Show FRAN V PAR K E refreshment in my new england boyhood a sign frequently seen on oa country taverns vms refreshment for man and beast you could feed your hones ard ar d yourself at I 1 I 1 the tame same time horses have given elvea place j to tho the automobile and the filling station 1 alon takes akca the place of the wagon shed while the food obtainable along the high j ways varies arles as a rule tram irani bad to vocie j aste ask any motor tourist how many places he found to eat the food was really palatable hell remember them ix all it Is no tax on the memory I 1 with everything else becoming standardized dardI zed the movement to standardize roadside food stations so that the motorist can be sure bure before trying his luck of what he Is going coins to get was bound to come one of the big oil companies operating its own gasoline filling stations has made a deal with a large restaurant organization which operates a chain of eating places in many parts of the country light lunches of good quality and real coffee are to be served at the filling filing stations I 1 can think of nothing better calculated to encourage motor touring GOLD with their money depreciated and their nation off ob the gold standard the people of england are showing their patriotism by turning in their gold jewelry and ornaments to be melted up lor for money one noble dulse duke gave up his coronet worth in coin but many times that in sentimental association of course the people who are doing this get the bullion value of their gold in the form of bank notes but it strengthens their nations financial position because it puts the gold here it can be weighed and counted as a basis for currency which Is impossible when it Is in private banks gold Is us as a basis of money the debate on the glass bill just enacted disclosed the tact fact that only a part of americas gold reserve the largest in the world was available for monetary purposes owing to a defect in the original federal reserve law the new law remedies that defect and we wont have to give up our coronets yet awhile to keep our currency issues up in sufficient volume for business needs SILVER talk about restoring silver to its place a os sa a basis ol of money Is being heard everywhere the latest move in this direction Is the introduction in congress by representative senta renta tive somers of brooklyn of a resolution for an international conference on silver I 1 am not sure that I 1 agree with my friend rene leon regarded as the foremost authority on silver that the of silver by the british government in india in 1926 Is at the bottom of all of the worlds present economic trouble but I 1 do believe that the legal of silver up to a reasonable per i abage of gold as a basis for currency bould v help to stabilize finance and business q at any rate as I 1 have often said before in this column silver Is something interesting te to watch DUCKS it looks look SS as it if the twentieth amendment to the constitution of the united states would be one which would change the date of presidential inaugurations and eliminate lame ducks from con giess As things are now we elect a new president and Con giess gless in november but their term of office does not begin until march ath the next year in the meantime the old congress holds a session in which defeated members knon as lams lame ducks still sit this Is a hangover from the old stagecoach horseback days of slow travel it used to take three or four months to get to washington both houses of congress have agreed to submit a constitutional amendment men dment making january 3rd ard the date for congress to meet with ith only the new ly elected members sitting and the new president to take office on january instead of on march ath this probably cannot become effective before 1936 as it Is not likely enough states will ratify it to put it into force for 1932 AMERICA while the star spangled banner Is the official national anthem of the united states many more people can slog sing america the familiar song beginning my country ot of thee that was written just years ago in 1832 by the rev samuel francis smith who was then a theological student he discovered rn nn old german tune in a collection of 0 hymns and in halt an hour bad written the words which are still sung to fit the tune it was not until some time atter after ards that the same tune was adopted in england lor for the national anthene ant anthem heni god save the |