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Show BEAVER PHKSS Scientific Gatketeer V y. S. frt andlr-dran, w af High Production iou can v.''K o give for i'fi Campaign ..uustJngan. 4f!iI; in o& r al 1 Represents Definite Shift .iJrt Dion. 1 By BAUKIIAGE ears the solemn warning next tne larmer There are certain that he will continue to f,att,ern ta new money: S bust 3 40. si,: ,?u.rme! ins based on conditions mat aiuuuuu. ifiio farmers' general !i as well as his cash income. order :1 not come from t statement did t didn't even sources-'-ia farmer, aitnougn ne from It was made In MBS - it each palit! Lgce by a rnnklin square-cu- t, square Mann,, an ("Pop") sdvertising man, keen " tet of rural matters, and a long. Mann was friend of mine. ffrom New York bursting with liasm for his favorite theme Flavors kd prosperity on tne larm, JIFFY J KhJ i believes that business has a MrygUut iead to interpret and readjust or Home m jtzlltfisf arketing to meet the sweeping changes now taking place fr.erican agriculture, farmer is now becoming a far Important factor in the diS' inn of both consumable and eoods than ever before. rise in the farmers' economic Satire tance isn't just a matter of uld expose cash income, according to rrigible, and id It is due, rather, to the fact "on Between now has a sound the ie proper obje: bess farmer platform under him and jlan and work on a basis com- ble to any other business man. 'aimers," says Mann, "are both a new g well and experiencing b. of economic security because ferity and guaranteed prices for There is a definite products. iological response to their feel-o- f increased safety. When a er is doing well, and feeling e, look for a strong upward fe in his buying psychology." tan interprets the farm in terms dern industry he sees the farm manufacturing plant, produc- the raw materials for food. ing and numerous other prod- "Evolutionary changes, deep in farm economics," says this idealist, "have taken place h gie the farmer a stabilized omic base from which he can and work with a sense of rity he never had before." Size.,, .nri '1 ise srmer Psychology the way this liKe hard-hittin- business man and writer the psychology of the he grew up with him in ' days. He asks this question of essful tribes er as f industrialist: How would I feel about buying but necessities if my whole structure was a gamble? a ten or fifteen WJsand-dollplant and a lot of 3tock, and, once a year, I plant's wops, not knowine if the Drice uld make them worth harvesting; SW WOUM I fool?" I lann has a deep inherited kin- iP for the man who works close i 1 lh . , . . ouu anaj you cannot aouoi incerity when he adds: If 5nmi ... ).... a wi.e uujf saga win oe sung $ Ut the COllMPB hnt Iront thfl ers going through their darkest snomie I owned SFPose i j; ? 'l f . Wish 1 I mieht write that kn isaffa it from brave letters that IfciTed inln ma frnm -- ASs. tough the worst of the depres- T,J- - i can tell you that they gave llar. miui ui flliJClil.a UIQI being cynical kept me from rOUEh thooo A,,, ubt A 4. B7 the time this column is read. e greatest concentrated drive to urease firm - t farmer a definite price for what " Produces will be on. For the J3t time in history, milk and pcul-- y producers will be asked to themselves to raise as much f weir product as they possibly'"ana ey will get all the co'iiauon advice and assistance Mi the Rovcrnment can give them. Suite r,..!-- a J rfwr,,. Plowing Co"on 4 under." Lintert iciPowder Making 1"'tOS, the Vat r m& t0 the Seed tanl j, , Sactt L' Ve hair-lik- e after the e Cotton Is flbers Ion' removed in ginning. in the manu-xf- f Army if f smokeless powder. ,1'1" checking to see whether is going to be a short-iu- i. l s f tram, -j Pduct . that will - seri- n t,.;u j "'ui uic ui'ien&e iiu- - rn I i of Rep Wright Patman. of Texas, in the house of representatives, that there will be a linters shortage by the middle of 1942- -or even ls as early next February, depending upon how much the defense program is expanded, or whether or not the united states becomes involved m a snooting war." At any rate, three plans are being considered in order to meet such an emergency. First, there is the substitution of alpha pulp. This is the wood product that Germany has been using in its smokeless powder since cotton imports have been shut off as a result of the war. This is the same ingredient, too, on which rayon and cellulose industries depend. Second, the department of agriculture is experimenting with a machine for chopping up staple totton into short lengths and breaking down the fiber so as to make it usable in place of linters. Within the near future the machine will be given a trial run at the Hopewell bleachery. Third, a process has been developed for making wood linters out of the southern gum tree the familiar sweet gum, black, or Tupelo gum. Already one plant in the Midwest is turning out these wood linters which are being used interchangeably with cotton linters in powder which is going to England. H uave ringing in uieir f 4r"; III, L 4. 5. 6. The Questions Damascus. Fasces. Antares (90,000,000 times larger than our sun). 7. Yes. Gold is weighed by tha troy system, 12 ounces to the pound, while feathers are weighed by the avoirdupois measure (18 ounces to the pound). 8. Three John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Chester Arthur. 9. Its planks or plates overlap. 10. A canon is a piece of music (usually religious) in two or more known? 7. Is a pound of feathers heavier parts, echoing each other. An early specimen is "Non nobis, than a pound of gold? composed by Birde in the 8. How many names of U. S. Fourteenth century. A? with Presidents begin what 9. If a boat is clinker-builis its distinguishing feature? Over the Channel 10. What is a canon in music? What South American country has a Colorado river? 2. What writer described the Brobdingnagians? 3. What is the weight of a gallon of pure water? 4. What is believed to be the oldest city in the world that is still inhabited? 8. The bundle of rods on the back of a dime is called what? star 6. What is the largest 1. Lr I t, The English channel has been conquered by a score of swim1. Argentina. mers, bicycled across by a man 2. Swift (in "Gulliver's Trav- on a paddle machine and walked els," the inhabitants of a country across by another on water skis, where everything is of enormous reports Collier's. Once it was even raced across by two sporting gensize). 3. One gallon of water weighs tlemen, one in a casket and the 8.355 pounds. other in a washtub. The Answers u rr..f? s s 4 Above: Sun telescope made from an old auto axle. Murray is focusing the solar image on a paper receiver here. Right: At the eyepiece of this homemade telescope he checks up on a few stars. The instrument is made of old water pipes, wood and pieces of mirror. Note how the wood is bound with wire. r a V. mileAulii At left Murray has the im- i age of the sun accurately o- ruted nn the huff natter he- jj r i hind this blackened tube. The pistol is part of his P. O. job. Below: From an assortment of discards Mr, Murray got this instrument, which accurately measures magnetic dip. S 1 m (11 if XtP Washington Residents And Car Luxury Midtown Washingtonians that's most of them provide no sheltering rooftree for their servants, either human or wheeled. And so, early in the morning, nose to tail, the parked cars patiently hug the curb, awaiting their masters' will. As the day begins, there is a little knot of colored girls and other servants who are on their way to wake the missus and get breakfast, lunch and dinner and then depart for their own mysterious habitations. 3 7&TJ-t- r 4 Of course, there are more cars than J 4 i girls, for, here as elsewhere, the car is the No. 1 luxury. Better walk &&&&&& up three flights to a t- than be car-lesare gov Of course, there many ernment employee families wnicn have settled down as contented bourgeoisie, the unambitious but secure beneficiaries of bureaucracy. They eventually own their own neat homes, on which there is plenty oi There time to work, after leave each year and is the y sicK leave, occasional lur- loughs (without pay), retirement and pension to which to iook And there is always tht salary check, not high in proportion to commercial wages but always there, in good times or bad, for the classified civil servant In boom times the salaries of gov ernment workers do not go up along with prices, and you cannot strike are against the government. Prices in Washingtimes high in normal cities of ton, compared with other and shopkeepers clerks its size; tend to be a little bored and snooty are in the capital, and collectors sara uncie But relentless. winrSrui s4'4m,j& ' itK, in hu m liinniia.Aff'friy check is always there, even if. share sizeable a of depression, days Shiver Record . . . Here is the recording device of Murray't back to may have to be mailedwho are out seismograph. Needles mark the lampblacked drum with every roiativM at home is usually there so shiver of Old Mother Earth. It records about 15 major quakes a even of jobs-- but car. s as India. Mr. Murray has no less than enough left for the garage-lesyear, some as far distant home at Huntington Beach, suburban his in six seismographs Zr' four-thirt- y That's Her Count Day "Bobby, how old is your sister?" Bitters How would you define a "Twenty-five.- " picnic? She told me she "Twenty-five- ? Jitters To me, my friend, a picnic is a day set apart to get better acquainted wa3 just twenty." with ants, bugs, worms, mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks and poison ivy. "Oh, I expect that's because she was five before she learned to count." Flush Not Blush The man who counts in thii Booey See how the bride IS world is the cashier. blushing? Woogy Go on, man. That's not a blush. That's the first flush of victory. If That's Expression Evelyn Helen sings with a great deal of expression, doesn't she? Joy Well, she makes awful faces when she does it. Something About Him "Wy dear, I never imagined you would marry the man you did said Gladys. "Neither did I, my dear" replied her friend. "I disliked his ways, but I adored his means." Increase the Mind If riches increase let thy mind hold pace with them, and think it not enough to be liberal, but nificent. Sir T. Browne. mu- ' jj REAPING THE FUNHIES Sunday comics had their origin when Jimmy Swinnertorfs car- - If l f( semi-monthl- y I) m I f Swfcc:? SvT-- toons first appeared in 1891 in the San Francisco "hammer 1 ior-war- SMOKING mild, fragrant King Edward Cigar is another American custom in popular favor every- where. For genuine smoking pleat-ure, light up King V J "VJLY s r I I ' j ? '"r7?'?jii W"27 irf&S$' ij Filing of Documenti $ Serious Problem We Are One Of a truth, men are mystically united; a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. Carlyle. Failures Teach Every failure teaches a man something if he will learn. Dickens. ,f.m'"J.Mvm.'U. wore In the public mind, trie associated is frequently "waste" M with the word "government.waste the word look up will you will also find in the dictionary, you with the word connected is it that "vast" (the Latin "vastus"). vast waste There is, of course, a not the leas and all governments of !" paper. As a matter United the of fact the Congress this fact for it State, recognizes e a joint select com-Steof papers disposition on the e , the executive department of any documents and papers be thrown away, department can Council passes upon Archives the historical whether or not they have adv.ses counci' the not. H value in turn committee, which ScJorti to congress on what action take in deposing of body should St 7" ir- vr ii v n fef fX1 j SfP ! yjjr Vj$WAS 'gJ.gr l Tie hobbyist preserves his seis- the mograph records by giving lampblacked chart a bath in shellac and alcohol. This makes his records permanent. The seismograph timing device tells Murray to the split second when a quake occurs, but he uses this special microscope to dope out where it happened. them. for human for Providing space New York has 'oumiproofed b wp workers bCDno8cuments of historica. value are ecnocs. I Now if bu.ld.n la only Set the enemy kept in the great Archives I to u where moth uon bullets. avenue or Constitution nor can , rust do not corrupt . J such0kErbrC!ore you ,eaP iKn't always thieves break tnrougu in uuv'ce mi" these tl;,v. wasnington Papers of no historic" irafTic conditions are on direction oi I 1 bad thai ho sold for waste, a pedestrian frequently "asn't " 1 the money receiveu nance t1 lnnk hnfnrp he nnnyresS. and . h,. " into the treasury. I leap. tberefor turned Jn information on various subjects ANOTHER Do-min- e," COFFEE West 2W nS Ii ' J I ? , ear-spiiui- I 100MS-UDI- 0S F0 MonUMtHS tVttT0OMs Modem fK Ufmn ttomt SHOP Cong .,4 " Part of cadsrtrer of Murray's seismograph. 5.. 4 "i ' J HIGH PRICES Do Not Go WITH ADVERTISING Advertising end high prices do not go together ot all. They are extremely incompatible to each other. It Is only the product which is onadvertlsed, which has no established market, that costs more than you can afford to pay. by Baukhage 'be,"16 range f Be-for- '"ffedient . r National Farm and Home Hour Commentator ? Menaces. wJQons cents 'or Dun. ; Cotton Linters. Makers Need look udes a Keeping track of earthquakes and checking up on the weather are a few of the things that make life worth tiling for Martin G. Murray, assistant postmaster at Huntington Beach, Calif. Mr, Murray makes all his own scientific instruments out of pieces of junk. These photos take you for a call. r A quiz with answers offering 1 Farm Policy Whenever you go Into a store and buy an Item of advertised merchandise, If doesn't make any difference what, you are getting more for your money more In quality and service than you would get if you spent the same amount for something which was not advertised. |