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Tuesday, August 13, 1935
Man’* Right to Comfort
Thousands of men the nation over sympathized
with the plight in which David Alper of New York
found himself when arrested on charges of disorderly
conduct for refusing to leave the elevator of an of
fice building which he nad entered coatless. Inform
ed by the operator that he could not use the eleva
tor unless clothed with a coat. Alper stuck by his
guns and Insisted on his right to use the facilities
of the elevator coatless.
Charged in the courts, Alper continued to stick
by his guns, and wa* rewarded with a verdict of ac
quittal. the presiding magistrate holding that ‘going
costless is a habit accepted in New York."
Mere man has a hard time of it in this matter of
dress. During the heat of the summer the best
dressed woman oftimes appears to be she who has
the least on, while man struggles long with a tightly
fitting collar and a coat buttoned across his chest.
When formal evening wear is the order, the same
thing occurs. The well dressed woman is comfort
able. the well-dressed man is not.
Come Sunday and church time, the women of the
audience sit with bared neck and flimsy materials
cover the rest of their bodies. Man swelters, and If,
perchance, he removes his coat, he feels Just one
degree higher than an egg sucking dog.
A restaurant that will allow a woman with a total
ly exposed back to enter its confines, will exclude
her escort if he chances to be coatless.
Men the world over, while perhaps lacking the
gumption of David Alper of New York in standing
up for their rights, will applaud the blow he has
struck in behalf of the freedom of the male!
Signs Of The Times
Significant to a great degree Is the recent decision
to affiliate and the consequent affiliation with the
Rio Grande Valley Citrus Growers exchange by the
Meroedes co-operative citrus marketing organization.
Since 1936 the Mercedes organization has been going
It on Its own. and under the able leadership of H. M.
Rouse and Frank Hall, assisted by a most efficient
board of directors, the association has achieved a
notable record in co-operative marketing.
With the return of Mr. Hall to California the as
sociation was confronted with three alternatives, dis
bandment. affiliation with the exchange, or a con
tinuation of Its former status as an Independent (and
lonesome) co-operative.
To disband was unthinkable.
That left the choice to be made between affiliation
or the selection of another marketing agency and
the continuation of the former status. It speaks well
fqr the co-operative attitude, the desire to work for
the greatest good for the greatest number, that the
choice was made in favor of affiliation with the Rio
Grande Valley Citrus Growers Exchange.
Proud as they were of their organization, that the
Mercedes growers should decide to lose the Identity
of that association in a merger with the larger ex
change Is indeed one of the encouraging signs of the
times.
Growers are gradually coming to the realization
that In concentration of citrus tonnage there Is hope
for higher prices and a stabilized market.
‘State Press’ Comments On
Port Isabel
Willacy County (RaymondviUe) Chronicle: Open
ing of Port Isabel didn't mean that the waterway
will be Immediately dotted with hundreds of freight
ers and passenger lines; it simply meant that whole
sale use of the facilities can and will come gradually
but surely.
• • •
Wherever you have a landing place, you have
local lust to see ocean-going steamers moored at the
pier and stately caravels setting sail Into the far
beyond. Intensely practical men translate those
dreams Into fact. They do It by pestering Congress
until it appropriates to deepen the harbor and prod
ding local activity until It co-operates. Port Isabels
do not emerge full grown from a coast location. They
become ports because some men dreamed dreams and
others bothered the Federal authorities. Wherever
you have a port, you have water rates and where you
have water rates the charge for transporting other
commodities comes down. Other carriers may not
like It, but they must reduce the tariff to get the trade.
Bring down the cost of carriage and you get more
business and more industry. Dallas and Fort Worth
are sitting high end dry because water rates favor
the Gulf ports. Until Port Dallas and Port Fort Worth
nest at the shipping end of a canalized Trinity, It
will cost more to bring goods by rail a shorter dis
tance to both points than by the longer distance to
coast cities. This Is the magic known as the all
water rate. It Is also an argument for canalizing
the Trinity. Dallas felicitates Port Isabel and wants
to get in the king row. too—Joe Taylor in the Dal
las News.
Hairs Reveal Identity
Of Their Owners
• By DR. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Hygeia. the Health Magatine
When you find a suspicious-looking hair on the
shoulder of your husband or sweetheart, you can
take It to a hair specialist and learn exactly from
what person that hair came.
Of course, you would have to go around to all the
women you suspect and pluck hairs from their heads
for comparison, but with that tell-tale hair matched
with the sample hairs, the modem hair specialist can
identify the culprit without hesitation.
Such ldentifcation would be based on the recog
nized fact that no two persons have the same type
of hair. Police make use of this helpful fact in
criminal Identification.
Human hair varies greatly on account of the dif
ferent shades that it may assume, the changes that
take place with age, and the different parts of the
body from which the hair may happen to have come.
When you look at a hair under the microscope you
will find that it has three layers, a central, and in
ner and an outer layer. The central area of the
human hair is narrow and differs from that of the
hair of any animal except the chimpanzee and tie
gorilla, which are apes, very near to man. In the
apes the coloring matter of the hair is nearer to the
center than it is in man.
In white or gray hair, the pigment cells, or color
ing matter, is absent.* The hair of the beard, the
mustache and other portions of the body has a
broader center than the hair of the head.
When the medico-legal expert examines hair he
tries to answer five questions. Are the hairs human
or animal? If from an animal, what animal? If
human hair, is it male or female? From what part
of the body did the hair come? About how old was
the person from whom the hair came?
Not long ago there was a charlatan, with a hair
tonic for sale, who advertised that he would diagnose
the trouble of any person whose hair was falling out,
if that person would pluck out a few hairs and send
them to him.
Members of the bureau of investigation of the
American Medical Association took some hair from
girls with gorgeous locks like those of the seven
Sutherland sisters: they took hair from two fur
coats, they took hair from a horse's tail and dyed
some thread ao that it would look like hair.
The specimens were sent in from a lot of differ
ent addresses. In every case the same form letter
came back informing the questioner that he or she
was suffering from malnutrition of the hair roots.
We knew those time-payment fur coats had mal
nutrition of the hair roots. But the horse’s tall was
in the best of condition.
Of course, the charlatan never examined the hairs
under the microscope, or he could have guessed what
was being done to him.
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WASHINGTON
By Ray Tukcer
WHIRLPOOL—You wont find a
clue to the New Dealers' most an
noying headache in the headlines
these days. It's too sore a spot for
them to dlcuss except among
themselves.
But the president’s closest friends
are deeply upset over the lack of
coordination among the fifty-odd
regular and emergency agencies
assembled under the presidential
tent. Mr. Roosevelt cannot manage
all of them, and each ambitious
subordinate goes ahead under his
own steam. Visiting business men
carry home word that “Washington
Is a mad house" and the news
spreads like wildfire. Next to vast
expenditures, this apparent isorder
llness is blamed for the popular
suspicion that there Is no plot to
the show and no stage director.
The president, naturally, hasn’t
had time or authority to shift
scenery and control all the prima
donnas. Now worried aides beg
him to establish a central clearing
house resembling the War Indus
tries Board of Wilson days. Others
urge him to ask the January con
gress for sweeping powers of re
organization.
• • •
SYMPTOM—The inside story of
the executive order placing all
spending agencies responsible to
the budget bureau in his message
last January. Secretary Morgen
thau and Acting Budget Director
"Dannie" Bell have lost sleep try
ing to make this pledge come true.
But as fast as they inserted such a
provision in a specific bill some ag
grieved official—Jesse Jones of RFC
and John H. Fahey of HOLC—per
suaded congress to delete It with
respect to them.
"That’s something the Secretary
of the Treasury arants,” they told
congressional committees. Not ap
preciating Mr. Morgenthau’s neglect
of their patronage demands, the
legislators lined up against him.
Now the president will make them
be good by executive order. It’s a
symptomatic start.
• • »
Discovery—Nature has dealt the
Roosevelt administration some
heavy blows. It has dished out
droughts, floods and blight. But
now it seems that it's a dust storm
which blows some economic and
political good.
Commerce experts have noted for
some time that the Middle West
was going in for extremely heavy
purchases of farm implements,
automobiles, machinery, household
goods and apparel. Wholesale and
retail demand in this section has
held up remarkably well during the
normally dull summer months,
stimulating production and sales.
Now weather bureau dopesters
point out that the dust storms des
troyed or damaged vast stores of
good in homes, stores f :lories and
on the farms. The swirling particles
of minerals lessened the life of
productive and consumptive mate
rials. Matching this need with
higher farm prices and government
bounty, the experts conclude that
the result is a disguise blessing,
though not to the individual vic
tims. •
• • a
Sage—When the Associated Gas
«Se Electric was under Investigation
by the commission a few vea^s ago
—as it is now by congress—the in
quiry turned up some remarkable
letters. They revealed that a state
senator at Albany (Warren Thav
er) was blocking or passing bills
in accord with A. G. E. orders.
Here is the prize letter.
“I am perfectly willing to trust
the handling of these matters to
Senator Thayer however. I would
very much prefer that those in the
operating department do not com
municate directly about bills with
members of the legislature. Operat.
ing officials and business men gen
erally have a direct manner of
writing letters which would not be
entirely satisfactory in the event of
subsequent political or legislative
inquiries, whereas lawyers or poli
ticians ... realize that it is necessary
to scrutinize what is said carefully,
even though it is undoubtedly free
from evil, so as to avoid the appear
ance of evil."
The New York governor then was
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The man
who votr'*cafed this sage advice on
drafting | Mtical lawyers to defeat
the gove ior’s program was *H. C.
Hopson, the capital’s missing lobby
witness.
• • •
Taxes—Henry Ford. Calvin Cool
idge's fellow-camper. Is rapidly be
coming the nemesis of the New
Deal. He helped to destroy NR A
and now he may smash the ad
ministration’s tax program. The
fate of his industry under a steep
Inheritance tax has dramatised the
Sally s Sallies
tu. e£ back )
jMAMJNUly
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C'Hhm&j
Afmort every woman ha» her little
peculiarity—end tometunei he arpwen to
the call df “hubby”*
I
BEG IB HERE TODAY
JO UA RIKA areata tar ercac**
neat t* BRET PACL eelleR* aih
ietla atar. aaeaaaa Bear ckteru la
bee takla« a Irk aa knitw at
CM Lake tea. faaklaaable «•«•
net re ■ act award b? wealth?
DOCGLAS HARSH
- ta Creel Lake. Rarak*a
wether dlallkee her aad
dlMraltlee file** are ta
wbea PETER PR A GO
BET Elat act*?, arrive* frrga
art aaya narked atteatlaa* la la
aaka her ta ware? bln aa aaaa aa
he raa aeeare a dleeree
Bret Paal eaaae* t» Creel take
aa Ilf* award BARS MONTGOM
ERY aekaal aeaaalataaee wta la
trainer at 4a. la alee there
Pragaaet lea era aad re fa raa
whea kia Slat eanaaa? aader
takea ta aaakr cart at a natlaa
Airfare at tke reaart 4a berenrt
frteadl? wttk LOLA HOTTER, *e
treaa Oatiaa a aeeae a* The lake
Lola aarrewl? >aea?ea drewala*.
la reaeaed a? Bret Paal
4* lea raa It teas Bret aad aat
Pragrart wka eared her lit* after
tk* rail boat acetdeal lit »• aa
her wa? ta are Bret wkea Harak
et*A* he? urlag be waata t* talk
a beat the aart? aaat erealaa
MOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXXI
IT became apparent to Jo at once
*■ that Marsh was using the com
lug party as an excuse to corner
ner for k talk about Fragonet
From the moment they took their
places at the table bo was til at
>aaa He talked swiftly and rather
ncoberently of his plans to nold a ,
lance In honor oi Drann and the
ocatlon company Then abruptly
Marsh's tons changed and be
turned to Jo seriously.
"Jo . . . tf you're thinking of
leaving with Fragonef day after to
morrow. I—I cant let yon-"
"I haven't been thinking at leav
ing with him." Jo said.
“But yon hare to make a dec!
sloa. Fragonet won’t Just let it
si Ida And the fact that yon
haven't made np your mind not to
go makee me afraid that ... per
haps yon wilL"
Jo did not answer and M^rsb
went on. embarrassed, “I hate like
the devil to do a thing like this
Jo. But I want to ask yon—do
yon think aa much of Fragonet as
yon didr
"Do yon mean because of wbai
happened out there yesterday
the laker Jo raised her eyes to
hia “I'm afraid 1 don’t feel that's
Important, t wouldn't refuse to
marry a man Just because be—he
couldn’t swim for a camera Send
like Silas Drann. The truth la I
think H’a terrible the way people
have been treating him since that
happened."
Marsh leaned back in bis chair
stared at bis plate a moment
Then; “All right. Jo I’m going to
•et yon have it 1 didn’t mean to
go this far.” He hesitated, then
plunged on. 'That day they were
waiting for Fragonet. and I went
for him at the Inn. Remember’”
Jo nodded, her heart skipping a
beat.
“He said he was asleep. Well
... he wasn’t. He was with one
of the extra girls—that Dtla Saun
fiers who came up later. They were
having cocktails in her room, while
the company waited.”
C LOWLY Jo smiled. “Is that so
terrible, after ail’ Fragonet's
wife is divorcing him. There's no
one in particular for him to be
faithful to. is there? Besides, cock
tails in tier room—“
“Jo!* Marsh interrupted quiet
ly. “Jo, that's not like you. Frago
net has asked you to marry him.
pleaded with you to return to Hoi
lywood with him And you can t
fool me with your attitude of
sophistication—because it’s false
ft doesn’t belong to you. Ton'll
expect your man to be faithful."
Jo bad to lower her eyes In de>
feat before his dlreet. questioning
case.
"Ton do expect that don’t you
Jo r
"Tea." she told him slowly “But
—why should that action of Prato
net’s mean anything more than—
than what nappened that night on
the way to the bone Tree Tavern?
Men teem to nave moments when
they play the same with their fin
sere crossed, don't they?"
Marsh flushed. "Perhaps that
meant more than yon think Jo
Yon see I—"
But Jo had had enougk She
wanted to get out Into the air to
think In a swift movement she
rose Marsh had no time to leave ,
his own chair before she bad said
"There’a no cause for your eon
cern Mr Marsh "
"Then you’re not thinking of
leaving with Pragonet?"
Jo smiled "No . . . not with
Pragonet Qood night."
She turned and left him stand
tng there, bewildered. He started
as If to follow nut fust at that
moment Mrs Marsh and Babe
Montgomery appeared
"Oh there von are!” exclaimed
Mrs. Marsh, sweeping forward with
Babs at her side "What do yon
mean, running off to dinner with
out us?"
Marsh covered his annoyance
smiled and chatted while he seat
ed his mother and the younger
woman "1 bad to discuss plans
for the party."
“Not." remarked Babe with a
meaningful glance at Jo’s empty
cup. "plans for a private party. 1
trust ?"
"I’m afraid." said Marsh with
cutting politeness, "there’s no such
thing at Crest Lake Inn. . . .
Shall I order?"
'T’RADITION Insists that when a
1 motion picture company sends
a unit on location, the unit must
be given a party by the local In
habltanta Part of every popular
movie star’s education consists of
parties given at sea. on mountain
tops, in the broad farm lands, and
by small towns and big onea
Marsh was a natural host, and
even mere Important, be bad the
money to back hts Inclinations, (f
the party at Crest Lake was not
the most elaborate which Drann
and bis company had attended, eer
ralnly It came near to being the
most enjoyable. The host was en
tertaining the movie crowd because
he wanted to—and not because they
were movie stara Perhaps that
was why Fragonet and Drann and
Monte* and the rest enjoyed them
selves so thoroughly.
Tradition has It. too. that at such
parties the leading man and wom
an accompany each other; they, to
fact, carry oo the show for the
benefit of the public. Thus Frago
net to Jo’s relief, was pretty well
occupied with Lolita Montes—and
Lolita was hiding her dislike for
the star as admirably as she hid
It before the camera.
Barston. the aviator, jockeyed for
Jo’s attention all evening, and
when at last be was successful he
delivered a lecture. “Look here. Jo
Darien. Seems to me 1 never see
you any more unless Marsh decides
to throw a party."
"I’ve been around aM the time.”
iaugbed Jo.
"So have the other guya The
only reason I have even a prayer j
tonight to bacausa Pragonat baa to
■bow off wttb Montes—bacausa old
lady Marsb baa toaaad Lb la Mont
gomery wanch at Doug again—and
maybe bacauaa that bandaoma Ufa
guard baant shown up"
"I want to school with that hand
soma Ilf*, guard." Jo told him light'
If
Barston noddad. "1 know School
trtandabtpa ara bard to break up"
"Sometimes not so hard." said
Jo qnaarly.
a a a
CHE wondered !f Bret Intended to
^ stay away from the dance. He
wasn't particularly excited about
big parties and perhaps be
wouldn’t come Sbe knew thst
Marsb bad Invited him. and Tubby
bad a sard—In characteristic Tub
by fashion—thst Bret was eeeort
log Dlla Saunders tbe blond extrs
girl Mareb bad mentioned In con
nectlon with fragonet Jo hat
seen the Saunders girl only once
for Drann had ordered three extrs
glrle up from Hollywood and then
with his usual inconsistency, user
them not at all. The Saunders glri
seemsd bard and cheap, and John
ny Barley had Insinuated that she
was oot so much s genuine herd
working extra girl se one of thr
“hangers-on" of tbe Hollywood etn
dka
Tubby’s rumor thst Bret was to
escort Oils Saunders had disturbed
Jo more deeply than she admitted
eren to bsrselt As she danced
with Todd Barston she reflected
thst she hadn't yet had an oppor
tunlty to confess to Brat what s
blind fool she had been. After her
talk with Marsb the night before
sbe bad decided It was too late t«
go to Bret's cabin. 8omeone wa*
almost certain to eee and perhaps
to misunderstand— and she had
quite enough chalked up against
her by Mrs Marsh.
But tonight, with almost every
one at the Inn. it might be safe
Certainly she must see Bret with
out further delay. There had been
too much between them, they hac
loved each other too deeply, to have
this thing hanging over thwlr
heads.
When the dance with Bars tot
ended Jo excused herself quickly
slipped out on the empty veranda
There was a high full moon, light
log the lake and the broad slope
which led down to the cottages
Bret’s little plsce was at the ver*
edge of the lake so that be would
be near at hand if some nocturnal
swimmer * should find himself tn
troubla
Jo saw that there was a dim
light in one of the rooms, and hur
ried her pace. TB tell him
quickly." she thought “I’M tell
him quickly and get K over with
and try to make him come back
to the dance with me. . . . Then
maybe, dancing together, like we
used to do . .
Her higb-beeled slippers sank
deep In the soft grass, stalnins
green, but Jo didn’t think of this
She slipped by the window, her
hand outstretched to rap on the
cottage door. But her knuckle*
never reached the wood, for some
thing beyond the window c&ughi
her eya It was something bright
and artificial and glittering—the
platinum head of Dlla Saunders.
Bret was smiling down at Dlla
Saunders, and as Jo stood, trane
fixed, he bent slowly to kiss those
insolent earmtned ilpa Jo saw
him rsacb out and touch the lamp
on the table, plunge the cottage
into darkness.
Aoah AIuhskuu.
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DEAR NOAH—WHAT OID
THE MANTLE THAT
KADE THE CLOCK.
SAV, ♦TCH ! TCH I TCH '/* ?
HELEN SWANSON
MlKINEAPeuS/MlNW.
DEAR NOAH*=DOES THE
DOGRISH DARK.?
FRANCIS CtAuPA- ADRIAN, MICH.
DEAR.LNOAH= IF* A NOT
WORKED IN A DOIT
FACTORY WOULD HE
Have Screwy ideas ?
GEN KVA WANPTKB -TOiSOO, O
CONI* ON FOLKS POSTCARD
lYPDR IDEAS TO NOAM- —
subject so that even faithful dem
ocrats haxdly dare to stand by the
president.
Although the Fords, father and
son. have not appeared on the
Washington scene, their represen
tatives have presented their views, j
Edsel’s attorney conferred with
Senator Vandenberg the day before
the latter deprecated the dissipa
tion of the Ford industry, and the
resulting unemployment which he
said would result from a 75 per
cent inheritance duty. Even with
out any argument the thought of a
breakup of this far-flung enter
prise weighs on every legislator.
Rhode Island's anti-New Deal
decision also produced a formid
able foe. Peter Gerry might have
swallowed the bill if his state had
not gone republican so heavily,
but now ihe heads the fight against
the White House. He knows taxes
as Glass knows banking and Borah
foreign affairs.
• » •
Killed — Treasury officials have
quietly banned the establishment
of a national chain-beer system.
Twelve big breweries—New York.
Milwaukee and St. Louis firms—
had hatched a plan for flooding the
countryside with their product.
They had arranged to ship their
suds in glass-lined tank cars north,
south, east and west and bottle it
at local stations or turn the bottling
and marketing concession over to
local interests.
But the federal beer bosses
wouldn’t hear of it after studying
the scheme. They feared that small
brewers who have Just invested mil
lions in their plants would ha
driven out of business. Moreover,
the government doesn't want a few
strong groups to dominate this
powerful Industry as they did be
fore prohibition.
• • •
Notes—House members shy away
from the midget coin proposal for
fear !t will lead to a national
sales tax ... Navy influence is strong
for pai. | ■ of the bill paralizing
mutiny p. paganda... .The "Federal
Gazette ’ will soon* mak: *s ap
pearance—it will contain \ # ive
orders, proclamations, etc.-ide
pendent oil men are asking con
gress to regulate the whole industry
or not at all_Italy's first air
crash in Africa is under investiga
tion—and all . air attaches are
listening in.
Postmaster General Farley says
the depre.csion will be over by next
summer. And immediately we’ll have
the presidential campaign.
• • •
Germany is telling us. in other
words, “If anybody won’t let us
raise our flag, we’ll raise the deuce.”
• • •
Department of C:mm?rce reports
that the typical American family
lives in a wooden house renting for
$341 a year. Now to locate the*100
per cent Amierican.
• • •
The chain letter gag has spread to
criticism of President Roosevelt.
Only in this case everyone gives, and
the president has to take It all.
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1851* Felix Adler, An**
ican educator, born
1890’First annual
Convention or U-S.
letter- carriers held
in Boston
1905'-rtorway votes
almost unanimously
for separation From
Sweden
m^F^rt of the brink
of Mia^ara Falls
tumble?irL‘
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Flashes of Life
(By The Associated Press)
Slicker ed
NEW YORK—Richard Adaml.
offered a ride by three men in an
automobile, was held up by them
at the point of a gun.
It was dark. Adaml quickly
slipped his money into his shoe.
The robbers, finding his pockets
empty, threw him out.
He saved 60 cents.
• • •
It In*t a Gag
CHARLESDON. 8. C. — The
birth of Pete and Repeat Jones,
negro twins, have been duly rec
orded here.
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Early Birds
LINCOLN. Neb —Lincoln young
sters apparently go for slogans in
a big way. ''Only 134 days till
Christmas'—yet the post office
here Monday received two letters
addressed to Santa Claus.
• • •
Windy City Also Thirsty
CHICAGO—The largest number
of liquor licenses in the city’s his
tory, 8.402. was sold for the last
half of 1935. The city collected $5.
121,000 in license fees. The previous
peak year before prohibition was
1905, when 8,097 licenses were sold
In the first six months.
• • •
Competition for Carl
MEEKER. Ok la.—When Meek
er's son comes home from the
major league baseball wars he will
find competition awaiting him.
A baseball club of mer 48 years
of age or older has be |i organ
ized with O. O. Hubbell. father of
Carl, the New York Giant south
paw. and M. J Thompson, mem
ber of the first baseball club ever
formed here, among the •’stars".
Dinner Stories
RAY OF SUNSHINE
**I hope my visits are not disagree
able?”
“No," said the Invalid. "However
gloomy I am when you come, I’m al
ways happy when you gc *
TIGHT—THE OTHER WAY
‘‘Where did you get all that
money?"
“Borrowed It from Wilson.”
“But I thought he was pretty
tight?"
"So he was."
Correctly Speaking
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Q. What style of architecture hi
used in the United States Supremo
Court Building? G. D.
A. Corinthian. This was decided
upon as being most harmonious with
the Capitol Group.
• • •
Q. When was Oh Promise Me first
song at a wedding? A. W. C.
A. It was written In 1889 by Regi
nald DeKoven and interpolated In
Robin Hood in 1890. The date at
which It was first sung at a wedding
Is not available, but it soon becama
very popular for this use.
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Q. Wu John Hays Hammond, the
mining engineer, ever sentenced to
death by the Boers? W- H.
A. Mr. Hammond was one of til*
four leadens in the reform move
ment in the Transvaal. For his con
nection with the Jameson raid, with
which, however, he did not sympa
thise. the Boers sentenced him to
death. The sentence was later
commuted to 15 years’ Imprisonment
and then to the payment of a fine
of 1125,000.
• • •
Q. Who Invented the dooe-up and
the switch-back In motion pictures?
H. J.
A. They are credited to D W.
Griffith
• • •
Q. W’hat Is the purpooe of the Co
operative Central Bank In Maaaa
chnsaetts? J. B.
A. Membership In this Institution
Is compulsory for all cooperative
banks in the state. The purpose of
the bank Is to accumulate reserve
funds and to be in position to loan
these funds very readily to cooper
ative banks whenever need may
arise.
it*
Q Why doe* a locomotive whlatle
seem to have a lower pitch after the
locomotive has gone past? F. N.
A. While the locomotive is ap
proaching each sound wave has a
shorter distance to travel than the
preceding one and the pitch seem*
higher than it would be were It at
rest. While moving away the oppo
site is true, each wave has a longer
distance and the pitch is lowered^
This Is known as the Doppler effect^
• • •
Q. How Is the President's flag dts.
plaved when he Is on board a ves
sel? H K. R.
A. When the President visits a
vessel of the United States, the
President’s flag Is broken at the
main the moment he recahes deck
and Is kept flying as long as he Is on
board. When the President Is em
barked on a boat he usually directs
that his flag be displayed from the
staff In the bow of his barge.
• • •
Q. When was mustard gas first
used? W. B.
A. It was introduced by the Oer
mans in July’ 1917. at Ypres.
• • •
Q. What was the Shadrach Caae?
M. L. C.
A. In May. 1850. a fugitive slave
from Virginia named Frederick
Wilkins, came to Boston, under the
alias Shadrach.? Subsequently he
was arrested and jailed in the Unit
ed States Court House pending trial.
Shadrach was rescued by a body of
colored people and conveyed in
safety to Canada. Intense excite
ment prevailed In Boston, and spread
over the entire country when Con
gress tum^ its attention to the In
fringement of the law.
Q. How wniltlve Is the ear? C. D.
A The normal ear transmits to the
brain the sensation of sound when
a pressure variation of .001 dyne
per square centimeter occurs at over
100 cycles per second. This pressure
is about 1 millionth of a gram per
sq. cm. or a thirty millionth of an
ounce
• • •
Q. What Is meant by the expres
sion, Tom the Tinker? A. V. W.
A. This was the popular watch
word of* the insurgents of Western
Pennsylvania during the Whisky
Rebellion of 1794. originating in the
destruction of the house of an ob
noxious official by a mob. which
gave out that It was being tinkered, v
• • •
Q. When was the American Cotlef^
of surgeons established? J. L.
A. The college was organised In
1913 by some 500 surgeons, leaden
In every branch of surgery and rep
resentatives of all sections of the
country
• • i
Q. Of the cheese eaten by the av
erage person In this country, hew
much Is Imported? H. F.
A. For the years from 1926 to 1910.
the average consumption of cheeee
per person was 46 pounds. Of this
42 pounds was imported and four
pounds was domestic
• 1 •
Q. What Is a honeybaH melon? K.
McD.
A. It is a cross between the can
taloupe and the honeydew melon
The meat can be eaten to the rind
and is scmetlmes pink and some
times yellow.
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