f ^20th Anniversary of Women SMfrage
Twentieth anniversary of women suffrage in the United States will be
celebrated with observances at the headquarters of the National League
of Women Voters in Chicago on August 26. Above, left, u Margaret M.
Wells,-president of the league, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who led the
suffrage movement 2# years ago.
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Lights of New York
by L. L. STEVENSON
Meandering! and meditations:
Pigeons feeding on rice in front of
Eglise de Notre Dame on Morning
side drive where there has just been
a wedding . . . Much confetti on
the sidewalk also but the birds dis
regard that . . . Workmen busy on
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
. . . The great stone mass growing
slowly but surely . . . Makes me
think of the first World war . .. .
When the twin spires had not yet
begun to rise ... A party of us
attended services there . . . and a
few days later boarded the Adriatic
to be convoyed to France . . . Big
apartment buildings mostly occu
pied by members of the faculty of
Columbia university . . . Always
see more girls and women wearing
glasses in this vicinity than any
where else in New York . . . Morn
ingside park looking green and
peaceful in the bright sunlight . . .
But it isn’t a good place to visit at
night
• • •
The One Hundred Tenth street el
evated station, the highest in the
city . . . where so many world
weary have leaped to their deaths
. . . Entrances boarded up now bo
cause elevated trains no longer run
. . . and the station will soon be
nothing more than a memory . . .
Wonder if those who dwell along
Columbus avenue miss the all night
din of trains . . . and what will
happen to that thoroughfare when
the old steel structure is removed
and it emerges into the light and
air ... A Boy Scout bugler en
gaged in earnest practice . . . and
not doing at all badly with "Assem
bly” ... A dozen or more somber
eyed girls wandering along and
chattering vivaciously in Spanish
. . . The only word I catch is
"comida” . . . Which I believe
means "picnic” . . . Maybe some
one down in the Southwest will set
me right.
• • •
The most amazing blaze of clothes
colors I’ve ever seen—a flock of
young colored boys on bicycles,
each arrayed in an eye-arresting
get up . . . Memorial hospital where
cancer patients used to be treated,
now silent and dusty . . . Wonder
what will become of that property
. . . Chickens used in the labora
tory used to be kept in coops on the
roof ... So we were often awak
ened by the crowing of roosters,
since our bedroom windows look
down on the old hospital . . . and
there were some mighty pretty
nurses . . . Now all have moved,
over to the East side ... A num/
bers game runner whose customer^
are elevator operators, doormen anu
porters in nearby apartment houses
... A flower peddler disputing with
a shoeshine boy over a location at
the One Hundred Third street sub
way entrance.
• • •
Visitors flocking into the American
Museum of Natural History . . .
Many undoubtedly headed for the
Hayden planetarium . . . Where
the various heavenly bodies revolve
overhead ... To the accompani
ment of a whirring noise . . ^Won
der if that could be called “the mu
sic of the spheres” ... Huge me
teors on display in the lobby . . .
Metallic masses that have dropped
from the skies . . . Again my
thoughts go to war . . . But the
airplane overhead is merely carry
ing mail and passengers ... A boy
and a girl, standing in front of the
bones of prehistoric monster, hold
ing hands and gazing into each oth
er’s eyes . . . Lovers probably
looked that same way before the
dawn of history.
• • •
A big, new apartment house look
ing down on Columbus circle . . .
That reminds me I haven’t as yet
signed a lease for a place to live
during the coming'year . . Hope
we decide against moving ... Or
if we do move, that 1’U be out of
town when the operation takes place
... A woman shaking her head as
she sees that big electric weather
sign . . . The announcement is
"Rain” and that plainly doesn't
please her . . . Youngsters engaged
in roller skating contests in the
shadow of the Maine memorial
• • •
Movie Conversation: "Can you
see all right, precious?” asked the
"Yes, dear,” replied the girL
“Is that lady’s hat in your way,
honey?”
“No, darling.” _ J
"Nothing to hinder your view?”
"Not a thing.”
“Would you mind changing seats
with me?”
(Bell Syndicate—WITO Service.)
The 41 Little Pigs
MERCEDES, TEXAS. — J. C.
Lear, farmer, thinks his sow has
given him a fair start in the hog
business. In her first three litters
she produced 41 pigs.
Tonsils Removed
On Wholesale Scale
NEW ORLEANS. * The Thrift
family her* believes in having
tonsils removed an masse. Four
children of Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Lorio, ranging in age from 7 to
18 years, had theirs removed at
20-minute intervals and three
others, IS to 18 years old, planned
to have theirs taken out two
weeks later.
Snbecribe fer the Journal
LASTING VALUE
The successful resistance of the American Federation >
of Labor .to the introduction of Communist purposes and
methods in the labor movement was an outstanding patri
otic accomplishment. Its lasting value will be recognized
t more and more as time passes.—John P. Frey.
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FOR
LABOR DAY, 1940
MRS. JESSIE CALDWELL SMITH
ACTING COUNTY TREASURER
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65,000 to Drill in
Biggest War Game
Second Army to Set Up Base
In Wisconsin.
CHICAGO. — Speed, a dominant
factor in modern warfare, will be
emphasized next August when the
Second army sends 85,000 regular
troops and National Guardsmen into
central Wisconsin for the biggest
war maneuvers held in the Midwest
since 1918.
The troops will be equipped with
4,500 motor units and the war games
wilf give thorough training in swift
movements of troops and supplies.
Lieut.-Gen. Stanley H. Ford, com*
mander, indicated the type of train*
ing that will be given the soldiers
in his first training directive, which
said “the maneuvers will provide
mobilization training, movement of
troops to and from the concentre*
tion area, tactical operations and
the organization and function of the
various supply services in the Sec
ond Army."
The directive added that the
troops will be given training in de
fense against mechanized attack
and protection of both the front and
rear lines.
This emphasis on speed and rear
line defense is an indication of the
lessons the American army is learn
ing from Europe’s present war, in
which Adolf Hitler’s fast-moving
German troops have demonstrated
the effectiveness of encircling move
ments.
The general headquarters will be
set up at Camp McCoy, where they
will be maintained during the course
of the games that begin August 12
and close August 31.
Included in the men participat
ing in the maneuvers will be 20,000
regular troops. The National Guard
will send 10,755 from Illinois, 9,212
from Ohio, 5,994 from Michigan,
5,184 from Wisconsin, 5,089 from In
diana, 2,915 from Kentucky, and
2,098 from West Virginia.
Lightning Plays a Game
Of ‘Follow the Leader*
SWAMPSCOTT, MASS.—A flash of
lightning resembles a swift game
of "follow the leader," G. D. Mo*
Cann, an engineer of the Westing
house Electric and Manufacturing
company, said.
Reporting that his company had
undertaken research designed to
protect electric power lines against
lightning's damaging effects. Me
Cum told the summer convention at
the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers that investigators had
used a fast camera to get data on
how lightning operates.
He said a weak, almost invisible
preliminary stroke, known as a lead
er or pilot, picks its way haltingly
through the air at toe "relatively
slow speed of 100 miles per second."
When the path to earth has thus
been broken, he added, a full-fledged
powerful stroke comes rf»»vgh>f
along toe same route at nearly 20,
000 miles per second. On its heels
comes another, and perhaps anoth
er, at the same speed—the entire
process lasting about a second, and
constituting a single "flash."
Wild -Animals of West
Thrill CCC Boys of East
BUTTE, MONT.—Wild animals in
their native habitat provide eastern
boys in Civilian Conservation Corps
in Montana with some of their big
gest thrills, according to L. M. Stew
art, assistant Deer Lodge National
forest supervisor.
"Youth from New York and New
Jersey at toe Flint Creek camp near
Philipsburg have seen every kind of
animal in the forest and they get
a big thrill out of it,” Stewart said.
Frequently toe camp foreman is
called upon to identify animals and
explain the difference in deer, elk
and moose.
"But they all know a bear when
they see it,” Stewart said.
NoysI School Teaching
Rabbits How to Run!
ABILENE, KAN.—George Kibler
teaches wild Kansas jackrabbits to
run for their lives.
The jackrabbits are trained by
Kibler to act as quarry for hounds
in the National Coursing associa
tion's races held each spring.
Twice a day Kibler drives toe wild
rabbits through the racing course,
teaching them to run from chutes
directly to the escapes at the for
end of the park and to slip under
them.
Rabbits cost from 78 cents to $1
each and each one that foils to
elude the hounds goes down in the
loss column of the association's
Invalid Law Student
Fuiishes Cum Laude
OMAHA.—Otto Splehagen of*
fared a helping hand—literally—
to his brother Herbert so that
both could enter the legal profes
sion.
Herbert suffered from a rare
malady that made him unable to
walk. Five nights a week fbr four
years Otto candid Herbert to the
University of Omaha law school
far their classes.
Both were graduated cum laude
and passed their bar examtna
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