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$he$ronmsville3terald
Established July 4 1692 As a Dally Newspaper
by Jem O. Wheeler
Published every afternoon (except Saturday) and
Sunday morning. Entered as second-class matter in
the Poetoffice. Brownsville. Texas.
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also the local news published herein.
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reputation of any person firm or corporation which may
occu* in the column* of THE BROWNSVILE HERALD. *1.1
be slathy corrected upon being brought to the attention o!
the management This paper's first duty la to print all the
news that'* fit to print honestly and fairly to all. unbiased
by any consideration even including its own editorial
opinion.
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Monday December 30 1935
Youth Still Prepared for
Life's Hardships
Sentimentalists have been quietly weeping Into
their beer over the passing of the sailing ship for
many g weary year. But William McFee veteran
mariner and author rises in the current issue of "To-
day” to remark that the sailing ship is still going
Strong.
To be sure the old-time square rigger has just
about vanished. But the schooner the barkentine.
and lesser varieties of the fore-and-aft rigged vessel
art* still doing a good business; Indeed says Mr. Mc-
Fee there are probably more ships of 40 or 50 tons
under sail today than there were In the days of
Francis Drake.
But the old square-rigger of course. Is a rare sight j
cm modern seas; and Mr. McFee suspects that it was
the very hardships of the life she offered to her people |
that make men lament her passing. Should the world j
•uddenly run out of fuel he remarks so that its ocean
commerce would have to depend again on the out-
moded full-rigged ship we would see a great outpour- i
tog of young men eager to sign on as seamen.
These men he says would come from everywhere—
from gas stations and banks from college lecture
rooms and schoolteachers’ desks from chain stores
and stockbrokers’ offices; all that would be needed
would be to pass the word "that men were wanted to
man ships not floating hotels or steam-driven ware-
houses and the men would come In a hurry.”
There is little doubt that Mr. McFee is entirely
tight and the thing is a little perplexing. The old
•ailing ship life was absolutely certain to give its de-
votees one thing—a solid bump on the chin—with
monotonous frequency.
It was a dog’s life from start to finish and it
meant poor pay long hours bad food hard work ano
considerable risk of life and limb.
Why then should men want to have it restored?
The answer probably is that the ordinary human
animal is a lot less interested In security safety and
case than he is usually supposed to be. He wants a
life that will test and challenge him. something that
will take him everlastingly over the bump* and show
him whether he Is rightfully a he-man w!th whiskers
on his bosom.
If he can find such a life he will leap to it—kicking
Hke a steer about it to be sure but nevertheless
leaping.
And the chief trouble with the years through which
we have been passing Is that they have o'fered youth
neither a hard life nor an easy one. Their color has
been a dead gray.
Man will take security thankfully if he cant have
the challenge: It la when he can get neither that he
finds himself in a bad way.
We probably can never restore to modem life the
kind of raw-meat living the old windjammer repre-
sented. We have to devise an alternative; and
youth’s dissatisfaction today is simply a sign that we
have not yet done so.
West Point Under Fire
A congressman has Just been brought to trial and
convicted of having offered an appointment to West
Point to return for payment of $1000. The offer was j
SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK.By R. J. Scott
tm* 'Ir T——' —
said to have been made to a star athlete; and one In-
teresting part of the case lies in a statement by the
defense attorney.
This lawyer asserted that the appointment was
made available to please a number of high army of-
ficers who were Interested in seeing a football star
sent to the military academy. “The idea" he said
“was that he was a football man going to the military
academy to help out the football team."
This it seems to us is almost as grave a matter as
the congressman’s shakedown. The country maintains
the academy to provide its army with leaders and it
wants the best leaders it can get.
Sending young men to West Point “to help out the
football team” is a direct and flagrant perversion of
the whole reason for the academy’s existence.
Model Milwaukee
Municipal Judge Max W. Nohl of Milwaukee sug-
gested the other day that New York and Chicago send
experts to Milwaukee to find out how a city can handle
the crime problem; and Judging by the statistics he
quoted it might be a very sound idea.
The Judge pointed out that during the last three
months New York has had 108 homicides Chicago
65 and Milwaukee—one. In the same period other
crimes occurred as follows: robbery. New York 283;
Chicago 2221; Milwaukee 6. Burglary New York
650; Chicago. 4212; Milwaukee 173.
Somehow this Wisconsin metropolis seems to have
discovered the secret of keeping the lawless in check.
There are more cities than New York and Chicago
which could profitably take time off to find Just
how Milwaukee manages to do it.
... ..
The Truth About Diet
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of tho American Medical Assn
and Hygela the Health Magazine
WATER VITAL IN EVERT CHEMICAL CHANGE
OCCUR ING IN BODY CELLS
Your body contains 60 to 70 per cent water. It loses
anywhere from one to five quarts every day. If you
have a Job that makes you perspire you may have a
“water turnover” of as much as four gallons a day.
The water you drink makes up 90 per cent of the
fluid part of your blood. It carries the essential food
substances throughout the body as well as the mater-
ials that are to be eliminated.
You may be able to go 40 days or more without food
but you can go only four or five days without water.
The old poem which began “Pure water is the best
of drinks" turned out to be one of the truest state-
ments known to physiologists and hygienists.
Water is the universal solvent. Not one of the
chemical changes that occur in the cells would take
place without water.
Incidentally the proportion of water In man’s body
is greater at birth than at middle age. Six months
TODAY’S HEALTH QUESTION
Q.—What causes the Jaw to slip out of joint
and what can be done to prevent it?
A.—Dislocation of the Jaw almost always occurs
on both sides and in a forward direction. Disloca-
tion In other directions occurs only from great
violence.
Dislocation is the result of either external vio-
lence as in the pulling of teeth or in trying to
force a large object into the mouth or. much
more commonly of muscular action when the
mouth is opened wide as in yawning laughing
coughing or vomiting.
With some persons in whom the socket of this
Joint is shallow dislocation may occur easily
such persons usually learn to reduce the disloca-
tion themselves. In extreme cases certain opera-
tions aid in prevention.
before Its birth an infant is composed of 94 per cent
water; at birth this content has decreased to 69 per
cent.
When a man s 20 years old the water in his body
constitutes 62 per cent but when he is 70 the amount
has diminished to 58 per cent.
Some of vour tissues contain more water than do
others. Your brain has 79 per cent water your kid-
neys 83 per cent your liver 70 per cent and your
muscles 75 per cent.
Moreover different foods varv in the amount of
water they contain. The cucumber tomato or water-
melon will run as hieh as 90 to 95 per cent of water
content. An egg has 65 percent meat 75 per cent
fish 80 per cent and milk 87 percent.
The water we take Into our bodies seems to be one-
fourth from drinking water and the remainder from
rof'ee milk or soups and the water content in solid
foods.
Water Is eliminated from the body lareelv by the
kidneys but an almost equal amount is vaporized
through the skin and by breathing and about one-
half as much Is eliminated by the bowel.
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Almanac:
Pecember SQfo
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Franklin Pierce
signs the Gadsden
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American
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Behind the
Scenes in
W ashington
By RODNEY DUTCHES
Brownsville Herald Washington
Correspondent
By RODNEY DITCHER
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30— Mr. J.
P. Morgan will make another Wash-
ington appearance on Jan. 7—or im-
mediately thereafter—when the
Senate Munitions Committee re-
sumes its hearings.
Any midget found trying to enter
the hearing room will be given a
prompt bum's rush.
The committee wants to know
all about how the Morgan firm—
with some aid lrom Kuhn Loeb &
Co. Guaranty Trust Company and
other bankers—financed the Al-
lies in the World War.
It. has been through the Morgan
files more or less considerably
hampered by he fact that the great
banking firm refused to produce
documents unless they were specifi-
ed and described. The committee
will never know how much It
missed.
But Mr. Morgan will be asked
to l.elp Chairman Nye and hia
colleagues draw the picture of the
wartime credit and iuTiatjon
mechanism to the point wnere the
Allies and Morgan couldn't carry it
any more—and where this govern-
ment stepped in.
Many new secret government doc-
uments concerning events which
led to American entry into the war
will be introduced publicly. Some
are being suppressed at request of
the State Department and the Brit-
ish government.
Nowhere has anything been found
to indicate that the Morgan part-
ners ever brought pressure directly
to bring this country Into war.
But Morgan probably will be
questioned closely as to whether he
believes he was acting in the best
interests o; this country or in those
of England with which he has al-
ways had close personal ties.
A "Ghost'* Plaintiff
There was a plaintiff in the TVA
case before the supreme court but
he wasn't there and you would
never know of his existence unless
you looked up the record.
His name was George Ashwan-
der. he was a preferred stockhold-
er in the Alabama Power Company
and he was supposed to have been
irreparably injured by TVA. which
was the basis of the suit against
the government so eloquently ar-
gued by James M. Beck.
Yet in two days of argument the
name of Mr. A-shwander wasn’t
mentioned even once by govern-
ment or opposing counsel and
consequently it is impossible to
report the age. marital statu;
home address color of hair or
even the exact TVA views of Mr.
Ash wander.
It was rumored around the court-
room that Mr. Ashwander was a
total stranger to Mr. Beck who re-
presented him.
That $50 Dinner Explained
Recent report in this column of
the $50 a plate Jackson Day Dinner
which the Democratic National
Committee is having here—and
which will be honored by the pres-
ence of President Roosevelt him-
self—may have conveyed a false
impression.
It appears that the Invitations
regarded by many recipients as po-
litical assessments are being sent
to officials In the emergency agen-
cies only in case they are being paid
$50 0 or more a year.
The committee asked for lists of
such employes so it might send them
invitations. At least one emergency
agency protested but was told to go
right ahead and supply the list—
and did.
Meanwhile the committee has be-
come alarmed at opposition propa-
ganda to the ef.'ect that Demo-
crats were to spend $50 apiece on
a Lucullan feast while poor people
were almost starving and has for-
mally reiterated that $45 of it goes
to the Democratic campaign fund.
Just to give you an idea of the
I Sally s Sallies
QYttli QilL -Mu Move
BEGIN BULK TODAY
Agalaat At wish** at hwr
anatmaihfi arblocratM BRA.
HILLIARD CAMERON. DANA
WESTBROOK mar He* DR. SCOTT
STANLEY. atnxvMu run »kr-
NHaa
kNktT* wltk wealthy*” RONALD
MOORE Dana*# halt-slater.
NANCY to la (are with RaaalA
hat hide* her feetlag. kaawtas ha
lave* Daaa.
Rath Mr*. Caateraa aad PAULA
LONG wha ha* Iwred Seatt tar
years hap* the aarrlurt will
•at last
Paala. a patleui at Seatfa. la
always ra I lias hlta aad attacltf
ta see him at parties. Daaa has
heeame aware af Paala** lafataa-
tlaa fat her has ha ad.
Seatt. deeply la laea with tots
wife la aaeam f arts hi# are* the
attnatlaa.
One atatmi alaht Paala**
housekeeper call* Seett. telllaa
him Paala la IIL Seett aeee te
see her aad stays away all alaht.
Daaa. apt kaawlaa Paala had at*
tempted oafetde. traea ta het
praadmather Mr*. Camera* de-
terra laea te de aR she eaa ta
make the eeparatlea permaaeat.
Neat day Seatt la railed ape*
t* perform a dnaireraso operation
He rets rat home with a heat f
heart reallstaa Daaa Is apt there
t* share la hi# triumph
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XTXTV
DANA was sura bar heart had
died tbat night Scott had gone
to Paula’s home and stayed thsre
while she connted minuter by Its
henry beating. Counted minutes
that lengthened lo bourn.
At four aba had got up und
dressed. Then she called a taxi
and gave the driver her grand
• mother's address
Tas. ber heart bad died when
Scott had flaunted his Infatuation
for Paula. leaving her alone that
stormy night Her heart had not
eome alive since: a month had
passed and Scott had neither called
her or tried to see her.
Lawyers might term what she
bad done "desertion." but Dana
never doubted that Scott knew she
bad left him because he bad stayed
at Paula's all night Any woman
who had any aelf-respect would
have done the same thing And if
Scott bad bad any explanation to
offer be wonld have pleaded srlth
her to eome back to him. He
hadn't—which was proof that he
didn’t want ber
Annt Ellen entered her niece’s
room. 8be said. “My dear you
aren’t happy. Isn’t there some
thing that can be done about Itr
"No. Aunt Ellen * There was a
«ob In Dana's voIca
’Let me write to Scott.* her
aunt pleaded
"No. no'" Dana’s voice rose ve
nemently Then she was sobbing
in Aunt Ellen's arms When she
was quieter she poured ber trou
oles Into the sympathetic ear She
told thinga the had vowed the
would never tell anyone but teU
mg them to one who waa ao dear
and understanding and dependable
was like whispering them to her
elf. Dans knew without binding
ier to secrecy tbat Annt Elleo
would never break the confidence
"It wasn't anything 1 did." Dana
'nsl8ted "1 loved 8cott so much
and be knew that I didn’t mind
lolng without all the ellly things
i lot of girte want i didn’t mind
ooklng and doing dishes. It was
un. Because no matter what
went wrong. Scott never com
olained He didn't expect things
if <as He helped a lot—not put
taring around M really helping.
And he worked so herd at the of-
fice—" Dana's voice broke.
• • e
wrpHEN why." Annt Ellen asked
* bewildered "why did yon
leave him?"
Tt was something outside all
that Something 1 suppose be
couldn’t help." Dana’s miserable
eyes met ber aunt's.
"You mean—a woman I" Aunt
Ellen could scarcely say the word.
It had a tearfully Indelicate sound.
"Yes." Dans answered.
"You are sure?" Her aunt’s voice
was shocked.
“Yea Ton see 1 was a aneak
and checked np on him."
“But are you rare?" It waa al-
most impossible for Aunt Ellen to
accept this dreadful explanation
remembering the happy faces of
ber niece and 8cott the day they
married. Only a year ago—and
here was Dana telling her about
some other woman.
"And then she went away." Dana
whispered. "About three days aft-
er—after I found out about it the
left town. It Is all very mysteri
ona She didn't tell anyone where
she was going. Just disappeared
and her apartment was closed But
of course I knew why she left
Maybe she thought I’d take the
role of an avenging wife. Or may-
be she lust wanted to get out of
town «nti! tt all blew over."
Aunt Ellen had decided. Tt was
that Long girl then." She was the
one ber sister bad said Scott
should have married in the first
place. If he bad. this child
wouldn’t be sitting here looking
like a little ghost.
It might have been better for
Dana to have pretended she didn’t
know what was going on. In the
old days women pretended they
didn’t know about their husbands
philandering* They lost acted ae
though they didn’t know and kept
on living with their husbanda
But young girls today with so
i much fire and spirit demanded
fair play When they didn’t get
It they struck beck Dana bad
struck at Scott and the blow nad
rebounded wounding her sorely
"My dear." Annt Ellen protest
ed. “you cant go on this way
You’ve been here a month now.
and you haven’t been out of the
house Don’t you think you could
take e walk? Or go to a movie?"
T couldn’t go to a movie" Dana
said T couldn’t stand tt." Then
as she saw the troubled look on
ber aunt'e face deepen she said
gallantly "But 1 will go for a
walk. 1 hate to face people
though I know it’s silly. But It’s
horrible to feel people ere specu-
lating about you. looking at yon
and wondering and saying There's
Dana Stanley Well she and Scott
have hit the rocks already.’"
• • •
A CNT ELLEN nodded. "They
probably will say those things
But you most be brave and face
the music Toe can’t become a
recluse because you and 8cott
couldn't live together After a
while people will forget It's a
good thing most of ns have inch
short memories "
Dane said. Tfs a nice day.
•
Presto and sunshiny though a lit
tie windy. I'U enjoy getting out.'
Sbe said It tor her aunt'a benefit
and taw Annt Ellen's face bright
en.
Dana waa scarcely oat of eight
wben the doorbell rang A moment
later Sarah plodded np the stairs
her eyes bulging.
"It's Mister Ronnie" she said
“He’s askin' tor Miss Dana."
Anns Ellen flattered down. With
her deter and Nancy both away
sbe didn't know wbat she would
say to the young man. It didn't
seem decent ezactly. tor him tc
b* inquiring tor Dana wben the
child was still married. Still she'd
have to give him some sort ot an
swer. Young people did the most
amazing things Annt Ellen knew
sbe must be careful because her
sister would be fnrione if this par
tlcular young man was offended
"Dana’s oat walking" Annt El
len eald vaguely She added (and
the devil blmsel! mast have been
prompting her). “She went south
She can't be to very far away be-
cause sbe only left a few minutes
ago."
Ronnie tbanked her and left.
"I couldn't help it." Aunt Ellen
tokl herself. "Maybe a nice brisk
drive wonld cheer Dana ap a lit
tie."
• • •
TSANA’S feet were taking her
along a familiar way it was
the same walk sbe bad taken the
afternoon she bad been caught in
the deluge and Scott bad come run
ning after her Every step was
filled with memories This was the
street where 8cott had lived then
His house stood at the end of the
block.
She bad almost reached the cat
standing in front of Scott’s house
before sbe recognised it. it was
Scott's car. Dana pat out a hand
and touched it Suddenly sbe was
shaken by so be. blinded by tears
8be opened tbe door and climbed
in. Sinking back against the seat
she gave up to desolation. Sbe
would sit bere and wait Wber
Scott came oat sbe would tell bin:
what was in her heart Sbe would
tell him she couldn’t go on with
oat him. ask wbat bad become ot
the love be bad once had for bet
Suddenly fear gripped her What
if Paula bad not gone away as
people aald? What if she bad tak
en over Scott's bouse? Perhaps
tbe tenants had given tt up anc
Paula had come bere. knowing tbat
someday sbe wonld be Its mistress
Tbe story tbat Paula bad left
town had been so vague Nobody
knew where sbe bad gone. But if
Paula should appear with Scott
and find her weeping her heart
out ft would be the final blow—
the one thing Dana couldn't en
dure. 8be slipped out of tbe car
and turned her face homeward.
A moment later Scott came ont
ot tbe bouse. He glanced down tbe
street and his heart leaped wildly
Thai was Dana not more than a
block away. Sbe was walking alow
iy
Scott hesitated a moment Then
he started walking rapidly toward
the distant figure.
(To Be Continued)
way things art with the Democrats
—when a Texas lady received more
than S6C70 in A. T. & T. dividends
the other day and promptly passed
it along to the committee. Publicity
Man Charlie Mlchelson became so
excited that he Issued a press re-
lerse giving full credit to the lady
and quoting her inspirational re-
' marks.
The funny thing about this is
that the Republicans are bragging
about their $2 contributions (such
as the one from the CCC boy) and
playing down their big ones while
ihe Democrats are trying to ignore
their lack of funda and play up
any gift of a few thousands as an
example to be widely followed.
(Copyright 1935 NEA Service Inc.)
Dinner Stories
Just Good Fire Wood
The enterprising secretary of the
very Inferior dramatic club had
succeeded in persuading a noted
dramatic critic to attend a produc-
tion of one of his plays. At the end
of the second act the secretary
blissfully oblivious to the critic's
suffering breezily inquired.
"And what do you think of our
club sir?”
The great man looked at his
questioner more in sorrow than in
anger.
“It strikes me.” he replied “as
not so much a club as a bundle of
sticks.”
• • •
Pure Fiction.
Customer: Have you that book
called “Man The Ruler’?
Salesgirl: Fiction department on
the first floor sir.
• • •
Not a Supporting Soul
A retired mill hand decided to
try to get a seat on the city coun-
cil so he proceeded to do a little
canvassing.
“Do you think your husband will
support me?” he inquired of one
lady.
“Well” she answered doubtfully
‘if he does It’ll be something he
hasn't done for me this last 10
years.
Correctly Speaking
In manuscript the first line of
every paragraph should be indented
at least an Inch.
One^minute Pulpit
The Ups of the wise disperse
knowledge: but the heart of the
foolish doeth not so.—Proverbs 15:7.
Words of Wisdom
Poets alone arc sure of Immor-
tality: they are the truest diviners
of nature.—Buiwer-Lytton.
On July 6 1925 a hailstone 17
Inches in circumference fell at
DnflM Uak
Flashes of Life
(By The Associated Prese)
Pass the Seaweed
NEW YORK — If you don’t like
spinach the WPA and the de-
partment of public markets are
ready to fix up a substitute.
So far research workers have
found three—cardoon seaweed
and yantia.
The desirability of the sub-
stitutes over the original product
has not been disclosed.
Cold Colorado
EDENTON N. C.—Residents
shivered with the mercury six de-
grees above aero. They shivered
more • when they saw George
Brocks a visitor walking without
an overcoat.
“This isn’t cold” Brooks said.
"Out where I live it ia 30 to 40 be-
low zero."
Brooks is a resident of Leadville
Colorado.
Shirley Knows How
MERIDEN Conn. — Shirley
Levine 7 can take care of her-
self.
Annoyed by boys while skating
at a public park she telephoned
Mayor Stephen Smith. Smith sent
two policemen who took the boys
in hand.
Shirley went on with her skat-
ing.
Moo!
OTTAWA Kas — A score of hun-
ters seeking wolves were unprepar-
ed for a cow with a young calf.
The cow resentful of their in-
vasion of her pasture chased them
over a barbed wire fence. The wolf
hunt was called off.
Barbs
Waynesburg. Pa. man says he
has driven 100000 miles and never
humped a fender. That’s a power-
ful lot of golf.
• • •
The Townsend victory to Mich-
igan ushered a new version of that
old slogan. It’s “Remember Main."
• • •
There Is always the—ought we
say?—objection that an impulsive
“mercy killer' might perform on
one of those cowboy crooners
So They Say
American industry is not self-
ish. It would be far more Just to
say it has been preoccupied—pre-
occupied in producing.
—Alfred P. Sloan. Jr. motor mag-
nate.
lit
A league of English-thinking
peoples controlling all the essen-
tials of war should be the greatest
factor for world peace.
—R. D. Blumanfeid British pub*
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FactograpKs
When chartered in 1746. Prince-
ton was known as the College of
New Jersey and was located at
Elizabethtown. It was moved to
Princeton in 1756 but it was not
until October 22. 1896. that the
corporate title was changed to
Princeton University.
• • •
Laughing gas (nitrous oxide) is
a colorless sweet tasting gas con-
densable into a colorless liquid.
• • •
Camel's hair is imported into
Europe and used extensively in the
manufacture of dress materials and
rugs. Cow’s hair is also used as a
substitute in the cheaper grades of
so-called camel s hair goods.
* • •
The eucalyptus tree of Australia
is a competitor of the redwood and
occasionally specimens are found a
little higher than the redwoods.
• • #
A weak solution of nitrate of
copper gives an invisible writing
which becomes red through heat.
• • •
An alloy has been used with gold
since a period many centuries
earlier than 1600 years ago. Gold
in the raw state was known in the
later stone age.
• • •
Beech birch maple sap and red-
gum are reported as being used in
largest quantities for handles of
tea kettles and coffee pots.
• • •
The degree an academic rank of
title originated in the medieval
universities.
Flapper Fanny Say&
I
swers
to *
Ouestions
BY FRfcDERlC_J._HASKIN_
A reader can get the answer to any
question of fact by writing The
Brownsville Herald. Information*
Bureau. Frederick J. Baskin. Direc-
tor Washington. D. O. Pleas* en-
close three (3) cents for reply.
.... —..
Q. Can the white man under-
stand drum messages that are need
in Africa by the natives? J. M. McK*
A. It is difficult to make a de#*'
finite statement concerning th#
possibility of the white man'* de-
ciphering or decoding drum com-
munication. As now used by the na-
tives of Central Africa drum com-
munication depends on an elaborate
code which to one reared in the at-
mosphere is more dependent on so-
cial understanding and mutual re-
cognition of the tone variations
than on translation into letters.
Travelers even Euroeans have ob-
tained food and kx'glng by its
means. It is reasonable to believe
that a white man livir.g for some
length of time among the natives
would eventually catch some part
a: the significance of this method
of communication.
Q. Following the death of Presi-
dent Harding did President Ceel-
idgr take the oath of office twice?
L. T.
A. The oath was administered to
him by his father shortly after he
was notified of the death of Presi-
dent Harding. Later he took the
oath again in Washington.
• A •
Q. What was the first of the Al-
phabet Bureaus or Commisskms?
L. K.
A. The Reconstruction Finance
Corporation which was established
in January 1932.
• « •
Q. Approximately how many Bi-
bles. in all languages have been
printed since the Invention of tho
printing press? W. S.
A. The American Bible Society
says that an absolutely accurate
answer is impracticable but the
total issue of the three great Bible
societies during the 119 years of
their history and including entire
Bibles Testaments and portions of
the Bible are 846.077321. It is es-
timated that the number printed in-
cluding other agencies would bring
the total to at least 937000000 vol-
umes.
• • •
Q. What is a ha-ha wall? B. C.
A. It is a barrier made by a re-
taining wall at a place where the
ground level is changed. From the
upper side this barrier or enclosut*
is invisible or hardly seen. Accodh
ing to French etymologists the natne
is from "ha!” an exclamation of
surprise. The term appears as early
as 1712 in LeBlonds Gardening
"Through-views called ah-ah are
openings to the very level of the
walks having a large and deep ditch
at the foot which surprises and
makes one cry ah! ah! from whence
it takes its name.”
• • •
Q. What is t "Cadmran vio-
tory”? O. H. G.
A One in which the victors suf-
fered as much as their enemies.
• • •
Q. Who used the pen name “M
Quad"? D. C. V.
A. Charles B. Lewis.
• • •
Q. Who introduced shell-rimmed
spectacles in this country? 8. P.
A. In The Twenties by Mark Sul-
livan there Is a statement to th*
effect that Col. Oeorge Harvey was
the first person to wear them in
America. This was In the 1890’s
when he was a comparatively young
man.
• • #
Q. Was Senator Norris ever gov-
ernor of Nebraska? H. J.
A. NO.
Q. la Harlem *a Negr* city? M.
J. H.
A It can not be called properly
a Negro city. It Is simply a district
of upper New York City ranging
from above 106th Street between th*
East and Harlem Rivers and 8th
Avenue. Its main thoroughfare is
125th Street. This area was tha
scene of one of the famous bat-
tles of the American Revolution. It
has become largely populated Jg*
Negroes and is known as the Blair
Belt of New York City. r
Q. Where and when was the last
public hanging in West Virginia?
C. E. C.
A. John Morgan was publicly
hanged near Riply Jackson Coun-
ty. West Virginia on December 18
1897. This was the last public hang-
ing in West Virginia. All executions
are now done in the penitentiary by
hanging.
• • •
Q. Is Judge Ben Lindsey still
disbarred by the Colorado Stat*
Supreme Court? M.C.L.
A. On November 25. 1935. tha
Colorado Supreme Court on its
own motion reinstated Judge Lind-
sey to the practice of law. Judg*
Lindsey is in Los Angeles wher*
he was elected to a six-year terra
on the Los Angeles Supreme Court
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