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The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
Uncommon
Sense o

There are few village smithy
shops today under the chestnut
trees. One reason
A Village is that there aren't
Blacksmith any more chestnut
trees. Another is
that the motor car is rapidly
driving. horses and vehicles drawn
by horses. out of business.
I used to- think that IN fifty
years or more practically all the
village smithies would disappear.
But lately have learned better.
Here in a little coast town in
Maine is a village blacksmith who
has more work than he can do.
though he has probably not shod
a horse or repaired an agricur-
tural implement in twenty years
or more.
For a time after the devil wa.
CONS" began crowding horses and
horse drawn vehicles off the road,
he had little to do.
Then one day he saw some or
namental grill work that had been
sent to his town to be used as an
adornment on a new building.
He examined it carefully, then
went home and thought little.
"There is no reason in the world
why I cannot do that kind of
work." he said to himself. II will
do it, by Gosh"
Today the children still Glove to.
see his flaming forge and hear the
bellows blow"
Over the anvil on which he used
to fashion horse shoes he makes
beautiful things of steel and iron.
Visitors seeing him at work have
come in to inquire if his handi-
work was on sale.
He assured them that it GER
tainly was, and that more of the
same kind of work would be in
evidence as soon as there was a
demand for it.
He is known today all over the
state, and in many other states,
whose residents have bought his
work.
And if he had the advertising
gift that some people have he
would have wide reputation.
But not, I am sorry to saw.
great business.
For his work is artistry, and
cannot be done in quantity over a
single anvil.
1t cannot be said of him that he
is another Benvenuto Cellini. He
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
Doqs on AIcafraz Isle

Alcatraz prison, the DEVILS Is
land of America, a prison on a
rocky island in the middle of
San Francisco bay, fortified with
all the latest scientific gadgets,
and manned by the most expert
enced crew of prison workers,
has found it expedient to rein
force its crew with trained police
dogs.
Sanford Bates, director of the
Federal Prison bureau, declared
that Dogs are better prison
guards than men. Their powers
of sight, smell and hearing are
far keener. They are trained to
knock down the man they are
sent after, but not to hurt him."
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31

you that Ted Holworthy himself
might be engineering this beauti-
full miX-up? Did it,"
II can't say that it did"
"All this talking he's been doing
about her. What did he tell you
about her for in the first place? Oh,
| know he said it was an interest
ing case, but that was just to get
you listening"
Didn't you think it was an in
teresting case, Tubby?"
We'll, if it was a case, yes. Ger
tainly. OF course. ! thought my
self it was interesting. But you no.
tice l didn't get all wrought up
about it and start hanging around
to get look at the girl, and even
If | had l wouldn't even dream of
stepping into a game like this and
marrying her myself"
Neither did l." Bryn said. 81
never dreamed of such a thing. But
| was curious, I'll admit that. You
haven't any curiosity because you
haven't got any imagination. If
you had, you'd have been hanging
around, too. You'd have wanted TO
look at the man in the case, when
he arrived for this wedding to a
girl he'd never seen, and then when
you saw the man you'd certainly
have wanted to get look at the
girl, and when you saw the girl
:" Bryn paused. Tubby looked
at him curiOusly, but Bryn coughed
and went on Immediately. "When
you saw the girl you would most
assuredly have wanted to know how
it was all going to come out. She
=. well, she wasn't his type, Tub "
You're saying just what I've
been trying to say Tubby cried.
| "HOlworthy'S been working on your
imagination. He knows what you're
like. Well, it's succeeded. Every
things gone according to plan.
You're roped. Tonight you're go
ing to marry this girl that you've
only seen three times, a girl you
don't really know a darn thing
| about, just because she has some
kind Of cockand-bull story about
| having to get married before her
twenty-tirst birthday and the man
she's supposed to marry doesn't
happen to take her fancy. OF course
he wouldn't take her fancy with
you around. Certainly he wouldn't.
That's what It's all about, you darn
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
By
JOHN BLAKE
g
e Bell syndicate.-WNU Service.

works in iron, not in silver and
gold.
But he is master craftsman,
which he never might have be-
come had he not been forced by
changing conditions to become
something besides the village
blacksmith.
I saw him at work the other
morning on a pair of beautiful
andirons.
I asked him what they cost.
"a lot of time" he said.
eyes, but how much money!"
"Oh, not so much. But the fell
low I'm making them for isn't
rich so I wouldn't like to charge
him too much"
And there was proof that he
really had the soul of an artist.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31

in the afternoon and
the bout takes place
at 9 O. clock or later,
their first thought is
for "a big drink of
water. 3" This is be-
cause they have been
drying out" for
weeks. After this
large drink of water,
and eating a big
steak a little later,
at the hour of the
bout they will be
copoo noIIpIc ohox1o
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31

a small child, she went lnfreuuent-
ly with her grandparents over the
rough mountain roads to the little
country town, or was perhaps al
| lowed to accompany old Gary, their
servant, on d marketing expedition;
but as she grew older, and her
mothers beauty began to evidence
itself in her, she was kept more
and more closely at home. There
were quite often guests at the great
house when Deborah was a child,
but they were grave elderly people
like her grandparents, so that she
grew up completely cut off from
companions of her own age and
generation. She had, however, a
library full of books, and three peo-
pie entirely devoted to her welfare.
1t must be admitted that of the
three, Grandfather, Grandmother
and Gary. It was Gary who taught
her the most interesting things.
Grandfather taught her history, and
science, and geography, and politi-
cal economy. Grandmother taught
her needTework, and a number of
things that made them both blush
and over which they skipped as
hastily as possible. But Gary
Gary told her stories of people.
Yes, there was Gary. GRANDPA
ther and Grandmother kept the iron
gates leading to- the world locked
and barred, but Gary lifted the shut
ters of a thousand little windows,
magic easements, all of them, open
| ing on the foam of perilous seas.
But no matter how staunchly
| Grandfather and Grandmother kept
the iron gates locked against the
world, they knew that some day
they would have to be opened, even
If only to allow themselves to pass
through, on their last Journeys. For
many years the question of Debo-
rah's future, when the iron gates
should be opened, gave them anx-
| iOus hours of discussion. She would
have a fortune greater than her
fathers before her, since it had
grown through the years. She had
no relatives other than her grand
parents. Deborah must be COM
pletely secure SO, when she was
thirteen, eight years ago, Grand
father had gone away to San Fran
cisco on journey, and when he re-
turned he had stopped frowning,
| and they told her that her future
| happiness was taken care Of.
Courtney Graham, less than
year after the marriage of Debo
rah's mother, had taken unto HIM
self wife. For him to do so had
been a blow, but after talking it
all over for a number Of years,
Grandfather and Grandmother had
consoled themselves by saying that
| Of course Anne. as far as Courtney
| knew at the time Of his marriage,
was happy; that if she had been
dead, Courtney would have devot-
ed his life to mourning her loss.
would have considered himself n
widower. No; Courtney had been
perfect New England gentleman
and he had done no wrong.
He had a son, born two months
| after Deborah herself. The boys
name was Stuart. and now at thir-
| teen he was a tall handsome lad of
great promise. His father and
grandfather both thought that a
second attempt at an alliance be-
| tween the two families might prove
a happy one. SO it was understood
that if the young people were will
ing, they should marry each other
when they grew up.
ITO BE CONTINUED
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
1!QWARE
DNlWDAY
DR.. JAMES w. BARTON
Talk. About @
tES w. BARTON
Spacing Meal Times

OpdCIHS ACdA AhhCS
1T IS hard to understand
H. how the idea ever started,
and still persists, that an in
dividual doesn't weigh any
more after than before eating
food. Yet the increase in
weight after eating is exactly
the arnoxnt of the weight OF the
food. Putting it into the stomach is
just the same to the scales as put
ting it on the scales themselves.
Boxers, jockeys, and others who
must keep their weight at certain
figure know exactly what they must
eat to attain certain weight at a
certain definite hour. They know
also that the amount of liquids must
also be measured the same as foods.
as water or any other liquid in-
creases weight.
Thus in the case of boxers, where
the weight is taken at two o'clock
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
AA Frances Shelley We es

Yes, SIR" Burch muttered de-
spOndently, and went out.
Tubby was staring at Bryn. ANY
body would think you were In love
with the girl" he said.
Would they? How nice. 1t
sounds so much better. SO much
more romantic and idyllic. To be
in love with ones bride instead of
marrying her for her money"
Money!" Tubby said bitterly
Money" He shook his head mis-
erably. you're making some kind
of damned fool out Of yourself,
Bryn. You're letting some gang pull
a fast one on you that's what
you're doing. Do you think for a
minute that that girl doesn't know
who you are?'
"She doesn't" Bryn said calmly.
Tubby snorted. That's a bright
remark, isn't it? Very bright. Now,
if | ask you, how in Gods name
could anybody on the Pacific coast
help having seen your ugly mug in
the papers, how could anybody who
can read help knowing about James
Weldon Shipley Brynildson Third
and his speed boats and his ele-
phant tusks and his seven cars and
his polo ponies?"
I'm sure she can read" Bryn re-
piled, unruffled. "The first time
saw her she was reading over a lot
of legal documents up in Hol-
worthy's office"
Tubby eyed him for a long mo-
ment. Then he said gustily, Look
here. BrYn. Did it ever occur to
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
Uncle MiGs
Says: 80
We've Much TO Watch

When we are alone we have
our thoughts to watch; in fam
lilies our tempers; in society our
tongues.
l. is not sufficient to have quail
tiles. We must make proper use
of them.
Those who make threats don't
fulfill them any more reliably
than those who make promises.
A pessimist doesn't tell a lie,
he only sees one in everything.
Fault-Finding Is Easy
1t requires keen vision to de-
tect a virtue. but most of us
can find fault with our eyes shut
Give us a day once in a blue
moon when we don't have to
make good.
When you forgive friend, do it
with a hug or a handclasp. That
seals it.
They Come TO Earth
When a hero marries an angel,
1t is two very ordinary people
who set up housekeeping at the
end of the honeymoon.
Sometimes the only way to
combat gloom spreader is with
laughter.
Be fit for more than the thing
you are doing.
Love brings f1attery to a mans
tongue and fiutterings to a wom-
ans heart.
Show an Interest
Indifference looks sophisticated,
but people like you better if
you're interested.
You are always hearing about
the qualifications of a model hus-
band, but never about the quail
fcations of a model wife. Rea-
sor. enough. All wives are model.
Every man wouIu like to see
how he looks in a beard, but he
is so timid about it, he will never
find out.
1t takes three generations to
make a gentleman-starting at
scratch; but thousands are born
so without any preliminar- plan
ming.
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31
Understanding the Patient

A knowledge of all the sciences in
cluded in medicine should naturally
be part of the equipment of the
physician but knowledge of hui
man nature, the workings of the pa
tents mind, his reactions to every
day life is just as important if the
patient-the Individuals to be
treated properly or completely.
1t has been we'll said that every
patient when he first visits the ply
sician is really mental patient; he
is complaining of some symptoms
and whether these symptoms are
due to any real underlying cause or
only exist in his imagination. they
must be carefully considered and
treated.
In other words the physician must
know men and women and never
forget that he is treating men and
women and not just some group of
symptoms of which these men and
women are complaining.
The first consideration of the doc
tor is not the symptoms or disease
but the patient himself. Disease
means not being at ease, and the
fact that the patient is not at ease
may be as much the fault of the pa
tient as of the organism or other
condition causing the symptoms.
G-WNU Service
The Coolidge examiner., 1936-07-31

the weight taken at two O'Clock and
will feel much stronger. Boxers are
usually in good health and therefore
the effects of food and liquids will
be the same as in any other healthy
individuals.
When food is eaten, the body i'm
mediately begins, to use. it, which
really means burning it up to- man.
ufacture heat and energy. And just
as anything that burns gives off
wastes-smoke and other sub
stances-so the body gives off
wastes and sends them to the lungs,
to the kidneys, to the skin, and to
the lower bowel from which organs
they are sent out of the body.
Body Weight Adjusted
The urine and the feces remain in
the bladder and bowel for hours at
time, whereas the breath and the
perspiration are being lost all the
time into the surrounding air.
An interesting experiment is re-
corded in the American Journal of
Physiology. DR.. c. I. HoWland re-
corded the hourly loss of weight on
two successive days for ten individ-
uals following the eating of (a)
light lunch made up of a glass of
milk weighing about seven ounces
and a ham sandwich weighing II
ounces, and (b) heavy lunch con-
sisting of three glasses of milk and
three ham sandWiches-21 and 33
ounces respectively. In other words
the light meal weighed little over
one pound and the heavy meal lit
tie over three pounds.
After the light lunch there was
progressive increase in the rate at
which the weight was reduced for
two hours, then the rate of losing
weight became less, so that by the
end of five hours, the rate of weight
loss was the same as before the food
was eaten. Digestion was COM
pleted.
After eating the heavy meal there
was an increased rate of weight loss
for three hours. Five hours after
the food was eaten the rate of loss
was still nearly per cent above the
rate at which the weight is lost
when there is no food being digested.
The greatest increase in the rate
at which weight was lost after eat
ing the small meal was 10 per cent,
and after eating the heavy meal %
cent above the normal or aver
age rate with digestion not going on.
Thus the body adjusts itself to the
amount of food eaten, increasing
the rate of weight loss in proportion
to the amount of food eaten.
The above experiment shows that
when a heavy meal is eaten al
though the rate of weight loss is
greatly increased, nevertheless five
hours after heavy meal is eaten
the rate of weight loss is still per
cent above the basal rate, that is
the rate of decrease when no food
is being digested.
Evening star., 1936-03-05
Humans animals, McCarlHolds,
Allo,ving $3.50 for Experiments

pense will be $3.50 day and examina-
ton of blood and other matter will
cost 81 day.
It was stipulated that the total cost
shall not exceed $3.50 and the Secre-
tary asked if the regular departmental
appropriation would be available.
Said McCarl: Reimbursement for
services and supplies as may be neces-
sary from time to time in the care
and handling of experimental ami
mails is specifically authorized under
the appropriation quoted.
"The use OF humans in lieu of ami
mails in the experiments and investi-
cations required by the law, reported
to be essential for the completion Of
the experiments is proposed on a non
personal service basis on substantially
the same basis as for the care of the
animals, that is, board, room and
laboratory examinations.
mo payment of salary is proposed
and there is no privity between the
Government and the human subjects
selected. This does not constitute
the employment of personal services
and Is not Objectionable for the rea-
sons stated in the decision you cite
involving the temporary employment
Of person to have her hair dyed with
an advertised solution and Of an
operator to apply the treatment, or
the decision cited therein involving
the employment Of persons for use in
the TRANSMISSION Of blood"
Evening star., 1936-03-05
SENATE RATIFIES
Leave BILL REPORT
Only House Action Needed to
Send Measure to White
House.

The Government employe leave bill
advanced another step toward enact
ment this afternoon when the Senate
ratified the conference report.
Action was taken unanimously and
without debate when the question was
called up by Chairman Bulow of the
Civil Service Committee. The House
probably will act on the agreement
later today or tomorrow, and the bills
will then be ready for presidential
signature.
One bill increases annual leave from
Is days to 26 days, exclusive Of Sun
days and holidays, with a limit of 60
days on the accumulation of unused
annual leave. ...
While the other bill reduces sick
leave from 80 to Is days a year, it
applies this kind of leave more uni
formly throughout the service, and
permits unused sick leave to be acu-
mulated up to 80 days. Authority also
is given department heads to advance
30 days, in addition to accrued leave in
cases of serious illness.
Both the bills will take effect as Of
last January l, under the conference
agreement, instead of the Senate pro-
posal to wait until July /.
Although the granting of additional
leave for overtime work has been elm
mated, the Civil Service Commission
is directed to keep record of the
amount Of overtime from July to the
end Of this calendar year, so the next
Congress will know the extent Of over
time and give further consideration
to 1t.
Evening star., 1936-03-05

Human beings can be rated as ami
mails for experimental purposes, Con-
troller General McCarl told the Secre-
tary of Agriculture today in decision
in which he put his o. K. on an ex-
penditure estimated at $3.50 for han
ding the two-legged guinea pigs" at
the Stanford University Hospital. The
Agriculture Secretary had feared that
the proposal might run afoul of a pre-
vious decision by McCarl laying down
barriers against payment for hair dye
tests and blood transfusions, but the
controller general said these were diff
ferent
In asking for the money the depart
ment explained that the Bureau of
Chemistry and Soils has been cooper
ating since 1882 with the pharmacology
department of the School of Medicine
Of Stanford, in San Francisco, in
conducting Genealogical and pharma-
cological research on foods, seeds, in
secticidal and fungicidal materials and
special chemical constituents derived
from plant and other material. In
these, animals have been used, with
remarkable results" it was added.
Now, it was explained, ''it Is highly
desirable to test certain Of the insecti-
cides to human subjects" The only
satisfactory means, it was continued,
to do this Is to put some patients in the
university hospital. where q satisfac-
tory and adequate control can be
maintained. The disqualification sx-
Evening star., 1936-03-05
EXPERTS SUBMIT
PLANS FOR Z BIG
ADDITIONAL LEV|ES
$446, 100000 Income anG
100000 Farm
Taxes Proposed.
MERE SUGGESTIONS
BY ADMINISTRATION
Chairman Hill Says Treasury and
Agriculture Suggestions
Were Desired.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Administration experts submitted to
a House Ways and Means Subcommit-
tee today suggestions for raising up to
SAG, 100000 additional revenue from
income taxes and S221,0000 900 an
nually from farm processing taxes.
Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Demo-
crat, of Washington, emphasized to
reporters that the figures and sched-
ules were mere suggestions for pos
sible sources of revenue submitted to
the subcommittee because it wants
complete information on all methods
of obtaining money to meet President
Roosevelt's tax proposals.
The income tax material came from
Treasury experts, while Agriculture
Department officials supplied the
processing tax estimates.
The Treasury experts, Hill said, also
turned in figures to show how ! per
cent general manufacturers excise
tax would bring in around $3.50, 900 ,00s
year, while S per cent tax would
yield about 100000.
Application Limited
Hill said the proposed excise levies
would not apply to liquor and tobacco,
already taxed, nor to food, clothing
and medicine. The present yield from
excise taxes, he said, is about $780,
100000.
In the income tax field, he said. it
was estimated S45, 900 900 would come
in should the exemption of a single
man be lowered from $1,000 to $500
and that of married person from
S2,5o0 to $4,000
Leaving exemptions as they are
now, he said, and at the same time
boosting the normal tax from 4 to
per cent. would add an estimated
$121 ZOO, 900 to the Governments an
nual receipts.
BY lowering exemptions on surtaxes
from $4,000 to $4,000, Hill asserted,
and sharply increasing the rates in
income brackets up to 100000, the
Treasury would get an extra 1926, ,000.-
600 annually.
(The normal tax as individual In
CUttic kIOW ID = pei CC1lt, tAiC SAA AtoA
starts at per cent and increases to
rs per cent on incomes Of $5,000,000
and over)
"A combination of all these possi-
bilities if all income taxes would raise
S446, 6,0O0,o 900 additional he said.
Farm Products Listed.
Submitted by the Agriculture De-
partment were proposed taxes on some
80 farm products and competing prod
ucts, or subdivisions of products. Some
eight or nine commodities and prod
ucts were subject to the invalidated
processing taxes.
Included in the new list were wheat.
rye, fiaXseed, hemp seed oil, perilla
oil, barley, oats, corn. hogs, cattle and
calves, sheep and lambs, paper bags,
open mesh paper. rice, peanuts, sugar,
(See TAXES, Page A.