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All! rights of republication of all other matter herein are} also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1938f be brought into other courses, such as health, physics, science, home economics and manual arts. The new work is deserving of all public and private support. If the experience of the past holds good in the future, it will not be long before statisticians are cal- culating how many young lives were saved by the cam- paign that began on May 5, 1931, * The Wheat Situation Before the World war,,wheat was being supplied to) There was room for all of them and prices were good, as the demand exceeded the supply. The war put Russia out of the wheat exporting business for 10 years, but the other countries continued to increase their production to such an extent that five years ago the granaries of the world were glutted. In te of that fact wheat production in all the countries named, excepting Russia, continued to increase. The U. S. Department of Agriculture reports that the wheat acreage of the world, in 1924, excluding Russia and China, was 224,000,000 acres, and each succeeding year saw an increase. The acreage for the present year is estimated at 249,000,000 acres. Since the world wheat surplus the past five years was piled up without the aid of Russia, what will happen now that the Soviet Republic is back in the competition with its threat of cheap, mass production? Last year the Soviets dumped wheat on the European market at what- Foreign Representatives | SMALL, SPENCER & LEVINGS (Incorporated) | Formerly G. Logan Payne Co. | CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON | eae | Great Britain and the League | If the suggestion that Great Britain ought to with-} @raw from the League of Nations should come from an outside source it would be taken as a piece of grim; humor, since the British empire is regarded as the back-| bone of that organization, but coming as it does from the London Da it conveys serious if not tragic inferences. It scems that the great London daily ha: come to regard the League, not as a torch to light the dark pathway of mankind, but rather as a which may at any moment ignite the European powder maga: \ zine. ‘The immediate cause for alarm voiced by the publica- tion is the determination of Germany and Austria to form a custo union and the equal determination of France to bar that procedure—“in the sacred the treaty of Versailles.” The Daily Express gives the opinion that the Ger-| mans and Austrians should be allowed to form their customs agreement, but asks the question: “Are our) young men to die that France may rule?” So the advice is given for Great Britain to get out of the L be- fore it is forced, by the treaty of Loca: to support} ‘one side or the other should a clash of arms result from the disagreement. The following is quoted from the London daily: t “Britain's destiny is with her own League of of Nations—the British empire. “Britain's destiny is with that other great English-speaking country, the United Siates of America. “The League of Nations was Amer ‘To please America we agreed to it. When Amer- | ica refused to join, we should have withdrawn, | 's idea “Geneva is a menace to the continuation of the British empire. Under the screen of good intentions and useful routine work, power to order Great Britain to send force against any country or group of ¢ against America, even against At Canada. “And that decision would be carried by votes that include those of nations that have not even paid their dues for years. “We repeat that now is the time for clear thinking. | “Great Britain must withdraw from Europe She must turn to her em} beyond the | or sink to the level of a third-rate power. Above = | ail, Great Britain must regain her liberty of | action and end, once and for all, the blind com- mitments that may plunge her at any moment into a war more disastrous than the last.” i ‘Show Boat’ and ‘Follies’ in the Jungie Travelers in Africa and the South Sea Islands have| in recent years been greatly surprised to meet up with! natives dressed in the latest stage creations of New York,! Paris and London. Many a medicine man or tribal potentate and their retinues have been found dressed in the glittering regalia of “Hit the Deck,” “Rose Marie” | or “Show Boat,” while the coal black maidens might ff theatrical costumes w he jungle| folk represent one of the most lucratis s carried | on from London. The story of its origin is just fantastic as the industry itself. Aboui three years befor ¢ World war a tramp was wrecked on the east coast of Africa. A well-dressed Englishman, who was the sole passenger, swam ashor and fell into the hands of a cannibal chief. The extrem -| ly saucy clothing worn by the unexpected visitor made/ a hit with the dusky monarch and saved its wearer from) figuring in the promising casserole. The Britisher was) divested of his colorful clothes and was sent away, ped in nothing more substantial than a reverie. When he got home he related his adventure to John Hyman, a London theatrical costumer. | Hyman decided that if the natives were satisfied with ordinary articles of clothing they would trade almost} anything for showy stuff like theatrical finery, and acted | on that inspiration with amazing success. After amas-] sing considerable wealth he sold the business two years} ago, at which time he was selling his colorful wares in many parts of Africa, in Siam, in the Malay islands and the Australian bush. | Very few of the natives who buy the second-hand stage | creations have real money, and local products are taken in exchange. African customers usually pay with rub-| ber and palm oil, and the Siamese make their settic-, ments in ivory. | amer An Important Day Tuesday, May 5. 1931, was an important day in the history of accident prevention. At that time a cam- paign was started to reach all the 27,000,000 school chil-| dren of the United States with safety education, instead of only the 13,000,000 that have been reached in the past. The campaign is designed for the child in the little red schoolhouse at the cross-roads as well as the) child in the modern million-dollar metropolitan school. ‘This new work—which is being undertaken by the National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters-- bas grown from a study of automobile accident statis- tics covering the years between 1927 and 1930. In that time fatalities to adults and children of pre-school age increased 25 per cent and seven per cent respectively— but fatalities to children in school were reduced ten per cent. Thousands of children’s lives are being saved an- nually by safety education—lives that would otherwise be wasted. As a starting point, a teacher’s guide book has been Issued, with a foreword by the United States commis- to schools to cooperate in the work. to establish safety education as j added weight. ne of|"" |honors in the annual contests of the National Collegiate ever price it would bring, and the world price which had lready been strained to the limit, broke under this The situation for the present year does not show any promise of improvement. The United States, it is esti- mated, will have an exportable surplus of 200,000,900 bushels or more, and Russia will have a greater tonnage of wheat than ever before to dump on the market at whatever price it will bring. The Way Out of the Agricultural Muddle in a recent interview in The Country Home, Alexan- cer Legge, retired head of the federal farm board, warn- ed farmers that the board is no fairy god-mother, and armers must help themselves. He said that the} out of the farm depression is through cooperation 1 organization. There is more to agricultural hard times than the; airplus. Last year, Mr. Legge says, the walnut growers— who through cooperation control ninety per cent of their crop—sold it at the best price in history. The ng can be done with wheat, with dairy products any other staple commodity produced on the farm, he believes. ‘The virtues of collective bargaining and mass dis!ri- bution, cannot be over-emphasized. The single farmer, with his 20, 50, 100 or 1,000 acres, is virtually at the of the buyer when he does business alone. But when 50,000 farmers band together to do business they talk to the buyer and distributor in his own language. It should be understood that cooperative selling does not mean higher prices to the consumer. It means that the farmer receives a fair share of the ultimate price, whatever it may be. Agriculture is the foundation of all industries—and only through concerted action can it obtain the prosperity it deserves and must have. wa They Grow ’Em Tall They grow ‘em tall out on the Pacific coast and it is! no surprise when the athletes from the University of Southern California walk off with the lion's share of association. It has been so long since an eastern or a middle west- ern college has won this event that there must be a definite reason for the consistent success of the boys from the west. A good many observers are prone to credit the weather for this phenomena. | Throughout the entire year it is possible to play and| practice field sports in California. The result has been to increase interest in this branch of athletics; as aj result the old saw “practice makes perfect” comes into pla: Backing up this constant practice is the fact that children reared in California's golden sunshine average larger than those reared in a less favorable environ- ment—or at least the California enthusiasts claim they do. California now has a thousand men at work remov- ing signboards along the highway system. Given un- seasonable cold weather and the neighbors may be trust- ed to get away with the wooden ones. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Trib- une's policies. Up It Goes (The Manufacturer) Ten states have increased their gasoline tax rates so far this year, and others are contemplating similar moves. At present the average tax rate for the nation is 3.98 cents per gallon and it may exceed 4 cents before the dawn of 1932. However, it is interesting to note that the new high rates went into effect in the face of constantly grow- ing opposition. In North Dakota, for example, the voters defeated a projected increase on a referendum proposal in November—only to have the legislature pass it later on. In Washington, where the rate was jacked up two} cents a gallon, motorists are busy seeking a referendum, and a one-cent increase in Maine was passed only after a long and bitter battle in the legislature. It may be that the tendency toward higher rates will be a good thing after all—the higher the tax goes, the sooner the public will take action. “Worm motorist” is rapidly reaching the point where he will turn, as five and six-cent tax rates stare him in the face. The Poor Prosecutor (Minneapolis Tribune) | The linking of criminals with prosecutérs in theWicker-) sham report is in a measure justified by practical experi- ence. Stated in its simplest terms, a prosecutor may be under obligation for political service, not directly with the criminal element, but by a chain of political obliga- tion that reaches downward from decent politics to the lower dregs. The prosecutor may be at one end of the chain, and the criminal element on the other. The links between them may have varying degrees of integrity, but eventually the criminal element is reached. Under ideal conditions this would not be s0, but so long as public office is secured by the votes of the public, these votes must be solicited and the candidate is in- evitably under obligation to those who secured votes for him. It is all very well to say that once in office, the officeholder should remember only that he is the servant of the public. Such statements have a high moral tone. They sound exceedingly well, but they do not maintain men in public office. The officeholder must remember his friends, otherwise he will be retired to private lite at the next election. There is nothing that a democracy resents so keenly as a disregard of friendship. All Amer- ican history testifies to the brief popularity of the strict and impartial servant of the law. This applies to prosecutors as well as to aldermen. ‘There is no office to which statistics are mare unjust than to the prosecuting attorney. An enthusiastic grand Love Me; Love My Dox-Hund! New York, June 10—Friends who gad about Europe with notebooks and Pencils, checking down the historic Spots they have visited, invariably an- noy me when they get back by refus- ing to make similar historic excur- sions around New York. They'll trot all over the world, vis- iting battlegrounds and cathedrals, but Harlem to them will always be a part of town filled with “hot” negro cafes; a section to be visited early in the morning when there is nowhere left to go. When you suggest that it was also the scene of one of General Washington's very important engage- ments, you get a yawn. When you add that history fairly jumps out and bites you up and down the Hudson river, along Riverside drive and even into Central Park, they invariably change the subject by asking what good shows are in town. This lethargy on the part of vis- itors is perhaps New York’s own fault; and partially, no doubt, the fault of gents like myself who bring the sub- {ject up-all too seldom. Now that I come to think of it, I cannot recall a tourist who ever took an interest in chasing the American Revolution around this town; although these very tourists will chase Napoleon all over Europe and Joan of Arc all over France. The horns that trumpet this phase of Manhattan have been muted for some years, though there are plenty of reference books on the subject. The tales that go forth in greatest pro- fusion are those about Broadway and its gay lights, its two-timers, its ro- mantics and its tragedians. My rec- ollection is that O. Henry found bet- ter characters on Coney Island ferries and on park benches. To be sure, a visitor to Paris wants to visit any number of sidewalk cafes and make a round of the shops in the Rue de la Paix—but, somehow, still finds time for a lot of serious sight- seeing. And one cannot blame an individual who has never before been to New York if, upon that first visit, he chooses a hectic merry-go-round of the flash-spots and the fleshpots which he has heard of all his life. Still and all, when people complain to this department in a tone of voice that is slightly superior, and with a “is that all you've got around here?” air—I grow slightly flustered and self-conscious. who pay much attention to what is just around the corner, yet who also run to Europe in search of “romantic and historic spots.” Scarce a one of them has ever gone to Long Island with any purpose other than to go boating, swimming or visiting friends. Yet Sag Harbor Now that I come to think about it,} I recall few residents of these parts | Daily Health Service Protein Is the Cause of Sensitivity to Foods By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Med- feal Association, and of Hygela, the Health Magazine For years it has been known that People could be sensitive to foods. Recently inedicine has been paying more attention to the subject and now has various theories as to why such sensitivities occur. The particular element in foods which causes sensitivity is the pro- tein. It is understood that the main elements of foods are proteins, car- bohydrates, fats and mineral salts. ‘The views are that the absorption of food occurs so quickly that the pro- teins get into the blood without hav- ing time to be changed chemically as in the normal person, that the diges- tive juices are changed in some man- ner so that they are not able to transform tne proteins as in the nor- mal person, that the person contains in his body certain substances which interfere with transformation of pro- teins, or clse that the person contains in his blood some substance which, combining with the protein, sets up the condition of sensitivity. There are all sorts of symptoms of sensitivity, some of the most common manifestations being a sick headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and also such eruptions as hives, eczema, inflammations of the bron- chial tubes, asthma, canker sores in the mouth, and other disturbances. These conditions are not, of course, in any way related to food poisoning, which is due to infestation of food by germs or by poisonous substances. Among the first substances to which some people were found to be espec- jally sensitive was egg. Today it has been shown that practically all foods, except water and sugar, may in some individuals produce the symptoms of food sensitivity. Wheat products, cho- colate, potato and fish have been es- pecially recognized. Some babies are sensitive to milk. Other things which have been particularly concerned are raw meats, lobster, crawfish, shrimps, mussels, oysters, kidney beans, prunes and many other similar substances. Apparently the most important methods involved in the control of these conditions are the certain diag- nosis made by careful tests and the prevention through avoidance of the food substances involved. The skin tests are simply scratches on the skin on which a little of the extract sus- pected is spread. A position reaction includes the development of a red spot. A negative reaction simply means that the scratch heals without any inflammation. still has old homes shelled in the war of 1812; Indian trails cross the paths to Hoboken’s beer resorts; and scat- tered relics of the revolutionary war are all over Long Island. As a matter of fact, at this mo- ment there lies before me a modern guide book which, in reference to Harlem, says: “Erstwhile aristocratic brownstone houses now hold speak- easies, pool parlors and dance halls; swankily clad negroes strut their stuff; gifted negresses shout torch ballads ... you'll see things you never dreamed of in Paris.” All of which is perfectly true. But it’s also true that George Washington watched from the an- cient Apthorpe mansion until his troops had passed and the enemy had been sighted. Then mounting his horse, he galloped to Harlem Heights and took up headquarters in the de- serted Mary Morris home. General Howe had ridden from Murray Hill, where J. Pierpont Morgan now lives, and made his way toward “the heights.” There Washington, with a thousand men less than the British forces, was victor in one of the de- cisive victories of the war. Howe's mén were chased for two miles by the victorious revolutionaries, And, somehow, when they're talking of Harlem gin and “hot spots,” I wish they’d get to the ears of some of the younger generation that stirring ro- mance of the past is to be found all over Manhattan Isle, even if its lo- cation is, frequently, just around the corner from @ speakeasy. GILBERT SWAN. (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) jury, as we saw recently in Minneapolis, returned in- dictments against half a dozen policemen. The courts dismissed the charges without permitting one of them to go to the jury. There simply was no possibility of a conviction. Statistically these cases add little glory to the prosecuting attorney's office. Certainly we have no desire to maintain that every prosecuting officer does his full duty regardless of friend or foe and without any regard for political’ consequences. But we do suspect that it is entirely too easy to make out @ statistical case against a ing attorney. The very people who resent his lack of enthusiasm in the prosecution of one case, will be even more resentful be- mi study. The guide book shows how it an cause of his activities in another. ‘WUD ANIMALS WW INOIA EVERY YEAR, rs a. he GIANT CACTE HIS CURIOUS WORLD S (S THE STATE FLOWER of ARIZONA ; ik i i | i : a LV. CRON “ OF IOWASTAE COLLEGE, USES ONLY ONE CAKE OF ICE PER SUMMER. IN HIS ICB-BOKwe “BUT THE ONE CHUNK IS ABOUT 22,000 emt rtoeracntcpmnercenameanareeerrdeertth AN ABDICATION ORDER On June 19, 1917, French and Brit- ish troops, entering Thessaly, occu- pied Volo and Larissa. On the fol- lowing day a French force seized the isthmus of Corinth. On June 11, Charles Jonnart, for- merly French governor of Algeria, and at this time named high commis- sioner of Grece, arrived in Athens and demanded of the royalist pre- mier, M. Zaimis, the immediate ab- dication of King Constantine and the} renunciation of the crown prince’s right of succession. The king was not in a position to fight. There was only one thing to do, And so, on June 12, 1917, Con- stantine abdicated the throne of Greece and on the next day he sailed away with his Hohenzollern wife from Hellas under escort of two French de- stroyers. : Under Jonnart’s supervision, Alex- ander, Constantine's second son, was duly proclaimed king, several notori- ously pro-German Greek leaders were expelled from the country and ‘an accord was reached between the partisans of Venizelos and those of Zaimis, Quotations i International confidence cannot be builded upon fear—it must be builded upon good will.—President Hoover. *** * It is not necessary to be a profes- .| sional musician just because you love music.—W. J. Henderson. ** ® ‘There will always be eternal mem- ory in the soul of the Spanish people for those citizens of America who were interested in the fate of our people.—President Niceto Alcala Za- mora of Spain. * * Television is still in the realm of the scientist and the enthusiast—Don E. Gilman, vice ba NBC. * If they must either buy gas for the car or milk for the babies, they will buy gas for the car.—Rev. James H. Griffith. **k * On the principle that half a loaf of bread is better than no bread, it ought to be true that half a truth is better than no verity—G. K. Ches: terton. BRIGHAM_LED_ ANY*j THING: BUT. A A Happy LiFe HERE! :-: PITCHING FOO me SYNOPSIS: Bert Rushe, oa ere) sf el bi iy I y e am ys leagues six years before it is discovered called a “pitching fool” in college. re and meanwhile he makes a fail to win the girl he loves. gets a homer with Dolly Dawson, from him, and later Bert fans the big fellow. a theatrical friend, faces the woman Who slan~ ‘At last he signs up in a major big fortune on the side, only to He meets his famons brother, who first Bert, dered him to the girl he loved and lost. He doesn’t know how it will come out, I WISHED I knew what Mavis Merrill would think when she received the letter from Mona Lorrin retracting all of her scandal about Dolly Dawson and myself. That Mona would do as I told her I had no doubt, She was a badly frightened woman and ready to collapse. And those threats of criminal and civil suits for slander and damage had her frightened silly. If she knew the truth sh millions would I have brough' e wouldn’t worry. Not for such suits, not only because I wouldn’t stand for that sort of publicity, but because I wouldn’t drag Mavis into it for anything on earth. Dolly's attitude puzzled me. She’ seemed to know something, or guess something, and I didn’t like the way she laughed, as if it were a joke. I wondered if she had seen Mona in advance and tipped her as to what to expect from me. Perhaps 80, and it was all acting. But Dolly had been such a square-shooting girl with me that I didn’t want to believe that. I hunted up Harry and he was glad to see me. We went to a downtown spaghetti place, a favor- ite place with him, for dinner. 1 felt that I ought to tell him, it would make me feel better. “Aw, heck, when you know women as well as I do you won't be sur~ prised at anything,” he said. “Be your age, how about the little bata “Exception, one swell girl. You don’t have all the hard breaks, Bert —I got my share. If luck had been with me and I had had any sense I would have married her when 1 had the chance.” “All right, Miss Merrill is another exception.” “But you can’t square it now— women are peculiar, they'll believe all the junk a fortune teller tells em or all the gossip they hear, but ee @ lot of good sound | End of the Season I ate in silence for a while. “Let's go ng and see some friends of mine, and forget all this stuff,” Harry suggested. = I didn’t go. I wasn’t in the mood. ‘The next day we lost our game and again Harry failed to get a homer from me and again I had him out with three pitched balls. He struck at two and fouled out on the other. Then we were off for Chicago again. I saw Dolly and told her to ex- plain to Mona to write me in care of the team at Chicago and it would be forwarded if I were away. Dolly seemed to think that was funny. “What's all this secret stuff?” I asked. “Nothing, but don’t worry, Bert.” Dolly became serious at once. I hopped aboard the train, still somewhat puzzled. The Senators came up from St. Louis to pay us. When I got to our locker room for the game I found Red Flanni- gan and Pudge Waters there. It wasn’t a long jump up from Allison and they had no Sunday baseball. I was sure glad to see m. em. We certainly did gab about old times. Hadley had kept his word and both boys were eas ‘on his team. Chalmers’ hester outfit wasn’t so good this season, they told me, and it looked like a walk-over for them. “Hadley will be out in the grand- stand,” Red told me. “All right, watch me hit an un- lucky streak today,” I said. “That's all right, Bert, you've sure been going great; we make a grab for the papers the first thing to see how you are doing, and we get a big kick out of it.” Thad a nice long talk with them, for after we warmed up I held down the bench until the sixth again. Buckbee had a habit of late of either using me for the opening or closing frames. I never knew how he figured it. [maar yee I oe sight of Hadley in the Grandstand and waved at him. The Senators were crowding us quite a lot, at that. ore rt Marks, our first bagman, made a couple of costly errors. “Wish I was out there,” Red said. He wouldn’t have been out of place, at that, for Red was sure & good man on first. “Well, this is a long ways from the sand lots back in Worcester where we used to fight,” Red said. “It isn’t so far, looking back, as it was when we were kid players and looked on a big league player as considerably more heroic and im- portant than the president,” I re- minded him. “Yeah? I'm not a big leaguer yet, Bert.” “Both of you boys better make a try-out next spring,” I advised. “Can you help us?” Pudge was quite excited over it. I promised to do my best when the right time arrived. ‘And then it was up to me to go into the box. Buckbee switched Marks and put my friend, Yates, on first bag. I had never seen him play there, but it was no time for me to worry. ‘The Senators had struck a batting streak and some ot our boys had fallen down in the fielding. t had snarled hier ‘up until we had but two runs and the Senators had I had to get down to the game. I tried to forget that Red and Pudge were watching me and ex- cting a lot, just use I had d into the major league. e first man from the Senators smacked thi backward, but he didn’t drop the ‘One down on one ball, That was nice. The next man fell for dro) positions and use I cl when I hurled the next one he fell again ff, the same ball. An - oot go! Two down. It looked good. But the next baby smacked it right out into center and made two bags before it could be sent in. Not The middle be home plate an ‘The fol- balls. this lad on second was prancing down toward third to make a sprint e man at bat smacked it. sent the ball to second . runner tried to dodge, but was out between bases. lowed—Buckbee at me. “You remembered,” he said. He refe to time I signed up when he itch “Boy, that was swell,” Red ex- claimed when I came back. Only one run in the next, and it was a homer. The next three never had a chance to even start to sprint ey ( hit ey shut us out. In the eighth we again tied the score With a run and the best the Senators got was _a_man_over as far_as third before we retired them. ‘The last frame promised to be ex- citing. c Luck was with me. The player Jeaned back and made no effort to slam the pill. “Strike,” he was informed. And then he lost nis head and said ce He was sent out of the game by the umpire. Good for us, ause this bird was usually clever with the stick. The rest of the men fell down; one I fanned perfectly and the other was caught out. I was glad. I don’t know when I had been so tired. Perhaps I was self-conscious, knowing that Hadley and Red and Pudge were watching, Unless we could score a run I would have an extra inning, or per= haps Buckbee would put McPher- son in. At any rate, we needed @ run. Kirby Yates was shifted. ra Buckbee had more confidence in him this game than in Lon, who had had tough luck with one ex- ception, Kirby singled and took @ mighty big chance, stealing second. ‘The next man singled. Then a man down. It was Noyes who leaned on the Ee when we felt sure he would fan, for he was a weak sister at the bat. He leaned on it so hard that he almost got second, but had to turn and dash back and while he was doing that Kirby not only sprinted down to third but took another chance. It was a lucky time, for they were trying to kill Noyes on second at a time when he was on his way back. Noyes got back safely and Kirby crossed the plate, ‘That was that. Hadley came down into the field to have a chat with me. We went into the locker room, After I had cleaned up and came out I got a jolt that made me stare. John Merrill was waiting there. The last time I had seen Mavis’ father was in France when I had done what I could when his wife died over there. “Well, well, I'll have to send on my San Guardo boys and show you lads how to play,” was his greeting. But he added that I seemed to have come right along. ‘Hadley and Red and Pudge want- ed me to have dinner and a little party with them, I had planned to do this, but here was Mavis’ father and I wanted to talk to him. I wanted to hear some word from Mavis. “I suppose you are awfully busy Bert, and dated up to go with your friends,” he said. “Well, it’s not important and I'd like to have a talk with you,” I re- plied Red and Pudge were standing back trying to give me the office to shake him. “We haven't much time, but Mavis 4s out in the car and I reckon she would like to say ‘hello.’” ‘Mavis? Mavis here?” e saw the game with me. We have got to go on with some friends to their country place and from there we are going | on home, but Mavis asked me—’ “Lead me to Her!” I cried, Has _ Mona written to Mavis yet? If she has, Bert will find it easier... maybe! the final thrilling installment of this great baseball serial—"The Pitching Fool.” Don’t miss Copyright, 1929, Graphic Syndicate, Ine.) f BARBS} o What is so raw as a day in June? * *e Traveling is broadening, especially to the young lady who returns from a Pay abroad several pounds to the Bt ** * An angler, like a pitcher, gets best results when his hook and sinker are working. * * * Even in times like these, the mor- ticlan finds business is the buries, ® ’ Then there was the Minnesota columnist who thought the state’s gag law was directed against his wise- cracks, * Oe OK Add to your boring facts: there is $480,000,000 worth of gold in the teeth of American citizens, (Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc.) FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Many a peppery miss needs a lot more seasoning to be an old salt. ny “4 rf