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Show I I t THE LEHI SUN, LKHI. UTAH as jc;" - h i: i - f " r, ' A Green Gown By CLARISSA MACKIE On the Illinois Rivr Adov Alton. w (Prepared by th National G.ojraphio Society, Washington, D. 0.) (WNU Service.) riTH the opening of the Cen tury of Progress exposi tion at Chicago In 1933, the city and the state of Illinois will be hosts to thousands of visitors. Not many decades ago all Illinois was forest-clad; her roads were Indian In-dian trails; her buildings teepees and pioneer huts. Then the pioneers and woodsmen pushed from the east In growing numbers. They came In flatboats and covered wagons. Later they came by steamboat and railroad. Today To-day the old routes of the earliest pioneers echo with the hum of airplanes. air-planes. Nature endowed the state with a fertile soli to nourish mankind and stored treasures of minerals beneath be-neath to feed man's machines of travel and Industry. More than all, It blessed the state with a rugged, healthful climate, which plays so large a part In fixing the temperament tempera-ment and destiny of peoples and nations. na-tions. What man has made of these factors Is the story of Illinois today. Glimpse it for a moment as from an airplane winging northward, over crisscrossed arteries of concrete and steel and water, with towns and villages knotting them Into a network. net-work. Forests and orchards of fruit give way to somber mines of oaL The earth Is carpeted for miles with waving corn. Cities and tall stacks of mills become thicker. There Is a broad belt of green pastures pas-tures alive with dairy herds. Then comes a great, throbbing city under a pall of smoke, with humanity snug-gllng snug-gllng closer and climbing higher. Here acres of emerald parks Intersperse Inter-sperse drab-roofed squares, and finally a burst of graceful towers edges an Inland sea. Every village, every hamlet, has Its story, some In the dim past, others in the thriving present Traces of colonial days are' few in Illinois, and towns show true to type, as one rolls over the smooth concrete highways. But each adds Its mite of story, and there Is no easier way to see them than by Jogging Jog-ging north, over the aptly named Meridian highway, through the center cen-ter of the state, 3S5 miles from southern tip to northern border. From South to North. In the course of this Journey the traveler will see the aspect of na- ture change as In few other states. Ia "Egypt" so named by the pio neers because of Its fertility pecans, pe-cans, cotton, tobacco, magnolias, bald cypress, and lotus are grow ing; in the north sugar beets, hickory, hick-ory, tamarack and forests of white pine brave the biting winter. Most of Kentucky and Virginia are north of Cairo, while Boston Is farther south than ZIon. In the south the frost is usually gone by the end of March; in the north it keeps the farmer guessing until Msj The proposed trip will te an easy one, for no other state has more miles of concrete roads. The auto-moblllst auto-moblllst who starts his car in New York, heads across the continent to Seattle, down the Pacific coast to Los Angeles, over the wide open spaces to New Orleans, and then back through Richmond and Washington, Wash-ington, will have covered less than theS.OOOmlles that are paved with cement ce-ment concrete In Illinois. In one year more paved highway was added add-ed than the distance from Chicago to Portland, Maine, and 2,500 men and 10,000 horses were employed at the task. Cairo la both, the southern tip and within a few miles of the lowest low-est spot In Illinois, only 279 feet above sea leveL It Is a city rich to memories. There Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had his headquarters from September, 1SC1, to April, 1SC2. When the Illinois Central railroad pushed across the state, Cairo, satisfied sat-isfied that the Ohio river never could be bridged, saw itself a metropolis me-tropolis where trains and boats would always meet. Charles Dickens Dick-ens was one who bought a lot In the city of dreams. Before he crossed from England and made the Journey west to see it, the temperamental river had moved and it was far beneath be-neath the water. lie blamed Cairo, and Cairo has never forgiven him for what he wrote. Cairo a Transfer Point. Few of the graceful old river steamers remain, both rivers have been bridged, and Cairo lives in another an-other age. It Is a transfer point between be-tween water and rail for the government gov-ernment barge line to New Orleans and, la winter, the northern terminal ter-minal A single tow of long, saat barges with a powerful tug can carry the grain produced on 18,000 acres. They bring up the products of the southern states and of distant dis-tant lands sugar, coffee, bauxite, sulphur, burlap, sisal and carry back the grain and manufactures of the Middle West. Like the pirogues pi-rogues and flatboats from Illinois, which 80 years ago drifted down the river with flour, smoked meat, and corn Juice "moonshine," these steel barges plod eight miles an hour no faster than Marquette paddled pad-dled In his birch canoe. The highway leaves Cairo, curving curv-ing through the Ozarks. Back In the hills families are living in primitive log cabins. "Egypt's fields of cotton, which dare frost but escape es-cape the boll weevil, change around Anna into orchards of apples, peaches, and pears and beds of aspargus and strawberries. Beauty spots are preserved as state forests and parks. Bald Knob, 1,030 feet high, crowns a hardwood tract. Another reserve contains the only stand of short-leaf pine In the state. Fern Cliff park has a wealth of fern-covered bowlders and waterfalls, water-falls, and In Giant City park nature has lined great square rocks like streets. At Tunnel Hill the Illinois Central has bored a 7,000-foot tunnel tun-nel as part of the ICO-mlle cutoff between Edgewood, I1L, and Fulton, Ky. Crucible clay of the highest grade comes from around Carbon- dale, north of Anna, and 54 of the 102 counties in Illinois produce coal. most of which is mined in adjacent Franklin and Williamson counties. Through the Coal Fields. Marlon, .where Robert G. Inger- soil studied to be a lawyer and where Gen. John A. Logan made the speech which kept southern Illinois In the Union, Is 19 miles east Near it is the town once known as "bloody" llerrln. Politics has changed and the barber shops and stores now have signs In their windows, win-dows, "This placed will be closed at noon for prayer." Benton is farther north, over a straight seam of coal from 7 to 14 feet thick, estimated to contain two and a half billion tons. It is the center of vast mines, five of which in different years have held world records for production. Orient No. 2 at West Frankfort, often bring ing to the surface between 14,000 and 15,000 tons a day, Is one of the largest coal mines in the world. It is electrically equipped, and Its locker rooms and baths for miners, a requirement re-quirement of the state law.could lave a regiment from black to white without overcrowding. The deep est bituminous mine shaft in the country, more than 1,000 feet. Is near Assumption. Our automobile highway now crosses the almost-forgotten trail followed by Col. George Rogers Clark In 1778. Patrick Henry sent this youth of twenty-five and a band of Kentucky frontiersmen to estab lish the vast Northwest territory as part of Virginia. They came down the Ohio and unfurled the Stars and Stripes, for the first time in Illinois, over Fort Massac, now a park. Grain and Oil. Fields of wheat and oats alter nate with corn, and oil replaces coal under the surface, as the road runs north through Centralis, Oil was discovered in Clark county 28 years ago, and once the state produced more oil than Pennsylvania. It still produces some 6,000,000 barrels a year, but it is as a refining and distribution dis-tribution center that Illinois is most important to the oil industry. The pipe lines radiate to the Atlantic, the gulf, and Canada from Wood river and Itoxana. One of these lines follows the old trail of the covered wagon between Vlncennes and Cahokla. The first mall in Illinois came along this route in 1S05. Towns were spaced off every 25 miles, which then was a good day's Journey. At Olney is one of the five game havens in the state and the home of the late Robert Rldgway, former ly curator of the division of birds in the United States National museum, mu-seum, and a world authority on these feathered creatures. With SG3 vari eties, he rated Illinois rich in bird life. Keturnlng to the north-to-south highway, we come to Vandalla, due nortn of Centralis. Here Is the old State Capitol building of 1820-1S37, later a county courthouse, and now a museum. Its architecture of past age contrasts with the drab two-story buildings around the Vandalla Van-dalla city square. it A ND so you are wearing green T remarked Ella Nellson as she looked at Kathleen's new dress for the party. "Yes, you know It is my favorite color perhaps I rather fancy It because be-cause my eyes are green." "Are they green?" inquired her friend coolly. "I always thought they were grayish blue." No, indeed," laughed the other glrL "Mother has bought me a string of Jade green beads pretty, aren't they?" Lovely," murmured Ella indiffer ently, and presently she made some excuse and hurried on, but she did not go home then. She went to call upon several other girls of their set and there was much laughter and giggling. As for Kathleen, while she felt hurt about Ella Nellson's Indiffer ence, she did diagnose the case cor rectly. "I'm afraid that Ella is a little Jealous about my wearing the green dress," she told her mother that evening. "You must not mind that, my dear," smiled her mother. "I am sure that Ella will wear a pretty frock and by that time she will have forgotten her Jealousy. Did she ask you anything about Frederick?" Kathleen shook her head. "I think that she was so upset about my dress that she never thought of my escort" "And she will take it for grant ed that Frederick will take her, as usual?" 1 suppose so, mother, I hope she finds it out before Thursday, though 1" Ella Nellson did find it out on Wednesday and she was furiously angry with both Frederick and Kathleen. She had met the young man near the town hall and she made the fatal mistake of taking it for granted that Frederick would be her cavalier as he had been several sev-eral times in the past "What time will you come for me, Fred?" she asked. "Ella Nellson," he chlded, trying to hide his embarrassment "you know perfectly well that I am not coming to escort you to the party I Please do not tease a young man with political cares upon his shoul ders I" Ella smiled widely, nervously, and then turned away. "That's a good Joke on you, Frederick 1" she gig gled and went on, and Frederick, guessing her chagrin, and feeling somewhat guilty, went on his way, That afternoon Ella Nellson called up several of her masculine friends at their places of business. and after several failures at last re ceived an tnvitatlon from Georce Moore. "I am going in my car," he said, "and I'd like to take you, Ella sure that I'm not butting in on Fred or anything like that?" "Very sure," said Ella sweetly "and thank you so much, 'George. I will be ready at eight o'clock." "Thank you, Ella. I will be there," he assured her, and then, only then, did Ella smile. Her dress had been ready for several days. One of the queer things about the party that night was that eight o'clock sounded and went by and very few girls arrived. There was the usual stag line of unattached young men, and there were some girls and their escorts. Pretty girls and plain girls In pink and yellow and blue, and a few in white or black. At a quarter after eight Ella Nellson Nell-son arrived with George Moore, and she looked like a rose in a charm ing pink dress, and then in groups or by ones and twos came the other girls of her particular "crowd," and every girl wore green ! Every shade of green silk, satin, or georgette in combination with another color was represented, and there was much laughter, while Ella was here, there, and everywhere in her rose-pink dress, like one lovely rose In a plain green garden of girls I And then, Just a little late, came Kathleen with Frederick Warner-Kathleen Warner-Kathleen was in green, too, but her dress was somehow "different from the others It was a beautiful shade of green Jade, and she wore an odd string of Jade beads. . now odd that so many should wear green 1" she confided to Fred as they danced. "Of course, it is worn a lot but our whole crowd It wearing green, all except Ella, Doesn't she look adorable in plnkr Frederick had keenly abserved Ella Nellson, but he merely said -looks use a peony! Kathleen you are like a cool green rush grow ing in a quiet pool." nainieen Diusned adorably and smiled at him. "Tiere are many of us green rushes, Frederick I am afraid we are like the wild nags In the creeks I" "Never mind, he only whispered. "Among them all, Kathy, there is Just one green You I" When the evening was over, and Frederick and Kathleen walked home under the early morning pale moon, it was then that Frederick confessed to Kathleen that he did not like any other girl except her and it came out In Just the way that all happy ending love stories do! At; for Ella Nellson It was something' of a tragedy for her when she fell! in love and married a man by th! name of Green ! Find Record of Stern Greek Law rr- af nottery on which rotes were inscribed which sent Arls-Ides Arls-Ides and Tbemlstocles, Greek pollt- cal and military leaders, into iem- n. t n. An.M ACTA hflVft orary exiles zw y" " , : een found ia the ancient market lace at Athens, Greece. Citizens of Athens during tne rm" lentury B. C, were privuegea uuu he constitution or tne city i n public sssembly and vote for the emporary banishment or any tu Utizenry. If as many as o.uw vh irere cast in the ballot the citizen receiving the largest number was ailed for ten years but not deprived )f the enjoyment of his property. At least eight Athenian leaders ire known to have been ostracized. but votes cast in the ballots have only been found for four of the proceedings. pro-ceedings. The above mentioned "ostracon, Greek term for the ballots so used, which was cast against Arlstldes is the first of Its kind ever discovered but the one with the name of Themls-tocles Themls-tocles is the second found. Ostraca have now been found for the votes against Megagles in 4S7 B. C, Xan-thlppos, Xan-thlppos, father of Pericles in 485 B. C, Arlstldes in 483 ' B. C, and Tbemlstocles In 471 B. C Tbe Cinema Influence Youth (pointing out lovely bather) There, Isn't she a peach? She knocks all the rest of the girls down here silly. Friend Hal a real flatten-'em blond ! Humorist (London). Wnt "AdM Jog. Memorr Unusual was the public announcement announce-ment that appeared In the London papers cently. The Hungarian minister, Baron Ivan RuWdo-Zichy inserted this advertisement: "The Hungarian minister regrets that having lost his engagement book he is unable to remember his engagements engage-ments for next week, and would therefore, be grateful for reminders." remind-ers." Luckily three persons who had invited him to dinner on varl-ous varl-ous nights telephoned to remind him of the dates, and as for the rest of the engagements he remembered them. Himself the "Goat" "Are you married?" "No, I make all my own mistakes " Londoa TIt-BIts. "Nil Near n, "!.. sign on the l!2Tf ,ow this slgn??& mystery Was M Just moved out .T' J moved I ? C b llcCIur Newtpann By adnata. WNU Berrle Ml 1 JV (ft la to PROPERTY OWNERS TODAY a letter came to my desk that deeply impressed me. It was written by a woman the mother in a typical American family. Her little home had been saved from foreclosure by a coat of new paint, for which a part of their meager savings had been paid. Those few gallons of fresh paint had so revived the appearance and enhanced the value of the property that the mortgagee had consented to renew the loan . . and the little home was saved. I could not help thinking of the thousands of homes and buildings that are shabby and unattractive today due to several years of neglected painting; of the millions of home owners who, because of reduced incomes and enforced economy, have been obliged to sacrifice painting for taxes, interest, in-terest, assessments, to say nothing of food, clothing, heat and other essentials of comfort com-fort and health. You have seen these paint-starved houses and buildings, as have I. They are everywhere every-where about you. Perhaps your home is included. Do you understand what they signify? Do you realize what will happen to wood or metal that is literally naked of paint if these houses and buildings face the attack of another season of rain, snow, ice, and frost? Never in the history of our country has the situation been paralleled. Property owners face an added burden of expense amounting to millions of dollars for repairs and replacements next spring. And the crisis, in my opinion, will be reached this coming winter when paintof four, five, and even six years exposure to the weather will be unable to resist the elements when badly weathered wood and metal will be easy prey for rot, rust and decay. Today the big question facing thousands of property owners is plain. It is "paint or pay. "Either you must invest a little this fall in new paint or you must take the risk of paying many times the cost of paint to repair the damage done by rot, rust and decay this winter. Even at the sacrifice of other things, have your house or buildings completely repainted now. No investment you can make will pay better dividends. And nothing you can buy will make you and your family feel so uplifted and cheerful. If you cannot arrange to do a complete repainting repaint-ing job now, at least give the badly weathered places a coat or two of protecting paint. Look especially, to the window sills, thresholds, thresh-olds, outdoor porches and steps; the joints of porch railings and palings; the bases of pillars; the edges of eaves; the roof; the gutters and down spouts. These are the vital spots where water lodges where ice and frost settle where rot and rust attack first. A few dollars' worth of good paint, applied now, will protect these vital spots will tide you over this crucial winter. And it will probably save you a much greater expense for repairs and replacements next spring and summer. Under existing conditions, you may be tempted to buy a cheap paint because of its low price. I hope you will not make this costly mistake. Even on sound lumber, inferior Vnt aJ poor bargain. But on weathered wood, which is very porous, such paint is worse than useless. It gives you a false feeling ol security and leaves you without protection. Prices of well-known, established brands of paint are now the lowest in fifteen years. Enough good, dependable paint can purchased for a few dollars to protectJ." badly weathered surfaces on your building. Again I repeat, do a complete job this WJ if you can. But at least do the vital places before it is "too late." sheewInu-umsco- THB This message to the property owners of America is spon-sored spon-sored by the following paint manufacturers and their dealers: ACME WHITE LEAD AND COLOR WORKS DETROIT WHITE LEAD WORKS W.WLAWRENCE & CO. LINCOLN PAINT & C0LC THE LOWE BROTHERS JOHN LUCAS & CO ' THE MARTIN-SENOUR CO. PENINSULAR PAINT & VARNISH CO. THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. Iroffl 1 r |