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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1927)
iOiMilSlGGIII CREDIT; GREAT HELP Child ; Blames Radio , For " Slang Expression A'c- quired During Program The Following weekly news let- -ter from ' KMO of Seattle. Wash- in rion, tells of latest Idea radio Is v bAuaed forv ' "Radio broadcasting has been " Siren credit for many things- -the rHnraUan of the masses, the rele-l -O tatinr of public taste In music ''vW caring of nervous cases, etc It has also been-blamed tor some things keping " people np-.to late at night, keeping peopled away from their household tasks; etc It ...remained for a litUe chUdr to Diarae ine raaio lor a aiang ex- .-'preseion acquired. f 'The story is told of the mother who desired to provide the highest cultural environment for her chll drcn. ' They were allowed to,as jcclate with only a select. few of , other children. , Their play was 'carefully directed, ; Good music and good literature was , "taught them at an early age. ; . Imagine ,. the mother's, horroe one evening when her son, a boy of vej when I asked to do something replied: 'Oh, gee whli!' v " 'Child, where hare you learned auft A at w AvnvAael - - ' . V If ' a ' r Miss Rosalind Hightower, of Detroit, was supposed to impersonate lady Godiva she of nndraped fame at the Chicago Arts ball. Bat aha didn't. She was all readv to annear wMrln Kr trrAApn "The boy .hesitated, apparently a gown of nothing. . But something .happened. - The stunt was called off. Instead, there was a shapely figure in wax, with a blonde wig in a frame. Photo shows MissJJ&htower.-. i as if to shield some companion ; from whom he had learned the ex ; pression. finally v ho replied J They said "Gee" on the radio last night.'- :-': i -r- ? v: " 'Impossible,' said the-mother vWho chose very -carefully the pro-: grams she allowed the .children to listen to. The boy insisted that he had heard the expression on' the; radio ,rl DnastlnnAll fa llttl further b A V "v --" said he heard the announcer ay: 'Gee, Donald Gray is going to sing another song.' .- . - ma particular iruBi. v, i aid Gray, KOMO's baritone, is a great favorite among all classes of listeners. Including this particular mother, who wrote Into . KXXMO asking if it is necessary '.to. an nounce G. Donald ; Gray's 'full name.- 'It is so hard to explain to I f i I! y i 9 . J v - TEMPLE BESTOflETJ OLD EDIFICE FOUi Probably " Most " Important f inds of Year Related I. To Older Structure WASHINGTON CAP)After their third season of work at Chl- chen ' Itxa In Yucatan, . once the magnificent capital of the New Maya Empire, archeologlsts of the! Carnegie Institution of - Washing ton hare been able to restore the Temple of the Warriors to an tn mtstakable semblance of ; its an cient grandeur, and to prove that it was erected upon the founda-l tlona of an earlier building. Probably i the most . Important I finds of the year related to that older structure In the second sea-l son of excavation. B. H. Harris, In Immediate charge of the work. found-a square sculptured column I burled in the northwest corner of the pyramid which. forms the base of the newer temple. It was 17 feet below the floor leTel of ; the temple, ? and he surmised that it had been part of an older build ing which had been filled in dur-J tng construction of the larger structure. ' '' t- r . . . , That surmise has been proved correct, with the uncovering - of J brilliantly colored fragments of I the early temple. Two, other Carv ed columns were found lying, in line with the first, their brilliant hues, reds, ; yellows,-greens, bluesly -y , ; ' and blacks, well preserved. Just UQCI Frenchman KeepS NAVY SHOWS ITS FIGHTING FACE s t f - Use Thermometer Tests; "On Channel Swimmers PARIS " (AP) A thermometer is being nsed as the test of the truthfulness of those who say theyl swam the English channBL - Swimming experts in : France generally agree that some of the France-to - England - navigators could not possibly have stayed, is the cold water as long as they said they did. . Both men and women swimmers In France have set - the proper channel "temperature at 70 de grees Fahrenheit or even a little higher. When swimmers testify to having stayed many ! hours In water very much colder, these ex perts say, then there is something wrong. "--"l':--: . The French long have regarded channel swim claims with consid erable suspicion. - They have be come outspoken of, late and men tlon names. - They offer no proof that the various swimmers rode say. Quite emphatically . person can :.. stay in t J water for half a day, whet. they are greased or not. French Refuse Letters On Which Postage Duo PARIS (AP) Thrifty French men and women guard their eouj even when the postman brings a letter.' j . . Half a million letters and pack ages are refused each year in; Paris and ; a like proportion In the rest of France by person! whe won't pay due postage. Fre quently the amount due Is only a tew cents hut the Frenchman 13 averse to spending even pennies when he doesn't know what he la going to get for it. It is, perhaps, because of this same care in expenditures, that mail with insufficient postage constitutes a full tenth of all mat- part way across on boats but they ter sent to the dead leter office. . v. -. - I. i I the youngsters.' f I Search By Hygienist5 ; For Nutrative ' Values 5 ! f BERLIN. (AP) The.s respec- I l vntrltlv nlni of rvehread. Graham bread, white-bread,, rolls and other sundry bread stuffs Pro fessor Ernst Friedberger; the not ed byglenlst sought to determine by experimenting for five months ou-anlmals af theInstaleno Hygiene ana immunity Kesearcn in Dahlem near ' Berlin. Without definitely solving this all-imporjj ant question, the hyglemst came to the conclusion that food iub-' lutul in a lour cooklne oroceu did not Increase the bodily weight , f of an animal or person nearly as yfaxith as slightly cooked or raw fS- .rood. . -4 - rror. neaoerger claims i rorf h established the fact that jyehread is the best weight producer, the next being a mixed rye and wheat bread," followed by Graham" and the other dietetic breads," while white-bread and rolls produce lit tle or no increase of weight. - . Animals fed on the crust of whitebread lost weight markedly. Toast also not only failed to pro duce the slightest weight Increase, but animals ted exclusively on this diet rapidly -declined ; and died From these " results . ProL ' Fried berger concludes that whitebread Is assimilated better, and quicker than any other variety, of. bread, though be admits that it ha by no means been -. scientifically proved that the assimllabllity of a food is to be accepted as a Criter ion for lU-nutrlUve value. . and the government 200 years ago that the nation's ruler should sur render; his life . interest In the king's lands in consideration of a rixed salary'--"-- .' ; Of recent years the income from crown property J:: has Increased marvelously. s Since 1920 tha in- come from crown lands has al most doubled and Is now 1. 134, 255 annually. hi 'J ' , f The block adjoining Piccadilly Circus In which the. plaza, the new American-owned plcturethe ater, is located, now yields Xle 120, as against 5,&25 In 1920 Leaseholds on the new building development along - Regent Street between Piccadilly and Oxford Circuses now yield 315,229 an nually as against 44,070 in 1913. when old . buildings occupied the space now tilled by uniform stone buildings which " form the most beautiful business section of Lon dbn. ;- ; : ' r - ' i 4' . ?.V-'-':' Queen Victoria and Edward Vli received more through their clvl lists than 'they would have re celved had their ancestors kep the income from crown lands It lieu of salaries, but the Commie sloners of Crown Lands have been so successful- tor developing prop erty of recent years that George V would be a very rich man were he . receiving the earnings of (he crown -.lands. ..:...') !- DISCOVERER OF RAY HONORED IH FMID Nine Years of Delving Into Mysteries of Atoms Re quired for Work ' This unusual photo of the gigantic navy airplane carrier, U. S. S. Lexington, a sister ship of the recently commissioned U. S. S. Sara toga, shows her as she appears head-on at the Qclncy, lass., yards, where 'the finishing touches are being applied. ' - " in front, dismantled . and . broken. lay the enormous heads and tufU ed tails of two great serpent col umns which guarded the portal of the earlier temple. . . From, the condition of the col- Fleet of Idle Barges PARIS (AP) Twenty f barges that are neither for sale j nor for rent and which are never used are ors it was obvious that the old ??m canal Tlation In nor- structure had been dismantled and burled in the masonry of the Ancient laws and waterways newer temple while Its paint was rules prevent the authorities from fresh and vivid. Because the light interferinr lth the vagaries of a of dar had not reached it for cen- rich lawyer who for six years has tnries nerhaos as manv as six. the allowed the fleet to deteriorate pigments appeared to have been and block' navigation, Refusing source of trouble. Ten ol the boats ar'e'ln port at Rouen and ten .at Confrans-Salnt-Honorlne. So long as there is a legally-named watchman even If he doesn't spend much . time watching the barges can remain in the canals.- Removal of the barges has been tried ; by the authorities on all sorts of technicalities but the law yer knows his rights and It looks as if the barges would continue to menace navigation until the law yer changes his mind or the boats actually sink in the channel and have to be destroyed or removed - -1 i rois& Making Insects r. mt th hofrht of their chanees to ge - half a million v-nn-n-A I francs for boats that are only a at public expense A Chac Mool, one of the Minor Toltee deities represented as a reclining human . figure, carved I life size in limestone, was found on its back In excellent condition,! only the nose and a lock of hair be I lng broken. Protected, as It was! from the weather, the carving re-J raained ' In a practically perfect! state of preservation, although the eyes .and fingernails gave indica tions of the removal of some sort of inlay, possible Jade, shell or obsidian., before . the , figure ' was walled up in the foundation of the itew temple. ' The walls of the burled temple were decorated with great writh-I lng serpents, painted in brilliant shades. Two of them, one on each around the three walls, meeting of the opposite doorway. Their claw ed legs, " feathered pendants and pointed crests retain the shades of red. yellow," blue and. ack put there . by the artist of that lost '.V consists of a concavity over; which a membrane Is ' tautly. stretched j which Is caused to vibrate by any j King George Loses In. : Deal Over Crown Land LONDON AP) King, George would hare a much bigger income an - agreement , had not been P- rei Oregon Portia Ml l " W y i I Wbu Uargaret Woodson, 21, I first, woman to be admitted to the federal court in Oregon.; She now is practicing in EugeneOre the first woman to open a law of fice, there. As the only woman ;a to law school of the Uniyers- 7 c f Oreson; Hiss 7oodaoa i .rr.sl the laugh on male stu- . :r .13 who had scoffed at her. : : a t-e vi sj graduated with fcii LEED3, . England (AP) -Dr. Robert Andrew Mlllikan. noted American physicist . who Isolated the electron and discovered the Mlllikan - ray. Is to be given an honorary doctorate in science by the University of Leeds on Sept ember : ' -' : v , i - I Dr. MUllkan will deliver f Ocien lflc lecture at the gradnag ex ercise. Since 1 92 1 he has been director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics of the Cali fornia Institute of Technology at Pasadena. X ;. v.. 1 1 Born at Morrison. 111., he was 3d ucated ' at Oberlln College, Co lumbia. Berlin and Ga ttlngen. He then taught physics at- the Uni versity of Chicago from 1920 to 192 1. He plays golf and tennis with the same rigor that he at- Ucks problems In physics. He is 59 years old. j ,'f:i;. . ' v T rnnnlrpd nine rein of delv ing Into the mysteries of atoms, ! Mayan lcvilixatlon. That the temple managers knew the elements of economy was In dicated by evidence that the throne or dais of the , older ' temple was preserved and utilised in the new- j or structure. - The 19 Atlanteanl figures which, support the throne In that temple were too tall, so they were burled up to the knees and little feet of stucco were mod eled to give-, the impression that they were standing on the temple floor. ; ! . . ! , f .nl t m tml ..t t When Glasses Arc Needed "APPEAL TO CNEILL" New Location Dr.CB. O'Neill Fourth Floor first National Bank Building Phone C2S THE BEST GIFT FOR ANY BOY OR GIRL The smaller tots,' too, want WHEEL GOODS- ' The gifts they enjoy most. It is "a pleasure for, us to show them to you. . . : SCOOTERS VELOCIPEDES ROLLER SKATES KIDDIC EARS HARRY SCOtT "The CyCieto Buy From a Wheel Goods Store 147 So. Com'l SL -l Colrll'OB nlo n mysteries oi moub, Must Have Hearmgr Said electrons mBd.0Bgi iong hours of trying " to measure : electrons on BERLIN. (AP) Insects that I drops of oil less, than one thous- chirp, pipe, sing or hum must be aidth'pf an Inch in diameter,1 be glfted with a sense of hearing, ne wa8 &Die to isolate the lon. concludes Professor Norbert In an For this he was awarded a Noble article in the yVolks-Zeitung. He pfi .A'rl t argues that sucfk noises voluntar- e spent seven ; more : years ily produced can only;be intended I h, intraniMit in the for insects of the same species and j mountain lakes before he not for other living beings. , tB ;A - hl4k ta Mmnince the dlscoverv Professor Norbert thinks a cer-lof 'nttmtl. Miniiran ravs in tain organ that has been located!. a1K . , ; on the legs of crickets and on the! ThA h. MV ar ao do. stomach of locusts may -very well erfttl tney an go through three serre the same purpose as the ear feetof stei 0r six i feet of solid in the human being, f This organ They are bombardlag the earth from all directions and or iginate in the breaking up of at- distinct tone: and thereby stlmu-rrr ?r". , ' 77 Utes the underlying rierve.? : V .,VU- - -hi im g,e vasg w mum wb sst- The writer describes the experi- ' minister, and,, while he Is one lot a . ' .l.a.J . VIW a a Si m meat, w.pujmi ,.,....,. riot.. ciwaoiy m l-1"" v -i- - , . ft K,.vl,,h .rlena secC. CrickeU, h ayt, vUl M " rr . seen instanUy to stretch out their lnd religion. . - . . !!tiT.- .., n, n bATe never known a thinking " -I . mmt "wTiv nnt he- llar slgns that they hear the lm w--?-";u,w"V. BuUerflles and dragon-flies. : on I'g011 - ,., m,' -r h in.icurse ramer man a oiessing io duced to respond in the least e mankJ4 lt sctence dominated an kind of tone; not even to -a r the spirit ot religion U the key bugle blown with full lung power to progress and the hopeuof tha in thA r.loMMt nroximltT. - , I future. Study - Insect World " : At Work and. At Play Talk" Helps Barbers- f Apples - have provea almost -?- I three-fourths wormy thlf year- In X' Cluw iii.ftmne tw McMinnviue MCUOacoru , T0Study CUStOmerS tefV farmers estimate; good ' apples " remain, are , being barbers! ptcke4 ome for dryin purposes. Few have been canned, as tneu grade Is Inferior. and Chronic Acidosis; Condition fciulikly Disappear, fib Starvation Dietr Famous :soutnern :uaicrnia rre-; - scription, in Use 21 Years. Pain Relieved . Almost at Once. Send fcr 16-Day Trial Offer fJo Obligation PAR13 ( AP) Why talk so muchif indeed they d has a new explanation. It. is all a matter of high art and analytical psychology. So, at least.: say defenders of the. barber- ing craft. --- ."How, Monsieur,' remarks one. can X dress your hair, so as to ex press your , personality land your character If you do not talk? How, indeed, can I read your soul it you say nothing? And to .learn your thoughts. I must talk to make you talk." '", .t.-w Thus, in a high-flown mixture of mental t science and tonsorlal n. of th. WW ntiMd lt na u. r. il . . ' . . ; I stomach trouble when we can pos iu us sca.e i t-ruieMiuMw , ttl relief or pigments. . ; . your money back? We guarantee Handling the mareelle Irons. I in -Bii Aeldoai Treat- trimming an artistic bob, and ment will relieve you of extreme even giving an ordinary man a gMtritls, or ulcers of the stomach, good, close shave, say the barbers, or we will positively refund your are onlv the eoulpfflent of a lour-1 m oner. -.-Wolfe's Ulcer and Acia n-vman. Th real art of the same. I osia Treatment has been used In the trick of drawing out the Tic-1 California for these troubles for tim. searching his -soul; for its true lover 21 years with unvarying suc Mentttr i the mark of the ar-1 cess. Many doctors prescribe it .1.1 11. .... ttf.n, Irejtularly. i. m. v........ Now It I, offered for th, tlrst : OW M.n Noah would h.r. h.d OgW less tronDie recoveries irwm u h0 severe pain, vomiting and oth- Iiood if ne naa naa isecreuirj PARIS (AP) "Go to the ant. thou '- sluggard," is possible' for every . lasy Parisian now for the ant - and every other sort . of v In sect may be-seenr at work In-his natural habitat at the Jardln des PlaAtes.' : - ' !"- r-t . A Vivarium, where Insects, lis ards and small reptiles lire In min iature forests, enclosed In glass. I has been ; established. It Is the fulfillment of the Idea of Jean Henri Tabre, the French natural ists who always urged that science should nave' such facilities for! studying the Insect world in its work and play. ; From all' the French colonies there are being brought live speci mens : which most . entomologists heretofore have seen only' pinned in; glass : cases. -.--r '- "' So far as possible each creature is given its natlre surroundings and a close imitation of the clim ate in which It thrives. - - ver with him. . .discomforts and : agonies, and from dar to dar the improvement Is steady and Increasingly rapid. You are not compelled to restrict. yourself to a milk diet. You can L buj ; w m j ing our treatment a few days. i What would tou give to oe aoia to eat as you did when you wers J a child? It should he possiDie with Wolfe's Ulcer and Acidosis. 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