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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1919)
GAS FOR RETURN TRIP OF THE DIRIGIBLE R-34 T'lis is one of :il)oiii 20 piles of hydrogen gas ••bottles" on Itooaevelt Held, Mineota, refill the gas bog of the IJrltlsh dirigible R-34 for the return trip to England. AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICERS DECORATED BY Poison Root, the Wheat of Barbados, Is Turned Into a Wholesome, Nourishing Flour The cassora root, or manioc, la tha wheat of Barbados. Before tt comes to be eaten. It suffers a strange con version; for, being an absolute poison when It Is gathered, the natives sub mit tt to a process by which It Is trans-substantlated Into wholesorafe and nourishing flour. The outside of the root Is washed clean and It Is then held against a wheel, turned around with the foot, the broad sur face of which Is made rough like u large grate. The grated root falls down In a large trough, appointed as receiver for the purpose. The thus obtained powder, or pulp. Is a rank poison, but It Is now put Into a strong piece of canvas and pressed hard until all Juice Is squeezed out. This dried poultice Is then spread upon a cloth to be yet more dried In the sun, until it Is ready for use. The dough, or “pone,” as the na tives call It, Is then put In a kind of pan standing on three legs, and about six Inches high. This pan ls^ about which are to be used to 20 Inches In diameter and slightly hollowed In the middle. It Is hnlf an Inch thick at the edge, but thicker to ward the middle. When the pan Is getting hot, the dough Is spread out FRANCE on It and the natives keep pushing it down with their hands. This Is to make It stick together, It being nearly dry. They then turn It round and round with a kind of battledore until It Is done. The cakes thus produced are about as thick as pancakes. $ THE CELESTIAL ARMY £ $ j K I sto o d by th e o p en c a s e m e n t A n d looked u p o n th e n ig h t. A n d sa w th e w e s t-w a rd g o in g s t a r s P a s s slo w ly o u t o f s ig h t. S low ly th e b r ig h t p ro cessio n W e n t dow n th e g le a m in g a rc h . A n d m y so u l d isc e rn e d th e m u sic O f th e ir lo n g tr iu m p h a l m a rc h . T ill th e g r e a t c e le s tia l a rm y , 8 tr e tc h ln g f a r b ey o n d th e poles, B e cam e th e e te r n a l sy m b o l Of th e m ig h ty m a r c h o f souls. O n w ard , fo re v e r o n w a rd , R ed M a rs led d o w n h is c la n ; A n d th e m oon, lik e a m a ile d m a id e n . W a s rid in g In th e v a n . Am. rlcuu nuv.. officers on the U. S. S. Pennsylvania receiving the Legion of Honor decoration lrom Captain De Salnt-Slene. attache of the French embassy nt Washington. He Is pinning the ribbon on Rear Admiral Henry Mayo. EXPERT LADY RIDERS OF ENGLAND CORNELL HONORS FOUNDER A n d so m e w ere b r ig h t in b e a u ty , A n d som e w e re f a in t a n d sm a ll. B u t th e s e m ig h t be in th e ir g r e a t T h e n o b le s t o f th e m a ll. height D o w n w ard , fo re v e r d o w n w a rd . B eh in d E a r t h ’s d u s k y sh o re T h e y p a s se d Into th e u n k n o w n n ig h t. T h e y p a s se d a n d w e re no m o re. N o m o re! Oh, s a y n o t so! A nd d o w n w a rd Is n o t ju s t; F o r th e s ig h t Is w e a k a n d th e se n se Is dim T h a t lo o k s th r o u g h h e a te d d u st. T h e s t a r s a n d th e m a ile d m oon. T h o u g h th e y seem to fa ll a n d die. S till sw eep w ith th e ir e m b a ttle d lin e s A n e n d le ss re a c h o f sk y . A n d th o u g h th e h ills o f D e a th M ay h id e th e b r ig h t a r ra y , T h e m a rs h a le d b ro th e rh o o d o f SOUlS S till k e e p s Its u p w a rd w ay. U p w a rd , fo re v e r u p w a rd , I se e th e ir m a rc h su b lim e. A r.d h e a r th e g lo rio u s m u sic O f th e c o n q u e ro rs o f T im e. A n d lo n g le t m e rem e m b e r, T h a t t h e p a le s t, f a in te s t one M ay to th e d iv in e r v isio n be A b r ig h t a n d b la z in g sun. —T h o m a s B u c h a n a n R e a d . Sustained Nervous Energy Always Demands an Outlet Stntue of Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell university, unveiled during the semicentennial exercises. Herman A. McNeil of New York was the sculptor. His Fatal Error. photograph shot s some of the expert lady riders of Lieutenant “Poor old feller!” sympathetically Rltilngton's school at Parkgate, Chester, England. During the war Lieutenant Rlnlngton broke In horses for the government and he now trains hunters und said the landlord of the Petunia tav ern, as a funeral procession trailed by. polo ponies. “He was our last lingering horse doc tor. For years he went around haul lng open horses’ mouths and wagging his head as If he hnd discovered some MOUNTED POLICE BUSY IN WINNIPEG thing absolutely unheard of In the an nals of horse history. Probably he didn’t really know much nbout horses, but he loved to associate with them After he had outlived his usefulness and almost outlived horses he would go poking around among the nutos and muttering. And day before yester day, when he found one standing alone and unhitched, he went In front of It and tried to open Its mouth, or I something; anyhow, It gave a snort and ran over him, and fetched his checkered career to on end. Well, I Doc was a pretty good sort of a feller, ' and he didn't owe me but $8 thnt I remember of."—Kansas City Star. M ils Beet and Cane Sugar Cropa. Beet and cane sugar combine to make nearly an average production of sugar In this country for the season beginning In 19UL A little over a j million short tons, or 1,007,050. Is the total of the two crops, according to | estimates, subject to revision, made by the bureau of crop estimates. The I average of the preceding live years Is ! 1.031,603 tons, or somewhat greater j than the production of 1918. The cane-sugar crop of 1918, how- | ever. Is estimated to be 206.950 tons, or considerably above the average of the preceding live years, 248.400 tons, Members of the Northwest mounted police dispersing a riotous crowd dur while the beet-sugar crop of T40100 ing the great »trike In Winnipeg. Ono man In the mob was killed and several tons Is below the five-year avernge of wounded. 783,108 tons. ^ * It has been discovered that cases of people who have been exposed to the fear of being torpedoed nre suf fering from symptoms suggestive of shell shock. Doctor Clunet, In a com munication to the Neurological society of Paris, has described the mentnl effects observed when on board a ship which was torpedoed. After the first excitement following the attack It was observed that several passengers dis charged guns Into the air or Into the sen. In other words, the sustained nervous energy found relief In letting loose the Immense energy concentrated In explosives. Similarly, It was w p II known at the front that a long day of waiting In the trenches was productive of more cases of shell shock than a day of active engagement with the en emy. Next there were a few cases of suicide among the passengers. These passengers were on the whole calm enough, even on the life rafts. It was only when they were on the rescuing ship that psychoneurnl phenomena be gan to develop. Including mutism, spas modic weeping, laughter, tremors, spas modic movements of the limbs, etc. Where to View at a Glance Scotland’s River System If there be one place north of the Tweed where, at a single glance, one may view and comprehend the chief river system of Scotland, Stirling Is that place. From this point one notes the main streams, the affluents, and the gathering of the waters which make the Clyde, the Forth and the Tay. He can then realize how great and Important In the political and eco nomic history of Scotland has been that great central valley, which stretches from the North sea to the waters of the Atlantic ocean. The Rubber Tree. The rubber tree was discovered by a Jesuit missionary. Father Mancelde Esperanca. on a Journey among the Cambelas Indians of South America, n e named It scrlnguetra, because he remarked that the savages used the sap of this tree, which hardens quickly, to make rude bottles shaped like a sy ringe. 1 ,2 0 0 ,0 0 0 Cases of White Plague in U. S. Tubérculo« is die C um of 150,000 Deaths Annually, According to Alarmed by the loss of man power caused by tuberculosis during the war, Uncle Sam is polishing up the M. D., which is among the many letters that follow his name, and preparing to take a leading part in the national program for the prevention of the disease. Final tabulation of the draft reject slips, recently completed, reveals: Sixtv-two thousand men were rejected when called for service in the na tional army because medical examination showed they had tuberculosis. Another 20,000 men were discharged at army camps for the same rea son. Six thousand, still in service, are now being cared for in the army’s special tuberculosis hospitals. As these figures show, the government, at a time of a great national emergency, was robbed of the services of approximately enough men for five army divisions by the ravages of this one disease. But this is not all, for, although progress has been made in the control of the disease during the last ten years, it still is the cause of 150,000 deaths annually in this country, and as scientific investigation has shown, for every death from the disease there are eight active cases. This indicates that at the present time there are in the United States at least 1,200,000 active cases of the white plague. At the annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis association in Atlantic City a short time ago public health authorities outlined a co-ordi nate national plan of battle against the disease. One result of this, it is expected, will be the creation of a division of tuberculosis in the United States public health service. Already, as the government’s first step in protecting the nation’s health during the reconstruction era, the United States public health serv ice has been authorized to provide free hospital care for soldiers and sailors suffering from tuberculosis, honorably discharged on or after Oct. 6, 1917. These patients will be treated in government sanitariums. The even graver problem of caring for the 62,000 sufferers who were turned back into civil life by the draft boards has been assumed by the Na tional Tuberculosis association in co-operation with the surgeon general’s office, through 1,500 societies which are affiliated with the national associa tion, and some 600 sanitariums and 500 dispensaries are already available for the work. The situation is so serious, however, that the national program calls for hospital and sanitarium provision in every state in the Union that will provide, as a minimum, at least two beds for every annual death, as well as dispensary and clinic care so that every man, woman and child in the state who has tuberculosis, or thinks he has it, or who may have been exposed to it in any way, can secure free advice and treatment or treatment at moder ate expense. Famous Fielder, Ty Cobb, Static Disturbances Might Says He Will Quit Great Be Far-Off Brotherly Hands American Game in 1920 Knocking at Our Very Door In Bunyan’s “Pilgrim's Progress” there is a man who ran with his fingers In his ears, shouting nt the top of his voice, thnt he might not hear. In developing the possibilities of ter restrial communication It Is of con summate Importance that we shall find a way to put our fingers In our ears and shut out the extraneous noises of the “statics,” Buckner Speed writes In Harper’s. It Is a cheap fancy and unprofitable science to muse about “high and far off things” before we are ready for them. We go on doing the thing next to us, doing It well, conquering the obstacles that it Is profitable to con quer, and we do well In doing so; but little by little In doing so we are un questionably reaching and feeling our way toward the ability on our own part to be cognizant of voices em anating from spheres other thnn our own ; and If there nre beings of like or greater Intelligence than ours else where, we shall In time certainly be In communication with them. It may he even now that some of these static disturbances which we try so hard to shut out are far-off brotherly hands knocking at the door that we now hold fast closed. Ty Cobb announced his retirement from baseball not during this present year but at the end of the 1920 season. “I won’t be a has-been, so I am go ing to retire In two more years,” said Cobb In a printed Interview. “I’d rather step out with cheers than Jeers, step out before I am forced out. Some Curious Experiments With Both Flame and Air “One of the many curious experi ments made with the purpose of secur ing long-range and reducing air re sistance resulted in a “flaming shell,” writes J. H. Van Deventer in Every body’s. “The forepart of the shell con tains a mixture of phosphorus and cop per oxld, which Is Ignited as the shell leaves the gun; not, strange to say, for the purpose of setting fire to the ene my’s works or trains, hut simply to increase the range. Experiments have shown Increased rnnges of almost 20 per cent for these flaming shells. The explanation seems to be thnt the gases given off coat the shell with a sort of frictionless gas film. Wind-tunnel ex periments show that air resistance Is cut down almost 75 per cent by these gas films.” and It’s about time for someone to fill my shoes anyway. At the end of the 1920 season I will celebrate my fifteenth full season as a major leaguer. “That’s long enough for anyone. The game has been kind to me. It gave me an opening to fix myself for the remainder of my life financially, and I won’t forget the pitchers who fanned me with three on, nor the fans who cheered this stunt. “I feel my ankles stiffening and the arm going back a yard or two on the throws. A fellow can’t last forever, and I don’t Intend to stick around as long as Hans Wagner, Cy Young and some of the other boys.” SHORT AND SNAPPY United States Mints Break Records in Making Pennies Never Judge a woman’s thoughts by what she says. Instead of trying to kill two birds with one stone use a shot gun. No man need hope to reach heaven hy walking over his neighbors. Almost anybody would rather have a steady Job than steady work. A man thinks that his neigh bor has no right to hold wrong views. It doesn’t require a genius to make trouble or create a dis turbance. Ty Cobb. United States mints established a new record for monthly output In June by turning out 98,161,000 pieces of money. Director Ray T. Baker an nounced. Of the total coins, 91.364.- 000 were pennies, which was 13,000,000 greater than the previous record made In December, 1917. The remainder consisted of 6,427.000 nickels and 370,- 000 dimes. Fue Oil in Colombia. Fuel oil of a good grade and suffi cient quantity to supply the river steamers of that country has been found In Colombia.
