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Show v I Observations 1 " ' ; y ALBERT APPLL " FIARI Nearly 11.900. 000. 0 worth of new life Insurance policies were taken out by Americana In the first six months of the year. Thla le partly fear that one's dependente will be unprovided for In event ef the bredd winner's unexpected death. It la also a matter mat-ter of thrift, and a hlfhly senelblo ene. for life Insurance seeme to be the only way the average soaa can slants, slan-ts, to eave enough. , You bet then you'll die before they think you will, if unlucky, you win or, rather, your heire do. Life Insurance In-surance la the moat unselfish of all our many venturea. It Is scientific civilisation In its highest degree. How much do you carry! alnoagh? rtYINO. ' ' ; Airplane travel la getting to be a reasonably sate venture, according to the viewpoint of eome leading tneur-snce tneur-snce officials. Frederick K Allen of Mutuel Ufe eaya a profeeslonal aviator avia-tor etlll le regarded as an extra baa-ardoua baa-ardoua risk, but g policyholder no longer Jeopardlsee his protection by traveling over an eetabliehed air route In an airplane piloted by a competent frofesalonal. As a matter of fact, he average' person is safer in an airplane than la a canoe or oa a high, alanted ladder. , CONSOLATION. After all. a low price for wheat doea not pinch the farmer aa much aa a crop failure. Two bushele of wheat at SI a buehet are practically equivalent to ene buehel at 2. Vt'het the. fanner wanta Is a bumper crop and a record price. Tbat'e human nature, the reet of us havs the eame hankering. Cheer Pp. f-r-m.re, wheat prlcea eventually egulate all ether prices, socordlng to some of the most sole eeonomlets. If the law of many centurlea works out aa la the past, the city man can get a picture of what he la headed for later by contemplating con-templating the farmer'a predicament In lut. ' ' . r , pfticca. ; Tba tendency of prices of commodities com-modities will In the long run continue con-tinue to be toward the prewar level, and that level may be reeetabUshed In the not very remote future. Thte la the published view of the flwles Bank corporation, whoss predletlone fore aoma yeara hav been, almost clairvoyant It claime that high price hav been and are due to Inadequate world pro-ductloa. pro-ductloa. which Is slowly being reme-died. reme-died. Europe's production. Tt estimates, esti-mates, etui la a fourth welow nor. mat . " ' CHICKENS. . " It take foar chickens ta furnish eggs for seek American. Uncle Ham's count ehoa-e 42ft.eod.0u chickens In the United Statee. They furnish ue with the ears ws seed aad aa additional addi-tional eoe.etxi.eo a year for export which latter Is shout three-fifths off-; set by the eggs we Import from China I and elsewhere. Talking about wasted effort what do you think of the proposition prop-osition of importing tou.ooe.eos r.cm a yesr snd oanoerlng the transaction by snipping back an equivalent amount? LociclaMy our experte should be 200,-tmi.M 200,-tmi.M eggs, with no Un sorts. . . PAPA. He's the father of his forty-firth child at ths sgs of IS Rcmulu Deiel of fitaiiton. Cal Ma haa been married four tlmee. When you want to atop aa argument argu-ment about politics, or the foreign situation. JuA m-ntioa the ease of Roraulu Del.l. Vho started the notion no-tion that American 4aae Ue to se-noualrt se-noualrt . , . 1 - |