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Show SOMETHING . IN A NAME? Geographic Board Final Authority on Nomencature for Maps and Charts. Washington. That old saw about there being nothing In a name draws a hot denial from the United States geographic board. Names mean a great deal, according ac-cording to Will O. .Barnes, board secretary, who said that people all over the United States today are making mistakes just because they haven't brushed up on the subject. For instance, the people of New York city speak of Welfare Island as If that really were Its name. They are mistaken; the little plot of ground In the East river really Is Blaekwell's Island, despite official of-ficial proclamations of the mayor of New York in 1321. The geographic board Is the final authority n the matter of nomenclature nomen-clature for official maps and charts. It has decided definitely to uphold the old usage in regard to Blaekwell's : island rather than adopt the change, and New Yorkers York-ers must put up with it whether they like It or not. Again, an old-timer out In Arizona, Ari-zona, gazing up at a towering peak in the Santa Rita mountains of sales- which Is being done, but It is believed that many smugglers have established lofts and are now breeding their own pigeons. The birds are prolific, and it Is not uncommon un-common for a pnlr to raise as many as ten pairs within a year. These ten pairs, descendants of smugglers, will no doubt the next year be smugglers, and la return breed smugglers, it Is feared. Officers report finding dogs and donkeys used as drug smugglers, but as a rule the animal, although it carries more than a pigeon, can be used but once, as the success ot Its mission costs Its life. The drug Is usually fed to the animal In a large metal capsule and the auimal released on the other side of the Rio Grande to find Its way back home. When It arrives across the river, where It has been kept for some time and well fed. It Is killed to .obtain the drug. Pigeons cannot only be used again and again, but they can be used for conveying the drug greater distances, dis-tances, the long distances only cutting cut-ting the weight of the load. One thousand miles can be covered by a good fast bird easily, but It Is not believed the home lofts of the smuggling birds are located that far from their source of supply. |