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Monday, November 4, 1935
Practical Marketing Aid
Just about ths most practical thing that any one
Individual or organization has done for the Valleys
citrus industry is in process ol being done by the Mis
souri Pacific railroad.
Announcement by E. H. McReynolds. director of
publicity of the road, that the MoPac will distribute
thousands of dealer aids in the form of store placards
and hundreds of thousands of booklets containing
recipes for the use ol Valley grapefruit, is a bright spot
on the citrus horizon.
Perhaps Just as interesting as the announcement
and the program planned by the MoPac is the mo
tive behind that program. Mr. McReynolds. in mak
ing the announcement, stated that officials of his
road realize that if the estimated crop in 1936-37
materializes, a major problem will face the Valley.
The time to begin solving that problem is right now,
he stated, and one way of helping to bring about a
solution is through the start of at least one of the
branches of a national advertising campaign.
Jobbers and retailers of fruit alike will welcome the
dealer aids to be distributed by the MoPac. These
placards and booklets will be worth every cent of their
cost if they do nothing but convince the Jobber and
the retailer that they are not alone, that others are
Interested in the sale of Texas grapefruit and oranges,
and Interested to the extent of furnishing substantial
assistance in pushing the sales.
Valley growers and shippers owe the Missouri Pacific
a sincere vote of thanks for this latest enterprise in
behalf of Texas grapefruit.
Not All On One Side
Most recent of the Valley’s 56 traffic fatalities to date
brings to attention that all of the admonitions for safe
ty must not be directed at the drivers of motor vehicles.
A goodly portion of advice may well be directed at the
pedestrian.
Not a driver in a thousand, even if proceeding at an
•xtremely low rate of speed, can help himself or a
child if that child blindly runs into his automobile.
All of us have seen children dart across a crowded
atreet, without first looking to the left and the right.
Boys and girls riding bicycles pull the same stunt,
cut across busy business streets in defiance of all
traffic rules, taking fearsome chances with their
lives. • .
Cautious driving, yes, and also cautious walking!
World’* Biggest Sucker
Regardless of its other activities, our federal gov
ernment seems to have established itself as the great
est investor in the history of the world.
Treasury Department figures show that govern
ment credit agencies have loans outstanding for more
than $8,250,000,000, and have assets to the dizzy stun
of $11,505,000,000. This Is by all odds the largest
single accumulation of capital ever gotten together in
America. The country’s 10 largest banks do not have
resources enough to buy It out
Even more interesting than the site of these figures is
the question how long Uncle Sam is going to stay In his
present position. Sooner or later he will want to get
nut from under this load. Will he be able to do It
without upsetting things?
And when he gets through, will he find himself in
the position of so many hopeful investors—with a
drawer full of pretty but worthless pieces of paper
as the sole return for the money he has put out?
Defying Nature’s Laws
It’s the clever driver, who knows that he^s clever,
who causes most of the traffic fatalities.
So. at least, says J. Russell Craig, safety expert of
a Pennsylvania insurance company.
Mr. Craig, in a series of safety talks before an Ohio
teachers’ association, explained himself as follows:
“The driver who gets himself into a “pocket’ and
depends upon his cleverness and ability to get him
out safely overlooks certain natural physical laws
that no man (or his auto) can avoid.’*
What are these law's? Chiefly that two autos can
not occupy one space at one time; also that a car’s
hitting power is quadrupled when its speed is doubled,
so that you need four times the braking power at 60
miles an hour that you need at 30.
The driver w*ho Is too confident of his ability to
get himself out of any traffic tangle is apt, sooner
or later, to non afoul of these natural laws—and when
he does, tragedy Is the result.
Time to Guard Against
Monoxide
By UK. AIOKBIS FISHBHN
Editor. Joornai of the American Medical Association,
and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine
The time is at hand when the fool-killer comes out
to catch all the careless motorists who work on their
cars in garages with closed doors.
Carbon monoxide, an insidious gas, pours from the
exhaust and gradual!? overwhelms those exposed to
It. Jf the exposure lasts long enough, the result is
fatal.
Symptoms of carbon monoxide, poisoning come on
suddenly. Sometimes there are warning signs such
as headache, throbbing of the temples, ringing of the
ears, faintness, dizziness, and vomiting.
The person who is exposed to this gas finds a loss
of memory and a failure to control any of his sensa
tions, from the earliest symptoms. His face gets red
and his body temperature falls. If the condition goes
on, he will become unconscious and die.
• • •
While recovery in most cases, if it takes place, is
complete, seme persons are left after carbon monoxide
poisoning with hemorrhages into various parts of the
body; destruction of the blood, with resulting gangrene
of the tissues; and occasionally serious changes in
brain and nervous system.
When a man. woman, or child has been exposed to
carbon monoxide, the first thing to do is to get him
immediately out of the atmosphere of carbon mon
oxide and irito fresh air. •
As soon as he is removed from the carbon monoxide
atmosphere, artificial respiration should be applied by
the usual manual methods. These can be supplement
ed with use of inhalations of oxygen, or of mixed
oxygen and carbon dioxide, as soon as such help be
comes available.
Experts recommend inhalations of 7 per cent car
bon dioxide and 90 per cent oxygen for the first five
to 20 minutes. It is Interesting to know that carbon
dioxide helps to keep the breathing going.
• • •
When a person dies from carbon monoxide poison
ing, there are definite changes In the blood, which can
be measured by expert chemists.
The average exhaust gas contains « per cent of car
bon monoxide. Only a few minutes are required,
therefore, for any one who inhales the gas to get. a
fatal dose.
In public garages where cars are kept running any
length of time, some means might be provided for con
ducting the poisonous gases to the outside by means
of a pipe or ventilator. If no such facilities are avail
able, the large door of the garage should be kept open
as long as a person is inside while the motor is run
ning.
Among workmen In public garages. 70 per cent were
found to have some concentration of carbon monoxide
in their blood.
Labor has, I think, been given a new charter. A
capitalist government has shown that It “cares”. The
third phase of the New Deal, as I see It, will be not
social security, but profit security.—MaJ. L. L. F
Angas, British economist.
There is no greater menace than the rural under
world-more of an underworld than Is to be found
in cities —Walter B Pitkin. Columbia University pro
fessor. referring to illiterate farmers, prey of dema
gogues. #
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By RODNEY DUTCHER,
Brownsville Herald V\'uhin|too
Corespondent
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—That
$165,000 :ee which Mr. Arthur Mullen
seeks for his efforts with regard to
certain PW’A projects in Neoraska
indicates what the big-time lobby
ists have been getting away with
since the New Deal began simultan
eously to pour out billions for re
covery and to try to reform the
business structure.
No one knows how many millions
the “salesmen 01 influence' have
collected since March, 1933. No one
ever will.
Most men close to the inside agree
that the most spectacular cleanups
werfc made in the first year of the
administration, before Roosevelt rec
ognized danger in the situation and
told Mullen and o:iters they couldn't
function bc‘.h as lobbyist, and Dem
ocratic rt tonal oommittcemen.
But the lobbying business still
flourishes.
Mullen, a Nebraska political boss
and one of Roosevelt’s floor man
agers at the 1932 Democratic con
vention. has been reputed to have
large Influence both at the White
House and with Secretary Ickes.
No investigation will ever deter
mine just how much influence he
has been abil to exert at either
place. His influence unquestionably
has been exaggerated—but such ex
aggerations m Washington mean
more clients and bigger fees.
It Isn't on record that any offi
cial in Washington ever refused to
see Mr. Mullen, who contributes
large sums regularly to the Demo
cratic party.
• • •
Rated as Ickes1 “Angel”
Ickes irequently has been hard
boiled toward Mullen and his de
mands. But favor-seekers, looking
around for influential advocates, are
impressed by stories that Mullen fi
nanced Ickes’ independent progres
sive ccmmittee for Roosevelt in 1932
and tjiat he came to the support
of Ickes for secretary of the interior
at a critical moment.
(Friends of Ickes have denied
those stories, but they’re rather
commonly telieved in PWA and the
Interior Department.)
More o/cure lawyers frequently
come to Mullen and others of his
ilk, premising fee splits in return
for help. Recently Mullen was rag
ing because in at least two in
stances Ickes had refused to approve
payments to him from Indian tribal
funds for alleged services.
But the relations of Mullen with
government officials are kept a
deep, dark secret—just as was his
annual $25,000 retainer from Cities
Service until the recent lobby in
vest igaticn.
The lobby racket here will never
be curbed or exposed until officials
are compelled to make public their
contacts with lobbyists.
• • •
Ncrris on the Trail
In the case of the $165,000 fees.
Mullen has on his trail the re
doubtable Senator George W. Nor
ris of Nebraska, which is never any
fun for anybody.
The fees are billed for services to
two water conservation and power
projects and have been submitted to
Ickes for approval. Thcee projects
were approved early in the PWA
game, w'hile Norris fought ior two
years for his Tri-County lrrigation
pcwer project against oppc6ition
from Mullen, representing the first
two.
Norris wants to know whether
PWA is being asked to approve use
cf its funds for fighting another
PWA project.
PWA lawyers suspect that per
haps Mullen expected to be scaled
down to about $100,000. They guess
that eventually he may receive be
tween $25,000 and $50,000.
• • •
A Bobble for Hull
Secretary of State Cordell Hull is
our first-ranking diplomat. But he
made a faux pas as a welcoming
delegation gathered to meet Presi
dent Rcoseevlt on his return to
Washington.
Mrs. Roosevelt, like many others
that cold morning, had the sniffles.
She was raising her handkerchief
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hand to Rreet her.
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her handkerchief somewhere or other l
and managed to shake hands, wait-;
ing to complete the operation later, j
Obscure persons who noticed the
incident enjoyed it very much.
(Copyright, 1933, NEA Service, Inc.)
So They Say
There are three criteria of a
stomach that is up to its Job; a mind
tree from fog. an abdomen free
from discomfort, and a sleep free
from dreams.—Dr. T. Wingate Todd,
Cleveland.
• • •
The way to learn hew to do a thing
better is to study how it has been
done before. That's the way to study
history—by noting evolutionary |
processes —Henry Ford.
• • •
New York is not America, and
cannot therefore give birth to a
genuinely American art of the
dance.—Ruth St. Denis, noted dan
cer.
• • •
We must focus attention on the
high chair instead of the electric i
chair. Indeed, we must approach the |
problem of Juvenile delinquency j
even before birth through training i
of parents.—Dr. John Slawson. New
York social welfare executive.
• • •
I think history has ... demon
strated the only way to get what you
want Is to go after it. As far em
pire-building is ccncemed, there
seem to be only two methods—the
so-called peaceful penetration or
absorption and conquest.—General
Italo Balbo.
# • •
•
Unfortunately we have never beer,
able to find a substitute for war
something to provide excitement for :
young men.—General Smedley But
ler.
* * *
Civilization permits no time for j
contemplative thinking. Mentally.
I believe I gained a great deal from
five months of forced contempla
tion.—Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
• • •
We cannot fight all noises, for
noises are the life and breath of
Coney Island. Where would we be
without the carrousel, hand organ,
and roller coaster?—George F. Kil
ter, Coney Island executive, ref
ring to New York.
• • •
In six months’ time we shall have
80 per cent of the voting strength
of the nation demanding enactment
of the Townsend Plan —Dr. F. E.
Townsend.
• • •
I haven’t any doubt that this
country Is very largely Republican.
Mr. Roosevelt could not have been
elected without Republican votes.
He cannot be re-elected without
Republican votes.—Senator Bcrah.
Dinner Stories
PI TTING IT MILDLY
"When I was a boy," said a gray
haired physician, who was in a
reminiscent mood. "I wanted to be
a soldier, but my parents persuaded
me to study medicine."
• Oh, well, consoled the sympa
thetic neighbor, "such is life.
Many a man with wholesale ambi
tions has to content himsef with
a retail business."
NEW TRAFFIC LANE
A negro was being examined for
a driver's license.
"And what is the white line In
the middle of the road for?”
. “Fo’ bicycles,” was the reply.
Correctly Speaking
“Nearly" is often misused for
“near.’* Say "He came near getting
hurt," not “He came nearly get
ting hurt."
One^minute Pulpit
And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me noth
ing.—I Corinthian* 13:3.
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A man la atony broke after buy
ing an engagement stone.
You're Telling Me?
By WILLIAM RITT
Mussolini must have been wrong
when he intimated that Haile Se
lassie was not the ruler of a civil
ized country. Just like a real Eu
ropean king — you don’t find Haile
in those trenches.
• • •
Good times are back. People are
complaining about the brand of
cigarets they borrow from you.
• • •
Equal rights will not be an es
tablished fact until football is
played with two pigskins so both
sides can score as much as they
want to.
• • •
Science says a moving body
weighs more than one standing
still. Which proves that travel
broadens you.
• • • •
Gangsters can't be smart. They
are still shooting each other over
bootleg- business when everyone
knows that repeal put an end to
bootlegging.
• • *
Let’s see. now. is this the fourth
—or fortieth — anniversary of the
start of the technocracy move
ment?
• • •
Today’s conveniences are far
greater than they were a genera
tion ago. And so are the bills we
have to pay for them.
Words of Wisdom
No wise man ever thought that a
traitor should be entrusted.—Cicero.
REDUCING BY DIET
Most people eat too much, due often
to lack of knowledge as to their health- ,
ful food requirements. But no one !
need dig his grave with his teeth. The
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Weight Control, discusses weight and
health, essentials of food, maintenance
d’ets. reducing or increasing weight,
and many effective exercises for re
ducing It also g.ves tables of approxl
i mately correct weights for men and wo
! men. by ages.
Weight Control may be procured only
through our Washington Information
Bureau. Enclose 10 cents to cover cost,
postage, and handling.
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BEGIN HERE TOD AT!
JEAN Dl'NN, irmtit; «• DON*
ALD MONTAGLE. lawyer, «elara
fcer aaawer wkea BOBBY WAL
LACE, antomobll* Mlnnia mmkm
kcr «• atarry him.
At The Goldea Peather alaht
dak eke meets SANDY HAR
KINS whose bastaeea MUMtlsa
le rayat. Sandy tatradaeee Bobky
aad Jeaa «• a MR. aad MRS.
LEWIS. Bobby sella aat boa da
far Lewis, wha baya a ear.
LARRY GLENN, federal ayat,
Is trading WINGY LEWII.Xak
robber. He ieanra a bent the
trananrtlon and aneatlaaa Bobby.
The bonds were stolen. Larry be
llerea the ear Lewis bonght la
armored. Bobby nndertakes to
Snd ont.
Jean goes home for a mention.
Sandy eoaies to see her aad ahe
agrees to a aeeret engagement.
The bank of whleh her father h
president Is robbed. Larry starts
a search for the robbers.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXIX
tT was dusk by the time Larry
Glenn and the other two fed
eral men reached Maplehurst.
They drore at once to the bank,
where Mr. Dnnn was waiting for
them.
Larry shook hands, Introduced
his men, and went to work at
once. In a few minutes he had
every scrap of Information about
the robbery that Mr. Dunn could
give him. He took an envelope
from his pocket and drew out a
few postcard-size photographs. He
selected two and banded them to
Mr. Dunn.
"Recognise either of them?" he
asked.
Mr. Dunn looked down at a
surly face In the conventional pro
file and sideview shots of a peni
tentiary rogues’ gallery photo
graph. He gave a start of sur
prise as he looked at the black
type beneath it—"Red Jackson"
—and studied the picture with
care.
"I’m not absolutely certain," he
said at last. "It looks somewhat
like him. I didn't get a very good
look at him, though—not close
up. You see. we were all herded
up against the wall, and—”
“I see.” said Larry. "How
about the other one?”
Mr. Dunn looked at a picture
of a perky, black-haired little man j
with rat-like eyes. Without hesi
tation be nodded decisively.
"That’s the man who held the
gun on us while the other one
got the cash." be said. He handed
the pictures back. Larry pocketed I
them.
"Who knew about this tear gas
Installation?" he asked suddenly.
Mr. Dunn looked np in some sur
prise.
"Why, I suppose almost every
one in town knew it." he said.
“You know how it Is. In a place i
like this. We saw no especial rea- i
son for keeping it a secret, any-11
way." i
Larry stood up. I
"It’s too bad you didn’t," he <
■aid. “Mr. Hobart might have i
been saved a very unpleasant ex- «
perience. Yon see. this firing of
a shot before a word was said— ‘
that isn't like tbe Jackson gang, <
or any other gang. It's pretty ob- i
vlous that they knew about the j
tear gaa. and simply shot first in
order to prevent Mr. Hobart from ]
using It."
Mr. Dunn looked grave, and ]
■hook bis bead slowly.
“Poor Hobart!” he said. "That’s 1
my fault, 1 suppose, too. I’m glad <
he didn’t have to pay a higher 1
price for it.” i
• • •
T ARRY made some remark to j
^ reassure him. and then said it
that he would like to etart ques
tioning some of the other wit*
nesaee. The young stenographer
—fully recovered from her fright,
now, and filled with excitement
at haring played an Important
role In a stirring event—came in
and gave him her version of the
holdup, as did the elerk who had
been knocked out by a blow with
a pistol barrel. Then Tony Lu
ll occo brought In Buddy McGin
nis, the young Legionnaire who
had given battle to the robbers.
Buddy came limping In and
shook hands. Larry complimented
him on his presence of mind and
asked him to tell his story. So
Buddy told how he had looked
out of the window and seen a man
with a machine gun, how he had
got a service rifle from the supply
which the Legion owned, how he
had drawn a bead, fired, and made
the man stagger.
“I know I hit him," he said.
"He didn't Just start back, the
way a man does when a bullet
whines by close to him. He dam'
near tell down. He let go of his
gun with one hand and reached
out to steady himself. Stood there
for a couple of seconds or so with
one hand on the window."
"The window?” said Larry
quickly. Buddy looked his sur
prise. "Yeah,” he said. "He was
standing Just to the right of It
If he’d been a foot to one side
the bullet'd have gone right
through him and busted the win
dow. I know It must’ve gone
through him,” he added, "because
one of these Springflelds, at that
range. If it hits a bone and stays
in you, It hurts you so bad you
drop. He didn’t drop, so It
must've just grazed him some
where. Anyhow, I remember him
'tending there with his hand flat
on the window, while I waited
tor him to fall down. If I'd had
my sense I’d’ve plugged him
igain to make sure.”
Tony LaRocco and A1 Peters
had been listening with interest.
At Larry’s nod they went outside,
:arrylng a small black bag.
"Did you get any more shots
in?” asked Larry.
"I fired one more, when I see
he wasn’t going to fall, and I
guess I missed," said Buddy.
‘Then be began spurting machine
gun bullets at me and I ducked.
When I got my head up again
:hey were all in the car and It
was starting off. I fired three
nore at It"
• • •
LTE shook Ms head, as If puzzled
^ by something. "I can't under
stand it" he said. "I couldn’t
nlss an auto, at that distance. I
enow I hit It But it didn't seem
0 phase It I'd swear I heard
1 couple of those bullets ricochet
>ff the body. But Lord! A Spring
ield'U put a bullet through any
tuto ever made."
"Not one of those," said Larry.
‘They probably had an armored
ar. You'd need an anti-tank gun
o make a hole in It . . . Where'd
’ou think you hit it?"
"Left side, at the rear," said
Juddy promptly.
LaRocco and Peters came
tack In.
"Got 'em," said LaRocco trl
imphantly. "Full hand print right
>n the glass. Four fingers, per
ect; thumb, a little smudgy, but
re can use it."
"Swell," said Larry. “Find a
ihotographer’s shop here in town,
at your prints developed, and
shoot ’em off to Washington right
away."
LaRoeco hurried out, swinging
tha black bag. Larry compli
mented McGinnis again and sent
him away blushing with prida,
and then turned to tha task of
talking with (It seemed) hall the
population of tha llttla town, and
winnowing their stories carefully
to extract, here and there, tha
grain of Information that might
prove of use. (
It was midnight when he finally
sat down with LaRocco and Peters (
to review the evidence. They had
one set of fingerprints which
would, ultimately, identify posi
tively one member of the gang.
They had a positive Identification ,
of a second gangster as Wingy
Lewis. They had a somewhat less
positive identification of the third
aa Red Jackson himself.
• • • i
TVO one had seen which direction
the car had come from. It
had been parked facing the north, i
but no one. seemingly, had noticed <
it before It reached the bank. Its
route out of town, as traced from
the testimony of a dozen excited
citizens, was plainer. The bandits
had driven north a block and s 1
half, had turned to the left past
the railroad station, had crossed
the river by the north bridge, and
then had swung up along the
national pike in a general north
westerly direction.
This, however, was not so much
help as it might have been. Foi
as they collated their telephonic
reports from outlying towns, they
found no one who bad seen >ny
trace of the car in any of the
municipalities lying along tha
national pike. The car might have
by-passed them by a careful selec
tion of detours; the gangsters
might have headed straight for
some nearby bidecut (although
Larry thought this extremely un
likely); or they might simply
have passed through those towns
without having been noticed.
'‘I’ve a hunch they used an
armored car," said Larry. "Mc
Glnnis’ evidence points that way.
although of course it’s far from
conclusive; but on top of that we
have good reason to suspect that
they recently acquired one. any
way.
"They’ve got a wounded man
with them. Unless he lost a great
deal more blood than we have any
reason to suppose, they won't
have bad to get him to a doctor
within a few hours, since he ap
parently was not seriously wound
ed. On the other band, they won’t
be able to travel on indefinitely.
They’ll have to get him to a doctor
before so very long.
“Sooner or later we'U atari
finding people who saw that car.
And we won’t need to find very
many before we can figure out
where they’re heading for.”
Larry was right Within 24
hours they began to strike the
trail; a filling station man who
remembered the car ... a small
town druggist who sold disinfec
tants and bandages, late at night,
to a man answering Wingy Lewis'
description ... a roadside hot-dog
stand man who remembered the
car—until they had traced the
line of flight for 200 miles up the
national pike.
Larry studied a map thought
fully. "If this keeps up," he
mused, "I’ll be pretty well satis
fied that Chicago is our place to
hunt for them."
(To Be Continued)
Answers
Questions
BY FREDERlC_J._HASKDf_
A reader can set the answer to any
question of fact by wrltlnc The
Brownsville Herald. Information
Bureau. Frederick J. Baskin. Direc
tor. Washington, D. O. Please en
close three «S) cents far reply.
Q. What tree la known aa the get
tee? E. >L
A. The deodar la sometimes so call
id.
• • •
Q. W ho waa known as king of the
obby? E. G.
A. Sam Ward who began to operate
is a lobbyist in Washington tejard
he close of the Civil War called wit*
elf “King of the Lobby."
• • •
Q. At what age were enemy chili
ms repatriated daring the World
War? G. M.
A. In many cases, a reciprocal ar
rangement secured the repatriation
if those over 45 years of age.
• • •
Q. Who wae the first American
playwright? M. F.
A. Royal! Tyler whose play, The
"ontrast, was produced In 1187.
• n •
Q. What form of traffic control
signal is the most generally obeyed
by motorists? R. O.
A. The traffic light or stop-and-go
signal is usually obeyed. The stop
signs are olten disregarded aa are
speed regulations and caution signs.
• • •
Q. For what work in agriculture
is Peter Collier famous. E. K.
A. Peter Collier (1835-96) was an
agricultural chemist and research
worker whose investigation of sor
ghum was the first Important re
search problem worked out in the U.
3. Department of Agriculture. As
director of the Geneva. N. Y. ex
periment station he influenced sci
entific investigations toward prac
tical applications.
• • •
Q. Have the Ethiopians been at '
war since the Italian invasion forty
years ago? O.C.
A. There has ben no war in Ethio
pia smee the Italian invasion of
1898. Under the present emperor
the unification of the country and
the education of the people has
progressed greatly.
• • •
Q. Is the Cuban Government
issuing medals to American soldiers
who were in the Spanish-American
war? E.L.C.
A. By virtue of a Decree Law Na
887 of the Cuban government, dated
February 13. 1935, a silver medal
has been authorized for those mem
bers of the armed forces of the
United States of America, includ
ing its auxiliary corps or organisa
tions, who served during the
with Spain.
• • •
Q. Has the expression, her man,
been in use for a long time? A.T.C.
A. The expression, her man,
meaning husband has been in use
lor hundreds of years. We find it
first in 1300, written "hir man.”
• • •
Q. When will National Art Week
be Observed? P. K.
A. From November 2-11.
• • •
Q When was laughing (u dis
covered? E. G.
A. The gas was discovered by
Priestley in 1772 when he removed
oxygen from nitric oxide by the
action of moistened Iron filings, and
its properties were later Investigated
by Davy.
m • •
Q. What is an oxbow lake? R.T.
A. it is a stagnant lake formed in
abandoned river beds when a river
cuts through the neck of one of
the meanders or loops characteris
tic of the course of rivers of alow
current. Without outlet or inlet, the
oxbow lake, sometimes called a
bayou, often becomes a marsh or
swamp and finally disappears.
* • •
Q. Who was called the eitisen
king? S. M.
A. Louis Philippe, king of Prance
from 1830-1848. was so called be
cause of his ostentatiously bourgeois
manners and dress.
• • •
Q. Please give some information
about the philanthropist for whom
Vaasa r College was named. R.M.T.
A. Matthew Vass&r was born in
England in 1792 and Ane to the
United States with his father In
1796. He settled in Poughkeepsie,
N Y.. where the father established
and the son continued to operate
a brewery. In 1861 he gave over
*400 000 to the newly formed Vas
sar Female College.
• » »
Q. How early did Charles Chaplin
apnear on the stage? M. F.
A. He made his first stage ap
pearance as a baby in his mothers
arms. While still a child he became
a member of the Juvenile dancers
known as the Eight Lancashire
Lads. A few years later he played
the role of Billv, the page boy. in
an English production of Sherlock
Holmes.
• • •
Q. Whv was the passion-flower
so named? C-M.H.
A. It Is because of the supposed
resemblance Jf the corona to the
crown of thorns, and of the other
parts of the flower to the nails and
wounds, while the five sepals and
five netais were taken to symbolise
the ten Apostles—Peter who denied
•and Judas who betrayed beinf la*
out of the reckoning. W
m m •
Q. Who was Deadwood Dick? E. It
A. His real name was Richard W
Clarke flM5-1930i and he was a
frontiersman of the Black Hills dis
trict. Joining a party bound for gold
dipping in that region, he became a
noted character, tsklne part In the
Si'ux wars, acting as emress guard
on sta«»ecoaehes and aiding U. 8.
marshals in simoressinp lawless
ness. His alliterative name was
popularized bv dime-novel writers.
• $ •
O- Please give the orlrln of the
exore«ston. a square meal. A. B. H.
A. It has been in use in the Eng
lish language fcr many centuries. It
occur* <n Eu«Msh liters ture as ear
ly as i«ll and was used by Beaumont
and Fletcher in 1818. While the exact
origin of the term is not known. It
is believed to be based on the
thought that anything square is
solid or steady.
• • •
Q. How long waa a round fat a
urize fight under the London Prise
Ring rules? M.W.M.
A. A round ended as soon as a
man was knocked down or slipped;
thus a round might last a few sec
onds or many minutes.
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