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years In winch grad
ually to cut loose from
US, because, should
the Democratic outfit
win in November, by
the end of those four
years the Puerto Ri
cans will be used to
having some indie
pendence and Wen be
used to having none
at all. As a Demo-
cratic champion, I'd
come right back by
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Washed Up
Family Album

George-Are you ready to live on
my income, dear?
Maud-Certainly dearest, if
George-If what?
Maud-If you can get another one
for yourself-Pearson's Weekly.
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Use of TRACING P.ner

Tracing paper was used as early as
144O. The following quotation is taken
from Murray's English Dictionary:
"144O-Tracynge or drauyDge for to
make an ymage or an other thynge."
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Stole The Show

Harold-Did you hear the big news?
Gerald-Spill it!
Harold-My dog visited a flea circus
and stole the show.
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Private Preserves

Pluto-What were the two luckiest
fieas that ever lived?
Boss-I give up.
Pluto-The pair on the Ark. They
each had dog.-Out Paper.
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since Puerto Rico would starye to
death anyhow under a Republican ad-
ministration, congress mercifully was
taking steps to let the people down
there get accustomed, by degrees, to
the starvation process.
As an innocent bystander, though,
about all 1 can say is that, once the
nominations have been made, it's a
safe prediction that this summer will
be fair and warmer.
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Wandering Revenue Program.

THE members of the senate finance
= cOmmittee-poOr things seem TO
be going forward with the new rev.
enue program the same way a land
crab makes headway-by travelling
backward. At last accounts they were
so snarled up in figures and language
that any minute the rescue party was
expected to rush in with bush-hOoks
and chop them loose.
However, out of the epileptic seizure
into which these unfortunate patriots
have been enmeshed, one concrete fact
has emerged. There will be a slight
exemption of dues on the profits of
corporations making less than $4,000
q year. This will be a great boon for
trunk stores down by the depot, brok-
erage firms handling secondhand rail-
road tunnels and dealers in Brazilian
butterflies.
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New Socialist Argument


= that, no matter what you start to
debate, you always wind up on the
Tom Mooney case. Or at least, such
was the situation until recently. Now,
for any sOcialistic argument on any
subject from German measles TO the
Great Wall of China, there is a new
climax.
The tenants of a Bronx apartment
house, mostly radicals, held a melting,
and, in accordance with the best rad
zeal traditions, drew up resolutions de-
handing that the management do this
and that. Having read the fiery pro-
test, the superintendent addressed the
gathering:
Now aboudt not Iedding nobody
hang out washing in the Railways
that's reasonable. start beginning
that reform right away.
'Und as to keeping CARRIAGES off the
front fire escape-vell, w nodt?
But, say, vot do you suckers TX
pect me do aboudt the ScottsbOro boys?"
Sauce for the Goose.
MAYHEM a bricklayer feels upset and
w ticks his wife that's temper and
he gets $50 or 80 days. But when a
flicker star goes on a similar tantrum
and wrecks an expensive set, that's
artistic temperament and the studio
gives her some silver fox furs to calm
her nerves.
Thus it goes. If a couple in, say,
Peoria, break up, why, then, a couple
in Peoria have broken up. But if the
same thing occurs in Hollywood, it in
variably is featured as ''nuptiaI rift
A lad in Kansas takes his girl to Ye
Olde New Era eatery for dinner, and
what with the blue plate specials and
the tip, the transaction amounts to
S1.SO, but otherwise creates no special
excitement either locally or through
out the nation. Let the same thing
happen to a couple of the least con-
spicuOus of the movie colony, and
20 columnists fight their way to the
wire to scatter the thrilling tidings.
Choosing a New "Buddha."
L'IsOM the IOfUluueU Kingdom or
L Tibet - although goodness knows
they never had any trouble keeping
me out-comes word that after a two
years search new living Buddha"
has been discovered. However, we
already have our own grand hammer,
the name being Joe Louis.
The news from Lhasa should give
encouragement to the poor unhappy
congressional committeeman who are
prominently connected with the Town
send plan who'll condescend to talk
to them.
You may quarrel with the Town
sendites' bookkeeping, with their way
of handling the contributed dimes OF
thousands of trusting oldsters, with
their failure to explain where they're
going to get the billions to pay those
gaudy pensions or how the provisions
of the distribution are to be enforced.
but at least the leaders are too proud
to endanger their social positions by
being caught chit-chatting with a lot
of congressman.
IRWIN S. COBB
Copyright.-wNU Service.
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A year or more ago, the British sent
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross of the Brit
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Willy
japanese


enforce tariff duties rigidly against ev-
eryone except themselves. Stories COM
ing out of North China through diplo-
matte channels as well as from COM
mercial interests tell of vast smuggling
operations by the japanese. In other
words, the Japanese have proceeded to
find scores of landing places on Chi
nese soil where they neglected to place
customs houses. The net result is, of
course, that the Chinese are being sup
piled with Japanese goods without the
payment of a tariff whereas all other
imports from foreign shores must carry
the tariff load.
1t seems, then, that while we cannot
know at this time whether the Jap
anese win attempt further military
movements in North China, it certain
ly can be said unequivocaIly that the
open door for China foreign trade is
at stake in this conflict. Most author
tiles on foreign affairs with whom I
have talked tell me that there is little
hope to prevent Japanese political SUI
premacy in China. They cannot move
northward because in that direction
they butt their heads against the Soviet
Russian frontier. The Soviet is armed
to the teeth ON the border of ManehH-
kuo. but to the south and in the area
known as North China, no present
Smyrna times., 1936-05-14
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told By L. L. Stevenson in
His Own Immical Way
of DOings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

Ramblings and ruminations: The
chapter of pneumatic riveter
at Forty-fifth and Broadway /.
Crowds of idly curious watching
the steel workers. Hope there
are a lot of steam shovels this sum-
mer. /. They are one of my IA
vorite excuses for loafing. Also
pneumatic is a hard word for
me to typewrite. :. The m and
the "e" want to change places :.
and usually succeed. Unless
watch them. Which interferes
with the workings of the subcon-
Scious mind and slows up pro-
duction. Charles Francis Coe,
who writes about crime and
who is president of the Lotus club.
Nina Wilcox Putnam leading
her dog along Lexington avenue.
-. Thought I glimpsed Kathleen
Norris on Fifth avenue. Maybe
l was mistaken. At any rate,
she returned recently from world
tour.
India house, a bit of the far
away in Hanover square. +. With
its maritime membership and
quaint high ceilings. Currie
lovers make frequent visits there.
Il. The dingy piers of the East
river. Little boats that prowl
along the coast of South Amer
lea :. and call at ports known by
few tourists. The trim ships
that ply the Caribbean. Last
night, / dreamed twice I was on
Spanish Main cruise. But
couldn't make 1t the third time. s.
Still, can look at the ships /. and
at those who are sailing. A
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white yacht swiftly passing down
the murky streams. Seems a bit
strange at this time of the year. /.
The clutter of the Brooklyn Navy
yard .. and the dingy section that
surrounds it. Sailors looking
at the river with their hands in the
pockets of their refers and
their throats exposed to the breezes.
Hugh Baillie, president of the
United Press. Who has just re-
turned from Europe When l
first knew him, he was on the
city desk in the New York bureau.
=. Billy Burke and her daughter
Patricia who are back from Holly
wood. III. A red-faced, mustached
woman, berating a wisp of man.
:. He smiles as she rants and
a policeman friend informs me that
he's stone deaf. College boys,
each with a vision of loveliness on
his arm, invading a cocktail lounge
Marjorie Elizabeth Barlow,
one of the prettiest and most sought
after debs. Who will take up
the study of nursing. Not as a
career but because she believes
such knowledge is valuable.
Quail. pheasants, venison, wild
turkey, Scotch grouse and bear meat
available at the swanky places. ;.
Quail here don't taste like they
used to. :. When father shot them
and mother cooked them to
to the realms of nicely, as Ned
would say. ;. Delicious oblongs of
brown on tasty toast. :. But pick
ing them was something else again.
=. Wonder If there are still corn
salve peddlers? :. Stanley Walker,
who has taken up an abode at the
Algonquin. Billy Walsh, the old
circus man who recalls the
days of the high pitch :. and the
short change artist :. Ted Dona-
hue, who recently celebrated his
tenth anniversary as an orchestra
conductor and who has 13 or
chestras playing here and abroad.
Hamilton Knowles, custodian of
cephalopods at the Aquarium.
His pet octopus, Bozo. has made
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Smyrna High
School .ACtil,itieS
Contributed Articles By Pupils Covering Literary
Efforts, Sports, and News of School Interest

laments, a restless COW lows with
a dismal note, and in the distance
there is the muffled note of a train
whistle. which seems to wall, as
the train itself rushes through
space. The cry of owls seems to
make sleep impossible.
In the town, there is the con-
lstant hum of cars hurrying along
the road, and a lonesome dog an
swering the bark of another in the
distance. Suddenly there is a cat
fight, which sounds as though the
contestants were ready to murder
each other, and which stops as
suddenly and as unexpectedly as it
began.
In the city however, the night is
filled with noises, especially if it is
a warm one in the summer. Emp
ty trolleys run back and forth con-
tinually, the scream of a fire siren
can be heard in the distance, and
heavy trucks rumble through the
streets. The voices of people in a
neighboring apartment house are
heard, the blast of the radio, the
cool sound of ice in many glasses.
Here also the noise of high-power-
ed cars, and also the feet of peo-
pie going to their homes after an
evening of laughter and gayety.
An ambulance rushes down the
street, its siren clearing the way,
and the house vibrates as a sub
way train passes underneath.
Whether in the country or
or many noises, sleep will not
come to one striving so hard to at
tain it.
Marianne Webb
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Lake "Shanty Town" Has
Hundreds of Residents

MI. Clemens Shanty-Town," " the
mushroom city on the ice of Lake
St Clair, Michigan, is growing Il
population by leaps and bounds.
This city of ice fishermen Ioc.tad
principally just south of the Gin.
ton river mouth, back in the small
bays, is probably the most popular
of fishing shanty colonies on Lake
st. Clair.
"Shanty Town" not only has hun.
dreds of residents, but a restau-
rant operated by an enterDrisiny
boat livery proprietor.
The colony is also fntersnersad
with hundreds Of "transientsr-f
ermen who have no shanties hnt
who crack holes in the ice and do
pend on their tip-ups.
To the casual observer who has
never tried it, ice fishing doesn't an.
pear at all enticing. But converts
to the sport prefer it to ordinary
fishing in warm weather. To tbe
casual observer, the men with tba
tip-upS are miserable when the wind
blows an icy blast. But the man
with the tip-ups is having the time
of his life. He needs not the cold
wind, his cold and wet feet. nor tbe
fact that fishing isn't so good.
The man in the shanty is lit
tie better off. With some sort oF a
heater, kerosene, coal or wood stovo
ne sits In the dark in comfort,
watching for hours and boprs
through the hole in the ice his snaor
in readiness.
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Garden Time

Garden time has rolled around
again, bringing with it the age old
longing of the individual to "get
back to nature" and to dig the
earth and plant seeds. This in
ward urge is very queer thing
yet, If it were not for this there
would probably be no spring gar
dens except for those who make it
their life's work.
When the first signs of spring
arrive, we Immediately think that
summer is just around the corner
and that winter has disappeared.
Well, we are sometimes sadly mis-
taken and we are often rewarded
for our love of nature by menacing
colds and that ever intruding hay
fever.
When summer comes we are
glad, for all of the hard work, that
we endured the trouble and hard
ships for gardens are a great ad-
vantage. They afford us fresh
vegetables and flowers at the time
when if brought in the market,
they would be very expensive. BY
having our own flowers we can
make someone else happy by oc-
casional bouquets. Gardens are
not only useful for this pleasure
but they are also a means of
bringing in some spending money
which comes in very handy. There
fore, let us all be really industri-
Gus and have garden of our own
this year.
Flo Hollett
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Train Wreck Is Caused
by Bell of Locomotive

Columbus. OhiO.-The bell of an
engine caused train wreck in the
freight yards here, when the bell
of a Chesapeake & Ohio freight en-
CINE worked loose and fell beneath
the wheels of the train.
The engine cleared the falling
metal but it caught in the wheels
of the freight cars and three were
derailed. 1t is the first such acct
dent in memory of local railroad
officials.
Engine bells on the c. & o. pow
er units are located on the front
of the engine.
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The Talking Billy

One day while was out in my
lot playing, a man drove up in a
five-ton truck and after talking a
long while to my owner, came up
and patted me on the back. Later
he put me into the back of the
truck where there was a great
deal of straw. We rode on for an
hour or so. Then we came to the
outskirts of a city where I was un-
loaded into pen with another
goat.
About four days after that, a
great big fat colored man came in
and got me. He led me out to a
large field, covered with beautiful
grass and shaded with large maple
trees. There 1 was made to walk
a rope for the longest while. Then
they took me back into the pen.
"Oh!" I told by mate, this has
been the most deadful day. They
made me walk a rope. That color
ed man came near making me
break my neck. You ought to
hear him speak to me-"
Dat amt nary way to walk a
rope" he says.
Then as was listening to some
more of his commands, 1 fell and
1 believe I broke my ankle. 1t
surely does hurt"
That's the way they do" re-
piled the other goat.
Louise Nabb
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Chinese Remember
College Rah-Rabs

Nanking.-The great impress
sion which American university
life has made On the Chinese ma
tional government was well H.
lustrated at the annual meeting
of the American University club
at Nanking. Six hundred grad
yates Of colleges and universi-
ties in the United States attend
ed the function, the vast major
ity being Chinese. Practically all
are officials Of the government
American college yells and
songs showed they had not for
gotten their student life.
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Thoughts From Behind

Have you ever sat and wondered
lust how a certain person combed
her hair, when you were supposed
to be listening to a lecture or a
classroom discussion? have
seen chiffeurs in which it seemed
that all the hair was tucked inside
Just how, 1 couldn't imagine.
You might watch a tiny insect
exploring on classmates back
so confused and lost that it is
doubtful if he will ever find his
way.
Again. you might study crack
in the wall, seeing all sorts of
monsters outlined.
There are so many more inter
esting things to do than enter into
discussion.
Marie Heinold
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Sounds of the Night

Sieeples nights-everyone has
known them. Lying restlessly in
bed, unable to sleep at all, one no
tices the various sounds of the
night-sounds that are never heard
in the daytime.
In the country, the land seems
to be sleeping peacefully, but there
10 constantly the sound Of tiny in
sects which seem never to rest.
Frogs are heard with their hoarse
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The Early Bird

i was bicycling down the board
walk at the adolescent hour of six
in the morning. / was pedaling
very slowly for it was a morning
to be noticed The sky was a
heavenly color of blue. The ocean
was a pirates chest of jewels gilt
tering in the early morning sun. I
thought myself alone in the glory
of the world; was wrong. As l
rode slowly along on my bicycle, I
observed a figure in the distance.
AS I neared it, 1 saw a short, ar
Systematically plump man standing
on the piling doing sitting-up exer-
cises. His was a figure to see
Clad only in bathing trunks, he Of
fered anything but youthful
form. How he maintained his po-
sition on the piling I shall never
know, for 1 pedaled past him at an
increased speed, chuckling low in
my throat.
Riding on, I soon discovered that
many people did queer things in
the early morning. I still laugh
when I think of it, 1 saw a man
in his prime ambling down the
beach in his pajamas, towel
slung over his shoulder, and bull
dog barking at his heels. I could
never describe those pajamas;
words are not descriptive enough.
There were at least six colors;
each color fighting to divorce the
other.
BY the time reached Longport
Pier, / was thoroughly exhausted
i leaned my bike against the rail
and sat down on bench to rest.
1 hadn't been sitting there long
when I saw a young man in a
chauffeur's uniform riding up on
the boardwalk from the street on
a bicycle. Following him on foot
was a female of something above
fifty years. She was wearing red
shorts and red and white bather.
I became interested. Not far
1AOlll WA1NlG Sdlf LllC SOl O1l
the bike; the woman got on while
the young chauffeur held the bike
for her. Then she began to pedal
very, very slowly with the chauf-
feur at her side. Having gone ten
feet, she decided to turn around.
Ten feet back, she turn around
again. The chauffeur was hold
ing the bike at safe position all
the time. Ten feet forward she
turned around. Ten feet back.
Feeling rather silly. 1 mounted
my bike and rode away, desperate
iy wondering what queer things
would do in the early morning
when 1 reached the safe" fifties.
Dorothy Handloff.
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Lightning Damages Ds,

During the electilc !,
day afternoon, at Dos.
struck the home ii
Hales on BradtOli !.
damage was done ez.z
chimney.
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Il am not only a w1
militant pacifst. Iul
fight for peace -AlAz
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Latin Grammar School

The Latin Grammar School be-
gan in Massachusetts, in 1885. This
was the first school to be estab-
lished in America. 1647 the Leg
islature of Massachusetts, passed a
law compelling every town of a
certain size to partly support a
school. These schools were public
in town ways. They were partly
supported by the people and every
one could enroll that cared to.
There is a great difference be-
tween to7day's schools and those
then. The school day began at
seven o'clock and closed at dark.
during this period the children
studied and recited Greek and
Latin. There was period of two
hours for lunch. The benches
were crude and uncomfortable.
Only two subjects were taught,
Greek and Latin. The purposes of
the school was to train boys for
the ministry, then the powerful
class of people, and for college. At
that time Harvard was the only
college. For entrance a boy must
be able to read, recite, write Latin
and Greek poetry.
Because of the great change in
the class of people and their needs
the Latin grammar school began
to decline and by 1880 only a very
few were in existence.
The Latin grammar school had
many, many faults, but it did sew
eral important things. 1t helped
to make education valuable and
necessary to the people; it kept
the idea of teaching important un-
til it is now a profession, and was
the beginning of our great system
of public schools in America.
Some Newspapers Do More Harm
Than Good
Do you ever form your opinion
on what the newspapers report
This is certainly very bad policy
although practiced by many peo-
pie.
Newspapers usually aim to have
a dazzling headline to catch the
peoples interest but care little
about its truth. They tell of hor-
rible crimes and make public the
smallest scandals. This is not
good reading. yet people enjoy it
more than good book. and would
not do without it. In times of war
especially the newspapers do more
(Continusd On Page Ssvsul
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Ethiopians' Source of Religion
The Ethiopians are said to have
derived their religion and civiliza
tion from the Egyptians.
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like n1s that-s5s5pst ta,5 pst,s5ts| u,
tangiblem tal
Sight. N'iaine h
But But are not wis.,.
| asked in reply. J,
tPa spiritual as resl. j, y
'na1 1l.t the physieail,S' ! y
Of Beethoven !: is's't@
from a natsri,rln,3s. y
"Hat Is it2 "
ssnsl Scientifically arraas.+ ~
But the creation, !.
are more than tbat. n
Out Of that seris,
melodies and barmo,.. ,''. Z
to them, there sesp'
intangible sometime
me, and thrills me, q.
away into the resln. !,
What what is it? suleIT n
sounds, mechanicsIi,
scientifically arrsas.i
that. But it is tsa :.
o. music, that Ike j
angeI snatches me III,
drabness Of life and ].
INTO 2, the delightful nj
This soul Of muse
the mind, is as real i
chanical vibration tt,t
ear In fact it is rm
vibration has lasted M
ment, but the soul d
tlnues to live. IN 81,
spired Beethoven. NJ
the listeners, inspirns
ward larger efforts ii
morrow it will linga
ory. helping to maxi a,
day.
And 50 it is that IN
chanics of life there u
visible and the ints,s8
no less real "sometst
called the spintusl
realm are seen Hsu
which realm is hea,i !
God speaking to The d
Thank God for the Vi
spiritual!
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NEWS PICTURES OF THE vi

BROTHER CATCH
ERS-George Dickey,
of the Red Sox, and
Bill Dickey of the
Yankees
Smyrna times., 1936-05-14

Gentle and white-haired Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey of For
sythe, No., visitor in New York,
because in a magazine contest size
was adjudged the best rural corre-
spondent in the country, told of how
when she first began writing A
years ago, she recorded the birth Of
a little girl. AS that little girl grew
up, her parties were described by
Mrs. Mahnkey. Then came her mar
riage and the birth Of her children.
Recently, Mrs. Mahnkey completed
the record-the obituary of the
woman of whose birth she had writ
ten. Few, If any, metropolitan re
porters have such an experience.
@ Bell syndicate.-wNU Service.
Smyrna times., 1936-05-14
DIVA ENJOYS

DIVA ENJOYS
SUNBATHING -
Lily Pons. lovely
coIoratura Of op-
era, radio and
screen, has been
singing a series
of performances
at the Monte Car
10 Opera, only 8
fe W miles from
her birthp a ce;
and was enter e
tained by Prince
Louis ii Of Mon
AGO an d King
stave v OF
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such hit that he's figuring on put
ting a half dozen more on ex-
hibition. /. Bozo can blush vari-
ETY. of colors. including green. 4.
He's now so tame he doesn't squirt
ink. Bozo attained fame by
living in captivity. Which oc-
topi seldom do.
Looking out from the living room
window-we're IA floors up-we
gaze across the roofs of nearby ten
ements over to another taller than
its neighbor. It's a great rookery
with long rows of windows, some
curtained and some merely with
blinds. We get occasional glimpses
of tenement home life. But 1 like
nighttime best. Then. with vari-
Gus windows glowing, with the red
light of Riverside church far in the
background and with dim outlines
of water tanks impinged against
the skies. it's like a theater back
drop. But it's more like the New
York I visioned before becoming
one of The Seven Million.
Bus top eavesdropping: "She
opened with a psychic spade bid
and he took her to six no trump
and now she's talking about a d.
vOrce."