The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 245, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 20, 1930 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean
of Men, University
Illinois.
The story is told of Theodore
Roosevelt—I do not vouch for the ac-
curacy of it—that
when he arrived
within the pearly
he found a
con-
re-
musi-
cal program. The
angelic voices were
being tested with
the result that
there seemed to be
an adequate show-
ing of altos, sopra-
nos, and tenors,
but there was a
in bass voices. Mr.
to whom the matter was
at once solved the difficulty.
“I’ll carry the bass myself,” he said,
with modest self-assurance. In life
he had never seemed to hesitate to
meet an emergency no matter how
critical, so why not later?
I watched Jimmy at the baseball
game yesterday afternoon. Jimmy is
rather undersized physically, but he
knows his baseball and he knows that
he knows it. He never hesitates and
looks toward the bench to catch the
signal as to what he should do next.
He keeps his eye on the ball; he
knows just when to steal second—and
what is more to the point—how to do
It. He knows that if he gets the
pitcher sufficiently “up in the air” he
can even slide home. 1-Ie has perfect
self-assurance, perfect control of him-
self, and I have never yet seen him
get caught. It will be a great asset
to him when he gets out into the
world—this self-assurance—if he does
not overdo it.
The story is told of the late Gov-
ernor Beveridge of Indiana that when
he was a freshman student at De-
Pauw university he made application
to the president of that institution for
a loan of two hundred and fifty dol-
lars. It was a pretty large sum in
those days, and loan funds were not
unlimited. The president hesitated.
“How do you propose to pay the
money back?” the president asked.
“I have |?een looking through the
catalogue,” Mr. Beveridge said, “and
I see that there is a total of three
hundred dollars in prizes offered for
excellence in oratory and debating.
I propose to win these prizes, and if
I do, I shall have fifty dollars to the
good after paying my obligation to
the college.”
The president was stunned for a
moment, but he recovered himself
shortly and agreed to approve the
loan, and the record shows that Mr.
Beveridge won the three hundred dol-
lars, paid his obligation to the college,
and had fifty dollars balance to spend
as he liked. It was possibly an in-
flated self-assurance, but he capital-
ized on it successfully many times
during a long and successful life.
It is a good thing to believe in your-
self. One can have too much faith, it
is true, but too little is worse. Howe
has good training, a strong healthy
body, and a first-rate mind, but he
finds it hard to get a job, and he can-
not hold one. The only reason is that
he loses his nerve, he doesn’t believe
in himself, and so no one else does.
(©, 1930. Western Newspaper Union.)
Mistaken Judgment
The donkey who
Believes that he’s
MAKING TROUBLE BY
Balking •
London.—Taxation is dissipating
some of Great Britain’s oldest and
largest fortunes, transferring the own-
ership of vast estates and discourag-
ing the amassing of wealth.
The death duties are the most keen-
ly felt of all taxes, and they rank sec-
ond in the list of the government’s
sources of income. The 1930 budget
revealed that more than $4,000,000,000
was expected from estate duties.
The huge landowners have evolved
several means of defeating this taxa-
tion. The most popular is to convert
existing ownership into private lim-
ited liability companies. In this way
the cost of operating the companies
can be deducted from the income tax
payments, the amount of taxation re-
duced during life, and death duties
avoided.
It likewise has the added induce-
ment of protecting the estates from
reckless heirs’ extravagancies. Among
those titled owners who have trans-
formed their estates into private lia-
bility companies have been the dukes
of Buceleuch, Devonshire, Grafton,
Leinster, Marlborough, Rutland and
Sutherland; marquis of Zetland, the
earls of Berkeley, Darnley, Harewood,
Moray, Ossory, Roseberg, Spencer and
Strathmore, and Viscounts Novar,
Ullswater and Wemborne.
Another plan is transferring prop-
erty to a younger member of the fam-
ily. If the transfer is made six
months before death, the estate is not
subject to death duties.
The standard rate of income tax in-
creased from 20 per cent in 1929 to
22 y2 per cent in 1930. The lower in-
comes, however, virtually were not af-
fected by the increase and in some
cases actually pay less.
Life insurance premiums are an im-
portant factor in relieving the amount
taxable. An amount equal to 10 per
cent of the premium paid can be de-
ducted from the tax otherwise pay-
able. The maximum amount of pre-
miums subjept to this relief, however,
is a sum equal to one-sixth of the to-
tal income.
All a person need do to get a lib-
eral education in “rackets” is to
walk up and down such New York
streets as Broadway and Sixth, Sev-
enth and Eighth avenues. Somewhere
between Thirty-fourth street and
Fifty-ninth, you will find most of
them. Almost all carry the air of
legitimate business.
♦ ♦ ♦
There are, for example, the “mov-
ing sales,” and the auctions. The
goods in these cheap auction places
are often as announced, but the cus-
tomers do not buy them cheap. Then
there are the sidewalk peddlers, al-
though they usually are around the
corner on the side streets. There
was one who did Imsiness in “a watch,
guaranteed to keep going as long as
you earned it.” That is just about
what it did. It kept going as long
as you kept walking. It was a toy
watch.
• * *
One frequent stunt is to hire a va-
cant store for a week and put on
what is really an old-fashioned medi-
cine show. In these places the flag
always is an important decoration.
Lectures are delivered on the subject
of building up the health of the coun-
try. Then health books are sold.
* • *
One of the best park views in New
York is from the office of Charles
A. Stoneham, owner of the Giants.
The office is situated high above the
center-field gate, with windows front-
in progress and snow in the air. But
into each life some rain must fall
they say the roof leaks.
* * •
Delia J. Akeley recently received
a letter from the king of northern
Uganda. There is nothing remark-
able in this, as Mrs. Akeley is
friendly terms with many African
rulers. The remarkable thing is that
the letter was written on a typewriter.
* * *
The record for continuous playing
on Broadway is held, as far as I
know, by James C. Lane. In the past
dozen years, he has played Broadway
about 5,600 performances. Lane
started with John Golden in “Turn to
the Right.” After that he played four
years in “Lightnin’ ’’ and has played
in almost all Golden shows since. He
never has failed to make good in a
part. John Golden claims that, given
a character part, Lane becomes the
character. He played a bartender
and every time you saw him, you
smelt liquor. His last part is that of
a doctor and he no sooner comes on
the stage than the audience gets a
faint odor of iodoform. When Lane
isn’t acting, he works around the Gol-
den offices. The first time, years ago,
that Golden found Lane fixing up his
desk and straightening things in his
private office, he asked him what he
was doing.
“Oh,” said Lane, “I just like to put
things in order.”
“How much do you want to do this
job?” inquired Golden.
“Nothing," said Lane.
“You’re hired,” said Golden.
And Lane has been keeping things
in order ever since. Golden says he
plays that part so well that while he
is working around the office he smells
of ink. He is a good actor, in any
character.
(©. 1930, Bell Syndicate.)
CUBS GET PITCHER
Pitcher Ed Baecht, of the Los An-
geles baseball club of the Pacific
Coast league, whose purchase by the
Chicago Cubs in a deal involving
$100,000, was announced. The Cubs
will pay $20,000 cash and seven play-
ers whose value is above $80,000.
Baecht won 26 games and lost 12
last season.
ing on the ball field. Below it stretches
the green carpet, carefully smoothed
and tended by the ground-keeper, and
the heights of Coogan’s Bluff rise be-
hind the seemingly distant grand-
stand. It is a great situation; es-
pecially when there is a football game
NEW SOCIAL ARBITER
SPORTS COSTUME
The knitted sports dress with ac-
companying cardigan jacket lends
youthful charm to the wearer. Notes
of interest are seen in the selvage-
edged neckline with cord and tassel
finish, also in the tucked, design ap-
pearing as a border on the skirt and
jacket. A jaunty beret of the same
deep purple shade belongs with the
outfit.
F. Lammot Belin has been named
chief of the division of international
conference and protocol in the De-
partment of State, a post that car-
ries with it the additional duty of
director of official entertaining at the
White House. Mr. Belin succeeds
Warren Delano Robbins, United States
minister to El Salvador, who had
leave of absence from hie post while
serving at the White House. Mr. Be-
lin has been in the foreign service
since 1919.
Lights of New York
By
WALTER
TRUMBULL
BRITONS DODGE DEATH DUTIES
HERE’S CHAMPION BIRD STORY
Hagerstown, Md.—Four years ago
it was just a bird the cat dragged in.
Today it’s the talk of the town. Not
only does it trill the airy cadenzas of
its feathered kin, but actually sings—
words as well as music. “Maryland,
My Maryland” is one of the favorite
numbers in its repertoire. And, while
its natural voice is a lyric soprano, it
can on occasion 'negotiate tenor—or
bass.
Moreover, it talks! All the neigh-
bors have heard it.
Nor is that all. It takes a keen
delight in animal and barnyard imi-
tations, mimicking the “bow wow” of
the family watchdog and the roister-
ous challenge of the sheik of the hen
house.
The early history of this accom-
plished musician and all around enter-
tainer Is veiled in mystery. Its rec
ord dates back to a predatory stroll
four years ago of Mrs. L. B. Betts’
pet cat. Kitty pounced upon what
appeared to be a small blackbird and
was on her way to dispose of it at
her leisure when a delivery boy turned
the bird, more dead than alive, over
to Mrs. Betts. She nursed it back to
health.
The little creature was not long In
expressing its gratitude in song. Un-
der the tutelage of its mistress, she
says, it has learned to sing two stan-
zas of “Maryland, My Maryland.”
Mrs. Betts’ prodigy is never at a
loss for conversational topics. And
when there is nobody to talk to it
amuses itself whistling. If a boy of
the neighborhood drops in the bird
is accustomed to inquire casually,
“Are you a baseballer?” or to ask,
“Will your dog bite?”
Being nameless, the bird on occa-
sion appears concerned over its ori-
gin and not infrequently startles an
unsuspecting visitor with the plain-
tive query, “Say, am I a starling?”
In its ,lighter moments it greets its
audience with the invitation “Kiss
your mother,” followed up with a se-
ries of osculatory sounds.
The bird is believed to be a spe-
cies of blackbird or starling. It has
a long, pointed bill and dark, pur-
pled, spotted wings. Its neck is de-
void of feathers.
After Fish for the White House
When the fishing on the Rapidan ended for the year, the Rainbow Angling
club of Azusa, Calif., voted to supply President Hoover with the finest trout
of his adopted state. Miss Doris Manley, the club’s girl fishing champion, was
selected to catch the trout for the White House table, and is seqp above
doing her duty. .......
HISTORY’S
MYSTERIES
Unsolved Riddles That Still Puzzle
Authorities Here and Abroad on
The Polish Beauty
T T XHILE the dual role of a malei
VV and female character has been]
successfully played only upon a few!
occasions—notably in the cases of the:
Chevalier d’Eon and Dr. James Barry,;
the British inspector general of hos-
pitals—those who have succeeded in
impersonating both sexes have thrown
around themselves suqh an aura of
mystery that it is difficult to deter-
mine whether they should be alluded
to bjs' the masculine or the feminine
pronoun. No~ is the day of the sex-
impersonator confined to the past
years, as is evident from a study of
the career of one of the most unusual
characters of modern history—Mile.
Racznowicz or M. de Reylan, as this
personage was alternately known.
It was during the closing years of
the last century that word began to
be passed around the underworld of
international diplomacy that one of
j the particularly bright lights of the
j Russian’consular corps was a certain
j “Monsieur Nicholi de Reylan,” confi-
; dential secretary to Baron Schlippen-
! bach, a young man of extreme charm
! and marked ability in his chosen field.
By day, there was nothing mysteri-
ous about M. de Reylan. The young
man went about his duties with an
attention to detail and a most com-
mendatory zeal for the service of his
imperial master. But, little by little,
it began to be noted that wherever
; M. de Reylan made his appearance
another character—his direct antith-
: esis—also was to be seen.
This was none other than a beauti-
ful young girl, who went under the
name of Mile. Racznowicz, supposedly
of Polish parentage and a most assid-
uous worker in the cause of anarehical
I “freedom.” Never visible during the
day, this siren spent the major por-
’ tion of the night in worming out se-
i crets which were held by the members
j of the foreign diplomatc corps and in,
j furthering the preparations for the
I plot which was destined to culminate
in the final overthrow of the Rom-
i anoffs.
j Months passed without the slight-
est breath of suspicion connecting M;
de Reylan with the Polish beauty.
Each came and went in their own cir-
cle and the keen eyes of the revolu-
tionists,-as well as the constant watch-
fulness of the imperial envoys, was
decei ed by the masterly manner ia
which this remarkable personage
played bis —or her—cards. For, impos-
sible as it may seem, Mile. Racznovlcz
and M. de Reylan were one and the
; same, not playing a single role as
! did Doctor Barry, but a double arid
far more dangerous one of cross-pur-
poses and counter endeavors,
j One has only to visualize the Polish
spy, bound by oath to an everlasting
hatred of everything pertaining to roy-
1 alty, seated ii the confidential con-
ferences conducted by Baron Schlip-
penbach and taking note of all the
' measures which the czar’s envoy was
launching against the Nihilists, to
sense the extreme peril in which the
Polish beauty moved every moment of
her daily impersonation. Or, grant-
ing that M. de Reylan was the truft
character of the strange pair—for itj
has never been definitely settled!
whether it was a man or a woman
who conducted the dual characteriza-
tion which spread over more than
ten years—a vision of the secret meet-
ing places of the Russian Reds, in-
vaded by this intrepid investigator ini
the guise of a woman, comes imme-
diately to mind.
Unfortunately, however, the plans
of this strange Jekyll-and-Hyde were,
to be upset by something which had;
been entirely unforseen—the ravages
of tuberculosis which, in 1905, made-,
it necessary that de Reylan (or Racz-
nowicz) retire to Arizona where he
(or she) died in 1906, still retaining
the secret which had been successfully,
concealed for so long a time.
Was the spy a man or a woman
Was “he” in the service of the czar!
or the revolutionists? Where did “he”
come from and how did “he” acquire;
the ability to alter his voice, his ap-
pearance and apparently his sex at aj
moment’s notice? These are questions:
which are buried forever beneath the
stone which, in the heart of Arizona,,
marks the last resting place of one
of the strangest and most unusual]
characters in history—ancient or modJ
ern.
((E) by the Wheeler Syndicate.)
Artistic Chinese
The Chinese, more than other races!
In the world, use their hands—scorn-
ing machinery and other man-made ap-
pliances—and it is strange to note that
from no other country in the world;
come such intricate designs, such deli-
cate carvings, and such beautiful work-
manship as from this country of
hand-made articles. But then the^
Chinese has long since learnt the art;
of patience and perseverance—and;
without these qualities handwork is*
ah impossibility.
Bell Makers’ School
The first bell founders’ school ia
the world has been opened at Brilon,
Westphalia, in connection with thei
Humpert bell foundry, which has been
renowned since the Middle ages. Here-
tofore the art of casting bells has beea
the possession of a comparatively lim-
ited number of persons and the occupa-
tion has been kept mainly in the same
families for centuries. Both theoreti-
cal and practical instruction will
given at the new school,
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