NEW SYSTEM
FOR ZEPPELINS
Washington — (UP) — Further
developments in the difficult art of
handling the huge and cumber
some iighter-than-air craft of the
Los Angeles or Graf Zeppelin type,
are now being perfected, according
to reports made public by the navy
department.
Latest mechanical invention to
reach a practicable stage is a mo
bile mooring mast, running on
tracks, and cutting down the num
ber of the ground crew needed from
200 to 60.
Last year the navy put into use a
stub mast, hauled by a tractor,
which was successfully used in
handling both the Los Angeles and
the Graf Zeppelin. This latest in
vention operates on much the same
principles, but substitutes a mast
running on railroad tracks.
Parallel tests arc now being
made to determine whether the old
“crawler" mast, or the newer ‘‘rail
mast," is the most practical. Navy
officers hope to reach a decision on
standard equipment before long.
Both types of mast under consid
eration, navy aeronautical officials
said, can be adjusted to handle the
giant dirigible Akron now building,
which is larger than any other
Iighter-than-air craft ever handled.
Well, What Difference
Does It Make Anyway
Northampton, Mass.—(UP)— How
long does it taka to strike a bell?
Anywhere from 9G0 millionths to
700 millionths of a second, accord
ing to Prof. Arthur T. Jones of tho
physics department of Smith college,
who has made a study of the sub
ject with the aid of electric current
and photographic film as measuring
devices.
Vibration curves made when a
clapper strikes a bell have been
photographed by the professor,
showing that the fifth partial is
the most prominent Just after the
bell is struck.
Wendel Wealth—and Poverty.
From the New York World-Tele
gram.
“Buy land; never sell.” That was
the Wendel motto. Piece by piece,
plot by plot the acres multiplied—
always in the richest area, among
the most fabulously increasing land
values in the whole western hemis
phere. And so the millions grew.
Tenants might improve the property
if they would. But not the Wen
dels. Theirs but to hold fast—grim,
inactive, unyielding—while the great
city, year after year, pushed ahead
with its own vast developments, pil
ing million after million upon the
value of Wendel land, though no
Wendel lifted a finger. Shades of
Henry George! What ammunition
for the single taxers in their war
on unearned increment!
And so the millions grew. Nar
rowed lives, starved lives, cruel
clamps upon normal human loves
and ambitions in the old Wendel
mansion. Iron domination of a
brother's will until one sister after
another submitted, escaped or died
But always the mounting millions
And at last nothing left but a lone
ly old woman in the battered house
on one of Fifth avenue’s busiest cor
ners, with her oldfashioned stable
and her $1,000,000 dog-run. living
on as one of the city’s curiosities
until death took her.
Will the millions, spread out
among other lives, let loose at last
some of the human comfort and
happiness that seems to have meant
s*o little in the Wendel calculations!
Will providence. In its mysterious
ways, work out some compensation’’
Going: Mechanical.
From Omaha World-Herald.
The farm is sometimes compared
With the factory, although there ara
a great many essential difference*
between the production of raw ma
terials from the soil and processing
them into food or fabricating them
into clothing.
In one respect, however, the farm
is growing more like the factory
every day. It is going mechanical
at a dizzy pace. Figures compiled by
the Kansas state board of agricul
ture illustrate the trend.
The first tractor census was tak
en in that state in 1915. It revealed
2 493 tractors on Kansas farms. The
number increased gradually until
1920. when it jumped from 8.«89 ta
14,370. The switch to gasoline power
farming has progressed steadily
from that time until last year 53,
615 tractors were counted. That is
nearly one for every three farms in
the state.
By 1923 it was observed that com
bine harvesters were getting numer
ous and a census revealed 2,796 at
work in the wheat fields. Last year
thp number had grown to 21.303.
This growth in power farming has
been accompanied by as steady a
decline in the number of horses and
mules maintained on Kansas farms,
In 1914, the year before the first
tractor census was taken, there were
1,071,434 horses and 243,844 mules
In 1930 there could be found but
626,899 horses and 142.019 mules
More than 500.000 horses have dis
appeared from Kansas farms. Not
all of them have been displaced bj
tractors. Some have lost their jobi
to passenger automobiles and farm
trucks. With them has gone tin
market for a lot of Kansas hay and
grain.
Q. What is the designation foi
the gender of a noun which is not
determined naturally? A. T. T.
A. Gender is either natural oi
grammatical. In the latter cas«
there is no necessary coincidence of
gender and sej.
No Laughing Matter.
From Tit-Bits.
It was dinner time at the bar
racks.
“Any oomplaints?” shouted the
orderly.
“The stew's funny,” complained
one man.
“Funny?” queried the officer
"Then why aren't you laughing?”
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Q. What was the mist im
portant battle fought on German
soil during the World war? F. B. A
A. It was the Battle of Tannen
berg, September 1, 1914, in which
the Germans under Von Hinden
burg defeated a Russian invading
anny.
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SCIENCE CURES ONION DISEASE AND ENDS
LOSS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO GROWERS
Davenport, la.—(NEA)— In 1927
onion growers in Pleasant Valley
near here watched their crops turn
yellow, curl up and droop, victims
of an unknown disease.
In 1930 these truck farmers looked
out over solid green masses of onion
plants growing *n the same fields.
This change is a story of modern
igriculture’s triumph over “Dwarf
yellow,” dreaded virus disease of
'.he onion pant.
Not only had this disease invaded
•.he local onion territory, but it was
ipreading all over the country. It
was hard to control and was cutting
fields and profits nearly in half.
Borne growers lost entire crops dur
ing 1927 and the year following. In
1928 the crop through the valley was
iamaged 45 to 50 per cent.
Desperate growers called on plant
pathologists at Iowa State college
to help them fight this new enemy
which was threatening to wipe out
their business and even their homes
because the soil in the district was
fitted peculiarly to onion growing
ind not to many other crops.
W. J. Henderson, young graduate
itudent in plant pathology, was put
In charge of the work under the
tupervision of Dr. I. E. Melhus, head
*f botany and plant pathology.
Disease Fully Analyzed
Science of the plant laboratory,
facilities or the greenhouse where
conditions could be controlled, prac
tical tests in the growers’ fields and
their knowledge of systematic study
of plant ailments were brought by
the plant doctors to bear on this
problem.
The disease was new, but for
tunately plant pathologists immed
iately discovered its nature. By
transferring juice from one onion
to another, it was found the disease
could be transmitted, thus proving
it was one of the virus diseases com
prising a large group from which
the organism causing the malady
cannot be isolated. The organism
passes through the finest flter.
Since the disease is not seed-born,
I r federal
'farm
FACTS
The first increase for many
months in the general level of
farm prices was reported by the
bureau of agricultural economics
for the period from February 15 to
March 15. The increase was one
point—from 90 to 91. A year ago
the index was 126 per cent of the
ore-war level.
Farmers can look for lower pro
duction costs, a tendency toward
Improvement in market demand and
a greater degree of stability in gen
eral commodity prices in 1931, ac
cording to the agricultural outlook
1 report of the bureau of agricultural
! economics.
Asparagus is getting to be a val
uable crop in the United States, the
department of agriculture reports.
Its acreage has trebled in 10 years.
Agricultural problems or the
world will be thrashed out when the
15th international congress of ag
riculture meets at Prague, Czecho
Mexicans Fear Dumping.
Editorial Opinion of the Houston
(Tex.i Post-Dispatch.
Fear of Russia’s dumping plan Is i
not confined to the United States,
it appears. Chambers of commerce
at Tampico and other cities in Mex
ico have petitioned the government
at Mexico City to prevent the
dumping of cheap wheat on the
Mexican market. If it is not
stopped, It is declared, Mexican
wheat growers will be ruined. They
cannot produce wheat and profit
ably sell It at the price at which !
Russia will put wheat in Mexico.
Americans who warn against Rus
sian dumping are frequently ac- ;
cused of being prejudiced against I
W. J. Henderson, young plant
pathologist who helped defeat the
"Dwarf Yellow” disease of onions,
is shown above examining an in
fected field. The tall bunch of
onions on the right is healthy;
the small bunch fa a victim of the
virus disease.
but lives over winter in the bulbs,
the search for control measures was
narrowed down. Seed treatment
would have been of no use. It also
was shown that the organism was
not soil-borne or transmitted by
tools.
Diseased Bulbs Destroyed
Henderson took sets grown in the
valley and grew them in the green
house. He "indexed” plants; that
is, he determined the percentage of
infection among onion bulbs in the
mother stock. When a grower’s lot
of bulbs was found to be infected he
was advised to destroy them and
secure new sets from a disease-free
sources.
Bulbs found to be disease-free
were planted by growers in areas
where there were no diseased plants.
They then obtained their seed bulbs
from these fields. This did away
with early infection in the bulbs and
cut off sources of inoculation.
This practice has been followed
for three years and has reduced in
fection from 45 to 50 per cent in
1928 to only a trace in 1930.
Ability of the onion plants to
“mask” symptoms of the disease un
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der certain conditions complicated
control of the disease.
Plants which becoma infected
after they are about four inches
high do not show symptoms of the
disease that year. But the next
spring they do and cause other
plants to become infected.
Because of this “masking” of the
symptoms, it was impossible to go
into the field late in the season and
piok out non-infected plants for
mother stock. However, the next
spring the plants growing from
bulbs which were infected would
show symptoms of the disease eary.
Slovakia, June 5 to 8. Twenty sev
en countries will send delegates to
the congress. It Is expected that
delegates from the United States
will attend.
Demand for American Farm prod
ucts in European markets is in
creasing slowly but steadily, the
department of agriculture reports.
It may recover sufficiently by the
middle of the year to offer a good
market for the many surpluses in
the United States.
Bureau of agricultural economics
Is planning a market news service
on tobacco. Daily reports will be
Issued from “key markets’’ when
the season opens In Georgia and
Florida about August 1.
Television braodcasts of depart
ment of agriculture rural skits are
being put on the air once a week
by the Jenkins television transmit
ter near Silver Springs. Md. It Is
expected that television will be a
valuable aid in the department's
dissemination of farm information
when it is fully developed.
Favorable weather conditions
have enabled farmers all over the
country to make an early start with
spring field work, the bureau of ag
ricultural economics reports. Oats
are practically all sown, cotton
planting is going forward, corn
planting is working up into Kansas
latitude, the Dakotas arc sowing
the Russian form of government
and of being consequently bent on
thwarting development of Russian
trade. Will it now be said that
those Mexicans who are striving to
save Mexican wheat farmers also
are acting out of prejudice?
Russian wheat for export Ls being
produced on the collective farms,
where the workers are virtually
serfs, and It is being put on the
market rather regardless of the cost
of production, with a twofold pur
pose. The first is to get money
quickly for the soviets to enable
them to carry out the five-year plan.
The other is to upset the economic
Mullibriiun of other countries and
spring wheat, potatoes are in the
ground in the middle states, and
fruit trees are blooming in central
valleys.
An improved spark arrester, for
use on locomotives running through
forest preserves, is being tested by
forest service officials as a means
of reducing forest fires caused by
sparks from locomotives.
Production of flower bulbs is be
coming an important industry in
the United States. Yeais ago the
majority of valuable bulbs were im
ported from bulb-growing European
countries. Now, however, the indus
try has been securely established in
the United States and producers are
turning out as good a grade of bulbs
as those imported.
Twenty one state advisory com
mittees have been appointed by Sec
retary Hyde to co-operate with the
federal committee in investigating
and passing on the organization ol
new agricultural credit corporations
or livestock loan associations. The
committees will represent the de
partment of agriculture in the dis
tribution of funds appropriated by
Congress for loans to individual*
for the purchase of agricultural
stock.
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Q. How many teeth does a dog
have? C. T.
A. It has 42 permanent teeth.
thus to sow the seeds of discontent
and foment revolution.
Any country which accepts Rus
sian “dumped” products is helping
Russia to play her game.
Scotch Lads Shun I/Ove Filins.
Children of Scotland are nol
much more advanced than their
parents, declare mothers and fa
thers In commenting on the film in
quiry made recently at Dumfries.
When asked which films they like
or dislike, 98 per cent of the boys
or the public school were against
love stories, and 94 per cent of the
girls had no use for war. murder
or fighting.
going, anyway”
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I HE modem Miss needs no
f'time out” for the time of month.
If you’ve ever taken Baver Aspirin
for a headache, you know how
soon the pain subsides. It is just as
effective in the relief of those pains
peculiar to women 1
Don’t dedicate certain days of
every month to suffering. It’s old
fashioned. It’s unnecessary1. Aspirin
will always enable you to carry on
in comfort. Take enough to assure
your complete comfort. If it is
cenuine aspirin it cannot possibly
hurt you. Bayer Aspirin does not
depress the heart. It does not up
set the stomach. It does nothing
but stop the pain.
Headaches come at inconvenient
times. So do colds. But a little
Bayer Aspirin will always save the
day. A throat so sore you can hard
ly swallow is made comfortable
with one good gargle mado from
these tablets. Neuralgia. Neuritis.
Rheumatism. Pains that once kept
__
people home are forgotten half an
hour after taking a few of these
remarkable tablets. So are the little
nagging aches that bring fatigue and
“nerves" by day, or a sleepless night.
Genuine Bayer Aspirin tablets cost
so very little after all. that it doesn’t
pay to experiment with imitations!
Slightly Mixed
Johnson—So you gave up trying to
teach your wife to drive the car?
Williams—Yes. When I told her
to release her clutch she let go of
the steering wheel.
Nor Hi* Toe, Either
LI1—Go right in and apeak to pa-»
pa! Are you not master of your
soul?
Bill—Er-yes, but not master of his
sole.
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Pear Pest
One of the world’s strangest wars
—man and his enemy the insect
against a vegetable plague—is being
waged successfully In Australia,
where scientists have millions of cac
toblastis caterpillars eating and an
nihilating a prolific cactus plant,
known as the "Prickly rear" which
has In the past 30 years made an
impassable jungle of 50,000,000 acres
of fertile land, more than half again
the size of England.—Collier’s
Weekly.
To keep clean and healthy take Dr.
Fierce’* Pl«-n»anl Pellet*. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.
Bring Heat to Homes
A German invention recently put
to use in Hamburg is steam heat in
tanks under great pressure, from
which a home may be ben ted for a
week without replenishing. Venders
(ravel about the city in winter sell
ing bent, In some instances tbe same
men who seP lee in summer.
Not So Dull
City Youth—And do you mean to
say you’ve never been to New York
to see the sights?
Itustic—No; down here we Just
wait for the sights to come and see
us.
Goodness Is beauty in its host es
tate.—Marlowe.
Trip Postponed
“I thought you said you were go
ing away for a holiday."
“Yes, but I was let off with a
fine."—Dublin Opinion.
FOR HALF—Plants, the hind that will
please you: tumatoea. cabbage. Bermuda
onion. etc.Frlce low. service best.Write for
catalogue. Hastings Cannery. McClure. III.
II im ARK THINKING OF BUYINCI or
selling a business of any kind, write or call
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Sioux City Ptg. Co., No. 20-1931.
Shy youths might well be forced
Into worldly contracts early In Ufa
There is no sense in being handh
capped ail one’s days by diffidence.
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restless, wakeful
CHILD
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is too fretful or feverish to be sung
to sleep. There are some pains a
mother cannot pat away. But
there’s no time when any baby
can’t have the quick comfort of
Castoria! A few drops, and your
little one is soon at ease—back to
sleep almost before you can slip
away.
Remember this harmless, pure
vegetable preparation when chil
dren are ailing. Don't stop its use
when Baby has been brought safely
through the age of colic, diarrhea,
and other infantile ills. Give good
old Castoria until your children are
in their teens! Whenever coated
tongues tell of constipation; when
tbare’s any sign of sluggishness,
just give them a more liberal dooe.
Castoria is so pleasant-tasting; all
children love to take it.
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