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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1927)
Mass Production of Commercial Airplanes “T here Is som ething else," Morse sa 'J. “the C alendar Girl." Above a cot In a kind of alcove hung a colored crayon sketch. Willis glanced ut It w ith swimming eyes. THE CALENDAR GIRL "No." he sa id reso lu tely . ............. -■ " (C o p y rig h t by W. G. C hapm an .) A ND Corydon?” Inquired n visitor in the Artiste* dub, once him self in the profes sion. graduated Into a gen tlem an of leisure through a rich leg acy, ami paying u brief visit to his old- tim e haunts. " till, C o r y d o n — e a ts !" was the sen tentious reply, as if that fact evi denced a very fair condition, luileed, for a devotee of the palette uud easel. “And Paul Willis—still a dream er?" "Still the same old hand to mouth existence. Yes, Willis had grand Ideals—a poor capital ill these p rac tical times. He dropped out of the cluh mouths ago." In a breath the absent fellow a rtist —who possibly did not e a t—was dis missed from discussion. And, Indeed, A irplanes for the Colonial Air T ran sp o rt company In the Fokker plant at llasbrouck Heights, N. J., which are he did not cat ut Just this Juncture! being rushed to completion for use in a huge netw ork of air Jiues for passengers, United S tates malls and •«- T here was not u man In the cluh presses which open this spring, Unking Montreal and Interm ediate cities with New York and Chicago. who did not rem em ber the soulful eyed. Impulsive young fellow who hud before this time, since the beginning of started In to sc» the world on fire. the world, w ent unused by man. These It wus work, not gain, tliut was the are the H ertzian or radio waves which starting motive In Ills enreer, and the now all over the world are carrying labor loved because he aimed a t a th eir burden of music and the spoken high standard. He w as a color special word, and even are tran sferrin g photo ist, uud etchings and pen and Ink ef graphs. Inventors are seeking to place fects had become the fashion. o th er burdens on the strong young A few p o rtraits, perhups twice a shoulders of the radio waves and a s year u color scene, hut the orders few sert th at It is only a question of tim e uud fur between, and the cheeks of until they will carry motion pictures the handsome, graceful youth became S c ien tists E m ploy T h em in rectly and by keeping our seas and and even power which may turn wheels wan, the old fire of genius left Ills stream s from being eternally frozen far from the source of energy. eyes. With poverty bringing the R ad io, Surgery and M any th at the su n 's rays benefit us. Every Unshackling the Ultra-Violet. threadbare garb, pride drove him to good thing that we have, except some “Even th e little known waves, * seclusion. He became Isolated und Inven tion s. of the m inerals and ores, can be sh o rter than those of light, are now forgotten. traced to th eir beneficent work. The If Ills two form er a rtist associates W ashington.—The sam e day's news soli upon which our plants lire has doing th eir bit to push man’s civil ization forward. The ultra-violet ray had seen him ut the hour when uuild carried a story from London th at ul been washed from the original cheer has for many years played an Impor luxury and indolence they discussed tra-violet rays are making the anim als less lump of ash and stone hy the tan t p art In photography. Now Its him, they would have probably pitied of the soo more contented, and a story rain which the sun's rays lifted from from Camden, New Jersey, th a t seeds the seas and cast down on the land. value In Improving human and a n i this piece of poor driftwood. mal health Is being recognized. O r In the rem otest corner uud sm allest and tubers treated with X-rays pro "P lan ts which grow In the soil can dinary window glass does not perm it room of au old dilapidated central duce g reater yields. T hese are addi them selves live only when bathed by ultra-violet rays to pass th ro u g h ; so building, Paul W illis sa t working with tional evidences of th e w orld's debt sunshine. P lants not only exist because th a t In reality our windows, mude pencil und brush. to rays, many of them little known. of heat and light waves from the sun, to adm it light and WHrinth, are b a r It wus a sadly forlorn place, the win A bulletin from the W ashington head but, fortunately for mankind and the riers against one of N atu re's chief dow» grimed, the tloor d estitute of c ar q u a rte rs of the National Geographic anim als, they contrived millions of life-giving forces. Special glasses pet or rug. L ight uud heat were society deals fu rth e r with this sub years ago an Ingenious trap for extra which perm it u ltra violet rays to pass wretched. Upon a table beside the Ject. energy from the rays which they store are coming Into wider use, especially •'Rays are not abstractio n s of phys away. T his tra p Is a m ysterious sub In hospitals w here patien ts may. thus easel was a loaf of Im maculately ex icists or unusual phenomena to be stance called chlorophyll, the green be given the benefit of one more force cellent bread, a tem pting fru it cake deep frosted und rich looking, a pie, dealt with only In laboratories," savs coloring m atter In all soil-growing to help them to health. fa ir and perfect—for expert house the bulletin." "They are more truly plant leaves. When the rays strike "Since Its discovery a generation wives say th a t such things can he. the m ainspring of the earth , making chlorophyll they m anufacture cellu ago, the X-ray has perform ed In- j The a rtis t had druw n with pen and life In ull Its forms possible. lose, stnrch, and su g ars—and on these num erable services, chiefly In perm it Make Life Possible. products the life of the anim al world ting photographs to he taken of flesh- Ink In outline a faithful presentation of the articles before him. Now he “T he sun's rays are the prerequisite Is built. Every plant, then. Is In reality covered bones and Internal organs, began the work th a t had for him an In for the world as we know It. But for a sep arate factory, operated hy waves and in the direct treatm en t of cer describable attractio n , the coloring of the w arm th and light flowing to us of energy from a ‘power house,' 93,- tain diseased conditions. But the X- his sketch. More than once a fever through 93.000,990 miles of 'space,' 009,990 miles away, Ihrough its chloro rny Is so potent th at It can bring harm ish fam ished expression crossed Ills the earth would be a lifeless cinder, phyll 'motor.' us well as good, causing tissues to face. He m oistened his dry lips with Each Plant a Factory, w ithout vegetation and w ithout even w ither aw ay or become Infected when his tongue and set his teeth firmly. It the lowest anim ate forms. As It Is. "T hese factories turn out directly exposed too long to the pow erful wus the evenlug before when he hud the rays or wuves of h eat and light various commodities th at man must waves. Man has learned to tam e this lust tusted food. E ver since then, pen flow to us in a mighty stream , for have: vegetables, fruits, and nuts th at ray, however, and Is even finding new niless, hungered, weak In body and all p ractical purposes unending, and in make up a large p art of our d iet; cot uses for It as Is Indicated by recent brain, th a t to rtu rin g display of food this continual bath of life giving rays ton, flax anil o th er fibers which con experim ents which show th a t seeds had tantalized him to the point of des we very truly ‘live and move and trib u te largely to o ur clothing and exposed to X -rays produce g reater peration. have our being.' d ra p e rie s; the woods which help to yields than those untreated. Amid the fascination of the color “O ur essential diet o f rays Is fresh build our houses and Im plem ents; and Tiniest Ray Most Penetrating. processes, now his soul soared tem as well as potent. Because of the many other substnnces which are nec "One of the rays to become known p orarily above his physical needs. A alm ost Inconceivable speed of light essary In our dally life. Indirectly most recently Is the Gamma-ray b itte r sm ile crossed his face as he real and h eat waves (186,000 miles per these ‘factories' supply o ur rem aining throw n off by rudlum. Thia Is In ized th a t his labor w as strictly com second), the sunbeam which strik es food and clothing; for our food ani reality a super-X-ray and has found m ercial. A picture piece, exquisite you this Instant left Its far-away mals produce our meat from a vege Its g reatest field In carrying farth er and jierfect as an a rt plaque, he knew Source only eight m inutes ago. table diet, and so. too. o ur wool and the work of Its close relative. th a t when fils work was done, repro Plants Need Rays. silk m ohair are the Indirect products “T he most m ysterious of the rays duced from the printing press. It would “It Is not only by w arm ing us dl- of the ray-built vegetable world. la th at which has come to light w ith show lettering advertising the w ares "It Is not only the rays of the pres in the last y ear or so, th e Milliken of a fam ous baking company. ent th at contribute to our well being. or Cosmic ray, which Is the ultim ate He lay down his tools of usage at Sunbeams th at millions of years ago at the present time in vibratory rate last. D aylight w as failing and he had built tropical vegetation which was and shortness. It Is estim ated that w orked rapidly, but his toll had Its X M issouri and K ansas fossilized into coal today warm our ? C oed s L et H air G row o houses and turn the wheels of our fac there are 635 trillion of these rays recom pense. Side by side, the real to the Inch. So far, man does not contrasted with th e artificial and the tories. T he rays th at left the sun know the origin of these Infinitesim al fine, delicate shades of the form er X K ansas City, Mo.—Coeds a t 5 1 the U niversity of Kansas, Law- X weeks or months or at most years ago ly sm all rays nor has he been able would have appealed the more strong X rence. and the U niversity of 5 are helping us In still another way. to utilize them. A pparently they do not 9 Missouri, Columbia, seem to be 2 They evaporated w ater from the sea come from the sun, because they reach ly to ttie true a rtist taste. T h ere was a lap nt the door. Evi X competing In letting the hither- g which fell as rain and was stored the night side of the world as well 2 to popular locks grow long 2 up behind dams. When this Im pris as the day side. One theory Is th at dently the lone a rtis t was expecting h!s caller, for he spoke out eagerly; g again. 2 oned w ater Is made to tu rn dynamos they are given off hy fur away "Come In, Morse." 2 G irls a t both Institutions 5 the electricity th at comes to us over nebulae—solur system s In th e mak A brisk, bustling business faced man g sta rte d to let th eir h air grow, g wires to light our homes and toast ing. They p en etrate so deeply when X much to the disgust of too- 5 our bread Is only the beneficent sun they strik e th a t It requires eight feet entered. He w asted no lime In civil ities, but walked to the easel w ithout g aorlal a rtists in both towns. beam In another form. of solid lead to stop them. The bold excuse or hesitation, drew a magnify X A recent check-up on the Mis- g Heat and Radio Waves. est hypothesis In regard to th eir ef ing glass from his pocket and critically 2 sour! cam pus revealed th at 60 5 “How we tu rn heat rays to account fects Is th a t the life of every anim ate Inspected the color sketch. g per cent of the girls eith er had g Is well known. They fly from our cell depends upon its bombardment "E xcellent—your very best." he a n X loug hair or were "expecting to X rad iato rs to make our homes livable by these tiny waves from th e heavens, g have In the n ear future." At 2 in w in ter; they cook our food; they and It even has been suggested th at nounced complacently. "You Improve every day." 2 K ansas the percentage Is slight- X produce steam for many of our power life Itself was originated hy them." “And grow hungrier," observed g ly larger, and exponents of 2 houses ; and In num erous other ways W illis with a faintly hitter smile, "('an X lengthened tresses are gaining 6 they a re harnessed for m an's benefit. Almost 509 varieties of narcissus I have— the sam ples?" he uilded, »Mb g new cohorts dally. “ W ithin recent years we have h ar were im ported iutu this country last a m eaning sweep of his hand tow ards autum n. t>OOOOOO0O<H>OOOOOOOOO<H5O-OOO nessed another group of waves which th e dainties. “ Why, surely," assented his visitor, seal, one of which Is sure to be bear i with a sta re o f surprise. “W hat do you w uut them for?” meat. Polar hear pelts are of little value 1 “T o eut, of course.” in the North. Only the largest and ! "You mean—" began Morse, and finest colored ones are commercially paused, an Indefinably shocked expres valued for rugs and furs. From »49 sion crossing his face. H air Ssal Is F avorite Food of These silly looking, with a skin that fits bad to |7." at Nome, th eir value Increases W illis made no reply. He seized the ly, the white bear Is nevertheless very to |125 to |259 in S eattle and New loaf of bread with the fierceness of a Animals and N ature Helps Them in Chase fleet footed. Often they are not pure York. fam ished anim al, tore a handful from white, frequently being killed pos The Arctic hears are so greasy th at | Its soft mellow h eart and crowded It St. Michael. A la sk a —Heavy wenth sessing yellow, brown, and black spots even Eaklmoa refuse to eat the flesh Into his mouth. Once he choked as If er, with trem endously large Ice floes on hi|is and buck. The flanks and legs except In extrem e hunger. T here Is no w ith direful humiliation. Once the In Bering sea, prom ises tlie natives scarcity of white hears In the Frigid tears fell over the loaf. His visitor are covered with hair sometimes twen of Kotsebue sound th e most favorable zone, because they range an area w itch ed him with sober, pitying eyes. ty inches long. polar-bear hunting In a generation “T h a t's better," observed the artist, where men seldom go. Ttie much sought food of these aq u a A good m arket exlata thia year for striving to appear satisfied. "Anything the fine w hite polar b ear skins, and tic anim als is the hair seal, and n ature new ?" R eal Realism these arctic nomads are so plentiful has helped them hunt by providing a T he other came close up to him. He Moscow.—T his must be real realism. cost that harm onizes with surrounding a good catch Is anticipated. A brilliant film producer has lost his placed a trem bling hand on the sh o u t landscape. T h at the bear might not T he white king of the Arctic regions governm ent Job because he was too der of the artist. Is a combined hunter-sailor-hoho. He have an unfair advantage In the quest “ As had as th a t,” he said In a sub extrav ag an t with a picture depicting dued tone. I never guessed It— has no fixed h abitat, but goes where he has a coal black nose, which he American extravagance. there." food Is most plentiful, coming down cunningly hides, declare Eskimos, He placed Ills hand In his pocket with the Ice pack of the North when when stalking a victim, hy placing a Find Stone-Age V illa g e paw over IL and drew out some money, counted It, aeal. w alrus and w hale move. Kuban. Iiussla.—A large village of doubled the amount. Willis recounted The hears often capture seal In the Unlike any other animal, the polar b ear keeps to the Ice and will seek open sea. Itetectlng a bunch of seal the Stone age of prehistoric antiquity It s:>d pushed hack the excess sym shore only when cut off from open floating on the surface, the bears dive has been discovered here. Bones of pathy had Impelled, saying: mastodon and many stone implements “My rightful hire. Morse. You're a w ater. It la the best sw im m er of th e and swim deep under w ater. Noise leasly they come up right under the were unearthed. 1 good fellow Just the same.” anim al world. M»ose Jointed, ungainly /A / V. i I Use New Rays as Aid to Man I è BERING SEA ICE FLOES BIG AID IN HUNTING THE POLAR BEAR Sunday School "W hy not?" urged Morse. "You know It w as made for that rich manu facturer. Payne, who Is so proud of his daughter. He has been a t the (B y R K \ P It F I T Z W A T K R . D P D *»» o f th® E v e n t " g S c h o o l. M o o d y B lbl® ! » • office a fte r the original crayon." • t t t u i e o f C h i c a g o .) "It is m ine; money will not buy It," i <<©. 14X7. W e s t e r n N e w s p a p e r U n i o n . ) said W illis sententlously aud bowed Ills visitor from the room. L esson for M arch 6 Buy It — as soon would lie sell his so u l! In Ids poetic way the work on SHARING T H E GOOD NEWS that picture, taken from an oil p aint ing. had been the Inspiration of his LESSON T E X T — Act» « 4 - 8 ; II Cor. recent life. » 14-20. G O L D E N T E X T — ¥ • » h a ll be m y w l t - Willis had the first full meal of weeks that day, for he hail money now. n»»aes. P R IM A R Y T O PIC — T e l lin g O th e r s The rescue was too late, however. He A b ou t JCHUB J U N IO R T O P IC — W in n in g R e c r u it s awoke the uext m orning In a burning fo r C h r is t's A rm y. fever. I N T E R M E D IA T E A N O S E N IO R T O P T here w as only th e woman in charge | IC — T e llin g O ur C o m p a n io n s About of the apartm ents to nurse him. T hat J e s u s . afternoon a stylish autom obile drove , YOUNG P E O P L E A N O A O l LT T O P ut». A young lady alighted. She w as [ IC— C h r is tia n E v a n g e lis m . D u ty , M e th od, R e s u lts . the original of the C alendar Girl, i When she knocked a t the door of the I. Preaching Everyw here (A cts 8 :4). a rtis t's room the old woman met her. Following the stoning of Stephen. " lie has been going on all day th a t the enemies of the Lord were more way.” she said. active thun ever In th eir efforts tu Miss E linor l’ayne had come, hop stam p out the new faith. With Saul ing to prevail upon W illis to sell her as th eir leader they dragged men and the picture. But now—she stood In a women from th eir homes and Im pris strange maze listening to the ceaseless oned those who confessed Christ. T he bulihle of his parched Ups. devil overreached him self In this for ills glassy eyes were fixed upon the this persecution scattered the be picture. T he lone burden of his mind lievers everyw here and they preached had given way. In poetry, In wild the gospel as they went. The tim e had pusslonate appeal lie wus telling th at ■low come for this w itness-hearing to m ute companion of his lonely life the extend beyond Jerusalem as the Lord secret of his life—how he adored the had commanded. T he Lord perm itted lovely face his art had perpetuated. this persecution so as to scatter them . N ever had the fair, Innocent girl II. Philip Preaching the Gospel In been so moved. T ears were lu her eyes 8amaria (vv. 5-8). as she noted the w retchedness of this Philip wus one of the seven so-called poor soul, whose delicate face showed . deacons. He was not an apostle, nor the lineam ents of genius. a m inister In the accepted sense of "E verything m ust be done to save so th a t term, hut a layman. He Is the precious a life," she told the woman. only man called au evangelist In the Then day a fter day for a week some New T estam ent. He Is an example of Irrlslstibte Influence drew her to the } w hat a devoted laym an can do In place which her money transform ed preaching the gospel In the evangell- Into a haven of comfort. zution of the world. H e w ent to th e One day she came when the m ourn city of Sam aria uud preached C hrist, ful eyes of the a rtist w ere once more showing th a t the purpose of God In calm and clear. T he crayon w as gone cluded these despised people. T he from Its accustomed place. He handed fact th at Philip preuched C hrist uulo It to her done up In paper. these people shows th at the tru e evau- "I have learned of all your kind gellst's message Is Jesu s C hrist. He did not preach C hrist as an ethical ness," he said simply. "You wish me to tak e the picture?" teacher or an example merely, but C hrist as the Savior from sin through she asked. “It Is yours. I have seen you In the substitutionary offering of Him reality —th ere Is a more lasting por self on the cross. T his Is shown by the fact th a t he preached C hrist to tra itu re in my heart." He spoke with the desperation and the eunuch from the flft.v-thlrd chap te r of Isaiah. He not only preached disappointm ent of n flitting spirit. “You m ust live!” she cried im pul C hrist us the Savior from the guilt of sively, reading the oracle arig h t "for siu, hut from (he power of sin as symbolized in baptism , which m eans my sake—will you not?" H is soulful eyes strove to read the uot ouly Identification with C hrist In secret of th at beautiful face. To Elinor His death, hut to urlse in the power he w as as a being above the common. of His resurrection, to walk In new She flushed. The adm iration of his ness of life. Then, too, according to verve 12 he preached C hrist as a glance thrilled her. "You m ust let me drive you each day reigning king. Philip's preaching wus fruitful, for m utltudes believed his till you get well," she said. And th a t wus the beginning of the message which was accom panied with beautiful end th at saw two harm oni num erous m iracles. lie cast out un ous souls Joined In undying love and clean spirits, healed the palsied and the lame. G reat Joy accompanied the Joy. reception of the gospel by these Sa m aritans. W e a k C h aracter M a y ’ Lesson' By STERLING BRIGHT «— Improved Uniform International H a v e J aw o f Steel T he man with a weak chin Is not necessarily a man w ith a weak ch ar acter. Such a person may even have bulldogglsh qualities, medical » d e n tists tell us, and In all probability his lack of chin was caused by the way he w as fed a t birth. N aturally fed babies stand a b etter chance of de veloping strong Jaws than the a rti ficially fed. People with receding or weak chins have often suffered from rick ets In childhood, and hardly anyone needs to be rem inded nowadays of the relation hetw en a diet deficient In vltam lnes and unsatisfactory bone formation. Many parents, when they fenr that th eir children's chins a re not going to he of the best, consult a dentist, who may suggest th at the child shall w ear In the mouth an ap p aratu s for stretching the Jaw. T his treatm ent continues for m onths, sometimes years. III. Paul an Example of a True Preacher of the Gospel ( I I Cor. 5:9-29). 1. His supreme aim was to pleas» God (v. 9). To live or to die was Imma terial to him If his service was but acceptable to God. T his transcendent aim was strengthened hy the con sciousness th a t every one must one day staud before the Judgment seat of Christ. T his aim explains P aul's de votion. 2. His consciousness of responsi bility (v. 11). H is sense of solemn responsibility wus the explanation of P aul's be havior. Some thought th at he w as mentally unbalanced. H is knowledge of God's holy n atu re and of m an's sinful condition moved him earnestly to persuads men to be reconciled to God. No one who knows God's terro r will he half hearted In his m inistry. 3. He was constrained by the love of C brlst (v. 14). T his m eans th at he was governed by C hrist's love. M inisterial devotion is the expression of replcrocal love. C rim e and P u n iih m en t We w ere aroused one morning In C hrist's suprem e love wus expressed early sum m er, w rites a subscriber, by In His death for ua. O ur love In re a g reat outcry among the birds, p a r tu rn la expressed In our devotion to ticularly by the harsh cry of the blue Him. 4. Consciousness of the God wrought Jay. On going out to learn the cause of the disturbance we found num bers <4i tinge In Him (v. 17). It was because he wus wrought upon of birds flying around an oriole nest which we had been w atching with a hy God and was therefore a new c re a g reat deal of Interest. The Jay birds tu re th a t he sought to do Ills will. 5 The content of the gospel which were flying about In much excitem ent and several distressed little orioles ' ■ he preached (vv. 18, 19), were bravely fighting them. A closer I The reconciliation of God through view revealed a Jay bird with his the death of C hrist wus his central head caught In the nest. In trying to ■ message. In the Incarnation God was rob It he had made him self prisoner i I d C hrist, reconciling the world unto and n eith er his own efforts nor those | I Himself. of his com panions could free him. 6. Paul was an am bassador sent Nearly all day he struggled and the ] from God to appeal to the world to he other birds flew unhappily about, hut reconciled unto God (v. 20). gradually his efforts grew feebler until , lie wns the am bassador from the they ceased entirely und lie was left j high court of heaven sent to th is re alone. Of course, the nest was ruined, j bellious world. In a real sense, every hut until fa r Into the w inter he hung 1 C hristian m inister is occupying the th ere high In the air. an object lesson sam e position. — to ull thieves.—Youth's Companion. K n o w in g th e Lord . G eode Stone» Every servant knows the past of our Geodes are rounded, hollow aggre Lord, and many know the future, but gates of mineral m aterial, or Indu what really helps Is knowing Him lu rated nodules, eith er empty or con- i the present.— Kehoes. tainlng a more or less solid sod free Crosses nucleus and having the cavity fre Crosses a re often more com fort quently lined with crystals. Th-jy are som etim es called "potato stones" ou able than com forts.—C entral Bible account of their size and shape. The Hall Record. iiaita? seems to h«ve been given them be. »use they are occasionally found O u r Prayers lil ed w ith soft earthy ocber. Agate. | It Is In the closet th at we are fitted Is a geode built up of ru iu e n trie lay i to be m outhpieces for Ood.—Echos» era of chaltedoftr.