The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 189, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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ENGINEERS LEAD—Among thia year’s 150,000 college graduates.
engineers get first call. This young man is testing • casting under
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He often keeps them on his farm
for weeks before turning them in
for a bounty. He has collected as
much as $700 a year in this manner.
In captivity the snakes refuse to
eat, sometimes existing for four or
five months without food.
Kersten has kept no record of how
many snakes he has captured, but
he estimates the number to be tai
the thousands.
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Swindler Hooks
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Respectable Citizens Led
To Put Up |7,500 in
Imaginary Trade.
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Robins Build Nest
_. _ On Top of Gas Pump
PORTLAND, ORE.—Squatter's
rights were exercised by a robin
couple, who set up housekeeping
atop the gasoline pump of the
service station operated by A. W.
Archer. Unafraid as Archer
pumped gasoline into customers’
cars, the mother robin set quiet-
ly upon her eggs and refused to
move.
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Merchants Can’t Change
Bills, Broke With $2,800
STOCKTON, CALIF.—He couldn't
eat. He couldn’t sleep. He couldn't
even buy * package of cigarettes or
even a postage stamp. In other
words, he was "flat broke."
And yet he had $2,800 in currency.
This was the quandary a Mr. Wal-
ters found himself in, so he went
straightway tn the Stockton police
department and unloaded his prob-
lem on their shoulders.
"I got some money, but I can't
use it," Walters reported.
Accustomed to all sorts of mooch-
ers, the police officers prepared to
give him a chill reception.
" 'Sa tact. I got lots of money."
Thereupon Walters displayed the
X-ray in one of the great industrial laboratories.
of the young graduate engineer in
each of 26 fields, with each field
described by an engineer who has
already attained success in it. The
espoused purpose of the book is to
afford young engineers an opportu-
nity to learn something of the prac-
tical problems, as well as the op-
portunities, in the field they wish to
enter, before they seek an interview
with the employment manager.
Chapters cover industries as widely
divergent as aluminum and photog-
raphy.
Almost without exception, the
schools which offer engineering
courses report the demand to be
higher for engineers than for men
of other training. Industrial, chem-
ical, electrical and mechanical en-
gineers lead, with the most active
demand found in the chemical,
automotive, oil, steel and electrical
industries.
From the University of Pitts-
burgh, in the heart of the "engineer-
ing belt," comes one of the most
glowing reports. Pitt says that in
eight months its placement bureau
had found full-time jobs for 20 per
cent more graduates than during
the entire year from June, 1937, to
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McGREGOR, IOWA.—Seven years
of hunting snakes, during which he
has caught as many as 100 a day, I
have taught Larry Kersten of Mc-
Gregor that most popular beliefs
about rattlesnakes are fallacies.
One such notion blasted by Ker-
sten is that a rattler’s age can be
few months gone by to let this year's
hopefuls find out just how it feels
to go knocking on doors, comes from
Columbia university, whose Secre-
tary of Appointments Robert F.
Moore estimates that the 1939 class
boasts a batting average twice as
high in the Employment League as
last year’s class. More than 55 per
cent of the graduates are already
employed, he says.
Only 14 Schools Show Drop.
Hardly less optimistic are the
findings of the family economics
bureau of the Northwestern Nation-
al Life Insurance company, of Min-
neapolis, Minn., which conducted an
extensive survey of placement op-
portunities for 1939 graduates. Of
100 universities and colleges report-
ing, 63 indicated substantial in-
creases in positions available for
graduates this year as compered
with 1938. Twenty-three said things
looked just about the same as last
year, while only 14 reported a drop
in the number of jobs available.
The greatest demand, according
to Mr. Moore of Columbia, “has
come from employers in various
businesses who wish to recruit ma-
terial for executive positions."
This seems to agree with the
thinking of Dr. Karl T. Compton,
president of Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in Boston. Writing
the foreword of a new book, he de-
scribes a survey of 54,000 officials
of 500 companies which indicates
that a college-trained man is 18
times as likely to be president of an
industrial corporation as a non-
college man, 1214 times as likely to
be treasurer, twice as likely to be
in charge of production, 18 times
as likely to be an engineer, and 12
times as likely to be a sales official.
Weapon for Job Hunters.
The book in which Dr. Compton's
foreword appears is "Engineering
Opportunities," edited by R. W.
I Clyne and published by D. Appleton-
June, 1938. Most requests were for
various types of engineers with
business training, particularly sales-
manship.
Questionnaire Substantiates Trend.
According to the Engineers* Coun-
cil for Professional Development,
approximately 9,000 engineering
students were slated for graduation
during the calendar year 1939. Ex-
pressions of opinion that there are
jobs to be snared by the industrious
are corroborated by the Journal of
Engineering Education, which re-
ports a survey on employment con-
ducted among 300 leading indus-
tries. The 122 industries which re-
plied to the publication's question-
naire reported the annual employ-
ment of more than 2,500 engineer-
ing graduates.
For graduates in all fields, all in-
stitutions report starting salaries at
about the same level as last year.
Most optimistic reports come from
the east, central and middlewestern
states, with a greater proportion of
the schools in the West and South-
west reporting no change.
Wasn't it Horace Greeley who
said, "Go west, young man, go
west!”?
ber.
Britain, proud of her spies, says
Germany’s espionage la still crude
as it was during the World war.
Lody, Whom the Germans still re-
vere as their greatest spy, was con-
sidered a hopeless bungler by the
British. He was under observation
for months before arrested, court
martialed and shot in the Tower of
London.
M. I. 8 to obliging enough to let
a few German agents work unmo-
lested in wartime, even speeding
their reports through the mails.
Once in the last war, when a Ger-
man agent in England died, M. I. 5
was so soiry it continued forwarding
faked reports for several months.
Joachim von Ribbentrop. German
foreign minister, is credited with or-
ganising the present Nazi espionage
in Britain and France. In Spain
last year a stupid Gestapo agent
boasted Germany had 5,000 spies in
to show that while some healthy in-
dividuals have two and even three
bowel movements daily, there are
others who have bowel movements
just two or three times a week and
appear to be just as healthy. In
regard to colitis or sensitive colon,
Dr. Alvarez says:
"The more I see of persons with
a sensitive colon—colitis—the less I
want to treat the bowel and the
more I want to treat the patient. Do
not tell the patient he has colitis
unless the bowel is ulcerated and
inflamed. We should tell these pa-
tients with sensitive colons that they
will probably always have it, that
it will never injure them nor kill
them and it is up to them to learn
to live with it and avoid the things
that make it more irritable.”
Dr. Alvarez suggests a "quieting"
medicine before a dinner party to
prevent the bloating and desire tq
go to stool.
Spanish Paradise
Priests in old Murcia, sunny south-
ern province of Spain, made heaven
attractive to the people by painting
Paradise as a lan^of glaciers where
the angels sipped ices.
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penditure
member of the opposition in the
house of commons ever questions
ministers about it. r“
how, in Napoleon's day, a Kent
farmer found a box containing 80,000
pounds along the post road near
his cottage. He turned it over to
the Bank of England, which adver-
tised it, but after six months the
money was returned to him. To
this day most Englishmen are con-
vinced it was secret service money
for use on the continent. Yet no
one was held accountable.
THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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Meanwhile his superior officer in
London knows him only by a num-
Spying’s Nice Work Until You Get Shot
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Good Pay, Villas and Champagne, but the Future9s Doubtful
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Finding Jobs This Year, Colleges Say
(ReleaMd by W»«t«rn Newspaper Union. »
XTEW YORK. — Some folks
don’t hang much with
book-learnin,’ but figures don’t
lie, either, and a survey of em-
ployment in industry indicates
that the fellow with a diploma
has the right ammunition for
keeping the wolf from the door.
Parents who have scrimped
these last four years to pay
Junior’s tuition at college will
be heartened by one charac-
teristic of the business up-
turn noted for the first six
months of the year: The 150,-
000 young Americans gradu-
ated thiz June from the nation’!
colleges have found chances of land-
ing jobs definitely better than Ifist
year’s crop.
Rosiest of all the reports, with a
Suitable Shoes
Important to Health
There appears to be a streak of
vanity in all of us, both men and
'women. I have in mind the shoes
•we wear.
I The age of the "pointed" toes was
well past during examination of re-
icruits, but the results were seen in
the deformities—bunions on the in-
net side of the big toe and corns and
(hammer toes on the middle and out-
er toes, due to pressure. Still an-
other cause was the human desire
(to have "small" shoes. About four
,of every five recruits were wearing
shoes that were too short for their
(feet.
Fortunately, about 25 years ago
! one or two shoe manufacturers be-
i igan supplying "sensible" shoe.!,
which were straight the entire length
Jon the inner side right up to and
' islightly beyond the big toe; tho
itop of the shoe, while not exactly
square, wA "rounded" so gradually
(to the outer or little toe that there
was abundant room for all the toes
,to lie in a straight or extended posi-
tion instead of being "curled" up
by the pointed or sharply curved
shoes. These "sensible" shoes for
men and women were gladly ac-
claimd by a great many who were
much on their feet—nurses, house-
keepers and office and factory work-
ers.
Vanity May Be Dangerous.
It would appear, however, that
the streak of vanity in all of us.
which shoe salesmen notice and pass
on to manufacturers, has caused
some to begin to make shoes with
a little more "point"; they are
."curved" on both the inner and out-
er sides et the top.
There is also the point in regard
to women that with the present short
skirts shoes are noticed more and
It is only to be expected that women
will wear shoes that make the feet
appear small.
Now, foot comfort moans nerve
comfort. Many a man or woman,
with a pleasant disposition under
ordinary circumstances, becomes
very irritable from weering shoes
that hurt the feet. If they are bound
to wear shoes that are neat but not
__comfortable the only suggestion is
that they w*ar a terger size. This
The story is told will give gome measure of relief.
Remember, our feet often mean
as much to our happiness and earn-
ing ability as does our head.
.Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
LOYAL-Kate Moog, -MATA HARI”—Miss
German-born nurse, who Yoshimko Kawashima,
refused Nasi offer to -Mata Hari of Japan,”
open • -villa” in OFash- who was murdered while
ington where V. S. offi- vacationing in Tientsin
cials might be induced after leading a spy ring
to divulge secrets. • at Hong Kong.
Britain, many of whom were sys-
tematically rounded up as the war
started. Ribbentrop favors women
spies; after all, Mata Hari made a
name for herself.
M. I. 5, the Frerfth and American
secret services have pooled all
their information about Nazi activ-
ity abroad into an organization
called the Deuxieme bureau.
No one can audit expenditures of
Its funds are voted by
tent and no report of ex-
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colitis—slight inflammation
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON 7
E'OR years the patient with !
* colitis—slight inflammation
i and irritability of ^he large
bowel—was considered to have ; 4
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certain foods he
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cordingly, ."soft”
foods were pre-
scribed together
with an enema of oil or water
daily or every other day.
Recently it has been learned
that these pattents are of the
nervous and emotional type
and, in addition to soft foods,
they have been advised to try
to acquire calmness of spirit
by facing their problems bravely
and analyzing and working out the
problem instead of being worried or
afraid of it.
In some ways it is unfortunate
that the name colitis and its cause.
1 —emotional disturbances — have
been so freely discussed, as the
symptoms in some
• patients are not se-
vere and yet they
are afraid th^t they
will waste awky and
die because of the
persistent diarrhea.
Some very good
advice for physi-
cians, patients and
others is given by
Walter C. Alvarez,
Mayo clinic, in Ohio
State Medical Jour-
nal. Dr. Alvarez has
done research work on the intestine
for many years and has been able
Colitis Patient
Must Acquired
Calm Outlook I
contents of his wallet. It contained:
Two $1,000 bffia.
One $500 bill.
Three $100 bills.
"I sold a horse in Ague Cali-
ente, Mexico, and thia is the way
they paid me off,” Walters com-
plained .
' 'No one in' Stdekton Walters had
contacted had been able to make
-’--nge for the large bills.
alice then contacted a hotel man-
r who was able to "break” a $100
__Into smaller denominations and
the stranger left town well fed and
happy.
Defendant Lost; Judge
Discovers He’s on Stand
DALLAS, TEXAS—The murder
trial of a Negro, charged with ahoot-
ing a milk route driver in an argu- 1
ment over a bill, was very dull.
Testimony had been going on with-
out interruption for more than an |
hour. The jurors looked bored.
Spectators openly yawned. \
Suddenly Judge Henry King point-
ed to an empty chair before him and
said:
"Just a minute. Whers’a the de-
fendant?”
Startled, the district attorney an-
swered:
"Why, your honor, he's been on
tho witness stand for an hour and a
half."
Sheepishly, the judge replied;
"So he has, so he haa.”
Then he settled into his chair once
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Safety Driver la Hurt
While Cleaning Truck
HOUSTON, TEXAS.-J. W. Petor-
man drove a factory truck without
an accident for many years and
was swarded a medal for it by tho
Texas State Safety assoctetion.
The driver was highly embar-
rassed, therefore, when his first ac-
cident occurred in his perked truck.
He was cleaning the machine,
slipped and fell to the pavement.
Peterman's injuries included a frac-
tured wrist and a gash on his foro-
Cboosy
BOSTON.—The thief who entered
Mrs. Margaret Davis' provisions
store was extremely fastidious. He
took sample bites from at least a
dozen cakes and pies before select----
'ing two pies to take with him. head.
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INNOCENT—Natasha,
wife of Mikhail Gorin,
Pacific coast representa-
tive of a Russian tourist
bureau, who was acquit-
ted of espionage charges
in San Francisco.
told by the number of buttons on the
rattle.
The truth is, according to tho rep-
tile hunter, that rattiers grow a but-
ton every time they shed their skins
and that is two or three times a
year. Moreover, the buttons some-
times are lost.
Kersten just laughs at the belief
that a rattler won’t strike unless
coiled.
"The fact is,” he said, "the snake
assumes the shape of a letter S,
then atraightena out when it
strikes. ”
Kersten began hunting snakes
after an itinerant catcher who
makes a profession of taking rattle-
snakes alive for zoos, gave him a
few pointers.
Early in the spring, preferably
the first warm day, Kersten takes
to the hills with a gunny-sack, heavy
gloves and a pair of home-made
tongs. He looks particularly for
rock ledges or crevices, for it to
there that the snakes come out to
lie in the sun.
Spotting a basking snake, or
sometimes an entire family, he
moves cautiously ahead. With the
tongs he seizes a rattler just beck
of the head, snips out the poisonous
fangs while it threshes madly about
and maneuvers it into the sack.
"The snakes won't bite through
the sack because they are all tan-
and confused,” Kersten ex-
Foolproof Jail Unable
To Hold Tipsy Prisoner
NEWTON, MASS.—Consternation
broke out when an inebriate broke
out of Newton's new jail.
True, the fugitive was captured
within a few minutes. But the fat
was in the fire. The lovely, mod- i
ern jail was not foolproof. And tho
police were embarrassed no end.
Locked in Cell No. 1 shortly be- |
fore midnight, the crafty tippler j
spied an open ventitetor. After 1
crawling through it, he climbed a .
short flight of stairs and sneaked
past the desk where he had been
booked only an hour earlier.
Hearing a side door bang shut, the
desk officer investigeted. Finding j
No. 1 cell vecant, he sent two pa- .
trolmen on a manhunt. They re- |
captured the culprit, and housed
him in a cell—where the ventiletor
was closed—as far from No. 1 as
possible.
In district court the imbiber was
given a suspended sentence. He I
said he knew nothing of the escape
until the police told him.
LONDON—Victims of a swindler
who pretended he was running an
illicit drug traffic business with huge
profits were criticized by Justice
Charles at Gloucester session of
court recently in England.
In sentencing the author of the
swindle the judge remarked: "You
managed to find four people who
were willing with you to enter upon
the foulest trade known just to make
a little money.
, "These four were willing to be-
lieve some of their money would go
to bribe the police who were also
connected with that foul trade.
"For these four men I have noth-
ing but contempt. No one but dis-
honest blackguards would enter into
such a contract"
Tho trial resulted in five years’
penal servitude for Hartley George
Grail, 44 yeara old, described as an
engineer, and formerly proprietor
of a guest house. The Hawthorns,
’Eastington, near Gloucester.
There were 11 charges of fraud
against Grail involving a total of
$7,500.
Charge False Pretenses.
They comprised obtaining by false
pretenses $5,600 from John Good-
win Morley Headlam of Marlbor-
ough House, Montpellier, Chelten-
ham, a company director; $625 from
Joel Coupland, a lorry driver of
Hill street, Stroud; $530 from An-
drew Douglas Qordon, a retired ma-
jor of the Indian army; $200 from
Reginald Frank Rymer of Church-
am, near Gloucester, and attempt-
ing to obtain $500 from George Hen-
ry Hill of Armscroft road, Glou-
cester, garage proprietor.
In each case, said Prosecutor A.
J. Long, the false pretence was sim-
ilar.
It was to the effect that Grail was
in a position to execute illicit deals
in drugs, that he was carrying on a
drug trafficker's business, and that
there was vast money to be made by
people who went in with him.
Judge—"These were not ordinary
medical stores, but heroin and co-
caine?”
Prosecutor Long—"Yes."
Another pretence put forward by gled up
Grail, which the prosecution regard- plained,
ed with exceptional gravity, was
that quite innocent police officers
were in this business, were conniv-
ing at it and profiting by it.
On another occasion, continued
Long, Grail brought in a number of
Scotland Yard officials and said they
had put money in this wicked traffic.
There was not a vestige of truth
in that.
It All Comes Out.
It came to such a pitch that In-
spector Berrett, a retired Scotland
Yard officer, received a letter from
solicitors at Cheltenham asking
when he and hto friend Lord Tren-
chard were going to wind up the
business and divide the proflta.
A more preposterous suggestion it
was difficult to Imagine. In the case
of Gordon, Grail told him he could
make money on heroin deals.
Various sums were obtained from
Gordon, and in all he lost about
$530.
* "I am glad to hear it," observed
the judge.
Long said Grail told Coupland he
was carrying on traffic in cocaine,
morphia, and ether, and that the
police were In it with him.
Inspector A. V. Hancock revealed
that Grail was born at Lydney, Glou-
cestershire, and was for a time in
the army.
He was divorced in 1936. He had
been convicted of fraud several
times. It was stated Grail had made
• clean breast of his frauds.
SPY —Johanna Hoff-
man, hairdresser on the 1
German liner, -Bremen,” I
after being sentenced to 1
four years in prison for 1
espionage in New York 1
federal court. 1
IONDON.—-M. I. 5 is at work
-L* again.
As in 1914, Great Britain’s
secret agents are. matching
wits with those of Germany,
and most nations are increas-
ing their espionage and coun-
ter-espionage work. Even
the United States has added
to Its secret service under President
Roosevelt’s "limited . emergency"
declaration.
But only in England, France and
Germany are today’s spies getting
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Hari in all three nations to using
her wiles to wrest a military secret
from any gullible official who can
bo made to talk. But that's only
part of spying.
In Germany lives an M. I. 8 agent
whose sole job to to warn the British
government when Germany to plan-
ning an air raid over London- or
Paris. If lucky, he’ll die in bed.
But probably they'll catch him.
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