SCIENCE HONORS LINDY AND WIFE ‘Savants Put High Value on Aerial Explorations of Aviator. - Washington.—Aerial* expeditions ot Oharles A. Lindbergh and wife, the ‘former Ann Morrow. into southwest- igen United States and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico have demon- igtrated conclusively the value of the airplane in archeological research. of- (flcials- of the Carnegie institution be- "Meve. In a pamphlet just issued describing 4he two scientific ventures of the Lind- i®erghs, it was said on behalf of the ‘fmstitution’s archeological staff: "_ “The expeditions have not only iplelded a series of splendid photo- graphs, which will greatly aid arche- fadosists, but they also have indicated || sany new lines of approach to study of the very complex problems of abor- fginal American history. it Plane of Great Aid. © “We proved to our satisfaction tha (the airplane) is of unique userul- ‘mess in enabling scientists to study such a country as a whole, to record Ats geographical features, to note the nature, distribution, and extent of its forest types, and to plan routes and fix landmarks for group exploration, hn is certain that in many regions the plane can be used to transport set down on lakes or savannas, and pick up again, small parties of scien- tific workers, thereby enabling them safely and easily to cover in weeks territory which would require months l@nd whole seasons of difficult and dan- Igerous ground travel.” ' The pamphlet reveals that Lina- Ipergh first became interested in arch- ‘gology last year while pioneering an ‘gir route to Central America for the commercial air transport company by which he is employed. While return- Ang from this trip he flew inland over the’ Yucatan peninsula and sighted ruins of a temple in the jungle. i Explore in Arizona. Upon reaching Washington the avi- ator asked the Smithsonian institution for. books which would supply infor- ‘mation about the ruins he had seen ‘and was referred to the Carnegie in- stitution, which was already engaged ini:the excavation of Maya ruins in Yiicatan. In an interview with Car- inegie officials Lindbergh suggested an ‘attempt to locate new ruins from the ath 'His first expedition was in territory gtrrounding the Canon del Muerto and (Canon de Chelly in Arizona, near the iNew Mexico state line, where he and Mrs. Lindbrgh spent several days ex- ploring the rugged country and tak- ing pictures of Pueblo ruins. Their base was the Pecos, N. M. camp of Dr. A. V. Kidder, one of the Carnegie {nistitution’s staff. _ The success of this expedition lea to an aerial survey of the Mexican "territory rich in Mayan ruins, par- ticularly Yucatan. Accompanied this time by members of the Carnegie staff, the Lindberghs spent five days flying over the jungles, charting the country and. photographing prehistoric remains visible from the air. - Carnegie officials believe they dis- covered several new Mayan city sites, although this has been questioned by Mexican archeologists. Wood-Burning Auto Developed in Sweden © 'Stockholn.—An automobile that uses ordinary kindling wood for fuel in- stead of gasoline has just been tried out by the Swedish army with satis- factory results. The motor, equipped with a new style gas generator, de- veloped by two brothers, Widegren, Swedish engineers, was mounted on al two and a half ton truck, manufac- tured by the Scania-Vabis Automobile Works at Soedertelje. On a test trip of 143 miles about 298 pounds of fire- wood was used, as against the 13 gal- ons of gasoline required for the same distance. Boys Adopt Rule to Gag Chattering Girls ‘Bast Orange N. J.—Disturbed by the chatter of their coed classmates, East ‘Orange high school boys will put into effect a gag rule for girls during the 40-minute study periods. Girls guilty of communicating by any means what. ever during these periods will be haled before a tribunal of boys and fined from one to five hours’ extra “time in school hours. The boys re- c¢en.ly complained the girls chatter prevented them from concentrating. Blacksmith Quits; % Finds Gold in Tools Brooksville, Maine.—When the ¢ automobile knocked the black: : o x smith business to smithereens Everett A. Snowman, who had operated such a shop for years, did not quit. Instead he turned his skill as a manipulator of iron and steel to a different line, wtih the result that he has puilt up a business which brings him more dollars each year than the shoeing of horses and repairing of wagons, bug- ‘gles, sleighs and sleds ever did. Now he is making butcher knives and hunting knives, all hand-forged from steel. 2 3 pple 4 o < ¢ p <9, - *, -> <> @ "9%" ee ee eageedeedsdreleelealeel OEE I te Te Te Te eee "s' < * < -, < < # < - *, < < <4 < <4 <4 < < * - 4 EPPS ee | Truth or Heroics About Story of Joan of Arc? Although {investigators have fairly well proven that Joan of Arc Was never burned at the stake, but was told to take off her male attire, go home and never fight again, there are many people who want the world to stick to her story because it is heroic and inspirational, declares the Wom- man’s Home Companion. The magazine adds, editorially, that it Is far better to accept the findings of thorough re search. ; “According to the article, investiga- tors found records of Joan’s visit to Metz in 1486, five years after her death was believed to have taken place, and subsequent papers record- ing her marriage and & costly gift to her by the city of Orleans in memory of the good she had done during the siege of the city. This was eight years after Joan's ashes were Sup posed to have been scattered in the Seine. “For our part,” concludes the artl- cle,” we prefer to know the truth even when it hurts. [In the long rut, there is nothing so inspiring as true knowledge.” Of Course Smart Dog Knew Telephone’s Uses Evidently Dynamite is well named- - not the explosive, but the six months’ old terrier in Denver which was cred- ited with telephoning the police to liberate him from a jewelry store where he had been inadvertentlr locked in. It seems that Dynamite fell asleep under a counter when his master was making a purchase. He failed to wake up until after the store was locked for the night. When he did awake, it was to find the place in darkness, and parks and howls proved of no avail Finally he jerked the telephone to the floor, thus releasing the receiver from the hook and signsling the operator. She heard the dog's bark and notified the police, with the result that the riot squad hastened to the scene. Whether or not the dog knew what he was doing when he “telephoned” for help the police are at a loss to determine, but the owners of smart dogs will believe that he did know what he was doing. Fighting Forest Fires The majority of people believe for est fire fighting to be just a laborer's job. but nothing could be further from the truth. It is on a strictly scientific basis and nothing is done at random. There is a definite system of organi: zation which designates to each man a certain tool to use and a certain position in the crew The crews usu- ally coasist of from 6 to 12 men. un- der suuervision of a warden or a ranger. On a small fire. ten acres or less in area. one crew is usually enough, but on large fires, anywhere from 50 to 300 men, are employed. The implements used are axes, brush- hooks. shovels. rakes, water tanks and torches - for setting backfires. The proper use of the latter Is the best . oo) traing roll along the way. The means of controlling forest fires. Variation in Stars These words “giant” and “dwarf” stars have reference to intensive brightness rather than to mass, though differences in volume are invelved. One theory of star evolution is that in the beginning all stars were of gas of extraordinarily low density and of low temperature and surface bright ness. Such are the red stars. They contract, grow continually hotter, and pass through successive stages toward the white-hot state, although not all stars reach that state. The stars un- dergoing these changes in the ascend- ing branch are chiefly giants. After ward the stars begin to fall off in tem- perature and luminoeity and gradually pass to the red stage and thep to in- visibility. The stars on this descend ing branch are termad dwarfs. Whose Lead Is It? A friend of mine got into an argu ment with a friend of hers over a much-discussed point in bridge. Fi- nally, she said, “I'll ask So-and-sn"'—a well-known authority on bridge—*“to decide.” She wrote So-and-so a nice letter. fn due time she received an equally nice rerly and with it a bill for $25— “for professional services.” Shocked and surprised, she consulted her law- yer. “Pay the bil,” he said. Two days later he sent her a bill for $25— “for professional services.”—Advertis. ing and Selling. ee ———————————————— English Game Protection In English law the term “ground game” applies to hares and rabbits, which are subject to extinction by the occupants of lands to protect their crops from injury and loss. This re moves these animals from the protec- tion . which, in the interest of the sporting classes, the English ESKIMOS EXECUTE «PURIFIER OF RACE’ | Drown Yo 'h Who Set Cit te» - Kili His People. Winnipeg.—Believed by the North- west Mounted Poiice authorities to | i i | i mm —— em Collies Once Made Part of Kirk Congregation Ia Scotland, half a century ago, ft was the general custom for the shep- herds to take their faithful collies with .them to church. In some dis- * tricts, where the population was scan- have heen a victim of a recurrence of the wave of religious mania which swept over this lonely land ‘about ten years -ago, a young-Eskimo’ inhabitant of the interior of the southern portion of Baffin land became demented and shot and killed his parents and 9 voung woman relation. He shot at but missed his brother. The Eskimo tribe of which he was formerly a law abiding member kept . him in close confinement through 2 long winter, but in the spring, after he had twice escaped their vigilance, they pushed him through a hole and drowned him beneath ‘the ice of the subarctic, Sergt. J. EB. F. Wight, in charge of the detachment at Lake Harbor, re- ported that last winter, accompanied by Constable P. Dersch, he made a long patrol through a section of south- ern Baffin island, where white men were unknown before the great war. He learned the story from the tribe in which the tragedy occurred. The report stated that Mako Gllak, a young man, became obsessed with the idea he was a purifier of his race. He told his relatives he had heard a voice from heaven telling him to kill all his people. He promptly proceeded to put his mission into operation. As Mako was obviously under a spell the Eskimos did not know what to do with him. The nearest post, Lake Harbor, was 500 miles away, and they had no means of making such 8 long journey with a madman. They bound him up with thongs of sealskin and kept him under guard in an igloo all winter. About: March of the following year members of the tribe decided that they could not keep him any longer. They told police that the men of the tribe were all worn ont hy this time sharp vigilance lest Mako should escape and continue his crazy plan They summoned him before a meet- ing of the whole family one day and told him he had to die. They gave him his choice of the manner of death. He could be shot, stabbed or qrowned—whichever he preferred. But Mako did not wish to die, they told police. However, his end was decided upon. and a hole was made in. the ice. He was pushed through this and river currents carried him to his death, ’ Wyoming City 100 Miles From R. R. Gets Phone Pinedale, Wyo.—A hundred miles from a world of incomparable spéed and uncertain destiny, Pinedale, alone in its nook of vastness, has refused to be longer without proper 'teléphone facilities. - i: A hundred miles away steel tracks reach out to either coast. Mighty whistles of locomotives announce their movement upon the plains. The sound dies away. Pinedale never hears fit— a hundred miles away. So blissfully detached this tiny in. corporated town could not remain; for. the residents ask, how would they know if the President died? . Connections from the old telephone line had been poor, and long distance calls were all but impossible. The telephone company recently completed a new copper circuit line. Communi cation with all long distance points will be immediate and clear. In another desperate effort to link it to the world officials of Pinedale have . announced the completion of a high law throws about wild animals which are | hunted for sport. session of land confers no right to kill or snare game found thereon, but it is not uncommon in England to pro- vide in a lease for the keeping down of ground game. —————————— Every Ten Years Bill. the neighborhood cutup, re marked: “I'm going to give my dog a consus bath tomorrow.” Charles. always curious, asked: What's a census bath?’ giving Bil nis desired chance to explain, “It's 1 tnken every ten years, and count nhabitants i” Ordinarily the pos- | way from. Pinedale to points bot north and south. Chile Sets 5-Year Closed Season on Chinchillas Santiago, Chile.—Hunting of chin- chillas for a period of five years has been forbidden by the Chilean govern: ment in an effort to prevent complete extermination of the fur-bearing ro- dent. : The high price obtained for the fur during the last few years has result ed in a veritable war on the animals. The chinchilla is hunted principally by Indiars living in the Andes high: lands, who capture the animal with weasels, At the same time the government forbade the killing of chinchillas, a governmental decree was Issued es tablishing an annual bonus of $12 for every chinchilla raised domestically. Breeding farms for the animals will be estabiished by the government to conserve and propagate the species. Passes Up Chevrons to Return to Horses Fort Bliss, Texas.-—“Once a cavalry- man, always a cavalryman,” Is the ex- planation Henry M. McCloskey gives of his desire for a transfer which ' meant the loss of his sergeant’s rank- ing and some $40 a month. The sergeant of the armored car brigade said as much in requesting the change of his superior officers. He had served in the horse troop for six years. A year ago, when the ar- mored cars Bliss, he was transferred to them. “I've always had a hankering to get pack to horses,” McCloskey admitted. “You can't get the same satisfaction | riding a bumping machine of iron and rubber.” Now he is with troop F, Eighth eav. alry, buck private, and happy. in maintaining a "was a general stretching and yawning | bition days, there was great pride in ty, the congregation on Sunday morn- ings would frequently be made up half of humans and half of dogs. The collies sat out the service with com: mendable patience untilithe announce: - ment of the_last psalm.. when there preparatory to searapering.out as soon as - the « benediction had been pro nouncq. In one kirk the congrega tion determined that the service should close in more decorous fashion. When a strange minister officiated one Sun: day he found all the folk sitting when he was about to pronounce the bless- ing, and paused for them to rise. “Say awa’, sir.” whispered one old shep- herd near the pulpit. “we're a’ sit- ting to cheat the dogs."—Montreal Family Herald. Changes Brought About ny in Food Associations Nowhere else, save in these United States, is there such a blend of food resources and contrasting food tastes of different racial strains, writes Mu. riel Allen King in the New York Her- ald Tribune. In pre-war, pre-prohi- Registered — local cookery. Certain dishes were in: | delibly associated with certain sec: tions of the United States. One went to New England to eat clam chowder. prown bread and baked beans; to ! Texas to get tamales; to Virginia to tuxuriate on spicy baked ham and crisp corn pone. There were, possi: bly, tea rooms in Boston, Kansas City, or in Greenwich village, which nobody knows today, that advertised “real southern waffles,” but the Greek lunch counter had not quite erased the idea that certain dishes were appropriate to certain feasts, that certain foods were traditional mates and compan ions to other foods. Interesting Church The Worsted church at Canterbury, New Hampshire, was compleced in 1839 by the Free Will Baptists and Congregationalists. [It suffered much financial distress and Mrs. Sarah Eliz abeth (Harper) Monmouth, undertook to raise funds for the benefit of the | church. She acted as associate pas- tor and officiated for nearly eight years. She personally made the | worsted decorations which consist principally of religious mottoes. There was an extraordinarily large number of such decorations complet- ed in 1878. when Mrs. Monmouth ceased her labors. An interesting fact is that Mrs. Monmouth suffered severe financial reverses and pub- lished and sold a booklet for 25 cents in the town, entitled “Living on Half a Dime a Day,” which she claimed was an actual experience of her own. Virginia Home of Culture Localisin alone can produce, in the case of America, a thoroughly authen- tic type of man; this type alone can be the germ cell of an authentic Amer- ican nation. Again, localism alone can lead to culture; it must start as a sin- gular and single and, therefore, small thing. It will grow and spread as time goes on. The only really cul- tural atmosphere one finds today in America is that of Virginia. The cul- tured men who were born in its field of force are responsible for most that is of cultural value in America. But how different Virginia is from all oth- er states! Its culiure is a particular one; it is not only a matter of age but of kind as well.—Hermann Key- serling in Atlantic Monthly. ee ——————————— Adjustable Racquet Strings Mainsprings of timepieces, violin strings and the strings of tennis rac- quets have a way of breaking without any explainable reason. To overcome this trick of the atmosphere, for the atmosphere has had to bear the blame, the violinist loosens the strings of the instrument during the interval of dis- use. This idea has been recently made use of in the design of the tennis rac- quets. By means of a threaded con- traption extending it 1s possible to lousen the strings when not in ase. It is said that the implement is in much better condition for play when tightened after a short repose of this kind. St. Paul’s Cathedral St. Paul's cathedral, London, Eng: and, the masterpiece of Sir Chris- topher ‘Vren, commenced in the year 1675 and completed In 1710, cost £747, 660. The cross on the dome is 365 feet above the ground level and the inner cupola Is 218 feet above the floor. The bell, “Great Paul,” in the southwest tower, weighs 17 tons. To the south of the cathedral are re through the handle, | mains of the chapter house and clois- ters of “01d St. Paul's,” destroyed by the fire of London in 1666. : Unchanging Time Today the Arab woman cooks her pread outside the shelter of reed mats | and mud, which is her “house,” and were brought to Fort ! the door. bolls her water over a fire lit in a hole which she scoops out in front of The continuity in the es- sentinls of life 1s unbroken: we know that as she cooks now. so did her fore- bears cook 3,500 years ago. and in all likelihood when we come to dig the pre-flood levels we shall find that the "came cnstoms and the same devices go hack oven farther into the past. —_Read the Watchman for the A. W. KEICHLINE 74-23-4m | i Architect, | . IRA D. GARMAN 1420 Chestnut St., . 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