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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH Old Patent Models Are Ousted Gift enterprises innumerable are constantly being conducted, but not with the aid of the postal service. In most cases each purchaser of an article at a certain store receives a numbered ticket entitling him to a chance In a prize drawing. That this Is a lottery needs no demonstration. In other Instances no purchase Is necessary. The tickets are given free ly to every person visiting a certain store on a certain date or during a specified period. This Is a simple bul apparently effective form of advertia lng. However, It seems that under the postal laws this seeming generosity oq the part of the merchant does not per mlt of his mailing circulars or othei advertising matter relating to hit scheme. In another form of prize scheme a store displays In Its window an eight day clock which will be given awaj free as soon as It runs down. The fortunate person who is to receive this valuable timepiece, as the announce ments run, will be the one who cor, rectly predicts the exact day, hour,, minute and second at which the clock will stop. This proposition resembles the automobile mileage guessing v and falls In the same category, The element of chance In these Old models In the United States patent office are to be disposed of as the schemes Is patently the determining result of a bill passed by the house of representatives which creates a com- factor. Literature relating to them is mission to select certain of the most historic models for museums and dispose also barred from the malls. Glad News About the of the remainder. Since 1S94 the storage of the old models has cost the government $200,000. Quite recently the reading public Thotograph shows J. A. Iloffman and Karl Fennlng, assistant commissioner of patents, looking over some old weaving and sewing was amused and also a little chagrined devices. by an announcement that puzzles had been declared nonmailable. It was stated that they were regarded as lotteries, and as such could not be admitted to the malls. Such Is not the case. The announceds ment was Incorrect and due to a misunderstanding on the part of tho person making it. In the particular case before the e department at that time, the contest which Involved the solving of a puzzle had ? additional elements dependent upon chance and consequently came under Had Close Call From Being The postal lottery laws do not affect the ban of the postal lottery laws. genuine competitions in which the skill Cross-worcontests are not puzzle Listed With Roulette and of .the contestant is the determining objectionable if they will stand the factor In the distribution of prizes. Ad- acid test of Lady Luck.1 certain simple requirevertisements or other notices of a trap- ments. The puzzle must be capable Washington. Chance, luck, fortune, shooting match furnish a typical exam- of only one correct solution. The the spin of the roulette wheel,, the ple of this sort of contest. The marks- definitions by which the contestant Is roll of the dice, have fascinated man- manship of the competitors decides the guided must be accurate and not miskind form time immemorial. For- result. leading. Furthermore there must be tunes, even life Itself, have been Guessing contests and what are a provision that In the event that more staked on the turn of a card or the re- known as gift enterprises are the most than one person submits a correct solusult of a horse race. The thrill of a popular advertising devices. In the tion, a prize of equal value to that hoped-fo- r scoop in the stock market window of a store appears a large originally offered will be awarded to has lured untold thousands to ruin and pile of beans, cigarettes or other ob- each contestant so qualifying. disgrace. contests are those In jects not easily counted en masse. The Once the great public games of public, through the press. Is Invited to which the probleip consists In making chance, the Louisiana lotteries, reaped guess at times the word estimate the greater number of words from a a rich harvest from almost every home is used the number of such objects given set of letters. The e In the land where the price of a ticket on display. The person submitting the department does not exclude matter was available, or could be begged or correct or most nearly correct figures relating to these tests of skill and borrowed. For every happy prize win- is, of course, the prize winner. The knowledge, provided certain e ner whose pockets were lined with department regards such requirements are complied with. The contest rules must specify whethgold by the gods of luck, tens of thou- enterprises as mere lotteries. Guesser words spelled alike but with differsands of losers suffered bitter disap- work Is chance pure and simple. Another scheme of the same kind Is ent meanings will be counted as seppointment. Losing only to play again, throwing good money after bad, vainly one In which all and sundry are In- arate words; also whether obsolete hoping for a chance, a smile from for- vited to submit an estimate of the dis- words, proper nouns, names of persons tune, a windfall that never came, many tance in miles, yards, feet and Inches and places may be Included In the became confirmed a particular automobile will travel on competitors list lottery patrons There must be furnished the name gamblers. Misery, degradation, sui- one gallon of gasoline. It has been encide, were the milestones of their un- ergetically argued that this Is a mat- of a dictionary which will be the recter of 6kiU exclusively. Bore and ognized authority in all cases of dishappy existences. The congress of the United States stroke and number of cylinders are an- pute. The particular edition to be redecided many years ago that the postal nounced, together with other figures lied upon, as well as Its publication service should not be used for the pro- pertaining to the engineering specifica- date must be specified. Tie provisions similar to those prescribed for crossmotion of these lotteries. By legisla- tions of the car. tive enactment It forbade the carriage Nevertheless a great many addition- word puzzle contests are likewise esIn the malls of any and all matter per- al indeterminate factors enter into the sential. In a recent competition of this kind taining to schemes, either wholly or performance of the automobile. Atdependent upon lot or mospheric and road conditions. Igni- the winner compiled a list of approxipartially, chance. tion efficiency, the skill of the driver, mately 50,000 words made from the No law of the United States has been the functional efficiency of every en- letters contained in a comparatively more faithfully executed, none more gine part, the grade of gasoline, and short phrase. e a host of other things materially afrigidly enforced. Every day the use of the denies the fect the mileage. In all probability no Milks Goat at Breakfast, department mails to dozens of enterprises having automotive engineer could mathematiSo His Wife Asks Divorce the lottery taint. These usually origi- cally determine In terms of miles, Spokane, Wash. Fondness for goats nate In or are related to ingenious sales yards, feet and Inches Just how far a led Clayton C. Higgins of Spokane to The merchant and sales car will go on a specified quantity of milk one at the breakfast table schemes. directly manager are quite cognizant of the gas. Almost any one familiar with into his cup of coffee, Eugenia Higa to take automobiles may hazard an opinion on fact that the public loves gins testified in the trial of her divorce a or a but solve the is mere this matter, chance, play game puzzle. guesssuit In Superior court here. Mrs. HigAccordingly they announce competi- work and, consequently, the gins also testified that her husband intions or contests of a popular kind, and contest of skill Is in fact a lottery. No sisted upon keeping one of their two secure Immediate attention for their matter concerning It may pass through goats in the house. The case was the malls. continued. advertising. con-te- st Cross-Wor- cross-wor- d Cross-Wor- Nearly Barred Post-Offic- cross-wor- d d Word-buildin- g l&Daddy's 'Alter EveryMoni Tweiiig fairy Tale DCSWER GRAHAM tv VtSTHN WOftWH UNIS JOHNS WATCH Johns daddy had gone away on a business trip. He had been very busy but before he started for home he " found the time to go shopping for John. He bought him some books and he bought him a watch Of course It was not a tremendously expensive watch, but did that what matter! It was a real a watch, watch, and a good watch and it went far better than many of its more and aristocratic John Hugged His proud watch tives. John had never owned a watch but he had learned to tell the time so a watch would be very useful for him to have. He would know what time It was any time he looked at his watch, and that would be extremely helpful. Now there lived In that watch. Just as there lives In every watch and Twins. The clock, a set of a is large one and family all the younger ones are twins. The Twins In Johns new watch were quite excited to think that they were going to be owned by a boy of five and a half. You know the Twins all talk in just the same way. After all, that Is natural enough. People In a family often talk alike, but particularly so do the members of the family. They say their own names after every other word they speak. If they are saying It is a nice day they take turns In using the words to make up that sentence and after each one has used a word they use one of their own names. I shall tell . you again how they do It. - a- Pass y. Post-Offic- Post-Ofllc- FLYERS DEPICT TRADE climb very sharply for a short period. "sausage is a small dirigible or balloon. A IN FANTASTIC TERMS United States Army Air Service Has out Is the army aviators designation for getting killed, and cracked up Developed a Vocabulary means a wrecked plane In which the All Its Own. Archie Is pilot might not be dead. an endearing terra that army flyers air service, The army Washington. have for all artillery. upon which the congressional spotlight of Any aircraft Is particular design has has recently played with brilliancy, known as a Job, the propeller being own. all Its a vocabulary developed Give er the gun An air service officer who cant fly termed the prop. Is the air equivalent of stepping on the a as known "keewee, Is popularly from the arctic bird with undeveloped gas to speed up. To set down Is to land, but when the flyer tries to run wings. When one becomes confused In conversation he IB referred to as be- parallel to the ground beyond the conGround flying ventional landing height and falls a ing in a flat spin." conversation concerning flying. few feet in his Intentional descent to denotes When a speaker at a banquet orates mother earth, he Is said "to pancake. Nicknames of Training Planes. at undue length an air service hint to A him to land" Is to place two matches is a training plane hisso to form a T, representative of a planes equipped with a Hispano-Sulz- a motor. A Jenny is a training plane of the outlines. JN type.' To "take off Is to get into "Ceiling Is Highest Point Celling is the highest point an air- the air, and a "hop Is a short flight craft can reach, depending on Its horse- A barrel roll Is a complete revoluair density. Washed tion lengthwise. To zoom means to power and anti-aircra- ft An egg In the cup is worth the nest. motor-drive- n i two la To Have a Clear, Sweet Skin Touch pimples, redness, roughness or Itching, if any, with Cuticura then bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Rinse, dry gently and dust on a little Cuticura Talcum to leave a fascinating fragrance on skin. Everywhere 25c each. 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In fact his daddy said:' Not too hard, John, you may break something cried John exWhat, daddy? citedly. For there had been something in the tone of his daddys voice which had made John know that there was a special present somewhere on his daddy. Perhaps you can hear it, Johns daddy said. . A watch! cried John at last. Oh, oh. Isnt it wonderful, daddy." Now you can Imagine how happy the Twins were to hear that. Don't take Kalsomine instead of I To get Alabastine resultsyou must use Alabastine, which always comes in the package with the cross and circle printed in red. Alabastine is the best wall Tick-Toc- k coating for homes and ' e, Havana, Cuba. The total registration of vehicles In tha city of Havana Is 17.484. These 4,402 private automobiles, 8,660 for hire, 1,818 trucks, 454 busses and 123 motorcycles. The number of new cars registered la from three to four a day. 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