The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 185, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 7, 1939 Page: 2 of 4
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British Convicts Want
Race News in Bulletin
LONDON.—Convicts of Penton-
ville prison complained today that
they were not receiving any racing
news in their weekly bulletin, pub-
lished by the homo office.
The home office said it was sorry,
but the inmates could not be ac-
commodated.
The prison chaplain, Rsv. Tudor
Jones, formerly outlined the latest
political, sporting, social and operat-
ic news at the regular Wednesday
night prayer service. This was re-
placed by the government’s weekly
bulletin.
Big Powers Depend
Monster Fighting Vessels
Made Less Vulnerable
To Air Attacks.
Youthful Art Is Good,
Asserts Head of Museum
PITTSBURGH. - The youth of
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Leland Curtis, artist, is slated to
accompany Admiral Byrd to the
Antarctic. Ho is shown at the micro-
scope experimenting with oil paints
that will keep fluid In polar cold,
yet dry quickly and hold their color.
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These deep-thinking residents of the Rome, Italy, too sit down to a
spot of afternoon tea and a weighty discussion of the world and Its ills.
Evidently not all is to their liking, for the serious expressions of the
monk’s faces bodes 111 for the future.
which has had a short time to re-
build the navy she lost after the
World war, has Ml,023 tons. Thus
the empire powers have almost a
0 to 2 superiority over the dictator
powers in tonnage. Even if Russia
should add her 290,589 tons to the
German-Italian side, the Britain-
France combination would be supe-
rior by nearly two to one.
Autogiro Air Mail Pilot
Says Winds Are Tricky
PHILADELPHIA. - John Miller,
who pilots the autogiro air-mail
plane between Camden, N. J., air-
port and the roof of the Philadel-
phia post office, feels that it’s a
good way to keep from growing old.
*T*ve made more than 100 land-
ings on the roof," he said after the
first month, "and no two-of them
are alike. We’ve got some breezes
over city streets that beat anything
you ever learned in the book about
winds.”
The line is the first autogiro air-
mail service in the world.
Scientists Seek Proof of
Ancient Man in Oregon
PAISLEY, ORE. - Discovery of
remnants of a lost civilization that
once dwelt in the Pacific Northwest
millions of years ago, is the object
of an expedition led by Dr. L. S.
Cressman, Oregon university scien-
tist, into the little-known lake coun-
try near Paisley.
It is now generally believed in the
scientific world that man inhabited
this portion of the continent many
centuries ago and that this particu-
lar civilization was wiped
explosion of Mount Mai
area now known as Crater Lake.
The party hopes to bring back
more proof of this ancient civiliza-
tion as well as fossils of the cam-
els, elephants and horses that once
ranged over the old lake country of
south-central Oregon.
Land and Water Vehicle
Nameless to Inventors
LAKE CITY, S. C.-A nameless
vehicle that will travel on land or
water and if driven by an airplane
propeller has been constructed by
Willie Cooke and Loon Sasser.
The builders took an airplane fuse-
lage, fitted it with 16-foot pontoons,
then attached wheels to the floats.
It is guided from the “cabin” by
the plane’s original rudders.
Tests have shown the vehicle will
carry from six to eight persons at a
speed of 80 miles per hour on land,
and from I to IS miles per hour on
the water.
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breeds^re the Yorkshire and Tam-
worth.
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Present information Indicates that
the 1939 pig crop, which includes
both fall and spring litteis, will total {
83,000,000 head. This will exceed the
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will lack only 1,000,000 of equaling
j the record production in 1933.
probably decide a war in which Ger-
many and Italy opposed Britain,
France, and Poland.
In total tonnage the side of the
British and French empires is over-
whelmingly superior to the dictator
powers. Britain’s giant armada to-
tals 2,079,863 tons and France, with
the second largest navy in Europe,
has 815,000 tons. The tiny Polish
navy is reported to amount to 16,500
tons, or one-third the tonnage of a
single modem battleship.
The Italian navy ranks third in
Europe with 717,920 tons. Germany,
Family Owbi Island Chain
MILTON. MASS -With the recent
purchase of Paaque island, one of
the Elizabeth islands in Nantucket
sound, the Forbes family now owns
Nonamesset, Naushon, Naahawena,
and Uncatena, as well as some tiny
unnamed islands in the chain which
terminates at one end with Cutty-
hunk.
Save the Manure
Approximately 10 tons of manure
are produced annually for each 1,000
pounds of live weight of stock kept
on the farm. This manure contains
plant food elements to make it
worth around 82.50 a ton at com-
mercial fertiliser prices. Besides it
provides organic matter for the soil,
something essential to crop produc-
tion. Of course, this value is de-
pendent upon the manner in which
the manure is conserved and ap-
plied. More than a third of the
nitrogen and two-thirds of the potas-
sium are in the liquid portion of
the manure. This drains away un-
less sufficient bedding is used to ab-
sorb it. Also there is a loss where
the manure is left piled up subject
to the weather.
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good art these days, according to
Dr. Andrey Avinoff, art connoisseur
and director of the Carnegie mu-
seum.
Dr. Avinoff has been studying art
produced by high school students
for several years. He’s a mem-
ber of the jury which judges the
annual exhibition of art by second-
ary school students sponsored by a
national magazine.
”1 began to notice these young
people sometimes produce work that
approaches remarkable perfection,"
he said. "Some have a precocious
ability on the borderland of the in-
spired. comparable in many ways
with professional artists.
“America,” ho said, “has pro-
duced more fine art by its youth
than any other country in the world.
It is a fountain of youth, a brilliant
outburst of talent These American
young people have extraordinary
ability."
The Russian-born scientist prac-
tices what he preaches. He already
has purchased 40 paintings, prints
and drawings for his private collec-
Flexible Farm Lease
Aids Tenant, Landlord
The Farm Security administration
has distributed within the past year
1,000,000 copies of its written lease
form designed to improve rental ar-
rangements between farm tenants
and landlords. Both have applied
in large numbers for this “Flex-
ible Farm lease” which is intended
to take the place of oral agree-
ments that still prevail in many sec-
tions of the country. \
The "rental rates" clause carries
a suggested form for stating exactly
-the share of each crop or the cash
payment the tenant is to give the
landlord.
Another matter of concern to the
landlord and tenant is the annual
renewal of their contract. Leasing
from year to year to a prevalent
tenure practice. In many cases this
procedure works to the disadvantage
of both parties. Tenants hesitate to
initiate crop rotations; landlords
hesitate to make changes or repairs
in buildings which may not be need-
ed by succeeding tenants.
To provide for such cases the
“Flexible Farm lease” contains an
“automatic renewal" clause. This
clause in effect causes the lease to
remain in full force until either par-
ty wishes to terminate his contract.
Termination of the lease to in ac-
cordance with a period of notice
fixed in the contract.
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ng her moot intimate
igings. Taking her
the closet she began
i necessary articles
reau drawers. When
spring litteis, will total
big fellow Is “Poland." a Chiu pig weighing 1.655 pounds The small ^Wfi^"^newly"11000,OoT«Jd
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U ARDLY was Jimmy Skunk be-
11 yond sight and bearing after*
having made his call on Prickly
the Porcupine than Redeye the Vlr-
eo, whose home to in a tree just at
the foot of the hill where Prickly'
Porky lives, heard a very strange
noise. He was very busy, was Red-
eye, telling all who would listen
how happy he was, and what a beau-
tiful world this to. Redeye seems to
think that this is his special mission
in life, that he was put in the Green
Forest for this one special purpose—
to sing all day long, even in the hot-
test weather, when other birds for-
get to sing, his little song of glad-
ness and happiness. It never seems
to enter his head that he to mak-*
ing other people happy just by be-
ing happy himself and saying so.
At first he hardly noticed the
strange noise, but when he stopped
singing for a bit of rest he heard it
very plainly, and it sounded so very '
queer that he flew up the hill to-
ward the place from which it
seemed to come, and there his
bright eyes soon discovered Prickly
Porky. Right away he saw that
Prickly Porky was in some kind of
trouble, and that it was he who
was making the queer notoe. Prick-
Children's
Bedtime Story
By THORNTON W. BUROES8
Ointments as Cleansers
Ointments were used to rid the
body of dirt before soaps became
common. Excavations in Egypt
have disclosed tombs equipped with
ointment jars, a change of linen,
uuirors, razors and combs.
Last year, according to the U. S.
bureeu of agricultural economics,
approximately 1,008,000 persons
moved off farms, while 800,000
moved from towns and cities to
farms.
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Land now either permanently
ruined or seriously damaged by ero-
sion represents an area larger than
all farm land in Pennsylvania, Illi-
noto, Iowa and^Oregon.
In the United States, breeds of
swine are classed as lard-type or
- breeds are
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my age start over again. I’m going
to take a try at it, anyway. As for
storekeeping "—she laughed softly—
“It comes just as easy to ms ss
Nearly 870,000,000 worth of tur-
keys (at farm prices) were pro-
duced last year, reports the bureau
of agricultural economics. This fig- I
ure was somewhat less than for
1937, but was larger than in any
other year in the current decade, 1
and probably the second largest
in the history of the iiylustry.
Since 1929 the production of tur-
keys has increased more than 5fl
per cent—from less than 17,000,000
birds in that year to more than 26,-
000,000 in 1938 Peak of production
during the decade was nearly 28,-
000,000 turkeys in 1936. Highest
prices during the 10-year period
were in 1929, lowest in 1933. The
1938 average—82.66 per bird—was
about 16 per cent lower than in 1929.
Principal turkey-producing states
in 1938 were Texas (3,285,000 birds),
California (2.625.000), Minnesota, (2.-
145,000), Oklahoma (1,418,000), Iowa
(1,386.000), North Dakota 81,265.000),
and Oregon (1,265,000). About 40
per cent of the 1938 crop was raised
in the 12 North Central states as
contrasted with only 30 per cent
in 1929. |
Expansion of the turkey industry
during the last 10 years to attributed
chiefly to improvements in produc-
tion and management methods
which have lessened the mortality
of poults and lowered production
costs in competition with chickens
and other meats. Production of tur-
keys in small farm flocks has de-
creased in mdbt areas, but this has
been more than offset by increased
numbers of large flocks which are
kept separate from other poultry
and handled under improved meth-
ods of sanitation, feeding, and mar-
keting.
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WASHINGTON.-Despite the new
factor of air power in naval war-
fare, battleships still are believed
to be the backbone of the navy in
every “big navy” country of the
world. A survey shows that al-
though Great Britain has the larg-
est navy, her shipyards are work-
ing night and day to increase the
number of her capital ships by about
50 per cent. The same to true of
France, except that France seeks to
add even more, about 90 per cent.
Italy’s shipyards are found to be
working to double the number of
her battleships. The German navy
seeks to add about half again as
many as that country now has.
Less Vulnerable to Attacks.
The great strides that have been
made in recent years to make such
ships less vulnerable to attacks
from the air are believed a prime
reason for this situation, Rear Ad-
miral William C. Watts, new com-
mandant of the Great Lakes Naval
Training station, asserts.
This surge of reliance on the larg-
est of the fighting ships to even
more significant when the rising cost
of these great floating fortresses to
considered.
According to Capt. Jonas Ingram
of the United States navy, "Of all
combatant ships the battleship to the
only one designed to stay and ’take
it.* Nothing else to tough enough.”
For that reason, battleships must
keep pace with the increasing ef-
fectiveness of shellfire and* aerial
bombs. Regardless of coot they
must have such heavy armor and
so many separate watertight com-
partments that they are virtually
unsinkable.
Cost Mounting Steadily.
The battleships the United States
to building today each cost 16 times
as much as the American battle-
ships built 30 years ago, and the
cost to steadily mounting. The to-
tal tonnage of the latest type of
American battleship under construc-
tion to 45,000 tons. Ito main bat-
teries will carry 16-inch guns, and
its anti-aircraft guns have been
upped in caliber from three inches
to five inches.
It has been predicted by military
"Come closer, so that I can whis-
per, line* Billy,” said he.
ly Porky was on the ground at the
foot of a tree, and he was rolling
over and kicking and clawing at his
mouth, from which a little piece of
bark was hanging. It was such a
strange performance that Redeye
simply stared for a minute. Then in
a flash it came to him what it
meant. Prickly Porky was choking.
Now there was nothing that Red-
eye himself could do to help, for
he was too small. He must get help
somewhere else, and he must do it
quickly. Anxiously he looked this
way and that way, but there was -
no one in sight. Then he remem-
bered that Unc* Billy Possum’s hol-
low tree was not far away. Per-
haps Unc* Billy could help. He
hoped that Unc* was at home, and
he wasted no time in finding out.
Unc* Billy was at home, and when
he hoard that his old friend Prickly
Porky was in trouble he hurried up
the hill as fast as ever ho could.
“Yo* keep still just a minute,
Br’or Porky I” he commanded, for
he did not dare go very near while
Prickly Porky was rolling and
kicking around so for fear that ho
would get against some of the thou-
sand little spears Prickly Porky car-
ries hidden in his coat Indeed, he
was so weak from his long strug-
gle that he was gla^ to. Unc* Billy
caught hold of the pieces of bark
monuth., thw’h. brer^d1himsPelfk^d ‘tUhieTta.t’^’vir.cUoJ1 would
pulled with all his might. For a •uthol™es that naval action would
minute the piece of bark hold. Then
it gave way so suddenly that Unc*
Billy fell over flat on his back. Unc*
Billy scrambled to his feet and
looked reprovingly at Prickly Porky
who lay panting for breath and with
big tears rolling down his face.
“Ah cert’nly am surprised, Br’er
Porky, Ah cert’nly am surprised
that yo* should be so greedy that'
yo* choke yo’self,” said Unc* Billy,
shaking his head.
Prickly Porky grinned weakly and
rather foolishly. “It wasn’t greed,
Unc* Billy. It wasn’t greed at all,"
he replied.
"I thought of something funny
right in the middle of my meal, and
I laughed just as I started to swal-
low, and the piece of bark went
America to turning out some pretty
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KT AN WARREN was sweeping the
back walk that late afternoon
when she heard a faint honk coming
from the air above her. Startled
from an abstraction, she lifted her
dark eyes to the wedge-shaped flight
of wild fowl which was dimly de-
fined against the autumnal grayness
of the sky. One straggler labored
far behind the procession.
“He won’t get far, poor thing,”
she told herself.
Again came the sound of a honk,
Dearer this time. Nan sped toward
the creek which marked the bound-
ary of the premises. Peeping over
the fence she saw a gray shape
floating upon the icy water. The
wild goose! Unable to fly farther,
he had come down to rest.
A third honk, altogether different
from the others, split the air. A
car had driven into the yard and
had stopped at the back door.
Nan’s stepson, George and hto wife.
Pearl, had returned from town.
• “What are you doing down there
by the creek in this coldF* Pearl
demanded.
Nan flushed. “A wild goose came
down—’’
“A wild goose!” shouted George.
“I’m going to get my gun and shoot
him. Gosh, Pearl! Think of tasting
wild goose again!”
Nan caught hto arm. “Please,
Geoige, let him live. Don’t harm
him. He's just a tired old gander.**
George flung off her restraining
.hands.
- “Do you want that goose for your
Sunday dinner, Pearl?" he asked.
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The Old Maid' It
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NEW YORK - Thy call it
“The Old Maid," but it’s really
the wallflower dance. it’s a
dance introduced at the national
convention of the Dancing Mas-
ters of America here recently.
"The Old Maid" altows an unes-
corted girl to cut in\>n a dancing
couple. The three continue to
dance together, the man in the
middle with his arms around the
waists of the two girls. The three
take their steps in the same di-
rection—something like a chorus
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caused the young couple to ex-
change glances of alarm.
"Where are you going?" demand-
ed Pearl
“Say! Look here now,” blustered
George, “you're making too much
.fuss about nothing."
Nan laid a letter upon the table.
“You can read that after I’m gone,**
she said quietly. “It’s from your
Aunt Libby, George—your father’s
sister. I got it today while you were
gone. Libby wants me to come and
live with her this winter. She's
poorly. She sent me money for
my ticket. I've decided to go, that's
aU.“
It was past ten that night when
, Naa opened the door of a small
shop on the main street of a livelv
town and surprised the shop-keeper,
a gray-haired woman, who was get-
jttag ready to close up. The wom-
"-an glanced at Nan as at a last
customer, then her face glowed with
surpriae and pleasure.
' “My sakes! Nan, I never expect-
ed to see you, leastways as soon as
this?" she cried.
< Libby Hale was cosily situated,
Nan found. She had never been
(there before. Over a pot of tea
and a plate of toast they sat down
to talk.
‘T’ve been wanting to send for
you this long while,” Libby said.
"Ever since my husband died. I’m
no great hand to run a shop. But,
of course, my living to there. I
suspect you know all about buying
and selling, Nan. You worked in a
store before you married my broth-
er. Since I got poorly I’ve often
thought it would be so nice if you
could come here and help me. Doc-
tor thinks I should go away and take
a cure, and maybe I can now you’ve
come. Anyway, I need you more
than those young stepfolks of
yours."
“Shouldn’t wonder,** Nan sighed.
“But you know when a woman’s
widowed and childless she likes to
feel somebody belongs to her. I
hung on there partly on that account
and partly because the house was
as much my house as theirs. Your
brother left it that way. He never
dreamed that things would turn
out so. You know, Sister Lib, I
, was getting, too tired to keep up
with the flock.” She was unaware
of Mrs. Hale's astonished gaze as
she went on, a far-away look in her
dark eyes. *T WU obliged to see
that if I ever came down to rest-
like a wild goose does, you know,
even though it was my own creek,
Td be—shot.” Suddenly her face
brightened. *Tm not so old. Libby.
I don't feel old. Lots of folks at
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lUghed just as I started to ewab
down the wrong way,” explained
Prickly Porky, and then as if the
mere thought of the thing that had
made him laugh before was too
much for him, he began to laugh
again. He laughed and laughed and
laughed, until finally Unc* Billy
quite lost patience.
Prickly Porky wiped the tears
from hto eyes. "Come closer so that
I can whisper, Unc* Billy,” said ho.
A little bit auspiciously, Unc* Billy
came near enough for Prickly Porky
to whisper, and when he had fliX
ished Unc’ Billy was wiping tears
of laughter from hto own eyes.
• T. W. Bwsms.—WNU Serviw.
Early German Soap
Pliny, a Roman writer of the First
century, A. D., recorded that soepa
were known to the Germans. The
soaps, however, were not used for
housecleaning, and only by the more
progressive individuals for bathing.
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