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Careless Bondholders
As the date approaches for final
retirement of the third liberty loan,
officials of the United States treas
ury fear that numerous holders will
retain the securities. While they
will be a valid federal obligation af
ter September 15, and their face
value will be paid whenever they
are presented, the investment in
them becomes unproductive at ma
turity. The wisdom of surrendering
the bonds when they fall due. if
it is not desired to exchange them
for a new7 government issue that is
available, is patent. A failure to do
so, while occasionally explained by
theft, destruction or loss, more often
is traceable to carelessness.
The investor, not the treasui ,
pays the penalty for neglect of this
soft. Federal securities, although
they either have been called or have
matured, amount at present to $45,
335,000, it was announced this week.
The largest single block is in second
liberties. $32,747,000. This issue was
called for retirement Novir.eber 15,
1927. The delay in presenting the
remaining bonds means that the
government has continued to have
the use of that amount of money
without interest. The same obser
vation applies to other of the un
redeemed obligations, some of which
go back for decades. The situation
with respect to second liberties is
the more remarkable because of the
extensive effort that was made to
acquaint holders everywhere with
the call date. The failure of all
bond owners to respond and pre
vious procrastination related to oth
er issues, is costing these investors
more than $1,000,000 a year in in
terest that the money could be pro
ducing.
In the hope of preventing any
considerable addition to the total of
unredeemed bonds, in connection
with third liberty operations, the
treasury is conducting an intensive
campaign of information on the
subject. While the investment hab
tis of Americans are much im
proved, compared with former peri
ods. the government records referred
to indicate negligence.
RAILWA Y, HIGHWA Y AND A1RWA Y
Although the railways have lost
more than one-fourth of their pas
senger revenues in the last seven
years, the decrease has befn due en
tirly to a falling off in day coach
traffic, because travel in sleeping .
and parlor cars has actually in
creased, the western railways’ com
mittee on publication reports in a
handbook of facts pertaining to rail
operations. Estimating the relative
earnings, the committee finds that
coach travel has fallen off one-third
while Pullman travel has increased
nearly one-fourth in recent years,
although, of course, the much great- |
er volume of coach travel makes the
percentages for that type of traffic
greater, proportionately, than the
corresponding percentages of Pull
man travel.
The information comes at an ap
propriate time, coincident, in fact,
with the establishment of air ser
vices to supplement railroad trains.
In inaugurating the air lines, the
railroads are undoubtedly, forestall
ing outside competition, although
the immediate results of the air
lines do not indicate a stupendous
volume of travel.
That the airplane will take some
passengers from the railroad in the
future is perfectly obvious, but if, in
the face of intensive motor compe
tition for a score of years, the rail
ways’ Pullman travel is increasing,
there appears no reason for appre
hension that the airplane, w'ith its
greater limitations of space than the
motorcoach, will cut seriously into
long-distance rail travel.
The public finds the agency of
transport which best fits its needs
and patronizes it accordingly. De
spite fast automobiles, excellent
roads and wrell-equipped motor
coaches, the travel on the through
trains between eastern centers con
tinues to grow. When one notes the
Twentieth Century Limited running
in three sections daily, with an av
erage of more than 300 passengers,
there is little reason to apprehend
that the airplane, operating against
the laws of gravity in lifting its own
weight from the ground before it
can add the weight of passengers
and their baggage, can make a dras
tic cut in rail passenger travel over 1
the commercial routes which have
met the needs of traveling men in
cost, speed and service over a score
or more of years
Eden of the Inept
William F. Jones in Atlantic
Monthly
In 1922 I had occasion to travel
about over the state of Tabasco in
Mexico on a river steamer. Boats 1
of this class afford the only means
Some Wreck.
From Ulk, Berlin.
"Have you ever been in a railway
accident?”
“Yes. I once went through a tun
nel and kissed the father instead of
the daughter.”
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The campaign has reached this
point in Philadelphia, we note bv a
letter to the Public Ledger: “What’s
the most important letter in the
alphabet? The letter H. It’s the be
ginning of Hoover and the last of
Smith.”
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There are times when even the
slenderizing silk stocking fails in its
purpose. (
of travel in that region as roads
are nonexistent.
It was my fortune during my own
voyage to have a cabin without a
door key. The key had been lost,
probably a long time before, for it
must have taken considerable prac
tise on the part of the Indian cabin
boy to open the door. He kept a
chair and a stick near my cabin
door, and each time I wanted to en
ter he stood on the chair and,
reaching through the transom with
the stick, dexterously pressed on
the catch inside.
The replacement of the lost key
had never occurred to anyone. Why
should it as long as the door could,
somehow, be opened? Simplicity
and ingenuity and at the same time
a laborious effort to save the trou
ble of ordering a key fitted!
There being no other fuel in the
region, the steamers burned wood. A
number of small Indian villages
along the river banks gain their
support by cutting and stacking
fuel. The steamers stop frequently
by day or by night to refresh
themselves at the woodpiles.
A single plank is laid from the
boat to the bank. This affords an
opportunity for' the Indians who
have carried their loads aboard the
steamer with those still coming
aboard with wood. To obviate this
difficulty, those who are empty
handed remain on the steamer until
the entire group of wood carriers
has come on board Then all go
ashore en masse. To make use of
two planks seems to occur to no
one, although it would save much
time. Time, however, can never
provoke an argument in Latin
America.
The top deck, where passengers
were permitted to walk about, had
lost a large section of its railing on
one side. It had been removed so
we were informed, along with a
number of passengers who had been
leaning against it at the time. It
had not been replaced because as
long as it was not there people
could not lean against it. Its ab
sence was a measure of safety.
All very simple and logical! But
when the captain was asked why
the rest of the rail was not removed
to make the deck entirely safe he
'•'mid not answer.
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NO FREE SPEECH
London Answers.
Little Boy—Mother, the vicar is
coming.
Mother—What makes you think
so? Did you see him?
“No; but I saw dad locking the
parrot in the coal shed.”
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Cause and Effect.
From Life.
Arne—You know, I think Sallev
has finally married Jack after all.
Janet—Whv?
Anne—Well. she is running
around with Bob all the time now.
UNBURDENING
A Kansas City woman who hasn’t
a thing to wear would go downtown
tomorrow and get something if she
had anything to wear downtown.
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A 13-vear-old wife appeared in
the Chicago divorce court carry
ing her doll, and it was up to the
judge whether she had a hard life
or a smart lawyer.
Harry Lauder Parts
Hair in Two Places j
A Letter to Everybody's Weekly,
London.
I had a great surprise last night
Who do you think came into our
shop? No one but Sir Harry Laud
er! I was in the shop myself and
we were busy, but he sat and waited
whiling away the time with his
pawky Scots humor.
He is up our countryside "shooting
films” (to use his own expression).
He had been growing his hair long
for picture, “Auld Lang Syne,”
w'hich is going to be better than
“Huntingtower” is
I notice Sir Harry is one of the
few men I have met who wears two
partings in his hair—one at each
side. He broke his reputation as
the canny Scot the other day by
giving a piper a shilling lor playing
"The Saftest o’ the Family.”
I said to him, “Excuse me. sir. I’ll
put your glasses in a safe place.”
“Na. na,” said Sir Harry in his in
imitable way. “Ah’ll better pit them
in a safe place masel” and he put
them in his pocket.
Inclosed you will find a little sou
venir he gave to me—all his own
work—it was sketched by him on tha
back of a snapshot. Yours, etc., J.
R. Moncrieff, 43 Leonard st., Perth.
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HE WASN’T PREPARED
From Answers, Loudon.
The sun was going down when the
Boy Scout realized, with a start,
that he had forgotten to perform
his day’s good deed Anxiously he
glanced round him. Then he
breathed a sigh of relief. An o’d
lady was standing on the edge of the
pavement gazing at the traffic as it
swept past. The Boy Scout went
up to her.
"May I accompany you across this
busy street, madam?” he asked.
"Why, of course,” beamed the old
lady.
With the Scout holding her arm,
the two of them crossed over to the
other side. Then the old lady turned
to him.
“You por little fellow!” she ex
claimed. “How long had you been
waiting there for someone to take
you across?”
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A SONNET
After Christina Rossetti
Maurice Baring in the Saturday
Review, London
My soul is like a garden overgrown.
My heart is like a dead pomegran
ate tree,
A woodland grove bereft of min
strelsy,
A nest from which the birds long
since have flowm
I have exchanged sweet manna for
a stone.
And bartered freedom for captivity;
I have foregone my birthright; now
have I
Nor right nor wnsh to call my soul
my own.
Yet if I saw you passing in the
street.
And you should look at me as once
before,
I think the sun would shine for me
once more.
And autumn turn to resurrected
spring:
And I would leave my leaden feet.
And feel the impulse of a soaring
wing.
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Q. What is the most common
cause of concrete pavement cracking
within a few years after being laid?
W. B R
A. Cracking in concrete pave
ments may be caused by several
factors and very often is probably
the result of a combination of fac
tors. Some of these are; Variations
temperature; sub-grade conditions;
impact from traffic; and stresses in
the concrete resulting from setting
up. __
REAL NIGHT OWL
Brillion, Wis.—Max Schuler’s
chickens were disappearing with
such rapidity that he set a trap to
catch the thief. Consequently, he
caught the biggest owl seen in this
vicinity for years. It has a irin.g
spread of 55 inches and now Max
is wondering what to do with the
owl.
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“Why you eat-um dirt, Fishface?”
"Whoopee! Catch-um big job in
movies.”
"How come?”
“In movies Injun always blte-um :
dust.”—Columbia Jester. J
Easiest Way1
to Keep in Style
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decidedly out of style or faded, if all
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Part Played by Table
in Uplift of Mankind
There was a time when not a table
rxisted In the whole wide world. But
one day primitive man, weary of
sprawling on the ground, rose and ate
his first meal from a brpad hewn slab
laid on bowlders, nnd from that day
his upward climb to civilization began.
Today we do not stop to think how
much we depend upon tables, but what
a dull and inconvenient place a house
would be without them. Not only nre
they at our elbow everywhere to keep
things wiihin reach, but how they de
light the eye—their lovely designs and
beautiful woods.
They minister to our comforts, nnd
please our senses with their grace and
charm. Each year they increase in
variety and cleverness, and each year,
because of them, our homes grow more
attractive.
All Comforts of Home
Mr. Littleflat—Can’t you hurry and
get through with the bathroom, 1 want
a bath?
His Wife—I have four more waists
and six pairs of stockings to wash.
If you’re in a hurry for a bath you’ll
have to go down to the laundry.
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lea* to human beings, live
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to kill rats and mice every time.
Avoid Dangerous Polsoes
K-R-O does not contain arsenic, phosphor
ous, barium carbonate or any other deadly
poison. Its active ingredient is squill as rec
ommended by the 0. S. Dept, of Agricul
ture In their latest bulletin on "Rat Control.',’
Many letter** testify to the great merit of
K-R O. *'l bought two 75c cans K-R-O and
gut it out according to directions here at thn
tate Farm with following result. Picked up
and ha uled a wa v 5 7 5 dead rats.— J B. J ac k» *o.
Wardcu No. 2, Ark. .State Farm. Tucker .Aik.
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Purely Indian Diet
American Indians, before the advent
of the white man, cultivated eight na
tive vegetables. These Included beans,
corn, peppers, pumpkins, squash, to
mnto nml sweet potato.—Farm and
Fireside.
Last Resort
Homebody—So you must catch th#
11:40 train west? Is it Important?
llolmless—It’s vital. M.v doctor says
I must have my regular sleep, and a
berth on that train Is the only lodging
I can find for tonight.
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Pain Neuralgia Toothache Rheumatism
DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART
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which contains proven directions.
Ilamly “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablet*
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
Attain U the trade mark of Barer Manufacture of MouoaccUcaddeater of Br.Ucrllead*
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This Doctor’s advice to
mothers is invaluable
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says
“Two tablespoonfuls
of Karo in a glass of
milk improves its
flavor and doubles
its food value.”
i^ERYE plenty of Karo to
America's greatest Child
especially to underweight j
eals, on sliced bread. _
the kiddies”, advises one of
specialists, "serve Karo
•T children, in milk, on cer
Watcli their weight increase!”
Karo gives muscular energy immediately—there's no tax on
the digestive organs.
Karo contains 120 calories to the ounce—almost twice the
energy value of eggs and lean meat, weight for weight. (
Children naturally like Karo—its delicious sweetness and
flavor satisfies their youthful craving for sweets.
To know that children like the food that's so good for them,
a food that leading doctors highly endorse and
recommend, is, indeed, good news to every mother.
ECONOMY
Compare flie price of Karo
per pound with other foods.
Karo is unusually eco
nomical.
