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Show :& V . .'y - '':i '" in' i, r :' - -- ' ; V.:--:- QitooHSj - Jr te TIME NEWS headlines from the lives PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! The Briny Toyshop was closed for the day. Its tiny show window siill displayed an enticing array of delightful playthings, but the latch was hard down on the door, and its little lady proprietress had retired to her favorite low rocker by a rear window facing the sea. The most persistent youth in the THIS "Playing With Dynamite n WEEK By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter old phrase, Playing with dynamite has come to EW YORK. The playing fields as same of Eton have been given due the about thing doing something foolhardy. mfnn credit for Britains power and duraThat' i the figurative meaning of the expression. But literally bility. We seem to have overlooked who monkeys around with high gpeaking, the man explosives the playing fields unsung heroes of our age. of West Point. A i usuallyinone of thetwenty years ago, millions of men were playing Trance, Over sweeping technieitfa dynamite, and T. N. T. and just about every other explosive known. cal reorganization fellows In those days, it was generally foolhardy. Vs didnt call those of the army ia unsidered that they were doing a brave and noble thing. This is a news this week. It might not have with danger in a good cause. come off had it not been for a cerrtf of another such lad ofwho toyed wasnt Chicago Berman Beaver Juggling explosives in and tain incident on the West Point footoat of some sort of firearms over in France. He was taking an ball field. Gen. Malin Craig, chief ' of staff, is the reorganizer. He is tvea longer chance with the dangerous stuff. On a hot day in July, 1917, he was working in a munitions plant on the northern preparing the army for the open outskirts of Milwaukee,' Wis., on the banks of the upper mm. game swiftness, mobility, adaptivewaukee river. . ness, as in modern football. It was an instant of inspired open Grinding Salvaged Powder. Over in France, millions at men were crouching in trenches, avoiding football, back in the juggernaut days of the guards back and the he explosives that the enemy was hurling at them, but Herman Beaver e buck, that saved young had no way to avoid the explosive that he was dealing with. His job was Malin to and handle too. Craig for the army and' the stuff it the He was grinding lo handle roughly, salvaged powder that came in to him in chunks and tong tubes that current reordering of tactics and looked like spaghetti grinding it in a machine that looked a tot like an equipment coffee grinder. That powder, when it had Just before the game with been reduced to bits, would.be used to toad rifle grenades. Trinity college in 1897, the West Point scholastic command had In only one way did that machine differ from a coffee grinder. decided to retire Cadet Craig. Between the handle that he turned continuously and the hopper into Of an anetent army One, with which he fed the. unground powder, was a steel plate fixed so as to ghtoid his body in case anything happened while he was grinding. On this day, many relatives in the service, he had been visiting around while Herman ground away, his eyes wandered out the window and down the row of a dozen or more wooden buildings where the work of loading army posts. His marks had suffered. The ax was to fall just be grenades was going on. after the game. They were little better than shacks, about twenty-fiv- e by fifty feet, built about fifty feet apart, in among trees, so as to obscure the plants Craig was a brilliant backfield player, but somewhat given to unplanned maneuvers. Carrying the ball at a critical turn of the game, he lost his interference in broken field. He shook off several tacklers, but, somewhere around the line, a atone wall of Trinity players loomed ahead. Ducking a hurtling body, scarcely checking his stride, he booted a per-- v feet field goal . I oung Craig winning the game. Boots Goal with appropriate Frank MerriweU On f he Run side-lin- hand-operate- mall village rattled the door, but in vain. Miss Matilda Bell did not eveiv hear. There seemed more than ordinary magic in the glowing spell cast by the eun at this close of The day. garden loping to the rocky shore seemed a fairy place. The sea was many-huedusky, wondrous, and its melody came pleasantly to Miss Matilda. There were dreams in Miss Matildas eyes as she watched; not the happy, hopeful dreams of youth, but the deeper, sadder dreams of one who has sea-farin- By LEMUEL F. PARTON Hello everybody: d : & AT EVENING WHOS ADVENTURERS CLUB OF :; -v - g d, lived long. Miss Matilda waa so much a part of her surroundings that she had ceased to notice them in detail. Her mind had flown back nearly 50 years, to the time when she had not the faintest thought of ever being a little, elderly, sweet-face- d lady sitting by herself in the twilight. To the time when she was a young, adventurous girl pledging her troth to a dashing young naval officer. Even now her eyes grew dim as the memories came drifting in on the breeze. Dream pic- - a er Wise and Otherwise Br A Madeline A. Chaffee must have a chance to express its ideas, says a psychologist. Yes, but not on plain wallpaperl Girls were quicker ia their movement! eighty years ago, aye a writer. They got a bustle on then. And they call America the land of free speech, said the disgusted Scot when the telephone operator told him to put a nickel in the box. The best husbands are those who marry young. If a man waits till he has money It harts more to pay It out. A child McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. tures blotted out the garden, the rocks, the sea itself, and Miss Matilda felt herself in the arms of her young lover, so tender, so dear And he had sailed away, full of hope and happy anticipations of the day when he should return to make her his wife. Miss Matildas eyes blurred. That day had never come. There had been a fire aboard the ship and the young officer, who belonged heart and soul to Matilda Bell, had given hia life for another. Years had taken away that first tragic grief, but Miss Matilda had loved too deeply to forget. How she wished she had been with him I Sometimes he seemed to speak to her in the voice of the sea, and she would say that she was coming some day soon, very soon coming to be with him. On the rocks below Miss Matildas cottage two figures were silhouetted against the dull red true partnership, Tommy boy, end it must begin. by my going to South America with you now. I can face anything with you! The two silhouettes suddenly converged into one as Tom said huskily: Bless you, sweetheart, youre coming with me. WeB play the game of life squarely together. sky. And up in the little dusky winthe man's dow above the garden, with the But, dear girl voice was tender, serious you sea still crooning a low love song, dont know what the life is. I Miss Matilda had come into her ' do and I wouldnt condemn any own. woman to it, toast of all you. It will be a torture without you See by Mirrors but it wouldnt be fair to take you. Tapestry weavers are obliged to The girls straight, sweet gaze watch the progress of their work in mirrors, .as a tapestry has to held hia steadily. But, Tom, dont you see I be woven from the back. The want to go? It may be years weaver checks his work in a mirror facing the front of the fabric. before you come back. Our is going to be Collier's Weekly. . , COtltW", 35-ya- rd terrible concussion threw him backward. position from the air. Even in those days they were concerned about sirplanes. Those shacks were filled with men and women, and even boys ind girls all taking long chances, to supply our soldiers with ammunition. A Blast and Deadly Flames. trimmings. Of course, the faculty couldnt fire a hero. The ax was put away, a tutor was found, and Cadet Craig finished creditably to establish the open game in the American army. He .was u baseball star, also, and old Pop Anson tried tp sign him for the Chicago National team. Born In St. Joseph, Mo., he was the grandson of n Civil war generaL His father was a major and he has a son recently out of West Point. In the Spanish-Americwar, the Philippines, France and in minor mixups, he was a quick thinker and But Herman wasnt thinking about the ehances. The view from the window was pleasant. The trees outside swayed in a gentle breexe. "I was at peace with the world, says Herman. And then r, Without warning, there was a heavily garlanded deafening blast. Acrid choking smoko a Bid the air and fire bit into Hermans flesh. He felt the earth rock from the first and known as a proMouth his feet felt a terrible concussion that threw him backward, gressive tactician. tt happened so fast that only when he was on the floor did he realize mat had happened. The powder that he was grinding had exploded. FEW years ago, Richard Behind him were benches covered with pans of powder. In Strauss was in trouble with the rapid Mxession they were catching fire. Then Herman saw that his own Nazis. The libretto of his opera, femtog, heavily saturated with powder dust, was afire too. If they The Silent Woman, had been writud been soaked with gasoline they couldnt have burned any more furi-Mten by Stefan The flames shot many feet above my head, he says. I was a Zweig, a The opfang torch." He was stunned for a moment, but he managed to stagger to era was a flop and is feet. His whole Herr Strauss was body one mass of flame, he ran to the door and out of it. ousted as president of the Reich By that time were pouring out of all the buildings in the group, Culture chamber and chairman of raan dashed people out of the door and kept right on running. He had the Federation of German Composmtall power of reasoning. All that moved him now was a blind, ers. He is now restored to official pipping panic. He wanted to run, and keep right on running until he favor. His librettist for bis new oppPPed- - And in his terror he was headed for another building a build-- 1 that was filled with powder. era, "Der Fridenstag, is a certified Aryan. Joseph Gregor, a Lie Down and Roll. Viennese poet, and its world prehad run into that building, this story might never have been mier at Munich is n brilliant ucreas, with new garlands for But suddenly, his panic, he heard a voice. Out of all the comthrough the mum and yells of that mob of screaming humanity that was watching poser. Hn that one voice, and that atone, penetrated his consciousness, So apparently all is forgiven, and it was shrieking. Lie down and roll! traditional rebel of the musical the Suddenly, Herman remembered. That was what he should be doing, world is rebelling no longer. He beml only way to save himself. He dropped to the ground and had decided to save the world at rolling. The pain was unbearable, as burned, smarting flesh he conin contact with the hard earth. He rolled over once twice and any cost, but turning sixty, was doing well enough by he stopped. It was all he could stand. A workman ran over cluded he merely keeping out of jail. tried to beat out the flames. When Salome was presented in His apron caught fire and he stopped to tear it off. Then the superin-"n- t 1905. puritanical New York was ran up. He ordered the crowd back, and he himself began shocked, and the over an(i over. He burned his hands severely, but he stuck Salome Wat mere idea of its job until the fire stopped blazing. being given here Cause of the flames were out, Herman's clothing what was toft of it SSJAST-i- ? ni smouldered like one large, live cool. They rushed him into sat him down on a box, and began tearing the charred New York in 1921 was taken calmly. off his Strauss "Murky Psychographies, body. That shack was filled with powder, Herman says, but in as the critics called them, didnt aeitement they never thought of that. bring any riot calls. These muddy tMre was powder in the very box I was sitting on. The Lord only phantasmagorias of his earlier tnn, WV the whole place didnt blow up. I know I dont And I have years got him into many battles, and FBr, on on my right hip and one on the front of my toft teg, but he settled down to writing to man business me every once in a while of what a close call I had. a good being will ever know how that explosion started, but Herman thinks money making. Once, when he was a Bobody percussion cap might have found its way into the powder he was grind quarreling with Berlin, he wasI w had it "If he ,Pfcpd if he would play there. with says. lid of i the working the grinder open," .fastened down when the explosion occurred, the whole machine would play on a manure pile if they I dont believe Id be here to tell the pay me for it, he said. JWjohave shattered to bits-a- nd He is bo Mb of the famous Copyright WNU Service. waits family of Vienna. Ia mellow aod beery old Bavaria, his and . Like Side the to father was. a horn-blowWhite Mnlberry Bill Curves gjwmins e daughter. brewers will eat any mulberry mother hia ZeaNew of d plover The He has prospered through bis results land (a stouter, more compact sandIn th.the finest silk. niulberry later years,' the owner of a casThe white mul-tam- piper), is unique in having a. bill tle In Vienna and an estate in nf.tve China, is found that curves to the side, a result,' it Bavaria. murnry ther countries. The red is said, of searching for food around ia a native of America. ' In 1930,' German cities were fight-in- g stones. Tor him as their leading citizen, chambere of commerce comBa naa Six Meanings with Bes'SUn at Wedding peting and making offers. Then nnamite language' of The custom of having a best man came the brief eclipse over the In Sdlffn8!0 Uie term ,n,, hM at a wedding originated primitive associations, and now ih! nnt meanings, depending days of marriage by capture, when the full effulgence of his restored Sl tori"nCCiion d young rice, the husband called his friends to career. ghost, tomb and mama. assist in carrying off the bride. a Conaollrintrd News features. an self-starte- A y- non-Arya- n. seventy-five-year-o- ld roll-.?erP- an Z Wnd er wry-bille- nn . j Requests for reprint of the Interview between Everett Mitchell and Champion Farmer evidenced o great an interest that these entertaining and instructive prog nuns will be resumed beginning the week of August 14. In addition to the interview conducted by Everett Mitchell the Firestone Orchestra and quartette complete a pleasant and instructive fifteen minute program. The list of stations with days and times over which the broadcasts can be heard appear below. 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