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A. The Bata Shoe Company, Inc, and John Hoza, active head of the Bata enterprises throughout the world, were fined $8005 and ordered to pay $l0,084 In restitution to 500 employees, after they entered pleas of guilty of violating the Fair La- bor Standards Act. The company was charged with failure to pay the minimum wage and overtime, to keep adequate records, Justification of records and shipment in inter- state commerce of shoes produced in violation of the law.
 e. In the last World War, was Q notice published by the German Government warning persons not to sail aboard the s. s. Lusitania?
 A. on May l, 1915, when the Lusitania was due to sal from New York for Liverpool the following ad- vertisement appeared in the New York morning papers: Notice: Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that c state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters ad. jacent to the British Isles: that in accordance with fronal notices giy- en by the Imperial German Gov ernment vessels flying flags of Great Britain, or any of her allies are h- able to destruction in those waters; and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain and her allies do 50 at their own risk. Imperial Germany Embassy, WaSh- ington, D. e., April 22, i9i5."
 The Lusitania, owned by the Cum ard Line of England, was torpedoed and sunk by . German submarine on this voyage.
 e. When was the Leaning Tow CT Of Pisa built2
 A. It was begun by the architect Romano of Pisa in il74 and the work was continued by Tommaso pisano and William of Innsbruck until 1t was finally completed in 1850.
 e. What music was played in the background of the cartoon film comedy, Dance of the Weed?
 A. The original score was speclal- ly composed by Scott Bradley.
 c. What is the Latin for the ab- breviation "via" meaning namely?
 A. viGellcet.
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the length and breadth of the land, wherever business men meet.
 But his loyalty to his friends stail shines as the monument he leaves behind him. Would there were more ike him?
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e. should c retailer charge Q customer the manufacturers tax on luggage that he had in stock before october 1, 104i. when the tax became effectiveY
 A. It is illegal for him to charge it as 8 tax, because he paid no tax on the goods,
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e. What was the outcome Of the dispute between the Bata Shoe Cofn- pany and the Wage and Hour De vision of the Department of Labor?
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TODAY's COMMON ERROR As for is not . correct sub- stltute for as to. Say: "As Co
 me, I am sick"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-26
Washington Merry-G Round
churchiI and Roosevelt Discuss Full Military Alliance
 U Must Fight Defensive War in Pocc for the Present EitIer's Generosmo Role Cheers Washington Conferees Germon Army Still Strong Despite Defect Russian Front
DREW FEARS O N ROBERT s. ALLEN

WASHINGTON points discussion by Roo order of their mportance
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a. Why is the exterior of a can- non tapered9
 A, To reduce the weight of the gun, When the powder charge 1s first detonated the pressure is great, and the gun must be thick at the base to withstand 1t. This thickness is not needed at the mouth and the guns are tapered according 0 pres sureS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-26
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Dies Had Warned Of Honolulu Treachery
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrrospOndentl

Washington, Dec. 26-If there is anyone in the United States who has right to get up and say wal val I told you sol" 1t is the Hon. Martin Dies of Orange, Tex.
 SilnA l0NQ hA hns hanrn rnall,nr
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c. What is the Latin for the ab- breviation "via" meaning namely? A. ViGelIcet.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07

son Square Garden in New York
city the next year, the Eastern pa
pers and magazines waXed lyrical
over her and printed pages about
the Best Horsewoman in America"
A Trail Boss
Another Of her fcats for which she
became famous came about in this
way: Colonel Mulhall had bought
a herd of 700 steers down in the
Texas Panhandle but was too busy
to 90 down there and drive them
back to his ranch. So Lucille Null.
hall proposed that she and her sis
ter. Mildred, take on the job They
took a few cowboys with them but
Lucille was the "boss of the outfit"
and under her direction the 700
steers were driven over the 300
mile trail through bad weather with
out suffering the loss Of a single
steer
When they buried her in the fam
lily plot on the Mu'hall ranch an
old-timcr was heard to remark:
"Cowgirls and cowboys might live
longer If they stuck to horses" Per
haps he was thinking of the fact
that Tom Mix, who had once worked
on the Mulhall ranch, had been
killed in an automobile accident in
Arizona a few months earlier and
that Will Rogers, who had also been
a Mulhall ranch cowboy and a rider
and roper in Colonel Zachs Wild
West show, had lost his life in an
airplane accident in Alaska.
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DOLLAR-YEAR-TRO

DOLLAR- fEAR-TROUBLE
WASHINGTON. - Defense chiefs
aren't advertising it, but they are
quietly trying to ward off blow-up
over the host of dollar-a-year men
now working for the government.
Some of the One Dollar men are
conscientious and sincere public
servants. Others are less scrupulous.
While representing the government
they have sold goods to the govern
ment, eXerted inside pressure in ia
vor of their industries, represented
clients before government agencies.
All this has been no secret on
Capitol Hill, where the steadily
growing corps of One Dollar moguls
has been eyed with increasing re-
sentiment. Recently this undcrcover
indignation took form in a bill by
Sen. Kenneth Mcclellan, veteran
Tenncssean, to ban such business
men from government service and
to probe their operations.
MCkCllar'S plan is to await en-
aCtmcnt of the lend-leaSc bill be-
fore pushing his measure, but mean
while defense chiefs, seeing the
handwriting on the wall, have quiz
city started cleaning up the situa-
ton themselves
This has been done in a series of
apparently unrelated moves. Under
cover of transferring the original de-
Tense organization to the new office
of production management, several
One Dollar men have been eased
home with the high-sounding, face
saving title of Advisory Consult
ant pinned to their coat-tails. 9th
ers have been shifted to jobs not di-
rectly connected with their own in
dustrieS.
Also, several non-commercial ex-
perts have been brought in to re-
place One Dollar men in important
sections of the OPM. And more
housekeeping is still to come.
NOte-Among non-commercial ex-
perts who have been brought into
the OPM are DR.. Ernest M. Hop
kins, president of Dartmouth col
lege; Dexter S. Kimball, former
dean of Cornell university engineer
ing school; William f. Wickenden,
president of Case School of Applied
Science; DR.. w. S. A. Pott, presi-
dent of Elmira college; and DR.. S.
S. Stratton, Harvard professor of
economics.
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\" HEN an automobile accident
w resulted in the death of Lucille
Mulhall near the town of Mulhall,
Okla, recently. it snapped another
link with the Old West. For she was
the original cowgirl" the first of
that tribe of daring young women
who risk their necks riding bucking
broncoes and roping steers or
calves. But unlike many of the syn
thetic cowgirls'' you see at the ro-
deos or in circuseS today, Lucille
Mulhall was authentic"
She was the daughter of Col. Zach
Mulhall, a pioneer of Oklahoma,
whose ranch on Beaver creek once
comprised more than 10000 acres.
While she was still a little girl her
father offered to give her every
yearling she could rope and brand
by herself. But he soon begged off
on his bargain when he noticed how
many of his steers were wearing the
brand of IL. M"
When she was IA she was the star
attraction at the reunion of Roose.
velt's Rough Ki1ers in Oklahoma
City in 1900. There she matched her
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07
MIR. SMITH GOES TO
I,ATIN-AMERICA

IL looks as II Senator Barkley was
right when he denounced the box of
flee smash movie, MIR. Smith
Comes to Washington. That film is
now causing all kinds of headaches
for the u. S. A. in South America,
where it is used by the Nazis as one
of their dcadlicst propaganda weap-
onS.
John Hay C'Jock'D Whitney has
just made this report to the Rookie
Teller branch of the national defense
commission. The story of a grating
senate ganging up on a young re-
former, Whitney says, is being circu-
lated through Latin America as an
illustration of u. S. government
graft.
Whitney has been preserving Hol-
lywood mogules to halt further for
eign distribution of the film.
Another big problem for Whitney
is newsreels. Just how damaging a
newsreel can be to the Good Neigh
Dor" policy if even a slight detail of
sequence is overlooked, was illus
trated in a recent report to the state
department by Norman Armour,
ambassador to Argentina.
In a Buenos Aires theater one
night, Armour was witnessing Amer
lean newsreel shots of an air raid on
Great Britain. Immediately follow
ing the raid pictures bathing beau
ty contest in California was flashed
on the screen.
The lctdown of the audience was
terrific" Armour reported, pointing
out that the ncwsreel made it appear
that United States had its mind on
bathing bCautio ,"si"ad Of defense.
THE TAI 4 BROTHERS
William Howard Tafts boys, Bob
and Charley. are at odds again,
Charley having been in Washington
more than a week in his now job be
fore he got together with Bob
Reason is the job Charley has
taken from the hands of Roosevelt.
II sounds harmless enough Assist
ant CO-ordinator OF RCcrCulional nc
tyltcs for Defense but It's a suf-
fcIcut tc-up with the administration
foreign policy to leave anu-intcrvcn-
ZIONIST Bob n bit chilly.
What hurt moro, perhaps, was
that Charley. who has long quar-
relied with his brother over domestic
policies. accepted the job just the
week before the historic lcusc-lcud
debate opened in tic senate. Bob
know where brother Charley stood
io. before, namely with the Com
mI,..c to- Defend America by Aiding
thc Allies But this brought the split
into the public gaze
You don't have TO agree with
sour brother all tic time, Go your
ls I.h Struggling comment
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may be sewed to box springs and
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If You Read In Bed
You'll Want This Bag
BY RUTH WYETH SPEARS

THIS bag was planned as a hos
pital gift for someone who was
finding days in bed difficult enough
without having books, magazines,
writing materials and spectacle
case scattered about and forever
getting lost. If you like to take an
assortment of reading matter to
bed, sick or well, you will enjoy
a bag like this. Its hanger hook
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07
AFTER FORTY
BELL syndicate-wNU Servic

You dread old age2 HorU can You
make The years after forty satisfying
and tuH "sParkle"? VIII your mar.
rage SHriue the change from youth 10
middle age and after? Read Kath.
Teen Norris frank, to-the- point answers
TO these dge-Oid questions You'll learn
that me SIXTIES and Seventies can be
the "highlghh" OF ones life!
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07
Age Brings Different Interests.

Of course you weren't interested
when the children were small. and
schools and dancing lessons and den
tlst and shops and doctor we're all
important, and had to be within i'm
mediate reach.
But it's different now. Now YOU
want to think of the quieter years.
OF putterlng in the garden, of read
ing by an open fire, of having the
few old friends you really love down
for real hospitality and sending
them home with arms full of lilac
and Jars of strawberry preserve and
huckleberry branches.
Now you want to think of the
grandchildren, or the grandnieces
and nephews, who are very stiff I'M
communicative little persons in the
sittlngroom of town apartment, but
who will come rioting out to you
gladly for the happiest HOLIDAYS their
small childhood will know if you give
them a chance.
The places you look at, by the
way, will be picturesque outside and
ruins within. You'll have to re-
model by degrees; a bathroom this
year; brick terrace next: electric
light whenever the company runs a
line out that way. But all that is
part of the fun, and if you buy a
place with a real crop on it, and a
tenant farmer, your taxes will be
paid from the beginning.
A Real Home.
And when you've finished YOU
have home, a place whose windows
and staIrways reflect yourselves,
your likes and fancies; a place
where a superbly scornful cat sleeps
on a fireside bench, and a big dog
draws himself up to welcome YOU
when you come in. A place in
whose garden you have perspired
ana painted and all but broken YOUR
back IN the spring sunshine, and I'M
der whose oaks you've had many
a summer supper A place whose
sunriScs and sunsets, whose plori-
GUS WINTER storms and spring bios
SONS belong all to you.
All small children ought TO live in
such a place, and all aging folk.
The cities, the excitement and pres
sure and strain, the shops and
movies and taxs and beauty par
lors, the competition and struggle.
these belong between the ages of
fifteen to forty; they are good. and
they belong to our normal American
life.
But they aren't the best of it, The
best of 1t is TO reach the age when
you may pause to discover hun
drcd likes and hobbies for YOUR
self; discover that you like outdoor
cooking that you like to dress in
peasant dirudls or old Chinese cot
tons; that you like raising ducks.
that you feel gloriously young after
an hours woodchopping. or helping
in the hay field.
incidentally, the chief discovery
you may make is the companion.
the enthusiastic partner and admir-
er and assistant you have in the old
man.
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contest which she
entered and her
room in the Null
hall ranch house
was filled with
her trophies. She
was the star of
the Wild West
show which Colo
mel Mulhall or
ganized and took
to the worlds fair
in st. Louis in
1904. When it
ShovVpd in Madi-
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skill as a rider and roper against
some of the best cowboys in the
Southwest and held her own with
them. Four years later at the cat
tlemen's convention in Fort Worth,
Texas, she did even better when she
entered the steer-roping contest.
Queen of the Range
Each contestant drew three steers
by lot. Miss Mulhall got two big
tough ones at the start. She roped
and tied the first one in l minute
and As seconds. She cut that time
down to l minute and IL seconds
with her second steer and she
dropped her third one in the remark
able time of 40 seconds. Her total
time for the three was min
utes and SO seconds which was sew
eral seconds faster than her nearest
cowboy competitor. So they hailed
the slight girl (she weighed less than
100 pounds) Queen of the Range"
and awarded her the championship
gold medal valued at $1,000.
Just to prove that her victory at
Fort Worth was no fluke, she en-
tered a steer-roping contest at Nc
Alester, Okla, in 1903 and roped and
tied three steers in 3OH, 40 and 4O4s
seconds. From that time on Lucille
Mulhall was the sensation of every
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07

You can reach Woodworking John
X. Stcclman, head of the u. S. Con-
ciliatlon service, practically any
midnight in his Office working on
some labor dispute but not between
z and IT'S p. M lie always takes
Urls time out 90 listen 10 a favortc
daily radio program.
The budget is fun Of unique little
items, such as $4,000 for a fence on
the Texas-McMcan border, SIS 900
for personal funds for inmates Of
federal narcotic institutions. $4,000
for sea food inspection.
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could pick up, and what we'd have
TO pay monthly to own it in seven
or eight years?
If you've been paying S85 a month
Tor a city apartment for Is years
you've paid away SIS 900 for nothing.
That is, nothing permanent. That
sum would buy you an enchanting
farm of perhaps a hundred acres
l have seen delightful old places,
with old brick houses on them,
and streams, and elms, and fruit
and view and woodland for one-half
of that sum.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07

charge Of a crew of men who we're
making lcwsite gas, in a hidc-out
Chemical Expert near CleVe-
Speaks Softly, So eran officer
Nothing BlorOs Up a., ADVISED sea MN
ders in low tone of voice and
speak slowly and cautiously. There
were human and chemical tensions
there, intermingling, and a sharp
word might twitch a workman s
nerve and cause trouble.
That might have been good
training for college president
to-be. AT any rate, they made
DIR. James Bryant COnant presi-
dent of Harvard, in 1886. He has
continued to speak softly and to
get results without anything
blowing up, and now President
Roosevelt picks him to head
scientific mission to Britain.
he was major in the newly or
gained chemical warfare service in
the days when he was making lew
lslte gas. Within a few years of
the day when he took his Harvard
decorate, in 1917, he was famed
here and abroad as one of the
worlds leading research chemists.
II our leasing and lending includes
specialized brains, we could not
nave sent a scientist more compe-
tent to devise defenseS against gas
attack, or, perhaps to solve some
new Nazi chemical ruthlessness, of
which, 1t is reported, the British
war office has evidence.
He is pioneer and expert in
gas warfare and defense, but he
hates war and as an educator
has worked diligently to out
mode and Danish forever his
war gases. He FASTENED to en-
list when we entered the World
war. A friend persuaded him
that he would be much more
useful in gas research for the
bureau of mines. From this bu-
reau he later was transferred to
the chemical warfare service.
He is an Alpinist, still climbing
mountains at the age of 48 In
1887, he scaled North Palisade
mountain in the California Sierra, a
hazardous climb of 14,254 feet. Dur
ing the previous winter, he had bro
ken his collarbone while skiing. He
IS blue-eycd, with rather severe ped
agogical speCtacles, which make
him look scientific, and a warm.
ready smile which makes him look
human
His father was a photo-engraver
OF Dorchester, Mass There was
some shifting among the Brahmins
when the professor of chemistry
became president of Harvard. But
Charles W. Eliot had been a pro-
fessor of chemistry and had scored
heavily in the humanities-as did
DR.. Conant. So there was prece-
dent for that appointment, but pos
sbly not for his present appoint
ment. The tradition of the absent
minded professor fades in an era
OF highly specialized knowledge.
p ERHAPS more than any other
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07
Qualities of PRAYER

QUdIIItS OF Prayer
Prayer is the believers comfort
and support, his weapon of de-
tense, his light in darkness, his
companionship in solitude, his
fountain in the desert, his hope
and his deliverance.-Van Dyke.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07
AMOR0LINE4HSASIIee
Deception
BOTTLE sfzss IO3.2S

The silly when deceived exclaim
loudly; the fool complains; the
honest man walks away and is
silent.-La Noue.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

'NOHSuIIuhIcu fehIuTes-WNU ScrNIcel
~ EW YORK.-In 1918, there was
tall, gangling young man in
charge Of crew of men who we're
making lcw!Site gas, in a hidc-out
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d ERHAPS more than any other
one man, Sir Robert Brooke Pop
ham saw the need for wings over
the British empire and worked hard
British Far East ana long to
provide them.
Air Chief Took a As command
Long VieO Ahead Go rtal In IN
today, with tension mounting hourly
on land and sea, he may take credit
for Strengthening air dcfons.s 10 the
farthcst outpost of Brtans domn-
ions.
lie attended Slndhurst and en-
tered the army lie was AT the front
in France from the first Co the last
guush0t
Twenty years ago he began
campJi ming and JCilating for
an empire mltrix OF CONNER
cial and military airliues, pre-
dieting an hour at peril when
only such unity and cooperation
Of scattered air forces could
hold the empire together. lie
was one ~ the Origiu1turs Of the
British commonwealth air train
ing plan; established the Royal
Air Force college in London and
became COmm1ndJnt Of the I'm
pcrial Defense college. lie built
Canada's $3.50 .0OC. geo cmpire air
force which last iuW Is greatly
strcng ihening Britain's hopes
with its 10000 students and its
daily Yield OF skilled niers for
the defense Of Britain.
a lean, hard man 81 clipped.
astrngcnt speech. comparable only
to a blOw-torcn in his powers Of con-
ccrlr9lon, be Is boz his general make
up q planned personality. lie is
H3 sears old, hard as nails and
as whIppy as pole-vaultcr. He
Was bonn Robert Moore. the son OF
country clergyman. For reasons
Of his own he was not satisfied 10
be Robert Moore Characteristical-
Iy he DID something about il. lie
procured royal dispensation % be-
come Robert Brooke-P opham. Then.
possibly in some pattern OF numer-
o,ogy came q career TO az the name
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07

p ERHAPS more than any other
one man. Sir Robert Brooke Pop
ham saw the need for wings over
the British empire and worked hard
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-07

III Il lllut-Oul
near Cleve-
land. A vet
eran officer
advised him
TO give or