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THE BELLEVILLE, (KANSAS) TELESCOPE THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930 The Belleville Telescope ny THI3 TlaiiRSCOPR PUIIMNIIING CO. A. Q. Miller, Editor iind Manaeer orflclill County orricini city I'micr IVIIVE The nelleville Telescope, Est. 1 870; Belleville Est.

Munilen Proffross, Kst. 1905; Munilon Press, Eat. 1910; Xarlui News. Est. Cuba Dayllffht, Kst.

1S8.0; Iliibbol) Standard, Est. 1891; N'orwiiy News, Est, 1919; lleinUjlIc County Domocral, Est. 1908. Entered CIUHH m.Tttor October 28, 1920, at tbo" postofflco at Belleville, Kansas, under act oC Marcli 3rd, 1879. Advortlsliifr rate carti on npiillca- tlon; Cards of Thanks, llcaoUillons and Obituary Poems 2 eonts per word.

Sub.scrliition per year Publication Otrico, 19lb Street Telephone No. 38 IittrK'vst Ciri-iiliitioti of KIIIIMIIS WocUly Xcivspiipcrs, vt 'VMfto tiKiiitliM period ciiillni.C DcciMiiIier IDUfl. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930 TEILBSCOI'13 PI.ATKOllM New city hall or memorial hall. Landscaping oC court house SwlmmiiiK' pool. More auto i)arklng space.

Gravel roads connecting all towns of the county. More adeciuate sihool housing facilities. Additional parks and playgr-junds. More Indu.strles. IC.xlcnsion rolai! trade territory.

A city bc'iutifui with more home tiful The handicap of past yeafs in Belleville is being overcome rapidly, but the work of landscaping the grounds and proper care of lawns must go ahead apace, to make up for lost time. There is no more healthful occupation than gardening, and the languid business man and busy housewife can find real recreation in the yard and flower garden. Hesitancy felt by tenants in planting shrubs, perennial plants and seeding blue grass, may often be overcome through a sane business ar- with the property owner. Every family should co-operate in making Belleville a city of beautiful homes. EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK Literary Indigestion of the Kansas Press Test silk by burning, suggests a dress goods authority.

By laying your cigai'et against a well filled stocking, for State Journa" EAST AND WEST INTERESTS ANSANS in this section of the state do jjot understand why thei'c is so much talk in the newspapers about unemi)k)ymont. We can readily sec why the farm relief problem has become an issue in the congress of the country and realize the importance of getting action in favor of the farmer. To us westerners it seems considerable already has been done i'or industry and we think it's about time the farmers were being taken into consiederation. On the other hand the people of the cast cannot understand the farmer's say the real problem is unemployment, urge the congress to legislate for the benefit of the thousands ol" unemployed of the country. A trip through the eastern part of the United readily reveals why the easnj-'iers cannot see the agricultural probleiii.

Ir tlio place comparatively few peojilo oast of St. Louis are really engaged-in agriculture. There are a lot of truck gardeners and dairy farmers, but the 100 acre farms are widely scattered and as one goes farther east the largo farms liecome yet scarcer, Princijial vocations of the east are tiecessarily industrial because of the densely populated districts and because a majority of the land is not adapted to farming. The soil is yellow clay, sandy, wooded, or hilly and while there is apparently an abundance of rainfall the soil is not rich like that on Kansas farms. With rainfall in abundance Kansas would abound in prosi)erity, but without it regularly The industrial oast has had legislation in its favor and the west is now coming in for its share of attention from the goverinnont.

The federal farm board is endeavoring to determine a plan to help the farmer in marketing and believes it has found one which will work. Our fari7iors should give it a trial, for the congress is taking this step for the benefit of the agricultural west and only with the co-operation of the west can it possibly succeed. If' we can't depend on rainfall it seems necessary to resort to organize marketing. At any rate, the time has come when farmers of the agricultural west should weigh carefully the merits of the farm board's proposition. The board was created with the sole purpose of aiding the telling him how to run his business, but to'aid him in his work.

The fact that it is an unpopular in the east is evidence that it should interest greatly the western people. Every farmer must consider this an important step, and exercise his best judgment before determining whether or not he will co-operate in the plan. He should not be influenced by a few men whose interests are with one side or the other. The decision should be original with the farmer after he has heard both sides of the On the advice of efficiency experts, a street railway in Glasgow, Scotr land, employed the services of a professional pipe-lighter to prevent its employes from wasting time filling and lighting their pipes. And considering the traditional thriftiness of Glasgowans we believe it.

AUDACITY! l''r(im the Tola Register; "Cities do not grow, men build them." Look at Tulsa! Built upon sheer nerve. A little bunch of men with not very much money but perfectly willing to risk whVt they had, plunging, plunging, plunging! Not for themselves. For their town. Working day and night to bring railroads there, to bring to bring hotels, to bring people. Not content with 10,000 people, they set out to make it 20,000.

Not content with 20, yO, 40 thousand. Working tirelessly, spending their own and the public nioney to build and build and build. They have got their population up to 185,000 now. And not content with that they have voted $0,230,000 in bonds to go ahead and build some more. Half this huge sum they are going to spend to speed up subways, viaducts, underpasses, bridges, wider streets.

Nearly a million to the airjiort. The rest to sewers, sanitation, parks, branch libraries, and the Tulsa a better place in which to live. The world has never seen such audacity in city audacity. THE LENS in the TELESCOPE L. L.

Ciiiiiii The imaginative citizen who is now relating how much it rained, will occupy his talents later in the summer describing the of the fish and the height of the corn. say nothing of the golfer who par.s the course when he plays by himself. Since Plordia officers succeeded in attaching a passenger train for debt, we'll not be a whit surprised when alert creditors f(n'ecloso the mortgages on France and Germany, don't know what size stockings my mother said a little Belleville girl, sent to a local store to purchase a pair of hose, "but she's year.s old." The Lens received as. a contribution this week, a poem written by a student of human nature. It sounds so reasonable that we're glad to print it.

"I was his the fat wife sighed, "When I was young and slim, "But now that there's lots more oj ma I'm a lot less to When the census enumerator asked Nat Goodwin, "Are you single, married, widowed or divorced?" Nat "Yes," reports the Jewell Republican. According to statistics the horse census of the country is decreasing. Sometimes we think that the horse sense of the country is doing the thing, says K. D. Doyle of the Wamcgo Reporter.

So far the Maine Stein song has got by the Kansas censors, but it is understood the contents of the stein refer to root Mercury. The latest story from Colby is that one of the ladies of that city called on one, of their physicians and asked him how she could get rid of a little wart. The doctor informed her that she should consult a lawyer as ho had nothing to do with the divorce Francis Herald. It is not always the pace that kills it is the fact that one stops so Center Dispatch. A seed catalogue is advertising seeds that will grow cucumbers two feet long, and the Minneapolis Better Way remarks that if anything more useless than a saxophone is found, it would be a two foot cucumber.

"Speaking of love," one Norton woman told son has puppy love so bad he barks in his Telegram. The best thing to transplant in Kansas at present, says the Delphos Republican, is cabbage; tomato and sweet potato plants. At least, if you confine your activities along these lines, you'll keep off the front pages' of the papers. As long as the census-takers intend to make a thorough job of it in Concordia's attempt to reach the mark, T.L.K. of the Blade-Em- piro advises enumerators to include those persons who have recently appeared on the streets and who stop every third passerby to ask if he could spare a dime for "a cuppa coffee." These are trying times.

When a leg goes to sleep a fellow doesn't know whether to go gunning for a bootlegger or call a Advocate-Democrat. Avacados have been put on the dutiable list. It seems they needed relief of some description, says the Herington Sun. Sauer kraut and mangoes got it too. Also preserved chestnuts.

That's good. The preserved industry must be protected. This is a most hopeful note. Business may now be resumed. The census takers are encountering less trouble getting the facts than in finding somebody at home, according to the Marshall County News.

If the customer were always right, there would be no second hand automobiles Tribune. Somehow or other all the talk of reducing grain acreage brings back to us the days during the war when the govei-nment urged the country to plow up the golf courses and sow them to H. T. in Star- ibeams. Today, during 'hSs noon broadcast Dr.

Brinklcy he has asked the Lord to come to his aid. Dear me, all planner of persons are calling on the Lord for help News. Taking the chamber of commerce census figures of Belleville, Concordia, and other nearby country towns as a basis, says the Scandia Journal, and comparing them with the federal census returns, we are able to announce at this time that the combined population of American towns of over 2,500 will decrease approximately 18,500,000 in 1930. Providing you cannot have both, which do you crops or good roads? the Beloit Gazette asks. A Bit o' This and o' That By MAZE A La Carte Mary had a little We heard her beau remark as They brought the bill, "Now don't be sil'.

That buys the whole darn carcass!" Delicate sign in a down-town shop window, "Mien's "A New Tale of Desert" says a headline. Bet it won't beat Amy's. 'Member Amy? An army aerial photogi-apher has successfully photographed an object 270 miles away. Most of us ought to look pretty well "shot" from that distance. We don't care for the abbreviation appearing in a recent It could so easily mean wonijs.

A fool there was, and he wrote for print. Even as you and To a heedless world he inscribed his stint. Which he sent to betrayed a But the fool, he knew there was not much in 't. Even as you and WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS By A. Q.

MILLER, SR. Washington, D. May 5, On Easter Sunday everything at the National Capital took on the spirit of Easter. Easter apparently is stressed more down here than it is in the central west. Florists did a big never saw so many The problem of food spilled on the table cloth by male patrons has been in alT 'my ITfe.

practically ehmmafed at a Belleville tlons from hie-h schools, colletres and taurarnt by ordering the waitresses to wear longer dresses. A candidate i'or the United States Senate advocates as a major plank in his platform the gift of a cow to every poor family in the country. Wc class this under the head of milking the taxpayers. We have just throught of a great idea for a talking picture scenario. It will be about a struggling song writer who finally gets to Broadway, is disappointed in love, takes to drink, and then stages a successful comeback from the gutter.

The idea is so new and novel we're sure it will go over big. "I want to trade this roadster for a a farmer customer informed a local garage last week. "What's the matter with it?" asked the automobile dealer. was the reply, "but I've quit chewing tobacco," tions from high schools, colleges and seminaries use the above occasion for visiting the capital city, as an educational feature! It is estimated there were 100,000 visitors in for the Easter week-end, which created quite a traffic congestion. Speaking of crowds' and traffic congestion, no city in the country is fi 'co from it.

Cities all country have built scores of million dollar still they are crowded. Go out on the highways, anywhere, and they are choked with traffic. Passenger busses and rail- You have heard a lot about the "border states," Washington is located in that region, in fact ington has the atmosphere of the old is conventional and clings to many of the old sentiments, Washington society does not want to be revolutionized; it loves the old ways and believes in precedent. "Dixie" and other southern songs always get a good hand down here. Memories of the Civil war days may be softened but are not forgotten.

The other day Senator Blease of South Carolina made a request for a Confederate flag to be hung in his senate office and was rewai-ded April 3rd by a formal pi'esentation and ceremony by the Daughters of the Confederacy. The stoi-y is told in detail in the Congressional Record of April 17th, as follows: Some time ago Cole Blease, Shoes that hurt the feet are the cause of more quarrels and troubles than any other one thing. Partnerships base been dissolved, divorces sued for, wars declared, and the whole gamut of domestic and national ills can often be traced back to the fact that someone's feet hurt. Just because sunback dresses show more backbone is no sign the girl that wears one is more courageous than the others. BEAUTIFYING THE HOME OME surroundings in Belleville have, received bare and attention the past year.

The old bugaboo of water, useless for plant growth, has been eliminated, and the appearance of local residences is now entirely up to the property owner or tenant. It is no longer possible to shift the ill-kept yard to a faulty supply of water. An abundance of the "best water in the world," is available at the turn of a faucet. And Dame Nature has supplied heavy spring rainfall that is promoting the growth of grass and shrubs. There is not the slightest danger of scarcity of water from the city supplies the home owner may go about beautifying his residence, confident that its appearance depends solely on him.

A city has no better advertisement than well kept lawns and beau- A Belleville motorist, frightened by the prevalence of Jake paraylsis found a substitute for moonshine. He gets about the same result by kissing a spark plug while his automobile motor is running. "We'll have some hot music remarked a Belleville boy at a dance in a neighboring town, as he dropped a lighted cigaret in the orchestra leader's saxophone. "I'm sorry I married you, so a contributor quotes the wife, in a local domestic quaiTel. "Oh, you were no young chicken when we were the husband replied.

"No, but considei'ing what I got, you must admit I was an early When informed our boss is this week in New York, one of the wisecracking printers suggests that we'll now learn if they have paved the streets in that town yet. the little daughter asked, "why does the furnace make daddy shiver and make funny faces and hiccup when he comes up from the cellar." load trains are carrying raa.ximum ago uo.e iMcase, loads. Then comes the tourist cars States South of they are Carplina, the division president. know what per cent of the 120 Tnil- i from Senator lion population of this country is actuall.y engaged in gainful pursuits and what per cent is engaged in cause he was the first South Carolina Senator who had ever expressed a wish to have a Confederate flag hang gadding and pleasure-seekhig. The; the Daughters of the labor department recently issued a i Carolina diviswn hat) one es- statement claiming several million, icople in the United States were out to him Thursday, Aprd 3, employment, and I wonder if iti'" Senate Office Building, included those I have described I "Mrs.

Walker was not able to. be above It is a wonder that enough people are left at home to "keep the home fires plant the corn and reap the wheat and keep the butcher Khops and beauty parlors open. And the world wags we have the farm problem and the World Court and the prohibition question still to settle. Queer world. Sometimes we wonder why we do not make greater progress toward world peace and our people are-not-thinking more of preparation for peace and less about preparation for war.

Maybe the answer is to be found in the ideals and standards whiich this country, and all countries, have held before the people for generations. Throughout the East, which is historical of the early struggles of the Revftlutionai'y and Civil wars, one is confronted everywhere with statues and of our great military and naval leaders, to typify and glorify war. Few memorials there are for those statesmen and scholars who gave their lives and talents to education, culture and peace. So we have been busy for generations stressing the glamour and glory of war iii "statuary, history and literature, feeding the receptive of Young America until perhaps we have a perverted vjew of what the constitution means and what our Pilgrim had in mind when they came to'this coun-. try to set up a free government.

present and asked Miss Jessica Randolph Smith (daughter of the late Orren Randolph Smith, designer of the Stars and Bars) to make the presentation. The ceremonies attending the presentation were lovely, and everything passed off smoothly and impressively. "John D. Long, secretary- ta Senator Blease, presented General Hawkins, who in turn introduced Maj. A.

F. Rose, chaplain, who offered a beautiful prayer. Miss: Smith then took the flag and mad'tf an impressive talk, stressing the point that South Carolina was the first to fiired' the first shot of the Confederate War, aiW that Senator Blease, of South Carolina, was the first. tTnited States Senator to be presented with the'flagr of the Confederacy, and to have it placed in his office. Miss Smith then -handed the flag to Congresisman Dominick, who reade the presentation speech.

He spoke of the loyality of Senator Blease to the. veterans. His father was one who wore the gray, and 11 of his pople served in the Confederacy, and, said Mr. Dominick, "Senator Blease has always taken the keenest interest in the welfare of the veteran." Mrs. Walker sent a message which was read by Miss Smith.

The following telegram was also read by Miss Smith: "Senator Cole L. Blease: May the Confederate flag that you received to-day from the South Carolina Daughters of the Confederacy you a blessing and benediction in your work for our country." "Congressman Dominick closed his presentation speech with these remarks: "Senator Blease, it is my pleasure to present this flag. 'For though conquered, we adore it, love the cold, dead hands thatj, bore it; weep for those who fell befoi'e it, pardoned those who trailed and "Senior Blease made a beautiful acceptance speech, saying, among other things, that his father's home was often the home of Confederate veterans. Said the Senator, in speaking of the Cerifederate veterans: "I have said on the floor of the Senate more than once that I come from the State which was the mother of secession, and which has produced some of the bravest men who were ever seen on a battle field. Lee did not soldiers were perished, they were overpowered, outnumbered, but they were not cowered.

I thank you Mi.ss Smith, and I thank you all for your attention. When I cease to praise and defend the southern soldiers and this emblem 'this poor, lisping, stammering tongue will lie silent in the "It is' quite needless for me to say," said Secretary Long, "that the Senator is deeply appreciative of the high honor which the Daughters of the Confederacy of his native State have thus conferred upon him, and I only wish that you all could see the beautiful flag where it now hangs upon the wall of his reception room in the Senate Office Building, facing the pictures of the immortal Lee and Jackson, who loved it so well, and just under the Palmetto flag and the pictures of Hampton, Gary, and Butlor, who followed it with an equal devotion." sawed like lumber. In the lumber trade, the product is known as INSO BOARD; ENJOYS LIFE ON THE OCEAN Rudolph Uasy Writes from Ship in South America Waters. A letter from Rudolph Hasty, a former Belleville boy and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs.

A. E. Harkness, reveals much of interest in ship life. Hasty is a junior officer on board Grace liner, and the letter was written near the Panama Canal, as the ship was enroute from New York to Valparaiso, Chile. The entire trip takes 36 days, according to Hasty, and cities visited on the voyage include Christabel, Balboa, Callao, Valparaiso and San Antonio.

AVORK ON BIG GAS LINE The Missiouri Gas Company of Omaha, has entered into a contract with Smith Brothers, for a pipeline from near Amarilla, Texas, to Omaha. Several large crows have begun the work of ditching for the new 24-inch gas line in the vicinity of Clifton. A train load of machinery and 150 men arrived there a few weeks ago and this has since been augmented by more machinery and men. Work will be pushed forward as rapidly as weather conditions permit. SCANDIA GIRL MAKING GOOD Miss Lynne J.

Sandliorn, a daughter of Mrs, M. M. Sandborn, of Scandia, recently gained considerable publicity in metropolitan papers in connection with a resturant dealers association exhibit. Miss Sanboni 'ff winnings included two silver cups, two $10 gold pieces, and a Cogswell chair and stool. -4- Sheriff Hands in Resignation.

Sheriff G. F. Best handed in his resignation as of Ottawa county to Governor Reed at Topeka Tuesday and the resignation was immediately accepted. It was the final move growing out of charges made in the district court against a persistent violation of the prohibitory liquor law who stated at the time of his sentence that he paid the sheriff fcr protection. ,.4., You will find that motto at cam- oi'on's for the Mother's Day Adv, FARM WASTE FOR INSULATION AVheat Straw from Kansas and Missouri Processed into Boards Kansas and Missouri wheat straw, processed into insulating board, continues to find an increased market in foreign countries throughout the world as well as in America.

For several years how, at a huge mill in St. Joseph, Missouri, several hundred tons lof wheat straw, formerly burned as useless, has been utilized every ytar in the production of structurally strong insulating lumber. Besides heavy shipments to Holland, the company in St. Joseph has recently shipped 500,000 feet to Shanghai, China, where it is being introduced for the first time. Many other shipments are being made to the Orient, Japan, in particular.

This straw insulating board was used last year in every city of over 25,000 population from New York to California, and buildoi's everywhere have hailed it as a real insulating material of great structural strength. It is made by the shredding of the wheat straws, and the matting and interlacing of the long tough fibers thus obtained, into a board about half an inch thick. It is cut to any desired width and length and used both as sheathing in a home or as a base. It can be nailed and HEN you look at your last year's suit and wonder how in the world you're going to make it sei'- viceable this and you send it to the American and it comes back spic and it a g-r-r-r-and and glor-r-rious feeling?" Phone 32 AMERICAN CLEANERS Belleville Phone 32 oil engineers get a thrill out of this test I IS a simple experiment, but the dramatic results excite even oil experts themselves. A quart of "used" New Iso-Vis, black with the usual crankcase dirt, is drained from a car after many hundreds of miles of driving.

Five minutes later we have a quart of oil that might have come straight from the refinery. It has the clear amber color. The same heavy body. Yet it is exactly the Sftme quart of oil thatwasjust taken from the crankcase! What has happened is simply that a special clay filter has removed the dust and dirt. This is one of the many tests that prove beyond question that New Iso-Vis will not thin out in the crankcase.

New Iso-Vis has other important advantages. It brings a radical reduction of carbon deposit. And it giV'fes lubrication over a wider range of temperatures. This important combination of qualities means less wear and longer life for your engine. New Iso-Vis Motor Oil is on sale at all Standard Oil dealers and service stations.

THIS experiment proves that New Iso- Vis does not "break down" in the crankcase. A special filter removes the crank- casedirt from "used" New Iso-Vis and the oil itself is exactly the same as when freshly distilled. THE LONG lubricating range of New Iso-Vis covers the whole thermometer. Some oils are defeated by others by cold. New Iso-Vis fights friction at both extremes.

New Polarine is also by, our new refining giving it an efficiency which is exceeded only by New Iso-Vis. The price is 25 cents a quart. also affected a quatt Oill TAN ARB 01 MP A Iff.