The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 21, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 September 1931 — Page 2

World’s Zero Mile Post in England

Center for Figuring Longitude Since 1884. Washington. — Greenwich observatory, England, most widely known of the world’s stations for observing the stars and marking out time. Is to have a large new telescope that will put it more nearly on a par with its less famous but more efficient competitors, according to dispatches from London. “Greenwich Is an unpretentious borough patch of Ijondon," says a bulletin from the National Geographic •ociety. “but tt has world Importance In spite of itself. On practically every map and globe that is published the longitude lines conspire to bring into prominence this community on the south bank of the Thames, two and a half mites below London bridge. Nearly every country tn the world, and practically every ship that •alls the seas describee its position •s so many degrees east or west of Greenwich; for through the center of the dome of Greenwich observatory runs the world's generally accepted ■ero meridian. “Fronting the deep waters of the lower Thames. Greenwich has always bad a nautical flavor. As early as 1011 an Invading Danish fleet made its base at Grenevic, as the place was Summer Training $ "Bel/’ Russell. all-American hard- ( bitting Northwestern university fullback. has been keeping in shape while attending summer school by toting golf bags for his friends—gratis, of course.

Two Real Sea Dogs Visit Their Old Ship When the rebuilt Constitution was at Newport. R. 1., two of the most Interested visitors were Johnnie Hood of Newport and Frederick Fries of Reading. l’a„ who served on the old frigate in 1877 as chief gunners, They are here shuwrn at one of the guns chatting over the old days.*

Uniform Motor License Laws Sought by A. M. A Washington.—A campaign for full reciprocity among all states In the matter of automobile licenses has been begun hy the American Motorists* association. 8 The preliminary survey shows, according to a recent statement, that only 16 states now grant full reciprocity, while 23 states have reciprocal, agreements in regard to Hcenaing of automobiles. "De«tdte the fact that there has been a uniformity of opinion in state legislatures and state highway motor vehicle commissions,” says J. B. Weeks, president of the motorists* association, "there are still many states which have not adopted full reciprocal license*” In the general aummary made by ths association it was found that Mis-

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then called. Through the centuries It has become more and more associated with British naval affairs. The town’s outstanding building Is the great Naval hospital designed by Sir Christopher Wren, and considered one of the finest creations of that famous architect It Is no longer used a? a hospital, but serves now as the Royal Naval college where Britain’s naval officers are trained. “Greenwich was once even more famous than Westminster and Windsor are today as the home of British royalty. On parts of the sites of the Naval college and school was situated •Placentia.' the favorite palace of British klngrf during the latter part of the Fifteenth century, the Sixteenth, and half of the Seventeenth. "The Greenwich observatory was established in 1675 under Charles II and placed In the old palace grounds, no# Greenwich park. "Greenwich observatory now combines some of the functions of the American Naval observatory, bureau of standards, and weather bureau. It is responsible for the correction of British time. Each day at one o’clock p. m. the time ball falls from a staff on the observatory, and electric signals are sent out by telegraph and wireless. “Greenwich has been the world's official marking point for the zero meridian of longitude only since 1884 as a result of the Washington meridian conference. Since longitude was invented numerous zero meridians have been in use. usually for relatively small areas. In the days of Ptolemy the geographer. In the Second century A. D„ longitude was reckoned from Rhodes, logically enough, for that Island of the eastern Mediterranean had been the commercial and maritime center of the world for centuries. Paris and other capital cities marked the zero meridian for their own countries for a long time; but slowly the use of Greenwich spread, and has now become practically world wide. "American longitude was expressed In terms of degrees east or west of Washington until after the laying of. the transatlantic cables. Until electrical signals could be sent from Greenwich to the New world it was impossible to tie the longitude of European pqlnts and American points together with absolute accuracy. While Washington served as the American zero meridian many of the western state boundaries were established. It is for this reason that the boundary lines between Colorado and Utah, and between Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon will be seen on a. map of the United States to fail by a small distance to coincide with the meridian lines west of Greenwich.”

sissippi and Texas permit foreign motorists only 25 days of-operation, while two more states. Georgia and Tennessee, give the visiting driver 30 days without the necessity of securing a new license. Arkansas. Indiana. Nebraska, and Oklahoma have 60-day limitations and there are 13 states which set a 90-day limit on car owners from other states. In addition to these Arizona has a four-months* law and six months is allowed in Illinois, lowa, New Mexico and Virginia. The remaining states and the District of Columbia all have reciprocal agreements. Stupid Deer Deer, particularly mule deer, are very local in their range, and sometimes die of starvation when only a few miles away ample forage Is available.

Black Again Popular Black once more Is the popular color. This smart dinner gown of velvet features the close fitted skirt line, and the demure Jacket carries the new widening sleeve.

But Just Try’ to Cash One of These Bills

Million Dollar Note to Bear Crawford’s Portrait. Wasjripgton.—-The portrait and name of William H, Crawford soon will appear on the most valuable steel engravings the world ever has seen or probably ever will see. The engravings will be of limited distribution. They are being prepared by the bureau, of engraving and printing of the United States treasury. For those who may not recognize the name of William H. Crawford it Trisects the Angle Very Rev. Joseph J. Callahan, president of Duquesne university, Pittsburgh, Pa., who has announced that he has succeeded In trisecting an angle by plane geometry. This is one of the oldest of mathematical problems and never before had been solved. may be stated that he was secretary of the treasury in the last year James Madison was President and remained over for service under James Monroe. Monroe, in fact, barely defeated him In the congressional caucus to nominate a Presidential candidate. Born in Virginia but reared in Georgia. Crawford was a leading figure in national affairs when they were things of great spirit. Besides being a senator, secretary of war and the treasury and envoy to several foreign countries, he found time to engage In personal and political disputes which led to at least two duels, in one of which he killed bls opponent and In the other of which he was wounded. Above the portrait and signature of Crawford on the certificate there will appear these words: “This certifies that there has been deposited in the treasury of the United States of America.” and off to the side and below the portrait will be the awe-inspiring words “one million dollars.” That's

Americans Murder for Gain, Says Criminologist Pittsburgh. Pa. —Native-born American whites murder for money; negroes for Jealousy; Latin country Immigrants for revenge or because of alcoholism. says Dr. Giovanni Giardlni, lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. Doctor Giardlni, a noted criminologist, has Just completed a psychologA man 1087 b* Mid to have p® s ® 6 * 3 middie age when he ■A— no longer cares to =2—L2EZJ go to • fire in bls neighborhood.

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HOMEMAKER HINTS When nails or screws need to be driven into hardwood, rub them with soap or oil. They will go In much more easily and are less likely to split the w00d.,, , When the Inner soles of your favorite bedroom slippers become shabby, tear them out and replace with new ones which can be quickly made from a discarded felt hat. Glue them in lightly. _ Sliced fruits Intended for salads can be given a distinctive and piquant flavor by marinating them for an hour or so In a liquid composed of eight tablespoonfuls lemon juice, eight tablespoonfuls orange Juice, ten tablespoonfuls oil, two tablespoonfuls sugar and one-half teaspoonful salt. When ready te serve, drain and serve with mayonnaise or other cooked dressing. The liquid, known as a marinade, keeps well in a covered jar and makes an excellent dressing for green salads. A final touch that enhances the savor of fruit salads and certain vegetable salads is obtained by sprinkling the lettuce leaf base lightly with a simple sirup made of sugar and orange juice. or lemon Juice. This should be done immediately before serving so that the lettuce will lose none of Its desirable crispness.

Just the trick In the small and exclusive distribution of the engravings. There will be only 500 of them engraved and issued, but their total — $500,000.000 —would be a staggering amount for Crawford or Madison or Monroe to contemplate. ;! “Painless Extraction” ;i Applied to Dentist !| ;! New York.—Bending over a<! ;! youthful patient and examining <! ;! a tooth preparatory to extracting it. Dr. M. V. Sacharoff found ;! ;! himself looking down the muz- ;! zle of a revolver. Meanwhile ;! ]; the youth’s assistant “extracted” ;> s2l in cash and $l3O in jewelry ;> ][ and dental gold from Doctor ]> ][ SacharoflTs office. ]’ I; “Painless extraction, eh. Doc?” ][ !; the boys said as they left. ][ Morning Star* This popular and poetic name "morning star” is given to the planets Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, and Venus, when one of them rises shortly before the sun and is a conspicuous object in the sky before dawn.

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leal study of killers in Western penitentiary here. He has been impressed by the trivial motives for many murders. Mental states, superinduced by diseases, especially by epilepsy, can frequently be blamed for murders where the apparent motive is suprisingly petty, he says. Grasshopper Mummies Found in Yellowstone Washington.—Mummies older than those of the Pharoahs are to be found in great numbers near Yellowstone park. It was revealed by Acting Diaector Cammerer of the national park service. Instead of being the remains of kings, however, they are the bodies of swarms of grasshoppers that were buried in the snow before the glaciers were formed in that region. The in-

til II I IH 1 1-11-H-H-H-It !■ I I I !■ The Mysterious I N By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK I Dean of Men, University of T • • Illinois. J T i l l l I- l -l -l I I i-l- l- i-l-H I I l -H-4-b I "Most mysteries have commonplace explanations,” Masefield has Hilery

say to Margaret, and yet there are few things which so fascinate us as the mysterious. I congratulate Davis on being engaged to Marie, and he looks at me in amazement. “Well, how did you know anything about it?” he says. “We have never told a soul.

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and had no Idea that even our best friends suspected it” "Oh, I Lave away of knowing,” I answered In a tone of mystery and omniscience: and he goes away wondering. It was very simple, however. I had met the two going about arm in arm or holding each other's hands in broad daylight They always do that now when they are engaged. The explanation Is quite commonplace. Old as I am, I still could sit for hours watching a sleight-of-hand man pull rabbits and rattleboxes out of an empty hat The man who does the card tricks has my closest attention: and the mesmerist, though I am sure his stuff is mostly, if not altogether, fake, is a mystery to me, though I am sure the mystery Is easily explained, if he would only take time to do it It was always a mystery to us all In College how it was possible for the dean to know so much in detail about us as individuals. We are sure that he could not possibly pick up himself all the facts he had at his tongue's end. There must have been some one. we thought, going about doing It for him. But it is quite clear to me now. He said little, but let us talk, and listened carefully. We really told him everything ourselves. Nothing is more irritating than the person, young or old, who knows a lot about what is going to happen or what he pretends is going to happen and who yet refuses to divulge. “I know something I won’t tell,” our mysteriously inclined playmates used to say, I could have brained the boy who was always pretending that ha had got onto something, and then went about with a knowing, look on his face and a closed mouth. When the real facts came out, there usually wasn't any mystery about it at all. ( !©. 1»S1. Western Newspaper Union.) e Financial Center* Lombard Street is the Englislffequlvalent to New York’s Wall Street.

sects. perfectly preserved, are being found in great numbers.

POTPOURRI The Useful Walrus The walrus serves inhabitants of the Arctic coasts in many ways. Its flesh provides food; light and heat come from its fat; the tendons from its Wmbs supply bow strings; the skin of Its intestines serves as window panes for huts; its skin is used for clothes and for boats. The ivory of its tusks, as well as Its oil and hide, are commercially valuable. <e. Itsi. W*«t«ra Nsvsmmt Unton.»

PlactJ RATION COW NEEDS DURING PERIOD Matter of Hign importance in Milk Producfen. It’ has been demonstrated repeatedly that it does not pay to have a entry cow freshen In low condition. She may produce less than 70 per cent as much milk as she would produce had she freshened in good condition. This fact has led dairymen, to say that their most profitable feeding Is done during the dry period. „ The cow’s own physical condition is one of the best guides to the amount of feed needed during the dry period. If in good flesh, she will carry along all right on legume hay and silage or pasture and a small amount of feed. The ration should be light and laxative. If you have a good quality of legume hay, a ration made up largely of corn and oats or barley and oats will be satisfactory. A mixture for a ration might contain 400 pounds of corn or corn and cobmeal, 200 pounds of oats, 100 pounds of wheal, 100 pounds of wheat bran, 100 pounds of Unseed meal, oilmeal or soybean oilmeal. Where only poor roughage such as timothy hay, oat straw or corn fodder is available, it is advisable to increase the oilmeal or soybean oilmeal by 50 per cent. • It is especially important to take good care of the cow at calving time. Confine her to a good clean box stall about a week /before freshening, change the ration so that it is very light and laxative. This may mean withholding corn and feeding only oats, wheat bran and oilmeal. Permit the cow to take exercise in a pasture or In the yard. Soon after the calf is dropped the cow should be tied up. In this way the dairyman will observe whether or not the afterbirth is delivered. If the afterbirth is hot delivered normally and within twelve or twenty-four hours, the cow may need sotn s e medical attention. — Wisconsin Farmer. Doesn’t Pay to Neglect Early-Freshening Cow The cow that freshens in the early fall is apt to have a hard time of It. She comes into production at a time when the farmer is rushing around with silo filling and late threshings, followed by fall plow and root harvest. There is a very natural tendency to get through with as little chores as possible and cows are usually bred to come in after the rush is over. If y cow does freshen, she takes the same treatment as the rest of the beryl As a matter of fact, she is usually considered a nuisance. But tills is the time when milk comes easiest and a cow responds most profitably to exfcfa feed and care. Tire fresh cow n l ow should get a proper grain ration, fed in proportion to production. She should not be out at night when tire nights get frosty. If she is milking in excess of 50 lbs. milk daily she will respond profitable to three-times-a-day milking. If she is not properly fed and regularly milked, she will he a poorer cow right through the lactation period. Wheat in Dairy Ration Wheat proved a tetter grain than corn in a ration for milk cows in an experiment conducted recently at the Ohio experiment station. In view of the bumper crop of this grain in Ohio this year these results are of interest to Ohio dairymen who are looking io feeding wheat this winter. The grain ration for these cows consisted fff three parts wheat, three parts oats and one part each of com. bran and linseed meal, which was fed along with silage and hay. In comparison with cows fed this ration except that corn replaced wheat these cows produced more milk and butterfat but the cows on corn gained a little more in weight. Four cows on the wheat ration averaged 50 pounds of butterfat a month while those on corn averaged 48 pounds.—Ohio Farmer. DAIRY HINTS * A milk house is a great aid to efficient dairying. • • • The national dairy exposition will be held October 10 to is«at St. Louis. •• • . If whole milk is sold. It should be strained as soon as drawn and then cooled. • • • Accredited herd work has grown In California. Last year a total of 25.074 animals in 341 herds were tuberculin tested for accreditation in that state. • • • Cream should be separated at once. If It Is the product sold, and then cooled promptly. • • • In Wisconsin and Minnesota, 54 and 49 per cent, respectively, of cows tn herd improvement associations are fed grain with pasture. That churning butter is still a farming occupation In the United States Is shown by the fact that 500.000.000 pounds of butter was made on farms last year. • • • A traveling laboratory for testing milk at the source of supply Is maintained by the New York state department of health. •• • ■ One cannot always pick the best cow by looking at her or by Just glancing into the pail after milking. The only sure way is by testing. The water supply must be clean, abundant and convenient It takes gallons of water for milk cows dally and they need It oftener than just once or twice a day.

POULTRY ♦CTCULL HEN FLOCKS EARLY AND OFTEN Poor Producers Cut Deeply Into Profits. By culling poultry from the time they are baby chicks on through the laying period. It is possible to boost egg production and Increase the income from the farm flock, says P. B. Zumbro, extension Specialist in poultry of the Ohio State university. Cost account records kept by 78 poultrymen In northwestern Ohio indicate that egg production per bird is one of the most important factors influencing poultry profits, he points out. Os the 78 poultrymen, 35 made less than a dollar profit per bird and had an average production of 135 eggs per bird. Thirty-six. poultrymen made between a dollar and two dollars per bird and had an average production of 149 eggs. Seven farmers making a profit of more than two dollars per bird had an egg production of 176 eggs during the year. .Culling is one sure way to increase the egg production per bird. To insure that only gqpd producers will he kept and that birds not even paying for their feed will be discarded, it is best to keep only those birds having constitutional vigor, of good size, of sexual maturity, and free from serious breed and variety defects. Trapnest records show that pullets which mature fairly early.are the best producers and in cutting the flock it is best to keep pullets 4hlch start laying early. ' ' Easy for Poultryman to Discern Poor Layer Nature fashioned many birds’ feathers so that the . wearers might hide themselves in foliage and find protection; but she laid the hen open to suspicion* the day the hen stops laying eggs. Poultry men are using the growth of the feathers, the coloring of the beak, shank, and eye-lobe, and the position of the hones, to promptly remove the bens that Jay too few eggs to pay profits. ‘ There is every reason, suggests the New York College of Agriculture, to use these indications and improve the flock. Records show that about 40 per cent of the hens stop laying between .Tune 15 and-October 1, and the hen’s feed bill for .that time is about 10 cents. At the same time that her board bill is a loss, the poultry market keeps going down; for on the average, Leghorn prices are about four cents a pound lower in October than In June. Wise Poultryman Will Watch for Coccidiosis Coccidiosis is a bloody dysentery of poultry affecting chiefly young stock of four to twelve weeks of age. The cause is a microscopic parasite which, taken In the food, invades the lining membrane of the intestines and eventnaJly the liver. In the intestines It sets up an Irritation which destroys the tissues, which slough, exposing the tiny blood vessels from which blood escapes and mixes with the droppings. The parasite is picked up with the food from contaminated soil, where it has been deposited with the droppings. usually from old stock which apparently recovered from the disease, hut which still harbpr the germ. The? disease is usually Incurable, lienee the importance of the occurrence. This nmf fie done hy raising the young chirks on ground which has not been used for old fowls.— Exchange. » ■ - Cannibalism Idleness is the most common cause of toe-picking tyil-picklng or cannibalism. This frequently occurs when the brooder house Is overcrowded or when it Is necessary to keep the chicks closely confined because of cold or stormy weather. Chicks invariably become ravenous when they have had a tgste of blood and will continue pecking the Injured of the flock until it has been removed or completely devoured. Caponizing Popular Capons are becoming an increasingly popular branch of poultry ’keeping in some sections. ’ According to the University of New Hampshire, the most suitable time for caponizing is that which allows time to properly finish the birds so they will he ready for the Christmas holidays. Cockerels are suitable for caponizing when they are onehalf to two pounds in size. A bulletin on caponizing Is put out by most state colleges and’may be secured free of charge. Holding Eggs for Hatching Eggs meant for hatching should be gathered often enough to prevent chilling, for the reason that in the process of formation the egg has been within the hen’s body at the Incubating temperature of 106 to 107. If it is covered at 'soon as the hen that laid it has left the nest, the process of incubation continues. A temperature of from 50 to 60 degrees is needed to suspend incubation. If the egg Is held at a temperature at or above 70 degrees, the incubation will continue. For Growing Chicks A very good ratiota for growing chicks is an all-mash feed made up aa follows: 50 poqnds finely ground yellow corn, 15 pounds ftigh grade middlings, 15 pounds brail, 10 to 12 pound* fine meat scraps, 5 /pounds dried buttermilk, 3 pounds alfalfa leaf meal, 1 pound ground bone, and % pound of salt If you preferj semisolid buttermilk, use the same, amount of it a* recommended for the dried form but dilute It with 6 parts by weight of water. '