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I STORIES SPORTS nhc BOYS L-^-_GIBLS _ I Puzzles {'''AN you draw the figure below without crossing a line, or rais ing your pencil from the paper? Try to think of five words which thyme with “round.” The definitions thould make it easier. 1. To amaze. 2. To bounce back. 3. A kind of dog. 4. Deep. 5. Located. —3— Here is a word triangle which sprouts from a sprout! The second line is part of a boat (plural), the third is a bun, the fourth is a bird, ind the fifth is a pronoun. Can you complete the triangle? SPROUT R O u — T In the sentence below, the missing Words are spelled differently, but pro nounced alike. What are they? If you hide the baby's ——, you will make him-. —5— CROSSWORD PUZZLE. HORIZONTAL. 1. Mislaid. 5. To become fatigued. 9. Extent of land. 10. The Mormon State. 11. Solitary. 12. A spring or fountain. 14. Give forth. 17. Part of verb “to be.” 18. Company (abbr.). 19. Breakers. 22. Oblique. 24. Consumed. 25. Employed. 27. Bird's home. 30. Business transaction. SI. Of great depth. VERTICAL. 1. Southern State (abbr.). 2. Either. 3. Valuable kind of fur. 4. Of great height. 5. Musical air. 6 Detail. 7. The sun god. 8. Exclamation. 12. Existed. 13. An ostrichlike bird. 15. Frozen water. 16. To drag with a rope. 20. Spool. 21. To lose color. 22. To dispatch. 23. Joint of the leg. 25. You and me. 26. South America (abbr.). 28. Point of the compass (abbr.), 29. Top (abbr.). ANSWERS. 1. Starting at J. go to F to I to A to B to D to J to H to G to E to I to C and back to J. 2. Astound, rebound, hound, pro found and found. 3. Sprout, prows, roll, owl, us, T. | 4. Ball, bawl. | C. Crossword puzzle solution. Posers 1. What color Is ultramarine? 2. Where Is the "differential” in an automobile located? 3. How many feet are there in a fathom? 4. What city in Ohio is famous for the manufacture of rubber goods? 6. Who killed Goliath? 7. In what part of the British Isles Is Wales located? 8. Who introduced tobacco to Eu rope? ANSWERS. 1. A brilliant blue. 2. In the rear axle. 3. Six. 4. Akron. 5. Lake Michigan. 6. David. 7. West of Cen tral England and south of the Irish 6ea. 8. Sir Walter Raleigh. Farm Stork Busy. 'THANKS to the activities of the A stork, the farm population of the United States gained slightly during 1935 over the previous year, although there was a considerable excess of persons leaving the farms for the city over those leaving the city for the farm. The figures have just been com pleted for the year. They indicate that there were at the first of the year 31.809.000 on farms, an increase of 8.000 over the year before. r During the year 1,211,000 moved from farm to city and 825,000 from city to farm. The excess of births over deaths canceled the loss by this migration and added the extra 8,000. New Flight Rules Prevent Head-On Crashes in Clouds ~ 1 ^_ All Planes Report by Radio at Certain Check Points. By Guy Newell. ABOUT a year ago a youngish man with gray in his hair lounged lazily in a seat of one of the largest airliners, gazing idly out the window into the flicker of dazzling sunlight, blank whiteness of cloud, then more dazzling sunlight. They were flying in and out of broken clouds, those huge puffballs of a hot summer sky. Suddenly, in a flash of sunlight, the man snapped to his feet. The other passengers glanced curiously at him as he stood with his nose glued to the window—gazing into blank whiteness, for they were now passing through another cloud. Smith (his name was Smith, and he was flight superintendent of this air line) slumped back into his seat and reached for a handkerchief to wipe beads of cold sweat from his hands and face. A scant 50 feet below his window he had seen the flash of a sil ver-winged transport plane, headed in the other direction. It had been just a flash at their passing speed of a mile in 10 seconds, but Smith pictured in his mind those two planes meeting, instead of missing each other by 50 feet! Smith knew that there was no one to blame. For years pilots had flown about as they pleased, helter-skelter, caring little where the other fellow was. It was only the year before that pilots had been training for blind fly ing in special small planes, learning that they could go up through clouds, relying solely on instruments to keep the plane in stable flying position, come out on top, follow the radio beacon to a destination, and come down through the clouds as they ap proached the airport. Now, nearly, all transport pilots had passed their \ examinations in instrument flying, and most of them were flying the air lanes through solid slouds. when necessary, without even a glimpse of the tops or bottoms of the clouds or any sight of the ground. 'T'HIS near-collision in the clouds added to the gray in Smith’s hair, and it brought to his attention a major problem that pilots and airline offi cials had not foreseen: How to pre cent collisions in mid-air. With sev eral airline companies flying the same routes, particularly on approaching major airports, with these planes all seeking the best flying altitude, and all following the same radio beacon through dense clouds where there was no chance of seeing each other, the chances of collision were decidedly something to worry about. A radio station at each airport, acting as traf fic supervisor, was no longer sufficient to safeguard planes in flight. In a few days Smith had related his experience to the heads of all the major airlines. And they were wor ried, so worried that they agreed to set up a co-operative airways control to provide equipment, personnel and rules. Marker radio beacons were placed on each route about 40 miles from large airports; these were called check-points. All planes were re quired to estimate the time of reach ing a check-point and their expected altitude, and, after passing check point, to report by radio their alti tude and exact time of passing over. An airways control office was- estab lished to assemble all the informa tion as received from the various air lines, and to give out this information w’here it was needed, keeping every plane in flight informed as to position and altitude of all other planes along or across his route. Inbound planes were required to obtain permission to proceed before passing over the check point and approaching the airport. In the event of a radio failure on an airplane, all other planes were warned to give that plane right-of-way. TT WAS soon found that, in addition to all this, a standard set of flight rules was needed. These were added as need was discovered. They provide that planes bound in one direction This near-collision in the clouds added to the gray in Smith’s ' hair. must fly at even altitudes (2,000, 4,000, 6,000 feet), while planes bound in the opposite direction must fly at odd alti tudes (1,000. 3,000, 5,000 feet). Also, when approaching the Intersection of two air routes, the planes must climb 500 feet above their flying altitudes and must cross the intersecting route at as close to a right angle as possible. Other provisions of the regulations deal with the plane’s position in rela tion to the radio beam It is following. With this list of rules growing every day, the chances of collisions in the clouds are reduced almost to the zero point. Now, Smith can fly through the clouds and read his magazine in comfort, secure in the knowledge that the plane he is in will not crash Into some other huge transport plane In a weird but disastrous tragedy of the skyways. Crude Pictures on Walls of Caves Tell How Stone Age Men Lived O FAR as we know, old Stone Age men lived in caves which they found in cliffs or in the sides of i hills. They didn’t themselves dig these caves for their shelter—they found them and crawled in for protec tion from the wind and weather. And it is in these caves that we find crude drawings and broken stone tools, which reveal to us the manner in which these primitive ancestors of ours lived and what sort of people they were. Here are crude pictures showing what domestic animals they kept and here are traces of the first fires built by men of which we know. 'T'HE caves, thousands of years old. were made by water which has dissolved away the rock as effectively as if it were sugar, only more slowly. Most water contains a chemical called carbon dioxide, by the aid of which it is able to destroy rocks. Almost no ordinary water is without carbon dioxide. Some kinds of rock dissolve more quickly than others. Limestone Is easily dissolved by water containing carbon dioxide, and it is this peculiar quality of limestone which is respon sible for subterranean rivers and caves. When ordinary ground water which has soacked through the soil on the surface strikes a layer of lime stone it slowly cuts away the soluble stone until it has gnawed down to a layer of resistant stone which it can not dissolve. But even then it runs into the cracks in the stone, seeping through the tough layer until it finds still another layer of limestone, which it slowly begins to dissolve. TN THIS way channel after channel « and cave after cave may be hol lowed by the persistent work of the ground water, which carries with it metals, oils or anything else that may be in its path. Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is one of the largest known caves. It has many rooms, some gigantic in size, as high as 150 feet, and 400 feet across, and within it there are forests of those rock-icicles called stalactites and stalagmites, made by perpetually drip ping water. Ground water flows in veritable rivers under the surface of the ground, where it has scooped canyons out of limestone. Sometimes these under ground rivers pour out of hillsides as springs and sometimes they feed lakes. Often we do not even know what their final destinations are. HEADS UP! PHYSICIANS tell us that on of the most important things in maintain ing good health is having correct posture. Correct posture, of course, means standing and sitting properly. When you are walking along the street, keep your head up. Carry your chest high, with your shoulders back and your stomach in. Lift your feet. Not only is this more healthy, but it is far more graceful, and walking that way unconsciously makes you feel more vigorous and more courageous. Then when you sit down, don’t slump back into a chair as though you could never get up. Keep your backbone straight, instead of letting it curve like a parenthesis. When you bend forward at your desk or at the table, lean from the hips and don’t just hunch the shoulders. We all admire boys and girls who have a fine carriage. We all can have it. It’s just a matter of being careful how we stand and how we sit. Riddles WHY are the leaves on the trees " like you riddle fans trying to guess a tough teaser? Because they all fall sooner or later! Well, maybe that’s not so good, but It’s the best the Rid- ! die Man can think of on the spur of the moment. So he’ll quit trying to be original and let you try the bafflers his readers have sent in. 1. When do elephants have eight feet?—Roger Willey. 2. What is the difference between a mouse and a young lady?—Carlisle Nielsen. 3. What is a good thing to part with?—Shirley Chastain. 4. What runs and falls down hill, but can’t climb back up?—Barbara Dickson. 5. What can you keep after you have given it?—Shirley Huggins. ANSWE&S. 1. When there are two of them. 2. A mouse harms the cheese and a young lady charms the he’s. 3. A comb. 4. A stream. 5. Your promise. Eleven Players* Teamwork Beats Individual Stars By M. K. Whitehead. JJVERY one should remember that it takes 11 men to make a foot ball team go, and the more smoothly these 11 men work together, the better the results will be. Each one has a different ability and different func tions or assignments, and as soon as one man lets up or fails to perform his assignment well the play does not run off as it should. Co-operation among these 11, ambition and de sire to play well for the benefit of the team as a whole will produce far greater success than individual play by outstanding stars. The brilliant feats of the stars are a result of a unified effort of each individual on the team. A player who Is willing to carry the ball but does not want to block for the others or does not care to tackle on the defense does not fit into a well-rounded team any more than a lineman who likes to make spectacu lar tackles, but loafs on his blocking assignments. It is the willingness to make sacrifices for others which proves the best foot ball players. jDEHIND this unit is the spark plug who makes the team run as a machine—the quarterback. He rules the whole as a dictator and his word is final. Argument against his selec i tlon of plays on the field is fatal, be cause it disrupts the orderly precision of the team and breaks down the con fidence which the other players must have in him. A quarterback must have a gam bling spirit at times in his choice of plays, and must keep in mind con stantly his position on the field for passing, kicking or running plays. He must select the right personnel in his backfield; that is. a fast man for an end run. and a heavy crasher for his line bucks. He must keep in mind his opponents’ weaknesses, and try to outwit them by his choice of the un expected instead of the use of the con ventional play. This includes the use of the "quick kick,” which will turn the tide of many a game if it catches the opponents asleep. It should be used more often. 'T'HE success of this pilot and the team depends entirely upon the other 10 men in their performance of their duties well. He may select a perfect play for a touchdown, and will be criticized for its failure merely be cause one man “forgot” or loafed on a play. If a player is loafing he should be put on the bench where others are anxiously waiting to play and put all they have into each successive play. Any one who will not "put out,” as they say. consistently does not like the game well enough to be playing on a good team. As a rule, those who love the game and love to win, because they are repaid in enjoyment for their sacrifices and efforts, are the ones who make the best players. But those who can lose gracefully are equally impor tant in this game. \ Coach’s Orders INSTALLMENT IV. Coach Curtis of the Hartley Hlab School foot bell teem is e "sieve driver," who demends absolute. unquestioning obedi ence to ell his orders. Larry North, quar terback. resents this attitude. Larry la benched for proposing a change In a new forward pass play, and Ed Jasper, second strlrlg quarterback, starts the game against Mount Cairn. Jasper is hurt, and Larry goes in In the final quarter, with Hartley leading. 12-7 Coach Curtis Insists that Larry try the forward pass play. Larry does and Mount Calm Intercepts to score a touchdown. Larry then ignores the coach’s instructions, uses the pass as he thinks It should be used and pulls the game out of the fire. Expecting a rebuke from the coach, he is surprised when Mr. Curtis compliments him. . , .. Larry thinks he has won out In the struggle, and when the team goes to Jef ferson to play Central High on the. fol lowing Saturday, his brilliant play leads to a 13-13 tie. Larry stays In Jefferson after the game to go to a show with John ny Ashton and two girls, expecting to be home by 11 o’clock. But the show is late In closing, and rain and sleet delay them, so It U after 1 as they start down the long hill into Hartley. A train is approaching on the grade crossing at the foot Of tne hill, and Johnny sees that he will have to skid the car Into the curb in order to stop. Installment IV. JOHNNY pressed the brake pedal and cut the wheels to the right at the same Instant. His action kept the car from turning dear around, but even so there was a sick ening lurch as the wheels struck the curb, and a crash as the car came to rest against a tree. But that noise was forgotten tn the roar of the ex press as It thundered over the cross ing. Larry let a long sigh escape his lips. He clambered from the back seat, and helped Evelyn, who was trembling violently, to get out of the car. With white faces, they watched the train go by, then turned and sur veyed the damage to the car. A head light was broken, a fender crumpled, and the right front wheel knocked badly out of line. “Well,” said Johnny In an uncertain voice, “it could have been worse." “It sure could have!” said Larry fervently. All thought of the late ness of the hour had been driven from his mind. The watchman now came hurrying up, and following him was a young man whose car had been waiting on the other side of the tracks. "That was a close one!” the young man cried. "I saw you coming, and didn’t think you'd be able to stop on that hill. Now, would you mind giv inrr rru» romPkO T’m ft rpr>fM*t.Pr for the Chronicle.” Larry's heart dropped into his shoes at the words. He had been hop ing that the accident might not be come widely known, but any hope of that was now destroyed. Coach Cur tis would hear about it. and then the fat would be in the fire for sure. For a moment he thought of giv ing a fictitious name, but he set his Jaw ‘stubbornly. No, he’d take his medicine. He had made his decision to stay in Jefferson, feeling sure that he would be home in good time. Un fortunate circumstances had made that impossible, but he'd just have to make the best of it. DY MONDAY, the story of their narrow escape was all over town. Several of the fellows on the foot ball team asked him about it, and he ex plained the circumstances. They all sympathized with him. but they shook their heads doubtfully when they mentioned Coach Curtis. Larry went out for practice that afternoon, fully prepared fear any thing. The coach came up to him in the locker room. There was an even sterner set than usual to his lips as he gazed down at the quarterback. "You know my orders regarding training rules. North,” he said harsh ly. “You’re suspended from the squad for two weeks for that little escapade Saturday night. I won’t have any body on this team who can’t obey the rules.” Larry’s face paled. "But I didn't intend-” he began. “I’ll accept no excuses,” the coach snapped. “Maybe two weeks’ suspen sion will make you a little less de fiant.” Larry’s lips were tight and blood less as he turned and slowly began to take off his uniform. In two weeks the season would be almost over. He’d have only a few days to get back in shape for the final game against Gramercy—provided the coach rein stated him. AS HE left the locker room and walked slowly home. Larry’s thoughts were far from pleasant. The fact that the coach’s punishment had The Story of a Boy Who Thought for Himself By W. Boyce Morgan. "Go in for Jasper,” said Coach Curtis tensely. been severe did not disguise the fact that It had been deserved. He had broken the rules, and he deserved to suffer. "Well, I guess the coach gets the last laugh,” he muttered. "Everybody in school will figure I’m a heel, who let the team down by breaking train ing. Maybe this deciding things for yourself isn’t such a good idea, after all. The fellows who just shut up and do as they're told seem to keep out of trouble.” Larry had plenty of reason to feel that way during the next few days. Everybody knew the cause of his sus- 1 pension, and, of course, the story was ! exaggerated. And the feeling was pretty general that Larry North was “hard to handle” and that the coach had been forced to take extreme meas ures in his case. The other members of the team ! knew' that there was more to it than ! that, but their natural respect for their coach’s authority, and their be lief in discipline, laept them from sid ing strongly with Larry. TARRY did his best to keep in shape during his two weeks' absence from practice, but he inevitably soft ened up, in spite of many hours spent in the high school gym. Mean- j while Ed Jasper played at quarter- | back, and did an acceptable job, al though Hartley lost one game and got an unsatisfactory 7-6 victory in j another. When Larry returned to \ practice on the Monday preceding the Gramercy game, the coach kept Jas per at regular quarterback, while Larry piloted the second team. The Gramercy game was played at Hartley, and the visitors brought over a rugged, smart team that had had its goal line cros^d only three times i all season. To make it worse, Hart- i ley had only two regular backs in : the line-up. Bill Winters at left half and big Mike Cattery at fullback, i Two days before the game, the right halfback had gone to bed with a se vere cold, and his substitute, Ray Jones, lacked experience. But even so, Hartley gave a good account of itself. It held Gramercy to one touchdown, so that the third quarter ended with the visitors lead ing, 6-0. Hartley had been unable to score, mainly because the big, fast Gramercy line broke up play after play before It was well started. Larry had watched the game gloomily from the bench. He saw his teammates taking a terrific beating, trying to stop the Gramercy power plays, and making futile efforts to penetrate that armor plate defense. Bill Winters and Mike Cattery were doing most of the offensive work, and as the game neared an end. Bill was evidently badly fagged out. AS FOR Mike, he had been hurt on a play in the third quarter. A kick in the head had knocked him out for several minutes, but after being worked over, he had gamely continued in the line-up. His hard smashes into the line had been about the only plays that had gained for Hartley all after noon, but now they did not have the same power as before he was hurt. As minute after minute of the fourth quarter passed, Larry could see Coach Curtis moving uneasily on the bench. The coach felt he had to win thia game to make his first season of coach ing a success. But unless Hartley found a way to score immediately they were doomed to defeat. Then came a break. Bill Winters intercepted a Gramercy pass in mid field, and ran it back to the 12-yard line, with Mike Cattery blocking for him. After the tackle was finally made, both Bill and Mike got to their feet very slowly. Then suddenly Coach Curtis Jumped up. ‘'North!” he said sharply. Larry was off the bench in an instant. He ran to the coach, pulling on his head guard. “Go in for Jasper,” said Coach Cur tis tensely. “There's time for only two or three plays. Throw Cattery into that line on every one!” Larry stared. He had seen Mike Cattery get up, obviously groggy. To batter him against that line now might injure him seriously. Larry's mouth opened to protest, but he closed it sharply, turned, and dashed out on the field. (To be concluded next Sunday.) Balancing One Golf Ball on Another Is Simple Magic Trick A LERT booking agents are always on the lookout for novelty acts, and so when a novelty magic act came out several years ago it was over whelmingly popular. This act was really quite unique, and was strictly original. Its unique ness lay in the fact that it was all performed with accessories of golf: clubs, balls, "green” flags, etc. Our trick today, while not included in the golf routine just described, 1s a result of the golf craze that followed in the wake of the first novelty act. It is called "Oolf-o.” Effect: The performer shows two golf balls to be quite ordinary by tossing them into the air several times, and catching them as they fall. Having thus explained his object, the performer holds one golf ball in his right hand and carefully places the other one on top of it. It falls off the first couple of times, but the third time it remains balanced upon the bottom ball—much to the sur price of the audience. Explanation: A little piece of lead plaster, or beeswax, 1s responsible for this juggling mystery. In the Magic "lingo” this wax is called "diachylon.” This little dab of wax is placed on the ball that is in the right hand. When the upper ball is pressed upon the lower, it is done so that it comes in contact with the wax, and of course it stacks—apparently balancing. The first couple of times, the ball is let fall so that the effect will look quite difficult! Proctor (Continued From Second Page.) would be necessary to have the Mary land Congressman present in order to vote for Mr. Jefferson, and at the same time divide the vote of Mary land, and which would have, with the accession to Jefferson of one Federal vote, made him President much earlier in the balloting. And so, during what was said to have been a cold, Inclement season, he was carried from his lodgings to the Capitol and here, in "a room adjacent to the Representative's house, he lay on a bed beside which knelt his wife supporting his head on her arm, while with her hand she guided his, in writing the name of the man of her choice. At the return of each hour the invalid was roused from his disturbed slumber, much to the injury of his health, to perform this important duty. What anxiety must this fond wife have endured, what a dread responsibility did she take on herself, knowing as she did, and having been appealed to by his physician, to resist his wish to go, that her husband's life was risked, by his removal from his cham ber and the following scene. But it was for her country! And the American equalled in courage and patriotism the Roman matron." REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLSON recovered from his illness and continued his service in Congress, and in time participated in the de fense of Fort McHenry. He died in 1817. Mr. Jefferson and the people of the District did not have much time to arrange for the inauguration, after the House had decided who should be President, but during the inter vening two weeks the people of Wash ington and Alexandria got together their soldier companies and prepared for the event, and when the time arrived, the President-elect—who was stopping at Conrad & McMunn’s Ho tel, then at the northwest corner of New’ Jersey avenue and C street southeast, where is now the House Office Annex—did not merely ride horseback to the Capitol, tie his horse outside to a fence, and go in and take the oath of office, and re turn to his lodgings in the same way, as it has been so many times er roneously stated, but the exercises were, indeed, quite befitting the oc casion. An account of the event, printed at the time, gives the fol lowing details: “At an early hour on Wednesday the city of Washington presented a spectacle of uncommon animation, occasioned by the addition to its usual population of a large body of citi zens from the adjacent districts. A discharge from the company of Wash ington artillery ushered in the day; and about 10 o'clock the Alexandria company of riflemen, with the com pany of artillery, paraded in front of the President’s lodgings. “At 12 o’clock Thomas Jefferson, attended by a number of hia fellow citizens, among whom were many members of Congress, repaired to the Capitol. His dress was. as usual, that of a plain citizen, without any dis tinctive badge of office.” He entered the Senate under a dis charge from the artillery, and after having taken the oath of office and having delivered his address, he with drew, when a discharge of artillery was made. John Adams, the retiring President, and Theodore Sedgwick Speaker of the House, were conspicu ous by their absence. The remainder of the day, following the inauguration, was devoted to fes tivities, and at night there was a pretty general illumination. From a city of a few thousand in habitants. in 1800, Washington has grown to be a metropolis of over half i million people, and from a budget Jf $2,000 its expenses have Increased to over $43,000,000, of which the Federal Government pays but a small part, and although we help to inaugu rate the President after he is elected, with the usual Washington patriotic fervor, yet we are still denied the right to vote for the man we help to induct into office. i Hl§[h Lights of History“■ Skanderbeg—Part II —By J. Carroll Mansfield ©HOUGH STANDING HIGH IN THE 5ultan'5 favor Skanderbeg NEVER FORGOT THAT HE WAT AN ALBANIAN AND BROODED DEEPLY OVER THE WRONGT HIS NATIVE LAND HAD SUFFERED AT the hand/ of the Ottoman TuRHT. n iiwar w ©KANDEPBEG VOWED TO AVENGE THE DEATH OP MIS THREE i brothers and liberate i ALBANIA —In 1443 HE accompanied a Turkish AQMY THAT MARCHED INTO the Balkans to crush a REVOLT OF THE CONQUERED NATIONS. \ A DEFEAT AT KlISW IN SERBIA I TEMPOOAPliy demoralized I the Turk/ and gave SCANDEQBEG THE CHANCE i HE WAS LOOKING FOR- . With his swoop at the throat of the Qeis Effehdi. SkandfQ 8EG OBTAINED AN order giving HIM COMMAND OF THE TURklSW GARRISON HOLDING THE MILL FOQT RESS OF Ak-HIS5AR IN ALBANIA. tJEFOQE MIS REAL PlJQPOSE WAS DISCOVERED OQ HIS DESERTION VERIFIED, SkANDERBEG ESCAPED INTO ALBANIA AND AROUSED HIS fellow-countrymen Armed with the oqdeq fqom THE QBIS EPPBNPI, WE GAINED ADMISSION TO THE FOQTREW AND QUICKIV OVERPOWERED THE suqpqish? 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