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Motorists’ Riding Costs Steep in United States

Only 84 Cents of Dollar Goes for Road Work. Washington, D. C.—American motorists paid into state treasuries more than a billion dollars last year in gasoline taxes, motor vehicle registration fees and motor carrier taxes. Figures compiled by the bureau of public roads of the Department of Agriculture showed $169,344,000 —16 cents out of every dollar—was used for nonhighway purposes. That was an increase of $22,202,000 over 1935. Combined state and federal allocations for highway purposes last year totaled $1,131,000,000, bureau

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Mine Towns of Old West Come Back to Life

Renewal of Hydraulic Operations the Cause. Nevada City, Calif.—Names long since forgotten, which carried much of the color and romance of the old West, returned to prominence with an announcement that hydraulic I mining operations in California may soon be resumed. Ghostly Sierra towns, silent and deserted since hydraulic operations i were stopped by court decision more than fifty years ago, are showing renewed signs of life. The resurgence of these glittering camps of the forty-niner era will be occasioned by allocation of federal funds to build debris dams in several rivers of importance both to mining and agricultural and shipping interns in northern Calif or- .

_ officials said. Federal contributions I to states made up about $250,000,- ' 000 of that amount. States last year spent $585,616,000 for state highway purposes, $265,- ' 496,000 for local roads and streets, j $37,942,000 for collection and administration and $1,597,000 for other highway purposes, such as park and forest roads. They had $8,346,000 of undistributed state highway funds. The states derived $691,420,000 from gasoline taxes, $359,784,000 from registration fees and licenses and $15,137,000 from special taxes j on motor carriers last year, the bureau said. Criticizes States. The bureau criticized states for

use of automobile taxes for any purpose other than road-building and maintenance. Any other use of the funds, the bureau said, “detracts materially from the upkeep of the highways for which the motoring public is paying.” “In 1936,” the bureau said, "almost one-third as much was used for nonhighway purposes as was used for the building and maintenance of state highways.” Os state taxes on highway users employed for other than highway purposes about $89,000,000 went to general state, county and municipal funds, $36,500,000 for relief of unemployment, $33,000,000 was given to education and approximately sll,000,000 for miscellaneous purposes, the bureau said. New Jersey Penalized. States are permitted under the Hayden-Cr : .right act, by which congress made available federal funds for state highway aid, to continue the same proportion of diversion of highway funds for other purposes as was diverted in the year prior to the act. States are required to match federal highway allotments, dollar for dollar. Recently the bureau deducted $250,000 from the federal allotment to New Jersey because that state used an excessive proportion of state highway funds for relief purposes. The federal government collects approximately $150,000,000 a year through a uniform 1-cent-a-gallon federal tax on gasoline. State gasoline taxes range from 2 cents a gallon in the District of Columbia and Rhode Island to 7 cents a gallon in Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee. The weighted average for all states for state gasoline taxes is 3.85 cents a gallon.

nia. President Roosevelt signed the bill which appropriated $1,500,000 for this purpose. The roll call of towns once iamed | for hydraulic mining reads like a page from the Bret Harte days. ' There is North San Juan, North i Bloomfield, Columbia Hill, French i : Corral, the Lucky Jane drift mine, ' Relief Hill —each has its history, | ; each its place in the stirring history ' of gold in California. Mining men foresee far-reaching ; activity, great benefits to come. ! They said natural erosion from the i Sierra, now carried down the Sacramento river, will be stopped by : the debris dams, and the federal government will save thousands of I dollars spent to keep the river open ! to navigation. The Sacramento, a major inland I waterway, is used extensively by

GET OFF SCHEDULE Uy LEONARD A. BARRETT This is an ordered universe. Events do not just happen; they oc-

cur in accordance with law. Nature demands obedience in exchange for her rewards. She is friendly when obedience is given and unmercifully cruel when it is withheld. Her fixed processes accept no foolish interference. The thunder clap proves her abhorrence

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of a vacuum. In short, nature works on schedule so mathematically exact that astronomers can foretell an eclipse many years in advance. Rhythmic order is written in large letters across the universe. The music of the spheres is that of scheduled harmony. This same principle of “being on schedule” has dominated our industrial life for many years. Readers of this article may recall their visit to an automobile factory where workers are literally converted into human machines. Each worker is assigned a piece of work which he does with definite precision on exact, scheduled time. The element of monotony incident to such labor often plays havoc with the psychic centers. To stand for eight hours OPAL S. HILL k /sahty Ml / z i Ml ’ j. N IMb Ml uni Mrs. Opal S. Hill of Kansas City, who made woman’s golfing history during a match in the Missouri women’s annual golf tournament by shooting the 18-hole course in 66 strokes, which was twelve under women’s par. It is the lowest score ever recorded for a woman on any course and one stroke over the alltime record for that particular course. driving home a rivet, or turning a certain screw, or attaching the same part to each machine as it passes along a trolley line is destructive not only of personal initiative but also of quickening interest in the work itself. Anything done “over and over again” deadens the first sharp challenge of a task. Being on schedule has increased the production of factories and developed manufacturing efficiency. But what of the human element which is so vital to the industrial process. The five-day week with its added leisure still presents the problem of using the time wisely. If the leisure time is used in exactly the same way every week, the individual is certainly still “on schedule.” And the plea is: “Get off schedule.” Schedule dominates our personal, social and intellectual life. Many persons not only budget their income —a praiseworthy act —but they budget their time and all other voluntary expressions of freedom. The word “efficiency” is very much over-worked, for much of it is mechanical efficiency. Why should we eat breakfast at seven, lunch at I

' San Francisco bay region and up- । per California shipping interests. Meantime, at Relief Hill, the sight of outlet tunnels, sluiceways and ditches, familiar to oldtime miners, is reassuring to residents of that I vicinity. Maximum operation is exI pected by 1938. One mining man, elated by prospects of renewed operations, said: “We of the old school of hydraulic I mining will install every new method for the recovery of not only the , fine free gold but the black sands | which also contain fine gold, platI inum and other precious minerals, ' | the great part of which was lost by , the old methods of hydraulic min- : ing.” Height of Prehistoric Man An examination of numerous sos- I sil skeletons leads to the conclusion that prehistoric men were not much, if any, taller than modern men.

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— । “ T FORGET to count my blessings * sometimes,” confided Ruth K., "especially on wash day when my work is more than cut in two by my washer and mangle. “But for some reason or other, I never fail to be impressed with the wonders of my machines when I have a big batch of curtains to do. We have about a million windows—well nearly! And you know what work it is to wash and iron curtains by hand. Now I swish them through the washer, then put them through the mangle . . . when you get on to doing curtains with the mangle, it’s easy and does them beautifully. The trick in putting curtains through the mangle is not to fold them. Put them through the full width from each selvege. “I’ve been getting very expert at tinting my curtains, too. I love to experiment with tints and have had the grandest luck mixing them. Some of my curtains I have in a very sunny peach color that I got by mixing yellow and pink. And pink with a little sky blue tint added gives a lovely off-pink that’s just the thing this season. Another color that’s nice for curtains is chartreuse . . . you get that by adding a lot of extra yellow to the green tint or else by toning yellow with blue. Anyway ; the fun of it is that you never get quite the same tone twice—sometimes it will run more toward yellow and sometimes more toward green. All of them are nice. Straight yellow is a good color for curtains if you want a sunny effect. In mixing tints, be careful not to mix too large a batch of tint at the time or the colors may gray up. “I think ninon is the best material twelve, dinner at six for twelve months each year? Why not go without breakfast once in awhile? Why not get up at six without the artificial awakening that often awakens everyone else except the person who set the alarm clock? How efficient are we without the devices of schedule? In leisure hours we need to find ourselves: we need to quit doing the same things and probe within for new impetus, new ideas, new methods, a new mind. Schedule is the beaten path: we need the mountain pass, the forgotten road, the winding way that leads to our unknown selves. For within a man there is a power house of spirit that cries aloud for permanent expression. Within a man is the personality that cannot be evaluated in chemical terms. Are you original? How do you know, if you have never got off schedule long enough to try yourself? Are you tired of doing things in the same : old way? Are you weary of stand- j ardized living and thinking? Then, I get off schedule. Have you a Self? Let us see! © Western Newspaper Union.

Bulldog Mothers Kittens lb ik - For five years, Twig, a bull-terrier, and Katharine, just a cat of doubtful parentage, have been boon companions around the home of their owner, Mrs. Leo DeMarsh, of Glendale, Calif. Last week, Katharine became the mother of four little kittens causing Twig to go on a hunger strike and begin to fret—a veterinary was called and diagnosed the trouble as “longing for a family of her own.” Twig solved the problem by moving in on Katharine’s family, starting to nurse and care for the little kittens. Katharine didn’t think so much of this arrangement so now Twig has two of the kittens to feed and the mother cat nurses the two others. Photo shows the four kittens nursing Twig, the bull-terrier, while Katharine, the mother cat, looks on.

zMy ^Neighbor Says: A combination of orange sherbet , and chocolate ice cream makes a colorful and delicious dessert. ♦ ♦ ♦ To prepare prunes for salad or bread, wash well and cover with one ' inch of cold water. Let stand two ! I hours. Stones may then be easily ; removed. Unpainted garden furniture should ! be rubbed with linseed oil before ! being put away for the winter. It | will improve the color of wood and keep it from cracking. • • * Don’t forget to cover your crocuses and tulips before the frost [

to use because it hangs in such soft beautiful folds. White dress voile is nice too and so is theatrical gauze. I try to keep to fabrics that don’t need starch. That’s where you really get into trouble with curtains, so I steer clear of such fabrics. Then I like to paint the rods and hardware the same color as the woodwork and curtains.” We take Ruth’s word about curtains because hers always look so fresh and pretty. • • * Unexpected Fate. “Nobody ever warned me of my fate,” laughed Esther M. “So I certainly didn’t expect to turn out to be a farmer’s wife! But funnily enough I rather like it.” Esther lives on a farm in a plain little square bungalow with no particular architectural distinction, and she hasn’t much in the way of money to do things with it. But she and Joe are a hard-working young pair with ideas and they’re clever with hammer and paint brush. The changes they’ve achieved in three years make us want to pin a medal on the two of them. They painted the house white with a bright ! blue roof and a bright blue door. Inside they’ve taken out the colonade effect that originally separated I the living room from the dining room, so now they have one big room. A sunny hot room a good part of the time it is; so they painted walls and woodwork in white : with just a touch of light blue in it. I Then Esther M. got plain white voile curtains, made them to hang straight and tailored, and always dips them in an over-dose of bluing to give them that same suggestion of blue that the walls have. Their furniture was mostly old and oak, originally belonging to Esther’s mother, but they did a grand job of rejuvenating it. First they took gen- , erations of varnish off with a good paint remover. That left it a fashionable blonde color and they added only a thin coat of clear jhellac. The old oblong dining table was placed at right angles to a pair of double windows in the part of the room that had formerly been the dining end. The sofa and chairs were grouped at the other end of the room. But a large jaspe rug in shades of grayed rose extended the full length of the big room. The sofa and one chair got a slip cover of soft blue and another chair was upholstered in a flowered material with quite a bit of rose in the pat- : tern. A pair of little extra cushions of this same flowered fabric added their bit to the two corners of the sofa. © By Betty Wells.—WNU Service. Believed Earth Stationary Many astronomers of the Middle ages believed that the earth was the 1 stationary center of the universe.

Bermuda Bans Motor on Yank’s Bicycle Hamilton, Bermuda.—Carl G. Wirt, an American resident, thinks cyclists are entitled to some assistance on Bermuda’s steep hills and has imported a small motor for attachment to his bicycle. Mr. Wirt is unable to use highways because of the strict laws against motor vehicles but can enjoy motor-assisted rides on private property. Several legislators who have tried the device say there is little possibility of approval of its use on roads. gets into the ground. Cover well with leaves and lay boards over the leaves so they will not blow away. © Associated Newspapers.—WNU Service.

S If* ylggH / © N<mv York Post.—WNU Service. Desire of Athletes for Higher Learning Will Surprise Profs A FAMOUS college basketball coach shortly will be visited by a committee representing his team. They will demand assurances that their scholarships will not be discontinued as soon as their playing days are ended . . . Seems that some athletes do go to college with the hope of getting diplomas after all . . . Folks (bellboys, waiters and such) who provide service for tennis stars say that the court luminaries are the world's worst tippers . . . John Pesek, the wrestler, breeds greyhounds between bouts ... Pattycake your pinkies for Charley Berry. The veteran catcher has done a swell job with Connie Mack’s pitching rookies. lowa is due to come up with a back who will make the customers forget Oze Simmons. His name is Bush Lamb, and Temple players, who tried to stop him last year, insist that he’ll be the hottest thing in football before the season’s half over . . . Also, down in the bullrushes of Mississippi, there’s Frank Bruiser Kinard, a giant tackle. Unless he has horrible luck he is sure of top rating this fa 11... Dom Fonte and Bernie Pearlman, who played baseball at L. I. U., are scheduled to report to Elmira (N. Y.-Pa. ■ league) next spring . . . Although most colleges are clamoring for a crack at the big gates to be obtained there, Syracuse will not ex- : hibit its very good basketball team at the Garden this winter. The reason? An alumnus checks in with the explanation that Syracuse wants to act dignified in front of Columbia, Penn, etc., in the hope of being invited to join the Ivy league elect some day. Les Canadiens hockey team, having had good results from a similar experiment last year, Coach Cecil Hart again is sending a group of players to Emile Maupas’ camp in the Laurentian mountains. After six weeks of such preliminary exercises, the veterans will join the rest of the squad at the Forum for the usual pre-season hockey drill . . . Albert Battleship Leduc, former Les Canadiens defense man, and for the past three years managing coach of the Providence Reds, has resigned. His appointment as sales manager for a Montreal distillery keeps him too busy for hockey . . . Lionel Conacher, having announced his retirement from active hockey to take over a Toronto political job, the Maroons are seeking a replacement. Sylvio Mantha, former Canadiens’ defense star and manager, probably will be signed . • . Bill Powers, secretary-treasurer of the N. Y. Hockey Writers association, is the only scribe filing in French from the Garden. Temple Boys Tell One on Coach Pop Warner Temple students insist that Pop Warner is wearing the same suit,

hat and shoes that he has worn every day since taking up football coaching at . the institution in . 1933 .... Eulace j Peacock, the tan ; tornado from Tem- , pie, now runs an ’ apartment house in , Newark .... New ' Yoik racing associj ations are not making any elaborate ' plans for the World’s

fair. And why should they? The Chicago fair didn't do Illinois | courses any good . . . Millionaire owners still are trying to sign Hirsch Jacobs but he spurns their offers, preferring to train a band of battered platers for his frau. Many millionaire stables are in real need of a Jacobs, too. Frank Makosky, Yankee rookie pitcher, recommends every detective story he reads to Lefty Gomez, his roomie, during the playing season. But spoils the reading by telling Lefty who committed the murder . . . Harry Gumbert lives only I thirty miles from Pittsburgh hut I never saw Forbes field until he beI came a member of the Giants’ I pitching staff . . . New York stew- ’ ards could learn something from Detroit where each horse’s nostrils are examined in the paddock (before the race) to determine whether there has been any sponging . . . Muggs Skladany, end coach at Carnegie Tech, has organized a separate training table for overlarded members of the football squad. Sits at the head of it himself—for reducing purposes. Aside from putting some new touches on the football coaching job at Villanova, Clipper Smith has added to the institution’s list of superstitions. He will run a mile to avoid meeting a white (not black) cat . . . Los Angeles informants say that Howard Jones is abandoning his taciturn manner and is trying ' to get closer to his Southern California players ... He recently had the - entire squad at his home for dinner . . . Louis Dundee. Baltimore’s ! amateur featherweight champion, is , the son of Joe Dundee, former 7 world's welterweight champion, and I a nephew of Vince Dundee. I

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