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TIm Banwill People-S«i»ti«#U BanwtIL 8. C. HiOT^my^ Aotniwt t, 1W7 SUCH IS LIFE—“No Patent Applied For [j!C J i PAIkir 'N HE IS 1 • By CHARLES SUGHROE YOU * KUOW HOW/HE MAKES. 'CTRACKS: v. ^MMAKIH'APATTERH OF DO(Sf -IRACKS Alt OVER-TH’ im y uwoiEum THEM YOU GAMT SEE ^ ' WY MUDDY TRACKS ‘ HE'tt MAKE lATH? Crocheted Flowers for Your Bedspread IM! Rabaul Cleans Up After Most Destructive Quake Capital of New Britain in Zone Used to Shakes. Washington, D. C.—Residents of Kabaul, New Britain island, in the southwestern Pacific, which was badly damaged by an earthquake, now are returning to their homes and resuming normal trade. The 6,000 inhabitants, of whi/ch 4,000 are natives, and the remainder whites, Chinese and Japanese, will be em ployed for days repairing buildings and clearing debris from the streets. “Rabaul, the largest town and capital of New Britain, is situated at the western end of the crescent shaped island, and is in a zone ac customed to earthquakes, showers of volcanic ash and devastating waves,” says the National Geo graphic society. “But, unless the COOL AND SMART Transparent black o r g a n x a, tucked in a plaid design, is cool and looks crisply smart in this little suit. The blouse top on the skirt is white organza and the slip combines black and white silk crepe. The halo effect hat is white pique with a black felt crown and bandeau of black belting ribbon. shocks and eruptions are extremely severe, the natives merely shrug their shoulders and go about their usual tasks undisturbed. Caused Heavy Damage. ‘The recent quake was so severe that residents fled to higher ground inland. Many buildings were de molished or their foundations were made unsafe by the quivering earth. Three thousand tons of pumice, blown by frequent explosions from the crater of a nearby volcano, cov ered some portions of the town a foot deep. And then came a great wave of sea water from the harbor whose bed had been raised by the seismic disturbance. Lack of water in the harbor temporarily left large cargo boats careened on mud banks, and an island, formerly low, rose to 60 feet above the water. “Such disasters are not new to Rabaul. Old residents recall that their town was somewhat similarly stricken in February, 1878, when an earthquake of major proportions shook it like a leaf in the breeze, a new island rose in the harbor, and a great wave swept inland. “New Britain, which is the larg est of the islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, lies about 50 miles off the northeast coast of New Guinea and like many of its neighbors in the southwestern Pacific, is of vol canic origin. Throughout its 370 miles of length, a high mounfain range, with peaks rising to more than 7,000 feet, forms a lofty back bone. Cannibalism Once Rampant. “The island is only a short dis tance below the equator and lush tropical vegetation blankets the mountains and valleys; but trade winds so temper the atmosphere for many months of the year that the climate is not oppressive. Seldom does the thermometer touch one hundred degrees. “While the greater portion of the island has been explored, civiliza tion, for the most part, has pene trated only a narrow coastal zone. The natives are Papuans who wear little more than a loin cloth and metal arm bands. Most of them are employed in gathering coconuts and cocoa. “Before white men established themselves at Rabaul and other towns on New Britain, the natives were cannibals, infamous among the early mariners for their treach ery and cunning. Tribes were con stantly attempting to annihilate one another. Even now there is some danger in traveling through villages of isolated tribes, although mis sionaries and agents of Australia, of which the island is a mandated territory, have made great strides in wiping out cannibalism. The un explored part of the island where cannibalism may linger is In the central part of New Britain; both ends of the island long have been dominated by Australian officials. Printinf of Bonk Notes Takes More Money Now Washington. — Paper money costs more these days. To print a thousand sheets o! Federal Reserve notes at the Gov eminent printing office now in volves an expense of about $87. In June. 1835, the cost was $M Under Section 16 of the Federa Reserve Act the cost of issuing Federal Reserve notes must be me by the Federal Reserve banks. 2 A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS ^ BY ARNOLD OUR YOUTH PROBLEM By LEONARD A. BARRETT v m v /-i®, ' -v In his little volume, “Good-Bye, Mr. Chips,” James Hilton makes one of his char acters say, “Modem parents are beginning to demand some thing more for their three years’ school fees than a few scraps of language that nor body speaks. . . something be sides a factory for turning out siiob culture based on money and machines.” The month of June is known as the Commencement season. High schools, colleges, and universities grant degrees to thousands of our ambitious youth. It is truly an oc casion in which our young people, for a moment, occupy the center of the stage and are given a diploma as an educational credential. Com mencement time is truly a begin ning. The old has passed away; the freedom of academic life, a thing of the past; life with its chal lenge for youth to “ make good” is beckoning. It is e strange bewil dering world into which the young IT WAS SO BIG JfouseRofS Jfints y/ By BETTY WELLS y ' President Roosevelt describing the size of his catch. A sculptured caricature by Jack Sparling, a twen ty-two-yea r-old cartoonist on the New Orleans Item-Tribune. The young artist presented his creation to the President at the White House recently. collegiate is ushered He feels that he is qualified to do a splendid piece of work. He may have specialized in some particular study, end this specialization causes the thermom eter of his ambition to rise to a higher level. He will make a name for himself. He will have a glorious career. He will succeed. But in spite of his adequate preparation, he finds the matter of "placement” much harder than he had imagined. While there is always plenty of room at the top, the pathway lead ing to the ladder’s top is crowded, indeed, overcrowded with similarly- minded youth. For the first time the youth realizes the ruthless eco nomic competition of the world. A cold impersonalism depresses his spirit, and his idealistic world be gins to totter. Unless he has re ceived in his long course of study something else besides “a few scraps of language,” unless high school or college has been some thing more than “a factory for turn ing out a snob culture based on money and machines,” the young person soon meets his “Waterloo.” The greatest value of a college course is not what we learn or the culture we attain, but the wisdom of utility of knowledge and of self. Life is based on the truth of m saying of a wise man of old: “Wis dom is the principal thing, there fore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get nderstanding.” Our youth problem la not only the lock of proper discipline in many rhich causes failure to meet the t emends of o stern mstenel- but it is loch of \yf AYBE you can’t trip off to the •LYl beach for a breeze, but don’t let that stand in the way of you and comfort for the summer months. Mary T., one of our readers, has the right idea about that. She writes: “We don’t have money to burn but we are determined to make our home as attractive as possible during the summer. I se lected the dining room for most of the improvements because it’s the coolest room in the house. We’ve had a double window expanded into a French door so we can open the room right into the garden; not such a fancy garden, to tell the Maybe Ton Can’t Trip Off to the Beach for a Breeze. truth, but pretty in a tangled over grown way. Our dining-room furni ture is colonial mahogany—new, and we’re very proud of it The room itself is large with space enough for an old sofa and two mahogany Windsor rockers end an easy chair besides the dining furni ture. We’re keeping these because they add such a lot of comfort to tho room, but everything had to be freshened. “The walls were done over In white with light green woodwork end a very pale yellow ceiling! Then we got a green summer grass mg for the floor. The chairs in the dining set we Blip covered in yellow rep. It took away the heavy dark effect of the furniture. The sofa and easy chair got slip covers, too. e fabric with green leaves on a white ground—washable and com pletely shrunk of course. The employment has Increased fourteen per cent over the low mark of de pression, while dividends have in creased fifty per cent Until this spread can be more adequately ad justed. the problem will remain. Culture per ee la glorious, but it too demands the right to earn daily bread. What fc a job after all. but something someone else can do. But work: that Is something to create. Let us hove creative youth! Windsor rockers have pads of this same cool looking cotton print. We, used pongee dyed yellow for cur tains, making them floor length and to draw back and forth on rings. The pongee hangs beautifully and seems so cool, yet it’s bright and fresh looking. “You’ve no idea how much we enjoy this room during the dog days . . . it’s so simple and seems secluded yet beautiful. In the fall, we’ll bring back our old green broadloom rug from the cleaners and I’m going to have a flat weave mohair for slip covers on the sofa and easy chair, something in a floral with a coral ground. The (Hiv ing chairs will doff their slip covers and keep their regular coral velvet seats and the Windsors will have coral velvet pads to match. That way the walls, woodwork and ceil ings can stay the same for sum mer and winter, for we expect to go back to the use of summer rug and summer slip covers every season.” A Definite Lift Dining outside or dining in, a lady with a house does get tired of the same old-table settings. It is al ways a little depressing to think of the gigantic task of planning three meals e day every day in the year, hut we’ve found that if the settings of these meals are varied and in triguing, a lady gets a very definite “lift” and her meals take on glam our and piquancy. We don’t know why, but summer seems to be the time when our “little grey celte" begin to perco late, and new and unexpected Ideas for table settings come natural *o moot of ua. Just now we’re terri bly excited about linen cloths and napkins we’ve lately in gorgeous audacious colors taken from Chinese paintings —mandarin red. old blue, gray and turquoise. Even the most i if set on white plates 1 of these rich colors would to jsded sumn cloths are surprisingly ► ft ft You’ve seen spreads before, but never one like this with its large and small crocheted flowers! Cro chet hook, some string, and eas ily crocheted individual medal lions form this rich all-over design. In pattern 5817 you will find com plete instructions for making the 8 inch medallion shown; an illus tration of it and of all stitches used; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send IS cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 251 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. POTPOURRI There are about 4,000 epeciee of ferns scattered throughout the temperate and tropic zones. They range from delicate plants re sembling moss to greet trees. The latter, in South America end the Pacific islands, reach heights of forty or more feet Geolo gists have proof that large sur faces of the earth were densely covered with ferns during the carboniferous period centuries ago. • Western Newspaper Union. end are made by a wide band of their border*. We’d like ticularly with white pottery plates end cups end * ment of tl Plans Oakland-Moscow Flight The LIGHT of 1000 USES" & CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT TEACHERS If you can’t Ufa. try to make II CHILLS AND FEVER black breath In n white bowl terpiecs on the moonstone gray cloth. Or for e really exotic < piece, try cutting very short and allowing their creamy blossoms to float on the water’s sur face in a low, square braes con tainer—this would be lovely on the turquoise cloth. If you have lovely, spiky zinnias, their colors will give you all sorts of new ideas with your Chinese cloths. We’d like the deep red zin nias in a blue container on an old blue cloth. And, flamboyant dahlias will feel right at home if placed in exotic containers to grace any of these brightly colored cloths. - C By Batty W«IU.—WNU Service. Wkk Take good eh Chin Tonic! This is no ITs a fa- Grove’s Tasteless r%in Tank coa ts ins tasteless quiaidine and Iran. It quickly slope tho chills end favor. It also tends to build you up. That’s the double sffoct you want Tbs very next time you fool ea attack of chills and Cover coming on. go right to your drug store and got a bottle of Grovo’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. Start taking the medi cine immediately sod you will soon get the relief you want All drug stores sell Grove's Taste less Chill Tonic, 50c and $1. The latter size is the more economical Late Regret A hundred yean of regret will not pay a farthing of debt. 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