? Pag ' w t . 4. f ' 5 ! Fire! d , Tire fighting paid in tha arly day or thi coun try. Tht Smithsonian ' Institution, Washington, D. C, which U now exhibiting a ' relic, collection of aay that eommunitiea otten paid roca for putting out Are.- Insiir ance companle were also glad to reward firemen who saved insured property. i calm spell. Send landing parties in small boats. The errival of tha vessel I the high spot of the year to the 130 or so Tristans descendants of a small group placed on the island 100 years back when England took possession. The people are hardy and frugal. Their diet consiata entirely of fruit, potatoes, fish and mutton. Though tnono'tonous, the diet agrees with them. There has never been a recorded case of tooth trouble among the Inhabitants. , ' ; f, y. Around the World ! f ir ! 7 ' : , May 17, 193. . ! fi . , . , . . i! 1 ! . Paa ! j ' jJ t; r t : Pica for Fragrance, ? AJ iV r2 . e j form, color, fragrance, These, era ithe things ebout a flower which appeal to our senses, yet the Department of Agriculture claim that many people plant only those i f ,, . Danger Spotter. I 10 flow'eri which are beautiful la form and color, neglecting those i with perfum. This was not true in Martha Washington's day. Then manufac- s AVA I, 15 occur in crankshafts. These often break propeller blades which, in turn, tear motors loose. Tests by the Bureau ef Standards in Washington, D. C show 'that propellers usually break near the hubs, or a few inches from the lips. Motor housings on d planes usually are made weaker than wings holding them. Thus, if propeller breaks, the vibration tear out the motor Instead of ripping off the entire wing. multi-motore- i j Lone Eagle. Nine years ago May 30, a silvery monoplan lifted itself from the mud of Roosevelt Field, Dong and sped into the Atlantic u j i evening, 'a Paris L Bourget Field acclaimed a talk w slim youth who, The numbers on the map above match the numbers beside netes items. ' They trill help you locate the spot tchere each event took place, or Poet of the Birdlamls. '"Birds are just Ilka, ourto selves, according tcherm Wallace Havelock Robb, 3 cos , the "Poet of the Canabland, fdian, Birdlands." "No two are alike. mists, They have a sense of humor and Sea National NWfirreL Next 4 sens of justice. The lure ef hidden treas- mob at The ' Bureau of Public Congress, but the .country was still f It was this same sense of jiistic ure has produced, a Roads, Deportment of "horse conscious and not much was (or j n j u slice) brand-ned Invention,' It's Agriculture, Is the done except to Improve a few that started the ' a sort of combination clambering from mating agency which routes used by mail carriers. poet; ea his 'The baboon, moat dog-- , anhas mad submarine and tractor. In which the plane, possible the system at It was not until after the World families in bird like of the apes, is a Us daring inventor, Halley H. Hamnounced siitiply, great highways . which today link Wr that the United State really (ore Here 1 th first-claIn nuisance can '1 .am Charles every section of the country. on crawl lin, about the blithely brgan to build roads. But a peek at plcliire: a Africa. He not only de . CanaThe bureau does not build reads, the ocean's floor in search of sunken A. Lindbergh. history of, this vour! the farmers crops, but some- dian- hoy waa treasure ships! That was the except In the national parks, it country will reveal why., , times carries off the farmer's btby. The submarine tractor was re- Old females are tha worst baby- -' high spot of an merely, supervises road building to The highways used by the early Cutting cently tested tn the waters near air earner hav- see that proper materials and meth- pioneers were the waterway. As grass ' surroundsnatchers. Apparently they carry San Francisco, Calif, and hat opeeff infanta to satisfy, their hunger In ing Its begin- ods are used, and allocates Federal settlements became more numerous, ing feta home In Paris, Prance. There men prac- rated at a depth of 400 feci No - to mother, something. nings tn Wash- funds to help the States build roads lead routes developed. At first the Ontario, ff tice shooting et black Iron figures It makes 1 mile per ington, D. C. An d which flt Into the national scheme One story current In South Africa pioneers foi lowed rude Indian trails, tankluig was th Injustice hashed The correctly posed. hour at that depth. son of tha Congressman from of highways, la addition, it is new arossed streams on logs, rivers 'In felt wince he was wrongfully acconcerns a pet baboon who stole muzzle-loaded da combat is pistolet of robbing a waxwing's nest. Once inside the queer contrivance, Little Falls, Mms, gasped as early administering Ui expenditure ef oiinoe ferries. Year after year the cused baby from Its cradle and, took lb used. A hit oo the "Iron Man's" ; He ran hla lawn mower, beneath $300,000,004 for the elimination of the Indian trails were cut wider jm-t- il up on the root of the house, Sev- heart counts S; the lungs, 4; the the operator hasn't much room to Birdmaa Lincoln Beachey stunted about 4 branch. 3.004 grad crossings. A bird a hone and rider or a pack ani. j move aboutj It's Only 7 feet long, a shaky flying machine. eral hours elapsed before the Iran head, 3; hips, 3; and legs, I. The To snake sure that the road built mal could travel them without great fircl) big there did not tako flight Charles, then known at "Cheese, Is ef a pistolet de combat la of .40 caliber The boy stopped, his nose so close type suited to the locality, difficulty. Later the pack trails was thrived by the exhibition, but and la the only firearm allowed on were again widened for to the bird he was looking cross-- ! not particularly , Inspired. : He tha bureau maintains aa the field of honor. where the rod Wanted to he chauffeur sad two experiment station 3 road materials and varicarte and later the Thrilled, he stepped back and. year later waa driving his father's ous types of road conTwo sente of the dramatic, freight vehicles, With i car. i called Conestoga wagons raised bis right hand In the Indian struction are rigorously So visitor at the Empire But ht never forgot that thrift. tested. In this Way it ad the passenger stage gesture ( friendship and spoke thus: Exhibition In JohannesHe remembered it storing his sec- evolved a type of road coaches. Thu developed "Little Bird, you have just shown burg, Transvaal, Union of ond year at the University ef Wis- which resists the force of the ' main roads of the me that you know. I never touched South Africa, may see a consin, jumped on his motorcycle wind and wave during colonies. On of them is that wax wing's nest Just for that white rhinoceros, one of these rarest and headed for Lincoln. Neb., and ' hurricanes in the Gulf Ull the most heavily because you have trusted, me, 1 of mammals will be shot and stuffed. ; flying instruction. traveled Coast States road In the ShaU be your friend end -a protector This 1 an unusual procedure. For fuhi fashion In f birds forever! kalelsloscopie ttoited States of tha , U. S. Engineers evolved yean the white rhino Has been promoves 'through the air: i Takes bureau ture Rout 1, connecting Bos-Io- ; And Mr. Robb has his Jikewls tected with greater care than any kept 1322.1 initial flight in April. First a method for road con- New York. Philadel-- - promise. His first bird study was other wild animal In tha world. A . a . Lack , time he's touched plane 4 bobby.. Then in I921.tat the age st ruction In the high mountain phja and Baltimore, native who killed one, even in deIng money to cover cost of possible pints of the Weat Since the panes i The pioneer road in the ef H he retired from business to fense of his own life, was tried in Far sole 4 damage to plane, esnt are blocked with snow except dur- Wete started to ISiZ with the open- devote hb whole life to the feathcourt. and Barnstorm as walker wing ered creatures tic parents could coax the baboon ing the summer months, engineers ing of the Santo F Trail Into Only 300 of the greet beasta rejumper , . . Next year survey the rout then, setting long, is now Note Mexico. It was what He claims he has never "studied down. This they finally did by main, , Most of them live In ithe and just Urge enough around to parachute built , Curtiss a former Army lean pole to mark the way. This is to enable the farmers of what was birds. Instead, hs has simply enhim tamstetjiej," a sweet Umfolosl Reserve, in Zululsnd, the permit a man to Uo full length in- buys . . . first Solos the time side. An oxygen tank allows the "Jenny others In the Hluhliiwe, another necessary because there 1 often a then the western fringe otour be liked, extremely well. I read "food hooks joyed! nature, when flying it . . . In 1324 tire ef snowfall of from 204 to 300 inches to lead with the new Re- Shout trees and birds and animals, Native p cents, however, arent sanctuary. The twe herds diver to stay under fox 14 hours. tree and in over the road wishing Jenny motor I the Tho In is driven of the electric Mexicei. spring, the public white rhino so Sente p being tnd let enjoyment be his guide. left depth. by only fortunate. When n ba- comprise always pasture fences and becomes a U. gangs can I he ix tell where the road th nearest Mexican boon carries off one of their young- In the world. power from the mother ship. Bis way to learn a subject 1$ to love , trading S. Army flying cadet tn order to I d fit sters it usually die from exposure to be built even before the snow Farther westward expansion and virtually helpltss, is intently. opened . While more fly powerful ships in the dank jungle before it can the greet creatures are generally melts. TO get the snow out of the the Mormon! California and Ore- 5 When be abandoned business for a student makes first emergency mild-teand Sheep be .rescued, Sleep. i way quickly and will gon trails, allow jvlsi pared birds,. King Edward VIIL then the also to blaat Persons who cent sleep, parachute jump . . . Leaves Army, Then, with the Trine of Wales, helped him secure more makes in three twe ! of those yean portions cogn log of the t i who a I' rt Writable, who jump . . . On eight, id 1123 Is tract of woodland near Loneliest which rood I tire tho Lthe easily or whose Kingston. Ontario. This, his bird" railway, Louis and St. mail between be have to built With summer flying Dark Aged of , "fingers are all thumbs tancigary. he poetically christened . Results Urn cron the face American around the corner. It's can find relief by taking cortin, Chicago and has idea high"Abbey Dawn." s Atlantic of to time flight of think ? He :,ls hardly Cornell University reports. precipices ways began. The fount of interesting 'tales and oean of i Christmas, Plotting dynacharges of Of birds. There was 'tha lazy Cortin is a hormone, on of airlines added to Charles A. Yet for the inhabitants of Tristan ere mite also coarse, was that those mysterious chemical substances screech owL tor Instance. that fame-- J And recently, at 34, da Cun ha. the world's most Isolated in the planted the horse ceukl which sre released into the blood by would roost on a car's radiator cap bit of land. Christmas comes when he gained laurels in another field. fsIL They lay not end screech for a ride With the certain glands. compete the mail comes, and the mail has In 1323 Floyd Bennett once commow under the railth tor 14 motion, the bird faced the Doctors have known for some Just arrived. of Admiral Byrd on a polar all winter and road end , the wind raised Us wings and Jet the time Uiat doses of cortin made panion The tiny island Is set In the South died of pneumonia, despite re detonated automobile was flight, air stream carry it into the air. - Atlantic, nervous' persons sleep better, but rerum rushed by Lindbergh. A when work begins in the spring. midway between the Cape not even dreamed ot result It dutot have to move a muscle! the Cornell scientists thought the Short time later the flier began work of Good Hope and Cape Hewn. has helped bind the Perhaps nothing wagon reads fell into disuse and t Mr Robb derived his greatest factor of mental suggestion might with Dr. Alexis Csrrcl, Thunderous seas break almost cone the United States together, moke have something to do With it. They Nobel SatiUctioq from taming blue Jay. tinuously over Its bleak and forthan good motor roads, but as late detay. winner. Together prize they nd thus they remained until the "They wete so crooked." be extried it on sheep who can't be in- perfected an instrument enabling as 1914 it was bidding shores. Winds of hurricane to travel impossible " force roar day and night' fluenced by suggestion, .and found coming of the "horseless plain "tha.t they thought everyone physicians to .study human organs between any of our larger cities on By 1914 the motorists werecarriage clamorcrook. It took me three winters But because it is a part of the I tors to take pictures of them the effects were the same on sheep, better was previously possible. a decent road. Up to that tune, than toBritish Empire, Tristan Close range. When infuriated, how- as on human beings. gef them tamed. ing for new end better roads, but Because of that doctors will know what little road building haa been the I A fiit .eccentric In dress, 'he reStates' couldn't do it entirely receives at least one steamer visit ever, they are even more dangerous says their report, better how to cope with disease and done was of a type suitable only alone. Irritability, At this point 'the Federal fuses Jto wear shirt with tight fityear, but few more. There is than their vicious black kinsmen "la replaced n by calm and sleep be- tome day, using that knowledge, tor vehicles. , . no anchorage so the vessel stay and will charge Government stepped, in and created ting collars. Even at formal lec- -j anything from-- a comes rnthilj after administration may save the life of a pneumonia In that year the frit Federal road a Off shore and. awaiting a rare 'j mouse agency the Bureau fare he always wears a shirt ef 3o a mountain. of cor in. id $3.000,000' was authorized by of Public Roads, sufferer. j j tut e4 n , f i ' , i" si Tank. BabySnatching. I J principal interest in it centered. -- ss road-buildi- h. speed-deffto- lured perfume was scarce, and the women cultivated flowers for fra, trance as well as form and colon They saved the delicate scent of rose petals by putting them In jars with salt and gathered damask, roses and lavender and dried them t make linen drawers sweet They liked the scent of I and lilacs. . The department urges that such fragrant flowers as roses, English violets, carnations and little clove pinks be planted to bring out the full possibilities of the flower gar, den. curly-haire- Electricity is revolutionizing the poultry industry. The Government's Rural Electrification Commis sion declares that electricity now prepares the feed, hatrhea th egg furnishes running water, heat th brooder, light the henhouse and ven keep the bahy chicks from pecking one another. The us of electricity In Incubet Ing eggs is especially fascinating a you cam find out for yourself. Instead of eating ycrqr next egg tot breakfast, put It In go electric in- - n, . 1 g -- dvil-iatio- pa. Half-blin- r Island. just j to n -Cl 50Ili-a- cr reason, cross-contine- nt Und-besg- ' T rackleas Train. lamp, fog sirens, bells and radio beacon Those anchored in th open sea are painted yellow; those Inside bays or harbors, scarlet Many lightships have been rammed and sunk by passing vessels; 'Others have snapped their stout anchor chains during gales and drifted ashore. On stuck fast on th sand for seven months was finally pulled ashore, hauled overland to a river, repaired, and launched again. Alt 1 - far-flu- horse-draw- 1 It . , ... de-ig- n. 'I i" " " ; 1 'jnwj Because railroad building la expensive, th scattered inhabitants of the great "outback country ef Australia have long been casting shout for something cheaper. They have Just found it In a "track- - . less train. The "train consists of huge truck and twe trailers designed by' th British colonial office. The Headache CureJ 1 fl not medicine in tb Upper Ramu district of Arrows cur hedcHes New Guinea. S. N, Gander, a missionary, reports that th Ramu natives fir blunt arrows at their foreheads at close range, claiming they get instant relief, ' Perhape this It an outgrowth of the ancient art ot trephining, once common amongprimitiv peoples. Th Sufferer, usually an epileptic, cubator, keep It at a constant tem- wet staked to th ground and a perature ef 103 degrees for 31 days circular hole scraped In his skull and a wonderful thing will happen with a sharp piece of flint This s fluffy little baby chick will was to let out the "devils causing the pain. peck his way through th shelt Some o t the electric Incubators The queer thing about trephinnow in us will hatch 23,000 of ing as practiced by the savages. more eggs at on time. The eggs are placed inside the Incubator in tiers of treys. Each day every egg Is turned with automatic hischln-erso the growing chicks inside won't be lopsided when they bateb. In some Incubator the eggs are also aired for 30 minutes each day so oxygen can get through the pores of th shells for th chicks to breathe. In other Incubators electric fan keep the eggs aired. y, Germ Eat Germ. w$r' I AH giving it enormous traction. the wheels of the train fellow in the same tracks. This does away with the problem of turning in hush. Thundering into the, outback on a demonstration rurt several days go, the trackless train was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the cow-hoys on the great cattla ranchos. And no wonder! Up to now they have had to depend entirely an camel caravans for supplies. the-thi- ck ' ' Conqaerd Continent.' r " Jerms not only wag on human beings and animals, but on each other. Doctors have taken advantage of this and are now fighting a number of diseases with ' , other diseases. Just the other day the life of an English boy was saved by this methi. For six days he had been fighting a losing battle with deadly Hit doctor broadcast meningitis. truck has eight wheels, like each of the trailers. Th drive on tb truck it distributed to all eight wheel, With Italys conquest of Africa seemingly assured, inly one little sector ot the vast "Dark Continent, remains independent It is Liberia, the Negro republic on the west coast, constituting only about i one-tim- quantities on their . side of the "pond. .7 Sardine fishing, California brand, la full of romance and color. The fishing vessel usually arrives at the fishing groiindt after dark.' The schools of sardines are easily spot- - ' ted because the- tiny animals on which they feed, called dineflagel-late- s, give off a phosphorescent light when disturbed. It is visible for 3 mile on a dark night Next morning the ship returns to port, piled to th gunwales 701111 sardines. But the beauty and color ot the fish the night before la gone. , Instead, they are Just a mass ot . sardines; usually With several pelicans walking arbund the deck stuffing the fish down their necks. , four-wheel- Hundred. m how about the lightship? Riding out terrific gsles. forbidden to leave its station under any circumstances, the lightship renders a service to humanity every bit as heroic at that of tha lighthouse. , The storm which recently battered the British Isles, for example, marooned 33 men on the lightships off the Wexford coast of Ireland far weeks. Th crew lived on emergency rations of "bully beef" and hardtack, courageously rod out the mountalnour teas, warning other ships to keep off the dangerous coast. Tb United States has $7 lightship In service. Built for strength, not beauty, Utey warn vessels of dangerous reefs' and shoals with Electric Hens. two-wheel- Rare The lowly sardine go round and around the Japanese current He is first off the thorn int Japan and then the shores ef California. Because of restrictive legist lation, th Californians claim they re not getting their share of th tiny fish. Meantime, however, the Japanese are raking them in in about the lighthouse, but 1 till : Sardine Fishing. Much has been written J cn-or- the t n appeal for Influenia germs. The germs were promptly injected into the boy. They fought tit other germs tooth and Mil and .routed them. Then there la paralysis, certain forms of which are Caused by a microscopic parasite. Bacteriologist discovered that this germ could not live in temperatures above 104 degrees, Therefore, malaria germs are Injected, producing a high fever and killing th parasite. - Heroic Lightships. . epl-aod- es y . Iron Man. On the front porch of a Camden, S. C.. house an' "Iron Man stand with a sinister history Once the target on which a noted Southern duelist perfected his aim with the pistol, it was thrown Into a swamp when dueling became un lawful in the 80s. There It lay, gathering rust until the swamp was drained not long ago and the statue' discovered by tbs work1 , men. Dueling has been j outlawed II most countries, but is not entirely A thing of the past, Students at Tire mark cast iron plate Heidelberg University in German, placed on the fronts of houses sig- atilt settle their quarrels with nifying that they were insured rapiers. Only the other day a duel with certain companies spurred occurred in Austria, attracting idj the firemen to extra efforts to save attention.' Nor can dueling schools , euch homes. ' j Rival companies raced to the fire. tirely relegated to the past. At least The stories of these races const! i one It doing a flourishing business tute some .of the most colorful In the history of fire fighting. Often, saving of property was secondary factor in what was primarily a sporting event j All aorta of tricks, soma of than father unsportsmanlike, were used to alow wp a rival. ls Tf in News, Science, Exploration and Aviation ' The battle for safety In v" aviatson goes forward, A .1 recent triumph was cored ever vibrations Which break parts in flight An adaptation of the seismograph, the Instrument to measure earthquakes. 1 used to determine the origins of vibrations, The most dangerous vibrations t i t PARADE Op; YOUTH 1936. May 17, t i 1. , 31 , "4t , part however, is that tome ot the, victims aclually recovered. Scientist have - collected many! trephined skulls. The holes in not a few of therti wre closed by new. growths of bone, the whole ot Africa. It was founded In 1823 as a haven tor freed American slaves. In 1847 it was proclaimed an independent republic with a constitution mod- cled after ours. r '