AMERICAN MACHINERY IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN This brick machine was used in developing an irrigation project in the Tigro-Euphrates Valley, after foreign-built machines had proved failures. A AMERICAN BRICK MACHINE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN BRITISH company which had a contract from the Turkish Government to carry out an irrigation project for the reclamation of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley-the traditional site of the Garden of Eden found that concrete was too expensive, and decided to use brick. But the Arab Arab fellahin, who form the main labor body in that region, were both costly and inefficient, and as a result of the poor quality of the bricks they made by hand, the company decided to install modern machinery. British, German, and Belgian machines were purchased; but owing to their complicated nature, in the hands of the unintelligent labor that had to be used, they did not make bricks much better or cheaper than those of the fellahin. As a last resort, a couple of small American machines were purchased. Not only did they prove simple enough to be operated successfully by the Arabs, but they also made better brick than the best of the other machines, and made it COMMERCI ACCOUNTS IN twice as fast with fewer men, and at a saving in cost. As a result of this showing, a number of similar machines have been ordered from America, to be used in developing other projects. So American machinery. will play a great part in making the great and historic valley of the TigroEuphrates a Garden of Eden in fact as well as in name. INDIANS FOUND A MUSEUM in the center, upon each of which are two faces, the one black, the other red. It is the belief of the Delawares that if they are pleasing to the Great Spirit they will see only the red faces; while if they are in disfavor, they will be shown only the black. BOYS TURN ICEMEN SOME time ago the ice trust in Chicago formulated and promulgated an edict that raised the price of ice sold to little the Delaware tribe of Indians is ice merchants. Before it was issued a A MUSEUM for preserving relics of projected at Dewey, Oklahoma, by the Indians themselves. Many interesting curios are now held by individual members of the tribe, and Joe A. Bartles, grandson of Charles Journeycake, last chief of the Delawares, and for this reason looked upon as present leader of the tribe, feels that these relics should INDIANS PRESERVE OWN RELICS be gathered together as a common possession. Three custodians of the museum are to be selected and it is planned to construct the locks of the cases containing the relics and costumes of the tribe in such a manner that it will require the presence of all three to open them. The building planned for this purpose is a facsimile of the last of the Delaware "Long Houses" located a few miles from Dewey. This building has been to the Delawares what churches, convention halls, and legislative chambers, combined, are to us. The building is of log with a narrow door in one end and two openings in the ceiling. The interior is bare save for posts, a row about the walls and one The ice kings laid down the rule that ten cents' worth of ice was the minimum quantity that henceforth would be disposed of. of the dealers, the little people have kept right on hauling ice. ice. They are increasing their business, for many of them make spending money. Despite this law SUPPLYING THE FAMILIES OF THE POOR BY EXPRESS SERVICE AT REDUCED RATES COF YRIGHT-INTERNAT, NEWS STATUETTE OF MRS. VERNON CASTLE DONE BY A Similar pieces executed by Prince Paul Troubetskoy are being sought after by members of New York society. Neighbors pay them, for they are still able to get more ice for a dime than is carried upstairs by the ice man for the same sum. One of the men at the car where the picture was taken said that he loaded between three and four hundred of these wagons a day. CONVERTS LIABILITY TO ASSET A NEW machine which converts into an asset the rocks which usually lower the value of the farm on which PHONE STATION ON THE WALK The usual service may be obtained from this instrument, which is located on the beach at one of California's famous watering places. THE SCHOOLMISTRESS AND ONE OF HER PUPILS Miss Katherine Stinson is giving one of the boys in the San Antonio military high school a lesson in practical aviation. GIRL WHO GIVES FLYING P LESSONS By ARTHUR E. NEALY RACTICAL instruction in ricula of military colleges and high schools. The new course has been tried out with the school children of the San Antonio, Texas, military colleges and high schools, and has proved an instantaneous success. The pupils were taught the principles of aerodynamics in the class room. Then each student body elected one of their number to undertake the coveted duty of experiencing a real flight with the aviatrice. She thereupon took the lucky candidates aloft in her Wright biplane for twenty minute rides. equipped with dual The machine was pupils were allowed to manipulate the warping and elevator levers. Following these practical lessons in the science of aviation, each amateur aviator was required to deliver a speech before his classmates, telling "how it felt". Much enthusiasm was developed and straightway several model aviation clubs were established in San Antonio. No less interesting than the flights, was the aviatrice, Miss Katherine Stinson, and her wonderful control of her machine. Miss Stinson owns and flies two aeroplanes, one a Wright biplane and the other a machine of her own design. She is the proud possessor of pilot license. No. 148, from the Aero Club of America, she has made 1,165 flights, and she has carried over five hundred passengers. MENDING A HOLE By DAVID WILLIAMS EDWARD J. By one change in the disburs ing system at Pana ma, he saved the nation two and one-half million dollars. W E often hear of a cashier or bank president who achieves notoriety by juggling books and stealing a few hundred thousand dollars; but rarely do we hear of a similar trick that benefits everyone. That is why the achievement of Edward J. Williams is so remarkable. Williams is the man who juggled dollars and ran five or six sets of books for Uncle Sam at Panama; but instead of getting in trouble by his financial legerdemain, he left the government two and a half million dollars richer than it thought it would be, paid all bills, made a big reputation, and left everyone happy. It all happened because some government financial experts apparently did not think closely enough. When the construction of the Panama Canal was entrusted to the Isthmian Canal Commission, the experts at Washington thought it would be comparatively easy to procure the millions of dollars necessary to finance the project. All they had to do was to vote sufficient credit in the shape of bonds, and the thing was done, because any banker in the United States would be glad to advance United States currency in any quantity in exchange for these bonds. But the experts did not figure closely on the fact that, while the Panama Canal was not in the United States, the obligations of the Commission must be paid in United States currency. They worked up an agreement with those in financial power on the Isthmus, whereby the United States was to buy its own currency from the local banks whenever it needed a little cash, paying the banks one cent for every dollar received, and let it go at that. They didn't see that they had started a grand little scheme to pump money from the treasury into the coffers of the Panama banks. But when ships laden with tools and construction material, and bearing armies of workmen, began to tie up at the docks, and money was needed to pay bills and expenses, the joke became painfully apparent. During the two years this arrangement was in effect, men who were to work on the Canal were arriving in great numbers from the four corners of the world, the pay rolls were growing larger with each succeeding pay period, while great fleets were bringing materials upon which settlement had to be made. Since all of the money which was used for these things on the Isthmus was secured from the banks in Panama at the |