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Show ThMrsdav, February 21. 1938 THE PARK RECORD PAGE TIIREB A Gznetai Quiz 1. Who gave the name "Empire" "Em-pire" to the state of New York? 2. What is a Rhodes scholar? 3. The portraits of 'what two women have been used on United States postage? 4. On what date does the government gov-ernment fiscal year begin? 5. What do the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse represent? 6. What secretary takes precedence prece-dence in the President's cabinet? 7. What is a translucent substance? sub-stance? A transparent substance? An opaque substance? 8. When has this country issued is-sued mourning stamps? 9. Do all the prisoners at Alca-traz Alca-traz work? The Answers 1. It is attributed to George Washington, who mentioned it in an address delivered in 1784 as being "at present the seat of empire." em-pire." 2. A non-English student awarded award-ed a scholarship at Oxford university uni-versity from a fund which was established by the will of Cecil Rhodes. 3. Those of Martha Washington and Pocahontas. 4. The government fiscal year begins July 1. 5. War, famine, pestilence, and death. 6. The secretary of state. 7. A translucent substance per-jnits per-jnits the passage of light rays through it, but objects cannot be distinctly seen through it. Objects can be seen distinctly through a transparent object. An opaque object ob-ject does not reflect or give out rays of light. 8. A Lincoln stamp in 1866, Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley stamp in 1922, Harding stamp in 1923 and Wilson stamp in 1925. Garfield received postal honors within a year after his death, but the color of the stamp was brown. 9. Every prisoner on Alcatraz works for eight hours a day, six days a week. The industries consist con-sist of the clothing factory, mat factory, and laundry. As You Can Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can. John Wesley. FEEL WEAK, TIRED? Lincoln. Nebr. 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He has great faith in the durability of men, institutions and governments, as long as they behave be-have themselves. Time Better Than Reform for Business He left for Europe to forget about business for a while and intimates that it wqv.ld be a good thing if the government would be similarly neglectful. neg-lectful. "Washington should stop trying to reform business and leave the situation to time," he says. Time has treated him nicely and he may well give it a testimonial. At seventy-nine, he is the grand seigneur of American business. Only four years ago, he engaged in a hard-hitting slugfest over the control con-trol of Armour & Co. He got what he was alter the chairmanship of the board. He has many such trophies, having controlled con-trolled 46 railroads, and, in general, one of the biggest cuts in the American Amer-ican dream of any man of his day. His (mainly liquid) fortune is estimated esti-mated at around $250,000,000. But, for many years, he says, he has made it a point to be about $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 in debt. That Makes Point of Being in Debt Always is revealing in connection with his ideas about money and success. He emphasizes the dynamics of money. It isn't money unless it is working. Stagnant money just dries up and blows away. Hence you draw cards even if you do have to drag a few chips for markers. He's a little too heavy for polo, with a massive gray head, deep sunken, pondering eyes, and heavy, gray moustache; a bit grim, perhaps, per-haps, but not formidable. When, early in October, 1929, a small black cloud appeared on the horizon, he viewed it with a telescopic eye, saw it for what it was, and got out of the market. The cyclone never touched him. Until a few years ago, he was still riding to the hounds at Pau, in southern France, master of the hunt. He has marble palaces here and there, one of them the former mansion man-sion of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Newport. Remarking that he has been in business 55 years, he says this little squall will blow over in two or three months. a THE reason isn't quite clear, but, these days, the colleges compete for tuba players as well as athletes. Dr. Walter Albert Jessup deplores this and other phases of the scramble for stu Tuba Aces Prized Same as Athletes dents in the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement Ad-vancement of Teaching, of which he is president. The fight seems to be entirely in the field of extra-curricular activities. No mere scholar gets competing bids from rival faculties. Since he became head of the Carnegie Car-negie foundation, in 1933, Dr. Jessup has been a consistent deflationist, so far as education is concerned. He wants fewer and better students in the colleges. He assails the colleges col-leges which would "teach anybody anything." He is against educational education-al trimmings, excrescences and gadgets, as the little Scotch ironmaster iron-master doubtless would be if he were looking over the current scene. Other leading educators join him in this, but the big mill has to have plenty of raw material, ma-terial, to keep on grinding, or else become just a crossroad plant. Brain Mill Needs Raw Material So they go after even the tuba play ers. At any rate, each can blow its own horn. Dr. Jessup was president of the University of Iowa from 1916 to 1933. A native of Richmond, Ind., he was educated at Earlham college and Columbia and gathered several honorary degrees in later years. He was superintendent of schools in In diana and dean of the college of education of Indiana university. He has won high distinction in the edu cational field and is the author of a book on arithmetic. One gathers that he would not recommend Benny Goodman for a college faculty and that quite probably prob-ably the next Carnegie report may find adversely on the shag, the eep- er and the susy-q. He is for low kicking and high thinking, as against the prevailing reversal of this formula. Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Giants Short Lived The circus giant, the man with abnormally long legs or other ab normalities of frame, is a short lived human. Tall men fall into two classes, those who attain their extraordinary growth because of inherited in-herited tendencies and those who become freaks because of some up set in the glandular functions. The man who "comes by his height naturally" nat-urally" usually lives a normal life span, but the freak seldom attains middle age. An insurance compa ny, given to research in such matters, mat-ters, found that a number of men ranging from 7 feet 6 inches tall to 8 feet 7 inches had an average life of thirty-four years. The oldest died at forty-five, the youngest at twenty-seven. America of Present Day Harks Back to W. Indies It may seem illogical to say that America of today had its origin in the West Indies. But such is a fact, asserts a writer in the Chicago Tribune, and that is why many people peo-ple visit the islands of the Caribbean. Carib-bean. It is easy to picture the buccaneers and their victims, and the wild debauchery de-bauchery in which the loot was spent. Those bearded pirates were the gunmen of their period and they didn't bother much about "Hands up!" or "Don't move or I'll shoot!" They began to shoot as soon as they got inter range. Hundreds of millions mil-lions of gold were collected by these freebooters, and much of it is buried somewhere between the tropic of Cancer and the equator. Mention of the West Indies brings to mind a flood of recollections-pictures recollections-pictures of Columbus, the discoverer; discover-er; De Leon, who loved Porto Rico so much that he sought the fountain foun-tain of youth so that he might grow young again to enjoy all the longer its beauties; De Soto, who built the old fort which stands in Havana, and who sleeps in the bottom of the Mississippi river, which he discovered; dis-covered; Cortez, who found a splendid splen-did civilization in Mexico and wrecked it for the sake of gold ; Balboa, Bal-boa, the stowaway, who discovered the Pacific ocean; Pizarro, who spent a dozen or more years in his efforts to reach Peru so that he might rob the Incas of their vast wealth; Morgan, who sacked and burned Panama after his men had obtained its treasures; Drake, the privateer, who was just a pirate with a new name ; Raleigh, who popularized pop-ularized tobacco and the potato; Josephine, the little girl from Martinique Mar-tinique who became the wife of Napoleon Na-poleon and thus the empress of France. "Hockey on Horseback" Is One of Oldest Games Polo has sometimes been described de-scribed as "hockey on horseback," and is not only one of the most exciting of sports, but it is one of the fastest games in the world, and one of the oldest, declares a writer in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. No one knows in what country polo originated, nor just how long ago it was first played. But there seems little doubt that it came from the East. The Persians were playing play-ing it 1,200 years ago. And the Chinese Chi-nese maintain that their ancestors took part in polo matches a thousand thou-sand years before Christ was born. More polo is played in India than in any other part of the world. It was brought from that country to England and about 1876 came to the United States. It is interesting to know that the wild hillmen of the Himalayas play a rough-and-tumble horseback game that in many ways is like the polo you will see at a match in this country or England. The ponies which take part in a good polo game are specially trained to help their riders. They follow the ball like a terrier after a rat, and turn and gallop seemingly at the very thought of their riders, who are sending the ball toward their opponents' goal. The "Sausage Tree" The Kigelia Pinnata is one of the most curious trees in America. It bears a large, inedible fruit, about 27 inches in length and 16 pounds in weight, and so closely resembling resem-bling the liver sausage that it is known as the "sausage tree." It is native to the Victoria Falls region of Africa. The long stems bearing the fruit are nearly an inch in diameter, di-ameter, and the sausages hang to within a few inches of the ground. SPECIAL WINTER BLEIID WW w Panama Cities Founded Several Centuries Ago Cristobal, Canal Zone, Atlantic port of entry to that strip of leased territory across the narrow part of the republic of Panama, is the gateway to a scene that dates back through the centuries. Panama City and Colon are ancient and colorful, and Cristobal and Balboa are modern mod-ern and military. Panama City and Colon are not outgrowths of the building of the canal. They are cities founded four centuries ago, the terminals of a paved causeway built to carry the unrecorded riches of the conquista-dores, conquista-dores, with a legend of pirates, buccaneers, buc-caneers, and the freebooters of the Spanish Main. A kaleidoscope of nations, they owe their atmosphere to a commerce originating in the Fifteenth century. The parade of nations began with the Spaniards and negro slaves, Inca chiefs and native Indians, and was carried on by the English buccaneers, the French corsairs, the forty-niners, Hindus, Chinese, and Arabs. Descendants De-scendants of these early merchants pass through the streets, displaying their wares in open shops that give the thoroughfares the atmosphere of an oriental bazaar. Balboa and , Cristobal contrast sharply with Panama City and Colon in all respects except natural tropic beauty. They are a result of the canal, with wharves, customs houses, drydocks, administration buildings, rows of houses and a note of military efficiency. MM IS Uwl MOFFAT" - sSCj SCENIC LINE 311 'VVv 1 ft MB .AHiV.., mi WKW :'::;; :.w : i si naTr r "-'TMiiaaTmrrrn"" " ..--..-.i.,-...-.-.-.-..,. 1 7 1 . . . avm y "'"'"""J V;':'. ; "I IM1 She of Milk Snake The Tmim' snake oFSpGtted adder." which is supposed to "milk the cows" (a nature-fake, of course) may be three feet long. It is brownish yellow in color with five series of chestnut brown blotches in 12 to 15 rows across the back. Milk snakes are fairly common. They live under fallen logs and are commonly com-monly found near barns. STRAIGH1 BOURBON w proof Codes UflET 96 Pilil 97 CENTURY OXSTX PKOR1A. INFLUENCE OF ROCKY TRANSPORTATION PAST ONC An historical ttriaf sortrsytns amlritwtio o IS Rx Grand s enwtopMM of tkt ItMrmowuai Wat. 396 yi y...The year was 15421 Amazed Indians gathered around ; Coronado and his horse, travel-worn strangers from Old Mexico. "Medicine beast," grunted the awed braves. The horse, thus introduced to 1 the mountain region, became a hunting pony for the Indians. With ingress of trappers and traders, horses, mules and burros were the trusted pack animals used on exploration trips over tugged mountain trails. It was 1822 before , wheeled vehicles first appeared at Santa Fe. New Mexico, then the most populous popu-lous western trading post. The Mormon migration in 1847 brought the first great trek across the continent con-tinent by hand cart and covered wagon. Two years later came the Prairie Schooners of the "forty-niners," lured by the California gold strike. Two great cross-continent wagon routes were established! Each touched eastern comers of what is now Colorado. Turned aside by towering mountain ranges, the Overland Over-land Trail veered north, the Santa Fe Trail turned south both around the Rockia The blue haze of distant peaks was a mysterious veil isolating this vast mountain empire when the first transcontinental railroad followed the Overland Over-land Trail around the Rockit. The "Pikes Peak or Bust" gold rush In 1858 drew intrepid treasure hunters Into the mountains. The consequent clamor for transportation was answered in 1870 by General William J. Palmer, founder and guiding genius of the home railroad which created a mighty mountain empire. So begins the thrilling story of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, which darod to lay Its line THRU THE ROCKIES. NOT AROUND THEM For detailed information concerning schedules, freight rates and passenger fares J. P. HULL, Agent Phone 189 ) fate oJ 1. MJvL v Your Mileage Merchant Advises . . 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