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FRISCO TRAINS MEN
TO DO HOUSEWORK
Reault of Unemployment Situ¬
ation There.
San Francisco, Calif.—The unem¬
ployment situation In .San Francisco
has played havoc with the ‘‘stronger
sex,” in the opinion of the city's old
timers who remember at least a few
of the days of ’4!) and when North
Bead) was the world's toughest com¬
munity.
The old-timers’ views were aired, in
a typically old-time manner, after an¬
nouncement that the Associated Char¬
ities of San Francisco had started a
school to train men to do housework.
“It Just don’t seem reasonable,”
was the comment of one of the old
guard, “that ttie male folk should
have to scrub floors and run them
dtng-fungled sweepers in order to
make a livin’.”
“Now I remember when—” and
here the gray-haired veteran launched
Into a graphic story of the time when
“men were men” and San Francisco
was the "wide open” city of t he world.
However, officials of the Associated
Charities can see no reason why men
should not he trained to do domestic
work.
“Men are bettor fitted to do heavy
housework than women,” one of the
officials explained.
“Why, they can wax floors, operate
vacuum cleaners, wash windows and
woodwork, run v ashing machines and
do innumerable things,”
Under the direction of the officials,
seven men were chosen to take Hie
first course, and after an Intensive
series of lessons In tiie art of house¬
work were graduated with honors.
The men studied house cleaning,
use of modern appliances, manners of
taking care of floors, and were taken
Into the finishing; department and
tanght the polishing, touching up and
cleaning of furniture.
Then followed ten days’ practical
experience In homes and, according
to the officials, tiie ability of the men
“was simply marvelous.”
Bhould San Francisco take to the
Idea of employing men-for household
work, it: Is planned to enlarge Hie
school and to add additional courses
such as laundering and gardening.
New York Schools Cut
Down on Home Study
Now York.—What may prove to he
a precedent for other school systems
throughout the country has been set
by New York city, in the curtailment,
and in many cases the elimination of
home work.
The new policy was announced by
Dr. William J. O'Shea, superintendent
of schools. Doctor O'Shea’s recom¬
mendations, effective Immediately, pro¬
vide :
Eli ml nation of all home work In
the tirsi three years of elementary
schools.
Light home study assignments for
the next lliree years.
Only the most essential and attrac¬
tive forms of home work for the up¬
per grades.
Junior high schools to tie limited
to not more than an hour and a half
of home work a day.
Abolition of all monotonous forms
of home work.
' Doctor O'Shea made it plain that
lie did not approve parental aid In
the work of students, lie also classi¬
fied as “monotonous and useless repeti¬
tion” home work that Involved writ¬
ing a large amount of formal pen
tnanshlp drills or words n number of
times, or tiie copying from books nnd
the analyzing of complicated sentences.
Loaf of Bread Baked
in 1853 on Exhibition
Elwood, ind.—A small loaf of bread,
said to have been baked Good Friday,
March 2”, 1853, Is on exhibition here.
It is owned by Mrs. Bee Hough Bart¬
lett, elghty-nlne, and was baked by
her mother. Mrs. Bartlett says a
legend that a loaf baked on Good Fri¬
day will endure forever prompted Its
making and its preservation for 70
years.
Gets Moving Stairs
Moscow.—Tiie Soviet capital will
soon have its first moving stairways,
an innovation that makes patriots
proud of their modernization. The
stairways will be in a new building for
the central co-operative organizations
(Centrosoyuz) here.
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i Pet Snail at Last
Decides to Feast •{•
I'ontiac, Mich. — Balzar, pet
snail who came to bis home in
Pontiac by some uilsstep in Ids
early life which landed him In .
shipment ot bananas from Hon
duras, at last has ended fits
“sulks,'' and come out of his
siicll for food.
For several months Balzai
would have nothing to do with
Immunity and the food his—oi
is it “her”—human captors of
fered. At last, however, hunget
overcame timidity and (he feasi
was on.
It was a quite a Job to find out
what Balzar craved as nourish
aient. but an offer of bread
soaked in milk, overcame the
last vestige oi shyness and tic
feasts copiously on this concoc¬
tion.
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PRINTING NEW BILLS
KEEPING U. S. BUSY
Nine Million of Small Size
Ready July 1.
Washington.—Nearly 9,000,(X)0 bills,
greenbacks and yellowbacks, Issued by
the United States government and
scattered among banks, business
houses, and people throughout the
country, on or near July 1, will be
able to go into permanent retirement
at the discretion of their holders.
This does not mean that Uncle Sara
has decided to call in all his paper
money and issue In its place gold and
silver, but that on that date ho will
replace this* 3,500 tons of money,
which would fill 40 box cars, with a
new series of standardized notes one
third less in size and weight and oc¬
cupying one-third less space in storage
and handling
Plant Hard at Work.
This stupendous task of replacement
is being done by the bureau of print¬
ing arid engraving In Washington,
where (lie United States government
manufactures its paper money. The
plant Is working night and day under
full force to have this new issue ready
on lime, and is turning out. tiie largest
order In Its history. It is producing
six tons of the new money every 24
hours. Fight hundred and fifty-seven
million pieces of fresh, crisp eurreney
are being stored in the vaults of tiie
treasury to be soon distributed to
every slate in tiie Union.
Tiie suggestion of smaller paper
money for the United States first
came from Americans who bad re¬
turned from the Philippine islands and
had become accustomed to the smaller
size of currency in use there, which
they found far more convenient to
bundle. When money was first being
printed for the Philippine government,
to avoid the confusion that, would be
caused If both currencies were of the
same size, tiie Islands were 'furnished
paper money in sizes one-third smaller
than that used in the United States.
Counterfeiting Forestalled.
Extreme care is being used In the
printing and engraving of the new
paper money to prevent counterfeiting.
The faces will represent the highly
specialized and artistic work of some
half dozen different expert engravers,
and the character of tiie engraving is
such that it is almost impossible to
match.
No longer will there lie any yellow¬
backs and the repetition of portraits
on hills of different denominations.
Ali bills will lie engraved and printed
in green and black. The portrait of
Washington will lie on tiie one-dollar
bills, Jefferson on tiie twos, Lincoln
on I lie fives, Hamilton on the tens,
Jackson on the twenties, Grant on Hie
fifties, Franklin on the hundreds, Mc¬
Kinley on the five hundreds, Cleveland
on the thousands, Madison on the five
thousands, and Chase on the ten thou¬
sands.
While an Immense saving is fore
seen by government officials in the
paper and ink used, and tiie printing
and handling of the new paper money,
a question which lias arisen mid yet
remains to lie solved Is the changing
of the national bunk notes to conform
with Hie new style.
The bureau of engraving nnd print¬
ing lias a set of engraved plates for
eacli denomination ordered by tiie na¬
tional banks throughput ttie country.
These aggregate more than 10,000
plates, and the re-engraving of all of
them would take many years to ac¬
complish and cost nearly $1,000,000.
The only solutions that remain open
are the extremely expensive processes
of re-engraving all the plates, tiie elim¬
ination of Hie national bank currency
after 1030, or the is suing of a uni¬
versal hank note upon which the name
of tiie bank can be Imprinted.
Official Courting Room
in English Fire Station
London.—Birmingham is probably
the only city in the world which has
an official courting chamber or love
lounge, as Hie citizens are prone to
call it.
The salon of ctipid has been pro¬
vided for the. convenience of the un¬
married firemen at Birmingham’s
central fire station.
Except on their weekly day "off,”
firemen are not permitted to go out
of sound of tiie station alarm bell.
Consequently, firemen and their sweet¬
hearts had to prosecute their love af¬
fairs just outside ttie station—and in
the public notice, they felt uncomfort¬
able, no doubt.
One of the rooms of tiie fire sta¬
tion, therefore, tins been equipped by
the city with easy chairs, a library
nnd a gramophone. But even then.
Dun Cupid must step aside when the
fire gong rings.
The laudable part of the official
match-making, however, is that the
girls always wait in the lounge until
the smoke eaters return from tiie fire.
Woman Hands Conductor
' Transfer 36 Years Old
Chicago.—What worries F. W. Rapp
of Chicago is whether one of his cus¬
tomers actually waited 30 years for
his street ear at a Ctiieago intersec¬
tion.
Rapp has been a conductor on the
Chicago lines a long time. When a
woman banded him a transfer after
boarding Ids car at a crossing. In's
quick eye discerned an anachronism.
The time and place seemed correct
die transfer was from a car on a Chi
cago line, nnd the hour and day were
correctly punched, but the year was
1893.
CLEVELAND COURIER
FEAR DISASTROUS
ERA OF TORNADOES
Weather Bureau Officials See
Trouble Ahead.
Washington.—The tornado record
for the first quarter of 1029 as shown
by information gathered by the United
States weather bureau here promises
another unusual year for these disas¬
trous storms.
Last year more tornadoes occurred
In the United States than during any
previous year for which the govern¬
ment meteorologists have gathered
data. The record for 1928 nearly
doubled the usual number of 90 to
100 a year. Hut the loss of life due
to tornadoes In 1928 was exceedingly
small and the property loss was far
below that of the worst years.
Tn the first two months of this
year ten tornadoes caused 32 deaths
compared with only four tornadoes
and no deaths in January and Febru¬
ary of 1928. March kept up the un¬
favorable condition, with some half
dozen whirters and a dozen or so of
deaths. And tiie Arkansas tornado
toll gives April tiie beginnings of a
bad showing.
As May and June are the months
that usually show the largest damage
from tornadoes, meteorologists feel
that more storms and suffering must
be expected.
The Southern states experience
their tornado storms most frequently
In late winter and early spring. Then
tiie whirler season invades the North
ern states. Contrary to popular opin
ion there is no “tornado belt." Sta¬
tistics show Shat over half of the ex
tremely destructive tornadoes have
occurred east of the Mississippi.
The tornado is born of currents of
air above Hie ground that differ in
direction and come in contact. A
condition of warm, moist air near the
ground overladen with cold air sets
up violent bent transfer and over¬
turning of tiie atmosphere. A great
whirl or vortex results, releasing the
pent-up energy of tiie air. Not al¬
ways does the funnel-shaped cloud
reach the ground, but when it does
tiie low pressure of its center ex¬
plodes houses, and the wind about the
vortex prostrates all that It en¬
counters.
Usually n tornado moves east or
northeastward at the rale of 25 to
50 miles per hour. If you see one
coming at you, run toward the north¬
west, as due to the small path, a
few feet may mean the difference be¬
tween deatii and safety.
Chief of Volga Pirates
Gets Sentence of Death
Moscow.—Tiie reign of the Volga
river’s most famous hand of pirates,
murderers, and bandits is at an end.
I’usha, tiie gypsy, and four of his
henchmen have been sentenced to die.
The court's sentence, which also
jailed 21 others, including Pasha’s
beautiful wife, Voronina, ended a dra¬
matic five-day confession in court by
Hie leader himself, Pasha Kuznetzoff.
A recommendation for a reprieve was
made for Kuznetzoff because lie
turned state’s evidence. He. admitted
11 murders and 85 robberies.
Farmer Digs Post Hole;
Gold Nets Him $60,000
Toronto, Out.— W. P. Rhodes, Beat¬
ty township fanner, has just finished
digging a $00,(XX) posthole. He ex¬
pects that the same hole will yield
him double that amount. Rhodes,
pioneering on the edge of the north¬
ern clay belt, decided to fence In more
of his property, lie had to use dyna¬
mite to dig his postholes. The first
blast uncovered free gold. Rhodes
sold his find to the Schumacher min¬
ing interests for $60,000 cash and a
large interest in the property.
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Coin* for Ornament*
New York.—Fifty thousand dollars
in $10 gold pieces of a design no
longer used at tiie mint lias been sent
to Semarang, Java. Ttie coins are iu
demand for use as ornaments.
Italy’* Fat Woman Dead
Mantua, Italy.—The fattest woman
in Italy, Giovanna Ossena, who
weighed more than 450 pounds, has
just died tiere.
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X •j* digging in a corner of his barn X
recently.
X *|* Being of a practical turn of X 'j*
mind, it is reported, tie wasn’t
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himself when he came upon an
X ancient urn containing a fortune X
v in gold coins and precious gems. X
X lie took the gems to a jeweler. .j.
X however, and remained reticent X
about the amount of gold he
X •j* found, meanwhile attempting to X •{•
discover whether he had a legal
X claim to the treasure. X
In the urn were two cards, *j*
X nearing the inscriptions: “The X
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If X and lie faithful “William until Smart, death, stone 1S3S”; X
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NOT A COLLEGE MAN
First Flapper—Wasn’t that a col¬
lege man 1 saw you with last night?
Second Ditto—No—only a fresh¬
man.
AL FRESCO FOR HER
He (simple cuss)— Do you know any
parlor games?
She—No—all my flirting is done
out-of-doors.
AFTER HE’S GONE
“I want to learn the whereabouts
of mv husband "
“.Madam, at this very minute your
husband is passing through the state
of coma."
“I hope to heavens he gets a flat
tire.”
WAS NOT HER OWN
“She gave me an ugly iook."
“Well, it couldn’t have been her
own, as she still has it.”
EVEN UP PROPOSITION
He—How ’bout a III’ auto ri.de intc
the country, cutie?
She—I'd have you understand I
don’t go auto riding with strange men.
He—At’s O. K. I haven’t got a
car, either.
Great Need of Today Is Return to the Idea of
“Human Partnership’’
By DR. RALPH SOCKMAN (Episcopal), New York.
JPjnpJJIERE is too much patronage in American life today, and too
It little partnership. A3 onr citizenry has been increasingly trans¬
it ferred from the soil to the city, we have changed the tempo of
our thinking from the slower processes of the seasons to the
quick exchanges and ticker tapes of the market place. The race of com¬
petitive life is so swift that we do not try to keep pace with one another.
The home illustrates the fact that parents do too much for their chil¬
dren and too little with them. The present generation of youth is more
heavily patronized than ever were its predecessors. Somewhere between a
bolshevism of adolescents and a paternalism of parents there ought to be
a partnership in which the experiences of the elders are blended with ex¬
periments of the youngers.
In philanthropy the old friendly personal helpfulness of our simpler
earlier communities is being replaced by organized impersonal charity.
In religion we have now largely a mere professional propaganda financed
by silent spectators. We hire ministers to preach our sermons, evangelists
to recruit our church members and musicians to voice our religious mo¬
tives, while the laity simply sit back and provide the funds. Such patron¬
age can never be an adequate substitute for the partnership methods of
the early church.
Between Sincere Religionists and True Scientists
There Is No Conflict
By GEORGE R. THROOP, Washington University.
There is a gTeat deal of talk and discussion at the present time on
the conflict of education as represented primarily by pure science, and re¬
ligion as understood in the minds of many, but this is a most unfortu¬
nate and unnecessary condition.
To most of the true scientists and sincere religionists of the present
day there is no real conflict. All the facts of nature and life and the
universe are too unfathomable for us to attribute them to any merely
blindly operating force. How thru entire world of ours and all the uni¬
verse could function without some power and guide greater than human
comprehension and understanding is beyond the real scientists to fathom.
What we need most is charity and tolerance on all sides. Religious
education is to address itself not only to the correction of our present
ills, but it renders special service as a great prophylactic agent in hu¬
man society. We have been working on the theory that somewhere
back in the early history of the races, the train of civilization ran off
the track, and that’the business of religion has been to send out a wreck¬
ing crew, to extricate bruised humanity from the wreckage. The church
lias served as a kind of spiritual hospital for wounded men.
But the big job of the church through religious education is to
teach men how to run the train so that there will be no wreck. Re¬
ligion is not only a cure, but it is also a preventive.
Training of Younger Generation of Immigrants
Important for Civilization
By DR. ROMAN DYBOSKI, Chicago Social Worker.
Training children of European immigrants in the culture of their
parents’ countries seems to me to be the best method of preventing a rift
between America and Europe.
There is no use denying that a rift has opened up between America
and Europe since the war. We are in danger of losing the unity of West¬
ern civilization and if the world breaks into two units a third party may
arise, probably Asia headed by Russia.
The civilization of America and Europe is what we believe to be the
best in the world, and the link between America and Europe seems to be
the second generation immigrants. There must be people on both sides
of the Atlantic who understand each other if there is to be unity of peace
and unity of culture. It is the younger generation of immigrants who
have the best strain of European culture. This helps them to understand
Europe.
they should he encouraged to study the culture of America and some
of them go back to their own countries to educate their people and help
secure this unity.
Inventions and Discoveries Have Not Minimized
Reality and Presence of God
By REV. W. HAROLD WEIGLE, Jr., New York.
In spite of what the pessimists of today maintain, it is possible to
live a usual life in an unusual wav. It is astonishing how hungry the hu¬
man heart is today for things spiritual, and this applies to the person liv¬
ing in the slums and back streets as well as to those living on Park ave¬
nue.
bile there are many disturbing factors in our national life yet thi-s
is, not an irreligious age. The prolific birth of new cults is an evidence
that people are very conscious of their need for God.
lhe great inventions and discoveries in this generation do not in
the least minimize the reality and presence of God. We must study down
to the spiritual depths in which God alone can he found. And this is not
a closed secret. God can be found by any heart which diligently seeks
Him. Rut we must seek and accept.
lhe church today is endangered by the loss of initial enthusiasm for
a great cause and the loss of the keenness of discipleship among people
who once enjoyed an ardent and profound religious life.
Men of Wealth Realizing That Riches Constitute
Public Responsibility
By DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, New York.
V emth i? one of the severest tests of character. Mental cares in con
nei tion with the possession of wealth frequently cause physical ill-health
and nenous breakdown, while the abundance of physical comfort and
luxury tends to produce an even more serious malady, ‘"spiritual anemia.’’
1 he rich man who is wise, acts upon the principle that wealth is a
public responsibility, and that therefore thev who have it are obliged to
use it in such a manner as to set an example in the art of living. America
may point with pride and satisfaction to its two richest men, Mr. Ford
and Mr. Rockefeller, as examples of sane and useful living. Even with
greater pride may we point to the sons of these men, whose careers pro
sent a gratifying contrast with the proverbial “sons of the rich.”
