Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1932, Page 93

HING TON, D. C, JANUARY 31, 1932 ] T [ LAWRENCE IS BERING STRAIT DRAWN 8BY C. DuzMATI, 258 KENT AVE., BRIPGEPORT CONN Bouns XL THE WING THAT MADE FRANCE A GREAT AND POWERFUL KINGDOM WAS ONE OF THE QUEBNREST AND MOST SINISTER MONARCHS OF MEDIAEVAL TIMES To GAIN HIS ENDS HE SPUN A WEB OF INTRIGUE FROM Hi5 THRONE TO EVERY ' CORNER OF EUROPE, AND So 1S OFTEN REFERRED TO AS KING SPIDER” OR " THE UNIVERSAL SPIDER” Louls FOUND A HAVEN WITH THE POWERFUL DUKE OF BURGUNDY. THE EXILED PRINCE SPENT MANY YEARS AT THE CASTLE OF GENAPPE IN FLAN- DERS, DREAMING OF THE DAY WHEN HE WOULD> INMERIT THE CROWN OF FRANCE. — 00— THE NOBLES WHO HAD EXPECTED TO RECEIVE RICH FAVOR S FROM THE NEW KING, WHOM THEY HAD THOUGHT WouLD BE ONLY A PUPPET IN THEIR HANDS, WERE AMAZED AND ANGERED BY TH!S MOVE. MANY OF THEM BEGAN PLOTTING AGAINST Lowuis |N SECRET. [81cTURES IN THE MAP — - DISCOVERED BY KEEN-EYED YOUNG READERS. CARADA , Prawn 8Y BoB REGER. AGep 8 980 MT. VIEW AVE., San BERNARDINO. CALIFORNIA BoB ALSO POINTS OUT THAT BOTH OF HIS NAMES REMAIN THE SAME WHEN SPELLEP BACKWARD. BENTARIO PROVINCE- AND SANTA CLAUS< i EpmiRuiz PEREZ AGEP 11, CALLE MONTALVO, CUass =——* EDim4 waITES, Wanios de } [/3 jpagoma LOUIS WAS THE SON OF CHARLES TIT, THE KING WHO SUBDUED THE FRENCH NOBLES AND> DROVE THE ENGLISH ouT OF FRANCE. SAD To SAY, ASWAS OFTEN THE CASE IN ROYAL FAMILIES THERE WAS NO LOVE BETWEEN FATHER AND SON. In 1461 King CHARLES DIED AND LouiS AT ONCE RETURNED> TO FRANCE TO SEIZE THE CROWN. —* THE FRENCH NOBLES, WHO NOW SAW A CHAKNCE TO REGAIN THEIR FORMER POWER MET LOUIS AT THE BORDER AND E SCORTED HIM TO RHEIMS TO BE CROWNED". BT, DISTRUSTFUL OF ALL THE NOBILITY, L oIS CHOSE FOR HIS CHIEF HENCHMEN ADVEN- TURERS ALMOST AS CUNNING AS HIMSELF, CLOSEST TO THE KING WERE OLIVER LE DAIM, THE ROYAL BARBER, TRISTAN UHERMITE, THE KING'S HANGMAN, AND LA BALUE, A SCHEMING POLITICIAN WHO HAD TRICKED THE POPE INTO MAKING WHEN Louis was 177 A GROUP OF NOBLES FORMED A PLOT TO DETHRONE CHARLES, AND OFFERED THE CROWN 7o THE YOUNG PRINCE IF HE WoULD JOIN THEM, GREATLY DESIRING TO BE KING , LOUIS WAS EASILY PER- SUADED TO TAKE PART IN A REVOLT AGAINST HIS FATHER Louts was 38 YEARS OLD WHEN HE ASCENDED THE THRONE-. THE FRENCH COURTIERS, ACCUSTOMED TO REGAL SPLENDOR WERE SURPRISED> TO SEE THE THROKNE OCCUPIED BY A WIZENED LITTLE MAN,MEANLY DRESSER AND WITH CRAFTY EYES THAT LOOKED> ON ALL WITH SUSPICION. Drtos ——— e h Py HIM A CARDINAL . Louis's eMiER AIMS WERE TO INCREASE HIS POWER AND DOMINIONS AND MAKE TRE NOBLES COMPLETELY SUBSERVIENT TOHIS WILL.TO GAIN THESE OBJECTS HE DIP> NOT HESITATE To §STooP TO MEAN TRICKERY. ©.1932. By 7 Canaocs MAWSPIELD, ~—* Bnam A LITTLE CUBAN READER. CRUCES,SANTA CLARA .ul‘d VWO Crucas, Prov: Suz Hara, Cube Map —— " UN CAMAay (ALLiGAaTOR) WHAT PICTURE-S po You SEE N THE MAP B~ £ THIS UPRISING WAS THWARTED BY THE VIGILANCE ANDPROMPT ACTION OF THE KING AND HiIS OFFICERS CHARLE S PARDONED> THE YOUNG DAUPKIN, BUT BANISHED HIM FROM COuRT. THE FATHER AND SON WERE NEVER RECONCILED . $ Louis BEGAN HISREIGN BY FoOLING THE VERY NOBLES THAT HAD ESCORTED HIM TO THE THRONE —* FORMERLY THE NOBLES HAD COLLECTED THRE TAXES, OF WHICH THEY GAVE THE KING OMLY A SMALL SHARE AS TRIBUTE . Louis Now ORDERQED THE PEOPLE TO PAY THEIR TAXES DIRECTLY TO THE- KINGS TREASURQY. SOMETIMES HE DISGUISED HIMSELF AS A POOR TOWNSMAN AND MINGLED WITH THE- PEOPLE IN THE STREETS YO HEAR WHAT THEY MIGHT BE SAYING ABOUT HIM OR TO PICIK UP GOSSIP OF THE SECRET DOINGS OF THE NOBLES. OF COURSE,ON SUCH SPYING | EXCURSIONS HIS GUARDS WERE ALWAYS | WITHIN CALL, =~ Yo 85 conwTinuel>- 3 L o e e e e Veto Power Ancient HE use of the veto power by an executive of a State has an origin which has been traced back as far as the old Roman state, when the tribunes, by using the word “inter- dico,” which means “I interdict,” halted the legislative acts of the Senate. As far back as 1642 the veto power was rec- ognized in Poland by law, any member of the Imperial Diet being able to block legislation by proclaiming the Polish words which mean in substance “I do not allow.” The King of England has the power of veto, but it is a power to which recourse has not been taken for generations, the last instance on record being in 1707. The Constitution of this country also pro- vides for the veto, but the President’s power to veto is limited in that it can be overridden. The veto by President Jackson of the bill to re- charter the Bank of the United States is one of the first on record Tricky Partridge Saves Her Chicks HE mother partridge or ruffed grouse has a clever trick to which she resorts when her chicks sre too small to fly and they become threatened by the approach of a man, beast or predatory bird. The chicks, little puffs of yellow down, scat- ter at the mother bird’s first warning note, running for whatever shelter may be at hand such as a pile of brush, a deadfall, pile of leaves, ferns or other such hiding place. As the intruder nears, the mother bird runs slowly along the ground, dragging one wing as though it were broken. Naturally the marauder, see- ing crippled food at hand, starts after the bird; she runs just fast enough to keep out of reach, and the speed of the bird on the ground is almost incredible at times. She doxges, turns, circles and leads such a confusing chase that in almost no time her pursuer has lost all track of the point at which the chase began. When she has satisfled herself that her chicks are safely hidden she makes one last dash straightaway and then just as her foe starts to pounce upon her she lifts off the ground with a drumming of wings startlingly loud and her pursuer is left far behind. After a reasonable wait, she returns to where she left her chicks. No sign of them is to be found. Hunt as one may, the chicks cannot be found. Wherever they have hidden they stand rigidly still and would not move even to avoid being stepped on. The mother bird after assuring herself that all is clear issues a low call and the chicks, almost under the eyes of a watcher; seem to spring like magic from their hiding places, and falling ia line behind the mother go on about their brsiness until the approach of another enemy |'rings a repetition of the process. Whirlpools Caused Legends ANY of the superstitions and myths of early days involving the evil spirits of the sea which lay in wait for unwary sailors are believed to have been built about actual ex- periences of some hapless sailors caught in the huge ocean whirlpools, the largest of which are the maelstrom in the North Sea and the Charybdis near Sicily. From these disasters the ignorant and super=- stitious sailors out of their fears and fancies wove tales of great caverns in the ocean into which sea monsters of all sorts drew their hapless victims. The uneven struggle in which the sails and oars were impotent against the forces of the ocean currents easily fed the imaginations of the sailors and in the telling and retelling the natural force of the currents was painted in lurid colors as the malignant force of some evil destructive monster which sought human life.