THE PATTON COURIER SLICH..1S..LIFE Washing Machine Wanted By Charles Sughroe EI fall 3 Tm BRN ALL RIGHT! GIMME, | TIME! ATS ALL! ASK J ~ WARN YOUR FACE IS CLEAN, BUT NOW YOUR Vet! cot A & MY DIRT \ RSA ERC i - LO [ ab Alien Smugglers Brownsville, Texas.—With the trial conviction and sentencing to jail of Isaac Amram and Juan Samano on charges of smuggling aliens into the United States, it is believed by United States immigration authorities here that the two leaders of a far-reach- band of border lawbreakers have been disposed of, temporarily at least. An investigation is now being made to determine whether or not the smug- gling organization had ramifications in New York, Europe and the dif- ferent ports of Mexico, Hundreds of aliens, most of them Greeks and Ital- fans, were clandestinely brought across the Rio Grande by Amram and Sa- mano. Amram, who is only twenty-six years old, speaks English, Spanish, French Greek, Italian, German and Turkish fluently and has a smattering of vari- ous other tongues and dialects. He has traveled extensively through Eu- rope, Asia, Spanish America and the United States, acquiring his education in this country. Charge is $100 a Head According to his story, his grand- father, a Spaniard, settled in Turkey, and he was born in that country, com- ing to Mexico several years ago. Some of the languages he acquired as a youth along the Mediterranean; others he studied in universities. Juan Samano was until recently a FOR SMALL GIRL A very smart little frock of rose georgette crepe trimmed with blue appliques on which rose and blue flowerlets are embroidered. There are plaits at the shoulders. Mexico Palace Addition Cost Lives of 80 Workmen Mexico City.—When the magnificent fourth floor addition to the National palace is completed, its cost will have to be reckoned not only in pesos, but in human life. To date eighty wwrk- men have been killed in falls and other accidents resulting from bwild- ing operations on the upper extension of the administrative edifice of Mex- fco’s federal government. magistrate at Reynosa, Mexico. Ac: cording to Amram’s version of the gang's activities, Italians and Greeks were brought across the river, the smugglers charging $100 a head for this service, Belief that the organized gang of alien smugglers operating from Rey- nosa had been broken up by the ar- rest of Samano and Amram was ex- pressed by Brownsville immigration BROAD JUMP KING Cyrus Spangler of the University ot Kansas track team, who is the broad jump champion of the Missouri Valley conference. Spangler outjumped the cream of the midwest jumpers with a leap of 23 feet 103 inches at the University of Nebraska stadium. His near-record jump won for him a place on Uncle Sam's Olympic team. officers, who assert that through the activities of the organization many Greeks and Italians were brought to this side of the Rio Grande. The con- fession of Amram and the details brought out in stories told by the captured aliens coincided. Leader Smuggled In. American immigration officials had ascertained from several Greeks and Italians, apprehended after they had crossed the river, that Samano was a member of the organization which had its headquarters at Reynosa and had been endeavoring for several weeks to effect his capture. He was finally ap- prehended at the American customs office at Hidalgo when he crossed to get a manifest on an automobile he had purchased. Amram stated he was smuggled across the river at Reynosa two years ago, Samano aiding him; that he went to New York, where he was employed as a musician, and later came back to the border and became a member of the Reynosa band. - DIPPING INTO - SCIENCE Iron and Steel Steel is not a separate ele- ment, but is made from iron with carbon and other ingredi- ents added. The thing making steel good or bad is largely in the way it is treated as it cools and crystalizes. Steel is a great improvement over iron and en- ables us to do many things we could not have done with iron. Teoteeteoteetorteatontont tt 8 EI TT TT TT TT (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Tooteoteotoeteotecteeteoteeteeteatuutontuntont. FORCED SALES By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. THINK of all the salesmen who come upon one unexpectedly and try to persuade one to buy, the book agent through all time has been the most unpopular, 1 suppose the reason is that few people have any innate long- ing for books and especially for such books as the salesman going from door to door is trying to dispose of, If heis to be successful he must first create an interest and a desire and then at- tempt to satisfy it. This requires tact, a knowledge of human nature and how it is influenced, and, of course, persistence, and this last quality .is ordinarily all that the wandering salesman of books has developed. If he succeeds in making a sale it is usually a forced sale. Webster was telling me not long ago something of his experience while in college, He went out during his summer vacation to sell books. He had never had any experience before and he knew nothing of salesmanship excepting to hang on when he got hold of a prospective customer, The territory to which he was assigned was a pretty barren rural community. The book he was trying to sell had no particular merit. The people to whom he was attempting to sell it did not want it, if they were persuaded to buy it in order to get rid of Webster it would mest probably lie with the family Bible on the center table in the sitting room unread and useless. Any- way they could not afford to buy it, and Webster knew this as he looked about him better possibly than any- one else. When he succeeded in mak- ing a forced sale he felt as if he had robbed an orphan asylum or sand- bagged a blind man. Webster got Ready to Face Antarctic Dangers Commander R. E. Byrd and the members of the crew of the Samson, the supply ship of the Byrd Antarctic expedition which will sail soon. Rang Many a Knell San Francisco.—Priceless relic of early days in San Francisco, the Vigilante bell that used to summon the people to council and war at Fort Gunnybags, here in the '50s, has been hung in the marine deaprtment of the chamber of commerce, a gift to the chamber from the First Baptist church of Petaluma. Stirring memories of those times which tried the hearts of San Fran- cisco’s best men and the necks of her worst were recalled when Robert New- ton Lynch, vice president and general manager of the chamber, announced the presentation. It was through his efforts that the bell was brought back here. The bell was purchased in 1856 by the Vigilante committee, of which W. T. Coleman was then president. It was oought from a Boston firm of metal workers, Conroy & Connors, weighed 1,100 pounds, and cost $1,500. It is bronze, Hung in the steeple of old Fort Gun- nybags, it sounded the death knell of many a reckless villain, proclaimed peace and victory to the upright and struck terror to the hearts of the vicious when the Vigilantes found it necessary to take the law into their own hands. In 1858, when the bell no longer Real “Pesky” Critter” was required, the residents of Peta- luma bought it from the Vigilantes for $550 and hung it in their first Baptist church, There it was used both for religious services and as a time bell, sounding the hour at 6 a. m., noon, and 6 p. m, When the Civil war started, Union KFT R FRR RRR RRR RR RHR He He He) Big Oil Company Uses Goats to Cut Its Grass Oklahoma , City, Okla.—The mowing machine and lawn mow- er business took a blow at Pon- ca City, Okla., recently when a big oil company decided to use goats to keep the grass cut on its 160-acre tank farm. There are on the farm more than 100 tanks, holding about 140,000,000 gallons of crude oil and gaso- line, and strict precautions against fire are necessary. As goats do not play with fire, they won the contract on the grounds of safety and economy. Ke KKK KX XX KEXEX XE RHRKXRRKX% KXXXXKXX KN Ye ee Ne Ke He Se Ne Ne Ne Ne eS SEN NN NPN N5 S S5 NP NSN Ar Np As HEEEEERRH XR RKH RX BEXEXXXKXXXKXXK* HKXEXERIR EERE XXX HXRHRXEX sympathizers rang it to announce Northern victories and those friendly to the Southern cause bccame angry. To prevent ‘discord among members of the community, the bell was taken down and hauled away one dark night to a warehouse. A few hours later Northern sympathizers returned it to the steeple, hoisting the Stars and Stripes above it. The next night a Southerner made his way unobserved into the belfry, and with a hammer sought to silence the bell forever. He made a big crack in it, not unlike that in the famous Liberty bell, but this had no silencing effect, The bell remained in use until 1907, and its chimes could be heard through the countryside within a ten: mile radius, Many a man’s good reputation is due to the fact that his wife doesn’t tell all she happens to know. Death From Heart Disease on Gain London.—The mental and emotional strain of modern life is mainly respon- sible for the 400 per cent increase in deaths from hear. disease in Great Britain and other countries, in the opinion of Dr, J. Strickland Goodall, London cardiologist and physician. “While the death rate from cancer has increased rather less than 25 per cent, that from heart disease has in- creased nearly 400 per cent,” Doctor Goodall informed members of the In- stitute of Hygiene, “The form in which we take our pleasure,” he asserted, “is a direct in- version of nature's demands for ade- quate rest.” The habits of vikiting night clubs, drinking cocktails and smoking exces- sively were listed by Doctor Goodall among the destructive pleasures. He further maintained that “the emotion: al character of modern plays, novels and films, with their appeals to the baser passions, inevitably tends to overstrain, with results which are re- flected in the enormously increased number of deaths from heart disease.” These deaths are occurring at an earlier age than formerly, Doctor Goodall reported. Whereas a few years ago the common age of sudden death was between fifty and sixty years, an analysis of recent deaths had disclosed that “the age is becom- ing much less.” The physician recalled that 12 per- sons died suddenly in the United States while listening to the running account of the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago, and that seven of these succumbed when Tunney was floored in the seventh round. He attributed all to emotional strain, A critézal investigation of thousands of cases of sudden death shows, said Doctor Goodall, that most of them are due to arterio-sclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, a disease often caused by hard physical work, mental strain and emotion, away with the job, however. He hung on and haggled and argued the ques- tion until in sheer desperation his vie- tims signed on the dotted line. He was broadcast as a salesman de luxe and his picture was displayed in the advertising of the company for whom | he was working, and yet it was really | poor salesmanship which he exhibited. | A conservative Englishman, the head of a large retail establishment, is said to have announced that he would dismiss any of his salesmen | | | { | who sold a customer anything which | he did not want. no forced sales in his establishment. No customer who came into his store need fear being leadpiped and sold a gold brick before he got out. I have been called on once a year for more than a score of years by the most perfect salesman I have ever known. I heard a few weeks ago that he was dead and I am truly sorry. He never urged me to buy; he never even brought up the subject of my buying. He made an appointment with me in advance for a definite time, and as reliable as clockwork he appeared then. He simply spread his wares be- fore me, pointing out the particular merits of this or that, and he did it all quickly, courteously, and with a subtle appeal which I was never able to resist, but it wasn't a forced sale. When he went away I felt that he had done me a service, (©. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.) SPEAKS MANY TONGUES Sir George Grierson of London, who has recently received the Order of Merit. Sir George is master of 179 languages and 0554 dialects, having just completed a monumental lianguis- tic survey of India on which he spent the past 25 years. There were to be | i AMELIA’S | | REGAINED | i LOVER | S MRS. TABOR laid a kindly hand on her shoulder Amelia Tanner looked up into the pleasant face above her, She was just leaving the Tabor house and Mrs. Tabor had come to the door to see her depart. “I am sorry you got so tired today, Amelia,” Mrs. Tabor said. ‘But the work seemed to pile up. I hope you will get nicely rested before you have to start out tomorrow. Here is some- thing for your supper.” She placed a paper bag in Amelia’s work-worn hand. A slight flush of gratitude and ap- preciation tinted Amelia's tired face. She murmured thanks and hurried away, a slight, drooping figure in in- describably quiet and threadbare clothes. Hastening away from the pretty residence section of the town, where she was employed by the day, she turned into Lincoln street and there was her home. The smile that the sight of the shabby little brownish house always brought to Amelia’s face came now. She loved that house; she was trying to pay for it, literally, by the sweat of her brow. All her life long she had wanted a home, a haven, a place of her own, where she could be her own mistress for a few hours in each twenty-four. It was after she bought the house that she had given up serving as a maid and had entered upon the harder job of being a by-the- day. Amelia did not go In at the front door, but, taking a few more steps, she went round to the back of the house and entered that way. In the kitchen by the stove sat a woman crying. “Oh, Sister Dora!” exclaimed Ame- lia. “What's the matter now?” “I'm cold,” quavered the small sal- low woman, hugging herself in her shawl. “Why of course you would be. The windows are open and there is a draught.” “But I must have my fresh air,” sighed the woman. “Fresh air is nec- essary to me in my state of health. 1 couldn't make the fire burn. That wood you bought is too green. Barney would never allow a bit of green wood on the premises. He took such pains with his fuel. Oh, dear!” And here Sister Dora began to weep again, Amelia had closed the windows and now laying aside her hat and coat, she began with quick movements to start a fire. The helpless and dissatisfied Dora watched her gloomily. “I've been thinking of Barney all day,” she said. “I've been thinking that if it hadn’t been for you he would never have gone away and left me.” Amelia was silent. It was Dora’s favorite complaint that her sister was the cause of her husband's vanishment into the unknown. He had been gone eight years and Dora, left alone and unprovided for, had come to Amelia. Ever since Amelia had provided for her, cared for her, borne with her. “Barney was a fine man,” Dora went on. “We got along good together till you made trouble between us. I don’t knew how you did it, but you must have made trouble or there wouldn't have been any. I loved him when we were married and he thought his eyes of me. I never dreamed it would come out like this, Oh, I am a miserable woman!” She was. sniffing. Amelia, still si: lent, set on the tea kettle and laid the table neatly. She cut bread, opened a can of something, arranged the peaches temptingly, When the tea was made she touched Dora’s shoul- der. “There, come,” she said, “eat a bit of something and you'll feet better.” “I can't touch a crumb,” said Dora. But Amelia hoisted her from her chair, made her sit down at the table and poured a cup of tea for her. Pres- ently Dora began to eat heartily and with enjoyment. Amelia, however, could not eat at all; she was too tired, too disheartened. To come home to this night after night, her poor sister mourning for the worthless and delin- quent Barney instead of exerting her- self to get a new grasp on life. Years before Dora had driven away the one lover Amelia had ever had, a worthy, honest, plain fellow, because he did not match up with the showy Barney. But Amelia, instead of grieving her life away, had gone bravely to work, filling her life with what she could get hold of. She thought of Larry Hicks now as she sipped her tea and wondered if Dora ever realized what she had done. Suddenly Amelia covered her face with her hands, making a shelter for her poor features, while she tried to straighten them back into their nor- mal placidity. “Well, if you are going to cry 1 shall give up,” said Dora, harshly. Amelia had resumed her poise. “I never cry,” she said. “What's the use? Have some more tea, Sister Dora?” Dora was peeping from the window. “There's a man coming round to the back door here,” she said, excitedly. “Maybe it's Barney come back to me!” She tore to the door, jerked it open and fell back in her disappointment, “Miss Tanner?’ she said. “Yes, she’s here. Come in if you want to see her.” The man entered. He was thin, tall, quiet looking and neatly dressed. His eyes went to Amelia and as Amelia lifted her sad gaze recognition passed like a spark between them. “Amelia,” said Larry Hicks, une steadily. “I hope you're glad to see me. I'm mighty glad to see you.” Amelia, to whom life had brought 80 many" tribulations that even now she expected nothing save a fresh one, made a pot of fresh tea, cut more bread and invited her old lover to sit down at the table with them. She even found a moment in which to open a fresh jar of preserves carefully hoarded as a treat. Larry Hicks ate with enjoyment. He explained that he had come straight from the train. “You are the first person I looked up,” he said, with his steady eyes on Amelia's face. “I came back just to cee you. I can’t stay long. My busi- ness won't let me.” “Where do you live?” Dora asked. And he named the distant state. From that point he went on to tell about his work, the home he had built and surrounded with trees and vines and shrubbery. A brook ran just back of it and he raised ducks and chickens. He had a garden and a peach and apple orchard. And in these varied interests he found entertainment when his day’s work was done. “But it’s lonesome living alone. I don’t like it,’ he said, looking wist- fully at Amelia. “So I've come back to see if—if somebody I know won't have me, Amelia.” His hand closed over hers. In his earnestness he had forgotten Dora, A moment later Amelia found that she and her old lover, who had se miraculously become her regained lov- er, were alone. Dora had gone. Pres- ently Amelia sought her. “Larry’s got money,” she said. “You' can live here. I'll send you money enough every month.” Dora looked at her queerly. “Maybe when you're out of the way Barney will come back to me,” she said. Larry, sweeping all before him, car- ried Amelia away within a week to a real home, happiness and a life such as she had never dreamed of en- joying. And Sister Dora, alone, comfortable in Amelia’s house and supported by Amelia's bounty, is still waiting for Barney. Phrase Often Quoted Is Laurence Sterne’s Some of the most familiar quo- tations in our language are, to use an Irishism, “misquotations.” {he phrase, “They do these things better in France,” appeared originally as the opening sentence in Laurence Sterne’s “Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy,” and reads there as follows: “They order, said I, this matter better in France.” The coiner of the phrase was born in 1713 and died in 1768, three weeks after the publication of the volume which this famous saying opens. He was a parson, but, like a good many other men who took holy orders in the Eighteenth century, not entirely fitted for his sacred office. He was, however, the great-great-grandson of an archbishop of York, and himself became a prebendary of the same city. The appearance of the first two vol- umes of “Tristram Shandy,” one of the most whimsical and unconvention- al novels of a very unconventional age, brought him instant fame, and on coming to London from Yorkshire he became the lion of the season. Visitors to the National gallery will recall the famous painting by Charles R. Leslie, R. A, entitled “Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman,” both of whom, together with Corporal Trim, are the immortal creations of Sterne. —London Answers, Naval Church Pennant Search of the records of the Navy department has not to date disclosed the origin of the church pennant. On April 26, 1862, Admiral Farragut, thea Flag Officer Farragut, issued an order appointing an hour of thanksgiving and directing that the church pennant be hoisted. The “Signal Book” of 18668 prescribes that the church pennant he displayed above the national ensign. The “Signal Manual” of the navy now prescribes as follows: “The church pennant will be hoisted immediately above the ensign at the peak of the flagstaff at the time of commencing and kept hoisted during the continu- ance of divine service on board all vessels of the navy.” The church pen- nant indicates that divine services are being held aboard ship. How Australia Got Name When, in 1606, De Queiroz landed in the New Hebrides, he took possession in the name of Philip III of Spain, in whose service he was, and named the land Tierra Austrialia del Espirita Santo, and wrote: “For the happy memory of your majesty, and for the sake of the name of Austria, I named it, because on the anniversary of your birth I took possession of it.” He thought he had landed on the ru- mored Great Southern continent, upon which the shade of this name had fallen. They Didn’t Pop George has a fondness for fried pop- overs. His elder sister one evening agreed to make a generous supply and he was to wash the supper dishes, The sister served the cakes with misgiv- ings, as they were not up to the stand- ard. The brother ate greedily with- out comment. Returning to the kitchen later in the evening, the sister found the dishes unwashed and an explanation was de- manded. “Your popovers didn’t pop, so that lets me out,” said brother. SS MR.T 1 By ELMO ¢ HE - a t oped a mechan and iron who c form certain t: them, his reply similar to the e fellow who saw yet the ingenuit ventor has devel what is more re fact that he has a “voice,” and it If you are inclin no such man!”- and his inventor, Westinghouse E turing company! 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