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J; '"' ••"T" V IffW,1J r"SvV®Jr ....^V**1 . ' ^ " " -v.* W' .•;,wv • A >.'.' &*»U * V <fWr« * ^ .-i'vi ~ r •V*'v : > ?'V- •^r vV #!W. rm THE M'HEN&Y PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, JULY 20,1933. TRAVELING WITH 'MIKE' i-Wi £~/.. Juno 30, 1983. * .« Veil, polk- " V We are now in Brussels, and is my ," v Trench prozair, old fashioned or Trhat have you? Everything is ___i£reek to me. Pardon, 1 mean f rench : .)-. Today we visited a good many places including the king's palace m >•' ' *$he main square and another more recent and modern in which he lives / tow. Others were the Place of Jusr , ji ^[ice, Hotel de Ville, the Royal Thea- " """fre and the Nord Station. , St. MicHel, which is the patron r ' #aint of Belgium has a church named • *frfter him- It was started in 1400 find it isn't completed as yet. They Heed to put spires on it yet and that j Will take at least another 100 years. | r?" roy . Th e reason for the great length o^j' ' : time is that the money they build the I ° & from thg counts of ; ' «hurch with doesnt come m as freely zenilnb in contrast to the Kate. 4 • a? it might. 1 We travelled on one street that is "$>uilt right over a river kilometers. It's the legend and beauty that it is nearly impossible to give an a decent description with out doing a whole book on each, and certainly you wouldn't want me to do that, would you? At Koblenz or Cobtence, as you will I was much surprised to see a statue of the late German Kaiser Wilhelm. I rather thought people would have torn down any object or building that reminded them of him, and the monument isn't small, either. It covers a space equal to our own dear high school building and,, probably, as high as the top. When Coblence began to sink below the horizon, we could -see one beautiful castle after another, One, Marksburg, towers almost perpendicularly above the Rhine. It was nevei^ wholly It was known to exist in 882- Another place "the Castle of " got its nickname from the zenilnbogen Die Loreley, which is a series of per ' pendiculax bluffs, that are 132 meters ' above the river, or if one should stand our football field on end, the Die Lorthat is by the St. Gothard pass, the people being so sure of the fact that Mussolini is going to invade have constructed huge slots in the mountains on both sides of this pass and have filled them with tons of gunpowder and each slot is connected in such a way that by pressing a button some thirty miles away the pass can be completely demolished and anyone who happens to be near (referring to the Italian army) may be blown to-- well, I'd hate to say where. YooSAan probably just bet your boots we were all wishing somthing would happen while we were there so as to see the fireworks and get a thrill--maybe! Speaking of St. Gothard and its pass, there is a wonaerful piece of engineering done on it or, as you will, through it. It was found that by boring straight through from the Swiss side the tunnel would come just onefourth of a mile below the surface on the Italian side. It was decided rather than make t|^> grade in the tunnel it X0HNSBUR& "wfand Mrs. Martin O&antif "ftnd family of Fremont and Mr. and Mrs. Vvilliam, Sattem of Woodstock were Sunday visitors in the ho&tf^of William Althoff. Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff and Miss Mary Althoff and Bernard Altroff and nieces, Lorraine Sattem and Dolores, visited at New Munster one day this week. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Huff of Richmond visited with John Huff Sunday. Mrs. William J. Meyer and family and Irving Schaefer motored to Chicago Wednesday and visited witli Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shifano and also took in the sights and shows at Riverview park. Mr. and Mrs. John Bohmen of Wil* mette, Mirs. John King and Mrs. Jacob Steffes of McHenry called on Mrs*, Wauconda spent last Friday at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk at Maple Park. Betty Lou returned home after visiting her grandparents here and at Grayslake. John Nested spent Sunday with friends at Waukegan. Mrs. HJ. Shaffer ai)d Mrs. Celia Knox of McHenry spent Monday evening at the home of Cfcelr father here. Willard Darrell, Mr. and Mrs- Elmer Esping and Miss Margaret Esping motored to Moline last Friday. Misa Margaret Esping returned home on account of the serious illness of her father after a ten weeks visit with relatives and friends at Oak Glen farm. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Espirg remained for a visit. Mr. Darrell also caller on his daughter, Mrs. H. Bailey at Hillsdale. 1 Mrs. Fred Nordmeyer and daughter, Beatrice and Miss letty „Feber spent last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Walter Nordmeyer at Grayslake. Mrs. John Loftus and daughter, Edith, and son, Irving, of Hainesville spent last Thursday .evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nordmeyer. - William Barkweill broke his left arm while putting up an extension ladder on thfe Ray Dowell farm Monday morning. Meaning of Nana* The meaning of the names Meyer, Flschen, Albredt and Schmedes are: Meyer, valiant, warrldr; Flschen, erman; Albredt, nofcly bright; Schnifr d«e, smith, Ironworker. They are all Gevisuui surnames. A. * , _i jv • • QUI IuvviWH ilclu UU vpltxif wic ;*rag£ of the town and the river isj wQu]d ^ npaH forty feet h,pher Jhe Senne. Another interesting place ^ coniposure of the bluff i3 basaIt ?S*re investigated was a lace factory. •! •'\ iPVe were shown how the ladies who 5 .jm&ke all 'ijnake some of the designs rock. Southward the river forms a . • , - , , Day, wnere an ecno can ue neai a vj these articles, work an . r^Kound twelve times. Luren in 'Ger- , , i of the designs for wrisniani moans listen, mat's where the • "Jets, reck pieces, baby caps, etc. And pot its name. The river at *hen the big surprise came, We were ms point is moi'e tnitt-^nty feet '•hewn the finished product and asked ^eCp ; make a return favor in the formj ^ Sch(Mmrg cagtte ldcated te 0b- <>f a purchase or two. After we left.' erwesel has a very picturesque appearance with fortifications and watch toners dating beck to the middle ages. Oberwesel was once celtic, then captured by the Empire Romans before Christ. It became a fy*e city . . . , , . A * b y F r e d e r i c k B a r b a r o p s a o r K i n g R e d tninds of our group doesn t rate ^so 3earj Wc saw the leader of our party get "his "rake off", "don't cha know". - Of the three places we have visited "thus "far, England is much the prettiest place with Holland running a •close second, but Belgium, in the Well. Last night We stayed in Wiesbaden Most people have the a resort and resident city of 150.000 when they leave the UnitedI Sta^s for|people It is gituated in a val. ifurope that they w^,need an v,nter- , and tected b hills from 8tro |>reter for everything, everywhere. wjn(js Our experience is that we are almost If youil jMMdea me Vll ^ e«V my Us asily understood in Belguim and hrfi-icfa!,t Holland as England. Why, half the , people in London had to repeat, not M. L. Schoenholtz. pnee, sometimes, but several times before we understood them. In nearly every store in Belgium and Holland there was someone who understood Jqly 5, 1938. This isn't- Kate Smith, but 111 do 'English well enough that we coilld get^ my best. You, no doubt, are very ftlong very well. familiar with the tale of William In these two countries the children Tell. Well I'm tell--mg you, I saw Start at the second grade to learn his place of birth, the lake where he TRnglish, German and French, along was supposed to have pushed the boat with their own mother tongue, oonse- back into the water, the spot where fluently, we have little difficulty in the tree stood beside which his son 1>eing understood. " ! was standing as the elder Tell split There will be more to te!t"When I the apple, and the hole in which sit iet to Germany. 1 the age of 82 was drowned while at- M. L. Schoenholtz-; tempting to .save a young boy's life. P. 8. I jnst saw a. red riot and I Our itenerary took us to the scene had a ring side seat just above it. where a great landslide took place in Boy, one old Gendarme gave one kid 1806. The great mass became saturthe old stick proper. Whee, that was ated. with water from the heavy fun to watch] I haven't had so much'rains that $ook place years ago and fun since the old A. A. C- gang, when it slid it half filled a lake. Of tight used to take piace. j course, there wasn't room for the M. L. S. j wiiJer and the sliding mass. While ^ . • •. tl'fc latter was winning o>ut, the form- 7uly 3, 1983. I er was pushed as far as three mil?s My Dear People: ' away. The proof of this is that fish • Day before yesterdAy we-stopped of great size were found in puddles at Cologne and saw what Is consider- of water that up to 1806 hadn^t ex- ,«d by stern critics, whom we must isted. Some of the rocks were found fclways have with us, too much to be tj have rolled as far as five miles one of the most beautiful cathedrals eway- On a clear day, is is authenof Europe. Not only the architecture tically given that two houses may be which is German Gothic, but the beau- j seen down netir the bottom of ths tifully painted windows are known: lake. Oh, y«*'s, of course, many people the world over., *| were killed. "Hie sear of the wounded The evening of July 1 we stayed st mountain is still very plain as vege- Bonn, where I had the chance to meet; tation hasn't completely covered it a real Nazi soldier. We talked for! yet. » rearly' an hour on certain questions On another lake we passed we were that have arisen lately, and no matter able to see the castle of the first of "how prejudiced one may be, he will the long line of Hapsburgs, you know, r- vertainly have to give the organiza-j the rulers of Austria-Hungary for tion lots of credit. Earlier in the af- j centuries, and, incidentally, the last ' ternoon while roaming over the city i of the line was injured and killed I was quite lucky or fortunate, if you within 100 yards of the same place. will, to get an anterior and posterior -shot (with my camera, of course) of a Nazi parade. Yesterday morning we left Bonn for Wiesbaden via the picturesque Jthine river and on an excursion boat. . "When I say or write picturesque Rhine that adjective hasn't power to <dcal with the emotions one has viewing the wonderful old ruins and remains, reconstructions of old fuedal ct sties nd holdings, nor do I know adjectives or series of them appropriate for proper, may I write, Rhine description. • First, I'd like to deserfbe the Rhine proper. It is yellow, dark, muddy stream with much the same color as the Mississippi below St. Louis, Mo„ "and, I believe, a much swifter stream. ~At least the trip we made up the Rhine took us a little more than 11 hours and can be made downstream in four hour9 less time- Anther interesting point is that the Rhine isn't ?.s young as the Mississippi. A fact which is judged by the topography of the land through which a river flows. The older the river, usually, the more placid it becomes. Its width is broader, its current slower, area of territory drained larger, etc. Now, as for the scenery, we saw so much with so much history, tradition, William J. Meyers Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thelen motored would bt> best to make it on the Swiss itoBurliT^ton .Monday. . . . r s i d e ; t h u s t h e e n t r a n c e of t h e t u n n e l ! . H e n r y S t o t t e ] Mri i• s madje- vb y three leveil s of windj.i ng_ i . Mane, and Mr. and Mrs. George Mil* !* r j ^ ^ track on the side Of one mountain, which in itself is quite a feat. It took j'aSS' of Grayslak* just six years to complete the tunnel,\ which is somewhat more than nine l miles in length. Construction was | started at either end and when the1 tunnel came together they were just a few yards apart. The roads we traveled over were not the great wide four-laned roads we have taken to Chicago, but just wide enough for one car except at certain places, built especially for use in passing. Now the cbnstruction of of the road was built by the government and incidentally for the government, so it seems. Mail, busses, which visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schaefer Thursday. Mrs. Joe Schmiti Is confined to her bed at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. William Oeffling and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Guvser, Mr. ancji Mrs. Peter Freur>xL and Mr. and Mrs". Peter Oeffling motored to Cihcago to attend the funeral of Mr. Buechles. Mr. and Mrs. George King and family and Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thiel and family motored to Geneva to visit with Mr. and Mrs- Earl Hoffien on Thursday evening. can be destinguished from other bus- Mr. and Mrs. George King and Ed- R motomi Kenosha gun. ses because of their yellow color, have. . . • . „ ... * the right to the inside of the road r.o matter wherever one may meet them. If any sliding over tne mountainside is to be done, they are safe. And to top that off, the offender may be lined 200 franc or in oil* money, approximately $15. Our guide gave us great peace mind when he stated that as high as twenty-two people had met death because of these busses, during one season. It was just our luck to meet three of these busses. Most of you know that the Rhine river ilnd the Rhone rivers each have . , . . . their sources in the Alps. I consider, myself very fortunate in seeing both of them. The Rhine has four sources day to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. Louis King. William J. Meyers and son, Elmet, motored to Twin Lakes Sunday. '* Mrs. Math Lay of Spring Grov# visited with her mother, Mrs. Stephen Schmitt Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Condon and' MisS Margie Landre motored out from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday wit^ Mr. and Mrs. Joe Karls. o Mr. and Mrs. John Jung and family of Spring Grove were callers here on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Foresters held their meet* There wert eleven tables in play. Prizes weni awarded to Mrs. H. Nell, Mrs. Hil t. hv a .t j.oin. t.o f-or m the Rt ,h, i-n e proper,;d.,a., .M a •v ', M „r s . L e,o F r e u n d , M r s . J o « _v.-i- 4.i_ di. * j u._ --' Miller and Mrs. Anna LT un,h en,h ei.m e*-. while the Rhone is formed by one source. At the head of the latter river is the famed Rhone Glacier (or are our guide called it glass le ar) which is a moving mass of ice that ne v e r m e l t s i n t h e m i d d l e , b u t o n l y a t , e • • r> the sides. It moves at the rate of,Sp T nn L g G r rovei one inch a day and is over three hun-, . ... , »- ... , died feet thick in parts. The glacier)^ ^!fend the week-end"with rela is composed of compressed snow, no ice. The reflections are very pretty shades of blue. One time some sever- Visitors at the home of John It Freund Sunday afternoon were: Mng Louis Bishop and daughter, Jeanetttj* and Miss Emma Freund of McHenry ai d Mr. and Mrs. John Rauen of John Jerach motored out from Chial years ago a woman spectator (a Swiss in nationality) climbed pn this Mr. and Mrs. Gus Boltz ! mother of Dundee and Mrs? and h# Bolinger f | tives here. The ladies of the Commuriity club met at the home of Mrs. Steve May Monday evening. Prizes were awardcwibs imiiiMittinv; ciiiiiueu un iiii» ed to M. rs. Stev,e M.a y., .fi rst; Mrs. Led nr.„. • huge mass. She slipped and Ml into! ^reund' and Mr8' W,lham *' a crevice a hundred feet or so below.! ^ers,_„J 1 „ Yes, she was killed immediately. It was impossible to get her body out. . v e , . .. . and forty-two years later it was re-)01 Kansas C.ty were Sunday visitor, covered at the foot of the glacier and,mi,he h°me ^William Althoff surprisingly enough it "was an example of perfect preservation by artificial means- You can hardly imagino , .. „ , being on a big divide and see water\tho" Su"day - . ... .ffc that flows to the Mediteranean sea M.ss Agnes Schmitt is visiting witk and by looking in a different direc- fn®nds aT!d^elat,^es ^ T tion see water that will flow into the ., Mr-. and Mrs fU Jof KarIs/"d fa,rt* North Sea, two thousand miles from ^7 m the home Mr" anf the former Mrs. Ed Thompson near Ring wood oa I suppose you people are suffering j Sunday. , , „ with temperatures around the 100' 0i°9^8ch^M. V ^ „»rk. If you think that i, 5omethinS Sch^.tt^moto^J^C^c.^^tyd.; you ought to have been here today, Slyvester Tbnyan and his friend,' Miss Elsie Stebbin, of Evanston were visitors in the home of William A IWORLD' 8 ONLY SINGING COLOR FOUNTAIN harmonizes In music, color, and concerts daily In the 8*^ den surrounding Firestone's Factory and Exhibition Building at the World's Fair. Its kaleidoscopic spray •hoots 20 feet into the air from the 100-foot pool In tune and time with music. • - ^ ' «.• AMERICA'S BIG THREE at London Parley-- Sec'y of State Hull, (left) head of U. S. Delegation; Jas. M. Cox, (center) head of Monetary Committee; Rep. S. B. McRcynolds, also a U. S. Delegate DEATH TO BILLBOARDS--A new law empowers Minister Perrault of Quebec ^tighways Dept., to restrict or prohibit •iflnboards along the Province's 15,000 miles of Improved highways. Long leader In the move ment to preserve the natural scenery and French charm of Que bee, he lays a strenuous hand to his new task. It is his law. CHUCK KLEIN, hard-hittinf outfielder of the Philadelphia Nationals after he had ceived the trophy as th« most valuable player in tM National League during tHa 1932 eeaeott^ DANCE ON STEEL -- Leila Bederkahn does her Respigtll opera ballet, "The Water M irror,'* on a sheet of Enduro stainless steel which it * rapidly coming into use for innumerable purposes--from making lowly kitchen pots to decorating skyeeraf>ere and battleships •.SV..,-. • |y^- f * $ Li.' <• FIRST WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TEXAS--Mrs. Mary Dach, widowed mother of three children, « o is to die In the electric chair after being convicted of the murder of a hired man on her farm near La Grange, Texas. Mrs. Dach said it it she shot to save herself from being attacked. She is shown with tor three children. AIR SPEED KING in New Role--Major James H. Doe* ittle, famed aviator and man> ager of the aviation department, Shell Petroleum Corporation, St. Louis, is now homa> ward bound on his trip around the world, after several months' stay in the Orient. En route to London, he will . liver lectures on aviation Hit principal centers. Good old Wagner, pronounced "Vag ner" who wrote operas such as "Tannhauser" also, had his home on the same lake. Even Harry Lauder has a home on an island In a lake in Switzerland. It is reported that he paid a large sum for -the spot. Years ago when Napoleon was "strutting his stuff" all over western Europe, he* took the Austrians for a battle way up near what is now St. Gothard pass and while crossing a lake to meet the army of his opponents, the ice gave way, because of •he timed marching or the army, and before all was said and done for the wet occasion over 2000 men were drowned. No, I didn't ask, but he always dicf win, except at good <>ld "Waterloo." It is very peculiar about the different countries of Europe in respect to the hatred and fear they hold for each other. My! the Germans hate the French so that even the mention of France seems to run chills down their marrows. So much so in fact, that I was advised by a German acquaintance I made, to discontinue wearing my tam. To get my point that same hatred exists between the Swiss and the Italians. Now, it seems that there is only one practical way Italy can invade Switzerland and which was our hottest day since leaving New York City, was just 80 in the shade--just think of it! I've been able to wear a coat every day and evening and really appreciate it. I have a trench coat, which I have worn not less than fifteen times. M. L. Schoenholtz. Arizona's Cotton •rtona's cotton growing Industry owes Its origin to the Introduction of Egyptian cotton Into this country more than 30 years ago by the United States Department of Agriculture. Department workers soon learned that this type of cotton was not adapted to the main cotton belt, and concentrated their efforts In the Irrigated dstrlcts of Arizona and southern California, where conditions are similar to those In Egypt Mr. and Mrs. Math N. Schmitt and family wfere Woodstock callers on Friday evenihg. SLOCTO LAKE Thm Bluebird The bluebird is seven inches long, with ppper parts, wings, and tail a bright blue; throat, breast and sides are clnnamoa red, underneath white. The song is "tr-al-ly tru-nl-ly. The nest Is made largely of dry leaves. Four or six eggs, a pale greenish bine, are laid in tach brood and two or three broods are raised in a season between March and November. Why Farmers in Northwest Are Happy Now Happy days are here again for the farmers in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Due to the heavy demand placed on • for wheat from war-torn China, thousands of bushels of grain are being shipped out daily. So great is the demand and the production that there is no longer any room to store the jj^ RaxehoPses. .with the result that It Js stored outdoors while waiting shipment to the Orient _ *' 'Hi 'C. Gilkerson of Grayslake called cn Harry Matthews Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geary and children called at the H. J. Shaffer home at McHenry Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John blomgren wera Waukegan last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Zimmer and daughter, Joan, of Palatine were visiting at the home of Henry Geary Frl> day evening. Mrs. Lulu Quartel and Russell Magraw returned to their homes at Ply mouth, Mich., last Wed%sday aftqjp a few weeks visit at the H. L. Brooks home. Earl Converse and Russell Hanson were callers at Gra/stake last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren wert; Sunday dinenr guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lundgren at Wauconda. Mrs. Wm. Berg, Mrs. Wm. Foss and son, Billie, were business callers at Elgin Monday. Mr. and Mrs- Jas .S. Haas of Wauconda were callers last Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith. Mrs. Page Smith aud children, Mae and Douglas, spent Monday at th« home of Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Harris at Wauconda. Willard Darrell called on G. F. Vaf* ner of Ohio at the E. H. Prior home in Wauconda last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams an} son, James Howard, of Crystal Lake were Sunday dinner guests • at the home„of Mrs. Clara Smith. Miss Lillian Tidmarsh of Wauconda Mrs. Jack Pesheck and two children cf North Nakota and Mrs. W. O. Erooks of Waukegan called at -he home of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell last Wednesday. Mrs. Spengler of Highland Park called at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith and Mrs. Harry Matthews last Wednesday. Mrs. Jack Pesheck and daughter,' Jean, and son, Bobbie, left Thursday to visit relatives at Whitewater, Wis and on Saturday, in company with Miss Neva Toynton of Wauconda left for her home at Mikkelson, N. TJ. Mr. and Mrs. William Darrell and two children of Welismere Heights were supper guests Sunday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren and granddaughter, Betty Lou, and Mrs. George Lundgren and Miss Nelson at m . a*":-; "" v t . •'i"'. . ON AN AVERAGE WASHDAY YOUR S ABOUT • HERE'S a washday bargain you may not fully realize because it isn't usually price-tagged. It's the electricity you use to run your washing machine. The power that swishes al1 the dirt )ut of dothes in the nib and wrings them out for the line costs fusi a hacttm otcr a penny an bou* in the average northern Illinois home Less,than 3 cents' worth ot electricity takes all the hard work out ot washday PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Eiectrit wasbm have never been (meed so iow at your Pultic Seevict Store and other itettf dm/err. • V' . ... ...air