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Everything Done on Giant Scale
RUTH was a character straight out of Rabe‘lais—a gross, profane, simple giant, whose vast excesses violated every rule in the nice-Neily lexicon. ‘And which, oddly enough, comprised a considerable portion of the man's greatness. They loved him despite his early sins, and worshipped him the more when he refofmed. Everything the Babe did was on a giant scale. When he had a bellyache, it was the biggest bellyache ever recorded by mankind. When he took to his bed with that aching paunch, result of a dozen hotdogs and as many botties of soda pop: noe queenly accouchement or kingly gout ever rated so much newspaper space and verbal comment. The Babe could vagquish a bottle of Bourbon, outwait the dawn, grab a shower, go to the park, play the: doubleheader, hit three over the whll,
Castor Oil
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—The subject today is castor oil and its effect upon the body politic. not e ‘em. Honest John Snyder, the Secretary of. the Treasury, brought it up. He hurried to Capitol Hill in his $26 summer guit, which would have cost him $16.50 before the war, to tell the Senators they'd better revive price controls’ and rationing tickets while there yet is time. ‘The Republican gentlemen of the Banking Committee gave him a bad time of it.
Sen. C. Douglass Buck of Delaware said it was doggone odd he could suggest such a thing, when the government itself was shoveling out millions supporting high prices for such things as potatoes. How come? Honest John said that was something for' the Secretary of Agriculture to answer.
# This made Sen. Harry P. Cain of the state of Washington. sore. Nobody knew from nothing in the President's cabinet, he said. Didn't they even talk over the situation at the White House? Maybe, said the Senator, he'd better call up all the cabinet officers at once to see if they could got together on what is wrong with the cost of ving. This caused the Secretary of Treasury to get red in the face. He.said he wasn't in favor of price controls as such. . “Neither do I like castor oil,” he added, as .an afterthought. .
Doesn't Like Castor Oil
+ “YOU MEAN it is unpalatable,” remarked Sen. Charles W, Tobey of N. H, “But is it efficacious? That is the question before us today.” H John said castor ofl undoubtedly was eff e. Sen, Ralph BE. Flanders, the Vermont tool manufacturer, went, harumpf, “ “Does the Secretary of the Treasury believe,” he roared, “that castor oil is good for chronic economic constipation?” Our Secretary of Treasury. made the error of smiling. Sen. Flanders assured him he never was more serious, Wasn't castor oil an emer-
Yugoslavia Trip
ZADANI MOST, Yugoslavia, Aug. 2—Life behind this part of the Iron Curtain varies amazingly from section to section. There is surprisingly little of the uniformity that might be expected in a Communist country. : . Some people have much; many have little. For {fistance, at the railroad station here at Zadani Most, there’s an interesting breakfast menu. It consists of anchovies, caviar, pumpernickel and beer. That is all. . Bread costs 20 cents a chunk and trimmings dare free. The proprietor apologizes because there is no champagne for breakfast. Cavair and champagne are a must for a decent breakfast for selfrespecting individuals, according to him. It is necessary to hop off the train for break{ast because the train has no dining car. The dining car “unfortunately is broken at this time,” the railroad officials explain. At Zagreb, the menu is less racy. It's limited to grey macaroni with pale pink sauce, a few beets, a few tomatoes and some beaten-up-looking 1gtfuce. Either you eat it and like it, or you go hungry. It costs $1.20.
Diligent Job of Cleaning Up FROM the lofty mountains in the northwest— which are as craggy as those of Switzerland— Yugoslavia flattens out to the southwest. In the middle aré hundreds of miles of cornfields. It might be Kansas. > In the towns, there are people who look affluent. In the fields are women dressed in peasant costumes, with shawls on’ their heads. : Two-thirds of the field workers are women. At fioon they spread out their lunches under trees. Yugoslavia looks as if it has’ hundreds of picnics going on simultaneously. Yugoslavia is doing a diligent job of cleaning
The Quiz Master
* Which state of the Union has the largest river frontage? . ° The State of Maryland has more river frontage than any other state in the Union.
e & Has America an epic poem? No poem has ever been generally accepted as s&h American epic. Longfellow’s “Hiawatha” is called the Indian Epic of : o> @ ; " What does the Bible say is the root of all evil? It says that the love of money is the root of
all evil. y ® * ¢ "Who converted the Pantheon into. a Christian temple?
In 399 A. D., the Pantheon was closed as a femple and in 608 A. D. it was consecrated as a church by Pope Boniface IV. To this fact the Pantheon owes its preservation. § po When ‘did the first naval battle ‘by white men in America oceur? The first naval battle by white men in America was fought on the Little Pocomoke River, Eastern ore of between Claiborne’s pinnace
Sh Tre Tail and Governor Calvert's two pinnaces, the St. Margaret and the St. Helen. *
while Douglas had no fiscal sex appeal. They perverted many of the true dramatic excerpts from the Ruth career, for reasons known. only to the Hollywood mind, and committed such|
exploits. i Both Harry Wismer and Mel Allen were just! out of knee pants when Ruth performed. Outrageous characterization of Miller Huggins! and Ed Barrow added to the general inaccurate awfulness of the whole thing, and if 1 were the Babe, sick or no, I would grab me a big bat and go after everybody concerned with the atrocity.
Ed Sovola, author of Inside Indianapolis, is | on vacation.
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By Frederick C. Othman
gency remedy, useful only for relief of small boys who'd eaten too many green apples? “Well,” began Honest John. Bang, bang, blankety, bang, went Chairman Tobey's gavel. “Gentlemen,” he said, “I assure you that both of you are being old-fashioned. Castor oil is outmoded.” Y ’ , “You mean,” inquired Sen. Flanders, “that there is a better remedy?” r “Oh, yes,” replied Sen. Tobey, “It is that stuff advertised on the radio. What do you call it? Nature spelled backward, I believe.”
Talk About Potatoes Later
THE SECRETARY of the Treasury took a long drink of water, and ‘wished he hadn't said
anything about castor oil. The gentlemen returned Ss
to potatoes. “We're all American citizens,” sald Sen. To zy. “You're Secretary of the Treasury. And the nation’s in a devil of a fix. And now you're trying to restrict bank credit and yet the government|® is spending millions on potatoes and then selling them back to the people and making them pay ce.” Meekly and yet stubbornly, Mr. Snyder sald the Secretary of Agriculture would have to talk about potatoes. . “And don't go blaming the farmer for che high cost of living,” shouted Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Virginia. “He's worse off now than he was before. It isn’t his fault if the government made a mistake about potatoes.” “I didn't say that” moaned Secretary Snyder. The anguish in his voice was genuine, And in a couple more days the honorable, the Secretary of Agriculture, Charles B. Brannan, will} get to explain about potatoes, and how the gov-} ernment buys ‘em for $1.65 a bushel and sells ‘em |} for one cent to potato-flour makers, who sell ‘em! back to the government in powdered form at prices yet fo be established. I'll be there. I may be able to pick up a few? bushels of potatoes, cheap. * ;
By Ernie Hill
up its war wreckage. Two years ago, railroad sidings were littered with burned, bombed and wrecked railroad vehicles. Most of that has been cleared away and tracks and bridges have been repaired. The Nazis did most of the damage when they were pulling out, the Yugoslavs will tell you. Small towns and villages appear extremely normal. It is only the big cities, where there are lots of troops, that give you a different feeling.
Everyone Seems fo Be Working MOST impressive perhaps is the industry of the people in the fields and towns. Everyone seems to be working. There are no three-hour siestas here as in Italy and Spain.
“We are a hard-working people. time to loaf.” Intensely nationalistic, the Yugoslavs pay minimum attention to the outside world. There is little of the cosmopolitan attitude found in Switzerland, Italy and France. Americans are somewhat of a curiosity to this country's Slovene, Slav and Serb people. They are not used to hearing English. They. don't know much about French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese either. Their languages are Slavic, Middle European with some German thrown ii.
Today, cut off more than ever, the Yugoslavs have retired into their own shells. They keep up
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It Can Happen Here; It Did
. » In Big Areas in Columbus, O. ; By DONNA MIKELS ; It happened out on one of those graceful winding, tree-s streets in Irvington. aw BA ae Two .women strolling down the street noticed a crew of city park department workers hacking away on ope of the tallest “We have a lot to do,” one Yugoslav told me. ein. trees in the block. Nearby there were signs of other trees We don't have just recently removed. : : : “Isn't that a marked one woman. ting down those beautiful trees| removed they must be. Standing and ruining the street when they could be’ doing something useful. Somebody should call in and|the tree disease. complain.” Had either of them called the since park department to complain, | Stopped growing elms. however, they might have had to] All of the figures on the Columwait because of busy telephone bus elm troubles are pertinent to lines, ment's clogged with more requests to|place here. J
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IT COULD HAPPEN MERE—These graceful shade trees which extend in double rows as far as the eye can see on Washington B! north of 3t4h St. are predominantly. elm. So far, this section has
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are unimpressed with the universal struggle for power. Primarily, this is a peasant country with a peasant mentality. Maybe the people are a lot! happier that way. |
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alestine of the original 1922 mandate and the!lem for realized that a city’s budget sufPalestine mandate included Trans-/fers in relation to the stripping of its tree population, i A similar double-pronged epi-| demic ‘of the two hit Columbus, | attributed to Col|O. killing an estimated 65,000
the Palestine of today? The eriginal Jordan, now an independent kingdom. Le $9 Who invented the Bowie knife? Its invention is generally Jamed Bowie, the famous hunter and fighter. Al-|® though Bowie used the knife which bears his
vented it. ® & ¢ To what country is the tomato native?
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EITHER ONE of these diseases tree lining Indianapolis streets is |=Dutch Eim or the virus disease an elm. Figuring that trees are iphloemnecrosis — takés a heavy planted about 50 feet apart, that toll of elms when it breaks out gives the city some 100 elms to a s singly. A combination of the two mile on each side of the street, a 27? Test Your Skill 77? such as Indianapolis is experi- fotal of 200 elms in-edch mile in : {fencing could—and has—virtually Indianapolis. d This ceasés to be just a prob-
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The name originated at an international mieeting $1,000,000 to replace the dead say that phloemnecrosis is : of Marxists in 1905 and was applied to the trees with new ones 1%; to 1% a far higher death toll than the immediate seizure of inches in diameter. This covered the cost of trees alone phloemnecrosis, a virus dis- ; * & @ . | The ease believed spread by leaf-hop-For what composition is Humperdinck best|thousands of home owners whose pers, has left block long sections trees were infected will have to denuded. . _, : to have the trees removed As far as symptoms go, . R ’
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lis, each one costly in tax money if it is struck by either elm disease, Judging from the spread of the two blights over the city, the toll of Indianapolis elms may be worse than that of the Ohio city, One parallel between the two cities is that in Columbus less than 10 per cent of the elms died from Dutch Elim, often termed the “deadliest enemy” of the favorite American shade tree; More
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