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“Y6u will be just as good a risk as a man worth a million if you al-

ways pay your debts when due because that is all he can do.” * '* * * The average annual salary of big league baseball players is around '$5;0(J0. New players receive about $2,500. * * * S! “Dizzy” Dean has been running a filling station this winter at Bradenton, Fla. Joe DiMaggio has lieen managing the ‘'Seafood Grotto” (a restaurant) at San Francis-

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* * * * Local option elections have been held in 7,000 different communities in the U. S. and the “Drys” have won in 5,000 of them. * * * * When a Japanese soldier is drafted into service in time of war it is customary for his employer to confine paying the soldier’s salary to his family. * * * * The United States has made diaim against Japan for $2,214,007.36 for deaths, personal injuries and property damage resulting from, the Panay incident in the Yangtse river, December 12. * * * * Intelligence is measured by comparing a person's mental and chronological ages and this result is known as the “Intelligence Quotient” (IQ). * * * * Personality is scientifically measured by comparing a person’s development in his several personal characteristic with the chronological ages and this result is known at the “Personality Quotient” (PQ. * * * * How big do dogs get? The biggest dog in the world died recently in Ohio. The Dayton, Ohio, dog show gave the official weight of this big dog as 247 pounds. He was a thfee and one-half-year old St. Bernard and measured 37 inches high and 36 inches from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. * * Jc * The League of Nations, through a bulletin from its Health Organization advises women under 21 against strenous athletics. * * * * When Man O’War, America’s most famous horse, w T as making turf records, eighteen years ago, he weighed only 1,000 pounds. Now, at age twenty-one, the old champion weights 1,375 pounds. * * * * Prices on 75-watt Mazda lamps are lower now-. This is the 19th cut in bulb prices since 1921. * * * * Deaths from automobile accidents in the United States during the past seven years have increased about 32 per cent for night driving and day time fatalities dropped four per cent. * * # * There are twenty-three different •places in the body where the vaious kinds of cancer may occur. However, sixty-four per cent of cancers occur in internal organs and bones where a low percentage are cured. * * * * About 2,000,000 couples are married in the United States each year. # * # * Now an attempt is being made to unionize WPA workers. * * * * “Dare to do right! Dare to be true! You have a work That no other can do; Do it so bravely, So kindly, so well, Angels will hasten The story to tell.” — -o Central States To Hold Parole Session June 5th Columbus, O. — The Central States Probation and Parole conference will study interstate piobation and paroles problems at an annual -meeting -in Columbus, June 5 to S. Officials in charge of the convention expect 300 persons interested in the subject to attend. Discussion will be centered on closer co-operation between states in probation institutional care, parole sdpervision and xebatoilitations of prisoners on parole or probation. State members of tbe conference are Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kentucky and Missouri. In addition, Charles Heslop, Newark, O., general conference chafrn;**. said that Officials from otfc^r states hare been invited.

TRACES FOUND OF PRE-INDIAN RACE IN WEST

New Mexico Excavations Yield Stone Weapons 12,000 Years Old Philadelphia—A hardy race of primitive men lived in the southwest 12,000 to 14,000 years ago, before the American Indiana arrived on the continent according to further evidence uncovered in New Mexico by Philadelphia archeologists. A joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences here has returned with finds, uncovered near Clovis, N. M., which place the race in the Pleistocene Age. In a clay and gravel pit near Clovis, the expedition found stone dart heads, a lump of earth containing the vertebrae of an extinct species of bison with a dart head close to the bone, and four skulls of bison. Definite Culture Proved The dart heads show, according to the scientists, that man was a contemporary of the towering, shaggy mammoths and bison that roamed the North American continent more than 120 centuries

ago.

Last summer’s expedition, under Dr. Edgar B. Howard, research associate of both the museum and the academy, returned to the same spot where they had excavated the remains of a prehistoric mammoth, together with several similar dart heads in 1936. Disclosure of the significance of the expedition’s finds was made in a report not yet published. The three-months work of last summer was particularly significant in bolstering the first proof—uncovered the previous year—of ancient man’s existence in North America, according to the archeologists. Discovery of the dart heads with the fossilized bones, described as an “extremely rare” occurrence, indicates that ancient man hunted the huge animals for food. Wound Probably Not Fatal The spear head found near tbe bison’s vertebrae apparently was thrown with tremendous force. There is no eviuence to show that the wound killed the animal, but the stone head was carried by the bison until its death, the report

said.

Similar crude spear points first were discovered near Folsom, N. M., several years ago and since have been known to archeologists as “Folsom” heads. The joint Philadelphia expedition’s discovery of the heads together with fossilized remains has given scientists their first evidence as to the age of the chipped stone weapons. Archeologists have theorized that the Clovis gravel pit may have been the bottom of an ancient lake which dried up as the southwest became increasingly arid. As the water evaporated, they believe, prehistoric beasts may have stampeded to what water was left, crushing weaker members of the herds. Discovery of charcoal in the pit, indicating that numerous fires were built on the shores of the lake, gives weight to a theory that man invaded the pit, but the possibility that he may have cooked the game he killed has been ruled out because the bones discovered so far were not charred. searuTytElls HOW TO WORRY

Schenectady, N. Y.—A plea for “constructive worrying” was voiced by Dr. David Seabiity, of New York, in a lecture at Union college. Ordinary worry, Dr. Seabury said, is caused by fear in control of the imagination. The way to avoid this habit, he advised, “is to seek the center of the problem, let the reason control the thinking processes, and think straight.” Warning against resisting or resenting difficulties, Dr. Seabury advocated forcing the mind to digest one’s problems, thereby starting constructive action to correct or accept the situation. He maintained that a negative attitude allows fear to enter the mind with the subsequent result that the mind beomes unable to cope with the problem. “With fear intoxication,” he explained, “the brain is partly coagulated or unfit for thinking.” Also, he added, problems should be correctly judged and handled according to their importance. To solve worrisome problems, Dr. Seabury urged “deliberation, discrimination, decision and determination” in coping with the difficulties. He concluded his lecture by advising : “Never worry in bed; never worry when depressed; never worry until you know enough facts to do something constructive; never do another person’s worrying; never worry about what someone else thinks you should do; never worry when angry; set a time limit on worry talks; never rtyour worries on someone else.”

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This is open season for candidates and nobody knows it any better than the newspaper editor. The candidate hot foots it to the newspaper office upon yielding to 1 that call to serve his fellow man (we suspect the salary has something to do with it) and modesty tells the editor all his good points. He wants his autobiography pubIsihed without thought as to whether the newspaper’s subscribers care to read it. Most editors are considerate of the would-be office holder and write a nice article about him. Sometimes thPy publish his picture. Then, in retern for all the kindness. We know.) for it has happened to us. Archie N. Bobbitt, state Republican chairman, is painting the G. O. P. politicians as sweet little choir boys whose thought is devout public service. They never play politics, not these goodygoody Republican bosses. Why, said Archie at a mefeting of the Monroe County Women's Republican club, “it took Republican state administrations 30 years to build up a non-partisan and businesslike system of operating state institutiohs, and all of this 30 years' work has been wiped out in the past six years.” In his passion for Republican victory, Archie is becoming ridiculous. When Governor McNutt came into office, he found 90 per cent of the employes of state institutions were Republicans, and the institutions badly managed by Republicans in authority. The Republicans. embittered toWard the Democrats through defeat, were Replaced by persons who would cooperate with the new administration. Indiana’s institutions were never in better condition than they are today both from the physical and personnel standpoint. Archie knows so too, but, after all, he has to say something to turn people against the Democratic party?

In his speeches the Republican state boss is telling his audiences about increase government costs in Indiana. Governor Townsend has taken issue with his figures, but without going into that, we’ll let Archie use his own figures. Now, if Archie waned to be fair, he would explain where some of this money went. But, be doesn’t, so we’ll tell the taxpayers, and we take pride in doing it. Since March, 1936, Indiana’s needy aged, blind and dependent children have received a total of $15,877,721 in monthly grants. During the twoyear period, needy persons over 70 have received $11,631,556. Dependent children have received $3--571,374 since August, 1936, while $674,790 has been distributed to the needy blind. The state and county public assistance programs which administered this money are financed 45 per dent by the federal government, 34 per cent by the state and 21 per cent by local counties. Are we to presume that the Republican party, if restored to power, will discontinue this humanitarian program?

Property owners in Scott and Harrison toWnships in Harrison county petitioned the county commissioners to consolidate the two townships. Scott totvnship will cease to exist after this year and the trustee elected in Harrison will serve the entire enlarged area. The petitions were filed by 936 freeholders of the two units in the hope that the merger would lower taxes, which it undoubtedly will. Attorney General Omer S. Jackson dug up an old state law which -gave the legal go sigh to such a merger. Modern roads and modern means of communication have outmoded small tihits of townships taxpayers can reduce their taxes. It will be interesting to observe if they iviH take advantage of this opportunity to cut the costs of government. A Republican editor ih the southern Indiana town got out of bed on the wrong side one morning recently. As he walked to his office in a grouch, he tried to think up something against the state administration ah a subject for his daily editorial. His eye spied a yellow sign reading, “School. Drive Slow”, along the city street. Ah, there was something to complain about. And forthwith he went to his desk and typed out an editorial attacking the state highway department for ejecting such an unattractive traffic sign. The editor spoke of the “blots in front of homes” and pointed out the school children were on the streets only four times of 180 days a year. He Wound up his tirade by demanding the highway fjf^bbnission either improve the looks of the signs or take them doWn. It is hard to believe that traffic signs which are yellow because tests have proven yellow to be the color most visible, and winch guard the lives of the -little children, could come in for such

criticism.

. o- 1 - — KOREAN GIRL TOR SCHOLAR,

Silver Bow, Mont.—Rose Hahn, 13, born of Korean parents Who come to the United States 14 years ago, has demonstrated her appreciation of American Educational •facilities. She won the Silver county scholarship, which is based on the pationaily used examinations prepared by the Kansas St^te 'Teacie.-s' College, with a

score of 329 points.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938.

GEYSERS SHOW 50-YEAR SCARS OF VANDALISM

Tourists In Yellowstone Still Persist in Leaving Their Marks Yellowstone Bark, Mont. — The “fools’ faces” were gone long ago, but their names still adorn public places here, along with penciled poetry, tax tokens, and marks of vandalism. Visitors annually enter the park, try to get their names in as many different places as possble, throw logs in the geysers to see them blow up, and take pieces of rare formations for the mantlepieces back home. Names with the date 1880 still may be seen beneath the thin crusts of geyserite nature uses to hide her shame, many of them in the most beautiful formations of the valley. In some cases, entire geyser cones have disappeared, blown out by a load of rock or logs tossed in to amuse the tourist who demands action, or taken home in small chunks to prove to the neighbors that “we really were there.” Tax Tokens Cast Into Pools Shining tax tokens are thrown into geyser pools for no apparent reason, and park attendants fish them out at the risk of damaging delicate formations. Vandalism is nothing new. As early as 1873, one year after appointment of N. P. Langford as first park superintendent, it had become objectionable. "The parapets of sinter of the ‘Bee Hive’,” he wrote to th© then secretary of the interior, “have been much defaced by visitors to the park.” He even suggested leasing parte of the park so leassees would hire protection to safeguard their interests. A description typical of today’s vandals was written by Capt. William Ludlow of the U. S. army engineers more than 50 years ago. Crater Rim Defeated “The only blemishes on this artistic handiwork,” he reported, have been occasioned by the rude hand of man. The ornamental work about the crater and pools of Faithful had been broken and defaced in the most prominent places by visitors arid pebbles were inscribed in pencil with the naines of the most undistinguished persons. Such practices should be stopped at once.” That was more than a half-cen-tury ago, and the practices haven’t been stopped yet. Park directors, however,, find consolation in the attitude of the majority of visitors, who report vandalism and frequency use force to make ambitious name carvers md sample-getters stop. And, as Jo© Joffe, assistant to the superintendent, puts it, “we still have more natural wonders than any place else in the world.” FILESSH0W$65 HELD OFF WAR Albuquerque, N. M.—The gods of peace must have smiled when it was revealed here how an obscure Indian agent 64 years ago averted a war by spending $65 and organizing a buffalo hunt. When nations are spending billions of dollars and pacifists billions of words over “the next world war,” Frank Mosher, employed on a historical record research project here, discovered a letter in which the U. S. agent wrote to his superiors in Washington apologizing for having spent $65.50 to prevent a war between the Apache and Ute Indians. According to the report, written in 1874 by Alex G. Irvine to the Hon. Edward P. Smith, U. S. commissioner of Indian affairs, the Apaches went marauding' one night and stole half a dozen horses from the Utes. Tribal Council Called The Utes countered by preliminary thumps on their war drums. Irvine, a one-man league of nations in what was then a southwestern wilderness, sensed the impending trouble and called the two tribes intb council at "Cimarron,

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Representatives glowered across the room at each other in the agency building during which Irvine wrote that he did much perspiring to keep the poWtvbw from •becoming the beginning of a scalping spree. Eventually Irvine got the Apaches grudgingly to agree to return the stolen horses. However, this arrangement failed to make peace between the tribes. The Utes demanded the lives of the thieves. The Apaches, of course, objected. So the meeting broke up with each tribe waiting for the other to make a miss-step to put on the war

-paint.

Idea of Hunt Conceived -It Was then that Irvine conceiv--ed the idea of the buffalo hunt. He reasoned that -if the warriors of one of the tribes were busy ih another part of the country there would be no occasion for friction between the two groups. The Apaches, for an unnaated reason, were chosen to go on the

•hunt.

•Irvine f s -report revealed the -following bill of sale: •1,000 -R>s. of <gun -naps 2:50 ■ ! 1 doz. butche;* knives 6.00 20 lbs. lead' son

Boston Defends Bunker Hill Again; This Time From Speed-Mad Drivers

Boston.—City officials have devised a new plan to end “looping” a breakneck sport which has claimed seven lives. For 13 years Charlestown’s Bunker Hill district, renowned in history, has been frightened by reckless young motorists careening at 70 to 90 miles an hbtir over the street-loop. Speed-m&d yduths, sometimes in stolen cars, ushally begin the loop at Chelsea street and zoom along Bunker Hill street's mile-long steep grad to Sullivan square. City highway authorities plan to narrow apace for autbttiobiles to 8 feet, 6 inches at three strategic locations on Bunker Hill street. It is believed motorists will have to slow down to at least 25 miles an hour to go through the “narrows” or “botttle-necks.” Street-car reservations would be constructed in the middle of the street between the etlrbs. Pavement blocks between the car tracks and outside the tracks as far as the reservation curb would be removed, resulting in an 8 or 9 inch drop in the middle of the street. Attempts to ride the tracks, even slowly, would be dangerous. ■Warning signs and blinkers Would instruct drivers to keep off the reservation and to slow down for the “narrows.” “Looping” began in 1925 when

16-year-old Jimmie Sheehan began a series of driving feats which have made him “king of the loopers.” He escaped death on two occasions when his car plummeted into Elevated steel uprights. So highly organized did t‘he sport become that a grapevine telegraph heralds the approach of the looper. The street fills with spectatbrs, mostly boys and girls intent on Waching their "favorite” perform. A screeching horn and twin shafts of light streak over the hill. When the loop is completed, the driver stabs the foot-brake inter* mittently—the flashing light signaling whether he will make the "un again. Many attempts have been made to blot out looping. Several years ago a spike-studded carpet was stretched across the street. It was effective. But one night a wild looper hit a patrolman who was unrolling the “carpet.” The officer was hurtled to his death. “Shoot to kill” orders were issued once by one district captain. But the danger to bystanders resulted in cancellaion of the order. Because bf threats and challenges made to police by loopers, city officials Seeking to eradicate the evil devised the plan of making Bunker Hill street hazardous to fast driving.

10 lbs. gunpowder 10:00 1,200 lbs. shot 42.00 Total $65.50 Mosher, commenting on his findings, mourned the passing of Irvine and the buffalo. “It’s time for another hunt,” he said. FRANCO REGIME OUTLINES WORK TO AID PEOPLE

Nationalist Aids Declare Idleness Is Reduced, Wages Raised London—Efforts of the Franco regime to improve the lot of the working-classes have been outlined by Franco representatives here. They declare unemployment has been deduced, wages improved, the task of constructing adequate houses for the workers begun, workmen’s compensation established, extensive social and welfare services created and plans drawn for the reconstruction of villages and towns destroyed in the war. Unemployment is said to have been abolished in Salamanca, a city of 50,000 inhabitants, where there were 1,900 without work. Employment bureaus were set up throughout the territory captured by Franco’s troops and in Salamanca the city council spent 360,000 pesetas on paving 35 streets and 110,000 pesetas more on beautifying the city. In addition to public works, authorities forced private employers to start their idle factories and workshops irrespective of whether they were owned by Spaniards or foreigners, under penalty of having them seized. Jobless Pay No Rent All unemployed have been declared exempt from paying rent, water and light rates if their rent is below 150 pesetas a month. The loss to landlords is spread over by pooling the total amount of money received in rent and doling; nut to each landlord his proportionate share after deducting the pardoned rents. Light and water companies to surchange 0.25 per cent to those paying. The Falange Espanola took the lead in the task of feeding and housing the destitute and in a year created 711 dining-rooms, assisting daily 73.936 people, serving 4,968,734 meals monthly, according to Franco’s aides. Every woman between tb© ages of 17 and 35 has to do six mohths social service before she can enter any profession or position of political responsibility. The six months

can be split up over a maximum period; those employed privately have their jobs kept open for them. Those exempt are the sick, physically defective, married women or widows with children under their care, and those who served in hospitals or at the front befbre organization of social service. Money for the needy is obtained by house-to-house collections, by the sale of emblems and ‘from the “Single-course Day,” under which every family once a week has a one-course meal and donates the money saved to authorities. Adoption Boards Set Up The problem of orphans has been partly solved by private adoption effected with the approval of boards composed of the mayor, vicar, one of the higher schoolmasters and a municipal inspector of health. Reconstruction of destroyed toivns and villages Will introduce a new style in housing, it is said. Plans prepared for the new Guernica reveal that instead of the typical Spanish patio, the new houses will have front gardens, in the English style. Reconstruction will be by property owners meeting in the chambers of town property, under government supervision. o Railway coaches for campers will be placed in the Highlands of Scotland.

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ITALY REMAINS SURE OF GOLD' FROM ETHIOPIA Six Mines Are Reported Working With New Equipment Rome—Ethiopian gold, platinum. coffee and hides are beginning to pay the huge cost of conquest of the East African Empire. Italian colonial experts still talk in the most optimistic terms of the mineral and agricultural resources of Ethiopia. However, one year and a half after Italian troops entered Addis Ababa sees only these four products and several others to a minor degree coming out of Ethiopia to help foot the bill. While much publicity is given to the exploitation of these four key products, definite statistics are lacking. Gold, which Premier Mussolini in a recent speech said existed in considerable quantities in East Africa, is being extracted at a reported rate of about 200 pounds a month. Great hopes are held for a doubled output during the coming year. Six. Mines Laid Out It is reported that six mines are already being exploited. Villages for workers have been constructed and gll the necessary modern equipment installed. At one of the mines in Ugaro, more than 150 tons of auriferous soil is treated monthly. Between 18 and 29 grams of gold is extracted per ton of metal producing soil in other zones. This allegedly equals the yield of Rhodesian and Transvaal veins. The report is current in Italy that another mine will be opened shortly from which experts hope to e'xtract 200 pounds of yellow metal monthly. The opening of this mine would alone double the present output. About 1,000 pounds of platinum is being extracted from Ethiopian soil per annum at. the moment. Like gold, platinum has always been mined by the natives, but in minor quantities. The output has been increased because of the installation of modern equipment and new methods of extraction. Experts believe they have only scratched the gold and platinum possibilities and that

once other zones are studied and new highways built to reach these zones, the yield will shbw a big jump. Coffee No. 1 Export Coffee, which might be termed “Italy’s national drink,” is Ethiopia’s No. 1 export product. Between 300,000 and 350,000 quintals (66 to 77 million pounds) is produced annually. Only 60,000 quintals of this is annually shipped to Italy. This is explained by the fact that present trade agreements between Italy and Brazil obliges the former to continue importing most of its coffee from South America. Ethiopia exports the remainder of its coffee crop to the United States and north European nations. Principally Holland, Sweden and Norway—old customers dating back to pre-Menelik day. Italy encourages these exports, as it brings precious foreign currency o Teacher Drives 300 Miles For College Study Grand Forks. N. D.—Every third Saturday at precisely 4 a. m. Arthur L. Loessin of Columbia, S. D., starts a 300-mile drive to attend the special classes for public school teachers held at the University of North Dakota. Loessin travels the longest distance to attend the classes.- Two other teachers travel more than 250 miles to attend the calsses. Unutfr direction of Dr. A. V. Overn, most of the Saturday class students are taking graduate courses in economics, political science, education, English, history and sociology. In a single year they are able to complete nearly a third of the work required for a master’s degree. The tuition averages $20.

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