The Coolidge examiner. [volume], August 07, 1931, Image 2

About The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current

Image provided by: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records; Phoenix, AZ

                
All lllmitrationii by Kben Given, from u Here*»
Audacity!—Americnn Herofu,” by
Frank Shay* conrteny the Maraulny company,
pa hi lab era.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
many, many years Americans
rhave had to look to European
sources for a certain type of imagi
native tales —to the German
Grimm and the Danisii Andersen
for their fairy tales and to the
VMM Greeks, the Romans and the Scan
*\VL/> dinavians for their legends and
myths. It has been only within
eeent years that they have dis
covered that their native land is
rich in folk lore, some of which
they may have learned as it was passed along by
word of mouth but little of which has hereto
fore been collected and published in book form.
So the recent publication of Frank Shay’s
“Here’s Audacity!—American Legendary He
roes” by the Macaulay company is an event of
importance to those who want “Made in Amer
ica” myths and legends.
In the introduction Mr. Shay tells how Amer
icans, like other people “create their giants
in their own image and endow them with pow
ers greater than their own . . . We are an in
dustrial nation, therefore our heroes are auda
cious industrialists. In the North and North
west the hero is Paul Runyan, the lumberjack.
In West Virginia he is again a lumberjack but
his name is Tony Reaver. In the Southwest
he becomes a cowboy and changes his name to
Pecos Bill. In Virginia be Is a negro, a steel
driving man, John Henry by name. In the oil
fields of Texas and Oklahoma he is a rotary
well-digger and calls himself Kemp Morgan.
On the railroads he becomes a mighty engineer
and has won fame as Casey Jones. On the old
windjammers, he is still the same mighty super
man but his alias is “Old Stormalong.”
Old Stormalong's full name was Alfred Bull
top Stormalong, and when he signed his initials,
on the ship’s log for his first skipper, that
worthy looked him over and said, "A. It. S. Able-
Bodied-Sailor. By your size and strength they
should measure the talents of all other sea
men." As for his size the sailors disagree.
Some say that he was fourteen fathoms tall and
others that he was ”jes’ four fathoms from
the deck to the bridge of his nose." And he
was fearless, too. One day his fellow sailors
couldn’t pull up the anchor. An octopus was
wrapped around it and was holding it fast to
the bottom of the ocean. Over the side went
old Stormalong. There was a terrific struggle
under the water and then he emerged trium
phant. After the anchor was safely shipped,
somebody asked Old Stormalong what he had
done to the octopus. “Jes’ tied his arms in
knots. Double Carrick bends. It’ll take him a
month o’ Sundays to untie ’em.”
But Stormalong was never satisfied. He nev
er could find a ship big enough for him until
finally he signed on board the Courser. Later
when a new man was taken on, the first thing
he saw when he hit the deck was a stable full
of horses, for the Courser was so big that all
officers and men on watch were mounted on
horses and rode about their duties on them.
“Man alive, her rigging was so immense that no
living man could take her in at a single glance.
Her masts penterated the clouds and the top
sections were on hinges so they could be bent
over to let the sun and moon pass. Her sails
were so big that the builders had to take all
the able-bodied sailmakers out in the Sahara
desert to find room to sew ’em.”
Kemp Morgan, the Texas oil driller, was like
Old Stormalong in that he too had to put
hinges in three different places on his derrick
so that it could be folded up to let the sun and
moon go by. It was so high that it took thirty
men to man it, fourteen men going up, four
teen men coming down, a man on top and a
Tony Beaver in Virginia
John Henry— stee/ Driving Man
man on duty. When he brought in his well, “it
spouted so high they had to put a roof on it
because St. Peter and all the angels were raisin’
all h—l about the oil that was shootin’ through
the floor of heaven. It took ten days for the
oil to reach the< top and then it rained down
for three weeks."
But super-man that he was, not all of Mor
gan’s wells brought in oil. Occasionally he got
a “duster,” a dry hole. But did he abandon it
as did other drillers? Not Kemp Morgan! "He
knew that no Kansas farmer could ever dig a
post hole in his hard bottom soil. He would
get his hands around his duster hole and pull
it up, four feet at a time, saw it off and ship
it to Kansas. Ask any Kansas farmer what he
thinks of the Kemp Morgan Portable Post
Holes.”
But Kemp Morgan wasn’t the only Lone Star
product of note. There was Pecos Bill who
was lost by his parents when he was a year old
and grew up among the catamounts and coyotes.
One day he wandered into the Golden Swan sa
loon. and there met a cowboy who told him of
the joys of cow-punching. So Bill decided to
quit being a coyote, put on human clothes (it
took three coats, and two pairs of trousers pieced
out with three or four blankets and pieces of
cowhide to cover him) and became a cowboy.
No horse was strong enough to carry him so he
caught a huge grizzly bear and broke it to ride.
And of course he became the greatest cowboy of
them all. He could outshoot any other cowboy,
he could outride any other cowboy and he could
out-drink any other cowboy.
Once Kill rode a Kansas cyclone. He rode it
through three states until they got to California
and when the cyclone saw it couldn’t throw him
it rained out from under him and that was what
washed out the Grand canyon. Bill came down
with a mighty thud in California and the spot
where lie landed is now known as Death valley,
a big hole in the ground, ”00 feet below sea level.
Another mighty Texan was Strap Buckner who
went to that state with the first party of settlers
led by Stephen F. Austin. Strap had the pleas
ant custom of knocking men down with a blow
between the eyes which he would “do in the most
friendly and courteous manner and with no in
tention of harming them.” He knocked down his
friends and his enemies, he knocked down In
dians and grizzly bears and wildcats and buffalo.
But the greatest fight in which he ever engaged
was his battle with the Devil and in that fight
for once in his life he was defeated. Since Strap
Buckner was a heavy drinker the stories about
him are something in the nature of moral alle
gories and the Devil with whom he fought and
by whom lie was worsted was the Demon Burn.
Os him, Mr. Shay says: “Strap Buckner joins
the great army of avengers. He will be likened
to Angoulaffre, the giant Sarasen, who had the
strength of thirty men and whose cudgel was the
THE COOLIDGE EXAMINER
solid trunk of an oak tree. The Tower of Pisa
lost its perpendicularity by the weight of this
giant leaning against it.”
Whole books have been written about Paul
Runyan, the super lumberjack, so of course he
gets considerable space in “Here’s Audacity!”
Most of tiie facts about bis youth and his logging
operations on the Big Onion river in Michigan
are well known. But some of the other facts
about his life as given by Mr. Shay seem to be
new. For instance, after lie used Babe, the Blue
Ox (Babe, you remember, measured forty axe
handles and a plug of Star tobacco between the
eyes), to straighten out a winding logging road.
Paul discovered that he had fourteen miles of
road left over. So he rolled up the fourteen
miles and sold it to the city of Chicago for a
boulevard. And it is one of the shameful things
about that wicked city that they call it Michi
gan boulevard in honor of the state from which
it came and not Paul Runyan boulevard in honor
of the greatest lumberjack that ever lived!
Then there was the time that Jim Hill, the
builder of the Great Northern railroad, decided
to build a barbed wire fence along the right-of
way to keep the tramps off iiis trains. So he
gave the job of building the 1,800-mile fence to
Paul Bunyan. He soon found that it was going
to take too long to get through with the work so
he sent up to Montana to a man who had
trained gophers for two thousand post-hole-dig
ging gophers. Then he sent an order to another
man who specialized in heavers and ordered five
hundred of these animals. He set the beavers
to work cutting six-inch trees into six-foot
lengths and set the gophers to work digging
holes. “The gophers were innocent and when
one had finished digging his hole he prepared
to make it his home. Then Paul would come
along with a post in one hand, drag the gopher
out of his hole with one hand and shove the
post in. There was nothing for the poor gopher
to do but to begin work on a new home. The
gophers got pretty mad but who cares what a
gopher thinks?” Paul didn’t and he got his
fence done in plenty of time.
As for Tony Beaver in West Virginia they
will tell you that Tony who carries on his log
ging operations on Eel river is as great a lum
berman as Paul Bunyan. But logging wasn’t
his only interest; he was also a grower of the
j biggest watermelons in the world which were so
big that by whittling out the insides, cutting
doors and windows and building fire places and
allowing the rinds to dry out in the sun, they
made wonderful houses.
As for the other super-Americans one is black
and the other is red. There is John Henry, the
negro steel driving man who was so fast with
his 12-pound hammer that he was known to wear
out two handles in one shift and lie always had
to have a boy with a pail of cold water standing
by so that he could keep his hammer cool. But
when steam driven drills came on the market,
John Henry declared that such new fangled in
ventions were not necessary. He said he could
beat a steam drill and in a contest that was
specially arranged he did beat it. But he killed
himself in doing it for after the contest was
over John Henry “laid down his hammah an’
he died.”
Then there Is Kwasind, the Hercules of the
American Indians, of whom Longfellow wrote in
Hiawatha. It was Kwasind who filled his pipe
with tobacco, kindled it with a bolt of lightning,
and then emptied the live coals into the sea.
For three days he did this and on the fourth
day there rose up an island which is now known
as Nantucket island off the coast of Massa
chusetts. This and many other marvels did
“the very strong man Kwasind, he the strongest
of all mortals."
(Q bjr Western Newspaper Union.)
Machines That Are E
Almost Human
( B yE.C. TAYLOR jl
The Telehor
*T'ME telehor, a robot similar to
the television machine, gets pic
Hires at places where human be
ings cannot live, such as at the bot
tom of the ocean or high up in the
air.
The robot picks up the picture
at tfie sea tloor or in the thin air
of high altitudes and transmits it
by radio to a receiving machine that
translates the electric waves into
a photograph.
The robot is lowered into the
ocean and sent aloft in a balloon.
It is directed by men on the
ground, and when it is pointed at
the object to be photographed,
starts sending its flashes of vibra
tions that itre recorded like the im
age of a television broadcaster is
recorded on the television receiv
ing set.
The mechanism of the robot
transmits the picture directly from
the object being photographed with
out the necessity of making pre
liminary exposures. It sends the
electric impulses of the picture one
at a time, and tiiey are picked up
by the receiving apparatus and
flashed before a camera. A com
plete picture can be sent in one
eighth of a second.
Equally remarkable in the eyes
of most people is the robot that
sends photographs by telegraph and
by radio. The sending of pictures
by telegraph is universally done
nowadays.
When a great news event occurs
in a far distant country or in a
part or the United States far from
home, photographs of it are sent in
a few minutes to the newspapers
that we read. Pictures of the in
auguration of a new President of
the United States in Washington
are printed within an hour in news
papers on the Pacific coast. When
there is a great earthquake or
other disaster in Europe or Asia,
these robots send the pictures to
American newspapers by cable.
This is a companion device to the
radio for the speedy dissemina
tion of news to the people of the
world.
This sending of pictures by wire
is becoming an important factor in
business. An engineering firm in
New York city recently sent a set
of complicated mechanical draw
ings to San Francisco. They ar
rived in time to enable the firm to
complete a contract several days
ahead of the specified time, and
thereby made considerable profit’
for the firm.
The latest fashions are sent by
wire now. Important financial an
nouncements are transmitted just
as they have been set up in type
at the home office to prevent er
ror in resetting the type where they
are received.
Physicians send photographs of
patients showing conditions that
need Immediate diagnosis. Fac
similes of checks have transferred
large sums of money in a few min
utes when they have been transmit
ted by wire.
The robot frequently goes to the
aid of the police in catching crim
Inals. Photographs and even finger
prints have been sent tt distant
cities in the hunt for criminals.
This robot sends out electrical
vibrations one at a time. They are
received by a device attached to
a writing pen that draws a line
at each impulse it receives. The
pitcli of the vibration of each im
pulse makes the line light or heavy.
These lines are drawn very rapid
ly, and when the entire operation
is completed in a few minutes,
there is a picture that, when pho
tographed on a smaller scale, is a
clear copy of the original picture.
The same device is frequently
used to transmit photographs by
radio, sending the electrical im
pulses through the air instead of
over wires. Rut the wires so far
have been found to give greater ac
curacy in reception.
A movie camera, operated on a
similar principle is being used by
the United States coast and geo
detic survey to take pictures of
tides and water currents beneath
the surface. It does the work of
several men, and does it accu
rately.
The device recently was sub
merged in Chesapeake bay to make
studies of the tidal currents. It
contained a compass and a revolv
ing dial, on which the direction and
strength of the currents were re
corded. One picture was made
each half hour and the machine
worked steadily and without at
tention for a week at the bottom
of Chesapeake bay. Careful analy
sis of the charts recorded aided in
the planning of a sewage disposal
plant.
(©. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.)
Real Loud Speaker
Residents of Berlin, Germany, re
cently listened to the strains of
music from a loud speaker 25 miles
away. The speaker’s voice was
said to equal the volume of an or
chestra of 2.0f)0 pieces. Placed on
a roof for the test by a German
electrical concern, it produced air
waves that could be felt on the
skin 150 feet away, says Popular
Science Monthly.
A current of 120 amperes was
required to operate it. Its dia
phragm vibrated a full inch to pro
duce its voice.
Opera Star*’ Pay Limited
Opera stars of Germany are to
receive not more than SIOO a night
nor more than $6,500 a year, ac
cording to a recent decision of the
German Stage society. This lim
Ration of compensation is caused
by the bad financial condition of
most German operas. It is feared
however, that famous foreign art
ists will refuse to appear in Ger
many at these rates.
Southwest News Items
H. E. Evans, El Paso truck driver,
was killed on the streets of Carlsbad
as the climax to a long-broodiug love
feud. Officers held F. E. Pressley,
operator of a produce house, who sur
rendered and admitted he shot Evans.
Seth Richardson, assistant attorney
general in charge of public lands, an
nounced in Washington no steps would
be taken until after next December
to eject non-Indian settlers from the
New Mexico lands lost by them under
decisions of the pueblo lands board.
In keeping with plans to make the
capitol grounds in Phoenix representa
tive of all Arizona, two columns of
petrified wood, once the trunks of
trees In a mighty prehistoric forest in
northern Arizona, are being erected
on the grounds.
Seventy-one per cent of the popula
tion of Arizona is without public li
brary service, according to Editli A.
Lathrop, federal specialist in school
libraries. “There is no library exten
sion agency in the state," she said
following a survey.
Robert P. Thurston, mayor of Wil
liams, Ariz., was sentenced by Federal
District Judge Fred C. Jacobs in Pres
cott to pay a fine of SSOO and serve
six months in the Yavapai county jail,
for possession and sale of liquor.
Thurston pleaded guilty.
Officials of the First National Bank
of Tucumcari, N. M., have announced
that a tear gas bomb system designed
to protect the bank from bank robbers
has been installed in the bank. The
system, they said, is the same as used
in a number of larger banks through
out the country.
Arizona’s automobile license plates
will be made of copper. A call for
bids on the plates will specify, it was
announced in Phoenix, that the plates
be made of “Arizona copper.” It will
require approximately 70,000 pounds
of the metal to make the necessary
260,000 plates.
Albert B. Fall was in good spirits
at the New Mexico penitentiary hos
pital in Santa Fe, and Dr. E. Fiske,
prison physician, believes his condition
will show a general improvement now
that the former secretary of interior
is relieved of the strain of anxiety and
uncertainty over Ids fate.
Charged with counterfeiting, Ray
Crowe, arrested in Phoenix, assertedly
in possession of a mold for the manu
facture of spurious silver dollars, was
sentenced to serve 18 months at Mc-
Neil Island penitenitiary and fined
$1,500 in Judge Fred C. Jacobs' federal
court In Prescott, Ariz.
Bids will be called for Aug. 10 for
continuation of drilling an artesian
test well near Wiilcox, Ariz., the state
land office in Phoenix recently an
nounced. This well is being drilled
under terms of an appropriation made
by the 10th legislature to develop ar
tesian water on the Stewart tract near
Wiilcox.
The furnace-like iieat of the Super
stition mountains brought an end to
active efforts for the present to solve
the disappearance of Adolph Ruth,
amateur prospector of Washington, D.
C. The 66-year-old man entered the
desolate range June 13 to hunt for
the Lost Dutchman gold mine. He
has not been seen since.
No county in New Mexico can levy
a special tax outside the five-mill lim
it to pay for an audit. Attorney Gen
eral E. K. Neumann advised State
Comptroller J. M. Lujan. The attorney
general suggested that the comptrol
ler reduce the claims against the coun
ties to pay for audits already made
to judgments, so he can get paid
for the work.
Rosw'ell, N. M., property gained $99,-
741 in value this year, according to
tax roll figures released by Assessor
W. P. Sauners. The increase over 1930
was due to new improvements. The
total net valuation of Chaves county
property, after deduction of exemp
tions, is $16,249,453 for 1931 as com
pared with total net for 1930 of $16.-
987,735, or a loss of $738,282 for the
county.
Plans for Farmers' Week, to be held
at State College, N. M., August 24 to
28, are progressing steadily, according
to W. L. Elser, director of the exten
sion service of the New Mexico A. and
M. college. Programs of interest to
farm people in many lines of work
such as dairying, poultry production,
foods and nutrition, fruit and vegetable
growing, crop production anti livestock
management will be offered. Mr. Elser
said.
A. A. Johns of Prescott was re-elect
ed president of the Arizona Wool
Growers’ Association and Flagstaff
was selected as the 1932 convention
city at tlie close of the two-day ses
sion held in Flagstaff. Other officers
re-elected are C. E. Burton, Williams,
first vice president; Burr Porter, Nav
ajo. second vice president; C. W. Da
vis, Seligman, third vice president, and
Harry B. Embach, Phoenix, secretary
treasurer.
The Desert Sanatorium of southern
Arizona at Tucson has filed with the
Arizona Corporation Commission
amended articles increasing its au
thorized capital stock from $1,000,000
to $2,000,000.
Production of road materials from
the asphalt rock deposits in the south
ern part of San Miguel county and
northern part of Guadalupe county
near Santa Rosa, N. M., has begun in
earnest, according to an announcement
made by the New Mexico Construction
company, which' has a lease contract
for the development.
POULTRY
• EMETS •
SEPARATE SEXES
IN CHICK FLOCK
Pullets and Cockerels Do
Better Apart.
Separate the pullets and cocker
els as soon as the sexes can be
told apart, says the poultry depart
ment of the Nefv York State Col
lege of Agriculture. Male chicks
are likely to he larger, stronger,
and more vigorous than the females
so the pullets have less opportunity
to grow when brooded with them.
Chicks of the Mediterranean
breeds, such as Leghorns, can be
separated easier and earlier than
others, but the separation should
also be made with all breeds to
insure a more rapid and uniform
growth of both pullet and cockerel
flocks. It reduces the size of the
flocks and gives more feeding and
drinking space for the birds left.
Keep the cockerels which de
velop fastest as breeding males,
and start with three or four times
as many of these at broiler size as
will be needed for breeding. Send
the broilers to market as soon as
they are salable for prices go down
rapidly as the season advances.
Since chicks make the most rapid
growth during the first few weeks
of their lives, it costs more and
takes longer to put on weight after
they have reached a pound in
weight. According to the college
of agriculture chicks increase their
weight 54 per cent the first week,
65 per cent the second, 55 per cent
the third, 44 per cent the fourth,
32 per cent the fifth, 28 per cent
the sixth. 20 per cent the seventh,
and 16 per cent the eighth.
Turkey Producers Are
to Sell on Roadsides
Turkey producers are able to
reach consumers through roadside
markets, retail routes or by mail
in efforts to sell direct.
Limits of demand are usually the
only factors that hinder the unlim
ited development of such market
ing plans. Quality Is. naturally,
the first consideration in such a
marketing plan. It usually takes
years to build up a successful mar
keting plan direct to the consumer.
Steady sales cannot be expected.
Seasonal conditions, volume of
production, prices and weather will
be factors that will control the
sales volume.
A survey conducted by the Massa
chusetts department of agriculture
indicates that women are adapted
to the details and work connected
directly with selling and figure
largely in this field of marketing.
Breeding Pullets for
High Egg Production
Breeding for high production hsfs
made the matter of holding pul
lets out of production more diffi
cult. It is difficult to hold pullets
out of production until they have
attained good body weight, size,
and scale. It is very easy to have
Leghorn and pullets of some of the
more common heavy breeds laying
at four to four and one-half months
of age, but these pullets are cer
tain to lay extremely small eggs
and are very likely to molt. A
pullet that does not come in pro
duction until she is six months old
is in much better condition for the
duties ahead of her.
Out With the Rooster
Quality egg production is a neces
sary part of the egg consumption
program if the present emphasis be
ing put upon the value of eggs is
to have any lasting effect upon the
industry. One of the very simple
things that a poultryman can do
is to insure the production of only
infertile eggs. The hatching sea
son ts over and there is no good
reason for having the rooster run
the flock.
POULTRY HINTS
There is no known way to con
trol the blood spots in eggs.
# * *
A few years ago very little was
known about the mineral require
ments of poultry.
* * •
Early molting hens are usually
poorer producers and late molters
are the better producers.
• • •
Culling not only improves the
breeding quality of the flock, but
if done early enough will save feed
the costs.
• • •
During a period of low prices is
the logical time for a systematic
and thorough culling of the farm
poultry flock.
• * *
The best method of marking the
hens is by use of leg bands. Sealed
bands that can be used only once
are the kind to use.
• * •
For one who wishes to raise and
feed ducks for market purposes, the
possibilities in late hatched duck
lings should not be overlooked.
• * •
Probably the easiest way to check
up on the weight of the pullets is
to color band a few birds in each
pen and weigh these occasionally.
* * *
Ducks and geese are usually
picked much the same as chickens.
It takes some experience to dry
pick them in a reasonable length
of time.
* • •
Hens usually acquire the habit of
eating eggs because of nests that
lack straw. The egg is cracked
when it is laid, and thus the hen
acquires the taste for thorn.