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Show I LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL UTAH "-sJ Russia World's Largest Continuous Nation The Guns of the Holy Trinity Cover About of Land Area of World. One-Seven- th The resumption of Washington. diplomatic relations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the modern name for Russia) has focused attention on the Soviet union whose easternmost territory U separated by only a few miles of sea water from American soli In Alaska. "Few people other than students of foreign affairs realize the huge size and extent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. The Soviet onion la, in fact, the world's largest continuous country, covering about of the land area of the world. It is second only to the British empire among the world's land- owners, and its 164.0U0.000 people probof the ably comprise about population of the earth. The Soviet onion possesses three times as much territory as the United States, and it stretches across two continents (Europe and Asia) a distance of more than 5,000 miles a round trip from Washington to San Francisco. The Soviet union of today, Rushowever. Is smaller than pre-wsia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, and parts of Poland, Rumania, and Turkey, were all carved from the empire after the close of the World war. The present territory of the U. S. S. R. Is about 03 per cent of czarlst Russia. Racial Jigsaw Puzzle, To outsiders the Soviet union la somewhat of a geographic and racial jigsaw puzzle. As Its name Implies, me nation Is not a single unit, but a collection of 'republics' and 'areas' which might be compared loosely to our slates and territories. Americans who can name the states of our own union, and perhaps the nations of Central and South America, would be perplexed If asked to give the seven chief or constituent republics of the Soviet union. seven political divisions "These (with their capitals In parentheses) are: Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (Moscow) ; Ukrainian S. 8. It (Kharkov) ; White Russian S. S. R. (Minsk) ; Transcaucaslan S. F. S. R. (Tiflls) ; Uzbek S. S. R. (Tashkent) ; Turkmen S. S. It (Ashkhabad) ; and Tadzhlk S. S. U. (Stallnabad). "In addition, there are 38 autonomous or republics and areas within the seven main divisions which have forms of government best suited for certain regions or racial groups. In the Soviet union also one finds today 1S2 different nationalities speaking 149 different languages and dialects. Imagine our own difficulties If a Georgian could n6t read, write, or speak a word that a Vermonter understood, and If neither of them could communicate directly with a California!). This, on a small scale, Illustrates the present linguistic problem of the U. S. S. It , "While 'Russia ia a handy label to use for the Soviet union It ta seldom one-seven- one-twelf- th ar Sleep Sickness Traced Back to 1712 Epidemic Dr. Otterbein Dress-vler- , of pathology at Osteoprofessor pathic hospital here, ridicules the belief that sleeping sickness has developed only during recent years. The disease, even In epidemic form, has been reliably reported as far back as 1712 In Germany, Doctor Dressier said. The physician also scoffs at the theory that sleeping sickness is a separate disease. The ultimate outcome of a case of sleeping sickness depends largely upon the location and extent of damage done to the brain substance." he as- Philadelphia. ' heard there today eicept In reference to the old crarUt regime. The mejor division of the union ia known as the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, to be sure, but the whole unwieldy title Is employed when it U mentioned, or perhaps the word 'Russian' followed by the Initials of the last four words. This dominant unit of the union (Russian S. F. S. R.) embraces most of European Russia and cearly all of Siberia. Ukrain Densely Populated. The Ukrainian S. S. R. includes only 2 per cent of the total area of the onion but It contains nearly 20 per cent of its population. It is the most densely populated of the constituent republics. Mostly steppe-land- . It Is the chief wheat-raisinsection the 'bread box' of the country. The White Russian S. S. It, directly north of the Ukraine, is the smallest of the seven republics, yet It has an area about equal to that of Louisiana. "In the southern part of the vast central Asia area once known as Russian Turkestan, the three republics of Uzbek, Turkmen, and Tadzhik have been set up. These are destined to play Important roles as cotton, tobacco, silk, and frult-ralstn- g regions. Many Important minerals also are be g Rainbow Arch War Memorial V rr?;V"snr3 - - A survey of : even more clearly defined. Between the first and second zones there was a 24.49 slight increase f rom 24.00 to altitude but In the tone of highest the there was a decided Increase In disbirth rata The average for all tricts above 40 meters was 27.70. In nine departments the highest birth rate was registered In communities of tho - i j tt,.L.il.iiiw.ln.lll.l,nn-- f'i.:KVt. i 5 r. y w V. t. vapx A., 1 A In a huge former power house lu New York George Grey Barnard, the model of his rainbow arch war memorial, besculptor, exhibited this 15 The arch stands 100 feet high and 60 feet on Armistice years ago. gun day wide. The 42 figures of heroic size now appear in plaster ; the body of the arch, which eventually Is to be of labradorlte, now Is represented by white cloth; fuil-slz- e the rainbow above It, which will eventually be of mosaic, is now painted. The fields overgrown by poppies, also will be in mosaic. The arch Is to be Mr. Barnard's tribute to the American young men who lost their lives In the World war. central niche, portraying the graves of Flanders serted. "This damage Is caused by a new growth of cells about the blood vessels in the 'brain. "If the part of the brain affected controls the heart or respiration, death Is sudden. If the part affected supplies certain muscles of the body, these muscles are paralyzed. "Because there are so many different parts of the brain, each supplying a different part of the body, there can be many different forms acd manifestations of sleeping sickness." Reached in Survey highest altitude, while In five the birth rate was highest In communities of the second altitude zone, and In only four by Italians. the Influence of births and on altitude marriages, deaths, tending to show that all three manifestations proceed on a more generous scale In the higher regions, has been Issued by the Instltuto Centrnle di Statistics. Dividing the country Into three altitude zones, the first from sea level to 200 meters, the second from 200 to 400 meters, and the third above 400 meters, the figures showed a decided tendency to variation from sone to r.one, and to conform according to altitude. The marriage rate apparently was less affected than were births and deaths. In ten departments of Italy the regions of lowest birth rate correspond with the zone of lowest altitude. The second altitude zone in five In departments, and the third zone only three departments corresponded with regions of low marriage rates. On the other hand. In ten departments regions of high altitude rate were in districts above 400 meters In altitude. The middle altitude rone hud the htgh-es- t marriage rate In five departments, and the lowest zone had the roost marriages In three departments. For births and deaths the variation be according to altitude appeared to Rome, By Henry C Rowland WXD Rervlc SYNOPSIS Tom Jordn. roung New England reporter In love nh an wpPr Foole, la barred from because of condacknowledged auitor will d that ber ition, of ber father', must match her .mall fortune a with bis own. To do this. Jordan has wild hop. of wealth from the salvage French corvette. Jesof a ber sica tells Jordan and Doctor White, of an encounter .he has with sailor. Two Frencha .on men, the corote De Corlay and his theirs Robert, claim an ancestor of corthe the Fourquet commanded and left record vette) when she sank, which they asof treasure on board, sert, ae his descendants, la their proSebastien. also perty. A French Bailor. and la aeeklng knowa of the treasure, It. A form of partnership la arranged between Tom and th. De Corlay. to prosecute the search. bet-omt- bus-ban- long-sunk- CHAPTER III Continued Tet Jessica's life had been a sheltered one. Her mother had been the only child of an American missionary to the Society Islands. As a little girl she had lived at the mission, where afj contacts naturally were guarded, and at thirteen had been taken to San Francisco and placed In a girl's seminary, where she remained until the death of her mother three years later. Captain Poole, her father, had then yielded to her entreaty that she be taken with hlra for a voyage aboard his vessel. He desired to make the better acquaintance of his daughter, and the companionship continued until the beginning of the last Illness that compelled hlra to quit the sea. r Even aboard the big Jessica's life had been no less Insulated from evil Infection. Warren Poole, a reader and thinker, and the student that some such men become, had devoted leisure moments to her education, though on lines scarcely Included In a school curriculum. There had been few topics that he had tabooed. His exposition of social conditions had been wise, clear and clean, based on the protection of knowledge rather than that hazardous fortification which Is the Ignorance of Innocence. Jessica served tea and cakes, and a little later count de Corlay and Robert took their leave, the others walking with them through the woods to the cove where they had left their boat Then Tom, who had fallen silent went off ashore In the boat that he had borrowed from a friend, the storekeeper, whose guest he was. Doctor White had not seen fit to augment the febrile condition of the young man's heart by Inviting him to stop upon the Island. When his callers had 'eft. Doctor White slipped off Into the woods. Jessica caught up with him Just as he reached the point where he and Tom had exchanged their first words with the Frenchmen, and whither his steps now had led him through some subconscious agency. The Whale was the shoreward bastion of the sunken reef charted as Corvette ledge. This formation never was exposed or even visible at the most extreme low tide, but was Indicated by the big swells that combed and sometimes broke at a certain point of Its outer third, the extremity of which was marked by a spar buoy. "Hello," said the doctor, and spun "Now round. what the dickens brought me over here again?" Jessica laughed. "That's easy. Gar dy. You've been thinking, only you haven't thought It out." "Clear as a clay hank. Well, what'9 the finished product?' "That there's no reason why we shouldn't have a try for the Fourquet. too," said Jessica. The doctor gave her an owlish stare. "Darned If I don't believe you're right, my dear." "Well, why not?" asked Jessica. "After all. treasure hunting Is an open game, and you knew the story of the sunken corvette before any of these others. Besides, she hit a ledge that Juts out from the Island that you now own." "That constitutes about as good n claim as any of the others." asrreed the doctor, "and It's got precedent with the Bahama conch blowers. Those pirate wreckers used to argue. 'She broke her bark on our coral reef, so she's our meat.' Also, of course I was too polite to say so. hut It looks to me as If the count's distinguished an cestnr had been holding out a fistful on his august monarch. By all the rules of the game of war, as played In those days, the commander of a king's ship was supposed to turn In to the royal exchequer whatever he grabbed." "That occurred to me." said Jessica. "Of course the count must have thnneht of It hut I should say that It was just one of several thlnffs he didn't see the need of tellini; us." "Oh so I wasn't the only one to have that hunch." But about the Fourquet. I . "No. think we mijrht as well overhaul her now as any time. If only to Rjive poor Tom his Job on the and wasting pair what little money he's put hy." "Why yes." agreed the doctor nio,k Ingly. "Tt's go right out and help ourselves." "That would be best. I think Besides, this 'sneak of a Sehastlcn might he more clever than the rest of them You'll have to go tr Bath tomorrow morning, Gardy, and get a diver with his gear.. And be sure to make a signed and witnessed agreement that four-maste- Altitude Affects Birth and Death Rate Conclusion ing mined in these areas, and extensive Irrigation works, are under construction. The Transcaucasian S. F. S. It Is composed of the three states of Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, with a combined area slightly less than twice that of New fork state. OX minerals, and cotton are their chief resources. The development of Imperial Russia began more than 1.000 years ago when the country was divided Into Email parcels, each under the control of a local prince. In the Fiftenth century the first of the czars began to pull these scattered fragments together into a great empire. Ivan the Third, the most famous imperialist, thus earned the title 'Gatherer of Russian Earth.' Peter the Great, Catherine the Great. Alexander L and Nicholas L added to Russia's wealth and fame. The present Soviet state dates from 1017, when the Petrograd (now Leningrad) Soviet seized the reins of government and handed them over to the Congress of Soviets. It Is an interesting coincidence that the Soviet union celebrated Its sixteenth anniversary on November 7, the date that its first official representative landed In the United States. The Constitution of the Soviet union was adopted on July 18, 1918.", departments did communities of an altitude below 200 meters have the highest birth rates. In reverse order, the lowest birth rate was found In the low- lands In thirteen departments. In the second altitude zone In four departments, and In the highest zone In only one department FIRST SINCE THE WAR Start Out as Hens, Change Into Cocks Tountsville, Calif. Several rlng-nec- k pheasants raised by the state bureau of game propagation will soon be turned over to the eugenics department of the University of California because of the peculiar manner In which they have been transformed since were they hatched. Although they started out In life as hens, they now sport brilliant male plumage and It Is thought the sex transformation may be complete In one or two cases. Although such Instances are unusual they do not occur as rarely as one might suppose, according to August Bade, head of the California game bureau. He says that one or two out of ten or fifteen thousnnd pheasants are freaks f this nature. Long Buried Treasure Reported Quebec Find Montreal. Burled treasure, sup- posedly abandoned In the Richelieu valley during the Eighteenth century by French aristocrats, fleeing before an advancing tribe of hostile Indians. Is reported to have been found by '4 r V!. This Is Capt Robert Wltthoeft who has come to Washington to serve as German naval attache, the first sine the days of the World war Charles Morals after a long search. The scene of the excavation Is four miles south of Iberville, Quebec. During the last 100 years repeated efforts hnve been made to find the treasure. Two years ago Morals bought the land on which the cache Is supposed to be hidden and engaged men to dig. They have been at work ever since, cutting deep trenches through the likely areas. Morals refuses to confirm or deny the reports that he has located the treasure. He has constructed a high wire fence around his land and refuses to admit outsiders. Lives on Sana Farm 79 Yaara Cleburne, Texas. Seveniy-nin- e yewra of Mrs. Martha E. Dilllard's life have been spent In her prcwent farm home near here. When Mrs. Ollllard was a year old, her parents moved into the home. When she was married, 00 years ago, the parents gave her the house and farm as s wedding present on toy he la to work for pay and not I know a good deal about these things. three I didnt sail with father nearly nothing." for years The doctor made a protesting res ar K'rl- - Jont talk ! ture. "But my until glibly about spending money on." to go something you've "But I have." said Jessica, and looked out at the swell mounting over of greatest danger on the the point ledjie. "What do you mean, you haver "I mean. Gardy. that the only danto gerous point of the Corvette ledge corthe Is of dreugnt vessels ordinary vette herself." "Whatr "Just that Gardy. She was wedged firmly there bottom up and partly pet rifled and crusted with barnacles and covered with a heavy mass of kelp long before we had any coast and geodetic survey. At uncommonly low tides, with a heavy ground swell run ning, you can see the b'g brown skate like mass of It Just under the surface. In the trough." "That's Impossible absurd! It all has been sounded out." "A sounding lead would clink on her the same as on a rock," said Jessica. "Her timbers are calcified. They get way when always entirely sub merged, especially in cold water like this. You know how those old fighting ships were built Solid masses of onk the frames set close together. They were practically as If hewn out of one enormous block of the finest seasoned that wood." The doctor shook his head, albeit his gray eyes were gleaming. "AH the same. It Isn't possible. For one thing she never could have turned turtle and sank right where she struck." "She didn't," Jessica admitted. "She struck McFarlane's ledge over there about three furlongs to the northward and got dismasted. They cut away the wreck as she was settling and drifting down here with the tide. Then she sank, rolled over and made of herself the bad spot on what was afterward charted as Corvette ledge, 1 think the chances are that they knew at that time what It really was. but that after ward It was forgotten." "But Jerusalem " the doctor's professional calm, that had grown to be his habit was forsaking him In his ex"the swell would have citement rolled her away." "She had to fetch up somewhere. Gardy. It's all rocky down there; she must have rolled over Into a cleft where she stuck. Her ballast shifted as she went on to her beam ends, and her guns made her and helped bold her down. That and her ballast was dumped on to the under side of her berth deck. The swell Is never heavy enough this far up Into the bay to move the deeper water much." Jessica's theory seemed preposterous, and yet her illustration of It was sound. But that the Corvette ledge should be In Its danger aspect the corvette herself was not only an amazing thought but an amusing one. The doctor gave an excited chuckle. "Well," said he, "I'm thoroughly and delightfully Jiggered. I believe you are right But whatever put It Into your head? And supposing you should manage to locate her, what do you expect to find?" Jessica's shapely head turned slowly. "Treasure," she said. "Rich treasure. Pirate loot that this old fraud of an ancestor of this young fraud of a Bob was trying to study up some scheme for appropriating. Perhaps he sank her on purpose, meaning to come back later and recover It. She may have fooled him by not sticking where she struck." "But don't you think that your theory reconstructs too much?" "No. I don't I know that's a ship and not a rock. Not many girls at Papeete could' bent me swimming and diving. I went down In about twenty-fiv- e feet and fetched up squarely on her keel." "On her keel did you sav on her keel?" "It must have been, from the way the bilges sloped off on either side Any diver not looking for a wreck would have thought It the straight crest of a sunken reef. I went down at slack water when there was no current Otherwise you couldn't see a thing for the algae streaming out great layers of the elephant ear sort with lone, snaky stems. The water was clear, so that I could get an Idea of her position. She's In the line of the ledge, head out to the buoy and completely capsized though heeled to the north'ard a little." "That would make It hard to RPt at her guns." saM the doctor. "Oh bother hor guns. Gnrdv The thing to do would be to dynamite a hole m work through, then see what she has Inside her." heavy must have got , "Something rif W" be,ow t0 "nve rolled he over like that," mused Doctor Whl though of conrs, ,hPre-- no stahil tv to speak of In a and th. -e- AX DE;LS BLOT 1U UUK CIIpj; 1 -- Columbus Hard H;t . i iscovery. Ethnologists have alw-bJ. that Columbus wa uu ,t U years behind the fir,t 1 the Atlantic seaboard. That the population of the AaierW 4 tlnent started soon after thth uge uhen tribes frum the otW of the world crossed Bernr and filtered slowly 5 habit a continent the first citizens of the Atlantic seabZ rived from the West only lead ahead of the man credit for finding the New wM Cut discovery of a prtinith, y, V tj JT ax, dug up In Albemarle count, t ginla, is serving to upset this tw In the opinion of ofliciaU of 7' Smithsonian institution, whogj, former ideas of when the habitants reached the eastern sW of America are unsound. The? Z, believe that man trod Virinii M something like 2.000 years ago Students of the races read t nlng story In this new ax that it old. It was no more than out ot fi Albemarle county soil that had t cealed it so long until It begas citing Its tale of age and Strang races. Specialists who undersUtj these things Bay that the primitl ax was chipped out of biaik dtsabs rocK Dy some savage American J centuries ago and that in timt. sibly because of disuse, It becaa dull and was sharpened asain h new and better Informed chippijj, possibly some 1,300 years asu. Th it was lost for good so far as tit stone ax age was concerned, onlj n be found by scientists of a new da; and age, who knew how to interpre the signs of discoloration and wm and other circumstances to determiH age and the part earlier races hadtt do with the population of this side the earth. These readers of t)m leave no point for layman argument They Just move back population to tory and we agree that that U that But It does lay a burden on Coin He thought, or may havt bus. thought had he lived ions enoa, that he missed virgin discovery bj only 200 years. And we know on tbt science flat evidence of present-da- y he missed It ten times 200. St Lauii tlt of Globe-Democr- at Varying Definition! 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