Eternal ar on Elements
Protection against the rat ages of dust, salt air, moisture and storm,
is a never-ending battle for engineers of the spectacular $35,000,000
Golden Gate bridge, which links Son Francisco with north way Red
wood Empire counties
and the Pacific North
west.The follotcing series
of pictures will give you
an idea of the enormity
of the undertaking.
Above: Twenty experienced
painters working daily daub
8.000 gallons of /mint annu
ally on 100,000 tons of struc
tural steel and 80,000 miles of
tough wire cables in an effort
to prevent deterioration of
the world"j tallest and longest
single span suspension bridge.
Right: Seven hundred forty
six feet above Golden Gate,
two men inspect main "sad
dles" and weather proof
shrouds of the 36'/J inch di
ameter steel cables.
Sentinel of the Pacific,
perpetual tribute to mod
ern engineering skill, the
Golden Gale bridge
(above) tests the ingenu
ity of man to combat time
and Heather. A mighty
Itattleship passes beneath
the majestic structure.
Left: Hundreds of feet
below the tops of the main
cable towers, the 6-lane
motor vehicle, plus two
pedestrian walks, carry a
heavy volume of traffic.
266 feet above the water,
to and from Redwood
Empire counties.
Looking through engineer's
transit to determine horizontal
and vertical deflection—said to
vary 7 feet during storms.
Thermometers record tempera
ture which has a direct bearing
on expansion and contraction of
the bridge.
The Man Must
Be Smart
By
BARBARA ANN BENEDICT
Asseci*te4 S**wwv-«Sf Shtk*
A REMARKABLY pretty girl
drove up to the curb aer«s
the street. Before she could
get out of the car a group
of admiring men appeared from no
where and clustered about.
"That's Shir ley Tucker, isn't it?"
1 asked Nate Randall, We were sit
ting on the veranda of Mercer's ho
tel where we had a good view of
everything that went on along Main
street of Mercersburg. "Daughter
of Old Man Tucker, president of
the Farmer's National?"
“That's her.” Nate grinned He
looked at me sidewise. "And don't
ask me what everyone else is ask
ing. When is she going to get mar
ried? Let the girl alone. 1 say.
She’ll get married in good time.
Soon's the right man comes along,
or one smarter than she is."
"Smarter?"
Nate nodded ' Shirley's got sense
enough not to marry someone who
ain't any smarter than she is. That’s
bad. that is. marrying someone
who's got less brains than yourself.
For a girl it is. Usually means un
happiness and sometimes divorce "
Nate reached for his black stub
of a pipe. • Reminds me of Helen
Young." he went on. "Now there
was a girl for you who had chances
a-plenty to get married, and to the
best that Mercersburg and all the
other towns hereabouts had to offer,
too. But she turned ’em all down
Even Marvin Baker, the banker's
son. and John Merrill, heir to old
Gran Merrill's millions. Helen's
friends told her she was a fool. She
was getting old. they said. When a
girl reached twenty-four in those
And one night, when the moon was
/all and there was a soft breete and
the smell of flowers In the air, he
proposed and Helen accepted.
days without hitching herself to a
man she was considered out of the
running.
“But Helen only laughed at all
the warnings and admonitions. If.
she declared, she couldn't find a
man smarter than she. she'd rather
die an old maid. Which was darn
good figuring, though folks couldn't
understand it.
“Helen wasn't conceited about it,
but she knew she was pretty and
she knew she was smart. And so
she turned down John Merrill’s of
fer and Marvin Baker's and began
to keep company with young Elson
Dearborn. Now Elson was a good
looking youth and was expected
to take over his dad s box mill some
time in the future. In short, be was
considered quite a catch, and every
one nodded their heads sagely and
said Helen had been wise to wait
after all.
Then. Just when everyone figured
it was time to announce the engage
ment George Dow appeared on the
scene. George was a farmer’s son,
and he moved over here from Ox
ford with his family. He’d had 4ome
schooling at the State agricultural
college and he was a hard worker
and liked farming and planned to
make it his life's job. But he was
a homely cuss and he had the look
about him that comes from working
out-of-doors. No one even consid
ered him as competition for the
hand of lovely Helen Young.
“And that's where George proved
how smart he was. He knew how
folks felt about him and he knew
how Helen must feel and he knew
that being the son of a not too pros
perous farmer wasn't much of a
i qualification, but he fell in love with
J Helen Young the first time he saw
{ her, and so. despite all his handi
caps. he decided to make a play for
her hand.
“He asked her to dance one night
at a Grange sociable and surprised
everyone because of his audacity
! and because he danced so well. And
he surprised Helen because he
seemed self-possessed, (though in
wardly he was trembling with ex
citement) and carried on an intelli
gent conversation and his voice
| didn't have a countryman’s twang
| to it.
“The next time he saw her was
j after church on the following Sun
j day. He asked if he could walk
j home with her, and Helen agreed to
let him. Yet even though she ap
peared to enjoy his company, folks
couldn't believe he was serious. Her
interest in George was beyond their
comprehension, with Elson Dearborn
so eager for her company.
“And so they gave no thought to
George Dow, but continued to wait
for the expected announcement ef
Helen s engagement to E'.s'« And
after a while a came Or rather
as anr»*dacefSieat came But i*
wasn't the announcement of KeJra'a
epitme* to Elsoo, it was the an
awawene# of her marrage to
George
"Yea sir. without saymg a word
to nobody, they had off and
got marr ed toy a Justice cf the
peace ig in Daamnile I tell .«w
th.s here town fair rocket with gos
sip when the sews got out”
Kate paused and whackc-2 sis pipe
agatost the veranda nfiog.
"So George proved hisr self smart
er than aO the others, efc'"’ I asked,
looking I presume quite skeptical.
"Just tow did he succeed a doing
that—
Kate snorted in d.sgust and
shoved the blade stub of a pipe into
fc-s rest pocket. "Why. you ninny,
because he go* her to marry him
without any engagement r Surry or
hiss You see. George was smart
enough to size up the situation. He
analyzed the methods and charac
ters of all Helen's previous suitors
and found out their trouble It was
in the courting. It must be. because
that's as far as any of 'em got. Thai
be analyzed Helen's character and
decided she wanted to be courted
differently So he set out to achieve
that tod. He didn't put the thing on
a commercial basis, nor be didn’t
speak a word of love unless be had
the proper setting. Daytimes when
they were together, he'd talk about
his ambition and the future. And
night times he'd take her out in his
boat or tor a walk in the moonlight
—always some place where there
was a romantic setting That's what
turned the trick—a proper setting.
George was smart enough to let na
ture help him in his courting.
And one night, when the moon was
full and there was a soft breeze and
the smell of flowers in the air. he
proposed and Helen accepted. It
would have seemed almost sacri
legious to refuse and spoil that beau
tiful moment And before she could
change her mind. George bundled
her off to Danesville and got a jus
tice to tie the knot.
“Yes. sir. George outsmarted
Helen in good shape. But she didn't
realize it until later When she
got back home she told her mother
she hadn't intended to marry George
at all. but Elson Dearborn, as ev
eryone thought But George bad
changed her plans almost before she
knew what was happening, but, by
jingo, she was glad of it—glad she'd
married a man who'd proved him
self smarter than she.
“Incidentally, it all worked out
fine, because you never saw a hap
pier couple than her and George.
And I guess that accounts for Shir
ley Tucker's attitude today. She’s
just waiting for some man to out
smart her. just as her mother did.
Oh. yes. Shirley is George’s and
Helen’s daughter. George's full
name, you see. is George Dow
Tucker.**
Government Tell* How
To Sericulture Cocoons
The United States government is
still optimistic about domestic silk
production. Farm Bulletin 165. on
the subject of "Silkworm Culture." j
by Henrietta Aiken Kelly, states
hopefully that "Commercial silk cul
ture requires a smaller outlay of
capital than almost any other in
dustry. The net gain the first year
may well pay for an outfit that will
last many years. Culture for pro
duction of the greatest yield of co
coons may be carried on by any
one of ordinary intelligence.” The
"outfit"—in case you want to raise
silkworms—consists of light mova
ble shelves, newspapers to cover
them, small trays to remove worms,
knives, baskets, perforated paper
for changing beds, supply of brush
or shavings, and a thermometer!
Perhaps it is this government op
timism that has led Mrs. Frank J.
Lewis, of Chicago and Palm Beach,
to start the most recent revival of
the silk industry in this country,
foreseeing a new source of indus
trial wealth for the whole South.
The Lewis silk farm is situated on
800 acres in Palm Beach county,
Florida, irrigated by a cross-state
canal. Thousands of small white
mulberry trees have been planted
there, and as soon as her mulberry
i trees are large enough Mrs Lewis
j expects to show the Japanese what
| a real country can do with silk
J worms.
In the meantime, nylon seems to
be solving the problem of how to
get along without silk! As long as
the supply of coal, air and water
hold out, stockings and parachutes
won't be impossible In 1938 one
of the big chemical research com
panies announced the development
of textile fibers that could be spun
out at length, surpassing in strength
and elasticity any previously known
fibers There are many different
types of nylon, one of which makes
stockings sheerer than chiffon, and
much longer-lasting.
A nylon thread is a linear super
polymer made up of small mole
cules being joined end to end some
what like a chain of microscopic
paper clips. It is made by the re
action of a dibasic acid (derived
from phenol which comes from bi
tuminous coal) and a diamine, also
made from coal tvith oxygen and
ammonia Since ammonia is made
synthetically by causing hydrogen
from w-ater to unite with nitrogen
from the air. it follows that your ny
lon hose are made from coal, air
and water.
But it's going to take an awful
lot of coal, air and water. Ameri
can women last year bought 43,000,
000 dozen pairs of silk hose.
(BelMsed by Wtwni Newspaper Dml
Trooper Par Excellence
D ECENTLY a war department
communique reported: "Sever
al of the specially built barges which
the Japanese used in attempted
landings on the west coast of Bataan
have been captured. In them were
lifesaving and other equipment
marked ‘United States Army Trans
port Merritt.' This equipment was
part of the relief supplies given to
Japan by the United States after the
disastrous earthquake in 1923.''
Thus was brought back into the
news for a day the almost-forgotten
name of a man who had one of the
most unusual careers in the history
of the American army—Gen Wesley
Merritt. Born in New York June
16, 1836. Merritt was graduated from
West Point in 1860 and by the time
the war between the states ended, he
was a major-general of volunteers
and brevet-major-general in the reg
ulars.
Later, when he was sent West for
frontier duty, he added to his Civil
war laurels by becoming one of the
greatest leaders of Uncle Sam’s
hard-riding, hard-fighting horsemen
in their innumerable campaigns
against the Indians. Two of Mer
ritt’s "endurance rides" are classics
in the history of the old army.
In 1876 he was appointed colonel
of the Fifth cavalry which was sent
to join General Crook’s expedition
against the hostile Sioux and Chey
ennes in Wyoming. On July 15,
while the regiment was camped on
the Fort Laramie trail at Rawhide
creek, word came from the Red
Cloud agency in Nebraska that 800
Cheyenne braves had jumped the
reservation.
Merritt was confronted with a dif
ficult decision. If he continued his
march to Fort Laramie, as he had
been ordered to do, this force would
join the hosts of Sitting Bull and
Crazy Horse and Crook might suffer
the fate that had befallen General
Custer on the Little Big Horn three
weeks earlier. If he marched toward
the reservation, 65 miles away, it
GEN. WESLEY MERRITT
would simply hasten the Indians’
departure. There was but one thing
to do—throw his force across their
path and drive them back.
The leader of the “Fighting Fifth”
set out immediately for the point
where the great Indian trail from
Red Cloud crossed War Bonnet
creek—85 miles away. With only
brief halts to water their horses and
snatch a bite to eat, Merritt’s dusty
troopers pushed on and within 31
hours had reached their objective
ahead of the enemy Moreover,
every man and every horse was
fresh and fit for a fight. When the
Indians appeared the next morning
there was a sharp skirmish which
sent the Cheyennes scurrying back
to the reservation.
Three years later Merritt led the
Fifth on another historic “endur
ance ride." He was .stationed at
Fort D A. Russell in Wyoming when
word came that the Utes in north
western Colorado had gone on the
warpath, killed their agent, am
bushed and were besieging a force
of five troops of the Fifth led against
them by Captain Payne. Again Mer
ritt acted quickly. Within an hour
four troops of the Fifth were speed
ing over the railroad toward Raw
lins, where they detrained and set
out to rescue their comrades 170
miles away That was at noon on
October 2, 1879. At dawn on Octo
ber 5 Payne’s beleagured troopers
heard a sound that was music to
their ears. It was a bugle call that
told them help had arrived. In less
than 65 hours Merritt had led his
men over 170 miles of the most dif
ficult mountain trails on the con
tinent with only three men dismount
ed on account of exhausted horses.
After the close of the Indian wars,
Merritt was appointed superintend
ent of West Point and served there
from 1882 to 1887. Promoted to
brigadier-general in the army in the
latter year, he was advanced to
major-general in 1895. At the out
break of the Spanish-Amencan war
he was sent to the Philippine Islands
to command the American forces
there and made an outstanding rec
ord during that brief conflict. He re
mained on duty as commander of
the department of the east until his
retirement from the service in 1900.
He died on December 3. 1910.
ASK ME
ANOTHER
A General Quiz
The Questions
1. What color is the bottom
stripe of the American flag? And
the top?
2. According to the 1940 census,
what percentage of the U. S. popu
lation lives in urban centers?
3. A frugivorous man subsists
on what?
4. While France spent $250,000
on the construction of the Statue
of Liberty, how* much did the
United States spend on its erec
tion?
5. A man who works per diem,
does so by what?
6. What is the singular of
“dice”?
7. What is meant by the astro
nomical term Penumbra?
8. In what year was the Domin
ion of Canada established?
9. How great does the tempera
ture of the oceans vary?
The Answers
1. Red on top and bottom.
2. A total of 56.5 per cent.
3. Fruit.
4. The United States spent
$350,000 on the pedestal and erec
tion of the Statue of Liberty in
New York harbor.
5. By the day.
6. Die.
7. Partial shadow.
8. 1867.
9. The Fahrenheit temperature
of the oceans varies from 27 to 88
degrees, while that of the air
varies from 130 below to 149
above zero. Thus the natural tem
perature. of the air can become
157 degrees colder and 61 degrees
hotter than sea w'ater.
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excess acid from food fermentation or
nervous excitement try ADLA Tablets.
Contain Bismuth and Carbonates for
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Tablets.
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Reducing Electric Bill
Engineers of the big electric
companies comment that a house
wife who opens her refrigerator
door only 25 times a day instead
of 50, may reduce her electric bill
for refrigeration by as much as
10 per cent. -
BIG CANNON
DISH TOWEL
when you buy a box of
SILVER DUST
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WORTH 104 OR MORE
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Spicy Flavored Soap
A few cloves added to canned
vegetable soup while it is heating
give it a spicy flavor. Remove
cloves before serving.
She plans a million
meals a year!
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MILDRED INWOOD,
United Airlines dietician,
plans the tempting meals
served in United's luxuri
ous Mainliners. She says:
“Delicious flavor’s the main
reason I like the ‘Self
Starter Breakfast’*. But that
dish also has what it takes
to help start me off feeling
my best. Kellogg's Corn
Flakes are the big favorite
with our passengers, too "
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®The favorite cigarette
with men in the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast
Guard is Camei. (Based on actual
sales records in Post Exchanges,
Sales Commissaries, Ship's Stores,
Ship's Service Stores, and Canteens.) >