THE PATTON COURIER SUCH IS LIFE —That’s Different 2 POP COME Quick! 77 | WANT YOU TO lA SPANK THAT BAD LITTLE BOBBY YOIKS ! TUT! TUT! TO \ | MUSTNIT LET THE ANGRY PASSIONS, & & By Charles Sughroe 2 LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WASTE GETTING MAD ABour / WE WERE PLAYING GOLF, AND HE BROKE YOUR NEW DRIVER » | (ANYTHING ~ a WHICH WAY DI? TH' LIL BUM GO Parisian Art Dealers Paris.—This ts a new version of the story about what kannens when Greek meets Greek, There came a few days ago into the bewildering whirl of Paris a simple Greek peasant from the misty, myth enshrouded is'e of Delphos, where all that is known of art |s centered in the surviving work of Greeks of many centuries ago. When the Greek youth descended from the train he was met by a fel low countryman, an ex-oflicer in the Greek army, a man of wide knowledge and great warm heartedness. He hur- WINS EEAUTY HONORS This is Dolly Jarvis, who was picked pas the most beautiful mannequin in Hollywood, Calif. This was not con- sidered a hollow honor, for many of the world's best designers are busy there making the movie colony one of the fashion centers, and they know beautiful models when they see them. ried his young compatriot to the hotel, where they had arranged to stay and there the innocent youth from Del- phos revealed the treasure, the only one which he had brought from Greece with him. It was a Greek statue in gold. As the ex-officer explained when he went about the experts next day try- ing to sell the statue—for the peasant was anxious to realize its worth—the thing was a glittering piece of Grecian beauty. And when interested would be purchasers asked tu see it, the offi- cer replied: “But you must come to my hotel My young countryman is suspicious of the worldly wise people of Paris. He will not allow the statue to leave his possession.” So two of the would-be buyers went along to the hotel and gazed with dazzled eyes upon the work of art. Never had they seen such a gem, “May we take the statue away with us to examine the gold?” they asked. The Greek peasant frantically shook his head. Never that. The statue was all he had in the world. He could not afford to risk letting it out of his sight. But, if the experts wished, they could take samples of the gold from a part of the statue which was not visible—say under the arms. This No man is so ab- sent-miunded that he ever pays his gas and electric bill the day before it is due. was finally agreed to, the samples were taken, and the experts carried them off and examined them to their complete satisfaction. They returned next day and handed over the 250,000 francs demanded, congratulating them- selves on the youth's simplicity, for the statue was evidently worth a cool million. The buyers carried off their prize and the ex-officer bid them good-by, saying he would see his compatriot off to Marseilles on the boat that would take him back to dear old Del- phos. “I will return,” he said, “for my commission.” But he never did. He sailed with his countryman for the homeland. The buyers of the statue know why. The pair were a couple of smart crooks— Greeks right enough—who thought out the simple scheme of putting some gold under the arms of a statue of a woman, a statue which was worth perhaps two dollars as an ordinary study. Apart from the tiny pieces under the arms the metal was worth- less throughout. Bear Robs United States Mail Yellowstone Park, Wyo.—Yellow- stone park's “holdup bears” have de- veloped a new branch of the desperado business. One of them recently robbed the United States mails. Park Naturalist Dorr Yeager tells of the occurrence, which befell one of his colleagues, Dick White: “It seems that some days ago Dick stopped at the West Thumb road camp for lunch. The season being closed and the regular mail delivery having ceased, Dick was obligingly carrying a bundle of mail with him for the members of the different road crews around the loop. He left the mail in the car and, after enjoying a good meal, returned to continue his jour- ney fo Lake. . , - “Imagine his surprise, however, to find the package of mail not in the car, but between the paws of a black bear in a near-by tree. Bruin was examining the packer intently, snif fing and turning it over in an inquisi- tive manner, “Suddenly he began to tear at fit and, disregarding the shouts and threats of the man below, continued until he had exdracted a box from its contents. The tree was shaken, clubs and threats were hurled, bur the bear. utterly unmindful of the commotion he was causing, tore open the box and feasted happily on the contents, which proved to be chocolates. “Having emptied the box thoroughly, licked his paws and minutely inspect- SMART FOOTBALL WORK Jack Elder's 97-yard dash to tri- umph for Notre Dame over West Point was due just as much to “smart” de- fensive football as it was to any for- tuitous circumstance or “lucky break” to judge from the inside story of the famous play. The final score was 7 to 0. Costs Money to Keep Clean New York.—Ten cents of every dol- lar spent by the average American “#=1nily is for the purpose of keeping clean, a survey of this little discussed phase of daily life by Ronald Millar, New York statistician, shows. 3asing his calculations upon a fam- ily of four, Millar estimates that $1,000 a year is the least price of cleanli- ness that can be quoted. Of this amount, $469.35 is the minimum y=ar- ly total for persona! and household cleanliness; $485 for the services of cleaners whether employed directly or indirectly, and $72.80 for civie clean- liness. In personal and heusehold cleanli- ————————eeee ee ness the statistician includes soap, polishes, shaving equipment and mate- rials, hot water for washing or bath- ing, haircuts for husband only, tooth- prushes and dentifrices, handkerchiefs, towels, linen and power or upkeep for whatever cleaning devices that may be used. The housewife is granted, un- der the second group, 35 cents an hour at the rate of two Lours a day for 300 days in the year. Whether or not she receives any actual pay, the work is still chargeable since it is time which any woman might employ for cash profit. Likewise s Millar, the cleaning of railway cars, automobiles and even the grooming of 19.000,000 The Children’s Hour / .“ horses that still exist in the country ultimately becomes a charge upon the individual. “Food and shelter lead in the cost of living,” says Millar, “but the cost of cleanliness is higher than that of clothes, education, amusements, own- ing an automobile and many other things that figure more prominently in the household budget.” Wooden Shoemaker Busy in lowa Tewn Orange City, lowa.—The sturdy sons of the Netherlands in this little Flem- ish community clatter about in their wooden slippers at their tasks on their farms and truck gardens, J. Van Hoff has built up quite a wooden shoe He turns out a pair in 45 And he sells ‘em for $1 business. minutes. Doubt Book's Title London.—A Birmingham antiquarian going through some old papers has dis- covered a publisher's advertisement of “Nickelas Nickelbery,” by “Bos.” Now the question has been raised whether that or “Nicholas Nickleby” was the title Dickens intended for his novel DOD DIPPING INTO SCIENCE £4 > Q @ o A) Fur Seals The male, or bull, fer $ often weighs as much a2 & pounds but the female is scarce: § ly a fourth as big. Babyz seals weigh about 10 pounds at hirth. & As the old bulls will not allow the young males to acquire fam- ilies until about seven years of 4 age, the males live in large col- onies together and are the first ones killed for fur. (©. 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) ed the remainder of the mail for fur- ther delicacies, he reluctantly dropped it into the arms of the waiting man below and with a contented grunt settled himself down on the limb until such time as his tormentor should retire.” Miners to Wear Goggles for Accident Prevention Shamokin, Pa.—Mine workers of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation com- pany may soon be wearing goggles at their work. The accident report of the company for 1928 shows that 366 men suffered injuries to their eyes as the result if being struck by flying particles of coal and rock. of Spuds Spalding, Engla The craze for a slim figure has cifised a notable de- crease in the censygiption of potatoes, an official of tle board of agriculture stated at a potsto show luncheon here. Lessens” QUITTING WORK By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. My father went to work very young. There were no laws limiting child labor in England when he was young, and before he was ten he was doing something to add to the all toe meager family in- come. All through middle liferand un- til old age stared him in the face, he looked forward to the time when he should have ac- cumulated a com- petence and be able to give up the hard work to which he had been ac- customed since boyhood. Leisure, he thought, would be very sweet. He had picked out a little house in the village near which we lived which he said would suit him perfectly when he could quit work. There was a pleasant front yard with trees and flowers and vines, and at the back ample space for a vegetable garden. The house itself had four rooms with 2 SSSSENSRRE LS This two-toned gray caracul kid coat shows the “dressmaker” flare that is being emphasized on the newer coats this season. The dress is of black satin with an “agnes” model turban. a wide porch running across the front an which father could sit during a | summer afternoon reading his book and smoking his pipe with nothing | pressing to interrupt his leisure. It was a very attractive life which he pictured to himself as he was en- gaged in the heavy tasks incident to farm life, but it was one which he never realized. He died with the har- ness still on. Almost to the last day | of hig life the days were taken up with hard toil. It seemed sad that the little house in town with nothing more strenuous to do than to read an interesting book and to smoke a quiet pipe of tobacco never was more than an unrealized dream, But he was happy no matter how hard the work might be, and possibly leisure to which he had never been accus- tomed would shortly have grown very dull and tiresome. I am not sure that quitting work is likely to bring happi- ness no matter what competence a man may have. Pratt, an acquaintance of mine, started out .in life in good circum- stances, and, being a shrewd business man, by the time he was fifty-five he was considered the richest man in town. Why should he toil from morning until night, he asked him- self, when it was not necessary. He would quit work and enjoy himself, he decided, and he gave up his busi- ness and proceeded to do nothing. For ten years he sought happiness and satisfaction everywhere that money would take him, but he finally drifted back to his home town. He bought a small bank, he is president of it, he has something regular to engage his | time and his interest, and he is quite happy. He never intends to quit work, he says. There is no happiness in idleness. As I write this a freighter is cross- ing the Pacific from San Francisco to Japan. An old man of nearly sev- enty-five is in command of the boat. He quit work a few years ago after more than fifty years on the sea. He | meant to enjoy himself. But leisure brought him no happiness. He has gone back to work. He can die hap- py only when he is still in command. (©, 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) r— Chinese Town Wrecked by Russians 06OOPDOVIOPOPHHE POPOVOOODO View in the city of lLokhasusa. on the River Sungari near the Siberian- Manchurian border after its destruction by the invading Soviet Russian troops. FUEL COST PROBLEM IS NEAR SOLUTION Passenger Carrying May Be Made Profitable. Chicago.—Alr transportation, follow- ing the tremendous expansion pro- gram of the year just closing, is cast- ing about for some means of cutting down the heavy fuel bill, and is look- ing to the development of the Diesel engine to reduce operating costs to the point where increased passenger traffic does not present the problem of an increasing deficit, says David Rotroff in the Chicago News. Cheaper fuel in smaller quantities for an engine providing horse power equal to the present day air-cooled, radial gasoline-driven motors will, en- gineers point out, do much to develop air transport. A traffic manager of one of the air lines operating out of Chicago when congratulated on the increased travel over his particular route, produced figures to show that a full load of pas- sengers on any one of the planes used on that line represented a profit of only $22 to the company when the haul was completed. Each plane every day is not filled | to its carrying capacity, he further | pointed out, some flights as a conse- quence, showing a loss rather than a profit, The problem of air trans- | port, his figures showed, is in the cost of operation, of which a large part is caused by charges for fuel. Gasoline Prices High. Aviation gasoline costs the operators wholesale from 12 to 20 cents a gallon, the prices varying with nearness to supply and facilities for handling in bulk from tank cars and on contracis made with competing dealers. As a result the average trimotored ship of today flies at a cost of something over $1 a mile to the operator. Some of the ships with the more powerful en- gines will burn enough gasoline of the best quality to run the figures up to $1.20 an hour. These figures, of course, include all cost of operation, such as hangars, pilots and mechanics in overhaul departments, with depre- ciation of equipment written in, but the fuel bill outweighs all the other costs. When one company made an experi- | mental flight last summer with two I planes of the same manufacture, one powered with a radial air cooled gas- cline driven engine and the other with | a new aviation Diesel engine, burning crude furnace oil, air transport circles | watched with interest. Fuel Cost Cut 75 Per Cent. Information gained from the com- | pany discloses that the new Diesel had been given exhaustive tests during the sununer and fall and that more than 600 hours have been consumed in fiizhts from which data of inestimable value to the air industry has been gained. The Diesel type showed a weight reduction of over 20 per cent over the gasoline driven motor, and 33 per cent less in fuel volume is required while there is a 70 per cent saving in fuel cost. Because two big corporations are said to own several Diesel type engine patents while the engine has been de- veloped to. high perfection in the in- dustrial and marine field, and new al- loys now make possible a power plant of light construction yet capable of oil combustion under high pressure such as the Diesel, the industry has great hopes for its ultimate general use in planes, Further block test experiments this winter are expected to prove whether the new Diesels will stand up under high speeds for prolonged periods. Uniform Regulations by States Needed Adoption by the various states and territories of the United States of the air regulations prescribed by the Department of Commerce is today one of the crying needs of aviation. Only a general adoption of a standard code for the country at large would eliminate for air traffic much of the confusion evident in the automobile world today. | A survey recently made by the De- partment of Commerce shows an al- ready bewildering variety of regula- tions by the different states. Only 21 of the 52 states, territories, dis- triets and insular possessions of the United States required federal Ili- censes for all aircraft and airmen, ac- cording to Clarence M. Young, assist- ant secretary of commerce for avi- ation. Of the remaining 31, ten require federal licenses only for aircraft and airmen engaged in commercial flying, six require either state or federal li- censes for all aircraft and airmen, six more require state licenses exclusive- ly for all aircraft and airmen, while nine states require no license of any kind. 130 Coast Guards Check on Airplanes Washington.—One hundred and thir- ty coast guard stations along the At- lantic coast now are furnishing check- ing service to private airplanes. The service, established in May, consists of taking a record of the airplane's number, speed and time sighted as it passes the station and forwarding the information to the next station. To date no planes which availed them- selves of the service have been lost. It is planned to establish additional stations along the New England coast and Pacific and Gulf coasts if future demands prove heavy enough. FERRER RRR RRR RE RRRRRR RHR Survey Planes Find Big Lake in Alaska Washington.—With the aid of airplanes, a lake as been dis- covered in Alaska which it is estimated will develop 45,000 horsepower without even build- ing a dam, it was reported to the Navy department by Lieut. Com. Arthur W. Rudford, who was in command of an aerial survey in Alaska last summer. As seen from the air the lake is on the eastern shore of Taku inlet between Greeley point and Jaw point, about twelve and a half miles from the beach. It has an area of 900 acres and the water leaves the basin with a fall so abrupt that a dam would not be needed, his report states. Results of the aerial survey are expected to be of prime im- portance to departments of the government interested in min- eral resources of Alaska, water and power supply and trail building activities. KR RK HR FRR RX ERR RR RHR H RRR RHR KERR RHR ER ERATE XRTRWN FRR FH R RRR RRR NHR HHA A RXR ARR RRRRRRNXNE KEHRHHHH RXTE RRR TERR EREEERAR PAY FOR MARINES DROPPED BY PLANES How the Leathernecks in Nicaragua Get Money. Washington.—There would be no pay days in Nicaragua for many of the United States Marines but for the airplane. At isolated outposts, out in the bush, looking for bandits’ nests and in danger of being “stuck-up” at any time by outlaws, there is one bright spot every four weeks in the lives of the leathernecks. This is when the paymaster’s plane hovers over- head and drops the month's pay roll With their money, all in small change, the marines at the first opportunity go out foraging in the native settle- ments for chickens and eggs. The Marine corps paymasters have been confronted with an old problem ever since they have been in Nicarag- ua; how to deliver money promptly to scattered detachments in isolated localities, where the ordinary means of communication are difficult and dangerous, and sometimes next to impossible. The men must be paid promptly, or their morals and mili- tary efficiency might suffer. The offi- cers in command accomplish this by “hombing” their outlying patrols and stations, net with T. N. 1. but with currency. When funds are ready for delivery the paymaster concerned ascertains from the operations officer of the air- craft squadron when an air patrol is scheduled to cover the stations for which the payments are intended. The packages containing the currency are then delivered to the flying field, receipts being given by the opera- tions officer, if in Managua, other- wise by the pilot. Stations make their identity known to the pilots by panel, the air liaison ground code governing the methods of communication between station and plane. If in doubt as to identity, the pilot first drops a message. The pack- ages of currency are tied to dropping sticks, ene inch square by fifteen inches long, with a cloth streamer. The plane flies within a few feet of the panel and drops the package, which ordinarily lands within a few feet of the mark. MAY FLY PACIFIC Harry Y. Sanada, a Japanese avi- ator, who has been making a tour of the United States and Europe inspect- ing airplane manufacturing plants, plans to fly next spring from Hono- lulu to Yokohama in a seaplane. He will be accompanied by two of his countrymen. Colors Flyers See The colors seen when flying form one of its strong fascinations, in addi- tion to the sense of power that avi- ation gives. Much has been said re- cently of distance, speed, cleanliness and safety in aeronautics. Little about the joys of color and of beauty. Pale green and gold, for example, are the prevailing notes when flying high on an early morning over salt marshes in New Jersey, Canals and narrow waterways are a shining silver. Co- balt blues, warm purples, emerald greens and Jade appear amazingly from above, on a sea that at beach level looks a neutral pastel. But, as in automobiling, the passengers—not the pilots—benefit chiefly. for it was had to do And it co two words : Jim Hoil that he wa that he ha fn humanity. Which young men of twenty- the cold grayness of have told themselves, He decided to go wi something had happ petite—besides— He wateh, Surely it we Stopped? No; well, without lunch. Anytl needn't eat, He rang sent him after the 1 and propped himself m in bed. The sound of floated through the or “Thank Heaven,” he excitement, anyhow.” looked out. A parade slowly a block away wasn't much of a para He turned to look in the other direction, self face to face wi woman he had ever had leaned out of h was watching the app: She noticed him and plightly—noncommitall resolution had been nb He ducked inside his he mentally kicked must think I'm a say and poked his head was gone. The band \l IM HOLLE" ingly below him. He dressed and we His room was He lo hall, should be 520. He Had a Feeling Sh at Hin door and the neat br wonder what's her na and went down to the The ledger was unc a large and belligere and Jim decided not He sauntered over t asked for his mail, “No mail today, si you know.” “Of course. I had the way, what's the ni lady in 5202” “Murcheson, sir,” t and Jim Hollett turr “Murcheson!” He w had told him her fir living in the same have no trouble meet she would be in the evening, He had be dress for dinner. Fol petite had returned. She was in the d evening, She sat alo: for two. Jim Hollet in the lounge for the he chose a table n lady from 520. His almost-too-steac to attract her attenti at him and recogniz faintly. He had a su she was laughing a smiled back. The waiter came t« and for a minute he he ran his eye down t himself that if he | lowed to join her at better move before his brought him. He wo could do. He placec the waiter left. Jim Hollett *looke and decided that he He pushed back his ¢ Then he sat dow somewhere—presumat though Jim hadn't nc a man. And now tk kissing her! The waiter broug “Do you know who Jim asked, and nod other table, “This is a Mr. Mui pnd his wife are in 1 “Thank you.” So Well, no use letting spoil. At least he petite. “Thank Heaven!” h waiter returned with “I am one man who Year's resolution.” “Yes, sir” The w spectfully. (@. 1929. Western Ney
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