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Show TOP PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Philadelphia Fifth Is Launched for U. S. Navy Scenes and Persons in the Current News Twas This Way 8 By LYLE SILENCER Western Newspaper Fmou - , Making Slavery Profitable invention of the cotton gin 'partly responsible for tire Civil war. For it was the first device in America that made slave holding profitable Eli Whitney, a oung Yale graduate, working down m Georgia, inAt a so vented the gin in 1791 he one dinner happmed night ciety to sit among a group of big planta tion owners who were discussing the high cost of cleaning cotton Thinking he was a greenhorn, they kidded, him about making a device that would take the seeds out of cottqn cheaply. Everybody laughed when Whitney said he bet he could make one.., , Ten ,days later, it was Whitneys turn' to laugh. He had built a simple little machine which cleaned cotton .with amazing ease. was the scene of the recent launching of the light cruiser Ph Phil ldtlphia navy yard, appropriately, 4,New of the revolutionary invenjJrA tifth naval vessel to fly the U. S. flag under that name. Mrs George H. Earle," III, wife of the tion quickly spread throughout the pennsjlvania, sponsored the new craft, that is seen here sliding into the water for the first time , neighborhood, and Whitney found The himself famous m a week. value of tremendous labor-savinGeneral Manager of the gin was bhowai by the fact that 1 President Roosevelt with members of hL party enroute to peace conference In Buenos it could clean a thousand pounds Edward Smlgly-Rydz- . Generalissimo to baton Cincinnati Reds marshals of Mosicki Poland President Aires. presents of cotton while the ordinary man national on recent suicide whose cabinet French of brought the member seeds out of five 3 The late Roger Salengro, Warren C. Giles, new general was picking the crisis. , manager of the Cincinnati Reds pounds. But the real value of the gin baseball team, who succeeded Larwas even greater than appeared on Russia U. S. ry McPhaiL Giles is already on the surface. For he first time it the job preparing the Reds, for the made the growing of cotton profitable in America. Before that time, toss than 200 acres in all the South were planted in cotton. The cost of cleaning it was too high. Since 'a slave could clean only 300 pounds a.monh, he was not worth his upkeep. The cotton gin made him vry valuable. T4iE labor-savin- g -! g Swim Suits New Florida Vogue inter-America- n envoy The SvJ ill !a ilka I till , Hu r el id id (id ted if tel m lOCa-- ea it e Tival ' t entbi'ed baseball the Moline team m 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! 1937 season. He m 1920 as head of D latil Coincident with the opening of the winter fishing season in Florida, on Tahiti tty Miss Shirley Stynchcomb, of Asheville, N. C., appeared ch at Miami in her new beach suit made of real silver tarpon scales. Peggy Joyce and morul of battle IIusband-to-B- e Jack-Rabb- to First Typewriter Displayed Baseball it say that modern OLD TIMERS is nowhere near the gafne it used to be. They say the ball playeti of today are dumb, that they dont use the headwork demanded of big leaguers when Chlristy Mathewson and the Tinker-t- o - Evers - to - Chance combination were the national sport heroes. They ask,' where is the strategy and finesse that Was the heart and soul of "inside baseball" 25 years ago? It's gone, all right. Smart baseball was killed by the "jack rabbit", bail, first introduced into the National league in 1909. The secret of the new' ball was its stuffing. It was made Of a fine Australian wool, 'tightly wound around a core of cushioned cork. It seems like a small change, but it was big enough to revolutlohize the national game. ball made hits The jack-rabbSo the more and frequent. longer artful base stealers and hunters of yesterday have been replaced by men who s and believe one lusty cut at the ball is worth a1 whole day of subtle managerial generalship. The "smart" ball player has given way to sluggers and cleanup men. hero of Who was the home-ru1908? Honus Wagner, who hit for the circuit 10 times. Compare him with the Babe Ruth of 1927 who .lashed out 60 homers. How about ? Ty Cobb stole the 76 bases in 1909 and 96 in 1915. In base1935, Frank Crosetti won the stealing championship with 29 ? The game they play now may not be such good baseball, but it makes the turnstiles clatter and the .customers shriek, and thats what makes .it a paying business. atJoseph E. Davies, Washington amas whose appoin'ment torney, bassador to Soviet Russia was announced recently by the White House. He succeeds William C. Bullitt, who lately received the ambassadorial assignment In Paris. Photo shows Miss Lorraine Vocco, of New York city, demonstrating the the model of the first United States typewriter now on exhibition at1829. Smithsonian institution. It was invented by William Austin Burt la The crude wooden machine was never produced commercially. Face to Face With Ilis Own Image big-stic- fence-buster- NAVY POST FOR EDISON '-- ,-1 , n base-stealers- The Early Typewriter the typewriter first was people considered themselves insulted when they received a typewritten letter. They writer jumped to the conclusion the thought they could not read WHEN Tilly. '6 San Jacinto Battlefield Me-ibuilding under construction the aid of Public Works adoration funds in Houston, al Tex-Tex- building the memorial lommemorate the victory which Texas its independence. is merican m. Incredibly machines that were always r- rickety and of Broadway, stage, to apPeggy Hopkins Joyce, star getting out of kilter, began engagement was recently announced, photographed pear tfl America during the 1850s November 11. HiU "Most business men laughed at them race. Their marriage wUl loi and skid they wouldn't trade one "Russet" in the Slough handicap hurdle of those ' v divorce. low his good quill pen, for a dozen contraptions. Only a alfew wise acres and journalists have some might that they lowed Stay-I- n future But one crackpot became so enthusiastic he predicted that the a day would come when to schoolboy write his would only be taught name' with a pen because he could on write ahythmg else by "playing 'a literary piano. The early skepticism was partly a typewriter justified. Up to 1870, cost $250, and a ribbon could be had only by buying a roll of silk at a (fry goods store, soaking it in ink and hanging it up to dry. Mark Twain4 was one of the early typewriter converts. Christopher Sholes of Milwaukee is said to have built the first really he practical machine. The sentence tune while after out time tapped machine shop testing it. in his little all good w'as "Now is the time for of the aid the to come to men The first typewriters. 5 L stine Workers Stage d Strike in Plant W'U. It 1,000 workers approximate a few months ago, erance in the operations strJters whJe he example of industrial gtrike. m- Ind , held th fort du Bond. whQ chose to rema.n South m puts plant iouu ' passea friends and led wives, sweethearts member of the New York state bureau of ls called "New York Scotland Yard popularly criminal identification, new the modeling with day made himself of ahown studying a likeness of unidentified dead a that will be used In preserving the likenesses betwen the clay resemblance remarkable the Note murder victims. bead and the living model. Corp. Earl R. Wilkinson, A recent photo of Charles Edison, son of the late Inventor, Thomas A. Edison, who was appointed by President Roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy to succeed Henry L. Roosevelt who died seversl months ago. Edison is at present state director for New Jersey of the national emergency counclL Skates Ring on Ice as Hockey Teams Battle party." In Awe of Concacnre only of thyself; and of none more than awe in stand a thine own conscience. There is Cato in every man; a severe censor And he that revof hi! manners. erences this judge will seldom do of. anything he need repent Be tearful J.. - 3J. .HlK'afci w- a tnn ice game bas r!lairJ was introduced here. fecent SSXefsSSl years, since the profess.onal game Harold Jackson (left) and Andy V |