Eton school,
where young
England learns
discipline and
cricket. King
George’s coffin
was lowered Into
the vault to lie
beside his fa
ther, King Ed
ward VII, and
his grandmother.
Queen Victoria.
The magnifi
cent crown of
England was
. - taKen rrom tne
Attkav Brlabane cog|n before It
disappeared and placed before the
g,attar. Kings go; the crown remains.
1 The services were broadcast, new
feature of a royal funeral. The
simple Church of England burial
service, read by the Archbishop of
* Canterbury, was heard far over the
•earth, wherever Britain’s 400,000,
000 subjects live.
ftW* .1 /
Veterans having successfully
climbed the long, long- road, the
government began the biggest ’•pay
off” Job in history, the printing of
two billion four hundred million
dollars’ worth of bonds, to be dis
tributed among 3,518,191 World war
veterans The mere distributing
^jtbst alone will be $7,000,000.
Now government wonders wbat
new taxes can be Invented to pay
the two and one-half billions
Interesting news from Ethiopia
sent by an American correspondent
says the residence of Haile Selas
sie’s son has on the roof a large
red cross, although It has nothing
tp do with the Red Cross. Associ
ated Press sends news of a Swedish
"field hospital,” captured by Ital
ians In* the South, carrying ammu
filtlon on five trucks adorned with
Red Cross flags and Insignia. The
"field hospital” automobiles con
,talned. In addition, 27 cases of
munitions. In modern war, ^be safe
plan seems to be bomb everything.
<$?The war drums of the Ethiopian
kerb. Rag Desta Demtu, were cap
tured. He will miss them.
"The Blobd Is the Life,”'accord
ing to an-old Hebrew saying, and
^oxygen is the life of the blood. No
oxygen means death, In three min
utes or less; too little oxygen
means premature death, Inferior
, health meanwhile.
The Dloqne quintuplets are mar
velous In their health. The marvel
ous babies sleep outdoors every
morning and afternoon; on one oc
. caslon the temperature was 30 de
grees below zero.
All five walk, all have gained
weight during‘the past month, and
have new teeth. Annette has three
new ones, twelve In all. All have
beautiful big eyes, high foreheads,
Jj|pretty faces and look as French as
the Marseillaise; get plenty of oxy
gen, but wrap up well.
Lloyd George says the new king,
Edward VIII, has the magnetism
^--ofhis grandfather, Edward VII;
that he comes to the throne with
such great troubles ahead as few
kings have ever encountered, but
"his courage and his sure Instinct
will not fall him.”
The unnecessary air disaster In
Hawaii, two United States bombing
planes destroyed In collision while
plying "in formation” and six men
filled, causes aviators to say that
nthey object to night formation fly
ing. They may well object; noth
ing more'densely stupid could be
Imagined than sending up planes to
fly at high speed, almost wing to
jWlng. Inviting disaster and death.
^Bven In these busy times there
ought to be somebody sufficiently
intelligent to stop that nonsense, at
night, and In daytime also.
Hi*. - _
Anti-Roosevelt
Stuff Too Raw
Some So Bad It’s
Barred From Mails;
ffit Tax Dodging of
| Big Financiers
, By EARL GODWIN
WASHINGTON. — A steady
stream of defamatory anti
Roosevelt printed matter
Is now being spread by op
ponents of the administration, some
of It so bad that It has been de
barred from the malls because of
the existing law prohibiting using
the malls to defame anyone’s char
acter. Some of It has been so bad
even that Henry Fletcher, chairman
of the Republican national com
mittee, baa a distaste for It and
declares that his organization has
had nothing to do with this libelous
stufL
.But of course Henry’s organiza
tion is not the only one. This mud
stream Is so wide that It betrays
a very strong central source some
where.
Some of this was miniature stamp
cartoons to be attached to letters
In the mail, one of which portrayed
the President grinning over a grave
stone, with words which attributed
to him the death of Senator Huey
Long and Senator Bronson Cutting.
Some of the opponents of the ad
ministration have circulated mate
rial In the South .Intimating that
the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
frequently have negroes as house
guests—In fact there la a tinge of
depravity In much of the material
now being used to discredit the
personality and character of the
President of the United States.
The Republican national com
mittee Is apparently free from the
taint of this type of stuff, but It
has departed a long way from the
truth In some of Its radio sketches,
which, by the way, are said to be
very poor. In one of these sketches
the G. O. P. make It appear that
an Innocent farmer had been jailed
for raining twenty bushels of po
tatoes. In another they portray a
young couple who cannot be mar
ried because of the tax burden; and
In still another they bring forth a
villainous relief administrator who
lets all the Republican poor starve
to death.
Of course all of this Is just
plain bank. The potato control act
was passed largely by Republican
votes over the pretest of the Dem
ocratic secretary of agriculture, and
In addition, as jcosacution of any
kind has eerr asa Instituted—and
of Course no jail sentences. The
young married coople had an In
come too small to be taxed; and
the slur on the Relief Administra
tion Is a plain falsehood.
As tar as taxes go, the real ob
jection that the Republican leader
ship has to the present Income tax,
la that it takes a more nearly prop
er proportion from the Incomes be
ginning with $90,000 and upward,
and on Inheritance of $10,000,000
and over.
• • •
HIT8 LIBERTY LEAGUE
LEADER8
The strongest words I have heard
in the'senate recently, were those
of Senator Schwellenbach of Wash
ington, describing the tax evasion
efforts of two of the heaviest sup
porters of the Liberty league, as
equal In criminality to those of
“the racketeers In our great cities,
who were finally put In the pen
itentiary because . they evaded
their Income taxes. Of course,
that means A1 Capone. These two
financiers rode high on the 1929
stock market; in fact one of them
advised everybody to come In and
make a million along with him.
When the stock market crashed In
October, 1929, these gentlemen
;found. themselves with a great deal
of stock 'tducb lower In market
value than It bad been during the
boom.
ao, oy a senes or transactions
which are commonly listed nnder
the head of “rubber checks,” they
appealed to sell each other their
varlq|hs collections fit stocks, but
!'y changed hands, and each
bad just about what he had
he started. In addition, each
;ht he had a case by which
raid flim-flam tbe government
of several hundred thousand
ra In Income taxes, by show
vbat looked like a loss. But
1 not fool the treasury. The
te tax collectors Immediately
I for an explanation, and it
d be remembered that both
ransaction and the Income tax
ry were In the Hoover admin
ion. The treasury has bad no
i cs in getting a dollar out of either
« ’ these men for tbe taxes In ques
t on. And now, after the sixth or
i iventh attempt, one of these two
1 igb financiers calls tbe latest de
and of the treasury an exhibition
f tyranny. He apparently wants
veryone to think that a wicked
tooseveit has* taken It into bis
ead suddenly, to bully a nice little
oy from Wall ’Street.
It so happens that both of these
pntlemen were so close to tbe
mmonltlon business In the World
yar that their fingers could have
bqrned by tbe powder and
■ i
.. ~ \ 1 ■" .. . . V
the Interest and part of the debt
on onr war expenses, from which
the Duponts- profited hugely white
the American Expeditionary Fosces
were In the trenches.
The Dupont dividends In those
war year* were *237,000.000.
PRESIDENT GETS BU8Y
The other day, when Roosevelt
told a group of Works Progress ad
ministrators that “If we can boon
doggle onr way through the depres
sion,” that queer term would be ac
cepted as a “grand word,” he was
starting something. There Is a cur
rent of ridicule against much of
the work now taking the place of
the direct cash dole, and it is
easily misunderstood unless It Is
explained. City folks are being
made to believe that many of the
schools and Improvements In rural
areas are unnecessary; that much
of the work for the blind and the
unfortunate Is folly; that the sew
ing which has been given as work
to needy women Is waste.
The crazy word “boondoggle”
means about what “thlngaipabob”
meant In a previous day. It’s Just
a funny word with a thousand dif
ferent meanings. Its most destruc
tive use Is to undermine confidence
In title nation’s attempt to. give work
to the Jobless.
Now of course many people have
the Idea that all relief work should
be of the pick and shovel variety,
but this depression took opportu
nities of work away from people
who know nothing about the use of
a pick and shovel. There are tens
of thousands of trained salesmen
out of work; and Just as many men
and women who have earned their
living and contributed to the general
economy of things, but who always
worked with their minds or with
their talents. In New Tork there
are many hundreds of people who
have earned their living by enter
taining others, and If these were
to be put to work with picks and
shovels the result would be sadly
unsuccessful, and the money would
really be wasted.
So a rather small proportion of
the relief fund has been used for
so-called “white collar” projects—
otherwise these men and women
would not have had any work.
• • •
THE FARM PROBLEM
The administration’s attitude to
ward the farm problem- Is one of
extreme patience. The Supreme
court has made It difficult to solve
any national, social or economic
problem, and there Is doubt that
any substitute for AAA will stand
up under the baleful glare from the
majority of the court The crop
reduction program, ruled unconsti
tutional, was, of course, a stop gap.
As I wrote previously, the goal Is
a longtime,- nation-wide program of
restoring to the soil, what has been
taken out In the last hundred years.
Well, it seems that the Su
preme court makes it necessary to
step ahesd immediately Into that
long range plan. There may be
weeks of debate over the bills to
effect this program, and the legis
lation may be changed so that Its
parents (Senator Bankhead of Ala
bama and Representative Marvin
Jones of Texas) would not recognize
it; but the bills as agreed upon pre
scribe! a soil conservation program,
the government to pay for land
taken out of cultivation. While this
Is a part of the long time pro
gram, the, present tendency is to
limit the Immediate contracts to a
term ending December, 1937.
• • •
PROCESSING TAXE8
Following the knock-out to AAA.
certain large millers appealed to have
restored to them, the processing taxes
collected under the law. The gov
ernment relied upon former opin
ions of the Supreme court, but the
court reversed Itself completely and
ordered these processing taxes re
paid. The money will go, not to
the general public which eventually
pays all taxes, but to the manufac
turers.
This Is chaos to the constitution
al lawyers in congress. This same
Stfpreme court ruled exactly the op
posite In another case several years
ago. John F. George, a North Caro
lina cotton mill man, obtained an
Injunction against the collection of
the federal tax levied In connection
with the federal attempt to regu
late child labor. Josiah Bailey,
jiow senator from North Carolina,
was then an Internal revenue col
lector, and be appealed that the tax
should be paid, and the Supreme
court upheld his appeal.
It was Chief Justice William
Howard Taft himself who read the
court's opinion, which the govern
ment here has always relied upon
in cases of this kind.
• * •
PAYING THE B0NU8
The full effect of the bonus law
has not yet developed, but the enor
mous amount of work necessary to
print and handle the soldiers’
claims and the baby bonds claims
has been described In congress.
There will be applications from
3,018,191 ex-soldiers, which means
added clerical work at Washington.
The average amount due each sol
dier Is $600 or 13 $00 bonds. Mul
tiply the number of soldiers by IS,
and we have approximately 45,000,
000 bonds—not $46,000,000 — but
that many pieces of paper worth
$00 each. That means enormous
work at the printing presses, and
In addition to all this there must
also be engraved and printed, what
ever bonds are necessary to raise
the money to pay out on the orig
inal 45,000,000 baby bondj.^
ADVENTURERS’
II CLUB
Brakeman s Jump for Life •
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Huntetr.
GATHER around, fellow adventurers, and meet the new
member of the club. He is Norman E. Spencer, and don’t
bother wheeling out that big, comfortable easy chair for Norman,
because he isn’t used to that sort of thing. If you want to make
him feel right at home, just let him hang by his knees from the
chandelier. For Norman is a railroad brakeman and, from the
looks of his story, railroad brakemen must spend most of their
time dangling by one hand or one leg, or one eyelash, our sev
eral assorted kinds of certain death.
Anyway, It is that sort of experience Norman Is going to tell ns about
today, and I would advise you all to take a good, deep breath before he
starts, because you're going to be holding It a long time before he is
finished.
Norman became a railroad brakeman Just about the time the
United States entered the World war. Those were the days when
all the able-bodied men were running for the recruiting stations,
and sixteen-year-old kids, like Norman was then, were being
dragged out of high school to fill their Jobs. He worked two or
three years on that brakeman Job and did it darned well. But It
wasn’t until February, 1918, that he ran into the adventure on
which he is now going to give us the lowdown.
It was late at night and the train Norman was braking had Just
started down a nine-mile hill at Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. Norman had
just gone back over the top of the train to set up air retainers on the 10
cars nearest the engine and he was on his way back when his lantern
went out, leaving him to travel the tops of the cars In darkness.
One Little Slip Might Cost Legs or Life.
Picking his way back carefully over the swaying car tops he man
aged to get back to the first car. But when he came to jump from the
front car to the engine tender he hesitated. The gap was wider there
Norman Took Hla Time About Gauging That Jump.
than It was between the cars and the unsteady light that came from the
firebox of the engine cast moving shadows that made It hard to Judge
the distance.
Norman took his time about gauging that last jump, but luck
that night was running against him. For, at the same instant that
his feet left the end of the ear, the engineer opened the throttle
up wide. The train leaped forward, ruining Norman’s carefully
timed leap, and down he went between the engine and the car,
headed for certain death beneath the wheels.
He fell feet first. “Like a drowning man,” he says, “I was grabbing
at anything I could get hold of. I guess It wasn’t my time yet, for some
how I managed to get one hand on a small chain that runs down the
back of the tank to the coupler. And there I hung, with my feet and
legs dragging on the ties, my body sort of stretched out by the speed of
the train and the pull of the ties as my legs rubbed against them.
Norman Struggles Inches From Doom.
“My feet were only Inches away from the wheels of the front car
and I knew that any sudden lurch of the train would throw my feet right
under them. 1 tried to pull myself up on the chain, but every time I
gained a few inches away from the wheels of the front car the friction
of the ties would pull me right back again.” ,
It could have been only a few seconds that Norman was
struggling with that chain, but it seemed like hours to him before
it was over. Time and again he would pull himself up almost to
the point where he could get hold of something more solid and
rigid than that chain only to become exhausted and fall back
again. Finally he got hold of an Iron bar that crossed the back
of the engine tender, but still his troubles weren’t over. He had
literally to chin himself on this bar and at the same time edge
himself over to the right in order to get to a ladder that ran down
the back of the tender.
It was a feat that called for the trained muscles of an acrobat, but
Norman bad to do It—or die. And, to make matters worse, the train at
that point roared Into the tunnel Just east of Harper’s Ferry and he was
all but stifled with the smoke and heat and steam that poured back on
him from the engine. He had to hang on in that difficult position until,
at last, the train shot out of the tunnel before be dared try to edge his
way any farther tflong the bar.
Norman Climbs His Tallest Ladder—for Life.
Once the train was out In the open again he started his slow, difficult
journey. Inch by Inch he worked his way across the bar, while his mus
cles ached and threatened to give out on him. At length, though, he
made It—got to the ladder on the side of the tender and began to climb
up. Never before, and never since, has that ladder seemed so long as
It did to Norman’s tired and aching muscles that night When, finally,
he got to the 'top of the tender he lay down flat on his back.
“I just lay there,” he says, “and looked at the stars. And I
know they were never more lovely. When I got back into the cab
the engineer remarked that It had taken me a long time, and I
didn’t say a word. It wasn’t until we had got to the yards and the
rest of the crew and I cleaned up and were about to have some
thing to eat that the reaction set in. I trembled so then that the
other fellows thought I had a chill and gave me a big hooker of
whisky. ‘Just for safety’s sake,’ they said. But I thought to my
self that I should have had that honker an hour ago, the other
aide of Harper’s Ferry.”
©—WNU Service.
Bees Cluster Together
and Generate Own Heat
During the cold months of win
ter, conditions within the beehive
are entirely different from what
they are In summer. In a normal
colony drones are not present and
no brood rearing Is m process. As
the winter approaches and tempera
tures drop to around 60 degrees
Fahrenheit the bees cluster tightly
together into one btg ball with the
queen at the center. At tempera
tures below 57 degrees the bees at
the center of the cluster generate
heat by muscular activity, while
mmmmMurnmt
act as Insulators. The temperature
at the outside ring of the cluster is
maintained at an approximate tem
perature of 57 degrees Fahrenheit
throughout the winter. This cluster
of bees moves from place to place
within the hive, always keeping In
contact with the food supply and
the cluster does not break again
until outside temperatures rise high
enough for bee flight
Unlike their close relations, the
bnmble bees and wasps, the honey
bee workers survive the long win
ter months. It is only the Impreg
nated queens of the wild species
that live through the winter.—
Montreal Herald.
Some Club Luncheon ||
for the Puzzl Jfj
It Is a Sensible Custom to
Serve at Regular
Meal Hour.
Herewith Is given a menu for a
very simple club luncheon, to be
served before the afternoon bridge.
It Is such a sensible custom to serve
a luncheon at a regular meal hour
Instead of refreshments at an hour
which will be so near dinner time
that appetite Is lost
Another good reason for serving
beforehand Is that most women feel
It necessary to get home before the
children’s supper hour, and when
there Is a distance to be traveled,
they are anxious to leave as soon as
the game Is over.
As far as the hostess herself Is
concerned. It Is usually easier for her
to serve before bridge than after.
She can then play her hand without
worry as to whether the coffee Is
boiling over or the sandwiches dry
ing out
For a club that Is original In its
Idea of what may be served at
luncheon, the hostess of the day In
vited the eight members to a break
fast party served at ten o’clock. She
provided melon as a fruit course
and then served coffee, small baked
sausages, creamed potatoes and waf
fles. There were plenty of waffles
and they made the dessert as well
when the sirup was passed.
Another woman, who had been
sent a Virginia ham from her south
ern home, gave her guests ham and
eggs and hot waffles with grapefruit
as a starter.
The clever hostess does not feel
that she must follow accepted for
mulas for refreshments for her par
ties, and her guests always agree
with her.
Luncheon Menu.
Chicken turnover
Celery
Pickles
Ice cream with meringues
The meringues can be bought at
the bakery. As they are often rath
er, long for an afternoon service, the
small “kisses" can take, their place.
Tomato Shrimp Jolly.
2 cans tomato soup
1 can boiling water
2 tablespoons gelatin
14 cup cold water
H pound shrimps
12 stuffed olives
Heat the soup with the boiling wa
ter. Soften the gelatin In the cold
water, add the soup, stir until dis
solved. Arrange several shrimps to
use alternately In a mold and add
Honey Is Again Used for
Wounds As in Days of Pliny
Honey as a dressing for wounds
was popular at one time in the Mid
dle ages. Still earlier, during the
Roman empire, it enjoyed a certain
vogue; and Pliny refers in a certain
passage to fish fat and honey as
making a good ointment for wounds.
It may well be that the fish fat he
refers to was cod-liver oil.
Now honey has been re-discovered
as a remarkably effective ointment.
In a Red Cross hospital in Ham
burg, Germany, tests have been car
ried out with honey during the past
bait year, and it has been found
that even much soiled wounds quick
ly become cleaner under its influ
ence. But though it cleans a wound,
it does not seem to make It heal
more quickly than before. As cod
liver oil promotes rapid healing, it
has been combined with honey in
sd ointment so as to achieve the
double purpose of cleansing and
healing.—Science Service.
carefully a little of the gelatin mm
ture. Place on ice to harden, and
repeat A ring mold Is attractive
when It Is turned out—and then tbs
center can be filled with sliced en
cumber mixed with whipped sour
cream seasoned with onion and tar
ragon vinegar. When the mold la
set turn out on a platter and gar
nish with lettuce or romalne. Pam
the sour cream dressing or mayon
naise.
Chicken Turnover.
Cut pastry Into long rounds and
spread with a filling made of minced
cooked chicken seasoned with onion
Juice, salt pepper and moistened
with cream. Fold the pastry over,
press edges together, brash with
milk and bake about ten minutes
until brown in a hot oven (450 de
grees Fahrenheit).
C Ball Syndicate.—WNU Servlea.
Slenderizing Surplice
Tops an At-Home Frock
PATTERN 9000
What If you do wear a forty-six?
No need to sacrifice femininity on that!
account, for a frock with gracious,
slimming lines can make you look as
young as you feel. Why not choosei
an easy pattern with surplice bodice
for your next ‘‘at home” style—like
the one sketched today? Simplicity
is the keynote of those sweeping
lines that outline the collarless, sur
plice yoke. The slenderizing effect
carries right on down Into the skirt
—a clever piece of designing, we’d
say!
Pattern 9609 may be ordered only
In sizes 16, 18, 20, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42,
44 and 46. Size 36 requires 3% yards
36 Inch fabric. Complete, dia
grammed sew chart Included.
SEND FIFTEEN CENTS In coins
or stamps (coins preferred) for this
pattern. Be sure to write plainly
your NAME, ADDRESS, STYLE
NUMBER and SIZE.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., 232 W. Eight
eenth St, New York, N. Y.
Here’s Very Fast Way
to “Alkalize”
Acid-Indigestion Awa
Amazingly Fast Relief Now
from "Acid Indigestion”
Indulgence, Nausea,
and Upsets
IF you want really quick relief
from an upset or painful
stomach condition—arising from
acidity following over-eating,
smoking, mixtures of foods or
stimulants — just try this:
Take—2 teaspoonfuls of Phil
lips’ Milk of Magnesia in a
full glass of water. OR — 2
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia
Tablets, the exact equivalent \
of the liquid form.
This acts almost immediately to
alkalize the excess add in the
stomach. Neutralizes the adds
that cause headaches, nausea,
and indigestion pains. You fed
results at once.
Try it AND — if you an a
freauent sufferer from “add
stdRach," use Phillips' Milk of
Magnesia 30 minutes after meals.
You'll forget you have a stomach!
When you buy, see that any
box or bottle you accept is clear
ly marked “Genuine PhillipaT
Milk of Magnesia."