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Accident Is on Him!
ANGELES. — Ambulance
Driver Hal W. De Groot brought
20,000 accident victims to the re-
ceiving hospital without a mishap.
As he started on his 20,001st trip
he slipped and fell, suffering a badly
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to Turkey than the latest fashion
foibles.
Iy All the best people in Turkey, led
by the president’s wife, go to the in-
stitute for their clothes, hats and
the beautifully hand-made linen and
lingerie. The fashion show held
yearly at the institute is a high light
in Turkish society.
The institute is hoping to interest
Turkish women in modern adapta-
tions of their native garb.
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Movie Idea Is O. K.,
But Patrons Weren’t
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.—The
management of a Port Arthur
moving picture theater, finding it-
self with a good picture which had
received very little publicity to
attract the customers, offered to
let every one in free. If the cus-
tomers felt the show was worth
the price of admission, they could
pay at the box office on the
way out. Only 1 per cent of the
audience paid. One man said he
enjoyed the film very much—but
he was going to keep his money
because he felt he’d been cheated
so often on the pictures they
showed at bank night!
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Let Light In, Say Builders
Windows are all-important in con-
trolling the outside appearance of a
home and its inside decorative ef-
fects. as well as contributing to the
comfort and happiness of the occu-
pants, states the American Builder.
“Some of the newest ideas in home
building for cutting costs and in-
creasing quality apply to windows,”
the magazine explains, “and that is
fortunate, since the public taste
seems to be more and more toward
glass, cheerful interiors and sun-
shine We are all getting to be sun-
worshipers—in the home and apart-
ment, as well as on the bathing
beach; and windows, windows and
more windows are being called for.
“Analyzing th^ work of some of
the country's most successful opera-
tive builders brings out the fact that
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Twelve tunnels, as well as eight major bridges, are included in the
30 miles of new railroad being constructed around the site of Shasta
reservoir between Redding and Delta Station, Calif. The view is looking
out of the south portal of tunnel Ne. I across a completed fill toward
the north portal of tunnel No. 1. Each of these concrete-lined bores is
about a naif mile long. •
WASHINGTON. — The Federal
Communications commission has
announced that it is augmenting its
field force with additional monitor-
ing stations as well as new bases
of operation for mobile units to ac-
complish more effective policing of
communications under the co-ordi-
nated national defense program.
Several hundred inspectors and
other radio experts will be employed
for this program, it was announced.
Since the commission is under civil
service the additional personnel will
come from these rolls.
The additional force is needed, it
was announced, to maintain a com-
prehensive 24-hour surveillance of
all communication channels, includ-
ing broadcast and other radio trans-
mission. Present radio monitoring
facilities will be supplemented with
10 primary long-range direction-
finder stations. These stations de-
termine the bearings of unauthor-
ized or otherwise suspicious com- mOre fortunate than thousands more in England who, because of a shortage of shipping facilities cannot be
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he exclaimed,
are you doing there?”
laughed to see Mrs. Drummer come
rushing out, as if she thought the
world was coming to an end. “Didn't
all the time when they had no one
else to quarrel with. All the other
birds were unhappy, because of the
noisy ways and quarrelsome dispo-
sitions of Bully and Mrs. Bully.
So it was good to hear the whistle
of Farmer Brown's boy, for there
had been no song or whistle for
days and days. He thumped on
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the tree in which Drummer the
Woodpecker had his home and
mean to scare you to death; just
wanted to know if you were at
home,” said he. “1 wonder if Skim-
mer the Swallow has babies by this
time. He ought to have. I believe
I’ll pay him a call.”
Straight across the Old Orchard
he walked to the tree in which Skim-
mer had built his nest in the sum-
mer. Just imagine how surprised
he was when, as he drew near,
Mrs. Bully and not Mrs. Skimmer
appeared in the doorway to see what
was going on. The whistle of Farm-
er Brown's boy stopped abruptly.
“Hello!” he exclaimed. “What are
you doing there? I must have a look
into this. I certainly must. The last
time 1 was here Skimmer was liv-
ing in lhat house. I wonder if you
stole it from him the way you steal
grain from my chickens. It would
be just like your impudence, too.
"You may be all right in the country
you came from, but you’re a nui-
sance here in America.”
He walked straight over to the
tree where the nest was. Such a
fuss as Bully and Mrs. Bully did
make! Once all the other little peo-
ple in the Old Orchard would have
felt, oh, so sorry for anyone whose
nest Farmer Brown s boy had found,
but now there wasn't so much as a
single peep of sympathy, although
Farmer Brown's boy didn't know
it, many eyes were watching him,
and for the first time there was hope
and not fear in them. Fear, great
fear, and sorrow and anger were
all mixed up together in the voices
of Bully and Mrs. Bully as they flew
about frartically, but Farmer
Brown’s boy paid no attention to
them. He slipped a hand into the
hole in the tree where the nest was,
and when it came out it brought the
nest with it
“One, two, three, four, five, six,”
counted he as he spread the nest
open and looked at the speckled
eggs, while Bully anti Mrs. Bully
cried as if their hearts would break.
“If these belonged to anybody but
you I wouldn’t touch them," he de-
clared. “As it is. I’m obliged to
take them. I’m sorry, but it is so.
If I didn’t 1 would prove myself a
poor friend of. all the other birds in
the Old Orchard. The Old Orchard
needs them and it doesn't need you.
You don’t do any good yourself, or
if you do it is so little that it doesn't
count, and you drive away the birds
who do do good. I suppose I ought
to get my gun and shoot you, but I
can't do that. You are dirty, noisy,
useless nuisances, but you are no
cowards, and I just can't hurt you.
1 suppose you can't help being what
you are. But I can’t have you driv-
ing out my other friends, so you
can’t nest here.”
With this he tore up the nest and
walked off with the six eggs. Jenny
Wren sighed with relief,
certainly will go away,"
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the production of women’s clothes.
In this school girls are trained to
become teachers in the arts of em-
broidery, cookery, sewing, fashion
design, millinery and pattern mak-
ing. When they are graduated from
the normal courses they are sent
throughout the country to spread
their learning by way of the people’s
houses.
It is all part of the Turkish re-
public’s plan to make the countrv as
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a cigarette. That’s perfect. I wish
I didn’t have to go away Friday, but
I know I can depend on you to
carry it through. You never were
a quitter. When I come back you
will be free and Harvey not heart-
broken, but very likely engaged to
Martha Kent. You know, he always
_| admired her/*
“Yes, I know he did. Can’t we
get out in the air? It’s rather warm
here.”
“Sure we can. But don’t speak
with that ladylike air, Esther. Say,
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. “I see,- dearie. You don't want
to break Harvey’s heart.”
“Of course not.”
“And you wouldn't for anything be
dishonorable."
“Not for the world.”
“So when he offers the ring you'll
feel bound to accept it.”
“I certainly shall.”
Blanche's vivid little face was all
alight with eagerness.
“Esther, if you’ll put yourself in
my hands for a little, he’ll never of-
fer it. Not that I’d advise you to
turn Harvey down, but if you’re sure
you want to, it's dead easy. Are you
game?'
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changed—just as prim and pretty
and sedate as ever. That gray dress
suits you, Esther. It matches your
eyes.” ->
Blanche Avery glanced approving-
ly at her friend’s trim figure clad
with not unbecoming severity.
Esther Barden’s large, clear eyes
were a little wistful as she an-
swered brightly:
“And you haven’t altered, either,
< Blanche—just as pert and mischie-
vous and up-to-date as ever.”
“Oh, piffle! If you call me up-
to-date I wish you could see the
Woodmansee girls. Their fall suits
are a scream. I came out on the
I car with my cousin Harvey and if
| you could have seen his face wheQ
they got aboard. Can you imagine
| it?”
“Easily, Blanche.”
Blanche laughed with a knowing
air.
“Of course. You know him in all
his phases. I’ve kept track of you,
I cherie, and in the car Harvey was
quite confidential. He’s expecting
a raise from the bank soon, and
he hopes to be able to announce his
engagement. I didn’t ask who.”
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modern and up to date as any Amer-
ican or Continental country. So far
the institute has succeeded in gain-
ing a reputation of being the Paris
of Turkey. No Paris couturier
boasts more magnificent ateliers
and probably not as highly educated
seamstresses. These students are
forced to intermingle their study of
the arts with history and geography
and even some military science in
event war becomes more important
FARMER BROWN’S BOY came
" into the Old Orchard whistling
It was good to hear someone who
seemed happy and wanted every-
body else to feel happy. The truth
is there had been very little happi-
ness in the Old Orchard since Bully,
the English Sparrow, had moved
there. Perhaps he and Mrs. Bully
were happy. Probably they were.
But if they were they had a funny
way of showing it, for it seemed as
if they quarrelled with
Cementing Pan-American friend-
ship, Capt. C. Haller Goodwyn takes
off from Miami, Fla., to inaugurate
a non-stop, substratosphere air serv-
ice for passenger, mail and express
between North and South America.
This plane made its first fight to
Barranquilla, Colombia.
TO MAKE TURKISH WOMEN BEST DRESSED IN THE WORLD
ANKARA.—Future dressmakers
of Turkey practice what they learn
at the Ismet Inou institute on no
less a wardrobe than that of the
•mdRry’s first lady.
The wife of President Ismet Inou
is a leader in the movement to make
Turkish women among the best
dressed in the world. The Inou
instituta is a super vocational school
with an enrollment of 720. Its goal
is to mab» Turkey self-sufficient in
munications. The i
ment, which includes direction find-
ing apparatus, traces the origin of
such transmissions.
Watch AU Circuits.
In addition to increased monitor-
ing duties, the field division will be
required to watch radiotelegraph
and radiotelephone circuits for su-
perfluous signals, to record these,
and translate foreign language
broadcast material. It must also
make certain of the citizenship of
several hundred thousand persons
now charged with the responsibility
of communications, as well as of
their immediate families.
This figure covers about 100,000
licensed radio operators, including
amateurs; a like number of cable
and wire operators, and other em-
ployees such as those of broadcast
and other radio stations.
Keep Tab on Electricity.
Another emergency task will be to
guard against the possible misuse
of electrical apparatus, including
diathermy devices (now employed
in many thousand offices of physi-
cians). as transmitters in a manner
which might jeopardize the nation’s
security. Still another undertaking
will be to keep tab on possible use
of transmitters which have been
manufactured but not sold or li-
censed for authorized communica-
tion purposes.
' The commission now operates
seven monitoring stations, fn various
parts of the country, which are
largely devoted to making routine
measurements of frequencies and
determining the quality of emis-
sions, as well as spotting interfer-
ence. In the course of such work,
they observe unlicensed operation
incidentally. However, these moni-
toring stations as now manned and
equipped could not cope with the
additional work contemplated.
Congress recently authorized a
new monitoring station for Massa-
chusetts, but this is to relocate and
improve the existing one. The new
bases for mobile operation are be-
ing established at strategic joints
throughout theTJnited States and its
possessions.
best selling houses around its win-
dows. In their most profitable homes
the windows are something more
than mere openings in the wall.
They have a far greater role than,
that of letting light in and keeping
out wind and rain and snow. They
are utilized as one of the most ef-
fective of sales points in focusing
attention of the prospect, whether
he’s a buyer or a renter. _______
“Picture windows decide many a
home sale by framing a favorite
view. Use of peach-colored plate
glass often adds to the beauty of a
scene. And a picture window over
the suik or a corner window may be /
the means of lifting that kitchen to I
a new plane of beauty and cheer—
the difference between a domestic
workshop of drudgery and an invit-
ing unit of the home.”
The magazine then points out that
in cases where an objectionable
view seems to make windows in
that particular wall seem imprac- i
tical, it is possible to use such pat-
terned glasses as louvrex, with its
directional louvre-like lines, which
exclude the exterior view but bring
in light and provide interior decora-
tive smartness.
“Where there is a landscape to be
•captured’ for the wall, leaded win-
dows, of course, should be discard-
ed in favor of one large pane of
polished plate glass, clear or in afiy
one of several tinted plate glasses,
such colors as blue, peach and gold
adding richness to any scene.” The J|
importance of double glazing, or •J
“window conditioning,” is another ;
important consideration in both I
home building and buying, the pub- ■ i
lication'emphasizes. j
“The trend to larger windows, oft. I
en whole walls devoted to glazing,
has been greatly accelerated by win- I
dow conditioning, now that the old- j
style storm sash has been modern- j]
ized and pre-fit double-pane sashes ||
have been developed,” the article I
states. “The comfort, fuel-saving I
and health advantages are so obvi- S
ous that many builders have come fl
to look upon window conditioning as fl
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"Just this. You know how Harvey
hates a flapper. I’ll make a flapper
of you in less than no time. We’ll
go shopping tomorrow. You’D have
to drop some of your prim little
ways, smoke a few cigarettes, and
put a more up-to-date tone into your
conversation. It will be glorious fun
when .we once get started. But I’ll
have to skip,” glancing at her wrist.
“Tomorrow, Esther? We’ll take the
8:15 for Romney to have a good long
day for your transformation. We’ll
go to the barber’s first of all.”
"The barber's?” faltered Esther.
“Sure. Doesn’t Harvey loathe
bobbed hair?”
“Ye-es.” Esther hesitated. She
wasn't quite sure she wanted Har-
vey’s distaste for her to reach the
point of loathing. "Yes, Blanche, he
does.”
Blanche held Esther firmly with
her vivacious gaze.
“Esther, are you backing out, or
will you be a sport?”
“I will be a sport.”
“Good work! Only, remember if
you’re sorry afterward that I didn’t
advise it; and don't miss the train!”
Esther kept her appointment, and
Blanche whirled her from place to
place until, by four o’clock, she con-
sidered the transformation com-
plete.
“Oh, Esther!" she choked, "you’re
a scream. But you make a pretty
flapper, dearie. Just look
self in this long mirror.'"
Esther gave one glance. "Oh,
Blanche!” she echoed, sinking into
the depths of a convenient chair.
Esther. And you haven’t ‘Gosh! but I'm hot.’ ”
“Gosh, but I’m hot,
echoed obediently.
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Six weeks later Blanche found her
friend in the old summer house
again.
“Oh, Esther! That gray muslin!
You’re prim and as sweet as ever.
And how fast your hair has grown.
It curls so becomingly round your
face. You’ve been a good sport.
I’ve kept the run of you.” Then,
with a sharp, swift glance at Es-
ther’s hands: “Why, Esther!”
Esther quietly held up the spar-
kling solitaire in its platinum set-
ting.
“Yes, Blanche. It will take me
years to live down all the ridiculous
things I’ve said and done, and we’re
j^ngaged after all. Sit down Blanche,
ahd I'D tell you about it. Harvey
would seem perplexed and troubled,
but he didn’t drop as we thought he
would. I was trying to think of
something worse to do, and I
went to Romney for a little shopping.
I slipped into Foley’s for lunch,
and Harvey and his Aunt Harriet
were on the other side of the screen.
I couldn’t help overhearing their
conversation.”
“Did you try, Esther?"
"No,” Esther confessed,
tened. She was urging him to drop
the affair because I had become a
notorious flapper. He told her that
was only a passing phase, that I
was good and sweet at heart and
lhat he had loved me too long and
too well to~think of anyone else.
“I slipped out, and Blanche, dear,
when he came next day and offered
, could I turn down
such love constancy as that?”
“I should say not. This stone is
the real thing and just tl\e setting
must have cost hirrj $50. We’ve
put the deai». fellow to an’ awful " -
test and how nobly he has borne it!
And you know, Esther, I never did
advise it.”
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You are as good as engaged?”
’ “Or as bad, Blanche.”
"Why, Esther Barden! Harvey’s
as good as wheat. Isn’t he, now?”
I “Oh, yes, better, perhaps,” Esther
said with a little sigh. “But some-
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I positive little nod. “He is so de-
pendable; always the same.”
I “I know, Blanche,” Esther an-
swered wearily; “but sometimes one
might like him to be different.”
Blanche looked thoughtful—for
her.
“Perhaps I ought to tell you. Es-
ther. I saw Harvey in at Hunt
and Forsyth’s, and he was buying a
ring. Wasn’t it for you?”
“I suppose it was.”
“And you mean to refuse it?”
“No. Blanche. I can’t, after things
have gone so far. But I almost
wish I could.”
“Why, Esther!”
“It’s just like this, Blanche You
know I spent a month in Melton
with Anne Golding, and I met
young men that are so different.
They take you by surprise, even
shock you a little. You don’t al-
ways know beforehand jyst what
they’re going to do or say next."
i “But I’ll tell you one thing. Es-
| ther Barden: If you were married
to Ned Golding or any of his bunch,
you’d be worried to pieces about
what he might say or do next.”
“I don’t want to marry Ned Gold-
ing or any of his bunch. L‘a UIC loVi. mui
I'have seen more of the world' they are practically designing their
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