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THE SCHULENBURG STICKER, SCHULENBURG, TEXAS
This Week
h Arthur Brisbane
Just a Little Better
An Old Man Goes Alone
A Time to Hold On
Harvard's Teaching Plan
Everybody just a little bit happier.
Stocks a little better here, German
bonds were stronger. You could bor-
row money for speculating in Wall
Street at 1M per cent a year.
In a jail at Santa Fe, N. M., a cell
Is prepared for Albert B. Fall, once
senator from New Mexico, later in
President Harding's cabinet. The
courts accepted as proved that oil re-
serves of the United States were
bought and sold criminally, so an old
man, broken in health, not far from
the gray?, convicted of selling, must
go to prison. He goes alone.
What of those that did the buying?
The man who has made a wise in-
vestment is foolish if he lets it go at
this time, if he has the power to
hold it.
The wise will remember that every-
thing comes back. What goes up
comes down, and vice versa. This
country hasn't lost anything except a
few billions of dollars, nothing like
half as much as one year's United
States payroll. And what we have
lost is nothing compared with what
we made in the war.
It is a good time to remember
Goethe's "Money lost, something
lost . . . honor lost, much lost . . .
courage lost, everything lost."
Dean Hanford of Harvard univer-
sity says students are "not spoon
fed." They are expected to be re-
sponsible for their own education
and, to a great degree, educate them-
selves. Truly Dean Hanford says:
"The most important type of educa-
tion is self-education. The student
grasps, retains and masters what he
works out for himself."
To educate means "to lead out,"
from e, out, and duco, to lead. All
that you can do for a boy is to bring
out of him, to "lead out," that which
Is in hlti. Stuffing him with ready«
made information does little good.
In Buckingham palace good Queen
Mary had a grand ball, first in that
palace since 1924.
Two thousand young men, "that
have not had much amusement lately,"
went to the party.
The music, chosen by Queen Mary,
according to custom, with some adviee
from her son, the prince.,of Wales,
had a United States flavor. Titles of
the dance music included: "I'm Alone
Because I Love You," "Girl of a Mil-
lion Dreams," "Hawaiian Stars Are
Gleaming," and "Peanut Vendor," all
a long way from the "Blue Danube."
President Hoover said America
must go to the rescue of Germany
and Austria, and stocks went bound-
ing upward. That happened in splta
of the fact that the President's mes-
sage meant that many of our Euro-
pean customers were close to bank-
ruptcy, and many of our billions, sent
abroad, might never come back.
A huge whale plows the northern
seas, swallowing millions of tiny ma-
rine creatures, on which he lives,
knowing nothing of his past Little
does he (lream that his ancestor was
a little creature, the "tree shrew," that
you could carry in your vest pocket.
Still less can he imagine his future,
or know that his body will be boiled
down, and the oil sprayed on park
trees to kill an epidemic of plant lice.
From tree shrew to whale ninety
feet long, and from giant whale to
plant lice destroyer, is a considerable
change.
We human beings know about our
past and future as little as the whale
knows about his.
Professor Frost, director of the
Yerkes observatory, finds indications
that there exists a "mind" in the
universe. He is not like the French
scientist who replied to Napoleon's
questioft concerning God: "I have no
need of taat hypothesis."
If a cockroach in a skyscraper
could talk and say: "I believe there
Is somebody running this skyscraper,"
you would be amused.
Somebody, somewhere in creation,
Is amused when one of the little
germs on this earth grain of dust dis-
covers Indications of a guiding intelli-
gence in the universe.
What are vitamins? We know that
we can't live without them, that they
cure rickets in children, what food-
stuffs contain the various vitamins,
and scientists have just discovered
that two of them, vitamins A and B,
give off some kind of strange radia-
tion.
Rats deprived of certain necessary
vitamins have no children. Deprived
of other vitamins, they starve to
death, although supplied with abun-
dance of food.
Three important things we possess
Without knowing what they are, elec-
tricity, vitamins und the soul of man.
Somebody stole twenty-eight canary
birds as they sat in their cages sing-
ing sweetly. And, having stolen them,
turned them loose in the park.
It was a mistaken kindness. You
might as well take twenty-eight sons
of very rich men from their yachts,
automobiles or polo ponies, and turn
theia loose la the struggle for exist-
ence.
They wouldn't thank you.
(fe 1M1. It Kinc Feature* Syndicate, Inc.)
By E. C. TAYLOR
t Machines That Are
4 Almost Human
The Thermostat
ONE of the most remarkable robots
yet produced by scientists has
stood guard for many years over th«
enormously valuable library of the
pope In the Vatican at Vatican city,
Italy.
It protects the unreplaceable books,
documents and other treasures from
the ravages of the weather and of
time. It is on the job twenty-four
hours every day, and since it first was
given its instructions and put to work,
It has performed its duties without
once breaking down or calling for out-
side help.
The heart of this robot is a thermo-
stat, a device that is highly sensitive
to heat and humidity. It automatical-
ly controls the humidity and tempera-
ture in the pope's library and it has
halted the deterioration that Home's
extreme weather had worked on the
priceless books for centuries.
Rome Is either very dry or very
humid, very hot or extremely cold.
These sudden changes and wide
ranges of humidity and temperature
were causing the library to crumble
Into dust.
The robot is set at the exact tem-
perature and humidity that is best for
the library, and when the humidity or
temperature reaches beyond that point
either way, the thermostat starts a
"weather machine" that quickly brings
the temperature and humidity back to
where they should be.
The thermostat measures heat and
cold and is highly sensitive to mois-
ture In the air. It trips other machin-
ery into action. In thousands of cel-
lars throughout the country it Is stand-
lng guard over the furnace, manipu-
lating dampers and drafts to Increase
or diminish the heat as it is Instructed
to do. It has replaced thousands of
men from watching boiling caldrons
or vats.
The thermostat 1s used to turn on
the phonograph, washing machine,
electric lights, and perform many
tasks heretofore intrusted only to hu-
man beings.
The principle of the thermostat Is
used in the thousands of automatic re-
frigerators that have been installed In
homes and that are used by food-pack-
ing plants.
A thermostat robot signals men in
New York city to turn on the street
lights when the city is about to be
darkened by a storm.
The device is on the roof of a build-
ing where the street light controls are
located. When an electrical storm Is
approaching the robot rings a bell to
warn the operators to notify the
electric generating stations to increase
the power over the network of electric
lines that carry current throughout
the city.
This is done whenever a sudden
storm brings on premature darkness,
calling for more light than is ordinar-
ily used.
A new development of the thermostat
tells builders if their lumber is prop-
erly seasoned. It operates on the
principle that the electrical conductiv-
ity of wood varies with its moisture
content Green wood or wood that is
not properly seasoned has more mois-
ture than properly seasoned lumber.
The device consists of a simple in-
dicator and two contact points and a
dial. The needle on the dial is set to
show the range of moisture content
that would be acceptable for the qual-
ity of lumber desired for the building
operation, "if the needle is deflected
off the scale for which It Is set when
the test Is made, there is too much
moisture In the wood.
The device also is used by painters
to determine if a house or other build-
ing can be painted after a rainstorm.
It shows whether the wood is too
damp to hold the paint
The thermostat robot has a peculiar
use in keeping billiard balls alive.
Ivory billiard balls "catch cold" when
subjected to a temperature of 50 de-
grees for only a few minutes, and their
life is greatly shortened. They can
live only three months after "catching
cold." .
The life of Ivory billiard balls is five
times as long If they are kept in a
temperature of 70 degrees than If they
are forced to live in a temperature of
00 degrees.
<®. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.)
Mao of Many Hobbies
John Vollmer, of Ashland, Pa., Is a
cabinet maker by trade. He also is
the official clockwinder of Ashland.
The number of hobbies he indulges in
may set a record. By avocation, he is
a chemist botanist, archeologist, min-
eralogist, philatelist, photographer,
beekeeper, gardener and astronomer.
Only recently he erected a nine-inch
reflecting telescope, through which all
residents of Ashland were Invited to
take free glimpses at the moon. And
he ground the lenses himself. His
home is full of equipment and speci-
mens gathered over many years. He
has an excellent collection of Indian
relics. And when he is not busy at
any of these hobbies he likes nothing
better than to whittle a pine board
with a sharp penknife.—Indianapolis
News.
Rolrc* of St. Patrick
The greatest collection of St Pat-
rick's relics ever assembled will be
brought to Ireland for the internation-
al exhibition to be held at Cork In
1082. The collection will be made
from all parts of the world, as there
are now few 8t Patrick relics in Ire-
land.
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They're Trying to Convert America to Buddhism |
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■
BUDDHISM has gained a good many
converts in the United States, es-
pecially in Boston and vicinity, and
now It appears that determined mis-
sionary effort is on foot to win mem-
bers to the religion throughout the
country. Yekun Ftfrukawa, head of
the Rlnzai sect of Buddhists, has come
from Japan to give five years to the
work in America. He has served as
a priest for forty years. Yukun is
shown in the center of the illustra-
tion.
Above is seen the consecration, in
San Francisco, of Margaret Ledson,
the first and perhaps the only white
girl In this country to become a Bud-
dhist nun. While a monk, Nyogen Sen-
sakl, held a razor that signified her
head must be shaved, Margaret repeat-
ed the words:
"My devotion is to Budda, the en-
lightened one. My devotion is to the
norm of Buddha, the task of emanci-
pation from selfishness. I am with
Buddha now. I am a member of his
holy family." Thus she abandoned
her country, her relatives and even
her name. Henceforth she Is known
as Un-Kan, which means "Cloud in the
Valley."
"I expect to sail for Japan before
the year is out," she sa>L "I don't
know yet how my fourteen-year-old
son, Robert, is to be cared for in my
absence. I am expecting they will
make him a chela to serve on the altar
of the temple in San Francisco."
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
GLUTTON AND THE
TRAPPER
DETER RABBIT couldn't sit still.
* You know how full of curiosity he
is and how dearly he loves a story. He
had listened quite breathlessly while
Honker the Goose told how Glutton
the Wolverine had found all the traps
of the trapper up there in the Far
North where Honker was spending the
summer. "What did the trapper do
when he found that all his traps had
been pulled out in plain sight and all
the bait taken," asked Peter eagerly.
Honker chuckled. It was a deep
throatly chuckle. "He lost his temper,"
said he. "I've seen Buster Bear lose
his temper," said he. Honker looked
over, at Buster, and Buster looked
foolish. "But Buster is nothing to
what that man was when he
lost his temper. He talked to him-
self in a very loud voice. Of course,
I don't know what he said, but I can
guess. He went from one trap to an-
other, and the farther he got the an-
grier he grew. But getting angry
didn't do him any good. It never does
any one any good. So at last he stopped
getting angry. Anyway, he stopped
showing his anger, and went to work
to set the traps over again and again,
and this time he took more care than
ever to set them. Then he got a piece
of meat and around it he hid a lot of
stout traps. I guess that was just for
Glutton. I suppose he thought that
If Glutton found one there he would
think that that was all and might step
He Went on Hunting for Traps Until
He Had Found Every One.
Into one of the others while he was
eating the meat.
"I just hung around where I could
watch. The very next day along came
Glutton. My, but that fellow is smart!
I just bad to laugh. The first thing he
did was to hunt for a trap. When he
found it he pulled it out. Then what
do you think he did?"
"Gobbled up that meat and stepped
in one of the other traps and was
caught!" cried Peter excitedly.
"Nothing of the kind," replied Hon-
ker. "He didn't even look at that
meat He went right on hunting
traps until he had found every
It was Just as if he had seen
hunter set those traps, but he hadn't.
When he had found the last one he
just walked over to that piece of meat
and ate every scrap of it. Then he
went on pulling out the traps which had
been set for other little people
as before, and when he had eaten
much that he couldn't eat another
mouthful he just spoiled the rest of
the baits so that no one else would eat
them.
for
one.
that
just
so
"When that trapper found that Glut-
ton had played that trick on him again
he didn't set his traps again right
away, but spent a lot of time with his
terrible gun looking for Glutton. While
he was off looking for him Glutton
came to his house and with his stout
BIG BASE STEALER
f
Every time Ben Chapman, outfielder
of the New York Yankees, catches
sight of a base he has an uncontrol-
able desire to steal it; and he knows
just how that feat should be per-
formed. Consequently he has been
leading all players in both the Amer-
ican and National leagues in the num-
ber of purloined bases.
"If they call it a lover's quarrel,"
says Pertinent Polly, "they aren't mar-
ried yet."
(©. 1931. Bell Syndicate.)—WNU Service.
claws tore a hole in the roof and got
inside. Of course, I don't know what
he did in there, but I have an idea that
when that trapper came back he didn't
find any food fit to eat there. Any-
way, the next day he took his canoe
and went away, and I did not see him
again until the day before I left, when
he came back with a lot more things,
food, I guess.
"I'm just wondering if Glutton will
get those things or if he will get Glut-
ton, or if Glutton has gone some-
where else. Served the man right for
trying to trap the little people who
wear fur. I don't like Glutton. No
one does. But I certainly was glad
to see that he was'smarter than that
trapper."
(© by J. G. Lloyd.)—WNU Service.
Make Pact With Spirit
On the west coast of Africa, as soon
as a child is born his parents drive a
bargain for him with an unseen spirit
The child binds himself by proxy to
keep some tabu, such as not to eat
when he Is on the water, or to abstain
from the flesh of some animal, and in
return the spirit binds himself' to take
care of the child.
"He spent his health to get his wealth.
And then with might and main
He turned' around and spent his wealth
To get his health again."
FOR SUMMERDAY MEALS
THE old-fashioned dish which has
been called various names, comes
down to us as the
Squaw Dish.
Cook together small new potatoes,
new onions, carrots and peas, adding
each in time so that they will all be
tender at once. Add one-half cupful
of diced browned salt pork cut into
small cubes with the fat, a pint of
milk and pepper and salt if needed,
Serve in vegetable dishes.
Codfish a la Mode.
Flake one cupful of codfish that has
been soaked in cold water. Mix the
fish with two cupfuls of mashed pota-
toes, two cupfuls of rich milk and add
two well-beaten eggs. Season well and
pile Into a well-greased baking dish.
Bake 25 minutes. To brown, brush
with melted butter the last five min-
utes of baking. Serve hot from the
baking dish.
Cook a fried egg in a greased frying
pan, adding a tablespoonful of water;
cover and steam in the pan.
Eggs in Peppers.
Cut a thin slice from the stem end of
peppers and take out the seeds. Drop
an egg Into each and bake until the
eggs are set. Serve well seasoned
with butter, salt and pepper, on but-
tered toast.
For a quick luncheon on a hot day
beat the yolk of an egg, add a glass
of orange juice and serve very cold.
Tongue and Spinach Salad.
Mix two cupfuls of cooked spinaoh
with one cupful of diced cold boiled
tongue, one-half cupful of diced celery,
salt and cayefine to taste. Place In
small molds, mixing with enough
boiled dressing to moisten. Unmold
and serve when chilled with a spoonful
of mayonnaise dressing on each.
(®. 1931. Western Newspaner Union.)
Dixie Tie-About Liked
by Majority of Women
The idea for this popular wrap-
around apron-frock came from Geor-
gia, and has been spreading rapidly
around the country. It is simple to
make, and its edges are all bound with
bias tape. The ties at the waist make
over-the-head maneuvers unnecessary.
There is a certain flavor of style in
the molded lines and subtly full skirt.
All the materials can be bought for
less than a dollar.—Woman's Home
Companion.
The Leyden jar was Invented in the
city of Leyden in 1746.
British Army Tank Is Touring the United States
ONE of Great Britain's best army tanas, a Vicliers Armstrong six-ton machine, is in the United States making
a tour of the principal cities and giving demonstrations before American officials. It is seen above as It ap-
peared in Baltimore, with the driver at the controls beneath the two gun turrets.
Marion Finally Met
Her Match
By JACK WOODFORD < jj
< ►
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.>
(WNU Service.)
MARION took a particular delight
in swinging along the country-
side in her big roadster. It was such
a powerful car, and she was such a
smallish girl. Not too small, perhaps;
not too small to support the largest
of big hazel eyes, and a mop of red-
dish gold hair, and a pretty face
whose .striking beauty seldom failed
to cause men to look impressed.
It was nice to drive the big car,
because it had the power of a great
many large and puissant and happily
contented horses. It was nice because
it signified and was a symbol of her
vaunted independence of men.
Her father had died when she was
very young, and her mother had
reared her; there were no other chil-
dren in the family. Marion had lived
in a woman's vs*orld. At high school
she had picked up and in college she
had confirmed, a feminist viewpoint
She told herself that she was an in-
dividual, content and happy and able
to be self-sustaining, completely In-
dependent. Of course, there were
many hours she could not explain,
now that she was twenty-two, when
she felt a lack in her self-satisfied
world.
But today she felt exuberant and
as though she were sitting on top of
the world; which, in point of fact, she
was almost doing, since she was near-
ing the top of Mt. Afton, which was
one of the highest hills in Virginia.
At the top there would be sunset and
then on the other side night
Another reason she felt exhilarated
was inherent In the fact that she had
all of the long way up the mountain,
ever since she had stopped at the bot-
tom of it for gas and a cup of coffee
and a sandwich, kept ahead of a hand-
some young man behind her who had
sought, at every opportunity, to pass
her. It gave her a thrill to best him
because he was male, even if he was
a rather extraordinarily good looking
male, as she remembered from seeing
him at the base of the hill. He was
tall and broad of shoulder and narrow
of hip; and his dark brown eyes had
twinkled in their depths. His hair was
sleek and dark, and his * face was
clean-cut and handsome.
At the top, Marion paused only long
enough to watch the sunset while he
caught up to her; then she went Into
gear and started the long descent,
with his car not far behind her. It
was when she reached a level stretch
of road which curved around the side
of the .hill that her car suddenly went
dead. •
Unspeakably dismayed, because It
was dark now, and the time of year
for rattlesnakes, moccasin snakes and
copperhead snakes on Mt. Afton, she
got out with her flashlight to see what
was the trouble. At this moment he
drove up behind her and jumped out
of his car with a cheery*-
"I thought you'd exhaust that boat
sooner or later. Boy! How you can
drive. May I be of assistance?"
"No thank you," she said coldly. He
tipped his hat and said:
•"Oh, very well," and climbed back
into his car. As he was about to
drive off she said weakly:
"Well, you might be gentleman
enough to stay here until I get start-
ed, anyway."
"Sure," he grinned, and jumped out
of his car again. "All I need is a kind
word. Smile at me and I'll positively
purr for you."
"Don't be silly," she rebuked.
"Impossible not to "be," he insisted.
"A mountain side; and darkness . . .
and a strange autumnal haze in the
air. I feel positively goofy. Would
you like to ride down the hill in my
car, or would you prefer I'd go and
get a service truck up here for you?
There's a garage at the base of the
hill."
"You might look over the car and
see if you can find out what's the
matter," she suggested, haughtily.
"I know what's the matter," he told
her; "your car's exhausted from the
way you drive It" But they both
looked, nevertheless, for some time,
without success. At last he said:
"I'll drive you down in my car, and
we'll send a service man up to get
yours, since you don't want to stay
here alone; I'm surprised that such
a capable looking young lady should
be afraid to remain a couple or hours
alone on the side of a hill tonight"
The drive down was very slow; but
he turned out to be a fast worker.
When they reached the bottom of the
hill he confessed:
"I put a small.puncture in your gas
tank when you were eating a sand-
wich on the other side of Mt Afton."'
Back on the hill when they went up
with some gas and a plug to fix the
tank leak, he said:
'Beside confessing that I love you
and want you for my wife, I've got
to unburden myself still further. Your
mother, who was once engaged to my
father, and may be again, begged me
to follow you, since you were bound
to climb Mt. Afton alone. She warned
me you were headstrong. Now, If
you'll even speak to me again after
those two confessions, won't you
please just say «Yes!'" And what with
the night, and the haze, and the splen-
did moon, and the sudden springing
into sharp prominence of that void
she had noticed of late Marion man-
aged a reluctant "Yes."
But when they reached the bottom
of the hill a second time, the re-
luctance had all gone and Marlon was
all for cutting out the hole In the gaa
tank and keeping It for a souvenir.
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