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Monday, August 12, 1935
Now You Can Sec How Peace
Theories Work
Whatever else It may do, the dust-up between Italy
and Abyssinia Is at least providing us with a practical
test of some of our fine-spun theories about the way
to work for a warless world.
An example or two can be found in the discus
sion of the matter held recently in the British House
of Commons.
Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign minister, sug
gested that England would welcome any offer of
American co-operation In the effort to avert war;
but he warned the Commons not to expect too much.
adding:
"Let us foster friendship and maintain In our in
tercourse a realistic attitude toward each other. We
must expect no more from our American friends than
they are willing to contribute.
• • •
This, of course, was simply a reminder that isola
tionist sentiment is so strong In America nowadays
that Washington cannot be expected to make more
than a gesture. And that, in turn, calls attention to
a fact that friends of peace often overlook: when you
try to stop two persons from fighting, it may be neces
sary far you to do It by force if they won’t listen to
In other words. Anglo-American Intervention In
thla quarrel would have scant effect unless everybody
clearly understood that In a showdown the two na
tions would use guns to enforce their views.
Since It la perfectly obvious that neither cares to
do that, the aenoible thing Is to warn everybody to
“expect no more from our American friends than
they are willing to contribute."
AH this, boiled down, simply means that the world
Is not yet ready for Leagues of Nations, Kellogg
treaties, and so on. In the last analysis, these things
must rest on force, or at least on the threat of force.
If it be known in advance that the force wont be
applied, they oollapse — as, In point of fact, they al
ready have collapsed.
Then there is that other stunt dear to the Idealist,
Of embargoing the shipment of munitions to warring
nations. The Commons were told that Britain has
banned such shipments to Abyssinia, but has not
needed to do so In the case of Italy, because Italy
makes her own munitions and doesn't need to buy
any.
In this case, the ban Is less a move for peace than
a deft bit of aid to Mussolini. It will not help pre
vent the war; It will merely make Italian victory
more certain.
Bare. then, are two bits of “peace machinery” get
ting a practical test. The one falls because no one
tares to apply It properly; the other turns out to be
a first-rate help to the party that Is forcing the war
From now on Tm wedded to my art. Tm through
with matrimony—at least I think I am. — Buster
Keaton, film comedian.
A writer doesn't write for the moment. He writes
for eternity. — Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist.
Creed To Govern Community Life
Down in Fort Worth, Texas, the city has a creed
to govern its community life. The creed is now be
ing adopted as a policy of personal conduct by the
progressive citizens of many progressive towns and
cities. Citizens who refuse to take part in progres
sive movements but content themselves with destruc
tive criticism, hamper civic progress. All civic move
ments have weak spots subject to criticism, but the
criticism should come from within instead of from
without.
Consider, particularly, the potentialities for good
in the citizen who refrains from disparaging remarks
about his city, its Institution! and his fellow cifc
isens; casts his vote on all public questions, civic,
provincial and dominion; seeks not to evade Jury
duty, patronizes home merchants; lets no day pass
without doing to the best of his ability some little bit
looking to the betterment of his community.
We have never been in Fort Worth nor do we
know much about the place, but if Its citizens are to
any large degree actuated by the spirit of this creed,
it must be a fine city in which to live and to do busi
ness.—Canadian Statesman (Bowmanvllle, Qnt.).
Rest, Right Diet Help
Curb Blood Pressure
By DR. MORRIS F1SUBE1N
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Uffua, the Heal Lb Maganne
To control high blood pressure and to permit the
sufferer to live as long as possible, certain measures
are desirable. The various possible causes of the con
dition must be investigated and removed or controlled
if possible.
Next, the burden on the tissues concerned, as the
blood vessels, the heart, and the kidney, must be re
moved or lightened as much as possible. Then every
thing should be done that can be done to Improve the
quality of the human tissues so they will be able to
work more efficiently.
If every person would have his blood pressure meas
ured at fairly frequent intervals, it would be possible
to detect rises fairly early and thus to bring them more
quickly under control.
By a careful study of the life of the person con
cerned, the doctor may get an idea as to whether he
is likely to develop a high blood pressure, or "H. A.
D." hypertensive arterial disease.
Thus it is known that the condition tends to run in
families. The fact that a father, mother, grand
father or grandmother died from a stroke may be an
indication lor frequent study of the blood pressure.
• • •
Because of the importance of rest in controlling this
condition, it is well to have an analysis of the habits
of the individual as related to work, sleep, exercise,
diet, worry, and similar factors.
Areas of Infection in the teeth and in the tonsils
should be cleaned up. Gradual inflammation of the
kidneys may be going on for some time without be
ing noticed. Tendency of the blood pressure in the
individual to sudden fluctuations may be determined
by a simple test, which involve putting one hand in
ice water for one minute, measuring the blood pres
sure simultaneously in the other arm.
If the person with high blood pressure is surround
ed by people who regularly affect his blood pressure
badly, it may be necessary for him to be removed to
a rest cure, a sanatorium, a resort, or some similar
place in which the disturbing and blood pressure stim
ulating factors will not be present.
If the problem is one of financial worry, the diffi
culty is naturally a special problem.
The diet of the person concerned should contain
enough protein to take care of hi* body's requirement.
It used to be the thing to eliminate meat entirely. This
Is no longer advocated.
Salt In moderate amounts Is permissible, but all
the condiments and spices should be used most spar
ingly. as they may Irritate the blood vessel system.
The usual amount or slightly more than the usual
amount of water Is permitted in most cases. Coffee
or other stimulants should not be taken late In the
day, but moderate amount* of tea, coffee, or tobacco
may be permitted to those who are used to them.
In this condition especially, the old medical pro
verb— moderation In all things—is Important to re
member.
I'm a ridge runner, but I don't like to be called a
hillbilly or a scissorblll. — Mrs. Mary E. Mahnkey of
Oasis, Mo„ visiting New York.
Missionaries have ever been the shock troops of re
ligion. — Reverend James Myers, Industrial secre
tary, Federal Council of Churches In America.
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News
Behind the
•News
Capital and world gossip, mou
and personalities, In and out at
the news, written by a group 01
(earless and tntormed newspaper
men of Washington and New York
This column Is published by The
Herald as a news feature. Opinion*
expressed are those of the writers as
Individuals and should not be in
terpreted es reflecting the editorial
policy of this newspaper
WASHINGTON
By Ray Tucker
Suspicions — Certain anti-Nazi
congressmen are quietly investigat
ing reports that Herr Hitler will
house and feed American competi
tors in the Olympic games at Berlin
rcxt year. They will holler against
tins form of propaganda if the re
ports are verified.
They have heard that the War
Ministry, and not Germany's ath
letic organizations, will looks after
foreign entries. Herr Hitler’s mili
tary men are understood to have
charge of construction of the Olym
pic village near Loeberitz. When
certain foreign military attaches
e> pressed surprise on a recent in
spection visit, it was explained that
to the German mind the soldier and
tnt athlete are Identical.
This coincides with reports that
Germany's athletic groups are real
ly army training squads. And sev
eral house members think they
detect a deep, dark design in the
arrangement for taking care of our
m’lers, sprinters and high-jumpers.
• • •
Oversight—Toward the end of
every session congress gets an ob
ject lesson in the need for a “watch
dog of the treasury” like Comptrol
ler General John R. McCarl.
The calendar at this period Is
cl.’Ltered with private bills for the
teimbursement and relief of govern
ment officials who paid out funds
'ater held to be illegal cm* unwar
ranted by the comptroller general.
Unless congress authorized reim
bursement. the money would have
to be taken from the men's salaries
or their bonding companies. Right
now there are pending from only
:wo departments—treasury and war
—measures requiring a $400,000 ap
propriation to square these accounts.
The claims committees have
straightened out this situation only
up to December. 1933. Confidential
advices are that the sums will run
into the millions when the accounts
of the New Dealers are scrutinized.
During their first year they forgot
that Mr. McCarl was alive.
m • •
Discoveries—Mr McCarl watches
every penny. It makes no difference
to him whether the amount involv
ed is 53 cents or $135,000. “The prin
ciple is the same’’ he replies when
you point out that he often collects
less than he spends on collecting.
Perhaps the most unusual case
involved legalization of $63,000 pay
ment resulting from a system of
padded payrolls and forged checks
on a Department of Agriculture Job
at Tallulah. La. It was eight years
before the Treasury discovered that
a field official had been certifying
the salaries of fictitious employes
and forging their signatures. In that
time 3.900 checks were made out
to the fakers.
Another strange arrangement was
the payment of 103 pension checks
to the daughter of an old soldier
after he had died. The pensioner
died In 1911 but his little gal col
lected $2,048, through 1932. She ex
plained that she thought she' was
entitled to It as next of kin to the
deceased warrior. That happens lots
of times.
• • •
Ageing—Good news for topers!
Liquor stocks are raoidly over
hauling consumption. The distillers,
in a mad, competitive scramble to
store up aged liquor for the finickv
trade, are still laying aside 10.000.000
gallons of whiskey a month. In six
veeks there will be more than 200 -
000 000 gallons of two-year-old spir
its in stock. With an annual con
sumption of about 50.000 000 gallons,
that will be aplenty, and prices for
gcod stuff should drop to S2 a quart.
Two-year-old liquor, according to
government experts, will match the
bottled-in-bond of ore-prohibition
days. If you remember back that
far. the labels used to say "bottled
tor four summers.” It meant what
it said—“summers”—for there was
almost no ageing in the winter-time.
The storehouses were frigid. Now
they are artificially heated, and
two years' ageing equals the heat of
“four summers.”
• • •
Scheme — Administration experts
don’t favor the O’Mahoney bill for
setting ud a new NRA through fed
eral incorporation of Industries.
Thev have studied that possibility
carefully but have discarded it be
cause it presents too many adminis
trative difficulties.
They have what they think is a
smarter scheme. The idea is to
persuade states to reouire corpo
rations doing business within their
boundaries to take out a charter.
These would provide for acceptance
of code prices, wages, hours and
working conditions. There would, of
course, be many conflicts and dis
crepancies to harass the incorpo
rated industries.
Then, if the scheme works out as
planted, corporations would beg for
a uniform, federal Incorporation
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CHAPTER XXX
JO'S realization that It »u Brnt
Paul and not Peter Fragonet
who bad reamed her from the lake
waa momentarily twept away In
the excitement. Ae Bret dived
from the epeedboat io surged for
ward frith the rest of the crowd
itrain tog to catch a glimpee of Lo
lita Montes on the blight sunlit
surface of the laka Drann. thor
jugbly frightened and excited now
waa leaping np and down in the
ooat shouting unnecessary direc
tions at the top of hta Innga
Then Bret bobbed Into view, and
oeslde him Jo saw with relief the
Bedraggled dark hair of Lolita Mon
tea An Involuntary cry went up
from the crowd on shore as Drann
helped Bret lift the Inert figure
Into the boat Then, as Fragonet
struggled aboard, the cry stopped
abruptly—pa If there was only the
silence of contempt for him.
Queerly. despite bar feelings for
Lolita, Jo was sorry for Fragonet.
They had no tight to lift him up.
then dash him down in silence lust
oecause he’d never learned to swim
well enough. Drann had driven
him, lust as he’d driven Montes
from that tower. And Fragonet
bad argued with Drann. Suddenly
nets welled up inside her for this
stocky, egotistical Drann who could
gamble with lives to gain a few
seconds’ effect on the screen.
There was no more “shooting”
that day. and as Jo and Tubby
walked back to the Inn they were
strangely silent. On the veranda j
Jo said. "I wish you’d come up to
my room. Tubby*
Inside Jo’s room she faced Tubby
Davis. “Why didn’t you tell me
Bret Paul saved my life that day
on the laker*#
"Why. i thought you knew."
Tubby exclaimed. "I—who did you
think did ur
**1 thought It was Fragonet."
Tubby sank into a chair. “Well,
am I relieved! 1 was wondering
what had got into you. It didn't
seem like you to Ignore the fact
that Bret had eaved your Ufa Not
even to thank him for it. 1 tried
to open up the subject severs
times, but you always cut me off."
didn’t even know Bret was
at Crest Lake then."
"He'd come lust that morning.
Tubby said. "He was standing on
the shore having his first view of
the lake when Babs hit your sail
boat.”
e a •
JO stared at tbs wad. "I wonder
what he must think of me? i
can understand a lot of things
... now."
”1 don't Know what Brae thinks 1
of you.* Fubby said. -But 1 Know i
darned well wbat « think at thu
Fragonet betting yon oellere at i
saved your life! Why lt*a all he i
can do to keep nlmaelf afloat He i
proved that today " '
Jo smiled "He didn't let me be 1
lleve tt Cm sure be thinks 1 knew i
It was Bret Paul."
“But haven't yon ever mentioned •
tt to dim***
”1 started to thank him when ,
1 regained consciousness after the
accident out ne wouldn't let me
talk about wbat Happened He
didn't want me to get disturbed 1
about It—and I suppose 1 tbougbr
he was being modest ''out wbat
he'd done So 1 never referred to
It again."
“Well, don't you think It’s time
you were referring to It—to Bret?" (
Jo nodded soberly “Ton don't
have to remind me of that Tubby (
That’s something I’m going to do
right now "
But Bret was neither at the lake j
nor in his eottage and one of the
bouse ooys explained to Jo that ,
"Mlstab Paul" was in conference
with Silas Drann. “He take place <
Mlstab Fragonet In swim tomolla!"
rhe little Oriental grinned know ,
tngly
"If you see Mr Paul 1 wish you d i
tell him I'm eery anxious to see i
him." Jo instructed. <
She returned to her room and
found Tubby sprawled on the bed. I
munching chocolate ereama Hur i
rledly swallowing. Tubby looked at i
her questloningly. “What did he
say?"
"1 didn’t get to see him Ap- i
parently he’s going to double for
Pragonet in that scene tomorrow
He’s with Drann now"
“That’s lucky for Montes." o*»
served Tubby, “as well as for Bret
Come to think of H. why wouldn’t i
Bret Paul make e swell movie
hero?"
“I guess he would. Tubby."
• • •
JO wakened next morning with
out having beard from Bret.
She wondered If be bad received
her message and was Ignoring It
Perhaps he did not want to talk
with her at all. now that be was
so contemptuous of the man be
thought she cared for. Perhaps he
believed that a girl who would be
Interested In Fragonec deserved
nothing, not even common courte
sy
jo could understand nu oon
tempt for Fragonec No twe men.
she thought, were ever more un
like. To a boy like Bret Pan! who
had worked bard always tor what
little he could gain from life. Peter
Fragonet must appear to be the
epitome of worthlessness. And now
Bret, proud of his own physical
prowess, had teen Fragonet brand
ed with cowardice.
It must have hurt Bret that Jo
had said never a word about the
day she was pitched unconscious
from the sailboat. And it must
have hurt still more when be saw
her accepting the attentions of
Marsh and Barston—and Fragonet
himselL Whatever was to happen
in the future between her and
Bret, she must find him and patch
up the past
Her resolve was easier made
than carried out. All that day
Bret, with bis hair darkened, and
dressed to resemble Fragonet in
the role of a forester, was oust
with Drann's company While
Fragonet kept tt bis room, the
company went through the scenes
rblcb uad resulted in eneh a tlaaeo
be day Defora.
Jo bant about tbt take abort
rltb rub by moat of tbe day pro
ending internet la tbe ftlmtbg; t>
aallty tbe tree Doping to nare •
rord with Bret Bat Bret suite
Iterally spent moot ot tbe day la
be lake or In Ormnn'e »peed boat
rhe only member of the oompan*
lo bad a chance to talk to war
Lolita Montaa looking none tb*
voree for her experience of tbe da*
wfora.
Too don’t know bow frlgbteneo
roo bad me yesterday.** Jo t6k»
»er _ |
Montes smfled. "Those thing*
rill happen And it oortslni?
raant PYagonet'e fault Drant
roet insane eometlmee when b*
tecs an Idea into bfe bead anr
Fragonet nad told btm be dldn’*
blnk bo eon Id handle tbe scene "
Toe knew It tooT” asked Jc
unaaad
Tbe other nodded.
“And yet yon went ahead wHfe
t . .*
The ectreee eh rugged “It's part
>f tbe business," tbe said.
T*HEN Montes was called bj
* Drann. and Jo saw tier no mon
bat day Neither did she see Bret
rhe director worked nte outfit ilk*
nad anti) the tan was weak be
lind the trees and It was rumor*
hat be planned to leave tor Holly
rood sooner than be bad original
y intended The near-tra**dy bac
listurbed bis ego. tor be knew that
ilmost all who bad eeen it held ti
lira Inst him. Drann found It n<
longer pleasing to show off befor*
he spectators who lined the short
9t the lake And be knew, tor
:hat Pragonet would probably b*
relieved Indeed to get away frotr
he stares of the men and women tr
whom be had been a hero one da?
ind a coward the next
Unable to have even a moment
with Bret during the day, Jo tolo
net-self that she must go to bis cot
tags that night She mustn’t let
mother day go by without telllnr
Bret she appreciated what be bar
Iona Even now be was likely t<
believe she was turning to bln
only because Pragonet bad made a
tool of himself at Crest Lake "But
It lent true that Pragonet mad<
a fool of blmself." Jo though
stoutly. "It was Drann who read*
a fool of him"
She bad dinner earlier than
usual, to escape the guests in th»
dining room and the Ion: after
dinner conversations which asuai
ly went on over the coffee and eig
arete. Then, smiling her thank*
at the house boy who had served
her. Jo left her table.
But to to® lobby she eoeoantered
Douglas Marsh
“Hello. Jo! Had dinner already 1
. . . 1 hoped you'd tske It with
me. Hare you anything planned
right now?"
“Why . . . no."
"Good! Join me in a demi-tasse
at least We must hare a party
tor the morie crowd and 1 warn
to talk It orer with you. Drann
has decided to tear® day after to
morrow. That means the party
has to be tomorrow night Rather
short notice, but—" be grinned at
her. "1 guess we can show 'em a
good time."
“Of course.” Jo said.
“Come in and alt down with me
and we ll make plana"
Silently Jo accepted Marsh’s arm
and returned to the dining room
with him
(To Be Oontlnaed)
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‘statute. The administration would,
of course, graciously acquiesce.
• • •
Halted—Though no New Dealer,
Senator Copeland recently Intro
duced a measure to create a nation
al planning board. It might have
shd through the Senate except that
GOP Leader McNary objected on
behalf of an unnamed and absent
Senator.
Subsequently Mr. Copeland stud
ied the measure, which had been
handed to him by Secretary Ickes.
The New York Senator assumed
that the bill simply provided for a
suvrey of “natural resources." But
he noted a deft phrase which per
mitted the proposed board to plan
lor the development of "other re
sources." That would have opened
the door to the kind of economic
and social planning to which Mr.
Copeland objects.
Then he discovered that the un
known objector was Senator Van
denberg of Michigan. "It looks to
me,” aaid Mr. Vandenberg, “like a
plan to coordinate the planners.
What does that ‘other resources’
mean?" Mr. Copeland couldn’t ex
plain and he wont press the bill
urtll he finds out what’s in Harold’s
mind.
Notes — California shipping con
cerns are trying to carry mall, so
as to obtain federal protection
against strikers... .The Guffey bill
has been revised but Its doubtful
provisions remain....Some demo
crats blame Ickes for the Rhode
Island defeat....“Cotton Ed" Smith,
Senator from South Carolina, makes
a ripping state’s right speech, re
minding his state that increased:
federal power means antl-lynchlng i
legislation..., <
Flashes of Life
(By The Associated Press)
Pretty Good—And Perfect—
SAINT JOHN. N. B—A tour
ist reported to police he lost his
wallet, containing money and
valuaole papers.
“It might have been at a point
ten and one-tenth miles east of
Calais, Me., on the St. John-St.
Stephen highway," he suggested.
The police drove out 10.7 miles,
found the wallet.
Thirty-Six Uvea
NIAGARA FALLS. Ont.—Lew
Stewarts cat has kittens—four of
them joined together at the body,
"Siamese quadruplets.” Stewart
says the cat is pretty much be
wildered.
Beaded Fish
PHILADELPHIA—A Hying fish
with a four-inch beard and an
eel so transparent that print can
be read through its ribbon-body
are among the specimens brought
to the Academy of Natural
Sciences from a West Indian ex
pedition.
Legal Precedent
HOPE. Ark—The Judge usual
ly fills the jail but County Judge
H. Stephens emptied the one here.
He freed the three prisoners with
the statement the county was
“too broke" to feed persons held
for mere misdemeanors.
Todays
Almanac*.
ITH'Robert Southey
English. Poet# bom
1*10 %en- Harrison
and Tecumseh in
conference at Vin
cennes
l&O'first American
railroad completed,
connecting Albany
and Scherfetad^,
and Spain
sign treaty ending
Soimsh-Amenean
^ “ War.
Facto graphs
The late Oliver Wendell Holmes
former Justice of the U. S. 8upreme |
Court, served three years and Was
wounded three times In the Civil
war. When mustered out he had the
rank of captain.
• • •
The fig tree is distinguished from
almost all other fruit trees by the
extraordinary property of produc
ing two crops of lruit In the same
year on distinct shoots. In climates
congenial to its growth.
• • •
The hardest wocd found In the
United States is black Iron wood,
which grows in Florida. The scien
tific name for this weed Is Rhanni
dium Ferreun.
• • •
The vegetables that stand high on
the list cf nerve-tissue building
foods are spinach, celery, parsnips,
string beans, asparagus and cucum
bers.
• • •
Slack wire or tight wire artists
never use flat wire for stage perfor
mances.
Barbs
China wu to pay 140,000 ransom
for a foreign correspondent held by
bandits. The writer should never
know what was put up for him. or
hell ask for a raise.
• • •
Missouri is seeking its most cussed
mule, but is confining its search to
those with long ears.
• • •
Another tunnel has been holed
through under the Hudson at New
York It will be used to catch any
tourists who have failed so far tc
find New York.
• • •
Samuel Instill denies he has ask
ed for the return of some of his
pension, being thankful for small
favors, nevertheless.
• • •
This quick flight around tha world
bv Wiley Pest and his wife Is a good
Idea. It doesn’t give them time to
get on each other's nerves. •
Correctly Speaking
A statement of primary impor
tance In a narrative should not be
embodied In a “when" clause; It
should be embodied In an Independ
ent clause or sentence.
One^minute Pulpit
But If the wicked turn from his
wickedness, and do that which Is
lawful and right, he shall live there
by.—Eseklel SI;19.
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Q. How much power Is used at va
rious speeds in overcoming wind
resistance in modern ears compar
ed to a highly streamlined car?
B. L. 8.
A. Approximate figures are as fol
lows: the conventional car uses 3
h. p. at 25 mph; 10 at 50; and 33 at
75 In each case rolling resistance
horse powers are roughly S at 25;
B at 50. and 14 at 75.
• • •
Q. Are any newspaper* publish
ed at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia? T. W.
A. There are five — two native
publications, in Amharlc, •’Aemero'*
(Reason* and "Berhanenna -Seism”
(Light Se Peace* and "Counter
d’Ethiopie” in French, published
weekly; and two bi-weekly Journal*—
.'Ethiopia Commercials'’ and 'Noti
ziario."
Q. How many people visited the
Boulder dam while it was being con
structed? A- N.
A. It is estimated that a million
people visited the project during it*
construction.
• • «
Q. How many gallons of cocoanut
oil can be obtained from 500 pounds
of copra? R. L.
A. About 25 gallons should ba
obtained from that amount.
• • •
Q Can a father who has hemo
philia transmit this disease to his
daughters, or transmit the trait to
them? L- B. E.
A. Hemophilia is a disease which
occurs in males only but which is
transmitted by females. In other
words, if a man has hemophilia his
sons will not have it. his daughters
will carry It, and their sons may
have it.
• • •
Q. What is the meaning of om
mani pad me hum, J- H.
A. This is a sacred Buddhist for
mula. meaning, O. the Jewel in the
Lotus, Amen! When recited it in
sures rebirth after death In the
heaven ruled by Amitabha, the re
puted author of the incantation. It
is inscribed on all Buddhist prayer,
wheels.
Q. Please five some It.formation
about the Chateau d'lf. A. W. G.
A. The Chateau d’lf la most wide
ly known through the Count of
Monte Christo. It is located on a rock
island about two miles west c' Mar
seilles. The castle was constructed
by Francis I in 1529, and was later
used as a state prison. In It Mira
beau, Philippe Egallte, and other*
were confined.
• • •
Q. In wrestling what Is a dog-fan?
G. E.
A. It Is a fall in which the two
combatants touch the ground to
gether
«r • •
Q. When was the Flatiron building
in New York City erected? T. H.
A. It was built in 1902 It is some
times referred to as the first sky
scraper in New York.
• • •
Q. What Is the origin of the e»
pression, tips, meaning gratuities?
J. C.
• • •
A. The custom of tipping is said to
have originated In a coffee house in
London. In this tavern there was a
box into which patrons desiring spe
cial .service put a certain amount of
money. On the box were the words,
To Insure Prompt Service. The in
itial letters of the phrase developed
into the noun, tips.
• • •
Q. What la a berm? W. S. C
A. It la a orizontal ledge on ft
slope or along a bank
• • »
Q. What is the comity of nations?
K. R G.
A. This is the principle upon which
the courts of one county recognise
the validity of the laws and Judici
al decisions of another. The princi
ple has been embodied In the fund
amental law of the United States by
the provision of the Constitution
(Article 4, Section 1) that "Full
faith and credit shall be given In
each 8tate to the public acts, re
cords, and judicial proceedings Of
every other State ."
• • •
Q Was Walter Cfer, the painter of
Indians, bom in the West? E. R.
A. Mr. Ufer was bom in Louis
ville, Kentucky.
• • •
Q. Is northern China very eoM tn
wintertime? W. L. B.
A. China Is exposed to the full
blast of the north-westerlies from
North Asia. Northern China experi
ences exceptionally severe winter
weather, the coldest In the world for
its latitude. The winter period la
short and very windy.
• • •
Q. How did the expression, Let
George do It. start? A. K.
A. The allusion Is to a popular
comic supplement feature by the
American cartoonist. McManus.
• • •
Q. When did the tikolor become
the flag of France? G. W
A. Lafayette brought about lta
adoption in 1789.
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