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VOL. 102 THE CITIEBN, PHELPS. N. V.. NOV. 9, 1923 THfgFHSLPS CITIZEN ptfjBafead Krrerr Tfc«wd*y, l i l M f Bros. Fbetps, K. Y Tanaf |> M par r<Mkr- JOB# tr FARMELEE AtUney u < Ceaasellsr at Law Ohnroh Bt- Pfcalps. K 7 ' SABLE S. WARNEK f Atteney u i Omsalier at La%[ ODVIX »LOC*. p m w , T. | H OTA M PDBLIO 'WITH RBAX 1 S T U A R T P . D E * O p to m e tris t *1 Hornsea *>*.. U«n*T«. N. Y ' DR. C. J. KENFIELD o K m m T Ontario T mq ham Oo* BvVdlsir f b*»P* AdmM. ciopM Tr#tfu«*^r * RALPH W. PETTY V lM K lI M r H N r . AdibuMinca Lady i l l k t u t PhoB* 1C CHURCH ST* PHELPS. Tha Graat W&I1 of C U u The Groat Wan of Ohln* U esti mated to be from 1.250 to 1,600 miles long. It rnni from a polDt os the Gulf of Llantnng westerly to the Tel- low rlyer. then makes a bend to the sooth for nearly 100 miles, and then continues to the north west for several hundred miles to the Gobi desert Most of It Is through a mountainous coun try, keeping on the ridges, and wind ing over many of tho highest peaks, j It Is from 12 to 16 feet In thickness, ‘ and from 16 to 80 or 35 feet In height I Rapplag ob Wood I The origin of the superstition con- I corning knocking on wood Is doubtful. 1 Somo authorities attribute It to the ancient religious rite of touching a I crucifix when taking an oath; others to the tonchlng of beads of the rosary when praying. Among the Ignorant peasants of Europe the custom prob ably began with the hsblt of knocking loudly to keep evil spirits away. Vaaui May Bt Inhabit*! Observation* lead tome astronomer* to believe that there Is a probability of organic life on Venus. There Is con vincing evidence of the presence of i carbon dioxide In Its atmosphere. ' Should further research rewal the (presence of oxygen and water It will greatly Increase the probability of lift on tjie planot Woman Flew Dirigible Alov* The only woman to fly a 4!rfgibl« •lone was Mr*. Alda de Acosta Brttic- Inridge, wife of CoL Henry Breckln- ridge of New York city. She accom plished this feat In a tiny balloon o tiL Santos-Dnmont In Paris, Frasce, 80 year* ago. ' Law All ShaaM Copy No Ohio firm or representative there of can give to any employee a washra* unless It 1* -Drat cleansed with soap and alkali soda, sterilised with chem ical preparations, and dried with an average heat of 212 degree*. Hi* “No\ Daaea of Japam The “No\ dance of Japan Is a dig-, billed operatic performance consisting of moslc and dancing accompanied by declamation. The chief performers wear masks Indicating the characters portrayed. Library of S su JI h I Book* A library of 6,000 books, few of them larger than a postage stamp, has been collected by a resident of Min— chnsetta. The books Include a com plete Bible and all of Shakespeare’s plays. Heavy Mall la U. S. One-third of the world's mail Is handled by the United States postal system, Its total equaling all the piece* bandied by Great Britain, Germany, France and Russia combined. Chemist Announces War Gat of Deadly Quality Paris.—A war gas so deadly that Its discoverer Intends to keep It se cret even from the war office, except In case of a defensive conflict was announced by Dr Leones Bert di rector of the Clermont-Ferrand Chem ical Institute. Bert said tue gas was the most formidable fc own. It was discovered, he said, whl ■ he and another Insti tute doctor were experimenting with synthetic perfnnles. They concocted, he explained, a celery-scented, fume-glvlng liquid, against which no gas mask, as they are known now, or other means of protection, would bo effective. Tho gas attacks dry as well a* moist flesh, Bert said. It penetrates any sort of clothing and produce* llghtnlng-Uke disintegration of body cells. . » ______________ ___ BLUE EAGLE FLIES OVER QUEER CRAFTS) Strange Jobs Revealed Code Applications. m| i Washington.—Do yon know how your neighbor makes a living? Does he I wist pretzel dough Into fantastic shapes, gam labels, liquify gas, or make rings for hogs' noses? \Strange Jobs' these to the average man, but many others Just as strange are found behind the walls of fac- torie* In American cities and towns, as revealed by the list of applicants for the blue eagle,1\ says a bulletin from the National Olographic society. “Perusing the mo»£ recent NRA list one might be stamped by tha *vlscose extrusion' and ‘transparent materials converters' Industries wfcl ch, with the drinking straw, newsprint and soda pulp industries, appear un der the classification paper and all led products. “Then there is the ‘compound a lr industry* which NRA stallmen Inst at up.on placing under machinery wit b oil and gas separator, stoker, dlamoa d core drill, lightning rod, and fire a t- tlngulsher manufacturing. “Wood products ranging from tootl - picks to telegraph poles and rallroai I ties, are to be found Inside the doors of Industries which have asked lot codes under forest products. They, Include the fabricating of wood heels* mop sticks, ash shovels, wooden In sular pins (whatever they may be), and ready-cut houses. Anti-Hog Cholera 3«rum. ” \The preparation of antl-hog chol era serum appears in the chemicals, drugs and paints Ust with Industries producing such other products as shoe polish, disinfectant sulpbonated oil, dry colors, and animal glue.. “There Is nothing strange about the manufacture of boots, shoe* and sad dlery, nor about the fact that they 'are listed under leather and leather products; but how many non-technical readers know of the box-toe, pasted- shoe-shank, leatherboard, stitch-down- shoe, and theatrical dance footwear Industries? Nor is there anything string® about tablecloth and hand kerchief/manufacturing, listed under textiles. But they have some strange bedfellows' among the code applicants In the buttonhole, balata belting, throwing, wadding, and shoulder pad Industries. “The hog ring maker, glancing over the NBA list finds bis Industry min gling with those turning out lendhead nails, corset steel, ring travelers, steel posture chairs, kaiameln, ash cans, and chucks, whllo the rock crushing Industry belongs to the same group as those producing fresh water pearl buttons, feldspar grinders, and vitre ous enameled ware. Chilled -Wheels. . “Do you ride on chilled-car wheels? Whether you do or not there Is a chllled-car-wheel Industry that has ap plied frfr a code. That Industry Is listed among transportation Industries which include also companies that 'haul for car loading,' organizations that rent fdneral vehicles and am bulance*, and Industrie* employed In ahlpbreaklDf. “Miscellaneous industries on the NRA list are just as varied as the title suggests. Here are classified: hotels, clubs and theaters, punch- board makers, burial Insurance com panies, cemeteries, and chiropractors. Artificial flower and feather makers* and .producer* of dog foods, pencil slats, curled hair, lava products, cot - ,*r*d buttons, tackle blocks, smoking -pipe*, ceufent guns, Venetian blinds, and hardwood crutches also appear; as do owners of burlesque shows, toll bridge*, radio stations, parking lots, and bowling,alleys.\ News Review of Current Events the World Over Roosevelt Directs Buying of Gold in World Markets to Boost Commodity Prices— Administrator Hopkins on Winter Reilief Needs. Havln u j Eaglaa* Y o u * The young of the red-tailed hawks de not leave their seats‘for-six weeks after they are hatched and young Mgles reauln at home even lodges than tkat, sometimes tor a good part of the summer. Moot f n c l m Stamps The moat precious collection of atamfM l i th«‘WorW 1* housed in tk«. vault* of Somerset House, London. It contain* 44 specimen* of every stamp ever made In the British empire. Campaign for Uniform ^ Motor Law Progress** Washlogion.—The movement for u n i form basic legislations governing auto mobile] traffic rapidly la gaining head way,' accordlng-'to statistics compiled by the American Automobllo associa tion. The A. A. A. summary shows that much legislation towsrd this end was enacted in the legislature meetings In 44 states this year “With regard to registration,\ the report says, “It can be said that as a general rule, a motor!st who has com piled with the registration and license laws of his own state will have few difficulties. This applies even to the visitor in state* requiring an opera tor’s license of their own residents. “In six states—namely, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska. Wash ington, and West Virginia—a non-resi dent must secure a driver’s license. A visitor In the latter three states, however, need not secure a license to drive his own car if he resides in a state where all operators are licensed after an elimination.’’ Speaking of speed law* the aisoda- tlon points out that the regulations vary from 23 miles per hour limit in Missouri to SO mile* In North Dakota. Nineteen states have discarded the Idea of a set speed limit substituting a “reasonable and proper speed,\ that speed depending on conditions under which the car Is being driven. Thir teen of the states fixing definite maxi mum* stipulate 45 miles per hour and eight make It 40. Comfort and Beauty Combined In this Complete Bed Outfit *21 .95 lW t»i»o r type metal ted, coil Ijpriatf* 45 Ik. cottom mattreM Metal Beds as low as *4-£s 4 Post Beds . . s10-7* up G r a v e s C 9 * ° 75 STATE STREET ROCHESTER, N. Y. By EDWARD W .. PICKARD B UYING of newly mined American gold at prices above prevailing fig ures did not prove so efficacious In boosting commodity prices as the ad m inistration had hoped, so President Boosevelt called Into conference his finan cial advisers and It was decided to buy gold In the world mar kets. Prof. George F. Warren of Cornell and Prof. James Harvey Rogers of rale, who. had devised the dollar „ . _ _ depredation p o l i c y ° w which Is being tried, Warren were among the con ferees, naturally, and the partial fail ure of the plan was put np to them. They then told the President that It wonld be necessary to force down the value of the dollar In the foreign ex changes as well as st home, and that If that were doifc the scheme was sure to work. The purchase of gold abroad Is un dertaken , by the Beconstructlon Finance corporation, as Is that In America, by direction of Ur. Roose velt It is preliminary to revaluation of the dollar and establishment of the President’s plan for a managed cur rency. Chairman Jesse Jones of the I t F. C. said the Federal Reserve bank of New York bad been authorised to dispose of B. F, OL notes and take foreign gold in payment The bank also has made overtures to the Bank of Eng land and the Bank of France for the purchase of pounds and francs respec tively In exchange for gold. The co operation of the French and British banks would tend to support an ear lier tVhlte House statement that inter pretations of this government’s foreign gold purchases as the beginning of an- International depreciation rdce, \a currency war,” -were erroneous. In Washington It Is the opinion of many observers that conservatism in finance Is being gradually, abandoned and that the dollar will ultimately be forced down to a 50-cent value. Bro kers In Wall Street were frankly coo- fused and avoided any extensive mar ket operations. Meeting with President Koosevelt and the professional authors of the gold plan were 'Acting Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson, Qov. Eu gene Black of the federal reserve board, Qeorge L. Harrison, governor, and J. E. Crane and Fred L Kent of the Federal Reserve bank of New Tork; Henry Morgen than, Jr, gover nor of the farm credit administration; Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Be constructlon Finance corporation; and Henry Brnere, the President’s financial co-ordinator. At least some of these gentlemen have formerly opposed any program that smacks of Inflation; but the Pres ident evidently felt the Warren-Bogers plan was an experiment that deserved a trial and Improvement of the federal farm 1 refinancing machinery, especially In the Omaha land bank district The program has been Indorsed by Gov ernors Horner of IlUnoIs, Bryan of Nebraska, McNutt of Indiana and Berry of South Dakota. The proposed code for agriculture would authorize the creation of a board of farmers which would have functions similar to those of trade as sociations In existing Industrial codes. The board. In conjunction with fed eral authorities, would determine the •cost of production of principal crops, ■determine what Is a fair margin of profit for farmers, and set minimum ■prices for domestic consumption. Though President Milo Eeno of the INatlonal Farmers* Holiday association ■declared the farm strike off pending developments In Washington, the strike wastkept up, especially In Mln- inesota and Wisconsin. DECESIBJQR 15 France will oWe the United Statos another install ment on the war debt amounting to S22.200.92S. Bnt we won’t get I t or any part of It. The new French gov ernment headed by Albert Sarrant In tends to default as did that of Dala- dlcr on Jane 13. It was said semi officially In Paris that the government would abstain from raising the ques tion In parliament, and this policy, rather than his health, would be re sponsible for the absence of former Premier Herrlot because his partici pation wonld be certain to revive the debt Question. T ATE developments concerning the recovery program lndude these .events: Conns el for an employees' brother hood obtain^ a temporary Injunction restraining the New York Edison com pany from violating the NBA and the re-employment agreement President Boosevelt settled two dis- V«tes with the steel Industry He ob tained a “substantial agreement” be tween the United Mine Workers and the captive mines of Pennsylvania op- •erated by the steel companies, forcing ■the latter to accept\ the checkoff sys- iem. He ended the differences between Transportation Co-ordinator J. B. East man and the steel companies over the price of rails to be bought by the rail ways with money loaned by the gov ernment by setting a price halfway between that asked by the companies and that demanded by Eastman. The Ford dealer whose bid was re jected by the government because Ford had not signed the NRA sued to prevent the award of the contract to tha next lowest bidder. More than 800 charges that th» Ford Motor company Is violating the NBA automobile code provisions were dls- 'jnlssed as “not legitimate\ by the De troit compliance board. H ARRY L, HOPKINS, federal re lief administrator, went to Kan sas City, met with relief delegations of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas and Okla homa, and told them that the need for re lief waa going- to be greater than ever and that each state and lo cal government must do Its. part fully. “We are going to start the winter with a million more families os the relief rolls than there U I U o n lrtm Wer* 11 7t&T * * ° ** H. L. Hop kin# qjjj Hmpn and he added emphatically, \the needy Idle are going to be taken care of this winter.” Mr. Hopkins estimated about 8,250,- 000 families were on relief rolls at the presentment. During the five months the federal-emergency relief adminis tration has been in operation $216,000,- 000 has been allotted by the federal government to care for the needy, he said. He noted that when new Jobs open up most of them are filled at first by “seU-Sustalnlng Idle who have never been on relief rolls.\ “The Idle relief bill of the nation, which is about One billion dollar* a year, must be paid,” he said. “This means that the need for private con tributions Is greater.” Explaining that the= federal emer gency relief administration Is caring for 15,000,000 persons by two meth ods, direct relief and “work relief,\ Mr. Hopkins expressed a preference for the latter. F OLLOWING a conference In Des Motnes, Governors Herring of Iowa, Olson of Minnesota, Langer of North Dakota and Schmedeman of Wisconsin went to Washington to lay before President Roosevelt the plans approved by the conference for boost ing prices of farm products. Immedi ate steps held necessary to securing benefits to farmers before the 1933 crops leave their hands Include cur rency Inflation, pegging the prices of basic farm crops, the adoption of a code for agriculture under the NBA. S ECRETARY OF STATE HULL and his aides have made everything ready for the conversations with Maxim Litvinov of Russia concerning establishment 'of re lations with the Sov iet republic, and the foreign affairs com missar is speeding to Washington. It Is taken for granted that when recogni tion of Russia Is com pleted the Moscow government will ap point as its first ambassador to Amer ica M. Sokolnlkov, M. Sokolnlkov , now vice commissar of foreign affairs. He was formerly ambassador to London and was Bust la’s delegate to The Hague. He is lescended from a fam ily that was pnmlnent In the days of tho czars. Valery Meshliuk, It Is expected, will he chairman of the Russian trade dele gation to the United States. He 1* acting chairman of the state planning board and has iften visited this coun try In behalf of Russian governmental purchases. G ERARD SWOPE, president of the General Electric company, ex-in dustrial and libor adviser to the re covery administration, outlined a plan for the gradual conversion of the NRA into a great private organization with governing powers over all Industry. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson and Henry L Harriman, president of tho United States Chamber of Commerce, Indorse the plan, the former asserting sach a scheme would make It possible to avoid cycles of depression, and the latter warning that the NBA would be a failure If it were allowed to become “Just a government bureaucracy ” Briefly, the plan outlined is to en trust to a -national council the code supervision authority now In govern ment hands. Government officials wvuld be members of the council, and It would work In close collaboration with government departments, main taining extensive research and statis tical staffs. The council might be crested by an enlargement of the United States Chambers o f Commerce with labor representation. It was suggested. Albert H. Wlggln * I I HE senate banking subcommittee nnd Its counsel, Ferdinand Pecors, kept up their hammering at Albert H. Wlggin, former head of the Chase Na tional bank of New York, and the compli cated transactions car. rled on by him and his companies. It waB brought out that the Chase bank made huge loans to Wlg- gln’s personal com panies for trading In •the bank’s stock and for the creation by Wlggln of companies In Canada to escape Income taxes. Sher- mar, one of the Wlggln companies, be gan selling the Chase bank stock short In 1020, a month before the great mar ket crash, and big profits were made. “What prompted you to sell the bank stock?’ asked Pecora. “I don’t know,” replied Wlggln. “I must have had some trend of thought at that time. I thought all bank stocks were too high nnd that Chase was In line with the other stocks.” “If you thought Chase bank stock was too high, why did you permit the 'Chase Securities corporation and Its wholly owned subsidiary, the Metpotan corporation, to go Into these various pools to stabilize the market?\ asked Pecora. After considerable discussion with connsel Wlggln replied that the pool bought and sold stock and that “the net result was the sole of stock, just the same as I did.” A/fRS- FRANKLIN D. BOOSEVELT •ivi j, taking an exceedingly active part in the winter's campaign for the relief of human wants, being chair man of tho woman's division. In the course of her duties she spent two strenuous days In Chicago attending a -conference of community welfare workers of the nation called by Gen eral Chairman Newton D. Baker. Representatives of 84 national wel fare and health agencies and dele gates from cities preparing to cam paign for community chests were present “Coming In a crisis year,” Mr. Baker said, “these community campaigns for welfare work represent a challenge to democracy and a test of Its validity. ‘Over the top' must be the cry this year” I C CCOBDING to Secretary of Agrl- culture Wallace, the country's wheat farmers have signed up about 80 per cent of the average-seeded acre age In the farm adjustment adminis tration's crop reduction campaign, Mr. Wallace estimates that cash benefits to farmers for agreements to restrict plantings next year 16 per cent will exceed $102,000,000, of which they will receive slightly more than two-thirds this fall. Checks already are being sent out the first going to some farm ers In West Virginia. Applications have been signed cov ering 570,263 farms on which wheat U grown and representing 51.029,612 acres. A reduction of 15 per cent on this area for the crop to be harvested next year will feduce plantings about 7,780,000 acres. S AMUEL INSUL£* fugitive former public utilities magnate, and the Greek people were equally Jubilant when the Greek court of appeals again refused to extTadlte Insull to the United States and ordered his release from .custody The Judges beld the In dictment against Insull did not furnish sufficient basis for his extradition. What the American government will do next If anything, was in doubt There Is no appeal from the decision, but Washington might denounce the extradition treaty. The Greeks hope that Insnll will remain In that coun try and establish big Industrie^; it Is rumored that he will ask naturaliza tion and change his name to Insull- oponlos. M ODERN Turkey, the republic. Is Just ten years -old. and Its birth day was fittingly celebrated at Anka ra, the capital. The state as It now exists Is largely the work of Mustapha Kemal, the president and It was with Justi fiable pride that he recounted its growth and achievements be fore 100,000 of his fel low dtlzens at the race course. He sald- \Our greatest accom plishment Is the Turk ish republic w h ich the heroism and high culture of the Turk ish people created, thanks to the na tion's will and valorous army, but our task Is unfinished. What we have done Is Insufficient “We wID rftlse our fatherland to the ranks of the most prosperous and most civilized nations of the world with the speed of this age In which we live. We shall succeed because the Turkish people Is lofty. Industrious, and Intelligent and Is led by the torch of positive sdence and by the love of fine ^rts.” Turkey today, added the president Is dedicated to peace and is satisfied with her present physical boundaries, but he declared that as the cradle of ancient civilisation, she Is determined to spread her cultural boundaries far Into Europe. 'T'HAT many Britons are dissatisfied with their country’s present Inter national attitude was manifested at two great mass meetings In London In which demands were made that the government repudiate the Locarno treaty and get out of entanglements that might Involve her in another Eu ropean war At one meeting a resolu tion was adopted calling on the gov ernment to declare “Great Britain's armed forces are no longer at the dis posal of the league council to be uml agolnct a declared aegrrssor nation.\ 1913. Wastern Newspaper Uolaa. W ot W’ i Park St Johns (N. B.) lays claim to the yrorld's smallest park. It la known as Sullivan's park and It measure* 20 feet long and 6 feet wide. It contains two benches which overlook the dty from a dizzy height at the top of M«in street Daed 1,500-Y ear-Old Village to Arizona U Tucson, Arlx.—Seven acres of land, on which Is located an Indian ruin 1,500 years old, have been deeded to the University of Arizona that archeol- oglsts may continue their work. Already artifacts of bygone days and other building features of the In dians' homes have been uncovered. “The ruin Is especially Important because It contains two quite distinct types of homes,\ Dr Byron Cummings, director of the university archeology department, said. \The two periods are represented by the pit houses, which have been par tially excavated, and which date back about 1,500 years, and the surface puello, unexcavated, which probably dates back 800 or 1#00 years.\ Mlfkt Fit Well Now Ths whipping post the stocks, the shameful exposure on the pillory to public scorn and abuse, the public ex ecutions were the primitive methods once employed to teach social respon sibility. AalHil-EitlB{ LUlti There Is a cave In the British Is land of Barbados where animal and Insect-eating lilies grow. These flow er* will close their petals round a walking stick If It is placed dose to them. Excursion Boat C a p tain' Has Saved 1,500 Lives Boston. — Capt. Thomas Dudley Packard of the Boston-Plymouth ex cursion boat Myrtle, has saved more than 1,500 lives during the 40 years on the sea In June. 1018, as com manding officer of the U S. S. Machl- gonne, he rescued 280 passengers from a sinking ship off the Delaware capes. In 1894 he rescued 300 Bos ton factory girls from the City of Salem, grounded at the mouth of galem harbor In a northeast storm. Six Rati to Erery H s m j i While the human population of the world Is estimated at nearly 2,000,000,- 000, the rat population Is placed st 10,000,000,000, or at the proportion of six to every humsn being. Sonrc* of Idwa la Dovbt Many philosophers, poets and writ ers, many artists and musicians, even some scientific men, have admitted tbat they could not describe how their Ideas came to them. Census Shows Americans Abroad Total 420,000 Washington.—According to the an nual world census drawn np by the State department, more than 420,000 American citizens reside permanently abroad, with 2-16,101 Uvlng In Canada and Newfoundland. Tho others are distributed Is fol lows Europe. 93.789, Asia, 24,773, West InfQes and Bermuda, 21,096; Mexico and Centra] America. 18,337; South America, 11.174, Africa. 3,006; Australasia. MIS; Fiji island and So ciety islands, IG0. Lights of New York by L. L. STEVENSON New York-—Not a “primrose path\ is the life those girls of the Forty* second street burlesque houses lead I The shows run from 11 a. m. until 11 :SO p. m - Pour shows a day, seven days a week—witb an extra midnight performance on Saturdays. When not working before audiences, rehearsing for the new show Report at the the ater each morning not later thftn 10.30. Leave when the manager gives the order Governed by a most stringent set of rules the Infraction of any one of which means dismissal. Sickness? Well, lt*s Just too bad. but the show must go on. A new girl steps into the Une and the old is forgotten. If she recovers and wishes to return, she competes with hundreds of others be cause no places are kept open. There are 20 ready and waiting for any vacancy And for all of thnt» $18 a week. • • * Most of the girls who work In the burlesque houses are from out of town—-girls who have come here look ing for careers. Hour after hour, they go through the same routine—go through It with a smile, no matter how they may feeU One of the houses last summer alternated with a house In At lantic City—one week in New Tork, the other on the seashore. That was supposed to be vacation—the girls be* lug able to go swimming and engage in other diversions In their spare time, If any If they were late for a per formance, they were fired, the same strict rules holding optslde of New York. Salaries of principals, who work fully as hard as the girls of the chorus, are In keeping with the salaries of those who are not featured. Comics, who In the old days might draw $300 a week, now draw $50. “Strippers”— girls who undress for the education of the morons In the audience—receive from $30 to W0 according to their ex- pertnesa. Burlesque houses pay from $27,000 to $30,000 a year rental. The companies are large. Expenses have to be kept down. Nevertheless, when ever there is a vacancy, mobs respond. • « • The rules make for morality If a girl picks up a moo within five blocks of the theater, she risks being dis missed. There are others along the same line. Burlesque managers, no matter the caliber of the performers, endeavor In every way to keep the breath of scandal from the performers. They don’t want vadous organizations to get after them. A few monthi ago, vigorous attempts were made to oust the Forty-second street houses. There was an endeavor to hold up licenses. The burlesque houses won out But they removed objectionable posters, toned down their performances some what and tightened np the rules. • * • It scemB Incredible, bat I am told there are burlesque fans who go In when the doors open and stay through the last show 1 wonder what kind of mentality gets a kick oat of hearing lewd Jokes over and over, and watch ing tired girls smile hour after hour? • * • Two friends were discussing the late depression. “It was awful.\ said one. “I opened my Icebox and two cockroaches tried to drag me In!” • • * There are two sure fire Manhattan crowd collectors. One Is some kind of window demonstration. It may be a dollar fountain pen or an electric iron. But If the demonstrator Is even passing fair, by and by the police harq to come along and open a pedestrian lnne. The other Is a sidewalk display •f hardware. F ob some reason or other, tools, small machines and the like prove an Irresistible attraction. Not only does the crowd want to look but It also wants to handle various articles. That bolds true especially on the streets downtown where Jersey commuters hurry along. The sidewalk hardware stops them Just as it does idlers. Q. J»SJ. Ball Sradlcite —WNU Senrtc* W om U Should B« Gvar4*d “Some men,\ said Uncle Eben, “are smart enough to talk by de hour, but haven’t sense enough to keep from say- In' suxnpin* dat kin ruin ’em in five minutes.0 Illiteracy May Ba Growing According to the national advisory committee on illiteracy there are more than 4,000,000 persons in the United States who can neither read nor write. Dogs and Chickens Rain Upon Ranch San Jose, Calif.—It rained chick ens, dogs and dried fnilt here the other day Rancher Nick Suzzolo, hi? family and neighbors swear to It A freak cyclone suddenly struck the Santa Clara Valley ranch. A hencoop was lifted in midair, spill ing its contents, a brood of thor oughly frightened chickens. Trays of dried fruit were lifted overhead and showered Suzzalo. a kennel and large dog chained to It were tossed on high. The dog sustained a broken leg in the crash that fol lowed. Suzxalo's ranch was the only one so affected, but two similar storms have occurred recently They are hell^ved due to conformation of the hills which generate powerful aJr currents. historian claims NAPOLEON A BRETON He Was Born in Brittany, Not Corsica. Morlalx. Brittany.—Napoleon was not a Corsican bnt a Breton, bom not In the Italian Island which just before his birth became Fronch, bnt In Brit tany This, according to Loois Beao&ere, specialist In Breton history. His state ment of his case In the periodical La Bretagne, defying all other biograph ers and historians, Is In substance as follows Napoleon was bofn In the Chateau of Penanvern, near Morlalx. His moth er was Laellzla Bonaparte, nee Ramo- lino, and his father was Lonls Charles, Count de Marbenf, one time governor of Corsica. Msrbeuf was .fifty at the time, Laetlzla only eighteen. Less than a year after their mar riage Napoleom was born and duly In scribed In the records of the parish of Saint Eve. Bnt the page containing the entry has been torn from the regis ter That the Connt de Alarbeuf was Na poleon's father was asserted by roy alist propagandists as far back as the first empire. Marbenfs friendship with tho Bonaparte family was well known and until his death he showed an affectionate Interest In “his son.\ It was due to Mar he of that Napoleon waa able to enter the military school at Brlenne. This fart Is proved by his torical documents. In further support of his curious theory Historian Beanfrew mentions Napoleon’s protection of the Mafbeul family Mme. de Uarbeuf, widow of the emperor’s supposed father, was made a baroness and given an an nual pension of 16,000 pounds. Also her son Francois—Napoleon's half- brother, If Beaufrere’s theory he true —became one the emperor's firorlt* aide* de camp. Napoleon *ren ar ranged the marriage of Francois with a. rich heiress of Lyons and gty» her a diamond necklace on her wedding day. The exact date of Napoleon's birth Is In dispute and the emperor was very touchy about the matter. This would seem to help the theory that he may have been born In Brittany. It is alio possible that the Count de Uarbeof and Laetlzla fled to Brittany At any rate, travelers arc now being shown a bedroom In the chateau of Penanvern “where Napoleon Bona parte may have bee*, jn . ” Prehistoric Indian* Practiced Cannibalism Milwaukee.—Evidence that prehis toric Indians who lived at Altaian. WIs., ate human flesh as a regular ar ticle of diet—when they could get It— Is reported by Dr S. A. Barrett of the Milwaukee public museum. In a comprehensive report on the site which has Interested archeologlsts for many years, Doctor Barrett de clares that human bones found In ref use heaps at Altaian are almost un believably numerous, 'the bones are almost all broken open for morrow Inside: “Revolutionary as this Idea may seem,\ says the report, “we are forced to suggest that the evidence points to the probability that human flesh 'was here tued as a regular article of diet whenever It was obtainable, and that the human flesh was handled In every way precisely as was that of the larger /mlmals of the chase.” G rand U nion’s G reat COFFEE SALE GRAND UNION EVERYONE I^'KES GdOD COFFEE This Week We Featur the Pour Famous Blends At Extremely Low Prices. BERMA, 1%SST 25c lb. Freshpak lb. 23e| d)arma, lb. I9c i EARLY MORN, m 44c Cranberries cioD2 Lb 10 C SnJNKMT I kxAVY Oranges !5for29c| Grapefruit S^alect Evaporated M i l k 5 J 1 27c *X CONTKCTIONKM SU3AR 2 Pkss 13c FKESBPAK ALASKA SALM O N <2 CAm 21c ChcaterUcM C l f a r e t t e s ^ ^ S l . O * Palm o tlva SOAP 3 -,r 17* 1 roemmm M T > m AMMONIA 1 W a fer JfA It Th* Englltb Walnut The “English'' walnnt Is not native to the British Isles, but is the fruit of the Persian or Circassian walnut tree which originally grew In Persia and in the Himalayas. PUailaf jfaaH The native* of Sou*America called the sun by a word meaning “It brings jthe day\ for the moon, “It brings the night” , and for Venns, “It annotwcM tife day\ Laughtar H«rotc Hypocrisy “Do not despise laughter,” said HI Ho, the Sage of Chinatown. “When men emphflr It to conceal sorrow, laughter becomes a heroic hypocrisy.” M t u lu of W « J .‘‘SaTUt’* “Soviet\ means (elect, a representative to'kftesd'W* (“soviet,’' It was these iovletst,tS»t iformed the nucleus cf'fte revotatlMt; I and theoretically the stfvltts stlll dam' iinate. ■-, ^ ----- - --- 1 --- W « p iir Was Sbvrt af I Daring his early ^*I4en<j» In ParlVjlfJj i Wagner, the Benpan ' co«pfe«i>r,f j tween 1836 and 1«I2, and' r d r '!i» r « J ® S I yean afterward was to * coetieieili^®- 1 flnandal difficulties. 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