The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 23, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 1 October 1931 — Page 2

Walking Across English Channel X —7 —> jjSX ' ? *” 7 ■ ' -•■ 11 l»< "*“ *■ » "*’!' ~ . .-. -—<- ,_ Karl Namestnik. European adventurer. Is here seen as he “walked” across the .English channel on the water skiis which he Invented. He started from Ope Gris Nez on the French coast and landed at Dover.

:: LOOKING FOR t THE TOWN JI By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK ’ - ’ D.an «f Men, Uni.er.ity of ■ < ► Illinois. 4 ■»♦♦♦♦»•»♦♦♦♦♦<<♦>••»»♦♦♦♦ He had motored from Kansas or Arizona or some place beyond the

Mississippi and wns eager to see for the first time the beauties of New England. Perhaps, be was one of t h o 8 e countless thousands, or millions possibly It has grown to be by this time, whose ancestors came over In the Mayflower and he was looking up

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the places where they first settled. It Was*' at Provincetown where he ran onto me out by the break water at the far end of the cape. He had come via Boston and had traversed the whole length of tike narrow wobbling street along which the village ts scattered. ••I wonder If you could help me out?" he Inquired. "Possibly. but not likely.” I had modestly to admit. “I'm looking for the town.” he explained. He had been from one end of Prov-. Incetown to the other, but he hadn’i seen it. The old village, touched by his Imagination- was different from actuality. He bad

U. S. Potatoes Save Million Chinese

Handful Planted 25 Years Ago Relieve Famine. Washington.—" The Biblical miracle of the loaves and the fishes was somewhat paralleled in real life during the recent famine in Kansu province, .Ch Ina.” accord: ng -io a ci»tnm unica t ion to the National Geographic society from William W. Simpson. Tennessee missionary. "A handful of potatoes sent from America, 23 years ago. planted and extensively propagated by Christian missionaries ■tn this remote part of Chinn along the Tibet border, saved the lives of more than a million Chinese when the district was ravaged by drought and famine.’’ Mr. Simpson lays. "When the first Americans and Europeans penetrated the Kansu provhu e. and established .mission stations In Taochow (old city), some forty years ago they found a native Chinese potatoivhfch was small, poor, and had a very low food value- The natives of the district, with little regard for the future, had been In the habit each year of eating the best of the crop eund saving the poorest potatoes for teed." the communication continues. "A letter of appeal to the United . States brought four early rose potatoes front Ttmnessee. and these were planted In ISi*7. two In Taochow, and two in Mtnchow. They grew very well and produced many tubers of fine quality in Chinese soil. The next year, however, the crop was divided With

Win* High Honor* 1 LJ. .-H a nvnr.w>mJL— i* iimi w The highest military honors possible loathe corps of cadets at the United States Military acadamy hare been won by Cadet John P. McConnell, who has been appointed first captain and regimental commander In orders issued by Maj. Gen. William R. Smith, superintendent of the academy. Cadet MeConnell la an outstanding athlete, having won his letter as a member of the track team, and he Is also manager of the football team. His home is at Booneville, Ark. We forget the visionary projects of others that fall through, but if a single one leads to success, it excuses a hundred other vision*, \

missed it all as he was driving There are many of us who miss the other ways than did the Kansan when in reality it is all about us. 1 can. In a vague way, now realize hrw much of the beauty of the prairie I missed as a boy even when I was looking for beauty. 1 can see the knolls In spring now as I did not visualize them then. blue , with violets and the lowlands In August brilliant with wild phlox. There were lilies—thousands of them—and. goldenrods and yellow sunflowers, ‘rosin weeds" we called them, from the resinous gum which the sun melted out of their steins. I didn’t see then, as 1 can well realize now. that while 1 was longing to see the beautiful things of the world here wns a sight before me il nr I would travel many miles to see again. The town was about tne, and I was looking for it. Friendship and love and beauty—opportunity and happiness tnahy of us pass along beside these things ami miss them like the man In the midst of houses and yet looking for the town. « < c\ 1331. Western Ne»is»t>«r I'nton l

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the Chinese, who were taught how to cut up the large potatoes for seed In order to keep up the qualify of the crop. "In a few years the new variety spread to several counties o's the province, which bad a total population of some in.oon.ooo {teople. • But the Boxer rebellion resulted in a recall of all the Christians from the district and while they were away the Chinese fell back Into their old habit of eating all the best, and also of allowing the new variety to become mixed with the diseased older type of potato. "The flavor and food value of the potato plantings had so deteriorated when missionaries were again operating In Kansu that Mr. Simpson decided to send for fresh tubers from America. Friends in Massachusetts forwarded a mere handful of Green mountain po tatoes. which were planted in 19<>3. The experience of Chinese planters with the earlier American variety helped to speed the distribution of the Green Mountain tubers, which quickly supplanted both the native and the early rose types. In the three years’ famine since 1928. one of the worst famines the world has ever known, almost half the population of Kansu, and also of the Province of Shensi, to the east, have died. Bur where the Green Mountain potato was cultivated the larger part of the population has been able to subsist. It has been esti mate<l that fully a million people have been living by eating these potatoes. “Where American potatoes had not been cultivated the people resorted to

New Orleans Boasts of Sprinkler System New Orleans, La.—ln opening the world's largest fire protection Installation on the docks'here Gov. Huey P. Long inaugurated the most elaborate port fire alarm system yet devised. Each of 118,000 sprinkler heads, de signed to function in half the time of the ordinary ones, not only notifies the land and marine fire-fighting de pot, but either extinguishes the fire or bolds It in check until other aid i arrives. Besides the sprinklers and alarms the wooden understructure of all wharves Is divided into sections so that literally a "wall of water" falls on each ride of a conflagration. Using 200 miles of pipe to cover 26 miles of harbor frontage the combined action of the system can release a Niagara of over 2.000,000 gallons of water a minute. Pair of Pants Covers Nudity of Rooster Seattle. Wash.—Jeremiah became the most Indignant rooster in all of Washington when he was forced to wear a pair of pants. He was hit in the neck by an arrow shot by a youngster. He seemed to be dead, so his owner. Mrs. J. E. Winkley, began to dry pick him. She had removed all of bls tail feather* when he came back to life with a squawk and staggered into the yard. His neck healed and Mrs. Winkley felt there was only one thing to do for poor, nude Jeremiah—make him a pair of pants.

>4ll Aound O House |yi Blend the sandwich filling with the creamed butter to save time in making sandwiches. Leather will be stained if mud is not promptly removed from shoes. One way to prevent lumps tn mashed potatoes is to use hot milk instead of cold. Rapid cooking is necessary to keep the natural bright color of the fruit In preserves. Recipes for using leftovers are valuable In the thrifty housewife’s recipe file. Glazed chintz makes colorful and artistic window shades for the bedroom. £lllllllll I UIIIH-bH-bFH-b POTPOURRI • !■ i 11-1..|- !■ I -i-I-l-I-H- f b;; Early Pewter ” Pewter ware, again in vogue. •• was first used early in the .. ” Eighteenth century. This gray *' • • Isb white metal Is an alloy of •• ” tin and lead and sometimes a ” • ■ small quantity of copper or zinc •• " ’ is added. The metal polishes ’ •• very easily, but as easily tar- •• “ nlshes. Its early use was for ” plates, teapots, beer mugs and ” other utensils. Il <'c\ 1331 Western Newspaper Union. > ‘ini iiii-i i li-H-n-H-i-i-i-i-ii 11 What a-good many college boys miss when they go out hunting for a job — —— — ( S the cheer leader.'

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the bark of trees, roots of grass and insects. As these could not long sustain life the people depending upon them became easy victims of disease and pestilence. In a few limited areas, where wheat and rye had been Introduced by missionaries, these cereals proved of great assistance in famine time. In many regions where Chinese wheat had been entirely killed off by blight the newer American varieties flourished, apparently not being susceptible to the same diseases as were the Chinese varieties." U. S. Excavator Finds Historic Teheran Relics Teheran. Persia.—An American' ex cavator. F. R. Wulsin. bas made dis coveries here dating back to the third millennium before Christ. Tbe discoveries were made at Tu rang Tene. near Asterabad. and consist of stone Implements, black pottery. clay statuettes and bronzes. Wuhdn intends the finds for the Nelson art gallery. Kansas City.

Plans Grid Plays '-•.l'M' I i Chick Meehan noted football coach of New York university, describing one of several new plays he has devised and will use during the grid season that is soon to open. 21 Murders in Year Worry London Police London.—There were 21 murders committed among the 12,000,000 people in the area supervised by the London police during 1930. Yet the commissioner of metropolitan police, Lord

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Man Borrows Row boat to Tow Planks Ashore. New Orleans. La.—Richard Burton, sixty-year-old unemployed machinist, has built one of the coolest little homes in New Orleans. Three years ago, when Burton was “laid off" by the machine shop where he worked because he was “too old;” he found a Job as a night watchman

Hubby’ll Be Out of Luck If Girl Friend Phones Chicago.—Every home can use a telegraphone.• an Invention which v.tll be displayed at the Museun? of Sci ence and Industry, founded by Julius Rosenwald. The instrument, invent ed by Poulsen of Copenhagen in 1960, has been given the museum by William Dtibilier of New York. The telegraphone takes calls in the absence of its owner. It replies to calls that nobody's home, but that It will rake any messages. The vocal registration is simply a reproduction of the voice, similar to a dictaphone. The phone then switches to a recording .setup and takes down the message of the caller. When the owner returns, he switches oh the reproducing device and hears messages received in his absence. A . German is manufacturing the device. which may come into general use when it can be made more inexpensively than at present

Unique Sa lute Planned for the Kaiser’s Death Del Rio. Texas.—A miniature cannon. weighing only one pound and constructed from historical souvenirs picked up over the world, will be tired when death claims former Kaiser Wilhelm. The gun will be fired by its owner. Rufus Sterling, who made It and fired It the fifst time when the armistice was signed. Then he said it would not be fired again until the kaisers death. A portion of the metal base upon which the tiny cannon rests, came from an 18 inch smooth bore gun that was in use during the Civil war. Prize-Winning Novelist Deserted Pick for Pen El Paso. Texas.—Robert Raynolds dropped his pick in a Colorado coal mine, picked up a P®u and became the Harper prize novelist for 1981. Raynolds. native of New Mexico, now makes bls home In Georgetown, Conn. He wrote unsuccessfully for 14 years before! he produced "Brothers in the West,* the'Harper prize winner. He is a grandson of Robert Raynolds, one of El Paso’s first bankers. Byng, looks at the number with dismay, for he points out that it is a tremendous Increase over the number committed the previous year, which was ten. However, he eeks satisfaction in reporting that ten of the murderers were arrested and punished, nine committed suicide, including one who had done two of the murders, with only one still at large.

on a large. Idle steam shovel. The Job paid sls a week. $5 of which he paid for a room. A year ago his pay checks stopped and he faced the prospect of, eviction from his home. It was then that he decided to build a home. He went on the Mississippi river in a borowed rowboat and towed planks and timber ashore for his home. He sold enohgh of the lumber to buy food and necessities. Hoping that some day he will get paid for his services, he has stuck to his Job of watching the large, rusting steam shovel each night. By day he works on his home. It .is almost finished and consists of two well-built rooms eight feet above the ground, so he need not fear the floods. He has sold surplus lumber salvaged from the river to buy nails, screens and hinges for the little house. He hopes to paint it soon. "Everything has eome from the river that went into the place." Burton said. Cypress for the foundation, oak for the flooring, pine for the walls and strong'beams for the framework have been rowed to the bank of the river, a few feet from his door.

Titled Person Last !to Pay Money Owed • London.—The titled person is | the worst debt-payer, according ■ to a list prepared by credit men • of a prominent I.ondon store with the idea of illustrating the trustworthiness of .various X classes of society. Os fourteen professions listed, bank clerk and Insurance company employ- '4 ees are given as the best payers. X Lifeboats Have Holes for Water to Run Out Boothbay Harbor.^Maine.—The lifeboats used by guards on the summer beaches here are so constructed as to provide holes for water to run out. The distinctive feature is accomplished by means of three large air compartments with well holes between for elimination of any water shipped .

Mid-Victorian Suit *v- 4 \ i JH Aw i|gt - || tRidL W- **•■- - The frock that looks like a suit, and a very mid-Victorian suit at that, has a perkily flared jacket blouse worn over a striped skirt. Curfew's Warning In the reigns of William I and II of England the curfew rang at sunset in the summertime and at 8 o'clock in the winter. Lights and fires were then to be extinguished.

.]MO RAISE BETTER COWS, CALL TO DAIRYMEN Advice of Old Applies to Today’s Conditions. Away back in the nineties there was a business depression Just about as severe as the one through which we are now passing. Dairymen suffered along with the others. An agricultural writer of that day told his readers that the solution of the problem lay largely with themselves —that what the most of them needed was better cows. Here is his striking description of the cows of his day: “The average cow of today is made wrong. Her head is too. big and het udder too small; her shoulders are too wide and her hips too narrow; her skin is hard and her butter too soft; she has too much tail and tallow and too little capacity to make milk and butter; her ancestry is seldom respectable. She has two intrinsically good qualities—appetite and constitutional vigor. They will dq to graft upon. The average cow is an innocbnt nuisance. She is the workmanship of the average farmer. She has not been bred right, she has not been fed right, she has not bgen cared for as she should be. and she gets even in the wholesale robbery of the man who made her what she Is.” The average cow today is a lot better than the average cow in the nineties, but it is still true that it is the man with cows above the average who can best weather a depression. Proper Barn Equipment Helps Milk Production With the steadfast improvement in dairy herds through testing, breeding and better feeding has also come the increased use of better equipment, which not only saves labor I)Ut also protects the health and helps increase the average production of the herd. Dairy barn equipment is used every day in the year and because of its long life -has a low overhead. The average cow in a Wisconsin dairy herd improvement association produces nearly 50 per cent more than the average for the state as a whole. Nearly SO per cent of the members of these associations have equipped their barns with drinking cups and approximately half that number have barns with ventilation systems. More than a third are also equipped with milking machines.—Exchange. Germs in Milking Pails The most important source ot germs in milk are the utensils, such as pails, strainers, and the cans that are used for the storage and shipment of the product: The Cleaning of the milk pail, or can. must be very thorough, otherwise, after standing empty for a few hours. " may contain uncountable billions of germs. To illustrate: At the Illinois experiment station some cans that hud been well washed and steamed and then held for 24 hours in Warm weather, contained so many bacteria that when they were filled with fresh-mtlk a sample taken out of a can as soon as It had been well stirred contained one million germs per 50.W0 per drop. New York Dairy Progress An interesting report was recwitly tuade on cow testing in New \ork state by the State Farm Bureau Federation Dairy committee. In a review of dairy progress during I!>!4<>. it was stated that production records were kept on 10.000 more cows than in the previous year, ami In 500 herds close culling of unprofitable cows is going on.. Heifers raised have increased in number in the state from ISS.OOO tn 1926 to 242j>00 yearlings in 1930. Over 700 more dairymen started keeping records of their herds last year, and 1 500 m’lk scales were sold during the year. The total number of cows on ; test in this way in February 1°”" wa. ' 29.098. Now it is around 40.000. Where Are the Good Cows? A tester for an lowa dairy herd improvement association relates that he recently spent a day searching a neighboring county for some dairy cows, and he found a situation this year which Is rarely found In normal.years. The dairymen who belong to testing associations are not putting a price on their cows for sale. Why? There Is only one logical reason—they have cullled out their poor cows and know that the cows they have left are paving fair returns for their feed, and due to testing they know which cows ar? good property, and they are not going to part with that kind.—Exchange. , DAIRY FACTS Dairymen should be constantly alert in seeking a herd sire to replace the one now in nse. Study pedigrees and records carefully before making a decision. ’ ■ • • • There are some old-time poultrymen who believe in practicing the old-fash-ioned "hatchet cure" for ailments among fowls to keep the flock free from disease. In such cases carcasses should be burned. * *. * Feedi&g of green kale, tn addition to tbe regular winter ration, has been found to affqct favorably the vitamin A content of winter milk. • • • For most efficient milk production cows shonld he fed grain even when on pasture, the amount of grain varying with the amount of milk produced. • • • Farm butter making is far from being a lost art. Last year more than 500,000,000 pounds of butter came out of farm churns. —United States Department of Agriculture.

Poultry BEST TO “CUT OUT” TUBERCULOUS HENS Safest Method Is to Raise New Flock. It Is generally conceded that the fowl tuberculosis germ is not carried in the eggs. and. therefore, eggs are perfectly safe to use, even though the hens laying them are in the earlier stages of the disease. Tbe tuberculosis germ is one that is quickly killed by heat, hence cooking would destroy such germs even if they were present. We doubt if it is advisable to keep a flock of hens having tuberculosis to any- considerable extent. Avian or fowl tuberculosis affects chiefly the liver and other digestive organs. The disease is communicated by food or water contaminated by bowel dise charges; hence when a large number have the disease, keeping the healthy looking fowls usually means perpetuation of the disease, for one by one those that have the germs in them will reach the consumptive stage and scatter more Infection. I If you want to keep pullets or ' healthy looking young hens you should confine them to a yard that can easily be made safe by changing the top soil. Let the disinfectioh of the range begin at once. There is a tuberculin test by which the disease can be weeded out of a tiock in thp course of two or three years, but unless the flock is a valuable one the better plan is to change completely, beginning with chicks and raising them on clean ground. —Nebraska. Farmer. Cut Out Non-Producers and Save Cost of Feed According to the poultry department'of the New York State College of Agriculture, feed is about one-half of the cost of keeping a hen. 90 pounds being required per year for slightly better than average production. During the past 11 years the number of eggs per hen to pay for her cost of feed has ranged from 48 to 72 per year, averaging 62f. In 'l9llO, it required 69 eggs per hen annually to pay her feed costs. About ten dozen! are required per bird to pay the entire cost. . On this basis you can easily estimate what your own flock is doing. Now is the time to cull the old hens. As with the dairy so with the poultry, this Is the,year to weed out the nonproducers mercilessly. Fortunately, the ratio between feed-and- eggs Is relatively good, so that if you do cull closely and then exercise more than usual carejrour poultry business may come through fairly well during the next year.—American Agriculturist Sanitation Pays Illinois poultry men who used sanitation and otherwise practiced good management got a return of 31 cents an hour more for their labor last year than flock owners who did not use sanitation, according to a summary of their records by H. 11. Alp. poultry extension specialist of the University of Illinois. He cites this as further, evidence that the difference between success and failure in poultry raising is - largely one of good management, since sanitation is always part of good management. Flocks handled ur let therecommended sanitation- system paid their owners a return hour for labor, while nonsanitation farms paid only 45 cents an hour. —lndiana Farmer’s Guide. Watch Flock’s Condition Fowls should be handled frequently if orte Is to know their true condition. They are disturbed least by doing this ut night after they have gone to roost If too fat. reduce the feed and increase the amount of bran. If results are still poor, increase rhe amount of animal feed, such as meat, scraps, etc. Hens with too much fat are not in good laying condition because the fat prevents rhe egg from passing through the .egg duct. It takes some'experience In handling,to detect the “pink of condition” in a laying hen. but it is a knack that can be easily acquired. For Good Hatch The older, and better known essentials of a good hatch are these: (1> Eggs must be fertile. In the breeding flock there should be one vigorous male to every eight liens in the heaviest breeds, one to 15 in the Rocks and Reds, and one to 20 in the light breeds. (2) Eggs must be gathered same day as laid. (3) Eggs must be stored in a temperature between 32 and 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and should be turned daily. (4) Eggs shoul 1 be selected normal in shape and size. Poultry Facts Chickens need at least four square feet per bird in small houses. • • • It Is claimed that a hen’s eggs reach maximum size during her second year’s laying. • • • When wild turkeys appear near a tame flock they greatly excite the domesticated birds, and a wild gobbler will attack a tame one. usually being victorious over the barnyard variety. Wiring the dropping boards in the hen house not only helps to control worm infestation but keeps eggs cleaner. * • • • Eggs should be put in crates with the large end up in order to prevent breaking the air cell when the eggs are being hauled to market. •• • . An egg weighing five ounces was exhibited in Canton, Kan., by O. <). Weaver; it was laid by a Buff Orpington hen, and was 9’4 inches around, •the tong way.”