Show K PARKE HEIGHT in flying to a height of feet mole moie than eight miles up in the air apollo of the U S navy has set a record alch which will take some beating only by the use of compressed oxygen in a 26 tank inhaled through a 0 tube tub e and in an oxygen supercharger super charger to insure combustion in the engine was able to do the stunt atall aall capt hawthorne gray of the U S army who rose to feet in a balloon three years ago died from lack of oxygen in the rarefied atmosphere of that great height all of the talk about voyaging to the moon whether by airplane rocket or other device Is so much moonshine in i lew of 0 the impossibility of carrying enough oxygen along to say nothing of the intense cold of interstellar space somewhere around degrees below zero LAND A young woman of my acquaintance was surprised recently on getting home from her daily work as stenographer to find a young man waiting to ask her who her grandfather was when she told him he informed her that the title company which he represented was prepared to pay her and each of her five i I 1 living sisters aunts and uncles leach each to sign a quit claim deed to a strip of land one inch wide and eighteen feet long that price was a nuisance val value ue but e are several pieces of manhattan real estate which have sold lor for as much or more per square toot foot tor for office buildings it no longer pays to build i under 30 stories high in old new york and the reason for the high land value Is the growth of population every new comer to the city adds an appreciable amount to the value of every foot of laud a ab COMMERCE I 1 went into a grocery store in a little massachusetts town the other day to buy some matches the salesman handed banded me a package which was marked made in russia in the same shop window I 1 saw some can canned ned corned beef cooked 1 and packed in uruguay in a store in new york recently my daughter bought a raincoat made of silk which had first been woven in japan and then sent to scotland to be wearing ithac that she drove to a country house on 1 long island where the refreshments served inc eded tea from india and biscuits from england for every dollars worth of goods the united states sells abroad we must even dually buy a dollars worth from the country which we buy from that Is the long and of all the talk about tariffs ard and ar d imports and the export trade i SHIPS the germans now hold the record for speed of trans atlantic ships but both the united states and england 1 are preparing to take it away from them 1 the cunard line which Is the oldest I 1 of all ocean steamship lines announces that thatis it will build a craft 1000 feet long carrying passengers which will make a speed of 30 knots an hour and will cost between 20 and 25 million dollars A knot by the way Is a nautical mile which is teet feet longer than the land mile so a speed of 30 knots means 34 miles an hour hoier I 1 i tho the U S shipping board in conjunction with the post office department la is arring arranging with american steamship companies to build two ships even bigger and faster than the new it will take three or tour four years to build them they will be good advertising for the united states but probably will not earn their keep the deficit will bo be made up in what the government pays the company operating them zor barr ying the matis malls the mall mail subsidy of the british government to samuel cunard Is what put the BritiSh flag ahead of ours on oil the Al 75 years ago HOMES ES savings bank heads say that right now Is a more favorable time to b build d I 1 a homo home than we have had since tull the he w war building materials are down labor Is plentiful mortgage money Is cheap those who are secure in their employment can probably build homes now on more favorable terms than they will tie be able to a year from now the same authorities say that thel measure ol of how much a man can afford i to invest in a home Is his average income he Is justified in tying up the equivalent of two years salary it if that Is under a year or of three years income if he earns more than a year thus a man who earns 50 a week can afford a home and from ten to twelve years Is a proper length of time over which to spread the mortgage payments |