The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 45, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 March 1936 — Page 3

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 193(5.

op CLUB “On Jacob's Ladder ',-'. By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter. WELL, sir, here’s one of those automobile stories I’ve been looking for. By golly, I knew they were there waiting for me. Why, doggone it, there must be a million good auto adventures in hiding. The field isn’t even scratched yet. Half our adventuring today is done in automobiles, and I’ll bet most every one of you has a goodfegas-buggy yarn in mind that you just haven’t gotten around to sending me yet This automobile yarn is a lulu, too. It comes from George H. Smith, and the trouble George got into, well, gosh bang IL It's almost enough to make a man sell his car and put the dough into life insurance. Os course, George Smith can't very well sell that bus of his. In the first place he doesn't own IL and In the second he makes his living driving the doggone thing, George has been a truck driver since 1921 and he must be a pretty good one, too, for he drove that old petrol wagon for 12 years without getting into any really serious trouble. - Here Begins the Story of George’s Woes. One day, back in 1933 though, George <ffß get into trouble. But Tm not the man to tell you about that Let George do it I "I was driving a big'freight van," says George, "from Boston to Albany. I was getting along fine until just before I got to Pittsfield. Thon, coming down a steep hill called Jacob's Ladder, the car seemed to get away from me. "1 bad to grab the hand brake to prevent a smash, and what a racket that brake made. I got her to the bottom of the hill all rtghL though, and there 1 found rd broken the brake shoe on the drive shaft "That left me nothing but the foot brakes. Maybe I should have stopped right there and had It fixed. If I’d bad any idea of what was going to happen, I darned sure would have But lots of drivers got along with a band brake so 1 stepped on the gas and took a chance." Only One More Big Hump to Get Over. George's truck rolled on through Pittsfield and took the steep grade down Lebanon mountain without any .trouble. He bad left all the steep spots in his SMASH! The Side of the Van Hit a Tree. route behind him now—all except one. and he was coming to that—a small mountain that drops down Into the town of Nassau, New York. George rolled over the top of that mountain and had Just started down the other side when suddenly his foot brake slipped and the van leaped forward. George grabbed for the shift lever—tried to throw her back into first. It was no use. He tried, the brake again, but this time the foot brake didn't work at all And all the time the truck was gathering speed as it raced down the steep incline toward the bottom. It’s Not the Hill—lt’s What’s Below! It was only four miles to the bottom of that hllL but, as George says, a lot can happen on a four-mile hill, especially when there's a town at the bottom. The truck, by this time, was going faster than any truck was ever built to go—swaying from side to side and all but leaping from the road. George made a right turn and negotiated a left—prayed that he wouldn't meet any traffic. Now houses began to flash by, warning him that the town at the bottom of the hill was not far away. "All 1 bad." says George, "was a horn and a prayer. I dropped down a grade steeper than the rest, with a sharp curve at the bottom. And at the speed 1 was making 1 knew I’d never make that turn." Crash of Truck Saves Driver’s Life. Well, he didn't—exactly. The van hit the-curve and started to dip. George clutched the wheel and held his breath as both his left wheels raised off the ground. He braced himself for a fall and then—SMASH—the aide of the van hit a tree, tearing half the body from the wheels. But that crash had saved George's life. The force of the Impact knocked ? the big truck back on all four wheels again and it caromed off down the last Steep grade toward the town. Ahead of him red traffic lights turned green as he roared through the village of Nassau, his horn screeching a frantic warning. George steered the big van to the side of the road—rubbed his tines against the curb in a vain effort to slow it down. Then he hit a short up-grade and came to a stop on the outskirts of the village. •My knees," George says, "were like rags and I bad to sit down a while. I looked back down the street and there was freight scattered along the curbing as far as I could see. I looked under the truck and found that the pinion gear was gone out of the rear end. -A town officer drove up and I was arrested. Reckless driving was the charge, but when the kindly old judge heard my story he let me off with a 110 fine." S-trstJHnW.

St. Bernard Dogs Swiss Heroes as Life-Savers So universal is the fame of the St. Bernard dogs that It goes without saying that they rank first among the aristocracy of. Switzerland's canine world. Their home, as their name suggests, Is the Great St Bernard Hospice, founded over 1,000 years ago by Bernard de Menthon. a saintly priest, and Inhabited up to this day by brethren of the Order of St Augustine, states a writer in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Winter lasts from eight to nine months in that Isolated mountain region and the snow Is sometimes piled up as high as 12 to IS feet Bitesards are sudden and descend with such fury that many travelers would surely perish were it not for the vigilance and devotion of the monks and their marvelously trained doo. Historic records show that the Hospice was without any dogs up to 1670 A. D. From then on the brethren kept a few watch dogs, but It Is not clearly established of what breed they were. These animate soon took delight in accompanying their masters on their many errands of mercy and were .quick

Laaaiag Towers - The Leaning Tower of Pisa is not unique. Similar structures exist an , ever the world, and some are even higher and more out of perpendlcular than that of Pisa, writes Wadad K. Makdlsi, Beirut, Syria. In Collier’s Weekly. They are campaniles, steeples, pagodas, minarets and lighthouses such as the Portoferralo on Elba. One giant miovret ip Samarkand. Russia, teens so far over that it has to be , supported by thousands of feet of I heavy steel cable.

ly appreciated for their unerring sense of location. The race which has for the last 250 years been described as St Bernards has, according to a noted naturalist, been gradually developed by the monks through careful breeding and training in life-saving work. Tbe short-haired variety Is the original kind. In 1830 some of the brethren decided to cross their dogs with Newfoundlands. In order to raise animals which would be protected against the inclement climate with eager hair. However, this crossing did not affect the physical characteristics of the St Bernards, and only the li air became longer. General Morgaa'a Vlvw A Union soldier who hid been captured by Gen. John Morga j during the letter's raid through soutl era Ohio in the Civil war raised his arms to break his musket across a rock. To prevent this, one of Morgen’s wen instantly drew a revolver to shoot the prisoner, but Morgan forbade this with the statement: “Never harm a man who baa surrendered. In breaking ids musket, he is doing Just as I would were I to bis place."

Dragon** Med Tree The dragon’s blood tree is a very curious type, with glaucous green leaves which sprout upward from large stems. Although very divtjrre in mode of growth, three trees terd always to be symmetrical. The tree ptoduces an exudation of deep red color which is one of the resins known es “dragon’s blood. “ This resin te said to have been used by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canaries In embalming their <teed and finds employment today to the ““““

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What is this? This is a “dog wagon." What is a “dog wagon"? A "dog wagon" is a lunch room on wheels. It Is a horee car that has tired of a gypey life. What is the purpose of a "dog wagon"? Its purpose is to see that Indigestion is preserved as a sacred American institution. Do many people eat In “dog wagons"? You would be surprised. What do they eat? They eat anything the chef can cook without taking any particular pains to make it appetising. Don't the chefs in “dog wagons’’ ever prepare food carefully and with an eye to whetting the appetite of man? Now and then you find one so actuated but not often. Once you put a cook in a lunch wagon be seems to confuse cooking with deck swabbing, house painting and the kindred arts. What does he do? He cooks everything in hot fat, burns your eggs to a crisp, makes a hamburger steak look like a petrified sponge, prepares soups that taste like fuel oil and creates a cup of coffee that would take the cleats out of a football player’s shoes. Is there any excuse for this? None, except the theory that everybody who comes Into a lunch wagon to eat is in too much of a hurry to wait for Anything fit to eat. How do you explain the low state of lunch wagon cooking? ■'*’ It can only be explained by the coneelusion that all Incompetent cooks go to lunch wagons before they die. • • • THE STORY OF LESTER 1— Lester was a boy who had no head for figures. 2— He didn’t care /J for details. I | 3— Be was a A superficial thinker. 4 —ln grammar ■JkNI fra school he stood at » |l the foot of the class 1 in arithmetic. He OllSSfiStaiiZiS waß a total 1088 at problems. 5— When his folks sent him to the grocery store he always came back with the wrong change. 6— His defense was that he could count but that he bated to take the trouble. 7— In college he was the class dumbbell but be was a varsity football star and oarsman. He had trouble remembering the signals but managed to get •way with It. 4 8— He bad personality and was a good mixer wherever the conversation didn’t turn to anything serious. 9— It took him five years to graduate, despite the fact he had taken a course that called for no deep thinking and included nothing very Intricate. 10— His folks were worried over bls future. Lester would have been worried over It too if be bad ever stopped to think about It. 11— He nearly thought about it now and then but he couldn't concentrate. 12— When be went out into the world there was much skepticism about whether he would do well. 13— And all the people who predicted be would be a failure were fooled. 14— He chose a business career and when the American Big Business World found out about bls outstanding mental characteristics, it knew at once that he was its man. 15— It realised at once that had the perfect equipment for a director In • super-corpora tion. 16— And It put him on twenty different boards. MORAL—It's all done by reflectors. CURIOUS FACTS knowing! 1— The common or garden worm has no backbone. 2— The world has never discovered • genius able to invent • type of attached can opener that would be any good In • pinch. 3— Red ants can be avoided at outdoor picnics by serving lunch In the antomobile. 4— Ninety-two per cent ot ail the kaleominers in the United States are named Charlie. 5— It In said that there are 357.W9 hairs tn the average human beard, but neither major political party will diecusa the matter.

FIRST DATES IN THIS COUNTRY Early tn the present century two experimental date orchards were established in the Coachella Valley, Calif., one at Mecca (in 19M). by the bureau of ptant industry of the United States Department of Agriculture In co-opera-tion with the horticultural department of the University of California, and the other In Indo (in 1907) by the bureau of plant industry. A targe number of the best date varieties of the Old world have been tested In these gardens.

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6— Observations made during forest fires spreading across farm lands show that cattle do not care for pop corn. 7— The Island of Guam has no vaudeville people who do roller skating acts. 8— A typewriter ribbon may be cleaned by rinsing it in boiling water for half an hour, but it will be a ridiculous procedure unless you are through with It for typewriting purposes. 9 — No alligator has ever been seen eating an alligator pear. 10— Eighty-seven per cent of the soldiers in tbe various Chinese wars do not know which side they are on. and the generals are a little doubtful, too. 11 — Old electric light bulbs can be disposed of by using a nutcracker ant’ dropping the debris down a well. • • • PSALMS OF LIFE Be patient as you go through life; Snap judgments never pay; Consider well opinions you Arrive at day by day. Don't jump at quick conclusions and First gather all the facts Before you form a verdict on Another person’s acts. Be calm and quite Judicial as You travel through this vale; Express no prompt or hasty thought Lest trpth and Justice fall. tlius you’ll be thought to have, my lad. The wisdom of an owl— But who the devil wants to be "A stuffy blinking fowl? • • • LITERARY TEST 1— The lines, “I love to hear thine earnest voice, wherever thon art Kid," appear tnHolmes’ “To An Insect’’Shelley’s “The Flight of L0ve’*....... Bro wnlng!s “Tbe Lost Leader." 2— The poem. “Ichabod.” was written byWordsworth Longfellow Keats... Tennyson. 3— The lines. “It is an ancient mariner. and he stoppeth one of three," are to be found in“ Robinson Crusoe”“Casey at the Bat”..-“The Old Squire’’..,. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” 4 — Edward Everett Hale was the author of“ Marco Bozzaris" “The Man Without a Country"“Delight In Disorder" “New England’s Chevy Chase." 5— “The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers” was written by Robert HerriekJohn MasefieldFelecla D. Hernans William Henley Thomas Hardy Oliver Herford. 6— “Lucksley Hall" was the work of Lord Tennyson John Greenleaf Whittier... Hartley Coleridge Matthew Arnold Eqgene Field. 7— The lines. "'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, no.t even a mouse” are found in "Wynken. Blynken and Nod" •The Ould Plaid Shawl" “Concord Hymn" ."Father William". “My Old Kentucky Home" ** v, *“ From SL Nicholas" “The Village Blacksmith." THE CANARY The canary Is a funny bird. He hasn’t any sense; His actions are the most absurd. His energy intense. He hops upon • little perch But la no sooner there Than with a quiver and a lurch He hops Into tbe air. He hops onto a little dish And off once more he bops; He seem* so full of strange amblsh And never, never stops. He hop* down to the cage's “floor* Then, quicker than a wink. He hop* onto tbe perch once more— He bops too much, I think. He hope around moat eVrywhere And holds on with his fleet: He flutters here and flutters there With merry "tweet! tweet! tweet!" He lan’t still a minute til Its time to go to bed; I wish he wouldn’t be so “sill” And rest a while instead.

ROME ESTABLISHED R. R. GAUGE The width of Roman wagons in antiquity may have determined the standard gauge of railways today, 4 feet 8M Inches, In this way. The first railway builders of England placed the rails at the distance apart which enabled them to carry coaches of the same width as the stage coaches and wagons of their day and, according to tradition, the width of these vehicles was inherited from that of ancient Rome. _

Monograms Make Your Linens Doubly Precious PATTERN 1128 SO* Variety’s tbe Spice of Life—and monograms, too, for the smartest ones today combine letters In varying sizes. That's why we included four different alphabets—a large, a medium and two small ones —so that you may “scramble” your own. They work up easily and quickly, using a combination of satin, seed and buttonhole stitches with a bit of cutwork. Anyone with “Hope Chest” linens will find these alphabets invaluable. They fit beautifully into a diamond or triangular shape. Pattern 1126 comes to you with a transfer pattern of an alphabet 3 Inches high; one 2 inches high; and two alphabets 1U inches high; information for placing initials and monograms ; illustrations of all stitches needed. Send 15 cents In stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave M New York, N. Y. Boy Is Over Eight Feet Tall and Still Growing Physicians say that Robert Wadlow of Altou, 111., is still growing at th* age of seventeen. That would not be unusual except for the fact that be is 8 feet 4 Inches tall and weighs 390 pounds now. Wadlow is regarded as the nation’s tallest man and the second tallest in history. A famous Irish giant of the Nineteenth century Is said to have exceeded him. Wadlow recently graduated from Alton high school. He wore a size 8% cap and a 92-inch gown which was 50 Inches around the chest and had 55-lnch sleeves. His shoes are size 39. The youth expects to enter Shurtleff college next fall to sthdy law and wants to finish at Washington university In St Louis. Bring Woodlands or Sea to the Reach of Flat-Dwellers The vast ultra-modern flats of Austria and Germany usually have bare, windowless sides which might be used for commercial posters. But an artist has altered all that, says Tit-Bits Magazine. He painted scenic designs on the side of one, and so enraptured were the people that he soon obtained other commissions. The craze caught on, and now dot ens of houses have been decorated with ships, birds, vigorous figures in action, and all kinds of woodland scenes.

B ENOUGH OF I I -tijkl g YOUR ROUGH STUFF/ omSoFF B WALTON/ I SAW YOU < tp ELBOW THAT MAN IN P . ■ THE FACE/ GET OUT J DX to BETTER OF THE GAME / pi rr nN A • BASKETBALL J tRF.TmT ™ yry 4 J'oPl vTS 'r / x j fw/C mW ■ jlTur- .IVX* 1 V; t ' * v ( l'M JACK’S CERTAINLY, £ BEING A DOCTOR, FINE.' YOU 9 FATHER, COACH T DOCTOR WALTON. ITS ■ I RECOGNIZED V STICK TO TH/n; 1| ...CAN NOU J TOO BAD ABOUT JACK ■ JACK’S TROUBLE I JACK, AND YOU'LL fl SPARE A V / -HE’S A STAR PLAYER/ ■ AS COFFEE-NERVES.' | GET BACK ON H MINUTE? BUT HE WONT-OBEY BUT HE'S PROMISED > THE TEAM .<<l MY *NO COFFEE* TO QUIT COFFEE jffik . — Il VsMjf rule /-J® and drink postum /1 “j? SWITCHING ] v i MlkVx I Y.zlT ../T .r, J Z*Y COURSE, you know that children should never jss-aja.. .. ... •.•.<.■*.- *&- - - « drink coffee. But do you realize that the caffein in coffee disagrees with many grown-ups, too? If you are bothered by headaches or indigestion; or find it difficult to sleep wnmdly ... caffein may betobtame weepwnmay... y T-.’V 5V -hil. to, for Isn t it worth while to try Postum for 3Oxiays? and bran, roasted and slightly sweetened. It is easy tn make, and rtyrete— than one-half r»-nt» nip. Tt’s a delicious drink, t 00... and may prove a real help. . s > A product of General Foods. •. FBH—let us send you your first week’s supply of Postum free! Simply mail the coupon. O tMs, a. v. eoav. . Gnauui. Feons, Battle Creek, Mich. w. a. u.— Send me, witheot obligation, a week** supply of Poetum. Kam* - - Street— City State rUlin naow and addrea*. If yea live la Canada, addnaa: General Food*, Ltd.. Cobonrg, Ct. (O«er espire* Dee. 31,1936.) 1 ■" — ■■■■■■—■ . ——

AMERICAN BOAR IS THRILLING AND DANGEROUS GAME There Is no other animal tn the United States that will accommodate you as quickly with a fight as a wild boar. The boars found on Santa Cruz Island off the California coast attain a weight of 250 pounds, mostly mus de. They have tusks, one on either side of the lower jaw, which articulate in an upward and outward curve on two shorter, but heavier canines of the upper jaw. This sharpens them to knifelike edges. Large boars will charge a man as soon as he appears within reasonable distance. At this stage of the game the animal becomes totally indifferent to the barking dog. lowers his head, and begins champing his Jaws until he actually froths at the mouth. Then he takes a few uncertain steps forward and with coughing, guttural grunts rushes with surprising speed at the man foe. I have never allowed one to advance beyond the “uncertain steps." The champing jaws, and the click of those white daggers is thrill enough; in fhet, a bullet to the right place at the first possible moment is the natural impulse, and the sane action for the safety of both man and dog, especially the dog.—H. H. Sheldon in Field and Stream.

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>4ll Ground House Oil the boys’ shoes and they will last longer and become water resistant Use castor oil sparingly on the uppers, but give the soles all the oil they will absorb. • • • Wash sieves always In soda water and never in soapy water. Particles of soap may adhere to sieve and give a soapy flavor to foods put through it • * * Chamois gloves should not be wrung out after washing. Squeeze them in the hands and press In a dry towel. Pttll Into shape and hang *0 dry In the open air. • • • When cutting a frosted lemon pie use a knife that has been dipped into cold water. The meringue then retains its shape. Bacon fat may be clarified by slicing a raw potato into it while fat is hot and adding a pinch of baking soda. Strain’ through a piece of cheese cloth. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Ur. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative —three for a cathartic.—Adv. So They Say If a baby smiles in its sleep. It 18 talking with angels.