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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. irTAII ENCLAND'S INNS ARE CHARMING and a general air of ttdinras along arith uuoliirunta but icrjr convincing cheerful, aolld comfort. Nor all! U every It ewca; you that th.-rwhere etldt-n- t an attitude of fur tha Inb'a past, a silent tribute, a It acre, to the chamfer lb place baa acquired through In long and Useful Ilf a a haven of hospitality, What may you la iurprl the unaa.umlng excellence of tha appointment quite commonly en countered. Arnln and again you will find furniture that auu.d bring high price In antique simp. The landlords would aiot the very Idea of wiling any of It; every piece la regarded a a treasured poaiMMulon of tbo Inn. It I always pleasant to eat at a fine old mahogany table or to alt on superb llcpptrwhtlo or Sheratun chair, and to know that all tha aucceailon of guest tbo game pleasure. Good Picture and S'lvtr. You will find good picture on the walla Rowlandsons, Morlanda, and a variety of print that collector eegerly covet You will find good liter on the table and good knives that wlU really cut In Some place you will Pave your ale In silver cans, and In the dining room of the Globe, at King's Lynn, there la a great cupboard full of old silver belonging lo the house. Once this silver waa regularly used on the caretable. Now (lie cupboard fully locked and guests may feast their eyes on the treasure through the glim door, but must content themselves with eating from plate of more recent date. And the story of the locking la a sad comment on the covetousness of ome visitor. Aside from all the antique pleo lulling of ordinary occurrence, you will find some quaint survival to remind you of long bygone t'sngea. For one thing, as like a not y hi will see In the hull of an old coaching Inn glazed showcase, set In mahogany framework, hanging on the walk This was meant to hold s display of cold meats, game pie, cheese, and pastries for the Inspection of passenger on the fast mall coaches, who topMHl for a hasty meal while the horse were being changed and the driver refreshed with food and e reiet Old lloilrlrifi SfattrrcJ All Over Ute Country fimnl bf NftltttMl ii. U . ?U lo England Mill year the old English ht It sign out It continue distinctly "going con conn" Of tht fact many a Had LI oo or Green Dragon bear plain Witness bf Ita record of active dating bark for hundred of fairs without a break. Should on Imagine U at all a moribund affair la IU la at bloom, highly picturesque but fated auoa to diasppeer atony with other landmark of antiquity, h la (reatly mistaken. Neither 1 It holding oo merely by rlrtu of acquired Impetus, a ha might possibly fancy. Tbo old Inn I a eery Ur log factor Indeed In the schema of modern Attracted by Ita Ineffable charm, tbouaauda habitually resort thither for lodging or refreshment, end most Innkeeper are fully awaro Of the eubstantlal adeanlsgt they derive by preserving In their premises all tha essential of indent Character. Now and thea It htppei-that an old hostelry teem to be altogether ona of those Idyllic survival from a bygone day, so Invested by a mysterious, elusive balo of romance, and to bidden In tome corner that ono can come upon It only by the barest lucky chance a thing a hose discovery you must ever afterward cherish In the lavender and rose petals of memory as oo experience too rare to befall one mortal twice In a lifetime. But, a 0 matter of actual fact, old Inna are dotted over the whole length and breadth of England. Moat of the Swans and Mermaids, the Mitre, White Hurt, and Crowns, are not concealed In remote place, far off the beaten lines of travel, an that they have to be made the objects of special visit to be seen. No particularly keen Bight I required to discover them. Plenty of Inne Everywhere. Besides all the old Inns you cannot help discovering on the main roada end In Hie town, there are those Others, of course, on lonely heaths or fronting peaceful village green There are likewise modest "ordinaries" by the brinks of the little rivers where the disciples of Izank Walton love to lodge. And there are Inns at bridge ends or where roads meet, to say nothing of seaside Inns whose windows look out to sea or command busy harbor view. In short, there are plenty of them of all kinds to offer an admirable Inn at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Bold for the collectors. And a more a rehearsal of the latest local gosfascinating holiday hobby than collecting old Inns It would be hard to sip. At a glance, they could see the choice of fare awaiting them, Imagine. Time nw.d again at an Inn you give their orders while divesting wlU ebance upon a bit of history or themselves of tlielr coats and wraps, and find their food ready on the table romance and find the local associations with some famous personage In the dining room the Instant they sat down. The quick luncheon counproudly trensured by the country folk. Think, for Instance, of drop- ter of today could have rendered no more expeditious service. ping Into Dick Turpin's birthplace, the Itose and Crown, In the Essex Literary Shrines. Think of hamlet of Ilampsteadl Should you choose to visit Saffron drinking a toast on the spot to the Walden and put up at the Rose and memory of that doughty knight of Crown, you will be reminded that, the road I His father was the almost beyond doubt, Shakespeare Hampstead publican of that day, stayed there when he visited the and the people thereabout all knew town with his company of players In Dick's story and can point out to 1(107. Though the Inn was refrontyou bis cockpit, now marked by a ed with brick In 1690 and "new ring of trees, Just across the way. sashed and beautified In the year Whether ydu purposely make a 1748," and has undergone sundry pilgrimage to the old Inns, or other alterations In the course of the whether yon casually seek their shel- centuries, much of the original Tuter, bear In mind that they are nei- dor work remains as It was when nor Blltmores. ther Shakespeare knew IL Put aside for a little while your acThe Rose and Crown Is by way of customed notions of Twentieth cen- being a literary shrine on another willand Be splendor. tury luxury count, too. Himself a poet and the ing to take things as you find them. associate of literary men, young WilFor a day or two, forget about the liam Holgate, the son of the Rose regiment of uniformed pages you and Crowns landlord, seems on the credible evidence to have been the generally see in establishments hall porters, the bedside telephones, Mr. W. H." to whom mysterious and all the array of patent electric Shakespeare dedicated his Sonnets. gadgets that can be switched on and Time and again you will find youroff at will. self dining and sleeping at the same Pass Up the Luxuries. Inn where some famous historical perAll or some of these adjuncts you sonage has stayed ; perhaps the very may be surprised to meet with In same room may fall to your lot In more than one old Inn where you the George at Buckden, Huntingdonwould least expect to find them ; but shire, for example, you may be If you find none of them, It will do given the room where Queen Vicyou no harm to walk upstairs In- toria slept as a girl, when, her carstead of beiDg taken up In a lift, or riage having broken down on the to go to bed by the light of a candle road, she had to spend the night at Instead of the glare of a this hostelry. The Inn people will . power electric bulb. probably ask you to be careful not What you are always certain to to disarrange anything In this sancfind in all of these old ordinaries tum, for they pride themselves on will be comfort of a really homely, keeping the room exactly as It was substantial kind, scrupulous clean- when Its royal occupant slept In the liness, genuine courtesy, from mine mahogany host down to boots," and unfeigned It Is somewhat more stimulating hospitality whose character none to the Imagination to sit In the of the White Horse at Eaton could mistake. Not least In adding Its share to your enjoyment will be Socon and picture Dick Turpin comthat baffling atmosphere that per- ing In and calling for a pot of ale vades well-kehostelries of long or a hot toddy. But both the repute. If you are at all sensitive, George at Buckden and the White you will detect It Immediately you Horse at Eaton Socon are rich In cross the threshold. picturesque appeal and quite capable Atmosphere Is the only thing of holding the visitor's Interest withyon can call It It Is an elusive, out added lure of historic associasubtle thing that defies at- tion. Amid environments no less allurtempts at close analysis; it Is not exactly an odor or a series of odors ; ing and highly varied, yoo can keep neither is It altogether attributable company at Portsmouth with Lord to what you subconsciously perceive Nelson and the Duke of Wellington ; with the eye. Bather It (s a com- at Grantham with Richard HI; at posite sense of linen that has lain Guildford with Samuel Pepys; at In lavender, brasses conscientiously CJilgwell with Queen Elizabeth ; and polished by generations of tidy at Broadway, it you like the conhousemaids, floors and furniture trast when extremes meet In the neatly waxed, good pictures on the same Inn, with both King Charles walls, savory viands well cooked. the Martyr and Oliver Cromwell. VLSiTOILJ hr Tatmania Laid Him Off ai Treasury Ran Low. Washington.1 Tasmania again has governor. Two years ago, when treasury ran low, tha aisle aired $15,000 annually ny leaving With the governor' chair until. Indication of returnlug prosperity a new necutlv ba been appointed. "Taitusnla la a heart shaped island about at large a West VirIslets ginia with many amill sprinkled about the Indian and Pa ctflc oceans off Ita coast," says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. "It lie about 200 mile off Ihe southeastern 'corner' of Australia, of uhlrh it a stuta. "It la difficult," continues tha bul let In. "for tb traveler In Tasmania today to bellev that three centuries ago (he state era an unknown spot ; that after Tasman, the Dutch navigator, dlscovied It. no one was particularly I merest ej In It for many yuan; that It was It s four-poste- tap-roo- well-nig- power-producin- per-(.ai- Jimmy Mattem, Round the World Solo Flyer 1 a of tb current by laying sum cable between the Island and the Continent Out of mines, past which at re ms rush these to the aea, com such valuable mineral is tin, copNr, lead, coal and tungsten. the state's large exportable aur "Until recent decades, Tasmania plus of wool and mutton. Eaten was of little Interest to Ihe Aus- VACCINATION WILL live farming area, particularly In tralian. Now It Is a magnet for CHECK POX LOSSES the north, produce an assortment eastern Australian vacationist, and of vegetable which he.p to feed has earned the right to b railed tht It many the concentrated of pin) ground of Australia. population Melbourne, Sidney and Adelaide wide beaches are merest for Aus- Plan Recommended to Own The northers plain are especially tralian pleasure seeker, while reera of Diseased Flocks. famed at potato land. tort s In the mountains that rise 4,0)0 t above the aea. are hosts to No Navigsbl Stream Vaccinating young chlckeua against enthusiastic throngs." chicken pox la now a proven way "Tasmania must depend upon It equally for farmer to protect tha cash In road and railroad for transports Return After com from poultry, according to the lion, for none of Its many streams Pigeon Abience of 18 Months laboratory of autrnaj pathology aod are navlguble. But Tasmania has hygiene, College of Agriculture, Unimade other use of these stream and Uaicrloo. N. Y. A e!ng pigeon of Illinois. Poultry and egga further plans tier owned by Richard Klnaclla. nine- versity development now bring In about 11 per cent of and there water power plants pro- teen, released In Warren, I'a. la Ih of Illinois fannduce the electricity that drive the stunner of UI31 ti back la It loft tha cash Incom ers, but tha total would be even wheel of tb state's varied Indus sfter an absence of 19 months. tries, lights street and some, proThe bird waa teen hovering over higher were It oot for the Inroads of chicken pox and other barriers pels street car, and brings the news the loft during the day, but failed to tha production of high quality aod entertainment of the world to to enter until after dark, due, radio receiver In Tasmanian twto extensive change mad lo products. It was pointed out The ins moms. There Is so much elec- the structure since the day It was disease also la known as canker sore tric power In Tasmania that Aua taken away as an entrant lo a race mouth or avian diphtheria. Routine vaccination Is recom trail, less fortunate la this re of the Waterloo Racing Flgeoo a mended to all owner of flock on In considered ct, ha absorbing SoclutlotL fected premise ai a result of a two years' study by the laboratory Either fowl pox or pigeon pox vac cine can be used. It was demon (rated that there la no danger of causing chicken pox by using pigeon pox vaccine. Occasionally, however, aerloua result follow the us of fowl pox vaccine. It also was found that unhealthy flock are not good I for immunization with subject 4 pigeon pox vaccine. Complete pro tection waa not established In til r. flock vaccinated with the pigeon box product lo 1032, but In gen era! the results were satisfactory. Vaccination should be restricted to flocks In which the disease oc curred during the previous year. All K fowls vaccinated with fowl pox vac , cine should be placed In voluntary quarantine for two months Chick 1 ena suffering from any other disease should not be vaccinated. - V . Governor Is Again on Job as Prosperity Seems Returning ry . r ft K - J W fr tr T , 4 iffti bit Mil V - . , . li.'' . Polish Fowls Are Good for Show and Utility li tr P T a Leading In number of varieties of Continental Eurojiean poultry are the Polish fowls White Crested Black, Silver, White, Golden, Sliver and White and Bearded Golden. Except for the lack of a "beard" or "wbls kers" represented by feathers on the throat, the are the same as the bearded In all other standard requirements. All the Polish varieties have an unusual appeal to the chicken fancier and a backyard farmer may be attracted first to such fowls by their unusual plumage, although they really have utility value. There Is considerable doubt about the origin of the Polish fowl, although It probably originated In Poland. Dutch poultry fanciers In the Eighteenth century were Instrumental In perfecting the crest In type, the Polish is much like the Leghorn. It was formerly very common In the United States, but with the Increase In the popularity of tbe Leghorn, Interest In the Polish waned, although It still holds place as an ornamental fowL Los Angeles Times. Buff-Lace- Ml; t'-- T USe: O' V . Jimmy Mattern, first aviator Century of Progress. first Inhabited by black skinned, aborigines; and that Its largest and oldest city, Hobart, now tbe capital, did not rise on the southeastern shore until the turn of the Nineteenth century. Famous for Potatce. Eight hundred miles ot railroads now speed Tasmanian travelers from city to city, and transport its wide Good roads variety of products. radiate from cities and towns Into Its most remote spots. The aborigines have gone (the last one died tn 1S7G). Hobart now is a bustling city ot 57.000 Inhabitants and covers some 86 square miles. "Once a writer said Tasmania was populated only by grnj beards and women, because all ambitious young Tasmanians migrated to Aus trails. But ride Its railroad trains today or take an automobile tour through the Island, and you will find that the assertion Is no longer true. The railroads are modern and the roads paved. They pass through valleys, cross plains, and skirt mountains that show the touch of the energy and Industry of youth. Valleys are blanketed with pink and white blossoms of thousands of apple trees from which tire harvested more than 2,OUO.OOO t ushels of apples a year for the markets of Australia, Great Britain, the European continent, and even Africa. Pears, plums, peaches, apricots, and many berries also thrive in the mild Hundreds of Tasmanian climate. square miles are covered with forests that supply railroad ties and wood for many other purposes for Vast local and foreign markets. areas of grazing land are alive with flocks of sheep from which come wooly-hulre- V ' cr. d Beg Buddha to End Wave of Suicides Motomura, Japan. The chanting of Buddhist priests mingled witn the rumblings of Mihara volcano in the first service for the souls of suicides oc this Island of Death. The memorial service was arranged by priests of the Zojoji temple, Tokyo, to comfort tbe spirits of hundreds who have leaped Into the fiery pit of Alarmed at the In crease of suicides on Oshinia Is land, the priests appealed to Buddha to discourage men and worn en from taking their lives. The priests are confident that tbelr efforts will lessen it not end the wave of suicides which dur tng the past year have made Osblma notorious throughout tbe OrienL - wne we. to attempt a solo flight around the world, Bitting on a wing of bis plane. Corsicas Notorious Bandits Are Once More Exterminated France Takes Drastic Steps to End Menace. Paris, The recent capture of the Corsican Sp.Ala, bandit, Andre should end, it would seem, a chap ter replete with romance brutality anj exaggeration. For Spada Is supposed to be tbe last of those outlaws who roamed tbe Island fastnesses as Robin Hoods friends to the pcor und robbing only the rich tourists excepted and dtfying even tbe military forces of France. But there have been other captures SCALLOP Hv ( COLLAR lIElUt: Ml HOI.A9 f i' &.! i.w.-as.-a- y. k itk.&'.-m-.cacj- It is evet so encouraging tor ninth ers these days who sew for their Not only are materials little ones. Irresistible and inexpensive, but every facility is at hand n. tbe way of attractive patterns and sewing In structions and matching threads of dependable washable qualities and other Items too numerous to men tion. Tbe dainty dress pictured of confetti-coloreprint cotton has a cunning collar or yoke it you prefer to call IL It is really both, for a tiny round yoke Is inset and the scallops bound with tbe material ot the dress give It a collar effect. When sewing on childrens clothes, be sure to use the best thread of the standard make, as It life of the garnienL The design on the yoke of this winsome frock Is worked with embroidery floss. which have been announced as tbe downfall of the Inst bandit, so that Spadas seizure may mean only a temporary cessation of activity. Some obscure lieutenant ot his may now spring Into fame. Such has been the course of Corsican bandit history. Code of a Bandit. Opinion is divided on the character of the Corsican bandlL That some of them have been bloodthirsty and murderous Is certain yet they seem to have followed codes of honor and have never oppressed the poor. Their rule, nearly always followed, not to molest the tourist, Is held to be strictly selfish; tourists bring money Into Corsica, they reason, and without money how would the bandit exist! Hence, do not In terfere with the tourist unde. A correspondent of the London Morning Post, sent to Investigate the Corsican bandit situation, summed up tbe matter as follows "Men of Spada s type nave a strict code of honor. They never Interfere with tbe postal service. They never rob tourists. They never kill save for reasons of revenge or It may be asked why such men become bandits at ah. Almost Invariably It Is the result of a vendetta. One man kills another, and to escape the consequences Is forced to take to the maquots. From time to time he is forced to rob In order to live; but. provided he does not overstep himself, his depredations are regarded by the majority of the population with sympathetic tolerance." France Gets Busy. Nevertheless, In November. 1931, France decided to end tbe bandit A force of menace once for all. 600 gendarmes, equipped with six armored cars, one motor cannon units and machine guns police-dostarted inland, while three dispatch boats patrolled the coast tc Inter cept any attempts at escape. War rants were Issued for 500 bandits. For two years the pursuit ol Spada and bis band bas been folSeveral of lowed Intermittently. his lieutenants were killed and a number captured, and the surrender of Spada himself was a result of Now ban this relentless pursuit dltry Is again ended." for the time being at least g Feed Wheat Ly Hand Feeding of corn and oats and laying mash In hoppers and wheat at tbe rate of four to six pounds per hundred hens dally. Is a new method of feeding that promises to be practical for corn-befarms, states Paul G. Riley, Indiana The wheat Is higher poultryman. In price than other grains, and when Is likely to be used In hopper-fetoo heavy proportions to other grains. An added advantage In Is that the hens will keep the litter stirred up, whereas It Is likely to be packed down In houses where hopper-feedinIs practiced exclusively. Prairie Farmer. hand-feedin- lt d hand-feedin- g Lice on Poultry Blighted Barley Under New Rules Neitzsche Official Grain Standards Henry Ford Revised by Secretary The World Court of. Agriculture. WSU Suvlfl 11)1 Bill HiUf rvwt irrMi ! v By ED HOWE ( Artcllur t W MJ . The secretary of agriculture bas revised the otficlsl grain standard for barley s to deflnt snd pro eld grades for "Bllgliled" barley Tli definition for "Sound" baric) nd tb for grad requirement "Sample Grade" are shm amended The Grain Standards set requires In effect, that not lea than 00 days public notice must be given before any new standards, promulgated under the provisions of tbe set may become effective. Tbe amend ed standard wilt become effective oo July 21. 1931 . Tbe order of tb secretary mending tbe standards, provider la part, follows; Grades for blighted barley-aligh- ted barley shall be all barle) which contains more than 2 pet cent but not more than 5 per cern of barley damaged or material!) discolored by blight or mold." "Blighted barley shall be grad ed and designated according to th grade requirements of the stand ards applicable to such barley It It were not bllghted.and there alial be added to, and made a part of the grade designation, the wore 'Blighted.' The grade requirements for sum pie grade for all classes of barle' re amended so as to Include lh specification "Or which contain more than 5 per cent of barle? damaged or materially dlscoloro by blight or mold." The practical effect of the re vision Is that, beginning July 21, it the lnsectlon and grading of bar ley, kernels of barley that are dam aged or materially discolored bj blight or mold are not to be regard ed as sound kernels; that tin Straight unqualified grades, L e. "No. 1 Barley," "Special No. 2 Bar ley, etc., may contain as much 2 per cent by weight of such blight ed kernels; that when the barle) contains from 2.1 per cent to 5 per cent. Inclusive, of such blighted ker nels, the word Blighted" will be added to the grade designation. 1 e., No. 1 Barley, Blighted," "Sim1 clal No. 2 Barley, Blighted," etc. and that when more than 5 per cent of such blighted barley ker nels are present the grade, "Sample Grade" will be assigned to the grain. It Is believed by the department that this amendment of the barley grades will cause these grades to conform with users requirements, and facilitate equitable grading of country-rubarley. n Farm Wood lota Return Millions to the Owners New York state farm woodlots are second only to Wisconsin and lead North Carolina and Tennessee, according to a recent summary of The 3,634,000 the 1930 census. acres of farm woodlots In New York returned $16,269,000 and Wisconsin's 5,705,000 acres returned Wisconsin has nearly $16,925,000. 4,000,000 more acres of farm land than New York. The principal product from the New York farm woodlands, according to J. A. Cope of the state colIs fuelwood, lege of agriculture, followed in order by: sawlogs, fence posts, poles and piling, railroad ties, and pulpwood. Most of the state's pulpwood Is cut from commercial forest areas, he says. The t?plcal New York state wood-lo- t h contains 23 acres and Is of the total acreage of the farm. The state has nearly 18,000,-00acres In its 100,000 farms. The value of woodlot products was Included for the first time In the 1930 census, and for the whole United States totaled $242,000,000. one-fift- 0 Tree Bands Kill Worms Chemically treated bands may kill as many as a thousand codling moth worms to the tree each season. When they leave the fruit until the end of the season, codling moths seek the nearest dark, protected place for spinning their cocoons. Loose bark on the trank and branches, or debris on the ground, normally provide suitable quarters. If the trees have been scraped and the orchard thoroughly cleaned up, however, bands around the trunk of the tree wlU attract 50 per cent or more of the worms. A chemically treated band autoPOULTRY FACTS matically kills practically all the Seneca county (Ohio) poultry worms that spin their cocoons In raisers had a record of 1,800,000 contact with It eggs marketed last year. Lice do not feed on blood like red mites, but eat dried skin or bits of feathers, writes a correspondent In the Indiana Farmers Guide. They may eat blood from small skin wounds but do not suck the blood like red mites. The lice are constantly crawling over the skin both day and night, and cause much discomfort to the hens. Hens are nervous, sensitive birds, and probably suffer more from lice than Is commonly realized. Look Over Herd Now Nonsitting breeds usually lay at There Is no use In evading the eighteen weeks and fact that there are thonsands of f breeds at from five and to poor producers In the dairy herds six months. of the country. If all such cows were removed In one great camThe first exhibit of poultry at a paign, the markets would feel the fair In America was of Emden effects and prices would advance. Mr. at Rhode the Sisson, geese, by But first there Is needed a camIsland state fair at Pawtucket In paign of cow testing to discover 182K Just which are profitable and which are not It Is poor business Have you cleaned out your chick- to have cows In a herd that are not en house with coal oil this year, to capable of meeting all cash costs, Dog Lose Fight With Fox rid It of Uce and red spider? It will paying the farm for farm grown Petersburg. Ind. James Amos had pay yon to do so. Spray the oil on feed and something over for labor to go to the rescue ot his dug here with your rose sprayer or other In- and other charges. Get rid of these which was nearly killed hy a red secticide pump. Soak the crevtre Just as a matter of common sense. fox It had cornered. and corners heavy-sittin- one-hal- Howe About: 'TIIUS Spake Za rath ultra." by Freldertcb Neilxacb. Is widely proclaimed aa on of tb greatest books ever written. As s matter of curiosity I lately looked over eight of It page snd noted tb line containing ordinary common ( lens easily onderataodabtw found but five such line In tb eight pa fee. Neitzacb bad enormous common sente, but It was so corrupted by nonsense la tb literature of tb past tbat In bit moet famous book tb proportion of good to bad Is five to two hundred snd veventy-two- . "Tbu Spskt Zarathustrs" Is written Is mongrel poetry, S weakness the author certainly Inherited from the past The book Is full of did reference to gods Neltxsch tribnot believe In. I'll title It ute to s tissue of myth orlglnst-nthousand years more than a efore the Christian era. If ever lived, he was s type f man utterly unknown In the time of Neitsche, hundred of years better or In the present : trie would have been "Uni Spake Frehlerlch N'pltzsche." There I value In the honk, but I shall not bother to dig It out, is It s. nay he found In many short Neitzsche was highly but never learned to write 'Imply, naturally and properly In five lines of two hundred of his best product ind seventy-twProbably the proportion of nonsense n the conversation and writing of men less noted Is greater. g Zara-ihustr- be-'or- sum-narieedu-ate- et--e- a foreigner was quoted lately as depression la about tha saying most natural thing there Is; that tie waa born during a depression, ind has lived In one ever since. Americans will not accept any such reasoning; they demand boom all the time, and falling to get It go bawling to tbe government for relief. For many yeara we have been breaking records and istonishlng foreigners. The action of the foreigners In laughing at os now sfter robbing us, Is very humiliating. I once saw In the newspapers a statement credited to Henry Ford in the days of his greatest prosperity. He said the standard of living In the United States should he advanced until every man who wanted a Job was guaranteed one dollars a day as s at twenty-seveminimum. Every American, he admitted, was so noble, so Intelligent, so much better than the people of other countries, he could not Uv fittingly on less. And you needn't laugh ; probably you read Mr. Ford's brag with apA proval Nothing astonishes me more than the Incompetence of great men when called apon to make decision In questions of a public nature. Men who In business life achieve reputation for sound sense, honor and capacity, when asked to consider questions affecting the public at large, have In thousands of cases become pitiful fools snd disgraced long lives of probity. There Is In existence a world court to which most nations belong, the membership made np presumably of as capable men as can be found among the better classes. A booklet is available giving Its history, membership and proceedings to date, and I have read It during Idle time. The object of the world court, of course, Is to get rid of war; of the expense of armies and nnvles during Intervals of peace. Tn most parts of the earth practical bakers, after hundreds of years of experience at their trade, have found It convenient to operate night shifts, surely one of the simplest and most unimportant questions. Yet on page fifty I find the World court, considering night work In bakeries. Many have been profoundly discouraged by the lack of I believe intelligence In men. statesmen are responsible for most of the discouragement : any fair review of the situation clearly Indicates that the common people In their private affairs have done very well. Most people will read only that with which they agree. I believe Oscar Wilde was mistaken in more ways than any other man who ever lived, but have Just read his De Profundis with Interest, as I have read many of his other books and plays. He was the foulest man of whom I have ever heard, and possibly one of the most Intelligent; certainly one of the worlds best writers. I cannot refuse to read such a man because I do not always agree with him. He wrote many plays that sparkle with Intelligence and wit, but In his "Salome I cannot see a single reason why it should have been written, or why anyone should wish to read It; foul, silly, bloody; and, fortunately, a failure. He was that uneven In everything. I have never known a single human being of whom I entirely approved; I have never entirely approved of myselt |