London market.
on the hand, enabling
behind,
BILL, THE
An
the life, the pain
sometimes pay fo
that's costly.”
{By MARCUS
I said this
and Impartial bawlin’
reason I * to bruise th
of a millien or two yaps.
A dame
busy street in a
Middle West.
corner. They
which turned from
as the dame got there,
a little boy by the hand.
kid, about four years old,
lookin' up Into his
trustin' like. Did that
the traffic light to change
cop's whistle? She did not.
a fleetin’ second or two leanin’
the edge of the curb like a horse ch
pin’ at the bit them
restless yaps
Then she went. Dashed into the
street draggin’ that poor kid with her.
A truck was comin’ and she thought
she could beat it but a drivin’ fool
in a tourin' car was passin’ that truck
on the left while goin’ over the cross
in’ and she couldn't see It from the
curb saw it when she was in
front of the truck, got petrified
fear and stood stock still in her tracks
until the truck hit her
her under the wheels of the tourin’
car. She got off with a busied leg
and couple of ribg stove In. But It was
the finish for the poor little kid with
the trustin’ eyes and childish
dence, Even the hard
turned his head away.
driver, a tough lookin’ egg,
his death wagon and got out
lke a leaf.
On the pavement back of the hind
wheels lay a crushed little bundle in
a white sallor suit, curly yellow hair
atted down with streaks of red and
little face smudged with ofl and dirt.
Does the kick hurt a little? If it
does write this In your book of good
resolutions and stick to it:
“When crossin’ streets I will not
try to beat traffic, I will obey all traf-
fic rules same as automobiles are sup-
posed to do because I don't want to
get bumped off yet.”
was goin
out and for ths
am goin
come to a crossin’
thrivin’ town ia
They had a cop on that
also had traffic lights
green to red just
She was leadin’
It was her
and kept
r face
fT
10%
on
he
mother's
dame wait
for the
She stood
over
or
A100
18 one of
rarin’ to go.
She w
She
with
with
and knocked
conil
boiled cop
The truck
stopped
shakin’
HHHRER RETR R EERE RRRRERRRRR
AUTOMOBILE FACTS
FRET RRRBLRRLRLERRL RRL RRR
Safety first is
rule.
the motorist’'s best
It seems to be agreed that
fie lights In Utopia are green.
» * .
all traf
The ronds and highways of the
United States occupy space equiva.
lent to 112,000 farms of 100 acres
each,
» . »
The cost of gasoline for running a
light car is about 22 per cent of the
total cost per mile. In a heavy car
it Is about 15 per cent,
* » .
Motor trucks were used extensively
in hauling cattle to market during
1029. More than 14,500,000 head were
marketed In this manner,
. . -
Dora's doorbell was out of order
a month before it was noticed. So
many of her dear pals just pull into
the curb and lean on the horn.
* - .
“No person shall use any blasphem-
ous or Indecent language on a high-
way,” says Manitoba's new traffic act.
And what do you say to a flat tire—
baby talk?
*. * »
A Minnesota man built a fence 20
fect high to keep a neighbor from
parking cars In his vacant lot. This
is the most constructive eriticlsm com-
ing to our notice recently.
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THE MOTOR QUIZ
(How Manly. Can You Answer?)
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Q. How much did motorists In
United States pay for gasoline
and oil in 19207
Ans. More than 83,000,000 000,
it is estimated, Over 838.000.0000
allons of gasoline ere pur
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dddb bd
hdd
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chased dally
Q. How ny motor cars pass
out of ¥ year In
o. 000 O00)
» Spots of
the United States?
ie motor car finish?
Ans. An
Ans. Tar sometimes spatter +
Q. Wh
wily atched asphalt ¥
1 Butter 1 wer the &
roads,
:
spots of tar will make It easily +
removable, ere is no butter +o
there are a nun ft %
ions that do the
5. ->
3 f adjustments of spark
£ gaps vary will It have ans
*t on the car's perform
Yes, It
Ans. :
3
x
existence ever
average of
Mn ne
may caus
even wi
is why spark ph aps
Ww
vi 13 ¢ £ Trey £1 13
engine performance, 4
1
he inspe« 10
Annee
e ur
Thi
houl
ice na
year.
FEA A
Oercoming Trouble With
Ratchet Type Auto Jack
The ratchet
seems to
in the tool
it Is
type always
sth
auto jack
its full
work ot to
kit,
len ig
while
lescoped
shows a
position
Spring Keeps Auto Jack From Work.
ing Out to Full Length in Tool Kit.
Figure at Right, Shows Homemade
Device for Testing of Bearings.
way to overcome this trouble. A light
spring is attached at one end to
head of the jack and at the other end
to the toe.—Popular Science Monthly.
Road Markers Protected
by Law in Many States
Eighteen states have laws
making It a misdemeanor to willfully
damage official road signs and with
traffic steadily Increasing there Is a
tendency to impose severe punishment
on who Interefere with these
utilities of travel, according to the
research department of the American
Automobile association.
The national motoring body pointed
out that official road signs Include all
those erected by the state or local
governments or by A, A. A. motor
clubs with approval of the Interested
authorities,
The A. A. A. appeals to affiliated
clubs, In states where such protettive
legisiation has not been enacted, to
conduct a vigorous campaign.
States In which it is now a mle
domeanor to willfully damage, destroy,
mutilate, tear down or deface any offi-
cial road sign, warning or directional
marker on highways are: Alabama,
Arkansas, California, Delaware, Idaho,
Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minne
sotn, Nebraska, New Jorsey, New
Mexico, New York, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota and Yirgi,
the
now
those
will Weigh Trucks
Determined to enforee the law that
denies overloaded trucks the use of
coriain highways, the Michigan high.
way department will install pit scales
ulong principal triink roads, State po-
Hee will halt and weigh trucks sus
pected of carrying loads In excess of
what the pavement will stand. The
driver of an overloaded truck will be
compelled to unload part of his cargo
on the spot. He also may get a ticket,
ABOUT THE PARTY
RS. CUCUMBER GREEN, whose
real name was Margaret, but
whose pretend name wag Mrs. Cucum-
ber Green, as probably you all know,
had had a party,
Allie Baa, her favorite rag doll, had
helped with the party. It had been a
huge success.
The other children
had brought their dolls,
Every one had had such a
time,
The dolls had behaved so well,
Every mother had been so proud of
her children, as they had every right
to be,
After the party was over and Mrs,
Cucumber Green's children had been
covered up with the blanket in the
come and
had
good
“Every Mother Had Been So Proud
of Her Children”
little cart Allie
in her mother's arms in the
umber Four Green Lane
he bed, or
bed toward t
ide space,
express cuddled
Mrs
Green
wis called,
Number
by
I our
dleve street In
Hives she
up to the ¢
ick wall was,
at the market,
she woul
she .
this space,
the ba
was
she |
all sorts of
eve things for housckeeping
wwe 8h 0p keepers and buy
he wall paper w
and there
per she pre
ns a very gay
were figures on the
led
» her neighbors.
wall pa
were people
after th
always live
was called
had
make-believe Greens,
er sald, had always lived
place,
street
famille
amily
who
the
Green
there, All
Mrs, Cucum!l
in the same
Here Mrs. Cucumber Green kept her
toys. Number Four Green Lane was a
very busy section, 1 tell you.
Now that the party was all over It
had been such a success and it would
be something they could talk about
with pride and joy and happy remem:
brances for some time,
Of course Mrs.
would give other ns she
always given a good many pa
and wag fond of entertaining,
Allie was fond of entertaining, too,
She enjoyed speaking to all the
guests, Mrs, Cucumber Green changed
her volce to speak for Allie. That
made It easy,
In a squeaky little
cumber Green would say:
“Yes, I'm Allle. Of I re
member you. And you remember me,
ton?
“Yes, they all
though I can't see
“Do take your hat and
won't you? You won't feel the good
of them when you go out If you don't,
“Ah, yes, that's Now
more comfort and you
he
catch cold when go out”
can
Green
had
rties
Cucumber
parties,
volce Mrs, Cu-
course
say I've
it myself,
grown,
cont off,
better, you'll
able won't
you
Allie was
goo,
But now they were
they would be asleep.
How
mother's arms
very close,
oh, my
Allie Baa"
sweet toda;
clothes, How
1 1 .
clean clothes
a good talker as you ean
Allle did cuddle
worsted slippers
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
OOOO OO000C
“BELOW THE SALT”
which Is not
nowadays,
color of a
ERE
heard
which
ie age.
is a phrase
so frequently
but is full of the
by ge
In medieval times a large salt cel
lar would be placed in the center of
the dining table.
At state dinners, where a large
number of guests of varying degrees
of nobility would be invited, It was
customary to seat those of the higher
classes at the upper end of the table
-that is, above the salt: while those
of lesser nobility were seated at the
nether end of the table, or below the
salt,
It Is from this circumstance that
the expression, “Below the salt,” cate
into common use with its quite logi-
cal connotations of inferiority and
meniality.
(©. 1930, Ball Syndicate.)
GABBY GERTIE
“Even an actress who can swim
refuses to be oast in ‘Muddy Wa.
tors.’ ™
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
STORMS AND DEATH
p———
T IS a worldwide and
superstition that
gerously ill-—so dang
and
storm arises
very ancl
death hang in
the sick person will
during the storm's continu
instinctively thinks of
Napoleon amid the great storm which
shook the of St. Helena or of
other historic instances of fiery spirits
passing amid the warring of the ele.
ments. Primitive man saw in all nat.
ural phenomena something related to
his own spiritual being. Groping In
a world of mysteries, himself not the
least mysterious of things, he linked
his destiny to stars and storms, to
moon and sun and growing trees and
plants. For him there were no boun-
daries between the visible and the
invisible worlds. And seeking in all
things for a cause it was most nat-
ural that, in the sweeping of the
midnight blasts, he should hear Odin
hunting with his train and in the
howling of the tempest evil spirits
waging destruction, or disembodied
souls calling to souls still in the flesh,
Among many savage peoples today a
storm is still thought to be caused
by some malign spiritual being and
they seek to exorcise the “storm.
flend” by various rites and inecanta-
tions. Among other peoples living In
f primitive state it is the spirits of
the dead which manifest themselves
in a storm. - Both these conceptions
were common to our primitive ances-
tors and it can be readily seen how,
in the course of the ages, they should
have consolidated and shaped them.
selves Into the superstition that a soul
wavering in Its earthly tenement
should be swept away on the wings of
a tempest,
(@®. 1930, MoClure Newspaper Ryndicate.)
Old Military Organization
The Ancient and Honorable Artil-
lery company of Boston had for its
first commander Capt. Robert Keayne,
The organization was formed on
March 13, 1638 or 1639, under its first
name of Military Company of the
Massachusetts, Captain Keayne was
formerly of the London company of
the same title. The Boston company
claims to be an offshoot of the older
one. The necessity of a watch and
military training In Massachusetts was
coincident with the settiement of the
town.
ance, One
the death of
Crags
Maurice Chevalier
VOVBVVBLPHOPPIPPOPIGIPEOP
This is handsome Maurice Cheva.
lier as he appears in a scene from the
production, “Paramount on Parade”
intimate frolic of screen stars. The
idol of France introduces the song,
“Sweeping the Clouds Away,” in the
picture. “The Big Pond” is Chevaliers
latest all-talking starring vehicle. The
production is filmed in both English
and French dialogue.
- nl)
DOOOOOL
: For Meditation
OO0000
By LEONARD A. BARRETT
CLOVOCOCOLOUNODOLLOLT
GANDHI
Er
LLo0
brought
governn
devotion
entire
have fo
some explanati
m ents in
reform move.
ire solvir
opium traf.
i vii and n ¥ other wrongs
which have retarded th e development
of that country.
The secret of Gandhi's power seer
in his preaching and actually
living the principles of self-renuncia-
tion and non-resistance. He
than a mere theorist. Many reformers
have given to the world Important
gre:
to be
og
er giving his own personal life as a
sacrifice to those ideas. Gandhi
tually lives his principles. His own
life actually reflects the power
those principles.
agree with him or not,
credit for being desperately In
pest and transparently sincere,
Gandhi is seeking to demonstrate
that the principle of non-resistance
is the most potent factor not only in
solving international problems, but in
determining the peace of the world.
(E, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
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