By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
GREAT BRITAIN has suddenly
.become conscious that her
“tight little isle’ is a perfect ‘‘set-
up'’ for enemy air raiders. The hor-
rible possibilities of incendiary
bombs falling from the skies upon
London and other large cities, and
the imaginary spectacle of thou-
sands of citizens choking in yellow
clouds of poisonous gases have nar-
rowed the British defense program
down to the point where it is intended
that there will be a good gas mask
for every inhabitant and a gas-proof
chamber in every home.
Schools in air raid defense are
being conducted to train instructors
who will, in turn, train groups of
citizens to protect themselves. Vast
propaganda mills are turning out
pamphlets by the thousands, deal-
ing with various types of poisonous
gases, their use in air raids, and
the methods by which they may
be met. Local Red Cross and other
first aid societies are being mar-
shaled as advance defense units.
Newspapers carry almost daily
stories about the anti-air raids pro-
gram.
For there seems here a feeling of
conviction that some murky night—
who knows when? —radio waves will
electrify every home with the dread
warning, ‘“‘Air raid!” Then as si-
rens, taking up the call, shriek ad-
monition through the London fog,
men, women, children and even
babies in arms will be wearing the
weird looking respirators that make
noxious air safe to breathe. Some
will scurry for the cover of their
homes, where for some time in an-
ticipation of this attack they have
maintained sealed, airtight and gas-
proof rooms. Grotesquely masked
rescue crews will man the streets
in search of unfortunate strag-
glers. Anti-aircraft batteries will
probe the skies for the death-deal-
ing invaders.
No Air Raid Insurance.
Is this a fantastic dream? If it
is, then the British government is
wasting huge annual appropriations
for air raid defense. The home of-
fice is needlessly instilling fear into
the people with reams upon reams
of propaganda. The insurance com-
panies are overlooking millions of
pounds in new business.
Right there is a pretty good in-
dication of the reality of the men-
ace. Insurance companies, with
their vast facilities for research,
are seldom far wrong in gauging the
gravity of a risk. If you have a
manufacturing plant in Great Brit-
raids! You'll find it next to
possible. Many firms refuse out-
right to underwrite any such insur-
ance. None of them will insure
its value.
British public was shocked and in-
dignant at reports that Italian air
forces were dropping deadly
bombs upon helpless women and
children in Ethiopia. Great Britain,
along with most of the other powers
of western Europe had signed the
Geneva Gas Protocol of 1925, out-
lawing the use of poison gas in war-
fare. But today she is not so cer-
tain that this is any real protec-
tion. She has suddenly realized that
if, according to reports, one great
Cabins 4
pumps oxygen into the carriage.
Gas School” in northern England.
Just as important in the ARPD
program is its propaganda mill
This turns out detailed handbooks,
pamphlets and memoranda outlin-
ing the latest methods for cédmbat-
ing the effects of poison gases. The
official outlet for government pub-
lications is His Majesty's Station-
ery Office, and here, too, the cit-
izen may obtain many works which
will help him to learn personal pro-
tection from gas raids; first-aid
treatment for the injured; how to
decontaminate gas - soaked mate-
rials. Other booklets describe what
precautions are to be taken in fac-
tories and offices, and describe the
approved methods for organization
of rescue parties, ambulance bri-
gades and other groups to take
care of the casualties.
A staff of highly-trained special-
ists has been assembled by the
ARPD to prepare this propaganda
Originally the department consist-
now it has
60 carefully picked men and wom-
Under the direction of Wing
Eric John Hodsoll
in rooms heated by open fireplaces.
Maps on the walls show where air
defenses have been perfected.
Prepare Universal Handbook.
The literature they prepare con-
tains a great deal of technical in-
formation about the various types
of gases, the ways in which their
presence may be discovered and
comp
IR ies wis
while wearing the masks.
power was using poison gas in war-
fare, the protocol might become an-
other “scrap of paper” in the event
of actual war.
500 Complete Training.
Last April the ARPD opened the
first of the schools for training in-
structors in air raid defense, with
emphasis particularly upon combat-
ing poison gas. This is the “Civilian
Anti-Gas School’ at Eastwood Park,
Falfield, Gloucestershire. The
school is equipped to train 80 in-
structors every month in the art of
teaching others to avoid gas injur-
ies.
Five hundred instructors have al-
ready been “graduated.” They are
now working with the many anti-
gas organizations which have been
rapidly formed throughout the Unit-
ed Kingdom of late. The plan has
been found so successful in its early
operations that it is now to
construct a second * Anti-
effect of atmospheric conditions
upon their persistence. Architectur-
al drawings of carefully-planned
sites for first aid posts are included.
Householders are given simple
plans for making certain rooms
gas-proof havens in time of raid.
For first aid units, the ARPD has
carefully worked out a table of the
exact amount and kind of supplies
needed.
The ARPD press relations depart-
ment is at present preparing a
handbook called “Air Raid Precau-
tions in the Home.” This is a sort
of standard citizens’ manual on the
subject, and will be distributed to
all the homes of the United King-
dom “when the proper time
comes."
The ARPD has been awarded a
budget of 1,300,000 pounds (about
$6,500,000) for the year. Working on
this capital, it acts as a clearing
house for defense precautions by
The apparatus atop the hood
the
most im-
local authorities
3ritish Isles. One of the
portant things it has done, by far,
is to arrange with manufacturers
for the production of gas masks at
the rate of 100,000 a day. It is hoped
that by pursuing this program the
government can, in » of war,
provide every man, woman and
child in Britain with a gas mask.
The government is already pay-
ing for the first distribution of these
respirators, the early production go-
ing to police units, volunteer bri-
gades and nursing services. These
actual defense become necessary.
For citizens not enrolled in these
organizations, gas masks are being
stored in supply depots, ready for
emergency
Co-operation Is Voluntary.
The ARPD is continually urging
local authorities to anti-
gas and anti-bomb units. There is
now an air raids precautions com-
mittee in virtually every borough
and county council. These are mak-
the preparations for
and gas-proof first
aids posts, and are training
squads.
Preparations have not yet
reached the point that the gov-
ernment is making the organization
of local rescue and defense brigades
mandatory. They are still being in-
vited to join on a wvoluntary basis.
There is a certain standardization
developed among these local groups
which will make it easy for the
government, at a moment's notice,
to convert them all into one vast
national organization. Up to date
the local authorities have been bear-
ing most of the expense of organiza-
tion, but it is understood now that
the government is in a position to
give financial aid to communities
where local funds are not available.
The government is now purchasing
large supplies of bleaching powder
for decontamination purposes, res
pirators and first aid equipment,
which it will be prepared to distrib
ute nationally in an emergency.
Co-operation in the anti-gas and
anti-air raid campaign is being giv-
en the government by the British
Red Cross society and the Order
of St.
Members of these societies are be-
organize
advance
shelters
a series of lectures on the use and
care of anti-gas respirators, the
homes and the treatment of gas
casualties.
Fear Incendiary Bombs.
One of the most fearful possibili-
ties of an air raid is a rain of in.
cendiary bombs. These of late years
have been developed to a very high
degree of efficiency, and are capa-
ble of spreading disastrous fire rap
idly with terrific toll. The Barnes
Borough Council of London has rec
ommended to the ARPD a type of
local organization which is regard.
ed as having considerable merit in
fighting the incendiary bomb as well
as poison gas. The Barnes engi-
neer suggests that his borough be
divided into fire-fighting areas, with
a volunteer sub-brigade, trained in
the use of respirators, in each area.
These brigades would be equipped
to put out fires caused by incen-
diary bombs. Camouflaged trenches
would be used for protection against
gas attack.
© Western Newspaper Unio
“The Iron Mouth”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
with a mouth big enough to take him all in one bite.
Well, the dinosaurs died off and you don’t see them any more, except
gobbled by a mouth as big as a prehistoric monster's because nowadays
we manufacture them-—make them out of iron, and put rows of sharp
teeth in them, attach them to great mechanical animals and send them
1927.
first real full-time job.
highway bridge over Shark river
Dave was just out of high
school then, and working at his
between Belmar and Avon, and
working with a crew of grown men
crew and also the smallest.
the easiest job on the bridge.
doing Dave a favor,
on the bridge as well.
The crew had run a temporary
on that trestle they had rolled a bi
cavating holes for the big
foundation. The crane
with sharp teeth set along t
Con
1aws
crane dropped that sc
The jaws ck
and dumped on
was the youngest one in the
the foreman had given him
oreman might have thought he was
ned it the most dangerous job
He
was
trestle out over the water and out
g crane with which they were ex-
ich were to form the bridge's
th a clamshell scoop—two great
, hinged at the upper end. The
of the excavation.
scoop was hauled up
and silt
and the
that a man could stand on.
where it could get a good big bite
of the mud they were dredging.
crane,
mud, and then stop it
would push it to the desired spot.
Then
Jerry, operator of the
n to within a few feet of the slimy
on the edge of the caisson.
its mouthful of mud.
“Time and again,” says Dave,
“Jerry would drop those half-ton
We soon attained a certain rhythm
Oke-—splash!’ so steady
whole trouble was that those three b
irds almost did do it in their sleep,
LESS HE'S WIDE AWAKE.
The planking
again he almost lost his balance and
did slip and fall. “I'm not sure hc
of a sudden I was
mud, right under
scoop. It was proba
to get my wits together,
pen if that sco
the gaping,
and time and
somehow, Dave
ed,” he says, "but all
was on my back in ti
ot jaws of that half-ton clams
that I lay there, trying
ng of what would hap-
on was
And then,
narrow,
fell in.
w it happer
cCoOnas
iber think
And then, suddenly it began
to find out.
purely mechanical on Sam's part.
at a certain interval for so long
out thinking. Then-SPLASH! D
Dave's body!
to look as if Dave was going
Oke! It was
He had been giving that signal
that now he was doing it with-
own came the scoop right across
d together. But in another second
“There wasn’t much use in trying
to yell,” says Dave, “for down there
pumps.
go
at either side!
I could see, to my horror, that
and shut his eyes.
ably be his last. And then
caisson, Sam Smith had looked for
him.
the closing of the scoop.
Up on the
Dave and hadn't been able to see
one of those excitable fellows. If
Indian Name for a River
Mary Harris, a heroine of the
joining the Muskingum.
carried into the valley of the Wal-
honding, into what is now Coshoc-
ton county, and later was married
to a French Mohawk. She is be-
lieved to have been the first white
woman to live in this section so the
Delaware Indians termed the
stream Walhonding, which in their
language, according to a writer in
the Cleveland Plain Dealer, meant
“White Woman's Creek.”
There are three popular theories
concerning the derivation of the
name Cuyahoga. Some claim the
name can be traced back to the In-
dian Cuyahogan-uk meaning ‘Lake
River.” Others insist it was de
rived from Carrihoga, or ‘News
Carrier.” A third group contends
the name was taken from Cays-
haga, signifying crooked. The lat
ter is probably correct as anyone
tan see by looking down at its
winding course. Some authorities
consider it the most crooked navi
gable waterway in the state.
Poison in Berries and Leaves
According to a Home Gardening
expert, many common plants con-
tain dangerous poisons, warns a
writer in Pearson's London Weekly.
There is deadly prussic acid in
leaves and roots of arum lilies, in
hawthorn berries, and in the leaves
of the cherry laurel. Another acidic
poison, oxalic acid, is contained in
the berries of the barberry species.
The poisonous cytistine is found
in butcher's broom berries, and in
laburnum seeds, while Christmas
roses are dangerous on account of
the helleborin in them. Every part
of the common daisy, and the sticky
juice of the dandelion stem, are also
poisonous.
Digitalin, a deadly drug, is con-
tained in foxglove leaves, while hol-
ly berries hold several poisons. Peo-
ple are also warned against the
ivy berries, which are full of heder-
ine. Lupin seeds contain lupinine,
and the berries of Daphne, daph-
nine. The entire monkshood plant
is impregnated with aconitine, and
poppy heads are full of morphine,
the chief narcotic agent in opium.
Finally, the yew is dangerous on
account of its taxine content. Tax-
ine is a poison which causes suffoca-
loweliold ®
@ Questions
For Steamed or Boiled Pud-
dings—Puddings will not stick to
the basin if two strips of grease
proof paper are put crosswise in
the basin before the mixture
is poured in.
* »* 4
Frying Eggs—Eggs are less lia-
Shrink the Cord — When loose
cover is washed.
» » *
Boiling Old Potatoes—Old pota-
toes sometimes turn black during
boiling. To prevent this add a
squeeze of lemon juice to the
Removing Stains on Hands
with a slice of raw potato.
* * »
For Good Gravy—Did you know
that gravy, to be served with
roast meat, will taste much nicer
and contain more nutriment if it
is made with the water in which
New Hot-Water Bottles—Have a
little glycerine added to the water
with which hot-water bottles are
filled for the first time. This will
make the rubber supple, and the
bottle will longer.
WNU Service,
Don t
BREAK YOUR BACK
polishing floors
This amazing new O-Codar wax gives your
floors a besutiful fianh in 20 misutes.
Suxply apply, let it dry—and your work
is done! fe slishes itself! Non-slippery,
won't check! Greater water resistance
gives longer wear. losist on the gen
wine O-Cedar for full satisfaction
last
POLISH
PS » WAX
Different Roads
Our minds are as different as
our faces; we are all traveling
to one destination—happiness; but
few are going by the same road.
—Colton
for WOMEN only
CARDUI is a special medicine for
the relief of some of the suffering
Its from a woman's weak-
ened co tion t has been found
to make monthly periods less dis-
agreeable, and, when its use has been
kept up awhile, has helped many
poorly nourished women to get more
strength from their food. This medi
cine (pronounced “Card-ui™) has
been used and recommended by
women for many, many years. Find
out whether it will help you by
giving it a fair trial. Of course, if
not benefited, consult a physician,
which res
Always a Loser
He who rests satisfied in mere-
ly defending himself against sar-
casm and abuse is always a loser.
~(oethe.
Don’t Irritate
Gas Bloating
If you want to really GET RID OF
GAS and terrible bloating, don’t expect
to do it by just doctoring your stom.
ach with harsh, irritating alkalies and
“gas tablets.” Most GAS is lodged in
the stomach and upper intestine and
is due to old poisonous matter in the
loaded
constipated bowels that
with ill.causing bacteria.
If your constipation is of long stand.
ing, enormous quantities of dangerous
bacteria accumulate. Then your diges
tion is upset. GAS often presses heart
and lungs, making life miserable,
You can’t eat or sleep. Your head
aches. Your back aches. Your com.
plexion is sallow and pimply. Your
beats 4 foul. You are a sick, grouchy,
wretched, unhapp n. YOUR
SYSTEM 18 POISONED.
Thousands of sufferers have found In
Adisrika the guick, scientific way to
rid their ems of harmful bacteria.
Adlerika rids you of 8 and cleans
foul poisons out of BOTH w and
lower bowels, Give your Dowels »
REAL cleansing with Adlerika. Get
rid of GAS. Adierika does not gripe
=is not habit forming. At
Druggists.,
ee ———
are