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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1937. PLATTSMOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOURNAL PAGE FIVE U. S. Research Urged to Cure Maritime Ills Glories of the Clipper Era Can Be Recaptured, Says Chemist Small Sum Needed. WILMINGTON, Del. (UP) Devel opment of new materials for use In ship construction-will make today's modern liners appear hopelessly anti quated in a few years, according to Dr. Ernest B. Benger, research chem ist. "It is inevitable that the revolution underway in land transportation, pre ciptated by superior structural metals and power units, will not stop where land meets water," he said. "The elements of change that in troduced the faster, lighter, rustless, Ftreamlined train,- that are relegat ing the so-called standard freight csr to scrap, that changed the automo bile from a rich man's equipage to the average man's necessity, and to day are causing aviation engineers to think in terms of continents and oceans and 100-ton loads these ele ments of change are also going to give us ships faster, lighter, stronger, safer and infinitely more economical in operation." Small Sum Needed. Dr. Benger said that if 3 per cent of the gross revenues of the United States merchant marine from foreign trad BLACKSMITH, 83, THINKS OF MARRIAGE EVENTUALLY KINGSTON, Out. (UP) James Slack, 83, believed to be the oldest blacksmith in Canada, is thinking of getting married and settling down in about four years. Slack has been working as a black smith for 71 years at Merivale, near Ottawa. He came here as a delegate to the Master Horseshoers and Car riage Workers' association. He told the association that the reason he kept on working was .be cause he "would rather wear out than rust out." "But," he redded. "I give myself four more years, and then I think I v. ill marry and settle down." Laughing Around the World With irvin s. COBB A Warning Word to a Friend By IRVIN S. COBB A FRIEND of mine out in Cleveland, has relayed this one to me: According to him, two Irishmen, newly landed, got jobs as laborers, in a small machine shop on the second story of a loft-bu:lding so-ca'.led, on the lower West Side of New York. Under the fire regulations smok- Lilacs are Hardest Grown on Own Roots MlKD THE Among the Most Satisfactory of Shrubs, They Are Long Lived in Most Any Soil. Lilacs are best propagated on their own roots. Unfortunately, lilacs do not root readily from cuttings and the general method is to graft. Privet understock has been common lyused, and still is, for that matter, but when this is done, the lilac usual- ly contracts a serious disease called I "graft blight." When this occurs the stimated at $200,000,000 byipiaut may die suddenly, or a branch ing by the operatives was not permitted while they were on duty. During their first morning' in their new place one of the green hands, whose name was Donlan, craved a few comforting whiffs from his pipe. He voiced his desire and a friendly fellow employee confided to him that in such cases it was customary to ask leave of the foreman to go to the washroom and there to steal a clandestine smoke. , , Thus advised, Donlan approached his boss and inquired the where abouts of the washroom. "Go down the hall," said the foreman, "and take the first turn to the right and the second door you come to after that is the door to the lavatory." Donlan undertook to follow instructions but he made a mistake. In the darkness he took a turn to the left instead of the right hand and opening the second door stepped into the elevator shaft and struck with a bump on the ground floor below. Presently he came back upstairs. He was sweeping up 'rubbish when O'Day, hi buddy, asked him where the washroom was. O'Day also felt the need of the solace of tobacco. Donlan gave him the direction as he remembered it and as O'Day turned to go he called out to him: "But say, Larry, look out for the top step it's a son-of-a-ffun!" (American News Feature. Inc.) a time, gradually. There is no General Boom Results from Fair in Paris remedy for this disease; when it ap pears the plant may as well be de stroyed immediately. One disadvantage in grafting one lilac variety on the roots of another lilac is that the method results in suckers and it is impossible to tell whether the" come from the root or from the desired variety. Conse quently, the practice of grafting on privet is still resorted to. This can I its grounds that makes it a paying Foreigners Get Rail Cards Food Consumption Up. PARIS (UP) Iit's not so much what a big exposition takes in on be done very low. The plant i3 placed proposition. The real profit comes in the Maritime Commission were ; at spent for research by chemical indus try, a battery of laboratories could be established for research on a scale now unknown in shipping. "Intelligently applied research, on a scale justified by the size and im portance of our foreign shipping in dustry," would provide the cure for the ills of our merchant marine, the research chemist said. May Recapture Supremacy Dr. Benger recalled that for more than a generation before the Civil war, the American clipper ship was supreme on the world's trade routes, with 90 percent of America's o"ean commerce carried in American ves sels. He pictured a possible return to that supremacy with the aid of sci ence. "Among the more than 10,000 new metal alloys, the new plating pro cesses of the electro-chemist, and the (severe winters they suffer little if any j mere visitors reach France by rail host of other materials of chemical injury. They thrive in almost any 'than by sea, it must have been origin now available, plus the newest good soil. Contrary to popular belief, ' plenty, for steamship figures are developments in power units surely they do not need lime except in rare ; available to show the tremendous receipts by 32 per cent. Mediter ranean lines took in CG per cent more than the previous year. An idea of the number of cars that entered Paris for the exposition comes from the figures of the control sta tions at the entrance to Paris, which measure the amount of gasoline in Travel Figures Skyrocket: TOO.OOOj he tanks of entering cars for muni rather deen in the soil so that even- the stimulus to traae in general tually the top part will "throw" sufi- caused by the influx of visitors, as cient roots to be practically on its ! Paris figures this year amply prove, "own roots." This is the type to buy. j Dy the end of September, 700,000 Several nurserymen grow plants long ; foreigners had acquired the cut-rate enough iu their nurseries to insure i railroad cards for travel in France that this rooting will take place. issued in connection with the Paris Lilacs are among our hardiest j Exposition. How big a jump this ornamental shrubs when grown on1 caused in French railway receipts cipal tax purposes. For August alone they registered 63.000,000 liters more of gasoline than for the same month in 193 C although few cars enter the citv with more than a fewjliams said Mental Cases Seen Reduced by Kind Acts Golden Rule Will Lighten World's Burden, Says Doctor, Consid ered an Authority. CLEVELAND (UP) Dr. Guy H. Williams, superintendent of the Cleveland State Hospital for the In sane, believes the application of the Golden Rule would lighten the world's burden of mental diseases. "If people gave some consider ation to the poorly-adjusted persons outside institutions such as this," he said, "the burden of insanity would be nothing like it is today." "I am not sure that you would not find more unhappiness among any 3.000 people taken at random outside than you would here," he added. Hospital Serves 3,000 Dr. Williams has 3.000 patients un der his care. He has made import ant studies of insanity and is con sidered an authority on mental cases. Schizophrenics split personalities are in the majority at the hospital. Schlizophrenia is caused generally by the inability of the sufferer to surmount some mental obstacle. Defeated, the victim closes the door to contacts with the world, shuts himself away from every-day life, and his mind deteriorates. When admitted to the hospital, the patient receives a thorough physical examination, and everything possible is done to correct physical defects. Treatment is designed to help the 4 individual to help himself. "Our main objective in treating these patients is to assist them in readjusting themselves through oc cupation and recreation," Dr. Wil- liters in their tanks. Food Consumption Cited Consumption figures also show what extra business visitors bring a city. In July and August usually the dead months of the year, when Paris is deserted by all who can get away the capital ate 3,170.000 pounds more of meat than in the same months 'of 1936. To cook the meat and other foods, to heat water in hotels, to keep its wheels run- stimulus the exposition was to them. Baltic Lines Gain Most Steamship travel was up from 11 their own roots. Even in the most ! has not been computed yet, but since ; ning paris used 4.440.000 pounds more cf coal than the year before. Theaters (not including cinemas) took in $160,000 more from the open ing of the exposition to the end of September than in the same period of the preceding year. The Louvre had 759,000 visitors in July, August and September, against 242,000 for the same period in 1936. Up the Arc de Triomphe went 3 69,000 more tourists than the previous year, while the Chateau of Versailles, visited in IS 36 by 350,530. registered 1.744, 000 in the summer months of this year. in this vast field of new things, as cases where the soil is verv acid. Care yet largely unexplored, can be found j should be taken to control the borer the stuff out of which commercial as much as possible. supremacy at sea may be refashion-j Some gardeners apply a mulch of j per cent to 22i per cent m corn ed," he said. I well rotted manure every fall. If parison with 1936 on different French plants get too tall or too old to bloom ! rines. The Baltic lines were the ones Special low prices on Customers') properly, the older w ood is pruned , that showed the 227 per cent increase. Check Endorsing Rubber Stamps 3! out and the younger growth forced 'The French Line showed a 30. 6S per lines, 45c; 4 lines. 55c; 5 lines, 65c. from the base. For all kinds of Rubber Stamps on short notice call at Journal office. ! Phone news items to mo. 0. cent increase on its North Atlantic service, and the line to the West j Indies and South America increased Oil Company Employes Review Four Years' Self Help Under Credit Plan Wage - Earning Sponsors of Oklahoma's First Credit Union Finance Cars, Homes, Farms and Even Babies PONCA CITY. Okla.: Some 1700 citizens of this community in the employ of the Continental Oil Com pany are now commemorating the fourth anniversary of a cooperative enterprise that has given them the financial power to build homes, buy cars and furniture, take up side-line farming and even to raise families which otherwise would be a severe strain on the pocketbook. The enterprise is officially known as a Credit Union but was better described today by Joe C. Creager, its treasurer, as a wage pool that supports reliable members who need cash or credit but have no collateral except their jobs. The Credit Union operates on the principle that borrowing is a na tional habit, a convenience and often a dire necessity which should be made as available to the man of small means as.it is to the well-to-do. Borrowing, explains Treasurer Creager. is Just another name for credit or installment buying and is the life-blood of American business. With most banks lacking the-facilities to handle small loans and with the ever-present loan shark ready to pounce on a hard-pressed work man, the employee's Credit Union offers the only relief to the wage earner who has unexpected sick ness, an addition to his family or is threatened with the loss of his home or. his. car. Creager today pointed to the rec ord of . more than half a million dollars loaned by the Conoco Credit Union during the last four years and cited the example of a girl who was over her head in debt, due to the prolonged illness of her mother. '"The Credit Union," he said, "looked into her troubles in a sympathetic manner, not with a view cf finding rut hoi- much rroflt tbey cnld make on a loan but with the object of rut ting her on her feet. S5he owed the grocer, the butcher, the landlord 4 V-- , - -i v ' ' - Treasurer Joe Creager, agreeing that this refinery worker can afford a new car, obligingly extends a loan. and every doctori and 'hospital in the. Yicinity.t "We moved" the mother to an other member ' of the family who could better afford to support her. We moved the- girl from the house to a small apartment. We reached an agreement with all her creditors. Then we put the girl on a budget. Believe it or not, within 18 months she was out of debt and had saved more than $200; this on a stenogra pher's pay." Between recitals of other nearly impossible achievements of the Credit Union, Treasurer Creager ex plained that assistance is not .con fined to members who are in trouble. "We have made loans," he said, "for wedding expenses, for the buying Df Christmas presents, for back alimony payments and almost any thing else you can think of. With the shorter hours - and increased leisure, a lot of men are going in for farming and making a success of it. The Credit Union not only finances them but gives much-needed advice on the size and type of farm that is within their means." Except for the requirement that all member muet be employees. Mr. Creager says he la the only link .between the Credit Union and the company. The company furnishes his salary and office space and seems to consider it a good invest ment in view of the improvement produced in the workers morale. The Conoco unit came into be ing a few days after enabling laws were passed by the Oklahoma State Legislature in 1933. and was the first in this area. Employees elect a board of directors who in turn elect, a credit committee, a super visory committee, a president, treasurer and other officers. Start ing with 108 members and deposits of $381.64, this Credit Union now has more than 1700-oaembers and close to $150,000 to draw upon. Funds consist of voluntary savings and profit earned on loans or through investments is paid as interest to depositors. The essence of the success of. the Conoco Credit Union, according to" Treasurer Creager, is the sympa thetic and close contact of the fel low members and their elected offi cers and committees. "Then, too," he says, "the money works for those it belongs to and puts su port behind the consumption cf goods instead of production. It's done a lot of good.! We will appreciate phone calls of news Items from our readers. Bulbs for Indoor Window Box : O.' VIs v A Window Box of Colorful Flowers Is a Cheerful Sight in Winter. Window box gardeners may plant in the fall for indoor bloom through out the winter. The chances for success indoors are equal, if not greater, than outdoors, and plant materials are almost as numerous; more important, there are no storms and draughts to combat. The best planting materials are the forcing bulbs. They are easiest to grow and produce the most brilliant display. A few plants may be transplanted from the garden, and some foliage plants added, but the lovely and cheerful colors come from the bulbs. The gorgeous amaryllis with vel vety trumpets and gay colors needs only a sunny window for healthy growth. The lily-of-the-valley, if started from pips, is easiest, and lovely indeed. Hyacinths are ideal pot plants. The early tulips may be forced into bloom if started in time and given care; and that whole tribe of early garden subjects called the minor bulbs can be grown indoors. Most popular is the grape hyacinth, or Muscari, of deep blue coloring. The squills or scU las, and also the crocuses can be potted for winter color. The narcissus, especially ' the trumpet type, is another excellent bulb for indoor growth. .Science 'Battles. Infantile Paralysist .1 .1 B.ll Mill I II 1 II II II I "mi ii ' ' J " " ."! W "9 r; O W it4-''- (I F .-vL. "-' L -i - .., i hi I antiT i " -tii in ii ir" - i . i ai - NEW YORK, N. Y. As hu manitarians of two continents cheer one of the most dramatic fights medical science ever has .waged to preserve a life the case of Frederick B. Snite, Jr., in fantile paralysis victim who faces seven years in an iron lung hope that the long battle for con trol of the disease may be nearing success is expressed by those en gaged i research. Aided by funds from the Presi dent's Birthday Ball Commission for Infantile Paralysis Research, Dr.. Sidney David Kramer, of the Long Island College of Medicine, reports hopeful tests for preven tion of the disease with nose sprays .conducted on monkeys. Members of the commission are Colonel Henry L. Doherty, chair man; Jeremiah Milbank, vice chairman; Paul de Kruif, secre tary; Edward S. Harkness, treas urer, Mrs. Nicholas Brady, John S. Burke, Edsel B. Ford, Lessing Rosenwald and Felix M. War burg. During the past four years the National Birthday Ball for the President has raised more than S4,000,000 for the fight against in-: fantile paralysis. Colonel Doher ty has been national chairman of the movement since its inception. Photo shows Frederick B. Snite, Jr., infantile paralysis iron lung dweller. Inset Colonel Henry L. Doherty. FIVE STATES GO TO POLLS NOV. 2 40 Per Cent Are Released "In ordinary times, we were able; to release 40 to 50 per cent of all admitted, as recovered or much im proved. If working conditions were as gocd outside as they were a few years ago, we could send that many back. "Many would make excellent work men and get along very well." Dr. Williams praised the work of the Cleveland Child Guidance Clinic, which makes a special effort to detect potential schizophrenics in young children and help them correct mal adjustments. Paresis, said to be the second most frequent form of insanity, yields more easily to therapy, Dr. Williams has found. Many persons have been cured by infection with malaria. Paresis is the breakdown of brain tissue usually caused by syphilis. It is gen erally fatal, if not treated early. Strikes During Middle Age Dr. Williams pointed out that paresis ends the lives of men and women when they should be most pro ductive between the ages of 25 and 60. Prevention of syphilis is the best weapon against this type of mental disease, he said. Melancholia associated with har dening of the arteries and rundown physical condition afflicts persons of middle age. First measures in treatment are to build up the bodily health of the victims. Manic-depressive insanity a dis ease that causes alternate states of exaltation and extreme depression to grip the victim is comparatively easy to treat. Recovery is said to be the rule. UNITED ACTION BY HAY FEVER VICTIMS URGED CHICAGO (UP) Citizens of only five states will go to the polls to vote on Nov. 2 in an off-year for elec tions. These states include New Jer sey, New York, Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania, all of which will have statewide elections. Virginia and New Jersey will elect governors. New York and Kentucky, along with Virginia and New Jersey, will elect some of their legislators, too. This election survey was made by the council of state governments. Voters in Pennsylvania will cast ballots on five constitutional amend ments. Two successive legislatures have approved these amendments. The proposals are: (1) for re moval of the "timelock" prohibiting submission of proposed constitution al amendments to the electorate more often than once in five years; (2) to authorize the legislature to write a graduated income tax law, and a homestead exemption law; (3) for permission to put the city and coun ty governments of Philadelphia un der a single administration; (4) for a $42,000,000 bond issue for state institutions; (5) for an amendment to remove doubt of the legality of mothers' assistance and old-age pen sion appropriations. In New York, voters will select ICS delegates to a constitutional conven tion which is scheduled for April, 1938. This will be the first conven tion of its kind in 22 years arranged to draw up a new constitution for the state. Four of the larger cities will have mayoral elections this year. They arc Pittsburgh, Detroit, New York City and Cleveland. These "off-year" elections find fewer persons voting than in the presidential election years. A survey of 39 cities which held municipal elections on the same day as the presi dential election laBt year showed 7 8 per cent o: the registered voters cast ing their ballots in presidential elec tions, as against 07 per cent in "ofl vear" elections. ROBIN AND CAT ARE PALS STONINGTON, Conn. (UP) A robin and the house cat eating out of the same dish is the unusual sight that is usual at the home of Mrs. Mary Gibbons. Her daughter. Petty, rescued the robin alter it had fallen from a nest. It be::; me tame. FALL CHECK UP Be sure your heating plant is in good repair before winter comes. Winter fires are very dangerous. insure for Safety It is also wise to check np on your insurance and be sure you have ample coverage in good, dependable companies. WE WOULD BE GLAD TO Consult with Ycu Call or See INSURANCE- -G PLATTSMOUTH DETROIT (UP) One big union j one big sneeze and one tremendous victory over the incorrigible ragweed j will result, Mrs. Florence Reed, I champion for solidarity in the ranks' cf the hay-fever sufferers, believes.! Lately returned from a flying trip j to Cheboygan, Mich., where another branch oi the statewide Kay Fever club came into line, Mrs. Reed re ported that the membership in Mich igan had reached a total of about j 500. j Mrs. Reed has a more practical and long range plan for the situation j than just uttering a mutually sym-j pathetic "Gesundheit" at each mem-1 ber's weeping ejaculation. j She wants action; action in the state legislature, and it i3 her belief j that if enough sufferers band togeth-; er for a lobbying attack at the cap-! itcl. laws can be passed which will : place ragweed beyond the pale in j the vegetable kingdom. "It was in 1929 that I first thought! of the idea," she recalled. "People J who went to the Soo for relief fromj hay fever just sat around looking1 lonesome. I decided to organize a club, and the idea took on." Mrs. Reed hopes to organize a De troit group some time near Thanks giving, which should just about double the Hay membership. Fever club's state A II EI7 METHOD S fr" ! 'XP'No Napkins ljfL or Belts j V-" I n v i s i b I c i . Jtl ERE is sanitary protec tion that does away wilh napkins and belts . . . that is completely in visible, and so comfortable that there is no consciousness of wear ing sanitary protection at all. B-ettes are approved by physicians . . . acclaimed by women every-, where as the most comfortable,' most convenient method ever jle- Boxes of 12 . . . 39 Handbag Packets of 3 . . 120 Manufactured by B-ettes Co., Inc., DuBois, Ia. Knorr's 5c to $1 Store -Ladies Toggery Napkins . belts n vi 5 i b I c o ic most com fortable method ever devised C i