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Show SIGNS OF THE TIMES j , ROLLO. California navtl orange, i2-pf( whota In Cleveland at $12.75 a box. Ar th nm time the prlca In New York City Im 25 a box. Apparently, the farther away from California, Cal-ifornia, the lower tha price. "Thia, Rollo.' commented Vnele Oeorne. "proves that tranaitortatlnn Ik tha cause of the h.fh cost of living." COAL. Coal Is the most Inefficient of the great Industries. Seasonal buying not enough miners part of the time, too many miners the rest of the time. Twlr a many mines as are needed. With a 10fH) years' auppty underground and enrlly available, yet shortage follows fol-lows shortage. I'roflta rarely are nor-wia.1 nor-wia.1 tx a feaat ar a fam.n. (tut of i each 4ou pounds of coal mined, only 7 Ipotmri are actually converted Into heat I energy the ta waate. The oil Industry was much tha Umi I wav until John I. came along Coi. aim needs an organising gentua. He will come. SENSIBLE. The short akirt apparently is doomed. I.enng skirts sweep the Has tern cities alro the filthy aldewalks. Women. In the change of styles, should keep tha sidewalk angle In mind. A skirt that drags on the ground collects and carries a thousand ilma more germs than all the fllea and mosquitoes combined. com-bined. Women know this, yet long trains probably prob-ably are scheduled for a few years hence. The rhort sktrt was an extreme style, and the pendulum will awing to the other extreme. "I." Tou hsve noticed how a lor of the news from Europe Is cluttered up wltb details about the corresponilnts' personal per-sonal difficulties, particularly in get-ting get-ting the news. "Todsy 1 had an Interview etc Hill Nye uaed to ssy: "Ths only people peo-ple entitled to refer to themselves as we' are an editor and a feMow with a tapeworm." Maybe the foreign corre-spondents' corre-spondents' use of "I" lnstesd of "we" Is s ptecsutlonsry measure against any universal uni-versal knowledge of Hill Nye. FARMERS. The Income of the American farmei In June was able lo buy only 72 per cent as much ss In IMS, reports ths department of agriculture. Meaning that the farmer's bulng power Is a fourth less thsn before the war. I ntll the gp is brtriged, tha eschsnge of products between farm snd city cannot can-not be normal, unless th farmer spends more thsn he mekes. To get a perfect balance, farm price must rie or city prices fall to Ihe farmer's farm-er's present level. Which? So on knows. HAKIMS. Arhmed Abdullah, fiction wrtfer. back from th Orient, saya the harem queens bosa their cooperative auahsnrts more thaa Friend Husband la reputed to to the mark in America. Home women alwaya become the power behind the throne, rgardlee or environment. The atronger or the wiser personality usually rules In marriage no matter which sex. Leadership generally ia by letting the partner have hie ta her way in a great many small things, but not la big matters. It sll gets Lack to the old time saying say-ing that marriage is a system of cosa-promia cosa-promia "giv and taka" |