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MUST MEAN BUSINESS
It is gratifying to see South Amboy fall in line with the
■ '-pirit. of the times and go on record as favoring immediate
' waterfront development. South Amboy, as well as Perth
Amboy, has her greatest asset in the water facilities that na
£ lure has provided. The trouble with both places has been
that they have not been enterprising enough to make the
most of these advantages. It looks now as if something real
! ly worth while bad been started. The two Ambovs, working
together, can make the mouth of the Raritan river teem with
commerce, harboring ships from all ports of the world, with
in a comparatively short lime.
But these good intentions, fine words, and high sound
ing resolutions must be followed by real action. There is an
old saying to the effect that "hell is paved with good inten
- tlons.” Anybody or any govering body can pass resolutions
and orate on what they are going to do, but what the Port
of New York Authority wants to know is, what is actually ^
being done.
It will be all well enough for Perth Amboy, South Am
boy and New Brunswick to go to the port hearing in New
York tomorrow and tell what they are going to do, but they
mast be able to convince the port authority that they mean
business and are really going to do it. It must be made
Clear that this is no flash in the pan; that this proposed
waterfront development is not something trumped up mere
ly to attract the attention of the port authority.
.t'ertn AmDoy, ior instance, musi ne in a pusiwun
drive home the fact that this city intends to spend at least
one million dollars on its waterfront just as soon as the
plans can be adopted. It is not enough to say a commission
has been appointed to look into the feasibility of the plan.
There must be evidence that at least a million dollars is
going to be spent, and perhaps more.
The fact must not be overlooked that other municipali
ties included within the port district have already got the
jump on us. Not only do they intend to develop their water
front, but they are already doing it. They are spending mil
fions of dollars. The municipalities of the Raritan district
r have got to compete with these places and it is going to re
quire our best efforts.
Here we think a millions dollars is a tremenddus sum.
It is. But it does not make a very big impression on other
places that are spending many times that amout. It is a
tecided step in the right direction, however, and if Perth
Vmhov can convince the port authority that at least a rail- j
; lion dollars h going to he spent here as soon as Ihe plans can
| i)e arranged it is going a long ways towards getting the rec
r gnition for the Raritan section that is so much desired.
With South Amboy in line and with the support of New
•runswick there is every reason to tnke courage. It looks
>s If the Raritan municipalities were awake at last. We have
Ihe natural advantages that few other places possess and
once wo get these advantages properly before Ihe port au
thority, with the assurance that we mean business in doing
what we say we will do, co-operation by the port authority
may he expected as a matter of course.
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CHOOSING A SURROGATE
Nobody lias yet advanced a good reason why tlie office
Df surrogate should be made a football of politics. I he
■ duties that a surrogate of a county has to perform arc almost
sacred in character—at least they are as near sacred as any
thing can be that is not strictly religious. After the minister
tnd the undertaker usually comes the surrogate in settling
up the estate that the departed one has left behind.
We hear a great deal about the protection of the widows
trtd orphans. It is a favorite cry with a great many politicians!
when they want some pet scheme let alone, or when they
want to put something across. But the office of surrogate
is something that actually does concern the widows and or
phans in the most direct way. The surrogate is daily in
contact, with them and it lies within his power to render
them the greatest assistance or to deliberately drive them
Into the clutches of the vultures in the law that would
pluck the last penny from their victims.
There may be some argument in favor of some politi
cal offices being the legitimate prey of the successful politi
ician, and there mav bo some reason why there should not be
a continuation in office of any man for any length of time,
but no such argument can be found in regard to the surro
gate.
This office is at present occupied by a man wno nas
given most efficient service. He is one of the few officials J
elected by the people who really takes his job seriously and
is to be found at his desk every working hour during the
day. He is known as the friend of the unfortunate and by
' his sympathetic guidance he has helped many a grief-bur
dened widow through the requirements of the law in getting
what belongs to her.
Daniel W. Clayton, the present surrogate, is a Demo
crat. He has held the office for two terms of five years each.
He is a candidate for re-election. He has served the people
of this county faithfully and well. Democrat as he is, he
has almost the unanimous support of the people of the south
ern end of the county, where he lives, where Republicanism
is almost a religion. With Mr. Clayton, however, politics
make no difference. It might make a difference, perhaps,
for any other office, but when it comes to selecting a man to
fill the office of surrogate, requiring as it does one of a cer
;, tain temperament and feeling, Mr. Clayton has proven him
kt+lf worthy. He ought to be re-elected.
THE TRAFFIC COP AT BLINDERS’ CORNERS
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"Thc TrapPic
Cop AT £uinders’ Corners
PAIJ.EP To SEE THE JOKE WHEN HE
came oUf op THE GeN6R.au SToRE ANP
pound that someone hap h»tcHep A KoKse.
rfe> His TrapPic 5emapHpKe..
HASKIN’S IDEA OF HELPING UNEMPLOYED j
Daily Letter l>y Frcdorlc •!. naskin
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—You
may not bp in a position to offer a
regular job to anyone, but neverthe
less you can do your share toward
ielping the unemployed.
You can do this by having done
now work that must be done some
:ime. If the front porch or the
earn needs a coat of paint, if the
furnace needs fixing, if you contem
plate building a chicken house or
laying a sidewalk, if your premises
seed cleaning up—have it done now.
Even to have your hair cut or your
thoes shined when you can well af
ford it and might otherwise neglect
it. is to add something to the sum
total of work.
This is the plea of Colonel Arthur
Woods of New York, who is chair
man of the Committee on Civic,
Community and Emergency Meas
ures of tile Unemployment Confer
ence. His job is to find immediate
wavs of placing people in industry
while the conference make a thor
ough study of the situation, and
especially to help in municipal and
other community efforts to solve
he problem.
His work has just begun. He is
sotting in touch with the mayor of
pvery city in the United States hav
ing a population of 2r.,000 or more,
with the exception of some cities
which have already tackled the
problem with such energy and skill
that they are obviously not in need
of any help.
Cities Doing Good Work.
The number of cities which are
already doing good work is consid
erable, and will evidently grow.
That, in fact, is the striking feature
of the situation. The country is
carrying the unemployed on its
conscience in a way that is wholly
unprecedented. There have been
many worse spells of unemployment
in the history of tills country than
the present one. The usual attitude
toward them in the past has been
to ignore them. The theory has
been that if you do not talk or write
about hard times, they will disap
pear. Bury your head in the sands
of optimism and you are safe. This
ostrich-like attitude has suddenly
disappeared. The unemployment
problem is a leading feature of news
and conversation. The country seem*
suddenly to have awakened to the
fact that a man who wants to work
and Is able to work, but can find no
work to do. is a political and eco
nomic liability which the country
cannot afford. He is proof positive
that the social machine does not
function well. He is at once the
strongest argument of the agitator,
and his most receptive auditor.
The Woods committee aims to act
a* a clearing house for information
as to how the unemployment prob
lem may be met by communities.
Portland. Oregan, for example, is
solving its unemployment problem
with great satisfaction. In this as
In other cities charity and waste are
frowned upon. Portland announces
that one of its objects is to make
soup kitchens unnecessary. After
all. soup kitchens amU bread lines
aii' a confession of failure.
Tile Portland committee also an
nounces, as one of Us purposes, to
keep employers from taking advan
tage of the situation to reduce
Portland has one committee to
urgp the undertaking of a* much
public work as possible. Another
handles the industrial phase of the
problem, and urges Industry to do
as much construction work a* pos
sible. It also solicits the household
er to provide odd Jobs. There is a
special director for the employment
of women. For the floating ]>°I’d1*“'
tion a wood yard has been establish
ed which will produce and sell cord
word. A municipal rock pile will b«
operated for those who refuse tc
work. . „ .
Vo I'noniploymrnt Allowed.
So if you don't want to work, don
go to Portland. ,
Colonel Woods also is advocatini
in the nation at large the undertak
ing of as much public work as pos
sible. He does not advocate tha
either states, cities. Industrial con
cerns or individuals have work don
merely for the purpose of afford HU
jobs. That is waste. He advooatei
that in case of cities and states, wori
for which appropriations have ai
ready been made should be under
taken at once. Work ordinarily don'
only in the summer, as is the cas<
with much street and other munict
pal work, should be continued a
long as the weather permits. Th
Individual should look about fo
things that need to be done, am
have them done now.
The unemployment situation al
ready shows marked signs of im
provement, but the tact should not
be overlooked that many men are
still employed in the harvest Helds
who will soon be out of jobs. The
real test of the country's ability to
keep its man power employed will
come this winter.
The correspondence of Colonel
Woods with the various mayors re
veals the fact that much might be
accomplished If a method could be
worked out for shifting men to
where they are needed. For exam
ple, from towns in the cotton belt
comes word that not only Is there
no unemployment, but more cotton
pickers are urgently needed. Grand
Kapids, Michigan, needs furniture
upholsterers. The list might be
lengthened.
This doubtless is one of the na
tional phases of the problem which
the conference will deal with in due
course. The Woods committee wants
it understood that the conference is
not trying merely to pass the buck
to the cities. National measures
will be got under way in due course.
But It does believe that the solution
of the problem undoubtedly begins
in the cities. They are the ones who
must do the emergency work.
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TUBERCULOSIS
COMMON SENSE WAYS TO KEEP WELL
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BY DB. It. H. BISHOP
Medical science has learned that
more can be done—Infinitely more—
against tuberculosis, or any other
ravaging disease, by remedying the
causes or catching It In its early
stages before It gets a strangle hold
on the body.
Catch tuberculosis In Its early
stages and your chances of recovery
are great; allow it to go far and
little can be done to cure the dis
ease.
Strange to say, there are few of
us who do no have some tubercu
losis germs in our bodies. The reason
We are not all tubercular is that
good care of the body or a good con
stitution renders the germs harm
less.
livery three minutes some one in
the United States dies from tuber
culosis. or consumption, as it is of
ten called.
The disease is caused by a living
germ in the lungs. The body of a
healthy person can resist its growth
at -1 niay kill the germs, but in a
weak body not having proper care,
the germs fast multiply until the
lungs are consumed and the victim
dies.
These germs are found In the spit
of a consumptive—in small numbers
In the early stage—In countless mil
lions in advanced stages.
Among the earlier symptoms one
can observe—and which should lead
one at once to consult a physician)
are; Plight cough, lasting a month
or longer; loss of weight, slight fever
in the afternoon and bleeding from
the lungs.
People lose valuable time who
have these preliminary symptoms
and do not consult a competent
physician. A careful examination of
the lungs should be made.
If there is any suspicion of tu
berculosis, one may have his spit
examined through the microscope
at a clinio or dispensary. State
boards of health will usually do this
free of charge.
There are several important facts
to remember in order that tubercu
losis may be prevented:
Careless spitting spreads the dis
ease. Sick persons should burn their
spit.
Homes and workshops should be
clean and thoroughly ventilated.
Dirt and impure air are allies of the
disease.
Mouth and throat should always
he covered when sneezing or cough
ing. Insist on others doing the same.
Become a fresh air crank. Better
a live fresh air crank, than an al
most lifeless hothouse invalid.
Open the windows in home and
office to let in the fresh air and lei
out the stale.
Walk as often and as much as
possible, even at the risk of becom
ing a little tired.
Sleep with windows wide open
Germs cannot live in the fresh air.
7~
Beauty Hint: Frowns are wrinkle*
s '
Fashion says women must wea
skirts longer. How much longer—
six months?
Britain and Ireland can't pla;
without their notes.
It is great to be rich enough t<
afford a nervous breakdown.
In a railroad-labor fight, as li
most fights, ths Innocent bystande
gets hit.
When a single girl asks a slngl
man if he snores the plot begins t
thicken.
Bad money shows someone i
forging ahead.
One time this world will need re
forming is after it is reformed.
Home-brewers can be held for ere
ating disturbances.
Grass-widows are not green.
An expert says the world is *,000,
000 years old. That’s how man
hard winters we have had.
China's argument is that sh
wants to mind her own p's an
queues. ,
In the social swim I* is the sur
vlval of ths fittest.
/£5frpcrt°n Draleys
f \ Daily Poem
^Memory
I too. once lived In Arcady.
A little while, a little while,
Where all the ways are glad and
free
And all the heavens smile:
I walked the paths of wonderland
I .with my sweetheart hand in
hand;
Ah, yes, I know
'Twaa long ago
Hut—T too. lived In Arcady
A little while, a little while!
I have been gone from Arcady
A long, long time, a weary time,
But all its ways are fair to me
As in my golden prime;
And all the lovers strolling by
Relight the glimmer in my eye,
For I know well
Love’s tender spell
And all its magic guile—
1, too. have been in Arcady
A little while, a little while!
I lost my love in Arcady.
Oh I was blind, so young and
blind.
But since I know how sweet can b«
The bliss that lovers find
My heart leaps at each glowinp
word
That ever I overheard:
(My eye, X fear
May hold a tear
That mingles with my smile)
But that Is natural you see.
For one who lived in Arcidy
A little while.
A little while!
i (Copyright, 1921, N. K. A. Service!
by GEORGE I* BAKER
Mayor of Portland, Ore.
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. *0.—Un
employment is a disease—an un
healthy condition which nobody
wantC* Being un
desirable, it can be
llmlnated to a
very great extent
iy concerted effort
on the part of the
people of a city.
This Is the theory
P o r t la n d has
worked on in the
last six or eight
■ ears with the re
mit that we have
avoided serious
t rouble.
To lay down any
<et rules for meet
ing an unemploy
ment problem Is
MAYOR BAKER-lmP”"*,lble because
conditions differ
In different localities and conditions
differ In the same locality from
year to year.
In the great northwest where lum
bering is one of the principal indus
tries the winter months force log
ging camps to close with a result
ant influx of workmen to the cities.
Our problem, therefore. Is that of
seasonal employment.
Nine persons out of 10 have civic
pride and nine out of 10 are In sym
pathy with any movement which
means the relief of a condition
where people are in need and espe
cially when there are children In
volved. It Is from this basic fact
that Portland has worked in its
fights against unemployment.
AVe have found that when there
is actual suffering it is not a difficult
task:
To get employers of labor to pro
vide additional work such as repairs.
Increased productions, etc., which
ordinarily would be done in the sum
mer months.
To get home owners and residents
to provide work cleaning basements,
yards and doing other kinds of work
which can be dona in winter M well
as In summer.
To get city, county, state and oth
er governmental agencies to con
centrate on public Improvements In
the winter rather than in the aum
mt"-.
To get Industries to divide employ
mem aiming a great number of peo
ple, thereby not confining the unem
ployment to a cerfttin few.
Public Support.
To meet an unemployment prob
lem requires first the support of the
public. With this support it is easy
to devise schemes for providing em
ployment esough to prevent actual
suffering.
On several occasions we have aug
mented the general campaign along
these lines by the establishment of
camps where men are employed
cutting cordwood for fuel and in re
claiming old furniture, shoes, cloth
ing. etc. These things are started
usually to provide employment for
single men and men of the “float
ing population” type.
The other work is held for our
own people apd people with families.
The emergency work is on the basis
of the labor being performed^ for
board and room while a living wage
is paid for the work performed by
those with dependents.
“Won't Work” Class.
We also have the "won't work”
class to deal with. Thie is handled
by a municipal rock pile operated in
conjunction with the police depart
ment. This is essential to the gen
eral unemployment machinery.
Portland does not boast of her
ability to meet unemployment. On
the contrary we warn the world that
we have the problem and that this
is not the place to come in search
of work in the winter time.
We make an effort to take care
of our own people and have suc
ceeded In this for the last si* or
eight years, but it is only when con
ditions become very serious that we
make an effort to take cdre of the
winter visitor who comes here
seeking employment. We advise
him to stay where he is.
‘ "—"“I
j GREATNESS, BIGNESS
BY DR. W. E. BARTON
Joseph Tarker, a few we'eks be
fore his last illness, stood in his ac
cuptomed place In London and made i
the Bible in the City Temple pulpit :
Into an atlas. He opened it at an i
imaginary map of London:
“London! London! It fills the
whole page! It fills the whole life
and thought and imagination of
many of Us people! They eat and
drink and worship London! They
know nothi ig. think nothing but
London!"
Then he turned a page, and found
what he assumed to be a map of
England:
“And here In this corner of the
map is London, just a little spider!” '
In succession he turned to a map
of Europe and to one of the world:
“And upon a map of Europe, Eng
land is not very large: and Europe
looks small upon a map of the
world.”
Here he forsook his Imaginary
atlas, and said:
"And now If you will take an or
ery, If you know what that is—ana
f once X get the word said I nevei
nake a second attempt—If you tak<
in orrery, that shows the entire so
ar system, with the sun at the cen
er, and the planets In place and
his great earth’s a child’s marble—
vhere now Is London?"
Then he said—
"A thing is not necessarily greai
because it is big, nor big because 1
g nr’”
I heard Joseph Parker In this ad
Iress, and I thought it a v%ry whole
lornp rebuke to tho conceit and pro
rincialism of London. And I hav<
hought of It many times since as t
lesson which Americans need no
less than the people of England.
Perhaps there is no nation tha
has need of more frequent warnini
not to confuse bigness with great
ness. „
"A thing Is not necessarily grea
because it is big, nor big because 1
Is near.”
Learn One New Thing Every Day
BULLETINS BY THE j
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC BOCIE TY
DUST: AN UNSUNG BENEFACTOR
"The fulling of a thick coating of
dust upon a steamer in the Yellow
Sea and tho attendant darkening or
the atmosphere so that sailing was
ditttcult, reported in news despatch
es, is not such an uncommon occur
rence in that part of the world, or
oven in raid ocean,” says a bulletin
of the National Geographic Society
from Washington, D. C.
"Besides the dust fall on the
ocean, which on the face of it seems
a joke, there are sometimes yellow
rains in the Yukon and red snows
In Greenland and other Arctic and
Alpine regions,” the bulletin adds.
Vegetable Growths Redden Snow
"Tho yellow rains, so called be
cause the ground becomes covered
with a peculiar fine yellow deposit,
are usually found to be caused by
the pollen of pine trees, growing
miles and miles distant, which is
caught up hy the winds and carried
until their fury has abated, and then
dropped. The ‘red snow' seen in the
Arctic is made by a wind-placed de
posit of the motile algae, Chlamy
domonas. In the nuclei of which are
red pigment spots. Other kinds ot
algae sometimes reproduce in such
numbers that they form the greenish
deposits seen in fresh Water.
"We are all more or less familiar
with the popular fallacy that it
rainB tadpoles.' Of course, the think
ing man who knows that when the
sun cannot vaporize the salt in the
ocean and carry it into the clouds,
it would be impossible for it to pick
up a tadpole in any Btate of its evo
lution and hold It floating above Uf
long enough for it to grow legs ami
lose its tail. The appearance of smai:
toads after a rain In summer is very
easily explained, as they must keel
to damp, cool places whesn they flrsl
come from the water and the rair
and consequent dampness of tin
' earth and atmosphere give them
more latitude for their adventures
| than they possessed before the show
er.
Beautiful Sunsets Due to Dull
Particles
“Dust, however, that bane of thf
housekeeper and the curse of tht
automobile tourist, plays a vita
part in our lives. Though it some
times seems to suffocate us, withoul
' it we could have no rain, as th<
vapor would not condense and with
out Its power of refraction our day
, light would not be so bright, and th<
' coloring of our sunsets would be al
most entirely lost.
“The loess of northern China, e
fine yellow powder brought by th<
5 winds from the desert regions be
yond and deposited in places severa
hundred feet In thickness has beei
' tilled for thousands of years, with
out any artificial fertilization ant
wtihout signs of exhaustion. Bed
of volcanic dust are to be found ii
KansaB and Nebraska today, In som<
places as much as 30 feet in thick
ness, though there were no volca
noes in the past and none at presen
* within hundreds of miles of the de
posits. The wind Is the' culprit o
benefactor.
"Steamers out In the middle ~>
J the Atlantic often have their sail
1 reddened with dust blown from th
Bahara, and sometimes the rains o
. southern Europe are colored by due
from the same source. In 130
four days of March winds are bo
lleved to have spread over Centra
Kurope about two million tons o
Sahara dust, most of it falling soutl
of the Alps, but some of It bein;
carried as far as the Baltic sea.
"Wind-blown dust also gives ris
to some interesting phenomens
When dust falls on glaciers or de
posits of snow near the mountai
tops, every dust particle melts il
way through the ice, sometimes sev
eral inches in depth and if there ar
a great many of these ‘dust-welli
the mountain-climber must watc
his step. Use was! made of thi
knoweldge by engineers in meltin
snows preliminary to the butldin
of the New Bergen railway in south
ern Norway.
Bio Mountain Peak Above 'Dust Zon<
"It is probable that no mountai
top is high enough above the cart
to be entirely free from some dus
especially that thrown out durin
volcanic eruptions. In « great ex
plosion, such as that of Krakatoa i
1XS3, dust is shot into the upper a:
mosphere rather than picked up b
it. Dust particles from Krakato
traveled around the world, some t
it completing its first trip in flftee
days. Before this giant shook tli
world with it« mighty upheaving w
were ignorant of the winds that pr<
vailed at over ten miles above th
earth's surface. The dust so colore
these upper reaches that cann
scientists were able to trace uppt
wind movements, to record them ui
on their chans, and to tell us thi
mighty air streams are flowiii
twenty miles above our heads.
"Long before meteorologists rea
ized the part played by the dust I
the upper atmosphere following vo
canic explosions, they recorded :
phenomenal and inexplicable certai
dense dry fogs that neither aburn
ant rains nor fierce winds dro\
away. Today we can easily explal
them because we know that the 'to
was really dust in the atmosphei
high above the rain and wind cloud
In some places these ’fogs' made ti
sun invisible until it had risen hig
above the horizon, and colored at:
reflected the light of the new moc
until it appeared as bright ax thi
of the full moon at midnight.
“Beneath the earth’s surface ti
dust plays as fantastic a part as
does above its crust. In mines it li
creases inflammability and assists
explosion of gases which woul
otherwise be incombustible, probi
bly acting in the same capacity t
the catalytic ageut in a chemical r
action.”
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t ness, headaches and sluggish bowel
L Sold everywhere.—Adv, ^
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Questions-Answer* f
Amboy Evening New* Information
Bureau. Frederic J. Haekla. Director.
Waohington. D. C. Tbio offer ap
pliea otrlrtly to Information. The
bureau cannot give advice oa legal,
medicinal and Snanclal trouble*. It
doe* not attempt to oettlo domestic
trouble* nor to undertake exhaus
tive reeearch on any eubjact. Writ#
Sour oueetlou plainly and briefly, I
lv* full name and addreaa and an- .
• close two cento in tianmp* for reinrn
poetaxa All replies are cent direct
to the laaulrer.
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Q. Iii It possible for visitors In
Washington lo see White House?
g I,-* c
A. During the war and the Ill
ness of President Wilson following,
the White House was not open to
any except special guests. With
the beginning of the Harding ad
ministration, the old custom was
resumed, of allowing all visitor*
access to the lower corridors, and
to the East Room, while those hold
ing cards issued in the Executive
office upon presentation of a letter
from n senator or representative,
mgiht see Red Room, Blue Roots,
Green Room, State Dining Room.
President and Mrs .Harding recent
ly issued an order making It pos
sible for all visitors to see these
rooms at certain hours of the day.
After a week's trial of this plan
they returned to -the former meth
od of requiring the presentation of.
cards.
Q. Has the T.abor Board when
heating arguments, shown partial* ™
Ity to either the Itallroad Compan
nies’ representatives or the Unions
by allowing one side more time to
present Its case than the other?—
J, J. D.
A. The division of time la usually
a matter of agreement, but when &
limit Is fixed by the Board the
Board is invariably fair to both
sides.
Q. What pseudonym did Wash
ington Irving use?—W. G. G.
A. During the early period of
Irving's writing career, he used the
pseudonyms Jonathan Oldstyle,
Launcelot Uangstaff, Dledrich
Knickerbocker and Geoffrey Cray*
cn. e
Q. How did the Passion Play Of
Oberammergau originate?—V. K.
A. The villagers of Oberammer
gau vowed to present the passion of
Christ every ten years, In gratitude
for the cessation of the Bla*Sk
Death in 1633.
Q. What is Gloria 9wanSon’s
baby’s name?—J. B.
A. Gloria Swanson Somborn’s
baby which Is nearly a year old, la
Gloria Swanson, second.
Q. What Is a vinegar roon?—K.
C.
A. A vinegar room Is defined as a
whip scorpion, especially a large
Mexican species (Thelyphonus gl
gsnteus) popularly supposed to be
very venomous; so called from the
odor that It emits when alarmed
Q, What is the best method for
keeping pecans?—C. W. D.
A. One of the best ^methods Of
keeping pecans Is to store them in
glass Jars. Sooner or later,' how
. ever all nut meats become rancid,
i D. W. . ^
Q. is Marie unrein living m
b. W. "
A. Marie Corelli dropped dead
: at her birthday party at Stratford
f on-Avon .June 13,1921.
Q. When wa sthe first round trip
flight between cities made by an
t airplane’—E. P .
i A. Charles K .Hamilton made the
first round trip between cities
flight on June 13, 1910. He flew
from Governors Island to Philadel
phia and bnck. Time in air was 3 ■
hours and 27 minutes.
Q. How much sugar is contained
In grapes, particularly Concord -and
Delaware?—T. E. R.
A. Grapes contain from 12 to S8
per cent of sugar. The Concord
grape contains 17.86 per cent ol
sugar and the Delaware 22.15 per
cent.
Q. What will keep a windshield
from clouding or gathering mois
ture?—P. 3.
A.' The Bureau of Standards says
1 that a windshield may be kept
[ clear by wiping It off with n cloth
, moistened in glycerine.
, Q. What causes rust?—F. B.
’ A. The Bureau of mines says
s that rusting is due to condensi
. tlon of moisture In the atmosphere
on a cool surface.
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* ^Science Service
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Frost's formation, and the way
to fortell Its occurrence are not gen*
•’ erally understood. A
,, The U. S. Weather Bureau has ^
, much Interesting information along
these lines.
Z The formation of frost Is similai
* to that of dew, except that the tem
Q peraturo on the ground or surfact
upon which it forms must be at or
y below the freezing point. Most peo
* pie suppose that dew falls In the
f same manner as rain.
It is really formed on the ground
e pr on terrestrial objects in the fol*
e lowing manner:
After sunset the ground and oth
’ er substances begin to lose heat by
j radiation and become chilled.
y It at the same time the air is stil
* and the sky clear, the air in contact
lm with the cool ground and objeci
deposits upon them condensed mois
' ture in the form of dew drop'.
“ Whenever these same conditions ex
ist with the temperature of the sue*
face material at freezing or below
b the dew will congeal, forming frost.
It may seem strange that frost
s occur when the temperature ol -
“ served at the time would show ti
l" impossibility of the formation of ic
e particles. But when conditions fu
“ vor radiation, a thermometer la: I
>’ upon grass land at night may mat A
e a temperature much lower than th l g
s- of the surrounding air. Thermom
6 eters placed on the surface und' .
b favorable conditions have reveale 1
d temperatures from 6 to 10, or evci
n 16, degrees lower than the tempera
d ture of the air several feet above.
These differences in temperatui
c are also governed by the condition
It of the surface of the ground; for ln
i- stance, whether or not the surfa<
n is a grassy one, whether the grar
d iB Bhoit or long, light or dark co!
.- ored, whether clover or lawn gra
is and if the surface is bare, whether
.is hard like a roadbed, or cultivates
and if cultivated, whether stirred rr
cently or not, and whether the b- :l
is light or dark colored.
The coming of frost can be fore
told with considerable accuracy b
’C observing the general atmospheri:
6 conditions.
g If the day has been moist an 1
u mild, and the temperature con -
:e mences to fall towards evening an 1
ir registers about 60 degrees at nlghi.
d and if the sky is clear with UttI
is wind, frost may be expected. V A
i, clear, cloudless and comparative:'.' ^
I- calm night is always favorable f'
n. frost if the temperature is low
g enough, while the coming of cloudi
3- which act ns a screen, retards radia
s. tion of heat from the ground, plants,
etc, •