ALL RUSSIANS HUNT MINERALS Moscow —(UP)— The Increasing ruriositv about their own country, which is stimulating hundreds ol thousands of Russians to tour out of-the-way regions, will be capi talized by the government to aid lft( nation. f Instead of merely enjoying the scenery and the exercise, these tourists, chiefly young people, will be mobilized to search for un tapped natural sources as they go along. Courses in geology, min eralogy and other sciences arc be ing opened by the Pro’etarian So ciety of Tourism for this purpose. The president of the society is a man known throughout the world as a relentless prosecutor in melo dramatic counter-revolutionary trial, Nicholas Knlenko. He Is a passionate explorer and mountain climber and now has set his so ciety to the task of helping find other natural resources. Pleasure will thus be combined with business. A pamphlet issued by the tourist society urges the members to look downward for i^re metals Instead of upward for pleasant scenery It argues that with a minimal growlcdge of .sci ences the study of the ground they walk on can become even more ex citing than observation of the landscape. Scviet tburlsts, whoso number is growing every year, will be trained to collect likely samples of miner als, chemicals and fossils and with a mlnnimal knowledge of sci entific Institute, with indications of the localities where they were found. Burro Midnight Express Carriers Miners’ Mail Quartzville, Ore. — (UP) — An educated burro, the "midnight ex press” operates over the Quartsville trail connecting miners of this area with the outside world. The burro travels the road alone, carrying mail and orders for sup plies from operators of a placer mine to Roberts station, 12 miles down stream. This train, like all others, car ries Its Identifying sound—a bray instead of a whistle—and never fails to make Its arrival known. This is the first known case of a burro to operate under Its own direction. Illinois Fanners Must Carry Own Hitching Posts Peru, 111.—(UP)—Iron hitching posts which have adorned the busi ness district In Peru were ordered removed recently by the city coun cil. As a result farmers who come to town In horse and buggy will have to bring their own hitching weights. Tbe council decided the posts were less ornamental than useful. Precaution was taken, however, for nn emergency need of the posts as they were ordered to be held ip readiness for re-installation. Former Bombay Bishop Tells How to Be a Hero Ann Arbor. Mich.—(UP)—Dr. Frederick B. Fisher, former bishop of the Bombay. India, diocese, told 1.500 Michigan high school students how to be heroes in an address be fore the 29th annual Old Boys Con ference here. “Every boy,” Dr. Fisher said, “can be a hero if he keeps in mind the four main principles cf life. They are: Realization life has meaning, growth, responsibility and beauty. Biddie Lays Egg With Water Wings Lancaster, P^-(UP) — An egg 'with a double shell, resembling a jMiir of waterwings, was laid by a Rhode Island Red hen in Mrs. Eugene Fleming’s henhouse, near Millersville. Each of the two “wings" of the egg is slightly smaller than a nor mal egg, but each apparently has t> yoke. Customers Are Homan. From the Ohio State Journal. A new day appears to be dawn !ntr in the public utility field Many large corporations are readjusting their bustness customs to conform to the idea that the most valuable asset any company has Is customer rood will. An educational depart ment has been established in same corporations in which employes are being trained to carry forward the new plan. One corporation in Col umbus recently gave all its em ployes, from executives to clerks, thorough training in how to make friends out of customers. The new plan does not include the premise that the customer al ways is right, a proposition that never was true, but it gives a new value to human good will and agreeable business relations The end sought Is the elimination of needless friction, caused manv times bv employes who are entirely) loya* but lack tact or authority. There was a time when large cor porations were indifferent. That feeling found its high point In the perhaps apocryphal yet famous ex pression, '"The public be damned. Recent competition has brought finer ideas to the fore in manv business houses. Better thinking has fjiown the value of customer good will an asset which wise financiers value at a high figure. PLANS NEGRO BUILDING Detroit — (UP) — The Detroit Young Women's Christian associa tion is planning the immediate erec tion of a four-story building to pro vide quarters for Negro women and girls. The building, which is to be constructed of brick and stone, will be U-shaped, surrounded by gardens and terraces. Work on the structure is expected 10 start in January. A Dead Ocr. From the Humorist. “After all. my dear, shes only a gjicide blond.” “Suicide blond?” •Yes. Dy$«} by her own band." I Tales of ReaT Dogs Ry Albert p”>rson Terhune "The released prisoner caught the dog convulsively in h!s arms." Peter L. Cudney was arrested and sent to jail for eight months, in Oc ober, 1929, on a petty larceny •harge. This was in Goshen, N. Y., me of the loveliest and most pic aresque of all towns outside of New Sngland, and once the home of 'Joah Webster, the dictionary writer. With Cudney, when he was ar ■ested, was his young police dog, Pox. I rpeak of Fox as a police dog, iccause he was probably mare po ice dog than anything else. Ac jording to a reporter, the dog had strain of collie in him, too, and perhaps of one or more other breeds. Fox and Cudney were sworn pals. Phey had shared good and bad luck together, perhaps more bad luck Lhan good. When Cudney was arrested. Fox trotted close at his side to court and then fololwed him to the front steps of the jail itself. Up to now, wherever Cudney went, Pox was close alongside. But, to the young dec’s indignant amazement, the grim doors of the jail w'ere clanged shut in his face, all but pinching his nose as he sought confidently to follow his lov ing master into the building. Hitherto, when Oudney went into some house or store, where Pox was not allowed to follow him, all the dog had to do was to sit down in front of the door and presently his master would come out and rejoin him. So it was only logical to suppose that Cudney would come out now as soon as his •business in this forbidding-looking place was ended. Therefore. Fox lay down on the stone steps and waited for him. For eight long tedious, unhappy months the devoted dog waited! It is bitterly cold in the winter, at Goshen. Presently, autumn end ed and winter set m. Icy gales swept across the jail steps. Drift ing snow piled high on them. Chil ly rains sluiced over them; and stinging sleet storms. But Fox would not move away. Sometimes the cold bit him to the bone. Often the rain soaked him to the skin and then froze upon his shaggy coat. The sleet scourged him as with a million whips. The snow drifted over him, while he slept But he would not move. Some where behind those big doors was the master he loved, the master •who would come out presently and take him home. So Pcx was well content to wait. Month after month he lay or sat or stood there, while autumn froze into winter. Then at last the Jong winter melted into the rains of late March and ♦he spring dawned goldenly upon the world. His master was coming out through that dreary gateway—was earning out to catch Pox’ rough head between his hands, to rumple the dogs ears lovingly, to tell him what a splendid pal he was. And then the two would hurry home to gether to supper—a huge suppe 4 and to the dear old life when each had been the inseparable playmate and comrade of the other. But the wait was long. Long as it was, Fox’ faith did not waver. Fox’ e tiger vigilance did not abate. Perhaps a thousand times he sprang joyfully to his feet as the doors opened and someone came out. Perhaps a thousand times the dog sighed resignedly as the “someone” proved to be a strange* and he settled down again to his unflagging vigil. Now all this, as I told you, hap pened in Goshen. And it was a stieak of grand pood luck for Fox that it did. For Goshen is not just like any other town within a hun dred miles in any direction. Per haps, for its s:ze, it contains more true and white sportsmen than any other community m America. Hunter in He How Tree Released by Bea>r Bundriclge, Ont. — (UP) — Miss ing for 36 hours. J. P. Johnston, merchant and hunters’ guide, re turned to h:s home here and related the following "bear” facts. “I was lost,” he said. “I climbed into a tree to get my bearings. Turn I fell, lodging in the hollow trunk of the tree. In the fall my foot was caught. I struggled for hours to release myself. “I had given up hope of surviv ing when a b*z. furry tiling dcsccnd 1 It is a place where grand horses and grand dogs are bred, where horse-and-dog-talk Is spoken and understood as almost nowhere else, where at least one loved and hon ored priest is an ardent horseman and dogman. To such people as Goshen's citi zens, the vigil of Fox carried a swift and mighty appeal. The story was told everywhere. Folk came to the jail entrance, riot merely to stare at the loyal dog, but to bring him nourishing food and to keep on bringing it and to try to coax him into going home with them. Fox accepted the food. But he would not stir away from his- self imposed place of waiting. Perhaps, in his absence, his master might come out and might miss him. There he stayed, and there he was fed and befriended. Sheriff John McCoaeh was the first person to notice the dog and his sentry-duty. He was first to make friends with him and to feed him. He did all he could to per suade Fox to come into the warm jail office—and to sleep on a rug there. Fox only wagged his tail and continued to watch the door way through which his master had vanished. The newspapers got hold of the story of the faithful dog. From one end of the country to the other it was printed. Offers of good homes poured in. But Fox was interested in nothing except the time when the jail doors should swing and his master should come out to join him. Meantime. Sheriff McCoach made him as comfortable as he could and saw there was always plenty of food and water within his reach. The Goshen children, too, made friends with the unhappy dog. They would come to the steps to pet him and to try to make him romp with them and they brought dainties for him to eat. Then, on a golden JuDe day in 1930, the jail doors opened. Fox glanced up. wearily and with little real hope. Too many hundred times had they opened thus, only to bring him a new tinge of smashed hope. But suddenly he lurched to his feet and sprang forward with a bark that was more like a human cry of rapture. Coming down the steps was Cud ney: the master he had lost eight endless months ago! •me rcrcusea prisoner caugnt uie dog convulsively r.s Pox sprang upon him in delirious happiness. The man's eyes were wet, so were more than one pair of eyes in the little group of officials and reporters and townsfolk who had gathered tc watch the reunion. Sheriff Mc Coaeh cleared his throat and said to the released prisoner: “Pox has been a swell addition to Goshen. Cudney. We hate to lose him. Here's a medal for him from the 'Tail-Waggers’ Club of Amer ica.* And here’s $2 that was sent bv a woman in New York who read about him and wanted the money ! spent on dog-biscuits for him. Pox j waited months for you. It would I be a good idea to reward him by I going straight." Cudney swallowed hard. Then he • turned to his ecstatically-dancing dog. ■'Pox,” he muttered, chokingly, “were going on a little trip, you ; and I. I'm going to change both i our names. I won’t forget w hat you taught me. Were going to play out a new hand—together.’’ With Pox capering joyously about him, Cudney went directly to the nearest butcher-shop. Slapping a $1 bJl on the counter, he com i manded: “Give my dog a dollar s worth oi the \ ery finest steak you've got here!” ed into the hole. It was surprised I when it backed into me. It bolted, but I grabbed its tall, and war 1 pulled free." roi'R ECLIPSES FOR 1932 Eattie Creek — (Up> — Four eclipses, two of the sun and two ol the moon, will occur in 1932. ac cording to Prof. L. W. Underwood, retired Battle Creek high school astronomy instructor. The second eclipse of the sun will b? partially visible in portions of North Ameri | ca. as will the second eclipse of the ! mccn on August 31. according tc j me profesror. shotgun nuARGr INTO HUNTER’S ARM Lincoln, Neb.—The entire charge of a 12-gauge shotgun lodged in Ed win Eisenhaucr’s uper left arm in a hunting accident Sunday morn ing, and he is in a serious condi tion at Lincoln General hospital. The 19-year-old Fairbury youth accompanied by Alvin Zimmerman, C5, Tobias, drove 10 miles north ol PaLrbury and stopped his automo bile. Zimmerman had alighted al ready when Eisenhauer opened the door. The gun slipped out and dis charged. They drove to Western, got a physician and came on to Lincoln. RELIEF FUNDS DEMAND HEARD Farmers from North Ne braska Call on Gover nor et Lincoln Lincoln, Neb.—(UP)—Shouting a demand for action, 200 farmers and merchants, representing an esti mated 100,000 of the state's popula tion, appealed Monday to Gov. Charles W. Bryan to call a special session of the legislature to provide relief funds lor the drought stricken region. Throughout the morning and early afternoon they told tales of destitution, suffering and loss which has followed in the wake of a summer of blistering sun and invasion of fluids by hordes of hungry, gnawing grasshoppers. ‘'Not charity but a chance to stand on our own feet is what we want,” the petitioners informed the state’s chief executive. no action naa oeen taKen Mon day afternoon, but the governor, hr an address to the delegation, had indicated a lack of sympathy with the plan for the special session. He stated “interference through at tempts to revise plans is apt to re act to halt contributions, to intensi fy the situation which is now near ly in hand.” Not content with this view, the farmer delegation asked permission to submit its proposal before the governor continued his address. R. Ready, Hartlngton attorney and chairman of the appealing del egation, submitted to Bryan the plan drafted at a meeting Sunday night for making a relief loan fund of $2,000,000 available. "Unless there Is immediate ac tion to save essential farm animals l:om starvation, there will be thou sands of acres of fertile north Ne braska farm land that will not be tilled, unless with a spade, next spring.” F. B. Carroll, of Creighton, predicted. “Livestock is starving in every’ section of the stricken area. Already carcases dot the sr„ow blanketed fields. We’re at the end cf the rope. The average farmer hasn’t enough feed to last the week out. North Nebraska is bankrupt, unless means is provided whereby we can secure loans," Carroll said. OMAHA INDIANS ARE BEING CARED FOR Tekamah, Neb.—For the last two winters the Omaha Indians north of Tekamah, have suffered much from the cold. This year, however, the government and local authori ties began early to formulate aid plans. Wood cutting on a large scale has been carried on and the heads of families have been paid tor their time. Some of this wood has been given to old or disabled Indians who are unable to secure their own fuel. If the men use teams to draw the wood they are paid extra. The gov ernment is also issuing serviceable clothing to the men who are work ing. Later clothing will be issued to women and children. CO-OPERATIVE CREAMERY HAS HAD BIG GROWTH Orleans. Neb.—(UP)—During its 14 years of operation, the Farmers Equity Co-Operative Creamery, lo cated here, has increased its pro duction by 2.000 per cent, according to a report compiled by plant man ager Ole Hansen. During its first year of operation the local plant, which now claims to be the largest co-operative cream ery in the world, produced 300,000 pounds of butter. In 1931 the plant production reached 6.000,000 pounds The past year, Hansen’s statement shows, was the largest in the his tory of the concern. The record production of this year is an increase over production for 1930 of 500,000 pounds. Since it began operating here the creamery has produced 38.000.000 pounds of butter, churned from cream purchased from Nebraska farmers and sold through an organ ization in which the stock is owned by the farmer-dairymen. The parent plant, located here, manufactures more butter than any of its branches, located at Crawford, Lexington and at Denver, Colo. The annual meeting of stockhold ers for the co-operative company will be held at McCook on January 19. Heading the list of speakers for that event will be Attorney Gen. C. A. Sorensen, of Lincoln and Feder al Farm Board Member Brubaker, of Washington, D. C. NO AUTOMOBILES AT THIS FAflM SAI L Aurora. Neb.—There was rot an automobile on the Theodore Seiiil farm when he held a farm sale Sat urday. although the sale was well attended. They came in bobsleds, spring wagons, with horse teams and mule teams and on horseback. Sr.ow -terms have held Hamilton coun tv practically snowbound since New Year's dcy. Mr. Sen ft lives tv.o miles east and five and cnt-half n it's north cf Hr ivoici. THIS CURIOUS WORLD CAPTAIN OANUOl), A FAMPOS FlGHfeR 6000 LOCK V ' \ \ £ l-ZZ ® 1992 BY MCA StPVtCC. INC. F££0 THE/R yODNG oh'MILK* ...A ?LO\OfOOO &ROUGH r Up fffOM THE CROp. 1 s DROWNING POISONS OO No7 ALWAYS COME, op Three Times. they may RISE MANY TIMES, AND A&AiH,They may n Come up AT ALL / Franco- Ameriran Barriers. Bernard Fay In Harper's Magazine. France and America are two great, proud and complex nations that historical traditions, interests and a craving for novelty will ever draw more and more together, but that mental, ethnic and geographi cal contrasts will always tend to separate. At critical moments in the his tory of the world it is probable and desirable that they should again stand shoulder to shoulder. In or inary times it would be contrary to human nature and to the normal course of human events If they were to find themselves always In ac cord. Language, the sea, then- daily pre-occupations, are bound to erect between the two nations barriers difficult to surmount. After all, would a too close ac oord. resulting In a too great sim ilitude in the masses, be desirable? It Is doubtful. The value of white humanity lies In its variety. Every nation needs a different logic and a different discipline in order to solve the problems peculiar to itself and to Its position. All influences, no matter what they are, when they go beyond a certain point are deleterious; if civ ilization is destined ever to disap pear it will vanish because it will have lost its reason to exist, and because diversity—supreme aim of all living beings—will have died out. Dawes Floors Shaw. M From Time Magazine. Charles G. Dawes, America’s dip lomat banker, financier and musi cian, has assumed a new role as lit erary critic and devastating foe of Shavianism. Distinguished Londoners are still gasping over the ambassador’s blunt words to George Bernard Shaw, most talkative of British literary lights. Dawes, Shaw. Aga Kahn, the In dian potentate, and a number of prominent members of the diplo matic set met at a recent reception. They sat down before a fire to smoke and talk. Shaw, with his usual witty insou ciance, began a denunciation of capitalistic society. He held his hearers spellbound for a half hour. As Shaw paused for breath to sur vey his effect, Dawes stirred in his chair. Drawing out his famous un derslung pipe, the ambassador pounded it on a nearby table, tell ing Shaw: "It’s about time you stopped this paradoxical, half-baked, socialistic nonsense of yours. You are mislead ing youth. You are fillisg their heads with ideas which I don’t think you half mean yourself. "You are dazzling them with your brilliance which youth is un table to digest and estimate. You are leading them to false and dan gerous conclusions.” For 10 minutes Dawes fired words at Shaw, vigorously pounding the table Is his best “Hell-’n’-Maria” manner. Everyone was transfixed. Shaw gazed on with one of those typical Shavian delighted smiles. When Dawes had finished. Shaw lifted his forefinger to his lips like some one warning a child, admon ishing: "Hush, hush; Aga Kahn may hear vou.” His listeners wondered whether Shaw had not for the first time In his life been silenced. Later he con fided: "That was the voice of the Mid dle West.” Measuring Progress. From Christian Science Monitor. Who takes the measures of nroe ress, must first select his yardstick. Deeply, the year of 1931 has carved Its reoord. Evidences there are of grave economic conditions, of stock markets in decline, of unemploy ment and of hardship. But the rec ord, as well, is vitalized by lasting accomplishment — contrib u t i o n s which extended beyond the grasp of current difficulty. What. then, is to be the measure of achieve ment? Can the year be evaluated in terms of stone and steel Huge structures rise to new heights; mighty bridges are woven as the sinews of commerce; waters of a Defended, From Sydney Bulletin. Affable Passenger: Your husband Is a poor sailor, I believe. Imposing Passenger; Indeed he is not—he's a rich produce merchant. Now and Then. From Tit-Bits. An American movie actress was applying for a passport. "Single?” asked the clerk. Occasionally,” answered the actress. --♦ « Twelve offspring of Dt Done, sire of the record-making filly, Top Flight, won 33 races and collected nearly $200.06!) in curses this year. hundred rivers are impounded for their treasure of fertility and ener gy; great projects are completed and greater ones move forward. Or is the essence of progress to be found in advances in communi cation? Men ride the skies and cross the earth with greater speed; tech nical advancements shrink the size of continents and oceans; the spok en word extends its wings; inter national marine units of new pro portions command the seas. Within the province of the inven tor, ingenuity and research bring a thousand products to the ser vice of the world; economic stress lays new premiums upon technical improvement; methods and devices, once limited to laboratory experi ment, become the property of commercial application. Pure research—abstract study which holds the promise of future progress—is this the scale? Physi cists bring new elements within their grasp: research lessens the mystery of the atom; astronomers plumb deeper into the vastness of the universe. Truly, all of these bespeak ad vancement. Yet they can be but symbols. The full significance lies deeper. One touches it only as he Russians Have Beards. A Tyler gentleman asks if we read Philip Wylies' magazine article entitled “The Russians Have Beards." The answer is that we did. “Mr. Wylie seems to agree with State Press as to the dominating qualities of a beard, for, although the derides Russia, he says the en tire phenomenon of contemporary reverence for Russia is due to one factor: The Russians have beards.’’ Our Smith county customer deposes, on his own account that, while he favors this column’s demand for the restoration of the leafy chm and the rescue of man from the dominance of woman, he fears that if the present reverence for Russia is due to Russian beards that it would be better for America to re main beardless. State Press con cedes the point. Russian ha.r has had more to do with the statesman ship of the Bolsheviks than Russian brains. On the other hand, the bearded men of Russia have the women under control, which wouldn’t be the case if the safety razor had made any headway in the Soviet domain. The Russian rulers at Moscow are allmen,, and they have put the Russian women to work as they never worked be fore. Mamma locks her babies in the family’s one room, gives them matches to play with, and takes her pick and shovel to the railroad, where she performs in the role of section hand. Sister rises in the before it is yet day, and repairs to to the rock pile, where she makes lit tle ones out of big ones, while oth er women come and take the little ones to pave the streets with. Grandma, too old for heavy man ual toil, gets up at 4 a. m., hastens to the car barn and takes out the 4:30 bus to haul the 5 o’clock pas sengers to the soud kitchen for breakfast. All the Russian women have to earn, but the government is kind at times. It pays them for having babies, and no questions asked. Russia is the most bewhisk ered country in the world, and its women do the roughest work any women do. There can be but one answer to this: Beards are bosses. A smooth-chinned nation is a hen pecked nation. HUGE TURTLE SIGHTED Chapleau, Ont.— (UP) —Fisher men near here have reported sight ing a huge turtle, its shell more than three feet wide. Tom Godfrey, a fisherman, said the turtle nearly upset his canoe when it reared its head out of the lake. He said the head resembled that of a snake In dians in the vicinity claim the tur tle is over 75 years old. Flint. Mich.— CUP) —Killing two birds with one shot has become a reality for L. G. Copeman. He re ported that he flushed two ruffled grouse. The two birds flew close in the air. He fired, both grouse falling. The unusual shot was wit nessed by two other hunters. AIR MAIL PICKUP A new type of aerial pickup was determined at the Washington Hoover airport recently. It permits an airplane in flight to take up mail sacks without slackening its speed. CAT GETS A NAME Roanoke. Va. —