Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 3, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 February 1940 — Page 6

Star Dust ★ In New York Village it True Funny Scenes it Silence Preferred By Virginia Vai® (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) DURING the week or so that Hedy Lamarr spent in New York with her husband she proved conclusively that the largest city in the country is ;a small village at heart. She visited a newspaper office and appeared at night clubs, and people stared and stared and even were guilty of pointing—and these were people, mind you, who patronize night clubs so often that visiting movie stars are just people to them. But Hedy Lamarr Markey was so beautiful that she bowled them over. Os course, she didn’t exactly try to hide her light under a bushel. Night clubs were warned in advance when to expect her. And she even went so far as to wear a diamond on her forehead. Maybe she was rehearsing for the role of Cleopatra. Well, it was good publicity; everybody’s all agog to see “I Take This Woman,” the next picture in which she will be seen. She wore glamour-girl clothes—a linky black evening gown with a peg-top skirt, embroidered in blue and beige paillettes, another evening gown with a long-sleeved, highnecked basque of black satin, the skirt of black satin to the hips; cream colored the rest of the way. If you think some of those hilariously funny scenes in ‘‘The Housekeeper’s Daughter,” which stars Joan Bennett in the title role, are a bit far-fetched, rest assumed that they’re not. Even the battle with JL f ' I' ff JOAN BENNETT fireworks for ammunition would be x just run of the mill amusement for old-time newspaper men like those portrayed so convincingly by Adolphe Menjou and William Gargan—as anyone who has known such newspaper meri will tell you. The \( picture is so good that it should be ■on your ‘‘must” list; it’s so good that memories of it haunted your reporter along about the that ‘‘Gone With the Wind” had been running for a good two hours and still had plenty of time to go. And, speaking of ‘‘Gone With the Wind,” if you’re old enough to have seen D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” you’re going to feel right at home when you see this latest picturization of Civil war scenes. Os course, D. W. couldn’t use sound. 1 wis’ d modern producers couldn’t when that soldier’s leg was cut oft without an anesthetic being used. But the story of Scarlett O’Hara makes a great picture; don’t miss it! As a rule the only woman involved in the “Sky Blazers” broadcasts is the sound effects girl. Ora Nicolls. While the husky males stand before the mike, Ora, who’s a little thing, fires guns, makes a noise like a hefty male sloshing through jungle swamps, and shatters the air with simulated airplane effects. But being the sound effects man is a grand job for a woman, and she loves it. She has her troubles, though; trying desperately to please the director in the matter of firing a gun, she demanded, “How many shots is a ‘fusillade’?” * One of the most inspiring sights in radio results when you watch Alec Templeton broadcast for “Alec Templeton Time.” Not merely because he plays so beautifully, but because he is so sure of himself. The spirit of fun which faintly curves his lips seems to move all the other performers, lifting the entire program. You realize that he is blind only when he is introduced; the other performers smile broadly, but Templeton doesn’t; in his world, a smile means nothing, because if can’t be seen. Another good picture is Metro’s “The Shop Around the Corner,” with Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart making such a good comedy team that the rather slim story is vastly entertaining. ODDS AND ENDS—The Pat Reillys of the nation are squawking; a clue read during a “Gang Busters” broadcast identified one Pat Reilly—now they’re all being hounded, by amateur as well as professional sleuths. <L Frederic March is one of the few topflight actors who will accept a radio engagement on short notice.

Loading Leaden Death on British Fighting Plane '' I ib' * bmßHpSmhk a < fflKrcgHlßl ■ t I4M Ji Mechanics load thousands of rounds of machine gun ammunition in the magazines of a Spitfire pursuit plane somewhere in England. The picture was made at a fighter station where the command is responsible for the defense of the country. Right: A radio operator watches the ship take off. Draped around his neck is a “necklace” of bullets intended for enemy airplanes.

Reports Atrocities —Wages War—Heads Navy Am# 1 :■& < ; >WBK; ■ CsS M ■ Headliners in recent European news include three men whose activities are of world wide interest. Left: Cardinal Hlond, primate of Poland, who reported to Pope Pius that German authorities are extirpating the Polish people and the Roman Catholic religion in the conquered area of Poland. Center: Marshal Semion Mikhailvitch Budenny, present commander of Soviet troops attacking Finland, who is attempting a more forceful attack than his disgraced predecessor, General Meretskoff. Right: Sir Dudley Pound, admiral of the British fleet and head of the naval department, who is responsible for England’s war at sea.

Poland’s Conquerors Battle Cold Weather ? K. I/ UaSMMM-.-; / I ' 18118 Cold weather and blinding snowstorms in Poland have forced Germany’s army of occupation in Poland to employ unusual methods to fight Old Man Winter. Left: . A sentry on duty keeps warm with a sheepskin overcoat, which, according to the English censor, was stolen from a “poor Polish shepherd.” Right: A German trooper’s feet encased in woven straw overshoes in accordance with the Reich’s “ersati” campaign. Relief Ship on Way to Pitcairn Island ilwi I ' Illg Wil'. / JK? W. in’ Descendants of the ship Bounty, slowly starving on lonely Pitcairn island in the south Pacific, will get help from a relief expedition which sailed recently from Portland, Maine. Left to right: Kenneth Simpson, captain of the relief schooner, Liberty; Mrs. Simpson and Granville Lindley, head of the expedition. Since the outbreak of war the islanders have been living on tropical fruits and vegetables.

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Eating to Health • ■ - jRPfi W | jjWqi f mL w® f / '' awr Victim of beriberi, rare tropical disease caused by lack of vitamin B in the diet, six-year-old Laura Wolfrom of Philadelphia, Pa., is eating her way back to health. Laura takes her “medicine” in the form of fresh vegetables, milk and eggs. Hers is the only known case of beriberi in this country. To Rule England? SI W J \ iilWi B - \ T Adolf Hitler’s choice to rule Britain—if Germany wins the war—is reported to be Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. British born, Bohlp is the leader of the Reich’s foreign organization which maintains contact with Germans living abroad.

■--•==; | Farm •Topics ||| DEVICE DETECTS IODINE IN FEEDS ColoradoScientistDevelops Important Testing 4 Torch? By DR. FRANK GASSNER Use of a special torch, recently developed at the Colorado State college experiment station to determine iodine content of feedstuffs, may prove tremendously important to dairymen, live stock and poultry growers of the nation. While the experiments were confined to feed grown in Colorado, the general results will be important to these industries all over the nation where the feed grown is low in iodine content. Colorado feeds are very low in this element—so low that the state should be included in the so-called “goiter belt” of the Midwest. Investigations carried on at the experiment station have shown that poultry and rats in some cases will develop goiter when they are fed ordinary rations. Work by the poultry and pathology sections of the station was the first in which it was shown possible to produce goiter in poultry experimentally. Similar investigations are being carried on with lambs and cattle, and there is evidence that goiter may be produced in these also. Thus it is probable that feed formulas must include ingredients rich in iodine to prevent goiter. The. torch was developed in the pathology section of the experiment station. It is made of specially resistant stainless steel of chrome and nickel alloy and will reveal iodine in as small a proportion as 10 parts per billion. This is a considerable improvement over the brass torch previously used for this type of work. The disadvantage of the brass torch was that it had to be lacquered often to prevent contamination of the sample by excessive corrosion. The only torch known by the department to be as satisfactory as this stainless steel instrument is one at the University of Minnesota which is made of platinum. This torch cost approximately $2,800 as compared to a cost of less than $25 for the steel torch. The torch is useful in ascertaining not only the iodine content of feedstuffs, but of biological material as well. Anything that can be made to burn can be tested with this torch. Power Line Building Cost Is Cut to S9OO Per Mile Engineers of the Rural Electrification administration are constructing electric lines into rural areas at an average cost of about S9OO per mile. These costs prior to the REA ran from $1,500 to $2,000 a mile because private engineers were using for rural lines the heavy construction used in city and suburban areas. The REA engineers dropped the cross arm from the single-phase lines and simplified pole assembly for the two- and three-phase lines. New, stronger conductors allowed longer spans with fewer poles. Several Texas projects have been built recently at a cost of about SSOO a mile. The construction was light because sleet and ice do not have to be reckoned with in Texas. But even under sleet and wind conditions, the lines have held up well. Durability of the lighter construction was demonstrated last year when a series of destructive tornadoes struck southern Minnesota. At Anoka, near Minneapolis, although the substation was destroyed, practically no line was destroyed. Near Melrose, west of Anoka, during the same week, greater damage was inflicted on lines of a utility than on REA lines in the same territory. Service of the co-operative was restored in less than half the time required by the utility. Many private utilities are following the lead of the REA engineers in using lighter construction on their rural lines. Dipping for Mange Mange in hogs may be controlled by dipping with a solution made at the rate of one gallon of liquid lime sulphur to 25 gallons of water at a temperature of 100 to 105 degrees F. Nicotine sulphate, 40 per cent strength, used at the rate of one ounce to three gallons of water, has also proved effective. Dip the hogs twice about ten days apart, although in severe cases three or more dippings may be necessary to clean up the skin. Horses in Wartime During the first three years of the Boer war, 1900-1902, inclusive, prices for horses in the United States advanced to $93.76 per head. During the three-year period 1896-1898 the average price had been $74.56. During the five years 1909-1913 prior to the World war the average price of horses in the United States had been $148.02'. During the five years 1915-1919, inclusive, the average price in this country advanced to $191.72.

“The Name IsFamiliar— i —— BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON Solon \ 17HEN we want to say that a ’ ’ man is wise we call him a solcn and we call lawmakers solons. too. This doesn’t mean that we thimc all lawmakers are wise men—heaven forbid! The reason is that the world's original lawmaker on a big scale was a very wise man and his name was Solon. That name isn’t just a first name

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or a last name—it is all the name the man had and all he needed. He lived so long ago that the population was small enough to let men get by with oneword names. Solon was one of the original Seven Wise Men of

Greece and was born in Athens about 640 B. C. He wrote or rewrote practically all the laws that were in existence during his’ time and was the first lawmaker to devise a code that gave people rights instead of merely prohibiting them from doing this or saying that they must do that. Besides regulating private and public life, his code reformed the calendar, the system of weights and measthe monetary system. It relieved the burdens of debtors without curtailing the rights of creditors. (He could be elected on either ticket today!) His laws were crudely written on wooden cylinders and set up in public places for everybody to read. This must have been just a matteir of form, because in his day about the tuly-ones who could read were the ones who wrote the cylinders. « « * Kelvin’s Law THE kelvin, a commercial unit of electricity; Kelvin’s law for measuring the most economical diameter of an electric wire; Kelvin, or absolute, temperature scale, which begins at 561 degrees below zero Fahrenheit; and the Kelvinator, the first electric refrigerator for household use, were named for Lord Kelvin of Largs, Scotland, one of the

greatest and most practical scientists of all time. He invented flashing signals for lighthouses; designed an oilfloated self-ievel-ing magnetic compass which allowed this instrument to be on steel ships; invented the ultra"ensitive detecting and recording

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apparatus that made the trans-At-lantic cable possible; reduced temperature to amathematical basis and announced absolute zero where there is no heat and where molecules stand still. His name was William Thomson and he was bom in Belfast in 1824. the son of a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical Institution of Belfast. As early as 1852 he foresaw the practicability of heating and cooling buildings by means of currents of air. When he built a mansion of his own in 1874 on the Scottish coast, he built in heating ducts and ventilating facilities. When he died in 1907, he had received every degree a scholar could obtain and had made a fortune of many millions of dollars. • ♦ ♦ ‘Rich as Croesus* WHEN a man is,so rich that he actually reeks with wealth, we call him a Croesus. The word is pronounced like those things in a man’s trousers—and we don’t mean wrinkles, like in ours. But don’t misunderstand — we don’t call a rich man a Croesus because he is the only one who can afford them in his pants. Perhaps

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we never should have brought the matter up. Croesus is a word for a rich man and goes ’way back *o 560 B. C., when the original Croesus, a Greek king of 1 Lydia, was bom.. He was richer ! than any king be- ; fore him, hence ! the use of his ' name. Living in

the time when men wore togas, you can see that he didn’t even wear pants—or did they wear pants with togas? Now we are sorry we brought the matter up. Lydia, at the time Croesus was king, included practically all of Asia Minor, and his wealth was obtained mainly from the mines and gold dust' of the river Pactolus. Proud of his treasures, he carried his love of splendor to extravagance and thought he was the happiest of men. All of which proves it isn’t the number of pairs of pants you have that makes you wealthy. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

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QuickC uotes Scmmd Features Y LIBERTY *•’ 1 'HE preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, ;hnd the destiny of the republican model of government, are / justly considered: as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked oat the experiment entrusted to the 'hands of the American people.—George 11 'ashington. Animal .Obituaries In memory .of the dogs, cats and other pets that are buried or cremated on its grounds each week, a pet cemetery in Los Angeles publishes obituaries of these animals in a Sunday newspaper. Written and -signed by the bereaved owner, the notices often include such expressions as. “Bubbles—l could not have loved you more.”—Collier's. x Relief At Last ForYourCough Creomulsion relieves promptly be* cause it goes right to the seat of xha trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm. Increase secretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicine* you have tried, tell your druggist to sell ■'•you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding that you are to like the way it quickly allays the cough, or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis ■ } ' —■■■ As He Saw It We have not; read an author til? we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.—Carlyle. IDSTYOURPEP? Her* Is Amazing Relief of Conditions Due to Sluggish Bowels ell weotbble tantiM. So mild, thorough, refreshing, invigorating. Dependable relief from sick headaches, bilious spells, tired feeling when associated with constipation. aar»«» - ■ get a 25c box of NR from your HIUIOUI KISK druggist. Make the test—then U not delighted, return the box to us. We will refund the purchase price. That’s fair. Get NR Tablets today Mistakes in Mind Mistakes remembered are not faults forgot.—R. H. Newell. Misery WW ' <9-666 SALVE. NOSS DROPS Magnified Faults In beauty, faults conspicuous < grow.—Gay. “MIDDLE AGCWOMBL ’ Thousands have goneA smiling thru this try- I l°< time” by taking I K-a wHu Pinkham’s — famous I Wst? for helping female func- I tional troubles. Tr» »ts I special" BARGAINS — TATHEN you see the specials of • ’ our merchants announced in the columns of this paper j you can depend on them. They J mean bargains for you. ■ • They are offered by merchants ■ who are not afraid to announce H: their prices or the quality H| of the merchandise they offer. 1