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.
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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. — <UP) —A man
risked his life to rescue a cat from
under the wheels of an automobile
and when no owner could be found
named the cat "Damit.”
American investments abroad .0
tal $25 WjO.OOO.OOO.
