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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1920)
THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 18, 1920 FOR THAT TIRED FEELING JUST TRY A DOSE OF BRIGGS -ArJD VAJHErJ YoU COlvlFES.y WHE"rsj Your lanD LoRO HAS GiverJ you Norice To VACAT F " AND YOU WALK MILES ANO MILES WITHOUT .5EEING A To. let" Sis) -ANJ a real estate MAN ASKS 1p YOU . H AV BCHt LDRE N When YOU vi TOL.D FRIEND wife You MUST Vaake. a Business Trip Through Twe South - ad while doing Your Pacg sue. oeseRves That You arc preparing your 60LF- OUTFiTiFOjHe..JOuRWEY You HAVE HE TELLS YovJ HE. HASrO'T-ATHitvJCS To.REMT WCU "YOU .SEC MI6MT RUN AGAINST SOME.. BUSINESS ASSOCIATES Who MiGmT GET Bond Issue Prepared for Sub mission in Fall. 6E. R.T ; ORE P I OlDN T PLM Owe or two 6ames So I Just r.v VA Thought i d better Plav OAFe and Take my INTERSTATE ROAD WANTED 5olF Twines alou3 - s WALLOWA MAY SPEND ROADS .Extensive Programme for Future Development or Eastern Oregon. Highways Mapped by Court. KNTERPRISE, Or., Jan. 17. (Spe cial.) Looking to the future develop emnt of Wallowa county, the county court at its January session mapped out' a. general plan of road work to be done. It is the most extensive programme for public improvements ever proposed in the county, and con stitutes the full development of many partial plans of the past. It in eludes the following features: Completion of the state highway from Minam to Joseph. The employment of an engineer, approved by the state highway com mission, which then will accept his estimates and surveys, who shall make a survey of all the main roads of the county and shall prepare es timates of the cost of converting them, into standard rock, surfaced highways. Apportionment of the money which will be realized from a bond issue of limit size, plus that received from state and federal government, to these roads. Submission, at the fall election, of a county bond issue of limit size to the people. Nearly Two Million Available. If the bonds carry the county will have available an additional 1600.000, making a total of $900,000, -to meet a like sum from state and govern ment, to build hard roads. As to what roads will be chosen as the main highways, the division made before the bond election last spring gives an indication of what the people want. That division was based fa the post roads of the county, which naturally are the principal highways of travel. The state highway commission has approved the Minam-Joseph road, and should start construction in the spring. The county has its share of the money in hand and this road will be finished before another is begun. Interstate Road Projected. Next on the programme is the Enterprise-Flora road, which has been designated by the state high way commission. This goes nearly to the Washington state line, and Wallowa county will connect with an Asotin county road, thus forming an interstate highway leading to Lewis ton. There has been much agitation in Lewiston, Clarkston and Asotin county for this interstate highway. A forest project road is under con sideration on part of the route be tween Wallowa and Troy. This will be built under an arrangement simi lar to that in effect when the forest section of the Enterpriser-Flora road was constructed last year. The road goes through the forest for about 13 miles, and the government will foot most of the bills on that distance. At . each end will be a stretch which the county, with such state and federal aid as it can get, will construct later. In the division of last spring this post road was one to which an ap portionment was made, on the basis of mileage, giving the county court a fund now available for its part of the cost of the forest section. The place or places where Wallowa county and Asotin county roads will connect probably will not be known for some time, as Asotin county has not decided where or when it will build. Sugar Substitutes. Again Awaken Interest. Startling- Reports Investigatea of Qneer Properties Found In Sweet Tropical Plants. SEVERAXi years ago report ran through the press, originating in Asuncion, Paraguay, to the effect that there was a plant which grew wild on the prairies there by the name of "ICaa. Hee," which had a substance In it ISO times as sweet as sugar. This report startled the sugar cane and sugar beet growers all over the world, and their fears were not al layed until it was discovered that the sweet substance was a glycerine and not a true sugar. Only the tiniest leaf fragment at that time reached Washington, and all efforts to secure the seeds of this interesting composite have until re- rentlv failed, but several ounces or the dried leaves and a small amount of seed have been received by the department of agriculture, through the American consul, and they have aroused a keen, interest in all who have tasted them. A fragment a quar ter of an inch square is as intensely sweet as saccharine, according to a writer in the Journal of Heredity. There is today so much discussion among dietitians as to the effects upon the health of the excessive use of cane sugar that the whole ques tion of gratifying our most unusual taste for sweets is one deserving seri ous consideration. This is, as Profes- , sor Blaringham of the Pasteur Insti tute remarks, the age of sugar, but whether the fashion for sweets will be outgrown is a question for the die titians to struggle with. Professor Osterhout of Harvard has shown. that sugar increases the electrical perme ability of the protoplasmic membrane of the cell, but just what inference is to be drawn from the discovery is a question. Having possibly a bearing upon this same problem, the following fact is called to attention: In southern Nigeria, according to A. H. Kirby, assistant director of ag riculture at lbadan, there is a fruit tree or shrub known as the "Agba yun." the slightly sweetish fruits of which, when eaten, have the peculiar property of making the sourest-tasting substances, such as limes, lem ons, unripe fruits or vinegar, which are eaten within 12 hours or so after ward, seem intensely sweet. Here would appear to be two sub stances, both worthy of investigation from the modern standpoint of foods. Seeds of both these plants have been imported by the office of foreign seed and plant production. Hen Shortage Reported. LONDON'. Experts who have been studying the shortage of eggs esti mate that there are 180.000,000 fewer hens in the world now than there were just before the war. England used to import 200,000 tons of eggs yearly, but because of the shortage this country is able to buy only 40,000 to 50,000 tons. Power Krom the Atom. Sir Oliver Lodge is coming to this country from England to lecture about things that are little known. One of his lectures will deal with atomic energy, which he says will some, day. supersede coal as a source a But. he sFVfs se TrltN6 about A BOMuS AnO Just AS You" ve UEC.IJ3EO To SELL Your, furniture Ani bec6me a. vasrant WONpgR That was Some Party -last night - SONXg PARTY NO- mor6 por mb"- here have to -stand up all pay .smelling These cakes - it MAKES ME &ICLK I HOPE ThERC WOr-TT Be makv oroew for ' Thus stuff. 0ust be cause "l MA"eiv IN "The WimIuJ it's sop pose To GIVE PEOPLE" AW APPSTtTET .) r oh well,- guess That hvjockeo Their out - i hope- . C'VE CflUE MOTHlNS To .stimulate Their appetites , Though- l DONl'T KVjovJ .WHEN ive. felt so little: LIKE WORKlrOC - THE odor op- These, cakes WILLKnOCK ME;OUT of power. We are on the brink of a discovery," predicts Sir Oliver. "It may take a century, but I do not suppose our descendants will be us ing chemical energy. Instead of burn EVENTS OF THE DAY SKETCHED BY CARTOONIST THEVOi-O FtflEMD OF THE FAM7LVi WHO WAS OUST INVITEb, INTO. CHAPErVQTTHE JEFFERSON BIRTHDAY VTV. i- 'i - You MEET A CASUAL ACfiUAIMTAMCe AND HE TgLLS You He HAS AW APARTME N T For AMD DOESN'T OB3ECT Jo CHILDREV WHAT The WHEftT CAKE ARTIST. The cakes are a . BIT heavy This MORMIM6- OR ME8SE IT s me-J,Bow;t tKNovU IT'S A PART OF MY AGR.ee.MewT To FTp TrtCSEi akes. Th ere are few better . CAKE . FT-iPPeRS Than ME IP I JX;SAY IT l"l I 'f . - r - ing 1000 tons of coal, they will take energy out of an ounce or two of matter." A dispatch to the New York Times quotes the British scientist as saying: A radium atom firing off a particle which turns out to be a positive charged atom of helium is like a two ton gun firing a 100-pound shot. Be fore it has exhausted its ammunition Oh-h-hh boy:: AIM'T IT A GTVR-R-RAND "and R6NT TA Tat IN The UUIMDquo ThinKS ABooT There's some folks IM FROMT NOVAJ GUESS I'LL GlV EM A LITTLE FREE SHOVJ." THIS ONlE D6E5WT F-LlPVEFiY.we L.L. Vjheat- cakes" ) r it fires off five such projectiles and then settles down into a quieter ex istence as lead or something indis tinguishable from that substance. All substances of high atomic weight THER5ACOUPLE OF DlSTIN GUtSHED GEMTLfzMEM TO SEE YOU,AiA. Silted 70WE CLAMAN BEjMCi CONVERTED TO BU YJNQ -AJWE W CAR: "A new CAR?!? i- I SHOULD SAY NOT" To FRiEKD m " HAVE. VJE. HAD T That LjOno " Yes KMOW IT'LL. NEED OVERHAUUN6 AND A NEW COAT OF PAINT" are likely to behave in the same man ner. Sir Oliver believes. Gold, silver, lead, copper, iron and other ores are the result of a vast expenditure of energy, but that they are now quiet i I SHOULD -SAY-v NOT!-" " Tmc One ' we've' Got is still, a GOOD Ov-O CAR Plenty- good enough" " i VWELU I SUPPOSE 1 WOULD BE. AIM , qCONorAY - One WAY ""WHAT MAKE. Ul2 HAV 7 WHAT'S . Tut COLOR ' is no reason to believe, so the scientist thinks that under proper stimulus they cannot be made to exert their store of internal energy. Perhaps the man who has a gold watch in his GtVE THE AMERICAN A? Ml. . i 7 Don't Know why you uh - u - WHAT Gavei Yoo That -iXeA Anyway ELlsn) ? " - 5 AY LISTEN! - IP WE'RE GOIWC To HAVE a new car. spose IT wouldn't Be Such a bad idea Jl (F WE WClyiT7v! rtow i u See what wc Can DO. TH6Y Say CR5 ARE. Going Tr rp waistcoat pocket really has enough potential energy to heat his house and run his automobile. It will be un fortunate if we have to wait a cen tury to see the thing done. DARLING ,BLUEGRA5S A t i