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rban territory which it _serves to attain the following major improve:
Better and adequate street lighting in Trucksville, Shavertown, Fern-
and Dallas.
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The year, one the day on the American people give thought to those
) gave their lives for the preservation of the nation, it is especially appro-
z : _ priate to remember the patriots who died during
¥ the Revolution while battling with General
Washington for the independence of the Ameri-
In no way could Memorial day
be better observed than in fs devoting it to
-
For example. 4 no count of American dead has come down to us from
so important an engagement as the action at Princeton, which enabled
shington to clear the British out of New Jersey. The best authority on
e subject contents’ himself with reporting he British loss as more than one
in red, and the American loss “much less.”
"One historic fact does sharply stand out, however, as to patriot losses
battle. That is, when Washington himself reports them, they are accur-
enough, and their smallness indicates with what enonomy of men he
mplished his epoch-making results. For example, he himself records
at in the siege of Yorktown, the action. that decided the Revolution, there
ere but twenty-three, of his officers and men killed. At King’s Mountain,
another pivotal engagement, the British loss was severe, but again the patri-
ots lost but few. The battle of Trenton, to fight which Washington made his
famous crossing of the Delaware, and which saved the patriot cause from
going on the rocks of public apathy, was bought at the cheapest. price of all.
wo patriot soldiers were killed, and three officers wounded — one of these
‘was Lieutenant James Monroe, afterwards President of the United States.
Military experts say Washington had a force of 39,500 but he never
had these gathered together at any time one time, owing to lapses and over-
lappings of enlistments, and at critical times his forces sank to 3,000. The
most accurate count possible today, covering the number of ‘patriots actu-
ally shot and killed in battle, fiixes their number at 4,044.
~ Again the Revolutionary army could make no effort to mark the burial
places of the dead, as in the modern military practice, and the sacred places
where these heroes lie will never be known. Almost the only known graves
of Revolutianary soldiers are those who survived the war and were buried
n private burial grounds. \
Nothing remains, therefore, of those who gave their lives in the making
of the United States except the memory of their heroism. It is the greater
“reason why on Memorial Day, in this year of tribute to George Washington,
the United States should give a thought to these self-giving men who died |
: that their country might live.
Mental lapses are a far more important cause of automobile accidents
‘than is commonly believed. While the reports of accidents may give physi-
2 cal -eauses, such as reckless driving, wrong side of the
road, cutting in, etc., those may only be symptoms of
a disturbed mental state, asserts Dr. H. J. Stack of the
National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters,
who says:
“Extreme hry or worry causing intense preoccupation, fatigue, ela-
aliolol or other narcotics may be behind an accident.
tal conditions are within our control.”
lon: = as preventatives:
Many of these men-
He suggests the following precau-
- Take a short rest or let someone else drive the car when you have
been a dion for a long period at night.
2 Be especially alert when hurrying to work so that you can keep
our ir mind on your driving. -
3, The best place for the confirmed back-seat driver is at home,
4. Don’t day dream driving a car or crossing the street. -
5. Control your temper. If the traffic officers calls you down, probably
vou deserve it,
_ 6. If you have a superiority complex, forget it when you get behind
the steering wheel, ; i
7. Don’t become a speed maniac, = This mental disorder is serious
al d contagious, A serious accident seems to be the only cure for its vic-
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of Satan urging you to commit some
deed at which your conscience rebel-
ti Have you succumbed to this ur-
ging? Have you ever thought about
the solace you would receive in shar-
ing your confidence with another hu-
man being? The consolation you
would derive by this confidence
far reaching.and would perhaps be the
fluences which ‘have fastened themsel-
ves upon you. Perhaps a childish
prank has influenced’ your whole life.
It is the desire of ‘this column to
help those so afflicted to gain an
equilibrium and mental freedom which
will help them to establish their self-
respect and restore them to the rank
and file of law abiding citizens.
: By:
. Virginia de’ Leon,
My Dear Miss de'Leon:
I am a ‘young man and am holding
a position as cashier in
Bank. I support my widowed Hotter
and a small brother of twelve. Last
week my brother got into some real
trouble and it has taken every cent
1I have saved to get him out of the
difficulty. Mother knows nothing about
it, as she has heart trouble. What I
would appreciate is vour advice about
my brother. He is supposed to be at.
tending grade school, “but half the
time, I find, he has been absent from
his classes.
I shall appreciate any suggestion
which you may offer, that will help me
in my most difficult position.
HW. Ww,
Dear H. W. ‘W.:
I'm afraid you will be offended when
I state that in trying to be a father
and a big brother in one, you may
posibly have been partial to the big
brother role. Locate your Boy Scout
Master and explain your position to
him. Urge your brother to become in-
terested in this splendid organization.
Try to lead your brother through his
formative years, and do not adopt the
role of “Boss.” Take your brother
fishing and show him the thril and
|{wholesomeness of the great out of
{doors. Plan for your mutual futures
responsibilties in your future building.
he is profitably employed while not in
school. —
In this way alone,
true manhood
may unfold, and in receiving. your
small brother into your heart and
leading instead of driving will you
truly reap the fruits of your endeav-
ors.
N.
U.S. Might Have
Been A Monarchy
George Washiington Refused Crown
And Reprimanded Sponsors of
“King Plan.”
de’Leon.
Few Americans know that our* coun-
try today might be a monarchy but
for an act of nobility performed by
George Washington on May 22, 1782
The officers of the Revolutionary Army
had implored Washington to assume
royal power, place himself at their
head, and rule the country as a king.
On May 22, a century and a half ago,
General Washington refused this in-
vitation in patriotic terms so strong
that the idea was dropped. This in-
formation comes from the United Stat-
es George Washington
Commission.
We know
{of kingship,
surrounding
Bicentennial
that he refused the offer
but the circumstances
that dramatic moment in
our history, known chiefly to scholars,
need be recalled to the everyday Am-
erican, that he may form a still clear-
er conception of the nobility of Wash-
ington’s character.
This incident, which constitutes one
of the critical moments in the destiny
of America, occurred while Washington
and the Continental Army were en-
camped at Newburgh, on the Hudson.
The surrender of Cornwallis had vir-
tually ended the Revolution, but nomi-
nally hostilities were still in effect, and
Washington was determined to hold
the army together against any sur-
prise renewal of the war. As usual his
‘| soldiers were poorly clothed and fed,
and Congress was deeply in arrears in
their pay. By then the war had drag-
ged on for seven long years. The strug-
gle had cost many of Washington's of-
ficers the loss of their personal for-
tunes, and the entire enlisted force
faced a future of want on being re-
leased to civil life.
Discontent rose to dangerous inten-
sity in. all ranks. At length, Colonel
T.ewis Nicola, a respected character on
friendly terms with the Commander
in Chief, spoke for the officers as a
Have you ever heard ‘the whispering |
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means. of destroying the ‘patanic in-if
.ithe government of the country,
‘the army behind him, and rule it as a
and let him share certain constructive
Check upon his associates and see that.
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body when he addressed to Washing-
ton a veiled proposal that he take over
with
king.
The late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
in his biography of Washington, states
that on this occasion Washington was
as truly tempted as Caesar, with an |
offer to make himself king or
peror. The stroke, morever, would have
been easy of accomplishment. The
colonies were all beggared by the war.
Their governments were slack and
weak. The Revolutionary army was
the one cohesive, national power in
the land. To a man the soldiers wor-
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of the nation. As near
this stage of America’s history, was
the country to becoming a monarchy.
And yet it was a great distance
away. To George Washington the
temptation of kingship was no tempta-
tion at all. On the contrary he put it
aside with far greater and more sin-
cere indignation than did Caesar wave
aside the laurel crown. In a letter
whose every word should be implanted
in the mind of every school child in
America, he declined N
rebuked the man who made it.
ing on May 1782, he said:
“Sir,—With a mixture of great sur-
prise and astonishment, I have read
Vicola’s offer and
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with attention the sentiments you
have submitted to my persual. Be
assured, Sir, no occurrence in the
course of the war has
painful sensations, than your informa-
tion of there being such ideas existing
in the army, as you have expressed,
and I must view with abhorrence and
reprehend with severity.
“I am at a loss to conceive what
part of my conduct could have given
given me more
encouragement to an address, which
to me seems big with the greatest mis-
chiefs that can befall my Country. If
I am not deceived in the knowledge of
myself, you could not have found a
person to whom your schemes
more disagreeable. Let me. conjure
you, then, if you have any regard for
your Country, concern for yourself or
posterity, or respect for me, to banish
these thoughts from your mind, and
never communicate, as from yourself
or any one else, a sentiment of the
like nature.”
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HIGH MOTOR TAXATION IS
POLITICAL ISSUE IN AT
LEAST TWO STATES
Growing resentment against the repeated
raids on the pocketbooks of car owners
has resulted in high motor taxes being
made a political issue in several states.
In Ohio, David E. Ingalls, Assistant
Secretary for Aeronautics, U. S. Navy,
and a candidate for of the
state, has protested against a diversion of
any of the monies collected from gasoline
taxes to any other purpose than that of
road building. He is also opposed to any
increase - in the state gasoline tax. Can-
didates for other offices in the state have
Governor
also declared themselves to be opposed
to additional motor taxes.
In Florida, J. Tom Watson, Tampa at
torney, who is seeking the Democratic
namination for Governor, has announced
a plan whereby the seven-cent gasoline
tax can, and should be, reduced to four
cents.
shipped Washington, and with their
aid he could have taken over control |
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"YOUNG AMERICA"
Produced as alFox Picture
$8 Frank Borzage production
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Copyright, 1932 Fox
Synopsis of Preceding Chapters
Art Simpson, an orphan, is paroled to
the care of Mrs. Doray when his aunt
refuses to accept responsibility for him
after he has been arrested and placed on
trial in juvenile court. The arrest came
about from his entering a drug store with
his pal, Nutty, to steal some medicine that
the latter’s grandmother, very ill, needed.
One of the conditions of the ‘parole is
that he does not talk or mingle with
Nutty. After a week in the Doray home,
Nutty’s grandmother’ comes to him one
night after the Doray’s had left the House
for the evening, and tells him that Nutty
is very ill and keeps calling for Art.’ De-
spite his promise to Mrs. Doray not to
leave the house, Art goes with Mrs. Beam-
ish, at the same time taking some of
Mrs. Doray’s money to get a doctor for
his friend. Nutty dies, and Art, returning
home heartbroken, hears the Dorays
quarreling over his delinquence. Resolved
not to jeopardize the domestic happiness
of the pair, he enters the house, de-
nounces thém, and runs away.
Chapter VI
Di first act after Art’s depart-
ure was to phone the police sta-
tion and tell them to pick the boy
up. Despite Art's conduct of the night
before, Mrs. Doray worried no little
over his welfare.
At breakfast the next morning, the
doorbell rang. Opening the door, Mrs.
Doray was greeted by the postman.
“Good morning, Mrs. Doray,” he said.
“Too bad about that little Nutty Beam-
ish, wasn’t it?”
“Why, what about him,” she asked.
‘Ain't you heard,” he replied. I
thought sure Art would tell you. He
was right there with the boy when he
died.”
“Died? Nutty Beamish dead?”
“Yep, last night. Pneumonia,”
the postman as he departed.
Doray heard this converastion. When
his wife returned to the breakfast room,
he avoided her gaze in ‘embarrassment.
He felt very uncomfortable as he saw
tears come to her eyes.
said
“How ashamed we should be,” she
said. ‘Oh, when I think of it. The
poor boy. He'd just left his pal who
died, and you and I — oh — That's
why he took the money. To give it to
Mrs. Beamish, and now I know why he
acted the way he did when he came
home, He must have heard us quarrel-
ing about him. He knew he.stood be-
tween us, and he wanted to make me
think he was unworthy.”
That night, about ten-thirty, Art slow-
ly walked towards Doray’s drug store.
As he approached the:store he noticed
a night light burning within. At the
curb outside stood two cars.one of them
which he recognized as Doray’s.
As he drew up to the store, he gave
a quick Jook around and then stepped up
and looked in the front door. What he
saw going on inside froze him with fear.
Doray, besides the cash register, stood
with his hands up, his back to the two
men. One of them covered him with a
gun. The other was busy rifling the cash
drawer and emptying the contents into
a satchel. The man with the guns, at
a signal from his companion, suddenly
turned one of them about in his hands
and struck Doray a hard blow across
the back of his head. As Doray’s body
slumped to the floor, the two men turned
about quickly and ran for the front
door.
Art, scared to death, seemed rooted to
the spot in fear. As the door opened
and the two men came out, Art started
to run, One of the men, seeing him,
grabbed him by the arm.
“Hey, wait a minute,” he asked. “How
long you been here?”
Art gulped nervously.
of minutes.”
.The two men looked at one another.
“Just a couple
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them. They exchanged a grim nod.
“Come on kid, we're going for a
ride,” commanded the cne holding the
boy.
“Please, mister,”
want to go.”
“Sure you do.
With this;
to the car.
front ‘seat with the driver, The othér
man quickly jumped into the back seat
and the car started off.
As the car picked up speed it passed |
Officer Weems, who was walking his !
beat. He turned and- looked at the
speeding car, then continued on his way.
When he reached the drug store he
noticed the door was open. Walking in,
he looked around and called. There was
no answer. Weems continued on his
way upto the counter and nearly stum-
bled over Doray’s, prostrate body. He
quickly dragged the man around to the
counter and in a few seconds succeeded
in reviving him. Doray told him of the
holdup and the slugging.
“I bet them was the two fellows I
just saw goin’ away from here in a
car,” ventured Weems.
“My car's outside,” cried Doray.
“Come on, Weems, we'll see if we can |
get them.”
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A ‘few minutes later Dosay and |
Weems, traveling at break-neck speed,
spotted the bandit car.. The crook in
the back seat of the latter car, continu-
ally peering around to see if they were
being pursued, noticed the lights of the
car following them and traveling at the
same speed they were going.
“Looks like someone’s after us,” he
cried to his companion as he watched
the lights of the pursuing car gradually
draw nearer.
“It’s that druggist we slugged, and
he’s got a copper with him,” he again
shouted as the car creeped up on them.
“There's only one thing to do then,’
cried the driver, looking at Art. “Can
you drive, kid.”
“Sure,” replied the boy.
“Then grab hold of the wheel and
slide over,” commanded the driver. Art
did as he was told while the man .climb-
ed back over the front seat and joined |
his companion. The two men drew
automatics from their pockets. Art,
looking into the rear vision mirror, saw
the men take careful aim. Art, looking
desperately to the left and right, noticed
a high bank about fifty yards ahead on
the left side of the road. There was only |
one thing he could do, and he did it.
Yanking the wheel as hard as he could,
the car went off the road and piled into
the bank, overturning.
. * * *
Weems and Doray spotted the two
unconscious bandidts lying besides the
wrecked car and quickly put the hand-
cuffs on themi As Doray maneuvered |
Weem’s flashlight about the wreck he
saw Art, lying uncoascious on the
ground. He instantly recognized him
as he lifted the boy up.
Art feebly opened his eyes. Seeing |
Doray, he whispered: “They were going
to shoot you. They made me drive. So
I wrecked the car.” He then lapsed back
into unconsciousness.
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In the dining room of the Doray
house the next night, Art occupied the
chair of honor. At the table also sat
Mr. and Mrs. Doray and Mrs. Beamish.
Doray, holding a newspaper, was read-
ing aloud.
“As the aftermath of the heroic deed,
he read, “Mr. Doray announces that he
is planning to adopt Art Simpson.”
With this he slipped the paper down
and beamed proudly at Art.
cried Art. “I don’t
We'll drop you off."
the two men dragged him
on Ai
Here was a witness who might identify
The motion picture made from this
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Art was hurled into the !
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