June 1925
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financial Napoleon derives from a ro bust raid on Wall street. She m ight be playing bridge or she m ight be te ll ing her private passions to a woman’s club, bu t She loves housework most and she gives as much of her tim e as possible to its performance. Every now and then such women are heard of, bu t they are seldom seen. In th is case the editor wished to pu t the lady’s picture in the paper, bu t she was too much occupied w ith her cake baking to furnish a photo. So we a re not .sure yet.—L. A. Times. INFINITE AND INFINITESIMAL The American Association for th e Advancement of Science split its annu al aw ard of $1000 equally between Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mt. W il son and Dr. L. R. Cleveland of Johns. Hopkins University. The form er dis covered a new universe so far away th a t it takes light, traveling a t a speed of .186,000 miles a second, nearly 1,000,000 years to reach th e e a rth ; the la tte r discovered a new kind of germ in the digestive trac t of a term - mite. To scientists th e infinite and the infinitesimal are merely relative term s, alike in importance.— Ex change. MORE SKULLDUGGERY At •Taungs, South Africa, a half hum an skull has been unearthed by Prof. Raymond D art, th e A ustrian anthropologist. The skull is too man like to be placed in th e'sam e case w ith the skulls of apes; it is too apelike to be human. “ Judging from the shape of th e Skull,” says Prof. D art, “ this more th an ape, but not quite man, could not speak.” Was the mouth too large or too small? The professor apparently thinks skull-shape and speaking ability go together, which is quite a call on ordinary credulity.— L. A. Times. A NINE YEAR OLD BURGLAR San Francisco.— F o r some days past a »detail of detectives from the city’s police force had been investigating the activities of a bu rg lar whom they de clared was unusually keen and an old- tim er a t the game. During the same period the ice-cream sales of a certain neighborhood showed a decided up ward trend. Investigation of the ice-cream sales disclosed th a t a youngster of nine summers was trea tin g th e neighbor hood w ith a prodigal hand. The detec tives questioned, him and he “ came th rough .” The child’s name is being w ithheld and he has exchanged his b u rg lar’s k it for marbles and a top a t the juvenile detention home. He adm itted th a t one job n etted him $610, of which $400 was recovered.— L. A. Herald.
of six was arrested for some form of lawlessness. That means, th a t on the basis of five persons to the family, th ere was almost one arrest per fam ily. In other words, a college diploma is not a certificate of morality.—Wal- th er League Messenger. THE MAN IN THE MOONSHINE A policeman who sta rted a moon shine loundry is now repo rted as con fessing th a t he paid $700 to th ree other police officers for “protection” in his business;:’ One of the men was a serg ean t who had been in the service for nearly fifteen years. It does seem th a t when citizens get to mingling w ith the moonshine they lose their moral balance and forget th eir social adjustm ents. Their virtues warp and facte and th eir respect for the law curls up and croaks.— P ress Dispatch. CARBOLIC SOAP The th ree ships of Japanese middies th a t have recently visited Panam a have rigid rules of hygienic cleanli ness laid down for th em ., Before they go aboard ship, afte r shore leave, they have to dust themselves and th eir shoes’ a t th e foot of the gang plank; a t the top of the gang plank is a m at soaked in a carbolic acid solution th a t they have to, wipe their, feet o n - afte r th a t they have to bathe them selves, using carbolic soap; a wise precaution in a tropical country Or perhaps any foreign port, which our Navy m ight safely adopt. NEW ENGLAND IS UNITED STATES’ THR IFT LEADER A repo rt covering the last twelve years, made public by the American B ank ers’ Association,, reveals some interesting facts. The data show th a t per capita sav ings deposits in New England this year were $443 and th a t the section held the lead by a wide margin in each of the years considered. P er capita savings in the other State groups follow; Middle A tlantic, $305; Pacific $240; E ast Central, $168; West Central, $87, and Southern $b2. . THE HOME BODY A Kansas paper has discovered a woman in the city of its publication who is so w rapped up in her home life th a t she has no tim e for anything else. She says th a t she finds so many fascinating things to do in her house th a t she positively cannot tear herself away. She says th a t when her bread is ready to go into the oven, the vac uum cleaner in action, a salad dress ing to be prepared, a batch of pies to be made or a closet to be cleaned she gets as much of a th rill as a general does out of a successful battle or a
THE CALL FROM THE CELL W hat has become of the warm vis ionaries who said th a t our prisons would soon become obsolete and un necessary? In almost every State the cry is going up for bigger ones and more of them. The world may be growing better, bu t it is having a hard tim e in proving it.— L. A. Times. OVER SEVEN MILLIONS FOR TEXAS INSTITUTIONS Austin, Texas.—By th e term s of a bill recently passed by th e House of Delegates of the Texas Legislature,' a to tal of $7,787,910 will be appropri ated for eleemosynary institutions during two years. For th e year begin ning September 1, 1925, th e bill pro vides $3,838,410 and for the succeed ing year $3,949,500.— Exchange. DOPING U. S. DEPUTIES New York.— Federal grand ju ry in dictments were retu rn ed today against seven deputy collectors of in tern al revenue on charges th a t they extorted “hu sh ” money from business men of W estchester and Bronx counties. The specific charge was th a t the deputies solicited and accepted bribes from citizens under th re a t of obtain ing against th e ir victims income-tax assessments, fines and crim inal prose cution.—7-News Item . FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH Many are the conditions th a t make a country strong, bu t th e ir effect is only comparative. Riches are good,;, not in themselves, but. in th eir dis posal. Laws are good only so long as they are wise laws and wisely enforced. Obedience to the law, indeed, out values the making of it. Population increase is healthy where health con ditions are good and children well born. Education is good— th e higher th e average intelligence of a people the g reater th eir m aterial success. But; th e secret of a nation ’s greatness is outside and beyond all these, and P resident Coolidge expressed it in one terse sentence—-“The streng th of a country is the streng th of its religious conviction.”—Newspaper Editorial. COLLEGE DIPLOMA NOT A CER TIFICATE OF MORALITY Culture and education alone cannot establish morality and a desire to abide by the law of the land. The city of Washington, capital of the most advanced nation of th e earth, counting in its population a higher percentage of college-trained people and a lower percentage of illiterate people th an any sim ilarly large city, is a t th e head of thei per capita average of arrests in our country. F igures cov ering a recent period of one year show th a t on the average one inh ab itan t out
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