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Show Friday, February 17, 1928 THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Celebrating Anniversary of Fint French Treaty The Cream the Useful Plants Came of the Tobacco Crop to Mankind <> Rheostat Used to Step Voltage as Line Drops Alliltoll;:t• tile 11100ern tul1e It <•I the t)'l•e wlilrb pcmdts ll'rite uri<Tit:~al large 'uriutions iu Hs opPratit•g \'tllt ngP~. it is freqUI'llli~· t'uutHI ""'.~'sary to provide ~50ill~ udjuslUJl'llt itl puwe1 Ullits to t'IIIIJ(Iensate for liue \'Oita~.~ or Indian Corn some poorly supp• rt clairus llave been maute for lls in soutbeiiStern Asia, ln•tlan Is considered beyond reason.ble • native of Awerl~a. poi!Sihly food plunt gln~n to 1he by t~ New. Not only Is an1ple proof that maize was ftl America long before the dl1e0verer ever touched foot but I~ ts equally true that no alsts of Its ha vlng been known tltat time in either Asia, or l!:urope. of all proofs, though a l'ireum· one, that c<>rn la American. Is fact that II spread through l!:u· and Asia "·ith great swlftn~s, it hnd been Introduced from This being so, say the ltl111ist.s, a similar swift sprend of so a grain would have taken centuries sooner had it been ,,,.,.,u•e for planting. It wouhl bnve as va,luable and desirable In 400 A. D. as It was In 1492. probably originated In the lands of what Is now the , ne;JU!l· &1 Colombia. Tbls belief Is supby the fuct thut It wus grown by the Indians of precliscovery But ~~end of ancient Mexico. two groups had llttlt commerce In fact, almost no knowledge of another. From that It Is dt'dll(·ed b<'th got It from common souree. Common use In Europe of tbe name de Turquie" or Turkish wheat corn. has misled some lnvestiga Into believing that maize was ac· Turkish, or Eustern, In Its \'lll'iatlous Thi8 is parrkulurl~ II'IIP in 1 • rurul diC'trir'!S, 11liPr·e tile li11e \'nita;.• 1 h:ts ~t,.-11 I" or re;.:ululiou thai It will: liu<·ttwte lwtwet·n 1111 und t~u. •kpl'lld : tug uu the luu•l. The lin~ I~ '""'' he'll' !ly i1HHil'd at ui;:ht, when lll••'t ut ; the listenill;(·in is rh ne. 'J ~~~ rexult8 I i11 the pourest rer<•pt ion wlwn I he best I is wuuted. IIL•;:ulator tulles have bL'NI tJesig11ed for the primary of the po.1·er ll'IIUS· forn1er. These 11111 e nut been f<JUIItl rery satisfactory uurJ some other form of rpgulutiou is tlSUally u!h isuble.• As un altf'rnatil·e either a rlle.Jstut in the primary clreuit of the ti'IIIISforrner or u tapped t•rimary "houhl be user!. The rheostat has the a•h·antnge of permit· tlng close control, but tl1is is not really necessary. Several nrunuf.1cturers have fou11d It ndrlsnhle to use a transforme• tHJ•ped Liberty Island, site of the Statue of Liberty, wns the seene of no Interesting patriotic spectacle when tile .B •. y for 105 and 113 volts. A two-wa Scout foundation, In co-operation with the army, the D;Jvy, the French consulate general and '[Jatrlotic an1I scier;ltific ~witch Is then used to cllunge the prl· IOcietles, eelebrated the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the treaty of alliance with Franc•~ In ~1ary conrwctio11 when the line voltage 1778. "Benjami!l Franklin" placed 8 huge wreath at the foot of the statue. chnnge Is cousitlerai>le. '!'Ills should normally be uere"sury only once ~ach' ria~· whrn tile heavy en·ning !oar ('omes on. So attempt cun h<' made to follow the smuller ttuetuations. He~e • • Werrenrath, Concert Star, Finds Lucky Strikes Kindly To His Precious Voice Getting Improved Tone From Old Style Radio "In my concert work, I must, of course, give The tone Quality of the old style first consideration to my voice. Naturally, I mr.Jio ~et, with its smull anrl lnefli muteriall~ he cun cieut tmnsfmJuers, am very careful about my choice of cigarettes improrf'rl hy one or more' ~iluple unrl as I must have the blend which is kindly to rel:~tirely Inexpensive changes. ltecently some iuteresting experl my throat. I smoke Lucky Strikes, finding ments al~ng this line were under taken l>y t11e [)uiJilie• conrlense1 that they meet my most ~ ~.......... ....-:t:l.. Cnqn•ration's lubomtory stuff. T!>eh critical requirements.'' su;:;;estious are gireu as follows: iiJJ:st of ull, substitute a power tube fur the wsual :!lli-A tuhe in the lust stage. The twxt .step Is to (Jrovlde a S[Jeal;er tiller, CUIII[H'ising a thir·ty 1 hcmy clrul•e vnrt u four-mfd., 400 roll tiltPr conrlenser. This prC\'f'llt, ~ Tfiroa~ the dil·ed·<·u•·rent comp<'nent frml' I · llnwlt>g tlm>u~h the tuud·spruker - - Thought for Today wiullings, eliminates rlerua~netizatiun r-;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !\indues' giye~ uirth to kin•iness.1 WANTED- ~~'i'u":'c'i!'!~~fo';'~ • and imprO\es volume as well as qnnl i' s~nd tor Ji'Ul'!lll '-color publJca.tlon ent.!lkcl I lty. ~opho!'i('S. 16 000 in Prt:.o Contes' for "It's toas Irritation-No Cough,: .OOt~·tlifd. A .002 to ·•coLON. NN\VS." I thO!IJ wbo art" wtll\ng to llSC a little energy in I l thl'! connectlon-Xo sell mg. just rC'CCmmcnd-~ ling. H you tPel von nn rccvmmer.rl HUN.t.H:'i' DYE~ Q.nd Dl'riNT. tbA ne·,.., lOo 'Illnt, Write landwewillenteryouinthisContest. Address 1 Dept. R, North A:peri('1.D ,U~o Gorpor-J.tlon. 1 ntit·adun mny hE.: placed UtTOS~ the lnull speal\cr~ tn lO\\'er tlle UJIIHll'{lnt tone and to (]U(>e static h:.ld\!.!Tf'Und. .._. Models showing the npproyecJ styles of hair dres>iug, at the Tlair Dressers' National conyention in Philadelphia Designs Plane for Flight to Ireland re-I Lastly, a tone-not volume-contro1 sh011lfl he nwde up of three mlrnrt ... llf.' of .O(MlO:i, .0001 and .OOOl.l·mfd. capnc· BIG FIGURE IN OIL ity, re~[lf'ttiYely, Mt. \ l'fDOD, N. I , 1: _ 1 0\\U \'uur nu-.iuf• ... oo;, Hlrt~ al{ent~. Sf·nrl .1ne <tim• tor ''<'< '' h. d. 1'·111 ,,nd gel tree "'g ll:'lt of mnncy makc·s. I;t•n-:t;. atds ~'~' with R tht·ee-poinf switch, shunter! nr1·o~s the secund:1r•" t1 of the seconr1 transfonner. ThoJr:.,;>· n Mercant.){' Co., Ran 1· rlH•bc~~. Cati!. ()nplt·'\ Sifh·r fcJr Hf'ftf'r C'nke nod Bl f•ta"t'K. ~tfts many tt~nP'I as oe 1r •d without rf'moo,;lnl: tlour. J)ellcinu, ..\ngo('\ F•ll•t1. ~:J\e l<ib~"r $1 po!'ltpaitl Ar,f>nts :1nd cocieli~~'!'l wrHe tor Nlces. t'n"'l h:, 4;.;!2 Lt~:dngtun, thlrago. How Long Do You Listen in on Radio Programs? $6.45 Write for NI:::W 'l'ime as un elem~nt whicb has to be '• I consider·ed in the prodtJ<'tion of power e1111ipmeHt fur radio operation is reall.1 a ,·itnl factor, al'cnrrling to tbe Na tiona! Electrical ~Janufacturers' assn ciutiou. A recent suncy made us the socket STOCKlllAN·FAR&IEU SUPPL\1 CO. 16'~ 7 Ln.'' renee Ht. puwe•· cumurlttee of their rurlio rli \'isinn, !msecl on the per cent of listen tr8 usln~ r:ul>o l'e!'eivers io exce,'s ul ; uny gil en IIUIIIher of hours per wee!> >hows thai ahnut I· 10 of I per cent Cll ull ra•lio li~tener8 use a set In ex ce~s nt I !!I illlurs each week; I Pt'l cenr u;e in ext'e~s of tOO twurs, It, Jlf'l eeut In ex<·es; uf fJO hours. 20 [ll'r! CPnl iu CXt'e" ot -l:i lwurs. ;{O per {'Cill , in ex•·e>~ nt H~1 twur~. f•O per cent lr• .V. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 7--1928 excef'S of 38 111111rs aud 80 per cent In • •• The Tomato F ALL widely USI'fUI food plants of the present day, the tomato t;; ~ro•balbly the most rec~>nt In Its al!np Into the gnrd~n. With such other ~lt>lndldly usPful species as maize, (lll and tobacco, It hoasts an Amer· origin. The original home of the tomato ·was tile west coast nf America, l;ertalnly In Peru, posslhly all up the coast from to Mexl<-o and even Into what The tomato has no ancient name In Asiatic or F.uropean lunguuge. It unknown In Japan as recently years ago. F.ven In the United It was viewed with suspicioll many years, and there was a ·••<lltl''" that this hrlght red "lo\·e as some called It, was a The first names 10ls•on•~us rrult. to the tomato by botunists who specimens brought from Amer!c.t !~arty "tumatle Americana." do not mention It as one of plants or the \Vee! ln•lles, which, with other evidence, wnulll show It was carried Into the lsluncls the South American mainland. Location of Its earliest home on the coast Is helped by t11e fact that on Brazil and the l.a Plato now the Argentine, made no A process of ..,.,..,,linn of this plant. places It almost certainly • Are Standard Fashions in Hair Dressing fascinating fact In the story of is that it bas never been found the wild state anywhere In thE' C. Otto Uosencluhl, professor <>f at the Unlver!llty or Minne'lle•~lalrea that this Is Interesting bearing on the question origin, Mulze Is not alone plant~ known In cultivation but the wild state. He does not that maize Is 8 species de,·el· by man from a wild form, but thut it is a species, like th~ preserved by man from what otherwise hove been exline· !.Ike the bean, maize has no menns or "locmnotinn." It~ cannot he Clll'rled hy wind or nor Is it sutUrlently hudy to dlgt'!ltlon In the stomachs <>f Is, although It sometimes does The likelihood Is thnt It orlgi· In a small arPn. A glacier, a plcanilc eruption• or a co1aplete of climate may hn ve wipell It Up to now no nut11eutlcnted growth <>f the specl~>s ha~ ever recorded. The Important thing that It has been preserved for the of ~ran, the great gift remair.!ng the vanished civilization of the and the Aztecs. • as ~x~..:ess of :~u twurs. Missed This "Is au ~\litor a own wl1o put~ thing~ Cat' s·Whisker Tuning Lord Greenway, president of the In priut ?" 1 Solves Fan s Problem ":\o. you fnol, an editor Is a man Anglo-Persian Oil company, i~ an out· standing figure In the oil business of , A St. Louis radio fau bas discov· who ke<'flS things out of print" the world nncl may play an important 1 ere• that 1118 crystal set is cupable ol port In the threatened w~r for con· b ·i~ging in eltlier two local station~ trol of the world's oil fields between by a very careful udJu;truent of b'> His discover! wn~ tbe Royal Shell oil Interests of F.n~· eat's whisker. land and large America 1 companies. made during a r!'rent tight hroarlcust, which he was extrer:J~Iy anxiom tr1 heur from l\SD, hut suffered h)ter·fer enee from unnther station ,·hith wn8 tn111smitting H r~liglons progt·nm, thP "BOSSY" IN GOTHAM manugenwnt twill~ opposed to the t>run•kll5tiu~ of tlrize ft~!.ts. Careful •.nJ;Ipnlation of the dials was of no llowever, the listener fou n•l , a vu 11 1 tlull hy rearljugtlng his cr)·~tal rtete<'· tor the ti~ht wns hPnrrl prrfe<·tly. I 1 John P. O'Connor noel his flying model of the "O'Connor" transocean teaplane. l'he model was sent to the wind tunnel for the test at the Daniel Guggenheim aeronautical labor.:ttory, New York university, The plane Is de· sign!'d to carry passengers between New York anrl Ireland In not more than twenty-four hours and will bnve the conveniences of an ocean liner. Bust of Coolidge for Capitol • Peru. specimens thnt huve bel'n are ~mllur to the cultlvaterl except that tbey a.re sn,uller. usunlly the c11se with wild and are smoother In contour, llld:lne the outward bulge that dis· .thu'"'t~lw~ the rii!Terent sections In the t of 11 cultivated tomato. The wlld tumato 11 8 seashore plunt, eating, r.s have several other plants consltlered In this series, the ......,.,u., a:musphere for plnnt~ creatt'd the rtwdl tier! t~>mperatures and liS moisture thut ucrompnny 8 ltr.u· near lnrge bodies of wnter. The tomnto hnpplly takes Its popu na111e from the Americ·nn IJJdlau "tumatle" rather thau from the "'"""''n~ botault'nl name thnt has been this spec~es, "LycO(Jer·sieum es"'"'"'"" If tbe latter name had Rcpresf'ntutive noiJert Luce of Massachus~>tts, left, chairman of the adopted It would now have hon~e committee on the library, witb Cha1·les E. Fnirmnn, curator anti hisop to the cogners' a~orlatlons tu ' torlnn of the Cnpltol, "Iewing the bust of Presirlt-nt Coolidge which will be ant)f[e•n It, at least to "Lycus." plneed In tire Capitol to commemorate his sen·i<·e as vice presl~<>llt. ((a UZ8 Weotel'll Newspaper fJnloa.l YOU MAY NOT KNOW Cotton was illlrodured Into Gr·eere about 200 H. <..:. Doll models used hy toy mul<crs ten years ago a:e prnctieully obsolete. Chinese formers sometimes push their peanut crops to markPt on wheel· barraws, n~ fa1· us 30 miles. A ·FreJJch scient bt finrl· that ~:rit· Wlauper• pnrtirle~ In ppurs are not nutural ty of sweetest Word of QIOutll Ia the of venoms.[ but art• due to stin,;s of n smuH In ·~=~!ll~nd tbe deadlles sect. Maaazlne. ~ 'flte Columbia rh·er region may have IJeen the nwst thickly settled Indian cPnter in this country in early times. The first sur\'ey of oil-electric locc>motive records shows thnt their op· rratlng cost Is only one-fourth that of stE-am iocnmoti\'es. A l!l~G censug gi\'eS S<•viet Russia a popul~tion of I:l~.r.oo,ooo. an In· cJ·euse of :{ per <·ent since the lost gtneral census of I IJ7. Do you find yourself running down -always tired, n~rvous end cle.. press..-d? Are you stiff and achy, subject to nagging oockache, drowsy headaches and dizzy spells? Are kidney a«retions scanty and b'lrning in passage? Too often tlus indicates 1llggish kidneys and shouldn't be ( neglected. Dean's Pills, a stimulant diuretic, increase the secretion of the kidneys and thus aid in the elimination ot waste impurities. Doan':; are endorsed everywhere. Ask your nc!3hborl DIURETIC .-w, KIDNEYS Foster·M•Iburn Co. Mig Chem.6uffalo,NY. A5TIHUL.~NT You enn't stretc·h sour Wllrd far without hr·enl;in~ it. Should Be Fully Charged Wild THINGS To Be Fit There Must Be Proper Kidney Action, If fo> 1 ll~re's u titl for ratlio runs uny reason u ..,'torage "A'' lwttet·y ot 1 the lead plate type is to be stLlll'ed i 1 0 " uy fur some I ime it should be full~ ! charged anu the electrui)·te remo\'ed The eiP•trni)·te may later he poured • in the battery char·ged un<i put int•• ! Ol)PI'Utinn. - - - - - - I Protect From Dust and Dirt A set n.ounteli ou a paul'! and not I 1 in u <'a.>iuet atkws the enti•·e sys!em, to he exposed to the ordinary dost : and dirt ot the air. :;neil a 'et slu nlrl' he ln~peetPd, PSJot•dally lll'"lln•l lhij' : rornlelli't-lr plntes whi:·h gt-nerall~· t:ol lert !KI p~r ce11t of tin> rlil'•f nnrl rt1rt, ' tht••i'h\ g•·ently enttln~ rl0wu the ef· 1 tieienry of the cmrrlenser. i • Mavor Anrlrf'W Gillis of :"\PwbJI,I'· port, ..~lass., hetter l\lwwn as ''Bo~~y," as he brenl;fasted in be1l at tl>e ~lc· ,Alpin hotel, ;\ew rork. lie 1·an uown tber<! just to see the city. •ro report· ers he ~aid that be, .Jimmy 1\'all;er • Sol~erin_g and \\'illlam Hale 'l'hompson of Chi· 1 cago are the three greatest mayor:; in • \\'iring cmmeetwns 111 a rur 10 re: cell·er !<lwnlll he snldererl to Insure a the country. perfert elect•·!cnl jnint. This is par ' ti<'ularly true In rl•·cults carrying ra 1 Uncle Eben rJlo.frequcncy currents. Soldering a!s<> I uAn honest man," suid Uncle F.ben, st•rves as a means of mnkin~ a per· , "is one dot can look de world In de maucnt connection and pre,·euting faee when he has n chirken fob dinner lon:•e joints which <·ause noises Hn!ll an' show dut he has one chleken less 1 lo's of signal·. In his own bnck yard."-Washfngton Star. Test for Headphones I 1 I . Want• Hrm to Go Get rou can't hlame mother fl'r getting out of patience wttb futbcr when you see how little 11 worries !.lm tor oth er people to have so much more thaD they do.-Clndnnatl Enquirer. 1 I A \'ery simple test for phones Is to wei the tips and then touch them to· gt'ther. A di$tinct ctirk should br heart! In the ~ohones. This is due to I the F.mull vnltage generated by 1111 rontact. lf this click Is not heard fi.· j pl.un<·s nr·e not ,·ery sen~iti,·e I i • The whole world knows Aspirin as an effective antidote for pain. But it's just as important to know that there is only oue genuine Bayer Aspirin. The name Bayer is on every tablet, and on the box. If it says Bayer, it's genuine; and if it doesn't, it is not! Headaches are dispelled lJy Bayer Aspirin. So are colds, and the pain that goes with them; even neuralgia, neuritis, and rheumatism promptly relieYed. Get Bayer-at any drugstore-with proven directions. Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart h"lrln Is u e trade m11rk o! !layer lolaautaeture ot ldonoaceUcacllloator ot SallcrUeoolt • |