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BULWARKS OF CIVILIZATION by LEONARD A. BARRETT i}»j.; v * +** V' }>* ' V .t UttU^'S & SANDER RIV Among many bulwarks of civilisation, three are here especially mentioned. Civilization has always acknowledged its debt to education. In this couB-. try we rightly boast of our colleges and p u b l i c s c h o o l s . I n a l m o s t e v e r y small town the most pretentious building , is the public school.' Where little money- Is available for other public buildings,. funds are fllway*; r e a d y f o r t b e school. In spite of ? the 'depression the splendid work of our - educational, institutions, even. /ilWgh curtailed, is worthy of ogt;- hearty congratulations. The enroll- ' irient of scholars bias been very large and the efficiency of Instruction of (L', very high order, Many of our teach* ers sacrificed much In order to remain at- their posts of duty the past few : years. "Knowledge Is power," and we Americans well know how true that IS. Any-person who has visited the mag-- nificent building in which the Supreme eourt of the United States Is located la impressed with tlu spirit with which* the law is regarded In this country. There may be some persons who have no regard for law, but the majority" regard it with genuine respect. They recognize that where no law is enforced chaos and confusion relgnfc Blackstone said, "Lftw Is fte embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people." Again he said, "Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong." "No people were ever better than their laws." We should not forget the tremendous debt our civilization owes to science We do not mean abstract science, which has no practical relation to human life, but the product of our scientific laboratories. In medicine science has prolonged human life and eased much of its suffering. In the field of mechanics it has given us the automobile, radio, television, airplane and many comforts of the home at a comparatively low co£t.v' These are only some of the bulwarks, of our modern civilization. There is, however, another picture 1 These very forces which make our modern life what it is, may become dangerous and even suicidal. Knowledge is like dynamite, the more one. knows the greater is the capacity for crime. The law, majestic as it is, cannot enforce itself. The best it can do is to punish the violator. Science can manufacture poisoned gas and weapons of war as well as i utnmobiles and antitoxins. ' Civilization is not an argument or an accumulation of material values. It is Spirit and Life. Its stabilizing factor is Personality which expresses the idealism of those who sacrificed life itself in defense of our liberty. .. © Western Newspaper Union. . . •AllIANOCR (COR PAUL ROBESON SUE BANKS NINA MAE McKINNEY A iONOOH Mint »'••••••»!•• VNITIO ASM fer 4 - What Has Gonk Before {Bosambo, trusted ally of Brit- ICommissioner Sanders, Chooses a wife, Lilongo, from among the erstwhile victims pf Mafolaba, whom he has defeat' ed. Sanders being on furlough, evil white traders, desirous of peddling gin among the natives, spread the rumor, "Sandi is Atad". The natives, believing, takethis opportunity to return to their vicious life - of old. Great havoc is wrought, and whites arid blacks alike artf reduced to terror.) "The cleanest football players art IKMiietimes on the scrub team*"! ^N^IGHBOR "*• ^ SAYS:"* • Wlien serving carrots, after boiling, jput through ricer, add salt, butter and ...paprika and beat until light. \ * * * Starch for White clothes should be as hot as the hands can stand. Hot Starch penetrates more easily than COW. ; POTPOURRI j : Dale Trees Date palms produce annually about 25 bunches of from 180 to 200 dates, or several hundred pounds. The tree begins to bear anywhere from tsix to ten years after planting, and bears fruit for about a century. The date palm requires a very warm temperature and an abundant water supply for the roots. Ci Wtiters Jtew«p*p«r Bnloa. f FERGUSON CAPTURED Forty-eight hours later, having .parted with Tibbe ts a nd disembarkfrd with ten men of the Hausas, and having entered the lion's den to demand the surrender of Farini ind Smith. Deputy-Commissioner Ferguson found himself tied to a Itake in King Mafolaba's village. While many hundreds of dusky natives looked on, a witch-doctor riad in the skin of an animal, and -wearing a fiendish mask, proceeded to caper before the helpless white nan, taunting him with weird ges- :ures. If continued for some time, ind then the Old King rose and advanced to the stake. "White man," he said, "you came igainst me with your soldiers." "That is a lie;" Ferguson ans- '• *•'*&>, 4T course," the Portuguese f Answered. "Didn't I tell you so?" "Can Sandi come back?" "How can he come back?" Farini protested. "I repeat, Sandi is dea&l The Old King beamed. "When you say that, your voice is as sweet as honey to me. but If. there is a devil in your heart, then you will die as Ferguson died!"- "King Mafolaba," Farini declared emphatically, "you can take it from me that Sand! will not come back*" The Old King was satisfied, ahd how he looked round upon his councilors. ' . "Four years ago, a Uttte dog a chief chopped the Captain of my Guard and brought shame to me before hia village," he ground out. "I want the skin of that little chief. Let the warriors muster for the. Blood Dance! Tomorrow they swoop^ down upon the Ochori!" The Return of Sandi The scene was GoveriunetlK i House, at Lagos, on the coast, and a reception was in progress thera. Commissioner Sanders and his fk, ancee had attended, and they wen dancing to the rhythm Of a waits, when an orderly informed Sanders that the Governor wished to speak.. with him in his study. "I'm sorry to interrupt yowt .'. dance, Sanders," the Governor apftt* j ogized gravely, "but I have just ra-' ceived bad news. Trouble has broken out in your territory--serious trouble. Two men, known as Farini and Smith, have been selling gin 'The bud,'.' the Governor muttered, "Father O'Leary witit. me 'Send four battalions or Sanders'." • GABBY GERTIE Corn ear worms that stunt the Jtowtb of sweet coin may be exterminated with arsenate of lead (poison) dusted over the silk of corn on which the pest feeds. If cookie dough Is mixed the night >>efore and allowed to remain In refrigerator over night, then cut In"slices and baked, much of the time used* In rotting out rookies Is saved. . © Associated NewnpanertL WNU Service. ; wered thickly "I came in peace." • "You came with soldiers. They ; are dead. You, too, will die!" f The captive's face was wet with , perspiration, yet he looked at the i Old King defiantly. "You may kill me, Mafolaba," he 'said. "but the Lord Sandi will avenge me. He will make his way to your village here and crush you. Do you hear? He will crujsh you, as he has crushed other kings!" Mafolaba's eyes betrayed a hint of fear, but he quickly recovered himself. "Sandi is dead!" he answered. "Sandi is not dead!" Ferguson breathed. "Sandi lives, and, whatever happens to -'the, I shall be avenged." They were his last words. Mafolaba, raising a spear. - plunged it deep into the defenseless white man's cheat. A half-stifled groan escaped Ferguson, and his body slumped in the thongs that bound him to the stake. From a hut near toy, two renegade whites had watched the whole scene. They were Farini and Smith, and now the latter wheeled round and snatched up; a revolver. "Farini," he panted, "I'm getting oul^of here. This thing has gone beyond us. I'm getting out." "Don't be a fool," the other . snarled. "We're making our fortune peddling that gin, aren't we?" "Farini, supposing -- supposing they find out that Sanders isn't dead!" Smith gasped. "You saw what they did to Ferguson. You aaw the way Mafolaba finished him. Oh, it was horrible--horrible!". The Portuguese eyed him contemptuously. The Renegades "You're getting soft. Smith." he sneered. "Sanders is away at the coast, No one can dispute that he's dead, and long before . his year's leave is up we'll be away from here . As for Ferguson--well, he's lucky to have died so easily." **YOu cold-blooded swine!" Smith grated. "I'm clearing out, and nobody is going to stop me. I'm--" He got no further, for with an oath Farini knocked aside his re volver and struck him on the jaw -sending him in a heap to the floor Next instant a native appeared. "White men," the black an ; nounced, "King Mafolaba summons you to council." • , He vanished, and Farini dragged | Smith to his feet, "Come on," hfeBtJffHed, "and don' | act like an idftv! We're liable to | fetch up against trouble all right If you lose your head!" They walked up to the Old King, and he motioned Itiem to a couple ff jstools in front fBf; him C?Is Sandi deadt^he demanded. to the blacks. They are'located up in the Old King's country." Farini and" Smith," Sanders breathed. "I know them all right. •Some years ago I *ent them hare n irons." * 'They're back," the Governor muttered, "and the situation is bad. All your work ruined in the space of a few days. This is a message ve had from Father O'Leary, and here is how he sums things up: Send four battalions, or Sanders'." The Commissioner smiled. "I'm afraid it'll have to be tat? battalions, sir." "I'd rather you want, Sanders. This is urgent. X could soon have 'plane ready for you.™ "No, air," the younger man protested. "It wouldn't be fair to my fiancee if I were to alter rangements now." The Governor frowned.---- CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS By CHAUNCEY W. REED Congressman 11th Illinois District America's Congress Shortly after that bitterly cold day in March of 1933, an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress mat and dedicated itself to doing whatever was demanded of it by « President who predicated his requests upon national emergcmcy. In. those days members of every party represented in Congress voted almost blindly to legalize the wishes of the White House. Democrats were proud to call thamselves "rubber stamps." There were even Republicans who went about saying they were Roosevelt-Republicans. It seemed like a „ new day in politics. A veritable Utopia. How Things Change The scene is a bit different in 1935. With a presidential erection only a year away, the Republicans are no longer inclined to identify themselves with the White House. Democrats, becoming , melancholy, cautious, • an<j furtive, are beginning to strike about scm<fctim«s rather feverishly - for individual political personalities. No longer are they willing to be called "rubber stamps". It even offends them deeply. Some of, them n.o longer do they cock an ear for word from the White House. They have stopped voting blindly and have started thinking for themselves. What Causes This There is a peculiar undertone of political talk these days. Your Congress is no longer the supine body of law-makers. There are increasingly rebellious. Where in 1933 everything seemed serene, it is now dangerously near an outbreak. Kept in session through the torrid months of July, into August, forced to consider complicated and revolutionary bills, kept hard ,at routine work « It is enough to cause revolution within itself! But, forced to consider bills so unconventional that few understand them, to. <**st an intelligent vote without being able, to think out their details satisfactorily .... There are a multitude of law-makers who have come to the end of their patience. 4 Revolt In Heaven This is not all. On the Democratic side are members fed up Dy empty promises. Politics means patronage the appointments of those of the same political faith to lucrative jobs. Some Democrats have-«pent almost three years attempting to have their favored folks appointed to desirable jobs and failed. The majority of them have stayed in "line" through thick and thin for the administration for the sole purpose of sweetening their own political fortunes through such appointments. They have fallen short for reasons, not even they can explain. For some reason, the administration appears to be appointing folks as it sees fit. With this, an established discovery, these Democrats are no longer inclined to stick to the Grubber stamp" method of legislative slambangery. If they "'rubber stamp" the administraton measures they get nothing. Why bother! } Soak The Rich : ' RfWft' now until the end of the eht' session of Congress will be ah interesting b|t of history. Practically every important , measure, rushed through earlier White House strength, now pends either in conference or in the remaining house. The remaining house to vote has1 been unusually deliberative. Why rush! What if a Democrat -- a member of the predominate party « refuses to be a "rubber stamp." What does it get him, one way or another! He has voted year after year just as he was instructed. To thunder^ with such blind activity! Comes now the taxation bill, better known as "soak the rich? plan. The house plans to slam it through without decent consideration. Made up of those still predominantly disillusioned, the struggle of rebellious Democrats and Republicans will probably accomplish little to halt its progress. But, watch the Senate. And, at the same time, watch, the bil when it comes back to the house for the more matunp deliberation whicn follows adjustment between the two bodies. Hoosfens Still Live Onto of the rarest souls in the House is none other than Finley Gray. Of the old school, deeply immersed in the subject of silver, intent on making speeches which he pretends are most serious, and yet are sparkling with Hoosied with ~ (Gray comes from the old Jim Watson district in Indiana), -- he puts his fingei^Tnto almost any argument which whirls fast enough. Invariably his appearance is greeted by cheers. Such recognition is mot without merit. Far last week he arose to explain why he must oppose a provision in the alcohol control bill which demanded that whiskey and other spirituous beverages be sold in bottles instead of barrels. Argued he: "To guard against any possible error induced by the impulse of self-interest, I went into fasting and, prayer and recurred to the Holy Scripture* for further and more complete advisement, when I read from the Gospel of Saint Mark,. Chapter II, .verse 22, the words1: "And no man putteth new wine in old bottles, else the new wine doth burst the bottles and the wine is spilled awl the bottles will be mar* red. But new wine must be put into hew bottles." * He continued: "I am maced with = a Choice between bottles Thursday, August, 1,1935 and barrels, and under both my platform pledge and the Gospel of Saint Mark, I am constrained to take my stand for bottles and against barrels." - - -• r Where Men Are Tooters The folks out west who are being bangpd off relief rolls will enjoy the strange spectacle of those Washington musicians - 50 in number, . who compose the National Symphony Orchestra. Each receives $79 a month, or a total of $5,925 fdr the six-week summer concert series opened not 90 long ago. They are classified as "technical assistants" under the old emergency work relief program. The local administration blanketed them on the rolls without the ugual timetaking investigation of relief applicants. Uncle Sam, The Banker* If you happen to go down to your bank and see Uncle Sam's picture -- now! he's, the boy who controls your deposits. Provided, that is, that you happen to be banking with the 6,468 banks in which .the RFC owns equity* Through this organization, the federal government has purchased preferred, equity stock in more than half of the Nation, There are some 14,137 banks -T all told and all sorts -- in the nation, many of them out of reach. A total of $1,009,420,034 has been invested in such stock. -This gives th« RFC the right to change whatevw .H" likes about its banks. •> Many Accidents Are caused by faulty ^rakes on run too far without having them looked over. Your car might be the next one to, crash if your brakes are not working properly. The cost of an adjustment or a little repair would be slight compared to a wreck. Drive in to- <&y. - SMITH'S GARAGE Pho-- tM McHenry Elm St. and Riverside Drirt "Let me see, Isn't she Hamilton's sister?" he inquired. "Yea," Sanders rejoined quickly. Her--her brother's all right, isn't he, sir?" "At present, yes," was the reply. Tfobet* is all right, too--though h« lost half a dozen men after taking Ferguson to the nlountains." "To the mountains?" Sanders echoed incredulously. Yes." the Governor answered. He went into Mafolaba's country with ten men. I understand h« said that's what you wouldf have done under the circumstances." The younger man was looking at him ,in horror and dismay. "What's happened to him?" he jerked. "Is he--" The Governor shrugged his shoulders. "No news," he said. In the small hours of the morning a 'plane left Lagos. It was a 'plane which carried Commissioner Sanders in its passenger cockpit, and the drone of ita powerful motor startled the beasts of the karroo as it winged its way towards the Interior. Shortly after sunrise Sanders was at his office in the Residency over- ;• looking the Niger River, and later J that day, while he was in conference with Hamilton and Tibbets, a welcome visitor was announced in the person of Boa sun bo, to wksom the Commissioner had dispatched a message by carrier-pigeon immediately on his arrival in the territory. "Bosambo." Sanders said, "you are the one chief who has been able to hoM his people In cheek, I am told." "It Is because I have not allowed Farini and^mlth to come Into my country. Lord," the giant negro answered. ' -- -- b e c o n t i m t e 4 ) a vacation rOruiB UtOST Y9CJIIUII 81 TVI6 least cost, GO IN YOUR CAR! Enjoy thewhole sweep of the landscape instead of a window-view ... the thrill of seeing new places and faces... the good clean air of the fresh outdoors . . . and every night you will sleep like sl log, after a day in the open. But don't forget your motor. Every tankful of Phillips 66 is like a vacation for overheated engines. 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