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Swank and the Ball Parks
“Get me a table up front at the
ball game!” . . . “How’s about a
reservation for six at the double- i
header. And will you put on four
quarts of champagne! . . . Never
mind who’s pitching; what I wanna
know is who’s in the floor show!”
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These may be routine cracks In
American big league ball parks this
season. Two private club rooms j
with bars and 400 boxes to which
members only will be permitted will
be a feature of the games at Yankee
Stadium.
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The boxes and club rooms will
be open to members paying from
$6OO to $OOO a season, and most of
the memberships have already been
grabbed by bankers, brokers, busi
ness men, theatrical men, etc.
Thus will exclusiveness, social
distinctions be introduced to that
stronghold of democracy, the Amer
ican national game of baseball.
Down through baseball history the
millionaire has rubbed elbows with
the street cleaner at the ball parks.
“Take your coat off, let your hair
down, relax and be one of the
gang!” has been the traditional cry.
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All men may not have been posi
tive they were equal but at the ball
game they felt closer to it than any
where else.
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And now—of all places—the base
ball park is to find class conscious
ness, the upper and lower levels of
•ociety, financial distinction and a
touch of the night club and country
club flavor. One club room will be
modernistic with chromium fixtures
and red leather chairs; the other
will carry the mood of an old Eng
lish inn of the Heathcliff-on-Finch
ely-Finchely type. The bar and res
taurant will be a deluxcr.
Bleacher fans •'■ise!
Wfe demand that the bottle of
beer, the poi> bottle, the frankfur
ter end the cause of democracy re
main intact at American baseball
parks never to give way to the
breast of chicken under glass, the
magnum of vintage wine, cafe so
ciety, IV gossip columns and special
privileges for the bourbons!
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The ver shortage may be so
serious this summer that we will be
applying for priority to get a small
glass of suds. But we can stand
anything up to the point where, in
order to get a schooner of beer, we
are compelled, through a tie-in sale,
to buy a crate of sweet cider.
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A rich New York landlord and real
estate speculator who worked the
old game of charging a war veteran
several thousand dollars for a few
bits of cheap furniture in order to
get a small apartment, got ten days
in jail and a fine of $lOO the other
day. Our idea, if that is the max
imum penalty, would be to make the
landlord come across with at least
$5,000 for the chair in his cell.
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A. A. Milne says that years of
war have hardened the British so
that they “are now immune from
the scourge of victory.”
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It seems more and more appar
ent that what UNO needs more than
anything else are bumpers front
and rear and a bullet-proof wind
shield.
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VANISHING AMERICANISMS
“Bock Beer, Five Cents.”
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“Here’s a quarter. Go get a
quart of ice cream.”
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“I don’t make a lot of money
but I can get all I need and have
some fun.”
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“Let’s buy him two new suits
for Easter.”
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HERE AND THERE
They say General Marshall, back
from China, took one look at the
American scene and exclaimed,
“And I thought it hard to under
stand Chinese!” . . . Are-We-Gonna-
Get-Inflation Item; the $3.50 filet
mignon without vegetables
Bakery inquiry, now that the size of
the loaf of bread has been cut, “Do
you want the small loaf or the in
visible one?”
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Winston Churchill, getting still an
other degree, must wish he could
repeat his famous line, “This may
not be the beginning of the end, but
it is the end of the beginning.”
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Shopper’s Lament
The shop windows bulge with the
loveliest things;
A feast for the greediest eyes!
It seems to hurt more with rare ob
jects galore
To find that they don’t have your
size.
REMEMBER —
When a woman’s complain "lie spends
his weeks salary on liquor” implied that
he got more than two drinks?
Back when it wasn’t necessary to begin
each day by checking to see haw far away
the nearest war was?
Better Market Fowl
Needed by Farmers
Chicken of Tomorrow
Must Have More Meat
While the development of meatier
chickens has been remarkable in
the past few years, there is still
room for improvement.
In order to add at least 10 per
cent more meat to the present-day
chicken, to secure a higher percent
age of meat to bone structure, a
hunt for the “Chicken of Tomor
row” is under way.
D. D. Slade, Lexington, Ky., poul
tryman, has been appointed chair
man of a national committee which
will supervise the distribution of
$B,OOO in prizes to poultrymen who
can improve their breed and
strain, so as to produce the ideal
market fowl. The contest is spon
sored by the A & P Food Stores.
The contest will last for three
years and provides for progress
awards totaling $3,000 with $5,000 go
ing to the poultryman who develops
the ideal market fowl.
Improved Equipment
Hatchet-Action Wrench
An automatic, adjustable, ratchet
action wrench, product of Hedstrorn
Industries, C h i
cago, has just been
placed on the mar
The wrench ad A
justs itself auto J|
matically through
an instant thumb- XHi
automatic eye con- M.... * ; JPH
trol that keeps the
jaws in positive
constant grip on
square, hexagonal, metric and odd
sized nuts while the wrench handle
is in manual operation.
Cow Tether Device
a ninJltUfilltii-i u j v*- - 'i*,.*.
Tether That Holds the Cow But
Gives Her Plenty of Freedom.
Pasture may be increased by
staking the cow along the road
or irrigation ditch. A wire cable
may be used as shown, which has
been fastened to two iron stakes. A
block on the cable will keep the
chain from winding and hold it away
from the stakes.
Treating Poultry for
Gapeworm Infestation
A safe and rapid treatment for
removing gapeworms from chickens
and turkeys has
/'JgjfijT' been developed by
[, f\ the U. S. bureau of
V / \ animal industry.
'i yixk ] The new treat
i 1 ukl ment involves the
I ' use chemical,
barium antimony!
iWfE \ tartrate, as a dust.
When breathed by
J c -~—l \ infested chicks it
~ \ causes dislodgment
Gapeworms of the parasites.
The P ow d e red drug
is dispersed in a
box containing infested birds, and
the powder is inhaled by these birds.
As many as 50 birds have been
treated successfully at one time
with one ounce of the chemical.
Vaccination Alone Can
Not Cure Brucellosis
The vaccination of heifer and bull
calves 4 to 8 months old is usually
advisable when there is any possi
bility of brucellosis, or Bang’s dis
ease. When an outbreak is start
ing it might be advisable to also
vaccinate the adult herd.
Vaccination of calves, blood-test
ing of breeding cows, and proper
feeding, sanitation, and management
present a ptogram that should
largely do away with brucellosis.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY, GEORGIA
By ED WARD EMERINE
WNU Features
T WAS a hot day the late summer
of 1673 when Father Marquette
and Louis Joliet with their party,
after a futile journey down the Mis
sissippi, came back up a stream
later known as the Illinois river to
claim the land for the glory of
France and to convert the heathen
for the glory of God. That event
introduced Illinois to modern his
tory books, but long, long before
that. . . .
A great inland sea lay over all
of Illinois, with huge sharks and
armored fishes swimming in it.
Ages later, the sea levels were low
ered, and there were vast coastal
marshes with forests of tall fern
trees. Decaying vegetation fell into
black water to be compressed and
hardened and later to become coal.
Eventually the sea dried up, and
out of came the cold wind
to change the tropical climate of
Illinois.
Growing glaciers moved south
ward, crunching and grinding, until
there was a sheet of ice covering
all but a small tip of the state.
Birds and animals retreated before
it, or died.
And then came a day when Illi
nois lay in the sun again, wet and
muddy and smooth. Plants reap
peared. Grass grew luxuriantly,
new kinds of trees sprang up.
Lakes were changed to marshes,
and marshes transformed into
prairies
By and by, men came to live along
the rivers and bury their dead in
mounds. Known as mound dwellers,
they were followed by others whom
we know as Indians. In those days,
herds of bison roamed the lush
prairies and drank from the mud
holes.
In 1671, La Salle crossed the port
age from the Chicago to the Illinois
river probably the first white man
to visit Illinois. He later fortified a
camp near the present site of
Peoria, which he called Fort Creve
coeur.
About 1700 two settlements were
formed by Indians, wandering
traders and missionaries one at
Kaskaskia, the other at Cahokia. In
1717, these settlements were an
nexed to the province of Louisiana,
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DWIGHT H. GREEN
Governor of Illinois
as the district of Illinois. The name
“Illinois” was derived from Illini,
a confederation of Indian tribes. In
1720, Fort Chartres and three new
villages were established by the
French, and the entire district was
put under a military commandant.
treaty of Paris in 1763, Illi
nois was ceded to the English, but
they couldn't take possession until
they made a treaty with Chief Pon
tiac two years later. Then Illinois
became a part of Quebec province
in 1774. It was not until 1783 that
it was formally ceded to the United
States, and then largely because an
expedition of Virginians under Gen.
George Rogers Clark resulted in
virtual conquest of the region. Vir
ginia, Massachusetts and Connecti
cut all held claims to Illinois at one
time, but finally ceded their inter
ests to the United States, and the
region became a part of the North
west Territory.
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Chicago is America’s second largest city. Above is skyline from the lake front.
Illinois’ Greatness Shown in Facts and Figures
State is third in population (7,-
897,241 in 1940). Urban population.
73.6 per cent. Of the 7,504,202 white
persons, 969,373 are foreign born;
105,553 from the British Isles;
Poles, 138,700; Germans, 138,023;
Scandinavians, 101,414; Italians,
98,244; Russians, 74,454. Negroes
number 387,446.
Twelve thousand, nine hundred
and eighty manufacturers, value of
products $4,794,860,733; rank third.
Coal is Illinois’ most important
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State Sovereignty ( L
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From 1800 to 1809, however, the
state we know as Illinois was a
part of Indiana territory! It was
then organized as the territory of
Illinois, the seat of government be
ing at Kaskaskia. The first territori
al legislature convened in 1812, and
Illinois was admitted to the Union
in 1818. Shadrach Bond was the first
governor.
Serious Indian troubles beset
those who ventured early into Illi
nois. The Sacs and Foxes were
eventually moved across the Missis
sippi river in 1823, and Black Hawk
was defeated in 1832. Settlement
then proceeded rapidly.
Chicago, the state’s greatest city
and second in size of all American
cities, was almost left out of Illi
nois. When Illinois became a full
fledged state, a strip of land 51
miles wide was added to the north
ern boundary of the original terri
torial limits. Today this strip of
land, with its Lake Michigan shore
line, contains 55 per cent of the
state’s population—and Chicago!
A lot has happened in Illinois.
Joseph Smith, the founder of the
Mormon church, was killed at
Nauvoo in 1844. The Illinois and
Michigan canal was built in 1848,
and the Illinois Centra! railroad was
constructed from 1850 to 1856. In
1848, the state barred slavery, and
there followed the historic debates
of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A.
Douglas. Illinois sent 214,133 sol
diers into the field during the Civil
war. In 1871 occurred the great Chi
cago fire, and the railroad and Hay
market riots took place soon after.
Chicago was host to the World’s
Columbian exposition in 1893, and
to the Century of Progress exposi
tion in 1933-34. And there was, of
course, the gang warfare of prohibi
tion days!
In Illinois, John Deere gave to
mineral resource. There is enough
fuel stored under the state’s sur
face to supply the world’s need for
the next 130 years. The deepest and
largest bituminous coal mine in the
United States is located in Chris
tian county-Orient No. 2. Coal un
derlies two-thirds of the state.
One of the leading oil producing
states. A large producer of lime
stone, silica, fluor spar, fuller’s
earth and lead.
Illinois ranks first in farm ma-
the world the steel plow. Wild Bill
Hickok, the western sheriff, was
born south of Mendota. Ulysses S.
Grant was an Illinois cobbler when
the Civil war broke out. At Starved
Rock, a band of Indians starved to
death rather thdn surrender to their
enemies. Headed by the Harpe
brothers, an outlaw gang used
Cave in Rock on the Ohio river as
headquarters. One of the oldest set
tlements in the state, Shawnee
town, was recently moved in its
entirety to higher ground to escape
flood waters. Vandalia was once the
capital of the state, before Spring
field was selected. Indian mounds,
built baskeful by basketful of
earth, carried by man, may be seen
at Cahokia.
The list grows long. All happened
in Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln
split rails, kept a store, and wooed
Ann Rutledge.
With an elevation of 267 feet at
Cairo and 1,241 at Charles Mound,
Illinois is covered for the most part
with a deep layer of glacial drift,
but in the river bottoms are depos
its of alluvial silt, forming a rich
loam of unusual fertility. It is a
land of corn and grain, fat livestock
and fine homes. In the south part
of the state, known is “Egypt,” is
an extension of ti Ozarks, with
fruit orchards, coal mines, scenic
grandeur. There’s Jo Daviess
county in the northwestern part
with beautiful Apple River canyon.
Everywhere in Illinois are land
marks hallowed by the name of
Abraham Lincoln.
A lot of things have happened in
Illinois enough, in fact, to make
it one of the great livestock, dairy
ing farming, mining, oil-producing
and industrial states of the Union,
nor does it lack in the development
of education, science, literature and
art. It is truly a great state. Its
people made it that way.
chinery manufacture and is well to
the top in the manufacture of steel,
electric goods, clothing, furniture,
cement and printed matter. Its
slaughtering and meat packing
plants are the largest in the nation.
First in hard road mileage; first
in soy bean production; second in
corn and oats; fifth in wheat; third
in combined value of farm horses,
cattle, sheep and swine.
Cash income from marketings
(1943); crops, $398,911,000; live
stock and livestock products, $747,.
715,000.
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Released by Western Newspaper Union!
Lesson for April 14
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
HOW JESUS’ FRIENDS
RESPONDED
LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:16-20; 5:18-20-
10:46, 52; Luke 5:27, 28,
MEMORY SELECTION—He left all. rose
up, and followed him.—Luke 5:28.
Friendship calls for an exchange
—not of gifts or possessions neces
sarily, but of service, love and fel
lowship.
The friends of Jesus responded to
the warmth of His affection and the
appeal of His call, and they gave
themselves in life and service to
Him.
Many in the church have forgotten
that part of the friendship of Jesus
Christ. They want to count Him as
their friend, they expect much of
Him; but they give little or nothing
in return. Their love is cold, their
service indifferent, their witness
powerless.
Not every one of Jesus’ friends
is called to be a preacher or a
teacher. He needs those who will
be His faithful followers, just a liv
ing testimony without special office
or message.
To effectively present the contrasts
of our lesson, we have arranged
the verses in slightly different se
quence. Among the friends of Jesus
I. Some Became Preachers (Mark
1:16-20),
These men had met Jesus before
(John 1:35-51), but now He was
ready to call them away from their
daily occupation as fishermen and
make them “fishers of men.”
Such a change was not an easy
one to make. It meant the giving up
of an established earthly calling, a
place in the community, home life
and family, tor the service of the
Lord. That was to bring persecu
tion, ridicule, poverty and loneliness.
But “straightway they forsook their
nets.”
Let the members of the church
and pastors be on the alert to sense
the call of God to young men and
women to the ministry and to the
mission field, and then let them do
everything possible to encourage
them on their way.
11. Others Became Followers
(Mark 10:46, 52).
When Jesus came by, blind Barti
maeus began to cry, “Jesus, son of
David have mercy on me” (v. 47).
Many around him tried to hush his
voice (v. 48), but he cried the more.
Through that babel of voices
Jesus heard him, stopped and sent
for him, and healed him. The ear
of our Lord is always attuned to
hear the cry of the one in need,
and His heart is quick to respond
to his call. He can hear the cry
of the repentant sinner through all
the confusing sounds of our day.
Bartimaeus became a “follower”
of Jesus. He probably had no posi
tion in the church, no call to preach,
but what a testimony he had. (cf.
John 9:25).
Jesus needs simple, steady fol
lowers. Men and women with a
plain, effective testimony of salva
tion. The army of the Lord is not
made up of generals and officers
only. Perhaps we have more of
them than we need.
111. Some Stayed at Home (Mark
5:18-20).
This striking story of the deliv
erance of the mad man shows the
importance of testimony at home.
The people had asked Jesus to
leave (v. 17) because in delivering
the maniac He had caused some
swine to go mad and run into the
sea.
These men needed a witness, and
the most effective possible word to
them would come from the deliv
ered demoniac. He wanted to go
with Jesus, but at the Master’s word
he stayed at home.
It is hard to leave home and loved
ones to go afar to witness for Jesus
Christ, but sometimes it is easier
to speak for Him in a strange land
than at home. Even Jesus found no
honor in His own city.
If you are called to witness for
the Lord in the small circle of your
own family or community, trust
God to make that word for Jesus
tremendously effective. He can do
i it!
IV. Others Left Home and Busi
ness (Luke 5:27, 28).
Levi—better known to us as Mat
thew was “a member of that
hated group of renegade Jews, who
served the Roman invader and
helped him in his cruel work of
wringing extortionate taxes from
the people” (Earl L. Douglass). As
a result, he was rich and undoubted
ly had a fine home and every de
sirable material possession.
He had come to know Jesus and
when the call came suddenly to fol
low Jesus, he did not hesitate; he
did not stop to gather up his
money; he did not sell his house;
but he stood up and left all, and
followed Jesus.
If Jesus really means every
thing to a man or a woman there
is nothing in this world that can
hold him back when Jesus calls.
He is ready to go to the ends of
the earth, and let whosoever will
care for the business, his posses
sions, everything (cf. Matt. 19:29).
