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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER MB 21SEC ANOTHER 'JkmJzd' about Personal Indorsements. texas. i used Houston, fair hand at a indorsing things. But I realize now what a piker I was. I indorsed only one thing at a time. For the present champions, I offer a suggestion. When that distinguished world traveler (Bringing Testimonials Alive) and that eminent movie star, who lives in Hollywood right next to Live Reading Matter and is authoress O T 1. Why do stars seem to, be pointed? 2. When did the White House receive this name officially? 3. What is the curvature of the earth per mile? 4. What is the highest denomination of postage stamp issued by the United .States? 5. Is water in a pail perfectly level at the top? 6. How long was the original Greek marathon race? Answers 1. Their apparent points are due A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects to the scintillation arising from inequalities of the earths atmos- phere. 2. The name White House became official during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt. 3. The earths curvature per mile is approximately 8 inches. 4. Five dollars. 5. It is slightly concave, due to capillarity and surface tension. 6. The runner who carried the message of Greek victory after the Battle of Marathon traveled about 24 miles. Back Filling Insulin Vials. Books, Chemicals and Other . Prepared by . Products of Indianapolis National Geographic Society. WNU Service. Washington, D. C. atop a high see glittering Indianapolis spread over the prairie. Nebuchadnezzar, who viewed Babylon from his palace, would enjoy the picture here, with all its temples, shrines, monuments, and d avenues. Here are restful parks and floral displays, quite as satisfying to many as were the hanging gardens by the Euphrates; and here is a war memorial as impressive as any temple raised by Babylonians. FROM flat-roof- ed tree-line- No one great city, however, dominates Indiana; Chicago pulls at it on the north, Cincinnati and Louisville on the south. Yet Indianapolis, its capital and nearly its geographic center, is the seat of Hoosier power. In 1820 a small spot was cleared of forest here, and the capital later moved from Corydon, in the south. One wagon, two weeks on the wilderness trails, hauled all the young states papers, furniture, books, and money. From the streams men seined fish in such quantities that wagonloads were fed to hogs. Settlers increased; the national road came through from the East, driving west toward the Missouri. d movers multiplied. Some days saw hundreds pass in covered wagons, freighters, stagecoaches, often with women or girls driving the teams while men and boys herded other animals after the wagons. Crossroads for Highways. Today Indianapolis stands, a typimidwestern city, cal, intersected by four national highof all ways used by three-fourttranscontinental motorists. High above the city rises Americas largest neon aviation beacon, usually visible from 75 miles away. About the city runs the first belt-lin- e railway built in America, and Union station with the seven-acr- e elevated tracks accommodates 40 trains at once. Every 24 hours, 82 mails by air, rail, and truck-re- ach the city; and it averages a convention a day five days out of every week the year round. One auditorium seats 10,000. What a change since Henry Ward Beecher preached here in his small church, and edited his farm paper! Get up early, any morning, and you see some 500 trucks coming into town from all directions, hauling hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep to the largest stockyards east of Chicago. Among world grain markets the one here ranks sixth, and as a cash mart it leads in the United West-boun- well-balanc- ed hs States. Some 840 factories make many things, from insulin and inner tubes, automobiles and canned food, to birdcages and popcorn machines. One shop can make 5,500 bicycle tires every day. Another makes chains chains that went with Admiral Byrd to the Antarctic; chains for the first Wright plane; for the dirigibles Macon and Shenandoah; for battleship hoists and elevators; chains for 40 foreign countries. Doorbell ringers all over the nation sell silk hosiery made here, while another product is advertised by a singing barber who fills the air with saponaceous rhapsody. Armored cars for the shah of Iran; trucks to haul pipes that carry oil from Mosul to the Mediterranean; hams and bacon for the worlds breakfast , they originate here. Center for Literature. If wastebaskets gave up their dead, what a place a great publishing house in Indianapolis would be to of trace Indianas literary career 1 It has bought and published many a manuscript which brought fame to a hitherto unknown writer. Not only Hoosiers, but writers from all over the Union have been launched by this house. Long ago it started Mary Roberts Rinehart, whose first work, .The Circular Staircase, other houses had ignored. Lately it published Oil for the Lamps of China, which brought. fame to Alice Tisdale Hobart. Look over its lists, old and new, and you are astonished at the millions of books issued from this Charles Majors plant. When Knighthood Was in Flower sold more copies than did Uncle Toms Cabin. This firm, putting on what James Whitcomb Riley called its literary overalls, published every book the famous Hoosier poet ever wrote, and all without ever a written contract! It introduced Harold MacGrath to the world with The Puppet Crown, and Meredith Nicholson with The Main Chance and The House of a Thousand Candles. Other titles are remindful of days gone by. Here Brand Whitlock brought The Thirteenth District; Emerson Hough his Mississippi Bubble; Anna Katharine Green, The Filigree Ball; George Randolph Chester, Young Wallingford; Zona Gale, Romance Island ; George Ade, The Slim Princess; Earl Derr Biggers, Seven Keys to Baldpate; Ring Lardner, Gullibles Travels; and Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clear- Colddeck Miss get Recommends, indorsing through everypractically thing else, let them then club in and attain the very highest peak of by jointly indorsing the famous society queen who has indorsed more products than they even, or anybody. Noted Ancestors. n little Mexico at Casa Blanca, only 300,000 acres I met the caporal, or head man, of the cow herd and one an upstandfamous as a clear-eye- d Mexican, but, I faning, cied, with some faint indefinable sugn in his gestion of the facial contours. However, his name, as I caught it, was pronounced Ernesto Boo-nwhich, to my alien ears, sounded Latinesque enough for all purposes. He knew no English, yet, when I mentioned Kentucky a thing Ive been known to do before he poured out a rippling flood of Spanish. Louis Kresdorn, the Texas-bor- n manager, translated: Ernesto says he has heard of a y place called Kentucky. Acto a legend in his family, cording once his lived there was muy valiante, muy vivo, and was the nephew of an even greater Gringo warrior who drove the savages before him like tumbleweeds before a wind. So I saw a light and I inquired how Ernesto spelled his last name ing. he spelled it the orthodox way. Because of its early conspicuous success with fiction, fiction especial- So, as members of the same stock, ly is associated in many minds with a pioneer ancestress of mine having the publishers. But its contribution married a kinsman of the great in other lines, aside from its law pathfinder, I held a reunion with this and educational publications, shows mighty huntsman. scores of titles on subjects from Backward Children to The ChiDachshunds. nese too many to list here. I LIKE dachshunds. Theyve more Great Chemical Laboratory. sense of humor than anything I Carved on the stone front of a ever saw that came out of Prussia. great laboratory at Indianapolis are I always figured the breed was prothe same chemical symbols used duced by crossing a rat terrier on by ancient alchemists who took a German compound verb, and I them from the Chaldean who still believe you could combine usethought the earths metals were re- fulness with their natural comedy lated to the planets! Hence such old by training them to retrieve collar planetary names for drugs as lunar buttons from under low bureaus. caustic and saturnine poison. I indorse the phrase of the mathYet look into this plant and see ematical who said a dachswhat incredible strides chemists hund was sharp half a dog high and a dog have made since the dim, distant and a half long, but I claim Capage of alchemy, quackery, and tain Mike Hoggs chauffeur, Mose, philosophers stones! coined the best description yet. In this temple of scientific re- When Mrs. Hogg brought home the search and in the giant production first one Mose ever behelcb his eyes plant attached to it, where machines bulged out like twin roll 500,000 pills a day and grind he exLawsy, Miss Alice! tons of strange things, from dandewhut is this here thing? claimed, lions to bovine "Stomachs and livIts a dog. ers, you meet a thinking brigade of if you said Mose, Wellum, bacterichemists, pharmacists, told me, Id a said it was hadnt ologists, and medical investigators a snake on roller skates. representing the best scientific brains of many lands, from EngHunting in Texas. land to China.' WAS IT raining so hard even the How to turn new ideas, theories, seagulls were trying to get in the and discoveries about medicine into the ducks went away practical use is the business of this clubhouse. So out of the weather. So somewhere, vast industry. It worked with the Toronto Insulin committee and with the hunters, who were less intellithe Harvard Pernicious Anemia gent than the ducks, came back committee to put their drugs quick- from the blinds dripping like so many leaky hot water bottles. ly into doctors hands. After being bailed out, we sat Here is not only pure research in to vittles nothing unusual, down fromr toad poisons to many things, Chinese herbs, but such just the customary dub dinner. All problems as packing mil- we found on the menu was beef lions of doses of ground liver in cap- hash, duck stew, liver and onions, country smoked sausage and homesules instead of vials. In plain English, here in Indiana made headcheese, also hot biscuits, is an astonishing example of how corn pones and rice cakes; likewise highly organized, efficient business turnip greens, rice, sweet potatoes, takes up where science leaves off. squash, snapbeans and eye hominy; Jenner learned long ago how to moreover, six kinds of pickles, vaccinate against smallpox, but it preserves, jellies and jams; besides takes huge capital and infinite skill stewed pears, apple pie, papershell to make enough vaccine and supply pecans and various fruits. Then Mrs. Jacob Smothers, the club hostit fresh to the whole world. But for such mass production of ess, came in to say that, if anybody spedrugs, chemicals, and medicines, in the future craved anything wonwe could not check or control in- cial, shed try to fix it up and fectious disease and epidemics, de- dered why such of her gorged guests spite the great discoveries of Koch, as werent too far gone uttered feePasteur, Lister, Sir Ronald Ross, ble laughter. IRVIN S. COBB. Schaudinn, Von Wassermann. and WNU Service. Copyright. Ehrlich. mid-weste- ON THE Hogg-Dickso- rn rifle-sho- t, Anglo-Saxo- a, . far-awa- push-button- s. A French Heading for Your Draperies. p VXHETHER you line your new directions for making not will or draperies depend slipcovers and dressing tables; on how heavy the material is. It restoring and upholstering chairs, is important, however, that the couches; making curtains for evtop of draperies be stiffened when ery type of room and purpose. a French heading is used. 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