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_ about: The “Peasant” Candidate. TTOUSTON, TEX.—To certain Z* 11 candidates: Dear cans., please discourage your campaign strategists, whoever those poor antiquarians may be, who believe you can prove the Spartan simplicity of your rugged souls by' inviting distinguished visitors to drop in for pot-luck with you and the family in the kitchen. Because, dear cans., that’s old stuff It dates back to the Mclntyre and Heath era of political vaudeville. Tin <reat common people may be comrnoi —anyhow the orators keep on telling
them they are — but they aren't exactly stupid. Merely because a man has to live in the deep woods doesn’t mean he has to think like a woodpecker. I contend it’s generally the other way around. With the exception of j “Mr. Dooley,” practically all the outstanding satiric observers of our national follies sprang from the soil
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and not from the sidewalk. If there are any true yokels left, their principal center is New York city. And if ever there was a day when Americans in mass believed a man could best qualify for the Presidency by behaving like a peasant, that day has passed. ♦ • • Odorless Cabbage. SOME experimental genius at Cornell university has bred a non-odorous cabbage—a thing absolutely guaranteed to remain unsmellable while being cooked. I presume he crossed it with the tuberose. Now. I never protested when they produced a spring onion with no aftermath to it, no lingering reminiscence. “Fair enough,” I said, “after all, why not let bygones be bygones?” And I shall welcome with glad outcries the evolution of the anti-squirt grapefruit, and the self-opening coconut, and, greatest boon of all, the hiccoughless radish. But to take away from the succulent fried cabbage its only means of self-defense seems a cruel thing. Besides, how in future would a stranger be able after dark to identify an old- • fashioned, two-dollar-a-day, American plan hotel? Once he got inside and saw the Gideon Bibles and met the resident cockroaches, he’d know, of course, where he was. but how about approaching in the night-time with no perfume to guide him? • • • The Courage of Texans. THERE’S something about Texans—something different. The men who tramped the Oregon tmil were homesteaders. They took their wives with them, and plows and seed-corn, the forty-niners who went to California had shovels on their shoulders and —if you can believe the Susannah song—banjoes on their knees. But if tt came to a pinch they threw away the banjoes first. Because they were looking for gold. But in the beginning those who came to Texas carried rifles and kept their eyes peeled. They were looking for trouble. And, lawsy, how abundantly they found it. ' • For nobody dreamed then of the incredibly rich and fertile empire thisj would be. The only prospect was for a j fight against the wilderness. The heritage lives on; Texans still take a chance. A native waylaid me today. First he offered to bet a cool million Mr. Hoover would be nominated. Then he tried to borrow twen- . ty. Both of us came out even. He saved his million. I kept my twenty. The Happy Warrior’s Grammar. IN THE Sabbath calm following the explosion of AI Smithisms over the palpitant ether, you could almost hear the purists murmuring: “Be sure thy syntax will find thee out”; but the purist vote isn’t .big enough to count. For culture, a collegiate accent may have it all over the Brooklyn brogue, but there are more people crossing Brooklyn bridge every day than go through Yale or Harvard in 50 years. Governor Smith may not pronounce radio the correct way—as some critics - already have pointed out —but he certainly knows what to do with it when he faces a microphone. All grammar aside—and why not all grammar aside. If leaving it aside keeps simple speech? —when he gets through talking there are no missing word contests, no guessing games afterward. Take it or leave it, you get what he's driving at, the very foist time. • * * The War in the Papers. MODERN wars are won by the side with the best advance agent—at least so far as the press notices go. In the inspired reports sent out from Rome, one reads that the white invaders have again routed the dismayed Ethiopians after destroying tremendous numbers of the black warriors, while casualties on the Italian side amounted to two infantrymen suffering from fallen arches and one bystander painfully kicked by an ambulance mule. Or statistics to that gratifying effect. And next day a postscript trickles out from Africa that the victory was so complete the winners onljfell back about 20 miles. IRVIN S. COBB. j ©—WNU Service. Puerto Rico, a Crossroad Lying at the entrance to the Caribbean region, Puerto Hico s on a direct line for ships plying between ice east and the west, the north and the south. The Island's main port, San Juan, Is 1,380 miles from New York. San Juan has more than 1,8“' - each year. Colony of Nigeria ’ The British colony and r ‘ - te of Nigeria forms part of b Africa; its location is west . cen tral Africa.
“Wild Lands” Yield to Motor Invasion
Forest Preservation Move Is Complex Problem. New York.—While the states are dedicating themselves more and more 1 to the preservation of wild forest lands, “the fact must be faced that in the • long run and for the most part the wilderness is bound to disappear. This is the warning issued by Herbert A. Smith, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Forestry, in his leading editorial of that publictalon. The prediction is based on the everwidening program of development undertaken by the states, aptly illustrated by the changes that have taken place in the last 15 years in the Adirondack region and culminating in the building of the automobile highway to the top of Mount Whiteface. Once Wilderness. Before 1850 “the Great North Woods” were a wilderness in the fullest sense of the term. “Today, the Adirondacks is an intenI sively used, highly developed sumI mer and winter mountain playground,” Mr. Smith goes on to say. “Paved roads are cutting through the Maine wilderness; skyline drives I are advocated for the White Moun- ■ tain Presidential range and the crest !of the Green mountains; the Great ■ Smokies are being opened to the automobile’; the Blue Ridge in Virginia and the North Carolina mountains as far as the Great Smokies are to have their continuous ‘skyline drive’ GOO miles long; and the CCC and other emergency relief road and trail building is honeycombing the public forests from ocean to ocean with its penetration. “Outdoor recreation, for the most part in connection with the use of the automobile, has become a national habit. The Case of New Hampshire. “Local interests are, in the nature of the case, sure to clamor for ‘development.’ The economic hope of New Hampshire—its major dependence for stemming the tide that sets toward rural depopulation, falling property values, decreasing tax revenues and land surrender to involuntary public ownership—lies in the field of recreational visitors and summer residents, j People press for national parks In I their neighborhood to benefit by the I expenditures that throngs of sightseers will involve. | “On the whole, ‘development’ will . go on gaining victories; the public will have its way, and the vast majority of the public wants more places . to go and has slight Interest in
AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS ~ BY ARNOLD Greatest power at sea level/ The Graf Zeppelin can lift 5 ^2 m °Rc tons at sea level than ~ ~ ‘ at Friedrichshafen, because • THE GREATER DENSITY AIR AT SEA LEVEL. A VARIABLE INDEX - , * * The FIRST FINGER OF A WOMAN S । 4^l 1 HAND IS ALMOST ALWAYS LONGER L u . c T C>NFC !T 1 THAN HER THIRD. WHILE THE FIRST . ' Nt S Finger of a man’s is generally shorter western Nebraska, Ju Jy SHORTER. TH£ LARGEST KNOWN F /fv hailstone fell. Measuring » ’ (y-4 17 INCHES IN DIAMETER, < IT wtIGHCO '^2 LBS ‘ rH. >•» H TV. -O -■ jj- ~ T.-- ■■■ — — : 1 WNU service. •
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Discover Two Standard Motors Good for Flying. - Washington.—Federal aviation experts, straggling for months to develop a model, low-priced plane for mass production, have found the key to their problem in automobile engines, it was learned. Extensive tests of two standard en- ■ proved successful and these motors will s be recommended for wide: pread adope the Commerce department in If- search e been delivered here. One is the AN a
the preservation of treasures to which it is not admitted. Whether its altruism in this particular can be materially increased by any educational effort may he questioned. Nevertheless, the effort should be made.” Length of Suez Cana! The actual length of the Suez canal Is about 100 miles, a little more or a little less, depending upon the way In which it is measured. Reference books do not agree as to its exact length The discrepancy lies in the fact that it may be measured from the southernmost end of Port Said harbor to the northeastern shore of Suez bay at Port ; Tewfik. or from the De I.esseps statue I north of Port Said to the anchorage in the middle of Suez bay. STRIKING WOOLEN f The fabric in this striking woolen । worn by Jane Wyatt in RKO Radio's “We’re Only Human,” ts knitted in a pearl gray design against a dark blue ' background. Two enormous frogs of j braided cording, the loops hooked over I wooden “Handle" buttons, fasten the j bodice. The skirt is matching blue j ; wool. With the ensemble Miss Wyatt | wears a smart off-the-face hat, the i i brim folded back against the crown and fastened in place with a band of stitched felt. All the accessories are matching blue, the shoes and flat handbag being reptile.
terman tailless plane, another a Weick ship, resembling the W aterman in that it is a pusher type, but differing in that it has a tail, and the third a CurtissWright coupe. Two more, now being put through final tests, will be delivered here soon. A third, an autogiro whose rotor blades can be folded back to convert the ship into an auto, will be completed early The two undergoing tests are a Hamplane. built at Ypsilanti, Mich., and an open cockpit conventional monoplane, powered by an auto engine and con-
SCIENCE AND PROGRESS By LEONARD A. BARRETT The annual reports for the American Association for the Advancement of
Science record wonderful discoveries. One of the most common ailments is heart disease, professionally known as angina pectoris. A complete cure with instantaneous relief from all pain has bee n announced. The newly discovered drug is not taken by the mouth or hypodermically, but is inhaled through the
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nose like snuff. Statistics inform us that the death rate from angina pectoris has increased in our country ■ from 15 persons in every 100,000 in 1915 to 1(H) persons in every 100,000 in 1935. What a blessing this new discovery! New cures have been advanced for that mysterious malady known as sleeping sickness. Scientists claim that the germ causing this disease has been isolated, and a serum is being made to serve as an anti toxin. The report on the cause and the cure of leprosy is very interesting. It is claimed that 5,000,000 lepers are living in different parts of the world, onehalf of whom are affected only slightly with the disease. At one of the conferences a definite statement <feclared that leprosy' is not as contagious as it seemed to be formerly and that it is no longer diagnosed as hereditary. Perhaps the most profound pronouncement was that, nt last, life could be spontaneously created. This, of course, has always been a mooted problem and perhaps never will be solved positively. However, it is interesting to note that biologists find the subject sufficiently interesting to devote the major portion of their time to a study of It. Many other interesting conclusions were announced, among them, the danger of passengers in airplanes in- ' haling the dust of poison powders used > to exterminate the parasites in wide I open fields. It was claimed that at , least one half of the poison powder Is carried away from the fields by the air ami winds. Perhaps soon we shall be advised to wear gas masks when en route in airplanes. The science of । hypnotism received due consideration ; with emphasis upon Its power to re ! store lost memory and to effect cures In the most stubborn cases of amnesia. Other Interesting statements of dis covery follow. There is a new chemical with an unpronounceable name, eight times sweeter than saccharine. Radio sets placed in balloons will record the weather conditions near the stratosphere. The Invention of the electronic eye enables one to see through fog and storm. The neees sities of life such as shelter, food, and clothing receive about one-third of our annual expenditures; the other two thirds Is spent for non-essentials; while n comparatively small amount is spent on Individual intellectual development. The results of scientific re search are always valuable as well as Interesting. We express our appreciation and obligation to those who sacrlficlally serve humanity in the seclusion of their laboratories. Rut. science can go just so far and no farther. Science can tell us the facts and predict future possibilities. It can tell us WHAT IS but it is powerless to tell us WHAT OUGHT TO BE. Religion and morality begin where science leaves off. © Western Newspaper Union. Huge Radium Deposits Reported Near Guiana Boston. Mass. Dr. Otto Voght | Von Sickingen, Haverford (Pa.) bac- | teriologist, has discovered what he ■ believes to be the largest radium del posit in the world along the Corentyn river in South America. On his arrival here he declined to | disclose the exact location of the do posit until terms are agreed upon with the government in whose territory It is centered. The Corentyn river borI tiers Dutch ami British Guiana. Doctor Von Sickingen also said he | had discovered a possible cure for ini fantile paralysis in a drug prepared by boiling the skin of a South Ameri- | can reptile.
will witness the completion of the gov- ' ernment’s program to design, build and j assemble for inspection an imposing array of small foolproof planes which will lend themselves easily to mass production at nominal cost. Convinced by tests that auto engines provide the solution to production of low-cost planes, federal experts indicated they will urge auto manutacturers to effect some slight changes in their present engines to reduce weight and make them easily adaptable for airplane use. Women Maul Thief Philadelphia. — Trying to frighten three women with a toy pistol, brought the thief only a ripped coat and a gun, the clerk opened the till for him. ami invited him loudly to “• ome and i‘t it.” The two women in the back d the di p heard her and raced to her aid.
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। IT IS interesting to watch a gardener, who knows his job, when he runs a lawn mower. He cuts the grass twice while he walks over the grounds but once. The person who runs a lawn mower without really knowing how has to traverse the whole circuit many times more to make the grounds look as well as does the competent I man with less walking. How this can
be is easily an»wered. Ea c h swathe cut has half of it cut again on the return trip. Unless this is done It is likely that a tine line of uncut grass will stand up, defining the paths of the lawn mower. Everyone who has cut grass witli the lawn mower has had this happen a few times at least. Unless part of the grass Is cut twice, the mower overlapping the swathe previously cut when it cuts a new one, the lawn Is far from smooth and velvety. There are the telltale strands
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of grass remaining to spoil the eflect. Ironing. It Is much the same thing that hapI pens when ironing clothes. The iron should not only press the material not gone over before, but with each stroke of the iron some of the material previously Ironed must be gone over again. This insures double pressure of the hot flatiron over the entire surface. If the iron is moved slowly with a firm and even pressure the material is ironed just ns fast, if not faster, than if the strokes were vigorous ami rapid and the whole surface on the board were gone over many times. It is wise to follow the methods of the competent and experienced ironer, and save your arm from the strain put upon It when working it too vigorously. Rotter Ironing, like better grass i cutting, is attainable with less labor I if the work Is done in the most efficient way. Tn connection with good Ironing, an ! other easy method may be welcomed by homemakers. This is to iron clothes Immediately after they are ' taken off the line, and while they are of just the wanted dampness. For some reason of natural laws, the ma- | terials smooth out best while the ’ fresh nlr permeates them. One cause j for this is because the wrinkles made 1 by wringing articles are not so set. i The other appears to be a matter of ; ozone. It Is not always possible to follow washing Immediately with iron- ; lug. but when It Is, the work is de- ! creased. An Interim between times is gained by leaving the garments out
Four Thousand Miles in a Canoe c ; .... ? "i ’ Hardy Nurmsen, twenty-eight, of New York, arrived in New Or.cans in his 15*2 foot canoe after paddling over I'ih) miles of waterways. He went ■> via the Hudson river, Erie canal. Great Lakes, Chicago, Illinois and Mississippi rivers. In the same canoe he intends to skirt the Gulf ot Mexico and A ianiie i i coast lines back to New York, another 2.500 miles. Hardy suffered only one . disaster. He was swamped in Lake Erie during a storm and struggled for four । hours to swim to shore.
^My Neighbor Says: Fill hot-water bottle only three-quar-ters full. When filled to its full capacity it Is too heavy for comfort. • * • Always pick out medium sized sweet potatoes with skins that are not wrinkled when marketing. » * * Soak dried apples, apricots and prunes overnight in cold water to plump them and soften dried tissues. • * • Spots and rings left on clothing when stains have been removed will soon disappear if stained parts are held over steam from a tea kettle. ♦ ♦ ♦ When packing dresses for traveling t
until after sunset and until the night dampness settles down, and then taking them Indoors ami ironing them before the moisture dries. , o Watch the Details. : It often is the little things that seem to be the most work. The last straw lias but little weight, but it is the proverbial one to break the camel’s back. Smail details are frequently the last straws in work although it would I appear that the major task was the burden. Without saying this is not the tact, the minor details have a nagging insistence which are dispropor- ; tionate to their importance. For example if a club Is h.T ing a I speaker, it may’ be difficult to get just I the one wanted, but when this has I been attended to satisfactorily, there 1 are such little details as seeing that : the person is taken to and from the | hall or house, that the electric light is just right t<» fall on the speaker's! notes, without having any ray from it come in the eyes of even one person in the audience. Then the proper background must be arranged. 1 To put a speaker before a window, or between two windows, if the affair is in the afternoon when artificial light can bo dispensed with, may be tine for him or her. but it is trying for an audience to face the light. Also the features of the speaker are dulled by the brilliance of the daylight. It is better even in the daytime, to have a light on a desk in a dark spot for the speaker, and to have the light from ; the windows fall on the backs, not I shine in the faces of those looking and I listening. This is an important detail. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. ’ OWNS THE GIANTS r i w I F i y M’' - r Horace Stoneham of New York, who > is the new owner of the Giants following the death of his father, Charles A. Stoneham at Hot Springs, Ark., is the « ! youngest of the National league's club l 1 owners.
POTPOURRI Poverty Death for Beau Brummell The monicker “Beau Brummell” goes back to the life and dress of George Bryan Brummell who died in 1840. For 21 years he set the fashion note in England. A young friend of the then prince of Wales, later King George IV, young Brammell developed a knack of dressing handsomely and properly, lie squandered his father’s fortune and finally died a pauper.
WHEN IT SURVIVES When oi <• .-!!( ,• t li.i'- a vacation t comes back doubly strengthened. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the oi iginal little liver pills put up 60 years ago. They regulate liver and bowel-.—Adv. Stay Sweet You can take life seriously with* out being a pessimist. IT WORKED FOR ME Women should L.ke only ‘ Ka liquid i laxatives \ 's-z’ / MORE people could feel fine, be fit and regular, if they would only follow the rule of doctors and hospitals in relieving constipation. a Never take any laxative that ig j harsh in action. Or one, the dose of j which can’t be exactly measured. I Doctors know the danger if this rule! is violated. They use liquid laxatives,® i and keep reducing the dose until the" bowels need no help at all. Reduced dosage is the secret of aiding Nature in restoring regularity. You must use a little less laxative each time, and that’s why it should be a liquid like Syrup Pepsin. Ask your druggist for a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, and if it doesn’t give you absolute relief, if it isn’t a joy and comfort in the way it overcomes biliousness due to constipation, your money back. Yawn Explained A yawn is only a gap in the conversation. A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many medicinea you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulsion. Serious trouble may be brewing and you cannot afford to take a chance with anything less than Creomulsion, which goes right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to soothe and heal the inflamed membranes as the germ-laden phlegm is loosened and expelled. Even If other remedies have failed, don’t be discouraged, your druggist is authorized to guarantee Creomulsion and to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results from the very first bottle. Get Creomulsion right now. (AdvJ AFARMER BOY
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