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; occurs in country districts. III
cities and closely built.up towns
the danger is reduced to a min.
imum because Of the multiplicity
Of points that are presented to
the clouds thus preventing the
accumulation Of descriptive charges
at isolated points.
Tall trees are fine lightning rods
Fred G.. Plummer of the United
States Forest Service, who made
a special study of this subject,
pointed out that the spreading
branches Of trees In the air, and
their spreading roots In the
ground present the ideal form for
the conduction of an electrical
discharge to the earth. The typ.
ical artificial lightning conductor
has a group of metal points for
the receiving branches and a
spreading base under ground for
the distributing roots.
It often happens that a tall tree
in q dooryard is struck when the
house not far away remains w.
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ney DO their obscure organs largely under the
control Of Providence They didn't ask for them and they
won't attempt to tinker with them Which fair enough
viewpoint applied to the gzzard but poor stuff you're
considering the mind.
Your mind your chief tool in the job of tackng fe
That's big job. 1t grows bigger with every generation
Life for the fairly simple thing sharp
nose heavy wallop and quick getaway the main
requisite for long and healthy life in those primitive days
His neghbors didn't bother him much He ate them they
did. Or they ate him. There weren't any taxes or
laws traffic cops colleges rules on etiquette
Ii he ever felt his mind at all probably just ticked
Copyright King
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ONCE-OV Frs
PRIDE MAY BE YOUR FALL.

Pride may be the stumbling block to your progress.
Your desire to others believe know lot more
than you do has you from admitting anu
gaining valuable knowledge.
Have you gone through life on a blufff
And yet you wonder why not greater success
in your way.
It has now reached the stage where realize that prac
ticalv every man of your acquaintance has more real
knowledge and education that you have.
Yet you continue to make bluff at knowing ana you
are irving to maintain position these false pretenses
Ten wears from now you will look back upon the present
time think of it your golden opportunity when you
might have acquired with less hurt to your pride the acs
which you will need ten years hence.
Your bluff game hurts you more than anyone else
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THREE-MINUTE JOURNEYS
MYSTERIOUS MONUMENTS ON ODD ISLAND
BY TEMPLE MANNING.

In one place on the island are
remains Of stone houses about
100 feet long by twenty feet wide.
They are built OF large HAT stones
fitted without cement. The roofs
are formed by placing slabs 80
that each overlaps the other one
until the opening becomes about
five feet wide. when 1t Is covered
with flat slabs reaching from one
side to the other.
There are evidences Of a sign
language made OF images ana
geometrical figures. Several gen.
erations of archaeologists have
tried in vain to decipher them.
The inhabitants Of the island know
nothing, of course, regarding these
huge works. Search Of the island
reveals no trace of the race OF
people who constructed them.
They resemble nothing found any
where else on earth, so that INK
ing them up with other ancient
races seems impossible.
On the other hand, It seems i'm
= possible that a race Of people
could have originated on what is
practically a barren island with
4 degree of culture which their
work seems to indicate. The
weight of the images Is enor-
nous. One statue taken to Eng
land and placed In the British
Museum weighs four tons. BY
what engines the stones were
lifted and put in place: what
gods these curious figures repre-.
scented; what a race Of people
numerous enough to raise these
monuments subslsted on, and
where they vanished to without
leaving a grave. a tomb or a
single trace of their dead Is a
mystery that may never be solved.
Copyright. 1874 by Newspaper Featur,
charx,tnA TVn
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FRANKLIN's RODS : By GARRETT P. sERVIss

ION the other side of the
ocean schools, churches and
big buildings, even tall trees
that are desired to be protect
ed, are equipped with lightning
rods. Imagine my surprise
when I cannot find them in
the United States where they
were invented. 1 have vainly
looked for them everywhere.
Have you anything better?--
Harry Rieger, New York"
n ERHAPS we take chances
better-when they seem
n small. The lightning rod
question has been argued on the
basis Of such flat-footed contra
dictions that many people may
have concluded that no certainty
of protection exists, so that it is
not worth while to go to the ex.
pense and trouble of erecting rods.
1t is a discovery made since
Franklin's time that two kinds
OF lightning discharges from
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touched. Thus nature furnishes
protection. But 1t Is unsafe to be
under such a tree during a thup-
derstorm.
There seems to be consider
able difference between European
opinion and American scientific
Judgment concerning the relative
liability Of trees OF different
species to be struck by lightning.
Plummer concluded that all kinds
of trees are equally liable to be
struck II height and shape and
other circumstances were suitable.
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But in Europe 1t has been esti-
mated that poplars are by far
the most likely to receive light.
ming strokes, their liability being
twice as great as that Of ever.
greens, such as pines and eprucas,
and 80 per cent greater than that
Of oaks, while the liability Of
naples and lines is set at only
one.tenth of one per cent But
such calculations have no suffic-
lent basis of observation to rest
upon. They resemble Calls gen.
civilizations on cranial pumps"
and mental powers.
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General Pershing is back from Europe,
and he came the American ship, George Washington
He sad Every patriotic American citizen should travel on
American ships You see Frenchman or a Britou
sailing on any liner flying his own flag
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~ NE Of the mysteries that
science has not yet solved
" is the origin Of the monu-
ments on Easter Island. Easter
Island lies in the South Pacific
about 80 degrees south latitude
and about 1000 miles west Of the
coast Of Chile. Its area is about
forty.five square miles.
The island is inhabited by about
100 descendants Of Polynesians
who drifted to its shores from
other islands centuries ago. At
one time there were as many as
two or three thousand Of these
natives. About a century ago a
large proportion Of them were
to work at the guano diggings on
the Chincha Island. Disease has
removed most Of the survivors.
1t Is not these poor people who
make Easter Island interesting,
but the presence here Of some
extraordinary works in stone. On
the island are found immense
platforms constructed Of cut
stones filter together without
cement. They are generally built
upon headlands and slope toward
the sea. The walls on the seaside
are about thirty feet high and
from 200 to 900 feet long and
thirty feet wide. On the Landslide
Of the platforms there are broad
stone terraces with stone pedestals
upon which stood huge images
carved in the shape Of a human
trunk. On some Of the platforms
are lying images which have been
thrown from their pedestals. The
top Of the heads Of these images
is cut flat to receive round crowns
made of a reddish vascular stuff
found at crater about eight
miles distant from the quarry
where the images were cut.
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TT was dated from Hartford, Connecticut,
and written on postal in large, plain
Il letters that any mailman could read.
This is what it said:
"Elsie Robinson:
"a small mind will get you nothing.
"E. P. D."
And there's wee, small hiss within me
which says it s probably knock. But whether
it's knock or not, I m going to pass it on to
the world, for E. P. D. has said a Large
Mouthful of Truth.
NOTHING.
Did you ever stop to think much about
your mind and about what you could do with
your mind? Most folks accept their minds as
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Copyraghs. 1924. b star Cumpany

the roots Of his hair and never went any
further. There was an awful bulge on the
calf Of his leg, but not much Of one on his
brain.
> But folks spread. And mastodons were
eaten up. And pants took the place Of pelts.
Until today you can hardly get any sort Of
apartment under $75 and all the best
people wear pants. WE NO LONGER
HAVE MUCH OF A BULGE ON THE CALF
OF OUR LEG, BUT, ALAS, MANY OF
US STILL LACK A BULGE ON OUR
BRAIN!
We're carrying with us yet the "smal
mind" of the savage and the peasant. The
undeveloped, suspicious, intolerant, darkened
mind of the cave dyuallar That,S the NOR
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primitive tool with which we're tackng the tremendously
complicated and difficult job of life in the twentieth CEN
tury We need pile driver to tackle that job And ere
using tiny tencent hammers And strangely enough
proud Of it, We think there is something praseworthy in
that little mind with of the modern improvements We
don't want modern improvements We want to think did
our fathers and our grandfathers and greagrand
fathers back the day of Ugh the Cave Man Tiny tight
minds that tap peevshly the terrible job of life Little
mnds-E P. D. right
GA SMALL MIND WILL GET YOU NOTHING
But don't know yet whether that postal was one on
or just E. P. D. tapping in tantrum of his own.
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The Laughing Jackass
New Gorilla, and Other Things.

Henry Bergheimer, Swiss matchmaker,
died. leaving will by which he dsnherited his son and
daughter He gave it all to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, for
jewlery firm he once worked.
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The Laughing Jackass is an Australian
bird which mmcs the human voice and lives fish and
reptiles while the graduate JaCkass American bird
who disnherits those he brought into the world.
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Leading Grid Battles
On TOlnorrow's Card
Here And There

Georgetown VS.. Quantico Ma
rines, at Griffith Stadium.
Maryland VS.. v. p. l., at Cen
trail Stadium.
Gallaudet VS.. Lynchburg, at
Kendall Green. $3.50
Army VS.. Notre Dame, at
New York.
Navy VS.. Princeton, at Prince
ton.
Pittsburgh VS.. Johns Hopkins,
at Baltimore.
Pennsylvania VS.. Columbia,
at Philadelphia.
Holy Cross VS.. Harvard, at
Cambridge.
Haven.
Lafayette vs.. Bucknell, at
Lewisburg.
Colgate VS.. Nebraska, at
Lincoln.
Chicago VS.. Indiana, at Chi
cago.
Virginia vs.. v. M. l., at Lex
ington.
Cornell VS.. Rutgers, at Ith-
aca.
George Washington VS.. Drex-
ell, at Philadelphia.
Michigan VS.. Illinois, at Ur-
bana.
Syracuse VS.. Boston College,
at Syracuse.
:, Vanderbilt VS.. Tulane, at
New Orleans.
Minnesota VS.. Wisconsin. at
Madison.
w. and ]. VS.. Carnegie, at
Washington, Pa.
California VS.. Olympic Club,
at Berkeley.
Florida VS.. Wake Forest. at
Tampa.
Georgia Tech VS.. Penn State,
at Atlanta,
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Notre Dame, working with the
smachine-like precision that always
characterizes the proteges Of the
clever Rockne, will have back Of
IT a long line Of victorious tradi-
ton. Army win have Only the de.
sire for revenge and the never
say-die spirit that Is az inbred In
West Points curriculum as Is trigo-
nometry, and the intricacies Of cal.
culus.
Great names have gone into the
making Of Army-Notre Dame foot
ball history. The two-headed on
pllant flashed his brilliance in those
earlier battles. Vidal, McEwan,
Merillat and Smythe hurled their
might against b Notre Dame tide
to make football history. And into
this contest. too, went Dorias, and
Rockne, and Eichenlaub and Ber-
ger and Gipp and Mohardt.
And each struggle has been an
epic.
And tomorrow comes another
10 ubuCT HI IAAulhdbgduD AO6E
season. No question Of a crowd
on Saturday, no question Of
capacity. Tickets are at q
premium and all week long lines
Of fans have waited in line at
the offices, hoping for tickets and
fearing disappointment.
Little is known Of either team.
Army, through the addition Of Hew-
lit and Wilson, have added much
to their strength. All the East was
unable to stop Wilson when he
sported the colors of Penn State.
And Hewitt, at the same time, was
writing his name high in football
history at Pittsburgh. There is
Garbisch, prince of centers, and
Farwick and Baxter and others who
have already made their name in
Army annals.
Notre Dame, always dangerous
has its backfieId intact. The fast
and cunning Layden, the slippery
Miller, the hard -plunging, sensa.
tional Crowley, all are back again.
So, too. is Stuhldreher, whose last
years experience at quarter should
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The grievance of this particular
man was the discomfort and dis
advantage he experiences when out
driving the other three in four.
ball match.
He says that by the time the
three had played their seconds they
were on the run and never stopped
to wait for him to play. / think
that he has just cause to complain.
Although few Of US are as inter
ested in our opponents shot as in
our own, even from the playing
viewpoint it is important to us, and
It really Is well to initiate a virtue
that we do not possess.
No matter where you. may be il
is best to stand still until your
opponent or companions, have
played. This is only fair to the
other player, and when you are
fair to him you are also fair to
yourself, and when you have OBJ
served the etiquette Of the game,
You feel that yOu are playing 1t
more fully.
Always play in turn! Never speak
when the other man il playing. Do
not get angry and throw your
clubs; you are not the only player
who has had trouble on the links.
Recall how annoying 1t was to hear
Sam Smith taking practice swings
while you were driving.
If player has some little per.
ronal Characteristic learn it and
thereafter respect it. I shall never
forget a little happening during one
OF the national championships, and
hope that have not offended the
same person in the same way since.
! was paired against Walter j.
Travis in the third round, and /
met him at the tee. A stiff wind
was blowing against US and the
necessary carry of ITO yards looked
hard indeed. I gave the honor to
Mr.. Travis, and as he stood upon
the. tee he looked slight ENOUGH
do not think he weighed over 80
pounds-for the wind to blow him
over. But you should have seen the
beautiful ball he drove, straigh. and
true over every obstacle. In INV
l.
That's a wonderful shot, Mr..
Travis! A wonderful shotr' He
turned around and answered: "Of
course 1t is; what did you expect?"
l was almost taken off INV feet.
but after all why should / have
expected anything else from so
great player. He was merely
true to form. / can assure Won.
however, that I did not say an.
other word the rest of the day.
When a player has made a very
poor shot, do not say you hooked
It, you topped it, you smothered It.
1t is going into the bunker" or so
on. These remarks are all super.
fluous because the player is both
seeing and feeling what is happen.
ing to his shot. 1 think that the
best thing to do when the other fel.
low Is having his troubles or the
links, and we all have them. is NOT
to say a word to him; it's the rare
man who can sympathize tacrfnlIv.
Copyright John #. Ollie Cor
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PENN STATE PLANNING
PRACTICE 4 At ATLANTA

ATLANTA Ga, Oct. 1.-THE
Penn State football squad was
scheduled to arrive here late today
after which 1t viii go to Grant
Field for light workout in prepa-
ration for the game with Georgia
Tech tomorrow.
Seats for this game, the first
intersectional clash here this sea-
son, have been sold out for more
than o week and 10000 spectators
will see the battle. The Penn State
crew will go ON the field as
favorites.
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WILLIE RlToLA SOON
TO QUIT HIS HOMELAND

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.--Willie
Ritola, Finnish-American distance
running star. who scored several
notable triumphs for his native
land in the Paris Olympics, is
returning soon to the land Of
his adoption, it was learned today.
He intends to resume the residence
he held there for ten years prior
to last January.
The return of Ritola, who was
rated as this country's premier
long-distance runner. in 1922 and
1928, will add fresh interest to the
coming indoor track campaign as
the sturdy Finn undoubtedly will
return to competition under the
colors of the Finnish American Ath.
letic club here.
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make him even more dangerous and
And then Notre Dame has
Now, where in the whole coup-
try has there been a man whose
record Of football achievement has
been, more brilliant or whose sense
Of football strategy Is keener?
Rockne is power in himself. /
The NOtre Dame team arrived
here this morning and went at
once to the estchester- Biltm0re
where a long signal practice Tor
the afternoon. The Cadets, COM
ing with the full force Of their
entire battalion, will not arrive
until tomorrow morning when
special trains win bring them
down In time for the game.
The East win watch this contest
eagerly, for 1t viii give line on
the potential strength OF two
promising teams.
Both Army and Notre Dame have
other Eastern contests to follow
contests Of Importance, that viii
go far toward determining the final
rating when the season Is through.
and the stands win be crowded
with coaches and scouts, anxious
to get q new line on these con-
tenders.
The local Notre Dame alumni
association is making great plans
for the game and viii attend IN e
body. The Cadets, as usual, VIII
occupy q block of seats in the
center tier Of the north side Of the
field, and will stage an exhibition
drill before the game starts.
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GORDON AND HIS PALS
EASILY DEFEAT SWAvLEY

Scoring almost at viii. Central
High School ran up a total Of 80
points to nothing against the SWAY
ley Props in the Wilson stadium.
Gordon and Wilmer were the big
scorers with five touchdowns be-
tween them.
Central relied mainly on straight
football to ring up their scores. The
Blue and White found Swavley's line
easily penetratable and with Gordon,
Wilmer and Blakesley carrying the
ball the team marched down the
field. Collett. end, was the candy
kid for the losers.
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TIGER HAS HANDS FULL
IN TAKING ON NAVY
TEAM TOMORROW
BY TOM THORP.

Princeton will have strength the Tigers expect
register victory Bob Fowes midpmen the Palmer
Stadium tomorrow.
Despite Marquette Annapolis by
lopsdd ordinary With
tut Saturday nidshipmen fell
for the ordinary football witnessed big league
eridron in years. .s8s@f s4.s fss.#s
The fact that the Navy baceld green allowed
them to be sucked in on fake kick plays quick opening play with
inc man on the short side Of the tandem carrying the bali for
fell prey the forward passing uncoupd by the
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Looks Like a Battle

The Apache A. O., which held the
Mohawk eleven to one touchdown,
will meet the strong Virginia A. g.
Sunday at Alexandria and the bat.
tie looms as warm one. Both
teams started their schedule well.
the Virginians knocking off the
Seaman Gunners by a decisive
score H..
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Win Stage
Comeback After
Years Idling

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.Joe
Lynch, former worlds bantam
weight champion, will attempt a
comeback next Tuesday, when
he is scheduled to meet Jackie
Gordon in a twelve-round bout.
Lynch has not appeared in the
ring since losing his title to
Abe Goldstein about a year
ago.
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TheY're COMING un

Each year the Mohawks take the
Apaches, their young neighbors,
lightly, and each succeeding year
the Apaches have made better
showing. In another season or so
the Mohawks and Apaches will be
playing Mohawk Mercury football:
Every sandlot fan knows what
that is.
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Harvard Players Hurt

Injuries have started dear old
Harvard on the road Of all walters.
Five men are out with severe in.
1uries. They are Greenough, cap
tain, Bradford, Lafarge, Kilgour
and Daley.
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NORTH CAROLINA VARSITY
BEATS STATE COLLEGE

RALEIGH. N. c.. Oct. 1.-THE
University Of North Carolina today
stood superior to the North Caro-
lima state College in football circles
following a game yesterday in
which the university won 10 70 '.
The game. witnessed by lb,OVO
fans. was nori-spectacular and was
marked by few brilliant plays.
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SELFISHNESS CREEPS INTO
GOLF UNAWARES
BY CHARLES (CHCK) EVANS, JR.

judged and often hashy
by behavior the links It is indeed strange thing that
otherwise amabe people escort themselves in extraordinary
when the links
The ohter day talking with small golf grievance
believed that golfer Intentionally
thing selfish when playing but that unconousy he does do
things him his shness
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ARMY WOULD BREAK UP
NOTRE DAME STREAK
b FORD C.. PRICK.

NEW YORK, 17When tomorrow afternoon, battalion Of
their feet send the sweeping chorus Of
Grounds old
Bluff Army eleven trots out TO meet the invading
Dame football history will be in the making
Through long successive these fighting Irish have come
out Of the West q embatted Army.
Nine they victorious Once they were tied
nd now he two rneeta again. VI
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- g SHGLuAIGS anu lS COTEGCC1y
referred to as "her" or "she, "
q mere matter Of ethics which
everybody should know.
''Her" or "she" is registered
at the biggest bungalow in
New Jersey or any other strip
of marshy land otherwise
scheduled as. summer resorts.
That is the largest indoor
skating rink ever been built
over one pond. When the ZR-3
is out Of business, horse shows,
football games, chess matches
and nah jongg can be- staged
there without congestion.
When that bubble is stretched
out at ease with her tail lights
binding Broadway, her forward
binnacles are playing up and
down the barbary coast.
On the inside Of that paper
bag, q complete traction system
connects the fore with the, aft.
To get to certain sections of
her suburbs you have to trans
fer twice and walk three blocks
back.
Other statistics about her are
so enormous you wouldn't
believe 'em. There are not that
many decimal points and CT
pliers on a typewriter or Mer-
genthaler machine combined.
Her speed is something
terrific. By the time the
scientists get through figuring
it out, their heirs will have to
make the official announcement.
This is hard to imagine but
so is the ZR-3.
When the little boy said
"there amt no such animal"
he said il all.
rs much power and deception that
Notre Dame displays each year is
going to be welcome with open
arms by gridiron authorities.
So far as their general all-round
ability is concerned, Tigers and
Middies are evenly matched. If the
Tigers uncover something new in
IN offensive line they will likely
gain an advantage enough to win
them the game. Under ordinary
circumstances we would say that
the teams are too well matched to
nick n winner.
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Want Grid Came

The Clarendon Lyons desire an
opponent for Sunday in the 1876.
pound division. Manager A. F.
Schneider's phone number q Claren.
don 4O7-J.1.