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Show FRIDAY, THE BULLETIN FIGHT ON Marriage by Elopement RACKET PROBLEM OF FARMER League for Leu Noise to Campaign in Country. NEW YORK. Noises that disturb sleep slow up industry and produce jangled nerves are no longer a problem which concern only the big city, according to Earnest H. Peabody, (president of the League for Less whose organization has Noise, launched a battle against racket." Gone are the days, says Mr. Pea-- I body, when the farmers little white cottage by a country road provides 'a haven from the raucous clatter (of automobile horns, the roar of traffic and the screech of car with four; brakes. way traffic lanes, a continuous flow of express trucks all hours of the (day and night, impatient drivers clax-- ! pounding on ons and the staccato roar of open ex-- ! hausts, have taken the roar of the city to the wide open spaces. Down With Clatter. The League for Less Noise, molded by civic indignation and allied ' is campaigning with science, against unnecessary clatter. While ;Mr. Peabodys organization fights for city and town ordinances that do away with useless tooting of car horns, blaring radios and phonographs at unseemly hours and unneeded blasts from steam whistles, science moves ahead with its fight on machine and construction vibra-- j tion, producer of much of the noise i and discord that slows up efficiency in industry. Apologists for unnecessary noise, Mr. Peabody pointed out, often urge are merely (that cranks. Any normal person, they have insisted, can become accustomed to any kind of noise or vi-- ( bration in a few days. Investigation (and study, however, have proven the fallacy of this belief, he declares. Supporting the contention that noise and vibration slow up work-ler- s, Mr. Peabody offers as an ex--: ample the experiment of two inves--! tigators, H. C. Weston and S. (Adams, who selected comparable groups of workers engaged in weaving cloth on factory looms. Loom ;rooms where such weaving is done usually are very noisy. Two rooms .were chosen; one of about average noisiness, another which had been quieted as much as was practicable, although even this still was noisier .than tiie average New York street. Production of cloth in the two rooms was compared. Workers in the (quiet room came out about 8 per cent ahead, confirming the conclusion from all similar investigations ' that noise hinders successful human effort and that quietude assists it. Introduction of rubber mountings, to put called machinery in its stocking feet" ' and for use in concrete building construction, have done much toward lessening noise and vibration. A recent seminar on timber and concrete held by Prof. John M. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, brought out the three-fol- d purpose of the r: to reduce maintenance on the machine itself; to save the concrete, or other foundations from deterioration, and to reduce physical fatigue and make for more efficient workers. Rubber Mountings Help. Automobile engineers now know positively that the maintenance on parts of both engine and chassis has been materially reduced by the use of rubber mountings on the engine. Punch presses, and other badly vibrating machines, now ride on rubber. Science, however, has not confined to cities all of its efforts toward vibration and noise elimination. Tractors which formerly clanked noisily across field in front of plow or cultivator,, now glide quietly over the same surface on pneumatic tires. Farmers and residents of the smaller communities are also beneof fiting through the the railroad companies in the drive for less noise, with the introduction of mellow-tone- d train whistles which provide the same warning signal but eliminate the screeches of former devices. The Florida East Coast railroad now has the muted whistles installed on all its engines. The in stallation followed a ballot by per- y sons living along the after four whistles had been demonstrated. ' : : j ! ! Super-highway- I s, nerve-shatteri- ng j : j noise-hater- s" Is Common in Bali Land In Bali, prearranged marriage is in general the respectable way for the feudal aristocracy to marry; but marriage by elopement is much more common, writes Miguel Covarruhias, in Asia Magazine. The average boy in love with a girl makes his marriage arrangements directly with her and, aside from his father, perhaps, and a few friends from whom he needs help, he keeps his intentions secret until the day, previously agreed upon between the boy and girl, when he will steal her. Shy couples simply run away together to the house of a friend, as a rule in another village, where they spend their honeymoon in hiding. But the Balinese love spectacular kidnapings. The girl arranges for her clothes to be taken secretly to the future hideout, and on the appointed day she is captured somewhere on the road in the fields or on the river by the kidnaping party led by her suitor. She is expected to kick and bite her abductors. Although there may be witnesses, they would not dream of interfering, unless they are relatives of the girl, in which case they are supposed to put up a great fight. At her home, as soon as her disappearance is discovered her enraged father is supposed to run to the alarm drum-towand beat the kulkul, asking who took his daughter, but, of course, no one knows. Even a searching party may bs organized for the fun of it, but after a while they return breathless and empty handed. The great marriage ceremony is supposed to take place within 42 days after the kidnaping, but in some cases it has been performed considerably later if there is not enough money immediately available for the festivities. er ; j ; vibro-insulators- ," : Les-sel- ls vibro-insulato- . ear-splitti- ng right-of-wa- Plastic Surgery Is Added To Skills of Embalmers DENVER. Plastic surgery has been added to the skills which the modern embalmer must understand. C. W. Porterfield, of Holton, Kan., first vice president of the National Association of Funeral Directors, annual explained to the forty-firconvention of Colorado Funeral Directors that many embalmers hare become professionals in their skill as plastic surgeons. A knowledge of plastic surgery enables the embalmer to make lifelike the features of persons marred in automobile accidents and through mutilating diseases," he explained. Psychology is another field of learning in which the undertaker should be informed, Porterfield said. The funeral director, he said, is learning a better understanding of the psychology of grief and how to assuage that grief. ' st CHANGES ARE MADE Gnome Rat Is Relative of Common Kangaroo Rat The gnome rat is a close relative of the fairly common kangaroo rat of the West. It lives only in a very limited area in southern Idaho and Nevada, which is covered with windblown sand of a certain texture. In this sand the rat burrows at the feet of rare bushes. So fine is its adaptation to this peculiar environment where hardly any other mammal can live, so that it is fairly free from enemies that it cannot exist in a legion where the sand is a trifle coarser or finer. Its feet and toes are heavily furred. In other words, it apparently wears sandshoes" to keep it from sinking into the drifts of fine sand. These are much the same principle as snowshoes. Another peculiarity, according to a writer in the Washington Star, is that, living in a waterless desert, it carries water bottles" around with it. About the rily food is the seed of a tiny shruo that is scattered over this queer desert. This shrub bears pods, each of which contains a droplet of water. The gnome rat found this out, gathers the pods and carries them around in its cheek pouch and even stores them for the winter so that it will have water when needed. Every now and then they are almost completely wiped out by starvation. They are strictly nocturnal in their habits, remaining crouched in their burrows during the day. AT MOUNT VERNON well-traine- -- Half-grow- The Thinker" The statue The Thinker," is by Auguste Rodin, the greatest of French sculptors. His original idea was to employ the figure above a museum doorway he had been commissioned to make, and a study which had this use in view was displayed in Paris in 1889. But he did not use it for that purpose, and the huge bronze The Thinker, was not exhibited until 1904, in Paris. Soon afterward it was shown in plaster at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. This plaster figure is now in the Metropolitan museum in New York. There are several bronze casts in this country including the one at the entrance . of the Cleveland Museum of Art, another in Detroit, and a third in Golden Gate park, San Francisco. The first east of The Thinker is at the Rodin museum in Paris. Rodin was born in 1810 and died November 17, 1917, PEN ERROR ADDS VALUE TO FRENCH STAMP Lights of New York by Alterations Result of Research Among Records. Rare Papers Show Human Side of Great Writers. Mount VerWashington, D. C. non, home of George Washington near the national capital, has a The last will Missoula, Mont. and testament of Jonathan Swift, author of "Gullivers Travels, 219 new superintendent, the fourth since the Mount Vernon Ladies' association took over the care and upkeep of the famous shrine in 1853. Following the recent death of Colonel Harrison H. Dodge, the Ladies association elected Charles Cecil Wall, former assistant superintendent, to take charge. Numerous changes and restorations have taken place at Mount Vernon in recent years," says the National Geographic society. Many of the alterations, the new superintendent points out,were made as a result of extensive research work among records, letters and other documents found both in this country and abroad. As a result the Mansion House and its adjacent buildings and gardens are today more nearly as they were ic Washingtons time than when the Ladies association took over the neglected estate. This organization, founded 79 years ago, by Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina, is chartered by the state of Virginia. Its officers serve without pay. Because the vast proportion of Mt. Vernons thousands of annual visitors come by motor car, the federal government and the state of Virginia have each constructed trunk highways to take care of the heavy tourist traffic. Wall Protects Estate. Facing the circular plaza, bat outside the gates, are lunch rooms, and souvenir shops, housed in buildings whose colonial architecture harmonizes with the rest of the estate. There is also an outdoor cafe. Parking spaces for cars and busses are partially concealed by shrubbery and trees. A high brick wall, which was not a feature of the plantation in Washingtons day, but was erected to protect it today, encircles almost the entire estate. Perhaps the most conspicuous change in the Mansion House itself is the removal of the white railing above the roof of the portico on the east, or Potomac, front. Study of several ancient drawings and paintings of the mansion, some of which have only recently come to light, revealed that the railing did not appear on. any pictures prior to 1839, and therefore the railing must not have been a feature of the house during Washingtons lifetime. Consequently it has been taken down. Another restoration, of particular interest to landscape architects, is the kitchen garden along the south side of the bowling green. This sloping plot of land was laid out by Washington in terrace style, an interesting example of Eighteenth century design. Growing in the garden now are old herbs, vegetables and fruits mentioned in Washington's farm accounts. The old brick barn has a new roof, a shingling job completed this spring. Relics Returned. Visitors may now peek into the tiny building at the west end of the flower garden believed to have been used by the Curtis children and their tutor as a school house. This octagonal structure was, until recently, used as a tool house. Some authentic relics recently returned to the estate for display in the mansion or in the small museum near the spinning house are: Mrs. Washingtons French writing desk, a knee-hol- e dressing table, a stool with Mrs. Washingtons initials on it, the original bronze cannon used by George Washington to salute vessels sailing up the Potomac, and a quaint lacquer mirror. Entirely concealed from visitors' eyes is one of the most remarkable bits of restoration work; undertaken in connection with the preservation of the mansion. Some time ago it was discovered that the heavy wooden beams supporting the too and ceiling above the banquet hal were showing signs of sagging. From a narrow third floor trapdoor, workmen were able to brace the ancient timbers with iron plates and heavy bolts, so that they now are as strong as new. So carefully did they do their work that the brittle plaster of the wide ceiling below was not damaged in the least. Mount Vernon now is open every day in the year, but only in recent yrars has it been?pen on Sundays." red-roof- Training Elephants In India, Burma, and Siam elephants have been domesticated since written history began, being used as beasts of burden and for hunting. The period of training lasts many years, says a writer in the d Chicago Tribune, and a animal will frequently command a price as high as $5,000. Contrary to general belief, the big African elephants are about as amenable to training as their Indian cousins. The armies of ancient Carthage used African elephants in war, and, according to Vevers: At Api, in the Congo, there were in 1928 fifty elephants in training, nineteen of which had completed the course and were working animals. The training is done by local natives who learned their business from Indian mahouts n imported as instructors. wild elephants are chosen for training, which is carried on for tea years before the animal is strong enough for regular work. Attempts to shorten the period of training in the past have always ended in the death of the animal." HOMELY LIGHT CAST ed Rats Protected at Mine; Give Warning of Danger years after it was signed and executed has found its way to Montana. The document, now worth more than the eccentric writers itemized fortune, is a part of a literary collection owned by H. W. Whicker, member of the Montana State university faculty. In addition to Swift's Whickers collection includes an original document by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in her own handwriting. The collection also contains original manuscripts and letters of Thomas De Quincy, Robert Browning, Thomas Gray, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Carlyle and others. Only previous owners of the collection knew that the originals were in existence. Facts concerning most of them have never been published heretofore. Manuscripts Were Gift. Whicker, a well - known northwest author, is not, however, a collector. The manuscripts were given to him. University students are using tha manuscripts, not for scholarly purposes, Whicker said, "but for the rich personal atmosphere most of them have, and for the incentive they may give the students through personal feeling. The manuscripts are also being studied because they thrust aside the years and show those whom we to often worship as geniuses as being vitally human, concerned with the same human problems with which we are concerned, dogged by the same human weaknesses with which we are dogged." Swifts will is dated September 8, 1718, and it lists bonds and mortgages valued at 1,514 pounds. Of this sum 200 pounds was bequeathed for a building at Nielytown and the balance to his family. While the paper is yellow and fragile with age, the document is still legible. Original Poe Manuscript. Another unit of Whickers collection is a page from one of Edgar Allen Poe's original manuscripts on literary criticism. It is written in his own handwriting. The page is pasted together similar to editorial copy for newspapers or magazines. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's letter to his publisher relative to a certain famous "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" is also included in the group. Elizabeth Barrett Brownings poem, Life," bears her initials besides her own penciled revisions. The work was originally published under the title, "Human Lifes Problems." A comparison with the poem as it is published today shows only two of the stanzas are not the sanie as the original. far will, . Issue to Be Destroyed, Some Will Escape. Specialists abound in New York.: In fact just about every type of serv- -, ns Minnesota University Has Rare Scandinavian Works With more than Minneapolis. volumes in its Scandinavian department library, the University of Minnesotas collection is recognized as the finest library of Scandinavian works in the United States, according to Andrew A. Stromberg, department head. The university collection Is the only one in this country which contains a complete record of proceed-ingof the governing bodies of Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Stromberg said. In the past, Scandinavian students have shown slight interest in the courses our department offered," Stromberg said. "They were too close to the immigration period of their parents. As they become more widely separated from that era they are taking an increasing interest in studying the culture and historical Is Paved With backgrounds of their oriHighway gins." Gold Ore of Low Grade Stromberg, who has headed the San Diego, Calif. A highway university's Scandinavian departpaved with gold ore takes motorists ment for 30 years and under whose from Ramona to Julian, once a col- direction its library was developed, orful mining town in San Diego believes the fourth generation since county, Calif., according to Charles the heavy immigration of ScandiH. Reed, secretary of the county navians will produce even greater interest in the courses and facilities bureau of mines. available for study of those peoples. travwho motorists few Although el the strip of highway realize the value of the road. Reed Heat Stored Up by Earth said it was constructed of gravel Cooks Plants to Death and ore with an average gold conton. a of tent $7 Minneapolis. Temper a t u r e s He said the gravel came from a reach 175 degrees a few inches bequarry on the escarpment of a near- neath the earth's surface, it was reby mountain, but the gold content vealed in the annual report of Dr. was not sufficient to warrant send- Raphael Zon, director of the Lakes ing it to a smelter. Contractors es- states forest experiment station at timated that at least $2,000 worth of University of Minnesota farm. The information was obtained gold is embedded in the highway leading to the old Julian gold min- from thermometers buried in the surface soil last summer. The difing district. While Julian did not gain the fame ference between the temperatures was due to the acquired by some mining towns, its earths one. capacity for storing heat. a is picturesque history Horace Bailey, owner of the first Doctor Zon explained. "Many plants do not die from lack stage line out of Julian, recalled the of moisture during a drouth, as is in encountered he difficulties operatgenerally believed," he said. "They ing the line. he are simply cooked to death." One grade was so steep, said, that I had to tell my drivers Farm Lies in Two States to make an announcement to the Marinette, Wis. Farming is an passengers: First class passengers keep interstate proposition for Michael your seats. Second class passengers Brost, sometimes requiring use of a get out and walk. Third class pas- rowboat The Menominee river, on the boundary between Wisconsin sengers get out and push.' " and Michigan, runs through his property. Finds Profit in 100,000 s 11-m- ile Woman Raising Snails for Sale Kearney, Neb. An experiment Zortman, Mont. Under strict or- begun five years ago provides Mrs. ders from the management, the em- A. A. Munn with a comfortable ployees in the mines near this small living. She raises snails and has north central Montana mining comthe largest output in Nebraska. Wholesale houses and private and munity protect the hundreds of rats that scurry from tunnel to tunnel public aquariums from coast to and regard them as their friends. coast are supplied with snails by The rodents have saved many Mrs. Munn. Even Florida, which is miners from injury and possible supposed to have plenty of snails, death because of their uncanny receives her product. sense to detect caveins. Mrs. Munn specializes in the large Due to the sandy nature of the red snails because they attract more mine formations, caveins are comattention by their vivid color. They mon. The rats are able to detergrow to be as large around as a half mine the slipping earth long before dollar, but they are shipped when miners are aware of the movement. tiny, just beginning their growth. Mrs. Munns industry is contacted Wasting no time, the rodents jun for safety, thus spreading the alarm. in large glass aquariums and woodNo dead or even crippled rat has en tubs. The snails are like fish in ever been found after a cavein has that they spawn and must not be seen cleared, . disturbed during hatching season. LL STEVENSON but Philatelists will Paris, France. have another minor variation, which makes all the difference between an ordinary stamp and a rarity, to hunt if any of the several thousand original version Descartes stamps escape from the incinerator of the French postoffice. Although the issue is to be destroyed because of an imperfection, it is virtually a certainty that some will slip into collections, for France as a nation is avid about postage stamps, and someone in the printing office has acquired samples of the new stamps that will never go into circulation. The stamp, issued in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the apDispearance of Rene Descartes course on Method, bears his picture surrounded by books, on one of which can be read the title Discours sur la Methode." Unfortunately, by general agreement, Descartes book is known in academic circles as Discours de la Methode." Hence a red stamp bearing Descartes' picture, with the sur," will identify the issue. The curious thing about the suppression of the stamp, of which several thousand examples already exist, is that there is no evidence that Descartes wrote "de" or for that matter, that he wrote "sur" or that he gave his book a title at all. In those days such things as titles were likely to be left to the printer. Both mean the same, but "de" has a rather more archaic flavor. Yet on the famous portrait of Descartes by Franz Hals, the title appears as Discours sur la Methode." In the first edition of Lftn-soHistory of French Literature" it is "sur. In Grazier's dictionary it is sur. In Larousse it is de. To the French postoffice, even a single letter is a matter of concern, to say nothing of two or three of them. So despite plenty of authority for sur," the purists will get their "de, and the philatelists, with luck, another rare stamp. above-and-be-lo- AUGUST IT, 1938 w Calf Is Rated Low in Cattle Country Bisbee, Ariz. City Magistrate Barney Norton handed down a judicial decree that calves are not legal tender for payment of a fine although Bisbee is in the heart of the cattle country. A Mexican, charged with being intoxicated, was given a sentence of $10 or 10 days." A few hours later, the prisoners son arrived In the court room with a calf which he offered for his fathers freedom. "Ten dollars or 10 days means what it ssys," said the judge, "the prodigal prisoner will return to the fatted calf in nine days. ice is performed by some one who does nothing else. But Miss Margaret Cram, in her early twenties, reed-lik- black-haire- e, d, black-eye- is not a specialist. She might be called a generalist by stretching the dictionary meaning of the word a bit. Are you a tired traveler and want a suitcase packed? Very well. Miss Cram will attend to it for you. Do you need a fourth at bridgef Call Miss Cram. Shell walk your dog, feed your canary, change the water on your goldfish, remind you of your wedding anniversary or see that your friend, sick in a hospital, has flowers and visitors. There is just one limitation on the service Miss Cram is willing to render. It must be legitimate. A Vermont girl, soon after she had been graduated from Western Reserve College, Miss Cram became associated with the Amateur Theater guild in Boston and put on shows for Rotary and Kiwanis clubs and various other organizations. Many more or less bewildered tourists asked her to perform services for them. Hence the Idea of turning such a course into bread and butter. So she came to New York and She formed her organization. launched it during the Women's Exposition of Arts and Industries. Now she has offices in a fashionable East Side hotel. There she has in her files names and telephone numbers of those able to do anything from fixing a broken window to escorting a tone woman to the theater. Many and varied are the services which Miss Cram has been called on to perform. A woman client, whose dog is walked every afternoon, stipulated that the pet was to have an orange blossom cocktail each trip. On her calendar are' many dates important to her subscribers and at the appointed time each is notified. One woman burned an expensive pair of gloves with a cigarette and Miss Cram found a repairer who made them as good as new. She makes theater, night club, railroad, airplane and bus reservations. She also looks after children when parents want to step out. That is her most difficult task, as parents' exactions for baby tenders are so high its hard to find the proper ones. But only once has she been stumped. A client wanted her to arrange a submarine ride for him and the navy said no. Contrast Bradley Barker with the versatile Miss Cram. Barker is no generalist Hes strictly a specialist. He barks for a living. Fact More than likely youve heard him in the movies or on the radio. Barking, however, is only a part of his specialty. He can trumpet like an elephant, roar like a lion and squeal like a pig. He can imitate just about every known animal. Hence he is in constant demand whenever authentic animal noises are needed. Hes willing to try anything. Movie and radio people, when they meet him on the street dont speak. They just bark. And Barker barks back. Barkers most difficult stunt was the imitation of the voice of a wounded dinosaur. He didnt know what kind of noise a dinosaur used to make, if any. He knew, of course, that the neck of a giraffe is too tong for vocal cords and the dinosaur also had a long neck. But he decided on a peculiar high screech. It worked fine. So fine that he made the dinosaur records for the Texas fair. The big dinosaur kept bellowing all the time and was the noisiest thing on the grounds. Hes rather proud of that. Bom on Long Island, Barkers parents used to take him to a farm a short distance upstate. He soon began to imitate a crowing rooster. The rest of the barnyard animals followed. He spent 17 years in the silent movies. He imitated all the animal sounds in a popular series of jungle movies. He has a toy Boston bull named Chips and often when he goes into action, Barkers Chips is one puzzled dog. 6 Ball Syndicate. WNU Service. Venezuela Ousts Chinese Who Are in Liquor Trade PANAMA. The Venezuelan gov- ernment has ordered the expulsion of 1,000 Chinese according to a re- port received here from a reliable source. The action is based on the law controlling the residence of foreigners which prohibits aliens from being proprietors of establishments where intoxicating liquors are sold. The order does not apply to Chinese who are not. engaged to the liquor business. 100-Year-O- ld , Receipts Found in Furniture PAINESVILLE, OHIO. Six receipts, almost 100 years old, were discovered to some old furniture by E. L. Cunningham. -- One of them dated February 19, 1840, is for a toad of wood valued at 75 cents to be exchanged for a subscription to the Patoesvilie Telegraph from February 10 to July 25, 1840. |