MONICA, CALIF,
a president has
it’s certain
inspired patriot
snuggled close to the
will burst from his cell
ell to pro
the adored
tnt consents again to
himself this nation is
the »aid patriot’s
it Job and perquisites also
I be doomed, so
, couldn’t be
jMd for privately
Jding on the dis
aful thought. You
Wta't call him
jfa, but you
P call him hope
aspecially since
«*s a chance his
jrhoo may direct
attyn upon him
suitable canal- -
when his idol Irvin S. Cobb
> no to the prop
He might ride in on the
which would be even
' than steering a tidal wave for
else.
observers have a name
flthis. They call it “sending up
balloon.” It’s an apt simile, a
being a flimsy thing, full
air, and when it soars aloft
knows where it will come
! at all It lacks both steer
rs and terminal facilities,
have been cases when the
s' comparison might have been
not alone to the balloon
! to the gentleman who launched
let’s remain calm. It’s tradi
in our history that no presi
1 ever had to go ballooning in or
to And out how the wind blew
that no volunteer third-term
ever succeeded in taking
trip himself.
a Prairie Schooners,
certainly returning —
modern improvements—
schooner days when rest
I Americans are living on wheels
eping on wheels and
[ babies on wheels. Only the
twins were bom aboard
And—who knows?—per
t now the stork, with a
lerrftn hegfceak, It flap
trying to catch up with
r’s perambulating bunga
it’s a fitting moment to revive
itory of early Montana when
settlers were discussing the
merits of various maSesof
canvas-covered arks which
such hosts of emigrants west
They named over the Cones
the South Bend, the Murphy,
Studebaker and various others,
bom under her battered sunbon
there spoke up a weather beaten
lady who, with her husband and
growing brood, had spent the
years bumping along behind an
team from one frontier-*
smother.
“Boys;” she said, shifting her
Snuff-stick, “I always did claim the
idd hickory waggin wuz the best
there is fur raisin’ a family in.”
Versus Statesmen.
• ¥2*8 confusing to read that poor
decrepit Jim Braddock, having
reached the advanced age of thirty
four or thereabouts, is all washed
up, and, then, in another column,
;;to discover that leading candidates
to supply young blood on the Su
jpreme court bench are but bound
ing Juveniles of around sixty-six.
This creates doubt in the mind of
a fellow who, let us say, is quite
a few birthdays beyond that en
gendered wreck, Mr. Braddock, yet
;stiQ has a considerable number of
years to go before he'll be an agile
adolescent like some senators. He
'‘gmaff decide whether he ought to
$oia the former at the old men’s
imne or enlist with the latter in
the Boy Scouts. .
f Quiescent Major Generals.
OOMETHING has gone out of life,
w For months now no general of
regular army, whether retired
detailed to a civilian job, has
himself into a jam—a rasp
jam, if you want to make
cheap pun of it
V May be it’s being officially gagged
■*— so long while on active service
it makes such a conversational
out of the average brigadier
he goes into private pursuits
lets his hair down. It’s
he took off his tact along
epaulette!. And when he
there’s always another to
his place.
see, under modern warfare
commanding officer is spared,
may lead the retreat but never
charge. When the boys go over
top is he out in front waving a
Not so you’d notice it By
rules he’s signing papers
nine miles behind
about the only peril
of exercise in,
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—With a Russo-Jap dispute over the Amur river, crack battalions of the Red army have been held in
readiness for possible trouble. 2—Senators Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., left, and Elbert Thomas of the senate
civil liberties committee are shown studying photogra phs of the Memorial day riot at the Republic steel plant
in South Chicago in which ten pickets were shot down. 3—President Roosevelt in a recent radio salute to Can*
ada exchanged greetings with Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir.
Windsor’s Parson on Lecture Tour
Rev. and Mrs. Robert Anderson Jardine, who sprang into the inter
national spotlight when he defied the Church of England's highest digni
taries to perform the wedding ceremony for the Duke of Windsor and
the former "Wallis Warfield, shown as he arrived in New York recently
for a lecture tour of the United States, to aid charities.
“KNUCKLERS” KING
William Kloss, thirteen, of Greater
Canton, Ohio, grins broader after
being crowned national marble
champ after playing off a tie for the
title with Andrew Tanana, thirteen,
of Throop, Pa. The Canton boy held
the best average in the tournament,
winning 49 of 57 games.
EDUCATOR RETIRES
Dr. William Low Bryan, who re
cently retired as president of Indi
ana university. Dr. Bryan, who
spent 53 years on the faculty of the
university, was its president for 35
years, holding the record for the
longest service among presidents of
state universities. The seventy-sev
en-year-old educator is a firm be
liever in the average student—the
one who is neither too brilliant nor
too dull. ‘
Scientist Puts Old Sol to Work
\
Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian institution
and director of the American Astrophysical observatory at Washington,
D. C., is shown setting up his solar boiler at the Great Lakes exposition
at Cleveland. The device, hailed as science’s first successful effort to
translate solar energy into usable power, would yield a total of 70,000
horsepower on cloudless days, according to Dr. Abbott
Clipper Ship Blazes Atlantic Air Trail
Broadside view at the giant four-motored Pan-American dipper ship in which Capt. Harold E. Gray and
his crew at seven completed in 12 hours and 2V minutes the west to east survey flight of the projected Brltish
Ameriesn trans-Atlantic passenger and mail route, landing at Foynes, Ireland. At practiqally the same mo
ment, the British at Botwood, Newfoundland, on the west to west leg
'-i; tii-Kl--.'
New Streamliner Speeds British Train Travel -
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Specially constructed to make the London to Glasgow Journey in six and a half hours, the London Mid*
land and Scottish railway’s new streamlined train, the Coronation, has. set a .new speed record for British
travel. The high-speed express is shown getting into its stride near Watford, England, on a recent test run.
FALSELY IMPRISONED
Ernest Mattice, thirty-three-year
old candy salesman of Denver who
was freed after serving six months
of two sentences of life imprison
ment for the kidnaping and assault
of Mrs. Margaret Cykosz, twenty
two-year-old waitress. Gov. Teller
Ammons of Colorado signed the par
don after Frank Neill, twenty-six
years old, and Arthur Parker, twen
ty-one years old, confessed to the
assault charge. Tfcey . denied the
charge of kidnaping.
“Puppy Love” Uncovers Old Art
Forgotten pictures, gathering dust for years in an old attic, brought
the hope of new life to Mrs. Alida Clark, seventy-nine years old, of May
wood, 111., a suburb of Chicago. She swapped one of the pictures
with Arthur Lloyd, Jr., of Oak Park, an antique dealer, for a cocker
spaniel, shown in the picture here. When the dealer cleaned it up he
was told by an art authority that it was the,work of an old French mas
ter, Jean Baptiste Greuze.
Dr. Ward Elected Head of Osteopaths
Dr. Edward A. Ward (right) of Saginaw, Mich., elected president
of the American Osteopathic association representing 10,000 physicians,
surgeons and specialists at the association’s annual convention in Chi
cago recently. With him is Dr. Arthur E. Allen (left) of Minneapolis,
Minn., who was chosen president-elect, to take office at the 1938 conven
tion, which will be held about mid-year. The office of president-elect
is a new one.
Screen Star’s
Tiny Son Plans
Athletic Career
Emblazoned on the front of hia
sweat shirt are the letters of the
future alma mater of two and
one-half year old Norman Scott
Barnes, son of Joan Blondell, screen
star, by her former husband. When
Norman reaches college age, the
University of California, Los An
geles, will be his choice.
Soviets Establish Post on Top of the World
i
This photograph, brought back by returning members of the Soviet aerial expedition to the North pole;
;ghm^«aSir «ltiaKaim< «» the pate by ttfe expedition. Parts of the planet, first to land on top at t*»
world, may be seen in background- Four members of the expedition will remain attbepqle for s
4 “ " idittani ^ rtmwliiirti nHiiiiHn> 11 ii fdained to establish a but there to a rtcul
iJloffloa 4ttt tti Onttert States* ^