The Gate city journal., February 13, 1920, Image 3

THE GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON.
culminating In the sailing o f (ha now
Mayflower, which will carry th » re­
turning American committee and Brit­
ish delegations who are to partlck
pate In the program on this side o f th#
Atlantic.
Main event* o f the American celebra­
tion will be In Plymouth, Mass., and
Boston, where historical nageants will
be held, followed by a big reception
in New York. Vice President Mnralmll
is honorary chairman o f the commit­
tee having the local program In churge.
The foreign visitors will then be
I taken on n tour o f the United States,
j On November 24, 1920, there will be a
universal observance o f Thanksgiving
day In England, Holland and the
United States.
Mayflower Is to
Sail This Year
H nn One Will Cross Atlantic in
the England-Holland-United
States Celebration.
SHIP’S 300TH ANNIVERSARY
Plan* Announced for Celebration In
Honor o f Pilgrim Father*— Main
American Event* W ill Be In
Boater *nd Plymouth.
N ew Tork.—'fh e three hundredth an­
niversary of the Pilgrim Fathers, ten­
tative plans o f which have just been
announced here, w ill Include celebra­
tions In England, Holland and the
United States, and will continue from
May to December. 1920.
A four-day program In Leyden. Am­
sterdam and Rotterdam, whence the
Pilgrim s sailed three centuries ago
to the Amerlcnn wilderness, where they
might find “ freedom to worship God,”
w ill start on August 30, when commit­
tees from the United States and Eng­
land will be received at the University
o f Leyden.
Scholar* W ill Deliver Address**.
Addresses commemorative o f the oc­
casion w ill be delivered by scholars
freCi the three countries. Including the
recfor o f the university, Dr. Rendel
Harris of Manchester, England; Vis­
count Bryce, and n famous American
who has not yet been designated.
The next day, August 31, the birth­
day o f the queen o f the Netherlands,
w ill include, besides a congress In
the town hall, n religious memorial
service In the Pleterskirk, in which
Rev. John Robinson, who led the sep-
nrntlonlsts from the Church o f Eng­
land (the Pilgrim s) to Holland In 1009,
was burled.
,
One o f the features o f the holldny
at Amsterdam, September 1, will be a
meeting In the Rijksinuseum, the un­
veiling o f a memorial window In the
Bagljnekerk and a reception. The
next day there will be an aquatic pag­
eant In Rotterdam, the visitors travel­
ing In the morning from Leyden to
Delftshaven If possible by boat along
the way the Pilgrim s went.
Then there w ill be trips to the re-
Sight Fails As Artist
Paints Heroic Nurse
London.— W hile engaged on a
large pjeture denllng with the
fate o f Edith X. Cavell, Mr. Van
Rulth, a veteran painter, dis­
covered that his eyesight was
falling. Oculists predicted that
the painter, who Ik eighty years
o f age, would lose his sight In
a few months. Nevertheless he
persevered and added the last
touches to his work on the-an­
niversary o f the armistice.
.-■ « S S «
Chimney Is Found
Choked With Honey
Orland, Cal.— A chimney o f
the W. E. Spence residence here,
Idle during the summer months,
was found to be choked with
honey when an attempt was
made to start the first winter
fire. Bees had chosen the spot
as their home and had complete­
ly sealed the chimney top after
storing pounds o f honey.
New
fork .— Approximate»/ 68,000
girls have disappeared or run away
from their homes In the United Stntes
during the last year, according to a
statement Issued by the T raveler*’ Aid
society.
A special meeting o f the society has
been called to devise plans to meet <u-
mnnds made by the grent Increase In
runaways nnd helpless travelers. Th.
meeting will he attended by officials
o f the transatlantic lines nnd repre­
sentatives o f Protestnnt, Catholic and
Jewish social agencies.
llglous havens o f Rotterdam, a memo­
rial service In the church at Delfts­
haven. and at 7 p. m. the English and
Amerlcnn contingents will depart for
Southampton.
The celebration In Englnnd will start
In May, 1920, with meetings In Scroohy,
the home of Robinson; Austerfleld.
Boston and Sheffield.
From August 4 to September 20
there will be cermonies In Cambridge,
London, Southampton and other pluces,
Soap Bubbles Kept
Intact W hole Y ear
*
Scientific Society Gives Informa­
tion on Sir James Dewar’s
Test.
ALWAYS MYSTERY TO SCIENCE
When Bubble Becomes Very Old It
O ffer* Only Possible Example of
the Molecule Visible to the
Naked Eye.
Philadelphia, Pa.— Facts about the
prodigious strength o f soap bubbles,
proved by experiments In which bub­
bles w ere kept Intact fo r more than a
year nnd subjected to all sorts of
weight strains, were made public here
for the first time by the Franklin In­
stitute, one o f the oldest scientific so­
cieties In the United Stntes.
Important to Chemists.
Coming on the heels o f the an­
nouncement of Einstein’s discoveries
o f the gravitational bending o f light,
the exploitation o f the soap bubble Is
on the other end of the scale ns to
size, yet, according to scientists. Is
o f tremendous Importance to chemists,
physicists and research workers In the
strength o f materials and essentlnh ele­
ments. The man who made-the experi­
ment Is universally recognized as one
o f the leading scientists in the world.
He Is Sir James Dewar, LL . D „ D. Sc.,
“ Hornets” o f the new Pacific fleet, tile sw ift destroyers, photographed
from an airplane flying over them at anchor In San IMegu harbor.
Owner Offers Them to State or Na­
tional Authorities to Include
In Park.
That United State* Record Lead* Trav.
elera* Aid Society to Tak*
Action.
$3SSSt>-
DESTROYER NEST ON THE PACIFIC COAST
INDIAN PAINTINGS ON CLIFFS
68,000 GIRLS MISSING IN YEAR
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F. IL S„ Fnllerlnn Processor o f Chem
Istry, Royal Institution o f Great
Britain, and an honorary member of
the Franklin Institute.
The soap bubble Is n simple thing
yet It has always been more or less
a mystery to scientists. They consider
It perhaps the best phenomenon exist­
ing fo r the study o f the habits nnd
idiosyncrasies o f the molecule.
Scientists
now
claim,
on
fhr
strength o f the experiment made by
Sir James Dewar, that when n soap
bubble becomes very old, say In thre*
or four du.vs, It offers the only pos
slide example o f the molecule visible
to the naked eye. Most parts o f the
bubble are estimated to consist of
about one hundred layers o f molecules
But by various methods o f treatment
the bubble Is Induced to
perform
“ stunts” until In black spots whlrli
appear It represents only a single luj-
er o f molecules.
Remarkable Strength.
This layer Is so thin that Sir Jame»
estimates It would tnke one nnd one-
third million like It, snperlmposed. to
mnke an Inch. Yet, when the soap hute
hie Is permitted to mature in air that
has been freed o f Its nnturnl enemies.
It Is so strong that It will support
drops o f water many times Its own
weight before breaking. Sometimes a
bubble Is torn from Its supporting ring
by the weight before the molecules re­
lease t\cir bulldog grip.
Beneficial Effects of Migratory
Your Home and
Their s
■y Katharine Eggleston Robert*.
(C « * / r l* b t . n i l , W a iO r t Nrw iipaiM r Union)
I've never been In your home and. of
course, I know there are no other* Just
like It. Similar? Yea, but there’* a
difference, you know. Consequently.
I'm not going to say anything more
about your home; I ’m going to talk of
their homes and you may draw the
comparison for yourself If you want to.
There are three kinds o f homes In
Belgium, the one In the comparatively
undestroyed city that the GermaD
tried to keep fo r him self; the home In
the shelled and fired village, -and the
home In No Man's Land.
Oh, yes,
there are homes there. But wait, we
cannot be omnipresent; we must visit
one place at a time.
This city looks pretty well, doesn't
It? A building once stood In piece of
those signbourds, but, unless you look
at the plaster hanging to the adjacent
houses you would never know. Things
have been cleaned up quite thoroughly
since that happened a! the beginning
o f the war. Except to a few people,
those boards talk only o f the things
they advertise. There’s the house to
which we are going— thH» one where
the painter Is working on the door.
Queer, Isn't It. how all of the houses
look alike here?— narrow, o f white
plaster with a sharp pointed roof.
This door Is like all the other doors,
too.
It has the same sort of dents
made by butts o f German guns de­
manding entrance; the same kind of
i misfitting wooden letter slot to replace
the copper one the Germans took ; the
same pattern o f ugly Iron door handle
substituting for the old one o f bronze.
Thut Is why the painter is hired, even
If neeessirles must be sacrificed, to
paint over that letter slot so that It
| won't speak so eloquently, to cover
those shrieking scars, to hide the mi s­
ery of the people behind the locked
dours o f their homes. So far you have
seen only one side o f the door— the
outside. But the people are expecting
us and we go Into the drawing room.
! You must uot notice that the doors
; have no knobs. They were brass and
I are now sojourning In Germany. Did
you ever get a warmer welcome? I
doubt it. As we sip our coffee there
Is so much laughter and Joking that
you scarcely notice the faded places on
the wall where the now-despo’ led fam­
ily portraits and other vulr.able plc-
Old Letter Settles Case.
Wilmington. Del.— An age-worn, tat.
tered letter nnd three words In the
codicil o f Jesse Chandler settled a
long-pending case In the court of
chancery recently when Chancellor
Curtis Issued an order that Samuel M.
Hnrvey o f West Chester, Pa., be paid
$14,500 from the estate. Harvey's wit*,
one o f the 38 legatees he was suing,
lost the suit, but will have a half share
In the money awarded.
Harvey had
agreed with Jesse Chandler to buy 106
acres o f farmland In Christiana Hun­
dred for $20,000. When Chandler died
before the deal was completed he stip­
ulated In his will thnt the farm should
be sold fo r that amount to Harvey.
Meanwhile the farm hnd been sold for
$34,000. nnd while the legatees contend­
Work of the Men Who
ed that the entire amount should be
tures hung. But though she laughs.
divided, Hnrvey claimed thnt only $20,
Madame van Bree has not forgotten
000, or his agreed purchase price
should he divided. The court upheld that her mattresses, her linen nnd tier
his contention.
copper kitchen utensils are keeping
company with doorknobs In Germany.
Shin Bone for Her Spin*.
W e quit the elty nnd. as we walk up
Watertown. N. Y.— With a portion ei the street o f a fire-eaten village, we
her shinbone replacing what hnd pre­ wonder at the number of people hurry­
viously been a diseased section of her ing about. Where do they live? For
spine. Miss Irene Houghes. eighteen
the most part only crumbling shells of
years old, o f Alexandria Bay, Is on the houses line the roadway. But. swing­
road to recovery is the Sisters’ hos- ing from the yuw-Dlng doors o f these
pltal here.
wrecks, are signs which startle us.
‘•Coiffeur."
“ C afe,"
and
others.
Through a hole In a front wall we
step Into a roofless building.
A fter
wslklng between heaps o f debris we
reach a little two-roomed home made
from bricks thnt fell when (lie front
number o f reports received, however
of the house crushed In. There again
wa# not large. Many o f the person» j we see the sign. "C afe." Within, a tall
who had form erly taken part in (he woman In a white cap and blue apron
annual bird count# were unable to hustles about the neat, hare room, pre­
find time fo r the work required by the paring coffee and pouring beer for the
fifth count.
customers. Over to the corner an old
“ Many species o f migratory bird*,” woman sits making lace. Her faded
reports the chief o f the bureau o f hl<>. eyes are weary o f seeing a worl-J of
logical survey, “ have had a marked In­ chaos and they cling to the lace fot
crease under the existing treaty act. solace. She can weave what p l—.ure*
W aterfow l formerly driven to the far she wants .-nto the lace.
North hy spring shooting hare re­
As we wander through the village
mained In steadily Increasing numbers we find that almost everybody la living
to breed in localities where none had In a house thut la at least half de­
previously nested for many years."
stroyed.
But the people we meet
chuckle and say. "You should have
Grasping Landlady Sentenced.
seen us six month* ago This Is really
Budapest. Hungary.— Dr. Charlotte palnrlal now and we are fat compared
Stecai, a physician, has heen sentenced to w hat we were then. Have you aeeu
to two months' Imprisonment because our dance platform ?”
she refused to rent an apartment to a
“ Ihinces!" you gasp. "D o yon have
tenant unless he would buy her fur­ them here?"
niture for 100.000 crowns (nominally
W e are shown the wooden floor In
$20.0X1). The action o f the court la la the cleared basement o f * shattered
line with the effort to provide housing factory. “ W e must dance and make
fo r th* over-congested cRy.
Berry It I* uot good to b* always sad.
BIRDS SHOW INCREASE
Austin. Tex.— The most remarkable
Act Being Felt.
Indian paintings or photographs In the
Southwest have been offered to state
or national authorities, provided the W aterfow l Have Been Breeding Rap.
cliffs upon which they are drawn are
idly Under Protection, the
Inclosed In a park and adequately
Bureau Declares.
guarded, according to J. E. Pearce, as­
sociate professor o f anthropology of
Washington.— The beneficial effects
the University o f Texns.
o
f
the migratory bird treaty act are
These paintings, which are owned
by B. D. Sims o f Paint Rock are lo­ beginning to be f e l t The United States
cated along the banks o f the Concho department o f agriculture, through Its
river near Paint Rock, upon every bureau o f biological survey, has con­
available surface fo r a half-mile. They ducted Investigations o f the breeding
are In deep red. with an occasional areas o f ducks in North Dakota and
Nebraska.
Compared
with former
black figure or character.
All phases o f the early tribe» are I years, a gratifying Increase o f breed­
represented. Mr. Pearce declare», and ing waterfowl, particularly in North
The fifth annual
an much valnahle historical material Dakota, Is evident.
Is Included in these paintings that Mr. series o f counts o f birds o f all specie*
Pearce will have them copied 1% «c a le j breeding on »elected areas In various
for a repojt to the Smithsonian Insu­ | parts o f the United 8tates contained a
lation, for which he Is doing research large proportion o f reports showing In-
| creases In bird population. The total
BELGIUM SKETCHES
On* cannot work so well to recover,”
explains a youngster who was In army
Hut how can so many people llv * In
such small homes? They can because
they must The more fortunate ones
must make room fo r those who have
uot been left even the bricks o f their
walla.
And now we ar* reaching No Mnn's
I-and. Truly th* name describes It.
As we enter that desolate, deep-pitted
waste, cluttered with splintered bay­
onets, broken guna and grinning skulls,
we pass a tiny building made a f odds
and ends o f aheetlron and on It the
owner, who possesses a grim sense of
humor, has painted “ Tank Cafe— Beer.
Wine and Ale Sold Here.”
We make our way gingerly among
the sheila that II* about, for sometimes,
you know, some of them are only
camouflaging as duds aud, when dis­
turbed, voice their protest In a loud ex­
plosion. The mutilated, leafless gray
trees look like ghosts. Often we find
beneath them a few crosses and we
¡MDDYJEVENING
M O TH ER P O L A R BEAR.
Mother Polar Bear was all alone and
she was talking softly to herself. "Ah,”
she said, "in such a short time my two
little baby bears w ill come to me.
Either one or two will come along and
I ant waiting fo r them In this little
enug den on the great Ice covered wa­
ter up north.
“ I am away from the great world,
away where no one can harm my
babies, away from everything.
But
should anyone come near me I would
defend my babies and look after them
even If It cost me my life.
“ I would try to save my life, of
course, for I need It to look after my
babies, but If that was Impossible In
order to save them I would save them
first and then hope that they would
be all right.
“ W e’re a funny lot, we polar bears.
W e’re wild and we are fierce and we
' are strong.
“ In the summer we all live far from
the coast and the shore W e're off
where there Is Ice and leath er as
cold as there can be.
“ In the spring we often take long
swimming trips out to sea and along
the coasts and In the winter we are
near the coasts fo r we must be near
food whenever the times become
hard.
“ They say It Is wonderful that we
can find food, no matter where we
may be, or no m atter how terribly
hart! a year It It'.
"Sometimes we’ve been known to
attack human beings In the winter
time far up North where the Ice was
so thick and the food so thin.
All That W a* Left.
“ At least, I suppose you would call
meet a man and woman who »top to the food that when there wasn’t much
look at each cross. Will they find the o f It. But In the spring and In the
one they are seeking? The popples summer and most o f the time we can
that grow In the shell-holes are crim­ find food, for we’re smart and clever
soned with the blood that ran over and hard winters and lands and w a­
Flanders— dream flowers, filled with ters where there Isn’t so much food,
the dreams o f heroes sleeping where will never diicourage us.
“ For years we have been able to
they grow.
But we must hurry. There In the live, and fo r years more we will live.
distance you see a few mounds. They
are houses newly erected by those who
returned to find their town obliterated.
But wliat queer things they a r e ! Some
are made o f bags filled with hardened"
dirt. A man smiles as he sees your
curiosity. "Bags o f earth they brought
for their dugouts.” he explnlns. “ We
“ It Mean» the Ice.”
looking after ourselves and our own,
■and our tummies and the food we get.
“ How delicious u meal we do have
often o f perhaps seal or perhaps wal­
rus. Both those nre delicacies for
auy polur bear.
“ And we cun capture them. W e
are stronger and we are so clever nnd
so wild and quick we enn capture
them and kill them nnd then eat
them with relish nnd with Joy.
“ But while It Is good to think o f
all the tine meals o f walrus and seal
I have hnd, and while It Is good to
know thnt there will be more o f those
meals, the Joyful thought I have now
Is to know that before long my little
cubs will nrrlve.
“ And they will be quiet with their
old mother while they are young und
the winter Is hard.
Wore Spiked Helmet*.
“ But they will he strong enough
call them 'the little Fatherlands,’ ” and when the spring comes to follow me
his smile grows Into a broad grin. along and jump right Into the icy
Other dome-shaped houses are built of water after me and swim about in IL
“ Sometimes they enn Jump In very,
sheets of corrugated Iron taken from
the debris. One o f these, larger than very young, hut I will wait with my
the others, is a church. Finally we cubs until the wenther Is springlike
find people living in the old dugouts. which means that I will wait until
They live? Well, exist, if you prefer the Ice Is breaking up Into grent packs
the word, hut really they live. Their and gigantic pieces.
furniture Is only scraps. From their
“ Spring to a polar hear doesn't
plowing they reap a harvest of glaring mean warm weather and such things
skulls nnd rotting tunics. Hut, In spite as buds nnd flowers nnd soft breezes;
of It all. they have their kermess, their It means the ice sailing along In enor­
merrymaking nnd. out o f old car­ mous pieces, floating down the rivers
tridges. the children with hungry eyes and down the coasts o f the sea.
make whistles on which to play tuneg.
"But no one will harm my babies.
Those are the homes o f Belgium; No. a mother polar bear loves her lit­
these are the people of Belgium, strug­ tle cubs and she will protect them
gling to lift their homes our of the with her own life.
Nothing Is so
ruins. It will he long before the weak much to her ns their lives.
grass that grows In the shell-holes la
“ Ah, It Is so wonderful to wait for
bright, sturdy green; It will he long them, and soon I will see the little
before Belgium can rest.
But the dear*, or the little dear as the *nse
world Is wrong If It believes that the may be.
black-draped, drooping, supplicating |
“ And when I take them nut Into the
figure It calls '‘ Belgium" In its pageants
great world I will be able to hold
Is a true representation. Belgium is
them safely between me and my fore­
weary with war, weak with starvation,
legs when I'm swimming. If there I*
heartsick with sorrow. The old Bel- 1
danger around and If anyone should
gluin cannot llv*. But Belgium does
shoot.
nol beg Belgium does not supplicate.
“ For, If they were well out o f the
Out on the travail on Flanders' fields a
new Belgium was born. It ha* thrived way by the time the bullet hit me
In privation, atlffened through suffer­ they would he able to swim to safety
ing. It lives and mnke* Its home among before they could he captured.
“But I am a quick swimmer and
the ruins. It laughs and dances where
the world may see It; It sobs alone they won’t get me. N'o, old Mother
when none are near to hear. The war j Polar will be snfe and so will her
is not over for Belgium ; the fight o f i precious darlings.
“ Ah. the winter.” she said to her­
peace must be woo. On the wreck of
the shattered past the future must h* self, “ the cold, cold, bitter winter,
met. The fight will he long, the fight how I love It. For It I* w arn to
will be hard, but victory Is sure, for me warm to my mother's heart, for
the spirit o f free Belgium live*. It the little cubs come to me then and
they keep Mother Polar’* heart so
works, It laughs, It dances oo the ruloa
» i n n and *o happy.”