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TTOUSTON, TEXAS.—I used
Ai to be a pretty fair hand at
Indorsing things. But I realize
now what a piker I was. I in¬
dorsed only one thing at a time.
For the present champions, I of¬
fer a suggestion. When that distin¬
guished world trav¬
eler (“Bringing Tes¬
timonials Back
Alive”) and that
eminent movie star,
who lives in Holly¬
wood right next to
Live Heading Mat¬
ter and is authoress
of “Miss Colddeck
Recommends,” get
through indorsing
practically every¬ them
thing else, let i rv in S. Cobb
then club in and at¬
tain the very highest peak of in-
dorsementology by jointly indorsing
the famous society queen who has
indorsed more products than they
even, or anybody.
Maybe it’s a sign of the times
that today the most fascinating lit¬
erature and the most familiar
names are found in the advertising
sections of a magazine rather than
in the table of contents.
• • •
Noted Ancestors.
^'ranch rA N THE little Hogg-Diekson
at Casa Blanca, Mexico—
only 300,000acres—I met the caporal,
or head man, of the cow herd and one
famous as a rifle-shot, an upstand¬
ing, clear-eyed Mexican, but, I fan¬
cied, with some faint indefinable sug¬
gestion of the Anglo-Saxon in his
facial contours. However, his name,
as I caught it, was pronounced “Er¬
nesto Boo-na,” which, to my alien
ears, sounded Latinesque enough
for all purposes.
He knew no English, yet, when I
mentioned Kentucky—a thing I’ve
been known to do before—he
poured out a rippling flood of Span¬
ish. Louis Kresdorn, the Texas-born
manager, translated:
“Ernesto says he has heard of a
far-away place called Kentucky. Ac¬
cording to a legend in his family,
his great-great-grandfather once
lived there—was muy valiante, muy
vivo, and was the nephew of an even
greater Gringo warrior who drove
the savages before him like tumble¬
weeds before a wind.”
So I saw a light and I inquired
how Ernesto spelled his last name
—he spelled it the orthodox way.
So, as members of the same stock,
a pioneer ancestress of mine having
married a kinsman of the great
pathfinder, I held a reunion with this
mighty huntsman, who is proud that
he too, collaterally, is descended
from Daniel Boone.
Dachshunds.
A ¥ LIKE dachshunds. They’ve more
sense of humor than anything I
ever saw that came out of Prussia.
I always figured the breed was pro¬
duced by crossing a rat terrier on
a German compound verb, and—I
still believe you could combine use¬
fulness with their natural comedy
by training them to retrieve collar
buttons from under low bureaus.
I indorse the phrase of the math¬
ematical sharp who said a dachs¬
hund was half a dog high and a dog
and a half long, but I claim Cap¬
tain Mike Hogg’s chauffeur, Mose,
coined the best description yet.
When Mrs. Hogg brought home the
first one Mose ever beheld, his eyes
bulged out like twin push-buttons on
a mahogany door-jamb.
“Lawsy, Miss Alice!” he ex¬
claimed, “whut is this here thing?”
“It’s a dog.”
“Wellum,” said Mose, “if you
hadn't told me, I’d ‘a’ said it was
a snake on roller skates.”
Hunting in Texas.
A IT WAS raining so hard even the
seagulls were trying to get in the
clubhouse. So the ducks went away
somewhere, out of the weather. So
the hunters, who were less intelli¬
gent than the ducks, came back
from the blinds dripping like so
many leaky hot water bottles.
After being bailed out, we sat
down to vittles—nothing unusual,
just the customary club dinner. All
we found on the menu was beef
hash, duck stew, liver and onions,
country smoked sausage and home¬
made headcheese, also hot biscuits,
corn pones and rice cakes; likewise
turnip greens, rice, sweet potatoes,
squash, snapbeans and eye hominy;
moreover, six kinds of pickles,
preserves, jellies and jams; besides
stewed pears, apple pie, papershell
pecans and various fruits. Then
Mrs. Jacob Smothers, the club host¬
ess, came in to say that, if anybody
in the future craved anything spe¬
cial, she'd try to fix it up—and won¬
dered why such of her gorged guests
as weren’t too far gone uttered fee¬
ble laughter.
Being now convalescent, I am
able to report that Southern Texas
is one part of the Union where eat¬
ing is still being carried on as a
regular habit.
IRVTN S. COBB.
Copyright.—WNU Servics.
lYeirs tlericw of Current Events
BILLION FOR DEFENSE
President Wants Bigger Navy . . . Budget Message
Reveals Larger Deficit, Less Revenue
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Silk to feed anti-Japanese bonfire flames is being gathered from the
shapely limbs of girls at Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where the
delegates to the third annual convention of the American Student Union
staged a demonstration for a boycott against Japanese goods. Silk stock¬
ings, shirts and neckties were burned.
SUMMARIZES THE WORLD’S WEEK
© Western Newspaper Union.
Budget Message Summary
\/f ORE vitally important than his
A^A annual message on the state of
the nation was President Roose¬
velt’s budget message to congress.
In it he forecast a deficit of $1,088,-
129,600 for the current fiscal year
which ends on June 30, and a deficit
of $949,606,000 for the 1939 fiscal
year.
There was no promise that the
budget would be balanced in the
near future, the national revenue
estimates being reduced because of
the business depression. asked
Nearly a billion dollars was
by the President for national de¬
fense because of “world conditions
over which this nation has no con¬
trol,” and more may be called for
soon for the same purpose.
Summarized, the President’s
budget stetfement said:
Revenues for the next fiscal year
will total $5,919,400,000, a decrease
of $401,076,000 from the present fis¬
cal year.
Expenditures, exclusive of debt
retirements, will total $6,869,000,000,
a decrease of $539,600,000 from the
present fiscal year.
National defense appropriations
will total $991,300,000, an increase of
$34,300,000, Later the President may
ask for additional funds to construct
several extra naval vessels.
Relief expenditures for the next
Gscal year will total roughly $1,138,-
304.000, a decrease of $841,356,000
!rom the present fiscal year.
The deficit will be financed
through Social Security and other
trust funds and not through public
borrowing.
The deficit estimate for the fiscal
year which ends June 30 has been
raised from $695,000,000 to $1,088,-
100.000, because of the business re¬
cession.
Expenditures for new highways,
new rivers and harbors projects,
new public buildings, new recla¬
mation projects and other new pub¬
lic works will be reduced sharply.
The public debt will reach a rec¬
ord high of $38,528,200,000 on June
30, 1939.
For National Defense
O EFORE the reading of the
AA budget message in congress had
been concluded, the President was
in conference in the White House
with men who will have most to do
with putting into effect his plans
for strengthening the national de¬
fense. These were Assistant Sec¬
retary of the Navy Charles Edi¬
son and Admiral William D. Leahy,
chief of naval operations; Chair¬
man Edward T. Taylor of the house
appropriations committee, Chair¬
man Carl Vinson of the house naval
affairs committee, and Representa¬
tive William B. Umstead, chairman
of the appropriations sub-committee
on naval appropriations.
The group considered additions to
the navy building program, includ¬
ing recommendations for beginning
construction on five battleships to
replace all obsolete American capi¬
tal vessels, ten to fifteen cruisers,
and additional submarines, destroy¬
ers, and auxiliary craft.
Senators Hear About Autos
A FTER listening for two days to
government officials, the sen¬
ate committee studying unemploy¬
ment and relief turned to industrial
leaders for information and advice.
It began with the automotive in¬
dustry, receiving a long and ex¬
haustive statement from the Auto¬
mobile Manufacturers’ association
which includes all the most impor¬
tant concerns in the industry ex¬
cept the Ford company.
Major points in the statement
were:
In 1937, 4,800,000 automobiles
were produced in the United States,
10 per cent less than in 1929.
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1938
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Dchool CUNDAY Lesson I
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for January 16
BEGINNING A LIFE OF SERVICE
LESSON TEXT—Mark 1:14-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—The time is fulfilled, and
the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye,
and believe the gospel.—Mark 1:15.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus’ First Helpers.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Why the Fishermen Fol¬
lowed Jesus.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Serving Now.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Adjusting Life to Service.
The public ministry of our Lord
was not begun with any great fan¬
fare of publicity. Leaving Judea
where the entrenched forces of
formal religion had joined the
forces of sin and degradation ill op¬
position to him, and which had
brought about the imprisonment of
John, our Lord appears in his home
country, Galilee.
I. Preaching the Gospel (vv. 14,
15, 21, 22).
His first activity is worthy of
careful note, for it is not exactly
what one might expect in this Gos¬
pel of Mark, which we have already
characterized as the Gospel of
mighty deeds rather than of words.
Jesus came to work miracles, and
he did work them, and continues to
do the miraculous even in our day.
It is therefore significant that his
first recorded work was that of
preaching, his second that of calling
and preparing fellow workers, and
last of all the miraculous healing
of the demoniac.
From a human viewpoint one
would think that the opposite order
would prevail. First let the Mas¬
ter do some mighty miracle to catch
the attention of the people, then or¬
ganize a great “party,” and then
preach. Much of the so-called evan¬
gelistic effort in our day follows that
human formula and fails of lasting
results. Observe the man who mag¬
nifies preaching and gives the Word
of God pre-eminence, and you will
see real spiritual accomplishments.
Jesus preached faith and repent¬
ance, or perhaps one should say
repentance and faith (v. 15). They
go together in our Lord’s preaching.
Let us follow his example.
We read in verse 2 that the hear¬
ers were astonished because he
spoke with authority. They had been
accustomed to hearing the law¬
yers dispute on the basis of the
authority of the law, now the law¬
giver himself stood in their midst.
He did not set aside the law, but he
gave it an interpretation and direc¬
tion which surprised them.
II. Calling Disciples (vv. 16-20).
The orderly development of any
work calls for the choosing and
training of associates. Moody is
said to have observed that “it is a
greater thing to put ten men to
work than it is to do ten men’s
work.” Our Lord was no mere hu¬
man leader, but he desired and
used fellow-workers and he commit¬
ted to them the carrying on of his
work after he departed.
God still calls men into his serv¬
ice. Would that grace might be
given to each one to whom such a
call may come to respond “straight¬
way,” as did the disciples. The
writer has just read the letter of a
heart-broken man who has refused
to answer God’s call for four long
years, and now comes with a broken
body which may hinder his useful¬
ness for life. Such tragedies may
be averted by prompt and willing
obedience.
III. Healing the Demoniac (vv.
23-28).
Three things stand out in this
story. The first is that the Son of
God has power over the demons of
Satan. Any effort to “fight the Dev¬
il” in our own power is foredoomed
to failure. But in the name of Jesus
Christ we may bid him depart from
us. Thank God, it works!
The other thought is also of vital
import. The demons recognized
Jesus, they knew that he was “the
Holy One of God” (v. 24), and they
bore public testimony of that fact.
And yet they were demons, the ene¬
mies of God. Saving faith in the
Lord Jesus Christ is more than a
knowledge of his claims, a pious
repetition of his name even though
it be done in public. Let us make
sure that we have a living faith in
the Son of God.
Our final observation is that our
Lord did not permit the demons to
testify concerning him. Christ and
his church do not need the flattering
words or the financial support of
unbelievers. Every time we accept
them we weaken our testimony and
make ourselves ridiculous before
the world. If unbelievers think well
of Christ let them show their sin¬
cerity by seeking him as Saviour
and Lord. Then both they and their
gifts will be acceptable and to his
glory.
Physical Handicaps
The failure to overcome our phys¬
ical handicaps is only one of many
indications that few of us ever dis¬
cover ourselves.
Seeing Ourselves
We see time's furrows on anoth¬
er’s brow; how few themselves, in
that just mirror, see!—Young.
Pleasures
A man that knows how to mix
pleasures with business, is never en¬
tirely possessed by them.
Employment averaged 517,000.
largest ever and 16 per cent above
1929.
The automobile industry was the
only one having an increase in la¬
bor cost per unit of output since
1929. Weekly earnings of workers
averaged $32.04 for first eight
months of 1937.
At present dealers have on hand
about 400,000 new cars, higher
since 1930; manufacturers have
very large inventories of parts and
sub-assemblies.
Hourly wage rates are 30 per
cent above 1929, all direct manufac¬
turing costs equal to 1929, but auto
prices per pound are still 13 per
cent below 1929.
Sutherland Retires
LJ AVING passed the retirement
A A a g e 0 f seventy-five years, As¬
sociate Justice George Sutherland
notified the President that he would
quit his seat in the
Supreme court on
January 18. Like
Justice Van Devan-
ter, he will still be
eligible for duty in
the lower courts at
his own pleasure.
Justice Suther¬
land, a former Unit¬
ed States senator
from Utah and a
Sherman former president of
the American Bar
Minton association, was ap¬
pointed to the Supreme court by
President Harding in 1922. He was
born in Buckinghamshire, England,
and was brought to the United
States in his infancy. He was iden¬
tified with the conservative wing of
the court.
Immediately upon the announce¬
ment of Sutherland’s retirement, ev¬
eryone began guessing as to his
successor. It was taken for granted
that Mr. Roosevelt would select a
liberal.
Prominent among thos^ men¬
tioned for the place was Senator
Sherman Minton of Indiana, a
steadfast supporter of the New
Deal. If the appointment goes to
the Middle West, Gov. Frank Mur¬
phy of Michigan seemed to stand a
good chance. Except for the fact
that New York state already has
three men in the court, Senator
Robert F. Wagner would be near the
top of the list of possibilities. Solici¬
tor General Stanley Reed of Ken¬
tucky was the favorite of many,
but there are two other southerners
on the bench. Others suggested were
Judge William Denman of Califor¬
nia, Lloyd K. Garrison of the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin, and Donald
Richberg, former general counsel
and later chairman of the NRA.
Remembering the Hugo Black
episode, the senate will carefully
scrutinize the President’s nominee.
Ford Won't Comply
D EFUSED a reopening of its case
A'- before the labor relations
board, the Ford Motor company
served notice it would not comply
with the board’s order to “cease
and desist” from alleged violations
of the Wagner labor act, and to
reinstate certain discharged work¬
ers. The board decided to ask a
circuit court of appeals to enforce
its decision, and the case probably
will be carried up to the Supreme
court.
Can't Limit Strikes?
'T'HE national labor relations
A board informed congress in its
annual report that legal limitations
on the right to strike would be un¬
constitutional. The statement was
made in the face of a reviving drive
to amend the Wagner act, under
which the board operates, and to
take steps to increase trades un¬
ions responsibility.
SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
A French Heading for Your Draperies.
VX/TIETHER ** you line will your depend new
draperies or not
on how heavy the material is. It
is important, however, that the
top of draperies be stiffened when
a French heading is used. A s<pft
canvas which may be purchased
in drapery departments is gen¬
erally used for this purpose. From
four to six inches is a good depth
to cut the heading canvas. Turn
the top of the curtain material
over it and sew as at A.
Now measure the width of your
curtain and plan the plaits to take
up half this width. In heavy ma¬
terial, four or five inches will be
enough. It is a good plan to let
the space between the plaits be
Shrimp Creole for Sunday
Night Supper.
^ CHRIMP Creole is an excellent
dish to serve for Sunday night
supper, not just because it is es¬
pecially good to eat, but because
it can be made the day before
or in the morning and reheated
when ready to serve. That is a
real convenience for the housewife
who does her own work.
Shrimp Creole.
2 medium size 2 cups canned
onions sliced tomatoes
34 cup sliced celery 2 cups canned peas
2 tbsp shortening 1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp flour 1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt 2 cups canned
1 to 2 tbsp chili shrimp
powder 3 cups hot boiled
1 cup water rice
Cook the onions and celery in
the fat until a delicate brown.
Add the flour, salt and chili pow¬
der and blend until smooth. Add
the water (use the liquid drained
from the peas as part of the wa¬
ter). Cook until thick and smooth,
stirring constantly. Add the to¬
matoes, peas, vinegar, sugar and
shrimp and heat thoroughly.
Serve with the hot rice.
If the shrimp creole is made
before serving time, you will find
a double boiler, or casserole con¬
venient to use for reheating it.
The amount of chili powder to
use depends upon personal taste.
It would be a good idea to add
just one tablespoonful and after
the finished product has been sam¬
pled more can be added if desired.
Chilled canned pears served
with a custard sauce would make
a pleasing dessert for the supper.
MARJORIE H. BLACK.
-Jlsk Me Another
0 A General Quiz
1. Why do stars seem to be
pointed?
2. When did the White House re¬
ceive this name officially?
3. What is the curvature of the
earth per mile?
4. What is the highest denom¬
ination of postage stamp issued
by the United States?
5. Is water in a pail perfectly
level at the top?
6. How long was the original
Greek marathon race?
Answers
1. Their apparent points are due
to the scintillation arising from in¬
equalities of the earth’s atmos¬
phere.
2. The name “White House” be¬
came official during the adminis¬
tration of Theodore Roosevelt.
3. The earth’s curvature per
mile is approximately 8 inches.
4. Five dollars.
5. It is slightly concave, due to
capillarity and surface tension.
6. The runner who carried the
message of Greek victory after
the Battle of Marathon traveled
about 24 miles.
the same as the amount of ma¬
terial the plaits take up. The first
plait may come just inside the
finish of the outside edge of the
drapery or it may be placed two
or three inches in.
Start to sew the plait about an
inch down from the top of the
drapery and sew it the depth of
the stiffening, as shown here at B.
Pinch this plait into three small
plaits and, starting two inches
down from the top, sew through
as at C. Sew these plaits the
depth of the stiffening, so that
they appear as shown here at D.
Now turn to the wrong side and
sew a ring to the back of each
plait as at E.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev¬
ery type of room and purpose.
Making lampshades, rugs, otto¬
mans and other useful articles for
the home. Readers wishing a copy
should send name and address,
enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears,
210 South Desplaines St., Chicago,
Illinois.
“WARMING” ACTION
EASES CHEST COLD
TIGHTNESS
Ease the tightness and pressure
of your chest cold tonight with the
thorough counter-irritant and va¬
porizing action of Penetro, the only
salve which has a base of old-
fashioned mutton suet together
with 113% to 227% more medica¬
tion than any other nationally sold
cold salve. Rub with stainless,
snow-white Penetro—both children
and adults. Large jar Penetro, 35c.
Avoid Haughtiness
In prosperity, and events hap¬
pening in conformity with our de¬
sires, let us above all avoid pride,
disdain and haughtiness.—Cicero.
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