Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 12, 1939 Page: 6 of 8
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LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
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tive only to Middle Amt rcla. shows
closer relationship to maize
docs any other
this conclusion
later studies of numerous investipa-
Wrs. JSousecju.cn.Ui’.. uotdatc wiu
frequently regarded as the parent,
or one of the parents, ci maize and
the region where it Is native was
considered to be the place of origin
of maize. Thus, one body of facts
pointed to South America as the
place of origin with pod corn as the
ancestor, and the other to Middle
America with teosmte and certain
hypothetical relatives as the ances-
tors.
There Is general agreement that
corn is native of the Americas. Un-
til 1875 practically all of the evi-
dence had indicated that South, ra-
ther than North America, was its
place of origin Pod corn had been
frequently regarded as the ancentor
of modern com and probably would
have continued to be so regarded,
with ample justification, if it had
not been found to revert to the
naked-seeded type, a phenomenon
which was later explained by steril-
ity of plants pure for the podded
character.
to be highly theoretical has yielded
results of practical im)X>rtancc
Dr Mangelsdorf is now In Edin-
burgh. Scotland, where he is to de-
liver an address to the International
Congress of Genettes Dr Mangels-
dorfs address Is one of the invita-
tion papers and his subject is "The
Origin of Indian Ccrn and Its Rel-
atives."
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WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 13
Wrigley’h
CHEWING GUM
Spearmint-Double Mint-.luicy Fruit
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La rev from-Ia< lory KlilpniPiit*
MltchrllS to offer Mich bargains
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is feeding Into the state trekaury. Ever since
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■. pBrtftUly because of tncreaeed ctmaump-
largaly because of better enforcement of
aw, Now this tax brings in more than
<By Associated Press!
Texas A. & M. College scientists
announce discovery of a new four-
line highway down which they in-
tend to drive 1940 model corn to
new records of production, pest-re-
sistance and drought-resistance
Dr P C. Mangelsdorf of the Ex-
periment Station and Dr R. O.
Reeves of the A A M biology de-
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HOME LOANS
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Ninety PerCent. Ix>ans
on new homes in any
town in Denton County.
All Kinds-oF Insurance
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3. That neither of the two men he named m hte
Kcitoon—Hermann Ooertng and Rudolph &•*-
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SEE THIS NEW
SEIBERI.ING SAFETY
TIRE TODAY
Here’s prote< tion against skid-
ding, against blowouts. "Saw-
tooth’’ tread, heat-venting
and Saf-Flex eord makes thia
America’s Safest tire. Get
new Seiberling Safety Tires
today!
HAMMOND &
KIRBY
Fnatofflce Service Station
partment have just announced com-
plete details of their new theory
of the origin of corn, which lias
been widely accepted through the
botanical world since it was an-
nounced in brief form about a year
ago
A recent monographic bulletin of
the Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station gives full details of the dis-
covery that has been accepted as
the most plausible explanation yet
offered as to how and where man
first came into possession of this
most valuable crop plant.
Drs. Mangelsdorf and Reeves have
visualized the jubject from a new
point of view They have estab-
iMhed new facts while giving full
weight to the old ones. They have
found that all of the facts fit very
An evangelist once went Io a
very inactive church to conduct a
revival He labored for several days
without results; he could get none
of the members to take any active
part in the services. Finally hi5 told
them: "I have heard of dead
churches, but this Is the first one
I ever saw that was lying in state."
The church ought to be the live-
liest institution in the community.
German b
pealing OQ0 _ _ . ______ , „__
Poland. Thus Der Fuehrer get both the gong and
the bird
V Vert. Mrt»au
Rhode Island which art _ ,
£ jMckage. tn addition, the atty at
U«e. Not grw Ulis increase has been pdMd
M Jar as in Texas, some of the ad-
oost has been absorbed. — •
was one of the pioneers in taxing etgareta
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The New York Aquaitum reports a recent at-
tendance boom. Lodge members, home from va-
cations, and probably familiarizing themselves
with new types of fish about which to tell stories.
We read of a tli,0to suit being "tossed out" by
the courts; and then feel a little ashamed at
dragging out our $9 75 number for its third fall
wear.
i^penttf* tn Germany will
ace on a basis of mgglnlng
eoartdor jfroblem without
for peace production aloi
development And in this
well as the industrial plants have an Important
task to perform —Corsicana Sun.
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tax of
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DENTON, TEXAS, SEPTteMBBt 13. IBS
WAR GLOBE TO HOME
»rtry of (Mnatla into the European war brings the
conflict much doser to the United States. President
lldbeevelt already hM invoked the provisions of the
neutrality act as they apply to shipments to Can-
ada, which means that many exports to this neigh-
bor will be shut off.
Results of the studies of Mangels-
dorf and Reeves support an hvpotn-
esis that teosinte is the product of
a comparatively recent natural hy-
bridisation between com and gaina
r Nineteen Yftaft Ago <
j (Prom Record-Chronicle. Sept. n. 1W0)
gonI >U|M>ts who Jflsn attend Thxas Uni-
ty ttfi year are Tom Whitehead. William WU-
.. .. Wooi-
Lipeoomb. Aubrey R«w.
artto, Branche Williams
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rsonnel and supplies, just as it did in 1914. Texas
tens well remember the opening of aviation train-
f fields in this state by the Canadian Royal Air
tree soon after the U. 8. entry into the war, and
io remember the fine record made by these flyers
Rance. In the present disturbance it may be ex-
cted- that the Canadians will give just as good
count of themselves.
self the International League for Truth in Germany.
This organization claims to have membership in Eng-
land. France, Poland, the Scandinavian countries,
Begium. Holland, and the United States. It has an
office in New York, address unknown.
As long ago as last April, it was known, and this
correspondent wrote, that this organisation claimed
to be active in disseminating anti-Hitler propaganda
in Germany It is regarded as non-Communist. and
primarily as a peace group, acting on the theory that
the best way to peace in Europe to to get Hitler re-
moved from power.
It emphasizes that it has not taken any active part
in definite plots against Hitler, but simply in propa-
gandising within the Reich against his regime
The reports of the possibility of active revolt sim-
ply come to them from contacts within Germany.
Its own activities have been limited to fomenting
general "whispering campaigns" and radio broadcasts
against the Nazi regime within Germany.
Some of its broadcasts go into Germany from Eu-
ropean pointe outside the Reich, some even from
within Germany itself, via secret stations.
The League, entirely a private activity of anony-
mous civilans, believes that the radio campaign aim-
ed directly at the German people is being increasingly
successful, and that it reaches regularly a million
Germans despite the elaborate and stringent pre-
cautions taken by Gestapo agents against it.
“In the past two years the people have come to
distinguish between Gestapo agents who are working
for the regime and those who are working against
tt,” says a League official.
It to added that it is actually safer In Germany
now to listen to these "bootlegged" broadcasts than
it was two years ago.
As an illustration of the wide growth of Illegal
broadcasting, there to cited a recent speech in whicn
Hitler warned the German people not to Us ten. to
such programs and declared that Nazi party district
leaders were the first line of defense against such
"traitors”. This, it is asserted, war flrat of all an
admission that the habit is growing and secondly
an indirect admission that the Gestapo is not doing >
tts job properly.
The League's sources within Germany add that a
prime reason for Mussolini’s failure to fight is his
knowledge that an anti-Hitler coup is In the making ;
Italian informants of the League report that anti- 1
German sentiment in Italy to growing rapidly—at
leart partly because of Nazi tactlessness in forcing
a number of German officers into responsible posi-
tions in the Italian army.
KELVINATOR
—The Last Thing in Refrigeration. Come in
its many features.
TALIAFERRO* SON
HARDWARE AND SPORTING GOODS
LUNCI
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city t
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P’ll’l
Call G(
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EASY DOLLARS
TWO tHb salesmen hit town, rent a room with a
telephone, and then start calling local merchants to
* to some apparently
worthy cause. They usually pick small business men
are so busy they are glad to promise a dollar or
— to get rid of the fast talker. While one talks,
the other follows up and collects, and before the
• fraud to dtocovered. they are miles away, operating
• similar confidence scheme.
Mt at Met two of this gentry wont prey on
legitimate business concerns for a while. They were
^*“ ^ * *“ " i the other day when an alert
recognised the hlgh-preesured talk of
a pair who had mulcted Arlington bus tn res men two
years ago on a highway safety campaign that never
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“make a small subscription"
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SBSSu"SS5
years ago on ‘
. materialised.
An unknown voice, soliciting subscriptions or ad-
’ vertiatng over the telephone, no mslisr for what
4 purpose, la a pretty good warning to be on guard
against a swindle. Another safeguard to to delay pay-
ment of money until the advertisement to run or an
investigathm to made of where the money for a
grass, followed by back-crossing to
corn Results of the studies indi-
cate that the characters by which
euchlaena diflers from corn are
gama grass characters and are in-
herited as four closely linked groups
The chromosomes of corn and gama
grass, in hybrids between these ge-
nera pail sufficiently to provide a
means of the transference of genes
on the corn chromosomes.
Plants have been obtained from
these hybrids having the chromo-
somes number of corn, which is also
the number found in teepinte, but
with a few characters inherited
from gama grass Studies of chro-
mosome structure have given sup-
port to the hybrid origin trt euch-
laena. AL«o Mangelsdorf and Reeves
have synthesized forms of pod com
that the fertile when tn the pure
condition. A review of the litera-
ture of botany, genetics, archeology,
enthnology, paleobotany, and h«-
......v. ... .«,< «, ... ,v.j tory of corn and Its relaives. in com-
neatly into ihe theory < 1 > that mod- bination with the results their stud-
»rr. /.rt-rt nHoirtoirtrj jR gout!'. Amer- les. has convinced them that the
offspring cf pod consideration cf corn as one of the
parents of teoalnte, rather than a
descendant of it. clears the wav tor
bringing into agreement all of the
known facts pertaining to the prob-
SKILLED LABOR NEEDED
It to strange to hear a representative of our War
Department, in connection with the national rearma-
ment program, complaining that this country to suf-
fering from a lack of skilled labor. Our labor has
long been the most skillful in the wotid. But de-
pression and forced idleness have rusted the skill
of millions of workers, and enough new workers
teg are collecting taxes on clgareta, in
«-$®nt tax collected by the federal
means that the purchaser of clg-
I tttytat • oanu f» »Ulnp taxes, more
r p*ys for the cigarets.
1 manufacturers have become more or less
to state taxes, just as have smokers, but
AB article to easily taxed doesn't mean
QM bear increasingly heavy burdens. In
■’PI tales as high A 4 and 5 cents a pack-
« cigarets to A ntuch more serious
wmfi in States with lower taxes. Texas had
some experience with an Influx of cigarets from
•^boring states, but thto problem has been eiim-
* tMuftant ttfcreaee 1A revenue to thto
*tF> ** iffeeent rate, nefrly evety state soon
win tax cigarets. just as they now tax gasoline.
Why not start those whiskers to
growing? Or rather, since they are
already growing, avoid the trouble
of shaving for three weeks? In or-
der to add another Interesting touch
to the pioneer spirit of the parade,
which will epen the Denton County
Fair here early next month, the
Junior Chamber of Commerce is
sponsoring whisker growing, to con-
tinue until after the parade There
are no formalities about thto un-
dertaking. Just turn your whiskers
loose and wait. After the parade,
you can resume your daily legs of
time by shaving—if you don’t decide
by that time it's a simpler life to
let the beard grow as it pleases.
A man in Texas wants to know if the fight game
as a whole is crooked, and whether the important
bouts are fixed. No, they aren’t. Not the big fights
anyway. There was a time. I suppoee. wiien the tag
(gamblers did have a hand in "fixing" some of the
important battles, but I never knew anything of these
transactions personally.
It to safe to say that all of the big fights held
in New York are on the ICvel. There are no doubt
many unscrupulous managers and fighters who Iook
for easy money in the smaller, tank circuits, but
I would say that they are not emblematic of box-
ing. as a craft, and that they certainly will never
rise to the big time. Too much to at stake here for
that. The boxing managers who handle the stars, and
the near stars, the challengers, etc., are too much in
the public eye. Their activities are too closely scru-
tinized Even if they could be "bought" the chances
are their good sense would cause them to decide
against it, because once anything like that comes up
about you, you are through.
• to to
~ Boxing, like every other field has Hs eroeta and
its double-dealers There are those who would put
the "fix" on even themselves, but who are they and
where are they? They don't amount to anything here.
They have no "in", no authority, no position. If they
did they wouldn’t have to resort to the "fix".
As for big gamblers in the scenario manner di-
recting. beforehand, the outcome of fights, that only
happens in the Hollywood movies. Its thrilling stuff
in the films, because to the end virtue always tri-
umphs. But. fortunately, when you get away from
fiction, you get away from the fixers too.
ern com originated in South Amer-
ica and to the < .
com—a com having shucks around
each individual grain. <2> that tco-
sintc. the plant most closely related
to corn, is the result of n cross be-
tween com and a second relative,
gama grass, and <3» that new types
of com originating from this cress
comprise the majority of North
American varieties
The second and third parts of the
theory are new The first was sup-
ported by some of the previous in-
vestigators. but the old theory was
unsatisfactory until the additional
parts were added Teosinte is na-
tive only to Middle America < Cen-
tral America and Southern M»-xico>
and authorities liave assumed that
coin originated where its nearest
wild relative occurs. But if teo-
sinte is an offspring of corn, origi-
nating after corn was spread, to
Middle America, no obstacles are in
the way
B barbs B
(Copyright. 1M8. NEA Service. Inc.)
After reading of Britain', method of bomb-
tag, we watt to hear reporta of the Aral casualty
hit by a bundle of propaganda handbills
European nations are placing blame
ting of the Athenla —* ----*
nail-boy ball players
- t f t :“±s Mr Koestler makes
a bit of propaganda, but that, too.
never gt-ts out of Ills control And
Alther lie >>r his translator. Edith
has produced a text which
'y Its flavor may be
a bit modern for some, but this read
er felt It was precisely right and that
its precision was designed, not acci-
dental
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AMONG VS
fMks
V - ” By L. A M.
The thieves have started to
again in Denton. Last week-snd a
number of residents lost valuable
automobile parts,‘mostly wheels and
tires. “
outbreak
pallidly st
tfiifVnS
been developed by officers. *
• • • •
In addition to the thieves who
steal from cars, housebreaking
takes place here at intervals, speak
thieves get into houses and make
way with valuables, and cause
householders never to feel safe,
when at home or away.
ALTHOUGH no definite date has
been set for the inauguration
of trans-Paclflc airmail over- the
San Francisco-New Zealand
route, the U. S. Postoffice Depart-
ment has announced full details
for obtaining first flight covers.
Collectors who submit first
flight covers, postal authorities
warned, do so at their own risk.
Rates, per half ounce, for the
flight from San Francisco, via
Honolulu, Canton Island (no post-
office), Noumea, New Caledonia
to Auckland, New Zealand, are:
to Noumea, 40 cents; to Auckland,
50 cents. Senders are to affix
stamps and send in outer envelope
to Postmaster, San Francisco,
Calif., to reach him not later than
Sept. 30.
Rates from Honolulu to Nou-
mea, 20 cents; Honolulu to Auck-
land, 30 cents; senders to affix
stamps, mail covers in outer en-
velope to Postmaster, Honolulu,
Hawaii, to reach him by Sept. 30.
Rates, per half ounce, for the
return flight are: Auckland to
Noumea, 1 shilling; Auckland to
Honolulu, 2 shillings; Auckland to
San Francisco, 3 shillings, 6 pence.
Send covers with money order
payable to Postmaster, to Post-
master, Auckland, New Zealand,
in time to connect S. S. Monterey,
sailing from San Pedro, Calif., on
Sept. 13.
Collectors outside United States
may send covers to San Francisco
or Honolulu with certified check
or money order, payable to Post-
master, for purchase of stamps.
Cachets will be applied at San
Francisco and Honolulu only on
covers inclosed with specific re-
quests for such cachets. All first
flight covers received at those
offices from Auckland or Noumea
will be backstamped. No special
treatment will be given Honolulu-
San Francisco mail
Covers should be addressed to
senders or other persons in the
United States or elsewhere, and
should be marked to show points
between which carriage is de-
sired. After the flight covers will
be returned by ordinary mail. No
arrangement is made for round
trip covers or covers to be can-
celed at successive points.
Two Minutes Daily
With Religion
By E. V. COLE
TJhe ^Vtat W MHfi Avbtrtfe has been comjfleted
thoroughfare was begun. With
favorable weather, font rapid progress Ja expected
*° around to North Lo-
<j'*xrrW xzx. v 1 silo Lzxtv 11 VVlUl^JldC.vl.
a Bound Ti a as puitti—aq Lz Dr”X K sto
weighed KO pounds. The Chamber Of Ct
. offered • KO premium.
Thievery and house-breaking
should be stopped. It is impossi-
ble, of course, for officers to be in
all parts of the city at all times,
and thieves find it comparatively
easy to steal from can or houses,
or take valuables otherwise, at in-
tervals. Such acts are a real nui-
sance as well as monetary loss In
order to insure freeing tills city
from the nuisance, it might noKbe
a bad idea to organize vigilante
groups who could help patrol areas
where thievery occurs. Undoubted-
ly the American Legion here would
be glad to co-operate' tn such an
undertkatng. and their past service
fits them for such werk.
Written only tn atrang eM Has
■tock cotnpenlaa.
In buying tnanrauea yen buy
inly nne thing—protorttan Be
inre the company tssalng your
policy la able to guarante^-
hut that
kepreeentlng: ns Ufa Tnanr-
mea Co. at Virginia; Ths Mary-
land casualty Co.; and sevsral
Uro compeoloa with ■ capital
if one million dollars ar more,
that hare been In the business
one hundred years.
J. J. Maclachlan
Atitat -
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have not been developed In the special skills de-
manded by up-to-date industry.
"There is little or no problem in developing .semi-
skilled workers, or those trained in a single opera-
tion Of a machine." observes Louis Johnson, assist-
ant secretary of war. "but the journeymen me-
chanics. from whose ranks were recruited the skilled
workmen who yesterday made possible America's in-
dustrial supremacy, today are difficult to obtain."
They are needed not only for war production, but
industrial
ild the public schools as
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There isn't any excuse,for the
United States becoming embroiled
in the present European conflict,
i There is little doubt about the .senti-
ment of the American people, a
vast majority of whom sympathize
fully with Poland and her allies and
have no patience with Hitler. But
it's not this country's quarrel, anrt
American blood should not be spilled
because of the European ccmflict.
One way to keep out Is for Amer-
icans to stay at home and lor ex-
treme caution to be exercised in
trying to sell supplies to the belt g-
erents It appears to us that a
neutrality law which would permit
cash and carry sales of supplies to
any or all belligerents, but with
American responsibility for protec-
tion to stop at the American shores
to about the only way we can hope
to stay out of the war. if it contin-
ues for any great length of time,
which it appears now that it wtH.
We can’t continue to permit Amer-
icans to go to the war area.; and
ship goods there under present sea
perils without getting into trouble.
I«t’s stay at home and sell them
WTTaC W ’ want TT (Key havr ffie
money to pay for it and the ships
to come after it. ’
The Abilene Reporter comments:
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"The American government
has laid down the law to Its na-
tionals. forbidding them to trav-
el to Europe except tn case of
‘imperative necessity'. By keep-
ing them cut of the war zona
the country will run less risk
of becoming involved with an-
other power should they meet
with d«aster The well known
American yen for sightseeing
makes such an order necessary
Without, thousands of our citi-
zens would seek grandstand
seats at the biggest show on
earth. There is a large loop-
hole in this order, however,
that can only be closed by re-
vising the neutrality act. Un-
der the existing measure Amer-
ican ships are free to haul such
things as cotton, ccpper and
other raw materials of war to
any port in the world. There is
no doubt that shipowners will
carry cn a thriving business in
this field—using American ships
and American crews. These will
necessarily run the risk of be-
ing torpedoed or shelled. In-
evitably many will be sunk with
loss of American lives. If the
law is revised in accordance
with the president's wishes, thto
business will stop; for the cash
■ nd carry provision requires
that the goods be carried in
foreign bottoms. The only way
we can keep cyit of the war Is
to watch our step at every turn.
Evidently Washington intends
to avoid every poMibility of
involvement, an attitude that
lias the unqualified approval of
the great American public "
The Rotary Chib nor the Kiwanis 1 out of ^bounds
Club nor any other organization ’
should not be allowed to have '
more life about them than the ■ gimou.
church. The church has more rea- reads brilliantly
to be alive than they have ~ ' ’
s said: "I am come that ye!
may have life and have it more
abundantly."
•THE GLAIHAKIKS."
Koestlrr.
Now anyb<xly who will read Arthur
Koestler’s The Gladiators" may see |
that It Is actually possible to write ;
a political allegory which at the same
time Is a good story This book com- '
Ing as It does after a dreary aucces- j
sion of similar attempts and a still '
more borlug succession of undiluted
propaganda novels, ts one of the '
summer s delights It could even |
serve as hammock reading for one ,
not completely sodden with love- '
conquers-all romances
Mr Koestler tells of the Hfnve War f
In Rome, less than a century before
Christ He begins with a scene In a
Capuan bathhouse, and clow s u tth
another In the same place In these
he presents the general setting as
It appears to a very average Roman ,
Between them Iles the action
T?ils starts quietly ientiilus of
Capua owns a schixil for gladiators
Ix’ntulus has neatly figured out the
percentages; the newer styles In the
arena arc cutting his profits danger-
ously and this gives him indigestion
Bls gladiators are killed off long be-
fore lie can make anything out ot
the ungrateful wretches. On.
sonably resigned to their fate
now feel that the demand for bloody
group combat and mass executions
1 hv various ravening beasts is too
much Hcvcnty have revolted at the I
beginning of the story. Lcntulus Ls
so upset he casts glooin all over his
favorite bathhouse
The escaped gladiators first turn I
up st the Inn of Fannin- This they
simply take over, when the servants 1
resist them, these are killed or Im- I
prlsonwl when soldiers come to cap-
ture them, the .soldiers either Join I
the gladiators or are disarmed and
left to their disgrace And so grad- |
ually. led by Crlxua and ft)>nrtacuH (
the gladiators transform themselves '
Into a scourge to the countryside, a
traveling band which grows so rapid- '
ly by accretion that lx fore long spai - '
tacua can launch a great Idea He
will establish a brotherhood ot towns. I
a ftun Blate In other words. Utopia |
This Ih only the beginning of the ■
story It. all Is told with a gusty hu- ;
mor that strangely enough never gets i
NEW YORK. September 12—The name of thto
column Is Man-About-Manhattaii. and boy. am I
klad I don't write Man About Rome. . , . Look what
I just read in the papers—a dispatch from Rome,
from Rome. Italy. ... It says no coffee ... It 1
says the civilians can’t drink any coffee any more
It’s all being saved for the army . . Roman news-
papermen can't duck acrons the street and say. "Joe.
gimme a cup of coffee.” . . . Well, they wouldn't say
Joe anyway. They would probably say Tony.
But one of the joys about writing a New York
column is that you can go out and drink coffee at
odd hours . . . Hours are very odd here anyway And
frequently the coffee is toe. But not If you know your
way around. Like bankers and lawyers, you’ve got to
know which restaurants to place your faith in too
A lot of people think you are off-balance if you
place too great a premium on the quality of a sim-
ple. every day beverage. But people like that have
a twisted sense of values, I am convinced ths* only
heroes and poets and people who have understand-
ing heart* can appreciate the subtle influence that
wafte itself like some faint, nostalgic aromatic splen-
dor from the cup to the nostrils. It heartens the
dismayed, lends succor to the flagged In spirit, brings
clarity to the vision, and joy to the oppressed. Such
are the benefits of a ctip of good coffee Man About
Rome? I’d rather be a Latin from Manhattan any
The development, in prehistoric
North America, of new varieties of
corn al-sci originating from the cross
between corn and gama grass iioints
out a method of further improve-
ment of our corn varieties Gama
grass, and therefore teosinte, also
have some other characteristics that
would be desirable to have in corn.
For example, gaina grass and teo-
sinte are more resistant to heal,
drought, and certain igisects and
diseases than corn It will be rela-
tively simple, with the stoqgs of i
plants and other materials now on
hand at the Texas station, to intro- I
dure gama graas characters into !
corn and test their effectiveness.
If hopes, which now seem justi-
fied. materialize this will be anoth-
er instance where Uic solution of a
problem that at first glance appears
how pip 1^
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admission that the habit is growing and secondly
its
t < against a
nent of i
dgnatidn W subscription Is going. But the swindled
operate on tbs thecry that many persons bad rather
girt A doUAr or two than to take a lev precautions.
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Four states this year diacovered that a nice amount
< revenue coult* *---' ■ * ---’ —■ * -
tfsta. They si
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