Show POK 1 tl JK araw ax OU V M ii V NEW R N 51 v A 44 Z iff 0 ag hv 3 F R V k V dy by ELMO ELIVIO SCOTT WATSON 1113 you superstitious and do db you believe that friday the Is a jinx day 7 if so bettor better begin worrying now for theres such a day in the offing friday F april 13 in fact act the year 1028 seems seeing to be better supplied with this ominous i to some folks date than most years there was one ona in Jan january Cary the april one will eoon be here and then theres another one due again in july so if youre a believed believe in this q superstition youve got two more such jinx days during which need to watch your step even if you did escape disaster on friday jan nary 13 the aviators whose pictures appear above probably would tell you that therea nothing in it anyway put cut if you needed addition addia addit I 1 on at al reassurance heres a news item appeared in the kansas city star last january AW s A it R E N S D U R 0 MO thirteen holds no terrors for copper norman center on the warrensburg Warrens bure college basketball basket ball team the other night he wore sweater no 13 and was the high man with thirteen points the gamp game was played on friday the lath those who scorn the friday ali the esth superstition point to tb the fact that if it were as unlucky as a tl la Is supposed to tie 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 lath turned out to be a lucky day instead of an unlucky one for in october 1770 ying king george the third of england caused the issuance of a proclamation calling for a day of prayer and fasting asting throughout hout the kin kingdom dom intended to bring about the detent defeat of the lie rebellious american colonists who on a certain lay in the preceding july declared that they were of right and ought to be free and inde pendent from the mother country that proclamation as printed in a alie e london ga gazette tte of october SO 30 17 1770 70 reads as follows we taking into our most serious consideration the just and necess necessary nece sairy nry measures of force which we art ar obliged to use against our rebellious rebel llou subjects in our colonies rind provinces in north america and putting out our trust in almighty god that ue he will vouchsafe uc esafe a special blessing on out our arms both by sea and land have re solved anil by and with me ad vice of our privy council hereby command awat a fast ast and humiliation be observed throughout tha tiri rt of our kingdom of cf great britain brit ain called england nn gland our dominion of wals vals mi aud awn 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 of ou sins elna and may in the most devout and solemn manner send up our pr arr nid supplications ions to the divine ala aia josty for averting those heavy judg menta which our manifold sins and provocations pro vocations have most justly deserved and for imploring ills ilia interment Int intervention ervent ion anil blessing speedily epe edily to deliver our loyal subjects our colonies and provinces in north america from fi born the violence viol enre injustice and tyranny of those daring rebels who have assumed to themselves the exercise of arbitrary power to open the eyes of those who have been deluded by specious falsehoods into acts of treason and rebellion to turn the henits of the authors r of these calamities at and 1 id finally to e estora ore our people in those distracted pio provinces vinces and colonies to the happy condition of being tree free subjects subject ts a 0 of f a wash ington tempting the fri day the thirteenth jinx maj cary 1 crockett infantry a student at the army war college col I 1 ege staff sergeant nets E swanson corporal B A walsh and private emil Rasto eny of the air corps made parachute jumps from a plane plana piloted by R 1 I haven air corps over bolling boiling field here on the afternoon of friday jan uary 13 two of the ventu rera were hurt slightly free state under which heretofore they nourished flourished so long and prospered so much and we do strictly charge and command that the said fast bo be reverently and devoutly observed by nil all our oving subjects in england our dominion of wales and town of derwick berwick upon tweed as they tender the favour of almighty god and would avoid ilia his wrath and indignation and upon pain of such punishment as we may justly inflict upon all such as contemn and neglect the performance of so religious a duty and nd for the better and more orderly solemnizing solemn Jerrin 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 care the same be timely dispersed throughout I 1 their heir 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 majesty to whom the danover lad king wished to appeal for aid evidently decided not to take sides with that ruler against his rebellious subjects and for that hat reason it would appear that there was at least one friday the lath 1 uh which was a lucky day for america even though it may have been unlucky for england more afore recently than this example of friday the being lucky rather than unlucky for the american p people Is the fact that the man chosen m to lend lead our troops in the alie world war gen jqhn john J pershing was born on F friday the h and one of the greatest victories of ills his men was that at st which was won on friday the 1 th in fact there are many people who not only scorn this superstition but never eliass pass up a chance as tile the avla aviators pictured above lid did to defy this arid and other jinxes jinkes there was once a famous thirteen club which used to 1111 n enli mirror before it sat down dawn 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 severn years ago three chicago r aples were married on friday the 1 ith at tile the lelh hourin cell no 13 of the lie old convict ship success which was then on exhibition in the ahk nap river bach bride carried a black cut and thirteen mirrors broken nt at tile the time of the ceren viny so far as Is h known all three of these marriages have suffered no disastrous fate in an a ae e of what we are pleased to term enlightenment and res it Is interesting to note how the superstition about the number 13 lias has survived when other superstitions seems to be going into the discard the belief that this number ll 11 la a hoodoo r being to be worldwide world wide in france especially in paris no house bears that number in the french capital there are persons known as fourte eneris who are held in reserve to minke make fourteen at e wr S parties when it Is discovered that there are likely to be only thirteen guests present england has left thirteen off its license plates for automobiles and the italians never use the number in lotteries tho the turks dislike the number so BO 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 are just as superstitious ious about it as any other people only recently a great railroad system announced that it liag ha paid deference to the superstition by eliminating the number thirteen from its passenger trains it was stated at the time that many people refused to ride on those trains train sif if they knew the 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 numbered 12 A railroads and steamship lines report that travel Is lightest on the of the month and if it happens happ ens to be a F friday r may the then the number of travelers Is almost negligible what to la the un luckiest piece of money to awny own no it Is nt the 2 bill its the quarter say some folks ind and here la Is why there are 13 letters in the words quarter dollar the engle encle hns has 13 feathers in his tall 13 long feathers in eack each wing 13 arrows in one foot holds a branch with 13 leaves in the other foot bears a ribbon in its mouth with 13 letters on 14 it the over the birds head contains 13 stars and there are 13 stara on the other side of the coin I 1 but for all the superstition about this number it must be admitted that there la Is much to be said on both sides of the question for instance here are two different views on the subject the following news item from tile washington star presents one philadelphia E W tallman newly elected manager cil director rector of the auto mobile club of philadelphia 1 I lias ia a no fear af f the no 13 As president of the kl kanip club mr tallman recently remarked to hla his fellow members 1 I have hav been in philadelphia 13 years been m married orfed the same number of years my birthday falls on the of the month I 1 have motor alcen license ae no 1313 1213 and everything in my life has been associated with no 13 I 1 in taking charge of the motor club 0 on a the lath mr tallman enters upon the task of adding tour four new flora floor to the clubhouse club housa and garage at no 23 south twenty third street which will provide additional facilities tor for hundreds ot of new members and from tile the new york herald nine e C cornea or D e g t this ills addition to thir teen lana chicago Is made up of a num ber of things the accent in the case of irvin 8 berlins berling of winnetka lVin netha being on the word ln number umber mr air de r ing applied for a motor car license and got it it was no 13 of all the numbers in the box this was the last one lie he wanted so he sent it back another license arrived it was no 68 58 and mr air derling observed with hardly any tax on his arithmetic that tha t five and eight total thirteen so hk he sent that back in due course there arrived the he third license it happened to be no 67 which also totals thirteen lie he returned it and now awaits the fourth hoping that it will ill not arrive next friday which he w has noted tails falls on the thirteenth of january the number of letters jn in mr der ber lings full name add thirteen and his street address lake avenue does tw too |