d brick structure, was 't year on the site of 2, but the permanent 5s was not finished until ne the great calamity, t disheartening which blic had ever suffered. r of 1812 the British ngton, burned the new lite House and other 3. It seemed an al- > task to President S subordinates to re- ‘ed remnants of the ldings. But a few dison called congress n, and as a result of building of the Cap- ver, it was discovered )1 was already too eeds of the govern- ess passed a resolu- r the enlargement of e addition of a wing . Nothing was done r until 1850, when then a senator from lested an architect ills to submit plans lent of the Capitol. ons called for new th and south and a iter of the original succeeded in getting te an appropriation each wing, but the to $50,000 for each competitive bidding The plans submitted r of Philadelphia, eclally favored by Fillmore, were final- \n six years for the work, and during discovered that the tion of $50,000 for be decidedly insuf- he total cost was 3,000,000. The new cupied for the first 1857, but the sen- into its wing until Now, after seventy is to be added to Brother Johnathan, ant among nations, which to carry on m————————————— good way is to put irst gathered, be. eets of blotting pa- boards and press > Gas” of a small quan- liscovered “sneeze 1g gas 1s the sug- ent American gas to lessening the uicides and acci- S poisoning, amet i f : 4 § a THE PATTON COURIER “OLD GLORY” IN NOVEL FORM Kl i ih hi Bilin Ll fl 1 ; i hs i PD Nees / This flag, which took four miles of wall paper, 1,800 feet of fish line, 13,874 fire brilliants, and 6,389 hours of labor to make, was on exhibition at the national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars at Providence, R. I, Edward L. Voder, the maker and owner, is shown pointing at “Old Glory.” oy Sam’s Sweetie Costs Him $700,000,000 Washington.—That Uncle Sam has a sweet tooth is shown by the great increase in production 8 and consumption of candy, chewing gum and ice cream, The combined values of these prod- ucts in 1914, the year the World totaled $197,000,000. to $700,000,000 in began, rose war They 192 27. Candy leads with a value of $379,081,411, and then comes ice cream at $286,175,686 chewing gum at $47,838,000. and Whole Village Plays Chess Berlin. — Virtually every inhabi- tant of the little village of Stroe- beck, near Halberstadt in the Harz mountains, can play chess, Proficiency in chess playing ranks with reading. writing and arithmetic in the Stroe- beck village school. Every year just before the Easter vacation the school conducts a chess tournament. The winners receive chess boards donated by the village. Cutting Down the Sweet Gum LARENCE GREEN brought us the little tree from southern Illinois years ago when he was staying at our house and when we were getting the yard into some sort of shape and planting out more trees and shrubs by 100 per cent than could possibly thrive in such close quarters. He rec- ommended our planting it because he said that the foliage would be beau- tiful in the fall after the first frost But the tree was badly placed. it grows slowly, and an elm nearby soon overshadowed and dwarfed it. The sweet gum, trying to get into the sun- light, grew.crooked and lopsided. We talked for a time of moving it into a more favorable place, but since it could be done at any time it was never done, and then it was too big to move, “I believe I'll cut down the sweet gum,” I said to Nancy. “It will never amount to anything under that elm, { Plans Stage Career? | Leonard Wood, Jr., son of the late governor of the Philippine islands, is planning to star in a vaudeville skit which he wrote himself, according co a report, It is said that his show deals with the trials of two “gold diggers” in their efforts to collect some money from an elderly man, and besides it is pushing the elm all out of shape.” It was in August when I made the suggestion. “Oh, don’t cut it down now,” Nancy pleaded. She looks on "trees almost the same as if they were human be- ings. Even a box elder shedding its leaves almost before they are opened, or a poplar scattering catkins and dead branches about the yard appeals to her, “It will soon be Octcber, and you know how beautiful it is then. Beside, 1 don’t know that I ever want it cut down.” I dismissed the matter, and the tree, growing on, leaned over sidewise and tried to push itself into the light. A year or two later I brought up the sub- ject again. “I suppose it will never amount to anything there,” Nancy admitted, “put I can’t bear to see it cut down, 1 can’t bear to see any tree cut down, If you must do it, cut it when I am gone somewhere.” She doesn’t go very am with her, and when she does I never think ‘about the tree. When cut- ting it down occurs to me it is usually the wrong time; in winter the tree often unless 1 By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. never attracts any attention, and in summer it seems such a short time until its leaves will be scarlet and gold that I give 't another brief reprieve. Wilfred was cleaning up the yard in June, and trimming things that needed to be trimmed. He had the ax sharpened, the more easily to accom- plish his purposes. “I wish you'd cut down that sweet gum,” I said to him, “It is under the elm and it will never develop properly. 1 have been intending to do it for a long time.” “I'll do it next week when I come back,” he said. It was a relief to me to have it off my mind. We had been discussing the matter for ten or a dozen years, and now it seemed as if we might be get- ting somewhere, “I had a letter *from father,” Wil- fred informed me at the end of the week, “I'm sorry, but I'll not be able to do any more work, for I have to go home.” And the sweet gum is not yet cut down. I suppose I shall have to do it myself, (©, 1927, Western Newspaper Union.) PARALYSIS SPREAD ALARMS Washington.—Are we on the verge of another infantile paralysis epi- demic like that of 1916? Late sum- mer and early fall are the times when this little understood disease is most prevaient, but the number of cases re- ported to the United States public health service in the last few weeks have shown a decided gain over those reported for the same period last year, The figures for the week ending August 6 show 180 cases as opposed to only 66 for the corresponding week of 1926. Ohio reports several widely scattered cases, while Cali- fornia has 66 for one week alone. Like influenza, poliomyelitis, as in- fantile paralysis is known to medical men, is one of the unfinished prob- lems on which scientists are still hard at work. It is believed to be caused by a filterable virus, which is spread by contact with articles that have been touched by the infected person. From the way in which epidemics have spread in the past it is thought that it must be transferred either by animals or human carriers, but at this time little has been definitely estab- lished on this point. In the big epidemic in New York city that occurred eleven years ago it was clearly shown that prompt hos- pitalization of all cases that could be safely moved checked the spread of the disease more effectively than any other measure. Another outstanding point that emerged from this experi- ence was the fact that isolation of groups of children from contact with other children or adults, even when carried out in the midst of areas where the disease was prevalent, suf- ficed to protect almost absolutely from infection. Birds Select National Capital for Their Annual Convention Washington.—Thousands of feath- ery members of the Purple Martin so- ciety have flocked to Washington from nearby states for their annual con- vention, preparatory to embarking on their usual winter tour of South America. The birds have selected as their meeting place the wires atop the poles on Floral street, between Thirteenth street and Alaska avenue, where they hold early morning-and night sessions to the wonderment of residents of the ETE Three-Piece Suit Autumn Favorite J The three-piece kasha compose still holds sway as the costume preferred for the fall season. The outfit shown in the illustration is of beige kasha and satin. vicinity and motorists who stop their machines to watch them. The other morning they rested side by side on the wires for a distance of two blocks, later taking off f. spection tour and “bird's-eye” of the city. view they are going to adjourn suddenly and begin their flight southward, ae- cording to Dr, C. W. Richmond of the division of birds, Smithsonian institu- tion, Doctor Richmond points out that the martins seem to have selected the national capital as an annual meeting place in the late summer. In previous years they have held their sessions at different points around town, one year selecting the elm trees near the Pan- American building, another year us- ing the trees near the botanic garden and still another year meeting on Rhode Island avenue in the northeast section. “After assembling from nearby In the evening they re- | _... : : i . | Winkle, and its owner says it appears turn again and one of these mornings | | owned by Walter F. iter, N.Y. an in- | places and from Virginia, Maryland, | Pennsylvania and other sections near | Washington, they usually hang around | for a few days before suddenly taking off in one group for the South,” Doc- | | phrase now refers to the supposed re- tor Richmond stated. “They will take up winter quarters probably in South America. Sometimes they number [ from 10,000 to 20,000 birds, according | to various estimates.” While the exact date of departure of the visitors on Floral street can only be guessed, it appeared certain that leaders of the flock will see that the migraticn begins before the hunt- ing season opens. DIPPING INTO SCIENCE HHH Millions of Planets Stars of the Milky Way, which forms a great circle all of which we cannot see, are numbered by millions and every one is a sun like ours—some larger, some smaller. It is entirely possible that these suns have world's I circling about them as we do about our sun. If so, there are hundreds of millions of planets. : (©n19 DHE HEHHHH EHHE 27, Western Newspaper Union,) TELEVISION NOT YET PERFECTED New York.—Forty thousand electric impulses a second, riding wireless waves which travel 186,000 miles a second—that is radio television today, and still it is not fast enough to be practical. Now that the transatlantic beam radio transmission and television have been accomplished, laymen may regard it as a short step to the time when and speeches from a Geneva peace conference can be car- ried into their homes. scenes But the scientists and engineers who are intrusted with the task of bringing about something of that sort are doubtful. They point out a multi- tude of obstacles, and say that gen- eral use of television, especially for big scenes, may never be practical. [ Fire Bug Beginning to Lose Hope THIS BUILDING ry 17, BE FIREPROOF 1Y5te> \. Beam transmission for messages and photographs is not only practical; it is in actual use for messages from London to Cape Town, Canada and Australia. This autumn the Radio corporation will put a beam line into operation between London and New York, in addition to its “undirected” broadcasting lines. But the beam, which takes only about one-fourth as much power as generally radiated broadcasting, is not the slim pencil of energy visualized by amateur prophets. It is rather a cone, which spreads so much in trav- eling 3,000 miles the Atlantic that nobody really knows how broad it is at the base. The Radio corporation has ma- chines which can send and receive 250 words per minute, about eight times as many as the human operators can send and receive, over ether waves that travel with the speed of light. This speed of transmission gives se- crecy to messages. But television requires a speed that makes 230 words a minute seem noth- ing at all. Using a transmitter that would fill a fair sized room—and size of equipment is one of the minor ob- stacles to commercial television at present—the best available apparatus of the Bell Telephone laboratories manages to transmit over wires or ether waves a picture about three inches square. Engineers consider this far too small a space to portray a king's coronation or a football game. across consists of darkness, but see The three-inch picture 2,500 dots of light and flashed on the screen separately, so fast that the eye seems to them all at once. To get motion into the picture, at least sixteen slightly different scenes must be flashed on the screen each second, each repro- duced from the soumce by a separate electrical impulse. The have been enlarged to a maximum that gives a blurred picture two feet square, but the picture clarity with each amplification. To transmit these “dot” dots loses impulses, Holds Somnolent Record The record for continuous sleep is believed to be held by a land snail Webb of Roches- little mollusk, says has remained dor- mant for with the exception of one summer when Mr, Webb gave it the right conditions for becoming active, This interlude occurred 20 years g0 that the snail has now equaled the fabled record of Rip Van This Science Service, 20 years, ago, to be able to continue an indefinite period. dormancy for Turned Rain Into Ink It rained ink in parts of Jefferson and Hardin counties, Texas. Open wells and cisterns were ruined and puddles of the inky fluid stood in the fields over a wide area. A 325,000,- gallon underground oil tank in the Sour Lake field was ignited by light- ning. Particles of smoke and soot were carried into the clouds and blackened the downpour of rain as far as 20 miles east of the blaze.— Indianapolis News. The White Man’s Burden That is the title of a famous poem written by Rudyard Kipling and first published in 1899. Each stanza of the poem begins with the line: “Take up the white man’s burden.” The sponsiblity of the white race for the moral and physical welfare of, all the dark races of the world.—Pathfinder Magazine. Great Expectations Lady of the House—As cook I shall expect you to rise at five o'clock, and I will allow you one evening off every week. Applicant—You long, have you, ain't been married dear ?—Philadelphia | Inquirer, ma- | | fools energy for synchronization of chines and for a conversation, re- | quires facilities that would carry four to six telephone conversations. Enlargements would be possible by di- | viding a scene, for instance, into quarter sections, transmitting each section as a separate picture and then recombining them as a single view. But this would require four transmit- ters, with transmission facilities for sixteen to twenty telephone conversa- tions, or, if sent by air, it would oc- cupy the ether wave bands of six- teen radio ‘stations, and it would transmit scenes one way only. —— [ Coach for Wisconsin 4 Photograph shows Leonard Blaine Allison, director of athletics at the | University of South Dakota, who re signed to be baseball coach Wisconsin, at the University of ESKIMO, You PICKED OUT YES, SIR, MAMMA ! THATS JUST WHY, ‘Cuz IY SO HOT =| COULDNT 7 STAND THE HEAT, SO [7 | PUT ON MY WINTER ’ AND WHEN |GET 'Em OFF, TH' REST O' TH' PAY et | I'LL FEEL COOL assistant line coach and | The Diplomat Harold—Hurrah! I put it over. I got your dad's consent! Dolores—How did you do it? Harold—I called him on the phone and asked. He said: “I don’t know who you are—but it's 0. K.” The Real Trouble Hub—I wish, my love, you wouldn't finish my sentences for me. Wife—You talk so slow, dear. 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