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.
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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. Sold
by druggists in tablets or liquid.—Adv.
“Wise” and "Smart”
Wise is defined as discerning and
Judging soundly concerning which is
true or false, proper or Improper;
discreet; opposed to foolish. The
word smart Is more or less colloqui
ally used to Indicate cleverness or
mental alertness, quickness In learn
ing, shrewdness.
Extreme Limit
Six syllables are about the limit
of a graceful looking word.
1
own druggist is lutkoe^™
/ wised to cheerfully refund your \
l money on the spot if you sre )
m^^not relieved by Creomultion^mM
Scientists Find Fast Way
to Relieve a Cold
1
Ache and Discomfort Eased Almost Instantly Now
ITake 2 BAYER Aspirin Tahlets.
• Make sure you get the BAYER
Tablets you ask for.
2 Drink a full elan of water. Repeat
• treatment in 2 hours.
3 If throat is sore, crush and stir 3
• BAYBR Aspirin Tablets in a third
of a glass of water. Gargle twice. This
cases throat soreness almost instantly.
NOTE
"DIRECTIONS PICTURES'*
The simple method pictured here is
the way many doctors now treat
colds and the aches and pains colds
bring with theml
It is recognized as a safe, sure,
QUICK way. For it will relieve an
ordinary cold almost as fast as you
caught it.
Ask your doctor about this. And
when you buy, be sure that you get
the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets.
They dissolve (disintegrate) almost
instantly. And thus work almost in*
stantly when you take them. And
for a gargle, Genuine Bayer Aspirin
Tablets disintegrate with speed and
completeness, leaving no irritating
particles or grittiness.
BAYER Aspirin prices have been
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there’s no point now in accepting
other than the real Bayer article you
want.
NOW
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