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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Behind-the-Scene- Cost analysis of a Workmen s $5,000 house built as a research project at Purdue university reveals that $2,828, or 56 per cent of the price, goes for construction materials. Lumber Smooth Path for Sovereigns On American Trip This Month and wood fittings cost $900 and constitute the biggest single part of that item. Labor, at $1,434, accounts for 27 per cent, while total contractors' profits amount to 16.3 per cent, or Bruce Dudley, executive manager of the Louisville (Ky.) baseball club, who is a connoisseur of peanuts, insists that one bad peanut can ruin a spectators enjoyment of an entire game. If you bite into a soggy, $815. damp peanut when your mouth waters to crunch a fresh one, your mood is ruined and sos the game as far as youre concerned, he explained. 4Q1 How Mt. Everest Was Named Mofint Everest was so named in honor of Sir George Everest, a Welshman, who became surveyor general of India and had much to do with the making of adequate maps of the country. He lived from White House Solves Its Banquet Problem; French Canadian Barber Prepares To Tackle the Royal Whiskers. to 1806. The Indian name for the peak is Guarisanker the Mountain of the Gods. 1759 By WILLIAM MASTERSON John Q. Public just puts on his hat and goes traveling. But when Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth set out for a months junket to North America, theres enough-behinAs the naHOUSEKEEPER scenes bustling to shame. a dozen circuses. From London to tion's to. first Toronto unseen hands have housekeeper," Mrs. Vancouver, from, Washington, been smoothing the bumps since last autumn, making certain Henrietta Nesbitt must be prethat Britains sovereign couple will have clear sailing from pared to meet any emergency that their arrival at Quebec on' may arise when King George and d May 15 until their departure a month later from Halifax. From the kings official barber to the chap who will seat guests at the White House banquet, this vast army of V will stagehands work ahead and clean up behind as the royal entourage glides gracefully on its way from coast to coast, untroubled by the petty details that bother you and me when we go To the Britishers, Canada will be not nearly so much a problem as the United States, where customs defy the traditional English standsight-seein- g. ards, where photographers rush pell mell to shoot every visiting notable, and where theres apt to be a dearth of the ceremony customarily attendant upon a visit of such esteemed guests. Scotland Yard Intervenes. This problem falls principally on two people, Chief Constable Albert Canning of Scotland Yard and George Summerlin, head of the state departments protocol division, both now immersed in plans for the visit which starts when the royal train crosses the American border at Niagara Falls on June 7, and ends five days later when George and Elizabeth emerge once more at civilization into Canadian Montreal. Late in April Mr. Canning arrived at Washington and went into conference with the secret service e American concerning the itinerary of the royal train. His first act was to hush Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had planned to 1,500-mil- - ".v.vw Rose Is Secrecy Symbol For centuries the rose has been the symbol of secrecy. The prepoIn means under. sub sition places of sanctuary where confidences were to be exchanged, It was customary to carve a rose over the entrance. Literally, to be under the rose was to have the benefits of secrecy. Grasshopper Plagues A grasshopper plague occurred in the United States in 1856, and another occurred from 1874 to 1877. The latter plague, which extended Queen Elizabeth arrive next month. Since the Roosevelts are a large as well as a generous and impulsive family, and since the White House is the center of the country's hospitality, Mrs. Nesbitt's emergencies Frederick Lascelles, the kings sec- sometimes come quite frequently, retary, called one day and an- calling for a meal serving either nounced: We will be guests of your three or 100 guests. country and you naturally set the customs to be followed. Mr. Summerlin will see to it that House staff, and H. C. Spruks, ceremonial officer of Mr. Summerlins' Secretary of State Cordell Hull and department. Everyone Gets a Seat. Thanks to Mr. Lascelles carte blanche, the seating problem at the White House banquet has been solved. Under Englands system the President and Queen Elizabeth would sit at the head of the table, with the king and Mrs. Roosevelt buried among lesser lights at the foot. Thats no way to treat a king, so by substitute arrangement all four personages will sit facing each other across the center of a long table. Mrs. Helm will make up the guest list and send it to Mr. Spruks who will worry several days, over who sits next to whom. According to custom, American officials run down the line with the President first, Vice president second, followed by ambassadors, Supreme court justices, senators, representatives and whoever else is left. Mrs. Helm must decide, among other things, what BARBER Paul Emile Tasse, ambassadors, justices and congresswho promises not to press a shatn-po- o men get precedence in sitting closor hair tonic on his roypl cus- est the President. Next the list will go to Mr. Tolley, tomer, will travel in the official who perfects the seating arrangetrain. In recent weeks his chair in ment by cutting out a cardboard the basement shop in the Chateau dummy complete with miniature Laurier at Ottawa has been usurped place cards. So much for the banfrom regular clients by rubber quet. The food, linen and household necks" eagerly stretched for the problems surrounding a royal visit hands which will shave the royal fall on Mrs. Nesbitt, who staunchly refuses to worry about the king face and cut the royal hair. and queen of England any more Mrs. Hull meet the royal train at Ni- than she would about a week-en- d agara Falls. He must arrange for a personal guest of Mrs. Roosevelt. double line of marines down which Perhaps the most colorful behind-scene- s the party will walk from the train worker on the entire British shed to the waiting automobiles, for schedule is one Monsieur Paul an army band to play God Save Emile Tasse who will be King the King, and for a motorcycle Georges official barber from Queescort to precede the party on its bec to Vancouver and back to Halifor the Catriumphant ride to the White House. fax. As barber-in-chiThe White Houses chief behind-scene- s nadian National railways he has workers will be Mrs. Hen- shaved everyone from Prince rietta Nesbitt, official housekeeper; (brother of the emperor of Mrs. James Helm, who is Mrs. Japan) to Joe Doakes, private citiRoosevelts social secretary; A. B. zen. (Western Newspaper Union.) Tolley, a member of the White of etiquette, but they include meeting the monarchs at the border and providing official entertainment until the day they leave. Things like curtsying to the queen and seating arrangement at the White House banquet were sticklers until Alan over a period of three years, caused widespread ruin throughout the whole region between the Mississippi river and the Rocky OGPV, GESTAPO, ETC. Albert Canning, chief constable of Scotland Yard, who carries an umbrella like a typical Englishman, will watch out for the sovereigns' safety during their five day visit in the United States. His system is just the opposite from that of the American secret service. British detectives will mingle with the crowd watching the king and queen. The secret service sticks with its President. Edouard (Tough Guy) Daladier Sets New Fashion for Dictators If Europe stays away from war it will probably be through the acts of a tough little Frenchman who strangely turned dictator to fight former dictatorships, a business-lik- e poetry teacher who stays silent as a sphynx and equally undramatic, despite the modern political teachings which say dictators must have a flair for the sensational. Edouard Daladier is 'the more a success because hes making a comeback, having been tossed from tell reporters about the royal suite the French premiership five years prepared in the White House with ago as an aftermath of the notorious scandal. Last $16,000 WPA funds (no other approStavisky pawn-sho- p was available). year, given temporary-dpriation To provide maximum protection, ictatorial powthe royal train will follow a pilot ers during the ' Munich crisis, he hantrain carrying reporters from the dled them so imperborder to Washington. At all public appearances, the most dangerous of sonally tljat the which will be New Yorks inevitable obligingly country returned the staff of ticker tape shower, Mr. Cannings men will keep guard to prevent troupower on March 19 when France seemed ble. Unlike American secret serve headed for an ice agents, who cling to the Presicrisis. dent and watch the crowds for danDaladiers tough ger signals, Scotland Yards ,20 itDaladier dictator recipe has agents will mingle in the crowd self. Mr. Canning says hes found turned France from a nation of dawthats the most successful way. dling wine drinkers into one purposeWhen in Rome . . . fully planning against war. A few weeks ago he suddenly announced . be can Mr. Summerlins jobs work week would be ex the roughly, lumped under the heading even-wors- 40-ho- ur panded to 60 hours, getting by with it to the surprise of political confederates who remembered ruefully the unhappy union troubles of last autumn. He told reliefers to help with the defense program or get re- opened recently near Karangahake, New Zealand, miners found countless glowworms 1,000 feet below the surface. They were so numerous that in one stretch of about 100 feet it was possible to walk along the truck rails using only the beetles light. Millions Given Employment More than 6,000,000 persons in the United States are dependent upon the automotive industry for employment, including those engaged in manufacturing, raw material industries, sales, road construction, insurance employees and bus and truck operators. Largest Diesel Locomotive The new locomotives of the trains, the City of Los Angeles and the City of San Francisco, are the most pow- erful Diesel locomotives in the world. The two Diesel plants of these locomotives were built by the Electro-Motiv-e corporation of La Grange, 111. First Troops Return Postmans Record When Henry Sutcliffe of the Lawrence, Mass., post office retired, the postmaster and superintendent out that he had traveled 160,000 miles and carried 456,000 pounds of mail during the 38 years he had delivered mail to Prospect Hill fig-liir- The first large contingent of returning World war troops, about 4,000, arrived in New York on the Mauretania from Liverpool on De- cember 1, 1918. They disembarked at the docks on the Jersey side of the river the following day, and went directly to Camp Mills. Dodge Death by a Second Psychologists have found that apof American proximately one-fift- h automobile drivers dodge death by a second. This is the time these drivers allow themselves to get back trafin line in the face of fic after passing a car. 25,000 Tons of Coins If all the pure nickel coins which have been put in circulation throughout the world could be collected and put on a huge scale, there bilwould be about four and lion coins, weighing approximately 25,000 tons. Pygmalion Was Sculptor . Washington Against Franking President Washington deprecated the practice of the franking of the mail and Jackson, in an annual message, pointed to a deficit of $100,000 and asked congress to revise laws granting the privilege. In Greek legend, Pygmalion was a sculptor and king of Cyprus, who, though he hated women, fell in love with his own ivory statue of Aphrodite. At his earnest prayer the goddess gave life to the statue and he married it. Addressing the President Although a citizen of the United States would address the President as Mr. President, or The Hon. F. D. Roosevelt, President, all diplomatic letters from foreign sources style him Excellency. Birth Rate Increases The birth rate of 17.8 per 1,000 in 1938 was the highest of any year since 1931, an insurance company reports. The 1938 rate, according to the report, is 7.9 per cent greater than the record low of 1933. Caligula Mild Early in Reign Caligula, third Roman emperor, seemed a mild ruler in the first year of his reign, but after a severe illness, he tortured and killed ef Chi-chi- bu Glowworms Light Mine When an old gold mine was Aeronautical Library The division of aeronautics of the Library of Congress, Washington, D C., has the most comprehensive collection of aeronautical material in the world. Soil Erosion Is Costly Soil erosion in the last 50 years has done about $20,000,000 damage to land in the United States, government authorities estimate. Water Over Niagara Falls The mean annual volume of water at Iguassu is 61,660 cubic feet per second, while that of Niagara is 212,200 cubic feet per second. the government payroll. MeanFrench munition factories have been sent full steam ahead under a veil of, secrecy that parallels the German or Italian system, certainly strange for a democracy. Daladier came from a peasant family in Provence, and was named to the chamber of deputies in 1919. In 1924 he joined the cabinet un der Edouard Herriot, who had been his old university professor. Tena- off while ciously clinging to politics, he has since held cabinet posts for colonies, labor, education, war, public works, justice and foreign affairs. France is thankful for a strong man just now when Italy is pressing her Mediterranean demands and Germany presents a threat along the Maginot line. Easy-goin- g Parisians shrink just a little when he starts banning political parties, clos ing newspapers, executing spies anc mobilizing the nation. It isnt democratic. But theyre pretty sure tha when the crisis passes, Edouard Da ladier will no longer want to be a dictator. V one-ha- lf Boudins Blancs blancs are French sausages made of minced white chicken meat, yolk of eggs, onions, bread crumbs, salt and spices mixed with cream or milk, cased and boiled in milk or water. Boudins Deepest Spot in Ocean The deepest place yet found in the ocean is off the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines, where soundings of 35,400 feet have been reported. Tongue-Twist- er I s Honorific abilitudinitatibus from Act V, scene 1, line 41 of Shake- speares play Loves Labour Lost. It is a stock example Latin word. of the longest Tomatoes From Cuba Practically all the tomatoes bought in the stores during the winter come from Cuba. They arrive at the rate of two boatloads a week. Worlds Highest Road The highest road in the world, nearly two miles above sea level, is the one over the Iseran pass in Savoy, France. 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