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Plan Tail Lights * for Pedestrians Montreal. ? Pedestrian* who walk along highways and country thor oughfares In the province of Que bec at night soon may be carrying tall lights. The province of Quebec safety league, according to Arthur Gad* boury, general secretary. Is launch ing a campaign, urging all those who travel afoot on country roads to wear a small reflector on their breast and back in order to avoid being hit by automobiles. First Bible to Reach Australia Still Used Sydney, N. S. W.? The first bible and Prayer Bible taken Into Australia were used at the recent service in , St. Philip's church. The books were carried by Rev. Ulchard Johnson when he landed, 14r? years ago. Mr. Johnson was the flrst chaplain of the settlement founded In Sydney Cove by the first fleet bringing set tlers to the new continent. Both books bear the Inscription, "Botony Bay, 1780," but as the sail ing of the fleet was delayed they were flrst used in Australia on January 27, 1788. Ten years later they narrowly escaped destruction in a fire which burned down the flrst church. Find Weather Forecasts 90 Per Cent Correct Salt Lake City, Utah. ? Forecasts of weather men are 00 per cent correct, It was estimated from discussion of meteorologists during the recent Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science convention here. Dr. Herbert \V. Kimball, of Har vard university and president of tlje American Meteorologlcnl society, told of modern methods of predicting the weather. Efficiency Is nearly 00 per cent, he said. Many new facts have been learned from recordings taken from instruments released in free bal loons. The Instruments nre often car ried ten miles Into the air and often become lost in the stratosphere. Brita Is the Ideal Girl of Sweden ) ?Miss Brlta Jakobsson. \vlit? was select mi as the most representative girl ? of iier native country In a recent contest in Stockholm. Boy Appeals to Judge to Help Save His Dog Twin Falls, Idaho. ? Bobbie (Jlnde, Twin Falls boy, appealed to Police Judge Chester Wise to help him save his "valuable dog," "I want a Job so I can buy a license lor my doj;," the lad, only five years of ape, told the judge. "Is lie n good dog?" the Judge asked. "You bet he Is," the boy replied. "1 just paid a nickel for him." Ethiopia Is Melting Pot for Many Races Claims to Be Oldest Christ ian Sovereign State. Washington, D. 0. ? "Ethiopia, nntlve land of Prince Desta Demtu, special ambassador of Emperor Snlle Selassie I, who recently was a visitor at che "White House, Is 350,000 square miles (more than seven times the area of New York state) of rich and produc tive northeastern African plateau," says a bulletin from the Natlonal Geo graphic society. "Also commonly known as Abys sinia, Ethiopia Is mainly a mountain ous region, much broken by deep val leys. Arid, semi-desert country sur rounds It on every side. It does not touch the sea, although some Ethio pian feudal chieftains Hke to grasp a marine telescope as they pose for a fornaal photograph. "In the empire there are about 10. - 000,000 Inhabitants, about one-hftlf of whom are Christians of the true Ethiopian (Hamltlc-Semltlc) type. They are the Inheritors of an ancient civilization under whose feudal form of government are estimated to be sqv-' eral million Moslems and pagans. The latter are mainly negroes. "Ethiopia Is surrounded by African colonial possessions of Great Britain, France, and Italy. As the Ethiopia of Solomon's time, It probably Included all of these adjacent territories, with nn Egyptian frontier, and that part of southwestern Arnbla known today as the Yemen and Hadhramaut. Malting Pot of Race*. "The traveler Is not !r,r.? 'n Ethio pia until he Is aware that the country Is a sort of melting pot of Africans and Asiatic* of many rr.ces. Some of the blood came from ancient Palestine, some from Arabia, and some from the shores of the Caspian. The Ethiopians claim with pride a strong relation to the Semites. "Ethiopia's front door Is the French port, Djibouti, French Somallland. Viewed from nn approaching steamer, the port town's small group of white wanhed stone and mud buildings and pyramidal piles of salt glisten and sparkle In the tropical sun. Evaporat ing salt from sea water In Djibouti's leading Industry. There Is Just s sug gestion. of the immediate background of trtwny desert and of the purplish tnountMfi Shapes of Ethlopln In the far distance. "Dj)lb6Utl IS the terminus of the B00-m(lft railway that llnkn the port ? with ,?$he Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Thr? Railway Is Ethiopia's only modern connection with the out side world. "The railroad right-of-way skirts the Harar district of Ethiopia, the center of production of Ethiopian coffee. The coffeft bean produced there Is Of ex* cellent quality and ranks next to Mocha In the world's markets. It Is called longberry Mocha' and Is sold to a discriminating clientele In the United States. '?^Ithoughthe Harar plant* are de scended from seed Introduced from the Mocha district of Arabia, Rthlo pis IS the home of coffee. The tree was found originally by Afab travel ers In the Ethiopian province of Kara, from which It took Its name. "Addis Ababa, which, Incidentally Is the home of Prince Destu Demtu, sprawls In a forest of blue gum trees with the church-crowned Mount Intot to, forming a lofty background. Becoming Modern. "Although somewhat Isolated, the city Is steadily Improving along mod ern lines. In 1929, a one-story frame building was replaced by a handsome stone railroad station. At this build ing the traveler not only gets n glimpse of the capital's permanent and tran sient population, but of some of Ethio pia's leading articles of trade. They Include bales of hides nnd skins, col lected from interior provinces nnd brought to Addis Ababa for export to Europe and America: stacks of coffee baps; piles of elephant tusks; and bales of American cotton piece goods which are h principal import. "A . ride of twenty minutes on mule or horseback or five minutes by motor takes the visitor to the main part of the city of the 'New Flower.' On one of the two principal elevations of the city is the ever-interesting market place. There once stood the great tree which served for generations as n gib bet. In bygone days It sometimes bora as many as seven criminals, generally thieves. On the site now Is n fine equestrian statue of the late Empero* Menelik. "Near the market are legations, con sulates, hotels, and many modern busi ness buildings. The city has about 200, <XH) Inhabitants, about fi.OOO of whom are foreigners, including about HO Americans. "The other elevation of Addis Ababa is crowned by s the group of buildings which make up the Imperial palace. "Ethiopia claims to be the oldest Christian sovereign state. Christianity was Introduced about A. D. 330. There are about in, 000 Christian state churches In the empire. A single church may have as many as 300 priests. "After the profession of priest and soldier, farming Is the prlncipol oc cupation In Ethiopia. The country is very fertile, though methods of culti vation in many districts are still prim itive." Dead Texan Aids Town Museum History of Bad Man Financea Big Building. Randern, Texas.? Sam Bass would turn over In his outlnw'B grove If he knew how his deeds of violence had been utilized by a peace-loving society In the establishment of one of Its most tranquil Institutions ? n museum. For Sam Bass, whose career of crime added to the color If not the well-being of early-dny Texas, was the foe of peace, and his nature was by no meanR compatible with the musty, static atmosphere of a repository for dust-gathering relics. Sam was forced Into his Inconsistent role by J. Marvin Hunter, whose "The Frontier Times" hns mnde this com munity, 47 miles distant 'from a rn 11-" road, known wherever the magnzine Is circulated. PREPARING for grid Hoy Kngle. cftpt?ln-el?ct of tli?? Uni versity of Pennsylvania foot bn 1 1 tonm, keep* In condition during the summer month* by toying electric conduits In Philadelphia. Hunter, n little more than ten years ago, left the composing room of the Sart Antonio, Texas, Express, and cnme here to buy a small country weekly. With him he brought an Idea and a scrapbook ? and little else. The scrapbook was filled with first hand, autobiographical accounts of stirring events In Texas history writ ten by the pioneers who lived through , them. His Idea was that these events, | supplemented by accounts of otherrt he expected to gather, would make In- j terestlng reading for Texans every where and for others for whom the | making of a great state might hold j fascination. "The Frontier Times" prospered, I gained thousands of readers through- j out Texas and the nation and abroad. Hooks came In their course to supple ment the magazine, all published here. Along with ,the multitude of colorful facts he dug tip. Hunter collected , Items redolent of Texas. Including fos- ! slls, peculiar rock formations, Indian I relics and museum pieces from the era j of pioneers. The collection finally | overran the small print shojV Hunter determined to build n mu- I seum to house his collection. Hut n ' museum would have to he financed. I Here Sam Hoss, long In his grave j after the bat.tle of Itound Itock In j which he was killed, came to the rescue. Hunter had written a book, "Au thentic History of Ram Hass and His dang." Hunter decided to market enough copies to pay for the museum | building. Among the museum pieces are hun dreds of relics including rifles, pistols, muskets, spinning wheels, saddles, cooking utensils and farm tools, lar lats, spurs, powder horns, bullet molds, and phofographs of early Texnns In cluding rangers and desperadoes. Old Coin C*eh? Found Vlshy, Sweden. ? A cache of nnclent gold coins has been found near here on the Swedish Island of Gotland, In the Bnltlc sen. Some of the coins date back to 1411. In CUu t?y Himialf Kansas City, Kan.- 'Anders Mlndn dahl had a commencement all his own In graduating from the May wood rural grade Hchnol. Anders was the only graduate. This Week by Arthur Brisbane Much Law, Little Action Ho Missed Both Wives Murder in a Blanket About Crimfe One trouble with this country Is that It has too much lawmaking, not enough action. A British person named Bretherton makes this observation : "Not the number or excellence of a country's laws but the extent to which they are obeyed Is the real test of a civilization. In the last ten years the United States has passed over five hundred thousand legislative enact ments. In the same period Greui Bri tain passed seventeen thousand. At the same time fifty murders are commit ted In the United States for every one committed In Great Britain." The value of laws doesn*t depend so much on "the extent to which they are obeyed" as on the extent to which they are enforced. John Szabo. shoemaker, had two wives and missed them both. One \ died seven years ago and one four | years ago. He burled them side by side, and when, sixty-flve years old. he missed them too much, he shot him- j self so that his body would drop on 1 both their graves. Ills request to an j undertaker to bury him near them cannot he granted. That graveyard does not accept suicides. He Is with them now. perhaps, or perhaps with only one, depending on the rule concerning those that have two or more wives In the better land. Perhaps the number does not matter whore they are Just spirits. How would Solomon manage? A new kind of gang murder in New York. A truck driver Is found wrapped In a brown blanket. His necktie showed that as he struggled he was compelled to strangle himself. Noth ing like that since a caliph, told of by Marco Polo, tied a neighboring chieftain, whom he had Just conquered, in an oriental rug and had him tram pled to death by horses, thus "avoid ing bloodshed." Governor Lehman of New York says "professional gang elements preying upon lawful Industry havo grown to such proportions that drastic meas ures are Immediately needed." Mr. Mnlroone.v, formerly police com missioner of New York, wants "an American Devil's Island" to discour age racketeers, and advocates the use of the lash. A grand Jury official tells Senator Copeland that witnesses against gang sters "stand before us terrified, per- ; splratlon standing out upon them, afraid to speak out." ( Itacketeers, it seems, keep spies around the grand Jury room, and who- j ever talks is quickly punished. Mr. Medalle, United States prosecu tor. tells Senator Copeland, Investigat ing rackets, that he can name four Im portant political leaders In New York that are controlled by gangsters, and work In co-operation with them. Racketeers, according to Mr. Meda lie, contribute to both of the1 political parties. The federal government ought to ask Mr. Medalle about his "four leaders." Agents of the United States gov ernment are showing "regular police men" how to catch criminals and make kidnaping and murder unsafe. The most Important capture Is that of Harvey Bailey, accused of the wholesale massacre of four police offi cers and one prisoner In Knnsas City. Mr. Bailey had said, "I shall never be taken alive." But when, waking from a sound sleep, he looked Into the barrel of a machine gun he said, "Well, It looks like it's Just too bad, doesn't it?" and offered his wrists to the hand cuffs. For htrn It may be much too had, as he Is wnnted for murder, connected with kfflnaplng in Missouri. There the penalty for ^either crime Is death, and they Inflict It. To build up a big fortune In Eng land Is to work for old John Bull. He takes his shnre when you die, the big ger the fortune, the bigger his per centage. Sir John Beeves Ellerman died, leaving more than sev enteen million pounds In cash and gov ernment securities, and the govern ment gets eight million six hundred thousand pounds of Inheritance tax. The total estate will be about thirty million pounds, meaning nnother seven or eight million pounds for the gov ernment. A determined person is Mahatm* Gandhi of India. The British know It, and fear him more than all the savage tribes of the northwest fron tier. An Idea, backed by sincerity. In dangerous. Now Onndhl, who has kept his word always, tells England that If It does not make concessions he, Gandhi, will starve himself to death. The British know he will keep hi* word, and they yield sufficiently to keep the brave, emaciated little creature living. What 240,000,000 Hindu* might do, fol lowing Gandhi's protest death,- no one knows. Irritating news for Mr. Hitler of Germany : The original dictator, Mus solini, whom Hitler Imitates, doea not Intend to be No. 2 In anything, and his great ocean passenger iihlp, Ilex, has Just taken the ocean record away from Chancellor Hltler'a crack slilp, Ruropa. ttlt, by King Praturt* Syndicate, Inn. WNII S?rr1o? PRESIDENT SPEEDS CODE COMPLETION Agreements by Basic Indus tries Are Urged. Washington. ? President Roosevelt | Intervened to speed nctlon on codes for : the conl, steel and oil Industries which | threnten serlotiS delay to the national 1 recovery program. After returning from St. Louis, ! where he addressed an NRA rally, I Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, recovery ad- j mlnlstrator, was summoned to the White House. lie spent an hour with Mr. Roosevelt and left hurriedly with out comment. Refore conferring with the Presi dent. Mr. Johnson summoned his aides and obtained latest reports on develop 1 mts In the coal Industry. William Green. president of the American Fed eration of Labor, brought late Informa tion. The steel Industry has heavy Interests In conl corporations, and on the outcome of the coal fight may de pend what happens to steel nnd Its code. Officials of the recovery ndmlnlstra- ! tlon admit apprehension over the | bituminous conl situation. The In dustry Is split over recognition of tho ! United Mine Workers of America nnd over minimum wages. In the vast conl regions of Pennsyl vania. the problem is especially acute. It formed the hasis of n conference be tween Governor Pinchot and President Roosevelt. The Pennsylvania irovernor reported the feeling In his stnte ex- j treniel.v tense. He frankly Informed the President thnt it was vitally necos- I sary thnt a conl agreement be reached j without further delay. As efforts were pushed to solve j problems threatening the smooth pro~. 1 ress of the recovery program, the first j serious dissension in administration ranks ended in the resignation of Pr<if. William F. Oghurn. nationally known sociologist, from tho consumers' ad visory board. Ogbnrn clashed with Mrs. Mary Rnmsoy. chairman of tbe board, over policies. General Johnson and Secre tary of Commerce Roper sought to transfer him to tbe central statistical board. Oghurn declined the transfer. In ills letter of resignation he sharplv criticized failure of recovery officials to protect the consumer from unwar ranted price Increases. George L. Googo of Atlanta south ern representative of American Fed eration of Labor, submitted to Edward F. McGrad.v of the recovery agency r>00 complaints of textile cod?- viola tions. Application of the agreement. Googe said, actually resulted In pay reductions for experienced workers. Favors Cost Druggan 5 Months in Prison Washington. ? Terrence Druggnn. Chicago beer baron, lost five months of liberty and landed in a segregation i ward pending transfer to the Atlanta penitent iary/f>eoa use of privileges he j obtained at the Leavenworth penitenfl [ ary annex. The Department of Justice said It i had approved the action of the trial board at the prison in taking ir>0 rki.vs i of good behavior time from Druggan. The department also announced that Deputy Warden P. J Kearnev had been suspended because of the Druggan affair and thnt Chaplain James A. Ording. Lester M Wnhler. guard, and Vernon R. Swearingen. au tomohlle mechanic foreman, had been ; dismissed. The department said that Robert FT. i Hudspeth, warden of tbe annex, ha 1 I been censured, but that it appeared j no Name could attach to him except 1 for carelessness. Michigan Boy Sentenced for Murdering Mother I Flint. Mich. ? Ralfe Mar-Donald, seventeen-year-old slayer of his wenlthv 1 mother. Mrs. Grace MacDonald. plead ed guilty In Circuit court to a man slaughter charge and was sentenced to serve from 10 to 1T> years In tlie state prison at Jackson. In accepting a plen to manslaughter Instend of murder, the original charge j Judge James S. Parker said he was i convinced from a study of the case records that the young prisoner killed his mother In n fit of anger after a , quarrel. Mrs. MacDonald w?i beaten | to death with a book end on May 27. i Tobacco Strike in Puerto Rico Settled : San Juan. ? A str "*e of tobneco strip | pers Involving more than fi.OOO persons < wan settled, following a visit of Gov. : Robert H. Gore to one of the strike centers, where be was cheered by the ! w irkers. Upon his return to bis office he re celved a telegram announcing a settle ment of the difficulties, which Included a SO per cent wage Increase for thos# receiving less than 75 cents if day nnd 20 per cent for those getting more than that amount. John II. W?t?ri Di?t Washington.? John H. Waters, sev- i enty-four, president of the National Rftdlator corporation and of the Unit ?r' States National hank at Johns town, Pa., who collapsed during a con ference In the treasury, died In a hos pltnl. M?rfic?I Educator Di?? Chicago.? Dr. John M. Dodson, not- I ed medical educator and until recently ' editor of the health magazine, Fly* la, died at his homo of uremia, lift wan ?eventy-fotir year* old. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson (Bjr REV. P. B. FITZ WATER, D. D.. Mem ber of Faculty, Moody Blbla Institute of Chlcavo. ) ?, 19SS. Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for September 3 DAVI O LESSON TEXT ? I Samuel 16 4-13; Psalm 78:70-72. GOLDEN TEXT? But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his counte nance, or on the helKht of his stature: because I have refused him: for th? Lord seeth not an man seeth; for man j looketh on the outward appeirance, i but the Lord looketh on the heart. I Sam. 16:7. PRIMARY TOPIC ? A Shepherd Boy. JUNIOR TOPIC ? A Shepherd Boy | Who Became Klnp:. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP 1 IC ? Why David Was Chosen KlnR. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC ? The Secret of True Greatness. io'"o"l1v!5:.^epherd B0)' (I Sam As a young man !??_ was engaged In keeping Ills father's sheep. Such a hut It hn,Ve ten',Pd to indolence, hut it pr0V0(] otherwise Ho became athletic. As he himself tells " ' ,h0 <lofense of his father's sheep . Rlew a ""n and a hear. His mu as? ?onSbeP h m' !>rOUKht ,lim 8Wh fmn? court J.|rn,,p<1 to '),nv ?t the royal ? I',0n' tno- h,> >?"> become such ? Pert mnrkstnan ns to throw his tone to foil (ho Philistine giant. J'. David Anointed King <10 ivy , n"UIT, S?nt to nnoim Snn'l hl\ ^ sit,,?<'on was delicate. Snul had lipcomc ? desperate charao. or the divine commission to be come known to Saul, therefore, would Imperil Samuel's life. r i~o\ ' 'ip, mothm| of selection (vv. ? I he Lord had mad.- known to ? amuol that one of Jesse's sons was tn ho M?. liinjr. .tl),lr ' ' " (>n<> <" Jesse's sons had o<n looked upon, and siill the Lord's < ioice l,ad not appeared, when the ? hepherd lad appeared before Samuel 7 nCn ,0il W!,s "PPlled the Spirit of the ?-ord came upon him. dom' ?aVid' 3 KiMfl With0l,t King. While Saul was rejected, the time had not yet come for David to he head ie nation. He needed much traili ng before assuming such responslhil ' ' ' ll)en- ,no* ??>e evil I nil uences in augurated hy Saul needed time for de velopment so as to he properlv dis cerned and controlled (I fcXV'* " ,'OV'" C""rl a. He was called as n musician to minister before the king (diaps. 10 Thb0 Vit'!?ry ?VPr n?liath <th?P- 17). The armies of Saul and the Philistines were arrayed against each other. Ac cording to an ancient custom, the issue was to he determined by a combat be tween two selected champions. The nation whose champion was victorious was to rule. The Philistine champion was Oollath. the giant. The sight of Israels cowardice prompted David to Offer his service. When Oollath be held David coming against him, he cursed him by his gods, showing that It was not merely a battle between Da\ld and Oollath, but between false gods and the true C.od, c. Friendship with Jonathan (chan friendship has become Im mortalized In the world's thought It was unique In that It occurred' be tween (wo men of rival worldly Inter ests. Jonathan was the crowji' prim e and therefore heir to the throne. Da vid was heir according to the divine P an. Jonathan knew this and waived his rights to the one whom Ood had chosen. In the establishment of the covenant between them. Jonathan stripped himself of his coat, robe, and equipment, giving them to David. This meant a virtual abdication of the throne to David. As a friend, Jona than ? (1) Defended Oavld from Saul's frenzy (P.); 1-7). * (2) Revealed fo David Saul's mur derous Intent (20 .M0-4O). 1'. David's life as an outcast. f'hnr> ters 21 to :<l describe David's life be tween his being driven out from the presenee of Saul and his being estab II. lied king. 1 he praise aeeorded him following the viefory over Oollath pro voked such violent Jealousy In the heart of Saul that he sought to kill David. lo escape Saul's wrath he fled the country and feigned madness o !V,', D'V,d- Made K,n? <" K?rn. I .' 1 - 1 4 ; f? : 1 - ; ? ) . L Over Judah (H Sam. 2 M i) iln on the death of Haul. Ood directed David to proceed to Hebron and lm was there anointed king over Judah 2. Over Israel (II Sain. 5:1 r, ) Aft er the death of Ishbosheth, the chil dren of Israel came nnd formed a league with David, anointing him as kinK- n,,,V nsslgned as their reasons: a. He was their brother. b. He was their leader In war c. He was the Lords choice. Fv^'-tinr Arm* "The everlasting arms." f think of them whenever rest Is sweet? how the whole earth and the strength of It that Is, a I mightiness, Is beneath every tired creature, to give It rest, holdlnr tin always. No thought of Ood Is closer than that. --Adeline D. T Whit ney. to Rntr Losses and crosses are heavy to hear; but when our hearts nre right with Ood. it Is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.? <!. ft. Hptirgeon.