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Personal Indorsements.
H ouston, texas.—i used
to be a pretty fair hand at
indorsing things. But I realize
now what a piker I was. I in
dorsed only one thing at a time.
For the present champions, I of
fer a suggestion. When that distin
guished world trav
eler (“Bringing Tes
timonials Back
Alive”) and that
eminent movie star,
who lives in Holly
wood right next to
Live Reading Mat
ter and is authoress
of “Miss Colddeck
Recommends,” get
through indorsing
practically every
thing else, let them g # Cobb
then club in and at
tain the very highest peak of in-
dorsementology by jointly indorsing
the famous society queen who has
indorsed more products than they
even, or anybody.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times
that today the most fascinating lit
erature and the most familiar
names are found in the advertising
sections of a magazine rather than
in the table of contents.
• • *
Noted Ancestors.
O N THE little Hogg-Dickson
ranch at Casa Blanca, Mexico-
only 300,000 acres—I met the caporal,
or-head man, of the cow herd and one
famous as a rifle-shot, an upstand
ing, clear-eyed Mexican, but, I fan
cied; with some faint indefinable sug
gestion of the Anglo-Saxon in his
facial contours. However, his name,
as I caught it, was pronounced “Er
nesto Boo-na,” which, to my alien
ears, sounded Latinesque enough
for all purposes.
He knew no English, yet, when I
mentioned Kentucky—a thing I’ve
been • known to do before—he
poured out a rippling flood of Span
ish. Louis Kresdorn, the Texas-born
manager, translated:
“Ernesto says he has heard of a
far-away place called Kentucky. Ac
cording to a legend in his family,
his great-great-grandfather once
lived there—was muy valiante, muy
vivo, and was the nephew of an even
greater Gringo warrior who drove
the savages before him like tumble
weeds before a wind.”
So I saw a light and I inquired
how Ernesto spelled his last name
—he spelled it the orthodox way.
So, as members of the same stock,
a pioneer ancestress of mine having
married a kinsman of the great
pathfinder, I held a reunion with this
mighty huntsman, who is proud that
he too, collaterally, is descended
from Daniel Boone.
• • •
Dachshunds.
I LIKE dachshunds. They’ve more
sense of humor than anything I
ever saw that came out of Prussia.
I always figured the breed was pro
duced by crossing a rat terrier on
a German compound verb, and—I
still believe you could combine use
fulness with their natural comedy
by training them to retrieve collar
buttons from under low bureaus.
I indorse the phrase of the math
ematical sharp who said a dachs
hund was half a dog high and a dog
and a half long, but I claim Cap
tain Mike Hogg’s chauffeur, Mose,
coined the best description yet.
When Mrs. Hogg brought home the
first one Mose ever beheld, his eyes
bulged out like twin push-buttons on
a mahogany door-jamb.
“Lawsy, Miss Alice 1” he ex
claimed, “whut is this here thing?”
“It’s a dog.”
“Wellum,” said Mose, “if you
hadn’t told me, I’d ‘a’ said it was
a snake on roller skates.”
Hunting in Texas.
P ’ WAS raining so hard even the
seagulls were trying to get in the
clubhouse. So the ducks went away
somewhere, out of the weather. So
the hunters, who were less intelli
gent than the ducks, came back
from the blinds dripping like so
many leaky hot water bottles.
After being bailed out, we sat
down to vittles—nothing unusual,
just the customary club dinner. All
we found on the menu was beef
hash, duck stew, liver and onions,
country smbked sausage and home
made headcheese, also hot biscuits,
com pones and rice cakes; likewise
turnip greens, rice, sweet potatoes,
squash, snapbeans and eye hominy;
moreover, six kinds of pickles,
preserves, jellies and jams; besides
stewed pears, apple pie, papershell
pecans and various fruits. Then
Mrs. Jacob Smothers, the club host
ess, came in to say that, if anybody
in the future craved anything spe
cial, she’d try to fix it up—and won
dered why such of her gorged guests
as weren’t too far gone uttered fee
ble laughter.
Being now convalescent, I am
able to report that Southern Texas
is one part of the Union where eat
ing is still being carried on as a
regular habit.
IRVIN S. COBB.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
News Review of Current Events
"WONT LET PEOPLE DOWN"
No Retreat from New Deal Objectives, Says the
President . . . Attitude Toward Business
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Silk to feed anti-Japanese bonfire flames is being gathered from the
shapely limbs of girls at Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where the
delegates to the third annual convention of the American Student Union
staged a demonstration for a boycott against Japanese goods. Silk stock
ings, shirts and neckties were burned.
US,
X'A SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
e Western Newspaper Union.
President
Roosevelt
No New Deal Retreat
■p EADING his annual message on
•Tv the state of the nation before
the senate and house at the opening
of congress, President Roosevelt de
clared his purpose
to advance upon the
same fundamentals
of the New Deal that
have hitherto been
proposed. He said:
“I do not propose to
let the people down.
I am sure the con
gress of the United
States will not let
the people down. We
hold our principles
and our objectives
to be sound. We will
never go back on
them.” ,
The President again urged con
gress to enact legislation for con
trol of wages and hours of work. He
asked that all segments of the na
tion co-operate with the government
to achieve better economic balance.
The budget for 1939 which he was
preparing, he said, would show a
further decrease in the deficit,
though not an actual balance.
Reasserting his approval of pro
posed changes in tax laws, he said:
“Three things should be kept in
mind. First the total sum to be de
rived by the federal treasury must
not be decreased as a result of any
changes in schedules. Second,
abuses by individuals or corpora
tions designed to escape taxpaying
by using various methods of doing
business corporate and otherwise—
abuses which we have sought, with
great success, to end—must not be
restored. Third, we should rightly
change certain provisions where
they are proven to work definite
hardship, especially on the small
business men of the nation.
“But speculative income should
not be favored over earned in
come.”
Speaking of his attitude toward
the nation’s business as a whole,
Mr. Roosevelt declared:
“The overwhelming majority of
business men and bankers intend
to be good citizens. Only a small
minority have displaced poor citi
zenship by engaging in practices
which are dishonest or definitely
harmful to society. This statement
is straightforward and true.
“No person in any responsible
place in the government of the Unit
ed States has ever taken any posi
tion contrary to it.”
Mr. Roosevelt declared that when
attention was called to specific mis
uses of capital “there has been a
deliberate purpose on the part of the
condemned minority to distort the
criticism into an attack on all capi
tal. That is a willful deception
but it does not long deceive.”
He called for prompt agreements
on a farm program—now in con
ference between the house and sen
ate—and asked specifically that con
gress “keep the cost of its adminis
tration within the figure of current
government expenditures in aid of
agriculture.”
Concerning international matters,
the President said:
“I am thankful that I can tell you
that our nation is at peace. It has
been kept at peace despite provoca
tions which in other days, because
of their seriousness, could well have
engendered war.
“Resolute in our determination to
respect the rights of others, and to
command respect for the rights of
ourselves,” he added, “we must
keep ourselves adequately strong in
self-defense.”
Power Loans O.K.
T HE Supreme court ruled the gov
ernment could make loans and
grants for publicly owned electric
plants.
Secretary Ickes, the public works
administrator, said the decision
would affect construction of 52 pow
er projects costing $84,026,288 for
which his agency had allotted $30,-
191,944 as loans to be repaid and
$21,674,408 as federal grants.
The constitutionality of the gov
ernment’s activity was challenged
by the Alabama Power company
and the Duke Power company. They
sought to enjoin federal financing of
projects in four Alabama municipal
ities and at Buzzard Roost in Green
wood county, South Carolina.
Justice Sutherland delivered the
opinion of the court.
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Farley Finds a Surplus
TIM FARLEY, in his annual re-
^ port as postmaster general, was
able to show.a surplus of more than
12 millions for his department. To
do this, however, he deducted an ex
pense item of about 60 million dol
lars, calling it a “nonpostal” item.
He charged off the air and ocean
mail subsidies and all free mail.
Dealing with the activities of the
postal inspection service, Farley
said the traffic in spurious lottery
tickets is believed to have been
broken up with the arrest and con
viction of a band of racketeers in the
East who disposed of more than 10
million dollars’ worth of such tick
ets in the last few years.
Dies Wants Investigation
A/TARTIN DIES, Democratic cori-
ivl gressman from Texas, wants
congress to investigate the charges
made by administration spokesmen
that big business
brought about the
current economic
recession in an ef
fort to discredit the
New Deal. Dies re
ferred specifically to
what he called
astounding charges
by Robert H. Jack-
son, assistant attor
ney general, and
Secretary of the In
terior Ickes. Jackson
The Texan asked for appointment
of a committee of seven house
members to determine “who are the
monopolies or monopolists engaged
in the sitdown strike to produce eco
nomic chaos” and to afford Ickes
and Jackson an opportunity to “vin
dicate themselves from the grave
charges that they are demagoging
to arouse the hatred of the majority
against the minority.”
—*—
Worst Year for Strikes
A CCORDING to the national la-
bor relations board, the United
States passed through the worst la
bor strike period in its history in
1937, but the board believes the
prospects for 1938 are much better.
The board revealed in a secret re
port that there were 4,017 strikes
during the first ten months of 1937,
more than ever recorded during any
entire previous year, and that 56 per
cent, another all-time peak, were
caused through efforts by em
ployees to organize for collective
bargaining.
It blamed the situation on refusal
of employers to recognize rights of
workers to organize under the Wag
ner labor relations act.
Boulder Dam Payments
JOHN C. PAGE, reclamation com-
^ missioner, informed Secretary
Ickes that Boulder dam, which cost
about $123,000,000, returned more
than $2,000,000 to the federal treas
ury during the first year of opera
tion.
Page said the dam, completed two
years ahead of schedule, yielded
$1,100,000 in power revenues during
1937 and $906,000 in payments for
generating machinery by power
purchasers.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAV I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 16
BEGINNING A LIFE OF SERVICE
LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:14-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—The time is fulfilled, and
the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,
and believe the gospel.—Mark 1:15.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus’ First Helpers.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Why the Fishermen Fol
lowed Jesus.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Serving Now.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Adjusting Life to Service.
The public ministry of our Lord
was not begun with any great fan
fare of publicity. Leaving Judea
where the entrenched forefts of
formal religion had joined the
forces of sin and degradation ill op
position to him, and which had
brought about the imprisonment of
John, our Lord appears in his home
country, Galilee.
I. Preaching the Gospel (w. 14,
15, 21, 22).
His first activity is worthy of
careful note, for it is not exactly
what one might expect in this Gos
pel of Mark, which we have already
characterized as the Gospel of
mighty deeds rather than of words.
Jesus came to work miracles, and
he did work them, and continues to
do the miraculous even in our day.
It is therefore significant that his
first recorded work was that of
preaching, his second that of calling
and preparing fellow workers, and
last of all the miraculous healing
of the demoniac.
From a human viewpoint one
would think that the opposite order
would prevail. First let the Mas
ter do some mighty miracle to catch
the attention of the people, then or
ganize a great “party,” and then
preach. Much of the so-called evan
gelistic effort in our day follows that
human formula and fails of lasting
results. Observe the man who mag
nifies preaching and gives the Word
of God pre-eminence, and you will
see real spiritual accomplishments.
Jesus preached faith and repent
ance, or perhaps one should say
repentance and faith (v. 15). They
go together in our Lord’s preaching.
Let us follow his example.
We read in verse 2 that the hear
ers were astonished because he
spoke with authority. They had been
accustomed to hearing the law
yers dispute on the basis of the
authority of the law, now the law
giver himself stood in their midst.
He did not set aside the law, but he
gave it an interpretation and direc
tion which surprised them.
II. Calling Disciples (w. 16-20).
The orderly development of any
work calls for the choosing and
training of associates. Moody is
said to have observed that “it is a
greater thing to put ten men to
work than it is to do ten men’s
work.” Our Lord was no mere hu
man leader, but he desired and
used fellow-workers and he commit
ted to them the carrying on of his
work after he departed.
God still calls men into his serv
ice. Would that grace might be
given to each one to whom such a
call may come to respond “straight
way,” as did the disciples. The
writer has just read the letter of a
heart-broken man who has refused
to answer God’s call for four long
years, and now comes with a broken
body which may hinder his useful
ness for life. Such tragedies may
be averted by prompt and willing
obedience.
III. Healing the Demoniac (w.
23-28).
Three things stand out in this
story. The first is that the Son of
God has power over the demons of
Satan. Any effort to “fight the Dev
il” in our own power is foredoomed
to failure. But in the name of Jesus
Christ we may bid him depart from
us. Thank God, it works!
The other thought is also of vital
Import. The demons recognized
Jesus, they knew that he was “the
Holy One of God” (v. 24), and they
bore public testimony of that fact.
And yet they were demons, the ene
mies of God. Saving faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ is more than a
knowledge of his claims, a pious
repetition of his name even though
it be done in public. Let us make
sure that we have a living faith in
the Son of God.
Our final observation is that our
Lord did not permit the demons to
testify concerning him. Christ and
his church do not need the flattering
words or the financial support of
unbelievers. Every time we accept
them we weaken our testimony and
make ourselves ridiculous before
the world. If unbelievers think well
of Christ let them show their sin
cerity by seeking him as Saviour
and Lord. Then both they and their
gifts will be acceptable and to his
glory.
Physical Handicaps
The failure to overcome our phys
ical handicaps is only one of many
indications that few of us ever dis
cover ourselves.
Seeing Ourselves
We see time’s furrows on anoth
er’s brow; how few themselves, in
that just mirror, see!—Young.
Pleasures
A man that knows how to mix
pleasures with business, is never en
tirely possessed by them.
OP° SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
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A French Heading for Your Draperies.
\X7'HETHER you line your new
^ ^ draperies or not will depend
on how heavy the material is. It
is important, however, that the
top of draperies be stiffened when
a French heading is used. A
canvas which may be purchased
in drapery departments is gen
erally used for this purpose. From
four to six inches is a good depth
to cut the heading canvas. Turn
the top of the curtain material
over it and sew as at A.
Now measure the width of your
curtain and plan the plaits to take
up half this width. In heavy ma
terial, four or five inches will be
enough. It is a good plan to let
the space between the plaits be
*Ta.voilte TQacipa
ofi the Week
Shrimp
2 medium size
onions sliced
% cup sliced celery
2 tbsp shortening
1 tbsp flour
1 tsp salt
1 to 2 tbsp chill
powder
1 cup water
Shrimp Creole for Sunday
Night Supper.
CHRIMP Creole is an excellent
^ dish to serve for Sunday night
supper, not just because it is es
pecially good to eat, but because
it can be made the day before
or in the morning and reheated
when ready to serve. That is a
real convenience for the housewife
who does her own work.
Creole.
2 cups canned
tomatoes
2 cups canned peas
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp sugar
2 cups canned
shrimp
3 cups hot boiled
rice
Cook the onions and celery in
the fat until a delicate brown.
Add the flour, salt and chili pow
der and blend until smooth. Add
the water (use the liquid drained
from the peas as part of the wa
ter). Cook until thick and smooth,
stirring constantly. Add the to
matoes, peas, vinegar, sugar and
shrimp and heat thoroughly.
Serve with the hot rice.
If the shrimp creole is made
before serving time, you will find
a double boiler, or casserole con
venient to use for reheating it.
The amount of chili powder to
use depends upon personal taste.
It would be a good idea to add
just one tablespoonful and after
the finished product has been sam
pled more can be added if desired.
Chilled canned pears served
with a custard sauce would make
a pleasing dessert for the supper.
MARJORIE H. BLACK.
Ask Me Another
A A General Quiz
1. Why do stars seem to be
pointed?
2. When did the White House re
ceive this name officially?
3. What is the curvature of the
earth per mile?
4. What is the highest denom
ination of postage stamp issued
by the United States?
5. Is water in a pail perfectly
level at the top?
6. How long was the original
Greek marathon race?
Answers
1. Their apparent points are due
to the scintillation arising from in
equalities of the earth’s atmos
phere.
2. The name “White House” be
came official during the adminis
tration of Theodore Roosevelt.
3. The earth’s curvature per
mile is approximately 8 inches.
4. Five dollars.
5. It is slightly concave, due to
capillarity and surface tension.
6. The runner who carried the
message of Greek victory after
the Battle of Marathon traveled
about 24 miles.
the same as the amount of ma
terial the plaits take up. The first
plait may come just inside the
finish of the outside edge of the
drapery or it may be placed two
or three inches in.
Start to sew the plait about an
inch down from the top of the
drapery and sew it the depth of
the stiffening, as shown here at B.
Pinch this plait into three small
plaits and, starting two inches
down from the top, sew through
as at C. Sew these plaits the
depth of the stiffening, so that
they appear as shown here at D.
Now turn to the wrong side and
sew a ring to the back of each
plait as at E.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev
ery type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, rugs, otto
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
should send name and address,
enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears,
210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
“WARMING” ACTION
EASES CHEST COLD
TIGHTNESS
Ease the tightness and pressure
of your chest cold tonight with the
thorough counter-irritant and va
porizing action of Penetro, the only
salve which has a base of old-
fashioned mutton suet together
with 113% to 227% more medica
tion than any other nationally sold
cold salve. Rub with stainless,
snow-white Penetro—both children
and adults. Large jar Penetro, 35c.
Avoid Haughtiness
In prosperity, and events hap
pening in conformity with our de
sires, let us above all avoid pride,
disdain and haughtiness.—Cicero.
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• • •
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