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Friday, August 30, 1935
Citrus Prospects Bright
Too great optimism Is always a danger to those
*ho are prone to get that way, but right now it Is
hard not to become enthused over prospects for goed
prices for the citrus crop which will be harvested
here In the Valley this fall and winter. A curtailed
crop for the Valley, a greatly shortened crop in Flor
ida, both indicate that for once in recent years the
supply of grapefruit and oranges will not equal the
demand.
Advance contracts are right now being offered
Valley grove owners, calling for the payment of 2c
ft pound for their fruit, in the orchards. That is an
exceptionally good price, and is a price that will
enable owners of groves that have received proper
care and attention to count up some very respect
able profits.
.Talking or surmising about future prices for any
agricultural product Is a dangerous practice, but it
does appear that If growers and shippers of the
Valley keep their heads that the industry will have
& bright spot on its map of business fluctuations of
the past five years.
.Establishment of a citrus clearing house, as pro
posed in a recent conference between leading ship
ping organizations of the Valley, should help a whole
lot in the stabilization of prices. Shippers and grow
ers alike learned last season that Just one under
quotation will bring the entire price level down with
it,, and down in a hurry. Agreement as to quota
tions from the Valley will help a lot.
The new ‘‘green fruit" law should also help the
early season shipments, establishing as It does more
severe restrictions on the quality of fruit In early
shipments.
Control of the bulk of the crop in one agency has
not been reached by a long shot, but It appears that
the leading shlpp^T* and co-operatives are more In
accord than ever before.
The truck-peddler, with hJs penchant for buying
culls In the Valley and peddling them out over a
wide territory for little or nothing, to be advertised
as “Texas" or “Rio Orande Valley" grapefruit, still
remains uncontrolled. With the probable passing
from the picture of the Texas Citrus Control com
mittee, the ban on culls will probably not stand up,
apd this situation must be met. Growers themselves
can solve this problem by refusing to sell to these
peddlers, and surely the wisdom of such a course be
comes apparent when one considers the experience
of the past two seasons.
But all In all the prospect appears good for a real
come-back by the citrus Industry of the Valley.
The Padre Island Park Project
Through the insistence of Dave Colp, chairman of
the state park board, it appears that the Padre
Island state park dream may become a reality.
Plans for its establishment as such are nearly
matured, the Austin correspondent of The Browns
ville Herald writes, following an interview with the
energetic park head.
There will be some who will see In this project a
threat against the Kenedy county road. Assurances
are given by Colp that the project Is one fostered by
_ . nr—ij—u~rL—i —_
his parks organization, that no outside influences
working against the road are in back of the proj
ect, and that It Is designed to be Just what is Indi
cated, a monster state park along the lines of the one
recently established by the state and federal gov
ernments In the Davis mountains.
'All Valley people will approve the project and lend
their assistance wherever possible, always providing
that the Padre Island park la not intended as a sub
stitute for the Kenedy county link In the Hug-the
Coast highway.
Cancer or Infections
May Damage Thyroid
By DR. MORRIS FISHBUN
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association,
and of Hygeia, the Health Magasine
A person’s thyroid gland may be neither overactive
nor underactive, and yet there are other conditions
affecting this organ that can produce serious results.
For instance, the tissues within the thyroid gland
sometimes become affected by disturbances of growth.
Nodules form, giving an enlarged and ugly appear
ance to the tissues. These nodules are due to an
overdevelopment of some of the glandular tissues
within the thyroid.
The most dangerous condition is the development
of cancer of the thyroid. The moment such a pos
sibility is detected, the entire gland should be re
i moved Immediately.
As In oilier tissues, cancer of the thyroid varies.
In some cases the cancer gTows rapidly, end in tact
destroys life almost before anything can be done.
If the malignant tumor is retained within the
gland Itself, operation offers a hope of successful re
moval. When the cancer grows outside into the
neighboring tissues, the operation is much more ex
tensive, mutilating and dangerous.
• • •
After a cancerous goiter is removed, it is custom
ary to treat the tissues with the X-ray, with a view
to destroying such glandular material as has not
been removed by the knife.
There art other cases in which the thyroid gland
becomes infected and inflamed. The treatment of
infection of the thyroid gland is naturally like the
treatment of infections elsewhere In the body.
Persons with infection must be given every pos
j sible opportunity to recover by being put to bed. their
| diets controlled, and their condition relieved by the
application of an ice-pack. In mild inflammations
this method of treatment will sometimes bring about
a completely successful result.
However, there are cases in which pus forms When
ever any amount of pus is present, It Is usually de
sirable to make the necessary surgical puncture or
incision to permit the pus to escape.
• • •
Anatomists have found certain people who have
not only the thyroid gland in the throat, but also
extra thyroid tissue which forms in the chest, or in
the neck, or In the back of the tongue, or In other
places.
In the presence of any overactivity or disease of
these extra tissues, the difficulty has to tie handled
exactly as are disturbances In the thyroid gland It
self.
Thyroid extract, which Is really not an extract but
merely a dried powder made from the whole gland,
is used nowaday* to speed up deficient chemical ac
tivity of the body and thereby assist In the reduc
tion of weight.
It is helpful also In certain skin diseases In which
dryness Is a promnent symptom, and it has also been
found useful In certain conditions in which stimula
tion to the kidney Is required.
Here even the Intelligent and gently reared girls
discuss frankly subjects that are taboo In Zurich.
They go almost everywhere and do almost everything
a man does.—Walter Haefner, Swiss college#lad, tour
ing United States.
Human life consists In mutual service. No grief,
no pain, misfortune or broken heart is excuse for
cutting off one's life while any power of service re
mains—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, noted writer who
committed suicide.
Money is being spent on those who do not have
anything and. Instead of helping the unemployed,
is creating a class of unemployables.—Ex-Senator
Simeon D. Fess, Ohio.
I dont know why we hats to go, we know its bet
ter there. Maybe It’s because we haven't done any
thing that will live after wt are gone—The late Will
Rogers.
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WASHINGTON
BY BAY Tl" X£B
Car — Although Marriner 8.
Eckle* was installed as governor cl
the Federal Reserve Board as a
New Deal banking wizard, the
youngster Irom Utah doesn't ait any
too securely on his financial throne.
He has antagonized so many In
fluential people that neither his re
appointment nor his confirmation
is certain.
Mr. Eccles and Secretary Mcrgen
thau are not so friendly aa they used
to be. The banking community ii
auspicious of his radical Ideas ai
embodied In his personal draft of
the banking bill. Powerful Cartel
Glass has warned the president tc
censor Eccles pronouncements, and
the governor was noticeably quies
cent during the final stages of the
banking bill battle.
Now Eccles has taken on new
enemies. Elderly associates on the
beard brand him as a czar. For seven
weeks he did not call a board meet
ing, although weekly gathering]
have always been customary. Hi
also served notice that he would
make all appointments in the fu
ture. Word of this internal dissen
sion has reached the treasury and
i the White House.
• • •
Knock-Oat—Mr. Glass pulled hii
punches when Mr. Eccles’ pam<
was up for confirmation the last
time. But the senator from Vlrginii
is rapidly losing his patience. He
burns up at claims that the Eccles
philosophy prevailed over his ideal
in the framing of the new bank bill.
Mr. Glass is fortified with in
formation to the effect that Mr. Be
cles has net disposed of his bank
ing interests, as required by law
Senatorial associates promised tc
support him If he placed substan
tial evidence cn this score in the
official record. But his Informants,
mostly western bankers, had asked
him to keep their names out of it
and he complied. He may try to in
troduce this data by other means
the next time. The senate has been
touchy on this point since the days
of Andrew W. Mellon.
The senator maintains that he
vanquished Eccles in the revision of
the reserve system. He feels that he
knocked out the governor's two
principal ideas—central control and
u.v of the banking agency as an
instrument for economic planning.
Bankers and other students agree.
• • •
Jurors—The eyes of twelve good
men and true popped wide open
when they read that Edward L.
Doheny was foreclsoing on the
ranch occpled by Albert B. Fall,
former secretary of the Interior.
It was a decade ago that these
twelve men freed Doheny of the
government charge that he had
bribed Fall into turning over naval
oil reserves to the Californian.
Whirligig’s correspondent, who cov
ered the trial, was sufficiently cu
rious to ask the Jurors what lay be
hind their surprising verdict. They
explained that they had believed
the defense argument that Doheny’s
loan to Fall was inspired by their
youthful friendship in prospecting
days, and not by the oil transac
tion. It was a loan for old time’s
sake and not a bribe, in their
minds.
Ironically, hard luck has dogged
most of those Jurors. They have lost
jobs and prepertiea. They want to
forget. Though shocked at this new
sidelight, they are too worried over
their own troubles to bether about
these of ten years age.
• • •
D*fk — The administration has
not heard the last of its silver
critics. The senate committee em
powered to Investigate silver pur
chases may turn up scene facts poli
tic illy damaging to the treasury.
Or the surface it appears that the
way has been paved for a whitewash
of Secretary Morgenthau’s program
of buying when silver is falling ana
refusing to push the price to the
$12£ peak desired by tne sllverltes.
The Inquiry proposed by Senator
Thomas of Oklahoma was side
tracked and an Inside track given
to the investigation asked by Sen
ator Pittman of Nevada, an ad
n.nist ration spokesman. Senate
leaders took care that a friena
rather than a foe should head the
inquisitors.
But senate leaders placed some
critical comrades on his committee
—Thomas, King. Borah and M>
Nary. Thomas, Borah and McNary
may gang up against the white
heuse. Mild Inflationists, thev may
set themselves against the Mor
een thau program. Adminls&ratkm
Ites don’t see any silver lining
this dark cloud.
Precarious — Although the rum
bhr.gs lie deep beneath the surface,
some progressives 1n the New Deal
family are growing restless Trrni
b’ec’ Insiders hear that Messrs
Ickes and Wallace are suffleientlv
dissatisfied to toy with the though
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CHAPTER XLVI
MIGHT cum suddenly In the for
eat. dropping like a euruln be
fore Jo's frightened epee. Her drat
■mpulse—one ebe recognised dimly
ia wrong yet could not resist—was
co rush oo blindly, whererer bar
egs would take bur. lu her swift
>anfte aha Hoag to toe bops that
oy sheer good fortune the might
‘tumble again Into toe d«st of the
road. ■
At length she drew herself np
in the bard surface of a faMeu
rea rested there, breathleea **1
must stay right here now." toe
.old berselt T must stay tight
nere noth morntag when I can
jee."
Bet aa the Haag there she dept
, remembering slouches of stories
<he bed beard—of men loet for
Jays almost wHbtn calling distance
it help, enable to find their bear
tnga And at what was In tbe
woods, what dangerous animal eoe
cnlea Jo could only gueea The
clearing around Cruet Lake Inn bad
Queo friendly, bet toe knew that
oeyond It Todd Bam on and Dong
ae Marsh and their bunting com
isnlona had reported beer sad an
Kcasionai wildcat.
It was hardly comforting to ae
ture herself that tbe airport eould
not be tar away, that tbe rood
mutt be nearer stML Not knowing
.heir direction, toe might as well
oars been hundred* of miles from
;hem— and sbe realised that In her
flight and her subsequent effort*
a locate the road she might bare
penetrated more deeply toeo the
woods than she'd thought.
Though the air was warm, she
couldn't hare slept eweu If toe bad
been able to accept the bark of the
fallen tree aa a bed. Tbe mysteri
ous night sounds were too frighten
ing. Sbe bad always Imagined tbe
forest ae quiet, but now R wee
Oiled with namHeea sounds,
a a a
FTOW long Jo Hong to the broken
“ tree, tying almost prone m
though It were u rock tutting ut
from u tossing sen. toe newer knew
But ae long as sbe Itred toe would
not forget the gleam of light which
ebe sew beyond the dark outline*
of the trees. At ttrst tt flickered
weakly, tben kept op Its Intermit
tent flashes ewen when It grew la
Intensity With a Joyful etart. to*
recognised the light aa from a mow
bag car.
Jo leaped from her bawen and
Into tbe yielding underbrush. Bui
there vm no panic la her heart
now, tor the lights of the ear told
her the direction of the road—told
her, too. that the road wae oot tar.
Suddenly she stopped, it might
be Bret Paul, returning to Had bar!
Suppose he had gone to the tno
and then, when she did oot appear,
started In search «f barf Her
fright In the woods had not want
sued Jo’s resolve never te face feta
again Nevertheless she must esc
the beacon which the tights of this
car famished
Resolutely she harried ea aa bent
she cos id over fallen trees, through
undercmah. dodging beneath low
hanging nought when she bed the
good fortune to see them to time.
The tights of the ear wars much
closer now and she could beer the
drone of the motor faintly Should
she ball the car on the chance that
It wouldn't be driven by Bret Paul
—or should she stand a the
shadows and let It paaa after It bad
lighted her way to tbs roadf It
wae a long way to Crest Lake inn;
and the little airport station would
be locked now. for there were do
plane arrivals until morning
But when she reached the road
and heard the motor more clearly
she knew that It could not he the
small car which Bret had parked
by the airport station.
Jo stepped (or a moment toko
the long beam of the headlights,
beard the motor lessen Its rone,
caught the sound of brakes. Sooa
the Mg. gleaming sedaa halted be
side her and the dust of the read
drifted over It like a stand.
• ■ •
AN* of the front glasses s»M
^ down and la the Mgbt from the
Instrument board Jo saw the ques
tioning face of Babe Montgomery.
“What’s wrong—Why. Je Do
rienr She opened the ear door
and stepped quickly to the road.
“Jo. what hi the world are yon do
ing out here like thief*
“I—1 got lost la the woods,” Jo
explained sheepishly.
“But 1 thought yon were la Hoi
lywood!”
”1 earns on the evening Mane
and 1—1 started to take a ehort
cat to the Inn. If you're going
back that way I’d certainly appre
ciate a 11ft“ Jo toM her wearily
Tm pretty much ... all in."
Babs teemed to hesitate a mo
ment and Jo wondered If the
Montgomery girl still bated her so
much that she'd refuse. Then Babs
said. “The truth la I’d planned to
get out of Creel Lake Inn ae quick
ly aa 1 could Bat it wont take
me 90 minutes to get yon Sheen
Come aloog"
Aa Jo climbed lota the ear she
saw Babe’ smart luggage piled high
over the back seat sad she won
dered why Babs was leaving la
such a rush at this time of night
When Babe bad swung the ear
around and headed back toward
Greet Lake Ian. Jo asked. "Art
your mother and father still to the
Inn?"
Babe shook her bead. “TWer left
two weeks ago*" eh* said.
She wae silent then, and Jo
didn’t preea her farther. Bat sud
denly Babs startled Jo by saying
suddenly, "I suppose I might as
well tell yon the whole story.”
”1 didn't mean to he curious."
Jo said. "It’s oooe of my affair
, is nr
“Possibly tt ta. Jo Tm not go
ing to marry Douglas Marsh.”
i Jo flushed. “What’s that to do
-with me?"
"Only thha. Ba'a In law* with
yon." Thera waa oo bitternom In
Baba* roksa. It waa a simple state
ment of feet.
I-In afraid I don't and**
stand." Jo aald slowly.
"Neither did I." smiled Baba
"And 1 think ho didn't understand,
either, lor a lone tfma Parham
ba tant wla* to himself owaa yet
But 1 know what'a wrong with hint
I eoald to* It from the moment yoa
lit out with Peter Vragorjat"
"But—bat that's ao loolkrtt Baba
There * bean nothing between aa
and—"
Baba faced Jo sharply, than r»
turned bar attention to the road
"Don't yon ba an Idiot, too. I re
member how yon need to look at
him. Ton two bit II off right from
the first, t don’t know wbac aa
euse yon gave to yoarealt bet l
think the real reason yon went
away with rragoaec was because
yon bettered I was going to marry
Douglas Marsh."
"Thar*' that's not mm." Jc
Mated. "I bad to Mara. Be Bred
me. so -fiy should I stay aroend
Creel Lake?"
"No reason why yon should sine
around Croat Lake, perhaps Bnt
you didn't bare to torn to Fra go
net That waa the give-away Jo
Whan 1 figured that out and
watched how Doug ahangad. I had
tba whole atory.* 3b# paused
then: "And Dong didn’t really Are
you. Jo. I—1 had something to
do with that And Mrs. Marsh
Thag had a little quarrel after you
left, and Doug sent bar on a trip
around the world."
• • s
pOR ear oral minute* Jo eonlo
1 think of no adequate reply, nr
relevant com meat Her thought'
were la a whirl that would not eat
tie Into a single, mum mean In t
Finally she tattered. "It’s might'
decent of you to—to tell mo al
this. Baba Bren If you're wroni
about Douglas Marsh’s feeling to
ward me"
"I'm not wrong about Mm." Bab
retorted. "And there's nothin t
particularly decent about my tali
Ing yoa this I'm ao martyr**
heroine. I’m loot a spoiled bra:
and 1 suppose IH always ha
waant area In low* with Doug
not eoough to marry btm. It wo
mostly his mother's Idea, and m>
mother's too. They seemed to thlnt
K would ba a good idea for tb
Marsh outfit and the Montgomery
to gat together. I thought It we
a good Idea, too ... for t while
"Haro you toM Douglas Marsh*
Rahs nodded. "I told Mm tki
morning Be pretended to ba bl
hard, and b* argued a long ttm»
Doug's a good sport and he’d bat
goo* through with It. But I eoal
sea Ms heart waant In tb* err
meat"
“But-hot I stUI think your
wrong. Baba And wbat If I—"
"What M yon don’t lor# bln.
Listen. Jo—re* oarer seen a cot
pie more oataraUy cut out lor one)
other than you two. Rememt*
that night at tba Olympic Bow
the drat night you wars together
I watrtMd you. and I knew to ther
Ton know to. too, awau If yo
wouldn't admit ft!"
Suddenly the clearing of Ore j
Labe Ina loomed In the beat
lights, and Baba swung sharp!
into Um roadway*. “Do you mtn<
bopping out barn. Jot I dont warn
to appear on the scene again—anc
I'm driving Hear through to fib
city tonight"
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WILRAY HUSTON
NAPOLEON. OHIO
LMA^.XOVR.NU-^a IPS AS NQ^m
of stepping out. The mere sugges
tion carries amazing significance.
Ur. Idcet is supposed to have
threatened resignation unless the
white house skied with him m ins
defense of the Pearson regime m
the Virgin Islands. Mr. Wallace re
portedly made the same threat m
the dispute over the cotton loan
irsisting that his 9-cent figure be
accepted. Neither waa called on to
make good, for their ideas were not
rejected. Although Gov. Pearson
was displaced he was given an
equally lucrative position. Ana
Wallace won two-thirds of his bat
t’C.
Mr. Roosevelt's political advisers
(head a break in the progressive
ranks. While they rarely act in
concert —quite the contrary—tne
departure of one would make it
easier for some of the others to
quit And the administration needs
to maintain Its western, liberal
contact* in the next election.
9 9 •
Pacts—Whenever people denounce
boor.-coggllng as a waste of federal
money Barry Hopkins pulls the rec
ord on them. He silences many
critic* that way.
An analysis of the relief rolls
discloses that only 44 per cent of
those needing Jobe have had any
experience la heavy industries or
construction. Rome never had a
pick or shovel in their hands. Even
when all who are qualified for this
kind of labor are placed there will
remain about 2,000,000 people on
the Jobless list
More than 1,000,000 once earned
their living as household servant*
storks, preachers, to* chits, writer*,
laryers, doctors, dentists etc. Onl;
a very few know one end of i
machine from the other. Many an
not physically fit for manual labcw
| Look over that list,'* says Harry
‘and you may have a different toei
at.out this so-called boon-doggllngl
• • •
Notea—Benny Cohen and Totnm;
Corooran were on hand and got i
: winning smile when FDR signet
: the utility bill ...And Huddlestoi
I of Alabama had to gnash his owi
teeth.Shipbuilders count on i
i boom when war begins.... Nations
air strategy is to be revamped b
consequence of the law calling fo
new bases.... "The only war secret
arr those pertaining to new gajes,
.<aid a military expert.... Senate
! Tj dings, of Maryland, gained grea
piestige during the session.
j Correctly Speaking
To make a composition effective
I proceed by a definite plan. Eve
Kood thoughts and interest big state
j ments will not be effective if th
j writer sets them down haphamn
One^minute Pulpit
To everything there Is a seasoi
and a time for every purpose unde
the heaven.-Ecclesiastes l:L
WORDS OF WISDOM
The mind wishes for what it ha
missed, and occupies Itself with re
trespective contemplation. —Petro
nius Arbiter.
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mb' Washington
retreats frt»" Lojg I
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WOO-Boston «avV
I yard purchased
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: Flashes of Life
(By The Associated Press)
Past The Age
I PHILADELPHIA — Raymond
Barrick, 25, said in court he did
r not strike hie wife. He said he
1 spanked her.
The court said It was all the
1 same. Mrs. Barrick woo custody
* oi their 4-year old son.
1 'Tuple Is
1 SLIPPERY ROCK. Pa.— A
r pheasant hen owned by J. A. Caa
»i toi is ducking around with a
brood of 22.
* Her Own. Her World
ST. LOUIS—City hospital phy
sicians protested. Mrs. Mary Ap
{ piano, 70. Insisted. Before she'd
> buoge an inch into the hospital
», to let them set the arm she broke
a in a fall, the physicians hsd to
. scurry around and see to It that
e a mongrel pup would be eared
I for A social service worker was
found for the task.
Mrs. Applano said the mongrel
pup was "all I have in this world.**
Might Be The Weather
i. HOUSTON. — Thomas Barrett,
r 18. a negro, yawned as he dumped
Into a courtroom chair.
"You seem to be sleepy." said
the Judge.
s Barrett yawned again, then
- slept soundly, loudly In fact,
- while his mother testified he
threatened her with a hatchet.
He wakened long enough to deny
everything, then went back to
his snoring.
Hie Judge gave him four months
to sleep it off.
DALLAS—James J. Brmddock.
world heavyweight champion, can
place his accidents as well aa he
can his rights snd lefts.
His taxi hit another automobile
Thursday night. It happened in
front of emergency hospital. Jim
mie'didn't need treatment, how
ever. He borrowed a match, hailed
another cab and drove away.
Dinner Stories
To Be Sate
In a recent suit over a will in
Chicago, the principal witness was
an Irishman.
"Was not the deceased In the
habit of talking to himself?" asked
one of the attorneys.
"CM could not be sun as to thot."
was Has reply.
"Come, coma; how can you say
that, when yeti were so Intimately
acquainted with him?"
"Yes sorr. that Is so; but you see.
01 newer wux with him this be
wax alone."
Answers
to
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qumtlon of fact toy writing Ttoii'
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Q- What Is thg temperature gf
the moon? J. H.
A. The maximum tempera turn at
the surface of the moon Is about
250 degrees F„ the minimum probably
-ISO degrees F.
• • •
Q. What Is the world's normal set
ten crop? J- F.
A. In a so-called normal year.
It is about 28,000,000 bales. Gf this
approximately 15,000,000 bales are
grown in the United States, 1.000.
000 bales are grown in theshrdlu eta
000 bales In South America, S,000,000
in Africa, and 8,000.000 bale* in
Asia.
• • •
Q. Is there scheduled air travel
In the Philippine Islands? N. F.
A. There are two companies op
erating scheduled air Unas. Tha
longest flight at present Is 890
■Baa.
• • •
Q How did a deft receive anther
Hy to sign the President's name te
land patents? 8. F.
A. During the administration of
President,, Jackson, so many land
patents were Issued that the Presi
dent asked congress to give authori
ty to some clerk to sign his name to
the land patents. This was done by
the Act Of March 8, 1833. The au
thority was grunted only until March
4, 1837; but on July 4. 1838, Congress
passed a law reorganising the Gen
eral Land Office, and this act pro
vided that the President might ap
point a person to sign his name to
land patents. At that time the se
lection hid to be approved by the
Senate, but this is no longer true.
• • •
Q. What I* the piece of music play
ed throughout Break of Hearts.
jl r.
A. It Is an original number com
posed by Max Steiner. It has not
been published ss yet.
• • •
Q. What Is the earliest recorded
date of an actual occurrence
world? C. G.
A. James Henry Breartoh
“Conquest of Civilisation"
says that the introduction of tba
Egyptian calendar, devise In 4241 B.
C . U the earliest dated even In his
tory.
• • •
Q. When did Dr. John Gorrte con
struct his air-cooling machine? H. 8.
A. He conceived the idea of ar
tificially cooling sick rooms, es
pecially In connection with fiver
and pulmonary consumption. In
1844 he wrote a series of articles for
the Apalachicola Commercial Ad
vertiser snd succeeded tr construct
ing s machine for cooling air mec
hanically. His next experiment was
In connection with the fretting of
enter, and a compressed air ma
chine for this purpose was ftm
exhibited In 1850.
• • •
Q. Should food always ku passed
a second time? H. K.
A. Except at a formal dinner, each
dish of a main course is fwvtreHy
passed a second time.
• • •
Q Hew many, people. Hve. In m
Liechtenstein? S. It
A. This principality, lytef between
Austria and 8witeerland. has an
area of 61 square miles and a popu
lation of about 10.500.
e • •
Q. Please give a short biography
of Captain Bob Bartlett L K.
A. Captain Robert Abram Bart
lett was bom In Blrgua. Newfound
land. in 1871. He attended the
Methodist College at St. John's In
preparation for the ministry, but
love of the sea caused him to stop
school at seventeen and start hunt
ing seal. At eighteen he was given
a schooner by his father. In 1887
he made his first polar trip aboard
Admiral Perry's Windward. His
present voyage la the forty-second
he hid made to the Par North,
| Captain Bartlett Is unmarried.
• • •
Q. When vu the needle - gun
need? C. P. E
A. It was * military breech-load
I ing rifle famous as the arm olJfttak
Prussians In 1866 and of the fieP1
mans in 1870-71. it was the Inven
tion of the gunsmith Johann Nich
olas von Dreyse. who, beginning in
18k* had made many experiment*,
and In 1838 produced the complete
needle-gun. Prom 1841 onwards the
new arm was gradully Introduced
Into the Prussian service, and later
Into the military forces of many
other German states. In practice
the needle-gun proved to have num
erous defect*: its effective range
was very short compared to that of
the muzzle-loading rifles of the day.
and conspicuously so ae against the
ehasaepot; the escape of gas at the
breech was. moreover, very great. A
paper cartridge was used. An im
proved model, giving greater muarie
velocity and Increased speed in
loading, was introduced later, but
this was soon replaced by the Maus
er rifle.
SEPTEMBER CARR
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summers beautiful vet my lawn. teed
mg. fertilising, sod-patching and aimi
lar operations must be managed la
September If tlia new crop la to Sava
a fine start before tfaa frost
Lawn making la simple, but pr<>
per steps must be taken in doe ussrm
j Certain oontfoUlag factors. eueh aa
j shade, soil acidity, seed varieties,
! weeds and pasts require expert gold
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