college, Fulton, Mo. Each of them has some good reason tor not following the prevailing style and bobbing her locks. Workers of Japan Object to Manhood Suffrage pa m A group of the members of the "Sekishln" Labor league, wuo started an anti-universal manhood suffrage move ment, seen storming the Imperial diet in "Tokyo, where the suffrage bill was being debated. Trinidad's Memorial to Perry ARRESTED LAWYER mm ,7f 4 , " I , Charles E. Pierre, mayor of the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad, officially opening the Perry Memorial gateway with the key presented to him by the American consul. The gateway la a memorial to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. Only One Killed in This Wreck I Rash Meadows, prominent Los An* geles and Hollywood attorney, was ar rested by city and federal officers with other members of an alleged narcotic and bond theft gang. Liberty bonds totaling $16,000, part of a large amount taken from a Nebraska bank, were re covered. PRINCE HER SUITOR The wreck of the Santa Fe passenger train running between San D ego and Los Angeles which was derailed on a curve at the foot of a steep gra e. The engineer was the only one killed. OF INTEREST 1 The United States has 52,304 retail drug stores. Chicago has more telephones than all of France. Ten dozen pies were recently made from a monster pumpkin. Port Said, In Egypt, gets on an are rags only two Inches of rain yearly. Athens, Greece, In 1896, saw the first Olympic meeting of the athletes of the modern workL everybody Better a little well kept, than a great deal forgotten. ? Latimer. It's a wise woman who knows her husband fit a masquerade ball. . Dogwood owes Its name to Its simi larity of sound and writing to dag wood, a shortened form of dagger wood ; so called because It was for merly used to make daggers or sticks to hold together meat roasted over an open Are. y *, ' ? V- ? . The youthful countess of Seafleld. only nineteen years old and heiress to the thlrty-mllllon-dollar estate left by her father, th? late earl of Se afield. She la being sought as the bride for Prince Nicholas of Rumania. Unknown to Science ? There 1s no scientific definition for what Is called "astral color.** It Is a term used In palmistry and fortune telling, meaning the effect of the color of heavenly bodies on the lives of In* dividual?. Recalled Old Days While excavating In Seattle re cently, workmen uncovered a pipe i?n? of bored flr logs, a reilc of pioneer lays. It was part of the dt7*a Oral water system, laid In 1888.
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