Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 317, 18 November 1920 — Page 15

LOST-CHAPTERS IN CAREER OF MANKIND MAY BE DISCOVERED (By Associated Tress) ... CHICAGO. Nov. 18. Recovery of the lost chapters in the career of man hidden in the ancient buried ritieg of Western Asia is an imminpnt

, possibility and an American responsi- j u James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, reports. Dr. Breasted, -who is professor of Egyptology and oriental history there, has recently returned from a survey of most of the important buried cities of the Near Orient. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire has opened the birth-lands of civilization to unrestricted investigation, Dr. Breasted said. "It is evident," he added, "that there rises before us an opportunity unpreceedented in the history of humanistic research. Records Vanishing. "The great centers of human life In the ancient -world, the mighty cities and capitals of Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and Egypt, the region -where the earliest civilized societies arose out of savagery and barbarism to bring civilization to barbarian Europe all these treasuries of human records -which are rapidly perishing in the whole region' about the eastern end of the Mediterranean lie there silently awaiting the spade of the excavator." It will be possible to clear up the leading ancient buried cities of Western Asia within the next 25 or 30 years or perhaps a generation, given sufficient funds and adequate personnel, according to Dr. Breasted. The task rests with American orientalists, he . said, because no other country has the available resources. Farmers Contemplate Co-Operative Purchases (By Associated Press CHICAGO",' Nov. 18. Co-operative (Purchase of supplies by farmers runnlng "co-operative grain elevators is now under way in a number of middle western states and the .movement is rapidly developing, according to headquarters of the Farmers National ;;rain Dealers' association here. Its officers say there is likelihood that a national co-operating purchasing organization will be formed here in Detcember at the association's first national convention. Ohio farmers who have organized a $100,000 purchasing company are reported to have contracted for the output of a coal mine and a feed mill and "to be buying other materials, such as fencing and sugar, by the carload. In Iowa formation by farmers of a million dollar corporation having purchase of arm supplies as one of its chief functions is reported. The general plan is stated to be to pool purchases and sell by mail order. DIARY OF A MERE AMERICAN (Arthur H. Folwell. in Leslie's.) First Entry My mind is made up. I can be pushed just so far. A a protest against the high cost of clothing. I shall wear denim overalls. Second Entry Since purchasing my first suit of overalls the price of denim has advanced so rapidly that I can no longer afford it. As a protest against Die high cost of denim, I shall buy overalls of cotton crash. " Third Entry What's to be donp? Cotton crash has gone beyond reach of my purse; that is, if I am to re main true to my resolution and refuse to be mulcted. Ah, I have it! I shall wear a barrel held up by suspenders' Fourth Entry I am at my wit's end Determined not to sacrifice my principles, I refuse to be victimized, but the demand for barrels is so great, coopers' wages are so high, that I can not afford even a bucket. But one chance remains to me. I shall cable Hawaii for a grass skirt. Fifth Entry The situation is desperate. For reasons which (being a modest man) I shall not detail, I am unable to leave the house. I have lot my job: I am nearly broke; and my landlord (he came from Russia four years ago, fleeing from oppression) ays he will dispossess me. If the grass skirt does not arrive from Hon olulu by the first of the month, my .plight will be unparalleled. Sixth Enry It is all over. I have just' received a cable (collect) from Honolulu saying that owing to the unprecedented demand for grass garments certain nameless powers have cornered the Hawaiian hay crop. Seventh Entry I have just telephoned my undertaker. He is coming to take my measure for a pine box He warns me that pine will be expensive, but that after the first cost is met, the upkeep will be trifling. I ?ball not feel it. POLICE FIND WHITE MULE AND STILL; CRIPPLE HELD ELKHART, Ind., Nov. IS Although lie was a cripple, both his limbs having been cut off thirty' years ago. leorgc W. Sheaf of this city was able io operate a whisky still, according to the local police, who arrested Sheaf alter they found lour one-gallon jugs of "white mule." 'and a complete liquor Mill in his home. Shear, although technically arrested, was not taken to the station. His arrest followed a tip that he had been peddling liquor. FINDS ST. LOUIS CHANGED ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Nov. 1??. George Putnam, a retired Edwardsville business man, spent the other afternoon in St. Louis. He had not been in the city for 55 years, although he lived .all Ihe time but 18 miles away and there are three steam roads and three elee:ric interurban linos belween St. Louis ind Edwardsville. lie returned in :ime for supper, but in the meantime here had been consternation at the t. James hotel. ' PROBE CHOP SUEY COSTS ! CHICAGO, Nov. 18 Twelve Chinese J restaurant proprietors were called he- , lore the city council committee mrestigating living costs Wednesday to explain the high cost of chop suey. The council inquisitors not only wishvJ to learn from the bewildered orientils the ingredients of every kind of hop suey, but what the margin of urofits is in plain chop suey at 50 cents, and chicken chop suey with fine hite mushrooms at $1.25, rice includd. Alderman Max Adamowski,-chairman of the committee, declared these prices are too high. British scientists experimenting in Borneo have reported they can manu- j 'aeture about 4,000 pounds of sugar j from the sap of an acre of nipa palm , xees. The irdustry is to be developed, j

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G. F. MARVIN, UNITED STATES WEATHER MAN, FORECASTS RIGHT 90 PER CENT OF THE TIME-IS SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR

Charles F. Marvin, chief of the Weather Bureau, was "discovered" by a famous Arctic explorer not while the latter was in the northland, to be sure, but in Washington. D. C. The story goes back to the 'eighties, not long after young Marvin had passed a civil service examination and secured an. appointment as "junior professor" an odd title designating a position in the signal corps, which in those days carried on weather forecasting and related work known to science as meteorology. It was the famous discoverer of new land north of Greenland. Major General A. W. Greeley, who discerned, while head of the signal corps after his return from the north, that Marvin possessed exceptional ability in mechanical engineering. He foresaw the great service which the young man might render to his country in the weather forecasting organization, and opened the door of opportunity for him. "I told you so," the venerable general says in effect, when folks talk about the record Marvin has made in the thirty-odd years he has been working for the government. "I am proud to take a good deal of rredit for having started him on a path which has led to wonderful achievements." If it seems a far cry from mechanical engineering to weather forecasting, let the reader remember that 85 to 90 percent of the day-to-day forecasts of the weather bureau are accurate and that this remarkable record has been possible because of the increasing skill of the forecasters, supplemented by one of the most extraordinary collections of scientific apparatus and instruments to be found anywhere, in the world. Among the inventors of these meteorological instruments Mr. Marvin stands first. Salary $5,000 a Year. Had Mr. Marvin spent, his life in private employment and made as many fundamental inventions for some chosen industry as he has while in government service he would have not rewarded many times over what Uncle Sam has paid him. When he became chief of the weather bureau in 1913, after 29 years of service in subor dinate positions, his salary was placed at $5,000. There it has remained, regardless of the H. C. of L., and his invaluable contributions to a government service, which annually saves the farmers, through its timely warnings, hundreds of thousands of dollars loss in live stock and crops: a service which also acts as the trusted lookout, for numberless shippers on land and water, warning them of approaching storms, cold or heat; a service performing a score ot other important tasks touching the nation's daily life. One of the most remarkable facts about the weather bureau is that in recent years not a single great storm has occurred in this country which has not been adequately heralded by the government's forecasters. Mr. Marvin's contributions to his chosen science have received gratifying recognition in the scientific world. When the office of chief of the weather bureau bnrame vacant in 1913. President Wilson asked the National Academy of Sciences to submit a list of men it would recommend for appointment. Mr. Marvin's name was one of four submitted. His appointment as chief came as a well-merited reward. Everybody has heard of box kites, but few know that an improved type of box kite which will go up a mile or more was devised by Marvin and built to carry what is called a kite meteorograph, which also is a Marvin invention. This little instrument, weighing about 1'2 pounds, records the atmospheric pressure, temperature, the humidity and the. velocity of the wind. Large numbers ot these kite meteorographs are in use by the weather bureau. Incidentally, the reeling appar atus by which each kite's 40,000 or 50,000 feet of steel wire is wound up automatically, is also Marvin's invention. Ever hear of Marvin's pyrheliometer? It's a mighty important instrument for measuring one of the forces fundamental to all life the amount of heat received from the sun on which plant and animal processes depend. J 'Another ot his achievements is a particularly efficient seismograph which records earthquake shocks, and is so sensitive that it will respond to heavy disturbances taking place in any part of the earth. Of prime importance in studying soil moisture, etc., is knowledge of the rate at which evaporation takes place on the surface of bodies of water. One of the instruments used in this work is also the product of his brain. Still another Marvin invention is a baro

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Motta and his family in the garden of family enjoying an afternoon in the garden of their home. Left to right are; Christoph, President graph Of exeenHnnal r.,.!,.: , makes a continuous record of atmospheric pressures so that one can tell at a glance how much the barometer has risen and fallen during a given period without kowledge of changes in barometric pressures. A study of the clouds, their character and movements is another important phase of the work at the weather bureau. To carry it on better, Mr. Marvin devised a nephoscope by which an observer views clouded conditions of the sky, and by means of scales and sighting arrangements determines the motion of clouds and their apparent velocity. Of all the varied services under Marvins supervision, first in importance .a orK ot tne torecasting divis-1 ion which receives and charts twice' daily telegraphic reports of prevailing1 weather conditions and issues state-! ments of impending weather changes ' In the case of severe disturbances,' warnings are issued along the lakes and sea coasts. The frost and cold wave warnings are invaluable to many interests, including the truckerand fruit grower, especially in the spring when tender vegetation needs! protection. Value of Storm Predictions. j The aim of the weather bureau as guided in its enlarging program by Mr Marvin, has been to serve wherever its facilities and a special need made service practicable. The variety of special uses of the storm warnings illustrate another phase of the practical value of the forecasters' service In advance of a predicted storm, rice planters flood their crops to preven' the straw from being broken by the winds. Agents of marine insurance companies stop insuring cargoes after a storm has been predicted. Fisherman take steps to protect their boats, and nets. Lumbermen make their standing booms secure and regulate their log towing. At lake ports vessels load hurriedly if they can get off two to five hours in advance of offshore winds. If snow is pvnpt shippers must start 17 to 18 hours in advance. Not only on the farms and on the water is the service of the weather bureau invaluable, but cities also are constantly dependent upon it. With notice of an approaching cold wave greenhouses are closed and their boilers fired. Preparations are made at pnee by heating and linlitinsr nlant in all cil its, whether gas, electric, steam J or hot water. Fire plugs, exposed . mains, and general plumbing are protected. Large stock yards drain their machines. Gasoline engines are drainj ed. Work in concrete is stopped, j Street railway companies arrange for uiuic ne.-ii in uieir cars, natural gas companies turn a larger amount of gas into their lines to provide for increased consumption. Dredging of sand and gravel ceases, and iron ore in piles for shipment is placed in the holds of vessels to prevent the wot mass from freezing. The division of agricultural meteorology, another branch of the bureau, supervises the work of about 400 special observers maintained in connection with the corn, wheat, cotton, sug ar. rice, tobacco, fruit, and other industries. It has charge of the distribution of the special warnings issued for the benefit of certain crops and publishes data showing weather conditions throughout the country and the effect of these conditions on certain important crops. Histories of Climates. When a new industry is proposed tor a certain section oi the country or tne introduction of a plant new to a region is contemplated, a history of the climate of that region is most important. Information of this character regarding every section of the country is Compiled bv the Plimqtnlncrifal division of the bureau. It has super-' vision or aDout i.zvo co-operators audi about 42 special stations. From these j are concciea records of daily observa- j Hons of temperature, rainfall, etc., forming the basis of a climatP. hiatnrv I of the utmost importance to future agricultural and industrial development. - The bureau maintains throughout the United States, in the West Indies. Alaska and Hawaii about 200 meteorological stations employing from one to 15 persons especially trained in gathering data on which the forecasters, located at five points in the United States, base their daily predictions, which combined cover the entire country. Mr. Marvin, while not specializing in forecasting himself, feels that these men at the observation stations and the forecasters de

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AND HAPPY FAMILY their home in Berne. Motta with Francesco, Emilia, Mathilda. Mrs. Motta, Stephania, Paula and Riccardo. serve a larger measure of credit than is popularly accorded them. "The public does not always realize the tremendous responsibility resting on these men," said Mr. Marvin, in discussing weather forecasting. "It's no 'fair weather' job that they have. Eternal vigilance is their motto. Who can measure the responsibility that is theirs when a great storm sweeps across the country? Did you ever stop to think what would happen to ships, trains, live stock, unsheltered stores of goods, and a thousand other interests if the weather bureau was not on the job when one of those West Indian hurricanes comes roaring up out of the Caribbean? I know of no other man whose task equals the forecaster's at such a time. He must be in touch every two hours with all our stations down in the southwestern section of the United States, and points beyond our coast. At the earliest possible moment he must wain the secJONE

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tion of the gulf coast which he believes will be struck by the monster of destruction. It may be Pensacola; it may be Galveston; or it may be in between. He must decide and send forth the warnings. I take off my hat to these men, and if I can devise an instrument or a piece of apparatus that will make their task easier, by giving them more complete and accurate data, I am proud to make such a contribution as part of my service to this great national servant, the weather bureau." And this is only one bureau of the seventeen that go to make up the United States department of agriculture, all working together, each using information furnished-by the others in planning and suggesting better methods in agriculture for the direct benefit of the farmers and also for the benefit of every citizen of the United States. WOMAN FATALLY BURNED KINDLING FIRE IN HOME CLINTON, Ind., Nov. 18. Mrs. Jesse Jenkines, 35 years old, wife of a laborer at Hillsdale, near here, died at noon Wednesday as the result o burns she sustained a few hours earlier when her clothing caught fire as she kindled a fire in the kitchen stove in her home. The husband was badlyburned about the hands and arms in an effort to tear the burning clothing from his wife. The house was destroyed. Mrs. Jenkines had poured kerosene on paper and when she applied a match, the flames -shot up into the air and ignited her clothing. The

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BURIED MULES ESCAPE POTTS VI LLE, Pa.. Nov. 18. Sixteen mules entombed three weeks at the McTurks Coal company colliery at Girardville were found alive one night and were brought to the surface uninjured. Inclosed in a living grave by a cave-in, the mules kicked their way o-- of the mine (rtabje in viich they were at the time of the accident. The cave-in so damaged the purps that operation was impossible, and the water gradually rose to the necks of the animals, but with almost human intelligence they made their way to higher levels, at times finding a bite to eat from interior stables. Then men heard nearby, for the first time in weeks, the-mules whinnied, and feverish efforts to get the pumps going soon reduced the water. The mules are valued at $7,00. PLOWS UP SNAKE EGGS COTTAGE GROVE. Ore., Nov. IS. W. H. Sturdevant. Iraine, offers a new egg story. While plowing a tew days ago he turned up several white eggs. He wondered whether or not some of his pullets had learned a new stunt and "were providing themselves with subterranean nests. The next day h turned up a large spotted snake, which made him certain that the eggs had been laid by a snake Upon opening one of them he found that his suspicion was correct. He lias found no market for the eggs, although they are as pretty and white as any hen egg.

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p;age fifteen I MINER KILLED BYSLATE FALL'' SULLIVAN, 1 nd., Nov; 1 8. Williauv' Brown, 45 years. old, fire boss at th 1 Peerless mine near this city, was fatal, ly injured yesterday evening when h-l was caught under a slate fall in tb.4 mine. Brown died a few minutes aft, re rescuers had extricated him fron. the debris. His home was at Terrcl Haute. i

HELD FOR AUTO THEFT I ELKHART. Ind., Nov. 18. Gran: Houghton, Elkhart youth, has been ar rested in Toledo, with Willis Vanalj stine also of this city, charged witl stealing an automobile. Sheriff Sam ford has gone to Toledo for the twej men, having been notified that thej; confessed to the auto theft. i FOR THE BLOOD At All Drug Stores E. R. GUILFORD The Chiropractor . Rooms 5-6 Murray Theatre Bldg.

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