OCR Text |
Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH New 300-Mil- e Neutrality" Zone Extends American Boundaries Iarm I Topics PILOT PLANTS . HELP INDUSTRY: 7 New Uses Sought for Agri- Hello A Lightning Shave everybody: cultural Products. By DR. W. W. SKINNER Pilot plants form an important part of the program for research on the industrial uses of farm products at the four regional laboratories now under cohstruction by the bureau of agricultural chemistry and engineering. Pilot plants at these laboratories will do for industry very much the same kind of work that have the demonstration farms done for farmers supply practical evidence of the value of new methods and processes. The new laboratories are planned to carry new discoveries through the doubtful stage where manufacturers who depend on profit for their existence are often unwilling to venture. Often the laboratory proves that a certain process is chemically e scale. A manpossible on ufacturer, however, wants to know whether it will work as well on a large scale, what the quality of the product will be, what raw materials and transportation costs will be, the expense for labor, and the price at which the product will have to sell to find a quantity market. The pilot plant stage supplies definite evidence on these questions. Production goes on a basis. The research workers and engineers iron out the kinks in practical procedure., The pilot plant is large enough to give a definite line on costs, quality, and marketing problems. Experience in starch making from sweetpotatoes is an example of pilot plant guidance. In the experiment the pilot plant tests have led to the plant operation of a that this year will handle the product-of 4,000 acres. this is the story of a close shave the closest shave John Pisano of Clifton, N. J., ever saw in his life. If Id said it was the closest shave I had ever seen well that might not mean anything at all. But when Johnny Pisano says it he speaks with the authority of a man who has been seeing close shaves all his life and giving them. You see, Johnny is a . . barber. Johnny has been a barber for the last 17 years, but he says hed never had anything exciting happen in his shop until the summer of 1934. And how come Johnny waited until now to tell us that story? Well you see, Johnny was just a bit skeptical about us. Heres how he explains it: My wife, he says, has been buying your paper ever since we were married, but neither one of us ever believed in contests. We thought they were all faked. Then, my wife tried one and won a prize, so we had to change our minds. Now she wants me to try my luck in your department. And now lets take a look at Johnnys yarn. He says it wasnt as terrifying as some of the stories hes seen printed in this column because it happened so fast and was all over . , But just the same, it was a bird while it lasted, and it left Johnny in such a state of jitters that he didn't want to do any work for the rest of the day. test-tub- so soon. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service. AGE-OLPROBLEM of jurisdiction seas is raised by the over Back Door to Shop Brings Bad Luck. A neutrality zone the creation of a e neuoff the coasts of the Western Johnnys shop has a front and a back door the back one coasts the the zone off of trality leading to a pool room that is no longer used. That back door, President and shows Western Hemisphere, Map is Hemisphere. in closed Johnny says, always kept winter, bnt in the summer Roosevelts statement that the extent of the area included in when its warm, he opens it to give the breeze a chance to circa to late. Johnny used American territorial waters ex- the zoning. keep that back door open all summer long t during business hours. Nowadays, though, there are times when tend as far as American interbetween the Treaties he keeps it closed. The minute more than two small clouds appurposes. ests dictate, call attention to United States and other nations perpear in the sky together, Johnny shuts it and it takes a darned the age-ol- d question of jurisdic- mit U. S. coast guard cutters to good customer to talk him into opening it up again. over wife sea. tion the is a stop and search vessels suspected little bit afraid of lightning. She had often told Johnnys him about that door. She said lightning followed a draft, and that he How far outward from its coasts of smuggling at various distances ought to keep the back door closed whenever it began to. thunder. any nations sovereignty extends has from shore up to 12 miles. Some But Johnny never paid any attention to her. If he had well then hed been the subject of argument since treaties also permit suspected a thousand years before the Chris- smugglers to be stopped within one tian era. In that period Minos, king hours sailing distance from shore; of Crete, made himself master of a thus a slow 'boat might be considgreat part of what is now termed the ered to be outside American territoHellenic sea, according to the rial waters after traveling only five or six miles, while a fast one might Greek historian, Thucydides. to go 20 or 25 miles to get have nation no claims absolute Today control, under ordinary conditions, beyond the limit. over any part of the sea more than Many of these treaties were made a few miles from its coasts. Terri- during the time of national prohibitorial waters of the United States tion of the sale of liquor and were extend out three miles from shore, aimed primarily at liquor smugwhile some other nations fix the lim- glers. If a vessel is ordered to stop it as much as six miles out. by a coast guard patrol within American Three-Mil- e territorial waters, and reof Limit. Adoption limit was adopted fuses to obey, it may be pursued, The three-mil- e by the United States and Great Brit- stopped and searched even though it t ain toward the close of the Eight- succeeds in reaching the high seas. A shower of bright, yellowish sparks coming out of the end of eenth century because it represented Ships engaged in piracy or the slave his razor. the maximum cannon range of those trade may be legally stopped anyhowever, the range where on the high seas by warnever be telling this yarn to us today. And take my word for it, its days. Today, defense guns is 20 miles or ships of any nations. of coast the thing that ever happened to any barber while at work more. The idea that a nation might exat the tonsorial art. three-mil- e ercise limit is the legal control over the seas Although It was along in the afternoon, and the sky was cloudy. There was adjacent to its coasts grew out of no one in the shop but Johnny and his helper, and they were thinking generally recognized as the boundaUnited States territorial wa- former attempts of nations or their about sitting down to a game of checkers until the sky cleared and the ry of there ters, actually are several oth- rulers to claim sovereignty over all customers came out of their holes again. Thunder was rumbling in the in existence for special the oceans. limits er distance and coming closer with every rumble. It started to rain and just as it did, a man came in. He sat down in the first chair and ordered a shave. So Johnny forgot about the checkerboard and began working up a lather in the old shaving cup. Before the soap had begun to cream up, the storm broke. ' The rain came down in sheets, and the thunder, which had been a distant rumble before, now sounded like the report of a . gun going off right alongside your ear. But that didnt bother Johnny. His wife might be afraid of lightning, but he wasn't. He scooped up a big wad of lathed on the brush and began rubbing it over his customers face. He spread the lather and rubbed it in. His helper was standing at the window, idly watching the water collect in the gutters. There was Geographic Society. Prepared by National Washington, D. C. WNU Service. another crack of thunder louder and closer than any that had come belittle-knowbut historic Two fore. Imperturbably, Johnny finished lathering the man in the chair and picked up his sharpest razor. islands, Saare and Hiiu, that Customer Becomes Rigid, Unconscious. ,uard the west coast of little Estonia, suddenly have leaped Johnny picked up the razor brought it down on his customers in next the stroke. face for the first long, sweeping into news prominence with the Then, second, in world the Russian-Estonia- n happened! everything agreement Johnny felt a sudden, numbing sensation in his right arm. A MAP SHOWS location of the to ocforces Soviet permitting bright light blinded him momentarily, but as it died out a bit, he two tiny islands, Saare and Hiiu, cupy the islands. could see what had caused it. A shower of bright, yellowish sparks that guard the west coast of little Saare and Hiiu together are only COMING OUT OF THE END OF HIS RAZOR. Estonia. These islands are now as as the tiny large The next thing Johnny knew, the razor was wrenched from his hand. half again, of Soviet forces and are and Luxembourg, by looked his He down to occupied at Duchy practicustomer.. the floor. Johnny It fell clattering to the unknown world at unconscious. of And stood stiff and cally large; in chair strategic the importance in the great totally Johnny rigid lay beside him, his face white, his whole body shaking feeling as if hed but these two low, flat islands are Baltic sea. of tremendous strategic importance like to pass out himself. n the politically stormy Baltic sea. Hiiu is 223 feet, and on Saare only He stood trembling until his helper came and led him to a Saare and Hiiu are only a few 88 above sea level. Saare somein while towel a the soaked he chair. Then sat4 dazed, helper miles flying or steaming dis- how finds room for several lakes score cold water and applied it to the face of the man in the chair. In from any number of impor- and small rivers within its narrow tance his He looked around a few minutes the customer opened eyes. ' tant Baltic points. They stand just confines. the shop, and then at Johnny sitting in the chair. He sort of to entrance of of Gulf the the south small Several on Saare, craters looked as if he expected Johnny to finish shaving him but not for which of across, with capiFinland, Tallinn, meteoric in hold razor a of iron he rest couldnt that fragments all For the day Johnny. tal of Estonia, and Helsinki, capital scattered about, give evidence that his hand. His helper finished the job he had started. So now, whenever the sky begins to cloud up, Johnny shuts that of Finland, face each other only, 50 sometime in the remote past several meteorites of considerable size, fell back door. And one of the things he and his wife agree most closely on miles apart. Just 150 miles to the west across from the sky upon this obscure coris that little matter of lightning. . ner of the world. Apparently the the Baltic is Swedens capital, Stock-hol(Released by Western Newspaper Union.) About 100 miles to the northcraters were formed when the fragwest are Finlands Aaland islands, ments exploded upon striking the Cities of Extremes Inferiority Complex which Finland and Sweden recently ground. de70 in Hammerfest, Norway, There is one dog that probably Saares chief claim to fame consuggested should be fortified. The will never take a show prize unless grees 40 minutes 11 seconds N. latito entrance the the of its therapeutic mud baths, Aalands sists guard in is the northernmost city it is for inferiority complex and tude, Gulf of. Bothnia, ' the northwardwhich were patronized by the royal in world. the are There Chow. a is Su The villages Lin, dog speed. arm of the Baltic. family of Russia in the old days of Scheduled for a first appearance at Alaska, Greenland and Siberia more stretching and Hiiu are flat, with the czars. The mud, taken from the Saare Both of Pasbut show at insignificant poputhe Junior League dog northerly indented shores. Saare is shallow seas off the coast, is reportadena, Calif., Su Lin took one look lations. The southernmost city is deeply miles in area,- and Hiiu ed to be radioactive and contains va1,000 square of thouthe territorial Ushuaia, at the other dogs, then at the capital 360. Both have forests, inabout rious ingredients declared to be sands of spectators, slipped his Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, just with and rough helpful for rheumatism and other pasture terspersed h parallel of farm land. The leash, fled through a gate and north of the on ailments. highest point south latitude. seen since. hasnt been D 300-mi- le 300-mil- semi-commerc- ial . Government Scientists Advance Farm Studies Government scientists are busy studying every conceivable angle of agriculture with a view to making farming more profitable and life in America more abundant for the people. Some of their studies look foolish to the layman, and some of them may be futile. Some of their findings are not yet of any use to man, but neither were the discoveries made by Franklin about electricity of any use to man at the time he made them. When asked Of what use is it? Franklins reply was Of what use is a baby? Down in West Virginia, government chemists are trying to find 'out how to make red apples redder. After paring the red coloring from bushels of apples, they found out what the red color is, and have isolated it in pure form. The pigment is called idaein and belongs to a group of plant pigs. ments known to chemists as Now they are spraying leaves, fruit, and branches of trees with various chemicals, injecting chemicals into branches, applying materials to the soil under the tree spread, and binding, girdling, and defoliating at different times and in varying degrees to see if apples can be artificially colored, rather than to depend upon Natures way of doing the work. , dog-goned- Tiny Islands antho-cyanin- Near Estonia Are Coveted 16-in- ch , n, , f Foot and mouth disease serum has been developed in Denmark. The new serum apparently renders cattle immune to the disease for at least a year.. There are three known types of foot and mouth virus, however, and it is not yet known whether the serum will protect against all three. . The 62,000,000-acr- e planting allotment for United States wheat to be harvested in 1940 is nearly 2,000,000 acres more than was harvested in any year of the World war. The average acreage harvested in 1916 and 1917 was slightly over 50,000,000 acres, as compared with the present planting allotment of 62,000,000 acres. ' - fifty-fift- Farm Facts If methods recently adopted by Paul Halsey, of McLean, 111., become universal, we may soon be eating peppermint-flavore- d pork chops or wintergreen spareribs, says the Country Home Magazine. Mr. Halsey, whose brother runs a candy truck, last spring arranged to purchase all stale candy to feed to a late spring litter of pigs. The hogs thrived so well on their sugary diet that they weighed an average of 287 pounds when sold a few months ago. hog-feedi- i |