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SUBSCRIPTION RATES: V— Strictly Cash In Advance ■ - ■ One Year $1.00 k Six Months ... .75 Three Months .50 «-■" 1 ' An Engineering Feat The National Park Service, of the Department - of the Interior, an nounces that reports from the field are to the effect that the spectacu lar malelong tunnel wh ch is being blasted thx-ough the sandstone walls of Zion Canyon* in Utah, is nearing cc'mpletio::. The contractors a:'e advancing this tunnel at the rate of 37 feet per day. It is now about 80 per cent complet ed and is expected to be finished in another month. This tunnel is a part of the Zion- Mt. Carmel Highway, which the Upited States Bureau of Pubi c Roads is building for the National PaiK Service. A mile of this lu.meling throush sc,-’d sandtt-rc seems Hko a 'difficult undertaking, but when it is finished it will be followed by furth er work of the same sort cf thi r same highway which in the end will bring this kind of construction up to about five miles. In addition to the boring of the tunnels, gallaries are opened up ^every 1000 feet cr so which make it possible ic>: travelers on this highway to look out into the canyon which is one of the chociest bits of scenery in the West. x Business Crimes Business crime is exacting an an nual toll of $1,600,000,000. Sounds like a lot of money, but not so much when the fact is taken into consid eration that the opportunities for crooks to prey on business ar*e almost unlimited. In the small rural comlnunity, where the banker know T s practically all of his customers by their first name, and the merchant is acquaint ed with nearly everyone with whom he deals, the loss from bogus checks is small. However, the criminal of this class all too frequently finds a credulous fellow who is ensnared and business writes up the sum on the loss side of the ledger. Honest business loses $100 000,- 000 a year in this country alone through forgeries and a similar amount because of embezzlements. Then there is a loss of $400,000,000 charged up to credit frauds and $1,- 000,000,000 to stock frauds. Stock fraud losses are due chief- jly to the sale, of corporate securities of no actual or potential value and losses ffom Bucket shop and other illegal forms of trading in securities. Over $3*000,000,000 have been stolen from the people of this country since the war through the sale of spurious securities. Little wonder, then, that business men have been aroused to action and that they have spurred legislature on to enact more stringent “blue sky laws. The fake stock promoten is the limit in business criminality, be cause he preys on the weak and takes advantage of their lack of knowledge. He and all c«f his confederates who make a living “by their wits” are levying too heavy a tax on business. They will have to be routed sooner or later IX1 Our Modem Day Schools The public high school as it ex ists today is distinctly Amer’can, jtnd is of comparatively recent devel-J Dpme.'.t in the history of educational institutions. The first public high school was founded in the city of BostcAi in 1821. Today, ^pprox'mate y eighteen thousand high schools hroughout America a re bringing od ucational oppoi^umfies within easy •each cf more than two and dne-half nillion boys and gi ls. Prior tc* the development of the public high school the only train ng beyond the elementary level was pro vided in the Latin Grammlar Schools during the period from 1635 to 1750 and through the private and religious academies during the century from 1750 and 1850. Since 1850 the rise of the American High School has been i&pid. Although founded orig- nally to provide preparation for the college courses thrt led directly into professions, it has in the later dec ades broadened its course of study to meet the widely varying and rap idly changing conditions of modern life. The high school has become the “people’s collage,” bringing with in tlrt easy reach of every child the opportunity to train foil a fuller life while at the same time develop ing specific vocational skills and abilities. The high school of a generat on rgo included duly those pupils who expected to attend college. Today practically all the children of all th people, regardless of vocational in terest arc coming under the influence >f some high school. In order to meet the needs of this increased en rollment the curriculum must be 'uaged in accordance with the vary- ng interest and capacities of the 'aiger group. A great modern edu cate." has said: “It is the business of ;he school to teach the child to do better the things he is most likely to do anyhow.” In light of this prin ciple. “The Secondary school pre plan cf studies must be conceived and operated as to enfccce, guide and dkect the act'vities of the pupils both within the school, and in rela tion to other educational activities a the community.” The high school of today is com parable to the college o: yesterday. X The Tone Of Senator Robinson’s Speeches (From The Charlotte News.) places all his stakes on one turn of the wheel. Even the professional gambler dees not stake his all on one throw of the dice. The only safe farm is a well-balanced farin. The total loss of one crop would not ab sorb the profits of two or more other crops. The farmer who plants a small acreage per plow of three or more money crops and cultivates them in tensively is playing a safe game—a game that will win four times out of five. txt Hoover Democrats Smith Republicans (From The Kansas City Star.) In every national elect’on, and less er ones for that matter, party lines rre broken. From various sources, not at all sectional in character, we already are hearing of Hoover Dem ocrats and Smith Republicans. For obvious reasons, the most obvidus being the liquor issue, many Democrats w'll vote for Hoove: 1 and many Republicans for Smith. Indeed there will be in the coming election remarkable political disalignments. If one could compile these disalign ments and closely estimate their net result he could make a safe bet on th'i election. We shall not only have Hoover Democrats and Smith Repub- Tcans because of personal prefer ences for the respective nominees, but wo shall have wet drys and dry wets, city-against country voter's in the centers and country-against city voters in the rural sections. There is nothing new about jump ing the party fences except that it seems more pronounced than usual in this el-cctior. We had Cleveland Republicans and McKinley Demo crats, Wilson Republicans and Hughes Democrat^. The one thing that party disaffection has demon- strrted pretty clearly is that third party movements rarely get any where. The only outstanding in stance of success was the forming of the Republican party and its absorb ing of the Whigs. X THINGS WORTH KNOWING There are more than 3,500 distinct var.'cties of gladiolus. Swordfish sometimes attack boats, mistaking them for whales The wr*'d malaria comes from the Italian “mal aria,” meaning bad air. 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Tungsten, which is so impc<:tant a factor in making incandescent lamps, was scarcely known a generation ago. A recent survey shows that only 1.4 per cent of all the doctors grad uated in this country in the last ten years Tiavc gone to practice in rural d’stricts. It is easier, now, to kill insects —and keep them away. Bee Brand I nsect Pow der or Liquid kills Flies, Ams, Roaches, Poultry Lice, Mosquitoes, Fleas. Bed Bugs, and other in sects. Won’t spot or stain. Use powder on plants and pets. Write us for FREE insect booklet. If dealer can’t supply, we will ship by parcel post at prices named. McCORMICK SC CO., Baltimore, Md. BEE BRAND Powder Liquid 10c Q 15c 50c 6T 7 So 50c dT $1.00 $1.25 30c (Spray Gun) 35c Steel tapes used in international boundary surveys and other measure ments of outstanding importance per mit of a precision of better than one pert in a million. Br’tish farm experiments show that strawberries should be- planted as closely together as possible, because a picker spend more than one-fourth of each hour in walk'ng from plant to plant. And Now Bare Legs (From The Macon Telegraph.) A fly lays from 300 to 400 eggs in a lifetime. Clouds are classified as cirrus, cr icr tncry clouds; cumuluri or clouds with rounded tops; stratus, or sheet ciouds. and nimbus, or rain clouds. Senator Rob-nson is making a very fine impressiccr upon the audiences rwaiting him as he swings through the South. They of course, aife aud iences that-would be friendly to him ard to the purposes in his mind as he attempts to swing sentiment throughout this part of the country to the Nafonal Democratic ticket. For the most part, he is discussing the od issuer the points of differ ence between the two major parties, incidentally putting in some effective strokes against the record of the Re publican candidate for the presidency. In other words, Senator Robinson ‘s not accepting a defensive battle. He is making an offensive of his own, the psychology c." that course being apparent. For that reason, we take it, he has as little as pos sible to say about the chief objections that rfest in the mind of the Southern people of Governor Smith’s candid acy. He has chosen to make his bat tle not in defense of the Democratic cand date so much as in castigation of the Republican candidate*, and he is ma king a distinctly god job of it. j XI Gambling Against Natural Laws (From The Dillon Herald.) Now is a good time to think about next year’s erdp—but not in terms of cotton. The disaster ■ that has r .'ertaken cotton farmers of the east ern belt of the Carolinas is grave enough to convince the most optimis tic cotton-tot that the man who relies cm cotton alone for a money crop is taking a gambler’s chance. The Her- old does, not think it would be a wise plan to abandon cotton altogether. A crop that has been fastened on a people for 150 years could not be abandoned entirely without causing serious economic disturbances, but icreage could be reduced with safety to a point that a total failure would not produce financial distress. The one-crop system of farming belongs -o an age when people lived at home and had very little need for cash money. Only a small amoant of com mercial fertilizer was used and very little cash money went into the mak ing of a crop. There were no debts to be paid in the fall, and a crop fail- a c did not cause a ripple on the sur- ace of the financial seas. In recent years farming has become a highly organized business in which millions if dollars of borrowed capital are in vested. The man who farms on his vwn capital is taking a long chance >ut when he farms on borrowed cap- tal he is taking a still longer chance f l.c plants only one money crop he The Nation has always been radi cal and perhaps it feels the necessity of upholding its reputation when it says: “Bare legs? What cf them?” said William J. Blogan superintendent of Chicago schools when the important quets’on o ? rtcckirgless girl students came to him for final judgment. He •egarded such questions, he said, “as being none cf my business—and rone of the business of the school teach ers.” Th's sounds to us like cl:l fashioned horse sens'' of r. variety infrequent among Ech'ol superin end- ents. Let the girls come to school in one-piecc bathing suits, f they want to—and the trend of the times seems to indicate that they may soon want tc*. It will do nobody any harm, and perhaps, if they meet no aston- ishmert cr rebuke they mry discover that they prefer ankle-length skirts or some ether novel and exciting form of clothing. The prurient meddlers who have been shocked in the past by low necks, short sleeves, bobbed ha'r, and knee-length skirts have gradually become accustomed to the idea that there is nothing inherently immoral in certain portions of the human figure, and rs time goes on bare legs may well become as com monplace as bare arms. Bare legs arc no more indecent in a schoolroom than on a bathing beach and Chicago is a better city for having discovered that fact. The world will be a more ccoifortablo place and a decenter, when we progress to the point when both men and women can comfort ably go to work in bathing suits— with pockets. While we are not horribly shocked at the sight of bare legs, we say in frankness to the girls who contem- pate abandoning stockings that bare legs are about as ugly as anything ought to be. Next to knees, which, we insist, are as pretty as old-fash ioned white door knobs and no pret tier, barte legs are the ugliest append ages of the female body. Nature does well enough: but man has improved upon her in decorating the human body,. The silk stocking manufac turers have done most toward that end. Twelve million people died in Indi^ during the influenza epidemic of I91S-1&. Don't let your name be tak- tn off our subscription list just for the want of One Dol lar. Send the dollar and or der the paper for another teinr. You won't regret it. Many people are anxious now to see the first signs of winter, and hey will also be anxious to see the lasv A rai.:d op is an aceumulatior oi water condensed upon a particle of dust in the air. Cockroaches arc fond of the starch tx* other material used as filler in cloth bookbindings. The iivrr of the polar bear is pois- . cus and is never eaten by the peo ple cf the arct’c. Ea.naclcs and other sea creatures that damage ships avoid copper and zi.'.c more than other metals. Ruins cf a Roman soldiers’ te nple to the sun-god Mithra, dating back to before 352 A. D., were recently discovered in Germany. The Aztecs had considerable knowl edge cf dyeing and other chemica. processes long before Columbus came to America. Weather records covering twenty years showed that San Francisco had fewer thunderstorms than any other city in the United States. XXt Use Of Motion Pictures On In crease In Schools WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24— The use of educational motion pic tures is becoming an important fac- tort in the schools of this country. The use of “teaching filmis” has spread to approximately lij 000 educational in stitutions since its establishment only a few r years ago. Many state uni versities maintain film libraries in their extension departments and sys tematically supply films to schools and community organizations in their respective states. Yale University has participated in the preparation of a series of films co American history, and Harvard is co-operating with a big film-producing concern in mak ing films relating to science. Some universities make films on their own account and upon a rather extensive scale. In ir ng the films a teacher may give her lessons in the usual fashion and the r adjust the window shades md pi ■ ct lantern slides and illus trative film to supplement her verbal instruct on, and thus ^ leave an en during impression upecr the minds of he; 1 pu’ Is by showing in actual mo- ; tion the things that involve motion, i Great effort has been expended in | recent years to develop text films for classroom use. Experiments have been cor ducted for the past two years under the direction of Dr. Thomas E. Fi.iegan, Dr. Frank E. 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