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?||; 77Records Fall asAb Jetikins Speeds More Than 3000 Miles in 2i Hours\ j Ab Jenkins, veteran speed king, | battered 77 world, international and A.A.A. wpced records in his recent 24-hour run on the hot Halt desert at Lako Bonneville, Utah. Jenkins i? shown above hurtling through space ut an average speed of 127.2 miles per hour including all stops for a distance of more than 2,000 miles, ? through the scorching heat of the day, and the black of the night, with temperatures us high as 120 degrees. The inset at the left shows workers on the desert. Previous to the run, holes on the course had been filled with crushed rock as hard as granito with knife-liko edges. At the right Jenkins is shown receiving congratulations of his proud mother. The lower photograph shows a tire check-up of th<i big 2V?-ton 240-j horsopowcr machine by E. Waldo Stein, Firestone field representative who saw the tires, battery and spark plugs mado by his company come through this greatest of all endurance runs without troubla ! of any kind. The major Med companies of the i..un:ry, in an tlfoit to reduce exannounced a five-day week f'i?r salaried employes with pay cuts i.f H? per i i nt. < >n the other Land the Ford Motor : onipany announced a :?1 d.OO'LOOti e>:pan>ion program to ?'i>ake if . 111 * < >: 11' i?i! * factories virtually. imlep* !:di" ' of 'he oXi-'tH^ -ted mills. The announcement by Secretary of I the Treasury Morgenthau that the i government would use the nearly '$ J,ul)u,<100,000,0<K) profits accruing I from the devaluation of ><o]d, to rej du e the public di bt, is meeting with approval in financial circles of the | nation. There i.- to be some very lit avy -efinancinjj by the government 'within the next few months. Leona Menser, 20, is on trial at Clarion, Pa., on a charge of having killed John B. Kelly, 00, last June. J 'to gin is alleged to have killed Kelly, who induced her to corm to him from Coshocton, Ohio, on a promise of marriage, as she left, his home after he had infused to carry out his mu'iiage promise. They met thru a matrimonial agency. VOTE FOR COLE. L. BLEASE FOR GOVERNOR -v I HIS RECORD FOR ECONOMY HAS BEEN PROVEN. WHEN BLEASE WAS GOVERNOR THE AVERAGE ANNUAL ! i" STATE APPROPRIATION WAS $1,984,512. SINCE THEN THE STATE APPROPRIATION BILL HAS REACHED THE ALARMING TOTAL OF $11,019,390. COMPARE THESE FIGURES. BLEASE IS PLEDGED TO TAX REDUCTION. BLEASE PROMISES THERE WILL B? NO NEW OR ADDITIONAL TAXES DURING HIS ADMINISTRATION. SAVINGS TO TAXPAYERS HAVE RESULTED FROM EVERY PUBLIC OFFICE HELD BY BLEASE IN HIS CAREER. THERE WILL BE NO EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE OF STATE FUNDS UNDER BLEASE'S ADMINISTRATION. HOMES WERE NOT SOLD FOR TAXES IN SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN COLE. L. BLEASE WAS GOVERNOR. ? 1! 'I ' i- .-1 -?? ? Nobody's Business iVritten for The Chronicle by Gee McGee, Copyright, 192$. , HIKE WANTS TO IK) SOME COW SWAPPING flat rock, a. C., aug. 15. 1934. leeker-terry of aggercuUure, Washington, d. C, iv^r ?ir:? plose refer to yore cows which now live in mr. timith's pastor near flat rock, being the same cows you shipped from ouJ west when you decided that it aint gonner rain no more, to save their lives from drowth, ansoforth, and ^be advised-that i would like^fo trade you 2 nice cows and a ftn^calf for 4 of yore cows. my 2 cows and there off-springs are fine imported stock; half Jersey, half duroc and half polc-and-chinar, and are garranteed to give sattistaction to all concerned, they will not kick or butt anyboiid^ while they are \)fi~ ing milked, and they are lik? jr*epublican sennator: verry Kon/evand^ will eat out of yore hand. if you will let me pick o^ut 4 or the drowth cows you now have on hands down here, i will give you c50 to boot, and this will help the south to get started on u new breed of cattle which seems well suited to this climate. you can kill my cows for beef and i will save 'the ones i get from you for milk ansoforth, and possibly other purposes. old "bossie" is givving nearly 2 quarts of milk a day, but "judie went dry with Volstead act, and of coarse, her calf in question has nevvcr come in yet, and they will neat a total weight of about 725 pounds, hide and all, and you will' have the honnor of owning some southern cows as well as western animals, one of these cows has benn handed down to us from 2 genner-rations and we are prodd to have her as a member of our familey. that is, her ancestors have benn handed. plese rite or foam me as soon as you get this letter, and send word to mr. smith to let me go into his pastor with the other cows and pick out the 1 heads of cattel i am willing to swap for, and i will mail you a p. o. monney order for the difference i will owe you, vizzly: c50, just as soon as i can get holt to same by selling my first bale of cotton which l will pick under the bankhead bill. mr. smith, yore pastor-rer, will be glad to exchange cows with me, as he says a cow is a cow to the government. hurry up and save feed for both of us. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. THEN & NOW Styles for men and boys have changed about 99 percent during the past 30 years. A young fellow used to be considered indecent if he took off his coat in the presence of ladies, and he was plumb disgraced if he became careless enough to let his socks get loose from their moorings and drop down on his shoe uppers. And he also wore a hat when he went dressed up. It takes down-right slouchy-ness today for a guy to be presentable. First, he must let his collar stand open so's about one-third of his chest may be exposed. Second, his sleeves must be rolled up. Third, his shirttail must poke out in at least 3 different places. Fourth, he must let his socks hang down over his shoes; that i>. if he wears socks at all; and, Fifth, he ain't nothing a-tall unless he wears golf britches that look like 2 empty hour sacks with mattocks stuck thru them. I witnessed a sad affair the other evening. Bert Ashton, whose name ain't that, rolled up to the soda shop tooted his horn twice, and when the boy rushed out to see what the folks wanted, Bert said: "He'h there, Steve ?fetch me and the dame a coupla dopes, a box of cigarettes, and charge 'em to Dad." It was I>ad's car, and Dad's gasoline, and Dad's money thai he-was using. If there ain't sue) things as cigarettes and tobacco anc autos and rumble seats and dopes U heaven, lots of folks I know won't be satisfied 15 minutes. Girls dress funny too, sometimes A real modest girl wouldn't think ol going down town wearing a pair oi hose with a "run" in one of them, bu< she doesn't think anything at all o parading down the same street a fev* hours later with no hose at all on just sandals and 10 little painted toe nails to match her sun-back dres; that is cut dangerously low. Bu don't get me wrong; I ain't complain ing about how few clothes our girl: wear: they dress within the law; an< the law, like love, is blind. Our ladies are considered heavily dressed today with 18 ounces of clot! properly attached to their bodies This includes both of their garments but not their ear-bobs. A real ser viceable dress can be made from 1 yards of material. Thirty years ago 12 yards of "nar'd-homeapun" wer< required to make only one of the I petticoats a well-dressed damsel ven <5 4 * WHY TUB THREAT OF STRIKE? * i, T What the Unions Complain A boat Should Be Settled by Government The Greenville New* speaking about the threatened textile strike says: Textile union officials while not denying Chat they are seeking a permanent shorter work-week with higher wages, assert that their primary objective is to abolish 'the "stretchout system. The term needs a more accurate definition. The world's progress up to now has been through what might, technically speaking, be called a kind of "stretch-out", meaning th^/ improvement of machinery so that less huma'h labor is required to turn out the same volume of goods. Cotton mill machinery has been steadily improved from the standpoint of efficiency, so as to require less human attention in recent years. We cannot lay down as an absolute principle that there shall be no fur* ther reduction of human labor in proportion to a given volume of goods produced. What one understands by the textile workers' complaint of "stretchout" is an unwarranted decrease in human labor, proportionate to production, without corresponding inTreasWin machine efficierhiy, so that the'- net effect is tp increase the amount of human labor needed to produce a given volume of goods, without a proportionate or satisfactory increase in wages. The protest against that practice, it must be conceded, has considerable merit. But it would certainly seem thht with the labor-controversy mechanism established under the government auspices, instances of injustice of this nature could be brought to an end without the necessity of either a general strike or localized strikes. jHave the U. T. W. officials and representatives made sincere efforts to bring specific cases of this kind to the attention of the textile board, which would have authority to order a change if it found the complaint meritorious ? Wild l>oe Adopts Calf Stories of motherly love never fail to find a response in the hearts of men the world over. And when such talcs concern parent animals and their young, there is a certain wistfulness about them that is irresistible. The following curious story of the maternal instinct in animals is told by A. McDonald, who has a far.m not far from North Bay, in northern Ontario. The tale is curious because it presents an odd study of m^Berly protection on the one hand, ano^iarental neglect that is rare among animals, on the other. A young calf disappeared from McDonald's farm shortly after its birth. For some -reason or other, its mother had shown a strange indifference to her offspring from the vej-y beginning, having come home to the barn | without the calf on the day it was born. . McDonald, knowing of the birth, had to bring the calf in himself. Upon discovering that the calf was missing, he at once (began a search, After spending four days, hunting for i it, he finally found it in the care of , a wild doe. Though frightened at his I approach, the doe would not leave the , side of the young calf, which did not i seem to share its fea* of men. The deer had adopted the neglected calf and was jealously protecting it. The i calf seemed to be thriving and was ; loath to leave its foster mother. It , was with great difficulty that it was ! secured and brought home. Now, it ! seems that in addition to the calf; ; McDonald will have the doe in constant attendance?though at a discreet distance?until the calf is fullgrown.?Edward J. Tucker in "Our ! Dumb Animals." i ' A surgical operation was perform! ed on Wallace Doyle Sharp, aged ? years, at Fort Payne, Ala., by a 1 court order, after his parents had ' refused to allow physicians to attend him, they believing that the boy ' could be cured "by the Lord in pray! er." He had a badly infected leg and the doctors say his chances of re1 covery are good unless his constitu' tion has been weakened by the poisor in his system. f Representatives of the cotton garf ment makers of the country, meeting t in New York, to consider a proposed f code, resolved that "they cannot ac{ cept or acquiesce in the wage and , hour provisions" Qf the code. The . presidential order of last week would i amend the code so as to provide a t maximum work week of 26 hours in. stead of 40 hours as at present, with 3 the minimum wage for the shortei i work week unchanged. tured out with. I am in favor of t letting 'em have their own way, but 1 it certainly looks like we are drift ing toward nudism mighty fast. Real ? pretty girls wear as low as 10 ounces - of clothing, while some that frown 2 upon beauty contests still burden , them.felye#^ith as high as 8 different s pieces of wearing apparel, not inclu<45 ing the vion-rollable stockings. (Well, - I am g-lad I've got all of that settled). Changes In Palestine Have Been Many And Strang a. That Part Of World Palestine, where trouble has sp^ lip anew between Arabs ami colooUu has been one of the few bright bboi on the world economic map m rw years. While nearly all the rest the,world was faltering economical j Palestine absorbed thousands of Je i?h immigrant* annually; and bal ing construction, agriculture, and i dustry boomed. Altogether, more th 000 new industries have sprungthroughout Palestine since the Wor War. "Palestine was slumbering lutf more than a decade ago when Jewi< colonists began to pour into the i gion under the Zionist movement, says a bulletin from the Washing^! I), C. headquarters of the Nation Geographic Society. "Aside from tl orange-growing and wine-i*oduc? industries, there was little active The traveler then saw the anci? land as W. region of scant interest a cept for its historic landmarks. P<x people huddled in straggling, unksj villages; rivers and fertile plains ai alleys were neglected; crop* i]fci more than returned seed to farmer who tilled" their fields with crooks stitfk plows; and trade was stagnao "But the Palestine of 1933 i? f, different. The returned travel finds that Jewish colonists and Jei ish money have been effective eo nomic tonics and that Palestine hi awakened. Even venerable Jerusi lem seems to have taken a new lei on life. The historic old city with the walls still, dqfesj but outside U busting street*crowds, the sound* carpenters' hammers and mason trowels, the changing panoramas wil multi-storied buildings rising aboi the roof tops of more ancient stra tures, the laughter of gay diners! modern cafes, and the gaudy placar ed new 'movie' houses, are reminds that this part of the city, at lea no longer basks entirely in the lij of a glorious past. , "Christian, Hebrew and Mosle pilgrims still visit their Holy city I they have visited it for centuries; In Jerusalem merchants now cater 1 m'6n who come to temples of trade i well as to those who seek templeii religion. "As a traveler rides in bus or pi vate motor car in Palestine today,! finds it hard to believe that befos the World War Palestine roads wb mere tracks and automobiles we: strange transports thdt most of t) inhabitants had never seen. An ho* after driving from Jerusalem he u stand on the banks of the Jord* River. Incidentally that bistor stream, harnessed near the Sea Galilee, generates.electricity for.ligi and power throughout a large part ' Palestine. Even the Dead Sea b been put to profitable use. Althouf ' it has never supported a fishermi it now supports a huge salt produ L ing industry, and scientists havd (fi 1 covered in its water abundant so 1 plies of other useful chemicals. "The more than 100 new settl ments that immigrant Jews la' 1 built are spread over a wide area: ' Palestine, but the influence of tl newcomers is most noticeable aIod the coastal (plain. North of Jnf 1 they have created a beautiful mode ! city, Tel-Aviv, in what was once ' region of sand dunes. A decade af ! Tel-Aviv was an inconspicuous, stW gling town of 2,000 inhabitants. N( 1 it seethes with commercial and > ' dustrial activity and is the home ' some GO,000 people. Behind the wsl 1 of its industrial buildings, one se ' bricks, textiles, shoes, pockethool ' candy, syrups, dresses, machine! and many other articles in the mi ing. While industry has been den oping, Tel-Aviv's city planners not forgotten the citizens' idle M? 'Downtown' there are movies, H ries, clubs, and cafes; and s*ret*_ ' along the Mediterranean sands nel ' by is Palestine's Coney Island. J 1 "The outstanding harbor imfj? ' ment in Palestine has been at H 1 Of little consequence a few years?l Haifa now is likely to overtake routh and to become the ' at the eastern end of the Med"! ranean. A mile and a half 0 breakwater has been constructed, 1 sand dredged from the harbor been used for the reclamation new seaside area which will 0 ized for railroad spurs. ' "New quays have been bui ^ ' ocean-going vessels can now ' opposite the city. The harbor can ' commodate five times as muc ! ping as Beyrouth and nearly as ' as Marseilles. Haifa City too 1 been renovized, and greater ' sion is planned. Already the po 1 served by two railroads; goo radiate from it into the interior, a pipeline from Iraq will , oil into the huge tanks near ^ ter-front that will store ?t ; port. Ultimately, it i? ; Haifa will .be the chief looking port of the Near 46,000,000 people." J. i ' Employes of a dock mill al ** : Ga., walked oat Wednesday W" and the mill was closed ind** , It was the second mill them * . closed by a walkout. - - * " r ;