Mayor La Guardia Doesn’t Like Slot Machines
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Mayor La Uuardia of New York swinging an ax to destroy some of the 2.000 slot machines seized by
the police. The machines, representing an investment of about $200,000 by racketeers, were smashed and
dumped into Long Island sound.
All That Was Left of the City of Nome
This photograph shows what was left of Nome, Alaska, after the recent disastrous conflagration that
nearly wiped out the famous city.
And He Calls Himself a Hermit
"I feel 30 years younger already,’’ declared Dad Jowett, seventy-tive
year-old World war veteran of Jackass Mountain, Ore. lie had gone to
Miami, Fin., for the sixteenth national convention of the American Legion.
He is a self-styled hermit up Oregon way but lost his status when Paula
Roberts and Frances Jones, local bathing beauties, came out to greet him.
“This must be the fountain of youth,” said Jowett.
Flag at Pinnacle of Washington Shaft
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With the hint support lu place, and the (Inal holt tightened In the
struct tire, Old Ulorjr was placed atop the scaffolding that has l»een htillt
about the 555-foot abaft that Is the Washington monument lu the National
t'apltal, and the work of renovating, repairing and refurbishing the great
otiellsk now- goes forward. The erection of the scaffolding was a major
engineering tent.
COUGAR QUARTERBACK
Boyce Magness, who hails from
Texas, is quarterback of the Wash
ington State college team at Bull
man, Wash.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER?
Sir Norman Angell, economist,
author and former member of the
Ilrltlsh parliament, who probably
will receive the 10114 Nobel Peace
prize, according to M. Olden, presi
dent of the Norwegian Peace society.
The Drago Doctrine
When in the winter of 1002-03
Cermiiny, Itrltatn nnd Italy block
aded the ports of Venezuela In an
attempt to make the latter country
settle Its debts, I»r, L. P, Urn go, a
noted Jurist of Argentina, main- !
mined that force cannot In- used by
one power to collect money owing
to Its citizens by another power.
Prominence was given to the con*
tentlnn by the fact that It was old
chilly upheld by Argentina nnd fa
vored by other South American re
publics The principle embodied baa
become generally known aa the
I>rago doctrine.
Treasure
By MADELEINE DIAZ
©, McClure N»wrp*p«r Syndicate.
WNU service.
SUN reflected hotly from the yel
low, sandy beach of the tittle is
land where t'rundon Hawley and
Helen Gregory walked.
t'rundon was conscious of Helen’s
beauty.
But: "Steady there!" he said to
himself. "Girls like that aren’t for
little boys like you, Crandon. my
man."
To the girl be was a charming,
light-hearted, not at all serious com
panion. Her pretty wiles seemed to
get her nowhere with him. For
Helen exerted herself as she had
never before to gain the real Inter
est of tills strange man beside her.
They were—and had been for a
week—guests at the same house
party. Crandon, just through med
ical school, was taking a month's
rest.
Helen was the daughter of wealth.
It wus obvious that Crandon must
not give in to his lov^for Helen. It
wasn’t that she was well-to-do.
alone, that held him back. But to
him she seemed about the most use
less girl he had ever seen.
"Was burled treasure really found
here?" she asked, as they rounded
a point of the tiny, uninhabited is
land.
“That’s the story. Might as well
believe it. Some of Captain Kidd’s,
lie blew down this way and packed
It here somewhere. And there’s
supposed to be some of It still here."
"Yes. Mrs Ellis told me. A man
and a girl will find it—’’
“Yeah—so she said. Nice story
for a hostess to keep tucked away
in her box of tricks. Come on, race
you to that next pine tree. Maybe
It’s there.”
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sentimental, thought Crandon, as he
watched the fleet little green figure
skimming the sand at his side. Sud
denly he was furious with her—
furious with her for being so love
ly, so alluring. And so utterly use
less. And furious with himself and
with that year of hnrd work and
little money ahead of him. Furi
ous, too, with himself for turning
away from It, he thought bitterly,
just as he was running away from
Helen. Out of the corner of his
eye he could see her gradually lose
distance as he really tried to out
run her. He turned his head to
look back—and didn’t see a sand
hummock In front of him, tripped
over it and crashed.
The next thing he knew he was
lying in an uncomfortable jumble
on the sand, and sharp pains in his
ankle told him that at least a bad
sprain would pay him for his care
lessness. In a second Helen was at
his side.
"Are you all right?” she asked,
as he sat up dizzily.
“Yes. My ankle’s a bit done for,
though,” he answered.
Helen looked at his drawn, puling
face, and then knelt down beside
him, putting her arm behind his
shoulder. For a moment Crandon
let his head sink against her soft,
warm body—and for a moment he
forgot the pain in his ankle as well
as his vow that he would leave
Helen and the house party without
letting her know he loved her.
But she didn’t hear his inartic
ulate murmur of endearment. All
her attention was fixed on Ills nnkle.
"It needs bandaging, doesn’t It?”
she astad.
"Yes—but—’’
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anything useful, don’t you?” Her
tone was a bit scornful. “Wait and
see.” She was gone like a flash and
In a few seconds came back with
the lunch basket Crandon had been
carrying on his hack. “It spilled off,
hut it Isn’t hurt,"'she said, rum
maging In it. Quickly, with the
help of a knife, she tore two big
damask napkins Into good bandage
material and then, under Crondon’s
directions, bandaged the swelling
and very painful ankle. Crandon,
relieved by the taut bandage, be
came less Intense.
“That's a darned good bandage.
Where did you learn how to do it?”
"Where did I learn how? Oh,
tirst aid classes at school," She
flushed with pleasure. “Now you
wait here till I get help.” She gave
Crandon a drink «»f cold water from
the thermos bottle, scooped and
piled up sand Into a fairly comfort
able rest for his hack, and told him
she would go hack to the speed
l»out that had brought them to the
island—they had tied It In a little
cove half u mile up the beach—and
take It to the mainland for help.
“I’ll he hack Boon," she said, smil
ing at him. "And here's tile ther
mill of coffee and the cold water.
You lie quietly and don't worry
ubout me. I’ll manage the boat.”
Help came In an hour. IIIm host,
the chaufTeur and a handy muri
with an improvised stretcher, and
Helen. They got him on the bout
without much trouble. Helen sat
beside him on the trip home.
“Are you afraid to be poor,
Helen?" ho said softly, capturing a
small, cool hand, lie had realised,
In that dreaming, waiting hour,
what her answer would be,
"No," she answered. “And you
renllaed—that l‘m not Just—use
less?”
"Yew—I hw that Hut that's not
what really matters," he said, “We
found the treasure on the island,
didn't we?”
“Yes," said Helen, bending swift
Ups down to bis.
Recalling Rule of the Druids
Scotland Has Many Spots Where, It Is Believed, the
Weird Brotherhood Held Their Sacrificial
Ceremonies in Oak Groves.
In nnclent Celtic days, certain
feasts were celebrated by great bon
fire ceremonies. In more recent
times It was the custom for country
girls to rise early on summer morn
ings and go out and bathe their fnees
In dew, writes Nan Mulrhead Moffat
4n the Glasgow Herald. In pre-Chris
tian days, however, It was not al
ways to a young woman’s advantage
to be good looking, for, If she at
tracted the attention of the Druids,
her beauty might lead her to the
altar—not of love hut of death.
The weird brotherhood, who held
their councils In groves of oak trees,
hud a curious hold over the people.
They considered themselves seers,
scientists, and philosophers, und In
structed their young followers In the
study of nature and the stars.
Among them the hards were the
hymn-makers and poets.
The word of the order was law,
for the Druids were judges in pri
vate and public disputes; they
awarded damages und penalties, and,
although non-mllltnry men, often de
cided for war or peace. With them
excommunication was a terrible pun
ishment, for it meant that the ex
pelled person was excluded from wit
nessing the sucrlflcial ceremonies
and regarded ns an outlaw.
Now, when a tribe was suffering
from an epidemic, or was about to
engage In some hazardous enterprise,
the Druids offered human sacrltles
to propitiate their gods. Generally
criminals were made the victims, hut
if a bnttle-sacrltlce was required, the
first prisoner of wnr was considered
the most suitable. Sometimes per
fectly innocent persons were slaugh
tered. nnd on certain Important occa
sions the most promising youth and
maiden In the community were
chosen.
Scotlnnd has several sites where,
tradition says, the Druids were wont
to hold sacrificial meetings. There
is, for example, the altar stone of
Callernish temple, In Lewis. Alsri
at the Serpent Mound, Skelmorlle,
a French excnvntor clnlmed to have
discovered a hillock built up by the
Druids In a form resembling a colled
snake, and having on Its summit a
seml-curcular platform, on which,
presumably, the ceremonies were
performed.
The name of this mound may also
be connected with the veneration
with which the reptile was regarded
by the Druids—the exact opposite
view being taken by their supplnnt
ers, the priests of Christianity, who
looked on the serpent ns the original
form assumed by the devil.
On Craigmaddle moor, ltaldernock,
near Glasgow, are three large stones
supposed by some archeologists to
hnve been brought there by glaciers,
and later used by the Druids os an
altar. The stones—two of which
support the largest, which Is IS
feet long, 11 feet broad, and 7 feet
thick—are centrally situation In a
natural amphitheater on the hillside
and are known loenlly ns “The Auld
Wives’ Lifts."
As Craigmaddie’s ancient name,
“Gnrtna-Beannaehd," means "Field
of Blessing,” and ns remains of the
roots of oak trees, which might have
formed a sacred grove, were found
near the Lifts, the belief in their as
sociation with the ancient priests
seems credible.
It Is a "fnr cry” to the dark ages
of the Druids, but even today, In re
mote and secret placer of the earth,
black magic Is still practiced.
Household Hint
A square of canvas on the bread
hoard and a tight cloth cover for
the rolling pin will hold flour evenly
and help to prevent dough from
sticking.
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