SEEN and HEARD
around the ta
NATIONAL CAPITAL!
i By Carter Field ^p
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT J
Washington—Time was when if an
American President had admitted
be had discussed affairs of state
with the officials of the Canadian
government everyone would have
been sure that liquor and prohibition
figured—guarding the border to keep
liquor out—damages for sinking the
*Tm Alone,” etc.
But now if prohibition was whis
pered at all it w^uld be the Cana
dians who would urge that the
United States government do some
thing to keep liquor from invading
dry territory.
Believe it or not, the wise Ameri
can tourist today carries his liquor
with him into Canada, unless he is
going into the Province of Quebec,
or unless his first stop is Var couver.
IT he makes one of those stops first,
he can stock up at a government
liquor store, after paying twenty-five
cents for a permit. Incidentally he
can get his liquor a little cheaper—
not much—than he can anywhere
in the United States, the saving
depending on the state with which
comparison is made.
But if he is going to the Canadian
Rockies via Chicago, the Twin
Cities, and Moose Jaw, one of the
popular routes, he would do well to
stock up in Chicago. (The Illinois
state liquor tax is only fifty cents
a gallon, as compared with $1.10
in Maryland, and equal amounts in
many other states.)
For the surprising thmg about
traveling through central Canada
is that the diners on the crack
through trains sell absolutely noth
ing alcoholic—not even beer. The
famous Canadian ale, for which the
average American tourist, having
heard so much about it during pro
hibition, yearns is nt* obtainable.
Canada Dry
Several Washingtonians, just re
turned, were on a crack Chicago
to-Vancouver train enroute to Banff.
As the train neared St. Paul they
wandered back into the lounge car,
and called for beer.
“The diner is closed," said the
attendant.
The point was eventually made
clear that at this stage of the
journey the diner was provided by
the Chicago and Northwestern, but
the lounge car was Canadian Paci
fic, and served nothing alcoholic!
The same party, having arrived
at Banff, discovered that nothing
was served in the hotel dining
room, but that in a tap room beer
could be bought, or, if they desired,
liquor in bottles in limited quanti
ties could be sen* up to their rooms.
Unfortunately, or fortunately,
they did not feel the need of a drink
until about 10:30 at night. They were
told they could have nothing, 10
p. m. being curfew.
After 10 next morning they might
have had something, but it turned
out to be Sunday, and nothing is
sold on Sunday.
Then they took the long ride to
Vancouver, being absolutely unable
to get a drop of anything alcoholic
until they got there.
Naturally, the party clustered
around the government liquor store
in the big British Columbia town,
cheerfully waiting from 9.30 in the
morning, when they found it, until
it opened at 10 o’clock.
So it would appear that Canada
today is considerably drier than
most of the United States.
Fear Inflation
Danger of currency Inflation is
said by many farm experts and
observers to be one ot the handi
caps in working out a solution of the
tenant and share - cropping farm
problem.
The charge that many critics are
bringing is that it is this danger of
inflation which holds up farm prices
—not prices of farm products but
prices of the land itself.
Here >s the way it works. A suc
cessful city man has accumulated a
rather nice nest egg. It is either in
bonds or cash in bank. He does not
know much about business, and is
afraid of stocks. Normally the thing
for him to do would be to invest his
$10,000 or more in bonds, govern
ment bonds if he is an ultra-con
servative, underlying bonds of big
strong corporations, or perhaps, if
he has contact with the farm coun
try, in mortgages.
But he was shocked by the de
valuation of the gold value of the
dollar, and is apprehensive of what
may follow. For instance, he may
be convinced that if the Roosevelt
spending continues, eventually the
Coughlin-Lemke solution of getting
rid of the government's debt by
printing-press money will be forced.
In that event his investment, if in
bonds, life insurance endowment
policies, mortgages or savings
banks would be cut down, if not
wiped out. An investment in stocks
would not be wiped out, because
they represent an equity. But this
man is afraid of stocks. He re
members 1929 and he has heard too
much about present and possible
future taxes on corporations.
A Life Preserver
The obvious life-preserver to this
man is to buy a farm. He doesn't
want to run the farm, for the pres
ent. As a matter of fact, he does not
want ever to run it. But he figures
that if he owns a farm no upset in
the value of the dollar can affect
him. If the dollar should eventually
be worth ten cents, then his farm on
that day will be worth ten times as
many dollars. It will not represent
a profit. The farm will be no more
valuable than it was before. But he
will have escaped a loss. And if
worst comes to worst, he figures, he
can always retire to the farm and
live there.
This man's name is legion. There
are tens of thousands of him owning
farms in this immediate section. He
lives in Chicago, or in De: Moines,
or in Detroit or New York. Some of
him live even in faraway Boston.
And lots of him live in Los Angeles.
But the men now living on these
thousands of nice farms he has
bought are tenants—or share-crop
pers. Observers agree that tenant
and share-crop farming is bad for
everybody involved, even for the
landlords. Bu*. what to do about it?
That’s where the rub comes in.
Assurance on the currency would
drive the price of these farms down
to where it would be easier for the
tenants or share-croppers to buy
them—on time. Sales would then be,
so to speak, on the yield value.
Lewis’ Big Drive
Very little is being said about that
big drive that John L. Lewis is mak
ing to organize the steel industry—
with automobiles and a few others
to follow. Most of the news is about
the sympathy on the part of many
unions for the Lewis side of the
bnttle as against William Green and
the American Federation of Labor.
There have probably been twenty
columns of newspaper space de
voted to this internal labor battle
t^ every one about the much more
interesting fight now going on under
cover.
The answer is simple When a
union meeting or convention en
dorses the Lewis side by a big ma
jority, that is news. Whereas there
is only rumor and confidential re
port and conjectures as to the prog
ress of Lewis’ organizers in the
steel mills.
The best information coming to
this writer is that so far the Lewis
drive to form one big union in the
steel industry is not proceeding as
rapidly ns the ardent C. I. O. leaders
had hoped. It ia reported that many
workers are reluctant to Join up.
But there is really no news in
that. Every one who knew anything
about the situation knew that in
advance. Many workers would far
prefer the present open shop ar
rangement. In the steel industry the
pay is good, compared to many
others, and, now that work is more
plentiful, there are a good many
men who are anxious to keep on
working, rather than have a strike
which would cut off their pay for
however long it lasted. Moreover,
there are many workers who do not
have the evangelical urge to re
form things—at least not to the ex
tent of paying union dues to bring
reform about. There are even a few
who don’t want union leaders or
dering them about.
Steel Strike Coming
All this has been known for some
time, but really has little bearing on
the case. The secret wishes of these
workers, reluctant to be organized,
have been present probably in
every unionization drive ever
made. Ways and means are found
by the union organizers to force
their will on the men in many cases.
So that reports trickling out about
the lack of success in the unioniza
tion drive are not important, for the
moment. They may never be im
portant. The real truth about the
situation will not be known, in all
probability, until the *ctual strike
call comes. It may not be known
even then. It does not take even a
majority of employees in any mill
or plant fo close it down by a strike.
That was abundantly proved in the
strike of a small minority of the
editorial employees of the Seattle
Post Intelligencer. The mere fact
that a large majority of the em
ployees in the editorial department
did not want to strike did not make
any difference. Nor did the fact
that the other departments of the
newspaper did not want to shut
down.
The steel strike is coming,
whether Lewis’ efforts are highly
successful or not. And when it comes
the steel mills will either close
down, as did the Seattle newspaper,
or there will be plenty of trouble.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Life’s Ways
There are some things that we
had better not experience. The price
is too great, the results too disas
trous. If we wish to understand life
we should avoid the ways that lead
to the destruction of health, hap
piness. and inner peace, which make
life worth while. What is the good
of an understanding of life that cuts
under the very foundations of life
itself?
Parrot’s Tongue Cunning
The parrot’s restless tongue is
more than a mere instrument for
counterfeiting human speech; it al
so plays the part of a hand. His
large tongue, working with his man
dibles, shells a nut, cuts it into
pieces and then tosses it down the
throat
About the Octopus
Greek Fisherman With His Octopus Catch
Prepare*! by National O-eoKraiphlc Society, \
Washington, D. C.-WNU Service.
THERE is a fascination about
sea creatures. Some, how
ever, to the average layman,
are fascinating only at a
distance. Consider the octopus.
With its relatives, the squid, cut
tlefishes, the pearly nautilus, and
argonaut, the octopus belongs to one
of the most remarkable groups in
the animal kingdom, the Cephalop
oda, meaning the animals that have
their heads united with their feet.
Some octopuses are relatively
small animals with a centrally lo
cated bulb-shaped body about two
inches in length, erected above a
head with a pair of gleaming eyes,
for the creatures actually stand on
their heads! The mouths are pointed
downward and are surrounded by
eight radiating arms, which to
gether correspond to the “feet” fa
miliar in other mollusks.
As one examines 12-inch speci
mens it is hard to realize that
their relatives, the common octo
puses of European and West Indian
waters, have arms five feet in
length, giving their possessors a
spread of ten feet or more, while
the great Octopus apollyon of the
Pacific is known to attain the enor
mous diameter of twenty-eight feet!
Their cousins, the giant squid, prac
tically double these dimensions from
the tip of their tail to the end of their
great tentacular arms, and are the
largest invertebrate animals known
to man.
It seems impossible that these
huge creatures, the submarinelike
giant squid, with its efficient method
of propulsion and aggressive habits,
and the weird, soft-bodied octopus
with its baleful eyes, protean
changes of form and color, and re
pulsive manner of engulfing its prey
—both among the most active and
intelligent inhabitants of the sea—
should belong to the same animal
phylum as the lowly snail and clam.
Yet science found that such is the
case.
Marauder of the Sea
The common octopus is one of the
most gruesome marauders of the
sea. Hiding iri rocky crevices on the
bottom, or squatting in the midst
of a nestlike lair of boulders, which
it has dragged together, the repul
sive creature lies in wait for its
prey, the eight tapering arms
sprawling in all directions, extend
ing and contracting, clinging to the
rocks with their powerful sucking
disks, or undulating through the
crevices as they explore everything
within reach.
The large, coldly staring eyes are
elevated on rounded protuberances,
enabling it to see in all directions.
Should an unwary fish or crusta
cean venture within reach, a long
tapering tentacle darts forth, the
slender tip encircles the prey, which
struggles desperately to escape the
adherent suckers, but without suc
cess, and the hapless creature is
dragged down to the cruel jaws to
be torn apart by the parrotlike beak.
This species of octopus is equip
ped with a double row of suckers,
arranged alternately, along the un
derside of its arm, gradually dimin
ishing in size toward the slender,
tapering tips. At their base, the
arms are united by a membrane
forming a flexible funnel, which en
gulfs the captured victim and
presses it against the jaws in the
circular mouth-opening at the bot
tom.
Though the octopus appears slug
gish as it creeps over the ocean
floor, nevertheless, on occasion, it
swims rapidly backward through
the water, trailing its tentacles out
around its head in a stream-lined
bundle. It propels itself like a sky
rocket by shooting a stream of water
from its siphon in the direction op
posite to its motion.
Colorful In Battle
Occasionally two individuals meet
in seemingly mortal combat, their
tentacles twisted in a tangled mass
as they strike at each other with
their murderous, curved beaks.
When excited, their color patterns,
which normally are changing
through various shades and mot
tlings of brown, yellow, and tan,
become more vivid, and the warty
prominences of their bodies project
rigidly. Waves of red, purple, violet,
and blue successively suffuse the
body, sometimes standing out in
contrasting colors on different areas
at the same time.
A black, inky fluid may be dis
charged from the siphon, in the
murk of which the beasl conceals
its maneuvers. When the octopus
creeps over a sandy stretch, its
colors fade to pale tan or grayish
i white, harmonizing with the sur
roundings so perfectly that the crea
ture becomes practically invisible.
Various tales are related of oc
topuses attacking persons who at
tempted to prevent then from re
turning to the sea. Occasionally, ap
parently authenticated cases are re
ported of encounters between divers
and octopuses on the Pacific coast.
Pearl divers in the Pacific islands
tell of fights with octopuses, and
such incidents have strayed into
literature, from Pliny to Victor Hu
go. These are often inaccurate or
exaggerated. In "Toilers of the Sea”
Hugo describes a fight between
Gilliatt and an octopus which,
though thrilling, is erroneous, and
even the spirited drawing of Gus
tave Dore depicts an octopus unlike
any that ever existed.
Nevertheless, the 28-foot octopus
of the Pacific, or even large exam
ples of the common octopus of Eu
rope and the West Indies, are for
midable antagonists at bay.
The common octopus is one of
about 200 species belonging to the
order Octopoda. Most of them live
in comparatively shallow water,
about 100 fathoms or less, though
deep-sea octopods are dredged from
time to time. One of the weirdest
of the deep-sea species is Baird’s
Octopus (Octopus bairdii), a pale,
bluish-gray creature, with gleam
ing black eyes and elongate, taper
ing soft "horns” (or cirri) above
them, ornamented with knobs on
their sides. Its entire body is cov
ered with minute, granular tuber
cles. As is usual among octopuses,
the third tentacle on the left-hand
side in the male is modified for
sexual purposes. In this species, the
tentacle terminates in a spoon
shaped structure with nine trans
verse ridges across it.
Some Strange Species
The fairylike Dancing Octopus
(Octopus bermudensis) of Bermuda
may be seen flitting about in the
shallow, transparent water among
the coral reefs. The brown body,
spotted with white, is balanced
gracefully upon long, slender ten
tacles. Some of these wave about
like the arms of a tiny sprite; others
pirouette upon the sandy bottom,
barely touching it with their tips,
for all the world like a ballet dancer.
In striking contrast to these spe
cies, the Umbrella Octopus (Onis
thoteuthis agassizi, flaps about
through the water, alternately open
ing and closing a parasollike mem
brane, thus assisting the siphon,
which propels the animal through
t’ e oceanic depths by shooting a
stream of water from the mantle
cavity. This peculiar membrane
connects the eight arms almost to
the tips and, when spread out, is an
efficient animal trap, enfolding with
in its embrace any fish or Crustacea
with which it may come in contact.
One of the most remarkable of all
the cephalopods is the Argonaut, or
Paper Nautilus (Argonauta argo).
This delicate creature is so fairylike
and so beautiful that it seems im
possible it should be classed with
the Octopoda, yet the eight arms
and other structural characters be
tray close relationship. Its most re
markable feature is the fragile
paper “shell,” or “boat,” of the fe
male argonaut, famed in song and
story. In it she was supposed to sail
over tropic seas, unfurling the ex
panded tips of two of her arms as
sails,
Eggcase of the Argonaut
These theories were long ago
proved erroneous, but the truth is
even more marvelous. The “shell” is
not a true shell, comparable to that
of other mollusks, for it is not se
creted by the mantle. It is really
an eggcase, formed between the
oval expansions terminating the first
pair of arms. The arms are held
together, and gradually a thin gela
tinous material appears between
them. This is molded on the inner
surface of the membranous expan
sions, and slowly hardens through
exposure to the water to a spiral
papery substance, sculptured with
parallel ridges of most delicate tex
ture. The two halves of the shell are
joined on one margin to form a keel
decorated by a double row of brown
knobs spaced to correspond with
the suckers of the arms, by which
they are apparently formed, and by
which they cling to the shell.
The argonaut inserts herself with
in the shell, still holding to the out
side with her embracing arms, and
lays her eggs, suspending them in a
grapelike cluster to the interior of
the spire. She swims about at the
surface of the sea, nearly sub
merged.
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Canapes Blanche
1 package cream cheese.
6 strips crisp bacon.
Onion juice.
Paprika. f
Cayenne pepper.
Small pearl onions.
Place the cheese in a mixing
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Copyright.—WNU Service.
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