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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 . . .
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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
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skirt are so very slenderizing.
She's on her way to the 4H meet.
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Soldiers make good husbands,
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