Business in 1922 Discussion of Conditions by the National Bank of Com merce, New York Conditions in the United States j today indicate that the year. 1922; as a whole will be more satisfao- ? tory to business, than the year just i ended. Our forecast is tha'r profits will depend more on economy of; operation than on expansion of vol- j time. With the many favorable j factors' now operating. business] men should not fear to make plans j for the new year, but they should : plan with care and conservatism.] and with constant effort toward! reduction of costs. Financial improvement con- j tinues. Progress has been made in j reduction of excess stocks of man-' ufajetiired goods. Accumulations of raw materials have been reduced, i The rate of production in the ma jor iad-ustries has shown little! change'during the closing weeks] of the year. Losses in some lines have been offset by gains in others, the net result being that the gains over the low level of the earlier months of !92i have been held. Bank lug PosH ion. The last twelve months have wit nessed? great' progress toward stable financial conditions in business. Combined gold, reserves of the twelve^ federal reserve banks have increased by more than 40 per cent, while discounts for member banks have dropped 56 percent, and fed ?-ral.reserve notes in actual eircula-. ticso" have declined per cent. The federal reserve system once more proves to be a system designed to ?.are for increases, and decreases in the volume of credit, with the re ?ruisite . elasticity to dovthis easily. The "betterment in.the position of member bank*. whiie not so striking, is nevertheless satisfac tory. . ? . . Notwithstanding the consistent improvement in financial condi tions, ^recovery in manufacture and trade has been slow. Unemploy ment in.the chief countries shows fttle decline from the high point reached early in the year, and it / :ay well reach new high figures String. January and February, v hen normally there is an increase hi rhe number of those out of work I .x North America and Europe. Manufactured goods continue to r.-oye slowly and uncertainly into j the channels of consumption. The Raw Material Problem. In last analysis, the business of I the world rests on a physical,. not a ^financial foundation. Failure of bCslance between world-wide supply q? and; effective demand for phy sical goods forced the violent read justment of the last two years; a readjustment which will not be complete until this physical balance iias again been established. The wool situation illustrates particularly well the various fac tors.which have prevented a return to noxmaL-conditions. It has con tinued to accumulate, partly be- ! "?^use^entral Europe has not been ] ^le to. purchase in the - expected I amc*tnt3, partly because an import- I ant part of the wool supply is a by- j product, and partly because the j building up of flocks is ao slow a ! process that flock-master3 reduce j them only.when they have given up j hope of profits. \ViTh curtailment of production and increased demand^, copper stocks are showing reduction. The j&ert American and Egvntian cot ton crdps.$have served to. biyng the ^poi-ld's cotton supply approximate ly to a " prewar normal. Stocks of hides and skins itre large in many countries but arc moving more freely into consumption. The prices o? rubber and sugar are still below rhe cost of production. Sisal stocks carried over from last year now constitute nearly two-thirds of a normals-ear's supply. The world's wheat production is in a satisfac tory state of balance in that there is an adequate supply and a sustain ed demand. The American farm- ? per cent being: for public, debt charges, and 60.2 ! per cent, for national defense. Expenditures for the payment of j interest and principal of the public, (Seht >do not curtail current pur-; chasing power. They merely trans- i I'er its That curtailment occurred ! when in. the tlrnt place the debts! were incurred for military and na val purposes. But current expen diture^ for national defense consti I tute a direct levy on the present I purchasing powers of a peOJ.de- La ! her expended : t,o make., guns and j submarines can not pay tor hides j from Argentina or wool from, Aus ; (ralia. i It is to,UOO in a >i!igle ye^r is trivalent to the prewar value of the exports of wool from both Argentina and Australia for nearly three year.s. -:?.f .?? % I Ma^ov Barv\vald IX^Blotvs Xanow lUinded Crit i<%. AntasrotUzi ng ? ? J>r, Lonaiz. . "The antagonistic attitude and criticism ofiered by New York aud Chicago physicians to the work of Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the eminent Austrian surgeon, in behalf of the crippled children of America, is not only regrettable, but deplor able." declared Dr. C L. Bare wakl, mayor of Davenport, today. The mayor spoke with considerable ! feeling as he said the above. "The attitude of these physicians, \: inhuman and un-American," con tinued I).r. Barewald. "The physi cian, of all professions, should be broad-minded and liberal. But I am sorry to say that only too often they reveal themselves to the. con trary." Continuing, Dr. Barewald said: "The standing of Dr. Lorenz as one of the world's greatest sur-; .^eons is indisputable. ? Iiis visit to America at this time is a humani tarian move, and not pecuniary. This is proven in the fact that in New York he is treating some of, I the poorest children in the metro- j : polis. For this work he does not j receive a penny. And everyone; ; knows it takes just as long a time j I to treat a poor child as it does the | : rich. But Dr. Lorenz is not cater-; ::tg to the wealthy. He is serving j humanity and serving it with a big, j generous heart that recognizes no! distinction in race, creed or station j in life. .He is the type of man for; I whom I have the highest respect j aud admiration. I "J am pleased to observe that j Healtn Commissioner Copeland of I I New York City is a strong cham- I ; pion and defender of Dr. Lorenz. I After being invited to come to this, country, he certainly is entitled to! the respect and courtesy Of all loyal j Americans. TVe . American doc- j : tors may know a great deal about \ \ medicine and surgery, but it is the j height of folly to assume that we; know it aj>. ' . "Dr. Lorenz has made a life study of joint diseases and is a recognized world authority in this particular line. During the world war he has had wonderful opportunities for observation and. the application of advanced surgery. It is but natur al, therefore, that he comes^to this country with new ideas and new experiences :.ot enjoyed by the average American doctor. "Instead of criticising and ob structing his work, how much more humane at*d generous it would be for all of us to extend to him the warm hand of welcome and good fellowship and endeavor to profit ourselves through his knowledge and ab^ity. Undoubtedly in cer tain branches of surge it American physicians are more skilled than Dr. Lorenz,, but in his particular line we . must admit his master ship. "The day and., age of. bigotry, jealousy and selfishness should be j put in the discard. .Let the newer and brighter light and faith per- j meate the whole world."?Daven port Democrat and Leader, Dec. S?. ] 1921. ? 0 ? The Lowly . Corncob. The corncob is coming into its own.. Once upon a day it was good ; for fuel, and some of the finest ex- i amples of it were used to make j corncob pipes!; But today that has; changed. It is to prove an import- j ant factor, in helping the United j States dye industry compete with! the German. Recent analyses and experiments show that the lowly j corncob "contains H> per cent, of high grade furfural. Furfural, at j the beginning of the war, came only from Germany and is used in \ connection with coal tar dyes. Chemists have also discovered that a good paste, which can be j used in the manufacture of fibre boards for walls, can be made from j corncobs. 1 'lower Turns Night Into Day. One of the strangest flowers, and one that is not often seen, because it only blossoms after night has fallen, and then withers before dawn comes, is the cereus. Except j at the time 'it blooms, this plant, i which is one of the few that turn ! ui;?ht into day, is not at ail attrae- i live in appearance. What you see is nothing more than a leafless, dis- : torted tangle of discolored and re pellent vegetable fibres. But when this unpromising mass of roots does break into blossom, ! it throws out flowers as beautiful! as they are deliriously scented. The bud begins to unfold a little after dusk, and ia an hour or two it has grown to a large flower several feet in circumference, which at raid night is brown and orange and wh#e. and fills the air with a heavy tropical seen; like a compound of fresh fnigipanni. roses, and tigvr lilies. An hour or so before dawn the i'.owers begin to fade, and be fore breakfast the plant is again an apparently withered heap. j m* ?? Children, who are among the greatest users of public libraries, are borrowing books of biography, natural history, and travel almost as often as they choose fiction. In the old days the bull pen was something e.Isc. but now it is the one used to write political speeches. '? ? ? There is no relationship between junkers and junkmen. The former \ sow and the latter harvest. I j Cats ami Dogs. Swift is said to have originated ! the .saying. "Raining eats and | ! dogs." in an old verse at least, so : some say. But there is also anothex! J version. i In Northern .Mythology. Odin, the! . Cod of Storm, is said to have pos- j Isessed a dog. This was a sign of | j wind. Cats, as is well known, are j [more or less affected by rainy j I weather. i j Thus, when rain falls pussy gets i i frisky. Consequently, in talking of ! i it '"raining eats and dogs." which, j literally, is of course absurd, the] 'significant meaning is: Wet weath-I I er (as far as "cats" are concerned I and howling winds (which* the; '"dogs" denote), or "rains and I winds." i While on the subject of eats and j j dogs, it is interesting to know that j i there is said to have existed at one j time a species of "meow-less-*' fe- I linfs. They could not. we are i told, give nightly concerts on the ; Stiles if they tried: Such dumb! 'cats would be welcome pets in our j j households today! -? * ' I -Son of a Gnu Where did the expression "son of i '. a gun" originate? j According to one authority, John j ' Bellenden Ker. in his "Essay on the ; Archaeology of* Our Popular j Phrases." published in LS25, de Irives, the saying from the Dutch, as follows: "En saen af er gaen." This translated means: "There! ! soon gone off again.."' The mean ting derived from this is a slippery j customer, one who never stays long I in the same place, soon off again, j and thus an unsteady person. fs the above the true derivation i of the 'expression, which really [ sounds more American than Eng-j i lisb or Dutch? A Strong; Siphon j ""Good morning. Mr. Kyetop." [ I said the waiter. "1 hope you enjoyed ! that old Scotch I left in your room \ j while you were out." j "It was pretty fair." drawled I Rytop. rubbing his parched lips. , "but that siphon you sent up had the strongest stream of fizz, water 1 ever tackeld. The blamed thing came near blowin' me through the window." The waiter looked puzzled. "Si phon? I didn't send up any siphon." "Yes, you did. It was red and bound with brass bands. "Great Scott! That was the fire i extinguisher!"?Hotel Gazette, -? IMPROVED FARM MACHINERY NEEDED Chicago, Dec. 29.?Wayne Dins more,, secretary of the horse asso t ciation of America> told the Ameri I can Society of Engineers that farm j experts failed to increase the ef- ' [ ficienoy of farm motive power and . that it should be popularized. He j said that with improved machinery j one man should till a hundred and fifty acres. CHRISTIAN IDEALS j j . THE ONLY HOPE ! Chicago. Dec. 2H.?Miss Made line Southard told the Internation al Purity Conference that adequate sex instruction should be given the youth of the country, but said that knowledge alone failed to supply j the motive to insure people taking j the right road. She said primitive | j desire^was followed except where i i Christian ideals were instilled. - I Only thing" more useless than a j man round the house on a holiday j I is two men. i We trust the paragraphers will ! soon appoint delegates for a con- j ! ference on the limitation of puns } I on Hughes. One boy-tries to amount to some- j thing, and another is the sole heir ! of a v'^-.h relative. How t.oes an executive spend his . I time when he isn't telling some de j part mem head to use his own judg- > ment ? Perhaps peace will endure for ! ever. It is enduring a sufficient number of other things to get in j practice. j A little reflection concerning the i cost of battleships will show you why they are called the "high" j seas. The best aids to pleasant thoughts in the early morning are a clear conscience and the smell of buck wheat cakes. "What has business lost?" asks! ja headline. Well, for one thing, it ' appears to have lost the homing instinct. When the merchant looks over his books, it is hard for him to be lieve that man is made of dust. Dust settles. A prominent divine says God still loves the world. There is no doubt of it. Whom the Lord loveth. He chasteneth. The nut crop may be light, as I reported, but we observe no de ; crease in the number who think! Europe will pay us what she owes. I A Japanese delegate says lie j wishes to "spike" ou^language well enough to span the distance be tween races. "Spik and span" is a ' good motto. I A physician says most of the ills we suffer could be avoided by keep- j I ing our shoulders square. The rest j could be avoided by keeping our j conduct that v. a\. Snarl: To growl: also to en ; tangle. A cause of war; also a re-| I suit. The Powers begin with a capital and continue to function by reason of it. The next thing, they will be tell ing us that Pat in Cache is spelled Pthhahht. Business won't be sound while diplomatic promises are merely that and nothing more j < The race U;ts begun with a float ing rib. Now it must begin all over with a floating debt. The difference between "import- j ant" and ?"impotent" is about ten ; thousand dollars a year. ; TIic world is safe for democracy. 1 but if you are making ten thousand a year you are still free to talk [about the "common" people. ; Birmingham Lawyer Whipped by Mob Birmingham. Dec. 2U. -The po lice authorities art- unable to find any clue of the masked mob who lured W. 10. Tumlin. a lawyer, to Red Mountain and flogged him be cause lu- refused to remarry his di vorced wife. -? ? * Fire Truck Hits Prince Bourbon New York.- Pee. 29. ? Prince Louis Dv Bourbon, who claims to be a half brother of King Alfonso of Spain, was struck by a tire truck and seriously injured today. He is here to promote trade with the Balkan states. Wage Reduction Proposed Peru. Ind.. Dec 29. ? Joseph Flintcraft has confessed to killing Iiis wife and burying her body be neath his house-, the police state, lie said he was angered because his wife did not return home Sat urday night. Redevelops that she is a nurse and could not leave her patient. Her body was found with the hands tied and head crushed. ? ? ? Hughes Confer With Harding Washington, Dec. 20.?Secretary of Siat?.- Hughes today held a lonjr conference with President Harding presumably over the recent de velopments in the arms conference. -? ? - Brutal Murder in Indiana Nashville. Tenn., Dec. 29. ?A general wage reduction for ail em ployes of the Nashville, Chattanoo ga and St. ijOi?s railway is propos ed in a letter from President Cole to the employes. Drunkenness in Chicago Chicago. Dec. 2f.?The annual report of the municipal courts of Chicago showed that drunkenness increased last year. Fifty-one thousand, three hundred persons were arranged for intoxication dur ing 1921, against thirty-two thou-" sand, three hundred and five in 102U. The report was followed by city council adopting a resolu tion demanding that congress and state legislature authorize the man ufacture and sale of wholesome beers and light wines^, ? ? *.-! What's in a Name? The scholars had stumbled through their share of the reading lessons, and at last it came to little Harry's turn. He got on quite well until he came to the word heir loom. Tin- teacher noticing his difficul ty helped him. and then asked: "And do you know the meaning of this word?'' Harry shook his head. "It means something that is handed down from father to son? in oth< r words, a relic." "Oh." said Harry* with a grin, "that's the funniest name I've ever In ard for a pair of trousers."?Lon don Ideas. Held nis Breath For Ten Minutes. M. De Lalyman. the Frenchman who is said to be able to remain un der water long enough to. shave himself, peel and eat a potato, and drink wine, appears to have brought the art of breath-control to a line point. How long he remains under the water is not stated, but if he stays there longer than ,ten ininutes he has certainly broken the breath holding record. That belongs?or belonged?to a i student of the Medical School of California University, who, in July, i Dil",, voluntarily held his breath; for Hi ininutes, 10 seconds. He was under observation the | whole time. Iiis breathing organs j were connected with a kymograph, i which would have recorded the ! slightest inspiration. The best way to lie when sleeping is on the right side. Visitors to Italy who travel on1 Sunday have to. i>ay a special tax. t Australia has raised $50,000,00 j for the assistanc e of her ex-sol- ' dters. Remains of a Sun Temple at Ave bury, England, are said to be older than Stonehenge itself. Each British family, it is esti mated, pays on an average SIG a: week in government taxes. ? ? *> Foot-binding which resulted in ] women having feel so small as to | be practically useless, has been dis- . continued in enlightened China. -.-? ? CiO. ; Marines from Key West navy j yard guarded thee ounty jail last ! night after Dead's capture until the mob. which formed after Deekr I er's murder broke up. They gave i way shortly after _? o'clock to dep ? uties who patrolled outside the ! jaiL Word that che marines had ' been relieved was passed about and ! the crowd gathered; again. Ap i preaching the jail, oh- of the lead i ers called for Sheriff Curry and 1 when he opened the door a dozen j men forced their way in. overpow ' ered him and the jailor, obtained I the keys to Head's cell and made j for their victim. Head was shot ! twice before being taken away. He j -vas then placed in an automobile i and taken far out on a county I road near old Fort Martello and I there strung to a telephone pole, j Twenty-two bullet wounds were j found in the body when it was cut ! down this mornin-;. The Decker funeral was con , ducted today, services being held in I the Elks Temple and St. Paul's ? Cathedral. Members of the Elks j and Rotary club, followed by Girl ; and Boy Scouts in uniform, led the j procession to the cemetery. ? ? ? ! Delightlttl Party Given by Mrs. Bradley. i _ j Quite a delightful dance party ' [was given Tuesday evening at the j home of Mrs. Gordom Bradley on ? Washington street, at which were , most pleasantly entertained about ? : fifteen young couples. The entire ! front portion of the house was' thrown together by the opening of; the folding doors and thus was' made ample floor space for the ? J dancing. Music for the occasion ! j was furnished by the "Gamecock . ? Five Jazz Orchestra." A delight- i ful refreshment course and fruit j punch was served during the j j evening. A*ll the young folks pros lent are indebted to Mrs. Bradley; for a most plesaantly spent even- | ! ing j Among those present were Misses! ? Emma Pinckney. Evelyn Caudle,' j Sadie Mims. Mae Blandina Mollie j Bowman. Reha Spann, Neil Spann, ! Columbia; Davis, Columbia; Fran ; cos Heller. Montana; Alice Bynum, j j Emma Reynolds, Vermelle Pitts, j [Augusta Rembert, Columbia: Ethel; : Harper and Miss Heindrick and I I Messrs. James Bradley. Nelson ; J Bradley. Pinckney Eradiey, Law- ! rence ?runson, Henry Spann, Jas. j Pitts, Herman Myers, Leland My- j ers, George Bukman, Marion My- | j ers, Harold Moise, A Iva Solomons, I ? Joe "Watson, Atlanta; H. Grieff, Hil- '? hard FoLsom, R. H. Rembert, Dr. | j Weinberg. Dr. Archie China, Mrs. : China. Miss Louise China, Miss ; Kathryn Carroll, Mrs. Pinckney and j Mrs. Abbott. j Barber Invented the First Organ. ______ I j More than two thousand years i ago a barber in Alexandria discov ered that in moving his mirror! air was forced through the tubes) j which were common in mirrors at ? t that time. This caused a curious j j musical sound to be emitted, j So struck was he by this peculi- I I arity that he set about making an i ! instrument which was the founda- j 1 tion of the modern organ, j After several experiments he j [made a water-flute, in which air ? was forced by bellows through an : j inverted cone which led to flutes | j controlled by a keyboard, the pres- j ; sure being kept uniform by water. ' After a thousand years a rival instrument made its appearance. j This was of a similar pattern, but. i instead of water, weights regu I lated the pressure. In UT>i an organ was erected at "Winchester. England. ? It had i twenty-six bellows and ten pipes ' I to each key. The two men who j sat at the keyboard "blew and sweated enormously." Later, a firm of organ makers in j Germany succeeded in erecting the j first really big instrument. The primary stops did not differ very much from those of to-day. al though various novelties were in troduced. Among the innovations were the nightingale and cuckoo stops, while others represented cock-crowing and goat-bleating. Though these novelties have now fallen into dis use, an organ with one of these nightingale stops is still to be seen in Rome. It was not until the nineteeth i century that the problem of the t regulation of air pressures was J solved by introduction of the hy- i draulic blower. Amongst the largest organs in ! the world are the Haarlem. Hol- i land, instruir.ent. which possesses ? sixty steps and 8.000 pipes; the AI- f bert Hall. London, organ, with 125 I stops; the organ in St. George's' Hall. Liverpool, with 11 0 stops; one j at St. Louis. Australia, which boasts ; 150 stops; and one in Sydney. Aus tralia. Town Hall with 1 2G stops. Tin- greatest enemy < f go.id isn't j evil, but neutralitv. - As a rule, the "ex" in expenses! i stands for extravagance. The French untie: arms inspire less awe than the French overhead. | Land is makes it clear that Dich; isn't the only one who can soak | 'em. The speed cops always ." < i!; greatly encouraged when tin- judye j sa* s "Fine." Fortunately, win u the amateur j , hunter fires at a rabbit tin- shot seldom pentrates his companion above the knee. j i Another thing the Senate needs j i is a bumper to safeguard Tom 11 Watson's feelings. Tin- health of Charles W. Morse . seems to get worst- every tin c he j takes something. 1 ' Make Changes \ii Greenville ??- ... i Business Men Announce Ini-; portant Connection:-, - i Greenville. Dec. 2S.?Business! changes affecting men widely, j known in textile, circles were an nounced here today. On January 1, the Mill Stocks': and Bonds Brokerage firm of] .Mills & Manning will will be dis- i solved and will be succeeded by the j firm of Mills & Lewis. Vivian M. ' Manning retires from the firm to!: become manager of a new supply s department of Xorris Brothers' i Mill Suppy Manufacturers, here, and a director in the firm. Thomas ' L. Lewis, now manager of the i stocks und bonds department of ' Parrish. Gower & Springs, will he- ; come associated with Henry T. ' Mills, stock broker here since in<>7, ; in the firm of Mills & Lewis. Xorris Brothers' officials have : just announced an increase in cap- ' italbration from $200.000 to $600.- . ouO. They plan to expand the man ufacturing plant here and to mak? improvements in their foreign sup ply department. They will be able ' when these changes are made, to : completely supply textile mills from ' their Greenville plant. -? ? ? - A Cheap Buy A Xantucket fisherman has be*r made happy as the result of a:t auction recently held by the United Mutes Government on tne abandon ment of the Surfside life saving sta tion, one of th<- bietest on the Mas saehusetts coast. A practic?lly un used and well cared tor surf boat that cost $750, when new a few years ago. was knocked down to him for $15. How Japanese Handle a Bad Boy ? "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is an old adage, but they seem to have a different principle to work on in Japan. Yoshio Mark ino in his autobiography writes as follows: "Whenever I was naughty they never smacked me. but they al ways brought a looking-glass in front of my crying face. I hated to see my own face so ugly with the tear-marks, and I immediately be gan to laugh. Very often when I j wanted to cry a little longer I us^-d to scream. "Oh. don't show me the glass for a few moments." "I was never scolded severely. They always told me, 'You are a.j very nice boy. but just at this moment some evil is trying to dwell ! in you. How pity the evil is mak- I ing you a bad boy and giving some trouble to your dear parents!' And j I began to feel so .sorry for them, j and I used to cling to their necks and say. "The evil is. gone long time ago. I am your favorite boy." He's in Again, Officer!*' Izzy is at it again! If you lived in Xew York City you would know j about Izzy by this time. His full j name?but by the,way, he never gets full?is Izzy Einstein. He is the demon prohibition officer. He disguises himself as a trombone one day?and perhaps as a hot dog the next?but he generally re turns with the bacon. His latest (when this was written) was disguising himself and two companions as milk wagon drivers. They wandered into nine different saloons in one section of Xew York City and called for milk punches?just to be true to their calling. When the bartenders told j them they could not make up the milk punches, but could give them j a little r,f the real stuff?straight? they fell. *~ As soon as service was made and payment accepted the bartenders fell. Xineteen of them were gath- | ered in on the one raid. Reduced Passenger Rates. On January 1. 1022. passengers, and shippers will realize, a very substantial reduction in the amount paid for freight and passenger ? transportation on account of the removai of the tax on transporta tion effective on that date. Under the provisions of the new j revenue law it is estimated that the i elimination of this tax will result in j a. saving to passengers and shippers usin^ the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road of approximately ?2,200.000.00 annually. This estimate covers a saving to passengers of $1,100.000. 00 and to shippers of freight of $1,- j 100.000.00 based on freight and passenger revenues for the current year. Instructions have been issued to agents and others concerned pro- j viding that no tax on freight or j passenger transportation furnish- j ed on or after January L 1922. | will be charged. Tickets for trans- | portation may be purchased at any j time during the remainder of the present year without the payment I of any tax provided the. transpor- j tat ion service is not performed un- j til 1922. The assessing and collection of j this transportation tax for the gov ernment has required each railroad i to act as a government tax collec tor and to make a strict accounting j for all the money collected and turned over to the government. Xo | benefit whatsoever has accrued to the railroad companies from the i collection of this tax. Another Candidate For Meanest 1 Man Charged wi* using the mails to J lefraud. Martin Gross, of the } Bronx. Xew Vork City, is awaiting trial in the Federal Courts. Com plaints received by police and pos tal authorities from relatives and | friends of soldiers killed in the war j ?aused an investigation and the irrest of < r'ross. The complaints alleged tha; SVI owing the publication of the list if the soldier dead small C. O ?>. i ?ackages vere sent to the dead j oldier.s address. Th. charge col- j ected v. as $2.0-3. When oncned ? hey were found to contain u sirnl! lack ribbon with a medal ? n j h'tii was inscribed. "In Memory' t" ." The value of tie- medals j as about ten cents. The S-.0"J j , as e mitted to tlie sender. I Estimate Food Supply Weekly New Bulletin Shows jfclow to Adapt Food Needs of Ideal Family to Any Household and How to Buy Eco nomically Housekeepers often feel the need of some simple plan by which the foods used in their families can be compared in kind aud in amount with those, really needed. This calls for a standard or model that may he used as a guide in the selec tion, of foods for any family at any season of the year and under any market eouditons. The United' Stares Department of Agriculture has just issued a new Farmers" Bulletin. No. 122S. pre pared by Caroline L. Hunt. The subject of the bulletin is "A Week's Food for an Average Family." It shows how all food materials are classed under five heads or groups, and how ah foods, with the excep tion of the milk for young children, may be replaced by some other food or foods within the same group. The text gives suggestions for such institutions, and a meth od for comparing the cost of similar foods, it shows also how to adapt the allowances given in the sample fod supply so as to meet the needs of families larger or smaller than the average. The bulletin contains many illustrations, useful tables, and menus. It may be obtained upon application to the United States Department of Agriculture. An important point emphasized in the bulletin is that a balanced food supply in the course of a week insures a balanced diet, whether or not the balance is carried out in each separate meal. The live food groups have been more generally understood of late years. Many housekeepers have felt, however, that it was necessary to serve at least one food from each group at every meal, in order to supply a proper balance. If the weekly food supply is satisfactorily distributed the exact make-up of the separate meals is not important. A break fast of toast and coffee (for an ad ult) is entirely acceptable if foods from other groups are used later in the day. As a rule the diet will be suffi ciently bulky and favoraful and will furnish the right proportions of starch, fat. and sugar if the vegetables and fruits furnish about 20 per cent, of the fuel; the milk, meat, eggs, and similar protein rich foods, 20 per cent: the cereal foods, including bread, 30 per cent: sweets, 10 per cent: fats and fat fuods, ^0 per cent. A diet made up on these proportions will also furnish satisfactory kinds and amounts of protein, mineral sub stance, and vitamines. Tables of sample supplies are given in the bulletin, also a week's menus made from these supplies. One feature of the bulletin which many housekeepers will welcome is.1 a table of common foods in which j the number of hundred-calorie por- I tions in an ordinary unit of weight is clearly shown for foods in each group. Thus, ordinary cheese pro vides 19 hundred-calorie portions per pound, while average beef pro vides 10 hundred-calorie portions per pound. When cheese sells forj 38 cents a pound it costs 2 cents per hundred-calorie portion, and beef of average composition would have to sell for 20 cents a pound to be equally cheap as a source of energy. The mythical "average" family is supposed to consist of a father and mother, both doing moderately ac tive muscular work, and three chil dren whose ages total from 20 to 24 years. Four "average" adults is considered an equivalent. The new bulletin shows how to adapt "average" food requirements to any family by means of a table giving the number of hundred-calorie por tions needed by different individ uals in a day or* a week. It is in teresting to note in this connection that an active boy over 12 may re quire as much or even more ener gy-food than a grown man. With the knowledge given of the amount of food from each group needed for the ideal or average family, and a correct estimate of the ratio of one's own family to the average in calorie-requirements; it is easy to calculate the correct pur chases for a "week's supply. A household food account book is suggested and described with the thought that such an account will help in reducing the expenditures for food by indicating the groups in which cheaper materials could be substituted without deteriment. ? ? ? Royal Flush Kills Man Experienced poker players feel the thrill that comes from holding a royal flush only a few times in their life, and this thrill was too much for Philip Brenner, a retired tailor of Far Rockaway, X. V. He was sitting in his regular game, piaying ten cent limit with rela tives and cronies, when he drew the ace. king, queen, jack and ten of hearts. Three other players of the game held pat hands. Every one of I them raised and kept raising when , it came his turn to call or raise. Brenner became very excited. Before he had the pleasure of being ' ? ailed and raking in the pot the] cards dropped from his hand and j he slumped down on the table. He was pronounced dead by a phyxi- j cian. and it was not until the doc tor made an investigation into the I cause of the shock that the roval! flush was discovered. -? ? ? The bine bird may bring happi- j ncss. but the stork has it on him in ! one way- - his visit brings a $200.0(1 income tax exemption. Wonder how people who don't j like movies keep away from home? ; ? ? ? The majority of Chinese women ' ? annot read or write. It is not known who offered or \ ivon the 1921 prize for talcing the : most pictures of Harding. Lenine's Return to Russia A Bolshevik Writer Tells of 5 the Trip Through Germany Riga. Latvia. Dec. ">.?Karl Ra dek. the Bolshevik writer and prop agandist, has published an article in the Moscow Pravada's edition celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Lenine revolution in which Radek denies the widely-circulated story that the Bolshevik revolution in Russia was financed by German gold. Radek's article is devoted to a? description of the historic return of Nikolai Lenine from Switzerland through Germany to Russia in the spring of 1017. with the permission of the German government. This I was the beginning of The revolu tion and of Russia's withdrawal j from the war. Radek asserts that Lenine a*td (his party of 40 sent an emissary to the German minister in Switzerland [asking free passage for all emi jgrants who wanted to return to , Russia and insisting that during Itheir passage, the, German govern-, j ment should not attempt to enter into communication with them. ; "On our side." Radek asserted, ! "we promised to do everything for {lightening the position of German ! prisoners of war in Russia and also I to expedite the return of German ! invalids from Russia to Germany, j "After a little time, the German ! government agreed to our condi tions. Of course, it was cmite clear i-to us that the German government i intended to speculate on thi? epi . sode, recognizing that after our ar | rival in Russia we would work for j peace. But this conjecture interest i ed us very little lor we knew that if, in Russia, the revolution took ' a proletarian turn then its influence i would tell far beyond the confines of Russia." I The party, save- Radek, had an j escort of German officers and, when ? it halted at railway stations, secret [agents surrounded it to'keep the ; German soldiers and other persons ' away from the dangerous Bolsh^ j viki. j The returning emigrants were so j hilarious that Lenine had to take j over executive authority and bring about some order. / j One attempt was made while the ! train was, \M\