El democrata del condado de Costilla. [volume], July 03, 1937, Image 2

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The Star Spangled Banner
HP HE Star Spangled Banner wA* designated as the national anthem by an Act
of Congress, approved on March 3, 1931. It was written by Francis Scott
Key after he kad witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in
Baltimore, in I{H<l. The words of this stirring song were sung to the tune of
M Anacreon in Heajren” and immediately became popular and it was regarded
as the national anthem though it was not made legally so until 1931.
LIBERTY,
one of two
treasured
BELLS
TWO of the bells which played
important roles in early
American history— pealing
warnings or glad tidings during the
nation’s battle for survival—are
treasured by Philadelphia, observes
a Philadelphia United Press corre
spondent.
Most valuable of the two from
historical standpoint is the world
famed Liberty bell, which was tolled
when first public announcement was
made of the Continental Congress’
adoption of the Declaration of Inde
pendence on July 4, 1776.
The bell had pealed for anniver
saries and festivals until 1835, when
it cracked while being rung for the
funeral procession of Chief Justice
John Marshall of the United States
Supreme court.
Other bells identified with Ameri
ca’s struggle against foreign encum
brances are the chimes in the stee
ple of Old Christ church. During
the Revolutionary war they were
removed and secreted to block pos
sible attempts of English soldiers
to melt them for ammunition.
Where fFirst American
Flag Was
T! 1 Philadelphia, whore the | \ j fry
lint American flag wai made, y" H
U being restored to its colonial
condition, through the goner- f l 1 l
osity ol A. Atwater Kent, For
many years this houso has 1
been visited by thousands of 3
tourists annually.. **
Falling rapidly into min, the IS
dilapidated condition ol ‘ the f-* Xj'\
patriotic shrine was brought to " *
Mr, Kent's attention through a *
newspaper article which pic
tured the falling plaster, the
looking root and general con
dilion of disrepair. , ‘ '} ’
The living room, shown, still
has the gorgoous fireplace
with white mantel Iramed with
Ihe original blue Dutch tile. The ■
room was originally decorated
in blue. '
UNDER the starry flag that wares
over this fair land, every citizen
is a king, and there is no avenue, to
wealth and fame, position and power,
that b not open to every child of the
Republic.— W. A. Prouner.
The Orator of
the Revolution
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me
Death.”-—Patrick Henry.
•*C'ORBID it, Almighty God!—”
1 thundered Patrick Henry in
the Virginia Convention at Rich
mond, in 1775, in a speech typical
of “the explosive temper of the
time”—“l know not what course
others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death!”
The orator of the Revolution had
been found. It was Patrick Henry
who established before the Ameri
can people that government was a
contract between King and people
and that the violation of such con
tract by the King was truly an
illegal act.
TRANSCRIBED DECLARATION
EITHER Thomas Jefferson
nor John Hancock was the
penman who transcribed the Dec
laration of Independence. The ac
tual work of transcription was
done by Timothy Matlack.
DAM PROJECTS ATTRACT TOURISTS
Huge Artificial Lake at Boulder 'Dam Proves Magnet; Uncle Sam to
Capitalize on It; Bonneville Dam Is Inspiring Scene.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
NOT only do some of the vast
government dam projects
provide subjects for controversy
in political circles, irrigation
for desert wastes and electric
power for vast producing areas.
They are assuming a new im
portance in the lives of our peo
ple, especially at this time of
year. They are becoming ma
jor attractions for summer va
cationers.
Mr. Average American, with two
weeks out of the year for his vaca
tion, likes to cram just as much into
that fortnight as he possibly can.
His mountains must be gigantic, his
vistas colossal, his waterfalls ter
rific and his automobile trips long
and rapid. He is usually somewhat
impressed by the Grand Canyon.
Small wonder then, that sights
such as Boulder dam, the Grand
Coulee and the Bonneville dam proj
ects interest him. They are big,
scenic and wonderful. And because
they are government projects they
have that patriotic appeal which is
characteristically American.
The United States government
hardly planned Boulder dam as a
summer recreation project, and it
is not yet as well equipped to enter
tain the thousands of tourists now
visiting the dam as it will be in the
near future. But in great throngs
the vacationers come and after their
souls have been satisfied with the
enormity of it all they find they can
have one whale of a time in, on and
around Lake Mead, above the dam
and the largest man-made body of
water on earth.
Will Develop Appeal.
After all, swimming in the heart
of a desert is a thrill that should
appeal to the American tempera
ment. The clear blue water in the
shadow of the mountain peaks and
the great dam is also a magnificent
setting for boating, fishing and aqua
planing.
In an effort to encourage the
movement already started the gov
ernment has ordered the national
parks service, together with the bu
reau of reclamation, to launch a
program designed to make the Boul
der dam region more attractive
than ever. First of all a number
of public bath houses were built on
the beach, which is artificial like the
lake and a short distance from Boul
der City, home of the workers on
the project. Floating rafts have
been provided, and life guards sit
upon high seats to guard the safety
of bathers, just as if this might be
Coney Island.
Excursions over the surrounding
area by air are popular, too, with
the vacationers. There is a govern
ment-built airport at Boulder City
from which several planes take off
daily on these trips. Planes of the
most modern type, equipped with
two way wireless, wing the visitors
Aquaplaning on Lake Mead, in the heart of the desert.
over the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce
and Death Valley national parks,
the Black canyon, the Kaibab for
est and other famous scenes.
There are also power boats on
Lake Mead which make scheduled
excursion trips, stopping over at
several points. It’s quite a ride
around Lake Mead, a 100-mile body
of water.
Lecturers Explain Dam.
The interest of government proj
ects as incidents in a vacation is
apparent from the hundreds who
choose to include a trip through the
dam itself, under the able guidance
of lecturers from the reclamation
-service. The long ride in an ele
vator gown into the dam is a swift
one; to many visitors it is also
doubly thrilling for the fact that
they have never before ridden in
an elevator. The lecturer tokes
thetn through the catacombs under
the dam, through the power plants
■o large and complicated they look
like a moving picture set—as indeed
do the switchboard control rooms
and diversion tunnels.
Although there is not much In the
THE COSTILLA rnIINTY DEMOCRAT
A picturesque scene against the morning sky of America’s magnificent
Northwest are these Bonneville dam workers.
way of night life out here—there is
only one movie house in Boulder
City—there are enough natural curi
osities and marvels to make the vis
itor lose his taste for night life.
Within 200 miles are, in addition to
the beautiful canyons mentioned
above, the Joshua Tree National
forest, the Painted Desert, Petrified
forests, the Mad Valley of Fire,
Eldorado canyon, and many other
sights, including many Indian settle
ments. Nature in remarkable mood
exists up and down as well as
across. You can descend to 360 feet
below sea level in Death Valley and,
if you are agile enough, you can get
up 12,500 feet on San Francisco
peak.
The government is stocking Lake
Mead with bass, and although the
fishing is not yet quite up to par
there will be all you can take care
of in another two years. Bridle
paths are being laid out and within
a short time there will also be plen
ty of dude-ranch facilities nearby.
The building of {tennis courts as well
as desert gardans is included in the
plans. Tharo At* good hotels near
Boulder dam,*™ there is a gov
ernment camjAg ground where the
visitor may cimp for nothing.
Are Earftquakes Possible?
Mead lake iiself remains the big
gest vacation attraction. It was
created by tHi backing up of 41,518,-
125,000 tons diwater from the dam.
The question has been raised before
the Seismological Society of Amer
ica whether cr not this great, un
natural body of water will cause
earthquakes. The Colorado river in
its lower course flows through a re
gion where many violent earth-
quakes have occurred in the past,
some of them comparatively recent
ly. Scientists have wondered wheth
er the vast weight of water which
will be concentrated along the lake
will put sufficient additional strain
on the crystal rock layers to set off
disturbances. It has been suggested
that seismograph stations be set up
in the region to check the earth’s
slow movements there, since com
plete data are not yet available.
Projects along the Columbia river
are also getting their share of the
tourist trade this summer, for the
Northwest has ever been a popular
vacation spot. There the throngs
are both surprised and pleased to
see that the work on the giant
Bonneville dam is being completed
on schedule.
It will be finished before the year
Is out. It was in the summer of 1034
when President Roosevelt said, on
the scene: "Within three years I
hope that the Bonneville dam will
be an actual fact and that as a fact
from then on it will militate very
greatly to the benefit of the lives not
only of the people of Oregon and
Washington but to the whole course
of life of the people of the United
States.”
Bonneville dam rises in some of
the ruggedly beautiful country of
the Northwest. The wild Columbia
has cut a chasm two-thirds of a
mile deep through the mountains.
Bradford island causes the river to
split into two rapid streams, roar
ing, whirling and throwing spray.
From the island to the Oregon shore
is the power station, and from the
Washington shore to the island is
the spillway. The power house and
spillway are connected by an earth
en dam which runs across the is
land and is 170 feet high. The en
tire chain, which is 3,850 feet long,
will create a lake 65 miles long, up
on which steamers will one day
travel into the Cascade mountain
region.
Cost Is $45,000,000.
Bonneville dam will have cost
$45,000,000 by the time it is com
pleted. With Grand Coulee dam it
forms the first serious attempt to
harness the Columbia, which river
network is the second largest in the
country. The river basin, which ex
tends into the states of Idaho, Wash
ington, Montana, Oregon, Nevada,
Utah and Wyoming, is said to be
five times as large as England.
It has never been possible before
to navigate the Columbia more than
a short distance inland, but Bonne
ville dam will attempt to change all
that. In the dam is the world’s high
est navigation lock—a lift of 72 feet.
On the Panama canal it requires
three great locks to lift a ship only
a little higher at Gatun lake. Bonne
ville itself is 42 miles east of Port
land, but it is hoped that the locks
will enable steamers to go 200 miles
inland along the river.
The town of Bonneville has sprung
up near the dam to house most of
the workers on PWA project num
ber 28. It is composed chiefly of
tarpaper shacks such as the trav
eler might have seen in the earlier
days of the West when the railroads
were being built.
It is not likely that the living
quarters of the construction work
ers needed to be built substantially
enough to last a long time, for this
is one federal project which is going
ahead as it was planned. There
have been no delays for political
reasons or for lack of funds; only
those caused by the river in some of
its unsociable moods. Since the first
surveyors came, things have moved
I right along. The excavating was
i done promptly, cribs and frame
work were installed, cranes and
derricks started to work, and it was
not long before Bonneville ap-
I proached being a fact.
Where only a few rugged
boulders once deterred the stream
as it roared through a wilderness
of cottonwoods and firs, today rise
arched spillways and huge power
intakes. The cost of the project
was somewhat more than it was
first estimated. This is because of
an intricate system of locks and
“ladders” for fish, for the salmon
must be allowed to pass Bonneville
to reach the headwaters of the
river.
Indians Are Skeptics. ,
Here is one point upon which the
government and nature may not
be able to get together; perhaps if
the President’s magic voice could
explain it all to the fish over the
radio everything might be all right,
but there are those who say the
salmon will never use the ladders.
These unbelievers include most of
the Cayuse Indians along the Co
lumbia, whose ancestors were tak
ing salmon out of the river long
before the white man ever dreamed
there was a new world beyond the
western sun. "Bonneville means
end of salmon,’’ suys their chief,
George Red Hawk. And today the
Columbia produces more salmon
than any other river in the world;
salmon fishing in its waters is a
$10,000,000 industry.
C Western Newspaper Union.
Cool, Smart, Comfortable
Oh is the
word for Car
rie when she
wears one of
these smart new
frocks by Sew-
Your-Own. No matter whether
she’s three or thirty, a June bride
or a proud mama, Carrie will
find what she needs for summer
comfort here.
The young frock with the in
teresting middle and sporty in
verted pleat is one that’s going
in for extra credit at summer
school. It has that advanced chic
which readily distinguishes co-eds’
clothes. If you’re campus bound
(or just bound for an ordinary
vacation) be sure to have a couple
of versions of this fashion first
with you. Then you’ll be set for
that heavy summer schedule.
Lines for a Princess.
Second to none in the summer
is this princess dress. As fit for
golf as it is for dancing, you can
see at a glance that this is the
one dress you can’t be even half
way happy without. Fresh in
spirit, dainty in detail and be
coming to all figures this simple
to-sew frock will introduce count
less women to new chic this sea
son. Come on, Milady, shake
hands with Chic.
Only when we’re very young
are we privileged to wear dresses
as cute as this one. The most
unaccustomed seamstress can
make it with its half dozen pieces;
the merest remnant will suffice
for material. There is more than
ordinary intrigue packed in the
diminutive skirt that shows a
couple of darling dimpled knees
so lusciously sun tanned. Use it
as a cool, cool top with panties
as the ideal hot weather attire, or
slip it on as an apron—either way
it will be a fine little companion
for mother’s pet this summer.
The Patterns.
Pattern 1258 is designed in
sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust).
Size 14 requires 3% yards of 39
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Beach length requires
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Pattern 1944 is designed !or
sizes 6 months, 1,2, and 3 years.
Size 1 year requires 1 : *„ yards of
36 inch material. The pockets,
cuffs and facings for collar in
contrasting material require Ya
yard of 27 inch material.
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Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
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