FAGS SIX
THE D? niTATTTTE EVENING OBSESVEK
Thursday, March" 5, 1925.
Radio Causing Social
Revolution in America
New Habits Make Home
Surroundings More
Attractive
(Kpfcial to the Observer)
"Itmllo In rapidly clinnBlnif our
llvis anil lmlills us a nutlon." ay
Horct W. HubHon, till! al in inl li' I un .
who 8(M'8 imirh nior than enlcr-taluinc-iu
or :vin cclurulion In the
il llonn of radio n-reivltm B'-Ih rat
tert'J throughout America.
"Tho Krtmt haalo Ijiw of Action
nil ItoaiMInn which govoriiH our no
r in I ami economic worlila ia seen
nncn inorti in I lie development of
radio liroadeaatinff and reeeptlon."
lie finVH. "Kini'i-son ealled it the
, Law of Compenaiilion. Nature ein-
:J)loyn II 10 keep tltlllKN In lialonee.
Aniei'iea haa nlwaya been u iiomo
iovlnj; nation hut wo may ay that
' ve liave been more Jiome-lovinK al
fnma thins Hum at others.
Habits Change Oflrll.
"The rninliiif of llw nnlnmoblle
rlianed our II vi m. Quick und n la
tlvely'easy IrnnMporlallon widened
. our liorlzmiH. We hail held prelly
Clinch wlliiln a radius of five mllcn:
tuiildi-nly our Individual world la
i MKind. d to a rnillu of fitly mllis.
our dally world has been Inereaa
Vd In nieiidouMly anil we chanKed
our habltH or life In take advan
1de of our broadened horizons.
Our Kiieial bnalni-HH and econoinie
.. lives have ulliloat had In be built
nil over acaln to n t these
San-Tonic
A real aid to nature in
building up the body.
For that lagging ap
petite, for that exhausted
and tired condition, you
can safely take San,
Tonic. Price $l.50.
L. & L. Drug Co.
changes. The small towns lost
trade to the cities because it be
came easy to drjvo iweniy-nve
miles to the store offering bettor
assortment and besides it was fun
to drive. To offw.it this In part tint
furmor Is now selling his vk
Uihles and fruit from the. roadside
stand without recourse to the or
dinary channels of distribution.
The oil. steel, and plate glass In
dustries have benefited directly,
while street railways, shoes, and
certain other Industries have suf
fered either from the fact that the
automobile competed with home
directly or chung'-d people's habltH
so they no longer bouKht so much
of certain products.
"The most revolutionary chnnge,
however, came In our habit of life.
IJiiHineHS conditions am changing
constantly, new Industries uro rnm-
iiiff In, old ones are fading out, the
rlls Involved In these changes are
a part, of the uncertainty thut every
htitdness man and every Inventor
must assume. Hut when some de
velopment comes along that threat
ens to change our whole American
life and the foundations upon which
It rests the mailer should not be
passed over without enreful xnm
Inalion, The automobile did Jiml
this Tor H look up out of our homes.
I do not arKue the relative advan
tage or disadvantage of the change
tint the whb-nltig of ottr horizons,
the Inereaslng of our Individual
worlds to several times their pre
vious size, naturally h-N the home
a smaller nnd h-nH important part
of our lives. The country club Iibh
come nnd the outdoor life lias mnde
us a healthier nation hut the home
nas shrunk to a sort of way Htatlon
where we stop momentarily to
change clothes and grab a bile to
eat between trips. Actually we
Kpr nd Ichh t han half thn time at
home lhat we used to, I am n-Ter-l
Ing to those (i w hours between
work and sleep when wn live with
our families wid friends where
wo recreate when we should en
Joy an evening's leisure surrounded
by tho beauty and comfort of our
own homes. Lately wo haven't had
much time for llils sort of thing:
too busy to stop and think. Much
activity with questionable progress.
Homo students Insist that the
American mind and the American
homo nre going to plenes in this
hectic ope. J 'crimps they are right.
1 do not know.
"It is certain (hat, as we have
come to spend less time in our
homes we have spent less time nnd
less money in developing them and
making them attractive. We spend
every year I7 per capita for gaso
line and only $U for furniture. At
th end or the year the gasoline
Is gone.
"As the situation has become
morn serious as cnnirestlon on
highways has begun to rob motor-1
Ing of Its fun nature seems to
have taken a hand In the matter.
Radio Is developed and as the auto
mobile took up away from our
homes the radio Is bringing us
back. Good music, education, th
world's greatest speakers, enter
tainment par excellence In Infinite
variety, awaiting your command In
the cabinet below the loud speaker,
are competing successfully with
the movies and the boulevurds. We
are beginning to stay home again
nnd i. few quiet evenings with good
music Is aHHurlng millions of Amer
icans that they hove been niiMHlng
something that is very much worth
while.
"Itadlo with Its magic Is working
a social , revolution. The home is
growing once more nnd us we value
it more highly and spend more
time and though on It the Ameri
can home promises to become an
even finer and more beautiful In
stitution than It has been In Hums
past when we have been proud -na
a home-loving nutlon."
GOLD DOLLARS
ARE FAVORED
Safety School Opened
For Mountain Climbers
VJKANA (Al') Jtean-d In n
country whose mountain ranges
rival and even sui-pass the peaks
of Switzerland, the youth of Aus
tria, both boys und girls, ace en
thiiHlastle mountain climbers. Hut
tills is often a dangerous pastime
and each year the Alps Uike heavy
toll of young and valuable lives.
To protect these venlifresuine
yonngHiej'H there huf been organ
ized a mountaln-elitiildng sehuol,
with raellitieH for 4'Mi students. Tin
ItiMniKliou Is to emtu-iee theoret
ical lectures and practical train
ing. The lectures will treat of
meteorology and weather predic
tion, and will furl her deal with
tho comparative value of various
textures for article of wear and
equipment for mountaineer tug.
Then first -n hi and transportation
up and down gradients lu ease of
accident, methods Y sheltering
from wind, avalanches, rain and
snow, and lastly nutrition and
physical endurance, will I ike wine
receive nttellllon.
J The practical training will equal
ly (UverHined. ji win tieinonsiraie
the best ways of conquering the
niany hindrances which place
themselves in the climbers' path,
methods and utility of roping and
the hnriicHHlng of rocks In rescue
work and ascending and descend
ing the sheer lace of precipices.
Lastly comes the correct handling
lof "picks, axes and alpenstocks. A
second course will deal with the
uses of skis and nuowshoes in Al
pine tours.
WALLA WAT-LA (fipechil) Ad
vocates of the Harding Memorial
at Tdeacham are now discussing
methods :id meuns of further ad
vancing the plans for the (tKiablish
aient of this memorial. fto?m- di
vision of opinion Inn resulted as to
whether dollars to be sold under
the plan of financing should be
j gold or silver.
Clark Wood of the Weston Lead
j er, who i has been an udvoeatu of
I the memorial since first suggested
f has endorsed the gold dollar phin.
He writes: .
flold is the traditional metal of
the west of the argonauts who
discovered It in the uuilVrous sands
of Culiforniu. There Is about it a
glamour, a romance and a fasci
nation that h:is never been inspir
ed by silver. Ami to this abstract
thought may be added the more
coucretn and material argument
that small gold colas will possess
far more attraction to souvenir
hunters than large silver ones.
They mav be worn as brooches.
etnblein buttons. ' stick pins, etil'l
llinhs or watrh eharms while the
.'.silver coin would merely , have
merit na u pocliet plec.
Inch-Sought roiiiullinic
Disposed or by Lottery
PAAT.OALA, Italy (Al1) A
bnby boy was i enlly the rnpllul
I prize In a lottery arranged bv the
mayor of tills city. The child was
found abandoned In the market
place and turned over to the may
or, Wilhtn nn hour eight chHdless
couples had Hough t to adopt t he
; Utile foundling.
j . The innyor had difficulty in
choosing siinong the would-be par
: enls. Ko he arranged Ut raffle
(tint boy off and allowed tickets io
j be sold only to persons who would
make desirable parents. The tick
ets brought a uood price and alt
the proceeds oi' t he lottery were
turned over to the winners of the
child to purehiise a layette.
Drainage Operations
Add Many Acres to
Holland's Territory
AMSTERDAM (AP) Queen
Wilhelminu will presently find her
domain enlarged by 160 acres. The
new territory has been unnexed
from the Hfta, being the first ac
tual gain of ground as a result of
the Zuyderzee druinuge operations
according to a report recently ht-
.nied here.
This gigantic undertaking, which
deals with un area of 14 no square
miles and an estimated expendi
ture of Uti,() ud.ooii, was inter
rupted by the war, but has since
been proceeding slowly at differ
ent points.
The difficulties encountered wero
great, but none of them was un
foreseen by the hydraulic experts
In charge. Time after time, the
report .says, dykes or embankments
erected lu the section of the island
of Wieringen, slipped away Into
tho sen owing to the Hhifting naturu
of the subsoil. With the ipilet
tenacity peculiar to the Dutch in
their everlasting fight against aea
encroachment, the dvke were re
built aguln and again until they
now stand six feet above high tide,
and ao firmly knit together with
clay. sand, willow twigs, ba&alt and
cement that the fiercest gules have
done them not the slightest harm,
the report says.
The tests have been very sevt-re
this winter. Itecently during a
fierce storm the quaint island of
Murkn escaped complete submerg
ence by only a couple of Inched,
while the town of Monnlckendum
on the mainland wiu flooded.
makers claim cam be stored in a ! comparatively confined space,
llTTouV 'it . ceruse, it, he-know. if.
ulurli r unil cull luku off from tt jijood. , ;
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Makers of Airplane 11 It vers
I'romlM to popularize Flying :
LONDON (Af) Another terror
will shortly be added to the quiet-!
loving old ladies In the distant '
suburbs and rural Knglund. This
is a baby airplane fitted with a
tin horsepower engine which t he '
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JtKKLIN (AP) Count Luekncr,
commander of the See Adter, the:
disguised German cruiser which
had such a sensational career as n
privateer In the Atlantic and Pa-'
clfic during the World war, has re
turned from a lecture tour in Swlt-J
zerlund and lu now planning to
make a voyage around the world in!
a filling ship.
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