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PAGE FOUR THE SALEMITE Saturday, January 12, 1929. News of the World The gigantic bridge which will span the Hudson River from Fort Washington in New York City to Fort Lee in New Jersey, covering a distance of fourteen city blocks, will be completed in 1932, accord ing' to the engineers, who for year, have been at work on the gi ant structure. It is estimated that 40,000,000 automobiles and 1,500,- 000 pedestrians will cross it in one year. The cost of construction will not cxcced $60,000,000. Four elec tric railway tracks, fourteen traffic lanes and two sidewalks will take care of the traffic. “The Nation” lauds Alfred E, Smith for making the ‘presidential campaign lively, interesting, and educational.” England is being forced to solve her coal mining problem. Large, and numerous mines, are closed in definitely, due to liquidation, and it is estimated that one fourth mil- lirn miners are thrown out of ployment. The government has ap propriated 150,000 pounds to help the sufferers, and this money will provide the needy families only a few days’ maintenance. tionary organization demanding Macedonian independence, still sassinates generals and horrifies the people by destroying bridges, rail roads, etc., in order to force rulers of Greece, Jugoslavia Bulgaria borderland to consent to Macedonian autonomy. NEWS NOTES ON PROHIBITION At the University of Michigan President Little invited the Prohi bition authorities to find out the ex tent of drinking on the campus. Much and heated discussion was indulged in by various citizens of Virginia on the subject of student drinking at the State university. To the governor of Virginia the state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League addressed a letter deploring the quantity of liquor consumed on the campus and asking the Univers ity to permit Federal prohibition agents “as uninterrupted access to the university grounds, fraternity houses, and student body as bootleg gers are reputed to have.” “Well-dressed, with a pleasing manner and the air of a bona-fide college student,,” a revenue officer appeared at a University of North Carolina fraternity house at the time of an intercollegiate football game, took down the names of all the fraternity bootleggers and ually appropriated all the wet g in sight. He left the fraternity house by request, indignantly refus ing to see why anyone should cher ish any ill feeling, “since any hon est citizen should be proud to help uphold the laws of the land.” All formal events for the bal ance of the school year have been forcibly canceled by the authorities at Colorado College because of drinking parties at a recent home coming celebration. Commented The Tiger-. “The question of drinking at col lege functions was brought before the eyes of the school rather forci bly at the recent homecoming cele bration. The atmosphere was redo lent with fumes of corn whiskey and synthetic gin. From the above items it appears that many college students are do ing their best to live up to the stan dards set them by F. Scott Fitzger ald, Percy Marks and others. The advice given by student papers in instances like those described above has been uniformly one of expedi ence: Drink, if you must, but don’t make public exhibitions of your selves and thereby involve your versity in profitless controversy. JOKES Tux—Rubens was such a wonder ful painter that they say he could change a laughing face into a sad one by a single stroke. Lux—That’s nothing. When I went to school my teacher could do the same thing. Willie—See that man over there? He’s my grandfather. Henry—Is he on your mother’s side or your father’s side.^ Willie—Oh, he sticks up for both of them. What Could Be Sweeter? Neighbor—I am very sorry, old man, that my chickens invaded your garden. His Neighbor—That’s nothing; my dog ate your chickens. Neighbor—That’s great; I just ran over your dog with my cai Don’t cry, little freshman, be cause the Christmas vacation has to end so soon . Think of the poor fishes; they must stay in a school all year around. —Exchange. Oline: “Why can’t lightning strike the front end of a street car?” Oiled: “Because the motorman’s a non-conductor.” —Exchange. “From whence them motley freck les ?” “From eating rusty raisins.” If you think you’ve got me worried. If you think you’ve got me to care If you think I’ll ask the question, That will make me and you a pair; If you think I can’t live without you If you think you’re all my life, I stand right here to inform you, If that’s what you think— You’re right! Nowadays a girl is never “fat. She’s just “overemphasized.” Frosh to Roommate: Say, If I’l .studying when you come back, wake A kiss—a sigh—a sad goodbye! A glance—a curl—another girl. So life goes on. The eternal triangle is usually caused by somebody not being the square. Prof.: “I told you yesterday I’d give you one day to hand in that theme.” Frosh: “Yeah, but I thought I could pick any day.” “Did you hear the sad story of the apples?” “No, what happened?” “They all got shipped.” No matter where you live in Scot land you always have close neigh- What is the largest room in the world?—The room for improvement. And then there was the Scotch man who told his family that Christ mas was on December twenty-eighth, so he could take advantage of the after-Christmas sales. “How did Jack get that sore ‘A girl cracked a smile.” “Well?” “It was his smile.” The Ohio Way. We can hatch your eggs quicker lan you can do it yourself. Mabel: Could you suggest any thing suitable for a girl friend’s birthday ? Clerk: How about these book- Mabel: Just the thing! She al ways reads the ends before she does the begirmings. Simple Solution. “How would you avoid “Jump out of the way.” Human Skeleton: “Why a 1 a diet?” Contortionist: “I have to having a hard time making both ends meet.” I BOOK REVIEW BLACK APRIL By Jvlia Peterkin It is a positive shame that a book so attractively written and so accu rate in character delineation, should have so base a theme. All the char acters are negroes of the real south ern type. They talk like negroes— which is rather unusual in modern books—and all their charming sup erstitions are carefully set down. Even the descriptive and expository paragraphs, although not written in dialect, retain all the quaintnesa of negro expressions. And yet the book deals not with the interesting and funny, the spiritual and the petty forgivable sins that we attribute to these people; but with the meaner, deeper sins which are common among the race but which seem better left to the leld of social science rather than to popular literature. Its chief character. Black April, is the worst type imaginable and yet the author has shown that in him there were possibilities of a charming darkey. The one good character is utterly bewildered by the wickedness that goes on about him. Unless you have much time to waste, don’t read this book. Three Good Reasons For Study of Greek There was once a rough and educated man who had made money and who entered his boy in a swell college preparatory school. The head master asked him if there was anything he was particularly desir ous his son should be taught, and the uncultured one replied: “Yes, there is. I want him to take Greek.” "May I ask,” inquired the head master, in considerable amazement, “why you are so insistent upon his pursuit of that particular subject.” “Well,” said the rude parent, “there are three reasons why I want him to learn Greek: First, because it’s hard; second, because he don’t want to; and, third, because iff good anyway. If he learns it after all that, he’ll show he’s got i stuff in him.” Moral: This fable has morals enough to fill a book.—Edward C. Durfee, in Scribner’s Magazine. Quest That Made Men Wanderers on Earth It was four o’clock of a Monday afternoon. The man, shabby, v, sad-eyed, sat down upon a park Compassionately, the kind-hearted i man watched him. “He is just the sort of a poor, hopeless wretch who might shoot himself in the park,” thought the kind old gentle- 'I shall watch him carefully,” his decision. The shabby man wiped his face refully. And then, alas. His hand went slowly to his right hip pocket. The sympathetic old man sprang up just in time. '"’m a wanderer over the face of the earth,” murmured the shabby man, brokenly. “A lonely, weary, wanderer.” ‘How is that?” asked the old Q, tears in his eyes. ‘Eleven years ago today,” contin ued the shabby man in a dreary monotone, “my wife sent me out with a piece of lace to match to finish making a present, and she told me not to come home without it. I am stiU trying to match it.” With a sympathetic look the old gentleman said nothing, but pulled seven samples of lace from his pocket. The Fourplex Bobby had lived in a duplex for .four years, and had heard duplexes thoroughly discussed. Just across the street from where Bobby lived a four-apartment build ing was under construction. One day Bobby was looking out of the window and said: “Mamma, that fourplex is almost ready for people to live in, isn’t it?” World Still Unknown That five-sevenths of the world mains unmapped, and this must be done before we shall have a true pic ture of the lands in which we live, was the recent declaration of Hamilton Rice, the South American explorer. The development of air transportation will greatly stimulate and simplify the task, he believes, after using a small hydroplane and radio sending and receiving apparat us to complete the mapping of 600,- 000 square miles of heretofore little- known territory in Brazil, Colombia and other countries. Doctor Rice advocates course* in exploration at college*. Volcanic Locations Volcanoes generally are to be found along coasts and on islands, many of them forming islands them selves, such as Stromboli, off the coast of Italy. No active volcanoes are found in the interior of conti nents, those in California and Alaska, although somewhat removed from the coast, being considered as part of the coastal chain of mountains. The Head in Question Edwin—If I do say it myself, I fancy I’ve a pretty good head on my shoulders. Angelina—It’s not really beauti ful, Edwin. It’s the way I do my HARRISON’S, inc. 215 W. 4th Street. “Styla Without Extravagance” ALL FALL AND WINTER MERCHANDISE HALF PRICE New Spring Dresses and Coats Coming in Daily CLOSING OUT Entire Stock Of Millinery and Footwear BEFORE REMODELING Arcade Fashion Shop 432 N. LIBERTY STREET W. MORGENROTH The Florist Who Gives Service Flowers For Ail Occasions SPECIAL LUNCHES For Salem Girls on Monday at the Blue Willow Tea Room A Sandwich to a Six-Course Dinner THE BEST IN TOWN Robert E. 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