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Mr tur r may of the Ni more ii.m on l l.o IMM lhat l. lum.ii.iunu rail I ft)' fir g by Iho ti ir of California rq-rI. an r.lhn g u InUirnlli'll or o; I o.IJiiii or almiltlnj openly, a )ct i)..i liilito In fore (lit vote si s- - tii.iily caM orator In the S r i iii iloi loon of iln ijobb fcliltO Mill 1(1 C.lt tiloUlltg H it t from llio housetop. 1 a ri nil, over hi ln.lnj 110, c of K.nrlair may Jnt I' ,it Itm I o'lunoral kiip strung of enough majority In ll.e huii to malt sure Hint I.i Now Jkal I supplied Hh Iho lu"i itiilloii of Appropriation hex! kln'cr, mil null tlio now owon lint may decide In-;- ', ri'j.ii-iiiiai- ii Ire-ldi-- to lunik, 7 he Democrat how have rim on nij il,o llo publicans rniio, A sweep by Elm rlalr might mean that Instead of at Iraki lire koala, an nmol dji-lr- r mi I In' house had figured, the or might i i k up llirm mum A sweeping ilofnit for Sinclair, on Ih citlirr hand, might moan the of any given part of the elm on Ireawcrutle aoaia now held, In all of thorn being admllted'y kome danger, except that bold by (.larenc F. I,ea. The Importance of tlila part of the picture lira In the conthlcnre of conservative Itcpublican le.iderg tliat If they can reduce the plurality over the Republic-anIn the buue from 2nd to Odor, In uliort. If the Iteimhllcana can gain 7d acuta, thry can defeat all the more radical appropriation and all the more radical new pro;MsaI of the administration. Rut the really luipnrtnnt phase fur transcends even the change of ten seats In the house. It will be a sign post aa to how the country la leaning, the significance of which cannot be exaggerated. Consider, for example, wb"t the defeat of Sin. clalr'a victory In November would be on those sympathetic with the purpose of the New American l.lb. erty league, A victory by auch forthright Socialist aa Sinclair In state so rich and prosperous aa California would frighten the fol ktwera of Jiui Wadsworth, the du Ionts, and John W. Pavla to death. It would drive them, literally, to the more conservative Roosevelt for protection. n'.iii from California, io rnr-rvln- g rhn tomo-cratl- c a Effect on Congress In short. It would destroy the only serious threat at Itoosevell'a pre. dominance, and the only menace to the New Deal, and probably would drive Roosevelt, bowing to the storm, a little farther to the Left than he had Intended going. Its effect on every member of the new congress elected, no matter by what party, would he so marked that It would be difficult to round up corporals guard to vote against the most radical proposals the President may advance In the next year. Also It would change the apparent lining up now going on looking toward the next Presidential election. It might easily mean that there would be no Republican candidate certainly not In the old sense of Republican. On the other hand, a sweeping victory for Governor Merrlnm, conservative, would place a tight check rein on the New Deal. It would tend to force very conservative votes in the next house, not only because of Its actual effect In changing California representatives, but because of Its moral effect. It would probably drive Roosevelt much further toward the Right than he now Intends going. And It would mean, for almost a certainty the nomination against him in 1936 of a comparatively conservative Republican. Incidentally, the administration Is far more concerned about It than appears on the surface or In any of the news dispatches. The mere fact that the President devoted most of his farewell talk to Washington newspaper men Just prior to going to Hyde Park Is the best Instance of that. Those who have studied the Presidents handling of the press know that he does not Just happen to talk for fifteen minutes on any given subject Quiescent Investors The possibility that the new orJouett by ganization managed Shouse and sponsored by Alfred E. Smith, .Tames W. Wadsworth, John W. Davis and the du Fonts will develop an Investors bloc" Is in a way the most Interesting phase of the movement Such a bloc has never before existed In this country. Despite all the constant reiteration of the New Dealers now and the Progressives of a few years ago, and the radicals before that, about the Interests," the fact Is that tho Investors In this country have never been very vocal In our politics. Certain large specific organizations, yes. Certain groups as, for example, the National Association of for Manufacturers, higher tariff protection, surely. But the average holder of a dozen shares or a few hundred shares of stock, or, for that matter, many holders of thousaada of shares, Story a 1 euioernt la Ih hull of r, pre ( m a! lie. II o hs;-enethat during id term U.a I b Iuiuuiink .i railroad bill pkikej, hi hh.lli link a lull IwU 1utlt-k,-- rtCJIMaw Xiiu-lnl- r True Detective - National Capital Dy CARTER itaii Chinch Bugs and Produce Buy Fair Tickets never I vt organD-rla e tUI their Intern! here pr4r. ted. hi.e Je.tr (d i fhh.-k- t d'ktr,.1 tu ih tuied thru a Ih Eeventeei.lh d. trill of Nr On HEARD SEEN"' round tho ASirniCAS. Umax. by Veece Wyeit C Pantlk ThreeAsian Cities L4ikr c1 i,l la)e,r of uor d.reil ly interest to every hold, r f rs irusd and fund than thl. N.r kk there a n.-- rut In the third Mates so snd ten di tunny ra.lroad Hero held Sk In Ih Kevelieeuia Nt- York, during t!, con: deration of till Pel, Measure, Reprcwl.Wtll did Out receive on anbury letter from any of I. i thousand of big and ten of thousands of tmsll lie vvtlur In railroad keeurlue! Rut hen tom picayune niejuir affecting Anri: a ram o hr n deluged lib letter. Th floruit bad an organization, and a vital lnlemt. 1h security holder figured th out I attend to railroad executive th protdem for them. Or they did DM git II a thought, At any rat they didnt write. That Is where th new organ! ration may rum In. If every tock holder In piddle utilities, for example, let hi eutigrciotuian know what he thought almut any mrasnr which rame up affecting the utilities the mult might be very surprising Indeed. The Bed That Was Not Occupied )rar SOME officer k!ki f stl j p a Wage Rate Dispute Comparatively high wage rates paid on the Bonneville navigation and power project In Washington, of which army engineers are In charge, Is the Immediate cause of dispute regarding rates on the projects of the reclamation service. Because Grand Coulee also Is a power project, labor contends that the farmers ability to pay Is not a limiting factor. Created by President Roosevelt prior to his departure for Hawaii, to reconcile any conflicts of Jurisdiction or policy among New Deal agencies, the emergency Industrial committee, composed of Donald R. Uiehberg, Secretary Perkins, General Johnson, et al, has tackled the wage question that has stymied the reclamation service at the very time when activity would have had a profound effect on morale In the drouth area. While this Immediate Issue Is unsettled, the Importance of irrigation, of storing water to mitigate the hazard of dependency on rain. Is looming large In the administrations policy. It was stressed by the President during his trip back across the country. In fact, It Is expected that a new economic study of the drouth region, to relate future power and Irrigation developments to the best ultimate use of the available water supply, will shortly be announced. Obviously many existing projects are the result of pressure brought individual-withoby states and localities reference to developments elsewhere. Such Individualistic promotions, it Is Insisted, have resulted In a controversial muddle regarding water rights, which may lead to legislation by congress next winter defining the respective rights of the state and federal governments. Streams such as the Platte flow across state lines. Every year there Is a shortage, which results In contrast feuds between Wyoming farmers and Nebraska farmers So It Is with most downstream. streams. A national, comprehensive policy, with sound planning. Is needed for the whole picture, but meanwhile lack of labor policy defeats employment alms on big go eminent projects. 0prrlht WNU Surto ' ' , ; It Rqr ; cm Ih Kt Iaiui polo I tryforce was murdered ing lo arreet a burglar. 11 sa very popular among hi an almost i.K-iiiand there unlrenwl desire to And th uis a nho had fonimltted (lie deed nd to give Him th full penalty of Um law, to get a But th difficulty clu upon which to hinge their V c id At a time when, because of th drouth. Irrigation termed the most desirable thing In the world In the arid West, work hut been held up on several of the moat Important has Irrigation projects. The nothing to do with the appareut conflict tietw .m plowing crops undef by direction of one branch of the government while another branch Is attempting to reclaim arid land. It concerns labor problems. It has really been due to tack of a definite policy on wage rate. Public Works administration requirements apply, with an exception permitting 40 Instead of 30 hour a week, but PWA rates are only minimum for two broad classifications, common and skilled, and Ignore Intermediate grades Rates demanded by union labor on projects of the reclamation bureau probably would Increase the . This means a labor cost greater outlay by PWA, aa original estimates were based on rates customarily paid by the reclamation service, and consequently the risk In collecting on farmers notes to pay for the Job was Increased. Because jurisdiction In any conflict regarding wage rates rests with the PWA labor board of review, a proposal that specific wage rates he written into all advertisements for bids lias not been favorably regarded by Administrator Ickes, with the result that the letting of contracts or advertisement for bids has been held up on the Grand Coulee power dam on the Columbia river, the huge Casper-AlcovIrrigation project on the Platte, and additional construction on the Owyhee project In Oregon and Idaho, Milk river in Montana, Ogden river In Utah, and Uncotnpnhgre In Colorado, and many others. at ' lio h.-r- e Slow Irrisatton Work Y Fi rm in ndr.i.-ple the W i rid e fair. Two quart of the er Mini a!o I'krm product of i- that ch.mh -i 11 H'-- bug were ai',-- 1 '! received al the gvie. a k at good for aoiovlhliig during Farm the price of adinUkioO ticket for eight Statue Found in Scotland Stone-Ag- e Ing flint) for (he fashioning of tool Relic Superior to Figurine of Continent and of Kblch he had an extensive k!L In Keotlnnd emit Cfly diftereu! tvpei of Implements have been notcii I have found this year In non glacial area In southern Europe and tool Identical with areiqton those front Scotland and made from mitiv rock. I have brought to London ionte St) rperlmen from Italy, th Italertr Islands, and Morocco. Both th Scottish and Italian artifucl conform precisely to tlir newly elucidated trale of linear measured, of which many gauges have lieen found recently In both territories. . Benutlful considering that It waa sculptured IKMXM jear ago, la female lnto of the Stone Age unearthed In Scot land. Not to speak of other relhi brought to light during the Init five year, this latest find disprove, according to Professor l.iidmlc Mann, president of the Glasgow Archaeological ooctely, the conventional dictum of textbook that (be bank and braes knew nothing of Paleolithic man because he as excluded from the terrtlory by smothering Ice sheet. Writing In the Daily Telegraph of London about the discovery, blch was made In a deep seated ancient gravel bed In the Kelvin val ley, seven miles east of Glasgow, Professor Mann says the torso la one ol the most remnrkuhle relics of the older stone age and Is more elegantly fashioned than the female figurines found Ir. the Paleolithic It rock shelters on the Continent Is well proportioned and skillfully cut out of a large, hard reddish-broniiehhle of igneous rock. Fertility Goddess, Perhaps. it Is thought to be a represents tlon of some goddess, perhaps the Mother Divinity ot Fertility. The arms, hands and even fingers are accurately portrayed and are laid across the chest, v hlle the waist recalls thut of the Venus de Milo. The valley gravels have been the scene of research work during the last five years by a body of he continues Scots prehistorians, They have beeD richly rewarded, as the beds have yielded many anand cient relics, all water-worsuch as fragoften ments of mammoth tusks and rhinoceros bones and teeth. The thigh bone of a young rhino has been recovered, skillfully carved Into shape for use as a smoothing tool. It strengthens the evidence of the Joint presence at a remote period of man and the great mammalia In North Britain. Moreover, scores of finely outlined symmetrically fashioned stone Implements have also been found In the same deposit They are made of native Scottish rock material and none Is of flint, which is so rare In Scotland. Period of the Relics. Ulnugow, Foot hind. SUmt-lls- Find $1,015 Nufget Grant Pass, (ire Robert Burns, Uklulumia oil driller who turned Oregon miner, found In his sluice box whal was said to be the largest gold nugget ever found In tills atate. It weighed 34 ounce and was worth $1,015. All the relics belong to the old- the stage. Many students now believe that northern areas, such as Scotland and Scandinavia, were inhabited by Paleolithic man In no scanty numbers during numerous interglacial epochs which Intervened between the glacial periods. It Is also believed that he used wttlitu these areas the native rocks and pebbles (exclud- - Talked with a young man whose profession Is denoted by a green He's a gigolo. Makes carnation. bis living by dancing. Not a bad living at that. His earnings run about $50 a week. Tips are his bread and butter. Has no troubles with New Yorkers. They are accustomed to tipping. But not all New Yorkers are accustomed to tipping gigolos. So they don't know how much to pay. Thut often results to the advantage of the gigolo. Being In doubt, the New Yorker tips twice as much as he thinks Is right. Out of towuere are different. They are really bashful about tipping a young man They polite, offer to buy drinks Instead. Gigolos dont drink. It Interferes with business. So they turn down even champagne. That makes It tough. And they dont get the tip. That makes It more tough. On the other hand, many out of towners fold up a bill and hand It to the gigolo In the form of a handshake. good-lookin- light-foote- d Gigolos are lnvesttgateu carefully before they are employed. Their records have to be clean. Also they have to have personality, tact, poise and Intelligence all this of course being quoted from the conversation vitb the young man with the green In addition, they have carnation. LONGEST SICK CALL Replacement of Cable Is Boivt Engineering Feat City, Nev. One of the unsung exploits In the construction of the gigantic Hoover dam Is the replacement of the huge cables stretching across the dam site. The cables are used to convey men, concrete and other materials in building Uncle Sams most ambitious water and power project. It Is necessary to stop all operations for 48 hours to replace the cables. Wound on huge spools, the cables, each weighing 55,000 pounds, are placed near the head tower of the cableway and one end Is strung to and through the top of the tower. The new cable Is dragged across the canyon and fastened to the old steel rope. After the new cable Is secured by supports which also hold the old cable the used steel rope Is hauled away. Each cable Is 2,500 feet In length and costs approiately $10,000. IJJUO-foo- t Mo. A hole drilled here 50 year ago by citizen hoping to strike coal la fur- ashlngtun with water nishing lme the hot weather dried up stream and springs. The deep bole, uncovered by an old time resident, who remembered It had Ailed op with water before being cemented fumlshea enough water for almost the whole town. YS BottonTea Party Pitcher I a Family Souvenir Kan. A imall glazed pitcher, taken during the Bits ton tea party a a souvenir, Is owned by George Welghtman. Welghtmnna mothers aunt received It from her sweetheart, who participated la the raid. It has been banded down from generation to generation to tha female member of the family named Anna," the original owner name. Parson, Bad for Jack Rabbits Burns, Ore. Harney county stockmeD hope a party of archery enthusiasts will come again. Five men with bows and arrows shot 22 jack rabbits In the afternoon. way-war- at night n er stone age and some date from Coal Hole Furnishes Water Supply for City It i learned that a number of men had been seen In th , colored hotel where Ih off, t Idnlty of the icer shot, bol there a nothing to connect them with tho crime. Ctdef of Police Smith determined to comb Ih city In order to local lh known colored criminal. Th Job was well done, but U did not bring very practical result. Just about that tlnia the chief learned that on of th mea who bad been een loitering In Ih vicinity of (Ordinal street on th night of th murder bad been sent to th Missouri reformatory a week later on aom minor charge. II railed upon the mother of th suspect and questioned her regarding bis movement for tha previous month. d She admitted that b wa but waa positive that b could not bav been the murderer of Policeman Roy re. She wa cross examined, and a a result of that It was found that Frank YY'hlle for that wa bis name had not slept at home on tha night of March 81. Tbla waa extremely Important because that waa tho night tha officer was shot In addition to ascertaining Ibis bit of Information, the chief of police also came away with a bunch of pawn tickets, one of them called for a revolver. Th officer called on the pawnbroker and obtained the weapon. It wa taken to headquarter, and It wa found to be the rallber revolver with which Policeman Boyce had been shot. The proof of this wn discovered by mean of the bullet that had been taken from the wound. Thus armed, the chitf of police was In a position to confront the suspected man. He took the train for BoonvIUe and arrived at the reformatory late In order to make doubly sure be took the mother of YY'hlte with him. The superintendent was perfectly willing to have YYhlte Interviewed, but thought It might be postponed until the next morning. Chief Smith did not agree with him. to have endurance. Not all of the On the contrary, he said there dear sex who like to dance are good were several reasons why the meetIn It. case at of trodden toes, the ing should lake place that night gigolo smiles and apologizes and One of them was that the sushopes that the tip will be large pect would be confronted unexpectenough to Justify his stoicism. Gigoand without opportunity of los dance only with ladies when edly an alibi. their escorts make the request. The manufacturing He was roused from a solid slumreason Is that some escorts forget ber and brought Into the waiting that gigolos are merely paid danc- room. ing men. Many men are timid about By previous arrangement the But their making the request. In an adwives or the wives they happen to mother had been placed room. be with are good at making sugges- joining YYhite was surprised when tions. So the gigolos keep busy. by the detective hut he It doesn't do anyone any good to was also defiant He positively denied all knowlask a gigolo his name. He will give one. But It Is merely one be has edge of the Boyce murder and said He Is even less frank that he was sleepy and wanted to adopted. about himself. The rules make him go back to bed. Where did you spend the night Just a gigolo, and hes content. Sometimes It takes a lot of finesse 'of March 31? asked Chief Smith to retain information and not give suddenly. "At home In my bed Just where offense. YYomen are the most persistent questioners. But the gigolo I should have spent It." But you did not sleep at home tries merely to Impress his number on his partner If she Is a good that night, replied the detective In dancer or If her escort Is a good his most positive manner. How do vou know that?" he tipper. asked, half tauntingly. For reply his Inquisitor opened a Getting back to tips. They run from a half dollar up. The biggest little window In the room and tip my Informant ever got was $10. pointed to an adjoining apartment, That was for dancing almost all where sat the mother of the acevening with the young wife of an cused man. Her unexpected presence shook elderly man. He had heard of another gigolo who was paid $25 his nerve. What had she said to the police? every night by a husband. The husHow much of the truth had she band likes to dance. But he has revealed ? foot trouble. He was troubled and In the end Leaving gigolos and taking up admitted that his bed had not been newspaper men. The wife of an as- occupied that night. A minute later, when confronted sistant city editor continually Impressed on her two daughters that by the revolver which had been retrieved from the pawnshop, he they were never to marry newspaper men. The husband arrived home broke down and confessed that he one evening to find his wife all had killed Officer Boyce. WNU Service. smiles. One of the daughters had been notified that she was to edit Mother at Seven the school paper next term. The A ease of a child born to a seven husband didnt share her enthusiasm. girl, reported by Dr. HilTaking the child aside, he year-oltold her that she was to learn to da Keane of Victoria Zenana hosand catch files. pital, Delhi, Is mentioned In the stop grounders This family doesn't need any more British Medical Journal. An unnewspaper workers, he continued. married Mohammedan girl was adWhat It needs Is a good second mitted to hospital on March 18, And his wife lit on him 1932, baseman. say Doctor Keane. Her for not considering the welfare of age, as given by her father, was his children seven. Her general development waa good, and she had fair IntelliWhich reminds me of Chet Sha- gence. Her height was only 3 feet fer, head of the former pipe organ 11 Inches, and her weight only 48 pumpers guild, who after some time pounds. She still had her milk among the Seven Million, has re- teeth. A living female child was turned to Three Rivers, Mich., to bora weighing 4 pounds 3 ounces. write and prepare for the fall sau- Beyond suffering from fright for sage season. Finding himself with the first three days, the mother a surplus of $10.50, he went out and made a perfect recovery and was bought one of those able to nurse her child for nine d fire engines some months. thing be had wanted all bis life. 6. Bell ByodlcAte. WNU Bervic d Dr. Francis D. Goman of Johns Hopkins, has departed to the actual end of the world on the long est sick call" In history. He Is bound for Little America. There at Commander Byrd's base camp be will administer to 50 men who are suffering from dysentery. nlckle-plate- i- 1 ! Hs - ft t - 'I w -- A U A I f r " V ' ) , vrl ... 4 i I Milking a Rubber Trt Nar w?. Singapore, their meeting place la doubly steMJ tfwfVtMk U ered. TH Indian mint cities of that finds still a mystical third re aeon for boll bav figured prominently In It la believed by lb pilgrims former England alia net; that th EarasnaU, a river which Is on th routs of tha swallowed flights will b up by tha nods southrace which will west of runjab, emerges al th take place In October. They are junction point of tha Jumna and Baghdad, Allahabad and Singapore. Gage. Baghdad la near th Persian fronBoth the Cange and tha Jumna tier, bard by the traditional alts of era streams, heavily old Eden, mans birthplace. Here on laden with ilt At to water la the ciMlc soil of Bah) Ion, Nineveh, 1st winter a large expanse of dusty and Opis once flourished the pick of wind la below the Allah ! exposed the human race; here was tha cen- bad fort which stands on the blofT ter of the worlds wealth, power, overlooking the confluence. It la onr And back to this and civilization. this beach that tha millions of pll-- 1 ancient region modern men are turnassembled recently. grim It lost areas, open ing, to reclaim Indian pollc bava their The It mine and oil deposit to rehands full during tha great ro-- , store the Garden of Eden I Itglous fair, or Knmbb Mela. All From the deck of a Tigris steamare excluded from the vehicle er Baghdad looms np boldly, Its river plain, and all efforts concensplendid skyline of domes and minon maintaining order among aret reminding one of some "mid- trated tho multitude of men, women and YVorlda of Aa fair way" memory. children that move about In tho odd pontoon bridge counects the two dust slip on the wet elsy near the parts of the city, separated by the stream banka, and attain merit by On the west bank yellow Tigris. In the mnrky waters. Is the old town, enclosed by date bathing A torrid snn beats down, nnd to and orange groves. From here the new Baghdad Mosul railway starts screen Its raya little shelter of on Its lorg run across the trackless rushes have been erected on tb desert East of the river, on the sands. Under these sit all manner Persian side. Is "new Baghdad; ot people wearing a minimum of with Its government offices, bar- clothing. Among them are holy men, their bodies smeared with gray racks, consulates, prisons, etc. coats of ashes Croups of Idols are Beyond, as far as the eye ean set op that the faithful may conreach In every direction, stretches the vast flat treeless, empty plain tribute coins Among the crowd1 men carrying waterskins sprinof Mesopotamia a region once go kling the water In an effort to lay more populous than Belgium. To go native one must paddle the dust that minions of bare feet t ashore from the steamer In a stir up. The Kumbh Mela Is a mecca for "goorah, a queer, coraclelike craft and the principal tn use here since Jonah's day. A moneymakers d goofah Is woven from willows about thoroughfare Is lined with 6 feet In diameter, Is perfectly cirshops for tha sale of sacrificial , cular anil nnd Is brassware, tiny brass Idols, holy bercoated outside with bitumen, gome ries made Into dark necklaces and say Moses was cut adrift In one of shining brass bottles zoned wltb mellow-tintethese goofahs. copper, in which holy Another strange craft at Baghdad water ean be taken to remote part Is the kelck, a Kurdish Invention. of India by credulous people: Her The ketek Is a raft made of In- and there one finds tnen with small flated goatskins, held together by furnaces foil of heated pitch, sealpoles and covered with a platform ing the water vessels so that not of straw mats. These keleks come an atom of holiness can escape. down to the city In hundreds, from Allahabad Is old. In ' the enMosul, bringing wool, grain and closure of the fort Is a pillar erectskins. ed to Asoka, the great Buddhist Not tha Baghdad of All Baba. king, during the Third century, R. 0. It may have been moved to the A great wall encircles Baghdad. huddled Moorish houses, spot taken, however, so It is not conmany almost windowless and each clusive evidence that a town existed on the site of Allahabad dursurrounding Its own open epurt, are reign. The first town a distinct feature of the older parts ing Asoka of the city. On these flut roofs known to history on this site was Arabs spend the summer nights with Prayag, about which a Chinese and traveler wrote in 1700 A. D. The Hln. flutes, water-pipedus still call the town Prayag, the dancing women. Facing the river, removed from the Arab town, are place of sacrifice. It received the n ie by which It Is now known to built the Imposing foreign consulates, mercantile offices, and the the world from Its Mohammedan sumptuous homes of rich Jews, Ar- conquerors In 1575. menians, Greeks and Syrians, the t Singapore a Great Free Port men who made New Baghdad. Is an Island 27 mile Singapore But the Baghdad of All Babas long by 14 wide and Just misses beday, with the splendor of Aladdin's the southernmost point of the enchanted age, Is gone forever. The ing continent of Asia by a half mile the and minarets palaces, mosques, water channel. It Is at the funnel are mostly In ruins. Even the tomb of the Strait of Malacca which point of lovely Lady Zobeldo, favorite extends between the Malay penln-- ' wife of Is tumsula and the Island of Snnmtra, the bled down and decaying. It Is Into water highroad between India modern monuments to New Baghdad great Into roads, bridges, public build- and China. Little more than a hundred years ings, Irrigation works, army organago the Island, owned by the sulization, dredging the Tigris, etc. that the prominent citizens put their tan of Johore on the nearby mainland, was a deserted jungle save for money. Modern Baghdad Is In safe hands a little fishing village. Ships In the now; no dissipated royalty guards China trade passed it by as they Its gates. Sober, men, passed many another Jungle shore;( the only ports of call In that region drilled In the best schools of modern Europe, able to hold their own of the world were those of the anywhere, administer Its affairs. As Dutch Islands of Sumatra and Java.' late as 1830 the Tigris overflowed its But these ports took a big toll In banks, swept through Baghdad, and fees, and Sir Stamford Raffles, an drowned 15,000 people In one night. official of the East India company,' began to dream of a free British Allahabad Attracts Millions. port that would facilitate trade. Normally, Allahabad, India, Is a In 1819 he obtained the seemingly city of 175,000 people. It lies In worthless Island of Singapore for the region betvseen the his company for a small fee. DeJumna and Ganges rivers, at the velopments soon proved him meeting place of the two streams. prophet, for within two years the It is this location that draws huge little trading center he established, crowds to the town annually; and, had a population of 10.000. It was at twelve-yea- r 1822 before the British government Intervals, tremendous hordes. Both the Jumna and consented to take tu Interest la ; the Ganges are sacred streams and the placfe ! National Otffftph'F 4itUCUtk, rrHREB I Aa LoDdiin-Melhour- coffee-colore- d a-- mat-she- basket-shaped- d Flnt-roofc- tom-tom- i Uarun-al-Rashi- clear-heade- d |