WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON EW YORK. — Vincent Bendix got on famously as long as he stuck to tinkering, fussing with machinery. Without Wheels It’s No Go for Vincent Bendix He thing didn’t It was his Chicago real estate deals which brought against him the petition in voluntary bankruptcy filed in Chicago, say his lawyers. 000, including the famous Palmer Lake Shore drive residence —all down the chute in the federal district court. are rolling along nicely. They seem to be one up on the ‘““good earth’ as an arcanum of security. Modern times are like that. In the basement of a New York hospital, where he ran the elevator, he had a grand time taking an old hot-tube gas en- gine to pieces and putting it to- gether again. He was 17, not long from Chicago, where he had been a telegraph messenger boy. An old one-eyed swamper around the place, who under- stood machinery, had instruet- ed bim in the working of the power plant and had encouraged his laboratory work, There was a close working alliance be- tween faculty and student body. as a typist in a law office, baffled at first because he couldn't use a monkey wrench on the typewriter, but exploring it satisfactorily with a screw-driver and pliers. But a law office hadn't any wheels, and he did better with the Lackawanna railroad, which had plenty, although he was in the traffic department. In his spare time, he worked out im- provements on a bicycle chain and sprocket. That brought him in touch with bicycle manufae- turers and at last he was on the main line—and it wasn't the Lackawanna, It was a wide, paved highway to millions in the invention of automobile and avi- ation devices whose only dead- end was real estate, Of Swedish ancestry, son of a Mo- line, Ill.,, Methodist minister, he packed a copy of Schopenhauer in his pocket when he was a messenger boy. In those days, he wolfed Hux- ley, Darwin, Marx, Tyndall, Walldce and Spencer, calling himself a So- cialist in his earlier years. Never still a minute, he is buoyant and resilient at 57, and his friends shrug off this bankruptcy business as just a short detour from the main high- way. They say they wouldn't be surprised if he should bob up with something as exciting as perpetual motion, one of these days. sesmeelffmenes ALTY, laconic, William Allan Neilson, rounding three score years and ten, retires with this year's graduating class as president of Smith col- The Groves of lege. Rarely Academe Laud Retiring Prexy ing prexy get such a hand from students and faculty. Some- what in the picture of Stringfellow Barr of St. John's, and Maynard Hutchins of Chicago, he has put over education on its merits, He has been first a scholar and secondly an ad- ministrator, but has fired so much enthusiasm that administration has pretty much taken care of itself. The University of Edinburgh and Harvard passed on to him the flame of the great Elizabeth- ans. Merry eyes-little white beard-—resonant laugh—with a surgically incisive mind—he has been to the Smith undergradu- ates a blend of Chaucer, Shakes- peare and Erasmus—although said immortals didn't smoke big cigars, He takes a bow from all the groves of academe, mmoles I OSCANINI was so pleased with a tie designed by Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former Countess Lu- cilla Mara de Vescovi, that he had 2 one like it Woman Designs made for each Styles for Men; of the 93 mem- They Like "Em bers of his or- chestra. That started her designing ties for Doug- las Fairbanks Sr., Noel Coward, Count Andy Robilant, et al. One thing led to another, and now Mrs. Whitman rns from as the only woman couturier for men, after a study of the latest in men's styles on the continent. Her ancestors were members , of the council of ten of the Vene- tian republic. One of them mar- ried the painter » bes queathing a sensitiveness fabrics and color, no doubt. She was a concert singer before her marriage to Mr. Whitman, (Consolidated Features~WNU Service.) ADVENTUROUS AMERICANS By Elmo Scott Watson Saved by Chance HOMAS PAINE, with his stir- ring, “These are the times that try men’s souls,’ read to the men After serving as aide to Gen. Nathanael Greene, he became secretary to the affairs and helped get loans from France and Holland. But aiding the fight for human liberty of only one pecple was not Instead of settling down to enjoy life in the nation he helped found, he went to England “Rights of Man'' for which he was outlawed by the king's court. Then he went to France where he was elected to the national convention, of King Louis XVI, the Jacobins and He Paine was thrown into prison to the guillotine, was saved by the merest thance. The prison keeper went along the placing chalk marks on the doors of those to be executed the next morning. In the prison gloom, he did not notice that Paine's and flat became the inside of the door when it was closed. The guards passed by Paine the next morning and the delay gave James Monroe, United States min- ister to France, time to obtain his release, » * - Captive for 10 Years N 1800, Ellis P. Bean left his home in Tennessee and took a job with a pack train. Be- cause they carried contraband, the party was attacked by Spanish sol- diers. Bean, with a few other sur- vivors, was taken to prison in Chi- Then followed one of the cruelest periods of imprisonment that any man has ever endured and re- mained sane. escaped only to be recaptured, beaten almost to death and chained to the prison wall. After trying to escape again, he was thrown into a dungeon at Acapulco. ventually allowed to work in chains the daytime, he kille his guards with a crowbar away. Again caught, he put in another year in dark, dirty dungeons and was flogged regularly. Again al- lowed to work, he killed seven men and this time got 300 miles before he was seized. In retalia- tion, he was made the victim of almost every kind of cruelty. So well was he able to stand 10 years of this treatment, unbroken in spirit and with defiance gleaming in two away developed a superstitious fear of When the revolution broke out, they offered him a place in the loyalist army which Once at liberty, he soon talked Finally he led a victorious had been so cruel to him begged In true American fash- "Go away and were the only given him 10 years of torture. . - * ‘Dictator’ of Skagway IS name was Jefferson Ran- dolph Smith and he was born in Georgia in 1860, all of which sounds like wonderful background for the story of a Southern gentle. man. But he was a gambler and a crook who wound up in Alaska and they called him *"Soapy'" Smith, He got his name in Leadville, Colo., where he sold suckers bars of soap supposedly wrapped in $20 bills. He was a gambler and confi- dence man in Denver and Creede, Colo., where he became “dictator” of the camp, succeeding Bob Ford, slayer of Jesse James, When the Alaskan gold rush be. gan, he went up to Skagway and found the town wide open and wait- ing for a man of his talents. He soon became leader of a gang that used his saloon as headquarters for fraud, robbery and even murder, His disrespect for law was so fla- grant that it soon became too much even for that lawless community. A citizens’ committee held a closed meeting to decide what to do about it. No decision was really neces- sary, as ‘‘Soapy’ tried to “crash” the meeting with a Winchester rifle but was fatally shot by an armed guard. As a reminder of the daring days of the Klondike, the town of Skag- way can show no more appropriate sign today than a huge rock carved in the form of a and bearing only one name--''Soapy” Smith who traveled thousands of miles from home to seek adventure and fame and got both-~with dishonor. ® Western Newsnaver Unios. — TAKING NO CHANCES The thrifty Scot was on the train from Edinburgh to London. At each station he hurriedly left his com- partment, rushed to the ticket office After this had been repeated a num: ber of times, a fellow passenger asked the reason. “It's because of my heart,” the Scotsman explained. ‘“The doctor says I may drop off at any time and I'm buying my ticket from station to station.” Such Injustice “Have you any quired the lady of the house. ' the prospective maid, with you?” “Well, mum, to tell the truth they're just like my photographs Hedging The soldier was explaining the theory of shooting to his sweetheart. Soldier—You see, we have to cal culate the distance of the object we want to hit, and then allow for the power of attraction of the earth. shooting over water? would understand—besides, I am no* in the navy. Preparation A college student pass a very important examination “Have failed to pass exam. Pre pare father.” The brother replied: “Father prepared. Prepare your- self." THE LAST LAUGH i When the Allowance Is Low Lucky is the homemaker who has two of catmeal, and in clever her quick for using it in oatmeal is a menus. For genuity you can turn out a whole sive to eat. For example, have you ever tried making light, flavorsome raisin muf- fins with oat meal? Or have you used oatmeal in a thick, hearty vegetable soup to give it that “stick - to - the- quality so much to be de- for active “Ho! Ho! Bill, jes think of them “Where does the laugh come in?" “Well now, they gotta go back to work." - No Hypocrite A revival service was being held and one of the partners in a coal concern had joined the church. He tried to get his partner to do like- wise, “1 can't do it, John,” replied the partner, when his insistence became irksome. “Who'll do the weighin’ if I join?” Proposal? “Ma, do you think Pa is goin’ to let that little shrimp of a Sidney | Brown marry Sis?" “Why, 1 don't know, son. makes you think he might?" “Well, Dad is playing cards in the front room with 'em and I just heard him say, ‘I'll raise you, Sid.’ "” What No Recommendations “Could you let me have—er—a banker's reference, sir?” said the negotiating a sale. “Just a formality, you know.” “1 could,” replied the client, “but it would only distress you.” Shrieking Tax Victim-Fifteen dollars? You usu ally charge me $3. Dentist—Yes, but you shrieked so loud that you frightened three pa- tients away. i IMPROVED VISION Optician—These glasses are only $10. Let me put them on. Do they improve your vision? Customer-Wonderfully; I can see plainly the price is altogether too large. Fine Distinction The judge was reproving a col ored man for deserting his wife. “Wife desertion is something we must deal with severely,” the court admonished, “But judge,” protested the black man, “youall don't know dat woman. i isn’t a deserter, I'se a refugee.” Her Gentle Answer “Can you make a cake like moth. er used to make? “Yes, darling, if you don't ming the indigestion father used to have,” stretch th budget, by making a little n a long way ou've catmeal for luscious, soft, chewy cookies, of course, but have you tried it for making the crust for a delectable apple pudding, or have you substituted it for nut meats in a rich-tasting torte? You see, interest and variety to meals, and doing a first-class job of budget stretching, oatmeal may be trusted to add a large amount of low-cost food ener- gy to the diet. Oatmeal, moreover, is an excellent source of vitamin B, modernly called thiamin. This vita- min is absolutely necessary to en- able the body to transform food (es- pecially carbohydrates) into muscu- lar energy. Thiamin stimulates the weat go besides adding coming constipation, and acts as a prevention of nervousness, Here, then, is a brand new series of carefully tested recipes, all of which contain oatmeal, all of which will be family favorites in your rec- ipe box. Oatmeal Apple Torte. (Makes eight servings) CRUST: 2 cups flour 3; cup oatmeal (uncooked) 1s teaspoon salt 1 cup brown sugar 34 cup butter (melted) Combine the ingredients in the or- der in which they are listed. Re- serve one cup of this mixture for the top. Pack the remainder into the bottom of an eight-inch square pan, FILLING: 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1% teaspoon salt 1 cup water 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups apples (pared and chopped) Combine the sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add the water and butter, \) / and cook over a \ 7 low flame for Pa about 10 minutes, stirring frequent- ly. Cool and add the vanilla and apples. Pour the filling over the crust, and cover with one cup of crust mixture reserved for this. Bake in a moderately slow oven (325 degrees) for about one hour. Serve warm with plain or whipped cream. Oatmeal Raisin Muffins, (Makes 16-18 small muffins) 1 cup general purpose flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 3 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 2 cups oatmeal 1% cup seedless raisins 1 egg 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons shortening (melted) Sift together the flour, baking pow- fer, salt and sugar. Add oatmeal and the raisins. Beat the egg, add milk and melted shortening. Com- bine with dry ingredients and mix very lightly. Pour into greased muf- fin § and bake in a ho degrees) for approximately utes. Vegetable Oatmeal Soup. (Serves eight) soup bone (? 2 pounds meat) 2 tablespoons fat 2 quarts water 4 teaspoons salt 1% teaspoon pepper 2 cups tomatoes (canned) 1 cup carrots (cubed) 3% cup onion (chopped) Ys cup celery (chopped) 4 cup oatmeal or 1 cup regular rolled oats (uncooked) Remove part of meat from cracked soup bone, cut meat into cubes and br htly in hot fat. Place meat, soup bone, water, salt and pepper in soup kettle. Cover simmer approximately Cool, strain, and chill so that excess fat may imed off. There should be of soup stock. Return stock and add vegetables. Bring then slowly add catmeal. simmer approximately until vegetables are f{en- meat used in making the be cut in small pieces and added. Serve with finely chopped parsley, if desired. Old-Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies. (Makes five dozen) 3; cup shortening 1%2 cups dark brown sugar 12 cups general purpose flour 1% teaspoon salt 2 bone, two hours. wy x §¥1 sSuinCi to kett to a boil, Cover and 3% teaspoon soda 3 cups ocalmeal 3% cup sour milk 2 teaspoon vanilla Cream the shortening and sugar thoroughly. Sift together the flour, salt, and soda, and combine with oatmeal. Add to the creamed mix- ture, alternately, with the milk. Stir in the vanil- % a lightly floured board. cutter. degrees) for about 10 minutes. Meat Patties, (Serves six) 6 slices bacon 3; pound beef (ground) 1% pound pork (ground) 1 egg (beaten) 1 tablespoon onion (chopped) 1 cup tomatoes (canned or fresh) 1% cup milk 1% cup oatmeal 34 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper Line six muffin tins with strips of bacon. Combine remaining ingredi- ents and mix well. Put into the muffin tins. Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees) for approximate- ly one hour, As a Breakfast Food. Modern homemakers serve oat- meal porridge often and for variety add chopped dates, figs, seedless raisins, or dried prunes or apricots (cut in strips) while cooking. Get This New Cook Book. Of course the man in your family has very special recipe likes and dislikes. So has every other he- man. And, of course, they all like a big, juicy steak, apple pie a la mode, potatoes au gratin, etc. This new cook book contains over 125 rec- ipes that men like. Send 10 cents in coin to Eleanor Howe, 819 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill, and get a postage prepaid copy of “Feeding Father.” OM License Plates Useful handy when painting the woodwork of a room. Be sure that it is clean. Hold it against the wall to protect the wall surface from paint smears. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) angels » thing ou'll prefer the Morning” and ."”" ¥You can off either design with the filet cro- chet edging. 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If you eat it every day-and drink plenty of water-you can not only pet regular but keep regular, day after day and month after month! All-Bran is made by Kellogg's in Batlle Creek. Sold Aid in Silence When you have nothing to say, nothing; a weak defense lence is less injurious than a weak reply .—Colton. How Women in Their 40's Can Attract Men Here's good advice for a woman d her change (usually from 38 to BE). who Jour she'll lose ber appeal to men, who worries about hot Sashes, lows of pep, dizzy spells, upset nerves and ; needs pd poner i aaa an " v E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com made for sssmen. 1¢ hetge Nature build ul resistance, thus helps give more hr io enjoy Hic ahd asst chiming jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms often change of life. WELL WORTH TRYING! Life in the Right For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; he can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.—Pope. | Fd OR SPREAD ON R @® The best > place ping tour is in SHOPPING
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