BURGLAR PROOF
STAMP, LATEST
Postoffice Department to
Make Experiment in Ne
braska and Kansas
OMAHA. NEB — <UP)—A supply
new "burglar proof" stamps have
been received here by Postmaster J.
Dean Ringer and can be obtained
by smaller postoffices outetate on
order. Ringer announces The
stamps are marked "Nebraska," and
are the first of a series of new
stamps printed with the idea of
making it easier to trace poetofflce
robberies.
They will be sold to smaller post
offices only, as chances of robberies
In Omaha and Lincoln are slight,
costal authorities believe.
Eventually the idea will be spread
to all states. Kansas and Nebraska
vere the first states selected for the
•xperlment. The stamps range In
ralue from 1 to 10 cents.
WAY NOT HIRE BUT CAN’T
•FIRE" MARRIED TEACHERS
LINCOLN—Declaring a school
ward has the legal right to refuse
so hire a person as teacher for any
reason whatever, or for no reason
i tall, Attorney General Sorenson
replied to the request of a Lincoln
newspaper that he give an opinion
is to the right of school boards to
bar married women from teaching
for no other reason than that they
arc married.
"The board," the attorney gen
eral wrote, "may decline to hire an
applicant because it objects to the
color of his hair, the style of col
lar he wears, his politics, his na
tionality, the kind of car he drives,
or any other objection, real of fan
cied, which it may have. It un
doubtedly has the right to refuse
to hire a teacher because she or he
Is married. School boards are en
titled to the same freedom to con
tract with whomever they please as
are all other citizens.’’
The attorney general continues
by declaring that a school board
"having entered into a contract to
hire a teacher for a given length
of time, it seems equally clear that
it cannot dismiss the teapher be
cause he or she is married or mar
ries during the term of the con
tract, where the contract contains
no provision giving the board pow
er to dismiss her for that cause.”
He pointed out that when a con
tract contains such a provision, a
dfficult questions is presented, but
said “the courts In recent cases
have generally held that provisions
in teachers’ contracts or in bylaws
of the school board authorizing dis
missal of a teacher in case she mar
ries during the school term are in
valid and cannot be enforced."
FATHER FAILS TO SECURE
HIS SON’S FREEDOM
LINCOLN—A father’s plea for the
"prodigal son" whom he had been
Instrumental in sending to the re
formatory failed to win freedom for
the youth at the hands of the state
pardons boards:
Fred C. Jansen, 21 years old, of
Fremont, was among the nine whose
application for parole were denied.
At the same time 14 paroles and
cne commutation were granted.
Convicted of forging his father’s
name to a check. Jansen was sen
tenced to one to three years in the
reformatory February 24, 1928. He
already had served a couple of jail
sentences for the same offense. Hit
lather, Henry, told the Amid last
week that the parable of the prodi
gal son had "so worked on him”
that he wanted the boy freed. ‘ The
reformatory superintendent also
spoke a good word for Fred.
SUBMIT CLAIM FOR FEES
IN W. O. W. ACTION
LINCOLN—(UP)—The questior
of how much the plaintiffs’ attor
neys should receive for arguing the
case of Frank Folts and others
against the Globe Life Insurance
company of the Woodmen of the
World, rests with Judge Shepherd ol
the district court.
In the final aguments, attorneys
for the plaintiff argued that thej
had forced the Globe Life to return
$1,700,000 to the Woodmen of the
World. And the defense attorneys
contended that they had not caused
the return of a cent.
The plaintiff attorneys argued
that the fee should approximate
$100,000 and the opposing attorneys
claimed that had the case been
taken under contract, only about
$25,000 would have been charged
Judge Shepherd announced that s
decision would not be handed down
for several days.
CEDAR COUNTY CASE
CP IN SUPREME COUR'I
LINCOLN—(UP)—Attorneys foi
Cedar county argued in the supreme
court Wednesday in defense of a
district court action favoring the
county in a suit for $3,688 damage:
brought by Aaron B. Clark, a land
owner. Clark claimed that through
the negligent building of a road, his
lands were flooded and crops de
stroyed. The county contended that
the land was below the level of tht
creek which overflowed and that in
any event the damage was caused
by a flood of such proportions that
no precautions could have stopped
it.
POWER COMPANY MIST KEEI1
IRRIGATION DITCHES OPEN
LINCOLN—(UP)—The Gothen
burg Light and Power company was
ordered by the state railway com
mission Wednesday to supply irriga
tion water requested by 22 land
owners of Dawson county. The opin
ion order the company to complete
construct, extend, enlarge and re
pair its canals and Ell laterals and
subsidiaries wherever necessary and
place them in proper condition to
carry to the border of each of the
tracts o'/) cd by the complainants,
whatever'.ater is needed to proper
ly irrigate them.
REGENTS TO DECIDE ON
OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT
LINCOLN—(UP)—The board of
regents of the University of Nebras
ka should determine the desirability
of retaining the sei rices of one who
is employed part time by compan
ies where such service can be mis
construed by the pablic. a senate
committee named to Investigate any
undue influence tha» private power
companies may be saerting on the
university faculty, recommended to
day.
At recent hearings, it was brought
out that V. L Hob inter, of the Hol
lister engineering firm, at Lincoln,
is part time profesawr In the uni- I
versity department of engineering.
NEW LEW FOR
GUARANTY FUND
Nebraska State Banks Noti
fied of Asset ament on
Their Deposits
LINCOLN, NEB.--(UP)—Notice ol
special assessment of one half of 1
per cent on state bUiks for the bank
guaranty fund waM mailed Thurs
day, Secretary Bliss of the state de
partment of trad* and commerce
announced.
Bliss was enjoined by bankers last
December from levying an assess
ment of one quarter of 1 per cent
and the case is still pending in the
Lancaster county district court. At
torney General Horensen has ruled
that the suit doe* not enjoin the as
sessment for April so Bliss issued
notices of the levy.
LOAN COMPANY
TO BK OUSTED
Nebraska Supreme Court
Finds It Violated Usury
Laws of the State
LINCOLN, NEB.—(Special)—Tht
supreme court Friday, In an opin
ion by Chief Justice Goss, affirmed
the findings of Referee TePoel In
the two quo warranto proceedings
brought by former Attorney Gen
eral Spillman against the Central
Purchase company and the Beck Fi
nance corporation, and an order
ousting them from doing business in .
the state will issue in due course.
These companies are found to
have been habitual violators of the
usury law. Their plan was to pre
sumptively purchase earned salaries
and wages of workers, discounting
these for from 10 to 20 per cent a
month. They took an assignment of
the money due, but required the
worker himself to draw the full
amount and turn It over to them.
The court says these were loans, not
sales, since the worker did not part
with the property or control of it,
and hence was not a sale.
The court says that foreign cor
porations are allowed to do busi
ness in the state as a matter of
comity and not as a matter of
right. The privilege thus granted
may be revoked at the pleasure of
the state, and an action In quo
warranto Is one of the proper pro
ceedings to take to achieve that re
sult. To the defense of the com
panies that they could not be ousted
until they had been found to have
violated the laws, the court says the
record shows that they handled
about 1,000 loans, charging rates
therefor not allowed by law, and
that they were habitual violators
of the law and can be ousted. The
signature of the wife, necessary by
law, for a sale, was absent on all
but a few of these documents, and
the court says they were not bona
fide purchases of a right of action
but loans.
WOTHER SECTION OF DRY
LAW TO BE WEAPON
LINCOLN—(UP)—A provision oi
;he Eighteenth amendment, hither
to unused in Nebraska, was intro
duced Into the rederal court here
Thursday by District Attorney Phi)
Aitken who asked that personal in
junctions be served against Harry
Mason, Howard Ben Dolen and
Verne Lockhart, convicted bootleg
gers.
The procedure is authorized by a
section of the law aimed at "poten
tial habitual bootleggers." The law
provides that injunctions may be
asked alter a conviction on liquor
charges, and, if granted, will forbid
the defendant keeping or carrying
.iquor with intent to sell It, of from
soliciting orders or delivering con
trabrand, or from leaving it for
omeone else to get.
An important provision of the
section is that which makes it un
necessary to prove the criminal in
tention. if the case It acted upon
within 60 days of a conviction on li
quor charges.
"We expect to go even farther,"
Aitken said, “and try to enjoin such
men from even possessing liquor.
The language of the statute says
‘hey may be enjoined from any such
act or thing. This procedure is in
tended to speed up court action, by
replacing the grand jury and trial
jury proceedings in certain cases.”
BUYS U'l) AT SHERIFF'S
SALE TO PROTECT MORTGAGES
PIERCE—(Special)—Five quarter
sections of land were purchased by
C. E. Staley, former president of the
Pierce chafe bank, now of Heatings,
at a sl'e'tffs’ sale of land nere The
land cost him about $50,000 »nd v as
bid in by Sts lev to protec' mort
gages held by him. The land i.< west
and southwest of Pierce Vliai is
known as the Cast farm, t* now oc
cupied by John Sporleder. Oeorpo
Timmerman farm* a half section
'■»! the land
HE MAY ESCAPE
SECOND TRIAL
Important Witnesses in Ne
braska Murder Case Can
not Be Located
ALLIANCE. NEB.—County At
torney Penrose E. Romig is unde
cided as to whether to hold a new
trial for Robert R. Garrett, convict
ed slayer of William Kinsley, whose
case was reversed by the supreme
court.
County Sheriff George Jones and
Romig were surprised at the re
versal. They had been confident
that the case against Garrett was
exceptionally strong. In the event
a new trial is held, the state will
be handicapped wtihout Mrs. Clara
Garrett, the defendant's divorced
wife, as she was a star witness. The
court ruled she could not be legal
ly called to testify.
William Hagner, hired man cn
the Kinsley farm at the time of the
slaying, cannot be located. He was
another important witness for the
state. He was commanded by the
slayer to “sit on that chair and don’t
make a move” following the shoot
ing. Hagner was found by officers
when they arrived at the scene. He
was pale and rigid, sitting at the
feet of Kinsley’s body.
CAPITOL PROBE
NEARING CLOSE
Three Former Governors
Testify Before Legislative
Investigating Committee
LINCOLN, NEB.—(UP)—Having
heard the testimony of three former
governors, the legislative commit
tee investigating "squandering” and
"fraud” in the construction of the
capitol building hopes to conclude
the hearing late Tuesday.
Former Governor Samuel R. Mc
Kelvie, who left his home for the
first time in thre months, testified
Monday afternoon. He has been
confined to his home recovering
from serious X-ray burns.
George Johnson, former state en
gineer and one whs is charging that
fraud exists in the construction of
the building, was made the techni
cal member of the capitol commis
sion during McKelvie’s administra
tion and the commission relied on
his judgment, McKelvie said.
‘The question of the cost-of the
building was never a certainty large
ly on account of varying costs of
construction and also because of an
enlargement of plans,” McKelvie
testified. He denied that Bertram
Goodhue, the architect, had exerted
undue influence on the capitol com
mission.
From the standpoint of the people
of the state, the investigation is a
good thing, McKelvie said. But from
the standpoint of the reaction in
other states it is one of the worst
things that ever happened to Ne
braska because it will be a long time
before the truth will ever overtake
the wrong Impressions that have
gone out, he declared.
Former Gov. Charles Bryan also
testified Monday and former Gov.
Adam McMullen had given his tes
timony several days ago.
WIFE WINER IN THEIR
RACE FOR DIVORCE
LINCOLN—(Special)—Frank E.
Lee, Antelope county resident, lost
out in supreme court in his race
with his wife, Blanche, for a divorce.
Mrs. Lee filed a suit in Lancaster
county, where she had removed,
June 19, 1927, and the next day Lee
filed one against her in Antelope
county, his place of residence. She
sent an attorney to Antelope county,
to move a dismissal on the ground
that the Lancaster county district
court had first secured jurisdiction
of the controversy, but the Antelope
county judge refused. Her case in
Lancaster county went to trial, and
she emerged with a decree of di
vorce, custody of their children and
an order for alimony and suit mon
ey. From this Lee appealed, claim
ing that the court was without jur
isdiction and that as his wife had
appeared in the Antelope county
court, she had conferred jurisdiction
thereon. The supreme court says it
didn't, and that as the rule is that
the court which first acquires juris
diction keeps the case, the judgment
in Lancaster county should be af
firmed.
BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS FAIL
TO SAVE CHILD S LIF.
OMAHA—(UP)—Every student ai
University of Nebraska medical
school here volunteered when it be
came known that blood transfusions
would be necessary to save the life
ef Erin Murphy, 6 years old, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Leander S.
Murphy, of Fremont. Two of the
students were selected and a quan
tity of their blood transferred to the
veins of the child in two operations
but the little girl died at Methodist
hospital here early Tuesday morn
ing.
The girl suffered from influenza
six weeks ago. While convalescing
meningitis developed this ailmen
being accompanied by scarlet fever
MORE DRILLING FOR OIL
TO BE DONE IN NEBRASK.
OMAHA— (UP)— Drilling for oil
n Nebraska is contemplated at four
points, the oil development commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce
announces today. Upon enactment
of the oil bonus bill will depend
whether projects will be started at
other points, it was said. It is
planned to drill at Richfield, John
son and Nehawka and at a point in
Sarpy county only a short distance
from Omaha. Drilling operations
are now under way at several points
in western and northern Nebrasku
COMPANY THAT WENT
BROKE, BACK ON FEET
OMAHA — (UP) — Forced into
bankruptcy in 1923 after eastern
concern* had successfully sued it
for patent infringement, the Refin
ing company of Omaha under man
agement of Receiver T. E. Steven* is
now in a position to pay 100 cents
on the dollar. Federal Judge Wood
rough has signed an order confirm
ing plans of stockholders for full
payment to creditors. Total liabili
ties at the time of bankruptcy were
>470.023.
The company manufactures wa
ter softeners and water softener
mineral. There were 322 creditors.
Thirty per cent of liabilities will be
paid in cash, with 15 per cent pay
ments for four years and the re
maining 40 per cent in the fifth
year. Changes made in the com
pany's process objected to infringe
ment actions meet with require
ments of the patent law, It was stat
ed.
BOONE COUNTY
APPEALS CASE
Would Deny Compensation
to Worker Who Was
Kicked by Horse
LINCOLN, NEB.—(Special)—The
appeal of Boone county from an or
der that it pay Willis Speas certain
moneys for compensation for in
juries resulting from the kick of a
horse, was argued and submitted
in supreme court.
Speas did considerable work for
the county in dragging roads. On
the day he was injured he was
working on the roads and had driv
en his horses into the barn to be
fed. While passing one of them he
received a kick that laid him up for
six months.
The law makes the employer lia
ble for injuries arising out of or re
ceived in the course of his employ
ment. The county contended that
feeding the horses was no part of
his employment, In relation to the
county, and occurring at a time
when he was not at work no lia
bility attached.
BURGLARS GET SOME
LOOT AT CROFTON
CROP TON—(Special)—Thieves,
Sunday night, broke into the dis
play window cf the Klunker store
and secured a considerable quantity
of silk hose. The same night the
International Implement house was
broken into but nothing was taken.
NEIGHBORS WANT 'WIFE
TRADER’’ RELEASED
LINCOLN — (UP) — Thirty reei
dents of Bennett who petitioned
that Otto Slade, “wife trader,” be
freed because he has two children ill
at home, drew the ire of Judge
Broady, who has jurisdiction in the
case.
“It is most unusual for people to
submit a petition to court on a
pending case,” the judge said. “I am
not pleased with this procedure. The
cases cf the two men might have
come up Wednesday but I will de
fer action to make further investi
gation.”
Slade and Horace Red were ar
rested last week when it was
learned they had, by mutual agree
ment, traded wives without the for
mality of a divorce. They pleaded
guilty April 9 and have been in jail
since awaiting sentence. The dis
posal of the two children in each
family complicated the problem of
what to do with the men, Judge
Broady said. County ccmmissioneu,
refused Mrs. Slade’s request for
charity.
HER FALSE STORY REACTS
ON NEBRASKA WOMAN
YORK—(UP)—Because a story
she tearfully told to the pardon
board was proven to be largely un
true. Mrs. Evelyn Ramsey had her
parole revoked and she is back in
the state reformatory for women
here.
Her "visit” here, however, will be
only for about a month as that is
all that remains for her year's term
on conviction at Sidney on a charge
of obtaining a coat under false pre
tense. Mrs. Ramsey was returned
from Iowa by Parole Officer Har
mon.
In her story to the pardon board,
Mrs, Ramsey claimed officials re
fused her legal counsel and pre
vented her from getting in touch
with relatives.
WILDING AND LOAN
COMPANY TO LIQUIDATE
OMAHA—(UP) — For the second
ime in history, a Nebraska build
up and loan organization has gone
nto liquidation.
Liquidation was decided upon by
ofifeers of the Bankers' Savings and
Loan association here Tuesday night
ind the announcement, made for
he first time, that two years ago
tormer officers of the concern abs
■onded with $108,000. Names of the
bsconders were not made public.
All real estate owned by the as
ociation will be disposed of by the
iquidation committee headed by
President E E. Kiplinger. the pro
ceds to go to the shareholders. The
issociation has earned $24,000 since
lisappearance of the $108,000 and
his also will be turned over tc
-hareholacrs.
WINSIDE SCHOOL ATIILTE
HURT IN POLE VAULTIN’u
WINSIDE — (Specie.’) — Hopes of
Vrnold Trautwein, 14 years old, son
f Mr. and Mrs. K. Trautwein, for
participation in high school ath
letes came to an abrupt end Tues
day afternoon while the youth was
pole vaulting. H? fell in a vault
att-mpt ar.d alighted in such a way
hat the coid: and tendens in his
legs and feet were torn and
sprained. Doctors said he will nev
er be able ta eng ge in future ath
letics
Electioneering in Great Britain
Veering Around to American Style
From the New York Times.
Preparations for the general election in England are
going on apace and each of the three parties is horrified at
the methods proposed by the other two. It is not a question
of “Americanization” of British politics, though that is al
leged, but of vulgarizing them. It is doubtful if they ever
again can become so vulgar, or at least so sordid, as they
were in the days about which Dickens used to write, but
changed times have certainly brought in changed manners.
With a greatly enlarged electorate—especially now that a
new “monstrous regiment of women” has been added—forms
of appeal have to be tried of a nature and on a scale never
before known. The campaigning will be of a sort to recall
Coleridge’s distinction between popularizing and plebificat
ing.
First just now in the minds of all British political par
ties is what they irreverently call the “flapper vote.” This
covers the number variously estimated of the women voters
enfranchised by the recent suffrage bill. All the political
leaders profess the most unbounded confidence that these
intelligent young women will rally to their particular ban
ner. Yet posters and epigrams and “slogans” especially de
vised to lure the feminine eye are printed and circulated in
vast numbers. One of the most ingenuous is a sentence past
ed upon thousands of boardings: “Vote for Baldwin—he
gave you the vote.” Whether that will seem irresistible
logic to the female mind, notoriously weak in logic, we shall
not know until the votes are counted.
Of course a great deal of money will be spent on tne
election, although actual candidates will need to keep very
carefully within the provisions of the corrupt practices acts.
The Carlton club, which is to the conservative party very
much what the Union League club is to the republican, has
been called upon to fork over $500,000 at once. This is in
tended partly as a counterpoise to Mr. Lloyd George’s well
stuffed war chest, available to the liberals. They are pro
posing, in what Winston Churchill calls their “mad dog”
wTay, to put up as many as five hundred candidates for the
house of commons, although it is not believed that they can
possibly elect 100. By splitting up the vote in many con
stituencies which the labor party by itself could not hope
to win, it is reckoned that they will increase the followers of
Ramsay MacDonald in the next parliament. His party does
not require so large an election fund as the others, and is
reported to have one ample for its needs. One of the minor
scandals of the political situation in England is that the
race-track bookmakers, who naturally want the betting tax
repealed, are supporting the labor party, which virtuously
denounces public gambling as Avorse than the drink evil.
Many election prophets, Avise at least in their own con
ceit, are positively predicting the outcome, each according to
his own taste and fancy. Perhaps the surest indication we
have at present is the odds posted at Lloyd’s. These indicate
that the conservatives will emerge from the election Avith a
plurality over either of the other two parties, but not with
a majority over them both. Should that prove to be the
composition of the next house of commons, it Avould be apt to
be a short-lived parliament.
TWO LINDBERGHS ARE
PROVIDED FOR PARIS
THEATRICAL CROWDS
From Time
Smart Parisan children are ac
customed to behold at the Chatelet
theater entrancing “fairy specta
les’’ called feeriques. Recently how
ever this famed theater for tiny
tots was taken over by actor man
ager Sacha Guitry, who is usually
to be found costarring with his
wife. Mile. Yvonne Printemps, in
Paris’ latest and most urbanely
naughty hit. To the Chatelet trip
ped and strode, last week. Tout
Paris to applaud what one critic
called “the boyish dignity and so
entrancing innocence de notre cher
Lindberg!”
Generously the great Actor
Manager Sacha Guitry provided for
his choosey feminine patrons two
Lindbergs—Viola! Also he entitled
his piece “Charles Lindberg—a
Heroic Melodrama.” Finally, with
the cunning of a master dramatist,
he supplied love interest—without
offending that large section of
French womanhood to whom Le
symbol of masculine chastity.
Act 1 reveals Colonel Lindberg
Colonel is attractive chiefly as a
hearkening symphetically to a
beauteous young U. S. girl who
passionately loves—a frenchman.
Unfortunately her U. S. father
thinks that all Frenchmen are
“lousy’, dirty frogs” (hisses from
audience).
With boyish dignity and inno
cence Le Colonel decides to span
the Atlantic, uniting citizens of
France and the U. S. by a common
bond of heroism, and thus power
fully inducing the U. S. father to
let his daughter marry the French
man.
Two highly melodramatic scenes
show the takeoff of Lindberg from
Roosevelt field and his landing at
Le Bourget. In both the technical
staff of the Chatelet theater, famed
specialists in scenic effects, nobly
acquit themselves.
Thus far the audience sees only
Lindberg No. 1 played by M. Ar
mand Chatraine a youth who was
thought by all his friends to re
semble the colonel at the time of
Lindberg's actual landing in
France.
The smash-finish of the play
brings on Lindberg No. 2 played by
M. Pierre Tristan, who never real
ized that he resembled the colonel
until a Paris mob recently descend
ed upon him and bore him shoulder
high under the impression that the
real Lindberg had slipped back to
Paris.
Naturally this mob scene, includ
ing the original mobee, was
shrewdly introduced by Playwright
Inconsiderate.
‘‘Gadvs. aren't you ever going to
get up?”
"Great heavens! Did you wake me
up just to ask me that?”
, Q. How much of the flour manu
i faetured in the United States is
used in making cake? C. D. E.
A. Of the 121,000,000 barrels of
flour produced yearly in this coun
try, about 5.500,000 barrels are be
ing used in making cake. With an
average of 7S>0 pounds of sake per
barrel of flour, the per capita con
sumption of this food product is
estimated to be about 1.6 ounces per
| day compared with r> «»*•-'- fee
ounces of bread. '
Guitry as his final, terriffic curtain
scene.
The other Parisian theatrical
event of the week was the appear
ance of M. Nikita Balieff's famed
Russian Bat theater, the Chauve
Souris in French for the first time.
Heretofore, the troupe has played
exclusively in Russian, with M.
Balieff introducing each act in ex
cruciating pidgin-English, French,
German, or Italian.
Traffic and Trade
From Trade Bulletin
Traffic congestion is not a prob
lem peculiar to the large cities
elcne, but afflicts small cities to a
considerable degree, according to
returns to a nationwide question
naire sent out by the America De
partment Stores corporation to de
termine the effects of traffic con
gestion on retail trade.
While returns from the question
naire are not complete, those which
have been received all indicate that
traffic congestion is to a relative
degree as serious a problem in the
small city as in the large, particu
larly in the effect that it has upon
retail trade.
Many of those responding to the
questionnaire declare that the ef
fect of traffic congestion is tend
ing to decentralize retail trade.
They state that the difficulities in
driving to the retail trade centers
and the dearth of parking facilities
is diverting business from the us
ual retail trade centers to neigh
borhood stores. Thus, the retailers
feel that the character of their
trade is being changed and that
they are not getting the benefits
which should accrue from roads and
automobiles.
Lack of parking space is em
phasized by a majority of the re
sponses as the outstanding prob
lem of traffic congestion, Manv re
port that owing to lack of parking
space motor trade is constantly de
creasing and this trade is going to
outlying stores wl"e there is avail
able parking space. Numerous sug
gestions are made for the creation
of community parking spaces to be
operated by the municipality.
The decentralization of retail
trade is not always a handicap,
the responses show, because some
merchants in smaller cities, which
are on highways leading to the
larger cities, state that their trade
has been increased by the difficul
ties of traffic in the larger cities.
They report that those who for
merly travelled by train to the larg
er city to shop now travel by mptor
and shop where they can do so with
out encountering traffic trouble.
In one instance a retailer in a small
city which is within easv motor
travel of a larger city says that
he now draws trade from the resi
dents of the larger city who pre
fer to motor to his store rather
than attempt to compete with the
heavy traffic in their own city.
Replies are almost unanimous in
stating that police are coping with
the traffic problem to the best of
their ability and that the prob
lem is far more underlying than
one of mere regulation.
Retaliation.
Prom Nottingham Telegraph.
Mother (in train): Tcmmy, if you
are not a good boy I shall smack
you.
Tommy: You slap me. and I'll
tell the conductor my real age.
Q What are the names of six
American colleges in the Near East?
G. 13
A. They are the Constantinople
Woman's college. Robert college,
American University of Beirut,
Athens college, International col
lege of Smyrna, and the American
schools in Sofia. The endowment
fund for the six colleges is now
*:o.?-so.oon.
