A Baptist minister who practiced immersion was asked, according to "Judge," to tell what was his most awkward experience. He said: "One Sunday afternoon I was to have an immersion in the river on the outskirts of town. A great crowd had assembled There were two candidates for baptism. One was an extraordinarily tall woman, coming almost up to my own six-feetthree in height. The other was a little runt of a man hardly five feet tall. When it came time for the ceremony I took the towering lady by the arm, intending to immerse her first, and told the little man to follow us. The lady and I had gone into the water until it was about up to our waists, when I heard very improper tittering among the spectators. Looking back to discover the cause of this untimely levity, I beheld the little candidate for baptism coming along-swimming!" "When, years ago," says Dr. G. Stanley Hall in the "Atlantic," "I first heard the picturesque word 'Flapper' applied to a girl, I thought of a loose sail flapping in whatever wind may blow, and liable to upset the craft it is meant to impel. There was also in my mind the flitting and yet cruder mental imagery of a wash, just hung out to dry in the light and breeze, before it is starched and ironed for use. I was a little ashamed of this when the dictionary set me right by defining the word as a fledgling, yet in the nest, and vainly attempting to fly while its wings have only pinfeathers; and I recognized that thus the genius of 'slanguage' had made the squab the symbol of budding girlhood." Specialization in the shoe trade is indicated by this sign over the front of a New York City store: "Shoes for Boys, Youths, and Little Gents." Few people realize the vast extent of the Dutch empire in the East. The Netherlands, the home country, is only about 13,000 square miles in area, and trains go from its eastern to its western boundary in a few hours. But the journey by sea from Sabang, north of Sumatra, to Merauke in New Guinea-the extreme limits of Holland's island empire-covers about 3,000 nautical miles, or more than the distance from the United States to England. The total area is about 735,000 square miles. One of the islands, Java, about as large as New York State, contains a population MILWAUKEE Low Fares to the Greatest of The Puget Sound Country can now be visited at remarkably It's your chance to see this land of big distances of inspiring mountain views-lakes and glaciers-primeval forests-snowcapped peaks sheltered harbors-ocean beaches. Mt. Rainier National Park, the Olympic Peninsula, Puget Sound, the Pacific Ocean and the big timbers are but few of the attractions of this most diversified vacation region. En route travel over the World's Longest Electrified Railroad. Unsurpassed mountain scenery! Open observation cars! No smoke or cinders. The famous "Olympian" and the "Columbian" between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest are electrically operated for 649 miles. You can return through California at slight additional cost. Choice of routes. Send for free descriptive booklets and full information GEO. B. HAYNES, General Passenger Agent, 1352 Railway Exchange Bldg., Chicago, Illinois BY THE WAY-(Continued) of 34,000,000-three or four times as great as that of our Empire State. Here is a clever indictment of our lingual inconsistencies, headed in a contemporary's column as "The Same Old Slam on Our Language:" When the English tongue we speak Cannot cap his horse with worse? Beard sounds not the same as heard; An incident that Sir Ernest Shackleton always repeated with glee was the reply one of the Irish members made to him when Shackleton asked: "Can you imagine the enormous extent of those vast Arctic snow fields?" "Yes," replied the Irish member, "I had the same sinsation the first toime I appeared in public wearing a dress shirt." "Some of the neighbors are making a howl about the items we are sending in," says a contributor of local news items to the Columbus (Montana) "News." "So I believe that as soon as my supply of stationery runs out, I will quit writing. Let some one else take the job if they think they can do so much better. I am getting tired of being bawled out every week, and would like to sit back and criticise some one else writing for a while." To this the Editor, not wishing to lose an able writer, brackets a comforting and finely independent reply: "Stay with 'em, kid! Don't let the jabbering of a few kickers unveil the cayuse in your disposition. If an editor or writer takes the scare that easy, we would have swapped our pen for a Fatima ten years ago, and each and every issue since then. 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But a little thoughtful preparation will insure their comfort. Provide for plenty of clean, cool sheets; for clean, crisp clothes; for a soap-and-water bath twice a day-who wants more than these, wants luxury! Copyright 1922, by The Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati PROCTER GAMBLE WHEN IS A LAW NOT A LAW A MAN once famous for the quality of beer which he brewed recently traveled to Europe in a vessel owned and operated by the United States Shipping Board. From the other side he sent back a pertinent query. He wanted to know why it was illegal for him to make beer, while the Government itself was in the market for German beers with which to supply its vessels. He pointed his question by inclosing a copy of a list of drinks sold by the United States Government on its own vesselswhen they had passed beyond the threemile limit. To this question Mr. Lasker replied that he had an opinion from the Attorney-General's office that it was legal to sell such liquors beyond the territorial waters of the United States. We have not the legal erudition of the Attorney-General's office, but we confess that such a statement bewilders us. Under what selective principle is one law of the United States operative beyond the three-mile limit and another law confined only to our territorial waters? We had always supposed that a vessel was regarded as a floating section of the country whose flag it flew. If we are in error in this, how does it happen that the Congress of the United States ventures to prescribe the conditions under which American sailors shall be employed when upon the high seas? The claim of the Shipping Board to the right of exemption from the Volstead Act seems easily reducible to an absurdity. The real reason for claiming such an exemption of course does not rest upon any principle of selective law. It is to be found in the fact that the United States Shipping Board vessels find it hard to compete for passengers with vessels of foreign countries legally entitled to sell liquor. Even if the action of the Shipping Board can be defended by a legal quibble, it is beneath the dignity of the United States Government to take advantage of it. The time to discuss the effect of prohibition upon our shipping was before, and not after, the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. At that time we should have recognized the fact that we would have to forego the monetary advantage of selling liquor on our ships, just as we recognized the fact that we would have to forego the advantage of receiving millions from excise taxes if we were bent upon abolishing the liquor traffic. The alleged financial disadvantage of prohibiting liquor in our merchant mariné is another argument JUNE 28, 1922 Keystone SMITH BROOKHART in favor of the Governmental subsidy which Mr. Lasker and the President have requested from Congress. It is not an argument in favor of Governmental hypocrisy. THE MEANING OF BROOKHART HE nomination of Colonel Smith W. Brookhart in the Republican primary of the State of Iowa has affected the so-called Old Guard of the party in Washington and throughout the country with greater consternation than the victory of Beveridge in Indiana or Pinchot in Pennsylvania. Brookhart belongs well over on the left wing of the more radical element of the Republican party. He wishes the Railway Transportation Act repealed and the pumping out of what he alleges to be the seven billions of water from the securities of the roads. He belongs clearly to the railway radical group. He wishes the farmers to have representation on the Federal Reserve Board in proportion to their share in the primary deposits in the banks of the country. More wisely he believes in the fullest possible cooperative programme for both farmers and factory people, and in this we think he is sound. The development of the practice of co-operation on a large scale in this country is better as a method of getting things done than the increase in Governmental agencies with their enormous overhead, waste, inefficiency, and armies of civil servants. Brookhart favors a soldiers' bonus, to be paid out of war profits and excess profits, and not out of a sales tax. He believes that the Newberry case should be reopened, and he is opposed to ship subsidies. He sifts out what he calls the "predatory blocs" and opposes them, but he favors the farmers' bloc, the labor bloc, the soldier bloc, the mothers' bloc, and all business blocs which cooperate with the preceding. He is eager for the retention of the direct primary as the best method of driving the "NonPartisan League of Wall Street" from the State. We thus recapitulate the issues through the discussion of which in the State of Iowa the nomination of ColonelBrookhart in the Republican primary was assured. There is more enthusiasm than wisdom in some parts of Colonel Brookhart's platform. But, however that may be, it is certain that the success of such a programme in the tremendously Republican State of Iowa is a warning light to the Administration at Washington which it will do well not to ignore. Kindly offices of conciliation between contending interests and factions are not enough to meet National opinion and lead it into safe and wise channels. A keen intelligence and vision and will power with respect to domestic affairs of great moment were never more needed than now in the Administration at Washington. RADIO LEGISLATION. CON YONGRESSMAN WHITE, of Maine, has introduced in the House of Representatives a bill to amend the act of 1912 which regulates radio communication. The present act, while it was adequate to meet conditions at the time it was enacted, has fallen far short of the requirements that have arisen with the marvelous development of radio during the past year. It was for the purpose of considering new conditions from every angle that Secretary Hoover, of the Department of Commerce, called, a few months ago, a conference of radio manufacturers, distributers, and others intercsted, and it is from the conclusions of that conference that the new bill was drawn. It was realized that it would be quite impossible to pass statutory legislation that would be flexible enough to meet the ever-changing conditions of the new industry and science. Thus it is that, aside from declaring general principles, the determination of most of the factors that may be expected to arise in the dissemination and enforcement of reg |