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; »• j%4pJ* ^ - Our <5g x ,+j Washington Letter Washington, February 23--Survey ~~ of sentiment at Capitol Hill this week J| reveals that the political master-minds ;| fully expect, that in the absencg of a ; j definite recovery program, the country ; -will like our Brithish cousins "muddle V through somehow." The White House statement on prices provoked plenty of & speculation despite iW obvious intent • of rationalizing all recent Presidential J*1 talks on prices and wages. The Cons' gress and the waiting world would like to know what Federal policies will be founded on the general statement i expressibly precious it would be if Jonquils i'/if' •rCIAMUE * ALU* . e McCIure Newspaper fyndioate. WNU Service. ODD FLASHES T AURA Hamilton 'awoke on the ^ morning of her thirty-fourth birthday with a curious feeling of thrilling anticipation. She lay, relaxed and heavyeyed, between the worlds of dreams and reality. She wanted to slip back into unconsciousness, for of course nothing exciting was waiting for her, only-a stupid dinner that evening with friends. She heard her husband moving about iiv the next room. How in- SHORT SHORT STORY endorsed by the President, Instead of a bang-up plan for governmental participation in the recovery movement anticipated by all groups, the Administration statement calling for "a balhe would come in, lean, over her with, a car-ess, and say, "Many happy returns of the day, darling." And «^e must remind him about the dinner tonight; if the important anced system of prices such as will case in which he was engaged did promote a balanced expansion in pro- not finish today she would have to ductiort* emphasized one point--th*t[ beg their hostess to excuse them. ? ! AA conjugal kiss, hasty and per- ] functory, and Laura Hamilton Presidential advisors cannot agree on vital matters of economic policy. Legislators an<J private enterprise... Vrho wanted a clue as to Mr. Roosevelt's idea i of specific steps were distipointed. The reaction to the White House price statement varies in political and business sectors. There is, however, a general feeling that the statement was essentially a compromise between factions within the official family as to left alone to---wait. Each rirg c'.' the back door bell was it. Ever when the maid's heavy trerrd and colloquial persiflage, according to the quality of her liking, proclaimed it to be the ice man, the fruit man or the laundry boy, her faith never wavered. She wondered why she felt so confident. It had got to cease some time, but she knew it would come this year; she just couldn't questions of policy. The opinion is also be thirty-four yet, she was still current that the President is desirous ei hteen She had felt eighteen on of insuring stabilization of prices for ^ her natal day for the. last fif. Several months to end the current spell of cautious buying which ^contributing to unemployment. He ^represented as betting heavily on the new housing law. The success of this measure to encourage home building and modernization hinges on public psychology. A boom may come when the people are convinced prices for material and labor are stabilized. The Chief Executive has not been as lucid as to the need of lower wages, but he has indicated that his mind is not closed on this delicate subject. The lawmakers cherish the hope that somethirig specific on economic remedies will come from the Executive Mansion at an early date, s * The President's advisors are split on other policy questions but notably that of relief. The speed which marked the passage of the $250,000,000 relief and work appropriation clearly indicates teen years; of course, some day, when it didn't come, she would be^ thirty-five and thirty-six and thirtyseven, and on aiid on. The bell rang again. Just footsteps, no badinage. Waves of emotion swept over her and left her trembling. Not the emotion which always engulfed her during one of Edward's rare moments of articulate love, but the emotion of the circus, clamorous, reckless, effervescent. It was a modest box. She knew exactly what it would contain. There they lay, glowing chalices of gold; her favorite flowers, they had always held for her more than a promise of spring. It had beeh her birthday that hilarious day of the circus 15 years ago and Francis her first grown-up sweetheart, the others had been boys. He had wantthe seriousness of unemployment prob-j ed to buy her a bunch of viojets; lems. It was considered an emergency , she remembered it had an ^rrogant measure and handled accordingly by crimson rose in its center. Shyly the Senate and House. The testimony J fbe had expressed a preference'for of Secretary of the Treasury Morgan- jonquils. thau and Works Progress Administra-! There were just enough for one tion officials put at rest the persistent | vase. Her fastidious sense gloried rumors that the Federal government. this Tightness; a divided beauty N. C. Hollifield lives in Hollifield, N. C. Winston XAla.) county's only colored farmer is named White. Ropes can be had /as small as three-sixteenths of anN inch in diameter. • Tests of. New York's bad air found the most germs in schools atid the least in a park. Lessons inhobbies are given at an institute at Blackpdbl, England, and half the pupils are more than fortyi years old. A wind-sown seed produced in Prospect park, Brooklyn, three, trees in one. Oak, gum and chestnut grow from a single tree. ; Tennis balls for use in tournaments at Wimbledon are kept in a refrigerator so* that their "bounce" will not be affected by exposure to the sun. - ^ Telephone operators in Lori&Oft are so popular with Master Cupid that the English government has a standing order for 120hewgifla every month. •' .. ON TtfE SIDELINES Some men, grow, others merely' swell. .: * The heartiest laughter' is that which echoes pain. The t&tional forest system cootains 170,000,000 acres. Seventy years is the age requirement for an old age pension in Canada. On the monthly menus of the Florida state prison farm is 58,540 pounds of meat. - A first-class British boiler delivers a cricket ball ot a speed of about ninety miles per hour. •\The largest types of submarines, catrry three periscopes. Submarine periscopes are usually 30 feet long. The pecan twig-girdler attacks pecan trees inf North Carolina and is rated by growers 'as one of - the trees' chief pests. A car with a glass body to show the steel construction of the chassis was exhibited recently at the Berlin automobile show. INVENTIONS would transfer control of relief to local and state authorities. The Administration feels that the central gov- ©ramer.t must -hold-tlse-feag-by furnishing funds so control over expenditures should rest here. Thie complaints of Federal overlordship through relief moneys has apparently fallen on deaf ears. As to the stewardship in this matter Acting WPA Administrator Williams told a would lose all beauty. She sat musing happily. It hadn't even been a love affair, just an understanding, gay comraderie for a fleeting year, and then he had gone away. Frequent letters passed between them and each year on her birthday the little token of yellow loveliness had arrived. And then the fourth year, she had met Edward. She had written Francis all about i him, very simple, very sincerely. •Congressional committee recently that, g^e had expected that the graceful the Federal agencies "do not believe j tribute to memory would cease, but that under any possible stretch of their | each year it had never failed her. resources the States and cities can meet this situation out of moneys that they can raise through any form of taxation or borrowing." In other words, if communities and states pro^ vide relief funds it is their privilege to spend, but not while Uncle Sam digs into the public purse. She thought tenderly of her deep, abiding love for her husband; this imprisoned sunshine spilled over all the room was no disloyalty to her love for him. Mrs. Jordan's dinner that evening was a great success, especially from Mrs. Jordan's point of view. Incidentally, a comment by the chief; Shrill voluble greetings of a flushed economist for the WPA that "the last1 hostess and a glittering diamond decline in farm prices has not result-! bracelet, triumphantly dangled beed in any large decline in the cost ofj fore their eyes, proclaimed that it living" is a disturbing factor in the| was Mrs. Jordan's birthday, thinking of the lawmakers who voted | The dinner moved on in a cloud of enormous powers to the Secretary of > dreamy abstraction for Laura Ham- Agriculture a few days ago. The WPA I ilton. Her reflection smiled back at referred only to foodstuffs. Legislators from rural sections complain that the rank and file of consumers have little or no knowledge of these price her from an opposite mirror; soft brown hair becomingly, but unfashionably, arranged, eyes of the clearest blue overshadowing her simple blue though it were another woman; yes, she looked all of her thirty-four years, but her heart, that vras eightsacrifices on the part of the farming' gown, she saw herself in a haze as erement. The latest report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics that the slight improvement anticipated in industry this year is "unlikely to produce any marked increase in the domestic demand for farm products" sounds a pessimistic note. The solons are wishful in their thinking that the recent farm legislation will help. The Congress turns again this week to the highly controversial food and drug legislation. With one bill giving control over all advertising to the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Agriculture is reaching for more power over the labeling of foods drugs and cosmetics. The revision of the present law was first recommendedi in 1933, but the conflict between the PTC and the other agency kept the < plan piegon-holed these long years. The wage and hour measure shows signs of life but nothing definite is ' expected until spring when something in the form of a compromise can be worked out. The Southern delegations, which cracfce<r*k>wn on the pro- Delicate instruments now permit Weighing to millionths of> grams. A patei^ has been granted to the inventor of a collapsible clothes hanger. He is an eight-year-old boy. Shatterproof glass1 is being made by placing a coating of a sugar der- An electric lamp has been designed to be built into a door to illuminate the keyhole when a button is touched. The goal of pure vitamin A ls being approached. An oil has been produced 9,200 times as potent as cod liver oil extract. Copper can now* be used in posed places without tarnishing, as a result of fusing a thin, flexible silicate coating to the copped. VARIETY re# Our Newspapers Are Called the Fourth Estate The press is called the fourth estate because of its great influence upon public affairs. Formerly in England and France the church, the nobility and the commons were known as the three estates of the realm. : There has been much discussion as to who first called the press the fourth estate. Authorship of the phrase is variously attributed to Burke, Carlyle and Macaulay. In 1840 Thomas Carlyle published his "Heroes and Hero Worship." In lecture V, of that work, he says: "Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they alh^It is not a figure of Speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact--very momentous to us in these times." - Carlyle's style of writing is such that it is not clear whether or not he intended to give Burke's exac.t phraseology. The phrase fourth estate does not appear in any of Burke's published writings and it is not known where Carlyle Obtained his information. Some authorities have suggested that he may have coined the phr-aSe himself. Three years earlier he. published "The French Revolution." One chapter in that work is entitled "The Fourth Estate." It contains the following sentence: "A fourth estate, of able editors, springs up." But Macauley wrote in the Edinburgh Review: "The gaUery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm." A correspondent of Londotji "Notes and Queries" stated that he heard Lord Brougham use the phr$?e in the house of commons about 1823 or 1824. RARE AND COMMON DANGERS Eighty , per cent of the slate quarried in Vermont is waste. Ether may become a habit forming drug, says a physician. United States shrimp is used as Japanese army rations to prevent certain diseases. The Kansas Geological survey rec^ htly published the first complete geological map of the state. Orange is said to be the color which attracts the most attention een, and delicious little thrills, sweet j to billboards in outdoor advertising, as the tinkling silvery grace notes -- * The body of a man murdered mor| than 600 years ago was found in a peat bog at Bocksten, Sweden. of a harp, flushed her cheeks a warmer rose. When they reached home, as was his custom, Edward Hamilton settled himself comfortably in his sp# cial chair to read and smoke a last cigar. Lamp-light did not dim, but only enhanced, the golden splendor which glorified the table beside him. His wife hovered above the shining mass. "Lovely golden darlings,'* she breathed rather than spoke. Her husband looked up and smiled absently. For one moment Laura Hamilton was ruled by that subconscious feline, feminine instinct which always lies dormant in every woman. She wanted to hurt, to salve her pride; she wanted him to speak about the flowers; shl wanted to say with vicious sarcasm, "Yesterday happened to be my birthday and an old sweetheart has never forgotten even if you liave," but, being a gentle woman as well as a loving one, she returned his smile, dropped a light kiss on the top of posal so effectively, must be mollified before the leaders trot out a wage and hour control plan. The defense prog r a m h a s s t i r r e d a h o r n e t ' s n e s t a t . . . w the Capitol with powerfully organized' his head and carried the shining em- • peace groups waging a campaign to' blem of her youth into her bedroom, ^curb the trend toward militarism. The! so she would still be eighteen when big Navy boys have the upper hand she awok? the next morning. <in the game as the President is on' ' - - - ----- Why Birds Migrate One of Unsolved Mysteries Migration remains one of Nature's unsolved mysteries. Many theories have been advanced for the seasonal journeys fro®i the Equator to the Arctic regions and back, but the true answer is yet to come, asserts a writer in the Detroit News.' Many believe that natural food shortage during the winter period is the impelling force that sends the birds south. But if this is solely responsible why is it that many mergansers, pintails and other wild duck species have been found inhabiting open streams of the North all winter when many of their near relatives have long since, taken up their residence in the southern marshes? And When the robin, the bluebird, the wren and swallows leave us in the fall why are their places taken by the chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, the downy woodpeckers and j uncos, if it. is the lack of food that sends other birds south? And then what explanation can we offer for the permanent bird residents that never desert us even during the severest days of winter, the bluejays, sparrows, starlings, gold; finches and flickers? Food supply may play an important part in this annual hegira, but it is not the sole reason. last summer when the prevalence of infantile paralysis in Illinois was somewhat greater than usual, popular interest in controlling the disease j*ose to fever heat. It appeared that many people were willing to try^lmost anything offering the slightest promise of prevention. Nasal sprays were used rather extensively in some places although of no proven value as a preventive of poliomyelitis among human beings. Serum was widely used. for treatment but failed to prevent paralysis in many patients. Schools were kept closed at various points without demonstrable benefit. In diphtheria, on the other hand, we have a serious disease which can be prevented and cured by well established medical procedures. Not infrequently diphtheria is equally as destructive of health and life as poliomyelitis. During 1937, however, there were reported in Illinois 1,676 cases of diphtheria against 782 of i poliomyelitis. Very little popular concern was expressed over the diphtheria situation although the disease was twice as prevalent as poliomyelitis and caused about twice as many deaths. The relatively high prevalence of diphtheria is proof enough that advantage has not been taken by many people of a well established method of prevention. If given sojpn enough and in appropriate dosage, toxoid will prevent diphtheria in practically all cases.' Nearly everyone, moreover, is sure to be exposed to infection with diphtheria sooner or later. There is much less certainty about exposure to poliomyelitis. The situation with respect to smallpox is quite similar. Vaccination against this disease is not only a well established, thoroughly safe preventive but the oldest effective procedure of the kind. While filled with anxiety about poliomyelitis, however, and ready to try remedies of no more than experimental development in combatting that disease, people neglected vaccination against smallpox so elttensively that 922 cases were reported last year in Illinois. ,, Furthermore, the expense e£ preventing diphtheria and sniallpox is quite moderate. The State Department of Public Health distributes both toxoid and smallpox vaccine free of local cost. These preparations are available for any inhabitant of the State who needs and wishes to use them. The only cost of protection against diphtheria and smallpox is the^medical fee. , While nothing is said here to disparage interest in poliomyelitis or-to discourage popular support of research looking toward the control of that destructive disease, it seems important to emphasize the need of utilizing mare fully the well known, established methods of preventing other and no less serious ills. A goodly proportion of the people of Illinois is protected ^gainst both diphtheria and smallpox but immunity is by no means universal. Both diseases have been prevalent to date this year than last. Smallpox has disrupted school programs caused the postponement of mid-year high school commencements and resulted in a considerable loss of time at several points in Illinois. Very* few people are actively opposed to inoculation against diphtheria and smallpox, however. The trouble is mostly a matter of neglect. Large areas of the State have no local public health machinery to stimulate preventive action. ' Smallpox is practically unknown and diphtheria is relatively rare in the cities of the State which] maintain reasonable adequate public health departments, Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, La Salle, Winnetka and perhaps two or three others. Firstrate health departments haVe oeen established recently at East St. Louis and Champaign-Urlbana but have not functioned long enough to yield extensive results. More adequate local health organizations must be had before the full benefits of preventive and protective procedures \can be enjoyed generally. , Pel-Hole Bath Tabs Pot-holes which may have str*t4| as bath tubs for Nuchus Indian* years ago were found in Yosemi National park. 11' •&, v V 7;"#< .§»i> i»y •> dress, and we will --ad by return mail the VISION nWWlWrfttTIMM. CLASSES to ___ for ft also send CI1 VISION. Witt showing many BEAUTIFUL MOOOtN STVUITNIOM glasses, priced from S3.75 Our over JS Y1ARS1 experience I , GLASSES, with THOUSANDS SATISFIED . CUSTOMERS OUARANTECS ab«olutas SATISFACTION or HO MY. SUPERIOR OPTICAL SERVICE 4743-J Drexel Blvd. - - yfr *k} Chicago. HI. . . To Dr. J. G. Maxon of the .City of Harvard, belongs tbe credit the first public official of our county, to start the war against ' the notorious and disgraceful slot machine racket of our county, and banish slot-machines and other gambling.devices fropi ^Eat.city, and to se« to it, that none returned. : ; < - • Mayor William R. Burns of Woodstock followed isuit, and later came Mayor William L. Miller of Marengo, and more recently, the Village of Richmond has also come clean, and the church people, and - law abiding citizens of the three cities, and the village, have been loud in their praise of the acts of their officials. t. lit my efforts to banish slot machines and other gambling'devices 'from the retraining portions of our county, I have only been trying to do what the three mayors above mentioned done, and I have had the venomous opposition of the entire Daly gang, and no help from our sheriff, state's attorney, or certain city and village officials in the south half of "our county, who all should long ago have cheerfully done .what I have been trying to do. • If it was a good thing to banish slot machines and other gambling devices from the cities and village mentioned, (which everyone admits,) why is it not equally good, to banish then! from the remainder of our county? If I was state's attorney or sheriff, I could speak one word?(the same as the mayors did), and the slot machines and other gambling devices would all disappear instantly, or our county jail would soon be filled with Slot machine criminals and others of their kind. " ! . Slot machines. and othej; gambling deyioes are already out of three-fourths of our county, but the hundreds and hundreds of lawless criminals that have been operating them, are only waiting to see how long it Will be, before they receive a "tip." that they jean asain start violating our criminal laws, in view of, and under the yerv noses of several very delinquent public officials. that are star members of Daly's gang. ^ Every one should remember, that every tavern keeper, every criminal fhave mentioned, and all their dangerous and shady helpers and associates, are already on the firing lines, shouting for the nomination of Nulle. or Daly, for county treasurer, and "Doc" Edinger for sheriff, and every voter must decide between now and primary day, Jjptween having a clean county to live in. proper law enforcement, and public officials who will live up to their official oaths and duties on the one side, or continue for four years more with crime, criminals, slot machines, open gambling devices and the same Woodstock ring politicians; it is surely one, or the other,, for the next four years. "Very sincerely yours, CHARLES P. BARNES. .s , \ 'v Why Turkey's Capital Was iftdved The Turkish nationalist movement, organized by Mustafa Kemal in 1919, led to the setting up of a nationalist government at Ankara. In !|^pril, 1920, the city &as chosen owinig to the fact that it was far enough from the coast to be reason-, ably safe from attack and was also* in touch with the other parts of the interior of Turkey. The ability of the surrounding area to supply the food requirements of the population and the raw materials needed by local industry was also of importance. On October 13, 1923, by a doi cisionof the great national assembly, Ankara was declared the capital of Turkey. ^OTOR IN THE ^ODERN * -i* ! * .. t The cost of firing a triple-turret' salute in the case of England's sea fighter, H. M. S. Nelson, is about $3,500. GOING THE ROUNDS their side having served as an As§i ant Secretary of the Navy in the son regime. Lake Was Not There rbr more than 200 years a Lake Parima was shown in Guiana on British maps and then its existence disproved. Shakespeare Father of Twins Shakespeare was the father at twins, Hamnet (not Hamlet) abd Judith. He had another daughter, Susanna. Kit Carsea Peek Kit Carson peak is in south central Colorado, southwest of Sal^i and is 14,100 feet high. Many Good Harbors'- the north coast of Cuba Is Mgh and rocky; *the soi/Ch is low and marshy. The principal harbors are j Havana, Matanzas, Isabela de Sagua, Nuevitas, Sabana, Puerto Padre, Gibara, Santiago de Cuba, Cianluegoe a&d Batafaa®e» From the University of Pennsylvania have come 20 cabinet officers. Angora rabbits may be sheared, but combing is said to yield a mpre even wool. Approximately ISO automobile parlft are made from coal and its by-products. David Hsia, Chinese lumberman, was the first of his race to fly across the Pacific. Many playwrights have' found themes for good plays In the reports of cases in the law courts. - The Klondike gold fielu reached a peak output in 1900 of 1,077,553 fine ounces valued at $22,275,000. iiUMi •<!-- '".ft B *2' ' ConTuIt . Why Clothes Are "Glad Rags" The name "glad rags" for cloth? ing originated when "glad" still had the old meaning of bright, flashy 0* gay in color. "Rags" was used in the general sense of wearing apparel. In Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" the {erm "glad rags" is defined as a common Arhericanism meaning evening dress. Why Peat Is Used for Fuel Very little coal is found in Ireland. In Kilkenny county and adjacent counties coal of an anthracite variety is found, but not in large quantities. There are huge bogs in Ireland which furnish pe-at for fuel, the Bog of Allen being the largest. Why They Are "Trade" Winds Trade winds are only indirectly connected with trade in the sense of buying and selling. The word comes from the Anglo-Saxon "tredan," meaning "to tread," hence trade is something following a beaten path. Why It Is Tryene Park Tryone park in New York city was named for Fort Tryone, on thesite of which this development was made. Fort Tryone was one of the three principal defenses of the city during the Revolutionary war. Why Woolen Garments Shrink Rubbing and subjecting woolen garments to very hot or very col<t water causes the tiny scales of which wool fibers are made to over* lap and become shorter. Why Sailors Are "Bluejackets** Sailors are called "bluejackets"' because they wear blue blouses. Faces on United States Currency On the $10 bill appears the portrait of Alexander Hamilton; on the $20 bills, portrait of Andrew Jack-# son, and on the $50 bill, a portrait of Ulysses S: Grant. t The Aleutians The Aleutians stretch in a long, bow-shaped chain of 70 islands, excluding islets, extending for 1,000 miles from Alaska peninsula to Kafficha-ka- .... 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