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Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Happy Bermuda Has No
Real Traffic Troubles

There are no traffic police on duty
in Bermuda, motor cars being prohlb-
tied by law. The police are q con-
spicuous feature of the landscape,
however. with their natty blue uni
forms and the distinctive blue and
white striped duty band on the left
sleeve at the wrist, reminding one Of
the metropolitan police In London.
Those who go to Bermuda TO rest
usually pass the time driving round to
the various sights Of the Islands, such
as Tom Moore's house, Gibbs hill light
house, Cathedral rocks, the Leming-
ton cave and Its sialagmltes, or going
out TO the coral reefs in a tug TO be
later put on In small glass-bottomed
boats from which they can study the
sea life below them In water which Is
perfectly clear. although It may be 80
or 10 feet to the bottom. says a Ber-
muda letter to the Brooklyn Eagle.
Every Wednesday there Is a recep-
tlon and o'clock tea at the gov
ernor's house. 20 which all visitors to
the Islands are welcome and the mill
tary band is on duty at some place or
other every day. One OF the fayorite
resorts is Elbow beach, on the south
shore. where there Is only one narrow
strip OF coral reef between the bathers
and the broad Atlantic. and waves
come rolling In sometimes 20 feet
high.
on account OF the long narrow shape
OF the island the distances are usually
inconvenlent For example. II is six
miles from the principal hotels to the
most popular golf links, and what with
transportation. greens fees. eaddles
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Remedy Finally Found
for Sleeping Sickness

Sleeping sickness OF Africa is not
the same as that known In this coun-
try. II is caused usually by the bite
of the tsetse fly, which spreads the
trypanosomes, as the irritant germs
that cause the disease are called. Tile
problem was ID find some drug which
would XIII these trypanosomes In the
blood in ull parts OF the body, and
which would, at the same time. not
harm the body, an exceedingly diff
cult and delicate matter. DIR. Wartel
Jacobs and DR.. Michael Heldelberger
OF the Rockefeller institute undertook
this task. They took arsenic com
pounds and experimental with them.
falling time and again TO gain the
desired effect, but noting the results
carefully and altering the compound
63 times. they finally succeeded. That
is why the drug tryparsamide, used
with such success against the sleeping
sickness and paresls, is known as A63.
the slxty-third arsenic compound. The
first experiments were conducted on
animals, and when trypnrsamlde had
proved It's value. Or. Louise Pearce
went TO Africa and experimental with
II on the natives.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Giant From the Jura
Mountains Is Strong

One OF the tallest men alive today,
possibly the tallest, is Armand Bron-
ner, who halls from the Jura noun
tHins. says London Tit-Bits. He Is Z
feet 5la Inches In height and his
stretch from finger tip to finger tip Is
close ON S feet. while, AS his boots are
l7& inches long. his patronage Is
eagerly sought by the bootmakers in
his locality.
Bronner vas born In 1890 and only
ceased 10 grow when he was thirty
years OF age. II is remarkable fact
that he only weighed 4is pounds when
born. His great height is not shared
by any other member OF his family.
the tallest being feet inches.
Unlike most giants, who outgrow
their strength, Bronner Is exceedingly
strong, and can carry a weight OF
nearly ha.f ton with ease. His
health is excellent. and SO is his appe-
tlte. lie eats little meat. but con-
sumes huge quantity OF vegetables.
Food and clothing necessarily cost
him about twice what an ordinary man
would have TO pay. and his tailor,
when htting him, requires a steplad-
der TO reach his shoulders. Al pres
ent this giant is touring the continent,
hut he hopes shortly TO visit this coun-
try.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Heart Is Injured by
Americas SUift Par,

More deaths occur today in Amerln
from various diseases of the hear
than from any other cause, saws IN,
New York Times. A few years an
tuberculosis headed the list, but yhr.
the number of deaths from this cans.
have been reduced, those from hear
trouble of various kinds have h.
creased.
The decrease In the ravages A
tuberculosis is explained by the gra.,
educational campaigns carried q
throughout the country for combntr,
the evil and to improved sanitary COZ
ditions.
The Increase In heart troubles Is A..
tributed largely to the increasing pss
OF modern life In America. A decss
ago the death rate from tuberculos,
was 1892 per 100000. At that TIM
the death rate from heart troubs
was 1909. A recent survey shoWs
that while the rate for tubercuIo,iI
has been reduced to Hap, that ts|
heart disease has jumped to 14l.a
The highest fatality from heart al,
ease has been found in Vermont, yuI
Hampshire and Massachusetts in AL
order named. The lowest death al
is reported In Montana. MisslSslg.I
Tennessee, Kentucky and Nebraska n
is increasing IN New York.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Alaska Porcupine ODl
Has a Foghorn Voice

Lore concerning the porcupine owl,
which. as the tale runs, finds Its way
In fog by sound and, as 1t travels the
frozen water courses OF the far North,
makes unreasonable noises like those
Of steamboat. has been brought to
the states by J. Z. Chisholm, trap
per from the upper Koyukuk valley,
Alaska, and printed In the Phlladel-
phis North American.
unlike the owls of temperate eli
mates" said Mr.. Chisholm, ''the por-
cuplne owl can see only In daytime.
He would be Just us bad Off If he could
see only In the dark, because where he
lives the day and the night are each
six months long.
"To overcome his blindness the por-
cupine owl has received from nnture
vibrant and resonant voice. At
distance II sounds like the whistle of
boat, and many II newcomer in
Alaska has rushed 10 the river looking
for steamer when the boats were
frozen fast for the winter.
The porcuplne owl uses his voice
as q mariner uses siren In fog.
He boots and then listens intently.
II there Is an obstruction, he gets
the echo. A man or a beast carries an
echo to the ear of the porcuplne owt.
This owl gets his name from set
Of quills that weights him down so
that he cannot fly. With these qullls
he can fight man or fierce animal
in the dark. In such combats he often
repels his foe"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Little Bell Used by
the japanese Nepsboy

Here and there, sometimes incon-
gruously mingled with the practices
of Westernism, the characteristics OF
the old, the romantic, the picturesque
Japan remain TO attract and to en-.
thrall the foreigner. Although the
japanese newspapers are printed in
strange fantastic characters, writes a
correspondent OF the London Times,
they help TO spread a veneer OF the
West over the Far East. but when
Japan sells its newspapers the thin
ness OF the veneer becomes at once
apparent.
Here we have no roaring boys rush
ing through tratfic-crowded streets and
bawllng the latest tidlngs into the air.
A special edition OF an evening paper
is gogaI, and the blue-clad coolie
who sells II on the streets may be
eighteen years old or eighty. but his
procedure Is ever the same. He lopes
along with his specials" (the Size of
half sheet Of notepaper), and for the
piercing yell OF the London newsboy
he substitutes the ringing OF tiny
handbell. And, even though there are
many bells rung through every hour
In every japanese city, none can be
mistaken for that Of the gogai man.
The first news Of the death OF Pres
ldent Harding and news OF the death
Of viscount Kato were spread through
the capital Of Japan by the tlnkllng
OF little bells
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Speaking Bosionese

A young electrical engineer from
Boston suffered an injury and was sent
to n hospital for treatment, where his
accent proved problem to the at
tendants.
Gould have a baba?' he asked
one morning.
There is one in each room," the
nurse replied.
Later he made the same request to
another attendant. and received the
same answer.
Can have baba7" he appealed
to the head nurse.
"There should be Bible In each
ROOM" she said.
SAY" he called. desperately. you
don't understand me; want to get
shaved" News.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Boys Rule Schoolmasfsrs

Many Of the communists recently
arrested and placed In internment
camps by the German authorities were
schoolmasters, and their discipline"
has been provided for in way which
suggests that their captors are not
entirely deficient In humor. London
Answers reports.
The schoOlmasters were collected
and placed in special group. which
was then placed under the orders Of a
number Of boys belonging to aristo-
cratic families and chosen from among
the internes' own pupils.
One consequence Is that few Of
the younger generation in this country
are now beginning to believe that Ger
many Is not so bad' place, after all.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Westerners Are Ugly
in Eyes of Japaues,

1t has happened more than once TIM,
Japanese baby has howled ana
shrieked In terror at the sight Of =
beautiful, fairhalred, blue-eyed glrl
This may strike you as comic N,
tragic, but 1t Is fact. Japanese Stand,
ards Of feminine beauty are differen,
from ours.
A Japanese beauty must hsv.
straight, black hair. Should she hov.
the misfortune to possess hair win
the slightest tendency to wave, sh,
will take endless trouble. to straighta,
1t out--as much trouble. In fact, as On
American girl would take to prodpO.
the opposite effect.
Her face should be narrow ana
long; her forehead high and marrow
at the middle, but wider and lower a,
the sides, so that It corresponds a,
nearly as possible to the outline n,
Full. the mountain beloved by Jam.
nese artists.
Her eyes, Of course, must be Ion,
and narrow, slanting upward at th
corners: the eyebrows mere shadow,
and high above the eyes her compiler
ion ivory-white with little or no colo,
The japanese girl carries her head
and shoulders slightly forward, and
inclines her body forward from IN,
waist. She walks with short, quIci
steps, her toes turned In and her IN,
hardly lifted from the ground. Ia
walk otherwise would be immodest =
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Goes TO Church

A dollar and a penny met The pen.
NJ had a bright. clean face: the dollar
was dirty but proud.
You think you are gold. but you
ar. only cheap hrhss." said the dollar.
The penny replied: Il an what !
am and claim to be no more"
The dollar sweiled up with pride and
said; 'r am patriotic. am trustwor-
thy. have the emblem OF liberty on
my bosom. and the United States gov
ernment has placed these words on
me. In God We Trust"
After little thought III. penny an.
swsrsd; Il grant you NIL that. but ]
70 TO church oftener than you DO"
For Sale sarda at this once.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Lucky Cat

After beratlng many things at the
seaside resort MIR Flubdub took up
the subject Of his own fat headedness
in allowing himself TO be dragged
away from a comfortable home. Ap-
parenty this made him think OF the
family cat.
"Hey. what about the eati What
dldjs do with the cat1'
"The cat Is provided for" stated
Mrs. Fiubdub calmly. "our neiEhbor
promised 20 feed H."
That gave him another helpful
thought.
swell. hope the cat is getting bet,
ter board than we are"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
No Longer a Man

A very pompous farmer was made
justice Of the peace, and was so
impressed with the tremendous dig
nifty Of his position that the village
where he lived was much too small
to contain him.
AS he was staggering along the
road with his very important nose In
the air, he walked Into barrow be-
longing to an old woman.
"Be careful where you're going,
mani" she cried.
"Woman," replied the indignant
am magistrate!" I"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

Iuncreons, UqurI refreshments unu
tips $40 day will hardly cover the
expenses at either OF the more popu-
lar courses, Riddell's bay and fuckers
Island. At st. George, on the other
hand, which is two hours ride by car
riage from Hamilton, and where the
links are not more than five minutes
walk from the hotel, the greens fees
are only 81 day for four persons.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Boston No Joke Now

On being offered Boston joke the
editor Of humorous weekly proceed
ed to take the alleged humorist to task
IN no uncertain manner.
II don't see any point to these
whams about the highbrow proclivlties
of Boston," declared the editor.
They're out OF date. to say the least.
Boston has won her share Of pennants
and was once the home Of John L.
Sullivan"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Real Titan DISCOVERED

An authentic Titan, owned for
manv years by an artist who never
suspected Its worth, has been sold to
Los Angeles nrt collector for $780,.
900. The artist who sold 1t bought 1t
at an auction In Florence, Italy. while
he was studying art there In his youth.
He paid the equivalent of $3.50 In
American money for the masterpiece.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
He Did It

Hey, pap" said Hank Hayfoot,
somewhat truculently, 'looklt yere."
"All right, I'm lookin'."
what did you do with that cord OF
hickory sawed and split before
went to the county seat?"
Fed the stove with It endurln' of
that last blizzard"
Dad burn 1t!
That's what done" said dad
cheerfully.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Irsrep;dity

"There's man outside who says he
wants you to secure him govern
ment position" '~sss-'s
"a government position, when we're
In the midst of all this agltation?"
"Yes. He says he's hunting work"
"He isn't hunting work. He's look
Ing for trouble"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Woman Conducts Orchestra

Probably the only woman conductor
Of symphony orchestra in America
is Madame Davenport Engberg who
directs the Civic symphony orchestra
pf Seattle, of which she also was the
founder
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Clock Also Savings Bank

An American savings bank is max
ing a present Of clock to every de-
posltor who opens an account with Il.
It is timeplece of n peculiar kind
and is really n combination OF n clock
and a safe. II Is alleged to keep ex.
eellent time for - hours. according
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
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to the Manchester Guardian.

Rewindlng Is then necessary, hut
before 1t can be rewound nickel.
dime or quarter must be Inserted In
1t. The owner Is thus compelled to
add something to his savings every
day, SO that, In fact, saving becomes
daily habit.
The clock Is advertised as "the
watchdog of its owners future" en-
abling persons to save who never be
fore found 1t possible and enabling
them to save ''in an easy, sure and en-.
Joyable manner."
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
They Anfedated Him

Young Writer Ito critlc)-Maitre,
nm Lacolomb, the poet; possibly you
are acquainted with my verses.
Critic-Indeed ! am. young man.
was acquainted with them before you
were horn.-Le Rire (Parls).
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Considering the Wife

The insurance agent advised negro
to take out an insurance policy.
"You never know. what may hap
pen. And there's your wife to con
slder."
'Lawdy! !" said the negro, who was
thoroughly married, 81 aln't any too
safe at home as 1t Is, sab |"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Ants Destroy Light Poles

Utilizers of electric-llght poles In
California find 1t necessary. in many
instances, to lmpregnate the entire
pole with creosote to prevent serious
damage by termites to the tops and
cross arms.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Reason for Trouble

you look troubled today?"
YES. was on the spree last night
and when got home very late !
found had moved TO another hd-
dress l"-Knsper, Stockholm.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
New York's Gao

The manufactured gas consumed In
New York state in one month would
all two-foot pipe 100000 miles long.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

WANTED:-Widow with boy OF -
wants cooking job, farm preferred.
good reference II desired. Hat
tie Harrington Holyoke, Colo. 49,
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Time for a Probe.

If one hasn't time to do something
he very much desires, one should see II
he isn't doing Il lot Of things that are
not necessary.
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

FOR SAlE:-20 head of Polled
Durham yearlings and 2-yearolds.-
W. W, Skipworth, 2 miles north of
Lamar. Nebr. 4S-2"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

FOR SALE-Deering SIT. binder in
Al condition; ready to go; new can
vas. Evart Johnson. 45t2
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

FOR SALE:-Canary birds. s1,00
and SS00.-Mrs. NJ. E, Anderson.
Phone So, 4S-2'
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

FOR SALE:-Pure bred White
Wyandotte cockerels, extra fine
Oliver Smith. 81 miles south and s
miles west of Holyoke. 47-5'
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

FOR SALE:-Team of bay geldings
6 years old. W.T.. 240o, well broke.
price S15O.-C. E. Harte, 47-4t
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

FOR SAlE:-Second hand riding
cultivator.-H. A Hanke. 44-3'
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

The Farmers Equity Union cream
station across from the Mutual Oil
station. is where you should sell your
cream. ]. T. EAGER, Operator 45t3'
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

Wednesday ard Thursday
Anna Nilsson
M
"Ponjola"
Taken form Cynthia stockley's"
stirring. exciting story OF south
African gold field life and OF a wo-
man who played man In the yeldt
OF Africa.
News Reel"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07

News Reel"
Phillips County herald., 1924-08-07
Peerless Program

Week Commencing Wed, August 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12

A perusal of many of our leading dailies in
dicates increase in the talk of the likelihood of
the next war being fought in the Pacific. The con-
nict between American and Japanese capitalist
interests in the Far East has long been considered
a menace to world peace.
United States Rear-Admiral Fiske chose the
Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City in
which to deliver one of the rankest and one of the
frankest jingoistic addresses that has yet been
made by our increasingly voluble militarists and
navalists. The peaceloving admiral warned the
country that America is becoming effeminate while
its enemies, principy Germany, Soviet Russia and
Japan, are becoming stronger and stronger. The
admiral pictured these nations as being envious
of Americas great wealth.
But Admiral Fiske did say one great truth in
his excited address, when he declared: They real
Use that we have obtained it largely by means of
war" The sea-fghter was referring to those whom
he termed enemies of the United States. That is
indisputable. From the very moment that the
Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock to the
days in which Mellon and Hughes accidentally
spent their vacation in London, the development
of American capitalism took course of war, fraud
ulent treaties, chcanery.
American capitalism is today what it is because
of its prOwess in war. Texas was seized by force
of arms from Mexico. Much of the western ter
ritory was secured thru gunpOwder and whiskey
from the Indians. Our colonial empire was born
at the point of the bayonet and rests poten-
tal and altogether too often brutal force and vio
lence. The encroachments being made by Yankee
investors in the Far East in Latin America, in
Europe in Africa and the Near East are fully sup
ported by the fullest possible military, naval, aer-
ial and financial strength of our exploiters
The American militarists are now in the stage
of the German Junkers on the eve of the last war.
They are preparing the "public mind" for big
things And the only big things these watchdogs
of American Imperialism know are wars in which
the lives of the workers and farming masses are
wantonly squandered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Perhaps 1t Is a Wise Custom

The news ticker carries a story from Kansas
City which is worth editorial, whether the story
is true or not. Kansas City has not the reputa-
ton that made George Washington good DOGGY
man to scare imaginative children. But that makes
no difference. The end justifes the means and a
sprighly yarn of doubtful authenticity is good for
our purpose.
He goes. A rich Chnaman has his tonsis re-
moved by a surgeon whose business it is to carve
up as much of the human anatomy as his clients
pocketbook and patience will allow. The Chnaman
may have smoked bum cigarette and had an ir-
ritation in his throat. The doctor came, saw and
cut out the Chinamans tonsils.
Now, it happens that there is an old Chinese
legend which says that Cinnamon who depart from
this earth minus portions of their anatomies will
spend all eternity hunting for the missing parts.
Being rather inclined to leading quiet lives this
earth, Cinnamon do not relish the idea of an in
definite tramp after such trife as pair of ton
sils in their imaginary next world.
The mutilated Chinaman, after he got over the
effects of the anaesthetc hurried to the doctor and
demanded-not his money-but his tonsils back.
The doctor being resourceful person was not in
the least habbergasted. He picked up a woman
who had not already been de-tonsilized expro-
priated that part Of her anatomy, and brought her
tonsils to his Chinese client in neat little bottle.
IL seems surgeon can cut his way thru any
thing, even a Chinese legend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12

an honest effort to organize the young workers of
this country some 100000 of whom slave in the
industries.
The young workers do not want to scab They
are underpaid and used to undercut the adult and
organized workers only because the American
unions far have paid not the least heed to their
organization and left them to the mercy of the
bosses and the patriotic scab-breeding agencies
which inculcate in them hostility towards union
ism as a principle The adult workers are paying
bitterly for this inexcusable negligence in organ
izing their boy and girl fellow workers.
1t remains to be seen what the And convention of
the A. F. of L. will do about the problem of youth
labor which daily becomes more pressing. The 7.
y. E. L. has issued program Of demands for
young workers that the A. f. of L. will have to con
slider seriously or stand convicted of the most utter
negligence of the interests of its own members.
These demands are that the A. f. of L. shall
fight for equal pay for equal work to stop the
danger of competition between youth and adults
sixhour day and iveday week for the young
workers. abolition of overtime and night work for
young workers; a minimum wage beginning at
subsistence and going up the closing of dangerous
work to young workers and the establishment by
the unions of apprentice schools.
These and the elimination from the union rules
of all limitations of age for entrance to unions and
lower dues and initiation fees to permit all low
wage young workers to join the unions-these
measures together with an aggressive organization
campaign by the A F. of L..woud do much for the
young workers and even more for the labor move
ment as a whole. These plans of the 7. U. E. /.
must be fought for by all militants in all unions.
Pressure must be put upon Gompers to enforce
action.