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FAMOUS TOWER OF PISA
IN DANGER OF FALLING
Italy Will Call for Help of American
Engineers to Save Ancient
Monument.
Rome.—After 771 years es giddy
leaning exactly 10 feet out of plumb
the famous tower of Pisa has added a
few Inches to Its cant. Unless reme
dial measures are adopted soon, the
remarkable old pile will finally stretch
its 188 feet of length lengthwise with
a sudden crash.
The problem of succoring the tower
Is too much for European engineering
technique, so Italy plans to send to the
United States for engineers to move
the medieval monument to a safer
foundation in another corner of the
square It has overlooked for nearly
ten centuries.
Subterranean streams have weak
ened the tower’s site. When it was
built In 1154 the ancient architect en
visaged a sturdy, upright tower which
would carry his fame to posterity.
Even as the workmen placed the stones
of the round tower body the tower
began to lean. Before the thing was
completed the uppermost cornice jutted
out of perpendicular. Some slight al
terations were made, and the structure
achieved fame through the centuries
as the leaning tower of Pisa.
Because the tower rests on the sur
face of the ground, it Is believed that
It easily could be lifted and removed
to a spot where bedrock would assure
against another tardy subsidence. The
structure could retain Its unnatural
slant on Its new site.
There is no Immediate danger of
collapse, according to the Italian en
gineers who discovered that the slant
had increased. Tests probably will be
made of the subsoil In various sections
of the spacious square and a conven
ient and safe spot selected.
European engineers are rarely called
upon to deal with buildings that can
not be scaled with ladders. Business
houses and residences are not high.
Therefore, American experience will be
welcome when Italy decides upon the
time and place of removal of the tower
of Pisa.
Bryn Mawr Girl Elopes
With Owner of Garage
Philadelphia.—After police searched
highways and hospitals all night for
Miss Mary L. Norris, Bryn Mawr so
ciety girl, and after the police of New
York, Baltimore and Washington had
been enlisted In the hunt, it was
learned the young woman had eloped
to Elkton, Md., where she was mar
ried. The bridegroom Is Warren R.
Vanmeter, owner of a service station
and garage.
Miss Norris Is a debutante of four
years ago and lived with her father.
Isaac Norris, at Falrhlil, Bryn Mawr.
She left home, saying she was going
to visit a friend. When she had not re
turned at midnight, her father made
Inquiries and learned she had not vis
ited the friend’s home. The police were
notified and given a description, with
photographs of the young woman.
It was later learned Miss Norris and
Vanmeter had driven to Elkton, which
they reached shortly after 2 in the
morning. They awakened a marriage
license clerk, who Issued the license.
They went to the home of Rev. Ernest
B. Weaver, where they were married.
Miss Norris has achieved prominence
as a breeder of English bulldogs at the
family estate. Her father is the son
of Dr. Isaac Norris, who was an emi
nent physician.
Pendulum Burglar Get*
Little for Acrobatics
New York. —The ’’pendulum bur
glar” made his first appearance In the
exclusive Columbia university section
and performed a stunt that police said
was entirely new to them. He went
into the basement of a six-story
apartment house and cut the dumb
waiter rope at the bottom.
He then went to the roof, by the
stairs and through the scuttle, and
pulled up the severed rope, which re
mained firmly attached to the little
house on the roof. Carrying It to the
edge of the roof, he dropped over, I
thus providing himself with a means ;
of swinging himself to the windows of
several apartments.
As it happened, his daring Ingenuity
netted him only sl2. as he was fright
ened away after entering only two
apartments.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to express our appro-1
eiation for the sympathy and kind
ness extended us in our bereavement. :
the ioss of our loved one, Carrie,
Sue Blocker, and to thank our |
friends for the lovely floral offerings.
Mrs. N. L. Blocker and Daughters.
Bluffton, Ga„ May 16, 1926.
FOR RENT— Four rooms for rent
cheap; close in. Call on MRS. B. E.
BROOKS, Church Street. 30-4tp
RAISE FUND TO STOP
JOKES ABOUT PLUMBERS
National Bureau Spending $250,000 to
Create "Higher Prestige” for
Artisan.
Evansville, Ind. —An organization In
Evansville Is spending a fortune an
nually to stop Jokes about plumbers.
The organization is the National
Trade Extension Bureau of the Plumb
ing and Heating Industries. It is
spending $250,000 or more a year on
publicity "to create better public rela
tions and higher prestige” for its mem
bers, according to Howard E. Jones,
director of the “Sales Service Help
Department.” Mr. Jones, who has
advisory control over the expenditure
of the $250,000, adds, significantly;
“Higher prestige means less likelihood
of plumbers being made the butt of
superannuated Jbkes at tbelr ex
pense."
Vaudevllllans, newspaper reporters
and editors particularly are ebserved
by Mr. Jones. More than one has re
ceived a kind but curt note from him
that a plumber is not to be laughed at.
When somebody Inadvertently told
Mr. Jones the old joke about a plumb
er going home for his tools and charg
ing the time up. Mr. Jones calmly re
torted : "There are exactly 23,345
tools and plumbing parts used by the
plumber. You wouldn’t expect him to
carry all these on his back every time
he got a call, would you?"
Pari* Laughs at Threats
to Move Fashion Center
Paris. A dispatch has reached
Paris from London which has served
as a challenge to all the "couturiers"
of the French city. It Is to the effect
that London Is about to wrest from Its
rival the coveted title of "capital of
fashion,” and that a new English or
ganization, with a capital of 8,700,000
francs, has been organized with this
end in view.
Naturally the French answer Is "Im
possible,” for at Paris, say the arbiters
of style, “La mode est un art.”
Even though the responsible ‘‘artists’’
are attracted to other countries, the
French capital is in no danger, the
French say. These emigres are power
less abroad, they all wish to return,
they continue, and the secret is “Paris
and fashion are one. It is a question
of air, of atmosphere, of rivalry, of
background. That Is all there is to it.”
So Paris is not worried over British
threats or American threats to her
supremacy in the world of fashion.
The Rue de la Palx still maintains a
proud disdain for the rest of the
world. Only one thing Paris asks, and
that is a clear understanding that “to
copy is to steal.” This is becoming a
sore point which touches not the pride
of the French, but their pocketbooks.
IT DRIVES OUT WORMS
The surest sign of worms in children is
paleness, lack of interest in play, fretful
ness, variable appetite, picking at the
nose and sudden starting in sleep. When
these symptoms appear it is time to give
White’s Cream Vermifuge. A few doses
drives out the worms and puts the little
one on the road to health again. White’s
Cream Vermifuge has a record of fifty
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EARLY COUNTY NEWS
PLEASANT GROVE
EPWORTH LEAGUE
Sunday Night, May 24.
Subject: “Planning to Make the
Most of the Summer.”
Leader —Mrs, Shelley Simmons.
Scripture Lesson: Mark 6:31-32,
Romans 13:11-14.
Song: Onward. Epworth Leaguers.
Prayer.
“No Time for Letting Up”—Bill
Hobbs.
“Storing Time” —Sallie Lou King.
Song: “Loyal Epworth Leaguers.”
Lord’s Prayer.
“Cause to Lament”—Fryson Chand
ler.
‘‘Let’s Laugh”—Cyril Cox.
“Don’t Get Summeritis” —Harvey
Woolf.
Song: “It’s the Old Epworth League
Spirit.”
"Satan Constantly Active” —Ber-
nice Hill.
"We Are Words” —6 Children.
Song: “The White and the Gold.”
Talk: “What Should Characterize
a Christian’s Vacation ” —Mrs. Ma
linda Mann.
Reading: "How Little It Costs” —
Annie Belle Harper.
Song: ‘‘Brighten the Corner.”
Talk: "What Our Epworth League
Can Do to Make the Most of the
Summer” —Mr. Shelley Simmons.
Reading: “It’s Not Your League,
It’s You” —Eddie Lee Chandler.
Song: “If Jesus Goes with Me.”
Talk: “The Coming Assembly”—
Mrs. Shelley Simmons.
Song. Benediction.
JAKIN B. Y. P. U.
The Jakin B. Y. P. U. held its
regular meeting last Sunday night
and the following program was ren
dered by Group 1:
Subject: Our Young People and
Church Support.
Drill on Bible Readings.
Introduction —Miss Vesta Minter.
Detained Volunteers —Mr. Harrell.
Responsibility Measured by Abili
ty—Miss Vesta Minter.
Churches Support All of Christ’s
Causes —Opha Scroggins.
Insure the Future Financing of the
Kingdom—Harvard Bryant.
Seed Thoughts of Stewardship—
Bronson Minter.
Song. Benediction.
There was a good crowd at church
Sunday night even though it was
raining. Everybody come back and
be with us again next Sunday night.
The B. Y. P. U. social given’ at
Miss Glennis Bryant’s home was
enjoyed by all present.
Contributed by Captain Group 1.
t Money back without question
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‘The Signal Tower’
Greater than “The Storm”
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‘THE TELEPHONE GIRL’
Number 5
SATURDAY
Fred Thompson
The greatest of all screen daredevils
—IN —
Galloping Gallapher
AND
‘INTO THE NET’
Chapter No. 5
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Tuesday and Wednesday
Ernest Torrence, Cullen Landis, Mary Astor
and Phyllis Haver
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“The Fighting
Coward”
A Paramount super-production
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Educational Comedy
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