Aurora observer., July 06, 1922, Image 2

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The steainsnip Biaaeiy, now* outfitting on the Delaware river near Phila­
delphia, for an expedition to the spot where the Lusitania was sunk off the
coast of Ireland during the war, to make on attempt to salvage the huge treas­
ure carried by the ill-fated Cunarder. Inset is Benjamin F. Leavitt, chief
diver of the vessel, who has invented a diving suit in which he says he can go
down 500 feet.
200,000 Killed
by Earthquake
Word of Appalling Disaster in
* Kansu Province, China, Just
Reaches United States.
MOUNTAINS MOVED IN NIGHT
tillages Were Swept Away Under Ris­
ing Sea of Loose Earth, Crevices
Swallowed Houses and Camel
Trains— Dragon Waggles Tail.
Washington.—“One of the most ap­
palling catastrophes in history and,
.perhaps, the most poorly advertised
• calamity that has occurred in modem
times,” is the way the National Geo­
graphic Magazine describes the earth­
quake in Kansu, China, “Where the
Mountains Walked.”
“Though the tremendous shaking-up
occurred, in December, 1920, the story
Is only now beginning to spread be­
yond the narrow defiles which guard
the entrance to Kansu province,” says
the article.
“Mountains that moved in the night ;
landslides that eddied like waterfalls,
crevasses that swallowed houses and
camel trains, and villages that were
swept away under a rising sea of loose
earth, were a few of the subsidiary oc­
currences.
“Mr. Josef W. Hall (Upton Close),
who visited the earthquake area under
the auspices of the International Fam­
ine relief committee, has brought back
one of the first accounts of the devas­
tated country and the strange things
that happen when the earth turns it­
self Into a contortionist. The area of
destruction, 300 by 300 miles in extent,
contains ten large cities, besides nu­
merous villages.
“One of the most dramatic episodes
of the disaster was the burial of Ma
the Benevolent, a famous Moslem
fanatic, and 300 of his followers, just
as; they had met In conclave to pro­
claim a holy war. The cave in which
they had gathered was sealed by a ter­
rific avalanche, while the group knelt
òn their, prayer-mats.
Watchman Alone Escaped.
“By some miracle, the watchman at
the entrance to the cave escaped 'with
his life, but the others were buried
so deeply that, despite months of dig­
ging over an area of a mile, the Mos­
lems have failed to recover the bodies
of their leaders.
“In another district Mr. Hall and
his party found that a whole mountain
topped by a temple had slid into a
valley.
A little beyond they found
that a road bordered by poplar trees
had ridden the crest of a slide for
three-quarters of a mile, without ap­
parent damage to the trees or even to
the birds’ nests in-their branches.
“The most appalling sight of all was
the Valley of the Dead, where seven
great slides crashed into a gap in the
hills threé miles long, killing every
living thing in the area except three
men and two dogs.
^ “In a small town on the highway^
two strangers had put up at the inn
on the evening of the disaster. In the
terror and confusion that followed
the earthquake, the landlord complete­
ly forgot Ills two guests. It was not
until several days later that he re­
membered them, and when, after con­
siderable digging, their room was
brought to light, both men were found
alive.
“The subterranean dragon of Chi­
nese cosmology who, according to the
northwest China tradition, waggles his
tail every. three hundred years, this
time played havoc, such as was never
before recorded, with the face of the
earth and the habitations of men.
Likely no other earthquake in scien­
tific annals ever changed the physical
geography of the affected region to
the extent of the Kansu cataclysm.
“The remoteness of the district in
which the earthquake occurred cannot
but intrigue Interest.
Although the
concurrent quakes in Chile and Salva­
dor, the tidal wave of Yap and the
eruption of Mt. Asama, Japan, are all
history, the Kansu disaster is still
news. What actually happened in this
frontier province of China is only now,
j through the reports of the relief in­
vestigation expedition of which Mr.
Hall was a member, being made
known in any comprehensive way,
even in China’s capital and port cities.
Life Loss May Be 200,000.
“Although the density of population
is not more than one-tenth that of
Shantung or the East China plain, the
loss of life from landslides, collapsed
cave homes, and falling buildings, to­
gether with death from exposure of
the unsheltered in mid-winter in this
high altitude, w7as, according to official
figures, 200,000, and according to ¿tie
estimate of the foreign investigators
more than half this number.
“Following the Sianfu-Lanchowfu-
Turkestan highway, we ascended a
small valley of steep grade directly
west of Tsingning. Suddenly the
high road for a length of a quarter
of a mile dropped out of sight. It had
been cut as if chopped off with an ax,
leaving the fifty-year-old poplars and
cottonwoods with which it isMined
partly uprooted, like sentinels stricken
at their post
“It was in this Valley of the Dead
that the most arresting freak of the
cataclysm occurred. Two sections of
the ancient, well-packed highway, ac­
companied by the tall trees which bor­
dered i t were cut from the line of
road following the side hill, swept hun­
dreds of yards over the stream-bed,
and set, intact upon an angle on top
oLthe heap of loose loess.”
Hb
Drops Half Mile in
Log Chute; Uninjl
Snoquolmie, Wash.—Ster
out to the edge of a snowl
ered precipice to jpoint out árne|
scenery to his wife and'littlel
son, Howard Rupert, a sales-1
man, disappeared into Boose
snow.
Mrs. Rupert quickly m) ified
men nearby, who looked for
Rupert.
They were aboi t to
give up the search on aerai nn
of darkness when the miJjfing
man appeared. He declaré® he
had dropped into a loose siJw*
drift and falling through, lMod-.
ed directly into an unused Jog
chute to carry timber in sumjjier_
to the river far below. $
Rupert said the chute was
filled with ice and that p|)ei to­
bogganed down into theJkáhey
as such a high rate of speed he
could not yell loud enougll to
be heard. Loggers found he had
taken a ride of fully hkl| a
mile in the ice-bound log chéte.
Rupert was uninjured, but #as
minus a large part of his Rear­
ing apparel.
1,000 ARE NOW LYING IDLE
2,312 Vessels Built by Shipping Bbard
in Last Five Years— New Liner,
Western World, Marks End of
Plan to Bridge Sea.
Washington.—When the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding corporation delivered to
the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
corporation the new liner Western
World, for operation by the Munson
line to South America, the greatest
shipbuilding enterprise in history was
brought to an end.
From May 24, 1917, when the wood­
en cargo carrier North Bend, the first
vessel to be built under war contracts,
was turned over to the government by
Kruse & Banks, North Bend, Ore., to
May 9, 1922, the shipping board con­
structed 2,312 ships of various types
of 13,626,711 deadweight tons. At
present more than 1,000 of these ships
are lying idle, due to the depressed
conditions in world trade and to the
inability of American shipowners to
meet foreign competition.
In announcing the end of the war­
time program, which extended for
three and a half years after the armis­
tice because of the contracts entered
into during the war, the shipping board
made public some interesting state­
ments showing the size of the great
fleet:
By JOHN BLAKE
CANNOT HOARD TIME
| N A certain time you can make a
* certain amount of money. You can
put the money away for years later,
but you can’t put the time away.
Money, called by the economists
frozen labor, might also be called
frozen time.
But time is more than money. It can
be turned into many things that can be
stored away—education, cultivated
taste, pleasant and profitable memo­
ries. But time itself you cannot
noard. You must use it as it passes,
oj J t is gone forever.
Time spent in recreation is not
w isted, unless you spend more than a
ife allowance for recreation.
But time spent in absolute idleness,
>r in activities that are worse than
die, is sheer criminal waste.
If yon-could go back over your life
d gather back the hours that have
ver been improved, you would still
Save enough time to do great things.
But those hours are gone./
You can only, as Shakespeare says,
fregret your dear time’s waste” and re-
olve to waste less of it in the future.
Many men whose time had never
een turned to account until they were
¡(past forty have s.till had enough left to
¡accomplish great things in the world.
But these are the most sincere
'mourners for the years that might
have been utilized.
If you will begin today to bear in
mind that time cannot be hoarded, and
if every hour of it is converted in­
to something that can be hoarded, you
may lay the foundation for a furtune.
You will certainly; lay the foundation
for happiness by and by.
Count your hours, and allot each one
to some task or to some profitable
recreation. See that none of them slip
by. They are as water through a mill,
which if sent over the wheel creates
valuable energy, but which spilled over
the' dam is gone forever.
(C opyright.)
—
U. S. Completes |
Record Fleet
Last Ship on War Program Is
Finished and Turned Over
to the Government.
Uncommon Sense
yards were requisitioned by the .gov­
ernment. The wood ship program(hhd
reached a total of 1,017 boats(#gff'L’flte
time building wasA
. reduced. t)f th jj
number 428 werÿ' subsequently -CâJL
cbled, 474 completed and 115 partlaliA
completed.
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When the Emergency Fleet corpora­
tion adopted the plan of building fab­
ricated ships and awarded contracts,-
for a total of 390 of 2,675,000 ton^V
doubt was expressed as to the success
of this type of construction, which
was a radical change from the accept­
ed methods. It was recognized, how­
ever, that by having the hull steel
fabricated at bridge and structural
shops throughout the country and
then assembled at the shipyards, a
considerable expansion of the ship­
building industry was possible. The
experiment proved to be successful.
To the Atlantic coast goes the dis­
tinction of having turned out the
greatest number of ships and the
largest volume of tonnage. On this
coast were built 848 vessels of 5,625,*f
188 tons. The Pacific coast was sec­
ond with 759 ships of 5,254,150 tons:
The Great Lakes was third with 479
ships of 1,625,000 tons, and the Gulf
fourth with 192 boats of 849.000 tons.
Women Replace Men.
PROMISING NEW TREATMENT FOR
ERADICATION OF SAN JOSE SCALE
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“ A fig tre e lo o k in g on a fig tre e becom -
e th fru itfu l,” s a y s th e A ra b ia n p ro v e rb .
A n d so i t is w ith c h ild re n ; th e ir f irs t In­
s tr u c to r is exam ple.
E V E R Y D A Y GOOD THINGS
"^TOW Is the time to go forth and
pluck the early watercress, the
wholesome dandelion, the dock and
poke, thg^bw shoots of milkweed and
marsh marigold or cowslips, all giving
the needed zest to the food of spring.
Fresh Dandelion Salad.
Those who appreciate the value of
the tender bleached heart of dandelion
like it with a bit of salt without any
dressing. For a salad the bleached
leaves are best, but the tender green
shoots, cut and mixed w’ith a small
green onion and served with French
dressing is a salad not to be despised.
Cut the dandelion close to the root,
with all the tender green buds. Wash
carefully and slice the root from the
base, buds and tender leaves for an
Inch above the root. These use for a
fresh salad; the rest of the leaves may
be cooked for greens. Another addi­
tion to this salad is a thinly sliced to­
mato, which adds a bit of acid and
softens the bitter of the dandelion.
Using mayonnaise on the fresh green
dandelion is another appetizing method
of serving it.
Cooked Dandelion Salad.
.Cook the greens until tender, which
will take two hours or more unless the
greens are very young, then serve with
the following salad dressing: Rub a
small bowl with a cut clove of garlic,
add one-half of a teaspoonful of salt, a
few dashes of paprika, two tablespoon­
fuls of orange juice and four to five
tablespoonfuls of olive oil. Whip this
dressing until it is creamy, then serve
on the cooked dandelions.
Seattle, Wash.—Encroachment of
women in jobs formerly occupied by
men is shown in a report just Issued
by the Seattle charriber o r commerce.
In 1920, in the State of Washington,
there were 581 women barbers, hair­
dressers and manicurists; 48 women
fishermen and oystermen; seven wom­
en dairymen, teamsters and express*
men; five women longshoremen; 24
Pigweed or Lambs’ Quarter.
women laborers in shipyards; 261 build­
This is a good wholesome grqen and
ing
laborers.
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sawmill
and
planing
Capacity of 388,363 Freight Cars.
laborers and 53 lumbermen, common enough to-be generally well
If all the vessels on the program mill
known as a weed, but not well known
raftsmen and woodchoppers.
were placed in a straight line, stem
as a good food. Pull it up by the roots
to stern, they would extend for 158
and strip off the green leaves, as the
miles, and if steaming a mile and a
stalk is generally too tough to serve.
UMBERTO
SENT
BY
W
IRE
quarter apart they would %reach from
Cook with pork or corned beef and
New York to Southampton, England.
serve hot.
The total tonnage is equal to the car­
Purslane is another good green,
rying capacity of 388,363 freight cars
which grows in profusion. Pick the
loaded 35 tons to the car. As there are
leaves and stalks, shake well and
approximately 2,800,000 cars in the
wash, then cook as any other greens.
United States, nearly one-seventh of
Horseradish, pieplant and dandelion
them would be required to load the
cooked together make a good flavored
ships. For manufacturing the rivets
combination. Yellow dock when young
alone a steel rod three-fourths of an
and tender is good.
inch in diameter and 37,500 miles long
Cowslips are delicious wnen well
would be necessary. This would ex­
cooked and seasoned. They are easy
tend one and a half times around the
to clean and do not shrink as do the
earth.
dandelions when cooking. A half peck
The building of the gigantic fleet
of tender dandelion greens will shrink
was not confined to the United States.
when cooked to a small vegetable dish­
Japan constructed 30 steel cargo car­
ful.
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riers of 243,290 tons each, and China 1
Mustard is grown for a green and
four steel ships of 40,000 tons.
makes a most tasty dish. The wild
The original program called for 3,270
mustard is good, but the leaves are
ships of 18,407,276 deadweight tons.
much smaller than those of the plant
After the armistice all construction
called Chinese mustard. A few leaves
was canceled except when it was
mk
of the mustard cut In bits and added to
found that the government would lose
the dish of lettuce improves it.
more by giving up the project than by
Pi
Watercress at this season is In its
mm
m m
completing them. This reduced the
prime, fresh and green. It grows along
program by 958 ships of 4,770,562 tons,
the banks of brooks. One should use
which represented approximately 50
This photograph of Prince Umberto, care in picking It where there is no
per cent of the vessels that were not heir to the Italian throne, vas trans­ fear of sewage contamination.
85 or 90 per cent finished.
mitted by telegraph from Rome to
1,017 Wooden Ships Built.
Milan in the presence of the king. This
In August, 1917, 431 vessels under was a feature of the opening of the
fltjLU«. /V W t r t iß .
construction in United States shlp- Commercial fair at Milan.
C o p y rig h t. 1922. W e s te rn N ew sp ap er U nion,
San Jose Scale With Larvae and Adult Beetles Feeding on Them— A, Adult
Beetle; B, Larvae; C, Pupa; All Enlarged.
B y A. L . Q U A IN T A N C E , E n to m o lo g is t !
in C h a rg e F r u i t In s e c t In v e stig a tio n s ,
U n ite d S ta te s D e p a rtm e n t o f A g ric u ltu re . ;
The San Jose scale is just now^ex-
ceedingly abundant and destructive in
many orchards in the Bentonville,
(Ark.) section, and growers state they
are unable to adequately control the
pest with the usual dormant tree treat­
ments with lime-sulphur spray. While
the bureau of entomology believes
that thorough spraying with dormant
tree strength of lime sulphur will con­
trol the San Jose scale, yet to meet
the desire of orchardlsts for other than
lime-sulphur treatments, a number of
experiments with sprays were under­
taken. The purpose of the present
article is to call attention to results
secured in the treatment of the scale
by the use of a spray containing 2
per cent of lubricating or engine oil
emulsified with potash fish-oil soap.
Remarkably Effective Spray.
^ The careful experiments in Florida
Jjy W. W. Yothers with various sprays
for the control of citrus scale insects
land the orange white fly, as published
in Farmers’ Bulletin 933, resulted in a
formula of engine-oil spray which has
been found remarkably effective in
view of the small amount of oil used,
namely, 1 per cent, emulsified with
potash fish-oil soap. Mr. Yothers found
that any one of several oils of the
lubricating type, when thoroughly
Emulsified and used at the dilution in­
dicated, was quite effective against
these scale insects and the white fly,
and these sprays have now come into
large commercial use in Florida.
The surprising efficiency of a spray
containing such a low per cent of oil
suggested the desirability of testing
sprays of this character against the
San Jose scale. The abundance and
destructiveness of the scale in the
Bentonville section of Arkansas and
tthe desire of growers for otlr^r t h a n
lime sulphur sprays, has offered ex­
cellent opportunity for testing various
dilutions of engine oil sprays against
this pest. The experiments were car­
ried out by A. J. Ackerman, of the
office of deciduous fruit insect inves­
tigations, and have included tests of
lubricating oils of a strength of from
one-half per cent to 4 per cent or 5
per cent, thoroughly emulsified with
potash fish-oil soap.
The results
showed practically complete killing of
the scale by one thorough application
of the spray of a strength as low as
2 per cent of oil. Orchardists have
been so pleased with the results , that
the 2 per cent oil spray will be ex­
tensively used In their present neces­
sity of bringing the pdst under subjec­
tion.
Injury by Oil Spray.
A point yet to be established in con­
nection with the present experiments
is the possibly Injury from oil spray |
whijeh may result _ tq _ ^
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foliage with 1 per cent of oil, it is felt
that dormant deciduous trees will prob­
ably stand without injury one annual
treatment containing 2 per cent of oil.
In order to render the treatment
available to orchardists who may wish
to test it on a small scale, the follow­
ing directions for making the stock
emulsion are given :
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PM
Formula for Stock Emulsion.
R e d E n g in e Oil, o r o il of sim ila r
g ra d e ................
g a llo n 1
W a te r ..........................................................d o .. H
P o ta s h F ish -O il Soap ......................... p o u n d 1
The oil, water and soap are placed
in a kettle or other receptacle and
heated until the contents come to a
boil. A brown scum appears pn the
surface of the mixture as it first be­
gins to boil. After boiling for a few
minutes the brown scum begins to dis­
appear and at this stage the kettle is
removed from the fire and the entire
mixture Is pumped twice under pres­
sure of about 60 pounds while still very
hot.
A proper emulsion ; cannot be
made by stirring nor should the mix--
ture be allowed to cool before it is
pumped. Too much pumping will often
break up the emulsion. During pump­
ing, ordinary pump packing is burnt
up rather quickly by the hot oil mix­
ture. For making, the stock emulsion
on a large scale an all-metal pump
W’ould be necessary.
The stock emulsion contains 662-3
per cent of oil. To make a 2 per cent
emulsion for use in a 200-gallon spray
tank it is necessary to use 6 gallons
of the stock emulsion.
Precaution should be taken to pre­
vent the stock emulsion from freezing,
which occurs at a temperature of
about 15 degrees F. above zero.
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Use Soft Water.
In cafce difficulty is experienced In
making a proper emulsion, due to
hardness of the water, the water used
should he softened by the addition of
1 pound of caustic soda or lye per 100
gallons of diluted spray. The Caustic
soda should be dissolved in 2 or 3
gallons of water and then added to
the spray tank and thoroughly stirred,
after which the proper quantity of
stock emulsion can be added.
Any one of the following, or similar
oils, may be used, some one or more
of which can doubtless be obtained in
most parts of the country:
D iam o n d P a ra ffin Oil.
180 R e d N e u tra l.
J r . R e d E n g in e O il.
N ab o b Oil.
An oil which has given excellent re­
sults in the experiments herewith re­
ported has approximately the following
characteristics:
©p. g ra v ity (20° C .)..........................
F la s h P o in t ................................
F ir e p o in t .................................. ..
V i s c o s i t y (20® C:) (E n g le r,
.914
1739 C.
204° C.
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