The Kenna record., January 28, 1921, Image 3

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THE KENNA RECORD
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Leadership
Good Performances Offset De
creased Production and
. Contraction of Industry.
LONG FLIGHTS SUCCESSFUL
Clear Federal Policy to Aid Progress
of Commercial Flying Is Still
Lacking Year's Feats Are
Recorded.
New York. America lias success
fully malntulned tier leadership In the
navigation of the air, so far as heavier
than air craft are concerned, despite
the luck of aerial laws, landing lields
and other such handicaps, according
to a review of the yeur 1020, Issued
by the Manufacturers' Aircraft asso
ciation. The review says: ,
"Decreased production and a gen
eral contraction In the aeronautical
Industry generally Is offset by the
more encouraging records of perform
ance made In American nvlatlou this
year. While the last twelve months
have not brought the carefully out
lined policy of federal Jurisdiction re;
quired to assure steady and economical
progress In commercial aviation, they
hove witnessed many remarkable
achievements by American pilots In
American machines."
Year's Performances.
Then follows a long, detailed list
of performances, among them the fol
lowing: "Commander A. C. Rend, hero of
the transatlantic flight In the NC-4,
commanded the same flying boat on a
noteworthy expedition from Rock
away, I I., down the Atlantic const,
along the gulf const and up the Mis
sissippi river to Cairo, 111. When the
NC-4 returned - to Rockaway January
27 Inst It had flown 7,740 nautical
miles. Three of the four Packard
Liberty engines had operated without
trouble during the 118 hours In the
air, the fourth more thnn eighty-two
hours. Along the Mississippi the
motors were run on commercial gaso
line picked up from point to point en
route. Read reported that the great
est difficulty encountered was lack of
proper maps.
"Compared to long-flight attempts
conducted by European governments
the American ventures were particu
larly successful. No less than four
expeditions attempted to fly the 5,200
miles from Cairo to Capetown, South
Africa. Colonel P. Vun Ityndveld
and Major C. J. O. Brand Handy com
pleted their flight on March 20, 1920,
In a D1I-0 plane sent up by the gov
ernment of the Union of South Africa
after their Vlckers-Vlmy muchine hnd
crushed. They had set out from Cairo
February 10. . None of the machines
that started reached Capetown.
"Different success attended the
Alaskan flying expedition of the Unit
ed Stntes Army Air service. Four
Gnllnudet remodelled DH-4-B plnues,
each powered ' with a single Liberty
motor, and each carrying two per
sons flew from Mltchel Field, L. I., to
Nome, Alaska, and return In 112 hours
flying time, a total distance of 0,000
miles, without a motor missing fire or
other nccldent serious enough to de
lay the party. Rain and fog caused
most of the difficulty In flying over
country not even charted on the maps.
' - Operation of Air Mall Service.
"The Air Mall in 1920 operating be
tween New York and Washington,
New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Oinnlia,
Salt " Lake City and Snn Francisco,
trunspor'.ed approximately one hun
dred million letters nt ordinary pos
tage rates. The system was extended
In 1920 from Chicago to San Francis
co, from Key West, Fla. to Havana,
Cuba, and from Seattle, Wnsh., to Vie
torln, 13. C. About thirty-five nlr tnnil
plnnes are In the nlr each day flying
a total, In round trips, of about 8,000
tulles.
"During the year the navy has been
making nn aerial survey of the Pana
mn Canal zone.
"The geological survey has cooper
ated with the mnrlne corps In mapping
the coastline of Haytl. American sea
planes, Curtlss, Aeromnrine and Boe
ing types, hnve operated on pnssenger
routes In China.
"Major R. W. Schroeder, flying an
A.nerlcon designed and built Packard
Lepero biplane, went up from McCook
Field, Dayton, Ohio, on February 20,
and reached the world's record alti
tude of 33,000 feet."
CORONATION DRESS FOR SALE
Gown Worn by Empress Marie Louise
to Be Offered at" Auction
In Paris.
Paris. The benutlful dress worn by
Empress Marie Louise, second w;lfe
of Napoleon, on the day of her coro
nation as empress of the French will
be sold at auction shortly.
The dress Is tnnde of exquisite lace,
innde by the French lnce workers of
Calvados, to whom Napoleon himself
pent the design.
It was stolen from the Tullerles dur
ing the riots of the revolution of 1S43
and fouild Its woy to the Galltern
museum. The empress was the daugh
ter of Emperor Francis I, of Austria-Ilungr.ry.
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North Carolina Mule
Routed Dairy Invader
A terrific racket In the barn
of A. Johnson, a farmer, of nenr
Raleigh, N. C, announced that
n milk thief had met his Water
loo at the business end of a farm
mule. - '
Johnson hnd planted the mule
In the stall of a cow which the
thief had been milking at night.
When the farmer reached the
lmrn, shotgun In hand, he found
a bnttered milk pall, a wrecked
milking stool, n hut, a self-satisfied
mule, but no thief.
Coal Mining Took Heavy Toll of Life.
Washington. More than 1,500 men
lost their lives in coal mine accidents
In the first nine months of 1920, ac
cording to a report of the United
States bureau of mines.
14-Year
of
Tests
Plant Life
Reveal . That Wild Flora Do Not
Always Grow in Most
Congenial Habitat.
ENVIRONMENT IS CHANGED
Flowers Taken From Mountain Tops
Grow Much Mors Luxuriantly and
Produce More Leaves, Flowers
and Fruit at Sea Level.
Chicago. At a lecture given before
an assemblage of geographers and
biologists representing several socie
ties, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of
the Botanical research '"department of
the Carnegie Institution nt Washing
ton, described the results of a series
of experiments extending over four
teen years and embracing 139 species
of. plants, the experiments tending to
show that the wild plant Is not al
ways found In the environment most
suited to It.
"A great many people think this."
snld Dr. MacDougal, "but it has been
found to be absolutely false."
Grow More Luxuriantly..
With stntions established at four
different altitudes. 8,000 feet, 5,200
feet, 2,300 feet and at sea level, plants
have been transferred from one place
to another, and the results of the cul
tural experiments of fourteen years
have now been compiled.
In these experiments plants from the
mountain tops. soiue from a height of
close to one and one-halt miles above
sea level, were found to grow much
more luxuriantly, . producing more
leaves, flowers and fruits at sea level
than they had In their native habitat
These plants were not cultivated, pro
tected or fostered In any way In their
new situations. Once placed." they
were to all intents and purposes wild
flowers and had to fight their own but
tles and take chances as before.
One hundred und thirty-nine plants
were used In these experiments, em
bracing forms of such wide divergence
as grasses, wild lilies and oak and wal
nut trees, as well as cacti and other
unusual plants.
"While a plant may thrive well In
Its new situation," snld Dr. MacDou
gal, "It will sometimes display a be
havior quite at variance wlth thnt by
which It Is ordinarily known. Thus
the common wltchhozel, which la
known to bloom in the vicinity of New
York when the frosts come, when tak
en to the equitable climate of the Pa
cific coast reverts to the normal or
summer-blooming habit. Other species
show flower forms, fruits sand leaves
notably different from those previous
ly displayed by them.
"Aquatic plants of the cress family
were made to grow In toll on thej
mountain tops, where the roots formed
small radishes, like their relatives.
The radish Is a cress. In other words,
these plants .came back to the ances
tral habit of forming a radish.
Interest to Biologists..
"The manner In which plants travel
about the -world or nre distributed Is
a problem of grent Interest to biolo
gists, nnd In this experimental work
particular attention was given to ob
taining evidence on some of the prob
lems of dissemination, fir movement of
plants across the face of tr.e country."
It was found that rabbits and ro
dents which Inhabit the onk zone nt
the top of the mountain -ange acted
very effectively, as a barrier to pre
vent cacti and other plants from mov
ing up or down the mountain slopes
To verify this a barrage zme was es
tablished and the plants protected in
screened enclosures which kept, off the
little nibbling animals. The plants
thrived and prospered end spread
within the enclosed section. Out in
the open, to either side of the bar
rage zone, tiiey rapidly (Msnppenred,
being eaten by the rabbits.' This ex
plained the mysterious sudden stop
page of 6ome of these plunts not alti
tude nor hent nor cold, but actual de
struction through being eaten. The
animals were'llke n fence.
The constalluborutorji at Carmel-by-the-Sea
and the desert laboratory
nt Tucson, Ariz., are two of the ex
perimental stations which were ussd
In this work.
MERRY SEX WAR ON
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CALOMEL HORROR
TOLDJJOQSl
You Don't Need to Sicken, Crips
or Salivate Yourself to .
Start Liver.
You're bilious, sluggish, constipated.
You feel headachy, your stomach may
be sour, your breath bad, your skin
allow and you believe you need vile,
dangerous calomel to start liver and
fcowels.
Here's my gunranteel Ask yourdrug
, xls; for a bottle of Dodson's Liver
Tone and take a spoonful tonight. - If it
doesn't start your liver and struighten
you right up better than calomel and
without griping or making you sick I
want you to go back to the store and
get your money.
Take calomel today and tomorrow
you will feel weak and sick and nau
seated. Don't lose a day. Take a
epoonful of harmless, vegetable Dod
eon's Liver Tone tonight and wake up
feeling splendid. It Is perfectly harm
less, so give It to your children any
time. It can't snllvate. Adv.
Knew His Destination.
' A man who could be scathingly witty
himself once met more than his match
In one of the Roman Catholic priests.
"Reverend father, I wish you were
St. refer." . '
"And why?" x
"Became, reverend father, in that
"ase jou would have the keys to
lieav.n, and could let me la."
"By my honor and conscience," re
torted the divine, "It would be betetr
lor you thnt I hnd the keys of the
other place, for then I. could let you
out." Exchange.
. ASPIRIN
Name "Bayer" on Genuine
Warning! Unless you see the name
"Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre
scribed by physicians for twenty-one
years and proved safe by millions.
Take Aspirin only as told In the Bayer
package for Colds, Headache, Neural
gla. Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache,
Lumbago and for Pain. Handy tin
boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of As
pirin cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger packages. Aspirin Is the
trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoacetlcncidester of Sallcycacld.
Adv.
Gossip.
Miss Elisabeth Marbury was dis
cussing the sad case of a young wom
au who had drowned herself on ac
count of gossip.
"Whatever the girl may have de
served," she said, "she didn't deserve
to be gossiped about in this cruel
fashion.
"When I think of the harm gossip
does," she ended, "I come to the con
clusion thnt hnlf vhe world retails
gossip while the other hnlf wholesales
It." Indianapolis News.
WHY DRUGGISTS RECORD
sro-Bsoi
For many years druggists hare watched
with much interest the remarkable record
maintained -by Dr. Kilmer' Bwamp-Koot,
the great kidney, liver and bladder medi
cine. It is a physician's prescription.
Swamp-Root is a strengthening medi
cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad
der do the work nature intended they
should do.
Swamp-Root has stood tne test of years.
It is sold by all druggist on its merit
and it should help you. No other kidney
medicine has so many friends.
Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start
treatment at once.
However, if you wish first to teas iha
CTeat preparation send ten cents t Dr.
Kilmer & Co, Itinghaniton, N. Y lot
ample bottle. When writing b Wun kod
mention this paper. Adv.
The Inconsistent Male.
Men are inconsistent. They com
plain if their wives don't read the
newspapers and keep up with, Import
ant events, and yet few of them read
the fuslilon notes. Baltimore Sun.
A man has reached the limit of self
Importance when he Is sutlxfied with
tils own society.
The man who never gives offense Is
as scarce as he In desirable.
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing in Throes of Controversy.
Plate Printers' Union Charges That
Thers Are Too Many "Trifling
Girls" In -the Bureau. .
Washington. A merry sex war Is
In progress In llncle Sum's money fac
tory. The war started when the I'late
Printers' union In the bureau of en
gruvlrr and printing made formal
charges that there were too many
"trilling girls" In the bureau and that
hey were retarding the ethVltmcy
and the amount of production of
paper money. In their charges the
plate printers' Intimated that too much
time was spent by girls employed In
the bureau In administering "little
dabs of paint nnd powder." In fact
it was liitJi'iuted that the plate print-
tors objected to "flappers" being em
ployed In the bureau.
The plate printers let themselves In
for trouble.
Federal Employees' Union No. 105,
embracing the women employees of the
bureau, at an Indignation meeting,
condemned the attitude of the plate
printers, denied their charges and de
plored their giving publicity to what
they alleged to be a misstatement of
fuets.
Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary
of the union, declared thut the records
of the examining division showed
thut the greatest percentage of spoil
age of prluters' work Is for "sly
wipes," "lifts" and "breaks," which
spoilage could In uo way be attributed
to the assistants.
"Plate printers are paid by the
piece rate and In many Instances the
presses are speeded up for production
nt the expense of the quality of the
work," Miss McKully stated.
It U predicted thut the charges of
I Three Meals1 Means Wife .
j Does 2-Mile Walk Daily
Montgomery, Ala. Prepara- '
1 Hon of meals for nn average
j - family means n two-mile dally
I kitchen marathon for the house- !
t wife, according to statistic
I compiled for the conference of !
t vocational workers of the south.
In session here. A pedometer
I attached to students In the kltch-
en of the model home at Living-
1 stn school showed this mei.s-
j urement for the stove-slnk-atd-
1 pantry route covered during the
t period from bacon and eggs to
dinner and dossert.
the Plate Printers' union will result
In considerable friction Id the future
between the printers and tlwlr assist
ants, since If luetliciency does exist
the responsibility for the same has
been placed by one Bide or the other.
DANDERINE
Stops Hair Coming Out:
Thickens, Beautifies.
v v.-Vx
A few cents buys "Danderine." Af
ter a few applications you cannot find
a fallen hair or any dandruff, besides
every hair shows new life, vigor, bright"
ness, more color and abundance. Adv.
Why He Stayed.
Lieutenant Governoi Chnnning Cox
Of Massachusetts, discussing the high
cost of living in France, said the
other day :
"In Parts, you know, a good pair of
shoes fetched ?."i0, and a good meal
about as much.
"Well, n young lawyer started on a
brief vacation trip to Paris In June,
nnd he long overstayed his time. On
his return In late September n friend
who knew he was none too flush, said
to him :
" 'Why did you remain so long In
Paris. Jim?'
" 'My friends kept me there,' Jim
answered.
"Your friends? Why. .Tim. I didn't
know you bad any friends In Pnrls.'
" 'I hnven't. My. friends nre nil In
Oshkosh, and they refused to lend me
any money.' "
MOTHER!
"California Syrup of Figs'"
Child's Best Laxative,
Accept "California" Syrup of Figs
only look for the name California on
the package, then you are sure your
Child is having the best nnd most harm
less physic for the little stomach, liver
and bowels. Children love Its fruity
tnste. Full directions on each bottle,
lou must say "California." Adv.
Back for Another.
"You did nie n favor ten years
ngo," said the stranger, "nnd I have
never forgotten It."
"Ah," replied the good man, with a
grateful expression on his face,' "and
you hnve come back to repay me."
"Njt exactly," replied the stranger,
"I've just got Into town nnd need an
other favor, nnd I thought of you right
away."
Hall's Catarrh Medicine
Those who are In a "run down" condi
tion will notice that ' Catarrh bothers
tlifem much mnre than when they are la
good health. This (act proves that while
Catarrh la a local disease. It Is greatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions.
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is a
Tonic and Blood Purifier, and acts through
the blood upon the mucous surfaces of
the body, thus reducing the Inflammation
and restoring normal conditions.
All druggists. Circulars free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Where Resemblance Stops.
"That Miss Gnbhliegh reminds me
of a church bell, only she hasn't the
sense of one."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, a church bell hns nn empty
head nnd n long tongue, but It Is dis
creet enough not to ppeuk until Its
tolled." Boston Transcript.
Cutlcura Soothes Itching Scalp
On retiring gently rub spots of dan
druff and itching with Cutlcura Oint
ment. Next morning shampoo with
Cutlcura Soap and hot water. Make
them your every-day toilet preparations
nnd have a cleu-r skin and soft, white
hands. Adv.
Literally 6peaking.
"Not worth a darn I see no sense
In that expression."
"It applies sometimes to socks."