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"" SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By earner—in BrowuaviUe end all Rio Oran da Valley
•tics. 18c a week. 7&c e month
Mjhi—In The Rio Grande Valley in advance: one year
g7 Co: six months gl.7S; 3 months $2
uld* of the R:° Grand# VaUey: 75e par
month, 88 00 per year; g montha, $430.
Wednesday, September 25, 1935
The Rate Protest
It la to be assumed, of course, that all Valley civic
and commercial organizations have registered their
indignation and emphatic protests against the ar
guments advanced by Corpus Christ!-Robstown In
terests over the putting into effect on the 30th of this
month of the lower freight rates for which this sec
tion has strived so long.
Hard though it is to understand the motives be
hind this protest delivered without warning from the
upper area, and hard though It is to find a justifica
tion for such a protest, nevertheless the Valley must
be on its guard to protect the advantage w*on and to
Insure that the new' rates will go into effect this
season as planned by the railroads which granted
them.
Although represented at the Interstate Commerce
commission hearing at Austin, when the entire ques
tion of the lowered rates was thoroughly gone into,
ind although the reduced rates were thereafter ap
proved by a unanimous vote of the Interstate Com
merce commission, some unidentified interests have
gone to the bat once more in an effort to prevent
the Valley growers of vegetables from enjoying rates
that will mean the difference between a profit and
a loss on their plantings.
The crime of the whole thing is that this Corpus
Christl protest may result in a suspension of the
lower rates until the matter is threshed out again,
even though the lower rates win out In the end. To
the man on the outside it looks as if somebody is
making a deliberate effort, not to win out and keep
the Valley forever buried under a high vegetable
freight rate schedule, but to put off the lower rates
for Just one more season.
Taking Into consideration the Austin hearing at
which Corpus Christ i-Robstown was represented and
presented its side of the story, and the unanimous
vote of the Interstate Commerce commission in favor
of the lower rates, it appears that any protest at
this time will be hopeless. But the protest may re
sult In holding up their application ?or an indefinite
period.
The Valley section should1 press vigorously, using
all available means, to see to It that a decision on
this protest is given Immediately, that the new rates
may go tnto effect as planned In time to be applied
to the fall and winter movement of vegetables from
this area.
Kenedy Road Contract Let
Six miles of highway and a bridge do not consti
tute a highway by any manner of means, but this
particular six miles and this particular bridge come
mighty close to it.
Reference is made to the letting of the contract by
the State Highway commission for the building of
a bridge across Olmos creek in Kenedy county and
the grading and structure of 5.7 miles in northern
Kenedy and southern Kleberg counties.
The beginning of the construction of the muchly
publicized Kenedy county link In the Hug-the-Coast
highway is seen in this contract.
A more direct connection with Houston and the
East, a straighter shot to Corpus Christi, will result |
as the highway Is completed.
And along with these things we may count an add
ed Impetus to the forces working for the Matamoros
Victorla highway.
Building the Kenedy county road la going to spur
Mexico on to build lta continuation on into Mexico.
.~i
Costly Entertainment
On the surface the activities of tha “social lobby”
in Washington, as outlined before the Senate com
mittee by Bernard R. Robinson, were harmless
enough. A government official, from a congressman
on up, surely has the right to relax at parties and
banquets In his off hours; If the parties and ban
quets are given by men who have large blunt axes
that need grinding, where is the harm, providing that
all the rules of honorable conduct are observed?
Unfortunately, however, the influence of such a
lobby goes below the surface. No one supposes that
a lobbyist gets a congressman or a department exe
cutive off in a comer, hands him a sheaf of bills and
issues orders. The thing is Infinitely more subtle.
You can Imbibe a point of view along with a cock
tail. If the thing la handled right, and not realize
that you are imbibing It.
In accepting any entertainment, all government
officials should realize that their position Is an ex
tremely delicate one. Like Caesar's wife, they must
be above suspicion — or their usefulness enas.
White Bread Helpful
With Balanced Diet
By DEL MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor, Journal ol the American Medical Association,
and of Hygela, the Health Magazine
This letter is the typical reaction of the uninformed
citizen to the propaganda now being spread by ad
vocates of whole wheat, as opposed to those of
white flour.
There is something to be said on both sides of the
question. The average American likes white bread.
The average European of peasant stock, who has
not had white bread at home, has to get used to white
bread here.
If you eat a well-balanced diet with plenty of fresh
fruits and vegetables, milk, meats, and other sub
stances, you can do about as well with white bread
as with whole wheat bread. If, however, you live on
a diet largely of bread and water, or bread and cof
fee, or bread and tea, you should have whole wheat
bread, because it will provide ingredients not pres
ent in white flour.
• • •
White flour shows a much lower vitamin content
than whole wheat, and is also a less efficient protein
mixture. But white flour proteins are sufficiently
supplemented by the proteins of milk. If milk is
used in place of water in making bread, the nutri
tive value of the bread ia greatly unproved. Whole
grains have been found superior to white flour when
fed to animals, as measured by the ability of the ani
mal to reproduce and nurse its young.
A mixture of five parts by weight of ground whole
wheat and one part of whole milk powder permitted
normal growth and successful reproduction and rear
ing of the young by rats, while a corresponding mix
ture of white flour and whole milk powder gave fa
vorable comparable results In growth, but was not
adequate for successful reproduction and nursing of
the young.
Whole grain products are not as well digested as
white flour, but are more nutritious, and many au
thorities believe that the difference in completeness
of digestion is more than compensated by superior
ity of the whole wheat in its mineral and vitamin
content and in quality of its proteins
Of the mineral elements lost in the manufacture of
white flour, iron can be least well spared. The outer
coats of the grains contain most of the mineral mat
ter.
If but a small amount of money is available for the
purpose of food, bread made from whole wheat would
seem to be most desirable, because of the extra ma
terials that it furnishes.
If you prefer white bread, however, and if you
can be assured that you are getting the necessary
minerals and vitamins from the other ingredients in
your food, there is no reason why you should take
whole wheat bread.
What has become of representative government In
these United States when the president can say:
“Only on this kind of bill will I let Congress vote"?
I’d rather die and go to hell than submit to such
highhanded tyranny.—Senator Long.
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Capital and world gossip, events
and personalities. in and out ot
the oews, written by a group 01
fearless and iniormed newspaper
men of Washington and New York.
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terpreted as reflecting the editorial
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WASHINGTON
By Ray Tucker
Plowman—A sell-appointed in
spection committee of business men
stopped off at Topeka recently to
look over Governor Alf Landon of
Kansas—the 1935-model Cooiidge
who Is touted as a GOP presidential
candidate in 1936. They like him.
They exchanged confidences with
big business buddies when they
reached Washington—the directors'
meeting of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce—and they reported as
follows: Governor Landon ia a prac
tical, hard-working man with no
flourishes and ruflles. He has no
flair or personality that would cap
ture public interest or imagination.
But he has done a tidy Job of run
ning the stage’s finanoes and
squeezes a penny before he spends
It, personally and officially.
He might be. they whispered, the
Ideal opposition for FDR next year
—a plowman against a showman.
They reached the oonclusion so
many practical politicians have come
to. Namely that, as In 1920, the re
publicans’ strongest nominee will be
a colorless figure who can attract to
his standard all of the grudge-and
grievance vote plus the rock-ribbe#
republicans.
• • •
Bitter—There is no news in the
fact that almost every private in
terest—the bankers, manufactur
ers, retailers and public utilities—
will line up against President Rcose
velt In 1936 But the scope of their
aml-New Deal campaign already
under way astonishes even the New
Dealers.
The National Association of Man
ufacturers has established a new
propaganda headquarters In New
York City. While its Washington
office distributes pamphlets, as
sailing the New Deal, the New York
managers will launch an attack with
speakers, magazine articles and pri
vate meetings. The U. 8 Chamber
of Commerce will cover another sec
tor with three great sectional con
ventions and almost dally denuncia
tions by President Harper Sibley.
Their scng will be that the people
should place their trust for a full
dinner pail in business rather than
political leaders. Silas Strawn, Chi
cago attorney, pulls the levers
With the troops taking to the
trenches already, political experts
anticipate the most bitter presiden
tial campaign since the Bryan-Mc
Kinley brawl in 1896. The 1928 Hocv
er-Smith duel won’t match the
1936 affair, according to the proph
ets. For next year’s battle will be a
pocketbook melee.
Joker—A fter two years of famine
the republicans anticipate a larger
campaign fund than they had when
Will Hays collected $3 000,000 to
elect Warren G. Harding.
GOP collectors received word this
week that a leading automobile
maker once friendly to the presi
dent has offered to contribute $1.
000.000—count ’em—to the opposi
tion. Wha^s more, he has guaran
teed that two ftrier.ds—one a hanker,
the other a manufacturer—will come
across with the same amount apiece.
These, of course, are purely politi
cal contributions. Thev don’t take
into account the funds which the
American Liberty League, the U. 8
Chamber of Commerce and the Na
tional Asscclation of Manufactur
ers will spend to defeat Mr. Roose
velt or—choice half-loaf—to elect
an unsympathetic house of repre
sentatives.
But the New Dealers have a trick
up their sleeve that rras never used
before. They may require supposed
ly ncn-politlcal organisations to
file their contributions and expen
ditures with the clerk of the house
of representatives. That’s a coun
ter-thrust which free spendera must
count on.
. Appeal—A ccertaln philosophical,
peace-inclined cabinet member—you
can guess who it is—may scon de
liver the most sensational speech the
world has heard on the eve of pos
sible war profits to the nation ad
dressed. Whether he begs American
fanners to place peace ahead of
pre-fits may depend upon Presi
dent Roosevelt.
If he follows his advisers’ sugges
tions. he will urge the producers of
wheat and cotton and hogs to sub
'cribe wholeheartedly to the crusade
to keep the United States out of a
possible world war. He will ask them
to toreeo high prices which mav re
sult from foreign demands, espec
isllv as it appears that their prod
ucts mav not be placed on the em
bargo list. In short, he will suggest
sacrifice which no growers haV* ever
m'de before.
The speech has been outlined but
not written. If delivered and adher
ed to It mav have more effect than
all the abortive peace pacts and
To befaapp}'atony little and tad tuck |
Qt BLUE DOOR
A 'RacW Q^ack.__
MEG IN HEU TODAY
BITH WOODSON, pretty, klfk
spirited plrl •( IS la aearek mi
werk, eeeka retape Irea a mtmrm
la aa aid kaase wltfc a Mae dear
la tke little tawa at Wertkellle.
Tke qaeer aid caretaker, BERTHA
GIBBS, alaa kaewa aa TEN NY.
tklaka Ratk ta ke ELAINE
CHALMERS, wkeae praadlatker
botlt the kaase. Rath falls la
laee with JOHN MeNEILU the
soiree ta stay ea a while, peelap
aa Elalae.
Elalae Chalwere. at Grayeaetle
Cel tape, eawa la a eererlty aieet
tap ta wla the laee at ker eklld
kead here. Jeha McNeill. She re
ealeee ta pa ta Wertkellle. Elalae
pace ta New Yerk fee a week-ead
aad laarae (rata ker wether.
GWEN DEAL, tkat ker aacle.
Pt-NCAB HI NTER, has eacaped
Joka reeeleee a letter treat
Elalae aad dlacaeere that tke plrl
la the Haater hoaee le a take.
Haweeer, he leeee her aad plaaa
ta tell her ea. Before ke eaa da
ea he la called aat at taera. He
Icaeee a aate at explaaatlea ta
Rath, hat Bertha destroys It.
Rath thlake Jaka kaa peae
away la dlspaet kecaaee ef her
road act. She Is sleepless that
aipkt aad pore ta the library ta
pet a book. There eke Bade a
kalf-wrlttea ealelde aete. still wet
wltfc lak.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXIV
JUST as John McNeill had for
gotten hie personal problems
in bis sister’s grief, so Ruth
Woodson now forgot everything
bat the person who had written
the note and dropped It, to flee
at her approach.
Without any thought of fear.
Rath picked up the brass candle
stick which supported her lighted
candle and went through the dark
door of the drawing room. The
plac* was empty and the door into
the hall stood open. 8omeone was
going up the stairs. She followed
The steps, well ahead of her.
did not stop at the second floor.
On they went, padding ap the
stalra to the unknown region
above. Ruth followed, running
lightly and breathlessly.
A* the open door of an nn
llghted room a tall man faced
her. ‘’Well?" he said tunelessly.
Ruth said. "I’ve come to atop
you!”
The man laughed, softly and
unpleasantly. “And what have 1
to say to the stepdaughter and
ward of Higata Deal, my dear
niece?”
Ruth said, knowing him now
to be Duncan Hunter, “I’m not
Blaine Chalmers. I’ve only pre
tended to be. I’ve been hiding
behind the blue door. too. Tomor
row I'm going away—”
She noticed a certain elegance
about the tall, thin man wrapped
in the old lounging robe.
Ruth said. “You're Duncan
Hunter. I’ve seen your name in
the books downstairs. I’ve en
joyed your books, Mr. Hunter!”
He laughed, this time almost
naturally. Ruth thought. “1 must
make him talk to me—"
Sbe said, looking around the
cluttered hallway, “Can't we ait
down and talk? I’ve been wake
ful, too.”
• • e
LTE led the way down tbe ball.
past several doors, to a room
which must once have been a
boy’s work room.
“So It’s you I’ve been dodging.”
he remarked. “You’ve given me
a good deal of annoyance by being
here. I’d expected to have the
boose to myself. Win yon have
a clgsret?”
"If you will," answered Ruth.
Presently they were smoking to
gether. with the tenseness be
tween them lessened. Ruth said,
provocatively, "You came very
quietly, but I know exactly when
It was. It was—wait now. let me
count back—It was Tuesday night
about sapper time. Wasn’t K, Mr.
Hunter?"
He nodded. "The day you made
the excellent cake with the pink
icing. I'm gTeatly Indebted to you
for that."
Ruth laughed. "So Bertha was
cutting R for you! What a big
appetite you must have had that
night!"
He said evenly, “I had traveled
quite a distance."
Ruth saw his face grow grim
and shuttered again. She said
quickly. “And R was you who
took the Stevenson set. then!
You'll never know how I looked
for those books."
"Sorry!" He was smiling again.
Then, incredibly, they began to
argue about their Stevenson fa
vorites. Ruth held out for “The
Master of Bailantrae”—except for
the ending. "I think that's con
trived horror, written to please
the publishers."
"Horrors happen," Duncan
Hunter stated.
t4rT'AKE me," said Da Dean
* Hunter Ironically. "A per
fect sample of what greed can
produce In the way of horrors
My brother-in-law wished to swal
low a railroad, stockholders and
alt I reminded him that he didn’t
need such a large meal and might
develop indigestion. And It was
my father’s railroad, at that, my
dear girl. I was proud of it. Felt
a paternal Interest in the stock
holders. When my brother-in-law
wouldn’t drop the idea. 1 struck
him down in a nice, mahogany
paneled conference room, it was
the wrong place to start a fight,
of course. Doormen pulled me
froi him. and the gentlemen sit
ting around the long table imme
diately lost confidence In my
judgment My brother-in-law, re
membering I’d been tooling with
tropical plants in the Brazilian
jungle, decided to elect me for
insanity. Matter of fact. I was
funning one of those jungle tem
peratures. Out of my head occa
sionally when the fever climbed,
but clear as a bell the night of
the meeting—"
Ruth exclaimed, “What a cruel
set of circumstances!”
"And worse to follow, my un
known little friend. They put me
in one of those private sanitari
ums where rich people are per
mitted to bury undesirable reln
tives. A doctor used to come to
me every day for long talks—a
psychiatrist, hired by my brother
in-law, the impeccable Mr. Deal.
By every implication known to
man this paid fiend tried to teach
me to consider myself insane. By
suggestion. By persistent ham
mering. By God-knows-what per
verted use of psycho analysis. I
grew to dread and loathe him.
My mind sickened under his tute
lage while the jungle fever I’d
contracted was neglected. Even
tually. my child. I tried to kill
him.”
1 “To kill him!" cried Ruth in
horror.
“Quite so. By the simple proc
| ess of seizing bis throat After
i that it was not hard for them
to have me declared dangerously
lnsanr and locked away. 1 sup
posed that I had killed the crea
te re. That’s why I never tried
legal means of winning my free
dom. Bertha Gibbe tells me my
victim lay at the point of death
for weeks, and then recovered.
However, that’s a mere techni
cality. I meant to kill him. so It’e
one and the same.**
“No.** Ruth said. "It’s not the
sama i think it means yoa can
be free if you prove your sanity.**
-Perhaps." said Duncan Hunter
with a shrug. "But. yon see, 1
And myself not greatly interested.
While 1 was in that place the con
suming purpose of my Ufe was
to escape. Well. I escaped. Per
haps that was sll 1 was living for.
After I’d attained the safety of
; these walls a lethargy came over
ma Of what use is this life that
I've snatched from eonAnement?
Even if I'm permitted to live out
! my days unbounded, who is there
to care except old Bertha Gibbs?**
. . .
; ••'THERE'S do one to ear* what
* becomes of me either.** Ruth
stated.
"But suppose you'd lost the
love of your Ufa.** suggested Dun
cau Hunter.
**I have lost the love of my
life.** replied Ruth simply. “My
heart’s as bruised as if sticks bad
bea* R. But life’s still worth
living. Time will give me some
thing else tor what I’ve lost."
“The optimism of youth," the
man answered with a shrug.
"Toe have a few things your
self.** Ruth reminded him.
“You’re not old yec You look
reasonably healthy. You’ve good
looks—oh yes. you have, really."
(This in response to a protest
from him.) "You’ve a fine educa
tion. You’ve inherited good blood,
social position and money. You've
a good mind—”
“You think I have a good
mind?" he asked eagerly.
"How could anyone doubt It?"
He said, with a shake of his
head and a bitter look. “That's
| what I've been afraid of. That
people will suspect and avoid me
even If I'm proven sane. I’ve an
unsavory past, you know."
Ruth faced this thoughtfully.
She said then. “That’s where the
light will come. Have you any
real friends here?**
"A hundred of them. I believe."
"Then stay here." Ruth urged.
"I think you’d find peace. Take
over the old house and make it
live again. There’s your library,
your garden—”
"Ah. yes!" he nodded. "The
old garden! There’s the conserva
tory, too. I’d like to enlarge It
and put in an improved beating
system. I’d like to experiment
with tropical plants. Orchids—"
“Could it be done?" Ruth
asked.
It was a sly challenge. It set
him to talking like a stream that
seeks to break a dam.
Duncan Hunter said, stopping
in mid-sentence as he described
a very rare orchid, “If you’ll ex
cuse me. my child, 1 think I’ll
tumble Into bed. I haven't closed
my eyes tor four nights. This is
wonderful!"
"I’m sleepy, too," Ruth said.
"Good night. Mr. Hunter."
She was not surprised when be
drowsily kissed her forehead.
“Good nigbt. little friend."
(To Be Continued)
courts and league*. It might make
new history.
• • •
Res«on—Th# administration has
never proclaimed its anti-trust pol
icy in so many words since the su
preme court’s abrogation of the
NRA. At that time President Roose
velt painted the blackest possible
picture, Intimating that the lid would
be clamped dwxn on mergers, elim
ination of wastefully competing ser
vices and similar cooperative bene
fits.
l hat turns out to be a passtng and
momentary phase. In discussing
changes in the Pittsburgh-Mus sys
tem of basing steel prices John
Dickinson has let the corporation cat
out of his briefcase. The Assistant
Attorney General explained in tech
nical verbiage that the anti-trust
statutes will be enforced only when
winking at them hurts the public
definitely and damagingly. They
will not be invoked to block advan
tageous Industrial consolidations
Thm Mr. Dickinson sets up a new
and progressive ‘ rule of reason.” He
proclaims, in effect, that certain
corporation actions in themselves
violative of the letter of the law may
be held to be In the public interes*
He talks Just like John Garibaldi
Sargent and William Mitchell. You
may not remember them but they
were Attorney Generals under
Messrs. Cool id ge and Hoover.
• • •
Fishing?—The Japanese are en
croaching upon another American
industry if you believe unofficial
complaints to the state department.
They are rapidly supplanting Cali
fornia fishermen and canneries in
angling for the succulent tuna fish
in waters off the west coast of Cen
tral and South America.
Year by year these fish have mov
ed southward until the finest fish
ing areas are "be’.ow the line." In
creased costs have led American can
neries to hire Japs instead of Ameri
cans to man their shipa. Japanese
interests have Invaded the field even
more directly, and now their can
ning of the various species of tuna,
especiallv the famous albacore. ri
vals California’s. In time it mav
mean the loss of American prof
its and employment.
So far. however, the Japs have
been unable to negotiate fishing
treaties with Central and 8outh
American countries that will permit
them to refit their ships in quiet
hirtres. The state department has
made no move to Intervene but It is
ouietlv watching this piscatorial
problem.
• • •
Notes—On a former oonrresjrion
al funket to the Phlllootnes the
Lonfworth-Allce Rrosevelt romance
developed—who'll furnish the next
one’ ... Sometimes these romance?
work In reverse, as when the wife of
a hlfh Army officer In the Islands!
tot a divorce and b now a hlfh pow* >
er lobbyist for an oil concern ...
Batteries of typewriters are click
ing in the McLean mansion where in
Harding s day society gloried and
drank deep ... Sales tax troubles
dim the presidential prospects of
Governor Hoffman of New Jersey.
Barbs
Detroit fair features hog calling
Evidently the practice of sending
arounci the armored car hasn't yet
reduced It to the status of a lost art.
• • •
A test reveals that men can nut
on brakes faster than women. But
then the fair sex is naturally re.uc
tant to show it can stop a car in
the middle of a block.
• • •
That Chicago woman didn't need
to warn police, going to arrest her
96-year-old husband that he was a
wildcat. It might take a stiff tus
sle. but the average police squad
would eventually have him behind
bars, wheelchair and all.
According to Hitler, a spade is
"a gun of peace." Even dictator*.
It seems, are afraid to call it a spade.
• • •
Celebrities are usually pleased to
receive keys to cities, but nowadays
it might be difficult to get anybody
to accept the Florida Keys.
WORDS* OF WISDOM
The cultivation oi the mind is a
kind of food supplied for the soul
oi man.—Cicero.
Almanac:
September
1515= Balboa discovers
the Pacific Ocean,, ,
and "takes possession
of it for Spain
1789- Congress passes
IZ Constitutional
amendment bills
1£25-'Darius Ogden
Mills, Ameri&n
financier, bom*
19l9Fire breaks out
in Horoestakegold
mine, DeadvoaffS^P
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Factographs
The first mail on the American
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Boston. January 1, 1673.
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Andrew Jackson was the first ter.
ritcrial governor of Florida, serv
ing in 1821-1823.
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Pocahontas belonged to the Wa
hun-Sona-Cook tribe, of which her
father was chief.
Dinner Stories
PESSIMISTIC
•*So you are building a new house,
eh? How are you getting along with
it?”
• Fine. I’ve got the roof and the
mortgage on it. and I expect to have
the furnace and the sheriff in be
fore fall.”
Correctly Speaking
•Contemplate** should not be
combined with a preposition Say
"He ccntemplited s trip to Alaska’*
not "He contemplated on a trip to
Alaska.**
One^minute Pulpit
The way of the wicked Is as
darkness: They know not at what
they stumble—Proverbs 4:19.
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question of fact bp writing The
Brownsville Herald. Information
Bureau. Frederic* J. Hasktn. Direc
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Q. What te the name ot the cow
boy song which John Bolco sang si
Will Rogers’ funeral? >L J. R.
A. The correct name Is Oio faith
ful.
• s e
Q. How much money do Ameri
cans manage to spend on foreign
lotteries in a year? J. G. B.
A. Representative Kenney, of New
Jersey, author of a bill to establish
a national lottery, estimates that
abcut $200,000,000 is taken out of
the United States by foreign lot
teries. The Poet Olfice Deportment
places the figure much higher, as
serting that it hag reached $1
000,000 a year.
m • •
Q Is It dangerous to amoks after
taking an alcohol rub? M. T.
A. The National Safety Council
says that persons have died from
lighting matches beli es the . Icohol
vapor has disappeared.
• • •
Q. How long have there been rein
deer in Iceland? N. L.
A. They were introduced Into Ice
land in 177a
• • •
Q When did Speaker Thomas B.
Reed answer critics of the Admin
istration regarding a billion dollar
appropriation to be spent over a
two-year period, by saying. "This ia
a billion dollar country?" J. A. C.
A. It was in his valedictory at the
close of the 51st Congress in March.
1891.
• • •
Q. What per cent of the populatkis
of the United States Is now In life
birth registration area? A. C.
A The entire population has been
since 1933 m registration areas for
births and deaths.
• • •
Q Who first used colored ear
toons? M. B.
A. Joseph Keppier, founder of
Puck, was the first person In the
United States to apply color litho
graphy' to carlcat iye.
Q. Who was* Joe Miller who com
piled the Joke book? E. F.
A. Joseph or Josias Miller was an
English comedian, for many yean a
favorite at Drury Lane where he
played minor comedy roles. He was
Illiterate and learned his parts by
hearing them read by his wife. As
compiler of Joe Miller's Jests he
Is chiefly remembered.
Q. How many acre* of land are
planted to nor beam in the United
States? C. N. L.
A. There are more than 5,000,
000 acM m soy beans.
• • •
Q. Please give some information
about Pauline Bonaparte. M. J.
A. <Marie) Pauline Bonaparte,
was Napoieana favorite sister She
was a woman of remarkable beauty,
but of a vain frivolous character,
the subject of considerable scandaL
She accompanied her husband. Gen
eral LeClero. on the expedition to
Haiti and created a deep impression
by her luxurious life In a castle on
that island Later Napoleon married
her to Camilla Borgheae but the
marriage was of short duration.
Pauline fell into disfavor with her
brother because of her hostility to
Empress Marie Louise. When Napo
leon’s fortune filled, however, she
showed herself more loyal than any
of his other bro*hers snd sisters.
• • •
Q How did the Jimson weed get lie
name? H M.
A The Jimson weed or Jamestown
weed derived its name from the fa^5
that Captain John Smith of th4
Jamestown oolonlsu reported its ef
fects as early as 1607.
• • •
Q Where did Geraldine Farrar
study music? J. H.
A. Her musical education was re
ceived in Paris under Trabedello
and In Berlin under Lilli Lehmann.
• • •
Q. How long is the Rhone Glacier?
W A.
A. It is about six miles lcng and
gives origin to the Rtjone River.
Q. Who founded the first hospital
in the United States? R. W.
A. Thomas Bond (1712-84), an
American physician founded the first
hospital In the United States, was
influential In establishing the first
medical school, and according to
Benjamin Rush. Introduced the use
of mercury Into general practice In
Philadelphia. He aroused the intent
est of Benjamin Franklin in a ha-1
pital for the sick, injured, or in/
sane, snd together thrv secured the
funds t» ooen it In 1752. B-nd gave
his services as phr«!cian to the in
stitution until hi* death.
• • •
O What doe* the expression, to
fight like Kilkenny rats, mean? M.
H
A. To fight tni both side* hava
lost their all: to fight with the ut
most determination and pertina
city. The story Is that during the
Irish rebellion In 179* Kllkennv was
garrisoned bv a troop of Hessian
soldier*, who amused themselves by
tying two cats together bv their
tails and throwing them arrrea a
clothes-line to fight. The authori
ties resolved to put s stop to the
•••port." hut. on the officer on duty
approaching, op# of the troopers
cut the two tails with a sword, and
the cats msde off. When the offi
cer Inquired the meaning of the
bleeding tails, he was told that t ■ %
cats had been fighting and hiIf
devoured each other all but the
tails
• • •
O. What b the origin of the ea
■ay? H. F
A It Is derived frrtn the Fvata of
Montaigne who created the form.
• • •
O Are there nesaefirer soto
•neMle« or telephones In the Tnlt
ed States? P. C. T.
A. There are approximately It -
wo ooo pa veneer automobtl— in
the United States and 17 454 400 tele
phones
• • •
0 Why doea Mason and Ptawi**
tine carry the Idea of dtvtMoii he
tween North and South? S. M.
A. This line fixed the boundary
between the free State of Pennsyl
vania and the slave States, Virginia
and Maryland.