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Monday, May IS, 1935
Reason Has Retained George V
. jl' - As King
Not )h» least instructive event of the year 10S5 la
tha great Jubilee celebration which the Brltlah peo
P®* holding on the 36th anniversary of King
Otorge s accession to the throne.
The affair la notable for lta contrasts.
When Georg* V came to the throne he was Just
one among many great monarch*. There were
Nicholas n in Russia, Wilhelm n In Qermany and
Francis Joseph in Austria-Hungary, for Instance, all
of them reigning over great empires and all of them,
to all outward Indications, occupying thrones that
were quite as secure as his.
But today, as enormous crowds throng London’s
•treats to cheer the British king, where are these
others? Francis Joseph Is dead, his empire is In
fragments, and his dynasty Is broken.
Wilhelm Is In Holland, chopping wood, while a
man who would not have been allowed In the palace
at a Hohenboiiem reception rules Germany with a
tighter rein than Wilhelm ever dreamed of using.
And Nicolas lies underground somewhere In a
Russian forest, one of the first victims of the
catastrophe that swept his country.
The oontrast between what happened to these
three monarch* and what happened to George V of
Rngland la amazing, and it Is not the result of mere
chance. It Is not even the result of the difference
between winning and losing a great war.
Dm fundamental reason why 3,000,000 people stay
ed up all night In London to hall the opening of
their king’s jubilee, while the other three realms are
broken and klngless, can be found In the different
ways in which the ruling classes of thee* countries
met change.
In Russia, in Germany, and in Austria-Hungary
there was only a blind inflexibility. The hammering
of war and social discontent could not bend the rulers
of those lands; so, finally, It broke them completely.
The ruling classes there could learn nothing, not even
to the face of catastrophe, and so they were swept
away.
In England, on the other hand, there was flex
ibility. The war and Its aftermath brought far
reaching changes; Instead of resisting them blindly,
the nation's rulers—from the king on down to the
Industrial magnates snd the politicians—had the
sense to meet them halfway, adapt themselves to
them, and help the nation follow a new eourse.
As a result, Oeorge V still has his throne, snd his
S6th anniversary finds a tremendous outpouring of
national enthusiasm for his person and for the things
he represents.
At a time when change Is upon the whole world,
this study In contrasts Is a useful and Instructive
thing.
One Gains, Another Loses
The Fascist government In Oermany Is trying a new
method of approach to the problem of caring for the
aged. It is polng tc abolish old age pensions for an
persons between 65 snd 80 who are capable of doing
any kind of light work.
Special shops will be set up in which theoe people
can earn their own living — with work especially
adapted to their physical powers.
Robert Ley. leader of the Nazi Labor Front, explains
that "Germany cannot, afford to waste energies."
and that enforced rest Is prejudicial to the Interests
of the old people themselves.
The chief objection to this attitude would seem
to be that there Is an Infinitely greater waste of energy
involved in uii aisempicymem ox young, sme-DoaMsa
men than there Is In the pensioning of the aged.
Until the unemployment problem is completely
solved. It is futile to talk about conserving energy by
putting the aged to work.
Sane College Graduates
The oollege graduate of tradition is supposed to be
a know-it-all young man who leaves the campus for
the outside work) full of confidence that people are
Just going to fall an over themselves to give him
Jobs and get the benefit of his wisdom and energy. .
The college graduate of real life In the year 1935
is not a bit like that. So. at least, says Vera Christie,
manager of the Bureau of Occupations at the Univer
sity of Califomls, which is about to turn 3000 young
graduates out into the cold world.
The old-time cockiness, she says, has vanished.
The collegians have been doing some thinking In
these trying years, and they know what they’re up
against.
Raving a greater ewareness of reality, they have
ceased to look for soft snaps and are looking for a
chance to be of service, instead.
The change Is about ss wholesome a thing for the
country ss a whole as could be imagined.
Better Year Ahead
Among the harbingers for a prosperous summer
is ths fact that unless all present Indications fall we
are not going to have a repetition of last year’s disas
trous drouth.
To be sure, the Kansas-Colorado sector, still
plagued by dust storms, is suffering Intensely from
lack of moisture. But taking the farm belt as a
whole, it seems clear that we are safe from another
dry spell like that which caused so much misery
last year.
As an example, consider the state of South Dakota.
Last year 8outh Dakota was one of the hardest-hit
of the drouth states. A magazine writer even sug
gested that most of the state ought to be evacuated—
and thereby got himself in very bad with South
Dakotans.
But now the governor of the state hss named a
thanksgiving day to celebrate the abundance of
moisture that has fallen this spring. That part of
the wheat belt, obviously, is due for a good year.
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Start Now to Combat
Fireworks Menace
By DR* MORRIS F18HBEIN
Editor, Jownal of the Rmertaa Medical Association,
and of Hygeia. tho Health Magazine
It U not .00 soon to begin the campaign against loss
of life and sight from fireworks. Last Fourth of July
there were more accidents than there heve been far
some years
While there are good ordinances against sale of fire
works in many of our large cities, similar conditions
do not obtain in the areas Just outside the cities,
and use of tho motor car mates it possible for peo
ple to get fireworks and bring them back into town.
The National Association for the Prevention of
Blindness has come to the conclusion that it is al
most as hopeless to try to control the sale of fire
works from those roadside stands as it was during
prohibition to control sale of liquor under similar
conditions.
If only those people who trifle with fireworks could
see a child with one eye closed for life, or a little
girl in a lacy holiday dress caught on fire, If they
could smell the odor of burning flesh, or if they
could hear the screams of a child suffering from
fireworks burns, they would do their part in stopping
this needless tragedy.
Thousands of people were injured in fireworks
accidents in 1934. In New York City, where there is a
law prohibiting sale of fireworks, the hospitals on July
5, reported 2,600 casualties, or 1,500 more than in
1933.
Figures for last year show 161 people killed by fire
works, 53 of whom were children less than ft years
old; 54 were burned to death when their clothing
was Ignited by fireworks bonfires; 30 children were
burned to death by “harmless" sparklers; 31 children
died as a result of eating fireworks; 30 persons lost
one or both eyes; and 30 others suffered serious eye
Injuries.
Those who have been most concerned with such
accidents have become convinced that there is only
one hope for effective control, and that is to control
the manufacture and sale of fireworks from the
factory.
Manufacturers of fireworks are not so shortsight
ed as to fall to realize that inability to control this
situation will result lnevltablly in extreme legislation
which will destroy their businesses entirely.
They’ll have me married to triplets next. — Mae
West.
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WASHINGTON
By Ray Tucker
Up — Administration advisers are
watching price trends as anxiously
as the doctor holds the pulse of a pa
tient In a crisis. An unchecked rise
In living costs might easily prove
the vulnerable spots in whatever re
covery armor the New Deal n^y
don between now and 1936. l».at
would be inflation which every house
wife could understand.
The price experts say they find
two reasons for rejoicing. The gap
between the production rates of dur
able and consumption goods indus
tries is slowly narrowing. Both
are mov.ng up. Durable production
was 36 point to the bad on the In
dex chart In March of 1933. Now
the spread Is only 14 points, and the
two may be heading for a rendei
voua.
Farm products are responsible for
the major upthrust In living costs.
Of increases recently noted in 94
commodities, 64 are on the agricul
tural list. The others have dropped
or Increased only slightly. The tex
tile industry — which Is parading
Its troubles before a cabinet com
mittee — leads almost all others In
pay roll and employment gains.
8everal cabinet committee members
want an explanation for that before
they recommend higher tariffs and
NRA changes.
Aim — President Roosevelt fix
ed the 1926 price level as hie ob
jective when he inaugurated hie ex
?;riments in a “managed currency."
ou don't hear much about that ar
bitrary goal any more. Talk now
focuses on the 1923-26 level, which
Is the basis for all governmental
Index computations with the excep
tion of prices. Those are still tied
to the 1926 figures.
The unofficial explanation Is that
the 1923-26 level represents a more
normal condition of production, em
ployment and prices. In 1926 we
were on the doorstep of the boom.
Moreover the 1923-1925 level Is low
er than that of 1926 and probably
easier to attain.
Marriner 8 Eccles, governor of
the Federal Reserve Board, would
drop the price level theory entirely.
He rates It an Illusory guide to pros
perity. He considers a maximum of
production and consumption a far
more Important aim. especially as
crop failures and exchange varia
tions bear so unpredlctably and un
controllably on prices. Gov. Eccles'
philosophy may affect the adminis
tration’s attitude on this question if
the pending banking bill becomes
law.
• • •
Changing — Governor Eccles feels
sure the banking bill will pass In a
form pleasing to the administration,
despite the bankers’ opposition to
Title II. He has already arranged
for a publicity program designed to
“sell” the measure to the public and
to prove that fears of “political con
trol” of the Federal Reserve System
are unwarranted. 'Jimmie” War
burg and "Lew" Douglas are blam
ed tor raising that suspicion.
For the first time In Its history
the Federal Reserve Board has what
Washington calls a “press agent ”
The innovation probably stuns the
bankers as much as Title n. In the
past the Board has been tomb-like
in Its secrecy. But Mr. Eccles be
lieves his “special aide” can do a
lot to smooth his path In the ad
ministration of novel financial au
thority.
Elliott Thurston, the man drafted
to establish cordial relations with
giess and public — and bankers —
as been wilting financial articles
foi the Washington Lewspapeis
owned by Eugene Meyer. When Mr.
Meyer was reserve board governor,
he saw reporters as infrequently
as he could. “No news is good
news,” was his motto.
Times — and bahkers — are
changing.
• • •
aianaara — me mucn Dauynooea
unemployment census has struck a
mysterious snag. Government sta
tisticians were surprised to discover
quite by accident that no money
liad been set aside for the study and
no authorization given.
Social planners say that no long
time program of government or
private undertakings can be started
without a knowledge of the kind
and cause and total of unemploy
ment. Ignorance of this problem Is
abysmal. Nobody knows how many
women have entered Industry since
the depression, although they have
widely supplanted men in small
machine production. There Is no
estimate of the number #f jobless
who have oome of employable age
since 1928 Nobody can verify or
disprove the statement that total
employment needed for peak pro
duction Is 25 per cent less than in
1929 because of technological ad
vances.
A. P of L. estimates say that
slightly less than 11.500 000 were out
of work in April and this does not
Include.those on PWA, FERA and
CCC "oils National Industrial
Conference Board figures run about
10 per cent less. An authoritative
estimate Is more essential now than
ever before If the country Is to have
a standard — political as well as
economic — by which to judge the
effectiveness of the $4,000,000,000
work-relief program In providing
a “full dinner pall."
• • •
Another — Gold trouble agaln
A New York attorney thinks he
has found a scheme for beating dol
lar devaluation despite the supreme
oourt decision upholding revocation
of the gold clause. In the gold
bond oovenant It Is provided that
the bond shall be accepted in pay
ment of federal Income taxes. Tak
ing advantage of this provision, he
has advised certain clients to offer
a $14)00 gold bond In payment of
$1,890 In taxes on June 15.
Government lawyers anticipate no
difficulty In defeating the attempt
In the courts. They doubt If action
begun on this basis will reach the
supreme oourt. But they dont bxe
the Idea of another trip down the
Summit
fatkn.
TODAY
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wealthy
▼I CTO It STWYKHIKST,
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Kathaxtaa 'iMn telly
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the alah tor_.
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wtth GIBBS
her yareate
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with MtehaeL
SOW GO OS WITH THS (TOBY
CHAPTER 111
T 0N0 sto Katharine Strykharet
^ had dacldad to that love oat of
bar Ufa aa much aa waa humanly
possible
Har mother hod died whan aha
waa nine People any, “Children
don’t understand." Bat soma ehll
dree da Katharine atHl remem- j
bared that day with a shudder- 1
nuraea harrying to and fro In the
old stone house; her father's racked
aobe She had nnderstood only too
welL The lovely, falr-halred. gra
cious mother had gone Thera waa
no one In her place Katharine was
by nature a lonely child. A suc
cession of governesses only lntenal*
fled this lonellneee Many nights
her pillow waa wet with childish
taare Later har father had brought
har a pat; a little Calm terrier she
dearly loved. When he waa run
over by a tradesman’s ear Kath
arine had dried har tears and had
■aid angrily and stoically to her
self: "All right, I won’t love any
body or anything again."
She had triad to keep that prom
ise. The entrance of her stepmother i
Into her Ufa, when Katharine was
It, had not really meant much.
Katharine had been polite to the
well-dressed, pleasant-faced Bertine.
She had never called bar mother.
The second Mrs. Btrykhurst, who
had a good figure and a sense of
humor, hadn’t tried to "win Kath
arine over" by fair means or fouL
Now, after more than seven years,
they were friends. If not completely
allies.
So. this floe summer morning,
whan Boa Parker, wrapped in
thoughts of the man aha loved, ao
eased Katharine of being a victim
of the grands passion. It la small
wonder that the tall, fair girl In
riding slothea turned on her com
panion almost angrily, denying It
"I never heard anything ao ridic
ulous.” Katharine said.
"Well, honestly, Kay," cried Boa.
nettled In her turn, "anybody’d
think falling In love was a dis
grace."
"Well, leave me out of It. won’t
you?” Katharine said with eool
dignity.
• • •
4SY CANT. You’re one of the
blooming human race." Zoe
cried, with a peal of laughter. All
at once both girls were restored to
good humor.
"There, that’s better!" cried Soe.
"Now, can you ride over to the i
Ridge and back? It’ll only take lb
minutes. I want to talk to you." ]
"All right." Katharine agreed,
ashamed of har earlier flare of <
temper. There was just no use
flashing out at Zoe. She waa the <
most amiable person In tbs world, i
If a trifle silly , m . *
"Everybody think* Tvt for go Hen Cibb*" Zoo ooid, "bed I emi—/ fud oanL
tee him:
Kay, r vo got to
nut my ears nerer me pro
tasted, after deliberation. "1*11 hare
to stop by again and pick It up."
Would Michael think »he was
inaking ezcnses to see hlmT Men
were so terribly conceited. After
the other day when he had so
rudely seised her wrist and spoken
10 sharply, when they were taking
ibelter from the storm tn that way
tide cabin, she scarcely knew what
to think of Michael.
Zoe piloted the little car skill
fully up the hilly road winding
eastward in a slg-sag pattern away
from Innlcock. Prom the rise you
could look back and see the Tillage,
lying sleepy In the morning base,
and a line of blue beyond that
marked Long Island Sound.
Zoe ran the car into the shadow
t>f a pin-oak and shut off the en
gine.
“Nice up here!
“I lore it,- Katharine agreed,
rhere were farms on either side
af the Rlrer Road ; nnpalnted barns
and rail fences hemming in fields
af clover and rows of sprouting
corn. Some day, In the not tar dis
tant future, all this would be taken
over by a suburban development
company. There would be Moorish
rlllas and golf tees where all was
rustic simplicity now.
e e e
I/’ATHARINE dreaded ftese in
evitable "improvements.” But
meantime she could enjoy the peace
if the untouched countryside.
"It's about Gibbs,- Zoe was say
ing. In a small voice, breaking into
tier reverie.
Katharine had lived through half
i dozen more or less intense love
iffairs, vicariously, with Zoe. She
was only six months older than the
little creature beside her, with the
round blue eyes and flashing white
teeth, but Katharine told herself
ibe felt old enough to be Zoe’s
grandmother, at the very least.
"I—I haven't forgotten him," Zoe
proceeded. "Mother—and Daddy—
>vcrybody thinks I have. But I
can’t, Kay. I Just can'L
*8he went on. pleating the folds
>f her handkerchief. *T can't think
ibout anything else.- She looked
raddenly very solemn, her Mttle
gin
sky.
"Kay, I*t» got to see him "
"Ha-ha's away,** Katharine mar
inured. laadsqiiataly.
*1 know tt. Ha’s got la soma
back—or also I’m going to him.”
“Oh, yon can’t do that," Kath
arine protected. What a maos this
was!
Zoo began to cry. She cried pret
tily; sba didn't twist or screw bar
features up as so many women do.
She just sat quietly and let the
large, crystal drops gather and fall,
touching them every now and then
with the folds of the now delicately
pleated handkerchief.
Katharine felt a surge of Impa
tience. "Oh, do stop that!" she
said crossly. "Gibbs Is almost 40
and he’ll be fat In no time at all
And you know well enough he's
had heaps of affaire—with married
women, too. No wonder your mother
Is against him! She has a perfect
right to be.”
"But I lo-ore him.” Zoe protested,
blue eyes swimming, red lips pout
ing. "Ton just won’t understand.
You’re so—so hard about k. Kay
Just wait till you fall..
"It’s nothing to do with me,”
Katharine said. "Why drag me in?”
"You'll know some day," cried
Zoe with spirit, mopping her eyes.
"Then you’ll be sorry you were so
unkind."
Katharine melted. ”1 didn't
mean to be. honestly. What can I
do to help?"
see
'"THEIR conferences usually ended
A this way. Katharine was the
stronger of the two, yet the soft,
yielding Zoe could usually bend her
to her way of thinking.
"1 thought we might get our par
ents to let us take a trip together,"
she began.
"But you're only-just got beck.”
Katharine said.
"I know, but we could any we
wanted to do New England—the
antique shops and so on ..
"And slip up to Maine and see
Gibbs? Is that itr
Zoe nodded.
Kstharine frowned. "It's much
too transparent Bertlne would be
sure to see through It She's much
J UUI
iuuumi avuit
things Ilk* that."
"She'd nerer inspect you," said
Zoe alyly, “of deceit”
Katharine flashed. It vu true.
Bertlne would think that ehe would
look aner Zoe properly. Well, and
she would, too!
"No, I can't possibly do HI*
"Oh, Kay. darling. think about It,
wont you?** Zoe looked as M she
might burst Into tears again.
"I dont really like Gibbs." Kath
arine began, doubtfully. "Why
should 1 foster this affair? 1 think
It would be the worst thing you
could do, to marry him . . .”
"Oh. marry!” Zoe opened her
eyes.
"Well, lsn*t that what yontn
after r
"He basnt asked me, bnt he
will," said the younger girl with
a note of soft triumph.
"l’re simply got to get bach.*
Katharine said suddenly. Of course
she lored Zoe as a sister, but thin
morning there was something p»
cullarly Irritating in Zoe's assume
tlon that she could bend a full*
grown man to her will. Maybe
Gibbs wanted to marry her and
maybe he didn’t. Katharine didn't
know. But Zoe was sure of her
powers. Katharine, from her ehllly
heights of superiority to feminine
wiles, felt annoyed. Bhe was re
membering, with lightning clear
ness, the way Michael had stared1
at her the other day: so angrily,
almost as though he had, for an
Instant, hated her! Zoe would!
hare known what to do in such e
situation.
The little car whirled about, be
gan the down grade. At the lan^
leading Into the riding club Zoe"
obediently stopped.
"Look. I'll call you ap later,"
began importantly.
Katharine nodded. Thao
heart plunged slckenlngly. 8
thing strange* happened to
pulse; it was pounding in
throat She was conscious <
swift surge of rags.
Riding together, heedless oflj
others along the path, came
and a girt
Michael—end Sally Moont
(To Be Continued)
long gold trail. Once was too much.
• • •
Off-The-Record — The Washing
ton press corps — 480 men and wom
en — generally endorsed President
Roosevelt's refusal to disclose to
congress his off-the-record revela
tion — at a recent press conference
—of the spanking ne administered
to Big Business spokesmen.
Although handled Infernally, the
matter might have proved a serious
invasion of the freedom of the press
—and the president. He talks frank
ly to newspapermen In these twice
a-week off-the-record sessions. He
gives them unpublishable Informa
tion which guides them In wrlt.nn
about profound issues. If he had
set a precedent by permitting 531
congressmen to eavesdrop, the con
fidential nature yt these get-to
gethers would disappear. The pres
ident's style would thereafter be
cramped by the prospect that his
words would be published in the
Congressional Record.
The off-the-record system has Its
evils. It permits officials to spread
propaganda without assuming re
sponsibility for it. But any smart
correspondent can detect propagan
da when he sees It and he needs no
help from congress
• • •
Research — Congress has passed
an act authorizing Colonel W. L.
Keller, Medical Corps, to retire on
full pay and pursue research work
at Whiter Reed hospital. Keller
stands at the top as a surgeon and
has been offered 875,000 a year by
private hospitals, but he has turn
ed down these offers and continued
on his modest pay treating disabled
soldiers. He will now be In a po
sition to make researches which will
benefit all humanity. .
• • •
Notes — John W. Davis. Morgan's
keenest scout, has been Investigating
congress and the banking bill . . .
Temporary buildings across the Po
tomac will house some of the New
Deal overflow activities . . . Henry
L. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of
the Navy U doing the Job that
Franklin Roosevelt performed dur
ing the World War — looking over
the fleet at sea . .. Ickcs and Hop
kins are puzzled — they dont know
which one is to handle investiga
tions of work-relief.
England has nearly twice as
many motor vehicles to a mile ol
road as the United States, and
from four to seven times as manj
as other European countries.
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Q. Do any boys enter CCC camps
who can not read and write? g. H.
A. There are many. More than 2300
are being taught to read and write.
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Q. When will the Government
narcotic farms open for patients?
R. C.
A. The Public Health Service says
that the first United States narcotic
farm at Lexington, Kentucky, will
not be open until on or after May
29. Plans for the second United
States narcotic farm at Fort Worth.
Texas, are being drawn up at the
present time and it will probably be
about two years before it is open.
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Q. Was the asaaaetn of the Arch
duke and Archduchess of Austria
executed? H. N.
A. Prinzip was arrested and died
soon afterward in prison.
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Q. When is Edith Csvell buried?
S. A. S.
A. In 1919, her body was removed
to Norwich Cathedral after memorial
services in Westminster Abbey.
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Q. Please describe the Perry Vic
tory Memorial. H. K. F.
A. The Perry’s Victory Memorial
at Put In Bay. South Bass Island.
Lake Erie. Ohio, Is the world s sec
ond highest monument. It is con
structed entirely of Massachusetts
granite and is in the form of a Gre
cian Doric column 352 feet in
height and 45 feet In diameter at
the base. It has a spacious and
beautiful rotunda and a spectator's
gallery at the top accomodatln# 300
people. Its physical setting in a park
of 14 acres with Lake Erie on both
sides, gives It the appearance of ris
ing from the water. At night it U
illuminated by floodlights.
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Q. Who b called the father oi
American botany? R. C„ Jr.
I A. John Bartram, eminent Amer
I lean botanist (1089-1777) la frequent
ly called the father of American bo
tany. He founded the first botanical
garden in America and Linnaeus
termed him “the greatest natural
botanist in the world."
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Q Can holly be eeed for a hedge?
G. N.
A. It la often so used as it bears
clipping well.
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Q. When was the friction match
invented? W. M. T.
A. The first true friction match
was not Invented until 1827 by a
man named John Walker of Stock
ton-on-Tees, Durham, England
Ignition of sulphur and phosphorus
by friction was discovered by God
frey Haukwlts In 1880. but It was
150 yean before this discovery was
applied to matches.
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Q. When did Jersey cattle first
make their appearance In the Unit
ed States? T. H W.
A. The first Importation of Jer
seys was made In 1150. A few more
were brought over about 20 years
later, and from 1870 to 1880 there
were numerous Importations Since
1880 many Jerseys have been Im
ported every year.
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Q. Why is the sign or symbol
which looks like a eiir called an ao
tertak? S. E.
A. It Is from the Oreek and means
a little star.
see
Q. How did the World War veter
ans get the bonne which the now
want paid in fall? N. B.
A. Congress passed the bonus bill
over President Oooiidge’a veto. It
gave the veterans, not cash, but
paid-up endowment Insurance poli
cies. the so-called adjusted com
pensation certificates, maturing in
20 years. In 1931, Congress passed a
law, over President Hoover's veto,
permitting veterans to borrow up to
50 per cent of the face value of their
certificates. The present agitation Is
to permit them to draw at once
more money or all the certificates
call for.
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Q. How can a parchment diploma
be cleaned? M. 5
A. a parchment diploma may be
cleaned If It Is not too soiled by rub
bing lightly with art gum which may
be purchased from any art dealer
Another method is to use pieoes of
freshly baked bread with the crust
auk off. Itr graasa spots apply ful
ler’s earth. Rub it Into the stain
and then brush off.
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Q. When was the Court of ( lain*
Building In Washington, D. C*
erected? K. L
A. The building occupied by the
Court of Claims of the United Statae
was erected by William W. Corcor
an tn the year 1859. for the bene
fit of the city of Washington for
"the perpetual establishment and
encouragement of painting, sculp
ture, and the fine arta generally."
• it
Q Where la Purgatory Chaam? &
W. H.
A It is in Worcester County. Mass,
Button Township. on Purgatory
Creek, above Burts and Whltind
ponds. 3 to 3 miles west of North
bridge Center. It Is a picturesque ra
vine, with vertical walls of gnelsslo
rock which overhang in places. It
is barely 10 feet wide at the head,
but broadens downhill; the maxi
mum depth Is about 100 to 130 feet
and In It are many angular to part
ly rounded blocks of gneiss piled In
confusion.
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Q. When waa the first school fat
training In social work established
In the United State*? W. P.
A. The first school (now the New
York School of Social Work) waa
established In 1898 as the New York
School of Philanthropy. In 1901 two
other professional schools were
started, the Boston School of Social
Work (under Simmons College) and
the Chicago School, which was at
first an extension Institute of the
University of Chicago.
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Q. Where did Barnett Banaal% 4
the diamond king, die? M. O.
A. He committed suicide In H01
at the age of 45. by throwing hlmMH
overboard from a liner when onlill
way to England from South AfricA
111 health waa the reason ascribed far
the act. i
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Q. Before drainage began, what
was the extent of the Everglades? <
b the water fmh or salt? D. K.
A. This marsh lake In Southern
Florida was about 110 miles lontf
about 45 miles wide. The water !a . ,
fresh and la comparatively sweet
and pure. Ita depth varies from ooa
to six feet. ' |
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Q. How long has Dan Beddoe been
singing? L. A.
A. Since 1883 when he won a Welsh
i Eisteddfod with a tenor solo.