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What happened to your
watch to-day?
Why, nothing at all, you will say. You
didn’t drop or jar it, and it kept just as good
time as ever.
Yet, something has happened to it. Every
twenty-four hours the oil in your watch
avangrates just a little more, becomes a ti“
more gummy; tiny particles of dirt sift into
the delicate mechanism, even through the
most tightly fitting case, and eventually the
timekeeping performance of the watch 'is
impaired.
‘Be fair to your watch. Have it cleaned,
oiled, and adjusted at least once a year and
avoid heavier repairs later. Experts in our
Service Department will do this for you at
moderate cost.
And while you're considering the care of
your watch, be sure it’s thoroughly up-to-
date in style—dressed in one of the cele-
brated Wadsworth Cases, that set the fash
ion for watches today.
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What Will a Motor Trip to Florida
Cost?
One veteran tourist, a writer and
newspaper man, who toured to Flor-
ida last winter, kept a careful account
of the expenses of himself, his wife
and eight-year-old daughter, and
found that on a 1,500-mile trip from
Pittsburgh to Jacksonville his ex-
penses totaled an average of $22.50
a week for the three. He had no
auto repairs, and this figure made no
allowance for depreciation of his car
and camping equipment, but simply
covered all actual expenditures in
cash. The writer of this article has
usually found that about five dollars
a day each for himself and compan-
ion would cover all cash expenditures
en tour. One can go much higher, as
did the lady who traveled to Florida
in a camping Pullman car-body with
a woman friend and was served by a
chauffeur and a colored chef. She
and her friend slept in the car and the
chef and chauffeur in sleeping-bags
underneath the car-body.".
A majority of the tourist camps
make a small charge, usually twenty-
five cents or thirty-five cents a day
and a dollar or a dollar and a half a
week, for the car and its occupants.
The custodian of the De Land camp
last winter interviewed the occupants
of four hundred cars and found that
their expenses while in camp averag-
ed a dollar and a half a day for each
person.
And what of the roads to Florida.
There are many, some twenty at
least, from the East, from the Central
States and from the West. Of course
these are not all equally good as
motorways. Some, notably those near
the Atlantic coast, have in places on-
ly an earth surface, and after the
Autumn rains their mud is a serious
obstacle to be reckoned with. The ef-
fort is now being made to improve
those doubtful routes so as to make
them all-weather roads, and already
these highways are much better than
formerly. There has recently been
a wonderful era of road-building in
the Southern States. Not all have
done as well as North Carolina with
its $65,000,000 road-building cam-
paign, but all have been waking up
to the truth that tourists are sedu-
lously avoiding regions that have
muddy highways in favor of sections
that offer the attraction of all-weath-
. ler roads.—From The Delineator for
February.
Uniform Traffic Code is Adopted for
National Use.
A uniform traffic code for the guid-
ance of motorists and pedestrians
throughout the country was adopted
at the concluding session of the sec-
ond’ national conference on street and
highway safety.
The -eode-embraces-three legislative
proposals which would govern issu-
ance of motor vehicle registration
cards, certificates of title and oper-
ation of vehicles on highways.
Governor Winant, of New Hamp-
shire, urged the approximately one
thousand delegates to the conference,
including representatives of forty-
six Governors to take the initiative
in placing the recommendations be-
fore the varous States and municipal-
ities.
Secretary Hoover, in a closing ad-
dress warned that if progress is to be
made, centralized government should
be discouraged in favor of govern-
ment “by stimulation of the local
community to its responsibility and
the education of the local community
to intelligent action.” He stated the
work of the conference, if universal-
ly adopted undoubtedly, would result
in diminution of the traffic laws.
The conference recommended that
pedestrians as well as motorists be
required to obey traffic rules and to
pay fines for infractions. It also pro-
posed creation of a general committee
by Secretary Hoover to co-ordinate
the activities of all the eight com-
mittees of the conference.
As the safety conference came to
a close, motor club executives of the
American Automobile Association be-
gan a session to consider safety, uni-
formity and tourist problems.
Publishing Telephone Book One of
Penna. Bell Co’s. Big Jobs.
Compiling # publishing and distri-
buting Bell Telephone Directories to
the 960,000 subscribers in Pennsyl-
vania is one of the biggest circula-
tion jobs in the country, remarks the
Pennsylvania Public Service Inform-
ation Committee.
Approximately 1,400,000 copies of
each issue are printed. The largest
directory issued by the Bell company
of Pennsylvania is the Philadelphia
directory which contains 400,000 list-
ings, has 1,264 pages, and weighs
about four and one-half pounds. The
Towanda directory is the smallest
and contains 8,500 listings, has sixty-
six pages, and weighs about four
ounces.
The last directory issued, for the
fall of 1925, required the use of 2,-
500,000 pounds or 1,250 tons of paper,
eight tons of glue, fifteen tons of ink,
and 2,500 yards of cheesecloth for
printing and binding.
Unsalaried Weed and Bug Killers.
No farmer should object to pheas-
ants on his farm. The birds feed
mostly on insects and weed seeds. A
recent careful analysis of the crop
of a pheasant shot in an Oregon
wheat field showed insects, a fat slug,
weed seeds and not a single grain of
wheat.
The gain of having these birds by
the tens or hundreds of thousands,
and letting them serve as unsalaried
weed and insect killers, would more
than overbalance any damage to
crops due to the hunters. And the
hunters pay the birds costs, out of
their annual licenses.—The Manufac-
turers. Ye
Drastic War in Opium to be Made by
Japan.
. Tokyo.—The Japanese government
has appointed a commission with For-
eign Minister Shidehara as chairman
for the purpose of an inquiry and to
originate new laws for the complete
abolition of opium derivatives in Ja-
pan and its possessions.
The commission, which consists of
representatives of all ministers, hopes
to go even further than the Geneva
convention in prosecuting all Japan-
ese engaging in the traffic abroad. It
may organize a government monopoly
in Japan, Korea and Kwangtung
province in Tokyo, as was done in
Formosa.
The commission intends to take the
most stringent measures to obliterate
illegal traffic in opium.
Would Save the Hawk.
In some of the States there is a
bounty on hawks. It is ill-judged leg-
islation, not to call it by a harsher
name. Nearly all of the American
hawks are benefical. There are only
two members of the great hawk fam-
ily which are almost always criminal-
ly inclined and which are likely to be
found in any numbers in the United
States. These two birds of bad hab-
its are the sharp-shinned and the
Cooper hawks. The goshawk also is
a bad actor, but he is not abundant
enough in the United States at any
season to cause much alarm.’ All the
other hawks should be allowed to live.
They do good work every day.—Chi-
cago Evening Post.
Chalmoogra Oil Leprosy Cure.
~ Chalmoogra oil, the modern rem-
edy for leprosy, was known hundreds
of years ago, but its use was not gen-
eral because of its unpleasantness,
according to Dr. Ruth Stone Alvarez,
bacteriologist of the University of
California, who has made a study of
the history of leprosy.
She found that Buddhist monks
about the year 1500 knew of a treat-
ment. Records set down in that age
showed that improvements in patients
suffering from the disease were seen
after they chewed the seeds from
Which chalmoogra oil is now extract-
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New Value to Alder.
Alder, which is much used as a
wood in making furniture in those
sections where it grows on a com-
mercial scale, may have another value
far exceeding that for furniture. It
is now believed that the little nodules
or “bumps” on the roots of alder have
nitrogen . fixation properties. The
German chemists have been working
on that theory and American uni-
versities have been attempting to
prove it with some degree of success. |
If it is true, the alder having the
ability to take nitrogen direct from
the air would be a great soil builder.
Electric Cars for Mass Transporta-
. : tion. 5.7 :
There is $6,000,000,000 of capital
invested in electric railroads. For
mass transportation nothing has yet
been devised like the electric cars
running on rails, nor is there likeli-
hood of any adequate substitute be-
ing found. Electric railways which
are correctly advanced and whose
management is progressive and alive
to the demands of the communities
they serve have a great era of pros-
perity ahead of them.
1,500 Pick Strawberries in Carolina
Fruit Belt.
Approximately 1,500 mobilized
strawberry pickers are busy in the
strawberry fields of eastern North
Carolina’s fruit belt.
The berries are ripening fast, and
picking is in full blast in most places,
Frank D. Grist, Commissioner of La-
bor and Printing, said. It is conserv- |
atively estimated that more than 1,-
500 carloads of strawberries will be
shipped from North Carolina this séa-
son.
Who Pays Here?
If Wall Street is a barometer as it
usually is, then the mail-order houses
are piling up healthy profits. A
share of Sears Roebuck now pays $6
dividend per year, yet the stock this
year has sold for as much as $233 a
share. In 1924 it sold as low as $79
per share.
Montgomery Ward at present pays
no dividend, yet on November 13th,
the stock sold for $82.50 a share. In
1924 it sold as low as $21.75 a share.
Riceless Day.
The Chinese are now conducting a
campaign that is very much different
than anything we have ever seen in
this country. We are used to all
sorts of campaigns to promote the
eating of certain foods, but in China
they are now conducting a campaign
to get people not to eat rice. This is
necessary, says the Progressive Groc-
er, because the heavy rice consump-
tion usually leads to famine at the
end of the year.
Radios on Farms.
In 1923 there were 2,500 radios on
farms. In 1925 the number increas-
ed to 550,000. Furthermore, the
farmer is not a buyer of cheap sats.
In 1923 the average price paid was
$175. In 1925 the highprice sets were
still the best sellers to farmers, says
Good Hardware. Sets selling from
$125 to $400 were better sellers than
the $100 sets.
“Eight” Lucky in Japan.
In Japan the telephone number
“eight” is considered the luckiest
number and the subscriber who holds
it pays $5600 each year for the privi-
lege. Numbers “forty-two” and “forty-
nine” are believed to ‘be unlucky and
are usually assigned to ‘police sta-
ons.
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Summer Wants
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We have just received a big assortment of Hot
W eather stutfs—Peter Pan Prints (guaranteed fast
colors), Soisettes, Polka-Dotted Voiles (large, me-
dium and small dots), Printed Pongees, Figured
| Crepes, All Silk Crepe de Chiene (in variegated
stripes, flowered, and all the new plain shades),
Rayons in plain colors, stripes, checks and figured.
Still a good assortment
of these wonderfully
cheap All Silk Dresses.
Silk Dresses
All sizes, all colors,
and stylish stout models.
Rayon Dresses
We can fit the small woman
regular size and stouts, in
Children’s Coats from 2 years up to 14.
Summer Coats
light and dark colors.
Prices the lowest.
Our line of Rugs is all new.
Rug S and beautiful colors combined.
for the economical buyer.
White Oxfords 5 ou tals of hie
Misses. ‘The prices are less than wholesale.
Choice designs
Prices are right
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