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Scenes and Persons in. the Current News * . - .? , ????*.? w'-+ i * * gy23ufianttS?2fa&* mixm j*. k ?*.?? c -v. 1 ? Capt. "William P. Wright of Chicago, elected commander In chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the encampment in Springfield, 111. 2 ? Some of the undesirable aliens, nearly 400 in number, leaving a train at Jersey City en route to Ellis Island for deportation to their native lands. 3 ? Machine gun company of the Illinois National Guard on duty near a mine in southern Illinois to protect miners from strikers. No* More Lost Babies in These Stores No more lost babies, If the Capwell department stores of Oakland, Calif., have anything to say about It, ^hen you check' jrour baby in the nursery you will be sure to get the same baby when you have finished your shopping. Miss +lary Stone who is In charge of the nursery la bolng assisted by Inspector Cooley on account of the grand rush to toe the mark. Bobby Ames la the first to sock his dimpled foot Into the Ink. i SLOT MACHINE MILK i Now London shoppers may Ret fresh milk at nil times from this au tomatic slot machine which, after the money has been Inserted In Its slot, produces a pint bottle of the bever age. Twelve cents Is put In the slot, and when the empty bottle Is replaced in the machine six of the cents are vetarned to the shopper. "HALF PINT" QUARTER Inrlno to. Warburton, tlio "Imlf pint" of ihe University of Southern California #rld squad, was promoted ) to' fljpt team quarterback by Coach Howard .Tones, lie Is twenty-one and U$ llv#* at San Diego. .?.V Church Attendance Was Too Large The little abandoned church Been above Is on a quiet street In Clifton. N. J. Recently prohibition agents noticed It was drawing an astonishing num ber of "worshipers," and on Investigation they discovered the fully furnished bar shown f.n the lower part of the picture. Distribution in Commerce Building Faced with tho problem of distrib uting mnterlnl and supplies over the eight acres of floor spftce in tho new Department of Commerce building ?it Washington, which is said to he the largest office building in the world officials have solved the problem by installing flmall elertrlr fmci-B This Week kjf Arthur Brisbane Heredity and Genius Magic Hangs On Our Trouble Is Sin Ruining an Old Name Two grandsons of the late Marshall Foch, commander of the allies, will enter St. Cyr, French military acad emy, this fall. Believers Id Inherited ability will watch these young men, hoping, however, that there will bq do war to let them show how much of their grandfather's ability they In herited. Military genius Is rarely, If ever, In herited. Philip, father of Alexander, and the father of Frederick the Great, were not military geniuses. Caesar stood alone In his line. The Foch grandsons have this In their favor, they appear to be sons of Foch's daughters. A man's ability is transmitted through his girls, not through his sons according to Galton, authority on heredity and genius. The old days of magic have almost not quite gone. We no longer make a wax Image of our enemy, stick a pin In It every day, and expect the enemy to die at the end of so many days. But among the Ignorant superstitious, magicians still practlcc. Justice Ewlng of Edmonton, Alberta, Issues an In junction to protect a sixteen-year-old girl, Paullon Chlzen, accused of hav ing "the evil eye." In Harlem, New York city, colored and white alleged practitioners of "black magic" are locked up for tell ing fortunes Intended to cure the sick. In Finland four are sent to Jail for exhuming and mutilating corpses in the course of "black magic" opera tions. They said they acted "under Instructions from the spirit world." They will act, for a few years, under Instructions of Ilelslngfors jailers. According to Rev. Dr. Ilenry P. Van Dusen, dean of New York's Union Theological seminary, our depression came, not because we are paying for the big war, not because of over-pro duction, the wickedness of public util ities, or the unloading of tens of mil lions of shares of stock representing nothing in, particular. The whole trouble is sin. "Wholesale, unabashed, ruthless sin" is what ails us, according to Dr. Van Dusen. We have offended God by not believing In him. What a reverend doctor snys must be true, but you wonder whether all the millions Idle, all the children suf fering, have sinned sufllclently to de serve what is happening to them. The ancient market city of Nizhni Novgorod has been renamed "Gorki," In honor of the distinguished Russian writer. Maxim Gorki's genius deserves any reasonable honor, but Nlzhnl-Novgorod does not deserve to lose Its ancient, romantic name, and Gorki probably will be first to protest against the change. To Nizhni-Novgorod's great fair traders came from all over Mongolia and Russia. There the strange crea ture Ivan the Terrible inflicted some of his worst brutalities on men and women. Including nuns. Daisy and Violet Hilton apply for naturalization papers In Chicago. You are surprised to learn that, born In England, they are the ladles known to the world as "the Siamese Twins." Some circus man had a good idea ? "Siamese" added a great deal to thoso twins. They would be entitled pre sumably to two votes. It Is hard to discourage Mussolini. He is sending to us now a gigantic liner, the Rex. built In the worst of the depression, and has just launched the Oceania, another huge liner, to run between Italy and South America. We are supposed to be richer than Mussolini, hut nobody here would think of building newer and bigger steamships. Britain forbids Mahatma Gandhi to talk with Indian political lenders, ac cording to reports from Poona. This seems to change the wise British rulo applied to far away colonies or Hydo Park, "Let them talk all they like, as long they don't do anything." Talk Is a safety valve. Thousands are homeless In Porto Rico, many dead, following one of tho hurricane* born so often in those wa ters. The victims *nre natives living In houses poorly constructed, unable to resist the power of the wind. To discourage murder, take It seri ously. In September Germany re ported not. ono political murder. T,ast July there were 8(1 such murders. A little while ago Von Ifindenhurg Is sued a decree maklng\polltlcal murder a capital offense, and In Germany that means death. From ftfl murders In a month, to none, is an Improvement. ' De Valera. President of the Irish Free State, presiding over the.I^nguo of Nations general assembly, says strange things. Instead of calling tho league perfect, he said If stood undor suspicion, "a defendant nt. the h n? of puWIc opinion." He also demanded that the league .leal with all alike, weak little nations, or powerful big nations. I)e Valera takes the league too serl oiir.Iy if he thinks It will talk to Japan or Italy as It talks to Austria and other countries hamstrung by the treaty of Versailles. ?. IMS, by Klnj? SymllnM*. I??. WNU Service Way* of the Kurds Kurdistan Is u province in Persia Inhabited largely by Kurds, a race of wild and lawless people. Kurds also are found In Turkey and Russia, where they live In the mountainous regions and mix brigandage with their nomadic traits. There are ap proximately 800,000 Persian Kurds, 1,650,000 Turkish Kurds, and 50,000 Russian Kurds. Although the Kurds are a wild and somewhat primitive race, they take great pride In their ancestry, many families tracing their descent bnck to the Omnyyad caliph?. Slnna, the capital of Kurdistan, Is famous for Its beautiful rugs, some ( of which bring handsome prices. Wonders of Imagination Imagination enables a man to sit back in a comfortable ottlce chair and wish he was far away in the count*/ sitting on a rail fence. ? Life. It Is a curious fact that one can enjoy a play whose plot hasn't the slightest plausibility. WON IN THREE BABY SHOWS Mother gives credit to Eagle Brand # Little Rosu Marie Haooertt of Pueblo, Colo., at 1 year, 7 months. E started our baby on Eagle Brand at three months," writes Mrs. W. F. Ilaggerty, 1016 Carterette Ave., Pueblo, Colo., "and she is perfect now. She has won in three baby shows, and I think Eagle Brand ought to have the credit. She is 1 year, 8 months old now, and has never been sick, not even a cold ? and I will send our family doctor's statement if you wish. "The texture of her skin is just like velvet. I sure have praised Eagle Brand, for I think it has made her beautiful. 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