Industry Proclaims Its Independence
Industrialists, farmers and scientists held a conference at Dearborn, Mich., and drew up and signed a
leclaration of Industrial Independence. In the photograph Francis P. Gervan, president of the Chemical
foundation, Is putting his name to the declaration while Howard Coflin, vice chairman of the committee for eco
nomic recovery; Mrs. Louis J. Taber, wife of the master of the National grange; Carl B. Fritsche; Wheeler McMll
len; and Col Frank Knox, publisher of the Daily News, look on.
Old Time Whalers
Give Way to Steam
Modern Methods Easier,
but Risk Still Remains.
Seattle, Wash.—The old whaling
vessels, huge and cumbersome, car
rying a nest of small boats to search
out and kill the whales, as well as
all necessary implements for “try
ing out” the blubber, have all but
disappeared from the famous whal
ery grounds in the Bering sea. Still
common in the Antarctic waters,
they are seldom seen in waters
about the Aleutian islands. In
their place have come small, snub
nosed “stream whalers.”
Fourteen of these modern ships
are roaming the cold Bering sea.
With a 200-ton gross displacement,
each carries a Sven Foyn gun
f mounted on a high and flaring bow.
No more do men row away from
the motor ship in search of whales;
with the modern gun and high
speed, each vessel seeks out its
own whales and shoots the har
poon from the bow gun.
The gun throws the harpoon,
four feet in length and weighing
a hundred pounds, from 30 to 40
yards. Behind the barb of the
harpoon is a cap, containing a
charge of explosives timed to go
off three seconds after the har
poon has struck. The whales do
not often run with these appli
ances; the "strike” Is usually fatal.
Processed on Shore.
One of the great dangers of the
older methods of whaling was that
of fire. The blubber was “tried
out,” or cooked down, in great ket
tles carried aboard the ship. The
crews turned from hunters to butch
ers and “cooks,” and the whale
was reduced to oil and whalebone
aboard the ship, to the accompani
ment of an unholy odor and the
constant danger that one of the
cooking fires might get out of con
trol and destroy the vessel.
Under modern methods factories
for processing the whales are es
tablished on shore near the whal
ing areas. When a whale is killed
it in inflated with air and marked
with a flag. After the day's catch
is completed the dead are gathered
up and towed to shore, where the
factory carries on the oil produc
ing processes with a much greater
efficiency than was possible under
the old methods.
It’s Still Dangerous.
Not all the danger and excite
ment has gone, though, from the
actual killing of the whales. So tes
tifies Capt. Peder Oness of Kodiak,
master and gun man of one of the
Bering sea whalers, when he said:
“It’s just as dangerous as It used
to be. No one has an easy time
standing on the deck behind the
gun, In a heavy sea—and the gales
are bad off the Aleutian Islands.
The whale zips up for as long as
you cun say ’scat' and you are sup
posed to shoot him now. That is
hard to do.’’
But the Bering sea whulers were
Jubilant as they started out this
year. Prices on whale oil were
double what they were last year
and the prospects for a good catch
were good. Best quality oil Is used
for soup making, while sperm oil,
which comes from the head cav
ities of certain types of whale, is
used in perfumes and medicines.
Only one company, that of Wil
liam Schupp, known as the "whale
king of the Pacific,” operates In
the Pacific whaling Industry. The
company operates seven boats from
Seattle and seven from Canadian
ports. Last year they got 814 whales.
'| LIGHTS OF NEW YORK. By L.L.STEVENSON j
Sonny was the name given him
at the shelter of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
That was just as good a name as
any since, even after a week, he
paid no attention to whatever he
was called. As a matter of fact, he
paid no attention to food, his sur
roundings, those who tried to be
friends with him or anything else.
Seemingly his whole world had
come to an end when he had been
placed in the society’s ambulance.
Before that, he had been a different
dog, indeed. Then he had been a
militant animal with hackles stand
ing, tire in his eyes and long white
fangs ready for use. Not that the
world was his enemy. But he was
guarding some one he loved deeply
and when a big dog, mostly police,
is guarding some one he loves, even
policemen and firemen do not inter
fere. Instead, they summon an ex
pert.
• • *
The call came to the society’s
hospital at about 4 a. m. William
Ryan, an ambulance driver for the
last 23 years, rubbed the sleep from
his eyes, hurried outside, started the
motor and sent the ambulance
speeding toward East Eleventh
street. The call had stated that a
woman was lying in the driveway
of an engine house In such a man
ner that the apparatus could not
be moved without running over her
and she could not be removed be
cause a police dog refused to allow
anyone to come near her. Since
alarms are frequent down there,
Ryan stepped on the gas harder
than ever and within a few minutes,
was at his destination.
• • •
One look at the dog told the ex
perienced Ryan that it would be
merely a waste of time to attempt
to, win its confidence or to catch it
om its guard. So he got out his loop
and soon had the dog in the am
bulance. Then the police and fire
men attempted to revive the wom
an. Their efforts were fruitless and
Ryan went back to the ambulance.
All the fight had gone out of the
dog that was to become Sonny. He
was whimpering in a corner as If In
some way the fact had been com
municated to him that the one he
hud been guarding so valiantly was
ttafld.
r • • •
So Sonny went to the shelter and
the one he loved went to the
morgue. Her purse and her cloth
ing yielding no clues, she was listed
as “unidentified” and a description
was sent out. Days passed and
none who went by the slabs recog
nized her. Meanwhile, though
given every attention, Sonny con
tinued to droop. Then something
happened. Two young girls came
to the shelter. They had been
there before and were looked on
merely as visitors. But when Son
ny saw them, he went wild. His
demonstrations attracted the atten
tion of the girls and they broke into
tears.
• • •
Eventually, the story was learned.
The older girl is a hat check girl in
a Yonkers restaurant. Her duties
keep her out late at night so her
mother always met her ut the sub
way station and took her home. Ac
companied by the dog, the mother
felt entirely safe. The daughter,
surprised at not finding her mother
in the usual place, went on home
without knowing that sudden death
had prevented the mother from
keeping the appointment.
• • •
When the mother did not appear,
the two girls appealed to the po
lice. But there had been some slip
up since the description the police
had of the woman in the morgue
did not check with that given by
the girls. So the girls called var
ous hospitals. Then, in a last hope,
they went to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to animals.
Strange and shy, they asked no
COL. JOHN BUCHAN
Col. John Buchan, the author, will
succeed Lord Bessborough as gov
ernor-general of Canada. He Is the
first commoner to be appointed to
the post.
questions with the result that they
did not see Sonny until their third
visit. So Sonny, not only stood
guard but solved a mystery.
• * •
After all these years, what a re
porter I’ve turned out to be! Son
ny’s story so interested me that I
failed to learn his real name.
• * *
With the routing out of conces
sionaries under it, now it seems
that there is an excellent prospect
of the disappearance of what has
often been called “the ugliest struc
ture in New York”—the Manhattan
extension of the Brooklyn bridge.
According to word from the depart
ment of plants and structures, the
extension will be razed as soon as
the elevated lines using it can
change their tracks and signals.
Also Brooklyn bridge may be mod
ernized so that eight lanes of traf
fic can be accommodated, the plans
having already been drawn.
©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Stove Designer Becomes
a Cook to Learn Needs
Cleveland.—It takes more than a
pencil and an artistic eye to design
stoves, washing machines and pan
cake turners, young Henry Drey
fuss, New York industrial designer,
made clear here.
Before he can turn out a pancake
turner that women will cry for, he
has to know first how to turn pan
cakes himself, Dreyfuss said. The
same thing applies to machines that
do the family wash, Ironing and
hold the refrigeration unit for the
week’s market.
When the young designer rede
signed a washing machine, he spent
nine months with his sleeves rolled
up, washing everything a housewife
does. He caught his fingers in the
wringer, tore buttons off pajamas,
tore lace into shreds.
Now he is going through a siege
of baking, broiling and boiling
everything from potatoes to cakes,
in the interest of more beautiful
and efficient stoves.
Only thirty now, Dreyfuss began
his career as a scene designer. He
was art consultant for a large thea
ter chain and won recognition with
his settings for several Broadway
productions, including “Fine and
Dandy,” “Strike Me Pink,” and
“The Last Mile.”
Calf Top* Record*
Gloucester, Ohio.—A Holstein calf
born on the dairy farm of D. M.
Sawyer weighed 130 pounds, top
ping all records in the county and
possibly in the state. The largest
calf of record heretofore born
weighed 105 pounds.
I brisbane\
THIS WEEK
Goodby, NRA
Vi all Street's Dormouse
Good Wages, Short Hours
liOttery Swindles
The Supreme court unanimously
declares NRA unconstitutional.
lllgh Judges,
whose decision
nobody can veto,
short of a con
s t I t u 11 o n a 1
amendment, say
congress must
do its work and
cannot abdicate
In favor of the
Chief Executive.
Tlie most Im
portant decision
in many years,
this probably
makes further
argument about
Arthur I«n-t.«n« extension of NRA
unnecessary. You can’t extend that
which is dead. American business
men may now resume business not
led by the kindly light of profes
sors and others.
Alice’s puzzled Dormouse, at the
Mad Hatter’s tea party, could not
understand his watch, that would
not keep time, although the Dor
mouse did everything. He dipped
the watch In his ten, put butter In
the works. ‘‘It was the best but
ter,’' he said, "but nothing seems
to please It."
The stock exchnnge Is something
like that watch—nothing seems to
please It, either.
At first, stock broker gentlemen,
whose "Kasha stone" Is the stock
ticker, began a weird dance of Joy
when they heard that NRA was
dead, and pushed up stock prices.
Then, suddenly, as the day wore
on, one broker asked another, and
every broker asked every other
broker, "How do we know what is
coming next?” And then they put
prices down.
It Is announced, but not by Mr.
Green, head of the American Fed
eration of Labor, that a great strike
will he called In protest against
the Supreme court’s XRA decision.
Mr. Green Is too wise to permit. If
he can prevent It. a strike against
the United States Supreme court.
He may, should, and probably will
take a wiser course and work, as
organized labor has worked suc
cessfully for generations, to Im
prove working conditions. •
Some union men know that wages,
hours and other conditions Im
proved in the old way nre more
durable than Increased pay based
on political flat. It Is necessary for
some one to provide ns well ns for
some one to take It.
Peddlers of tickets In the Havana
lottery send out “come-on" letters,
trying to sell tickets to foolish
Americans. On one such letter this
Is printed:
“Arthur Brisbane says large sums
of money . . . nre won by Ameri
cans buying foreign tickets.”
What Arthur Brisbane has said,
and now' repeats, is that through
foreign lottery schemes Americans
are swindled out of large sums. He
who Invests In a lottery throws
away his money, adding foolish
ness to incapacity. The Havana
lottery is as much of a trap for
fools as any other lottery.
Postmaster Farley’s plan to hasten
air mails allows n crowd of 10,000
to see a whirling autoglro drop
down on the roof and deliver mall,
another autoglro coming to get mall
bags and carry them away.
Mr. Farley’s plan Is to have the
autoglro fly between outlying flying
fields, where hlgh-power, fast planes
land, and carry mail bags to the
roofs of city post offices, saving
time lost in slow street travel.
With no sign of smoke, flame,
crater—nothing to Indicate an ex
tinct volcano—n new and live vol
cano suddenly begins eruption In an
out-of-the-way place in Iceland. A
great hole appears la the earth,
flames and red-hot lava rise. No
overflowing of neighboring farms as
yet.
What would natives have thought
had this happened in earlier days,
when everybody believed that hell,
the devil and all his wickedness
were just beneath our feet and
heaven just over our heads?
Postmaster -Genera I Farley thinks
of printing on all postage stamps,
Sursum Corda, which means “Lift
up your hearts.” lit* sees a great
summer ahead, "a summer of con
tent."
“Car loadings," says the postmas
ter general, “are up," incomes re
ported hy our taxpayers “art* up,”
“more people are buying automo
biles than before."
For some, the big news Is that
Little, the San Francisco golfer, has
defeated Doctor Tweddell, the Prlt
ish challenger.
For others, more Important news
Is the killing of 300 Chinese by Jap
anese troops. The 300 killetl art*
said to have been professional ban
dits. The killing of 300 armed
Chinese bandits cost the lives of
only six Japanese, which sounds
like efficiency.
@. Kin* Feature* Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service
Pipe Surely Should Be
Broken in by This Time
Hallln Hntem Kills of Shawnee,
Ohio, is smoking a pipe that dates
back to 1050, when it was pur
chased by Ado Hatem. nt Hainan in
Persia. He handed It down to Nader
Hatem In 1700 nnd it went in turn
to Acu Hatem in 1740; Soma Hatem
in 1870, on to Alias Hatem in 18510,
and to Ilallln Hntem Kills in 15X15,
says the Detroit News,
Without much fear of contradic
tion save from the occasional arche
ologist who dares puff a clay pipe
made by the mound-builders. Kills
may say when he sits down to draw
the smoke through six feet of pipe
stem that he is inhaling from tlie
ddest pipe In active service in these
United States.
Mounted on a glass bowl and
standing 30 inches high, this an
ient pipe is inlaid with ivory. When
n operation, the glass bowl is tilled
with water, nnd the smoke is in
haled through the water from the
tobacco bowl on top of the glass re
ceptacle. The tobacco Is soaked In
water first, und is kept burning bi
means of charcoal.
The Year* Bring Sense
At twenty a man believes every
thing is wrong and demands that It
be righted. At sixty, he still thinks
everything is wrong and has ceased
demanding.
California’s Success
California is a state that always
did make money in providing things
that people didn’t have to have—
from gold dust to avocado pears.
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