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Long-distance telephone service
from the United States and Cuba was
recently extended to continental
Europe with the opening of service to
Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium.
Extensions to other European cities
of importance are contemplated in the
near future.
Belgium thus becomes the fifth for-
eign nation to be brought within
speaking distance of the average
American home. Connection will be
made via London, using the trans-
! Atlantic radio-telephone link, which
has been in service for the past year.
Trans-Atlantic telephone service to
Belgian points will be in operation
from 7.80 A. M. to 6 P. M., Eastern
t just inaugurated makes
standard time, the same period as
that now in use for London. The
rate for Belgium will be $3.00 higher
for three minutes and $1.00 higher
for each succeeding minute than the
present rates from the United States
and Cuba to London. Thus a call
from any point in Pennsylvania or
Delaware to Brussels or Antwerp will
cost $78.00 for the first three minutes
and $26.00 for each minute thereafter.
Calls will be handled in the order of
their filing. The method of placing
a call is the same as that for any
other long-distance point,
The new American-Belgium service
utilizes various means for sending the
talking neighbors of this country and Belghum,
voice back and forth across the ocean
Land wires, submarine cables and
radio all play a role in the transmis-
sion. London and New York are the
American and European city ter-
minals through which the calls pass.
From London, land wires carry the
voice sounds to Margate, a distance of
seventy-one miles. Here they enter a
submarine cable just north of the
Strait of Dover, and after sixty miles
of underwater travel, they emerge
again near Ostend, Belgium. From
here land wires carry the voice sounds
seventy miles through Ghent to
Brussels and thence twenty-nine miles
to Antwerp.
REASON FOR PUEBLO
ROADS BEING SOUGHT
Scientists May Learn Secret
of Indian Tribe.
Washington,--The Indian .
tion of Chaco canyos, N. M., a
sand years or more ggo, built wide
“roads” extending WR ‘milks across
the mesas and cut } stone stair-
ways out of the solig LOCK of the can-
yon wall. Vghy3? That is one of sey-
eral questions which prompted +
National Geographic seclety’s exped]-
tion to ancient Pueblg Bgnito, under
the direction 9% Neil M. Judd, arche-
ologist of the Smithsonian institution.
Pueblo Bong, Se $f the greatest
apartment-housg’ gities ‘pt prehistoric
America, lies ryined gn ‘the floor of
Chaco canyon, 70 miles neyth of Gal-
lap, N. M. The’ abor ;inhabitants
wrung their livelihood the silty
soil of the canyon bottom and could
pot have farmed the wind-blown
mesas above. Yet they hewed dozens
of stairways in the tefraced ledges of
the sandstone cliffs which extend
back from the canyon rim and then
built roadways north and south across
the mesa, Some of the “roads” are
“said by the Navajo to extend 40 miles
up hill and down. And there innu-
merable step series were carved with
stone hammers, for the Bonitians
were people of the Stone age. They
had no metal tools; no beasts of
burden.
Stairways Are Wide.
The stairways #ua from five to ten
feet wide and some of them hdve a
10-inch tread. The roads, if that is
what they were, vary in width from
fifteen to twenty feet and are usually
lined with boulders which were rolled
to one side in the clearing process.
On sloping ground the lower side of
the road was built up and where the
mesa changes levels abruptly steps
were cut in the rock.
The Custody of Wills.
f you have made your will, put it in a seal
ed envelope with your name on it and
deposit it here for safe keeping, without
charge.
It may save your heirs much trouble, for
sometimes wills are put away so carefully
that they are hard to find. we have helped
to make many searches for the missing doc-
ument.
We also can act as Executor or Admin-
istrator which would insure a proper settle-
ment of your estate.
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On upper, retreating ledges, built
against the foot of the red sandstone
cliffs, the expedition found terraces
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IT TAKES 1,000,000 STEERS ‘of thousands of cattle tissues in or- | laboratories. No good substitute has
from boyhood, and he always did
TO PUT A MODERN DIR- { der that the dirigibles, those fantas- | yet been found.
GIBLE IN THE AIR.
The king of the elves, in the old
fairy tales, sent his pixies and gnomes |
and dwarves out into
the wide world |
to seek enough nightingales’ tongues
or bluebirds’ breasts to be woven into |
a magic carpet for the king’s daugh-
ter, the lovely princess.
This modern workaday world seems |
eons away from the time of fairies,
but in Akron, O., perhaps the busiest
industrial town in the country, a mod-
ern fairy tale is being lived which
even the buzz and drone of modern
machinery cannot drown. |
Hundreds of girls work in the great
Goodyear Rubber company there’ do-
ing nothing but inspecting hundreds
tic birds of the air, may ride safely
from ocean to ocean.
Nearly a hundred girls are now em-
ployed searching out perfect cattle
inner tissues for new gas cells for
the navy dirigible Los Angeles. It
takes tissues from 1,000,000 steers to
make cells and envelopes for the Los
Angeles.
Science has spent hundreds and
thousands of dollars, says J. R. Kel-
ley, foreman of the skin room of the
big plant, in a vain attempt to find a
synthetic “something just as good”
for the famous “goldbeater cloth,”
which is nothing but the casing of
the lower intestine of cattle.
But the old-fashioned bossy cow
has won out over grave men in their
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And the great ships of the air fly
because thousands and millions of
cattle have died, giving their vital
tissues to these inanimate “birds” of
Ya and steel and aluminum and
silk.
“Goldbeater cloth” was known to
the alchemists of old. Medieval gold-
smiths knew its worth. Cellini him-
self hammered out his famous sheets
of gold, thin as silk, from which he
fashioned the most beautiful objects
of gold the world has ever seen, by
placing the precious metal between
what the ancients called “steer stom-
achs,” medical science not yet having
decided where the stomach actually
began and finished.
The old prospectors of ’49 knew the
worth of “steer stomach,” too. Story
bas it that occasionally as much knif-
ing and brawling went on over the
dead body of an old cow or steer as
over a gold claim itself. The pros-
pectors wanted to get their case
knives into the body, rip out the pre-
cious tissue and have ‘“gold-beater
cloth,” the best substance known to
incase the ore and dust while it was
pounded to yield up the precious gold.
Every particle clung to the “steer
stomach” and no amount of pounding
made it give way.
One of Chicago's greatest packing
houses sends direct to the Goodyear
skin room this intestinal tissue from
every beef butchered in its yards.
The skins are sent in bunches of a
hundred packed in huge tuns filled
with salt, several hundred bunches to
a barrel. From 20,000 to 100,000
skins are received each week.
Abyut 100 girls have been working
on the new lining for the Los Angeles
for the past seven months. A total
of 15,000 yards of fabric must be
lined with the cattle intestinal cas-
ings before the job is done. About
one million skins will be used, mean-
ing that one million dead steers are
represented in the big blimp. The
cost of the skins alone will be about
$85,000.
The process of transforming plain
cattle tissues into dirigible gas cells
is simpler than it is speedy.
The great kegs of salted tissues
roll in from the packing house daily.
They are washed, sorted, inspected,
washed again, inspected again and
are then sent to the scraping tables,
where dozens of girls do nothing all
day but scrape away fatty deposit
from the silk-like tissue. A speedy
worker can scrape 400 a day.
After more washing and more in-
spection under powerful lights the
skins are taken to a big room where
they are applied to a rubberized fab-
ric, wetted down at an exact angle to
permit proper shrinking when dried.
One girl can lay about 250 skins a
day. There are 14 cells in the Los
Angeles, and about 12 sections to
each cell. Since deterioration with-
out the gas inflation starts almost at
once, each cell is sent to the hangar
as soon as finished and is installed at
once, so that most dirigibles are in a
constant state of repair, with at least
cne new cell constantly going in as
another is taken out.
The room where the skins are ap-
plied to the fabric is hermetically
sealed. The only ventilation comes
through a special pipe filled with air
which has been put through a vac-
uum. One speck of soot in the cells
could be fatal. No one is allowed in
the rooms without special shoes kept
in an ante-chamber and inspected
carefully. An exact temperature and
humidity must be maintained the
year around. There is not a window
in the room and doors are carfully
guarded and protected.
All because of “bossy cow's im-
portant contribution to the very mod-
ern business of air transportation!—
Exchange.
Leaves and trash which are burned
can add no humus to the soil ; better
compost them.
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ten to fifteen feet high, braced with
massive masonry walls. One of these,
varying in width from ten to thirty
feet, is traceable for more than a
mile. With the man power available
to the pueblo, the building of this
single terrace must have been a her-
culean task. But, with a definite ob-
jective in view, the Bonitians seem
never to have considered the buman
labor involved.
Why the canyon dwellers built
these things is not yet absolutely
clear, In tracing the roads as far as
he was able, a task quite incidental
to the major explorations of the so-
ciety, Mr. Judd "ound that they all
seemed to lead back into the rincons,
where pine trees formerly grew. In
building their pueblo the Bonitians
used thousands of pine logs, and it
may be that they constructed the
rondways and the stairs as a means
of facilitating the transportation of
such logs. Of the 200 fragmentary
beams excavated from Pueblo Bonito
py the National Geographic society's
expedition in the last seven years, not
ane bears any evidence of scarring.
4 fact which indicates that the tim-
pers were carried instead of being
slid down the cliffs.
Seek New Light.
While this may explain the stairs
and the “roadways,” it is not so help-
ful in explaining the terraces. Fur.
ther investigation throws new light on
them. :
In addition to the investigation of
‘hese problems, Mr. Judd unearthed
further evidence that Chaco canyon
was the center of & larger and more
ancient prehistorie population than
had been thought. He discovered sev-
eral sites of half-sunken villages of
the Post Basket Makers, peoples who
came centuries before the builders at
Pueblo Bonito. He expects that in-
vestigation of these cites will reveal
other house groups as extensive as
the one excavated this last summer
by the Smithsonian institution and
which was first discovered by the
National Geographic society's expedi-
tion in 1926.
Automatic Tide Gauge
Invented in England
f.ondon.—An automatic tide level in-
dicator, considered a great improve-
ment over any existing type, has been
produced and is being exhibited in
London.
The device consists of an illuminated
andicator, constructed to show the
height of the tide at any time during
the day or night. On the model the
figures when magnified for night read-
ing are 22 inches long and can be de-
cinhered from a ship or a land sta-
tien at long distances.
The recording figures and marks for
night use are projected on a glass
screen high above water level, or,
when fixed ashore, onto the window of
any existing lookout or signal sta-
tion. The dimension? of the figures
my be enlarged as required. The in-
d‘eator works automatically and con-
tinnously and can be installed on any
site where access to the rising and
falling of the water is available for
lie necessary float.
for isolated sites a system of
acetylene gas ie installed with auto-
matic control for lighting and extin-
ruishing at definite times.
No Longer a Joke
sun Francisco.—The joke about the
sea being dusty is no longer a joke.
A recent sand storin at sea off the
coast of southern California was re-
norted by the United States hydro-
cxphic office to have had the appear-
ace and density of fog.
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Cannibal Diplomacy.
Quite a while ago we had some dip-
lomatic dealings with the King of the
Cannibal Islands, as the Fiji group
used to be called. His name was
Thakobun.
He sent by special messenger a
treaty to Washington, duly signed. A
rather remarkable pledge of good
faith accompanying the document was
the tooth of a sperm whale.
This particular tooth was, from his
point of view, the most valuable thing
he could offer. It was a sort of fe-
tich, its possession being a guarantee
of power and emblematic of canni-
bal-savage royalty.
In Fiji at that period any whale’s
tooth was the price of a human life.
This particular specimen was said to
have caused the loss of many lives,
noble and plebian. Thakobun attrib-
uted its enormous age as an heir-
loom in the royal family—a gift orig-
inally from the god of good and evil.
This divinity, by the way, was sup-
posed to inhabit a cave in the inter-
ior of the largest island of the group.
When, now and then, he turned over,
it caused a trembling of the earth.
The tooth was regarded with awe and
dread, and no common eyes were al-
lowed to look upon it.
It was in 1870 that Thakobun, the
last of the Fiji kings, sent the tooth
to President Grant as an “earnest”
of his wish to negotiate a treaty of
friendship with the United States. His
object was to preserve the independ-
ence of his country, which he knew
to be in danger.
The treaty, with the pledge, was
kindly received and acknowledged, but
the latter was never acted upon by
the Senate. Thakobun’s luck depart-
ed with the tooth. Three years later,
because he had failed to pay certain
Australian creditors, he lost his
throne and his islands became a Brit-
ish colony.
The tooth is preserved to this day
at the State Department in Washing-
ton.
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Europe Consumes Much Horse Meat.
From a small plant started shortly
after the close of the World War, the
Chappel Brothers Abattoir of Rock-
ford, Illinois, which during the year
just closed slaughtered 40,000 horses,
has grown to a plant of monster pro-
portions. Incidentally, the plant is
the only institution of its kind in the
United States.
Car loads of wild horses captured
by wild horse hunters of the western
plains are shipped to the plant at
Rockford. Broken-down steeds, whose
working days are over, are received
ut the plant and given a merciful
death.
The wild horses, it is said, are he-
ing secured for about $2 per head,
while broken-down Dobbin will bring
in $56 to $10 to the owner. These an-
imals are: collected from a wide area
and shipped to the plant.
While the bulk of the horse meat
is shipped to Europe, American eir-
cuses and animal acts use a large
quantity of the flesh. Owners of dogs
too purchase the plant’s product.
his work cheerfully and rendered
the best possible service. Now while you
are working for your money, your money
will be a cheerful worker for you at the
First National Bank.
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The Barberry Bush is a Persistent
Enemy of Grain.
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In 1916 the rust damage to spring
wheat alone was estimated at 180,-
000,000 bushels, and for the next 10
years it was estimated that the aver-
age loss of all grains was 50,000,000
bushels annually.
For 10 years under Federal com-
manders, relentless war has been car-
ried on against the disease by de-
stroying one of its hosts—the com-
mon barberry bush. Men have toiled
to destroy more than 15,000,000 bush-
es. About 8,000,000 have been dug,
pulled, and grubbed. More than 7,
000,000 have been killed by chemicals,
chiefly by salt—about 1,200 tons of it.
A preliminary survey in the 13 North:
Central States pointed out the most
cbvicus and numecous groups of the
enemy. Repeated surveys are neces-
sary to make sure that eradication is
complete. The barberry is a persist~
ent plant and comes up from frag-
ments of rootstocks and roots. Also
seedlings have been found eight years
after the original fruiting bushes
were destroyed. Single barberry bush-
es have been known to spread rust
for more than 5 miles in all direc
ions. :
Routed from the open spaces, bush-’
es have been found in most inaccess-
ible places, in the crevices of precip-
itous cliffs, in abandoned stone quar-
ries, in the middle of great clamps
of wild bushes and vines, in second-
growth timber, in wet and dry for-
ests, and one even on a floating’ log.
Whatever the difficulties, the cam-
paign must go on. The Federal di-
rectors and the citizens organized for
barberry eradication want all the as-
sistance possible from volunteers. The
campaign is winning. Rust attacks
have been reduced in all the territory.
The estimated average annual loss of
wheat in the 6 years, 1915 to 1920°
was 50,000,000 bushels, whereas in the:
last 7 years, 1921 to 1927, the estis
mated average annual loss is only
about 16,000,000 bushels. Rust loss-
es have been almost eliminated slow-
ly and epidemics are mostly local. .
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Dawdlers Look Out. “=
Drivers of vehicles which are over=
taken or passed by another vehicle ap-
proaching from the rear are required
to give the way to the right when
signaled and are forbidden to increase
their speed. The new motor code
strictly forbids the speeding up of the
vehicle when the operator of the ve-
hicle in the rear has signaled his de~
sire to pass.
More accidents are caused by the
so-called creepers or dawdlers on the
highways, who proceed at a leisurely
speed until overtaken by a passing
vehicle and then suddenly step on the
gas and speed ahead so as to prevent
the on-coming vehicle overtaking and
passing him. This type of road hog,
who refuses to yield the right of way
when signaled to do so, will render
himself liable to a charge of reckless
driving and, if convicted of such &
charge, will be fined $25 or impris*
oned for a period of ten days.