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PlffB TWO £ ' stays m the ralUy Iriil never get em the hiU." OCTOBER ^•Pf* 1-Couftt Ztppelintrt«lrt« ' Wi - , fint luccessful flight, 1900. ifiE' 2--Start of the great Boston, MlP,4_L ;^M«s».,4ire.l7lI. " ETPJ J---First • Canadian troop* •ail for France, 19H* •' / Rutherford B/."^iy«CT *»" ,/ • 19th President, born 1822. | a^O ..to,- 55----GGeerrmmaann retreat iinniC ham- , " ' pag.ne start*. 19iS> 6--50,000.000 marks equal tf/'** '• Vorte'" dollar irt Germany,v •C^ 1923, • I'- 'T--three-mile horse rail* M way starts' in. Quincy. ewKu Mass.. 1S26. POTPOURRI^ Why China Has tittle Mijfe g'OT'hcre.;- gre • prafti-eiilly1 ?b6;. dsiir y ^hjilnc'ts or moat .16 Cftifia-) a*id the;, con n t r>:: kruws. no I hi rig' nboi.it s tock rSisirtir. Tills is. because it Is so Vthlokly populated that every available area is given'over to cultivation, leaving no ground for grazing purpose,?. A _ limttejl amount of poultry, and $ few i>igs,'are raised vin door y a r d s . ; y ;I. , . Father Satfe Sijyj The dreams of nine people out of ten are troubled "dreams. Naturally they are. being the result of some physical uneasiness. « DR. W. E THOMAS ^ DENTIST v • Elm at Green St. J Tel. McHenry 69-J 'Hours 10 a.m. to 6 p. m. Evenings by Appointment /., Closed Wednesdays, All Day * 4~:- KENT & COMPANY All Kinds of i I N S U R A N C E Placed with the most reliable ~ Companies Cone In and talk it ovtir •• "hone McHeHry 8 . Telephone No. 300 -- ' Stoffel & Reih&nsperger twarmnce agents for all classes of • * property in the best companies. McHENRY ILLINOIS '•C ... ' fc/v';";' '. I Charlie's Repair Shop Formerly Pint's Blacksmith Shop--Pearl St. j Radiators Repaired, Bodies and Fenders •a . Straightened Sign Painting ; Truck Lettering Acetylene Welding , CHARLES RIETESEL •m. • .w Downs Motor Express The Pioneer Line Operates daily between McHenry and Chicago Phones: Wabash McHenry 7518 256 A. P. Freund Excavating Contractor JCnickingj HydrauUc and Crane Serves : Road Building Tel. 204-M McHenry, III S. H. Freund & Son CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Phone 127-R - -^McHenry Our experience U at Your Service in building Your W&nta iJACKHtitTk "THE WRECKER".„ ^ 6CNEVIKVE TOBI* ,§^2 C O L U M B I A P I C T ( J R t -m' McHENRY PLAINDEALXE •3?'*'.: Diminutive Sam Shapiro picked his way through the^debrls that had jornce been the majestic Breakers JHotel. A large sign informed the world that the Pacific Coast Wrecking Company has been assigned to the demolition. ' 1 Shapiro paused before the sign, for lettered in large red letters across the top was: "K|2EP OUT. THIS MEANS YOU!!" He placed the big black suitcase that he' was icarrying on the ground, looked up -.at the emphatic _f wording and .grinned, "It's a good thing," he said, ' Shapiro can't read English." He picked .up the bag and walked further' over the ground that was littered with the battered ruins. He stopped before another sign upbn •»hith was printed: "DANGER." ' , 'Hrn-m. This X can read." He drugged. " "But why do I carry In- I.' »urance?" .•'• . " ' ' - ? • He walked past broken stone col- . i trins. cracked archways, and torn •vails that had somehow jm&naged .o stand as though in ah ieftbri to preserve the dignity that had- once oeen the building-. • • . He dropped the .bag 'and-.opened »he , catch. Noticing a .doorknob ; •tidden partiaiiy by a churtk of solid mortar, lie quickly kicked aside the obstructing piece and retrieved the vnob. He looked it over. CfireftiHy, '*nd then with k nod -that bespoke . ' favorably of the doorknob, he tossed t intp 'the bag. .v" '• •:- V ,6r^.mer, one of the wvreckifig-'efeNSV •valked over to Sh&piro. Glowering, 'ie looked into the suitcase. "Salvage, huh?" he growled. Shapiro reached into his pocket nnd brqught forth a sniall card. He < >" hahded it to Cramer. ' • ^ feet as ^Cramer pulled away tlw debris.' , ^Regai)," he said anxiously, "did you--" Regan interrupted brusquely, "I'm all-right." He scowled. Go on--I'll take eare of this." The men hesitated-- Regan might be hurt. The superintendent barked, "Go on--get back to work!" > The men moved off, looking back uncertainly. Regan turned, as a groan came from the prostrate Shapiro. "It feels like,every bone in my body is broken," mumbled the little Hebrew. „ "I ought to break your neck and finish it," snapped Regan,, lifting Shapiro to his feet. The smaller man winced as he stood up. Regan slipped his arm about Shapiro's wpist and half-carrying, half-dragging him, got him to the timekeeper's shack. Not noticing that Shapiro's head was slumped forward on his mea.?re chest Regan kep.t. UP a '.vitriolic, 'word fire, "What's the matter with you? Can't you read signp? How do you suppose we can wreck builds ings with you kibitizers hangin' around? I ought to dump you outa here. with the rest of the rubbish, How'd you get in hert, anyway?" " There was no answer from Sha« piro.,': - '• s • ;• Regan lifted him through the timekeeper's room and into ;the first-aid station;.which was part of the partitioned shack. His rough voice still berated Shapiro. "What do you think this IS? A' picnic ground"? If you could st^nrt. on your feet I'd lick the tar out of you. You hear me?" For the first time, Regan realized When SKould an Old Man Stop Work? V:-'- " By LEONARD A*. BARRETT in- Shapiro't eyes-flickered, then opened tlowly v. . 1 (Poaed by Jack Holt and Oeorgt.B, Stone) , Cramer read: "SAM SHAPlPO. JUNK. If you don't want it I want it." He tore the card in half and tossed it away. . . - ^ I "Come on--beat it!" • J "Yes, sir. Thank you, eh--Mr. ; ( Shapiro was suddenly polite, f'i don't believe I got your name." ; "Hitler!" Cramer snapped. Shapiro was hasty. "Good-bye." He reached for his grip, but now ,the case was some ten feet away--; '/lea.- one of the steam-shovels. He walked hurriedly towards It. As he did so. Cramer winked to the Shovel operator, and as Shapiro bent over to pick up the bag the huge shovel swung directly behind the little Hebrew, caught has trousers and lifted him, kicking, high In the air. The workmen broke into boisterous ' laughter, which grew louder as the shovel deposited Shapiro on a pile of rubbish. Frightened, he scrambled down to the ground and grabbed his suitcase. He backed away from the workmen bewllderedly as Cramer bawled an order to "Get out!", then to the laughing men, "Get back to work!" Work began again and several of the wreckers prepared a detonator for a blast that would send one of the high walls crashing to the ground. Compressed air drills and pumps added to the din and general confusion of the scene. The loudest shout could not be heard above the nolqe. Shapiro, still terrified, backed towards one of the, walls--the wall that was about to be blasted. Regan, burly superintendent , of the company, who was standing on the second-floor scaffolding, was the only one to notice him. He tried to shout above the furor, but it was impossible. His voice was drowned. He looked about desperately. There was only one hope. A longi heavy rope hung from the story above. Grabbing this, he swung pendulum-like from the scaffolding. Down.. .down,.. .down he shot...a human cannonball.. .a living cannanboll that gathered momentum with each inch it traveled. Shapiro was the target...the Hving target. There ^-as a smack as Regan's body hit the unwary Shapiro. The small Hebrew's frail form was flung several yards, while Regan's body, only slightly checked in its driving flight, continued beyond. Throwing himself loose from the rope, Regan land' v on the ground and quickly co- red the still body of Shapiro with his own. There was a terrific explosion, as the detonator sent the huge wall Into thousands of pieces. Mighty boulders and small pebbles of mortar fell in a raining torrent about the two men.' The debris was hurled oyer them, partially covering them 1 under a blanket of stone. One of the workmen grabbed ^ Cramer's arm. "The boss!" he r-n^uted excitedly. " • 1 Cramer looked and started off on & quick ruii. Tilt rest of the group followed. Regan, his face and hands bleeding where the sharp rock had cut into his flesh, stumbled to his that Shapiro hadn't made any come* back. He looked at the still form- Shapiro had fainted! "Tom--Tom Cummings!" Regal) yelled. i Cummings came from the office marked, -"Timekeeper," 'He wai younger than » Regan--in his late twenties, of good breeding, hand* some, college-bred. "The mugg's out. Get Doc--» quick," commanded Regan. Cummings walked Into the first*" aid station aa Regan secured a flask from a nearby desk and forced liquor down Shapiro's throat. Shapiro's eyes flickered, then opened slowly. 'Tm--I'm sorry," he mumbled. The doctor and Cummings came' into the room. 8hapiro, his face distorted with pain, pointed to his. leg. • , "My leg--seems to--be a llttlfe--*•) The doctor bent over and nade a cursory examination of the limb. Taking a scissors from his bag, he cut the lower part of the trouser, leg. The doctor straightened. "Com-1 pound fracture," he said; then turned to Regan, whispering, "and a nasty one." - Shapiro's voice was low. "Don't ~don't tell Sarah." "Who's Sarah?" asked Regan. "Mrs. Shapiro." The doctor commenced to dretfS the injured leg, Shapiro's head breaking out into a cold sweat as the antiseptic hit the open wound. A little later the doctor stood erect* "There you are. I guess that hurt a bit, huh?" Shapiro managed a jaunty grim-' ace through his pain. "It's all in A day's ;work, ain't it?" "Plenty of guts, at that," said Regan, approvingly. "What's your name, buddy?" "Sam." "Well," said Regan, "you're Jake with me." 'Z.-O Shapiro smiled wanly MAU right,' Jake. Thank you." , ' "For what?" asked Regart. "For saving my life." Regan grinned for the first time.' "That's all In a day's work, too. Forget It." "Shapiro never forgets," said the little Hebrew. "Okay, Jake," said Regan. He tyrned to the doctor. "Clean him up. Doc." As" the doctor bent to finish his task, Regan strode out. He walked across the vast area that was being demolished by the wreckers and IDproached the street. He stopped aa the sound ol a girl's high-pitched angry voice reached him. "Get out," came the girl's voice, "you don't belong here! Get out!" A man's voice, with a decided German accent, answered, "Vait a minute! Dis iss a free country. The retirement of Dr. William Holland Wllmer by Johns Hopkins university has furnished the metropolitan press , with an Interesting subject for debate. The question at .issue seems to be, was the university justified in thus retir* ing the ablest eye clinician in Aiperica?; Dr. Wilber was born August' l i ( i , 1 8 6 3 , Wl)ich would fti<lleate that a man should be retired at severity regardless of his mental or physical fitness. Doubtless retirement affords relief from detail duties and routine work iftcident to a professiQnal cateer. The question still arises, however, should one be retired from active service when ther«i still remains the, unquestionably efHeiefct service of many future years ? Qr, to put It lh anot her Way, , should the public be deprived of professional service at Just the age when experience wouid make that service all the more valuable? Ia~»&the# words, just when should an old man stop work? Let us remember that much of the flpest Work in art and litefarurtf as well as in medicine has been accomplished by those who labored,, most effectively far beyond the age of seventy. Some business concerns have a rule that a njan must stop work at sixty-five, others at seventy. The reason advanced is that room must be made for the .younger men. Other business concerns refuse to employ %. man who is over thirty-five years of age. In one case, known to the writer, a member of a certain firm was thus retired and went to England, where he established a rival business which pfoved a gr^at financial success. The better part of wisdom would .have been for that American firm to have kept that man on its payroll. Is It not true that no organization Is competent; to say'just when a man should stop work? Does it not depend entirely upon the man himself? Some men are old at forty, others young at seventy. Should not efficiency decide the issue? A man without a job is not oply unhappy, lie is miserable. Many, a man has "passed out" shortly after relinquishing active work. The man himself, however, is not the only One concerned'. Public health demands the best judgment that experience can afford. In business the wisdom of those who have successfully weathered the storm Is far mors valuable than the opinion of the young man just about to set his sails afltmt. In literature and art we want more of that "better self" which Michelangelo gave to the world at eighty. What shall be done with the old man? \V„ould it not be betteftf, we would let him decide for himself, provided he if still mentally and physically fit? / Home Bureau News New Wrinkles In Cake Making Mrs. Ruth M\ Laurance, of the General Foods Corp. will give a demonstration on making cakes in Woodstock, Thursday afternoon, Oct. 4, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Laurance is coming to the cpuntry through the efforts of the County Home Bureau with the Uptown and Evening units acting as hostess units. All problem^ or many problems in cake making should be solved at this demonstration. The public is invited. ' I >; > ^hen the family entertains at -picnics, parties, teas or buffet luncheon is the lesson to be given local leaders of the Home Bureau units at Woodstock, Oct. 2, anJ Marengo, Oct. 3, by Miss Grace Armstrong, Nutrition Specialist of University of Illinois. These local leaders will give this lesson in most units in October. Families are entertftinihg in thei* homes mi>re and more. This lesson should give some ideas to . some and should inspire others..; Watch for unit meeting notices. Mrs. C. Higdon, Hebron, was elected president of the McHienry County Rural Music and Drama Festival at & meeting of representatives of interested groups held in the Court House Thursday night, Sept. 20. J. B. Adams, Harvard, was elected secretary and Clara Greaves. Sweeney, Home Adviser is to serve in an advisory capacity. . ' 1 The group decided to use the tryout system in the county this year rather than the contest plan as used in fornjier years. Each entry un the festival will cbe rated by approved rating judges and all entries rating average or above may enter the tryout in the district. This system will be used throughout the state until the last three of each feature have been selected these will compete m the state contest. Any group living ifl a community of 2000 or less may enter any or all of the, features which are: One act plays; male, women's and mixed quartets and orchestras. A°y organization may enter except school group as such. ° All entries must be* in the hands of the county president, Mrs. Higdon, Hebron, J. B. Adams, Harvard or the Home Bureau Office oli or before Nov. L-- * " . In her suit for divorce Mrs. Francis J. Egan of Oakland, Calif., charged her husband with monopolizing the mirror,' M. A. Conway spent the weekend at Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. H. Jw Schaffer, with Mr. and Mrs. John dimmer of Wauconda, were Sunday visitors in the Leo Zimmer home at Palatine. . Warren Geis of Chicago is a guest in the George Johnson home this week. 1 : • Irene Walsh spent the weekend at her home at FoxsLake. " M iss Clarft Stoffel returned - home Monday night from Chicago, where she has been with her father, who is in the Presbyterian hospital. Mrs. Maurine Hunter and little daughter spent the past several days in Chicago. • Miss Charlotte Schuberth of Chicago spent a few days here last week. • ' Mr. and Mrs. Harry Laurence of Chicago spent the weekend with Mrs. Mollie Givens. . , Miss Laura Blake of Chicago spent the weekend with home folks. . Mr. and Mrs. A1 Woll have gone to Washington, D. C., to make their home for the present. ^ Gus Freund an^ his father, with Mike Butler and Albert Bu<?k, enjoyed a fishing trip Jast week at Eagle River Wis. ' Marie Knox is attending; Rosary college this year. • . Mr. and MIrs. Harold ' E^fans ,of Woodstock visited relatives Sunday night. >. / Mrs. Clarence Martin returned home Monday from a week's visit in Chicago. Jim Murray of Wauconda was a caller in the John Scliaid home Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. L. tfall and two sons of North Chicago visited Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Denman Saturday evening. The Misses Margaret, Mary and Rita Kirkman of New Munster, Wis., called in the Louis Althoff home Sunday afternoon. The Misses Mary Althoff, Margaret Larkin, Mildred Thompson,, Gwendolyn Overton, Rita Freund and Caroline Baur of DeKalb spent the weekend at their respective homers. Mr. and Mrs. Louis McDonald and ons, Kenneth, Bobby, Richard and" Junior, attended the world's fair Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.'John Bouhen of Wilmette spent the Weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John King. Fred Sattem of Minneapolis called on his mother, Mrs. G. Sattem and sister, Mrs. Ray Colby, Monday, driving Thursday, September 27, <1934 here from Milwaukee, where he is tending an insurance convention. ^: -Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hitzeman of Chicago spent the weekend in the. home of her pare*ts, Mr. and Mrs* A. E. Nye. ^ ' Lee Cleary and James--Dean Pittsburg, Pa., visited relatives her* this week. Charles Newman of Chicago spent Tuesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Newman. . Misses Ruth Nye and Evelyn JupK ten visited friends and relatives Evanston and Chicago last week. , Mr. "and Mrs. Bopp of Evanstoi "were weekend guests in the Jacob W Justen home. i Mrs. May Lestef of Elgin visited relatives here Monday, Mary Sirttdp returned with her for a visit. ' . M. A. Conway, son, Leroy, Him George Miller and daughter, Mar^ Elizabeth, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Co®; way and daughter, Matian Grace, and Clarence Anglese motored to Jolitft;': Sunday, where they visited Sistea? Marie Gratia, Sister Superior at Si, Patrick's convent. Mr. arid Mrs. L. F, Newman and Mrs: William Bacon were Woodstoclc * visitors .Friday. - V ;. * :X, Mrs. Mary Wall ipJO VMra- jol(Bfc«> Maher. of Chicago are: guests week of Miss Kate McLaughlin, ' Mrs. Fred Boger returned hbmjjp Monday night from a week's Visit iii j Chicago. .. Mr. and Mrs! Frank Mathieu an^ l Mrs, Arinie Luhkenhiemer spent** Thursday in Milwaukee, with friend^ also in Racine and Kenosha, Wis. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES "Matter" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon In all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, September 23. The Golden Text was, "Tremble, ' thou earth, at the pcesence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of . Jacob" (Psalms 114 :7). Among the citations which com-' prised the I wesson-Sermon was the - following from the Bible: "Judge * not according to the appearance, but Judge righteoucLJudgment" (John 7:24). The Lesson-Sermon also included the fol low ingf passages from • the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: "Whatever is m a t e r i a l is m o r t a l . . . Divine Science shows it to be im- . possible that a material body, though interwoven wit# matter's v highest stratum, misnamed mind, should be man,--the genuine and perfect man, the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal" .- (p. 477). . •*; - 'if 1' * w ^ * * . IM Meter Determines What Is Proper Lighting Smart Dignity Black wool suit with rippled black Persian collar. The blouse part of the dress and upper part of the coat lining are American Beauty silk crepe. Fnom Bonwlt-Teller., isibove--3Vfttf "Sight t^Meter", instrument for determining amount of light at any spot. Right -r- Using Sight JMefer for check• ingadequacy of light in the home. ain't it?" "Yeah." th'ere's a territory. Regan the girl shot back, "but quota now. This Is my Ask Regan." walked quickly towards the arguing couple. TO BE CONTINUED. Prpsperity appeara to iiave struck Eryjindzan, Turkey, where the price demanded fov especially attractive brides have been suddenly advanced from around $1^0 to as high'as $500. Whether this boost is the result of government price-fixing or merely , -thfijacorking of the law of supply and demand-was not stated in the dispatch containing the news. Mrs. Jane Grallan of New York was arrested for bigamy two days after she married her husband's broth- GABBY GERTIE hi "Girls who 'no' a lot art those who IfnAuu, tk* Our cavemen forefather® 300,000 years ago knew nothing of eye strain. Their acute sight enabled them to she arid identify game quarry or enemy jvlrmie away. Their eyes were used only in daylight. Their nights were ^iven over, for the most ^part to rest and sleep. i- A smouldering brusli fire or flaring faggot gave all the night light needed to discover his skin mantle for cover or to find his bed <y leaves or twigs. The keen vision of the pre-historic man was matched by his acute sense of hearing, touch, taste and smell. He used continuously all his senses. With the dawn of civilization came artificial light, but that was a comparatively short time ago, perhaps 10,- 000 years, a small fraction of man's whole time on earth. First the bone or clay dish with its fibre wick floating in oil; then the candles and kerosene oil lamp, the gas jet and finally the incandescent light, in order. With the coming of artificial light, man began to use his eyes under insufficient light. Ii^stead iof using tliem for long range vision under the high intensities of daylight--intensities hundreds of times greater than we find indoors even today--he began to use his eyes for close seeing under low iight intensities. Use of Eyes Changes As the centuries passed and civilization progressed, man came more and more to depend upon insufficient light and a generation or two ago he laid upon his eyes new duties, labors which had previously largely been performed* by his other senses. For example, the man in a busy down-: town city street today depends wholly upon his sight to avoid accident. The general noise and clamor makes his hearing undeperidable. Today we may say we have substituted close seeing indoors- at extremely low; levels of lighting, a much longer day and severe eye tasks, for primitive man's long distance seeing under high quantities of natural daylight. The result to the present generation is damaged eyesight to an alarming degree among people of every age. Twenty per cent of the gtada school children have impaired eyesight. Eyesight impairment ruiUs to 40 per cent among college students. 60 per cent among persons more than 40' years old and 95 per cent in persons over 60. i;##- yeira' little h*i " been ^ne abolit improving this situation. Persons with failing eyesight have resorted to glasses, but have failed tj^g;"?" remove the chief cause of sight de*; i "' terioration--the lack of sufficient light. | Light Measuring Perfected But now the new science of seeing offers the proper approach to thij problem and from it arises a new conception of visibility. Scientific research proves that sufficient artificial ; light largely will prevent impairment of vision and new instruments recently perfected now permit the measuring of light as accurately as a thermometer measures temperature. They also indicate the amount of light' which science prescribes for eye task! " • . of varying degrees of severity. Chief of these new devices is calleda sight meter. It has a two-fold purpose. It measures the amount of light now on your task and indicates the amount you should have for easjj^, seeing. With it you can demonstrate, in your home, office or factory, wher« ey® work is done, and determine the kind of light necessary for all eye tasks performed. POP, 1 GOT TWE 7 SEST" MARK Arithmetic 0-7f SUCH IS LIFE Va^5; 9? Cbarlet , . "v '• • > , -