The Urbana Daily Citizen from Urbana, Ohio • 4

I vsr a 7 JM MS i 'k A yr tijA 'A 'WJ 4 4 page four THE CITIZEN URBANA OHIO URBANA DAILY CITIZEN (A Republican Newspaper) Published IlnUy Except siiixln by THE GAUMER PUBLISHING CO OICE: Gaumer Bldg ssouth Main st Urbana Ohio Entered as second class matter sept 29 1913 at the Vostoffe at Urbana under the act of March 8 18 HERMAN HAHN ICK Editor and Genera! Manager Advortlaing Offices: 3 WARD Inc 501 ifth Avenue 5 South abash At enue NEW YORK CH AGO TERMS OE One year postage prepaid in Champaign County Vnt County Week Delivered by carrier loc a At TEIEriiONES: Editorial Rooms Business Otfice Society EditressuHome THREE GREAT or God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom and knowledge and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up that he may give to him that is good before May all our springs be in Thee 0 Lord A Way of Escape I YOU have the idea that the world is prettywell explored cultivated and tamed by this lime consider the task that Senor 1 Tozzi Cal van Brazilian engineer has set himself Senor Calvao is going to deal an expedition far up into the steaming jungles of the Amazon along a torrential river that has never yet been seen by white men He is looking for lots of things but chiefly lie find out about the legendary de (larra that the back country Indians tell about de is called in English the bottle footed monkey It bears this odd name because its footprints in soft mud look exactly like the mark that is made by pressing the butt end of a bottle into the ground And if the legends are true it is a fearsome beast According to reports this member of the mon key tribe is a man eater It is very large very powerful and very tierce and is bo tough and hardy that a well placed bullet from the most powerful rifle often will not knock it out Hunting tigers apparently could be no more dangerous than hunt ing this animal One is compelled to wonder al times why men set themselves such tasks as Senor Calvao has chosen The senor is a man of means and posi tion the world can be quite an entertaining place for such a man with many ingenious devices to provide amusement in interest Why should In voluntarily go up into the remote Amazon countrylooking for a fabulous ape that eats men? Perhaps it is the very security and ingenuity of modern civilization that makes a man undertake such a quest Hanger in itself can be al greatspice for the monotony of life and in litis particu lar case there seems to be something more involved There is an outlandish bizarre quality to the whole thing that might make a strong appeal to a resident of a modern city Senor Calvao hits been living in New York While there are in till conscience outlandish people ami things enough there to satisfy anyone they are all the artificial products of modern sociely Up in the headwaters of the Amazon where man eating apes prowl through damp suffocating jungles is nature in her most savage and demoniac mood If Senor Calvoa is not able to find his escape from civilization there lie will never find it anywhere Agriculture and Industrialism A CHICAGO writer aptly phrases the aims of Prof Sweeney scientist and farm waste specialist of Iowa Stale College Ames when he says that now proposes to solve the difficul ties of poor old Agriculture by a chemical marriage to the rich widow Professor Sweeney has told of the Ames experiments in the use of farm waste for raw material for the manufacture of many useful arti cles before Dubuque and other Iowa audiences He lias written of them in magazines and newspapers Ho probably however received a more widely ef fective hearing during the past week when he ad dressed the American Chemical Sociely institute at Northwestern University Evanston than he ever did before The press of the nation has given wide publicity to what he had to say to the chemical experts He described the Corn Belt as a "vast sponge for the absorption of h' at units to the These heat units are stored in chemical compounds from which experts may later extract power as needed and he foresees far reaching results He told of the hundreds of millions of tons of industrial raw ma terials that are going to waste every year in the Corn Belt and how the Antes experimental station is devising ways and means of utilizing them pro fitably in industry He said chemistry can make Mine 3000 known industrial products from coni stalks corn cobs oat chaff cotton seed hulls pea nut hulls straw and other such waste He spoke of furfural a proved substitute lor gasoline and said that 100 pounds of corn cobs contains 21 pounds of this fuel oil Professor Sweeney declared that the present polity of locating factories in the large cities is a dog chasing his He advised the taking of industries to the farm centers He pictured a coming day when attention' ill be given to grov ing types of corn that will grow tall stalks because of the value the stalks will be to the corn Dubuque Telegraph Herald In an Indiana town roosters are forbidden to crow before 5 a An ordinance ordering all hens to lay at least one egg each day also ought to help along Then too there is the w8tnan who went to the butcher shop throw in some vitamins 1918 Ten cars Ago 1928 1 Sunday October 13 This day was Sunday BARBS Two new biographies of presidents are called his Man and General The smart literarv gentlemen of the day should go a step far ther How about such titles as Van Van the Presi dent Man Iley and perhaps Grover AAA Berlin is Die orld leader in the reptile trade says a dispatch 1 hat corrects the idea broadcast in a radio speech the other night that this trade had been cornered bv Tariunany Hall AAA St Louis people are glad the series is over with anyway They can walk past the ball park now without having to dodge Babe Huths home mils JUST OLK'S By EDGAR A GUEST AN UNPREPARED DADDY If I had known before you came How many stories require 1 should have passed up every game And spent my evenings by the fire And read and read the countless pages Of all the books of all the ages I should have lined those lower shelves With tales of fairies goblins elves If I had guessed that you would ned A dozen stories every night 1 should have sat up late to read tales the story tellers write I should have said: mqst make haste! 1 any time to waste! In six years more will Janet be Demanding fairy tales from Now here I am and here are you Imploring me to I ell about countless things he lai ties do And 1 confess you've worn me out I've told you every tale 1 know Of bears that growl and whales that blow given yon all my fairy lore And still begging me for more Oh grown up men whoe'er you be Prepare yourselves for fatherhood And take this uselnl hint from me Stock up on stories as you should or lit He girls wise Io plan Read all the fairy tales you can or if you when they are six You will be in an awful fix! (Copyright 102S Edgar A Guest) ty wen ravon OLD TIME AUTOS vfihi 1 think about the bygone days when 1 first drove a motor car which tolled along the dusty ways and smoked as though '(were burning tar AVilli tremb ling heart I left the town to journey up the rustic were always breaking down and Hungs were always out of whack Along the road 1 used to in sore disgust my wobbly van Io fix the plugs lhat spark to change the belt that ran the fan And I kept crawling under neath Io lix a gear adjust a coil and I here would get my laurel wreath all daubed with grease and rancid oil There'd be a dozen cars in sight all suffering from ailments weird their owners voiced heir keen delight in lan guage that would scorch your beard If some one traveled fitly miles in those old days without a break he'd flourish wide triumphant smiles ami brag until your heart would ache Then 'men were always changing tires and swearing roundly as they wrought an ancient motorist perspires when he gives bygone times a thought And after every little run 'a motor must be overhauled and as Hie owner paid the mon small wonder if he wept and bawled But now I go week alter week month track lor things after month and nothing breaks along the sunlit hills I streak and scorch around the misty lakes 1 start long rifts ithout a tear of accitlviils upon the road the tires keep running for a year and do not Jlailen or explode The auto as it now is from all sons of trouble tree until we shall side swipe a cow or wind it del't ly round a tree Yet there are sad and dotard jays who to vain heresies give tongue: build autos nowadays as good as when we all were (Copyright 192S George Matthew Adams Service) 923 ive ears Ago 1928 Saturday October 13 Taken from Urbana Democrat The New York Yankees won the third game of the world series to 1 This gave the Yanks two out of the three with the Giants Webb ex soldier and Springfield policeman was sentenced to 25 years in the peniufiitiaiy for robbery He was implicated in blowing the safe at the St Baris postoilice A fiery cross was burned in Monument Square but caused no excitement Urbana High's football team nosed out Marys ville 11 to 13 and Kingsereel lost to North Lewis burg 13 to fi Mrs Gaumer West Reynolds street was elected recording secretary of the Ohio Parent Teacher association Mrs Edwin Murphey Miss Elizabeth Houk Miss Helen Chance Ilary Kirby Marion Owen and II AW Houston saw the Colgate Ohio Slate football game at Columbus Miss Josephine Boydston daughter of Mr and Mrs Boydston south of Mechanicsburg and Ezra AVilkins were married in Urbana Jim Mitchell Mechanicsburg was injured in a race track mix up at Lancaster The Trail Blazers! frit i na WIL 1 lALUA' rtv i i Nkk 'e A sscSr IQ2Q ATLANT! AUk I Ce WASHINGTON LETTER By RODNEY DUTCHER NEA Service Writer AVASIHNGTON The presiden tial candidate who works the hard est and at the same time has the most fun is Norman Thomas the Socialist Thi b'eauly of the Thomas can didacy i that as compared With Smith tnd Hoover he has very lit tle to worry about He sleeps soundly every night because hisdefeat is a dead certainty and vic tory this year is not one of his ob ji ct Thomas is good material for a would be for New York Philadel phia or "None of us cares anything about the Eskimos now but if oil is ever found up there have a great ave of sentiment for civilizing the a humorous candidate AVill Rogers is his only rival Smith is the but Thomas says that as a believer in the prin ciples of the Declaration of Inde pendence i lie will be a mourner" at the funeral of either party JN07e BUCHER Democratic Candidate for i TREASURER CHAMPAIGN COUNTY AVill Appreciate Your Support Pol' Adv Affiant in Case Is Arrested As He Awaits Trial Harold Pence living near l'r tanayvvas arrested by Constable Bradley riday night in the city building charged AVith reckless driving on a warrant filed fty Earl Wilson of Springfield Pence Was awaiting the trial of AVilson whom he had arrested ear ly this week for reckless driving However Wilson (lid not appear for trial Pence plead guilty 1 in Magistrate laugher's court soon aft qr his 'arrest and was released after paying a fine of $5 and costs newspaper story first because no one else ever 'bothers to write about him and second because no one will complain Whenever your poor abused correspondent does a piece about Hoover there are al ways persons to write and demand why 1 doesn't write something about Smith and when i I 's about Slmith a complaint that Hoover is being lieglm ted On the basis of a Washington speech Thomas would be the most interesting of the candidates if he had a chance for election Al though your correspondent was disappointed al hearing nothing dttngerously radical Thomas liar no inhibitions lie can say hat I 1 The Settling of the Sage Dy HAL EVARTS Copyright by Hal Bvarta AVNU Service CHAPTER IV ever lilms vviihout any danger of alient'l ing the support of voters of some class or section There are no doubtful states for him and no reasons to pussyfoot IT IS raid that there comes a A 1:1 in the life of every handler of bad horses when he will mount one ami ride him out master him anil dismount and forever after de Because his speeches never are widely printed or broadcast he could use I he same speech over and over again but as a matter of fait he keeps up with campaign developments and hands bothlloo ii ne ver ami Smith up to date roasts Thomas is a better all around speaker than either Hoover or Smith: lie can thrill liis audience more than Hoover can and makes it laugh oltener than Smith AVith the background of a minister and social welfare worker he is morn highly cultured than either ibf engineer or the veteran politician and cites authorities and uses words which neither perhaps ever heard On top of that lie claims to be the only candidate who discusses all the issues with complete frank ness He even claims to be more honest than Smith on prohibition insisting that the first practical step in Hu problem's solution is a national referendum He attacks the Republicans for exploiting religious bigotry and the Democrats for exploiting racial big otry As between Smith and Hoo ver lie is quite impartial just wants one major party so the So I cialists can form a nucleus for a vv opposition party1 Meanwhile says just love to elect a i president who tell us before hand where be stands on anything or what ho will do about Here are some of his cracks: want to catch a bandit sowe go to Nicaragua given up hope of catching one in Chi got to have an honest 'election semow here so it might as well be in Nicaragua Down there going to rtibbet stamp the voters AVhat a great stunt that to ride another Riley os ter was evidence of this or three years Riley and Bangs had been in separable riding together on every job ami the shaggy youth topped oil the mumals in lusters string before the older man would mount them As Bangs went about his work his faded blue eyes wore ever turned toward the Three Bar boss who stood in the door of the black stnith shop Tlie girl was vaguely troubled as she noted this Bangs ami oster hud returned for their second sea son tit the Three Bar All through the previous summer tlie boy had evidenced his silent adoration his eyes following her every move The scene round Billie as one of strenuous activity every effort bent toward whipping the remuda into shape for the calf round up in the least space of time Green horses were led out one after another to bv1 saddled for the first time and those' previously broken required a few workouts to knock the wire edge off their un willingness to carry a rider after a winter of freedom on the range Three men were shoeing horses tied to snubbing posts at ten yard intervals before the shop One ani mal that had fought viciously aghinst this treatment had been thrown and stretched his four feet roped to convenient posts and while he struggled and heaved on the grpttnj Rile oster calmly fitted and nailed the shoes on him Cal Harris finished shoeing the colt he was working the last touch" he said string is tillset to have five colts gentled for yotir circle bunch" she said you didn't pick a single cow horse The boys have sorted out the best cites and the few that are left won't answer for a man who insists on a a gentled and Calico will do for lie said broke them my self ami imivbe 1 can worry "Did you break them like that''" she asked Bangs was a A Bangs Was Topping a Horse That Strenuously Refused to (Be Con quered horse that strenuously refused to he conquered and as they looked on tlie atiinuil threw himself Hint? AVell not pre Harris said not breaking horses proving that they're brone peelerx that can ride before broke A horse started out that way will be a bronc till the day ho dies" Three men were lashing their bed rolls and war bags on three pack horses and when this lasl was com pleted they rode down the lane cadi one leading liis pack animal Harris knew tips as evidence that they would start after the calves the following day The custom was to exchange representatives to riile with each wagon within a rea sonable distance the reps to look after the interest of tlie brand for which they rode many reps do you he asked she said A' and with Halfmoon lay some fifteen miles eastward along tlie foot of the hills the A' the same dis tance to the west but cncljed away in a pocket Hint led well back into the base of the range a compar atively small outfit owned by the Brandons father and four sons who made every effort to keep the bulk of their cows ranging in their own home basin and exchanged reps only wit Three Bar home place lay forty miles south and a little west and his cows grazed for over a hundred miles requiring three wagons to i er bis range During the afternoon the three reps came in replace the men who had left The surplus horses SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 1928 had been ent out find thrown tiacn on the range remaining tn the pas ture lot '1 he chuck wagon wts wheeled before the cuoknouse door and packed for an early start Be fore the (list streak of dawn the men had saddled and breakfasted It was turning grav in 'the east when four horses necessitating the attentions of four men were hooked to the wagon A man hung on tlie bit of each wheel horse while an other grasped tne bits of the lead team as Waddles made one last Itasfv trip inside will be a rocky ride for a mile or two he prophesied as be mounted the seat and braced himself "These willow tails bad on a strap of harness for many a month All set Turn The men stepped back and the four horses hit the collars raggedly One wheel horse reared and jumped forward The off leader dropped his head and pitched shak ing hiinslf as if struggling to unseat a rider tlien the four settled into a jerky run and the heavy wagon clnttereil and 1 urehed down the bine The wrangler whose duty it was to tend th horse herd by day and the nighthawk who would guard it at night sat on the!) horses at the far end of the corral anil urged the herd out us the gates swung back The remuda streamed down the valley the first two riders swinging wide to either Hank while the nighthawk and wrangler brought up the rear Shortly before noon the wagon was halted in a broad bottom threaded by a tiny spring foil stream The teams were unhitched mounts were unsaddled mid threw into the horse herd winch was the headed into the mouth of a branch ing draw ami allowed tn graze Waddles dumped off the bed rolls that were piled from the broad low ered tail gate to the wagon toil ami each man sorted out his own ami spread it ppon some spot whii struck liitn as a likely bed ground It was nut loug before Waddles was dispensing nourishment from the lowered tail gate ladling food anil hot coffee into the piales ami cups which the men held out to mm They drew away and sal cross I legged on the ground The meal was almost finished when six horse men rode down the valley and pulled up before the wagon the chance for the loader asked AA'adilh's invited throw the feed in you She's still our of lhe men differed in no material way from tlie Throe Bar men in appearance The fifth was a rttllian with little forehead a face of gorilla east stamped with brute ferocity and small intelligence The last of i lie six was jt sli iking figure a big man with pure white Jiair and brows his pale eyes peer ing from a red face roasted albino is Hftrper our leading bad man in these Evans remarked to Harris the human ape is Lang isher Coleman Barton and Canfield are the rest Nice layout of murderers and Harper's men ate iinconcernodly conscious that they wore marked as mon who had violated every law on tlie calendar but knowing also that no num woulil take except ions to their presence on that general ground nione and as they had neared the wagon each man had scanned the facts of the round up i rew tomako certain llfiit I here were none among them who might heat some more specific and personal dis like The Three Bar men chatted ami fraternized wNh them as I hey would have done with the riders of any legitimate outfit Harper praised the food that Waddles tendered hime Billie AA'arren forced a smile as she nodded to them then moved off and sat upon a roi some fifty yards from wagon despising the six men who ate her faro' and inwardly raging at the conditions which forced her to extend the hos pitality of Hie Throe Bar to men of their breed whenever they chanced by Harris strolled over and sat down out my little Box outfit for more titan it was worth and figured to stop the leak at the Tittee Bar and put the old brand on its liis calm assurance on this point exasperated the girl i she demanded bat can you fcihe pointed toward the six men neat the wagon ing the time you spent prowling the hills did you ever come across these to pal round with he confessed 1 did tpt their trail now and then They re not the out tit that gotug to lie hardest to handle when tlie time attixes "AVhat do you mean? she asked one has ever been able to handle them up to it ever strike you as queer that Nlade could come into tins country twelve vents back with nothing but a long tope anti a Gin ning iron and be owning thirty thousand head lias the knack to protect his own and she said "They're afraid of The girl shook her bead impa tiently and looked across at the six men who ate her fare at them" she flared ing my food and in a few nights Ibey'll be hazing a bunch of Three Bar steers toward the Idaho line AVlt'y some man that is a man kill that albino fii'itil and all whelps and rid tlie country Jus breed? Eten Slade lets them 'put up at liis they're pestering you or der I hem lie said "And what effect would that She inquired "The effect of causing them to elimit their horses and amble oft down the count ry" he returned He spruwlcd on the grass his head pnp ed on one'hand as lie regard ed them "Tlien probably better or der them oil'" she suggested have my permission your cliani to ike good tlie lordly brag of helping lhe Three Bar out of ilio She instaiitly regret ted having said it A dozen times of late she wondered if she were turning bitter and waspish if she would ever again be the eyen teinpered Billie Warren with a good word and a smile for every qne Harris was as always appar ently imdistui'bed by hi words ar down lhe bottoms she could s'tYe a point of light wiiii'li she knew for a while sign lhat read: "Squat ter let sundown limi you The man before her had dt these sinis'ler w' iriiiiigs S' al tered about the range and publicly in Hiiunced that Jie would pul in hay mt hi filing knowing Im was a marked man from I lie hour he turned the first furrow What ever his shortcomings lack of courage was not one of them take that she said re ferring to her minis of a few mo ments before Harris straightened to a sitting position in his snrpris 1 at this iihpulsive retraction and as he smiled across at her she di vined that Ibis man seemingly so impervious to her sarcasm could be easily moved by a single kind word he said was real white of you" He rose and sauntered toward the wagon and Billie Warren felt a sttnden elul ch of fear as he halted before Harper and she realized that lie had taken her words literally and intended ordering them off Clio BE COXTlmiM All ME Pastors To Meet Monday AU the Methodist pastors of Champaign county have been re quested to meet at the parish house of the Urbana Methodist church on Church street next Monday afternoon This meeting has been called by Rev AVall is Grose 'D 'dis trict superintendent All pastors a'o "urged to be present in order that the work oftheconference year may receite careful atten tion facing her sifting tobacco into a brown paper and deftly rolling his smoke it been on your mind what I telling you a few nights back about how much I was loving you?" he asked had your clinneo to prove it by going away" she said re fused: So why bring it up again? The next two years will be hard enough without my having to listen to families must have been real set on throwing us he observed "I was cut off wit li mit a dime mysel unless 1 spent two full years on the Three She was angry with herself for believing him sincere' for being con vinced that he too as he had sev tral times intimated was tied in much tin1 same fashion as herself i The explanation came to her in an illuminating Hash The elder liar I ris must have nursed a lifelong en mity against her fatin': who believed him the most devoted I friend 6n She had often hoard the tale of how her parent hail in all friendl i I ness followed old Bill llartis step by step from Dodge City to tlie' to old ort Laramie and finally tlie present Three Bar range the one so followed had felt I lint Cal AA'arren was but the hated symbol of the whole clan i of sqnntters who had driven hint from place place and eventually forced 1dm to relinquish his hope 1 of seeing the Three Bar brand on a hundred thousand cows that his friendliness had I een simulated his vindictiveness nursed and finally consummated by leaving hi affair in such fashion that bis on nmt carry on the work liis trickery had I begun Harris resumed where lie had bro 1 ken off have tossed it off as I told you once if the Three Bur girl had turned out to be except vou You've had a tougl problem to work out he said sold I The Great War Ten I Years Affo Today I tupi OCTOBER 13 1918 Germany tagrees to of peace I English troops are within a mile of Douai i American troops push through the Corisenoy AVood and cap I ture Molleville The rench armies pass A'ou ziers I The Germans are retiring tacross the Sensee Canal 111 1 Hnr8 A "Located in the heart of th' buines district i Overlooking Grand QrcthftrLA A modem fire proof Hotel) 500 rooms each with bath) Rates: 61V and upwards amous Restaurant sad mutiaJ also Coffee ShopU iDETROlT MICH IXEI.