Honey Bee Is
Domesticated
To Aid Crops
Russian Farmers Experi
ment With Special
Insect ‘Diets.’
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.-WNU Service.
Putting the honey bee to
work on the farm like other
domesticated live stock is a
new development in Russia.
It has been learned that bees
can increase the yield of a
crop by carrying pollen from
one flower to another on
their day-long honey hunt.
Singling out a crop which
does not ordinarily tempt bee appe
tites. Soviet scientists extracted
•yrup from the flowers and fed it
to the insects. As a result, the bees,
addicted to their new diet, now seek
It in the fields, and reports from the
U. S. S. R. hint of crop increases.
The honey bee chooses flowers
more carefully than do humans, for
■he refuses to mix her flavors.
When she starts sipping from one
variety of blossom, she will fly for
miles if necessary seeking others of
the same variety, so that the honey
will be pure. This strict selective
ness of insect diet gives the world
tome distinctive honey, such as the
THIS WORKER BEE is seen
gathering honey from goldcnrod.
It requires about 3,000 visits for
a worker bee to gather one drop
of liquid from flowers, of which
only 30 per cent is honey. Even
the 30 per cent is 70 per cent
water which has to be evaporated
by special “air-conditioned” stor
age cells.
Greek honey of Mount Hymettus and
the American brands flavored with
•tar thistle or purple alfalfa or tulip
tree blossoms.
The bee that has acres of blooms
which she prefers within easy reach
naturally fattens the honeycomb
more quickly than the insect with
only an area of assorted wild
flowers available. Clover is the
principal raw material for the
honeymakers in the United States.
California Leads Nation.
California, where the American
honey tide rises highest, encourages
the bee with fragrant orange and
sage blossoms. Michigan and Ohio,
however, (the states next in honey
production) have miles and miles of
Tibet Picks Five-Year-Old Boy
To Rule as New ‘Living Buddha’
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. D. C.—WNU Service.
A living “baby” Buddha
now accepting homage from
the 2,000,000 people he will
rule till death, and believed
by his followers to have the
same soul possessed by the
ruler who preceded him, is
the subject of a strange story
being unfolded in fragmen
tary news from Tibet.
The small boy in knee-boots and
yellow robes, recently installed in
Lhasa’s hilltop palace, is Tibet's
fourteenth Dalai Lama, now identi
fied after more than five years of
search for the thirteenth Lama's
successor.
Tibet, secluded between the
world's highest mountain barriers
and the gloomiest windswept desert
of Asia, is one of the last theocra
cies (lands ruled by priests) sur
viving in the modern world. The
Dalai Lama, head of both church
and state, is acclaimed as a living
embodiment of Buddha. His suc
cession is determined by no com
monplace father-and-son hereditary
arrangement, but by the principle of
reincarnaUon. When a Dalai Lama
dies, oracles go into trances for
guidance, and priests search the
country for a boy born at the in
stant of the ruler’s death. The spir
it of the former Dalai Lama is ac
cepted as having entered the baby,
who thereupon beccmes ruler of a
land one-sixth as large as the United
States, and head of a priesthood
numbering between one-flfth and
one-seventh of the entire population.
Land Above Clouds.
This Himalayan land literally
above the clouds, where such mysti
cism cokrs politics, is the highest
ISOLATED AND MYSTERI
OUS Tibet is secluded between I
the world’s highest mountain
barriers and the gloomiest wind
swept desert of Asia. One-sixth
as large as the United States,
Tibet has long been a goal of the
adventure seeker.
country in the world. The cold dry
Tibetan plateau is a land table of
almost a half-million square miles
at a level above 13.000 feet, with
the loftiest peaks on earth rising
ebo.e it.
Mountain freshets wash gold into
Tibet’s valleys, which have supplied
China’s luxury trade for centuries
What other minerals Tibet holds ,
more precious than the traditional i
commerce in musk and vttk tails |
wool, deer horns, and sail, is as v«- j
only suspected
BEE MAN of Lake George, N.
Y., is Foster A. Lockhart pic
tured here teith both hands cov
ered with the insects. He has
lived with bees for 52 years, has
been stung about 10,000 times
and has shipped his bees to
China, New Zealand and every
corner of the globe.
clover for thetr bees to drink. Iowa
and New York are also chiefly clover
states, but their hives produce such
variations as raspberry and buck
wheat honey. Texas turns Its bees
out to feast on. cotton blossoms and
mesquite, with results that place
the state among the half dozen larg
est honey producers.
The bee is a tidy little European
immigrant that has made good in
the United States. Her secret for
mula (or making sugar from flowers
is ages older than man’s way of
extracting it from cane or beets.
Egyptians are supposed to have do
mesticated the insect. During Old
Testament times the bee was well
established in the business of mak
ing honey. European settlers, find
ing no native honeybees in America,
brought bee colonists to the New
World. Indians marveled ceaseless
ly at the hard-working "white man’s
fly."
Bee-Colonizing Industry.
Bee-colonizing now is a larger In
dustry in the United States than in
colonial days. A hive of bees in
the long winters of the northern
states devours about 50 pounds of
honey and produces none. Keepers
therefore And it less expensive to
buy a southern queen to start a
new colony in the spring than to
feed the old one through the winter.
Alabama leads the nation as a bee
employment bureau for northern
bee keepers. This year’s shipments
carried an estimated 70,000 Ala
baman queens.
The regal coach in which Her In
sect Majesty travels is a wire and
wood box no larger than a deck of
cards. Her royal tour takes place
by mail.
In her new hive, she produces
eggs at the rate of 1,500 a day.
Three weeks elapse between egg
and fluffy young bee, too young to
fly, but capable of helping out with
odd jobs around the hive, such as
cleaning the nursery cells or pack
ing the pantries with bee-bread or
flower pollen brought in by adults.
In 10 days the youngsters work their
way down to the portals of the hive,
where they join the wing fanners
of the air-conditioning brigade or
the police squads of doormen. Here
they test their wings on brief glides
and trial flights of a yard or two.
I " _
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD
Senator Wheeler seen bid
ding for Roosevelt support
if F. 1). R. doesn't want third
term.,. South demands way
to ship cotton to England...
Indiana's state pride makes
Republicans favor McNutt's
candidacy.
WASHINGTON.—Senator Burton
K. Wheeler’s statement that no can
didate could win the Democratic
nomination without the approval
of President Roosevelt, or at least
that the nomination would be worth
less without active support for the
candidate by F. D. R , is regarded
by most political observers here as
a final bid by the Montana states
man for Roosevelt’s support in the
eventuality that the President does
not seek renomination.
The point is that virtually all ob
servers agree that President Roose
velt would never lift
a finger to help
Burt Wheeler get
the Democratic
nomination, even
assuming that the
President did not
want the nomina
tion himself. Wheel
er had been waving
olive branches at
the White House for
some time, and the
President has been Senator wheeter
sending for him a
great deal, thus giving the impres
sion that the feud between the two
had been healed.
But no one outside the Wheeler
entourage has taken this peace
making very seriously. It is pointed
out that the President has never for
given any one who proved his enemy
on any important issue, and the
thought is that the defeat the White
House took on the Supreme court
packing bill left too many bitter
scars for any olive-branch waving
to overcome it.
The theory is that the President
may smile at Wheeler, and use him,
on the notion that there is no use
biting off one’s nose to spite one’s
face, but that the cordiality is all
on the surface.
Wheeler, however, has apparently
taken the President’s constant con
sultations with him during the last
session of congress at their face
value, assuming, of course, that the
outside gossip is right about the
President’s really not having for
given him.
Roosevelt Strongly Opposed
To Nomination of Garner
There is also very general agree
ment that the President would never
stand for the nomination of John
Nance Garner. The President be
lieves that Garner is utterly out of
sympathy with many of the New
Deal policies.
Most of the left wingers around
the White House, the men who have
the most ready access to the Presi
dent, feel sure that they would not
have positions very long after Gar
ner’s inauguration. So they take
pains to keep the home fires burn
ing so far as the President’s dis
trust of his “second in command’’
is concerned.
Incidentally these left wingers
have had no hesitancy in private
conversations with other officials,
and with outsiders as well, in ex
pressing their conviction that the
President would never approve Gar
ner’s nomination. While they con
tend that it would be impossible to
nominate Garner without Roose
velt’s sanction, when pressed as to
what the President would do if Gar
ner should be nominated, they in
sist he would “take a walk.”
Congress May Take Hand
In Transfer of Ship Flags
There may be an entirely differ
ent picture of this business of trans
ferring United States lines ships to
the flag of Panama by the time con
gress convenes. The first obvious
indignation was at the obvious
duplicity—as critics saw it—of the
scheme. Especially starting to
put it through after congress had
gone home, satisfied that it had
passed a law which would keep the
United States out of a certain type
of danger which might involve this
country in the war.
It is perfectly true that the chief
reasons actuating President Roose
velt and Secretary of State Cordell
Hull in approving the idea was to
enable American industry to market
its wares abroad.
But the big pressure is not com
ing from the airplane manufactur
ers, or the toolmakers, or even the
oil men. They know that the bellig
erents will find some way of getting
enough ships over here to bring
those particular products. The real
outcry is coming from the cotton
men.
Cotton has been piling up in New
Orleans, for instance, because the
ships that normally would be carry
ing it to England have been barred
from that trade by the “cash and
carry ’ orovisions of the neutrality
act. Now, of course, eventually
Britain must have that cotton. She
would have to provide ships for it
some way or other. But this is not
as clear to the cotton factors, and
even the cotton farmers, as it is
to the makers of airplanes.
So the cotton people have already
begun bombarding Washington with
demands that the government do
something to get this cotton moved. I
South Demands Way Be Found
To Ship Cotton to England
A little thing like the neutrality j
act provision barring United States i
ships from trading with the bellig
erents—or going into war zones near
them—bothers the cotton folks no
more than the law of supply and de
mand did last year, or the year be
fore that.
They have been educated by their
politicians for years to believe that
by voting for the right people at
primary time, they could be sure
to have men in Washington who
would crack down on the wicked in
dividuals in New York, or else
where, who were keeping the price
of cotton down. Thus—though nat
urally their mode of correction had
not been notably successful until
Triple A benefits began to pour in—
they have come to look to Washing
ton for everything. And they are
looking right now.
“Get this cottottto England,” they
demand.
Some of the people who were
shouting loudest of all to keep the
arms embargo on—it was "murder
to sell munitions to belligerents”—
are now just as vociferous in their
demands that the United States gov
ernment must get around this “cash
■ and carry” thing somehow, and get
that cotton abroad.
It was always this way. When
Britain was interfering with cotton
shipments to Holland—on the theory
that the cotton was really going to
Germany, back in 1915—much of the
cotton country wanted to break off
diplomatic relations with England.
All of which is just human nature,
and politics. But look out for re
percussions. A lot of senators who
are openly sneering now at the idea
of hoisting the Panamanian flag
over United States line ships will
be singing a very different tune in
January. Especially Southern sena
tors.
The White House knows all about
this, and is much less concerned
about the criticism of the Panama
deal than one might think. Some
way will be found. That cotton
MUST get to England—to please
New Orleans if not Manchester.
Indiana’s State Pride Makes
Republicans Favor McNutt
There may be no way of proving
it, but certain neutral observers
who have been watching the political
mill for many years believe that
Indiana has more state pride than
any other subdivision of these Unit
ed States.
What makes tlys of interest right
now is the general talk about Paul
V. McNutt, former governor of In
diana and the favorite son of the
Democratic Hoosiers for President
next year. One might well expect
the Indiana Democrats to speak well
of McNutt. After all he is still the
head of the Democratic organiza
tion there, and it is about as solid
and efficient an organization as
there is in the country. So an Indi
ana Democrat speaking unkindly of
McNutt’s presidential qualifications
had better take care who hears him.
It might interfere with his own polit
ical future.
But the Indiana Republicans also
speak well of McNutt. Not that
they actually want to see him in
the White House. .They want a Re
publican, naturally, but if there has
to be a Democrat they would like
it to be McNutt, and even if a
Republican is going to win the presi
dency they would like to see McNutt
have the honor of the Democratic
nomination.
Moreover, they will talk at length,
will these Indiana Republicans, of
the charm of the man, his good
looks, his political appeal, and his
oratorical ability. Not to mention
his political astuteness, which they
all profess to admire, some of them
even to the extent of saying he is
the one man in the country who is
probably a better politician even
than Franklin D. Roosevelt!
McNutt’s Nomination Would
Help All Local Candidates
This being true, the outlanders go
on, it would seem obvious that Mc
Nutt’s candidacy for the presidency,
assuming he gets the nomination,
would help every local Democratic
candidate for office in Indiana, and
by the same token hurt every local
Republican candidate.
That is the way the favorite son
business is viewed in other states,
and it would seem to any one not
born and raised in Indiana that the
more state pride there is in Indiana,
the more true this effect on the local
tickets of nominating a Hoosier for
President would be. Actually the j
favorite son thing has not worked !
out that way in some other states.
In fact in some states it has almost i
■ seemed at times as though the vot
ers did not care whether a man
from their state was President or
not. For instance, when Kansas
voted for Roosevelt against its own
governor. For instance, the two
times that Nebraska cast its elec
toral vote against William Jennings
Bryan. For instance, when West
Virginia went for Coolidge against
its native son John W. Davis.
But perhaps no one outside the
state can understand Indiana or its
people. It has always been this
way, apparently. No one could get
the late John W Kern or Benjamin j
F. Shively, when they were in the
senate, to say one word against Re- ;
publicans James E. Watson and I
Harry S. New, who not only wanted
to but eventually did succeed them.
(Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.)
Tlotyd
ADVENTURERS' CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
“A Ride With the Reaper”
WELL—one way to have an adventure is to go on an auto*
mobile ride with Jeannette E. Lowitt of Arverne, N. Y.
Jeannette’s driving would thrill you. It might even paralyze
you. Like the old patent medicine ads used to say, it invig
orates the healthy, cures the lame and the halt, and brings
the dying back to life.
Jeannette started out on her adventure without any auto
mobile at all. As a matter of fact, she wasn t even properly j
equipped for walking. She didn’t have any shoes on. It was
a stifling August day in 1930. Even Rockaway Beach was
without the slightest sign of a breeze. Jeannette was lying
down in her room when suddenly the hot, muggy air was torn
by the most piercing, agonizing scream she had ever heard.
And from then on, things happened thick and fast.
Jeannette jumped out of bed and ran to the door. In front
of her house was a crowd of people. In the midst of them was
Mrs. Levin—a summer visitor—holding a tiny infant in her
arms. “My baby! He’s dead! ” she was crying. And as Jean
nette sprang down the steps she heard the frantic, white
faced mother explaining that while she had left the child alone for a min
ute it had picked up a bottle of camphorated oil and drank it.
Jeannette Starts Trip to Hospital.
The baby lay in the woman’s arms motionless—stiff. His little
eyes bulged and his lips were blue. Without a word Jeannette grabbed
him and started running—running toward the doctor’s office, two blocks
away. She was still barefooted. The burning sun made her head throb.
Perspiration drenched her body. But she sprinted the whole way and
burst into the doctor’s office, her heart pounding madly.
The doctor was in his back office, operating on a man’s foot.
Blood soaked cotton was strewn over the operating table and
more blood was dripping into a pail that hung beneath the patient.
“I can’t stop,” he said. “This man has a hemorrhage. What’s
the trouble?”
At that point the child’s mother, who had followed closely behind
Jeannette, came bursting into the office. "My baby!” She wailed. “He’s
dead! He’s dead!’’ The doctor dropped the needle he was holding,
snatched the child from Jeannette’s arms and ran into the bathroom.
Without a word Jeannette grabbed him and started running.
Opening the hot water faucet in the bathtub he held the baby under it.
A minute passed. There was no sign of life. "Jeannette,” he whis
pered. "He’s gone. Look—he’s foaming at the mouth. Rush him to
the hospital. Take my car—it's outside. The key is in the ignition. My
patient will bleed to death if I leave him.”
Jeannette picked up the child again. 8he dashed out into the
hall and stumbled over the prostrate body of Mrs. Levin, who had
fainted. She couldn’t even hold the child while Jeannette drove to
the hospital. How could she manage alone? She rushed to the
street—lost a few precious seconds trying to get the baby’s
stiff, outstretched arms through the narrow door. With the child
on her lap she lost more valuable time trying to find the starter.
She found the starter at last. The motor roared. The car started.
She was off—turning the corner and putting on speed—pacing down the
boulevard toward the hospital, at Beach Eighty-fourth street, just over
the tracks of the Long Island railroad.
There was traffic on the streets, but Jeannette made good time. She
did, that is, until she came to the railroad crossing near Hammel sta
tion. As she was about to cross, the gateman blew his whistle and
held up his hand. The crossing gate began to lower. Jeannette screamed.
"Wait! Let me through!" But the gates kept right on falling.
Jeannette gripped the steering wheel and stepped on the gas.
The car shot forward. It bumped onto the crossover just under
the gates—got into the middle of the tracks—and stalled!
The gateman cursed. Jeannette jammed her foot viciously down
on the starter—but the car didn’t start. Then, for the first time, Jean
nette lost her head. They made cars then, with two kinds of gear shifts,
and suddenly she had forgotten which type this was. She sat fumbling
with the gear lever while, down the tracks, a train was rapidly narrow,
ing the distance between it and the car.
Agony of the Moment Lives With Jane.
The gateman yelled .“Get the h-off these tracks.” Jean
nette paid no attention. He ran over and screamed In her car.
A crowd was gathering. Frantically, Jeannette kept trying to
start the car. Her teeth were chattering—and she says she’ll
never forget the agony of that moment.
The gateman had raised the gates half-way. The crowd was
screaming to her to get out of the car and run. Then, suddenly,
the motor caught. Jeannette jerked the shift lever into what she
thought was first speed.
It wasn't. It was reverse. The car shot backward with a force
that made the baby’s head strike the steering wheel. It hit with a
resounding thud and it looked like a catastrophe, but it was just what
the doctor ordered.
The car shot back off the track, and at the same time, something
happened to the child. I guess the doctor would have called it regurgi
tation or some other swell sounding word, but in plain English—well—
the baby just chucked up. An avalanche of half digested string beans
and potatoes landed in Jeannette’s lap. And along with it came the CAM
PHORATED OIL.
A few minutes later in the hospital, Jeannette lay on the floor and
cried hysterically while doctors worked over the baby with a stomach
pump. If the doctors even noticed Jeannette, they didn’t give any sign
of it. The baby was the important one. Jeannette was only the on®
who saved his life.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Rigid Air Safety Code Beneficial to U. S. Aviation
One reason for the supremacy of
American aviation over foreign ri
vals is supplied by estimates that
this country’s commercial air trans
port companies spend 500 per cent
more each year on research, main
tenance and inspection than all the
rest of the world's airlines.
Rigid safety standards are applied
to even seemingly minor items of
air equipment by aviation inspection
crews. An example of their un
usual requirements is found in a re
port on the development of a new
type of plane refuelling hose now in
use by major oil companies having
refuelling contracts at airports from
coast to coast.
Five years of research by scien
tists of the B. F. Goodrich labora
tories went into the perfecting of
the new hose which incorporates
safeguards against two peculiar avi
ation problems. A special com
pound of synthetic rubber was de
veloped for the hose to prevent the
possibility of small particles of
natural rubber—which has a tend
ency to disintegrate in contact with
gasoline—from passing into the mo
tors. The new compound is said
by technicians to be completely gas
oline-proof.
Stranded stainless steel wire was
also woven into the hose in order
that static electricity which might
have been generated by the fric
tion of air on the plane's surfaces In
flight might be conducted harmless
ly to the ground through the wire,
which is attached to couplings on
the field.
Easy Afghan Smart
Done in Two Shades
An afghan for a beginner! In
two shades of a color, it’s worked
in single crochet, with rib stitch
forming a herringbone design.
Pattern 6505 contains directions
Pattern 6505
for making afghan; illustration of
it and stitches; materials re
quired ; color schemes; photo
graph of section of afghan.
To obtain this pattern send IS
cents in coins to The Sewing Cir
cle Household Arts Dept., 259 W.
14th St., New York, N. Y.
Please write your name, ad
dress and pattern number plainly.
Confetti Popcorn
2 quarts pop corn V2 cup water
2 cups sugar Vegetable coloring
2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon flavoring
Divide pop corn into three equal
portions. Combine sugar, butter,
water, and coloring; bring to boil
and cook until the syrup spins a
thread (about 15 minutes). Add the
flavoring. Pour over popped corn
and stir until kernels are sugar
coated and separated. Repeat proc
ess three times, using a different
color and flavor each time; mix
batches.
We Go Together!
We all of us tend to rise or fall
together. If any set of us goes
down, the whole nation sags a lit
tle. If any of us raise ourselves
a little, then by just so much the
nation as a whole is raised.—The
odore Roosevelt.
Constipation Relief
That Also
Pepsin-izes Stomach
When constipation brings on acid indi
gestion, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coated
tongue, sour taste, and bad breath, your
stomach is probably loaded up with cer
tain undigested food and your bowels don’t
move. So you need both Pepsin to help
break up fast that rich undigested food in
your stomach, and Laxative Senna to pull
the trigger on those lazy bowels. So be
sure your laxative also contains Pepsin.
Take Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative, because its
Syrup Pepsin helps you gain that won
derful stomach-relief, while the Laxative
Senna moves your bowels. Tests prove the
power of Pepsin to dissolve those lumps of
undigested protein food which may linger
in your stomach, to cause belching, gastric
acidity and nausea. This is how pepsin
izing your stomach helps relieve it of 9uch
distress. At the same time this medicine
wakes up lazy nerves and muscles in your
bowels to relieve your constipation. So see
how much better you feel by taking the
laxative that also puts Pepsin to work on
that stomach discomfort, too. Even fin
icky children love to taste this pleasant
family laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Lax
ative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin at your
druggist today 1
Up Again!
Our greatest glory consists not in
never failing, but in rising every
time we fall.—Goldsmith.
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