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Show M MOST-KISSE- D AMERICA'S MAN' DIES Pearson Hobson, the "Man Who Sank the Merri- Was strange raradox ot Hero and Public Heckler. Richmond mac," tit U ilia t Admiral Hobson, 4 V d Ola-- t . 1 well a flag-wav- hlue-nose- d lined . fecounts of are irery IL' oven : When . LAP' scnooi in 1389. Hobson was grad- - ,A first m "1 academy at c.i(s Naval cheered enthusi-'J3?l- ! a. nVs leaving. Most of to him hadn't Senate, It was.poken one of his I two years. to report the cadet f of other cadets; this he consistent-Tttathewexpertly and easily the most unrs i;enu ,S i most me. Dante. as in topular cadet u: from the start. days he to convince the country that Lough scientific journals, be a fcere was inevitably to to arouse f World war, but he failed America enough to begin arming of the Spanish-- ! jor it The outbreak American war found him a naval lieut' Constructor with the rank of WillAdmiral enant, aboard Rear iam Thomas Sampson's flagship, t t He was his v ed y i he New York. I ' Hobson Volunteers. Hob-Io- n Aboard the New York, young constructthe for was crusading ion of five unsinkable vessels, and Mi Admiral Sampson they could be used to sweep the mines from to Havana harbor. the entrance When Sampson told him that he 'far more interested in sinking American ship than building unsinkable ones, the lieutenant from SEE) was one five was but offered to do the job anyway. It was in the line of duty. Sampson had ordered Admiral de Schley, who was off Santiago Cuba, to sink a collier in the narrow channel at the harbor entrance and thus bottle up the Spanish fleet in-.- ? aide. Schley, not believing in the wisdom of the act, ignored the order. f't Sampson still favored the idea j and, on their way to Santiago, he ' Bstounded ' lone. Pill. to usui NCUS tun ' and Hobson discussed plans for sink-- l ing the collier Merrimac on a June when there would ; I in early II be sufficient for the navi-- ; night ! moonlight gator to place the ship in position, I yet there would be an hour or so of !j darkness between moonset and I daybreak. Torpedoes abreast ;j bulkheads and cargo hatches were to be fired by an electric primer to Jink the craft. ; I the The j i! ftvf. entire American fleet received ,..,11 This was no child's exception of Admiral f; aampson, there was hardly a soul ' aboard the New York who believed that any of the Merrimac's j, emergency crew would return alive. Yet hundreds offered to go. I Seven were taken: George Char- ette, Daniel Montague, Francis Kel- ly. Randolph Clausen, Osborn V. "eignan, J. E. Murphy and George FPhillips. Hobson also took along an American fkig, to be unfurled at the proper moment, ;ist as the Merrimac was starting her dive toward Davy June's locker. A Motley Crew. The flag was never unfurled, for Just about come time for the there were shot and shell PPPing all around our hero's cars and there was little room for tradition. Even at the outset, the odds ere perhaps against the ever getting to the narrow Part of the channel. She had to torn right under the nose of the "orro Castle fortification and the Peat battery behind it. The Spanish Jeers' aim was notoriously rot-bat such close range . . . A weird looking crew they were the collier got under way at 1:30 m., June 4, 1898. Their apparel consisted of long underwear, two Pairs of socks each, life preservers, "rtridge belts and revolvers. Just if a Hollywood scenarist had writ-jf- n it. there popped from nowhere iTe Inevitable stowaway. It was who had not been chosen, came of his own accord. It was brave gesture and Hobson. after epnm.mtlmg him, permitted him 10 i; Pany Hobson. play. With the - Mer-nmac- 's continue. Hobson s plan was to "'win z.000 yards of the cruise to channel, order full speed ahead (for i..ry were almost certain to ue oisc overed and fired upon) until there Wre onlv 2(1f) vnrrla loff r v n ii- .i me engines would be shut "I an'! the Merrimac allowed to the where it ?n,!"10 b su;ik Any o crew wh(j XalT,'1 th sinking wpre to swim astnrn or to a catama- 'lft' brouRht a!on8 as a last resort At the outset Hobson, speaking in e lime novel hero fashion which 5 to rhara his countless 'C ,0ri,,lons 1" latrr life, :"Charette. lad, we're go--g to make it tonigl.t! There Is no L Iout Under heaven that can keep the channel!" Ue as talking his hat. - chael. through 1 - J mm. er The Merrimac proceeded, apparent ly without the Spaniards' notice, to 300 yards from the channel, when a Spanish picket boat began firing at its rudder without success. Then the first of the land batteries opened and as the collier neared its ob jective more batteries joined the firing. Aid from the Ene'my, One projectile tore the pilothouse completely off the Merrimac. By some miracle, no one was injured, although Hobson and Deignan were inside it at the time. But the steering gear was gone and they could no longer control the ship. Explod ing shells destroyed the connections with the torpedoes and they were unable to sink it where they wanted )r us xi- v,QTit at 1 Hobson as a Young: Officer. it. He was finally presented with it by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Arriving back in New York, Hobson was mobbed by Wherever he went, they sang after him: to realize that the "Mr. Hobson, Mr. Hobson, They began You're a dandy, you're a peach. Spanish gunners might accomplish their purpose for them, and sure And the brightest blooming pebble That is shining on the beach." enough, after a few direct hits and One woman threw her arms about after striking a few mines, the Mer- imac began to settle to the bottom. him and kissed him. This started But it was not sinking fast enough a craze which greeted him wherto go down before it had drifted ever he went, for he was a handsome devil and a hero. One newspast the narrow channel where it would have trapped the Spanish paper reported that in Kansas City alone 417 women kissed him at the fleet. railroad station. At Topeka it was Unable to pursue his plans for reported that at least 200 women the flag, young Hobson decided to kissed him, indicating that perhaps amuse himself by feeling his pulse, the are not so dry, after and despite the shot and shell he all. prairies He didn't object much. found it normal. "If anything, more Hobson Becomes Reformer. phlegmatic than usual," he later But women soon began forgetting wrote. In another few minutes the to kiss him, and the newspapers Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes and began to forget he existed. After the destroyer Plyton let fly with rising rapidly in the ranks of the navy, his eyes went bad while he was serving in China. He applied for retirement on a pension, but did not get it, so resigned from the service. Here began the second phase of his life. He became a crusader in earnest, first to make America mistress of the seas by setting congress to appropriate funds for a navy equal to the combined total of all the other navies in the world. He used as his principal excuse the charge that Japan was preparing to attack us, and was one of the first to bring up the Japanese war scare, trying to get both political parties to acknowledge it in their platforms ( in 1912. He was exquisitely vague in the evidence he presented, and prone to exaggeration as ne was in later campaigns against the demon rum and the drug evil. He made over 1.000 speeches in behalf of his naval building program. He was continually worrying con gress for legislation prohibiting the of alcohol, and as a representaAdmiral Hobson Shortly Before His sale from Alabama, he was the first tive Death. to introduce a prohibition amendtwo torpedoes at such close rone ment into congress. He soon became that even Spaniards couldn't miss, the most prominent figure in the and down went the Merrimac to a prohibition drive. He told congress, 1 cannot look upon the saloon omhero's watery grave. The eight men, . i aiiu man as an assassin went down, erwi.se two of them wounded, and esti of all averages the result too and came right back up again. mates known showed it (alcohol) to Received As Heroes. be the greatest single cause of Their lifeboat had been shattered, death." so they swam to the catamaran, Congress Turns nim Down. hanging on with only their heads Once the prohibition amendment above water so they were less likely was Aamirui huujuh ww passea, after to be spotted. But they were, ,. 1, V,a up m. uiai is, ne- iuuiy ,,n an hour and a half in the cold water, Up aope asHe evil. the drug found by a launch containing no fight against there were a million less a person than Admiral Cervera serted that addicts, many of them children. He of thc Spanish fleet. tried to have congress print and disThey were treated gently. Cervera tribute 50,000.000 copies of a pamhimself helped Hobson aboard. unutphlet warning child.cn of the The latter and his men were given terable torture that might await hot coffee and dry clothes. Hobson them if ever they took the invitawas even then melodramatic in tion of a stranger to "eat, drink or speech. "Oh. God," he exclaimed, sniff" anything. A leaerai expert, mustachios perhaps twirling his called in. testified that there were which curled romantically two inchat the very most, 150,000 addicts in es from either side of his lip, "has the country. Practically none of life ever gone through such a fire them children. He testified: and never a man lost!" I think the direct effect of the The Spaniards, hearing that not article would be to create a certain a man was Josi. ana iijwmk number of cases of severe neurosis nnlv eiaht. were dumfuundod and and insanity and a certain number u,pre doubly dumbfounded when of cases of addiction vy reason ui Hobson told them that he had been the nsvehopath will want this new had to sink . "me oi me m,.i latrying harder than they and his men sensation . Hobson the number of addicts the Merrimac. about ments became heroes, even to the are simply absurd; the opium does treated with to supply them." Spaniards, and were were not cxirt every courtesy, although they When Congress refused to print the pam imprisoned in Morro Castle. Cervera visited him in his cell, phlet. Admiral Hobson continued nis But decked out in an admiral's full dress an attitude crusading, and at me lime oi nis struck Hobson splendor, not death from a heart attack on March and declared, "All chivalry is SC 01 sixiy-six- , 1937. at thQ 16 associations to yet dead!" still starting was all he After a few weeks Hobson and or other, or to the prohibit something of legislation. of his men were traded back to sort some secure an International American navy for thc release of Among thrm were the of prisoners. Spanish number Education association, the equal Narcotic beTheir welcome was one which World Conference on Narcotic edufitted them as heroes, and from cation, thc World Narcotic Defense Richthat moment until his death,to bask association, the Public Welfare aswas Hobson Pearson mond sociation and Americanism Clearadvenin the reflected glory of his if that one doesn'l ing House), and ture with the Merrimac. His seven stop you. the Constitutional Democaides were soon given the congresracy association. sional medal of honor, but Hobson, Weitern Newspaper Union. not receive being an officer, could to. 'ft, JAMES W. BARTON O of Overweight. deftnite- ly show that in North America about two in every five of the 'to u" DR. TIT' HEN insurance figures from the time of his youth, was a par of Frank Merriwell and Sissy Bly. He Meal combination one generation the perpetrator of what may be the American flag. Yet he was to P in the servicetheoflasttheAmerican umbered by generation that knew a trite who nursed t " ,t for reformer,little with children staggering frightening f foul oriental evils lurking in wait for them at I Tlk. About Treatment By WILLIAM C. UTLEY EAR ADMIRAL RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON nrobably was kissed Dy more women than any other rman who ever lived, and now he is dead. atej Harmonizing With Spring vff' U- i." t adult population are overweight and that overweight is a handicap to good health, it is only natural that trying to prevent and reduce the overweight condition should be a matter of vital importance to a great number of people. Practically every knows overweight that the proper or scientific way to reduce weight is to eat less food and do This more work. method simple gives in return (or the fat lost real healthy or vigorous muscle tissue which not only gives Dr. Barton strength of body but actually Invites work or exercise, thus giving further strength. However those of normal weight cannot grasp what cutting down on food and performing more work means to the overweight individual. He has been given this great desire for food and up to a certain point he has been given this dislike for work or exercise. Further, every time he performs a simple action like walking or running he is doing perhaps 50 per cent more work than when this Is done by one of normal weight. Thus to those of us of normal weight, if we wish to eat an extra slice of bread, an extra square of butter or a second dessert, we don't give this extra food a second thought. To those who are overweight it means just that much extra fat added to their weight. Time to Try Other Methods. However, food can only be reduced to a certain point, and only for a certain length of time. When the time arrives when no more weight is being lost, and the individual is eating just the amount of food that should be eaten if he were of normal weight for his build, then if he is still a number of pounds overweight he would be justified in asking his physician about the use of thyroid, pituitary or other gland extract, or perhaps the new drug dinitrophenoL Drs. Leona M. Bayer and H. Gray, in the American Journal of Medical Science, report the methods used in 106 unselected overweight patients treated in an clinic. "One hundred were treated by diet alone at first. Then 51 were given thyroid treatment and 23 dinitrophenoL Better weight losses would have been achieved if the patients had cut down more conscientiously on their food, but of course when the patients only report once a week or once a month this is to be expected. The results accomplished show that diet alone will take off an average of 15 pounds f in less than three and months. When dieting fails to get results, either thyroid extract or dinitrophenol appears to be effective in causing a further loss in out-patie- one-hal- weight." ; II sip crop of fashions as sweet and gay as lovely Spring and with which they're meant to week's THIS seem fully long-awaite- d harmonize. 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