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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1920)
BARONESS BEGS U. S. CITIZENSHIP *--------------------------------------- Former Miss de Haven. Wife of Baron von Aten, Seeks Special Act. fund of her grandmother, Mrs. Louise Bigelow, wus $15,000 a yeur. and this amount wus paid by the Northern Trust company of Chicago until the alien property custodian took charge of the funds. "About February, 1010, riots and rev- broke out In Budapest,” Mrs. CASTS OFF HER CHILDREN | i nlution de Haven told the committee. "On the W ill Recognize Them O n ly W hen T hey Q u it G erm an y— In D a n ge r of Be com in g D estitu te— $15,000 a Y ear Involved. day of the outbreak an Immense mob was resisted by the police near the ho tel where I was. A fter the conflict some 30 dead and many wounded lay In the street near my hotel. The dead were brought into the corridor of the hotel and then the mob came In and seized everything In the dining room that could be eaten or drunk. The dis turbance lasted all night. “ In this situation I decided to accept a German passport. I did not go my self to the German authorities to ask for It, but I sent a friend who obtained It for me. Arrangements were made for a train to take the German refu gees hnck to Germany. Germans went on toward Germany. I gut off In the railroad yard. All 1 had with me (¿as two small handbags. I had nothing to eat or drink on the train." Because they sided with Germany In the war Mrs. de Haven said she broke off relations with her children. She added la her declaration that she would recognize them only when they came to this country and became citi zens. “ It Is certain,” she continued, "that unless relief by special act of congress In restoring me to citizenship Is speed ily ufforded I shall l>e penniless aud tn dire want before 1 can regain my cltl- zenshlp through the operation of the suit for divorce, o f the borrowed mon ey, $4,000, 1 brought with me to this country, only about $3 t)00 Is now left.” Representative Isaac Siegel ques tioned Mrs. de Haven regarding her use of a passport as a German subject when traveling out o f Austria. The use of a German passport, she said, was against all her Instincts, but there was no other way for tier to get out of Budapest. She used such a passport, she said, on the advice of Colonel Yates. “ My only wish Is to become an Amer ican, to live over here, and. If possible, to have money to live on. I am not well enough to go to work. That Is all I wish. I do not care whether I get my German money or not. All I wish Is to become an American, a good American.” New York.—Congress, through the passage of n special act, will shortly be asked to reslore to citizenship the Bar oness Augusta Louise de Uaven-Alten, the forntei -Miss de Haven of New York, who In 1883 married the Baron Eberhard von Alton, a German officer. Caught In Budapest when the revolu tion broke out In February of last year, the bnroness, who Is now known as Mrs. Louise de Haven, was forced Borrow ed From Dressm aker. to flee to Vienna as a German refugee, “ The train took 24 hours to reach a and after many vicissitudes reaclred Switzerland practically destitute. On point on the outskirts o f Vienna. The money borrowed from a professor in Geneva, a childhood friend, she reached New York several weeks ago. The question of the restoration of Mrs. de Haven to citizenship was taken up by the house committee on immigration and naturalization and she recently appeared before the com mittee and told tier life story. Under German law her personal property has passed Into the custody of her hus band and her Interests in a trust fund created Aiy her grandmother- who was tiie widow o f Admiral Abraham Bige low, U. S. N „ was seized by the enemy alien property custodian. Her attor ney, W alter Bruce Howe of Washing ton, told the committee that Mrs. de Haven was “ inevitably and rapidly ap proaching destitution.” When very young Mrs. de Haven went with her father to live in Swit zerland and was brought up near Gene- j va. On her nineteenth birthday she married Baron von Alten and went to | live In Germany. She had two (laugh , ters, who are now mnrrled and living in that country. “ My mnrrled life was not happy," Mrs. de Haven told the committee. In 1010 she entered into a formal separa tion agreement with her husband. In 1011, she said, she left Germany and has never seen her husband since. Robert 1’. Williams of Watertown, N. Y „ with his family arriving tn New H e r F un ds H ere Seized. York from Europe, after a lapse of six years, more than five being spent In Tw o years later she again brought an enforced stay at Wiesbaden, Germany. Mr. Williams and his family were suit. This time she charged her hus touring Europe when the war began, and though armed with proper cre band with misconduct. The war sus dentials were not permitted to leave Wiesbaden, the German commander pended all proceedings, for the law suspecting Mr. Williams of being a spy. During the war they were forced would not allow litigation against an to subsist on German government rations, and It was not until last month that they received permission to start for the United States. Mr. Williams officer on active duty. Mrs. de Ilaven’^ Interest In the trust Is the son of Termer Supreme Court Justice Pardon C. Williams. HELD FIVE YEARS IN GERMANY TEMPERATURE IS NEGLIGIBLE _________ F lo w e rin g and F ru itin g Period of P r a c tic a lly A n y P la n t C an Be Controlled by Le n gth e n in g D a y by A rti ficial Light. Washington, D. C.— Government ag ricultural experts have discovered that plant life seems to depend on light, rather than temperature, for nourish ment and may be controlled by regu lating the hours of light and darkness. The principle Is revolutionary; hut it rests on actual experiments, in which It was demonstrated that plants sub jected to alternate periods of light and darkness in enrefully determined pro portions could be brought to maturity at any time of the >ear. "Greenhouse experiments," says an announcement by the department of agriculture, "prove that the flowering and fruiting'period of practically any plant can he made to take place at any time of year by darkening the green house I d the morning and evening, if Man With “Ingrowing Grouch” Is Divorced Los Angeles.— A man with an “ Ingrowing £ inch"— so he dub bed himself— was divorced by Judge Crnil. L. E. Ilnss, statis tician employed by the state de partment of labor, is the man. Helen nnss, who wns represent ed by Attorney Or...th Jones, secured n divorce on the ground of cruelty. Ross had brought the suit, hut failed to appear In court He charged his w ife with cruelty and among hi« grievances was that his wife kept too many cats. Her main grievance against hinj was disclosed In a batch of let ters from a woman who signed herself “ Your Baby." View of the Thomas Morse mull plane which recently accomplished a feat long the dream of aviation pioneers, when with a useful weight almost equal to Its own, It gracefully left the snow and slush at Ithaca, N. Y. The craft Is a biplane evolved and produced by the Thomas Morse Aircraft corporation. Its weight empty Is 2,81)0 pounds. Its weight loaded Is 5,500 pounds. Thus Its useful load is 2,610 pounds, or only 280 pounds less than the weight of the cruft. Many planes carry less than half their weight. Owes Big Debt to Chemistry # ---------_ _ _ _ _ _ -------------- Much of Industrial Wealth Can Be Traced to Effort of Some Scientist. MOST FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE H a s to D o W ith Food W e Eat, W ate r W e D rin k , C lo th in g W e Near, and in V a ry in g Degree W ith E ve ry A rticle in Com m erce. By W . L E E L E W IS . (H e ad of the D ep artm e nt of C h e m is try, N orthw estern U n iv e rsity and the D iscoverer of "L e w isite ,” the M ost D e a d ly G a s E ve r Produced by Man.) “ Render unto Caesar tbe things tlmt are Caesar’s. . . Beneath a simple grave in Northum berland, Pa., lies the dust o f a hum ble English clergyman. ■ He was driven from his native land by re ligious Intolerance, and sought aud found in Americn Intellectual freedom. This man, Priestly, never earned over £30 a year, yet he discovered oxygen and laid the foundation o f modern chemistry. The great steel Industries o f our country, the vast rubber business, the tremendous packing Interests would deem it a rare privilege were this man living, to contribute to Ills comfort, and give him the scientific tools that would glndden his heart, and to ac knowledge their Immeasurable debt to hltn. But for the man. Priestly, they can only lay a wreath on his Inst rest that plants kept In the dark for a part ing place. Much of the grent Industrial wealth of the day underwent In midsummer the changes that in nature come in the of this country can be traced to the fall and that, heretofore, ‘.lave been at effort o f some obscure chemist, some tributed to lower temperatures. This zealous devotee to pure science, who wns true even when the dark houses thought little o f self and who never registered a higher temperature than shared In the fruits o f his researches. the outside atmosphere. F u n dam e ntal Science. “ The length o f the day.” the depart From the standpoint o f material re ment’s nnnouneement said, “ Is proved the day Is too long, or by lengthening sources chemistry Is the most funda the day by artificial light if the day Is to be the most potent factor in deter mental science. It has to do with the mining the relntive •proportions be too short. tween the vegetative and fruiting parts air we breathe, the water we drink, F lo w e rs T h a t Bloom in Spring. of many crop plants. Indeed, fruiting the food we eat, the clothing we wear "Spring flowers and spring crops and. In varying degree, with every ar happen to he spring flowers and spring tuny he completely suppressed by a ticle that enters Into commerce. Chem day too long or too short. This new crops because the days at the season istry Is the science o f the composition o f their flowering and fruiting have principle undoubtedly explains the er of matter, and matter Is that upon the proper dumber o f hours o f dnv- ratic behavior which has been observed which energy, human and otherwise, with many crops when they are shifted i llght." is expended. The science embraces The discovery may be of the highest to different latitudes.” the star dust o f outermost space, the importance In the future planning of swirling volcanoes of sun gnses, and cropping systems for different regions. W OMAN'S STOMACH JUNK PILE the hncterla thnt nibble our food. Eventually it may be found, accord Consider the value of a single dis ing to -W. W. Garner and II. A. Allard, O p e ra tin g S u rge o n s F in d 1,200 Pieces covery In abstract chemistry’. Klreh- scientists In the bureau of plant Indus of M etal In side of In san e off, over a hundred years ago, dis try, who conducted exhaustive experi Patient. covered that starch could he con ments, that the animal organism also verted Into sugar h.v dilute acids. Is capable o f responding to the stimu Baltimore.—-An Inmate of the Spring- The United States alone Is richer lus o f certain day lengths. They be field State Hospital for Insane, at Bal by $40,000,000 a year because o f that lieve that the migration of birds may timore, swallowed 1.230 metallic arti discovery. Perkin discovered mauve be an illustration, on the ground that cles and is still alive, according to Dr. In the coal tar dyes. Its value was direct response to such a stimulus J. Clement Clark, superintendent. would be more In line with modern When the woman refused to eat, fol blologlcnl teachings than theories lowing her admission to the hospital, a which nssume that birds “ go south” hard mass was felt In her stomach. as a matter of Instinct. She was operated upon at a hospital Experiments were conducted with a and surgeons found 1,280 pins. 45 large variety of plants. It wns shown safety pins, 138 hairpins, 30 pieces of conclusively that too little “ sleep.” or, wire, 0 buttons, an Iron hook, a nail, a In other words too many hours of day- | paper clamp and a garter buckle. light, would prevent many plants front even reaching the flowering and fruit ing stage. Peeeping Frogs Sing It was found also that plants would not reproduce except when exposed to j in Nepaug Swamps 5 n favorable length of day. nllhnueh too ! much daylight for flowering ami fruit- ¡| Winstead. Conn. — Peeping | ! Ing might stimulate profuse vegetative !| frogs were hear! in the cowslip { ] growth. A length o f day favorable ; swamps at the base of Yellow * both to reproduction and growth re ; Mountain In Nepaug. £ sults In the “ ever-hearing" type of ¡1 “ Tw o more hard freezes and « fruits. they'll he out for good," sold i By employing dark chambers the scl Deneon Riley Munsted of Ne- 5 entlsts shortened or lengthened the > paug. life cycle of plants and forced some of ' John Scanlon of New Hart- } ! them to complete two cycles In one son- , ford, rural mah carrier, while $ j son. Violets, which naturally bloom ; traversing his route ovei Lake S j only during the comparatively short j Wonksunkmonk hills this win- > days o f spring, when covered with | ; ter scattered grain for a flock of 2 j light-proof boxes for a time were made I ;; partridges, with the result th„t ! to bloom again during the summer j ; the game birds now a ' ’alt his 2 Biloxi soy beans exposed to the light ; arrival and follow his rig for n 2 I for only five hours a day flowered near 1 1 considerable distance. 2 j ly three months earlier than plants left : One of the partridges fagged j in the light all day. but attained only i Scanlon a distance o f a half j about one-eighth o f the height. mile, he snld. 2 PLANT LIFE IS RULED BY LIGHT U. S. Experts, After Experiments, Advance Principle That Is Revolutionary. CARRIES WEIGHT ALMOST EQUAL TO ITS OWN Indexed by an Immediate Investment of $750,000,000. The mercerizing o f cotton has add ed to the delight and wealth of the world. Recent improvements In the incandescent Inmp has meant a saving of $30,000,000 a yenf in the cost of lighting. Yon may reach for a match as you rend this. I f so, remember It’s chemical history, and pause to con sider Its place In modern elvlllzntlon. Fou nd atio n of M a n y Industries. Chemistry is the soul o f the pack ing Industry where by-products such as digestive ferments, sonp, glycerine, fertilizers, etc., have become ns Im portant ns main products. Chemis try Is the foundation o f the rubber In dustry, giving cheaper and better processes o f purifying, vulcanizing, and recovering. Sleel Is not n native product but Is a chemically modified product. It Is stated that the Res-, seiner steel process adds $20,000,000 to the world’s wealth annually. Chem istry has given us the Davy Inmp, the mine gas Indicator, the gas mask and the standardized explosive. Chemis try has given us most o f our phnrma- ceutlcnls, and chemo-thernpy Is just in its Infancy. Ehrlich made over !)00 arsenical compounds before he struck upon those particular combinations known ns “ sansnlvnrsan" and “ neo- snlvnrsnn." Chemistry has given us photography, moving-picture films, Il luminating gas, fire extinguishers, ar tificial gasoline, metallurgical proc esses, water-softening nnd purifying agents, synthetic fertilizers, Insecti cides, paints, explosives, glnss, paper, the gas mantle, the storage battery, the arc light nnd has stabilized many an Industry by working up Into useful products every trace o f raw material. Chemistry has standardized food products and multiplied the sources of supply. It has attacked nnd par tially solved the population problem o f sewerage and waste disposal, nnd wa ter supply. S a lv in g B ig Problem . There are 33,800 pressing down upon earth's surface, nnd starving for fixed tons o f nitrogen every acre o f the yet our fields are nitrogen, and iu times o f wnr our present source of supply of nitrate for explosives Is, to say the least, precarious. Chemistry is today solving the prob lem o f fixed nitrogen. To further elaborate chemistry’s contribution to human life would be to write a technical history of Indus trial development. The other great contributing factors have been the or ganizing ability of business men nnd the technical skill of the engineers. To improve American chemistry, to apply It more nnd more ns nn effi ciency measure In American Industry, Is better national protection than pro tective tariffs, bnttleships or coast de fenses. The highest chemical effi ciency will make us invincible In com merce and In war. As population increases nnd con servation becomes a matter o f vital itiiportanee, It follows thnt chemistry must nssume a more nnd more signifi cant place In the well-being o f man kind. Chemistry belongs peculiarly to the age o f Intensive utilization of a country’s resources. Tlie cream-skim ming period has passed; this Is the age o f by-products. Still M u ch to Be Done. There Is a danger thnt grent Indus trial organizations who owe their very existence to the science of chemistry, in the fullness of their, present pros perity may forget their debt to the past nnd their obligation to the future. There Is still much to bo done In the Improvement of old processes nnd the discovery of new. T o handicap the chemical laboratories of our educa tional Institutions, whence cotnes the strenm of technically trained men, nnd the unselfish contributions o f pure science, Is effectual to kill the erst while goose thnt laid the golden egg. The universities cannot carry the burden without the aid of enlightened Industrialism. They cannot raise the price o f their product to meet the ever- Increasing cost o f laboratories, scien tific equipment, high-grade Instruction nnd pure research. No thinking tnan can fall to recognize that the ranks o f the teaching profession, present nnd prospective, are becoming seriously de pleted through the Inability o f our ed ucational Institutions to bear unaided the problem of ever-increasing costs. It Is short-sighted policy fo r big business to attract from the universi ties our best chemists, to pick before they nre ripe our young men In course of training, or by a lack of sympathet ic support to Jeopardize the future out put o f scientific research. L ocks W h isk e y in a Safe * ------------ - --------------------,----- P ro fe sso r K n o w s F rie n d s A re Honest, but Is n ’t T a k in g A n y Chances. In a liberal supply before constitu tional prohibition went into effect. I’ rof. Allyn Is working overtime try ing to keep pace with the demand for Westfield, M ass— Twenty quarts of annlysls o f home-made beverages. bottled-in-bond whisky, owned by One small bottle o f home-made Prof. Lewis B. Allyn, Hie noted pure wine, which the owner nssured hint food expert, tins been kept In Ids safe possessed n real kick, proved to be 28 since Jan. 10. per cent alcohol, or from tv’o to three "1 know my friends are honest,” times the alcoholic content o f wines lie says, “ but I am taking no chances.” form erly offered for sale. Ethyl alco The whisky Is required from time hol may have been added to the con to time In the professor’s research coction, Prof. All.vn thinks. At any and experimental work, and be laid rate, it Is the moRt remarkable of tbe hundreds of “ harmless home-made drinks” he has yet analyzed. MODERN CLIFF DWELLERS IN FRANCE j T e m p e ra tu re ’s Effect Slight. Temperature appeared to exert no Influence In the tests. A striking II- I Each dny nearly 250.000 people use lustration of the relative unimportance I the Charing Crosa Station of the Lon o f temperature was given in the fact 1 don underground railway. BIG ST E E L PAY BUYING HOMES W o rk e rs A re N o t W a s tin g H ig h W ag e s, R e c o rd s in P ittsb u rgh D is trict Show . Pittsburgh.— Highly paid steel work ers and coal miners In Pittsburgh nnd Allegheny county nre not spending nil their money but are using a consider able part o f It to buy homes, nrcnrdtng to John I). Graham, recorder o f deeds, whose report for 1913 has Just been made public. During the year the number o f deeds and mortgages filed was 60.437, ns com pared with 31,305 in 1015. For the first quarter o f this yonr the number was 16,385, ns compared with 7.980 In the first quarter o f *015. The majority o f the properties are small houses. Aged M a n W r it e s C ards. Elizabeth, Ky.— Charles Friend of Glendale, who Is eighty years old nnd never would be taken to be over sev enty, was In town the other day. He still writes visiting enrds for the young people nnd so steady his hand and so perfect Ills eyes that they al Unfortunate persons of France whose houses liuve been destroyed through most loo» like they were engraved. the ravages o f war have hit upon a novel Idea evolved by man centuries ago. Whenever he takes a notion that he CHIT dwellings neatly arranged on the side of mountains are serving many In wants to go to Hodgenvllle he walks these trying days. This photograph shows one of the many cliff dwelling« there nnd bark, a distanco o f teu miles each way. seen at Dieppe, France.