Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 43, Jasper, Dubois County, 3 March 1922 — Page 1

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Forest Fire Fighters Find Th:m Efficient Assistants. At Mean ef Quick Communication Between Ranger on Fire Line and Headquarters Carrier Pigeon Has No Equal. (Prepared br tb United Statu Department of Ac ricultur. The carrier pigeon lias found a place for Itself In the tire-fighting forces of the forest service. 4t demonstrated Its worth this year In the Idaho national forest, and will he Installed next year at all protective camps In that district. As a means of quick and certain communication between the ranger out on the tire line and headquarters, the carrier pigeon has no competition, reports from Idaho to the Department of Agriculture state. One bird, after a preliminary course of training, was taken a rough trip by pack hörst, kept overnight at its destination, and released the next day. This carrier was back at its coop, at headquarters, ,'iO minutes after it was released, -having covered 18 miles, air line,-, and flo.wn. over a high mountain. It; "mate j' equaled the performance. Aifotber, released at dusk from the bottom, of a canyon, rose abruptly, crossed two high ranges and was at Its coop before dark. A third, carriedIn a back pack into high peaks of the Buckhorn country, flew home within an hour, covering In that time a good da.s Journey Tor a man on horseback. la the face.'bf fire, this performance was equaled. The ranger took two birds to th'e spot where smoke had been located. The; first bird carried Instructions', to send 'help. Not lonthe.eafter "the fire-fighters at the fron bud brought t,he!t blaze under Control. The second' bird was released, coun teimanding.the first order. It reached headquarters Just as the summoned :i.: 'stance -was about to start for th , and the message it carried not v gave .-welcome .assurance -of vlcer 'the red peril, but saved n of men from making a Ion;:.is trip -through the forest. !? ' ASTFR AT ARMS 4: . ,7.v: im : ) V..-' j f f' i -.... . . A Mrs. M. K. I. Barron was rettuaiy appointed master at unus of the S. S. America. She can probably lay claim to the . distinction ef being the first woman aboard ship te hold such a position. SIX 'UNKNOWN POILUS' LIVING . 1 French" Government Seeks Identity of ll f . LJ t I nar neroca vvnoit memories Are a Blank. Tarls. France has six living "un known pollus." The men, their memorie a complete blank as the result f horrors undergone during the war. are being cared for by the gov-, eminent, which Is seeking to establish ' thir identities. j Theyhave bven visited by.thetisands ' f perqnv but none recognized them, ind lie tninUter of pensions has de-' lded t send their photographs and fVtKÜci! descriptions to' the metropolitan ind provincial press in hopes that their relatives can be found. Thfiter Provides Smoking Room. Nfw York. An elaborately-fur-nihed smoking room, exclusively for lias !een openeil in a New York thf ater. The women had formed tb t of smoking In the -lobby, so i tb i.uuager decided to give thfnir a nx);ii ir enjoy, thuir cigarettes in eom-f.rr.

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REFUGEES HUNT FOOD IN VAIN

American Relief Workers Are Finding Constantinople City of Distress. IS DAILY GROWING WORSE City Teems With Refugees in Such Great Numbers That All Cannot Possibly Be Looked AfterChildren Cared For. New York. As warfare and petty tribal conflicts In the Near Kast continue, American relief workers are finding Constantinople a city of distress, where conditions dally grow worse as new refugees wander hopelessly In on the endless and usualJj vain quest for food. Ueturnlug members of the overseas personnel ol the Near Kast relief all bring back the same story of miser). These are supplemented by the letters and periodical reports of relief agents on the field. Situation It Desperate. When the evacuation of the French from Cilicia and the consequent flight uf the Armenians and other portions of the native Christian population, the situation threatens to become one that the Imagination recoils at picturing. "Constantinople already teems with refugeen In such great numbers that all cannot', possibly be looked after," writes Älrs.. Jeanette V. Emrich, a member of the relief unit In the Ottoman capital, who' previously had wide experience as a missionary. ."Now the people of Cilicia are coming to us. We simply will not be able to care for them. How terrible the need is In spite of all that America jas sent us - would be hard to make iny one understand who has not been here. The w wither . I bitterly cold,; ind each day. brings Its fresh stream of misery. "Yet there are also encouraging things the gratitude of a group of Armenian mothers, last week, when oJd clothes from America were distributed anions them. One mother aid. as she held out the few gar- . meats given her: 'I could never have 1 Sought these, as they would have cost j some llras. Just the same, I want to ;ive something. I can only give a nejidr or about 10 cents 'but all I an give, I want to give.' And each vornan present did the same. Out of heir dire poverty they gave some 12 Iras about $S and, since this Is a ountry with free education, we need he money to put additional children nto school. -Clothes for Children. ! "At present we are distributing 'hese old American clothes among .,(M children. They have no fathers, these having been killed in the war or deportations; hut they have moth ers or grandmothers. : The mother scrubs, sews, works in a restaurant anything to keep a home together! which home consists of one mean room renting for a dollar or so month ly. These wretched families are scattered through 42 sections of this great city, and embrace six nationalities Armenians, Greeks, Jews. Syrians, Chaldeans and Turks. The Near Kast relief cannot support them it must look after Its orphanages but it does help them with one can of condensed milk and two loaves of bread weekly per child. Also during five winter months we sell them charcoal at half , the market price. J "The sister of the lad who works In my home was recently put Into one of the Near Kast relief orphanages here, j She Is thirteen years old, was taken by the Turks when she was only eight, was held by them for five years, and of course can speak only Turkish now. One of her eyes Is gone, and she has the oldest, unhapplest face Imaginable for a child of that nge." Every man who owns a wood lot owes the country as well as himself an obligation to look over his trees when winter opens. Those showing signs of decay should be marked for treatment. Dead branches should be removed and other first aid should be administered which In the days when timber was plenty would not have been considered worth while. The amount of firewood that may be obtained from dead and fallen trees on even a small lot Is astonishing. Hours which might otherwise be wasted will be well spent on It with ax and saw, says the New York Herald. Early winter Is an excellent time to plan planting of young trees to take the places of thoe that have, gone, as well as for selecting growth to be eliminated where it Is too thick to permit hvalthy development.

HOLDS WALKING POOR SPORT

Youth Who Is Famous Pedestrian Has Enrolled at Kansas College. Emporia, Kas. Hiking across n r t 1- fin fun la twirii cunrf dnflnnl. luuilli; litt . 'vvi ojmii, ttywtu- . mg to mho Gibson, boy hiker, who walked to Washington last summer ana was receivea Dy rresiueni liarding. "If you travel and write or do something for the benefit of humanity, these long hikes are all right," Gibson said, "but there's too much danger of becoming a professional hobo." Gibson has enrolled as a freshman in the College of Emporia. He had intended to enroll at the school last fall, but 'was taken sick with pneumonia at the Grand Canyon of Arizona last 'August while on a hike from his home In Chanute to the Pacific coast. Gibson traveled 500 miles last summer. On his long tramps he caught many rides, but he did a great deal of leg work, especially In the West. Drove Out Gamblers Quickly. Bloomsburgh, Pa. In 24 hours after he took the oath of office Police Chief Vervin Merlcle drove the gambling out of nioomsburgh. His first edict, was ! against punchboards and they dlsappeared quickly. He next visited several establishments where poker was played and notified them to close up and "beat It" or laud In Jail. The proprietors closed up and hnrriedly left. s ' 1 .. .Iinmf. URGES BRITISH EMPIRE RADIO Wireless Commission Advocates Building of Stations in Colonies and In China.

London. The wireless telegraph realized .the great difference In, thejr commission has recommended to the. intellectual standards, so he gave up government the construction of sta-; the Hn" to secure an education' with tions in England, Canada, Australia, the money, he had earned as a prizeSouth Africa, India. Egypt, East Afrl- fighter. For sir years he attended a ca, Singapore and Hongkong. A year preparatory school, where he did 12 was devoted to study of the question, years 'of elementary work to prepare The average cost of the stations is for collps. . .. . estimated at not more than 1GO,000, . n e(:crc4 the University of N normal value $800,000, "buVtliosef' ttKbrgi,-Hüi the' war -interrupted, his England, Egypt, Singapore and Hong-. work; He -went to Camp Grant as a kong would aggregate about 853,000, boxing instructor," and there' another or $4,205,000. Recommendation is obstacle "appeared The doctors' promade that two wave lengths be fixed nounced hini an incurable victim 'of for each transmitting station, and that tuberculosis, with but '-six months, to each center be equipped for receiving nVe. He went to. E4. Paso, Tex., to be jrom several stations in the chain gjn a different battle, and -in a year simultaneously. he was a well man, . ' j . Won. Degree of A. B. . Long Ride on Wheels. Then he entered the University of Sunbury, Pa. To travel IKK) miles Arizona and finished the work he had to Florida on a bicycle without mis- igun aVthe University of Nebraska, hap was the experience of William ue was given his degree of A. B. He Burell, aged sixteen, of Sunbury, was forty years old then, and becam whose parents received word recently princip:d of the high schol at Benson that he had arrived safely. Young Ar2- That was the position he heb: Burell Is a mechanical genius and until the end of hist -year, when h found no trouble In finding work at -.signed to go East and continue hl garages along the route. He will studio.

leave soon on the second leg of his Journey to California. He intends to ride his wheel the whole way. ONE X-RAY MENACE UNREAL Rays Not Likely to Injure Persons In Adjoining Roorrts, Says ' Report. Paris. X-ray laboratories have beli found to constitute but slight If ay danger to persons In "adjacent roofiis. A report to the Academy of Mediclmi iieiu uiai luuucru uppuuucea uuu tuudltlons generally existing. Id X-ray rooms sufficiently protect" all but the operators.

The report was prepared by a com- number of 441829 were sent to their mission after recent reports to the hpmes Detween. May 1. 1920, and DeAcademy that X-rays were a serious cember 1y2h by the jolnt coniml8 menace to people in buildings housing 8i(m of tHe League of Natlons and the . . , . u . International Red Cross.

the rays would penetrate wans wua force euough left to cause serious InJury. This contention was found by the commission to be 111 founded. .. t- ; ; . Onjy a Toy Doll. , Wabash, Ind. Every time the tutemobile driven by Edward Reybu.ro, mall transfer clerk of Peru, bit a bump between the railroad station and the Peru post office some nights ago,. a faint cry of "Mamma, mamma" reached Rey burn's ears. He looked back several times, but he was unable to see anyone. At the post office the mail sacks were taken-ln the office and when one of the. sacks was placed ! on the floor the cry, "Mamma, mam- j ma" came again. C. J. Johnson, clerk on duty, aided by Reyborn, quickly' tore the sack open , to, find that the "baby" was a toy doll, which", wben pressed, would cry, "Mamma, mam-i ma. Italy Electrifies Railroads. ' Rome. The Italian state railways are bit by bit being electrified; Every now and then the government under-! takes to add 300 or 400 miles of c-Jec-1 trituration to the system. By the end of 1022, there will -be mort than 2,000,; miles of electrified state railways' In , Italy. This U expected to reduce the : coal consumption-of tht railroads. by: about one-third.

MELLOWS E FIGHTER t mm t . - , ... Gin Brings Desire for Education tO Former Terror Of the ' Boxing Ring. IS SEEKING ANOTHER DEGREE "Kid" Wedge, at 41, Enters Harvard Almert penniless, to Obtain Ph.D. Desree Left Lumber Camps " to Be PuQilist. Boston. A story of great love, of a career, of hard battles in the ring, and of a winning fight against tuberculosis came to light at Harvard university a few days ago when Frederick "Kid" Vedge,-f uTty-one years old, of Arizona registered in the Harvard graduate school of education, where he Is to study for his Ph. T. degree. Fifteen years ago the name of "Kid" Wedge 'was one to be feared in the timber lands of the Middle West. For years he had fought in the rings of that region. At twenty he left the woods,' where he worked with lumberIng crews, and took up the fighting game for his profession. In the next six years he fought 68 battles and won 05 of them. Romance Entered Life. Then; when he was twenty-six, came his romance. He met the daughter of a Wisconsin doctor. She was a gradnate of a Nebraska oollege, and far removed .from Wedge's station In life, but their, were married. Then.. he lie made the trip of thousands ol miles in freight cars and "on tin rods." ' He started with $10 travelin; Äpob'ses, and reached Cambridge wltl Or ceins" in his pockets. When the nex semester opens at Harvard, afier tlx mid-yrar examinations, "Kid" Wedge former boxer, former lumberman, for mer hobo, and former flying consump tlve, will open up the books that wil: make him "a doctor of philosophy. WAR PRISONERS SENT HOME Qctween Ma 1 1920 and Dec "31. 1921,441,829 Were Repatriated by Joint Commission. fipnpva. PHsonprs of war to thp The" repatriated men Were prisoner belonirlnfir to various EuroDean states Interned In Russia ana Russians interned In varlous European countries: A -small number of prisoners still re maln In Russia, but as far as the Joint commission caa learn they are men who have preferred, for,-personal reasons, not totjoin the convoys of repatriated prisoners. " The. commission considers that Its work ended December 31 and all agreements appertaining- to it will be re nounced on March 15. MILITANT- MARYv - Just'wheO'you'i? gloptjoq-over wbotQ-5port-you oreall -TOLD Some Auntie visits 'you'tind . mahes70U'fee7 JUST- EIGHT YEARS -OLD!

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EVERYDAY MYSTERIES, "This much I do not understand Said Ilezekiah Bings. "I don't know why a friendly hand Unto another clings With such a sense of confidence When things are 4'olng wronff, And makes tie universe immense A realm of scales and song. "X don't knv the roses bloom. Nor why tjj;jnakes fail. Nor why the stars dispel the giocm And yet I.Jove them all. And life, f-jTrgtr wisdom's way Is grand. Seems tt for the things J cannot tTviT! to understand," 6ald HerkiafiBlng3.TOWER'MAD OF TREE TRUNK European Viir Will Marvel at AdornmentßSfJp on Grounds of the MAtnal Capital. ' Part of the, trunk of a California redwood tree, 30 feet In diameter at the haw. has been shipped to Washington and coherted fnto a tower on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture. It Is. provided with a dr and an interior stairway and is surmounted by a circular roof with dorThe Tower in. Posjtiorv. 1 mer windows' looking tri -, four 'direet ions.-: Thev trunk- is rso hea y" tliä t It had.to'be cut Into several sections for shipping. . . :' - Curiosities .of Populous Isle. A remarkable case of QverpopuIaUcfn is that of the island of Ilukara, ,In Victoria Nyahza; "described by H. L. Duke - In the ComhIII Magazine. This Island, wltlf an area of 00 square miles, mubh of wlitch Is bare granite, though isolated from the rest of the world, supports a population of 10,000. The -rnall garden plots are carefully marked off and rights of ownership are rigidly observed. Trees are valued more than the land on which they grow. In some cases one "man owns the troes and another the ground. A man must hot steal his neighbor's leaves, sticks andrubblsh. A father may even divide aree among-his children, allotting .certain branches , to each. . Microscopic Infants. A tiny baby was born at II ford (England), recently. At birth it weighed two and1 one-half poutlds and gained three ounces in a little morer than i three' weeks. Perfectly formed, the baby gives promise of growing1 Into a healthy child. This Is not a .record, however. In 1S24 Sir Everard Home described a baby which weighed )ust one pound at birth und lived to! be nine years old when it raeasurel-j 22 inches' In height. In 1800 a baby, wäs" born in a, Philadelphia hospital which weighed one and-three-quarter pounds. I FAsmONSMN BRIEF Silk envelope p.oc"ketbooks are chic. Paris is pushuig the cause of the circular skirt.'. - Gray organdie will be smart for summer frocks. , Afternoon frocks .appear as lace-over-satin creations. Paris looks with favor upn handwork of every kind. Jeweled' heels1 for shoes can be had in many delightful designs. Fabrics rather than straw appear to he the mlllmery. success to date. Circular. skirts and many slde-phlt-ed .ones make, the sum total of s-j.n-rate skirts. ..' Some of the new slippers are matle In sandal shape' with French heels which are high'' nnoJender. There are nearly S. 0,l men under arms In the world, and the ftdIng of them is mnking niilliou.of other people hungry. If. as a Princeton professor says, "wealth Is a disease" he Is not going to. make himself, popular, by hunting np.iXi .remeuy. . . . ' Prices of other tilings may fluctuate and be...urcertituut. with sure deIlbemtene?sfMbcrty.. bonds are. climb-

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i J i t ! I . t ' 1 I y ivwJ if This very pretty frock of white crepe is embroidered in most winsome flowers and is an outfit that is sure to appeal to many women. KEEP SEWING BASKET HANDY Convenience Should Be Available in Bedroom, Sewing and Sitting Rooms as Time-Saver. Keep a completely stocked sewing basket In bedroom, sowing room and silting room; In this way many quick stitches can hi; taken, which would hot Imve leerUiken If everything had i6 be;huuted. up. - .'. In the sitting room basket, keep a ;iece of -pickup 'work and when an un'M eeted all r comeft, this can be worked dn, when' one would not feel Ml liberty to take time to hunt up the things. Also keep a sewing bag ready with a piece of work and necessary threads, etc., so that when you go out lo call or visit thorp is always something ready to take with you. This is a little extra expense to begin with, as it requires four pairs of scissors and four thimbles, but It amply repays in the end In the extra amount of work done. Skirt Trimming. If there Is any sort of trimming on a dress it is to be found on the skirt. The most attractive afternoon gowns are often made in somber colors, very smartly cut and absolutely nlaln. Of course it takes an expert to make a simple frock look elegant, as cutting Is a real art. 0 Smoking Frog Found; Grabbed Butt of Cigar A smoking frog Is the latest claim of Brown's Mills, N. J., for distinction. Caleb Bennett working along the shore of. Saloraa lake, "tossed the butt of . a cigar Into the water.. Barely had It touched the surface when a big 'green frog, Bennett Pays, leaped from among the weeds, seized the cigar, and climbed upon a log, with the cigar still steaming In his mouth. Mystery That Will Never Be Solved. Alexandria, Ind. The old dog of the Herman Harris family cets an extrm large bone these days and there's u ;ood reason. Mrs. Harris lost a roll containing $105. She thought she had dropped, it out" of her automobil Two days later the dog turned up with the money In his mouth. Where h got It Is a' mystery. v 1 AMERICAN FOXES WILL t BE RAISED IN GERMANY i Berlin. American silver foxes and skunks will be cultivated on a large cale by a German stock .company oh a farm in the Austrian Tyrol.-under the direction of Professor !e Mill of the natural hiStory department of the Munich university. In (ienaany, where the prices of the higher rgr:ide. of furs have ris-n enormously In the las: fer months, a perfect specimen silver fox costs 1W.&X) marks." - ,

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