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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1941)
Spotting Saboteurs Plant parasites and diseases which come to America from for eign lands cost Uncle Sam about 3 billions per year. But the U. S. is busy trying to stop these saboteurs. A chain of plant quarantine stations has been established around our borders where incoming plants must pass rigid inspections. These photos take you to one of these “agricultural Ellis Islands" at Hoboken, N. J. George Becker, chief entomologist at the Hoboken plant quar antine station, pointing to an enlarged picture of a new beetle, which is found in plants coming from South A merica. Inspectors examining a ship ment of orchids from England. Yes, even the ultra-aristocratic orchid may have diseases anti lice. Scale Sleuth ... Inspector Her bert Sanford studying an import ed lymbidium orchid with a poiv erful hand lens. He is looking for scale insects. Close W ork . . . It takes a mi croscope to spot some species of bug and blight saboteurs, Here Chief Inspector Emil Kostal ex amines imported plants. Lethal Chamber . . . W orkers of the quarantine station are re moving cases of plants from a lethal chamber, where the insects with which the plants were infected were slain with gas fumes. AT THE RACES 9B By STANLEY CORDELL (Associated Newspapers.) WNU Service. BETTING on horse races Is un doubtedly a vice. I admit from the start that it is wrong. The odds are against the bettor His chances of winning are slight. Yet, despite It all, horse racing enthusiasts who do not bet on their favorite are few. A small wager increases the thrill tenfold. Norma and Monty Castle will tell you that I am right. The Castles : came to Hollywood last winter with a party of friends. On the second day of their arrival I brought them and the Spragues to the races at Santa Anita It was a dull after noon. My guests were bored. The six of us sat in the grandstand and watched the first three races with little display of interest. We were familiar with none of the horses, ' their records nor their jockeys The time between races was long and tiresome. At last I said, only partly serious. "Let's place a bet on one of the horses. We can at least cheer for him." “Let’s," said Norma, brightening at once. "Which horse is the favor ite. You ought to know.” As a matter of fact, I didn’t, but I admitted knowledge of a way to find out. I excused myself and five minutes later I was back carrying a dope sheet, for which I’d paid a dollar. We studied the sheet together, and learned that the odds on Uncle Tom were great for the next race. He was, without doubt, the favorite. We descended to the betting booths and each placed $2 on Uncle Tom. After that we lined the paddock rail and waited. Uncle Tom won by a length, and we all collected forty cents, in addi tion to our $2 investment. It was Uncle Tom won by a length. most exciting. We consulted the dope sheet and learned that Robin hood was the next race's favorite. Feeling extremely sophisticated we bet again—and won again! This time ninety cents each. The fever began to get in our biood. We began to glow and jabber excitedly. We learned the meaning ”>f such terms as "playing him across the board,” “on the nose”; Dough nut only "placed”; Baby Doll "showed.” We began to feel exhila rated. We studied horses and riders with what we thought was a judi cious and experienced eye. By the time the parade had start ed preparatory to the seventh race, our winnings netted us $6 each. We were jubilant. And in a spirit of confidence and recklessness we agreed to place our total winnings, plus an added $6 each, "on the nose" of Flying Tail, the favorite for race No 7. It was a seven-furlong race, out of the chute, which meant that the horses started some distance from where we stood, the race ending, of course, directly in front of us. It was after the tape had been snapped and the little knot of rid ers were beating around the track that I turned to observe the expres sions on the faces of my friends. Norma, I found, had turned her back and was nonchalantly lighting a cig arette Monty, too, seemed little interested in the race. This puzzled me. I couldn’t understand it, and I knew a feeling of keen disappoint ment. Could it be that the couple had become bored again? Were they actually immune to thrills? The Spragues, I noticed, were breathless and excited, their eyes glued to the track. Their obvious state of high tension W’as satisfying. At least I had succeeded in provid ing a thrill for two of my guests. But now the horses were at the turn and were sweeping down the straightaway. Flying Tail was in the lead. The crowd thundered its applause. And then just as the on rushing animals reached the north end of the paddock, Icanwin, another favorite, swept up the turf. For a time, he ran neck and neck with Flying Tail. The finish line was near. But before it was reached, Icanwin stretched out his neck and , won by inches. It was sad for us. We lost not only our winnings, but an additional $6 each. Such is the fate of all who I bet on horse races, i I turned to Norma and Monty. They smiled. They seemed not to care In fact, I doubt if either had : observed the sad fate of our favorite. Solemnly we trooped back to the car. En route to town I pondered over the attitude of Norma and Monty. Somehow it didn’t seem right. No matter how small the wager, men and women who bet on races become excited and thrilled, i It is almost a physical impossibil ! ity not to. And yet Norma and Monty had displayed no outward emotion what ever. In comparison to the Spragues and my wife and I, they were totally unresponsive. Something wa* wrong. It was not until dinnertime that night that my feelings were relieved and the mystery solved. Norma and Monty were grinning when they entered the dining room. Obviously they were bursting with something to tell. It was Monty who finally told the story. It seems when he and Norma were dressing for dinner, Monty had noticed five black and blue spots on his wife’s arm. Ho questioned her about them, but her puzzlement was as great as his. They became alarmed and were about to summon a doctor, when suddenly Monty re membered vaguely something he’d done during that last race. He re membered taking hold of Norma's arm. The explanation was simple. Un knowingly Monty’s grip had tightened as the horses rounded the last turn. But Norma, her interest concentrat ed on the race; had felt no pressure, no pain, though the force of Monty's grip must have been terrific, as in dicated by the extent of Norma’s bruises. Those black and blue marks were a dead giveaway to the tremendous excitement under which the young couple was laboring. Does betting on horse races stimu late excitement? The answer is ”Yes.” Scotland’s First Settlers Came From Old Ireland Just when the Piets settled in Scotland no one knows. Neither do we know all the facts about their race, though it seems likely they were Celts, or at least partly Celtic. The early Piets decorated their bodies with pictures or designs of one kind or another. Their name is believed to mean "Painted Peo ple.” They were ol warlike nature. Time and again they made raids on the Romans, and sometimes they forced their way across Hadrian’s wall. The Piets were in Scotland before the Scots. The first clear record of Scots getting to Scotland gives the time as about the year 495. The Piets had been in Scotland for hun dreds of years before that. An old record tells us that the Piets used “chariots” in battle. We do not know what their chariots were like, but they probably were two-wheeled carts of a rather crude type. The Scots came in from Ireland, strange as it may seem. Certain old maps label the northern part ol Great Britain as "Scotia Nova,” meaning “New Scotland." Ireland, or at least part of it, once held the name of “Scotia.” For a long time the Piets and the Scots did not get along together. There were scores of battles, large and small, between them. Eleven hundred years ago, a Scot tish king, Kenneth MacAlpin, led an army against the Piets. The Piets fell beneath his attack, and in a few years their lands were placed in the kingdom of Scotland, as MacAlpin called his realm. That ended the warfare between the Piets and the Scots. Discover ‘Young’ Volcano A new volcano—that is, probably not more than a few hundred years old — was among the discoveries mode by the University of Califor nia’s survey schooner E. W. Scripps, which returned recently to San Di ego after a 78-day cruise to the Gull of California. The volcano is on one of the islets in the vicinity of the ancient village of Loreto—Coronados island, a mass of rocks a mile and a half across. Objective of the cruise was chiefly geological, and while “land geolo gists" were at work on the islands and mainland, scientists aboard the Scripps were busy taking soundings and borings of the floor of the gulf. The vessel, which is attached to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, is equipped with ex tensive scientific and research equip ment. Both in the number of soundings taken, and in the size of borings of the sea bottom, the Scripps set a record. Dr. Roger Revelle reported that in addition to taking 25,000 soundings by means of the fathome ter, 10 times as many as had been taken on prior cruises, they brought up cores as long as 17 feet—an all time record Pitcairn Island ‘Pacific Paradise’ The happy isolation mutineers of the Bounty sought but did not And on Pitcairn island belongs to their descendants today. The islanders live a pleasant, pious, hard-working life, far removed from the strife of the rest of the world. Pitcairn is a tiny two-mile-square dot in the south Pacific between Australia and South America, about 3,500 miles west of Chile. War has halted the frequent visits of passing ships; postal service is irregular. The religious regime established by John Adams persists among the 200 descendants of mutineers There are no taxes, but every man is re quired to work seven days a year on public projects. Education is com pulsory. The islanders have an abundance of food. Agriculture and fishing are the principal occupations. There are no cows, pigs or horses on Pitcairn. h *kJ*Uon (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Vermont Has a Birthday 'T'HIS year marks the 150th birth day of the state of Vermont which shares with Texas the dis tinction of having been an independ ent republic before she entered the sisterhood of states. But Vermont has another distinction. Although she is listed as the "fourteenth state” she can claim a “first”—that of being tlie first admitted to the federal Union when the “Thirteen Original States” came into existence through the adoption of the Consti tution in 1787. The history of Vermont goes back 250 years—to the English settlement at Vernon in 1690. At that time this region was known as the “New Hampshire Grants” and was a part of the colony of New Hampshire, which had been separated from the colony of Massachusetts by royal charter 10 years previously Stamp issued this year to com memorate the 150th anniversary of Vermont’s admission to the Union. About the middle of the Eight eenth century, after the wars with the French and Indians were over, groups of sturdy young men set out from Connecticut and Massachusetts with their families to make their homes in the frontier country be tween the “New Hampshire Grants” and the colony of New York. It was not long, however, until these settlers learned to their dismay that the British colonial courts had de clared their land titles invalid and that “York State lawyers” were ob taining writs from the courts to dis possess them. But these freedom loving pioneers had no intention of giving up the little farms which they had cleared in the wilderness with out fighting for them. The climax came in July, 1771. Visit the town of Westminster, Vt., today and you will see there a gran ite monument bearing a bronze tab let which tells you that here is the “Birthplace of Vermont.” It says: “Near this site stood the homestead of Lieut. James Breakenridge. After years of peaceable possession, his farm was claimed by New York speculators. A sheriff and over 300 men came from Albany to evict him from his home. Aided by men from Bennington, a brave defense was made without bloodshed, proving to be a Declaration of Independence of the State of Vermont, July 19. 1771.” During this time, too, a group of determined frontiersmen, who called themselves the “Green Moun tain Boys,” organized to resist the aggression of their neighbors and chose Ethan Allen as their leader. The spirit that animated James Breakenridge and Ethan Allen and the other “Green Mountain Boys” still burned brightly in the hearts of Vermonters when the quarrel with England came to a crisis in 1775. So in May of that year the re doubtable Ethan and 80 of his men made a dash against Fort Ticonde roga, broke in upon the astonished British commander and demanded that he surrender “in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Conti nental Congress.” This spectacular feat did not mean, however, that the Vermonters were going to link their fortunes with the other colonists in the fight for freedom. They didn’t join them in the historic session at Philadel phia on July 4, 1776. But a year later they did some independence declaring of their own. On July 2, 1777, they held a con vention at Windsor, in a house which is known today as the ‘‘Old Consti tution House," to draw up a consti tution for a state that would be inde pendent, not only of Great Britain but of all other American colonies also. The delegates were in session there on July 8 when news came that Burgoyne’s army had recap tured Ticonderoga. So great was their alarm at this news that they were on the point of adjourning the convention when a terrific thunderstorm came up. It held them indoors and they quickly finished up the business at hand. Incidentally, the constitution which they adopted at that time was the first on this continent to prohibit hu man slavery. Thus Vermont began its career as an independent repub lic and it continued as such until March 1, 1791, when it was admit ted to the new United States of America as our fourteenth state. Vermont’s nickname of the “Green Mountain state" dates from 1763 when the Rev Samuel Peters, standing on the summit of Mt. Pis gah, christened the country “Verd Mont” (Green Mountain). So Ethan Allen called his frontiersmen "green mountain boys.” They had worthy successors in the Vermonters under the command of Gen. John Stark, who defended the freedom that had been declared on July 8, 1777, by winning a great victory over a de tachment from Burgoyne’s army at the Battle of Bennington less than a month later. Removal of Tonsils May Be Harmful By DR. JAMES W. BARTON I HAVE had the opportunity of examining the boys in three private preparatory schools and in one school where boys were of the un derprivileged class. I found that the great majority of the TODAY'S HEALTH COLUMN boys in the private schools had had their tonsils re moved, while the majority of the underprivileged boys still had their tonsils. Today, physicians are not advis ing the removal of tonsils so readily Dr. Barton as in previous years. The fact that tonsils are large or show white spots does not now mean removal. Where tonsils are large, show evi dence of infection and the child has frequent sore throats, removal is advised. Infected tonsils are a liabil ity as they can cause infection. However, if tonsils are not infect ed, they are really assets to health as they act as filters and prevent harmful organisms from entering the blood. Thus tonsils have been likened to the strainer on a water tap. If the strainer is clean and free of dirt, it prevents dirt getting into the drinking water. If the strainer gets clogged with dirt, then some of this dirt can get into the drinking water and cause trouble. Findings on Tonsil Removal. At frequent intervals, Dr. Albert D. Kaiser, Rochester, N. Y., has been publishing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, his findings as to the effects of removal of tonsils on the health of the child. A.s chairman of the Section on Chil dren’s Diseases, he presents figures for the last 10 years. He finds that about 50 per cent of children today have their tonsils removed, which, in his opinion, is too large a per centage. From his findings he sug gests: Where tonsils are enlarged and frequently inflamed, giving rise to attacks of tonsillitis and enlarge ment of glands of neck, tonsils should be removed. Where there are attacks of ton sillitis followed by rheumatic symp toms, tonsils should be removed. Such infections as the common cold, middle ear and sinus are not usually prevented by removal of tonsils. Remember, large tonsils should be removed if they are interfering with breathing. Pros and Cons Of Pasteurization THE headmaster of a preparatory school that obtained its milk from its farm was urged by parents to have the milk pasteurized. In an attempt to get at the amount of loss of vitamins by pasteuriza tion, the headmaster wrote various health departments and private chemists. From some he obtained figures showing only 5 to 10 per cent loss of vitamins by pasteurization and others as high as 50 per cent. All replies admitted, however, that pasteurization made the milk safe to use, which could not be said of unpasteurized milk. The head master, after due consideration and in conference with his dietitian de cided that safety was more impor tant than food value, particularly in his school, because any loss in vita mins in the milk was more than made up by the great amount of fresh fruit and vegetables from the farm. What are believed to be reliable figures about loss of vitamins by pasteurization (heating the milk) appeared recently in an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. From experiments in laboratories of high standing, the figures show that from 20 to 25 per cent of vitamin B1 (useful for tired nerves, lack of appetite, and rheu matism) vitamin C (which prevents scurvy) and iodine (which prevents early goiter) was lost by pasteuri zation. All the other nutritive or food substances of milk are appar ently not affected by pasteurization. From the above it can be seen that those who have maintained that pasteurization destroys some of the vitamins are correct, but the loss, 20 to 25 per cent, is not as impor tant as the safety of the milk. As Dr. Gilman Thompson pointed out some years ago, unclean milk causes more illness than any other one thing. • * • QUESTION BOX Q.—Is diverticulosis considered an uncommon ailment? Please suggest a remedy. 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