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Show Determination Has Inning Purpose of Education must fNE main realize that the purpose and benefit of education is first the mental and moral betterment of himself, and only secondly a qualification. The leading positions are few, and do not of necessity bring happiness. The subordinate positions are many, and the man who cheerfully and contentedly does his duty in the ordinary routine of life need never regret that leadership has not come his way. A nation composed of citizens who are doing their best will never become decadent. Death Over Miami By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter tale of the high seas, of Sparks, as the seamen HERES a radio operator who sits day and night over his set, picking up messages that may mean life or death to some hapless souls. In this case, thanks to Ray Hutchens of Long Island City, N. Y., it meant life to the victims of a hurricane which had just swept a path of death and destruction over Florida! Ray tells me the Ward Line passenger ship Siboney, with him on board as chief wireless operator, and a chap named Milton Kitchen as junior, pulled out of Havana, bound for New York, on September 18, 1926. Just before they left the dock at noon, they received a hurricane wam-.in- g from a station in New Orleans whose call letters were WNU. Now Ray says such warnings were a dime a dozen, and most of them came to exactly nothing. So when they ran into a gale with moderate sea on passing Morro Castle, they thought little of it. All unsuspecting they turned toward Key West. SauSi 600-met- er two-by-fo- ur Independent Indolence And tksjt is suck good-nature- d. may feel indolent enough not to want Opportunity to knock. After all, one may be able to shape his own course, without outside aid. Those who live by free speech must expect to suffer by it. Some of the big, words he afterward uses, a boy gets from a circus poster. Sometimes, one 1 really like to be, come' you 3 I get to talk ebout myselF trefct for h. me. Vwi WNU Service. Science and the Home Napoleon was.There is little music in a robins West, homes the best chirrup, but a great deal of cheer-you-u- PAST, And our enjoyment of home life owes a lot to modFew people are familiar enough ern certainly science. Consider our modwith money to call $1,000 a ern comforts. The radio which grand in that offhand way. entertains us, the newspaper which keeps us informed. . . the modern household appliances, and Is Time a River the first aids and home remedies Time is a sort of river of passby in our medicine cabstanding ing events, and strong in its cur- inets to help us in minor emerrent; no sooner is a thing brought gencies. All are achievements of to sight than it is swept by and scientific modern research another takes its place, and this, brought to us by our local too, will be swept away. - p. Share in Troubles Who said no one is interested in another mans troubles? We are if we like the man. Fault of the automobile horn is that too many drivers think that when they sound it, their responsibility ends. An egotist thinks he cannot make a mistake, so he has no misgivings and frequently gets something done. HBlgpai m ten-thirt- y, quite ill And kuve tKe doctor U1LLHTUL U1MJP) Successful Failures Some of the greatest successes are wrong from beginning to end. Uncle filuL Somebody Called the Siboney. Ray tells us that at 10 p. m. that night he was on watch. Static was bad, the sea was running a bit more heavily, and the wind at gale force threw clusters of spray against the radio-rooports so forcibly it sounded like haiL The passengers, their vacations over, were asleep or preparing for bed, secure in the thought of the trained men in whose hands they had entrusted their welfare. Ray, watching with anxious eyes the rising storm, could think only of the helplessness of even these trained men when Nature goes on a rampage. Idly running through the band, Ray found things dull, with little traffic. At against a rasping background of static, some fellow called WRN (the Siboney, Rays vessel) slowly and repeatedly. Thisll be some Shucks, Ray thought to himself. tanker about to ask for a relay. Unable to send their messages the full distance because of lack of power, the smaller ships occasionally asked help from a ship with better equipment. Ray was certainly justified in jumping to this conclusion, for what else would be sending a signal that was not the clear, musical note of the shore stations, but a weak, straggling sputter, like someone shaking a bucket of pebbles, as Ray puts it. But when this puny station signed WAX, which was the shore station at Miami, Florida, Ray was shocked into action! Miami, whose high, clear note always rang with ample volume through the thirty miles of static that separated them. Something was radically wrong, Ray was Hanging on to a forlorn hope results in success as often as it results in failure. There should be more leisure for men of business and more business for men of leisure. A wolf lives only 10 years. That comes of living a life of fury. The really congenial people are the Struggle to be one. HESS (BMDCE) 00OP ,05550 WS YOU SAVE in fuel costs. Tests made by leading agricultural colleges prove that Firestone Ground Grip Tires save up to 25 in fuel. SAVE in time. Ground Grip Tires enable you to YpU drive your tractor faster with greater comfort and efficiency. You save up to 25 in time YOU S A V E by reducing breakage and repairs. Ground Grip Tires cushion tractors and farm implements, reduce jolts and jars. YO U SAVE by doing better work. Ground Grip Tires will not pack the soil and do not injure plants. 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Out there in those waste stretches, battered and swept clean by the fury of a Nature gone mad, were helpless men, women, yes and little children, their homes destroyed, their last link with the world this little ships radio room, where a horrified man sat over a delicate instrument and relayed the tale of their disaster to the world. Ray jumped to his feet, ran into their quarters, slapped his junior, Kitchen, on the stomach. For the next twelve hours, while Kitchen stood by and tended the arc and spark transmitters, Ray alternately received from Miami and sent to WSA, in East Moriches, Long Island. A pal of Rays, A1 Kahn, who was on the Orizaba, near Hatteras, helped to keep other ships signals off the air while Ray was slowly trying to pound through the thousand miles between the Siboney and WSA. V "' fellow-adventure- JI .... ....... T.WrtWi Come in, examine a n from a Firestone Standard Tire. 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And all the time Ray was racking his brains wondering how the Miami operators, whose big station was obviously out of whack, were Those boys certainly deserve getting even this faint signal through. credit, Ray says proudly, all their towers were down; the roof was blown from their quarters, power and telegraph lines were all out; they were sheltering one hundred men, women and children in the control-rooand even then they rigged up an emergency transmitter, powered with batteries stolen from wrecked cars, to get the first word of the hurricane to the outside world! So far as I know, Ray says, it was the first time a land station ever sent an SOS to a ship! I guess we can sympathize with Ray when we imagine the feelings of that operator at WAX, who called the ship so slowly and prayerfully with that pathetic little sending shebang, knowing that the Siboney was due to pass and had continuous watch. 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