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Business in 1922 Discussion of Conditions by the National Bank of Com merce, New York Conditions in the United States today indicate that the year. 1922 as a whole will be more satisfac tory, to business, than the year just ended. Our forecast is that profits will depend more on. economy of operation than on expansion of vol ume. With the many f^vorabje factors now operating, business men should not fear to make plans for the hew year, but they should plan wiTh care and conservatism, and with constant effort toward reduction of costs. Financial improvement con tinues. Progress has been made in reduction of excess stocks of man ufactured goods. Accumulations of raw materials have been reduced. The rate of production in the ma jor industries has shown little change'/ during the closing weeks <5tf 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 * 921 have been held. Rank nur Position. The last twelve months have wit nessed; great' progress toward stable ftnancial conditions in business. Combined gold reserves of the twelve, federal reserve hanks have increased by more than 40 per cent, while discounts for member banks have dropped 56 per cent, and fed eral reserve notes in actual circula tion have declined 2S per cent. The federal reserve system once more proves to be a system designed, to vare for increases, and decreases in the volume of c edit, with the re quisite elasticity to do>this easily. Th?"beUermer\t in the position of member banks. while not so spiking, is nevertheless satisfac tory. Notwithstanding the consistent improvement in financial condi tions, VfC.overy in manufacture and trade has been slow. Unemploy ment in-the chief countries shows bttle decline from the high point reached early in the year, and it may well reach new'high figures d uring. January and February, when normally thjere is an increase i.i the number of those out of work la XOrfh America and Europe. Manufactured goods continue to ^io^e slowly and uncertainly into the channels of consumption. ~ The Raw >Iaterial Problem. In last analysis, the business of the world rests on a physical, , not a -financial foundation. Failure of balance between world-wide supply c* and effective demand for phy sical goods forced the violent read iiistment of the last two years; a readjustment which will not be complete until this physical balance *a_s again been established. ..The wool situation illustrates particularly well the various s fac tors which have prevented a return to normal, .conditions. It has con tinued to accumulate, partly be "wiuse^entral Europe ha's not been able . to. purchase in the ? expected amounts, partly because an rni port act part of the wool supply is a by product, and partly because the bJ??ding up of flocks is so slow a process that flock-masters reduce Ihernt only when they have given up hope: of profits. . :With curtailment of production and increased demandS copper sioeks are showing reduction. The abort American and Egyptian cot zon cropSy|ha,ve served to. bring the world's cotton supply approximate ly .to a prewar normal. Stocks of hides and skins are large in many countries but are moving more fj?e<e$y into consumption. The prices e? rubber and sugar are still below the cost of production. Sisal stock carried over from last year no\ constitute nearly two-thirds of normal gear's supply. The world* wheat production is in a satisfac t?ry slate of balance in that ther is an adequate supply and a sustain ed demand. The American farm er, m the face of a new corn cioi of 3.1;>2;a00.000 bushels, is carry irtg over 281.000,000 bus'els fron the record crop of 1920. There is .%Iso an accumulation in other less weB-known commodities. This accumulation of physical goods is nor a misfortune, it as sures to the world a supply of cheap food .and clothing, and real pros perity has never rested on any oth er bas?sr ~Brrt producers of raw ma terials constitute much more than half of the buying power cf the worlds and the conclusion is in oviiaf?ie that the entire economic atruc$ire will gradually adjust it self to the raw material market. Disarnjaraeiit and TUc Economic Outlook. : The' essential step toward recov ery is?removal of the burden of ex penditures for war. The countries which are wasting their money and effort on armaments are those whose markets must absorb the worlcCs excess of raw materials, and Pjay for it with manufactures. The*terrific burden of war debts andT Reparation for war is clearly show? by data recently prepared by the federal reserve hoard. The boart?staics that in J920, of a total net ifoblie expenditure by Great Erita'n~oT~?l,l45.9L'S.no<'. ?,?>..> per cent, _y,erc for public debt charges and 25.5 percent, were for national defense; by'France, of a total of 52.18?.217.000 francs. per cent werelfor public debt charges, and 50.7 per cent, were for national de fense, in 1919, Italy's total public expenditures were S2,150.100,000 lire, of which S.4 per cent, were for public debt charges, and S3.9 per Cent, for national defense. German expenditures in 1920 were ?1.470, ?70,00.0 marks. 14.5 per cent being for ptiMio debt charges, and 6".2 per cvnt. for national defense. Expenditures for the payment of interest an<l principal of the public deht -do not curtail current pur chasing power. They merely trans fer itr: That curtailment occurred when' in the hrst place the debts were incurred for military and na v^l p?r}K)se.s. But current expen ditures for national defense consti j tute a direct levy on the present j j purchasing powers of a people. La- | j hor -xpcnd^i to raak^.giins and submarines can. not pay for hides j j from Argentina or wool from Aus-; j tralia i It is too much to hope to de- j [ stroy the : anachronism of arma-i m?nt at one blow, but in so far as, concrete results may be attained, j they offer the first real- hope of re-j covery from the economic stagna- i .lion of the world. A combined! saving by the United States, thej United Kingdom and Japan on j armaments of only $:u>0.000,000 in j a single ye^r is equivalent to. thej ; prewar value of the exports of wool j I from both Argentina and Australia} I for nearly three years. - m ?? ? IUci-sov Barvwahl Deplores Xanow ? " Jpr, Bojern?.. . -,? "The antagonistic attitude and 'criticism offered, by Xew York aud Chicago physicians to the. work of; Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the eminent I Austrian surgeon, in behalf of the i crippled children of America, is not only regrettable, but deplor- j able," declared Dr. C. L. Bare-. wakl,. mayor of Davenport, today.) The mayor spoke With considerable ! ? feeling ?s he said the above. "The attitude of these physicians/ t: inhuman and. un-American," con- ^ United Dr. Barewald. "The physi- j cian, of all professions, should be i broad-minded and liberal. But I j am sorry to say that only too often < they reveal themselves to the. con-j trary." Continuing, Dr. Barewald said: "The standing of Dr. Lorenz as j one of the world's greatest sur- J geons is indisputable. His visit to America at this time is a, humani-; tarian move, and not pecuniary. | This is proven in the fact that in i Xew York he is treating some of 1 [ the poorest, children in the metro- | poiis. For this work he does hot! . ' ? ? i receive a penny. And everyone i knows it takes just as long a time] to toeatt A I'dor child as it does the i rich. But Dy. Lorenz is not cater- i iug to the wealthy. He is serving) humanity and serving it with a big, j generous heart that recognizes no distinct ion in race, creed or station j in life- .He is the type of man for ; whom I have the highest respect! and admiration, "I am pleased ty observe that j Health Commissioner Copeland off Xew York City is a strong cham- i pion and defender of Dr. Lorenz, f After being invited to come to this country, he certainly is entitled to the respect and courtesy of all loyal Americans. We American doc tors may know a great deal about medicine, and surgery, but it is the height of folly to assume that we know it aB- ' "Dr. Lorenz has made a life study of joint diseases and is a recognized world authority in this particular i 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 not enjoyed by the average "American doctor, j "Instead of criticising and ob-1 j stfucting his work, how much more I I humane and generous it would be j j for all of us to extend to him the ! warm hand of welcome and good i fellowship and endeavor to profit I ourselves through his knowledge and ability.. Undoubtedly in cer ; tain branches of surgery American ! physicians are more skilled than j Dr. Lorenz,, but in his particular! ; line we. must admit his master-' ship. I ? "T he day, and., age of. bigotry, \ jealousy and selfishness should be ? put in the discard. .Let the newer ; and brighter light and faith per- j meate the whole world."?Daven-j port Democrat and Leader, Dec. 5?. J 1921. * ? ? The Lowly Corncob. Th?j corncob is coming into its! own.. Once upon a day it was good \ for fuel, and *ome of the finest ex- i amples . of it were used to make j corncob pipes!. But today that has j changed. It is to prove an import- i ant factor, in helping the United i States dye industry compete with! j the German. Recent analyses and I experiments show that the lowly j corncob contains 10 per cent, of ; ! high grade furfural. Furfural, at j I the beginning of the war, came only I from Germany and is used in j connection with coal tar dyes. [ Chemists have also discovered that a good paste, which can be j j used in the manufacture of fibre' j boards for walls, can be made from j ! corncobs. Flower Turns 'Night Into Day. One of the strangest flowers, and j one that is not often seen, because ! it only blossoms aLer night has ! fallen, and then withers before dawn comes, is the cercus. Except I [ at the time "if blooms, this plant, i i which is one of .tie few that turn : ! night into day. is not at ail attray- i five in appearance. What you see j j is nothing more tlian a leafless, dis j tori cd tangle of discolored and re- I I pellent vegetable fibres, j But when this unpromising mass ' I of roots does break into blossom, 1 it throws out tlowers as beautiful! as they are deliriously scented. The bud begins to unfold a little after; I dusk, and in. an hour or two it has | ; grown tu a large flower several feet l in circumference, which at m:1 { night is brawn and orange and whffe, and fills the air with a heavy ; tropical scent like a compound of fresh fragipanni. roses, and tiger, lilies. An nour or so before dawn the Mowers begin to fade, and be fore breakfast the plant is again an apparently withered heap. j 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. 9> ? ?-? In the obi days the bull pen was j something else, but now it is the one used to write political speeches. - ? ? ? There is no relationship between junkers and junkmen. The former | sow and the bitter harvest. i Cats and Dogs. Swift is said to have originated the saying. 1'Raici.ng eats and dogs." in an old verse at least, so some say. But there is a 1st? another version. In Northern Mythology. Odin, the God of Storm, is said to have pos sessed a dog. This was a sign of wind. Cats, as is well known, are more or less affected by rainy weather. Thus, when rain falls pussy gets frisky. Consequently, in talking of it "raining eats and dogs." which, literally, is of course absurd, the significant meaning is: Wet weath er (as far as "cats" are concerned) and. howling winds (which- the "dogs" denote), or "rains and winds." While on the subject of eats and dogs, it is interesting to know that there is said to have existed at one time a species of "meow-less" fe lines. They could not. we are told, give nightly concerts on the tiles if they tried! St?h dumb eats would be welcome pets in our households today! ??Sun ot a Gun" Where did the expression "son of a gun" originate? According to one authority, John Bellenden Kcr, in his "Essay on the Archaeology of* Our Popular Phrases." published in 1S2?, de rives; the saying from the Dutch, as follows: "En saen af er gaen." Phis translated means: "There: soon gone off again."' The mean ing derived from this is a slippery customer, one who never stays long in the same place, soon off again, and thus an unsteady person. the above the true derivation ef the expression, which really sounds more American than Eng lish, or Dutch? A Strong Siphon ?"Good morning. .Mr. Kyetop." said the waiter. "I hc<e you enjoyed that old Scotch I left in your room while you were out." "It was pretty fair." drawled Rytop. rubbing his parched lips, "but that siphon you sent up had the strongest stream of fizz water I ever tackeld. The blamed thing eaxae near bio .via' me through-the window." The waiter looked puzzled. "Si phon? I didn't send up any siphon." ?*Tes, you did. It was red and bound with brass bands. "Great Scott! That was the fire extinguisher!"?Hotel Gazette. m> w m> IMPROVED FARM MACHINERY NEEDEP Chicago, Dec. 29.?Wayne Dins more,, secretary of the horse asso ciation of America, told the Ameri can Society of Engineers that farm experts failed to increase the ef ficiency of farm motive power and that it should be popularized. He said that with improved machinery one man should till a hundred and fifty acres. CHRISTIAN IDEALS , THE ONLY HOPE Chicago. Dec. 2$.?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 the motive to insure people taking the right road. She said primitive desire wax followed except Avhere Christian ideals were instilled. Only thing more useless than a man round the house on a holiday is two men. We trust the paragraphers will soon appoint delegates for a con ference on the limitation of puns on Hughes. One boy tries to amount to some thing, and another is the sole heir of a r^rh relative. How t?oes an executive spend his time when he isn't telling some de partment 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 practice. A little reflection concerning the 2ost of battleships will show you why they are called the "high" seas. The best aids to plea>??::t thoughts in the early morning are a (dear conscience and the smell of buck wheat cakes. "What has business lost?" asks a 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. Who/n the Lord loveth. He chasteneth. The nut crop may be light, as reported, but we observe no de crease in tin- number who think Europe will pay us what she owes. A Japanese deb-gate says he wishes to "spike" oujj language well enough to span the distance be tween races. "Spik and span" is a good motto. A physician says most of the ills we sutler could be avoided by keep ing our shoulders square. The rest could be avoided by keeping our condtn t that way. Snarl: To growl: also to en tangle. A cause of war: also a r< - suit. The Powers begin with a capital apd continue to function by reason of it. The next thing, they will be tell ing us that Pat in Gaelic is spelled Pi hhahhi. Business won't he sound while diplomatic promises are merely that and nothing more. The race vvas begun with a float ing rili. Now it must begin all over with a floating debt. The difference between "import ant" and "impotent" is about ten thousand dollars a year. The world is safe for democracy, but if you are making ten thousand a year you are still free to talk About the "common" people. ! Birmingham Lawyer Whipped by Mob j Birmingham. Dec. 2 9.--The po I lice authorities are unable to fmd ! any clue of the masked mob who j lured W. B. Tumlin. a lawyer, to ; Red Mountain and hogged him be ! cause he refused to remarry his di ! vorced wife. \ Fire Truck Hits Prince Bourbon New York. Dee. 29. ? Prince I j Louis De Bourbon, who claims to i be a hall" brother et' King Alfonso I of Spain, was strack by a tire truck ; ; and seriously injured today. He is ! here to promote trade with the I ! Balkan states. ; Wage Reduction j Proposed ?; j Peru. Ind.. Dec. 29-, ? Joseph j j Flintcraft has confessed to killing j i his wife and burying her body be- ; ; m ath his house; the police state, i I He said he was angered because' j his wife did not return home Sat- j urday night. It.develops that she; j is a nurse and could not leave her ! patient. Her body was found with j the hands tied and head crushed. j Hughes Confer With Harding j Washington, Dec. 20.?Secretary | I of State Hughes today held a long ; conference with President .Harding j presumably over the recent de- i J velopments in the arms conference. | -? ? - . j j Brutal Mtirdsr in Indiana i j Nashville. Tenn., Dec. 29. ?A ' general wage reduction for all em- 1 ; ployes of the Nashville, Chattanoo- j Kga and St. Louis railway is propos- I I ed in a letter from President Cole to the employes. Drunkenness in Chicago | _ Chicago. Dec. 29.?The annual ! report of the municipal courts of ! Chicago showed that drunkenness | increased last year. Fifty-one j thousand, three hundred persons j were arranged for intoxication dur- j ing 1921. against thirty-two thou-"; sand, three hundred and five in j 1920. The report was followed j by. city council adopting a resoiu- [ tion demanding that congress and | state legislature authorize the man- ; ufacture and sale of wholesome i beers and light wines^ -??* - Wliats in a Name? T'ne scholars had stumbled I through their share of the reading | lessons, and at last it came to little \ {Barry's turn. He got on quite well j until he came to the word heir- ', loom. The teacher noticing his difficul- 1 ty helped him. and then asked: ? And do you know the meaning , of this word?" . j Harry shook his head. ?'It means something that is \ handed down from father to son? j (in oth< r words, a relic." i *'Oh." said Harry", with a grin, j j "that's the funniest name I've ever j j heard for a pair of trousers."?Lon j don Ideas. - Held His Breath For Ten Minutes, j M. De Lalyman. the Frenchman i j who is said to he able to remain un- j { der water long enough to, shave j j himself, peel and eat a potato, and j I drink wine, appears to have i I brought the art of breath-control to i I ... : , a hue point. I j How long he remains under the ( J water is not stated, but if he stays J ? there longer than ,ten 'minutes hei { has certainly broken the breath j holding record. j That belongs?or belonged?to a; (student of the Medical School of California University, who, in July, I 11915. voluntarily held his breathe for 1? minutes, 10 seconds, j He was under observation the; j whole time. His breathing organs j I were connected with a kymograph, i I which would have recorded the! ! slightest inspiration. j The best way to lie when sleepin; ; is on the right side. j Visitors to Italy who travel on j ; Sunday have to. ]>ay a special tax. ! - i Australia has raised $50.000,00! for the assistance of her ex-sol- j diers. Remains of a Sun Temple at Ave-, bury. England, are stud to be older I than Stonehenge itself. j Bach British family, it is esti-; i mated, nays on an average $15 a! I week in government taxes. Foot-binding which resulted in] i women having f. et so small as to!: be practically useless, has been dis-l I continued in enlightened China. j I The King of Spain is the first.: ; monarch to own a private aero- ! 1 plane. .': I The shkworm moth has been cul- ; tivated for more than 4.<??m years, j -? ? ? Traces of many r di: "ases still : prevalent have been found in mum mies 3.000 years old. Unemployment is one <>f the! greatest factors in bringing about i diseases of the mind. Aeroplanes with a cruising ra- ; Idius <>f 3:000 miles, and abb- t<> car- < ry \1 tons of explosives, are being] designed. Nettles have been made into sub stitutes for cotton and other ma terials, paper, gas mantles, and dyes. An ounce of contention calls for . a pound of cure. !, Riddled With Bullets Man Taken From Jail by Key West Mob Key West. Fla.. De<\ 2?:.?Manuel Head, who. barricaded in the cupola of a house last night stood oft' a mob oi' armed Key Wesi Citi zens after he had shot and killed William Decker, was taken from i the county jail this morning by an other crowd and riddled with, bul- j ?viJ- j Marines lrom Key West navy, yard guarded thee ounty jail last ' night after Head's capture until the mob. which formed after DeCk-j i-r's murder broke up. They gav?- : way shortly after 2 o'clock to dep.- j uties who patrolled outside thej jail. Word that the marines had' been relieved was passed about and j the crowd gathered again. Ap- ? poaching the jail, one of the lead- j era called for Sheriff Curry and i when he opened the door a dozen] men forced their way in. overpow- j eleu htm and the jailor, obtained; the keys to Head's cell and made: for their victim. Head was shot j twice before being taken away. He | ,vas then placed in an automobile I and taken far out on a county ! road near old Fort Martello and1 there strung to a telephone pole. I Twenty-two bullet wounds were found in the body when it was cut ; down this mornin-;. The Decker funeral was eon- , ducted today, services being held in the Elks Temple and St. Paul's; Cathedral. Members of the Elks' and Rotary club, followed by Girl j and Boy Scouts in uniform, led the ! procession to the cemetery. i o ? ? Delight I Hi Party Given by Mrs. Bradley. - Quite a delightful dance party j was given Tuesday evening at the ; 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 j thrown together by the opening of; the folding doors and thus was made ample floor space for the! dancing. Music for the occasion was furnished by the "Gamecock. Five Jazz Orchestra." A delight-! ful refreshment course and fruit j punch was served during thej evening. A*ll the young folks pres- ! eat are indebted to Mrs. Bradley j for a most plesaantly spent even- j ing. i Among those present were Misses! Emma Pinekney. Evelyn Caudle,! Sadie Mints. Mae Blanding, Mollie j Bowman. Reha Spann, Xell Spann, Columbia; Davis, Columbia; Fran ces Heller. Montana: Alice Bynum, Emma Reynolds, Vermelle Pitts. Augusta Rembert. Columbia: Ethel I Harper and Miss Heindrick and i Messrs. James Bradley. Nelson j Bradley. Pinekney Bradley, Law- ' rence Brunson, Henry Spann. Jas. I Pitts, Hormon Myers, Leland My- | ers, George Bultman, Marion My- j ers, Harold Moise, Alva Solomons, ' Joe Watson. Atlanta; H. Grieff, Hil- : hard Folsom, R. H. Rembert, Dr. j Weinberg. Dr. Archie China, Mrs. China. Miss Louise China, Miss j Kathryn Carroll, Mrs. Pinekney and Mrs. Abbott. Barber Invented the First Organ. More than two thousand years ago a barber in Alexandria discov ered that in moving his mirror air was forced through the tubes which were common in mirrors at that time. This caused a curious musical sound to be emitted. So struck was he by this peculi arity that he set about making an instrument which was the founda tion of the modern organ. After several experiments he made a water-flute, in which ait was forced by bellows through an inverted cone which led to flutes controlled by a keyboard, the pres- j sure being kept uniform by water. , After a thousand years a rival j instrument made its appearance. I This was of a similar pattern, but. instead of water, weights regu- j lated the pressure. In fj? 1 an organ was erected at Winchester, England. ? It had twenty-six bellows and ten pipes 1 to each key. The two men who I sat at the keyboard "blew and j sweated enormously." Later, a firm of organ makers in | Germany succeeded in erecting the | 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 J nightingale and cuckoo stops, while j others represented cock-crowing j and goat-bleating. Though these j novelties have now fallen into dis use, an organ with one of these j nightingale stops is still to be seen j in Rome. It was not until the nineteeth | century that the problem of the j regulation of air pressures was J solved by introduction of the hy- i draulic blower. Amongst the largest organs in I the world are the Haarlem. Hoi- j land, instrument, which possesses sixty stops and 8.000 pipes; the Al bert Hall. London, organ, with 12". Stops: the organ in St. George's j Hall. Liverpool, with 110 stops; one ? at St. Louis. Australia, which boasts ? 150 stops: and one in Sydney. Aus- i tralia. Town Hall with 12G stops. j , . . i The greatest enemy < 1 good isn t I evil, but neutrality. As a rule, the "ex" in expenses stands for extravagance. The French under arms inspire less awe than the French overhead. Land is makes it clear iha' ittrh j isn't the only one who can soak | 'em. The speed cups always "e< i : greatly encouraged when the judge! says "Fine." Fortunately, win n the amateur j hunter tires at a rabbit the shot! seldom pentrates Iiis companion f above the knee. Another thine, the Senat" needs is a bumper to safeguard Torn ( Watson s feelings. The health of Charles W. Morse! seems to get worse- every time In takes something. Make Changes , ,. \j[ Greenville Business Men Announce Im portant Connection* Greenville. De.-. 2S.?Business '?Inniges affecting men widely known hi textile circles were an nounced hero today. On January 1, the Mill Stocks and Bonds Brokerage firm of Mills & Manning will will be dis solved and will be succeeded by the firm of Mills Lewis. Vivian M. Manning retires from the firm to become manager uf a new supply department of Norris Brothers' Mill Suppy Manufacturers, here, and a director in the firm. Thomas L. Lewis, now manager of the stocks and bonds department of Parrish. (haver & Si)rings, will be come associated with Henry T. .Mills, stock broker here since 190?, in the firm of Mills & Lewis. Norris Brothers' officials have just announced an increase in cap italization from $20.01.000 to $000. U.Uft. They plan to expand the man ufacturing plant here and to make 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 been made happy as the result of an auction recently held by the United Mates Gover?iiueiic on tne abandon ment of the Surfside life saving sta tion, one of the oldest on the Mas sachusetts coast. A practically un used and well cared for surf boat that cost $730. 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 I ways brought a looking-glass in ! front of my crying face. I hated to ! see my own face so ugly with the j tear-marks, and I immediately be j gan to laugh. Very often when I wanted to cry a little longer I used j to scream. "Oh. don't show me the l glass for a few moments." "I was never scolded severely, j They always told me, 'You are a [ very nice boy. but just at this I 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 II began to feel so .sorry for them. ' and I used to cling to their necks J and say. "The evil is gone long time j ago. I am your favorite boy." -He's in Again, Officer!*' I Izzy is at it again! If you lived l in New York City you would know : 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 j drivers. They wandered into nine i different saloons in one section of ! New York City and called for milk ! punches?just to be true to their j calling. When the. bartenders told j them they could not make up the j milk punches, but could give them I a little of the real stuff?straight? j they fell. ?-. } As soon as service was made and payment accepted the bartenders fell. Nineteen of them were gath ered in on the one raid. -.? ? o -? Reduced Passenger Kates. ? On January L 1922. passengers [and'' shippers will realize, a very [ substantial reduction in the amount j paid for freight and passenger transportation on account of the removal of the tax on transporta tion effective on that date. Under the provisions of the new revenue law it is estimated that the elimination of this tax will result in a saving to passengers and shippers using the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road of approximately $2,20.0,0.00.00 annually. This estimate covers a saving to passengers of $1,100,000. 00 and to shippers of freight of $1, 100.000.00 based on freight and passenger revenues for the current year. Instructions have been issued to agents and others concerned pro viding that no tax on freight or passenger transportation furnish ed on or after January 1, 1922. will be charged. Tickets for trans portation may be purchased at any time during the remainder of the present year without the payment of any tax provided the transpor tation service is not performed un til 1922. The assessing and collection of this transportation tax for the gov ernment has required each railroad to act as a government tax collec tor and to make a strict accounting ( for all the money collected and turned over to the government. No benefit whatsoever has accrued to the railroad companies from the j collection of this tax. -??- ! Another Candidate For Meanest Man Charged with using the mails to ; defraud. Martin Gross, of the j Bronx, New Vorfc City, is awaiting trial in the Federal Courts. Com plaints received by police and pos- ; tal authorities from relatives and ; friends of soldiei-s killed in the war i caused an investigation and the arrest of Gr< >ss. The complaints alleged thac fid lowing the publication of the list of the soldier dead small C. ?? F>. i packages v < re sent to the dead soldier s address. Thv charge col- j beted v>;is $2.03. When opened they were found to contain a strap j black ribbon with a medal ? n j which v.:is inscribed; "In Memory of - ." Tin- value of the medals j was about ten cents. The ?_.<?:; : was emitted to the sender. I Estimate Food Supply Weekly i New Bulletin Shows Jfclow to j Adapt Food Needs of Ideal j Family to Any Household I i and How to Buy Eco nomically Housekeepers often feel the need of some simple plan by which the foods used in their families ran he compared in kind and in amount with those, really needed. This calls for a standard or model that may he used as a guide in the selec tion, . f foods for any family at any season of the year and under any market oouditons. The United"States Department of Agriculture has just issued a new Farmers' Bulletin. Xo. 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. I 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 Jive food groups have been more generally understood of late years. Many housekeepers have felt, however, that it was necessary to serve at I least one food from each group at every meal, in order r.o supply a proper balance. If the weekly fo^d 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) l.< entirely acceptable if foods from other group! 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 foods. ^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 I a table of common foods in which [ the number of hundred-calorie por 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 for S3 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 1 dren whose ages total from 20 to I 24 years. Four "average" adults j is considered an equivalent. The I new bulletin shows how to adapt i "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 I 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 I amount of food from each group I needed for the ideal or average j family, and a correct estimate of I 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 stub an account will help in reducing the expenditures [for food by indicating the groups i in which cheaper materials could be substituted without deteriment. ? ? ? Royal Plash Kills Man Experienced poker players feel the thrill that comes from holding fa 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, 'playing ten cent limit with rela tives and cronies, when he drew the ace. king, queen, jack and ten of hearts. Three ether players of the game held pat hands. Every one of them raised and kept raising when it came his turn to call or raise. Brenner became very excited. Before he had the pleasure oi being called and raking in the pot the cards dropped from his hand and he slumped down on the table. He was pronounced dead by a physi cian, and it was not until the doc tor made an investigation into the cause oi the shock that the roval flush was discovered. -? ? ? The blue bird may bring happi ness, but the stork has it on him in one way-- his visit brings a $2?in.nii income tax exemption. Wonder how people who don't like movies keep away from home? Tin* majority of Chinese women cannot read or write. It is not known who offered or won the 1 ?21 prize for taking the most pictures of Harding. Lenine's Return to Russia A Bolshevik Writer Tells of the Trip Through Germany Riga. Latvia, Dec. 5.?Karl Ra dek, the ijlshevik writer and prop agandist, has published an article in ihe 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 i Nikolai Lenine from Switzerland j through Germany to Russia in the ; spring of 1017. with the permission of the German government. This j was the beginning of rhe revolu I tiou and of Russia's withdrawal 1 from the war. Radek asserts that Lenine and \ his party of 40 sent an emissary to the German minister in Switzerland [asking free passage for all emi ['grants who wanted to return to ; Russia and insisting that during their passage, the, German govern j mem should not attempt to enter into communication with them. ? "On our side," Radek asserted, I "we promised to do everything for j lightening the position of German i prisoners of war in Russia and also ! 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 quite clear Ho us that the German government I intended to speculate on this epi ! sode, recognizing that after our ar | rival in Russia we would work for , peace. But this conjecture interest ', ed us very little lor we knew that if, in Russia, the revolution took 1 a proletarian turn then its influence I would tell far beyond the confines of Russia." j The party, sayi; Radek. had an i escort of German officers and, when J it halted at railway stations, secret [agents surrounded it to" keep the ; German soldiers and other persons ! away front the dangerous Bolsh^ j viki. j The returning emigrants were so j hilarious that Lenine had to take j over executive authority and bring j about some order. ,/ i One attempt was made while the j train was, passing through Ger I many, says Radek, to sound out the ; party on the question of working ! for peace with Germany. This was made, he declares, by a German who said he wanted to greet the Russians in the name of the Central I Commission of German Trade Unions, but Radek believed he was acting iju. behalf ot the German gov ernment. The Bolsheviki, Radek j says, refused to deal with him. i The Russian party then went to i Stockholm, where, says Radek, "we received 300 Swedish kroner which apparently was that vast sum j which was figuring in all talts of j French patriots as German gold i funds supplied for the Russian i revolution." o o ?? "Warn Against Pitfalls" The Morals Court of Pittsburgh is seeking to have a force of one hundred women added to the po lice of the city to visit restaurants, hotels, cabarets, and other places of entertainment, especially those where the prohibition laws are suspected of being violated, and warn "young girls of the pitfalls of the city's night life." Magistrate De Wolf, of this court, claims that the leniency of mothers is largely responsible for the delinquency of young -girls these days, and says: "A little more rod on the part of parents would improve the quality of the girls of today." , A child of two and a-half years [should have sufficient teeth to mas I tieate solid food, say manv doctors.' ? m ?? Oh! Boy! Such a Waste! Twenty-three 40-gallon barrels of whiskey were poured down the Brooklyn sewers recently. It had been confiscated by the United States Marshal under the direction of the court and was part of a sup ply for bootleg saloons. ? ? ? Closes Saloons. I Prohibition has been the law of j the land for some few months, but j it was not until recently the true orce of it hit Bristol. Conn. Th# i prosecuting attorney recently gath jered all the saloon owners in his of I fice and informed them that they must close their places within five days and dismantle the interior of them. Needless to remark his ul timatum was obeyed, as he stated ! further that any convictions for [violating the law would meet with f jail sentences and not with fines. Wedding BeHs j Why does the Bride invariably I desire to be dressed in white at her I marriage? "White" she said ! stands for joy, and the wedding day Iis the most joyous occasion of a ? woman's life. A small boy queried. Why do j the men always wear black? i j dior. A Million ; A little boy came home from ! school crying, his father asked why ? he was crying, the boy said I got I a whippen at school today, and its J all your fault. You said last night j when 1 asked you how much a j million was. "that it was a h? of j a hu and that ain't the answer at all."?hop: A Wise Judge. A Montreal judge decided recent ly that while it was illegal to trans port liquor within the Province of ^ Quebec without a license, that so ! far as Canada is concerned it is not I illegal to carry it over the border j into the United States. The ques tion came up when David Weston j sued George Nolin for his pay for ; carrying a load of whiskey from Montreal to Albany. Nolin was ordered tu settle for the work by the court.