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SUGAR CROP STARTS FOR DINING TABLE

Every Strata of Labor Used, in Production. Washington-—Cuba’s sugar crop Is on Rs way to the dining table. Grinding sugar cane begun several days ago by decree of the president of the republic. “The progress of sugar front stand Ing cane on the vast plantations which belt the world in areas where there, are long summers and plenty of mofeture and fertile soli, 40 the sugar bowl on the dinnef table. Is a story involving nearly every strata (if labor (ram experts In agriculture, sugar refining and distribution, to the lowly ISbervr of plantation lore," says a bulletin from headquarters of the. National Geographic society. “Sugar cane must be mature to give the maximum quantity of sugar, When the stalk is cut and loaded into an'ox cart. It has already survived a major operation by which it ha-s lost its appendages—its blades and the upper part of the stalk wnichi contains almost no sugar. “While automobiles glide through the sugar country today, the oxcart, long a part of the sugar plantation panorama, still collects the (rut cane and delivers it to the nearest railroad for transport to the crushing machines. In Cuba a railway car transports about 20 tons of cane and each train consists o (about 30 cars —CUM> ton* of cane In a single trainload. Ten trainlo.id.s ijium be harvested to keep a crusher tn operation for the 24 working hours in the height of the harvesting genson. “After the cane Is deposited on the oxcart/ human hands seldom. touch it until It emerges from a refinery, ready « dinner table, a] derrick lifts the cane from the ox cart, ■ and deposit* it on railway cars. At the crusher the cars are pulled, ohe at a time, onto a cradielike device.' A button Is pushed, the car tilts.and the canp-falls into a deep pit where an endless conveyor belt delivers It to-the crushers. ‘ “The crushers bend forth a stream of fo.imy. juice and a bi<lly mangled mass of cane fiber. The filter emerges, from the last crusher alffiost as dry as tinder and Is conveyed to the fire box to make steam for the destruction of other stalks. “Meanwhile the cane Juice is strained and mixed with whitewash The mixture Is heated to a degree Just above the boiling point. The whitewash neutralizes the acid in the Juice and invites some foreign substances to join If at the bottom of the tank. Other Impurities take flight In the opposite •Mrectlon. Joining the foam on the surface so that the liquid In!the middle Is • lean, pure Juice which is drawn off through excelsior filters. “Large evaporators begin the proc-

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ess of transforming cane Juice to sugar. Once through the • evaporators, where a portion of the liquid has been removed, the slrupy mass is poured into vacuum pans where sugar crystals show themselves for the first time in the sugar-maklng process. A man in charge of a vacuum pan is called a sugar master. As the thick sirup slowly boils and crystallzes. the .sugar master adds fresh juice from time to time The sugar friim the fresh Juice clings to the crystals already formed. The vacuum pans finally become tilled with sugar and mother sirup. Then the sugar Is removed to a machine that twirls It nt the rate of from 1,000 to 1.400 revolutions a minute, forcing all the sirup from the crystals. “The sirup again Is bo’led and processed until it is relieved of nearly every particle of sugar. The remaining liquor Is the ‘blackstrap’ Os commerce. Raw sugar is yellow. It is whitened at refineries." Comes r ~" J r The “pie plate brim.” originated by Talbot, is shown In black milano braid, box-machine sewn, Cocarde in green and black pleated grosgrain. New Gyroplane Devices Developed in Indiana Elkhart. Ind.—New ideas and untried devices for gyroplanes are being developed here by George L Stauffer, regained aa an Inventor of the gyro plane. A large Harrick vetoplane, the type In which an aviator met death at Niles, Mich., recently, is planned by Stauffer, It will be a combination of the conventional plane and the autogiro,

Is the British figure skating 'champion and who wiir endeavor to annex the Olympic crown in this division in the 1932 winter Olympics at Lake Placid, * ¥ Calf Bom With Face \ Like That of Bulldog St Cloud, Minn.—A calf which was born with a face like a bulldog has attracted attention among farmers in 1-ong Prairie township. The animal s lower Jaw protrudes like that of .a bulldog, and It* nostrils are divide*!, one appearing on each side of teelower Jaw. William Becker, t’ae owner,plans to sell the calf for display . —± - Bock Had Freak Here Tonopah. Nev.—William Marsh, veteran rancher, brought down a fivepoint 187-pound buck near here, with a freak horttln the center of bl* forehead about four Inches long. V ‘7-.-A ; : >.L.;v . -.. '' ■ „ ? • ■.7 "As

!;! THE DUTY OF |![ TODAY ijl By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK )11 Emeritus Dean of Men, ]|' University of Illinois.

It la far easier for a great many of us to plan something great for the

future than it is to do the simple tasks of today. George sits with his book tn his hand dreaming. There is a problem In trigonometry before him to be solved which, f he would give his attention to it for a few minutes, he could easily manage, but that Is not what he

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" is doing. Instead his mind Is wandering far Into the future when he have finished hlsj course in collegk and the period of probation which every great man. engineer or otherwise, must go through, and shall have become a great engineer. He has not realized tint meeting simple and possible situations of today will he.p him to the realization of the dream tomorrow. Mr. T. E. l-awrence in his “Revolt of the Desert" is riding with Zeki. an enthusiastic Syrian, over the hot sands of the Syrian desert. It a trying Journey for man and beast, and the weary camels are worn out from overwork and underfeeding. Zeki’s beast Is full of mange, and his attention is called to the fact. ' “Alas and alack.” he says in a sad tone of voice, “in the evening, very quickly, when the sun is low, we shall dress her'skfn with ointment.” It would have been a very simple thins** to do. and quite within the range of possibilities, but instead Zeki’s brain takes fire and his imagination runs riot lltr conceives a great organization through which not only camels but all other suffering u'l’.nuils shall be taken care of by the state. Hospitals he will have and skilled surgeons and medicaments of all sortsl and a gfeat library of medical books in which can be found remedies for all suffering animals, and traveling in-; specters to look out for and bring in the ailing animals, and under these subinspectors. It was a wonderful: scheme pregnant with possibilities, but while his Imagination was working ami the details of his greats organization were being' worked out, his l>oQr camel, nothing having been done; to relieve its distress, died of its mange. (©. lit!. Western Newspaper Colon.) Vienna Reports 330 Per Cent Jump in Suicides Vienna.—The topsy turyy world In which the remnants of the old Austrm Hungarian empire live today has brought tn Its wake, among other things, an extrnonlinary increase in suicides, ip Vienna, alone, suicides have gone up by the thousands, Before th4 war the number of suichles averaged 2.5) ia. day while now they average 10. an Increase of about 3.30 per cent. Out of these ten. three are attempted unemployment or other, economic troubles. The official figure for lIMSB was 1.058 suicide cases. By 1930 it amounted to 3.371. This In a city of IJgUOAMM) people. The probable figure for 1931 will be 3.500 cases, as the number for the last eight months Js already 2.337. The main motive for t,he decline of the “will to live” among the Viennese, at least. Is rhe steady deterioration of economic conditions. Autos Replace Camels as “Ships of Desert” Detroit.—Automobiles are fast replacing Camels as the shifts of the desert, according to H. K. Norman, London, England, on a recent visit here, j “Recently 1 was in Beyrouth.” Norman said, “and was amazed at the lines of auto transportation that extended from that point over various, desert routes. One line runs from there to Bagdad. Another extends to Damascus. Still another to Haifa. “The reason for the replacement of camels with the modern auto has been largely. the demand <of tourists for more comfort and speed.”

Criminals Fear Him r /1 1 *!w y- . .." *s’*'■ i ’ '■'• ••.. * ' < ' ' " * x ? ■ r ' '’ ys V A steady progress In the battle against crime In Detroit is shown by report* just issue?! During six months.

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAL.

Making “Aggies” for America’s Boys

r I mTw jfl UL MR. .HQ / Vißk^vpl • hl IMMIi Springtime is marble pme for young America, and as it approaches, R. W. Walker of Los Angeles Is very busy. He is said to be the only agate marble cutter In this country. The onyx Is mined in Mexico in four-ton blocks that iyill produce about lI.WO agates each. These blocks are cut Into %-Incb slubs and then cubed and put into a rotary grinder that grinds out 200 at a time. A second machine polishes them with tin oxide and they are finished after being calipered for size. The output Is about 6.000 a day.

Father Needing Money Offers Twins in Pawn

Gets No Takers, So Flees in Fear of Charity. Hutchinson, Kan.—Sam Harris, thir-ty-five, of Hutchinson, had to have an operation on his nose and offered to pawn his twin baby sons for the S2OO needed 1 for the operation. •Harris was out of a job and figured tifiat the only way that he could obtain {money for the operation was to pawn something. He didn’t have much to pawn except, the twin babies. So Harris informed A. B. Leigh, probation officer, and Mrs. Jack Campbell. police matron, that he is willing to pawin th£ twins for S2OO. The twins’ names are Daniel and Delbert. “I can’t get a Job.” he said as he sat wiib his wife and babies in their one-ro«)>m tenement home. “1 have nothing that I can mortgage and 1 won’t-accept charity. ■ “The twins are the only security that 1 can offer for a loan,” he said. “If some one will lend me S2OO. adopt the twins. Later on. when 1 get steady work, i’ll redeem them.” Leigh and Mrs. Campbell recommended that Harris go to the county doctor; for his operntidn, but he protested. saying tliat be would not accept charity. . The twms are six mouths old. and have been described by doctors as being in' perfect health. A fi»w days after Harris made his offer ne fled from Hutchinson, taking Qabby Qertie — - // I I ► // it “It isn’t always safe to sit in a dress that'# supposed to be satin.”

the prosecutor's office handled 1.294 tfnajor crime cases, obtaining 847 conwictipns, an average of 73.9 per cent, and the best record In the past five years. The credit for this high percentage of convictions goes largely to Prosecutor Harry S. Toy, (above), whose untiring campaign against crime .has made him feared by underworld characters in the Middle West. Youth Plays Hookey So Others Can Have Food Topeka. Kan.—Whtn a truant officer picks up a fourteen-yearoid boy for “Cutting school" ’t is not unusual. But wben the boy’s reason Is “1 Stayed away so my brother and sister could have my lunch.” It Is unusual Kelsey Petro, the truant officer, investigated and found the boy's mother and sister and 'brother in need and now he is hunting a Job for the boy. The sins committed by many pass unpunished.—Lucan.

with him his wife and babies. Fie had confided in friends that he had feared that city and county authorities would take action against .him, since he had refused to move to the county farm as a charity family.

>4ll Aound rfe House

Mince veal is a delicious meat for stuffing green peppers. A sliced banana added! to the white of an egg and beaten until stiff makes a delicious filling. A •• • T Before heating milk in a pan rinse the pan with water and the milk will not scorch so easily. Thread often become twisted when sewing or embroidering. To avoid this roll the needle toward you occasionally as you sew. • • • . If you wish to coo! a hot dish quickly place it in a vessel 'of Cold water to which a half cupful of salt has been added.. . • ’ • • A long-handled corn popper is useful for broiling a piece of steak, a chop !or diaking a slice of toast in the furnace when the range fire is not right. A paste made of whiting and olive oil removes the black spots winch frequently appear on silver. Let it stand until dry, then polish the silver .with chamois. • • • If you-get a piece knocked off n? your walnut.furniture touch it up with iodine on a piece of cotton, then go over it with furniture polish and the place will hardly show. Bavarian Crown Jewels Sold Fbr 39,300 Pounds London;'—The Bavarian crown Jewels were auctioned at Christie’s for a total of 35L300 pounds (about $190,900 at par) Considered the most important sale since the auction rooms disposed of part of the Russian crown jewels for more than $400,000. the Bavarian collection contained the famous Wittlesback blue diamond which wus sold for 5.600 jMjunds. The gem weighs.nearly 35 carats and Is mounted in a pendant, surrounded by many smaller brilliants. One other piece, a magnificent diamond tiara surmounted by trellis work from which are suspended 36 britliants, was sold for 7.U00 pounds. Three other large stones were sold for 4.000 pounds each.

* Food Costs Dropped X * 16 Per Cent in 1931 * * Washington.—The cost of food j£ X declined 16 per cent in the last * * year, according to coinpliatioiis * made public by the government * * bureau of labor statistics. Av- * * erage prices of food n.»w are ap- * J proaching the pre-war levels of * * 191 X Tiie bureau’s index of the * cost of things to eat. tn which « * 1913 prices equal 8 100. stood at * * on December 15. A year * * previous It was 137.2. During * * December prices decreased on * * ail but ten of the forty-two food J * items listed by the bureau. Larg- ♦ $ est decreases were: Pork chops. * * 13 per cent; oranges. 11 per * cent; lard. 8 per cent.

——i. If some one likes you, even If you can’t understand why, be grateful.

TAKING “TIME OUT” FOR MENTAL REST Idleness May Constitute a Virtue at Times. Maqy people are afraid of Introspection. To tgj£ average American .up-and-comer, meditation and idleness are sins of the first water. To be active, continually and unceasingly active, is to prove one’s worth to the world. And yet, without discrediting activity, it can easily be proven that most great men and most men of unusual accomplishment are at times as physically idle as any statue in a public park. They take time out to think, to meditate and to let their minds wander. Gandhi, the man who probably is wielding the greatest influence upon the earth today? sets aside one day a week in which be keeps silent while he listens to others, or to his own inner voice; while he meditates and ponders and lets the accumulated problems of the last seven days sink deeply Into his brain. The story is told of a young executive who so irritated his subordinates by sitting and looking out of the window day in day out that they complained to the president of the company. The president heard them out and then said: “The young man of whom you complain once thought up an Idea which has earned for this company more than $1,000,000. and he did It while looking out of the window.” A similar tale concerns a rising young Broadway producer. He never is in his office, but spends most of his time sittlhg in an easy chair at home. Once or twice a year he develops an idea which, when put into action, brings him and the people associated with him thousands of dollars. It is not the purpose here to encourage indolence. We merely seek to emphasize the value of thought and of frequent periods of mental, rather than physical, activity. They are good for the soul and good for the brain. Sunday is the day when most people can best take advantage "“of the opportunity to live quietly, to Test and gather strength for the work of the coming week, to think on what has happened and what has been accomplished and upon what is to be done. Adde from its religious significance. Sunday is valuable to human beings. It represents the closest approach that many of them have to a day of silence. —Ohio State Jour nal. , Brazil Well Described as “World in Itself” Brazil has features of distinctive Interest both in the universe in general and to ourselves in particular. Kipling once said that the region over which the benevolent and bewhiskered Doni Pedro D ruled, “is a world in itself.” Nor did he overshoot the mark. With an area of 3,275,510 square miles. Brazil is greater in extent than, the United States, excluding Alaska and the insular possessions. Some of the states are larger than ■ the largest European countries, Isaac F. Marcasson writes, in the Saturday Evening Post. Amazonas, for example, is five times the size of ' Great Britain, while Matto Grosso could cover all France twice. Putting it in another way, Brazil Is bigger than the whole European continent, net counting a part of Russia, and is the fifth country anywhere in geographical scope. The. average mtjn thinks of Brazil In terms of Rio de Janeiro, loveliest of all harbors—it lives up to the advertisement: —and of breakfast coffee. The republic accounts for nearly 70 per cent of the total coffee supply. But Brazil 18 much more.' To po land has nature been more generous in- the bestowal of her rich gifts of raw rpaterial. An observer has stated that If a deluge should again inundate this world, sparing only Brazil and the United States, the two countries could still carry on their lives and Industries with one supplementing the other. Brazil could supply rubber, sugar, coffee, rice, bananas, meat, cacao, iron ore manganese and timber, especially mahogany, while we could contribute wheat, com. copper, cotton. fruit, manufactured articles of all kinds and capital. Practically the only essentials lacking wobld be tin and platinum. Possible Now to See Washington “the Man” Now that Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart says again that George Washington swore during a cabinet meeting. there is a double indictment against him. He also swore during the 1 Revolution. It is said that on one occasion he threw his hat to the ground in a fury and jumped up and down on it. uttering strong talk the while. The more sacriligious of the historians say that he was even vulgar occasionally. It is known that he drank in moderation, played cards for money, went to cock fights and raced horses, as all men of his station In lifekdid during the Eighteenth century in Virginia. The best word picture of him done by anybody. that of Thackeray, shows a Washington not greatly unlike the contemporaries. In history, as In art and religion, there are fundamentalists and modernists. The writers of the latter group go much too far In their efforts to “humanize" him. They distort him into cheapness and vulgarity. The fundamentalists still put a hatchet in his hand and make him Innocent of even a white lie. Professor Hart and Thackeray are on the middle ground. As the Parson Weems version of

Beautiful VANITY CASE

Washington prevailed wjille the middh» men of today were coming to maturity, the silly old legends still prevail. They are dying hard, but they are dying. In another 20 or 25 years there will be a far better conception iof this gigantic figure as lie really was—“the first, the .last, the best”—neither plaster saint nor a devil-may-care^—Boston Herald.. Millions Thrown Away by Wasteful Methods How much water is wasted hy a , dripping tap? An answer was provided when New York decided to levy a fine of two dollars for every tap found leaking. In two years 40.000.000 gallons of water were saved. It seems absurd to worry about tiie amount of steam wasted when a locomotive blows a whistle. But Doctor Foley of Indiana university has calculated that 2,434.026 tons of coal are consumed annually in generating steam to blow United States locomotive whistles, and. that if the whistles were moved slightly forward and adapted to a single high-pitched note, more than 1.000.000 pounds a° year could be saved. But this loss is small compared with that involved in throwing into the dustbin cinders that would still give a lot of heat. It is estimated, that a third of the cinders thrown away retain from 50 to 70 per cent of their heating value. Transition That Marks End of HbneymOon -i. A tale of broken love, related in a prosaic San Francisco court. Just one in many thousands, and yet It yielded what writers call a “good line” which might have done credit to Oscar Wilde. The man had been relating his marital troubles, carefully following step by step the path that had finally brought about the divorce. “She stopped loving me as* soon as the honeymoon ended.” he declared, “and from then on, the skids were under bur romance.” “But some married couples claim that the honeymoon never ends.” remarked the court. “Just when was your honeymoon over, and how could you tell?” “Well," replied this Solomon from the oil fields, “a honeymoon is over when a woman quits dropping her eyes and begins raising her voice.” One on Einstein There is a story current that in the days when even a street car ride in Germany cost some hundreds of thousands of marks. Professor Einstein of relativity fame had an argument with a Conductor over the correctness, of the change. The conductor finally convinced Professor Einstein that he was wrong, and when Einstein apologized, the con- . ductor said: "Never mind. sir. That’s all right. 1 can see that arithmetic is not your strong point.” —Hollywood Daily Citizen. Sonny Grows Up j’You think we need an extra bathroom. John?” “Yes. Bert will be learning to shave soon.” Agreement He (under mistletoe)—Dearest, 1%. love you terribly, She—You certainly do. •

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