The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 January 1924 — Page 3

Coeds Learning to Be Expert Riflewomen £• i |Eu I ’mEhL/ aZ'V -w KJU *■ W Ih/ iV Im itfr II ; Bkyi>| H,Bjsb II ir.'J-' wyi 11 •rV v r i . < □hF< i 11 U W **PNMB I >.. ’ II ■hr. .-/ I| Lieut. Roy Green, United Stmt's army official stationed al the University,of Cincinnati and In charge of the mill fary training division there, has discovered that many of the girl students are excellent rifle shots. He has organizec the coeds Into a rifle company and three times n week they have Indoor and outdoor rifle shooting practice, using the regulation ranges. Girls have qualified at target practice to permit them becoming regular members of the company

Huge Hydro-Electric Generator I I I The largest hydro-electric plpnt In the world huj l>een installed nt the Niagara Falla jwwer plant. Photograph shows the generator, developing 70,000 horsepower. ; " , Canada Takes Armenian Orphans '■<■ - ’ w ■; -...> A - o B JLr i " - c » aOn a-’ ! I gm-,.. Fifty Armenian orphan boys— recent victims of war and famine in die Near East—are learning to be fanners at their new home nt Georgetown near Toronto, Ont. The boys were brought to Canada, with the consent of ihe government., by the Canadian Near East Relief committee. When they grow up they will be given farm lands In western Canada. Ambassador to England Sails f \ b * ■/*a ' Frank B. Kellogg, the new United States ambassador to the Court of St James In London, has sailed on the S. S. President Harding. Mr. Kellogg was accompanied by Mr*. Kellogg and Frederick Russell Dolbeare, who will be flrtt secretary of the American embassy.

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■ —• Rirmingbani, Ala, has organised a •cbool to teach textile designing to women. . An electric spark which will jump om inch in air. will travel about 75 Inches in man. one of the rare gases, contained tn the air. Furfural, a chemical obtained from corncobs, can be used tn the manufacture of a synthetic resin suitable for |hc making of pipestems.

Italy 1* second only to Germany tn the number of her native children In America. A company that recently laid a new telegraph cable from England to India and is continuing it to Singapore plans to extend it to Hong Kong. One woman prominent In official society In Washington believes she has established something of * record by making « calls is a single afternoon.

HE’S A GOOD AMERICAN n \ Va.*?P “ v ■■ Rl 1 t r * if/ ■ - ..JO j Vfi An exclusive photograph, just re eeived from the Philippines, of tht famous Emilio Agttlnaldo—the ‘prlncl pal figure In the Filipino fnsurrec’lot against the Americans, which did no: end until this very able cOmmandet was captured. He has strictly ob served his oath of allegiance to tin United States and refuses to take part In island politics. OMAHA HEIRESS MARRIED w z** -■ / JK ' / w j&F .■] Vernelle Head, Ounilth’s richest and moat beautiful heiress, who was mar riej to Raymond Burr, director and manager of the Sinclair Oil company in France. Mr. Burr's father is a wealthy oil magnate and they make their home in Parts. The marriage took place in Omaha January X and the couple will reside in Paris. Wrong Kind of Piper. ' A London concert agent, meeting with an urgent demand for the services of a performer on the bagpipes rang up the London office of a Scottish daily newspaper and asked - if they could advise him where to get a piper. The reply, which came In cockney accents in the Conn of a question—rKte of issuer—did not prove very helpfuL Coming and Going. First Freshman (putting up pictures) —“I can’t find a single pin. Where do they all go, anywayr Second Fresh-man—-It’s hard to tell, because they’re pointed In one direction and headed tn gMitarOnly Centenarian Bride. The only centenarian bride of which actual record exists was Margaret Subburie, who was one hundred years old at the time of her marriage to Thomas Bellamie. on November 20. i n town of Claypole, England.

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TO MAKE ROOM SOUNDPROOF Experimenters at the University of Illinois Discover New Principles. 4 study of the problem of making partitions soundproof has been made by the engineering experiment station of the University of Illinois. Because certain principles of sound transmission are overlooked, partitions that would ordinarily be an effective barrier to sound occasionally fail to function. “Sound may be transmitted from one side of a partition the other in three ways. It may progress through continuous air passages. It may pass as an elastic wave through the solid structure of the partition or by setting the partition in vibration It may originate sound waves on the farther side,” says a bulletin reviewing the study of the subject of soundproof partitions at the experiment station. “These actions are quite readily understood," continues the bulletin, “by remembering that sound consists of a series of compressions and rarefactions that progress rapidly through a medium without interruption unless they meet a new medium with a different elasticity or density. “A soundproof partition should be as rigid and free from air passages as possible. For effective soundproofing of a group of rooms, the partitions, floors and ceilings between adjacent rooms should be made continuous and rigid. Any necessary openings for pipes, doors, windows and ventilators should be placed in outside or corridor walls where a leakage of sound will be less objectionable. “In case the sound is generated in the building structure, as vibrations set up by a motor bolted to the floor, the compresslonal waves proceed through the continuity of solid materials. In order to stop them it is necessary to make a break in the structure. so as to interpose a new medium, differing in elasticity and density. For instance, the vibrations of a motor may be minimized by placing a layer of hair felt or similar air-filled material between the supporting base and the floor. x VALUE OF WEATHER-PROOFING Keeps Out Much of the Cold Air and Results in Considerable Saving on Fuel. The saving of fuel was not seriously considered in the buil ling of most houses. Many have been shabbily built and permit too much cold air to enter. Only a few years ago fuel was cheap and few bothered about saving IL While it is true that most attention should be given to proper building of new houses, much can be done to prevent the loss of heat in poorly built and run-down houses. To save heat now will teach those who plan to build new houses the value of weather-prooflng and good construction. Our own comfort and that of our neighbors demands that we obtain the most heat from our coal without waste, and that we try to reduce our requirements as much as possible. All houses should be well ventilated, but this does not mean-that unregulated drafts of cold air should sweep thropgh the hoyse at all times. It should lie remembered that in cold weather the warm air Is continually escaping, and as it passes through holes and cracks in the .walls It Is at once replaced by the cold out-of-door air. Cracks around the windows and doors, broken window panes and unprotected heating pipes indicate that fuel is 'oeing wasted. If one family wastes fuel during a coal shortage It toy mean that another family will have to suffer for it if there Is not enough coal to supply the usual amounts dußng the winter. Safeguard for Lamp Sockets. The nexv national electrical code for l(yj8 is on the press at the present time and should be in the hands of the industry within the next two weeks. There are several changes in the code of vital Interest to home-owners. f First, the positive and negative terminals on all lamp sockets wil.l be marked, the positive terminal running direct tn center contact and the negative to the screw shell, thus preventing short circxiitlng from lamp base or from chain of pull chain sockets. This ellmlnsftes any danger of the chain coming in contact with lamp base during time of Insertion. Fuse plugs for residence cutout* will, in the future carry a hexagonal cap on everything up to and including fifteen amperes while plugs of larger capacity will hare the standard cap. How the Yard Originated. It is said that the yard was originally defined by royal decree as the length of the arm of King Henry L The British yard is now the distance nt 62 degrees Fahrenheit between two lines on a bromre bar kept at the standards office, Westminster, London. Uaa Camont and Asbastoa. South Africa, In which building has recently been extremely active, reports an Increasing use there of a combination of asbeato* and cement which greatly decreases cost*. <3 . . . - Ws Dare Say. He was an argumentative local councillor, and was crushing an opponent’s case. “Gentlemen," he said, “you may ray, with Councillor Smith, that this Is a case W six of one and half a dozen of the other. But I say, No”—pause for emphasis—“No; it 1* nothing of th* sort. It 1* exactly the contrary.” Seven million dollars’ worth of gold is taken from the soil in northern Calilontia emu Aeur int?

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East Africa Coffee Crop Last year the new British colony of Kenya produced 77,902 hundredweights of coffee from 43,359 acres under cultivation, Consul William L. Jenkins, Nairobi, states In a report received by the Department of Commerce. The sister British colony of Tanganyika last year harvested 85,426 hundredweights. .The total exports of Uganda amounted to 5L262 hundredweights. Jto estimates for plantation coffee to

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Niarobl and Tanganyika for 1923 have yet been received, but in Kenya colony the planters estimate that the 1923 crop is 99,582 hundredweights, compared with the government estimate of 80,000 hundredweights. Ancient Wall Writings. Ancient wall writings have been found in a hitherto inaccessible part of the Grand canyon by a party of explorers. The discoveries were made 50 miles from El Tovar, Arizona.

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Sawdust and Ashes. The latest substitute for cardboard and wood in the making of boxes Is a chemical composition of sawdust and ashes. The finished boxes are light, washable, sanitary and nonpoisonous. They are waterproof and as fireproof as asbestos, and can be made in any degree of flexibility or texture, either as hard as* oak, tough as metal or as pliable as cardboard. A hard-boiled character comes of an unpleasant disposition.