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Over the Top Means Rickety* Ride for Japs A partially demolished bridge on the Chinese front provides the setting for this unusual picture. A Jap anese tank followed by soldiers rumbles cautiously over the unstable structure as the army moves forward to a new fighting position on the way to Nanking. General Billotte Takes Post of Governor of Paris Many-medpled General Henri BB lotte, new military governor of Paris, pictured shortly after he had taken over Us important post to succeed the veteran, one-armed General Girand, hero of the World war. World’s Tiniest Ocean Spanners Probably the world's tiniest ocean voyagers are these four-month-old twins, Helen and Hertha Coelln who sailed on the Europa for Schleswig Holstein, 1 Germany, recently. Until their destination is reached, they will be entirely in the hands of traveling agencies. Their mother died recently and their father is sending them to relatives in Germany. Machine Tells Sex of Eggs Dr. Willard P. Funk, (sitting) of Los Angeles and his assistant Jack Davenport shown demonstrating the operation of his new machine which can determine immediately whether a newly laid egg will hatch a pallet or a cockerel. Dr. Funk claims he can change the sex of eggs with the new device. In the past 80 per cent of chickens hatched were roosters. When the contact is made with the egg, the instrument gives off an audible male or female signal Indicating its sex. Cousin of Italian King Is Made Ethioju£sViceroy The dnke of Aosta, cousin of Kins Victor Emmanuel of Italy who has been appointed viceroy of Ethiopia, succeeding Marshal Kodolfo Grazi anl, who mi relieved at his own request. The duke is married to the daughter of the duke of Guise, pretender to the throne of France, i They have two children. Russian Cathedral Observes Anniversary The robin* «t Us eminence the archbishop of North America sad the Aleutian islands was one of the cere monies in the services commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the erection of the Bassiaa Cathedra] Of M. Nicholas is New York, mother eharch of the Bassiaa Orthodox Greek-Catholic faith is the United States. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—President Frsnklin D. Roosevelt pictured on the resr platform of the Presidential special as he departed for a southern fishing trip. 2—Chinese in conquered Shanghai waiting in line for the handful of rice that will stave off starvation. 3—Homer Graber, eighteen, of Mineral Point, Wis., shown with his 1,243-pound Hereford steer that won the grand championship in the Junior feeding contest at the International Livestock show in Chicago. NEW CARDINAL Host Rev. Arthur Htnsley, arch bishop of Westminster cathedral in London, has been selected as one of Ire new cardinals by Pope Pins. He Is the first Englishman to be accord ed this recognition by the Catholic chnrch in many years. Orphan Is Lamb-Raising Champ Boyd Maryhew, ace fourteen, of Belleville, 111., an orphan, was the first of 2,000 boys and girls to win a championship at the national <-H club congress In connection with the International Livestock show in Chi cago recently. Boyd Is shown with his yearling Southdown-Shropshire lambs which were awarded the bine ribbon. Synthetic Sea Serpent Visits New York A 120-foot ut serpent which required 50-men to hold It down was one of the features of a recent holiday parade in New York city. The balloon with a helium capacity of 8,SM cubic feet is shown as it passed through Columbus circle. It was entered by a leading department store. Delicate Surgery Saves Boy’s Life Saved from starvation by surgery after he had accidentally seared his throat with sulphuric acid, nine-year-old Ernest SUrickl of Minot, K. D., wffl soon be able to resume a normal life. Doctors at the Abbott hospital at Minneapolis, Minn., first fed the boy through an incision made in his stomach. Then they laboriously worked a string up through the stomach and out «f the mouth, tying a larger rubber tube to the string each day. She’s Best Canner Among 4-H Girls Miss Mary Frances Thompson of Durham, S. C., given the title of national canning champion by the 4-H club congress held recently in connection with the InteraatteiM. Livestock exposition it Chicago. Prise earners from every state par ticipated la the ceateet. i'. i ... . k'S# RIO, TEXAS. jlv cording to the scientists, who have a great way of naming earthly phenomena without inquiring into the wishes of the phenomena, we are now living in a terrestrial era known as the Hollocene period. This will be news to a lot of peo ple who rather suspected we were jiviug uiiuugn a stage which might be called Chaos. Still, it’s no won der that the word hasn't got around generally yet, be cause this present era is quite a young era as eras go. It's merely a few mil lion years old, which, to our true Bcuiugiai, is me Irvin 8. Cobb lame as yesterday. Mention a few million years to him and he’ll say "phew!’’ and just snap his fingers—like that. I wonder if the authorities would pardon a suggestion from a poor ignoramus whose acquaintance with geology is largely limited to two of its surface phases, namely: Reg ular paved roads and those derned detours. When we consider most of the humorous illustrations and the bulk of the humorous text printed in (he average smart magazine of today, and the even spicier lines heard in smart modern plays, wouldn't it be more fitting to call it, not the Holocene, but the Ob scene period? • • * The Law’s Lone Arm. THE long arm of the law—it’s • 1 grand phrase, isn’t it? So mouth filling, so satisfying to the honest citizen’s soul! It conjures up visions of unrelent ing warfare against crime, inevita ble punishment for the guilty. It’s the bunk! It's the bunk because of crooked lawyers; venal policemen; compla cent prosecutors; soft-hearted or corrupted jurors; witnesses, bribed or intimidated; the law’s delays; reversals of fair verdicts on foolish technicalities; a false sentimentali- j iy which forgets the widow and or phan of the victim and thinks only of the family of the killer; most often of all, abuse of the powers to commute and to pardon and to pa role. These days, when I see a sen tenced offender handcuffed to an officer, I find myself saying to my self, "Chances are that fellow, lit erally or figuratively, is wearing that decoration only temporarily.” ... j The Passing Tears, EVERY newborn year is a rosy a prospect just as nearly every * dying year is a dun-colored dis appointment. But without revived hope what could we look forward tt> except being measured for a shroud? It seems only yesterday when 1937 was busting in, a radiant, bouncing baby-child, his arms burdened with promises, bless his little soul! After several false starts, happy days were here again. Nobody was aim ing to remodel the Supreme court. Senator Ashurst told us so, and didn’t he know? He didn’t. Secretary Wallace, slightly assist ed by Divine Providence, would im mediately have the crop situation well in hand. Grass would grow only in the street leading to the almshouse. The Wall Street boys were expecting two suckers in ev- | ery pot. And the song of the Bulbtil was heard in the land—ah, the bull bull! Within the 12-month the Republi can party again would be a going concern. Well, if it’s a going con cern, the question is, where? And now, laden with future gifts, comes 1938. How time flies! Why, i before you know it, Sistie will be old enough to take a job with the radio J and Buzzie will be signing testimo- I nials. • • • Hamming nouses. A ONCE famous card-sharp—not reformed, but retired—said to me: “Show me a professional gam bling house where the roulette wheel isn't crooked, where any oth er mechanical device is on the square, where the operatives from the bosses on down won’t skin a customer—call him a sucker, if you want to; the terms are interchange able—and I’ll drop dead from i because no such outfit ever nor ever will, not so long as gar can be tricked, as all of them can, and gamblers are out for the coin, as they naturally are, and the hand is quicker than the eye, which if is.” "But how about the mathematics^ percentage in favor of the bank— Isn't that enough?" I asked. "How about the mathematical percentage of crooked law-enforce ment officers who have to bribed?" he countered, never enough co those babies.”
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