Scenes
and Persons in the Current News
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»!rs. Elizabeth Walker Harrison appears before the senate claims committee to ask a pension for her
Mary Lord Harrison, widow of the late President Benjamin Harrison. 2—Severe fighting between
and Japanese troops around Peiping presaged a major war in the Orient. Photograph shows a de
t of Japanese troops arriving at Tientsin. 3—Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Wauchope, high commissioner
stine, under whose direction British troop reinforcements continue to enter the Holy Land in view
tie trouble between the Arabs and the Jews.
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Nation Honors Memory of Sen. Robinson
Honoring the memory of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died sud
denly in Washington at the age of sixty-four, President Roosevelt, cabi
net officers and members of congress attended the state funeral in the
senate chamber. Funeral services were held later at Little Rock, Ark.,
where the body was interred, . ....
It’s Good-by to Wash Day “Blues”
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Arlene Causey shows how easy it is to hang up clothes with the aid
s at a new canvas clothes basket suspended on the clothes line wound on
a new automatic sell-tightening reel. The devices were on display at
recent Summer International Homefumishing Markets at the Mer
Use Mart in Chicago.
KEEPS COOL
Hot summer days cause no dis
comfort or worry to seventeen-'
month-old Mike of St Vincent’s or
phanage, Chicago. In fact, Mike
appears neither hurried or worried.
He actually seems to enjoy hot
weather and the bath spray.
War Clouds Threaten Peace of Holy Land
essiva array of British military might, pictured with an old fortress for a background outside oi
Outbreak of fighting between the Jews and Arab population was feared as a result of the recant
of the British royal commission that Palestine be divided into separate Jewish and Arab sections
isb neutral rode between them. Neither Jews nor Arabs desire such a partition.
Russian Flyers Feted After Record Breaking Hop
Jubilant after their record-breaking non-stop flight of 6,262 miles from Moscow to a cow pasture near San
Jacinto, Calif., three Soviet flyers were feted and congratulated on their remarkable feat. Photograph shows,
left to right. Pilot Michael Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrei Yumachev and Navigator Sergei Lanlin. The flyers,
who were in the air 62 hours and 17 minutes, exceeded the record of the Soviet trans-polar expedition of three
weeks previous by nearly 1,000 miles.
BRITISH GOLF ACE
Henry Cotton, who was ac
claimed as the new British Open
champion at Carnoustie, Scotland,
recently, after defeating leading am
ateurs and professionals from all
parts of the world.
Swedish Prince and Commoner Bride
Prince Charles, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden, with his bride, the
former Countess Elsa von Rosen, pictured soon after ffieir recent wedding
in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner, Prince Charles lost his title and
prerogatives as a member of the royal family,
Families Pick New Homes as Town Starts Moving
Mayor Fred Howell of Shawneetown, HI., right, helps Clifford Durham and his family select their new
home on the model of the new town. Fourteen hundred citizens are going to move to a new site three
miles to the west and 400 feet above sea level. The re-location project, expected to take two years, was
undertaken as a result of last winter’s floods that completely inundated the community.
Air, Not Water, Is His Province
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He looks like a deep-sea diver about to go down, but instead, he’s
an aviator about to go up. This is Flight Lieut M. J. Adam of the British
royal flying corps, being fitted with a special high altitude pressure suit
before bis recent attempt at a high altitude record. Lieut Adam reached
i height of 53,837 feet setting a new high altitude record.
AIRPLANE BICYCLE
The addition of a propeller which
controls the speed of his stream
lined “aerocycle” makes it possible
for Dominick Devincenzi of Chicago
to drive his bicycle at the rate at
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Semi-Node Fashions.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—Clothes may not make
the man, but leaving them
off certainly makes him fool
ish. And that goes double for
the women.
Whence arises the present-day de
lusion that going about dressed at
nan-rriasi encnances
the attractiveness of
the average adult?
Our forbears of the
Victorian era wore
too much for health
or happiness o r
cleanliness. But isn’t
It worse to offend
the eye all through
the lingering sum
mer by not wearing
enough to cover up
blemishes, thebulges Irvta S. Cobb
and the bloats that come with ma«v
turity? Sun baths should be taken
on a doctor's prescription, not at
the comer of First and Main.
Women old enough to know bet
ter are the worst offenders, seems
like. If only they’d stop to con
sider that the snail, which is naked,
would lose in any beauty contest
against the butterfly, which wears
all the regalia the traffic will stand!
But even though it’s for their own
good, you can’t tell ’em. If some
body started the fad of going at
the game while practically nude,
inside of two weeks mumblepeg
would be the national pastime—un
til somebody else thought up a game
to be played by folks without a
stitch on. Or anyhow, just a stitch
here and there.
Doctoring Movie Scripts.
T TSUALLY they lay these yams
on Mr. Sam Goldwyn, who
thrives upon them and goes right
on turning out successes, his motto
being, “What’s grammar as be
tween friends so long as the box
office shows results?” But, for a
change, this one is ascribed to an
other producer, who proudly de
scribes himself as a self-made man,
which, according to his critics, is
relieving the Creator of a consider- '
able responsibility and putting the
blame where the blame belongs.
They also say no self-made man.
should stop with the job only partly
finished. But then Hollywood is full
Of pfertifei trying to push Humpty ^
Dumpty off the wall.
As the tale runs, this gentleman
entered the conference chamber at
his studio and as, with a kingly
gesture, he laid down. a fat sheaf
of typewritten pages, said to the
assembled intellects of his staff:
“Jumpmen, in all my experience
in the picture business this is what
you might call unique. Here is ab
solutely, posstiffly the only poifect
script I have ever read in my ontire
life. I tell you that before we start
altering it"
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Strikes Versus Wars.
DID you ever notice how like a
war is a strike?
The operator and his operatives
are the shock troops that suffer the
heaviest casualties. The owner risks
his profits and perhaps his market
and sometimes his plant The work
er gives up his wages, frequently
his job, occasionally his life.
Stockholders see dividends van
ishing and investments shrinking.
Citizens see their communities dis
rupted. Women and children go on
short rations, many a time go ac
tually hungry. For, as in a war,
the innocent non-combatants bear
most grievous burdens.
Those who really gamer in the
spoils—professional agitators; finan
cial buzzards eager to seize on
bankrupted industries; lawyer* with
their writs and their injunctions;
imported thugs masquerading, for
one side or the other as honest
mechanics—these might be likened
to stay-at-home diplomats and profit
eers and hired mercenaries who
induce friendly nations to turn en
emies so they may gain their own
selfish ends.
After it’s over, we realize that
almost any strike might have been
averted had common sense and
common justice ruled, rather than
greed and entrenched stubbornness
and fomented hate- And the same is
true of almost any war. For every
real benefit to humanity came out
of peace and arbitration, not out at
battle and destruction.
And here’s the final parallel: Ul
timately, the supposed victor finds
himself the actual loser. Tell me
which army won any great strike—
or any great war—and I’ll ten you
who wop the San Francisco fire and
the Galveston flood.
IRVIN S. COBB.
e-WNU Service.
Crocodiles, Alligators
Crocodiles and alligators ara so
closely allied zoologically that many
laymen cannot distinguish between
them. ‘Hence alligators are fre
quently accused of attacking and
killing men when, in reality, the
killers are crocodiles. Naturalists
who'have spent their lives in the
study of -these reptiles, says Col
lier’s Weekly, state that they have
never beard of an authentic case of
a hunt?