WOMAN LEADS NAVAJOS forty-three, Is the only woman lead er among the 45000 Navajos In porthwestern New Mexico. In addl tion, the squaw has privileges denied white women in some states. She owns property. Her children belong to her clan and upon her death her daughters inherit her prop | erty. She does the work, tends the | sheep, shears the wool and weaves | it into blankets. She handles nearly all of the barter with Indian traders and controls the family's meager supply of cash, BOYS! GIRLS! Read the Grape Nuts ad in another column of thls paper and learn how | to join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes.—Adv. French Take to Baseball American baseball Is enjoying a | boom in France to the extent that | a nation-wide organization has been | formed known as the “Federation | Francaise de Baseball et de Theque.' Four hundred teams are playing In various parts of the French natlon. 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So Rare Kindness—the greatest thing in the world.—Exchange, AT YOUR GROCER'S Man's Inhumanity Chief menace to man on earth Is still man. —Exchange, SEEN HEARD around the National Capital SSSSSSSS By CARTER FIELD its Washington.~The so-called silver bloc in the senate-—it Is not so im- portant in the house for the simple ing states are small {in population, and hence do not have many representa- tives—is good and sore with the ad- ministration, but has not gotten to first Having stampeded the administra- law which seemed to promise to take the silver producers to the promised land--not to mention producing a falr bogging down of the treasury’s buying campaign, The law on the books Is ample to accomplish their purpose. It requires the secretary of the treasury to buy ounce, or until 1t becomes one-third of the government's metallic reserve, But it does not fix a time limit! Secretary of the Treasury Morgen. thau is not In sympathy with the sliver plan at all, save on one detail. He does like the idea of buying a lot of silver cheap, and then revaluing It, thus netting a fat profit for the treas- ury—as the treasury did on gold. 3ut to accomplish the most in this direction it Is necessary to buy the sliver at low prices. Every additional cent per ounce pald for silver bought cuts down the revaluation profit to the treasury when that day comes. Experts on the sidelines belleve that Morgenthau has played a masterly game at this, In view of the knowledge the whole world has that the law pro- vides this $1.20 objective. For a while the price of silver spurted tremen- dously, holders not wishing to sell be- cause they figured the price would be higher later on. Treasury Maneuvers Thereupon the treasury began Its maneuvering. It let leak out stories that the administration was deeply sympathetic with the plight Into which the American silver buying policy had plunged China. And so on. Whereupon the price of sliver banged down, and the silver senators got mad- der and madder. But meanwhile the treasury contin- ued to pay considerably above world price for all newly mined sil- ver, making It clear to the miners that the price pald them would not be re- vised downward no matter what hap- I you have a pimply, blotchy. complexion Tepe 0 nature a such Surface defects Simply sprinkle Peterman's Ant Food along window sills, doors and “So the miners were happy, or at least, not angry. Just a little disap- on up to $1.20, as predicted The silver genators, however, were not even placated by this. The reason is not merely that they felt cheated, believing they had provided for a grad- ual rise to $1.20, and then seeing it fail. It so happens that nearly all the silver senators are also Inflation. ists. They put their bill over last session by a coalition with inflation senators from non-silver producing states. And they knew perfectly well they were not getting the degree of In- flation from the sliver purchases that they had expected. Next gpession will see a much more militant silver and inflation bloc. Next be leading down the And President Roosevelt apd Mr. Morgen. thao will be much more considerate of the feelings of the silver senators AIRY COAT SICK HEADACHES Indicate Acid Condition Chew one or more Milnesia Wafers and obtain relief You can obtain a full size 20¢ package | of Milnesia Wafers containing twelve full adult doses by furnishing us with | the name of your local druggist if he does not happen to carry Milnesia | Wafers in stock, by Juciosing 10¢ in | coin or postage stamps. Address 2502 23rd St Long Island City, N.Y. Asse ER TASER EAR. My Druggitt's Naw 8. cocvscssnvssnsases S0r0ut ABAOI, .o nun essaneninsninnsnnnss HE IRL AR YA AX £} § But meanwhile the treasury will campaign will be much sweeter! Possibility that stockholders In the big corporations of the country, taking note of what happened to President Roosevelt's public utility holding cor- poration “death sentence” in the house representatives, may try to “save drive against bigness, Is the most vital program. The importance of that big house majority against the “death sentence” against the President, not because they were flooded with letters from stock holders in the utility corporations stockholders who lived—and voted-—Iin their districts, Stockholders in many instances whose names they knew, and of whose good faith there was no ques tion, It was this flood of mail--not the operations of the much criticized power lobby-—which caused that surprising overturn. It is perfectly true that the utility companies stirred up the letter writers. The attention of the secur. ity holders had to be called to the fact that legislation threatening their finan A little later in the same session in which the Esch-Cummins bill was passed there came up a little measure which would affect florists. The con- gressman from the wealthy Seventeenth’ New York district was overwhelmed with mail. He had not realized there were so many florists In his con- stituency. Florists on Job The point is that the florists were on the job, as far as watching against adverse legislation is concerned. The Investors were not. But this year has seen the Investors mobilized for the first time. The ques- tion is: Can business in general do the same sort of job that the utllity ex- ecutives did thig year In arousing their stockholders? While no one knows what the final rates of the tax against bigness will be, the top rate in the preliminary figures—for which no one acknowl- edges responsibility—are 173% per cent, pany's net income, Compilations as to what this would do to the big companies have been made, and general agreement is that this would be sufficient to put them out of business. But the object of the sliding scale Is avowedly to put them out of busl- ness, which means that the present bill is only an opening wedge. Obvi- ously the investors most hurt by this program, if continued, will be the com- mon stockholders, Their dividends will be endangered. For instance, even this year the American Telephone and Telegraph company Is paying part of its dividends out of surplus, as it has been since the depression started, Sharp boosting In the taxes would mean that it, and other large corpora- tions, would be obliged to reduce their dividends. The question {8 whether the stockholders will begin a letter writing drive to thelr congressmen as the ntility stockholders did. If they do, the corporation sliding scale tax will be beaten, as the “death sentence” was, “Ding’s” Big Job Jay N. Darling—better known as “Ding.” the cartoonist—is trying to do for wild ducks and geese, the moun- tain goat, caribou, antelope, and what. not in the game line, what Mark Sulll. van, serious writer on polities and economics, did In his youth for the buffalo. Ding thinks Sullivan's job was mag- nificent, but rather amusing In view of the deeply serious nature eof the Sullivan's mental processes. For ex- ample, Sullivan is probably the closest personal friend of Herbert Hoover. When quite a lad, Sullivan read something in a newspaper about the American buffalo, or more correctly, bison, becoming extinct. At once he went Into action. He wrote to every cluding a British peer. He wrote to every zoo in the country, asking if they would like to have a palr, and If they would promise to take care of them and let them breed if they got a sult able palr, At the moment a big rancher not far from Yellowstone park had a herd, which he found so unprofitable that he was obliged to dispose of them. It was the story about this, setting forth also that the bison was about to pass inte zoological history, that started Mark off, Jefore he was through he had dis posed of every buffalo In that herd, placed them carefully in zoos that wanted them, in cities all over the country. As a result, the supply of buffalo today is so plentiful that every few years a herd is turned over to the Indians for slaughter. The fact that Ding Is now head of the blological survey Is more out of the ordinary than Mark Sullivan's taking an Interest, In his youth, In the buffalo, This man, who is now head of the blological survey, is a Repub lican and was a delegate to the Ree publican convention that nominated Hoover, Called Smart Move So a great many people think the smartest thing Mr, Roosevelt has done since he entered the White House wis to put Ding at the head of the blo- logical survey. The man is naturally Republican in his tendencies, and very bard-headed Indeed, although a Pro gressive. And the fact that his ple tures were printed In about 300 fairly important newspapers In this country every morning, before he arranged to lay off until his government job was completed, made him pretty nearly a nightmare for anyone in high office whose policies Ding might think humor ous, He would be apt to get the whole country laughing at the unfor- tunate statesman, Which is also the real answer to the fact that he may surmount the tre- mendous difficulties In the path of his plans to save game in this country. This despite his forthright declarations that $100000000 of the taxpayers’ money has been poured “down a rat hole” up tos now by having stupid him. Instead they grin most ly, and at least half the time let have his way. For they all might be a terrible thing for Ding suddenly got mad about thing and quit, It is such a situation as Washington never saw before, and not see Organs in Churches Were ; Banned by the Puritans The Puritans of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries were very much opposed to the use of church organs. Alice M. Earle In her “The Sabbath in Puritan New England” mentions that in 1664 the Round heads had gone through England de- sfroying the noble organs in the churches and cathedrals, only four or five being left uninjured. This preju- dice was transferred to New England, Cotton Mather and other preachers at tacked the use of musical Instruments in churches. In 1718 zn English organ came to this country and was given to the Brattle Street church in Boston, but the congregation voted to refuse the gift. In 1704 the church at New- bury obtained an organ and many un- pleasant and disparaging references were made by clergymen of other parishes to “our neighbor's box of whistles” or “the tooting tub.” Bass. viols were almost the first musical in- strument allowed In the New England churches. Such prejudices were large. ly abandoned during the last century, though, of course, there may still be individual churches or sects that re fuse the nse of organs on other than financial grounds, Foundations of the Ancients The foundations of the ancients were generally established for rigidly speel fic purposes, Egyptian kings lished foundations for the maigtenance of their own tombs as well as for not- able figures of their realms. Even such were socially significant because of the extensive staffs of priests and servants necessary for proper and respectful care of the dead. estab- Second Largest Oil Reserve In the Panhandle section of Texas lies what Is considered by geologists the second largest oil reserve in the world, Wherever oll Is there also 1s gas. Experts In such matters have de clared the Panhapdle reservoir con- tained enough gas to supply every legit. imate need in this country more thao a century. —————————————— “Squaring the Circle” Squaring the circle is a famous mathematical problem which scientists of today believe to be impossible. The Book Lice Prefer Poorly Lighted, Warm, Damp Room Book lice are tiny pale yellowish or grayish white wingless Insects, measur. ing less than one-twelfth of an inch in length. They are louse-like in ap- pearance but thelr habits are quite different from those of the true lice which are parasites of warm blooded animals and man, Book lice are so called because they frequently are found among the pages of old books that have been undis turbed for some time, They feed on a variety of organic substances but owing to thelr small size and feeble mouth parts are rarely considered In jurious. ook lice sometimes occur in great numbers in dwellings particularly In poorly lighted, warm, damp rooms which are seldom disturbed, Ordi- narily they occur only in small num- bers in dwellings and under such con ditions a thorough house cleaning combinzd with sunning and alring the infested rooms and the objects therein will give satisfactory results.—Montreal Herald, ~ ——————————————— Tibetan Yaks Animals must either adapt them- selves to the climate they live in or die. The yak of Tibet Is one of the best examples of this adaptability in animals, says the Washington Post. Living on the highest desert in the world, there is little heat even on the hottest days. And at night the tems perature may drop 50 degrees below what it was at noon, The atmosphere is so dry it splits the skin, What plants there are are mostly thorny, and to look at the barren slopes one would think no animal could find nourish- ment, unless it could eat sand and rocks. It is the wind animals most fear and the yak has evolved a mar velous coat of hair to protect itself. Next to its body is a layer of wool Over this is a hairy coat which hangs down like an apron from the huge body, especially around the legs. Its neck behind It supports a long tall of thick and bushy hair. Women as Stencil Cutters One of the first jobs for wemen out glde the home in this country was the Eighteen Square Feet of Skin Covers Human Body If you average in size, it takes 188 square feet of skin to cover your body. This has been determined by a method developed by two Detroit physicians, for computing this difficult problem. One of the physicians, Dr. John OC. Bugher, described the method to the American Society for Experimental Pathology. It Involves a camera and a mathe matical formula. The patient is pho tographed in both front and side silhou- ettes after which the prints are made into standardized sizes. Then a plani- meter traces around the borders of the silhouettes, automatically calculating the area within. A chartometer makes a second trip around the silhouettes automatically registering the length of the border lines, This method gives results which are accurate within 1 or 2 per cent, while the error allowances for older systems was from 6 to 16 per cent Skin area measurement plays an ime portant part in the treatment of thy- roid and ductless diseases. Ap ac curate knowledge of the body surface is essential for the estimation of basal metabolism. Washington Post, Plant Propagators Find Apple Is Most Contrary Cornell university scientific plant propagators in pursuit of the mystery of life have taken a step that involves even greater mystery, They have dis covered that the apple tree seems to be an exception 10 one of the most gen erally recognized principles In the pro- duction of its fruit Everyone knows that parents share thelr characteristics in their children, and that in animal husbandry and plant propagation great care is taken to re- tain desirable characteristics by care ful selection of parent stocks. But the apple tree appears to be independent of this law. For the have found som of 8 re pple tree the hiossoms Mew that York Pp llen experimenters the blos- does not make llow apple tree pro- n fruit streaked Nor will pollen tree of a tree as De- from duce red fruit with red and yelios from introduced into that 5 trach the blossom 8&8 crabappie vlogsom produces big pippins or roe