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Show TTTC PBOr.PFSSTVE OPTNTON . If soup looks a little on the side, home economists sug-e- st lea into.the tossing a lettucj the grease lot It will removed as soon as it and may be ias done its job. measure on a Wind your tape before putting it into the Ling basket. Sew on it a snap Eastener. This keeps the work oasket in better order. Hot water or soapsuds will re-move chocolate candy from , , Rubber-coate- d cloths, such as rubber sheets, aprons, and rain-coats, that are to be folded for storage, should be lightly dusted with talcum powder or cornstarch to prevent sticking Never beat pillows vigorously, but gently fluff them up each day to force air around the feathers. That strip of rubber on the side of the refrigerator door jt called a gasket. It deserves tht best of care. Strong cleansin? agents and grease and oil frJf the hands are ruinous to rubber Each time the refrigerator cleaned, wipe the gasket with a mild solution of baking soda and warm water, using a damp not wet, cloth. To simplify mending, look over clothing regularly and watch for needed repairs. It is much easier to reinforce weak places or mend small holes than to wait until m-ajor repairs are needed. Strained fat used in peanut bu-tter bars, chocolate drop cookies and spice cookies, may be used with splendid results. The fussiest member of the family will never guess the shortening was used b-efore. I An American Railroad Maintains a Unique Museum Which Links the Present With the Historic Past of the Regions It Serves ill' kv rut i; Ss$'&. L., MA&'-V- tl ,4 - V J 5 M'S J! , . - ' , i i'$ fiimi 1 " utm" w.w- - The "Wedding of the Rails" at Promontory Point, Utah, May 10, 1869, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. The Cen-tral Pacific engine is on the left, the Union Pacific on the right. (From an original photograph by C. R. Savage in the Union Pacific museum.) when the buffalo roamed the west-ern plains by the millions a bleached, whitened skull of one of the great shaggy beasts. And, of course, there is many a memento of the man who won his fame as a slayer of bison "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the notables, both American and European, whom he guided on their hunting parties. Among them were James Gordon Bennett, fa-mous publisher of the New York Herald, the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia and the Ei lish nobleman, the earl of Dunraven. Over there is a memory of the epic migration of pioneers over the old Oregon Trail, a huge which once encircled the necks of the patient animals that dragged the covered wagons up through the Platte River valley, across the bar-ren plains of southern Wyoming and through South Pass toward their goal beyond the Rockies the very route over which speed the stream-liners of today. Here, too,- - are mementos of the day of the cattleman and the cow-boy one of them a rare old book showing the trails from Texas to Ellsworth, Kan., one of the roaring "cow towns" on the Kansas Pacific in the seventies. Then there's a col-lection of branding irons which once burned the insignia of famous "cow outfits" on the hides of Texas long-hor-and Mrs. Hamilton will tell you that these branding irons were of special interest to one party of visitors a short time ago. They Pacific and the history of the U. P. is studded with the names of promi-nent easterners Asa Whitney, Oli-ver Ames, George Francis Train, Thomas C. Durant and Massachusett-s- born Grenville M. Dodge, who surveyed the route for the first transcontinental railroad and then was chief engineer for its building. It may surprise you to see how many ' relics of Abraham Lincoln there are here, too. But it is not inappropriate that they should be, for it was the Great Emancipator who, on July 1, 1862, signed the Pacific railway bill, passed by con-gress, which provided for a land grant and subsidy from the govern-ment to aid in the construction of a railroad westward from the Mis-souri river to California and for an-other road eastward across Califor-nia to connect with it. It was Presi-dent Lincoln who designated Coun-cil Bluffs, Iowa, as the eastern terminus of the U. P. and among the most treasured documents in the museum's collections is an origi-nal Lincoln letter an executive or-der, dated October, 1863, appoint-ing Springer Harbaugh of Pennsyl-vania as a government director of the projected railroad. Fortunately for posterity, photog-raphy had become a art by the time the Union Pacific began building west and to that re-gion flocked many of the daring early-da- y "camera men" who had won their spurs as photographers on the battlefields of the Civil war. Among them were such men as Al-exander Gardner, Capt. A. J. Rus-sell, who became official photogra-pher for the U. P., William H. Jack-son, Savage and Ottinger and oth-ers. So an important part of the collections in the U. P. museum are the photographs made by these men which comprise a priceless pictorial record of one of the most thrilling epochs in American history. It was Savage who made some of the best pictures at the historic cere-mony at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869, when there took place the "Wedding of the Rails" the driving of the golden and silver spikes which symbolized the joining of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific lines and the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. And incidentally one of the most in-teresting of the documentary exhib-its in the museum is the photostat of the diary of this same C. R. Sav-age from May 4, when he set out from his studio in, Salt Lake City, ' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. IT'S only a yellowing piece paper upon which is scrawled a single sentence, yet there's a lot of American history, past and present, bound up in that brief mes-sage. Visit the Union Pacific museum in Omaha, Neb., and there you can read for your-self this historic telegram: "You can make affidavit of completion of road to Promon-tory Summit." The date was May 9, 1869. The writer was Grenville M. Dodge, who had been a gen-eral in the Union army during the Civil war and who was now chief engineer of the Union Pacific railroad. And when he penned that laconic message to President Oliver Ames of the U. P. he was writ-ing a new Chapter in the his-tory of transportation also a new chapter in the annals of America. For the first time these United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, were bound together by twin bands of steel, never to be broken. No longer would the westward-farin-pioneer have to plod along afoot or on horseback or ride in swaying, jolting stagecoach or prairie schoon-er in order to reach the new lands of opportunity which beckoned him in the West. The overland journey which had once been a matter of months, even years, would now be reduced to weeks, then days. That is the Past in this scrap of paper. As for .the Present well, at the very moment you are reading Dodge's telegram there is flowing over this first transcontinental rail-road, as well as the others which have been built in the last three-quarte-of a century, an endless stream of men and munitions, bound for the g battle lines of the greatest war in human history. Sol-diers, sailors and marines', machine guns and jeeps and tanks; shells and gasoline and food powerful locomotives are speeding them west toward their final destination: Tokyo. And these huge iron horses meet and roar past others headed east, pulling behind them the men and munitions which will break down the walls of Hitler's European fortress. - - But Dodge's telegram is not the only document in the collections of this museum which links the past and the present in graphic manner. We hear a lot of talk today about the manpower shortage. Back in 1869 it was also a problem, as wit-ness a letter, preserved in the U. P. museum, written by Brigham Young, president of the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons), in which he tells of his struggle to secure enough labor to build a con-necting link of railroad from Salt Lake City to the U. P. main line. Or talk to Mrs. Ruth Hamilton, the kindly gray-haire- d lady who is the curator of the museum, and she will tell you how the Past frequently walks through its doors in the per-son of some one of the thousands of persons who visit the place annu-ally. There was the day when a little group of d boys came shyly into the big room and surveyed in silence the Indian relics in one of the cases. Suddenly there was an exclamation of delight it seems that one of the boys had rec-ognized an e photograph of one of his forebears Crow Dog, a great war chief of the Sioux. Then there was the day when two d westerners showed un-usual interest in one grim relic in the museum the shackles used on "Big Nose George," a famous out-law, when he was brought back from Montana for an attempted hold-up of a Union Pacific train. The label on this relic says that the sheriff who captured "Big Nose George" was one Joseph Rankin. "That was your grandfather, you know," said the elder man to the younger, and he might have added that Joe Rankin was not only a fa-mous western sheriff in the early days of Montana but he was also a renowned scout for the army. In fact, the collections in the Union Pacific museum constitute a veritable graphic history of the old West. The era of the fur trade is symbolized in two relics of one of its greatest figures the watch and scissors used by Old Jim Bridger. Here is a mute symbol of the days li- 111111 it ' ' - - I Rare photograph of Col. W. F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill," autographed by him to Chief Red Shirt of the Sioux, who was one of the Indian notables in his Wild West show. This is one of the few pictures ever taken wearing the uniform of the Nebraska national guard in which he was an officer and is here repro-duced for the first time. (Original in the Union Pacific museum.) came from Argentina where similar irons are used today to mark the cattle that roam the pampas of that country by the hundreds of thou-sands, and the designs of their branding irons are not unlike the Spanish designs which were used by the vaqueros in the early days of California. Of course, most of the exhibits in the museum relate directly to the history of the Union Pacific railroad itself, but since U. P. history is so inextricably interwoven with the history of the fron-tier it is almost impossible to say where one leaves off and the other begins. Nor are all the relics there mementos of westerners. The East is well represented, too, for it was eastern capital that built the Union through May 11 after his work at Promontory Point was done. Too many museums are places of "static exhibits where the whole at-mosphere is that of the dead and moldering past. To visit this unique museum in Omaha (unique in that no other railroad, so far as is known, has set aside space in its headquar-ters to preserve materials connected with its own history and the history of the country it serves) is to have a feeling of seeing history on the march, with the past blending into the present in the continuing story of a nation still being built. It may be due to the vision of Carl R. Gray, former president of the Union Pa-cific, who established the mu-seum and sponsored its early devel-opment. Then again it may be due Bto the galvanic influence of his suc-cessor who takes a keen personal interest in the place and is respon-sible for the addition of many an interesting item to its collections. His name, in case you don't happen to remember that dynamic personal-ity who went to the national capital a year or so ago and showed Wash-ington officialdom how to do a big job quickly and efficiently,, is "Big Bill" Jeffers. Immense Apartment Has 54 Rooms With 17 Baths A New York city apartment, vacant and with no prospects of being rented owing to its size, can-not be made into smaller apart-ments because the cost would be about 250 times the ceiling of $1,000 which has been placed on a build-ing alteration, says Collier's. Occupying three floors, this home contains 54 rooms, 17 baths, 31 closets, 68 house telephones, a 10,000-bottl- e wine safe, a dining hall to accommodate 200 guests and a large refrigerated vault for the storage of flowers for parties. . C Just 2 drops Penetro Vat""). Nose Drops In each Hrin.JVl bnroeastthreil help you freer almost HUIFFilll lnantly. Relieve the III IILL'Tf 1 head cold nasal misery. JZSJ n,y 25c 2' times as much for 60c. 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Ml mate" "'pi, " and McKesson makes it" LjS: WNU W 344 And Your Strength and Energy Is Below Par It may be caused by disorder of Hd-n-function that permits poisonous waste to accumulate. For truly many people feel tired, weak and miserable when the kidneys fail to remove excess acids and other waste matter from the blood. Yon may suffer nagtnf backache, rheumatic pains, headaches, dizziness, fretting up nights, leg pains, swelling. Sometimes frequent ana scanty urina-tion with smarting and burning is an-other sign that something is wrong with the kidneys or bladder. There should be no doubt that prompt treatment is wiser than neglect. Use Doan't Pilla. It la better to rely on medicine that has won countrywide ap-proval than on something less favorably Known. Doan't have been tried and test-ed many years. Are at all drug stores-G-Doan today. BehindM theNews By PaulMallon Jsf' Released by Western Newspaper Union. 'NEW DEAL' IS DEAD; HERE'S WHY: WASHINGTON. Mr. Roosevelt's dismissal of fourth term questions as "picayune" seems to me prac-tically an avowal of his candidacy. No other conclusion is reasonably possible in the light of the facts. Consider what he might have said as an alternative. He could have said "no," "yes," or "perhaps." Instead, he chose to shunt aside the question as too small for his consideration, a time-wor- n and ob-vious stratagem he employed four years ago when he told third term inquirers to go stand in a corner with a dunce cap. But what seals this interpretation was his simultaneous announcement of a new program apparently the beginnings of a change of political front forecast in this column last month. He is dropping the phrase "New Deal" (but not any New Dealers), can thus forget the economic fail-ures and unsuccessful policies of same, and can cover them over with a new world program based on an agreement with Russia to promote a revolutionary new world. Mr. Jtoosevelt is not only dead right in consigning "New Deal" to the limbo of obsolete terms, but he could have gone much further. The terms "liberalism," "conserva-tism," "internationalism," and "iso-lationism" within the next year or two, will be smothered similarly by greater events which are at hand. The orthodox, unimaginative poli-cies of professional liberalism (di-- . rected economy, security, leisure, etc.) already have been over-whelmed by the greater events ol the war. So have the stodgy doc-trines of conservatism (get back tc normalcy). It is no longer a question of which road to take. But what road you can get, if any. Our thinking maj have less to do with our future than events force us to do. Already, we see we cannot contrive a Utopia, but soon we may be forced to do what is necessary to prevent chaos, revolutions and a greater war. People do not understand yet thai the rise of Russia already decrees a revolutionary new world, althougt the statesmen dealing with the de-tailed conflicts and prospects (which cannot easily be discussed in public in wartimes for diplomatic and pa. triotic reasons) obviously can al-ready see it. 'DEAD' FOR TWO TEARS The New Deal, of coorse, has beer dead for two years. It was knocked out by the war while dying on its feet. Its theories and its personnel were not sufficiently competent oi efficient for the tremendous war jot of production and marshalling oJ war forces. But what we are coming into i! not as easy to recognize, apparentlj not even to Mr. Roosevelt, as h( did not attempt to define it vers clearly. Indeed, it would be neces-sary to hear from Mr. "Stalin and possibly also Mr. Churchill to find that out, if they yet are certain. A Russian victory will place Stalin in at least indirect control, econom-ically as well as politically, of Eu-rope and no doubt Asia as we'll. Our capitalistic countries wili come out of the war saddled witi great debt for generations, but Rus-sia has no debt and will emerge with greater productive capacitj than when she started. She also will have the superior world army, we the navy (5 to 1 over Britain and more over Russia). This situation in itself will require revolutionary changes on our part all along the line. PUTTING AN END 10 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY The incontestable answer to all this juvenile delinquency in the news is one word discipline. This is not but ultra modern psychiatric doctrine. The instinctive tendencies of children must be curbed by discipline until they have reached the age where enables them to con-form to social customs and to take advantage of social opportunities. Too many parents and children themselves erroneously believe that modernism permits free expression of their instincts. This leads to the current savage eyesores of our vaunted civilization in which prosti-tution has been flaunted conspicu-ously in cities by grade school girls, thefts and crime before the age oi reason has been reached, and mur-der of parents by children who find them troublesome. I have seen, in Times square, New York, girls barely past puberty with soldiers and sailors, not in smal 'groups, but in droves, while police look on shaking their heads in ap-- parent helplessness. I could break ' that up in 15 minutes. And here is the method: Everywhere that soldiers and sail-ors go, there are MPs. If the mili-tary police were ordered to detair and question every serviceman ac-companying a girl of doubtful age, and terms in the guardhouse were provided, the prattice would soor lose its current trend. The home is still the cradle of oui culture. Discipline should be re-established there on modern psychi atric lines. If the home is broker up by parental delinquency (whict also is widespread), or by the war or for whatever cause, discipline wil have to be exerted somewhere else If the restoration of home anc school discipline is not enough, th churches are the next power tha might be able to use some. By all means, use of such power and in fact all youth leadership must be kept away from the state particularly the federal government Valuable Attar Attar of roses, a perfume base, is so valuable to the rose oil indus-try of Bulgaria it is deposited in banks. Builders of U. P.-- C. P. Laid 1,775 Miles of Track in Four Yea ' un July 1U, 1B65, the first rail for the new Union Pacific railroad was laid at Omaha, Neb. Nearly 10 weeks later, only 10 miles had been completed, but there was material on hand for 100 miles more. The distance extended 30 miles by Janu-- i ary 26, 1866, and after that the builders really, went to work. By the end of that year they had laid 260 more miles of track. The year 1867 saw 240 miles added and the line had reached Sherman hill in the Rocky mountains, the highest point on the route (8,247 feet elevation). During all this time the builders had to work heavily armed and under guard of troops because of almost daily attacks by hostile Indians. They laid 425 miles of track during 1868 and another 125 miles brought them to Promontory Point in Utah where was to take place the junction with the Central Pacific. While the Union Pacific was build- - tag its 1,085.8 miles of track west-ward, the Central Pacific had been coming eastward with its 690 miles Naturally, these two routes didn't converge perfectly. Actually, the grading gangs of the 'two companies passed each other and graded mile after mile of parallel route before the actual junction point was de- termined by officials of the two com-panies, because each organization was receiving a premium for the amount of track laid. ; 'WEDDING OF RAILS' A DRAMATIC SCENE immediately that the great task was done as Dr. Thomas C. Durant vice president of the Union Pacific, drove home a silver spike and Gov Ice- land Stanford of California, an offi. cial of the Central Pacific, pounded down the golden spike. The spikes driven, the two locomo-tives, which had been brought up to the rail ends, moved forward until they touched, the christening was poured over the touching noses of the two iron horses and the ceremony of the "wedding the ratls" was complete. o i The climax of the epic achieve-- i ment in railroad building came on May 10, 1869. It was a colorful and dramatic scene. There, at Promon-- . tory Point, was gathered a great crowd of railroad men and laborers ; to witness the laying of the last tie l which was to be clinched with spikes of silver and gold, furnished by sev-- . eral states and territories. (After , the ceremony, both the tie and spikes , were removed and placed in various ;storic museums.) Building of the first transconti-nental telegraph line had sped ahead of the road for the iron horse, so by this time the country was spanned by telegraph wires to the main cities. Although those in charge of the ceremonies didn't realize it at the time, actually they created the first "national hook-up.- " By an arrangement of signals and hooking up of telegraph wires so they would register the blows, both coasts and intermediate cities were apprised |
