Temperatures Cast
Week in Advance
Study of Sun Makes Fore
Men, Your Garb Must
Be of Rainbow Hue»
Washington Th« heut of the sun
is a proven relation not
changes In the earth'» temperature,
but to the variations In weather condi
tions In general, Smitbsonlaa Instltu
tlon Scientists have decided after ez
perlments covering a long period. To
increase the deiwndnblllty
their ob
serrations, the experts hope to estab
llsh within a few years stations In
various parts of the world where data
cun be gathered.
Through a series of papers dealing
with experiments of its aatrophyalcal
observatory, the Institution says "re
searches give clear proof of a con
nection between solar variations and
Weatbe" ciianges, but allow that the
relation Is a complex one.”
Whether recent abnormal aapecta ot
worldwide weather have been caused
by solar conditions cannot be deter
mined, because extended records of
the past history of solar radiation are
lacking.
Baals for Predictions.
Dr. G G Abbot, assistant secretary
of the Institution and the director of
Iha astrophysical observatory, says
that not only does the heat received
by the earth from the sun appear
variable, but that the changes can be
predicted nearly a week In advance b,
looking al the sun through a telescope
Londun
Sults In subdued
rainbow huea, hackles* wulst.
coats and pale-gray or fuwn
colored derbies ure among the
hot w eat her novelties for men
in the brighter clothes move
ment. A new Irish tweed,
lightly spun that II Is nearly
transparent, comes In dust color
■nd also what Is called French
zray, with n thio stripe of pul.
blue and green. This material * >
'■ much In demand for the ; J
Happy -elephant leg” trousera • •
now affected by young men.
Iha backless wnletcoat Is
double breasted and la held In
place by braces across the back
It Is worn with an unllned
MMMaly-nittng jacket.
For shirts "Ice-colored" »Ilk Is
• he latest. The material
ceptlonally thin, of a Mulsh ■ >
gray, and expensive.
California High School
Girl Win» Meat Conte»!
Practical Work in Kentucky Schools
I hlcago k com a field of approzl
mntely 13,500 contestants coming iron
high Beholds throughout the Unlte<
Ktstea Ml»» Fram es Erdman, Turlock
< aU has been chosen national cbam
plon In the second national meat stor;
contest. This anponncetnent Is ma<k
by the National Live Stock and Meat
board, which conducted the gooteat It
cooperation with high school bom«
Store, and while one pupU act. “
’ **«»••«• quipped with . miniature grocery
This method 1. conridX™«'ey trad!
1 1 1 1 » » I » I I I I I I I I I ! ! II-
later ar« observable nt New York
'By. Strangely enough, It hns been
•Mown that It la not an Increase, but
» decrease of M|nr heating that makes
it warmer In the east
Mias Frances Erdman.
]
Plan
Revive
German Military Bands
Mexico’s Two Rich
Peninsula States
I M i I I ! ! I ! PM I ! I I 1 !
; Rename Car in Honor
of Porter Wreck Hero
■ •
Chicago.— When the pullman
; ; car hitherto called the 81roceo
■ ■ emerges from the repair shops It ■
. ' will bear the name Daniels. It I
’ Is to be the rolling monument to •
’ Oscar J. Daniels, 4402 South '
• Wabash avenue, porter, who lost ■
, bls life In the recent wreck near i
• Rockport, N. J., in an effort to •
. save passengers.
Daniels was i
; alive when rescuers found him ’
. In the wreckage, but refused i
; first aid until a seven-year-old ’
. girl had been given medical at- i
; tention. He was dead when the ‘
• searchers returned to him.
economic Instructors. The honor at
to
Old-Time
tained by Mlaa Erdman carries with It
’»*
official
Argentina
a cash award of |3l0.
caves-t(.riI)f.d locally ’cenotes'—and
recently has been collaborating
Berlln.—Efforts are being mad« to
subterranean streams.
The Indians
Selection of the national champion
Doctor Abbot through study of the revive the old time military bands
and other winners was made by a com
—..... .u aco
an'* ri'ers ages
sun. has predicted, with what the In
Washington.
—'‘ W
Clashes between In-
Which formerly were u popular pMrt
- an marked their courses on the
stitutlon asxcrta Is very fair accuracy Of every-day German life, in recent mit tee of prominent borne economics dlan tribes along the border between
’
’
1 8“^e with heaps of stones, never
women.
the Mexican states of Campeche and I
the actual dully tem|H*ratures of New
years they have given way to Mrln-
'Ung their cities except along the
York city nearly a week In advance orcheatras and Jnzz bands, in the
The contest was sponsored by the kuratun recently threw Into the spot-1
OW of an underground stream. Even
for more than a ycur.
board us an aid to the study of meat In light of the day’s news two of the po-
movement to bring the military bands
high school home economics classes, tentlally richest of the common pueblo and ranch has Its well and a
For several years the work ba* ,
back to their own. a monster concert
««PPly of fresh cold water
according to a statement accompany wealths comprising the Mexican re
been conducted from two observa
was organized recently at the Stadlon,
^drinking and Irrigation purposes.
b till eUn from the j
tories, one al Mount Hurqun Hala. ' when 20 ban.U played simultaneously ing the announcement of winners. Con- public,’’ says
“The fertility of the soil Increases
Ari» and tbe other near Caluma, lu | under thè din-Almi ‘„( “¡‘ràf Om-sr testanta were required to write a story Washington (D. C.) beadquarters of ¡
In the northeast and southern portions । । 'I । I I I- I | | | 1 1 j 1 | 1 I I I ! | I I
the
National
Geographic
society.
or
theme
uta>n
some
phase
of
the
meat
In’hìsh’IrlTr?
‘ '"'7 'I0'11 “r*l ,I“‘,kw‘b-ncer' More Ihan 2U.0Q0 per
J subject and send In with this three
,here are
dy*
'Campeche and Yucatan together. I and I b a,e•
la high, arid locutlons. lo increase ! sons attende'!
^ablnct-»ood forests. This Is also
original and practical meat recipes.
with the territory of Quintana Boo em I
thè uceuracy of thè olmervatlon» Im 1 _
he home of the beautiful Yucatan yellow substance called hematAxyUn
brace the entire peninsula of Yuen tan.
proveniente ure belng plnnned for ihe j
~
"
•—
except a small portion of the east '“rK*y »“'J the venerated quetzal, the —used extensively In dyeing and In
Chile station, while the Arizona oh i
coast within the boundaries of British
ex can blr*I
paradise, sacred to coloring wines. The annual export ot
ncrvRtory I n to bo mo\ed to n higher j
Honduras and a section of the heavily iome ot ,,le Indian tribes,
location on Table mountain, California. !
this product alone In 1923 was valued
wooded Interior where an arm of
- coast
------- Jine
..
"With a
of 600 miles at more than a million pesos. Cam
near Los Angeles.
Guatemala runs up from the south Yucatan has only two harbors,
peche stands second only to Yucatan
Stations In the Eastern hemisphere
From th" two peninsula states comes greso, the principal port, on the north- In the production of henequen, or sisal
are needed and Dr. Abbot will go to
most of the world’s production of sisal ern coast of the peninsula, and an old hemp, as well as the usual tropical
Asin thia full and. with funds supplied
hemp, which Is next to manila hemp
by the National Geographic society,
at Slsal’ a {ew «lie* products such as sugar cane, rice, to
?vrsL simi’
i» th“ bacco, Indigo, cotton, etc. Many of
In durability and strength. The region ft.
seek n desirable location for nn ob
ulso furnishes valuable timber, agri etter harbor of the two, for Progreso the natives make a good livelihood
servatory, with Beluchlatan as ids first
ok 0 “T ,han an °Pen roadS
These extremely short waves, that cultural products, and live stock.
Makes
manufacturing the so-called Panama
objective. Later he will go to south
ought
to
be
called
vibrations
of
the
without
shelter. Merida, the capital a hats,
Home
of
Sisal
Hemp.
west Africa, In search of a probable
of
Land.
“Campeche, the capital. Is a quaint
con"","f« »he means by
site for nn observatory there.
“Although the greater part of. the thriving city of 50.000. is on the site
which tlie electric energy Is trans
of old city of 18,000 Inhabitants. Founded
area of the peninsula is one vast plain iho? aDCleDt
Effect on Barometer.
Washington. Electrical energy baa mltted to a dlstanl receiving system, ut u small elevation, the two states
in 1540 by Francisco Montejo, It is,
Since Ht22 researches have been
"Yucatan Is of especial Interest to therefore, one of the oldest cities In
been successfully transmitted by wire which In turn transforms them Into are strikingly different In many re
conducted under the most unusual less through the use of Inventions by electric current of Identical character
spects. Campeche has fairly abundant archeologists on account of the re- America. During the adventuresome
solar conditions known to modern
tlie Italian engineer, Mldull, according istics Of that used by the transmitting rainfall, dense forests, and a number ^kable ruins of the Maya dvlllza- buccaneer days of the Spanish main
science through a marked long-con
to reports received here from Turin »yMtcin.
of minerals throughout Its 18,000 tlon found there and throughout the it was sacked repeatedly by pirates
tinued low period tn the amount of through official channels.
The electric vibrations created by
square miles. Yucatan, on the other peninsula. In the culture scale these until its bastloned and fortified walls,
heut thrown out by the sun. Whereas
According to these reports, the pos- the transmitting system travel In a hand, presents a dreary aspect, un Indians stood at the head of the Amer segments of which are still standing'
the normal has been cslibllshed as sibilítica of this method of power straight Une toward an Ideal ‘focus,
watered by rivers or streams, with ican tribes. The remains of their pre were hastily erected.
14M calories per square cent Imet rr per
transmission are boundless. In an tn- according to the directions Imparted little agriculture and no minerals. Yet historic temples and cities are of ut
"The town Is over a system of im
minute, this value, known as the solar
published in Turin, Mldall de to them hy the systems of condensers this arid region affords the chief most Interest and beauty.
mense subterranean caverns, excavated
constant, sine« i;i2 2 has been ns low
scribed the results of tils I rive years । which form the aerial; they converge source of wealth, henequen or sisal
"Better favored with natural r<- by the early Mayas and used by them
ns 1.90. or 2 per ent below normal. At
n a point. In which the ideal Unes of hemp. Yucatan, with Quintana Boo Is sources. Campeche Is handicapped by
of study In part ns follows;
as catacombs. The moist sea air Im-
present It Is 1.93 and showing n ten
“The result obtained is that of the aerial condensers of the receiving about twice as large as its neighbor lack of lai or and adequate means of parts a venerable look to the port
dency to rise. The phenomenal drop transmitting electric energy In the system must so converge.
When ing state, yet, with 315.000 people. It communication. Great tracts of virgin buildings, all of which seem hoary
was first announced by Doctor Abbot form of alternating current. without this condition Is not fulfilled, trans
has almost four times as large a forfsts and unutilized wealth and ad with age.
In April, 11*2.1, utul he then pronounced excessive losses, but In reality the mission ennnot Initiate.
population.
vantages await the stimulus of foreign
“Both states are paradises for the
thnt departures of some sort from electric energy la not Iransmltted as
“«'hen transmission hns begun, the
The seaf of hunter or naturalist and abound with
"Despite ,he sPr>r,'<‘ne’s of its rain capital and Initiative.
normal weather conditions might be su< h. The system transforms the elec position of the aerials and also that of
fall. Yucatan Is not totally arid. Water government, of the same name as the game, fish and gorgeously colored
expected.
tric energy emanating from any source the transmitting nnd receiving systems can be found In any section of the state, is connected by railway with birds and flowers. In the forests
Mr. Clayton nays thnt changes In in the form of alternating current, at nre no longer of Importance and the
state not far beneath the surface. Al Merida, the Yucatan capital, and some panthers and boa constrictors lurk,
the sun’s beat almost Immediately af frequency and tension generally em
system goes on working even if both
though there are no rivers of Import of the plantations have light railways while In the more open country there
feet the barometer and the thermome ployed in Industry. Into very short stations change position.
are wild boars, deer, the tapir and
ance. the limestone formations under
Logwood Valuable Export
ter In western Cnnuda and western electro-magnetic paves of about one
"No mass between the two stations
bright-plumaged birds. Shark fishing
ground are honeycombed with water
United States, perhaps as a reaction millionth
“
One
of
the
principal
products
of
enn
Interfere
with
the
functioning
of
n centimeter.
These
from tlie tropical atmosphere, travel
the province Is logwood, a heavy red is one of the exciting sports along the
waves must be of about the size ot the system.
Ing with the velocity <>f sound. The light waves. nn<l hnve nothing In
timber,
which contains a crystalline i coasts, where an endless and holy war
‘The system also permits the trans
is waged against them."
DETROIT
SKYSCRAPER
atmospheric waves thus s. t up drlfi 1
common with the Hertzian waves used mission of polyphase currents. It may
slowly south and east, and three days for radio communications.
be foreseen thnt It will be used for
II. II. Clnitotl. who for several venrs
Furnish Most of the World
Sisal Hemp.
-----------------------------
Electric Energy Is
Sent By Wireless
Possible Operation
Vessels From
Opening Fall River Scenic Road
electric traction, enabling electric
trains to be run without drivers.
Steamers mny bo operated from the
; land and electric power will be avail
able even In localities where It cannot
be produced on the spot or transmitted
by wire.
“It will also be useful in radio com
munications. In which case the fre-
1 qucncy of the current and the perfect
dlrlgibllity of the vyive will peynft
synchronization of the stations and
total
suppression
of
disturbances
caused hy other contemporaneous
iransmlsslons.”
I
Norse Whalers Lead
World in 1925 Catch
Oslo.—The whaling season In the
Antarctic waters around South Shel
3 ■ .r.nd nnd South Georgia has l>een very
j ' successful ns far ns the Norwegians
k ’ ;re concerned.
The whalers secured 166.000 barrels
•f whale oil from South Georgia nnd
'06,880 barrels from South Shetlnnd
bls being nn Increase In the amount
; ibtnined Inst year of 50.000 barrels.
At South Orkney. <M.0(X) barrels were
1 'btnlncd, while off the Mexican coast
I Norwegian whalers got 22,000 barrels
i The total for the Norwegian com
panics this year hns been 410,000 bnr-
rels, while other nations have pro-
'hired 257,000 barrels.
The Norwqglnn whnllng fleet' con
slsts of first class vessels equipped
with radio, and newly built tankers
with cookeries. It »alls practically over
1 • oiogi a,.nu- copy ui lue utiiiitect’s
he whole globe, and It hns about 4,000
drawing of the tower office building
Norse sailors engaged In the trade as
in Detroit, for which ground has al
j whalers.
ready been broken. It will be forty
stories high and will be the centrai
Thousands Homeless
feature of n project that Is to Include
Warsaw, Poland.—Heavy floods have
, .,lhlr.
HUe " n'!,hvlnUir 8cpn'*- but lt was made at t?.e officiai openlng left thousands of persona" homeless'in three theaters, two hotels, a medical
"
" u "
Hlv, r ÌM’”le ri»nd In Hocky Mountain National park. Culorado, I centrai and western Gallcia, accordlng building, a reutentlon building and a
two mlles above sea level.
I t0 dlspaU.hel froll) Cracow
oram« retail shopping district. In addition to
the office structure shown above.
GUARD 687,000 GAME ANIMALS
IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS
e—-------------------- -------
Forest Service Workers Re '
port Increase in Number.
tin! C'°Tr W,tlraa’«- Only animals
using national forest ranges are In-
mli. ’ “° accoun‘ being taken of anl-
g?7<> °n a,1Ja^"t federal
Washington.—More than
687,000 • Hnd. nr
lands or on privately owned areas.
head of big game anlmnls make their
Deer represent the vast bnlk of the
home in I’ncle Sam’s 159 national for
Same animals with a total of 550 000
ests. announces the forest service of
the 1 nlted States Department of Ag compared with 511.200 In 1923.
The five states credited with the
riculture, which has just completed
largest „umber of deer are. in order:
the compilation of a count made in
I 1924.
Art
eg°n'
Idaho
and Arizona. Alaska Is credited with
* ompared with the previous year the
1924 figures represent an increase of about the same number—50,000 head
as the Inst two.
about 44,(XX) head after due allowance
In the 1924 estimates bears were In
Is made for 44.300 head of bear which
1 were not Included In estimates of for- cluded as game rather than as preda
tory animals, the figures showing 44 -
; mer years.
Forest service officials explain th»' MO head. Of this total 38,700 were of
: 'his Increase may be caused by the | the black and brown varieties, 5 600
Nearly al! grizzlies
fact that 1924 was a very dry year. I being grizzlies.
resulting In an unusual concentration listed were found In Alaska. Montana
I of animals around watering places Is the only state In which the forest
; which enabled the forest rangers to rangers were able to find more than
a scattering few of this bear.
I.lk hnve Increased, more than 5° 600
M I M I M I I I I I I I I Ml I HID head being listed for 1924 compare.!
with 49.500 In 1923. In the Teton Nn-
Anglers
Wear
tiomil forest bordering the Yellowstone
Labels in Oklahoma : park
the elk herd has shown a notable
;;
Oklahoma
City. — Vulubeled ’
increase.
.. fishermen became taboo In Okla- I
The number of moose In 1924 shows
” homa recently. Hereafter they ’
a loss, only 5.100 head being shown
.. must plainly display upon their i
compared with 8,000 In 1923. It |s ex
” clothing the state license, with- '
plained this difference may be attrib
■. out which they canuot drop bait i
uted In large part to more accurate es
;; to hungry fish.
thnates.
The number of mountain
■
•
The
last
legislature,
conclud-
l
goats
Is
given
as 12.400 and 17 2no
; ; Ing that fish and game wardens ’
respectively, a slight Increase of buf
• • should expect co-operation from •
faloes are to be found only in pro
;; the men they are set to watch, ;
tected herds.
• ■ passed a law, that fishermen
Antelope, or pronghorns, nre still In
; I must bear the license pinned or ;
a very unsatisfactory condition. The
• • sewed In the center of their out- •
!: er garments.
;; 11*24 count shows only a few more
than 5,000 of these animals, most of
• BM-M I H-M -l l I Bl I Md I Illi- ‘ which are In Arizona nnd Idaho.
f-
t
Must