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This Week b Arthur Brisbane I1 ? V New Bonds for Old Too Many Strikes Suppose They Earn It? 10,000 Octillions The United States calls In old bonds, puts out new ones. It will sell for cash $500,000,000 worth of the new bonds. The result will be load ing on the backs of taxpayers an an nual Interest charge that would soon pay off the bonds. The government could have paid off those bondB and could pay off all other bonds now outstanding, with new money signed by the government, that woijld -have tyeen exactly as good as the bonds themselves. If that were done $20,000,000,000 would be put Into circulation and prosperity would return. Genera) Johnson, boss of NRA, eays > strikes may doom labor and the NRA, that they are not "needed under the j President's mediation machinery. NRA i may have to veto even the decisions ! of labor unions when Industry and "40.000.000 workers are organized." Mr. Grady, assistant secretary of la- ( bor, threatens to ask congress for power to settle all strikes Involving , federal work, thus opening the way i to government control of unions. If, as General Johnson suggests, I 40.000,000 workers In the United States are to be unionized, this ques tion will have to be settled, which Is the most powerful union In the United States, the labor union or the Union of 48 states? NRA thinks child movie stars are paid "more than they should be paid," and Is distressed about "directors re ceiving five or six times the salary of t the President." The directors will quote Johnson : "Comparisons are odious," and suggest, reasonably, that the question Is not h^v much they get, but whether they earn whnt they j get. If one mining engineer can tell you ' where to find gold, and another only , tells you where you can find nothing, j you would rather have the former, even at a higher salary. You might even divide the gold with him "50-50." j That's all there Is to the "too big salary" question. Professor John N. Cameron, mathe matician at the Northwestern State Teachers' college, offers this : If Judas had taken one dollar from his pieces of silver and Invested It at 4 per cent, compounded semi-annual ly. the total would amount now to ten thousand octillions of dollnrs. You write that figure by putting a dollar mark and a figure 1, followed by 28 zeros. That Is Interesting, not important On the other hand, and most Im portant, General Johnson tells you that If you take one dollar now, spend It, and put It In circulation, you are helping a recovery that may not amount to ten thousand octillions, but will surely amount to many bil lions of Amerlcnn dollars every year. The doctors, gathered In Chicago, mention 15,008 recent new cures of cancer, making a total of 24,448 cases known to have been cured. What Is more Important, Doctor Mnyo tells us our lives would be longer If we would take care of our selves. Most Important, proper care will make the brain last ten years longer, In good condition. He suggests that It Is useless to keep a man alive until ninety and let his brain die at seventy. ~\ Gen. R. K. Wood, president of Sears Roebuck. who proved, working for the government on the Panama canal aft er he came from West Point, that he knows about business and Industry, snys there Is no doubt that conditions are improving and "pointing upwnrd." His report, coming from Innumerable cities and from the world's biggest mall order enterprise, shows steady gains. General Wood, llko everybody else, thinks that "something must be don? about money." Miss Perkins, secretary of labor, Informs government "conciliators" that "you have no right to tell any editor whnt ho may or may not print In his news or edltorlnl column." Miss Perkins seems to have read the Con stitution. She ought to read it to some of the others. In the news comes gruesome items from Shanghai shedding light on our "civilization." Generalissimo Chlnng Kal Mhek hur riedly Is rushing to Klangsi Province 10.000 hospltnl beds to be rendy to , handle the wounded. Women spend 85 per cent of the j household money, according to Gen- ! eral Johnson, and he appeals espe dally to them to support the "Buy Now" campaign, and thus "help to keep the waftfp earner on a payroll." It Is a good Idea to add "Buy Amer ican" to your "Buy Now" program. Unless you buy goods made In Amer ica you nre spending money to keep some foreigner on a payroll. The government finds that when prohibition goes-? and "It will not be long now"? -this country will have 40,000,000 gallons of whisky ready for Immediate sale. That ought to last ? little while. 161111. by King Fc?lur?? Syn<lic?t*. In? WNU Snrvloo FARM GIRL CHAMP, Helen Goodhart, seventeen, milked, husked, churned and raked her way to fame when she won the American farm girl championship at the Los Angeles county fair in Pomona, Calif. Her dexterity in the hay raking, milk ing, butter churning, corn husking, tractor driving and other events of the championship contests gave her a high score of points that outstripped a large Held of contenders for the title. , Non-Bobbing Barber Quits After 50 Years Boston. ? Concord, capital of New Hampshire, has a barber whose resolution Is as hard and enduring as the rock for which the Granite state Is named. Retiring at the age of seventy-nine after a half century of work, he proudly boasts that never has he cut a woman's hair. Women have begged, threat ened, argued and laughed, but no one could move his Immutable de termination. Ills reply, with numerous varia tions, has been, "What was good enough for God Almighty ought to be good enough for them. He put the hair on their heads as a crown ing glory. No hohs or shingles ever will be executed lrt 'thls shop." $15,000,000 Atlantic 'Phone Cable Is Planned London. ? Plans are ready for the laying of a new Atlantic cable, which would cost $15,000,000, for the estab lishment of an untappable "on-de mand" telephone service between Brit ain and America, Everything Is ready to tackle the Job ? one of the biggest In the history of ocean cables ? and the only dlftl culty Is that of finance. It is under stood that American financiers are pre pared to collaborate with British in terests- once certain difficulties are re moved. Road Roller Used by Ancient Mayas Found Five-Ton Cylinder Employed in Surfacing Work. Washington. ? Recent discovery In the Jungle-covered region of northeast ern Yucatan, 40 miles out of Coba, of a segment of solid stone 13 feet long, 2 V4. foot In diameter and weigh ing about 5 tons, nicely fashioned In to cylindrical form, draws attention once again to the fact that the an cient occupants of an area long unin habited were skilled in the building of raised roail^ of paved stone. It seems probable that this great stone cylinder was designed to be used In packing down Into solid mass successive courses of material, par ticularly surfacing material, as these were added In the process of rond con Btruction. Presumably gangs of laborers on the road, possibly slaves working un der threat of the lash, possibly cap tives taken in combat, pushed such cylinders about as the work proceeded and in so doing anticipated bv many centuries the advent of the steam or gaaollne-drlven metal roller, so essen tial to the roadmaking of today. Network of Roads. Coba, a Maya city of consequence during pre-Columbian days, as shown by abundant archeologlcal evidence, but now long abandoned, lies about 05 miles east of south of Chlchen Itza, the headquarters of the archeologlcal field staff of Carnegie institution of Washington. Study of Coba and the region there abouts has revealed the fact that it is at the center of a network of raised, constructed roads which run oft north, east, south and west and connect vari ous groups of ruins located about the chain of smnll, fresh-water lakes that Is such a distinguishing feature of the district. One great road which takes to the westward from Coba had been thought to end at the ruins of Yaxuna, about 12 miles southwest of Chinchen Itza, but no one had ever traced its course from end to end. For many years, Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, In charge of /vUie Cnrnegle In stitution field staff, ha^ hoped for op portunity to determine the facts about this the greatest of ail the causeways running out of Coba. Finally, tills year seemed propitious and he set about organizing an expedition. To head the expedition, lie chose Alfonso Villa, a young schoolmaster of the Yucatecan race. It was while cutting ' his way through the thick bush, 22 miles out of Qaxuna, that Villa came upon -the stone-roller. In construction of their roads, the ancient engineers began by digging down to hardpan, which is near the surface, and erecting retaining walls on each side to the height to which they desired to bring the road. Road Walls Built. These walls were built of large, roughly faced limestone set in mortar. Into the space between the walls a layer of heavy boulders, some of them two or three feet In length and weigh ing many hundreds of pounds, were carefully laid and the spaces between chinked with smaller stones, fitted and hammered Into position. Other courses followed, each of suc cessively smaller boulders and stones, quite as carefully placed, until the road had been brought to requisite height, whereupon a layer of rock broken Into much finer pieces was added. After this was hammered or rolled Into a hard, level surface, a final coating of mortar cement was applied. This cement was maJe of lime mixed with finely sifted white earth, called sascab. which, originally, under the tropical sun, must have given the roads a dazzling appenrance, quite as dazzling, perhaps, as the great "white ways" of our own cities. Yellowstone Park Has Greatest Animal Show Yellowstone Park, VVyo. ? The "great est wild animal show In a natural set ting" Is the claim made by Yellowstone J Park officials for the nightly parade of 50 Rocky mountain grizzly bears In Yellowstone canon. The giant silver tips, bringing wives, cubs and yearlings, make a prompt ' appearance each evening soon after j food remnants from the canon hotel ' and lodge have been placed on a con crete feeding platform. Visitors, protected by a high steel wire fence and an alert ranger armed with a high powered rifle, may watch the grizzlies from the time they start j down from surrounding hills until they leave for their homes once more. Mothers with one, two or three cubs meander In. keeping close watch over the youngsters. Yearlings hungrily snatch morsels overlooked by the male rulers of the tribe, who in turn eat warily ns they watch rivals. The ' sight is without parallel anywhere else In the world, park officials say. Canadians Are Strong for Yankee "Hot Dogs" Montreal. ? Canada's Imports of "hot dog" skins are not to be "barked" at. According to the dominion bureau of statistics, the dominion imported $00, 1)23 worth of "weiner" wrappers from the United States during June of this year, an lncrense of $54,008 over June, 1932. During the twelve months end ing June the total was $421,000, com- ^ pared with $375,000 in the previous ' twelve months. Azusa Dam Nearing Completion A general view of the huge dam at Azusa, Calif., which is nearlng com pletion and which, when finished, will provide nn additional supply of stored water to the city of Pasadena. It will be one of the largest dams In the coun try, of modern design and earthquake proof. The new dam Is 329 feet high from foundation to crest. Its length nt the crest is 800 feet, and Its thickness at the foundation, 270 feet. Smallest Power Plant Buil( Klamath Fnlls, Ore. ? The world's smallest hydro electric plant has been constructed by two Klamath Falls boys out of scraps and batteries at a cost of $4. -r>0. The channel of Elk creek wns diverted over n water-wheel geared to an automobile generator and the "plant" manufactures enough current to light five electric bulbs. Arizona Ha* Big Roie Buih Tombstone, Ariz. ? The world's larg est rose bush Is growing In the patio of a hotel here, residents claim. It Is large enough that tables for thirty-five guests may he placed under it. France and Japan Claim Islands Entirely Uninhabited and of No Real Value. I'arls. ? "Button button, who's got the Islands?" Six Utile coral (Jots In the South Clilnn Ren nre causing much ado In dlplomntlc circles and the question Is: nre they French or are they Japanese? About midway between the Islnnd of Ilorneo ifnd French Indo China this little group of Islands stick their noses up out of the sea. According to both sides, they are entirely uninhabited nnd have been for more than ten years. Japan's claims lie In the fact that one of their nationals had established phosphate works on the Islands sev eral years ago and bad spent more than n million yen In the construction of warehouses and claim that 120 men died there due to the "Impossible cli mate," but they still want the place. Franco'R nnswer trt the Japs Is sim ple : "If the Jnpnnese wanted the Is lands, why didn't they stay there? These Insignificant little coral forma tions have been a serious menaco to traffic for years. French commercial lines to Indo-Chlna are endangered by them. There should and must he Hot houses erected thorp. We are going to build them. "We see no reason why we should not take over those Islands, which are admittedly uninhabited and of little or no value, and take the ^necessary measures to protect our shipping In terests." Recently Charge d'AfTaires Sawada, of the Japanese embassy, called at the French foreign office and, according to Hawada himself, protested French sov ereignty over tho group, stating that Japan was nbout to proclaim them as Nipponese possessions. The foreign office presented an en tlrely different version of the Kawada visit, claiming that Hawada merely dropped in to Inquire as to whether Japanese commercial Interests would he carefully safeguarded by the French. The Qual d'Orsay spokesman stated that Mr. Saw ad a was assured | that France would make It Its duty , to see that Japanese property on tho j Islands would he respected and that : Mr. Snwndn left evidently quite satls | fled. i In the meantime, who owns the Is lands? i Pharmacologist Finds Drug That Will Reduce Palo Alto, Calif. ? A drug which will make persons thin without the neces- ' slty of exercise has b0*k found by r <v search pharmacologlsts/ln the Stan ford medical lahoratorlni here. It operates by producing a high fever In the patient, thereby rormum- ' I UK energy and tissue beyond the nor mal rate. A preliminary report on this new | drug has been published In the Jour- > nal of the American Medical Assocla- | tlon by Dr. \V. C. Cutting and M. L. \ Thayer. , Small doses administered dally have reduced the weight of fat persons two pounds a week over n period of sev eral months without diet changes or unnormnl exercise. School in Pennsylvania Serves Four Counties j Hnrrlsburg, Ph.- Pennsylvania has h high school that serves four cc unties. 'Hie school, located In ifannett town ship, In the northern part of Franklin county, has an enrollment of nbout 70 j pupils, one of whom last year drove i the family car 20 miles one way over ' mountain roads to attend classes dnlly. j Other counties served by tho school are Huntingdon, Juniata, and Perry. The department of public Instrnc tlon reported that there wero at least 40 additional boys and girls living within a radius of 20 miles of tho school, who wanted to attend, but could not because their parents were " unable to provide transportation. UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY f chool Lesson (By REV. P. B FITZ WATER. D. D.. Mem ber of Faculty. Moody Blbl? / Inntttute of Chicago.) *^C>. 19JS. Western Newspaper Union. IMPROVED' Lesson for October 29 WORLD'S TEMPERANCE SUNDAY LESSON TEXT ? Romans 13:11-14; 14:7-9, 15-21. GOLDEN TEXT ? L.ovc worketh no 111 to his neighbor: therefore lovo Is the (ulfllllnK of the law. Romans 13:lu. PRIMARY TOPIC ? Why Laws Are Made. JUNIOR TOPIC ? How to Be a Good Citizen. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC ? Why Obey the Law? YOUNG PEOPLE AND A DUET TOPIC ? The Christian Use of Personal Liberty. I. Supreme Motive Governing the Life of a Christian. The attitude of n Christian Is thnt of rnge r exi?eetuncy. The time of sal vo don Is drawing near. The salva tion here mentioned is not that which w? obtain in justification and sane tirtcation, hut Is that which we Ret when our redemption Is completed in glorification at the second coming of Christ. The reasons for. this attitude of expectancy are that the night of Christ's nhsence Is far spent and the day of. his glorious appearing Is at hand. The proper conduct In view of this Is ? 1. To put ofT the works of darK ness (v. 12). These are reveling, drunkenness, chambering, wantonness, strife, and jealousy. 2. Put on the armor of light (v. 12). The figure here is of the Koman sol dier who arose from sleep and cast aside his slumber robes and put on his gleaming armor. 3. Wnlk honestly as In the day (v. 1H). The Christian, therefore, will so order his life that his conduct will conform to his high calling. 4. ['lit on the Lord .Testis Christ (v. 14). This means to enthrone Jesus Chrl.-t ns the Lord of the life, to bring the life under his control. No* provision Is to be made for the flesh : no forethought Is to be given to that which tlie carnal nature desires. II. No Man Llveth unto Himself (Ilom. 14:7-9). ^ The supreme purpose of Christ's death and resurrection was thnt he might be the Christian's Lord In life "^ffrTd In death. Fly virtue of Christ be coming one with the race, there can be no Indifference of attitude toward him. 1. All must stand before the Judg ment seat of Christ. It Is not to be a class Judgment, but Individual. 2. Account must be rendered unto God. Nothing can be concealed from him. Nothing can escape his Judg ment, for he Is omniscient. III. A Stumbling Block Should Not Be Placed In the Way of Another (Horn. 14 :lf>-2l ). A properly enlightened Christian may have perfect liberty concerning a matter so far as he himself Is con cerned, but this very liberty may be come an occasion of stumbling to oth ers. Two urgent reasons are set forth for the abridgment of our liberties in such cases ? 1. We may destroy the weak brother for whom Christ died (v. IB). If it was worth while for Christ to die for a mnn, surely It Is worth while that we should deny ourselves some priv ileges for his snke. Nor should this be deemed a hardship. Self-denial and cross-bearing attest the sincerity of the believer (Luke 9:2.T), who thus follows his Mnster. 2. We should not allow our good to be evil spoken of (v. 10). Liberty In Christ Is a precious thing, which only love knows how to use. The proof thnt one Is In the Kingdom of Cod and therefore ruled by the Holy Spirit Is not by eating nnd drinking, but by living dally the love-life which is char acterized as follows ? , n.'Ttlghteousness (v. 17). This means honesty nnd integrity In nil things. b. Pence (v. 17). This means living at penre with ench other. I'enee among Christians is a powerful testi mony for Christ thnt bis Holy Spirit Is In them, e. Joy In the Holy Ghost (v. 17). Snved men will mnnlfest this Joy, for "He thnt in these things serveth Christ Is ncceptable to God nnd approved of men" (v. 1H). 3. We should follow after things thnt make for pence, nnd edify one another (v. 19). He that cnuseth n wenk brother to stumble, through exer cise of his liberty, thus destroys the work of God. 4. We should nbstaln from ments nod wines which offend the wenk brother (vv. 21. 22). This Is made pos sible by the exercise of fnlth In God. IV. Th? Christian Should Please His Neighbor and Not Himself (Rom. ir?:M,1). This Is not merely n privilege, but n solemn obllgntlon, bemuse, Of Christ's example (vv. 1 .1). 2. Of Scripture testimony (vv. 4 1.1). A Pilgrim)*?* All faith reeognlzQS thnt life Is n pll I grlmnge whose course nnd duration ennnot be foresdtm, therefore It ! tnkes these lives of ours out of our I own wenk. trembling nnd uncertain ' control, and puts them in the hand of j i Sod. WK?t Ar? You Doing? Whnt nr*? you doing to make life n little brighter nnd better for some body? Mostly we nre complnlnlng becnuse of the gloom w?f ourselves hnve done nothing to disslpnte. Unwise to Break Faith With Child Promises and rewnrds ""are two closely allied measures made use of by parents to stimulate and encour age their children In good conduct and In their schooling or chosen work during undergraduate days. Used wisely, they are potent factors In securing the desired ends and reac tions. It sometimes happens, how ever, that promises are forgotten. The child either may not get what he has worked to attain because the promise may have been given so long before its object was attained, that It has slipped the memory of the parent although It has remnlned a vivid factor In the child's applica tion and endeavors. Not (Thly Is a child discouraged by such forgetful ness. but worse than this, he loses faith In his parent. He (or shc> does not keep his word. The child may rr.ake a fuss about It. If so the parent often gets an noyed and states that now. anyway, the child cannot get the reward ? whatever It was, for It Is forfeit by the behavior. In reality the child has Justice on his side, for a for gotten promise Is none the less bind ing when once It has been made, even though memory has grown dim. If the child Is silent, the lasting effect of loss of faith In a parent's word Is even worse. The child can be promised anything thereafter nnd It will fall on unheeding and disbeliev ing ears. Not only Is the parent's word discounted, hut the word of all persons, since parents typify the best, to their offspring. Attaining an unearned reward is another danger to he shifnned. When parents make promises dependent upon some special action or attain ments nnd then give the award with out regard so success of the child In whatever li is offered for, the parents lose their grip on the child. Reciprocity Is absolutely essential when there are promises of awards. The child must be kept faith with. The promise must he remembered. It cannot be so lightly given or re garded that It becomes Inconsequen tial to the person making It. Parents must beware of how they make prom ises. but having made them, they must stand. So essential is tills that no reward should be given unless It has been earned. The success of a child In later years may rest on his ability to fullfll conditions In his youth, fie gets to be a spoiled child, otherwise, nnd one who has little re spect for laws when he Is an adult." ?. 1933. Bell 8ynd1cnle. ? W.N'U Service. Old Timer* Showed 'Em An eight-oared shell of Harvard oarsmen, who rowed for their alma mater 50 years ago, recently made its way down the Charles river, we learn from the Winged Foot. As one old timer in the boat put it, "We showed the undergraduates how we used to win back in the early '80s, when technique was Just as Important as It Is now." City Streets Rented Paris now ropes off nnd rents Its streets to motion picture companies with a definite charge for every actor, animal and vehicle on the location. Prices nre doubled after dark be cause blocking of night trnrTic i& seri ous. ? Collier's Weekly. Decreato in Gaela The Gaels now Inhabit only the ex treme northwestern districts of Hrlt nln and p.?rt of Ireland, but accord ing to many historians at one time the whole of the Rrltish Isles was occupied by them. ? Kansas City Times. Too Much "P^rty" Last Night Too Much Food/i Late Hours, ' Smoky Atmosphere YEY~This Morning No "Add Headache**? No Upset Stomach Scientists say this is the QUICK EST, SUREST and EASIEST wny to combat FEELING THE EFFECTS of ovcr-indnlwencc ? the most powerful ncid ncutralizer known to sciencc. Just do this: TAKE ? 2 tablespoon fuls of Phil lips' Milk of Magnesia jn n glass of ?water BEFORE bed. In the mornintf take 2 more tablespoonfuls with the juice of n WHOLE ORANGE. That'* nil! 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