rn Air Transport Grows Rapidly Washington.—The development of the aeronautics and air transport in- dustry during the three years’ life of the aeronautics branch of the Depart. ment of Commerce has heea “among this country’s outstanding achieve- ments,” Secretary of Commerce lLa- mont declared recently in surveying the present state of development of the industry. “With the increasing interest being ghown in this subject by the general public, there is every reason to be- lieve that the immediate future will bring forth even greater accomplish- ments,” he added. Secretary Lamont predicted “the foundations have been laid for a great transportation system over which swift aerial carriers will bear their cargoes of mail, express and passengers to every corner of the globe.” Outlook for Big 1929 Record. A statistical estimate of the condi: tion of the industry appended to Sec- retary Lamont's statement indicated that if the present rapid growth in air transpezt operations continues during te remainder of the year, the oper: ations for 1929 will exceed the total for the last three years. The report estimated that the mile age flown by air transport operators for the first half of 1929 would total 8,000,000 miles as against 10,500,000 for all of 1928, 5,870,489 for 1927 and 4,318,087 for 1926. The average of miles flown daily by air transport operators for the first half of the year, estimated to be 70, 000 miles, is almost three times as great as the average for all of 1928, which was 26,606, more than four times the average of 16,083 miles for 1927 and almost seven times the aver: age of 10,830 miles for 1926. Thirty Thousand Miles of Airways. The total length of the airways net- work, estimated now to be 30.000 miles, has jumped from a total of 16, 067 miles at the close of 1928; 9,121 miles at the close of 1927, and 8,404 miles at the close of 1926. Ten thou- sand miles of airways, or one-third of the total, are lighted, as compared with 6,988 at the close of 1928; 4,468 at the close of 1927, and 2,041 at the end of 1926. The greatest increases were shown for the incoma-producing activities of air transport companies. It was es- timated that 40,000 passengers were carried during the first six months of 1929, as against 35,000 in all of 1928. 8,679 in 1927, and 5,872 in 1926. Total mail carried was computed at 3.400,000 pounds, as against 4,061,210 pounds in 1928, 1,654,165 in 1927, and 810,85) in 1926. Express volume was fixed at 1,200,000, as against 2,000,000 for 1928, There are now 45 companies oper- ating air transport lines, compared to 37 at the close of 1928, 19 at the close of 1927, and 14 at the close of 1926. They have 400 airplanes in service, an increase from 300 at the close of 1928. 128 at the close of 1927, and 69 at the close of 1926. THE PATTON COURIER Mr. Bonehead in the Woods Colorful Suit Here is a colorful suit ot gray and rose. The jumper is sleeveless and fashioned in a circular style in the gray silk. The short jacket shows a printed scarf, while a rose beret and rose-colored socks further carry out the color of the suit. Thought for Today What is done at home will always have its influence—and its revela tions—in the life outside. Uniform Marriage Laws Needed? New York.—Eleven states of the Union still permit girls of twelve to marry. In several states marriage ll- censes are issued by mail, without the appearance of either prospective bride or groom before the license clerk. In many places the license clerk is dependent upon the fees he receives for his entire pay, and consequently he issues licenses promiscuously and without questions. There are at least 57 “marriage market” towns in the United States where law is so lax that justices of the peace and “marrying parsons” ad- vertise that ceremonies will be per- formed at any time of day or night, and no questions asked. These conditions, brought to light in the recent survey conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation, explain a big percentage of the constantly in- creasing number of American divorces, according to F. Emerson Andrews, who analyzes the foundation's report in the current issue of the North American Review. Approximately 700,000 persons In the United States, it was found, have participated in marriages involving girls under sixteen. Hundreds of thousands of others have taken ad- vantage of these lax conditions to marry bigamously, or while intoxicat- ed, or while mentally or physically in- competent. Practically 100 per cent of such mar- riages, Mr. Andrews points out, are doomed to end in the divorce courts. The states where marriages of girls of twelve are permitted are Maine, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Ten- nessee, Virginia, Colorado and Idaho. Twenty-four states, including such highly developed commonwealths as Master Farmer in 7 XN Ra "EE PRATER Rew rea Laplad, farmer ot Lawrence what pure wheat field. Laptad has set Prize Wheat Field fo Mess A Kan.. in the midst ot nis 100 per cent is believed to be a record in rhe agricultural life of the country by having developed his wheat properties for tive years with a rating of 100 per cent pure wheat. exclusively for seed and his wares United States as well as in many foreign countries tle raises his wheut are marketed to farmers all over the He also holds the medal as the master farmer of the state of Kansas. SUCH IS LIFE — Ask cud Ye Shall Find Out New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania. still recognize the com- mon law marriage, in which a man and woman may live together under a mere secret agreement between them- selves. Adoption and enforcement of uni- form marriage laws throughout the country could quickly check the ris- ing tide of divorce at its source, it is shown. Recommendations for such laws, made by the Russell Sage Foun- dation investigators and published in the North American Review article are: 1. Raise the minimum age for mar- ringe to 16 years everywhere. 2. Re- quire a notice of intention to marry to be filed five days before the license may be issued. 3. Issue licenses at regular hours only, on the basis of proved age and in the town or coun- ty where the bride or groom resides. 4. Abolish the fee system for payment of license clerks. 5. Abolish the fee system for the civil solemnization of marriage by justices. 6. Let religious bodies establish in theological semi- naries thorough instruction regarding marriage laws, and deal rigidly with the commercial practices of “marrying parsons.” 7. Establish a bureau of marriage law supervision in each state. Max Schmeling, young German fight- | er, who whipped Paulino Uzcudun in their 15-round bout at the Yankee sta- dium, New York. Renege on “Kissless Marriages” Los Angeles, Calif.—Flaming youth's latest innovation, the ‘“kissless,” pla- tonic marriage, has been tried in Los Angeles. And did it work? Well, perhaps the two young men selected for the ex- periment were not esthetic enough They appeared in local courts and asked to be released from their col- lege girl wives and their new style of matrimony. Both were granted an- nulments on the grounds that they had been defrauded. The two girls, who had attempted to revolutionize marriage and substi- tute an ideal platonic relationship sans all caresses, did not appear in court to witness the failure of their experiment. “It was a great little plan, but that was all,” said A. A. Anderson, one of the young husbands. When he appeared in Judge ILeon- ard Wilson's court he told how he had lived with his wife for two years and had never received a kiss or a caress. “She told me that she loved me, but she just would not kiss me,” he explained. “Kisses,” she said, “were repulsive to her.” Almost simultaneously Richard V. Watson, a young banker, was relating a similar story in the court of Judge Elliott Craig, “l met her at Southern California Watson said. girl there. She seemed to care for me. We were married in two days. “Then | strange ideas about refused to kiss me, a University of sorority discovered her marriage. She Kissing was to women; it of the female to the male, she said. I lived with her for half a year and | could not change her viewpoint.” BE : ¥ & 3% iz ON BEING WELL zx 3 3 3 4 By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK % $ . . 3 3 Dean of Men, University of 3 % Illinois. & Afalelrelregreteelealestetueteateeteaterteateteateate tonteateluilrelrels So many things we take for granted in life—regular food, clothing, health —and taking them for grant- ed, we very sel dom feel any sense of thank- fulness or appre- ciation of these things which are regularly ours. | have seldom ever been hungry ex- cepting for an hour or two in my life. | haveal- ways had ade quate clothing, though at times | have wished it were more elegant or of greater variety, and as for illness, there has never been a time in my life when | was considered seriously ill. I've had ague and measles and an occasional ache or pain for a day or two, and that is as much as | know about real illness. 1 come and go as most of you do, never giving much consideration as to how 1 feel, what I shall eat or what I shall drink or wherewithal 1 shall be clothed. been matters to require serious con sideration. Jut not all people are so lucky. Sam has been lying in a hospital al most ever since | came to know him four years ago. He is ap ambitious young fellow, who had every likeli hood of doing something worth while until disease got a grip on him and These things have never | sent him to bed where he has been lying all these months. He has =» good prospect of some day being well but no cne knows exactly when. It will take time and patience and self sucrifice on his part. Until health comes he must lie quietly and take things as they come, and amuse him: self as be may. There is little he can do. His bed is by an open window, and the view outside is a very restricted one. A road passes near by obscured by shrubbery, but occasionally he can see a motor car scurrying by or a pedestrian moving slowly along the road as he himself longs to do. The strip of lawn in view of his window grows green in the spring; flowers are planted in the small beds scat- tered about and gladden his eye with their color. The grass grows brown and dead as winter comes on; snow covers the ground at intervals, and all the time Sam is lying looking out upon this circumscribed scene. He has been a very active boy, too, be fore his illness. He has memories of athletic games in which he excelled, of long walks along pleasant shady roads. of cantering over the prairies on horseback, and these recollections make his enforced imprisonment the more galling. He would be happier sometimes, he thinks, if he were alone with a few games and a book or two and his own thoughts. but he is surrounded by peo Any vice make up its mind that it is going to be attacked in all sorts of illogical is logical ones. ways as well must | | ple not of his own choosing or of his wn tastes. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days in the week, three hundred ind sixty-five days in the year—the same people shut in as he is. ‘hey can keep from hating each other | cannot see. It's a wonderful thing to be welll | (© 1929 Western Newspaper (Inlon.) Her Slogan Won Miss Marion Boyd, seventeen, ot De- troit, Mich., with the certiticate which President Hoover presented to her for her winning slogan, “This is your country—beautify it.” The contest was conducted by the Art Center of New York sponsored by Mrs. J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the prize was a trip to Washington. & | By Charles Sughroe MY SON 1S JUST \ COMUIG FROM HIS FIRST SESSION WITH “1 THE DENTIST — hs —~ A AND MOW THE OLP TOOTH nan (Loy ion a “A YOULL HAVE TO ASK THE DEUNTIST= HES | White Selenide dolled % Dreams of Disaster, i oe . % Killed on Same Day # & Buffulo, N. Y.—Mrs. Estelle & Schooeover, fifty, told her hus. g i band at the breakfast table that 3 % a dream she had during the i night was a premonition that 3 2» disaster would overtake one of 3 them before 24 hours had passed. > 3 Arriving home after work, ou oe & Schooeover fuiled to {ind his a ar YOUTHS CONFESS | Seck Revenge for Loss of Relatives in Russia. Moscow. — Having murdered g few [| “Whites” in their village from mo | tives of political revenge. four young the Chita district of arrest. acquired a | Communists in | Siberian, now under taste for the game and blossomed into ordinary bandits, according to their confession to the police, | The boys were arrested last August | but the details of their strange career four y | of crime. over a period of [ have just been nude public. The | Chita region was devastated by years | of civil warfare after the 1917 revo- | lution. especially through the activi- | ties of Ataman Seriionoff, and this is I one of innumerable tragedies that can | be traced back to that chaotie period. | The four boys—DBnizin, Filonoff, | Perilomoff and Pritupoff—had been { mere children when the waves of civil | strife rolled over their native village | of Aksha. All of them had lost rela- tives at the hands of the vaders. | In 1924 they joined the Communist youth organization in a group and be- | came among the most fervid propa- i gandists inst the rich peasants and sympathizers, But words did not satisfy them. Finding that the Communists were opposed to acts of individual terror, they decided to take the law into their own hands, | One night a hand grenade was thrown into the house of a villager who had served under General Sem- | dance,” | “She was the prettiest , i be anti-Soviet | dered. degrading ' typifies the subjection | How | inoff. Several were injured and the perpetrator of the crime re- mained a mystery to Aksha inhabi- tants. Then a rich peasant known to was mysteriously mur- Others followed, the victims being always Whites The whole series of murders. it now appears, was car- ried out by the four friends, Fighter Fined, Then Chooses Not to Appeal Portland. Ore.—William McConnell and L. B. Thompson. neighbors, fought to a draw here recently. They carried their fight | and both lost. [ “It is the judgment ot the that both of you are equally of assault and battery. | be $10 in each case,” | Mears. | Thompson agreed to pay the fine, | but there was some doubt as fo | whether McConnell would judge spoke up again. McConnell wanted to appeal his ase. He was informed that no ap- peal could be taken when the fine is { less than $20. | “I'll be good to vou and make the | fine ), so you can appeal,” Judge Mears said. | No appeal was filed. persons into court court guilty said 5-Day Sentence Worries Milan Serving 5 Years San Quentin Prison, Calif.—Louis Righetti, twenty-six. serving five years to life for conviction in San [Francisco on three counts of highway robbery, is one of those persons who helieves in | erossing bridges before he gets to | them. Louis confessed to prison officials that it wasn't the five years to life that caused him to be worried. No, Louis is worried because when he eventually is from prison he must serve a five-day sen- \iameda county jail for He was convicted in more serious start freed tence in the reckless driving. | San Francisco on the | charge before he could the sentence for an automobile law in- fraction. Ownership of Goose Decided by Barnyard Lackawanna, N, Y.—Two women ap- peared in court here to claim posses- sion of a goose, and it was only by properly settled The goose was taken first to one | home and allowed to walk in the yard. Here the goose seemed at a loss. Short- {y after it was carried to the second home and left alone. It strayed in a | coop in the yard and honked away merrily. The court decided to award the fowl to the second woman. F.ned Them Both { Taunton { the same automobile at the sume time? Mass.—Can two men drive until the | . : : | enne, “no girl is TO MANY MURDERS | White in- The fine will | Judge % wife. Deciding to go to a corner i 8 g | sw Store he walked past a group of 4 | ve 2 ® persons standing over a pros i % trate hody Iyving on the troiley | : 5 W tracks. It proved to he that of * | # his wife. She had been killed by % h : ’ * a traction car. 7 % 7 oo oe 3% i 74 1% oT oe oe 4% . ooo oo age se oJ oe of oe oe o30 oJ oT Ze oJ oJ oe Jefe feof fe offer state's | serving | aA nnigque decision that the claim was An aflirmative answer to this question | | | cost Edward Collins and William Gor- | man $100 each in court here. Unable | to determine which was operating the I automobile, the judge fined both on | charges of drunken driving. ‘What Will You 5s When your Children Cry for It There is hardly a household that hasn't heard of Castoria! At least five million homes are never without it. If there are children in your family, there's almost daily need of its com- fort. And any night may find you very thankful there's a bottle in the house. Just a few drops, and that colic or constipation is relieved; or diarrhea checked, A vegetable product; a baby remedy meant for young folks. Castoria is about the only thing you have ever heard doctors advise giving to infants. Stronger medicines are dangerous to a tiny baby, however harmless they may be to grown-ups. Good old Castoria! Remember the name, and remember to buy it. It may spare you a sleep- less, anxious night. It is always ready, always safe to use; in emergencies, or for everyday ailments. Any hour of the day or night that Baby becomes fret- ful. er restless. Castoria was never more popular with mothers than it is today. Every druggist has it. Faith of Small Girl Upset by Daisy Test Rev. Earl Anderson, of Dallas, who was recentiy jailed for contempt of court—he kept on building a Funda- mentalist temple in violation of a court injunction- happy knack of sharpening his points by means of ancedote. Mr. Anderson said in a re- cent Y. M. C, A. “The men who try to define and ex- plain God are as foolish as little Ethel. “Little Iithel, the foolish child, hur- ried from the garden crying. “*Why, Ethel, what's the matter? said her mother. ‘Did a wasp sting you or something? “No, muvver.’ little Ethel ‘but I've just found out God love me. “Foolish, foolish child! mother, ‘How could vou find out such has a address : sobbed, doesn’t said the a thing as that? God does love you, of course.’ “No, He doesn't, little Fthel sobbed. ‘I tried Him wiv a daisy. "— Detroit ree Press, Danger of Smartness “You have said a great many smart things. So clever a girl should easily find a husband.” “On the contrary,” said Miss Cay- likely to be in re- quest for marriage who displays hee sarcasm in advance.” Nothing that the ancients ever had catered to human nature as a 10-cent store does. Nature has no promise for society, Jeast of all, any remedy for sin.— Horace Bushnell. “Before My AE p Pl PE SHEE 1 "Baby Came”. “Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound puts new life into me and makes my work in the store and in the house easier: I took several bottles before my baby came and am always singing its praises to my friends. I recommend it for girls and women of all ages. It makes me feel like life is worth living, my nerves are better and I have gained pep and feel well and strong.”—Mrs. A. R. Smith, 808 S. Lansing Street, St. Johns, Michigan. Lydia .E: Pinkham’ Cr CR RTA Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co.. Lym: Mas: | I IN BC (© by ARRIET that che cultivati strawbe getting the full taxed her stren $25 was a nice had come to he “I'm going tc now,” Harriet s Tom with happ; eyes. “A brand oven. No more hot range at nc the fat of the I: “What's the and pancakes? I?” Tom laugh self from the st Harriet had just go ahead and ¢ wish T could ha self.” His laugl “You can’t do said. “Rememb the place here. to help a little. After Tom h work, and Har dinner dishes, sl got into the car The pink check she meant to cor stove. Perhaps Dodge, the hai throw off sometl might be able steak for Tom’s Harriet had nb in her life, not e her to marry hir started out on tt Joyous honeymc years ago, two hard work, conte the future. Whe paid for they w radio and a de this lovely check Half-way to to rundown old gra; apple orchard str: she saw somethin down and finally Two queer-look tering round the the red kimono e alled legs of Mr. swathed in m Drum wore an tied round her an also was swath dishpan, upon wh ly with a wooder whole performar uncouth tribal cer a pair of ardent At sight of Hai headed, clad in Drum set up a ! vou are! Don’t The bees are sw Harriet shut stantly she hear of countless inse musty tang. Ag: mer sky whirled brown specks. “They’re going ple tree, Matie! But the swarm They swirled on 1 woods and vanis Mrs. Drum stc after the fugitive “That’s the last and we've lost i don’t like us, I one skip left.” S the netting from emerged, pale wit the upper lip, a ¢ riet always thoug “We've lost mor Drum joined his v ter stick to chick know something don’t know of an a hive of bees, d asked anxiously. “I'll take ther Harriet. There was no lc her going to town the precious oil st possessing a hive she done it? Wel what money mean They were hangin with all their m had always given | she stopped in them—cards of hc and once a young ready for the pot. take pay for these felt that the time | make some return Mr. Drum deliv cool, dark night all indoors. By tl tern the hive was in the back yard. were just in bloon when she went to busy in the rich bl their new home w Tom never said Harriet cooking o The oven had spru sifted down upon baking. It was p be it served her soft-hearted, not | Next-deor neigh came over to take “Whatever posse she commented. * your bonnet, all 1 had a few bee sti there’s more to kee gathering honey.” The bees roamec roll's flowers also. far afield. But they
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