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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1935)
Normal Life Span 140, Says Voronoff Gland Specialist Outlines a Plan for Longevity. Calcutta.—"The natural spnn of life Is 140 years, and 1 hnve every hope that one day we may prolong It to this period,” declared Dr. Serge VoronofT, the fumous exponent of rejuvenation here. "Everybody who dies between the ages of seventy and ninety Is a person who Is ‘killed’," Doctor Vor onoflf added. ‘‘The problem is to find out how not to be so ‘killed.’ "Between sixty and seventy Is a critical period. Death Is awaiting us. Those who wish to survive In the unequal struggle have but one means of gaining their end—to re place their worn-out glands with young and active glands, which will Impart a new Impulse to the cellH «f all our organs, causing them to create new young cells and thus re juvenate the whole organism.” His Methods Recognized. Doctor VoronofT declared that the most eminent experts now recog nized the efficiency of his methods and thousands of operations were being performed In Europe, and also In Japan. The only difficulty was procuring an adequate supply of animals for the purpose. The or dinary monkey was not suitable, the specimens of the genera required being the gorilla, orangoutang, chimpanzee or glbboon. Together with his beautiful young wife. Doctor VoronofT intends to go to Java, where he will spend some time conducting experiments on the blood of the orang-outang. After wards he will go to Indo-China to Professor to Use Projectiles to Go 150 Miles. Roswell, N. M.—Rockets equipped with automatic recording devices will be shot Into the stratosphere to a distance of from 40 to 150 miles from the earth’s surface from an es pecially constructed (10-foot tower near here this spring In science's latest attempt to penetrate the se crets behind cosmic rays, light rays and radio waves. The experiments will be the cul mination of months of work on the part of Dr. R. H. Goddard, head of the department of physics at Clarke university, Worcester, Mass., who expects they will yield data of great value to science. One Immediate beneficiary would bo radio broad casting. The tower Is rising In a shallow valley 25 miles from ltoswell. In the meantime Doctor Goddnrd Is carrylug out preliminary experl-. meats on a farm four miles from here, aided by a staff of assistants. The Guggenheim foundation Is financing the unique tests. Roswell was selected for the site of the ex periments because of unique atmos pheric and climatic conditions. The type of rocket to be used Is 12 feet long and approximately 2 feet In diameter at its widest point. It Is equipped with n parachute de signed to be released at the highest point of Its flight. There Is no danger of the rocket causing Injury, Doctor Goddnrd be lieves, as he calculated It will re turn to the earth almost vertically, and Its flight will be under control from the tower at all times. The tower site Is 15 miles from the near est settlement. Advantages of the rocket ascen sions over stratosphere balloon flights lie in the fuct that balloons, to rise beyond 14 miles, must be of such great size and at the same time such light weight that con structlon dangerous to passengers results, according to Doctor God dard. He pointed to the fatal out come of the 72,000 feet stratosphere ascension of three Soviet Russians. The date of the projected tests will depend on the results of ground conduct similar research on the gib boon. . Different Blood Types. Recalling his early work, the doc tor said that at first he presumed that the blood of monkeys was of one type Instead of the four types present In the human being. Some of the early experiments were not very satisfactory, but after long re search he found that the monkeys had four types of blood also, corre sponding to those types found in humans. He therefore altered his meth ods to Include tests of the blood both of the patient and of the ani mal to make sure that the types of blood corresponded. Then he graft ed onto the human being the thy roid, pituitary and sexual glands of | the monkey. The results, he claims, are “high ly successful." The change observed In the aging human being conld only be described as “something marvelous." Paris Dogs Manicured at Own Beauty Parlor Paris.—A dog beauty parlor has Just been opened In the French cap ital. While rnadame Is having her beauty attended to upstairs, her pet may ha vs his whiskers plucked, teeth cleaned, nails manicured and forelock curled. Turkish baths are also a feature of the “Institute de Reaute pour Chlens," or, If pressed for time, a quick soap bath, fol lowed by n shower and alcohol rub will be given by attendants In white uniforms. Plans to Explore Space by Rockets _ experiments now being conducted here. “There is a long period of testing before any practical results are cer tain," Doctor Goddard explained. "We will probably spend several months In the laboratory before any test will be made.” NECKWEAR VOGUE lly CIIKKIK NICHOLAS In the new spring style forecast the accent Is emphatically on neck wear. The outlook Is for more flat tering crisp, soft, flulTy. lacy starched and unstarched collars, cuffs, bows and Jabots than eye Potatoes Replace Torpedoes on Sub Amsterdam. — Potatatoes and onions — not torpedoes — are stowed In the tubes of Dutch submarine K-18, now on a 23-000 mile trip from Holland to Sourn bala, Java. The trip will be the longest ever made by a submarine, and will take eight months. When provisions were stored aboard the 707-ton craft at Neiu wedlep, Holland, It was found that there wasn't much room. The commander decided it was better to leave two torpedoes at home rather than bales of pota toes and onions. England to Hold Royal Jubilee Celebrations London.—Visitors to London this year should time their holidays for May or June, for In those months not only Is the season at Its height, but England will be gay v.lth royal Jubilee celebrations. May fi, the twenty-fifth anniver sary of King George’s accession to the throne, a chain of beacon fires will Illuminate the length and breadth of the country. Because of the Jubilee celebra tions In Mny, the first two courts of the season will take place In March, while the third and fourth courts will be held as usual In June. In June also will be the Derby and Ascot race meetings; the Wimble don lawn tennis championships; the International horse show; the Aider shot Tattoo and the Herndon air pageant, which the king hopes to attend In person this year. ’ In May there will be the naval and military tournaments at Olym pia ; the opening of the Itoyal acad emy summer exhibition, and jubilee celebrations In every district. Dur lug both months there will be a number of big charity halls. Lots of Room Left for Human Race on Earth Eugene, Ore.—The earth Is a long way from overpopulation yet, ac cording to Dr. Warren D. Smith, professor of geography and geology at the University of Oregon. Doctor Smith says thnt science is now able to compute thnt the world would support some 5,500,000,000 people, more than twice as many as it now supports. The estimate of 2,024,280.000 is generally accepted ns a fairly accurate total of the present population. The five billion figure Is possible, however, he says, only with careful planning and de velopment of resources. Among other findings In Doctor Smith’s recent survey are: That birth control and birth selection are Imperative If a high plane of civ ilization Is to be maintained; that the tropics are now the great goal of the whites; and thnt brunette whites will probnbly dominate the earth In time. Nearly an Egg a Day Medford, Ore.—Lady May, a white Leghorn hen owned by Mrs. It. E. Carley of Medford, has laid 359 eggs In 305 days, a record surpassed only by a New Zealand Black Orping ton, which has a record of 361 eggs In 1930. hns beheld for many a season. The stunning collar which the smartly hatted lady Is wearing is of fine eye let embroidery. The chic flat crowned hat with the primly rolled brim Is umong the newest of the new. Front Interest Is centered In the black velvet bow. If you would like to have the Joy of making your own collar and cuff set as per the attractive type shown below in the picture, it Is easy to do so and at the cost of but a few cents. All you have to do Is to provide your self with crepe tissue paper In any desired pastel tint. Pale yellow Is suggested, ns mnls color with a navy frock is the last word In chic. The crepe paper must be cut In strips and twisted ready to cro chet. The stitch Is very simple and you will go speeding along with your crochet hook ready to wear your new finery after a few hours Wrecked Freighter Pounded by Giant Rollers CapL Duncan Milne, forty-one-year-old native of Cardiff, Wales, and skipper of tlie freighter »»enk«rry, was swept to his death after seeing all 29 of his crew carried safely ashore in breeches buoys in Nova Scotia. The ship foundered on tocks during a severe storm. Pictured above is the Kenkerry being pounded by the giant rollers SEEN--" HEARD around the National Capital -r i a By CARTER FIELDfi=s Washington. — Probability that some compromise on the so-called 30-hour week bill, probably limiting the hours of work In any industry to 38 or 48 hours, but with perhaps a few 8{>eclal exemptions, will be enacted by the present congress Is growing. Flat prediction that such a compromise would be enacted Is made privutely by half a dozen of the more important figures In the house, and by nn pqunl number of Influential senators. The Importance of this prediction would be enormously enhanced If the names of the senators and mem bers of the house could be men tioned, with their exact views. In cidentally some of those making the prediction said that they personally opposed the Idea; they were merely giving their opinion as to what would happen, not what they want ed. Nor were these just personal con versations. In each case the state ments were mnde to a group of men who came to Washington seeking to find out what the prospect was— men who wanted to adjust their sit uations to the probabilities. They did not come to argue for or against the measure, though all of them, for private reasons, happened to be op posed to it. The tremendous pressure for the measure does not result primarily from the fact that the American Federation of Labor is strongly for it Nor from the fact that virtually every other labor group Is for It. It comes from the evidences that though business has picked up some what unemployment has not dimin ished by anything like the same ex tent. So, in short, the thought is a “share ttie work” idea, ratiier thnn a social betterment idea. It is aimed at reducing unemploy ment, not at bettering living condi tions. In fact, there is some talk of amending the proposal of the Fed eration of Labor, as embodied in the Connery bill, in a way that would be very displeasing Indeed to labor, and which labor, both organized and unorganized, would oppose violently. Just a Possibility This is to change the Idea so that Instead of reducing the number of hours per week, but requiring—ns the Connery bill does—that the same amount of dollars be paid each week for the shorter number of hours that is now paid for the pres ent work week, the bill would re duce the number of hours with no mention of what the rate of pay should be. In short, leaving to em ployers, and to the revision of NRA codes which would follow, what the wages for the shorter work wreek would be. This is not mentioned as a prob ability. Only as a possibility. Ac tually, it is highly improbable. The measure will probably pass, if it passes at all, with the requirement that the same wages be continued regardless of the cut In hours. And, of course, the compromise, raising the number of hours from the 30 proposed In the Connery bill to at least 30, will soften this blow as far ns employers are concerned. But, as a matter of fact, econo mists do not regard the question of wnges here ns very important, ex cept In so far as they apply to infla tion. They reason that If the hours are reduced, and the pay per hour Increased, the result will be infla tion just ns surely as by any pos sible expedient proposed by the fol lowers of Senator Elmer Thomas. They reason that a wholesale ver tical boost in wages, forced by law, would result promptly and almost mathematically in an increase in prices, reducing the purchasing pow er of the dollars earned by the workers, lienee, the laborious argu ments by the opponents of the 30 hour week, or any compromise of it, that it would result in lowering the standard of living in America, either by a smaller number of dollars to spend by each worker, if the pay is maintained at the same hourly rate, or by the smaller purchasing power of the dollars if the wage rate per week is maintained. The reasoning that is expected to put the compromise over is not con cerned with this. It is concerned with getting more people to work, and cutting down the need for the dole and for work relief. Social Program livery Indication now is that Pres ident Roosevelt’s social program old age pensions and unemployment insurance—will go through in very much the form proposed, despite the loud cries of the Insurgents about a government subsidy. The Idea of taking Jill the money for unemployment payments, and old age pensions, out of the federal treasury, is very appealing In some directions. People wonhl like to dodge the direct deductions from their pay envelopes. Argument is made that tills tax on pay rolls, which. If both hills are counted, runs gradually up to fi per cent. I would heavily increase the cost of | production. Rut the great advantage that President Roosevelt has had right along, and gives every prospect of continuing to hold — always ex cepting World court, St. Lawrence seaway, and the bonus—is that his opponents cannot agree. For example, the ten senators on the appropriations committee who a few days buck voted to substitute the dole for work relief, with the avowed purpose of saving the treas ury two billion dollars, have maneu vered themselves Into a ixmltion where it will be rather difficult for them to vote against the President on the social security bills. Or at least vote against him on the only roll-call where the President's po sition might otherwise have been In jeopardy. When the roll-call comes o» the question of paying all the cost out of the federal treasury —which will be the big test vote—those ten sen ators would be rather embarrassed to vote to mnke the treasury carry the load—after all their loud cries in the appropriations committee about the strnln on the federal credit of spending nearly five bil lion dollars on work relief. Local Interest Which is highly Interesting be cause some of those ten senators were not worried In the slightest about the federal credit when they voted against the President on that bill in committee. They followed Glass and Adams, who made that issue. But some of them were just voting on that excuse In the hope of getting their states, and the coun ties and cities back home, out of a jam. They wanted a direct federal gift to the unemployed as against a work project, which contemplates that the local governments shall pay a considerable percentage of the work relief money back to the federal trensury, with interest. Which Is very different, especially If the credit of their states, or local communities In their states which need relief work badly, feel that they have already strained their credit to the breaking point. But every senator who publicly took the position that the flve-bil lion-dollar bill was too great a strain on federal credit has put his vote on the social security bill in pawn, ns far as the only real test vote is concerned. For there Is ex pected to be only one roll-call of Importance on those bills which will attempt to shift the entire financial burden on to the federal trensury. Some contend that the President hns already taken one beating on this social security legislation. Their argument is that he wanted both bills enacted prior to the adjourn meat of the many legislatures which are In session this winter. He did express a hope for that. But it was a hope, not a conviction. It put the stigma for delay on anyone holding up the procession, but the President really never expected any such quick action, and has ex pressed no disappointment about It. Civil Service Real friends of civil service are far more interested in an immedi ate reform, which would require only an executive order, than In either the proposal of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, or Senator C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming. What they would like to see is elimination of the prohibition. Im posed by an executive order, which prevents any present employee of a post office from tnklng the examina tion for the postmastership. This provision, which seems rather hard to explain on any ground other than pure spoils politics, strikes at the heart of the whole civil service Idea. It bars advancement to the top in any particular office. It Is this situation which plays Into the hands of the Hurley fnctlon in Massachusetts, preventing Post master Hurley from taking an ex amination—unless he should resign in the meantime—for appointment to the very Job be now holds! This merely happens to be what seems to many a ridiculous side of the situation. For It might natural ly be thought that the man who had been postmnster for a period or years, who had come up through the rnnks Just ns if he had been employed In some private business, and who, according to the testimony of business firms In the city of Bos ton, had been giving satisfaction, would and should stand a better show of’passing first In nn examina tion for his own Job than anyone outside the office. But actually the present law—for that Is what an executive order amounts to—not only prevents Post master Hurley from competing in an examination for the place he now holds, but It prevents any oth er employee of the Boston post of fice from competing. Favor Norris Plan Another phnse of the present post office situation, which Is very dis tressing to civil service advocates, is that barring anyone from an ex amination for postmaster who does not receive his mail at the particu lar office for which he Is a candi date. In many western and other thinly populated states there is some point to this. But there Is very little merit In It. civil service people contend, in and around the big cities. The Norris plan would delight the civil service people If they thought there was a Chinaman's chance of its going over. The Idea of a post mnster general divorced from poli tics, serving President after Presi dent on a long term appointment just ns Comptroller McCarl has served In auditing expenditures, Is, in the opinion of the civil service folks. Just too good to be true. And therefore not likely to happen. Copyright.—WNU Borvlc*. Training Bousto iTTTTWhM Boy Scouts Making Fire Without Matches. Prepared bv National Geographic Society. Washington. D. C.-WNU Service. □EXT August the nation's cap ital will be host to 35,000 Boy Scouts at a national Jamboree. Boys chosen for achieve ment in scout work will be the dele gates of thousands of troops, large and small, throughout the country. The Idea of training boys so they will make useful men is, of course, as old as mankind. You see it even among savages. They fall short of what we teach Boy Scouts about thrift, kind acts, and telling the truth. But, like us, they do teach their boys to swim, jump, make traps, build fires, use the bow and arrow, track wild animals, and to endure hard knocks without whim pering. Take the Zulu and Swazi tribes In Africa. They never heard of Boy Scouts; yet their sons, before they are taken Into the tribe as warriors, get a training in woodcraft and self reliance which is superb. Stripped naked, his body painted white by men of the tribe, the Zulu boy at fifteen is given a shield and spear and sent into the jungle. He Is warned that he will he killed if he allows himself to be caught by any human. It takes about a month for the paint to wear off. During that time the hoy has to kill his own meat with his one spear, skin an nnimal to make his body cover ing, and also learn what kind of wild plants, berries and leaves are good as food. Failure may mean death at the hands of enemies, wild beasts, or by starvation. But if he succeeds, as he is supposed to by this severe Initiation, lie returns to the village when the paint is worn off, and with great rejoicing is re ceived into the tribe as a warrior. Zulus on Parade. “Zulus on the march form always a fine sight,” writes Lord Baden Powell, “and I shall never forget the first time I saw a Zulu army on the move. As a matter of fact, I heard it before I saw it. For the moment I thought that a church organ was playing, when the wonderful sound of their singing came to my ears from a neighboring valley. “Then three or four long lines of brown warriors appeared moving in single file behind their chiefs,all with the black and white plumes tossing, kilts swaying, assegais, or spears, flashing in the sun, and their great piebald ox-hide shields swinging in time together. “The Ingonyama chorus played on the organ would give you a good idea of their music ns it swelled out from four thousand lusty throats. At a given moment every man would bang his shield with his knohkerry (club), and it gave out a noise like a thunderclap. “At times they would all prance like horses, or give a big bounce In the air exactly together. It was a wonderful sight, and their drill was perfect. “Behind the army came a second army of boys carrying on their heads the rolled-up grass sleeping mats, wooden pillows, and water gourds of the men. “They were Boy Scouts of their nation.” Our enrly-day western scouts, of course, learned much from the In dians. By observation and experi ence, they came to understand In dian smoke signals, picture writing, what certain sticks meant laid in patterns on the ground, and the sign language. Then there was tracking, the art of following a man or animal, not only by footprints, but by such faint signs as n turned-up pebble, bent weeds, or a broken twig by the way side. A lot of that we got first hand from the Indians, and every good cowboy still employs it in finding stray cattle and horses. But looking back into the annals of youth movements, we see that long “hikes” are nothing new. There was the Children’s Crusade, when in 1212 some 50,000 youngsters start ed from Europe for the Holy Land. It was Stephen, a shepherd boy of France, who launched this his toric youth movement. A German lad named Nicholas, from near Cologne, also raised an army. The Germans 20,000 strong, crossed the Alps Into Italy. Many perished. Sur vivors, reaching Brindisi, were for the most part seized and sold as slaves. Their French comrades, .’it), 000 of them, were led by Stephen to Marseilles. Here some were strand ed. Many accepted the offer of mer chant traders to transport them to Palestine. For years their fate was a mystery, till it was learned that they, too, had fallen among slave traders, some being sold in markets as far away as Bagdad. Age-Old Training. The world-wide Boy Scout organ ization, as we know it now, is the culmination of age-old training. How Lord Baden-Powell, then a colonel in the British army, con ceived the Boy Scout Idea in the South African war of 1899-1902 Is an oft-told tale. One of his officers, I.ord Cecil, organized the hoys of MafekJng as a scout corps. This frial proved that if their training could be made to appeal to them, boys could be led to assume much responsibility, but only if they were trusted. It was Baden-Powell, or “B. P.,” as boy's all over the world now call him, who in 1901 raised the South African constabulary. Troops in this were small units, so that a com mander could deal with each scout from personal knowledge of him. The human side was appealed to, and scouts trusted on their honor to do their duty. Returning to Engluud in 1903, Colonel Baden-Powell found that certain teachers there had adopted his “Aids to Scouting’’ as a text book for training boys. His own *lrst tiial camp for scout training was A set up at Brownsea Island, England, in 1907. That was the formal start of a movement now spread over the whole world, involving more than 2, 000,000 boys. “To arouse the boys and meet their spirit of adventure,” writes Baden-Powell, “I held up backwoods men and knights, adventurers, and explorers as heroes for them to fol low.” ♦ In the actual careers of famous adventurers, and all they had to do with boats, camp life, horses, hunt ing, and wild life, Iladen-Powell found exactly the lessons he taught his boys. He trained them, just as he had trained the army scouts in South Africa, “with some adaption.” he says, “to make the training suit able for boys, following the prin ciples adopted by the Zulus and other African tribes, which reflect ed some of the ideas of Epictetus, the Spartans, and the ancient Brit ish and Irish for training their boys.” By 1910 the Boy Scout movement had grown so large that Baden Powell left the British army to give his whole time to this work. He vis ited the United States to promote scouting. A national office was opened, and Dr. James E. West be came chief scout executive. Spreads Over the World. Now scouting covers the world. Including England, it is organized in more than seventy different na tions and colonies, and under the guidance of an international com mittee of nine. Two are from the British empire, two are from the United States, and the rest from other countries. It is twenty-four years since this movement reached the United States, where today it involves an nually more than 1,300,000 boys and men. Men prominent now in the na tion’s work were Boy Scouts twen ty years ago. One late count showed that 58 per cent of university football cap tains were former scouts. When Grantland Bice picked his first All American Eleven, eight were ex scouts. In a choice of Rhodes schol ars for 1933, 71 per cent were for mer scouts. In Sing Sing, says War den Lawes, it is rare to find a pris oner who was ever a Scout. The Red Cross, the forestry serv ice, the fish and game agents of the y government, all get aid from Boy * Scouts in emergencies. In civic af fairs Scouts take an ever-growing part, as in school fire drills, flag raisings, supervision of playground activities and Memorial day exer cises. In towns wrecked by tornadoes or wasted by fire, flouts acting under the Red Cross, the police, or the. sheriff have done man’s work. With- ' in an hour after a cyclone hit St. Louis 4.000 Scouts had mobilized to 4 help the authorities. Men of strong character guide these boys. Today more than ”50, 000 men in America and many in other lands give their time and ener gy to their training. Exalting the pet hobbies of boy hood gives scouting a world wide appeal.
