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Thursday, November 14, 1935
Long, Constant Work Gains
Its Rewards
It Is easy enough to do a great deal of hard, uphill
Work if the populace keeps standing around telling you
what a great man you are while you are doing it. It is
ever so much harder to keen plugging away without
recognition, sticking on a thankless Job whose import- j
ance hardly anyone but yourself ever realizes.
But some of the most important work in the world !
is done in precisely that way. And once in a while !
the chap who is doing it does come through, at last.
. to the recognition and the broadened opportunity 1
which he deserves.
The daily newspapers have recently recorded two
cases of this kind.
First there is the case of Hitch Himmond Bennett
Mr. Bennett has been In the U. S. Department of
Agriculture since 1905. or thereabouts. Away back in
* the early -ears of the present century he awoke to
the menace of soil erosion and discovered that we were
tivmr our 'oil so careless!v that we would ultimatelv
ruin the rich farm areas which have helped to make
ns a great and powerful nation.
So Mr. Bennett undertook a campaign to remedy
matters. For many long years he toiled unheeded *
In the Department of Agriculture, striving to brine
about a. saner use of our land. He did it so long,
without any recognition, that he must have felt some
times as if his work were utterly useless.
But finally the government and the nation awoke !
end installed a soil erosion sendee with 21 000 em- '
ployes and ample funds and publicity to carry the
fight to victory. And the man who was put in charge
of this vast Job was Himh Hammond Bennett.
Another case. Dr. William Hallock Park has been
head of the laboratories of the New York City Health
Dennrtment for something like 40 vears. During that
time he has saved heaven only knows how many hu
man lives, kept epidemics from striking down child
ren. and done more than a thousand ordinary men
to extend the sum total of human happiness.
He has had the fearlessness characteristic of medi
cal scientists; when a new' infantile paralysis vaccine
was devised, for instance, he boldly tested it on him
self. to make sure that It had no ill effects.
All this time Dr. Park went practically unheard-of
bv the public at large. But the other day recognition [
came at last, with the award to him of the Roosevelt
Medal for Service, tributes from distinguished citi
zens and columns of eulogy in the newspapers. He
had to wnit until he was 72. but he finally got it.
These are just two sample cases—cases in which the
•pluggers-’ who knew how to stick to thankless, un
heeded Jobs did at last come into their own.
A Mystery of NRA
Rodney Dutcher, The Brownsville Herald Washing- !
ton correspondent, points out that there is a very
queer contradiction in the current post-mortem activi- !
ties of the NRA.
The NRA. he points out. was originally instructed by
hw to prevent monopoly. The sharpest criticisms
that were made of It wore to the effect that It often i
fostered monopoly. And some weeks ago it organized
a unit to study the evils of monopoly, to find out
whether the codes had promoted monopoly, and to
see whether monopolists are flourishing today.,
The queer contradiction mentioned by Dutcher is
the fact that this unit has suddenly been abolished.
Here is a study which obviously should be made. It
should be thorough and searching and should be given
the widest publicity.
It is extremely hard to understand why Washing
ton should suddenly call it off; especially since that
seems to be the one real service which what is left of
NRA could render to the taxpayers who are support
ing It.
Fact* Win Over Beauty
A good-looking young woman went on trial in Los
Angeles the other day on a charge of attempted mur
der. Somewhat to the surprise of the people who are
interested In such things, a Jury promptly found her
guilty and the judge sentenced her to a one-to-twenty
year term in prison.
Hie Judge himself found something refreshing in
the verdict. Remarking that it is high time that “per
sonable young women such as this defendant should
cease making a mockery of the law by coming Into
court and winning over juries with their beauty,”
he congratulated the Jurors for "remaining undaz
zled by the beauty of this defendant.”
Would that these remarks could be called to the
attention of Jurors elsewhere! A pretty girl and a
smart lawyer, between them, seem able to befuddle
nine of every ten Juries in America.
It is good to see one Jury which could try such a case
on the facts and not on the prisoner's charm.
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German Measles Mild,
But Spread Fast
By DR. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical .Association,
and of llygeia, the Health Magazine
Now that the children are back in school and cold
weather has begun, we begin to see evidence of the
spread of those infectious diseases that pass from
child to child.
One condition that spreads rapidly and is seldom
understood by parents is the form of eruption called
German measles. This disease resembles both scarlet
fever and ordinary measles in appearance, but differs
from them in the fact that it Is mild, with a slight
degree .of fever and with few serious secondary com
plications.
Usually German measles appears from 10 to 21 days
after the child has first been In contact with another
who has this disease. Ordinarily, about 13 days after
such contact, the child feels slightly 111, and then there
is a brilliant rash on the skin.
This rash usually appears next to the hair line or
the forehead. Its brilliant redness usually is mistaken
for the rash of ordinary' measles or scarlet fever.
The child may have been sick four or five days be
fore the rash first appears.
• • •
The glands at the back of the neck are swollen and
occasionally painful. The eyes sometimes may be
inflamed, but in the majority of cases the condition
is so mild that parents are likely to give It little atten
tion
Because of the rapidity with which this disease
spreads from one child to another, it Is customary to
permit the other children In the family to go to school
for 10 days after the first child becomes sick, and then
to remain home for the next 10 days, during which
♦ime they are likely to come down whh the disease If
they have been Infected. .
It is advisable, howt .er. for all children In the fam
ily to stay away from other children until It Is cer
tain that they nreliot likelv to e®rrv tV« disease
It has never been possible to insulate young people
from the world. If they must meet new Ideas some
time. it would seem wise to have them m^et those new
:dens where they are fairlv rres^nted bv intelligent
•iconic who have no nx to grind. — Dr R M Hutchins,
president, University of Chi"»ro.
We have roine to realize that war Is the worst pos
sible enemy of pro^nerous bus'ness.—Herbert S Hous
ton. newspaper syndicate heed.
Hitler and nearc! The verv terms are antithetical
He Is to^av the greatest menace to world safety.—
Bernard M. Baruch.
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Behind the
Scenes in
W ashing ton
By RODNEY DI TCHER
The Brownsville Herald Washington
Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14 — Al
though the news may break General
Hugh Johnson’s heart, the Frankfur
ter boys hrve moved In on the De
partment of Justice.
After the celebrated Dr. Felix
Frankfurter of Harvard Law School
refused President Roosevelt’s offer
of the solicitor-generalship in 1933.
hardly one of his numerous pupils
entered the service of Attorney Gen
eral Homer Cummings, though they
poured into New Deal ranks nearly
everywhere e!*e except NRA.
Solicitor General J. Crawford
Biggs and his staff sloshed around
through the courts, making a sorry
showing on nearly all fronts. The
Frankfurter boys (whom General
Johnson calls the “Happy Hot
Dogs’*, some of whom had written
laws the inept Biggs was trying to
defend, alternated jibed and groan
ed at the spectacle.
Even the supreme court apparent
ly was “suffering.’’ with the result
that Biggs was moved to a soft and
unimportant post.
Along came Stanley Reed of RFC
to be solicitor genera! and to reno
vate the staff. In the last few
weeks he has picked some of the
brightest of the ex-Frgnkfurter pu
pils here to help him defend New
Deal legislation in a big winter of
test cases. •
• • •
They’re on the Soot
Their friends and their enemies
will be watching them closely. For
they’re now on the spot and. al
though their briefs and arguments
will be more graceful and to the
point, it's a question whether they’ll
have any better luck before the su
preme court.
Among the group of Frankfurter’s
mart young men now working for
Reed are:
Algci Hiss, former secretary to the
late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,
former assistant general counsel at
AAA and counsel for the Senate
munitions committee, drafter of the
Bankhead cotton and Kerr tobacco
control acts, now preparing the su
preme court brief defending the
AAA in the Hoosac case.
Paul Freund, former secretary to
Justice Brandeis. formerly with RFC.
now specializing on TVA and PWA
rases.
Charles Horsky. former secretary
to Judge Learned Hand of New
York, working on defen.se of the
Bankhead act.
Arnold Raum. ex-RFC lawyer, spe
cializing on processing and other
tax cases.
One thing about the Frankfurter
boys. So many of them have serv
ed as secretaries to supreme court
and other justices that they ought
to have a fairly good picture of the
judicial mind.
The Dope's Against Italy
Perhaps it doesn't mean a thing
But correspondents at the State De
partment press room idled a hall
hour away the ottyr day figuring out
that Italy, by all precedent, stands
to lose the Italo-Fthiopian war.
The idea being that wars are com
monly designated by hyphenating
names of the nations involved and
that the nation mentioned first al
ways gets licked. For instance, in
the Franco-Prussian war It was
France which was defeated. Other
instances.
The Russo-Japanese war.
The Turco-Italian war.
The Spanish-American war.
The Sino-Japanese war.
Tiie Bolivian-Pan*gjayan war.
The Austro-German war.
No one could think of any excep
tions.
• • •
Huey Was Real Threat
Pew but tlie innermost insiders
realize even yet how badly Roosevelt
was worried, up to the time of Huey
Long's assassination, for fear that
Huey would draw a large vote from
him by running as a third party
candidate. Point was recently given
to this fear by evidence that certain
nterests were willing to provide Long
with a large campaign fund.
Roosevelt, it Is whispered by one |
or two of those he consulted about
it, was making a personal survey of j
the vote Huey would be likely to get.
He had given up Louisiana and
Georgia (where he figured both Huey
and Governor Talmadge would work
against him*, according to this tale,
and was disturbed about Arkansas
and South Carolina.
He asked a trusted Ohio politici
an about that state and was told
Huey probably could poll 250.000
votes there.
At the time of Long's death, the
administration was grooming Sena
tor Bilbo of Mississippi, an out
standing rabble-rouser and vot3
getter In southern rural regions, to
take the stump against Long in the
campaign.
So They Say
In my opinion, a general Euro-1
pean war is coming if Italy is i
pushed to the'wall, and American!
sunport of England makes war sol
much nearer.
—Deniele Vare. Italian author.
• • •
A man with only a $500 income
should contribute some income tax.
i if only enough to make him cons
cious of government burdens.
—Walter C. Teagle, president,
Standard Oil.
• • • t
Who knows? I may be the next
president of the United States.
Stranger tilings have happened.
—Gerald L. K. Smith, Louisiana
preacher who took over leader
ship of Longs Share-the-W'ealth
clubs.
•» t i
Frankly, there was no particular
bitterness in England. You ask
about the fleet being sent to the
Mediterranean. Well, there was
nothing particularly ‘wrong about
that.
—Sir Ronald Lindsay. British am
bassador to U. S.
• • •
I must express surprise that so
great a man and so wise a ruler as
Mussolini should be willing, even
eager, to put his gallant nation Into
such an uncomfortable military and
financial position.
—Winston Churchill, British states
man.
• • •
We don't need amateur hours to
provide new talent. We haven’t
begun to use the fine dramatic and
musical talent that is eager for a
chance.
j—Mme. Yolanda Mers-Irlon. ad
visory chairman. Woman's Nation
I ad Radio Committee.
You're Telling Me?
Election results finally have been
digested. Both sides won. Losses
merely were tactical.
• • •
Fellows who lost out will go on
i relief if of the party in power. If
not. they will try to find work.
’ * *
■ A politician who has to go to
! work is like a duck out of water.
He'll get back to the water at the
first opportunity.
• • •
Democrats are well pleased with
the Republican victory in New York.
The losses were not so great as
expected. And the presidents home
town went Democratic for the first
time in 35 years. This indicates that
a Democrat will be elected presi
dent in 1936.
• • •
Republicans are well pleased
with the Democratic victories in
Connecticut. The margins were
not so great as had been antici
pated. This indicates that a Re-,
publican will be elected president
m 1936.
• • •
On the basis of the present in
i terpretations. Herbert Hoover won
the 1932 election—tactically.
• • •
Franklin D. Roosevelt hopes he
will not win—tactically—in 1936. He
hopes no Interpretations will be
necessary.
Flapper Fanny Says:
wee u a pat orr.
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The crafty girl will bow to stem
tradition when necessary.
Factographs
Gloves are proportioned by a
scale based on the fact that in the
average man's hand the length ol
the 3rd finger is the same as the
width of the hand, and the same
figure is the length of the body ol
the hand to the wrist.
• • •
Carrying trade is a phrase used in
i jX)litical economy and also in com
mercial transactions. It usually re
fers to the commerce of different
countries with each other.
• » •
The term “green gold” originated
in the early days when someone de
clared that metals went through a
process of evolution and ripened at
last to a 1 ini shed product.
• • •
Bags is an old vulgarism for
trousers. Oxford university stu
dents now aoply the term to very
wide trousers usually made of
flannel.
* » •
Handball is believed to be the
parent of all our modem games of
j ball, the ancestor of tennis, cricket
and baseball.
The early church prayed In the
upper room. The 20th century
; church cook* in the supper room.
Play has taken the place of prayer,
and feasting the place of fasting.
—Mrs. Ella R, Black, president.
Pennsylvania W. C. T. U.
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Disarmament islike a dull social (unction
-nobody Hants to amve until oeryone
list is there.
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by Robert Bruc»
O 19)1 NCA Sfnict, Inc
BEGI.1 HfcHK TODAY
JT' X \ Dl».\. icmurj «• DOT
AI.I> MOYTAGIE, lawytr, delays
fc»r »»»w*r wbea BOBBY W«L
I- ACE. automobile mInmii. aaka
her to mrr7 him.
At Tbe I. olden Feather night
elab ahe meets BANDY HARKI.V*
tvhoae hnalneaa eoaaretlna la
handy lairodoeea Bobby
• ad Jraa to a MR. and MBA.
LEWIS. Bobby oello aome bonda
foe Lttrlt, who boya ■ ear.
LARRY GLEYY, federal agent,
la trailing WINGY LEWIS, bash
robber. He learaa aboat tbo bond
traaaaetlon and aaeatloaa Bobby.
Larry believe# the ear Lewla
bought la armored. Bobby
drrtnkea to flod oat.
Jeaa agrees to a aeeret engage
ment with handy. The bank of
whlrb ber father la presides! la
robbed aad Larry starts a aeareh
for the robber*.
Jeaa goes to are Saady who baa
been Injured. He aad the Lewises
are staying at a farmhonae. Abe
soon ftada herself a prisoner
Larry learaa the robbers were
tbe Jarksna gang. Hla men rearh
tbe farmhonae after the gang
has gone. Bobby tella Lorry that
Jean la mlsalng.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXXVUI
tGt CAN’T help It." said Bobby
» Wallace’* rolce In the re
ceiver. *’Mr. Dunn is here and be
went up to ber office this morning
and she's gone out of town with
out saying a word to anybody, or
leaving any message, or—”
Larry Glenn's eyes dropped to
the blotter full of fingerprint en
largements. As he glanced at the
set which, according to Tony La*
Rocco, had been made by a
woman, a sudden thought struck
him.
“Listen, Bobby," he said. "Do
you remember the night you and
I had dinner in Jean's apartment?
Remember I took her fingerprints,
to show her bow it was done, and
you kept the slip of paper I used?
Have you still got it?”
“Yes." said Bobby, surprised.
“Then get it and bring it down
here Just as fast as you can travel.
Hurry. It may be important!”
Larry bung up, replaced the
telephone, and stared off into
space for a moment. Then he gave
his head a Jerky little shake, as
if to Jar his wandering thoughts
back into place, and turned again
to Tony.
"I may be able to get an Identi
fication (or those prints in half
an hour," he said. “Meanwhile,
we've got to get after this thing.
That Jackson gang left that farm
house some time this morning—
I'm convinced of It. Call np the
airport and tell ’em to hare a
plane ready for yon and A1 Peters
and me. We can be back at Mid
lothian before mid-afternoon, and
we ll Just raid that place and see
what’s in It."
Tony departed, leaving Larry to
stare abstractedly at the prints
while his mind raced on furiously.
He waited In rising impatience
until, at last, the girl at the outer
switchboard announced the arrival
of Bobby Wallace. Larry asked
her to send him in at once, and
when the young man arrived
Larry barely paused to shake
hands with him before saving,
"Let’s see it. Bob—quick!"
Bobby handed him the sheet of
note paper on which, for after
dinner Jest. Larry had made an
impression of Jean Dunn's finger
prints. Larry laid it on the desk
beside the unidentified prints
Tony had copied from the table
knife. As he bent over them, coin
paring them with cold exactness,
his face became gray and hard;
when, at last, he stood erect and
looked at Bobby his eyes were j
very tired.
“What’s It all about?” asked
Bobby.
**Joat this," said Larry. "Jean
Dunn Is—or was, sit hours ago—
in the company of Red Jackson
and his gangsters!"
• e e
THE hired sedan from the
county seat sped swiftly over
the road to Midlothian, bearing
Larry Glenn, Tony LaRoceo, and
A] Peters; behind It came another
car with the county sheriff and
three of his deputies, theii; aid
hastily enlisted by Larry on tbs
theory that local co-operation
never comes amiss. The two cars
covered the 10 miles to the Engle
farm In Just over 11 minutes, and
spun tnto the driveway with a
crunching of tires on gravel and
a whining of brakes.
Mrs. Engle was standing In the
back yard. She let out one yell
—a frightened squawk for her
husband—and then frose Into Im
mobility as a bulky deputy sheriff
swaggered over and told her that,
since she was under arrest, she
would do well to keep quiet
Engle came out the back door
Just in time to encounter the fed
eral men. Larry thrust a search
warrant under his nose; the
farmer blinked at it, read it, and
then looked up sourly.
"Yeah!” he said bitterly. “Ask
in' questions for the trlple-A. I
ought to’ve known—"
He, too, subsided as a deputy
took him in tow. and the raiders
went into the house.
The dishes on the kitchen table
had been washed, since morning,
and as they went upstairs they
discovered that the bedrooms bad
all been aired and straightened
and the beds remade with fresh
linen.
Having been cleaned and
straightened, the bedrooms con
tained little trace of their occu
pants of the night before. After
half an hour’s careful peering and
prying, Larry earns down the
stairs despondently, convinced
that the house would offer no
clew as to the gangster’s destina
tion.
• • •
'T'HB telephone in the hall
tinkled. Engle involuntarily
started to rise, only to be jerked
back to bis seat by the heavy hand
of a deputy.
Larry went to the phone, took
the receiver from the hook, and
said, “Hello." The operator's
voice said, “Portsmouth is calling
Mr. Fred Engle.”
“This is Engle," said Larry.
He heard the prisoner in the par
lor give a muffled gasp; then the
operator's voice, far off, said, “All
right, Portsmouth—ready with
Mr. Engle;" and a moment later
a man’s voice came on the line.
“Hello—Engle,” the man said
“Listen. Jack Floyd may show
there this afternoon or tonight.
If be does, tell him we'ra at
French Pete's. Got it?"
Larry tried to give his voice
the sullen, despondent tone that
Engle always seemed to ase.
“If Jack Floyd comes, you're
at French Pete's,” he said. Then,
on a venture, he said, “How does
he get there, from here?”
“What the hell's it to you how
he gets here?” snarled the voice
suspiciously. “You give’m the
message and keep your lips but
toned. y' hear?”
"All right.” said Larry. There,
was a click as the man hung up.i
Larry replaced the receiver and
called loudly for Al Peters. When
that agent came down the stalls
Larry ordered him to go to the
telephone company offices in Mid
lothian at once and try to trace
the call that had just been made.
Then he summoned LaRocco, and
the sheriff and told them of the
call.
“Portsmouth’s about 1M miles
north of here,’* said the sheriff
reflectively. "That’s a long way
out of my bailiwick. I never heard
of any French Pete’s. Maybe we
can sweat It out of the Engles,
though.”
So they questioned the Engles,
learning precisely nothing and
getting no replies but gium shakes
of the bead to all their questions;
and at last Larry told the sheriff
to take them off to jail and lock
them up on charges of harboring
criminals.
"I’ll leave Al Peters here with
you.” he said. "It’d be a fine
thing if you’d let some of your
boys wait here at the house with
Al to pick up this man Floyd
when he shows up.”
• • •
rpHE sheriff agreed and detailed
*■ two deputies to wait at the
, farm house. Then, with bis pris
oners and tbo remaining deputy,
he set off for the county seat.
Larry and Tony discussed the
situation on the farm house
veranda.
"We'll fly up to Portsmouth
and then dismiss our plane." Bald
Larry.
He broke off suddenly, went to
the telephone, and put In a call
for Mike Hagan of the Dover
police. Two minutes later he bad
Mike on the wire.
Briefly and incisively he out
lined the situation to Mike, wind
ing up by saying: "Mike, you seem
to know a little something about
everything—have you got even
the foggiest kind of notion where
or what this French Pete’s might
be?”
•‘Hramm." laid Mike reflec
tively. There wu a lone nilence;
then he said, "No, Larry, 1
haven’t. I'll tell yon what Mi
do, though. I've got a good friend
who is a plain clothes man on the
[Portsmouth force. I’ll Just run
over there and meet you there,
and we’ll talk to this friend of
mine. He might know something.
At any rate be can give you a
steer or two around Ports*louth.”
“Fine,” said Larry. “We ll be
there by 6 o’clock and meet you
at police headquarters. Okay?"
“Okay,” said Hagan, ard hung
up. Larry turned away from the
phone Just In time to greet A1
I Peters, back from the ph -ne com
pany offices. He reported that he
had displayed his credentials and
had been immediately put in
! touch with the chief operator in
i Portsmouth, who had been re
quested to give him every assist
ance. After some difficulties the
I call had been traced—to a pay
station booth in a Portsmouth bus
! station.
| “That’s not much help.* - ad
mitted Larry. “But we’re on a
hot trail. Just the same. I’ve got
a hunch we’ll catch up with this
| gang before we’re 24 hours older."
He suddenly thought of Joan
Dunn, and his mouth grew grim.
“Hot trail or cold trail.” he
said, “we’d better follow it. We’ve
got to catch up with ’em. this
time!”
(To Be Continued)
Answers
to
(Questions
BY FREDERIC J. HASHJH
A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The
Brownsville Herald. Information
Bureau. Frederick J. Raskin. Direc
tor. Washington, D. C. Please en
close three (3) cents for reply.
Q. 1$ traffic through the Panama
( anal on the increase? N. G.
A. It had been increasing, sine#
the low point of tha depression, up
until this year, but the last 12 montJM
show a decline. For the 12 moctij'V
ended with September 1, 5157 vessel
transited the Canal compared with
5254 the previous 12 months. The
cargo earned the last 12 months was
24.984,623 tons compared with 25,
216.669 tons the previous 12 months.
• • •
Q. What is a goose foot? H. H.
A. Goosefoot or lamb s-quarters is
a mealy, succulent, edible weed of
the genus Chenopodium. found in
gardens, fields, and waste places. It
has inconspicuous flowers and small
black seeds, of which it produces as
many as a half-million In a season.
In parts of Europe, the seeds are
used for making bread and the young
plants as a substitute for asparagus.
• • •
Q. Does the use of schoolboy pa
trols help to solve the accident prob
lem? A. S. A.
A. In the eight years that school
boy patrols have bet n on the streets
of Washington. D. C.. traffic fatali
ties to school children have decreas
ed 30 per cent.
• • •
Q. Please give some information
i about an early almanac published
by Ames. E. G.
A. In 1725. when but 17 years old,
Nathaniel Ames published the first
number of his almanac, which lia
continued to issue annually until his
death. It was the most famous New
England almanac of the day with a
circulation running as high as 60.000
copies. In form and arrangement it
became the general pattern for Am
erican almanacs.
• • •
Q. What is the name of the poem
written by Longfellow about Florence
Nightingale? S. B.
A. She is the subject of his poem,
Santa Ftlomena.
m • •
Q. What dors the electric chmlt
used for executions consist of? Is II
the most humane, form, of execu
tion? E. II.
A A so-called electric chair la
simply a death dealing apparatus
consisting of a stationary engine,
and alternating dynamo capable of
generating a current at a pressure
of 2000 volts, a death chair with
justable head rest, bln'.ally
straps, and adjustable electrodes.
The first electrocution of a human
being was William Kemmeler. alias
John Hart, on August 6. 1890. at Au
burn Prison. New York. The first
trocutions were a direct result of the
held on March 2 of the preceding
year on several dogs. 4 calves, and
a horse, the result being painless and
instantaneous death. These eleo
trouctions were a direct result of the
investigations of a committee ap
pointed in the State of New York to
ascertain the most humane and
practical method of carrying Into ef
fect the sentence of death. In the
report, the following words were
used: "Perhaps, the most potent
agent known for the destruction of
human life is electricity. Death. as
a result, is instantaneous upon its
application. It is the duty of society
to utilize for its benefit the advan
tages and facilities which science has
uncovered to its view. An electric
shock of sufficient force to produce
death cannot produce a sensation
which can be recognized.”
• • •
Q. Where is the University In Ex
• ile? J. H.
A. The University in Exile, com
posed of German scholars who were
ousted or resigned from academic
pans in Germany after the advent of
Hitlerism, is housed in the New
School for Social Research in New
York City.
• • •
Q. What Is the derivation of the
word Messiah? W. T.
A. It is from the% Hebrew,
Mashiakh. meaning an anointed one.
• • •
Q. Who was the first governor of
Vermont? R. D.
A. Thomas Chittenden. He was
governor from 1778 to 1789 and from
1790 until his death in 1797.
• • •
Q. Is Edward Johnson Interested
] in encaging young American singer*
for the Metropolitan Opera Com
pahy? W. N.
A. Tiie new general manager is
rejwrted as being especially on the
lookout for young .Americans singing
in opera in Europe under assumed
'names. Two more young singers of
American birth have been engaged
| for the main Metropolitan season—
Charles Kullmann. tenor, and Su
zanne Fisher, soprano.
| • • •
Q. Just before Lincoln produced
the Emancipation Proclamation dur
ing a Cabinet meeting, he read aloud
an amusing story. Two men present
did not laugh. Who were they? T.
M. S.
A Stanton and Chase.
Q. What Is a hackmatack? J ft/G.
A. This is a popular name for the
American larch.
Dinner Stories
AND BACK PAT. TOO!
A 72-year-old man heard about
the newly authorized state pensions
for persons of 65 and older. He hied
to the county Judge and presented a
request to register for his pension.
"And I want to file a claim for
back pay. too; the applicant hasten
ed to add. 'Tve been more than
65 for seven years, which. I calculate,
entitles me to *1.260. When can I
get It?"
The judge w ent to some length to
explain that the pension payments
are not retroactive.
ONE M1MTE PIT.PIT
Cease from anger and forsake
wrath: fret not thyself in any wlss
to do evil. — Psalm 37:8.
WORDS OF W7SD0M
Pity and commiseration are mixed
with some regard for the thins
which one pities. — Montaigne.
There are 2796 languages spoken
over the world.