Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 150, 4 May 1920 — Page 8

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DARING OF SAILOR IN MERCHANT FLEET SHOWN UP IN WAR New York Sun and Herald To most of us the sea is an adventure to which we glady go and from which we return with relief. Yet to some of us it is romance, vaguely enticing, dimly alluring, always maintaining its distance. Until the last troubled years, for most Americans, the Eea has had only a shadowy existence. Now it has been brought home to us that the sea is all one the navy and merchant ships all one. It has been proved that ships are America's treasure; that to have ships of commerce not only is a vital necessity to prevent us from continuing to be the commercial slave of foreign maritime nations, but that, if for no other reason, merchant ships are justified by naval and military necessity. The complete history of what merchant sailors of all nations did during the war will never be written. It can't be, for ships are solitary waylayers and you can not record the adventures of all. It was the merchant sailor who j saved the day for England prior to i our entrance into the war. It was the merchant sailor who saved the J day for us during the hectic period of April to October, 1917, when naval policy in Washington nearly caused an allied defeat because of starvation. The average landsmen is inclined to regard the immaculately uniformed officer of a passenger liner as a typical example of a merchant ship sailor. Yet compared with the rugged, blusterous boy of the tramp ship, a passenger liner's officer can almost be classed as a fresh water navigator, who does not know what trouble is and probably never has been thrown , up against tough luck at sea .during his career. Yet among a liter's crew, especially the black gang, will be lound many a man who has done his gruelling in a tramp ship. Escaped From German Cruiser The immaculately uniformed liner officers rose to the occasion wonderfully, too, during the war, especially a, unlike the tramp ship officer, they had rarely been called upon to do the unexpected. An example of this is what Kinnier did with the big Ortega. If he had been a tramp ship man the trick would have been expected of bim, for tramp ships go to all sorts of little traversed quarters of the world, whereas liners ply on regular routes, almost laid out as plainly as the track of a railroad. With the German cruiser Dresden shelling him, even though he was well within -the three-mile limit, off the! Chilean coast, Captain Kinnier, to pre- i vent his passengers from being shot; to pieces or face death in open boats, i was forced to enter Nelton strait, an i uncharted waterway in the vicinity of' Cape Horn. No vessel drawing 26 i feet, as the Ortega was, had even! given its possibilities a thought. Yet' Kinnier had no other alternative than ' to, attempt it, for he knew the Ger-i mans wouldn't dare to follow. j And right he was. Not only that, j but the German was so sure the Or- j tega would not survive that he sent out a wireless to the effect that shOj had gone down with all hands. : Possibly if the captain of the Dres-J den had been a merchant sailor he , would have appreciated the resource-; fulness in men of that breed when j facing death. For that is what all on j .the Ortega faced, as Nelson straight! is 100 miles in length, bounded by the j wi'dest of the South Chilean inlands,1 with thickly suowclad peaks and; mountains on either side. I And through this tortuous water-! w ay crept the Ortega at a snail's pace, I a row boat preceding her taking sound-; ings. As one passenger has written j about the trip". I "The passage through those wild ; fjords will never be forgotten by any; o us. The risk was terrible the; scenery superb. It was truly a mag-j nificent sight to :ee the sun rise ma-' j.stically behind the high mountains; vf snow, with the black water of the; s trait at their base, for sheer moun-; tains rofe precipitately on either side ; of us. mountains of rock and snow. 1 It was fairyland! Frozen water-! falls, here and there a little rock peep-, ing up, the danger Captain Kinnier, must avoid. Not a vestige of human! life was to be seen. It was the awfullest, form of desolate grandeur. So j i' continued as the crew worked will-; ingly. doggedly, patiently, hour by Injur. ' It took I wo days lor the Ortega to t.et through Nelson strait. Eventually she reached Isthmus bay, a wa-, terway which is charted, yet lor the1 navigation ol" a ship of the size ; tj the Ortega it is almost as danjTerous a feat as going through Nelson .strait itself. So rare is it for a ves-', : tA to visit Isthmus bay that each! : hip records the fact by nailing her kiting card on the trees ashore. And l "foro picking her way toward Terra Fuego the Ortega's visiting card .-ml the reason for her visit were, duly posted. ; What Captain Kinnier did was cer-i tainly a most noiable feat of pluck, ;nd skilful seamanship. Vet it can! te in no tntnnor elevated above thousands of other acts which the lack of i proper navr.l protection forced mer-; rliant sailors to perform. No one give? more credit to the merchant sailors than the regular navy man, for he hr.ows their stamina and worth. -t UNCLE f AM ANNEXES A MOUNTAIN AND FORESTS WASHINGTON, D. C, May 4 The senate bill enlarging the Oregon national forest to include Larch mountain, the watershed of streams which supply Oneonta gorge and Multonomah falls, was passed by the house. The house also passed bills to enlarge the Targhe and Nez Perce national forests in Idaho, 46,000 acres in the Fitter Root mountains to be addd to the former and 34,000 in Idaho county to the latter. Sales of 2,800 acres of land to Pocatello, Idaho, so that city may protect its water supply, is authorized in another bill. Poison for the Pups of the Prairies According to a government report, more than 3.500,000 acres of government land have been freed recenf? of prairie dogs by poisoning. One man poisoned approximately 2,000 prairie dogs in a single day on a 320ncre field in Northern Arizona, 1631 of the animals being counted in the open, while the rest died in their ' holes.

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It is very much the fashion just now for foreign governments to Winnipeg, Chicago or North Turns the Clock of History Beck With Great Pageant WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 4. Winnipeg, metropolis of western Canada, forgot Monday that it is the "Chicago of the north." The modern city turned back the clock of history snd became for the time old Fort Garry, civilization's outpost in the western wilderness. The occasion was the two hundredth anniversary of the Hudson Bay company. It will be celebrated here by a fur brigade and a powwow and peace pipe ceremonies at lower Fort Garry between the Indians and Sir Robert Kindersley, governor of the Hudson Bay company. It will be celebrated later by successive street pageants in Edmonton, Calgary, Van Couver, and Victoria, all of which grew up about old Hudson Bay company posts. City in Holiday Attire. Winnipeg put. on holiday attire to commemorate the anniversary of the old company which once held sovereign sway over three-fourths of the North American continent and whose history for more than two centuries was the history of all western Canada. Sir Robert Kindersley had come out especially from London. Old time servants of the company had come from far-flung fur posts in Labrador on the Pacific coast and from Arctic ocean. Indians of a dozen tribes had been gathered from all over Canada. They included Crees, from the shores of Hudson bay; Swampy Crees, from James bay; Plain Crees, from northern Saskatchewan; Ojibways, from the Lake Superior fur regions; Blackfeet and Sioux, from the prairies; tribesmen from the Athabasca and Mackenzie river basin, and Carrier and Totem Pole Indians, from British Columbia and the Yukon. War Not For Fair Sex; Would Gain Weight Fast! New York Evening Sun War will never be popular with women if recently compiled statistics concerning the American expeditionary force come to their knowledge. The figures show that out of S73.149 men examined the average gain in weight was 3. 3 pounds. Just what that would mean in the way of sorrow if it happened to the New York woman of today is too cruel for mere words to paint. The old comparison of an inch w hen THEY THANK WILSON Members of the House of Members of the House of David, reliyious cult, recently called at the White House to

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send as their representatives to 1 Washington diplomats with Amer- I applied to the end of a man's nose is as nothing compared to three pounds in feminine avoirdupois. It might easily require a revision of an entire wardrobe or even the seeking of an entirely different social evironment with all the concommittal disasters thereby entailed. It might mean the change of a style in corset, or the dire news from a modiste that "madame has ceased to be a perfect 32" and lias entered the once prized but now abhorred ranks of the 36's. No martial victory could ever be worth the price of such a sacrifice. The average weight of the American youth who entered the war is computed as 141.54 pounds, which had increased when the men were discharged to 144.89 pounds. The reason assigned is that he men were compelled to eat more nourishing food in the army than they ate at home and that plenty of open air and harder work increased their appetites. The explanations are good enough, but the problem of the woman is not how to increase her appetite, but how to keep it within bounds. Undoubtedly starvation will decrease even feminine weight, but the hungry wo man is never happy. The great .prob-i lem of her life is how to be happy and slender though hungry. According to statistics, she can never attain that Utopia. How Odor Travels, Is Shown (New York Sun and Herald) The rapid propagation of smells noticed in the open air appears due entirely to currents since in small tubes, where currents do not exist, the rate is found to be very small. Experiments along this line were first undertaken in England by Professor Ayrton, and additional data have been reported in this country. With ammonio diffusing through a tube a meter and a half long, over two hours elapsed before the smell could be detected at the other end of the tube. Using different lengths of tubing, it was found that the time required for the diffusion of the smell was roughly proportioned to the square of the length. Ammonia and hydrogen sulphide were used for these experiments. The presence of ammonia could be detected chemically at a point in a tube after about the same time as when the sense of smell was used for a detector. The rate of propagation of the smell of ammonia was not markedly different when this had to pass along the same tube either horizontally or. vertically upward ar vertically downward. With FOR ALLOWING THEM S David leaving the White House Their thank President Wilson for issuing an order during the war which permitted them to retain tlreir

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Left to right, above: Mme. Ekengren, Baroness Avezzano and Baroness de Marchienne. Below: Senora de Gama, Senora Riano and Mme. Jusserand. ican wives. Aniens: the minister and ambassadors with America? wives at the U. S. capital are Si. Jusserand, ambassador from France; Baron Avezzano, ambassador from Italy; Baron de Marchienne, ambassador from Belgium; Senor Riano, ambassador from Spain; W. A. F. Ekengren, minister from Sweden, and Senor de Gama. ambassador from Brazil camphor, however, while the rates horizontally and downward were about the same, the speed upward was about twice as great. The smell given to iron and brass by rubbing these with the fingers was also tried, but gave no definite results. Helsingfors, Spotless Town (Arthur Ruhl in the Outlook) Helsingfors, "Finland, might give lessons in the muuicipal amenities to almost any American city, although it is tucked away in the north, in a bare little land of rock and lakes and birch trees, in the latitude of the southern end of Greenland. I do not happen to know of any American city so consistently clean and well built. They post no bills in Helsingfors. They tie them around posts with strings, and when they have served their purpose they disappear, strings and all. Every morning there is a market on the board quay at the end of the esplanade; fish, flowers, meat and vegetables even Oregon apples, which contrive. In spite of distance and almost prohibitive rates of exchange, to cross the sixtieth parallel. A few minutes after noon you would never know a market had been there. Stalls fold up, rubbish disappears, street cleaners turn on the hose, and presently the quay is as clean as a tennis court. The Helsingfors gas tanks are not the dismal contraptions that disfigure most of our water fronts. The tank itself may be the same, but they build a neat brick house for it a sort of monumental roundhouse, with stone wreaths around the top by way of frieze, quite in place among buildings intended for politer uses, and not without some suggestion of the Castle of St. Angelo in Rome. Staggered Lunch Hours for Vienna. The capacity of the illuminating plants of Vienna are overtaxed at the present time and there is a draft upon them at noontime whe'h the natives are at lunch. In order to overcome this the residents occupying houses with even numbers must have their noontime meal at half-past 11 and those in the houses with uneven numbers at half past 12. Punishment for Profiteers The anti-profiteering campaign in England has resulted in the conviction of 1320 persons, with more in prospect. Many of these were handed prison terms and $35,000 in fines collected. TO GO HAIRCUTLESS flowing locks can be seem unshorn locks while in draft camps. Allowing their hair to grow Ions is Dart of their creed.

TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920.

LOGANSPORT MAYOR DIDN'T PROFITEER IN SUGAR, HE SAYS INDIANAPOLIS. May 4. In explanation of his connection with an alleged attempt to profiteer in the sale of a carload of sugar to the Sales Extension Company In this city, James I. Barnes, mayor of Logansport, has made an affidavit asserting that he lent the money to the Ruch-Drompp Company, of that city, in whose name the sugar was bought in Chicago. The affidavit also is supported by W. E. Drompp as being a correct statement of facts. The accusation against the mayor and the RuchDrompp company was made by Stanley Wyckoff, fair price commissioner for Indiana, ho said a profit of $7,000 on the car load was made on the deal and that the participants were operating "without a license. j Mr. Barnes's affidavit follows: Text of Affidavit "A week ago Saturday, April 24, Edward Drompp, of the Ruch-Drompp Grocery company, met me and told me that he had bought a carload of sugar for 19 cents a pound and thought he had made arrangements with Will Porter, president of the City National Bank, to take care of it when it came, but on account of the changed money conditions he could not get the money for himself and that he would lose the purchase of this sugar if they did not get the money at once. He also showed me a telegram from Syne-Eagle company, of Chicago, saying that draft must be paid at once or they would divert the sugar, or words to that effect. He told me, also, that these people were anxious to take the sugar back as it was worth 27 cents on the market and this is the reason they wanted it back. I told him that if sugar was worth what he said, I would let him have the money, and we went up to my office and I called George Boerger, of Boerger Bros. Grocery company, by phone and asked him if 19 cents was a cheap price for sugar and he told me it was, and that I was safe in letting Ruch-Drompp company have the money. "Then I told Drompp that I would let him have the money, and. Tuesday I got the money for him and paid the draft and told Earl Moss of the City National bank that I wanted to handle this loan the same as the bank had on previous occasions and he told me that all I needed to do was to hold the bill of lading, which I did, and I had the understanding with Drompp that he would sell the sugar in Logansport, but while I was out of the city he came to George Clevenger, who works for me, and they went to the bank and had a draft made in my name for $21,000. When I came home Saturday afternoon and found this out I told Drompp to have the City National bank wire the Indianapolis bank to retrun the draft, as I wanted this sugar sold in Logansport. I wish to say that if this draft has not been paid the sugar will be stopped at Logansport not Indianapolis. I understand it is in Michigan. My only interest in this transaction was to help Mr. Drompp and at the same time get some sugar for Logansport." Artists Go Up As Cost Of Living Mounts in JV. Y. NEW YORK, May 5. Cost of living going up? So are artists. First they went up town. Now they are going up in the air. The latest removal will be to the roof of the Hotel Majestic, overlooking Central Park, where they will occupy not tents, nor yet a roof garden, but a village consisting of fireproof bungalows. Announcement recently was made by the management of the Majestic that plans and specifications had been drawn and contracts awarded for the construction of this latest high flyer at combatting the equally altitudinous rents being asked for earthoound studios by building a small Bohemla-in-the-clouds. The designs project two sorts of studio bungalows. Some are to be used exclusively for working purposes by painters or sculptors. Others will have living accommodations in addition to workshop or studio. The culinary needs of the roof dwelling artists will be attended to in a special kitchen. The management further undertakes to provide Japanese servants. The plan has found favor with several well known workers in plaster and paint. The first bungalow to be built will be occupied by Prince Pierre Troubetzkoy. who is expected to remove his atelier from California to the south roof of the Majestic. He will be joined by Ray Rohn and Frank Godwin, of Philadelphia, who have signed leases for their new quarters. Leonia will lose Dean Cornwell the illustrator, to this Greenwich upstairs. Martin Justis will have his New York studio here. This unique departure in housing ventures comes as the upshot of a gradual shifting of the artistic population of the city from its old downtown quarters about Washington square to the upper west side about the sixties and seventies, particularly about Sixty-seventh street, between Columbus avenue and Central Park West. Whether this pursuit of the muses to the very roof tops will lead to more direct connection with the celestial sources of inspiration as the frequenting of mountain tops was thought to do in the days of Phidias, remains yet to be proved. At least, it is tolerably assured that from this height it will be possible to step on the H. C. of Rents. GARTON ANNOUNCES 2 CONCERTS FOR SEASON Samuel B. Garton, dean of music at Earlham College, has announced a concert by the college orchestra under the direction of Prof. Walgar at the college Saturday evening. Miss" Edith Ayers McCullough. mezzo soprano, of Chicago, will appear as the soloist. The singer is said to possess a charming voice and is highly recommended by Prof. Garton. On May 20 the pupils in music at Earlham will be presented in a studio recital, it is also announced. Welcome For the Storks. The stork is treated with great , respect in the Netherlands. The house selected by the stork for a resting place is considered fortunate, and very special facilities are provided by the householders to enable It to build a nest comfortably. At the Hague many of these birds are maintained at public expense.

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Or P. G. HOLDEN THE 1919 corn crop was especially targe, owing to an unusually favorably season throughout most of the corn belt. As a result, the average yield in the United States was 28.6 bushels to the acre the largest In seven years. When we look at this record, we are very apt to feel highly satisfied with "what we have done, while as a matter of fact It is only half the crop we might have grown. We must remember that If an average of only one little elght-ounc ear of corn to every hill were grown, the yield per acre would be about 26 bushels, and that is just a trifle less than last year's yield. , Figures Prove Loss. ' In the corn belt It Is customary to plant three kernels of corn to a hill. If two stalks in every hill produced an eight-ounce ear each, the yield would be 52 bushels per acre. If there were three stalks to a hill and each produced an eight-ounce

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doubt that seed corn Imported even 50 miles will produce corn inferior both In yield and quality. We must select and test every ear of corn we plant. The same difference which shows at harvest time between two stalkB also shows when the kernels first begin to sprout. For this reason, if we give a few kernels from each ear a germination test before planting, we may detect the weak and dead ears and discard them. A few days spent in testing seed corn may be worth to us at harvest time, more than a whole year's hard work. Do Not Plant Too Deep. We should not plant corn too deep. Deep planting is a particularly bad custom, especially when the seed Is weak or the spring is cold and backward. Experiments made by planting the same seed at the same tima in different fields, resulted in a poorer stand in the case of the deeper planting. We often plant corn deeper than we think. When the ground is very mellow the planter wheels may sink deeper than we realize. If we want to ascertain how deep we are planting, we should make our examination in the middle of the field and not at the headland, where the wheels do not sink as deep. We must cultivate our corn intelligently. The time to kill weeds Is before they come up before they have a chance to deprive the corn of moisture and nourishment. Early cultivation may be deep, but cultivation late in the season should be shallow. . Deep cultivation early in the season, saves the moisture; shallow cultivation late In the season, saves the corn roots.

SOLDIER'S FATALISM SHOWN BY CONDUCT OF GEN. BURNSIDE Kansas City Times The reminiscences off Colonel Thomas L- Livermore, a veteran of the civil war, which were published after the colonel's death, in 1918. under the title "Days and Events, 18601866" contain many anecdotes of the great struggle between the states. Now and then he sums up in a few words his impressions of the notable officers of the war with whom be was brought into contact. "We passed General Burnskle on the left," he says, "looking very gallant and warlike in his blue frock and side whiskers, and we wondered that so fine a looking man should be so poor a general!" On the other hand, he has nothing but words of praise for General Hancock, whose departure from the 2d corps was greatly regretted by its members. "He was escorted to the railway train which took him away by a great number of mounted officers who had previously, at our headquarters, drunk his health and good fortune, and recalled the deeds of the corps under him, in more than a glass apiece. We sincerely regretted his leaving, for although he was passionate, yet he was also verywinning in his ways and the embodiment of courtesy when calm. He was a man of the most perfect bravery, and in battle, when shot and shell were flying about him, he would sit up erect" in his saddle and give his orders, launch out his oaths and fight his corps without apparently perceiving that he was in danger. MORE COMES APART FOR CLEANSING A sanitary hair brush has the bristles in a flexible pad, which enables that part to be separated from the back for cleansing. OPENS SENATE WAR ON THE PROFITEERS Senater Arthur Capper. , Arthur Capper, Republican senator of Kansas, has opened war in the Uj S. senate on all profiteers. Ht has given the names of many corporations profiteering in a fashioa "open, scandalous and shameless.

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Enough ear, the yield would be 76 bushels. One twelve-ounce ear to a hill means 49 bushels, two twelve-ounce ears, 98 bushels. When we consider these figures we realize how really Inefficient we are when we succeed In growing only 28 bushels to the acre. We can materially increase our yield of corn If we observe a few simple requirements. We must not import seed corn from a distance. Thousands of experiments conducted by agricultural colleges1 and by the government and the experience of thousands of farmera Drove bevond a Question of a Los Angeles, Cat,, Has Monopoly on Pretty Girls; Movie Aspirants Go There What city of all the cities in the world ranks first in feminine loveliness? Los Angeles, Calif. This isn't a mere tourist bureau boast about California scenery, but an established fact. More than 100 motion picture producing units havrestablishments there, employing more than 8,000 people on weekly pay rolls and many times that many "extras." Los Angeles is several times the greatest motion picture "factory" center in the world, and that fact attracts dozens of beautiful girls every day. eager to crowd Pickford and Theda off the screen. Schools which advertise they can teach one to be a motion picture star in ten lessons have been taking so many persons to Los Angeles recently that the police are finding them a serious problem. Nearly every day the proprietor of one of these "schools" i arrested. Hundreds of the girls who go have no chance in this overcrowded field and have to turn to other mean? of livelihood. The result is a city full I of stunning stenographers and dazzling desk polishers. Even the waitress who throws one's hat cakes at him in th : beanery into which he sneaks while no j cne is looking, along toward the end j of the month, probably came here .bej cause her friends back in Dubuie. i Iowa, told her she was the living j image of Clara Kimball Young. Even the wealthy tourists who go I there for the winter try to take a flyer at the movies while there, and often girls who apply for work as "extras" or atmosphere register from the best hotels in town. A girl who lives at the most expenrive hotel in Los Angeles has been working regularly as "an extra" and getting $10 a day for it. because she has the clothes, the beauty and the stage personality to do it. "Extras" get from f3 to $10 a day, the average being about $o. A woman weighing about 230 pounds walked into a leading casting office the other day and asked to be listed. "What do you want to be?" demanded the gasping casting director. "Just atmosphere," she replied. All applicants for work as "extras" are catalogued by the casting offices, with photographs and "dope" sheets giving an necessary mtormation. men the applicants call up every day to ask if there is any work for them. The transaction is very brief and businesslike. The answer is either "No!" and the slapping up of the receiver, or something like this: "Yep. Five dollars for you In a ball gown. Ready for work at 9:00 a. m." The happy applicant knows that means she must be at the studio dressed in a ball gown and ready for work at 9:00 o'clock next morning and will receive $5 lor it. So many pretty girls go to Los Angeles that many who were considered great beauties at home in Hastings, Neb., are far outdazzled there, not only by famous stars, but by the hundreds of other "extras." BREWERS TO TAKE SUGAR. With but little change in equipment, it is said, any brewery can make maltsugar syrup. This is well known to chemists for some time and has the approval of the government scientists. The syrup is almost as good as cane syrup and has the taste of honey. It is hard to make into a dry sugar, as it does not readily crystallze. American Breakfasts for Doughboys. The French cooks could never get in line with the American breakfast which was demanded by the American soldiers and others from this country who were called to France during the war. The French breakfast consists of a roll and coffee, while the Americans demanded eggs and bacon as well.