The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 December 1928 — Page 3

(Making War on Pestering ‘Flea i „,. • Matter to Eliminate Breeding Places of Little Pests. When fleas become annoying or danLerous to health it is necessary to take steps to alleviate immediate discomfort, but the important thing is to act energetical)j’ to eliminate the breeding (places of fleas, and so put a check on Ithe supply. This is the advice offered |by the bureau of entomology in JBul•letin 897-F, “Fleas and Their Control.” 1 F. C. Bishopp, author of the bulletin, says fleas breed in greatest numibers on soil or in dust containing vegetable ano animal* matter protected .from rain, wind and sun. but at the Isame time furnished with 'amount of moisture. Spaces pnder buildings and porches fit these re■quirements, and it is well to prevent all animals and poultry going into such places. The * egetable and animal matter should be cleaned up carefully, the area spraybd with creosote oil. and the ground where tin* immature fleas are developing covered with salt and thoroughly wet down. Prevent Infestations. House infestations may be' prevented by eliminating pet animals and applying to the floors after all rugs have been removed and the floors thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water. Applying detris powder to pet animals or washing them in a comparatively weak solution <>f saponified creosote or kerosene emulsion will destroy the fleas upon them. The skin of eats is tender and dips and washes ” must be tnildet than for dogs. About 500 species of fleas are known , to exist. Mr. Bishopp says. but less ; than a dozen are of special* interest as i pests to man and domestic animals. | “But tiny individual of theist* few spe- , cies.-when bent upon satisfying its tip- I. petite, fully occupies the attention of I its ch<.sen host." The.liumhn flea, dog! flea, cat .licit, sticktight tiea. chicken I fleas, and the rat fleas (whiph carry bubonic plague) are the principal spe- i cies t h;it annoy man stud domestic an- ! imals in the I’nited States. Relieve Bites. j Various cooling applications give re- 1 lief in ease of flea bites. A three per , cent solution of carbolic acid in water applied to the bites will be beneficfttk 1 Menthol, camphor and carboflited vase- I lint* will help allay irritation. lodine in the form of iFtincture will alleviate irritation, but should not be used by persons afflicted with any form of eczema. ' Mr. Bishopp notes that the greatest ■ horizontal distance fleas can jump is about 13 inches, and not more than half this distance vertically It is possible to prevent them from gaining access to a bed by placing sticky fly paper about 13 inchbs wide on the floor around the bed. provided fleas are not breeding under it, or by placing the logs of the bed in pans of water covered with a film of kerosene. Painting Farm Machines Is Economical Practice If farm machinery which is constantly exposed io the wpather is to be protected from tfs rgxttge t s.' then the surface must be painted, to prevent rust. The paint forms a protective . film that keeps out the moisTure which causes iron to corrode and wood, to rot. A coat, of paint on the machinery each year is an insurance against rapid deterioration. Metal preservative .paint'should be used on till metal. A good primer may . be a paint which will prevent rust and any good exterior paint may be.used for the finishing coat. Before painting, the surface of the implement should be ... leaned of nff rust, grease and scale and the iron shbuM.be free from ' frost or moisture. One coat .of [>aint , should be allowed to dry thoroughly. I | Farm Notes | ; Little pigs may be vaccinated against scours, if a veterinarian ' can be employed. * • • « » > Sheep* should be protected from cpld ' rains and cold-hearted dogs. They sire both dangerous. • • « Cull fieans fed to hogs should be cooked in water that lias a small amount of salt in it. You might as well make' up your num) that you have got to fight ‘‘them | )>■■■/<” if you get any crop—so arrange t •to do it as efficiently as possible. ... If the pasture on the other side of t’.e fence .always looks greener, as the * proverb has it. maybe it’s because the man on the other side of the fence uses lime and acid phosphate, with occasional reseeding. When man himself can afford to do’ shelter during winter months tuan can then plan to do without shelter for his animals —and not until \ • A few farmers go as far as to claim ' that the crew does not injure the corn crop or. if he does chance to pull up a corn hill he is looking for worms and meant no harm. .» • ♦ ♦ A rotary hoe is a very good tool for cultivating corn, soy beans, and other crops planted on newly plowed land. It can also be used where the corn has been planted with furrow openers. ♦ ♦ ♦ Which is smarter? To market poor potatoes, cut the price, and lose customers; or to sort potatoes, market good ones, keep up the price, please buyers, and let the hogs have the • * • A growth of alfalfa left standing will furnish considerable mechanical protection during th? winter to -the roots of the plants. It will also collect and holo a good deal of moisture from h "• rain and snow. •

Blue Ribbon Babies of Virginia IK o" 1 [K f'-WS -A dl ■ragW * Here they are. the blue ribbon babies of Winchester and Frederick county, Virginia, as selected by the judges at the Winchester fair. And everybody smiled but Buster. Good Pickings in N. Y. Subway

Beggars, Under Guise of World War Veterans, Find Sympathetic Ears. New York.—“ The subway racket,’ as it is called among professionals, is I profitable. Perhaps of all the beg : gars panhandling in the subways the one under the guise of World war vet I eran arouses the most sympathy. | Every one feels responsible. And both ■ men and women prove how gullible I they are by tossing coins into the * proffered tiat iff the professional beg ' gar. in any of New York's crowded..syb 1 ways, almost any afternoon, down the I aisle, leaning heavily on his crutches. ' one trouser leg so torn as to reveal ’many bandages, comes a cripple. He 'is such a pitiful looking beggar. And ' -there is no doubt as to his genuinemess. The badge on his coat proves I conclusively that he is a veteran of the World war. Every one is stirred, j Men suddenly recall war days. Terrible that this should be the result The sight of (lie man'; dirty and tin kempt, dragging himself about, makes the women a little ill. but they, too. , are touched. Hands reach into pock 1 ets. Coins are fished out. Women fumnle in their bags. The “cripple” distributes a pitiful' little joke book as he makes his way down the ear. The joke book- has on it a legend of a starving wife, a noble war record. Soon he conies back and collects the coins that usually accom ; nfmy the book. No one bothers to keep it. Beggars Ambitious. Beirjantin Cohen, now serving time at Welfare island, was. one of these mendicant “veterans.” |He should have known when he was well off. Had be been content to garner coins from subway passengers lie might still be earning a comfortable livelihood. Takings ranged from $lO a day upward. But Cohen was ambitious. The Grand Central Subway station offered better opportunities. Here throngs of people passed constantly. They would be generous. They were Cohen averaged $25 a day here. But among these thousands of sympathetic souls was Detective William B. Kirk of the mendicant squad. Long experience with panhandlers of all types had taught him to be wary, Cohen was arrested on a charge, ot disorderly conduct for soliciting

S. J. Levy Is a Real Booster of Aviation i —-T— —— — i - X— ... ,Z. S. J. Levy.- World war veteran who served in the army air service 1917-1!' as a radio instructor and 11. ah: >1 Ki r, beside his autoplane in which be is making a tour of tie I’nited Slates to boost aviation. He is the inventoi ot this 1 type of plane, also of the multiphone and the tel-auto sign.

METHODS OF FIGHTING ICE HAZARDS IN AIR SOUGHT

i —: <♦> t • I Ninety Per Cent of Atlantic Flight , Failures Laid to This Cause. Langley Field, Va. —Methods of lighting the ice hazard held responsible by some aeronautical engineers for 90 per cent of the transatlantic flight failures, are being developed principally along the lines of.avoid-' ance rather than ways of overcoming the ice after it has formed on the wyigs and fuselage of an airplane. Installation of a distance tbermom eter, with its bulb on a remote edge of the wing, has been recommended by Thomas Carroll and William R. McAvoy, who have completed a preliml nary study of the ice hazard to airplanes for the national advisory com mittee for aeronautics. The aviator would then know the temperature of the surrounding atmosi>! tnd might be aide to avoid

and annoying passengers. He was sentenced bj Magistrate Gotlieb to 30 days on Welfare island. Cohen’s record, which goes back to 1901, includes 10 arrests on charges ranging, from grand larceny to num slaughter and assault with intent to kill. Twice he has been sentenced for periods ot from five to fifteen years It is true that Benjamin Cohen, alias Arthur Gilmore, John Brown, Frank Fisher and George Brown, is a war vetejan. But his record is not one that rhe army is any too proud of. * Deserted From Army. Records in Washington show thatBenjamin Cohen enlisted In the army July 22. 1!H". at Fort Slocum. He was assigned to Company F, Forty-nimh infantry. He was later transferred to Company F, Twenty-third infantry and'sailed for overseas on September 7 aid returned about February IS. ItilS. as a patient. He had been in a hospital since October 11, 11'17. Here he entered the Walter Reed general hospital and was discharged October 3, IJ'IS. Medical officers believed he had been somewhat unbalanced men tally prior to his enlistment. Cohen re-enlisted March 1. 11'20, at | Amnesia Increasing * t in Great Britain * * London.—Police are puzzled *£ by the increasing number of dis- ❖ *£ appearances all over England .j, * •»* Loss of memory is the usual * cause. The victims wander linn dreds of miles away from their *•’ homes. Their former interests are forgotten. “There are many more victims 4 of lost memory nowadays than 4 there’ used to be.” declared a •> ‘f* prominent London doctor, com- *;* ❖ menting’ on the problem. ❖ “There are two classe ot vic- ❖ tims. In one class are the vic- ❖ tims of war injuries to the <• braiu. For the second type we *•' must blame the increasing com- 4 plexity of modern life. Women ••• 4 especially, are susceptible to, 4 *** this. They try to compete with * 4 men it. industries iti'which man 4 has been predominant. In my '•* 4 opinion they are not fitted to do <• a man’? work satisfactorily ex- *:* 4 cept in a comparatively few in ❖ stances.” . * 4 4 ♦** *♦* *♦* *♦* *l* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *** *** *♦* *** ♦** *♦* *** *** *♦* *** *** *♦* ***

the combination of conditions which force an airplane to earth with a heavy ice coating on its wings and fuselage. investigation and Hight experimentation carried on by the-two scientists disclosed that ice formed most readily on. planes when they encountered rain or heavy fog at a temperature of 30 to 31 degrees Fahrenheit. The airplane flying through rain and fog under such conditions cannot remain in air longer than an hour, the investigators found, and some planes, which are already heavily loaded, can remain in the air but from 15 to 20 minutes after they have encountered air with a high water content and tempera tures just below freezing. Means of prevention or removal of the, ice formations have been suggested, and some of them tried. The complete results of alk' trials will form the subject of further study by sci-

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| Jilted, Asks Return & ‘l* of Cows and House !£ **• Greeley, Colo.—ln a suit on X X file in court here Martin Planiski is seeking to recover part of X X the cost of a iwpeless love at--4 fair. 4 X Planiski in his suit asks that £ 4 a house, lots, cows, and other £ X property he deeded Mrs. Emma 4 Glumac, the object of his affec- !•’ X tions. be returned to him. X X It is alleged in the suit that 4 4 Planiski deeded the property to X X Mrs. Glumac in the hopes that 4 4 she would marry him, but now X X that she will not marry him 4 4 Planiski wants his property ’•! ’t* back. ’j* 4*;..l«.j.**.«F*;*»t»*;~F»F*t**Z*****. w .**F*.**,**.**.*****,**.**. w ** Taylor. Md., under the name of George Brown, and deserted May 17? 1 !»20. while serving as a pri vate in Company K, Sixteenth infantry. He later claimed disability and was awarded a pension of $lB a month. Examination after arrest proved that there is nothing more seriously wrong with Cohen than tiat feet and dandruff. On the joke book which had cost Cohen 2y 3 cents find which he was selling for 10. was a picture of Cohen with crutches. At the top was the inscription, “Lest we forget. F. Co.. 2d Div., 23d lnf„ A. E F.” At the bottom of rhe cover, in still larger letters wag printed, "Trench feet, receive sl3 per mo. compensation to support wife and himself. Can both live upon it? If you think not, buy a veteran's joke book.” MAY WED CALLES ■ " BSt/ ’ ‘ ' b MW?. l.eonor I.lorente. society girl ot .Mexico City, who, it is rumored, will become the bride of Senor Calles, the present President, before the expiration of his term. Chinese Becomes Monk in Franciscan Order Cincinnati, Ohio. —Friar Sylvester hereafter is to be rhe name of Joseph Cheng, a Chinese, who has become a Franciscan monk here, lie is the first of his race to enter the Catholic order in the United States. After finishing his studies at St. Anthony’s monastery here Friar Sylvester, will return to the city of bis ■ nativity, Wuchang, Hupeh, China, where there is a monastery served by American monks from Cincinnati. Rev. Sylvester Espilage of Cincinnati is superior of rhe Franciscan establishment at Wuchang.

entists of the national advisory committee. The addition of a chemical to the oil or grease may be of merit, the scientists report, but it has the obvious disadvantage of being “messy” and might possibly be removed to a great extent by the scrubbing action of the high velocity rain or sleet. Wait 60 Years to Wed When Parents Object Pedagaggi, Sicily.—Marianna Maramzano waited sixty years to become Mrs. Pasqale Sgalambro. It was in 18(18 that a coy maiden accepted the proposal of her Romeo. But the girl’s parents objected and the young man was told that he never would be permitted to weo the girl of his choice. Whereupon Pasquale left the home town to seek his for tune. ‘ Recently he returned to his native village and found that Marianna, like himself, never had married. So .they renewed theb troth and the whol» town turned out to witness a mos’ unusual wedding.

MULCHING HELPS STRAWBERRY BED Fruit Specialists Recommend Wheat or Rye Straw. Mulching the strawberry bed, preferably with clean wheat straw, not only gives protection against alternate freezing and thawing in the winter, but tends to keep the plants from starting growth during unseasonable warm spring weather. It also keeps down weeds and conserves moisture, thus taking the place of cultivation, and helps ”to keep the fruit clean during the fruiting season, it is pointed out by Frank H. Beach and Clyde S. Holland, fruit specialists in the extension service of the Ohio State University. Serving all these purposes, mulching thoroughly justifies itself as a strawberry producing practice, in the opinion of the specialists. Wheat or rye straw, clean, are perhaps the most satisfactory materials tor mulching. Oat straw packs tightly and sometimes contains unthreshed grains. Manure, mixed with straw, while soinetim*es used, is likely to harbor weed seeds and insect pests, and is not always good for the soil upon which the strawberries are grown. In small home beds, Takings from the lawn will serve. , The mulch may be applied either beX fore or after the ground is well frozen.\ since its purpose is to prevent freezing, thawing, and freezing again. . r Pruning Currant Bushes / by Removing Old Canes The difficulty in pruning currants is greatly increased by neglect. Systematic annual pruning from planting should be followed. The finest currants are produced nt the base of one- ■ year-old shoots and on one-year-old spurs arising from two-year-old wood. , Spurs on older wood produce fruit but it is much less in amount and smaller than that produced on younger wood. Canes, therefore, are usually past their best fruiting after their third crop. The chief item in currant pruning is to remove canes which have passed their best fruiting and to replace them with new canes. A good plan is to remove a definite number of old canes each year ami leave an equivalent number of new canes to replace them. . ■When a three-year system is followed, nine canes to a plant makes it easy to keep the balance. The three-year plan can be operated as follows: At the beginning of the second season leave six strong canes. At the beginning of the third season remove two of these canes and leave . five strong new canes. At the beginning of the fourth season, remove one two-year cane, two one-year canes and leave three new canes. Thereafter the oldest canes, those in their fourth year, should be removed and . three new canes left to take their place. This will give a plant, at the f beginning of the growing season, com; posed of three canes in their second ’ season, three in their third season • and three in their fourth season. • Dwarf Fruit Trees Are Becoming Very Popular Os recent* years the’ dwarf'fruit 5 trees have come into great favor be- . cause of their early fruiting qualities. 1 It is claimed the dwarf varieties fruit in at least half the time it takes the standard tree to reach the fruiting 1 point. Now the dwarf fruit trees are being made to serve an ornamental pur- . pose, as well as a useful one. They can be planted as specimen subjects the same as the ornamental trees, and at blooming time are as beautiful as , any flowering shrub or tree. When grown for their fruit they are economical, as they take up less ground, and therefore more trees can be planted to tha same area. Dwarf trees are also much more easily cared for; spraying and pruning are simplified. Spraying for Scale Is Job for Winter Season i San Jose and other scale insects, including oyster-shell scale, hose scale and scurfy scale make up a group of formidable plant pests. Often their presence is unknown until the plant has succumi>ed to their attack. They are tiny scale-like insects of varying shapes, which settle themselves on the - bark, leaves and fruit of plants ,o obtain their subsistence by sucking 'he \ • sap of the plant. All sucking insects must be con- : trolled by spraying them with a poison . which will kill by entering the breath- . ing pores, or with a substance which * will smother them. Blackberry Shoots The new shoots of blackberries, come up from the roots, and in time will form a rather dense dump. The best* 1 way to handle this i? to take up the , thrifty plants, dividing them from the main root underground, and set them where desired. Along a wire fence would be very good, because you could ! then tie them up to the fence and keep I them in convenient shape for handling. This' work can be done either in the j fall after the leaves drop or very I early in the spring. Wintering Grapes Winter injury to the vineyard is usually associated with too much rain- j fall during late summer and early | fall which prevents the newly formed I grape buds from reaching maturity before freezing weather sets in. This is said to be especially true if the vineyard is located on poorly drained soils, and It is believed that much i winter injury may be prevented by proper drainage which removes the I surplus water and allows the grape tissues to harden before cold weather.

Aspirin SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Headache Neuritis Lumbago Pain Neuralgia Toothache Rheumatism DOES NOT AFFECT TflE HEART £ "3 Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” of 12 tablet# 9 Also bottles of 100—Druggists. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetlcacldester ot Salicyllcacld

— Ancients Got Copper From Arabian Mines Detective work by chemists recently trailed the copper used in ancient Mesopotamian weapons to the mines where it was obtained. Archeologists wanted to know where the men of Sumner, oldest of Mesopotamian kingdoms. got their copper. Inscriptions i on bricks failed to tell them. So they ; sought help from metallurgical chemists. These men examined the copper : of the old weapons, comparing it with specimens from Persia, the Black SeA region, Cyprus, Egypt and other neighboring countries to see if they could find the same impurities. 'At last in < copper from mines on the Arabian < peninsula, near the Persian gulf, a similar amount of nickel in the metal was discovered, indicating that these were the mines from which the metal I for the ancient weapons had come. — 1 Popular Science Monthly. Confident During the vacation period, two ! elderly men were sitting near one of the bathing beaches in northern Indi- | ana. “I haven’t been in the water for 1 twenty years, but I believe I could swim today just as well as 1 could then," said Mr. R. ! “Oh, cohte now," replied his friend. I “You’re spry enough but its absurd to say that you could go in the lake and i swim ?s well as you could in the old i days." "1 feel confident 1 could.” persisted I the white-haired veteran. “1 couldn't swim at all then and I guess I could Ao that well know.” His Fiddles Unusual Ethan Dix of McMinnville, Ore., who ! makes violins from cow horns, gourds I or anything else, that will hold a 1 string, believes that he has a unique I collection of fiddles. One fiddle is carved from a gourd, 'another is made from the horn of a Texas stegr. and one in the form of a dollar sign. One fiddle in the collection was tun over during the Civil war by tin ammunition wagon. A 1 violin maker glued the pieces togeth er. and Mr. Dix regards its music as 1 unusual. — Spokane Spokesman-lie- I view. Artificial Silk Tests The immense Increase in the arti- j I ficial silk trade has led to the use of i many new methods in the process~of i manufacture. Two Japanese workers. ■ Y. Kami and S. Nakashima, have in trcduced the use of micro-photographs ! (that is, photographs taken through the microscope) for observing the minute structure of the filament in art: ficial silk. In this way they can quickly discover whether alterations in the conditions of spinning have any’ effect on the texture. Photographs of Mars Much valuable work has been done ; with the great Lick refractor in plan ’ etary observations. At the last close ■ | approach of Mars 32 drawings of the I planet and about 1.500 photographs * were obtained, many of these with the aid of specially dyed plates. Says Na ture Magazine. These are of great value in interpreting the nature of the changes that are continually taking place on the surface ofjhe planet. Sad “Tommy, why did you stay away . from school yesterday “1 wuz sick.” i “Too bad. I wanted to let you out for football practice.” Then be was sick. Turned the Tables Friend—How did you come to marry : your employer? Ex-Stenog—My dear. I couldn’t ' stand his dictatorial manner any longer. Nowhere Far From Sea In the Shetland islands, the most i northerly \British possession in Eu rope, no spot is more than three miles I from the sea. One Thing Needful j “I suppose White is'what you would call a ‘bright young man.’ ” “Yes, but he could do with a little polish.” Amenities of War “Sir, the plenty are as thick as peas." “TheL shell them, idiot !”— Aussie Sydney. Children’s handkerchiefs often look hopeless when they come to the laundry. Wash with good soap, rinse in water blued with Red Cross Ball Blue. —Adv. No Sense to This “Dad, 1 can get my tan removed for S2O a treatment.” “Huh? It cost you S6OO to get that tan."

Allies Now Play at War For the first time in history army maneuvers were conducted by the soldiers of two nations at a recent mo-' bilization in the occupied Rhine territory. Before beginning their cavalry maneuvers the French invited the King's Royal Irish Hussars to participate. and the invitation was , gladly accepted. Tl|e charm of a bathroom is its spotlessness. By the use of Red Cross I'.all Blue all cloths and towels retain their whiteness until worn out. —Adv. Past Fly Time Buddy, age five, and his 11: tber were on a street car recently when a woman with a veil on her hat sat down • opposite them. Buddy looked at the veil intently for a short time and then asked: “Mother, why doesn't she take that off? The flies arc almost gone, now”’ There You Are! Teacher—Who can tell me the meaning of the word “transparent”? Johnny—Something you can see through. Teacher —Well, can you give me an example? Johnny—A doughnut. Foresight “Will you have the lady’s name engraved on the ring?” “No. put: ‘From Gustave to his first and only love.’ and then 1 shall never have to have it tittered.” Somewhere the Sun Shines Cannibals in the island ot Baqua eat the Dutch tax collectors. There seems to some justice in the world I after all.—Springfield Sun. . Garfield Tea Was Your Grandmother’s Remedy

For every stomach and intestinal ill This good old-fasb-toned ‘herb boxtw remedy for constl- , pation. stomach iltet and other derange ments of the sys

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