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Being a Bridesman Is No
Sinecure by a Long -Shot
Mate Ilalasz, an Inhabitant of
Szeged, holds the world’s record as
"bridesman’’—as distinct from best
man—which function he has per¬
formed at l,r«74 weddings.
The position of “bridesman” at
Hungarian peasant weddings is no
easy one. Wearing a beribboned hat
and carrying a stick decorated with
streamers, he goes round delivering
the invitations by word of mouth.
At the wedding feast he is expected
to compose and recite a poem for
every dish, set on the table and to
direct the dances.—London Sunday
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FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Washington.—In the prize ring and
in war, experts agree that it is a splen¬
did quality not to know when you are
licked. Because there is always the
possibility that something may happen
to reverse the apparent.
So perhaps a good deal of credit
should be given the . administration
leaders on Capitol Hill for the earnest-,
ness with which they push on to new
legislative achievements, regardless of
ttie clearly printed road signs saying
the road is closed ahead on account
of the constitutional bridge beina
washed out.
Consider the sugar bill, for example
Administration leaders declared they
would push through the bill continuing
quotas for domestic production. They
admit that there may be some little
doubt as to the power of the federal
government to do this, especially in
view of the AAA decision, not to men¬
tion the Guffey decision.
It’s a little bit humorous, however
when one considers what is happening
out in - the country. For instance, the
big cane sugar producing state, Louisi
ana, is assigned a quota under the sys
tem that the legislators are about to
continue, without the Supreme court’s
blessing, of 260,000 tons.
, Present estimates of the Louisiana
cane sugar crop, with due allowances
for weather and other possibilities, run
around 500,000 tons.
So the question arises, how will the
government induce the cane planters
of the Creole state to plow under near¬
ly one-half of their acreage, and no:
take the matter to court? For it is
admitted that any court would grant an
immediate injunction restraining the
Department of Agriculture from using
any element of force. And it is equal¬
ly clear that anyone interested could
bring a suit to prevent payments under
the old benefit check system.
Soil Erosion
There remains soil erosion, of course,
but everyone admits that the adminis¬
tration would not be willing to risk the
constitutionality of its concededly tick¬
lish soil erosion program in such a
case. To accomplish anything like the
reduction necessary to get Louisiana
down to her quota would require such
drastic handling that no serious con¬
tention that soil erosion was the main
objective could possibly hold.
It’s just one of those curious things,
on all fours with the enactment of the
Guffey coal law in the first place, when
everybody and his brother knew it
would be thrown out the window by
the high court. And on all fours with
the present desire of Senator Joseph F.
Guffey and others to enact a substi¬
tute for the Guffey law.
They persist in this despite the care¬
fully considered opinions of such politi¬
cally astute gentlemen as Senator J.
Hamilton l.ewis that there is neither
the opening nor the time for such a
measure before adjournment. And in
the face of a view from a very differ¬
ent wing of the party—its most radi¬
cal wing—of Senator Burton K. Wheel¬
er that it should not be attempted at
this session.
Meanwhile the United Mine Workers
are not half so unhappy as they .make
out. They see the prospect of making
a few fights in the very territory
wherfe' they are weakest. .
And Secretary of Labor Frances Per-'
kins expresses a pious hope for new
labor provisions in the revised Guffey
bill to come!
Silver Buying Policy
Despite the clamor of unofficial
“Brain Trusters,” economists, etc.,
about the absurdity of the present sil¬
ver buying policy, nothing is going to
be done about it. The present silver
buying policy will be continued, even
the paying of a bonus of something in
excess of 30 cents an ounce for all
newly mined silver in the United
States.. .
No one really thinks the subsidy to
mine owners' producing silver is really
either very beneficial or very harmful.
The point is that there are almost no
mines in the United States that pro¬
duce just silver only. In virtually
'every instance silver is a by-product
and a comparatively small by-product.
Normally the main products of such
mines are lead, zinc and copper. It
so happens that ever since the depres¬
sion began there has been an' overpro¬
duction of all three of these metals!
Hence it is believed by mining experts
that the bonus paid on newly mined sil¬
ver has not done any harm or any
good in stimulating silver production
in the United States. Nor is it con¬
tended that there has been much cheat¬
ing. The government has been ex¬
tremely rigorous in its inspections, and
officials do not believe that much for¬
eign produced silver has been sneaked
under the wire to take advantage of
the high American price.
One criticism of this bonus on newly
mined silver is that it is a waste of
money. In the face of terrific federal
expenditures in almost every conceiv¬
able direction, the cost to the federal
treasury of this particular policy sinks
into insignificance.
In the early days of the silver buy¬
ing program United States treasury
buying had a very unsettling effect on
conditions all over the world. The
world price was booster* about 40 cents
an ounce. It was practically doubled.
Another very heavy loss was taken by
the treasury here because the average
price paid was considerably aboye 50
cents an ounce—the pried at which all
domestic silver, already mined, was
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commandeered. Whereas the presen,,
world price of silver 19 around 46 to
-17 cents, with every prospect that it
will not rise materially above that.
China Protests
There were other repercussions.
China protested bitterly against the
unsettling physical scheme and the
disorganization of her International
trade resulting' from it. Eventually
she was driven off the silver standard
by it. The recent agreement on the
part of the United States to buy large
amounts of Chinese silver Is one of
the after effects, incidentally the treas¬
ury is as secretive about the amounts
of Chinese 'silver that it intends to
purchase under this agreement as it
has been about the-ruse of the two-blN
lion-dollar stabilization fund.
The reason there is not going to be
any change in the silver policy—cer¬
tainly until after election—is that two
small minority groups in this country
are enormously in favor of tt. One
of these is the silver mining group
which now benefits from the subsidy.
The minp owners of course divide this
bonus amopg themselves. The mine
workers think that it helps to keep
them employed. The other group is
for the silver policy because it be¬
lieves in inflation. Failing to get
printing-press money through the
Frazier-Lemke bill or any other de¬
vice, those holding this view like the
silver policy on the theory that half
a loaf is better than no bread.
These two groups feel so violently
on this issue that a change on this
one thing would. probably make them
vote against Roosevelt. The majority,
who think the policy crazy, will vote
for or against Roosevelt for other rea¬
sons.
Resettlement Costs
Full information on how much it
costs Dr. Rexford Tugweli’s Resettle¬
ment administration to'do its reset¬
tling became available for the first
time recently, imbedded in the hear¬
ings of the senate appropriations com¬
mittee on the deficiency bill.
Resettlement's top is $20,250 a fam¬
ily, reached in a prairie paradise for
13 families at Sioux Falls, S. D. The
final bill was $276,000.
This project was described by Doctor
Tugwell as financially “i*nsuccessful.”
The outside, per family cost for a
successful project appears to be $11,
940, since that much is to be allowed
in a project'.which the Tugwell organ¬
ization is contemplating at Osage
Farms, Mo.
Among the other projects being
“planned, just- being started, or under
construction,” there were listed three
more whose per family cost was above
$10,000, and' five for which the treas¬
ury will pay opt anywhere from $7,270
a family to $9,500. Tugwell said the
average cost per family was only
$5,000.
Civil Service for Bureaus
The civil service commission and
Senator George W. Norris, Republican,
of Nebraska, recently .urged the Presi¬
dent to bring the emergency bureaus
under civil service regulations. Norris
even warned the President that his
failure to hqlt the spoils system would
cost him a-million votes.
At the same time, a last minute
drive is under way to secure enact¬
ment ..by congress of the bill placing
first, second and third class postmas¬
ters under civil service.
More than 50,000 positions may be
affected by executive orders affecting
jobs created during the emergency
period.
. ; .Since.sftme of these new government
activities have come to be regarded as
permanent adjuncts of the federal ma¬
chinery; advocates of civil service re¬
form have redoubled their demands
that the jobs be filled on the merit
system,;”.'.,, majority
While the of present occu¬
pants of the jobs automatically will be
retained under the new regulations, fu¬
ture .vacancies will be filled only on
the basis of competitive examinations.
Besides .fitting into his announced
views on the subject of public employ¬
ment, the'shifting of the new bureaus
to civil service is counted on by the
administration to offset criticism on
that score;.
Republican critics, on the other
hand, do see a campaign issue in it.
They' are charging that the proposed
blanketing of present emergency em¬
ployees into the civil service by execu¬
tive order just a few months before
the election 1 is a political move to keep
Roosevelt administration partisans in
their present jobs and continue them
on the payrojl in the next administra¬
tion'should ' Roosevelt
be defeated In
November.
WNU Service.
Origin of Jig Saw in Doubt
The origin of the jig saw is shroud¬
ed in mystery. But it is thought to be
very ancient. Roman emperors and
nobles are said to have whiled away
their leisure hours by fitting pieces of
colored marble together, which formed
a mosaic picture. Perhaps this was the
birth of the jig saw.
Introduced Archery
A writer in the New York Times
says that archery as a hobby was in¬
troduced in this country by Maurice
Thompson in 1879. Thompson was
born in Frgnklin county, Indiana, Sep¬
tember 9, 1844, and died in 1901.
Evil* Dene the Dead by Half-Cocked
Writer* of Hi»tory.
YIT'HEN VV Napoleon remarked,
“All history is' a lie,” he
launched a mouthful. The Little
Corporal must have sensed what
he was to suffer at th<a hands of
his biographers, those ink-stained,
harpies who marked time against
the hour his star fell at St. Helena
where, .on a frail army cot surrounded
by a handful of the faithful, he
writhed into the everlasting shadows
addressing, the mirage of his army.
This man of destiny ended his earthly
career In a welter of fat, his ankles
bulging over patent leather shoes like
something spilling intd space . . . The
jowls of him fell into a soiled collar,
open at the throat, disclosing the ivory
pulp of a flabby breast housing ,a
heart that for twenty years had set
the tempo for victorious cannonading
under the banners of France. ,
Twenty' thousand volumes written
in every living tongue (lowed for more
than a hundred years from the im¬
petuous pens of biographers, self-eon
secrated to lay bare the life of the
Corsican-born adventurer who lived to
shake the world. From the confusion
wrought, of countless pens, the fear¬
some Bonaparte now stalks—half mon¬
ster ; half god, an execrated, and a
deified personality, mythologized with
the accumulating years, and all that is
germane to his influence upon the
Nineteenth century, is swept .into his¬
torical disorder.
Biography Written by Ear.
Unfortunate, indeed, that history is
not clarified by time. Once an error
creeps into the record it remains there
forever, modified at intervals but never
wholly corrected for the enlighten¬
ment of posterity. It is quite the
vogue with 'modern biographers, to
take one characteristic of the de¬
ceased and upon that rebuild the per¬
sonality to 'suit themselves.
Memoirs Tire equally noxious, not
for what they present, but for what
they withhold.’Most biography is writ¬
ten in the measure of one grand sweet
song whistled by an idiot who has no
ear for music. Recently in Washing¬
ton a conscientious attempt was made
by a congressman and an artist to
contrive a mural decoration that
would show just how our colonial
statesmen ^looked when properly
garbed nothing, ly the style of that period;
• y’understand, built along
quantity production lines or shot with'
shoddy, but the crackerjaek hand¬
made breeches, buskin and waistcoat
of the James Madison, Ben Franklin
and Aaron Burr school, showing George
Washington in profile and Alexander
Hamilton' from the front elevation.
Fair enough, and a knockout, so I
understood. But has anything been
done to clear up some of the exag¬
gerations, inaccuracies and dirty
cracks taken at George and Alex by
the gentry who adulterate biography
with fiction?
Not long ago I picked up a book
that dealt in part with that dramatic
chapter in the life of Iioijnie Prince
Charlie, who was rescued from Brit¬
ish pursuers in the Isle of Skye by the
heroine Flora MacDonald after the
battle of Cqlloden, which rang down
the curtain of Charlie’s kingly ambi¬
tions. To quote:
Story of Royal Romance.
“It seems to have been his (Char¬
lie’s) thought that if she (Flora) cared
for him that the two might well love;
and he gave her every chance to show
him favor. The youth of twenty-five
and the girl of twenty-four roamed to¬
gether in the long, tufted grass, or lay
in the sunsldne and looked out over
the sea. But to the last he was either
too high or too low for her, according
to her own modest thought . . .”
Well, there it is, offered as history.
Last year I spent a month in the Isle
of Skye, snooping into that affair, vari¬
ously distorted by writers totally ig¬
norant of the truth. The facts are
these: Following Culloden, Bonnie
Charlie took it, on the run with a £30,
000 reward on .his curly head. Loyal
Highlanders, a mere handful, escort¬
ed him'through the rain-swept barren
hills, keeping him concealed under cov¬
er of night. Flora, true blue, unim¬
peachable and courageous, was se¬
lected by’ Charlie’s escort to get the
prince out of his difficulties. She
agreed to take the risk and set about
her arrangements to get him to a point
of safety, disguised as her maid.
Myth Is Debunked.
After ten days of breath-taking ad¬
venture, Flora; bossing the entire job,
succeeded in her mission, and on the
night of July 1, 1746, in the presence
of Highland gentlemen, one of them a
relative of Flora, the Bonnie Prince
bade her a respectable unemotional
good-by in Room 5 of Royal hotel at
Portree, climbed out tf the window
and escaped in the boat that her ef¬
forts had provided. The actual time
consumed In the plot for his flight
was ten days, during five of which
Flora never set eyes upon the prince.
During the five remaining days she saw
him three times, always in the com¬
pany of his Highland henchmen. Rain
and cold weather prevailed. Not once
was the rescuer of the hapless noble¬
man alone in his society. To be per¬
fectly frank, Charlie on the occasion
of his last ten days in Skye was
ragged, cold, hungry—and lousy.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Talks About
Dangers of “Slimming"
1 T IS interesting to note
that the so-called reducing
preparations on the market fall in¬
to three categories; first laxative
that deny the body the benefit of
its food intake as the salts, crys¬
tals and herb teas; second, obvi¬
ous frauds that depend for effect up¬
on the" Stringent diets ns part of the
‘treatment: ;■ and third the unques¬
tionably effective but dangerous arti¬
cles containing thyroid
or dinitrophenol, both
of which act by speed¬
ing up the use of the
food.” I am quoting
Mr. W. G. Campbell,
chief of the Federal
Food and Drug ad¬
ministration, Washing¬
ton.
What about the first
kind of these prep¬
arations, the laxative?
Dr. Barton This is the use of
epsom or other salts in
patented form which act by not only
causing diarrhoea and that much loss of
water from the system but carry out
with them some of the actual food
products of the blood thus causing
thinning of ttie blood—anaemia. As
a matter of fact small doses of “salts”
for a few days at a time may be help¬
ful when the.,liver is sluggish and not
filtering the poisons from the blood
properly. The salts thus thin the blood
and remove some of the poisons from
waste food products. However, the
use of salts for long periods of time
and in the amounts often recommend¬
ed for reducing, takes some of the body
building elements from the blood and
hence every cell in the body is de¬
prived of these necessary food elements
to some extent. Thus : tuberculosis,
anaemia, or a serious shock to the body
can readily occur.
The second kind of preparation that
depends upon reducing the food'
Intake rather than any merit in the
preparation is likewise dangerous be¬
cause the amount of food advised be¬
ing much less than the body ueb<Js,
the body has to give up some of its fat
and other tissues to supply the fo&d
needed to carry on the body’s work.
Giving up its fat is, of course, of
help in reducing weight, but other tis¬
sues of the body, muscle tissue, for in¬
stance, has considerable fat in it, which
cannot be given up without damage to
the muscle itself. And delicate nerve
tissue needs fat to enable it to do its
important work In the body.
Fallacy of Diet Fads
The reduction in the amount of food
eaten is good treatment if the amount
of reduction were not so great. An
example of too much reduction is the
18-day diet that swept through the
country a few years ago, resulting in
hundreds of deaths and making in¬
valids of many others.
The third method of reducing—the
use of thyroid extract or the drug
dinitrophenol overheats the body and
so melts away fats and burns other
tissues.
Research physicians record a num¬
ber of cases where the use of thyroid
extract to reduce weight has caused
the dangerous type of goitre, perma¬
nently damaged the heart by overwork,
and in other cases has made necessary
the dally use^o.f. iodine and the need
of almost constant rest.
While dinitrophenol in the hands of
research piiysicians in San Francisco
has met with a fair measure of suc¬
cess its unsupervised use has caused
severe skin eruptions, cataracts to
form in the eyes, and even death in a
number of cases.
Sane Way to Reduce
Now there may be some cases wltere
tiny doses Of epsom salts daily for a
few weeks may help remove liquid
.
weight from the body and supply the
body with an alkali to help overcome
the acidosis that occurs during weight
reduction. Also the slight reduction of
food over a long period of time is
bound to reduce weight without injury
to the body.
And finally there are cases where the
use of thyroid extract is the , proper
method of reducing weight. It is quite
likely also that the day will come when
with' a pure preparation and under
strict supervision dinltropheno! will be
more generally used, in weight reduc¬
tion. -
However, for 95 per cent of over¬
weights the'.'Safe, sane and ever effec¬
tive method of reducing weight, is to
cut down on the food Intake-and, if
physically able, Increase, the exercise.
... * . » * ■
Warm Weather Reducing
In spring and summer when the
weather is warm-, it should not be dif¬
ficult for those seeking to reduce their
weight, to cut down on all foods, par¬
ticularly starch and fat foods.
This would mean that the amount
of these kinds of foods—fat builders—
could be cut down safely by one-quar¬
ter to one-half without causing any
real discomfort.
The difficult thing would be to cut
down on the liquids—water, soft
drinks, Ice cream—but a simple rule
would be to take liquid whenever
the feeling of thirst came, but to
drink only half the usual quantity each
time.
Finally, cutting down on the amount
of table salt used In the cooking and
with the meals, would mean that the
fat tissue would be holding less water.
©—WNU S&rvice.
PATTEIIJV
Dark and light lilacs, tied with a
flourish Into the loveliest of floral
sprays, is far and away the nicest—
and easiest—flowery touch one can
give a bedroom. Even an amateur
will find the large spray easy to em¬
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smaller sprays on the bolster, or
scarf ends. The flowers are entirely
formed of lazy-daisy stitcli and
French knots, the leaves of blanket
stitch—the rest is in outline. With
cotton or rayon floss (lie designs are
seemingly done in no time, in shades
of lilac, orchid, or palest yellow.
Pattern 1152 comes to you with a
transfer pattern of a motif 18 by 21
Indies and two reverse motifs 4 by
6)4 inches. Color suggestions; illus¬
trations of all stitches needed; mate¬
rial .requirements.
S3end 15 cents in coins or stamps
(coins preferred) to The Sewing
Circle, Needleeraft Dept., 82 Eighth
Ave., New York, N. Y. Write plainly
pattern number, your name and ad¬
dress.
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Dogs’ Teeth as Money
Dogs’ teeth are stated to be used
as money by the natives of certain
districts in New Guinea.
For Biliousness; Sour Stomach,
Flatulence. Nausea and Sick
Headache, due to Constipation.
Freedom of Self-Control
Who, then, is free? The wise man
who can govern himself.—Horace.
BLACK LEAF 40
Keeps Dogs Away from
Evergreens,Shrubs etc.
^ 1936 Use Gallon 1V4 Teaspoonful of Spray.
per
Do We?
The Eskimo uses his harpoon not
to kill but to retrieve game.
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