a a a a THE GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE Monday Evening, November 14, 1932. BAY PRESS -GAZETTE Published every evening except Sunday by the Green Bay Newspaper from Walnut and Madison Streets A. B. TURNBULL, General Manager V. I.
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Is xclusively entitl to the use of, republication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. Circulation Guaranteed Audit Bureau of Circulation The fool: The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: God looked down from heaven to see if there were any that did 51: 1, 2. THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME. "Master of human destinies am Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace- soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! "If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire. and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!" John J. Ingalls, one time senator from Kansas, created more renown for himself by writing the foregoing verses than came to him from his experiences in statecraft.
But the accuracy of what he wrote, though supported by many literary lights, is denied by many another. "Heaven, on occasion," wrote Victor Hugo, "half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment." But declared Ninon de Lenclos, "Alas, for the treachery of opportunity," and others have portrayed opportunity as "the cleverest of all the devils," and the "strongest of seducers." At any rate if opportunity were in the habit of tapping lightly on a window pane or tripping noiselessly over the front steps, that isn't the way it approached the habitation of the Democratic party. It literally broke down the Democratic fence, kicked and pounded at the Democratic door, in the meantime bawling loudly to arouse the Democratic party, and then it turned over the nation so completely into the lap of the Democrats let them not forget this fact, -no alibi goes. The parades are over. The writing of speeches has ended.
The grim responsibility has begun. It is a grave responsibility. Men cannot be fed upon mere words. Children cannot be nourished on language. Homes cannot be constructed out of gestures.
The heat of speeches will not warm human bodies. The Democrats might study with care the period of our history beginning with the administration of William Mc Kinley in 1897. They will want, we hope, to avoid its errors, but they must not be blind to its virtues. The Republican party came to power at that time faced with a country just about as distracted as this country is today. President McKinley was a liberal although many of his chief advisers were not.
The party kept power for 16 years. It swept every election. It won popular support because of its constructive policies and, perhaps even more important, because of the deaf ear it turned to the sugar-coated and otherwise attractive appearing nostrums collectively gathered under the head of Bryanism. The Democratic party today controls the country perhaps in even greater measure than it has been controlled by any party since the Civil war. What is it going to do about it? In the first place it must have a strong party organization.
It must have discipline. When the representatives of the people chosen in primaries or conventions throughout the land meet and by majority vote declare, for instance, that the Eighteenth Amendment shall be repealed, and the party submits that plank to the people and is returned to power, it must deliver the goods. It is therefore important that politcal platforms should attempt to cover only the potent and pressing problems of the day. Otherwise they become merely confusing to the voter and as so treated present weak instead of strong features and purposes. The Democratic party has some very strong men.
It has elected some strong men to office. The country will be greatly heartened at the outset to learn of the new President's cabinet. Aside from Ogden L. Mills, Mr. Hoover's cabinet did not strike one as particularly brilliant although it was not weak.
With men like Owen D. Young, Newton D. Baker, Governor Smith, Governor Ritch1e and many others of like performance from which to choose, the very best must be selected. President Wilson's error was in choosing for the most part men of mediocre calibre. This was because, his critics declared, he wanted cabinet members to agree with him and could not brook opposition.
We do not expect that attitude from Governor Roosevelt. He appreciates, Judging him by his past record, that opposition makes for healthful life and that the best board of directors for the nation cannot afford to have any "Yes" men on it. And SO from the day they accept power the Democratic leaders who have been so critical about the way the country has been operated for the last 12 years will have something more to do than talk. They must plan and their plans must stand the heat of conflict, the acid test of experience. It will not do four years hence, nor even two, to express sorrow for failure or to expect that the people will take good intentions for gold.
The best purposes of all may be readily admitted with the remark that hell has always been paved with good intentions. Opportunity is at hand and the Democratic party will do well to keep in mind the words of Seneca written many storm-tossed centuries ago: "If you seize opportunity by the forelock you may hold her; but if suffered to escape not Jupiter himself can catch her again." THAT SOFT SIDE OF THE ILL WIND. Awhile ago the New York Times printed an editorial in the effort to point out that there were many things about "bad times" that were advantageous if they were singled out. That the article struck a responsive chord was evidenced by the great number of letters from those who first took their woes as a matter to wail about and then, as if by chance, discovered that most of their misery was mental. As a sample one man wrote that although he had been making forty thousand dollars a year up to the collapse, adversity put him in operation of an apple stand in the downtown financial district.
And here is how he wrote at the thought of quitting a situation in which he was frightfully poor: "The tide has turned and soon, very soon indeed, big business will surge and again engulf us, and I must leave my stand and say adieu to the kindest, most considerate people one could know. Men, and women too, who are not purchasers of my wares are friendly and cordial, and most punctilious in their morning and afternoon greetings. "Many others situated quite as I am have told me that they also have found this temporary poverty to glow with a glamor making the experience a thing to treasure, a vivid picture of the hearts of men and women who carry burdens of their own." Men, and there were plenty of them, who wrote letters of that kind were not only good sports but sound philosophers. So long as they could not have things as they wanted then they would make the best of what they had and always with a smile. And why not? The frown won't get anyone any place and the smile is always a step onto the high road of ambition's desires.
HOOVER PLAN GAINS SUPPORT. Encouraging news comes from London that the British government is prepared to accept in principle President Hoover's proposal for a one-third reduction in armaments, with the likelihood that British delegates will go prepared to advance that plan at Geneva. When first proposed the plan was received without enthusiasm by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Sir John Simon, Foreign Minister. High admiralty officials and the Tory element in the government hesitated to take any stand toward further reductions in the British Navy. But there appears to be a wave of public sentiment coursing through Great Britain that something must be done to reduce the cost of armaments and to break the deadlock in which the conference now finds itself.
Only a day or two previous to the announcement of Anglo-American cooperation, a deputation representing British churches as well as 30 leading bankers, economists and others of England and Scotland appealed directly to Prime Minister MacDonald that the British government adopt the Hoover disarmament proposal. To their appeal was added the endorsem*nt of the powerful London Times, usually considered as the government's mouthpiece, but now ready to oppose any further evasion or delay. European opinion also appears to be swinging to the Hoover plan as one that offers specific, practical methods of approach to a problem which has been perplexing world statesmanship and diplomacy ever since the war. The potency of its appeal for one thing is that the plan implies a cut of 10 billion dollars in 10 years in armament expense, or virtually the amount of the governmental debts, with the economic benefits resulting from such a saving. It is generally conceded that the success of the forthcoming economic conference will depend greatly upon the rate of progress of disarmament proposals.
If no definite conclusions can be reached that will reduce world armament expenditures and allay fears of war, any economic conference would be futile. The need now is for positive action and the Hoover proposal offers at least a general formula on which such action may be based. Opinions of Others DRINKING AT FOOT BALL GAMES The sheriff out in Lawrence, has rather pronounced ideas on conduct among spectators at foot ball games. Anyone caught with a bottle is to be taken straight to jail, and if the jail will not hold all, then the court house will. Right! College foot ball spectators take the game seriously, and it is not fair to ask them to put up with the antics of the lurching, slobbering individual who wanders up and down the aisle and into and out of his seat.
If he must drink, let him drink at home: he doesn't watch the game News The Once Over RY H. I. PHILLIPS (Copyright, 1932) SO THIS IS FOOTBALL! has become one of the tamest of sports. It has become 80 modified it now hurts nobody except the cash customers. The rules committees have changed the 60 per cent in the last ten years and the game still comes under the head of unfinished business.
The most important qualification of a football player these days is his ability to memorize the things he mustn't do." As a spectacle it has become a matter of twenty-two befuddled athletes entirely surrounded by penalties. In the old days the main purpose of a football player was to grab a football and run to the goal posts with it with the greatest possible speed and determination. The boys now hesitate to touch the pigskin without legal advice. xxx There are moments in the big games this year when the proceedings on the gridiron resemble nothing so much as a conference of the Supreme court on the matter of Offstrader versus Gluck Thalheimer. Football is now played with twenty-two football players and four officials.
It would simplify things for the spectators if it were played with twenty-two officials and four football players. It's all very depressing the fans. Tacklers now tackle by legislation instead of by instinct. fullbacks run by code instead of impulse, and quarterbacks receive punts with all the tainty of an autoist facing strange traffic rules. What used to be a clean' hard tackle winning a boy a place on the All-Americon now becomes clear and unnardonable violation of Rule 32.
Section 456. costing his team 15 yards and giving 40.000 fan. the big fitters. The college football star who used to get his name in the headlines as a hero by battering his way through all and dragging himself over the line for now gets rebuked opposition, by indignant officials and disgraced in the eves of his teammates for failing to memorize the regulation against going on after he has stumbled. It has become a common episode in every game for a player to see his team penalized 25 vards because a teammate ran 75 yards for touchdown! And those old-time fumbles that used to provide so much excitement! You should see them today.
It a runner drons the ball after or during a tackle, and an alert opponent scoons it up and makes a 60-yard run, what do you think happens? He has to bring it back and return it to the fellow who dropped it! Altogether, boys, a long cheer for Nature In The Rah! THE LUCKY ESKIMO Labrador is reported having the most prosperity in 30 years. Presumably the Eskimos are enjoying a penguin in every pot. TAKES SOME TAMING Experiments are being conducted to prove that an automobile can be operated on "corn likker." The big difficulty is to keen the car on the ground even when the clutch is in neutral. Ima Dodo thinks a "clip joint" Is a cheap barber shop. BAD FOR THE DOG.
TOO Times are so bad that. according to renorts. A member of Meadow Brook Hounds ate one of the dogs on the recent onening hunt. POOR GRADE OF IRISH CONFETTI Doctor (after sewing up the gash): What was the fight. about.
Casey? Casey: Oi was continding with O'Maller thot this hollow toile was as foine a building material las solid brick. but 'tis intoirely ton fragile to howld its own ag'inst a brick In a fri'ndly argument. COMPARISON If the man in the store merely sells you what you want, he is onlv a clerk. If he sells you THIS, when you wanted THAT. he is a salesman.
It he sells you THIS and THAT. when you wanted nothing, he is a super -salesman. -R. G. E.
BARBS India has 43,600,090 "untouchables" outcasts of Hindu society. But have you tried to make a "touch" in your own country! And then there's the cat who remarked that her rival wasn't much of an artist, because she didn't have good designs on her boy friend. And. figures an English writer, "women probably talk more because men are too polite to interrupt them." Let's get rude, boys. Along about this time of the year we cold sufferers commence to wish some brilliant scientist would discover the influenza germ--and keep it! "America turns out the best jazz musicians." A dance orchestra leader opines.
Yep, and it seems that the worst still remain. With the "Not Welcome" mat spread at its door for the Prince of Wales and a riot when Cosgrave attempted to make a speech, Ireland seems to be coming back to normal quite rapidly. Just FolKs by Edgar A. Guest mi AUTUMN SCENE Upon the hills the giant trees with color were ablaze, Like smoke from smouldering embers rose the October haze. All silent and magnificent I fancied I could see The Master Artist touching up some solitary tree, But the glory of the landscape was a flash of crimson flame At the bottom of the picture where the painter signs his name.
Now I cannot speak the langauge of the men who paint and draw, And with technical precision, can't describe the scene I saw. All I know is that a picture was unrolled for me to see, And the high lights and the shadows seemed just what they ought to be, But that gorgeous burst of color in the foreground caught my eye. And I knew it made the landscape, though couldn't say just why. It struck me as peculiar, where an earthly painter signs, The Master Artist splashed His name in tangled shrubs and vines. And as I stepped up closer I discovered and was glad He had given that touch of splendor to the poorest stuff He had.
To the common things in summer which man scarcely sees at all He hod given the place of honor and the glory of the fall. (Copyright, 1932) That Body of Yours UNION HEN we remember that there are and about conditions, 1,000 dis- and eases that each one is capable producing. on an average basis, about twenty symptoms; that less than one in a hundred of these diseases has "sure" or definitely true sign that can be recognized: that each one has many other diseases similar in nature: that each one must be recognized and distinguished from others, not by a single symptom but by certain combinations or groups of symptoms; that these groupings are never the same in the same disease, in the same or different patients: then, and only then, will we awaken to the fact that this part of diagnosis is too complicated for the unaided mind of What is diagnosis? Diagnosis is the art or science of signs or symptoms by which one disease is distinguished from another. How does a physician equip himself, how does he get the "aid" necessary to enable him to diagnose an ailment? Dr. W.
L. Kitchens, Texarkana, Texas, points out that the physician must know the normal human body in health, its purpose, and normal uses, and be able to recognize anything that is not normal, any changes during life. This can only be done by much schooling, much study, much observation, much practice at medical school and hospital. Only in this way can a physician really know the patient and know the disease. Every action in the body that is not normal may be produced by A certain number of diseases.
For example: liver enlargement is produced by 25 diseases: spleen enlargement is produced by 55 diseases: these two signs (enlargement of liver and spleen) are found together in just 14 diseases. Then these 14 diseases have little differences which help the physician get nearer the actual disease causing the trouble. The point then is that while there may be virtue in the treatment given by "healers" and others who are not regular physicians, and that help has been given sufferers by these healers cannot be denied, nevertheless the training before to medical college, the training at medical college and hospital in recognizing what is normal and abnormal, equips the regular physician to make a diagnosis and give treatment on a scientific basis. is This is really only common sense after all. (Copyright, 1932) Adventures in the Library BY DR.
JAMES BARTON DIAGNOSIS WHY ARE NOVELS WRITTEN? "Straws and PrayerI to James Branch the Cabell question attempts answer perennially being asked, "Why is a novel?" Why do millions read novels and why do thousands write or attempt to write novels? What practical purpose does the novel serve that makes all this bother about it reasonable? The question has been answered in thousands of ways. Until fairly recently men answered 1: for the most part by asserting that all this bother was not reasonable, that the novel was justified, that in fact there was something reprehensible about it. I can myself remember faint vestiges of this attitude, and only a century ago in England Jane Austen vigorously protested a against it in "Northanger Abbey." Bishops and teachers and elderly people said the novel was "bad." and fiction was more or less frowned upon. That answer, obviously, did not suffice: is questionable if it ever had any real influence with people sufficiently civilized to enjoy a well written novel. Another answer that many novelists and many novel readers nade was that the novel was convenient and convincing way of preaching a sermon, teaching a lesson.
That answer was the accepted one during most of the Victorian period in England and America. Some great novels. including "War and Peace' "Vanity Fair," and a others rave this answer to the question. Stul another answer was that the "novel is a criticism of That is an answer quite generally accepted in respectable circles todav. The novel 1 is news about the neaning of human life.
an interpretation of the mystery of existence, a criticism of things as they are. Hence it is justified because it is "serious," not merely entertaining. There have been other answers. James Branch adds his to the numbers. Novel reading and novel writing, he holds, have no other reason than escape from boredom.
Life is a round of intolerable monotonies, he thinks. that we would not be able to endure without some devices that will take our minds off the drabness of existence. Under another figure be tells us that life is a long dreary corridor with inevitable dreary death at the end. We are in the corridor and there is no escape except through that door at the end. But there are numerous alcoves along the way that we may enter to help us forget that door at the end.
Novel reading and novel writing are such alcoves. The artist is, according to Cabell, the only person who really eniovs life to the full; or rather, he is the person who suffers the least from boredom. The novel reader escapes boredom cnly vicariously, the novel writer escapes in a fuller sense. The latter can get so deeply into an alcove that it happens sometimes that he has as much as twenty minutes of unalloyed happiness at a time, something that 13 no; granted to any other human being. Cabell's answer is of course the answer of all romantics.
A quarter of a century ago I remember reading 3 little book by Marion Crawford in which he unblushingly asserted that entertainment is the cnly excuse for the novel. That word "entertainment" is obviously a synonym for the Cabell phrase, "escape from boredom." The romantics have always held that the novel is A means of escape; Walter Scott himself, arch romantic that he was. had that point of view, and no more than once definitely expressed it. The novel is of course that, and it a criticism of life." and it is news about the mystery of existence, it is a sermon -some great novels have teen sermons. There need be no quarrel with Cabell's answer except in so far A.S he insists that his 1s the only answer.
We don't even know what the novel is -there has never satisfactory definition of the novel--so how can anyone say why the novel is written and why it is read? Cabell tries to make the answer he has made for himelf cover' HE'LL HAVE TO MEET THEM SOMETIME SOME OLD OLD FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY HAVE EUROPEAN JUST DROPPED IN, VICTOR CANCELATION I 2 FRANCE MISS People's Forum Communications are published merely as an expression of the views of our readers and are in no sense to be regarded AS the sentiments of the Press-Gazette. Letters intended for publication should be addressed Editor. be LIMITED TO 300 WORDS, written on one side of paper only and must invariably bear the name and address of the writer AS evidence of good faith. THE EDITOR. NEED MORE RELIGION Editor Press-Gazette: A distributor has just posted in my window a card announcing special semi-union, evangelistic revival services, to be held at the First Presbyterian church, in our city, Nov.
20-Dec. 4th. The writers life and memory extends back to a time when protracted, religious, revival meetings were much in vogue, and even were the great events of the fall and winter months most looked forward to by not only the churches but much of the population. These services looked upon as the real means whereby the churches expected to take on additional numerical and spiritual strength. Many, if not most members of so called evangelical churches at present, who are past middle life, owe the beginning of their church relationship, largely to the influence of such evangelistic services.
Those were the palmy days of Moody and Sankey, Whittle and Bliss, B. Fay Mills and a little later of Billy Sunday and many others, and even this writer, who was educated for and engaged in the Christian ministry for 2. decade in carly life, was the happy possessor of the names of one and a half thousand people who called him their "Spiritual Father" because he personally conducted the evangelistic services in which they were persuaded to become active Christians. In 8. single, seven nights a week, revival campaign, extending from October to 'he following February more than six hundred adults professed conversion, and practically all the social events of that community during that year were conducted under the auspices and direction incident to that great revival.
Those were the days, events and scenes best and most happily remembered by the Christians of that period. Sometimes entire villages became professing Christians on such occasions. One particular instance in the village of Lake Odessa, Ionia County, Mich. the writer took charge of a weak church of 32 members and within a few months added 300 to its membership including the three village saloon keepers, and their families, and the village became dry. In these days of changed conditions and methods of evangelism it is believed by many, that such experiences cannot be reproduced nor duplicated.
Personally, we shall watch the this coming evangelistic campaign in Green Bay, and will hope and pray that it may result in much good to such as will and ought to be saved. In the expressed opinion of many good people, including Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, there is nothing so much needed in this our unhappy present day, as is more genuine Christian religion. This is expressed not in disparagment of the extent and fact of the great amount of Christlike charity work that is now being done, which if not being done in the name, certainly is being done in the spirit of Him who said: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me." (Signed) John W. Arney. Green Bay, Nov.
12, 1932. In defence of the generation of the and its aftermath, time when civilization was in collapse, It must be remembered that a League of Nations was established AS an outward and visible symbol of the new order to which the weld was to attune its mind. It Is said that if the prevailing winds of the eastern United States were to reverse themselves, the climate would become semi-tropical and rainfall would be very heavy. The Lincoln Highway is 3,384 miles long. all cases, but in my opinion he does not succeed.
The answer is interesting because it tells us something about Cabell's reason for writing novels, but that is about all. 20 Years Ago Today Brown county proposes to spend $48,648 in improving highways next rear. Petitions for aid from towns that were received county board attest to this conclusion. This is about $18,000 more than spent this year. Frank R.
Weeks was elected president of the Wisconsin- Basetall league by the directors during 3 meeting in Milwaukee. He succeeds F. S. Edmison of Rockford. The total value of all property in Crown county was fixed at (36 by the county board in adopting report of the committee on equalization today.
This valuation is based on the full value of real estate, whereas the valuation in previous years was based on 60 percent of the valuation. The report was adopted over the protest of Supervisor Boyden of Pittsfield, by a vote of 21 to 12. The county board turned down 8 proposal, by to a erect vote a of 21 tuberculosis to 12. sani- A special committee reported in favor of building a sanitarium at a cost of $25.000. The Brown county woman's buildEng was formally opened yesterday, when the trustees of the building tertained members of the county board at a complimentary dinner.
A Young Men's Sunday Morning club was formed by members of the Grace Lutheran church congregation. Rev. L. F. Gast is the president.
Miss Rose Malliet was married to Felix Sevenants, of Marmarth, N. at the St. Willebrord's church. Miss Eva Sickel and Morris den Brand were married at SS. Peter and Paul's church.
The T. C. club was entertained by Mrs. Edward McLean. A large number attended a dance given last night by the Retail Clerk's union Turner hall.
Vandenberg's harp orchestra, played. Miss Jacobs returned from Marinette. Miss Harriet Baenea returned from Madison. Miss Josephine Gehl returned from Hilbert. Harvey Roland left for Chicago to visit friends.
Rain, then snow, fell here today The temperature was 30. The United Commercial Travelers plan to conduct four dancing parties The Calendar TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES 1797-Charles Lyell, distinguished English geologist, born. Died Feb. 22, 1875. 1803-Jacob Abbott, author of more than 200 including the "Rollo for children, born at Hallowell.
Maine. Died at Farmington, Oct, 31, 1879. 1820-Anson Burlingame, Massachusetts congressman, diplomat, author of a celebrated treaty with China bearing name, born at New Berlin N. Died his. in Russia, Feb.
23, 1870. 1832-Stopford A. Brooke, popular English clergyman and man of letters, born. Died Mar. 18, 1916.
1833-Henry Clay Barnabee, noted American operatic comedian of his day, born at Portsmouth, N. H. Died Dec. 16, 1917. 1840-Claude Monet, famous French painter, born.
Died Dec. 5, 1926. 1850-Jesse W. Fewkes, ethnologist, noted for his study of the folklore and life of the Indians of the Southwest, born in Newton, Mass Died at Forest Glen, May 31, 1930. 1861-Frederick J.
Turner, noted American historian, born at Portage, Wis. Died in dena, Mar. 16, 1932. TODAY IN HISTORY 1784-Samuel Seabury, consecrated, In Aberdeen, Scotland. first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Connecticut and first in the United States.
1789-Father John Carroll of Baltimore named the first bishop of the United States by Pope. 1832-Charles Carroll of Carrollton, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Baltimore, aged 95. 1915-Booker T. Washington, famous negro educator, died. Six newspapers printed in modern Arabic are published in New York.
this winter, the first on Nov. 16. Mr. and Mrs. James Hanrahan turned to Escanaba after visiting tives.
Miss Nora Rice returned from Milwaukee. The Rev. Father Kraus returned from Milwaukee. Uncle Ray's Corner EXPLORING SOUTH AMERICA 1-Venezuela I feel the spirit of adventure, and I say to you: "How about an airplane journey somewhere? Would you like to go South America?" VENEZUELA -CUIANA EQUATOR BRAZIL UM. BOLIVIA Rio de Janeiro PACIFIC ATLANTIC OCEAN OCEAN A C.HORN 8 Plan of our trip around South America.
Being good -natured and liking adventure, you answer "Yes" to both questions. We lose no time in searching out our pilot, Banty Rogers, and our trusty airplane. as Banty is always ready for something new. With great care, he goes over the airplane and checks up on all details. We lay in a supply of food and water, and rise into the sky.
At length we pass over Florida, and head southeastward. Below 119 are dozens of islands, which belong to the Bahama group. I point out Watling's island, which is believed to ha the first land found by Columbus 1:1 1492. We also sight Cuba And Haiti fore we cross the Caribbean Sea and reach the shore of Venezuela. Below us we see the city of Cara- cas, capital of the republic.
The president lives there, and it is the place where men meet to make laws. The name "Venezuela" means "Lit. tle Venice," and was given to the country in early days because an Indian village near the coast was built on platforms stretching out over the water. We see mountain slopes covered by dense fortsts: and we also observe great grass-covered plains. Venezuela is larger than Germany and Great Britain combined, but it does not contain so many people as Berlin.
The greater part of the citiz. ens are of mixed blood -Spanish, Indian and negro. In the forests below us dwell kevs of six kinds, and I remind you that South American monkeys 1150 their tails to hold to tree limbs. African monkeys cannot perform that trick. Wild dogs live in Venezuela.
Fitmas and jaguars are among the wild beasts which neople must guard against when they pa's throuch the jungle: but vie are above the jungle, safe from harm of that kind. If wa were to lend in any low part of land. we should find the weather very hot: but wo are high in the air, and are as cool as we could wish. (For "Travel" section of your scrap. book.) the Gulama, Vinele Ray Uncle Ray's new Funmaker leaflet is ready, Magic and fun galore in it.
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