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The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
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Garrison Finish"

HAT was a garrison finishl"
l. you exclaim when the home
team, which has been trailing for
most Of the game, comes from be-
hind to win in the last minute of
play. And when you say that you
are perpetuating the fame-not of
baseball or football player, but
of jockey!
Edward H. Garrison was his
name and he started life as a black
smiths helper in New Haven, Conn.
Then he began hanging around the
racetracks and occasionally was
given the job of exercising one of
the thoroughbreds. 1t wasn't long
until he was full-hedged jockey,
who made it practice to hold his
mounts in during the greater part
OF a race because he miStrusted
the staying power of a front run
ner." Then he began to boot and
whip as they came into the stretch
where, as he said, 'the money is"
In 1886 one of these 'come-from-
behind-toWin" drives carried an
outsider, Dutch Roller, owned by
James R. Keene, to victory in the
Great Eastern handicap at Sleeps
head Bay, N. Y, and after that
Garrison finish" became a by
word on the turf. But more famous
than that was Garrison's victory on
Boundless in the $50, 1000 World Fair
derby in Chicago in 1893.
When the entries in this race went
to the post, Garrison began to stall.
On one pretext or another, such as
fixing his straps and his saddle, he
managed to delay the start of the
race for an hour and AZ minutes!
He spent most of this time on the
ground, thus taking the weight off
his horse, while the other horses
were fidgeting and wearing them
selves out under the weight of their
riders.
When at last they were sent away
to the excited cheers of 100000
spectators, Boundless' jockey
trailed the field for almost the en-
tire race. Then there was another
Garrison finish" and Boundless, a
Is to l shot, came home the win
ner of $780, 000-or rather $4,000 for
the judges fined Garrison $1,000 for
his part in the delay at the post.
Snapper" won, lost and partly
regained a fortune in racing. He
quit as a jockey in 1897 and later
served as an official at numerous
tracks in the South. His last days
were spent in Florida where he
died a few years ago at the age of
siXty-tWo.
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Penitence and Mercy

Man must not disclaim his
brotherhood, even with the guilt
est, since though his hand be clean
his heart has surely been polluted
by the fitting phantoms of iniquity.
He must feel that when he shall
knock at the gate of Heaven no
semblance of an unspotted life can
entitle him to an entrance there.
Penitence must kneel and Mercy
come from the footstool of the
Throne, or that golden gate will
never open.-Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Militarizing the c. C. C..

D REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS of
IN Oklahoma is trying to accom-
plish something which should have
been done long ago. He's preparing
bill to make military reserve units
of the c. c. c. boys, which would
mean discipline and morale for
thousands of young Americans and,
if needed, would provide the nucleus
of trained citizen-army.
Seems to me there is every reason
why congress should enact the leg
islation, not as warlilze gesture,
but as peace-time move for ma
tional defense and national protec-
ton. But watch the professional
pacifists fight professional paci-
fists being well-meaning folks who
believe in Santa Claus, turning the
other cheek, and the beautiful, if
slightly impractical theory, that a
white rabbit will be perfectly safe
among a pack of greedy coyotes.
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John Smith T.

LIS name was John T. Smith.
But that was too common. So,
in order to make people remember
his name he began signing it John
Smith T." AS such it has come
down in history, albeit the figure of
the man who bore it is a shadowy
one. We know that he was famous
in the early days of Missouri as
duelist and land speculator and that
he caused considerable trouble for
Moses Austin before that worthy
went to the Southwest to play an
important role in the history of the
Republic of Texas.
Historians are beginning to sus-
pect that John Smith T. was deeply
involved in the Burr conspiracy, as
was another John Smith-a United
States senator from Ohio who
missed being expelled from the SEN
ate by just one vote. But how prom
inent John Smith T. was in that mis-
guided adventure is still unknown
and he is remembered chiefly be-
cause he was uniquely successful
in escaping oblivion when Fate
tried to conceal him by naming him
SMITH"
At least four others who at
tempted to thWart Fate thus are re-
corded in the rolls of the United
States army. j. Allen Smith of
Pennsylvania changed his name to
j. A. S. lizard when he entered the
United States Military academy at
West Point but when he was gradu-
ated in 1925 he resumed his real
name. One of his classmates was
Joseph Brice Smith, who was
graduated as Joseph S. Bryce, be-
came a second lieutenant and re-
signed from the army in 1882. AT
the outbreak of the Civil war he be-
came a captain of volunteers and
in 1865 was brevetted a major for
gallantry during the war. In 1880
a William Smith entered West Point
as William D. Fraser" but he was
graduated under his right name. He
rose to a captaincy and was brevet-
ted a major in 1848 for ''merito-
rious service" during the Mexican
war.
The fourth Smith who changed his
name rose the highest in military
life. He was Morgan Lewis Smith,
who for some unknown reason en-
listed in the army in 1845 under
the name of Martin L. Sanford and
served as private, corporal and SER
geant during the next five years.
The outbreak of the Civil war found
him using his real name again.
He became colonel of the Eighth
Missouri infantry in 1861 and was
made a brigadier-general of volun-
teerS in 1862, holding that rank until
he resigned in 1865.
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of both houses were to begin draft
ing a bill to carry out the Presi-
dents desires, but it was freely pre-
dicted that not all of them would
get through.
Louis Brownlow, Prof. Luther
Gullick and Prof. Charles Merriam
constituted the committee that
evolved the reorganization plan for
the President. The major changes
they recommended are:
Creation of two new departments
headed by cabinet members-a de-
partment of social welfare and de-
partment of public works-and dele
cation to the President of author
ity to overhaul the 100 independent
agencies, administrations, authori-
ties, boards, and commissions and
place them by executive order" in
the ten existing and two proposed
additional departments.
Expansion of the White House
staff, chiefly by the creation of six
assistants to the President" who
would relieve him of much of the
routine executive work.
Abolition of the office of controller
general with his power to disallow
administrative expenditures in ad-
vance as violative of law, and crea-
ton instead of an auditor general
with power limited to reporting an
nually to congress illegal and waste
full expenditures by the executive
branch.
Extension Of the merit system to
"cover practically all non-policy de-
termining posts" replacement Of
the civil service commission by
civil service administrator with
"citizen board to serve as the watch
dog of the merit SYSTEM" and in
crease of salaries to key positions
to attract superior ability to a ca
reer service.
Development of the managerial
agencies of the government, par
ticuiarly the budget bureau and
agencies engaged in efficiency re-
search, personnel questions, and
long range planning of the use of
land, water, and other natural re-
sources.
Opposition to the first, third and
fourth of these sections was pro.
nounced.
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Pattern 5695

In this pattern flet crochet, that
faVorite of the modern needle
woman, is adapted to two lovely
squares-handsome used together
effective each used alone in
cloth, bedspread or scarf. The
lace stitch sets off the design in
each square. String is the ma
terial used and you'll be delight
ed with the result. You can also
use mercerized cotton to make the
squares a smaller size. In pattern
5695 you will find instructions and
charts for making the squares
shown; an illustration of them
and of the stitches needed; ma
terial requirements.
To obtain this pattern send Is
cents in stamps or coins (coins.
preferred) to The Sewing Circle
Household Arts Dept, 259 w.
Fourteenth ST., New York, N. Y.
Write plainly pattern number ;
your name and address.
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Fatal Crash of Air Liner
Will Be Investigated

r OSING the radio beam in foggy
IL weather, Pilot w. w. Lewis pam
caked his Western Air Express
plane with a crash on a hill near
Burbank, Calf, and two of his
passengers were killed. Everyone
else on the plane, eleven in num-
ber, was injured and two more
died later. The dead are Martin
Johnson, famous explorer, E. A.
Spencer of Chicago, A. L. Loomis of
Omaha and James A. Braden of
Cleveland. Mrs. Osa Johnson, who
accompanied her husband on his ad-
venturous expeditions in Africa and
Borneo, was among those most seri-
ously hurt.
There will be searching inquiries
into this and other recent air dis
asters. Senator Copeland of New
York blames the Department of
Commerce. Airline operators have
long complained that certain radio
beam stations in the Far West
are inadequate. Officials of the
bureau of air navigation deny this.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Russia Refuses to Keep
Volunteers Out of Spain

DRITAIN'S plan to bar from Spain
~ volunteers from other ma
tions met with a big setback when
Russia refused to adopt prohibitive
measures. Foreign Commissar
Maxim Litvinov handed to Ambas-
sador Chilston a note saying:
THE Soviet government, although
it presently does not practice the
dispatch of volunteer detachments,
does not consider it expedient to
adopt unilateral prohibitive meas
ureS.'
Explaining the REFUSAL, Litvinov
continued: Il consider it necessary
to point out that in the Soviet gov
ernment'S opinion unilateral, pro-
hibitive measures on the part of
some participants in the London
committee Con nonintervention)
while other participants not only
are free from obligations, but con-
tinue sending military divisions to
Spain, will not only fail to accom-
plish the desired aim but will result
in intervention"
Definite replies from Germany,
Italy and Portugal were still await
ed by the British government.
Fighting between the Spanish 10y
alistS and Fascists was fierce in
the University City section of Ma
drid and along the Mediterranean
coast east of Gibraltar. In the
Madrid suburb the loyalists trapped
a large number of insurgents in a
hospital where the latter had set
uo machine guns to Withstand a
siege. On the coast the FaScists
had effected a landing at Estepona
and were advancing on Malaga
which the government has held
since the civil war started.
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The Value of "Exnerts,,

7 HEARD a supposed expert advis-
ing director, bound for Africa
to shoot a big game picture, that
practically everything about his KIT
was wrong except possibly his rear
collar button.
1t reminded me of the pampered
millionaire's son who was heading
for the arctic circle. He called in
a veteran of polar expeditions and
told about his outfit. All went well
until he started describing his parka.
It's fine" he said, made of seal
skin and the hood all fringed with
wolverine and
"One moment" said the profess
slonal, "is the hairy surface of the
pelt worn next to your body?"
NO" said the youth. The fur is
outside. of course"
"All wrong" pronounced the crit
ic. Thermal demonstration h a S
proved that to conserve the bodily
heat the hide should be turned so
the fur is used as a lining and the
smooth or naked side is exposed,
thus cutting the wind"
The youngster burst out laughing.
Have l said something to excite
your mirth?" demanded the special
list.
''Oh, not at ALL said the amateur.
Il was just thinking what a darned
fool a buffalo is
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Deadlock Is Renewed in
General Motors Strike

XXIHEN negotiations were about
w to open for settlement of the
strike of General Motors workers,
the truce declared by persuasion of
Governor Murphy of Michigan was
called off, both sides charging bad
faith. Homer Martin, head of the
United Automobile Workers, said
the corporation violated the truce
by attempting to reopen the Cadil-
lac plant in Detroit; by agreeing to
bargain collectively with nonunion
employees, and by denying the right
of picketing at the Guide Lamp
plant in Anderson, Ind.
General Motors accused the union
of violating the truce by refusing
to remove sit-down strikers from
all the plants. Vice President Knud-
sen had wired C. E. Boysen, head
of the Flint Alliance which acts for
the nonunion men, that the COM
pany would protect the rights of all
its employees and would discuss any
group of the workers. This so en-
ragged Martin, who now claims for
his union a majority of the en-
ployes, that he directed the strikers
not to evacuate the Flint plants.
Martin sent a telegram to Sena-
to- La Toilette, chairman of tie
senate committee on civil liber-
ties, asking him to subpoena Boy
sen and the records of the Flint
Alliance. He charged that Boysen
was working with General Motors
to break the strike.
Governor Murphy said he was still
trying to work out the situation.
By his direction the National Guard
detachments in Flint were kept in
the background.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Americans in England

p ENEWED excitement has been
IN aroused in the British isles by
the discovery that yet another men,
ber of the royal family-this time
it's the young duke of Kent-not
only shows regrettable tendency to
enjoy himself as any normal nat
ural, healthy youngster might, but,
what is even more distressing, has
lately been seen in the company of
an American woman.
Oh, these pestiferous Yankee
women! In spite of all that can be
done, it's almost certain some of
them will witness the coronation,
and several thousands of them will
break their girlish necks trying to
do so.
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Actors Trading Careers.

II ALF-WAY across the continent,
l. L actors who have succeeded in
Hollywood and are headed east, hop
ing to break into the legitimate
stage on Broadway, pass actors
who, having succeeded on Broad
way, are heading west, hoping to
break into the movies in Hollywood.
1t is a two-way traffic which grows
heavier all the time.
Thus we see how human hopes
are uplifted and how curious a thing
is human nature, not to mention
human ambition. Also it's good for
railroad travel.
But if the jaybirds suddenly de-
cided to trade their nests for wood
pecker holes and the woodpeckers
fell in heartily with the idea, we
superior creatures could laugh at
feathered friends for being such
idiots.
IRWIN S. COBB.
G)-WNU Service.
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again. to do something about this
hldeous destroyer which kills by the
thousands and mains by the hun
dreds of thousands and makes our
fatalities and casualties in the world
war seem, by comparison, puny.
And what will come of the re-
neWed agitation? The National
Safety Council will wage a gallant,
hopeless fight, various local organi-
zations and civic bodies will do what
they can. newspapers will rail and
statesmen will deplore-and the
CHASTITY record of slaughter will keep
right on mounting.
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WNU-M
WOMEN WHO HOLD
THEIR men
never LET Them KNOW

MO matter how much your
IN back aches and your nerves
scream, your husband, because he
is only a man, can never under
stand why you are so hard to live
with one week in every month.
Too often the honeymoon ex-
press is wrecked by the nagging
tongue of three-quarter wife. The
wise woman never let's her husband
know by outward sign that she is
victim of periodic pain.
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go 'Smil-
ing through with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lesSening the diScomfortS from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals of life: /. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. Ap-
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHANf'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
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Wallace Will Buy Eggs
to Aid Producers

CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
~ WALLACE says the federal gov
ernment is going to buy eggs in or
der to remedy what he describes
as a sharp drop in recent weeks
in the wholesale and farm prices
of eggs. The surplus eggs taken
from the market, he says, will be
distributed among persons on relief.
Agriculture department reports,
however, show there is no surplus,
and one department spokesman
said the government would buy few,
if any eggs, providing farm and re-
tail prices moved toward each 9TH
er.
Mr.. Wallace says the purchases
will be financed under a unique
provision inserted in the agricultur-
al adjustment act by congress in
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White House at the
invitation of Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Georges Bonnet, a
financial expert and
former C a b i n e t
member, was ap-
pointed ambassador
from France to
Washington a n d
plans to come over
early in February,
supplanting Andre
de Laboulaye. These
two facts gave rise
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Curb for Supreme Court
to Be Considered

EMERGING from White House
IL conference, Senator Sherman
Minton of Indiana announced that
President Roosevelt would soon call
together congressional leaders and
administration officials to consider
legislation designed to curb the
Supreme court.
The senator said he himself was
contemplating the introduction of
bill that would require the concur
renee of seven of the nine justices,
or more than tWo-thirds, to invali-
date an act of congress. He did not
say whether the President indicated
approval or disapproval of this plan.
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tention of trying to grab any Span
ish territory. Paris cooled down
at once, and to add to the peace
atmosphere, negotiations were
started for a trade treaty Between
France and Germany.
Then, too, Col. Gen. Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, resplendent first
minister of the German reich, went
on an official visit to Rome and
was informed by Mussolini that
the recently signed Italo-British
Mediterranean agreement does not
change Italy's friendship for Ger
many or its collaboration with the
reich on the major problems of
Europe
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Storing of Gold at Fort
Knox Is BEGUN

TT NCLE SAM has begun storing
~ his gold in the bomb-proof de-
pository built at Fort Knox, Ken
lucky. The first train, heavily
guarded, carried about 5000, ,000,-
600 of the precious metal from the
Philadelphia mint and it was re-
ceived by the motorized Seventh
cavalry and put in the great vaults.
The gold was forwarded by tn e
Post Office department as parcel
post and the treasury will have
to pay the postage.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
New York Banker Leaves
Big Sum to Aid Youth

IT is pleasant to turn from poll
l. tics, strikes and war and record
the fact that Charles Hayden, New
York banker who died recently, left
about $54,000,000 to establish a
foundation for the education of
needy boys and young men, "es-
pecially in the advancement of their
moral, mental and physical well
being" Mr.. Hayden, who was a
bachelor, also gave $1,000,0O0 to
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, $4,000, 900 in trust to his broth
er and nearly $2,OOO,OOO to friends
and employees.
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as the result of his
long and bitter dis
agreement with Di-
rector David Lilien-
thai over IVA poll
cies. Both the gen.
tlemen were in the
capital and it ap-
peared they had
laid their cases be-
fore P r e s i d e n t
Roosevelt for his
decision as to which
should be the lead
er. Lilienthal, who
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reduce the appalling
mortality toll which
had marked the pre-
ceding year.
So what?
Well, here's what.
The end of 1886
showed an all = time
top for deaths on the
public highways
roughly 37,450, or
approximately $50
more than in 1885.
So now we'll pious-
lx- x@1 IL
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necessary, the al
legged infiltration of
German troops into
Spanish Morocco,
and Great Britain
was ready to sup
port the French
with its fleet. But
Hitler and his am
baSsador to France
were able to con-
vince the nations
that the stories
were false and that
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Ontario Convicts Start
Riot and Break Out

NEARLY 800 convicts in On
L y tario's fine reformatory at
Guelph started a big riot and set
fire to everything in the buildings
that would burn. During the excite
ment about one hundred of them
broke out of the penitentiary, and
nearly forty escaped. The dormi-
tory, chapel and hospital were
ruined by flames, the damage be.
ing put at 100000.
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Democrats as we'll
as the few Republi-
can members were
quick to express
their disapproval Of
parts of the scheme.
1t would greatly en-
hance the power Of
the executive, would
abolish no federal
agencies and would
not result in any
considerable econo-
my of expenditures.
SDecial committees
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August, 1885. This hands Wallace
80 per cent of all customs receipts
for agricultural purposes" or
about $4,000 600 each year. The
fund has already been used this
season to keep up prices of grape
fruit, pears and onions.
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Shadows of the Mind

The shadows of the mind are
like those of the body. In the.
morning Of life they lie behind us;
at noon, we trample them under
foot; and in the evening they
stretch long, broad and deepen
ing before us.-LongfelloW.
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Growth of Friendship

Friendship is no plant of hasty
growth; though planted in esteem's S
deep-fxed soil, gradual culture of
kind intercourse must bring it to
perfection -Inanna Baillie.
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what t<(Lh
thinks
- about:
Making 1887 a Safe Year.

CANTA MONICA, CALF.
~ This time last year we
were all dedicating ourselves
to a crusading campaign to
make 1886 a safer year for
motorists.
We were going to cut down the
volume of traffic disasters, going to
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Germans in Morocco" Tale
Seems to Be False

THE latest general European
l. war scare has subsidized. 1t was
caused by Frances announced de-
termination to stop, by force if
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Report That War Debts
Nav Be Discussed

NIALTER RUNCIMAN, chair
w man of the British Board of
Trade, arrived in New York and
was due to spend a weekend in the
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Reorganization Scheme
Laid Before Congress

D LANS for reorganizing the ad-
l. 1ninistrative branch of the gov
erment were laid before congress
by President Roosevelt, and many
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-01-28
Morgan May Resign as
Chairman of IVA

D UMORS were current in Wash
1\ington that DR.. Arthur E. Nor
gan would soon resign as chairman
of the Tennessee Valley authority
Evening star., 1937-05-18

LINCOLN 1898 5-pass coupe like new
mileage 23.2@0; price 800 74S Jackson
p. NV