Show I BUTLER ON NAVIES FOR LOVE M MAKING A HOME MOSQUITOES I BIG BIG FROG IN N LITTLE iTTLE POND PONDO I O C w We feel encouraged as we ae begin the new year Ordinarily we rind find it it Impossible to agree ageo with things that I Di Dr Nicholas Murray Butler says t But his latest utterance challenges our attention and commands our re re Dr Butler says he Is surprised sur and amazed at the tendency on tho The part of the United States government to increase naval armaments armaments armaments arm arm- aments when public opinion In this and other countries is so strongly in favor of peace A good many citizens citizen share Dr Butlers Butler's surprise and amazement S Miss Evelyn a young avIatrix of Los Angeles with plans for a flight night from rom New York to toRome toRome toRome Rome Is is suing a California millionaire millionaire millionaire million million- aire for the tidy sum of The young lady claims that the gentleman gentleman gen gen- theman made love to her and promIsed promised prom prom- to marry her She does not say whether or not he did the tho pro pro- posing Be that as It may we can imagine no easier casler way to to finance the preparations for the flight and the program for publicity and no- no s no-s Involved Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford who In private life comprIse comprise com corn prise tho the Fairbanks family are planning a unique hom home on on a cliff beside the sea in southern Call Cali I fornia The home will be built on the very side of a sheer cliff At Atthe Atthe Atthe the bottom one can step from a motOr motor motor mo mo- mo- mo tor boat to the door of the house On the very top will be a garage In between there will be sumptuous quarters It is said that they can do surf fishing from the porch All AIl they will need to make It a real home will be mutual confidence and plain old-fashioned old love and we trust they have those two Ingre ingre- dl ts Without them a palace be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes a Jail and marriage bonds ones one's Jailer Over in Germany at the university university university sity town of ot an express train came to a stop The crew heard the beautiful tones of a brilliant brilliant bril bril- tenor emerging from a compa compartment com corn pa on the train Sh uld they start the train on schedule or should they wait walt for tor the conclusion I of the passage They waited and pulled out of four minutes min mm- utes late We have mental pictures of American trains under the same circumstances a Over in Franco Franca a scientist is said to have succeeded in breeding a aiace arace race of mosquitoes which are very competent when It comes to devouring their stinging breth breth- ren So rapidly are they replacIng II the stinging slInging kin that hope of an era when the stinging mosquito mos mos- quito will be no more Since this is an age when nations engage Inthe in inthe inthe the pastime of exchanging exchanging ing gifts gIrts we would like to suggest that Fraces Frace's next gift to America I be a sized good-sized stable of ot Ing mosquitoes S In Marlborough house where the Prince of Wales spends a good deal of ot his time there Is a dummy library with shelf after shelf shelt o of mock books That may amy sound unique but It We heard the theother other day of an American millionaire millionaire million million- aire alre Who moved into a new home The library contained exactly fifty fifty- two feet of book boole shelves Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- the man placed an order with witha a New York house for two fifty-two feet books It occurs to us that any library not patronized Is a dummy library A little c casual sual conversation her hers and there will vill do wonders In locating the dummy libraries rles In any locality S Dean John H H. Wigmore of the Northwestern university law school advises his students to begin the practice of law In a small town The professor believes there is advantage In being a big frog in ina ina ina a small pond We heartily agree with the learned lawyer The same samo advice can be given with good grace to candidates of numerous other professions such as teaching school practicing medicine and the ministry There is a something to tobe tobe tobe be gained by the dose close contacts of the small town that Is very valuable in after atter life Twenty-five Twenty per cent of the fires In downtown New York Tork are of ot In Incendiary Incendiary in In- origin The custom of knocking on wood dates back to the ancient tree worshipers wor wor- A German Inventor has made a phonograph record that plays an hour A A. flawless emerald is worth more than a a. diamond of ot the same weight Twenty thousand elephants are ale killed every year for their Ivory The biggest building in the world worl is said to be the army warehouse In Brooklyn It It has two fifty acres of floor space Japans Japan's birth rate la is higher than any other nation |