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• "W - " Thursday, April 9, 1936 , *^-p cx^: r» ,V \t- •> x ' :" . "V - f'* *-Vv-'** .. '•< 'r, THB MoHSN&Y PLAIHDKALKR f- 'xi'-k ., . .. SH T '" 1 / J'4* i , V _• '; •• < Jfr f rv m .!** ' ' eztrac ':Zi Jbroagi K the as Used Muthn BwiUh Ctorlous customs bare been reported by those who ha?e studied some of the Jungle tribes. At the United States National museum Is a palf of extraordinary marriage bracelets brought back from the region in 1858 i?al officers. By daring to wear a young Indian would prove his !ness for marriage. The wristlook harmless enough, but before aspiring bridegroom put them on, they were filled with stinging ants of a most vicious kind. Bravely wearing them, the suitor would dance from one end of the village to the othe(r, pausing before each house. If he did not flinch in his grim dance, he was "approved," and presumably he and the bride lived happily ever after.--Sci- Service. MiaitUri TrtwM Far Circuit tiding was introduced Into the United States about 1771, says : PfctMHHter Magazine. Early ministers of this type sometimes covered 5,000 miles a year and often preached two sermons on week-days and sometimes more on Sunday. Before 1800 they furnished their own horse and received •boot f65 a year. I (Political Advertisement) LILT LAKE A meeting of the Lily Lake Ladies' League was held at Betty's Place on Tuesday afternoon. Prizes were won by Mrs. F. Doseh and Mrs. A. Seyfferth. The serving of a lovely lunchconcluded a most enjoyable afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson and family spent last week at their cottage; at Lily Lake. - , Mrs. M. Betray and daughters and son, Mr. and Mrs. A. Seyfferth, Jr., and son, Mr. and Mrs. Art Seyfferth, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wischhover, Mr. and Mrs. C. Seyfferth, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller, all of Chicago, andf Mr. and Mrs. A. Mentch of Racine, Wisconsin surprised Mr . and Mrs. A. Seyfferth at their home aft Lily Lake last weekend where they celebrated their SSth^, anniversary. Mrs. Edward Weisbanm and son, Donnie, was a Chicago visitor Tuesday. Myrna Bacon spent Sunday at the home of her parernts, Mr. and Mrs. N. Baoon in Grayslake. Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Miller of Cieero were dinner guests1 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wegener Sunday. Visitors in the Joseph Daly home Monday were Mr. and Mrs. George D>aly, Mrs. Jay Trusdell, Mrs. W. Clohsey, all of Chicago, and Mrs. Bert 'White of Valparaiso, Ind. Mrs. iSeyfferth was a Chicago visitor Thursday where she visited Mrs. O. Broeeker who has been very ill and also Mrs. P. Greyzettea. Eleanore Wegener was a Woodstock visitor Monday. . Genevieve Daw was a Waukegan visitor Saturday evening. EDWARD H. COOK HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS Eepublican Candidate For CODNTY CORONER Primaries: April 14, 1936, Friends:- It will be imposffor me to call on^you per- *ly; yet I am asking region on the efficiency promptness in which I have performed the duties of office this last term* You will find my name the third from the bottom of the Republican ticket. Your vote at the Pri maries will be appreciated. HIT HIM OR TAKE THE DITCH? ; - It'll Be One or the Other SAN CARLOS OPERA BACK TO CHICAGO Of more than ordinary interest to local showgoers is the announcement that Fortune Gallo's famous San Carlo Opera comppny has been booked for a return engagement at the Chicago Auditorium Theatre, opening Monday, April 20, for eight performances. This world-renowned organization is now in its twenty-sixth annual tour, and it is the only standard grand opera organization on the road this season. With the exception of Milwaukee, last Fall, it has played in no other city in Chicago territory this season. For its coming engagement there it will jump from Winnipeg, and is booked only in Cleveland, Pittsburg and Richmond, Va., for the remainder of the tour. Expense of operating the San Carlo company, with its great staff of artists from America and Europe, its special scenery for thirty operas, its chorus, hallet and symphony orchestra, together with Fortune Gallo's policy of charging only popular admission prices, makes it possible for the company to appear only in theat- ' A •V. . ji .« \ r v • /-V yt;': QABBY yERTIE "if a woman had charge of the pent* tentaries no man would ev«r be allowed to finish a sentence." Central Garage Phone 200-J Fred J. Smith, Prop. ; Johnsburg The best equipped garage in this county. We can take care of any kind of repair job and our work is guaranteed. Give us a trial Standard Service Station 24-Hour Towing Service FRED SMITH, Prop. National Debt fPotiHfa] AHvoHi*' WIN WITH C.WAYLAND BROOKS Republican Candidal* For Governor BROOKS will • Abolish the Sales Tax • Reduce All Taxes • Protect Agriculture • Compel Honest Elections * • Complete Secondary Roads • Take Relief Out of Politics • Take Government Out of Business -::v' VOTE FOR 13 C. Wayland Brooks Republican Candidate for Governor HE CAN WIN Df NOVEMBER -TUESDAY. APRIL MUt Hears 31 Billion; President Asks lx/2 Billion More >: for Work Relief. WASHINGTON, D. c--The national debt shot up to another all-time record high level of $31.- 447,106,057 on the same day that President Roosevelt asked congress for $1,500,000,000 , for next year's work relief program, while paving the way for more demands op the federal treasury unless business succeeds In solving a good share of the unemployment problem. ,s This rise of $!>4f>,443,700 In the debt was the result of first appearance of figures from the huge March borrowlnir In the jtrensurv statement. Average Family Debt $1,000. Translated Into more readily understandable figures, the debt now represents approximately $248 for everv man, woman iand child In the United States, or nearly $1,()00 for every fani lly. The increase was the first sizable one of a series expected since Henry Morgenthau, secretary of the treasury predicted early this year that the debt would reach $35,500,000,000 by the end of the next fiscal year. The billion and a half of new relieJ requirements has not yet been ap proved, and does not yet appear In the debt, of course Nearly $11,000,000,000 have been added to the debt by the Hoosevelt administration, which has spent more money than any previous administration, by far. Expenditures for the current fiscal year passed thp $5,000,000,000 mark with more than three months remaining until the end of the period. This spending was greater by nearly $89,000,000 than the expenditures for the same period for the year before. 8pend $13,549 a Minute. During the first nine months of the fiscal year, the administration dished out $13,549 for every minute of every day, including Sundays and holidays, spending roughly $2 for every $1 taken In. During the three years of his office. President Hoosevelt has had appropriated nearly abllHoa dollars more than the United States government spent In Its first 124 years of existence. # Total spending of the New Deal has reached more than 20 billion dollars, more than half of this having gone for "extraordinary" expenditures, relief •nd "pump-priming" to woo industrial recovery. According to the American Federation of Labor's latest estimate there were In January 12,650,000 workera still unemployed. W(E) P(AVE) A(NYWHERE) Somewhere, N. M.--President Roosevelt's approval by tetter allocates $76,535 for the WPA to build eight miles of road between Rio Hondo and Placitas in Taos county. But no government bureau can find a Rio Hondo in New Mexico. And there is no Placitas anywhere within eight miles of Taos county. Supreme Court Unfair? Let's Look at Record Washington, D. C.--Governmental reformists who would abolish or restrict the powers of the United Statef- Supreme Court so that it could not "hamstring" so miu'b legislation by declaring it unconstitutional were givetj, a look at the record, which reveal# that In all its history the highest tribunal has overruled congress In only one law out of 350 brought before It. Since Its inception the Supreme Court has passed upon 24.300 laws! which have been challenged as heyondf the power of congress to pass. It has held up the legislative body in all but 74 cases and has thrown out only 6^ laws in all that tline. Fairy Dream Comes to a Rude Awakening Somebody Slipped; PWA Post Offices Switched Madera, Calif.--PWA funds were altocated to erect post offices In Madera and San Mateo. The Madera building, •till under construction, will cost $70.- 000 when finisho^ the San Mateo building, completed two months ago cost only $50,000. Madera has a population yl only 4,6Go; San Mateo boasts 13.444. : Frank J. Reilly was given the con •truction contract to build both post offices. Frank is almost certain something went wrong somewhere. But he built according to government ordeis. Be says the blunder must have beep In Washington. Tax Rati* Soars- Washington, D. C.--The highest tHX ffttto on record was reached in 1UH5. when, with a national income of 58 billion 700 million dollars, taxes ate op 10 billion 250 millions--10.1 per cent In 1929, when the national income Mood at Its ail-time Mgb, taxes took only 12.4 per cent Paris' Early Hriais la'the middle of the Eighteenth century the only firemsn Party possessed Was the Order of the Capochin Fathers, who, at the sound of the first alarm bell, would be seen running to the rescue, their white robes tucked up round tbstr waist* tetftf are. leaoijr eal* aiMl flMlll fl» t*> West Frankfort, 111.--Once upon $ time, 'way back in 1934, an offlceful of good fairies from Secretary I ekes' Subsistence Homesteads administration appeared In this town, waving magic federal checks to buy $25,000 worth of land and to pay thousands of additional dollars in salaries. They were to provide a homestead project for Southern Illinois miners. They made surveys. And soil tests* And purchases of land--1,200 acres of It They put men to work constructing concrete drains on the farm site. And then In fun-loving spirit for which fairies are known, they put other men: to work tearing out the drains and* putting in new ones. They grew fertilizer crops and plowed them under. They took applications from miners in four counties; who were charmed by the prospects of the "more abundant" life which th« good fairies held forth. And then one day, alas, the poor miners awoke and rubbed their eyes. For nowhere were the good fairies to become o^ them--not even the wizards of wisdom in Washington.were able to tell. And to this very day no one has been able to find out., TJiey say there* are really fairies* Just like there is really a Santa Clause if you believe In 'em. But the poor West Frankfort miners are undoubted^ ly affected by the skepticism of wha(k is rapidly becoming a skeptical age,* • THE CRACKER BARREL The Roosevelt pre-election seal for economy sounds like a "death-bed repentance"-- too late! Farley tays this uill be a campaign of "villification." A > the residuary legale•; of the "Smear Hooter" campaign, Parley thould knott Aren't people ungrateful--for instance those relief workers who object to contributing to the New Deal campaign fund. The Wmshingion version--~Sait tike pennies and make the 'Mxpmyer believe that the billion* will take care of themselvr*" Waehington gosa.p says Professor Tugweil will spend the campaign abroad--gathering freeh ideas on communal farming, perhaps? ers and municipal auditoriums of great size. The company nfever presents condensed versions of the operas in connection with motion picture programs and it can appear in the smaller cities of the country only when they have auditoriums of large seating capacity. The San Carlo company now is touring the Northwest, with engagements in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria and Tacoma, having-just finished a record-breaking engagement of two weeks in San Francisco's War Memorial Qpera House. For the coming Chicago engagement Impressario Gallo brings back the favorites of last Fall, including Bianca Saroya, Goeta Ljungberg, Mary McCormic, Hizi Koyke, Lucille Meusel, Josepha Chekova, Dreda Aves, Florence Wylde, Charlotte, Bruno, Philine Falco, Aroldo Lindi, Dimitri Onofrei, Rolf Gerard, Pasquale Ferrara, Mostyn Thomas, Mario JValle, Stefan Kozalcevich and Harold Kravitt _ In addition, lie announces the coming of Bella Vreta, soprano and Lyubo Senderowna, mezzo-soprano, and the return of Elaa Hottinger, popular ia mezzo roles with the company last season. The repertoire is made up of the operas that were most popular with Middle West music lovers during the company's three-week engagement at the Auditoriumjafit Fall, and is as follows: Mettifay, April 20, La Traviata; April, 2l, La Tosca; April 22 matinee, Madame Butterfly; no performance night of April 22; Thursday, April 23, Aida; April 24, Lohengrin; Saturday matinee, April 25, Faust; Saturday evening, II Trovatore; Sun* day evening, April 26, Carmen. Mail orders are being received now and will be filled in the order of their arrival at the Auditorium Theatre. Popular prices will prevail. Lart«t Bell la WerM Moscow has the largest bell la t)M world, poptrlarly known as "the Osar Kolokol." It weighs 200 tons and is 64 feet In circumference, bat hat never been rung. Soon after it was east a Are broke out in the temporary shed over It and bracked it so badly that repairs could not be made. WtUkimi FUkea Beaeftetsl Watching the rhythmic moveoffents ef fishes aad the rippling undulations of submarine plant life is beneficial* to the overwrought nerves of patients, My the doctors. Dietitians agree that iali are as soothing to the sensss whea alive as they are supposed to fee good for the brate when hoUsi. Vmtmm'9 Weekly. IftSe- RE R \jruuiicai Aaven-iwmenif * . " , -* . P U B L I C A N S . V v V a ! RE-NOMINATE ' / E Jfe Voted 1?OR: Tito Neutrality Resolution. . • ' Legislation designed to prevent profiteering ia War. The immediate payment of the World War Adjusted Compensation Certificates. All legislation enacted for the relief of agriculture. The Railroad Men's Retirement Act. - Hie repeal of the publicity feature of the Income Tax Law. . • v * ! The Social Security^Al^ ' ' The Pettengill Bill repealing the "long and short haul" . clause of the Interstate Commerce Act. Adequate appropriations for the Army and Navy. rtlongressman Chauneey W. Reed Republican Candidate for Represenlalive in Congress Eleventh Congressional District DuPage, Kane, McHenry, Will Counties He Voted AGAINST: The $4,880,000,000.00 slush fund* * The imposition of "gag rules." The further continuance of "nuisance taxes/' . The "death sentence'Vi» tlw Public Utility Act of 1935. The^creation of useless expensive bureaus and com? missions. The exempting of purely administrative jobs from the provisions of the Civil Scrvice Law. The $500,000,000.00 "pork barrel" rivers and harbors bill. The so called "Potato Control Act." The imposition of higher new deal taxes. (Political Advertisement) r A VOTE is a vote FOR Henry Horner April 14. And a vote for HENRY HORNER is a vote AGAINST political enslavement; AGAINST big city machine politics; AGAINST Bosses who seek to be dictators of Party and State. Henry Horner's fight it YOUR fight--you men and women of ALL Illinois who espouse the cause of GOOD GOVERNMENT! Are you going to submit to the autocratic domination of "BOSS" Kelly of Chicago--are you going to permit this would-be dictator to tell you how and for whom you are to vote? Or will you, on April 14» Reject Dictation! All Illinois now knows, and resents, the story of how the self-styled Democratic BOSS of Chicago seeks, by defeating HENRY HORNER for {-^nomination for Governor of Illinois, to rule the Democratic party and the State. He says HORNER must be beaten. WHY? Because HENRY HORNER cannot be coerced; because he would not betray the people whose trust be held inviolate; because he opposed legalized GAMBLING in Chicago and dog racing in East St. Louis; because he is leading the fight for HONEST ELECTIONS'ia Illinois! Reject this dictation 1 Rebuke "Boss" .Kelly! -- • -- - a . RENOMINATE HORNER tor Governor Tmaeday, April 14 A* far • BSMOCKA-nC BALLOT FACTS: HIMRY HOR-fF.R did away with STATE TAX on real estate! RESTORED the State's credit and BALANCED the BUDGET! REDUCED the State's operating costs ipore than 22 PER CENT SATED customers $11,000,000 byreducing gas and electric rates! PROVIDED for Illinois' aged through Old Age Pension Act! REDUCED automobile licenss fees for Illinois motorists! 8ATED 4,000 farms for owners through Farm Credit Committee! SATED schools through full payment of school distributive fund! CONSTRUCTED 1.402 miles of State fiann-to-market roads! WIPED OUT Stats's. $10,000,000 tax anticipation Indebtedness! CONSTRUCTED l^OS miles of new Illinois' pared highways! nOTKJT his falraass and honesty as Mediator la labor disputes! ESTABLISHED Stats Iasnasea Department ts H*eet potterholders! DKTKAIK9 Realised • GAMBLING ssught fey Chicago poBtteal Bosses! AID-- ran Hlin mow UtM 1tl "I" T --•