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Show THE BULLETIN Comfort , Beauty Easily Obtained Through Colors By BETTY WELLS no side to our lam- writes Fran R., so it ily, just wouldnt make sense for us to Co in for anything impressive in interior decoration, even if we could afford it. Besides a bunch of growing children would make ducks and drakes out of elaborate materials and pastel coverings. What we want is a friendly comfortable home with restful fine colors and furniture of good substantial design. For the first time in years we have a bit of spare money to put on the house, and we want to make it do as much as possible. The living room and dining room will get the main refurnishing. We will do over the walls and get new rugs and curtains for both rooms. The basic furniture will have to remain, but we will be able to buy a few incidental things. Wed like some extra small tables and a nice desk for the BOGEYMAN Rural Police Officers Rival City Brothers in Heroism 'T' HERES Our bunch of children would make ducks and drakes of elaborate decorating." glamour surrounding big city brethren, small town law enforcement officials are usually as competent when it comes to apprehending criminals. Police records are filled with tales of heroism in which village constables and civilian posses have brought desperadoes to bay. One outstanding case has been reported from Albia, Iowa, where Sheriff John Goodwin of Monroe Orson Welles, prodigy county received a crudely scribbled of the stage and radio, whose re- note reading: cent dramatization of II. G. Wells Four rats from Chicago are goWar of the Worlds via the radio ing to knock over the Smokey Holwas so realistie that thousands of low mine payroll on April II. Signed: listeners were seised by a wave of A Friend. panic fear of an invasion of the Immediately Sheriff Goodwin United States of monsters from the gathered a posse of 12 leading Albia citizens, all good shots. Early on planet Mars. p- VERY Mouse Meadow day Danny bade Nanny Meadow Mouse goOd-b- y and left her alone in their beautiful new homfe fn the pile of old com stalks on the edge-oFarmer Browns cornfield. Then, taking the greatest care that no one should see him, he scampered along his secret roundabout path to his old home over in the Green. Meadows and went about his usual business there just as if he really lived there. He did this so that his. friends, and his enemies, too, would think living room, and I thought a pair of armchairs for the head and foot of the dining table would pep up the set and theyd be handy since we have only six chairs now. The questions are: what colors for walls, rugs, curtains, slip covers? These rooms are sunny and pleasant. I'd be very grateful for. your help." ' Youre lucky that you can just about do what you like as far as colors are concerned. And dont apologize about not going in for the exotic or formal fads in decorating. For your living and dining rooms, why not have the walls both painted white with ceilings in palest green. Use a flowered chintz at the. windows with a white ground and a riotous pattern. For the floors, haye two tone beige to brown rugs both, alike in one of those new indistinct fern leaf designs. The sofa Id slip cover in a green and' beige striped material, a firm washable weave, and for the two chairs Id choose a plainish green. Make hew lamp shades out of stretched chintz (the same pattern as you have at the windows). In the dining room, the two new armchairs (an exI should say that he Is in toys, cellent idea, incidentally) would be grunted Old Mr,' Toad. best in green I think. V By Batty WU. WND Service. that he really did live there just as he always had and so would not go EXILE SEEKS CROWN looking for him and perhaps discover that dear new home. For a while Danny was very successful. But there was one thing that Danny couldnt keep n secret no matter how hard he tried, and that was the fact that he was happier than he ever had been in all his life. You know happiness cannot be hidden. It is like a bright light it will shine out. It wasnt long before Dannys old friends and neighbors began to talk about it when Danny wasnt around. What has got into Danny? He always was a happy little fellow, but now he is so happy that the other day I heard him actually trying to sing. Fancy Danny Meadow Mouse trying to sing, said Peter Rabbit. If there was anybody around here for him to be in love with I should say that he is in love," grunted Old Mr. Toad. Now there was someone else who Prince Henry, count of Paris and had noticed how happy Danny was pretender to the extinct throne of and this was Reddy Fox. You know France, made a dramatic secret, Reddy keeps a very close watch on airplane trip to a suburb of Paris to Danny and where he goes and what plead on the soil of his ancestors he does, for Reddy long ago made for the restoration of the monarchy. up his mind that just as sure as To make this plea, which he char- winds blow and rain falls some day acterised as the only way to save he would catch Danny Meadow 'France from decay or party dicta- Mouse. And because he had failed torship, he broke for the first time so often he had learned that he the law of exile which bars male must know all about Dannys affairs members of the bouse of Bourbon-Orlean-s in order to surprise him. So every from France. day he visited Dannys old home and hid where he could watch and No. 1 Boy Scout Selects hear. Of course, Danny knew just good-looki-ng , . pared posted in a filling station, others hid behind trees or in ditches near the spot where the payroll car would likely be stopped. The sheriff's plan worked to perfection. When the payroll car was halted, a blockade of trucks appeared from nowhere and the desperadoes found themselves surrounded by bristling machine guns and rifles. Sheriff Goodwins accomplishment was later dramatized over the Public Hero Number One radio program, which specializes in publicizing the expipits of small town police officials. Another example is the case of Convict Wilfred Lindsey, whose good behavior at Louisiana state penitentiary won him a trusty assignment as houseboy for the camp captain's home. But Lindsey was an incorrigible criminal. He planned a fiendish escape and one morning murdered the captains wife with a butcher knife. Since the captains car was essential to his scheme, Lindsey waited for the official to return, then shot him and fled. Turns Gun on Self. For five days 150 men under Sheriff Teddy Martin and Warden Louis Jones scoured the Tunica hills, finally locating Lindsey atop a high cliff. While the posse waited breathlessly below. Sheriff Martin and Sergeant Ellis Haydon risked their lives climbing the cliff while the mad Lindsey fired on them from above. Cornered, he turned his gun on himself. Another case brought to nationwide attention by the "Public Hero Number One program concerns Sergeant Waller of the Alton (111.) police department, whose breakneck chase of a bandit car ended when the criminals crashed into a bridge. Sergeant Waller found five badly Injured boys, one of whom would have died except for a blood transfusion donated by the officer who a half hour ago had risked his life in mad pursuit. A tale of heroism tempered by common sense came recently from Lincoln, Neb., where Chief of Police William G. Condit found his car spattered with bullets while chasinf bandits through a residential district He might have returned fire, but knew he would thereby risk the lives of children then returning from school. Finally reaching Lincolns outskirts. Chief Condit and his deputy opened fire and brought the criminals to justice. where Reddy was hiding. He had to that he wouldn't be caught. So the first thing every morning he made it his business to make sure if Reddy was about and, if he was, just .where he was. Now Reddy Fox, you know, is very smart and clever. Of course, he noticed how very happy Danny was these days, and it set him to thinking. He began to grow suspicious. The more he watched and listened and thought the more suspicious he grew. He remembered how he had surprised Danny and Nanny in another part of the Green Meadows where Nannys old home was. He noticed that though he found Danny at his old home every morning he never saw or heard anything of him in the afternoons. At first he had supposed that Danny was taking an afternoon nap, but as his suspicions grew he made up his mind that Danny went somewhere else to spend his afternoons. Of course, he is with that other Meadow Mouse I said Reddy, with a wicked sparkle in his eyes, and straightway he began to spend his afternoons hunting around Nannys old heme where he had surprised Nanny and Danny that day. But though he hunted ami hunted and found ever so many private little paths which he knew had been made by a Meadow Mouse, never once did he get a glimpse of Danny or Nanny, for the very good reason, as you and New Insect Is Created I know, that they were not there. And all the time Danny knew just By College Scientist what Reddy was doing, and he and PALO ALTO, CALIF. A winged Nanny would laugh and laugh as they thought how splendidly they chrysalis, a new insect, half chrysahad fooled him and everybody else. lis and half butterfly, has been created here by science. It arises 6 T. W. Burftie. WNU Sanies. from the discovery of what causes the summer miracle of metamorphosis of caterpillars into butter flies. The discovery was made by Dietrich Bodenstein, a research assistant in the school of biology of Stanford university. The cause is a chemical in the chrysalis head. The Chemical acts like a hormone and ductless glam secretions. The metamorphosis chemical may be hormone, enzyme or a nervous stimulus. It travels through the chrysalis skin. By cutting off circulation in the skin at the back of the chrysalis head, Bodenstein prevents the body from changing into a butterfly. Head and shoulders become the head and winged shoulders of a butterfly. so never-to-be-forgott- en Shop-Wis- r History as College Major - a SAN FRANCISCO. Barney Williams, who fcas just enrolled at San Francisco State college, majoring in history, is the highest ranking Boy Scout in the United States. He has nine ranks above Eagle Scout and has qualified for two other still higher ranks. He holds 73 merit badges. Williams will attend the New York Scout school, after he has taken his degree here, and then intendsHeto dehas vote his life to Scout work. already been in the organization for 10 Here's Gray Squirrel That Can Whip an Owl NEW BRITAIN, CONN, Few ' gray squirrels survive a battle with their natural enemy, the hoot owl. Veterinarian John P. McIntosh; however, reported a furious fight during which the squirrel, although badly damaged, managed to slay the owl. McIntosh : doctored the squirrel back to health. years. A reversible wool fabrie, blaek on one side and gaily colored plaid on the other,: was imported to make this striking sports coat. The intricately cut dress is of lightweight woolen in the same plaid. Bright feathers on the black hat pick up the plaid colors. T&ZZt. ,. ItUVINO A JWi PlAlO OR. STKlPtD GARMENT BE SURE- - THAT SlEEVES, POeKETS.ETO., ARE SET IN SUCH A WAV THAT MATCHES VP MERE THE PIECES MEET WNU Service. YOUTH OPERATED ON 44 TIMES FOR BONE DISEASE MILWAUKEE. The morning sun shines brightly through the east windows of Milwqpkee County General hospital, but the most cheerful corner of the room is the one occupied by Eugene Bonin, 18, smiling veteran of 44 operations. Eugene has been lying in that bed for almost three years. It was in the spring of 1935 that Eugene's troubles began, the motherless boy and his father, Michael, Danger of Jewish Problem for United States in German Purge Court Records Are Filled With Stirring Tales of Bravery Resentment of American People Aroused by Ilitler'a On Part of Small Town Officials. Harshness; Opening of Gates to Refugees Might CHICAGO. Though lacking the the appointed morning they preIntroduce Disturbing Influence. a blockade. One man was their f '? Bruckarfs Washington Digest believe. Eugene was a member of the high school track team. While jumping the hurdles at practice one day he fell, bruising and scratching his leg. Soon after the fall it was discovered he was suffering from an abscess in the bone. Doctors operated, but the disease' spread. Doctors diagnosed It as osteomyelitis, a disease which slowlv devours the bones. Doctors attending him at the hos pital have .lost count of the blood' transfusions, they have been so numerous. When his strength permits, Eugene sits up in the bed and uses a razor blade to build model airplanes and trains. His father knows that hoping for the day when Eugene will walk again is alrpost futile. But he goes on believing that perhaps some day something will happen to turn the tide of ill fortune. Doctors experimented with guinea pigs, believing that perhaps they could find some solution to the ailment. Thus far they have not been successful. Almost every bone specialist in the city has examined Eugene, his doctors said. "Aw, they aren't so baad, Gene says when he tells of his many operations. Some of them were Just little ones. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Fre is Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Press service the case of a racial question, wires and cables and radio from abroad have been clogged for several weeks with hundreds of thousands of words, about the plight of the Jews in Germany; about the abuses visited upon the Jewish race by the European madman, Hitler, and his camp followers; about the humanitarian pleas of our own President, Mr. Roosevelt, for appeasement of the conditions. There has been what I believe to be one of the greatest waves of emotion, waves of resentful national sentiment, that this country ever has known. I recall none like it, none as overwhelmas that ing, none as through which we have been passing, and in my opinion our nation should have resented such outrages. While no one with a heart can fail to grieve to a greater or less extent about the indescribable harshness, the unforgivable meanness of Hitler, it occurs to me that we should begin to temper these waves of emotion somewhat. There are other factors to be considered, factors and consequences of the thing that is now called the Jewish problem, that require calm reasoning. In other words, let us say that America is and must remain for Americans, and charity, while it is sweet, cannot be exploited, or carried to extremes simply because we feel a sadness for a group upon whom an injustice has been sent. Like millions of other Americans, I am hopeful that some way will be found to aid the Jews who are being driven out of Germany, but I am unwilling that we, as a nation, shall create additional and unwarranted difficulties for ourselves by extending a helping hand. Therefore, the United States must not be the goat It is one thing to render aid. It is quite another thing to inject into our own bloodstream of national life additional elements without knowing what those elements are. After all, the damage is something that we did not cause; the injured are a people who have no knowledge of our way of doing things and may never with us, and we must prevent being dragged into the other fellow's fist fight. deep-seate- d PurgJ of German Jews an Exposition of Mad Power I suppose there are very few per- sons in the United States who do not believe that Hitler's purge of German Jews constitutes a blot upon modem civilization.' I know that leading Germans in the United States wish there were ways and means to stop the action. There can be no defense of the outright seizure of $400,000,000 of money from the Jews of Germany under the guise of a fine although there is a lesson of warning in it. Likewise, none can convince me that Hitler has kept his underlings free of graft and corruption in this or other dictatorial actions. Those in power in Germany are gamering the gold for themselves or else we are witnessing the activities of angels whose purposes we, as human beings, are unable yet to understand. I do not believe they are angels. The purge of German Jews, therefore, must be accepted as the exposition of mad power. Some weeks ago, I had occasion in these columns to talk about the I said peace of Munich. then that Hitler was not through; that there would be further exhibitions as he and his henchmen maneuvered this way and that in order to maintain the iron grip of a dictator. The drive on the Jews is a part of that general scheme, a movement to maintain a support for the dictatorship, for, it is known, should Hitlers grasp be broken at any place or at any time, there would be a bloody revolt in Germany again. Those causes, however, do not help us in the solution of the Jewish problem. The unwanted race is simply the victim and a knowledge of how its members have had the sufferings brought upon them adds little or nothing to the search for a method to protect their lives. Where are they to go? That is the real question. Hitler doesnt care where they go or what happens to them. Some one else has to lead the way. Our nation has joined in that leadership, and rightly so. But we have policies and principles and traditions which must be respected. If, in our eagerness to help the German Jews, we should transgress those established principles, then we, as well as the Jews, will have to pay a penalty. so-call- Jewish Problem tor United States Might Be Result The whole situation is one which may contain a Jewish problem for the United States. It is one out of which a political issue may grow. It is to be remembered that religion became an issue in a presidential election not so many years ago. That shows that such things can sprout even in the United States, if it happened in the case of the Catholic religion, it can happen in es- pecially with regard to the Jewish race. We ought not kid ourselves. Therd are many persons swearing allegiance to the United States who dd not like Jews. Those persons may be otherwise good citizens, but they distrust a Jew because he is a Jew, making no distinction between individuals. It is stating nothing new to say that there has been almost a steady undercurrent of criticism ol Mr. Roosevelt from certain quarters because Jews have been given prominent places in the New DeaL I think it is not stretching the imagination at all, therefore, to point to the Jewish problem as one that mayi become involved in politics at soma future time, although I hope it never does. Mr. Roosevelt has proposed of some of the immigration) restrictions as a means of bringing! into this country more German Jewal than our immigration laws now per-- l mit. In so doing, he verged on polirj tics himself. Any one familiar with) the debates on immigration policies! in the early 1920s must recall thoi severity of that battle. The issue! was whether we, as a nation, were going to be haven for all comers and just hope that they would do things the American way, or whether ws should restrict the number coming here to live to a number which could be absorbed into our national life. Labor unions and most employers favored the restrictions, and when we think of the number of unemployed in the last five or six years people fed and clothed by the fed--1 eral government it appears that we allowed too many to come in. Iff seems we could have excluded all of them to advantage. val Only Congress Can Let Down Immigration Bars Behind the scenes of the immL; gration restriction also was a deter-- ! mination on the part of Senator! David A. Reed at Pennsylvania, then a senate power, to prevent introduction into the United States of aU kinds of isms. The senator foresaw the spread of radicalism by, means of entry of the European backwash and rubbish. There was not much discussion of this phase because our government did not1 want to offend any foreign nation. It was a basic reason, however, and! it is too bad that it was not given more public consideration. Fortunately, there can be no change in the number of foreigners admitted from any nation without The United action by congress. States can take only so many something like 30,000 a year of those purged Jews, unless congress amends the law. And when I say it is fortunate that there must be action by congress before there can be a change in policy, I mean no inferences. I believe Mr. Roosevelt is eminently correct when he says that there must be a homeland established for the Jews. The British tried to make Palestine that sort of a base, it will be remembered, but they failed because Arabs dont like Jews. This experience then would seem to point to the necessity for the Jews being colonized quite atone. If the United State can ex-tend help in doing that job, there ought to be no criticism of the course, even if it involves financial assistance. It would be a charity worthwhile, and a charity that would not involve us later on. I repeat that I believe there is real danger in letting down the floodgates for immigration whereas the other method would seem to be a humanitarian action again demonstrating our national sympathy for a downtrodden people. Refugees likely to Create A Disturbing Influence In consideration of whether we ought to let a deluge of refugees enter, I cannot help thinking of a possible spread of trouble. For example, if our definite national position of protest against Hitlers policies should bring retaliation, every Jewish refugee allowed in this country would be clamoring for the United States to take revenge on Germany and Hitler. Their influence would be great because they could tell what happened to them and give an idea of what is happening. You and I and millions of others would believe first hand information. There is no doubt about it. The germ of trouble could be incubated ten times more rapidly; instead at staying out of European troubles, we would be pushed in deeper and deeper. As far as relations between Germany and the United States are concerned at the moment, all that can be said is that the United States has let the world know of its disapproval. When Ambassador Wilson was recalled, it was just the same as saying to the world of nations that Uncle Sam hasnt any, respect for Hitler. Weetera Newapepcr Union. |