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Be it of a friend or stranger, Let me tell you what to do. Button up your lips securely Lest the tale you should repeat. Bringing sorrow unto someone Whose life now is none too sweet. If you see a careless action That would bring it3 author wos If it were construed unkindly, Let me tell you what to do. Button up your lip3 securely, All unseeing pass it by. ‘Tis far better to keep silent Than to cause a tear or sigh. If you know cf one who yielded To temptation long ago, But whose life has since been blame less. Let me tell you what to do. Button up your lips securely; His the secret; God alone Has the right to sit in judgment. Treat it as to you unknown. Sometimes life is filled with trou ble; Oft its burdens are severe. Do not make it any harder By your careless word or sneer. Button up your lips securely ’’Gainst the words tfcat bring a tear. But be swift in word3 of comfort, Words of praise and words of cheer. —Selected. $175,000,000,000. not to speaq of th« extra courts that would be required to convict the culprits. The Sheppard amendment is a delightful oroposal, One trusts the Anti-Saloon league has the power to put it through The results would be frightfully funny. Public Lands Problem. From New York World. Senator Borah shows little enthu siasm for Mr. Hoover’s proposal re garding the public lands. The land* Involved, he says, are mainly moun tain slope and desert, and a jack rabbit could hardly live on much ol them. The cost of administration would be heavy. Senators Smoot King and Kendrick take the same position. Transfer to the state the mineral rights and if possible the forest reserves also, they declare, and then the suggested federal of fer would be worth accepting. If this is to be the general west ward attitude, Mr. Hoover’s proposal will not get far. But the western stockmen and would-be homestead ers remain to be heard from. Home steading still continues on a small scale—entries in 1927 aggregated 3,* 237,000 acres. Large numbers ol western stockmen believe that state ownership and control of grazing land3 will benefit them. There is a steady demand in parts of the west for 1,280 acre or 2,560 acre grazing homesteads, which federal laws da not permit but state laws might Some westerners believe that fed eral control is best, since ranges ex tend across state lines and summei and winter grazing means covering long distances north and south. But others believe the slates could con serve the ranges better than th# nation has done. If Mr. Hoover’s proposal be taken at face value, it means giving the western states an opportunity to take badly administered, fast deter ioting grazing lands and build up their forage production to the high est possible limits. Experiment sta tion work in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and other states, according to western congressmen, has proved that overgrazed federal lands can, by proper organization and regula tion, be made to support from twice to 10 times as many cattle as now. The western senators may as well realize that in talking of obtaining tho mineral rights and forest re serves they are facing a stone wall; the country will not consent to any such grant But the grazing lands are not a gift horse to be summar ily rejected. The western states and the rest of the country should find it worth while to give Mr. Hoover’s proposal careful study. WASHINGTON —Hail, ram, mow and the insidious effects of salt air cost the United States post office department $30,000 a year for repainting mail boxes. Corrosion of the elements is the chief enemy to Uncle Sam’s spic and-span letter receivers. They must be repainted once a year. In sea coast towns even this vigilance fails to keep them sightly. Brass boxes have been Installed in Atlantic City and a few other coast towns, as brass is proof against salt air corrosion. Steel withstands the elements better than cast iron. Prior to 1923 all U. S. mail boxes were made of cast iron, but the larger ones now in general use in cities are made of steel. Some years ago smokers maned the mail boxes by scratching matches against them. As most smokers carry lighters or safety matches this cause of defacement has largely disappeared. The government still has to cope with the chronic “leaner,'' however. Mixed Issoes in Germany. From New York Times. Hard upon the death of Strese mann Sollows a National effort to cancel his work for European peace and to wreck the spirit of modera tion in Germany upon which his policies were based. In the next two weeks the Nationalists will be gathering the 4,000,000 votes needed to bring their “liberty bill” to a referendum vote of the German people. The bill rejects the war guilt clauses of the Versailles Treaty and all reparations settlements based on those clauses: in other words, the Young plan. The Weimar Constitution requires the approval cf 10 per cent of all qualified voters at the last general election for the submission of a referendum proposal and an absolute majority of such qualified voters for its adoption. It is conceded that the Nationalists have their 10 per cent In sight. That is about the number of votes they polled in the Reichstag election of May, 1928, and they can count upon addional support from the various Fascist parties, beyond that, by coupling rejection of the Young plan with rejection of Germany's sole responsibility for the war, they have insured for themselves consid erable support among sections of the population otherwise sternly op posed to their mischieous aims. All the probabilities are that the Nationalist bill will be beaten in the final vote, and in the same manner in which the Left referendum for the expropriation of the property of former German rulers was beaten in 1926. More than twelve and a half millon votes were cast in favor of submitting that proposal to the people, but less than sixteen million votes were castt in the referendum. Opponents of thp measure stayed away from the polls, from the party alignment in the present Reichstag it is doubtfull whether the National ist plan can rally much more than a third of the German electorate. It is true, of course, that before the bill is voted down many provocative words will have been uttered in Germany and caught up, to some ex tent, aboard. Yet it is not ex cessive optimism to sav that the scope of this old game of reciprocal irritation has been greatly restricted by the labors of Stresemann and his allied collaborators in the work of European reconciliation. Of the effect on domestic German politics one can speak with less as Ridiculous Proposal. From Cedar Rapids Gazette. Tlie Volstead, movement is pro ceeding to its logical conclusion with the proposal of Senator Sheppard to make the buyer of illicit alcohol equally guilty with the seller. First came the amendment to the Constitution outlawing alcohol for beverage purposes. Wayne B. Wheeler dictater the terms of the amendment prohibiting the ‘‘manu facture, sale or transportion of in toxicating liquors.” Prohibition of the the purchase of such liquors was purposely excluded by Mr.Wheeler for the reason that purchasers then would be eliminated as witnesses against the sellers. The Volstead act was the next step, but when it failed to prohibit the prohibitionists clamored for the more stringent ‘‘five and ten” law. Just a few months have passed since the enactment of this measure, but there is a fresh clamor for more law. The purchaser Is selected as the new sacrifice. It is idle to discuss the constitutionality of the proposal. What’s the Constitution among prohibitionists? They have set out to burn the old witch, alco hol, and they will stick at nothing to accomplish their purpose. Federal prisons are overcrowded at present. State prisons are in a like condition. The federal government is to undertake a building program to cost $5,000,000. Penologists are aware that $5,000,000 is not even a starter if the Volstead act and Jones ‘ five and ten” law were enforced. Dr. Doran is authority for the state ment that the dry laws are now 20 per cent effective. A total of 58,813 persons were cskivicted last year un der 20 per cent enforcement. But siipose 100 per cent enforcement were in effect and every dry violator were sentenced to prison. At the end of two and a half years there would be 284.065 federal prisoners. Prison construction costs about $3, 500 a cell. Five hundred and seven ty-nine additional federal prisons would be required at a cost of $1. 029 227,500. But what if the Sheonard amend ment were adopted? Here would be a fresh batch of criminals numbering at least 50,000,000. At $3,500 a cell the prison building would cost about _ . - Q. How did the 24-hour day orig inate? H A. C. A. It is not definitely known Just how the day happened to be divided into 24 hours. At the time of the Homeric pdems, the day was divided into three parts, the first beginning with sunrise and comprising that part during which the light in creased; the second, midday, dur ing which the sun was thought to stand still; and the third period dur ing which the atmospheric warmth increased. These divisions were later subdivided either by Anaximander or Anaximines. who is said to have made the Greeks acquainted with the use of the Babylonian chrono meter or sundial by means of which the natural day was divided into 12 equal spaces. The earliest sundial of which we have knowledge was that of the Chaldean astronomer Berossus, who lived about 300 B. U. Its arc was divided into 12 equal intervals of time. At Babylon the period from sunrise to sunset and also the period of darkness were each divided into 12 hours. Accord ing to thi3 arrangement the day hour was in the summer longer than the night hour and in the winter shorter. The Greeks improved upon this system by dividing the whole period into 12 equal hours. Even the Mortgage. Prom Answers Dobson; What is your son taking at college? Hobson: All I’ve got. Trade Follows Many Flags. From Detroit News. An effective reminder of the world wide vision needed now by public opinion and statesmanship in the United States is contributed in an article by Isaac F. Marcosson in the current issue of a popular weekly. An account of the remark able personality of Ivar Krueger, of Sweeden, also contains the clear story of how the Swedish “match trust” obtained its domina tion in the manufacture of matches. It was done by the organization of subsidiaries under the laws of other countries. And it is perhaps the largest illustration of the other aid* of the policy of numbers of American manufacturers now much in controversy—their establishment of branches or subsidiaries abroad. Not the only factor, yet tariffs in other lands against matches wer* a prime cause in actuating the Swedish match industry. As our strongest groups, automobiles being the chief illustration' in Detroit, work within the tariff barriers of other nations, the stronger foreign ers enter this country and produce here. We do not know of any stat istics showing the balance between labor gains here on account of op erations by foreign owned plants aM labor losses hjre on *ocpunt_of American plants set up abroad. Reliable government figures on the point should be worth while. Regardless of this balance, how ever, it seems clear tht the course of our home interests is not at all an isolated one. We may think real economy served best by con centration of plant operations; may know that automobiles are made best right here in Detroit; and yet muset see a world condition that compels American manufact urers to carry on part of their ac tivities in other lands under other flags. Youth Always Shocking Fifteen years ago we were hear ing all about the wild girls who broke home tiea and set forth on a busi ness career. Today older people are shaking their heads over air-minded youth, and day after day we find young people going in for aviation. My children will think nothing of the nirplane. Just as I consider nu nuto tnobile commonplace. We accept ns matter-of-fact the things to which we ire accustomed, and do not stop to -eallze Hint they are the very tilings that shocked nnother generation.— ttachel Neiswender iu the Household Magazine. Where Politic* Count A notary public who bad served In iucli capacity in his borne town for the last 32 consecutive years recently filed with the judge of the Circuit court an application for reappoint ment. Turning to the court deputy, the judge asked if she knew whether Mr. A's character was such that the ap plication should be granted, to which the deputy seriously replied: ‘‘I don’t know; 1'iu not sure I know his politics.” ^ Kill Rats Without Poison H New Exterminator that Won't Kill Livestock, Poultry, Dogs, Cats, or oven Baby Chicks K-R-O can be us td about the home, bam or poultry yard with absolute safety as it con tains no deadly poison. K-R-O is made of Squill, as recom mended by V. S. Dept, of Agriculture, under the Connahle process which insures maximum strength. 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