Sherman County observer., January 24, 1930, Image 4

The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon,
WILL SPEED UP
AMERICAN MAP
President Hoover Wants to
Complete Big Task in
Eighteen Years.
Washington. — Recognizing /he lm-
porf«nno of accurate maps to engi­
neers. President Hoover, has an
Bounced his Intention of usklug con
press fo r funds to speed to completion
the topographic mapping of the U n ite d
Btstea. Under his plan the Job w ill be
completed In eighteen years, Instead
e f elgbty-elght years, the time re­
quired If the work proceeds no f .s t e r
th^p its present rate.
So fa r the undertaking Is less than
h a lf done, and engineers lu x e been
urging the government to pish the
work more rapidly. Two agench s will
carry out the project. - The
•.'» and
geodetic survey w ill estabiis.. •• sys­
tem of triangulation c o n tro ls
I be
geological survey, using th is system a-
a framework, w ill then proceed with
the topographical mapping of the
country.
Work of a Cantury.
In the last 100 years the coast and
geodetic survey has established a
complete system of triangulation sta­
tions along the Atlantic, the Gulf and
the Pacific coasts. Such stations ex­
tend also np navigable rivers to the
bead of tidewater. In addition, thou
sands of stations have been estab­
lished In other parts of the country
and along the border between the
United States and Canada. The work,
however, has been proceeding slowly
and a vast area still remains to be
covered.
In 1900 the coast and geodetic sur­
vey had completed only 7,000 miles
of arc of the first order. Now. the
total la 20,000 miles, and the engi­
neers are adding to this at the rate
o f abont 1.000 miles a year. The const
and geodetic survey has been follow
lng a plan which calls for arcs of first
and
second
order
triangulation
throughout the country, the triangles
being so spaced that no place in the
country w ill be more than twenty five
miles from a triangulation station
This w ill be brought about when 49.
000 miles of arcs are added to those
now existing The intermediate areas
w ill be covered by third order trlan
gulatlon. or by traverse surveys by
those who want to make detailed sur
veya, charts or maps.
Pick Central Point
T h irty years ago a central point
was selected for making surveys and
charts In the United Stntes and con
tlguooa waters. The station Is knowD
as Meade's ranch and Is located about
twelve miles north of Lucas. Kan. In
1912 the geodetic engineers of Canada
and Mexico also sdopted this ns their
In itia l station, so there Is now a sin
<!• central
or Initial
surveying
station fo r all of North America.
Its oae w ill preclude discrepancies In
the charts and maps of te rrito ry close
to the borders of either of the adjoin­
ing countries.
Throughout the 100 years of Its ex­
istence the coast and geodetic survey
has endeavored to mark Its triangula-
latlon stations In such a way that
there would be no difficulty in finding
them at any time In the future. It has
not always been successful for nature
and the works of man have destroyed
some o f the markers. Cam|w»rg and
•there have occasionally taken them
np In the hope of finding burled trens
are nearby.
Blocks of stone or masses of concrete
were set up. often carrying the let
t e n -U. 8. C. S.” Few people knew
Just what the letters meant, or what
the m arken were for. For the past
twenty yean the survey has adopted
a plan o f putting a properly Inscribed
metal tablet Into the stone or the con
Crete at each triangulation station
Thia tablet tells the visitor that he
may learn the signification of the sin
tlon by w ritin g to the director of the
•urvey at Washington. In thus taking
the public Into Its confidence the sur­
vey has saved many of Its markers
from destruction.
Valua to Industries.
“ It la difficult to overestimate the
▼slue of a good topographic survey
to the Industries of a nation,” says
Dr. W illiam W. Bowie, chief of geod
esy In the coast and geodetic survey.
“ It makes no difference whether the
engineer la laying out a new highway,
erecting a hydroelectric plant, drain­
ing a swamp, extending canals from
an Irrigation reservoir or controlling
the flood waters of a river, he should
have an accurate topographic map
from which to scale distances aud
compute slopes. Without such a map
be Is working with Insufficient data,
and bis operations are likely to cost
him far more money than would he
expended had the topogrnphlc map
been available.
“ The topographic map cunnot be
made true to scale and have Its varl-
©us topographic features placed In
their proper geographic positions un­
less the map Is controlled hv t ri ango­
la! bh
“ In the United States we tiate i«<
many years suffered from the lack of
first order triangulation In our sur
veylng. mapping and charting, hut this
situation Is greatly improved, and the
Situation In this country In the near
future should be entirely satlsfn?
to ry."
The great area of triangulation beur
nearly the aame relation to charts,
■asps and surveys that the steel
framework bean to the Individual
parts of a building, such as the floors,
walla, windows and elevator shafts.
Many counties do not know their ex­
act boundaries or ares.
A county In a southern state not
long ago wanted to float a loan w ith
New York bankers. When asked what
the area of the county was, Its officials
could not Inform tftem.^for the reason
that" It had not been accurately
mapped. So the New Yorkers had to
make a survey of their own before
they could moke the required loan.
Completion of the system of triangula­
tion controls w ill remove such uncer­
tainties. *» * i
It w ill cost the coast and geodetic
survey about $4,300,000 to complete Its
part of the work within the next ten
years.
If You Stutter Try
Using Your Left Hand
Los Angeles, C alif.—M-m m-maybe
vou s-s-s-st utter h-h-because you use
your r r-rrlght h-h-hand In-s-s-stead of
your 1-1-l-left.
Dr. Milton Metfessel, who Is pro­
fessor of psychology at the Univer­
sity of Southern California, has found
that left handed persona who have
become accustomed to usfitg their
tght hand often stutter.
‘If a person Is physiologically left-
hand *d that 1« •» >rn to use the left
hand, either because other people do
or because he has been forced to, the
mental workings of the patient may
he so disturbed ns to make him stut­
ter," said Doctor Metfessel today.
lie added that some people are not
really aware that they are physio
logically left handed, though they
seem to use'the right easily. He has
perfected testa which detect wuch
cases, since he first must make sure
whether or not a person has been
bom left-handed.
"O f course, all left-handed persons
do not stutter," said the professor,
"and If left-handedness Is the cause
of their stuttering^ It must he trA te d
carefully to prevent a worse condl
tlon.”
Italy to Send Planei
in Nonstop N. Y. Hop
Koine.—The Italian government la
preparing lo send a fleet of ten m ili­
tary hydro-airplanes on a nonstop
flight from Italy to New York next
M arch.
Crews of the ten great Savola-Mar-
cheti ships have been undergoing an
Intensive training for the transatlantic
trip and several of them have under­
taken flights for 40 consecutive hours
over Lakes Garda and Barcclano.
The air ministry, which la to direct
the flight, has arranged for co-opera­
tion with the navy and scout ships
and destroyers w ill be stationed along
the route reudy to assist In the event
of an emergency.
Italo Bal bo, air
minister, w ill command the flight In
person.
.The project w ill constitute the 1930
cwilse of Ita ly ’s aerlul navy. In 1928
the air forces carried out an extensive
flight over the western Mediterranean
sea and northern Africa. Thia year
the ships (tew over the eastern Med
Iterranean and Black sea.
France in 5th Place
in Europe’s Population
Furls.—The government has pub­
lished statistics which show that
France, In 1789 the largest nation In
the western world, has fallen to fifth
place t r r ’tCffrope as a result of Its de­
creased birth rate. In 1789 France
had 26,000,000 Inhabitants; Russia, 25,-
OOO.lXM); Austria, 18,000,000; England,
12,000.000, and I’ ruspla, 6,000 000. At
present France has 40,000,000; Italy,
41,000,OflfF; Japan, 00,000,000; Germany,
64,000,000; the British empire. 73.000,-
000; Russia. 115,000.000, and the
United States. 118,000.000.
Wedding Cake Weighing
200 Pounds Has 360 Eggs
Buffalo, N. Y.—When Rose Ituddank
was married recently to Charles Far­
ber, her father, a baker, decided he'd
let some one else bake the wedding
cake and thns enjoy the occasion the
more. And Its lucky for him he did.
Walter Clchockl, hired to do the Job,
turned out a cake weighing more than
200 pounds. It required 92 pounds of
sugar, 36 pounds of butter, SCO eggs.
3« pound, o f fronting ttugar. and 28.
pound, of flour.
T h e S ilv e r L ia ia g
“ W ell,” began the multi-millionaire,
“ there you ♦rave the facts of the case
and I ’ll leave you to IL"
The lawyer nodded and arranged the
papers which the wealthy man bad
thrown down on his desk in more or­
derly array. He knew that It was not
going to be an easy task to straighten
out the affairs of the rich man’s son.
hut stilt, money was money.
“ Now, you’ll look after my boy, won't
you," went on the great man. “ He has
bad a rotton time all told. He’s lost
a great deal of money, and his wife,
to o l”
“ Lost his wife, has he?” echoed tho
lawyer, who knew the lady In ques­
tion. “ Well, I reckon he's about even
then.”
T ru e to Form •
\
An old actoi^muuager died, or at
least bis relatives thought he had died,
and arrangements were made for the
funeral
On the appointed day one. of his old
colleagues arrived to pay h it last re­
specta. but to his astonishment the
would-be mourner was Informed that
deceased” had come to life after a
period of coma.
“Just like Bill," said the visitor; “he
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Mother Tongue
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p RIVATE
PETRONI, who was a
*
soldier in a heavy tank company
of the United States army, wanted his
pretty young w ife Marla to learn to
speak English. He warned her that
the time would come when she would
be very sorry she could not.
One day Maria and her little boy
Beppo set out to pick blnckberries In
the woods near the army post. Thev-
le ft the dusty road and penetrated the
vurm , shady forest. Maria had found
w thicket of berry bushes and was
picking Industriously, exorting Beppo
to do the same. Beppo would put a.
few of the glossy blackberries into his
pall, then be diverted by a little red
lizard or a strang? purple flower like
on orchid or n great tan oak ball that
went pouf! between his fingers and
turned dust.
A fter a while he grew tired and
wandered off with his little bucket.
Marla’s pall was* nearly fu ll when
she hea.d a fa m iliar and terrifying
hid.se In the woods about hej-, a crash-
In“ like prehistoric monsters In battle.
“ Beppo!” she called In terror, but
he was nowhere tr bi seen.
The crashing came nearer. Cutting
Ibrough the sweet smell of the woods
catne Hie acrid smell of gasoline— the
tunks,.
Beside them slowly walked a group
of officers. inspecting the havoc the
Iron monsters had wreaked. A tank
headed straight for Marla, then slued
liboul. Another came behind It, and
another. Th« woods were fu ll of
them. M aria’s fran tic call fo r Beppo
was lost In their din. She shrieked
w ildly In Itallun for the officers to
save her baby, but none of them un­
derstood her.
One of the young lieutenants took
her by the arm and tried to soothe
her. There was a visiting general In
I he group whom they were trying to
Impress. Her awful tries simply must
not reach his ears.
Suddenly, on the ground that the
tanks had Just passed over, Marin
saw a bright object. It was Beppo’s
little pall, flattened. She swayed from
side to side In anguish.
At length the party came to a
clearing In the woods where the tanks
were quietly tanged In a row like
well fed beasts, 'n -the center of the
clearing was a great log hurdle, six
feet h ig h .O n e of the tanks left the
row and started towards It. Mnrla
lapsed Into an anguished silence and
watched.
. The hugj tana laboriously began the
climb, nosing upward and making hor­
rible noises. At the apex of the pll«*
It paused. Its forty tone making the
hurdle crack and g-oan. Then It .
found the center of Its batanca- and
4>egan to seesaw precariously.
Suddenly, from a crevice In the
bottom of the log hurdle appeared a
dark curly head and a pair of brown,
sleepy eyes.
“ Beppo!” screamed Maria.
The men gasped and stood still. In
a flash the gray-haired general, the
* mighty one from whom they had
: striven to keep all annoyance, darted
, forward and. In his spotless beautiful
uniform and russet blots, knelt and
slowly extrncteo the bewildered Bep-
po from the logs, while overhead, flic
huge tank seesawed Its forty tons.
i
Without a backward glance, the
general cw rlcd the fat little Beppo
directly to Marla.
i j
“ I Imagine this child Is yours,
madam,” he said quietly.
I Maria burst Into a eulogy of the
i general In the most passionate nn<l
' vivid Italian nt her command. Then
she stopped.
He could not under­
stand a word of it
Sw iftly, slip
picked up one of his gloved hands and
kissed it. Then she snatched up the
naughty Beppo and ran In the dlrec
tlon of home.
When the father came home they
had no berries to give him, but lie
didn’t seem to mind, he was so elated
with the events of the day.
“ They picked me to do a special
stunt fo r a visiting general." he told
j , arla. pr|d o fu llj. 'T h e old stunt of
t teetering a tank on a hurdle."
“ You!" exclaimed Marla In horror.
Great heavens! He hnd been the
one to nearly k ill his own child, un
knowingly, shut up In the Iron nmn
ster, while she, pleading In n Inn
gunge no one could understand, was
powerless to stop him.
She looked away fo r a moment
while her eyes filled with tears. Then
she faced him and said, passionately,
“ Guido! Teach me to speak English.*
V isib ility on W ater
•-Under normul atmospheric condl
lions the visibility of a light Is dc
pendent upon Its height and Intensity
The luminous range is greater than
the geographic. For the purpose of
rough comparison, a light 130 feet
high seen Just at the horizon would be
visible at a distance of 13.03 nautical
miles, or 15.08 statute miles. How
ever, so much depends upon the loca*
tlon and height of a light nnd; the
luminous range that an exact determi
notion..of the distance Is Impossible
without more facts.
Only Ona English Popa
Adriup IV, who was pope In the
Tw elfth century. Is supposed to have
been born In England. He has been
the only pope born In that eountry His
name was originally Nlcliolus Brak
spenre.
was always a terror for rehearsals."
W ithout the steel framework the
building would not stand u p ; the
framework la needed to bold the varl
L am a’s L ife S eclu d ed
©us parts o f the building together, — “The Great Immortal White Lama"
end to co-ordinate those parts. First- of Mongolia la comparable to the
• order triangulation has the same Dalai Lama, the most Important liv­
function In the topographical mapping ing Buddha on earth. Io him. It Is
e f the country.
claimed, there has entered a larger
Im p o rta n t Benefits.
portion of the Buddha than any other.
The triangulation program w ill yield
Guarded by 10,000 monks, the Dalai
Important benefits to individual states Lnma Uvea In otter seclusion In a
and other political subdivisions. For monastery towering to the sky Upon
It will enable them to accurately de­ hla death the priests cut a hole In the
termine the longitudes and latitudes top of hla head so that the divine
bv which to locate their boundaries. spirit can escape Into another body.
Hava No Effect
Snakes
All Humanity Put on
Level by Seasickness
It la refreshing to discover that, a ft­
er all, the giyat and alleged great are
not unlike ourselves. One of the best
places in the world to find this out la
on hoard an ocean-going liner? We
once «aw a famous surgeon, whose
skill In the attack of disease brought
relief to thousands, fold up like a
sack. In a heavy sea. The roll and
pitch of the ship was more than his
science could fathom.
On another trip was a celebrated
woman athlete. Her name is fam iliar
In midocean. The young lady was s it­
ting In the ship’s foyer by the side of
a woman companion. The great liner
tvns rolling as it plowed Its way
through the resisting sea. Slowly the
lady began to show signs of seasick
ness. She turned pale and her chin
sank low on her bosom. Then the
craft suddenly pitched forward and
the young woman nearly fell from her
chair. -Several' times she vainly a t­
tempted to reach the bracing air of
the promenade deck. It was a few
feet away, but Inches spelled miles to
her. Another lurch and the athlete
was p ro file d to the staircase that led
to the corridor In which her cabin was
situated.
A few weeks later her name was on
page one of the newspapers. Her
prowess at her particular game was
flashed around the world. It Is com­
forting to know that the celebrated
are not superhuman. — Washington
Star.
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Years of Experim ents
to P erfect Photograph
In the development of photography
the first Important step was the ob
servatlon that dertaln salts were sensl
tlve to lig h t In 1777 Carl Scheele, a
Swedish chemist, discovered that s il­
ver chloride was blackened quickest by
the violet rays of the solar spectrum
and that light rays are not all alike
chemically active. About 1801 Johann
Ritter, of Jena, demonstrated the ex
Istence of non visible chemical rays be
yond the violet rays of the spectrum.
The first men to produce pictures on
a sensitized surface were Thomas
W’edgwood and Humphrey Davy. This
they accomplished In 1802. but the pic­
tures were not permanent It was left
to Joseph Niepce, of Chalons-sur Sa
one, France, to produce permanent
ones. His process was called hello
graphy. He was Joined In his experl
ments by Louis Daguerre In 1829. nnd
In Jnnunry, 1839 they announced tlie lr
discovery, the daguerreotype.
P oetry of N atu re
"B ut turn ou, of the way a little —
toward yon honeysuckle hedge; there
we’ll sit and sing, whilst this shower
fulls go gently upon the teeming earth,
and gives ye, a sweeter smell to the
lovely flowers that adorn these ver­
dant meadows.
“ Look! Under that beech tree I
mt down, when I was last this wuy
a fishing And the birds In the ad
Joining grove seemed to live In a hoi
low tree, near to the brow of that
primrose hill. There I sat viewing the
sliver streams glide gently toward
tlie lr center, the tempestuous sen ; ye,
sometimes opposed by rugged roots
and pebbles,ones, which broke tlielr
waves nnd turned them Into foam.” —
Izaak Walton.
D eatru ctive L ecust«
When agriculture began to be es­
tablished generally In the greut plains
region of the United S tateslylng west
of the Mississippi river and east of
the Rocky mountains, during the dec­
ade 1870-80, a migratory species of
grasshopper, commonly known as the
Rocky mountain locust, frequently
swooped down from Its breeding
grounds on the benches of the moun­
tain range In such great swarms as
to destroy practically , all cultivated
crops over vast areas of country, re­
ducing thousands o f families almost
to starvation.
Male Critic Severe on
Work of W omen Poets
Friday, January 24, 1930
Food for Argument in
WARTIME WYOMING BUDDIES
of Doughnuts
CONTESTING FOR SAME JOB No matter Matter
how long a man has lived,
Ona
Wants Court to Oust Other
From Position of Adjutant
General
Cheyenne, Wyo.—Wyoming has the
unique sltuutlou of World wur hud
dies, both seriously wounded during
the sume battle and approximately at
the same time, contending for the
same office.
R. L. Estnay. recently appointed ad
jutant general of Wyoming, went Into
office upon the removal from the same
post of Lieut. Col Walter F. Davis
Now Davis is contesting the removal
In the courts at Cheyenne
Here’s the co-incidence— Esniay aud
Davis were In the same brigade and
In the same division, the Ninety-first,
during the World war. Both were In
the battle of Argonne und It was Es
may who led a plutoou to relieve that
In , charge of the then Lieutenant
Davis.
A. short time later, Davis, back
to the front with his pi u toon, was
shot In the leg, meanwhile Estnay had
been shot twice In the head und once
In the shoulder. They, were sent to
different hospitals. By chance they
met each other in Paris shortly aftet
they had been released.
Meanwliile In Wyoming, Estnay’s
futher had received official notifica
tlon that his sou had been killed In
France on September 23, wldcb was
four days before he was wounded.
And Davis’ wife. In Wyoming, received
a message froth Uncle Sam informing
her that her husband had been seri
ously wounded
T ills message was
dated weeks ufter Davis had been re
leased from the hospltul
The war over, they returned to
Wyoming. Esniay was appointed ad
Jutant general. Came a change of ad
m inistration and Esmay was removed
and Duvis apitolnted In his place. Las
may became u m ilitia captain under
Ih n is
Again a change in admlnls
tration and out wen, DaMs and Es
may was pu, back in office. Now
Davis tiles a petition in the courts
questioning the right of the governor
to oust him from office.
Lord Dew,ar or England
Make» M ere Epigram s
^-Lopdon.—Life Is a one way street,
an4*the,re Is no com ing hack, acco rding
to Lord Dewar, famed whisky rnnnu
facturer and epigram in 1st.
H ere are a few o f hig la te st epi
gra in s w h ich nre now know n as “ De-
w a rism s."
“ M an was born to s o rro w — when he
gets too old to fa ll In love he gets
gout
Sport gives the m ind a holid ay
and stops you m a s tic a tin g the ponder­
ous tho ugh ts o f life and its p e rp le x i­
ties.
^‘•ffiie country th a t is considered In
the fo re fro n t o f c iv iliz a tio n is the one
w h ich cun m ake the most deadly pol
son gas. and send m issionaries to con
ve rt the heathen
No matt can te ll
the discoveries the Scotch have made
fo r the benefit o f c iv iliz a tio n .
“ N in e ty per cent o f those going
back to the land are c a rry in g gull
clubs. T he surest way to he happy i>
to get so busy th a t you have no tim e
to he happy
Let .us li\ e our lives
th a t the u n d e rta k e r w ill he. the only
one who w ill re jo ice when we die
A b ility w 'th o t en thusiasm —-and you
have a rifle w ith o u t » b u lle t."
G irl, E leven, W ins M ilton
in Ftghi Over Fortune
D enver, Colo. — A fo rtu n e o f u m il
lio n d o lla rs has been assured eleven
yea r-old Josephine B a rth of th is c ity
by a court decision against an uncle
und aunt who attem p te d to break the
w ill o f the c h ild ’s g ra n d fa th e r.
■^The ch ild w ill get the estate when
she Is t h ir ty years old ami fo llo w in g
the death o f Iter fa th e r and tw o oth e r
re la tiv e s
M eanw hile, the estate Is
held In tru s t and the Irtrome^fflvlded
among the three ad ults.
/•’ '
T he fo rtu n e Is th a t ot a man who
began b u ild in g his w e a lth ns a young
Im m ig ra n t m aking hob nailed boots fo r
m iners. He died .In 1918. and his
w idow died a year ago.
If an effort were mude to deter­
mine what elements constitute fem­
1
inine poetry, one would name first Its
Coyote Cunning Fails
'
c h I e f \ characteristic — subjectivity
When a woman writes poetry her
to Evade Air Hunteri
emotions generally center around her­
Garrison, N. D.—Instinctive cunning
self and she is only Interested In the
which Is theirs by heritage, has failed
world os something that reflects fa­ to protect coyotes from nlr raids. Run.
vorably or unfavorably on her own
hide or backtrack us they might, the
Individuality. It Is usually favorable clever range pests cannot outwit the
and when unfavorable, w alllngly agon
huge winged "creature” which swoops
Ized. writes Herbert Q. Brunchen. In down from the sky and deals out
the North American Review.
death.
As an artist It Is rarely that a wo­
George Albrecht and W illiam Fisher
man can translate her emotions ob
are the aerial coyote hunters, and
Jectlvely; In other words to compre
they nre experiencing marked success
bend the world nnd the human beings
In the exciting pastime. Fisher pilots
that are part of It. not as they touch the plane and Albrecht does the shoot­
herself, but os they affect the great ing. A coyote Is spotted and quickly
lot of humanity.
overtaken. The plane skims close to
Feminine poetry. moreover, when It the ground and Albrecht opens fire
Is cheerful. Is generally so in a super
on the fleeing animal.
fld al way; It is too often over-refined
through an erroneous and typically
feminine conception of the difference Crime Found to Beckon
between refinement and truth. It Is
Uneducated and Idle
embroidery poetry, very apt to be sen
Washington.—The average criminal
tftnental nnd cloylngly sweeL
chooses the life of the underworld he
And only In rare Instances does one
remise he Is uneducated, a nomad and
find a poem written by a woman where
devoid of family ties, the United
the Unpleasantness and even tragic
States census bureau said In n report
truths of human relationships have
today.
not been c a re fu lly censored or glossed
Throwing the light of scientific re
over.
search on lives of nearly 20.000 state
aprt federal prisoners confined for fel
pnles In the first six months of 1923
the bureau found unemployment a
strong Incentive to crime.
•
Swerving From Right
The bureau found that only 20 per
Cause of Accidents
cent of the criminals were veterans
Boston.- F a ilu re to keep on
of the World war.
the rig h t side o f th e road when
ilie ,m o to ris t's view Is o b stru cte d
is the p rin c ip a l cause o f u n to
m obile accidents, at least in
, .Mmlsacjiusetts “ o u t of a to ta l
J-»*f J A 'il accident outes stud ied ,
th is fa c to r p re va ile d In- 1.1*84 In
St a dees
O ther
cause» wert
liste d as fo llo w s :
Speeding
i j 012»; d ru nke n d riv in g . 417; fa ll
g tire to keep rig h t side of rone
¿J when
m eeting
vehicles,
403
U r eck less «h it i ng. .335; unlicensed
A d r h iiig . 232.
The belief Is commonly held In
some parts of the couutry that 4he
odor o f snake gourd and snake cala­
bash vines la unpleasant to snakes
and w ill keep them away. Negroes
in the South plant the vines around
their houses as a protection against
snakes United States Department of
Agriculture observations do not bear
out this belief. The department has
issued a statement that as far as Its
Investigation goes, there Is no plant
that w |ll repel snakes.
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D u c k C h a m p io n
E ;g -L a y e r
The domestic duck, used only for
food In »lie United States, Is coming
Into Its own as an egg layer in the
British Isles. Over there, u farm hav­
ing as many ns 1,000 ducks Is not un
common, reports the Farm Journal.
The average duck w ill produce almost
twice ns many eggs ns the average
chicken. In several laying trials, ducks
have laid more than 300 eggs a year,
and one prodigious quucker hns set a
world’s record w ith 857 eggs In 365
days.
he Is likely to hafe a few incorrect
Ideas that right reasoning has never
been able to correct We knew a man
once who sold doughnut* of his own
fabrication. He had laid np quite a
little money and was doing very well
He vended a large-holed doughnut and
his argument always had been that
the larger the bole, the less dough In
the doughnut.* He specialized, of
course, on large holes and small
profits.
This was all very well until, one
day on his rounds, he met an argu­
mentative man.
Unfortunately, the
doughnut quid , In a moment of con­
fidence, expounded to him his theory
of the large hole and small profits.
The argumentative man shook his
head. He spent some time at It, but
he finally convinced the doughnut man
that he had been working his business
on a fallacy. The argumentative man
proved to the doughnut vender, and
by mathematics, that the smaller the
hole In the doughnut, the less dough
It took to go around IL
The doughnut man went home and
figured over the matter so long and so
Intently that he was eventually bereft
of his reason and hnd to be confined.—
A. J. R. in the Minneapolis Journal.
Reached Enemy's Heart
Through Hit Stomach
Mrs. Laura Fraser, the original
Becky Thatcher of Mark Twain's sto­
ries, related shortly before her death
at Hannibal, Mo., how she had once
gone through an experience as t lir lll
lng as any that Twala had created
for his fiction. During the C ivil war
Mrs. Fraser’s husband was a strong
southern sympathizer and as he was
a doctor he defied federal authorities
In treating wounded Confederate sol
dlers. He finally was put in prison
about the time that Gen. Johu BlcNell
came to Hannibal to suppress the
southern sympathy and camped In Mr.
Fraser’s front yard while be picked
out ten prisoners of Confederate lean­
ings io be "converted” by a firing
squad. Mrs. Fraser, fearing the In­
clusion of her husband, Invited the
general to a specially prepared din­
ner and h< was so overcome w ith cul­
inary delights that he ordered Fraser’s
release. Bat he reconsidered the next
day and hnd him re-arrested, though
he spared his life .—D etroit News.
E ffect» o f M aln u trition
M alnutrition Is a condition of un­
dernourishment or underweigtiL C hil­
dren with m alsutrjtlon do not all be­
have the same wny. Some are pate,
dull and llstlesa, w ith dark rings under
the eyes, tire easily and have no am­
bition for work or ploy; their work In
school Is often so poor that they must
frequently repent their grades. Oth­
ers Hre nervous and fre tfu l, hard to
please, and hard to manage; they eat
and sleep badly. S till others are over-
nmbltlous. constantly active, restless;
I hey find It difficult to concentrate.
Children get Into a condition of mal
nutrition because their growth Is not
watched. To grow In height and gain
regularly In weight Is Just as much a
sign of health In a boy or g irl of nine
or ten as In a baby.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that Helen
Deyo has been appointed Adminis­
tratrix of the Estate of Clinton Clif­
ford Calvin Deyo, Deceased, and has
qualified as such.
All persons having claims against
said Estate are hereby notified and
required to present the same, duly
verified, to said Administratrix at
Rufus, Sherman County, Oregon,
within six months of the date of the
first publication of this notice. The
first publication is December 27, 1929.
Helen Deyo, Administratrix.
J. Tracy Barton.
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Attorney for Estate
Dr J. R. Morgan
DENTIST
United States Dental Ex­
aminer for this district
OFFICE AT
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People gan reach me from Moro
at night from the long distance
booth at Hotel Moro by r in g in g
The Dalles.
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Physician and Surgeon
THE DALLES, OREGON
Office at Mid-Columbia Hospital
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Phone No. Hospital 841
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When in The Dalles
HAVE YOUR
Lunch or Dinner
(Full Course)
at the
ESTAURANT
408 E. 2nd St.
The Dalles, Oregon
We also serve, at usual prices,
Lunch and Dinner combinations
that are said by our patrons to
equal Home Cooking.
Phone 35-J
“ QUIET SERVICE ”
Lady Assistants
CRANDALL
Undertaking Company
THE DALLES, OREGON
Bank Hotel
Th« D all««’ N«w««t and B est
H ostalry
Centrally Located
S h erm an
C ou n ty
H ead q u arter«
EDW. BALL, MANAGER
THE DALLES, OREGON
Model Laundry
THE
DALLES
Calls for and Delivers
in Moro Wasco
and Grass Valley
Mondays and Thursdays
CALLAW AY’S
FUNERAL CHAPEL
Funeral Directors
and Embalmers
Union and Third St.
The Dalles, Ore.
MORO, OREGON
N EW
W . C . B R Y A N T
P E R K IN S H O T E L
Washington at Fifth Street,
Attorney - at - Law
PO RTLA N D,
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OREGON
Our usual pre-war transient
rates still prevail.
Special Rates to permanent Guests
OFFICE PHONE MAIN 93
Moro, Oregon
EYE STRAIN
Can only be corrected under the
proper conditions and by the use
of the very best of equipment.
We have the Best Equipped Optical
office in Eastern Oregon.
OPTICS EXCLUSIVELY
UNDER THE
PERSONAL MANAGEMENT OF
Edward C. Holt
Newhouse Optica! Co.
RATES
Room with bath privilege, $1. up
Outside room with private bath,
$1.60 up
Dr. Geo. F. Newhouse, Proprietor
820 East Second Street
i THE DALLES. OREGON
Special rates where more th>p two
persons occupy one room.
Let us, show you our
Accommodations