Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1 ? Sit-down strikers in a New York S and 10 cent store are served dinner in the store's cafeteria. 2 ? Sen
ators Royal S. Copeland of New York, David I. Walsh of Massachusetts and Edward R. Burke of Nebraska,
who are active in opposition to President Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the Supreme court. 3 ? Dowager
Queen Marie of Roumania, whose recent serious illness caused grave concern.
Unique "Blanket" for Egg Queen
MICKEY CATCHES AGAIN
After many months~vbut of uni
form, Mickey Cochrane, Nrianager^
and catcher of the Detroit
pictured here as he donned nis war
paint for a workout with the Tigers
during their spring training trip in
Florida. Cochrane was forced out
in the later part of last season by
injury and illness. He is now in
the pink and rarin' vo go. The tigers
are regarded as pennant threats
again this year, although much of
their success admittedly depends
upon the ability of Hank Greenberg
to escape injuries and regain his
1935 slugging form.
Miss Muriel Wolfson is the girl adorning the bathtub in this picture,
her only "blanket" being several dozen eggs. She was recently
elected queen of the egg festival held recently at Laurel-in-the-Pines,
near Lakewood, N. J.
^ HEADS WISCONSIN U
Life d la 1937 ? Baby Born in Trailer
Clarence A. Dykstra, city man
ager of Cincinnati, who announced
his acceptance of the post of presi
dent of the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Dykstra will succeed Dr. Glenn
Frank, who was deposed recently
by the executive committee of the
university regents. Or. Frank lost
Ilia job at the Madison school by only
one vote of the committee.
That the auto-trailer has really become home sweet home in America
is indicated by the above photograph which shows one of the first babies
to be born in a trailer. Anna Abbey, the newcomer, who was born in a Sar
asota, Fla., trailer camp, is pictured here in her rolling home with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Abbey, of Buffalo, and her brother, Lyle.
Running Horse Used as "Prompter" for Trotter
A graphic picture illustrating the vast difference between the gait of a trotter and a running horse. The
trotter (left) is Southland, Hambletonian candidate, awned by C. W. Phellis of New York, and piloted by
his trainer, Fred Egan. The runner, at right, does not even boast a name and is shown -hfM being used as
? prompter for the trotting horse during a workout at Seminole park, near Lakeland, Fla. Note the smooth
rhythmic action of the trotter and the jumping, galloping motion of the runner.
Taxi Cab War Flareup Terrorizes Chicago
Sights like this were not uncommon in Chicago's downtown "loop" section as "wrecking crews" of strik
ing cab drivers attacked vehicles still being operated by loyal employees and strikebreakers. One passenger
was reported shot and many ducked flying glass from cab windows shattered by missiles thrown by the strikers.
He'd Walk Mile (Up) for Sonja
SIT-DOWN SKATE
Kay Francis, screen beauty, takes
a well-earned rest on a rolling plat
form during Ginger Rogers' roller
skate party held at the Rollerdrome
in Hollywood recently. Kay proved
one of the more adept at the art, but
found that this position, closer to the
ground, made for more safety.
-With their Detroit hotel crippled by strikers, Sonja Henie, famed ice
^TTter, and her actor boy friend, Tyrone Power, walked up seventeen
floors. Then because Papa and Mama Henie were hungry, Power walked
down and up again with food.
Jersey Orchid
Wins Gold Medal
at Flower Show
What fair lady's heart couldn't be
melted by the beauty of this cym
bidium orchid, owned by Ed A.
Manda, of West Orange, N. J.? It
won the gold medal at the twenty
Air Net to Catch Bombers
fourth annual flower show sponsored
by the Horticultural Society of New
York and the New York Florists
club at the Grand Central palace in
Manhattan.
In the next war London may be defended from enemy bombers by
great cable nets supported by balloons like that shown here. It is a
revival of a plan of 1917 and provides a menace to low-flying planes,
forcing them to fly higher, where searchlights, range finders and air
craft guns may be used against them more effectively.
They're Shooting Old Man Winter >
Framed against a background of sky and giant saguaro cacti, these coeds of the University of Arizona
?t Tueaon practice with-iheir bows and arrows? a sure sign of spring. Left to right: Lesta Lou Welsh, Ell?
Ida TarbaQ, Helen Dwyer, Elinor Bcckett and Shirley Snider.
Iwas This Way
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By LYLE SPENCER
? Western Nc??wper Union.
How Did "Bonus" Originate?
THE bonus checks paid out re
cently to our veterans of the
World war gladdened, the heart of
many an ex-soldier. While this
bonus was undoubtedly the biggest
given by any country in the history
of the world, it was by no means the
first.
The word "bonus" comes from
Latin and means good. It has al
ways been used in English in the
sense of gift. In Great Britain it
was first applied to dividends dis
tributed from the surplus of life in
surance companies. In America it
was used in the industrial and com
mercial world to designate a pay
ment above that expected, whether
an extra dividend to stockholders
or an extra pay check to wage
earners.
Later the term was applied to
sums of money given to men as an
inducement to join the army, and
only since the World war has it
been given to compensation for
army or naval service. The original
veterans' adjustment compensation,
grafted to all World war veterans
by congress in 1924, was a bonus
in the form of a paid-up endow
ment insurance policy.
While never called that before,
the practice of giving bonuses for
military service is an old one. Even
George Washington received a par
cel of land and a sum of money
from the state of Virginia for his
part in the French and Indian war.
And Abraham Lincoln was given
a piece of land in Iowa for his
services in the Blackhawk war.
Except for his home in Springfield,
Illinois, it was about the only real
estate he ever owned.
The First Envelope*
HUNDRED years ago, the busi
ness of peSTing letters was an
expensive and difficult job. In the
first place, there was no such thing
as an adhesive postage stamp. And
even worse, there was no such thing
as a modern envelope.
In those days, when travel was
slow and hazardous, relatively few
people ever had occasion to write
letters. The few who did, wrote
their messages on one side of the
note paper only, and carefully
wrapped it up so that none of the
writing showed. Then they either
paid the postman directly, or sent
it postage collect. The reason en
velopes were so seldom used was
because an extra charge was made
for any paper, no matter how small,
when wrapped up in another.
A few wrappers that might be
called envelopes had been used in
France early in the Seventeenth
century, and a few were sold in
England as early as 1830. But the
first American to manufacture en
velopes was named Pierson, who in
1839 began to sell them in his Ful
ton Street Stationer's shop in New
York City.
The United States mail service
has come a long way since those
early times. The Pony express,
which numbered Buffalo Bill among
its brave riders, was a thrilling if
brief interlude. The first time mail
was carried on a railroad train
marked the beginning of a new era
in communication. And the way
that our modernized Uncle Sam de
livers literally billions of pieces of
mail annually with efficiency and
speed is a tribute to our unexcelled
form of government.
Origin of Chinese Laundrymen
THE Chinese are admittedly the
best hand laundrymen in the
world. No American town would
be complete without its "Chink" and
his hole-in-the-wall laundry.
The Chinese first got into the
clothes-washing business through a
queer set of circumstances. Back
in the years around the California
gold rush of 1849, miners on the
west coast found they were unable
to hire people to do menial labor
for love or money. Everyone had
come to California to dig for gold
and nothing else. So desperate did
their straits become that many sent
their clothes all the way to Hawaii
and even to China to have them
washed. This was China's original
contact with the American laundry
business. #
When the first transcontinental
railway line was being built many
years later, whole shiploads of Chi
nese were imported because of their
cheapness and industry to work on
the road bed. After the line was
finished, many Chinese wanted to
remain and make their fortune in
the new land of opportunity.
But they quickly found that due
to temperamental and language
barriers, the doors of most busi
nesses were closed to them. They
had to find a business requiring
little capital or education, and
where they would be their own
masters and have few contacts with
Westerners.
The laundry business was one of
the few which met these require
ments. Many of the original
Chinese and their descendants have
become well-to-do in it
South American Rodent
The Caypbara is a South Ameri
can rodent four feet long weighing
nearly 100 pounds.