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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Peggy Joyce and Husband-to-B- e THE Midget Plane Built to Steer With Wing ; DIAMOND STATE It has Sydney, Australia. remained for Ken Affleck, a seventeen-year-old youth of New South Wales, to invent the flying flea airplane. His successful contribution to aviation has neither ailerons nor elevators. It is controlled by its front wing, which moves up and down on a pivot, and a large rud' der. - . The fuselage is nine and one-ha-lf feet long and the top wing feet. span twenty-tw- o The machine was constructed in six weeks at an expense of , $750. final destination, or such floury compounds as macaroni and crackers. American factories are now making soy sauce which has been and still Peggy Hopkins Joyce, star of Broadway, stage, and screen, and Mr. C. V. Jackson, whose engagement was recently announced, photographed at the Hawthorne Hill races November 11, where Mr. Jackson rode his Russet in the Slough handicap hurdle race. Their marriage will fol- low his divorce. ; Soy Bean Makes Debut on Chicagos Famous Pit e - First Legume to Join Grains for Futures Trading. Washington, D. C. The soy bean stepped onto the grain market of Chicagos famous Pit a few weeks ago, becoming the first legume, or plant, to join the grains featured for futures trading. The new commodity, a naturalized Chinese immigrant, has had less than ten years stardom in the pageant of American agriculture, says the National Geographic soYet last year it brought ciety.. 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 into the market channels of a nation by the daily drama of the Pit, pod-beari- NANNY W. HONEYMAN make himself heard. His hand lifted vertically, to signal the quantity of grain in the transaction, gives him, let us say, 25,000 bushels for better or worse. Fingers extended horizontally 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 Minneapolis, Kansas City, Duluth, St. Louis, 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 to, fix cereal prices, it has been almost continuously the worlds leading grain exchange. Converging lines of steel, which make Chicago the foremost railroad hub in the country, garner the grain from every direction. Six times efcultivated by the steam-rolle- r fect of glaciers, and enriched almost daily by the swift alternation of sun and rain, the surrounding countryside has the greatest total value of farm property in the United States. 5:v, ' Thrives in Illinois. The soy bean, latest satellite to join the grain galaxy, thrives best in Illinois, which produces as much as all the other 47 states put together. The rapidly expanding bean belt includes 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 pastures to corn-fe- d hogs. The hay is even now encouraging some of the nations livestock to face a hard winter. The versatile bean has been ground into meal with bread as its . -- The Democratic majority. in the next house of representatives will include Nanny W. Honey man, of Portland, Ore., who won over Judge William E. Ekwall, Republican incumbent. Mrs. Honeyman is a close friend of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is imported n large quantities from the Orient. Soy bean oil has been successfully initiated into the paint industry, 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 paper, and glue are some of the other forms in which the bean is serviceable. : When ground up, it can be mixed into a pasty plastic, and used as a substitute for celluloid and hard rubber. The purchasing public 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-kuwhere most of the crop for Chinas 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 of the still the leading 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 ' bushels. o, bean-raise- rs 4 00 ; HEADS CINCY REDS lllllll THE , , state. , Perhaps the Delawareans are a Warren C. Giles, . new general manager of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, who succeeded Lar, ry McPhail. Giles is already on the job preparing the Reds for the 1937 season. He entered baseball in 1920 as head of the Moline team in the Three-ey- e league. Since then he has headed numerous other teams. He was president of. both the International league and the Rochester club when named to his present position. Lodges Grandson Is G. O. P. Senator . Silo-hig- ter. ps Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., grandson of the famous statesman and historian, pictured with his family, after he had been assured recently of election as United States senator from the Bay state. Running as a Republican, Lodge defeated former Gov. James M. Curley, for the post formerly held by Senator Marcus Coolidge, who did not seeke-electioLeft to right are, the senator-elec- t; George, eight; Harry, five; and Mrs. Lodge, pictured in their home at Beverly, Mass. n. low the circle the boundary shall be considered the middle of the ship channel. The two states were ordered to share equally in the costs of the litigation. On its face that decision appears a mere compromise to settle a technical point; actually it has given rise to a remarkable situation. Jew Jersey capital; for years has been building long wharves out into deep water within the circle. Now comes the Supreme Court with a decision that these New wnarves are in Delaware! Jersey cannot arrest persons in Delaware without extradition papers. Yet these wharves now in Delaware belong to citizens of New Jersey. The problem has become so difficult that the two states have appointed commissioners to study it and formulate a solution. Jefferson Called It The Diamond. Despite its diminutive area and scant population, Delaware has its grand moments. With only one member of the United States house to . accompany of representatives its two senators to Washington, it takes precedence over its larger sisters in the parade of states; for it was the first to ratify the Constitution. Its depreciators are reminded, too, that Thomas Jefferson held it precious, enough to dub it the a name that has clung diamond to it to this day. Wilmington has historical authority for its slogan, The First City of the First State. Let it not be supposed, however, that the little commonwealth is content to rest on accomplishments of long ago. Though it treasures colonial customs even to the retention of the whipping post for wife beat- ers, highwaymen, and other mean offenders, and though for more than a century it was somnolent and backward, it now constantly seeks improvement. Its very smallness renders it admirable for political, economic, and sociological experiment. If a theory seems worthy of consideration, Delaware can give it quick trial and immediate adoption or rejection. . Two summers ago several serious traffic accidents occurred within a week because overweary drivers of freight vehicles fell asleep on duty. The secretary ; of ; state forthwith published an order requiring every driver of such vehicle to rest for at least two hours after each eight of driving and to limit his time on the road to 16 hours in any 24. The day after publication;. of the order motorists everywhere in the state were wondering at long lines of laden trucks drawn up alongside the highways. No Property Tax There Unique in the nation, the state has never levied a property tax. Its principal revenue for the general fund is from fees for corporation charters, most of which are granted to firms doing their major business outside its boundaries, Little Delaware, with a population of 238,380, ranks fourteenth among states in payment of taxes to the federal government. There is not a house within its boundaries more than four miles from a paved highway, and it has a statewide system of fine modern schools; yet for public improvements that have cost $50,000,000 it has paid practically out of what is counted upon as current income in state ' v . financing. .There is something strong and sturdy about Delaware that finds expression in its attitude toward its problems.' When former President Hoover sent a message to Governor Buck asking for an expression on the question of relief, the Delaware ; governor replied: r I am inaccord with your plans as made known to aid unemployment, and you may expect Delain every way. ware to Furthermore, the citizens of Delaware can be counted upon to prb-vifinancial help as is required to care for those in need in this state during the coming winter. i Governor Buck spoke, simply for his fellow Delawareans It is their pride that they take care of their 12-mi- le little to blame for not making themselves and their treasures, better known to outsiders. Houses exquisite with the patina of age are to be seen everywhere, but few of them are restored, set apart as shrines, and labeled. They are homes that have passed from father to son for generations, growing old gracefully, receiving necessary, not disfiguring, repairs, and keeping silence concerning the famous persons they have sheltered, the stirring events of their past. True, the Delaware Historic Markers commission has placed tablets here and there, but these are unobtrusive. To appreciate the real glamour of the state, one must bide a while and forgive the pun absorb Delawareness from the - ' people. obvious in its is not Delaware bid for attention. Measured by population and area combined, it is the smallest of states, having more square miles but fewer citizens than Rhode Island, and more people but far less territory than Nevada. It is only 110 miles long and its width varies from nine to 35 miles, but its citizens are forward-lookin- g and its industries Penn Bought It for 10 Shillings A wit in congress once referred tc it as a sandspit on Delaware bay, with three counties at low tide William Penn and two at high. bought it from the Duke of York for 10 shillings, and Lord Baltimore disputed the ownership, claiming it under- - a prior grant from the king of England. Because of an Dutch settlement in 1631 near the present site of Lewes, Baltimore lost the case, for his grant of hactena inculta specifically excluded land previously occupied . ; by white men. From its very beginning Delaware has been a subject of controversy. The families of Penn and Baltimore went to law over possession of the three lower counties on the Delaware, and their claims occupied the attention of the courts for years. Penn landed at' New Castle on October 27, 1682, and received from the citizens of that thriving village a bowl of water, a piece of turf, and a twig as earnest of his undisputed possession of the land, water, and forests within an arc described on a radius of 12 miles from the' New Castle court house. Thus was established the northern boundary .. of Delaware Later Penn was awarded the southern part of what is now the state. Unfortunately, the surveyors who described the arc did not designate the exact length of the segment. The result of their oversight was more than two centuries of litiga. tion over boundaries. After the United States came into being, New Jersey and Delaware began to squabble over certain water and fishing , rights on Delaware river and bay. Delaware claimed possession of the river and bay to low water on the Jersey side, and New Jersey insisted the boundary should be fixed at midstream. Courts were in a quandary, shifting the boundary first to one side and then to the other. Both states sent commissioners to England to obtain evidence. It was not until February 5, 1934, that a fins1 decision was handed down. The Supreme Court of the United States then determined that Delaware ' is entitled to all land and water within the circle, and that be own. , d, , charm of Delaware grows and more potent age. Its effect is grad- . ual, stealing almost imperceptibly upon the senses, yet altogether enthralling once it asserts its power. Unfortunate indeed is the traveler who, as too many do, dashes the length of the state in four hours on the main highway without pausing to savor its graciousness. Such a traveler maj not even see a native Delawarean; for 82 per cent of the trucks, 66 per cent of all the motor vehicles on the highways are from outside the 4 staged within the building of Chicagos Board of Trade. In name only are grains and beans present h in its paneled oak trading hall. and more than barn-broathe huge room has no farming connections except by telephone. Its harvesting implements are clicking telegraph keys and blackboards on v. h i c h 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 end a chandelier 40 feet in diameBought and Sold by Hand. "Visitors in the galleries may circus watch this noisy many-rin- g 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-jumin the largest ring. The pits are enclosed craters sunk in the floor, seething with traders. Their major eruptions are noted in history as panics. The clamor of commerce produces, such a din that the trader must resort to sign language to by the National Geographic Society. Washington, D. C. WNU Service. Prepared g. and was a bridesmaid at the wedding of President and Mrs. Roose; velt. , Delaware Girls Glazing, Goatskins From India , ill-fat- ed , ; . . 12-mi- , le : , de ; |