Girl Scout News
Wilma Stephenson. Troop Scribe
We have been at camp ten days.
The second day we decided to
make a stone fireplace, we worked
hard on it for three days.
We plan to initiate it by invit-i
ing our parents out for a big
marshmaltow roast Thursday eve
ning.
While it was drying we carved
our initials and the name Girl
Scouts and the date in the cement
of the fireplace.
We wrote notes and sealed them
in bottles, and sent them down the
river. We hope someone will find
them and write to us. ,
We also made tin can stoves and
hiked to the end of the road and
cooked our whole dinner over
them.
We have gone swimming twice
and it was very warm the last
time.
At night we have a bon fire and
we give impersonations and
sketches and sing songs.
We are having lots of fun and
the food is wonderful.
COYOTE FIELDED;
BULL GETS ASSIST
PENALOSA, Kas. {JP) — A. B.
Hazell, stockman, set out of rope
an excited bull which charged at
his horse, Old Snake.
The horse bolted, with the bull
close behind him. Old Snake ran
so fast that he flushed a coyote.
Hazell, with lariat in hand, las
soed the coyote and dragged him
to the ranch house.
Committee To
Investigate Europe|
Food Situation
(By Milt Dean Hill)
WASHINGTON, </P) — Black
market operations make it “diffi
cult, if not impossible,” for Euro
pean nations to survey their food
resources accurately, an agricul
ture department report contends.
The document, bearing a “con
fidential” label, was prepared for
a Congressional investigating com
mittee which sailed for Europe
Wednesday to make a first-hand
study of lox-eign needs.
A copy of the 97-page report I
was made available to a reporter.
It provides a country-by-coun
try summary of food and agricul
ture conditions throughout west
ern Europe based on “the latest
information available.”
The foreword, however, says the
report has been classed as confi
dential because “ the production
figures . . . for some countries
will not agree with the official es
timates supplied by the minister
of agriculture.”
The little girl had been reading
the fairy book she got for Christ
mas, and she asked her Daddy:
“Are kings and queens always
good, Daddy?”
“They are not,” snorted the
praptical parent, deep in the sports
page, “nine times out of ten, you’ll
find threes out against them.”
For Good Printing Call Main 125
Wallace Says
Administration
Not Progressive
■
NEW YORK, (/P) — President
Truman’s administration “has not
earned the support of progres
sives,” Henry A. Wallace says in
a Labor Day editorial in the cur
rent issue of the New Republic
magazine, of which he is the edi
tor.
The former vice-president as
serted that on this Labor Day “We
should not be discussing which is
the lesser of evils,” the Truman
administration or the Republican
party, but “we should be planning
to avoid the necessity of such a
choice by winning control of the
Democratic convention.”
He said that “some progres
sives, through an astounding nai
vete and lack of political judgment
are dissipating their power with
premature pledges” to the Truman
administration, and added:
"No liberal can safely pledge
support to this administration at
a time when our foreign polcy in
cludes the suppoi't of reactionaries
everywhere; when the administra
tion is advocating even greater
armaments, demanding universal
military training and promoting
war-mindedness; when it is using
gentle exhortation rather than po
litical power to get price reduc
tions; and makes only feeble ges
tures to win liberal and labor sup
port.”
i Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Work As Usual Tho
82 Years Old
. -—
CHICAGO, i/P> — Gen. Charles|
Gates Dawes, former vice presi
dent of the United States, one
time Ambassador to Great Britain
and Nobel peace prize winner, ob
served his 82nd birthday Wednes
ay by working as usual in his La
Salle street office.
Dawes, vice president from 1924
to 1928 under President Calvin
Coolidge, told reporters he is in
good health and plans to be at his!
office on his birthday next year, i
Dawes, who is chairman of the
board of the City National Bank
and Trust company, was given a
birthday luncheon by his associ
ates. There also was a party for
him in his home Wednesday night.
Commenting on the internation
al situation, Dawes, who was au
; thor of the original Dawes plan
for German reconstruction after
World War I, said “Germany
never will get on her feet until
. the world gets together on a uni
1 fied plan of reconstruction.”
AND NO LIQUOR EITHER
BELLEVILLE, 111. CPI— When
i Mrs. Harol Metzger grabbed for
what she thought was the garden
hose in her basement, it started to
uncoil and grab right back at her.
She ran screaming from the
basement. Neighbors called police.
Patrolmen with clubs subdued the
| hose—a three foot black snake.
Ski Caps
The most popular cap on the market for
summer or winter wear. Shown in a
dozen shades and colors. They’re a scarce
items so better get yours now.
Mallory
Fall Hats
Nationally Advertised Prices
f/
♦
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Medium and wide brims. A wide variety to select
from in all sizes. Come in any get your kind of
a hat while stock is complete.
Gabardine Shirts
Just received large shipments of famous gabar
dine shirts . . . tailored by Black and Pendleton.
Finest quality 100 per cent wool cloths. Five new
shades. Dressy and warm. Sizes 141 ^ to 17, as
sorted sleeve lengths.
Sport Sweaters
A wide variety of patterns and weaves in plain
and combination of colors. Just the thing for sport
and everyday wear. . . . warm and comfortable.
Sizes 36 to 46.
* Broadcloth Pajamas
At last, pre-war quality. Fine count broadcloth
pajamas in a variety of new patterns. Coat or one
% piece style. Can also be had in good quality cotton
flannel. All sizes.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Says—
Pawnbroking was probably car
ried on in China as early as two
thousand years ago. Usually, the
borrower could take three yea. s
to redeem his property and be
could not be charged a higher ra e
than three per cent a year.
The 1946 sweet potato crop w. s
estimated at 66,807,000 bushel .
This is slightly more than the 66 -
665.000-bushel crop of 1945.
About 2,145,000 passenger aubs
were produced in the United
States last year together with
933,000 trucks and busses. This is
less than 64 per cent of the num
ber of units produced in 194!,
when, in addition to the cars ai i
trucks, automotive plants produ -
ed nearly $500,000,000 worth ■ d
armaments.
It has been said that a manu
script of Theophilus shows sig is
of having been ruled with a black
lead pencil; but the first distir t
allusion to the pencil was made ' /
Conrad Gesner of Zurich in 15 .5
in a treatise on fossils.
—
I
The barley crop last year was
estimated to be about 362,350,0’ 0
bushels. This wTas 12 per cent b—
low the ten-year average of 28!'.
598,000 bushels for 1935-44.
People who have suffered from
sunstroke find heat hard to be r
and, they have an abnormal sus
ceptibility to the action of stimu
lants.
Contrary to popular notin i,
"gifted” children, those with an I.
Q. of more than 135, are on the av
erage, large for their age, well en
veloped and excelling in ma.
personality traits. Such childr n
have the greatest potentialities for
distinguished achievement in li ■.
Gilded spurs were reckoned the
badge of knighthood, and in t ie
rare cases of ceremonial degrac i
tion they were hacked from the
knight’s heels with the coo' s
chopper.
More applications for the reg <
tration of trademarks were ma ie
to the U. S. Patent Office in 11 <5
than in any other previous ye r.
The total, including applicatu is
for renewals, was 27,739.
Experiments have shown that
certain grasshoppers lose their
memory between moults. The
grasshoppers were taught to ta .e
food at a certain place in their
cake until moulting, at which time
they forgot what they had learned.
Last year 2,075,880,000 pounds
of peanuts were produced in t :e
United States. This exceeds 1 ie
1945 crop by more than 33,000.0 10
pounds.
A belief that animals were con
sidered morally responsible and
could be brought to trial for tin ir
acts persisted in Europe until re
cent times. In all trial cases a i
mals were provided with coun 1
and duly summoned to appear in
I court. Sentences were sometin es
commuted on the grounds of re i -
tive youth or a reputation for re
spectability.
Hunting dogs are often tre.
as human beings in primitive s.
eties. In certain tribes killir..:
dog is considered as bad as m
der.