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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD Keeping Up Shelter Belt Idea May Be Revived v Because of Drouth S erivbe By Science Service. WNU Service. !X$ Experience of Russia Proves Value of Trees Tales from Travelers Homeward Bound Out of the Orient. bring about a EFFORTS to of planting in the Great Plains shelterbelt area, suspended through the action of the last congress, may be made as a result of the present drouth, which is the very great importance of evaporation rates in a land where water often passes from earth to air three times as fast as it falls from air to earth. Homers Story of Trojan War Found Historically True Legend of Achilles Had Foundation in Fact London. When Homer sang In this connection the experience that Greek warrior Achilles of Russia, which has extensive the Lesbos at of isle the raided -belt plantings in regions comstart of the Trojan war, he was to our West, may be of parable repeating history, not legend. interest Shelterbelts are an old So Miss Winifred Lamb, arche- story in that country. PACIFIC OCEAN trek through lands 'and into the far places, come sooner or later to the realization that after all is said and done and seen, the world is small indeed. When one least expects it, time and space are annihilated. travOut of East Hampton, L. I., THOSE els William C. Hall for a months which stay in Peiping, China, with noththat fascinated so he became a snugly ing would do but to lease shelter- ologist of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge university, is inclined to think after excavating the ancient town of Thermi, on the island of Lesbos. Hesitantly advancing this romantic theory in a sober and technical report of her excavations, Miss Lamb tells the evidence. She found a great fire blackened and reddened the soil around the mound where the town stood in Bronze Age days. Evidence Is Convincing. Pottery the townsfolk used is identified as archeological evidence that the fire occurred no later than 1200 B. C. That would be Just before the Trojan siege, according to the most usual dating. If we turn to Book Nine of the Iliad, says Miss Lamb, we find an allusion to. Achilles raid on Lesbos, which may, as Professor Myres points out, have been a necessary strategic prelude to the capture of Troy. This event also is believed to have occurred about 1200 B. C. Readers may press the attractive concidence or point out its weakness according to their They were begun extensively during the days of the czarist govern- ment and have been continued and greatly enlarged Reduce Evaporation. V. Bodorov, chief collaborator of the shelterbelt department Insitute of Forest Culture and Forest Melioration of the U. S. S. R., has made a quantitative study of the effects of shelterbelts on evaporation rates, of which a translation has been made for the Journal of Forestry by T. Moskwichewa. In the steppe region, Mr. Bodorov states, the influence of shelterbelts in reducing evaporation extends over a distance exceeding 60 times the height of the trees used, at wind velocities of about six miles an hour.' With winds around twelve miles an hour, the evaporation-reducineffect of the trees is felt at distances more than a hundred times their height Built With Windows. To take a concrete example, a shelterbelt of proper density would reduce evaporation in taste. Whether the latest discoveries up- its lee to distances up to about a hold Homer or not, they have re- mile. Russian shelterbelts are built with vealed a town not far across the windows in them, Mr. Bodorov came under water from Troy, that the influence of powerful Troy and states. These are openings at experimentally determined intervals. acquired its styles and ideas of Without them, temperature differculture. ences on the leeward side would tend to be too great, and there would also be a downflow of upper Largest Cyclotron and drier masses of air. Being Constructed at U. of Michigan g h Japs Find Noise tons Raises Life Span the gi- of Rats in Test Ann Arbor. Ninety-fiv- e of iron and copper form which is the ant electro-magnfoundation of the worlds largTokyo. In the midst of camest cyclotron, now under con- paigns against noise, two T okyo struction at the University of scientists have discovered that white rats kept in an excesMichigan. Alteration of atomic structure, al- sively noisy environment have ready accomplished with other cy- a longer life span than those clotrons, may be carried much far- sheltered from abnormal sound. ther with the apparatus. et Michigan It will have practical application in salts the preparation of radio-activ- e for use in the treatment of cancer, in addition to offering an opportunity for scientific investigation of the composition of atoms. 30,000 Volts Impact. The magnetic field the electromagnet produces, the greatest integrated field ever developed, causes the rotation of Ions, electrified particles, introduced into the duants, or halves, of a flat cylinder. The speed of these ions is accelerated by a 30,000-voImpact each time they cross the dividing space between the duants. In 200 revolutions, according to Dr. James M. Cork, who Is directing the construction of the cyclotron, the Ions attain a speed equal to that which would result from aq impact of 10 to 12 million volts. As an ion accelerates, Its orbit grows larger, until it reaches the outer edges of the duants, where a deflecting blade diverts It against tiro desired target lt School Boy Discovers. Traces of Dinosaur Berkeley, Calif. To a Cali- fornia high school student goes the honor of finding the first evidence that dinosaurs once lived on the West coast. Western scientists have for years searched for remains of these great prehistoric reptiles, which lived in the Cretaceous period of geological time some 65 million years ago. The high school student was Allan Bennison, who reported his discovery to paleontologists at the University of California here. Assistant Field Directors Curtis J. Hesse and S. P. Welles of the Universitys Museum of Paleontology have Just confirmed the discovery and make their report in the current Issue of the Journal Science. The discovery, report the University of California scientists, was made in an Upper Cretaceous rock formation near Patterson, Calif., and consisted of over COO bone fragments which seem to have once been the hind quarters of the gigantic, meat-eatinreptile. keen-minde- d Dr. Yoshitomo Fujimaki and Dr. Kunitaro Arimoto, both of the Tokyo Hygienic Laboratory, would doubt whether silence, after all, is good for animal organisms, were it not for the fact that their experiments also revealed that white rats living in the midst of noise were more nervous, grew less, had less fertility and a greater Infant death rate than those kept under normal conditions. Live Under Railroad. They began their experiments In 1930, conducting them exhaustively. In a spot under an elevated railroad over which 1,238 trains roar daily, they put 20 white rats to live. This group was more nervous and ate less (although more frequently) than the 20 rats living in normal surroundings. Their growth was 76.7 per cent for the male and 64.8 per cent for the female, taking the growth of the sheltered rats as 100 per cent; and their increase was 25 per cent, while that of the other group was 80 per cent. Also their young had a much higher death rate. But, strange to say, the rats under tlie railway lived 53 days longer In the aggregate than those sheltered from sound. Dr. Fujimaki calculates that a day in the life of a white rat is the equivalent of a month in the life of a human being. Steers Stomach Made Subject of Movie Film Motion Columbus, Ohio. of interior the of a pictures steers stomach as the animal digests its food were shown to the American Veterinary Medical association here. months scientists of the Ohio Agricultural Experimental station and Ohio State university have been "shooting the stomach Interiors of five steers through special openings in their sides. Flugs kept the openings closed normally and the animals lived normal lives, finally being sold on the market In good condition. Food and water. In the movie film, are seen to enter the stomach. Gradually the food Is broken down to the proper consistency for passage on through the digestive system. For 18 who tgkvX-- furnished, servanted and properly de equipped cottage on Rue French legation quarter, shortest street in the ancient capital, a thoroughfare so abbreviated that only three houses could find space to park there. Mystery of the Two Halls. To facilitate the delivery of my I had a said Mr. Hall; mail, small name plate made for the front gate. Imagine my surprise to discover the next day that at the other end of Rue de Lagrene, my own residence being No. 1, another William C. Hall had his name up on house No. 3. At all events, that same afternoon in the Peiping club I met a William C. Hall, captain of the marine corps, a resident of China for many years. It was as much a shock to him when he saw my name as it was to me when I saw his. Startling, wasnt it? And hard to match. I wouldnt say that, said Mrs. Hall, occupying the next steamer chair. Recently, while dining with a mixed company, a gentleman whom I had never met before told a story that had to do with the making of a mint julep in Louisville, Ky. As the narrative unfolded and, recognizing it as having happened to my father, I took occasion to say so. Rather stiffly, and in a doubting mood, the teller advised me that he had been assured by the lady that it had happened to her father, Crittendon Collings. In further support, and with evident high esteem for minute particulars, he advised me that the source of his information was a Mrs. Hollingsworth Siter. Survivor of the Titanic. Of course, you know, continued Mrs. Hall, that there was nothing I could do other than to inform the gentleman that I happen to be a sister to Mrs. Siter. A married couple, whose courtship began in Japan, went back in their story to the sinking of the Titanic, a disaster of such proportions that the news was circulated into the uttermost corners of the earth. A young woman, spending a few days at Miyanoshita, learned through an English newspaper on file there that a Mrs. Stone, an old friend, was among the rescued, a piece of good news, calling for a letter of congratulation. At the hotel desk, while buying postage stamps, she remarked to her mother that Mrs. Stones American address had slipped her mind. It by any coincidence, said a woman standing near, it is Mrs. George W. Stone of Cincinnati, to whom you refer, here is her address on a letter I have just written and am about to post. nenry Georges Daughters. As a result of that remarkably fortuitous circumstance, a friendship was formed which brought the travelers together, and ' the son of the woman who supplied the address became the husband of the girl who had forgotten it. The foregoing three episodes, interesting indeed would seem to have been ample out of one passenger list, but the fourth into which I found myself drawn was even more remarkable in that It carried a double dose of fortuity. Believe It or not; here it is: An Austin P. Sutter of Los Angeles, associated with the moving picture industry, told of a Tokio acquaintance who, taken to the Tokio Imperial hospital suffering from heart trouble, was restored by the use of a preparation invented in the United States. The conversation on this subject. Interrupted by something more entertaining, ended there. Two or three days later, off Honolulu, the film man and I went into a huddle on the screen Industry and mutual friends connected with it In the course of our prattle Sutter spoke of Cecil DeMille. Did I know him? Yes. but I knew his brother, Billy DeMille, better; saw a good deal of him 25 years ago in New York, where he married one of the daughters of Henry George, author of Progress and Poverty. Right there something clicked. Another daughter of the great I went on, married philosopher, a Japanese physician, who became world famous as the discoverer of a formula to stimulate heart action, since adopted universally. What was his name? asked Sutter, suddenly aroused. Taknmlne. Johichl Takamlne. Tho preparation is known as Adrene, Spare Moments in Norway Are Spent on the Trousseau. Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service. is harvest time in Norway. Since most rural L families are mainly depend-on ent for their winters food what they themselves prepare, it is therefore a particularly busy time. A visit to a typical Norwegian farm at this season would Imply your sharing their whole-hearte- d work as well as their equally wholehearted jollity afterwards. The activities of harvesting and merrymaking would keep you busy on any of the thousands of small farms which skirt the long twisting fjords or utilize what level land there is along the rushing rivers in mountain valleys. Glance for a moment at Halling-da- l, a long valley which winds through the central section of Norway. For most of its length it is only one or two farms wide, for the mountainsides rise steeply from the river bottom. This valley is familiar to those who have traveled by rail from Oslo to Bergen. By the daily train It is possible to reach Hallingdals villages, around which cluster farms of typical rural Norwegian families. If you should visit such a family, you could participate in their harvesting but only after being welcomed by sharing their food, even though it be Just a nibble of fruit, fresh leaf lettuce, little curled anchovies, and sheets of crisp flatbread. Clouds sweeping over the mountains and across the valley serve warning that it may rain before dusk. The hay from the high meadow should be in the barn before then. All hands must seize rakes and hurry to the meadow for a race with the weather. Haying In Hallingdal The Hailing farmer still uses a hand scythe and never misses a tuft hidden away in the fence corner or along the river bank. Every spear of grass is valuable. The youngest child follows the workers to glean the wisps that the others have missed. They all help load the sweet dry hay into a little hayrack made of unstripped birch saplings This Is hauled to the bam by hand, for the little pony has been sent to the mountain meadow for the summer along with the cattle, so that every bit of grass on the home farm could be made into hay for the long winter. The hayrack is not a heavy load to push except for the last little way up the log runway into the mow, which can be taken with a rush and a whoop. Before long all the hay is stowed from that meadow, from the edge of the dark spruces on the mountainside to the dusty bank of wild strawberries by the roadside. Then everyone can hang the wooden rakes along the log wall of the woodshed and enjoy an "coffee picnic of coffee, little cakes, and wild berries strung on grass stems. The coffee cloth has been spread out on the grass under a wild cherry tree. While the young women of the family are busy in the fields, the grandmother who is too old to help spins wool for the winter supply of gaily patterned socks and mittens. On lonely farms, housewives eagerly watch the road and discuss the probable errand of every passer-by- . Down by the river there is a field of green, barley to be cut while there is still sap In the stalk and the grain has just reached the milk stage. This is dried over racks in the field. Then it is very prickly to load. Then Barley and Rye When tire hay is all in, the barley and rye grow ripe. The farmer cuts through the shimmering golden fields with great swings of his scythe. At each strolm the grain falls In a neat semicircle on the ground. Then it Is bound into bundles to be shocked spirally around tall saplings stuck In the ground. There Is a little red ladder to climb up with the top bundles. In this section of Norway the grain Is not threshed at harvest time, but later on during the winter, when the horse is home from the mountain pastures and can be hitched to the crude treadmill In the barn. The herds of cattle, goats, and horses during the summer grazing In the mountains are tended by either a young unmarried daughter or an old woman. The life of a summer dairy maid has been celebrated In song and saga for hundreds of years. She lives In a small log hut with turf roof, passing her days milking cows and goats, making but AUGUST ter and tending the huge iron caldrons in which milk is slowly simmered to make rich cheese. She sets off to the upland pastures riding a pony which is loaded with empty tubs as well as with her few belongings. Later, when a brother visits her hut to bring supplies, he will collect the tubs filled with butter and cheeses and carry them back to the homestead. The cattle are small brindly beasts with spreading brass-tippehorns. They have not been bred for quantity milk production. Little attention seems to be paid to breeding. Often a cow will give only a quart or so at milking. If you wonder why such a cow is tolerated, you may receive such an explanation as this: Ja, but she is small, and does not eat much, either, that cow. In a land where every spear of hay has value, this is an argument of great weight n Food Mostly Aside from the fine white cake flour, which is imported from America, most of the family food is produced at home. Barley, rye and oats are milled locally, the miller getting a share of the meal and flour for his work. The garden yields stores of cabbages, potatoes, and root vegetables for the winter. Potatoes too are an important crop, for they are on the familys daily menu and, along with birch twigs, form a staple item in the winter diet of the cattle. Nature is lavish here with a large number of berries, both wild and tame. Masses of wild strawberries grow along the roadsides. There are currants from which to make sweet wine; wild cherries, the juice of which is bottled to make soup and puddings; the little wild mountain cranberries, which make delicious jam to serve with pork or roast ptarmigan; and, best of all, the arctic cloudberry, growing in the mountain - top sloughs. This last, when stored in great crocks, keeps through the winter, without cooking or other preservation. Only with such a variety of provisions can the Norwegian family continue the alternation of work, rest, and eating which is farm routine. First thing in the morning, coffee and cakes are brought to the family in bed. As soon as they are dressed, there is a large breakfast with more coffee, bread and butter, and all sorts of pickled fish and cheese to sausage and goats-milput on it At 11 oclock work pauses for another snack, which is breakfast all over again. There Is a heavy dinner about y and then a siesta. Yes, you may be surprised, but this old is firmly enSpanish custom trenched In the rural sections of this energetic northern climate. After the nap there are more coffee and cakes before the work of the afternoon is begun. The last real meal of the day Is the evening porridge, at abou 8 or 9 oclock. This meal is unvarying except just after a slaughtering, when a blood pudding is substituted for the usual dish. This porridge is a thick, leathery gruel made of parched barley meal. All Put In The Stabbur The yearly harvests of cereals, the cheeses, cured meats, bread, and cakes are stored in the stabbur. The stabbur, or storehouse, is a typical feature of the Norwegian landscape. It Is built of logs on high mushroom-shapestilts as a protection against marauding Insects and rats. Elaborately carved, it Is guarded against the weather by a coat of wood tar. The front porch of the structure Is reached by a flight of plank steps separated from the building by a sort of moat of air across which thieving animals would find it difficult to leap. The wrought-iro- n key, which fits a wooden lock In the heavy carved door, takes two hands to turn. The door opens Into a small dark room with heavy log walls unbroken by windows. There are large bins of various kinds of meal and flour, each with a brightly painted wooden scoop hanging above it. On shelves are stacked cheeses of many kinds. There are gay wooden boxes full of cakes which had been baked In the spring when the cream was rich. In one corner on a low platform, sheets of rye and barley flatbread with crinkly edges, temptingly brown, are piled almost to the ceiling. It has been made of stiff unleavened dough rolled Into round paper-thi- n sheets and browned on the alin. bakehouse stove. d t Home-Grow- k one-thirt- d C WNU Servlet, fash'igto urnerce " ' Rags to the Rescue True By FLOYD GIBBONS Pidut know, boys and girls, sometimes I w or. got as many brains as most humans, of the days I feel that way about it. YOU - V- P1C By I cond (Otic an adventure story that called the question to my i ore of ' f from Mary Sorg of Bronx, N. Y. Mary bas a collie Damed' mng out if Rags isnt the Einstein of the dog world. Ill eat his leash - ie days I maaner raw and without catsup. The adventure happened to Mary in the summer of the reaso the beginning of the story goes back a lot farther thaj .Testing is goes back several years, to a farm out on Long Isijtcanbe Jericho, where Marys uncle raises collie dogs. Mary , Mosure there one spring when one of the dogs had a litter of io th They were fine, healthy pups all but one of them. with and was about streaked all the ff spotted just puppy He looked like someth1368 ever likely to find on a dog. brought in, says Mary, "and my uncle was going to have jJL ifre But I begged him to give it to me instead, and he did. , ana cr Its p With His Benefac.dedUgly Pup Goes Mary saved that pups life and she lived to be mighty i !er go ct'n - So of it For the pup grew up and one day he returned the One day, in the summer of 1934, Mary went back to her t in Jericho for a visit She took Rags along with her and 6es;f0 out to be not such a bad idea either. It was just a few days after she had arrived at jiestp that Mary set out on a fateful walk across the fields. Sbcr, sectic iie who on to lived a on another call nearby farm t:mc Rev girl ing . took Rags along for company on the way. Mary cross,- estingto field and came to another that was surrounded by t l,. wire fence. She climbed through the fence and Rags sr through beneath it. He ran on ahead while Mary cotta?0? d year y make her way slowly across the meadow. et paymi She had gone maybe twenty feet and Rags was way and other side of the field, when suddenly she heard a grumble: ty of tl sound behind her. Mary turned, let out a loud scream. Bt$ and co Just a few feet away was a huge bull pawing the ground ejsd indc ready to charge. re tjjen j1 the Maddened Bull Gores Defenseless ifromth Girl, mot. Mary had on a red blouse and a red cloth cap that day. say that anything red makes a bull mad. Others say he cat, 1 porations i Rags Was Drawing the Bull Away From His Mistresj mad at green or any other bright color. Anyway, after Mary, and Mary lost her head. She started though she knew shed never make It of re (jarl It to be the bull 4er jeV( to run for nanofai di the i Pounding hoofs thundered along behind her. She wes vo the beasts hot breath on her back and she screamed agabj pD,s of her flying feet stumbled over something on the grotmi (j,an tripped and fell headlong. In a split second the bull was w j0). Mary could feel sharp horns digging into her sides. The her over and gored her in the chest She screamed with waited for the end. It would only be a second or two before tt horns came down again! Canine Toreodor Begins to Torment the Bull But that moment never came. As Mary waited with eyes for the death blow she heard the big brutes hoofs P0 j,at down the field. Wondering, she opened her eyes on the strr anyone ever saw. Half way to the other end of the field were the Rags had Marys red cap In his mouth and, like matador, was drawing the bull away from his mistress ' time the bull lunged at him Rags would leap nimbly to That happened twice thrice and then Rags, dropping tk nose. snapped at the huge beast and caught him by the With a toss of his head the bull shook Rags off. Mean was getting to her feet My chest ached so that I could har-I started to run toward the fence, but the minshe says. saw me moving he turned and made for me again. Ra! jjesse the flank to take his attention from me. -' Rags Strategy Succeeds in Saving Marys BHgemen j How long that strange battle went on Mary doesnt tj sort of went out of her mind about that time, what with f : the anxiety. The next thing she remembers is reaching the p nrg climbing over it to safety just as her uncle and another ttr ning to her rescue. Then she thought of Rags again and fny D how he was faring. Fund across Rags wasnt doing so well. He was crawling i, Just barely able to move. He dragged himself op to and collapsed in a heap while the bull, bleeding at the oie Med. pawed at the ground away. Tenderly, Marys uncle lifted Rags over the fence ried him home in his arms. 8. It is r They had the doctors in for both Rags and Mary- ' broken three of Marys ribs and Rags had a broken leg our wound in his side where a slashing horn had caught it dI wtt But they set Rags leg and patched up his side and now ' as good a dog as he was before. (Us, the - WND Service. Susinesi Human Hair Strains Oil Other Kinds Also Useful extracted Human hair, able to withstand a pressure of six tons per square inch, has an Important place In American Industry, declares a writer in the Washington Star. Practically all the cottonseed oil used for culinary purposes is strained through press cloth made of hair. In the cottonseed oil mills a measured quantity of cooked cottonseed 1 wrapper in a strip of hair cloth and placed in a machine, called a cake former, where it is slightly compressed to make a compact mass. The ike, still covered with the cloth, is then removed to an hydraulic press, which squeezes the oil through the cloth. The product is piped into a settling tank and aent to a refinery. The use of hair cloth for wrapping materials from which oil Is to be were by pressure from olden times. long-fibere- d used. t wj j. goat P vast Aftcrwa karne e manufacturers Asiatic camel too hair account of Its length qualities and camels p, f For s c.y ' i ' wa cloth purptu ,:itr cloth use BoJ I ' n In 1906 the I1-rh almost cut hair press States. In China of raw material, n ' were compelled to f t co tat hair, llama hair, ds tails, cotton, ana. 811 hair. .J, 'id, The Oriental dlsW? t cut off the it source provided a r limited supply of ' ; t l of the manufacture ov press cloth. After h t the. Manchu dynasty, b j claimed their lUCUCk cutting off their Q , 1 ; ncw-foU- |