The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 211, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 8, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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Paris.—Search has been renewed
for a Russian couple suited to the
strange experiment by which an el-
derly American philosopher hopes to
prove that man’s natural position, like
that of the four-footed beasts, is re-
clining.
Park Hammer of St. Louis, sixty-
seven-year-old retired paint manufac-
turer and experimental philosopher,
was revealed as the author of a series
pf unusual advertisements appearing
in the newspaper La Renaissance.
.When Hammer’s latest advertisement
appeared he disclosed that he had not
found a couple suitable for the test,
although there were many who were
Willing to try it.
Hammer said he wanted a couple
who would go to the United States
Father S tfjefjyj
When a man’s
wife is away from
home he feels free
to act as he did
when a bachelor,
but he seldom does so, you’ll notice.
for one year to live in bathing suits,
eat vegetables and fruit and obey his
instructions concerning sleeping. The
couple would be required to sleep in
short periods stretched out on a log
and to spend their waking hours
swimming.
In explaining his belief that his pro-
posed experiments would aid in re-
gaining the horizontal position he
thinks natural to man, Hammer said
that death is unnatural and that
longevity is possible if a perfect bal-
ance of the body’s action and inac-
tion, recomposition and decomposition
is attained.
He said that such a balance could
be attained through a raw herbal diet,
fresh air and sleeping on a log.
“I believe sleep is unnecessary if
the body functions properly and fre-
quent rest Intervals follow mental or
body exercises,” Hammer said. “I am
going through with this experiment
myself when I find a suitable Russian
couple.
“So far I have examined 100 candi-
dates but have not found exactly what
I desired.”
The St. Louisan said he hoped the
new advertisement in the newspaper
would be successful and that he would
Ambassador and Historic Engine
prairie fire. One of its peculiar as-
pects is that, unlike most crazes,
which spread from the big cities to
the country, this game started in the
small towns and extended to the big
ones.
* * *
Midget golf goes under many names.
In some parts of the country it Is
called Putt-putt; in others Pee-wee;
in still others Tom Thumb. There is
a course just outside New York
which bears the name of the Demi-
Tasse Country club. But the game is
the same at all of them. I am told
that there is a man who holds a pat-
ent on some essential part of the out-
fit and that he is collecting plenty in
royalties. Whether this is so, I do
not know.
* * *
The value of the game is, of course,
the turnover. By that I mean that
the players pass around in an endless
chain, and when they get to the end,
either have to get out or buy another
ticket, as they might on a scenic rail-
way. Moreover, the player behind
always is trying to hurry the player
ahead, so there is little delay. It Is
a game that a man can step right In
off the sidewalk and play, without
changing any of his clothes or mak-
ing any special preparation. It also
is a game that a boy can play with
his girl, and at which she has an
equal chance.
* * *
Horace M. Albright, director of
national parks, believes that sooner or
later landing fields will have to be
provided for those who visit the parks
by plane. Thousands of visitors now
rfuse the automobile, but It will only be
a few years before families will put
the tent in the airplane and start on
a vacation.
• • *
This didn’t happen in any village,
but in the main post office of a large
eastern city of the United States. A
man took to the stamp window a pack-
age he wished to mail to a town in
New Mexico.
“Yovw’ll have to take this to another
window,” said the clerk. ‘‘We don’t
figure foreign postage here.”
* * *
It was one of those pathetic cases.
Life never had given her a break.
She never had anything; but she
found something down in Wall Street.
He was a chap with a big heart, who
had sold short and put it away in
bonds. So pretty soon the girl had
the closet filled with fur coats and a
the world he must subdue himself—
his body,- his mind, his emotions.”
I had watched a baseball game that
afternoon. There was a long drive by
the batter out to right field beyond the
reach of the outfielder, it seemed at
first, but he started for it.
‘‘He won’t get it,” we all said in
chorus, but we were mistaken. He
had the trained eye, and the swift
feet, and just as we thought that he
had no chance, he reached out with
one hand and snatched the ball from
the air. He had learned perfect con-
trol of his body.
It was only a little later that the
umpire made a decision which the on-
lookers questioned. The official had
called the runner out, when it seemed
quite evident that he was safe. The
coach, a husky middle-aged man,
jumped to his feet, excited, abusive,
shouting words which may not be
printed. But the umpire was prob-
ably right, for he was in a better po-
sition to see than were the rest of us,
and besides it was his business to
make the decision. The coach was a
man who had not learned to whip
George Carter—his emotions were still
unsubdued.
Griswold is young and talented, but
the habit of drink has got possession
of him. He does not always drink to
excess, but every so often he comes
home drunk. He knows It is a bad
habit, and in his saner moments he
knows that for him some day It will
spell ruin.
“It Is too much for me,” he admits,
“I can’t manage myself. I suppose I
shall always drink.”
Wilson can’t get down to work. He
has a good mind, but it is stubborn,
lazy, given over to moods, and he has
never got It under control. He strug-
gles with It at times, but it has never
really been whipped.
It is a great fight, this, which we
have daily with our minds, our bodies
and our passionate emotions. Few of
us have ourselves properly whipped.
(©. 1930. Western Newspaper Union.)
simple 2-carat ring on every finger,
The ones on the thumbs and the ear-
rings were larger, and, if she had been
a centipede she still would have had
two slippers for every foot. The man
was forced by circumstances to go to
a fashionable resort. Soon he tele-
graphed the girl to join him at an-
other hotel. She failed to arrive, so
he wrote asking for an explanation.
She replied that she was eager to be
with him, but that she had no suit-
able clothes for such a»place.
“Get all the clothes you need. Have
opened account in your name,” he
wired, naming a smart Fifth avenue
store. “Use it.”
The girl followed instructions. She
selected and charged a trousseau and
eloped with another man.
“Absence makes the heart grow
fonder—for somebody else.”
* * *
There is a tall, straight, old man
who usually is to be found walking
on Eighth avenue. In one hand he
carries a cane which he frequently
flourishes as If it were a sword. Over
the other arm Invariably is draped a
carefully folded United States flag. I
don’t know who he is or why he does
this.
(©. 1930, Bell Syndicate.)
HELD PERFECT INDIAN
Yellow Head of the Glacier national
park reservation, who has been »e-
Iected by artists as one of the perfect
physical types of the American Indian
be able to sail for the United States
in the fall to start his experiments
near St. Louis. Later, he said he
planned to remove to a beach either
in California or in Florida.
“I Take Care of My Baby”
“WHY LET A NURSE HAVE ALL THE FUN?”
Ambassaavr Dawes is here seen at the throttle of the historic locomotive
“Northumbrian” which was one of the interesting exhibits at the railway
centenary exposition in Liverpool, England. This engine originally drew the
state coach of the duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
We had the jig-saw puzzle, mah-jongg,
the cross-word craze, which swept the
country like a tidal wave; but it is
doubtful whether any of them ever
exerted as much effect on the country
at large as this midget golf game has
done. It has swept the hills • like a
winter wind and the plains like a
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CONQUERING
YOURSELF
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
Carter was telling a group of young
people something of the story of his
life. He was what
the world would
call a very suc-
cessful man. He
was prominent as
a banker; he was
at the head of
many organiza-
tions and boards
of Influence; and
In spite of the
fact that he was
looked upon as a
political power,
his integrity and
his character had
never been questioned. I had singled
him out when he came into the room,
for he was a person of distinguished
appearance—tall, straight, square-
shouldered, and perfectly poised.
“My father taught me many les-
sons,” he said, when he began'talking,
“and one of these which left a lasting
impression on me was a sentence
which he wrote in my copy book and
which I was to produce in an effort
equal my father’s careful penmanship.
‘Whip George Carter,’ it said. I am
not sure that I fully understood its
meaning at the time, but I understand
better now. It is ihe problem of self-
control. If one is to get anywhere in
Tucson, Ariz.—There resides in this
border town a rancher who has a
good idea of how Napoleon felt when
he was banished to St. Helena to pon-
der the vicissitudes of war.
He IS the former General Fran-
cisco Robles Manzo, 260-pound ex-un-
dersecretary of war of Mexico,. com-
mander of Sonora and the conqueror
of the Yaquis. Today he is a political
refugee from his native country.
In the 192& Escobar rebellion Gen-
eral Manzo served as a commander of
all rebel forces in northwestern Mex-
ico. With the defeat of his army by
the federals he was driven across the
international boundary, leaving be-
YALE ASPIRANT
hind him a fortune accumulated after
years of labor in his home at Ortiz,
Sonora, Mexico.
Despite his comparatively low estate
here, the once noted military leader
may look across the boundary of his
mother country to a number of eco-
nomic achievements which still stand
as monuments in Ortiz to his enter-
prise.
In making his escape he left be-
hind 5,600 head of cattle,, a $25,000
light and power system, a modern
water works which he founded, ex-
tensive ranching interests, some 200
miles of improved highways in and
adjacent to Ortiz, and modern bar-
racks housing some 2,000 soldiers
whom he commanded.
“Whatever glory that was once mine
was wiped ovst in a moment,” he said,
smiling sadly. “But I still have my
wife and four children and I am a
good rancher—so perhaps I should
not be despondent. There still may be
brighter days ahead.”
And the once . highly honored fed-
eral office**, clad now in dungarees,
goes about his work as any other Mex-
ican laborer. And occasionally from
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The Copper Capital
Butte, Mont., is the copper
capital of the world. Some hun-
dred and fifty mines operate in
the vicinity of that city and at
Washoe, twenty-six miles away,
is located the world’s greatest
reduction works. Approximate-
ly one-fourth of the American
production and one-seventh of
the world’s production comes
from this vicinity.
(©. 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
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Here’s a chic costume for fall wear.
A frock of bright blue covert doth is
trimmed with rickrack in white pique.
An agnes tam of blue is bound with
a band and bow of white grosgrain
ribbon.
his lips sound Mexican national an-
thems he loves so well.
Incidentally, one of General Manzo’s
favorite historic characters is Na-
poleon.
SPECIAL FOR FALL
Sandy Wiener, former tennis protege
of Big Bill Tilden, devotes his talents
to the gridiron and endeavors to win
iA place on the Yale 1930 football team.
Lights of New York
By
WALTER
TRUMBULL
Exiled Mexican Leader Still Hopes
• •
Has New Theory of Longevity
WOMAN OBJECTS
TO SON-IN-LAW
/■ and KILLS HIM
Bride of a Day Sees Elope*
ment End in Tragedy in
Philadelphia Home.
Philadelphia.—Mrs. Elizabeth At-
filio, forty, shot and killed her newly
acquired son-in-law, James Cassidy,
forty-eight, when he called at her
home, to tell of his elopement with
her eighteen-year-old daughter, Rose.
The bride of one day, clad in black,
heard the shot in the dining room of
her mother’s home and saw her mor-
tally wounded husband run out, cross
j the street and stagger along the side-
: walk for a block before he fell in
front of a railroad boarding house.
Cassidy, employed on a Pennsyl-
vania railroad construction gang, was
known to those in the house, who
called the police. The girl collapsed
as an automobile was summoned to
take her husband to the West Phil-
adelphia Homeopathic hospital. She
was placed in the same automobile
with him and recovered sufficiently to
remain by his side until he died.
Bullet Pierces Heart.
Death was caused by a single .38
caliber bullet that pierced the heart.
With only a few minutes to live and
with his young bride weeping by his
side, Cassidy dictated an ante mortem
statement accusing her mother. He
smiled into the face of his bride as
he completed his statement.
“I am James Cassidy,” said the dy-
ing man. “I think I am going to die,
and I make the following statement:
“I went to the Attilio home at 10:30
a. m. to ask for my clothes. I met
She Started to Shoot.
Mrs. Attilio in the dining room. She
drew a .3S caliber revolver and start-
ed to shoot, then hit me over the head
with it and ran out the door.
“The trouble started when I ran
away with her daughter, Rose, and
got married.”
Feared Mother's Anger.
Police said the mother learned that
Cassidy and her daughter had gone
to Media and married. The couple
returned, but instead of going to the
mother’s house, took a room on Elev-
enth street, near Norris, and waited
until the next morning before calling
on the mother. The daughter, police-
said, had feared her mother’s anger,
Mrs. Attilio, a short, stocky woman,
weighing 250 pounds, wore tortoise-
shell glasses and a plain pink print
dress as she entered the dining room
and greeted Cassidy. Police believe
he did not see the pistol at first. He
explained he.bad arranged to give up-
the room he had occupied at the At-
tilio home for 15 months. From their
questions police learned Mrs. Attilio
then demanded to know the where-
abouts of her daughter.
“Oh, she’s all right,” Cassidy an-
swered. “She and I were married
yesterday. It’s all right now.”
“It’s not all right with me,” the
mother is said to have retorted. “You
have made me unhappy. You are toe
old for Rose.”
Other words were spoken and the
mother’s anger, the police said, be-
came uncontrollable.
“You shan’t take Rose,” she cried,
and the shot followed.
Dog Leaps Into Sea in
Attempt to Save Sailor
Saint Malo.—Fishermen are attempt-
ing to get some sort of official recog-
nition for “Turk,” a massive New-
foundland dog.
During the last voyage of the Gris
Nez a seaman was washed overboard.
No one saw him go except Turk, who
leaped over the side and caught the
sailor’s clothes in his mouth.
Some one saw the dog leap over
and sent up a cry. A boat was put
out and rescued Turk as he was about
to sink. He had a bit of cloth in his
mouth, but the sailor had disappeared.
Wife and Auto Gone; He
Offers Reward for Car
Munford, Tenn.—In announcing a
reward of $50 for recovery of his wife
and auto, 0. B. Bemery, Munford,
said: “I’d like to get the car back.
It’s a good one. I think if anyone
finds the car they also will find my
wife. I don’t know—maybe it was the
heat, but I think she didn’t like the
farm.”
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