THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Thursday, January 14, 1937
Creosote Makes
Stronger Posts
Preservative Treatment an
Aid in Making Inferior
Glory Vs. Undernourishment.
Material Last.
ANTA MONICA, CALIF -
Because their dictators are
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piling up armaments and build
ing up armies at a rate un
precedented, the German peo
ple must, it appears, go on ra
tions, cutting down their daily
consumption of breadstuffs and ,
fats, with the prospect of still I
|
more stringent restrictions.
But their overlords—a reasonably
well-nourished lot, to judge by their |
photographs —keep
I
right on preaching
that such compul
sory undernourish
ment is all for the
greater glory of the
Vaterland.
I know of but one
historic parallel to
match this.- It is to
be found in Mother
Goose, where it is
poetically set forth:
There was a piper Irvin S. Cobb
had a cow
And he had naught to give her
So he pulled out his pipes and played
her a tune
And bade the cow consider.
Signs of Disapproval.
() NCE, in Montana, I heard two
— cowboys talking about the fath
er of the sweetheart of one of them.
“I've got a kind of a sneaking
idea that Millie's paw don’t care
deeply for me,” said the lover.
“What makes you think so—some
thing he said?”
“No, because he don’t never say
nothing to me, just sniffs. But the
other night I snuck over there to
see Millie, and, as I was coming
away, I happened to look back and
the old man was shoveling my
tracks out of the front yard.”
The archbishop of Canterbury is
likely to wake up any morning and
find the British public shoveling his
tracks out of the front yards.
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International “Messifications.”
TUST about the time the contest-
• ing groups in Spain lose the
twenty or thirty confusing names
the correspondents have hung on
them and resolve themselves into
the army that’s going to take Ma
drid not later than 3 o’clock tomor
row afternoon and the army that’s
going to keep Madrid until the cows
come home, a fresh complication
breaks out in China. General Chang
gets into a mixup with General Chi
ang, possibly on the ground that
he’s a t- rographical error, and the
red fore. . of the north get all twist
ed up with the white army of the
north and the pink army of the
north by northeast and so on and
so forth, until the special writers
run out of colors.
Just one clear point stands out of
the messification. When the dust
clears away some small brown
brothers wearing the Japanese uni
form will be found sitting on top of
the heap. China’s poison is Nip
pon’s meat, every pop.
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By J. E. Davis, Extension Forester, Uni
versity of Illinois.—WNU Service.
Even willow and pin oak fence
posts can be made to last 15 years
or more if given a preservative
treatment with coaltar creosote.
If fence posts are treated with
preservatives, inferior species re-
moved from the farm woodland in
improvement cuttings may be util
ized and the more valuable species
left to grow timber. Treating is not
a difficult operation, and a treating
plant can be set up easily at little
expense. Cost of material for treat
ment varies from 6 to 10 cents a
post.
Since green or split posts will
not do for treating, the posts should
be cut a year in advance, peeled
and stacked loosely off the ground
to season thoroughly. The 100-gal-
Ion drum in which creosote is ob
tained can easily be made into a
post-treating tank by cutting out
the head and setting the drum on
a brick or stone base so that a fire
can be built beneath it. A good
thermometer that will register up
to the boiling point is the only other
essential equipment.
After 20 to 25 four-inch posts are
in the drum, enough creosote is
added to bring the level to about
three feet. The creosote is then
heated to 190 to 300 degrees Fah
renheit, with this temperature
maintained for five hours and the
creosote kept at the three-foot level.
The fire is then drawn and the tank
completely filled with creosote. Af
ter cooling for ten hours, the posts
are removed, the upper ends dipped
in the creosote, then stood up to
dry and the process repeated on
another group of posts.
Species of trees providing posts
that require treatment are pines,
hickories, maples, poplars, willows,
red oak, black oak, pin oak, syca
more, gum, American elm, ash,
basswood, buckeye, ironwood and
birch. Species providing moderately
durable posts which are improved
by treatment are red elm, black
cherry, butternut, sassafras, arbor
vitae and tamarack. Those durable
without treatment are hedge, black
locust, mulberry, red cedar, white
oak, post oak, burr oak, honey lo
cust and catalpa.
Terracing Is Effective
in Controlling Erosion
Terracing is the ultimate and
most effective method of control
ling erosion on cultivated fields, as
serts a writer in the Missouri Farm
er. A combination of terracing and
contour or strip farming reduces
the soil losses to a negligible
amount. No part of a terrace gra
dient should exceed 0.4 foot in 100
feet and the total length of a ter
race should never exceed 2,000 feet.
Flatter grades and shorter lengths
are much better. None of the ter
race slopes should ever be steeper
than one foot vertical rise to four
feet horizontal run. The top terrace
should always be constructed first,
and the others in consecutive order,
down the slope.
The provision of suitable outlets
for terraces is very important. Ar
tificial outlets are usually more sat
isfactory than natural channels as
they can be so constructed as to
prevent channel erosion. The essen
tial steps in gully control in order
of importance are: stopping head
growth, prevention of floor scouring
and side erosion, and filling of the
gully. A diversion ditch above the
head of the gully will often stop
head growth; otherwise an engi
neering structure at the gully head
is essential.
Rationalizing the Calendar.
HE plan to adopt a rational cal
endar is finding favor in admin
istration circles at Washington, as
in European countries.
Every time this proposition —
which is so sensible and seemingly
unattainable—bobs up, I think of
the little story of the venerable Ala
bama pessimist who dropped into
the general store just in time to
hear the proprietor reading aloud
from the newspaper that the proj
ect for thirteen months of twenty
eight days each had been laid for
consideration before the League of
Nations.
“I’m ag’in’ it,” declared the aged
Ration for Colts
one. “It’d be jest my luck for that
Colts that have been weaned ordi-
extry month to come in the win
ter time and ketch me short of ! narily will develop satisfactorily on
a daily ration of three-fourths of a
fodder.”
pound of grain per 100 pounds of
live weight, with good quality rough-
Stunts in the Films.
FOR ordinary film stunts, current | age being offered free choice. The
amount of grain to feed in a particu-
- prices are:
Tree fall, $25; stair fall, $50 (each ' lar case, says Wallace’s Farmer,
additional flight, $35); head-on auto depends upon how rapidly one
crash, $200; parachute jump, $150; 1 wants the colt to develop. Colts
mid-air plape change, $200; high | that are fed a relatively heavy ra-
dive, $75; being knocked down by ! tion, however, tend to develop un
auto, $75 being knocked down by soundnesses of feet and legs.
locomotive, $100; trick horse rid-
ing, $125; crashing a plane, $1,500.
Hybrid Hogs Better
It doesn’t cost a cent, though, for
According to the results of an
practically every slightly shopworn eight-year experiment at the Uni
leading man, on or off the screen, versity of Minnesota, cross-bred lit
to crave to play “Hamlet” on the ters wean earlier, are larger in
stage. But it is almost invariably number of pigs farrowed, and grow
expensive for the producers who faster, thus reducing the time re
occasionally sa. sfy these morbid quired for the pigs to reach mar
cravings.
ket weight. The experiment, re
IR VIN S. COBB.
ports a writer in the indiana Farm
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er’s Guide, showed a reduction in
feed costs of the cross-bred over the
Shampooed
Policeman (to woman driver)— pure-bred lines.
—
Hey, you, what's the matter with
you, anyway?
Stringless Celery
Lady (in traffic jam) — Well,
It is time to stop growing celery
officer, you see I just had my car with
strings in it, says Cornell Agri
washed and I can't do a thing with cultural
college. Experts have test
iti
ed these strings and found that one
of them is capable of holding the
Well-Expressed
weight of a half gallon of water.
“Wh. t a long letter you have A breeding plan to eliminate the
there.”
string is described by one of the
“Yes, sixteen pages from Aileen.” professors of the Agricultural col
“What does she say?”
lege. Crossing various strains of
“That she will tell me the news celery, he explained, already has
when she sees me." — Pearson’s proved that undesirable qualities
Weekly.
| can be replaced.
By Elmo
Scott Watson
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Newspaper
Union
First Woman Painter
V OU’LL look in vain for her name
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
cHooL Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
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Lesson for January 17
JESUS THE WATER OF LIFE
LESSON TEXT—John 4:7-26.
GOLDEN TEXT—Whosoever drinketh of
the water that I ahaU give him shall
never thirst. John 4:14.
PRIMARY TOPIC—Jesus Answering a
Woman's Question.
JUNIOR TOPIC—How a Stranger Be
came a Friend.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Jesus Meets My Greatest Needs.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Jesus Meets Our Deepest Need.
- in the average encyclopedia or
dictionary oi American biography.
Common as is the name of “John
son" in our national annals, Hen
rietta Johnson is the least known of
all of them.
In this era of the “emancipated
woman" all fields of human en
Life, light, water, bread are ele
deavor are open to feminine invad mental, fundamental things. Life
ers. But it was very different 200 must come from God. But it can
years ago. In those days woman’s exist only where there is light, and
place was very much “in the home” only God gives light.
and she might not leave it, even
It is therefore a blessed and sig
for excursions into the arts. But nificant fact that Jesus was de
it was in that field that Henrietta clared to be the life of men. He
Johnson distinguished herself and also says of himself that he is the
by doing so she placed posterity “light of the world” (John 9:5);
everlastingly in her debt. For she “the bread of life” (John 6:35). In
was America's first woman painter. our lesson today we see Him as the
We know her name but little else. one who gives “living water” (v.
Tne date of her death is recorded 10).
The incident at Jacob's well in
in the St. Philip’s church register
ir Charleston, S. C., and that is the Sychar took place when Jesus,
only established date in her history. leaving Jerusalem because of in
By the social code under which she creasing hindrance to his work,
lived, “a lady’s name should never goes up to Galilee. Unlike his Jew
appear in public print but twice: ish brethren, who detoured around
first to announce her marriage and the land of the hated “half-breed”
again to announce her death.” Since Samaritans, he “must needs go
she never married that leaves us through Samaria,” for there was a
only the date of her death—March sin-sick soul that needed him.
Space will not permit a full con
9,1728. When and where she was
born and whose daughter she was sideration of all the beauty and the
depth of spiritual truth found in
is an unsolved mystery.
We know that she was a pastel this story.
I. A Sinner Tactfully Approached
painter and in this medium she did
work that rivalled that of some of (vv. 7-15).
Every Christian is by his very
the famous French masters. We
know that she was painting these calling a soul-winner. We dare not
pictures between 1707 and 1720, delegate this responsibility to the
since the few surviving examples pastor or missionary. As soul-win
of her art were made during that ners we are vitally interested in
period. And that is a fact which our Lord’s approach to this woman
gives her work importance. For who was far from God, apparently
in her day the scheme of an heredi hopelessly involved in sinful associ
tary American aristocracy was be ations, a citizen of a hostile nation
ing tried out in Carolina and the and an adherent of another reli
people whose portraits she made gious faith.
By asking a favor of her he tact
were colonial officers and repre
sentatives of the landed gen fully placed himself (as does any
try whose great plantations sur- petitioner) for the moment, on her
own plane. He was not a distant,
ounded Charleston.
One of the notables she painted learned religious leader deigning to
was Col. William Rhett, colonel of cast a bit of religious philosophy
the provincial militia, receiver-gen to her. He was a tired, thirsty
eral of the Lords Proprietors and man asking for a drink of water.
But he was more! He was the
the man who, in 1718, captured the
famous pirate, Steve Bonnet—a gracious Son of God, ready to give
feat which would make the name the water of life.
II. A Moral Problem Faced (vv.
of Rhett forever famous, even if
some of hi., descendants hadn’t done 16-18).
One may speak knowingly of the
so in the more recent history of
promises of God’s Word, and may
South Carolina.
Just how many portraits Henri understand the “way of salvation,”
etta Johnson painted is not certain, but one will never find peace and
but the known examples of her work joy until there is a frank and open
that have survived for two cen facing of sin in the life. Let us
turies are so few that they command make no mistake at this point, for
prices which compare favorably the moral law of God is the same
with those paid for the works of the now as it was on that far-off day
“old masters” of Europe. Quite when Jesus brought the woman of
aside from their artistic and his | Samaria face to face with her own
toric value, they possess a high sin.
III. A Theological Problem Solved
“rarity value”—because they came
from the brush of America’s first (vv. 19-24).
Possibly in an effort to evade her
woman painter.
moral problem by theological dis
cussion (a common practice in our
day, tool), and partly because of
“Typhoid Mary”
her ignorance of true worship, she
HEN her Irish parents asks a question about a controver
brought her to a priest in New sial matter relating to outward cer
York city one day, he christened her emony. Is it not a singular thing
Mary Mallon. But on hospital rec how men who know nothing of spir
ords in the East she became only a itual life delight in the propagation
number, or more specifically, “Car and defense of organizations, and in
rier No. 36.” For she was the the conduct of outward religious ex
famous “Typhoid Mary.”
ercises?
Back in 1904 there occurred mys
True worship is revealed (v. 23)
terious outbreaks of typhoid fever as being (1) “In spirit.” We do
in certain sections of Westchester, not cast aside all external helps to
Long Island and other districts worship, but real worship goes
around New York city. Examina through and beyond both place and
tion of food and water failed to symbol to real soul-communion with
give any clues to the origin of the God (2) “In truth.” Sham, super-
bacilli which were causing it.
I stition, hypocrisy, have no place in
But Dr. George Soper, a sanitary I true worship. We can worship in
engineer in the municipal health truth only when we really know
service, remembered a German | the truth. MacLaren rightly said,
bacteriologist had proved that some j “The God to whom men attain by
people, while immune themselves any other path than his historical
to typhoid, carried the germ and revelation of himself is a dim, color
gave the fever to others. Tracing less abstraction, a peradventure, an
the outbreaks he found that an Irish ! object of fear or hope, as may be,
cook named Mary Mallon had, in | but not of knowledge.” Truly spoke
every instance, been employed in I Jesus — “We know what we wor-
the stricken household. He learned | ship” (V. 22).
IV. The Messiah Declared (vv.
also that Mary, at the first hint of
each illness, fled from her job.
I 25, 26;.
Jesus honors this poor fallen
Finally the health authorities
caught up with her and in 1907 she woman by making to her his first
was detained and, against her will, declaration of himself as the Mes
given an examination. She was siah. He is the high a. d exalted
found to be infected with millions one, but he is at the same time the
of typhoid bacilli.
She went to I friend of sinners. To the learned
court to gain her freedom but lost ruler of the Jews, Nicodemus, he
her suit. Finally in 1910, she was spoke of the new birth. To the
poor woman of Samaria he declares
freed.
However, typhoid epidemics be I his Messiahship.
And she forthright left her water
gan again and in each case Mary
Mallon was found to have been the I pot and went to bring others to him.
cook. Again she was confined in a
Height of Our Destiny
hospital. Eventually she became re
It is from out of the depths of our
signed to her fate, was given a lab
oratory job and then furnished a lit humility that the height of our des
tle cottage of her own on North tiny looks grandest. Let me truly
Brothers island, where she lived in feel that in myself I am nothing,
und at once, through every inlet of
semi-imprisonment for 21 years.
She died a few years ago—but not my soul, God comes in, and is ev-
from typhoid. First there was a erything in me.—W. Mountford.
stroke of paralysis from which she
Love and Fears
rallied. During the next three years
The warm loves and fears, that
she gradually failed and finally,
when she was sixty-six years old. swept over us as clouds, must lose
Death opened the door for the frail, their finite character and blend with
gray-haired little woman and "Ty God, to attain their own perfection.
phoid Mary’s” long imprisonment —Emerson.
was ended
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Ask Me Another
•
A General Quiz
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Coins, Old and New
1. What was a piece of eight?
2. What was a doubloon?
3. From what former German
coin does the word dollar come?
4. In what country is the lira the
monetary unit?
5. What part of a franc is a
centime?
6. How does "d” come to be the
abbreviation for the British pen
ny?
7. What large British dominion
uses the United States monetary
system?
8. What is a double-eagle?
9. What was a napoleon?
10. Which has the higher value,
the guinea or the pound?
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ASPOONFU
Answers
1. A Spanish silver coin worth
eight reals.
2. A Spanish gold coin worth
WEALTH AND HEALTH
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Good health and successgo together. Don’t
3. The Thaler.
handicap yourself— get rid of a sluggish,
4. Italy.
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5. One one-hundredth.
original milk of magnesia in wafer form.
6. From denarius, a Roman
Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls milk or
coin.
magnesia. Neutralizes acids and gives you
pleasant elimination. 20c, 35c & 60c sizes.
7. Canada.
8. A $20 gold piece.
0. A French gold coin, worth 20
francs.
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10. The guinea.
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