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Wednesday, February 16, 1988
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Officials, who do too much shaking
down sometimes experience a shake
up.
We are skeptical about that "domes
tic allotment" plan after observing
mess the stork has made of it.
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; It looks as if the Technocrats made
the mistake of putting all their egg
in one basket.
And then there was the one sO
dumb that she thought racketeers
-were tennis players!
Correct .this sentence: '^1 have no
difficulty in dealing with women, be
cause ^understand them.
i. The severest critics of business are
"intellectuals" who got that way at
colleges endowed by business men.
French attd German cabinet- posts
have aforded quite a bit of very temp
orary employment this winter.
1 ;New York Is to have an antinoise
campaign, ifi which the speakeasies
will doubtless lend hearty coopera
tion.
Uncle Sam will again talk over the
war debts, and our guess is that the
result will refute the idea that talk
is cheap.
Americanism: Thinking good will
for a product is made by long-winded
harangues to radio listeners who
want entertainment.
When a politician becomes a nui
sance in his home state it is possible
to get partial relief by sending him
to the United States Senate.
An Indian girl winner of a beauty
contest is called "Pretty Bear." We
understand that most of the bathing
beach favorites have been that way
too.
A new universal language called
"Basic English" contains only 860
words. Inasmuch as it makes no dis
tinction in the user of "will? land
"shall" we are for it.
35 YEARS AGO
Thirty-five years ago this month
events were moving rapidly toward
that short but spirited ' struggle
known to history as the Spanish
American War, which freed Cuba
Porto Rico and the Philippines fr;om
Spanish misrule.
American feeling was running higv
against, Spanish atrocites in Cuba
when the battleship Maine was blown
up in Havan harbor on February IB
1898, killing 266 officers and men.
On April 11 President McKinley told
Congress that in the name of human
ity and civilization the war being
waged against the Cubans by the
Spaniards must stop. ' On April 19
Congress demanded that Spain with
draw from Cuba, and authorized the
use of American land and sea forces
to accomplish this result. -."War of
ficially began on April '21.
Regular Army and National Guard
Jtroops were moblized at Tampa, Mo
bile and other Southern points; Dew
ey's fleet was ordered from Honp
Kong to destroy the Spanish fleet at
Manila) Sampson and Schley pre
pared to meet Cervera's Spanish flee*
which was on its way to West Indian
waters from Cape Verde Islands.
The ?nd of April thus saw the
stage set for action. On May 1, Dew
ey easily defeated the Spanish fleet
in Manila Bay; on July 1 the main as
sault on Santiago by Shatter's Army
began; on July 8 Cervera's fleet war
destroyed while trying to escape frotr
Santiago harbor, and the Spanish
land forces at Santiago surrendered
to Shatter on July 17. Aside from
minor engagements in Porto Rico
the fall of Santiago virtually ende<'
Spain's resistance, hostilities beinp
formally ended by the protocol of
August *
Peace wm declared through thr
Treaty of Pari*, signed on tiecembe'
JO, 1898, and later ratified by hot*
nation's whereby Spain acknowledged
Cuba's independence, ceded Port*
Rico to the United States and receiv
ed twenty million dollars for the
PhtltpplnM.
Then# are the high spots in a brief
;i but dramatic war & which had far
reaching consequences for many mil
lions of peopte and established the
United States as * great world pow
LINCOLN'S WAR AIM
The recurrence of Abraham Lin
coln's birthday on Febxuary 12 re
vives memories of our first martyred
President, now revered in the South
as- well as in the North.
So rich In human Interest was Lin
coln's life that it presents almost un
limited material for the writer? ma
terial of which wide use has been
made during the past sixty-odd years
But by the present generation it if
probable that Lincoln's paramount j
aim during the Civil War is not do
well understood as it should be
Doubtless the general impression If
that his chief object was the abolition
of slavery.
While Lincoln was always against
slavery on principle, his original ides
was to abolish it by paying slave*
owners for their property from the
national treasury, thus gradually
emancipating the negro. Such a pro
posal was made by him as early ar
1849 when a member of Congress
and was renewed in 1862, while the
war was in progress.
But his real aim during the war
was the preservation of the nation
.is one union, with the abolishment of
nlavery as a secondary consideration
This is best illustrated by his famour
letter to Horace Greely on August 22
1862, in which he said:
"My paramount object is to savr
the Union, and not either to save o*
destroy slavery. If I could save tV
Union without freeing any slave, "7
would do it; if I could save it by free
ing all the slaves, I would do it; and
if I could do it by freeing some an<J
leaving others alone, I would also do
that."
A NEW COLLEGE COURSE
Washing machines are going to
college. But in this case the regular
procedure has been reversed. It is
the institution that is doing the
studying. When the University of Ne
braska ends its observations next
June it expects to have new informa
tion of much value to housewives.
American washing machine manu
facturers are represented by a full ar
ray of washers which home economics
experts of the university and of Mc
Call's magazine are using in a serie?
of tests. Each washer maker today
knows from factory tests how the
housewife can get maximum benefits
from his machines. The Nebraska
study is expected to produce a num
ber of special discoveries for the ben
efit of housewives in general.
Disused space in a University
building was fitted up at small cost
as a home clothes-washing room, to
show the ease with which any house
wife can equip her home. Each wash
ing done by the investigators is for a
fafnily of two adults and three child
ren. I
It is practical work like this that
makes our educational institutions of
greatest benefit to the greatest num
number. ' Manufacturers, educators
and editors cannot be endorsed toe
strongly for this cooperation in fur
ther lightening women's household ef
forts. Millions of homes have wash
ers and the university's study will aid
all of them. W
Erick Leslie Newton told a guard
at Port Leavenworth prison that he
learned counterfeiting from books ir
the library of an Ohio reformatory.
WEATHER MYTHS
Perhaps many credulous persons
are now watching for a verification
of their weather predictions, based on
whether the < ground hog saw hip
shadow in their localities on Ground
Hog Day, February 2. And 'even if
their predictions/ are not verified, they
will doubtless offer some sort of alib<
for that venerable forecaster.
Then about March 21 these same
folks will ^atch for the "equinoctla'
storm" which is supposed to occur
about the time when the sun "crosser
the line." *
j, Of course, no one with any know
ledge of meterology pays any atten
tlon to either of these ancient super
stitions, but in the popular mind they
cling with grim tenacity.
Owing to the erratic habits of thr
weather, any kind of prediction will
come tfue occasionally, but scientific
observers tell us that in the present
state of human knowledge it. Is im
possible to predict weather condition*
more than a very few days ahead.
Prom records of the last 50 years
kept by the United States Weather
Bureau, it ii shown that atoms arr
no more frequent (faring equinoctial
period* than at other time* of th<
year, In fact, the most destructive
of all storm s ?western tornadoes and
West Indian hurricanes? occur prlncl
pally in the summer and fall, at per
iods farthest removed from the
equinoxes.
But old superstitions die hard, and
those concerning the weather are a
mong the most persistent.
When Jerry Demirdian of^'tyor
c ester, Mass., recovered his automo
bile which had been missing only one
day* he found the radiator, wheels
starter, headlights* battery and the
toolt^c removed.
Alex Cisasld of Seattle, Wash,
slipped a^ay, clad 9nly in a* night
gown and a blanket, when he became
terrified by glimpses of gleaming
I instruments to be used, for his opera
tion. >? ' ' V
Think A Bit
By R. EL a
(This is one of a series of articles
by one of our readers. The author
invites comments ? favorable or ad
verse. ? Ed.)
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A POEM TO THE COMMAN MAN
Oh the poets' like to sing
Of the power of a King,
Of the strength and manly beauty of
his form;
How he saved the ladies fair,
(He protected every hair)
How he killed the dreadful "vilHan
for his wrong.
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Now it's strange we never hear
I Of the ladies who weren't fair,
| Or the starving little farmer in some
nook;
Or about an ugly lad
Whose poor countenance was sad
When he couldn't take to wed the
stern king's cook.
Though we never read their fame
They were people just the same,
And of course they had some feelings
in their hides.
They, too, shed a noble tear
If a rascal harmed a hair
Of the common girls they planned to
make their brides.
I now vary from the form
Set by sages all along
And shall write about a sweep of the
streets :
He had hair unkempt and red;
There was nothing in his head
For what should haVe gona-to-^br^kr
, -had gone to feet.
Now he seldom took a bath,
(But should this inspire a laugh?
For I write of one too poor to own a
tub.)
Yet he loved a little lass
Whose poor father cut the grass
From the garden of the good king
Hub-a-dub.
But the father was quite stern:
His fair daughter was too young;
And besides, the luckless suitor had
< no sense.
He was trifling and unkempt
And would swing from rope of hemp,
(Being sure the king would kill him
for his stench).
But the maiden's sense of smell
Was quite lacking (so they tell)'
For she liked to linger in the lads
strong arm.
She would often wield a broom
Just to help the would-be groom;
And their happiness they sometime
showed with song.
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! Neath the beauty of the moon
(Which doth make all lovers croon)
They conceived a valiant plan to tie
the knot:
When the waxing moon did wane
She would meet him in the lane
And from thence slip quietly to the
Pastor's lot.
But the father heard the plan
(Hideous, stern, austere old man)
For he, too, had loitered out beneath
the moon.
So the stem, impassive will
Of the father did prevail
And he knocked the trturdy lad into r
swoon.
But among the common folk
One can't easily provoke
A sad lovelorn to relent to stern old
Fate.
Even while his jaw was sore
He conceived a plan once more,
And to execute it he could scarcely
wait. ; ;>
By the grapevine telephone
He communed with lady lone
And requested that she meet him at
her bam.
While the cows end hogs looked on
A kind preacher made them one.
And they nevermore should be sad
and forlorn.
That's not all though, Reader, Wait*
Whan the father got It straight
He forgave them, there was nothing
else to do. ,
Now they have a son or two
And a daughter, Mary Lou,
A**'1 tttth proud grand-dadn, If any
are hut few.
Woman Loft 20 r
W Pounds Of Fat
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LOST HER. PROMINENT HIPS
DOUBLE CHIN-? SLUGGISHNESS
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Gained Physical Vigor ?
A Shapely Figure.
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If you're fat? -first remove the
cause!
Take one half teaspoonful of Krue
chen Salts in a glass of hot water in
the morning ? in 8 weeks get on the
rcalea and note how many pounds of
Tilt Tiave vanished.
Notice also that you have gained
in energy ? your skin is clearer ? you
j eel younger in body ? Kruschen wil'
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prise.
But be sure it's Kruschen ? you
1 oalth comes first ? and SAFETY
'irst is the Kruschen promise.
Get a bottle of Kruschen Saltr
from De Kalb Pharmacy or any lead
inf? druggist anywhere in Americr
(lasts 4 weeks) and the cost is but
little. If this first bottle doesn'r
convince you this is the easiest
SAFEST and surest way to lose fat
? your money gladly returned.
David Kolb, 17-year-old ' Detroit
youth, was sentenced to six month?
in the house of correction on charge',
of breaking and entering and steal^
ing a three-cent stamp. I
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Police uncorked the cork leg of B
D. Oakley in Paducah, Ky., and found
$45, alleged to be part o? $475 stolen
from the safe of a dairy.
The nerviest burglar that police of
Denver have arrested in many months
is Johij Anderson, who stole $4 ir
I cash from a pair of trousers in poller
headquarters.
Relieves Women's Pains
Here is an example of how Cardul
ha* helped thousands of women:
"I was very thin /and pale,"
writes Mrs. F. H. Scott, of Roa
noke, Va. "I suffered from weak
ness and a severe pain in my back.
This pain unnerved me, and I did not
feel like doing my work. I did not
oa re to so places, and felt worn, tired,
day after day. ' /
"My mother had taken CaYdul, and
on seeing my condition she advised
me to try It; X. have never regretted
doing so. .> I took three bottles and It
built me up. I gained In welsht, my
color was better ard the pain left my
bao!i I am stronger than X bad
i been In some time."
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