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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1924 -AR E conomics S eries Msshsttn C ai ^m y, Mew York dtf reates t Family in the World” i .---------------------------------------------------------------- WEST SHIPS RECORD FREIGHT TONNAGE OVER S. P. LINES America’s Marvels Traffic Handled Without Con gestion By Increased Rail road Efficiency Tlie Chicago Drainage Canal ranka well to the fore among the great en gineering feats of modern times. The purpose of its construction was twofold. Primarily to purify Chicago’s supply of drinking water, which Is ob tained from Lake Michigan, by revers ing the flow of the Chicago river so that the sewage from the city, Instead of being dumped into the lake, would be carried off into the Des Plaines riv er which in turn empties into the Illi nois river. Ultimately, to provide a ship canal from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico. Commenced in September, 1892, and formally ojiened in January, 1900, this so-called caiflll is approximately forty miles In length, has a minimum depth of tweuty-two feet, varies in width from 100 to 300 feet at the top, and has a capacity of about 360,000 cubic feet of water per minute. Four major operations were In- volved In tills huge task. First, the Chicago river had to be both widened and deepened for more than five miles; next the digging of a canal for twenty eight miles; then the river had to be diverted from the old to the new chan nel and filially the building of a tail race and a new channel for seven miles. Grave fears were entertained by many that the cities past which this diverted sewage must flow and which obtained their supplies of drinking wa ter from tills stream would be visited by an epidemic of water-borne diseases, particularly typhoid. Again the ques tion as to whether the taking of suf ficient water from Lake Michigan to flush the canal would adversely affect the interests of the states and cities bordering on the lake, through the low ering of the surface of the water in the lake, and In turn Interfere with the navigable capacity of the rivers which flow Into the lake, was long and seriously discussed. But scientific examination and inves tigation failed to substantiate the threatened dangers from disease; the imagined damage to the navigation in terests of the Lake Michigan region failed to materialize. That Chicago has benefited Immeas urably from a sanitary standpoint there is not the question of a doubt, according to the reports of the health department. When the locks In the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers, which connect the canal with the Mississippi river are Increased In size and the fixed bridges which span the canal In the Chicago zone are transformed to swinging or lift bridges, it is expected that barges and light-draft river craft will move In large numbers from Chi cago, through this man-made channel, to New Orleans. Cars Loaded in 1923 Would Make Train 8,600 Mile» Long; Would Encircle United States ! ic’ d Perry termincd by fixed mathematical and economic laws. It follows that th* company must invest this reserve, at such a rate of interest as, added to the reserve itself and future prem iums, will produce the full amount of the insurance when it comes due. To take out of thi» fund by taxes, thousands of dollars a day above the cost3 of supervision is neither sound economics nor sound morals, how ever it may be judged from th« standpoint of politics. It is estimated that a tax of sev enty dollars is imposed for every thousand dollars’ worth of life in surance that is paid to beneficiaries. In the dignified language of th« father of political economy, John Stuart Mill, this is a “direct discour agement of prudence and fore thought.” Probably the real reason for this increasing burden of taxation placed by the various governments on the savings of forty millions of their citizens is to be found in ignorance on both sides. The representatives of the State apparently do not know that the life insurance companies be long to their policy-holders, and that the reserve funds of the companies are simply the savings of forty mil lion policy-holders, held together as a safe insurance for their families against the future. On the other hand, these millions of thrifty peo ple do not seem to know that un necessary taxation is a form of con fiscation of their property. Once they know the truth f'» v will rec to it that the evil is < I. I cle N ine THE THRIFTY outstanding fact about i is that it is made up n of our c i ens, who cooperation in saving t have built up a fund dollars for the pur- fiding protection for d their families when disabled by disease or feath. This is good morals and good cit- tnce must be super iate. This supervision The expense of this the government ought t by Life Insurance it- t of its legitimate ex- Beyond this all taxa- Insurance from the t of the policy-holder principle and practice, tis : first, it constitutes the thrifty for saving >nd second, it forms a ital which, in essence, unsound as for a man rtgage upon his farm the money for his liv- fundamental principles 1 is that when it threat- I confiscation, it defeats >se. The reserve fund ance company is the is set aside by the corn ili its obligation to its I ; this amount is de- (Next Article of S trite ii “What »TTPATTON Speaking From Experience. •t be avoided, or torpid Two inhabitants of a sage brush ir. biliousness, 1 ndlgestion town were seated on a cracker box I gassy pains result. exchanging desultory conversation. e, thoroughly clemrmg “You know them hot cakes what BERLAIN’S the feller flips in the window of the Forlorn Hope restaurantf” iBLETS “Yea, I know ’em.’’ joint or nauseate—25c “Ever try ’em!” “Yes, I’ve tried ’em.” t Didn’t Smell After “What do you think of ’em!” 1 for Three Month« The citizen thus appealed to gazed lead three months.” writes Mr. J. reflectively toward the foothills for saw this rat every day: put some . barrel. Months afterwards, my some moments and then rendered the barrel. There it was—dead.’J judgment. iree sizes for 35c. 05c. $1.25. “That feller’s a better juggler aod guaraatccd by than cook.’’—Pittsburgh Chronicle- EM'S FOB DBUG8. Dispatch. IGLEYS • Every Meal longest-lasting n you can buy s a help to di- and a cleanser for the mouth * and teeth. I I I j ’ Wrigley's means i benefit as well as i___ pleasure. ; | | I Followed Instructions. Bertie was a silly boy. In fact he was the silliest boy in school. One morning the teacher made him read a passage aloud. He began: ‘ ‘ The storm was upon w<. Our frail b-b-b—” ‘ ‘ Bark, ’ ’ prompted tho teacher. But Bertie merely gasped. “Bark,” repeated the teacher, | this time rather sharply. Bertie gasped again, but meeting i the stern eye of the teacher, he said j meekly, “Bowwow, bowwow!” leaking Him Happy. “What have you there!” asked I the proprietor of the fashionable mountain hostelry. “Another leter from that chumpl who has been writing for rates.” “Well, let’s see if we can’t make him happy. Offer him our best suite ■ for ten a week. ’ ’ “But—” “And add a postscript that the] hotel is closed. ’ ’ Uninteresting Item. A traveler who had stopped in ' Springfield, HL, was being piloted ' along the route by a loquacious but somewhat tiresome cab driver, who I insisted on regaling him with local | news of little interest to strangers.! ill Clows) T. 11. How She As they passed one house the jehu ' pointed the butt of his whip at it | d Chicken Losase and remarked: «KkHloi.n out baby rhirt, Wok “Lincoln’s home.” Rst-Seap befare. WithjwtoM “Is he, indeed!” returned the' killed reti. Tbey wrei t trh«. TH bet." Ret-Saóp U pre», traveler, bored, but still polite. lor 33c. tóc. »1.25. d Mdrmatwd by KEMS FOB DRUGS. Hold a regular position by having I an ad every week. PAGE THREE NATURAL AND OTHERWISE By T. T. Maxey CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL Western shippers loaded 1.050.90« cars of freight on Southern Pacific’s Pacific System lines in 1923. an In crease of almost 200,000 cars over the loading for 1922, which was 851,942 cars. The 1923 loading, according to J. H. Dyer, general manager of the com pany, was the heaviest in the history of the company. If all the freight cars loaded on the company’s Pacific System in 1923 were coupled up with the locomotives nec essary to move them and with a pro portionate number of cabooses, they would make a train 8,600 miles in length—long enough to extend around the United States from Portland, Ore gon, through Chicago, Buffalo, New York, Washington. New Orleans. Los Angeles, San Francisco and back to Portland, with about 400 miles of cara left over. The figures cited give some Idea of the prosperity and productiveness of the western states, for these cars were loaded in the states of Oregon, Cali fornia. Nevada. Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. The size of the imagin ary train also gives an idea of the enormous task performed by the Southern Pacific Company in handling this traffic, which was moved quickly i and efficiently, without congestion or general car shortage. Southern Pacific, as one of the leading railroad systems of the coun try, has had a consistently good rec ord in operating efficiency, extending over a period of years, but despite this fact, Southern Pacific’s 1923 per formance in heavy car loading, In obtaining a high dally mileage of freight cars, and in keeping locomo tives and cars in repair, w 3 uniform ly better than in previous years. Campaign Planned When it became apparent that 1923 would be a year of unusually heavy traffic, the railroads joined in a cam paign to speed up transportatiou. (©, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) They set definite high standards of operating efficiency as a goal for the Individual roads to reach. These stand- ards were: 30 tons of freight per car loaded; 30 miles per car per day; NATURAL AND OTHERWISE 85 per cent of locomotives in service able condition and not requiring heavy By T. T. Maxey repairs by October 1, the start of the season of heaviest traffic; and 95 per cent of freight cars in serviceable ZION NATIONAL PARK condition, by October 1. Zion National Park Is In the extreme Southern Pacific bettered these standards In every instance except in southwestern part of Utah. Zion Can the average carload, and its perform yon, its dominating feature, bisects ance In this respect was a remark the park from north to south. Tills ably good one and not to be measured canyon Is fifteen miles long, varies In by the goal set for all the railroads, width from 50 to 2,500 feet and its because of Southern Pacific's large walls range from SOO to 2,000 feet high. tonnage of light loading, perishable Crooked as a snake's trail, topped with products, a full car of which averages many splendid and enormous domes and peaks and aglow with color, this about fourteen tons The average tonnage per car loaded canyon is one of the striking scenic in 1923 was 27.5 tons which was an In spectacles of Western America. Zion is oft referred to as the “Rain crease of seven tenths of a ton over bow of the Desert’’—Its color scheme the excellent record made in 1922. being a mixture of grays and reds and The company made its freight care browns and yellows which shift Into en travel twelve miles farther each day than the goal set for the railroads as tirely new and unexpected combina a whole, getting an averse-» daily tions of varying degrees of Intensity as mileage per car of forty-two miles. the sunrise, sunshine and sunset come In one month, an average of 47.3 miles and go. This region was first known to white per car per day was obtained, The man when pioneered by Mormons who average for 1922 was 36.8 miles. were taking stock of their holdings in Equipment In Repair 1858. The Mormons colonised here and Southern Pacific, during 1923, aver Brigham Young, their leader and aged 88.5 pet- cent for the number of prophet, termed the place “Little Zion locomotivee In serviceable condition —a sacred place for his people where and not needing heavy repairs as com they might find protection If need be pared with a percentage of 86.5 in 1922. from the Indians who never entered In only one month did the company i Its sacred precincts." The Indians have less than 85 per cent of its loco called Zion Canyon Mu-kun-tu-weep motives in serviceable condition, the (Valleyof Many Waters).Zion was little goal set by the railroads as a whole known, however, because of Its Inac for October 1. In only three months cessibility, until Uncle Sam preserved did the company have less than 95 It for the enjoyment of bls people in per cent of freight cars in serviceable 1919 by proclaiming it a national park. condition, the national goal by Oc- The great walls of the templed tober 1. The average for the year peaks, extending from the high pla was 95 4 per cent as compared with teaus to the depths of the canyon, dis 93.65 per cent in 1922. play about 10.000 feet of sandstone Another improvement in perform strata which has been painted by the ance was in the gross locomotive brush of time In every shade of pink, load, which averaged 3 per cent better gray, brown and yellow, stripsd some in 1923 than in 1922. This means times with darker colors, covered that each locomotive was made to sometimes with a layer of white. haul a heavier load. Shadowed by green trees and Canopied While there was a shortage of ra by a deep blue sky, this scene pre frlgerator ears during the peak of the sents a color scheme of marvelous grape shipping season, it did not beauty. While visualizing such • startling approach In extent the shortage of 1922 and did not appear until a great panorama In a desert world, remember er tonnage of grapee had been ship that the walls of this canyon have ped up to that time than in any pre been fashioned by the erosions of cen turies Into an endless maze of huge vious year. forms—arches, domes, towers, spires, The same effort for increased effi etency is being made in 1924. accord alcoves and natural bridges of many ing to Southern raciflc officials, and styles and sizes and your mind will un Improvements and additions are be doubtedly reuch the conclusion that Zion is un out of the ordinary place. ing steadily made over the system one of the show places produced by More equipment. including aew loco nature in building the formation which motives and care st the guest design are ’reing received. and more are we know as Utah, Zion presents an un- uauul appeal. being ordered. America’s Marvels H What the World " I Neighborhood News Is Doing LONDON. | (Popular Mechanics Magazine.) I«,------------------------------------ —— Radio Brings College Study to Students at Home Actual college study by radio has been started in Oregon by the state university. Certificates are issued to those who listen to a series of twelve lectures. Questions regarding the course are answered by mail. While lectures by professors are a popular feature of the programs of most of the large broadcasting stations, this is said to be the earliest effort to give a real course by wireless. * • » Bass Viol so Large Player Stands on Pedestal Measuring 14 feet from tip to base, a bass viol has been made by a western man, who claims it is the largest in the world. In order to play it, the musician must stand on a pedestal five feet high. The same maker con structed another of the big fiddles which measured 10 feet. Formerly the largest known instrument of this kind, 11 feet 7 inches tall, was located in (Special to The Sentinel.) Feb. 11.—Mrs. J. E. Bunton, Mrs. George Bailes, Mrs. W. L. Town send, Mrs. Harold Aboeno and Mrs. George Sutherland spent Wednesday with Mrs. Howard Cox. The women spent the day quilting. Among those from here attending the taxpayers’ meeting in Eugene Wednesday were George Sutherland, Howard Cox, Mr. and Mrs. John Sutherland, W. T. Jones, Elmer Berggren and Carl Small. It was reported last week that the London school had been closed on account of measles, which was an error. There is not a case of measles in the district. About one third of tho pupils are out of school on account of whooping cough, which seems to be iu a mild form. An eight-pound son was born Feb ruary 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Now ton. Mrs. Newton is at the homo of her mother, Mrs. Matney, in Tho Dalles. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goer, of Black Butte, were in London Thurs day. Levi and Idsher Geer returned Friday to their home in Rainier, Wash. Miss Zolina Abeene is again as sisting Mrs. Lyons with her house work. Mrs. Lyons has not been well for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. John Small and Earth’s Is “Set” at Two or Three Billion Years After long investigation, scientists have announced that the earth has been in about its present state for two or three billion years. Geological measurements previously made were all lost in a maze of time before they Imd traced the history of the planets bi-vond 100.009.000 years. Ii.e pres ent discovery rests on the rate by which radio-active substances change form. Tlii.-e materials are not per manent, but in time turn into lead. New York. It required two players, one to stop the strings and the other to handle the bow. * * • {[When he found that some animal had bitten through one of the eggs undor a setting turkey hen, a south ern man patched the hole with rubber from an auto inner tube. A lively turkey was bom. • * • Exhaust Gas Cook Stove for the Tourist When equipped with a stove of the kind shown, tin- tourist does not have io worry about fuel for his stove, as his gasoline is also his fuel supply. The whole apparatus consists of pipe Airplane With Moving Wings to Rise From Housetop Intended for rising out of narrowly limited spaces or from the roofs of ordinary buildings, an airplane which has wings that resemble paddlewheels is being built by an inventor. These, with forward motion, will ca-ry the machine up, down, ahead, or back ward, according to the designer, who expects his craft to even stand still in midair without changing the direction of tihe wings' rotation. It gets its power from an airplane engine, which drives the propellers by means of chains. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Jones were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Shortridge. Cecil L. Roberts, of Disston, preached at the Church of Christ Sunday moruing. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roberta were guests at the home of Mrs. Roberts' parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Pruett. Winona, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Abeene, is quite ill with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Rose spent the week end with Mrs. Rose’s sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Haskell, at Cedar creek. HEBRON. (Special to The Sentinel.) Fob. 11.—Several local members attended a business meeting of the farmers’ union iu Eugene Satur day. Mrs. G. M. Kebelbeck and chil dren sent the week end at Walter- ville with Mrs. Kebelbeck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ream. The C. C. Gilliam children and Earl Murry have the whooping cough. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Kappauf and children were Sunday guests at the L. D. Huff homo. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Clark and children went to Voueta Sunday to see Mr. Clark’s brother, who is quite ill. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Kebelbeck and children motored to Eugene Sun day. MOUNT VIEW. Fob. 11.— Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cooley and daughter Elizabeth vis ited with the Miller family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Spaugh and daugh ter, of Eugene, visited with the Sears family over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley went to Eu gene Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Heath and son Willintu visited at the Sears home Sunday. Tho J. A. Schneider family visited at Lorane Sunday. Mrs. Amanda Sears has been quite sick but is improving. Addison Heath attended the high school entertainment Friday eve ning. Mrs. Kato Sears visited at the Amanda Soars home several days this week. SAGINAW. (Special to The Sentinel.) Feb. 12.—A. 8. Colo returned to his work ut Mareóla Tuesday, lifter spending tho week nt his home hero helping to cure for their chil dren, who had nil been ill with measles. Mrs. C. C. Moody spent several days of last week at the homo of her son Kelly in Eugene. O. C. Powell, of Portland, was in this vicinity Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Powell resided hero sovoral years ago. Little l.loyd Counts, of Latham, is visiting at tho Lowell Benston homo this week. Mrs. Mary Queoner and son Hu bert uro visiting nt Star with the Torn Quoener family. Extrawd’nary! “Fawthor, I cawn’t eat this soup.” “Waiter, bring the young gentle man another soup.” “Fawthor, I cawn’t eat this soup.” “Waiter, bring tho young gontle- man some other soup.” “Fawthor, still I cawn’t oat this soup. ’ ’ “Well, why, my” son, cawn’t. you cat it!” “Fawther, I have no spoon.” and fittings iirrn'iged so that it ran be connected to tin exhaust pipe of an automobile. The stove is made ci - vend short lengths of pipe connected together by return elbows to form n I. it pl \ cutout valve is inserted :i the ei1 u. i pipe at the poin' shown i that the stove can readily be ut- 'nclied and detached. It. is, of course, •w.... try to provide a thick sheet of < ;b. s'-•« between tin hot plate and he floorboards to prevent burning the hitter. Win n the plate is not in use Hold a regular position by having It is rernovi d. an nd evory week. Making an Inexpensive Crystal Receiver HE KE is a wide field for a simple inexpensive crystal detector, T and both among beginners and “old- N0.I6 FIXTURE WIRE) 50 TURNS N0.E« S.C.C WIRE timers.” The beginner does not usual ly want to invest much money in a set, until he thoroughly understands the principles involved, and a crystal re ceiver is ideal for him; the more ad vanced radio enthusiast, also, can use a crystal set to advantage as a standby for the not infrequent occasions when his large set “goes on strike”—usually when a particularly interesting concert or lecture is “on the air.” The crystal receiver described in this article is easy to build, is always ready to use, will give excellent reeults up to a distance of 20 miles, and costs only about 65 cents to build. The coil, which is of the spider-web type, it wound on a form consisting of a slotted fiber disk, He in. thick, and 5 in. in diameter. There are 13 “»pokes” in the form, and, if fiber is unobtain able, heavy cardboard may be used instead. Fifty turns of No. 26 single cotton-covered wire are wound on the form, the wire being led through a ■mall hole drilled near the center of the disk and then wound on the form from the center out. over and under alternate spokes. The turns should lie counted every time the starting point is passed, and, when the winding is completed, the end of the wire is passed through another small hole and drilled in the end of one of the spokes. The coil is screwed to a small block of wood, 1 in. square and % in. high, which, in tum, is tacked or glued to a H by 8 by 11-in. baseboard. A bolt may be used if a hole is drilled in the ■mall block and base, and the bolt passed through both. A strip of wood, Q in. thick and Q in. wide is then cut to a length of 6 in. and the ends rounded Two small holes are drilled in this strip to take No. 18 insulated fixture wire, and a hole drilled for a •crew or bolt. The strip is mounted on , a block of wood 1 in. high, and screwed ■ or bolted to th‘ l»a»- so that the arm i can move freely. The binding posts detector, ami 00925-mf condenser are . then screwed to the baseboard, the i in X4 GROUND BINDING a POST X <Z SUDINO CONTACT AIRML I WOOD BLOCK’ * J AERIAL I- BINDING POST ¿’ fiber DISK X STARTING POINT ^¿0025MF. FIXED ¡ -^ condenser PHONES '. crystau DETECTOR fcOftO'JND AERIAL POST - posT-e’..— 1 -«-A'* * f ! ikS ' I I CRYSTAL ’ ARM f0"-,' — ' •, __ r.l / DETECTOR CONDENSER — v ; ! ____ J PHONES -rt--------- ' .... EDGE VIEW DC TAIL OF BASE. J’ condetwr lx-mg screwed to the under side, between the phone posts. A length of No. 18 fixture wire with one end bared and doubled over as in dicated in the detail, is threaded through the holes in tho contact arm, and the other end eonnectcd to the aerial binding post. Tho arm is then moved so as to mark the path of the double end of the wire over the coil, and the insulation is carefully Kra{«d off each tum along this path. This is lent done with a small piece of emery cloth, doubled and used on s<ige. Care must be taken that no two turns kiuab at the bared spots, and the doubled end of the bared contact, wire must bo cleaned, and adjusted to make good contact with the coil turus. The starting end of the coil is now connected to tho ground binding post, and the other end to the crystal aids of the detector. The ’ cat-whisker" ci the detector is connected to one of tbs the phone posts, the other phone post connected to the aerial post, and tbs condenser connected across the phons |sistH. ail this wiring being done undsr the bimeboar<l, as indicated in tbs drawing. A strip of wood, % by % by 8 im, glued to each side of the base co*. pletes the instrument. Connect a good pair of phones Io the phone poets, solder or clamp a lead from the ground post to a water pipe, and connect up the aerial lead, »nd the instrument is ready for use U an overhead aerial cannot be used, for any reason, the reader can still get gixsl results by laying three oo-nplets turns of ordinary lie 11 wire around the picture molding of the room, leaving one end “open.” and conm-ctmg ths other and to the aerial lead.