FILING STATION INFORMATION WIND, AND By Charles Sughroe TRI pt Nia P77 iin (1) Many European Nations Find Profit in Them. London.—A number of hard-pressed Buropean governments are helping to balance their top-heavy budgets through the medium of legalized lot- terles, The vision of sudden fortune, by the simple expedient of huying an inex. pensive ticket, lures millions of dollars each year from the pockets of rich and poor alike. And In every Instance the national exchequers are benefited, The principal countries where lot. teries are permitted In Europe include France, Italy, Spain, and the Irish Free State, the last of which, in its racing sweepstakes, has the largest and most widely known of all For Different Purposes. The rules of vary in each country as do the stated purpose for which they are run. The Irish Free State hospitals benefit un- der the sweepstakes which are run in connection with three outstanding British hofse races each year. The Red Cross and the University City In Spain are allowed certain ex- tra drawings for their own profit, while France and Italy allocate their shares to governmental departments as they think fit, The biggest lottery of all Is the Irish Bweepstake. Run three times a year, on the occasions of the English Grand National, Epsom Derby and Cesare witch Handicap, It receives subscrip- conducting lotteries En $1,000 a Week Bolding his new contract with MGM entitling him to receive £1,000 a week for his work in the movies, "No won- der he smiles, tions from more than 100 countries. Since 1030, when it was started under the registration of the Irish Hospital Trust, Ltd, lucky ticket holders have been pald more than $100,000,000, By far the greatest number of tick. ets In this sweepstake are purchased in Britain, where It Is liegal for any person to sell them. However, the tickets are smuggled in and sold. The money goes back to Ireland. Out of these receipts and those from other countries, the Irish hospitals have benefited by more than $30,000, 000 during the past four years. The government itself received 25 per cemt of the hospitals’ share, and in addition, since 1032, has also realized $2,500,000 in taxes on the “sweep.” Has Longest Record. National Lottery has record of consistent per- dates back to 1763, when Charles III, looking for new means of supplementing privy hit upon this method. In Spain, three draws are held reg- ularly each month, in addition to five extraordinary draws, two of which are the special benefit of the Red Cross and the University City. The lottery has grown to such an extent that last year the gross receipts amounted to $57.750.000, Of this amount prize-winners re ceived 240356100, wages and admin. Istration expenses took $1.513.480 and the remaining $15.888 240 went to the government, The popularity of the lottery France is shown by the fact Is practically Impossible to ticket for as many as five days before a drawing. It is only recently that the lottery was legalized, and its ob- Ject was to pay war veterans’ pensions with the government's share the proceeds, Prize money takes 80 per cent of the total receipts; expenses are estimated at 5 per cent and the remaining 35 per cent goes into the national treasury to be applied to war pensions. The participant In the lottery has a one to nine chance of winning a prize, the highest of which is $320,000. In Italy the government reaps about $6.380000 a year from the lotteries which are conducted weekly by the state. The drawings are made in the eight principal cities, and large returns are possible from very small outlay. The the longest formance t Spanish his purse, in that it buy =a of Norman Town Turns Its Back on Coeducation Coutances, Normandy. vote, this town By unanimous taken a united stand against co-education, The reason given for this action is hat Ymale school teachers cannot teach girls their future roles of wife and mother,” and that “children of France are disconcertingly precocious” Despite this anti-co-educational feel ing In Normandy, there are “mixed” schools in France. Wherever has 5 me 3.520 school system to keep boys and girls separated. 3,000 SETS ON ONE AERIAL- RADIO ENGINEERS HAVE PERFECTED MEANS OF OPER. ATING 5,000 RECEIVING SETS FROM A SINGLE ANTENNA WITH- OUT INTERFERENCE. TATTOOED INDIANS - TATTOOED THEIR BODY USING CACTUS = THE STORY OF DEMETRIUS By . LEONARD A. BARRETT There is an anclent story regarding a silversmith pamed Demetrius, He was at the head of a group of crafts men who made sil ver shrines for heathen temples. Most of these shrines were dedi. cated to the god- dess Diana. It was & very lucrative business, perhaps the most prosper- ous of that day. The business con tinued to advance and every person connected with the enterprise was happy for the reason that his living was secured and there was plenty of money available for the luxuries of a pagan world. All went well until something happened! The business of the company gradually be gan to fall off. When activity was al most “nil” Demetrius decided to call a meeting the directors of the poration for the purpose of discussing the serious condition which confronted them, Demetrius addressed his direc- tors something like this: * know that by this craft we have our wealth, Not only is our danger of being the great temple of Diana His address Indicates a very hostile and vindictive attitude mind. He cannot understand why any other force has the right to Interfere with the of cor Sirs, ye business In but despised.” destroyed, also of Benyon in Action Jack Benyon, co-captain of the nois team, is on the Job again sensational passer and the pivot man of the team, financial progress of his company. Hav- ing ascertained the cause of the finan cial calamity, Demetrius relates that a certain man lecturing to the people down In Ephesus, the center of the heathen world, told them that. “There were no gods made with hands” The | influence of this man became so great that many persons were turning away from the heathen temples and aban. doing their loyalty to the heathen goddess, “and the Image which fell down from Jupiter.” When all this news spread about the ancient city of Ephesus excitement rose to a very high pitch. A riot was final iy prevented by the wisdom of the town clerk who persuaded the strikers and their sympathizers to appeal to the courts where justice would pre- vail While the conditions related In this story occurred nearly two thousand years ago it reads like a bit of news gleaned from our morning newspaper. When any force injects itsélf into the economic world which dries up profits or thwarts justice to labor, something happens — Discontent, riots, strikes, bloodshed! “There Is nothing new un- der the sun” © Western Newspaper Union, Turk, 154, With Son, 11, Claims He Is Oldest Man Adana, Turkey ~Clalming an age of one hundred and fifty-four years, and that he is the father of a boy of eleven, Had}i Boz Agir, a resident of the vil age of Mardin, sald he considered him- self the world's oldest and best pre served man, He claims to be the successor of the late Zaro Agha, who died recently at a proclaimed age of one hundred and sixty-four, : Hadi Boz Agir went to Mardin about 30 years ago, where he acquired a small farm. He then was already con. sired a centenurian, He maintains that when Tarkey still exercised control over Egypt he served the sultan there as a gendarme, and that he took part in the suppression of a Wahabite uprising in 1821, he sehold ARENTS and school teachers or any person whose duty it is to govern others, whether children or adults, gain their respect and love or esteem, as the case may be, If they are good dis. ciplinarians. They may even be strict, good disciplinarians are apt to be, but they are also prone to be just. There is a vast difference hetween being se vere and being strict, In the first in. stance there may be no measure of jus tice, or actual rela. tion or balance be tween the offense and the punishment’ It is particularly noticeable (n erning children, where It will found that a slight unrul #8 often brings an unmerit ed, COrrec- tion, and a real of fense goes with but slight punishment The state of mind fr tha parent i Lal often ROY~ he severe or teacher, has h to do with AR mur the lightness or severity of the punish ment as the misden When a arian Las, Ch anor itself, is 8 good disciplin not found and others Consequently not it is worth while to do the thi which will bring punish person this fickle know they there is dren where they stand, consider whether or down upon them a ment. What is more, be in clined to their wrongdoings would deserve the penalties meted out to them, There is a fine sense of jus tice In children. There is also an in. bred respect for authority, until they find it Is misapplied even when the rules seem arbitrary rather than, to them, reasonable Eevere they will realize Promotes Affection. Parents do well to recall families In which respect and gesuine affection exist between children and their fa. thers and mothers. They will find In most instances that discipline is good. It is Just and it is respected It is very hard children to be subject to the whims and the tempers of parents, One time the youngsters can do almost like and it is unnoticed, or brings very slight punishment. Again they do the small est prank, it may be in pure mischiev the on anything they Moon Over Cow Shed Caused Fire Alarm Pa--A big nd moon caused a fire alarm here and Mrs Frank Seeds, farm. looked out their bedroom win. dow and saw a glare in thelr barn. Thinking the building was ablaze, they called the fire department, When the firemen arrived, they discovered it was only the moon “coming up over the cow shed” West bright false Mr ers, Chester, September ousness, and with no wrong Intent, and they get a punishment so severe | that it Is far from just or right. ! There is nothing harsh or unkind in | the idea of good discipline, nothing pleayune or trifling either. | ood disciplinarians fine qualities of those whom they are | gulding. Commendation should go | hand In hand with correction. children. It is when they recelve the | right measure of each that young folk | understand that justice is the founda- tion of thelr management and that af. | fection is the ruling power. | Children's Allowances. i Children's allowances may prove helpful to the youngsters in teaching them how handle money, or they may prove opportunities for extrav- agance Whether they are an ald or a8 hindrance depends as much on par ents as children. It should mined apportioning allowances whether they are to be for little lux. apart from any demands for necessities or noo or whether they are to Include definite needed or ngs with some luxuries, € Bell Syed WNU to be deter before uries eRsories, cate Bervice Sports Ensemble In beige nnd brown tweed. lined with striped kasha brown, white and beige. Blouse of same striped kaska From Henry Creed & Co, Animals With Vertebrae Animals with vertebrae never have | more than four legs, _—_ Little Girl Allure TZ - and the bo its wes look prett: ers, as do all little g Patter: in = requires 234 2% 7 Le 3% yard contra Send VIF # {coins Be su y wri your NAME. ADDRESS, NUMBER and Si7i er pattern in* the gloom; *How do manded the cheerful one “My business ling skid chains and anti-freeze for be growled. —Clincinntal Enquirer. way? de radiators,” Extensive Repairs Mrs. lLafferty—Ten stitches did the doctor have 1 old man after the fight Mrs. O'Hara- last Ten? Was that ali? Shure, when the doctor seen me poor husband carried In this morning he says: “Has any wan got a sewing machine? Boston Tran script. The Dud-—You're new to this game, arent you? The Caddie—Yes. Wot Is It*-Van- couver Province,
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