Meriden, Miss. — tUP)— Sherill
B M. Stephens frequently enter
tains his guests with a moonshine
still hunt* in the mountains
southeast of here.
Such an event was arranged re
cently for E. P. Davis, deputy
sheriff In the district attorney's
office at Los Angeles.
Davis, visiting here, had "heard
of these Mississippi swamp and
mountain raids, but never had
been privileged to attend one.’*
The sheriff organized a party
of deputies and constables and
they set out, shotguns under their
arms, for the mountains. The
hunt carried the raiders over
many miles, afoot, necessitated
the climbing of steep grades,
wading mountain streams and
crawling through fences. Davis
kept the pace and appeared to
enjoy it.
Although the party failed to
find the moonshine plant that
Sheriff Stephens had in mind an
eagle-t^ed deputy selected a like
ly place for digging, and the re
sult was that three gallons of the
native liquid lightning was taken
from the ground on the way
home.
Newspaper Reading
Is Good Eye Exercise
Kansas City, Mo. — (UP) —
Newspaper reading is excellent ex
ercise for the eyes, Harry L. Foug,
of Los Angeles, told the Missouri
Optometric Association at its an
nual convention here.
Newspapers, Foug added, also
provide for an individual to test
his own eyes. Hold the paper in a
good light, he said, about 16 inch
es from the eyes. If you can read
it easily, your eyes are all right.
To make the test still more
conclusive, move the paper quick
ty to about nine inches from the
eyes. If you still can read it,
there’s absolutely nothing wrong
with your vision.
Obliging Mayor Gives
Out Recommendations
El Paso, Tex. — (UP) — If you
need a recommendation, come to
Mayor R. E. Sherman, of El Paso.
The mayor had had so many per
sons whom he does not even know
call for recommmendations, he now
issues to every such applicant the
following note:
“To whom it may concern: This
will introduce Mr. John Doe, who
has today applied to me for a let
ter of recommendation.
“Mr. Doe is a stranger to me,
but is a gentleman of pleasing ap
pearance, and I take great pleas
ure in recommending him to all
persons to whom this may be pre
sented for such consideration as,
upon further acquaintance, he
may prove himself worthy of re«
ceiving.’’
What's the Use!
From The Humorist.
Diner (with very underdone
steak): I said well-done, waiter.
Well done.
Waiter: Oh, thank you, sir.
It’s seldom we get a word of prais«
in this place.
For May Brides
While lacquered satin, cut tcilh ex
treme simplicity, is the material in
this beautiful gown for the May
bride. The only trimming is a
pleating of white chiffon at the hem
and outlining the long train. Note
that the bouquet of orchids and lily
of-lhe-talley is carried high in keep
ing with the lines of the gown.
Wife Refused to Kiss—
Husband Stabbed Her
Kansas City (UP) — “Kiss me,"
suddenly demanded T. F. Campbell,
43, of his wife as they rode down
town on a street car.
lihe refused the public caress,
80 Campbell drew a pocket knife
and stabbed her several times.
At the hospital physicians said
her injuries were not serions. Po
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REYNAUD SAYS
TRIO HOLD FATE
Paris —(UP)— “If France, Great
Britain and the United States are
able to reoch an occord, there will
be no war.”
This w'&s the statement of Paul
Reynaud,' former French Finance
Minister, when he was interviewed
on his recent return from London,
from a lecture tour.
M. Reynaud's tour completed a
cycle of voyages abroad which
took him to New York, Washing
ton, Berlin and other centers. He
noted a change in British senti
ment whereby the French prob
lems were better understood, and
added: “I hope the people of
Great Britain will not fail to
realize and the with a minimum
i of delay, the utmost importance
of an understanding between
their country, France and the
United States for the preservation
of peace in Europe.”
New Mining History
Expected to Be Written
Missoula, Mont. —(UP)— A new
chapter In the gold mining history
of Montana and northern Idaho is
I expected to be written this y^ar
with a rush of prospectors fnto
| virgin territory.
l Construction of forest roads
and trails under the emergency
federal aid act has opened up vast
areas ol formerly isolated wilder
ness.
Thousands of gold seekers are
expected to pass through Superior,
Mont., a “jumping off” place for
prospectors for years.
Others are expected to hit the
trails leading up Cedar Creek,
Oregon Creek, Meadow Creek and
Sunrise Stream, all famed gold
sites in pioneer days.
Acrobatic Rats
Were Egg Thieves
Monroe, La. — (UP) — A barn
yard mystery was cleared up h£re
recently with the explanation of
Mrs. C. H. Sutton, an authority on
the cunning of rats.
Eggs had been missing from
nests, and one farmer, while dig
Campus May C^ueen
Jean Hoch, junior at Northwestern
University at Evanston, 111., has
good reason for this charming
smile. Not only was she voted the
university’8 most popular co-ed, but
was also chosen “Queen of the May”
during the campus celebrations.
She is pictured after her corona
tion.
ging around his hen house, found
Several eggs, still intact, In rat
holes. The question arose as to
how the rats could carry the eggs
into a hole. Mrs. Sutton explained
the rat system of nest-robbing.
Two rr ts do the work. One lies
flat on|».ts back with its feet in
the air while the other rat rolls
the egg up on the stomach of the
reclining rate, which holds the egg
in that position with its four legs.
The other rat then takes the tail
of the rat holding the egg and
drags it into the hole.
Court Fight Over a
Goat Was Dropped
Wichita, Kan. —(UP)— A court
fight here centering around
"Billy,” a gentleman goat, was
dropped when the plaintiff en
countered difficulty in proving the
animal was worth $25.
Billy was found by J. H. Lans
downe, standing in the middle of
a flower bed and munching lilaca.
Lansdowne sent the goat to the
humane society.
Elmer Ansel White, Billy’s own
er, then sought $25 damages for
the goat’s value and a similar sum
for punitive damages. Attorney
for the defendant insisted the
valuation be proved.
White decided that was too
hard a task and dismissed the
action.
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Court Cases Involved
High Finance Problems
The Dalles, Ore. —(UP)— High
finances over small values were
involved in local court in an effort
to straighten the affairs of the
defunct Southern Railway com
pany. It was disclosed that the
railway claims $22,000 storage on
three car loads of burned mill
machinery. The machinery had
been left in the cars for three
years, and is worth approximately
$100.
A judgment of $222,000 was also
allowed by the court against a
former officials of the road to get
possession of 4,000 feet of pine
lumber. The lumber is valued at
$60.
Indian Has AH of
Scotchman’s Traits
Carson City, Nev. — (UP) — The
Scotch, it appears, have nothing
on a certain Carson City Indian
who makes his living at odd Jobs
and begging on the streets of the
state capital.
The Indians ir.otherinlaw died
here and was taken to the Stewart
Indian school for burial.
Asked if he would go out to the
school to attend the funeral, the
scninlaw cannily replied:
"Naw, wife say no use for me
go Indian school. Wouldn't make
a nickel.”
Well Controlled.
Prom The Wheel.
Lawyer: Was your car under
complete control at the time?
Defendant: Yes, my wife was
sitting in the rear seat.
Descendants of the church family,
pioneers in the manufacture of
clay pipes in England, have what
is reported to be the world’s largest
collection of smoking pipes.
Engineering Marvel at Progress Exposition
This modernistic building, which will house the Travel
Transport exhibit at Chicago’s 1933 Century of Prog
ress Exposition, boasts the last word in dome con
struction. Steel framework, erected on the hupa
towers, anchored by cables to concrete blocks, hold*
up the dome on principles used in suspension bridges.
Dramatic Attempts to
Save Fowl Reported
Washington — (UP) — Dramatic
stories of men battling frigid
blasts and treacherous terrain to
save thousands of waterfowl from
starvation lafc winter are told in
a report ©»* \c.s Biological survey.
Fighting through icy weather.
20 to 40 degress below aero, U. 8.
Game protector Kenneth F.
Roahen and helpers on foot and
sled carried corn and wheat do
nated bv farmrrs and sportsmen ,
to selected feeding stations in |
ecuthem Montana during a severe
February freeze. There the grain
was gobbled by thousands of half
famished wild ducks, most of
them mallards.
Earlier in the lwnter Reserva
tion Protector Hugh M. Worcester
at the Upper Klamath Wild Life
Refuge, Oregon, led a score of
volunteers on a two-day trip
which resulted in the saving of
1.200 ice-bound ducks and 100
horned and fared grebes. The
birds were transported to pens at
refuge headquarters for recovery.
Doctors Found Woman’s
Vital Organs Misplaced
Huntington, Ind. — (UP) — Phy
sicians performing a major oper
ation on Mrs. Herman Ruble at
Huntington county hospital here
reported that most of the woman's
vital organs were on the wrong
side.
Her heart is on the right aids
instead of the left and the appen
dix on the left side instead of the
right. Other organs were propor
tionately out of place, they said.
She was reported recovering.
Brain Trust's” Ideas Awe French
By Arthur Krock in New York Times.
_ ^
Clear visions of a brave new world in which humanity is to live
happily under President Roosevelt are responsible for the daring and
multiplicity of the ideas of those advisers who are collectively known
as "the brain trust.” The fertility of their mintis has particularly as
tounded the French visitors to the international conversations. Those
Americans who have begun to wince or cry out at some recent legisla
tive devices will best understand the bewilderment of the French.
The rapid procession of methods to do what has been considered
the “undoable,” when reduced to writing, has been calmly viewed by
most of the visiting British, although some of them have revealed
touches of cynicism.
This group does not seem to include the prime minister. As he
said to the newspaper men today: "We are going away with a de
termination we are going to come to an agreement because it is our
moral duty to come to an agreement.”
That sentence pretty well expresses the confidence of members of
the "brain trust” in the final triumph of their devices. Difficulties,
insurmountable in the past, will be swept away because of the moral
duty that they must be swept away.
And it must be said for their attitude that thus far this week it
has wrought very well. While not so sure of the certain operation of
proposed plans, the British are ready to try them. The French remain
more skeptical, but they are nothing like so doubtful today as when
they arrived last Sunday.
The “brain trust" is en Interesting as well as confident group. Its
members almost completely occupy the inner chamber of the presi
dent’s ear.
They produced the farm relief bill and the Thomas amendment.
They worked out the currency devalorizing and stabilization formuln
which has been the basis of discussion among the experts. They spon
sor the bill for the stimulation of private industry under government
supervision of wages, hours of labor and production.
The Muscle Shoals plan, with its bright picture of the whole
Tennessee Valley as a pastoral Pittsburg, is theirs.
When the problem arose how to get congressional authority for
the president to deal flexibly and finally with war debts and tariffs,
the "brain trust" found in their books the Washingtonian plan of
getting parliamentary "advice” in advance of seeking “consent” to
an executive negotiation.
When the constitution presented difficulties—as it has on sev
eral occasions 6lnce March 4—It was the "brain trust” who concluded
that if Congress set boundaries upon the exercise of executive power
the statute could be kept within the framework of that elastic in
strument. ,
This solution has been applied to the economy bill and the Thomas
amendment. , , .
The degree to which the members of this group have impressed
the president can readily be determined by noting the number of
measures listed above which he has made his own. It is only a partial
list. More short cuts to the brave, new world may be expected.
Woodrow Wilson was a professor himself, and that perhaps is
one reason why few teachers of theory prevailed in his councils. He
relied upon Oscar W. Underwood, a legislator of long experience, to
write the administration tariff bllL His currency bill was chiefly from
the hand of Carter Glass.
When the World war came along, Mr. Wilson called business
men and industrial scientists as his chief aides.
This marks an important dffference in the atmosphere of the two
democratic administrations. The change has particularly grieved busi
ness men and political leaders who have been used to having a major
part in national policies.
It has surprised the British and concerned the French, neither or
By unanimous vote the "brain trust”’ Is headed by Raymond
whom is much inclined to go to the colleges for statesmanship.
By unanimous vote the “brain trust” is headed by Raymond
Moley, assistant secretary of state. He is miles ahead of his fellow
collegians in Influence and mental fertility. To him come ail the
schemes he does not himself invent, and he passes on them. When
his thumbs go down, the scheme usually goes down also.
Glorifying
Yourself
By Alicia Hart
, BAD BREATH IS JEST INTOL
ERABLE
1 Is your breath as fresh as spring
these days?
Nowadays advertisements make
everybody breath-conscious. But
| even then, some folks remain ob
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made to conform with the mannith
trend in tlyle, (.toret and hat match
the lone of the check, while the
tmart oxfordt feature the detign in
a imallcr pattern
. Theater Reported Record
Crowd in ‘Wailing Room’
i Detroit —(UP)— The Hollywood
1 theater here reported a record
crowd in its "waiting room" dur
ing the showing ol a war film re
cently.
Sixteen mothers repaired to the
room to quiet 18 walling babies.
But they were not deprived the
pleasure of listening to and
watching the picture.
The waiting room, referred to
in more dignified terms as the
"sGund-prccf nursery.” is located
livlpus to the fact that all lsnt
well.
Sometimes bad breath comes
from teeth. It doesn’t hurt any
mouth to have a thorough over
hauling by the dentist. If you
need fillings or treatment, do tako
the time to go.
Probably more often It Is bad
digestion that causes bad breath.
Complete elimination is a neces
sity for vibrant health. If you
can’t achieve it by a careful diet
and plenty of water, then consult
a physician.
Early morning hot water drinks
do a lot to help bad breath. There
seems to be more good in a long
drink of hot water upon arising
than most people realize. Double
it by taking a drink upon retiring
and see for yourself if you don't
feel better and look clearer in the
eye.
Sometimes bad breath comes
from fatigue. Get more sleep. Rest
during the day when you can.
Don’t eat when you are over-tired.
And don’t cat heavy meals at night
when you are going to bed early or
Just going to sit around reading or
playing bridge.
Mornings, when you brush your
teeth, always use a mouth wash
for a finale. Hot salt water is
good, if you don’t happen to prefer
something that tastes good. But
avoid highly scented breath. The
best breath has no smell at all!
One Board Member for
Every Two Teachers
Washington —(UP)— For every
two school teachers in the United
States, there is a school board
member, according to the federal
education office.
It estimated a total of 127,000
school districts, 424,000 school
board members, and 839,879 pub
lic school teachers.
In Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michi
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne
braska, Texas, and Wisconsin
school board members number in
each instance 20,000.
Volunteer Firemen on
The Job After Strike
North Seekonk, Mass. — (UP) —
North Seekonk’s volunteer fire
men are geared for action once
more after a short-lived strike.
They walked out because they
were obliged to fight fires while
j wearing their everyday clothes.
I The strike ended when Selectman
| Frank Reed Invested $80 in rub
ber coats, boots, belts and other
| firemen’s paraphernalia.
Too Big a Hurry.
From Hummel, Hamburg.
"Why are you so late?”
"I fell downstairs.”
"Well, that shouldn't have taken
' you long.
to the rear of the theater. A
glass panel allows the mother to
watch the film being shown out
front, Although the room is sound
proof, a loud speaker brings the
screen voices inside.
The management of the theater
reports the room Is always occu.
pied during picture presentation
hours.
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Gov. John Pollard of Virginia,
lias announced he will recommend
a substantial decrease in automobile
license taxes, and an Increare of
two cents in the garcline tax foe
i road building and maintenance.