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About Central Point herald. (Central Point, Or.) 1906-1917 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1917)
ARE YOU EFFICIENT? H E R E IS A T E S T W H IC H M A Y B E O K IN T E R E S T . A n y w a y It ’s One W h ich V e ry Few P erson« F in d It Ea sy to Master, So Don’t Be Distressed If You Should F a ll. Are you efficient? The awful query refuses to down. The clocks tick It, the flat wheels In the subway thump It, the ungreased curves of the ele vated screech It. I f you are an old business fogy, the question burns In the eye of every pitying employee. You find your wife measuring the dlstunce from the range to the kitch en cabinet and your son computing the power necessary to propel n football in the lowest arc. The telephone com pany advises you to give your name Instead of saying “ Hello.” Blessed be the concrete of thought, If not of heed. Concreteness enables you to see Just what the efficiency master mean. One of them, William Fretz Kemble, tells In Industrial Management “ How to Test Your Em ployees.” Of course, every man who reads it will first test his most Im portant employee, his father's son. Watch with pad and pencil are ull that Is needed to acquaint yourself with your virtues and faults. In 30 seconds answer ns many of these ques tions ns you can: Give the name of a vegetable, a metal, un Insect, a reptile, a fish, a man, a woman, an ocean, a lake, a town. I f at the end of the half minute you have written only “ beet, gold, flea, adder,” you are pretty poor. If you have also put down “ trout, Hughes, Bickford, Atlantic," you are up to human average of eight an swers. I f you feel that you can go beyond ten answers, you may describe the color of water, tea, beer, Ivory, the sky, grass, milk, chalk, coal and skin. But men who go beyond 15 answers In 30 seconds are rare; they should hnve secretaries, limousines and big black cigars. Next try to answer five "difficult” questions In 20 seconds. 1. Who Is the greatest living gen eral? Lucky for you If you nre pro-ally. “ Joffre” or “ Haig” Is written so much more quickly than “ Hindenburg" or “ Mackensen.” 2. What Is the most powerful force iu the world? Perhaps love Isn’t, but It's a shorter word than militarism. 3. What Is tile greatest modern dis covery F Quick, man! Rndium will do. 4. What Is the greatest necessity of commerce? Secretary Redfleld probubly would not answer that In less than 11,840 words. You perhaps will write “ ships” or “ railroads” and pass on to the la st: 5. What Is the cheapest food for the human race? Bread, unless you are a fiend for lentils or employed by the makers of fluted oat-corn. But you ought to an swer three of these questions In 20 sec onds, says Mr. Kemble. I f you answer fewer, It Indicates “ slowness or de liberation In thought." A ttracted by Hats. Mrs. Bacon— I see there are many women sailors nmong the Finns and Norwegians. Mr. Bacon— Well, they think ’em so becoming that some women will do anything to be able to wear a sail or hat.” PERFECTION SLOW TO COME FEEDING SILAGE TO CALVES E vo lu tio n of P hotography a M atter of M any Y e a rs and the W o rk of M any Minds. The distinction of making the first chemical step in the history of pho tography belongs to Italy, owing to the discovery by a chemist of the six teenth century that nitrute chloride of silver Is blackened on exposure to light, while the foundation of pho tographic optics was laid by Della Porta In his Invention about 1569 of the camera obscura, i. e., the darken ing of nitrate of silver by light. Experiments In 1777 by Scheele, a Swedish chemist, and by llltter of Jena In 1801, In the action of rays of light upon horn silver, carried the science a step further. But to Thom as Wedgwood of England belongs the honor of having been the first to pro duce photographs by the action of light on a sensitive surface produced by nitrate of silver, his researches being much aided by the observations of Sir Humphrey Davy. These pho tographs were made In 1802. Twelve years later Nicephore Niepce of Chalons-sur-Saone was the first to produce permanent pictures by the means of solar radlutlon, his process, described ns hellography, consisting In coating a piece of plated silver or glass with bitumen. The daguerreotype, which did Jus tice without mercy, was produced about 1839 by Daguerre and Niepce. For more than twenty years the dnguerreotype, facetious descriptions of which nre found In the pages of Samuel Lever, Dickens, Thackeray and Reade, held tyrannous sway, W. II. Fox Talbot In the meuntlme vain ly trying to secure recognition for his calotype process, which, by the aid of paper steeped in nltrnte of sliver, pro duced the negative or Invisible picture now- used In all photographs. To Howe Is credited the Invention of the changing box, containing a doz en or more plates with a special form of dark bath, which can be changed with one plate at a time from the box and then inserted In the cumera for exposure. Changes In photogrnphlc apparatus with the Introduction of sensitive films supported not on glass but on n flex ible material led many leading pho tographers of the late sixties and early seventies to seek a material which, although possessing the trans parency of glass, would be less brittle. To Morgnn and Kidd o f Richmond, the fnshlonnble photographers of their day, belongs the distinction of evolving by means of a gelatin emulsion the bromide paper now used for enlarg ing. The rapidity and sensitiveness of modern dry plates have given birth to flashlight pictures, produced by scat tering magnesium Into a lamp flame. This system Is now Invariably used for taking group portraits at publir affairs. N o t a C u sp id o r. G. E. Lockmuler, traveling repre sentative of the Central Normal col lege, at Danville, Ind., formerly was principal of the Tipton high school. On a recent dote he returned to visit the Tipton school, and on that partic ular day Superintendent C. F. Patter son arranged an oral drill for the bene fit of the visitor. "Now will some one volunteer to give us a good definition of the word sepulcher?'” the superintendent usked In the course of the drill. A freshman girl was quick to re spond. “ A sepulcher.” she said, “ Is a spit toon.” The pupils laughed, and then laughed again when Superintendent Patterson responded: “No, a sepulcher Is not a spit— Is not a cuspidor.” MUST HAVE STUNG Best Results O btained by G ivin g Som< O th e r Feed Rich In P rotein, Such as A lfa lfa H ay. M E R IT E D REBUKE G IV E N IL L - M A N N E R E D C A S H IE R . (B y P R O F . A. I. H A E C K E R . Llncoi Neb.) Silnge Is a splendid ration but no’ complete. To get the best results yoi U n w a rra n te d Brusqueness to Poor O ld L a d y Unused to Banking W ays should have some feed to go with It which Is strong In protein, such as al Aroused the Ire of An oth er falfa hay, clover hay, oil meal or cot in the Line. tonseed meal. Cottonseed meal Is tin balance for corn silage. Here is t I f one wants to study human na great feeding problem in n nutshell ture It Is not necessary to go farther Good feeding means to supply nutri thun the nearest savings bunk, says a ents with their required nourishment writer In the New York Sun. I had at the least possible cost. The re Just Joined the line ut one cashier's qulred nourishment menus a supplj window when a womun turned to of digestible carbo-hydrates and pro me. tein In proper proportion. ' I ’ve got to be careful," she said. Corn silnge is the cheapest knowi “I ’ve got to be careful not to lose It." form of carbo-hydrates— alfalfa, cot Then I saw that she was pinning a lit tonseed meal nnd clover furnish a tle roll o f money Into a pocket In her cheap form o f protein. A thousand petticoat with a rusty safety pin. pound steer enn consume about 8f “ I hate to draw It," she went on. “ I pounds of corn silnge per dny. With had saved It cent by cent— put it away In my stocking— but with everything so high us It is, what Is a poor crea ture to do?" Another woman a few feet nxvny looked up understandlugly. She was sitting on a bench, putting some money she had evidently Just drawn into an old tin strongbox. Like the first wom an, she knew she had “ got to be care ful,” nnd did not want to lose her money on the way home. Undoubted ly she too "hated to draw It.” As I found myself third from the cashier’s window I noticed Just ahead of me n self-reliant looking woman, C alves Ea t Silage L ik e Pigs. with a richly fur-trimmed coat nnd a this he should have six or sevet Jewel Hashing on the ungloved bund pounds of alfalfa hay nnd a grain mix that held her bank book. The book ture made up of ground corn, cottou held several bills o f large denomina seed or linseed meal. The nmount ol tion. Evidently she had come to de ground feed will depend upon hov posit, not to draw on her account. quickly you wish to market the cat In front of her und facing the cash tie. The most economical rations ant ier was a delicate-looking little wom the cheapest gains nre made on smal an In the dingy black that told Its grain rations, ranging from four to si: double tale o f grief and poverty. “ How will you liuve It?" the bunk pounds. clerk was asking. Evidently the woman did not know TO SECURE PURE SEED GRAir what he meant. "H ow will you have It?" the dapper B u lle tin Issued by E x p e rt of N o rti young man looked at her with steely Dakota Expe rim e nt S tation on blue eyes and his thin lips set after the Im portant Subject. he repeated Ids formula. The woman's distress wns apparent. How to secure seed grain thnt I " I— I— don’t know,” she faltered. free from mixtures nnd diseases li " M o w —will yon h a v — it ? " The the subject matter of circular No. 1! question was rapped out like a se Just Issued by the North Dakota ex ries o f blows and the woman cowered pertinent station. under them. Professor Bolley advises securing ai The well-dressed woman put her pure seed as possible, cleaning uni huinl lightly on the arm of the other. treating it nnd sowing It so ns to lean “ He means do you want your money every seventh row for a path to wall In one or In five or ten-dollar bills," through to pick out weeds nnd th she explained softly, nnd the woman plants that are diseased or that an gave her a look of gratitude us she not true to type. In this way pun turned to the clerk and said: disease free seed can be secured to “ In fives, please, sir. I hope you'll next year's sowing. pardon me, sir; I didn't understand.” POINTS IN FARMING SYSTEM C e rta in Fa cto rs on W hich Success o Business U su a lly Depends— Deficiencies are Seen. There are certain factors on whlcl the success of a farm business usunll. depends. From these it Is usually possible b determine not only the good points li a system of farming but also Its defl elencles. The latter being known, the metlux of Improving the system becomes evl dent. FANNING MILL QUITE USEFUL M achine W ill P ay fo r Itse lf In On« 8eason— A lw a y s Some G rain T h a t Needs Cleaning. I f you raise grain, why not own i fanning mill? It will pny for Itsel Som ething O verlooked. in one season. D etails W anted. She— Didn't you promise me I should There Is always some grain tha Tuffton— If you ever call me a liar needs cleaning or grading before it li be the queen of your home? He— Yes, but when I promised you again I'll shoot you like a dog. ready for the market or for sordini Bluffton—Oh, you will, eh? By the purposes, nnd the fanning mill la th< should reign, I didn't think you were way, how does a dog shoot? going to storm machine that will put It In condition As the woman In furs took her place before the sleek young clerk, who leaned forward deferentially to do her bidding, she looked him over much as she might have studied any other strange animal behind bars. "You don't know bow you surprised me,” she said, smiling, us she bunded him her book to have her deposit cred ited. “ It did not seem strange to mu ut ull thut a poor woman (lid not un derstand your Jargon, but It did sur prise me very much that a young man supposed to be capable of filling your position wns not quick-witted enough to see that the poor thing did not un derstand.” H eating W a ter by E le c tric ity . Water In a kitchen tank may be heat ed In the summer time without start ing n fire In the rnnge, provided there is electricity In the house. A rod about un Inch and a quarter thick and about fifty Inches long filled with an Insulat ing, nonoxldixlng fluid In which a re sistance coll Is submerged Is connect ed with electric wires and Inserted In the tank. When the current Is turned on all the energy supplied to the rod Is dissipated In the water In the form of heat