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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Thursday, 8ej;>tember 10, 1931 SLOW TO CHANGE N~-1\IES OF CITIES STAGE C(}ACH TALES Americans Not Prone to Make Alterations. By E. C. TAYLOR Since tl1e nonstop aviators from this country landed by the Golden Born it has dawned on most of us for the first time that the Turks have been changing the name of their great metropolis. We may have heard of Stamboul, but never dreamed "ie would have to say Istanbul. We learned of it as Conlltantinople, the name the Romans gave to what the Greeks called Byzantium, and in our secret thoughts It probably always will be Constantinople. .After the fall of the Russian monarchy St. Petersbm·g bePame Petrograd, only to be later sovietized as Leningrad, all of w!JiC'h was to be expected from the mania of the Bolsheviks for uprooting e>erything connected with the old regime. Then the 1\'orwegians ·changed the name of Christiania to Oslo, that of the old national capital across the bay. China followed the fa shion, an~ when the capital of the repub· lie was transferred to Kanking, Peking became Peiping. In spite of our reputation for <'hange the United States has dis· played a surprising permanence in this respect. Our urban nomenclature, derived not only ft·om the English, the French, the Spanish and the Indians, but f•·om the classic:;. and any other stray books that might have been read by our more lettered city founders, has persisted with little modification. Sometimes the names were difficult of pronounelation or calculated to inspire levity,' but the originnl christening has generally held. We might have renamed New Orleans for Thomas Jefferson or St. Augustine for Andrew Jackson, as the English altered the name of New Amsterdam to New York when they drove out the Dutch. During the war we even resisted the patriotic pressure to give the capital ot North Dakota a name l(!SS sug- The Congressman's Joke RATION COW NEEDS DURING MILK PERIOD 'T'OM CORWIN, famous Ohio states.1 man and popular orator of a century ago, has a keen sense of humor, and because of his dark complexion, Matter of High Importance played a joke on an obsequious tavern keeper one time that was often in Milk Production. related up and down the length of the It has t>een demonstrated repeat- Nation~! ro_ad and at Washington. edly that it does not pay to have "' ! Tom 1 ~ hts early days was a wag?n. 1 t h nd'tion er, a dnver of freight wagon trams oa ry cow res en 1n 1ow co 1 along the great east-west highway, • She may produce less than 70 per and the rallying cry of his friends in cent as much milk as she would pro- the campaign that elected him govdvce had sht> freshened In good con- er or of Oh' "H h f T d't' Th' f h t n 10 was, urra or om 1d d i 1 wnb ~s . act as e fi abl ry~e~Corwin, the wagoner boy!" say t at t lt>tr most pro ta e ee mg Because of his dark complexion, I Tom frequent! was m'staken for a Is done durln~ the dry period. 1 ~'he cow's own physical condition J negro by stran~ers. At that time the ls one o:t the best guides to the race distinction was very much proamount of feed needed during the nounced dry period. If In good flesh. she will I Once ·when he was a member of carry _along all right on legume hay congre~s. he passed OYer the National and stlage or pasture an~ a small road in a chartered coach in company amount of feed. The ratwn should with Henry Clay and other distinb& light and laxative. If you have a guished "'entlemen en route to \Vashc. ' good quality of legume hay, a ration ington, made up lat•gely of corn and oats or The party stopped one day at an llarley and oats will be satisfactory. old sta~re tavern kept by Samuel A mixture for a ration might contain Cessna at the foot of Town hill In a 400 pounds of corn or corn and cob- place also known as "Snib Hoilow," meal, 200 pounds of oats, 100 pounds 25 miles east of Cumberland, 1\.Id. of wheat, 100 pounds of wheat bran, Cessna was fond of entertaining 100 pounds of linseed meal, oilmeal guests and was particularly anxious or soybean ollmeal. Where only to cater to these distinguished travpoor roughage such as timothy hay, elers. <~at straw or corn fodder is available, The tall form of Tom Corwin atit Is ad\'lsable to Increase the oil- trac.ted his attention. He noted Tom's meal or soybean oilmen! by 50 per swarthy . complexion and heard h1a cent. companions call hlm Tom and supIt is especially important to take posed he was the servant of the party, good care of the cow at calving time. Cessna bad met Clay before and knew Confine her to a good clean box stall him. about a week before freshening, The party ordered dinner, and then change the ration so that it is very someone suggested drinks all around light and laxative. This may mean to relieve the tedium of travel and withholding corn and feeding only excite an appetite for the expected oats, wheat bran and oilmeal. Per- dinner. Cessna hurried to his storemit the cow to take exercise in a pas- room and produced a bottle of fine ture or in the yard. Soon after the old cognac, the "tony" drink of the calf Is dropped the cow should be old pike. The finest drink of the day tied up. In this way the dairyman was brandy and loaf sugar, lighted will observe whether or not the aft- by a taper and burnt. Popular tradierblrth Is delivered. If the afterbirth tion had It that "if burnt brandy is not delivered normally and within couldn't save a man" in need of physitwelve or twenty-four hours, the cow cal relaxation, his case was hopeless. may need some medical attention.The zealous old landlord produced Wisconsin Farmer. this drink, and handed it first to the other gentlemen in Corwin's party. After each of the others had stepped Doesn't Pay to Neglect up to the bar and been served, Cessna, Early-Freshening Cow in a patronizing way, oft'ered a glass The cow that freshens In the early to Corwin, saying: "Tom, you take a drink." fall is apt to have a hard time o:t it. Corwin drank oft' the glass in an She comes Into production at a time when the rarmer Is rushing around humble manner and returned it to the with silo filling and late threshlngs. landlord with modest thanks. The followed by fall plow and root harv· others. in the party saw what was est. There Is a very natural tendency transpiring and kept straight faces. Dinner then was announced. and to get throttgh with as little <'bores as when the party entered the dining possible and cows are usually bred to room, they saw that a side table, come in after the rush Is over. If a cow does freshen, she takes the same after the custom of the time, had been treatment as the rest of the herd. set for their "servant." Corwin went over to the side table As a matter o:t fact, she is usuany and sat down. while the others gathconsidered a nuisance. But this Is the ered around the sumptuous feast at time when milk comes easiest and a the main table. All by himself in the cow responds most profitably to extra feed and care. The fresh cow now corner, Corwin enjoyed an excellent should get a proper grain ration, fed meal. Clay occasionally would call tn proportion to production. She should over to him: "Tom, how are you getting on r not be out at night when the nights Corwin would modestly reply: get frosty. If she Is mllking In ex.. Very well." cess o:t 50 lbs. m!lk daily she w!ll reDinners in those days were elabspond profitable to three-times-a-day milking. If she Is not properly fed orate affairs, and this continued for and regularly milked, she will be a nearly two hours. When all had satpoorer cow right through the lacta- isfied their appetites, the landlord produced cigars, and passed them around tion period. to Clay and the others. Then he took one from the box nd laid it on the Wheat in Dairy Ration "servant's" table. "Take a cigar, Tom,.. Cessna said Wheat proved a better grain than Corwin expresse<J corn In a ration for milk cows In an condescendingly. experiment conducted recently at the his humble thanks, and went outside Ohio experiment station. In view of to light It. the bumper crop of this grain In Ohio Soon after the meal was over the this year these results are of interest coach was ready to deQart, and the to Ohio dairymen who are looking tO distinguished party said good-by to feeding wheat this winter. The grain the landlord. Clay was the last to ration for these cows consisted of appear, and with him was the "serthree parts wheat, three parts oats vant." find one part each of corn. bran and "l\fr, Cessna," Clay said, "permit linseed meal. which was fed along with me to introduce the :a:on. Thomas Cor. silage and bay. In comparison with win o:t Ohio.'• cows fed this ration except that corn It took the flabbergasted landlord replaced wheat these cows produced t1 long time to recover, and whenever more milk and butterfat but the cows Tom Corwin passed through after em corn gained a little more In weight, that, he was given the best in the Four <'OWS on the wheat ration aver- house. ((c). 1931. Western Newsoaoer Union.) ag('d 50 pounds of butterfat a month while those on corn averaged 48 pounds.-Ohlo Farmer. Prehistoric Cave Bear A kin.; :uuua~ wil<l animals was the great cave beur, a creatur twice the DAIRY HINTS size of the grizzly bear of North A milk house is a great aid to effi· America. Lions and tigers had little chance against this powerful enemy. cloot dairying. In the prehis.toric age of man It became • abundant In the British Isles, as proved The national dairy exposition will by the extraordinary number of rebe held October 10 to 18 at St. Louis. mains which have been found in cav11' whole milk Is sold, It should be erns and caves. It did not e:x.tend stralnPd as soon as drawn and then farther north than Yorkshire. Remains of a bear found in Ireland more recooled. semble 1;l1e grizzly of today, and bones • of this mammal have also been disAccrerlited herd work has grown in covered In England..:._London Tit-Bits. California. Last year a total of 25,074 animals In 341 herds were tuberculin tested for accreditation in that ( Miner&' Rescuers Taught state. How to save men from being -burled alive is being taught to a new kind of Cream should be separated at once, lifeguard in the coal mining district of It lt is the product sold, and then Upper Silesia, on the German-Polish frontier. A mine, deserted many years cooled promptly. ago, is being utilized for the experiIn Wisconsin and Minnesota, li4 and ments In life saving. Young mountain• 49 per cent, respectively, of cows In I eers, whose occupations may take them herd Improvement associations are fed into hazardous underground passageways, are being instructed in the workgrain with pasture. ing of the oxygen pulmotor, in the use of gas masks and the correct way tfJ That churning butter Is still a farm- 1 get a man out of the subterranean log occupation In the United States IS tomb In which he may be buried alive shown by the fact that 500,000,000 or imprisoned 1:\y a landslid-e or other pounds of butter was made on farml accident. last year. I ° I I D. ., • • .. . • • • • • • • • • • • 1 • " Frown on Lion Hunters Killing From Airplanes Hunting lions from airplanes is distinctly out, in all parts of Africa where the British writ rules. The. open veldt of the great African game country offers great possibilities for cross-country coursing in automobiles, and easy landing for airplanes. lienee, sportsmen have been rather overshooting lions. This is regarded as bar! for several reasons. It threatE'ns the sport with extinction, but sportsmen are joined in their anxiety by zoologists, who do not wish to sPe another splendid wild animal added to the list of extinct species. Conservationists and animal ecologists also see in the lion a ul'eful regulator for the numbers of nnt('lope and other grazing animals, which without some natural check might increase too rapidly and overgraze the range. Only in thickly populated districts, where lions become troublesome stock killers and potential menacPs to human life, Is exterminative hunting tolerated. More Than a Hint "I think the radio Is lots of company," declared the ruclltor's wife. "Yes," nodded the tired hostess, "and you don't find it standing in the doorway an hour before saying good-night, either." Suspicion Mrs. A.-I met your husband today and he was telling me how much he was in love with his work. Mrs. B.-Was he indeed? I shall have to take a look in at the office. -Boston Transcript. Thia Machine Age Studies of how machinery causes unemployment by replacing man power have been made from time to time during the past fifty years. The latest sturly of this kind, made for Collier's Weekly, reveals a razorblade machine which takes the place of 500 men, and a railroad switching device which supersedes 168 men. Machines have now displacet! 9 out of 10 shoe worlters, it Is shown. Astrology, which Is as clearly one of the oldest of superstitions as astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, appears to have reached its climax in the West In the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, when its posl· tion was one of great honor and importance in the courts of }i}urope. But the combined effect of the Copernican astronomy, the Reformation, and the Renaissance was to sap its foundations, and after the middle of the Seventeenth century its decline was rapid and unchecked. In the East, however, which was its real home, and where Coperni<'US counted for little and Luther for nothing, it has had a far longer life and a far stronger hold, and doubtlt>ss has a wide vogue still. In Egypt, In<lia, Chinn, and C:haldea it was the subject of elaborate study and high honor almost from the dawn of history. The special eminence of Chaldea in this department is attested by the Bible when it tells us of Daniel's appointment by Nebuchadnezzar as I "master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers." Your Salt Lake City And It Is a probable conjecture that Headquarters the wi se men from the East wh• folUnder the "Beacon of Hospitality," in lowed the star to Bethlehem some the center of things, this hotel offers the rare combination of old-fashioned five centuries later were magi and cordiality and ultra-modern service and astrologers from Chal<lea. comfort. 400 rooms, each with bath, If, aftpr the lapse of 19 more cen$2 to $4 single. Cafe a.ad cafeteria. turies this strange hybrid of science HOTEL and superstition which flourished so vigorously under the clear skies of the plains of Shinar still retains W. E. Suttoa C. W. West much of its ancient power, the fact Gen'l Mgr. Ass't Gen'l Mgt, is nor to be attributed solely to the conservatism of what till the last Mamie' a Art a Lile-Sayer few years really was an unchanging "Did you visit the art galleries East. While In the West religion has helped science to discredit astrology, when you were in Dresden? "We didn't need to. Our daughter its hold upon the East has apparpaints."-Der Brummer. ently been strengthened by the great religious reformation which now Vacation Plane claims more than 200,000,000 adher"Where is your wife going this ents. year?" "Well, she'd like to find some Man began his mental emancipa- new gossip." tion by doubting a graven image; and The modern girl !mows all there !1 now it is hard to get him to believe 41 ll0a .. t'o anything. NEWHOUSE BIGGE T T REVALUES _bring REC 1 ASTROLOGY'S HOLD ON EASTERN MIND gestlve of Germanism, though we yielded on the point of sauerkraut, at least for the duration of hostilities. But Bismarck remained Bismarck. and sauerkraut again became sauerkraut after a spell as "liberty cabbage." However it may satisfy the exIgencies of nationalism or local polltics, we hope for the sake of our hard-learned store of geographical knowledge that other countries, too, will leave their city names as they are.-New York Herald Tribune. 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