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Ask Me Another
# A General Quit
• Ben S indicate—WNU Servian.
1. Into what stream did AoMBm?
mother plunge him?
2. What was meant by aa M lDdbh
man”? • - ^
8. Of what joint is the patella a
part?
4. What is a biconvex lens?
5. What is a dormant partner?
6. Where is Dartmoor prison?
7. What country was sometimes
referred to as the “Celestial
Empire’'?
8. What was a satrap?
9. Which is the “Bayou State’’?
10. In what Dickens novel does
“Fagin” appear?
11. Who wrote “Miss Pinker,
too”?
12. What is a ship’s log?
Answers
1. The Styx.
2. A large ship in the Indian
trade.
3. The knee.
4. One rounded on both sides.
5. One who supplies capital but
takes no part in managing busi
ness.
6. In Devonshire.
7. China.
8. A military governor.
9. Mississippi.
10. “Oliver Twist.”
11. Mary Roberts Rinehart.
12. Its daily record.
THE CHEERFUL CHERUB
When I c*.n wbJU in
gooey mud
Fly silent rapture*
know5 no hounds.
I love, to pull my
rubbers up
It mtkes such
nice expressk/e.
sounds.
WNU Sanrlca.
FEEL A COLD C0MIN6?
Do fhost 3 things
q Keep your head cleat
q Protect yoor throat
q Build up your alkaline
LUDEN'S CMOHMOK
HELP YOU DO ALL 3
Idleness Not Rest
Absence < of occupation is not
rest; a mind quite vacant is a
mind distressed.—Cooper.
Miss
REE LEEF
says
Capudine
JtdieveA
quicke/ibecaute
j£i liquid...
ALREADY DISSOLVER*
Deals and Ideals
In politics, it takes a smart
boss not to let the deals crush
the ideals.
Clean System
Clear Skin
Ton must be free from constipa
tion to have a good, clear complex
ion. If not eliminated, the wastes
of digestion produce poisons and the
skin must do more than Its share In
helping to get rid of them.
So for a clear, healthy skin, remember
the importance of bowel regularity. At
the first sign of constipation, take Black*
Draught—the purely vegetable laxative.
It brings such refreshing relief, and tends
to leave the bowels acting regularly until
some future disturbance interferes.
BLACK-DRAUGHT
A GOOD LAXATIVE
A FARMER BOY
O NE of the best known
medical men in the
U. S. was the late Dr. k.
V. Pierce of Buffalo, V.
Y„ who was boro on a
farm in Pa. Dr. Pierce's
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for nearly 70 years beU
helping women who have
headache and backache as
sociated with functional
disturbances, and older women who expert*
ence heat flashes. By increasing the appetite
this tonic helps to upbuild the body. Buy of
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snlatiag to America* History
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WALTER R. BENJAMIN
SOI Mpdtann Avnnnn. Nnw Ynrti
National Topics Interpreted
by William Bmckart
Washington. — When President
Roosevelt took office for his first
term, one of the
About outstanding obser-
Monty vations that he
made was to the
effect that the American people
“feared fear” and of this condition
was bom instability. It was a re
markable statement and the truth
of it may not now even be denied.
It accurately presented one of the
fundamental influences disturbing
American life and if that psychology
could have been completely swept
away, I believe things would have
been different now.
As I remember, I commented at
that time upon the new President’s
remark. Subsequently, I called at
tention to the conditions of admin
istration policy under the New Deal
that were necessarily causing a con
tinuation of that “fear of fear” in
stead of calming the nation’s
nerves.
As Mr. Roosevelt closes his first
term and begins his second tenure,
I believe it is entirely proper again
to advert to his significant and
truthful observation of 1933. We
can look at this picture only in
retrospect, regrettable as it is that
we cannot see into the future. It
would then seem to be an entirely
permissible thing to do to examine
the basis of Mr. Roosevelt’s obser
vation and see what has been done
to correct the condition about which
he complained.
I shall not attempt to go into the
various phases of the four-year
term. Indeed, I think it is neither
advisable nor necessary to analyze
conditions beyond those that are
basic, fundamental, in our national
economic and political structure.
For that reason, and because of
recent developments of administra
tive policy, I am writing something
about money in this report to you.
The Scripture quotation is: “The
love of money is the root of all
evil.” In treating of the subject of
money from our practical stand
point, “the love of money” takes
on quite an unusual definition. For,
may I point out in candor, there
never has been a national admin
istration, so far as my research
goes, that has so thoroughly loved
the spending of money. 1 believe
Mr. Roosevelt himself enjoys it but
Mr. Roosevelt is not the chief of
fender of his administration in this
regard. The two men whose rec
ords stand out with an absurd will
ingness to throw money around as
I used to throw pebbles when I
was a boy on a Missouri farm are
Harry Hopkins, Works Progress ad
ministrator, and Secretary Wallace,
of the Department of Agriculture.
I am quite convinced that Mr. Hop
kins is the worse of the two. My
conclusion is based on a conviction
that Mr. Hopkins is the more waste
ful. I am afraid that when the his
tory of this great depression is set
down in the cold light of facts as
they will appear a quarter of a cen
tury from now, Mr. Hopkins will
have a place in that spotlight that
will not do credit to the hundreds
of people who have the real welfare
of the poor at heart.
• a •
The latest development concern
ing Mr. Hopkins in his public state-
ment that there
Money must be at least
for Relief three-quarters of a
billion new money
appropriated for his relief work.
President Roosevelt previously had
said he would ask congress for only
half a billion. It is difficult to rec
oncile these two statements or the
reasons therefor. Some slipshod
thing has taken place or else Mr.
Hopkins again is indulging in his
favorite sport of spending and wast
ing taxpayers’ money.
Now, the figures reveal that re
lief operations, as managed by Mr.
Hopkins, are costing about $165,-
100,000 a month. If Mr. Roosevelt
intends to use only $500,000,000 for
relief, curtailment in sharp fashion
must take place. If no such cur
tailment is intended, even the Hop
kins figure is too small.
Thus, we are brought face to face
again with a question: What is to
oe the policy? I hear more ancf
more discussion as congress gets
under way that some definite state
ment ought to be made, some com
mitment given, so that the nation
would know what it is proposed to do
tfith all of this money and how
much qf it is to be used.
Incidentally, Mr. Roosevelt re
cently spoke rather curtly to some
of his departmental heads about
their printing bills. He thought they
were too large and that money
should be saved in that direction.
Now, it happens governmental
printing bills amount to no more
than a drop in the bucket when com
pared to the waste that goes on in
the enormous relief set-up of which
Mr. Hopkins is the head. It has
been shown too many times to need
elaboration here.
Since Mr. Roosevelt has taken
note of the departmental printing
bills, however, I would like to make
the suggestion that there is no valid
reason any longer for excluding re
lief appropriations from the regu
lar estimates of expenditures as in
cluded in the annual budget. Like
many other items, the relief totals
may have to be revised later, but
that does not excuse the rather care
less practices that have grown up
in the calculation of relief expendi
tures. It does not exclude the ne
cessity for a real protection against
heedless spending nor does it pre
vent the formulation of intelligent
policies.
Individually, I do not quite under
stand why the administration should
fuss about a few millions of print
ing bills and toss out half a billion
or three-quarters of a billion, as the
case may be, with reckless abandon
when such tossing is done without
any evident continuity -of sound pol
icy.
• • •
I referred to Secretary Wallace’s
spending proclivities. Mr. Wallace
has been going
Wallace about the country
Talk* Money lately talking of
the necessity for
soil conservation and the payment
of a subsidy to farmers to accom
plish that end. He has been talking
about money in sums as large as a
billion dollars a year for crop in
surance—a program in furtherance
of Mr. Wallace’s “ever normal
granary” idea.
In theory, there is much to be
said in favor of spreading unpredict
able losses of farming through in
surance. A large part of the dis
tress found in agricultural regions
is due to the destruction of crops
by causes over which the farmers
have no control. If the consequences
of these hazards could be minimized
by adjusting losses over wide areas,
and by using the surplus of one
year to offset the shortage of the
next, one major farm problem
would be solved. But, as matters
now stand, there is a natural tend
ency to regard this move with a
skeptical eye. This is necessary be
cause, like so many theories, the
Wallace crop insurance, ever nor
mal granary plan seems to omit
the one element that is necessary
to be included. If this proposition
is to be successful, there simply
can be no doubt that it must have
almost unanimous support. It does
not have it and never will. The
reason is that it calls upon the
government to pay part or all of
the cost and human nature inevit
ably resents taking from one to give
to another.
Mr. Wallace’s ideas were adopted
by the President’s crop insurance
committee. That committee was
supposed to have the interest of ag
riculture at heart. Its recommen
dations indicate that it had not only
such an interest but an even greater
interest, namely, making sure that
the farmers were given everything.
From all of the discussions that
I have heard, I believe it is quite
apparent that the committee went
too far. It went so far, indeed,
that it is arousing resentment from
the consumers who think that they
will have to pay the bill. There
fore, by proposing a program that is
too extreme, the crop insurance
committee and Mr. Wallace have
forced a cleavage between producer
and consumer and that is likely to
result in a renewal of warfare be
tween these two segments of our
national life. It will cause a re
vival of an age-old quarrel insteac
of a healing of old wounds.
No one can deny that the farmers,
as a class, have not been getting
their fair share. From the attitude
of many thinking farmers, however,
I rather believe that agriculture
would prefer to have a farm aic
program which would permit it to
produce and sell to the cunsumers
under harmonious conditions anc
regulations rather than get too
much and earn the hatred of the
masses who are to buy the farmers’
output.
To advert to the original theme,
Mr. Wallace likes to pass out mon
ey. He knows, as all others in pub
lic life know, that the government
will be generous with agriculture
and I am afraid that fact has
caused the otherwise genial sec
retary of agriculture to lose his per
spective—to forget that he is foster
ing a program that will change tra
ditions and practices on the farms
of America as surely as the sun
shines.
Farmers are human as everyone
else is human. Some of them, like
some of us, who must exist among
modern cliff dwellings of concrete
and steel, entertain a fear that a
policy of government payments
equivalent to a dole, may have the
effect in the end of destroying
rather than saving the business of
agriculture.
• Weatern Newspaper Union.
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By Elmo
Scott Watson
O Western
Newepeper
Union
Busy Sunbonnet Girls
Sam Hawken, Riflemaker
TirHAT a Stradivarius is to vio-
Unists, a Hawken rifle Is to
those who love fine firearms. For
a genuine example of the work
manship of “Old Sam” Hawken ol
St. Louis is one of the rarest weap
ons In existence. So far ss is
known, there are pnly five. *
But it is not alone the rarity of
these rifles which makes them in
teresting. It’s a case of “the man
behind the gun” as well. He was
Samuel hawken, born of Pennsyl
vania Dutch stock in Maryland in
1792. He was s soldier in the War
of 1812 and after his return from
it he began practicing the trade ol
gunsmith.
In 1822 he moved to St. Louis
where his brother, Jacob Hawken,
was already engaged in making
guns. That was the golde i era of
the fur trade and the fame of the
rifles which Samuel and Jacob
Hawken were making soon spread
all along the frontier because they
were the most accurate and finest
pieces of workmanship available,
not even excepting the famous Ken
tucky “long ifles.”
The demand for Hawken's prod
uct was limited only by the supply,
which was small. For Hawken
made every rifle by hand, welding
the barrels out of strips of iron
which he got from an iron furnace
on the Meramec river In Missouri.
These strips were hammered into
five-inch lengths and welded around
a steel mandrel, thus making the
tube which was bored out with a
rifling tool afterwards. It was a
tedious and thoroughgoing job of
work, unusual even in those days of
careful and honest craftsmanship.
But what was even more unusual
was the fact that Hawken had ona
price for his rifles. That was $25—
no more, no less. He could have
had twice or three times that price,
so great was the demand, but ha
refused to charge more because ha
believed that one price brought him
trade.
Jacob Hawken died during the
cholera epidemic of 1849 in St.
Louis and Samuel Hawken contin
ued in the business until 1859 when
he sold out to an apprentice, John P.
Gemmer who was running the
Hawken shop when Samuel Hawken
returned to St. Louis in 1861 to
spend his declining years. “Old
Sam” became a regular habitue of
the shop so long as he lived and
could scarcely keep his hands off
the tools, so greatly did he love
the work. Once Gemmer allowed
him to don an apron and make a
rifle complete as he had done in
years gone by and this rifle, prob
ably the last which “Old Sam, 1
honest workman, ever made, is one
of the two Hawken rifles now owned
by the Missouri Historical society.
Pattern 918
They’re never without their sun-
bonnets, these seven diminutive]
maidens who make light of their
own chores, and yours, too. See
how pretty they’re going to look,
embroidered on a set of seven]
tea towels? Stitohes are of the
easiest—mostly outline, with lazy
daisy, running stitch and some!
French knots. Keep them in mind
»
Uncle Phil
SajjAs
Rejoice in Friend's Success
Allow no shadow of envy to mar
the sunshine of a friend’s suc
cess.
He that from fear doeth good,
is still more meritorious than he
that doeth no good at all.
The swan knows how to use its
neck; that is why it is beautiful.
The giraffe doesn’t and is gro
tesque.
Following precedent Is always
good for those whose bursts ef
wisdom are doubtful.
Features of Gentility
Two main features of gentility
are propriety and consideration
for others.
If one knows a mean story
himself, let him remember It
when he Is tempted to Ml a maaa
story oa
frain.
Aren’t the ladies* pages full of
advice on how to manege e hue-
band; but where do you find ad
monitions on how to manage a
wife?
for gifts. Pattern 918 contains, a
transfer pattern of seven motifs
averaging 8 by 7% inches; iOus-
trations of aU stitches needed;
color suggestions end material re
quirements.
Send ID cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
Write plainly your name, ad
dress and pattern number.
Foreign Words ^
and Fhraseq *
Allans. (F.) Comq on; let us be
going.
Bonhomie. (F.) Good nature;
credulity.
Commune bomim. (L.) The
common good.
Dux femina fact!. (L.) The lead
er of the deed e woman.
Grisette. (F.) A young working
girl.
Mai a propos. (F.) Ill times;
out of place.
Nunc aut nunquam. (L.) Now
or never.
Otium cum dignitate. (L.) Lei
sure with dignity.
Parole d’honneur. (F.) Word of
honor.
Tempera mutantur, et nos mu-
tamur in illis. (L.) The times are
changed; and wa are changed
with them.
"The LIGHT of
1000 USES"
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Mantle
LANTERN
U— your Colwaai
-with this ^
finer shortening
in the bright rad Jews/ carton/
Our Early Watches
The first watches were produced
in all sorts of fanciful designs, with
cases shaped like crosses or shells
or mandolins, says a writer in the
Washington Star. A peculiar fash
ion was that of a watch-case shaped
like a skull, to remind the owner
when he looked at it that'time was
fleeting and death was drawing
near. The lovely and unlucky Mary
Queen of Scots had a skull-shaped
watch, and in view of her death
on the headsman’s block it was
gruesomely appropriate. Cavaliers
had swords and poniards with little
watches set into the hilts.
$50,000 Signature
'"P HERE’S no doubt that John D.
■■■ Rockefeller’s signature, or that]
of J. P. Morgan, would be worth
$50,000—if it were on a check! But
the only American whose written
name (not on a Check) has ever
been worth that amount was Button, ]
Gwinnett.
Gwinnett was born in England in I
1732. Despite that fact, he can be
listed as an American because he
came to America in 1770, was chosen
as a delegate from Georgia to the
Continental congress and was one
of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence in 1776. ^ i
The next year he was an un
successful candidate for governor]
and he was also defeated as candi
date for brigadier-general of the
Georgia militia by Gen. Lachlin Me- ]
Intosh. As a result of a quarrel,
Gwinnett challenged McIntosh to u
duel which was fought with pistols
at 12 feet. He was mortally wound
ed t.nd died on May 27, 1777.
Most of the 56 signers of the Dec
laration of Independence lived for
many years after that historic
event, wrote many letters or signed
many documents. But with Gwin-]
nett’s career cut off in less than a ]
year after he joined that company
of immortals, he left few examples
of his handwriting. So his auto
graph is the rarest of all the signers
and it is that rarity which gives it
such great value.
In 1926 Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach,
the noted collector, paid $22,500 for ]
a will which was signed by Gwin-j
nett as a witness. That was an
unheard-of price for an autograph.
But it was only the beginning of a]
“boom in Button Gwinnetts.”
Later in the year this same col
lector bought another—this time a
signature on a promisory note and
it cost him $28,500.
In 1927 an aH-time record for ]
autograph prices was reached
when Dr. Rosenbach paid $51,000
for a letter signed by Button Gwin
nett and four other signers of the]
Declaration who were serving on
the marine committee of the Conti-
rental congress. Aside from the
Declaration it is the only known
document dealing with national af
fairs which this jGeorgian signed.
•Many a famous Southern cook has made her reputation with Jtmt
pastry, cakes, and hot breads. A Sptciol-Blmd of vegetable fat with
other bland cooking fata, Jewel actually cream fosUr; makes men lender
baked foods. And, with a high smoke point, it’s excellent for frying.
PREFERRED TO THE COSTLIEST SHORTENING*
VERA CRUZ 1ml
a
9
go nr kmc a
BEFORE YOU NEED A QUART
Winter driving puts an added
burden on motor oiL It must flow
freely at the first turn of the motor
... provide constant lubrication...
have the stamina to sand up.
Quaker State Winter Oil does all
three... and you’ll go farther be
fore you have to add a quart That’s
because there’s "an extra quart ef
lubrication he every gallon. ” Quaker
State Oil Refining Corporation,
Oft City, Pennsylvania.
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