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The Morning Bee _MORNING—EVENING—SUNDAY THE OMAHA BEE PUBLISHING CO. NELSON B. UPDIKE. President B. BREWER, Vic© President and General Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th© A»aoriatp<! Press, rf which The He© is • member, it rxcluaively entitled to th© use for renuMlration of all tie's* dlapatrhes credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights ©f republic©tiona of our aptcml dispatches are also reserved. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for the Department AT lantic or Person Wanted. For Night Calls After 10 P. M : 1000 Editorial Department. AT lantic 1021 or 1042. /-— OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Co. Bluffs - - - 15 Scott St. So. Side, N. W. Cor. 24th and N New York—286 Fifth Avenue Washington - 422 Star Bldg. Chicago - - 1720 Sieger Bldg. SET UP THE SEARCHLIGHT. House Roll 343 is now in the hands of the sen ate committee on bridges, and a determined effort is being made to keep it there. It should be brought out and enacted into law. This iis the measure introduced by Osterman,' and which has been so persistently opposed by the interests it will affect. In brief, it is the so-called publicity measure, which requires the publication of prices on bridges, bridge material, road building machinery and supplies, and similar information concerning material purchased for public uses. Nothing in the measure tends to limit competi tion, nor to hamper in any way the bidders on pub lic work. Each contractor or supply agent will retain all his rights,\with every advantage that properly should be his, when bidding on public work. But the prices will be made known to the people, and the public will have tW protection of open com petition. Objection to the bill arises from those who prefer to keep certain parts of the transaction in secrecy. This is one of the weaknesses of public business. Prices and details of any contract should be made public, and any that can not stand the searchlight never should be put through. It is true that in the beginning publicity will attract the attention of un fair and unscrupulous persons, who will very likelj make a lot of fuss and trouble for a successful com petitor, but in the end this evil will cure itself. Just as sunshine is the best remedy for the menace of decaying matter, so publicity will do away with the deadly bacillus of graft. SUPPORT FOR THE PRESIDENTS PLAN. Splitting the republican party over the World Court issue is the favorite amusement of a group of writers just now. It is not that they are for the ‘court or against the court, for the republican party or against it, but they see, nr think thy see, good copy in the matter. The World Court was not suddenly sprung on the senate, as surface indications might suggest. President Harding had it in mind long before he submitted the proposal to the senate. Prolonged debate on the tariff, draw'n out for partisan reasons by the democrats, and the deadlock on the shipping bill, which was talked to death under the senate's rules, held the World Court in abeyance for many week*. When it finally was presented the senators declined to act, because the time was too short to permit a full measure of senatorial debate. Discovery that certain leaders are not favorable to the president’s plan does not seem to disconcert Mr. Harding. Senator Moses, for example, has shown no great enthusiasm for any of the Harding plans; if Congressman Wood of Indiana is in opposition, Speaker Gillette of Massachusetts gives his support. I he defection of Chairman Adams may be offset by the approval of Chauncey Depew and Elihu Root, the wisdom and patriotism of whom none will ques tion. Woodrow Wilson is unfavorably disposed to the plan, because it does not include his League of Nations without reservations; W illiam E. Borah can not consent to America having any part in world affairs, and so it goes. Over against all this may be set the aspirationi of the American people to be of service to all th* other people in the world. In the World Court idea they see such an opportunity. It will^pcrmit th« United State* to participate in the business of man aging the world without loss of dignity or national Importance. Whether it is a complete and perfect antidote for war must be developed by experience, but it surely is a long step toward the day when war will be abandoned as a method of settling inter national differences. Mr. Harding must be more encouraged by the generous approbation he has received from such group* a* the League of Women Voters and other representative bodies, who have considered the ques tion from all points. That he will yield to the op oosition is scarcely probable. OUT OF THE KITCHEN. Fashion at the French races now calls for the addition of gaily colored aprons to the afternoon costume. It was not long since that the cables car ried a companion piece of news that sunbonnets were in style among the holiday makers on the Kiviera. Here in America those women who pos sess an old-time Paisley shawl, left among grand mother's relies, count themselves fortunate. Does this semblance of simple domesticity presage a return to the old standards of life? It can hardly be held that merely because she is decked out in an apron a woman of fashion is headed for the kitchen or the sewing basket. Nor does the don ning of a sunbonnet evidence any intention of dig ging in the garden. Yet in some way the adoption of these into society indicates a new respect for the homely aide of life. At least their wearers can not profess ignorance of the source of these de signs, or their original purposes. For a woman in an apron to inquire the use 6f a frying pan or, in a sunbonnet, the name of a rake would be entirely out of keeping. Even the ladies of the French court who delighted to dress as shepherdesses occasion ally saw a sheep. One thing this elaborate simplicity docs is ex terminate the plan launched by the snobocracy some time ago for a new fashion in dress that would be so patently expensive that persons of moderate means could not approach it. In fact, the people of middlewestern America for once are in the lead of Paris fashions. There are many here who can wear aprons and sunbonnets with all the grace of a queen. If those women of fashion wish to Increase their charms, let them take lessons here. There is a com bination of good sense, utility and beauty in the every day household dress of Amerienn women that it would be hard to excel. The trig costumes of the girls in the shops and offices, of those dark materials that show so little wear after a day of toil, likewise have a charm that is absent from more elaborate effects. Paris has done well to lake a hint from the sim ple life. This sartorial swing from artificiality might well he followed by less of hectic pleasuro and mor* real living. “MUSIC HATH CHARMS.’’ Miss Martha Scott of Chicago has discovered that if she can get a gang of boys to singing they will forget their other troubles. This is important, but she is not the first to find out the secret, for “Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze Bow themselves when he did sing.’’ All through the ages man has sung, in adora tion, in worship, in triumph, in sorrow, in glee, and in his cups. No better or more natural outlet for emotions has been discovered. It excels dancing, for a lot of us who ate not sufficiently agile or grace ful to tread a measure may be vocal, and lift up our voices in roundelay or solemn canticle, and make a noise, it nothing else. Shakespeare knew what he was talking about when be set down: "The man that hath no music in himself. Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds. Is tit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.’’ The plan adopted by Miss Scott is a good one. When you get a bunch of boys together, and set them to singing “close harmony,” their energetic natures will relieve themselves, and spend in melody the impulse that might find expression in mischief. “Old Back Joe” is far better for them than “The Shiek,” and so on through the list. This is proven at any time by any group of individuals that in dulges in singing. Lunch clubs, where vocal music js the feature, give emphasis to the simpler songs, and do not put much stress on the galloping jazz. Give the boys a chance to sing, for the exercise is good for their souls, and the world will be better if a song heads off a gang raid. TWELVE MEN IN THE BOX. Less is heard nowadays of the crime wave. A tightening up of public opinion has put a quietus on the epidemic of law violation that swept America from coast to coast. Most of the credit Ynust be given to the juries, who have taken a much more serious view of their responsibilities than in the more easy going days just past. The nation over, there was for a time in excess of sentimentality which allowed many criminals to escape proper punishment. Did some one do murder, rob a store, hold up a train, pick a pocket ol’ loot a bank, the‘explanation that as a child he had been kicked by a horse or otherwise tumped on the head, oftentimes sufficed for his acquittal. Many persons came to believe that crim inal tendencies could be almost invariably be cured by an operation. Though there undoubtedly is ground for believing that many criminals are vic tims of weak minds and exaggerated egos, yet the proper way to remedy this is not by turning them loose upon the populace. Mental clinics have their place beside the courts, but until it is filled, the time honored method of incarceration must serve. So the jurors in case after case, both in Omaha and elsewhere about the country, with some excep tions of course, have come to feel. The regularity with which bootleggers are put behind the bars to say, when _ once they were turned loose, is an ex ample in point. Those twelve men in the jury box. i hosen at random among the citizenship, represent iretty well the public opinion of their community. Undoubtedly the public demands strict law enforce ment, and the dictate is being obeyed. HAVE YOU A LITTLE GARDEN? Somebody has designated this as "National Garden Week." By what authority or in whose name is not stated, but it is a good suggestion. The only drawback -is that hereabouts the spring garden variety of weather has been delayed in transmission. The calendar says it is time to be putting seed into the< ground, but winter has lingered so shamelessly in the lap of spring that seeding will probably be postponed several days longer. However, the garden idea is a geod one. It was one of the lessons of the war that might well have been carried over. Four years ago men were as proud of the lettuce and onions they were raising as of the Liberty bonds they were buying. Radishes and carrots, beets and tomatoes and all that sort of agriculture was carried on in- bark yards, and the home canners were as busy as beavers all summer, putting up food to win the war. Now this occupation has fallen into what a revered president of the United States once said bad overtaken a law, "a state of harmless disuse.” Those are not his exart words, but that is what he meant. We do not wish to urge anybody to abandon the wholesome practice of buying his canned goods at the grocery store, but wc do suggest to any who feel the inclination that gardening is a good way to fill in moments in the morning and the evening, and that green things from your own beds will taste a lot better than any you are likely to buy from another. No need to go into the game wholesale; just plan to plant and raise what you think will supply your own table. The exercise ensuing upon planting and cultivation is good for spring fever and that feeling of lassitude so many complain of, and may easily lake the place of a round of the munv links, besides ( bringing a reward in the form of dainties for the table when fresh green things taste best. “Damn the eyes of whoever tries to deprive the poor man of, his beer,” is losing its poteney in Kng land, where the house of common* is voting on pro hibition. One thing may console the members of the For ty-second legislature; their predecessors have listened to the same sort of criticism a« is now being poured out on them. * If California authorities keep the Phillips woman under surveillance in Honduras they will accomplish something they failed in at Los Angeles. Chins may be said to be norma! again, the regular summer civil war having been renewed. This will ensure another famine next winter. When RiHhop Shayler gets out of a job with the church, he will make a mighty good newspaper re porter. Homespun Verse by Robert Worthington Davie , CL1FTUS. Clift US wa* decrepit. h (rifle* wan and bent. Time win wli*n hr awaited (hr print harronieni, Hut now he longed to linger and watch the world go h> - Th*% thyroid of n monkey he cam* /«t iuat to try. The IiIIhh of youth enthralled him—eternal youth, ’twa* *ald. Th»* jtupplene** (hf g.iyoty im»*c from urn lent l»rd And nil wa* well until men anuulit tin* pin* e where hr might he*. ^ And came lit length,to find him in (hr hrunaheaof a dee They ehouted. ‘ i’llftua! CliftuV’ In monkey tongue hr spoke* They thought ho waa demented or pulling off n Joke. The atory run* thnf Oiffu* became an ape. and *n They shipped him off to levt-i in the wild* of Borneo. “The People s I Cdltnrlali fmn rggrfgrg gf Thg Mgralsg Big. Pndirg el The Morning Bin art Invited tn . uen title column tree I* for oaprgsglon on 1 mating ot gubllg lotoreat. Moving to the Truth. New York.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: A few days ago 1 read in a New York paper that in an ad dress In Omaha a prominent clergy man had declared that the Sunday school had outlived Its usefulness. One by one the traditions and old way marks of the youth of many of us fall away, lapse in the mysterious changes of our modern life. Yet with all this startling unfoldment we ob serve as rapidly as cultivation em braces our aspiring masses a drift back to the charming relations of our more stable beginnings, a renaissance of that which hail been discarded. New-old rallies are appreciated, ate restated with precision. The dilapida ted frame house is restored in all its pristine elegance. And this i* nothing new. We are always dig ging out the old and multiplying its refinements. We have gained a per spective which has an aesthetic value. It is the only thing we can live comfortably with. Perhaps it is the great-grandfather’s rocking chair, a discarded old platter, a scrap of old fahrlc; but it lias achieved a distinc tion never dreamed of in its first state. So. perhaps, it will be with the method of the Sunday school as dis tinguished from its bias. We see the education of the youth of the land wholly differentiated fityru what was ours, whether on the farm or tn the huddled city. There is a new agility of body and mind, a new balance be- I tween the physical and the super-! physical. The product, quite human. ] perhaps devoid of that understanding ] -which'all church organizations would impart in one degree or another, is fed into the great industrial machine m the man of university Instruction. Then begins the great struggle for , originality in thought, cre*ttvenesa as distinguished from mere responsive ness to doctrine, to habit and usage. Perhaps enmassc this product remains unchristian The formative period was cever permitted; on the whole this tie ing wave nf youthful mind Is free to choose whom It will serve; it has tn no w Ise been permitted to crystallize into the varying strata nf the world's outgrown beliefs. It ts fluid, running over and abundant Can it lie trustee! to find its way to the great source ai d Contain—call it what you will? This Is the supreme question con- , fronting our rating era. It is th tidal ' wave that is rolling over nil artificial constraints, tie they political, economic "r social. It engulfs orthodoxy and unorthodoxy like the Normandy tides incountless crested waves, ebbing and (low ing through all the avenues of our American life. It is released bv some subterranean Irruption of freedom, of thought, of body and of soul. It ts not turgid, but works itself free of Impurtles as It flows on Perhaps it is 'he beginning for the world—of that cataclysm which must overtake ail its deadly dogmatism, fiagmatlc sanction and enthralling education. It seems, to me. that It will come tn teach the elders, who have laid the time of confusion and the plum met of emptiness" in church, in state and In industry. It can be trusted, this heart of American youth But a "pan of five years and It shook down the despotism of Europe In a while :t will shake the foundations of si! spiritual wickedness, because He that has seen it has seen the truth. As the scrolls of experience roll up. the seals of eternal substance are re. teaied The chain of divine law and life Is never, nor can it l>e broken but becomes stronger as the emancipation of truth goes forward.' JOSEPH WHINTA HTINSOJf. Nebraskans and the Capitol. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Being a cordial admirer of Bertram Goodhue, both as man and a« architect, I want to express ap probation of your several due editor ial* relative to the.new capitol. By following up the letter of Mr. Goodhue's tabid assailant with that first rate extract from the Nebraska Gity Press, vou show your understand ing of the case and imply a rebuke to the senseless malignity which keep* up its reiteration of charges even after they are refuted and dene with The heathen rage.’* indeed. Such a display of hurlish stupidity is seldom seen as that we have bt-en treated to in connection with Nebraska's new capitol. Still babbling venomously about the stone’"—when the inves tigators’ teport has announc'd that only five stones were ordered re moved out of some thousands laid! Tba utter abaur dit v— to weiiin formed people- of charging "incom petence” or 'dishonesty" against a gentleman of Mr Goodhue's tvpa and international repute ns a truly great architect almost makes one forget its ugly purpose. Hut we should not overlook the hurt and in«ult offered to this man of unsullied character, accustomed 0“ he Is to the respect due to a talent which lias achieved, through long years, aohfteetural work amounting in value to many millions, mid ranked among the moat beauti ful and impressive in America. Thinking of this, ths writer grow* extremely “warm under the collar." and is moved to add that—being In Mr. Goodhue's place—the Incident would be far from closed and nj)<»I(v i^s ail round would be the very least of the sequels' One could p\en tfhpe that the architect's amiable nature would not. i*»ad him to condone the injury tid hardships caused .by this unpardonable attack. P *ople of in telllgence and culture In Nebraska realise that the occurrence is bound to give h very black eve to the state to speak — getting It a most unde sirsble name s*a home of Ignoramuses ind hoots. This sad fact is not Daily Prayer, j Rest in *hi* herd, and wait patlentlv for Him —-r* 37 7 Holy Father, we thank Thee foi I hr gift of life, the Rift of reason, the kIft of love. We ate little, hut Thou • rt great; yet it is great to he but little for Thee. With single span Thou nv aiurt the heavens Thou hast made, but Thine whole arm Thou tnkcsl to brat '•ne la mb We are confident of Th\ love; grant ua faith, forgiveness, nnd Thy Spirit of power, that cur assur* a nee ma y be ba sed on Thee. Clive ua this day a sound mind In a sound body, health, knowledge and wisdom grant us. self control, and n l ight attitude to Thee, to nil nicn, and to nil things good Help us to know that the maj«st|o deed Is the deed of service. May we do kind, brave, beau t if it I things not to be seen, but to be *ei vn eable. May we not be *e«k!ng to do gient thlnn*. but t * d»» simple things greatly Help ns know out Si vlor friend. Who bears the nth* i • nd of the voke. and makes the burden light 1 .et U* find our happiness In otir service Comfort ti* In believ ing flint angel* of sorrow nlwavs heal Hie wounds they moke tlivo u* t Id* aspirations, and pine satisfaet Ion* In Thy wisdom nnd power, help ns Amen. r*OF 'f niovrn i* n, Oettyaburf. r.» / \ We Nominate— For Nebraska's Hall of Fame. Bess >streeter aldrich, shoit sforv writer, lives at Elm wood Neb. She is the wife of i’. S. Aldrich, hanker and attorney, and the mother of Mary Eleanor, James Whitson, Charles, jr., and Rob ert Strc-' tei, ranging in ages from 3 to 14 .Mr: Aldrich has had nearly a hundred short stories published since she began writing. These have ap peared in American Magazine, Tidies Home Journal, Woman’s Home Com panion, Delineator. I>e*igner. McCalls, Peoples Home Journal, lilack Cat, Harpers Weekly and others. In the last few years almost all of her out put has gone to the American Maga zine. The Mason Family series, which was published in the American, ha been syndicated by the Metropolitan New spa per Service Most of her stories! are resold in England to Pearson’s, tassels. Woman’s Pictorial and Anal •gamated Press. Mrs. Aldrich looks after her children and household as m v other mother and says the only difference between liersrdf and many other women is that she runs a tvpe writer instead of a sewing machine. apparent to most of the country new s papers. who betray their vendancy by the iiatuie of their comments on the capitol, its architecture and affairs. One must tolerate their limitations and assume that they mean no harm —as Don Jlarouis sings about his "prohibition agents;" 'At heart they «r«r* Hot «:r;k«d men, O they were only tienk! According to history, the Capitol at Rome was once saved by the tack !;ng of geese, (aid coincidence, tiiat Nebraska’s capitol has more than ones been endangered by the same! Yet it will rise safely out of its entangle ments at las' thank* to the crowing Intelligence of the people. Happily, Nebraska* leading newspapers are at one in their attitude of reproof to ward the trouble breeders.. It is plain that you. in common with all who are not wishful to see their home *:ate made a butt and a laugh ing stock to the ou'side world, feel a keen distaste for the whole prepos terous busine*s and a desire to atone for your neighbor*’ blunders by a frown of disapproval. In so doing you earn the thanks of good Nebras kan* and of those who rejoice in the discomfiture of mischief makers and the fo.linc of malign *■ hemes. Rest of all would It he if you should point out the appropriateness of public apology by those in authority, a« some small amend* for the mortffving things that have been allowed to hap pen COMMON DECENCY T. H ami C. \\ B Omaha—To the T’ditor of the j Omaha Bee: Th** Nebraska leislature j ought to have known, that unless i they cou!*l show the governor that the testing of cattle for T. B. would sure-make d^rnoc its out of them, he | would be again**! it. W. .1.. the brains | of the house of lords, is absolutely op posed to evolution and that also re counts for the opposition to the mea sure. In other words, the democratic Priitv must he saved, if all the rest of mankind i* dumped into the valley of Hinnom. “where their worm dieth Bfbt, and the f ,p ;s not quenched."* Nothing wilt l»e proposed, or under taken. under the present state ad ministration that will not he of ad vantage to the Bryans, or the demo* r ratio party :n the 10?4 campaign. No reformation * “f any account, f you look through their telescope, except what is hatched out in a democratic incubator (or what would he better) a Bryan incubator. If the good peo ple of Nebraska an expecting any thing else in the next two years than what they have been getting this last winter. they will expect tiro much. All honor to the ashes of the late Charles Woostd. for he w ould corn lot nolltl-al evil w herever It was found Not so with the Bryans un less they cun *ee that it is sure to redound to their advantage. The writer is in no manner responsible for the condition at the state capitol. hut would he glad to record some good work done in the Inter eat of the peo* pi*', regardless of the source from whence it come We would however Itke to kn< vv wh it part of the ma chine down there is the balance of power. A M TKMPUN. Thank* for Service*. Omaha To the Kdltor of The Omaha lire The hoard • >f director* of the Omaha h'< ciety of Fine Art* w|*hc* f•» evpi ■>« |t* Appreciation of your kindnea* in giving *o freely of apace m the "Hop" for our puhlicity. !( ha* contributed Immeasurably to our AUceesH of the \oAr And we feel \fr\ grateful f t \our a**iit*nc»\ M \ll(i A III i P WITTKH PAGH. NET AVERAGE CIRCULATION for MARCH. 1923. of THE OMAHA BEE Daily.73,997 Sunday.80,029 111 * e - nut include return*, left* mfn. *artiplr<t i*ai*er* * pul led in printing and include* no * pedal B BRF.WER, Gen. Mgr ! V, A. R RIDGE, Clr. M«r. Stiherrlbed end (worn In before me (hit 3d 4ty of April, 102* W H QU1VF.Y. (Seal) Notary Public » - ■ — — “From State and i-Nation” Editorials from other newspapers. The I’as* Evil. Freni This Nebraska Chy Frees. Decision of the stale legislature to grant reduced railway rates to clergy* men has opened the way for other classes of citizens to demand the same privilege, and members ft the teach ing profession are said to be prepar ing a claim, setting forth the argu ment that since teachers are engaged in a work of education when they travel, too. should be granted the con cession which has been given to the ministers of the state. The lowering of the bars, therefore, has opened a vista of wide possibilities, leading to the conclusion that if one class Is to be favored by statute another will as sume that it has the same right. The legislature of 1907 enacted legislation w hich ended the pass evil in Nebras ka. an evil which had corrupted many citizens and produced sinister condi tions, especially in politics. The tail roads. even, were glad that the enact ment was made for more than 15 years Nebraska travelers have known that when they pay their fares for passage on a train they are paying just what every other individual pays. It has been a practical demonstration of "Equality Before the Law,” the mot to of the commonwealth. To break down the barrier is dangerous and conducive to restlessness on the part of that great majority of the citizen ship which has not been especially favored. To the credit of the minis terial profession, let it be said that many of its members are bitterly op posed to the granting of any conces siori. They realize that the public may misconstrue and that the average citizen, who 1* required to pay full fare, will be 'filled with discontent. It is Inherently wrong to grant this concession to any class of citizens in this state, and if the law stands it will lead to further breads in the wall 1 which w^s erected by ths legislative body several years ago We «hali f.nd it very easy to demand and get further concessions to which we are not en titled if this extension of an unearned j gift is permitted to stand. You Can't Itlame Them. From the Clavsland P!»:n Beeler The good people of Constantinople are full of wrath and woe. They have finally come to realize that the na tionals are quite determined to mak" Angora the permanent capital of Turkey. The announcement was ruade a year ago. but It took the ' Cunatantinopolitana 12 months to be come convinced that the national a* j rembly was r eally m earnest. It seemed t so preposterous. Think of moving I the capital from a magnlflcent city of a million and a quarter population to a squalid mud-butlt town of about 30. n00! Think of abandoning ail tire er tensive government building*: think of insulting the tradition* of Turkish rreatness: think of retiring from Ilurope when retirement is no' net s sar> , think of a*king tthe powers to give up their palatial embassies and legations: think of asking anyone with common sense and a liking for the 'retter things of hf« to move fiom Constantinople to Angora’ The Con stHntinopohtans thought of all these things, arid were sure that the na tional assembly must be spoofing Doubtless the national assembly thought of all these things, too But it also thought of other thing* It saw that Constant (pole was under British influence and that under ths si hem* of Turkish reorganization the great metropolis must always be aiulner able point, subject to stta<k. and in capable of defense. Moreoi er. Ana tolia is the very heart of Turkey. From all practical considerations the assembly dee ide.) that the Turkish i pita I should be st Angora in spite of the difficult'', expense and si-iiti mental anguish of breaking Con stantinople home ties. Fo the shopkeepers and financier** and grafters and les«er atatemen and general hangers-on of the fair city on the Golden Moin are filled with anguish. They wish Mustapha K*ma! rflisha were not so tremendously prac tical. Perhaps, in deep silence, they inav even w.sh-that Turkey had not been so much res- *jed and rehabilita ted Better Or then* a *hedowv or hadh decajed Turkey with its center at ronStan'inople than a brisk and •elf reliant Turkey with Angora for its magnetic pole Online* Twenty Children. From th# l,oi An|>>« Time* This s the atorv cf Senora iRracia Am n who ha* outlived all of her HO children, each of whom she reared to maturity. On the la«t day of this July It will have been 103 year* wince Senora Avila was born In AguaS talioiifes. Mexico, sex ft a! years be j fore the French conquest of the southern republic. Tinlay she :* liv ing at I.os Angeles Harbor with her granddaughter, Mrs Manuel Ybarra. Senora Avila, born of pure Spanish stock, today retains almost full con trol of her faculties one instant *4 of great import In her life offering proof of her exceptional will power. Since she hat! b*en a girl in Mexico. Senora Avila smoked almost every day of her life until she was 99 years old. Senora Av la recounts remarkable talcs of banditry and revolution that Occurred in her land 75 years ago. She saw the French mercenaries vwep through central Mexico in 1*29. she s:t\«. and draw* colorful pictures Getting Presidential Campaign Tips , ' ! H»£.\' From the Wtohin^ton Star. of the street fighting at Agua- 116.396,000 worth of business, netting C'allentes betwc-en -Mexican troops and • it 32.294.000—a gain of 31,151,000 net Napoleon's adventurers. in 26 days «enora Avila was exceptionally Under section 15 a of the Cummins robuat from early childhood and was k>th Uw the Santa Fe couid not not qu te 20 years old when she mar- duce ,a!,.F j jt Bi!|hed t The cUu8, tied. Her husband died several years ,.orrip,.> th, public t0 pay prosperous ater and she went back to live on road„ high„r laus than 'they need the parentai hacienil.i. that neVfcr do we!l roads mav be made Bandtts raided the raneho one nigh to p.lV a „ of1. som, of them and. in a running gun fight, earned roadfl that have never made a profit, away Senora Avila, She was guarded f;v„n th,n r„.p, are not hlgb „£ough for several day. m the mountain t0 some other railroads that ehfp rendeavousof the band the chief of pera negle,.t because they t quicker the banditti having announced h.s in iPrvlce a, !hf. prJce from tha tenUon of makmg the comely young morP efficient pr- -porous roads. The,* widow his wife l-arly one morning. !:.glected roads are steadily falling be however, she escaped I hind. There you have a close-up of Pursued by the bandits, she was „ mischief this misbegotten rats saved by an elderly couple to whom ,cJau(... . ,flufjn.. sh«* appealed for help. Th^y 0aub«*d __ _.. her face with lard and bluing to give A groc)>r 8av, that Bnme peep!e her the appearance Of a sick woman whd on Ume don-t sefm to knoW and thus she I.« -My 'he *cru- ,, , .... , .... off a „ eternlty tmy Of the brigands begins.-Progreaslve Grocer. In 1666. when she was 4j veais old, ____ 6. tiora A vila married a second time, Z^^^^m^m end for 35 years lived with her hus band until his death in I?05. One by ML L Ilf I one her children died—the l»«t several RCDTSSKS WCSlCYM years ago. She has five grandchil ss • ■ * dren a number of great-grandchildren IllllVfirSltV and four great great grandchildren. IflllwBIwllJ Wrecking Some Roads, Prospering University PllCC Others. p_CL 1 From Capper s " t*« :• OUIT1 mCT ijCnOOl Seven million, two hundred fifty- _Two Term#_ two thousand dollars is the net income of the Santa F'e railway for the first May 29 to July 21 'wo months of this year, an increase , __ . 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