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: :
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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FARMER living in
Grant County, Ind.,
had 75 hogs to sell. He thought it would be
wise to telephone and see if prices were
firm. Prices had dropped 15¢. He held the
hogs until prices
§4¢ a pound.
rose again and gained
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