Show today and tomorrow DOCTORS good doctors are scarce everywhere country doctors are arc underpaid and overworked peekskill Peek skill N ST Y physicians have agreed to charge 1 for telephone consultations it if advice on how to treat a cold id Is worth telephoning lor for it Is certainly worth a dollar in england the tees fees of rural physicians are fixed by the government we may come to that in I 1 america the fees must be high enough however to encourage well trained traine d young youria doctors to settle in small towns an and d t to stay there several eastern towns where doctors have failed to make a living have agreed to pay a salary out of public funds to a good doctor for public health work which still leaves him time to engage in general pro practice c tice that way of insuring a i doctor 9 a living and at the same time safeguarding the public health Is a sound american method and should be more generally adopted as it will be ENGINES the next big improvement in automobiles will be an engine that uses crude oil or distillate instead of gasoline i 1 heavy oil engines use cheaper fuel get two or three times as much power out ol of a gallon of it require no complicated electrical sparking apparatus and have 1 I no valves to be reground the motor car of the future will have an engine of that I 1 type driving the front wheels instead of the rear wheels and will have no gears to shift airplanes will use the cheaper fuel too A diesel type engine flew a plane from detroit to washington recently elmer sperry announces that be has perfected such tin an engine for air use on which he has been working for years A company has been formed in england to manufacture a heavy oil automobile engine invented by a swede hesselman I sweden by the way produces more first rate engineering ability in proportion to population than any other coun try except perhaps italy ericsson inventor of the screw propeller and builder of the monitor was a swede so were alfred A nobel inventor of dynamite and de laval inventor of the steam turbine and th the ream cream separator EDUCATION 1 i the best american I 1 ev ever er knew died the other day I 1 shall not P print rint his name lie he would not have liked the publicity I 1 he probably had bad never earned as much I 1 as a month but he sent his tour four children through college A cape cod fis hermans son he was a schooner captain in the west indies trade at eighteen I 1 at seventy five he was hauling mall mail and baggage in his old ford truck preferring independence to retirement I 1 unlettered himself one of bla big s sons 0 ris Is a professor in a western university y one Is on the harvard faculty a da daughter ahter Is superintendent of a great training training school for nurses sorrell II and son one of the most popular english novels of recent years has tor for its theme the sacrifices of a father tor for his sons education A new theme in england but one of the oldest in america ACCIDENTS automobile accident cases cost coat the hospitals of the united states more than last year for the care c a re of the t I 1 injured r edic t more than one third of this was never ve collected I 1 d because the persons re sible tor for the accidents could not be compelled to pay tor for the damage they had bad done next to industrial accidents automobiles send more individuals to the hospitals than any other one cause the me care of the victims Is a charge on all the rest of us is to the extent that the deficit in hospital expenses has to be made up out of taxes almost every state makes insurance against industrial accidents compulsory on employers only massachusetts requires quires automobile owners to carry liability insurance if you are injured by a car with a massachusetts license the insurance company pays it if a car from any other state hits you you can usually whistle tor for your hospital bill or start a tedious and expensive lawsuit law suit eventually every progressive state will adopt the system or something like it I 1 I 1 MOUNTAINS I 1 I 1 motorists driving from harrisburg I 1 spelled epel led without a final h to pittsburgh with the final h are interested in tho the signboards sign boards on the peaks of the alleghany allegheny Alleg hany mountains spelled with an a after the h as they cross into the valley of the allegheny river spelled with an e c instead of an a difference of spelling aside tho the signs tells the height above sea level levei of each high spot on the road that Is something we all like to know it Is surprising that tho the idea of marking the high places has lot ot spread farther i |