MercolizedWax
Keeps Skin Young
G*t m> ounce and iiw as directed. Fin* particle* of aged !
•*'n P®«l off until nil defect* ouch a* pimple*, liver
•P»‘t*. tan and freckU* disappear. Skin i* then soft f
velvety. Year face looks years younger Mereolised
Wa» Pnage^out the hidden beauty of your skin.
retnove wrinkle* use one ounce Powdered Sasolit*
dinolved in one-half pint witch haaeJ. At dru« store*.
Sunshine ""
—All Winter Long
At tha Foremost Desert Resort
of the West—marvelous climate—warm sunny
days—dear starlit nights—dry invigorating
oir — splendid roads--gorgeous mountain
scenes—finest hotels—the ideal winter home.
Writ* Cram A Chaffty
PALM SPRINGS
t'uHfnrnin
Humor in Parliament
A book of recollections by Sir
James Agg-Gardner. who until his re
cent death heard -all of the annual
flood of parliamentary words for .'4
years, relates two of the funniest
(he said “most humorous'’) things
that were said in all that time:
“A young member, having complet
ed tile peroration of a semi-success
ful maiden speech, concluded. ‘And
now I hope 1 have made it clear to
honorable members opposite that we
who sit on this side are not rpiite
such fools as we look!”
The other one is not quite so fun
ny but just as humorous:
“A member hailing from the Ktner
aid isle, criticizing the parsimonious
conduct of the South African war,
said, ‘Is it fair, sir, that we should
have our sons slaughtered at the
front, and then expect them to live
on six-pence a day when they get
back?"—Detroit News.
DROWN YOUR HEADACHE
In This Cup of Tea!
Lit; !nte*tlnnl movement came*
! painful headache*. Wbcsiheijitcm
clog*, make yourself a cup of fragrant
t.arfleld Tea. It* effect* are prompt —
(eutle but decidedly certain. The
khm of heBTlnetsvanl'ttc* from your
atomacb. Garfield Te«i thoroughly
■iimicH ana me euie,
Vlnnot wav to fluth
the bow cla.
At all Jrvgetots
GARFIELD
TEA (
World'* Slowed Animal*
A rare three-clawed sloth was
picked up by <_\ S. Webb, the ex
plorer. It was swimming in a Brit
ish Guiana river, two miles from
land. Day Drenm is estimated to be
about live years old. “It took her,”
said Mr. Webb, “exactly 3 minutes
47 seconds to climb from my boots
to my shoulders, and 1 am not a
giant.” She was said to be at the
top of her form. According to Mr.
Webb, site and tier mates live in per
petual twilight, more than 100 feet
above ground. Sloth eyesight is so
feeble that Day Dream wears a slnr
ing target pattern between her
shoulders, or prospective suitors
would never be able to “find the
lady.”
Born in Tree, Die* at 103
Sarah Ann Ayres, who was born in
a hollow tree in the Itichniond dis
trict 103 years ago, has Just died at
Hobart, Tasmania. Her father was
one hundred at his death. Mrs. Ayres
had nine sons and seven daughters,
nil of whom are living. She also left
73 grandchildren, At great-grandchil
dren and two great-great-grandchil
dren.— London .Mail.
According to Precedent
SllLtciidorf—1 invented a better rat
trap.
PifTenpoof — What's your next
nmve?
SliUendorf—To a cabin in the
woods, of course.
Juft ns Bad
‘‘Money seems to uo to :i woman's
head,” sighed 1 lie uian who hail only
been married -ix months.
“Olt, I don't know,” replied the old
grouch, “my wife spends more on
shoes than site does on hats.”—Chi
fa go News.
Liquid Air Production
About SOD cable feet of air at or
dinary temperature and pressure are
required to produce one cubic foot
of liquid air.
No Doubt About It
Blooey—"Travel broadens one, thej
say.” I looey—•''Sure does. Travel to
the dinner table.”
It takes dcsiraeiive criticism to de
stroy evils, tea ructive criticism
won't do it.
Kill COLD SERMfi
Clears head instantly.
Slops cold spreading.
Sprinkle your
handkerchief during the day
“—your pillow at night
McriSSON
PROCUCT
Sioux City Ptg. Co., No. 1-1922.
Out Our Way
8y Williams
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12-19 (DI9JI DY HEA ffBVtCE. INC. J
CHICAGO SCENE
FAMOUS FIGHT
Political Conclave Which
Nominated Lincoln in
1860 Memorable One
BY RAY BLACK.
United Press Correspondent.
Chicago—(UP)—There must be
something In Chicago air to fire po
litical cauldrons white hot.
Perhaps there never has been a
more tumultuous party conclave
than the one May 16, 1860, In a
huge ramshackle structure on Lake
street—the “Great Wigwam.” It
was there, with the barn-like in
terior packed wfith tobacco-chewing
men from the prairies, that Abe
Lincoln was nominated by a then
new republican party.
Prairie yells and the roar of can
nons atop the ‘'Wigwam” and the
Tremont hotel announced the nom
ination of the rail-splitter and the
discomfiture of the eastern faction.
If history repeats itself, next sum
mer’s republican convention in the
Chicago stadium, a structure as dif
ferent from the “Wigwam” as the
Chicago of today is from the Chi
cago of the '60s, may see decorum
forgotten in a burst of old-time par
tisan fervor.
For days, plainsmen had been
pouring into the city by wood-burn
ing railroad trains and wagons lum
bering over plank roads, to attend
the republican convention in 1860.
The Licoln men were at the Tre
mont hotel, listening to the strata- i
gems of Judge David Davis.
At the Richmond hotel were Wil
liam H. Seward, the cultured, elo
quent New Yorker, and his par
tisans. They had money, flags, brass
bands and a close organization.
The day of the convention they
paraded, bands blaring and flags
flying. Judge Davis, shrewd as a
prairie fox, packed the •'Wigwam”
with Lincoln men. When the eastern
visitors tried to enter, they found
the big shed crowded. Few except
accredited delegates from the east
got in.
William Evarts, famous New York
lawyer, nominated Seward. The
demonstration lacked volume.
Norman B. Judd, Chicago attor
ney, nominated Lincoln. The * Wig
wam” shivered to prairie yells. In
diana seconded the nomination.
Gov. Henry S. Lane of that state
jumped up on the stand and danced
a jig.
The Ohio delegation split, one
group siding with the Lincoln men.
Other "favorite sons” were nom
inated but the fight was between
Lincoln and Seward—the west
against the east. The first ballot
showed Seward, 173’i and Lincoln,
102. Tt took 233 votes to nominate.
On the third ballot Lincoln got
231’i votes. Ohio changed its vote,
switching four votes to Lincoln.
A man on the roof yelled: "Abe
Lincoln is nominated.” The can
non boomed from the "Wigwam”
roof. The one on the Trcmont took
up the salute and roared 100
times.
PAINTER’S GRAVE FOUND
Florence — (UP) — Botticelli’s
grave, in the yard of All Saints’
church here, has been identified
after many years by Father Giusep
pe Calamandri. For nearly a cen
tury, the tombstone indicating the
Cultivate Too Much Land.
From the Houston Post-Dispatch.
What’s the occasion for the piling
up of these unprecedented sur
pluses of farm products, anyway?
Agreeable growing weather the Iasi
year? Improvement in farming
methods? More land in cultivation?
All of these were factors. But. per
haps, the chief cause of increased
production is increased acreage. It
is a fact that cotton acreage was
cut down some the last year, and
acreage in some other crops was
slightly less than in the previous
years. But overexpansion of acre
age prevailed nevertheless.
Secretary Hyde of the federal
<-:pr>artment -<f agriculture threw
grave of the great Florentine paint
er disappeared. Father Calamandri
found the grave through consulting
an old plan of the graveyard. A new
tombstone will be erected.
WHO REMEMBERS?
When hands were calloused by the
plow
Preparing fields for corn.
Instead of by the wheel, about
The button of a horn?
When not a state imposed a tax
On any kind of gas?
When even city dwellers raised
A little garden sass?
When our elite sailed o’er the pond
To get their culture quicker.
And never entertained a thought
About the foreign liquor?
When books were read by hanging
lamps,
Before a hard coal stove,
Or logs of wood brought to the
grate
From out the hard wood grove?
When women wore a dress in hopes
Some things it might conceal,
Instead of picked one out because
Of what it must reveal?
Well, if you’re one of those who
does
Remember all these things,
It’s time you now should think
about
Such things as harps and wings.
—Sam Page.
Renoites Pack House
When Town’s Film Shown
Reno, Nev. — (UP) — Any mo
tion picture in which Reno is used
as the motif, or background, is sure
to -pack the house” in Reno.
The Renan enjoys being in the
spotlight of the world. Civic pride
is greater to the native of Reno
light on the matter of the causes
of farm product surpluses at a land
utilization conference in Chicago
this week when he pointed out that
in 19:10 there were 336.000.000 more
acres in cultivation in the United
states than in 1909, and that last
year considerably more land was in
cultivation than in 1919, when this
country was being called upon to
feed a large part of Europe.
Alarm has been felt by manv of
those interested in agriculture’s
welfare at statements showing a
decrease of 84.000 farms in the
United States from 1925 to 1930
But Secretary Hyde reminds us
that, while the number of farms de
than In most other cities although
this city has been the target of
attacks from pulpit and press for
many years.
At a recent showing of "The
Road to Reno” here, reactions of
the audience were immediate and
audible. At the "fade in” of the
picture, showing familiar sights
“along Reno’s streets, the audience
applauded.
But when the film entered into
the showing of “orgies” amid
scenes that were wholly faked and
bearing no resemblance to any
place in the entire state of Ne
vada, the audience hooted and
hissed.
German-Russian Air
Service Show* Increase
Washington — (UP) — Over a
nine-year period ending in 1930
"Dcruluft,” the German-Russian
Air Transportation company has
realized a tremendous increase In
airplane carrier service. Fom 1922
to 1930 "Derluft” planes have car
ried 13,363 passengers, 729,648
pounds of baggage and freight, and
261,765 pounds of mail for a total
of 3,003,702 miles.
Figures show that in 1930 the
company’s planes flew six times
as far, carried 10 times as many
passengers, three times as much
freight and baggage, and nearly
30 times as much mail as in 1922,
over two services, one from Ber
lin to Moscow, the other from
Konigsberg to Leningrad.
PINT OF WINK FOR FIVE CENTS
Frankfurt-Am-Main — (UP) —
Nearly a pint glass of wine for five
cents, including tax and tip, is a
feature of a wineroom established
here by vintners to stimulate the
sale of their product.
creased by 84,000 in that five-year
period, the number of acres in cul
tivation increased 15,000,000 during
that period. We have simply been
going in for bigger farms. The mer
ger movement has struck agricul
ture.
Neither the growth of population
iu the United States nor the in
crease in demand for our products
abroad has been great enough to
warrant such an increase in crop
acreage as has taken place in the
last 20 years, or even in the last
five years. The primary remedy,
obviously, for farm products surplus
is acreage reduction.
Autobiography of a Bushel of Corn \
v - j
Written by Dr. W. H. Dewey, Moville, la., January 1, 1921.
I, together with other thousands of bushels, was raised
on a fine farm near a village in Iowa. At the village mar
ket in the fall of 1920,1 was sold by my master for 50 cents.
I soon after was put aboard the cars and sent to a large
mill, where my 56 pound weight was ground into 56 pounds
of rich yellow meal; there is no waste in my grinding. I
am all clean food. I was then put into 28 round pasteboard
cartons; boxed up and sent to a wholesale grocery. Pres
ently a retail grocer in the village near where I was raised,
gave an order to my new owner for corn meal. So with my
27 comrads I was returned to my old home, very proud
and self important. Shortly after my arrival my former
master came into the store to buy some corn meal and
other necessaries. I was sold to him for 20 cents and my
27 comrades I was returned to my old home, very proud
at the same price. Thus from my humble beginning, with
a 50 cent value, within two months and the polish given
by a little travel, my 56 pounds sold for $5.60, an increase
in price of $5.10 or 1,020 per cent. And thus I became the
King Korn of Profiteers.
It was not always thus, for my struggling ancestors
related to us the story of their humble life 40 years ago in
eastern Iowa where they were born and raised. They said
a bushel of us was put into a grain sack, thrown across
the back of old Dobbin, held in place by a boy behind and
carried to the old grist mill. When ground into 56 pounds
of rich yellow meal, the miller took out six pounds for his
trouble and the 50 pounds remaining were taken home to
our master, made into Johnnie cake, corn meal mush and
griddle cakes, the staple food of an entire family for a
whole month. This story of my life shows that while I
have grown in self importance, I have very greatly depre
ciated in usefulness, to mankind.
OUR DOG HAS FLEAS
By Cola W. Shepard «i The Colony, Wyo., Coyole
Our dog has fleas. It Is very embarrassing and annoy
ing, both to him and to me, and to a somewhat less degree -
to others. We will be walking along whistling and wagging
our tail (that is, I do the whistling and he wags his tail)
and all at once he will be compelled to sit right down where
he Is and devote all his attention to tire dislodging ol a
flea that has decided to take lunch in a tender spot.
And then again, my dog dearly loves to ride in the car
with me, and when he does so some fleas are apt io make
a mistake and take up their abode wit h me Instead-of 4nm.
He does not miss them and I do not usually become aware
of their friendly proximity until they have reach<'d some
Inaccessible spot between my undies and me and start On
a tour of exploration.
And worst of all, it happens on very rare occasions
that a young lady condescends to ride with me In my cor.
Now if one of these friendly little fleas decides that she
looks much more tender than his present host and quietly
strolls down her neck or up her stocking to some selected
spot that is warm and comfy, that also embarrassing.
She squirms uneasily and looks at me reproachfully, while
I wonder if she realizes that it is only a flea, or if she sus
pects that perhaps I have presented her with some other
parasite not usually discussed in pclite society.
So when we opened the editorial mail the other day
and found seven communications from the United States
government which they hoped we v/cuJd set up and print
without any expense to the government we were overjoyed
to note that the department of agriculture had been*study-s
ing fleas on dogs and had discovered a remedy therefor.
We grasped the paper in our hand and eagerly Implored
our druggist to please sell us right . way quick some “pow
dered derris root,” which Uncle Sam says will kill fleas that
infest our dog (and ourselves at times). But the druggist
looked at us with a blank expression and sadly reported
that he had none of this precious drug Then we asked for
the other flea exterminator recommended by Uncle Barn's
white-collared farmers. “Pyrethrum powder?” No.
A drug salesman from a big wholesale drug house hap
pened to be present, and the druggist said he would order
some of the flea remedy for us. He handed the salesman the
paper sent out by the government farm department, and
the salesman referred to his big bock of drugs, all te*n»
purpose. Neither of these things were listed. So our dog '
continues to exercise his hind feet and his front tegthji)
effort to keep the fleas more or less quiet, and he .think* '\
we do not care for his society any more because we wth
not let him ride in the car with us. *
The department of agriculture has undoubtedly done
a great scientific work by discovering these things which
will kill fleas, but we would feel that we were getting mere
for our money If they would either tell us how to gel these
drugs, or discover some flea killer that can be obtained.
It is nice to publish In our paper stories of how the depart
ment has helped all classes of people by their srleaUfle
researches, for then we will not feel so bod when we read
about the large appropriations which they receive lot thg
prosecution of this work, but In many eases that to abeut
all they accomplish. They have a large force at Work writ
ing up stories showing how useful this departmentand
millions of dollars are spent in this kind of propaganda.
Once In a while they actually do accomplish something for
the farmer, but a very small part of theb work to of any
practical value, and our dog cannot see that the depart
ment has helped him one bit.
NAVY IS BUSY
DESPITE PEACE
Washington — (UP) — Earth
quakes, tidal waves, hurricanes,
bandits, and ambitious Latln
American generals made the last
fiscal year one of Intense activity
for the navy.
Reporting to Secretary of Navy
Adams, Admiral William V. Pratt,
chief of operations, listed the
varied activities of the United
States naval forces in peacetime.
Although a year of profound
peace for this country, Pratt re
ported on five naval expeditions
necessary to protect American lives
and property.
Insurrectionist activities in Nic
aragua, a revolution In Honduras
bandits in China, a oommujpist at
tack on Chinese coastal towns, and
a revolution in Brazil called for a
massing of American warships.
A total of 16 sailors and ma
rines lost their lives in action dur
ing the year—15 marines in Nica
ragua and one sailor in China.
Pour great disasters called for
naval aid, the Chinese flood, the
Nicaraguan earthquake, the tidal
wave which destroyed Belize, cap
ital of British Honduras, and the
hurricane which swept the Do
minican Republic.
Farm Boy vs. City Boy
Prom NEA Editorial Service
Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of
the Chase National Bank of New
York, declared in an interview pub
lished by World’s Work magazine
recently that country boys, for some
reason, seem to make better bank
ers than city boys.
Of the men in control of New
York’s 18 leading banks, he points
out, not one was born on Manhat
tan Island. Most of them came from
small towns. Moreover, nearly half
of them lacked a college education.
Here, surely, Is material for plen
ty of speculation. It all lines up
with one of the oldest of American
traditions—that the country boy is
apt to be a little sharper, a little
more ambitious, a little more cap
able, than the boy from the city—
but we never new exactly why we
thought so. and it is hard to see
just why it should hold good for
New York’s bankers.
It used to be supposed that there
were more self-denial and more dis
cipline in the country than in the
Board and Room at Berea
College Sounds Fantastic
Chicago,—(UPi-Rooms for 60
cents a week and meals for 11 cents
each sound like a fairy tale even
in these days of depression but they
are facts at Berea College at Berea,
Kentucky.
Dr. William J. Hutchins, father
of the president of the University
of Chicago, is head of the school.
Men and women students, with
the background that gave the na
tion Lincoln, Clay and Daniel
Boone, earn their way through col
uty. cexueuuy me uhith* «
a line training school tor
youngster. But »M m*l «I»v
cipJIne art: surely ubwntant enough
in the family of a eJty Tattm-Jr hand,
where half a down lummn-Awtogs
have 1,0 be 1,1 feel and housed
on a wage of $88 or $40 a week.
The poorer inuuUm eff.v* M* *M»
can be tr&muag rglifK6m «|ttW>? A
stringent as the farmer’s aores., '
Perhaps part of tMsecret to diK* to
file rat t that the tad who grows to
in the country lr assailed py fewer
distractions He has um»« ttmo to
figure thing.-t out for IrinwoM, move
time to pick md, the channel he
wants to follow, unaro time to haI
his young life ot lcntr<*“'t>efor© ne
plunger Into the workaday worML
City life Jilts n. terrifically fast
pace. It can confuse even a grown
man—and decs, probably, In utae
cases out. of ten; isn't It bound to
be something of a handicap for a
growing youngf.ter?
It may l-t that we rhr. i] discover,
sooner or later, that any large rtty
is an unhealtliful place to grow up
in. Tha email town anil the open
counts y offei a way «f, MJK*' that Is
more wholesome. V/ill we. ivcptual
ly, take out blagest elites apart, and
get over the notion Ibat we have to
huddle togei her In vast, groups lu
order to me it a go of things?
Oil Well Waste Takes
Toll of Pennsylvania Dee*
Hanisburg, Pa. — 44MP) — Monro
chemicjil in the waste from- ar> oB
well In Leetonla has caused* th«
death of numerous ileer, according
to officials of the State Game Coin
mission.
The elfin have died, pear, the will
after hexing He bed the waste, it to
reported.
Lunpf of fevrral deer, and sam
ples of waste from the well, are
being rnalywil. Meanwhile, the.
Game Commission has tailored Un
well fenced off
Soviet PWxs HfsriC r
Fc*r 3ta Builders
Moec . — mil — immortality
of a sc il has been offl* lirlly de
creed frr the leaders of new Indos
trial cor; met,ions throughout th<*>
Soviet union.
An oeder signed by Pn mlrg
Viachcf 'av Molotov makes it ob
i ligatr^.v frr al) new power sta
[ tione, fai.dries, mines, railroads,
state ic ,etc to put up lu
some com; incut place a tabkij
with the name: their dislgiurr
manage/r ami tiest workers,
-----r~i~.-,-■ - ' *1
lege by weiiv.'rg making turnltun1
and growing food ,a«fls They milk |
cows, shoe Ik.' > ;.n*l make brooms
In this T.y n,<y *»i.,n the *,Me
needed for a is tuttMn, indud J
Ing bool*' onu anti bwu:A- The
school age a ; frrfii til-to SO.
While j ■ c the eoi.bg* courses I
each stl«'< '* lemur a trc.iie. Th» J
products "1 i.i,i students ... he*
exhibited ;r, Ciiiiaj,, and later soldf
to enable the: students to eoiwUtm
in school.
Only fixe day, of the ten pi stim
I mer yielded jH hours #f,tnn:hhwr la
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