The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, October 15, 1923, Image 6

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WOCrottEtUffil MAKES CM, MO WE Nfti'miHKTHirwEAGE’ 6ewsH>«AMFRSH7? justwanma TEASE ME- , SshWAHANE FISH'60MNA &£££ .A PACKAGE M 7H' KITCHEN I] BACKED . S COO .' / What {he World Is {Doing, . C4S SEEN BY (POPULAR ^MECHANICS aMAOAZINE ^ Thrills Made to Order in the Movies H ANGING by the heels on ft O-inch . . ledge with the street cavern yawn- ^—^y 1 1— ing 12 storks bdow is no trick at ftll— ‘ in the movie*. X^A-mjrA'xiL'iill'llllll Ik Muring ft foothold on the edge of ft tall brick precipice and being caught by the Banda of a clock 10 floors above the JXita 'arth, however, contains almost as 5l0n many thrills for the actor as it does for fi'JfS/JTQt I wfv il \ the spectators. \mull* OUT OUR WAY • "Clearer end nearer came tbo ctutle -watchman, Of W« clank, clank, clnak prew louder and louder. “Stay behind thav horso. Jingo to Jack. And In the meantime the unlucky knight could do nothing but etand on hie head and kick hla feet, In an attempt to get ton* It may be set with any number up to 10, and the pictures, the result of a ceaseless de mand on the part of a public long ac customed to seeing speeding auttmo nies plunge over steep cliffs, death- lirpfone crashes, fur more thrills. In some cases "doubles" are em ployed to take the place of the star for the mere hazardous undertakings. Dressed and made up to tr*unl>le the actor, they brave death in leaps from speeding trains to airplanes, jump over cliffs, and ride motorcycles into loco motives with t no chance of winn\ng either fame or .Bkwy. Many risks^however, are taken by os desired. When a button is touches to shut off the ignition, the car is auto matically locked and cannot be oper- that the current would carry floating objects to a sand bar just’above the falls, and a watcher was stationed there to pull her from the water as she •wept paid. But, instead, the current swept her to the other side of the stream and she would have been dashed over the falls to certain death had not her secretary rescued her. In making a picture of a man climb ing the ride of a building and doing apparently perilous stunts many floors above the street, a real building was selected and a circus performer em ployed to double for the actor in the "long wots." Then a fake building was built on top of the real one. The "set" was built in far enough so that Preventing Stream Erosior Along many streams it is necessan to bold (be bank back in some efficient and cheap manner, to prevent erosion An excellent method is shown in tin illustration. A woven-wire fence is erected where the new water edge is to be made, the the stars. In one instance, during the Finally the watchman came into th* room. “What’s all this?" he touted, as he saw the knight. And when Jingo failed to explain, te old man grabbed the knight by the legs and pulled his helmet Sint out of the floor. Then he took tho knight and tftood him back then deposited as indicated, the branches pointing away from the watei and the butts inserted into the fencing. however, tlie drop to the street looked straight down. Use Iron to Float Logs In longing timber tract, in South America and tbo West Indian uUads, the heavier wood, which la cot sufE- eiently light to float, has always proved difficult to move. One firm reecntly •olrrd (hia problem by ming '-floaters," made at nuteeautic t iron, by rbraiai at which the heavy timber waa raltad ■l ei,nut to the era. Don t let aocb n thing happen again, .napped the watchman, nr ho left the room again, with the usual clank, clack, clank and the rattling of hia (rent bunch of keys. Jingo then chlled to Jack and when tho little adventurer tppetrdt, one of the metal knights was A FOUR f FARTV LINE ‘ THE BANKEIMIEBAU). ATHENS, GEORGIA ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton fj/tvim So off they all started. y to buy food for the Squeal> never hav to worry about his pass- rg the physical requirement*. Jn fact all the boys that come from thia section are of the very finer! urtiiiMfi. and they are sure fine fpccimen of manhood and that Is what It takes to make Rood sol dlera. We still have many varan cle.« In all brnnebea of the service and the applicants have Ifeeir rholre of fourteen - different branches, and nineteen different r* for station. And we will J as many together to the sarin I plare that wish to remain togethei I hlle In the service, 1 hs raid. I They receive free, board, cloth ing, medical and dental treatment Th pay is from $21 to $157.50 per month. For further Information call or write the Army Ilecruitjng station, Athens, Ga. quire the British people to nivc^at. a .sacrilege tamake students “holiday.’* Another fers to the “Americans who ha 1 erase tor bones” as “well meaning ghouls." * FOIBBliTE TO V. M. C: 1 MEET The days got colder and colder In Squealy-Moo Land. Jack Frost and all his fairy helpers went through the corn-field, sweetening up the yellow pumpkins that grew * there, and 'thorough grape arbors coloring tho grapes a rich |>%p!« and making them sWcet, too—and •v through the apple orchards, put spice into each winter apple ~6G It would Unte extra fine. - ••• And as for the woodr—they got ■suih a painting ns never was be fore, with reds and rusrets and yellows and browns. But Farmer Brown looked thoughtful. Winter wns coming nnd he was -trying to decide which ones of the Squealy-Moo folk to sell nnd ^Vhleh ones to keep over the cold «twaather. Now Mister Dodger knew wha! ““whs going on In Farmer Brown’s , mind, and hi? was worried. He said so to Nancy nnd Nick, and they talked ir*t>ver ond tried to think of something to do to help Farmer brown out of hlf ^Troubles, and tho barnyard folk as .wall. "Let’ll take a walk, nnd perhaps can think better," suggested ^Mister Dodger, lighting his corn- silk pipe and putting on his corn- hiuk hat. They walked through tho corn field nnd up tho Mine past tbo win ter wheat field that Chnrlle nnd Bob, the big brown, farm horses. % had helped to plow. Then they 'went through the pasture where -Ike cows were, nnd pretty soon they —poms to the creek. And who should be there but _ Misses Duck and Mister Drake and a! lthelr fat children taking a hath. "My. my! But we were dirty!" called M trees Duck. "Wo got Into some black dirt down there in the! Four more Athens and Clprke . hollow and we looked like chlm- (county hoy* were accepted for ney sweeps." I fh#» army during the past week, nnd "Black dirt" exclaimed Mister forwarded to Atlanta for enlist- ^DC-dger. "Show us exactly where 11 ment. F.fO. Burnes, D. L. Prick- Please." , left, P. Hj Cole and O. . Quarrells ii.— “Follow that little path," said j of Athens were accepted fbr Field • Missel Duck, pal.iting with her artillery, ond will be sent to Call- in bin. "And you'll com® to It." [fornln for station. A way went the three of th^m, and | Athens and Clarke Is certainly ■ pretty roon they came to the . furnishing their share of applicants place. It wasn’t a pretty place and ; for the army, stated Sergeant •i: nothing much grew there except j William Ryan In charge of army •i weeds. recruiting here. And one would *'■ Mliter Dodger got down on hlr be surprlrcd to see whnt a fine lot knees nnd picked up soririe thing* of young men they are, from a phy- ill that looked like black atones. "It's steal standpoint, he said. ■||coal!" he cried. "We murt let) Scrgennt Byan.safd: "lam at- {J; Farmer Brown know at once ■ w«»ya g!«d to see one of these Alh- iiiThen he can sell It and get enough t ens boys corns in the office,'as J KING OF GREECE COMING TO U. S. FOR FARM STUDY Moo Landers nil winter." Every word that Mister Dodge said came true. Farmer Brow: kept every .creature he had In ens and comfort for months to come. % (To Bs Continued) cbisiOsTbee •STATE MILITARY (By Associated Press.) L 0 N D O N.—An anonymous Irish correspondent qf the Morn ing Post alleges a dangerous crisis exists in the Free State army. The statement says for mouths there has been an absolute cov erage from the top to the bottom of the army but that now some of the principal officers arc to be ro have been courtmartialed, having come out in open Insubordination,' If not rebellion against the gov ernment. Meantime, the troops will not act to enforco collection of the 75 per cent arrears in rentals which the government has ordered col lected within the next three months under the land act of 1923. IRE ATHENIANS JOIN U. S, W. T. Forbes, Athens Y. M. C. A. secretary, has been announced as one of the ten delegates from Georgia to attend the Y. M. C. A. constitutional convention to be- .held at Cleveland, Ohio, October 17 to 26, at which time more than 450 representatives from the United Statts and Canada will be present. Mr. Frobes will leave within the nfext few days. Many matters of great impor- Oeorge of tance to the Y. M. C. A. move- Greece, traveling Incognito anil men t In North America will be ■«.mi»enl<‘d by Queen Elizabeth, vlll come to the United Stater next year to study farming. This was the word brought by C. I) Morris, secretary of the Near Eaat relief In Greece, who returned to NVw York today. Mr. Morris said the king him self had told his of his plans, say ing he and the queen would spend most of their time In California nnd hoped to escape public atten tion. eon, delighted Athenl»n s Sunday ADAM AND EVA and Monday* . ’ 4 T^e boys, all manly little chaps, arrived in Athens Saturday after- 8h9n and spent Sunday and part of'Monday here. They gave a concert in the auditorium of the Colonial Sunday afternoon, with the house packed with people. Monday morning the boys gave another concert on the lawn of the city hall with a great crowd gath ered about pleased with the per formance. The drum and bugle corps of the Industrial Home visits Athens annually and Is always a big at traction. Ernest Jones, a nme- year-old boy, plays one of the in struments, a cornet. Athens Visitors LONDON PAPERS SCORE REMOVAL OF OGLETHORPE (By Associated Press.) LONDON—Four of London’s morning newspaper^ join In the protest against the removal from Knglnnd of the remains of Gen eral James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of (he state of Georgia. Ono editorial writer professes he he is at a loss to discover why Among those visiting In Athern Monday were A. P. Hall Moultrie; S. W. Holllcraft Richmond Va.; T. Doyd Gay Columbus Ohio. M. McGravf nnd Mrs. McGraw Geneva. Ohio; W. F. Oldham. Lex- taken up by the convention, ac- jngton, Ky.. F. M. Walters, Lynch cording to reports from the con- burg; Jay M. Solinger, St. Louis; vention city. Among t/em is tho u. F. and Mrs. Walker, West question of "How tho world’s west Point. largest lay movement, maintain ing its traditional democracy of I h. F. Walker. Jr.. Weft Point, organization and service, can bH-, Ga . ; Miss Catherine Walker, West ter meet its increasing responsi- 1 Po j nt , Ga.; H. B. Wiliams. New biHtie*.” . , ... . I York. Jack Eubank. New York; E/ The convention is said to oe’ w . Mason, Atlanta. one of the most important events? in the history of the Y. M. C. A. * Wm Wallace. New York. O. B. Approximately 2,000 associations Mc0rIff( Cincinnati; James Sullers. in the United States and Qai.ada New York CIty; Harry P< Clark* “ " represented by the ?ta^i I{revnrd N c Mr ftm} Mrj . T . D - which are de *PCunard, Montlcello, Ga. delegations, at the rate of one every 1,200 active members. Industrial Home Boys Play Here To Packed House Two concerts, drum and bugle given by corp* ■ ot Oglethorpe University should "re* Georgia Industrial Home at M.-‘ patch. 'Jay M. Rolnger, St Louis. Mo. O. A. Reed Manrfleld, Ohio; B. U. Lone, Atlanta; T. Y. McCarty. Gainesville, Fla.; H. H. Perry, At- bany, Gn.; U. B. Everett, Valdosta JOHONNESBURO, Africa — A virgin reef, apparently of groat richness, haa been discovered at Umslngwane. It was found beneath the alluvial soil of a native mealie The Mighty Babe Out At Home JACK DAW’S ADVENTURES In the Olden Castle CHAPTER 7 Story by Hal Cochran. Drawings by Lee Wright ' *4* m A'.'A z'': ’ ' \ FIRST GAME:—This shows how*B«be Ruth lost • big chance to secure what wuold have been a valuable run (or the Yankees by (ailing to slide into - tho piste in the (i(th. After trilling he triad to score on Bob Meusel’a fly'of which Frisch made an astounding catch in short canter. .V great peg by Frisch to Snyder doubled Ruth. Billy Evans is the umpire. Keyless Auto Lock Acts When Car is Stopped Besides-automatically blocking the ignition when the car is stopped, a key. less automobile lock positively bolds the steering gear. Then an no keys to forget as the device te fitted to the steering poet and operates with 10 but- HOXPAY. OCTOnF.lt 1.-, - -OX Cap Weighing the Baby CH. ADAM* I WAN T YOU TO GO TO THE- l BUTCHCRS POR THE. MEAT WON’T YOU TA«c. the baby along and have, him WEIGHED? I WANT __J TO see. IF HE. 1-T^ " ■."■"g IS GAINING ' ROCK-AfcVE nm TEN POUNDS THCL. Just three pounds ANO NICE. AND TENDER.MR .JONES , DOT, SIR THE. BONES BABY? ri*)iavs> MUMKVIVi FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS By iilossc You Win, Tag «r H FISH ? MX7BE MlSlXlcEM W.TA6.TM NCT FOOL,,; CHi'AXJ CAM r 1 FOOLMS-IkNCW] V1ERB60NNA J HAMEFISH- ) i Gocmeoao/j ITBLDYlWmAT WE'Pfc- TAS-VlE ARE WAVING non- 6COW- HJMN6 LAM9CHCRT COC0J- UlECE LAMB ToNiswr SfiNNAttA-or oiops FISH FOR SUPPER 230. By Wiman