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—— - H11.UO, vm<IF It may be old to you, but new out here: I Prussian town turns for traveling circus, Fero* lion escapes; villagers baldly. Sinewy sfranget single-handed, with ray ham Into _ w««ai w JUUlItt .gs flying, bands playing burgomaster puts on his high hat, special train .rush ing the hero to Ber lin to be deco rated by Herr Hit ler as reincarna tion of ancient Nor dic demigods, typi fying spirit of old German stocks—all that sort of thing. Suddenly hideous 8. Cobb Discovery is maoe that stranger’s ound Is not Teutonic, the name being Ginsberg. Gele on called off, flags furled, bands ■k. home, special train canceled, master has apoplexy. And next day * thd local paper ... out with scathing article no the headline, Mew Attacks. De leas Lion." • • • t Criminal Lawyers. J’RE a funny people. Did we ead where In some far-off y, men who had access to lcked the lpcks on the cages eed the man-eating tigers and lood-thlrsty wolves and the ist poison snakes to go forth U1 again, we’d marvel at a vhlch endured such a thing, when in our own land prim iwyers^ truthfully boast that, the individuals charged with 'ate murder whom they have ed, no single one ever went >se or chair, and that ever ny more were, by their skill, from the prisons where we pposed to pen our human fl uid wolves and snakes, we these geniuses our admiration id much free advertising, and ing lawyers crave to follow their Illustrious footprints. We are Indeed a funny people funny It’a hard to decide wbeth we should laugh at ourselves— weep. jm , Husband* and Wives. If OTS of matrimony In the news, ml*/, now that marriage, lhatcuul of ffebeSng a contract. Is a ninety-day op | A gentleman who’s president of flltbe—take a deep breath—American “■Creative League of Harmony and jitUusic Students, declares If Ill-salt ||ed couples learn the guitar happl ?&M*s would return, the guitar, he palates, being the most romantic in patrument there Is. But once, In ^•vaudeville, I saw a peevish help Umate crown friend husband with an (jStftlald'guitar, and it didn’t seem to ^10 him any real good. hK 8lowing Up Youth. —- .. 'Jv''vBYIOUSLY It’s too late to save5 tne confirmed speed-maniacs H*nnong the adult population. They <:fewpn’t be with us long, anyhow, an| £§*111 be missed by but few, If any. Sy time one of these madmen' zes past, I. find myself saying he back of his neck, "Well, ler, glad to have this glimpse >u. Probably I’ll not be seeing again unless I Should drop In le morgue the day you arrive.” t maybe we might help to la the oncoming generations by curating a definite course of Ju e education. Let’s start with lalfies; let’s make It a fixed and red' ritual In ever/ klndergar every public or private paro «ntai school—yes, every Sunday ■school, every Boy Scoot camp and B campfire; every place istera are gathered. ?r again, iet’a pound that reckless driving illant nor amart nor that It Is stupid and vlci«*fand murder Desolation of Floods. HE first time we went to Venice i*»j wife looked across the rind canal and said: "Did you ever lytlilngllkc And, trying to be funny, I said: utely, looks Just like .South Ira street did during the big rise 013. If right now a fellow in skiff shbuld- come rowing, up to Is window to collect the water nt, I’d swear I was back home.” That seemed a sohry. Joke as I read . a monstrous ytilow torrent tng down oil the beleaguered lands where my people bav« 7 - - m rely nature has been pitiless last year—drouths And dust ; forest fires andsmokepalla; ... now Id the Messages Between 'Air and Ground - Are Easily Made Communication between ground and airplanes and between under water submarines by means of Invis ible light In two-way conversation will be made possible with an in vention perfected by A. A. Arnbym, a member of the Ullnols National Guard. A photo cell of the type used for television pickup Is the main feature of the new equipment. Arnhym, who is a German-born sci entist, states that the electric eye weapons will be the major factor In the next war. The photograph shows Mr. Arnbym receiving a mes sage- from a plane, with R. D. Lon gtni, who aided him. ♦ ■■■■■■. Men la Improving Men with the dignity, common sense and simple greatness of a Lin coln are rare; but as time goes on the average rises. Germany’s New Zeppelin oh a Test Flight MOMHIMHNil ..I ill N.Hill. sHnMWUBmHH From an airplane flying above It, this excellent snap of the LZ-129 was made, as the great seppelln that was bul|t for passepger service over the Atlantic, from Frankfurt-am-Main to Lakehurst, N. J., was maneuvered oyer Lake Constance on Its first test flight NEW MOVIE HEAD I twralf of H. H. Cochrane, for mer’vice president of Universal Pic tured corporation, who succeeds Carl E^eminle as president. life latter sold his Interest In the company. ' i Where the Floods Were Worst t Map of the general area In the eastern Unite'd States that was swept by the recent destructive floods. The shaded areas mark thr stairs along which the devastation was most complete. Campaign for Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis forty yean ago this spring Joke smiths were making the World laugh at an amazing news-item from Wurzburg, Germany. A pfo fessor of physics at tbe university there had announced, the discovery of a ray which permitted him to see through solid objects. When he asked what It was he gold ho didn’t know—it was invisible.. Be had ftcfcred It was not light, yet ray. • The local scientific society voted that the new ray should be called after its discoverer. So't* day-it is called either th^ jC-S^a* the Boentgep ray. after wnuam ivr "'1 With Modern Weapons,” and calls attention to the fact that the X-ray and tuberculosis test are the weap ons It means. The illustration shows the necessary apparatus and a por trait of the Immortal. Roentgen. The National Tuber .ulosis asso ciation's early diagnosis campaign is receiving the aid and support of health officials,, physicians and sur geons 1n all parts of the country. Persons who have reason to sus pect that they have contracted the disease are urgently advised to sub mit themselves to the tfests. which may be given In-Innumerable cities npd towns fn all the states, both ip private laboratories and In those maintained by municipalities. Cure pf tuberculosis Is now comparative If treatment is begun In It* ages, so no time should be Digging Themselves Out From Flood 1 ... 1 ■ Throughput the eastern and New England states, as the great floods receded, the people In the devastated regions speedily began the hard task of cleaning up their cities and towns. Characteristic scenes are here sented. 1—WPA workers clearing the mud and wreckage from streets In Pittsburgh. 2—View In Johnstowa, Pa, as citizens were digging out the debris.. 3—Man and wife In a Pittsburgh suburb doing their “spring house cleaning” after the waters had left their bungalow. Sergeant Morgan Is Rewarded for Heroism Alaskan Flier Showed Bravery in “Flu” Epidemic The Soldiers’ medal, the army’s highest peace-time award, was pinned on the breast of Master Ser geant' Stanley Morgan, Alaskan flier, by CoL Henry A. Finch, com mandant of Fort Lawton, Washing ton. Morgan received the decora tion for his heroic work during tho Influenza epidemic that ravaged an Alaskan settlement some time ago. He also aided In the recovery of the bodies of Wiley Post and Will Rogers. - J " —< Takes First Air Trip Across U. S. at Age of 84 Frdm covered wagon across the Indian-infested plains of the Mid dle West to luxurious air line travel Is a far cry and covers a lot of time, but Mrs. J. H. Pierson has enjoyed that experience. In celebration of her eighty-fourth birthday Mrs. Pierson flew one of the United Air ■ -• Lines’Overland Trail transports from Chicago to San Francisco. It was her first flight and she liked It so well that she Immediately formu lated plans for flying across the con tinent, which she crossed back In 1867 in a covered wagon nt the age of fifteen, two years after the Civil war was over and before the com ing of the railroads to sunny Cali fornia. __ ,f. View Plans for “Perfect Air Field” ^ Philadelphia Is pointing the way for the rest of the world In aerial ■* transportation, with work being started on what will be the “perfect air | terminus.” Facilities for air, rail and water transportation and accom modations for the mooring of lighter-thnn-alr craft are planned. Mayor 8. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, right, is seen here with Admiral King, center, head of the navy flying corps, and Maj. A1 Williams, the navy’s ' speed ace, as they Inspected the plans. ---—m Congress Discovers Leif Eriksson >■ 'Oils girt oMbt Nore-e^tem «^i<
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