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BULLETINS SENT
OUT OVER STATE
Proposed Amendments For
warded C. of C. Bodies.
A bulletin containing the proposed
amendments to the State constitution
that -will be submitted to the voters of
Indiana at a special election to be held
Sept. 6 is being sent to the members of
the Indiana SUte Chamber of Com
merce from headquarters of the organiza
tion in this city. The amendments will
be discussed at a State conference on
taxation in Indianapolis .Tune 7.
Thirteen of the original sixteen amend
ments adopted by the 1919 session of the
legislature were approved by the 1921
session, and these thirteen proposed
amendments are being sent out in the
bulletin, without comment either for or
against them, to the members of the
chamber that they may be carefully con
sidered in advance of the special elec
tion la September.
The subjects are: Qualifications for
suffrage, registration of voters, enumera
tion of voters, veto of Items In ap
propriation bills, fixing the terms of
State officers, fixing the terms of coun
ty officers, fixing the terms of prosecut
ing attorneys, qualifications of lawyers.
State superintendent of public instruc
tion, taxation, income tax, admitting ne
groes to the State militia, extension of
term of office or increase of salaries of
public officials.
B. R. Inman, manager of the Indiana
State Chamber of Comerce, addressed
the Hammond Chamber of Commerce on
"Functions of the Modern Chamber of
Commerce” at luncheon Thursday, and
has accepted an Invitation to address the
Hammond Klwanls Club at luncheon
next Tuesday on "Fiddlers and Fight
ers.”
School Notes
SHORTRIDGE.
Only five boys remain in the race for
champion honors In golf, as a result of
the tournament last Saturday morning.
Charles Brockman, Cook Coen, Wilbur
Moore, Albert Ward and Wallace Wiley
are the survivor*. Sometime next week
the final matches will be played.
The “Poet’s Club" has been organized
by Harold T. Goode, who won second
honors in the poem contest for the Short
ridge annual. The club, which is under
the censorship of Miss Zeis, held Its first
meeting Friday,
Thirty military training students will
enter a two-day encampment at Scout
camp. They left at 3:30 FridayJ Ser
geant Legnosky or Sergeant Weaver will
be in charge. A camp-fire entertainment
will be held, at which music ala wire
less tele phono is to be a feature.
In the school office there is a small
gold medal on a blue silk ribbon. It is
the Osric Mills Watkins' medal, given to
Shortridge by the Osrlc Mills Watkins
Post of the American Legion in memory
of Osric Watkins of the class of 1913, who
lost his life In France. Each year this
medal is conferred upon the senior Short
ridge boy, who. In the judgment of the
principal, has done the most in athletics
and scholarship to uphold the traditions
of the school. Lawrence Mlchenor, mem
ber of the basket-ball and baseball team,
was given the medal last year.
D. H. McAbee, chairman of the
Memorial day program committee, has
asked four members of the Shortridge
Boy's I>ebating Club to speak on the
historical periods represented bv the four
statues around Monument Circle at
Memorial day exercises.
The girls' gym contest, in which
athletic pins were to be awarded to the
girls who can qualify in eight or more
gymnastic events, has been held and the
results announced. The, senior girls
who qualified, In order of the number
of points made, are: Rachel Benton
-1851. Mafalda Martin-1454. Beatrice i
Meyers-1454, Dorothy Troutman-1439, |
Helen Gwartney-1419. Dorothy Poindex
ter-13G4, Wanda Farr-1278, Alberta Pel
let-948, Ella Balne-810, Francis Reid-1
731. \
Twenty selections were played by the
Orloff Trio for the music memory con- |
test Thursday evening in Caleb Mills
Hall.
The Indians Section of the American
Chemistry Society will meet at Purdue
University, May 14. Mr. Kuebler, Mr.
Wade, Mr. Hadley, Miss Bowser, Miss
Washburn. Miss Rawls, of the faculty;
Gejorge Miller and Marion Campbell, stu
dents —all members of the tociety—will
attend the meeting.
Class day officers consisting of
glftorlan, prophet, will-maker and his
torian, will be elected lC the meeting of
the senior class next Monday afternoon.
Three hundred and sixty-nine pupils
will be graduated from Shortridge this
year. Commencement exercises will be
held at Tomlinson's hall, Wednesday,
June 8. The baccalaureate sermon prob
ably will be given on the preceding Sun
day. A list of those who will be grad
uated tills year follows: Lillian Abrams,
Virginia Adams, Rosella Addington,
Wilma Albersmelr, William Alderman,
Emma Allison, Hazel Alberson, Violet
Archer, Robert Arnold. Dora Atkins,
Clarence Badger, Ells Bain, Hester Baker,
Mary Esther Ball, Caroline Bamberger,
Mary Barnes, Janet Bass, Catherine Bas
sett, Helen Beaver, Horace Beaver, Helen
Bedell, Lois Bell. Mildred Benedict, Wil
moth Benson, Rachel Benton, Blanche
Berstein, Goldie Berstein, Arthur Berry,
Elizabeth Berterman, James Biddinger,
Dolph Blasdel, Beulah Blasdel, Marie
Boyle, Tom Brady, Irene Brewer, Charles
Brockman, Arzelie Brodem, Barbara
Brown, Elizabeth Brown, Freda Brown,
Paul Brown, Betty Brubaker, Mildred
Brunson, Bessie Bryant, Pernie Bryant,
Madeline Byrket. Cleon Burger, Evalyn
Carpenter, Herman Carrington. Edith
Carsten, Fred Carter, Joseph Cash, Cath
erine Caoms, Luclle Chandler. Mary
Chandler, Hazel Chastian, Kenneth
Church, Steele Churchman, Helen Clener,
Ima Clapp, George Clark, Cooke Coen,
Beatrice Coen, Jack Coen. Robert Conder,
Alden Cook, Alden Copeland, Allen
Couison, Mary Covert, Irene Cow
gill, George Daily, Josephine Dan
forth, Velma Danforth, Laslo
Darke, Paul Darrow, Anna Daugherty,
Rebecca Daugherty, Katherine Dandson.
Charlotte Davis, Dorothy Davis. Dorothy
Day. Elizabeth De Hass, Elfreda De
Lora, Albert De Luse, Nina Deputy,
Wade Dick, Henry Dithmer. Sam Dinnin,
Oakley Dobbins, Jean Dodds. Melba Don
aldson, Alex Dowling. Elizabeth Dru
ley, Juanita Dunning. John Edelen. Solo
mon Edwards, Joseph Eisenhut, Marga
ret Etter. Thomas Evans, Titus Everett,
Albert Ewbank Julius Falk, Marion
Farmer, Wanda Farr, Orlen Fifer. Gordon
Flacus. Roland Fisher, Louise Fleming,
Waiter Forsell, Constance Forsyth, Ken
neth Fox, Henry Frenzel. Frank Fur
stenburg, Nannie May Gahn, Helen Gan
dall, Florence Geisler, Eleanor Gerrard.
Hazel Gilmer, Susanna Goepper, Edna
Graves, Eletha Gray. Harry Green. Wil
liam Guthrie. Helen Gwqrtnev, Anna Ha
Jek. Margaret Hale, Hall Hamilton. How
ard Hamilton. Geraldine Hanks, Kafhe
rine Hanna, Harold Harley. Robert Har
ris. Maryelle Harrison, Robert Hartman,
Frank Hartwell, Justin Harvey, Dorothy
Hatfield, Eula Hayes, C.’arice' Hawkins
Charles Henderson. William Henderson
Harriett Hester, Elizabeth Ann Hills'
Kathryn Hills, Forest Hindsley. Roland
Horkett, Florenee Hooper. John Horner.
Ruth Hoskins. Christine Houseman, Irene
Howard, Donald Hoye, Gertrude Huls
Rosamond Israel. Leon Jackson. Harriet
Jaebne, Maurice Jacquinth, Beatrice Jef
fers, Edith Jenkins, Margaret Jenkins,
Malcolm Jillson, James Jobes, Myrtle
Johnson. Martha Jolliffe. William Jones.
Edgar Joseph, Dorothy Kauffman. Helen
Keehn. Loretta Keller, Florence Kessler,
Marjorie Ketcbam, Gerald Klley, Harry
Kim her. Eleanor King, Paul Knight,
Ruth Krieger, Leo K_rzrok, Celestine
Lobat, Robert Lakin, Dorothy Lambert,
Hazel Latta. Wyant Laycock, Betty Lee,
Katharine Lennox, Rachel Lopard, Ger
trude Lewis, Josephine Likelv, Agnes
Lindamood. Lacy Lindley, Virginia Llud
strorn, John Little. Dale Llvtngood.
Sarah Loggins, Lynn Lotick, Granville
Lnten. Doris Lynn. Edith McAipin, Ber
nice Mcßroom. Jeanette McCarty, Kath
teen McClure, Louise McCormick. Dorothv
McCullough, Helen McGahey. June McKee,
Robert McKee. Valoros McLeay, Cornelia
Marshal, Mafalda Martin. Nola Martin,
Elisabeth Mart*, Isabella Matthews.
Christine Mauer. Margaret Matthews,
Mary Meddlers, Caroline Meikel. Theo
dore Medeas, Beatrice Meyer, William
Miles. George Miller, Mary Miller,
Charles Mitchell, Elsie Mitchell, Marie
Moon, Lillian Moore, Nicholas Moore,
Meta Morris, Fred Mueller, Eleaner Muel
ler, Katherine Mullia, Kathryn Mus
barger, Helen Murphy, Violet Mure,
Ruth Myers, Ralph Nelson, Henry
Neste”, Clarence Nichols. James Nichols,
... Joanfci-ta Xnnam*. „er l.r.r.cy U Brien.
Garden Qpot>-°/rNewZeeileaid
West by Southwest
New Zealand, Australia
and South Sea Islands.
By W. D. BOYCE.
Indianapolis and Chicago pub
lisher, organizer and leader of
the Old Mexico Research and
African Big Game Expeditions,
author of "Illustrated South
America." "United States Colonies
and Dependencies” and “The First
Americans—Our Indians of Yes
terday and Today.”
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand—
" The Garden Spot of New Zealand”
is what they call Christchurch and
the Canterbury Plains in which it is sit
uated. The plains, 150 miles long and at
their widest spot fifty miles wide, are the
only extensive level spaces In either the
North or So-uth Island, and It is on the
3,000,000 acres there that flat land New
Zealand farming is to be seen at its
best.
Christchurch, with a population of
100.000, Including suburbs, is In the
South Island. It was founded by a col
ony of men and women sent out by the
Church of England, hence Its religious
and staid sounding name. You get to
It from Wellington, the capital, by an
all night boat run of 175 miles, then
seven miles by train from Port Lyttle
ton. \
I found Christchurch the best laid out
city in New Zealand. Its streets are
level and wide and clean and run at
rigkt angles to each other. In marked
contrast to the mazes of hills, streets
and lanes and alleys which are to be
found in Auckland, Wellington and
Dunedin. The buildings, unlike those of
the cities just named, are mostly stone
or brick. Streets and sidewalks are
paved of the same material—crushed
stone and tar—and where the curbing
should be runs constantly in a gutter a
The River Avon, which crosses
Christchurch at an angle and passes
through some of the most beautiful
gardens In New Zealand. It Is Just
stream of water from artesian wells,.
Through the very heart of the town runs
a placid little stream, the Avon, lined
deeply on both sides by beautiful trees <
and well kept shrubbery, while at every
street It Is crossed by quaint wide
bridges.
Christchurch is a little bit of Southern
England transplanted haU-way around
the world. It is, too, the Boston of New
Zealand, for the forefathers who founded
the Province of Canterbury made wise
provision for educational purposes, pri
mary, secondary and university and
also Included a plan for agricultural
education for those of the future genera
tions who might wish to farm the laid
scientifically.
Thus It happens that a few miles out
of Christchurch I found Lincoln Agri
cultural College, founded in the late
seventies. Its buildings, which can care
for a maximum of fifty-one students,
are set in the midst of 940 acres of what
we In the United States would call prime
bottom land. The land belongs to the
province of Canterbury and is adminis
tered by a special board. Until two years
ago It was entirely self sustaining for,
while It Is educational, It likewise does
its farming on a commercial basis. The
government now gives it a subsidy in
order that greater time may be devoted
to Its experiments.
I had heard of Lincoln College
throughout the Dominion, of the won
derful wheat yields that It produces, of
its prize fat lambs and I asked Mr. F. W.
Jones, a Chicagoan, who represents the
International Harvester Company In
1 11 L. . —!—!- -Ji -2= i
Lincoln AgTtcnltnriu College, near
Christchurch. Its buildings are set
In the midst of 940 acres rs what we
In the United States would call prime
bottom land. The land belongs to
the Province of Canterbury. Until
two years ago the college was entire
ly self-sustaining for, while it is edit
Elizabeth O’Hara, Georgia Osborn,
Robert Parker, Mae Parsley. Neva Pat
ton, Eileen Pegg, Laro Pierce, Alberta
.’’ellette, Florence Perkins, Clementina
i hares, Kendall Pierson. Dorothy Poin
dexter, Paul Pontius, Ella Pope, Vivian
Pollard, Dorothy Powell, Allan Power,
Sarah Prentiss, Louis Ravler, Ruth
Rankin, Bernice Ratcliffe, Silas Reagan,
Eleaner Reese, Wilma Reese, Francis
Reid, Robert Renick, Fred Richards,
Lucille Reggs, Mary Raley, Henry Rich
ardson. Bonlwyn Roberts. Marie
Robinius, Pauline Roberts, Georgians
Rockwell, Atta Roney, Louise Ruudell,
Byron Rust, Benjamin Sagalosky, Sarah
Sagalosky, Horteuse St. Lorenz, Beatrice
Satticger, Paul Schaller, Margaret
Bchoener, George Schurnacher, Daisy
Schulz, Catherine Seibert, Allen Sells,
Irene Seuel, Francis Shearman, Elsie
Shelley, Marguerite Sherwood, Virginia
Showalter, Albert Schumaker, Edna
Simpson, Bertha Simons, Carroll Sipe,
Virginia Sines, Perle Small, Combie
Smith, Hunter Smith, Kenneth Smith,
La Vergne Smith, Make Smith, Temple
Smith, Thomas Smith, Walter Smith,
Zelma Smith, Kennio Solar, Florence
Solomon, Lowell Sparling. Charles
Stewart, Gaylord Stewart, Thelma Stock
man, .Tack Street, Caleb Strickland,
Margaret Strond, Francis Stull, Joseph
Sullivan, Loretta Sweet. Albert Swift,
Alice Talbert, Esther Taudy, Grace Tay
lor, Heber Taylor, Marguerite Taylor,
Ruth Thomas,! Lindabelle Thompson,
Mildred Thornton, Harry Thurman. On
ney Tierman, Jtha Tindall. Merle Tor
het- Margaret 1 lu'.c Hazel Tmhue.
How Christchurch, the only flat
city In New Zealand, looks to a
bird. In the center is the octagon,
businessc center of the city, alsc>
Christchurch, to tell me something
about it.
“I’ll do better than that,” he said.
“I’ll drive you out to the farm and let
Mr. R. E. Alexander tell you about it.
He is the man who has done It.”
We found Mr. Alexander Just coming
from a field where he had been instruct
derp enongh for rowboats and the
stream Is thronged with them In the
evenings. Well-kept shrubbery and
groves of trees line the banks.
ing some of the boys, or cadets, as they
are called.
"Intensive wheat raising started abont
ten years ago, when the farmera voiced
a cry for anew type of wheat," he said.
, "They were then using Hunter's, the
w heat brought out by some of the
pioneers in the sixties; but they were
! not getting the yield they believed they
i should. It was an easy problem to solve,
being merely a question of selecting the
1 best heads of the same wheat, counting
i the grains, weighing them and saving for
i planting only the topnotch. In 1910 we
had only a few r rows grown from this
selected seed. The following year we
had a very small plot and in 1912 several
! half-acre plots. Today wo have enough
of this good seed wheat to plant the
f whole of New Zealand twice over. It
is hard winter wheat and weighs sixty
four to sixty-six pounds a bushel.
| “Seventy-five bushels has been done
on several farms hereabouts, and on one
[ twenty-acre piece, the yield was ninety
! bushels. That la exceptional, however.
Here at the college our average is forty
six bushels, which is Just 50 per cent
I higher than the thirty-two-bushel aver
age of all New Zealand.”
As Is true of all land south of the
equator, the land In New Zealand ia not
rich, and in order to make it produce big
crops fertilizer Is much used generally.
Not much is required, the average
amount used being a hundred pounds to
the acre. Many of the Canterbury
farmers have let down on the use of
fertilizer in the last few years, Mr.
Alexander said, as a result of the war.
oationnl, it likewise does its farming
on a commercial basis. The govern
ment now gives it a subsidy in order
that greater time may be devotesl to
its experiments. The motto of the
college is not "to make two blades
of grass grow where one grew be
fore," bnt "to make the second blade
twice ns good as the first one."
Dorothy Troutman, Josephine Turney,
I Lueile Tyner. Willard Ulrich, Kearsley
| I rich, Jean Velsey, Ward Vickery, Bertha
I Wagner, Darris Walsh, Edith Washing
ton, Charle.- Watkins, Dorothy Watkins,
I Margaret Welch, Claudia Wyant, Lisailel
Whiting, Dorothy Wilhelm, Salena Wil
liams, Margaret Wingfield, Grace Wise,
Lois Wishard, Elmer Wohlfeld. Edson
Wood, Homer Woods, Orla Woody,
Willetta Work, Beulah Wright, Dorothy
Wright. Nellie Wurtz, Esther Yaney,
> Paul Zartman, Vetha Ziegler, Elizabeth
Zimmerman and Katherine Zwicker.
MANUAL.
The third advance marks come out
Monday.
A meeting of all cadet commissioned
officers wits held at roll call Thursday.
The futurity track meet will be run
off again at Willard pars at the close of
school Thursday, May 12. Medals will
be presented to the winners by Mr, Mc-
Comb.
Results of the first round of the tennis
tournament should be reported to Mr.
Moffat at session period Monday.
The Rolnes Club mot in Room 12 at
the close of school yesterday.
The Short Story Club met at theclose
|of school Thursday. A picnic will he
' given by the members of this club o
May 26.
460-FOOT CHIMNEY,
i The {sliest chimney In the world, at
Friedburg, Germany, is 400 feet high,
tost $r.0,000 ard 1,500,000 bricks were used
n its construction.
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 7,1921.
known as Cathedral Square, because
It Is the location of the Anglican
Cathedral. Christchurch Is laid out
with straight streets, the only city In
which caused the price of fertilizer to
jump from $25 a ton to $73. This has
shown In the yield of their crops, too,
and be expressed a fear that the fann
ers who complained of the price of fer
tilizer and forgot the higher price they
received for wheat and the greater yield
would suffer if they let up on the use of
fertilizer.
“It is almost essential that the ground
be fertilized, because we are unable to
plow for autumn sowing before April
and the seed must be in the ground by
June, so that it should have every ad
vantage of as rich a soil as we can make
it,” he said. “Our motto is not to make
two blades of grass grow where one grew
before, but to make the second blade
twice as good as the first one. To do
that we give the boys who come to the
college for three years a turn at every
thing—sheep, cattle, the garden, the or
chard, mechanics and so on. They do
the work of an ordinary farm hand, so
that when they go to farming for them
selves they will be competent to tell
those working for them how their work
should bn done. They do four hours
work a day and spend an equal time at
lecture by the Instructors. The tuition
and board is $250 a year.”
Canterbury is not a great fruit-grow
ing center. Two things are ngalnst or
chards there. One Is the chances of frost
at night during all seasons of the year
and the other is the high winds, which
frequently blow days at a time, veering
from northeast to northwest and back
again. Mr. Jones told me that he had
seen Dakota winds at their worst and
that they were milder than those which
often sweep Canterbury. There are some
sections, further aouth, where the land
is high and no frosts are had where
fruit is growr in large quantities.
Outside of sheep the farmers of Can
terbury do not go iu strongly for ape-
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While we were driving Heroes the
Canterbury Plain" we met a flock ot
sheep being driven to one of the
packing houses. They Jammed the
road so closely that we had to stop
until the herder and bis dogs could
eialized farming. They grow a diversity
of crops and add to them by cattle and
sheep raising and bee-keeping. Canter
bury also is a famous horse-breeding
country, ranging from great Clydesdales
to the thoroughbred trotters and run
ners. Christchurch, by the way, is a
center of trotting and boasts of a track
and grandstand which has few equals in
the world and certainly none In the
southern hemisphere.
Sheep raising has such a hold upon the
plains folk that the Government guaran
tees a big price for wheat iu an effort
to promote greater ncrea—> because much
splendid agricultural la~d now It given
over to sheep which would do just as
well if restricted to high land unsuitable
for cereal growing.
NEW ZEALAND lAMBS
BEST IN' THE WORLD.
I ceased being surprised at the splen
did quality of New Zealand lambs—to my
mind the best in the world-after I had
been shown how the are fattened.
After they are woaned the la.nbs are
turned loose in fields of rape or turnip
specially grown for the purpose and
there put on the last pounds of flesh be
fore they are sent to the packing plants.
They go to the plants ia splendid condi
tion and with all of the sheep of a flock
within a few pounds of each other. If
for any reason It is not possible to
slaughter them within a day or two the
‘LOSS’ OF NAVAL
PLAN IS GREAT
WAR MYSTERY
(Continued From rage One.)
eral board's "Solution of Problem,
Black,” was gone!
The most thorough search failed to
find ar.y trace of it.
How long had it been missing? No
one could answer.
NOT STOLEN BY
GERMAN SPY.
The newspapers hinted that it had been
stolen by some German spy. Such was
the obvious suspicion. The suggestion
that it might have been stolen by some
German spy was given no credence in
the department. Nothing is so carefully
guarded as war plans, and so far as we
know the Germans never got hold of
any of ours, although early In the war
a number of things occurred which
made us wonder how much they did
know. For example:
Movements of vessels and orders re
lating thereto were known only to the
few officials in the Navy Department
who issued the orders and to the men
on the vessel a. Rren t miina were taken
the Dominion in which this is pos
sible. In the immediate foreground
the belt of trees marks the River
Avon, a little stream which winds
across the city.
packing companies put them to feed upon
rape or turnips until the killing house is
ready for them. A lamb left unfed will
lose a pound a day, but if kept on green
stuff the shrinkage dwindles to about a
fourth of a pound a day.
There are about forty packing plants
in the dominion. At Islington, one of the
six big plants of the New Zealand re
frigerating Company, near Christchurch,
7,000 lambs a day are slaughtered when
‘he plant is operating at full capacity.
The killers are all experts In killing,
skinning, trimming and dressing so that
one man alone handles a carcass from the
time the sheep is killed until it is on its
way past the grader, the weigher and
the government inspector to the chilling
room. Iu the American packing houses
each operation is handled by a different
man, which the New Zealanders claim,
makes the process slower. New Zealand
killers easily handle 100 sheep a day and,
if pushed, will make it 120. For this
they receive about $10.50 for each hun
dred head.
In .the chilling room the carcasses
spend from twenty-four to thirty-six
hours in order to drive off the animal
heat, then pass Into the freezing plant to
stay until time to ship them, then are
loaded in air-cooled cars and hauled to
the port, where they are taken aboard
refrigerating ships. lee never U used
for meat In transit because the weather
seldom gets so . hot that meat Is in dan
ger of tainting during the short rnil
trip. I was informed at the Islington
plant that commercial lee-maklng once
was In operation there, but that the
demand for lee In the city was so very
small that the company found it didn't
pay and closed down the plant.
It might be remarked here that the
nonuse of lee has been one of the many
surprising things I have found in New
Zealand. In the North Island very lit
tle is used except in freezing ice cream
force them past us. These are mostly
lambs, 4 to 8 months old, and are in
prime condition for the killing rooms,
where they will be turned into the
world-famous "Canterbury I’rimo"
brand of lambs, which is guaranteed
by the government.
or for flnnlcky Americans who cling to
their habit of Ice water with their meals
or Iced drinks between times. I am re
liably informed that not one family in
each thousand ia New Zealand has an
icebox In the house. Perhaps the fact
that they never torture their stomachs
with cold drinks is another reason why
New Zealanders live long.
PRACTICALLY NO WASTE
IN THESE PLANTS.
Getting back to the packing plant, I
found that no part of the sheep Is wast
ed there any more than In the Ameri
can plants, where it Is said that Rome
use is made of every part of the hog ex
cept the squeal. From the intestines—
washed, scraped, scoured and packed in
salt—aro made sausage casings, almost
all of which goes to the United States.
Oleo, wool, pelts, neatsfoot. oil and fer
tilizer are by-products. The hides are*
first treated with a soda solution which
causes, the wool to loosen so that it
yields readily to a scraper. The pelts
then are cured and shipped to the United
States, principally to Boston shoe man
ufacturers. The wool, washed and dried,
is baled. Most of it is for export to
England, but considerable is sold to
Christchurch factories. One of these fac
tories, I am told, is so completely
equipped that it takes in raw wool at
one end and turns out completed suits
of clothes at the other.
to prevent the Germans from learning
about the first destroyers sent over. They
sailed under sealed orders, and until
he was fifty miles at sea and broke the
seal not even the commander of the
flotilla knew Its destination.
Yet the day before the division nrived
German submarines, for the first time
in months, sowed mines all across the
entrance to Queenstown, and the Ger
man papers printed the news of our de
stroyers’ arrival before it was published
in England or America. The latter is
more easily accounted for, as it was
several days before we anounced that
they had reached a British port, but the
mine laying led many to believe that the
enemy had, in some .way, learned they
were coming.
When oir first troop convoys went to
Europe they were attacked far out at
sea, and Admiral Sims cabled that It
was “practically certain that the enemy
knew p&’iitlons of the first rendezvous
ind accordingly sent a sjbmarlne to
Intercept before Junction with destroy
ers.” Though Sims afterward discounted
the idea that the convoys were attacked,
he was excited enough about it at the
time, for he sent *te two cablegrams
about it in three da.^s.
But whatever the Qirruans might have
lan mi,,l niJt nw.romm. i on.
! I I
The Anglican Cathedral, the most
pretentions chnrch In the city. Christ
church was originally established as
a model (hurch of England settle
ment. The foundation stone of the
cathedral was laid in IHU4, within
fourteen years of the foundation of
the settlement, and the building was
oompleted in 1904.
Kidneys and tongues are packed in
boxes and exported. Thu fertilizer, mixed
with phosphate from Japan, or with
Chilean nitrate which first Is sent to
London, is sold to the farmers of
Canterbury Province.
On’y the very best lambs are exported.
All thin iambs which happen to be
killed are saved for home consumption.
It is easy to distinguish the prime from
the seconds in the carcasses for a lamb’
that is not of the best quality shows
it in the darkness of the meat. Lean
lamb is excellent eating, but the far
famed "Canterbury Prime” alone is sent
abroad for the government forbids the
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High street, on© of the bnsiness
thoroughfares of Christchurch. The
■tnret* are all the swine width and
(he buildings are substantial but not
tail, for there 1* no necessity for
export of any other quality. Thus the
reputation of New Zealand mutton Is up
held.
New Zealand does not breed many
sheep for wool alone. There are no
great flocks of pure-bred Merinos such
as have made Australia famous. Some
few of them are to be found in the hills,
but on the plains sheep mostly are of
the eyoss-bred varieties which make the
best meat, and their wool is shorter
and not so soft.
WONDERFUL SCENERY
ALONG PENINSULA.
Between the plains of Canterbury and
the open sea stretches a vast hilly pen
insula—Banks' Peninsula, to give It Us
name—that Is a wonderful bit of coun
try. There dairying flourishes amid some
wonderful scenery that equals that of
the Alps of Switzerland. There, clear
to the top of the hills, is grown a
cereal called cocksfoot that was a revela
tion to me. Originally brought to New
Zealand from England 1t has been sown
broadcast throughout the peninsula
where once dense forests existed and
from the crop garnered a double profit
Is registered. The seed is sent abroad
for malsters and the fodder makes ex
cellent cattle feed. Moreover, beneath
the vast growth of cocksfoot is a green
carpet of native grass upon which the
cattle and sheep graze after the cocks
foot has been gathered. The harvest is
done by hand by men with sickles who
spread it out to cure in the sun In little
bundles. I saw them at tho harvest,
2,000 fet above the sea level, with
A New Zealand farmhouse. It Is
almost hidden from sight behind a
hedge which acts as a windbreak
against the terrific wind and rain
storms which sometimes sweep the ls
the other side, I am confident that they
did not get any information from this
side of the Atlantic. The Navy had
control of all radio, every cable message
was scanned and even the destroyer and
transport captains did not know their
destination until they were well out at
sea. My own opinion is that the Ger
mans, who knew of General Pershing's
arrival in England, which occu-red the
day after our first convoys sailed, In
ferred that troops were being dispatched
and merely “doped out” the probable
route. The mine-laying at Queenstown
was, as likely as not, simply a coinci
dence.
And so I am satisfied In my own
mind that the missing plan, the "Prob
lem Solution, Black,” will yet be found
carefully—too carefully—hidden away in
the Navy Department. I have never be
-1 lleved it was stolen, or that it in any
way fell Into German hands.
The explanation of its vanishing. 1
| think, will be found to be quit# simple,
and will show that it was due to an
over-anxiety to preserve the plan in ab
solute secrecy.
As I have said, but one copy was made
of it. It was probably given into the
care of Capt. Volney Chase, chief assistant
to Admiral Benson, and a man to whom
mutters of the nti.mut Imimrtßnw ivuro
clouds swirling close overhead and far
down beneath them the waters of Akaioa
harbor, famous in history as the site of
a notable battle. The odd thing
about the way cocksfoot came to New
Zealand is that a fatmer sent back to
England for clover, instead he got other
seed and, In disgust, he cast it to the
winds, when he saw wheat grew from
this seed he recognized it as cocksioot
and thus was started a valuable crop
which now covers many thousand acres
each year. It does not need replanting.
The vast hills, denuded of the timber
which once covered them, today are
great grazing grounds for sheep and
dairy herds. Nestling in the clefts of
the hills are scores of farmhouses and
the vistas are so splendid that we grew
quite as enthusiastic as Dr. Henry T. J.
Thacker, the mayor of Christchurch, who
was born on one ot those back stations
and who was our host on the trip.
IT IS ONE CITY
WITHOUT SLUMS.
Dr. Thacker is immensely proud of his
city, and he has a right to be. It is
essentially a city of small homes it
has not a single apartment house or any
slums. Its gardens are among the most
magnificent in the Dominion. Its churches
are easily the finest, ranging from the
majestic Anglican Cathedral, located in
the square which is the heart of the
city, down through the Roman Catholic
Cathedral to scores of smaller structures,
every one of them artistic to a high de
gree. Its colleges and schools are un
surpassed in New Zealand and Christ
church is looked up to as the Dominion's
center of learning.
Christchurch boasts that it has the
finest street car service of the four big
cities, in spite of the demands made upon
it by the fact that the city's people find
their greatest amusements and sports
away from the city itself in the marine
suburbs beyond the hills or in the rural
district served by the cars. Cheap
electric power has given Christchurch the
only general 2-cent street car fare in New
Zealand.
economy of ground space. Cbrls*-
chnrch boasts .that it haa the finest
afreet car service of the four big
cities of New Zealand. Cheap elec
tric power ha* given It the only
general 2-cent faro In the dominion.
Some eighty miles from Christchurch,
at Lake Coleridge, Is the biggest hydro
electric development in the southern
hemisphere, the thing that makes pos
sible the supplying to the city of better
electric service than any other city and
which is attracting to Christchurch many
industries. This natural lake, located
back In the hills, was considered so valu
able a water power that the Dominion
government itself took control of it, and,
seeing the vast possibilities of which the
Lake Coleridge project is the forerunner,
prohibits by law the acquisition of water
power by any corporation or private in
dividual. The project is under the su
pervision of a board.
Lake Coleridge is fringed by mountains
at. /so altitude of 1,600 feet. It is an
imnWise natural reservoir and by means
of a tunnel less than a mile long a fall
of 50p feet was obtained and. the water
afterj being used Is turned into the
Rakstia River. The construction of dam
and jintake was thus avoided. Today
enou th power is being developed not
only for the light and power needed by
Christchurch, but also to supply much
of the neighboring country. When Im
provements are completed not only the
Canterbury plains but faraway towns
and rural districts can be supplied from
Lake Coleridge.
In Christchurch I had the pleasure of
meeting Mr. Roberts Bell, managing di
rector of th Helton Times, one of the
solid Me? newspapers of New Zealand,
and 'publisher of the Guardian at Ash
burton. Mr. Bell Is a member of the
Now Zealand Parliament.
lands for two or three days at a time.
On Canterbury Plains, where this
photograph was taken, farm homes
are the typical well-kept plnces which
ore to be seen in England and they
have electric lights and telephones.
frequently committed. Captain Chase
was an exceedingly able and unsparingly
devoted oificer. It is not unlikely that
he put the "Black plan” problem away
in some secret drawer or cabinet, con
fiding in no one'as to Its whereabouts.
TOOK SECRET
TO GRAVE.
Then in June, 1917, worn out with al
most ceaseless work, he died—died sud
denly. So far as we know, the "Blacx
plan” problem was never seen by any one
after the death of Captain Chase. He
probably took the secret of it3 hiding
place with him. Certainly, no enemy
learned it as long as it was locked in
bis brain. t
One of our latest destroyers is named
after him—the "Chase.” He merited the
honor, and 1 was glad to pay that tribute
to bis memory.
Copyright 1921, by John F. Dille. Copy
right by National Newspaper Service.
fopyrigbt in Great Britain, Canada and
iroughout France. All rightp reserved,
lcluding translation into foreign lan
uages, including the Scandinavian; Un
uthorlzed reprinting for any purpose
irbidden.
(Another article by former Sefcretary
Daniels iwll be printed Monday.)!
WEIGH BREAD IN BRIT.IBN.
In Great Britain the sale .of firead is
by the four pound and two' pafmd loaf
which must be weighed in thsJpresence
Os the l,liver. .
OFFER BOOKS ON
HOME DECORATION
Library Aids Better Homes
Movement.
The art department of the Indianapolis
public library has prepared an Interest
ing list of books on home decoration fol
the better homes institute. Those who
have had their Interest more fully
aroused by the institute will be glad td
know that the central library furnished
many very practical books along thii
line.
The list Includes: “The House, ltd
Plan, Decoration and Care,” by Be:eri
“The Room Beautiful,” by Clifford nd
Lawton; "The Furnishing of a Modest
Home,” by Daniels; "Practical Book ui
Interior Decoration,” by Eberlain; "Thd
Effective Small Home,” by Green; “HoW
to Select Furnishings for the Home,” by
Jackson; “House Furnishings and Deco
ration,” by McClure; "Interior Decora
tion,” by Parsons; "Planning and Fur
nishing the Home,” by Quinn; “Hand
book of Furiture Styles,” by Dyer;
"Decorative Textiles,” by Hunter; “In
side the House of Good Taste,” by
Wright; “Decorating and Furnishing o|
Apartments,” by Herts; “Book of Disf
tlnctlve Interiors,” by Voilmer; “Fur
nishing the Home of Good Taste,”
Throop; “Hints on House Furnishings,”
by Sparrow; “Interior Decoration for Iha
Small Home," by Rolfe; "Art and Econ
omy in Home Decoration,” by Priestman;
"Home Furnishings,” by Hunter.
The library subscribes regularly to a
number of magazines dealing largely
with home decoration. Among them are!
Arts and Decoration, Country Life, Houm
and Garden, House Beautiful, Touch
stone, American Architect, Architectural
Record and Architectural Review.
CO-ED SHOOTING
CASE NEARS END
Closing Arguments Made ;iu
Sackett Trial,
Special to The Times.
GREENCASTLE, Ind., May 7.—Closing
arguments were made today In the case
of William Sackett, charged with shoot
ing with intent to kill Miss Hilda Var
ney, pretty DePauw University co-ed,
of Malden, Mass.
Evidence was completed late yester
day, but if the fur coat Miss Varney 1
wore when she was shot Dec. 4 arrives
in time it ■will be exhibited to the Jury.
The courtroom began to fill earlier
than usual. Farmers’ wives from the
surrounding country driving in to do
their trading threw an “extra snack”'
in their lunch baskets and prepared to
sit in court well into the afternoon until
the case reaches the Jury.
Sackett Is charged with shooting Miss
Varney as she was standing with Mark
Bills, a fellow student, near the Sackett
garage. Sackett went on to his back
porch and fired a revolver, the shot
lodging in Miss Varney's shoulder. The
defense contended Sackett thought
heard burglars. <
HOROSCOPE
“The stars incline, bat do not compel!”
SUNDAY MAY 8.
The early hour* of this day are not
favorable to most of the ambitions of
men, but later a kindly star dominates.
Mercury and Saturn are In malefic
aspect, but in the evening Neptune is
friendly.
Many evil rumors may disturb the
public, for Mercury Is in a place read
as presaging many alarming newspaper
reports on world conditions.
Troubles affecting the relations of the
United States with a foreign power may
multiply, but there is always a protecting
Influence that keeps the country In
vulnerable.
Persons whose birthdate it Is may have
a year of stress that will lead to great
prosperity. The young will court and.
marry.
Children born on this day may have
rather a difficult climb up the ladder of
fortune, but they are capable of reach
ing the top.
MONDAY MAY 9.
Astrologers read this as a doubtful day
In which the planetary aspects aro hidden
and uncertain in their effects oa
humanity.
At this time there may an nnusoat
spell of heat that brings with It a
scourge of insects that will make them
aelves felt later.
The aspect seems to foreshadow many
heated debates in Congress and divisions
over important questions of national
policy.
Theatres are subject to planetary
making for great interest In the stage
and many independent theatrical enter
prises.
Persons whose birthdate it Is have the
augury of a se.rene, quiet year. Business
affairs will proceed as usual.
Children bora on this day may be
quick-tempered and difficult to please,
but they are likely to be unusually
gifted.
(Copyright, 1921.)
sth Nation Enters
Silesian Conflict
BERLIN, May 7. —Czecho Slovakia was
reported today to have added fuel to the
international conflagration now raging in
upper Silesia.
A Vienna dispatch stated that Czecdfl
Slovakian troops in great force
crossed the upper Silesian frontier,
ing the fifth nation involved In
straggle arising outof the recent
sclte.
Patch House Witl
Home-Made Stone
Possibly you do not know how to put
on a stone patch when the necessity
arises.
Well, our Washington Information
Bureau will give you this up-to-the
minute Information.
It has a recipe bulletin on the sub
ject, entitled “How to Make and Use
Concrete.”
Anybody with this bulletin In hand
can mix up a batch of fluid concrete.
It may then be poured into a mold for
a doorstep, a decayed foundation, a
rotted gate post, a garden wall. It
hardens, becomes stone, and will endure
forever.
This bulletin is one of the series of
practical helps to the householder that
we offer for free distribution.
You should get every one of them as
they are advertised and file them away
against the time for need.
Fr-deric J. Haskin, Director,
The Indiana Dally Times
Information Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
I enclose herewith 2 cents in stamps
for return postage on a free copy of
“How to Make and Use Concrete.”
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