THE CAPITAL' JOURNAL', SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28. 1935
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" With or without offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly as it goes."
Only a Pleasure Road
Without giving consideration to the factor's which
should dictate highway improvements, or choosing deliber
ately to ignore them, the Oregon Journal continues to harp
almost daily upon the "need" for completing the Wolf Creek
road from Portland to the Clatsop county beaches a purely
recreational highway over which traffic will be largely sea
sonal.
The Journal's demand is for funds for the "immediate
completion" of the 17 mile stretch known as the Sunset Camp
unit, which with the use of existing construction and county
roads and sections of secondary
to travel. The estimated cost
completion of the road as planned will entail an expenditure
in excess of $3,500,000 for a pleasure road that has little to
offer in economic benefits and nothing scenic as compared
with other Oregon highways.
So far the Journal has not explained just what it means
by "immediate completion," but a little analysis of the cost
of the Sunset Camp unit as relates to available and prospec
tive highway revenues is enlightening to those who are in
terested in road improvements in other parts of the state,
particularly in view of the fact that the Journal seems dis
satisfied with the $450,000 appropriation made for the work
in the last allocation of funds.
Provided $400,000 a year is allocated to this work ap
proximately one-eighth of the prospective annual money
available for new construction in the next four years it will
take that length of time to finish the Sunset Camp unit. To
shorten the time of construction will be to cut proportionate
ly deeper into annual road revenues at the expense of other
and more important highways over the state. Such an an
nual allocation for the 68 mile length of the Wolf Creek high
way would be in excess of the average annual appropriation
for the more than 300 miles of the Pacific highway the
heaviest travelled road in the state during recent years.
The time has comes in Oregon when the highway com
mission should allocate road funds on the basis recently
established to govern federal road projects priority deter
mined by traffic demands with safety and economic savings
as supporting considerations.
Back to GWA System
Work relief officials are reported to have revived the
old CWA system of making blanket allotments to individual
states from the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund to cut red
tape and put those on relief at work. A billion dollars will
be distributed to state directors to put unemployed on federal
payrolls.
There is no question but that this program will speed
up employment but there is the drawback of waste through
haste and graft as materialized under the CWA. However,
with the personnel of relief administrators improved by ex
perience and their direct responsibility to the federal gov
ernment instead of the states, these will be reduced to a
minimum.
Most of the work-relief, to end the dole by mid-autumn,
must be of the cheap, quick kind designed to employ a max
imum number of relief roll needy at low cost with a mini
mum of delay. Comparatively few public works develop
ments can qualify.
Progress of the program has reached a point where di
rect relief costs for September were estimated at less than
for any other month this year.
Mark Twain's War Prayer
The Mark Twain Centennial committee appropriately
calls attention to the lit tie known "War Prayer" written
some 30 years ago by Mark Twain, who said "I have told
the whole truth in that prayer, and only dead men can tell
the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead."
This is the prayer which had it been written today, would
probably have been dedicated to Mussolini and other war
lords :
O Lord our God. help us to lear their soldiers lo bloody shreds with
our shells; help us lo cover their smiling fields with the pole forms of
incjr piunoi nena; neip us lo drown llic thunder of the suns with the
wounded. wrlllihiR In pain; help us to lay waste Ihclr humble homes
with a hurrienne of file; help us to wring l lie henrl of their unoffending
widows with unavailing grief; help us
little children to wander unfriended
land In rags and hunger and thirst,
and the ley winds of whiter, broken
Ing Theo lor the refuge of the grave and denied It for our sakes, who
adore Thee. Lord, blnst their hopes, blight their lives, protract their
bitter pllgrlmngc, make heavy their steps, water their way with their
tears, stnln tho while snow with the blood of their wounded feetl We
ask of One who Is the spirit of love and who Is the ever-faithful refuge
ana iriena to an that are sore beset,
contrite hearts. Grant our prayer. O
ana nouor ana glory, now and ever. Amen.
No Time for Greed
The board of control has
mil, .mil issmmc sues i or tne capilol to make their pro
posals to the board for submission by the governor to the
legislature at its special session together with the recom
mendations of the state planning board. The legislature will
make the selection.
However, the owners of silos musl ask reasonable prices
to receive any consideration. Neither the board of control,
nor tho legislature is going to be held-up and pav excessive
prices. There is always the alternative of rebuilding on the
old silo and resorting to condemnation proceedings for ad
ditional land.
This is no lime for selfish snood and grab or realty in
flation but the time for unselfish cooperation for all citizens,
halem has a fine opportunity for a magnificent civic center
if our citizenry have the vision lo realize it. It is up to all
01 "" " work for slate and community welfare.
Scottn MHKs Hop ptctcinit Is In
fill! wIiik with h lame miinbrr
from here in the field. Several uf-
Oregon
MARCH t.
1888
Editor and Publisher
highways will open the route
is $1,600,000 for this unit, and
lo turn them out roofless with their
through wastes of their desolated
sport ol the sun flames of summer
In spirit, worn with travail, Implor.
and seek His aid with humble and
Lord, and Thine shall be the praise
requested all properly owners
feretf from the Intense heat Mon
day, aonie having to quit and re
turn to their home
READY MADE WIFE
6V CORALtE cti Kj-rrKi Ak
SYNOPSIS: Laurie nd Rex Moore htvp
only pretended to be married, so lint
Rex may hold down his Job with Mirk
Albery. But now Oavln Drake has ctbled
Australia, where the wedding wm sup
posed to have ttken place, and found
there was none. He tries blackmailing
Rex, without success. Now he has sonr
to Rex's employer, who has indicated that
he will listen to his story. Albery u In
love with Laurie.
Chapter 28
SILENCE BOUGHT
"As I understand you are behind
Moore, sir," Drake went on. "and
financing him. I feel you ought to
know that he is receiving you and
everybody else who has been mak
ing such a fuss over him. He is
making a fool of all the world. He
is not married to that girl he is
living with. He never was."
'Indeed!" Albery showed only
faint surprise. "Are you sure of
that, Mr. Drake?"
"Positive. I had my doubts all
the time, since I came over from
Australia. My paper would natur
ally have welcomed a story about
Rex Moore. So I cabled a friend
in Sydney to make inquiries, and
the answer is that there Is no rec
ord of any marriage between Rex
Moore and any woman, either in
Sydney or anywhere In Warrabillo
county, where the bride was sup
posed to have been living."
"Dear me, that Is certainly
strange." Albery had got the hang
of it by now. He knew that the
young man had been to Rex Moore
and been heavily turned down. His
own mind was immediately made
up. "I suppose you have evidence
that you can give me?"
"Certainly, sir, I consider it a
shameful fraud on the public.
Moore has dragged this young wo
man into decent society under
false pretenses. Why, I am told
that she has been working in your
own firm for years! It seems a
disgraceful business all round. I
did not feel It right to leave you
in the dark." He handed Albery a
bundle of papers. "Here are my
friend's statements by cable."
Albery examined them with ap
parently absorbed interest. But his
mind was busy with his own affairs.
Tills might be true, or it might not.
It probably was. This unpleasant
young man evidently bore a grudge
against Moore. He must have gone
to great trouble and expense to get
these facts.
Look here, Mr. Drake," he said,
after a few moments, with the
quick smile that gave such charm
to his impassive eastern face, "I
am glad you came to me. I sup
pose your Idea was naturally that
you might turn it to your advant
age and raise the circulation of
your newspaper by sending them
most Intriguing story?"
This was not true. The young
mans one Idea tonight had been
to damage Rex Moore in his em
ployer's sight. But Albery 's words
presented another possibility.
"Well, sir, tilings have been go
ing badly with me." he stammered.
You see, it's not so easy for me to
get work." He mentally indicated
his empty sleeve. A really good
scoop would be a great thing for
me, but, of course, I can't say I'd
really thought of that."
"I am glad you came to me," said
Albery suavely, "because I am more
interested than most people in Rex
Moore and his career. For the mo
ment I don't want his activities In
terfered with. You see, his private
life cannot affect his Job. As a man,
Mr. Drake, you must understand
that.
"I am expecting him to do some
good work for me and for aviation
in general. But I quite see that you
could have profited materially by
your information in giving it to the
Press. Nothing pays like a good
scandal nowadays. So that I am
prepared in fact, I feel I owe it
to you, Mr. Drake to make up to
you for your loss.
'In return for your promise not
to mention these facts about Rex
Moore to the press, or to any Indi
vidual, in print or by word of
mouth, I will pay you what you
might have expected as remunera
tion at the moment. How much
would that be?",
Well, I really couldn't say, sir.
I'm sure you're very kind. I don't
like taking money, but I've had a
bad time."
Shall we say two hundred
pounds, Mr. Drake?" .
"I'm sure It's very generous, sir."
"And," added Albery very delib
erately. "I shall be glad of any
further Information on the sub
ject. I will make it worth your
while. Now, I hope we under
stand each other. You can ring
me up and make an appointment at
any time. I expect you would pre
fer notes to a check. I think I
have enough in my safe. I will go
and fetch it.'
A few minutes later the black
mailer was gone.
A sorry creature, reflected Albery.
but he would have made use of the
devil himself in such a cause.
If this story was true, then,
Laurie Moore was a liar and a
cheat. She had been associated
with Rex Moore In Australia, but
the rumor of their marriage was
untrue, and when she thought he
was dead, she had posed as his
wife, in ordrr to make as much as
she could out of it.
And Moore, when he came buck
and found her In England, had for
given her the deception, because It
suited him.
That did not make her any lose
desirable in Albery's eyes. It did
not cool the (lame of hi passion
for her.
In fact, it brought her nearer to
him, even though he knew that she
loved Rex Moore. In aplte of his
infatuation, he did not want to
marry here. If this were true,
then It gave htm a better chance.
Against Rex Moore his account
was piling up. Rex Moore had made i
a fool of him. Rex Moore had the
woman he wanted.
His self esteem was wounded,
and it made him pitiless.
From that moment the idea took
root in his mind, and from that
moment his whole energies were
bent to carry it out. Fixed, im
Struggles of Pioneer
Life Told in Paper
Left by Henry Ankeny
The Eugene Register-Guard reprints an incomplete
manuscript written by the late Henry E. Ankeny, pioneer
and one of leading developers of the state, which was found
among his effects and evidently on
request for publication years ago.
Mr. Ankeny was a former resident
of Salem and owner of a large farm
south of the city, now known
"Ankeny Bottoms." It affords an
interesting glimpse of pioneer days.
It. follows:
To the Editor:
You asked me sometime ago to
give you some early pioneer rem
iniscences. I will start out by say
ing that there is no class of people
that I reverence more than the ear
ly pioneers of Oregon, men and
women. I want to here pay a tribute
to those noble women for it was my
lot when a mere boy to travel ex
tensively throughout the Willam
ette valley and many a time when
calling at their pioneer homes for a
night's lodging, have been taken In
cold, wet and hungry and cared for
by the good mother just as well as
If I was one of her own. The pio
neers were hospitable to a fault.
My earliest recollection of Oregon
was In the city of Portland in the
winter of 1850. My father having
come across the plains In 1848 to
California and returning the fall of
1849 by way of the isthmus of Pana
ma, starting back across to Oregon
early In 1850. Father took a contract
and built a wharf boat, he having
some men who came with him who
were ship carpenters or boat build
ers. It was at the foot of what Is
now Washington street that the
wharf boat was built. Who it was
for I do not remember. We only
stayed a part of the winter in Port
land, We went from there to La
fayette in the old historical Yamhill
county. And it was there that I had
my first schooling under the guid
ance of as good a man as ever lived,
the Rev. Dr. Geary, who afterwards
became quite a noted man in thej
affairs of our state.
STARTED PIONEER STORE
Along In the spring of 1851 we1
moved out on what was father's do
nation claim on north Yamhill about
10 miles northwest of Lafayette. It
was here we lived until about the
close of the Indian war of 1855 and
'56. We then moved to Portland,
My father was a natural born trad
er and was always actively engaged
in some kind of business as long as
he lived. The spring of 1861 father
started a store In Lane county where
the city of Eugene now stands. (The
first one I believe in that county)
and put one of the men who came
across the plains with him in charge,
James Huddelston. My brother, Levi
Ankeny, and myself were the mes
sengers who carried the orders for
goods, and the money, which was
considerable at times, to Portland.
We were just mere boys, 8 years old,
but we traveled just as fearlessly as
men do nowadays. We had certain
Instructions to follow and we always
followed them. At night when we put
up, we would give our money to the
landlord or the farmer to keep over
night, he returning it in the morn
ing when we were ready to start on
our jou-ney.
ROUGH TRIPS TAKEN
We had rough trips sometimes,
streams were not bridged as now
and many times In winter when the
streams were high we would have
to ride the old horse in and swim
them. (Something that the average
youth nowadays would hardly do).
Then again we would encounter
snow storms and cold weather and
to the entreaties of some good moth.
er to stay over and wait until the
storm was over we would have to
say that we were expected home and
we must go on
I will describe one forced delay I
had. I came near freezing to death.
It was the winter of 1852. I left Eu
gene in a snowstorm and It kept up
until by the time I got to Luck-
iamute it was about two feet deep
and in crossing that stream which
was frozen over, the water having
fallen after it was frozen, my horse
broke through the Ice Into the water
which was about hip side deep to
mm, consequently I got my reet wet,
From there to Rlckreall tt was about
13 miles, the way the trail went
mostly across a prairie and it was
bitter cold. After Intense suffering
from the cold, I felt easier, but tired
like and tried to get off my horse.
The fashion was to use heavy wood
en stirrups In those days and after
I got out of the water in Luchiamutc
my feet were frozen solid in the
stirrups.
HORSE SAVES YOUTH
I could not get .off, which was
lucky for me for if I had accom
plished my object right then, I
would have frozen to death. I do
not remember anything after that
until I arrived at "Grandpa" Goff's.
Thanks to the good old horse, which
on arriving at the farm house, the
gate being open on account of the
snow, walked rieht tip to the porch.
The old gentleman hearing some
thing, looked out to we what It was.
He afterwards told me that he
could get nothing out of me on tak
ing hold of me found out what was
the matter. Getting a hatchet and
splitting the stirrup In two pieces,
he took me off and Into the house.
H then got a large barrel and sat
It In the chimney corner, drew wa
ter enough out of the well to nearly
placable, merciless; It became . an
obsession.
Rex Moore must be got out of the
way.
Rex Moore answered the tele
phone in the Chelsea flat about 6
o'clock In the evening, a few days
later.
"Is that you. Rex? Laurie speak
ing. I shan't be able to get back for
dinner, Mr. Albery has to work
late."
Moore frowned at the Instrument.
(To Be Continued)
fill it, then I was stripped of my
clothes and put into the barrel of
water. He held me there until the
frost was all drawn out. I can re
member it yet!
The old gentleman told me after
wards that I used pretty strong
language for a boy. However it
thawed me out alright, the frost
coming out in the shape of a water
blisher. I was in such a fix that I
could not travel for several days.
Mr. Goff sent word to father that
I was there and all right and would
be home in a week. They were very
much surprised at home, as they
thought that I would have not been
let start from Eugene in such a
storm. I never felt much incon
venienced from the freezing in later
years except In my face, which would
draw and ache considerably when I
would get very cold, but In time I
got entirely over it.
But I had always a soft spot for
the old Gentleman and Lady Goff,
for it was due to their good judg
ment that I came out of It as I did.
IM2GRANTS KNEW HARD
TIMES"
The winter of '52 was a very hard
winter, even today it is cited to. It
was particularly hard on the emi
grants who came across the plains
the fall before (and there was a
large emigration that year). They
lost many of their poor cattle that
they had brought with them, coming
as they did late In the fall, too late
to get feed for them, nor nothing
to buy It with. Stock that had been
in the valley over one year .wintered
very well. I remember father buy
ing some emigrant cattle and trying
to winter them. He lost a good part
of them and the balance cost all
that they were worth.
There was quite a large number of
Spanish cattle owned In our neigh
borhood. They took care of them
selves in the winter. They were
first brought to Oregon In the early
40's by Armstrong Crofer, Cambell
Young, Hudson Bay Co., the Metho
dist mission and others from Cali
fornia.
They were quite wild and at times
vicious. We youngsters had some
great experiences with them. I re
member one of them keeping my
brother up a tree nearly all night,
We went over to one of the neigh
bors and stayed until late In the
evening. When coming across the
prairie near a pond, they took after
him. There was a small ash tree
near the pond Into which he climbed
They bellowed and took on for quite
awhile. Then the pesky things laid
down close by until nearly morning.
When they finally went off, he
scampered down and came home
half frozen. We asked him how he
slept, but he said "nary a sleep," he
was too afraid of falling out of the
tree.
HARVESTING WHEAT
That year we raised quite a field
of wheat. My brother and myself
did most of the plowing with ox
teams. The grain was cut with a
cradle and I can remember what fun
we had threshing it. We made a
threshing floor on the ground by
scraping It off smooth, then built a
coral around it, spread the sheaves
of wheat all over the floor. And then
turned in 10 or 15 horses and drove
them round and round until the
grain was all trampeled out of the
heads. Then the horses were taken
out, the straw was all shook out and
thrown over the fence and more
wheat laid down again. The horses
were turned In and so on until the
crop was all trampeled out.
The wheat and chaff was separat
ed by an old fashioned fanning mill
turned by hand. This was the hard
est part. People did not mjnd hard
work In those days, they expected
it. We took wheat to Perkins mill
up on north Yamhill river or over to
Ncwby's mill where the town of Mc
Mlnnvllle is now. They were cus
tom mills, every one got back flour
from his own wheat, the miller tak
ing toll one eighth. I
Here the story ends abruptly with I
"There was one little incident
and the writer not no farther.
The Ankeny family Is one of the
well-known pioneer names in the
state. Mr. Ankeny's father, Capt.
Alexander P. Ankeny, came to Ore-
gon in the late '40s. He became the
possessor of a substantial fortune.
Ankeny street in Portland was nam
ed for him.
His son took over the active man
agement of the famous Sterling
mine out of Jackson Mile, in southern
Oregon. This mine, which Is still
in operation, is one of the richest
and most productive placers in the
state. In addition to operating the
mine, he owned a farm of 4500 acres
near Salem, large ranch holdings In
Klamath county, and managed a
dairy and cheese factory. His broth-
Len P. Ankeny moved to Walla Wal
la and became United States sena
tor. Henry Ankeny died December 21.
1906.
Lyons Maxlne Huber. who Is
working in 8 lay ton. spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Huber. Virginia Skelton of Stavton
spent Sunday at tht Huber home.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Halloo
Washington, Aug. 28. There Is
only one thing which excites Wash'
ing ton more than gossip and that
is a news leak. Everything here Is
supposed to be order J y. Everything
flows in turn, according to custom
men, society and even news.
For that reason a dire problem
has been created by the fact that
certain secret reports fiom the busi
ness advisory coucil huve lately de
veloped a way of getting on the
front pages.
The council was Seci etary Roper's
idea. News readers may recall that
the secretary of commerce's council
of business men was supposed to
express views of business. The coun
cil members were to tell what they
thought about the new deal. For
time their thoughts, as expressed in
their reports, must have been un
printable. At least these reports
were sent to the White House and
referred down the alley to a depart
ment for eternal consideration. They
were made public only when they
favored the social security program
or continuance of the NRA.
Drainage The last two reports of
the council were on the tax bill and
the Guffey coal bill and were very
critical. They were sent to the White
House and referred, as is the cus
tom, to a departmental filing cab
inet. In each case a week elapsed
and then the reports appeared on
the front pages. One was published
by a foremost Washington news
gatherer and the othi'r by a trade
paper in New York.
No one suspects President Roose
velt of slipping out these critical
reports, but there is ground for sus
picion that the business council has
developed a system of making its
views known to the world.
What has happened Is that the
council gives the president a week
to make its views public. If he fails,
there are ways.
Ponce-de-Lcon A fancy job of
editing was done on the Congres
sional Record to conceal the fact
from posterity that the house sat
unconstitutionally for twenty min
utes last Saturday nii?lit. The Rec
ord says the house quit at 11:47 p.
m.; but it really recessed about
12:20 a. m. This wns Uenty minutes
after its authority expired by its
own edict.
What happened was that congress
got In an absurd mess. Speaker
Byrnes realized at 11:40 p. m. that
the house could not decide what to
do before It expired at midnight, so
Mr. Byrns defied the edict that time
waits for no man. He told one of
his clerks to get a slick and stop
the big clock over his head. It re
mained stopped until about a half
an hour later, when the leaders de
cided the mess was too big to be
solved that night, and congress ad
journed until Monday
Smart lawyers may be able to
figure out a way to attack the con
stitutionality of everything congress
did thereafter. But they will have
a hard time proving It In view of
falsification of the record.
An editorial concluMon that this
congress could not even adjourn
constitutionally, however, may not
be far wrong.
Tip If new dealers will see Sen
ator Capper they may learn some
thing to their advantage. The Kan-
san says little but ne reads a lot.
What he reads mostly Is the mall
bag. It Is larger than that of mo3t
CUNDOWN'
TASTING
By Mary Graham Bonner
First of all we must gather ber
ries and apples," said Willy Nltly,
and alll of the Puddle Muddlers
went to the bush
es and to the
trees and gather
ed all they could.
Soon they were
ready for the Jelly
making. Sweet
Face, the lamb,
who had been
taking a rest un
.1er a shady tree
now joined them.
"Just In time to
help us pick ber
ries and knock
down apples,"
& cawed Christo-
pher Columbus Crow.
"Dear lamb me," bleated Sweet
Face, "you don't mean to tell me
you've gathered all this amount and
still want more."
"You weren't around when we
were busy," cawed Christopher.
"You knew Just the time to take a
rest."
now Christopher that is not
fair," bleated Sweet Face, a hurt
expression on the lamb's face. "I
didn't know you were busy. If you
had told me you know how glad I
would have been to help."
"Maybe you can stir the Jelly,"
suggested Christopher,
"I'd only be too glad to try." said
Seet Face, "but I'm not much of a
lamb hand at cooking. Perhaps
you'd better give me something to
do which I could do well."
"Such as doing nothing?" cawed
Christopher.
Christopher gave Sweet Face i
flip with his right wing.
"I see through you, Lamb," Iv
cawed, "but you're pretty clever to
manage as you do."
Im going to taste, gruff, gruff."
growled Jupiter Bear.
8o am I, growled Blacky Bear.
The bears could hardly wait for the
first of the Jelly to be made.
Tomorrow "Honey Bear s Present.'
congressmen because Capper is a
farm publisher as well as a farm
legislator. He receives mail from
the farm wivos who ao not write to
anyone else.
He has noticed lately what he per
ceives to be a change in general
farm sentiment toward the adminis
tration. The farmers, he says, are
naturally frugal people. They have
to be. A substantial number of them
(perhaps a majority, ne says) seem
to have become interested during
recent months in government ex
penditures. One thing which ap
peared to have awakened their in
terest, he believes, is taxes, (not
processing taxes, because someone
else pays those.)
Ordinarily if a republican senator
said anything like that it would be
smaller news that a dog biting a
man. Capper, however, has not been
a political antagonist of the new
deal and docs not ordinarily in
dulge in political hog wash.
Enlargement The holding com
panies act was passed and signed,
but it is not yet a law. In fact, it
may turn out soon to be a series of
injunctions.
This good supposition Is based on
the fact that the utilities companies
have been far more excited about
the new appointment to the secur
ities exchange commission than
about the law itself. They think
they know what the law means.
They also suspect what the selection
of James Ross (In Ferdinand Pe-
cora's place) means. Mr. Ross is a
bone dry public ownership man He
operated (in Seattle) the largest
publicly owned electric light plant in
the country. He despises the scent
of private public utilities. That will
make three anti-utility bloodhounds
on the commission.
The answer is that the utilities
groups and planning tr contest the
act In the courts before it becomes
operative. They will resist regis
tering and carry the case to the
courts.
Note The funny part of it Is the
new dealers who framed the legis
lation had only three utility holding
companies in mind for erasure, but
now have bigger Ideas
Mind Changing A real possibility
of rescinding Russian recognition
exists, despite all the state depart
ment had done to shush such an
idea. The fact is the department
would like to be forced into it. Of
ficials are chagrined at the lack of
Russian trade developments alter
recognition. Also the attitude of
the Soviets about meeting the czarist
debt Is disheartening to our author
ities. Britain once rescinded recog
nition of Russia.
Answers to
A reader can get the answer to
any question of fact by writing the
Capital Journal Information Bur
eau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. C. Please enclose
three (3) cents for reply.
Q. Who invented the claque? J.
A.M.
A. This "hired applause" is of
great antiquity, and Its Institution
Is attributed to Nero.
Q. When was the first baseball
game played at night? L.R.
A. The first night game is said to
have been played at Fort Wayne,
Indiana, in 1883.
Q. What was the first song which
Jenny Lind sang in America? B.M.
A. It was Vol Che Sapete, from the
Marriage of Figaro, music by Mo
zart, text by Lorenzo da Ponte.
Q. Why did the Scotch adopt
plaids for their costumes? R.c.
A. The use of the tartan or plaid
by the Scottish Highlanders is older I
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the tops of spring onions are an
excellent source of vitamin A and
should therefore be used rather
than thrown awa Carefully
washed, crisped and shredded they
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lettuce in a plain green salad or
they may be used with other vege
tables to give an appetizing tang to
the mixture. Minced onion tops
combined with cottage cheese is a
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onion, thinly sliced, in 2 tablespoons
butter until brown. Add 1 chopped
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than historical reoords, The plaid
is a variation of the check which is
an ancient pattern. It was widely
used In ancient Egypt.
Q. How long did the Directory
last in France? I.W.
A. Tills constitution was drawn
up in 1705, the executive power be
ing vested In five directors, one of
whom retired each year. It led a
precarious existence for four years
and ended with Napoleon's coup
d'etat In November, 1799.
Q. Where is Fox Channel? E.M.
A. The channel lies between
Southampton Island and Baffin
Land in the Hudson Bay, Canada.
It was named after Luke Fox, who
explored the region in 1631.
Q. Is It true that foreigners are
allowed to vote In Chile? T.P.
A. Last fall, the franchise was
broadened to Include women and
foreigners. For the first time, they
cast their ballots on April 7. This
applies to municipal elections only
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