Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 65, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 May 1922 — Page 1

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CD F SANK, FEARLESS AND FREE. PRICE TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR Vol. 65. Jaspee, Indiana, Friday, MAY 19, 1922. 5 'r No. 4.

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INSECTS USE RADIO

Wireless Expert Discovers Electric Power in Bug:. Cockroach Has Wsve Length cf Of tv.c;n Cr..--!.:ilf Inch .vrj Oie Inch C::i J r...LC : jü to Ec.i Othcr Ac-:d;:.;-:ly Dicovcr.j. I Tit 1 1 h-:.i .;. . 1: i. im: ni t eis - X I v ; . ! . .!.: lit li .' l'anr;y I :mv. I i po-jble a i - . lie . r m i- ' :ui" ;.al ': . A ill i h l.lo.t ) :' ! t: ?T;s''nr I'. '; third ii t; "; !:!.- !. . '.: ; :.. il lw.n ! I . i- .. 1 Iii"'"' . I ;-i '. ?' ? 1 ili I . e V. , ; !f p.iMi ' ' Im i ri in : : : ? liKilt s.i!d. It:'. I for :i rar :is t'e :"it ''.imtiie . way her f ;i:i invi !:;' : ! bai a ii ti::..!ln I T-'i. in a racks in I.n-.c .; ti m r a: i:i A :' . i i f : ' i I.' dire;n!vi ! lift . I,;. w li.i wir.--. Sergeant V.'' -.reel hi:;;i was servim shortly after the Mn.,ti"At t!::t time v. e v.civ having nigh school ;ind were working on the short est povi;,l, wave length, getting :i l'v as one-fourth of a meter." tlu sergeant explained. "Radio sets were located three feet apart on a glasstopjed table. "One night everything was working perfectly when suddenly our tubes began to act queerly. . Hy the flickering light of the candle we finally located Mr. Cockroach' sitting In the space letween the receiving and transmitting apparatus. We removed him and, to our surprise, the apparatus became normal. This led us to believe he was capable of making electric power." The sergeant declared one insect radios to another, and this belief, he Faid, is supported by his experiments. "I have found in my experimental work," he asserted, "that a cockroach has a wave length of between one-half Inch and one Inch, with a ery low frequency." The tumble bug and ninth are also endowed with radio power, he added. while beetles show only slight evidence of possessing wireless habits. UVIO.UE fEf!0RIAL . v 4 m 'V v''C' -y : ; 3 in an upper window of one of the well-to-do houses of Cologne, Cermany,1 Is an astonishing memorial, a pair of , horses' heads, facing the street. They were carved hundreds of years 14:0 and were placed there to commemorate one of the quaintest events in all history, by an ancient noble of the city. The story runs that his wife died, and while he was mourning at the d.N.ihbed. his stable man ran to him and told him that his wife's horses had disappeared. When he went down to their stalls he saw that they were K"i!e. hut wheji he turned back to the li.'Ue lie saw them emerging from the death chamber and concluded that they were bringing his wife's soul to heaven. The horses were never found again, and this strange memorial was set up here in their honor. There is an opinion that if Uncle Sam wants what the foreign countries owe him he should employ the fellow win makes the monthly calls for the Installment encyclopedia. i Sometimes we wonder if the ArmenlMi could ever be luippy unless they were starving or being persecuted by the Turks.

USE CHAPELS ON WHEELS

Methodists of Northwest Plan Exten. sive Campaign in Country Districts This Summer. Seattle, Wash. A number of district conferences of Northwest Methodist J Fpiscopal churches advocate a chapel- j on-wheels campaign this summer to cover a vast area of territory whore the population Is scattered. There are hundreds of hamlets, agricultural communities and Isolated places when tlie ilospel Is not now heard. The mounted chapels are to he constructed on trucks equipped with living quarters for the parson, a platform In the rear from which services may he conducted. In the equipment will he included graphophone with (Jospel records portable organ, books of songs and P.ibles for collective reading. The first of these wheeled churches will leave here early In May for the lumber camps above Snoqualmle. The pastor In charge of the first chapel will be a student from the College of Puget Sound (Tacoma) Theological school. Wooden Leg as Flask. Spartanburg. S. C. The storied "uses of adversity' proved anything but sweet the other day for Alex Iiallenger, a one-legged Spartanburg N'egro. When a faint and muffled "splash, splash' was heard to accompany him as he hobbled down Main street n policeman took him In. At the station a cache in Ids wooden leg was found to contain a pint of liquor. The judge Imposed a line of $100 for transporting Intoxicants. PULLS TOOTH TO TOOT FLUTE Schoolboy Sacrifices Crooked Incisor to Further Life's Ambition to Becorne a Musician. rhllartelphia. A real martyr to music has been brought to light by Miss WInnetta L. Stacks, superintendent of the Methodist Kpiscopal Peaoones home here. Miss Stacks in describing her efforts to initiate musb classes in settlement work, told of ore small bo who confided that his life's ambition vas to play ti e llute. The teacher struggled in v.-'h to teach, but his lip would not pi:- !;cr rlirbt. V.Toe, I g;u-ss you will never lean to blow a llute ! ,-e-!:;;i of tl:e. waj that front tooth J.- grown. It is Jj: Tie way, si'.i' s:id f:n:u'y. A few days l.itu the lad's moth' returned lioine to find her son's fact bloody, but shining witli triumph. !! had -borrowed pliers and had pulle the tooth. "Är.e? at the first recital of the sn ilents of the ela Miss Stacks cot eluded. "lie blew Holes on the tlute." The first (German skyscraper, sixteen stories In height. Is to be erected in llarjbugr. I'ui the (Jermans call it a "cJoud-scratcher." inn, wuuuo By DOUGLAS MALLOCH WHEN THE GEESE COME NORTH T m: I H faint "honk-honk" an nounces them, The geese when they come tlying north ; Above the far horizon's hem From out the south they issue forth They weave their figures In the sky. I They write their names upon its j dome, J And. o'er and o'er, we bear them cry j Their cry of gladness and of home. Now lakes shall loose their Icy hold Cpon the banks, and crocus bloom; The sun shall warm the river's cold And pierce gloom. the winter's armored The vines upon the oaken tree Shall shake their wavy tresses forth, Tlie grass shall wake, the rill go free Tor, see! The geese are living north ! (Cpyrlf:ht.) o THE CHEERFUL CHERU5 Tke ve-dtky dorvt e close to lira: T oi? ti 10 common roms xnevi Its ue.ll my v$e dorvt increase. Id lose my ympilky, 1 rer. I

tJf v,?r.s s- ft v- ' ft 1 : CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG She argue against the popular belief that artist are impractical people. Mis Young is oon to be teen in a new Metro picture, "The Hands of Nara," by Richard Washburn Child. ALICE LAKE ::x:-x-:-x-S.W..::' 4 v.v v.v :.-.;-:-v-:w., ...i IMAE iurray She P-tie the SpanUh Flapper Who Ha So Little Chance to Flap. BERT LYTELL A a Correspondence School Detective in "Sherlock Brown."

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t YELLOW FEVER i t May; Cross Ocean in Event of Quick Transit Between American and African Tropics. GOnGAS' WARUING RECALLED In Former Days Time of Transit Across 'AtlanfcickWas Long Enough to Allow all Cases of Fever on y Doard to Kill or Cure. I'an:tm;f. The two Portuguese aviators Hying across the Atluntlc from Africa to South America brings to mind ,a prophetic warning of the late Ueneral liorgas. This was to the effect' that when quiek transportation between tropical Africa and tropical America should develop, as it eventually would, It would greatly Increase the danger of the spread of yellow fever to the Eastern Hemisphere as long as the disease remained in South America, especially in Brazil. Pays of the Slave Trade. Thelreaspn why yellow fever did not spreaij from America to Africa in the days 0t the slave trade, as malaria did spread from Africa to America then, lllutrntes beautifully an important difference between the two great tropical plagues, as well as gives point and pertinence to General Gorgas' warning. Yellow fever kills or cures In a Very short time; malaria may linger in the system for a very long time, f In former days the time of transit across the Atlantic was long enough to allow all cases of yellowfever on board a ship to die or to recover "before the voyage ended. Recovery conferred Immunity on the fortunate. and if a mosquito should bite them utter they- reached Africa they found ' no germs in them to transmit to others. So it required a very quick transitVto get the infection across. It is not j yet positively certain that yvlow" f;vr"74 ' wr. id cross the ocean. General f jns "vf.J : his way to the LxxZfr ttofcw cut&$riir ta'-.ta t ÜthU question ' definitely when he died in London; An Important Difference. But malaria, which seems to have originated in Africa, does not confer immunity upon those who recover from an attack. The germs may survive in the systeni of the sufferer for months, or even for years, in a more or less dormant state, even if acute attacks do not again develop, and these germs may infect the anopheles or malaria-carrying mosquitoes, and so enable them to infect others. In this way the African slaves brought malaria to America with them, but the slave traders did not carry back yellow fever with them to Africa at least It is not definitely known that they did and the long time of transit wa unfavorable to any considerable transportation of the infection. It is certain that Africa has not suffered from the imported American plague of yellow fever as much as America has from the malaria imported from Africa. Airplane May Change This. But the airplane may easily change all this. If the Atlantic is crossed in two or three days any member of the crew of an airplane having an infection of yellow fever may easily carry the disease to where the mosquitoes are waiting to do their part on both sides of the Atlantic. Yellow fever does not reveal itself immediately .after a man is bitten by an infected mosquito. The only safety would lie in a strict quarantine at the port of arrival in Africa or Europe, the crew and passengers all being detained under watch until the period of inoculation has passed. The other remedy is to clean up South America of yellow fever, as General Gorgas so strongly urged. Neighbor Signalled Word of Tragedy to Engineer. Edith Pembleton, fourteen years old. of Middletown, X. Y., was struck by a railroad express train, thrown on the pilot and carried a quarter of a mile hefore the engineer learned of the accident. A neighbor of tlie girl saw her on the pilot of the englno and signaled to the t'lmiiurr with his raincoat, causing him to stop the train. The girl died from her injuries. 1 The very hsf m -my of s-i-!i:irn wo know anythh-.g about, is a little discretion In the way of shade and skin covering.

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SEE CITIZENSHIP AS A DUTY Happy 'thCcrtjmunity Which Has a Numbed of" Public-Spirited Men ; and Women. A gtxM citizen is a man or woman who takts a real Interest in his or her home ämKthe community in which he or she fc maintaining that home. A gdfxl citizen is one who makes every e4Tort within Ids means to make the community, a better place in which to maintain the1 home. A good citizen does not "forget" when election flay comes round, lie makes It a point to remember that It is his duty ns well as hisprivilege to exercise the right to. the ballot. A good citizen takes the time and trouble to study the candidates in tlie field at election time. He looks Into their records, weighs the facts concerning each one, and determines their worth as public oiücials. Then he votes accordingly with reasonable intelligence. A good citizen studies the propositions that will be submitted to him tt election. He weiirhs the value of the Issues, determines from the facts as he understands them, whether the propositions are good or bad. And he votes accordingly with reasonable Intelligence. A good citizen, then, Is one who fulfills his civic, hone, and political duties; one who Is a part of the government of himself and his fellow men through the ballot that Is given him by the American Constitution, lie is not a sidesteppcr. He meets the Issues squarely and answers promptly when his name Is called. He is present at the polls on election day" and he knows what he Is doing when he casts his ballot. Qulncy, (111.) Whig WILL DELIGHT THE CHILDREN Vine-Covered Playhouse Which Can Be -Made to Add to Appearance J of the Lawn. An 'attractive which does not of the lawn, can the drawing. It frame covered w which vines uro made of seven children's playhouse spoil the appcurnnea be made as shown In consists of a wooden Ith wire netting, over grown. The frame is six-foot two-by-fours. EN 1 k i. i.V. Vine-Covered Playhouse Pleases the Children and Does Not Injure the Appearance of the Lawn. the rafters being set with their bases five feet apart. These are then covered with wire netting, and the seeds of wild morning-glory, clematis, or other rapid-growing vines are planted along' the edges. The frame may be painted green for better appearance. In six or eight weeks, the playhouse Is very attractively covered with vines and furnishes a fine place for the children to play. Popular Mechanics Magazine. A LINE 0' CHEER By John Kendrick Banks. MOTHERHOOD. IF ALL the world were veld of good Pd still be full of gratitude for Motherhood The loving eye, the smlUm;? Hps, The touch of tender finger-tips. The sacrifice of self that we The Sons of Earth may stronger be, The constant care, the constant thought For helplessness In trial caught While Motherhood rem-iins the rintr Of Joy shall thrill the songs I nr.. (Copyright.) -oChinese City Up to Date. Trucks of the Shanghai (China) fire department are soon to be equipped with wireless telephones. Tlie' improvement is expected to enable the department at all times to keep Id touch with its men while fighting üres.

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TWO SETS OF ORGANS

Man Can Swallow Water and Then Bathe in It. Russian, "Discovered" by French Acad, emy, Used Peculiar Talents to Fcol Cermans During War. Paris. The Trench Academy of Medicine, announces the discovery of what it terms a "man most fortunately constructed physiologically for braving the torrid heat wave." The man is Vladimir Ilolgarsky, formerly a captain in the Kassian army and since the Bolshevist revolution a refugee in Paris. According to the report, Polgar.ky has a "dual personality of digestive organs." The multiplicity of talents possessed hy these organs lend themselves to many practical uses. For Instance, shower baths are scarce and overpa tronized in Paris at present, but .his does not annoy P.olgarsky. He simply drinks "0 glasses of ice water, '.vhich feat occupies him some three; minutes, then, being thus cooled Inside his trick organs return the water 'y way cf the mouths in the same con'lition as when swallowed, and with uch force and velocity that the tream rises to a height of six feet, ailing back upon him in tiny needleike jets like a .shower. Iiolgarsky put his talents to good iso while lighting on the side of tlu dlies. The Russians had an- Irnporant battery well camoutlaged, but tig worried that the (Jermans might liscover it, they constructed a dumny battery at some distance. Polgarky was placed in a well-protected sit n front of the dummy battery and, uiving smoked many packages of cigireUes and swallowed the smoke, he niitted smoke in such spurts that the lermans concentrated the fire on the lummy instead of the real battery. STICKS IN FIRE HYDRANT 3oy Is Held Prisoner by Suction Half Hcur Six Firemen Work to Free Him. New York. The Dutch boy who plugged up a hole In the dyke with his j n t 1 1 1 . m nt 1 rn v e 1 f JalLi ni f rOJS 11Xh1, vn 3 1 prototype of five-year-old Davey McCluskey of Harlem. Davey's .arm got stuck in a fire hydrant for half an lour before six firemen took the hyIrant apart and freed him. Davey and some chums found the up of tle hydrant loose and unscrewed It. Davey shoved his '.eft ami in up to the shoulder. When he tried to withdraw ii he couldn't, because of the suction, lie didn't even whimper while being rescued, and the tiremeu shook hands with him and called him A "game little kid." Hut McCluskey, Sr., happened along, and Davey's reward was different from that of the Dutch Loy. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN The Uully beat up his Wife last week and be is now I-'n Iioute to beat up the Kditor for Putting it In the Paper. Tlie Kditor will remind the P.ully that he is merely Printing the News, not Making It. and then he will Bust the Iiully over the I Sean with the Maltet and set him out in the Alley to I lest Up. The people of the United States smoked .".(" m.OimM) cigarettes last year, not Including the "roll yonr own" fags, and ten years ago the consumption was les than 7.'r".("W0. Some Increase. 7o) j.r cent Is when the population Increased not more than l'J per cent. We burn a few Federal Ileserve notes, remarks tho Houston Post, as we Journey through this vale of tears.