The Syracuse Journal, Volume 18, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 July 1925 — Page 6

Graduated as Citizens in Chicago Stadium - -i I W * IL • *“'*•■« • ■ ' liter' u • .i • 0 t t . 3 wAft ** J. * > ■• - • s~ Picturesque scene in the Gram Park stadiuiu of Uhteago when 1.50 U members of <52 citizenship clubs were Taduated. under the auspices of the American Citizenship foundation. Part of the crowd is seen loosing balloons.

Actual Battle Scene in the French-Riff War

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Great Shipyards to Be Sold

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Design ot the gigantic airplane which Louis Breguet of France. shown in Intel, plana to build for the transatlantic passenger service.

MARINES ON GUARD , , ■ AT WHITE COURT 1 Tills is the detachment of I'nited „ States marines that has l»een sent to Swampscott. Mass.. to ctiard White Court, the summer White House. , 5 ,; * while President Coolidge Is there. I* ’ .T ’. \ 1 •

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Malaria carrying mosquitoes west att the year around in Palestine. Every midshipman at Annapolis will •sen study aviation through the four* ‘ year curriculum. ' ? • Natives es New Guinea um nett spun ysj large spiders to catch fish weighing ns ®och as eno pound. The firn published book on ree-sissxxK.v-r*.

Pieset iaIN o paints and coeopounds should be known to every builder. Illuminated at night, a compass has been designed foe the ceilings of Indosed automobiles. A materia! for teat windows has been invented that can be seen through only from inside the tent New Zealand reeernbles Italy, not only In shape, but In sise. eUuMte and natural ,

“MISS CALIFORNIA” 2 L in j K ■ Ml: I Miss Faye Lamp trier of Alameda. "Miss California” of 1924. retained her title tn the annual beauty contest ol P.rJS held a! Santa Cruz, and she will represent the state again al the national beauty contest in Atlantic City in September. RADIO GRADUATE I <- Clifford Lideen an invalid of Bur lingtqp, lowa, who has received his A. B. degree from the University of lowa for work completed through th« radio correspondence courses. Wouldn't Accept Rebuke Small Susan was visiting on her grandfather's farm. With an apple in her hand, from which she frequently btt generous pieces, she went afeont with her grandfather admiring ail the live stock. Finally, they approached the old turkey gobbler, who ruffled Ms feathers and went strutting away, proclaiming to the world at large. “Gobble! Gobble! Gobbler Dorothy Itotimed indignantly tor a moment and i then shouted after him: “Your mat*1 mi* are nothing tp brag ut either r

THE SYRACUSE JQVRNAT.

GOOD Bi MODERN HIGHWAYS IN MOTION PICTURE (Prepared by the United Statee Department of Agriculture.) The achievements of the Western road builder in battering down gigantic barriers and overcoming seemingly Insurmountable obstacles to make accessible to the public the natural wonders of the West and to aid development of Western communities through the medium of modern highways is the story toid in a new United States Department of Agriculture motion picture, “The Road Goes Through!” This film, replete with spectacular road construction shots, with the scenic grandeur of the national forests as the background, shows roads being cut through the giant of the Mt. Baker National forest, blasted through walls of solid rock along the precipitous shores of Lake Crescent on the Olympic peninsula of Washington and cleared through the tangled mass of trees blfiwn down by heavy winds In the now famous Olympic storm zone; carved into the ledges of precipices a thousand feet above the blue waters of the Pacific along the route of the Roosevelt Memorial road in Oregon; bridged over roaring glacial torrents on the vertical sides of Mt. Hood, and the building of a road over historic Donner pass. California. “The Road Goes Through!” reaches its climax in scenes devoted to the Cuyama project in southern California where the task of piercing this valley became the heaviest construction job in the West. Here the highway engineer found himself facing every problem known to the road builder, and many new ones—but breaking down barrier after barrier, the skill and Ingenuity of the engineer triumphed and the Cuyama road went through! “The Road Goes Through !* is one reel in length. Copies may be borrowed for short periods, or may be purchased at the laboratory charge. A complete list of the department’s films, with information on the method of distributing them, is given tn Miscellaneous Circular 27. which may be obtained, as long as the supply lasts, on application to the department at Washington. Public Wants Highways as Traffic Increases We have made some progress along the way toward complete improvement of the highways of this country in the last ten years. The statistics give us credit for more than 400.000 miles of surfaced road, and nearly all of it has been improved within a decade. Perhaps it is time to ask the doughboy’s question: Where do we go from here? One thing is certain, and that is that we are going to have better roads In this country. The public demands them. There has been manifest of late some reaction against the expenditure of public funds for roads. There can be no avoiding that expenditure. With more than 15,000,000 motor vehicles now operating on .our highways, additional mileage of improved highways and the maintenance of those already improved is a huge work that can neither be laid aside nor neglected, says a report of the federal bureau of public roads. The cost of operating and maintaining these motor vehicles on the highways tn their present condition will be greater than the cost of improving and maintaining the roadways so that they will be equal to the traffic demands. Tn other words, with the number of motor vehicles now in operation, the public at large will pay in other ways a sum greater than the cost of improved highways if=we do not improve the highways. Unless the states build them the locality must, and the voice of experience proclaims it a very foolish tldng for the people of state to decide not to support an adequate program of state road building as a means oi decreasing taxes, because It is much more likely to increase taxes. This recalls President Coolidge's declaration: “No expenditure of public money contributes bo much to the national wealth as for building good roads.” Roads Hold China Batk It is estimated, according to the Deparrment of Commerce, that there are 8.524 passenger cars, 1.150 trucks and 5H2 motor cycles registered tn China. Definite statements relat ng to the extent of the Chinese market are difficult in view of the absence of centra! statistical bureaus anu rhe number of widely separated cities, each? having its own peculiarities. Chinese development Is being retarded by the lack of transportation. When the country has a system of highways, automotive vehicles will bo a great factor in developing China into a modern industrial nation. 1 T"* Cost of Transportation California Is spreading the gospel of live and let live on the highways. Billboards along the state roads carry these mild exhortations so that he who drives.may read: "Look before you weep." “This is a good road. It will cost you money to burn it up.” “Don’t speed; else, ’Good morning. Judge.' “ “Thou shall not kilt.” “Look out. You may meet a fool around the corner.” Pan-American Delegates President Coolidge has named the delegates to the Pan-American Road congress which is to be held in Buenos ▲lren in October. They are J. Walter Drake, assistant secretary of commerce, chairman; Thomas H. MacDonaid. chief of the bureau of public nods; Frank Page, chairman of the North Carolina state highway eomaloner of highways, Minnesota; IT T,

MOTORTRUCK BIG HELP TO FARMER Economical Movement of Live Stock and Other Produce to Market*. In less than two years this country aas witnessed an amazing development n transportation over our highways. Economical movement of live stock and 9ther produce from the farm, and the Increasing shipments of various kinds »f freight by motortruck has become a ?onstantly growing problem for the road builder. Transportation in this country has a direct bearing upon most of the problems which the American people must meet and solve. The farm, with its foodstuffs, must be brought closer to the city buyers. The farmer must be able to sell his produce more nearly direct tb the’consumer. The economical transportation of freight by motortruck should be encouraged and aided in so far as it does not deprive the railroads of their Just share of the business. Interwoven with this problem of transportation is the fact that the motortruck, if properly developed, will go a long way toward solving our transportation problems, and bringing about a natural economic solution of ili- St 'if IM wmifebW ■ - --4 * J .. - ~ Hauling Hogs to Market by Motortruck—Rack is Homemade. how to bring the farm and its produce Closer to the city consumers, and how to adequately relieve our existing transportation problem. Purpose of Truck. The motortruck Is here to stay. The «ole puri>ose of the truck is to carry loads—anything and everything we eat and wear or in other ways use—over the road. Out of this change in transportation has come “truck traffic.” of which we speak Just as easily as though it had always been with us. Truck traffic requires three things: the truck, the goods to be hauled, and the road. Just as the development .of railroad motive power progressed beyond development of railroad roadbed, so has the development of the motortruck business developed beyond the ability of the highways for tkhich It was primarily intended. Damage Done by Truck. Because the roads have not been ready to withstand that sort of traffic, there has been an uproar in some sections of the country against the motors truck. There are those who claim that in spite of all that the truck has achieved,- its return to the public does not compensate for the damage which it has dime to highways never built in anticipation of its coming. Here and there legislation of various kinds has. been proposed to limit speed and weight of the truck and the load which carry. In other words, instead of building the road to fit the load, extremists have taken various measures to block progress of a hichway development that must be provided for because It is a natural development of our transportation system and because it Is here to stay. Our present roads were built to carry a certain load. Over 90 per cent of our roads today were not built to carry heavy traffic. Neither were our railroads originally built for the traffic and rolling stock that today they must withstand. ?

FAKE EMERGENCY CARS OFTEN ARE USED

Im KJ i I ] ’ rs | • One of the greatest sources of worry for the New York police department is the matter of stolen automobiles. Annually thousands of cars are lost, and In many cases tley are recovered. The thieves have many ways in which they make away .with the machines. Fake emergency cars often are used. They drive up to the scene of an accident, or to a stalled machine, jack It up, hook it to the emergency car, and off It goes.

AUTOMOBILE FACTS In the United States 15.000,000 mo* tor vehicles are registered. • * • Squeaks, rumbles and rattles tn a car are the beginning of trouble and should be stopped immediately. • • • Because the core of the radiator serves as a sieve through which duet is constantly drawn by the suction of the fan, this part of the car becomes lUMishirtJjr dd In appearance. JBg .. . . ’ :

Low Gear Effective In driving down, steep grades < 1 various resistances may be utl- | ’ lized to keep the car under con- 1 x trol. If the engine is kept run- i * ning and the gears are in high, j S there is only slight resistance, i £ This may be increased by shift- j ’ ing into second speed and fur- « J ther increased by shifting into J; 5 first When still further resist- 1 x ance is needed to maintain a ] 5 eheck on the progress of the car 1 g and it Is not desired to use the > brakes, the ignition may be shut £ g off and the throttle closed. By i S opening the throttle the resist- [ ? ance is still further increased. > S The maximum of resistance and 5 £ ihe best control on a dangerous- 5 S: ly steep hill may be obtained by 2 2 shifting into first, switching off 5 g the ignition and applying the 2 S brakes at intervals. Automobile Now Termed Neighborhood Expander The automobile has made neighborhood a bigger term. With a good car it is as easy to visit your friend ten miles distant as it used to be to call on one within sight of your hoips Not only has the automobile enlarged the neighborhood; it has in a sense made the whole country one neighborhood, and broken down sectional lines. It is an Interesting study during the touring season to note the stales from which cars hail as they speed by on pleasure bent. Remote parts of the Union will be found represented in every popular touring section. Those who travel by automobile come intc more intimate touch with' the country than those who travel by train. The car goes right by the door; the life of the people unfolds in an everchanging panorama. The motorist who keeps his eyes open can get a knowledge of ths country and the people excelled only by that of the pedestrian as he moves at his snail-like pace. Added knowledge always means the break-down of sectional lines. Give credit, then, to the automobile as a unifying influence in national life. Tire Talc Recommended as Superior Lubricator Tire talc, rather than graphite and other oily preparations, makes the best lubricator between the inner tube and the casing. Motorists are cautioned, however, to exercise care in the use of tire talc, as too much i& fully as damaging at too little. Too free use of tire tale—a special prepared soapstone for tire use—will cause a quantity of the power collecting in one place, generate heat, give the tube a soft and bubbly appearance and form a weak spot The talc should be distributed evenly over the surface; shifting or rotating tube is a simple and efficient method. Graphite is an excellent lubricatot , for tire subjected to extra heavy duty and excessive speeds. Racing drivers | use graphite, but only after sifting i through a sieve made of cheesecloth onto the revolving tube. This method is necessary, otherwise several Sakes of graphite might accumulate in one point, thereby causing deterioration —the oil in graphite being a foe t« rubber. > For the average motorist —for the man who does not run his car continuously, day in and day out. the judicious use of tire talc is strongly recommended. Adjust Gap Distance on ' Spark Plug More Often Experiment has shown that when the electrodes of a spark »plug art formed to a sharp point, and a hightension current passed through, th« gap which the current will Jump may be much greater than if the ends of the electrodes are formed blunt in the usual manner. This knowledge hM been used on cars which have given trouble due to the plugs fouling from the oil. After the electrodes had been sharpened.‘they were set to the usual gap. after which they gave no furthet trouble from fouling. The probable explanation of this is that the oil does not collect so readily on the small points, or that the current cuts through the oil more easily. It will 'be necessary to adjust the gap distance more frequently as the small points burn away quicker than the blunt points.

the occasional use of a strong spray of water the front of the car may be kept bright and clean. • • • Owners of automobiles are cautioned by the police not to leave anything of value in their care when parking them. Drain the gasoline tank. • • • < A helpful slogan in general use In Bavaria and throughout the Alps region la “Zetlassen,” which in English means "Take Tour Time.- It greets the motorist on avers ridy

Arrange Shrubbery as Nature Has Placed It Don’t forget to observe nature's way In arranging shrubs, trees and flowers,. In the woods you seldom find treesgrowing in straight lines, stiff and formal. The margins and outlines of woods and thickets have bays and openings which give beautiful pictures and vistas. a Don’t forget that looking from theinside of your home eadh window should frame a nature picture. Don’t think of home gardening as; only a summertime Your homecan be planted with hardy, permanent shrubs and trees to secure equally beautiful wintertime pictures. • Don’t plant without a plan. It will cost less in the long run. Don’t make the mistake of waiting until after your home is built before planning and planting. You should plant the walks, gardens, borders, etc., before the house foundations are in and immovable. Don’t permit your planting to obstruct the sunlight and ventilation off your home. Don’t needlessly cut and prune trees, A good tree on your building site may be the key to a successful planting plan. A -good tree, ten years old, is worth many dollars. Keep it anil care for it. Don’t forget that flowers pass quickly, whereas shrubs and hardy trees; live on-constantly. Don’t forget that your back yard* offers as many possibilities in home gardening as your front yard. — Dirt Has No Place in Up-to-Date Town Accumulations of dirt, whether in the streets or in the premises, are unhealthful. Also they are unsightly. Also they are unenterprising. A place that looks run down has a lower uni*ket value, regardless of its potential value. A street Is made or unmade the same way. declares an editorial in the Kansas City Star. There are new, clean, well-kept community centers in the outlying sections that are models of care and examples of co-operative accomplishment. There are others that look as if neither the property owners nor the business tenants cared a rap for their own interests or ever conferred with one another for the cen- - teris good. Mean and makeshift improvements while not insanitary, and almost as offensive as disorder, and invariably they discount the value of the ground on which they are built. Clean-up day Is a tine thing; this year an - indispensable thing. But the real thing is all-year cleanliness and , order. How Zoning Will Help There will be. considerable benefit from the increased attention of American centers to zoning if there is a persistent determination to enforce the provisions which zoning involves. The Department of Commerce reports that 320 cities and towns now have adopted zoning regulations and that zoning laws have been enacted or are being considered by nearly every state. Protection. however, does not follow automatically the adoption of a zoning ordinance. Where zoning rights are zealously guarded, there is promise of a better order in the cities that areturning to this new form of building regulation.—Kansas City Times. J Model of Playgronud A miniature model of a five-acre playground for city children was constructed for the United States children’s bureau and was displayed at themeeting of the International Council qf Women held in Washington in May. The model contains a swimming pool, a shelter house, two tennis courts, a basketball court, a large baseball diamond, a smaller diamond, a wading pool for little children, seats for'the story hours, swings, ladders, flying rings, sand boxes and all other needed equipment. Tiny figures of children engaged in the various sports were part of the modeL Look to Future Growth Cities which were ill-planned at the beginning, and which have now grown large, can not go back to the beginning and adopt good plans. The best that they can do is to make improvement* In their existing plans, along the lines which their founders should have laid down. This they can all do, to some extent; and they should realize that the more promptly they do It, the better it will be for them. The larger they grow on bad plans, the more the need of replanning will be felt, and the more laborious and expensive the process will be—Washington Post City's Prettiest Street Which is the most beautiful home in your dry? And what are the points, anyway, on which a handsome house ought to be scored In a prize competition. as judges score Herefords, Wyandottes and prize babies, and bathing beauties? The Chattanooga (Tenn.j real estate board raised the question, with a contest it inaugurated to determine the most beautiful home ln> Chattanooga. Other groups within the National Association of Real Estate Boards are taking up the idea. Enormous Loss by Rust Rust, which creates the “fourth mortgage” on a house, costs the home owners of the United States $575,000,000 a year, or five times as much as their loss through fire, according to a recent report. Repairs to short-lived roofs and their eventual replacement, repairing and replacing rusted out flashings- downspouts and gutters have their part In this cart. Criticism is a good thing, carefully employed; but it can kill. ■