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-y'jT JACK^HOLT*. "THEWRECKER" ;# mcream our enemies and puts our friends to flight." OCTOBER : 6--$200,000,000 Iom in iTMt - ! Chicago fire. 1871. r--7\ i--Vale College receivw Its chtrter, 1701. Id--Fir** pony express «rk rives San Francisco, 1*859. with GCNCVICVE C O L U M B I A P I C T U R E . tl--Str Williams, founder of Y. M. C. A., born 1821. lfc--Chrwtopher Columbus - discovers America, 1492. 13 ^-Cornerstone of the firtt; White House laid, 1792. ,14--JWilwaukee fanatic tf wound* Theodore Rooe*- v«lt, 1012. ^ h i^'^% J* vfSS* X:-' \ ' ' > s ? vf>" POTPOURRI Harmless Plant Parasites -Certain l>".|s*?.s . ai; aii'jfe^ .'platit-s .fasten themselves oil. trees and oth- .er^vegetatloobut40;,ik> harm. ;ibV "stead of obtaining food from'- •flveif adopted par "nt- "they: secure all -of. it from the Wr. • Vlost ;of "thefa; require intense heat and" moisture and are therefore foifnd in tropical countries, The African air-fed. orchid is a notable example." - tf), Western Newspaper Vnlon. -•.:••• \VRAT HAS HAPPRSEli Little Sam Shapiro, denier »h .junk ~ ii searching about anump the drb'i. , that was onTf the huge breakers Hotel The I'ocific Coast Wrlecking Company 7 n rhe demolishing, and Shapiro i.« looking for odds and ends that he ~^<an Use in his business. Chuck Ilegcm • superintendent }or f/ie company, no- , tices Shapiro near one of the towering ; walls that ta about to be b.asted. He • grabs a rope and swings down from \the second-story scaffolding upon which f- 'he has been standing, and hits Shapiro '-V-squarel}/, knocking him doten. He-'Then '.'i.~< vvers the- litthe Hebrew's body with ' Kis own as the rcall is blasted, and the . -/ailing mortar covers them. It is found that Shapiro has a fractured leg, and ' : fit gam ,< except for cuts (lud abrasions, •"•Hs intact. The doctor sets Shapiros leg. ,l„d Shapiro thanks Megan for saving his life. Hegan leaves the first aid s t a tion and walks toward the street, , tt here he, hears a girl and a German , arguing. ' .voir GO 0 .V WITH THE STO#Y Regan approached the girl and h'ihe man with the German accent. "riThey. were arguing in front of two V'&dd* vehicles. One was a rather lihahdsorne autonjobiie truck, which •' Vas a veritable roiling, restaurant; behind it was a bicycle with a side,, car u po n •' which was lettered, /•HOME-MADE IK>X LUNCHES.*' / "Ask Regan," the girl repeated. The t:erir>an„ Who ; wap in the , fruVk, peered out at her.; "Regan? ; .lteg;in' \vJio? Vttt Reg.'t-n?" The , .Cerman. diiln t notice the BupCrlhvtendent'as; he walked .nearer. "1 jion'l k'rtoW- nothin' about no Regan < ~el never heard 6f him. 1--4' Then ;-.e- noticed the' big,' grim - faced »e- < ; f'un.. His voice immediately becume mit nver the operations. of tho wrecking gang She turned and j spoke abruptly. "Chuck Regan Jwst, asked me to marry him " : Crimraings received the news with i an Impassive face. He s^Id noMJ. t ing. • ---r- --4- "Well?" ^lafy'e voice was quea>, 'tioriihg. -;a "He took the words right o4it my mouth." ;' 1 "If that's true." said .Mary, "whicli.; It isn't--why did you let him?" Cummi.ngs answered slowly, al«' most painfully. "Well. you. sm*.'. Regain has a way of getting every-1 thing he. goes after." "And you have a way of itev^L going after anything." * ^i-. "I'm afraid that'? right." Cum*J mlngs paused- "Do you love} Chuck?' « . Mary shrugged without answer*I ing. u • , ' Cummings continued., "Are - yoi going to marfy him ?" ' ^ v Shapiro, in the next room, peered through the open door--frankly] eavesdropping. He listened,' in-, tently. .• , "Should I?" asked Mary. " "Would my advice influence yoii?" "It might;" J - : Cummings walked to the window. "Look," hje said, pointing out.- She looked at the sn^t he indicated. Ait. * ornate ceiling with rich carvinga : was the object of; their gaze. As; / they stared, the magnificent ceiling began to sag; finally it collapsed, V Cummings shook l»'s he«d. "Tha^tj ' was part.of the grand bailroom." • V < "What makes you so sentimental)- *hm PERSONAL LIQUIDITY ^ • * LEONARP A. BARRETT Fathers favj. 9*. "9- the aboUtlon ments. Xo nmtter what; strange fornis of government the n Or^ld may yet s£e. they • will scarcely a 11 ow of the Ten Commarid- BADIO and WASHER REPAIRS • now pf§pare<Ttl5 repair work oil are handle ail radio and waslung niaehine.g, caiTyin«r complete" stock of repairs for {ill makes of macl'iiiics. • • CAREY ELECTRIC SHOP ' Phone 251 . McHenry Lrnie^ ^INT & COMPANY All Kinds of ^ S U R A N C I w Placed with the most reliable Companies • ' Come in and talk it over "bone McHenry 8 Telephone No. 300 - 8 toff el ft Reihansperger sfenti for all classes of . property in the best' companies. WE8T McHENEY . ILLINOIS I Charlie's Repair Shop Formerly Pint's Blacksmith Shop--Pearl St. Radiators Repaired, Bodies and Fenders Straightened Sign Painting Truck Lettering Acetylene Welding CHARLES RIETESEL Downs Motor Express The Pioneer Lin? Operates daily between McHenry and Chicago : Phones: .Wabash McHenry 7518 ^ 256 A. P. Freun<l Excavating Contractor ]£, Service Road Building TtL 204-M McHenry, 111. S. H. Freund & SOD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Phone 127-R McHenry Our experience U at Your . . Service in building v Your Wants >;mall. t'Oh, hello, Mr. Regan. Ve - vus just speaking about you." The girl took Regan's arm. Ten threatening words from the superintendent and the truck drove off-- the disappointed German mumbling under his breath. "Atta boy, Chuck. I told him I had the exclusive." The beautiful, wide-eyed girl looked up at Chuck : Regan admiringly. '.'As far as I'm concerned, Mary, you got a monopoly." He paused, then grabbed her arm. His voice assumed a mock tone of severity. .1**1 got something to Bay to you." 1 He led her behind a half-wrecked ,wall, where there seemed to be reasonable degree of privacy. "i fixed It for you. Now kick In .with my commission." Regan grinned. < ,. Mary was startled. -"CommSa- ,Blon?" She stared at his exaggeratedly truculent expression, then, - "Oh-h-h." as she caught on. She ismlled, reached up and gave him a quick kiss, then turned to go back i to her bicycle. Regan's long arms jshot out and caught her in a rough, .ardent embrace. . His leps bent close to hers for the kiss, when there was a sudden hoarse wall-- the noonday whistle. Mary started .ftp struggle in his arms. "Wait a minute -- what's the .rush?" Regan smiled. • _ Mary laughed. "Business first, Chuck." r "Aw, you're always talking business." She broke away and ran to her bicycle - lunch dispenser, around which the laborers were already beginning toucrowd. In a few moments her' lunch-boxes were half gone. . Back in the shack the doctor was putting the last finishing piece of adhesive tape on the "battered visage of Shapiro. "And, furthermore," the doctor was saying, "we've got signs all over the place. It you think you've got a lawsuit you're m. crazy." Shapiro was reproachful. "Do >'Ou think I'd sue anybody who saved my life?" He put a hand on tile doctor's arm. "The only thing that worries me, doctor--how much IS the bill you're going to send me?" i "Not a cent." fehapiro. beamed. "Say, it's a pleasure to get hurt in a place like this." ' * " The doctor laughed. "Im glad you reel that way about it. Now, you Bit back and take it easy awhile." : The doctor walked into the firstjald station and closed the door bej leaving Shapiro alone. I The outside door of the shack * Opened and Mary entered. Without not. ing Shapiro, she walked directly through the small room and Jlnto the timekeeper's office. Cumjtnlngs jumped down from his high , Stool and ofTered Mary a ceremonious bow.^Migis Wilson." he murmured. • , ^-Mary curtsied ' "Mr. Cummings. Br--may have I moment of your valuable time? --s .Cummings bowed again and spoke with mock solemnity. "With renewed expression of my respectful esteem. I subscribe myself your fliost humble and obedient servant . Mary hesitated., then walked Across to the window which looked *'A»k Regan," the girl repeated , j: " (Posed by Genevieve Toltin (tndi j'ack Holt) about this dump?"" : , "I remember," answered Cum- - mlngs,. "when it was the finest seaside hotel on the Pacific Coast." Mary was curious. "Did you ever live in it?' ij • ^ "I was born in it." He stared out the window. "I don't suppose you know it, but this hotel was originally built by my father. And now Regan's tearing it down--and I'nj working for him as timekeeper." "Why do you always pan your- . self?" asked Mary. "Chuck thinks you're swell. You've got a*lot he hasn't--and wishes he had." "What?" "All _ the traveling you've done--*' the way you talk--the way you wear: clothes--your education." Cummings broke in. "That's Jusll it. I had ail the breaks and got no*} ! where. He made his own breaksand he's going places--and anybody, who sticks with him will go places,! too." v "Is that why you're sticking with1 him?" , "Oh. no. I admire him, I respect!^ him. And--as far -as you're> eon*, cerned--I envy him." -. "That's Just a line, Tom." Cummings looked at her steadily. > •Is it?" A sudden wave of emotion swept over them with an invisible, yet powerful, force. They started to-i wards each other In what would have been a blind embrace--there was a dignified, hurried cough--and, they stopped short, looking through the doorway u> where Shapiro lay on the cot. Shapiro's tone was apologeticj "Would you be good euough to close, the door, please?1" Mary shut the door quietly. Mr. and MrsT^^ack McLaughlin and daughter,. Julia, of Ringwood, were Thursday evening dinner quests of Miss Kate McLaughlin before leaving on their trip to DOWJBS, la. Mrs. L. F, Newman visited Mrs. Fred French at Woodstock, Thursday. Chuck Regan knew nothing, of course, of Mary's feeling for Toim' Cummings. He couldn't have--to"*- he made it- plain that he wanted Mary for his wife. Cummings was' his friend--a friend for whom he would do. most anything--he cpuld not visualize Cummings making love to the girl he, Chuck Regan/ wanted to *narry. A few greeks after the accident to! Shapiro, Regan got a position fori Cummings w.lth a building company.! It was a promotion tor Tom, for the outfit was the best in California. f Cummings was mystified when' Regan told him of the job. "How'dl you do it?" he asked. "Politics. Everybody ought to! have, a side-line, and mine's poli-i tics ' He grinned. "It's part of the' wrecking racket." As far as Mary was concerned, she had never given Chuck Regan a| definite answer to his consistent! urgings of marriage. She wanted a' man with money--money and suffl.1 cient glory to cover her. i. '7OU Ju"nyJitUe rougg," Regan had 8aid. will you do something, for me ?' - 1 "What?" Mary asked. "Marry me." "Sure." answered Mary. "When?" I ve told you before--." ' She pointed to the sign reading "Pacific #h°a a.8t ^ racking Company." "When Company"."r€%d8 "Regan Wreckln* 1 TO BE CONTINUED: In these days of economic uncertainty the wise man sets hi$ house, in order. Waiting until a crisis arrives fore planning for its possible „ occurrence has fh a n j times met with disastrous results. The man. most likely to succeed is the one who is always prepared to etribrace an oppo r t u n i t y. Such preparation requires years of education and training. Who ever heard of a man watting, until a Job turned up before he got himself prepared to take it? By the time he had completed that preparation some other- person would doubtless have spent years In successful work at that particular task. Does it not seem strange that so few'persons prepare for emergencies or opportunities? When caught unawares in a financial difficulty we, need sufficient reserve strength to weather the storm. Thei-e is a liquidity, of moral and intellectual resources as well as flnaucial. We emphasize the latter, but too frequently forget the former. Liquidity of moral values mejins a reserve power ready to meet any moral crisis. ThuS fortified no person can be caught off guard. No temptation can assail one greater than he can bear. Many persons convicted of crime have confessed "hat had they taken time t-Q think the matter over, the crime would not have been committed. No crime is Instantly born. It is the result of a long series of temptations each one stronger than the previous attack; without proper restraining power. With sufficient financial liquidity a barik can successfully withstand any "run." lb reserves enable it to weather the storm. The man with sufficient moral liquidity is not likely to go wrong. ,r There Is also a liquidity of spiritual forces which heeds serious consideration these days. Life Is uncertain at best. Not only may the rich man of today become the poor man of tomorrow, but- the most healthy mpn of today may be "absent" from us tomorrow. With this uncertainty staring us in the face how many are seriously prepared to meet it? We set our house in order by. preparing for the inevitable in the form Of adequate life insurance and other means with which to meet the financial problem. What do we do about the moral and spiritual? Q. Western Newspaper Union. m _ YBTMBKY, UOTOWF, T9SI Improper JUgfcting;At)ects Tour Eyes ArttficiaJ lighting which will insure maximum human efficiency, not only in terms of^sdfety but also in terms of health and welfare, now is possible. ' Dr. Matthew Luckiesh, director of the Nela Park Laboratories, Cleveland, Ohio, points the way out for the half-seeing indoor world with its tired, eyes and nerves. This new science makes it possible for the illuminating: engineer to write lighting prescriptions based on exact, scientific data. Dr. Luckiesh and his staff of engineers and physicists have formulated a table of "foot-candle recommendations" for various types of work done by the eye. These recommendations are not based upon considerations of visiBil- Ughtmg experts would say this boy is reading under insufficient light Poor Itght causes eye strain. Unless lighting conditions are corrected, he is likely to become Bear sighted. . * • . * - « ity atone, for the first important fact revealed by research in the science of seeing, was that visibility mailed only the beginning of seeing. Neither were they based on considerations of product efficiency alone. More important is what the scientist calls ease-of seeing"-a condition arrived at when lighting is sufficient to elimlnate eye strain and nervous muscular tension. We found that the visibility of an object depends upon several factors," the director says. "These were its size or usually the size of certain critical details; itB distance from the eyes; its contrast with the background; its brightness; the time available for seeing; the ability df the ntllMflM _1_ • 1 • « Upon iriany factors; and various other physical and lighting fa£ors, such as glare and brightness.* r " Further experiments confirmed *hat common sense had already told investigators--that light glare in - creased nervous muscular tension and eye strain, and decreased efficiency. The time has come, say^ scientists, for the home to catch up with the twentieth century in lighting matters. Housewives would complain if thev were asked to wash the dishes or do -he family darning by the light of a candle. Yet in thousands of Ameri-0 scan homes electric lighting is used so ^ J? thou£htlessly, and adults and cfcndrdh -are so careless in work- |"f *nd racing habits, that home SM*0." "tt,e Modern science has developed fun-~ damental rules -for the new science of seeing which now may be applied to the lighting of homes. For normal reading or sewing on light goods, 20 foot-candles are needed. For more critical work or prolonged reading of fine print, 20 to 50 foot-candles are required. . '/ A foot-candle is the amount of light given by a cahdlfe at the distance 0 Roughly speaking, each watt of lamp's rating corresponds to a foot-candle when, the lamp is one loot away. Dr. Luckiesh says: "A 40-watt incandescent lamp gives 40 foot-candles of light When placed ons' foot away. v "Ij]nui1i,be ^m?mbered, however, he adds, that light decreases by the square of the distance. Thus at two feet, the lamp does not/give half as much light, but only dne-quarter as much. That is, a 40^watt lamp, two feet_away, furnishes only 10 foot- (Jabby Qertie I DANCE WOODSTOCK, ILL. 'A Well-turned limb, a well-turned head--a man found bruised If he ain't found dead." tarn. Christine Wegener and Clara Redman, nurses at St. Anthony's hospital, Chicago, were weekend visitors m the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Wegener. Mrs. Frank Andersak of Chicago is spending the weekend in the home of her sister, Mrs. Frank Mathieu. F. E. Cobb of Chicago was a-local visitor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Maher afld Mrs. Mary Wall returned to their home in Chicago Monday after^ j^'ten days' vacation spent in the home of Miss Kate McLaughlin and brother, Tom. Miss Margaret Finnicum of Erlei 111., spent the first of the week here. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES "Reality" was the subject of the lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, September 30. The Golden Text was, "Wha*tsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever tilings are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be -any praise, think on these things" (Phillppians 4:8). Among the citations which comprised the lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Thou, O lord, reiuainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation" Mlamentation 6:19). The Lesson-Sermon also Included the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made" (p. 472). Republican Candidate will be the speaker This wilTbe the last opportunity for the voters of McHenry county t«( hear "Curly" Brooks discuss the problem of the day during this campaign. Bring your friends and enjoy a social evening of dancing. EVERYBODY WELCOME „ SUCH K LIFE ByGWHw QOURS5&J TUlS A/MT A s i R \VMV DYOU $ yovR VATCH, CAW* Am I PUAtflNS „ -TOO SLONX/2 (t