Show I Shorter Se ool Hours Ho rs Spats Spat At Garden Party Put Kind Hearted Ladles Ladle Farmers Farmer and nd Canals N Prizes Prize for Workers Work y By ARTHUR ARTHUn BRISBANE BA 1 Copyright 1927 by e Star Co Mr Will O. O Wood California's sup sup- superintendent superintendent of ot public Instruction says that school scheel hours hoars should be made longer end and recommends legislation to that effect He is mistaken the hours should be made shorter If there Is Isto Isto isto to be any change Two hours a ft day or three at the most a child properly prop taught could learn all ll that 1 It itS mind could absorb In one day ds No hours of sunlight should te be spent Indoors unnecessarily It Is a terrible thing at a dinner party to find five fUe or six forks forb at your left end and start off of with the wrong wron one oue All through dinner you ou cannot repair that But think of poor climbing Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans that attended a a. royal garden party panty at Buckingham palace docor- docor d cor- cor ted with white spats paU and found af after af- af after after ter they arrived that spats spat had gone out Fortunately Americans Americana trained In Inthe Inthe inthe the school of herd hand knocks are re re- re The Tailor and Cutter London magazine that tells you what to wear says US that after the garden party narty dozens of white e spats were found In i ot the shrubbery Sh b eth thrown th there thereby t g by Americans Nevertheless spats If it you can cm live up to them are sensible They are to the feet like the over- over ceat to the body when orn Worn over low shoes There Is stag hunting In England occasionally feebly Imitated In Amer Amen ica ic The stag Is carted c lt d in a II van to toa toa toa a convenient place Then the hounds are let loose to catch him and md tear him down If 1 they can while sportsmen on horseback follow the hounds Kind-hearted Kind old 1 dies and gentle gentle- gentlemen gentlemen gentlemen men and some others that dont don't go stag hunting object to the cruelty especially when the stag Is driven out outto outto outto to sea by the hounds brought back backby backby backby by boatmen and killed by the hunts hunts- huntsmen huntsmen huntsmen men when he lands on the beach Sir William Johnson Hicks home secretary for the British government says Nothing could be done unless one prohibits the whole thing It If stag hunting why not fox hunting if It fox foxhunting foxhunting foxhunting hunting why not shooting and If It shooting why not every cry other sort of sport You would hardly expect human beings to give up the pleasure of killing animals for sport when they haven't even e given gl no the excitement of killing kUling each other In war warA A group of well meaning but not too intelligent farmers inform the gov sov- government that they dont don't want any anymore anymore anymore more reclamation work done no more Irrigation canals no nomore more land drained or deserts Irrigated until the price of farm products Increases Those are the farmers that have voted to in keep out the first class Euro Euro- European penn immigration that this country needs nc ds the Immigration that would provide mouths to eat all the farmers can grow and more They Thay vote to keep out customers for the farms arms and would vote ote to prevent development of o the country But they will not pre pre- prevent prevent prevent vent It No extensive ext development bagun b gun now v would have have- any effect or add one acre re to cultivatable land in less leS than ten ten to fifteen years ears By that time In the natural course of events the population population tion lion of the country will Increase by twenty millions n The farmers more than any other class are Interested In fri canal develop develop- development rent ment which would take uke as Mr ir Hoover has shown from six to 12 cents a 3 bushel from the freight charge of export wheat and Increase the price of American wheat by that amount per bushel Mr B. 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Forbes thinks that some somo of the glory and prizes that go to athletes should go to mechanics and other workers A thing thin In that direction Is done already The Pennsylvania railroad puts photographs of ot its best and old old- oldest oldest est eat workmen on the menus in the dining cars that the passengers might see and admire In Iowa a farmhand recently rec won wona a husking corn championship husk husk- huskIng hUkIng husking Ing more than 23 bushels of corn In 28 minutes beating his nearest com corn competitor p by more than two bushels At Eureka Kas Fas Joe Loebel was declared champion mall mail distributor making a record of In a possible Mr l threw pounds rm lb th of mall mail making but b one mistake ta Arid And the mistake was due to bad writ writ- writIng Ing But you will never ne Interest Int rest the public In labor championships as you do In prize fighting baseball and run run- running running running ning championships Athletic achievement Is In the blood of the race Inherited from our ancestors through hundreds of thou thou- thousands thousands sands of years We run and hunt be because be- be because because cause we like hike to We husk corn com dis dIs- distribute dIstribute dis- dis distribute tribute letters dig ditches because we must There is a big difference |