BAKING CAKES HER PROBLEM Auburn, Cal. —(UP)— Except once over a distant neighbor’s ra dio, California’s champion mother, never has heard of the present economic stringency. Wife cf a woodcutter and farm er. Mrs A. JJ. Kistle goes about her house’nold duties in her modest little home 30 miles from here, and the day never passes when she doesn’t bake a cake. “Cake still is an important item In the dally diet of the children who still are living with us,’’ she said. "I never have let anything but Illness prevent the baking of a cake every day since we were mar ried.’* Her longest journey from home was a trip to Sacramento, 60 miles nwnr. The pleasant little mother of 19 children admits she once longed to see Ran Francisco, but has reconciled herself to the fact she perhaps never will. Her greatest envy, she confesses, Is her daughter, Mrs. Stephen Rule, of Nevada City. Mrs. Rule has twins. Mrs. Klstle has had no twins and believes “it would have been fun to have a pair around the house to play with the other chil dren." Three years ago the entire fam ily was entered in the State Fair competition to determine Califor nia’s largest family. There were four girls and 14 bovs then. An* other boy has arrived since. Eat-All-Y ou-Want Idea Failed for Boys Marblehead, Mass. — (UP) — The dollar dinner, eat-all-you want idea didn’t work so well at the Eastern Yacht club, so far as two small boys were concerned. The boys, John Mc.Beath, 11, and John Sitnonds, 14, sons of members, turned themselves loose at a dollar apiece and consumed the following: Two cups cold tomato soup, two tall glasses of iced cofflre, six orders of relish, four rolls, one cinnamon roll, one potato salad, two capons, two slices of meat loaf, two slices of turkey, one slice of chictSen, one slice of ham, one order of cole-slaw, two lobsters a la Uewburgh, one brownie, two slices of cake, and two wedges of blueberry pie with ice cream. Wanderer Finds Brother While Hunting Job Cleveland —(UP)— Henry Mor ris, 23, was a wayfarer and “broke.” He arrived in Cleveland on a freight train, hungry. He sought work unsuccefully. Finally, he entered the offices of the Circular Distributing Co. and asked for a bill-passer’s Job. The manager glancing briefly at the applicant’s ragged appearance shook his head and Morris started out the door. The manager looked a second time at the youth, then gasped: “I know you. You’re my brother. Where have you been for the last seven years?” The two brothers, Henry and Lester, were united. Now Henry has a steady Job. -»+ Depression Fails to Halt French Music Lover* Paris —(UP)— Despite hard times and depression, people still love music and are willing to spend money for tickets. Official statistics show that Paris gave 2,400 concerts this sea son over 1,106 for New York. The French total was 82 less than f >r the same period last year. Of this total, 948 were operas and oper ettas, 405 symphony orchestras, 144 piano recitals, 74 song recitals, 37 violin concerts, 20 for the harp, violoncello and organ, 63 chamber music, 26 choral and 683 Joint re citals, dance and miscellaneous music. WAIT TILL G. O. P. TELLS IT With every bit of storage room Filled up with hogs that met their doom At two or three cents on the pound, Our packers looked one day and found The price of hogs was much too low— And cried, "What shame that this is sol” *Twas late in June, and farmers then Had nary porker in the pen; And so the packers said, said they. "Well boost the price that we would pay For hogs, if there were hogs to buy— And send our storage stuff sky high.” And so they put the plan In play. And every paper every day Reported how, with prices up. The farmer’s battered, leaky cup Was filled to overflowing now, Through Mr. Boar and Mrs. Sow. And now the G. O. P. will rave. How once again It came to save The farmer from starvation’s fate, And killed the wolf right at his gate— And this, my dears, despite the feet. Twas packers’ greed put on the act. —Sam Page. Twins Set New Record For School Attendance Vassar, Mich. —(UP)— Dorothy and Walter Boesnecker celebrated their 19th birthday anniversary, June 8, by graduating from high school here together. The twins, children of a teacher In the high school, started to school when they were seven, ’n 12 years, neither has been t*.uy. Dorothy has not missed a day of class work. Walter, however, missed 12 days in the 12 years. V DEVICES TEST RADIO ACTIVITY Pasadena. Cal. —(UP)— An amazing array of devices have been evolved at the California In stitute of Technology here to test the radio-activity of the earth. Dr. Robert D Evans seeks to determine with them the amount of radium in rocks in order to discover how much of this activity must be discounted in studying the action of the cosmic ray. discov ered by Dr. Robert A. Millikin. head of Caltech. Included in Dr. Evans' equip ment Is a furnace that will make granite boil like water, scales that will weigh one million-millionth of a grain, or one thousand-mil lionth of pound of radium, and an appartus so delicate as to chase atom3 of radium through a definite channel In order that scientists maj count them. Dr. Evans pulverizes a granite boulder, heats it to a temperature of 3.700 degrees Fahrenheit, and the rock boils like water. The temperature is measured by an electric device affected by light rays lrom the lava. The heat forces out of the gasses formed the negative electron. When the electrons are permitted to unite with the gasses, they pass into delicate scales, where the radium atoms knock negative electrons from the atoms of air which are within the tube-like scales. Ey watching the electromer, the scientist knows from its reading how many atoms are passing through. She’s in the Pink r--—————»**. College life is not all brain-wraca ing study of abstruse subjects. There’s a brighter side to it. and here it ia. The young student se obviously enjoying herself is Anna Jolan of Brooklyn, N. Y., who is demonstrating the method she used in winning the watermelon-eating contest at the campus frolic at New York University. * ♦ ♦ - — Baby Deer Raised On Canned Milk Boulder, Colo —(UP)— Virginia and Allen Smothers have a pet that is the envy of the youngsters of the neighborhood. A few days ago, their parents discovered a five-day old deer in Gore canyon near Kremling. The tiny deer was barely alive, and the Smothers believed its mother had been killed. They put it in their automobile and took it home. Virginia and Allen are raising the little fellow on canned milk. Girls Robbed Homes To Fill Hope Chest Sunbury. Pa. —(UP)-North umberland county has "hope chest” burglars. Two girls, accused of robbing summer homes in the Elysburg section, took silverware, linens, clothing, and an electric clock. They admitted taking tlie household articles to fill the "hope chest” of one of the girls who planned to be married within a short time, police said. FOOT PRINTS. Those finger prints?Thcy're old stuff now. And ready for the can, hough they’ve been used by every sleuth. Including Charley Chan. It's foot prints now that get the play. And are the present vogue; They tell a smart young sleuth a lot, May prove a man a rogue. Though “foot prints on the sands oX time,” Pull every crook may read. Unto the lessons that they teach, He never does give heed. Sam Page. State Furnishes Remedy For Snake Bites Harrisburg, Pa. — (UP) — The Stat« Department of Health pro vides snake-bite medicine to all who require it The state does not deal in the most familiar remedy for snake bite—a drink of liquor—but has a concentrated antivenom serum that is more effective and cer tainly more lawful. The serum is provided at mod erate cost through the biological division of the health department l i Kicking at the Clouds mmmr■■ TBnyr-"rrtc- ; »' ■■ High up on the roof of one of New York’s skyscraper hotels, Fay Marbe, noted international stage and screen star, executes the world’s highest kick with legs famed for their beauty and which carry a small fortune in insurance. Fay didn't say what she was kicking about, but in common with the rest of humanity maybe it was the heat. First Airplane Flight Nearly Ends in Disaster Mansfield, England — (UP) — Having waited 102 years before going up in an airplane, A Mrs. Stansall had a narrow escape from disaster on her first flight here recently. Shortly after her 102 birthday, Mis. Stansall wrote to Sir Alan Ccbham, who was holding an avi ation exhibition in Mansfield, asking him to take her aloft. What was more, she asked to loop-the-loop. A flight was arranged for a party of 17, including the Mayor and Mayoress of the city, but on landing the plane lost two wheels, and, with a wing dragging the ground, narrowly averted disaster. Alighting from the plane, the old lady primly rearranged her hat and declared that the flight had been “grand." Dispells Mystery of Old Days in Mormon Colony Fort Worth, Tex. — (UP) — Mystery cast around the Mormon life of yesteryears was entirely the brainchild of fiction writers, Rud ger Clawson, Salt Laxe City, once an associate of Brigham Young, told members of his faith here. Clawson, who was born in Salt Lake City in 1857, ten years after its founding by the famous Mor mon leader, Is president of the Council of Twelve of the Mormon church. He experienced the bit ter struggle between Mormonlsm and the United States Government over the practice of polygmy. The stories, some of them now famous books, telling of kidnap ings, robberies and merciless treatment of women by church elders are purely fiction, he said. He described Brigham Young as the greatest organizer, financier and preacher of the modern age. Burnt Bones Whiten Sugar for Table Use Washington — (UP) — Burnt bones make table sugar white. The Department of Labor re veals that In 21 sugar refineries 775 persons are employed In handling the skeletons of animals — hogs, sheep and cows — that they may be charred and used in filtering sugar, thereby whitening It. The animal tbones come from large U. S. slaughter houses and occasionally from the Argentine pampas. They are stripped, scraped, shredded. boiled, and charred for their use in the whitening, process. ■---»»-- ■■ Role of Cat Mother Changes Hen Into Potpie Manning, Cal. —(UP)— A lone some, chick-less hen was Mrs. J. Ostler's Rhode Island Red, Agnes. She had no chicks of her own so she decided to adopt a litter of kittens. Followed a royal battle between the mother cat and Agnes. Biddy won. Hour after hour the mother cat sat dejectedly near her offspring, Maine Changes Diet For Its Lake Trout Augusta, Me. —(UP)— To im prove the flavor of the trout caught In Maine's lakes and streams, state authorities have put the fish on a milk diet. The liver diet formerly fed the trout in state hatcheries gave them an unpleasant flavor, which per sisted even though the fish had long flings at liberty before being landed. So a milk food was produced, conrtfUng of ordinary cow's milk I lor Pool or Beach -—-——-:—_*■ For • cooling dip im the pool, Anltm Page, charming screen actress, fa vors this chic striped suit. It is a one-piece model, designed for real swimming rather than beach loung ing' The suit is strapped over the shoulders and set off with a match ing bag. for each time she approached she was ferociously attacked by the hen. Only with the help of Mrs. Ostler was she permitted to feed her young. But after two weeks of trying to teach the hen she could not mother the kittens, Mrs. Ostler changed Agnes into pot pie. Dobbin Brings Higher Price Than for Years Mercer, Pa —(UP)— It may be the machine era but Mercer ! county farmers are going to be hard to convince. Despite the widespread use of trucks, tractors and automobiles, •'Old Dobbin” commands a higher price than lie has lor years, deal ers report. With farm end dairy products bringing the lowest prices in 50 ! years. Auctioneer J. S. Wilson said thv* market for draft horses was I the best he has known. mixed with certain chemicals com pounds, the result being a grain | like preparation. George J. Stobie. state fish and | game commissioner, said some i trout hatched at Gray were fed on the milk diet and grew 12 to | 14 inches in 12 months. The Right Time. From Hummel, Hamburg, i "I have only 10 minutes and 1 hardly know where to begin," said the speaker. •‘Begin at the ninth minute,” 1 shouted a bored man in the back of the audience. f---\ ~ > The Great Need—Faith in Men By M. E. Tracy in New York World-Telegram. | i.. .. " ' ■ ' .. . .. Bring on your athletes; let them run, jump and throw things; give the winners plenty of honor, but no cash, and declare a truce while the contest lasts. It will promote health by stimulating interest in bodily exercise, and peace by creating a spirit of friendly competition. So argued the Greeks 2,500 years ago, and with all our boasted superiority, we can think of nothing to add. We are glad to pick up the program that made Olympia a symbol of hope for 12 centuries; glad to admit that it may help the modern world to dote less on war. Who says that civilization is bound up with a few creature comforts, or that wisdom came into being with mechanical power? We have airplanes that can go five miles a minute, but still get a kick out of seeing men go a mile in little less than five minutes. Human power still appeals to us, no matter how weak it may be compared with mechanical power. The thought of producing stronger, healthier hu man beings, even in a physical sense, is still uppermost in our minds. That is why we like sport, why our educational system tolerates so much of it, why we have resurrected the Olympiad. The old boys felt much as we do, in spite of their ig norance about machinery. They, too, had faith in men, rather than in the creation of men. We are just harking back to fundamentals which we had forgotten in our excitement over some new play things. After all, the great problem in life is not what men can do by means of some device, or system, but what they ought to do by and for each other. It all goes back to the gradual refinement of human character. Anything that helps that is worth while, and most such things are very old in principle. Henry Ford says that we would get along if we obeyed 10 or a dozen old rules. The trouble is w’e don't obey them. We haven't time to study them in a sense of practical ap plication. We are too busy learning thousands of new rules, which are not rules at all but merely learning recipes. We have made wonderful progress in the development of tools, instruments and engines, but the World war shows how little we understood them and what hopeless ' slaves of them we had become. Man’s only hope of salvation, even in its narrowest sense, is to remain master of his faculties and of all means by which those faculties are expressed. The only way he can do that is to keep clearly in mind that he is in the greatest need of improvement, and that if he fails to grow in knowledge and wisdom all other improvements will be of no avail. The great danger of this machine age is that it di verts man’s attention from himself, that it causes him to have too much faith in purely artificial methods. Those who find fault with sport and the part it has come to play in life are careless thinkers. It represents a subconscious reaction to modern man’s outstanding weak ness. He is becoming too rational for his own good, too pitilessly intelligent. The affliction is not new. The Greeks and Romans both suffered from it, and experimented with remedies. The Greeks succeeded far better with their mild sports than the Romans with their gladiatorial games. Both, however, went down before races that were stronger, not because of what they knew but because of what they were.. Your Children By Olive Roberts Barton