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This Week b Arthur Brisbane The Great Pacific Greece Is Quite Frank The Stone Quarry Fight National Economy Gallup, N. M. ? This Is written high In the mountains of northern Arizona, a long way from the greut Pacific, You always regret leaving that big ocean, for It Beems to say as you turn your back, "Why do you leave? I am the only real thing on the earth." ? Into that vast ocean, stretching In a curve thousands of miles to the west, 10,000 Old Man Mississippi rivers might pour their waters. ' and Dot change the ocean level one-hundredth of an Inch. . It Is an ocean to make worrying human microbes, along Its shores, ask themselves what they nre worrying about. Greece does not beat about the bush, ' or ask Uncle Sam to forget her debt. 8he borrowed $12,500,000 Id 1027 aod Id good diplomatic language says she will not pay It You will soon hear from others. Germany is all mlx'ed up on govern ment matters, no one thus far being able to form a cabinet. But Bhe has Von Hlndenhurg at the helm, and Is rid of reparations payments. It might be worse. There Is little doubt that congress will say, "Pay or default." Senator Capper of Kansas says: "The people In my state will never stand for modi fication or cancellation." You would not either, If you had been selling wheat at the f. o. b. Kansas farm price. Senator Hiram Johnson soys: "They can and must pay." They, at least the big ones, can pay. for they have the gold. But there Is no "must." They can also default and there would be no war about It. Three felons at hard labor In the stone quarry of San Quentin prison engaged In a murderous quarrel with pieces of Jagged rock. Threats of the guards to shoot them dead calmed them, after half an hour's battle, when they had nearly killed each other. There they were, Imprisoned, forced to labor for their bread, and trying to kill each other, with no more In telligence than the great nntlons in the big war. Governor Roosevelt, at Warm Springs. Va., Is working on problems of national economy. "Drastic consoli dations within the Navy department" are Included In Ills program. Governor Roosevelt knows the navy, having been assistant secretary, and believes that economies are possible, without weak1 enlng our "first line of defense." Some day, when airplanes and sub marines are recognized as our first line of defense, and 90 per cent of al? our defense against aggression from across the water, national defense will not cost so much. A gold mine has been found neat Mount Ararat, at Kaglzman, aud Tur key, which owns that territory, ex pects to take out $300,000,000 in gold That will Interest many Americana that haven't thought about Mount Ararat since Sunday school days, when they Relieved the Ark landed on a sharp mountain peak, all the animals , being lowered by rope. i This would Interest angels. Chicago has a "conveniences" shop, operated for charity, prepared to do ; almost anything. A lady telephoned ? for a boy to exercise her dog on a j rainy night, and the boy who came, eager to earn a little money, was so small, so young, that the nwnor of the | dog felt bound to walk with him, test | ho be run over. Sho walked both hoy ' and dog. This Is an interesting drill- ! ration. If you hired a pup to walk a boy on a rainy night the "cruelty so- | elety" would lock you up. At Winslow. near the border be tween Arizona and New Mexico, you drop letters for the eastbound mall plane that will soon fly through. Friends In New York will see the let ters two days before they see you. That Is progress. The grand champion lamb nt the I,os Angeles stock show sold for $4.10 per pound, Interesting to sheep farmers evorywhere. They would he moro In terested to hear of average lambs, not grand champions, selling nt $4.10 a pound without the four dollars ? Just for 10 cents. Lamb* nre selling now At 5 cents a pound, top price for live weight. The prize lamb, ? Southdown, sold for $800, highest price paid anywhere this yenr, The sad thing Is that the lamb does notNknow about It and gets none of the money. A woman's patriotic organization asks our government to bnr Prof. Al- I bert Blnsteln from this country on the ground that he Is "affiliated with more Communist and anarchist groups than fitnlln' himself." Mrs, Randolph Frothlngham. whe makes this request, wants Trotzkf barred also If he tries to come In. This will surprise Professor Bin stein, mildly, and perhaps cause him to develop new theories on the tcIs tlvlty of common sense. To clear up such situations soma ladles* organisation should list tha things that foreign visitors, and na lives, may and may not believe. t by Kl^ajorj-syosieat., Worshipping the Toon of Buddha Probably for the first time the ancient ceremony of worshipping the holy tooth of Buddha, preserved In a temple at Kfindy, Ceylon, has been photo prraphed, and the picture Is here Bhown. FOUR BIG PROJECTS TO COST TWO BILLION Dams Will Provide Millions of Horse Power. Washington. ? Outweighing all other single constructive enterprises of mankind except the building of roads and railroads, four gigantic water pow er projects now under way In America will make economic history when brought to completion. The total cost of the four projects Is more than $2, 000,000,000. The four projects are the Muscle Shoals project on the Tennessee river, Hoover dam on the Colorado, the pro posed St. Lawrence dam or dams, and the proposed Columbia river dams. The Muscle Shoals project, built after the beginning of the World war, was primarily to provide a dependable supply of nitrogen for making explo to provide them by taking thorn from the air through a process requiring the use of electricity. The result was the Wilson dam, a majestic structure 4,300 feet wide, 142 feet high, and equipped with 90 great flood pates. To date It has cost the government In the neighborhood of $l.r>0,000,000. The dam and the plant were not completed until 1925. Since 1020 the dam has been producing power, though, because of an inadequate distributing system, not to Its full capacity. At times the Tennessee sends down enough water to produce 1,000,000 .horse power, and It has been esti mated that If the river were Improved along Its whole length 3,000,000 horse power could be developed. Hoover dam, originally known as Boulder dam. Is the only one of the TO HIM THAT HATH Br THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Late Dean of Men, University of Illinois. In the parable of the talents we are left to suppose that the various men Into whose care the rich man put his possessions were equally wor thy and equally needy. They had varied ublllty to muke use of what was given Into their keeping. The man who had the one talent did nothing with It. lie laid It careful ly away wrapped In cotton butting so It was as Bhlny when he gave It back to his benefactor as It was put Into his hands. It ased to seem to me a little un fair If not heartless that It was taken away from him and given, not to the neediest man, but to the man who had the most because he had made best use of his opportunities; but I have come to see that in general that Is the way of the world, and possibly It Is the Just way. A small scholarship fund was avail able not long ago for helping needy students. Those who could qualify as to the conditions laid down by the donor were eligible for a gift of one hundred dollars. There were a num ber of candidates, and one member of the committee put this proposition up to me for my opinion : "Here are two young women," she stated, "equally needy and, so far as I can see. equally worthy. One of them can never hold a Job long if you find one for her. She has little re sourcefulness. "The second girl by a mere sugges tion can establish herself. She seems to know how to look well-dressed on next to nothing. If she gets hold of a little money she can make It go a long way. a very little help would put her Into what she would consider Contract Bridgfe Grows Into Leading Industry Taxes on Card* Alone Brings in 5 Million Yearly. New York. ? The next time you foo zle a squeeze and vow lu u moment of disgust to throw away the bridge cards and take up piny pong reconsid er your hasty decision and remember that every hand you play helps Uncle Sam in Washington and aids In build ing up a business now worth $100,000, 000 a year. For a survey has disclosed that con Swimming "Natural" Little Jean Fuller, thirteen-year-old member of the Fairmont Motel Swim ming club of San Francisco. Is called a "natural" In swimming and recently has made the mile in 28 minutes, which would be good time for men; the 100 yards in 1 minute, 12 seconds, and 50 yards in 31 seconds. Her am bition Is to win the 1930 Olympic Bwlm. tract bridge Is fast taking Its plac*? along with the leading Industries In the United States. Conservative estimates place the number of active contract bridge play ers, experts and partners who still pass after two-demand bids included, at no less than 1 5.000,000. Baseball, so-called national pastime, never bad this number in all Its his tory. These 1 5,000.000 hardy souls, who struggle with contradictory system* and survive night after night, buy each year a total of some 50,000,000 decks. The United Stales treasury receives 10 cents tax on every deck, or some $5,000,000 annually. There are now some 5.000 bridge teachers In the country. Their earn ings aggregate between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 a year at least. The sale of tables, chairs, scoro pads, party favors, duplicate bvldge boards and the like reaches a trulj staggering total. One book alone, ex pounding a popular system of con tract bridge, has sold 500.000 copies. Bridge has broken Into the movies and Into radio broadcasting. Tourna ments staged throughout the country for profit or charity realize a tremen dous turnover. >411 ylroiind /he House Press crumpled tissue paper with a warm Iron and It will be "as good as dow." ? ? ? Prepared breakfast cereals may t>?? kept crisp by putting them In glass Jars with tight covers. ? ? ? To polish n black marble clock rub It with olive oil and finish the polish ing with a olean chamois. ? ? ? Keep a strong rubber band around the baking powder can under which slip an aluminum teaspoon. In this SUCH IS LIFE ? No Waste Effort Here By Charles Sughroe low, HO ! -^rewivsrM>kS ? \i \s a tow^ y off Blves. Hoover dam, now under con struction, Is part of a vast plan for providing power, conserving water for Irrigation and domestic uses, and pre venting floods. The St. Lawrence project is Intended to provide power and to open the Great Lakes to deep water navigation. The Columbia river project, also, still an engineer's dream, will permit ocean vessels to go farther up the river for Irrigation. To Cost $2,000,000,000. Estimates at present Indicate that at least $2,000,000,000 will be needed to cover the expenses of dams, power plants, and work directly connected with them. The power produced when the plants are operating in full capac ity will be between C.Oftft.OOft and 7,000, 000 horse power ? or nearly half the capacity of all the existing water pow er plants In the United Stateg. Installations which army engineers last autumn recommended for the Co lumbia river alone would yield the equivalent of more than 4ft per cent of the total production of electric power In the United States In 1930 nnd only a little less than the total amount pro duced In 1020. Proposals for Improvement of the Tennessee river, which drops f? 00 feet In flowing 0.r)2 miles, were brought to a head by the crisis of the World war. The United States needed nitrates. The Musote Shoals plants weVe built M. C. From Kansas Ml** Katy O'ljwghlln of liny*, Kan,, la the flr*t woman olootod to reprn*ent Kannn* In conRro**. 8h? J* thirty eight year* old. Hutming ?? a Democrat, who won ovor tho Incum bent, Kopreaentatlv? O. I. Spark*, In tho normally Republican Sixth dlHtrlct. four major projects that la now under way. It Is located In the Black can yon, In Arizona. The Hoover Dam. Although Hoover dam will be ex ceeded In power production by the St Lawrence and the Columbia river pow er developments, It has certain the atrical qualities, arising from the rugged nature of the region and the river, such as no other power project In the world possesses. The dam will be able to hold two years of pormal flow of the Colorado river. It will de velop about 000,000 constant horse power, with a maximum capacity of about twice that much. The total cost to the government of Hoover dam has been put at not more thnn $165,000,000 by net of congress. The development of tho St. Law rence river is part of a far flung plan to Improve on nature by opening the Orent Lakes to deep draft vessels. The plans for the development of the Columbia river are still on paper. The possibilities of the Columbia, as Rhown In army engineers' report, are nothing short of astounding. In the river and Its tributaries. It has been ' estimated, Is a potential horse power of about 10,000.000. In ten dams, | which have been proposed, there would be about 3.400,000 horse power. CJabby Qer tie "A atApatlck o?m?dl*n la umially all rapped up In hla work." affluent circumstances. Now, which one should we give the scholarship to?" It was a case of the ten talents over again I could see. ?. H3t, Woatern Nowepapor Union. Afternoon Ensemble Charming nfternoon enfletnble In black wool erepe with on p Rleeved bolero braided to resemble I'erRlan lamb. OodetR of tho fur fabric Rive a porky tin re to tho front peplum. From Corbenn et Cle. Puritan Regulation An not of tho Kngllfth I'urltnn par liament of 1044 prohibited tho Rotting lip or dancing around the maypole, a cufltom which had exlflted throughout tho hlRtory of medieval and Tudor (Cngland. The roRtoratlon brought back the mnypole nnd one 184 feet high wiifi sot up Ip the Strand, Ixmdon, by 12 HrltlRh nallorn under the per Ronal nupervlRlon of Jnme* IT, then duke of York. POTPOURRI Human Fly Catchers In some sections of West Africa native laborers work with glue fly catchers covering their backs in order to catch as many tsetse flies as possible. This fly is the one that spreads deadly sleeping sick ness through a parasite organism it carries. Its extermination hns been h srlfntlflf problem for years. ?, 1938, Western Newspaper Union. "Drinking" Tobacco What is now called smoking was nt nn early period termed drinking to bacco; In fact, the term was constant ly In use until the middle of the Seventeenth century. It probably orig inated In the custom of Inhaling smoke and allowing It to escape through the nose. wny It's always ready for use when baking. ? ? ? If a can of paint is placed upside down for several hours before open Ing it will not be necessary to mix it before using. ? * ? Cut angel food cake or sponge cake into fancy shapes, toast and servo warm with afternoon tea or the eve ning Ice cream. * ? ? To dry out the lining of shoes when they become wot, place a lighted elec tric bulb Inside of shoe, hut do not al low It to remain long enough to burn lining. * ? ? Cook a week's supply of different dried fruits nnd put In empty plckh? or olive Jars. The fruit Is ready for breakfast without any delay. It will not spoil If kept In a cool place. ODD THINGS AND NEW? By Lame Bode f wruuR MAUFE Cincinnati , o., PUT 790 THREADS in ONE NEEDLE f\oorxis- op WIME too VEAflS OLD 19 MO 9TR0N6ER tH^N WHFN I VCAP OLD DID NOT CONTEND THAT MAN DESCENDED PROM MONKEVS.. 0 Mtn fr*4, >u iw R.LEWIS OP flUSTPftUrt HA9 BEE H f\ <JOCK? Y *0/? 35 VP9. WNt/ H?rvlc?.