Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 28, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 February 1933 — Page 2

Spending Millions to Beautify Washington

Work Now Progressing on 13 Buildings in Capital. Washington.--Out of $145,000,000 set aside by congress for public buildings construction in all the states this fiscal year, the sum of $30,000,000 will be expended within the confines of the National Capital, official government figures disclose. At the present moment work is progressing on 13 buildings located in the city of Washington. Most of them are in the triangular development of public buildings located within a mile of the Capitol building. One of the buildings, that for the Department of Agriculture, will cost the taxpayers $12,000,000 when completed. The cost of four others will exceed $10,000,000 each. Three others will set the nation back $5,000,000 or more. The total cost of all those under construction and under contract is estimated at $80,000,000. This figure compares with $384,000,000, the aggregate estimated cost of all buildings now under contract or under construction throughout the country, including those in the district. Huge Commerce Building. A building, the largest of its kind in the world, was completed for the Commerce department last year at a cost of $17,000,000. The Labor department estimate of its 1934 needs are $13,393,000. That of the Interstate Commerce commission is $9,661,000. The building being erected to handle the work of these two groups, the latter one now under attack in many quarters as an agency of government that might well be abolished, will cost $11,250,000. Its cornerstone recently was laid. The post office establishment, still operating a staunch building, is to be housed in a new building costing $10,300,000. The old one is to be razed. The centerpiece of the new gigantic public works now under construction in the district is the so-called triangle, literally in the heart of the city. With this goes the collateral development of the Mall, which borders the triangle on the south. The trianglar development includes all the land between, Pennsylvania avenue, Third street, Missouri avenue and Fifteenth street N. W. The ground contains 70 acres, and beginning with an apex where Third street crosses Pennsylvania avenue it gradually widens to 3,000 feet at Fifteenth street, 13 blocks to the southward. All this development borders Pennsylvania avenue, the historic highway connecting the treasury and the White House with the Capitol. Gazing Into Future. Washington, as it will be when the government has completed its work, is thus described by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ferry K. Heath: “In the years to come the occupants of the modest flivver or the great national parades will start from the plaza at the Capitol, flanked as it will be by the Supreme court building, the Library of Congress, the enlarged senate office building, and the house office building with its new annex--

For Juveniles

An interesting collar individualizes the yellow frock at the right. Big sister wears a light blue woolen crepe frock.

By Charles Sughroe

sweep down a new Pennsylvania avenue past one of the most beautiful architectural compositions to be found anywhere in the world, including the archives, the Department of Justice, the internal revenue bureau, the Post Office department, the great plaza with its Department of Commerce, Labor department and Department of Interstate Commerce, past the old treasury, the White House and monument, the rehabilitated State department, and on to the Lincoln Memorial bridge across the Potomac and to Arlington and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. “The Mall, dominated by the Capitol at its head, flanked by magnificent governmental groups, cut by tree shaded drives, with gardens, fountains, reflecting pools, cascades and terraces, will form a picture that would be enshrined in the heart of every justly proud American, the symbol of Amer-ica--the Capital of our country."

Time which is spent in regretting the past is vainly spent.

money which I can now see as clearly as anything.” Well, these opportunities are gone and they cannot by any possibility be recovered, and who knows whether or not if Jacobs had the chance to live his life over again he would make as much of it the second time as he did the first? Gregory made a sad mistake when he was twenty; he got into bad company, he committed a crime, was convicted, and paid the penalty by serving a prison sentence. He is out now, and has a job and a fair prospect of getting somewhere. I hear from him at intervals and I do my best to give him encouragement. His letters are full of regrets; he cannot forget the past. It is dead, however; it cannot be changed; so far as it is humanly possible it should be buried and forgotten. Regrets are unavailing. Mrs, Jennings has just lost her mother, after a long and serious illness. Everything was done that could be done for the sick woman. She had careful nursing and the most skillful physicians. She was given the most meticulous and loving care. Mrs. Jennings spends her time now in regrets that she did not do this or try that or call in some other professional man who might have prescribed a different or a more effective treatment. She criticizes herself constantly for omissions and commissions, and so she keeps herself stirred up and unhappy over the past. She has plenty to engage her attention with those of her family who are left if she only would devote herself to them, but she is engrossed in regretting the past. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

Windsor Traffic Police to Obey Speed Rulings

Windsor, Ont.--Speeders in Windsor will be given an even chance against arrest by police “cruisers” as the result of a report of the Windsor police commission. As the result of an auto accident in which one of the cruisers was badly damaged, the commission has issued orders that police shall observe the speed laws. Charges of reckless driving against Alex Shayko, whose car was in the mixup with the police car, were withdrawn.

SUCH IS LIFE

REGRETTING THE PAST

By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

Late Dean of Men, University of Illinois.

“If I could only live my youth over again,” Jacobs said to me only last week, “how differently I would spend it! I could have had a better education than I now have, for I sadly neglected my opportunities. I picked up habits, which have been a constant handicap to me; and I ignored chances to make

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PHONE PLANES BY DIALING NUMBERS

New Development Is Aid to Air Communication. Chicago.--In a quiet room at the Chicago airport a man sits at a desk dialing numbers on a telephone and talking into a microphone. He is talking to pilots of large pasenger planes flying on routes that extend from Chicago city to the sea in the east, south and west. By the simple expedient of dialing a number he selects the plane to which he wants to talk. The two phones on his headset bring in almost continuous reports from pilots, flying hundreds of miles away. By means of two receiving sets, which are attached to the headset, he hears all the pilots talking at once. When he dials a number, he increases the volume of one pilot’s voice, at the same time decreasing the others to a whisper. However, he must listen to them all in order to hear an emergency call. This scene occurs daily in the radio dispatch room of United Air lines at the Chicago airport. The dial by means of which the congested flow of radio conversation is controlled by the dispatcher is a new development, perfected by communications engineers of the United Air lines after a year of experimenting. It has been adopted and will be installed in the 36 ground radio stations of the air transport system. A typical scene found Dispatcher H. P. Morgan was on duty in the dispatch room. The minute hand of a clock above his desk reached 29 minutes after 11 o’clock. It was time for a report from J. H. Smart, pilot of a plane eastbound from Cleveland. Smart was reporting on the NAT kilocycle band, so Morgan dialed the numbers 07 to increase the volume of that receiver, and then the number 3 to decrease the volume of the other receiver, which brings In the BAT kilocycle band. “Go ahead, Smart," Morgan said. “Smart in 86 westbound, 3 east of Helmer 3,200," the pilot’s voice came in, loud and clear. Smart’s few words indicated that he was flying plane No. 86 three miles east of Helmer, Ind., at an altitude of 3,200 feet. “O. K. Smart 3 east of Helmer 3,200,” Morgan replied. "Chicago weather overcast, 2,000 foot ceiling, visability 3 miles, wind west 5 miles an hour; temperature 38, barometer 30.07.” Their conversation was over.

Society Girl Is Fine Sculptor

Miss Jane Wasey, twenty-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Wasey of New York and Montauk Point, is here seen in her New York studio. Miss Wasey, who recently returned from two years of study under the famous sculptor, Paul Landowski of Paris, is fast winning recognition in American art circles. She is now studying under Simon Moselsio, one of the foremost of living sculptors.

POTPOURRI

Uncanny Ability of Bats The normal bat has unusual sight, but even if blind is guided in its maneuverings by an uncanny sense of feeling in the air. A set of nerves about its nose which control the wings, keeps it from bumping into branches, wires and other obstacles. Scientists have made many tests which proved this highly developed sensitivity. ©, 1933, Western Newspaper Union.

ODD THINGS AND NEW

The Household

By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER

If you would spare yourself much trouble of mind during this New Year don’t hunt for hurts. Probably many of you are saying, “What a strange idea! Who would hunt for hurts?” But strange as it may seem, many of us do. For example, when you were out last evening one of the company said something which bothered you. What did she mean? There was an interpretation which could be put upon the words which would be disparaging. Had the woman meant what she said to be taken so, or not? If she did, she certainly was unkind, really rather horrid. And you mull over the sentence until it seems as though

there could be no other intention, nor any other possible construction of the sentence than the unkind one. Mental Strife Such thoughts stir up strife in your mind. You begin to dissect the woman’s life, as you know it, and all the disagreeable ways she has, and all the odd things she has ever said, until her character is pretty disagreeable all around. You are upset and bothered. You have been hunting for trouble. It is quite likely that the woman had no slurring thought in her mind toward you. She may be entirely unaware of how hurt you are, and when next you see her, she feels there is a restraint in you, a reserve toward her which rankles. And she, not thinking for a moment that she brought this feeling of yours forth, begins to see you in an unexpected light. She commences to think of your “off side," and to find your faults. Now it is she who is hunting for trouble. One sure way not to hunt for trouble is always to pu the best construction on what persons say. Some people have an unfortunate way of saying the wrong thing, without really meaning any harm. They have not learned to express themselves graciously. It is regrettable that they do not know this is their handicap, and how many enemies it can make for them. Believing the Best There are persons who write in a brusque way, and others who have an abrupt manner over the telephone. If you are hunting for hurts you will be annoyed by the tone of the letters, or by the curtness of the telephone call. Let these persons have the benefit of the doubt. When there is any ques tion in your mind believe the best. If it is their manner, they did not intend anything unkind. It is they who will suffer in the long run by failing

By Lame Bode

Junior Champion

Miss Helen Gramn of Detroit, Mich., is the new national junior indoor ladies’ tennis champion. She won the imposing title at the recent tournament in Brookline, Mass.

to cultivate a happy manner of speaking, or a friendly style of writing. It is not you who should bother. Rely upon your best thoughts of these persons instead of hunting for hurts in their unfortunate manners. ©, Bell Syndicate.--WNU Service.

He Who Laughs Last Has Pain of Robbery Eased

Chicago.--He who laughs last gets the best kick. “Ho, ho, ho, what happened to you?” asked Jacob Drouse of his relative, Charles Gurke, who stood shivering in his underwear on Drouse's doorstep in Chicago. "I got robbed," explained Gurke. “Three fellows took my money and all my clothes except my shoes and underwear. Let me in, I’m cold.” “Ha, ha, ha,” laughed Drouse. “That sure is funny. Come on in.” “So it’s funny is it?” said Gurke, stepping gingerly inside. “Well, you know that automobile you loaned me--they took that, too.” Drouse stopped laughing. Gurke began in hearty fashion.

White and Black

In the present color scheme, or lack of color, in the incoming vogue of white, the hue is apt to be linked with the most complete contrast, which is black. Skill and artistry are required to combine these tones without making a cold decoration, or one which is not pleasing.

Capt. M. E. Gillette

The United States army is going in for the “talkies.” The rookies will be trained not only by sergeants and corporals but with the aid of the talking moving picture machine. To inaugurate this plan Capt. Melvin E. Gillette, signal corps, U. S. A., was relieved from duty with the Second corps area headquarters, Governors island, and sent to Hollywood for a course in photography and motion picture work.

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