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VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON ,
HOW
“Two Tickets to Terror”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
IT WAS just a couple of tickets that started the whole
A thing. Those tickets played the major role in the yarn
we’re going to hear today. And along with them went ten
minutes of Grade A terror and, on top of that, a surprise
that will knock you for a row of box offices.
It’s Louise Addelson of New York City who is telling the story, but the
adventure happened to her aunt.
It was the tickets that started it all, but it was a letter that dragged
Auntie into the affair. Auntie had a daughter, Helen, who had re­
cently married. She was living in a furnished apartment in Montreal,
and one day she wrote that her husband was away on business, and she was
lonesome, and wouldn’t Auntie like to come and pay her a visit?
Auntie went. She got there in October—and a few days after­
ward, on the 23d of the month, the tickets showed up.
Tickets for Helen and Her Mother.
It happened this way. The apartment directly over Helen’s was
occupied by a young couple, the Chesters, with whom she and her
husband had recently struck up an acquaintance. On the afternoon of
the twenty-third, Mrs. Chester came downstairs to call. She said her
husband had purchased some theater tickets, and now a telegram had
called him away to the sick bed of his mother in another town. They
couldn’t go to the show, so they wanted to give the tickets to Helen and
her mother. Mrs. Chester insisted that they take them, and wouldn’t
hear of letting them pay for them.
Auntie didn’t really want to go to the theater. Some time before she
had lost her husband, and shortly after that her son had died. She
hadn't been to a show or any other place of amusement since, and didn't
really have any desire to go. She only agreed to go this time for her
daughter’s sake, and she was immensely relieved when, while they were
dressing that evening, her son-in-law returned unexpectedly from jiis
business trip and took her place.
The young couple went out. Auntie is an old-fashioned mother,
and no sooner were they out of the house than she set the ironing
board up in the kitchen and began ironing the underwear and
linen that had been washed that day. She was still busily at work
when she heard a strange, buzzing sound at the front door.
She Still Had the Hot Iron
With the iron still in her hand, she walked to the front of the apart­
ment. There was a large hole in the door, and someone, even then,
was boring another. For an instant she was puzzled. Then, as she
A Hand Groping to Release the Catch.
MOSIACS ARE MADE, USED,
AND THE EGYPTIAN PLAN.—
Besides floors and pavements,
mosaics are also used to deco­
rate ceilings, walls and columns.
The Greeks and Romans were
very fond of them.
One kind of mosaic is made up
of little pieces of glass called
’’smalts.” The smalts are cut
from slender rods of glass and
laid on a bed of cement.
Another is made of stone or
pieces of shell. Many mosaics are
laid on a thin sheet of gold. This
makes the pattern stand out
more distinctly.
The ancient Egyptians even
used mosaic designs on rings.
These were made by arranging
a large number of colored glass
rods in a pattern. The whole
bunch of rods was then fused to­
gether and drawn out. A slice
of the rod, then cut off and pol­
ished, thus showed the original
design. It as so minute that a
microscope had to be used to
detect the mosaic effect.
ThelîlanllJlioQQ
Tales and Traditions
from American Political History
by
SCOTT WATSON and FRANK E. HAGAN
INSURGENTS
ORMATION of the Union party
for this year’s campaign and its
nomination of Representative Wil­
liam Lemke of North Dakota for
President recalls some of the oth­
er “insurgent” parties which have
played their part in our political
history. The first of these was the
Peace party of 1812-15, composed of
Democrat-Republicans and Fed­
eralists, mostly in New England,
who opposed the War of 1812.
In 1824 there was a People's par­
ty, composed of Democrat-Republi­
cans, who favored choosing elec­
tors by the people and in 1825
there was a Coalition party, so-
called from the union of the sup­
porters of Henry Clay with those
of John Quincy Adams to elect
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Soy Bean Makes Debut
on Chicago’s Famous Pit
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First Legume to JoinGrains make himself heard. His hand lifted
to signal the quantity of
for “Futures” Trading. vertically,
grain in the transaction, gives him,
Washington, D. C.—The soy bean
stepped onto the grain market of
Chicago’s famous Pit a few weeks
aga» becoming the first legume, or
pod-bearing plant, to join the grains
featured for "futures” trading.
“The new commodity, a natural­
ized Chinese immigrant, has had
less than ten years stardom in the
pageant of American agriculture,”
says the National Geographic so­
ciety. “Yet last year it brought
home more bacon than did either
barley or oats. This year it leaps
to the center of the stage beside
grains which discovered America
soon after Columbus.
"Like the grains, each soy bean
crop will hereafter find its way in­
to the market channels of a nation
by the daily drama of the Pit,
staged within the building of Chi­
cago’s Board of Trade. In name
only are grains and beans present
in its paneled oak trading hall. Silo-
high and more than barn-broad, the
huge room has no farming connec­
tions except by telephone. Its har­
vesting implements are clicking tel­
egraph keys and blackboards on
which fortunes are feverishly
chalked up and as feverishly
erased. “Futures,” the contracts
for crops sold now but yet unseen
or unplanted, ripen by the light of
tall windows rising five stories high
and a chandelier 40 feet in diame­
ter.
Bought and Sold by Hand.
“Visitors in the galleries may
watch this noisy many-ring circus
of marketing by remote control. The
rings are the pits, one each for
wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, etc.
Wheat, because it travels well and
bakes best, performs its price­
jumps in the largest ring. The pits
are enclosed craters sunk in the
floor, seething with traders. Their
major eruptions are noted in his­
tory as panics.
“The clamor of commerce pro­
duces such a din that the trader
must resort to sign language to
let us say, 25,000 bushels for better
or worse. Fingers extended hori­
zontally govern prices. The flick of
a thumb in Chicago may determine
whether the housewife in California
will soon count out a penny more
or less at the grocery.
“Similar trading in crop futures
takes place on the grain markets
of Winnipeg, Liverpool and Buenos
Aires, and in this country in Minne­
apolis, Kansas City, Duluth, St. Lou­
is, Milwaukee, Portland and New
York city. But Chicago holds the
key to the grain bin of the United
States. Since 1848, when merchants
gathered upstairs over a flour store
t fix cereal prices, it has been al­
most continuously the world’s lead­
ing grain exchange.
Thrives in Illinois.
“Converging lines of steel, which
make Chicago the foremost railroad
hub in the country, garner the grain
from every direction. Six times
‘cultivated’ by the steam-roller ef­
fect of glaciers, and enriched al­
most daily by the swift alternation
of sun and rain, the surrounding
countryside has the greatest total
value of farm property in the United
States.
“The soy bean, latest satellite to
the grain galaxy, thrives best in
Illinois, which produces as much as
all the other 47 states put together.
The rapidly expanding bean belt in­
cludes Indiana, Iowa and Missouri.
Any soy bean census, however, is
probably incomplete, for much of
its acreage is distributed in small
patches on large farms, where it
gives the good earth a rest and a
square meal of fertilizer, or where
it offers a new kind of green pas­
tures to corn-fed hogs. The hay is
even now encouraging some of the
nation's livestock to face a hard
winter.
“The versatile bean has been
ground into meal with bread as its
final destination, or such floury com­
pounds as macaroni and crackers.
American factories are now making
soy sauce which has been and still
realized what was happening she almost collapsed with fright. Someone
was trying to break into the house!
For whole minutes she stood, rooted to the spot, incapable of moving
even so much as a muscle. She watched while a tiny saw blade was in­
serted through one of the holes—watched it while a larger opening was
cut in the door. It was only when the opening was completed and a
hand reached through and began groping to release the catch on the in­
side that she could move at all. Then, suddenly she became aware of
the heat of the iron in her hand.
Almost Instinctively she lifted the iron. Without seeming to
form any plan in her mind, she acted. Tiptoeing across the hall
to the door she pressed the iron down hard on the reaching, fumb­
ling hand!
There was a yell outside that was loud enough to be heard half a
block away. The hall was filled with the odor of burned flesh. The
Seated in a chair in the kitchen was the supposedly absent Mr.
hand was jerked out of the opening and she could hear the footsteps of
Chester. And standing over him was Mrs. Chester, applying salve to
its owner scurrying away.
She heaved a sigh of relief, but still she was badly frightened. What a bad burn on his outstretched right hand!
if the man came back? She wouldn't stay alone in that apartment
The Scheme Was Exposed.
for another minute.
Mr. Chester scrambled to his feet. Mrs. Chester ran to the door
and banged it in Auntie's face. For a moment she was too dazed to
So She Took Refuge With the Chesters.
think. Then the whole explanation came to her. The Chesters had
The only people she knew in the house were the Chesters upstairs. planned to get her and Helen out of the house so they would be free to
Mr. Chester would be out of town traveling to the bedside of his ailing rob Helen of her wedding gifts and a few valuable jewels she owned. The
mother. She didn't know whether Mrs. Chester had gone with him or theater tickets were just a trick to get them out for the evening and
not If she hadn't—if she was home—maybe she would come down and leave the apartment empty. And only the unexpected return of Helen’s
stay with Auntie until her daughter and son-in-law returned.
husband had interfered with the schem».
She ran out the rear entrance, scampered up the stairs and
As soon as she could get her wits together. Auntie called the police,
knocked on the Chesters’ back door. Then, without waiting for an
but Auntie never saw the Chesters again. They, too, lived in a furnished
answer, she tried the door. The knob turned. The door swung open.
apartment And by the time the police arrived they had packed up their
And Auntie burst in on a tableau that gave her the second shock
tew personal belongings and fled.
of the evening and the big surprise of her whole life.
WNU Seniea
Adams. There was an Anti-Mason­
ic party in the field from 1827 to
1834 and In 1840-41 the Abolition­
ists formed the Liberty party. The
Free Soil party, which later be­
came the modern Republican par­
ty, was formed of Liberty party
members, Whigs and Democrats.
The American party, popularly
known as the “Know-Nothing par­
ty” was formed from members of
other parties who became dissatis­
fied with the influx of foreigners
and first raised the cry of "Amer­
ica for Americans!” In 1860 it was
merged with the Constitutional par­
ty.
In this same year there were two
Democratic parties—the Douglas
Democrats (Northern) and the
Breckenridge Democrats (South­
ern). In 1872 dissatisfied Republi­
cans and pro-war Democrats
formed the Liberal Republican par­
ty and nominated Horace Greeley
for President. Other Democrats
wl<o wouldn’t vote for Greeley
formed the “Straight Out” or “Tap
Root” Democratic party, which
nominated Charles O'Conor.
In 1884 there was an Anti-Monop­
oly party which nominated Ben­
jamin F. Butler of Massachusetts
but which died a-borning. In that
same year “bolter»’’ from the Re­
publican party who refused to sup­
port Blaine, the nominee, became
the “Mugwumps" and .supported
Cleveland, the Democratic nomi­
nee. In 1896 there were “bolters”
from both parties. Free silver ad­
vocates, led by Senator Teller of
Colorado, left the Republican par­
ty, and “gold Democrats” desert­
ed that party and its nominee, Wil­
liam J. Bryan, formed a "Nation­
al Democrat” party and nominat­
ed two former Civil war generals—
John M. Palmer of Illinois for Pres­
ident and Simon B. Buckner of Ken­
tucky for vice-president.
Last but not least was the split
in the Republican party in 1912
which resulted in the formrtion of
the Progressive party under the
leadership of Theodore Roosevelt
and the consequent victory of Wil­
son over Taft.
is imported in large quantities from
the Orient
"Soy bean oil has been success­
fully initiated into the paint indus­
try, and now may paint the barn
that houses its hay, as well as the
truck that hauled it to market.
Waterproofing for cloth, size for pa­
per, and glue are some of the other
forms in which the bean is service­
able. When ground up, it can be-
mixed into a pasty plastic, and used
as a substitute for celluloid and
hard rubber. The purchasing pub­
lic may be entertaining soy beans
unaware in fountain pens, ash trays,
chocolate candy, or linoleum.
“The United States is still second
In soy bean culture to Manchu-
kuo, where most of the crop for Chi­
na’s millions grows. Five years ago,
Japan was growing more soy beans
than the United States, but now the
ratio is reversed.
Manchukuo,
Chosen, and Netherland India are
still the leading bean-raisers of the
Orient.
“It has been estimated that the
crop in the United States this year
will be double that of last year,
with a possible production of 39,-
000,000 bushels.”
He’s Stung Thrice Daily,
but Still Makes Money
Rochester, Minn. — Leslie White,
instructor of economic geography in
the Rochester High school, has
solved the problem of seasonal work
and income with a hobby he started
twenty years ago. White keeps bees,
between 50,000 and 150,000 of them.
He expects to market 2 tons of honey
and some wax this fall before he
returns to his schoolroom for the
winter. He gets stung an average
of three times a day, but says he
doesn't mind.