The Silsbee Bee (Silsbee, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1939 Page: 3 of 10
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ment knew nothing about it and was
far from enthusiastic.
But—. While one branch of U. S.
opinion obviously swung to isola-
tion, another branch stuck out its
neck by virtue of a long-standing,
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LELLO EVERYBODY!
! A A Adventure sure laid an icy hand on the shoulder of
'Joseph Kuritz, who sent me one of the best written yarns
I've had to date. Joe’s at Brooklyn now and at last writing
could have used a job. He gave up his youthful ambition to
be a mining engineer as a result of events related in today’s
story, and switched to mechanical engineering. But, if you
ask me, the magazines are looking for people who can write
like Joe.
: ..Accordingly, I’m following his script pretty close. In
April, 1920, Joe was a surveyor with the Glen Alden Coal
Co., Scranton, Pa. It was his first job, and he was assigned
to investigating “pillar robbing” in the Cayuga mines. 111
explain.
Miners must leave enough coal to support the roof of the
mine, which consists of shale, a scaly rock, that caves in
easily. Pillar robbing means stealing coal from these remaining sup-
ports, and is illegal, since it may cause cave-ins in which workers
are killed, gas and water mains burst, even explode, and brick buildings
standing on the land collapse. It’s earthquake, fire and flood.
Old Timbers Prove Useless as Support.
The Cayuga had been deserted for 50 years. Inside Joe and three
companions found pillars cracked and crumbled by the weight of millions
of tons of rock they had held up for five decades. As supports they
were useless and might just as well have been mined out. Old timber
erected by miners to protect themselves in those far, bygone years
were rotted, useless. A touch and they collapsed to fungi-infested, mil-
dewed dust. Not much between Joe and the millions of tons of rock
over his head.
Worse, the workings were of the “pitch” type—each chamber
like a long, sloping tunnel, some very steep. The roof was dan-
gerously cracked. Slabs of shale hung so loose a breath would
send them crashing to the floor. Fallen rock covered the steeply-
slanting floor in sizes from a fist to dining-room table. This
“gob” can start an avalanche on the slanting tunnel floor.
Joe’s duties—lovely job!—were to climb over this loose rock, covered
With slime. If he made it, it was safe for the others to come up. If
he didn’t and started a fatal avalanche—Joe forgot to tell about that
Joe’s Lamp Ignites a Pocket of Whitedamp.
Well, sir, Joe climbed gingerly upward, clinging to the glistening coal
pillar at the side, peering ahead by the faint light of the lamp fastened
~bove his cap-vizor. He stepped, light as a falling feather, testing every
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whom you fell in love at first'
sight?”
“Oh, he was a fraud. It was
his boss’ car he was using.”
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1. What is the largest room in
any building in the United States?
2. Which is the oldest industry,
tanning or pottery?
3. How many islands are there
in the Philippine group?
4. Why is the twelfth month of
the year called December when
decem means ten?
5. How many miles of highway
are there in the world?
6. Where is the largest cotton
plantation in the United States?
7. Are sapphires always blue?
8. Which is the correct form,
anyone’s else, or anyone else’s?
9. How many godchildren has
the president of France?
10. When is a city not a city on
the British isles?
The Answers
1. The Goodyear Zeppelin dock
at Akron, Ohio—55 million cubic
feet. It is so large that sudden
NOW WHEN IT COMES
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ment.
Long-awaited reaction against for-
Jeign entanglement took root only
a month ago when congress discov-
ered the administration was spon-
soring military plane sales to
France and Britain. Today the is-
sue of isolation is growing by leap
and bound, not only as a question
of foreign policy but as a political
football headed for the 1940 presi-
dential election. In less than one
late February week enough shots
were fired to constitute a definite
trend:
“Wicked Dictatorships.” To Pitts-
field, Mass., went William R. Cas-
tle, assistant chairman of the Re-
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“For thirty years constipation caused me
headaches and pains in the back. Awful gas
bloating crowded my heart. Adlerika helped
right away. Now I eat sausage, bananas, pie,
anything I want and never felt better."—
Mrs. Mabel Schott. Two things happen when
you are constipated. FIRST: Accumulated
wastes swell up bowels and press on nerves in
the digestive tract. SECOND: Partly digest-
ed food starts to decay forming GAS, bringing
on sour stomach, indigestion, and heartburn,
bloating you up until you sometimes gasp for
breath. Adlerika gives double relief with
DOUBLE ACTION. Adlerika relieves
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Domestic
Since President Roosevelt’s
“quarantine” speech at Chicago in
October, 1937, U. S. public opinion
has veered sharply and outspokenly
against dictators, meanwhile mak-
ing new friends for France, Britain
and China. Washington’s tradition-
al policy of isolation and neutrality
has well-nigh gone by the boards,
thanks to Nazi Jew-baiting, Japan’s
threat to U. S. interests in China
and dictator inroads. throughout
South America. Most heated U. S.
speechmaker against Adolf Hitler
has been Secretary of the Interior
Always demand St.
Joseph Aspirin. It’s
genuine, pure. Eases
cold discomfort and
headaches. 12 tablets, 10c.
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EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinions
are expressed . in these-columns, they
are those, of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of the newspaper. .
slide was on!
At first, with thumps scarcely audible above the rolling rumble of the
waves of flame over his head, then, in a roaring crescendo, jagged rock
raced, leaping and thundering downward past Joe, hurtling into the hell
of darkness far below.
Joe’s lamp had gone out with the explosion. But above him
was blinding glare—a marching surf of blue-and-red-streaked fire,
lighting up the chamber overhead. Blistering white heat above—
thundering flood of angry rock below! Joe clung to the pillar bn
his stomach, ducking hurtling rocks, shrinking from the blazing
heat above. With clawing fingers and toes that vainly sought
foothold in the hard floor, he lay there—it seemed ages—aching
muscles a-torture. The slide diminished. The “carbonic oxide”
above burned fitfully, threatening any second to seek out with its
rainbow flames another pocket, spreading in chain explosions
through the underground terrain, burying Joe and his companions.
He Began to Figure His Chance for Escape.
Joe thought of the others. Had they been crushed to a jelly-smear
ander those tons of rock—trapped in some doghole or cross-cut in a pillar?
The rolling flames died, went out. In the inky black Joe groped for
a match, lit his lamp. The floor was clear. He stepped out. Instantly
ne tobogganed down on a slab of rock he had overlooked. Four hundred
Zeet below he brought up short on the heap of loose rock. It had blocked
the entrance completely.
Joe was caught like a rat. He sat on a rock, wondered that
he was not frightened, began to figure his chances of seeing sun-
light again. It seemed suddenly very precious, sun and open air.
Air! The rock had sucked much out, the explosion had driven
more out and the fire had burned he didn’t know how mud) of
the life-giving oxygen in that black pit. Would the rest last till
they got to him?
Then, Joe says, panic did grip him. He shouted himself hoarse.
He smashed a rock repeatedly against a pillar, listened. Not a sound.
Just silence. Terrible silence. Joe saw slow death ahead—suffocation,
thirst, starvation. Unwounded, he wished for death—swift death, rather
than this drawn-out agony. Now he could only wait helplessly.
Joe says he prefers to forget the next nine hours. Imagination can
be the most horrible form of torture. But—his companions had escaped.
With all hope gone for Joe, they had notified the surface. A relay of
rescue crews, working as only mine rescue crews can, dug through the
pillar from an adjoining chamber and pulled Joe out nine hours later.
From that day on the only coal Joe can stand looking at is in a
stove. He quit the mining engineer career cold. But I still say he can
write like a professional? What do you think?
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Harold Ickes, whose tirades pre- ened trade war. The state depart-
sumably reflect White House senti-
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“UY EAR MRS. SPEARS: The
— leaflet on making Rag Rugs
that just came with your two
books is most interesting to me,
and I thought you might like to
know about a rag rug that literally
grew up with our family. When
we first went to housekeeping I
started what I hoped would be a
large braided rug for the dining
room. When it was big enough to
go under the small table we were
using then, I put it down. Each
winter I have added more rows
to the edge. The family has grown
and we all fit on the rug quite
nicely now.
“I save the best parts of old
sheets and dye them different col-
ors; then tear them into one-inch
strips. I have a power machine,
so I run these through it turning in
the raw edges. The stitching
strengthens the strips and; makes
them firm and neat for braiding.’’
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his slender dark body and three long
yellow stripes. The green snake is
as green as grass and the queen
snake, which is found only in water,
has nice chocolate brown stripes.
The storer’s or red-bellied burrow-
ing snake is very small and gray
with bright red decorations.
Each one has a personality of his
own. Some are very mysterious
and secretive, preferring to lead pri-
vate lives under stones, bark or
logs. Others move freely in the
open fields. Some ar a happiest
around water or living in marshes
and swamps. Tree climbers like
the pilot black snake haunt the
heavy woods.
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"NO two ways about it,” he
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cut Prince Albert is a. joy to
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6 Albert, gentlemen—see why
CT "makin’s" smokers say:
1 "There’s no other tobacco
m like Prince Albert.”
All European crisis since 1930
have been started by scheming Italy
and Germany. With Europe well
on its way to another nervous break-
down scheduled for mid-March,
signs now indicate that Britain and
France, lovers of peace and the
status quo, may at least be blamed
—if not responsible—for the spring
crisis.
Underlying every potential Euro-
pean development is the Spanish
war, whose early termination will
leave Italy free to pursue Mediter-
ranean territorial demands against
France. This, because a Franco
victory in Spain is an Italian vic-
tory giving II Duce more Mediter-
ranean power. It would jeopardize
not only France’s colonies, but Brit-
ain’s “lifeline” to the Far East.
By now the Paris-London “axis”
has at least three reasons to de-
cide on an aggressive course which
may decide Europe’s future:
(1) Unconfirmed but persistent
reports of French-Italian clashes on
the Libya-Tunisia border (see map)
jibe with announcements that Italy’s
Libyan garrisons are being in-
creased. Tunisia is one French ter-
ritory specifically demanded by
Italy, unofficially. Reports say
Fascist troops penetrated Tunisia
at a spot 25 miles southeast of
the first French fortified zone, just
as Italy’s Marshal Pietro Badoglio
visited Libya to inspect frontier
NERVOUS?
Do you feel so nervous you want to scream?
Are you cross and irritable? Do you scold
those dearest to you?
If your nerves are on edge and you feel
you need a good general system tonic, try
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound,
made especially for women.
For over 60 years one woman has told an- j
other how to go “smiling thru” with reliable
Pinkhum’s Compound. It helps nature build
up more physical resistance and thus helps
calm quivering nerves and lessen discomforts
from annoying symptoms which often ac-
company female functional disorders.
Why not give it a chance to help YOU?
Over one million women have written in
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thoroughly accepted American
creed, the Monroe doctrine. Illus-
trating how any U. S. interest in
South America leads to internation-
al complications in the world of 1939
were two developments: (1) The
civil aeronautics authority prepared
to fight German, Italian, French
and Dutch air services for suprem-
acy in South America; (2) Dr. Raul
Ribeiro, Brazilian economist, of-
fered U. S. capitalists a chance to
invest in a mining development proj-
ect for his country, with possible
exchange of Brazilian ore for Amer-
ican-made munitions.
Joe clung to the pillar on his stomach.
footfall. At the top our “human fly,” as Joe calls himself, was to es-
tablish a point for the transit—a surveyor’s instrument—to shoot at.
Joe never made it. Twenty feet from the top—Boom! An
explosion like a giant bassdrum shook the earth in a bolt of livid
flame. GAS! Joe’s light had ignited a pocket of whitedamp!
made a sketch here showing how
to start your room size rug. If
you are not quite that ambitious,
you will find many ideas for
smaller rugs in the leaflet offered
below.
NOTE: Now is the time for all
of us to give our houses a fresh
start. Crisp new curtains; a bright
slipcover; new lampshades; or an
ottoman will do the trick. Make
these things yourself. Mrs. Spears’
Book I—SEWING, for the Home
Decorator, shows you how with
step-by-step, easy to follow
sketches. Book 2—Gifts, Novel-
ties and Embroidery, shows you
how to make fascinating things
from odds and ends and will save
its cost many times. Books are
25 cents each; if you order both
books, copy of the new Rag Rug
Leaflet will be included free. Ad-
dress Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des-
changes of temperature cause
clouds to form and rain falls in-
side of the hangar.
2. Most authorities agree that
ancient man learned how to treat
hides long before he discovered the
secrets of pottery.
3. There are 7,083.
4. December was the tenth
month in the Roman calendar. It
has retained its Latin name.
5. There are 9,600,000 miles of
highways in the world, with almost
4,000,000 in the Americas and more
than 3,500,000 in Europe.
6. The 60 square miles owned
by the Delta & Pine Land Co.
of Scott, Miss.
7. No; some are red, green,
white, violet or yellow. However,
the name sapphire is usually re-
stricted to the blue variety.
8. Anyone else’s is the correct
form. In pronominal expressions
in the genitive construction “else”
usually takes the genitive inflec-
tion/
9. President Albert Lebrun has
become the godfather of 1,600 chil-
dren since his offer to assume that
relationship to every fifteenth child
born to a French family.
10. Broadly speaking, a place in
Great Britain or Ireland is not
called a city unless there is a ca-
thedral in it. However, occasion-
ally one lacking a cathedral is
made a city by a royal order. For
instance, Plymouth, England, with
a population of 210,000, was re-
cently so decreed by order of the
king. ucL
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PEACE?
RIOT — Resigning because
France failed to ratify a 1936
treaty granting the land inde-
pendence, Syrian Premier Jamil
Mardam Bey touched off street
clashes.
REVOLT—While President Os-
car Benavides was away Peru-
vian Interior Minister Gen. An-
tonio Rodriguez attempted to
seize the government, was slain.
REBELLION — Held responsi-
ble for 220 deaths in eight months
of race rioting, Ba Maw’s cabi-
net was ousted in Burma, re-
placed by a coalition government.
REPERCUSSION — Fighting
terroristic bombings by the out-
lawed Irish republican army in
Eire and Great Britain, Eire’s
parliament authorized the death
penalty for the perpetrators.
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LIBYA AND TUNISIA
Is this the next battleground?
forts. Meanwhile Rome reports in-
dicate 1,000,000 men will be under
arms this spring.
(2) Germany has started mobili-
zation for annual war games, ac-
companied by renewed grumblings
against “war scares” by western
democracies.
(3) Chancellor Hitler, Premier
Mussolini and Generalissimo Fran-
co are scheduled to meet soon for a
decision on Spain’s future, and, pre-
sumably, the future course of an
enlarged European Fascism.
Viewing these three developments
the British parliament has approved
an extra $2,000,000,000 armament
appropriation, starting a new inter-
national munitions race which
Prime Minister Chamberlain admits
might “lead to the bankruptcy of
every country in Europe.” At the
same time London has agreed on
plans for an expeditionary force to
help France in case of war. Mean-
while both London and Paris have
been making desperate last-minute
efforts to win Franco.
German-Italian reply to these
“warlike threats” will probably bel
to hold their troops in Spain until
France grantz African concessions.
Thus perplexed, London and Paris
, must either use a whip lash, there-
by provoking a new crisis, or per-
mit the most serious blow to demo-
cratic prestige thus far inflicted. If
they planned the latter course there
would be little justification for to-
day’s frenzied rearmament.
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Wolcott: “This .bank can get us
into a situation which may involve
us in any European or Asiatic con-
flict ... It is a dangerous thing
to have this power lying around.”
Argued Ohio’s Sen. Robert A. Taft:
“The government shouldn’t be in
the export business.” Passed by
the house after vigorous debate, the
extension.bill could expect a chary
reception by the senate.
Meanwhile the U. S. chamber of
commerce lifted its eyebrows over
a report that 25 American industri-
alists would join a British-German
cartel to regulate competition in
world markets and offset a threat-
gerous commitment, congress
thought twice when the Export-Im-
port bank—due to expire June 30—
came up for two years’ extension.
Argued Michigan’s. Rep. Jesse P.
ossa
ILSentine Featuses—
‘(UR nation was founded upon the
M principles of responsible citizen-
ship and has grown great upon that
foundation. Personal freedom and
equality of opportunity under the pro-
tection of the law have been—and, I
fervently hope, always will be—an abid-
ing creed and a zealously guarded way
of life of the American people.”—
Cordell Hull, U. S. Secretary of State.
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publican national committee, once
U. S. envoy t Japan, later a
Hoover undersecretary of state.
Said Mr. Castle, before a 40 and 8
(American Legion) society: “There
is still so much work . . .to keep
this the best possible country . . .
that our officials would do well to
confine themselves to this task in-
stead of spending so much time talk-
ing about wicked dictatorships and
the dangers of war. We certainly
want none of their philosophy . . .
but . . . if that philosophy is what
other nations want it is not for us
to attempt to prevent it.”
Nye Again. An irreconcilable paci-
fist, North Dakota’s Sen. Gerald P.
Nye saw red when he learned of the
French-British plane sales, rushed
to his office and drafted a bill. Its
gist: Military and naval officers
could bar export of any planes de-
veloped in the U. S. until they de-
termined that the craft are not need-
ed exclusively for American de-
fense.
One reason for the bill was testi-
mony that Mr. Roosevelt had ig-
nored high military-naval officials
in making the foreign deal. An-
other reason is Senator Nye’s fear
of an ultimate U. S. desire to sell
planes to Germany, Italy, Japan
or any other nation, thus producing
a “vicious circle.” Next day it be-
came apparent the “vicious circle”
had already been created interna-
tionally. A member of the civil
aeronautics authority reportedly
told the senate military affairs com-
mittee that Germany was willing to
sell fighting planes to—of all nations
—France. Reasoning: France
would thereby become dependent on
foreign plane factories, committing
national suicide in case of war with
Germany.
Foreign Trade. Among important
loans of the federal-sponsored Ex-
port-Import bank was one to China
for $25,000,000, financing sale of
1,000 trucks for obvious military use.
Fearful lest this constituted a dan-
A snake is cold-blooded in every
«ense of the word. Family ties
nean nothing. If the young hatch
Irom eggs, they are left to come out
11 by themselves. If they are born
n a litter .of from 5 to 50 infinitesi-
mal ribbons, they must wriggle
through the school of experience
alone.
Most of the snake gentry here-
ibouts are very handsomely pat-
erned. The ringnecked snake, for
example, is a shiny bluish black with
bright yellow underparts and a bril-
liant orange ring around his neck.
% The pilb-hlack snake has a black
velvet skQThe ribbon snake would
make a prty fancy ribbon, with
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Can It Be the Climate? I
"HERE’S something about west-
A ern climate — ! But Rocky.
Mountain and Pacific Coast cham-
bers of commerce will file an in-
dignant disclaimer that the cli-
mate had anything to do with this:
The National Safety council’s re-
port on 1937 shows a solid block of.
11 western states, excepting Utah/
had higher accident death rates)
for the year than any other group)
of states in the country. Washing--
ton, Oregon, California, Idaho,'
Nevada, Arizona, Montana, Wyo-
ming, Colorado and New Mexico—i
in each of these states an average:
of more than 100 persons, per 100,-
000 of population, suffered acci-
dent deaths in 1937. Utah barely),
escaped the “100 or more” group)
with an average of 99.4.
Florida (chambers of commerce)
please note) and Delaware were'
the only other states with an aver-
age of 100 or more accident deaths)
per 100,000 of population last'
year. Florida’s average was 105.6,!
and Delaware’s 105.7. Nevada’s?
average of 137.6 deaths was the
highest reported by any state.
Rhode Island’s average of 55.9
deaths was the lowest.
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