The Gate city journal., December 24, 1920, Image 4

NYSSA SCHOOL NOTES
(Crowded out from last weak.)
mind his enem ies."
"W ell, yea,” said the superinten­
dent of schools. ‘I f he is i
executive, he can't do It.
-Some injures ^implied by th e Sec­
"W illiam, attend to what IY l aay-
retary of th e Treasury: In the is-*
hut. You're listening to me with
year $763,000,000 was expended on
erne ear and looking out of the win­
each Of th e
ver 20,000.000 school
dow with the other."
children in the public schools.
The total estimated expenditures
for luxuries was $22,7000,000.
The
]>eople open’ twice as much for auto­
mobiles as for education; p ractically
three times a * much was spent on
t'taretiiee, cigars, jv l 'obaeoo; one
hililon was eipent on candy alone as
compared with seven hundred elxty-
three millions on education; while
one additional $350,000,000 for xof
driniks brought the total of these
item s up to nearly liwlce as much as
the total ror ednwatlon. The amount
for “luxurious foods,” $5.000.000,000
ogether with "luxurious services,”
$3,000,000,000, or ten times a s muc*h
as expended for the education of
children In the public schools.
"Upon he trained intelligence, the
clarified insight and the disciplined
will of our
people
in all like­
lihood will depend the Sate of the
world in the decades thus, are to
come.”
EDUCATION F IT S FOR SERVICE
With no schooling the dhd’d has
only one chance in 150,000 f ren­
dering distinguished service.
With
elementary schooling the
child has four timesi the chance of
the one without it.
With ‘H igh School educa‘*op he
has 87 time« the chance. With ooJ
lege education he has 800 times the
chance.
Fewer than 1 per cent of Ameri
cans are college graduates, yet this
1 per cent has furnished:
iFifty-five per cent of our presi­
dents.
Fifty-four per cent o f or.r vice
presidents.
Forty-seven per cen t of our speak­
ers o f the house.
Thirty-aix per cent ' f our mem­
bers of congress..
Sixty-one per ce n t of our S ecre­
taries of S ta te .
Sixty seven per ce n t of our Attor­
neys General.
Sixty-nine per cent of our judge*
of the Supreme Court.
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"M ap p in g " the A ir.
The greatest discovery rot mad# 1«
exploring the air la that the atmos­
phere conslsta of two layera, the low­
er extending from sea level up to 10,-
000 meters. In which there la a steady
fall of temperature with elevation
Thla Is called the tropospnere. Above
this there is no fall, and up to 20.00O
meters a alight rite. The upper layer
la known aa the stratosphere. It W
actually possible today for an airplane
to rise from the ground to the bottom
of the stratosphere, say about six
miles, In one hour. If we want to ex­
plore somewhat higher, say 20 miles,
we Install light instruments on
sounding balloon.
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LICENSED El
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FUNERAL I
Hla Idea of Train1* Action.
There la a story of a Suffolk (Eng­
land) yokel who, having lived some
distance from a railway station, and
being content with the society around
him, had never had need of a train,
and. being brought Into contact with a
railway, stood watching this new won­
der not far from a tunnel. His de­
A Ifa If a
scription of It afterward was that a
Alfalfa receives Its name from an
train was more or less llkp a rabbit— old Arab word which means In Eng­
“he ran up to the hole, let off aa awful lish “the best kind of fodder." The
screech and bolted Into I t ”
plant look* something like clover and ■
grows very rapidly. In fact It grows ft
Grades of Witches.
so qnlckly that three or four crops
In the olden times there were three <na bo harvested during the summer. m
classes of witches. The black witch
was a harmful affair, and the white
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Taking Chinas* Census
witch was a helpful spirit Then there
The Inhabitants of China are count­ ■
was the gray witch who was some­
times harmful and sometimes helpful. ed every yeer la a curious manotr.
Indictments against persons accused Th* eldest master of every te| houses
of witchcraft had to state the com­ has to count the families sad make a ft
list, which la sent to th* Imperial tax-
plexion of the spirit that bewitched.
bouse.
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It ha* been found by observations
made at a sulphate pulp mill that
pulpwood kept In storage from two t*
three years yields on the average, 28
per cent less pulp than wood used
when It la green, says Popular Me-
chanlcs Magazine. Pulpwood stored
even one year loses 14 per cent of
Its value In pulp production.
Action* That Count.
Let oa. if w* must have great ac­
tions make our own to. All action I*
of Infinite elasticity, and the least ad­
mits of being Inflated with celestial
i air until It eclipses the sun and th*
moon.—Emerson.
Chopping and Grinding every Sat­
urday at
Hatfield
Bro* ‘ mill at
Nyues Comme«] every Saturday.
Precursor of th* Plane.
The harpsichord, comparatively mod­ Your patronage aoHtrited.—Arr.dJ-Jt
ern, represented an attempt to con­
struct a horizontal harp that was (AAS KPVGOJE, 1 3-4
played upon by means of obloog wood­ eed very little, will sett <*o»p (or
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