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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-11-02

School including the TOWNSHIP
LIONEL G. ROB
Evening star., 1933-08-06
Illustrated By JOE KING

ment but he was covering a base ball series
and wouldn't listen.
Launchings are exciting enough. but was
afraid this one would be too exciting. 1t TOOK
a good deal of will power to get myself to the
Dodd Shipbuilding Co. where found Jefrles
and a host OF friends gathered around punch
bowl. But for once the punch bowl did not
interest me.
1 looked up at the white vessel on the ways
White paint had not changed her unmistakab!e
lines. And the low teak cabin and bright
fittings could not erase from my memory the
sight Of her as she lay detected and brown
alongside the port dock.
Hi, there, Reiter!" Jeffries caught sight of
me and called. Aren't you going to drink to
the ship?"
could not respond. 1 had just noticed the
figure on the prov of the vesselEit was
diminutve head of a Chinese dragon. Jef1ries
saw me looking at it, and an amused grin
lighted up his features.
Not bad for a fgurehead eh?" he asked.
That's my little tribute to the China boys.
Maybe it will stop their worrying
nodded dumbly and in the next moment he
was introducing me to a tall slender young
woman quite as sure of herself as her
companion.
Leah is going to christen her" JefIries told
me.
The girl flashed q dazzling smile. Il under
stand you're suspicious Of the new boat?"
I'm afraid Neal has been exaggerating' 1
Lied.
Let's hope 50 1 shouldn't like TO sponsor
q boat that was to be unlueky"
The workmen were greasing the ways now,
and Neal and the young woman left me TO
ascend to the little platform built up under
0f
fgurehead was a beribboned bottle. The giT!
took hold OF this holding it up and laughing
at the crowd below.
COME one called and the workmen began
- pounding the blocks out from under the
keel. The boat trembled ever 50 slightly and
Neal prompted the young woman TO break
the bottle against the nose Of the craft.
saw her arm 'upraised, probably higher than
Evening star., 1933-08-06

little fishing village across the Pacific that no
further tragedy would come to it through the
existence Of the boat.
A number of local Cinnamon were not SO
sure They offered to buy the craft from
Jeffries, but he stubbornly refused He had,
he told them. bought and paid Tor 1t. and
there was signed contract with boatyard
for her conversion into yacht.
1 happen to know that they offered him
enough to take up the contract and build
whole new yacht into the bargain. But
Jeffries had his head set-and he was basking
in the publicity.
Gradually the thing Gained down. although
Jeffries had telephoned me humorously to say
that All Ling. an influential Chinatown mer-
chant, had warned him that the evil spirits
would do him and all connected with the boat
some real harm.
What did you tell him?"
Il told him where to 60. And also said
that might have him thrown into the brig
for threatening me-
But that wasn't a threat" said. 1T was
valuable advice
Jef1ries roared. You're as superstitious as
those slant-eyes."
THE next heard Of the Junk was through
a small item the back page OF the
morning newspaper. 1t said
Michael OLeary, 4S. workman at the Dodd
Shipbuilding Co. 7543 Northlake, was instantly
killed late yesterday afternoon when boat
slipped its scaffolding and crushed him beneath
the stern.
This is the third time the craft under
construction has slipped the scaf1olding, al
though Raymond Dodd, owner Of the COM
pany, claims daily inspections are made. He
blames shifting ground under the foundation.
"OLeary was employed in rebuilding yacht
for Neal Jeffries well-known yachtsman ana
member of the Cordray Yacht Club"
Strike one" I thought, and felt sure that
Jeffraes would begin to change his mind about
the advisability. of sailing the junk But be-
fore the month was out he had invited me to
the launching!
As waterfront reporter for the Daily Dispatch
was my job to accept. I tried to trade an
assignment with KimbAhs I'M the sports depart
Evening star., 1933-08-06

WAS waterfront reporter on the Daily
Dispatch when they toweG in the Chinese
fishing vessel. She had no name, and she
shouldn't have had one-but we reporters
called her the Junk
The authorities wouldn't let u5 go aboard
until she had been well fuTigatcd Not that
we really wanted to-
There were five dead aboard her when sne
was found on the west side OF the PACING
Not much more than bones wrapped in OIL
skins" was the way it was put by old Capt.
Axelson, who had picked her up.
They had died in most horrible way-by
slow starvation while the boat dritted on yet
never crossing a steamer lane at the right time.
Cap Axelson told me he believed there mad
been more than five aboard. When l asked
him what he meant he raised his eyebrows
Spat over the side CT the dock and said, Cannl-
balism that's what 1 meant
The poor devils had gone through trouble
all right First there had been storm whlch
tore their canvas into useless ribbons. Then
their auxiliary engine. one of those pitlful Chi
nese copies of American manufacture, had re-
fused to function.
The scattered, rusted tools on the engine
room floor told of hours of fruitless toll. One
of the bodies had been found there. The man
had tried until the last until he was too weak
to lift hammer.
Evening star., 1933-08-06

OF course the bodies were gone when We
~ went aboard But the feeling of Them
was still there. When I went below to the
engine room 1 wanted to come up again as
quickly possible
The arrangements of Chinese fishing YES
sci are vile. You drop through hatch just
big enough to admit a narrow w-shouldereo
Chinaman-or small reporter. Then you
scoot for what a mile down an iron
ladder And there were ports; the only
light drifted through the open hatchway.
1t was while 1 below looking at the
engine room that somebody tapped me on the
shoulder, practically sending me off with heart
failure. I whirled around to see Neal Jeffrles
Good Lord!" 1 said. What you doing
aboard this thing?"
Just looking her over" Neal told me- Shes
got a sweet hull"
Il know you're boating enthusiast-out
it must take some enthusiasm to go for this
tub"
Jeffries laughed. I remember wishing that
he wouldn't laugh d,wn there. 1t didn't seem
right.
I'm thinking OF buying her from the port
commission"
'This!" said. ''This-why. we've duboed
Ter the JUNK"
Yes, this. It's fine hull. Shed need some
changing around. But IN q HlOItn OF Two u
have as fair an offshore yacht as you'd want
to see
You mean you'd actually sail in this?"
why not?"
There wasn't any answer, really. The big,
hardy sportsman wouldn't have understood me
if I'd tried to tell him. He would have
laughed again. Even then he half devined
what my silence meant.
If you think I'm afraid OF lot Of dead
Chinks-"
1t wasn't that Not exactly. 1t was some
thing couldn't get over to Jeffnes. 1t was
simply feeling that fellow should leave this
hulk alone now. The feeling strong
that 1 was fearful for Neal should he really
decide to buy it.
Net he did buy it. He bought 1t the same
~ afternoon, announcing that he intended to
convert her into an offshore yacht. And he
was going to christen her the Junk!
considered that this was carrying his bra
vado rather far: and too. it seemed to me that
if Jeffries wanted to buy the craft and make
yacht Of her he should have done it quietly
Those dead had been just simple minded Chi
nese fishermen-but they had been human
beings.
Trouble came swiftly enough. Some local
Cinnamon traced the vessels home port and
got into communication with relatives of the
dead fishermen. They received orders that the
craft should be burned to destroy the evil
spirits therein.
Now many people thought this an amusing
idea, and Neal Jeffries of them. But
to me 1t was one Of the most sensible plans 1t
has been my good fortune to hear.
The fact that the port commission should
never have sold the boat to Jeffres. and there
very nearly some unpleasantness with the
Chinese consul. Fortunately. the consul was
an enlightened Oriental who had no great faith
in evil spirits and he able TO assure the
Evening star., 1933-08-06
Silly Chinese superst;tion?
Or a ship with a curse on it.?

necessary, for she was excltedEand
then. quite suddenly, she uttered
startled cry.
The bracelet on her wrist had
wedged between the wooden teeth OF
the dragon and she was held! Amid
shouts of enthusiasm from those who
did not realize the girls plight, the
vessel began to move down
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
The Growing Achievement
OF a Boob Congress
It Throws Away the Philippines and Pledges
Us to Fight for Them

The monstrosty known as the Philippine Independence
bill which Congress has made law over President
veto is one of the selfish sordid and stupid
that any legislative body ever has, passed.
In addition it is one of the MOST DANGEROUS measures
that any legislative body has passed 1t not only
dangers peace welfare of 100000 people in the
Philippines but endangers the and welfare of the
world and particularly the peace and welfare Of the United
States
It commits to alliance with Japan-the despoiler of
Manchura and chnaand to other foreign enanglements
which it has been historic policy to avoid.
is complete departure from the counsel first given by
George Washington of keeping out of such entangemen
Il would require make series of treaties "neu
taize the islands after they independent GUAR
ANTEE that neutrality with armed forces And this
despite the fact that tempting morse like the Philippines
will certainly be snapped by dhungry when
we withdraw!
As of insuring future in the Pacific and
nsung that get into them the which Congress
has seen fit to perpetrate is perfect
is the crowning achievement of House Senate that
beat any we have ever had for sheer laundering bOOby
it were not loaded with dynamite it would be almost
funny
Here is what the lame ducks who passed have done
l-They hdUe siOen 0uUay $4,000 square miles
OF American territory-equdl in area to the SIX New
England States Uith NeU York State thrOUOn in.
Shut American manufacturers of cotton goods,
dairy products, flour and many other commodities
out Of one of their most profitable markets
3-ScraPped American inOestn'ent exceeding
half billion dollars.
sold out the Filipino people to any band of
pLOters, local foreign, that wants to grab them
5-Made responsible for enforcing order there
for ten years uUthOut the authority to enforce it,
AND
6-PIedged us to that the Philippines pro-
tected through all eternity, in colluson uOth such
Britain, France and Japan. i,
I'm COLLISION" with these nations would better describe
Che facts.
This priceless plan has been put in Washington by the
Cuban sugar lobby and few other special interests with
eye to their pocketbooks
It has been thrown into the lap of the Philippine Leg
atue which will have to decide whether to accept it
ask for deal
Whatever the Flpinos may decide there be but
decision the part of the American people,
That is REPUDATE this senseless and perlous scheme
to declare that they will not be dragged into the foreign
tanglement which it involves INSIST that treaty
shall ever be made ratified which will bind them to it,
The Washington times., 1933-01-25

tn hat living ELSIE ROBINSON
with people isn't going to be
the Perfect Picnic you had an
ticipated. H.t.
For instead of being friendly
and funny, people begin to act
in most independent and in
convenient manner. Without
the slightest apology, they up
set your plans, meddle in your
affairs and get in your way.
Soon you see that it will be
quite impossible for you to live
the free life you desire No
matter how clever or courage
Gus YOU are, you must always
stop and consider other people.
So then what? Since you
must alN9gs deal with people,
what's the best way to take
them?
There are two ways of taking
people. One way is to take
them PERSONALLY. That's
the way most of us do take
people. We consider them as
part of our life. We try to
fit them into our own scheme
of things. We Judge them by
our own notions.
And, as long as people do
what we think they should do,
this method has it's delightful
moments. But how very sell
dom will people do what we
think they should do! Instead,
the old MeanieS insist on doing
what THEY want to do no mat
ter how much it ifiterferes
with our desires. '#.f5
Then we're furious. We feel
we've been insulted and cheated.
Unreasonable? Yes, of course
it is. But that's the result of
TAKING PEOPLE PERSON
ALLY. e
Why are we always at odds
with our relatives and friends?
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

Why do even passing strangers
get our goat? That's why. We
insist on taking them person.
ally. We demand that they
adjust themselves to our
scheme of things and, if they
don't, we feel personally abused.
And so we go through life
in a constant stew and fret.
We have great plans, beautiful
! dreams, but they never mature
because we can never manage
to get along with people and
our creative precious energy is
wasted on endless, petty feuds.
Yet we must live with peo-
pie. We can't set up in the
business of life without them.
Then, isn't there any way of
dealing with people without
wrecking our own dispositions
in the process? Yes, there is.
WE CAN GET ALONG
WITH PEOPLE SPLENDIDLY
IF WE'LL JUST TAKE THEM
AS EXPERIENCE.
Then the whole picture
changes. Instead of being per-
sonal problems, people become
part of an interesting spectacle.
We may not admire what they
do, but that fact no longer dis
rupts our private, program. We
live-and let live-taking the
Big Parade as it comes, whether
1t comes according to our no.
ton or not.
But suppose we have to deal
with people who are part of
our own family; whose acts
have g. direct and disastrous
bearing on our own planS?"
Then we should protect our
selves against such people and
such acts, exactly as we would
protect, ourselves against any
other possible menace fire and
flood, for example. We know
the menace Of fire and flood.
If we're wise, we make an es-
innate of that menace and
take out insurance against it;
but we don't go around fussing
because fire and flood exist.
We don't allow fire and flood
to, wreck our moods and waste
our ambition.
We can, if we will, learn to
treat people in the same way.
We can work with them, play
with them. even marry them:
and yet remain a little apart
from them. taking them as
experience. -
And that is what people
really are, after all. Nobody
belongs to anyone else in this
world. Nobody can, or should
try to, depend on anyone else
for his happiness and growth.
At best, we can only be a
Supporting Caste to each other
and, whether we like the
rest Of the caste or not, we
must go on.
What q lot of misery we'd
save ourselves and the rest
of the human race, if we
could only remember that factI
(CopyriKht. 1898, King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
Britain Comes
With Clean Hands.

None Of the debtor ma
tions has so strong a case
for a plea of concession as
Great Britain. First, she
carries a greater financial
burden as a result of the
war than any of the others.
Second, she got a bad bar
gain in the last settlement,
compared with the other
debtor nations. Third, de-
spite the difficulty, she
snapped her jaws and went
through with the meeting of
her payment on December
Is. 1t was the spirit with
which she met that obliga-
tion that made her a host
of friends in this country
among those who still be-
Geve that a debt is a debt
and should be pad if it can
be.
She asks for a reconsider
alton and comes with clean
hands.
There is some interesting
to some of us it seems
neutrality-suspicious. as to
whether this agree m n t
means that we are sending
engraved invit ations
couched in obsequious Ian
guage to the nations that
defaulted to come in and
get theirs.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
ONCE OVERS

Naturally he is reluctant to
loan them even to a friend.
Yet you do not hesitate to
ask.
Girls are prone to borrow
jewelry and clothing, eSpe-
cially in sorority houses or at
boarding schools.
The practice is not so often
objected to because these girls
are not supporting themselves.
But when a girl gets to
earning her own living and
finds out how hard it is to
save up and buy valuable
things, she does not look with
such favor on the friends who
ask to borrow her clothing and
jewelry and who might replace
the loss. ....
copyright. Iss3, King Features
" Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
Private Interests
Must Yield Now.

1H3 SASS - SOeN8 - W
The Muscle Shoals policy
announced by Mr.. Roosevelt
is in accord with the senti-
ment of the country. The
Congress passed the bill
twice in reflecting the thor
oughly established wishes
of the nation. The vetoes
which killed the bill both
times were in disregard Of
the purposes of the people,
whose money had been spent
in the development.
The battle has been be-
tween public interest and
private greed.
1t is now up to the private
interests to determine e
whether the plant shall be
operated by the Government.
For it is going to be operat-
ed; and operated at rates
satisfactory to the people;
and if satisfactory contracts
cannot be made with private
companies, the Government
will see to it that the people,
The Washington times., 1933-01-25

who wonders how you got IN,
it's a "maison."
It's a clever lover who can
make a woman have such q
darn good time "forgiving him."
that she completely forgets
what he did to make her angry.
The safest way to discuss a
woman's husband with her Is
to be deaf and dumb in seven
languages-including the Scan
dinavian.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
Borrowing

.., Borrowing
WHY do you annoy your
friends by the number Of times
that you seek to borrow money
and articles from them?
Your friends may like to be
accommodating, but you easily
become a nuisance.
Usually the closer the friend,
the more negligent are you
about returning what you bor-
row.
You even ask to borrow most
highly-prized articles owned by
your friend-things that he or
she values and wishes to pre-
serve.
Your friend may be careful
not to use them because he
fears something might happen
to destroy their beauty or their
value.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25

When you're
young, y ou
d MT think
it's q prob
lem. People
are friendly,
or funn v
nice to have
arounda n d
being a young
Ster, you usu-
ally manage
to get ur
own way. But,
as you grow
older, you be-
gin to SCI e
q.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
What Is ''Highest Talent?"
Josef Hofmann, piano virtuoso an,
Punishment On Big Scale, Etc.

Josef Hoffman,, piano virtuoso and teacher,
warns young prodgies" that ony those of highest
can rise to the top in music"
That is equally true of raroadng and the packing house
business But the difficulty for the most intelligent
teacher, is to recognize highest talent"
Paderewsh possesses it, yet he related when he first
to the United States great violin teacher with whom
ne wished to study in Berlin told him. young man. you
VIII never be musician therefore do not take the violin
Play the piano.
The violin teacher did not consider piano playing real
music, yet Paderewsk made real music out of it,
he best plan to encourage every to do the best that
ne can and let the future which has highest TALENT
Russia continues to attack big issues with
RUTHLESS energy.
FOrtyfive thousand men, women and children making up
number of farming villages have failed cooperate with
Soviet ideas in the Soviet food program.
According to report all of the 5000 will be exiled to ST.
bera and their lands turned to former soldiers
others, relied upon to carry out Soviet ideas.
There probably such instance of wholesale punishment
since the days when it customary to put the
the inhabitants captured cities the days when Aac
querors made pyramids of enemy skulls
Our South American neighbor Chile, deter.
mined to practice economy has laid up all battehips and
will keep them idle until more prosperous days.
That will not be done here admrals too old for
flying too dgnified for submarine work. cruising on
small boats must have place for exercise battle
ship deck is best. II.
But it COULD done Battleships which cost each as
much would complete fleet of fighting arshps will serve
no useful purpose in hereafter except targets for
enemy air pilots. -.
First it appeared in one Of MartiaI's poems:
"NOn amO te, Sabidi possunr deere quare;
Hoe t0ntum pOssum deere, te" ~.
Next, It appeared in the French language beginning
"Ee Gime pas, HyIas;
Je men saurOis dire la cause, etc."
Then it appeared in words that you all know we'll
81 do not LOOe thee, Doctor Fell
The uUhy cannot teH;>
But this alone knOO full uUeLl,
do not LOUe thee, Doctor Fell"
The next nstament of this sentiment will come from the
poets Of the United States Senate expressing their opinion
Not hofnr ip the
history has anybody trampd the tender feelings of gn
fled Senators the "Kingfish" has done .. -.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
World Economic
Problems Open

For negotiations are not
to begin until after Mr..
Roosevelt's induction into
power. That is clearly set
forth in the statement given
out by the White House.
The only agreement made is
that the new administration
will discuss her debt with
England, and during the
campaign Mr.. Roosevelt
made it clear that he would
do so on the request of that
country. The present re-
gime is to arrange the pre-
liminaries for the meeting.
It will not in any possible
way, commit the incoming
administration. And there is
a paragraph in the state
ment from the White House
which is important:
1t is of course necessary
to discuss at the same time
the world economic prob
lens in which the United
States and Great Britain are
mutually interested"
This leaves the door open
for other understandings
through which mutual con-
cessions may be made.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
MARRY-GO-ROUND.
By Harding
BY Helen Rowland.

time at the same temperature
halfway between the torrid
flame of passion and the tepid
water of friendship.
A Tip for Women: The
Sphinx has always been re-
garded with admiration and de-
votion, as a wise and fascinat-
ing creature who knows a lot
that she won't tel1-just because
she knows enough to keep her
mouth closed.
If the salesgirl is friendly
and obliging, you're in a
"store";; if she serves you coldly
but politely, it's a 'Shoppe," and
if she acts like a bored duchess
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
Europe Must
Make Concessions.

Europe Must
Make Concessions.
The conference between
the incoming and the outgo-
ing Presidents regarding the
British debts has resulted in
an agreement, because the
outgoing President has aban-
doned his demand for the
creation Of a new debt COM
mission and acceded to the
demand Of Mr.. Roosevelt
that the negotiations shall be
conducted through the usual
diplomatic channels.
During the course Of the
campaign Mr.. Roosevelt took
the position that a debtor al
ways has the right, the moral
right, to ask the creditor for
a reconsideration, or read
justment, of his debt.
He also made it plain that
such reconsiderations must
be with each debtor sepa-
rately and that we will not
sit down in a common confer
ence with all the debtor ma
tions arrayed against us.
He likewise indicated that
when we concede upon the
debts there must be a conces-
SION along some other line
from the beneficiary of our
cOncession-to the end that
the concession made by us
shall not be a mere sacrafice
of our own people.
So far as we know, Mr..
Roosevelt s position has not
altered. There is. certainly
nothing in the agreement
made which indicates it.
The Washington times., 1933-01-25
WISE WORDS

Every man rejoices twice
when he has a partner Of his
joy. Taylor.
No one tries extreme rem
edteS at first. Seneca.