PAPER FICE ND SCRIBE JIMMY {EN HE T THE APER VEEK AEE AC — we The Bulletin, Mount Joy, Lancaster County, Pa., Thursday Morning, October 16, 1941 Whalers fade Great U. S. Force Century Ago Included Some 809 Vessels. + WASHINGTON. — America’s last To Lone Fleet | | | | | | whaling concern, the remnant of a; whaling force that included about 800 ships a century ago, soon wiil be pursuing Moby Dick off ‘northern : California. The San Francisco Sea Wood Prod- | . ucts company recently received a .».of calves license from Secretary of Interior | Ickes to operate a shore station at and is its next Humboldt bay, California, making preparations for trip. The company is the last whaling | company in the United States, al- | though there is another one in Brit- | +'ish Columbia. Accord received here, the Canadians also plan to go to sea this year. Season Now Open. The whaling season on the West; coast begins about this time of the year and lasts until well into the fail. Last year American whalers caught 29 whales, including six fin- backs, 19 humpbacks and four sperm whales. A 70-foot finback was the largest caught during the season, most of the others measuring be- tween 50 and 60 feet in length. One hundred years. ago the United States boasted the largest whaling fleet in the world. Between 600 and 800 ships flew the Stars and Stripes. Modern whaling ships differ as much from those that sailed the seas £100’ years ago as the stratoliner dif- (fers from the Wright brothers’ first “airplane. ~~ No longer do whalers have to low- +, er their whaleboats when the man in the crow’ nest cries, “Thar’ she « blows!” Nowadays,. the whaling ship, : | ing to reports | equipped with special engines that! Swill not emit strong sound waves ‘through the water and disturb the whale, 2 discharges a harpoon from a har- slips up to the mammal and | ~poon-gun mounted in the bow. x When the weapon strikes the it is discharged by a shot of «powder and four prongs open within =the whale. -Modern whalers usually operate a radius of approximately 150 “miles from their land station. by Used in Soap. i Whale fat. is processed into oil, ““fwhich in America is used primarily It aso | in perfumes, as a base for face creams and fly sprays, as a in the manufacture of soaps. lubricant for machinery, and in leather tanning. In Germany, where all possible ersatz foods are used, “whale soil is used as a shortening, replacing lard. In the United States, whale meat js used for cat and dog foods, but in Japan, the interior department said, it is used for human consump- “ion. The catch last year was es- at Sr most of which the Antarctic by | en {rom Norwegian and Japanese were tak English, whalers. In 1935 an ment, signed by who agreed on w measur went into effect. an d females ns by calves was prohibited. international Census Report Shows U. S. Accident Rate Is Lower WASHINGTON.—The census bu- reau has come out with the cheeri news that the United States is pretty safe place to live, and getting safer. The 92,623 1839, it said, of 1.3 per c¢ death rate from a idental deaths rep nted a deci nt from 1935. And the accidents was only 70.9 for each 100,000 of population, the third lewest on record. Both 1921 and 1922 had better records. ace From its data the bureau figured ! ance | that you have only about one chix in a million of dying from a poicon- ous snake's bite, a fale 102° persons in 193 And your chance of being killed hy lightning is only one in 238.000. Lighining took 590 lives in 1939. As many people no doubt suspect- ed, highway mishaps were the prin- cipal ‘cause of accidental deaths in 1939. There were 30,468 fatalities in automobile accidents. Falls; the second chief cause, killed 22,878 Other causes and the number of deaths were drowning, 5,450; rail- way (other than crossing mishaps), 3,394; firearms, 2,582; burns, 1,794; agricultural accidents, 1,604; mines and quarries, 1,540; suffocation, 1,226; sunstroke, 527; motorcycles, 439; airplanes, 396; lightning, 390; streetcars, 356; attacks by animals, 279: excessive cold, 190. hode Island was the safest state in the Union, with an accident death rate of 51.3 for each 100,000 popula- tion, while Nevada had the highest rate, 203.1. Recruit Misses Adicus And Turns in Fire Alarm BRIDGETON, N. J.—A 23-year- old army volunteer was unhappy about the empty train platform and lack of farewells at the depot as he left for his induction station, so he turned in an alarm at a near-by fire box. Sirens, bells, scores of townsfolk and firemen complete with hook and ladder -and chemical truck greeted him as he waved good-by from the departing train. “# Patidhize ‘Bulletin Advertisers. | | | | | | in! | i | | | | | | that befell | | 3 | Bamboo 150 Feet High | In Jungles of Burmese | Another odd kind of Burmese] boat is fitted with long-handled| oars, The oars are so long that they | | cross each other in the boat. The| man who is rowing hclds the right-| side ‘oar in his left hand, and the! left-side oar in his right hand. i Among the rivers of Burma is the Irrawaddi. It runs for 1,300 miles, | from the mountains in the northern part of the country down to the Bay | of Bengal. One of the cities on its] banks is Mandalay, which was! made famous through a poem writ-| ten by Kipling. Burma is a big country, with] about a quarter of a million square | miles. The population is close to 16,000,000. A great deal of the country is covered with forests and jungles. In the jungles there are dense bamboo thickets. The bamboo stalks grow so closely together, in! some parts, that a person could not push his way through them. The] Wabo bamboo in Burma has stalks as much as 10 inches thick, and they reach a height as great as 150 feet. That is rather tall for a plant, which is classed as a grass! Among: the wild animals are tigers, bears, leopards, apes and monkeys. The rhino and the ele- phant also roam the land. Rangoon, the capital of Burma, contains more than 400,000 people. It has a fine water supply system,’ and many modern built homes. Blood Given ‘Sun Bath’ To Combat Infecticns A new method of treating blood poisoning and other serious .infec- tions, including childbed fever, was announced by Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia, at the annual meet- ing of the American Medical asso- ciation. The method consists, essentially, of “sun-bathing”’ the patient's blood. The sun-bathing is done not by the sun's ultra-violet rays themselves, but by artificially produced ultra- violet rays. A measured amount of blood, the amount depending on the patient’s weight and condition, is taken from his veins, and after ul- tra-violet irradiations of from 9 to 14 seconds, is put back into his veins. The irradiation is done as the blood is put back. This method of treat- ing infection has been attempted be- fore, but did not succeed until de- velopment of a special chamber in which a system of baffles keeps the blood turbulent while the ultra-vio- let rays are hiiting it. Credit for! development of this device, Doctor Miley said, belongs to E. K. Knott, electrophysicist of Seattle. Out of 27 patients with severe in- fections, 22 recovered. Doctor Mi- ley has had the treatment himself and reported that neither in his case nor in that of any others were there any bad effects on the blood or on kidney function. Eating for vegetables was Sylvester Scientific advocate of whole-meal Gr aham bread. In Manhattan a Graham bosardingh e was founded, and 1S tellectuais eagerly took up vegetable dicts along with bloomers and female suffrage. (At this time some zealots founded a “Society for the Suppression of Eat- middle-cla ing.”’) Next great food crusader was Wilbur Olin Atwater, who in the] 1870s, following European methods, ficured out the number of calories different occupational groups should consume. No vitamin faddist, At- water urged U. S. workmen to fill their calory quotas with greater “epnergy-yielders'’—meat, potatoes, and bread-—instead of watery stuff low in calories. In the early 1900s, Henry Clapp Sherman, now a professor at Colum- bia, discovered the value of min- erals—iron, calcium, phosphorus. | Then came the researches on vita- mins, beginning with the discovery of a *‘vitamine” (B) by a Pole, Casimir Funk, in 1911, ight en Pole Vaulting | Jumping over a light beam is a new sport made possible by the use of the electric eye in connection with the pele vault. It was tried recently for the first time at the! Schenectady Patrolmen’s associa- tion interscholastic track meet. In-| stead of the usual pole across the uprights, four parallel beams of light shine from one standard and impinge on a series of four photo- electric cells in the other standard. If a jumper fails to ‘clear any one of the beams any of four red but- tons indicates the fact, A narrow ribbon of paper stretched parallel to and at the height of the lowest beam serves as a target for the jumper. Spinach Spurned The child whose deep-seated sus- picion of spinach made him refuse broccoli had the right of it. So said Chemist Roger William Truesdail of Los Angeles to the mothers and fathers of Redlands, Calif.,, last week. “After all,” said he, ‘‘young- sters have been exactly right in their tearful resistance to the sup- posed builder of sturdy bodies. The | calcium properties’ of spinach are not available to the human system. Only 20 per cent of its iron is avail- able. But this is not the worst of it. The oxalate radical in spinach precipates the calcium from other foods and carries it away.” Subscribe for the Bulletin, | Eut he knows, as do all native Hali- | takes a war to push his city into | convoy. | miles an hour | power Sabre engine. War Once More Booms Halifax! Busiest Port in the World | Has Thrived on Ships For 120 Years. HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.—This is the city that wars built. For 180 years this Anglo-Saxon citadel of the North American con- tinent has thrived—and suffered— in wartime; struggled for economic security in peace. Today the story is the. same. The boom is on again. Halifax may not be the biggest port in the world but tcday it probably is the busiest. It moves the most ships, a large percentage of them in convoy for Britain. “It's a pity we must always thrive on war,” says Port Manager Ralph Hendry. He wishes there were no such tragic design for prosperity here. faxers, that you can’t beat fate and geography. Nova Scotia sits out on the eastern fringe of the continent, some 2,700 miles from Liverpool. So Halifax once more becomes the Gibraltar of the Western world, the ! great crossroads of empire, where a Hindu turban is almost as. common as a New Zealander’s overseas cap. + Evidence of the crossroads nature of Halifax is on every side. Port Is Ice Free. Ask a native Halifaxer - why it prosperity and he'll answer you short and easy. Geography. Halifax has.one of the finest natural harbors in the world. Farther inland, connected with the outer’ harbor by a deep narrows, lies a huge anchorage basin, where scores of ships may lie awaiting The port is ice" free all winter. Geography also made Nova Sco- tia, and mecre particularly Halifax harbor, a British perch to flank the French in North America in the Eighteenth century. Parliament subsidized a colony in 1749 and sent it to the Harbor of Chebucto in Aca- dia. That colony became Halifax. There followed the French and In- dian wars, when British navy pay- masters brought prosperity to Hali- fax. Then the American Revolu- tion. Halifax remained loyal to the end, supplying blockading fleets and privateers for the British. During the Napoleonic wars the royal navy kept big fleets in the har- bor. Wolfe planned the capture of Quebec here. And it was here dur- ing the War of 1812 that the world’s first modern convoys were made up and escorted through the American blockade by British men o’. war. Prospered in 1914, The story was the same in the Crimean and Boer wars. The big- gest prosperity came in 1914. It was the same business of supplying rendezvous for convoys, a North At- lantic base for the British fleet, and later for the Americans. Supplies for great waves of France-bound soldiers were furnished here, too. Halifax was in the money agzain, Through it all, Halifaxers have not rested content to reap the profit ' By of war. They've also taken the risks. You can name hardly a battle fought by British forces any- where in the world without running into a Halifax hero. And it was at Halifax that a mu- nitions ship explosion in the World war killed 2,000 and left homeless. ‘Greatest’ Fighling Plane Is Announced by Britain LONDON.—Britain’s new airplane, the was scribed as ‘‘the strument ever put into the air.” Performance figures of the Ty- phoon were disclosed as it was re- de- vealed that the successor to the Spit- | § fire and Hurricane: fighters was in| mass production. The plane is a single scater with mixed machine gun and air caanon armament. It flies more than 400 with a 2,400 horse- Its ceiling is said to be higher than anything the German air force has put into action. ‘Ugly Duckling’ Ships To Float Ahead of Time WASHINGTON.—Its vast emer- gency ship construction program is “well ahead of schedule,” the Mari- time commission reported and ships will go down the ways in November, a full month ahead of contract dates. The emergency program, distinct from the commission's long-range construction program, cufs for 412 vessels, most of them to be built in newly established yards, but in- formed scurces predicted the pro- | gram might be increased fo provide additional tonnage for this couniry and Great Britain. Two Wooden Legs Used For Summer and Winter CORNISH FLAT, N. H.~Harry E. Chircpody Was Painful Early History Operation In the early Nineteenth century. itinerant U. S. barbers traveled from town to town, carrying bags of dirty knives, and even old steels fronr corsets, for paring customers’ corns. They usually charged 25 cents an operation, raised howls of | One day, ! pain from their victims. while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Keni. son met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade. Nehemiah Kenison knew business when he saw it. amined the acid, went to Boston, where he set up an office opposite Old South Church. Nehemiah gener- ously taught his {rick to his and half a dozen relatives, who taught others. So began the science of chiropody in the U. S. Today, although a few dists practice in barbershops, chi- ropody is a highly respectable hand- maiden of medicine, requiring two years of college {raining, three or four years in one of six approved schools. Chiropodists like to be known as podiatrists. because, their horror, they are often confused with chiropractors. Subscribe for the Bulletin, 10,000 | 8 fighter | § sceatect fighting in- Butnam, jack-of-all-frades, has two homemade wooden legs—one to wear ! 8 in summer and one for the winter | § eason. “i Buinam fashioned the seasonal | legs from a butternut tree. Right | now, he's wearing the summer leg But the other leg, sheep-lined and , equipped with creepers for walking on ice, winter. 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