The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current, August 13, 1925, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextCOTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. 1925 PAGE TWO gottagr ftwvr -^rntind made in a diaeuiHUOn of a biolof* ieal subject, but as a leading newspaper of the twentieth cen Bede & Smith . .................. Publishers tury it should keep its scientific Editor knowledge abreast of the seventh Elbert Bede.......... . ........ A first-class publication entered at century. We do not need to go outside Cottage Grove as second-class matter of the editor’s family to prove that scorpions are insects. The SUBSCRIPTION RATES fact that they are both animals and insects has been known to the By mail (Cash io advance) One year.. ..... $2.75 I Three months.. .80 Bedes since the beginning of the hs. 1.50 ¡One month........ 50 eighth century, 1125 years ago. At Hix month».. BY CARRRIBR that time the Venerable Bede, emi month One ________________ __ ........... $ .30 nent scientist and theologian, find- Four months, in advance ( ing it difficult to explain satisfac Six months, in advance.. One year, in advance....... torily to his flock some of the things 1 that appear in the Bible, used the Member of theory of St. Augustine and St. National Editorial Association Oregon State Editorial Assiciation Basil to account for the ability of Oregon Newspaper Conference Noah (a noted man of the time when there were reptiles) to pro THE SCORPION FULLY vide room in th«* ark for so many IDENTIFIED. animals and sufficient food for the peri oil of th«* flood. In a recent editorial The Orego- The eirlier Bede explained that niaii, in having some fun with the the food problem amounted to editor of Thu Mentincd, made the nothing—the cost of high living statement that the scorpion is not being a modern problem—as God an insert. could have thrown all the animals That the scorpion is an insect into a deep sleep during which was held by scientists and theolo they would require no food. He gians more than a thousand years lessened the strain on faith by ago, according to Andrew D. diminishing the number of animals White, one time ambassador to taken into the urk, as 44 many of Germany nnd first president of the insects .sprung from carrion i’ornell university. In his 4‘History later,” including of course the of the Warfare of Science with scorpion from the crab, Theology,” volume 1, page 5157, All of the Bedes from the Verier Dr. Whte says: able up to 1925 have been aware 4 4 Nt. Isidore of Seville, in the of these facts. seventh century, incorporated the The editor of The Sentinel St. Augustine theory that insects no claim to being a direct di were developed out of carrion after ant of the Venerable Bed< who the first six days of original urea lived a life of celibacy. lion into his encyclopedic work that gave mnlerials for thought in San -Franeisco a man for so many generations. He made * com this doctrine familiar to the then e had logical world by citing examples Judg- of ‘secondary creation’ of insects ty of this penalty, from carrion as follows: ‘Bees are s way generated from decaying veal, f they beetles from horseflesh, grasshop ir eyeM pern from mules md scorpions from likely crabs.’ usually with “Nothing new was made by God after the first six days of creation, absolutely new, but it was in some ruins sense included in the work of the I they six days. Even now species, if any appear, have existed before in certain native properties, just as animals are produced from putre faction. ’ ’ 'I’he Sentinel does not attempt to classify the kind of carrion or putrefaction from which some of the so-called great dailies of today have developed. We do not in elude The Oregonian in this cate gory. We have usually found it reliable nnd it greatly pains us to have to correct an error it has ' Mondays and Thursdays GIRLS! BUY THESE NOW Specially Priced for Ten Days or While They Last CLIPPERS, reg. price $2.50 BARBER SHEARS, reg. price $1.00 Curlex Electric Curler, Now Both for $1J« reg, price $1.50, now $1.19 (Guaranteed One Year) Each is guaranteed by a reliable guarantee and must give you sei vice Will save you dollars per year in the care ot your hair and will enable you to care for it at any time. KEM’S for DRUGS X J. KEM TAr R EXXL.L Store «ÎÂSKin* Pictures n- Society The noblest and most Imposing tree In the Hawaiian islands Is the banyan. These trees do not produce seeds. Propagation is dependent upon one of the tiniest of insects, the fig wasp. The trees introduced Into Hawaii, from Australia, China and India, are not propagated In the territory of Hawaii In that man ner, and the tiny insects necessary to the production of mature fruit and seeds are not present there. The fig wasp goes Into the tigs for selfish purposes only. She Is hunt ing for a place to rear her babies, and the only place that suits her are the female flowers Inside the flg. She puts an egg In each flower which she selects, and In doing so, crawling about, pollinates the other female (lowers with grains of pollen which were adhering to her body from the older fig where she herself Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Griggs en had grown to maturity. The figs tertained Tuesday evening in honor do not mature without the agency of ther guests, Mr. and Mrs. of the tig wasps, and the latter can Charles Me Kernan, of Seattle. not develop or exist without the Those present were Mr. and Mrs. presence of the figs In the proper condition for them. Numerous kinds Martin Foster and son Harold, Roy of figs and banyan trees are native Foster and Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey In many tropical countries, each Bloffer, of Lorane, and the George having Its own kind of minute in Kappauf family, . ..... ,y, of Hebron. 1 Re sects called fig wasps to assist In fresh inents were served. seed production. —— Mrs. O. G. Biggs entertained a Here’s Another Idea number of friends nt a social eve- of Ancestry of Man ning Monday, the occasion being Most men believe that mankind Mr. Biggs’ thirty second birthday an n i versa ry. Refreshments, which Is descended from one “Adam" or a included a huge birthday cake bear single prehuman stock. Dr. Fran ing 32 lighted randies, wore served. cis Graham, writing In the Forum, as a result of his studies of a type of Imbecility called Mongolism, Mrs. Heinen way hud as < dinner concludes that mankind 1s of three guests yesterday Turner Wrfllace fold origin. ami daughter, Mrs. Laura Pope, of According to this scheme, three Stockton, Calif., who arc visiting great branches once diverged from a common stem. From one branch relatives herc^ and Mrs. Willinin Wallace and son Winters, of Crus- sprang the orangs and Mongolian and Australo-Caucaslan man. From well. another the gorillas and the ne groes. From the third the chimpan zees, and probably the Mesopota Continent Believed mian races. Now, although schemes of this to Lie Under Ocean sort have been bitterly attacked, Docs the Atlantic ocean roll over they do at any rate “explain” not a lost coni Inent? Le I’iongeon, only the occurrence of the Mongol who deciphered the hieroglyphics In our midst, but the characters among the ruins of Yucatan, in and Incidence of certain forms of Central America, came upon in Imbecility other than that we call scription« describing a catastrophe Mongolism. If this hypothesis be which submerged the old Atlantean comes established we shall have to continent, legends of which have admit that the population of Europe survived In literature from the earli Is a blend. In different proportions, est times. of the black, the white and the yel It may he that this cutastrophe low, nnd we shall find no difficulty gave rise to the equally widespread In understanding many facts In belief In the flood which destroyed anatomy and In medicine that have the early inlmbHunts of our planet. hitherto baffled us. Certain it Is that the American con tinent, nithough called the New Born for Job World, Is geologically the oldest Senator Goopbue* slx-inonth-old land on the globe, and the monu ments found In the Jungles of Yuca Ron started howling at six o’clock tan were ancient when the pyra In the morning. _At 10 p. m. he was going strong. At midnight the mids of Egypt were built. The catastrophe Is supposed to storm subsided temporarily, but as have taken place about 94)00 B. (X, the senator and Mrs. Goophus tip anil at that time there was a highly toed out of the ruyserv, th« howling organized civilization In Yucataq. broke.forth wlthrenewed vigor. It , which would seem to be a remnant continued more or less vigorously of the lost continent. It Is not a until six o’clock the following morn very large country, yet, in spite of ing. when Goophus, Jr., fell asleep. I and haggard, the sena the great difficulty of exploration, tor Blear-eyed turned to his» wife, “Marla.” he the ruins of 172 cities have been discovered. Some of these are so said proudly, “our son’s future Is extensive that they must have con assured. He la going to be a United tained half a million inhabitants, States senator. He has Just con ami It Is possible that the pyramids ducted his first filibuster. most suc found In the Jungle gave the pat cessfully.” tern at a much later date to the pharaohs of Egypt. Height of Mountains The height of mountain» 1» cal culated by the use of Instruments Easy to Foretell »nd trigonometry. If the Instru Change in Weather ment» are accurate and there 1» no It is not always easy to tell what error In the figure» the exnet height the weather Is going to l>e, but a of » peak above sea level can be as fcv. signs are very reliable. When certained without ever climbing the It Is raining you will sometimes no mountain, if afterwards » figure tice that the sky starts to clear In proves to he erroneous ft Is the the form of an arch. Close to the fault of the Instruments or the cal horizon you can see the little half culation. not the method. Mathe- circle which Is the beginning of the nintiebins do not give round num arch that will sweep across the sky bers when they are dealing with Practically until there are no clouds left. Then measurable distances. you may be certain It Is not going these exact figures are often ridic ulous. to rain again for some time. Look nt the clouds at almost any Gunpowder’s invention time of day, and If these get small er or remnln about the same size, The origin of gunpowder Is In rain Is not likely. Should the volved In considerable uncertainty, clouds get bigger, expect showers but It la believed that the mixture soon. and Its characteristic properties In tine weather the wind Increases have long been known, even before up to midday and then gradually Its use to propel s projectlie from dies down. If the wind does not some form of artillery. There Is get less after noon, ¿nd still mor* evidence that the recipe for making If It blows harder town rd mnset. gunpowder was In the hands of you may he always sure bad weath some of the alchemists of the Thlr- er Is coming. tenth century, and, on the strength of passages In the works of Roger Bacon, he 1» often spoken of as Its Inventor, The discovery of gun- powder la alao assigned to Berthold Schwartz, hv whom It was men- tinned In IBM □------------------------------------------- —□ Mrs. J. F. Saf ley and Mrs. Mamie Gidney entertained 26 rela- tives at dinner Monday evening in honor of their mother, Mr». L. P. P.i-ll-.. who makes her home with them, the occasion being Mrs. Beals’ eighty-fifth birthday anni- versary. Relatives present from outside points were O. T. Beals and Mrs. Laura Trenholni, of Cor vallis; Mrs. P. R. Crowley, Portland; Mrs. W. P. Walton, New York, and T. S. Beals, Seattle; all accom panied by members of their fami lies, and Mrs. Leitn Fait*, Days Creek. Mr. and Mrs. T. (’. Shaw ou W on t Have This Opportunity Again KOD fK /7.\/s///s(;—r//.irs()i k Hl S/NKSS—SOT .1 S/DE l/.VE— BRING US YOl K Ell MS. ' i i I I i I Bu'1 Dog Fri: Spokane, Wash.-—A dog-—and bull dog at that—fainted dead away on the operating table hero vesterdnv, I):. Bernard Johnson, a veterinarian, sail today. The pup had beqp strapped Io the table and :l muscle r'.-'ju-ted, he sail. “As 1 was gathering up my tools it proceeded to fall into a perfect faint. No sick person ever went out more quickie.’’ 'i’he dog was revived by dashing a bucket uf water in its face. Wo usually criticize others for doing exactly what we would do in their places. • Professor—Can any person in this class tell me what steel wool is? Pie Bate—Sure. Steel shearings from hydraulic ARCADE Theatre WEEKLY PROGRAM Thursday, August 13 William Desmond in “STRAIGHT THROUGH Comedy and International News. I A new C-T-C Cord free if it fails to outrun any other make ^TATURALLY motorists are talking about such a remarkable offer — and we’ve put on a lot of new C-T-C Cords since it was announced! Saturday. August 15 Buck Jones in a blazing story of the cowboy trails There are no strings to this offer —. it costs nothing extra. So certain are the makers of C-T-C Cords, that their hand- built construction gives added mileage, that they authorize us to issue a num bered certificate. You simply put a C-T-C on the wheel or wheels opposite any other make of tire. THE DESERT OUTLAW " a picture with a thousand throbs and thrills. And a comedy. Sun.-Mon., August 16-17 Richard Barthelmess in “CLASSMATES.” West Point!—big in every way, in drama, romance, in thrill and action. See it and have your life-long dream of West Point come true. And a comedy. Come in and see us about it today 1 Billie Hall’s Service Station Our Building Material Line Includes— Wednesday, August 19 Evelyn Brent in “ALIAS MARY FLYNN.’’ A little stick of dramatic dynamite in her greatest melodrama of the underworld! And a comedy. Thursday, August 20 Jack Hoxie in his greatest outdoor photoplav ■■■■■■ • • • • Bookkeeping Systems Complete I "RIDIN’ THUNDER with the galloping ranch riders. Comedy and International News. Loose leaf systems and special loose leaf forms of ev,ry kind made to order to suit customer. \\ e welcome the oppor tunity to help you work out a system. Cottage Grove Sentinel No Charge on City Deliveries Godard & Randall Just North of S. P. Station—Phone 100 FULL LINE OF Federal a Pennsylvania TIRES AT REASONABLE PRICES Better doll the car up with a set of new tires for that vacation trip. Prest-o-Lite and Columbia batteries I packed in rubber boxes. Unreasonable! That’s Better CEMENT, LIME, PLASTER, BRICK, FIRE BRICK, FIRE CLAY, METAL LATH, CORNER BEADS, SHIN- GLES, DRAIN TILE, SEWER TILE, CONCRETE SAND AND GRAVEL, PLASTERING SAND, ZOURI STORE FRONT FITTINGS, AND OTHER THINGS TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION. Use 3% of your gross receipts for advertising tnd increase the volume of your business 10%. Doris Atkinson, little daughter of (he Cahuengs l'ass Demon. »Idled to her mother ths other day and said: “Virginia told me babies came from heaven. Is that the troth F "Well. ■mid Blanche, smiling. "that Is what I always was told" "Then If» all right." declared r>orts. • What'» all right, dearF "I can zee why baby cries all the time. He wants to go back where lie came from." — Los Angeles Time« The fanner took the new man out to a field und atarted him __ at plowing behind two horaes. Two hours later the new man re turned to the house utterly ex hausted. The fanner asked him how he was getting on. "Not gettln' on at all." snapped the man. disgustedly. “How do you expect me to hold a plow with two big at rung horses trying to pull it away from me nil the timer' Cottage Grove, Ore. Phone 64 Tuesday, August 18 “40 WINKS’’ with Viola Dana, Theodore Roberts and Raymond Griffith. Here is a picture with just one laugh; but it starts with the first scene and ends with the last. And a comedy. Our work is conscien tious and prices art reasonable. PLtTMBER 8TF.WART Picture Shop C-T-C’S guarantee creates a furore! Friday. August 14 Zane Grev’s “CODE OF THE WEST with Owen Moore, Constance Bennett. Mabel Baltin, Charles Ogle and David Butler. The story of another invasion of the West—when bobbed hair and rolled stockings conquered the cowboys. I And a comedy. Swindled PRICES hi order to close out our present stock we offer every framed and sheet picture in the shop (ex cept (-rater Lakes) at ex actly cost price. Tree Dependent Upon Insect for Fertility Schofield Stewart lls Yoii grow more bezutlful every day. Registered Plumber She You ex»r(urate too much. l'h.ino 209 R Jack. NORTH SEVENTH STREET “Well, every otlNr day. tbea.*— Londuc AO-«era. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a 11-plate Columbia Prest -o-Lite 13-plate (’hiumbia Prest-o-Lite ... $14.50 $16.00 $18.00 $21.00 Service Garage L oth * & Cruson