Czechoslovak Singers Who Are Todring América
Boundaries Mean
Little to Lapps
Land Deeded to God
Must Go for Taxes
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Celestlu, Pa.—The four acres
of land here deeded to “God Al-
mighty” by Mr. nnd Mrs. Peter
E. Armstrong. In gratitude for
“His loving care" nt them, revert
to the state owing to delinquency
In paying taxes. The deed was
drawn In 1864, and although the
state and township have re-
reived no taxes from It for many
years they have refrained from
molesting the property of such
sacrosanct ownership.
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Queer Little Rovers of the Arctic synonymous, there are now numerous i
settled, agricultural Lapps; and oth­ i
Are Bred-in-the-Bone In­
ers wl o fish for a living. Some have
turned miner in the rich Iron fields
ternationalists.
of Swedish Lappland.
Establish American Industry.
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Washlngton.—A Lapp "ambassador”
“Chrl«tlanlty was taken to the*
from the Bwedlsh north country who
Lapps only In the lust few centuries, ; ;
recently visited the king of Sweden
and there are observers who still
to complain that Swedish frontiers­
question whether their somewhat con­
men threaten tiie existence of his peo
fused religious Ideas are more strong­
pie by Interfering with pasturage for
ly marked by Christian or pagan prac­
their reindeer, reintroduces the«® rov­ tices. The Russian Lapps etqteclally Several score Lapps were .Induced to
ers of the Ar<-tlc to a world that had seem to Insist on thoroughgoing prag­ go to Alaska to take charge of the
almost forgotten them.
A bulletin matism in their religion. It is told of enterprise In 1898, and their skill gave
reindeer raising there a great boost.
Washington
headquarter«
from the
these along the Arctic coast that they
of the National Geographic so­ make offerings at the shrine of Boris The natives learned from the Lapps,
clety tell« something of -what it Glob when starting on a fishing ex­ and now hundreds of thousands of
terms "these queer little folk who live pedition. and that If they are unsuc­ reindeer In Alaska are turning other­
under the rays of the midnight sun— cessful they straightway retrieve their wise useless moss Into food ami
and the darkness of the winter mid­ offerings! These same Russian Lapps, clothing materials for the territory
and the states as well.”
day/'
up to a few decades ago, preferred to
"The Lapps are bred-in-the-bone In­ steal their brides from an enemy or a
ternationalists,” says the bulletin. stranger rather than to obtain them by
Urges Memorial for Columbus.
"Like the I'apago Indians of Arizona purchase or persuasion.
Santo Domingo.—The movement to
and Mexico and the forest dwellers
"The United States is largely In- erect on the Island of Santo Domingo,
This group of boys ami girls from Czechoslovakia, who have thrilled European audience« with their concert work,
along the Brazilian-Peruvian line, debted to Lapps for an Important and West Indies, a powerful lighthouse
despite ths fact that tunny of them nre cripples, have come to America to muke a tour of the country. They are under
the guidance of Col. Rudolph Svarer, shown In center of back row. At the left 1« Fruntik Fllip. one of the «Ingers, they have a lofty disregard for po­ rapidly growing industry. The first as a memorial to Christopher Colum­
litical boundaries; they not only efforts to Introduce reindeer into bus is to be furthered by the pres­
%ho, being urmleM, write« by holding the pen In bl« toe«.
cross as they see fit, but take great Alaska were not very successful be­ ence at the Pan-American confer­
herds of reindeer with them, pasturing
ence at Santiago of a special repre-
portnnce to have from Far North out­ them today in Sweden and tomorrow cause of a lack of expert knowledge sentatlve of the Dominican govern-
in breeding, and herd management.
posts accurate data on the incidence, in Norway with scant ceremony.
ment.
S wl
direction and velocity of the winds.
Nomadism Must Be Served.
A third factor 1« the ocean currents,
Smoking Increasing in United State«.
"The Lappland of the maps spreads
which In general terms are inexorable Into four distinct countries: Norway,
Washington.—Smoking Is on the in­
and immutable—In a grander sense Sweden, Finland and Russia. Once
Rector Rescues Girl;
crease in the United States, according
they, like Lord Tennyson’s brook, the Lapps paid no attention whatever
to figures from the Department of
Resumes His Sermon
“flow on forever.” Yet they are sub­ to any of the boundary lines In their
Commerce. Smokers bought $314.884.-
ject to variations, and In the lust year, region.
After quieting his congrega­
000 worth of tobacco in 1914, and $806,-
But Russian and Finnish
which has been one of extraordinary boundaries were eventually closed offi­
tion
when
fire
started
In
the
749.000 in 1921, reports show’.
with the breaking off of tiie glacier meterologicai phenomena the world
basement of the First Magyar.
Plan to Warn All Vessels by ends.
cially against Norway and Sweden;
over, many curious aberrations have and while some straggling still takes
church in New York City, Rev.
Red Ants Bite Texan Unconscious.
Th® west const of Greenland is the been noted in their movements.
Radio of Route, Size and
G. Takaro rescued a Sunday
San Antonio, Tex.—Attacked by a
place, the larger movements were
birthplace of the Atlantic Icebergs.
Take the great lord of all the ocean
school teacher who had been
swarm of red ants on the streets,
Speed of Wandering Ice.
Obnervutions by Lieutenant Smith current«, the mighty Gulf stream. It stopped. Norway and Sweden, how­
overcome
by smoke and extln-
Theodore Garcia was bitten until he
ever,
take
official
cognizance
of
the
show that a season of stormy weather sweep« majestically up from the south,
gulshed the blaze. He then re­
fell unconscious. He was given medi­
Washington.—More dangerous Ice­ will result In the breaking off of more bearing an Incalculable volume of needs of their nomadic joint-citizens,
turned and finished his sermon.
cal attention and is expected to recov­
and
have
a
treaty
agreement
whereby
berg« are expected to make their ai>- berg« than a relatively calm season. warm water into the northern lati­
er from countless stings.
Lapps
may
cross
from
Sweden
In
The
vast
forces
of
mountainous
waves,
pearanco In the »teamahlp lunes of the
tudes. It is axiomatic that a warmer
North Atlantic this spring than in raised by severe storms, (Hiund so Ir­ fluid body assumes an ascendency over summer and move to Norway’s north­
many years. Thi« knowledge, of great resistibly upon the protruding ends of a colder one. So the Gulf stream west coast, and in the winter may
value to mariners und murine Insur­ the glaciers that they snap a year or mounts atop of the colder waters from cross from Norway to inland Sweden.
"Aside from the real dwarf peo­
ance companies, has been obtained as more prior to the time they would full the frozen north,.swimming along on
ples,
such as the pygmies of central
u result of the new method of Iceberg from their own weight.
the very surface of the sea. ■
Africa,
the Lapps are the smallest
The
present
season
Is
expected
to
forecasting, In process of being per­
One-eighth part of an Iceberg stands people in the eastern hemisphere.
have
more
bergs
than
usual,
because
fected by the International Ice Patrol
above the water Une; its great bulk
und the United State« Weather Bu­ the winter nnd early spring were Is below. It Is plain that a small Ice­ Their average height is in the neigh­
about the most tempestuous In the berg will not extend so far down Into borhood of four feet, seven Inches—a
reau.
Eleven years ago. on April 14, 1912, history of the weather bureau. The the sea us a great one. Suppose that physical condition ascribed to the* age-
the Tltunlc collided with an Iceberg In North Atlantic has been vexed by n small berg—but even these are great long wanderings of their ancestors in
the frozen cheerless region of the
citles. Application of this factor of
the North Atlantic on her maiden storm after storm. In February, in­ enough to sink any ship—Is floating
Deaths Attributed to Railroads, Increase to the 1921 countrywide death
north.
It
has
even
been
suggested
stead
of
the
nine
or
ten
storm
areas
voyage ami went to the bottom with
down the Atlantic. It encounters the
rate of 11.5 per hundred thousand
Although Motorist Is Usually
some 1,500 persons. There had been regarded as normal, some 20 disturb­ Gulf stream. The stream Is flowing that the Lapps were the first inhabit­
ants
of
the
frozen
zone
after
the
great
population,
produces a 1922 country­
ances
swept
across
the
ocean.
Ship
many casualties of the sea arising
on the surface, and. as the herg does
at Fault.
wide death rate of 12.9. This death
from Icebergs before that. Tramp after ship reported the worst buffet­ not extend so very far down Into the glacial sheet of the Ice Age receded
rate multiplied into the population of
steamers and sailing craft had many ing In the memory of many ship­ water, the greater part of its bulk Is and made northern Europe habitable.
the United States as of July 1, 1922,
narrow escapes nnd some were lost. masters. The waves which have been opposed to the surface current and Many centuries ago they are supposed
estimated at 109.248,402 by the bureau
Many of the ships Indefinitely posted tossing shipping all winter presum­ drift where the Gulf stream steers It. to have lived throughout the Scan­
What do you think ought to
dinavian
peninsula,
but
with
the
ar
­
of the census, produces a total of
the
nbly
have
been
battering
loose
as missing on the boards of tiie
Then conceive of a great berg of such
be done about thi« growing
14,000 deaths.
world's shipping offices also nre be­ glacier ends at the mouths of the ponderous weight and size that it rival of other peoples they were
menace to life?
forced farther north.
Some Comfort in Report.
lieved to have been sunk In this way. Gr<*cnland gorges.
reaches far into the ocean depths. The
"The
reindeer
is
the
typical
animal
The experience of the Metropolitan
the
The layman naturally thinks of
Tiie appalling loss of the Titanic re-
Labrador current, flowing south, has of Lappland, and about It their life
sulted In nn international conference Iceberg as a tenant of the winter sea. dived under the northward-flowing
New York.—Fourteen thousand lives Life Insurance company confirms the
on tiie safety of life nt sen. This con­ so bleak and cold nre Its associations. Gulf stream. A greater mass of the has centered for ages. It carries them were lost in automobile accidents in estimate. The estimated death rate
ference, to which the United States But It is in winter that the North At­ big berg’s bulk Is far enough down to upon its back and draws their loads, the United States in 1922—an increase for the United States for 1922 based
sent Captain Ellworth P. Bertholf, lantic is most free of bergs, because he chiefly Influenced by the southward­ gives them milk and cheese and of 1,600 over the total for 1921. The upon the Increase of 1922 over 1921 in
head of the coast guard, agreed upon they are still in winter quarters. It i flowing subterranean current. This meat for food, clothes them with its 1922 death rate was 12.9 per thousand the Metropolitan's industrial depart­
skins, and furnishes materials for
ment Is 12.7. This rate multiplied In­
tiie establishment of the International might almost be said that the spring ' berg, then, goes south, even against
Implements and utensils from its population, as compared with 11^ for to the mid-year population produces
Ice Patrol. For ten years this patrol lias the same effect on the bergs as it j the flow of the Gulf stream.
bones. Tlie typical life of a Lapp- the preceding year.
13,900 deaths.
has been maintained, its cost allocated lias on man, for It is with the coming
This estimate for 1922 was made for
Constant Observation Needed.
lander has ever been that of a nomadic
Although the automobile death rate
among the maritime nations In propor­ of the vernal season that the great
The thing needed Is constant obser­ herder, living In tents and following the National Safety council by H. P. based on population has steadily in­
mountains
of
ice
tear
loose
and
go
tion to their tonnage.
Stellwagen of the automobile depart­
vation of these phenomena, in relation
From autumn until spring two Amer­ silently cruising down into the steam­ to the winds and the course of the his herds to new locations when sea­ ment of the National Bureau of Casu­ creased, the death rate based on the
sonal
changes
and
pasturage
necessi
­
number of automobiles registered has
ican const guard cutters, stanch ship lanes. The Titanic was sailing bergs, to determine accurately which
alty and Surety Underwriters on the decreased considerably, The number
ties dictated.
ships, designed to ride out any storm, on nn almost summery sen In mid-1 stream is likely to capture them as Its
‘"The Lapps have been decreasing basis of statistics supplied by the of automobiles in use has increased
patrol tiie tempestuous seas of the April when she struck. The bergs ' prize and bear them off to whatever
in numbers in late years, and ‘Lapi^- health officers of 60 American cities five-fold since 1915, but the number of
drift
south,
ami
In
the
course
of
the
!
North Atlantic. Each cutter Ims a two
part of Neptune's realm It is seeking. land’ Is now far from being a land with an aggregate population of 18- automobile fatalities has little more
weeks’ tour of duty, nt the end of summer melt away, so that the fall
Lieutenant Smith has proposed a peopled predominantly by Lapps, and 177,310. The cities included In the than doubled. The education of mo­
which It Is relieved by the other. If nnd winter find the seas ^galn free. station at Cape Dyer, In Baffin land,
study range in size from 25,000 popu­
either, or both, becomes disabled, other So It appear« that frequent nnd ac- which could report on meteorological still less by Lapp nomads. In Swed­ lation upward and are scattered over torist and pedestrian alike, the more
ish Lappland, for example, only about
stringent regulation of traffic, and the
curate reports of the Incidence of
cutters nre dispatched to the patrol.
the entire country. It is reasonable institution
of
safety
campaigns
storms in the Far North will be of conditions, wind and weather, and the 7 per cent of the inhabitants are
to suppose, therefore, that the indica­ throughout the country have all helped
Notify Ships by Radio.
great value In the forecasting of Ice- progress of the bergs as they passed Lapps. It is the pushing in of a more
in majestic procession down to the settled people that has made life so tions for these cities are fairly repre­ to pull down the ratio of automobile
The cutters seek out nny Ice which bergs.
southern
sens. Such stations. It is as­ hard for the roving aborigines. And sentative of the whole nation.
fatalities to automobiles In use. De­
lies below tiie forty-third parallel of
Wind I« Factor.
The 1922 automobile death rate for spite this comforting assurance, the
latitude—about on a line with Boston.
A second important factor is the serted, could chart the speed of the there has been a desertion of nomad­
Where once these cities was 12 per cent higher fact remains that automobile fatalities
Then they crulsKnorthward. It Is the wind. It Is the wind which, pressing 1 bergs, and mariners would know that ism by some Lapps.
duty of these ice scouts constantly to upon the crystal sails of the bergs, when a berg was reported as passing •Lapp’ and ’reindeer herdsman’ were than the 1921 death rate for the same are increasing in actual number at the
rate of 1.000 a year.
maintain contact with the southern, blows them away from the shore nnd a given point In command of a given
The automobile was responsible In
the eastern nnd tiie western limits of into the full course of the Arctic drift, current, with such nnd such winds. It
1922 for 67 per cent of all deaths
the ice. By means of radio they notify then aouthward to the ocean currents. would be due in the path of their ships
caused by vehicles, more than four
all ships within their long range of the A season of light winds or of winds on an ascertainable date.
The next few years nre expected to
times the number caused by railroad
position of bergs.
from a quarter unfavorable to the
trains and seven times the deaths due
Lieutenant Edwnrd II. Smith of the movement of the bergs might conceiv­ bring many added facilities to the
to street railways. The horse, as a
United States coast guard has just ably retard their southward migration weather bureau In long-distance fore­
producer of serious accidents, virtually
submitted a special report on meteoro­ long enough to permit many of them casting of Icebergs, storms nnd periods
has faded out of the picture.
logical aspects of the International to melt. In consequence. It is of 1m- of moisture or aridity. The science of
meteorology has advanced rapidly,
Grade Crossing Deaths.
Ice I’atrol which is regarded as of
and all that Is lacking Is more obser­
The foregoing totals do not include,
special Importance. He han recom­
vation stations.
ON ROAD TO HEALTH
all the deaths for which the automo­
mended that the United States estab­
The region of the Bering sen off the
bile may be held accountable. Ac­
lish outposts in the Far North to give
Alnsknn coast nnd the almost Inac­
cording to the accident classification
earlier Intelligence of the presence and
cessible fastnesses of the Lake Bnikal
throughout the country, deaths caused
progress of these bergs than can be
region of Siberia nre the breeding
by collisions between automobiles
obtained by the patrol.
places of the great storms that sweep
and heavier vehicles (such as railroad
His report of observations is being
the world. It has been estimated that
trains), are assigned to the heavier
studied by the United States weather
If the principal nations would jointly
opinion.
vehicles. In the popular
bureau,'in connection with the studies
assume an expenditure of some $10.-
however, the automobile is charged
of long-distance forecasting of various
000,000 a year in establishing and
with most grade crossing accidents.
kinds which it Is making, nnd there Is
maintaining outposts in these places
Failure on the part of many motor­
a fair promise that the government
and nt some other strategic points, the
ists to observe ordinary precautions
will take the lend In perfecting this
uncertainty of the future, so far as
at railroad crossings has resulted in a
new science of Iceberg forecasting, as
weather Is concerned, would be at an
tremendous loss of life year after
It la culled.
end.
year. The Interstate Commerce com­
An Iceberg Is the huge tip of a
The commercial value of long-dis­
mission's bulletins show the following
glacier. A glacier creeps at little
tance weather forecasting Is Inesti­
automobile highway grade crossing
more than geologic speed down the
mable. If nt the planting season, the
casualties for 1919, 1920 and 1921 :
gorges of the Arctic mountains, being,
farmer could know the amount of
Killed. Injured
Year
In fact, n river of Ice. This river flows
. 1.282
1919.
moisture hi would have during the
Into the sen. The contact with the
. 1.273
1920.
growing season, he could guide his
. 1,282
warmer water usually Is not sufficient
1^21.
planting
and
cultivation
moreNntelli-
Figures for the entire year 1022 are
’to detach the end of the glacier. The
gently.—New York Times.
not yet available, but the statistics for
ice Is of tremendous weight, nnd as
the first nine months Indicate that the
It flows out into the sea It tnkes the
last year’s totals will approximate
form of n vast beam of solid ice, pro­
Girl Imprisoned by Father.
1,300 kiHevl and 4,0(0 injured.
truding Into the deep wnter. Having
New York.—Because she was mnr
Wisconsin reports, covering the
no resting place on the earth, the
rled to a mnn not of her own faith
The Third Avenue Railway company of New York, in conjunction with the
weight produces a greater and grenter
Mrs. Joseph Steinberg, seventeen General Electric company, has completed a series of experiments wherein trunk highway system, outside of
downward pull on the end of the
years old, was imprisoned In her radio carrier currents are used on the feeders and trolley wires of its overhead cities having a population of 2,500 or,
glacier. When this weight becomes too
home,
system as a means of communication between points on the system. The more. Include 1.069 accidents which
ponderous the protruding end breaks
ïhe girl began her Imprisonment transmitters and receivers are similar in many respects to the general run of occurred between May 1, 1922. and
Pat T. H. Tresslar, Jr., whose lungs
went bad from the gas he got over­ last January and only recently es­ broadcasting outfits and satisfactory communication has been established be­ January 1. 1923. Of that total 631
off.
Berg« a Peril In Spring.
seas, with his pet coon, on the long caped, she told the court when her tween substations and dispatchers’ offices and the trolleys. Since the receiv­ were attributed to “reckless driving."
The first discovery In connection hike of 18,1X10 miles across South father caused her arrest.
ing point may be at any point of the line, emergency calls will reach their des­ 61 to "Improper lights," 45 to “broken
America,
the
United
States
and
Can
­
with iceberg forecasting was that the
tination in record time and the exact nature of the apparatus needed to remedy car mechanism” end 40 to “Intoxicated1
Sometimes there Is nothlnffmore un the trouble will be transmitted, as each operator may talk as well as listen.
drivers.”
weather conditions of the winter and ada from his home In Texas, to sound
satisfactory than an unkissed kiss.
especially the spring have much to do lungs and 100 per cent fitness.
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Is Now Acute
Motors Killed
14,000 in 1922
Radio for Operating Troubles