The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, January 10, 1935, Image 9
Why the Atlantic Liners Were Delayed Many Atlantic liners have been late in arrival at New York recently because of the extraordinarily rough weather. This picture was mnde from the dfeck of the Hamburg during a storm. Fighting Their Way Through Indian Locusts Recently a great cloud of millions of locusts appeared in the region of Rawlplndi, India, and within a few h.Mirs had devoured every bit of vegetation. Two men of the Royal Signal corps are seen boating their way through the storm of insects. Shield of Henry II in New York This embossed parade shield once carried by Henry H of France has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is now exhibited among the recent accessions to the collections. Japan’s Women Get Taste of Army Life So that the women of Japan may get a better appreciation of the lives led by their husbands and brothers who may be soldiers in Japan’s army, seven hundred specially selected members of the Japan National Defense Women's league were invited to make a thorough inspection of the Eighth infantry regiment at Osaka. Here some of the women are looking on as four of them are shown how machine guns and gas masks •re ha’ ’ad. I TALLEST CACTUS This cactus, located on the desert nine miles from Phoenix, Ariz., is said to he the largest in the world. It is 40 feet tall, has 51 branches or “arms,” weight ten tons. SET NEW RECORD Raymond Delmotto, From li avia tor, who whizzed around the regula tion four-lap course at Istrez. France, at an average speed of 312 miles per hour to break the world’s record for land planes. The pre vious record of 308 miles per hour was held by the late Jimmy Wed dell. Planes Carry Odd Freight Flying Boats, That Have So Greatly Helped to Bring Producers and Consumers Closer, Are Asked to Render Peculiar Service. “Fish miles'’ haven't anything to do with the fact that a seaplane Is a kind of flying tish—it’s the num ber of miles flown multiplied by the number of fish in the cargo.. One line reckons its oyster miles, ] its bee miles, its monkey miles and 1 above all. its chicken miles—eighteen j millions of the latter, writes William | Bridges in the New York Sun. These flying boats that bring Haiti within exactly 24 hours of the New York market—by easy connection with a 12-hour plane from Miami — and the whole West Indies string of Islands within two or three days, are doing some amazing things for business down this way. They carry some 3,000 pounds of freight every month Into the Carib bean nnd South Americn, and most of It is emergency or perishable stuff. A piece of machinery breaks and a mine has to shut down for n month or so—had to, thut Is, until this air express business stnrted. Not long ago that happened to a mining company in Colombia. They snapped off a 400-pound crankshaft —called New York by radio and or dered a new one. Inside a week a flying clipper ship laid t he seven foot piece of steel at their door. Arthur Curtis, official of one of the great lines, talked about the curious freight the line handles. “You know, we’ve got some fairly steady customers down South who use our ships as a sort of fast de livery service and do their shopping up North," lie said. "I remember one woman in British Guiana be cause her name Is on our freight lists pretty often. She buys i r lip stick and a certain kind of face pow der in New York and always has it sent down in our ships. "I don’t know how many cases of hat samples we’ve carried down to Rio—not always for the shops, but often for the women who want to make their own selection of New York models. “I think the oddest piece of freight we ever carried was a little piece of living human tissue in a test tube. “It seems a doctor In Merida, Mex ico, operated on a woman and found some sort of cell growtli he couldn’t Identify. lie had to be sure of his diagnosis, so he snipped off some of the tissue, sealed it In a test tube and put it on one of our planes early In the morning. Well, it got to Miami at 5 p. m. and left a cou ple of hours later In the air mnil for New York. The next morning the Nationnl Pathological labora tories had it under a microscope, and they wired him a complete identification before noon. That was just a routine piece of work with us —no special service or charge. We carried that piece of tissue 2.500 miles for $2.54. “And as for carrying live stock! I suppose that In the past six years we’ve carried about everything size able and tractable enough to ride a plane. Some time back Louisiana was trying to fight the sugar cane borer with parasitic bugs, and every week we brought in hundreds of thousands of those bugs, one of our men figured up the ‘animal miles’ our planes have flown, and he esti mated the bug miles at 41,083,000. "Chicken miles come second—18, 000,000. These fast planes Into the Caribbean have pretty nearly revo lutionized the chicken business down there. A couple of years ngo the chicken raisers in middle Flor ida got the idea of sending day-old chicks into the West Indies by plane, and up to now we've carried something like 100,000. Usually they go to some port within a day or two of Miami by air and the losses nren’l anything—around 1 per cent loss in transit. “Florida chicks knocked the bot tom out of the chicken business In Jamaica. I heard the chicken rais ers down there were protesting about competition by airplane, but the colonial government took the atti tude that Florida could have the business If it could get it. "Under certain restrictions we carry animal freight. We’ve hauled monkeys, ducks, snakes, dogs and cuts—not ninny dogs, for some rea son, but about ten times as many cats—and flamingoes, alligators and so on. The oyster-flying business Is brisk In winter. Our man figured we’ve flown 3,633 oyster-quart miles ' "1 suppose the smallest piece of freight we ever carried or maybe ever will was a two-ounce package. That happened last winter. Some New York man went over to Nassau on a vacation and when he came back to Miami he suddenly discov ered he'd left one false tooth In s glass of water in Ids Nassau hotel room. Why hp hndn’t mtssed It ve fore, I don’t know. Anyway, he wouldn't go back to New York with a missing tooth, so he got in touch with the hotel by radio and our men picked up the tooth, flew hack to Miami with it in a couple of hours and he went home happy.” Safe on Earth A pedestrian crossed a traffic filled street while looking up at an airplane overhead. Three buses shaved him so closely that Ills beard didn’t appear again for n week, the wind from six passing cars raised the nap on his last year’s suit, one five-passenger car removed the shine from the hack of his left shoe, and the drivers of seven others of as sorted makes, while stripping their gears in an effort to nvold him, also stripped their vocabularies of every known high-powered adjectives. Aft er stumbling over the curbstone on the further side of the road the pe destrian was heard to murmur: "My gracious, those aviators lead dan gerous lives.—Utica Observer Dis patch. Mismated There are almost perfect husbands and almost perfect wives, but Bins! they aren’t married to one another.— Los Angeles Times. Expect Census to Show Changes in Population j The census of agriculture, which will be taken early this year, may be expected to reveal many and Im portant changes in land tenure in the United States nnd even show a vio lent disturbance in the balance be tween rural and urban population. Signs of the times that have been persisting since the last farm census point the way. The 1930 census was ttiken in the twilight of an Industrial prosperity that lias had few rlvnls and well along in the depths of farm despondency that nlso stands out in history. The backward march from population centers to the farm had not started in force. So the popula tion count of 1930 was made at what was very close to the peak of the as cendency of urban population over rurnl. A similar count for the forthcom ing census will reveal a grent dif ference In rural urban population, with a larger number of rural folk living if not working on fewer acres, many of them no doubt on a subsist ence basis, llellef is that millions of former city workers who came from the farm have gone back there. To this factor must be added the un questioned fact that rural births have more than balanced rural deaths, while the birth rate In cities in steady decline supports the thought that the 1935 count of popu lations will serve to change the ratio by which 5P per cent of the popula tion of continental United States Is urban and only 44 per cent rural. It is doubtful, of course, if we ever recross the line that was crossed be tween 1910 nnd 1920, when urbnn population exceeded rural for the lirst time, but there are many rea sons to b£ found in support of belief that the 1935 count will be nearer balance. What will come to pass when Industry is back on Its feet and the business of urban centers Is humming, ns it has hummed before, is another matter. But we must In all fairness consider the happy time to come when the farming industry | Is back on Its feet and humming and renews itself as n drawing card. There are before us many schemes leading to the country, some of them good and some not so good. We are looking forward to the rehabilita tion of the farm and farm life and, In natural sequence, revival of the smaller centers of business nnd In dustry that are classed rural nnd will probably always remain rurnl In the separation established by the census department. Decentralization of industry has Its advocates who view Industrial workers In the char acter of part-time farm workers on their own subsistence acres. Great areas of submnrglnnl land are to be withdrawn and the land that Is left worked to better advantage, with more workers on the fewer acres. Unemployables will be farmed out on their own small holdings, and the country made attractive to persons who are unhappy In the cities.—St. Louis Globp-Democrnt. - WEST INDIAN BEAUTY More writers than one have 11k euetl the scenery of the West Indies to a theatrical hack-drop because so many of the Islands are so lovely that they seem too dramatic to be • true. In Haiti the traveler steps Into the very locale of drama, the setting In which the prototype of Eugene O’Neill's ‘‘Emperor .lones” spent his brief and gaudy career. High on Its mountain above dense forests Christophe s castle still stands as a reminder of the theatric negro who made himself an emperor and built his castle at the cost o' in numerable lives and to the tune of groans from his tortured subjects. Port-au-Prince, the capital, is Just as melodramatic with its noisy mar ket square, its looming cathedral and streets crowded with natives and burros. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong. No alcohol. 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