The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 16, 1935 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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overcame by the Scout spirit the limi-
tations of financial income, and made
for himself an heroic place in the his-
tory of our country. Obstacles created
by hardships such as limited incomes,
physical handicaps, can be overcome.
Instead of being a curse, they may be-
come a blessing. We appreciate some-
thing when we have to sacrifice for it
much more than when It is handed to
us on a silver platter.
Long live the Scout movement! Its
rugged life and high ideals have in
them the making of true Americans.
It is a magnificent sight to visualize
a million boys daily doing a good turn,
and being trained under expert leader-
ship for the future citizenship of our
country.
©, Western Newspaper Union.
Egyptian Bride Nervous,
Carries Hashish in Bag
Cairo.—A bride, in her full wedding
regalia left her house to be married,
accompanied by her servants. A de-
tective who happened to be passing,
noticed hashish sticking out from a
bag she carried. The wedding pro-
cession ended at the police station,
where the bride stated that she was so
nervous at the marriage ceremony that
she needed a little “pick-me-up.”
Looking upstream at the Norris dam, being built by the Tennessee Valley
authority on the Clinch river, near Knoxville, Tenn. The dam, as this picture
shows, is more than one-third complete. The various sections of the dam now
rise more than 100 feet above their solid rock bases. When completed the dam
will be 200 feet high and will cost more than $34,000,000. Note the ends of the
two huge pentstocks, each more than 20 feet in diameter, between the third
and fourth buttress-like sections of the dam. These tubes will pour the dammed-
up waters of the Clinch river Into turbines for generating electricity. A big
powerhouse is to be built at the end of the tubes shown in this picture, and
just back of the high retaining wall, projecting from the third section of tha
dam.
Foreign Lotteries
Are Put Under Ban
WNU Service.
available of the additional millions lost
through the purchase of counterfeit
tickets, but single seizures by the gov-
ernment have involved more than $500,-
000 worth of such “phonies.” Investi-
gation of a Cuban lottery whose agents
were reported to have sold 3,000,000
tickets in the United States revealed
only 100,000 tickets entered in the
drawing.
Operators of the Irish sweepstakes
have boasted that they take $1,000,000
net profit out of the United States on a
single lottery. This figure was greatly
exceded last year, when more than
2,000,000 tickets at $2.50 each were
sold in this country on the Cambridge-
shire lottery operated by the Irish Free
State. Of the 2,000,000 buyers there
were less than 1,000 winners. For
every winner there were more than
2,000 losers, and all wrho held counter-
feits lost.
There/are three Irish sweeps a year,
based upon the running of the English
derby at Epsom Downs, the Cambridge-
shire at Newmarket and the Grand Na-
tional at Aintrefe. Other big lotteries
for which tickets are sold in the
United States are the French National,
Cuban National, Mexican National and
the Canadian Army and Navy lottery.
The government recently confiscated
tickets on a lottery in Morocco.
Warnings to Post Offices.
Lists 0/ names of foreign sweep-
stakes aud other lottery ticket sellers
against whom fraud orders have been
issued by the government are sent each
month to 15,000 post offices. Special
complications of names and addresses
go to twenty-four postal exchange sta-
tions through which all mail for Can-
ada, Cul^fi. Irish Free State, France and
Luxembourg must clear. No money
orders can be drawn to these persons,
and all mail addressed to them must
be returned to senders. More than
750 orders have been Issued since
last August.
Since many persons are not willing
to claim the returned letters and there-
by admit complicity in a lottery, in
violation of the United States penal
code, the cash contents often go into
the United States treasury and the
lottery counterfoils are destroyed..
Coming in by mail, the tickets run a
gauntlet of watchful postal agents,
adept at detecting fraudulent mate-
rial, no matter how skillfully it may he
concealed in rolled newspapers, books,
clothing and first-class mail matter.
A plaid silk organdie now adds a
gay note to a two-piece frock of crepe.
Diagonal tuckipgs form an all-over de-
sign. The fell: beret pointed on one
side, shows a new line.—From Jay
Thorpe.
Conservation Areas
Sanctuaries, reservations, preserves
and reserves are the names used by
states and local divisions as well as
in original executive orders and acts of
congress to designate such areas in
setting them apart. Preserve original-
ly indicated an area for protection of
wild life and reserve designated an
area for breeding game for hunting.
Game refuge is the name preferred by
the biological survey in referring to
such government areas. — Pathfinder
Magazine.
Posted Department Renews
Drive on Swindles.
Washington.—The federal govern-
ment is strengthening its barriers
against sweepstakes and other foreign
lotteries. Customs inspection is being
strengthened at borders and other ports
of entry, and a series of nets has been
•woven to enmesh ticket counterfoils
shipped back to foreign agents. Seiz-
ures have increased rapidly in recent
months.
Forty thousand sweepstakes tickets
were confiscated recently by federal
agents in post offices in Boston and
Philadelphia. Three trunkfuls were
seized in an express office in Buffalo.
Quantities ranging from single tickets
brought, in by individual foreign trav-
elers to hundreds of books of the flim-
seys smuggled across the Canadian
border are being taken almost daily by
customs officers. Mail sacks full of
tickets and counterfoils seized in post
offices all over the country are being
shoveled more frequently now than for-
merly into the big furnace In the base-
ment of the dead letter office at Wash-
ington.
Growth of Traffic.
Traffic in foreign lotteries has grown
enormously in the United States in the
last four years. The annual loss to
the American people is estimated at
more than $10,000,000. No estimate is
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BOY SCOUT
ANNIVERSARY
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Boy Scout movement in America was
recently celebrated
in every city of our
country. It was a
notable event when
on the evening of
February 8th, the
President of our
country, flanked by
a guard of honor
composed of boys
from the Scout
movement, d e 1 i v-
ered a brief address
to the Scouts of
America.
Prominent among
the traits of char-
acter which the Boy Scout movement
tries to inculcate into the developing
life of the boys of our country is per-
sistence to overcome obstacles, which
again is reflected in the oath which
every boy takes when he joins the or-
ganization : “To keep myself physi-
cally strong, mentally awake, and mor-
ally straight.” We can well imagine
that Lincoln was in spirit at least a
real Scout. The principles of the Scout
oath dominated his life. By obedi-
ence to them he rose, from the ranks
of poverty to the highest position in
our country. Since Lincoln’s day, oth-
er men of our age have followed the
same Scout principle. Woodrow Wil-
son rose from the humble home of a
country parson to become President of
a great university, governor of the
state of New Jersey, and then Presi-
dent of the \United States^ Charles
Augustus Lindbergh, whose mother
taught in the public schools of Detroit,
Kid McCoy Shines Again
OATIENCE is one of those virtues
I which is often as effective as will
power. It can work wonders, aud in
so smooth and gracious a manner that
no one is disturbed, annoyed or upset.
It is not entirely a passive virtue, one
that makes for finer character in toe
one who exercises it. There is a defi-
nite force in it which influences other
persons also. It has been thought of
too long as passive,
as representing al-
most an inertia of
spirit, something
that will hold back
action not alone by
force of mentality,
but by a passive-
ness that found ob-
jections too diffi-
cult. This is pay-
ing too big a price
for the reflex ac-
tion of the virtue.
There are times
when to be patient
is a fault. When the
person knows that
endurance by re-
fraining from say-
ing or doing some-
thing will bring
disaster to another,
this is paying dear-
ly for withholding
comment or action,
even though by so
doing a disturb-
ance would be cre-
ated. This is not
genuine patience
but the fruit of
fear of commotion.
The Finest Patience.
Patience in its finest form is an ele-
ment of loving devotion whereby oth-
ers are helped at the price of personal
comfort Or it is a marvelous means
to an end which is worthy. Patience
of these types is selfless.
Patience which is akin to will power,
is another beautiful type. It is true
that to exercise patience often re-
quires a profound self-control, but it
is when it has the working energy of
force in business and home manage-
ment that it is being used wisely. The
statement “Everything comes to him
who waits,” is futile unless it is a
working patience. It must be the kind
which has actual power to aid in
bringing about the desired end. How
this is done cannot be stated with pre-
cision, but it is reminiscent of the oth-
er truth that “Faith without works is
dead.”
Patience in Speech.
Patience in speech is a virtue. It
can control outburst of anger in oth-
Norman Selby, better known as Kid
McCoy, one-time ring star and idol of
old-time fight fans, is now being con-
sidered as the outstanding civilian hero
of the past year in Michigan by the
Rainbow Veterans association for its
annual award. McCoy was largely in-
strumental in the saving of 11 people,
including four children, when a row-
boat overturned in Bass lake, near De-
troit, last summer. Two lives were
lost in the tragedy, but McCoy’s timely
warning and assistance was largely in-
strumental in saving the others. The
ring veteran, now sixty-three, has been
employed at the Ford Motor company
since his parole from San Quentin pris-
on, where he was serving a life term
for manslaughter.
Painted Woodenware
Woodenware* has come out of the
kitchen to the breakfast and luncheon
table. Some of the new pieces are
rather expensive, but a very smart
salad container, for example, can be
created inexpensively from a kitchen
chopping bowl. The chopping bowl
is carefully sandpapered inside and
out, then the outside is painted bright
red, blue or green. Sometimes only a
band of color added. Smaller bowls
make good containers for fruit, nuts or
candy.
Madame Lucia Davidova, noted Geor-
gian aviatrix who has an international
flying license, has the tiny dining
room of her smart New York apart-
ment fitted with table accessories of
pewter, wood and silver.
Electric Power
ers as well as in oneself. This does
not mean a slowness of speech, but a
determination to keep down angry
words which might or would spell
broken friendships, or some sort of dis-
ruption. It frequently is in making
inconsequential comments that pati-
ence gradually leads away from dis-
turbance to calmness. An irate person
can very frequently be soothed. In
business a person who waits and talks
pleasantly until the salesperson gets
the idea which is wished to be con-
veyed about articles to be purchased,
usually has success.
The person who, in the home, keeps
the caliber of voice agreeable and non-
provocative and does not merely stop
talking in a manner that speaks louder
than words of angry disapproval when
things go wrong, is the one who is
sure to win out. Patience is a winning
power as well as one of self-control.
©, Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.
Shows Her Winning Smile
Miss Jean Bauer of Providence, R.
I., with the Grace Doherty trophy
which she won at the third annual
Miami Biltmore Women’s golf cham
pionship over the links of the Miam
Biltmore country club in Miami.
A New Deal for Beds
Since the low bed is in vogue and
will probably remain a favorite, large
high beds may be converted by sawing
down the headboard or removing it en-
tirely, substituting a footboard for the
headboard and cutting down the legs.
When applying paint or enamel over
wood that has been stained, first apply
a thin coat of shellac or a specially
prepared sealer. This is to prevent1
the stain from “bleeding” through the
new coating.
Brightening Dark Rooms
The vogue for bright colors on
painted walls is a boon for those who
have rooms writh north windows or
little lighting, says a prominent dec-
orator. An effect of sunlight is cre-
ated in even the darkest interior by
the use of such fashionable colors as
bright yellow, strong pink, peach and
white. A large mirror or one of the
recently introduced mirror screens will
help also in lightening up dark rooms.
•In the Making
TREMENDOUS
TRIFLES
S8
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER
TN NAPLES, ITALY, in 1896, John
* Philip Sousa read a three-day-old
copy of the Paris edition of the New
York Herald. In it was a brief dis-
patch saying that David Blakely, man-
ager of Sousa’s famous band, had
dropped dead in his office. That meant
that the bandmaster must assume all
the responsibility for the arrangements
of his next American tour.
Hastily cancelling the plans that he
and Mrs. Sousa had made for a visit
to Sicily, he booked passage on the
first ship for America. As he paced
the deck of the S. S. Teutonic, sad-
dened by the news of Blakely’s death
and his mind filled with the burden of
the task ahead, an uncanny thing hap-
pened.
Sousa became aware of the rhythmic
beat of a playing band—just an imagi-
nary band that was making music in
his tuind. Throughout the voyage
across the Atlantic, that invisible band
kept on playing, playing. Never for a
moment was it silent and it always
played the same fune! Fie tried to
think of other things but the theme
of the melody echoed and re-echoed in
the back of his brain. Psychologists
today might claim that this was “com-
pensation” . . . the reaction of a
creative mind after a severe shock.
But whatever the reason for it, Sousa
made no attempt to set the tune on
paper while he was aboard the steamer.
When he reached New York and found
that mystical band still playing on and
on, he could resist it no longer. He
sat down and in a few minutes had re-
corded the all-too-familiar measures of
that composition. In his spirited auto-
biography, “Marching Along,” Sousa
has written the fact that not a note
of that tune has been changed from
that day to this. It was the “Stars
and Stripes Forever,” knowD all over
the world today and the most beloved
of all the compositions of the “March
King.”
* * *
PIGS IS PIGS
<*piGS is pigs” and they’re also trou-
L ble-makers. No less than twice
did they seriously affect the diplomatic
relations of nations and once they al-
most brought on a war.
In 1841, Monsieur de Saligny was
French ambassador to the Republic of
Texas. One day, a pig belonging to an
Austin hotel keeper named Bullock,
strayed into M. de Saligny’s garden.
One of the ambassador’s servants
abused the pig. Whereupon Bullock
proceeded to horsewhip the servant
• De Saligny insulted Bullock and Bul-
lock insulted de Saligny with the re-
sult that the ambassador demanded his
passports and left the country. Dip-
lomatic relations between France and
Texas became strained and it required
an apology from President Lamar of
the Lone Star Republic to restore peace.
More serious was the pig incident
that troubled the peace between Eng-
land and the United States a few years
later. On one of the tiny San Juan
islands in Puget Sound lived an Amer-
ican and an Englishman. One day the
Briton shot one of the American’s pigs
and a furious quarrel resulted. But
they finally agreqd to settle it in court.
But which court—British or Ameri-
can? Despite the treaty of 1S46, boun-
dary lines were none too clear, espe-
cially on this little island. So the dis-
pute grew worse over the matter of
jurisdiction. Civil officers were drawn
into it, then the military. Troops were
mobilized and it looked like war. By
this time the pig was forgotten in a
controversy involving citizenship, boun-
dary lines and international law.
Eventually it was settled by arbitra-
tion—with no less a person than the
German emperor acting as arbiter in
a dispute that started over a pig!
* * *
“HE SHOT AN ARROW—”
'T*HE capture of fne important Span-
X ish fortress of San Lorenzo by Sir
Henry Morgan, the famous English
buccaneer, was not due to his expert
generalship as much as il was to a
strange chain of circumstances over
which he had no control..
In Jus command were d number of
pirates who had fought well for the
cause. One day. during the siege of
the fortress one of these men was
pierced in the side by an arrow. The
cutthroat pulled it from his flesh vow-
ing to send it back to the Spaniards
as fast as he could. He cad no how
but, in his anger, he used the one
weapon he had . . . nis musket.
Wadding cotton around the end ot
the arrow’, he crammed it into the bar-
rel of his gun, took aim and fired. The
missile went sailing over the fortress
wall and was lost from view. It was
merely a gesture of revenge. No one
dreamed of the consequences.
But the cotton was kindled by the
powder which in turn set fire to the
thatched roof of a building inside the
fortress. The Spaniards were franti-
cally trying to get the flames -under
control when the creeping fire reached
the powder magazines. They exploded,
bursting part of the walls, iind Morgan
rushed in to capture the stronghold.
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