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Show FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1937 THE 200 II. Vali Ilarlen 1 Barber Shop America's Financial Investment Shown in Survey. EXCELLENT SERVICE" San Francisco, Calif. America's financial investment in the Philippines now totals approximately $200 .000,000, according to a survey by the Institute of Pacific Relations. The figure is somewhat below that of $258,000,000 which was prepared by the bureau of insular affairs in 1932 and which has since been currently used in discussions relative to Americas interests in the islands. The present figure, the institute said, is one that has considerable importance in view of the negotiations now under way for establishing the future status between the United States and the Philippines. The institute found the American investments in the Philippines were far below British investments in the Malay peninsula or The Dutch stake in the East Indies. In addition, they constituted less than 2 per cent of the total of American investments abroad, according to the institute. They are also just about on a par with American investments in China and Japan, when allowance is made for heavy repurchases by Japanese investors of Japanese bonds issued in the United States. Comparable to China. In general character, the institute found, the American investments in the Philippines are about the same as those in China. The total in each country is made up largely of direct investments in business enterprises, many of which are owned by resident Americans. In both countries, too, a large part is directly or indirectly associated with American 1107 EAST 21st SOUTH THE HOME of DMiru-tlv- e GIFTS for WEDDINGS, SHOWERS BIRTHDAYS UNIQUE BRIDGE rRIZES Reasonable Rental Rate for tbe Latest Books THE ARTCRAFT Gift & Book Shop 1080 East 21st South. juLiuiutamnuiMHih EXPERT Watch Repairing JEWELRY REPAIRING RESETTING MILLS JEWELRY CO. WATCHES - DIAMONDS SILVERWARE 2106 South 11th East Ammunition and trade. The institute found that in recent years there have been at least two important shifts in the character of Hnntins Equipment American investments in the Philippines. The first has been a reduction in the par value of government bonds held by Americans. In 1930 this totaled $65,000,000. By 1931 the outstanding indebtedness of the commonwealth had been reduced to $43,700,000, of which only $31,100,000 was held by Americans. The second noteworthy change, the institute said, is the increasing investment in Philippine mining enterprises. Such investments at present are estimated at $37,900,000. JOES Southeast Repair PHIL & - Shop 1113 E. 21st South IN THE PHILIPPINES Use of to 24 on Clock Started in U. S. in 1 188-- The system of numbering the hours of the day from one to twenty-fougenerally regarded as "foreign," is of American origin, early records of the American Society of Civil Engineers disclose. The society itself and one or two other scientific organizations used it for some time and meetings were announced "at 20 o'clock." Prior to 1833 American railroads operated on "local" time, based on local meridians, and clocks in cities no farther apart than Chicago, St. Paul and St. Louis differed so much as to make it difficult to follow timetables. By 1881 the confusion became so great all over the country that the American Society of Civil Engineers appointed a committee on uniform standard time. This committee set up a tentative system of hour meridians and circulated a questionnaire among railroad officials of the United States and Canada to determine their reaction. Largely as a result of that work, the railroads reached an agreement on hour meridians in October, 1883, and put it into effect the following month. The numbering of hours was sugfrom one to twenty-fou- r gested at the same time. The society's committee next sought to establish an international standard or base meridian, from which time could be figured by hourly intervals throughout the world. Together with other interested groups the committee brought the attention of congress to the need for such an arrangement. As a result President Arthur was authorized in 1884 to call an international conference to discuss the subject. nations were repreTwenty-si- x sented at the conference and it was then that the Greenwich meridian was selected as the base. The "one to twenty-four- " system was also approved and was adopted in England the following year. The United States, however, never followed suit, despite the fact that a great number of railroad managers approved the plan. The American Society of Civil Engineers soon ceased to "meet at 20 o'clock," and now the American system" is far better known abroad than at home. r, For Interesting; and MILLION STAKE SUGARHOl'SE BULLETIN', Ily. 8398 F. W. KIEPE THE TAILOR NEW FALL SAMPIjES NOW ON DISPLAY Suits made to order' and remodeled for Ladies and Gentlemen Cleaning Pressing 1060 East 21st South Don Hardman Service "On Bite WELDING? Granite Welding & Wire Works i 2021 South 11th East Hyland 458 smmssssm GOOD painting calls for a combination of skilled workmanship and reliable materials game and four chorus girls were all but ousted. To date, Jimmy Durante and Bert Lahr are leading the field as fiddlestick experts, with William Gaxion, Ethel Merman and Ernest Truex rot far behind, llaze! Iloffinger and Ilclene Ecklund of "The Show Is On, lead the chorine section. Broadway is talking about that new game, "fiddlesticks. When I was a youngster, fiddlesticks were jackstraws. Tradition has it that Lhe Chinese originated the game centuries ago. Famous Footwear The collection of the Shoe club at the Hotel continues to grow. The club is corp posed of manufacturers, wholesalers and jobbers of shoes in the metropolitan area.' Shoes that have shod famous people are collected and exhibited. The latest pair came from Helen Hayes, Her dainty footwear nestles between spiked sneakers once worn by Ty Cobb and the gleaming pumps of Fred Astaire. Other contributors to the collection are Katherine Cornell, Lily Pons, Gladys Swarthout, Jack Benny and Fanny Brice, as well as many famous athletes and some statesmen. A request was made for the shoe of a newspaper writer but he didnt send it 'fearing there wouldnt be room to exhibit it. Me-Alpi- n City Scene A young woman standing under the window cf a music school over a Forty - second street museum . . . Where the cost A of lessons Is 25 cents each young girl is singing an azia from Gluck's "Alcestis" . . . The young girl's voice rises and the lone listener down below tenses . . . Plainly she is wondering if the pupil will be able to take the highest note . . . She hits it exactly without trace ot flatting . . . The listener walks away with a smile on her face . . . She is Lotte Lehmann, operatic star, who has sung that same aria before brilliant audiences at the Metropolitan. ... barks and herbs of value in the Mining Industry. manufacture of drugs, says Popular The sudden development of the Mechanics Magazine. They range mining industry in the Philippines from the common dandelion to the has been found due to the increased almost extinct ginseng, golden seal price for gold, although iron and or snakeroots. Leaves from the chromium are other important Phile plant are used in flaippine metallic industries. voring smoking tobacco. Roots and Since 1932 the gold output in the bark from the sassafras bush are islands has tripled in value, the used in making medicinal tea and number of gold mines has been perfumes. One wild herb is neces-- j greatly Increased, and the specula- sary in the manufacture of a silvertive wave of gold mining stocks ware polish. The business is regives the islands all the atmosphere garded as important by the governe of an gold rush boom. ment, which issues bulletins on the The Filipinos, according to the in- drying of medicinal herbs and the stitute, . intend to use their gold growing of ginseng, golden seal and mines and rich deposits of chromthe mints. ite as a bargaining power for de- . Many common plants regarded by sired trade relations with the United most people as weeds, such as States. mullein, jimson weed, yellow Other American investments in dock, burdock and have the islands spread through a wide a sale value. Often pokeweed, the root gatherrange of enterprises such as public er supplements his income by pickutilities, sugar refineries and plan- ing up and selling Indian relics, wild tations, and merchandising gener- ferns and other plants and rare ally. stones for rock gardens. Salute The most courteous and efficient salesman I have ever obn served Is employed in a camera shop. Customers fortunate enough to encounter him receive service of a kind that brings back pleasant memories. All through the day he demonstrates cameras, even those of the intricate type. He does it expertly and well, so very well that intricate points become simple. To close a camera, he presses it against his chest' Nevertheless, the fact that he has only one arm, and that his left does not seem to interfere with his vocation or his cheerfulness in the slightest. mid-tow- d, Alien Population of U. S. Found Smallest in Years President Pierces Wife Value Plus Attracted by an adFranklin Pierce, fourteenth PresiThe alien pop- dent, the Northern man with Southvertisement for a mattress at $22.50, Washington. ulation, estimated at about 4,250,-00- 0 ern principles, married Jane Apple-to- n a customer of a store that specialwe employ in goods and servpersons, is now the smallest both. Ask for an il Hampton in his home state of izes Reordered of the an since the after inspection, ices, early days New Hampshire. She is said to have estimate. public. It will become less, say been a woman of intelligence and one sent to his home. The matofficials, as aliens here become na- the highest ideals, but inclined to tress arrived and was placed on next morning, the turalized and new immigrants are melancholy and a variety of nervous the bed. The debarred. afflictions. She had three children, store called and inquired if the matAt the turn of the century 1,000,-00- 0 all of whom died before her. The tress had been used. The customer aliens a year were coming in. death of the last, a boy of replied that it had and was most THE PAINT POT betNow the figure Is less than 200,000, tragic thirteen, on January 5, 1853, less satisfactory in fact, was far 1071 E. 21st South consisting chiefly of travelers or than two months before her husband ter value than he had anticipated. Ily. 8789 students on visits. No immigration became President, made Mrs. The man on the other end of the quotas have been filled for many Pierce an invalid during her stay in wire thanked him and hung up. .Smoking Once Was Crime; , years. the White House. The Pierces were The family, pleased at such courteOffenders Sent to Jail The decline in number of aliens returning from Boston to their sy, discussed the matter among In a collection of family papers has been especially marked since home in Concord on a Boston & Al- friends. Later they learned that the found in France was a letter which the World war. In 1920 the alien bany train; an axle in the car in store had made an , error and had revealed the fact that in 1852 Gerpopulation numbered 7,430,809 and which were riding broke and sent a $50 mattress. And, under the law, if it had been used it could mans were grumbling because the by 1930 it was down to 6,284,618. the carthey rolled down an embankBerlin chief of police had issued an Current estimates show a further ment. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Pierce not be returned. So what seemed order which strictly forbade shrinkage of nearly was seriously hurt, but the boy was like unusual service turned out to in the street. First ofOfficials say that future immibe merely a matter of profit and killed. high-clas- s tobacco-sm- one-thir- d. oking fenders were liable to a fine of two thalers, while hardened criminals caught repeating the offence were actually sent to the gaol, says a writer in Pearson's London ' Week- ly. In Pomerania there is a legend that the Devil invented tobacco but smoking goes on all the same. Though tobacco growing is one of the leading industries of Turkey, there was' a time when anyone caught smoking had his pipe thrust none too gently into his nostrils by the Sultans military police. In Russia, flogging was once a penalty for smokers, and a man who continued in the habit was to have his nose slit. And Pope Urban the Eighth sent to every church a message sternly denouncing smoking, to be read to the congregation by the parish priest . . . But tobacco won in the end. Up to a few years ago n Ireland, very poor families often "dined on potatoes and point for months at a time. Having no other food than potatoes, says Collier's Weekly, they added an imaginary flavor to each mouthful by pointing the food at a bottle in the renter of the table which contained a preserved bit oi jacon. fish, cheese or salt. . . ' gration may exceed the low figures of recent years, but that it is likely to be more than offset by emigration, naturalization and an increasing death rate among aliens already here. 14 on "Lost Ship Return to Find Selves "Buried Llisaki, Japan. Fourteen men, bearded and gaunt after 66 days adrift at sea, returned to this little fishing village to find that funeral services for them had been deserved two weeks previously. Hope for the men had been abandoned after their fishing boat, Tairyu Maru, had been missing nearly two months. They were rescued, their food and water gone, when a fire burning on the Tairyua deck was seen from the Taisei Maru. On man had died of exposure and another of the original crew of 16 was seriously ill. At the time of rescue the Tairyu Maru was 650 miles at sea. The mourning of the families was changed to gladness when a wireless flashed word that the ship had been found. The crews return to Misaki was the occasion for a three-da- y celebration. 76-to- n GAL. Try Our Speedy Service 3ffirratnttr Tires Tubes Accessories rather than miss their turns at the Many Species of Herbs of Value for Medicine There are in the United States more than 250 species of roots, iron-wee- 20C By L. L. STEVENSON Oh, Fiddlesticks! Broadway has become fiddlestick conscious. In fiddlesticks, you know, you grasp a handful of differently colored sticks, drop them, then try to pick them up one by one without disturbing the rest. Colors count in the score. Three actors missed cues last week old-tim- "Just Bring In the Fieces" Mill West of MiMiNiippl River" GASOLINE deer's-tongu- y let Sugar loss. Habits of the Crow Most of the crow's success as a marauder can be traced to his gregarious instincts. The popular belief that a flock posts sentries to warn of danger never has been authenticated beyond argument, but individual birds always will give the flock warning before they wing away from a suspicious object. Crows steal eggs from other birds, but they never molest those of their own kind. They steal nesting material from each other, however. Female crows usually lay five eggs, on.y rearing one brood a year. Both male and female take turns sitting on the eggs. Literary Digest. De Soto at navana Ferdinand de Soto was the first commander of the great fortress at the entrance to Havana harbor. The passage was once blocked by heavy chains which stretched across the channel from LaFuerza to El Mor-rthe forts on either side. These chains could be raised or lowered at will and held enemy ships at bay while the forts poured shot and hell into them, o, Music Note For some time, Sigmund Romberg, endeavored to induce Frank Black, music director of the National Broadcasting company, to sell him a harpsichord. Director Black demurred since he cherished the instrument, it being an exact copy of the one on which Bach composed many of his famous works. But the deal has been made. What with three grand pianos and an enormous music library, life in a New York apartment was becoming just a bit too complicated. composer-conducto- C Bell Syndicate. r, WNU Service. Hyland 8715 DISASTERS HARRIED WORLD DURING GOOD COAL Floods, Earthquakes, Fires Take Heavy Toll. "One of the Washington, D. C. most spectacular of the world's natural disasters of 1936 was a fall Leon lake, of rock into Norway, which threw up a flood wave that wiped out two villages," says the National Geographic society. "Most devastating disaster of the year was the spring famine in the Szechwan and Honan provinces of China, in which thirty million people faced starvation. This was an hdded blow to a country which, since 1920, has been prostrated by sixty-eigfloods and famines. The United States had its share of misfortunes with drouth, fires, floods, and tornadoes. In summer the most serious drouth in the countrys history for scores of years parched the northwest and central states, burning up wheat and corn crops and killing cattle. The accompanying prolonged heat waves of approximately 100 degrees, which also assailed the eastern states, took the lives of more than 4,000 people. "In August and September forest fires devoured thousands of dry acres in Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, and southwest Oregon. Floods in East. 'Although the West suffered for lack of water in summer, the East was deluged with it in spring. March floods ravaged thirteen eastern states, destroying millions of dollars worth of property, and 169 lives. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, parflood, realyzed by an eight-focalled its famous disaster of 1839. In western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia, a blizzard increased suffering of the homeless. "Floods inundated southern England and France in January, and Luzon island in the Philippines ir December. "On November 20, the dam of a copper mine reservoir in Japan collapsed and at least 300 people were killed by the released poisonous solution. "Wind and weather reached theix climax in February. Gales, snowstorms, and extreme cold swept across twelve countries of Europe and the Near East, killing hundreds, wrecking shipping, and causing tremendous property damage. A terrific blizzard, the worst there io decades, swept through central Call Hyland 2520 CASTLE GATE BLUE BLAZE ABERDEEN KING COAL cliff-rimm- 300-fo- ot Agents (or Sentinel Stokers A Prepared Stoker Coal LOBB'S on the JOB SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. ht Japan. The United States was struck by a severe cold wave, and on its heels dust storms harassed Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Col- orado, and caused brown snow tc fall in New England. "During the same month, in northern Transvaal, South Africa, hail fell three feet deep, killing crops, cattle and nineteen natives, some of whom had to be dug from theii blanket of ice. "Tornadoes harried Florida Georgia, and Alabama in January, southern California in February, and, in April, lashed through six Southern states, killing 421 persons, and causing damage amounting to millions of dollars. In September a hurricane raged up the Atlantic seaboard. Villages Swallowed Up. "Typhoons did their share of damage in the Pacific. In August they destroyed crops in the Philippines and in October took 310 lives there. In August, 1,516 persons perished in Chosen (Korea) in its worst typhoon of recent years. "Landslides following a violent ."rthsuake killed aDoroximately 300 Station Was. Ilylond 2520 671 h AUTO LOANS and INSURANCE NEW AND USED CARS Sold Bought We will sell your car. 0 El Car Trailers MORGAN MOTOR FINANCE CO. 8 ot 702 So. Main St. Was. 6105 Grant Morgan, Mgr. ; "T 11 il"-people in January in Colombia, Two hundred perished when the vil- -, lage of La Chorrera was swallowed up by the earth and its place taken by a roaring volcano. Earthquakes killed several hundred In China in May, destroyed Tuquerres, Colombia in July, and leveled the city of San Vicente, El Salvador in December. "Mounts Vesuvius and Strom boll, Italy, and Mount Asama, Japan, erupted during the year." tl-- 1- 1 Dallas. Tung oil, which constitutes at least 50 per cent of the composition of all modem quickdrying paints and lacquers, is reDevelopgarded by the ment council as an important new southern crop. Until the last few years all the United States annual consumption 125,000,000 pounds has been imported from China. All-Sou- th SUGARHOUSE TRANSFER Furniture Moving Our Specialty COURTEOUS REASONABLE PO Phone: Hy. 1220 CaIing Children Ask Operation to Cure Snoring Dog William and Waltham, Mass. Marry Crosier, eleven and seven years, old respectively, bundled Cricket, their puppy, in blankets and wheeled it in Marys doll carriage to a hospital. "Could you please take out Crickets adenoids?" they asked a hospital attache. "He snores at night and makes an awful noise." They were told that it was out of the hospitals line. Buy Only 1936 If you have anything to Sell, Trade, Exchange or Rent; or rent a place, buy a place, or need anything, let the public know in this Department. 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