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Show UINTAH EASIN' RECORD Keeping Up cienee ervce ; Science Service. WNO Service. High Rail Speeds Facing Big Problem of Safe Stopping Earliest Traces of Mans Existence in Palestine Dug Up Bone Beds of Betlilehera Yield Ancient Specimens By E. N. FAI.LAIZE, Royal Anthropological Institute of London. London. The earliest WORLD'S HAPPIEST CHILDREN Ghost Comet Seen Near Mars Claimed to Be Real Thing When reports London. were received in April of the discovery of a new comet in the southern skies by W. F. Gale, an Australian astronomer, and great observatories in Europe and America were unable to locate it, the assumption was made that it was a ghost. It was near the brilliant planet Mars, and often reflections from such a bright object, inside the eyepiece of a telescope, cause these ghosts, which look like comets. The comet was real after all, according to a claim in a letter from Mr. Gale to Dr. A. C. D. Crom-melipublished in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association. Mr. Gale states that he fully recognized the likelihood of its being a ghost, and made careful tests to determine its reality. The telescope, he says, never showed such ghosts before, and the comet was seen best when Mars was completely out of the field. It was observed by several others, and through other telescopes, over a period of nearly a month, during which it moved as a comet should. Rattles More Used ly Adults Than lv Babies Almost 5,000 years ago Chicago. babies in the old city of Kish in Mesopotamia were kept happy with rattles, says Richard A. Martin, archeologist, of the Field Museum of Natural History, here. Yet, rattles have been used more by adults than by children in most lands explored by science. Soldiers in ancient China were stirred by music of bronze rattles in military orchestras. African tribes devised many kinds of rattles for use in magical rites. Egyptians had a kind of rattle called a sistrum, made of a staff with metal rings dangling at the end, and used in solemn religious ceremonies. American Indians used rattles in religion and magic. Modern Europe and America stand out, as exceptions in using rat-tt- s mainly for amusing babies. Important Animal Specimens. The most striking specimen among the animal remains is the hinder part of the shell of a gigantic tortoise of a species not yet identified. With it were several detached plates of the shell and a huge leg bone. Although only the tail part of the shell was found whole, it measures well over two feet across, as compared with a little over two inches for the same part in a tortoise of about a foot in diameter. There is also part of the tooth of an elephant the elephant was first identified in Palestine in evidence from the Bethlehem bone beds and cheek teeth of the rhinoceros. Most important, however, from the view of the paleontologist and geologist is what appears to be part of a leg bone of a very small form of horse, possibly hipparion, the three-toe- d horse of the Tertiary geological Very Early Human Artifacts. In the same beds, and associated with these animal remains, were a number of worked flints of which a selection has been brought to England and is now available for examination by expert judges of mans earliest handiwork. There can, however, hardly be any doubt as to the human origin of these specimens. One of them appears to be a core, from which flakes have been struck, while the others show the characteristic forms and chipping found in eolithic or implements. Of those who have seen them, J. Reid Moir, the great authority in Great Britain on implements, is confident as to their human origin and their early form. There is every reason to say that at least the depositsare not later than Early Pleistocene, and it may be that they are Pliocene. This is certainly nearly as early as the earliest date assigned to the earliest implements found by Reid Moir in England, and approximately contemporary with Peking Man. Fungus Found That Traps and Eats Small Worms A fungus, Chapel Hill, N. C. a sort of fifth cousin to the common bread mold, that captures and eats small worms, was recently described by Dr. J. N. Couch of the University of North Carolina. While Insect-eatin- g plants such as the Venus fly trap and the pitcher plant are quite well known, animal-catchin- g fungi are rare. The fungus grows in a threadlike form. Loops are spaced at intervals along the thread. These are the traps. When a worm sticks its head or tail into one of these loops it contracts, tightening up on the worm and holding it fast. At times a worm may be caught by two of the loops. When the worm is firmly held, small threads grow out from the main thread. They penetrate the body of the worm and digest it. Dr. Couch was able to watch the capture and digestion of the prey. Eat Little Ones Big and Latter Tiny Things Fis-l- i Washington. The bass or trout or pike you triumphantly bear home, or the more prosaic halibut or salmon you buy in the store of a Friday, is the end and culmination of a long line of complicated Few fish eat primary foods directly, as a cow eats grass or a pig eats corn. They eat smaller fish and other animal forms like shrimp and crayfish. These In turn have eaten still smaller creatures and so ad infinitum, or almost that far. For the end (or rather the beginning) of the chain consists of plants too small to see, which the first and smallest of the tiny animal forms devour, to get the food which this "water pasture" has made with the help of the sun wy tion. But before night I seen some Isolated feature of Bolshevism that Is so enlightened, so advanced, and so inspiring, that for the moment I forgive and forget the tyranny that has produced it The Soviet system of persecuting and imprisoning the mother, sister, children of any Russian citizen who tries to escape from this ganglands grip, seems to me as Inhuman and barbaric a custom as ever existed In the most savage ages of history. But just when I am exploding with indignation because of It, I visit one of the model prisons and Immediately feel that It Is we Americans, with our dismal and degrading prison system, who are the savages. Schools Appease Wrath. The ruthlessness and mereiless-nes- s with which the Bolsheviks go about exterminating all classes of Russian society except the third-clas- s themselves outrages my sense of justice, and sends me off on the warpath in defense of human liberties. But again, my hostility against this crucifixion of the civilized minority cools when I enter one of the special Soviet schools, and see the protection and sympathy and spiritual stimulation being poured out to young people who before the In revolution would have been some cases actually were beggars, thieves, or illiterate and bestial peasants. Ive just come from two days spent in such schools and prisons. Let me tell about them quickly before I hear the crack of the racketeers whip lashing out again from the Kremlin's towers, and before I put my fist through every complimentary word Ive written about the Bolsheviks. Here in Moscow Is a school that Is unique in the world a state school for boys and girls who want to run away and join the circus! Want to Join the Circus? The circus school is advertised far and wide from Vladivostok to Samarkand. The advertisement reads: Soviet Boys! Soviet Girls! Do you want to join the circus as an artist? Are you over fourteen and under eighteen? Come to us and learn clowning, juggling, tightrope walking, acrobatics, horsemanship. We send you a ticket and pay for everything. The Soviet state needs you! What boy or for that matter, what girl could resist such a truly wonderful, magical, invitation? Thousands of applications pour in. At present the school directors can choose only a small fraction of those who plead to be admitted, accepting, preferably, the orphans and th homeless. The freshman class numbers the forty most fortunate forty children In the whole world, if we are to accept the opinion of tire others who must just look on from the outside, and yearn. All freshmen must take the same courses acrobatic dancing, tumand bicycle riding, bling, bare-bacgymnastics, tight-ropwalking, flying trapeze. They also have three hours each day of academic study. Soviet State Circus School. The classes of freshmen, gawkish and clumsy, are followed by the second year students (numbering thirty five) who, now having a chance to specialize, are already excellent performers. When the seniors appear (reduced to twenty-five- ) one sees marvels of muscle and agility with barrel chests and bulging legs. But no matter what the class, everybody goes through his tricks with the utmost joyousness and enthusiasm. The acrobats have to be pulled out of the ring to make way for the next performers. They retreat into the street and carry on s with their there. The clowns, having gone through their daily half hour of routine clowning, continue to fall down and paddle each other all over the school The bare-bacriders, both boys and girls, drive the poor old practice k e hand-spring- k Improving Caub flower a is iInProvM soaked in water to is.5"'-For Boiled Cures for Communism. Hanu-ha- f add a small tea MONICA, CALIF. SANTA egar and a feWclove,i rich man out ter. This will impro, g k here rich but indulgent If the ham is alio? water in whfchpishingt got a letter from his heir, a the it- will be moist and?. W1-- ' sophomore at one of the big eastern colleges. Laundry Hint Tr as The lad announced he had been left after a piece JuSi was and communism to converted - ? X - o is completed may t f before the article 'is!ra through in warm of bing gently with a c arts contributing to the what So cause. about it? The old man wrote back: Son, you have a perfect right to follow the dictates of youras aconscienee. consistent But communist you nat- - V wool moistened luaW - cpme- spirit. . fl , sure Table save Ironing Linen en table mats edged wwe crochet require spe jcpsrt ps The matjf'1,;es ironing. oti pinned in the correct" would not urally f a sheet when ironing on to live continue the close togeh 8ds' pins the gains irvin S. Cobb be lace joins the linen."; of a wicked of the iron point and! off Today I am cutting out till the cfr t0 your somewhat generous allowance. You will also vacate the luxurious dry. Embroidered should be ironed on fl apartment you now occupy because a thick underfe'j Is as: same of rent not the any Im paying c 1 10 money-grabbe- r. 1 t, well-know- n On applying the most modem brakes yet developed, a train speeding 100 miles an hour would have moved 1,300 feet at the end of ten seconds and would still be traveling 72 miles an hour! It will go another 1,300 feet before coming to a full stop, or about a half mile in all. With conventional brakes, as used widely, the picture is even worse. It would take 22 seconds to cut the 100 miles an hour speed to 72 miles an hour, and 4,800 feet in all would be required to achieve a complete stop. Solution a Necessity. All of which makes discussions of running trains at such speeds for ordinary passenger and freight traffic a sizable waste of time at present, unless adequate measures are taken to govern the train movements in the faster schedules. Chief responsibility for a gradual increase in average speed lies in the tram dispatchers office, where tighter running schedules must be watched closely and swifter movements ordered so that the crack trains of the line will not run the slower ones into sidings too frequently. A gradual rise in average speed on schedules is the way the railroads are starting to solve the problem. Already many of the major railroads have their roadbeds so improved that trains are more safe while traveling at 80 miles an hour than they were previously at 60. ' Q JhmkdaJxnlt HI f y ffOWtMrr-- . ,oM Halliburton Tells of Russia's Schools Where Students So Love Their Work That It's Almost Impossible for Directors to Drive Them From It known traces of mans existence in Palestine, and it may By RICHARD HALLIBURTON be, almost the earliest eviAuthor of The Royal Road dence of man in the whole to Romance, etc. world, have been discovered TT 7RITING home about in deposits, now known as V V Russia is one of the most Best of Modern Brakes the Bone Beds of Bethlehem. difficult assignments Ive The discovery was made by Miss Are Not Sufficient E. Gardiner and Miss D. Bate ex- ever had. To write forcefully New York. Top speeds on cavating the deposits, in what ap- and well about this infuriatpears to be a swallow hole near ing but astounding country, railroads have been raised in Bethlehem, on behalf of the Wellconthe last three years from 80 come Marston archeological re- one should have definite in and victions But, opinions. and 90 miles an hour to 100 search expedition to the Near East. with the experience keeping and 120 miles an hour. LocoThe discovery of the swallow hole motives capable of keeping was made some few years ago when of most other foreigners, my were being made for a convictions suffer such viosustained speeds at the latter excavations water supply. On the nature of the lent and such frequent figures are not at hand but deposits becoming apparent, a conknow I that difficulhardly changes few technical cession to excavate was granted to present to from day day what ties. Major problem that J. L. Starkey on behalf of the Well- myself convictions are. examcome The actual my expedition. must be solved if the public anew that swear Each of I ination was the entrusted morning deposits is ever to attain this swift- to Miss the rule of the Soviets Is the cruel-esauthorthe Bate, ness in actual travel is what ity of the British Museum of Natmost brutal, and most colossal to do about stopping such ural History on paleontology, and racket ever rammed at pistol point down the throats of a helpless naMiss E. Gardiner, lecturer on geolspeeding masses of metal. will have ogy of London university. o D,ereI-ove- longer. So go ahead, my boy, and commune freely with my blessings! But from date thatll be about all from this end of the line. Exactly four hours after the arrival by air mail of this ultimatum, the parent got back a rush telegram stating that the young man had been thinking things over and had decided not to take up the new doctrine. hard-hearte- w I ? t y o .- 5- s WE ast the Sham or kflt so-- -- v - - Use for Old The Art of Listening. HAD a party at which there i rccei i Eggs and Mushro Guffey ounces of fresh butte- 'vhic pan; break over it (party and add 3 spoor!. Wheel mushrooms, teasp:" saltspoonful ground j Stir the mixture r i spet spoon over a clear t Farley thickish consistency, at the very hot on buttered that tb discarded shaving brJ of Pr what I may call the splendid blacklead Hprogr dumb poets Sam Hoffenstein and penetrates parts wlu Nash. At the studios where cult to reach with ceratic H rH'Ht . d '' r Ogden theyre theres H both turning out epics, a rule that neither shall stove-brus- mtel a h. 3arkle; Rhubarb Charlotte-t- c lead ' t , stew rhubarb but ace c under contract no thumbing of the Fill dish ate that r point. no of Cinlute. the sounding harp, rhubarb and sponge g rene Lessons in toe dancing begin at six. At ten the muscles in their feet emas gain is creations loss. lemon jelly, 0f bis and legs are like iron. The regime is so strict and so severe that of every Maybe that explains why they er with ten who enter the school only two graduate. made such good listeners the other and serve with whip- jhsts f v- ? v ,r burst forth into poetry while hes not c 1 - horse almost to death, pleading to charges, therefore, are frequent. be allowed just one more time But the child meanwhile has had around the ring, just one more dive the finest education possible in Rusthrough the paper hoops. The jug- sia, and is always provided with a glers hide behind the scenery to livelihood elsewhere. steal another period of rehearsal Such institutions as these would The whole school has to be driven help melt anybodys wrath against home to the dormitories at night the Bolsheviks. But it is in their by means of angry threats of punpenal system where the Soviets comishment from the director. pletely win ones sympathy and The day I visited the school the young aerial acrobats, flying and Russias Penal System. swinging high over the head of the About twenty miles outside Mosinstructor, positively refused to cow is the worlds perfect prison-per- fect come down, and only shouted defiin that it turns out ance back at him as they continued skilled, responsible citto sail through the air with the not and izens, furtive, embittered, greatest of ease. The instructor fi- broken men as in America. In the to turn in off had the nally lights first place the word "prison is not order to get his flying used, nor the word prisoner. trapezers home to supper. There are no cells, no bars, no In no other school on earth. Im guards, not even a walL But the sure, are the students so profoundly 3,500 boys and young men who live in love with their studies as in here have all been thorough-going this school. Here, for once, a criminals, and are serving senchild gets all the sport his tences for every known crime from heart desires, accompanied by petty thieving to assassination. spangled costumes, and colored The Soviets are implacable enlights, and music, and white horses, vironmentalists. and applause all the glory of the vironment alone They insist that enis to blame if young circus. take to crime. If the environpeople In Russia the Soviets may be ex- ment is improved, character will iling thousands, tears may be flowlikewise Improve. ing in oceans, and no man may be So when offenders come to o able to call his soul his own, but are kept busy going to they in the midst of it are the one right to hundred happiest boys and girls on school learning to be skilled workmen, learning swim and dance earth. and to govern themselves. Their Ballet School in Russia. labor in the institute factories is Perhaps not quite so happy but paid for on the same scale as work certainly as absorbed in their work done by free men. Half their salare the students in the Moscow ary goes toward their clothes and state ballet school board and keep. They can spend Here they begin not at fourteen the other half in Moscow if but at four. Almost as soon as they choose and on anything they they like. can walk, physically perfect chilA self - sufficient commune has dren are placed beside the exercise grown up about the place. The older bar and trained to stand on their boys with good records are allowed toes. Not only dancing, but expres- to mate or marry with wives from sion, gestures and rhythm are outside. Such mating is In fact entaught the boys as well as the couraged, and each couple is progirls. The average American boy vided with private living quarters. would die of shame if he were There is a splendid school for the caught taking lessons in looking eth- children of these menages. The reereal and imitating a swan. But in sult of this enlightened policy is Russia, ballet instruction is a deadthat over eight hundred members ly serious business, and one must of this commune are married, and be hard as nails to keep pace. Danceighteen hundred children laugh and is the students whole world. ing sing around the "prison grounds. They eat, sleep, and live to dance. There is a hospital, excellently And the results are marvelous. By A movie and theater equipped. play twelve years old, the children have to houses every night. So packed conquered the most intricate and ideal and so carefree is life at o difficult steps. At the 125th anniverthat the directors problem, sary performance of the Moscow as at the circus ballet school, with Stalin and all suade his men to school Is to perleave when their his ministers on hand, a sentence is up. boy, inspired by the presence During the monster celebration of such divinities and by the crash on November 7th, members of all of the hundred piece orchestra, the state schools and labor unions leaped and whirled about the stage in Moscow marched by Stalins rewith such winged toes and such stand on Red square. He incredible skill that he brought the viewing saluted them all proudly, as dance-blas- e they audience to Its feet, passed. But when a regiment of one and completely "stopped the show. thousand Bolshevo boys one thouOut of every ten babies who enter sand marched before the ballet school perhaps only two him with their eyes shining, banfinally graduate. No one can tell, ners waging, and bands when the child Is four, what it will Stalin and all his ministers playing, cheered look like at fourteen. Often the boys and cheered and cheered . , , and grow up to be six feet, three, and too tall to Imitate a swan. Or the the tears streamed unrestrained down their leather cheeks. girl, because of her ruthless And as these thousand "convicts may develop Into such a I thought of Sing Sing passed, half-bacand that it would take San husky and Blackwells i'slnnd Quentin, two dance partners instead of one and I almost wept myself from to stagger with her on their shoulders across the stage. The dis shame! Bell Syndicate. WNU g, over-zealo- g sport-lovin- Bol-shev- Bol-shev- fifteen-year-ol- d exor-cisin- Service. night. And isnt a good listener a boon! I dont mind being interrupted, provided the interrupter chooses the right subject. Mute and rapt. I can harken for hours on hours if someone is talking about me, say, or even reading from my published works. But these two minnesingers only broke in to ask that the pickled shrimp be passed or gently to suggest that another little drink or two wouldnt do any harm. Ogden Nash has attained the highest peak of distinction attainable for a writer. His chief imitator has an imitator who is bringing up his oldest boy to be an imitator. WNU Semn Conceited the Beauiwwar Beau Brummell master dandy of all i (1" jk idolized by the aristc spee York Son tha don as an Arbiter c Pal 0 manners that, event, I I came unbearably r us kr night he even orde-- .Iris p out of his house, cL ihjeetb tion, because her )f too low in the back." feh th mans taste was so t loppt he had to cover hi j she humbly backed M St ballroom. Collier's f f dent jl e d ar Jfiacce Resurrecting Old Words. fashionable WHEN a word a gets new word which some wordsmkh thought up right out of his head it gets too doggone fashionable. The same applies to old words which have been disinterred from their forgotten tombs in the dictionary. I seem to see grave robbers prowling through the unabridged, which s starting in at "aard-vark- , an animal formerly common only to Africa but now frequently found in cross-wor- d puzzles; and working on through to "zythum," a very strong beer drunk by ancient tribes. I guess those imbibed copiously of the brew and then named it. It doesnt sound like the sort of word a dead sober party deliberately would make up. Do you remember the run intrigued had? I never got so sick of a word in my life. And then and it along came provocative, turned out to be a pest People went around just looking for a chance to work "provocative into the conversation. The only way to lick em was to pretend to be deaf and dumb. And now the reigning favorite is allergic." Folks spout it everywhere, whether they know what it means or not. I dont mind saying Im getting awfully allergic to allergic. There must be many others like me. VA Us lilitSS' Help Them CwN01" of Harmful Bx p'rS Your kidneys areer waste matter from the I kidnes f !a sometimes not act as Nrturew move Impurities that poison the system t10 tody s were machinery. Symptoms may he n ' (Jy persistent headache, inp f getting up mghia, under the eve a Ir anxiety and loss of p t IffiCh fc Other signs of order may be bunut L T . frequent urination. There should be no (Fj to f treatment w w,8eJ f jjoan'f Pth 6. Doan'tk a, j of new friends for nm H x J; They have Are recommended byr Seng country over, A&k ft VjcooSi j he M PHOTOGRHr r ROLLS Dff nd Bprint3ilonble;'i fW or your chotr 0! w NORTHWUTW. Campaign Cooks. ET us not cavil too much be-cause high pressure salesmen, working on commission, have been unloading upon the faithful at fancy prices, the gift book put out by Washington headquarters" to pay oil campaign debts. In facl 15 cents w'orth would cover practically all the cavil I personally have used up in this connection. The result tends to prove the gratifying fact that, while more Democrats may not necessarily have learned how to read and write, obviously more of us have got money than formerly was the case when the Republicans were in power. Besides, think of what the strain would have been upon the poor postman if the national committee had been stuck with all this bulk literature and congressmen had started franking copies out to their constituents with Uncle Sam paying the freight. To give you a further idea about this franking privilege, I may state that it was named for Frank, Jesse s brother and you'll remember how careless those James boys wire with the United States mails! T Wes Fargo C L IRUN 4b REAL ESH ti 0Ir " TO IIOMFS, r. i BCY-S-EIi R FAKMS. p BEE HIVE KEll A BEASON L,' BUILBLNO thl 1 lost my , fry cffcjrvce, cvfiO1 Vkere. could It see-- . i inn (-- cTidrvb botLocu tkerN , M Tke diFFere to rre,! (ITr- - T 1,3 rn.' Vn, pt aii S. COBB. ' ft WNU Servlet, I |