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. . She kid who kitks about his Christâ€" lowing this, one child in the first grade was able to name correctly 99 out of 144 â€"pictures, a thirdâ€"grade child named 128, and a sixthâ€"grade pupil numed correctly the entire colâ€" lection. A public exhibition and lecâ€" ture, bheld theâ€" last evening of the T litke uf tap of ths prcturms for e of two of the pictures for In connection with an art exhibit comsisting of 150 reproductions in color and sepia of famous paintings, pupils of all grades in public schools it Choteau, Mont., studied for a week the dife and works of the artists repâ€" resented. in a mebory contest folâ€" but as the man who broke up the corâ€" rupt whiskey ring in Grant‘s adminâ€" istration. Mr. Mellon, in handling the ppblic debt, has done no better tham this obagure predecessor, if as but not brilliant. Consider what was | dl.elfl!rfliam-trymmnl and shaken, from the Civil war. The | mm‘-hdbeenp‘yiuintemy from 5 per cent up to a fraction more | than 7 per cent. Butoutheheds; of the ‘money panic‘ which 'rmitl disaster in 1873, a Secretary of the Treasury negotiated demand loans at 3 per cent, and refunded party of the debt at 4. The average in reâ€" funding was 1 per cent below the rate of the ofiginal loans. Who, then, was secretary in I1874, when these things were done? He was a Kenâ€" tuckian named Benjamin Helm Brisâ€" tow; and one has heard of him, if at { "The surpassing greatness of Mr.! Mellon remains to be established. His | chief claim to fame is the refunding | of the public debt, find in his earlier | administration this was effected on a makeshift basis, which left the obliâ€" | gations in comparatively short fom.! Even in the summer of 1927 the secâ€" | retary‘s‘ judgment of the market was | not vindicated, and the calling of the | Second Liberties dragged along for | months. His estimates of the nationâ€" | a.lineomhveoflubeenvideof_‘ the mark, more than a billion wide of | it in tinues. â€" "10 42002 TCSiumer the contemplation Andrew W. Melion is not only not of the national balanceâ€"sheet," writes the "greatest Secretary of the Treasâ€" Mr. Bent. ury since Alexander Hamilton," but ) carha secretary knows, of course, he is comparable to a secretary |in., any effort to impugn his inteâ€" whose name is now almost for_xowen- |grity must prove ridiculous. To acâ€" asserts Silas Bent in an article 9M | cuse a man so immensely rich of ait Molon in the fits! number Of | sordid wotives is absard on the face the new Scribner‘s Masszine _Mr.| of it And be must know that the Bent presents a balanced portrait of | mass of the American public reâ€" the secretary, showing him greatly | gards him with a respect not unmixâ€" overpraised and muchâ€"maligned. ! ed with awe. At first blush one can "Newspaper editorial writers grew hardly believe that personal | agâ€" fond of comparing Melion with HAMâ€" . prandizement of this sort could cut liton and Gallatin," says Mr. Bent any ice with him. Yet I am not so "By iteration and reiteration to milâ€" sure. There is the matter, for inâ€" lions of readers, and by being taken stance, of his age. In volumes 10 up by Wall Street the comparison‘ ang 11 of Who‘s Who, covering 1918â€" crystaliized into a commonplace. 1 ; 19, 1920â€"21, the year of his birth is do not doubt that Mr. Mellon himâ€" given as 1852, according to which he self was embarrassed by it," he COnâ€"| j« now sevempem_. K C WMCN he 1 umds oo on RCIeTUe CVE east levee, extending from the mn-; greater pemhg:as ficn;:;ut:: the crete sea wall to the high ground at| number of convicted for crimes of the Huss farm. [this character were Greek, Dutch, With the city of Beardstown t.hree" Flemish and Scotch. times within t:: months sn!leric:tx} Out of 101 Italians committed durâ€" from dists tmnsoods,prmlclll'~y.-in(thefisc:lmroflmnot.sin- ting off that city from connection 'Ithi gle one was received for the crime of the remainder of the state, stopping | confidence game, while no Mexicans all activities and causing | many lor Scandinavians were under senâ€" thousands of dollars in damage, APPrOâ€") tence for crimes i chasti priation of $350,000 was made by the | > feamest chastity. state legislature for the construction of a concrete sea wall and earth \e~,lS MELLON SENSITIIVE vee which would avert flood conditions | ABOUT HIS TOO? in the future. To this ';.::ded “5; Ammnid AGE, * 000 by the Chicago, ington If So, It‘s the Only Thing Tha Quincy, and the Baltimore & Ohio Seems to Work Higs, the, . railroads. ;' Job I 1 ‘The contract calls for an embankâ€" | s Done Well ANDREW MELLON IS GREATEST TREASURER None to Equal Him in Finance Since Hamilton; Has Had Notable Career The contract calls for an embankâ€" ment of 450,000 cubic yards together with 10,000 cubic yards of cement work, the project to be completed by December 31, 1927. and the Ouk Grove temeur;wilw; whilg concrete work on ‘the sea wall of December 31. No delay has resulted as yet from the cold.__'e’thet, and it is expected source unless temperatures fall well below the zero mark. partment of purchases and construcâ€" tion indicate excellent progress is beâ€" ing made in the completion of the sea wall and levee at Beardstown for the future protection of that city from disastrous floods which have swept tha_tleelinninthemt. Shhmes * *~s~~~spans PROTECTION FROM FLOODS Welfare Dept. ets; Hopes Plan Will Be Effective , would find plenty of wistâ€" emes who would be made * small fraction of them. + IRGinneiPnsd radias A Bodtincccst ; Bent, in the January Scribner‘s Magâ€" ‘ azineâ€"which appears in new cover and type and with new editorial polâ€" ‘ icyâ€"comments on the secretary‘s | seeming imperviousness to criticism, | but points to one source of possible | irritations. now be now be seventyâ€"two. Cnn'be&_.; his age is the heel of this Achilles?" | Italian and Slovanic. ; Among crimes against chastity the | greater percentage as figured on the | number of convicted for crimes of | this character were Greek, Dutch, | Flemish and Scotch. ! Out of 101 Italians committed durâ€" iin(thzf'scllmrof 1926 not a sinâ€" | gle one was received for the crime of ) confidence game, while no Mexicans |.or Scandinavians were under senâ€" Tories the year is given as 1855, acâ€" cordingm'h@themmu bricks he relights his small cigar and tranquilly resumer the contemplation of the national balanceâ€"sheet," writes Mr. Bent. of Public Welfare has drawn some interesting deductions showing racial relation to crime: Out of a total of 207 received unâ€" der sentence for murder or manâ€" slaughter, the three races leading in offenses of this nature were Mexican, Italian and African. the Scotch, Hebrew and German race are recorded ‘in the order mentioned. For robbery it n fqu_nq the targest and ':n.(fi“"". Amid I :‘:h crime . the question is as logical as to believe that naâ€"| imgs Merie Crowell of Ameriâ€" fl'-dtbm.ri- can Magazine Started at most easily aroused most liable to murder. Lowest Rung Based on the 3,766inmates received â€"â€"__â€".~ rective institutions of Illinois for the In an article on Andrew W Melâ€" M S'_.'tre_tar! of the Treasury, Silas Fgr the crime of confidence Highlanod Park 3290 â€" Two Buk Plants â€" Eight Trucks * eperated ON the north shore to assure PROMPT, EFFICIENT SERVICE Bmum_!loc. O Co. FOR FUELâ€"USE OIL Licensed Plblic Accou ra Eight South Darlnr. Street TELEPHONE STATE s195 Books Closed for the Y. 17 7_-â€"1;‘-â€"“":‘;‘-' EpOCIS SRA Municipal Audits Made and Budget Systems Installed "A CORRECT GRADE POR EACR BURNER*" of Highland Park Emer®gency Service Call H. P. 3297 HERBERT W. CONDIT ; The sentiment against the approâ€" | priation of Federal subsidies for the ‘} various states is steadily growing. in ; the present appropriation bill there is an item of one million one hunâ€" | dred thousand dollars for the proâ€" | motion of welfare and hygiene in | maternity and infancy which is to be balanced by state appropriations. The | President has expressed the hope J'.hat it will be the last appropriation | of this kind ever mage. It is not the amount of money inâ€" volved, although it must be admitted that the grand total of these Federal subsidies makes no inconsiderable sum, but what the President and a great many farâ€"sceing statesmen are worried about is this constant surâ€" render of state rights and obligations by so surrendering this dole United States treasury funds is n SENTIMENT AGAINST FEDERAL SUBSIDIES lege, workingâ€"his way by lumbering in the Maine woods. Three years‘ work as a lumberjack brought on rheumatism which forcel him into less strenuous labors, and he turned to newspaper work. A story which he wrote for the New York Sun won him a place on the American magaâ€" zine. emy some distance from his home, where he rented a room at 25 cents a weeknndlindonmeenuldu. He won a scholarshin in Caolhv ~al. Mr. Crowell is himself an example of what rural America can do in the production of leaders. He was born in 1888 in North Newport, Me., where the conditions of life were about as primitive as those of the carly pioneers. In his youth he had the oxâ€"like vitality of those pioneers, â€"that brave, restless, audacious force. " His first memories, according to Irving Bacheller, his biographer, are of his grandmother molding candles and turning wool into yarn on the spinning wheel. He got through with the district school at eleven. Imâ€" pressed with his precocity, the vilâ€" lage people said that he was likely to become another Frank Prilay, who had gone to Bangor and won a job in a shoe store at the princely salary of $19 a week. of the National Editorial assotiation. Although he is the head of a great national magazine, he was invited by the newspaper editors rather as the embodiment and and exponent of the country newspaper. It is one of his Meric Crowell, editor of the Amerâ€" ican magazine, will be chief speaker At eleven, Crowel? entered an acadâ€" Accou ar t a n t 13 NOTABLE government because of PHONE 2700 AR‘S F [ f | -_g_x} BOWMAN | \l __ DAZRY COMPANY i: The a'eamynclmm of Bom's Milk gives you strength and vigor to resist disease. In winter, particularly, you and your children should drink it every day. CHICAGO en« SUBURBS 1 / JB‘ %