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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1926)
THURSDAY. JULY IS, 192 « • ^ W W W W W W # w Î HOW= 4 J * a 4 S> j£ $ ^ j£ 4 * • i £ t £ ll £ k £ £ g £ £ £ g £ * £ £ £ NATURE MAKES PROVISION FOR TRAVELS O F ? * A l\ — How the water gets uplRlI In the trunks and sterna o f trees and plants has long been a sore pus- sle to scientists. Several the- orles have been prop<sied. none of them very satisfactory. Un- til recently the one most com- monly favored was known as the theory o f ’'capillarity.'* which assumed that the water rose In a stem much ss nil rises In a wick, through the natural ten dency o f liquids to climb up In narrow tubes and crevices. The trouble was, however, that ordi nary capillary attraction could not raise water high enough or fast enough to account for all the losses through evaporation and use within the plant. Then there was another theory that took Into account a supposed pumping action by the roots, or a so-called "foot pressure." This theory, however, was always very vague, and even those who claimed to understand It' could not explain It very convincingly. A comparatively recent devel opment Is a theory that seems to explain the phenomenon and at the same time to be free from the objections that have over thrown the earlier Ideas. This theory Is largely the outcome of experiments by a Rrltlsh sclen- tlst. Professor Dixon. He found that by sealing a column of wa ter In a glass tube and using ap- proprlate experimental means, he could make the water carry a considerable weight without breaking. Ordinarily, o f course, we think o f a stream o f water as a thing as unstable as a rope of sand, but the trick seems to lie In getting rid o f all the air; for when this was done the wa- ter column could support a strain o f several hundreds of pounds per square inch. 4 This Is exactly the condition * we find In the stems o f plants. £ HHU t « » « » » ♦ » ♦ » « » « » » » » » » ♦ ■ » » ? How Du*t May Be Used for Making Cheap Fuel If you pump cornstarch with air In to an Inclosed tube and Ignite the mix ture with an electric spark It will ex plode. Recent government experiments have shown In dust great explosive energy going to wuste. It Is this that Is utilized In a new fuel announced recently, according to Popular Sci ence Monthly. Fuel made from dost or scourlngs not only will make use o f waste ma terial, but will reduce a *blg potential fire hazard In manufacturing plants, explains W. A. Noel, an engineer of the bureau o f chemistry o f the De partment of Agriculture. It would solve the problem o f cheap fuel for factories, he add*, for It may be used In steam or gas engine*. Wood, metal, leathers, chemicals, cork, rubber, sugar, grain, cocoa and cinnamon ace b -t a few o f hundreds o f products from which the Inflamma ble dust may be obtained. Probably khe most powerful of all dusts Is that o f aluminum, while grain dusts are available In the greatest quantities. CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN tnesc rungus spores in a ceti».—Pöpu Isr Mechanics Magasina. H ow C lothe* G ot Name In studying the history o f wearing i apparel It has been ascertained that . the word cap came from a hooded ca p e: coat from the Latin “ cottl*." meaning tunic; Jacket from "Jacquet" or coat o f mall and skirt from "skyrta.” meaning short. The word costume Itself comes from the word custom, and pajamas from the Hindoo word "paajama” meaning leg cloth. ---------- o---------- REAL E S TATE TRAN SFERS (Furnished by the Jackson County Abstract Company) Natatorium & Amusement com pany to F. E. Merrick W. D. $1, Lot oil North Riverside Ave Medford. Ella C. Westerlund to Ella C. Wes- terlund et al, trustees, W. C. D. $1, Ld in DLC 62 Twp 37 S, R 1 West. Ella C. Westerlund et al, trustees, to Nellie Feeley W. D. $760 Land in DLC 62 Twp 37 S, R 1 West. Mollie Keene et vir to Ella C. Westerlund et al, trustees, Q. C. D. $1, Land in DLC 52 Twp 37 S, R 1 West. The program stresses education terms o f the actual saving o f Uvea, regarding prenatal confinement, post it is known that Kentucky's infant natal care, ana the hygiene o f in ! death rate has been reduced 6 per fancy and preschool age. Figures ! cent in the last year and that Oregon mount into thousands and millions j head! the list with the lowest infant in the number o f health conferences ; death rate which is 53 deaths among for mothers, mid wives, and children; I every 1000 children under one year number o f bulletins issued by the j of age. However, the United States Childrens’ Bureau; monthly pre in this respect, does not save babies natal letters sent to given names and i lives as well as eight foreign coun addresses; home visits and demon tries and saves mothers’ lives only strations, dental clinics, etc. half as well as the Britian, so a vast The serious needs o f rural and amount remains to be done before isolated population groups were al ( we may be satisfied with the protec- ways foremost in the minds o f the ! tion provided for mothers and chil advocates o f this Act and but few dren city activities have been developed except as temporary demonstrations Talk about having “ wheels in his and training centers. Oregon re head,” causes us to wonder why ceived attention in last year’s nat “ Ted” Morava, proprietor and me ional report when the health o ffic chanic o f the Ford garage, hasn’t ials, impressed by the absence of the affliction, as his garage is full “ instruction in childr culture,” at o f loose wheels from morning till the county fairs where animals and night undergoing tightening treat crops were receiving unlimited atten ment. He has an enviable reputa tion, stationed nurses there to ex tion in this line o f work, which he plain health values, model layettes, is now making a specialty. When diet lists for children, etc. While it is still too early to at “ Ted” tightens up on your car wheels tempt to measure the results o f this your loose wheel troubles are over enormeus educational program in for the season. H ow W ood Rota Sara Blythe Mears et vir to Walter D. Green et ux W. D. $2500 lot in Block 2, Barr’s Add. to Medford. Dr. T. J. Harris o f Florida ia call ed the successor o f Luther Burbank for his discovery of banana seeds. Vegetables, fruits, nuts, berries, ap ples, peaches, plums, tomatoes, etc., contain visible seeds for propagation of themselves. The potato and cot tonwood tree grow from cuttings— but they also bear seeds. Who ever saw the seeds of a banana? Every other edible pulpy fruit contains seeds internally, as mellons; or ex ternally, as strawberries. in. Hom e for Rant— Fiva rooms, doso Inquire at this office. D iv id e n d s fo r Y o u F ro m E lectrica l D e v e lo p m e n t Howard S. Boise et ux to Charlotte George King W. D. $10, Lot on East Main St., Medford. G. E. Hilsinger to City National Bank o f Clinton, Iowa, Wr. D. $1, Land in DLC 47 Twp 38 S, R 1 West. R. S. Page et ux to C. A. Knight Q. C. D. $5150, I,ots 3 and 10 Blk 33 Medford. Hazel E. Vaughan et vir to Arthur Hardell Webster W. D. $1, Lots 9 and 10 Blk 8 Central Point. Henrietta Walker et vir to Law rence Lush W. D. $10, Land in Tal ent. Kate R. Denniston to City o f Med ford Q. C. D. $1, Lot 1 EVi lot 2 Blk 10 Queen Anne Add to Medford. Lorraine J. McWilliams et vir to J. L. Woodcock et al W. D. $10, Lot 1 Blk 3 South Park Add to Medford. Earl Fruit company to Leo J. Mikschf' W. D. $10, Lots 7 and 8 Blk 33 Medford. Physical Growth Requires Financial Growth Hazel A. Cornelier et vir to Mamie A. Corliss W. D. $10, NW U Sec 28 Twp 40 S, R 2 West. 4 N o rg a n iz a tio n lik e the C a lifo r n ia Oregon Pow er Com pany cannot stop ^ growing. Every time a new customer is added to our lines the demand for electricity increases. T o meet the demands of thousands of new customers each year we must continue to expand our facilities for service. Leo J. Miksche et ux to L. Nied- ermeyer W. D. $10, Lota 6 6 7 8 Blk 33, Lots 17 to 26 Blk 2, West moreland Add to Medford. E. R. McLaughlin et ux to Everett E. Eads W. D. $10, Lot on Genesee street Medford. PUBLIC H EALTH N E W S The two public health nurses of j Jackson county receive half their -»alary from the federal government under an Act for the Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene o f Matern ity and Infancy, popularly known as the Sheppard-Towner Act. This act was placed upon the statutes o f the United tSates in November, 1921 for a 5-year period which means that the appropriation will expire June 30, 1927. $1,240,000' is available each year, o f which $6000 ia granted out- j right to each state and the remainder ' apportioned to the states according to population if matched by state j funds; the program is initiated and } administered under certain federal supervision and regulation, by the states themselves; it* purpose is br o a d 1 y educational, preventive rather than cuvative, and designed to stimulate local initiative and re sponsibility. This federal aid has now been ae- | cepted by 43 states and the territory o f Hawaii. Twenty-six are now matching the federal funds in full and o f the remaining 17 operating under the act two are matching within $500 the total sums available. Therefore figured roughly, $4,790.- | 000 are being devoted specifically ' to the promotion o f the welfare and hygiene o f mother* and children. But despite the importance o f dol lars in this or any other program o f human well-being, it is far more Aided by the presence o f oxygen, small plantlike growths or fungi sre responsible for the rotting of wood. These organisms feed op<>n the stsrch and other material* in the cell* of the timber, finally reducing It to dry pow der The plants In turn throw off bil lion* o f tiny spore* or cells which are carried about by Insects, the wind* and In many other way* The air I* often so loaded with them that wood la liable to decay almost anywhere. If expiated, as the plant cell* become at tached to It and develop In moist cll- mats*. It Is practically Impossible. « part» qay. to avoid UM presence of j imPort* nt to " » » " o r e 'term* o f sendee and « Next year must be the on# without a summer— a repeater of the year 1875 when the Loire in France froae over in July; and 830 when the Poe turned ice for pedestrians to cross in August and like the year 367 A. D. when the Nile put on in July a veneer of ice; and like 286 B. C. when the Euphrates congealed in summer. Thus have we had historical summer- less seasons every 553 years. Sci entists now blame sunspots. The ancients blamed their gods and demons. Ella M. Dissette to Asle Erickson et ux W. D. $1000, Lot on high street Ashland. H ow R aces D ecay But why this swift, continual flux? Why this Incessant growth and decay, this birth, senescence and death of races? Can It be that races, like indt- vlduals. go through processes o f In fancy and childhood, of maturity and senility? Pan It be that natural laws, such as limit the life of members o f a species, limit the life of a species as well, and that tribes o f plants and animals are mortal because of the very laws that brought them Into be _ lng. and that their sentence of death Is written In their very certificate of life? Perhaps perpetuity la not even potentially possible for any race— at least, for any race higher than the protozoa, those one-cel led animals In dividually capable of enduring for ever; perhaps there Is a fixed natural period, a racial "three score years and ten." beyond which no species can nor mally endure; perhaps various grow ing diseases and weaknesses o f the racial mechanism must ultimately prove fatal. Just as physical defects most eventuaHy destroy the Indi vldual.—From "The Decline o f Mao.’’ by Stanton A. Coblentz. PAGE THREE sucres* la achievement. 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