Miscellany: Sep. 12, 1927

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"Not High Enough"

"The undertaking profession is overcrowded and the death rate is not high enough. . . . Last week in Baltimore there were only ten bodies to the divide . . . and three of these were children on whose funerals there is always a loss. . . ." So said one W. F. Guerke last week, at a convention of the Maryland State Funeral Directors Association.

Frey

In Newark, one August Frey saw a large automobile bearing down on him. He had just enough time to get across the street—no, he...

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