Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1921 — Page 5

UNITED STATES HAS $400,000 TO GUARD FORESTS Available July 1 Three ftkTimes That Provided for Past Year. June 77.—TvrentvHtt* plates, or more, wi’d receive $400,000 fct Feueral funds for the protection of their forest lands from fires during the fiscal jeer beginning July 1, according to a statement by the forest service of the United. States Department of Agriculture. This cooperation was first authorized by the act of March 1, 1011, commonly known as the “Weeks Law,” and has continued ever since. Last year $125,000 was appropriated for the work, tut Congress this year, realizing the imortanee of flrce prevention in our forks, substantially increased the amount > be expended. At least three more States are expected to Join the ranks of cooperators shortly. Allotments es money for forest protection are made by the forest service to Individual States on the basis of 7 per cent of the estimated cost of adequate, fire protection in that particular State, with the limitation that the maximum allotment cannot exceed $25,000. Both figures depend upon and vary with the size of the Federal appropriation for this work received from year to year. Forestry experts believe that the ideal apportionment of protection expense would be: Federal Government. 25 per cent: States, 25 per cent; private owners. 50 per cent, but this is not possible at present. The four important limitations governing Federal cooperation in fire protection under the Weeks law are: 1. It is extended only to States that have provided by law for a comprehensive system of fire protection. 2. It is limited to the watersheds of navigable streams. 3. The State must expend an amount at least equal to the Federal appropriations for that State. 4. Fire protection must include not only merchantable timber, but also young growth and cut-over lands in other words, it must coverall classes of forest land. The basis of this Federal cooperation is the recognition by the Government of the Nation's interest in keeping the forest lands ©f our country continuously productive, especially on the, watersheds of navigable streams, and the further recognition of the fact that the Nation should bear a part of the cost of the work. With fire danger minimized or llmlnated, foresters say the problem of keeping forest lands continuously producing timber and erosion and floods partly controlled will be greatly simplified, and it is to help the States and private owners to do this very thing that the cooperation under the Weeks law is carried on. The following table shows the estimated area of forest land requiring protection and the amount of Federal funds that will be available to States with which a .cooperative agreement now exists, providing they qualify under the limitations set forth. Area Needing t Protection (Acres) Allotment. Maine 14.000.000 $22,030 New Hampshire 4.000.000 6.300 Vermont 3,000.000 3.150 Massachusetts 3.000.000 7,350 Rhode Island 230.000 625 Connecticut 1.500,000 3.150 New York 14.000.000 22.050 NCw Jersey 1.800 000 5.050 Pennsylvania 12.000.000 23.000 Maryland 2.000,000 2.800 West Virginia 5.000.000 7.000 Virginia 13.000.000 IS 200 North Caroline 15.000.000 23.000 Louisiana 12.000.000 12.000 Texas 10.000.000 10500 Michigan 15.000.000 25.000 Wisconsin 14.000.000 25.000 Minnesota 20.000.000 25.00) South Dakota 50.000 100 Montana 4 900.000 13.700 Idaho * 4.500.000 19.950 Washington 10.000,000 21.000 Oregon 12.000.000 25.000 ;California 13.000.000 22.750 ' Totals I 207.000.000 $348,325 A part of the appropriation is held back for use In extending cooperation to States that may later qualify and ask for It. Texas Sale Brings Stillman Million BROWNSVILLE. Texas. June 27—A1l f the real estate holdings In Brownsville of James A. Stillman of New York, former president of the National City Bank of that city, have just been sold to B. L. Stell and associates. While the consideration was not made public. It is •aid to be around $1,000,000. The property Includes several hundred building lots in the city of Brownsville, all of which were purchased more than sixty years ago by Charles Stillman, grandfather of the present Stillman, whose matrimonial difficulties recently have received public notice. It was in Brownsville that the late James A. Stillman was born. The ony Stillman property still remaining unsold in this city and vicinity is the primitive ferry that affords a means of communication between Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico. Several flat-bottom rowboats are in service at this ferry and the crossing of the Rio Grande Is made in a minutes. The ferry has been profitable ever since Its establishment, which was about 1860.

This is Better Than Laxatives On* NR Tablet Each Night For A Week Will Carroct Your Constipation and •■aka Constant Dosing Unnecessary. Try It. Poor digestion and assimilation mean a poorly nourished body and low vitality. Poor elimination means clogged bowels, fermentation, putrlfaction and the formation of poisonous gases which are absorbed by the blood and carried through the body. The result is weakness, headaches, dizziness, coated tongue, inactive liver, bilious attacks, loos of energy, nervousness, poor appetite, impoverished blood, sallow complexion, pimples, skin disease, and often times serious illness. Ordinary laxatives, purges and cathartics—salts, oils, calomel and the like —may relieve for a few hours, but real, lasting benefit can only come through use of medicine that tones up and strengthens the digestive as .well as the eliminative organs. Get a 2Zo box of Nature s Remedy JfNR Tablets) and take one tablet each night for a week. Belief will follow the very first dosa, but a few days will elapse before you feel and realize the fullest benefit Y>'hen you get straightened out and feel just right again you need net take medicine every day—an occasional NR Tablet •will then keep your system in good condition and you will always feel your best Remember, keeping well Is easier and cheaper than getting welk Nature’s Remedy (NS Tablets) are '{gold, guaranteed and recommended by your druggist

Woman in Hospital With Severe C *e of Beach Sunburn PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—50 severe a case of sunburn was contracted at Atlantic City by Mrs. Anna Dole, 26, that she is in the Hahnemann Hospital receiving precisely the same treatment given to persons burned In a fire. Mrs. Doyle spent two days at Atlantic City. She dressed In her bathing suit and went into the ocean at intervals throughout the day, lying most of the time upon the sand, enjoying a “sun bath,” for a nice coat of tan to bring home with her. So hot was the sun and so tender her skin that she began to blister, and soon the burns showed np so seriously that she was taken to the hospital. The physicians there diagnosed the case as second degree burns. Physicians at the hospital explained such cases by saying that a person who goes into the ocean and then comes out again Is covered with tiny drops of salt water and the natural oil In the skin causes these drops of water to take a more or less globular form. Thus each drop becomes a miniature magnifying or "burning glass” which concentrates the rays of the sun upon the skin beneath. CELEBRATION IN PICNIC PLAN Event of July 4 at 32d and Dearborn Streets Includes Patriotic Exercises. A picnic and patriotic celebration will be held In the woods at Thirty-Second and Dearborn streets July 4. Athletic events for children and grown-ups with plenty of prizes will be a feature. The merchants of Brightwood have donated the prizes. A committee of seventy of which SVII- - A. Edwards, 2810 Staurt street. Is chairman, and the Brightwood Red Men's lodge are cooperating to make the picnic and patriotic celebration a success. The Orln Jesup Land Company, owners of the 160 acres in the vicinity of ThirtySecond and Dearborn streets have donated the use of the ground for the event. This is the ground on which the park board has an Option and for which 1,500 people In the northeast part of Indianapolis petitioned the park board to purchase for park purposes. At 10 o'clock in the morning. July 4, a bugle call will sound assembly, calling the people to the celebration. A large platform Is being constructed

PROBLEMS OF N The By-Product Coking Business 14. Coal Supply An ever present problem of the by-product coke operator is the supply of coking coal. Both as to quality and as to quantity, constant effort and watchfulness are required to keep up the supply. Coal is not fuel for the by-product coke operator; it is raw material for manufacture. The quality of coal which is to be burned as fuel is of importance to the purchaser, but quality is of infinitely greater importance when coal is the raw material for a chemical industry. Some good coals will not coke at all. Os course these cannot be used in by-product coke ovens. Some will coke well but are so full of impurities that .the coke would be of inferior quality—and thus not readily marketable when produced in large quantities. Some is comparatively pure and will coke, but will make coke of such weak structure that it is of limited usefulness. Some coals swell so much in coking that the coke cannot be pushed out of the ovens without great damage to the walls; others shrink so much in coking that the prbduct is brittle and nearly useless. Again, some good coals yield little or no gas and by-products. Others are rich in gas but will not make good coke. Some coals which seem to be high in volatile matter are nevertheless unsuitable because much of the volatile, matter is chemically combined water or oxygen, neither of which has any value for gas production. All byproduct coke ovens must produce a good deal of gas, whether it is wanted for city distribution or manufacturing purposes. Some coals which will coke will not yield enough gas to heat the ovens themselves. These considerations indicate that the selection of coal for our coke ovens is no trifling matter. To meet the coke trade conditions which we have explained in previous statements it has been necessary to produce coke of the highest quality. We have been constantly on the look-out for coals which in various combinations will produce coke of the highest quality, the v largest possible amount of coke from a ton of coal, and gas in large quantities and rich in by-products. The coals which best meet our requirements are found in southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia. No coals nearer to Indianapolis meet our requirements. Hence, the selection of coal of quality to produce the best all-round results raises for us transportation and other problems which would be very much reduced if we were oply seeking fuel. These will be explained in further statements. CITIZENS GAS COMPANY

In the wood* a* a speaker’s stand and back of this seats ar being constructed on a hillside. There will be occupied by a chorus of more than 100 children Who will sing “America.” A Boy Scout will recite “Our Flag.-, A bugle call to the colors will announce the flag raising. The flag raising will be In charge of the Boy Scouts and the Stars and Stripes will be raised to a wire stretched from the tops of the two tallest trees In the big woods. An address, “Our National Anthem,” will be made by a student of the James Russell Lowell school of Brightwood. The children’s chorus will sing “The Star Spangled Banner. Boy scout* will give exhibitions of tent pitching, starting a fire without matches, drill, first aid work, wall scaling, signaling, tower building and knot tying. Following this exhibition athletic contests, Including foot races, jumping and weight throwing, will be helij, The committee has extended an Invitation to citizens in all parts of the city to attend the plcalc and bring their dinners. W. R. C. Gives Flag to Mt. Jackson Cemetery "We cannot and we shall not forget an act of an American soldier no matter whether he wore the blue or the gray or khaki,” Frank Riley, an attorney, declared at the presentation of a flag to Mt. Jackson cemetery by the Alvin T. Hovey Woman's Relief Corps yestertiay afternoon. Mr. Riley spoke in favor of the proposed memorial plaza. The flag was presented by Mrs. Madge Frady and the invocation was delivered by the Rev. Claude L. Griffith, pastor of the Blaine Avenue Methodist Church.

Remarkable Phosphate Discovered By French Scientist Increases Weight and Strength of Thin, Weak People in Two Weeks Time in Many Cases. All that most weak, nervous, thin, mentally depressed people need is ten grains of pure organic phosphate (such as Bitro-Phosphate) with each meal for a few weeks. That la what nerve specialists In London, Paris and New York are prescribing with wonderful result*. Dr. Frederick S. Kolle, author of medical text books and editor of N. Y. "Physicians' Who’s Who,” declare*: "It would be a Godsend if more weak, thin, nervous men and women were aware of the efficacy of Bitro-Phosphate." Haag's Drug Stores and leading druggists everywhere have a brisk demand for BitroPhosphate because of Its power to help revitalize the nerves. Increase bodily weight and bring back energy and mental keenness. CAUTION-Although Bitro-Phosphate Is an excellent aid In relieving weak, nervous conditions, its use is not advised unless Increased weight Is desired. —Advertisement.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 27,1921.

Then Came the Oar-Propelled Craft Which Could Travel Upstream THE RAFT, or the Dugout, used by primitive man as early modes of transporting goods and men, could move only with the current, so the problem was to find a means of water travel which could be made use of at all times — both up and down stream.

Fmally the boat propelled by oars or sweeps came into being and met the need of that time as a means of extending commerce beyond the narrow confines of one locality. Though the progress of the boat upstream was slow and laborious, time in those dimly distant days was not much of an object, and the Rowboat became the accepted means of travel by water, both for the transportation of goods and to take people from one place to anotl er. The Boat or Ship has been used from time immemorial as a symbol of Commerce and Progress, and it is so used—and most fittingly, we think—to herald and typify the great Pettis July Sale.

Friday, July Ist, Will Be the Opening Day of the Great Pettis July Sale Don’s Miss It!

pale into insignificance •in comparison with the wonderful buying opportunities which will be presented to the people of Indiana by this really remarkable July Sale—an event in which by far the greatest merchandise values in our long and honorable career will be offered. Practically every article of merchandise in the store will be featured at July Sale

T>ETTIS DRY GOODS CO. gyV-i g. isjhiw k s

“Your Ship Comes in With a Rich Cargo”

As the tiny craft of our ancestors appear as mere toys when compared with the giant vessels of modern times, so do all previous efforts of this store

prices—economies which will warrant out-of-town folks coming many miles to obtain.

Announcing Three Courtesy Days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday The first day of the great July Sale, Friday, July Ist, will naturally produce a tremendous volume of business, so in order to facilitate the handling of it and to permit our customers more leisure time for shopping, we announce Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as Courtesy Days. On these three days Sale, merchandise will be on display all over the store and may be selected at the remarkably low July Sale prices and held for you until after the beginning of the Sale. No goods so purchased will be delivered before Friday, July Ist, the opening day of the Sale.

Scarcely an article of wear or adornment, scarcely a need for home or personal use, but can be obtained during this notable economy event at greatly lowered prices. We assert confidentially that you will be amazed as well as delighted at the savings. Friday, July Ist, is the date set for the opening of this tremendous July Sale —the time when your ship comes in with a rich cargo . Make your plans now to reap the full benefit of this remarkable merchandising movement—plan to be on hand when the big affair opens .

CITIZENS!

Let’s have a real Fourth of July this year. Help celebrate at the Fair Ground, afternoon and evening. Auspices American Legion.

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