Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1928 — Page 3

METHOD TO FERTILIZE SEED; HID TO FARMERS By H. R. Hill. INS Special Corrpupondent Cal.—A method for the tilixation of seed on a largo scale, |H \ing fertilization of the soil tin. pssary. has been discovered at the r'niversity of California, it was announeed today. The discovery is designated by agri Iturlsts as one of the most importpt contributions of science to mankind in the history of the world. For many years such a method was .ought by scientists of every civilized Nation. Blit it remained for Professor F Gericke, associate plant physioiist at the Berkeley institution, to disclose this long sought secret of nature. Professor Gericke has succeeded in developing a method of treating seed grain on a large scale before planting w lth phosphate salts without destroying its power to live and to grow. Value to Farmers Py this means he makes it possible fnr grain to be grown in soil deficient In phosphorous without the more costly fertilization of the entire field. Agricultural experts point out that this development, if proved feasible in foreign fields, will be of great value tn farmers in many parts of Europe. Australia and Africa, where extensive districts deficient in phosphorous are found. The lack of this essential chemical element, according to Professor Gericke. is due Partly to long and extensive cultivation of the soil and partly to the fact that certain soils convert phosphorous to an insoluable which plants cannot use. The seed treatment method, storing the necessary phosphorous within the seed itsef, obviates both these difficulties. In tests at Berkeley during the last three years it has been found possible actually to increase thes weight of the seed to ten to thirty per cent, varying with the species. In the case of barley so treated, as high as a 15-fold increase has been obtained, as compared with no crop at all where untreated sea was planted in phos-phorous-lacking ground. On Large Scale The great value of Professor Gericke's discovery lies in the fact that his methods permit treatment of seed on a large scale at low cost. Further experiments, however, will be made in the field before the method is given widespread application. This is the third important discovery that the Berkeley scientist has made recently in his program of experiments purposing to make certain plants wholly br in part independent of the soil or of soil conditions. The first was the perfection of a method of glowing floral plants in water solutions containing the elements necessary for normal growth, a process of commercial interest. The second was a method of storing the important fertilizers in sufficient quantities in young tomato plants while they were growing in cold frames to produce a markedly gi eater crop. The basis of all these experiments. Professor Gericke explained, is the fact that plants may absorb more food than they need for growth.* 0 — ... Junior Shakespeare Story Telling Club To Be Organized Here The National Junior Shakespeare Story Telling- Club, through the assistance of local teachers, will shortly form a branch or association here. The Club is educational in purpose and is designed to acquaint every grade school child with the works of the famous bard and in such away that it will appear like play to them. At the same time, it prepares them for high school English studies while those who are unfortunate enough not to advance beyond the grades will have a working knowledge of tiie classics. The plan consists of story hours for the children when groups will meet and tell Shlakespeare Stories in simplified form. Prizes will be offered at various stages of the competitions ami diplomas will be awarded each child who has finished the prescribed course. The grand finale will be a Shakespearean evening or pageant or Shakespearean program having the children portray the Shakespearean characters. The National Association) now reaches into practically every state and has been immensely successful. Aside from the fact, that members of the club are improving their education and mastery of English, there is a social feature. Parents and teachers have endorsed the plan with enthusiasm. Fbr lihformation call Miss Margaret Niblick, phone number 1258.

BLOOMINGTON—HaI Blount. Indiana University sophomore, used a Wane to call on Miss Miriam Miers, I- U. co-ed at her home, four miles north of this city. A landing virtual b' was made in the backyard of the Miers home.

r HI. ■"«««.. because of Allen m y lu,,;rest - ' oOnckson: Allen Tat « « biography ' K-’d of war .’ viZ . " Mr n * the ! innmli, distinct?. * ,uirp eo "‘- ' without cotb'ultntlr at " d llecls ‘ vc| y. Being himself ?“ or e M>lnn«tion. bnving ±2 b 2 01ut,, y -nd well ns ni ei ’" U ar " J mora| . "a ”i a” ">«»- ’ " n ho °h- asking no mi * and resenting interfere I for nntH ValUe 011 hu ™ a ear I ' fXTb?n“ S r haS and al! diaahHiUes ‘ ' wX'”! '" dl^ ,lons of « lack of he n 1 ,SulTer,n K from Insomnia, he often uses hl, men as a g , l(3athe and when he can't sleep calls them m mare lf,s V’®" 1 ° Ut 8 fl ' w m,,M ‘ th e>' M m' 9 f en> back - 110 never their a”. « a,, ’ ntr y. because It Is notd.t'" y ' le gßllant Bn<l ,hp - v not deserve credit for doing their dutv. "ell, I only prny that God mav • pare him to us to see us through, if General Lee had the northern resources he would soon end the war; Ohl Jack can do It without resources.Prom a Minton Batch & Cc. Bulle- ’ tin. j I No Government Break in Republic's History An interregnum is a break In the i continuity of government authority a period during which the functions of 1 government are suspended or vested in a temporary executive. Such u condition, says the Pathfinder Magazine, has never existed in the American government since Washington assumed the Presidency under the Constitution. In each case when the President has died he has been sue needed immediately by the vice president. Some people speak ofc March 4, 1811), as an interregnum. The Constitution says that before the President shall assume the duties of office he shall take a prescribed oath. March 4, 184!), was Sunday and Zachary Taylor did not take the oath until March 5. But of course he was President and could have taken the oath any minute during that time. Likewise the brief period between the death of Harding and the taking of the oatli by Coolidge might facetiously be called an interregnum. Brushing Ship Hulls An Australian company has introduced in England an ingenious method of cleaning the outside of the hull of a ship. The invention has -been in | successful operation for a number of years in Australia, and has been tried at Southampton and Plymouth. The apparatus is mounted upon a suitable frame, which can lie suspend ed from the side of a boat. It consists of a cylindrical brush about 5 or 6 feet in length, held in a framework which also supports an electric motor and a propeller. The purpose of the propeller is to keep the brusli pressed against the side of the ship. The case carrying the apparatus contains also a four-cylinder motor directly coupledto a dynamo. The current produced serves to raise and lower the carrying frame as well as to drive the propellei ! and brush. Odd Foods in Many Lands Crocodile meat is considered a good, food by natives of Africa, and southern negroes relish the tails of alligators, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine. In the West Indies fish eyes are regarded as a delicacy. Jelly- J fish are eaten In Japan and, in many J places of the world, squid and octopus 1 are valued for food. In Polynesia a . sea worm, the “palolo,” which aver- ' ages about 16 inches when fully grown, is caught and prepared into an appetizing stew. Sentiment is against snakes, but they are eaten in some places and travelers testify that they are often very tasty. Hawks, heron, and parrots are commonly killed for food in parts of the tropics. Not When, but How Much? An extremely successful business man was giving au address on “Com- | niercial Acumen” to a class of students. The business man, in speaking of his career, mentioned a certain com- ■ pany which had been wound up on account of Its shady practices. ‘•Of course,” lie said righteously, “as eoon as I realized that there were possibilities of dishonest profit being made, I got out of it. One student rose with an air of interrogation. •■Er—will you finish the sentence? he asked. "How much did you get out of it?”— Stray Stories. Set Camel Before Wife Tint a camel is worth more than n wife was the declaration of a nntlv. Fsvpt who recently offered both t< nn English clergyman. He first offers the wife for the equivalent of |2ft J. -in do you want to soli her?” he X‘asked. "She is old and fights was the laconic reply. “Then she would tHU me,” said the clergyman. No, U nt an English gentleman," was the answer. The offer being refused the nat ]ve then offered the cnmel lor SIOO. Asked to explain the difference In prices,' he replied curtly, "Camel bet ter than wife.”

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Secret Is Out. . Trrz.'rzrr — W/fgf I RW 1 Zjh Love laughs at locksmiths and university authorities'. A ruling preventing her marriage, Miss Mary Carnahan of Freeport. 111., eloped with "Tiny ' Lewis, football star of Northwestern University, and kept the event secret for several months.

GIVES LECTURE ON HOG FEEDING Liberty, Ind., June I!)—(U.R)—Poor feeding and lack of sanitation are the things that make hog-raising unprofitable. John Schwab of Purdue University told a delegation of farmers here, when the swine train, making a tour of tiie state, passed through here. This was the fifteenth stop on the swine train's schedule.

Schwab is not a theorist on hog raising and marketing. He was engaged in < raising them for years and probably knows more about hog production than any other one man in the state. Theie are two things that make hog production unprofitable "he said. “One is poor rationing and the other lack of sanitation.” "When this country was young, hogs san at large and gather from the earth the necessities for a balanced ration Hut now that civilization has become crowded and farmers have to keep ( their hogs in close pens, the parasite . question is greater than ever before. The m w way make (hog production a success is to feed properly.” he adI ded. Schwab declared that corn alone is not enough to develop a pig. Vai ions experiments tried and retried before the results could be given out as to the best way of developing pigs. A large number of hogs were divided into lots and fed various rations. Those having torn along, with initial weight of 72 pounds took 64 pounds to make a 100 pound pork but those that had tankage added took only 40 pounds and the 25 pounds of tank- ’ age, Schwab said. o James It. Fleming. well known Port- : land attorney stopped here a few minutes this morning on his way home from Fort Wayne. NEURITIS PAINS STABBED HER IN BACK LIKE KNIFE “Konjola Is The Medicine My Svstem Always Needed," Says This Lady. Jr r i' | i '• MRS. PAUL RAINEY "The aches and twins of neuritis [left my body very quickly after I started taking Konjola and I feet | other sufferers are looking for jus. smli a medicine, that's why I am endorsing it.” said Mrs Paul Rainey, 326 E. Lewis St.. Fort Wayne, Ind. “"My suffering had made life miserable for me and it seemed 1 could not interest myself in anything. E erytime 1 made a move these neuritis pains would stab me in the back like a knife and jump from one spot, to (another. My back was always sore ;uul achy. The pains would get so bad sometimes that I couldn't stand to be on my feet and would have to go to bed for several days. ■■Konjola is the medicine my system always needed. I could notice a great change after finishing the second bottle and after completing the treatment every ache and pain was gone. 1 will always stand ready to praise this surprising remedy to ‘"Konjola is sold in Decatur at the 1 Smith. Yager & Falk drug store and by all druggists throughout this entire section.

CALLS SCHOOL HISTORY FALSE, STUPID, ABSURD Columbus, O.—(U.R)—"lt's a lot of fooliihnesa," Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Hickson of Washington, aaid of Hie system of history touching prevalent in the public schools of the United States. "Not only that," added Dickson, ! while visiting hero, "hut the future peace of our nation is endangered and America is likely to bo made the laughing stock of the world because of thousands of false, stupid and absurd statements contained in school histories. "I mn prepared to demonstrate," ho continued, "that In teaching American history, the City of Washington has reached the zenith of educational stupidity and the rest of the country has followed suit. We have violated a proposition of Euclid, mode the reasoning of Jevons meaningless, and over-ruled Greenleaf as to what is evidence.

"We teach that during the World War trained dogs were used to search for the missing soldiers who had been so badly hurt that they could neither move nor call for help ami when the dogs found such cases, to go back and get aid. "We also teach that the German army was delivered to the allies ! without firing a shot. We teach that ! the four great German drives failed. That 1,200,000 men fought on a tract of land three by five miles in area in the Argonne and that the Americans advanced from seven to 14 feet every hour for 47 days and nights.” Few facts are left for the pupils of the modern school to- discuss, according to Dickson. The meaning of the League of I Nations and methods whereby another war might be averted might be taught school children today by giving them a few undecorated truths

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to discuss and study for themselves, he stlid. "After the school child of today is done digesting all the silly poppycock about dogs of human intelligence and American troops so far superior to any others that there Is no comparison,” said Dickson, “he lias little room left In his' mind for the truth. "Some of the things set forth In these books are so obviously fnbulms that If tiie pupils had not been taught fables In their history ( lasses all their lives they would not lies!I late to openly deride them." American histories are Inclined to vaunt tiie prowess of American I armies, give little credit to the allies, and belittle the opposing army, Dickson said. Facts should lie stated, no matter whether they are favorable to this country or,another, he bej lioves. . — 0 Card of Thanks In. tills manner we desire to thank

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onr friends and neighbors who so willingly assisted us during the sickness and death of Chauncey L. Brentiinger We also want to thank Rev. Studebaker and Rev. Byerly for their expres along of sympathy. Children mid Grandchildren • ’ o--—-PERU—Louia J. Reed, 81, who enlisted as a Union soldier in the Civil war ai the age of 14 and is credited witl, having built the first automobile

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body, died h»ro recently. He was one of the youngest men who saw service In (lie 1861-18(5 conflict. From 188‘) t > 18W. Reed was associated with Elwood Haynes at Kokomo In pioneer tuitomobi|e buAltp>K U|l< l made Che Ixxly for the Haynes car now nn exhibition in tiie Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. o_—. USE Llmberloat W->»hlno Powdar