Democratic alum
Bellefonte, Pa., February 25, 1927.
MOON WOULD SHINE
IN WAR OF WORLDS
Low Lunar Gravity Would
Increase Gun Range.
Washington.—If men from the earth
were ever able to reach the moon, by
the methods of Jules Verne or H. G.
Wells, they would engage in warfare
in a way unprecedented on the earth,
for the ordinary 75-millimeter field
gun would shoot three times as far
there as did the German long range
gun that bombarded Paris during the
war.
Though the range of the 75 is about
23,000 yards on the earth, on the moon
this would be about 250 miles, Dr.
Fred E. Wright petrologist of the geo-
physical laboratory of the Carnegie
institution of Washington, said in 8
lecture.
Could Fire 3,400 Miles.
With the long-range gun that bom-
barded Paris from a point about sev-
enty miles away, and had a muzzle
.velocity of about a mile a second, the
Iunar gunner could fire nearly half
way around the moon, 3,400 miles. If
the gun were pointed directly upward
its shell would reach a height of a
thousand miles above the lunar sur-
face. At a muzzle velocity of a little
‘Jess than a mile and a half a second,
‘which is not beyond the realms of
possibilty, the projectile could be fired
completely off the moon, at the earth
or some other planet if desired. For
a projectile to leave the earth it
‘would have to be fired at a velocity of
eighteen miles per second, or at nearly
‘seven miles+a second if the earth had
no atmosphere,
Doctor Wright has made these stud-
ies of the diminished force of gravity
“and lack of atmosphere on the moon’s
‘surface in connection with the work
of a Carnegie institution committee of
astronomers, mathematicians and ge-
ologists who are collaborating in an
‘effort to learn about the earth’s sat-
ellite.
“The geologist, accustomed as he is
.t0o working with conditions as they
‘exist on the earth’s surface, finds him-
self in a different kind of world when
‘he studies the moon,” said Doctor
‘Wright. “The force of gravity to
which he is accustomed being so much
less, many phenomena would be dif-
ferent. For example, volcanoes on the
earth throw rocks only a short dis-
tance, so that they often fall back into
the crater from which they came. But
nioon volcanoes would throw material
much farther. The result would be
that the inside floor of the volcanic
_eraters would be lower than the outer
surface, just the opposite of the
earthly volcanic conditions. Also the
craters would be much larger than
any on the earth. Telescopic obser-
vation shows that both of these cond!-
tions actually occur.
“Another point of marked difference
18 the lack ef erosion forms on the
moon. While so many of the earthly
surface features are the result of
weathering by wind and water, the
moon is without atmosphere and mois-
ture and these forms are absent.”
Measures Gravity on Earth,
doctor Wright has also been inves-
tigating the force of gravity of the
earth and is developing a new form
of apparatus for measuring its inten-
sity. The standard way of doing it is
with a very accurate pendulum, but
the method is complicated and a week
or more is required to set up the ap-
paratus at any one place and make
the readings. The new instrument,
which measures the twisting of a
spiral tungsten spring due to the
earth’s attraction, gives promise of
permitting readings comparable in ac-
curacy with the pendulum to be made
in a few hours.
Army Made 1,000 Flights
Over Airways in Year
Washington.—During the last fiscal
year army airplanes made approxi-
mately 1,000 flights over the eastern
‘division of the model airways from
Washington to Dayton. Commercial
pilots also took advantage of the fa-
cilities offered on the model airways,
recognizing the greater safety and
ease of air travel over an organize”
and identified route.
Planes utilizing this route num-
bered: 1,213, of which 959 belonged to
the, army, 14 to the navy, 14 to the
marine corps and 66 to commercial
concerns. In addition 166 planes flev
oyen: the route but did not stop.
Bering Sea and Straits
Getting Much Warmer
Dutch Harbor, Alaska.—Bering sea
and straits connecting the Arctic
ocean are warming up, icebergs di-
minishing in size and fish ordinarily
fearful of the cold migrating farther
north, declare crews of whalers just
back from the frigid regions. Seals
and walrus have found the water of
Bering sea too warm and were scarce
except in the Arctic. ocean this last
season, while whales appeared more
numerous in the polar waters than
along the Alaskan coast. Herring,
smelt and salmon, rarely frequenting
Bering straits, have taken the old
. sealing grounds, say the whalers.
School for Gypsies
"‘Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia.—The first
* school of gypsies in Europe will soon
be established here,
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WOMAN, 92, BOASTS
308 LIVING HEIRS
Challenges Any Grandmother
to Show Equal Record.
Ogden, Utah—Boasting that she nas
the largest posterity of any woman
in the country, Mrs. Sarah Jane Tay-
lor of Harrisville recently celebrated
her ninety-second birthday. She has
308 living descendants, who include
8 children, 50 grandchildren, 189 great.
grandchildren and 61 great-great-
grandchildren.
She has challenged any woman in
the country to show a larger number
of lineal descendants and is anxious
to correspond with any such woman.
Mrs. Taylor has been married twice,
the first time when she was only six-
teen. The marriage was with Bailey
Lake, a fellow Mormon convert whom
the young girl met on her way to
Utah in 1850. They settled in Ogden
where four children were born.
When the youngest was still a baby
Brigham Young pressed Mr. Lake into
service and sent him to Idaho to
spread the Mormon gospel among the
Indians. With the other Mormon el-
ders at Fort Lemhi, Lake was at-
tacked by Indians. The little garri-
son, besieged, sent Lake as a mwes-
senger for help. He was ambushed
and killed in the Malad mountains.
A few years later his widow wus
married to the late Pleasant Green
Taylor. Six children, four of them
still living, were born from this union,
Mrs. Taylor was born in Port Giib-
son, Miss.,, November 12, 1834. She
has the distinction of being one of the
few remaining Mormons who crossed
the plains in oxcarts in the early
fifties. She was among the religious
followers who left the northern part
of the state and went south when
General Johnston's army came to Utah
to subdue Brigham Young.
Eat in Darkness as
Health Aid, Says Doctor
London.—With so much stress be-
ing laid on the virtues of artificial
sunlight, special interest attaches to
the announcement, made by a promi-
nent London doctor, that we do not
sufficiently consider the health value
of darkness.
The authority states that in his
spinion many of the ills that have
their origin in digestive troubles are
traceable to the too lavish use of light
at meals, Brilliant lighting, he as-
serts, is harmful in dining rooms, res-
taurants and other places where
meals are partaken.
tur digestive processes, on the per.
fect working of which human health
and happiness so largely depend, are
interfered with by the extra stimulant
provided by garish lighting. The de-
mands made on the senses by such
factors as bright lights and arresting
sounds mean that blood is drawn
from the stomach to the brain and
muscles, and the assimilation of food
naturally suffers.
According to this authority the best
light for meal times is that given by
shaded candles. But we should all be
better in health and in temper, the
physician states, if we ate our meals
in semidarkness,
Plan to Revive Whaling
Off California Coast
san Diego, Calif. —After a hiatus of
nore than half a century whaling op-
erations are to be resumed on an ex
tensive scale on the southern Califor
nia coast. A whaling fleet consisting
of the factory steamer Lansing, with
four killers, has established a base
at South Bay, San Clemente island,
and has started a hunt for the famous
California “grays,” the humpback and
the sperm, the only species frequent-
ing these waters.
Zhe whale oil, fertilizer and chicken
seed, the principal products derived
from the whale catch, will be disposed
of entirely in the California markets,
officials of the whaling company an-
nounce,
Slump in Fur
Washington—Fur coats may gain
an enhanced standing as luxuries if
the supply of fur-bearing animals con-
tinues to decrease as steadily as in
the last year. The Agricultural de-
partment said the number of fur wear-
ers was increasing much faster than
fur bearers,
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Canadian ‘armer Secks
Meteor Buried in Yard
Detroit, Mich.—George Turn
er, a farmer living near Am-
herstburg, Ont, and a number
of his friends, are planning to
dig up what is believed to be a
portion of a meteor that buried
itself in the ground outside
Turner’s home.
The missile is buried about
ten feet and the hole, which i=
about twelve inches in diameter.
indicates that it must have been
whirling at a great rate of speed
when it struck.
“My wife and I were reading
in the front room when my at.
tention was attracted by what |
thought resembled a pillar of
flame,” Turner said. “At first 1
believed the house was afire and
I rushed out of doors, but 1!
found nothing.”
Turner plans to send the mis
sile to the government labora
tories at Toronto for examina
tion,
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Old Palace Haunted
by Caligula’s Ghost?
In the northern angle of the Paia-
tine hill stands a palace, which the
people of Rome believe to be haunted
by the ghost of the half-mad Caligula,
the emperor who surpassed even Nero
in cruelty and bloodthirstiness, Pierre
Van Paassen relates, in the Atlanta
Constitution. Though the guide re-
fused to accompany us mid the half-
moldered ruins, we encountered no
ghost in any of the historic halls,
though we half expected to see phan-
toms repeat the ghastly scenes that
were once enacted here. For here Ca-
ligula, reclining at the banquet table,
burst out laughing, and when asked
the cause of his mirth replied: “How
easy it would be to have the heads of
my courtiers roll over the marble
floors.” In this same chamber Claud-
fus was feasting when he was in-
formed that his wife Messalina was
dead and received the news with &
Jest, then ordered a slave to pour him
a cup of wine. And here also the
same emperor devoured his fatal re-
past of mushrooms of which Tacitus
speaks, a dish prepared by his loving
wife and niece, Agrippina, in order to
REVISE ALPHABET
| AND SAVE BILLION
Professor Would Shorten
Thought Expression.
Philadelphia.—“Revise the alphabet
and save a billion dollars a year.”
This was the advice given by Dr,
Godfrey Dewey of Harvard university,
a speaker at the English language
congress.
Doctor Dewey's suggestion for a
new alphabet was followed by presen-
tation ot a concrete scheme.
He showed the members a new sys-
tem of letters, considerably in excess
of the present 26.
The proposed alphabet includes 24
consonants, 13 vowels, 4 diphthongs
and a sign for the word “the,” which
In itself takes up 7 per cent of all
the words in “the printed page,” he
said.
By introducing this new alphabet
fewer symbols would be needed to
express a thought. Lone words would
be spelled with a few letters. Such
a word as “through” could be ex-
pressed in three symbols.
make way to the throne for her son
Nero.
Found Begging Paid
Better Than Writing
|
A beggar on the streets of Buenos |
Aires can make $1.25 in an hour. An
unskilled laborer draws about $2 for |
eight hours of work. The working !
classes contribute 80 per cent of the
money that beggars collect, and de
mestic servants give more than all the
rest put together. Young girls are
more charitable than older women,
and widows more than women whose
husbands still live. Among all classes,
women contribute most to the beg- |
gar’s hoard, giving more and more
frequently than men. Among men,
cart drivers are more liberal than
chauffeurs, and clerks mors free-
handed than their employers.
This cross-section of the privy
purse of Buenos Aires was drawn by a
reporter who disguised himse!f as a
“down-and-outer” and then spent a
lucrative day begging in all sections
of the business and shopping disiricts,
During the five hours he made $6.25,
which was four times as much as he
made working 15 hours as a reporter
for his newspaper, which, he re-
marked to his friends, as he changed
back to necktie and spats, would soon
be looking for a man to replace him.
Early Montmartre
siontmartre, the hill of Paris, de
rives its name perhaps from the Latin,
mons martyrum, but probably from the
fact that back in the Roman days a
temple of Mars was located on the
summit, says the Independent. = -
Jor many years (it remained’ a
ttle village famous for its windmills
and gypsum quarries, then a convent
for Benedictine nuns was erected
where the temple once stood. In 1860
the wall separating Montmartre from
Paris was destroyed and little by little
artists began to congregate there be-
cause living was comparatively cheap.
Montmartre awoke to a new life.
It became the cradle of the nation’s
art. It was frequented by such men
as Dumas, Daudet and Verlain. Be-
ranger dodged desperately about its
streets. It saw Gautier in sceriet
trousers and Baudelaire, reeking in
filth. pouring forth his beautiful verse.
Cafes were the main source of its
inspiration.
Cheap Sacking Material
No material is manufactured at a
smaller cost than gunny. It is a
strong, coarse sack-cloth manufac-
tured chiefly in Bengal from jute, but
to some extent also in Bombay and
Madras from sunn hemp. It is also
manufactured in Dundee, Scotland,
from jute imported from Bengal, and
in a small way of late years in the
United States. The weaving of gunny
is a great domestic industry in India.
It gives occupation to men, women and
children. Boatmen employ themsetves
weaving in their spare moments, as
do farmers, carriers and even do-
mestic servants. The weaving is per-
formed upon the rudest kind of loom,
consisting merely of a few sticks and
poles fastened together with twine.
Athletic Writer
decause of his size and strengthDr
samuel Johnson. was advised by a
certain luckless publisher to get a por-
ter’s knot and turn porter. Set upon
one night by four footpads, he kept
them at bay until the watch came up,
He frequently in his younger years '
walked from Litchfield to Birmingham
and back again, a distance of 30 miles,
without fatigue, and in his trip to the
Hebrides Boswell says that ‘ninety- |
five days were never passed by any man
in more vigorous exercise.” He was a
bold swimmer, and though he ordi-
narily moved like a manacled ele- |
phant, he at sixty-eight writes de-
lightedly. “I ran a race this day and
beat Barettl.”—Scientific Monthly,
City’s Glory Departed \
it is no longer “Antioch the Beau
tiful,” splendidly situated though fit is,
In the Thirteenth century it was still
a considerable city of 120,000 inhabi-
tants. Today it is known as Antakia
and its population is about 12,000. It
never quite recovered from {ts spoli-
ation by the sultan of Egypt, nor has
it made much effort to repair the dam-
age done in 1872 by a severe earth-
quake. But it will always be a place
of interest to Christians for its many
associations with the earliest periods
of their history.
! time, as could letter writers.
+ ers would do their reading quicker
Millions of tons less print paper
would be required, according to ad-
vocates of the plan. Huge sums would
! be saved in type composition.
Typists could do their work in less
Read-
! and the human eye would be among
the agents benefited.
Books and newspapers would be
smaller and lighter, therefore costing
less. The general result would be a
saving in materials and labor, which
means a saving in time.
The English teachers pondered
Doctor Dewey’s statement that the
greatest problem of printed English
today is a “typographical problem”
and straightened in their chairs when
the Harvard professor advised them
to throw out all plans for reforming
the language by the use of phonetic
signs in dictionaries, and to call in
the type designer to make the whole
business over again.
To Doctor Dewey, the immortal 26
of the English alphabet is very bad
and a new one is needed.
Longer to learn, the professor ad-
mitted with a smile, and an awful
Job to introduce, but easier and cheap-
er, when all’s said and done.
Labrador Is Claimed
by Jewish Precentor
wondon.—The romantic claim of a
synagogue precentor to the owner-
ship of the peninsula of Labrador has
just been submiited to the British
privy council, according to the Jewish
World. The ownership of the penin-
sula, which embraces an area of 511,-
000 square miles, is at present the sub-
Ject of a suit now before the privy
council between Canada and New-
foundland.
fhe individual claimant is Rev.
Isaac de la Penba of the Hepard con-
gregation of Spanish and Portuguese
Jews in Montreal, who declares that
King William III granted the penin-
sula to one of his ancestors. The an-
cestor, one Joseph de la Penho, was
a wealthy Rotterdam merchant, who
lived in the Seventeenth century.
During a storm at’ sea, it is said, he
prevented several of King William's
family from drowning when the ves-
sel on which they were traveling was
wrecked. As a reward the king gave
him a charter, so his descendant de-
clares, bestowing on him and his heirs
the peninsula ‘of Labrador. The royal
concession was never acted upon,
probably because in that day Labra-
dor was virtually inaccessible.
Labrador’s population consists of
15,500 Indians, Eskimos and whites.
It is divided politically among the
governments of Canada, Newfound-
land and the province of Quebec. Its
‘potential resources in timber, gold,
copper, nickel and lead are supposed
to be enormous.
_. Our Second Port
Washington.—Which is the second
iargest port in the United States? Du-
luth and. Superior, handling 45,600,-
000 tons last year, second only to New
York. :
“ Moonlight Helps
Washington.—Love may thrive on
moonlight, but tomatoes won’t. Uncle
Sam’s farm experts have decided that
even the full moon does crops no
good.
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High-Speed Insect
Suggests Plane Design
Washington.—One branch of
aviation research has been
turned from study of the plan-
ing gull and the soaring eagle
. to scrutiny of a tiny fly as hold-
ing the possible answer to “the
next step” in airplane design.
Not long age an American en-
tomologist, standing beside a
canyon in the wilds of Brazil,
saw a flash of color—a mere
blur of orange—flit before his
eyes. A search identified the in-
sect-missile as a new variety of
deer-fly, scientifically catalogued
as the cephenomyia, and cap-
able of flight at the speed of 815
miles an hour, about half the
speed of a rifle bullet.
His report aroused interest of
engineers, several of whom are
now studying the “stream lines”
and motive plant of the new sub-
ject. The fly is about the size
of a bumble-bee.
—— —
Here’s Your Chance to Get $25,000.00.
Any young man or woman in the
country, between the ages of 20 and
3b years, is eligible to enter the con-
test inaugurated by the Woodrow Wil-
son Foundation for the two $25,000.00
prizes for the best article on “What
Woodrow Wilson Means to Me.”
The articles are to be not longer
than 2500 words and must be mailed
to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Award, 17 east Forty-second St., New
York, before October 1, 1927.
Since the purpose is solely to induce
young people to study and understand
the ideals and principles of Woodrow
Wilson it should be perfectly obvious
to contestants that these Awards
neither call for articles of fulsome
praise nor analytical criticism.
No mere biographical sketch of Mr.
Wilson or review of his life will be
eligible.
Since only his ideals and principles
are to be considered, no article must
rest on a political basis or be colored
by partisanship, for or against. Par-
tisan political considerations are out-
side the scope of the contest.
Particularly should it be borne in
mind that Mr. Wilson’s ideals far
transcended any of the plans he him-
self carried through. Hence no article
is eligible which confines itself to a re-
view of his efforts to create an asso-
ciation of nations or seeks to pass
judgment upon the existing League of
Nations.
Mr. Wilson’s acts grew out of, and
should merely be used to illustrate,
his ideals and principles. It is what
his point of view means to the con-
testant, not simply what he did, that
the article should present.
The article should be devoted to an
exposition of Mr. Wilson’s precepts
and principles, as he himself set them
forth in his own written and spoken
words,—notably, in his books “An Old
Master,” “When a Man Comes to Him-
self,” “Mere Literature,” and in his
Public Papers and Addresses.
Soybeans Make Good Emergency Hay
Crop.
As winter slowly disappears and
spring draws nearer, the time for the
Centre county dairyman to decide
whether he will need additional rough-
age crops for next winter’s feeding ap-
proaches.
Where there threatens to be a short-
age of hay or where clover has frozen
out soybeans will make one of the best
emergency hay crops that can be
planted. The soybean is a legume
which is about equal to alfalfa in
feeding value.
By feeding a legume hay such as
alfalfa, clover or soybeans many dol-
lars may be saved in making up the
grain mixture and more home-grown
seeds can be utilized. In making plans
for seeding varieties to plant, rates
of sowing and other information about
growing soybeans can be obtained
from The Agricultural Extension As-
sociation Office.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
A Word With
the Old Folks
ElderlyPeople Are Learning Importance
be, Lid Elimination,
N the later years of life there is
apt to be a slowing up of the
bodily functions. Good elimination;
however, is just as essential to the
old as to the young. Many old folks
have learned the value of Doan’s
Pills when a stimulant diuretic to
the kidneys is required. Scanty or
burning passages of kidney secre-
tions are often signs of improper kid-
ney function. In most every com-
munity are scores of users and en-
dersers who acclaim the merit of
Doan’s. Ask your neighbor!
DOAN’S Fis
Stimulant Diuretic to the Kidneys
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Meats,
Whether they be fresh,
smoked or the cold-ready to
serve—products, are always
the choicest when they are
purchased at our Market.
We buy nothing but prime
stock on the hoof, kill and re-
frigerate it ourselves and we
know it is good because we
have had years of experience
in handling meat products.
Order: by telephone always receive
prompt attention.
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