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Walkerton Independent —es= ■ m Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers at the L WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS THE KT. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres. Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES O«« Tear ILM Rie Mascha •• Three Months *• TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post aflea at Walkertea. gL^^^^^acand-elaaa^^atter^^^^-^s^^* OFFSHOOTS Ten laundresses recently acted in a **y in London. Reindeer milk is being delivered in Alaska in frozen blocks. The Overbrook School for the Blind, near Philadelphia, Pa., has a team of skilled wrestlers. A full-grown Pomeranian dog owned by Marvin McGuire of San Bernardino, Calif., weighs only 22 ounces. Five thousand dollars’ worth of gold spectacles which had been stolen from a jeweler’s shop in India, were found in the nest of a crow. Vienna craftsmen are making fine violins out of gummed paper. Their tonal softness is said to compare with the best Italian violins. Weather forecasts are prohibited tn Warsaw, Poland, since one of the ministers was drenched on a day scheduled to be “fair and warm.” A prairie dog, considered a pest and menace by most cattlemen and farmers, has been domesticated and trained as a pet by a Miles City, Mont., man. Grandmothers in Plymouth, England, h^ve formed a swimming club, the five members bathing all the year round, although two of them are over seventy. IN OUR NATIVE LAND One ton of sugar can be obtained from five tons of wood. Falls cause more deaths than all other indoor accidents. Os automobiles stolen in the United States 94 per cent are recovered. There are 100 cities of 100,000 population or more in the United States and Canada. There are more motor cars per capita in Nevada than any other state —one to 2.92 persons. Occupational hazards are estimated to have caused 15 per cent of the nation’s blindness. It is estimated there are 3,000,000 golf players and 5,727 courses in the United States. The 1,600 research laboratories in this country employ 3,500 persons and spend $200,000,000 a year. RIGHT TO THE POINT Matches were invented in England about 100 years ago. Street-car passengers In London lose an average of 50,000 articles a year, left on the cars. Nine words—the, and, be, to, have, it, will, of, you—make up one-fourth of our actual speech. A person at the North pole Is 13

miles nearer the center of the earth than if he were at the equator. Astronomers say that even during midsummer the temperature on Mars rarely gets higher than 10 degrees below aero. A total of approximately 80,000,000 persons go to the movies In the U. S. A. yearly. About 20,000,000 attend circuses annually. ♦ QUEER QUIRKS Noiseless rubber building blocks for children are being sold in London. A railway station In South Africa has been named America Siding. The Irish Free State has banned dances In all homes except when guests are invited. The clock on the courthouse at Newnan, Ga., announces noontime each day with thirteen strokes. The leaf-cutter bees skillfully cut out of roses circular and oval pieces for the lining of their cells. Brides are crowned with a garland of wormwood In Russia to denote the trials and bitterness of marriage. A man named Black witnessed a California traffic accident in which an automobile driven by Green struck a Mrs. Brown, who was taken to a hospital by a man named White. ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN The first knife is supposed to have been a woman’s invention. More than half a million women in Russia are engaged in building work. Nearly 700 of the 18,000 members of the American Chemical society are women. Ninety-eight per cent of the women in South Africa marry, according to official figures. Not one woman in ten in London can get her foot in a size 3 shoe, and 25 per cent of them require a 5%. Florida State College for Women is the third largest woman’s college In the United States. Hunter college, New York city, is first.

[BRISBANE THIS WEEK Land Ho! The Changing Ocean ( Safety and Speed ; Much for Science On Board Steamship Normandie.— Four nights from New York and the

ship is at Southampton. The Isle of Wight Is on your right. Passengers are landing for England. On your left is France, across the water. You land there later. On old crossings passengers watched eagerly for the first land. Now crossing and landing are about as exciting as a trip by rail from Chicago to

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Lake Forest, or from Wall street to Forty-second street by subway. You are In Europe before you realize that you have started. The poetry of travel has departed with fast ships on the ocean and automobiles Instead of camels on the desert. No matter how often yon cross this Atlantic ocean, or the North American continent, the crossing is always different and interesting. The ocean, like the wide plains, is forever changing. Two days ago the waves looked like playthings for children. Last night the ocean changed its mind and rolled the waves up high with a shrieking wind. The steward said, “We shall have to fasten the arm chairs tomorrow,” but the heavy ship paid no attention to the waves. The ocean changed its mind again and calmed down. A speedometer telling how fast the ship moves is operated by a mechanism below the keel that records the speed of the rushing water. Burning oil produces steam; steam power is converted into electric power, and that drives the ship. The captain always knows how deep the ocean is beneath him; an electric contrivance sends a sound wave down through the water to the bottom, which sends back an echo. Knowing the speed at which sound travels through water, it is easy to calculate the depth. The machine does it for you. It is a feeble sound—one hundred and sixty thousand vibrations to the second. No human ear could pick it up, but the machine records It. Twenty-five thousand vibrations per second Is the limit of your ear, and that Is not bad for a primitive contrivance like a human being. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war in the “big” war, tells graduating students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology it is their duty to “carry science Into politics.” Scientists, Mr. Baker thought, must seek for “the solution of world problems when the great International crisis comes, as it surely will come.” A sufficient “great crisis” seems to be here now, with many countries wanting to fight each other, different classes already fighting each other, and in this richest country in the world—ten million human beings living practically on charity. If that is not a real crisis, few would care to see one.

George Bernard Shaw, not yet eighty, says, “I must give up public speaking, I am too old.” That surprises you from a Celt and an Irishman. At eighty many men have been vigorous in thought and body; for instance, Pope Leo, Von Mo.tke, Gladstone, Michelangelo. Not one of those, however, suffered from handicaps that have aged George Bernard Shaw prematurely; be Is a vegetarian and a teetotaler. Youth and strength reside in a saddle of four-year-old mutton and good, light claret, greatly diluted with water. In spite of England’s pitifully weak and belated backdown on sanctions, due to London's fear of Mussolini's air fleet; a backdown denounced as cowardice by Lloyd George, Britain, for face-saving purposes, will maintain a great fleet in the Mediterranean. Mussolini will welcome such convenient air and submarine targets near home as a sort of British hostages to fortune. M. Auriol announces that France will not devalue the franc any further. It has already been reduced by 80 per cent, as though our dollar had been knocked down to twenty cents instead of fifty-nine cents. Prime Minister Blum knows that it does not pay to scare capital out of its w’its, something that our best Washington minds have still to learn. The French workmen will have their forty-hour week and the strikes are about over. The French, a homogeneous people, realize that If they destroy France they will not have much left. Returning to the real American Interest, the defeat of Joe Louis, young gentlemen and old will observe that it is most important in all undertakings not to be afraid, worn out or cowardly. Fighters that Louis had encountered saw before them “an invincible conqueror of men.” © King Features Syndicate, Ino. WNU Service. First to Make Rifle The story of our Revolution and the saga of the conquest of the West are built around an American Invention j never properly appreciated—the “Ken- : tucky” rifle, first made by a PennsylI vanla Dutchman in 1720, and the first straight-shooting firearm ever built Cavern* Unexplored It Is estimated that not more than I one-third of the great Carlsbad cav- ! erns in New Mexico have ever been I explored. Some authorities say that ' the caverns extend for 60 miles.

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Washington.—The Republicans and the Democrats have their Presidentlal tickets. The All Set for elephant and the Big Race donkey have their jockeys for the campaign. The tumult and the shouting —and the blistering, withering fire of politics, have begun. It Is a long way to the finish line where the checkered flag falls for the winner of the race. But the big fight Is really on and it Is interesting as well as significant to note how it has started. It is always a sure sign that party leaders respect and fear their opponents when they start a campaign with a declaration that the enemy Is weak; that his selection resulted from chicanery or bossisin, or that the particular candidate selected has been put up as a sacrifice. That is what has happened already In the current campaign, and you can expect It to continue because it is stating no secret to disclose that the New Dealers fear Gov. Alf M. I.andon of Kansas, the Republican nominee, and that the Republican leadership, beneath the surface, are wishing for a clairvoyant or crystal gazer to tell them how much of a chance they have to beat President-candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt. Os course, no astute political observer would dare predict at this stage of the game who the winner will be. On the other hand, it is part of the psychology of the game of politics for politicians to claim everything In sight. Yet, I know that each side expects a real battle, a horse race. The November result is pretty likely to be determined by events of the next tw’o months. At the end of that time, trends will be evident and some appraisal of the campaign will be possible. In the Interim, claims and high sounding phrases will be offered by the basketful and enthusiasm will be promoted. Yet, the end, the result, will not begin to be evident until afterward because this Is the season for the tumult and shouting. I cannot concur In the claims already advanced by Postmaster Gen-eral-Chairman Farley that the election is in the bag for Mr. Roosevelt any more than I can believe that Chairman John Hamilton of the Republicans is equipped with special foresight enabling him to say that Governor Landon Is a sure winner. I said above that the campaign has all of the appearance of a horse race and a close one. To that extent it is a condition much more favorable to the Republicans than obtained three months ago when, as I recall, I suggested that If the election were held at that time, Mr. Roosevelt had a 6040 advantage over anybody the Republicans could name. To say now, therefore, that the race probably will be close necessarily indicates two things: unification of Republican strength, and some mistakes by the Democratic leadership (one may properly inquire what has brought about the unification of the Republicans). The answer seems rather obvious. It Is that the Republican party has been reorganized from tip to toe. The reorganlzatl< n has been more sweeping and more effective and the result much more satisfactory to the country than most political observers had any reason to

expect I say “satisfactory to the country” because the Republican party is a major political unit and, though | at present a minority party, will come back to power some time. The Democratic attack on the Republicans for the last sixteen years has been concenG. O. P. trated to a large exCleans Home tent on the charge that the Republicans were boss-controlled. Chairman Farley has continually harped on that alleged condition. When the Republicans did their house cleaning job at Cleveland, they took away an important issue from the Democrats, but even so some of the Democrats and some independents, like Senator George Norris of Nebraska, refused to accept the purging as genuine. Senator Norris disclosed his attitude very definitely the other day when he broadcast a radio speech. He employed the time-worn allegation that the Cleveland convention was dominated by “special interests,” and that the platform adopted there was plainly reactionary.” Senator Norris has not supported a Republican candidate for 12 years, although he ran for re-election six years ago as a Republican. He believes in Mr. Roosevelt and insists that Mr. Roosevelt alone can save the country. It is to be assumed also that Mr. Roosevelt will have the support of the LaFollettes, Senator Bob and Governor Phil, In Wisconsin. These men, however, have labeled themselves as Progressives, and have not carried the party label of either the Democrats or Republicans. There will be others of the same warp and woof. There will be oldline Democrats who will do as Senator Copeland of New York has done, take a walk. Alfred E. Smith is not going to support the New Dealers nor will a great many of his followers. So, it Is obvious that each party will be j subjected to defections of one kind or another. • • • Now, concerning mistakes that have been made: Chairman Farley made a bad mistake politically when he said that Alfred M. Landon was Some “just the littleMistakea known governor of a typical prairie l state.” That remark has been rising to haunt the Democratic chairman almost daily since it escaped from his lips, and unless I miss my guess he will hear it repeated, thrown into his teeth, so many times between now and November that the words will give

him a stomachache equivalent to green apples. The reasons this remark was a serious blunder are two. First and foremost is that every state in the Union rightfully has justified pride of its people, Its commerce and Industry and its future prospects. Every state feels profound resentment when its capacity to do great things is questioned. Consequently, when Mr. Farley catalogued Kansas as a typical prairie state and its governor as little-known, there was a surging tidal wave of resentment, and it was not confined to Kansas alone. The Middle Western states are proud of being prairie states, and there was something slighting, an inference of inuendo in the remark which hurt because It directly questioned or challenged the ability of the prairies to produce men capable of leadership. The second reason why Mr. Farley’s remark cut the wrong way was that Mr. Farley is a New Yorker and a Tammanylte. There is something repulsive to the millions of mid-west-erners about Tammany, and a very great many residents of prairie states long have objected to the attempt of certain New Yorkers to “run things” for the whole United States. Naturally, the Farley remark has left a bad taste in the mouth of those people. Another mistake that has been made, really a series of mistakes, is the coercion that has been permitted to go on among those receiving relief. It is not exactly fair to charge Mr. Farley and President Roosevelt with these, yet I am Inclined to believe they could have prevented local Democratic politicians from attempting to force relief clients to vote the Democratic ticket. That condition has obtained in as many as fifteen states. Some places it has been disgustingly broad In Its scope, in states like Pennsylvania and Missouri. Whether the responsibility rests with Mr. Farley and President Roosevelt will hardly be a matter for consideration at voting time. The average voter will know that the pressure has been used and he will blame Mr. Farley and the President for it. It is one of those things in politics that naturally causes a revulsion of feeling, yet it is one of those things with which the leaders possibly may have had nothing directly to do. The fact that they might have prevented it and did not is accepted by the average voter In exactly the same light as though a written order directing such procedure had been Issued. The handling of the tax question by the administration in this session of congress has not been of a character warranting too much praise. It has alienated many Influential persons who might otherwise have supported Mr. Roosevelt. Os course, in the end the President can say that he wanted additional funds in order to start the balancing of the national budget, hut I know of a great number of Democrats in congress who have been thoroughly displeased by the White House insistence for a reform tax law rather than a revenue law. It seeing to me, therefore, that a considerable amount of campaign material will be developed from this fact. And so It goes with Democratic mistakes.

• • • On the other side of the picture, the Republicans can make mistakes yet, plenty of them. On the They have an adOther Hand vantage over the Democrats in one regard: they have not been charged with the responsibility of government for the last three and one-half years, and therefore will not have to answer for mistakes in administration. It lies in the hands of the Republican managers, therefore, to prevent political mistakes between now and election if they are capable of so doing. They have started out with an offensive campaign and have an opportunity to continue it, whereas the Democrats can conduct an offensive campaign only so long as thej- can avoid entering Into a defense of Roosevelt New Deal policies. I understand that the Democratic national committee is loaded to tl>e dashboard with material for attack, but from this stage of the battle it seems quite apparent that they are going to need plans for defense as well as offense, and they will not have enthusiastic support from some spots in their own army. The Democrats are prepared to attack Governor Landon on the theory that the country cannot feel sure of his plans and policies; that he has done nothing to enable the country to appraise him and that there is no assurance, in event of his election, that he is a big enough man for the Job of Chief Executive. On the other hand, the Republicans can counter-at-tack by using the language of Senator Copeland, New York Democrat, who declared that no man nor party disregarding its pledges was to be trusted, and right there is where the New Dealers must begin to defend. © Western Newspaper Union. Progress of the Necktie The necktie is comparatively modern. It began as a neck covering in the 1670 s when, in loose twisted folds, it superseded the neckpiece of lace similar to the feminine jabot which men wore in those days. It passed through various forms to 1812 when it became a partner of the first stiff collars of highly starched linen or paper. The first big step toward the modern tie occurred in 1830 when it appeared in black satin and similar fabrics. It was a bow tie and had a fastener at the back, the kind which, in modified form, vaudeville comedians use to a very good advantage. In 1840, with the change in waistcoat openings, the style gave way to the narrower four-in-hands and colors became a leading feature.

II!*® Adventurers’ y Er W ' Club " ' 11 m f v /J “Hands Up” ■ By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter WELL, sir, you boys and girls seem to have had adventures with about everything there is, but here’s a bird with a new one. He । is Morton Greenbaum of New York city, and he had an adventure with the English language. Os course, that wasn’t all of the adventure. There was a dark, sinister looking man in it—a man that frightened Mort almost to death. But the English language certainly played a big part, and to my mind it deserves most of the credit for the affair. Mort came to this country from Hungary in the fall of 1921, and made his home, at first, with a sister in Cleveland, Ohio. His sister conducted a grocery business there and she and Mort lived in rooms upstairs over the store. He stayed with his sister while he was learning English. Mort worked hard over his English, for he realized that the sooner he had it learned, the sooner he could get a Job and take bls place in the community. Every evening he went to night classes at the Central High school, and in between times he brushed up on his class work by reading the newspapers. Mort Believes Stick-up Guys Were Real Peril. And from those papers, Mort got a mighty funny conception of what these United States were like. The post war crime wave was on, and the papers were full of stories about holdups. Mort didn’t stop to think that those crime items were gathered from all over the country, and from all over j the environs of Cleveland. He thought of them in terms of the small towns In Hungary which he knew. And the result was that he began thinking of America as a place where law and order had broken down completely—where bandits ran wild all over town—something like our own conception of the banditry In China. He felt that, almost any minute, he might run across a stick-up man. And the thought wasn’t very comforting. Then, one day in October, It hapi>ened. Mort had been plugging along on his English, and had learned a hunch of words that he recognized when he saw them on paper. But when people pronounced tbein, or when he tried The Colored Man's Right Hand Was Hidden In His Pocket. to say them himself—-well—that was a different matter. Pronunciation was , the thing that was bothering him most when, one day, as he was watching the store while his sister had gone upstairs for a few minutes, a man came walking In. This Looked Like an Honest-to-Goodness Hold-up. He came in silently, and that frightened Mort right at the start. He was a huge colored man and he stood in front of Mort wAh his right hand hidden in his pocket. “The pocket bulged,” says Mort, “and something in it gave out a metallic sound. The man looked straight at me and, In a depressed but energetic tone, hissed one word: “Handsp.” The Colored Man's Right Hand Was Hidden In His Pocket. Hands up! Mort knew that word all too well. He had seen It in the newspapers too many times not to know what it meant. “Strangely enough,” he says, "I didn’t seem to be afraid to die. True, my legs gave way and I could hardly rise from the stool I was sitting on, but the prospect of my own death was not so disturbing as the thought that my only sister, a mother of five little children, might come down any minute. “Accordingly, with nil the self control I could command. I began retreating along the counter toward the stairs so that If my sister appeared I might give her a sign to apprise her of the danger.” Black Man Has a Single-Track Mind. At the same time. Mort felt that he ought to say something to keep that bird’s mind off such Ideas as shooting Mort But the only thing he could think of was a feeble "Wh-a-at?” The big colored man seemed to be losing patience. "Handsp!” he growled, this time louder and more Insistently than before. “I had nearly reached the stairs,” says Mort, "when the man seemed to lose his patience entirely. He brought his hand from his pocket—without a gun in it, to be sure—and gesticulating savagely in a certain direction above my head, bellowed from the depths of his lungs, ‘Handsop!’ ” And at that same moment. Mort heard bis sister coming down the stairs. The thing he most feared had happened. His brain reeled and his knees began giving way under him, but he pulled himself together and whispered to his sister in Hungarian: “Honey—man says, ‘Handsop!’” This Hold-up Has an Extremely Happy Ending. But the dread warning didn't seem to make any Impression on Mort's sister. She kept right on coming down those stairs. This time, Mort lost all sense of caution: “Honey,” he almost shouted. "Don’t you hear? Handsop!” And Mort’s sister looked at Mort as if to say, “Well, what are you yelling about.” What she did say, was: “All right Give him one of those red cans on the second shelf.” Puzzled, bewildered, Mort turned in the direction she was pointing. “And on the sides of those little red cans,” says Mort, “my alien eyes spelled out the legend hand soap! I had tripped up on nothing more dangerous than the niceties of pronunciation of the syllables ‘up’ and ’op.’ And the metallic sound- | Ing thing in the colored man’s pocket was only the jingle of a few pennies with which he paid for his purchase.” © —WNU Service.

Revolutionary War Trick Maj. David Zeigler, who upon appointment by President Jefferson became the first marshal of the Ohio district, was taken prisoner in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary war together with two other American officers. Soon afterward the three men escaped and, in fleeing, stopped at the house of a German family near the city. Major Zeigler, who had begun his military career in the army of Frederick the Great, posed as a Dutch doctor to gain the friendship of the German family. Making some pills of bread and water, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he cured the wife of some minor ailment and the three men were thereafter not only treated cordially but did not have to pay any bills for board and lodging. Pronunciation of “St. Louia” The Americana gives the popular pronunciation of the name “St. Louis” as Saint Loo is, though Webster gives I both this and Saint Loo-ey. In 1762 two merchants of New Orleans organized a firm to trade with the Missouri river Indians, getting a license from the governor of Louisiana. On February 14, 1764, a party of workmen landed at the site selected by Laclede for his trading post and began work the next day. The town was named in honor of Louis XV, whose patron saint was St. Luulr " —

“Feather in Your Cap” The piirase, “feather in your cap.” means that something is an honor to you. The allusion L to the very general custom in Asia and among the American Indians of adding a feather ' to the headgear for every enemy slain. I The ancient Lycians, and many others had a similar custom, and it is still usual for the English sportsman who kills the first woodcock to pick out a feather and stick it in his cap. The custom in one form or another seems to be almost universal. In Hungary at one time none might wear a feather but he who had slain a Turk, and it will be remembered that when Gordon quelled the Taiping re. ellion he was honored by the Chinese government with the “yellow jacket and peacock’s feather.” Start of Mormonism Mormonism, the faith on which was founded Salt Lake City. Utah, had its inception more than 100 years ago in the little town of Fayette, near Waterloo, N. Y. Old records reveal that the Society of Mormons, or the First Church of the Latter Day Saints, was organized April G, 1830, at the home of Peter Whitmer. For nearly a year it flourished in Fayette, where three conventions were held. It was in that locality that Joseph Smith gathered his little group of followers together and perfected his organization.

iwfc • rl^in about Heroes of the Southwest. Gallup, n. m. — Through the dust of vanished yesterdays we’ve just traveled the high ranges of the earlier pistoleers— Pat Garrett of the itchy trigger finger; and John Wesley Hardin, the Texas preacher’s boy turned scorpion; and Doc Holliday, the cough Ing dentist with his nervous manner ism of shooting peo-

ple; and that babyish king of all the killers, little sawed-off Billy the Kid, who smiled his diffident bucktoothed smile even as lie blasted out a life for every one of the twenty-one years of his life, “not counting,” as he himself would say, "Mexicans and Injuns.”

We viewed the historic bullet pocks and their persona! burying grounds, and we discovered just one survivor of those ancient two gun clans—a rancid octogenarian wearing the look about him of a ven erable, shamefaced sheep where he sat with a gingham apron draping the withered flanks which once had supported his artillery, and he shelling peas by the kitchen door of his present wife's boarding house. As somebody prematurely remarked, before I thought It up myself, the old Southwest is gone. But you never saw nobbier service stations than we passed, nor shinier beauty parlors, and the curb service was excellent a » » Destructive Pests. AS THOUGH it weren't bad enough already with a Presidential camisiign on this year, grasshoppers have threatened growing things in the Midwest. True to their advance notices, the 17-year locusts are popping out along the eastern seaboard. In Ontario a plague of caterpillars covered the railroad tracks so thickly trains could not run on schedule. There's no word yet from our little southern friend, the boll weevil, but news is expected. Maybe he's waiting for the return of the cotton crops that we used to plant for the export trade —when we had an export cotton trade. The pine borer is reported on the job in the nortli woods. To date, out . here, we have only the regular resident pests, including the white t" mite, the red ant and the mother can prove her child is another Sb Temple, if somebody would onl ten. Os the last-named, we a have upwards of 30,000 and riving every day. 1 Still, we cannot hope to Presently the party who goes taking straw votes an the election start multiplying rapidly. And the, professional California spellbinders I will be binding; and at any moment Upton Sinclair is liable to start running for something. • • • What Makes News. COME gentleman who must work at the postoffice because, seemingly, stamps don’t mean a thing in the world to him, keeps taking Issue with me for saying the reason why successful newspapers feature so-called sensations above news of art and science and literature is not through any desire to pander to morbid or vulgar tastes, but because the average publisher. being a smart merchandiser, puts such wares in his shop window, which is his front page, as are calculated to catch the eye and win the trade of the general public. My correspondent demands an answer. All right, let’s make it a parable : Suppose, mister, that tomorrow, through the town where you live, passes a train bearing a distinguished savant who has made some great discovery—say, the cause and cure of botts —and on another train there is a taffy-haired lady who, after a spectacular murder trial, has just been triumphantly acquitted on the ground of self-defense for shooting a gentleman friend eight or nine times in the back. Which one of these two travelers will draw the biggest crowd down to the station? And, brother, which train will you meet? * • • Favorite Son Keynoter. BACK home the folks are all puffed up with pride. Our own Albin W. i Barkley keynoted for the Democratic ‘ convention until the rafters warped. Besides being a grand person and a ' hard-working senator, he’s one of the j last of the real southern silver-tongued l —the kind that can make a song of a syllable and turn any reasonably long । word into an anthem. And does he come from the place where the true faith prevails? The ma- ' jority stabilized just as soon as we i got a lot of old-timers to quit voting । for Jeff Davis. We weaned them on I W. J. Bryan. Ours is probably the only i congressional district in the Union that never has gone Republican, although, when Al Smith ran, it had a compara- , tively close call from going Baptist. Let the creatures of entrenched I greed beware. As goes Paducah, so goes Paducah. IRVIN S. COBB. © —WNU Service. Largest Temple in World The largest temple in the world Is probably the Temple of Ammon tn Karnak, Egypt, which is now in ruins. Erected 4,000 years ago, there is comI sortable standing room for as many as i 90 people on the top of many of the columns still erect. Curtains Covered Beds Early beds were completely concealed by their curtains; the structural features were first exposed soon after the second quarter of the Eighteenth century, ~ - — <•

Irvin S. Cobt