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JOE PALOOKA
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gram announcer, once an amateur
Jessica Drugonette, NBC'S song- | Ehtwelght boxer of the Pacific
bird, returned from a short holiday | C028t. That accounts for all but
in Bermuda with a new definition of | 130-pound Frank Readick,
a zebra. She says she overheard a | the part of Knobby Wals
native describe the black and white | €/88y manager. He'll toss in the
striped animals as “sports’ model | FPODZE
mules.’ | ——
sme { Each member of the cast of “The
Anne 8. Sutherland, the NBC dra. | Goldbergs” is Jewish. Gertrude
matic actress who plays Ma Betts in | Berg, the originator and author of
“Moonshine and Honeysuckle,” as 8 | the sketches, plays Mrs. Goldberg.
sideiine operates a tea room in New | James R.
York's Greenwich Village, For years | alumnus of “Able's Irish Rose.
Miss Sutherland played in Broadway | Rosie Silber und Alfr n play
productions under the management | the children.
of Charles Frohman and David]
Belasco,
who plays
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the mouth. He was born In Califor-
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Principals In the new WABC-Colum
bia comic sketch of the prize ring,
“Joe Palooka.” could come to blows
in what might be termed the battle
of the century. Four of them have a : :
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worked out Inside the ropes. There's a nip kad Haw
vogue in England remarked Ray
Ted Bergman, 200-pound Palooka of | 1 * ae By
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And heavyweight Ham Fisher,
cartoonist-creator of the comic strip
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varied life
on the inside of my face.
Population Centers from 1790 to 1930
the act is based, who Magic of a Name
Teacher--Now, James, you may
on which
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON the Civil war, when the advance was 50.6 miles,
ECENTLY the name of the town of while the least movement was in the decade from
Linton, Ind. appeared in the head-
lines of newspapers in every part of
the country and the reason was not
sparred in school,
of latitude of 30 degrees 10 minutes 12 seconds the fighters and still works out with | give me the defi
1010 to 1920 when it was less than 10 miles. In N. them. Ted Husing, ringside] Jimmy—Exercise is work what a
the 140 yeais covered by the census records the minutes 20 secs commentator at Palooka bouts, who | fellow like 1 io because it isn't
advance has .otaled 580 miles, an average of a time In its history was located In a city took it on the chin while In the | work.—Boston Transcript,
because it had been the scene of some little more than three miles annually, or about Bloomington, Ind. From 1800 to 1010 it moved
sensational crime, some event of po- 11% miles a decade. That does not sound very J of a mile north and 380 miles west, the west
litical significance, sclentifie discov- big, but it means a lot In the development of ward movement being
ery or other happening which for a the United States.
brief moment throws the limelight on Reference was made previously to the high
some little municipality. The reason was that southward advance and the reason for the south.
the United States bureau of the census, having ward pull of the last 10 years is chiefly Califor-
completed the compilation of certain statistics nla-——south as well as west-—and Florida—south
obtained by the 1930 census, announced that as well as east. The Increases in the populations
the center of population of the United States of Texas and Oklahoma may appear also to have
is near Linton, Ind. had some Influence, but the increases In Pennsyl- Indiana f
As a matter of fact, this center is located at vania and New York probably offset that growth it will st
& point in Stockton township, Greene county, in the so vest,
Ind., which is 29 miles northeast of Linton, 31 If it be od whether the Callfort
miles southeast by south of Terre Haute and increase In population was gr
83.6 miles northeast by north of Vincennes. But growth in Michigan and the h Atlantl
since It is nearest Linton, that town recelved states, the answer Is the technical definjt
whatever distinction there accrues to being center of | lation given above.
known as “the center of population™ and it be An increase of 100.000 persons In Logs Angeles,
came the successor to another Indi town, more than
Whitehall, in holding that honor. For after
the census of 1020 the center of population was
designated as a point 1.9 miles west of White
hall In Owen county and in the ten years from
1920 to 1030 it moved westward 22.3 miles to
In 1010 it was at the point where the parallel hobnobs with all
tion of exercise,
intersects the meridian { longitude 88 de
grees 32 nd for the first
three times as
great ag from 186 to If bu than the
westward movement } jes, |
Tr E agonizing aches from
neuralgia can be quieted in
Hilek Bway mk: the’ cantar i not. Niele ta. ae the same way you would end
more: than. 25 miles westward: in the wast 3 a headache, Take some
Bayer Aspirin. Take enough
to bring complete relief.
Genuine aspirin can’t burt
anybody.
Men and women bent
with rheumatism will find
the same wonderful comfort
except between 1800 and 181
In the decade 1010 to 1
miles t
being only about one fourt
from
the smal
lest movemer
in 1940, for the
the eastern
years
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But If Indias
" : which It eventus
2.5% miles from the old center of
population in Indiana, would counterbalance an
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increase of 500,000 in Detroit, only a couple of
hundred miles away.
is one state which has another “«
will never lose, That state Is Kar
permanent possession of the “geographical ce
of continental United KRtates™
States Coast and CGeodetle survey
mined that this center is loc
One of the most Interesting results of each
decennial census Is the graphie picture which it
the point near Linton.
Now what is this center of population and
how is It computed? Probably most of us have
rather vague ideas about that and the chances
are that such ideas are erronecons as well. For
the thing we have in mind when we say center
of population is probably what the census ex-
perts call the median point,
If you draw a line dividing the population
of the United States Into equal parts north and
south, and another line dividing It equally east
and west, then the point of intersection is the
median point. In every one of the four quar
ters there will be the same number of people.
But the center of population, as used by the
census burean, is that point that may be con-
gidered the center of human gravity of the
United States, The census burean pictures the
United States as a rigid level plane, and on it
our 123.000000-0dd people each one welghing the
same, irrespective of age, sex and other dis
tinctions,
Then the center of population would be the
point at which the plane must pivot in order to
balance perfectly. Literally then the center
might be described as the decennial pivot of the
American population playing seesaw,
Obviously this point has no definite relation.
ship with the geographical center or the numer
feal center of the population—because the lever.
age given western sections of the country offsets
the weights of larger populations of the eastern
sections, on this hypothetical teeter-totter,
The westward advance of the center of popu-
lation by 22.8 miles since 1020 is the smallest
registered in any census except two. In 1000
the advance was only 14.4 miles, and In 1020
it was down to 90.8 miles,
On the other hand, the southward advance of
7.6 miles, recorded in 1930, ig far above the
average, Indeed, it Is a trifle more than the net
southward movement since 1790; that is to say,
the excess of southward mileage over northward,
The westward advance is a reflection of the
development of the nation—the tremendous
strides made by agriculture In the states west of
the Mississippi; the development of the great oll
industries In Texas and Oklahoma and other
parts of the West, and the steady growth of in.
dustry in general in those areas. All these are
in the picture, Oil, eattle, wheat, manufacturing,
moving pictures, have all had and still exert an
important influence on the steady movement into
the West,
A remarkable fact in the shifting of the center
of population Is the closeness with which through.
out its westward path it has clung to the thirty.
ninth parallel of latitude. Since 1790 It has
progressed almost In a straight line, reaching
its furthest point north 23 miles east of Balti
more In 1700 and its furthest south point in 1080
in Greene county, Indiana, Yet the span was
214 miles. The greatest movement west
was during the decade Immediately preceding
paints of Uncle Sam's westward march across
the continent. Here, In brief, is that picture
over the period of 140 years from 1700, the date
of the first census, to 1930, the date of the last
one: From the 1700 position In Maryland the
center moved In ten years saimost directly west
to a point about 18 miles west of Baltimore, and
from 1800 it continued its westward swing, dip
ping slightly to the south to a point In Virginia
40 miles northwest by west of Washington... In
this decade it shifted 40 miles, the movement
being due principally to the annexation of the
territory of Loulsiana.
In the next ten years, 1810 to 1820, it reached
a point about 10 miles east of Moorfield in what
is now the state of West Virginia. Here again
there was a slight southward movement, which
was doe mainly to the Increasing population of
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippl. From 1820
to 1530 the movement continued west and south
to a point aout 19 miles west-southwest of Moor.
field, this being the most decided movement to
the south In any decade. The reason was the
annexation of Florida and Increasing settle.
ments in the southwest, notably Alabama, Loulsl-
ana, Mississippi and Arkansas,
From 1530 to 1840 the center continued west,
but slightly changed its course to the north,
reaching a point 16 miles south of Clarksburg,
W. Va. During this decade population had in-
creased rapidly In the prairie states and in the
southern parts of Michigan and Wisconsin,
From 1840 to 1850 it moved west and slightly
south again, reaching & point about 23 miles
southeast of ParRersburg, W. Va, the change of
direction to the south being largely due to the
annexation of Texas,
From 1850 to 1860 It moved west and slightly
north, reaching a point 20 miles south by east
of Chillicothe, Ohlo, while from 18060 to 1870 it
moved west and sharply north, reaching a point
about 48 miles east by north of Cincinnati, This
northward movement was due In part to the
waste and destruction In the south consequently
upon the Civil war, and In part to the fact that
the census of 1870 was defective In its enumer
ation of the Southern people, especially of the
newly enfranchised negro population,
In 1880 the center of population had returned
south to nearly the latitude occupied In 1860,
being In Kentucky, just south of the Ohlo river,
eight miles west by south of Cincinnati; but
in 1800, owing to the great increase of population
in the cities of the northwest, in the state of
Washington, and also La New England, the center
moved north to a point 20 miles east of Colum-
bus, Ind.
During the decade from 1800 to 1900 it moved
west fo a point six miles southeast of Colum.
bus, Ind, the great increase in the population
of Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas being
largely offset by an increase in the population
of the North Atlantic states.
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It I= at a point whic!
and ig located In latitude 30 degrees. 0 minutes:
longitude 08 degrees, 35 minutes, and a mony
ment has been erected there to mark the spot.
How this geographical center was determined
is described by officials of the survey a= follows:
“For a land area bounded by a true circle the
center of the clrele is the geographic center
also; for an area bounded by a square or a
rectangle the Intersection of the diagonals is the
true center; but for an irregular area the cen-
ter is not so easily found. One method of find
ing It, a method sufficiently exact for all prac.
tical purposes, 8 to mount a map on the area on
a plece of stiff paper or cardboard and then cut
this paper or cardboard to the exact outline.
The point at which this figure will exactly bal
ance on a pencil or pin point, If left free to
move, Indicates the location of the geographic
center.” It was by this method that the survey
not only found the geographical center of the
United States as a whole but also that of each
state,
Kansas also has permanent possession of an-
other center which is of even more importance
than Its geographic center for it has aptly
been called the “hub of the United States” Out
in a cow pasture on the Mende ranch in Osborne
county, Kansas, Is a three-foot cube of concrete
in which is set a metal plate on which a point
is engraved. And this Is the “dominant point,”
the “primary station,” the “geodetic capital of
America” the "king pin” of all United States
map-making and surveying and from it is’ eal
culated the latitude and longitude of a sixth of
the world's land surface, since both Canada and
Mexico have adopted this point and its sup-
porting system ag the “North American Datum.”
It was established by the United States Coast
and Geodetic survey In 1001 as the Initial sta.
tion for the vast network of surveys that was to
be spread not only over the United States but
over the entire continent. It was designated as
the “primary station” after the coast and
geodetic survey had employed intricate mathe.
matical calculations In extending its “triangula.
tion network” across the country and had shifted
the rigid network of its measurements about
very slight distances until the errors in longi.
tude and latitude of all the various stations
were brought to the least possible quantity, When
the network was “pegged down” the “mother
station” was established on the Meade ranch
in north central Kansas,
“It would seem from a historic and selen-
tific standpoint,” says R. 8. Patton, acting di
rector of the coast and geodetic survey, “that the
Meade ranch triangulation station ls worthy of
a monument at least as conspicuous and artistic
as the mero milestone in Washington which
marks the beginning of the Lincoln a
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muscular pains.
familiar little box:
Oils From Orange Trees
Four rather distinct types of essen
tial oils are secured from the orange
tree and its fruit. Orange oil is de
rived by pressing the rind of either
the sweet or bitter orange; bergamot
oll, extracted from the rind of a spe
cial variety of orange cultivated al
most exclusively in Italy and Corsica
for its essential oil content; petti
grain oil, produced by distillation of
the leaves and twigs of the bitter
orange, and orange flower, or neroli
oll, distilled or extracted from the
fresh flowers of the bitter orange
trees. Orange oll is the only one of
these products which is made in the
United States.
What has become of the discour
aged restaurant with the magnificent
name in the small town?
dous difference in their lives,
gist for genuine