i -~ As Told to: FRANK E. HAGAN and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Champion of the Oil Fields SK any Texas or Oklahoma ofl driller who's the best In his busi- ness and he's pretty certain to answer “Why, Kemp Morgan, of course!” Ask him why and he will tell you it's because Kemp had more unusual experiences than any other seeker after “black gold” ever did, For instance there was the time Kemp lost his best drill. He was working in soft ground but he noticed that the drill kept going slower and slower the farther it went down. Pret- ty soon it stopped completely. When Kemp tried to pull it out, it was stuck fast. Come to find out that he had hit an alum mine and the hole had shrunk up around the drill so tight that even Kemp couldn't budge It Then there was the time a Texas “norther” swooped down on Kemp's rig. But it didn't stop him—no sir- ree! He just kept on drilling, and brought in a 22-inch gusher. It was so cold that the oil froze as it spurted upward so there was a solid column of frigid oll. Kemp just took out his knife, hacked it off in three-foot lengths and shipped it to the refinery on flat cars. That was in Texas but Kemp had a funny experience once in Oklahoma. He drilled a well so deep that 1t tapped a rubber mine ‘way down In Brazil, She began to gush pure rub- ber, so Kemp just blew his hot breath on it to make it solid, cut it off in 11- foot lengths and shipped it to that place in Ohio where they make solid tires for trucks. When the average driller brings in a “dustet,” he moves his rig away from there pronto. But not Kemp Morgan! He knew what a tough time the Kan- eas farmers had digging postholes in the summer when the ground was baked hard. So whenever he'd strike a dry hole, he'd just take his two hands, pull it up four feet and two inches at a time and saw it off. Then he'd ship a carload of these lengths across the state line where they al- ways found a market, Private Life of Jonah T WASN'T a whale which swallowed Jonah, theorizes Stanley Suchwalko, it was a big-mouthed fish in northern Michigan. His friend, Laddle Hornik, captured the monster in 1930. Laddie Inspected the fish, which had laid down its life while being hooked, gaffed and beaten over the head with a pair of oars, and couldn't decide what to do with it. The size seemed to destroy the fish's commercial value and imagine Laddie’s surprise, says Stanley, when the first stranger to arrive bid a fabulous price for the fish's scales. Laddie yelled “Sold!” Then he re- covered his polse, sheared off the scales, counted the money and watched the stranger bear the scales away, “What'll you do with ‘em? asked Laddie. “I'm a spade manufacturer from Mo line, IIL,” replied the buyer. “I've got material here for 6,400 spades of the best chilled steel.” Buyer after buyer pald staggering prices for different parts of the fish and Laddie, says Stanley, didn't get wise until a tremendous price was bid and accepted for the fish's stomach. The stomach buyer immediately slit open the fish's belly and revealed the golden throne upon which Jonak had been seated during his long captivity. “It's cheap at half the price,” stated the buyer with pardonable satisfaction as he brushed a stray fin from his precious purchase, The Despondent Grasshoppers SEASONED maxim of the copy- books is that frequently a real cry does a person good. Leonard Baller, once a Nebraska farmer, Is sure of it Raln washed away the rallroads around his Nebraska lands; the drouth hit him squarely; then the dust storms killed every living thing and his land wns dry as the Inside of a grain bin At this moment, the grasshoppers ar- rived by millions and settled on his farms, Wasn't a thing for the "hoppers to eat but they were too tired to move on and Leonard almost lost hope. As a last gesture, however he rushed out among the despondent grasshoppers, sitting there in the dust, and planted several hardiest onlons he could buy. To hig surprise the onions matured quickly. The moment their bulbs ap- peared above ground the grasshoppers pounced on them, ate ravenously and burst into tears, bad drowned themselves 1 was able, of course, to raise a normal crop.” ‘ © Western Newspaper Union. Theory Pre-Dates Pasteur older than the discoveries of Louls Pasteur, with whose name It 18 ssso- the Mélical society of the state of New York. He produced serums for anthrax, rables and other diseases But before Pasteur was born, a Seven teenth century German scholar named Athanasius Kircher noted that files visit the sick and Infect the well by contaminating their food. | { i ALL ALIKE whom he had not seen for a number of years. “Hallo, old chap,” he sald heartily. “I hear you've been engaged for near- ly a year, Who Is the woman in the case?” “I don't think you know her,” re plied Jackson, “She's a Miss Terry.” The other shook his head gravely. “I understand, old chap,” he replied. “I've been married to one for ten years, and she's still a mystery,” Stray Stories, ONE WAY “But your fiance's salary Is so small how are you going to live? “Oh, we're going to economize, We're going to do without a lot of things that Tom wants.” Not Fair Two patients were alring thelr grievances In the asylum grounds, Said one: “It's an outrage. I've been here ten years, and I'm as sane as anybody.” “So am 1" chimed in the other, “and I've been here 12 years. Let's go and tell the Governor.” “Wait a minute,” sald the first. going to test you" Then, putting her hands behind her back, she sald: “What have I got It my hand? “A tramcar,” promptly answered the other. “You cheat!™ tort. “Xou Tit-Bits, “I'ry the heated re pick It up!"- was BAW me Pinch Hitting At a marriage service performed In a little country church, when the min- ister said In solemn tones, “Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded hus- band, etc.” Instead of the woman an- swering for herself, a gruff man's volce answered “1 will!” The minister looked up, very much perplexed, and paused. He repeated the sentence, and again the same gruff voice answered, “1 will!™ The minister up, man seated at the end of the first row said, “She's deaf, parson, an' I'm an- swerin' for her!” looked when a Everyone a Loser A small boy came hurriedly down the street, and halted breathlessly in front of a stranger who was walking in the same direction. “Have you lost half a dollar? he asked. “Yes, yes, 1 believe I have!™ sald the stranger, feeling In his pocket. “Have you found one?” “Oh, no,” sald the boy. “1 just want to find out how many have been lost today. Yours makes 55.”. OCCUPATIONAL “Sometimes Sue speaks and some times she doesn't” “Yes. She got that way since she | took a position In the telephone ex. change.” When Fido Won't Lie Down “A man is entitled to his opinion* “Of course,” answered Senator Sor. ghum, “but an opinion may, in the course of time, be like an unfriendly dog. You don't care so much to as sert ownership. What you'd like would be a painless way of getting rid of it.” Final Refuge “ls there anything in this job of tax collector—any future in It?" | “Well, when you're through theyll | let you in at some home for the friend | less.” The Prairie Wolf “Why do you refer to your favorite | eandidate as the prairie wolf?” “Well, it's customary to give a pop ular aspirant some animal name, And | he's one of those fellows who manage | to get just out of gunshot range and then bark and holler till nobody can sleep.” League Kitchenet—Well, the League of Na. tions opens up a new season, Kumidorecas— Who's throwing out the first bawl?—Loulsville Courler-Journal. ! . pet od HH Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C.—WNU Service, HE annual spring rush of tour- ists to Washington is on. In the Nation's Capital even the perennial visitor Is greeted with something new to enjoy. This year new buildings, recently opened, in and near the great triangle between the Capitol and the Ellipse, will be a fea- ture of a tour of the city. Gaze down upon the modern Wash- ington from an airplane. As always, the simple grandeur of the White House, the Capitol, the Lincoln Me- morial, and the towering Washington monument draw the eye and make the heart beat faster. But near them new wonders have appeared. Quietly and steadily, with so little fuss that residents were hardly aware of it, carloads of stone and mountains in aggregate—have been hauled into the city and reared into monumental bulld- ings. Acres and acres of old, unsightly structures have been razed on Capitol Hill, around its base, and along broad, historic Pennsylvania avenue, In their stretch parks, wide boulevards, long, handsome houses of govern- thousands of metal—whole the hace or vent, In the angle formed by the intersec- flon of Pennsylvania avenue and the new Constitution avenue, beautiful Champs-Elysees or Rue de Rivoll of Washington, rises a mighty wedge of masonry, the famed “Federal Tri angle,” eight blocks long. In this group amazing collection of building that the world has seen. They make their own weather, In hottest summer the air inside Is cooled to the f a fine spring of day. is ef rs ora Bingie government temperature tht Liki Beneath work loyees, the roofs of Triangle nearly 20000 government em- about as many as th «N.Y, Every e¢ entire or Day- dozens tion of Batavia day its 20 miles of Massive and Beautiful, high or more skyscrapers have gides, formed into from dozen is staggering, it is as if balf a New York's tallest been laid on their even os ed to make courts and wings, One unit—~the Commerce department-—is longer than the Chrysler building is tall, jut It Is not merely an Impression of bigness that one has in the wan- dering plane, Long ranks of ma- jestic columns, graceful arcades, =a wide plaza, and solid rock walls give a beauty and simplicity that make these enormous pewcomers fit com- panions for the classic White House and Capitol, The airplane turns, and far off In the distance, beyond the Capitol dome, appears a gleaming white marble tem- ple, comparable in beauty even to the noble Lincoln Memorial. This Is the new United States Supreme Court building, the only real home of its own that the nation’s highest court has had, For the first time In American his. tory a citizen now might gaze upon the separate, permanent abodes of the three branches of his government legislative, the Capitol; executive, the White House, and now, for the judi. cial, long sheltered In the old senate chamber, this temple whose dignity and impressiveness match the majesty of the law Itself, Suspended In History. As you cruise about, other splendid white bulldings appear, new jewels In the familiar setting along the Poto- mac, Beyond the Lincoln shrine the new Arlington Memorial bridge links north and south. Down the Virginia shore the Father of his Country. From the steps of the Capitol all the way down to the river, two and a third miles away, sweeps a broad stretch of tree-dotted park land. Gone Is qiuch of the mushroom growth of tem. jorary wartime structures. Thelr re- moval gives new beauty to this Mall, malin feature of the grand plan con %ived by the Revolutionary soldier. wrtist, Maj, Plerre Charles L'Enfant, vhen he laid out this city with broad, iweeping, prophetic strokes to be the mpital of a vast country, Hanging between earth and sky, you mem suspended fo history, halfway setween the past and the wsofathom. able future. How would the city look 1 hitndred years hence, or twenty, or a wousand 7 The Senate Office building, off there at the left, has had its face lifted— and a handsome face it now is, with a long row of Roman Dorie columns, A street car line that once marred the scene dips discreetly underground, Be- neath a broad lawn is a subterranean garage in which 270 senatorial cars can be parked, Supreme Court Building, Jut to look upon the latest crowning glory of Capitol hill one should stand on the front steps of the Capitol, where Presidents are inaugurated, and see the new Supreme Court building, its beauty heightened by the green of trees and grass, It occupies a historic patriots in powdered forgath- ered at a famous old run by William Tunnicliff on this spot before the War of 1812 After Britis} burned the Capitol In 1814, a building erected here housed congress until the marks of the torch were erased. In Civil war times it used as a military prison, Everything home Ig on a majestic scale. Look at at each side of the steps. weighs 45 tons. They are heaviest marble blocks ever into Washington, The two bronze doors pounds apiece. The eight Corinthian columns are 5134 feet high, The pedi- ment above them catches the eye, not alone for its size, but for its Interest. ing sculptures in which features of historic or living men are nized, Inside the massive bronze portals a main hall lined with 38 stately col umns—each made from one solid pi of stone—leads to the courtroom site. Early wigs hotel the was about the Supreme court's those blocks of mar Each bl two of the brought ane ck weigh 3,000 the recog. where the nine black-robed justices At their own request, the room was mad only about 60 per cent larger in area than the old Supreme court in sit. ie Aanr room the Capitol Behind the are the quar tered-oak-paneled offices of the justices, each of whom will have about courtroom wi iy 0} RE much three had offices and most of the members at To assure the justices privacy, building's corridors can be closed by big bronze gates, Wonderful Libraries. In the Folger Shakespeare library, down the street, reposes a fine collec tion of books and Elizabethan treas- tires, even the supposed corset of Queen Elizabeth, solemnly stowed away in a vault and shown only to a chosen few, Behind the Library of Congress an annex almost to double its capacity is being bulit, although already it is the largest library in the world, with more than 9,840,000 books, pamphlets, pleces of music, and other items at the latest count, Down from Capitol hill, past a shin- ing new House Office building lately reared beside the first one, the trail Capitol. Only there at all, sylvania avenue, In some of its now vanished build. ings—masses of rubble and ruined walls then—the first bricks flew in the “bonus army” riots of 1082, Halfway along “The Avenue,” be tween the Capitol and White House, there stretched off to the left in the early days of the city a dreary swamp where Washingtonlans were wont to shoot “reedbirds.” Later the swamp was filled In, and the old Center Market, dubbed the Marsh or "Ma’'sh” Market, was erect. ed there. Five years ago, the ram: shackle market bulldings still occu. pled the spot, and thousands of rats inhabited the premises which had long been a cornucopia for them, An energetic government hit upon this location as a key point In its building program. Here would rest the tip of the Federal Triangle. Wreck- ing operations began. Scientific Pled §5%83 Hi iii:8 : Repeat Honeymoon By EVELYN VOSS WISE © McClure Newspaper Syndicate, WHU Bervice. ETSY turned for a last fleeting glance at Roel before ascending the wide Ivory staircase, That was the way she would always remember him, she thought, his long legs stretched before him, his firm fingers grasping the arms of the chalr and his head resting thoughtfully between the wings, Bhe had expected him to make more of a fight, to be angry or excited, when she told him of her decision to divorce him. Yet she might have known he would be like this. She her eyes, “Rachel.” “Yes, Mrs. Colby.” “Will you help me dress now? Jetsy seated herself before the blue gatin and gold dressing table. It was kind of Helen to lend her house and Rachel. Helen, who on her third trip to Reno must know what Betsy was experiencing, She had believed that when Roel was told, a distressing situation would be over, After the divorce she and Rob- ert Peel would go quietly to Greenwich and be married, “I can see why women get divorces, but if they're goin’ to do it, it should be right away. You ean't live with a person for a long time without having the break hurt” sald Rachel “I've that tod Rachel on three honeymoons, 0 married five Is ng been Years, 3 Ie heen what and NOON Was nodded eagerly. “I've 80 I know I'm talking about. couldn't st another one, in France, A littl The head ea, easier, power and wealth” Betsy shuddered, of these-—hut she los Roel * Once in silver skirt In soft “Even dix Where t! and the first Rache) isn't much left in life - She arranged the lines over Betsy's | ¥ hv HE, Gree ran ome a habit, ere are 11 » no children is intly nly, of youth gone" liffer “there ‘ for ex- citement For a full moment Betsy gazed tachel's face and glos wi ’ i» ‘on ked © p ber wrap ng a 2 fled down nach the stal i and serene A8 Khe but finshed telept A tall Her hea to R “Betray.” “You? she asked It “Yes” Roel k heart in his one Fall ancly ked down eyes “My knees refused to move. I just sat on-—thinking. Detssy—conldn’t we try again? “When the first of youth is gone and there are no children™ Rachel had said. Betsy felt tears flooding her eyes, Roel's dear strong arms were holding her firmly, A gray-bhaired woman listened from the stairway. “Well” she sald grimly. tled, Miss Helen wonld have insisted I go with her, I said 1 couldn't stand another honeymoon, and I can't. Bat, dear God, instead of Miss Ilelen hav. ing three, Inst one of them might have been mine.” gently hut “That's set- Aged Doll Exhibited at Recent Show in London Dolls have heen the playthings of children from time Immemorial—and in every land, This was shown hy an exhibition of “dolls through the ages” which was held recently at Hamley's, the famous London toy shop, writes a London correspondent in the Detroit Free Press. One doll from Egypt was 4.000 years old, It had spent nearly all those years In a tomb, having been buried with a child so that she might have n toy to play with on her long journey to the “other land.” A great deal younger was the wood ert doll's head discovered In the foun dations of Christ's hospital, London, when the old bulldings were demol- ished. There Is a curious explanation of Its presence there, It was a superstition in former bar barous times that, to insure a new building having good luck, a living creature must be walled up in it, When our ancestors grew more civilized, they mans, Children today love to have dolls fashioned after their screen favorites, { Dainty Collars and Jabots to Crochet Pattern 1134 High time to be thinking up fresh accessory notes for spring wardrobe, isn't Then what better than these’ alry, lacy collars and dainty Jabot for giving last year's frock a “lift” and changing this year's so it wins recognition! 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