anaheim-gazette 1931-08-13

THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE HENRY KUCHEL, Editor and Publisher ESTABLISHED 1870 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR $2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 Entered at the Anaheim, California Postoffice as second-class matter. A GOOD CODE FOR ANYBODY Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the revolution against British rule in India, told newspaper men the other day the rules of conduct which have governed his own life. He would not presume to law down rules for anybody else, he said, but he had a code which he had consistently followed. These are the rules of life, as Gandhi observes them! Love. Truth. Chastity. Fearlessness. Service to others. Control of appetites. Belief in the equality of all mankind. Abstention from alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Belief that all great religions are of equal worth. Taking nothing that is not paid for by one's own work. Valuing possessions not for themselves but for their usefulness. It is not easy to live in a world which professes, in the main, such a code, and to obey it literally. For while these rules of conduct as laid down by Gandhi differ in no important respect from those laid down by Jesus Christ and before Him by Buddha and other great religious teachers, very few human beings have had the hardihood to even attempt to live up to them. Gandhi himself, even his enemies, comes about as close to it as any man in modern times. Belief that all great religions are of equal worth. Taking nothing that is not paid for by one's own work. Valuing possessions not for themselves but for their usefulness. It is not easy to live in a world which professes, in the main, such a code, and to obey it literally. For while these rules of conduct as laid down by Gandhi differ in no important respect from those laid down by Jesus Christ and before Him by Buddha and other great religious teachers, very few human beings have had the hardihood to even attempt to live up to them. Gandhi himself, even his enemies, comes about as close to it as any man in modern times. It seems to us that one of the causes of the trouble in which the world finds itself today is that most people have forgotten these ancient rules of life, which have always been sound and still are. We have been carried away, all of us, both in America and elsewhere, by the idea that there is some magic in material possessions which will maks us happy in spite of ourselves. Nothing was ever farther from truth. BACK UP THE PRESIDENT President Hoover has announced a policy of rigid economy in federal government expenditures. He has incurred the anger of many minor officials by ordering them to spend no money not necessary to the public welfare, to incur no further obligations to be paid for in the future, and to cut their estimates of their departmental needs for next year down to the bone. In the face of a deficit of nearly a billion dollars this year, it would be absurd to suggest that the president is not more than justified in his stand. Much of the reduction in expense will have to be in the program for naval expansion; a large part of it will have to come out of the Army appropriation. In time of peace there seems to be no better place to cut off expenditures. We are not going to suffer if we don't have quite so many cruisers and battleships. Nobody much is going to worry over the abandonment of a few obsolete army posts. The country won't go to ruin if a good many of the more ornamental bureaus and activities of Uncle Sam are suspended until we can get back to an even keel and live within our national income. One thing is certain: there is nothing which the people of the United States would resent more keenly in the present situation than an increase in federal taxation. That goes too for state and local taxes. Political leaders who want to remain in office or to gain office can do nothing more popular now than to follow the president's example and declare themselves for economy in state, county and town expenditures. There is no part of the United States in which the burden of taxation is not already too heavy. Too much of it is carried on the shoulders of real estate; not enough on the shoulders of those who get the benefits of taxation without paying their proportionate share. It seems to us that public funds should not be spent, for the time being at least, for anything which does not directly benefit all of the people. What benefits all of the people is public works which will give employment to the largest number of men and put them back in a position to become customers of the nation's industries and merchants. It also seems to us that ways should be found to apportion taxation in proportion not only to people's ability to pay, but also to the benefits derived. We think that economy is just as sound Democratic doctrine... It seems to us that public funds should not be spent, for the time being at least, for anything which does not directly benefit all of the people. What benefits all of the people is public works which will give employment to the largest number of men and put them back in a position to become customers of the nation's industries and merchants. It also seems to us that ways should be found to apportion taxation in proportion not only to people's ability to pay, but also to the benefits derived. We think that economy is just as sound Democratic doctrine as it is Republican doctrine. We cannot see any partisan politics in this move of Mr. Hoover's. It is just good business sense applied to national affairs. IMPROVEMENTS YET TO COME There are in two fields great possibilities for new production—the cooling of buildings and the elimination of smoke. In these two fields great contributions can be made to human health and comfort. It is probable that within the next 25 years the cooling of houses will become as general as the heating of houses is today. Equipment no more expensive than furnace equipment will be developed whereby buildings of all sorts may be kept at an even temperature all year round. Some progress has been made in this field, but there is great further opportunity for development. Probably within 25 years the pouring of smoke over communities will be considered intolerable. Much has been accomplished in reducing this evil, which has been a necessary evil; in these days smoke pouring out of an industrial chimney looks good. But methods of smoke elimination with actual economy in the consumption of fuel are being developed. Boilers which produce little smoke are being built. A Baltimore inventor has developed a completely smokeless furnace which injects hydrogen into an enclosed compartment which prevents the inflow of air and consequent imperfect consumption of fuel oil. Clouds of smoke pouring over industrial towns disfigure homes and furnishings and make the development of attractive surroundings difficult. They clog up the human system and are enemies to good health. This is no time to be making conditions difficult for industries. But inventive genius is making it profitable to eliminate smoke, which is only waste of fuel. Fixed temperatures in houses, offices, stores and factories would add to human efficiency as well as human comfort and physical well being. Installations of these two improvements in living conditions would keep busy two great national industries for years. ANAHEIM GAZETTE Youngest "Real" D.A.R. Mrs. Angelina Loring Avery, 92, of Willimantic, Conn., is the youngest of the six surviving daughters of men who fought in the War of '76. Her birth date is not known. Eye on Paris Undismayed by Ruth Nichols' accident, Laura Ingalls continued her plans to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone. Japans' Royal Baby The above is the first photograph of the Princess Yorinomiya Atakuo. She was snapped on the 100th day of her life at the traditional ceremony of first using chop-sticks. Bruce Barton Looks at Ways of Life LOOK AT THE AVERAGE One of my friends, who now occupies a high position, started life as a salesman for the National Cash Register company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap, and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchants all over the country. So he called at Fields and made his talk, but received no encouragement. The next year he called again... and the next... and the next. The tenth year he came away with an order for $150,000. In telling me about it, he remarked: "I said to myself, that's $15,000 worth healthful, since the intensity of light and ultra-violet radiation is constant and since artificial ventilation, with cool washed air, is not subject to meteorological vagaries. Outstanding examples of this type of structure are a saw factory in Fitchburg and a department store in Washington. Artificial light is supplied by a combination of mercury vapor tubes and tungsten filament lamps, which give off a subjectively white light. Some of the tubes are made of a special type of glass not impervious to ultra-violet radiation. Temperature is thermostatically controlled and air is washed, purified and kept at the right temperature all the year round. The conclusion is said to be rapidly growing that windows are no longer essential." Forest planting in the United States up to 1971 aggregated 1,798,000 acres. U.S. highway engineers in Costa Rica seeking a new route for the proposed better-American highway, had to shoot jaguars near their camps. They Short Essays On Popular Topics MAIL ORDER TRADE By DR. JULIUS KLEIN (Assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce) The element of personal contact is one of the factors in the situation with respect to the mail-order trade. What IS the mail-order situation, taking it by and large? It is easiest to express it by index figures. Let us take the 1923-25 average as a basis, or 100. For 1919 the index figure for mail-order sales in the country as a whole was 93; for 1930 it was 172, or a little less than double what it had been eleven years before. It seems reasonable to assume that the business of small-town stores has been injured to some extent by mail-order expansion, though I find no fig- He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap, and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchants all over the country. So he called at Fields and made his talk, but received no encouragement. The next year he called again . . . and the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he came away with an order for $150,000. In telling me about it, he remarked: "I said to myself, that's $15,000 worth of business for each of the ten years. Not a bad average at all." In 1929 when stock prices were crashing and even the richest men were feeling poor, a New York banker met a capitalist whose fortune, on paper, had shrunk many million dollars. He was in a blue funk. The banker said: "You ought to have learned better than this. Don't you remember back in 1920 how worried you were, and how you sent for me to reassure you? Even at present prices you must be worth ten times what you were then. If so, your average is mighty good. What are you kicking about?" A young man and young woman were married. After the ceremony the bride's father, a veteran business man who had fought hard for his fortune, took them into his study. "I want to say just one thing to you," he remarked. "You must not expect that all your years will be good. You'll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead, but at the end of every year you'll own a little more furniture and have a few more dollars in the bank. Then there will come a year some time when you'll have a stroke of luck and make a lot of progress. You must expect to average the good with the bad." It seems to me that much of the worry and freeting in life grow out of the fact that people do not take a long enough look. Every human life at some point, has seen handicapped and doomed to disappointment. At forty, Henry Ford had never saved a cent. At forty-five, Lincoln was a disappointed politician. For twenty-five years, Charles Darwin worked day after day without the slightest recognition. Then, for each of them, there came a few great years that amply made up for all the rest. The law of compensation works for those who keep their industry and their faith. Those who quit under discouragement are selling out at the bottom. For a majority of courageous lives, taking all the years together, the average is good. This country makes about 370,000,000 pounds of Cheddar cheese a year, using as much milk as would fill a vat a mile long, 500 feet wide, and 22 feet deep. WINDOWLESS BUILDINGS Windowless buildings are receiving increased attention from engineers and company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap, and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchants all over the country. So he called at Fields and made his talk, but received no encouragement. The next year he called again . . . and the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he cane away with an order for $150,000. In telling me about it, he remarked: "I said to myself, that's $15,000 worth of business for each of the ten years. Not a bad average at all." In 1929 when stock prices were crashing and even the richest men were feeling poor, a New York banker met a capitalist whose fortune, on paper, had shrunk many million dollars. He was in a blue funk. The banker said: "You ought to have learned better than this. Don't you remember back in 1920 how worried you were, and how you sent for me to reassure you? Even at present prices you must be worth ten times what you were then. If so, your average is mighty good. What are you kicking about?" A young man and young woman were married. After the ceremony the bride's father, a veteran business man who had fought hard for his fortune, took them into his study. "I want to say just one thing to you," he remarked. "You must not expect that all your years will be good. You'll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead, but at the end of every year you'll own a little more furniture and have a few more dollars in the bank. Then there will come a year some time when you'll have a stroke of luck and make a lot of progress. You must expect to average the good with the bad." It seems to me that much of the worry and freeting in life grow out of the fact that people do not take a long enough look. Every human life at some point, has seen handicapped and doomed to disappointment. At forty, Henry Ford had never saved a cent. At forty-five, Lincoln was a disappointed politician. For twenty-five years, Charles Darwin worked day after day without the slightest recognition. Then, for each of them, there came a few great years that amply made up for all the rest. The law of compensation works for those who keep their industry and their faith. Those who quit under discouragement are selling out at the bottom. For a majority of courageous lives, taking all the years together, the average is good. This country makes about 370,000,000 pounds of Cheddar cheese a year, using as much milk as would fill a vat a mile long, 500 feet wide, and 22 feet deep. WINDOWLESS BUILDINGS Windowless buildings are receiving increased attention from engineers and company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap, and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchants all over the country. So he called at Fields and made his talk, but received no encouragement. The next year he called again . . . and the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he cane away with an order for $150,000. In telling me about it, he remarked: "I said to myself, that's $15,000 worth of business for each of the ten years. Not a bad average at all." In 1929 when stock prices were crashing and even the richest men were feeling poor, a New York banker met a capitalist whose fortune, on paper, had shrunk many million dollars. He was in a blue funk. The banker said: "You ought to have learned better than this. Don't you remember back in 1920 how worried you were, and how you sent for我 to reassure you? Even at present prices you must be worth ten times what you were then. If so, your average is mighty good. What are you kicking about?" A young man and young woman were married. After the ceremony the bride's father, a veteran business man who had fought hard for his fortune, took them into his study. "I want to say just one thing to you," he remarked. "You must not expect that all your years will be good. You'll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead, but at the end of every year you'll own a little more furniture and have a few more dollars in the bank. Then there will come a year some time when you'll have a stroke of luck and make a lot of progress. You must expect to average the good with the bad." It seems to me that much of the worry and freeting in life grow out of the fact that people do not take a long enough look. Every human life at some point, has seen handicapped and doomed to disappointment. At forty, Henry Ford had never saved a cent. At forty-five, Lincoln was a disappointed politician. For twenty-five years, Charles Darwin worked day after day without the slightest recognition. Then, for each of them, there came a few great years that amply made up for all the rest. The law of compensation works for those who keep their industry and their faith. Those who quit under discouragement are selling out at the bottom. For a majority of courageous lives, taking all the years together, the average is good. This country makes about 370,000,000 pounds of Cheddar cheese a year, using as much milk as would fill a vat a mile long, 500 feet wide, and 22 feet deep. WINDOWLESS BUILDINGS Windowless buildings are receiving increased attention from engineers and company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap, and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchants all over the country. So he called at Fields and made his talk, but received no encouragement. The next year he called again . . . and the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he cane away with an order for $150,000. In telling me about it, he remarked: "I said to myself, that's $15,000 worth of business for each of the ten years. Not a bad average at all." In 1929 when stock prices were crashing and even the richest men were feeling poor, a New York banker met a capitalist whose fortune, on paper, had shrunk many million dollars. He was in a blue funk. The banker said: "You ought to have learned better than this. Don't you remember back in 1920 how worried you were, and how you sent for我 to reassure you? Even at present prices you must be worth ten times what you were then. If so, your average is mighty good. What are you kicking about?" A young man and young woman were married. After the ceremony the bride's father, a veteran business man who had fought hard for his fortune, took them into his study. "I want to say just one thing to you," he remarked. "You must not expect that all your years will be good. You'll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead, but at the end of every year you'll own a little more furniture and have a few more dollars in the bank. Then there will come a year some time when you'll have a stroke of luck and make a lot of progress. You must expect to average the good with the bad." It seems to me that much of the worry and freeting in life grow out of the fact that people do not take a long enough look. Every human life at some point, has seen handicapped and doomed to disappointment. At forty, Henry Ford had never saved a cent. At forty-five, Lincoln was a disappointed politician. For twenty-five years, Charles Darwin worked day after day without the slightest recognition. Then, for each of them, there came a few great years that amply made up for all the rest. The law of compensation works for those who keep their industry and their faith. Those who quit under discouragement are selling out at the bottom. For a majority of courageous lives, taking all the years together, the average is good. This country makes about 370,000,000 pounds of Cheddar cheese a year, using as much milk as would fill a vat a mile long, 500 feet wide，and 22 feet deep. WINDOWLESS BUILDINGS Windowless buildings are receiving increased attention from engineers and company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap，and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchants all over the country. So he called at Fields and made his talk，but received no encouragement. The next year he called again . . . and the next . . . and the next. The tenth year he cane away with an order for $150，000. In telling me about it，he remarked: "I want to say just one thing to you," he remarked. "You must not expect that all your years will be good. You'll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead，but at the end of every year you'll own a little more furniture and have a few more dollars in the bank. Then there will come a year some time when you'll have a stroke of luck and make a lot of progress. You must expect to average the good with the bad." It seems to me that much of the worry and freeting in life grow out of the fact that people do not take a long enough look. Every human life at some point，has seen handicapped and doomed to disappointment. At forty， Henry Ford had never saved a cent．At forty-five， Lincoln was a disappointed politician．For twenty-five years，Charles Darwin worked day after day without the slightest recognition．Then，for each of them，there came a few great years that amply made up for all the rest． The law of compensation works for those who keep their industry和 their faith．Those who quit under discouragement are selling out at the bottom．For a majority of courageous lives，taking all the years together，the average is good. This country makes about 370，000，000 pounds of Cheddar cheese a year，using as much milk as would fill a vat a mile long，500 feet wide，and 22 feet deep. WINDOWLESS BUILDINGS Windowless buildings are receiving increased attention from engineers and company. He thought that if he could sell cash registers to Marshall Field it would be a big feather in his cap，and the example of this leading store would have influence with smaller merchantsof theirs． In telling me about it，he remarked: "I want to say just one thing to you," he remarked. "You must not expect that all your years will be good．You'll go along for a while without seeming to get ahead，but at the end of every year you'll own a little more furniture和 women who keep the strenuous machine of finance running—will hereafter be always robust and healthy． As early as 1999，the stock exchange established a small medical department，但 its service was limited to immediate employees of the exchange and made no provision for the health of workers of member firms．Today，with the installation of new clinic，there is an organization of doctors和 nurses under the command of wairy，iron-gray man with the snap and precision of an army general．He is Dr.Francis Glazebrook和 his title is "director of the New York Stock Exchange medical department." For nearly three years he and his associates have been silent at work building sound bodies for what the American Magazine calls "one of the most trying businesses on earth." Three years ago Dr.Glazebrook was called from his successful suburban practice in Morristown,N.J.,and asked to prescribe for the health of Wall St.Here will be periodic physical examinations，不仅对 employees of the exchange itself，但 for executives and employees of its thirteen hundred member firms as well．There will be be most modern instruments and methods for detecting and remedying physical defects and for guarding against the spread of disease. Texas and Oklahoma have new laws that permit farmers to rent county road machinery to construct terraces on their farms． In 1920 there were only 51 pumps in one of the factors in the situation with respect to small-town stores．It looks as if the mail-order houses geta much larger business fromthe farmers，在 proportiontothe numberofpeople，则than theydo fromthe actualresponsibilityof personal friendshipforthestorekeeper，combineto holdmuchtradeforthegoodlocalmerchantasagainstthedistant establishmentsellingmerchandisebymail． And so，although there are unfavorable factors against small-town business，thereare，ontheotherhandstrong favorable elementswhicharemoremodern,moreinthespiritofthe"newage"thanarealseventhperiodofthe"newage"experience—thatthereisacome-backinthesmalltown；therearemanygoodreasonsforitbut,themostoutstandingismoreefficientstorekeepers.” Small-town industry and businessinthiscountryisjustifiedinentertaintingalovelyhopefulnessandsturdycourage． OIL BURNER IN RANGE Experimentingwiththeideaofusingoil insteadofcoalforfuelintherangesontheSouthernPacificdiningcars,ahigh-speedrotaryatomizingoilburnerwas recentlyinstalledona dinneroperatingoutofWestOaklandonthe"SanJoainquin."Theburnerisdriverbeyondelecricmotor,currentforwhichissuppliedfromthecarpowerandlightingsystem.IburnsDieseloilthatisatomizedinahigh-speedcuprotating5000turnsperminute,andproducinganoilmisthatlightsinstantlyandburnswithaclearflame． Theinstallationisfirstofitskindevermadeinadiningcar,andconsequentlytheexperimentisbeingcloselywatched.Insteadofthechefhavingtostarta coalfireintherange.allhehastodowiththeoilburneristothrowthe Electricswitch,turnontheoil This country makes about 370,000,000 pounds of Cheddar cheese a year, using as much milk as would fill a vat a mile long, 500 feet wide, and 22 feet deep. WINDOWLESS BUILDINGS Windowless buildings are receiving increased attention from engineers and architects. Not only are they said to be more economical, but also more tions, not only for employees of the ex-change itself, but for executives and employees of its thirteen hundred member firms as well. There will be the most modern instruments and methods for detecting and remedying physical defects and for guarding against the spread of disease. Texas and Oklahoma have new laws that permit farmers to rent county road machinery to construct terraces on their farms. In 1920 there were only 51 pumps in Nebraska used for pumping irrigation water. In 1930 there were more than six hundred. BUDDY CAN'T CATCH ME! BUDDY CAN'T CATCH ME! YA-A-A-A-A SIC 'ER, MAC GR-R-R-R IN MY OPINION, CHASIN' CATS IS A DOG'S JOB! OBSERVATIONS NIPPING IT IN THE BUD Some of the stars in order to hold the fort have taken up singing. That will be all right, so long as they don't go writing poetry. USUALLY IT CAUSES INDIGESTION Of course lots of folks are in a hurry now-a-days, and want to get there right away, but it's different if you have signed a 90-day note. HE'S IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW There awhile ago a man tried to make a living by making lead dollars. That led to his arrest and now he is leading a life in Leavenworth. THE CUPBOARD WAS BARE AND SO WERE THE KNEES They say that when the gals discarded their stockings some of the mill hands went into a huddle to try and find a way to patch the holes in their pay envelopes. KEEP COOL Some folks come away out West to take hot sun baths for their health, and yet again there are a lot of fellers who get into a hot place once in a while—but they keep their shirts on. BUT, MISTER, WHERE DO YOU GET THE STUFF? A high-up gent was invited to a swell banquet in a well-known eastern city. He said he would not attend if it was wet. The other one said many of the guests would not come if it was dry. YOU MEAN, BILL, BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER, EH, WHAT? A columner says there are an "awful" lot of people who would like to see a certain public man elected president. Let's get this straight, mister; you mean detestable, or something, eh? WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY, THE MICE WILL PLAY When the chief executive returned from his recent vacation he found on his desk 200 million bushels of wheat, a 750 million deficit, no one to run the 1932 political merry-go-round, and spring fever was in the air. YOU MEAN, BILL, BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER, EH, WHAT? A columner says there are an "awful" lot of people who would like to see a certain public man elected president. Let's get this straight, mister; you mean detestable, or something, eh? WHEN THE CATS AWAY, THE MICE WILL PLAY When the chief executive returned from his recent vacation he found on his desk 200 million bushels of wheat, a 750 million deficit, no one to run the 1932 political merry-go-round, and spring fever was in the air. AND YOU BET THEY WERE NOT BOW-LEGGED A newspaper columner says that a charming and vivacious young landy in the amusement sector was the first gal to appear in public without her hosiery and short skirts; and believe it or not, she started something. Zoom! IF YOU ARE COMING BACK, WHY GO AWAY? Put aside your knitting and listen to this: A man was convicted in a lower court for possession of liquor. He posted bond and appealed. He lost the appeal. His attorney later found out that the case had not been filed in the proper township. It appears that point of law had not been pleaded on appeal. Then the attorney for defendant went over with a writ of habeas corpus to get his client out of jail, prepared to show that the case got into the wrong court. (Are you still listening?) O. K. But the defendant had not been sent to prison by the authorities. He was still on the out. The plot thickens. Now, if the man was not in jail there was no use for the habeas corpus; and why should they put him in jail if his lawyer would free him with the writ? FAILED TO JELL It appears that a man in the amusement circles who stoutly held out for silent "pitchers" has reason to believe that the sound at the box office, likened to a dull, sickening thud, cannot be construed by the wildest stretch of the imagination as being music to the ears. SURELY, THIS IS THE MECHANICAL AGE A high court has ruled that a man's wooden leg is personal property, is an integral part of the body and in case of an injury to the limb in an accident, the owner is entitled to damages. The plot thickens. For instance, if the cook lost his false teeth in the soup, could the boarder who found them, be charged with petit theft for having them in his possession? THIS IS THE GIMME AGE And now, folks, a man suggests that this country pack up all the surplus wheat and give it to the starving Chinese. He believes, if the Chinamen get to using wheat, instead of rice, why you know, that might open up a good market for wheat. And while they are at it, perhaps it would be a good idea to serve some of the wheat and give it to the starving Americans, and, oh yes—give some to the starving Armenians. DANCES AROUND 'EM LIKE A COOPER AROUND HIS BARRELL A clever heavyweight exponent of the art of self defense there awhile back was almost at the top of the heap, then fell DANCES AROUND 'EM LIKE A COOPER AROUND HIS BARRELL A clever heavyweight exponent of the art of self defense there awhile back was almost at the top of the heap, then fell back, and now he has again picked up his stride, and can make monkeys out of the other fellers by the way he throws his handy left into their faces, causing them to see a flock of gloves, while in reality there is only one, and by doing so, the fans in the sport sector believe he is the guy who will wear the fistic crown—maybe. NEW STAR IN THE FIRMAMENT, EH? A palpitating and breathless public has been on the tiptoe of expectancy ever since the rumor floated in from the wide open spaces that the debonair executive of an eastern city might go in for the movies. The plebians are tickled to a frazzle upon the possibility of bringing the affable official to their very doors. Whether the new find would be featured in the two-reelers or made the hero in a love drama is of no importance—so long as he isn't late. It is rumored that the directors are sorely pressed for material, and by this latest acquisition to the ranks of the entertainers perhaps they can weave a story around a plot concerning the identity of the guy who struck Billy Patterson, or maybe it could be used to find out whether or not it is safe to twist the tiger's tail. NOW YOU SEE IT. NOW YOU DON'T A pair of slickers worked the old-time indoor game known as short change upon a woman who runs a pedigreed hot dog stand. They each asked for a package of coffin nails and one laid a $20 bill on the bar while the other laid down a $10 sample of your Uncle's stationery. The lady gave the first guy change for the 20-spot and put the bill in the ice chest. But she could not break the ten. Said the hombre with the twenty dollars in change: "I can change it." O. K., say the lady. The gent gave the lady the money out of the sum she had just given him. Before going into this last huddle the slicker asked for the 20-spot he had given during the slim flam proceedings, and believe it or not, the lady gave it back to him. With the ten and twenty in his possession, both hombres took the air, leaving the lady holding the sack with only the $10 change. (If you can't figure this out, ask for a map and a bill of particulars.)