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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Jlsk Me Another A General Quiz O 1. How often does the United States gain one in population? 2. Was 'Sir William Blackstone successful as a lawyer? 3. Do baseball or football play ers receive more injuries? 4. How fast must an object travel to escape from the gravitational attraction of the earth? 5. Does an elephant eat as much as a mouse in proportion to its size? Answers 1. There is one birth in the United States every 14 seconds, one death every 22 seconds, one immi grant every 15 minutes, and one minutes, emigrant every 14 making a net gain in population of one person every 35 seconds. 2. Sir William Blackstone (1723-178whose fame as Englands greatest jurist is based on his Commentaries, actually possessed only the vaguest possible grasp of the elementary conceptions of law and was considered a failure as a lawyer, jurist and parliamentarian, according to Colliers Weekly. 3. Baseball receive players more minor injuries, but fewer permanent injuries and fatalities. 4. It must have a speed of 6.95 miles per second. 5. If an elephant ate the same amount proportionally as a mouse it would consume 10 tons of food daily. It eats about 100 pounds. "Quotations" 0) I cant conceive of a democracy carrying on except as we put more and more into the job of education and get more for what we put in. Fred Engelhardt. Personal habits make a mans principles. E. W. Howe. The world does not owe every The world is a place man- - a living. in which every man can make a living, but to make it he must first fit himself and then fight. Bernard M. Baruch. Recreation for the bulk of the people has come to be an accepted part of the national pattern of our lives. Henry Woodburn Chase. f Weighing a Shipment of Elephant Tusks on a London Wharf. From Every Corner of the Earth Come Ships That Ply This River Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service. THAMES traffic makes worlds foremost river port. Since Roman galley days when Britons traded grain, slaves, and dogskin for European salt and horse collars commerce has flowed between London and the continental countries along the Schelde, the Rhine and the Elbe. After Drake nerved England to smash the Spanish Armada, London ships gained in time the lions share of ocean-born- e trade. Names immortal in discovery and conquest are linked with this water front. From here Frobisher went seeking the Northwest passage, and Hawkins to Puerto Rico and Vera Cruz; from here Lancaster made his voyages to the East, before the downfall of Portugal and the rise of the British East India company. Raleigh sailed from here to explore the Orinoco, to popularize tobacco and, tradition says, to start the Irish planting potatoes. It was Londons daring money which sent Sebastian Cabot to found the Russia company, opening trade with that land. London merchants and skippers promoted the Turkey, African, Virginia and Hudsons Bay companies. , London emigrants helped colonize in the Americas, in Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Africa and the rich islands of the sea. English Spread From Here. From this water front went the English language. In Drakes day only a few millions spoke it. Now it is a world tongue. Of all letters, telegrams, books and papers printed now, it is estimated that 70 per cent are in English. London alone uses enough newsprint every day to cover a ranch of 9,350 acres or nearly 15 square miles of paper. The smell from that big paper mill at Bayswater is one of the marks I steer by on foggy nights, a Thames pilot will tell you. Exploration of Londons crowded docks reveals not only what amazing piles of food a great city can normally eat, but also what odd items, from live bats to rhino horns, tire mixed in the life stream of world commerce. Imponderable, in variety and magnitude, are these fruits of mans barter. Here, too, his work ranges from rat catching and opium sampling to dredging the Thames and handling annual cargo enough to fill a road with loaded trucks from the Yukon to Patagonia. To say that every day some 500 craft, big and little, pass through the Thames mouth tells only half the story. More significant is what happens on the docks. Commission Ends Confusion. Even London people themselves dont dream what incredible activity is here. Few ever see it. Confusion on this crowded river, in days gone, grew sp intense that waiting boats often lay unloaded for weeks; goods were piled in disorder on banks, and pilfering was enormous. One river bandit stole almost a whole shipload of sugar! To combat this chaos the West India merchants built their own fortlike docks. With more trade came more e wars and docks, and more other confusion. This ended in 1909 when the Port of London authority, a Royal commission, took full control under act of parliament. It paid 23,000,000 .pounds for privately owned London docks, spent millions more to make the lower Thames the worlds longest deepwater channel and to enlarge and cargo handling facilities. It has dredged mud enough out of the Thames to build a Chinese Wall, river toll-rat- ip and . has constructed the worlds most extensive dock system. One of its cranes, the London Mammoth, lifts 150 tons! Finally, with characteristic British financial genius, it sold its debentures on the stock exchange, and now its operations usually pay all costs and interest and leave a profit which is used for more improvements. Giant Docks and Yard. The PLA is not in trade. It is merely custodian of merchandise that may range from wild animals for the zoo to a shipload of molasses from which to distill fuel alcohol. It weighs goods, reports on their quality and condition; it opens bales and boxes for customs inspection, furnishes samples for buyers, and looks after repacking and loading for those who ship from London to other ports. On the north bank of the Thames, scattered for miles downstream from the Tower, stand these great PLA docks: London, St. Katharine, East and West India, Millwall, Victoria and Albert, King George V, and the Tilbury. On the south bank, near Londons heart, are ancient Surrey Commercial docks, with a lumberyard that covers 150 acres! Besides the railways and truck lines that tie these docks to the outlying kingdom, some 9,000 Thames barges handle goods to and from ships sides. Each dock has its own character. St. Katharine docks are built on the site of the old Church of St. Katharine by the Tower, founded by Queen Matilda in 1148. What heterogeneous goods they store: wool, skins, wines, spices, sugar, rubber, balata, tallow, ivory, barks, gums, drugs, coffee, iodine, hemp, quicksilver, canned fruits and fish, coir yarn, coconuts, and brandy! Navy at One Dock. West India and Millwall docks lie in a river peninsula known as the Isle of Dogs. Here the passer-b-y may smell 12,000 puncheons of rum, a million tons of sugar and shipv loads of dates. Albert Victoria and and King George V docks form one huge structure, the worlds largest sheet of enclosed dock water. Often 40 or 50 ships equal to a d navy tie up here at one time. Tilbury is the first dock one sees when sailing up the Thames. Its long landing stage forms a homeland gateway for people from Australia, New Zealand, India, China and other eastern countries -- w h o land or embark here. Fast trains of the London, Midland and Scottish railway touch the docks edge and whisk passengers away to all parts of the kingdom. In the city, PLA has still more warehouses. At its Butler street building are 70 rooms full of oriental carpets enough to cover a farm of 120 acres! People buy most carpets in June, for wedding presents, you are told. There are electric ovens, too, for conditioning raw silk, a mountain of Havana cigars and leaf tobacco 0 enough to last one man, say, ' years! This is the worlds ivory and tooth market. It takes 16,000,000 artificial teeth from the United States every year and some 2,000 elephant tusks from Africa and Asia. Not many tusks are from newly slain elephants. Most of them come from mudholes, left by animals long from mudholes, left by animals. 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