dh bb Zhumks abou Humane Fox Hunting. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— In England it has been de- cided that fox-hunting is hu- mane. This opinion emanates from the hunters. The foxes have not been heard from on the subject. Maybe you don't know it, but there's a lot of fox-hunting among us, especially down . . south. Being but a lot of stubborn non- confermists, south- erners do not follow the historic rules. A party at large wear- ing a red coat, white panties and high boots would be mistaken for a ref- ugee from a circus band. And anybody blowing a horn as he galloped across Irvin 8S. Cobb an insane fish peddler; and if you sheuted ‘View, halloo! Tantivy, tantivy! Yoicks, yoicks!"” or words a new kind of hog-caller. Bown there they've fox until he's wise. learned that the hounds can't fol- low trail on a paved highway and so quit the thicket for the concrete when the chase is on. A fox has been sitting in the middle of the big road listening to the bewildered pack. On second thought maybe Brer Fox isn't so smart, after all—not with automobile traffic what it is. "Tis a hard choice—stay in the woeds and get caught or take to the pike and get run over. ® » * Courageous Republicans. HO, besides the writer, can re- call when the Democrats held their jubilation rallies the night be- fore a presidential election and the Republicans the night after the re- turns were in, when they had some- thing to jubilate over? Now the sit- uation is just the other way around. The Literary Digest poll was prac- tically the only thing the Republi- cans had to celebrate during the en- tire fall season of 1936. Still, we must give that dimin- ished but gallant band credit for courage. Here, in an off-year, they're spiritedly planning against the next congressional campaign. » » * English Recruiting. HE English are still having trouble inducing young fellows to join the colors. First, the gov- ernment tried to increase enlist dy new blue uniform, absolutely free of charge, and still the lads re- fused. So now, as an appeal which, 'tis believed, no true Britisher can withstand, the military authorities anmeunce that, hereafter, Tommy Atkins will have time off for after- noon tea. This may be a new notion for peacetime, but, war, the custom was maintained even up at the front. Many a time I've seen all ranks, from the briga- diers on down, knocking off for tea. However, this didn't militate against his majesty’s forces, be- cause, at the same hour, the Ger- mans, over on their side of the line, were having coffee—or what the Germans mistake for coffee. And the French took advantage of the lull to catch up with their bookkeep- ing on what the allies owed them for damage to property, ground rent, use of trenches, billeting space, wear and tear, etc., etc. Pid it ever occur to our own gen- eral staff that guaranteeing a daily crap-shooting interval might stimu- late volunteering for the American army? » . » The Job of Censorship. NE reason why moving pictures are so clean is because some of the people who censor them have such dirty minds. To the very pure everything is so impure, is it not? That's why some of us think the weight of popular opinion, rath- er than the judgment of narrow- brained official judges in various states, should decide what should and what should not be depicted. Anyhow, there are so many movies which, slightly amending the old ballad, are more to be pitied than censored. Sponsors of radio programs also lean over backward to be prudishly proper. But without let or hindrance the speaking stage, month by month, grows fouler and filthier. Suggestive lines once created a shock in the audience mind. The lines so longer suggest—they come right out and speak the nastiness. Sauce for the goose isn’t sauce for the gander, 'twould seem-—or may- be, after the reformers got through saucing radio and screen, there wasn't any left over for the so- called legitimate stage. IRVIN 8. COBB ©—~WNU Service. Modern Language Course The study of French, English and German has been introduced into vers): Car the old- my Position reported by sinking ship, possibly as much as 50 miles from her true position. Vessel indistressbroad- casts the SOS call, giv- ing also the latitude and ' longitude of her position, wrongly stating it to be . at the point marked. This steamer receives the distress signals, but having no radio compass, is unable to tell the direction from which they come. She can only proceed to the incor- rect position and so is un- able to find the sinking pp tion of the SOS; therefore her navigator disregards the reported position, and is able by means of these radio bearings to steer di- rectly to the foundering ship, regardless of fog and storm, and save her crew Prepared hy National Geographic Society, Washington, D, C.—-WNU Service. HE most magnificent of all lighthouses was built before the dawn of New Testament history, but the most remark- able of navigational safeguards has come only in the past few years. Day and night a monotonous drone of dots and dashes goes out est rain and fog, to help bring the voyager safely home. Today radiobeacons are essential equipment on our most important lightships and lighthouses, and ap- paratus for receiving radiobeacon signals is carried on all modern pas- senger liners and many other ves- we approach the solution of one of mankind's oldest problems. The lofty Pharos of Alexandria, erected the Nile, has never been surpassed by any other lighthouse in height or in fame. Its name became the languages; the French use it In radiophare (radiobeacon). But the signal which this magnifi- the light and the smoke from an open fire. No progress was made in marine signal lights for many cerduries. Only a hundred and burned in the famous Eddystone and until 1816 the May Island light, off Scotland, still coal fire to guide ships Nearly all the major advances in lights and fog signals—the electric lamp, the incandescent oil-vapor light, the Fresnel beam in the horizon the fast revolving possible stil rays into powerful beams, and the fog bells, followed by the wh siren, and diaphone-—-have been de- of the mariner, light century. Only in the last 30 years has so gator who must bring his vessel into shoals and narrow channels. Only the Radio Signal Is Certain. made 15 years ago, beacons were placed by the United States lighthouse service on Am- brose Channel lightship and two oth- er stations in the approaches to New York. Thus was solved an age-old problem. Only the radio signal pen- etrates fog and rain that blot out the most brilliant light. It can carry its message of safety through storms that drown the most power- ful whistle, Above the pilothouse of a modern liner you will see a small rotating coil antenna mounted on a metal frame. This coil receives radio- beacon signals now sent out from important lighthouses and lightships —more than 120 of them on the coasts of this country. In approaching the coast, the nav- igator of a ship with this coil picks up a radiobeacon signal-—perhaps the four dashes from Nantucket Shoals lightship, or the single dots from Ambrose. By rotating his ra- diocompass coil until the signal fades away (‘‘taking the minimum" it is called), he determines the di- rection from which the signal comes, even from distances of more than a hundred miles. Anyone who has stood on the deck of a liner in a dripping fog, and has wondered at the courage of the navigators going ahead toward the unseeable, must realize what a blessing this is to tense nerves— how valuable is this gift of science to better navigation and to safety at sea. Radiobeacon systems now are be- ing extended throughout the world, and radio direction-finders are be- ing placed on more and more ves- sels, recently even on fishing craft. There also are direction-finding sta- tions on shore which give radio bearings to ships asking for them. These radiobeacons have added some 1,500,000 square miles of wa- ter to the area served by United States aids to navigation. In fact, their signals may carry far beyond this area. Distance Finding on Great Lakes. A simple arrangement for dis- tance finding is now in use at a number of stations, especially on the Great Lakes. The radio signal and the sound signal are synchro- nized to be sent at the same in- stant, and the difference in the transmission time, as measured by a stop watch, gives the approximate distance of the vessel from the sta- tion. This is easily computed when it is remembered that sound in air travels approximately a mile in five | seconds. The distance, therefore, | is roughly the “time lag” divided by five. A comparison of me number of Great Lakes ships which stranded during the four years preceding the use of radiobeacons, with the num- ber for the four years following, in- | dicates a 50 per cent reduc also the saving of time by ve: taking radio bearings is a large factor in economical navigation. { The dramatic use of SOS calls in dangers and tragedies of the sea is familiar enough. tadiogran 18 to and from friends on s iipboar d are commonplace. Radio also serves navigation in trans: rect time, a service of prime im- portance in determination of longi- tude at saa. When wrecks | or when storms their normal locations, a valuable means of broadcasting such urgent information. Radio also transmits reports from marin who observe defects in navigational aids. A vessel compass ano tion; sels nitting the cor- obstruct channels, drag buoys from radio affords ere equipped with a radio- can take a bearing on other ship sending radio signals, 18 determine its direction at y the same method it would | use with a radiobeacon on shore This taking of bearings between sk of collision in fog, and it also helps one ship to find another which may be in d The rescue of the crew of the British freighter Antinoe | by the United States ship President Roosevelt in mid-Atlantic in Janu. ary, 1928, is a notable example of this use of radio bearings. Capt. George Fried, then master of the Roosevelt, immediately changed his course on receiving the SOS, and radio bearings on the An- tinoe were taken every 15 minutes He found the Antinoe's position as given was some 50 miles in error; but, steering by the radio bearings, he reached She Antinoe in about six hours. fter three and a half days’ heroic struggle, the 25 men of the sinking Antinoe were rescued Tragic loss of 42 lives, through lack of equipment for taking radio bearings, is shown in the wreck of the Alaska, which sank the very year that radiobeacons came into use. One August day in 1021, the Wah- keena, in a dense fog off Cape Men- docino, California, picked up an SOS call from the Alaska. Having then no device for telling from which direction came the call for help, the Wahkeena cruised for ten hours before she could find the sinking Alaska. Not So Lonesome Now. Today, of course, all outside tend- ers and lightships use radio, and a number of isolated and some tenders are equipped with radio-telephones, which greatly fa- cilitate reports and orders in emer- gencies, At remote stations, the lightkeep- er's life long has been a symbol of loneliness. dio, all the keepers heard was wind and waves, sea birds, or the fog- horns of passing ships. During a period of bad weather in 1912, no tender could reach the lighthouse on Tillamook Rock, Ore., for seven weeks. The station on Cape Sari- chef, at the entrance to Bering sea, went for ten months without any mail or news—August, 1912, to June, 1913! Radio changed all that. “Before we got our radio,” wrote one keeper, “‘a new President might have been elected a month before we knew about it . This time, we heard it as soon as anybody. The last two big prize fights, when it was announced who was cham- pion, we heard it We listen aiso to ministers preaching, and there is singing. Wi is aime} the iress. ARRIARR EAR AR RAIA STAR DUST Movie + Radio %%% By VIRGINIA VALE h&* 3 20 2 2 20 2 00 2 0 2 6 6 20 20 2 2 2 26 2 26 2 2 2% ing company's Spelling Bee program that soon it will be afternoon spot to an evening hour on the blue network. Apparently the whole country feels the urge to compete, for mail pours in from colleges, and orphans’ asylums, from volun- teer firemen and swanky country clubs asking for a chance to join the fun. Paul Wing, who conducts the pro- gram, travels around the country at top speed, broadcasting from here and there, drawing such crowds of wn Wee If Carole Lombard is not already one of your favorite stars, she will be as soon as you see “Swing High, Swing Low.” She is so beautiful, so in- gratiating, such =a good sport that you Just want to climb up to the screen and shake Fred McMur- ray for nearly breaking her heart This picture may do no end of damage and cause innumer- Carole able family rows, Lombard for Carole never nags, never whimpers, never Tages. The character she plays is going to be held up as a model for oho vine in private life by all the young fiances and husbands. Ree Frances Farmer, who plays the feminine lead in “Toast of New York,” has skyrocketed to fame in record time, but nevertheless, she has not buried her stage ambitions, This summer she will go to New Hampshire to work with the Peter- boro Players, w The rest of Hol may be- lieve that Glenn Olympic decathlon winner, will make an ideal Tarzan, but Lupe Velez holds firmly to the belief that only Johnny Weismuller can effectively play the part. Even Lupe had to admit in the midst of that Glenn Morris had the looks and physique for the part, but she still held out that he would never be able to give the Tarzan yell. Whereupon son old meanie said that in that the producers would hire the same yeller who howled for Johnny. Marion Claire, who for past two years has been trouping around the country with ‘The Great Waltz,” has been signed to play Bobby Breen's mother in "Make a Wish.” Schulberg has signed Lenore Ulric, who was so good as the vi- cious grafting friend of “Camille,” to play in “The Great Gambini.” A girl in her "teens named Wyn Cahoon who has had considerable success on the New York stage has been signed by Columbia, who have also nailed the veteran Dick Arlen down to a contract to keep him from gallivanting off to England again. ween one For those audiences that like horror and sus- vwood Mo Iris case the “The Soldier and the Lady,” old classic of spine chillers, made in Europe. More intimate, but ing and Basil Rathbone. ae en him in a picture with Bing? through his horrifying ontics in “Love From a Stranger,” keeps 86 kinds of tea on hand at his house so as to have just the flavor he wants of an afternoon . . . scene by ny Cave wn By Bmw Bog vind Tp being followed. © Western a ewapapet Union, Clayfield Baffles Experts There is a clayfield at the village of Ewenny, near Bridgend, from which clay has been taken for near ly a century, yet there are no signs of excavations, notes a writer in London Answers Magazine. Experts are baffled, for there should be a hole at least fifty feet dep. It is known as the "Potter's Field,” and adjcins a world - famous pottery. of tons of clay have been it, but the supply seems Je Luxe for De Lightful ust a bit the for her She has hree ab Or a Sprig ! Matrons Have Vanity, Mamas of ol 1d laver 390. her that her way an not 'S18 » of this one is d does wonders re a bit pas continuing oliar, pastels is Siw break re- all-in-one waist and The fitted top and flaring bottom make for styl ort, a a on though you ul, always n Parties and Picnics. Winifred on the left is pri making her mind to h housecoat, too; the i with IVES the lus com- tron iS, even ake. vately ave a ugh she is way her She chose fitted, brok- seamed up the this style because the en waist line and front skirt are so very slenderizing. She's on her way to the 4H meet. ing now and has only to remind Betty “The Jolly Twelve" Tuesday. are having on The Patterns. Pattern 1285 comes in sizes 12- 20 (30 to 40). Size 14 requires 3% yards of 39 inch material. Pattern 1282 is for sizes 14-20 Knowingly? “Does your husband talk in his sleep?” “No, and it's terribly exasper- ating. He just grins.” —Omahs World-Herald. 80 THEY GET ALONG Bragga—Does you: wife use Docio—Oh, yes, of course, but 1 use her best powder puff for a shoe polisher, Soldiers make good husbands, says Sergeant-Major Sam ; they're trained to be tidy. Then why is their dining room always a mess? 16 requires if 39 inch material. It ribbon for 9% vards ¢ requires 2% yards of tie belt Pattern 1083 Size 38 requires inch material izes 36 to 50 vards of the short sleeves it requires only 5 yards of 39 inch material New Pattern Book. Send for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practi cal and be oming clothes, select- ing designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to-make pat- terns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the iit junior age; slenderizing, patterns for the mature : dresses for the ost particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book Send 15 cents today for your copy : Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 247 W. Forty-third street, New York, N. Y. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each € Bell Syndicate Miss REE LEEF Says: is for s afternoon WNU Service, "CAPUDINE relieves HEADACHE quicker because it's liquid... already dissolved” Private Conscience No person connects his con science with a loud speaker. Give some thought to the Laxative you take Constipation is not to be trified with. When you need a laxative, yon need a good one, Black-Draught is purely vegeta- ble, reliable. It does not upset the stomach but acts on the lower bowel, relieving constipation. When you need a laxative take purely vegetable A GOOD LAXATIVE A ———— BER BPR 10) 0:01 08H PY — MISCELLANEOUS GOLD FILLED CROSS, , 10¢ Write plainly, American ity Bureau, Depl. N, 1819 SER Sash ith s N. ¥. KiLLsS Such Insect Pests As the
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers