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**************** •« * ,«* ... . * '* Keep Potted on * * « * * HOME MATTERS • * * • By Reading Tour ' » • • * LOCAL HEWfcPAPER * • ... • • • * and Bosnia InteNffta* *************** * •. * Mail Order Boasts * EXIST BY ADVERTISING * To Oet Basinets V Do PUBLISHED BY ADIRONDACK NEWS PUBLISHING CO. ESTABLISHED 1887 ST. REGIS FALLS, N. Y., FEBRUARY 33, 1929 1 . TERMS, $1.50 A YEAR VOL. XLHI NO. 4 EACH HAD A SECRET FROM THE OTHER , n MB by D J WaUh.) S U8ANNK TAFT was entlng tons! r.nd drinking cocoa alone at one end of the big tuble In the high, cheerless and rather chill dining room of her house on Cedar street She nad a blue wool scurf about her full shoulders and the hand that held the thin Huvllnnd cup to her lips was cold. Winter WHS setting In with a ven geance and the new furnuce boy did not understand keeping a fire. 8he thought drearily that she waa going to miss Mr. Peiise a good le. I. After many years of faithful service to the residents of Cedar atreet he hod died suddenly a few days before. There WHS another thing that made ftusanne snd that morning. She had heard Just last night trat the old Boyd house next door was sold. It had been In the hands of the agent for a long time, hut being a law and expenalve place to keep up, nobody had seemed to care (or It A stranger had bought It A stranger In the old Boyd house I It meant to Susunne the utter passing of many things she hud loved and valued In her life. She was a woman of forty-six, am¬ ply proportioned, with a clear skin, soft blue eyes and a great quantity of amooth, lightly graying hair. Not beau ttful, but tweet and good and gentle, the kind of woman who mukee men and little children hoppy. Hut she was an old mnid. The man she hnd loved all her life hnd not wanted her and the other men she would not have. Therefore she hnd arrived at n Mine wlien ahe was alone In her house where there had once been the Joyous hustle of many goings and coinings. Her sis¬ ters had married and gone forth Into lives of their own; yesterday .lane, the youngest, had written from France. Her oldest brother was In South Amer¬ ica. In like munner everybody the seemed to have known or cared about In her youth had drifted away, leaving her a bit of flotsam to float alone on the, current of time. It came to her as she put down her cocoa untested that It was folly for her to keep on living alone In this way, maintaining a house thnt was al together beyond her needs and her In¬ come. Much better for her to no as her sister Helen wanted, sell the place to Mr. GI fiord, store such furniture as she had an emotional fondness for. suction off the rest and with the pro¬ ceeds see a bit or the world, decora plish a new system of living. \You ure wasting your powers of mind and body there In dull old Westmore,\ Helen had written. Perhaps It wus true. And In any event ahe no longer hnd an excuse for keeping the old house on their account; they never visited It any more. If she wanted to see them she must go where they were. 8he arose from the table and going to the window looked at the old house next door. When John Boyd went awny for the lust time, he hud given her one of the keys to the side door. \You might want to go In there for something, sometime,\ he had told her. •'You are welcome to books or any¬ thing else you may want.\ John Boyd was the last Boyd of oil and the house waa his. He hnd left tt Just as It stood except for a few gifts to his parents 1 friends. And he had sold It just as It stood, furniture, hangings, china and all. The contents were old- fashioned and not very valuable, for nothing new hod been brought during hla mother's latter years. Yet to 8u sarnie It was filled with the most pre¬ cious furnishings of ull—memories of John's youth and of her own. She wished to bid farewell to them while there was yet time. She took the key from the sideboard drawer, whero It hud been undisturbed since John gave It to her almost (We years ago and leaving her breakfast unfinished, she put on her fur coat and her hut and went out of her house, round by the walk to the side floor of the Boyd dwelling. A storm of sleet last night had made footing trencher ous, but there was no snow. The lock yielded easily to tier key and she en¬ tered into the sitting room, which had been the scene of so many huppy gnth •rings. It wns not this room or the dining room beyond or the great double par¬ lors she wished to see, but s little room on the other side of the house which the Boyd boys, John and Er nest, had called their den. Ernest wna dead now and nobody knew where John was excopt that he was a wan¬ derer on the face of the earth. 8he hesitated before the door of this little room, then opened It, and, trembling with omotlon, looked within. A faint smell of tobacco smote her in the face. The shades were down, but she could see even In the dimness thnt somebody had sat In thnt deep chair before the flroplace where a lire had certainly been lit. Upon the table stood an old-fashioned korostme lamp by which somebody had been reading. A hook lay face downward beside the lamp 8he lifted It and her frlance fell upon a well remembered page In \Aticusftin and Nlcolette.\ She had given John that hook on his birthday long ago. It wus as if he had spoken to her. It was us If he were there In thnt little memory sacred room with her. 8lie put awuy the possibility that the agent hud probably brought there the purehnser a night or two before and thnt they hnd lit tho Hie and hunt ed tip fhe Inntp and nut there discuss Inu the why* and wherefore* of their baitfuln. Wnt not the III lie volume proof enough of .lohn'n prom-nee? Slie prcsscC her lips to the page and then striking slowly Into the deep cnafr fthe Inld her face on It* arm und wept, she who had bolluvcd ull her tears were shed. The loneliness, the futility of her life and love passed over her In a OeviiBtating flood and she won¬ dered If she could go Into a future that seemed to promise no more thun the past had given. Presently she lifted nor face, dried her eyes and, taking the little book, went out, closing the doors softly be¬ hind her one after the other until she came to the outer door, which she locked. In a moment she was at home. The fire was making Itself felt, hei cunary wanted his breakfast, her flow* era needed watering. There wna • meeting of the woman's club that afternoon, at which she was sched¬ uled to speak, and a sewing bee for the hospital that evening. The tele¬ phone bell was ringing. It was Mrs. Mlllnrd asking her to entertain ths Ladles' Aid the following day. \You are the only one of us all who bss room enough.\ It came to her that too many threads were attached to her; ahe could not break them all without vital agony to herself. \No I guess I'll stay right here. I'm needed. Maybe nowhere else could I be us useful,** she thought At that moment somebody knocked at the side door. Without ceasing to pour water on her primroses she called \Come In I\ Then as hesitation rather than nelghborllness seemed to follow upon her words, she called \Do come In. I'm busy.\ The steps she heard were not old Mrs. Beecher's, as she expected. She looked over her shoulder and saw a man standing upon the threshold of the room. Afterward she regretted the break- age of the old majolica pitcher, but then she could only realise dlzrlly that John Royd Mood before her. She shook hnnds with htm, she gave him a chair, she excused the broken pitcher. \It's nothing, really.\ Then she sat down to visit with htm. \1 came last night and spent the evening In the den. In'fact, I fell aMleep und did not awaken until day¬ light. Then I went down to the hotel, where I hud Intended to stay, bathed and breakfasted and hurried back up here to see you.\ He smiled, winning a smile from her In return. Few wom¬ en are ever so happy us to see their boyish sweethearts In the men who re¬ turn after many yours, but Susanne saw that ilohn Royd had scarcely changed. \I've come back to stay,\ he an¬ swered quietly. \Why what—what put that In your head?\ she asked. \You. from a darkened room I watched you lasi night, sitting here In this lighted one, sewing, the same Susunne that I realized suddenly I cannot live without\ \Rut I am a left over, John.\ \So am I.\ He came and stood be* side her, looking down Into her face. \I've nobody but you. 1 want you very much, Susanna.\ She didn't tell him that she had always wanted him. She didn't tell him that she had >een In the room so full of memory and bis preaence and that as long as ahe lived the little volume of \Aucnisln and NIcolette\ should be her dearest treasure. And he didn't tell her thnt upon returning to the room he had amelled the fa rail Inr perfume she always wore and hod found In the choir a small tear-wet handkerchief embroidered with her name. Thus each had a secret from the other, but they were secrets that made for happiness. Meanwhile they had plans to make for n long qnd bliss¬ ful future. Old Romans Wrestled With Traffic Problem Rome wus the Detroit of ancient times. Roman meuhanlci and coach mnkeri developed chariot making to an art, discovered the advantages of quantity If not mass production, and popularised the delights of surveying a world from above swiftly turning wheels. With many pnved highways lending oi-t of the city, Roman chariot makers were pressed to meet the demand for their vehicles, and these soon became so numerous on the narrow streets that Caevar In IDft Introduced a \taxi ordinance\ prohibiting chariots for hire from oporatlng In the city. His chief motive, howover, Is said to have been his desire to reserve the chariot for Imperial processions. Thousands of nobles and tradesmen were owners of chariots and these, too, Cnesar ban¬ ished for uwhlle but such was the In¬ crease of employment, Industries and communications that the decree soon was shelved. A postal service was established and Augustus authorised the use of chariots In carrying the malls. • Some of the vehicles had four wheels and covered tops similar to the re¬ cent coaches but most of them were two-wheeled like those used for racing. The most elaborate were Inlaid with precious metals and gems. Having no springs, the pleasure chariot was elab orntely IHted with soft cushions. When Nero went on a Journey some¬ times as many as 8,000 such vehicles made up his caruvan.—Detroit News. Cat Collects Traps The Inhabitants of Harrow, Bog- land, were mystified. They had been persevering In setting traps for the ruts that hud been frequenting their gardens, and every morning not only were there no rats—nut also no trapa! A thorough search was made, and at lam they ran to earth a large half wild cat. whose tnlr was under s Aheri In the neighborhood. Invenflgii don of this lair Drought to light 1-1 trapp unduly stored tint, noodles* to suy, the} were minus the ruts! 1—Three steamships stuck fast In the Ice Jam of the Hudson river at management of the Daughters of the American Revolution Inspecting the progress torium in Washington. 8—Lieut Gov. J. B. West of Vlrglnla.who has announced Newburgh, N. Y. 2—National board of on the society's $2,000,000 audi- Is candidacy to succeed Governor Byrd. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Congress Determines We Shall Build 15 Cruisers Within Three Years. By EDWARD W. PICKARD D ISREGARDING the wishes of President Coolldge and defiantly rejecting the demands of the powerful lobby of church and peace organiza¬ tions, the senate passed the fifteen- cruiser bill with the time limit clause included. The senators—with the ex¬ ception of twelve who voted in the negatives-decided that fifteen cruisers and one airplane carrier were neces¬ sary to the national defense, and that those vessels must be built within a set time. The airplane carrier and five cruisers must be begun before July 1 next, five more cruisers before July 1, 1080, and the remaining five before the middle of 1031. The Pres¬ ident and the lobby mentioned wished the time limit clause left out, and the lobby made an unsuccessful attempt to have the number of cruisers reduced to nine. The twelve senators who voted against the bill were: Black (Dem., Ala.), Borah (Rep., Idaho), Brook- hart (Rep., Iowa), Burton (Rep. t Ohio), Dill (Dem., Wash.), Frailer (Rep., N. D.), McMasler (Rep., 8. D.), Norrls (Rep., Neb.), Nye (Rep., N. D.), Bhlpstead (Farmer-Labor, Minn.), Thomas (Dem., Okla), and Walsh (Dem., Mont.). The house bill was amended, at the Instance of Senators Borah and Reed of Missouri, by the adoption of a clause declaring \that the congress favors a treaty or treaties with all the principal maritime nations regulating the conduct of belligerents and neu¬ trals In war at sea, Including the In¬ violability of private property there¬ on,\ and that \such treaties be nego¬ tiated, If practically possible, prior to the meeting of the conference on the limitation of armaments In 1031/' Two days later the house concurred in the senate amendments without sending the measure to conference and thus a plan of the pacifists to filibuster on a conference report waa frustrated. The bill went to the President and It was expected he would sign It despite hla dislike of the time limit clause. Representative Britten said that if tho President failed to act promptly In sending In a budget recommendation for the funds to start on five cruisers, an amendment to the naval bill would be offered appropriating the necessary amount. During tho senate debate over the cruiser measure Heflln of Alabama precipitated an angry dispute by offer¬ ing an amendment forbidding the fly* Ing of any flag or pennant above the American flag on any navy vessel. He wss hitting at the church pennant flown during religious services aboard ship, In the Ignorant belief that the St. Qeoirge's cross which It bears Is the symbol of the Catholic church. Bruce of Maryland, Walsh of Massachusetts and others squelched the Alabaman as completely as he Is capable of being iqnelchad and his amendment had only ten affirmative votes. member of the Hoow cabinet la now known to a practical cer¬ tainty, although the Information does not cotne from the Presidentelect. Henry L Stlmson, governor genoral of tat Pnfllpplnes, Issued this statement In Manila: \It Is true that at the request of tie Presldont-Elcct of the United States I am about to leave the Philip¬ pines In order to take up another duty. What the nature of that duty Is I prefer to leave to Mr. Hoover to an¬ nounce. I expect to sail In about two weeks.\ It was stated In Manila thut Mr. Stlmson told Manuel Quezon, presl- lent of ttje Island senate, that he had accepted the post of secretary of •»tate, which accorded with the opinion »f the political correnpondcnts. Mr. Hoover Is reported to be much imused by the gucHsen as to his cuti- nt»t, and the only definite Information 'rom nlni on the matter wan that nioMt »f the guoMftffi were wrong. Liml week, tfter receiving a number of culler*, he •vent flahlng In the Gulf stream aud then left on Saturday for t boat trip around to Naples on the west cosst He waa to be in Fort Myers on Mon¬ day to help Thomas A. Edison cele¬ brate hla seventy-seventh birthday, and then planned more fishing and an inspection trip across the everglades and around Lake Okeechobee. $24,000,000 additional appro¬ priation for prohibition enforce- ment, which the house rejected In de¬ fiance of orders from the Anti-Saloon league, was the death of the deficiency supply bill to which It was attached as a rider. The conference committee could not reach an agreement on this Item and It was admitted that the bill Would be allowed to die. House lead¬ ers made plans to include the more urgent appropriations in'a second de¬ ficiency bill, and thereupon the drya, mostly those from the South, came for¬ ward with the statement that they would not abandon the fight 8enator Harris of Georgia, author of the $24,- 000,000 amendment, asserted he would offer the same proposal as an amend¬ ment to every appropriation bill still to come before the senate. C OL. CHARLES A. LINDBEBGH, flying a big Sikorsky amphibian plane and accompanied by a mechanic and a radio operator, opened a new International air mall and passenge route last week, between the Unit States and Panama. He started fro Miami and, stopping briefly at Ha vana for refueling, ended the first lei at Belize, British Honduras. The sec ond day found him at Managua, Nlca ragua, and on the third day he«lande< at France field In the Canal sone, fin tshlng the flight of 2,827 miles. Llnd tried to avoid ovations at his seven stopping places but was not very su cessful in this. When he hadchecke out hla mall at Balboa he was th guest of Admiral Wiley aboard thp battleship Texas, and next day wl nessed the aviation part of the tactical fleet exercises. Sunday he started o the return flight to Miami. Copt. Frank Hawks, a veteran a|r mall and racing pilot, established new record for a nonstop flight fro Los Angeles to New York. In Lockheed Vega monoplane he cover the distance In 18 hours 21 minutes 60 seconds, bettering Art Goebel'sre ord by about 87 minutes. He encou tered stormy weather throughout molt of the route and lost considerable time by reason of It E LIHU ROOT, former lecretary bf state, has consented to be Presi¬ dent Coolldge's unofficial emissary fin an effort to leek an understanding among world powers on America's res ervations to her Adherence to tlie World court. Last week Mr. Root W In Washington conferring with mi bers of the senate foreign relations committee. President Coolldge still hopes and believes the stumbling blocks In the way of this countoy's membership In the court can be ire- moved. The cjilof of these la the sen¬ ate reservation denying the right of the court to render nu advisory opin¬ ion Involving the United States with¬ out the previous content of this cqun try to consideration ot the case. U BE of federal reierve credit for speculation, either directly or In* directly, must be restrained, declared the fedoral reserve board Wednesday evening In a statement calling atten¬ tion to the growth of speculative credit during the year, the lose by I the country of some $500,000,000 In gold and advances In.tho coat of credit] for commercial uses. Whereupon the stock gamblers—and that Includes ft considerable part of the population— threw a flt and unloaded a lot of their holdings, bringing prices down with a rush. The bear movement was elded by an Increase of 1 per cent ln| th« Bank of England's discount rate, checking the flow of gold from Eng¬ land to New York. Some of the lawmakers In Washing¬ ton and various other persons severe¬ ly criticized the federal hoard, not so much for Its action as for Its al¬ leged subserviency to the urgencfc of Montagu Norman, governor of [the Hank of England, who had Just made a visit In the national capital. He *.vas the guest of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and conforred with «e-vcral members of the board, and wn* mild to bnvo jidvlMcd the tonnl to try to check murk market p MMMI- latlon, hla reul desire being to a nell orate the British financial situation. , As for the stock market financiers, one Authority had this to say: \It Is not the fear of an increase ill the rediscount rate that alone Is cans- ing all the uneasiness In Wall Street —It is the danger of even more dras- tice measures. The financial district Is growing more and more convinced that the latest 'gesture* of the board has something big behind It, and Wall Street knows the present speculative situation will not bear too close In¬ vestigation.\ pARDINAL GASPARRI, papal see- ^ retary of state, announced to the diplomatic body accredited to the Vati¬ can that the Holy See and the Italian state had reached an agreement that ends the estrangement between them which has existed since 1870. On Sun¬ day the pact was signed. It jls 'a two¬ fold treaty, one part dealing with con¬ ciliation between church and state and the other part composed of three sec¬ tions, containing ft concordat regulat¬ ing the future relations between th# Holy 8ee and the Italian kingdom. In the agreement the Vatican has subordinated claims to added temporal power to recognition of its principles of moral law in Italy. Various concessions are made the church by the Italian state relating to the power of the pope in the Vatican area. Regarded as even more im¬ portant than these, .however, is the agreement of the Italian government to do its utmost to secure observance of the church's canon law throughout Italy. The canon law, codification* of which was completed only In 1027, contains 2,414 canoni, or rales, regu¬ lating faith, morals, conduct and discipline of church members. While there li to be only a •mall addition to the Vatican grounds—the pope having refused the Villa Doria enlargement offered him—the pope la to be ruler supreme within Its con¬ fines. His domain Is to be known as the \Vatican City\ or the \Vatican State.\ A monetary Indemnity of 2,000,000,- 000 lire (about $105,000,000), of which 1,000,0000,000 lire Is payable In cash or Italian government bonds immedi¬ ately, is allowed. The remainder will be paid In yearly Installments with In¬ terest being paid meanwhile. S TALIN'S determination to deport Leon Trotsky and his followers from Soviet Russia, Is said to have caused ft serious split In the govern¬ ment at Moscow. Commissar Rykov and ulneteen other Communist leaders demanded that Stalin drop hla severe meaaures, but the dictator was unwill¬ ing to compromise. It was reported from Latvia that Trotsky was on his way to Moscow to face Stalin's charges of plotting to overthrow the present regime. M ARIA CHRISTINA, queen mother of Spain, Is dead, but her long and determined opposition to the dic¬ tatorship of Prlmo de Rivera may soon bear fruit Through the strict cen¬ sorship creep rumors that de Rivera's dictatorship is soon to end, to be rt- placod by a provisional government under General BerenJIer, chief of the king's military household. After the abortive rebellion at Cludad Real, an¬ other outbreak, In Vulencia, was squashed; but the jinreat In both tht army and navy seemed undlmtnlshed. Sanchen Ouerra, who wai held re¬ sponsible for the Cludad Real affair, waa sent to a military prison on the Island of Minorca. R USSIA hai promised Rumania It will renounce Its claims to Bessa¬ rabia, and In return Rumania waa to feign a special protocol to the Kellogg treaty outlaying war between t,ho two nations. Kamon de Valera wai arrested for trying to enter northern Ireland In contravention of > a seven-year-old order. Bloody battles between Hindus and Pathans took place In Bombay. Baron von Huenefeld, transatlantic flyer, died In Berlin while under an¬ esthetic for an operation. The German relchstag and the diet of Poland ratified the Kellogg anti-war treaty. Vicente Col In dres was Inaugurated president of Honduras, and escaped an ansafifiln's bullet. Severe carthquakea were * expert- enccQ In Afghanistan und northern India, VENEZUELAN EXILE WORKS IN GOTHAM Girl Driven From Country for Political Reasons. New fork.—Ten weeks ago Carmen Gil Martinez, a fragile girl of nine¬ teen, was the glamorous heroine of a youthful revolt against dictatorship in Venezuela. Today she It a New fork factory girl, doing embroidery for $15 a week. 8be was matched by police from the home of her parents and exiled from her native land. 8he had pro* tested against the sending of college boys to slave beneath the tropic ran as convicts on the fever-infested roads of the Venezuelan jungle because they bad demonstrated against the dictator* •hip of the aged president, Juan Via- cente Gomes. It ii mid-October In the capital city of Caracas, which for many months has been seething with student rebel¬ lion that violence cannot quench. Just now It Is especially boiling, for within the week 800 boys, many In their earlj teens, have been tent to the road gangs. Their offense? Signing letters of protest against the political Impris¬ onment of others, Qlrl In Pulpit The last notes of Sunday morning's nine o'clock mass have juat died away In the great church of 8an Francisco, Before the worshipers can leave their pews the slim figure of a girl springs forward into the pulpit. Over her short black hair is the black cap of students, a tight beret 8tudenta recognise her. See, It Is Carmen 1 \Brothers r she cries. \Now pray With me for the lives of those students that are dying now upon the roads, of beat and starvation 1 Pray with me for the end of this tyranny of Gomes that for the last 20 years has stain os I\ The congregation falls upon Its knees, and from a thousand throats rushes an Impromptu litany. A priest stands motionless in surprise, but now be cries: \Not so loud I They will hear. 11 . Breaking away from the admiring students, she goes home and stays all day with her mother. Her father, a traveling salesman, is away. In the morning policemen come. Two alt In¬ side the bouse. Two stand outside. They stay for two weeks, two weeks of suspense. What will be done to Carmen? They can't put her in a road Sang. txlltd from Country* At last the word cornea. She must leave the country. The government has bought her a ticket on the Red D freighter Lara, sailing, October 28 for New Tork. It will give her tht $00 required to pass Bills Island. \But she cannot go alone I\ cries Bfioora Gil Martinet, ber mother. And so after some argument it Is agreed that the government also shall pay the way ef ber brother, Gulllermo, twenty-three, as s chaperon. 1 am sorry to set yon go,\ says Rafael Maria Velasco, governor of Caracas, courteously. \1 hope 1 shall set you some time In New York.\ '*Ob, when yon art thrown ont 1 shall return,\ says Carmen. Carmen did not tell ber story this way. She speaks no English. It came forth In fragments through tht broken English of ber Interpreter, Amendoro Penso, one of the thousands of young Venezuelans who have left their coun¬ try because of political discontent When Carmen and ber brother arrived In New York sbt bad a letter to Pen- to. Be took their to live In his home. Be got Gulllermo a Job with him, pol¬ ishing brass. Carmen went to work wltb other 8panlsb girls to an embroi¬ dery place ntarby, tht first South American girl exiled from ber coun¬ try for political reasons. Employee Loses Teeth; Company Loses Lawsuit Poplar Bluff, Mo.—Ao attempt to dtmonstratt to • jury that rubber bis company produced was of high quality cost Edward Babcock two front teeth. A St. Louis rubber company WM being sued for selling alleged rotten rubber. Babcock placed ont end of a piece of rubber In bis mouth snd asked a juryman to pull on tht other. Bt did, and two of Babcock's teeth rolled across tbt courtroom floor. An outbreak of laughter came from spec¬ tators In tht courtroom as Babcock opened his mouth and disclosed tbt Sap. Incidentally, tbt rubber company lost l(s cast, Ice Cream Now Popular Dessert in Switierland Washington.—Switzerland has rati¬ fied America's choice of let cream as s national dessert, tht Commerce de¬ partment baa been luformed bj Its Swiss representative. Before tht war let crtim could bt obtained only tn tht better restaurants and clubs of Switzerland. Among tht common people It was almost un¬ known. Then several big dairymen started s campaign to popularise this Amer¬ ican dessert As a result Bwttstr* land now consumes 180,000 gallons, or an estimated per capita quota of one- eighth quart, tacb year. Family Has Prodigy Paris, France.—Jean La Forge, res- tauranteur and clarinet soloist, has s prodigy In the family. His son, three and one-half years old, playv the vio¬ lin and nine other instruments. When /ourtenn months old be hummed. TURKEY MAY LOSE PRETTY FAT1MAS Name Reform to B« Under* taken by GhasL Angora, Turkey.—Fourteen million Turks art In frantic sfearcb of a fam¬ ily name. Warning signals have been op for some time that the ghazl was contemplating a nanje reform aad now a commission has been formed to frame a law. All the Fatlmas, Mustaphas, Hus- slens and Hassans of- this land where family names have never existed will bt obliged to concoct a Turkish coun¬ terpart for Smith, Jones and Brown, snd tag It to their given names. Tht confusion arising from tht fact that hundreds of thousand of women art all called by the same name of Fatlma and hundreds of thousands of men by tht same tag, Mustapha, has brought about this next occidental re¬ form of champion reformer Kemal. In prescribing family names for bis Turks, the ghazl is once again flout¬ ing Koranic precept It Is said that the reason for the absence of family names among the Moslem Turks Is to be found to a verse from the Korun which exhorts: \Be not proud of your father's, your grandfather's or your ancestors' names. It Is what you are yourself that counts.\ Woman Chemist Delves - Into Mystery of Coal Pittsburgh, Pa.—The value of a lump of coal Is engaging the atten¬ tion of Mllada Friedlova, twenty-four, research chemist from Czechoslovakia. Miss Friedlova devotes nearly all her time to the study of coal analysis and heat experimentation at Carnegie Institute of Technology. 8he spent nine years st the University of Prague and the last four years has been do- Ing chemical research work in the state higher Industrial school of Prague. The young woman was among the forty or more gruduutes sent to the United States under the auspices of the Mosaryk Academy of Work and the American-English Council for Re¬ search tn the mutual Interest of the homeland and the country visited. 8ht Is an attractive brunette and has translated several scientific Csechosiovnkian publications into Ger¬ man and English, Writer Is Sponsor for Big Turnip Maratfcon Orlando, Fls. — Katharine Holland Brown, who won a $25,000 magazine prize In the latter part of 1027 wltb ber novel, \The Father,\ believes that there art other things In life than the business of being a successful novel¬ ist / Ont, she believes, is conducting tur¬ nip-growing contests a^nong the ne¬ groes of Orlando, where she maintains her winter boms, and in five near-by towns. / Miss Brown offered prizes for tht best M back yard\ tnrolps grown with¬ in a limited time/upon the premises of tht contestants In Orlando. Sht based ber awards npon the decisions of a trio of Judges. The plan received approval of Interracial welfare work¬ ers, and coincidental^ wltb ber work on another novel and a group of short stories, the author Is conducting tur- nlD contests la, five towns In central norida. Chromium Reflector for Auto Headlights Washington.—Chromium, which can bt electroplated on steel and la more permanent than nickel, has been found particularly suitable for re¬ flectors In automobile headlights after an exhaustive research made by tho bureau of standards. The rates reh, undertaken to study the reflecting power of chromium, was extended to cover not only light In tbt visible portion of the tpectram but also the ultraviolet and Infra-red. As a result It was found that chro¬ mium has much higher reflecting pow¬ er than nlrkH In the ultra-violet and since It IP lets affected by ultra* violet rays, It Is more useful as s re¬ flector of these rays. Tai oo Basbelors KIsh, Yugoslavia.—Bachelors more than thtrt; hereafter must pay tht Nlsb district government a sptciaJ tax for tbt lives of single blessedness. All adult citizens who art not members of some cultural, educational, char Itable and patriotic association must paj an even blghtr penalty. 3 Chinese Work on Law Book Translation Washington.—Tbe task of translating China's complex laws Into English has been under* ; taken bere by tbrtt Chinese stu¬ dents at tht National university. They expect to take three i years to tht Job, which will necessitate th*lr deciphering a mast of Chinese hieroglyphics scrawled on parchment long be¬ fore the tramp of Roman legions \ was being beard throughout tbe civilized world. Tht first of the three volume* to be translated dates back to 216 B. O. The second, the Ton« code, was adopted by tbe Chinese in 680 A. D- and the latest the Chin* code, promul¬ gated under the Manchu dynasty, came In 1644. OHIO PENITENTIARY HAS NEW 0. HENRY > Literary Ability Wins Con¬ vict a Pardon. Columbus, Ohio.—Another 6. Hen¬ ry has been discovered behind the drab, gray walls of Ohio state peni¬ tentiary. He is John K. Murphy, a former soldier, whose adeptness with the pen has won him a pardon. Murphy, or \Murph as he tt known by prison guards, was sent up for ten years for a robbery at Ma¬ rion, Ohio. In 1898 the far famed O. Henry* whose real same was W. 8. Porter, began his literary carter behind these same walls. Like O. Henry, lfnrphy developed a craving to write. \When I came here,\ ht said, T thought over the folly of my past Ufa, Realties Folly. \I realized how hopeless it was, and sine* I had an itch to write I decided to satisfy It, trying meantime to do something useful. \ \I bad never written anything, but, I always fell that I could turn out magazine stories. ( •'I took a correspondence course in English and studied every book 1 could get my hands on. \Warden Thomas was good enough to assign me to night duty In tbe library so 1 would have Urns to write. \I do not write easily. It Is real labor for me, but 1 like tt \Naturally when checks for my, stories began to come In I was great¬ ly encouraged.* Murphy bus made $7,000 since bt was Imprisoned. Although be has never been within thousands of miles of a battlefield, he writes war stories so realistically that hundreds of read¬ ers believed him a battle scarred vet¬ eran. Thinks Him Soldier. His publisher, writing to Warden Thomas, expressed the belief that Murphy was a World war veteran, and said: ••Judging from bis stories tht man was a soldier In every sense of tbt word, and he must have gone through some of the worst campaigns In tht A. B. F.\ In a communication to tht state pa¬ role board Murphy admitted that bis past life did not entitle him to any consideration and called himself a \plain unvarnished fool. H Before entering the prison Murphy was in the- army, but was arrested for desertion and forgery and sentenced to McNeil island, off San Francisco. He escaped from there and was re¬ captured and sentenced to Leaven- worth. He was sentenced to the Ohio prison In 1928. Murphy has betn writing under tbt name of Burt Btokes and is balled here as another O. Henry. Some in¬ sist he la better than tbe famed Hen* ry. He has developed an exceptional talent and Is capable of drawing an extremely subtle, humorous and thrill¬ ing plot Upon receipt of Murphy's plea for a parole, the state clemency board forwarded It to Gov. Vic Donabej wltb a favorable recommendation. The governor, convinced that a man with Murphy's honest earning power will \go straight,\ issued a parole. ' in convict life Murphy is known as No. 52410. Potassium Ray Found; Stronger Than Radium's Berlin.—Discovery of rays from potassium, which be says art more penetrating than those from radium, Is announced by tbe physicist, Prof. Werner Rolhoerster of the Federal Techno-Physlcal Institute bert. Tbe fact that potassium Is radio¬ active has been known to physicists. Professor Kolhoerster says, and they know also that It emitted rays known as beta emanations. But the activity be found la something different While making tests of minerals that stretched In the shape of layers atonjX the bottom of a mint near Strassburg, he detectt£very Intense rays, described as gamma. emanations. Experiments caused him to believe that these rays were reaching him after penetrating blue rock salt, which be ssys radium rays do not pass through. \Heat Lows\ Cause Bad Flavor In Milk Richmond, Va.—A source for bad flavors tn milk, that dots not seem¬ ingly tndangtr health, however fo- pleasant to tht palate and bad for the milkman's business, was an* 4 nouDctd st the meeting of tbt Society of American Bacteriologists bere' rs> cently. This source Is bacteria known trader the name of \beat lovers,\ bt<*au*t they germinate only In considerable heat If pasteurizing containers In a dairy have to stand more than thirty minutest waiting for milk, the beat lovers may develop, so fast do thty grow. Wise Ss>arr«w« Mayence, France.—Sparrows htrt before building nests wait for the an¬ nual rose carnival, then ma*te their homes with confetti picked np from the streets. r How Lovely! 8ao Paulo, Bratll.—1'olicemec here wear wliltr spats ovtr high, black boots, also longtalleo costs and Sam Browne belts, with short swords.
