TEXAS COUNTY
STARTS WORK
Lone Star State’s Newest
Community Now “Open
for Business’’
Mentone. Tex., —(UP)— Loving
county, Texas’ newest organized
community, is "open for business.”
For years there were not enough
taxpayers and voters in this
county to warrant the expense of
organizing One day drillers struck
oil deep in the sands under the
wild prairies.
The eight persons who voted In
the last presidential election gath
ered forces. When the election was
held recently to select county offi
cers there were G50 qualified voters.
Incidentally, almost every inhabi
tant of the more than 750 square
miles of the county was included
in the list.
With $2,500 in its treasury, offi
cials qualified, Mrs. Willie L^eman
Reynolds, county treasurer, had a
check book printed.
The county will have its first
term of district court next Janu
ary, providing a place can be
found to hold the sessions. A vault
to protect county records is being
built on a square of land set aside
as a courthouse site when Men'one
was established.
Blind Girl Aided by Town
Nowr Attends High School
Florence, Colo. — (UP) — When
school bells rang In Florence, mark
ing the opening of the school term,
undoubtedly the most eager pros
pective pupil In the high school was
Rose Gianarelll.
Rose is a totally blind youngster,
from Coal Creek, whose desire to
attend high school and provide her
self with sufficient education to
aid her in making her own way in
the world, drew the attention or
citizens and organizations of Flor
ence.
One men's luncheon club present
ed the sir' with a typewriter, to aid
her in the business course she se
lected. Other citizens aided the
parents of Roce to provide suffi
cient clothing, tuition, etc., to keep
her in school.
Her instructors report that Rose
Is progressing splendidly.
Newly Literate in Russia
Arc Demanding Books
Moscow- i UP)—The rapid educa
tion of millions of illiterate ndults
throughout this country has provid
ed the state publishing trusts with
a unique problem. They must pro
vide enormous quantities of books
suitable for newly-literatc people.
Special editions of the best pro
letarian and revolutionary litera
ture are contemplated to meet the
needs. Both in the choice of sub
ject matter and the physical
make-up of the books the readers*
unfamiliurity with reading must
be taken into consideration.
A number of the leading pro
letarian literary leaders, like Uri
Lebedinsky and Beila Ilish, are
preparing works intended especial
ly for the newly literate.
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Tiic Farmer Speaks for Himself
From Christian Science Monitor
The farmer is a better business
man than many suppose. For some
time anti-prohibltionists in the
United States have been trying to
sell him a "gold brick" In the form
of the theory that a resumption of
brewing would provide a market for
ills surplus grain. Thus far, appar
ently. the only ones deluded by tlie
argument are a few brokers in New
York. The farmer knows where his
grain goes and his money comes
from. /
The National Orange, an organi
zation of 800,000 farmers represent
ing every state in the union, has
answered the beer proposal with
flat rejection. Mr. Louis J. Taber,
national master of the Grange, calls
it "tragic to find socnlled national
leaders" urging modification as a
prosperity measure and says studies
made by his organization "show
conclusively that the resumption of
the brewing industry in the United
States would be detrimental to the
interests of agriculture.”
Orange members are sensible
enough to sec that what men spend
for beer will not add to what they
spend for other things. Instead,
almost certainly that amount and
probably more will be subtracted
from what they spend now for
milk, butter, cheese, ice cream, soft
drinks, bread, pastry and candy.
Seme manufacturers of automo
biles, radios and other products
would do well to investigate what
effects liquor would have on their
sales.
Bctyeen 1917 and 1929. years typ
ical of the change wrought by pro
hibition, the consumption of dairy
products in the united States rose
242.7 pounds per capital, the Grange
points out. To meet this increased
demand Involved the consumption
of more than 10.000.000.000 pounds
of grain annually, which is three
times the amount used by the whole
brewing industry in America in 1917,
besides 25,000,000,000 pounds of
roughage for which the breweries
would offer no market.
May Be the Reason.
From Pathfinder.
“There are an awful lot of girls
Who don’t want to get married.”
“How do you know?”
‘•I’ve asked them.”
Catty.
From Answers.
"1 really had to give tlvat poor
blind man a copper for what he
said when I passed.”
“What did he say?”
“ 'Spare a penny for a blind man,
pretty lady,' he remarked."
“Well, anyway, that proves he was
really blind."
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A Judge, Maybe.
From Pathfinder.
Victim: But how do you know
that the man who robbed our house
last night was once a jeweler?
Detective: Madam, you eald your
aelf that the man didn’t take a piece
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Daily Health Service
Inhalation of Dust Is Cause of Most
Industrial Diseases
WORKERS SOMETIMES INHALE GERMS OR PARASITES WHICH
ATTACK TISSUES OF LUNGS AND CAUSE ILLNESS
BY I>R. MOKKIS FIS1U1KIN
Editor Journal of the American
Medical Association, and of
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
The most widespread group of In
dustrial diseases Is that In,
which Inhalation of dusts developed
during the processes of tire work
la the basic cause. The scientific
name for such diseases Is pneu
monoconlosis—« word developed
from two Greek words meaning f
lung and dust. The dusts Inhaled
are of various types. For Instance,
It Is possible for a worker to In
hale germs or parasites which once
In the lung attack the tissues.
Recently newspapers carried an
account of a girl who had developed
pulmonary anthrax. Anthrax Is a
disease caused by micro-organisms
from the hides of cattle and sheep
which usually attack the skin of
the body. Wher Inhaled this germ
can set up Infection In the lungs
which In the majority of cases Is
fatal Anthrax Is known as wool
sorter’s disease and Is also asso
ciated with any worker who handles
fresh hides.
In Paris there arc men who raise
pigeons and who -ed them by
holding the grain la their own
mouths and forcing It down the
“Dead Man” Outlives
Most of Mourners
New Orleans—(.UP)—It’s been 4!)
yean since Thomas Littlejohn was
pronounced dead as he lay fully
conscious, and heard them bring
In his coffin and prepare to carry
him to his grave, but today he still
Is very much alive and prides him
self that he has already outlived
moat of his “mourners."
"It was In the terrible smallpox
epidemic here In 1882,” Littlejohn
said. "I was 25 years old. Had
been sick about two months and
finally sank into a sort of coma.
Doctors who had been treating me
pronounced me dead. There was
nothing I could do about it. I
heard them bring in my casket. A
peal of thunder finally caused me
to open my eyes and move just
as they were carrying my coffin
bock from my room.
Dictatorship A La Moses
Prom the New York World
Telegram.
With a spark of the old New
England spirit, the puritanic de
termination to dictate conduct,
Senator George H. Moses proposes
to his fellow New Englanders in
the Senate that they organize to
control' that body in the next ses
sion of Congress.
This would ‘‘result perhaps self
ishly for us but unselfishly for all
the United States,” Mr. Moses
thinks. In other words he feels it
would be good for the United
States if he and his fellows were
to establish dictatorship over the
rest of the country and bring it as
nearly as possible to the pattern of
New England.
This is because “New England
is self-supporting, self-respecting,
and does not yammer at the gates
of Congress to have the government
do those things which individuals
should do themselves.”
One reason, perhaps, that New
England does not yammer is that it
already has got from the govern
ment practically all the paternal
istic help its mind could devise or
its heart desire.
The tariff, for instance, dictated
and imposed more by New England
manufacturers than any other sin
gle group, and ruinous to all parts
of the country alike.
Mail subsidies, which put millions
of government dollars into the
White Collar Worker*
Take Job* Loading Cotton
Austin, Tex. — (UP) — A minis
ter, a lawyer, a geologist, numerous
college graduates and former white
collar employes blistered their
hands with cotton trucks when pro
fessional longshoremen struck at
Texas ports, recently.
“There were no ‘strikebreakers’ In
the crowds that applied for places,”
said P. W. Parker, general manager
of the Galveston Wharf company.
‘‘We were besieged with men w’ho
said they were out of jobs and
throats of the pigeon. Such men
not frcguently inhale organisms
which set up troubles in their
lungs.
Weavers of cotton cloth sometimes
develop a cough that is due to the
Inhaling of mildew present on the
cotton threads. Conditions of cli
mate effect the sizing of the
threads before they are placed on
the looms, favoring the growth and
development of the mildew. The
weavers inhale the fungi, which are
thrown off the cotton threads in
the process of weaving. The fungi
develop in the lungs, producing a
feeling of constriction of the chest
with difficult breathing, and asso
ciated with this, expectoration of
thick, yellowish-green sputum. As
the infection goes on other germs
attack the weakened tissues, pro
ducing not infrequently secondary
attacks of tuberculosis, pneumonia,
or septic infections. This brings
about, of course, general weakness,
aching limbs, aching back, severe
headache and perspiration as well
as prostration.
Tho condition does not occur so
frequently as to be a constant men
ace, but cases have been recognized
sufficiently often to give the dis
ease the special name of weaver’s
cough.
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pockets of the New England ship
ping trade; government shipbuild
ing loans, which bring more mil
lions of shipbuilders; the Cape Cod
canal, expensively foisted upon the
government when it ceased to be a
prosperous private enterprise.
Mr. Moses would prevent the gov
ernment’s giving the same kind of
help to the rest of the country that
it has given New England in the
past, and from giving help of any
kind to the cold and hungry next
winter.
Like others who talk of self-re
spect and self-support, he advocates
these virtues only for the unem
ployed, never for subsidized and
i tariff-aided corporations.
Mr. Moses’ dictatorship plan will
j not get far.
BATTLE OF RIGHTS
Knoxville, Tenn.—Lawyers may
have a persuasive way with juries,
but Ted Livingston, taxi driver, will
bandy words with the best of them
when It comes to disputing the
right of way on a city street. Liv
ingston recently tangled with C.
Raleigh Harrison, local lawyer, and,
as neither would move for the oth
er, they blocked Market street for
45 minutes until police came along.
wanted work to feed themselves and
families.”
One geologist with white soft
hands pushed cotton on a truck re
gardless of the blisters. It was a
pure exhibition of grit for many of
the men in the early days of their
new work until they hardened to it.
C ROW PAYS FOR MEAL
Wautoma, Wis.—(UP)—C. H. Pe
terson has a pet crow named Jimmy,
which paid for a meal in cash the
other day. After being fed some
grapes by Mrs. A. A. Beck, a neigh
bor, Jimmy picked up a penny in
the grass and laid it at her fp**t.
PAYS $25 FINE FOR
KILLING A GROUSE
Lincoln, Neb—(Special)—Joseph
Linn of Logan was arrested and
fined $25 and his gun confiscated
during the pheasant hunting sea
son because he shot a grouse, and
R. R. Hendrix, Lyman, was fined
for hunting game birds with a rifle
NORFOLK WILL
GET BUILDING
Telephone Company Plans
Modem Plant for Its
Business
Norfolk, Neb.— <Special) — An
nouncement Is made that the
Northwestern Bell Telephone com
pany will engage in an extensive
improvement program in Norfolk.
The program will include the
erection of a new three-story brick
building. The building, when com
pleted, will accommodate the local
and district offices of the company
and the local and long distance
switchboards and other equipment
essential in providing telephone ser
vice, according to C. L. Pickett,
manager of the company here.
A brick garage will be erected on
the rear of the property for the ser
vice cars and supplies.
The reason for engaging in this
building project at this time is to
meet the future growth and de
mands for the service by the peo
ple of Norfolk and the surrounding
territory. Furthermore, some exten
sive additions, rearrangements and
replacements are to be made in the
near future.
Work on the building will be
started as soon as plans for the
structure and the equipment it will
house can be completed. About one
year will be required to complete the
project.
AWARDS GO TO
111 STUDENTS
University of Nebraska An*
nounces Names of Bene
ficiaries in That School
Lincoln, Neb. — (Special)—An
nouncement has been made of the
awarding scholarships at the Uni
versity of Nebraska to 95 Nebras
kans and 16 residents of other
states. Eighty-nine of these were
tuition scholarships and 22 scholar
ships granted by the college of law.
Included in the list are: Milan D.
Austin of Ponca, Marguerite Hager -
rnan of Niobrara, Delos W. Orcutt,
in the college of agriculture; Inez
I. Baker of Tilden, Dorothy E. Jor
gensen of Sorum, S. D„ Lucie Starr
of Council Bluffs, la., Mildred Waite
of Schuyler, in the college of arts
and sciences.
Harold P. Pierce of Lucas, Ia„
Maxine Myers of Creston, la., and
Clara Holm of Columbus, in the
school of fine arts. Frederic Ehlert
of Woodbine, la., in the school of
journalism; Harold W. Schricker of
Loretto, in the college of business
administration; Mona Heine of
Hooper and Beryl Rice of Tekamah,
in the teachers’ college.
Russell W. Bartels of Wayne,
Hylc G. Burke of Bancroft, C. M,
Kingsbury of Ponca. Harry N. Lar
I son of Wakefield, Lloyd Pospisil of
West Point and Elmer Rakow ol
Neligh, in the law college.
These are the first law scholar
ships to be granted by the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and are based
an scholarship and financial need.
GAS DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM
TO BE IMPROVED
Columbus, Neb. — (UPi — Ex
tensions and alterations of the gas
distributing system of the Centra)
West Public Service company, here,
will call for expenditures of approx
imately $70,000 during the coming
winter, Everett Baxter of Omaha,
general superintendent of the com
pany, estimated.
Under the new franchise granted
the utility company, natural gas
will be turned into the city mains
in place of artificial gas. The con
tracted time calls for the change
over by May.
The major extension of the dis
tributing system will be the build
ing of a belt line about the city
proper. Pipe for the belt line and
the connecting laterals has already
been ordered and is expected here
within three weeks.
The belt line and connecting lat
erals will be so placed as to elimi
nate the “dead ends” in the system
In building the new distribution
system, approximately 7,200 feet of
six inch pipe will be used, 27,000
feet of 4-inch pipe used and also
a great amount of 2-inch pipe.
The natural gas overland pips
line will be laid from Fremont here
Fremont was recently switched over
from artificial to natural gas.
MIDLAND STUDENTS
WORK TO PAY WAY
Fremont, Neb.—(Special)— Thir
ty-four per cent of Midland col
lege's students are working foi
part or all of the money with which
to pay their college expenses.
Statistics show that 95 per cent
of the 280 students registered in
the collegiate department are work*
ing.
CIRCUS TEAM BACK
HOME FOR WINTER
Stanton, Neb. — (Special) — Mr.
*nd Mrs. Rink Wright and daugh
ter, Margaret, are home for the
winter after spending the summer
with the Sells Floto circus owned by
the famous Ringling brothers. They
perform a special ladder balancing
;ct which Mr. Wright originated.
They travelled 14.891 miles during
their tour of 26 weeks thorugh 23
states of the union. They report
vices and general conditions better
sn the Middle West than elsewhere.
Australia's “Twenty Grand*’
‘Phar Lap,” the champion race horse of Australia, photograph1 ;1 in
action during one of his recent victories. “Phar Lap” is regarded a»
much of a champion of horseflesh by the Aussies as “Twenty Grund^
is respected in this country.
Ray! Kay! Ray!
New York sometimes gets slightly
bored welcoming various and sun
dry notables which arrive from
foreign shores, but it never wearies
of seeing such beauties at Kathryn
Ray back ia the old home town.
Miss Ray, handing Gotham a
cheery salute, is shown as she re
turned to New York on the S. S.
leviathan for new triumphs on
the stage.
Sister Mary’s Kitchen
Many of our pet superstitions
about foods, cocking methods and
digestibility are being shattered by
scientific investigation and re
search. Some of the beliefs are
based on prejudice and tradition,
others on the unhappy experience ■
of a few individuals with digestive
peculiarities, and almost none on a
sound knowledge of nutrition.
There are, of course, some peo- j
pie with whom certain foods do not
“agree.” When this is discovered
it is well to avoid those foods. One
should be sure, however, that the
idiosyncrasy is real and not fancied.
Persons who are in normal health
and who do not over-indulge in
some specially liked and delicious
food may enjoy almost any palat
able combination with no misgiv
ings.
The fish and milk combination
is always a much discussed ques
tion. All authorities now agree that
fish and milk “are in perfect har
mony, like all simple, wholesome
foods.” I quote from an article on
this subject in one of the current
magazines.
One fallacy that is quite common
ly encountered is the one that acid
foods produce acidity in the system.
The taste of food Is no guide to its
final reachon in the body, for it is
only after the system has made use
of its fuel that the nature of the
ash can be determined. Some foods
after being digested and utilized by
the body have an acid reaction in
the blood and others are alkaline in
reaction. Although lemons are sour
to the taste because of the organic
acids they contain, the effect of the
lemon is the effect of its ash, which
is basic, not acid. Apples, bananas, l
muskmelons, oranges and potatoes !
have been found experimentally to
be very efficient in reducing body
acidity.
The practice of eating acid foods j
in the same meal with milk or of
INDIAN LORE POPULAR
Rockville, R. I. — (UP> — Indian
lore is the most popular activity at
the Boy Scout Camp Yawgoog here
this summer and persons traversing
country roads at night get the im
pression Rockville has gone redskin.
Initiations are held nightly and
blood-curdling war v.hoops and j
tribal calls till the air.
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TENNIS BALLS ON ICE
Paris—(UP)—Tennis balls kept ou
I ice have proved a great asset to
tennis matches. In order to keep
the balls at a standard tempera
ture during the Davis cup matches
using milk or cream on fruits Is
censored by some persons. However,
the acid is actually a help rather
than a hindrance to milk in diges
tion. It is a common practice to
beat orange or lemon or tomato
juice into milk or to sour milk arti
ficially for persons with weak diges
tion.
Acid fruits do not interfere with
the digestion of starchy foods.
Pancakes, waffles, muffins and
hot breads of all sorts are not in
themselves unwholesome food, but
they have a bad reputation with
many people. In the first place they
are usually eaten without proper
mastication on account of the soft
ness in structure. Second, they are
often served with much butter and
TOMORROW’S MENU
Breakfast — Grapes, cereal,
cream, waffles, syrup, milk,
coffee.
Luncheon — Potatoes baked
and stuffed with oysters,
shredded cabbage, orange jelly
with whipped cream, drop
cookies, milk, tea.
Dinner — Roast shoulder of
veal, creamed potatoes, but
tered carrots, head lettuce with
Russian dressing, steamed gTa
ham pudding, milk, coffee.
a syrup of some variety and the
tendency is to eat largely of such
combinations to the exclusion of
other more essential foods. Third,
they are very appetizing and cause
most people to overeat. Eaten in
no larger amounts than plain cold
bread and with no greater amounts
of fat or sweet, and chewed thor
oughly, they should be as easy to
digest as cold bread.
Veal is no more indigestible than
fish, chicken or beef. In France it
is given to invalids as we give chicks
en in this country.
Kansas Utility Company
States Insurance Plan
Kansas City, Mo.—(UP)—An old
age insurance and sick benefit plan
affecting more than 2.200 employes
has been announced by the Kansas
City Power and Light company.
Every employe of the company will
retire on pension at 65, under the
plan. The pensions are on a sliding
scale from a minimum of $30 a
month up to $12.50 a month times
the number of years the employe has
been with the company.
The insurance benefits are on a
subscription basis, with employes
paying part of the cost and the
company the rest. The wage earner
can take advantage of the plan or
not as he sees fit.
Widows and orphans of employes
who die after retiring also are cared
for under the plan.
AIRLINE STARTS EXCURSIONS
Paris—(UP)—Breakfast in Paris,
lunch in London, and back to Paris
in time for dinner is the program
offered by a French airline operat
ing between the two capitals. The
company has established a schedule
of Sunday excursion trips by air
from Paris to London at specially
reduced rates through which the
round trip can be made at a maxi
mum cost of $30. The one way fare
in $21 i case you overeat in Lon
dn and can't make the return plane.
The series of excursion flights
started with the idea of giving mre
people the opportunity of learning
the advantages of air travel.
WORKS WAY AROUND WORLD
Vernon, Tex.—(UP)—Allan Car
ney, University of Missouri student,
has returned home after working
his way entirely around the wrld
as a newspaper reporter. The trip
required a year and Carney and his
companion, Sutton Christian, were
held as stowaways for a time in
French Somaliland. Christian re
mained in Shanghai to work or,
the China Press.
Greenland is regarded as the
largest island, although some geo
graphers regard it as an island
continent. It has an area of 827 -
000 square miles. New Guinea, with
an area of 330,000 square miles,
ranks second, and Borneo, with
280,000 square miles, is third.
at the Stade Roland-Garros to pre
vent them from expanding with the
heat, an electric ice box was in
stalled near the central court, and
regulated to keep the balls at an
even 18 degrees Centigrade. As the
balls in play were changed frequent
ly the temperature at which they
were kept made them bound uni
formly.
Yes. Do Go On.
From Pele Mc-le, Pari.
He: I could go on loving you hkc
this forever I
She: Oh, go on.
