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v > 'il ; ... , iL-'-T.- Cm -- "TA^r^ T&-W-- jS iBIMf . ThnratUy, Junurye, 193f ,.:' -V "' *••. ^ ';.'/• '( - . Tree Cradles Menacing Nest - - > _r Ik » * *•%* J"! |V v* * Ly. ' ' * ' Washingtofi Miss Elsie Harmsen returned to her school work, in Jacksonville, 111., on Monday, after spending the holidays in the /home of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Feltz. She was accompanied to, Chicago by Mrs. Feltz and Mrs. A. J. Kamholz, who also visited their sister, Mrs. Wm. Dryer, at Forest Park. Misses Betty Cannon and Joan Yoyng returned to their home in Wa^- w^hingto^January 5--It seems kegan Sunday, after spending a few that the Rodent's message to Condays in the home of the latter's grand- gress coupled with the planned antics parents, Mr. and Mrs. M J. Walsh. of his chosen iieutenants in public ad- Albert and George Vales of Chi- dresses gives rise to the belief that cago visited their parents, Miv andj1938 ^ ^ a scrappy rather than a Mrs. Albert Vales, New Years Day. ihappy New Year. There is consider. Mrs. John Phalin, her guests, Mr. jable head-shaking at Capitol Hill as and Mrs. Albert Foley, of Cleveland, lawmakers recognize the implica- Ohio, and Robert Knox visited friends ^jons Qf the Administration strategy in at Staunton, 111., a few days the past | carrying war to the doors of business W w ' „ T * . * x r A - l a s t h e r e c e s s i o n s p r e a d s t h r o u g h o u t Mrs. N. J. Justen has gone to Edi- jand. The boys are reading the son Park, where she will spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Marum. George Johnson, Jr., returned to Champaign Monday, after spending his vacation at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson atid Miss Maud Granger called on Waukegan relatives New Year's Day. , "Mrs. Mary McPabe of Oak Park political barometers with genuine mis giving. Thoughts fermenting in the minds of sober-minded leaders have to do with the wisdom of the Administration substituting war-whoops for a cohesive and encouraging program to stimulate business recovery. It is cogently argued in private talks that the first duty of Congress ? • These Austrian machine gunners routed birds out of their nests and .|fjirned this tree into a machihe-gurt'/post during recent army maneuvers X-fSear Vienna. The addefd effectiveness of machine-gun -fire iroitt an Cle- 'r'jfcated- position studied during the war games. ;" 1 New Navy Cruiser Is Launched i Potential Soup for Large Kettle • -J /::^ j,/ Boa Constrictors Butters Boa constrictors are not poisonous, though they can bite. They butt their prey in the head, stunning it, and then squeeze it to death. ."'.ill boa generally eats once every two Jireeks. Its jaws, ly>sely hinged, itretch so it can swallow animals ' friany times larger than the normal . iize of the throat. Boas have been ,§roven to eat things 91 large lis a small deer, but never grown ttien or women. • _ , „ , . , . „ ( i s t o p r e v e n t t h e r e c e s s i o n r e a e h i n j r (Spent Saturday and punday with Mc- jdaftnite 'dep)%s^n...pr.6^ti<>nV;'t^'HQW i Henry •friends; . / ^ . ] this objective may be accomplished is 4 v .v," 5^" something else. The solons are-closer , daughter, Bertilla, and Herbert .JPmin. s.^ real sentiment in their districts (and children spent New \ear* Day in th{m the ^te.rfou^TWt.contacts jth^ Anton P, Freund homfe._ . J...'"'lire essentially intimate for their po- • Guy Duker returned to his stadies.,.^ careerS are contingent upon I at Champaign Friday, after spending jhis vacation with his parents, Mr, and jMrs. C. H. Duker. I Marguerite Johnson, Jeanette Lindsay and Cletus Althoff returned to DeKalb Sunday, after spending the holidays at their homes here, j Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Bramah, of I Crystal Lake were New Year's Eve I guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. ; George H. Johnson. j Miss Catherine McCabe spent the weekend with her sister, Miss Margarsensing home town sentiment. They are not above keeping the political stews sizzling but always with an ear to the ground. People on relief are not dependable partisans and political casualties were alarmingly high when public relief was at peak. They know full well if business continues downgrade many officeholders will slide'to oblivion. Hence the unmistakable resistance in Congressional circles to several Administration proposals which temporarily at least would place ical factors were at fault. It is thej Postmaster General Farley's annual old political troopers' theory that "the report of a net postal surplus in exbest defense is a vigorous offensive." j cess of $12,643,000 has provoked The current Senate inquiry into unem- j tongue-wagging among statisticians ployment conditions will reveal a var-' and economists. It was a neat feat of iety of opinions from responsible of-j juggling figures. By simply deductficials in government and industry as ing what he calls non-postal items apto the causes of the slump. The ap- proximately sixty millions, the P. M. G praisals differ because the politician shows a gain for a third time in 4 cannot have the intimate perspective ^ years. The report covers the period of industrial chiefs. The difficulty intending June 30--some weeks prior to the present controversy over the job- the current recession. The Postal less is to separate fact from theory, j Savings business indicated thrift with Mr. Roosevelt has endeavored to an increase of nearly 39 millio^§in desoften the harshness of the Ickes-Jack- posits. The postal inspectors had a. son sky-rocket attacks on business busy year runnings down mail frauds men. He explains that a small minor-' which increased by 35 percent over ity are blocking progress but failed to the fiscal year of 1936. The round-up specify that of the 2,009,000 business crooks mulcting: the gullible folks concerns in the country only six per through the mails involved a variety cent had a net worth of $75,000. His rackets from spurious lottery tickmessage to Congress this week was e^s fake marriage-brokers. The obviously modified from the original conviction record was surprisingly draft as reactions to the Ickes attacks, high. were noted. It is believed that amende ments to the anti-trust laws will be thoroughly examined by Congress.. The lawmakers are not indifferent tfr the story that Assistant-Attorney Gen* eral Jackson is bidding for a Presidential nomination with the blessing of' radical wings of both major parties^ The Capitol big-wigs have other chore® to absorb their, attention until the hiilW abaloo about who is responsible for the sldmp shows signs of abatement// / The preliminary i-eport on /the. census. of .unemployment, is '-likely to pro# v'oke wprry." Seasort^d statistician® were against the method of counting! the jobless at the outset but werfc overruled by the higher-ups. The vetfr. erans warned of an immense amount of duplication and exaggeration ih permitting any person to file a report The politicians desirous of increasing relief appropriations in a campaign' year will obviously interpret the un* checked data in dark hues. The kmei*- ican Federation of Labor with it» % Up to a tew yeaw afg battleships virtually wm menageries, their seamen wide variety of nnfrraly eluded deer, antelopes, b?ars» loni, monkeys, apes, mongooses and' chameleons. But this practice waa curtailed, says a WTiter in Collier's' Weekly, when the admiralty learned that one of its vessels was carrying an "animal crew" of nearly 1,000 assorted pets. .. _J Lafayette Purchased a Ship Lafayette purchased and fitted up the ship La Victoire (the Victory) for his trip to America during the Revolution. Amundsen and the Amundsen was the first explorer to see both the North and South poles. Mr. andf 'MJr s. HHa rold Evans aonn>dl c/.Vhiiill - the country in the doldrums. The leg- islators ^ dearly intimated that The 10,000-ton cruiser Wichita, last of 18 vessels of its class to be *urt under the terms of the London treaty, sliding down the ways at the Ha,'V yard at Philadelphia. The cruiser was christened by Miss Margaret "AjteK of Wichita, Kan., daughter of W. A. Ayres, chairman of the federal ?ide commission. The Wichita will carry a main battety of nine eightf. ch guns. dren of Woodstoock visited relatives here Sunday. Miss Katherine Kortendick of Rockford visited in the home of her sister, Mrs. John Bolger, Saturday and Sunday. Her father, Joseph Kortendick, | who spent the past week here, return- ' ed to Rockford with her. James Faghes, Sr., is spending a few weeks in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Renard Blum, in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Seelback of Chicago visited her sister, Miss Catherine McCabe, Saturday. > Carl Hoffman ot Clinton, 111., and Ralph Hoffman of Evanston were visitors in the George H. Johnson home New Year's Day. , Mr. and Mrs. Edward Houlihan of Evanston were visitors in the M. A. Conway home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kamholz and baby and Mrs. Carl Schmitt and children of Chicago visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kamholz, Thursday. Fred Kamholz, Jr., returned home with them for a visit. Miss Margaret McCabe is recovering from an illness of pneumonia at her home in Libertyyille. When the crew on the skipjack seiner Garfield hauled up one of its $ets off Oceanside, Calif., they found entangled in its strands this 475- >und leather-back turtle, so called because of a heavy black skin which overs its shell. Frank Mineghino, fisherman, is seen showing the prize. % President Gets Red Cross Suttoif President Roosevelt receiving a Red Cross button and membership .j|nrailment card from Faith Young, four-year-old granddaughter of Owen .'"JD. Young. The Chief Executive, who is president of the American Red Cross, was the first to join the annual nationwide American Red Cross i toll call. In the center, is Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the tied Cross. ~ Uses for Wheat Club, wheats are soft and used for pastry. Durum wheats are hard and used for macaroni. Common wheats are intermediate and used for bread. DIRECTOR GIVES ADVICE ON SOCIAL SECURITY As the federal old-age insurance plan which became operative last January entered its second year, Regional Director H. L. McCarthy of the Social Security Board took occasion to correct a few popular errors on the subject. "Some people are still of the opinion that benefits are not payable until 1942," he said. "As a matter of fact, lump-sum benefits are being paid at the rate of 650 a day and this number will undoubtedly increase as more persons become aware of their rights. Monthly retirement benefits will, however, not begin until 1942. Another misconception is that the worker's benefits are based upon his contributions. Benefits, are based up on wages, and amount to 3% per cent of total wages earned in commercial and industrial occupations since January 1, 1937. And while it is true that a worker will have to quit work at age of 65 in order to qualify for monthly benefits for life, he does not have to retire in order to qualify for lump-sum payment. "The claims procedure has been simplified so that it is not necessary to hire an outside agent. All assistance necessary may be obtained at any office of the Social Security Board. "Despite thle notion to the contrary, persons past 65 who are working Or intend to work should have an account number. This is to be used in connection with unemployment compensation." For the convenience of thdse who wish to make a change in their application for an account number. Mr. McCarthy announced that a new form has been prepared. This form is similar to the employee's original application except that it contains space for changes in the name and date of birth. When an employe reaches 65 or dies, Mr. McCarthy urged that employers submit the wage records to the Board as quickly as possible in order that the employee or his family may- receive the money when it is most needed. they will hot be stampeded" by the overlords of politics which is a happy symptom calculated to soothe the public mind. If the home folks will keep their feet on the ground all this sound and fury in the political arena will pass without much material damage. The epithets of Robert Jackson and Harold Ickes against business must be considered more sensational than factual. Their attempts to place the blame for the recession on industry was patently designed to divert public attention from a growing impression that polit **/• ftngers of the pulse on employment does not believe the picture is as black as painted. In their analysis the A<. F. of L. says, "In addition to the million of jobs lost from September through November, we may expect another million or a million and a half workers to be laid off with winter unemployment." Furthermore, the tradie' union is optimistic in its summary: "In general, business observers believfc that in the first quarter of 1938, the business decline will level out into a recession; increases in production and business activity I w.ill probably b^gi|i toward the end of the first quarter and become more marked in the second quarter as orders for goods increase." The union viewpoint on the future ts shared by sage business leaders despite the political crepe-hangers. : BUY AS CAREFULLY AS WILLARD BUILDS It CtMt*-fflora carefully than a Willard. In Batt« N° ba . fact, every Wnlard Battery must pass 74 inspections before it leaves the plant. That's one big reason why Willard Batteries so consistently outlive and out-perform ordinary batteries. 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