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Thursday, August 15,1040 THE McHENEY PLAH9DEALEB :. " >. " ' MV/. -T- ™>y-L .-'**• * -' *\*} * >K •'•"*• ;V' l§" \ § S$$(j : CONGRESSIONAL VIEWS by Congressman Chauncey W. E«ed States Rights On Monday, the House of Bepre- V .:i.sentatives by a vote of 258 to 46 passr',^" ed over the President's veto a bill which would permit States to inter- ;vene in litigation pending in Federal '.'t ^ Courts wherin the validity of state |v *, i statutes is involved. About two years ^' f?ago a similar law was paBsed giving I »';-"the United States government such a right in all cases wherein the validity ^ > or constitutionality of a federal sta- ' - ' tute was involved. .It would seem if ; we are to preserve our state governments and prevent the federal govern- ,ment from a gradual absorbtion of - "the fundamental rights of the states, this legislation is indeed timely. One t thing is significant; the vote to pass this bill over the Presidential veto proves that an overwhelming majority of the peoples' representatives in the legislative branch of our Federal . government still believe that the activities of that government should be V circumscribed by the limitations set - forth in the United States Constitution ' and that the states as well as indiv- • iduals are entitled to "their day in " court." District Senators • ' ; -v' The House Judiciary Committee fav- ' . i orably reported s resolution proposing a Constitutional Amendment erapow- „" ering Congress to grant Suffrage to the citizens of the District of Colum- ' „ bia. If passed by Congress and ratified by thirty-six states, Congress may pass legislation whereby the people residing at the seat of government I may be permitted to vtffce for President and Vice-President and be represented in Congress. At the suggestion of your Congressman, the Com- . mittee adopted an amendment to the effect that representation can be in the House of Representatives only. i ' Senators were designed in the Constitutions to represent the sovereign states.^The District of Columbia can never be a sovereign state and to give to the people of Washington who directly or indirectly derive their total income from the federal treasury, equal representation with each of the independent political and co-equal societies which we designate states, is in our judgment, dangerous, unjust, unnecessary and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution. Wire-Tapping This week the House passed a bill permitting the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct investigations to ascertain, prevent and frustrate attempts to interfere with the national defense by sabotage, treason, seditious conspiracy, espionage or violation of the neutrality law. ft permits the "G" men with the approval of the Attorney General to "tap" telephone or telegraph wires in order to obtain this information. As the evidence can only be used in the classes of cases above referred to, (wherein the destruction of our government is planned) it seemed absurd to take the time to listen to the subversive un- American groups, who, of course, were loud in their protests. The Constitution should be used as a means to protect decent, honorable and patriotic citizens, rather than as a shield for criminals and traitors. Telephones and telegraphs are intended for lawful use by law-abiding citizens. For an officer to be compelled to sit quietly and permit, without interference, the unhampered use of this means of communication for the purpose of tearing down our form of govenment is the height of absurdity. At least it seemed so to the House for they passed the bill with but one dissenting vote. Steals Car to Get Cake, It Arrested FALLS CITY, NEB. -- Ralph Beachy blames his taste for grandma's spiced cakes for getting him into trouble. The 18- year-old Kansas City youth, arrested on an auto tjieft charge, explained to officers he didn't mean to steal a car--he just wanted to come here for some of Mrs. Dora M. Beachy's cake. Ape Colony Like ? Modern Business Group Has a President and Vice President. Fred Spilter of Mustang, OUa., after caring for forty tourists stranded by a snow storm, remarked: "I got along O. K. I had ninety dozen eggs, a yardful of chickens and plenty of hog meat. Everyone had a good time." Read the Want Ada S'SHeULDEH HARMS/ B U R D E N COULD CARRY THIS UTTLU BAG LIKE NUTHIM IF iweyp &€R WO CF 1taT WASTfeFDi. SPFHUlMCr ATiO ^STEFOL. dimGT THE POCKETBOOK [(/•KNOWLEDGE HUMACAO, PUERTO RICO --The monkeys that are most like men live under an economic system much similar to modern business corporations run by human beings. They are headed by a president. In the president's absence his job is taken over by a first vice president. This evidence that our business system may have its start back in the treetops ages ago was revealed on Monkey island, which lies a quarj ter mile out in the Atlantic ocean from this little town on Puerto Rico's eastern coast, by Dr. C. R. Carpenter, famous primatologist, who has been living among and studying the world's only eugenic monkey colony. These monkeys are the Rhesus type. Because they are the most like men, they are preferred for scientific experiments. All pure specimens, they were brought to the island by the School of Tropical Medicine of San Juan in conjunction with Columbia university; and are maintained under controlled conditions intended to keep them free of disease. The biggest herd in the colony is bossed, Dr. Carpenter discovered, by a husky male known as "No. 160." All the other monkeys toe the Uine when he is around. He gets first chance at whatever food is available. Wherever "160" goes another big male, known as "174," goes •long. Now "174" always keeps an #ye on "160." Whatever "160" indicates is the thing to do "174" does. Consequently, the doctor said, he Was not surprised when he learned that "174" was the first vice president of "160's" firm. This was proved by locking up "160" and seeing who would take his place at the head of the herd. And "174" did, and was accepted without a sign -Of dissatisfaction. Kills Self With Dynamite After Quarrel With Wife BOULDER, COLO. -- George Schmitz, 22 years old, blew himself to bits with six sticks of dynamite Us the climax of a domestic quarrel. His 17-year-old wife, her parents and two policemen watched the suicida. One policeman lost his right hand in the blast, which wrecked the home Of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith, parents of Schmitz's wife, and damaged a nearby church and residence. Physicians said Patrolman Frank Devoss, 25, might die of his injuries. Patrolman Myron Teegarden, 41, was injured slightly and-^ Mrs. Schmitz and her parents were shaken, police said. The young couple have been living In Denver but came here recently after a quarrel, according to police. Attempts at reconciliation had failed and' Schmitz came to the Smith home armed with the six sticks of dynamite and a battery and switch. Schmitz threatened to blow up the fntire family, the police report said. While his wife argued with him, her father called police and the two patrolmen responded. They joined members of the family in trying to dissuade Schmitz, but he finally Shouted, "I'll blow you all up," and exploded the dynamite. lowan Falls Ten Floi«rs; Lives to Tell About It DES MOINES.--Keith Bown of hariton, Iowa, who tumbled 130 feet from an eleventh floor hotel window to the hood of a parked automobile in the street below and lived to tell about it, has been dismissed from the hospital. Physicians said he still had a fractured leg and an arm in casts, but in a few weeks will be "as good as *ver." Bown fell on May 11. Doctors said Bown's brain concussion that resulted from a small fracture had "entirely cleared up." IN 1908. 65.000 AUTOMOBILE* VFCRE MADE IN THE "U S -- TODM TURN OUT MORE W0KKIN6 WIS -- TK KUCW fkk cu**m PeNOCNOF •roe prep ms m eyes OH THE ENO OF oowAwy Atom may* 94 mi i u Oft Boom* or mT" inTflturn* tymvMtmsyfipcnts fSvrk-TM mo HA*# M/RIMTUAWWV MWKMSUffOUMt •mtMFCdtOm SI 1MB STFUPM* OR A STANDARD HOUM. MOBTW+O #«ni#«0 OF cost* <* MID IN TMS orp/MrriHM» ^Ghost's Revenge Becomes The Policeman's Dilemma HOPKINSVILLE, KY.--Hopkinsville police believe their patrol car Is marked. Four times in three years and twice since August a driverless automobile has slid down the Main street hill and whammed Into the patrol. The police car, in each case, was parked in front of headquarters. Although at each time other automobiles were parked dear by, the patrol car was the only One hit by the driverless car. Too Much Ztll MAYFIELD, KY.--A county con- Stable spied the name, John Doe, on a slate of jail prisoners. He got busy at once. He hurried to the County judge's office and gathered all the dust-covered warrants issued against "John Doe." Back he went to the jail. There the jailer explained About "Doe's" identity. " Minute Micrometer A new and valuable kind of electrical micrometer, which uses a special radio tube to measure distances Ss small as five millionths of an inch, has been developed at the United States Naval Research laboratory in Washington. Beauty Operators • A survey of the wages of women ia beauty shops mijuc by the Women's Bureau of the United States department of labor showed operators in four cities ayera^iog $14.25. Alterations In Line With Modem Defenses. Forts of San Juan L Are Being Rebuilt SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO.--San Juan's famous Spanish fortifications are undergoing extensive alterations as part of a program conducted by the United States to bring them up to the standards of modern military requirements. Built in the Sixteenth century, El Morro, San Cristobal and San Geronimo are regarded as miracles of military architecture, but wholly inadequate as defense bastions against modern military methods. Recently constructed as part of the program is Fort Miles, a modern military fort complete with anti-aircraft and coast defense batteries for the protection of San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico. "Fort Miles is designed to defend the city of San Juan from a land, sea or air attack," said an army official. "It is also the first independent fort to have been built in Puerto Rico in the last three centuries." The new fort will be one of the most complete under the American flag, according to army officials. More than 4.000 men will be stationed there within a year. Fort Miles is about seven miles south of San Juan's old forts--El Morro, built in 1539; San Cristobal, built in 1631, and San Geronimo, built at the beginning of the Eighteenth century. El Morro, built by the great Spanish military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli, was in the days of the Spanish Main the most formidable fortress erected in the New world. Today it is the home of a crack regiment of U. S. infantry. Fort San Cristobal protects the land entrance to San Juan, as El Morro protects the sea entrance. RINGWOOD Page 8«?M British Radium Institute Operates From Deep Cave LONDON. -- A deep cave in the Derbyshire hills, safe from bombing attacks, is the depository for a supply of radium used in cancer treatment at the Christie hospital and Holt Radium institute of Manchester, it was announced. The cave has been fitted up as a laboratory. In view of the fact that a direct hit on a supply of this powerful element would make the immediate neighborhood uninhabitable, the hospital authorities buried the radium in a 50-foot shaft in the hospital grounds. Later a member of the hospital board loaned his country house in a safety area away from Manchester for cancer treatments for the duration of the war. Then the radium, in solution, was transferred to the cave. In the cave the radium solution is prepared for use and then taken to the temporary hospital on the estate Worth While to Answer Other People's Phones LONGMEADOW, MASS--Answering other people's telephone calls can be turned into a profitable business. Mrs. Helen S. Usher got the idee about two years ago, and with a battery of extension telephones at her home she handles after-hours calls for several Springfield fuel oil companies, acts as liaison agent for a Boston manufacturing concern and routs repair men in the middle of* the night for emergency repair jobs* This service, operated on a 24-houf. basis, is growing rapidly, and Mrs. Usher plans to expand operations to incorporate the functions of waking tired business men by telephone ana' reminding forgetful patrons in advance of birthdays, wedding anniver* saries and important business »p^ pointments. The Young Adults met at the home of Shirley Hawley Thursday evening. The usual business meeting was held and a social time was enjoyed. The Sunshine 4-H club girls met with Mrs. Paul Walkington Friday afternoon. A picnic supper was enjoyed at Lake Geneva. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard entertained the five hundred club at their home Thursday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. B. T. Butler and Geo. Young, high, and Mrs. J. C. Pearson and F. A. Hitchens, low. Mrs. Viola Low entertained the Scotch Bridge club at her home Wednesday afternoon. Prises were awarded to Mrs. Kenneth Cristy and Mrs. Ray Peters. Mr. and Mrs. Henry FOBS of New York City spent Thursday with the latter's sister, Mrs. George Shepard, and family. Mrs. Merritt Cruikshank of Morton Grove is visiting in the home of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCannon. Mr. and Mrs. Will Beck of Dundee spent Friday afternoon in the H. M. Stephenson home. Charles Foss of New York City spent the past week with his cousin, Howard Shepard. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Thompson and daughter, Judith, and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Chicago spent Sunday in the Patrick Coyne home. Wayne Foss, with a party of friends from Chicago, are visiting friends at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Mi ss ^Catherine Coyne of Chicago spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Coyne. Mrs. George Shepard and son, Howard, and Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ainger spent Sunday in the Mrs J. F. Claxton home at McHenry. Mrs. F. H. Peters of Harvard spent Wednesday afternoon in the Mrs. S. EI. Beatty home. The Sewing Circle will meet With Mrs. Louis Hawley Friday. Mrs. Georgia Harrison and daughter, Olive, of Woodstock were calling on friends here Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. S. H. Beatty and Mrs. Viola Low spent Friday afternoon in the Irving Herbert home near Burlington. Miss Marion Peet of Elgin spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet. Miss Grace Darling of LaGrange, Miss Jean Babloo of DesPlaines, Miss Jane Hamilton of Oak Park and Mrs. Lester Biers, Libertyville, were weekend guests of Miss Virginia Jepson. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carney and daughter of Chicago spent Wednesday in the Roy Neal home. Mrs. Neal accompanied them home to Chicago remaining until Saturday morning. Mrs. George Shepard visited relatives in Chicago Wednesday. Margaret and Patricia Coyne spent Wednesday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Croker and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Huson of Libertyville spent Saturday evening in the C. J. Jepson home. Miss Margaret Stover of Chicago is visiting in the Roy Neal home. Mr. and Mrs. Rea of Wonder Lake spent Sunday evening in the Roy Neal home. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson snd Maud Granger of McHenry and Mr. and Mrs. H. M.' Stephenson attended the Gladiola show at Columbus, Wis., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ford Jackson'and Mr. and Mrs. Frank May of Johnsburg spent Monday evening in the George Young home. Mrs. J. F. McLaughlin is a patient in the Woodstock hospital. Mrs. F. A. Hitchens, Miss Clarice Huff, with Mrs. Roy Almgren and daughter, Kaye, Wonder Lake, spent Monday in Chicago. ' Miss Ida Rugg of Delavan, Wis., is visiting in the B. T. Butler home. Mr. and Mrs. Will Beck of Dundee called on Mrs. Jennie Bacon Friday afternoon. Mrs. Andrew Butler and children of Chicago spent Friday afternoon and Saturday in the B. T. Butler home. Mrs. Frank Buchert of Richmond spent Friday with Mrs. Jennie Bacon. Miss Patricia Coyne is visiting her sister in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Harrison and son, Richard, of Elgin spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet and daughter, Marion, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet attended the Peet reunion at the Harry Peet home in Woodstock on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Treon and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hinze of Crystal Lake spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Geo. Harrison. Miss Edna Peet of Rockford is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet. Joyce and Jean Harrison of Elgin spent the past week in the Roy Harrison home. Miss Edna Peet spent Sunday in the Ben Fout home at Spring Grove. Mrs. Paul Schulz and youngest son, Robert Jerome, spent Saturday afternoon in the Louis Hawley home. Miss Eleanor Pries of McHenry and Miss Shirley Hawley are spending a few days with Helen Mills at Waukegan. Misses Helen Ruth Butler, Marion Hawley. Amy and Carol Harrison and Suzanne Muzsy returned home from camp Thursday. Helen Ruth Butler is visiting relatives in Chicago. Order your Rubber Stamps at Tht Plaindealar. Specially now, what the wocld Is so fall of strife, misery and anxiety, it's good to be able » get the pleasant news thatcwncs la die ads. About a light-hearted saamet turban... sportswear coolly stolen from the men ... a refreshing hoc weather beverage A pipe that promises* • s juttUAfc,e * treat... a light straw hat for dw steaming brow ... The ads are reminders that KfiS can't all be woe -- reminders to be as normal and comfortable as possible . . . reminders to which jna can sensibly respond. For the ads lead you to sound values. Cmmrtttj NafBmikmit "J Eyes Examined Dr. Paul A. Schwabe Phone: McHenry 123-J Woodstock 674 A. E. Nye Bldg. West McHenry OPTOMETRIST THURSDAY MORNINGS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Our Repair Department Is at your service for any troubles you may have with your car or truck. It is one of the best equipped garages in Northern Illinois. Drive in and let us check the car and give you aij estimate on the necessary work. Have your truck tested at this garage, which is an official testing station, and receive your state sticker. We have a well equipped repair shop to take care of your correction to comply with the law. -CENTRAL GARAGE 1 " FRED J. SMITH, Prop. Phone 200-J Towing Johnsburg r Deer Menace Orchards In 'Land of Evangeline* KENTVILLE, N. S.--Western Nova Scotia may be a game hunter's paradise, but Annapolis valley orchardists take no comfort in the fact. Unless immediate action is taken in the country, known as the "Land of Evangeline" because of Longfel* low's epic poem, orchards will be wiped out, according to a warning by A. D. Pickett, dominion entomologist. The Nova Scotia Fruit Growers association followed Pickett's warning with a request to the provincial government that they be allowed to kill deer at all times, with no sea-, son or bag restrictions, to keep, them from nibbling the trees. World War Letters, Catch Up With a Vet BEVERLY, MASS. -- Gregory P. Connolly has received four letters which were mailed to him while he was serving with the American army in France during the World war. They were forwarded to him by a French officer who found the letters in the bureau of a house where he now is billeted near the Magir.ot line. Accompanying the letters was a note: "Tarn fulfilling a duty and also a pleasure to send yoti this correspondence which will bring back to you, perhaps, pleasant memories." ELWOOD EAGERLY AWAITS WILLKIE Republican Candidate To Accept Nomination At Elwood, Indiana, Avid Boyhood Memorka 1 ; . This i$ the house in which Wenai!! Willkie was born on Ftbmary 18, 1892, in the little tou.,. Elwood, Ind., where h4 undertakes the solemn responsibilities of the Republican Presidential nomination on Augxist 17. (Right) Mr. and Mrs. Willkie wave to a throng of cheering admirers. ELWOOD, INDIANA.--The tou- of the First National Bank sled-haired boy who used to drive cows through old Joe deHority's woods for 75 cents a week will come back Saturday, August 17th, to accept the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Wendell Willkie, who made good in 4 rough and tumble world, chose the site of his boyhood memories to tell a waiting nation of his philosophies and beliefs on the fundamentals of American Democracy. Beside him will be Mrs. Willkie, who was assistant librarian in the Elwood Public Library when they were married, just before Wendell Willkie marched off to fight in the World War. The Elwood he will come back to this time won't be unfamiliar to him. He spent the greater part of twenty-seven years here, and he . probably can call by their first names most of the middle-aged folk he will meet along the streets. Memory no doubt guided him in choosing a Saturday to make his acceptance speech. Saturday is still the time when Elwood turns out en masse. Not only the townspeople, but the farmers from close around go downtown on business or just to see what's going on. Anderson Street, the *main thoroughfare, is lined with cars and its sidewalks are crowded with people. There are crowds in the drug stores, laughing, joking, discussing. There are forums on the sidewalk in front and the Citizens Bank; other forums in the lobbies of the Sidwell Hotel and Callaway House. Talking politics mostly, nowadays. Elwood Waits With Pride The plain folks of Elwood are waiting with eager pride for the triumphant return of the native son. They are fully ready to show all who come here just how deep that pride is. Streets have been cleaned, houses and store fronts repainted, tumble-down buildings removed and lawns and flower beds have been spruced up. First, Mr. Willkie will receive a hearty handclasp of welcome from old friends on the steps of the Elwood High School, from which he graduated in 1910. He had intended to deliver there his speech of acceptance of the nomination, but it soon became evident that thousands of admirers would trek to this typical middle Western town of 12,000 persons to glimpse and hear the man who next January is expected International Newa Serrlcc Photo*. Republican Convention in Philadel* phia in choosing him as the Party's standard-bearer. More than three score special trains have been arranged to carrjf-- visitors from such distant points as New York, New Orleans and tha West. Many others will come bjf automobile. In this latter group will be farmers and their families who are Willkie's "neighbors" at nearby Rushville, where the candidate prides himself in the well-. tilled acres of his own farm lands* Uniqae Event Planned The decision to return for tha event among the people^ with whom he grew to early manhood is as unorthodox, unconventional and unique as Mr. Willkie's whole excursion into politics. Those who know him best ixpect none of tht» usual hackneyed words of a poii-. tician, nor do they expect any fla?* waving Fourth of July speech. They say Mr. Wiilkie will delive? a forthright declaration cf prin- £ "p ass through the doors of/heI c,i^pl e^s whi c^h ^wil l spec^ifical ly join Wh :te House. ^ „ ... « Plans fcr holding the entiraawre-1 The formal ceremonies will be mony of acccptcnce in the limited > broadcast by the Columbia, Mutnrl arer o" the HifHi Schoc! votre ouie';-' ami National networks and St&tioa ly icvlWd and :ir. V.'illkle "in do-i WLW, Cincinnati, bepinrjpg at liver his speech of acceptance in 13:15 P. M., tisicrn S^ii.rd Time, the old grove of his boyaood^now known as Callaway P«rk Representative Jos-tpa Vv. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Republican National j from C: Committee, will formtlly notify j other ' Mr. Willkie of the action of the | evert with the welcoming on the High School steps. The speech of acceptance will be broadcast at 4 P. M.. E~%?sn Standard Tim«„ ~rk. There will be incidental to tha day. ....Xijf .tfi'. ,i . jj