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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. LTAn Instinct Is Faulty SALUTE TO SAMUEL WILSON, THE ORIGINAL UNCLE SAM 99 Guide to Choice of Diet, Doctors Say Selection of Ilest Foods Is Matter of Experience MANY From Simple Source Stellar Bodies Have Life of Several Billion Years SEATTLE. The inside of a ftar is a factory which makes complex elements out of the simplest clement of all, namely hydrogen. This is the point of view presented to the American Physical society here by Dr, R. M. Langer of the California Institute of Technology. The output of the factory Is not By LOUSE dietary direc- tions, of being told to eat foods lie does not like or to I forego favorite items of diet l(CCa,lse ()f th.ir t.lT,tt on his health, has revived the old idea that instinct or appetite is a good dietary guide. The reason why one cannot rely on instinct in choosing foods is told Nuby Dr. Leslie J. Harris, of the tritional laboratory. University of Cambridge, and the Medical Re search council. In his book, Vita mms in Theory and Practice. As Dr. Harris explains it. the reason chiefly is matter of time. "You demand a hot drink when you are cold because of a subconscious recollection of having felt warmer after you had had one last time, he points out. Tains After Dumplings. Similarly with the elementary feelings of hunger itself. The sensation of following hearty dinner will encourage you to repeat the treatment another time. And again, if you have pains after eating dumplings, you will soon learn to forego them tgranted ordinary intelligence). But now compare tills with the effects of foods which are less immediate and dramatic in action. If you are getting rickety from In sufficient vitamin D, or, shall we say, anemic from insufficient iron, it is hard to see that instinct will teach you which foods would cure you for the simple reason that they do not produce their good effect quickly enough for you to notice it But you would none the less suffer permanent damage from their lack, and many thousands do. How Animals Choose. Dr. Harris and associates actually tested the theory that animals can instinctively pick the correct foods. After several years of research, they found that animals the right food wei able if it made them feel better immediately after eating it. If it had a particular taste or smelt or color by which they could recognize it, they learned to take such foods quite easily. Thus the matter of choosing foods that are good for you, whether you are a human animal or a dog, is a matter of experience. but energy elements complex which is radiated away as the star The shines a few billion years. complex atoms are left behind mostly in the form of Iron. Only a minute fraction of the energy of a single star, the sun, is caught by our earth and this energy is what makes our factories work to make complex tilings out of simple ones. Hydrogen Is Stabiliser. The stellar factory would blow up in Its enthusiasm for energy production were It not for the stabilizing effect of the complex atoms. Of these the most Important stabilizer is heavy hydrogen. When things get too hot heavy hydrogen breaks up into a neutron and an ordinary hydrogen atom and tilings are back where they started. It is this accident of the balance and deutons between neutrons which determines how hot the star becomes and how long it lives. The are about Internal temperatures half a billion degrees and the life is several billion years. According to Sir James Jeans the stars shine much longer than that but few agree with him. No process known to happen is competent to keep a star going over ten billion years. No process known is able to heat a star over a billion degrees. Dr. Langer pointed out, because the radiation at that temperature would exhaust any process ever suggested before that temperature would be reached. Photons Rage. At these high temperatures matter is quite different from the mat-- 1 Old Incan Empire Calletl ter - we know. No compounds ex--1 1st- No solids or liquids are possi-Lesson for Economists ble. Neutrons, positive electrons, and deutons, all newly discovered CIIICAGO.-Mod- ern econo-an- d rare on the earth, abound. Above all and predominating ev- - miss can take a lesson in erything, photons of light fierce as planned economy from the old Incan empire. It ruled milrage to and fro. Things are so lively that we can lions of South American Innever hope to make any direct exdians until Spanish conquest periments under these conditions. Yet the basis for Dr. Langer's cal- made it collapse like a house of culations are the experiments cards. which are being made in many labLives were strictly regulated In oratories with comparative ease this empire. No one of humble shooting atoms at one another at birth could rise to an important office. Each clan owned its land, high speed and scoring the hits. and the community cultivated it, working the private sections, secBears Follow Handout tions devoted to religious contribu50 Miles Over Mountain tion, and those devoted to government revenues. Birth and death records were YELLOWSTONE PARK. Roads were built by quota Bears, like hoboes, seem to kept labor. The notables or Incas ruled, have an uncanny knack of fin- considering themselves the brains ding out where the handouts of the Communishc state. Prof. J. Eric Thompson of the grow. i A little less than two months ago, Field Museum of Natural History when Yellowstone National park recommends study of this ancient in his new Archeology opened up for the annual tourist regime, season, the bear cafeteria at Old of South America. It gives us an insight, he says, Faithful, where the Bruins have into the function of an autocracy for years been regaling themselves on Communism, and an nightly on hotel and camp table grafted of studying the sucscraps, was shut down in accord- opportunity ance with the park service policy cesses and failures of that nove' of making the bears rustle for their system. own grub. Many Old Customers. Loudspeakers for Cars at the cafeteria Only the Shows Grand canyon of the Yellowstone, Quiet Drive-I- n about fifty miles away, was kept open for busmess this season. WASHINGTON. NeighNow, Ranger Wayne Replogle, bors of "drive-i- n motion picwho got to know a lot of the bears at sight during several seasons on ture theaters, the kind where bear ground duty at Old Faith- patrons drive in and sit in their ful, has recognized quite a num- autos while seeing and listenber of his old friends in the new ing to the show, would not be locality. well-bein- variously serve their Some live, others die for it. Samuel Wilson rendered the United States of America a service no other individual has yet been able to duplicate. lie gave his country that symbolic personality which embodies all the traits popularly attributed to its people; the name by which it lias been praised and reviled, revered and ridiculed the world over, lie did it uniquely, simply by being himself. Samuel Wilson was Unde Sam, Ior this service Samuel Wilson recently received his nation's thanks. At the impressive upright oblong of granite which marks his grave in Oak wood cemetery, in Troy, N. Y., a new flag climbed its pole, a stiff, fresh wreath tipped against the stone, a band played and state troopers fired a military salute. The New York department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, convening at Troy, thus paid homage to an early Trojan, llut, "We are not in the final l, analysis honoring a single said National Comman- indi-idua- fr loudspeaker. In this way sound would travel from the loudspeaker, through the age, which mounts a body as radiator of tte car, through the big as two elephants on top of dashboard Into the auto proper. massive Each car would thus be literally legs. Towering higher than any living coupled to a loudspeaker through In this way, it is giraffe, the Baluchitherium was a its radiator. primitive representative of the rhi- claimed that sound is confined to noceros family. the car. something wrong. Before I get quite. e, near-sight- Early Trojans Sam and Ed Wilson were among the first to settle there. They chose well. Beuind the settlement rose two small hills, named in accordance with that regions taste in classical nomenclature, Mounts Ida and Olympus. Their western slopes, where is today Troys pleasant Prospect park, contained clay suitable for making bricks. Sam and Eb had learned about bricks back in New Hampshire. They bad also sized up shrewdly the scon WATSON BY ONE VOTE UTHERFORD B. HAYES of Ohio, nineteenth President of the United States, can be designated the man who was elected by a single vote. H.s contest with Samuel J. of New York, the Democratic nominee, threatened for a time in 1876 and early 1877 to bring about resumption of the Civil war. Perhaps it explains in some measure the bitterness of battles today between the Republican and Democratic parlies. Hayes faced the disadvantage of running in the wake of the eight years of the Grant administrations, followed as they were by sensafinancial of tional accusations frauds. There was little to choose between abilities of the candidates and when first returns were in, Tilden was acclaimed in the press as winner. The election had been bitter. Intimidations of those days, what we know as sluggings now, had figured. Perhaps they were the tip-oon what was to follow. Shortly after election day, it was revealed that Tildens managers were uncertain as to the results their party had achieved in Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana. Normally Democratic, these states still were in the hands of carpet- Fixed you see. Another season comes e.long. RTC"') Til-de- , k if Veterans of Foreign Wars, Members of the State Police Sland at the Grave of Cncle Sam Tribute Is Paid to His Memory, local situation. Already the more substantial citienry of Albany was advertising its substance by living in brick houses, their materials imported, like the urge to own them, from its native Holland. The Wilsons bought a farm on Mount Ida and went into the brick business. There are buildings standing in Troy today constructed of W.f.on bricks. For that matter the whole country Is rich with evidence of tlieir lives there. At one time Sam ran two farms, one of which he used for a summer and one a winter Memorial Over the Grave of Uncle Sam His Daughter, Mrs. Marion Wilson Sheldon. y, HAGEN AM I James E. Van Zandt. Rather we are dedicating this program to our country itself, to the spirit of Americanism which prevails in our relations with one another and with the world. Had Samuel Wilsot. been aware during his lifetime that he was to become all that, it is probable he would have thought his metamorphosis a hugz joke. That, we gather, is the sort of person he was. Kindly, shrewd, humorous, scrupulously honest: the best of New England broadened a bit by its first adventurous step westward. A Bay State Scot He was born in 1766 at Meno-tomnow Arlington, Mass., eighth of thirteen children in a Scotch family which could claim early and influential connections in Boston but never rose to the dignity of a coat of paint on its own shack! In 1780 the family moved to Mason, N. H. And in 1781 the youthful Samuel, having attained the advanced age of fifteen years, did his duty as he saw it by enlisting as service boy in the American Army of the Revolution. Had he been even a drummer boy, history might have caught him early. But he was merely a service boy. In 1789, at the comparatively mature age of twenty-threSam left Mason with his brother, Ebenezer, and followed the trend of the times westward. Not very far west, except as measured by the eyes of 1789. What is today the city of Troy was then but a raw settlement on the banks of the Hudson river. I. to ke well- dressed For once,. Im e.lwt.y.s veer mg Id like from American Poimcal Kutory CUMO I I Tales and Traditions FRANK 1 annoyed by the loud blasts of the screens loudspeakers, if a Hugest Extinct Animal new way of quieting the talkies should go into widespread Restored in New York use. Individual loudspeakers for each NEW YORK. The biggest beast that ever trod on dry car is the feature of the invention which a patent has Just been and. Central Asia s giant Ba- to G. Douthwaite of Los Iuchltheriurn, is now shown as Angeles, Calif. Each parking space I he was in life, at the American in the open air theater would be A provided with a loudspeaker. Museum of Natural History, - in I a restoration sculpture which car would pull into a the parking space and drive up ramp until the radiator of the auto would almost contact with the cone of the THE CHEERFUL CHERUB M. COMSTOCK MEN a person, resenlfu 'ThefttcuiMoO'd Wilson, Erected by Auxiliary, V. F. IV., and a firing Squad of Wilson in Oak wood Cemetery in Troy, N. Y., as I. allies war Sams Anderson Jr of Now Jersey tained a govern!! ent inutract for they were fighting? It is a fact rationing the New Ymk and New that by 1813 the term w'as in Jersey troops stationed near common use among the troops Albany. The rontiait. still to be stationed near Albany to desigStates of examined in the War Department nate the United records at Washington, specifies America. It was first printed in this con"2,000 barrels of prime potk and 300 barrels of pi ime beef in full notation in the papers of that bound b.urels of white oak. In region. The Troy Post in an editorial of September 7, 1813, rethose dajs there were no refrigferred to the hard luck which erated freight cars Elbert Anderson took slot k of the local had lighted "on Uncle Sams sources of supply He advertised shoulders, and added in a footin the Troy papers. As a result note this cant term for our govthe slaughter houses of S. and E. ernment has got almost as curWilson were commissioned to rent as John Bull. Shortly therefurnish a goodly portion of the after Uncle Sams teams, his meat required, and Sam Wilson troops and payroll were menwas additionally appointed tioned in several northern New United Slates inspector to pass York and western Vermont paupon its prime" condition. On pers. The Columbia Sentinel in every barrel thus approved he December, 1814, printed an edistamped the letters U. S. for torial entitled Uncle Sam and United States and E. A. for El- John Bull, contrasting the nigbert Anderson gardly pay in the American Army with that in the British. now And comes the crux of in Niles Register for the story, muffled as such Finally, 1815, we find a definition: U. S. crisis usually are by legend, or Uncle Sam a cant term in by hearsay and by local imagthe army for the United States. What actually took inings. It was time and the cartoonplace mav be as clearly deist, of course, who promoted duced from its nrost dramatic Uncle Sam from a cant version as from anv other. It term to a definite personality. begins like an old familiar, It was done by the conventional with an encounter between an methods of caricature. Irishman and an innocent byThe first known picturization stander. Asked tire bystander, of the new synonym for the nodding his head toward one United States appeared in Punch, of the certified barrels, And London, in 1844. It showed a what docs the U. S. stand for?" long, lean Uncle Sam in long Uncle Sam, said the Irishcoat tails and stove pipe hat. man. (You can supply your According to those who should own brogue.) Oh, come now. know, Samuel Wilson was long Uncle Sam who? Why, dont and lean and wore a high beaver you know? Uncle Sam Wilson. hat, though how the news He owns nearly all about here reached London is beyond conand he's feedin the army! ob- ff bagger government Tilden had 184 electoral votes and the ballots of any of the three states named would have elected him. Hayes, with 166, needed all of them to have one more electoral vote than Tilden. In Louisiana, the canvassing board threw out 13,250 Democratic votes and gave the state to Hayes. Republicans asserted their candidate had won in both South Carolina and Florida. But Democxts of the three states returned votes for Tilden. To make the situation a typical American scene, congress was divided. one branch being Democratic, the other Republican. It was decided finally to appoint five congressmen from each party and five judges of the Supreme court to make the decision as to which set of returns from the disputed states should be accepted. The election of Hayes was assured by the vote of Justice Bradley. whose participations gave the deliberative body a margin of eight Republicans to seven Democrats. jecture. First American cartoon And congress approved these moSo much for the acorn from was drawn in 1852 by F. Bellow mentous findings just in time to which grewi the mighty oak. For for the New York Lantern, a enable Rutherford B. Hayes to take the nourishment which sped that comic weekly of the period. It the oath of the highest office in growth to colossal proportions, added, whether to the London the gift of the American "peepuL one must examine the temper version or to the original we and morale of the troops which shall never know, the familiar NAMING A PARTY fought the War of 1812. It was tight trousers; low-cwaistcoat, RONICALLY enough, the names probably not much different from high collar and bow tie. It was the two principal political that of any troops in any war. Thomas Nast, famous American For physical and mental torture cartoonist, who embellished the parties once were combined as so long continued that they have figure further with chin whis- Democratic Republicans, a group themselves become monotony, kers, striped his trousers, starred of which the standard bearer was laughter is a wonderful though his waistcoat, and otherwise Thomas Jefferson, referred to perperverse panacea. Perhaps you brought it up .o what is today haps oftener than any other leader think the Irishman's retort in this accepted as standard. Nast be- when Democrats trace their politcase not particularly funny. gan his drawings within a year ical origin. Under Jackson the party name Maybe so. But the troops to or two of Samuel Wilsons death. which the story wended its way But there is no evidence that he was shortened to Democrat, which were composed of boys from in drew from life. There are Tro-- it continues tc bear. Republicans emerged as a separate party as early as 1854, although its first nominating convention was held two years later. Up at Ripon, Wis., in a corner of the campus of Ripon college, stands the Ripon Congregational church, scene of the first Republican meeting. The Ripon meeting had been called by Major Alvan E. Bovay, a Whig lawyer, who generally receives credit for suggesting the name under which a major political body was to function. He had passed on his idea to Horace Greeley who later advocated the name Republican at a convention in Jackson, Mich. Although Ripon had a voting list that hardly exceeded 100 in those days of exclusively male suffrage, more than half of them attended Bovays first gathering. The impulse which brought them together was the conviction that the slavery question was coming rapidly to a head and that those who opposed the practice must unite in a new group, regardless of geographical lines. Northern states naturally proved the most fertile ground for spreading the new doctrine. Before the partys first national convention, which was held in Philadelphia on the anniversary of Bunker Hill The Thomas H. Nast Version of Uncle Sam Columbia Chides June 17, 1856 a firm toehold had Him for the Increased Coinage of Silver Dollars. (From Harpers been secured by senatorial repreWeekly, 1878.) sentation at Washington. History fails to record what part, and about Troy. They had known jans who will loudly deny that if any. Major Bovay played in the The deleSamuel Wilson all their lives, their hero ever wore whiskers! Philadelphia meeting. they knew him as Uncle Sam, Tailleur, however, is one thing, gates were unanimously in favor of and they found it funny. That personality another. And while it nominating John C. Fremont and was enough. is as certain as Monday morning he was selected as presidential that Samuel Wilson would have candidate on the first ballot Began as a Juke Another attended, Republican Whatever the psychology in- as soon submitted to one of his He was the gangling Illivolved, the joke stuck. So Uncle own butcher knives as worn stars however. Abe Lincoln, and Sam Wilson V'as feeding the and stripes, it is equally certain nois of his some colleagues had the army, was ne? Well, if it was that the kindly smile behind the fictitious whiskers, the shrewdly temerity to advance his name as Uncle Sams meat they were eatfor twinkling not Uncle eye, the thoughtful a candidate Sams ing, why Honest Abe lost the nomination uniforms they were wearing. brow and the big, capable hands Uncle Sams lousy blankets they of the cartoon were his. We must but four years later he was too first sucwith the give due credit to the acorn. emerge national party's slept under, Uncle Sams contest a in cess political Samuel Wilson was Uncle Sam. to which home. He and his brother left their mark on their holdings in such local terms as Wilsons Bowl and Wilsons Hollow. Betsy Wilson was a New Hampshire girl, daughter of a veteran of the Battle of Bunker Hill. In 1797, tue brick business well under way, Sam returned to Mason to marry her and bring her back to Troy. She bore him four children, two of whom reached maturity. Benjamin became a lawyer. It was his daughter, the late Mrs. Marion Wilson who erected to her Sheldon, grandfathers memory the monument which marks his grave today. Her son, Carlton Wood Sheldon of Kansas City, his daughter, Mrs. Helen Marion Brockett, and her daughter, Betty Sheldon Brockett, are Uncle Sams and Aunt Betsys only living descendants today. Early Packers The brick business well in hand, the Wilson brothers extended their efforts. Adjoining one of Sams farm houses was a large field suitable for grazing, watered by two ponds. Here the Wilsons undertook to raise stock Their cattle flourished. The Wilsons erected a slaughter house, and entered the meat busmess. As early as 1805 they could advertise in the local papers: Two large and convenient slaughter houses, where could be killed, cut and packed 150 head of cattle per day. When times were at their best, the slaughter houses required employment of 200 men. Still the Wilsons expanded. At the foot of what is now Ferry street they built a dock. They purchased their own sloops. Out from the firm of S. and E. Wilson at Troy and down the Hudson to Albany and points east came Wilson meats and Wilson bricks by the shipload. And what is so noble in that? to warrant What flags and wreaths and military salutes? Nothing at all. Uncle Sam was simply being himself, working shrewdly but with honor for his own interests. The War of 1812 created urgent demand for provisions for the troops saving the United States hospitals they from the British. One Elbert carried their wounds, and Uncle at Western Newspaper Union C Westers Newspaper Union. N U Service. Sometimes We Wonder Do grouches make a fortune more readily than those who are sweet-tempered- ? A man may spend ten cents apiece for his three cigars a day; but may his wife spend thirty cents a day for candy? and strengthen Try your soul. When a man tells a funny story, laugh and dont tell another one. We can all nobly meet the temptation tiiat hasnt much of an appeal. We Learn From Them Remorse is one of the teachers on the faculty of the school run Discretion is by experience. another. A great deal can be expressed in merely gestures; so a dog self-deni- finds. If country people realized how strongly city people admire country scenes, theyd oe prouder. 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