remember ping engineers v/ortd for ... - chronicling america

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Remember Ping Bodie? He’s Now in Hollywood Remember Murderers’ Row? The old original Murderers’ Row? Babe Ruth batted No. 3, Ping Bodie No. 4, Bob Meusel No. 5, Wally Pipp No. 6, and the ball game was over. Well, on either an R-K-O or a Par- amount stage, depending on just how the work falls, you will see an elec- trician handling a sun arc or a baby spot or whatever the camera- man happens to be wanting. He is middle-aged, a little thick around the pants, more than slightly bald, and he has the sloping, gorillalike shoulders that all good hitters seem to have. He’s the old No. 4 of Murderers’ Row, Ping Bodie, the Yankee out- fielder. Real first name Frank, ! but nobody uses it even now. He I was named Ping on account of the I sound his bat made when it hit a i ball. “They weren’t baseballs; they were rocks,” says Ping, who turned up 30 or 31 home runs lots of sea- sons in many ball clubs. Bodie is now an operator—mean- ing he can do anything an electri- cian is expected to do. Probably the best trained and ablest men are assigned to the sun arcs. With mod- ern high-speed film cameramen get along in small scenes with 500-watt lamps, but big scenes still require the carbon burning arc lights, and there’s an art to keep a pair of car- bons burning without flicker and without noise. * Ping has been married to the sec- ond Mrs. Bodie for 15 years and they’re about to build their own house in North Hollywood, which is in the San Fernando valley. The valley is hot now, as real estate goes, with more and more movie folk moving across the mountains away from Hollywood. Cats Have Appreciation Of Music: Accomplished Did you know that a king once made a special decree to fix the price on cats? He did. This was Howell the Good, king of Wales in the 900s. A kitten, he said, before it could see should cost a penny; before it had caught a mouse, two pence; and after that, four pence, a great sum in those days. But—-the animal must be perfect in hearing and sight; a good mouser with whole claws; and, if female, a care- ful nurse. If he failed in any of these conditions, the seller must refund a third of the purchase money. But the cat is accomplished as well as good for catching mice. It can sing. Perhaps you don’t admire its song but, unlike the dog, the cat has an appreciation of music that can be trained to a high degree. Cats like to walk up and down the piano keys, listening to the notes. And don’t you ever think that cats can’t count! A mother cat, check- ing over her kittens, known in- stantly if one is missing. And cats can talk, in meows as eloquent as words. One very cold night, someone had left the window open in the kitchen where a cat and her small kittens were sleeping. The cat went to the mistress’ bed and meowed so piteously that the woman went to the kitchen and •closed the window. People of Darien Much has been heard but very little really known about the people and country of Darien province in Panama. Darien starts at the Gulf of San Miguel and follows the rugged Pa- cific coastline to the Colombian bor- der. There are two tribes of Indians living in this district, the Cuna and Chocoi. Both are friendly. These people hunt with spears, bows and arrows, antiquated shot- guns and rifles. But for fishing they use hook and line and many barbed spears. Their homes are built sto 10 feet above the ground and are roofed with palm fronds, the sides being left open. Sometimes as many as 25 members of one family occupy a single house. Tube Will Aid Television An invention which may revolu- tionize television by stimulating mass production of small, cheap cathode ray tubes, to be used in a multiple arrangement for the pro- jection of a large image instead of the present method of a single ex- pensive cathode tube, was disclosed in New York city recently. The invention, by ingenious elec- trical circuits, provides that each small cathode ray tube in turn scan only a small section of a large screen. Such cathode tubes, accord- ing to Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, the inventor, may be made almost as simply as the ordinary home elec- tric illuminating lamp, once the in- dustry swings into large production, and costs might be lowered consid- erably. Diabetes Theory Contradicted The theory that diabetes often is caused by some injury has been con- tradicted by Dr. Elliott Joslin of Boston, who has had years of expe- rience with treatment and study of the ailment. “So far as I can remember no definite case in which I considered injury a cause of diabetes has oc- curred among approximately 19,000 patients with diabetes who have con- sulted me,” Dr. Johnson said. “I know no surgeon who has post- poned an operation on a patient be- MW otto* poestbUtty that injury v/orTd Littleton ... Six-year old Joan Hadley, of Littleton, N. H., was in the habit of telephoning her father, Fire Chief H. Edgar Hadley, daily for a chat. So, when she came in from play one day recently and found her mother, Mrs. Florence Hadley, and her sister, fltuth, unconscious, she went to the telephone, called her father, and told him that they had fainted. Chief * Hadley sounded an alarm and dashed to the house with an inhalator. The firemen revived the mother and daugh- ter and two other persons, who were suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. * * * La Paz .. The Bolivian telephone system is privately owned with offices in La Paz, Oruro, Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosi and Santa Cruz. An estimate of the number of telephones indicates a present total of about 4,000, repre- senting a considerable increase over a period of years. There are hardly any long distance connections in Bolivia. There has been little in- crease in the telephone wire in use, the total approximating 6,500 miles. Dial telephone service is now being installed in La Paz. * * San Francisco ... The most talka- tive state in the Union is California, according to “American Magazine,” which cites census figures to show that the average Californian makes 464 telephone calls a year. The state of Washington is second, and lowa third. Mississippi makes the least number of calls per person. The most talkative city is Washington, D. C., averaging 627 calls per person per year. * * Jungfraujoch ... The highest tele- phone exchange in the world has recently been completed at Jungfrau- joch, Switzerland, in the lofty Alps where it is safe from bombs, blizzards, and avalanches. The automatic dial central office and all wires are buried in solid rock which had to be blasted to permit construction of the exchange. The exchange serves only four sub- scribers, the Hotel Berghaus, the rail- way station, the post office, and the High Alpine Scientific Institute. * * Cheyenne ... A monument to a telephone pole has been erected in Wyoming. Between Cheyenne and Laramie on U. S. Route 30, the tablet commemorates the first telephone pole set on the Lincoln Highway. * * * Boston .. . The first advertisement for the telephone appeared in May, 1877, in the form of a small four-page circular entitled simply “The Tele- phone.” It announced that speech could be transmitted for 20 miles and pointed out with complete candor the shortcomings of the then new and erude instrument. I* * * Kearny ... In an average year lover $200,000 in reclaimed materials from waste substances of manufac- ture are saved at the Kearny, N. J., plant of the Western Electric Com- jpany, manufacturing and supply | organization of the Bell System. To i the reclamation department come, for .example, rubber shavings, paper, cot- ton, machinery, cinders, furniture, gold sludge, etc. All this and much tnore is sorted into about 200 classi- fications. * * * Stockholm . .. Stockholm, Sweden, ranks second in telephone develop- ment in the world, having 40.16 tele- phones per 100 people, according to | recent telephone statistics. The re- iport showed that London, England, which before the present war actually had more telephones than any other single city outside the United States, on March 31, 1930 had only 17.81 tele- phones per 100 people or less than one-half the ratio existing in Wash- ington, D. C. The Nazis still respect the rules. Instead of stealing French indus- tries, they make the French give them the money to buy what they want. * O Another strange thing about man is the number of crackpot ideas he can have and still be considered Bmart. o It ie well that men love fame and money. Otherwise, when romance ends they would have nothing left to work for. Some men are bo brave they nev- er lock their windows or sleep with a gun handy unless their wives are away. -4> "■ '■ Using rouge la an art. Too little, and you teem about to taint; too iwA t*4 mi fgrwtalh Km ' THE MTDLAHD lOfTBEAX FRIDAY, AUGUST If, 1941 Telephone Engineers find More Econonical Method For Insulating Wires It has often been said that the simplest solution to a problem is often the hardest to find because it is so easily overlooked. This is true in the telephone industry as proven by the little story behind the efforts of tele- phone scientists to produce an economical means of insulating wires with paper in telephone cables. A group of Western Electric engineers were one day discussing how they could keep down the cost of this paper insulation. One of them had an idea. "Why not,” he said, “make the paper right on the wire?” Several of his associates smiled at this suggestion, but the Western Elec- tric engineer took a bottle, filled it with a wood pulp solution and stirred a bright new wire in it Sure enough, the pulp stuck. Thus began a new and revolutionary process of wire insulation better than the old process of wrapping each wire with spiral paper ribbons. ____ Homogenized Milk Homogenized milk has been hailed as the greatest advance in milk processing since pasteurization. It is milk in which the butterfat and other solids are broken up by 2,500 to 3,000 pounds pressure at 160 degrees temperature, and is more easily digested because the break- ing up of the solids prevents the formation of large curds in the stom- ach. The homogenization process re- moves the cream line—but not the cream. Both regular and A grade milk are to be processed. Marketing was delayed at the in- stance of leading milk companies to allow time for a thorough study of value, uses and manufacturing de- tails. This included a study by Dr. Irving J. Wohlman in co-operation with Children’s hospital and various feeding clinics in the use of the homogenized milk, and experiments in making of formulas without the boiling, filtering and cooling proc- esses used with ordinary milk. Man’s New Lake Soon the 151 miles .of the upper Columbia river from the dam at Grand Coulee to the Canadian boundary will be the third largest reservoir of water in the United States. Behind the dam a maxi- mum of 9,517,000 acre feet of water can be stored. During this year’s freshets the lake created by the dam extended approximately 100 miles, with 2,590,000 acre feet impounded. The effect of this man-made lake on the Inland Empire is going to be interesting to behold. Besides sup- plying the energy to generate a large amount of electricity at the dam, adequate water for irrigating hundreds of thousands of acres will be available. But in addition, the presence of a constant body of wa- ter 151 miles in length should have some effect upon the climate in the immediate region. Wishful Thinking Nearly all great enterprises orig- inate in wishful thinking. The genius, the creator, or the builder fives by trying to carry out his orig- inal wishful thinking. The trans- continental railroads were all start- ed on wishful thinking. Even the scientist, who is supposed to live in an emotional vacuum, gets his clues, hints and hunches from wishful thinking. Without a lot of wishful thinking followed by self-control, in testing out your wishes we soon be- come stick-in-the-muds. Ancient Law Forty-two years ago a law was enacted in New York making it a misdemeanor for an investigator to make a false report to his employer. There never had been a conviction under it until recently when John Borthwick, Brooklyn, got off with a suspended sentence in Special Ses- sions for making conflicting reports on a family he had been assigned to check on by an investigating serv- ice. o ■■■ - GOVERNMENT WANTS ADDI- TIONAL LAND IN HARFORD COUNTY Agents for the U. S. Army are re- ported as experiencing difficulty in purchasing additional land adjacent to Aberdeen Proving Grounds. The tract of land in question is located between Perryman and the Boothby Hill road, embracing be- tween 500 and 1000 acres. The tract is located in the very heart of what is claimed to be the best shoe-peg corn area in America. It is reported the owners have been offered from $76 to 9125 an acre, yet one land holder declared he would not have sold the land to an inndividual for less than $250 an acre.” o A four-flusher is a person who thinks he can seem important by using deep snarl when answering the telephone. o •Americanism: A Senator reveal- ing military information to crowded galleries; then asking reporters to keep it secret. o What the sinner resents is not being reformed, but being reformed hy DQQDIe not II dMftlt AA hi Ift. DAIRY HERD REPORT FOR MONTH OF JULY It looks as if Lloyd Balderston is trying to make a habit, a good one at that however, of being top man In the County with his herd of Guern- seys. Thie was his third consecutive month at the head of the list with a warm month like July. Next among the leaders was Guy McGrady. It seems that the *McGrady name is another pace setter, his herd aver- aged 673 lbs. milk, 32.4 lbs. fat. The herd of Peter Zeitler reappears with an average of 635 lbs. milk, 31.0 lbs. fat. We have two new-com- ers that make up the remainder of the top five. The herd owned by Jack Scott averaged 621 lbs. milk 30.3 lbs. fat; and Holly Hall’s herd made 683 lbs. milk, 29.7 lbs. fat. We regret the fact that the herd managed by Ding Dong Bell missed sth place by a fraction. Maybe it would help if Ding Dong would be on hand for a night milking instead of putting time in at Colora. How- ever, Mt. Harmon did take four out of ten places with the leading cows, being surpassed for high cow only by H. B. Crowgey, who’s cow 168 made 1355 lbs. milk, 70.5 lbs. fat. Ball’s fast footed Apreshire then followed with No. 6 having 1699 lbs. milk, and 64.6 lbs. fat; No. 30 made 1637 lbs. milk, 63.8 lbs. fat; No. 28 in 7th place made 1677 lbs. milk, 60.4 lbs. fat; and No. 65 one notch lower with 1590 lbs. milk, 60.4 lbs. fat. Eunice in the 4th place from the herd of John Scott made 1243 lbs. milk, 634 lbs. fat. The Mc- Grady family placed with Countess belonging to Ennis McGrady in 6th place with 1049 lbs. milk, 61.8 lbs. fat; and Lou from Guy McGrady's herd made 1389 lbs. milk, 59.7 lbs. fat. In 10th place was Brownie from the herd of Everett England, making 735 lbs. milk and 57.3 lbs. fat. Things seen thru the County were: several combines at work, also Jap- anese beetles, new milkers, farmers striving for better bulls and cheaper milk production. We must also note that delicious blue berry muffins were made by Miss Elizabeth Crow- gey, and fluffy, flavored chocolate cake was served by Mrs. Watson of Piney Creek Farm. Mrs. Craig, Mount Harmon Farm is tops for iced tea. Hoping for fuller cans and more cream. —A. C. Snyder, D. H. I. A. Tester - -■ -o NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW WIN- NER TO CECIL COUNTY FAIR A winner of five firsts and three junior championships in 1940, Broadview Fearless Knight, owned by Marshall Wilson and Son, Bel Air, Maryland, will again appear at the Cecil County Breeders’ Fair, September 5-6. “Knight” won the yearling bull class at Fair Hill last September and he was also first at the Maryland State Fair, the Harford County Fair and the National Dairy Show. This outstanding fellow will make a fine addition to the guernsey show which will be participated in by many other fine cattle that will go direct- ly to Fair Hill from the State Fair at Tlmonium. The feature of the first day of the fair, September 6th, will be the horse show which begins at 9:30. Mr. Dean Bedford, Monkton, Mary- land, and Mr. Thomas Clark of West Chester, Pennsylvania, have been invited to judge the various classes. The Premium List provides for colts, both draft and half-breeds, yearlings and two year olds In the draft horse department, and light horses, after which the pulling con- test will take place. Pulling Contests have become very popular in Mary- land with better teams being put to the dynamometer each year. With the great variety of classes for horses and ponies, the opening day of the Cecil County Fair should provide plenty of interest. The big show however, will be Saturday, September 6th, when the several hundred head of excellent dairy cattle will be paraded in the spac- ious show ring during the morning. In the afternoon the Foxcatchere Steeplechase will be run over the na- tion’s most difficult race course as the closing event of the program. -■- --o CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Mind” will be the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Aug- ust 24. The Golden Text will be from I Cor. 2:16, “Who hath known the Mind of the Lord, that he may in- struct him”. Among the citations comprising the Lesson-Sermon will be the fol- lowing from the Bible,—Jer. 29:11: “For. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” The Lesson-Sermon also will in- clude passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures", by Mary Baker Eddy, among which is the following, page 331, “The Scriptures imply that God is All-in- all. From this it follows that noth- ing possesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and Hie ideas- The Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit.” - o - Hint to the ladles: You can make your snooty neighbors call. Just dress your sloppiest and leave the living room in a mess. THESE YOUNGSTERS MUST MEET CERTAIN REQUIRE- MENTS 3 An army of youngsters-nearly 1 30,000 strong-will take to the high- ways and byways of Maryland when * the schools oipen in the fall and the boys and girls who have reached school age this year start their training in the three R’s. Parents of these youngsters are reminded by Dr. R. H. Riley, Dlrect- ' or of the State Departmtnt of Health 1 of certain things that should be at- tended to, and of one, in particular, ' that must be done, before the young- ; sters may be received at any public school in the State. ' “That one ‘must’ is vaccination against smallpox, which is compul- | sory in Maryland. Of this require- ment and of the other things that should be done, Dr. Riley said, “In accordance with our State law, ! a child must be vaccinated against smallpox before he or she may be ' enrolled at'any public school in ' Maryland. Largely through the ob- ; servance of this law, the State has been kept comparatively free from 1 smallpox-we have not had a case of that disease for over ten-years—but smallpox is widely prevalent in other parts of the country; is highly con- tagious, and the only way to be protected against it is by vaccina- tion. “Diphtheria is just as prevalent as smallpox, and just as dangerous for | the child who has not been protect- ! ed against it But fortunately, thru the use of toxoid, a child can be 1 protected against diphtheria as read- ily as against smallpox by vaccina- tion. S, we can, and do, urge every 1 mother whose child has not been protected against this disease to have* it done, at once. Every childr should have a physical check-up some time before starting in at school so that condi- tions that need correction may be | attended to and the child can enter school free from handicaps that 1 might cause ill health later on, if 1 neglected now. Bad tonsils, teeth j that need attention, defects of vision ; and of hearing, and bad eating hab- its are among the things that are very likely to affect the health if they are neglected. “You probably have noticed how many of the army and navy draftees have had to be rejected because they could not measure up to the physical requirements. Many of these conditions could have been ' avoided if they had been discover- ed and taken care of when the boys started to school, just as your child- ren are doing now. “Health conferences for the exam- ination of children who will enter school this fall have been held in ; all of the counties and records show that they have been well attended. In connection with the examinations, clinics have been held for vaccina- tion against smallpox and .protection against diphtheria for the children ' for whom these services had been i neglected. If your child has not had the benefit of these safe-guards, don’t wait until the schools open, take him or her to your doctor, or the nearest health officer and have 1 them attended to now without furth- er delay.” o RULES FOR BICYCLE RIDERS Bicycle riders, attention! To help in reducing bike acci- dents, the Keystone Automobile Club has formulated a set of ten rules, ' observance of which, the Club saf- ety experts declare, will make cy- -1 cling safer without in any way minl- ; miizing its enjoyment: Here they are: 1 I. Obey all traffic signals, signs 1 and rules. Observance of ’stop’ signs is important, because motor- ists on ‘through’ streets are unpre- pared for sudden appeamnce of bi- cycles from side streets or highways. 2. Ride in single file. There is grave danger when groups of cycl- ists riide three or four abreast on heavily traveled roads. 3. Keep out of car tracks and ruts. Numerous accidents are due to rid- ers being thrown from bikes in front of oncoming traffic- 4. Don’t do ‘stunts’ or ‘race’ in traffic. 5. Don’t carry a ‘passenger’ or permit children on roller skates to hang on for a ride. 1 6. Always signal intention to make a right or left turn. 7- Make repairs off the traveled portion of the roadway. 8. ‘Walk’ the bike across heavy traffic unless it is controlled by i officer or traffic light. 9. Don’t ‘hitch’ rides on trucks or other vehicles. 10. Always keep brakes and front and rear lights in good operating condition. AT LAST! THE TRUTH ABOUT “CARDIFF GIANT” After seventy years of silence the son of a stonecutter reveals how his father chiseled Barnum’s 1 famous petrified man out of a block 1 of gypsum. One of many interesting 1 features in the August 31st issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY , the big magazine distributed with i the BALTIMORE SUNDAY l AMERICAN South Carolina law says that wine > 21 per cent alcohod is “nom-alcoh Al- t' ic and non-intoxicating". It takes a I lot to intoxicate people tmogjUated with swamp moonshine, - SMALL MARYLAND WHEAT j FARMS The wheat producer who grow* only ei small amount of wheat Is not affected by the wheat marketing quota, according to R. O. Stelzer, Executive Officer for the AAA in Maryland. This question, he said, has been rained, by a number of Maryland growers. The lawi sets up production and acreage standards to specify the size of the farms exempted. Under these provisions quotas do not ap- ply to farms on which seeded acre- age Is 16 acres or less. Neither do they apply to farms on which the normal production of the seeded acrege is less than 200 bushels. In explanation, Mrr. Stelzer point- ed out that a farmer might have as much as 16 acres of wheat this year and raise 30 bushels am acre without being subject to quotas. Or, on the other hand, he might have 20 acres of wheat with a normal yield of 9 bushels per acre giving him a nor- mal production of 180 bushels. In either case there would be no excess wheat on the farm; and marketing cards, which must be obtained from the county AAA office, would be is- sued to anyone having an interest in the wheat and wishing to market it. “When Congress drafted the quota program as a means of meet- ing the surplus problem’’, Mr. Stel- zer said, “it recognized the fact that, In general, the small wheat farm markets little or no wheat and makes a correspondingly small con- tribution to the surplus problem’’. For farms affected by the quota, the provisions permit marketing of all wheat produced on the farm acreage allotment plus any old wheat carried over from previous crops. Only the normal or actual production, whichever is smaller, of the acreage In excess of the allot- ment is subject' to the marketing penalty of 49 cents per bushel. Producers who have such excess wheat may avoid or postpone pay- ment of the penalty by storing the excess under bond, or by placing warehouse receipts for the excess or cash equal to the penalty in escrow with the county committee. Or, the farmer may, if he chooses, turn the excess wheat over to the county AAA committee for the Government, in accordance with instructions from the committee. o MAKE USE OF MARYLAND PEACHES Under the defense program Amer- ican housewives are being urged to can as many fruits and vegetables as possible in order to conserve tin, re- lease canned food for the Allies, re- lieve the shortage of other canned goods, and provide for the family health. According to Miss Margaret Mc- Pheeters, Specialist in Nutrition for the University of Maryland Exten- sion Service, there is no better food than peaches for this purpose and the crop will be at Its height in Maryland in a few weeks. .Every indication points to a large crop of Maryland peaches and a fair price this year. Miss McPheeters says, and she urges Maryland house- wives to take advantage of this fact. Peaches are suitable for cakes, pies, salads, preserves, pickles, marmalades, paste and butter. She recommends the following as a good peach marmalade recipe: Use % pound or 1 % cups of sugar to every pound or quart of peaches. A slice of lemon may be used, if de- sired, and Vt stick of cinnamon and a small piece of ginger root. The peaches should be sugared down, covered, and allowed to stand several hours or over night in a cool place. Add the lemon, ginger and cinnamon and heat gently to boiling. Stir occassionally to dissovle the sugar and prevent burning. Boil rapidly until the fruit is tender and the syrup gives a Jelly test- Then pour into hot, sterilized jars, seal, label and store in a cool-dry place. O MORE MILK THAN EVER An all-time recor dfor milk pro- duction on U- S. farms was set for the first six months of 1941, accord- ing to U. S. Department of Agricul- ture records. Production was about 6 per cent greater than for the first half of 1940 and amounted to nearly 60 billion pounds -for the half year- -69,813 million this year compared with 67,084 miliion pounds last year, says the Agricultural Market- ing Service. The first half of the year, includ- ing the high producing months of May and June, usually accounts for a little more than half the annual production. For the years 1936 to 1939 the average for the first six months was nearly 64 billion pounds and for the last half of the ysnr Just under 61 billion pounds. With ris- ing home consumption and defense demands calling for special effort to increase dairy products, with ample grain for feeding, and with unusual- ly high prices for dairy products, the dairy specialists are hoping that the second half of the year will come closer than usual .to equaling the first six months, so that the full year will be even more of a record- breaker. o * The only thing worse than a bugle that can’t play a tune is an auto horn that does. Description of a bore; His oosa venation is as tiresome as the miQi jejeff jf t%e last meeting

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Page 1: Remember Ping Engineers v/orTd For ... - Chronicling America

Remember Ping Bodie?He’s Now in Hollywood

Remember Murderers’ Row? Theold original Murderers’ Row? BabeRuth batted No. 3, Ping Bodie No.4, Bob Meusel No. 5, Wally PippNo. 6, and the ball game was over.

Well, on either an R-K-O or a Par-amount stage, depending on just howthe work falls, you will see an elec-trician handling a sun arc or ababy spot or whatever the camera-man happens to be wanting. He ismiddle-aged, a little thick aroundthe pants, more than slightly bald,and he has the sloping, gorillalikeshoulders that all good hitters seemto have.

He’s the old No. 4 of Murderers’Row, Ping Bodie, the Yankee out-fielder. Real first name Frank,

! but nobody uses it even now. HeI was named Ping on account of theI sound his bat made when it hit ai ball. “They weren’t baseballs; they

were rocks,” says Ping, who turnedup 30 or 31 home runs lots of sea-sons in many ball clubs.

Bodie is now an operator—mean-ing he can do anything an electri-cian is expected to do. Probablythe best trained and ablest men areassigned to the sun arcs. With mod-ern high-speed film cameramen getalong in small scenes with 500-wattlamps, but big scenes still requirethe carbon burning arc lights, andthere’s an art to keep a pair of car-bons burning without flicker andwithout noise. *

Ping has been married to the sec-ond Mrs. Bodie for 15 years andthey’re about to build their ownhouse in North Hollywood, which isin the San Fernando valley. Thevalley is hot now, as real estategoes, with more and more moviefolk moving across the mountainsaway from Hollywood.

Cats Have AppreciationOf Music: Accomplished

Did you know that a king oncemade a special decree to fix theprice on cats? He did. This wasHowell the Good, king of Wales inthe 900s. A kitten, he said, beforeit could see should cost a penny;before it had caught a mouse, twopence; and after that, four pence, agreat sum in those days. But—-theanimal must be perfect in hearingand sight; a good mouser withwhole claws; and, if female, a care-ful nurse. If he failed in any ofthese conditions, the seller mustrefund a third of the purchasemoney.

But the cat is accomplished aswell as good for catching mice. Itcan sing. Perhaps you don’t admireits song but, unlike the dog, the cathas an appreciation of music thatcan be trained to a high degree.Cats like to walk up and down thepiano keys, listening to the notes.

And don’t you ever think that catscan’t count! A mother cat, check-ing over her kittens, known in-stantly if one is missing.

And cats can talk, in meows aseloquent as words. One very coldnight, someone had left the windowopen in the kitchen where a catand her small kittens were sleeping.The cat went to the mistress’ bedand meowed so piteously that thewoman went to the kitchen and

•closed the window.

People of DarienMuch has been heard but very

little really known about the peopleand country of Darien province inPanama.

Darien starts at the Gulf of SanMiguel and follows the rugged Pa-cific coastline to the Colombian bor-der.

There are two tribes of Indiansliving in this district, the Cuna andChocoi. Both are friendly.

These people hunt with spears,bows and arrows, antiquated shot-guns and rifles. But for fishing theyuse hook and line and many barbedspears. Their homes are built sto10 feet above the ground and areroofed with palm fronds, the sidesbeing left open. Sometimes as manyas 25 members of one family occupya single house.

Tube Will Aid TelevisionAn invention which may revolu-

tionize television by stimulatingmass production of small, cheapcathode ray tubes, to be used in amultiple arrangement for the pro-jection of a large image instead ofthe present method of a single ex-pensive cathode tube, was disclosedin New York city recently.

The invention, by ingenious elec-trical circuits, provides that eachsmall cathode ray tube in turn scanonly a small section of a largescreen. Such cathode tubes, accord-ing to Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith, theinventor, may be made almost assimply as the ordinary home elec-tric illuminating lamp, once the in-dustry swings into large production,and costs might be lowered consid-erably.

Diabetes Theory ContradictedThe theory that diabetes often is

caused by some injury has been con-tradicted by Dr. Elliott Joslin ofBoston, who has had years of expe-rience with treatment and study ofthe ailment.

“So far as I can remember nodefinite case in which I consideredinjury a cause of diabetes has oc-curred among approximately 19,000patients with diabetes who have con-sulted me,” Dr. Johnson said.

“I know no surgeon who has post-’ poned an operation on a patient be-MW otto* poestbUtty that injury

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Littleton . . .Six-year old Joan

Hadley, of Littleton, N. H., was in thehabit of telephoning her father, FireChief H. Edgar Hadley, daily for achat. So, when she came in from playone day recently and found her mother,Mrs. Florence Hadley, and her sister,

fltuth, unconscious, she went to thetelephone, called her father, and toldhim that they had fainted. Chief

* Hadley sounded an alarm and dashedto the house with an inhalator. Thefiremen revived the mother and daugh-ter and two other persons, who weresuffering from carbon monoxidepoisoning.• * * *

La Paz .. . The Bolivian telephone

system is privately owned with officesin La Paz, Oruro, Cochabamba, Tarija,Potosi and Santa Cruz. An estimateof the number of telephones indicatesa present total of about 4,000, repre-senting a considerable increase over aperiod of years. There are hardlyany long distance connections inBolivia. There has been little in-crease in the telephone wire in use,the total approximating 6,500 miles.Dial telephone service is now beinginstalled in La Paz.

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San Francisco . . . The most talka-tive state in the Union is California,according to “American Magazine,”which cites census figures to show thatthe average Californian makes 464telephone calls a year. The state ofWashington is second, and lowa third.Mississippi makes the least number ofcalls per person. The most talkativecity is Washington, D. C., averaging627 calls per person per year.

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Jungfraujoch . . . The highest tele-phone exchange in the world hasrecently been completed at Jungfrau-joch, Switzerland, in the lofty Alpswhere it is safe from bombs, blizzards,and avalanches. The automatic dialcentral office and all wires are buriedin solid rock which had to be blastedto permit construction of the exchange.The exchange serves only four sub-scribers, the Hotel Berghaus, the rail-way station, the post office, and theHigh Alpine Scientific Institute.

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Cheyenne...A monument to a

telephone pole has been erected inWyoming. Between Cheyenne andLaramie on U. S. Route 30, the tabletcommemorates the first telephone poleset on the Lincoln Highway.

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Boston . .. The first advertisement

for the telephone appeared in May,1877, in the form of a small four-pagecircular entitled simply “The Tele-phone.” It announced that speechcould be transmitted for 20 miles andpointed out with complete candor theshortcomings of the then new anderude instrument.I* * *

Kearny ...In an average yearlover $200,000 in reclaimed materialsfrom waste substances of manufac-ture are saved at the Kearny, N. J.,plant of the Western Electric Com-jpany, manufacturing and supply|organization of the Bell System. Toithe reclamation department come, for.example, rubber shavings, paper, cot-ton, machinery, cinders, furniture,gold sludge, etc. All this and muchtnore is sorted into about 200 classi-fications.

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Stockholm . . . Stockholm, Sweden,ranks second in telephone develop-ment in the world, having 40.16 tele-phones per 100 people, according to|recent telephone statistics. The re-iport showed that London, England,which before the present war actuallyhad more telephones than any othersingle city outside the United States,on March 31, 1930 had only 17.81 tele-phones per 100 people or less thanone-half the ratio existing in Wash-ington, D. C.

The Nazis still respect the rules.Instead of stealing French indus-tries, they make the French givethem the money to buy what theywant. *

OAnother strange thing about man

is the number of crackpot ideas hecan have and still be consideredBmart.

oIt ie well that men love fame and

money. Otherwise, when romanceends they would have nothing leftto work for.

Some men are bo brave they nev-er lock their windows or sleep witha gun handy unless their wives areaway.

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THE MTDLAHD lOfTBEAX FRIDAY, AUGUST If, 1941

Telephone Engineers findMore Econonical Method

For Insulating WiresIt has often been said that the

simplest solution to a problem is oftenthe hardest to find because it is soeasily overlooked. This is true in thetelephone industry as proven by thelittle story behind the efforts of tele-phone scientists to produce aneconomical means of insulating wireswith paper in telephone cables.

A group of Western Electricengineers were one day discussing howthey could keep down the cost of thispaper insulation. One of them had anidea.

"Why not,” he said, “make thepaper right on the wire?”

Several of his associates smiled atthis suggestion, but the Western Elec-tric engineer took a bottle, filled itwith a wood pulp solution and stirreda bright new wire in it Sure enough,the pulp stuck. Thus began a newand revolutionary process of wireinsulation better than the old processof wrapping each wire with spiralpaper ribbons.

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Homogenized MilkHomogenized milk has been hailed

as the greatest advance in milkprocessing since pasteurization.

It is milk in which the butterfatand other solids are broken up by2,500 to 3,000 pounds pressure at 160degrees temperature, and is moreeasily digested because the break-ing up of the solids prevents theformation of large curds in the stom-ach.

The homogenization process re-moves the cream line—but not thecream. Both regular and A grademilk are to be processed.

Marketing was delayed at the in-stance of leading milk companies toallow time for a thorough study ofvalue, uses and manufacturing de-tails.

This included a study by Dr.Irving J. Wohlman in co-operationwith Children’s hospital and variousfeeding clinics in the use of thehomogenized milk, and experimentsin making of formulas without theboiling, filtering and cooling proc-esses used with ordinary milk.

Man’s New LakeSoon the 151 miles .of the upper

Columbia river from the dam atGrand Coulee to the Canadianboundary will be the third largestreservoir of water in the UnitedStates. Behind the dam a maxi-mum of 9,517,000 acre feet of watercan be stored. During this year’sfreshets the lake created by the damextended approximately 100 miles,with 2,590,000 acre feet impounded.

The effect of this man-made lakeon the Inland Empire is going to beinteresting to behold. Besides sup-plying the energy to generate alarge amount of electricity at thedam, adequate water for irrigatinghundreds of thousands of acres willbe available. But in addition, thepresence of a constant body of wa-ter 151 miles in length should havesome effect upon the climate in theimmediate region.

Wishful ThinkingNearly all great enterprises orig-

inate in wishful thinking. Thegenius, the creator, or the builderfives by trying to carry out his orig-inal wishful thinking. The trans-continental railroads were all start-ed on wishful thinking. Even thescientist, who is supposed to live inan emotional vacuum, gets his clues,hints and hunches from wishfulthinking. Without a lot of wishfulthinking followed by self-control, intesting out your wishes we soon be-come stick-in-the-muds.

Ancient LawForty-two years ago a law was

enacted in New York making it amisdemeanor for an investigator tomake a false report to his employer.There never had been a convictionunder it until recently when JohnBorthwick, Brooklyn, got off with asuspended sentence in Special Ses-sions for making conflicting reportson a family he had been assignedto check on by an investigating serv-ice.

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GOVERNMENT WANTS ADDI-TIONAL LAND IN HARFORD

COUNTYAgents for the U. S. Army are re-

ported as experiencing difficulty inpurchasing additional land adjacentto Aberdeen Proving Grounds.

The tract of land in question islocated between Perryman and theBoothby Hill road, embracing be-tween 500 and 1000 acres.

The tract is located in the veryheart of what is claimed to be thebest shoe-peg corn area in America.

It is reported the owners havebeen offered from $76 to 9125 anacre, yet one land holder declaredhe would not have sold the land toan inndividual for less than $250an acre.”

oA four-flusher is a person who

thinks he can seem important byusing deep snarl when answeringthe telephone.

o•Americanism: A Senator reveal-

ing military information to crowdedgalleries; then asking reporters tokeep it secret.

■ oWhat the sinner resents is not

being reformed, but being reformedhy DQQDIe not II dMftlt AA hi Ift.

DAIRY HERD REPORT FORMONTH OF JULY

It looks as if Lloyd Balderston istrying to make a habit, a good oneat that however, of being top man Inthe County with his herd of Guern-seys. Thie was his third consecutivemonth at the head of the list witha warm month like July. Next amongthe leaders was Guy McGrady. Itseems that the *McGrady name isanother pace setter, his herd aver-aged 673 lbs. milk, 32.4 lbs. fat.The herd of Peter Zeitler reappearswith an average of 635 lbs. milk,31.0 lbs. fat. We have two new-com-ers that make up the remainder ofthe top five. The herd owned byJack Scott averaged 621 lbs. milk30.3 lbs. fat; and Holly Hall’s herdmade 683 lbs. milk, 29.7 lbs. fat.We regret the fact that the herdmanaged by Ding Dong Bell missedsth place by a fraction. Maybe itwould help if Ding Dong would beon hand for a night milking insteadof putting time in at Colora. How-ever, Mt. Harmon did take four outof ten places with the leading cows,being surpassed for high cow onlyby H. B. Crowgey, who’s cow 168made 1355 lbs. milk, 70.5 lbs. fat.Ball’s fast footed Apreshire thenfollowed with No. 6 having 1699lbs. milk, and 64.6 lbs. fat; No. 30made 1637 lbs. milk, 63.8 lbs. fat;No. 28 in 7th place made 1677 lbs.milk, 60.4 lbs. fat; and No. 65 onenotch lower with 1590 lbs. milk,60.4 lbs. fat. Eunice in the 4th placefrom the herd of John Scott made1243 lbs. milk, 634 lbs. fat. The Mc-Grady family placed with Countessbelonging to Ennis McGrady in 6thplace with 1049 lbs. milk, 61.8 lbs.fat; and Lou from Guy McGrady'sherd made 1389 lbs. milk, 59.7 lbs.fat. In 10th place was Brownie fromthe herd of Everett England, making735 lbs. milk and 57.3 lbs. fat.Things seen thru the County were:several combines at work, also Jap-anese beetles, new milkers, farmersstriving for better bulls and cheapermilk production. We must also notethat delicious blue berry muffinswere made by Miss Elizabeth Crow-gey, and fluffy, flavored chocolatecake was served by Mrs. Watson ofPiney Creek Farm. Mrs. Craig,Mount Harmon Farm is tops foriced tea. Hoping for fuller cans andmore cream.

—A. C. Snyder,D. H. I. A. Tester

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NER TO CECIL COUNTY FAIR

A winner of five firsts and threejunior championships in 1940,Broadview Fearless Knight, ownedby Marshall Wilson and Son, BelAir, Maryland, will again appear atthe Cecil County Breeders’ Fair,September 5-6.

“Knight” won the yearling bullclass at Fair Hill last September andhe was also first at the MarylandState Fair, the Harford County Fairand the National Dairy Show. Thisoutstanding fellow will make a fineaddition to the guernsey show whichwill be participated in by manyother fine cattle that will go direct-ly to Fair Hill from the State Fairat Tlmonium.

The feature of the first day of thefair, September 6th, will be thehorse show which begins at 9:30.Mr. Dean Bedford, Monkton, Mary-land, and Mr. Thomas Clark of WestChester, Pennsylvania, have beeninvited to judge the various classes.The Premium List provides forcolts, both draft and half-breeds,yearlings and two year olds In thedraft horse department, and lighthorses, after which the pulling con-test will take place. Pulling Contestshave become very popular in Mary-land with better teams being put tothe dynamometer each year.

With the great variety of classesfor horses and ponies, the openingday of the Cecil County Fair shouldprovide plenty of interest. The bigshow however, will be Saturday,September 6th, when the severalhundred head of excellent dairycattle will be paraded in the spac-ious show ring during the morning.In the afternoon the FoxcatchereSteeplechase will be run over the na-tion’s most difficult race course asthe closing event of the program.

-■- ■ --oCHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES

“Mind” will be the subject of theLesson-Sermon in all Churches ofChrist, Scientist, on Sunday, Aug-ust 24.

The Golden Text will be from ICor. 2:16, “Who hath known theMind of the Lord, that he may in-struct him”.

Among the citations comprisingthe Lesson-Sermon will be the fol-lowing from the Bible,—Jer. 29:11:“For. I know the thoughts that Ithink toward you, saith the Lord,thoughts of peace, and not of evil,to give you an expected end.”

The Lesson-Sermon also will in-clude passages from the ChristianScience textbook, “Science andHealth with Key to the Scriptures",by Mary Baker Eddy, among whichis the following, page 331, “TheScriptures imply that God is All-in-all. From this it follows that noth-ing possesses reality nor existenceexcept the divine Mind and Hieideas- The Scriptures also declarethat God is Spirit.”

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Hint to the ladles: You can makeyour snooty neighbors call. Justdress your sloppiest and leave theliving room in a mess.

THESE YOUNGSTERS MUSTMEET CERTAIN REQUIRE-

MENTS

3 An army of youngsters-nearly1 30,000 strong-will take to the high-

ways and byways of Maryland when* the schools oipen in the fall and the‘ boys and girls who have reached

• school age this year start theirtraining in the three R’s.

’ Parents of these youngsters arereminded by Dr. R. H. Riley, Dlrect-

' or of the State Departmtnt of Health1 of certain things that should be at-

’ tended to, and of one, in particular,' that must be done, before the young-

; sters may be received at any public’ school in the State.

' “That one ‘must’ is vaccinationagainst smallpox, which is compul-

| sory in Maryland. Of this require-ment and of the other things thatshould be done, Dr. Riley said,

■ “In accordance with our State law,! a child must be vaccinated againstsmallpox before he or she may be

' enrolled at'any public school in' Maryland. Largely through the ob-; servance of this law, the State has

been kept comparatively free from1 smallpox-we have not had a case ofthat disease for over ten-years—butsmallpox is widely prevalent in otherparts of the country; is highly con-tagious, and the only way to beprotected against it is by vaccina-tion.

“Diphtheria is just as prevalent assmallpox, and just as dangerous for

| the child who has not been protect-! ed against it But fortunately, thru

the use of toxoid, a child can be1 protected against diphtheria as read-ily as against smallpox by vaccina-tion. S, we can, and do, urge every

1 mother whose child has not beenprotected against this disease tohave* it done, at once.

Every childr should have aphysical check-up some time beforestarting in at school so that condi-tions that need correction may be

| attended to and the child can enterschool free from handicaps that

1 might cause ill health later on, if1 neglected now. Bad tonsils, teeth

j that need attention, defects of vision; and of hearing, and bad eating hab-

its are among the things that arevery likely to affect the health ifthey are neglected.

“You probably have noticed howmany of the army and navy drafteeshave had to be rejected becausethey could not measure up to thephysical requirements. Many ofthese conditions could have been

' avoided if they had been discover-ed and taken care of when the boysstarted to school, just as your child-ren are doing now.

“Health conferences for the exam-ination of children who will enterschool this fall have been held in

; all of the counties and records showthat they have been well attended.In connection with the examinations,clinics have been held for vaccina-tion against smallpox and .protectionagainst diphtheria for the children

' for whom these services had beeni neglected. If your child has not had

the benefit of these safe-guards,don’t wait until the schools open,take him or her to your doctor, orthe nearest health officer and have

1 them attended to now without furth-er delay.”

oRULES FOR BICYCLE RIDERSBicycle riders, attention!To help in reducing bike acci-

dents, the Keystone Automobile Clubhas formulated a set of ten rules,

' observance of which, the Club saf-ety experts declare, will make cy-

-1 cling safer without in any way minl-; miizing its enjoyment: Here they

are:1 I. Obey all traffic signals, signs1 and rules. Observance of ’stop’signs is important, because motor-ists on ‘through’ streets are unpre-pared for sudden appeamnce of bi-cycles from side streets or highways.

2. Ride in single file. There isgrave danger when groups of cycl-ists riide three or four abreast onheavily traveled roads.

3. Keep out of car tracks and ruts.Numerous accidents are due to rid-ers being thrown from bikes infront of oncoming traffic-

4. Don’t do ‘stunts’ or ‘race’ intraffic.

5. Don’t carry a ‘passenger’ orpermit children on roller skates tohang on for a ride.

1 6. Always signal intention tomake a right or left turn.

7- Make repairs off the traveledportion of the roadway.

8. ‘Walk’ the bike across heavytraffic unless it is controlled by

i officer or traffic light.9. Don’t ‘hitch’ rides on trucks or

other vehicles.10. Always keep brakes and front

and rear lights in good operatingcondition.

AT LAST! THE TRUTH ABOUT

“CARDIFF GIANT”

After seventy years of silencethe son of a stonecutter reveals

■ how his father chiseled Barnum’s1 famous petrified man out of a block1 of gypsum. One of many interesting1 features in the August 31st issue of

THE AMERICAN WEEKLY, the big magazine distributed with

i the BALTIMORE SUNDAYl AMERICAN

South Carolina law says that wine> 21 per cent alcohod is “nom-alcohAl-

t' ic and non-intoxicating". It takes aI lot to intoxicate people tmogjUated

with swamp moonshine,

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SMALL MARYLAND WHEAT jFARMS

The wheat producer who grow*only ei small amount of wheat Is notaffected by the wheat marketingquota, according to R. O. Stelzer,Executive Officer for the AAA inMaryland. This question, he said,has been rained, by a number ofMaryland growers.

The lawi sets up production andacreage standards to specify thesize of the farms exempted. Underthese provisions quotas do not ap-ply to farms on which seeded acre-age Is 16 acres or less. Neither dothey apply to farms on which thenormal production of the seededacrege is less than 200 bushels.

In explanation, Mrr. Stelzer point-ed out that a farmer might have asmuch as 16 acres of wheat this yearand raise 30 bushels am acre withoutbeing subject to quotas. Or, on theother hand, he might have 20 acresof wheat with a normal yield of 9bushels per acre giving him a nor-mal production of 180 bushels. Ineither case there would be no excesswheat on the farm; and marketingcards, which must be obtained fromthe county AAA office, would be is-sued to anyone having an interestin the wheat and wishing to marketit.

“When Congress drafted thequota program as a means of meet-ing the surplus problem’’, Mr. Stel-zer said, “it recognized the factthat, In general, the small wheatfarm markets little or no wheat andmakes a correspondingly small con-tribution to the surplus problem’’.

For farms affected by the quota,the provisions permit marketing ofall wheat produced on the farmacreage allotment plus any oldwheat carried over from previouscrops. Only the normal or actualproduction, whichever is smaller, ofthe acreage In excess of the allot-ment is subject' to the marketingpenalty of 49 cents per bushel.

Producers who have such excesswheat may avoid or postpone pay-ment of the penalty by storing theexcess under bond, or by placingwarehouse receipts for the excess orcash equal to the penalty in escrowwith the county committee. Or, thefarmer may, if he chooses, turn theexcess wheat over to the county AAAcommittee for the Government, inaccordance with instructions fromthe committee.

oMAKE USE OF MARYLAND

PEACHESUnder the defense program Amer-

ican housewives are being urged tocan as many fruits and vegetables aspossible in order to conserve tin, re-lease canned food for the Allies, re-lieve the shortage of other cannedgoods, and provide for the familyhealth.

According to Miss Margaret Mc-Pheeters, Specialist in Nutrition forthe University of Maryland Exten-sion Service, there is no better foodthan peaches for this purpose andthe crop will be at Its height inMaryland in a few weeks..Every indication points to a large

crop of Maryland peaches and a fairprice this year. Miss McPheeterssays, and she urges Maryland house-wives to take advantage of this fact.Peaches are suitable for cakes,pies, salads, preserves, pickles,marmalades, paste and butter.

She recommends the following asa good peach marmalade recipe:

Use % pound or 1% cups of sugarto every pound or quart of peaches.A slice of lemon may be used, if de-sired, and Vt stick of cinnamon anda small piece of ginger root.

The peaches should be sugareddown, covered, and allowed to standseveral hours or over night in a coolplace. Add the lemon, ginger andcinnamon and heat gently to boiling.Stir occassionally to dissovle thesugar and prevent burning. Boilrapidly until the fruit is tender andthe syrup gives a Jelly test- Thenpour into hot, sterilized jars, seal,label and store in a cool-dry place.

OMORE MILK THAN EVER

An all-time recor dfor milk pro-duction on U- S. farms was set forthe first six months of 1941, accord-ing to U. S. Department of Agricul-ture records. Production was about6 per cent greater than for the firsthalf of 1940 and amounted to nearly60 billion pounds -for the half year--69,813 million this year comparedwith 67,084 miliion pounds lastyear, says the Agricultural Market-ing Service.

The first half of the year, includ-ing the high producing months ofMay and June, usually accounts fora little more than half the annualproduction. For the years 1936 to1939 the average for the first sixmonths was nearly 64 billion poundsand for the last half of the ysnr Justunder 61 billion pounds. With ris-ing home consumption and defensedemands calling for special effort toincrease dairy products, with amplegrain for feeding, and with unusual-ly high prices for dairy products, thedairy specialists are hoping that thesecond half of the year will comecloser than usual .to equaling thefirst six months, so that the fullyear will be even more of a record-breaker.

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The only thing worse than a buglethat can’t play a tune is an autohorn that does.

Description of a bore; His oosavenation is as tiresome as the miQijejeff jf t%e last meeting