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VOL. 23 4 iftto At_ SOOVS. OE c 0A, THE WINIFRED TIMES WIN IFRED, MONTANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER IL 1935. NO. Bo HOW PAINTINGS, FURNITURE CAN BE GIVEN ANTIQUE COLOR.— Not only book. but even paintings and furniture can be given a very natural appearance of great age by the clever use of tea and coffee, says a writer in the Montreal Her- ald. The business of turning out antiques in this way has become quite a prontable Industry overseas, and unscrupulous dealers in such so-called valuable objects sell these \fakes\ at extortionate prices to unsuspecting purchasers. The col- lector who knows his antiques, however, is not fooled. One of the most common tricks of the makers of \antique\ books is to soak the pages In tea to give them the yellowish tinge that comes with great age. Coffee is sometimes used for this purpose. 4 clever workman who knows just how strong to make the tea, and just how long to keep the - paper in the beverage, can closely approximate the appearance of great age. How British Came Into Possession of Bermudas The British came into possession of the Bermudas by colonization, ob- serves a writer In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The islands were discovered three times over before anyone thought them of sufficient importance to establish a settlement. Each of the discoverers was shipwrecked. The first was Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard, from whom the common name of the group Is derived. He found them in 1522. Henry May, an Englishman, was the neat visitor, In 1593. Admiral Sir George Somers, another Englishman, was wrecked at Bermuda en route to the Virginia colonies in 1609. Somers soon afterward established the first -settlement, and the Bermudas are oft- en called the Somers islands. In 1620 they were graated to 120 persons, an offshoot of the Virginia company, 60 of whom commenced cul- tivation, which yielded rich crops of tobacco. The present white popula- tion consists largely of descendants of these colonists and of others who came soon afterward as fugitives from the civil wars In England. Indian Medicieme In general, the tribes of Indians show many similarities in regard to medi- cine, but the actual agents employed differ with the tribes and localities, as well as with the individual healers, says a writer in the Washington Star. Magic, prayers, songs, exhortations, suggestion, ceremonies, fetishes and certain specific and mechanical proc- esses are employed only by the medi- cine men or medicine women; other specific remedies or procedures are Proprietary, generally among a few old women in the tribe, while many vegetal remedies and simple manipulations are of common knowledge In a given lo- cality. Bridegroom Chases Bride Kalmuks, a tribe of central Asia, be - Revs they have the most unique wed- ding custom of the world. When the bridegroom appears for his bride on the wedding day, her family orders him away and puts up a sham fight. Then the bride escapes with her father on a horse and Is chased ))y the bride- groom and his friends. She Is caught, of course, and taken back home for the ceremony. The Pampas The pampas are the vast, grassy Plains In central Argentina. Their area is equal to the state of Texas. They are bound on the north by the forests of Gran Chaco and on the south by the steppes of Patagonia. Diming the rainy season, the pampas are covered with a luxuriant growth of grasses which provide pasturage for great numbers of cattle and sheep. Where Beauty Is the Role From time immemorial Aries, France, has been the home of beau- tiful women. It is one place where feminine beauty Is so general that it becomes monotonous. In the ruins of the amphitheater here may be seen the gladiators' cells and the cages In which the wild beasts were kept be- tween their battles in the arena. Names of Cards In Ireland, the Ace of Diamonds is called \The Earl of Cork,\ it being the worst ace and the poorest card In the pack. The King—This card is believed to be an evil one. On most fortune telling systems the card portends luck, Its other names meaning \The great hanged one.\—Pearson's Weekly. Whipping Legal Punishment Whipping I. a legal punishment In Delaware, which prescribes It for such crimes as burglary, argon, wife -beat- ing, horse -stealing, larceny, etc. In all other states It has been abolished. ex- cept as a disciplinary measure In prisons. Detroit had a public whipping Mud from MR In Dams to flood large flan; for Pep - growing pm -pones are being built by the Siirprtse Valley municipality in Southern Saskatchewan. •••• •••••••• THE SAME COUNTRY By ROBERT V. FLEMING Vice President, American lemins Association There is a growing appreciation, both on the part of the people and the Gov- ernment, of the earnest and sincere efforts being made by bankers to aid in recovery. It is desirable that we miss no opportu fifty to foster pub Ile understanding of the bankers problems. We art living In an age of complex ano upset economic conditions Our af fairs are close) inter related not only within the confines of our ohs n borders but extend to other coun- Wee throughout the world. R. V. (+LEMING The Greatest Difficulty I think the greatest difficulty we have to overcome in America today Is due to our impatience with the progress we are making towards recovery. We must realize that while the Government can help by directing some measures for re- lief and recovery, we must help our selves by doing our share to give im petus to the Government's efforts We have the same count -y and basically the same businesses, factories and people we had prior to the depression, and business initiative must step forward if real recovery is :o be achieved. The theory we often hear expressed that banks create business activity is wrong. Banking can only make a sup- plementary contribution to business ac- tivity. Bankers have the facilities and the desire to extend credit, but busi- ness must initiate activity by seeking the credit which is readily available to all worthy borrowers. Let it be said for business, however, that business men are as eager as bank- ers to contribute towards recovery. I think some of the trouble Iles In the tact that too many legislative measures have been proposed for reform which leave an uncertainty in the minds of business leaders as to their eventual outcome and effect. Consequently, they hesitate to expand until the probable effects of such legislation are known. MAKING IT HARDER FOR BANK ROBBERS Mechanical Devices That Impede the Work of Bandits De- scribed by Bankers As- sociation Official. The impediments which the hard working bank robber now meets in ply- ing his trade among small as well as large banks are deecm ibed by James E. Baum. Deputy Manager American Bankers Association in charge of its Protective Department, in an article In \Banking\ published by his organisa- tion. - Protective equipment will minimize if not prevent loss,\ Mr. Baum says, \such as the silent automatic type of alarm, approved tear gas systems, sev- eral styles of bandit resisting encloe urea and timelocks, or safes equipped with timelocks. which can be set for intervals of a few minutes. \The silent automatic alarms operate in the beginning of a holdup and through actions carried out by the bank employees In obedience to the bandits' own commands They are adaptable to the smaller banks which continue to be easiest targets for hank robbery. Tear Gas Systems \Tear gas systems have their adven- t ages as self-contained protective units where outside aid Is Inconvenient or too remote from the bank to be effec• dye. One objection to the use of tear gas In preventing holdup is the need of pressing a lever or button to discharge It. Although this necessary action seems too much to expect of the victims In a crisis where their lives are 10 jeopardy. the feet remains that tear gas systems have defeated bank robbery. Its de terrent value Is also Important \Different styles of bandit resisting enclosures are available. The lock man- ufacturers also produce timelocks which can be set to open at intervals of five minutes or longer. These locks are especially adapted for attachment to smalesafes or chests for safeguarding surplus funds whilt the bank is open for business.\ Stock of Central Banks Usually Privately Owned Of all the central banks at present existing there are only four whose stock Is owned by the government The new est central hank is that of Confide. which opened Its doors only a few months ago after • most exhaustive study had been made of the experience of all nations with the result that the stock of the Bane of Canada Is privately owned. An Object Lesson From Europe By RAYMOND PITCAIRN National Cheinvien Sentinels of the Republic 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary sake,' deserve neither liberty nor safety.\ So spoke Benjamin Franklin, sage of the Revolution and of our early Re- public. His words ring as true today as they did a century and a heti ago Turn to the news from modern Eu • rope if you would see the evidence. What do we read? Reports of government threatening to p/finge it. people into a war of conquest which statesmen fear may embroil all Europe. st Reports of government elevating re- ligious and educational intolerance to the status of a national policy. Reports of government sacrificing the freedom of its populace on the altars of Communism and regimentation Under what types of governments are these things happening' The answer is clear Under those whose people, for the sake of a promised—aad unfulfilled— economic safety, have delivered their essential liberties Into the hands of highly centralized authority—whether a dictatorship or a communized bureau- ('racy - These are the dangers which the Founders of our nation knew and fore- saw when they wrote a Constitution that denied despotic power to politicians and vested all ultimate authority In the people These are the tragic possibilities which men and women who love America seek to avert today when they fight efforts to weaken those guaranties of personal liberty and opportunity that are written into our Fundamental Law. • They know — from the lessons now apparent in Europe — that Franklin's warning could be rewritten to read: \They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety lose both liberty and safety.\ Don't let that happen to America. BEAUTY TALKS By Marjorie Duncan 1:4 3 :1 .411••••••••••••••.... THE \OFF -DAYS\ S PASMODIC negligence Is step sister to chronic carelessness. Both are inexcusable In the matter of one's per- sonal appearance. Both pay the same price. Groom yourself perfectly for 360 days in the year, and let the world see you careless the other 5. What happens? You are judged—or rather nalajudged (if you want it that way) by your off -days. You look lovely most frequently—you are listless seldom— yet it is the \seldom\ that everyone seems to notice. Connie found that out. She confided to me the other day that she would never, never venture forth, even to the grocer's around the corner, without \fixing and fussing as though going to a dinner -dance.\ Connie ordinarily Is quite careful about her appearance. Occasionally, however, she has an off - day. Site reasons thus, \Oh well, I don't have any special engagements— ! don't expect to meet anyone today —and I'm just going out for a short time. \So I slipped out of the house and on to the store and even the grocer's cat seemed to stare at me. I caught a fleeting reflection of myself in the mirror and it was none too flattering. Right then and there I had a premoni- tion. On my way horne I talked to myself, expressing over and over again the hope that I would not have the misfortune of meeting anyone. And then—curses—if I didn't walk straight Into the one person in the whole world whom I wished least to see at that moment.\ Connie must have wished as so many of us often do that a magic po- tion for making us invisible would be Invented. However, that little Inci- dent changed Connle's regime to one of systematic precision. No more spasms of negligence. She Is always a picture of perfect grooming. Connie's sad little experience re- minds me of a lovely lady I know who is really a brilliant housekeeper. On the one and only day that she failed to make the beds and straighten lip (because she felt Indisposed) the fates conspired against her. She had more unerpected visitors In an hour—that day—than she usually has in a week. It's the experience of every woman— seems to me. Remember the wrinkle makers. Con- stant frowning, scowling, a despondent and morose disposition. Too sudden reduction without compensating skin care takes away the fatty underlining, hut the akin that has been stretched to accommodate it futile into folds and wrinkles. Remember that worrylnz over the wrinkles will often make matters worse. Anti remember, too that your youth did not die in s day, the wrinkles worked their way Into fare and neck —a little yesterday. a little the day before, over perhaps years without your knowing it. Don't expect them to leave In a day or a month. Re patient and you will be rewarded with youth regained. When Emotion Is Das • g IMMO Emotion which is not disciplined by thought Is always dangerous. In Counterfeit Money Re—It costs me 15,000 a year to live. She—Do you really think It is worth it/ Cluck, CNA \Tomminmy's girl Is no chicken.\ \No: she's a goose if she inderiee hint !\ Next Case \Idy face is my fortune.\ \Huh! Another hard hick se., Pearson', Weekly. Such Language \Has daddy finished dressing?\ s ‘ , \1 don't think so, mummy, I heard him talking to his collar.\ Vivid Description - can you describe your assailant?' ' of 0.nurae. I can. That's what he lilt II1P for, describing him.\ At Auction, Maybe \Is your wife changeable, old man?\ \I've never tried, hut I shouldn't think so.\—Answers Magazine. Proof of the Pudding Mrs. A—Shall I ask the cook for ref- erences? Mr. A—so, get her to submit sang - pies. And Sure, Too \I adore bridge! I could play it in my sleep.\ \Apparently you do.\—Tit-Bits Mag- azine. Nothing to Speak Of Floorwalker (to man in store -4 -Are yon looking for something? Man—No; I've lost my wife.—Patle finder Mngazine. His Error He—Who spilled mustard on this waffle, dear? She—Oh, John! How could you! This is lemon pie! FLOWERS FOUND TO RUN TEMPERATURES Flowers are apt to be feverish, says a communication to the French Aced - Ow of Sciences by Professor Blaring - hem, reporting his observations of the temperature of plants. .Some of the flowers that are given to developing abnormal temperatures, he says, are the narciesint, the nastur- tium and the dandelion. Most flowers, however, are given to higher temperatures at budding time, sometimes several degrees above the temperature of the surrounding This Is easily noted in sweet pea buds between 10 o'clock in the morn- ing and noon. The male flowers of diocecions and monoecious plants are warmer In tem- peratures than female flowers of the same plant at the same state of de- velopment.—Detroit Free Press. Notes in the Belfry Britain's reputation as the Ringing late Is enhanced by the enlargement of the Bouroville Carillon. which hangs In the tower of Bournville village schools. near Birmingham. When It was installed by the late George Cadbury In 1906, It consisted of 22 bells; now It boasts 48 bells, and the most deli- cate response to the player's touch of any carillon in the world. The heaviest hell weighs three and a quarter tons end the lightest twelve pounds, the to- tal weight of the Instrument being sev- enteen and n half tons.—TR-Bits Maga- zine. A City That Was The record rise and fall of a city Is 'teddy held by Plthole, in Penneyl- verde. Within three months of the miffing pt oil, the town had a hotel, a illisiiter, and a daily paper. At the end of seven months it lied 24 hotels, an academy of music, a water works, a city hall, and 15,000 inhabitants. 'Chen the oil was taken Away by a pipe -line, end in three weeks the city had 40 In- n uu tee. — Sion teen I Herald. Odd Tricks Played by Noise Noise plays many tricks. In the great cathedrals of Milan, Cologne anti St. Peteins an organ note lasts so long that any rendition Is a confused jum- ble. In St. Paul's In London and In the Hollywood howl It is possible for two people 90 feet apart to have a whispered conversation, owing to the acoustics.—Scientlfic American. 16,000 Miles of Trout Streams There are approrimately 16,000 miles of trout streams In the state of .Michigan. The acquisition of land with river frontage Is favored by the Department of Conservation to Insure continued freedom of fishing privileges. —Detroit News. Humble Protest \You have mottle rich relations,\ said the goody. \Ti. answered Farmer Corntossel. \But all they ever do for me Is to put me to the expense of buying my family new clothes to wear to foolish par- 41616\cnete . mom MERRY QUIPS GOVERNMENT BANK UNSUITED TO U.S. Would Serve Politics Rather Than Business Needs, Says R. S. Hecht, Citing Previous Experiences. QUOTES PRESIDENT JACKSON Extent and Diversity of This Country Presents Different Situation From Europe and Makes Regional Banking Necessary. WASHINGTON, O. C.—A refutation of arguments in favor of a goverument owned central bank system for the United States is presented in a state- ment by R. S. Hecht, President of the American Bankers Association, based on exhaustive stmliee of European cen- tral banks. He also points out the di.. Lustrous consequences of previous cen- tral bent. experiments in the United States. \Our present regional Federal Re- serve System under private ownership is infinitely better for this country than would be a government -owned and controlled central bank,\ Mr. Hecht says. \If history teaches us any thing, It is that it is almost certain that a central bank so owned would be run to meet the varying exigencies of the government In power rather than to serve the commercial needs of the country.\ Central banking has been tried twice In the United States, but was finally abolished because the credit control which the central banks exercised be. came objectionable and unpopular, he goes on to say. What Andrew Jackson Said • \The continued existence of the Sec- ond Bank finally became a bitter polit- ical issue and President Jackson sue- ceeded in abolishing It.\ Mr. Hecht says. \Permit me to quote from his fare well address: 'The Immense capital and peculiar privileges bestowed upon It enabled It to exercise despotic sway over the other banks in every part of time country. From Its superior streugth It could seriously injure. If not destroy. the business of any of them which might incur its resentment.... If you had not conquered, the government would have passed from the hands of the many to the hands of the few; and this organized money power, from its secret conclave, would have dictated the choice of your highest officers. , The forms of your government might, for a time, have remained, but Its living spirit would have departed from \ When the Wilson Administration con sidered banking reform It carefully kept away from vesting central bank- ing powers in a single institution and instead introduced the regional Idea by creating twelve reserve banks located in different economic and geographical sections of the country. Mr Hecht says. a plan that has worked exceedingly well because the separate banks are under the guidance of men chosen on account of their intimate acquaintance with the problems' and needs of their u•especti ye territories. Fie continues: \Time gm -eat size and diversity of America tends to make a central bank undesieuble. Time central banks of Eu rope such as the flanks of England, France and Germany, cover areas not as large as some of our states. A con tral hank In the United States on the other hand would be called upon to ail minister time financial policies of an area larger than all of Europe, In which there are quite a number at Pen tral banks. Subservient to Popular Demands \Moreover history has proven that any banking system entirely owned and dominated by the government usu ally demonstrates much greater ability in aiding expansion of credit than In putting on the brakes at the right flint to prevent undue inflation by restrain- ing and contracting credit. 'rhis is eas to understand because in times of du. preasion everyone is urging the govern tnent to make money and credit easy and to encourage expansion. \On the other hand, It always hag /leen and always will be a difficult task for any government to call a halt hi time of apparent prosperity because In the very nature of things the govern nment wo Id he very sensitive to public criticism and would hesitate to take any action which would tend to curtail busitteas activity. It is such undue sus- ceptibility to popular demands which makes government banking inh\rently weak. \Our studiem show that of all the ven- tral banks at present existing there are only four whose stock Is owned by the government. The newest central bank is that of Canada. which opened its doors only a few months ago after a most exhaustive study had been made of the experience of all nations with the result that the stock of the Bank of Canada is privately owned.\ The American Bankers Association, Mr. Hecht says. Is convinced that a cen tral bank would not be in the interest of the public or the banks. This post • SEES INFLATION \\ .1 ! A SLOW PROCESS A Real Danger for the Future, Col l Ayres Tells Banking Groups, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.—Present prospects do not indicate that inflation severe enough to cause further dollar devaluation will come soon in this country, hut as an ultimate develop- ment it seems to be a very real dan ger, Leonard P. Ayres, Vice President Cleveland Trust Company, said here tonight in an address before the Grad- uate School of Banking. He believed this statement to be true \unless the government enters frankly upon a pol- icy of issuing fiat money with which to meet its expenses.\ At present that does not seem to be in sight, he said. The Graduate School is operated jointly by the American Institute of Bauking Section of the American Bankers Association and Rutgers Uni- versity to offer advanced studies for bank officers. - We have so enormously increased the capacity of our banking system for credit expansion that it is difficult to see how we could have a vigorous business revival without having it de- velop into a credit inflation,\ Colonel Ayres declared. Inflation a Slow Process If inflation does come it will be a slow proces, he said, pointing out that in Germany, France, Belgium and Italy it took about five years to develop from the time when the governments en- tered upon policies of financing large peace -time deficits by bank credit up to the time when the public generally began to spend money rapidly because of fear that it would still further de predate in purchaeing power. \If we are to go through such a period here it would seem likely that It might last rather longer than the corresponding periods did abroad,\ he said. \Its beginning would date from the spring of 1933 when we left the old gold basis for our money and en- tered upon the policy of financing large governmental deficits by the sale of Federal securities mainly to banks rather than to private investors. \The method that we are following Is the one that proved disastrous In Europe for in all those countries in - eluding Germany, the increasing issues of money that caused the inflations were not mere printing press issues of fiat currency, but were secured by government bonds and notes discount- ed at the banks. Nevertheless, the process is inherently a slow one.\ Among the clearest lessons taught by the European experience, Colonel Ayres asserted. Is that there are \no good hedges against inflation.\ He added: Did Not Lighten Debt Burdens \Ono of the strange facts about these Inflations is that while they destroyed the values of most existing debts, they did not succeed in lightening the debt burdens of either the people as a whole, or of the corporations. \Inflation destroys the value of bonds and mortgages and so confiscates the property of these holders -of obliga- tions and hands it over to the share- holders and the equity owners. How- ever, it introduces so many new eco- mimic difficulties that these share and equity holders are at once forced to incur new indebtedness so that when stabilization comes the problems of debt are about as troublesome as they were before, or even more so.\ The five requisites of inflation were listed by Colonel Ayres as first, a pe- riod of sustained active business; sec- ond, a rising stock market; third, real credit expansion; fourth, greater out- flow of gold \than we can tolerate which would force us to,cut our cur- rency entirely free from gold\; and fifth, continued large budget deficits in government operation. A PROPHECY Significant economic developments to be expected in the next decade are listed by a prominent business writer as follows: (1) Higher standard of living- (2) Continued advances in tech- nical processes of production. (3) Fac- tory built houses, better and cheaper than hand niade houses. (4) Somewhat cheaper money. (5) Faster travel. (6) News striated by radio. (7) Mechanical cotton picker, revolutionizing the South. (8) Cheaper electric power. (91 Better distribution of goods; more chain stores. (10) Another depression five or six years hence, preceded by an InfletIonary boom, TWO QUESTIONS ANSWERED Why is it that one farmer raises 100 teethe's of corn to the acre, and the other one, on the other aide of the fence, raises 25 bushels to the acre? Why is it that one farmer produces 100 pounds of pork on live bushels of corn, and another uses 26 bushels? Not until power machinery, scientific principles of soil fertilization Sind restoration, rotation of crops, diversification it crops and economical feeding are ap- plied to the farm, will the farmers') problem be solved, says a farm all- thority. China Traced to 1500 B. C. The story of China has been traced back te somewhere near 1500 B. a or,* .011414,14.0.1=1•1111..0111111
