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,' ' £ . ' *. • * ' ' * *- % -iA • * , VA ;Zrs.VWm -- V * ' • • • * » ^ > < * $ . . ; v " < * * . f ; - / r ; • • ' * • ' * 'flM r- "•> «•**.• • .• **&'/!••'. tt • • » .. % * "* . .-» .' • ; - . .?'/. f . i •' *vy,yy"*~v •> * pv^Y ^ ;• * ; 5f* 1: r '/•TV'*.*">••.^ **»W- » T j ^ f ! V - y; v . ; ; ; *r,-.V2S * * • ' - ' . • • • • • • : ' Thniiiday, August 19,1937 W§ ' * V' ,tf,\ ; §-'~ • ^'X |tefe'v- V*" I '£ Tx< . £ •>,- ' .« v /j, ^ V' ^ ; V * V* "* .wt -, f"v ',', £=*•,*,>* V*i A.. J ...iyi,.-. .:', •> » ,. A French CtnnaM The entire territory of France is Comprised in municipal organizations called communes, the number exceeding 36,000. They vary greatly in size and population. All except Paris art governed under a single brief code, the municipal law of 1884. Each commune has a municipal council composed of from 10 to 36 members, elected by universal French male suffrage for 4 years, and a mayor, elected by the municipal council, who may be assisted by one or more aids called p£Joint&. All serve without pay. '\ Fireworks Popular fa Mexico in Mexico fireworks form a rftajor part of every celebration--marriages, saints' days, birthdays and national holidays. ftaindealer Want Ads brine results w.s-L-' ST* ' ' y.. .Our > Washington BEDS WANTED The Board of Supervisors of Mc- Henry County, Illinois, through its purchasing committee, advertises for sealed bids for approximately five carloads of % inch to 1^ inch dedusted screenings, oil treated, stoker coal, Franklin County or equal, F. O. B. tracks, Woodstock, Illinois. Bids to be in the office of the County Clerk at Woodstock not later than September 8, 1937 at ten o'clock A. "W. Also bids on hauling of coal from Washin?ton> Augu8t ig-Unless the ^ e" I Congress adjourns shortly it seems" in- The Board of Supervisors reserves 1.^., £ . between the «•** *°*taTn«h"S o? S* u. , | the Federal government will become a JG STEVENS I yawning chasm for political hopes and C„t ai. rm' M• P--o. rctasmg C~ ommittM. |schemes. The antagonisms have been tateMi(te(| by ^ that tempers have been rubbed raw, CONVICTS REVEAL LATEST TERROR IN , GRIM GALAPAGOS ' * ' • Naked and Starring Men IU> Tert to Primitive and Run WUd on Island. Order yofur rubber stamps at the Plaindealer. ' HORN'S TAVERN >^\i% McCULLOM'SliAKI!" * • Fish Fry Every Friday ^ Dancing Saturdays ¥o tlie Miisic of Vince Oonnors As- McHENRY BEER ' • MIXED DRINKS Come to Hoot's Tavern SINE AND DAlicE EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT Hruac by Chicago Music Masters FISH FRY EVERY FRIDAY • , . -- .rt'L • • "t - • ..: $r-~ ' " NEWS OF THE DAY Heavy fighting over in Shanghai between the Japs and Chinks -- many killed by bombs. Politicians attending State Fair at Springfield. Season of carnivals ends in McHenry. Oscar the IV still swimming around in Pistakee waters waiting to be caun^..*^aM also waiting to greet you at -- PA S TAVERN ELM STREET ; HcHENRY, ILL. Save Tim mi we SeU This Hg, Saart NASH fw(My *795 Ta»es Included Delivered Here --Me Extras-- Nethiag Else to Bqr! 1 HOUR DELIVERYl ^Tilfirk of it--a big 117-inch wheetbaae Nash-La Fayette sixpassenger sedan completely equipped with trunk, safety glass all around, extra tire and wheel, dual equipment. All for the low price quoted above. Includes everything. No waiting, cMmt! We have the cars aof. Beat trade-in allowancee you 11 find anywhere in twwi> Wide range of colors. Other models at equally low pricea. Drive your old car in today lot an appraisal! . B. H. Freund Motor Sales S Phone 332 iglm Street : GREEN GLASS MIXING BOWL This artistic design is extremely desirable both as a mixing bowl or for storing left overs in the ice box. It's attractive enough to be used for salads and such on the table too. Has a wide bottom to prevent tipping and an easy grip edge. Light in weight with a top diameter of | 7 Vz inches. Clear green glass in the new circular ribbed style. Truly a bargain. LIMIT 4 TO A CUSTOMER Panama.--New tales of terror are beginning to come from the grim Galapagos. Naked and starving men are running wild, and life has reverted to the primitive since Ecuador placed a prison camp on those lush Pacific islands, officials here have been informed by smuggled letters. Begging for help lest they die of slifferiikft. five political prisoners The spirit of rancour and virulence sent tflf harrowing story from_ San has reached a point where the broad questions of public welfare and the country's needs are lost to sight, Onl£, J a quick shut-down of the legislative machinery will g\ve the passions a chance to cool and to weigh vital matters more objectively than pettishly. The situation today is akin to feudists who,resort to extremes which in their calmer moments would be rightly deplored. The cumulative -effect of these antics is bad for all political parties who must have public support. In the tumult incident to closing many meritorious and necessary legislative measures have been discarded on the cry, "it is too late." On the other hand, powerful cliques have greased the gears to permit the enactment of bills, which have been illconsidered and are railroaded through solely in the interest of political expediency. The facts are that the court reform controversy kept Congress in a stalemate for six months so that proposed laws of far-reaching effect are now jammed through with the membership having little or no knowledge of the scope. In the haste to adjourn, petty deals are transacted behind the scenes, which have no justification other than the personal aggrandizement of the handful of promoters;, It is simply a plain case of "back-scratching," which our parliamentary system permits and is seldom considered for the good of the public. The aftermath of Senator Black's appointment as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is difficult to gauge. Out of the variety of opinions from all political camps there is one on which all seem to agree--that Cristobal, 670 mileS off the South American coast, to the newspaper Star Herald. You cannot imagine the sufferings we have to endure," they wrote. "We are entirely without clothes. >4We are deprived of the most elementary articles of everyday life. "We are detained under conditions probably unparalleled in any other country or part of the world. "This island is under military guard, twenty men under command of , two officers, who at the same time are the highest authority on the island. "At our arrival they simply informed us that Ecuador does not assign as much as one cent for the purpose of feeding persons confined to this island and thus could, not supply us any food. E)te Oat Own Living. "The officers informed us that from now on it was entirely up to us to see what to do or how to make a living." The prisoners, whose, spokesman signed himself F. S. Coloman of Hungary, said their "only crime was having entered the country of Ecuador without proper travel papers," yet "even criminals confined behind prison bars live much more humanely than they treat us on this remote island." They said their imprisonment was "by direct order of the government" of Ecuador, but said nothing to indicate whether or not they might be one of a party of prisoners sent to the Galapagos in January on charges of spreading Communistic propaganda in Ecuador. «vv..i vV * vv WM»V The story they tkoulidu wwwamsa iinn keep- President Roosevelt has harmed his! ing with bizarre accounts of life New Deal by this selection. Analysis! on other islands of the Gaiapago of comment is to the effect that he has' archipelago. -ot"! *\ ? " * v again alienated the conservative wing of his own party but catered to organized labor, which has long demanded a ^.voice on the supreme bench. If the digest of views reaching here is accurate of sentiment in the South, Mr. Roosevelt has not endeared himself to •this section though he named an Alabama Senator. The story is going the rounds that the Chief Executive paid off a grudge against his foes within the party and two debts at the same stroke of the pen. ° Black has been"a consistent New Dealer and sponsored measures which were distasteful to his Southern colleagues. A sccret caucus of his home state Congressional delegation last week sounded the knell of his political career as they organized to defeat him in the primaries. His advocacy of wage and hour legislation considered highly detrimental to the growth of Southern industrial life was the last straw. The days of Black as a Senator were numbered. The privacy of Senate cloakrooms did not conceal the fact that Black could not have been confirmed if "Senatonal courtesy" had not been invoked. Only the custom saved him from a public Ventilation of his personal history and qualifications. Black, who gained fame as a prosecutor in Alabama and a certain notoriety as a Senate investigator would have been mercilessly grilled and-humiliated by •the same authority he invoked over a period of years had not his colleagues bowed to an ancient unwritten rule of "the world's most exclusive club." Even the President's friends in the Senate publicly stated that their Alabama colleague was not fitted by training or temperament for a judicial post where bias should be put aside. Current opinion is that Black owes his new job to the advocacy of John L. Lewis and possibly William Green, who endorsed him at the White House. Speculative minds ar*e Wondering how Mr. Roosevelt will solve this puzzle: If Mr. Justice VanDevanter returns from his retirement (he did not resign) and wants to participate in cases before the fall term of the Supreme Court would Black be a tenth justice and how would he function? The Senate has definitely defeated a P1®" ^ increase the membership. While little publicity surrounds the deliberations of the tribunal, it is believed that the Alabaman will be walking on thin ice as he was a critic of the jurists in his support of the President's reform bill. Furthermore, the questions center on his course of con-' duct on legislative measures in which . . if and when they are litigated. No freshmen ever had a more delicate situation involving politics and ethics place in his lap. It is likely that the revamped bill for erorganization of government departments will be stymied in the Senate. The House gesture of establishing a new department is not taken seriously as the subject is too extensive for hasty or piece-meal solution. The food and drug bills, which have been kicked around for four years, will probably be shelved largely because of Mr. Roosevelt's vendetta with Senator Copeland, sponsor of this legislation. It is said the President does not want Copeland's name on a national measure for obvious reasons. Other bills meeting the White House frown are back in committee pigeonholes, s , Baroness Vanishes. The tactics they attributed to their military guard were reminiscent of those of the Baroness Eloise de Wagner, a German, who until recently ruled Paradise island in silk panties and a silver pistol cord. At the end of the cord was a gun she used to threaten anyone who happened to be in her disfavor at the monjent. The baroness proclaimed herself "empress" of Paradise and ruled supreme until she disappeared in 1934. She could not be found after the bodies of two of her men companions-- Alfred Rudolph Lorenz, of Paris, and Trygve Nuggrud, a sailor --were discovered on the beach of Marchena island 100 miles away. Before she left, Dr. Friederich Ritter, a German dentist, who was on the island with Frau Dora Koervin before the empress arrived, died as a result of what Frau Koervin said was poison. The five prisoners on San Cristobal came from five countries: Hungary, Prussia, Spain, France and Honduras. They called their treatment on the island "a disgrace to civilization." r Declares Indians Were . Weak in Close Fighting Chamberlain, S. D,--Although the American Indian of the frontier days was a dangerous fellow when equipped with gun or bow and arrows, he really was a weak fighter when measured by the white man's standards, according to R. H. Somers, one-time Indian fighter. "I would like to see return of the frontier days," Somers said recently, "but jf I wanted a good, old-fashioned, shirts-off, rough-andtumble fight, I wouldn't pick on an Indian. "No Indian--not even Sitting Bull, the chief pf the Sioux tritye--ever was a match for a white nian in a fist fight or hand-to-hand encounter," he recalled. Somers said fhat although they made plenty of stir among white settlers when thiy were equipped with guns superior to those used by Federal troops, the" Indian "bucks" really were weaklings by the white man's standards. "They were primarily hunters,1' he said. "They didn't work--the squaws did the hard labor -- and they just weren't physically fit for a combat, man to man." Catch Rat That Swam More Than 1,000 Miles Belgrade.--A rat which must have swum more than 1,000 miles along the borders of the Black sea and the Mediterranean was caught in a small coastal town of Bosnia. The animal wore a tiny ring marked with the date and place where it bad been applied. It was revealed that students^ at Astrachan, at the inflow of the Volga river into the Black sea, had released it with that small marked ring, by order of Moscow university, to try an experiment. Main Street c *V P I West McHenry _ largest Volcano Crater KHauea, an active volcano in Hawaii, has the largest crater. It is about eight miles in circumference surrounded by a wall of volcanic rock from 200 to 500 feet high wflnd Milk Neutralises Coffee It's the cream and milk in coffee that neutralizes the effects of the caffein in the coffee on the human body. This is a conclusion announced after experiments conducted in the medical clinic of Vienna university. '• 'v' WE ARE NOT MUCH Way back when we studied geography was a long time ago. Today the world has grown smaller on account of rapid transportation and pictures transmitted by radio and tha telegraph. Yet, if we take a map globe, and look it over, we will find that we are in considerable error as to general locations. It is a common thought that If we could pass through the center of the earth, we would come out in China. As a matter of fact, that would be far from the facts, as we would come out somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean in the Southern Hemisphere, midway between Southern Africa and Australia. Suppose just for fun, we travel east from Chicago on the 43 degree of latitude and find that, we would pass through Detroit and Buffalo, cross the Atlantic and arrive at Portugal. Continuing east, we would go about one hundred miles north of Madrid, and our journey would take us through Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea to the extreme lower foot of Italy. Thence, through Greece, Turkey and Armenia. We would barely touch Russia and pass through north central China and Peking, cutting the extreme north end of the main island of Japan. Do you remember that South America is not south of North America, but southeast and that 80 W. longitude passes through Miami, Florida, and barely touches South America's jKost coast. • 1 {{:/•; r- Funny howyjre forget isn't it f North America is bounded 6ft the west by the Pacific Ocean and' also on its entire south. ^ Do you remember that Norway, Sweden and Finland are just as "far north as Alaska and are embraced within the same parallels of latitude. England and Ireland are far north of us, and that is why airplanes leave New York by the way of Newfoundland and then they have to edge farther north to land in London, Strange as it may seerti, Berlin is farther north than London Auid Moscow still farther north thanCXerlin. Prince Rupert is on the ipst coast of Canada, midway between Seattle and the main part of Alaska and frost seldom is known in Prince Rupert. The warm ocean cuYrents make possible a sufficiently long growing season to make great populations comfortable in England and Scotland; also in Norway and Sweden. Grand old ball that we live upon, is it so. Nature is in wonderful balance and a slight deviation might go badly with us. For example:^Suppose the mean, annual temperature of the world should be raised or lowered as much as fifteen degrees. It would likely be a disaster, and make a large part of the world, now inhabited, uninhabitable. Suppose that the sun should explode and send out a greater intensity of light. All living things upon the earth would quickly perish. That old RTlTl IS n lilt A jflrvo go more nyirj, fimiwAe,, it. Scientists claim if the sun was hollow, it could hold a million of our earths. It is easy to see that we are not much. We live, we die in our fragment of existence. Billions upon billions of years have passed and u»> known billions are to come. So let'fc live happily. The grtat thing is that we are alive and can be reasonably happy if we learn to require but little to make us happy. - 'f FRANK BENNETT. Can't Tell Color That the power to discriminate colors is possessed only by man, is the contention of an animal psychologist at New York university. He says that animals see everything in the same color as th| looks to man at dusk. •rosieo Makes Glass Shiae The irridescence of glass found among ancient ruins is the result of soU erosion. Just an Idea If you could see all the beautiful deeds which are being done at this nonHaxt, and gather up all the lovely tpoughta, you would have no dif- •cpty in believing that, in spite of appearances, this is a fine, bravo world, after alL ^ ' Old Fort Location > **"©ld Point Comfort, origintlly called Cape Comfort by the bwhasettlers who established the first permanent colony at Jamestown, has been continuously fortified tat a longer period than any other soot in the United States. ^rr; -• "Baby," an Infant in -Anil as The term "baby" was 1bnnef& applied to any child but, according to Webster, is usually restricted to an infant in arms. . i - : NOTICE WM: During the summer months my optical offic* , # the A. E. Nye building will be closed, I j ...GlaajSef'4;^ Fitted' V'" r. Paul A. 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