"TIME brings all things"

In Geisenfeld, Bavaria, Franz Dietrich, "champion sausage eater of Ger-many," ate 14 one-pound sausages, drank 10 large glasses of beer in two hours.

From Washington, the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, announced that during December, 1923, more hogs were slaughtered under Federal meat inspection than during any other month in history. Total number of hogs slaughtered: 5,903,759.

In Huntington, W. Va., in front of the fashionable 20th St. Baptist Church, was piled an immense mass of books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets. The Rev. Arthur Fox, evangelist, waved a great torch, made a short speech denouncing the writers, publishers, printers of "objectionable matter," then applied the torch "while thousands cheered."