The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 8, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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pedestrians themselves,” according
to statistics.
The majority of these accidents
occurred in Eastern states, ft was
Walked on rural highways with
their backs to traffic.
Played in the streets and roads.
Crossed intersections diagonally.
Pedestrians were involved in SO
per cent of the approximately 33,-
000 fatal accidents during 1988. Pe-
destrians who died through their
own carelessness represented 25 per
cent of the total fatalities.
"The man afoot is not always the
innocent victim in automobile acci*
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After a recent private audience
with Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Mun-
delein of Chicago stated that the
new pontiff "considers the faithful
back home among the dearest In the
world.” The pope imparted his
apostolic blessing in English, speci-
fying that it extended "to America
and your families.”
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Believe One Snake Legend
You can’t convince natives of a
town in Ceylon of the untruth of at
least one snake legend. A man
was bitten by a cobra, ran home
and died. Later, a cobra was seen
around the house, relates a writer
in the Washington Post. It was
caught, supposedly identified as tha
killer. The natives shook their
heads wisely. They always knew a
cobra would fallow anyone it
struck. That incident may foster
the Ceylonese’s pet snake belief,
but it won’t convince any reptile
expert. The latter know there are
more myths about snakes than
about any other animal. For in-
stance, there’s the report that
poisonous reptiles travel in pairs.
They don’t, say experts, except pos-
sibly when leaving or returning to
their dens.
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had slipped out from under the corn-
stalks and explored Danny’s private
little paths for a little way, although
he had been forbidden to. Then
Danny was sure that little Mite had
run away, and though he wouldn’t
have had Nanny know it for the
world, he didn’t have the least bit
of hope of ever seeing Mite again.
You see, he knew all about the sharp
eyes of hungry neighbors all the
time watching for careless Meadow
Mice, and he knew that little Mite
didn’t know how to fool them.
So Danny told Nanny not to worry
and that he would go look for Mite
and bring him home. Nanny said
that she would try not to worry, but,
ot course, she couldn’t help worry-
ing some. In fact, she worried ter-
ribly, but she tried to hide it from
Danny as he started off to look
for the lost baby. Now, Danny
hadn’t the least idea where to look.
He knew that probably little Mite
had started off along one of the
private little paths, but there were
many, very many, private little
paths, and, of course, Danny didn’t
have the least idea which one to
take. So he ran along one, then an-
other, and another, at) the time call-
ing in his funny little squeaky voice
for Mite. Every few steps he would
stop to listen for a reply. But not
once did he hear a reply. The rea-
son was that he was going in quite
a different direction from the one
taken by his lost baby.
“Oh, dear, if only I could be In
several places at the same time!"
cried Danny. And then he thought
of something. Why not get help?
Of course, that was the thing to do.
He wcvld run over to the dear Old
Briar Patch and ask Peter Rabbit
to help hunt for little lost Mite. To
think is to do with Danny Meadow
Mouse, and he started right away
for ihe dear Old Briar Patch. He
was all out of breath when-he found
Peter Rabbit Peter shook his head
reprovingly.
'"Don’t you know that you Ought
not tol run so on a hot day?” .
"Yes,” panted Danny, "but I just
Naming the Tarkey
There are several different ex-
planations of how the turkey came
by his name . . . some have sug-
gested that the first turkeys seen
on the European market were con-
fused with guinea fowl . . . and
were erroneously credited with be-
ing a Turkish variety of that bird
. . . thus becoming known as turkey
fowl, or turkeys. The late Dr.
George Bird Grinnell, a noted natu-
ralist, sponsored another explana-
tion, says the American Wildlife in-
stitute. At the time of their intro-
duction into Spain from America,
there was a Jewish monopoly of the
poultry markets . . . and he be-
lieved that the Jewish name tukke,
meaning peacock, was applied fo
them.
LOUISVILLE, OHIO. —
years Frank Guittard has been\r
shal here, and he still believe!
he did when he started as a y<
man of 27. .
Marshal Guittard says: f
"You don’t have to be bard fb(
to make an arrest.”
Townspeople evidently agree with
him for he has been elected to ^ffice
25 consecutive times.
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marine corps. Cel. Charles H. Sanderson of the depot of supplies at
Philadelphia was in charge of coronation ceremonies. Jiggs is the gift *
of Dr. Frederick M. James of Temple university. His predecessor, Jiggs
III. wa» killed two weeks ago by a fire truck.
Marble Image of
Jupiter Unearthed
ST ARA ZAGORA, BULGARIA.
—A marble image of Jupiter,
found in a vineyard near Stara
Zagora, is the pride of the vil-
lager Totyo Ghospodinoff, who
made its discovery quite acci-
dentally. Dating from the Third
century A. D. when the Romans
were masters of the Balkans, this
marble fragment is of Thracian
origin. The citizens of Stara Za-
gora have bought the fragment
from the state for their own arch-
eological museum.
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HARTFORD, CONN. -Disregard
of six simple rules of safety cost
8,000 pedestrians their lives last
year, according to insurance actu-
aries. They died needlessly because
they:
Crossed at intersections with no
signals.
Stepped into the street from be-
hind parked automobiles.
Crossed highways between inter-
sections.
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most unconscious, “air”—and al-
most unconsciously the "air” is ac-
companied by a tiny, sub-conscious
manner of "let’s pretend.”
Adele was wholly, adorably femi-
nine.
One evening the manager had pre-
sented each of his office force with
tickets to a very "high class” show
playing at one of the downtown
houses. It was an annual treat from
the management.
Thrilled, Adele donned the beauti-
ful new gown, slippers and hat, and
was amazed at the stranger who
gazed at her from her mirror.
Was this mysterious, romantic
girl, who looked back at her with
shadowy, glowing eyes, truly the
plain little stenographer of the
Blank and Dash bonding house?
Vibrantly alive to her charm—or
rather the inspiration of the gray
gown—Adele "plunged” on a taxi
and was hurried to the theater.
The show was very good and noth-
ing of import happened until, dur-
ing the third act, when Adele’s at-
tention was held by a very dra-
matic scene, she failed to notice the
stranger who quietly seated himself
next to her, and then rose, hastily
apologizing—for sitting on her hat!
The gray hat—crowning achieve-
ment of a faultless attire, was
ruined, and Adele was almost re-
duced to tears—inwardly. Out-
wardly she smiled deprecatingly and
murmured: "Please don’t concern
yourself—it was quite—nothing!”
"Oh, but I say I In these times a
hat like this — quite a fortune—
y’know!” insisted the agitated
youth.
"Do I look so hopelessly impov-
erished as that?” queried Adele,
laughingly.
Which merriment was the opening
wedge to a quick, easy friendship.
Later, as they dined at a tiny
Italian restaurant, Richard, the at-
tractive young man, casually said:
"Are you just in town for some
shopping, or haven’t your people left
yet?”
Adele gasped, but quickly recov-
ering, bluffed a bit further, by re-
plying, just as casually:
“Oh, we haven’t left yet. The
shore would be rather cold, with
the late spring—don’t you think?”
That night was one of the "larg-
est” of Adele’s memory.
Used to boys of her own class,
she hadn’t ever known the luxury
of theater, dinner, dance and cafe,
with more dancing, until one o’clock
in the morning—followed by a long
drive through heavenly dusky parks
in a sumptuous sport car.
No, it was entirely novel, but
Adele was equal to it—with bluff.
v She played the part of the "to-the-
manner bom” rich girl, and fooled
her new-found friend thoroughly.
v However, the worst of bluffing is
that you hold the whole world by
your own measurements.
Thus it happened that as they
turned back toward town, and while
Richard was busy with some care-
ful driving, it occurred to Adele that
,a really wealthy young man
wouldn’t be likely to "pick up” a
.strange girl.
After a few moments’ intense
(thought, she arrived at the conclu-
sion that the youth was somebody’s
; Chauffeur, and doubtless had cop-
ied his princely mannerisms from
his wealthy employer.
So she named a fictitious address
off the avenue, and was driven there
. -"quietly, so as not to awaken the
( family.” the while Richard divulged
that tee was "Richard Benton Crow-
\y,” of the “Crowly Steel Manu-
jfacturing company,” adding sotto
i ivece, this was the first time he had
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^psychologist
people learn
skill in sports, music and trades, re-
ports that it’s the animal in them.
Roland C. Travis, associate pro-
fessor of psychology at Western Re-
serve university, used animals that
are blind, yet, strangely, can see,
to learn that skill develops when the
old "animal” part of the brain is
put to work with the new "intellec-
tual” part.
"The old brain,” he explained, "is
that which we have in commdn with
our animal ancestors. On this part,
impressions of the long period of ev-
olution are believed to have been re-
corded.
"The new pa»i is the thinking
brain, developed most thoroughly in
man.”
It seems that many of man’s im-
pulses, which have 40 be controlled
or inhibited, come from the old
brain. -
Visual Centers Removed.
Professor Travis- took some ani-
mals and removed the visual centers
of the "new” part of their brains.
This operation, he found, made them
flounder about, bumping into walls
and furniture.
"But when a light was swung back
and forth in front of their faces the
animals could follow it {with their
eyes,” he said. "Although b|ind as
far as their conscious minds were
concerned, they were seeing with
their old brain, the cub-cortical re-
gion, which serves very primitive
creatures to find their way about.”
Professor Travis then found that
human beings have both conscious
and unconscious seeing facilities.
"If the eyes followed a swinging
light,” he said, “they moved at a
rate of 60 degrees a second. The
motion from left to right always
w,as smooth. The motion is involun-
tary, and is governed by the old
brain.”
He found that when a person
moved his eyes voluntarily across
the page of a book or some other
field of vision, the eyes moved more
speedily—300 to 500 degrees a sec-
ond. No matter how hard the sub-
ject tried, he could not move his
eyes in a smooth, unbroken motion.
They always jerked.
Hands Used in Tests.
"The hands in their first crude ef-
forts at golf or typing,” Professor
Travis learned, "are like the eyes
in their voluntary motions.”
He demonstrated his conclusion
by rigging up a device he calls the
"pursuit oscillator,” which charts
the hand’s course as it tries to fol-
low a haphazardly moving button
with a pointer. It also charts the
course of the eyes as they follow
the button.
"The motion of the eyes, being in-
voluntary,” he said, "follows the
button perfectly, without any prac-
tice. But it is very difficult for the
hand to follow the button and make
many false attempts, like the first
attempts at golfing, typing, or play-
ing a fiddle.”
On experiments with 100 students,
Professor Travis found that the
hand needed six trials before it op-
erated as perfectly as the eyes.
Then, he concluded, there was com-
plete co-operation between the old
and new brains.
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Using 11,600 cultured pearls, 366
diamonds and more than 26 pounds
of silver, Japanese craftsmen of
Tokyo have created this copy of the
American liberty bell for exhibition
at the New York World’s fair. The
bell to valued at 31,000,000.
He was all out of breath when he
found Peter Rabbit.
had to. Oh, Peter, will you help me
find my little Mite?”
.....Peter looked at Danny very hard.
"What’s that?” said he, putting a
hand behind an ear, as if to make
sure of hearing better.
"Please, please don’t waste any
time, Peter, but hurry and help me
find my lost baby!” begged Danny.
Peter looked more puzzled than
ever. "Your little Mitel Your baby!
What under the sun are you talking
about, Danny Meadow Mouse? Are
you crazy?” he demanded.
Then for the first time Danny re-
membered that Peter knew nothing
about Nanny or the family of four
beautiful babies — Teeny, Weeny,
Midget and Mite. He had kept his
secret so well that no one knew any-
thing about it. Now the secret was
out, for Peter wouldn’t be able to
keep it to save him, no matter how
hard he might try. Danny sighed.
Then he told Peter all about it. Peter
listened with eyes wide open with
surprise. When Danny reached the
part about little Mite and how he
had run away, Peter patted him
gently on the shoulder.
“Don’t you worry, Danny,” said
he. "We’ll find him all right. I
know all about it You remember
how last year my little Pete was
lost. But he came out safe and
sound, and so will Mite. Now, I’m
going to start right away to look
for him. You go back and look
among your private little paths and
I’ll hurry around outside. If he has
come outside someone will be sure
to have seen him.”
With that off started Peter, lip-
perty-lipperty-lip, to help look for lit-
tle Mite Meadoua’Mouse.
• T. W. Burf—.—WNU STVtcv.
Same Marshal Retained
By Town for 47 Years
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A FTERWARD, when the event
/\ was but a blurred memory,
jf \ Adele blamed the new dress
for the capricious notion to
"bluff” for a day, and see if one
truly got a thrill out of acting.
Adele was a stenographer in the
downtown financial district and
drew a weekly pay envelope of $35,
$18 of which went each week to pay
her room and board, leaving $17
to make out the rest of her budget.
Seven dollars she mailed each week
to her mother, who was living on an
up-state farm.
Ten dollars to buy clothes, for
carfare, amusements — countless
things that the average girl thinks
she cannot do without! Of course,
with the most adroit stretching, ft
could not be made to cover all of
the demands made on it—the poor
old ten dollars! Therefore Adele had
formed a habit of allowing herself
each year one "plunge." This took
form in many different ways—an ex-
cursion, or an outing, or a much-
wanted set of books, or new slippers,
or a wrap, or, in fact, whatever
happened to suggest itself to Adele’s
mind.
This year it was a marvellous
creation of a gray crepe gown.
The gown, once purchased from
the exclusive avenue shop, loudly
demanded gray suede slippers and
a droopy hat—and was appeased
with the same (plus Adele’s adora-
ble self), as ornamentation. What if
the gown did cost her $60? It was
marked down from $120! And, with
the shoes and hat, it made an even
hundred dollars.
I believe the feminine members
of my audience will know what I
mean when I say that a gown with
this right-from the avenue shops air
DISREGARD OF SIX SAFETY RULES COSTS 8,000 LIVES
dents, as is often supposed,” the
actuaries concluded. -----"
These 8,000, they related, did not
include persons who were killed by
automobiles or busses or were in-
volved in other types of accidents in
which they were not entirely to
blame.
The six factors that contributed
to their deaths "can in no way be
blamed on the motorists, for they
are directly the responsibilities of the
Large Houses "
’ Often Difficult
To Redecorate .
By BETTY WELL8
E’VE just moved into a
big, rambling farm house,”
writes Mrs. Floyd J., "and it has mo
down. I would appreciate your help
in furnishing it. The living room,
dining room and hall all open to-
gether through wide arches. They
all need to be papered and I want
new curtains and draperies for all
the windows. Woodwork in hall and
living room is varnished—in the din-
ing room, it’s painted white.
“For the living room, I have a
piano, a rust sofa and club chair,
a blue mohair wing chair, two floor
lamps with beige shades, a gray
and blue rug. What other furniture
would you suggest? What slip cov-
ers? The room is 14 by 17 feet. It
is rather gloomy. I enclose a dia-
gram. How would you arrange it?
“The dining room is bright and
sunny. It has walnut furniture with
chairs upholstered in blue. What
do you think of linoleum rugs for
A plan for a 'room with very little
wall spaee. '
dining rooms? They are so practical
and yet don’t seem quite nice enough
for my furniture. What would you
advise?”
I rather thinx I’d have all these
three rooms papered in a light
creamy yellow, with all white wood-
work. And then gray rugs for hall
and dining room. A good marblized
or jaspe linoleum would be all right
in the dining room if it is laid for-
mally with an inlaid border, but I
wouldn’t use the oil cloth type of
rug. I believe a two-tone all over
wool rug would be better.
For the curtains, I’d have white
ruffled tie backs for both rooms with
draperies in a floral chintz on a
yellow ground. You could use this
same chintz for the sofa slip-cover^
Two easy chairs I’d have in plain
blue. In the living room I’m sug-
gesting that the sofa (1) go in front
of the double windows with end ta-
bles (2) for lamps beside it, and a
coffee table (4) in front. The two
easy chairs (3) I’d draw up to this
end of the room. Then add a sec-
retary desk (8) with chair (6). An-
other easy chair (7) with hassock (l>
I’d add for the radio (11) with floor
lamp (9) for reading. The piano
(10) I’d place on the other side of
the room with another floor light
(9), preferably an indirect threo-
way light to illuminate the room.
• By B«tty Walla.—WNU Sarvlce.
Jade Treasure Adorns
Home of Pittsburgh Man
PITTSBURGH.—A $750,000 collec-
tion of Chinese art treasures stands
casually on tables in the home of a
retired Pittsburgh business man.
Jade bowls, two of them forming
one sixth of the total known treas-
ures of this type, porcelain' vases
and delicate ivory carvings, finer
than most museums can boast, are
owned by George H, Taber, retired
oil company executive.
In an upstairs room of his home
Stands a table holding delicately
carved jade screens and bowls. An
incense burner, filling the room with
its heavy odor is the "whitest, pur-
est piece of jade ever imported into
this country,” Taber said.
Value, however, is not Taber’s cri-
terion of his collection. He said he
collects Chinese treasures as he
would books, because of the enjoy-
ment he gets from studying them.
Taber has never been to China.
He formed the hobby when he was
a smalj boy.
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Peter Rabbit Joins in Search
For Frightened Little Mouse
-----------By THORNTON BURGESS----------
t
rjANNY MEADOW MOUSE was
almost crazy. Yes, sir, Danny
was almost crazy. So was Nanny
Meadow Mouse. Little Mite, the
smallest and smartest of their four
babies, was nowhere to be found. No
one knew what had becoth* of him.
They looked in every hiding place
they could think of in the pile of old
cornstalks where their home was,
and they called and called. Then it
was that either Teeny, Weeny, or
Midget, I don’t know which, told
Danny how. Mite had said that some
day he would slip away and see the
Great World, and how Mite often
met anyone who had given him such
a royal time. And wouldn’t she
please let him call again?
Adele named a popular hang-out
for wealthy youngsters, the Elite
cafe, and suggested that she lunched
there quite frequently (not adding
“mentally”) and would doubtless
run across him.
As soon as the sport car was out
of sight, Adele hastily left the porte
cochere of the mansion on the ave-
nue, and "beating” it out West Six-
ty-eighth street, caught a cross-town
car.
After a half hour she arrived,
tired, breathless, and thrilled, at
her boarding house. r
And as she lay a few moments
recalling .the vivid evening of pleas-
ure, she said to* herself: “He was
just a bluffer—like me. And even
if he is adorable, he’s too good an
actor to trust as a sweetie—or hus-
band! He’d always be getting into
mischief. These kind are devils for „
women—and then bluffing it right
past me! Nix, sister, on these hard-
boiled bluffers!”
In a big city it is easy for people
to avoid meeting, especially when
one fancies one’s dream girl to be
the daughter of an exclusive family
—a family so exclusive that it has
instructed the butler to deny even
the existence of a daughter—and
the girl fancies her dream hero an
obscure chauffeur, who is merely
some “bluffer.”
Thus it was that a year passed
before Adele noticed, in a Sunday
supplement of photographs, a pic-
ture of a man attired in polo clothes,
riding a beautiful polo pony, and the
caption underneath: “Richard Den-
ton Crowly, expert poloist, leaves for
Canada to take part in the annual
polo tournament. Mr. Crowly is
the sole heir to the Crowly steel
works, and, besides keeping up his
father’s business and old home, has
made a name in sport circles as an
expert polo player. Rumors of an
engagement to Miss June Haviland
are current. Both deny the rumor,
howjrver.”_____
Adele gasped, then muttered:
“Serves you right—bluffer! You
might have married a perfectly
wonderful millionaire—if you’d been
inspires its wearer to a subtle, al-ihaif-honestl"
Records of Quakertown, Pa.,
Recall Past as Richland
In 1788 what is now known as
Quakertown, Pa., was called The i
Great Swamp or Richland. Main '
street then was a straggling coun-
try road, deep with mud, or in-win-.
ter deep with snow, says "The Al-
lentown Call.” A few houses were
located along this road, some of
them built of logs, and standing at
any angle to the highway.
The mails were carried on foot, or
an occasional stagecoach on its way
from Philadelphia or Allentown.
Few books could be found and few-
er newspapers. Indians had lived
in scattered wigwams on Swamp
creek only 19 years previously.
The census of 1790 gives 147
houses in the township of Richland
and 890 inhabitants. A few enter-
prising men decided to establish a
library in the little hamlet at the
Crossroads in the swamp, and the
farmers came in on horseback or
in gigs, to start an educational in-
stitution which has been in exist-
ence without interruption since 1788.
The first record in the minute
book of 1788 reads as follows:
"Proposals to establish a library
in the township of Richland, Bucks
county, to be named the Richland
Library.”
There were 21 articles outlined,
some of them quaint in wording
but strong in purpose. One article
read:
"That as soon as 20 members sub-
scribe 20 shillings each, they shall
meet at a convenient time and place
to "chuse” a treasurer and that
each member without delay pay his
or her subscription into the hands
of said treasurer.
"No. 2. That the members or a
majority of them, at their said first
meeting shall “chuse” three direc-
tors, a librarian and one or more
persons to purchase the books.”
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in states that have no laws con-
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 8, 1939, newspaper, April 8, 1939; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1254072/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.