The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 April 1932 — Page 7

Banana Tops U. S. Fruit Import

Fifty-Five Million Stem# Delivered in 1931. Washington.—“lf the bnnanas imported into the United States Jn 1931 were evenly distributed, every man. woman and child would have received several dozen, for more than stems of bananas were delivered at our ports." says a bulletin from the •National Geographic society. "While the banana Is one of the most popular fruits in the fruit bowjs of the United States. It Is an alien. Banana plants demand a hot climate with' plent£ of rainfall. That is whv former Central American Jungles have become/the, - world’s most prolific banana-plantations. Central American republics.supply more than half of our bananas; Jtiinaiea, about one fourth, and most of .the others come from southern Mexico, Cuba and Colotjnbla. •‘The banana started its journey •round the Tropics of the world from India am) the Malay peninsula. When it reached the West Indies and Central; America Is as debatable a^ ’the origin of the American Indian. It; was • stranger in the United States until the latter part of the last century. In 1870, a schooner captain, returning to Suit ■■■ '*■' . ■ ■ . BL ' i K. fit X. BL wTI ■BBS Sjjggr IKWBIi I 11 A double-breasted check suit with revers facet! In white and almost hidden by rhe huge boutonniere in ret! •nd «hltft. ’

“Share-a-Meal” Works Well in New York

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The emergency unemployment relief committee in New York recently promulgated the “»hare-a meal" drive, designed to provide meals for the city’s unemployed, the result being that a central depot had to be established :to receive the food contributed, reassemble It in unit packages, am! carry It to the needy families. More than 2,500 stores tn New York enlisted in the campaign, and now 13.500 mealia day are furnished. Here Is a view in the central depot with workmen busy sorting the individual packages. 25 pounds to each needy family. . '

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Mountain of Gold Free 1 for Asking, None Asks Colorado Springs.—Nearly $4,500.(MM) worth of gold Iles within the city limits, of Colorado Springs and owners of the Golden Cycle mill and resi dents of the city are anxious to And some one who will take this great fortune away. Unguarded, this vast mountain of gold, about four city blocks long, two blocks wide and 100 feet high In places, has accumulated in the past 25 yean at the rata of $150,000 per year. On windy days, lawns and carpets are covered with gold dust and folks have to dust the powdery metal off their clothes. But It would cost whoever attempts to get thia gold about twico as mu.-h as the metal Is worth. The mill dumps about 300.<M» tons of earth and gold dust yearly, and now there is a staggering total of more than 7,000,000

poston from Jamaica, brought a stem of bananas as a curiosity. Fifteen years later a company was organized to appease the growing American appetite for bananas. “Today hundreds of ships, armies of men—skilled and unskilled—miles of railroads, thousands of freight and fiat cars, mules, horses and oxen, many square miles of modern warehouses and. many millions of dollars are employed annually to handle the banana traffic. The banaria has turned vast acres of tropical jungles Into food producing regions, anti built modern, sanitary villages with hospitals and schools In . former fever-infected regions. Grow From “Eyes." “The farmer of the United States who purchases acreage for a farm or plantation clears the land before planting. Not so with the banana plantation owner. I- He clears away Weeds ami vines, and plants bits of roots of healthv. J j>rodueing banana plants among native trees. Each bit of root plained must have an 'eye', really a bud, from which a young banana plant sprouts. Later the native trees are relief! and many of them are left to protect the young plants from the hot tropical sun. \ “By the twelfth month, a banana plant 'begins to Produce fruit. The plant, though it grows from IS to 40. feet high. IS an herb, not a tree. Its ‘trunk’ is a compact mass of leaves, the new leaves growing inside the old. . _ f -f —

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Weather strips -fitted to doors and windows will keep out the H'ld findm.ike’/our hoiSo i on> oerab'yi w armor. To make <-:>k.-s light and feathery add a teiispoonful| of glycerin for each pound of flour in Infixing. ' A delicious saltid can be made by stuffing pooled. c tilled tomatoes with crab or shrimp salad. A Tittle Hot milk added a little at a time while mashing potatoes will m-ake them light and fluffy. Heat, but do Tint boil, the rji»ilk ; • • • ■ To stotie or *|eed raisins without having them sth k to the fingers soak them in hot Water for tWa minutes, then plunge them in << bl water and drain. ii • Adding hot milk instead of cold to (finished potatoes J makes them lighter. Mash well, add Wit, butter and. hot milk last. Beat for a' minute with a spoon. , •

tons In the "gold hill." The gold content is about 50 cents pier ton. Vast Tracts Set Apart as Gorilla Sanctuaries The gorilla, alone among animals, has a country. A 100-square-mile area In the heart of Africa constitutes Gorilla land—essentially a gorilla nation under a Belgian protectorate. Within this country. from which outsiders are excluded rigidly unless they are on scientific expeditions which meet the approval of the Belgian government, the great apes, who generally are recognized as man's closest relatives on earth, are free to manage their own affairs and are given probably greater protection than is accorded any aboriginal tribe. They are Immune from hunters and collectors. This la one of the two places on earth where the gorilla still is found.

A huge blossom thrusts Itself out of the top of the ‘trunk’ after several months’' growth. The blossom develops rapidly, becomes topheavy ® and slowly droops, over the side of the •trunk.’ Shortly the bracts or blossom leaves fall and for the first time bananas are visible—clusters of tiny green fingers that stick straight out from th. stem. “Each stem of bananas delivered at the ports of the United States represents a plant. Therefore, it took more than sft.fMM>.iMM» plants to supply banana consumers of the United States last year. The old plant succumbs to the blade of plantation workmen but. meanwhile. several sprouts are shooting from ‘eyes’ In the old tree roots. “At every stage of their journey to the fruit howl. bananas are carefully handled to avoid bruising. Tempera-

Invents New Diving Bell

Expected to Reach Depth of 3,000 Meters. Berlin. Germany.—The announcement of the American explorer, William Beetie. that he expected to reach a depth of I.soo meters with a new diving bell has brought to light the work of a young German engineer, who claims to have perfected a diving apparatus capable of reaching a depth of 3.000 meters and of propel-

WITHIN THE | J DOOR J t —~ I ’• By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK A Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois. A v A

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faces on Kegent I street and is set down among buildings almost American in their pre I tentiousness. There is no front entrance to the store, however. One goes In from a side street where there Is more privacy and quiet. It is rather an English trait, this teirdency to veil" the

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front entrance. Within the doorway a most elegant lady is in waiting, gray-haired. alert, beautifully gowned, smiling, and gra clous as a princess if princesses are really gracious as they should be. Her business Is to find out yours and to make suggestions or give directions and so t<> conserve your time. She doe* this more as’ a friendly hostess than ns a cold, haughty and. mechanical floor walker would do. She puts one Into a pleasant receptive frame of mind at once, w iiieh I am sure is eon dueive to trade. In the little shops with which the. great store Is filled there is the same sort of friendly greeting as one steps within the door that other shrewd. business rfien might . I should feel that 'if I visited London without going to Liberty's 1 had some way slighted an old friend, I always want to go hack to see if the gracious ladv Is «tid standing .to itficeive rite within the door. —jJHrw.nit reliant who wants to on j>dtragc trade should place'Something attractive Just within the door. Whatever business one is going to transact, social or financial, one always likes to find a friendly hand or , a cheerful office hoy within the door. The reception committee at church at a so'lai function can put one into a very pleasant frame of mind. There was a tmie when Nancy and I went to parties given by young people that we were, met nt the door and greeted as if our coming gave some one pleasure. It is seldom so today. One finds his way about as he can. There is no gracious host or hostess within the door. <©.l»S2. Western Newspaper t'aton.)

The other area is a mountainous stretch of the British Cameroon region of West Africa. Here, although there is no special administrative provision for gorillas, the animals are protected by the most stringent laws and it Is doubtful whether the British government would allow the killing or capture of one of them under any circumstances. There are only two or three thousand gorillas, at the most, in the world. Gorilla land has a population of only about 1.000. In the past the great apes, who breed very slowly, have been slaughtered ruthlessly. Few have been brought Into captivity. It would be Impossible to capture an adult, and the capture of an Infant usually has been possible only by the slaughter of the whole family. Father. mother and children stick together when danger threatens. Modern majesty consists tn work.

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tures tfiwhlch raey are subjected also are as carefully watched as the temperature of an infant’s milk. Too slow or too rapid ripening may mean the Toss of whole cargoes of fruit. “When the Plantation manager Is advised, perhaps by radio, that a fruit ship is due to arrive at his port and a certain number of stems are expected from his plantation, he dispatches workAien to bring in the required quantity. It takes an expert to select the stems of proper grade for shipment. . “To clip a stem of bananas from its lofty perch might mean destruction of the bananas and much loss of time, so the cutters, equipped with long poles topped with snarp knives, partially cut the plant just below the fruit so that the plant top and stem droop toward the ground. Then a ‘backer 4 or banana carrier steps under the stem: it is clipped by another workman, and carried to a mule, horse, ox, tram or whatever transport is available to.start the fruit on the long haul to the ship’s hold.’’

ling itself electrically along the sea floor, fastening lines mechanically to submerged wreckage and greatly simplifying diving operations as they have been practiced to date. Hans Philipps of Koeln-Muelheim has worked for five years on a small egg shaped diving bell with a rudder and propeller and with an electrically manipulated beak something like that of a bird, and he claims that -his Invention can dive to greater depths than any yet in use find Clin withstand greater pressure. 1 Philipps’ bell is devised with double shell, forming an air chamber which contains liquid air. This can be heated electrically to expand and form any desired pressure from the inside to withstand the pressure of the water as the bell is lowered deeir er Into the sea. The apparatus receives its ; energy from a mother-ship, which also furnishes telephonic connection and the

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Cotton Flags Float Over Capitol 'of Mississippi Jackson. Miss. —Cotton flags are now flying from the Mississippi capltoi building here. Walker Woods, secretary Os state, ordered the. flags recently wnen the regular state flag and the United States banner became worn. “It’s a new use for cotton." he said. “Maybe the government will ofder its next set for the army and j navy out of the same material." When la Boxing Day? In England that is the name given to the day after Christmas. Boxes are placed in churches for casual offerings on Christmas day and the boxes, known as Christmas boxes, are opened on the day after Christmas and the contents distributed in the form of “tips" to those who render small services without pay.

Indoor Net Champ \i X i i Gregory Mangin of New York is the 1932 United States indoor tennis champion. having worn the tiU&by defeating Francis X. Shields in the tournament in New York. '

air supply. Inside the diving hell are two separated compartments, one containing motors, and the other for the operator, containing the oxygen supply -measuring instruments, telephone and control. The control, however, becomes automatic- in case of any disturbance, signaling to the mother ship above and at the same time cutting off the stream of liquid air from above and. releasing ballast water so that the device immediately begins to rise. The diver himself is protected through special oxygen supply, and he can manipulate the device along the ocean s floor at the rate of three to four kilometers an hour. Special glass fowis the eyes of the apptn’atus. and* a pincer-like claw can be operated electrically in front for fastening on to sunken wreckage. The inventor hopes to be able to put his find to profitable use not only in search of many sunken “treasure ships?’ but also mentions the possibility of using it in laying and servicing the long-dreametl transatlantic telephone cable. He has already patented his Germany and several foreign countries. Good Advice Dean Inge’s f advice to gifls cannot be bettered: “Have nothing to say to a man who is not liked and trusted by other men.”—Exchange.

1,500 U. S. Firm* Have Branches in Germany Leipzig. Germany.—Fifteen hundred American. Arms at present maintain branches in Germany, and 79 American factories are engaged in turning out marketable products from American raw and half finished material, according to a recent survey. A large proportion of the trade with Germany Is carried on through the Leipzig fair. Generous Organ William Jennings Bryan used to re late with gusto the compliment paid to him after his lecture to the students of a Christian college in Tokyo “Mr. Bryan.” said the student. “It la the utmost pleasure to bear you talk. Your mouth encircles the globe and when you have broken your lip many , people are cheerful.”—Boston Traf script. r- 5

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“BIGNESS” PART OF EVERY AMERICAN “Cult” Began With the Birth of the Nation. The old-fashioned American “cult jf bigness" is the latest subject to attract the attention of the histOr rians. scientists and scholars. Sherwood Anderson thinks that a “tremendous .advance" would occur in American civilization ‘‘if pq»ple tried to be little instead »f big." he says in the Woman’s Home Cofnpanion. “This notion that anyone in America can be President, that anyone can be a millionaire and that all men are created free and equal, has done more damage than good. ’ I would rather he loved a bit in my small home town than be Tamed the world over.” Arguing on other side, an equally eminent authority is quoted as saying: "One would suppose that this doctrine--of- Mr. Anderson’s would be popular, as most of us. perforce remain through all our lives little people and known to-but a few nearby. But Mr. • Anderson speaks in vain, for what he speaks against is qb mere notion; it is a doctrine. Tne cult of bigness is planted deep in American soil. Our pioneers sailed here over -a vast sea and plunged

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TRUTH ABOUT POEM ‘‘BEAUTIFUL SNOW” The story that the familiar poem ••Beautiful Snow” was written by a .young woman- w:ho committed suicide in Cincinnati is a romantic yarn that has tagged after a poem for years. It is entirely untrue. Burton E. Ste.enson. in “Famous Single Poems," is one writer who explains the source of the story. During the.Civ war an unidentified young woniah died in the Commercial hospital in Cincinnati, and among her effects was found a manuscript of this poem. It was sent to Enos B. Reed, editor of the National Union, who printed it and credited Its authorship to the dead girl. But it developed when the verses began to be copied among the newspapers that the lines had originally appeared In Harper s Weekly of November 27, 1858. some years before the death of the unknown girl.

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into forests so wide and dense that as James Truslow Adams has said, ’a squirrel might have leaped from bough to bough for a thousand miles and never seen the ground.’ Their sons ferried , over broad rivers, crossed mighty plains and scaled mountain ranges that seemed impassable. They and their sons In turn found inJthe plains an-incred-ible fertility, ip the mountains inexhaustible resources of ores." Exaggeration, it is pointed out, was*dinned‘intp them, bv Mother Nature herself. “Even the with its swift changes and Its far extremes, inspired-them to calculate the incalculable:" What wonder that their progeny believe that nothing is too big to tackle and. to prove it, devise the most powerful machines and erect the loftiest structures that the world has known. Bigness has become such a blind fetish that a circus bawler can lure people into his sideshows to gaze upon ’the largest midget in the world.’ ’’ Mr. Anderson himself unconsciously reveals by an adjective his own Americanism when he says that through trying to be little Americans would make a ’Tremendous" advance. A Seer ' “He sees all- —knows afl !’* "Oh, then, he’s some new-fangled psychologist?” "Nope—just a window washer."

The poem was published originally unsigned. It was written by John Whitaker Watson, who was born in New York in 1824, graduated at Cblumbia university and studied medicine, but entered journalism and developed into a writer of sentimental vpfse and sensational seridls. None of his other poems ever achieved the notice of this one. and because of the attention it attracted, he used its name as the title of a book of verse whih he published in 1869.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Greens We H*ve Met Secretary of Very Inferior Golf Club—Well, what -did you think of the course? Visitor—Oh, perfectly amazing! By the way. what is your local rule when a ball is lost on the green?— Humorist. The bank towel is a sort of financial crash.