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1879. 52 KNOW INDIANA INDIANA' enforces the education of all able bodied children between the ages of 7 and 16 years. Average daily attendance is reported at 96.3 during the year 1925, a remarkably high figure. SAFETY, AS WELL AS CONVENIENCE Has yours home every modern convenience? The average home owner would say, "Yes, we have, running water," electric lights, modern plumbing, furnace heat, a gas or electric stove, a washing machine, telephone, radio," and so on, through the list of articles which make the American home the most pleasant, comfortable and sanitary in' the world. There is one big thing, however, which the average home owner After providing for all the comforts of his family and himself, he fails to provide safeguards against fire which is an ever-present menace to life and property.
The average home is not built with any thought of fire, protection. There will be openings in the walls and between the floors, which offer a perfect draft for a fire when it is started. Chimneys will be constructed in the cheapest and most flimsy manner and after once built, will never be inspected or cleaned. Furnace and -hot water pipes will be set close to inflammable wooden partitions. Rusbish of all kinds will be allowed to accumulate in basem*nts and attios, and thereby form a veritable fire trap.
Fuel will be piled against a furnace. or hot pipe in such a way that the marvel is that there are not more fires than there are. On top of all this carelessness, very. few persons will ever have a faucet or a hose so arranged that it; can be used for fire protection if occasion: demands. The commonest kind of fire fighting appliances and fire prevention practices are conspicuous by their absence, in the "model" American home which has "every modern convenience!" With winter here, many lives and much property would be saved if simple fire prevention measures would be adopted by Ameri- can home owners.
END OF THE SEMINOLE WAR Great interest is taken in the information that the Seminole war, which cost many lives and expenditure of something like $40,000,000, is about to end. Of course there has been no fighting for about a century, but there never has been a treaty of peace. The present chief, however, has written a letter to the Great Father at Washington; expressing a willingness on the part of himself and his people to swear allegiance to the American flag and seek citizenship rights. Chief Ha Ha-Thron-Wa-HarChee, which seems to the warrior's Seminole name, makes only one stipulation, and that is that the Seminoles must never be forced to Florida by the federal government. This condition will no doubt be acceded to by President.
Coolidge. These Seminoles who cling to their old home constitute only a remnant of the tribe that conducted such a serious war, against our government. Most of the Seminoles were transported into the territory that now forms the state of Oklahoma. A few hundred fled to the Everglades, where they led a wandering life. Some of their descendants today have so far conformed to the ways of civilization as to serve as caddies on golf links and guides to visitors.
Accroding to the law recently passed by congress, Indians who give up their tribal, existence are eligible to full rights of, citizenship. Many voted in last month's elections. The Indian" problem was a serious one for many years, but fortunately it is no longer one of our national troubles. PUTTING HOOSIER PEP IN CANDY (Lafayette Journal and Courier) It may jazz your holiday season a bit to reflect that Indiana this year produced almost twice as much peppermint as last year, showing 518,000 pounds of peppermint oil derived from the mint 89,800 acres: The oil sells for $13 to $26 a pound, and it is decidedly profitable to put "pep" in the candy. Indiana is far ahead of other peppermint-producing states and the Hoosier "pep" has a tang and strength all its" own.
It is said that the peppermint produced. in Hoosierdom this year would flavor a range of six candy mountaing. each as lofty as And a lot of us recall the time when the peppermint lozenge was just about the only thing in the candy line, and when the tail pocket of father's cutaway coat at long intervals might conceal in; the form of a very small paper sack containing a very few peppermint drops. It is a long cry from the "red hots" and peppermints of the eighties to. the of to and gluttonously, consumed by the stimulant-seeking folk of this Volstead era.
TODAY'S YARNS The Farmer Gets Even city couple on a drive through the country in the autumn pulled up beside. a small orchard and helped themselves to apples in. large quantities. Their consciences bothering them somewhat, however, they stopped in front of the farmhouse which adjoined the orchard and called to the farmer who was on the front porch. "We helped ourselves to your said the woman.
"Just thought we'd tell you." A "Oh, that's all right," said the farmer. helped myself: to your tools when you were in the orchard." -000 A Good Fit Gunderson, of. South Dakota, was condemning the profiteer. Italians," he said, "have a proverb that: fits the profiteer like glove. This proverb' runs: man capable of growing rich" in 8 year should be hanged twelve months TODAY'S POEM THE ROSE OF George Edward Woodberry.
When- Love, our great Immortal, Put on mortality, And down from Eden portal Brought this sweet life to be At the sublime He laughed with veiled eyes, For he bore within his bosom The seed of Paradise, He hid it in his bosom, And there such warmth it It brake in bud and "And the rose fell on the ground; the green light" on the prairie, As the red light on the sea, Through fragrant belts of summer, Came this sweet life to be. And the grave archangel seeing, Spread 'his mighty wings for flight, But the glow hung round him fleeing Like the rose of an Arctic night; And sadly moving heavenwards Venus and by Mars, He heard the joyful planets Hail Earth, the Rose of Star THE ROMANCE OF SCIENCE in the one spot in that rather wide exanse where the sun's radibest be measured. The National Geographic said it would supply the ways and means. The first thing to. do was to And the right spot for the new observatory.
To thaat end, Charles G. Abbot made a six months' investigation, in the course. of which he traveled: 30,000 miles. His Journeying took him to mountains. in the Sahara desert in.
Algieres, to the sandy wastes reaching back from the Nile in -Egypt, to the Sinai peninsula where Moses received the commandmenta from God, to the 'wilds of Beluchistan, and finally to the land of the, Hottentots In South Africa. The ideal spot for measuring solar. radiation, according to those who know, would be at the top of the taerh's atmosphere. That's quite a bit higher than anything mundane except possibly the shells of Germany's big Bertha, has ever and the best Dr: Abbott could hope to do was to find a place where conditions approximated as nearly as possible those at the top of the earth's atmosphere. He required' a place where the air would be pure, dry, and.
the last essential making altitude necessary, and the place had to be easily accessible. 'He climbed Djebel Mekter, a peak 7000 feet high in French Algeria, but was not greatly Impressed. -InEgypt he found that the desert, for all its cloudlessness, lacked easily accessible peaks. He found a mountain on the border of the Soudan where no rain ever falls, but to reach it necessitated traveling 200 miles over the sands from the nearest water. Mount Sinai he found, also, to have drawbacks, and it was crosssed off the list.
In British Baluchistan, after an extended survey, he chose Khojak Peak, 70-miles northwest -of Quetta and only 10 miles from the Afghan border, as the most advantageous, I but here again there were serious disadvantages. Reserving his deciaton he set out for Southwest Africa, and there in the country given over to the Hottentots for a reservation he found what he wanted. -It is the summit of Mount ros, the only peak- of any consequence within a circle of at least 50 miles diameter. It 18 seven miles from the nearest Hottentot vilage, 20 miles from the railroad, 60 miles from the nearest town of any consequence, 200 miles from the capital of Southwest Africa, and more than three miles from water, except when rain fails, as it does fitfully during two months of the year. The op.of the mountain is like cup with a bottom of a doameter of half a mile and a rim 1,000 feet in -height, is feet -above sea level and 2,000 feet above the plateau.
One approaches it by automobile to the plateu, and then on foot "through thh three- ascent of the bed. of a stream and a more precipitous climb to a break In the rim of the cup. Dr. Abbott ocated in this break or cut a suitable site for the cbservatory, where a tunnel 35 feet deep would provide for the installation of the bolometer, an electrical -thermometer senaltive to a change in temperature of a millionts c1 a degree. He also found a natural cave which he decided was suitable for the living quarters of the observers who to be placed In charge of the station.
It would require only a slight enlargement and the bullding of a front wall and partitions to make it the most satisfactory home possible in place. It would be warm- in -winter and with -a front in summer it would be the only cool place on the mountain except the observatory. True, the observers could get their water and other supplies only by a most laborious transport system, culminating in a derricking op- By Frederic J. eastern half of the world, and, WASHINGTON, D. Dec.
3. To the average individual science is, dry an musty, prosaic and uninteresting, its terminology is unintelligible, and methods and results are incomprehensible. But. science has romance its high adventures fraught with- peril, hardships, disappointments, and the "Joy of accomplishing ends well: worth all they cost. Perhaps no better illustration of this is to be- found than in the of the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution's new astrophysical observatory on an isolated mountain summit in South Africa, Soon daily cabled reports will be coming Into Washington from 'that lonely outpost of science, and thereafter something may be added to the sum total of human knowledge and something accomplished for the welfare of all human kind.
Nothing is 80 romantic as seeking for buried treasure. This is that kind of an enterprise, although the buried treasure is neither gold nor precious. The Jewels. object of this enterprise is to effect more accurate measurement of the sun's radiation and the variationg thereof. That sounds about as.
uninteresting as anything that cientists could undertake. What's the Idea, anyhow? The sun radaaites, and the earth gets light and heat, and in any given spot the temperature 1g more than likely to be too hot or too cold, and nobody can turn the gun on or off, so what's to be -done about it? It is true that nobody has devised a thermostat by which the heat from the sun can be regulated. However, once science has found the buried treasure it la seeking accurate information about the sun's radiation an- essential etep will have been made toward that greaet objective, long range weather forecasting. And when the world can know weeks and months ahead wha't the weather will be on a given date or in a given season, think of what that will mean to farmers, to builders, to business men, to aviators to those who gall the seas, and, in fact, to those engaged in almost every line of human, endeavor. That will be knowledge that can be transmuted.
into gold and thaat will make life richer, easter, and happler. There's romance in that, isn't there. Just as much as the imagination can conjure up. This enterprise was made possible by the fuancial backing of the National Geographic Society which has provided $50,000 to through. The Smithsonian Institution has hadfor years two astrophysical ob-1 servatories on Mount Whitney in California and one on.
Mount Montezuma in Chill. It was found highly desirable to -have a third, In -the AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN A0 TO "I know I'm a romantic old goose, but sometimes I set in the twilight an' wonder how it feels to have a man kiss your Copyright, 1026, Publishers Syndicate) OUT OUR WAY J.R.w HEROES ARE MADE NOT BORN. I eration up a 60-foot precipice, they would be seven miles from their nearest neighbors, and those neighbors would be Hottentots. However, it was decided that there would be compensations for. the hardships, isolation, and loneliness.
They would have. a phonograph, and, of course, a radio that would enable them to Ilsten in on Cape Taxman Johannesburg. They would have books and games for leisure hours, and there would be tunting, with a wide variety of mame, if they were inclined to that kind of sport. Greatest compensation of all, however would be their work, absorb-! Ing in time and energy and promis-1 1ng results for which any man might be proud -to ing the buried treasure! (To be continued) ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q.
Do officers of the law often succeed in preventing lynchings M. S. G. A. Last year 16 lynchings took place in this country.
There were 39 occasions when officers prevented lynchings. What makes wood crack? L. F. A. It is the moisture in the wood that expands and causes cracking.
Who invented -the -gelatine capsule? V. R. D. A. It wag invented by a French druggist in 1833, whose name was A.
Q. What is the -size of -the -Gettysburg Battle Field? D. L. D. A.
Gettysburg Battle Field occupies 25 square miles. There are in it 16,000 acres. Q. How many islands are there Tin the Philippine group? J. A.
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A. There are 7083 islands, of which only 2,441 are named. Total area of the archipelago is 115,026 square miles. The Philippines are mountain. ranges rising out of the sea, and the islands are connected with each other and with the East Indies by submerged mountains.
Part of the land is volcanic in origin and there are a dozen active volcanoes. The general trend of the mountain range is from north to south, but there are innumerable rugged spurs which cut the larger islands into many isolated, sections. Coral reefs fringe shores, of which there are altogether more. than twice as many miles a's on all the coasts of the United States. In the largest islands there are a few rivers, but they have rapid descent and except near the sea, are navigable only by rafts.
Q. Where was cabbage first grown? F. L. A. Cabbage is a native of the rocky shore of Great Britain and other parts of Europe and in its wild state is generally from one to two feet high.
It has been cultivated in Europe from time immemorial. The cabbage was grown in the United States in the early days of colonization. Q. Is the National Cathedral higher than the Washington Monument? M. B.
A. The height of the central tower of the cathedral is 262 feet. The ground upon which the cathedral stands is 400 feet above the Potomac river. The top' of the tower is therefore farther above the river than the monument is. Q.
Are there any cannibals in the world today V. L. S. A. Cannibalism still exists in some tropical countries, but is limited to the area comprising the country 10 degrees north and south lof the equator.
It is found among isolated South American tribes, in West Equatorial and Central Africa, the Malay Archipelago, certain South Sea islandsfi mainly in Melanesta, and in parts of Australia. Head-hunting tribes are found in Madagascar. Q. What is eavesdrip? B. R.
This was an ancient custom or law by which "a proprietor was not permitted to build to the edge of his estate leaving a space so as not to throw the eavesdrop on the land of his neighbor. Q. Who named Christian Saience? H. LA. It was named by Mary Baker Eddy, its founder.
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I enclose 'herewith SIX CENTS in stamps coin for a copy of 'WHO'S WHO THE MOVTES." Name Street City State MENTAL HYGIENE STUDY PLANNED INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. hygiene in all ramifications -will be the subject of discussion for the eleventh annual meeting of the Indiana Society of Mental Hygiene when it meets the Claypool hotel here December 13. Publicity in mental health and experiment in schools will be the subfor the morning session, which. will be presided over by Miss Nora D. Short of Salem.
The principal address of the conference whill be made by Dr. H. 'H. Goodard, professor of abnormal and cynical psychology at Ohio State university. Dr.
Charles P. Emerson dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine will preside at the meeting in the afternoon, Miss Flora Drake of Indianapolis, will preside at the evening meeting, at which addresses will- be made by Dr. Goddard and by Phillip J. Trentzch of Culver- Military Acaderby. HUNTERS NUMEROUS SHELBYVILLE, Dec.
A host of hunters, bound for the fields of Shelby, county, or for the hills and underbrush of Brown and South Decatur counties have besieged the license office here the past week. Quail are the principal game of the nimrods, and a large number of women have taken out licenses this year to hunt the birds..
