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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1925. PAGE SEVEN 1 STATION S-A-N-T-A BROADCASTINr. 1 Red Light Easily Best for Signaling Purpo$e$ It Is ascertained from the bureau of standards, In the Department of Commerce, that the red light leads all the rest for signaling purposes. Its visibility far outranging lights of any other color. A grasp of the truth now scientifically demon strated of course accounts for the selection of red In the railroad serv ice, on the highway and In theaters for the "danger" light Its use In theaters and public halls, where It might; suddenly become necessary for a crowd of people to seek safe ly through emergency exits, has been criticized on the ground that green, not' red. Is the ''sufety" light But there Is common understanding of the meaning of the red light when It murks a fire exit, and the use of It to guide a pnnlrky assem blage to safety Is Justified, Inasmuch as for catching the eye there is no color so effective as red. No departure from long custom ary traffic practice Is to be expect ed as a consequence of the Intensive study of signal lights, which the bureau of standards Is making In co-operation with the national safe ty council, the railroads and high way organizations, although some difference In the shades of the col ors now In use may be recom mended. Ureen Is scientifically proved to be a fair second to red In visibility, yellow and blue follow ing In order, coucludes the Provi dence Journal. Man Long Hat Sought Dominion of the Air The desire to conquer the air and emulate the birds Is no modern fancy, but has agitated the minds of men mechanically Inclined for ages. Records of a meeting of the Royal society, held In London, Eng land, In 1G79, give the Information that "Mr. Hooke read a paper con taining a description of the way of flying, Invented and practiced by one M. Besnler, a smith, the con trivance of which consisted In or derlng four wings folding and shut ting to be moved by his bauds be fore and his legs behind, by which he was, it was said, able to Ay from a high place across a river to a pretty distance," the Montreal Star says. One of the members of the Royal society apparently cast some doubts upon the practicability of the Invention. "Mr. Henshnwe conceived that by reason of the weakness of a man's arms for such kind of motions, It would be much more probable to make a chariot or such like machine with spring and wheels, that should serve to carry one or more men In It to act and guide it." New Cue Champ Here is Edward Horemans, Bel gian cue sensation whose ' skill wrested the World's Billiard Crown from the brow of young Jake 8haetTer. This is the same crown that Willie Hoppe held for so many years. Who's next 7 as ' As tronomical Theories The naval observatory says the belief Is commonly held among astronomers that Mars Is an older planet than the earth. The old theory of the origin of the solar sys tem, called the nebular hypothesis, was first proposed by Laplace a hundred or more years ago. Accord ing to his view, the sun was once so large that It extended as far as the orbit of Neptune. In the process of shrinking to Its present size It left bits of Itself behind, each of which became a planet ; so that the further out a planet Is, the 'older it Is. , However, there are many as tronomers who do not accept this theory; several different theories are now given to explain the origin of the solar system. Pattor Easily Supreme Three small boys were talking about their fathers. The son of a writer snld : "My father Just writes a few words on a piece of paper and gets 2!5 for It." "Oh," said the lawyer's son. "my daddy Just sits In a room and tells people what to do, and they give him JW) for It." "That's nothing," snld the par son's son. "My dad gets up In the pulpit, preaches for a few minutes, and when he's finished It takes eight men to carry the money to the vestry." Preserving Trees Large wounds in frees made by the removal of branches of con siderable diameter may be protect ed by painting the cut surface with a heavy coating of white lead. A large number of wnxes, paints and' washes have been tried, and the con clusion has been drawn that any substance which Is nofTeorrosive or detrimental to growth and which will protect the heartwood from the attacks of rot spores, will prove a satisfactory covering for a cut sur face. Among such substances may be mentioned white lead, yellow ocher, coal tar and grafting wax. Awakens New Hope Some enterprising California citi zen discovered that goldfish are much more valuable In a pond of stagnant water than In a glass bowl. It Is said that a few goldfish placed In sluggish waters where mosquitoes breed will In one season eat every vestige of mosquito larvae, freeing the neighborhood of this pest. Just about the time we had given up all hope thnt this metallic colored fish had any value other than as u par' lor pet, along comes this news (lis patch. There Is hope for the gar pike yet Detroit News. Oriental Rug Designs Authorities on oriental rugs say that the rug Itself typifies the uni verse and the various designs the ever-changing course of life. The principal color, If red, typifies life of victory; If blue, royalty; If white, purity; If green, devotion, and If black, evil. In patterns the Swastika means good luck; the flower and knot, fortune and life everlasting; the circle, Immortality. The star of six points represent Allah. Lotus in America - Nelumbo nelumho, the Egyptian or Indian lotus, grows In abundance In a bayou of the Orand river, In Ottawa county, Michigan, and In but few other places In this part of the country. The bayou Is about three miles from the village of Spring Lake, a short distance up the rlvr from Lake Michigan, and n boil t thirty miles west of Ornnd Rnplds. Every year brings many visitors to the spot. Incidentally, the American lotus, Nelumho lutea, also a very rare plant, grows In two locations near Cleveland. Both of them are In the vicinity of Huron, Ohio. Sleuthing "Look at Chat mesenger boy gum shoeing along with his nose burled In a dune novel." "He's on the vllloln's trail 1 betcha," Louisville Courier-Jour- By A. B. CHAP1N Far North Alto Hat Its "Emerald hie" Were not the title pre-empted, Kodlak,- In the Katmal district of Alaska, might have been called the ''Emerald Isle" quite as well as Ire land, for its situation In the Pacific Is similar to that of .Ireland In the Atlantic ocean, Is the assertion made by a writer In the Washington Star. Although the Island of Kodlak Is LOO miles from Mount Katmal, which In June, 1912, gave one of the most tremendous volcanic explo sions ever recorded. It was buried nearly a foot deep In ash. The ashy blanket transformed the "Green Kodlak" of other days Into a gray desert of sand, but after a period of two years the ash-laden hillsides were again covered with verdure finer thnn ever before. In the words of a resident of Kodlak, "Never was such grass known before, so high or so early. No one ever believed the country could grow so many berries, nor so large, before the ash." The Island owes it's climate, as does Ireland, to the tropical ocean current which bathes Its shores. The eastern half of the Island Is occupied by a forest of spruce, whose trees reach a great size. Then comes luxuriant gruss land, equal to any grazing land In the United States, and finding a parallel only in the "guinea grass" of the tropics. Armenians Have Long Survived Other Races The Armenians have remained unchanged In all vicissitudes and by their courage have preserved until our days their nationality, their lan guage and their customs, asserts Herbert Welsh In the New Armenia. The races that the Armenians knew In their Infancy have vanished from the face of the earth. Their brothets, the Phrygians, , are today only a vague memory. Among the contemporaries of the Armenians, only the Hellenes, the Italiotes and the Oaul8 have survived, not how ever, without undergoing many changes and .abandoning many of their former customs. Except the Greeks, one must seek the kinsmen of the Armenians among the na tions who were brought from the steppes of the North toward the shores of the Mediterranean by the same flood that brought the ances tors of Halk towards Thrace. It Can clearly be seen that the titles of nobility of the Armenian race date back to more than 8,000 years before our era, and that they are much more Ancient than those of most of the European peoples. About the time when Rome was be ing founded. Halk, the eponymous hero of Armenia, led the Armenians to Ararat The Perslnns were Just commencing their political life when Armenia had already constituted herself a state. 15fo$35 time purchase era new Chevrolet Our NewGMAC time payment plan gives you the benefit of a reduc tion in rates at a big saving to you. Come in let us show you the fine quality which Chevrolet offers in a low -cost car and see how easy it is to pay for one. FERGUSON CHEVROLET COMPANY Pharaohs Built Well Toe stone used In the construc tion of the Egyptian pryamlds was from the Turah quarries. It Is es tablished that It took 100,000 men working for ten years to make a causeway 8,000 feet long to facili tate the transfer of the stone, and 20 years more to complete the pyramid of the Cheops. This pyra mid contains 2,300,000 blocks of stone averaging some 40 cubic feet. The blocks came from the Mokat tan hills as well as the Turah, both of which were on the opposite side of the Nile. Caves of Various Origins Scientists recognize a number ot different types of caves. To the American the most familiar are those tunneled In limestone and gypsum as a result of the solvent action of water. In muny coun tries lava caves have been produced by the expansion of steam and gases. Some Immense caves have been hollowed out In cliffs on the coasts by the Incessant and age long beating of waves. Philadel phia Ledger. Production of Tea The tea plant is cultivated In two varieties In China Thea bohea and thea varldes In the provinces of Kwang-Tung, Fu-Klen nnd Che-KI-ang. The tea plantations are usual ly formed In a deep rich loom, never on low lands, but on low hilly slopes. The leaves are gathered three times. In the middle of April, In the beginning of May and when the leaves again are nearly formed. The first gathering yields the finest and most delicate tea, but with consid erable Injury to the plunt. Didn't Exhibit Themselves The old gentleman was very fond of golf, but his play seemed to get worse and worse. Finally, after missing the ball every time, he turned to Ids patient caddie and remarked: "Dear, dear! There can't possibly be worse play ers than myself." "Well, perhaps there may be worse players," said the boy consol ingly, "but of course they don't play." Central Market C. W. McNAMER, Proprietor FRESH AND CURED MEATS, FISH AND POULTRY Call us when you have anything in our line to sell. Phone Main 652 Heartiett greetings and Heft Wishes to . oAll Our Friends and Customers Phelps Grocery Company PHONE 53 Zoo Has Big Food Bill Choice Items on the bill of fare of the animals In the London Zoo logical gardens during the past year Included: 440 hordes, weighing 220 t'ins, fed to the carnivores; 4 tons. 15 cwt. codfish, fed to the walrus; Xi tons of herrings and whiting, 1.Mt0 pints of shrimps, 343 gallons of fresh milk, 14.0(h) tin of con densed milk, 12S pounds of honey, 258 pounds of ants' "eggs," 77 pounds of menl worms, 150 bunches of onions, 108 heads of lettuce and 213,0i5 bananas. The food con sumed In a year cost $50,000. Keep Sweet "Suppose you look at the world through a yellow pane of glass," said the late beloved Doctor Jowett. "Why. then yon have a yellow world. Suppose you look through a dirty pane of glass. Why, then ev erything is defiled. Suppose you look at everything through a yellow pane of Jealousy, or the red pane of envy why. then you disfigure ev erything. And If you look at thing through a soured disposition yoi will not see anything that Is lovely or sweet. The cynical heart has a charmless world." On the Job Business Man Get out o r I'll throw you out! Book Agent Can't I offer you this pamphlet on "How to Control Your Temper?" JAMES J. CROSSLEY of Portland, Oregon hereby announces that he is a candidate for the Re publican nomination for U. S. Senator at the May, 1926, Primaries. Will work zealously for develop ment of Oregon and support of meas ures for real benefit of farmers as suggested by their organizations. Fa vor World Court and Reform Senate Rules. s Paid. Advertisement Ivy Not Harmful Ivy on the walls does not make a house damp. The leaves of the Ivy act as tiny umbrellas to deflect much of the rain from the wall. (t that which reaches the wall, some would be absorbed by the root lets of the Ivy, so the net result would be to keep the wall dried. While If Is true the Ivy might pre vent some of the water absorbed by the wall from evaporating quickly, yet this effect would be very small compared with the quantity of wa ter screened off. A fair growth of Ivy on sound walls that afford no entrance beyond the superficial at tachment of the rootlets, or clasp ers, Is very beneficial, as It pro motes dryness and warmth and re duces to a minimum the corrosive action of the atmosphere. BeSt Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year WILSON'S A Man's Store for Men JUST RECEIVED, CARLOAD OF Poultry and Dairy Feeds EGG MAKER, OIL MEAL, MOLASSES MEAL, GROUND BONE, Etc. Heppner Farmers Elevator Company X X x X X X X if X May Your Christmas be Merry and Your New Year filled with Hap piness, Health and - Prosperity j x X X X X X X X X X X X ft i x Sf V x x X I Sam Hughes Co. g Phone 962 All Ages Have Suffered Flow often do we bear old people say that the world la less healthy now than It was in the "young days," when most of th diseases which our doctors are, fighting seemed to be quite unknown. These aged pessimists will get rather a shock as the result of dis coveries which hsve Just been made at Solutre, near Macon, London Tlt Rlts says. Fifteen skeletons, some of them fifteen to twenty thousand years old, have been found, and many of these show that our modern maladies are by no means so new as our grand fathers Imagine. Primitive man. for Instance, seems to have suffered Just as much from rheumatism, tu bercnlosls and dental troubles as do his descendants. Heppner, Ore. p