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Wednesday November 6 1935
Off Season Hurricanes
A hurricane at iU best is no good and when these
creatures of the doldrums take to springing up and
whirling around the Gulf of Mexico out of season
the situation becomes entirely unreasonable.
Two of these freaks have visited Florida recently i
the latter still off its coast In the Gulf of Mexico
again threatening the cities of that resort state.
And the sad part of the whole performance is that
In spite of the elaborate precaution* and cautions
taken to Insure more adequate storm reports in thus
particular Instance the Weather Bureau is mt able
to give complete and up-to-the-minute information
to cities along the coast.
Why?
The hurricane season ended on the Igst day of Oc-
tober. and this is November.
With the hurricane season over the teletypes with
which all branches of the weather bureau from
Brownsville to Miami have been equipped for the
Instant transmission of information were taken out.
And so we are back to the old hit and miss basis
of receiving forecasts with the weather bureau and
Its various branches about two hours or more be-
hind actual developments.
It does seem as If the Weather Bureau might have
allowed the hurricane season SO days of grace and
continued its equipment in operation for the month
of November. Just to be on the safe side.
Admit that these present disturbances are freaks
of nature and that it may be 50 years before any-
thing like them appears again in the month of
November still one hurricane insufficiently report-
ed. will cause enough avoidable damage to pay for
the cost of the teletype system many times over.
Economy in hurricane reporting is Just about the
last thing that the people along the Gulf of Mexico
coast are going to stand for.
Mark the Highways
Valley paved roads in spite of safety campaigns
continue their unmarked condition leaving it en-
tirely to the motorist to estimate as he whirls along
the road. Just where the line is that divides his half
from the half of the other fellow.
A white line down the center of our asphalt topped
roads a black line down the center of our concrete
roads and a very considerable help has been given
to the motorist who tries to avoid accidents.
Especially to the night driver is this line of as-
aistance. enabling him to keep his eourse in spite of
blinding lights and other distractions.
We again suggest to our county authorities that
they can be of prime assistance in a practical man-
ner. if they will but buy a few cans of paint and get
busy.
Hardly Sportsmanship
Stella Walsh one of the most talented women ath-
letes of the day. is traveling In America now. The
other day she told about a track meet in Dresden.
Germany. In which she competed last summer. One
of the five young women on the Polish team was
Jewish. Miss Walsh describes what happened:
"The German women refused at first to parade
around the stadium before the contest because of
. the Jewish girl. When the meet wu finished I was
sitting with the Jewish girl when a crowd gathered
around us and hissed her and called her names. It
was some time before the crowd cleared away."
Those in charge of our participation In the next
Olympics due to be held In Germany might well
ponder over that anecdote. There probably will be
Jewish athletes on our Oympic team. Do we care to
send them to a land where they will be given that
kind of Insulting treatment?
Along Neutral Lines
Secretary Hull’s recent note to Geneva explaining
to the League of Nations the American position on
export of munitions and other commodities to Italy
is apparently somewhat disappointing to the league.
At any rate the Italian papers praise It as a sign of
America's refusal to join in the imposition of sanc-
tions on Italy and in Paris government officials are
said to feel that the note dodged the issue.
This ought to be pretty fair evidence that from
the American viewpoint the note Is thoroughly satis-
factory. The American pfo^le have not the slightest
intention of taking sides in the present quarrel.
If their government follows that policy it will pain
certain nations which would like our help. And so.
if Mr. Hull’s note disappoints Geneva and Paris-
well. that very fact indicates that It is pretty well in
line with what the American people want.
All Organs Affected
In Heart Disease
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association
and of Hygeia. the Health Magasine
Heart failure continues to lead all causes of death.
The heart Is so Intimately related to every function
of the human body however that a doctor treats his
patient with heart disease rather than treating the
heart alone.
It must be remembered that the heart is closely as-
sociated with circulation of the blood and that cir-
culation is concerned with action of kidneys brain
and every other important organ.
In heart disease the central pump is not able to
move the blood around the body and back to the heart
and lungs. When the heart falls the flow of the blood
becomes sluggish and this sluggishness is seen first In
the liver.
The liver is so large that it can hold about two-thirds
of all the blood in the body. Because the heart has
to do more work under these circumstances it will
beat more rapidly and a smaller volume of blood will
go with each beat.
• • •
One of the first signs of falling circulation is breath-
lessness on exertion. This occurs particularly with
failure of the left side of the heart — the kind of fail-
ure that comes with high blood pressure.
Under these circumstances the lungs become con-
gested. The blood which gets into the lungs does not
receive enough oxygen and breathlessness is the re-
sult.
A vicious circle forms because lessening of oxygen
in the lungs causes acid to accumulate in the mus-
cles of the heart and this means more difficult ac-
tion. If the heart itself is suffering from lack of
oxygen certainly those organs and tissues far removed
from the heart also will suffer.
This causes all organs and tissues to slow down In
their activities. The kidneys cannot get rid of their
waste matter the glands cannot supply the material
necessary to keep the body going and the intestines
cannot absorb from foods the proteins necessary to
keep the tissues In health.
• • •
Certainly it is a mistake under these circumstances
to place all attention on the heart and not to take
care of weaknesses and failur—. 'wvuiTing In other
organs at the same time.
Whenever we talk about its importance we point
out that the heart ne\er rests and that the only way
In which we can rest it during life Is to slow Its rate.
Rest and time are the two factors most Important
in treating any form of heart disease.
Anxious relatives always want the doctor to make
the heart beat slower. He can do this with drugs but
it Is done in many cases to greater advantage with
the kind of rest that means complete relaxation with
the patient flat in bed.
Much noasense is being talked of the need of cer-
tain nations to expend. Both Italv and Oermanv
could support their present populations in comfort
under a sane economic system — Lord Strnbolgt. war-
time British naval leader
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Behind the
Scenes in
Washington
By RODNEY DITCHER
The Brownsville Herald Washington
Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Nov. 6. — The
mystery as to what NRA is doing
may be considered partially solved.
It's making campaign material for
Senator Borah.
One may be neutral in the argu-
ment whether NRA's post-Schechter
activity as a great research project
—code histories past-code studies
and whatnot —is valuable or wheth-
er NRA is merely pawing through
its o n files to no particular pur-
pose.
But the fact that NRA which was
instructed by law to prevent monop-
olies and has often been accused of
fostering monopolies is spending
millions of dollars on business and
post-mortem research without mak-
ing any study at all of monopoly has
struck the few persons who realise
this as most bizarre.
Several weeks ago a unit was or-
ganized to study the evils of monop-
oly coercion of business and preda-
tory competition. Its dozen lawyers
and economists were told to find out
whether codes had bred monopoly
whether they had resulted in coer-
cion. and whether the monopolists
coercers. and predatory competitors
were now doing their stuff without
legal sanction.
Right Down Borah's Alley
The unit has been summarily
abolished with the explanation that
its work might irritate monopolists
coercers and predatory competitors.
The abolition is traced to Major
George Berry one of NRA's bosses
who will have a convention of busi-
ness men to get Ideas as to new
NRA legislation and apparently
doesn't want to hurt anybody's feel-
ings.
Borah. In his fight to make mo-
nopoly a republican issue undoubt-
edly will make use of this quaint
incident. Especially if he gets hold
of reports of investigators who
scratched surfaces for two weeks in
New York. Philadelphia. Newark.
Hartford and Boston before they
were called off.
• Under direction of Thomas W
Holland an attorney and ex-pro-
fessor of economics at Rutgers in-
vestigators went Interviewing busi-
ness men themselves as to practices
of competitors customers and cor-
porations from whom they bought.
Tlie business men proved eager to
talk. Price-fixing discriminatory
prices boycotts monopolistic op-
pressions and an Infinite variety of
other unfair methods mostly in vio- !
lation of anti-trust laws were quick-
ly turned up.
Then Holland submitting a three-
month program for such research
found his men hadn't been supposed j
to be contacting business men at all
and that his unit must disband at
once.
So the business man’s own story of
what he is up against among his own
kind will not be told.
• • •
O. K. On Lewis' K. O.
An hour after President John L
Lewis of the United Mine Workers
had punched President William L.
Hutcheson of the Carpenters' Union
at the A. P. of L. convention the
miners’ leader received a telegram
from a member of the Carpenters'
Union in Kansas City Mo. It simp-
ly said:
“Sock him again.”
Hugh "Rung to” Mules
Some w o believe General John-
son is trying to devour the Demo-
cratic donkey < whether he means
to or not* recall that Johnson was
sponsored for West Point 35 wars
aso by an Oklahoma politician
known as “Eat-a-Mule” Callahan.
Callahan was a Populist and was
elected on a Po lulist-Democratic
ticket as a territorial delegate to
congress. The big issue was free
land for settlers and Callahan ran
for office promising that If he didn't
get frr-* land he would "eat a mule.”
80 when Callahan didn’t get a free
land bill through and came to the
political convention expecting to be
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he took lo drinking ooh« own accord
■Mill HERB TODAY
D5AB DCNR secretary «• DON-
ALD MONTAGUE lawyer. Olan
Aer aaawar whaa BOBBY WAL-
LACE aiteairkll* Mlwaaa aaka
Aar ta marry Aha.
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la tataa Saady latraAaaaa Tabby
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LEWIS. Babby aalla aaaia AaaAa
far Lewis. aka hay* a aar.
LARBY GLENN feSeral acrat.
la traltlaa WIKGY LEWIS bask
robber. B* laaraa aboat tke beaS
traasaatlaa and caeaflaaa l*kby
TAa baa da wara atalaa. Larry Ae-
llarae tAa aar Lawta AaacAt ta
aratarad. flabby aadartakaa a
•ad aat.
Jaaa caaa kaat far a aaaatlaa.
Sandy reiaei ta aaa Aar aad aba
asrraaa ta a aaa rat tacaftatat.
Tba baak at whlab bar father ta
yraaldaal la robbed. Larry atarta
a aaarab far tba robbara.
Jaaa'a employer talla Aar Saady
Aaa baaa lajarad la a Uttla tawa
anna d lata ore away. Ha Aaa
payers ta aaad ta Saady aad Jaaa
drparta with tAaaa. Era Lawta
takaa bar ta tba farwbewoe
where Saady aad tba Lewtaen ara
ataylaa.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STOBY
CHAPTER XXXI
SLOWLY step by laborious step.
the federal men followed a
dim trail across the middle west.
Larry Glenn and his two aides
Tony LaRocco and A1 Peters went
up the national pike from the Til-
lage of Maplehnrst tike blood-
hounds on a trail asking ques-
tions and displaying little rogues’
gallery pictures eTerywhere—in
restaurants. HI ling stations drag-
stores hotels garages barbecue
stands anywhere that the fleeing
robbers might hare stopped.
And at last by slow stages
their trail led them toward Chi-
cago. It was not a clear trail:
but as Larry pointed out the
fugitives bad a wounded man
with them and their first thought
would be to get him to a doctor.
Obviously—since as the federal
men had satisfied themselves they
had not taken him to any doctor
along the way—they were head-
ing for some doctor whom they
knew well some renegade physi-
cian who lived on the fringe ofi
the underworld and eonld be
trusted not to give them away.
It was logical to guess that they
expected to find such a man In
Chicago.
So. since the trail pointed
toward Chicago anyway the three
man-hunters gave up their comb-
ing of intervening cities and
towns and beaded straight for the
metropolis.
Arriving there they went at
once to the Chicago offices of the
Department of Justice where
Matthews the agent in charge of
the department's Chicago division
had had his men out for two days
trying to find out if any stool
pigeon or tipster had heard any-
thing of the Jackson gang’s here-
abouts.
• • •
TITATTHEW8 bad two pieces of
Information for Larry.
The Drat not of immediate im-
portance. came from Washington.
The fingerprint* Larry’s men had
got from the window of the
Maplehurst bank — fingerprints
left there by the wounded gang-
ster. who bad steadied himself
momentarily by pressing his band
against the glass—had been iden-
tified in the department’s files.
They were those of Sandy Har-
kins who was now by that identi-
fication. definitely branded as a
member of the Jackson gang.
The second bit of information
was this:
Matthews' men had not found
any trace of the Jackson gang in
Chicago. Bat on* of the agent*
who had formerly served a* a nar-
cotic aqnad officer wkh the Treas-
ury Department had contacted a
weak. sniveling little cocaine ad-
dict a hanger-on on the fringe*
of Chicago’* gangland; and tht*
man had told him something that
might Jnst possibly be impor-
tant.
There was in Chicago a doctor
named Jeckers; a twisted and cor-
rupted man who had been barred
from practice and sent to prison
some years before tor selling
morphine to € dope peddler. On
hi* release from prison Jeckers
had specialised In anderworld
practice. He woo Id treat a gun-
shot wonnd for a gangster and
see that news of it did not reach
the police; or h* won Id perform
a face-lifting operation for a
criminal who did not ears to be
recognised; or in short he wonld
do any of the innumerable little
Jobs that the underworld could
not safely get done at the hands
of reputable physicians.
The little eocalne addict knew
Jeckers—who as It happened
was an addict himself: and he
had learned that Jeckers a night
or two previous had been called
to a North Side apartment to treat
a gunshot wound.
That was all there was to the
information; but Gunderson the
agent who had obtained it
thought it a promising lead and
Larry readily agreed with him.
He asked Gunderson where Jeck-
ers could be reached.
*T figured you’d want to know
so I got it out of this cokey while
I was talking with him.” Gunder-
son said. “Jeckers has a little
apartment up on North Dearborn
a dozen blocks beyond the river;
has his office in his apartment
and seldom goes out. The num-
ber’s 3527—suite two on the sec-
ond floor. Too ring the bell and
you don’t get in unless you say
‘This Is Markus’ up the speaking
tabe.”
A ND so at 10 o’clock on a bright
summer morning five United
States government officers—Larry
| Glenn with his two assistants
! from Dover and Matthews and
Gunderson of the Chicago office—
drove out North Dearborn street
to pay a call on Doctor Jeckers.
Larry had with him a hastily ob-
tained warrant charging the doc-
tor with barboring a fugitive.
They drove past the S500 block
turned to the right and parked
on a side street Just off North
Dearborn.
“Just In ease” said Larry
“someone ought to watch the
rear. Tony suppose yon slip np
that alley—see H's the third
house. 11 he tries to come out
the back way collar him. Ton
won’t know him when yoa see
him of course but collar anybody
that tries to slip out. Maybe Al’d
better go with yoa. The three of
us ought to be enough for the
front way.”
Peters and LaRocco strolled ap
the alley to stop nonchalantly at
a gate in a dilapidated wooden
fence. The other three walked
around the corner to North Dear-
born and went down the sidewalk
to the house.
The three agents went ap the
steps pulled open a massive timo-
stalned door and entered a small
lobby with the usual letter boxes
and call-buttons on one marble
walL Larry bent to inspect the
names on the boxes. The one
numbered lor suite two—where
Gunderson said Doctor Jeekers
lived—bore no came.
Larry protruded hie lover Up
as he peered at It; then briskly
be Jabbed the button to the num-
ber two suite.
There was a moment of silence.
Then from the speaking tube
came a gruff voice. “Who’s *t?”
“This is Markus** said Larry.
Another silence; then a grunt
from the speaking tube end the
lock to the inner door elleked.
Matthews had been waiting and
at the first click he Jerked it open.
The three men strode down a
short hall went up a flight of
stairs and came to a door with
a brass number “S'* on Its upper
panel. They waited and the door
opened—Just a eraek—and a yel-
lowish eye gleamed out at them.
• • •
GUNDERSON had one massive
foot again s' the wood and
the effort to slam the door was
unsuccessful. Gunderson bent and
pushed and the door flew inward
with violence. Larry and Mat-
thews dashed in. la time to see
a spare gray-haired man in a
rusty brown dressing gown go
spinning across the little foyer
impelled by the force with which
Gunderson had thrust at the door.
The man collided with the wall
with a thdd and stood leaning
against it. looking sideways at
them one arm raised to ward off
a blow one band in a side pocket
of his dressing gown. He nad a
dull pasty color to his skin and
his eyes bad an anpieasant yellow-
ish tinge in the whites: his face
was deeply lined from the nostrils
to the corners of the mouth and
there was a mixture of fear and
defiance in bis look.
“Watch him!” snapped Mat-
thews: and at the same moment
Gunderson’s band shot out seised
the man by the forearm and gave
him a Jerk that spun him across
to the other side of the foyer. A
small automatic flew out of the
hand which had been in the dress-
ing gown pocket Larry pounced
on It while Gunderson pounced
on the man like a terrier seising
a rut slammed htm heavily
against the wall and pinned him
there with his huge hands.
A lock of gray hair lank and
greasy fell down over the man’s
forehead. He glared at bis cap-
I tors panting.
“What is this?" he asked. “A
stick-up—or a pinch?"
"A pinch." said Matthews dryly
flipping back a lapel to show his
hedge The man looked at it and
gave what might have been a sigh
of relief; and Larry suddenly real-
ised that this renegade doctor prob-
ably lived in greeter terror of some
of the underworld folk wbe made
up his clientele than of the law
which he so consistently defied.
He held out the warrant where
the man could read it.
“This is a federal pinch." be said.
"Want to talk to us here or down
town?"
Doc Jeekers read the warrant
then looked op with a contemptu-
ous curl on his lipa
-Talk!" he said scornfully. "It’ll
take more’n a piece of paper like
that to net me talking."
"Have it your way." said Mat-
thews calmly. "But. brother you'll
be talking and talking plenty be-
fore you see the last of ua"
Doe Jeekers gare him a sow
look. “Says you." he Jeered.
(To Be Continued)
renominated some of the boys killed
and barbecued a mule and served It
up to him.
Then they laughed Callahan out
of the renomlnation and named
Dennis Flynn who later got free
land for them. Meanwhile young
Mr. .'ohnson was safe at West Point.
• • •
Grand Scramble On
Opening of the diplomatic social
season indicated a big year for the
gate crashers.
“My God! Where did some of these
people come from?" exclaimed Coun-
selor-of-Legatlon Joseph Nemecek
as about a hundred uninvited guests
flocked In with several hundred oth-
ers at the Czechoslovakian Independ-
ence celebration.
Nearly as many others or perhaps
including many of the same raided
the Turkish embassy for free food
and drink at a big party celebrating
the anniversary of the Turkish re-
public. Not forgetting a fat lady
who waded through and pointed to a
big roast turkey bellowing:
“I want some of that beef!*
Barbs
I
San Francisco organization
launches campaign to popularise
fingerprints. The wall paper of to-
day may be the album of tomorrow.
• • •
Those Montana earth tremors sug-
gest that Stepin Fetchit could find
an ideal Job in a Helena tavern
mixing cocktails.
• • •
Right now in public interest the
Shapespeare talkie is giving way to
another of his plays; around right or
left end for Notre Dame.
• • •
Prince of Wales now collecting
planes instead of ponies. It will
require a bit of patience to sub-
stitute the three-point for the
shoulder-blade landing.
• • •
We wont believe New York is
getting anywhere with its anti-noise
campaign until someone oomplalns
of the nerve-shattering racket from
Orant’s Tomb.
• • •
Now that Ethiopians are letting
their gcwns grow dirty for camou-
flage purposes the war evidently
is one of black shirts versus black
nightshirts.
Correctly Speaking
The common interjection is spelled
"oh."
Word* of Wisdom
He who knows how to dissimulate
knows how to reign.—Vlcentius Lu-
panua
Dinner Stories
WRONG THAT TIME
A steward stood at the gangway of
a big liner and as he stood there he
kept shouting for the benefit of the
arriving passengers:
"First class to the right! Second
class to the left!**
A young woman stepped daintily
aboard with a baby in her arms. As
she hesitated before the steward he
bent over her and said in his chiv-
alrous way:
‘First or second?"
"Oh!" said the girl her face as
red as a rose. "Oh dear neither—
I'm only the nurse."
Factographs
“Love birds" is a popular name
given to many diminutive parrots
of various genera and even of dif-
ferent families. They receive their
name on account of the affection
which they display toward each
other both in a wild state and when
confined in cages.
• • •
The watt was adopted by act of
congress July 12. 1894. to define the
legal units of electrical measure in
the United States following recom-
mendations of the Chicago Inter-
national Electrical congress in 1893.
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You're Telling Me?
By WILLIAM R1TT
Little Sister and Baby Brother
will be out of luck this Christmas.
Santa Claus may have to pass them
up—he's so busy turning out toys
for Mama and Dad.
• • •
Up to Just recently Mamas only
toys were 52 pieces of pasteboard
printed in two colors red and black.
Dad’s lone toy was a pair of squares.
freckled on all sides.
• • •
But the gambling instinct has so
seized this nation of sweepstake
ticket buyers that this year toy man-
ufacturers have been forced to work
overtime turning out games and
gadgets which offer new' methods of
taking a chance.
... |
Finance games are flooding the
toy market. Papa who lost his
shirt in 1929. can now show his
friends how he did it—in miniature.
• • •
There are scads of race games
played with tiny horses hounds
autos yachts airplanes and the like.
You can play them all evening and
all you can lose is car fare and the
crease in your trousers.
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Q. Is then any salt non tent tn
the water at the Potomac at Wash-
ington? N. D.
A. The tidal reach of the Potomac
River extends to Chain Bridge at
Washington a distance of 117 milea.
Salt water extends to Maryland
Point 61 miles above the mouth.
The extreme point at which brack-
ishness has been observed Is Jm*ar
Indian Head Maryland abdhtr24
miles below Washington.
• • •
Q. Can tempered glass be bought?
O. H. T.
A. Tempered glass can be sup-
plied only on special order aa after
it is made It cannot be cut to slat.
• •
Q. Is It true that no one speciee
at flower wll produce bloeeoms that
are true Woe yellow and red? W.
D. T.
A. The Bureau of Plant Industry
ssys that the only common flower
producing true red yellow and blue
In the same species Is the hyacinth.
• • •
Q. How did the damson get Hu
name? A. R.
A. It is named for Damacus in
Syria where the plum was culti-
vated in ancient times.
• • •
Q In what play did Wiliam Crane
make his first appearance? E. H.
A. He first appeared in opera In
1863 but his first signal success was
as Vanalstvne. a Wall Street mag-
nate in The Henrietta written for
him and fer Stuart Robson by Bron-
son Howard in 1887.
• • •
Q. Why la Saint Theresa depicted
with roees in her arms? A. R.
A. The roses recall her mystical
saying that she would let fall a
shower of roses from heaven.
• • •
Q. Who is railed the Father of
the Symphony? A. F.
A. Franx Josef Haydn is some-
times so called.
• • •
Q When was the first ballet pre-
sented? G. T.
A. The ballet first appeared on a
large scale at the Tbrtona. Italy
in 1480.
• • •
Q- When was the Appian Way
built? J. E F.
A. It was built in 312 B. O. The
original road was no doubt only
gravelled but some years later the
whole was paved with sllex. Th#
modem hiah road follows the line
of the ancient road.
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Q. What is the enlisted strength
of the I’nited States Navy? CLL
A. as of September 11 1935. there
were 9672 officers and 94.277 en-
listed men.
• • •
Q- How many living college grad-
uates are there tn the United
States? A. N.
A. There are about 2.000.000.
• • •
Q. Who was Malley of the Sub
in Irvin Cobb’s Judge Priest stories?
t Ho
A. Frank Ward O'Malley who
died in 1932. was the original of
Malley of the Sun.
• • •
Q. How many feet of motion pie-
tore* did the last Byrd Expedition
make? W. M.
A. During its stay in the Anturctio
the Byrd Expedition obtained 100-
003 feet of film.
• • •
Q Why Is glass often out wider
water? J.V.R.
A. The vibration is less than tn
the air. and the glass is therefor*
less likely to crack.
• • •
Q. Has the daisy anv significance
in art? J.H.
A. The daisy was the flower of
innocence in religious painting.
• • •
Q Is whoopee a comparatively new
slang word? G. L.
A. Whoopee was used as long as 300
years ago by Britons as an exclama-
tion.
Q How many people over 100 year*
old are living in the United States?
W. S.
A. The Federal Census Bureau
records 4110 persona who are 100 or
mere years old.
Q. What are some of the advan-
tages of a junior college? M. B.
A. The advantages claimed for It
are: It does away with overlapping
in high school and college courses;
it enables the college to concentrate
on more advanced courses; it gives
adequate training to those who can-
not have or who do not wish to have
a full college course.
• • a
Q. Where was trench warfare
first used In the Civil War? M. C.
A. The first Intricate system of
trenches constructed on a battle-
field were at the Bloody Angle on the
Spotsylvania Court House Battle-
field. The fighting raged around
these trenches on May 10 and 12.
1864.
• • •
Q Who aaid “Age comes la a
night and is Incredible?” EL J.
A. The saying It attributed to Am-
brose Bierce.
• • •
Q How many people took automo-
bile vacation trips hi tho Mud
States this year? V. S.
A. The American Automobile As-
sociation estimate* that about 37-
000.000 people took automobile tripe.
Q. When was the name rayon
adopted? M. T.
A. The name was adopted in 1W4
in preference to artificial silk by
the United State* Department oI
Commerce and various commercial
associations as denoting a new au-
thentic textile material.
Q. For whom le the Bronx tn New
York Ctty named? B. G.
A. It is named for the first aettler
of the region. Jonas Bronck. whose
property passed to the Morris fam-
ily and was the birthplace of Qou-
verneur Morris.
• • •
Q. Who succeeded General High
Johnson m Works Program Ad-
ministrator for New York Ctty? T. a
*A. His successor la Victor F. Bid-
der publisher.
• • •
Q. What Is the largest municipal
park tn the United States? J. H.
A. Fsirmount Park in Philadel-
phia which covers 3597 acres.
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