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About The Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1934-1934 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1934)
t h e pa m c h r o n ic le UII l> \M ( HUOM* I I put \( h e r s , f a r m e r s HAVE LONGER LIVES ii >»* long BASE HITS SAGE SAYINGS at He who begin* many thing* fln l*be* few. All men ar« born equal ami they die equal. Innocence, like an Idol*, once melted I* gone forever. The best hooka are the self-ex p re salon of living minds hi-ep your men company and you shall !>e of th« i -tuber. Neither great poverty nor great riche* will hear reason. German literature ha* only a half dozen or *»> classical comedies. Children And that people grow up and cau huve Ic* creuin «very day. It costs s great deal of money to ' live on a farm without farming It. A home made man Is still another variation. Ilather praiseworthy, too There Is Indeed a right of the wl*e*t but there Is no right of the strongest In glob** trottlug. If you see any thing unusual, ywu hav# to undergo hardship. A cultivate*! voice I* what one must have to play grand tady part * In the drama. Many may not bo seen at their beat while playing bridge. They are too fiercely Interested. Childhood—When the only dlsnp polntment Is rain on the day of the : Sunday-school picnic. To ho always thinking of things which are good enough to tell some body, U to lx • writer. Always pral*e the f«»l wrhen It deserves It. That I* often the only reward s good cook gets. ii»if largely *1«- If a mm h<’ a fool his si*ccoh will tell It I on wlint kind of work they ilo That ctuicluoloo has M u drawn from statistics rwtnllji nind« public In England. ('I u iik m of long Iffi» an1 |o lx* I h '*I among lie that makes himself nothing Is nothing. clergym en and furmcrw Man ^ 4 <H<cruly 1***1 the way he 1s inclined to go. r : it» two |t.'r thousand of this clergy In England art* atilt follow ing U'i-;u| carvers after tlu'y bnv« jm .«Ml seventy. and slxty-slx par thou*., ml of English farmers go on working ait or reaching three score and ton. Tin re ar»» In England I.SW.UK) people of seventy and over active ly employed. thank* to greater knowledge of the art of living than their fathers possessed. One-thlril of the adults have the ex(>e«tatlon of pausing the seventieth milestone. Itank otticl.ils am) Insuram'« agents are particularly long-lived and so are established writers. Three out of every live of them live to he sev enty and over. Crnre-dlgglng Is another of the healthful occupa tions. The Insurance premium for workers' cotufx-nsatlon has recent ly been greatly reduced among grave diggers. In England the most “dangerous" of all professions Is the thentrleal. One actor out of every six dies be fore he Is seventy and one out of thirteen succumbs to heart trou bles.—New York lierald Tribune. Leary one rakes the embers un tier his own cake. A man who will htiild air castles will buy gold bricks. The cradle manufacturer Is nat urally out for tho rocks. A man teem* to Inherit all sorts of trouble—except money. Scorn the lust word In a quarrel, secure (he tint after It One cannot draw the water from a deep well with a short rope. A great deal of Indignation at the Injustices of the world I* Just spite. If one Isn't greatly enamored with life, would lie be with tmwor tnllty ? Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be right because there are not that many. New Meter Reveals Just Our opinion of a man doesn't How to Set Carburetor need to l>e very pronounced if we No longer need the carburetor of your automobile be s mystery, says Scientific American. A newly per fected meter will promptly tell you exactly how to adjust the needle valve to give the most efficient "mixture." More accurate than the most ex perienced rejialr man. this air-fuel meter registers with scientific ex- act ness Just how much too rich or too lean the carburetor mixture Is. Of course, the average automobile owner will hardly have sufficient use for such an Instrument to bother about tt. but operators of fleets of trucks are already finding that exact adjustment of carburet ors of their motors gives them ap preciable savings In their Urge fuel bills. The new meter, developed In Newark. .V J.. Is operated by pass ing a portion of the exhaust gas through the meter after the motor has warmed up. When this exhaust gas reaches the analysis cell of the Instrument, a pointer Is deflected over a wide scale to Indicate the exact nature of the mixture. The meter operates on the Wheat stone bridge principle, comparing the thermal conductivity of the ex- haust gas and the air-fuel ratio of the carburetor. The scale of the meter Is calibrated directly In poun<ls of air per pounds of gaso line burned. S a tu r n F o reto ld Christ have to live with him. Ethics Is the science of living (he good life without any hope of reward to the next world. I This century finds Us really Im portent men more quickly than for mer centuries did. Besides your contribution to gen eral charity, have one or two pet charities of your own to warm your heart. A m e r i c a ' s M e n t a l A g« Only 3 per cent of the adults of America have mental ng»> of twelve years or less. It’s all a mistake that the average Intelligence of our people lx twelve, says Hr. l>av!d Segel. noted educator. “It has risen to 17.7 years, and 4O.0UOJJ00 of us can clan together In that group and feel at home. Ten milUop more walk on the upper crust o' the high est mental age group—twenty-three years and up." Affix S t a m p * U psid e D ow n When President Solom >n of Haiti was forced to leave the country, i Haiti could not afford to Issue new stamps, so she Issued orders that all postage stamps bearing his like ness were to be affixed upside down to the envelope and all that were not affixed In this manner were to be charged double the rate of post age. ■ ! U l s t e r F l a x Y ie ld G r o w s ! The average yield of the flax crop In northern Ireland last year Is estimated at 497 pounds an acre, compared with 421.4 In the deceit Dial period of 1923-32. Last year 9,794 acres were planted and In 1932 only <5,<X)3. This year'i acreage Is expected to be larger than ever I> m fore. After devoting many years to re- search and collecting of data Prof. Oswald Gerhardt. German theol- ogist, announces that the Star of Bethlehem was really Saturn and that the actual birth date of Christ was probably April 2, i B. C , says 1’athlinder Magazine. According to ancient authorities, both Jew'sh and Christian, the Jews were judged to be ruled by Saturn so It was to be expected that Jesus would be born under the sign of R e g u l a r P ig e o n P ost that planet Tracing the move A regular pigeon post operates be ments of Saturn, Professor Ger- hardt shows that the planet became tween the lighthouse on Alisa Craig visible and shone brightly during and the mainland. The birds carry the letters In aluminum containers the first week of April 7 B. C. clipped on their legs, the whole mall bag weighing less than a quarter of N e p tu n e H a r n e x e d Power of the tides was demon an ounce. strated recently near Boston when T h e L o w e s t Low the How was used to move a 1,200,- 000,-pound drawbridge over the An Index thermometer, left at a Fore river. The tides were made point near the summit of Mount Mc to do most of the work of moving Kinley, Alaska. In 11)12, and recov the huge structure 400 feet Scows ered 19 years later, Indicated, as were placed beneath the bridge at near as could he estimated a mini low tide and as the tide rose the mum temperature at least ns low ns draw was lifted from the supports 100 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. and floated to Its new place assist ed by tugboats. S a il i n g On "Are you going to assist In guid ing the ship of stutej" G r a t it u d e “I am," answered Senator Sor “A bachelor bas left his fortune ghum, "although I must admit that to a woman who refused him.” “And then you say we men arc when I started out In statesman ship I didn’t know It was going to pot grateful." turn out to he an airship.". Fads About 11« who laugh* last gels laughed Ib-ar wi.ilih; pviverty will bear Itself. Bridal Veil LUMBER Ih r Bridal Veil I'lm lr r Co is >’«>«r nrarrst lutulwr manufav tu rrr your neighbor* a rt ih rir rut- |4*»>rr* . . . amt the)’ s|M'«uh/r m high ! gr.ulr lumlwr Bridal V eil Timber Co. Bridal Veil. Oregon You Can Eat, Drink And Be Merry at the RAPIDS CLUB H tIC K REGU LA R MF.ALS SH ORT O R D ER S Murder and Riots Laid to Gain in Cattle Stock On« of the m.iny “different" f»-u lures of the present five year period which distinguishes It from similar periods, says Food Industrie* Mngn line, la found In the colnrtdenre of ttie peak of tho cow production cy cle with tho other bad features that go to make up what we rati bard times. During the last fifty t< fifty five years, or ever since the Depart mrnt of Agriculture ha* been k<«e(* In* track of cow numbers, tt hat been found that the c*»w population j fluctuates rhythmically up and I down, reaching a peak every six- teen years. Just why this should I occur we shall not attempt to r t ■ plain, except that bovine venture* Into matrimony and death are care fully arranged by men. The last peak occurred about 1919, a llmo when nobody especially cared, and the last valley was oh served about 1920, Those who like to look ahead and vlsua'lze the fu ture have been agonisingly watrb Ing the cow population Increase year by year during the depression, knowing that bloodshed, murder, riot and milk strike* would Inevitably re suit as the potential milk supply Steadily Increased. Each year the number have gone up between 2 and 3 per cent. i I K t l A W , V io fn e te f Y..U will cnpjy our (i»al ami our vrrvar A im r | iLi* r lor the lav hr* to rat. HEMRICH and SALEM B E E R ON TAP Beda in Our Bunkhmiaea 25c a Day Sheets, shower», heat, li^ht, etc. (¿uiet . . . Clean . . . Close In ::: AND A REAL PARTY EVERY FRIDAY NIGI IT G ulls S o l * « Clam P r o b le m Wisconsin Is the home of wise herring gulls. It appears that gulls are fond of damn, hut how to g»-t the meat out of a closed clam shell was a problem that confronted the Ing a clam la their Mil, soaring high over a concrete highway and drop ping It the shell would he d a sh e d to pieces, but the meat saved. So now Wisconsin herring gulls are Ut tering the concrete highways with broken shells, causing great num bers of blowouts. P r o t e c t i n g the C y c l e r s New roads and bridges In Sweden will have special sections reserved for bicycle riders, In view of the great Increase In the last two years In the number of people using this mode of traveling. A recent traffic census disclosed that bicycles on the roads Increased nearly 30 per cent In 1933 over the previous year’s fig ures.—American Swedish Monthly. R o d eo F e a t s C e lle d C r u e l Declaring that the feats might cause suffering to the animals, the Itoyal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has asked the National Sporting club to eliminate steer roping, wrestling and hull dodging, and the riding of unbroken, bulking or vicious horses In the gotfsov “Get ‘A ’ Premium Milk at no Extra Coat” GRADE A PASTEURIZED D A IR Y PRO D U C TS Daily »ervice. Leave order» at Lakeaide Market or get the milk at any grocery itore along the highway. BRANDES CREAMERY. Inc. ROY SINNER, Driver