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•• •<• •:" ' ' . '.-,i • !•' »..* •, ;i ' - •" !v *'• • .' '4 . ?•"•" "• ! * .i.." m > v V." tw:'-••••: >.\ . sir3>MS^'; im&tf -.-J jtm VOLUME 55 M HENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 3,1930 No. 44 ROSE MOST ? POPULAR FLOWfeR Than Million Voles Cast in Contest. V New York.--The peorfle of the Ualt- -#d States named the wild rose as the national flower in the American Na- ^toire association campaign just ended. *echecking of the more than a million "Votes shows the wild rose rolled on total of 492,811 votes out of the %067,CT2 votes cast. It gained a pluiWity of more than 150,000 votes over ^»e columbine, the nearest contender. wi'^ ,"os® won in every state .Ifcccpt Colorado, Florida, Minnesota jptd Washington. . Pennsylvania, with 111,256 votes; <Ohio, with 78,646; New York, with jj€B,835, and Wisconsin, with 59,779, led :the country in number of ballots cast. Washington supported the columbine ttiore vigorously than any other .state. U Only seven votes separate the rose «Bd its rival in South Dakota. More &an 6,000 people, Americans living f4Matside the 48 states, are represented jfcl the "No State" column, i( The colnmblne had 261,451 backers, %ho threatened, durfng early Deceral> er, to sweep under the rose in a "flood of votes. When the contest •dosed, however, the leader was still gaining. , More than 65 per cent of the vote ?ptas divided between the two leaders 4H)d there is no question of these be- 1$g the national favorites. The violet, .goldenrod, American beauty rose, 3>hlox, daisy, dogwood and mountain laurel, which finished In the 'order listed, never had a chance of victory. <411 other flowers received but three Wid one-half per cent of the total, i The wild rose, despite criticisms to this effect, Is not the flower of England; that embiefa is the cultivated rose, 'the campaign did not designate •one particular variety of wild rose, bat left it possible for each community to feel that its loeal representative of the genus was the choice of tHa «S#untry. . , LIGHTS ^DSSdn of NEW YORK Hom«lik* Will James, the celebrated cowboy author-artist who wrote "Smoky" and other horse stories that have gone over big, was in New York recently. "Bill," as he is known to his friends, spent years In the saddle as a cowboy, roaming all over the cattle states of the West. Now he has a big ranch in Montana and spends md^i of his winters writing at San Antonio. *yBM" invited me to his room at the\ Algonquin, and when he opened the door and I stepped In, I stepped on a, Navajo blanket and spied another one on a couch. "I always carry 'em with me when 1 travel," said James. "They're the only things that will keep me from getting so homesick that I'd hit the tcatf right out for the West" | . Efficiency Did $ tr: Not Show ~ |x t 5 % By CORONA REMINGTON J Bethel College Co-Eds - Seeking Dates by Ads Newton, Kan.--The co-eds of Rethel college, located here, are apparently lonesome and they have admitted It. After having admitted it, they have flkt about to remedy the sfoiatton-4»y seeking attention from the male members of the collegiate world. The girls Used the student paper, the Bethel Collegian, and in their advertisement 4sked eligible men to call at the "dorm hangout." Not only-<have the co-eds advertised for "dates" but they have added special attractions to the dormitory. All have "chipped In" to buy a number of card games. Hie advertisement suggested "that the boys were cordially invited to come and participate In these games." To add to the attractiveness of the dormitory a "fat woman's club" has teen organized for the purpose of attaining boyish figures. Members are exercising daily and dieting. # Collector Finds Dagger J in 'Red SultanV Scepter Pari*--Recently a Parisian antiquarian was handling one of his most prized possessions, the gold and jade scepter of Abdul Hamid the Second, the "Red Sultan" of Turkey. He suddenly heard a click and, to his great astonishment, drew forth from the scepter head a glittering dagger. The discovery recalled many stories of the sultan, who was called the "Great Assassin" because of his frightful massacre of Balkan and Armenian subjects and who never dared sleep la a bed beonse he feared assassination for himself. Manx Cat Owner Takes Insurance for Liability l>eo minster, Mass.--Lawrence F. ItVrshall has insured himself against personal liability that might result from his Manx cat scratching or biting anything. A Hartford (Conn.) company issued the policy after securing * veterinarian's voucher that the cat was in good health. The policy stipulates 95,000 as maximum for injuries to or for the death of one person and $10,000 for Injuries to or for the death of more than one. Thecat is a male, weighs 14 pounds* and Irelghteen months old. Mcaniiflui One of the more meaningless details of New York life Is the business of supplying references when one wants to move into a new apartment A friend of mine, a dramatic critic, Is lodged in a towering, exclusive building. He informs me he had to pass close scrutiny before he was allowed to sign a lease. Yet his neighbor on the top floor is the proprietor of a Speak-easy across the street. He is a relative of one of New York's most notorious gangsters. He Is politically powerful, though, and once a year gives a huge ball In his own honor at one of the better hotels His apartment Is a fortress. The door Is of armor steel. He didn't like ordinary windows, so he had a church supply house make him stained glass windows. • • • Hm Vanishing German There are, even at this late date, five German bands in New York, and If you look hard enough you may find one playing on a street corner. But the business isn't what It used to be. Variety reports that the average income for each man in these bands was a dollar a dny last year. They used, to get "throw money" by playing in front of speakeasies, but the police chased them away. T* f • • • • . _ A1 Fresco DmUS*?^,' Alexander Mazzone, a gatekeeper on the Long Island railroad, has a lunch hour from noon to 12:45 p. m. No trains pass his gate during that time, but Alexander feels that he should not leave his post even then. So, promptly at noon, he gets out a folding tahle, sets It between the rails, spreads a cloth and serves himself a lunch. It is only fair, thinks Alexander, that he and not some foolish motorist should get bumped In case an unscheduled train should arrive dorl «y| tbe aoooday. A Hot Firp e smelted a fire the other day and turned in an nlarm. He was In a building at the foot of Manhattan, land In that district a single alarm brings out more apparatus than two 0r three would farther uptown. When a dozen or so pieces of fire-fighting machinery had arrived Sam discovered that the fire had been in the rear of his trousers. He had put his pipe in his hip pocket Naturally, the newspapers made much of the story. The next day a veteran newspaper man told me that none had written so clever a headline as a friend of his had written twenty years %go concerning a similar occurrence. The headline was: "Sixty Firemen Rash to Blase In One Pair of Pants." • • • OM Stuff A convention of dentists has been Informed that In 1,000 years the liuman race will be born without teeth. Why wait that long? Toothless babies are quite common (0 by the Bell Syndicate, lac.) «« a «» »»»»»»»*««»•»•»»»«« m> U. S. Parley Reporters Give British Thrill London.--The freedom with wfifch the American newspaper correspondents approach the members of their delegation to the five-power conference astonishes and, at the same time, amuses the columnist of a wellknown London dally. "It Is a constant delight to me," writes the commentator, "to see and hear the American newspaper specialists at the naval conference approaching their own delegates--the big men who are trying to agree on small navies. "The correspondents are like so many small submarines suddenly bobbing up from nowhere and confronting these political battleships fearlessly--and tffche statesmen like it, too. It Is brotherly, natural, homelike." Increased Interest in Good Books Universal Chicago.--Books will supplant jazz as the pass word to popularity In the new decade. A well informed mind will be the open sesame to social leadership In the thirties, as the ability to entertain musically was the badge of popularity in the twenties, according to Ellsworth D. Foster, managing editor of the World Book. "Indications on every hand point to an Increased interest in good books," said Mr. Foster, in an address before a gfoup of college students here. "Interest In good books Is not confined to any class of society or to any particular age group, but Is practically universal. "Children are no longer contest with light literature but demand meat In their reading, going to the same books as those used by their elders for their information about things in general." * | Blue Bandanas New | Fad of French Women * Paris.--The answer of the J women of Paris to the craze of * red suspenders which is sweep- | Ing the masculine element of * France is the blue bandana. No 3|c smart French woman would * think of blowing her nose in $ anything but a blue handker- * chief these days, and the larger £ the bandana the better. <CopyilKht-> JOSEPHINE MACLANE took two soapy hands out of the dish water, dabbed them against h^r fresh gingham apron, picked up a stubby pencil and scratched off the last Item on the list that hung just above the sink. "Almost washed away," she said as she plunged back Into the water and scanned the memorandum once more. "Then I guess I'd better gather the vegetables. It'll soon be so hot. Oh, dear. I wish--" Josephine stopped short She couldn't see why fate should hqve made her mother so frail and unable to carry her share of the load. Nor why, if her mother bad to be frail, fate shouldn't have given them enough money to permit her hiring help, nor why she should have been the kind of girl that gets little attention from men. They were always nice to her, but they never sought her out and told her those lovely little nothings that girls adore. She was too practical--that was it--and men didn t like practical girls. They liked light and airy, fluffy girls, who could flirt and spend their lives in one endless round of parties and dances. At this point In her musing Josephine glanced at her reflection In the distorted little cheap mirror, also over the sink, and saw a rather serious oval face with big brown eyes that seemed to hold a perpetual question, and soft brown hair, knotted severely at the nape of her pretty neck. The face was almost Madonna-like in Its sweet simplicity--even she could see that But heavens 1 men dont like that sort of thing 1 They want ruffes and fluff and Jass. Josephine laughed almost harshly as she pondered over these things. it was getting late and so much to do yet. Soon ft would be dinner time, and she must be punctual today, for Mr. Waring, their one boarder, taken on to help with the grocer's bill, might revolt He had been so patient--never a murmur of complaint He had been with the Maclanes for over three months recuperating from an almost fatal attack of pneumonia, and never once had be made a single complaint At tho thought of him, Josephine's face clouded. There It was again; he was simply the nicest man she had ever known, but his manner toward her was as impersonal as if she'd been the coal hod or the cook stove or any other bit of kitchen furniture. Often he'd even come out in the kitchen and help her serve the meals and laugh and joke with her, but never a single little thing like: "Oh. you look so tired. Let me do It while you sit down," or "Come on, let's take a walk after supper, won't you?" Why shouldn't be like her a little bit? She wasn't fluffy enough. That was It--bitterly. ThenMf that's what all men want why notS:ive It At 0rst the Idea seenWd so/ffrei»Mterous that Josephine feints If It were some one else daring her to try it. but as she thought It over tt seemed more and more reasonable. Why shouldn't she look as pretty as possible? With feverish eagerness the honied through dinner and the dishes afterward, then rushed upstairs to experiment For an hour she worked over her hair, and the result was worth while. She was prettier and softer looking and more girlish--more feminine. she decided at last. That was the word that exactly covered It. Then she put on ber one little frilly organdie dress that a cousin bad sent her and that she had been keeping for great occasions. The effect was amusing. As she pirouetted in. front of the mirror she smiled at her own reflection. "If you weren't Josephine Maclane rd think yon were awfully pretty,' she said. At supper that evening BUI Waring stared at Josephine as If be had never seen ber before. "You--you're lovely," he said, quite naturally. "But why so dressed up?" he laughed. "Oh, not so awfully dressed up," she answered. "Lately I haven't had time to take care of myself," glibly, "and this morning I just decided to turn over a new leaf. If the dust got knee deep In the house." It was a fib. but there were some things that the other sex simply must not know. "Good for you! Just to celebrate the new leaf, let's take a walk after supper. I'll 'help wash tbe dishes." It was the day of days for Joseph- "ine. The'evening was cool and fragrant. with the moon casting a light of mystery over all. The man by her side was quiet, but It was a pleasant quiet--the quiet of congeniality. "Do yon know, Josephine." be said sfter a while, "you're the girl of my dreams? You're sweet and feminine and womanly, yet you're not light and flippant and empty-headed. You're efficient but It doesn't show." Josephine laughed a happy laugh. "What a funny idea--efficient but It doesn't showt" "I mean It So man/ capable women are bossy and dictatorial and severe looking. You know the type, bnt you're--you're--" be swept her Into bis arms. "You're adorable," he said, breathlessly. INVALID DEVOTES LIFE TO OTHERS Seattle Doctor Ir Practical Idealist. Seattte, Wash.--A practical Idealist, whose credo is "service" and who gives a philosophy of cheerfulness to those who are down, such a man Is Dr. Frank R. Loope of Seattle. For eighteen years he has been bedridden. A reporter walked Into the "office," a big sun porch, as one of two telephones at his bed rang and the doctor proceeded to aid a*World war veteran in getting out of Jail. Doctor Loope lay flat on his back, the two telephones within easy reach, letter files at the side of his bed, a checkbook on the covers, magazines, papers, cigarettes and a radio at hand. And.there he directs almost Innumerable enterprises--aiding individuals to overcome physical handicaps. The physician picked up a specially framed mirror and focussed it on his' guests. He is unable to turn his head, but he can move his eyes and arms. Thus he is 'able to follow the movements and expressions of any one In hla room. Finds Jobs for Unemployed. tender the general title of "sunshine Industries," Doctor Loope is the directing genius behind a wheel chair store, a repair store, is building up a fund for an Industrial home for shutins and arranges hundreds of programs for invalids. The industrial home--where those aiding themselves would be able to live close to their work--is his big dream. In addition to that work. Doctor Loope finds positions for those who have been handicapped. He distributes radios, gives advice, acts as father confessor to hundreds of persons, advises as a physician and arranges for medical attention. His telephone rang constantly daring the interview. The soldier was paroled to his custody, then a hysterical woman telephoned. Calm tones replied to shrill voice, and then, ironically, an organization that had obtained his telephone number called to ask him to \tug two tickets to a dance. Conducts, Columitj, ^ The doctor is not a wealthy" man, In fact he frequently encounters difficulty in obtaining funds for his many enterprises, in addition to those needed for himself. For years after he was stricken, the doctor related, "I felt I was terribly abused." Then he adopted the philosophy of "Sunshine and Smiles," the title of a column he conducts for shut-ins in the Seattle Star. "I don't preach. I serve," he said. "Help the shut-In to help himself--to keep himself away from his troubles." Although bedridden eighteen years, Doctor Loope is no invalid. He Is more healthy mentally by far than millions who have complete use of their bodies. * BACON'S; STRIP i ZEKE" BACON Many a right arm was sore after the first few day% of spring. , Baseball! No, snow shoveling. Gaga Mills and his collegians trimmed the Elgin Buicks at the high school gym in Elgin last Friday night before a packed house. "Feed" Murphy of Loyola was the big shot for the winners, turning the tide after his belated arrival at the end of the first quarter. Bernie Newman took time off from his duties long enough to drop a line the other day and tell how fine it seems to get the old home town news. Bernie was always in for anyting in the line of athletics and his wishes for success still go out to the boys that keep McHenry on the map in the athletic world. Bernie is now living at 3945 N. Crawford Ave., in Chicago and it is from there that he says hello to all the boys. Miss Doherty, athletic director of the girls in high school, escorted her feminine proteges to Harvard last Monday evening where they enjoyed the use of the school swimming pool. The event was such a success that already they are planning a ttip to the Elgin Y. W. C. A. in the near future. Guess the water was too cold un North. " Many of the writers are asking where are the old time Irish in the ring ? Cam pole vs. Risko is a fair example of the way the headlines look nowadays, and seems to justify the question. Since Gibbons, Brennan and Dem"psey have gone there is not an Irish name on the list except Sharkey in the heavyweight class and here we find that he is Lithuanian, or what are you ? •( x Recent reports give out the good news that the indoor league of last year is to aga:n organize and just listen to this: The first thing on th-* program will be that long delayed feed that the Masons and the Legion teams were to give the K. C. and Forester teams. Now, don't depend too much on this but the present outiook (before the big snowstorm) is very bright. The teams this year will be better matched than last and there is no doubt but what competition will be much tighter. Clem Berg, flashy former Blue and White athlete, is to have a tryout with Quincy in the Three-Eye League. Last year Clem played shortstop and second base for Woodstock in the McHenry County League and was one of the boys who kept Woodstock in the race while they were there. Clem is fast, very fast, has a good arm, and is quite versatile In putting the ball out of the reach of the defense. What he lacks is weight, but he is still growing and will most likely pater a few of the necessary pounds before many years have come to pass. Our wishes for success go with him, Babe Roth published his pick for the final standing of the Major League teams next fall and has found plenty of folks that disagree with him in his choice of the Yanks to occupy first place in the American circuit. He sets all OK when he mentions the popular Cubs for the leadership of the National but again hits the sore spots by choosing the White Sox to drop into sixth. Most of us would raise the So* higher than that after seeing them take Johnsburg into camp last fall. And we also think that the Mackmen of Philadelphia rate higher tan the Yanks, though we realize it would bode ill for Rut to place his generous employers' team but in the lead. that Uscundun: U* f - Did you know wouldn't trust the American banks; with his fight money but put it in the ' ^2,', safety boxes- Tuffy Griffith took it on the chin from a Boston second =. r/" rater named Gagnon Calamity ' ^ Jane is again working for Bobby Jones and has him leading the list >$j in the latest money event in golf This Stagg National-Prep basketball ^ '\A tourney may be the last of its kind The college association doesn't favor prep tourneys sponsored bv col- |' leges---Will Tilden captured as t •'%>.* |jj titles abroad this year as he v Fothergill is many ever had in his prim sure to win games this year for Detroit if the Fatty keeps up his present record as pinchhitter Dave Joslyn has .a 300 game to his credit this year and only last Sunday hit 280 at Woodstock He got five pins on his first ball in the second frame but made the spare and then struck oat Three waitresses in a New York Greasy Spoon" risked fifty cents each on a lottery ticket for the Grand National and won $12,000 after forgetting about the purchase The Roloff alleys at Milwaukee is new the scene of a big bowling tourney Shotwell broke the world's record in the singles at the A. B. C. with games of 237, 270 and 267 and he's only 25 The McGrath Plumbers of Libertyville are but one pin "back of the leaders in the five-man event. ' u, Thm Great AmHcm He-- ^ "•< Just sit around the bouse and watch the bored expression on the faces of the younger generation as they tolerate the "old-time songs" pa and ma want to hear.--Springfield Ohio Sun. Bpfle'f Pitch Bugles may be built or pitched any key, but most O and Disease Kills Canadian Geese Wintering in U. S. Ocracoke, N. C.--A malady that resulted in extermination of thousands of wild Canadian geese has made Its appearance among migratfy fowls wintering along the Carolina coast. The disease results from undernourishment and from feeding in localities where the bottoms are covered with mud. During windy weather game taking refuge along the island here could be picked up or easily caught by small boys. They put them In goose ponds, where they soon died. ' In some sections the shores are strewn with dead game that has been washed in by the tides. A gunner going out during the close of the season could expect four to six of his bag of eight to be underweight and unsuitable for food. Talk of a McHenry baseball tea n is starting anew this season and again the diamond turns up as being missing. Material is plentiful in this section and the boys are rarin' to go, but it is now getting along to the tirtie when activities should commence. If McHenry doesn't put a team on the field the local talent will just spread out wherever they can locate and keep in trim in that manner. It will be just too bad if they aren't allowed to concentrate their strength and fight \:a again place McHenry on the map of the baseball world. Give Win. M. Carroll llfetfee Votes for REPRESENTATIVE X William M. Carroll Street Car Conductor Now a Soviet Chieftain Moscow.--Yesterday a street car conductor--today an Important member of the cabinet of the Russian Federated Socialist Republics. That, literally, is the story of A. 3. Bandurin, whose designation as secretsry of the council of people's commissars of the R. S. F. S. R. (Che largest of the groups constituting the Soviet union) has been announced. Bandurin has for years been an active Communist and prominent in party circles. However, he held no oflicial post. Until this appointment he earned his living as a conductor on s Moscow tram. His elevation, as may be supposed, has stimulated conversation in trams and this writer has heard several weary conductors asked when they would become commissars. French Military Medals for 45,000 War Veterans Paris.--Twelve years after the war 4!f,000 French soldiers are to be awarded tbe military medal, formerly one of France's highest war honors. The medals will go to men cited for bravery and wounded during the war, but who have since received no further recognition. L*p*r Grttofal Cedar Rapids, Iowa.--Forty years ago V. King loaned a sobbing boy 20 cents so he could see a show. King received news of a leper's death recently and with it a check for $2.57. It was the entire estats tt the boy had befriended. •r i Eledt Men with Experience and Training Theodore Hamer worked fourteen' years as Chief Deputy under two County Clerks .transacting the business of that office He Is Qualified " * • # Guy Still was Deputy six years before he was elected to the office of County Clerk , ' f- i Both men have proven true to every trust im*--! posed on them •?' •jyf • <6.- -i Why ExperimentI Theodore Hamer % ix 6;. A .->!