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PAPER CANNOT OUTLAW STRIFE sistant Secretary of State by Presi-- (William Richards Castle, Jr., as-- sistant secretary of state, was born in Honolulu in 1878. He was gradu-- ated from Harvard in 1900. In 1906 altogether good and otherwise intel-- Ngent men and women who believe dean at Harvard College where he Red Cross, in which capacity he served from 1917 to 1919. In 1919 he became chief of western European affairs division of the State Depart-- ment and later was appointed As-- weakness, to miss the fact that na-- tions are not sublime moral entities, but rather groups of fallible and pas-- Synthetic rubber is nothing new to the chemist. Back in 1908 samples of it were exhibited at a meeting of the British Association in York. that they tolnvec.it T ner commer-- dnfindflm:mortwo. : Mihe wriew at which 3. can. be pro-- can ro-- zaf?&emmmgf.?ofm Mrvdwhono syn-- thetic rubber. 7'p_ngtbeche{:, achieved by waving a-- magician's wand: it is the result of the growth of character and of understanding, AGAIN, SYNTHETIC RUBBER? so long as their choice does not in-- terfere with the happiness of the rest of the world, of a consistent and unselfish support of national rights. Every fair--minded person knows that the United States has not the information, however, there have ;mmvfithh-nne ecannot be measured by proposals for arbitration treaties or for pacts to prevent war. PACE WX I believe that when the pursuit of Regular passenger service across the Atlantic by dirigible is nearly at hand, according to Commander Charles D. Burney, of the British navy, designer of the R--100, giant dirigible nearing completion at Howden, England. With accommodations for a crew of 35 and 100 passengers, and driven by six engines, developing 700 honepowe};. the R--100 will make the distance between London and New York in 48 hours, Burnev has estimatea." Above is a view of the hull of the huge air liner with an e~--vall length of 709 feel € It is compared with the Santa Maria, the flagsh'~ of Christopher Columbu € Be-- low is a sketch of the passengers' quarters in the interior of the hull@ To the right is Comar. Burney. ATLANTIC PASSENGER DIRIGIBLE NEARS CO"~©LETION it is of i56 per cent of the urban popula-- tion of the United States now live lin zoned cities. The thirty million people live in 5538 cities, towns or villages scattered throughout the country. --<--=.-- /A s . e "The Royal Dutch Shell Company controls one of these processes. It is reported to be building a conver-- sion plant in Holland. An Ameri-- can enterprise--the Coal Conversion Corporation . of ~New _ York -- has another l;n-.m' and is about to erect its t commercial plant. In addition to these, there are the mts of the Consolidated Coal pany, now in operation, at Fairmont, W. Va., and the proposed wts of the International Combus-- Engineering Company at New grmwxckéog J.. and the uhigh riquette pany at Fargo, N. D. which are apt to produce limited quantities of isoprene. .. ° _ _ _ ber.like synthotic, material depents r-- syn ma largel upon the price level at which ynatural mbberpis held.--Na-- tion's Business Magazine. process, in so far as the production! A YANKEE of isoprene is concerned. | 4 m CITY ZONING «Within the last year the legal po-- sition of zoning has been strength-- ened by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court in four cases, in which the use, height, and area of buildings are regulated. . & New York City in 1916 enacted the comprehensive zoning law. How-- ever, Boston regulated the hight of buikiings as early as 1904, while Los Angeles adopted the use of zon-- ing regulations in 1909. _ _ Forty--six states and the District of Columbia have laws which permit municipalities to zone themselves. Of the forty--six states twenty--eight have adapted all or a large part of "A Standard State Zoning Enab-- ing Act" which was issued in 1924 by the Advisory Committee on Zon-- ing of the De t of Commerce. Among the m;; cities that have zoning acts are New York, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles. --Nation's Business Magazine. * _ © / _ t mXC A omrnt a} -- Trans--Atlantic radio telephone IS DISASTEROUS' service was inaugurated just a year w mm | ago, so that it is still in its infancy. A glaring example of what may' What may be expected in the fu-- happen to an entire industry when| ture, however, can be judged from the producer thinks primarily in the results of the transcontinental terms of volume rather than B"rofits telephone service between the" At-- m;gzbe found in petroleum. ring|lantic and Pacific coasts. When this 1 the industry probably aug-- service was first inaugurated in mented its storage by approximate--| 1915, it required several years be-- ly 57,000,000 barrels, representing|fore it 'became commerctally suc-- an excess of 6 1{3' cent of supply|cessful, but so successful has it be-- over demand. is surplus, accord--| come since then that two -- other ing to competent authority, has been| transcontinental lines, making three for a depreciation of} in all, have 'been constructed-- and in gross income of the| are now extensively used. -- oil compared with 1926.) Transoceanic telephony is steadily Theirs has been year of diminish--, gaining. It has passed the stunt inqrgdtl. | stage when business firms and indi-- flood of new oil in 1927| viduals called London and other came primarily from two sources,|points in England because of the the flush (roduction of the Seminole| novelty of the thing, and is gradu-- field in Oklahoma and the new too!|ally settling down to a routine serv-- gf'h' the oil indnstryt; the gu-n;f lift.| ice, so that callsdalclross t.hl:.:ll Atlan-- production rate was greatly in-- tic now avera aily several times creased by this invention, and a|the volume o'Fe tnflj{c transmitted OVERPRODUCTION IS DISASTEROUS vast surfilus was thrown on the market. ere is an instance where an industry is indulging in red ink the per capita consumption of coal, yet there was a great increase in potential producing capacity,. The bituminous coal industry is another. In the first twenty--five years of this century the annual production of coal increased in about the same proportion as the increase in the population, or 54 per cent. There was little increase in _ At the present time the produc-- tive capacity of soft coal is from 50 to 60 per cent greater than the nonna[ demand.--Nation's Business Magazine. g@ Thirty million people or more than 1709 FEET LONG GROWS APACE «He was summoned from the ob-- scure financial editorship of the St. Louis Times, back in 1910 to be an instructor in economics at his alma mater, the University of Missouri. From there the course of the young pedagogue ran smoothly enough to the University of Michigan and back to Missouri as an assistant profes-- sor. Then he went to Amherst, in 1916, as a full--fledged professor, and it was there that he wied his Bolshevist learnings. For when Al--! exander Meiklejohn quit under fire}| Te complaintingainst Aim being tha | complaint against him bei t he was too radical in his sympathies, Professor Stewart was one of the rebellious group in the faculty which resigned in protest. -- _ __ _ That citadel of conservation, the Bank of England, has chosen Walter W. Stewart, an American, as an economic adviser. To the banking world, Mr. Stew-- are became known much earlier, but by no means so conspicuously. He began his financial training as a boy in a country bank at Neosho, Mis-- n a cotmtrgdbank at Neosho, Mis-- souri, even before he became a stud-- ent at the mfivemof that state. And he took his tic leave from Amherst in 1918 to work in the price | section of the War Industries Board,| which gave him that view of the' industrial situation thought : neces-- sary nowadays--even in England--i to the eqLuipmem of the banking adviser. ter he became director of research and statistics for the Federal Reserve Board. Mr: Stewart is one of the group in the United States® which has evolved, as an outcome of World War experience and observation, a new technique of banking and industrial administration. European financiers observed the evolution at first with a good deal of skepticism. It was a technique of taking time by the forelock, of planning at long range. ----Nation's Business Magazine. TRANSATLANTIE sSERVICE GROWs IN POPULARITY Traffic Already Exceeds That Over Transcontinental Line in Its Rae, publisher at San Diego, Cal. When Mrs. Temple was talking to her father, snow was beating on the windows of her hotel" room, while her father, 8,000 miles away, had come in from a walk in the sunshine in a rose garden to speak to his daughter. tic now aver:{ge daily several times the volume traffic transmitted over : the transcontinental -- service when it was started in 1915 between New York and San Francisco. This service was used extensively on Christmas Day when many Christmas -- messages were sent across the Atlantic. Fifteen of these calls were made to the Savey Hotel in London, the lon*t one: being that of Mrs. Mary McRae Temple to her father. Colonel Milton Mc-- Transoceanic telephony is steadily gaining. It has passed the stunt stage when business firms and indi-- viduals called London and . other points in England because of the novelty of the thing, and is gradu-- ally settling down to a routine servy-- ice, so that calls across the Atlan= Early Days. AT THE BANK THE LAKE COUNTY RECGISTER. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY s8, 1928 | _ Des Plaines, Oak Park and Rock| Island -- showed -- substantial gains, 'both for last year as compared with 1926 and far December, 1927, com-- 'pared with 'tthe same month of the | preceding year. The yearly giins + were: Des Plaines, 54 per cent: Oak |Park, 45 per cent; and Rock Island, 85 per cent. The December gains were: Des Plaines, 121 per, cent; Oak Park,. 169 pet cent, anff Rock |Island, 269 per cent. s * NEWS FROM > Officials of Illinois and state fair management have found hopes of an extensive building profim for this year's state fair and they have had but one disappointment--a shat-- tered dream--thus far, and that is banding on the exposition prounds ui on sition groun cannot%e built atfltgg prices of con-- in its total. During the ten--year period from 1916, the fire waste of the United States increase@ in round numbers from $259,000,000 to $565,-- ©'000,000. . This is an average fire \ loss per day of more than $1,500,000, tor more than $1,000 for every min-- ute of the calendar year. -- \~ "While Canada has been showing | a commendable decrease in losses by fire, sad to relate, Illinois and the 'Unitod States during the same per-- |iod has steadily increased the 'de-- ' struction of property by fire. : In the great province of Ontario, Canada, 'the fire losses reach their highest peak in 1923, when approximately ; $19,000,000 in property was destroy-- | ed by fire. In 1924, this fire wast was l lessened to $16,000,000; in 1925, to | $14,000,000; and in 1926 to $12,000,-- In the absence of Mr. Sterling the opening of the sgcial session was presided over by Senator R. J. Barr, Joliet, president pro tem of the sen-- struction today; so the miniature structure which replaced the glass and steel dome after its destruction many years ago will be razed, the foundation blasted and a grassy plot will be a marker for the location of "the largest dome in the world." The passing of the miniature dome will bring no tears. To raze it is a part of the year's program for the lIllinois state fair association. & In addition to the proposal to erect a dairy building at a cost of $250,000 plans are also under consideration to erect four or five sections of the poultry building on the plot north of the dairy products building. This start on the attractive *structure will cast approximately $60,000. When the new grandstand was completed just before the opening of the state fair last summer, some gaid the structure was too big. It was filled every day during the fair and there is> evident demand, for cement bleachers on either side. Rut this will not come 'this year, but is within the range of possibility for 1929. (rcs f Practically recovered from the ill-- nece which had kept him confined to his home in Rockford for several weeks, Lieutenant--Governor Fred E. Sterling has returned to his official duties and presided over the sessions of the senate during the past week. lIllinois placed second among the forty--eight states of the union in building construction, according to the national monthly building survey just completed by the S. W. Straus Hon. Henry: Rathbone, congress-- man--at--large from lIllinois, has in-- troduced a bill providing for an ap-- propriation to build a highway be-- tween Mattoon, Coles county, Ilrinois to Toledo CumberJand county, Illi-- nois, as a Lincoln memorial. . This road. will pass the home of Thomas Lincoln, father of President Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln resided at New Salem while his father' lived at two places in Coles county. decreasing while fire losses in Illi-- nois and v-l:heh Un:::dd ;'?'t::s"a:; mounting: higher ; ; year was 't}:g declaration of State Fire Marshal 8. L. Legreid before the chamber of commerce and the Illinois Fire Prevention association at Moline a few days ago. ° Mr. Legreid said in J)ut "The loss of life and property by fire in Illinois and throngfiut the country continues to be staggering Illinois Reserve Officers have;tfiiy- en every practical evidence of their interest in helping young men to obtain the benefit of Reserve Officer Training Corps courses in colleges and universities. The North Shore Chapter of the Reserve Officers As-- sociation, located at Evanston, has raised mone}}r to provide® a iree sCnol-- arship at Northwestern. University. This action followed a 'suggestion made by President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern for means to in-- crease enrollment in R. O. T. C. at that school. President Scott explain-- ed that approximately half of the young men attending Northwestern : work their way through school. The needs of many students prevented taking militaty training. Consequent ly a free scholarship would help some deserving young man to de-- vote time to military training. > Says He, coming in from the crisp open air, "Darling, is it really nee-- essary to make the whole house smell so frightfully in order to pre-- rure a meal? Every evening when get home, the concerted aromas of the undoubtedly delicious viands It has been stated that awarding the -- scholarship probably-- will be made at one of the Citizens Military Training Camps during the coming summer training period. The oppor-- tunity for young men to secure a free scholarship -- at Northwestern will very likely induce ambitious yomg men to atten( Citizens Mili-- tary Training Camps this summer in order to aualify for the free scholarship. In view of the increasing interest now Leing dizphyed all over Illinois in K.O.: T. C. tn.ing%, this action of Illinois Reserve Officers is very timely. -- It is stated that Illinois Re-- serve Officers are the first in the country-- to provide a free scholar-- By Mrs. Phyllis K. Dunning (Home Economics Department of ~ ~The Society for Electrical Development.) Hiram L. Williamson, Secretary Illinois Press Association Fire losses in Canada are steadil A PLEA FOR THE KITCHEN Says She, with some heat, "Yes! it is necessary! If you think, for one moment, I'm going to shut all have decent ventilation." the door, and mighty near ruin substitute for it. But She, poor dear, probably doesn't know. that She can get a little electric venti-- lating fan which, strategically in-- 'fiflled, will ventilate any sort of tchen so ferfectly that its tem-- perature will never --rise uncomfort-- ably--there will be no unpleasant odors or fumes to float out through the house, no steam to deposit on windows, no ifreue to come %lently to rest on ceilings, walls and hang-- _And so the evening was utterly ruined. > It's too bad 'these little damestic altercations have to take g'lace, for even though She can't ve her ideal kitchen with her own conception of~ "ideal ventilation," She can have an entirvelgl'l perfect substitute for it. (But She, poor the doors a.ndnf;us't broil alive in that perfect inferno of a kitchen mq)ly to save youff fastidioxlls m;se, you're jwroong. -- ever I~get a chance to bnifd a kitchen it will ings. -- And, of course, there will be no smoke. No --smoke anywhere. 'There are three general styles of electric ventilators, each style de-- signed to fit a specific set of cir-- cumstances. . First of all, 'there is the portable type, especially adapted for use by people who rent their ing is finished you just turn off the motor and close the window. Yes, it's as easy as that. : The "built--in" type of ventilat()ri is a cabinet model designed to be' installed in the house when it is{ beinge built.. It must be snecified| in the plans of the house. Its ad--| mtl?s over the portable type is | that it cuts off none of the light: from the principal windows, as it has its own little windows. both in--| side and cut, and a single, opera-- tion opens both windows and starts| the fan going. Another mation shuts them and stops the motor. , 'The third type of 'ventilator,: which is very, very scientific, and| which s.mplies the truly ideal form of ' ventilation, consists of a hood. which is placed «directly above the range and a pipe leading to the out-- doors. The ventilating fan. is in the pipe and, as the heat and fumes rise from the stove, they are sucked un into the hood, along through the nipe and forced outdoors. An open-- ing in the pipe affords general ven-- tilation of the entire room at the same time; The advantage of this type of ventilator is that the cnok-- ing heat and fumes never get int» the kitchen at all--they are removed | direct!y from the stove. ----__----> _ dence. When you wish to start it, you merely draw the window down from the top a bit, and turn the switch which operates the: motor. The cup--shaped bladés of the venti-- lating fan suck out all the unpleas-- ant fient_ and fumes and steam and smoke, and send them forth into the great outdoors. When the cook-- homes. These ventilators come all ready to be hung up over a window and may be easily removed when the family, moves to another resi-- | The Wonderful Traffic .--In installing any system of venti-- lation it is desirable to locate the ventilating fan as near the range home, with taro patch nearby. Fish nets and an outrigger canoce pro-- vide him with fish any time he elects to look for it. "Why, then should I work? I have plenty to eat, a nice wife, a boat. I am bhappy." And nothing can induce bim to work--that is, at something be doesn't like. But. mention automobile to him. Instantly his eyes shine, he makes magnificent gestures in the air. One sees him driving over the precipitous moun--« tain roads at breakneck .speed, with wall on one side and: on the other, looking around noncha-- tently to be sure he is admired. do nothing.. The Chinese girls, too, have entered a new profes-- sion. Not content to do the house« work, or sit in their husbands's store and sell the goods while he talks to a crony in the backroom, they have taken to barbering; and the sight of a demure little Celes« tial shaving one of her fellow eountrymen is not unusual. a contrast, there is the Hawaiian, a disappearing element in the life of the Hawaiian Islands. The old geography definition of the French character--"a frivolous people fond of dancing and light wines"--might The Chinese are an industrious yace, a thrifty people. They look ahead and plan for the future. As will later place upon the table me the minute I set foot inside it can be, so that the heat-- and Hawaiian Can Drive MODERNITY STRIKES HAWAI has his little my high external temperatures. -- And a ventilator, by sending the grease and +~smoke leaden -- air-- outdoors, makes your house easier to clean and keep c¥an. . . Still® another advantage of the 'electric ventilator is that it not only ventilates the kitchen, but actually performs this highly desirable oper-- ation for the whole house. If your living room, for -- instancg, °* gets smoky and .hot, open the kitchen door. start the ventrHator fan going and. in a few moments, your living roomm air will be fresh and sweet. fumes -- will traverse the shortest possible distance before being ejected into the open air. Qhite apart from the comfort and aesthetic appeal of a ventilator, you will find that it will reduce your refrigeration bills,g?r your refrig-- erator will no loonkger have to fight that a man who is gza;i to marry a red--haired girl will turn-- right around and marry am empty-beaged People who have ten--story rooms they want to make comfortable and livable will find that a ventilator installed in the atti¢ will turn the trick. "But that is' %other story!" cop. To stand in the middle of the street, all decked out in resplendant uniform, to call a car forward with gentle wave of his hand, to leash it in its place with another wave-- ah! that %s bliss!~ It is rapture personified! a f But when it comes to working in the sugar plantations or the rice fields, there is a serene indiffer-- ence manifest by the little brown man. Not only on his face, but also on the face of his wife. Her husband do all that hard work? Why, no. Why should she expect her husband to work at something he doesn't want to? A The Moral Mother Hubbard O, but a favor? Certainly. Work? Well, maybe. There is a shade of reluctance on the little brown face, but every Hawaiian is essentially polite and kindly, so he will do the hated work. And his brown wife will help out with the housework, act as nursemaid to the children--although that is not a job she relishes--anything to do have a Lfascination for her. ment known as a Mother Hubbard, and since then the Mother Hubbard has been the standard of feminine dress for the older Hawailians; the astounding part of it is that the women seem able to invest it with a cértain charm, not to say style. However, the younger Hawaiian woman discarded the Mother Hub« bard and now is wearing American clothes, such as any girl would wear. She wears them when she is not clothed in overalls, which Financial backing is reported for Reserve Lieutenant Herschell McKee, of Indianapolis, Ind., for a New York--Paris round--trip air-- plane flight, early in the spring. He was wounded while serving with the French Foreign Legion and the Lafayette Escadrille dur-- ing the war. @ a favor. in Hawaii they found the natives had simplified the problem of dress by ignoring it. Without any ado the missionary women gave away that voluminous and dowdy gar-- It has always struck me as funny ionaries arrived and some of She likes the factory and the cafeteria where the good food can be bought so cheaply. Brt most of all she enjoys the rest room where, after her shower bath, she can sit and feast her on the scarlet hibiscus blonognd' the green palm trees while she listens to the music of the victrola. For the true Hawaiian is never happy without music. Most for-- eigners enjoy Hawaiian music; those who do not like it describe it as four wails and a sob. But anyway, the little Hawaiian wo-- man approves of it highly, but no less does she approve ofi such jazs ditties as "You Don't Like It--Ne Not Much." home where there are no bosses and where she can look with gentle over she goes back to© ber home, pleased with the money she has earned, but more pleased to be 'band 'vere tenants fo: six years up-- on the 800 acre farm owned by Mrs. Gulick near Mareto. In another house upon the same farm, lived 'Mr, and Mrs. Fred Jar'a, the latter & niece of the Kempes. In November, 1923, the house occupied by~ the Jarkas was burned. Members of the family <were accus2>d of arson and cri.ina' proceedings instituted.. It was charged that the accusation was made by Mrs Kemre And for the specialty makers, themselves, no doubt there was food for thought in the number of outlets for their wares--351,000 'groceries, Mr. Monagle <said, 61,563 places where candy is sold exclusively, and 19,000 shops selling only bakery goods. Those figures are more than rhetorical ornaments. . They are timely measures of inviting market possibilities. . They are excellent range finders for scoring direct hits with scales and advertising cam-- paigns.--Nation's Business Magazine The size of the nation's market basket is less a guess for the esti-- mate of the amount of our annual food bill given to the c@nvention of the American Grocery Specialty Manufacturers' Association. At $22,-- 0060,000,000 the amount was fixed by A.~ C. Monagle of New York.-- Into that rotund reckoning went all the products boufht from grocers, butch-- ers, and confectioners. WELL FED No proof was submitted that the advice given by Mrs Gulick was based upon dishonest motives or rrew out of dishonest purposes. :' With no evidercte to establish .. case of conspiracy. there was no al-- ternative and the court neCessarily ins'--woted the jury to find the de-- fendant not guiltv. * ACQUITTED OF ASYLUM PLOT KANKAKEE, Ill, Feb. 3.--After a sensational trial in the circuit court of Kankakee county, Mrs. Anna Gulick, wealthy land owner of this vicinity was declared not guilty ~f the charge filed by ~Mrs Meta Kempe that the former had malic-- iously conspired to intareuatre the complainant in an astiim for the insane. The sum of $25,000 damages was demanded Later. Mrs. Jarka filed the petitionr that que--tioned the sarity of Mrs. Kempe and asked for a nearing up-- on her mental conditiar. The -- ~»nlainant is the late dam-- ygesu.l ass»rted tht:t Mrs Gulick inspicd th.s action -- Judge DeSelm. in reviewing th> case. held that the €vtid :nc« show®; that this was nnt true ~rG that Mis.-- Gulick was sintiy called in as &n advisor and was rot eu.t,; o! a conspiracy as in revieaw'ng t cvid :nc« show true. +a tha simt 1y called was rot $fil.t *239¢. td No proof w When the case against Mrs. Kempe was called, a jury fourd her sane. According to the statement of wit-- nesses, Mrs. Kempe and her hus-- She Likes the Factory AMERICANS "The result of using Fowa Hon-- ey and Tar for a dreadful cough, daytime and at night, was a Fest-- ful one for me," says Mrs. Anne Davison, Long .Beach, Calif. The hard cough that follows bronchitis and "flu" is weakening and when it "hangs on" very debilim. Foley's Honey and Tar Com puts a healing, soothing coating on a ro\uih inflamed throat, and immediately eases the irritation that causes the hard coughs. Dependable. Ask for it.--F. B. 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