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Foreign Words
und Phruses

Pro patria. (L.) For native land.
Sui generis. N.) Forming a
kind by itself; unique.
A propos de bottes. CD Apro-
pos of nothing, by the way, to
change the subject.
Mala fide. N.) In bad faith.
Pts aller. CD Last shift; end
of resources; a last resource.
Sesquipedalia verba. (L.) Words
a foot and a half long.
Taedium vitae. I.) WEAKNESS
of life.
Usus 1oquendi. N.) Usage in
speaking.
VOLTA! CD There! There 1t is!
See there!
Modus vevendi. (L.) A method
of living; a compromise agree
ment between two or more dis
putants, to secure at least tenn
porary harmony.
y a Roma por todo. (Sp.) And
to Rome for everything.
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Americas First Presidents

A LTHOUGH George Washington
4 4 was the father of our country,
he was not, as is often mistakenly
assumed, the first President of the
United States. That honor goes to
an obscure man most of us have
never even heard of-Thomas Nc
Kean.
Our present Constitution did not
60 into effect until March 4, 1889.
Washington was the first President
under its provisions, and served un-
til his voluntary retirement in 1877.
But before that time our country,
such as it then was, had been held
together by the Articles of Confed-
Grafton.
On September S, 1774, delegates
from twelve states Georgia was
not represented at the first con-
gress) met in Philadelphia and or
ganized what has since been called
the Continental congress. It's pur-
pose was to organize the colonies in
to a federation for united action
against their common enemy, Eng.
land.
The Continental congress met ir-
regularly until March 2, i789. It's
most important single act was draw
ing up and adopting, on July 4, 1776,
the Declaration of independence,
written largely by Thomas Jeffer-
son.
The delegate in charge at the
meetings carried the title and signed
papers as ''The President of the
United States" Thomas Mexican
was the first man to be elected to
that post. Altogether, there were
eight different men who held the
office, in addition to John Hancock
who was elected but declined to
serve.
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Uncle MiA
Says: ~
Which Is Reciprocafion

Which Is Reciprocafion
A dog loves his master because
his master treats him well; and
his master treats him well be-
cause the dog loves him.
One who complains that he
"never had a chance" probably
likes his rut.
isis always winds papa
around her finger; and bud"
easily sways his mother.
Duty Toward Youth
What man of sixty needs is
not "pep," but common sense
enough to direct the younger men
who have the pep.
A man who whistles may not
be happy, but it is the finest way
in the world to fool trouble.
If you don't want to wreck
man, let him have some belief in
his own way of doing things, even
when you think there are better
ways.
Course Of Criminalify
An old, old saying which shows
the development of the germ Of
criminality: First a turnip, then
a sheep, next cow, then the
gallows.
An unhappy manifestation OF
moneyed inequality is seen when
a poor man snubs his newly rich
friend for fear his friend will be-
come "patronizing."
Perhaps the human heart is al
ways seeking happiness. Yet the
anniversaries it longest remem-
bers are the sad ones.
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Training Camps
of Other Seasons
Leave Memories

TRAINING camp memories:
The small town Chamber OF
Commerce orator whose ears PROB
ably are burning still. Because-at
dinner given in honor Of the Gil
ants-he referred to their manager
as ''the man very properly known
to all the world as Muggsy."
The second, and even better, out
burst several training seasons later.
When John McGraw discovered that
former star, now no longer with
the club, had inspired the orator to
use the hated name. The year
when Shanty Hogan reported thirty
or forty pounds overweight and i'm
mediately was sentenced to hard la
Dor and a diet containing no starchy
foods. The Irish eloquence which
Shanty used to persuade mattresses
to bring him large orders of mashed
potatoes and mark it on the check
always inspected by McGraw - as
"Spinach."
Playing golf with Eddie Brannick.
Wondering how guy who could not
putt and who continually drove in
the rough whenever he managed to
get the ball off the tee was manag-
ing to get pars on those far-flung
San Antonio courses. The belated
discovery that the tall grass was
the Giants secretary's best friend.
Whenever he got into it he picked
up the ball, wound up and hurled
it onto the green. Listening to
Hughie Critz tell about the annual
spring floods in his native Missis-
sippi. And about the cabin which
came floating by on the crest OF
the waters one day. While inside
the cabin a screechy photograph
kept playing River, Stay Away
From My Door"
Babe Ruth's courteous co-opera-
ton with the press during long
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NOT IN THE BOX SCORE:

NIEIGHBORS insist that Bill Nc
1N .Kechnie is tired of managing
the Boston Bees and would like to
be elected tax collector in wilkins
burg, Pa. Bill, by the way, ran
for the job years ago and missed. /.
Joe Louis best baseball hero is
Gerald Walker, Mississippi's dele
gate to the Detroit Tigers. Eddie
Mayo, the infielder traded to Bos-
ton by the Giants last fall, runs
milk route in his Clifton, N. j.,
home town. One of the best
three-game scores ever turned In
by any bowler anywhere was
achieved by frankie Ratchford, a
Laekawanna railroad blacksmith,
two years ago. He totaled 854 pins.
Walter E. O'Hara, head man at
the place, shortly will announce
that, henceforth all unclaimed wa
gers at Narragansett Park will be
turned over to charity. That is con-
trary to the custom at most tracks,
where charity begins, and ends, in
dividends or famingoes. =. In spite
of strong rumors that Branch
Hickey is the heir apparent to Judge
Lands $4,000 throne, friends of the
Cardinal v. P. insist that he would
spurn the job. They do say, though,
he is mighty anxious to grab that
Brooklyn club. But please don't
write in to say that recent trades
make it look like he already has it
AS a st. Louis farm.
Six North Carolina State football
players are reported by the Wash
ington and Lee student paper to
have gone on strike-because they
were not sufficiently remunerated
for their gridiron services. George
Engle, who managed Frank Klaus
and Harry Greb to middleweight
championships, is writing a flock Of
entertaining boxing "reminiscences
for Pittsburgh paper. The ge-
NAL Jack Schaefer has been elected
president of the American Profess
sional Football league.
Bun Cook, who started the season
as regular left wing for Boston, was
denoted in a recent shakeup of the
Bruin forwards. He became the
fifteenth, or odd, man. Anyhow, Art
Ross, who is planning to convert
Defense Man Flash Hollet into a
forward, will not farm Bun to Provi-
dence. Just doesn't believe the
former Ranger would have much
interest in performing in the mi
nors. Joe Minsavage, Syracuse
end who will be graduated in June,
recently had an operation per-
formed on a gridiron-damaged nose.
The result is that a Grecian model
has replaced his well-known semi
flattened schnoZzola. Jockey
Wayne Wright is southpaw, which
probably accounts for a lot of
things. While seeking replace
ment for Roy Worters at goal Red
Dutton would make no mistake in
peeping at Mike Brimsek of the
Pittsburgh amateur hockey Yellow
Jackets.
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all belligerents. The long-reigning
group still is In control and the
ambitious rivals are in no danger of
starving. Mickey Walker, his
brother Joe, and John Hall staged
swell show for the Red Cross in
the Elizabeth, N. j., armory. An
other occasion when a hometown
boy made good. John McGraw
had a standing offer of $500 to any
Giant who could get Moose McCor-
mick, greatest of pinch-hitters and
now a successful insurance man, to
take a drink.
Sueo Ohe, the Japanese pole
vaulter, uses a pole only 1914 feet
long to vault IA feet inches. But
before taking off he measures the
distance with a 15-foot pole. Earl
Meadows, the Olympic pole-vault
champion, fiutters his wrists in the
concert-pianist manner few times
before his own takeoffs. Does it
to stimulate his blood and strength
en- his wrists, he says. Vic Rip
ley, a wiry 155-pounder when he
left the Rangers three years ago,
now totes 1872 pounds around with
him on the New Haven ice. Char
lie Muldaur, former Princeton quar-
terback and baseball captain, is do
ing a swell job for a sports mag
aZine.
Athletes perturbed over after-din-
ner speeches or literary chores
should be pleased to note that the
N. Y. classified telephone directory
lists two firms under the heading
"Ghost Writer'S" y. The first game
the Giants lose during the coming
season will be number 5000 for them.
They have won 1892 and thus have
an average of .567 since entering
the league in 1883. The way to
tell whether hockey players really
are in earnest during those ice
fights is to note whether they take
off their gloves. You can't form
proper fist with the gloves on. :.
Now if anybody could find some
accurate way Of proving when
prizefighters are bearing down ev-
erything would be oke.
Bill McKechnie, Bee manager,
and Lena Blackburne, AS coach,
are the only two survivors of the
old Federal league in the majors
today. st Mary's college finan-
cial statement for 1886 is said to
have included this notation: Base
ball expenses, $2.65. Georges
Mantha, Canadien forward, scored
four goals and an assist against the
Blackhawks one night this season
but fell one short of "Pit'' Lepine's
FIVE goals and an assist against OF
tawa in 1929 which stands as
record ;. Jean Cubuc, manager
of the Providence team in the In
ternational American H o k ey
league, is the same Jean Dubvc
who starred as a pitcher for the
Tigers and Giants Is years ago.
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Keeping Up
WNiIlRSeien{e V
&Se1"%S2e S2er4e
Spanish Explorers
Saw a Great Flood
on the Mississippi
Vividly Described by
Garcilaso de la Vega

Washington. - Great floods
on Americas great rivers are
no new thing under the sun.
They are recorded by the earli-
est Spanish explorers, who
found that the Indians had
adapted themselves to the flood
problem by building great
mounds as artificial hills of ref
uge for emergencies.
The chronicle of the expedition of
fernando de Soto, who discovered
the Mississippi, tells of terrific
flood on the lower river, near Mem
phis, which lasted from mid-March
until the end of May, in the year
1543. De Soto and his men had
landed at Tampa Bay, Fla, trav-
ersed the states of Florida, Geor-
gia, the Carolinas, and Alabama.
Then they discovered and crossed
the Mississippi, which De Soto
called the Great river. After ex-
ploring Arkansas and Louisiana, the
Spaniards again came back to the
Great river, where their leader fell
sick and died and was buried in its
waters so that hostile Indians might
not find and dishonor his body.
Described by De La Vega.
It was during their sojourn on the
river that they were given the first
view of a Mississippi flood that
white mems eyes had ever beheld.
Here is how the chronicler, Gar
cilaso de la Vega, was impressed:
"Then God, our Lord, hindered
the work with mighty flood of the
Great river, which, at that time
about the eighth or tenth of March
began to come down with an enor-
NOUS increase of water; which in
the beginning overflowed the wide
level ground between the river and
the cliffs; then little by little it rose
to the top of the cliffs. Soon it
began to flow over the fields in an
immense flood, and as the land was
level without any hills there was
nothing to stop the inundation.
'On the eighteenth Of March of
1543, which that year was Palm
Sunday, when the Spaniards were
marching in procession the river en-
tered with ferocity through the
gates of the town of Aminoya, and
two days later they were unable to
go through the streets except in ca
noes.
Beautiful to Look Upon.
''The flood was 40 days in reach
ing its greatest height, which was
the twentieth of April, and it was a
beautiful thing to look upon the
sea where there had been fields,
for on each side of the river the
water extended over 20 leagues of
land and all of this area was navi-
gated by canoes, and nothing was
seen but the tops of the tallest
trees.
"On account of these foundations
of the river the people build their
houses on the high land, and where
there is none, they raise mounds
by hand, especially for the houses
of the chiefs; the houses are con-
structed three or four stages above
the ground, on thick posts that serve
as uprights and between uprights
they lay beams for the floors, and
above these floors which are OF
wood, they make the roof, with gal
leries around the four sides of the
house where they store their food
and other supplies, and here they
take refuge from the great floods. "
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reporters whispered to him.
Promptly thereafter at the end of
the seventh inning Ruth started
signing autographs for fans who had
overfiowed the outfield. Naturally
that brought the rest of the fans
out of the grand stand on the run.
Just as naturally it broke up the
ball game and assured practically
everybody, save the Babe and the
fans, an early dinner.
The year when, with several
training weeks left, Baltimore pa
per ordered me to come home and
cover the races. The discovery, aft
er a thirty-six hour train trip, that
the paper had changed ownership
overnight. And that I had to take
the next train back to the Orioles.
A talk late one night of that
same spring with native who
lounged in front of small Carolina
town pool room. Wondering how
the fellow, who otherwise looked,
talked and acted like a hundred
thousand other Crackers seen that
spring, knew so many intimate
things about baseball. The, quite
accidental, discovery that this was
Shoeless Joe Jackson, who only re-
Gently had been retired from or
ganized baseball together with the
rest of the Black Sox.
Early evening in st. Augustine
when even the ancient ladies who in
habited the Ponce De Leon, the Al
cazar and other Brahmin hotels
abandoned their knitting. To come
to the windows and listen for hours.
While Bill Terry, Freddy Lind
strom, Jocko Conlon and a flock of
others serenaded the town with
close harmony. Ok Eckhardt's
genuine anguish when a storm hit
Clearwater and he had to sit in the
comfortable hotel. Wondering what
was happening to the great dog,
which he loved and which he had
been forced to tie up in the fiimsy
Dodgers clubhouse. The slot ma
chine in a Clearwater drug store,
which took Ed Brandt for $50, Pat
Malone for S65, Dizzy Dean for
$50 and whole host of other stars
for varying amounts and never
dropped a jack pot during three
weeks of careful observation.
A before breakfast glimpse of a
thick-chested youngster in the ear
nest midst Of trying to persuade a
hotel clerk that in spite of his
stubbled beard and wrinkled clothes
he belonged in the Cardinals
training quarters. The breakfast
discovery that the youngster had
lost his travel money and had rid
den the rods on trains to get to
camp on time. The belief, voiced
in conjunction with several other
early risers that, at some not very
distant day, the National league
was going to be very proud of this
determined youngster. Seeing Pep
per Martin play, for the first time,
several hours later and being sure
of it. The-But this is another
year.
Monte Pearson, Tavernkeeper
Dutch Leonard of the Red Sox and
Bank President Orville Overall,
once great Cub pitcher, all live
in Fresno, Calf. Larry French lives
in Visalia, fung0 hit away.
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of Her Experiences and Believes
Mother Is Free From Such Things.
from our wishes, the mind is too
excited or too much engroSsed
with results to grasp anything but
the immediate moment.
However, on looking back over
the past, we discover what thrill
ing times we went through, and
how the experiences stand out as
dramatic and of significant inter-
est. Often we find ludicrous fea-
lures entered into the experience
but we had no eyes to see them
at the time. We can laugh over
them and actually enjoy the re-
membranes of what were breath
taking events when they hap
pened.
No Age Limit.
Since life is so full of expert
ences some of which turn out fe-
licitously, and others not so sat
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THE journey through life is
L filled with experiences from
the time we are born to the day
we die. Without them life would
be dull and uninteresting. The
more experiences are crowded in
to our lives the fuller and more
interesting they become.
Reviewing Experiences.
When we are in the midst OF
events that have elements of dan
ger or when they are of momen-
tous proportions with matters at
stake that may be disastrous,
should things turn out differently
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r e m o I e S e c r e t
nook, Harry Thaw
picked out a N e w
York roof garden on
the first night of a
big musical comedy.
And only lately one
of our movie queens,
striving to get away
from it all, put on
all her portable jew
elry and went to the
Broadway preview
of one of those colos-
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series OF One-day
stands while the
Y a n k e e s w er e
knocking off the mi
nor league teams of
Texas and Okla
homa. The Yankees
were world cham
pions then, as now,
but the Babe was
the real attraction.
After a day or tive
of monotenous, long
dragged out, one
sided victories the
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what /Ilh
-DWV/ thinks
about:
Privacy for the Windsors.

CANTA MONICA, CALF
~ "In order to live quietly and
escape as much public attention
as possible" I'm quoting the
dispatch-"the duke of Windsor
and Mrs. Simpson, following
their marriage, will seek a Sc
cluded residence in the United
States"
The idea is not new. Hoping to
kill Stanford White IN some very
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Named u. S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was given his
first name by his mothers sister,
who happened to be reading about
the Greek hero Ulysses at the time
the Ohioan was born. AS a boy
his nickname was Lis"
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cnamp1On'S s mana g.
er finally has let the
big fellow be him
self, and his after
dinner speeches
now are rated with
the best.
That scrimmage
which threatened to
develop into a fierce
war for control of
turf-sheet and rae
ing wire privileges
has been settled to
the SafiSfa cti0u nf
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estate Room" in a Shin

Estate room" is a ship term that
originated in the early days of Mis-
sissippi transportation. A Capt.
Sheve rut up wooden partitions be-
tween the sleeping quarters, and
later had separate rooms built for
passengers. He named each room
for a state, and the term was coined.
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Easier to Forget Friend

cts easier" said Uncle Eben,
"to forget friend dan an enemy.
De friend will be forbearin' when
you turns yoh back on him, but de
enemy will welcome de chance to
give you kick"
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Oldest Vested Choir

Records of a vested choir at ST
Michaeps Church, Charleston. S. c.,
60 back to 1898; believed the oldest
In the United Sta.e
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Jim Braddock No Longer
Utters Canned Speeches

Jim Braddock no longer utters
canned speeches. The heavyweight
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SKIN
made her a .stay.at t.home
DATES EVERY NIGHT NOW. DEMONS FACIAL
MAGNESIA CLEARED HER COMPLEXION,
MADE IT FRESH AND LOVELY

An oily, greasy skin never
won any girl a boy friend. Men
love a fresh, youthful COM
plexion. Denton's Facial Mag
nesia cleans out the oilypores,
smooths the rough surface by
making them unnotceable,
firms the skin texture and
livens up the complexion.
Even the first few treatments
with Denton's s make a remark
able difference. Almost before
you can realize it your face
has gained new youth and
beauty. First thing you know,
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Giving Up Earl Browder.

Giving Up Earl Browder.
4 OR years it has been my regular
custom to give up something
during Lent. Last year I gave up
boiled turnips-I never eat boiled
turnips, anyhow-and jokes about
Mae West.
The year before, I gave up can
thony Adverse" Cat page 2,749) and
nearly all Little Theater move
ments. The year before I gave up
Upton Sinclair as my spiritual guide
in matters political.
For this year / decided to give up
Mr.. Earl Browder. I don't quarrel
with his sincerity. He happens,
though, to be the outstanding expo
nent in America of the communist
movement, which has done so much
for human happiness and human
progress in the countries that tried
it, such as Russia.
Victory Dinners.
w HO says New Dealers aren't
w smart business men? That
$100 victory dinner means a clear
profit of $94.70, figuring the food at
$5 head and the combined
speeches at 80 cents, which, even if
they average up to most after-din-
ner speeches, is indeed high valu-
alton.
Back in Andy Jackson's day you
you could pay off a campaign deficit
with hoop poles and coon pelts. And
in Thomas Jefferson's time tn e
strongest pack mule in Virginia
couldn't tote $100 worth of vittles.
So, naturally Jeffersonian simplic-
ity and Jacksonian thrift will be
extolled.
Presumably the Republicans will
follow suit with a nonvictory din
ner or donation shower for John
Hamilton's hope chest. Needy
guests will wear Liberty Leaguers'
old clothes, while the idea of hav-
ing Canada annex Maine and Yer
mont will be strongly opposed.
Congressman Ham Fish will
speak-such being his habit-un-
less, for economy's sake, they
switch his name around hind part
before and serve him as two
courses.
Signs of Spring.
n UT here the first sign of spring
~ is not the birds coming back.
Mainly, our birds don't fit away.
They go mute awhile, being practi-
cally the only residents that even
temporarily refrain from Dragging
about the climate, or, in case of a
cold snap, explaining that this is
very unusual.
With us the herald of spring is
the surf-bather-that hardy adven-
turer who plunges in and comes
forth as blue as an Easter egg and
as def1ated-looking as toy balloon
on the morning after circus day. Be-
cause the Pacific is never w h t
you'd call a real cozy ocean and
especially it isn't following a chill
some winter.
We make fun of the bathing suits
our mothers wore. But middle-aged
persons of both sexes disporting on
the beach in the modern skimpies
present a morbid, not to say grue-
some, spectacle, except to students
of the adult human leg, including
the slabby-shanked. the full-calfed.
the bowed, the double-jointed, the
buckled, the knock-kneed, the spav-
ined, the ankle-sprung, the heavy
hooked, the varicose-veined, the
fur-bearing, ETC., etc.
Sometimes fellow gets to think
ing that right young babies and raw
oysters are almost the only things
that should ever be exhibited on the
half-shell.
IRWIN S. COBB
@SWNU Service,
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Monte Pearson, Tavernkeeper
Dutch Leonard of the Red Sox and
Bank President Orville Overall,
once a great Cub pitcher, all live
in Fresno, Calf. Larry French lives
in Visalia, fung0 hit away.
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Sal, tltdnlc, Blgantlc,
mastodonic superscreen epics, only
to come forth complaining that one
could never flee to the most private
of hiding places without being an
noyed by crowds.
So America is certainly the right
place for the newlyweds' honey
moon-where nobody will stare at
them, or follow them, or yell at
them or ask for autographs or pho
tographs or interviews or try to
tear their clothes off for souvenirs.
Why, just off-hand, I can think
of fully three spots where famous
folks may enjoy such immunity
Mount Mckinley in the winter,
Death Valley in the summer and
Alcatraz island all the year round.
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friends are complimenting
you on your complexion.
The Washington times., 1937-09-29

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and large Sizes Aux