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ecipes poonâ€" nt of #10Ge pig is but ide CY , $Â¥ke nto & is dig« 1 whip _ more quired, AY reâ€" the les and To each poootuly @ppger, a weet will atringy > short ©u VJ t or to 1 teaâ€" _ and Ppl.l «ht of be * wide» ns and mIin Mo0, r® _ cork d the : kept cold sely, it ible the ery ‘huâ€" sar ind % N "Woll,"* replied Mr. Shoobucklie, 879 put a beautiful thought in its "he told me he was going to the police Place." about ms, and accused me of being ; se mssnfi citioee unncighb riy. _ That‘s all the thanks| â€" Beautiful Girl: "No, Sam, I cannot I got for trying to be nice to him be your wife. Please go way and forâ€" @nd makin> him feel at home. A nice get me. " f thin= t~ «:+v about a man like mel|} Dejected Lover: "No uso; I‘m a Woll, that qgot my dander up prop memory expert." . , "And what did ho say?" asked Mr Tootle wearlly. "Cortainly, sir," replied Mr. Shoeâ€" buckis. "I treat her more like a friend than a wife. Of course, we have the usual tiffs, and now and then I might throw a bit of crackery at her, but I don‘t mean any barm It‘s just my way. Woll, when he said that I just pops over the gardon wall again and I hit him for six. When he came round I warned him that the next timaI slosted him one I should hit him so far it would take aâ€"postâ€" eard a weok to reach him." "And I take it you are solicitor. "Then the very next day after that, just because I throw a sack of old tina fnto his gardenm, ho says I was rude again, and then ho became perâ€" sonal and sald I wasn‘t good to my wite* bettor things than you on lettuce,‘ and with that I told him to hop back Into the cheere. I‘ll tell you what it is, sir, some people don‘t deserve good . neighbors. They ain‘t fit to lve in a goodâ€"class netghborhood like Oftrs. "‘Look here, Mr. Tickle," I said, quite nelighborlyâ€"like, ‘you run away and bow! your hoop while I use this lawnâ€"mower.‘ ‘Then he called me a thist That was a nice thing to say, wasn‘t it? ‘Look here,‘ I said to him, ‘you ain‘t no gentloman. I‘ve seen bettor things than you on lettuce,‘ and with that I told him to hop back into the choore. I‘ll tell you what it ts, sir, some people don‘t deserve gcod neighbors. They ain‘t fit to "And then if ho didn‘t get cross the very noext day because I went into his garden and haltâ€"inched his lawnâ€" mower. _ Borrowed it without his perâ€" mission, he said. "Yes, alr," replidd Mr. Shoebuckle. "What would you have done? Not half I didn‘t stosh bim. 1 landed him a proper fourpeany one and closâ€" ed up one of his eyes with a click. ‘Talk about Aladdin and his wonderâ€" fu! lamp. _ Then I‘m blessed if he didn‘t become rude and said I wasn‘t nice to know, and that he didn‘t want to know me _ A nice, gentlemanily way to treat a elghbor I call it. | _You mean you claimed the law tonesa. "Then he sald not knoqwing my I just hops over him one." "Say," aniffed Mr. Shoebuckle. "He didn‘t half go in off the deep end. I suppose he was anncyed about someâ€" thing, because ho says to me. ‘You mind your own business.‘ Now, that s a nice, kind, neighborly way to talk to a chap like me, "‘Ere,‘ I says to him, ‘it I comes over Into that ashtip you call a garâ€" den, you‘re going to wake up in soms place whore everything is nice and quiet and white and clean.‘ Well, then he made a face at me and went in. And, bless me, it next day he didn‘t half give me a black look, just because a kottle I threw tnto his nr-l den causht him in the face. "Not ‘arf I won‘t," said Mr. Shoeâ€" buckie. "That‘s what I came along here for.. Well, I live in Sweet Reâ€" pose Avenue, and I‘ve lived there in peace and quiect. with my neighbors for four years. _ Of course, one or two of us might have a scrap now and then, and I might give one or two of them a good hiding, but that“ sort of thing only adds to the harâ€" mony of our neighbrly lives. Why,‘ we‘ve been like a lot of turtle dovesI for years." "Quite," remarked Mr. Tootle. "Well," went on Alfred Shoebuckle; "three weeks ago a pieâ€"faced kyhoot mamed Henry Tickle, a traveller in the glue trade, came to live next door to me in a house called the Banctuary, and as soon as I saw his face I laughed. I never saw such a clock in my life. He reminded me!| of an old cottageâ€"doorâ€"knockoer. "Well, I says to myselt, me being all for peace and we cannot alway: help our faces, we‘ve got to be nice and neighborly, but when I saw his wile I bad another shock. She‘s one of those women who look as if they had been poured fnto her dress and forgot to say ‘When.‘ ‘‘Ere,‘ § says to Mr. Tickle, pointing to hlsl’ wife in the garden, ‘did you find it, ) *Erbert, or did you win it in a rafie? " ;. "And what did he say*" asked Mr. Tootle. a "Tell me all abort it," Interpolated the sclicitor. so it was some time later before Mr. Shoebucklo was seated in the offlice of Messrs. Toctle, ‘Tootle & Toctle, solicitors and commissioners for oaths, of Peckham Rye. e "Goodâ€"morning!t" said Mr. Tootle, Jun. _ "And what can I do for you?" "It‘s about my nextâ€"door neighbor," replied Alfred Shocbuckle, "He‘s thinking of taking proceedings agatust me. Me, mind you, what has a lambâ€" like disposition and wouldn‘t knowing-l ly hurt a obeese." Mr. Tootle looked at the unshaven face of his client, and felt that he could not agree. The usual ser Bweet Ropose . bam, had been ¢ in the grass, ar buckls, retired b« vengo. â€" He was Hoenry Tickle a Tore doclarht th he was going to Faced Got ftor a Bo It was som Mr. Shoebuckls offlce of Messrs Toctle, solicitors for caths, of Peci "Goodâ€"morningt Jun. _ "And what "It‘s about my â€" replied Alfred ; " °i Vo! serenity and peace of Bweet Reopose Avenue, Upper Balâ€" bam, had been dlsturbed by a snake in the grass, and Mr Alfred Shoeâ€" buckle, retired boxer, was out for reâ€" vengo. â€" He was going to show Mr. Honry Tickle a tew things, but beâ€" fors declaring the procesdings open he was going to pop into the Ba!d-1 Faced Got for a quick one. ‘ So It was some time later hatara usual serenity and omething about me inners, so with that ie wall and sloshes of Kindness truck him?" exâ€" r. in â€" horrified sald the Gmes â€" garâ€" somée and Well, That man began to live beautifully who said to himself, "Everyâ€"time ugly thought comes into my mlnd..’ shall put a beautiful thought in its place." ing set for a lively session of the propcsed Imperial Economic Conferâ€" ence. _ This first conference of this kind was held in 1923. At the Imâ€" perial Conference of 1926 economic problems were also discussed and committees appointed to gather Inâ€" formation. _ It is hardly likely that the British Government in the . face of overseas opinion as now freely oxâ€" pressed will stand out for complete abolition of the preference This is nt a time for disputes over trade matâ€" ters between the Mother Country and the Dominions. The Preference Saint _ John â€" Telegraphâ€"Journal (Ind.): Premier Bruce of Australla has cabled the British Prime Minister a protest against abolition of the Imâ€" perial preference. Hon. J. A. Robb, Finance Minister of Canada, in a reâ€" cent interview pointed out that Imâ€" perial .preferences are favored by Canada. _ South Africa is disturbed over the utterance of the British Chanâ€" cellor of the Exchequer, in opposltlonl to the preference. The stage is beâ€", The trumpet honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, is a neat climber with glaucous foliage and orangeâ€"scarlet flowers which are borne in terminal spikes made of soveral sixâ€"flowered whorls. The upper leaves show the peculiar trait of uniting about the stem. ‘| Like other climbing honeysuckles, | it confines‘ itself to tho trellls proâ€" | vided, except perhaps at the base. ! There vines are inclined to run along | the ground and take root, hence such | shoots must" be pruned @way ocâ€" | casionally. If a shrub is close by, | shoots will reach out and clamber '(\ver it This climber is charmingâ€" | Iy placed at corners of squatty lhouses. and, if trained to a pillar | form, serves the useful purpose of | making the house appear higher. Its | trait ofg clothing itself with follage | all the way to the ground commends 11! for guch use. Also, planted two | feet apart, it makes _ acceptable ;<cmom for porches where shade or | privacy is wanted. ; Somewhat similar to Hall‘s honeyâ€" suckle is Lonicera â€" Poriclymenum, known as woodbine. The general foliage effect of this is darker groen. The flowers are of the same shape, but instead of being in the axils of the leaves are in terminal clustors at the ends of the branches. They are white insido and carmine or purâ€" plish outside and soon turn yellow. This climber. drops its leaves without delay in the fall, thus bringing small red berries clearly into view. The dowers have the peculiar habit of coming out white and soon turnâ€" ing yellow. They are in pairs in the axils of the leaves, and as the leaves are opposite this brings four flowers together. The flowers are twoâ€"lipped, the lower lip seing narrow, while the upper is fourâ€"toothed _ The berâ€" ries are black. Halls‘ â€" honeysuckle, Lonicera â€" Jaâ€" panica Halleana, is the one most freâ€" quently planted and perhaps the most desirable. This climber _ remains green far Into the winter and in mild climates may be in fair shape in spring. _ Its general follage effect ls‘ light green, _ Yakima, Wash.â€"To give that cool shade and delightful fragrance so desirable in summer about bome, the climbing honeysuckle with its genâ€" eral adaptability and hardiness may be strongly . recommended. Coming into bloom in late spring, it will conâ€" tinue through the summer montha, giving a wealth of bloom and foliage on the trellises which must be proâ€" vided as it possesses no other means of grasping u support than twining. Several species are in cultivation and they differ somewhat. "Well," replied Mr. Alfred Shoeâ€" buckle, "what about me having a sumâ€" mons against old rabbitâ€"face for disâ€" turbing the peace?" f "And what do you want me to do#?" asked the sol:icitor. C "Then my‘ wife says I ought to humor him. Now, I asks you, I had given him two black eyes and landed him a fow extras. What more could I do*" use a sewing machine. And then, air, believe me or believe me not, blessed if he didn‘t call me a bully. Now, I ask you, sir, is that a neighâ€" borly way to go cn? " ‘Well,‘ I says, ‘what about It? Let that be a lesson to you, for the next time I lands you one the doctor won‘t stitch you up by hand. He‘lU few rats with, he again threatened to summons me. Really, you know, you can‘t call your !ife your own, sir, so I sloshes him again; and when he came back from the doctor‘s he didn‘t half rap on. "‘Excuse me,‘ he said, ‘but do you know that the doctor had to put in three stitches.‘ "But he didn‘t improve, sir," conâ€" tinued Mr. Shoebuckle, "for the very next morning, just because I.said T‘d like to borrow bis face to poison a erly, so I just lands him a beauty in the eye. Living Beautifully A Flowering Climber uEty a 7 1 0 e P EseieE SAAAE en iepecme JUDGING THE MOUNTS AT THE RANELAGH HORSE AND POLO PonY A nlco string of borseflosh lined up by the mounted bolice for the benefit of the jud; ‘ard Polp Pony 8!}0' recentlyheld in England. Â¥ |more food with vitamins in it. Butj Then he went to Bangkok, in Siam. |the tariff laws of the country keep As he boarded a little steamer, and C t i Fape n paie etables the duty is 1 percent » valorem. _ Though many Calltornla!!l'lveu with his own label on them fruits can be delivered as cheaply in ‘:z‘nt:ez?l:?’dt:b;:;tk:':ea :;):é ::er: Japan as in New York, California » oranges are selling in Japan for 35 ori;i:om_r&: :heip:e I:ilew aS.ll;ge::z:rza :re':(ll 40 cents aplece. * In Shanghi Elliott ran up against '31008 by one of the boys of the crew. the ageâ€"old Chtneso' gulld idea. Hg'accordlng' 110 the l:lecu“ll' IT;MCO 4‘ found that all the principal dealors in |:l::; e'xnfllt.:: s;llllotsa; tpa;tstoadtm;‘ fruits and imported vegetables were * Ts get, instead o !‘ incorporated Into a nice, solid gulldgt‘:l.ze!:. : bl':lp"l sl;ac; in ::e holld o:! with central headquarters. Member , steamship, an from the sale o of this gulld have (:o report to head-.I this freight space to their merchant}! | j Mss lt on t they rare ies iRoagege aige #itiott."‘tound â€"business American commission merchants look-:S"Odv and had the experience of payâ€"| ing like solitaire players when it comâ€" 'gl;ip::.saot fc?!:s aofbtl;:LChma‘:-rl. :lis o;)ven | es to teamwork. Yet the gulld was . ce â€" greatly interested in what the Amcri-':"l':)‘;e Qll:l:;rv:z:eg x::::l:t:u; gfl refrigera-‘ farm had brought in the reâ€" » ood. | lc':li:erz‘:tror.e r They made him an ot‘feri Finally E"Lglt arrived in Saigon, on 500 lugs of grapes at a price slightâ€" ’grf:“Ch" l'(!;dO-C I‘na, tlhe “Pgris of tllxg‘ io o en ks io e enc oenlnm, declined. n En rm, * * :z:e:‘:, ;gugl?t i hundrgd lugs of Of Saigon Elliott saw Florida grapeâ€" grapes and were greatly satisfled with fruit which had been shipped out of their quality and condition. The;;’a(;lctl”m'er tor v}{o:gkt;zts. ?zg g’;;'“i whole cargo that was taken across | 94 cen ~purvey 0 0 na. a great deal of talking about getting more food with vitamins in it. But the tariff laws of the country keep such products out. On fruits and vegâ€" etables the duty is 100 percent ad valorem. Though many California fruits can be delivered as cheaply in Japan as in New York, California oranges are selling in Japan for 35 or 40 cents aplece. | It has been the conclusion for many years that foreign markets were alâ€" ways at the saturation point. Elliott found that this was not true in the Orlent. He made Japan his first obâ€" jective. It turned out that he had struck his poorest market first, though the situation here was interâ€" esting. He found that the Japanese have heard of theso things called vitaâ€" ming, and actually propose to use them t oraise the stature of the Japâ€" anese people. Hence they are doing: Perhaps Elliott thought he might as well go broke in the Far East as on his own farm. Back of his trip was the problem facing American agriculâ€" ture: the farms, with improved machâ€" inery, produce more and more; and the American consumer eats loss and less. Gone, for instance, is the big breakfast of wheat cakes, cereal, eggs, and bacon, doughnuts, pie, and coffee, America has food to export. And yet there are millions of people in the outlands of the world who have actâ€" vwally never known what it was to have all they wanted to eat. Could they buy American food? When the Silverbelie sild. out ot San Francisco harbor last November, bound for the Orient, she carried & farmer named Frank T. Elliott The Silverbelle, a new ship of the type that is revolutionizing traffic in perâ€" llsl.\able commodities, das 1320 tons‘ measurement of refrigerator space. In ’that space Elliott had 2000 packages of grapes, apples, lettuce and celery, most of it raised on his own California farm. His intention was to sell those\ fruits andâ€" vegetables in Orlentali ports, where such things had never been sold before. Most of the people' who knew of his ventare merely reâ€" marked, "It‘s a shame he should go' broke this way." A Farmer ACCORDING TO THIs iT‘s SIMPLICITY ITSELr Two Australlan students create a mild sensation in London by using waterâ€"skis to navigate the Thames. Freeman Filden To ] The voyaging farmer next went to Manila and then to Cebu, in the }Phlllpplnes. From there to Surabaya, 'in Java. In this port Elliot found an |Arabian Jewish merchant who wasl |just opening a fruit market with 16 'branches. To his surprise, the Calt-' 'tornlan found that some of the grapes fhe had dropped in Shanghai had beat‘ !him into, Java and were on display in the Java markets, Usually tlny] 'samples were laid upon a leaf and . bought by the natives as a rare treat.] 1 In Batavia and Singapore Elliott! found the demands for his fruits so| lively that he could have sold out! entirely, but preferred to keep his| samples and take orders for the fut-' ure. _ _1 am convinced," says Elliott, "that personal contract is absolutely necessary to begin trade with the Orient. â€"The Oriental merchant is flooded, just as the American besinâ€" ess man is, with advertising letters which simly go into , the â€" wasteâ€" basket. "When I went there in person I was received most _courteously everyâ€" where. I usually cabled ahead to my next stop the fact that L was arrivâ€" ing on a certain day with my wares, and the merchants who were interâ€" ested would be waiting for me." â€" In Shanghai there are said to be 70,000 Chinese in the qualityâ€"buying class. A San Franciscan, just home after a long stay in China, is authority for the statement that there are more millionaires in China than in the Unâ€" Ited States. This seems hard to credit at first glance, but on a relative basis, comparing the buying power of the dollar, country for country, it may be so. | [the Pacific by Elliott was the last word in quality and packed with the ’ldea of getting it to the Asiatic conâ€" sumer in as good condition though it had just come from the orchard. The bulging boxes, which do very well for domestic shipments, but offer a fine opportunity for the fingers of the collie handlers, had not been used. the benefit of the judges at the Ranelagh Home ". . . seldom travelled now, he told | some of the best known stories, and | ur guide wished so much to hear !hlm. He might never have a chance A quickâ€"tempered . mother should selfâ€"controlâ€"in the mother.â€"Lincoln Steffens. I was always sorry I could never:WhO 1 understand a word of all the stories tremu I sat so often and listened to, but to £Olden watch the faces of the audience was| chest: an experience in Itself. One could weed almost follow the outline of the tale the br by the looks on their faces.â€"Eleanor smallo Elsner, in "The Magic of Morocco." looised Of course we let him go, and the neyt day questtoned him. "Was it as interesting as he had expected?" .. . again Once in the far south our guide asked, rather apologetically, to be exâ€" cused the next day at five o‘clock. As we had fixed a very special excurâ€" sion for that afternoon it was rather inconvenient and we asked him if he would not take aother day. Then he explained to us that he could not as the most famous storyâ€"teller in the Atlas would pass through for cne day and would tell stories at five o'clock.‘ He had never heard this man as he CC The storyâ€"teller has an‘ ideal uu-luic dience. Ncthing distracts their atten-!mt‘ tion, not even stnngerl behind them., F Their eyes are fixed ‘on his face, none | ect: of his gestress escape them, thelrlgm ears. ar strained to hear his lowest for words. He is telling them some the story as ancient as the Bible, and many of these stories are handed 'down almost unchanged from one ‘ storyâ€"teller to another. There are Ispeclal favorites among the -tories,’ _ and sometimes a very fine talker| S makes one his ownâ€"that is, he tells trou it better than anyone else. He traves! too round:from town to town, from vil-"vie‘ lage, to village, and his fame precedes | perh him. "Achmed Ali, the st(-ry-telle\rfutu is coming," is the news that runs‘lo‘w through the place, and everyone on a crowds in. Arabs from distant camps,:sw‘ tribesmen from the near hills, natives beau working on the land for miles around !Mgh hear the news in that mystericus fa.s-'ul. 1 hion in which gossip spreads in th"u:nex Fast _ By early evening the vflla.xo' No is packed, and Achmed Ali tells his seart centurigsâ€"old story to an audience of| ers, t hundreds. § 9 me io Outside the Marrakesh Gate, in the open square, there is always the true East to be seen. A caravan, coming in from the desert in long and swayâ€" ing lines, camels stretohing their necks from side to side, their drivers running up beside them and guiding them to the special place where they are unloaded. . . . The little donkeys I loved, and there was always a numâ€" ber of these coming in and going out at the Marrakesh Gate. Most of all, however, I was interested in tho! storyâ€"tellers, those old men who told their ancient tales to the still older | men as well as to lads and chlldren.‘ Every evening about five c‘clock we used to go to the Gate and see them sitting in circles with the storyâ€"telâ€" lers standing in the centre, everyâ€" aneâ€"old and youngâ€"listening with rapt attention, oblivicus of all else.! It is astonishing how still Arabs slt:i even children will sit for hours qulte‘ still, almost without moving their ; hands. I From Saigon to Hongkong, and then home. _ ‘That is the _log of the Caliâ€" fornia farmer who put to sea in a ship with the truck of his own farm. It would be a shame to blunt the point of Frank Elliott‘s achievement by overstatement: but what he has done is to show that there is a qualâ€" ity market in the Orient for the choicest American fruits far exceedâ€" ing arybody‘s dreams. He has openâ€" ed an export trade that will bring mll-‘ lions of dollars to tthe West Coast of America. And that is doing a good deal, for one young man and for one‘ four months‘ trip.â€"The worlds work. | them. Almost the first thing Elliott was asked was: "Can you send us some artichokes from California ?" Also, they wanted lettuce, celery, anything good, green, and free from germs. For here, as in China, Euroâ€" peans ‘will not eat greenâ€"leaf vogeâ€" tables raised locally since the Chinese gardener has ideas about fertilization which are both repulsive and unâ€" sanitary. Therefore the seaâ€"going farmer from the States was welcomâ€" ’tkem. Almost the firs was asked was: "Can some artichokes from Also, they wanted 1 anything good, green, : germs. For here. as it Yegolabies drift down from the inâ€" terior, but the wellâ€"todo natives and the French coloah!! will not eat Arab Stoi'y-Tellers And here the voyaging farmer found a fine market awaiting him. It seems incredible, but it is evidently a fact, that a city like gon should be deâ€" pendent upon {;;enu form France of fresh vegetables. A fow inferior vegetables drift down from the in. The grasshoppers and cicadas exâ€" press their pleasure, shrilling their thin tumes; the dapper dragon | fly darts through the sunshine, pivots motionless for a moment on a blade otcran.u!tthbemrtodhphy its wings of sapphire gauze: and in the rich fullness of a single summer aft ernoon, one may. f ‘ _touch a hundred flowers | And not pluck one! ’poised on a pink clover bloom; a row ‘ot birds, swinging and visiting on a I‘olv branch of a willow beside the brookâ€"there are not too many of !then lovely trifles that help to make ‘up the perfection of summer time. [' There is an almost universal deâ€" sire to be out of doors throughtout the whole length of the glad season; to rejoice in the gayety of cottage garâ€" dens, with their honeysuckle trellises and variegated ‘blossoms, calling the bees through the scented alr; . to breathe the sweet perfume of upland hills and high. plainss or to count the rounded fragrant stacks in the fioclds where haying is in progress toward orderly provision for later needs;, ‘ ‘tlulon of color in ‘ bloomâ€"filled mea.| An experience more nearly like that ‘dows: and the low fringe of flags that|Of the American who flies for his own ‘early edged the brook now stands a|Pl@28ure 0 business, however, is that shoulderâ€"high forest of blades that|Of the Canadian Light Airplane Ciubs, must be pushed aside if one would| Th@#e clubs were formed last year, reach the stream. with government subsidy, to promote Midsummer is a time of aMuence in|C!Yilian flying. _ By the end of the nature‘s wonders, but there is not too|Y°@" there were 15 of them. During ‘much of it. Were there any comâ€"|1928 their combined membership of ‘iplalnt, it might be that "Summer‘s| 2493 made a total of 25,357 flights lastâ€" lease hath all too short a date."|!"& 8124 hours â€" presumably £12,400 Meanwhile, the shadows of the leaves, Milés Oof @irplane travel _ Much of dapping the grass, give delight to one]“‘" was student flying, far more fwho has the leisure to obgerye their d@Ngerous than the flying of qualified tremulous motion. The flash of .'pllots; yet the total number killed golden butterfly against the dark of n!"" three. This means 270,800 mites chestnut tree, or the bronze of a mllk-‘°' flight per death. weed bufterfly, suddeniy merged in|_ !t must be admitted that all these the brown of a woodland path, or the "!&ures apply only to properly regulatâ€" smaller oneo with polkaâ€"dot wingl,;f‘d _flying. There were, in all the Unâ€" " No longer is there any need to |search out a few shyly blooming flowâ€" | ors, such as gave delight in the carlier months, for now the true aim of spring‘s experiments in bloom is opuâ€" |lently apparent; and there is instead an embarrassmen of choice when ‘plucking the manifold blosoms. The {hint of green that ran softly across |the fields in May has become a proâ€" [fusion of color in‘ bloomâ€"illed meaâ€" ‘dows: and the low fringe of flags that early edged the brook now stands a \shoulderâ€"high forest of blades that must be pushed aside if one would reach the stream. high noon of summer the beauty of the land is spread out under a someâ€" times too ardent sun. _ Someone has complained that the trouble with summer is that there is too much of it while it lasts. This view might seem unreasonable unless, perhaps, expressed by an overzealous nature lover who undertakes to cataâ€" logue all the wonders to be observed on a single summer day. There can scarcely be too much of what ul beautiful, although, to be sure, in the .| The American government, however, E was powerless, since the concession y had been granted by Russia, with | which it had no diplomatic relations |and was not recognized by Japan, with |which the United States was on the |friendliest terms. So that concession lapsed. ow the northern half of the ] _island is definitely Russia‘s. PRECIOUS METALS SOUGHT. Asbestos, mica, emeralds, graphite, sulphur and porcelain clays are the obects of twentyâ€"nine expeditions. These parties will prospect in Karelâ€" ina, in central Russia; the Caucasus, 'the Urals, the Ferghana mountains, Enear the Afghan border; Russian ‘Turkesun, and the Transâ€"Balkan reâ€" gion. Ten other parties have gone to Itho Irtysh River and Akmolinsk disâ€" tricts of Siberia and to the Azov Sea !littoral in search of salt and phosphor. for platinum in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. Precious metals also will breEIvl;t;b- ects of numerous parties, Thirty groups are to look for gold and three TORONTO ing only as to whether its B;;d;:ti?n is commercially feasible. ISLAND DISPUTED TERRITORY, the Island of Sakhalin, off the coast of Siberia, and fortyâ€"seven parties are seeking new coal beds. Preliminary surveys in many instances have shown that coal and oil exist in some of these places, the question of the survey beâ€" ‘Geologists Hunt |How Safe Hidden Wealth â€"| _ Is For Soviet State __ k Oil and coal are the chief magnets for this activity. Sixty parties are lookin gfor oil in the Urals, the Cauâ€" casus, the Kazakstan district and on Moscow.â€"Thousands of scientists and their helpers are this summer exâ€" ploring all sections of the Soviet Unâ€" ion looking for evidences of hidden sources of naional wealth below ground. Six hundred and hiryâ€"nine geological expeditions have been sent Opulent Summer Moscow Sends 639 Parties to Explore Domain in Their Survey of Resources The prisoner faced the jadso with a determined gaze as the lattor inâ€" quired: â€""You committed this :heft alone?" "‘Yes," replied the guilty ma, ""You can‘t trust anybody nowad=»>»;* | _ It must be admitted that all these figures apply only to properly regulatâ€" "ed flying. There were, in all the Unâ€" lltecl Btates last year, 1062 accidents in civilian flying 384 persons were ‘killed and 709 injured. Only a small ‘number of these accidents, however, ‘happened to licensed craft in proâ€" ,m controlled flying. During the last six months of the yer, for oxâ€" ample, scheduled flying on regular airways caused only 717 percent of the total number of deaths and inâ€" juries. And for purposes of comâ€" parison it might be pointed out that gradeâ€"crossing accidents ‘alone, last year, took 2568 lives,â€" and injured 6667 persons.â€"The Review of Reâ€" views. liwe is always vicasious: it elther suffers or rejoices with the loved ones; it forgets its own cares and wishes in the needs and sorrows of others.â€"Alfred E. Garvie. getting through in fog, rain, or snow, lday or night, is by no means so safe |as properly regulated civilian flying |Perhaps because it does not require maneuveriag and formation flying it is less hazardous than military aviaâ€" tion. Certainly the figures set up by government mail flyers in 1927, the last full year before the air mail was turned over to private contract» ors, shows how safe flying can be made, even under the rigorouns ogâ€" mands of the postal service. â€"The reâ€" cord shows no less than 2,583,006 milâ€" es flown with but a single fatality. A man who flies with great frequency has perhaps 200 hours, or 20,000 miles, in the air a year. At this air mail rate of casualty, then, our continually flying private citizen could fly for 129 years before he would be killed. And private flying should be safer than mail flying, which neither rain nor suow nor gloom of pight may halt. â€" on military tasks and military _ maneuvers â€" years before having a fat The air mail, with its This general conclusion is bormt out by the Army‘s experience. _ A* though the amount of Army flying has almost tripled in seven years, the number of fatalities has shrunk to oneâ€"third. Last year there was, apâ€" proximately, a death for every 351, 700 miles flown. Roughly this indiâ€" cates that an average man could fly Or take a longâ€"time experience of the Navy, In the fiscal year 192102% there were 2,5000,000 miles flown and 14 mnaval fliers killed. In 192728 there woere 13,728,600 miles flown and 28 killed. In other words, the numâ€" ’ber of deaths per million miles flown has dropped to oneâ€"third in six years The record last year was 392,300 miles flown for each death. To answer the question how safe is the airplane, then, aone can say this: that on the basis of the difficult flying done last year by naval aviators a man could fy 392,200 miles â€" which would take him 19 years, even if he wore a freâ€" quent flier â€" before he would be killâ€" There are other yardsticks which measure the danger of leaving the ground. _ Consider the Navy. Here flying does not Gepend so much on the desire for safety as the demands of the task in hand. Yet in two days* operations last February the Navy flew 350 planes an average of four hours: each. ‘This meant 14090 hours in the air, or 140,000 miles flown. There was not one casualty. Lifednsurance companies no longar exclude airplane deaths from th> a# cidents for which they pay insurance, but they lack comprehensive figures on which to base their rate for prefesâ€" slional aviators. At present the comâ€" panies which offer this insurance ask an additional premium of about $26 per thousand for those whose daily business it is to fly. This is high, perhaps doubling the bormal life inâ€" surance rate for a healthy young man of 25. } How safe is it to fly? It depends entirely on how, and in what, you fly. With a safe craft and pilot doing sane fiying, the chances of trouble are no greater than when you take a Sunday automobile drive. | Herbert Brucker ' The U. 8. Department of Commorce informs us that one month from now in August, American airplanes carry» Ing passongers, mail, express, and freight will fly, da yin an day out, no less than seventyfive thousand miles a day. This includes only reâ€" gular flights over timeâ€"table routes. It omits countiess thousands of priâ€" vate hops, sightâ€"sceing and taxi rides. LOVE Is It To Fly? ind in intricate â€" some 17% fatal crash. its pressure of