Show A 4 e 00 mr 1 air nay A 1 t t iniza kv FR IDA y 5 d amx by ELMO SCOTT WATSON RE RB you superstitious and do you believe that friday A the la is a jinx day ay if so better bein gin worrying now for theres such a day la in the offing friday april 13 in fact the year 1028 seems to be better supplied with this ominous to some folks date than most years there was one in january the april one will soon be here and then theres another one due again to in july so it if youre a believer in this superstition youve got two more tuch such jinx days during which need to watch your step even it you did escape disaster on friday jan cary 13 the aviators whose pictures appear above probably would tell you that theres nothing in it anyway but if you needed additional reassurance heres a news item which appeared in the kansas city star last january W warrensburg A it R E N S B U R 0 MO alo thirteen holds no terrors terror tor for copper norman center on the warrensburg college basketball basket ball team the other night h he s wore sweater no 11 13 and was the high man with thirteen points the game was played on friday the those who ubo scorn the friday the superstition point to the tact fact that it if it were its as unlucky as it Is supposed to be american history might have been vastly different from what it has been for instance away back at the beginnings of this republic a certain friday the turned out to be a lucky day instead of an unlucky one for in october 1770 6 king george the third of england caused the issuance of a proclamation calling for a day of prayer and fasting throughout the kingdom intended to 0 o bring about the defeat of the rebellious american colonists who on a certain day in the preceding g july declared that they were of right and ought to be free and independent from the mother country that proclamation as printed in the london gazette of october 30 1776 reads as follows we taking into our most serious consideration the just and necessity essry measures of force which we are obliged to use against our rebel llou tiou subjects in our colonies and provin provinces ceis in north america and putting our trust in almighty god that he will vouchsafe ouch safe a special blessing on our arms both by sea and land have re holved and do by and with the ad vice or of our privy council hereby command that a fast and humiliation be observed throughout that part of our kingdom of great britain eat called led england our dominion of wales and town of berwick upon tweed upon friday the thirteenth day of december next and so both we and our people may humble ourselves before almighty god in order to obtain pardon ot of ou out ans sing A and n d may in the most devout and sole solemn mn manner send up our grayem and supplications ions to the divine majesty for or averting those heavy judgments which our manifold pins and provocations pro vocations have most moot justly deserved deserve d and for or imploring his intervention sn and blessing speedily to deliver our loyal subjects our colonies and provinces in north america from rom the violence injustice and tyranny of 0 those daring rebels who have assumed to themselves the exercise of 0 arbitrary power to open the eyes of 0 those who have been deluded by specious falsehoods into acts of 0 treason and rebellion to turn the hearts of 0 the auth ors of these calamities and finally to restore our people in those distracted provinces and colonies to the happy condition ot of being tree free subjects subject ot of a wash washington I 1 agton tempting tempel n a the arl day the thirteenth jinx maj cary I 1 crockett infantry a student at the army war college staff sergeant nels nela E swanson corporal B A walsh and private emil Rasto eny of the air corps made parachute jumps from a plane piloted by R 1 I haven air corps over boiling field here on the afternoon of friday january 13 two of the were hurt slightly tree free state under which heretofore they flourished so long lone and prospered so much and we do strictly charge and command that the said raid fast bo be r reverently and devoutly observed by all our loving subjects in england our dominion of wales and town of f berwick ol 01 upon tweed as they te tender n er the favour of almighty god and would avo avoid id his wrath and indignation and upon pain of such punishment as we may justly inflict upon all suc such h a as contemn and legle ct the performance of so religious a duty and tor for the better and more orderly solemnizing solemn izing the same we have given directions to the most reverend the archbishops arch bishops and the right reverend the bishops of england to compose a form of 0 prayer suitable to this occasion to be used in all churches and places of worship and to take caro care t the he same be timely dispersed throughout their respective dioceses given at our court at st james the thirtieth day of october one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the seventeenth year of our reign As it turned out the divine dione majesty to whom the hanoverian king wished to appeal for old aid evidently decided not to take sides with that ruler against his rebellious subjects and for that reason it would appear that there was at least one friday the which was a lucky d day ay for or america even though it may have been unlucky for england more recently than this example of 0 friday the being lucky rather than unlucky for the american people Is the fact that the man cho choyn 4 n to lead our troops in the world war gen john J pershing was born on friday the andone of the greatest victories of his men was that at st which was nas won on friday the in fact there are many people who not only scorn this superstition but never pass up a chance as the aviators pictured aboe did to defy this and other jinxes jinkes there was once a famous thirteen club which used to smash a mirror before it sat down under umbrellas thirteen at a table on the occasion of its monthly dinners on the thirteenth and there Is no record that bad luck trailed any of its members and got them in bad several years ago three chicago couples were ere married on friday the at the hour in cell N no 13 of the old convict ship success si which was then on exhibition in the chicago Clil cago river each bride carried a black eat cat and thirteen mirrors broken at the time of the ceremony so far as Is known knevin all three of these marriages have suffered no disastrous fate in an age of what we are pleased to term enlightenment and progress it Is interesting to note how the superstition about the number 13 has survived when other superstitions seems to be going into the discard the belief that this number Is a hoodoo seems to be world wide in france especially in carls no house bouse bears that number in the french capital there are persons known as fourte eners who are held in reserve to make fourteen at parties when it Is I 1 discovered that there are likely to be only thirteen guests present england has left thirteen oft off its license plates for automobiles and the italians italian never use the number dumber in lotteries the turks dislike the number so much that they have dropped it from their vocabularies negroes in every land fear the number and it Is also taboo among the indians of mexico and central america and americans ore just as superstitious ious about it as any other people only recently a great railroad system announced that it had paid deference to the superstition by eliminating the number thirteen from its passenger trains it was stated at the time that many people refused re fused to ride on those trains if they knew th the e number because they feared bad luck would befall them several new york hotels have no room 13 nor floor the number being purposely omitted the same Is true of some office buildings in order to avoid using the number rooms and floors in hotels and office buildings and cabins in passenger ships are Dumb numbered ered 12 A railroads and steamship lines report that travel Is lightest on the of the month find and if it happens to be a friday the then the number of travelers Is almost negligible what Is the un luckiest lest piece 0 of f money to own no it the 2 bill its the quarter say some folks sod and here heie Is why there are 13 letters la irk the words quarter dollar the elich hns 13 feathers in his tall 13 long feathers in each wing 13 arrows in one foot holds a branch with 13 leaves leave in the other foot bears a ribbon in its mouth with 13 letters on it the shield over the birds head contains 13 stars and there abere are 13 stars on the other side of the coin I 1 cut but for all the superstition about this number dumber it must be admitted that there is much to be said on both sides of the qu question stion for instance here are an two different views on the subject the following news item from the washington star presents one philadelphia E W tallman newly elected me manager d director rector of the automobile club of philadelphia has no fear af the no 13 As president of the kl war IF club mr tallman recently remarked to his fellow members mem bera 1 I have been in philadelphia 13 years been married the a fame ame number of years my birthday falls talla on the of the month I 1 have motor license no 1313 and everything in my life has been associated with no 13 in taking charge of the motor club on the mr tallman enters upon the task of 0 adding tour four new floors to the clubhouse and garage at no 21 south twenty third street which will provide additional facilities for or hundreds of new members and from the new kew york herald tribune comes th this IS a addition dd I 1 t I 1 n to thir teen lana chicago life Is made up of a number of things the accent in the case of irvins ain 9 berlins berling of winnetka being on the word n number u mer mr be berlins r ing applied tor for a n motor car license and got it it was no 13 of all the numbers in the box this was the last one he be wanted so eo he sent it back another license arrived it was no 58 and mr berlins berling observed with hardly any tax on his arithmetic that five and eight total thirteen so he sent ben t that back in due course there arrived the third license it happened to be no 67 which also totals thirteen he returned it and now awaits the fourth hoping that it will not arrive next friday which he has noted fall falls on the thirteenth of january the number of letters in mr berlings full name add thirteen and his street address lake avenue does tan tac |