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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHI. UTAH Ask Me Another NEVER MIND ABOUT THE SMELL SEEN and HEAR we around AirBe No Would There Without Automobiles, Movies planes or Telephones; War Clouds Increase Its Importance. C. UTLEY us think of sulphur, if we think of it at all, as with a bad smell, but useful for putting on to make it light when struck. And those who are old enough to remember when grandma administered sulphur and molasses as a spring tonic to spruce us up after .the rigors of a hard winter (the winters, of course, were several times as severe in the Old Days) remember that it didn't taste so well, either. of MOST Yet a world without sulphur would be a world without automobiles, newspapers, motion pictures, airplanes, telephones and countless other miracles which we now take as a matter of course. It is that important to industry, and is rapidly assuming comparable importance in agriculture. Man has known about sulphur for 4,000 years, yet never before has it been as big news as it is today. One of the chief reasons for this is the war scare in Europe, ever-prese- nt and the trend among nations, especially those controlled by dictatorships, to strive for national i This was a large factor in enabling the state of Texas to grow 9,000,000 rose bushes, half the nation's total, last year. The mineral is said to be necessary to the manufacture of no less than 32,000 articles in common use. It is the key to the process of vulcanization, and therefore to the development of rubber and its many uses, especially for automobile tires. In the production of the cars which wear the tires, sulphuric acid is used to clean sleel, in the manufacture of lacquers, in the making sweet-smellin- g is particular- ly sought with respect to sulphur. substance Is For the in the form of sulphuric acid, used in munitions, and the modern implements of transporta- tion and communication which require it are even more important. Shortage of sulphur, it is believed, was one of the prime causes of Germany's losing the World war; she has none in elemental form, but of produces some as a smelter gas. Germany today is speeding up production to build reserve supplies of sulphur. So is Russia. Foreigners Trlze Mineral. American sulphur producers are responsible for the statement that Italy is setting aside a fund of 30,000,000 lire to be used in promoting her sulphur industry. Since Italy has some of the world's largest deposits of sulphur on the island of Sicily, sanctions had little or no effect in depriving her of it, but sanctions did cut off her exports with consequent benefit to the other sulphur - producing countries. Australia has decided to pay her producers a bounty of $7 a ton, and Chile, $5.15 a ton. Argentina seeks to reduce imports by charging a duty of $8.50 a ton; Mexico levies $4.20 a ton, and Spain and Turkey forbid sulphur imports altogether. All these factors have of course affected the production of sulphur In the United States. The nation's chief commercial deposits of brimstone sulphur lie on the gulf coast in Texas and Louisiana, where 40 per cent of the world's supply once was produced. This production has dropped to 26 per cent, as the United States has no tariff barriers on sulphur as the other nations do. Large scale production will save the sulphur industry of this country from the hazards of foreign competition, so long as no additional burden such as excessive taxation is put upon them, the Texas and Louisiana companies claim. An idea of the extent of the sulphur production today is gleaned golden-magi- -- c ct if- ! iff fAMOUS one of the first to write of the medicinal properties of sulphur. The alchemists of medieval times believed that its golden hue was significant to their artless art, and futilely combined it with the baser metals in the search for a synthetic gold. If they only had known what "gold" they had at their fingertips! For years the only known brimstone deposits were in Sicily, where sulphur was mined as early as the Fifteenth century. When, in 1735, the process of manufacturing sulphuric acid was discovered, it be- Drilling for Sulphur in Texas. In the Foreground Is a Mass of the Solidified Mineral Which, Brought to the Surface in Liquid Form, Hardens Soon After Contact With Outside Air. r V Hayes-Tilde- n . of fabric dyes and artificial leathers, and in safety glass. What becomes of the great piles of sulphur which are mined in a year? Last year 280,000 tons of sulphuric acid went into the manufacture of pigments and paints; 252,000 tons more to the rayon and cellulose film industry, and 90,000 tons into textiles. Has Romantic History. And so on, through an almost endless list, read the industries which need sulphuric acid. They are the very backbone of the country. Iron and steel, with 630,000 tons; 0 chemical manufacturing, with tons ; the metallurgical industry, 510,000 tons; petroleum refiners, 0 980,000 tons; coal tar products, these are a few. There's literally no end to the services sulphur performs. It is used in ink; and it is used in the fluid you use to take the ink spots off your suit. It is used in the manu- golden-yello- w 890,-00- 580,-00- Eight Hundred to 1,500 Feet Below Bogs Such as This Is Where Most of the Sulphur Deposits of the United States Lie. These Men Are Working on the Beginnings of a Plant Which Eventually Rose, With a Whole City for Its Workers, on Tiles Out of the Swamp. . Vd . facture ot fire extinguishers; yet it is used in explosives because of its inflammability. Only 175,000 tons of sulphuric acid were used in the manufacture of explosives last year, incidentally, indicating that its peacetime importance outweighs its war value. The memory of man does not hold the complete story of the romance of sulphur. "Geologists believe the Texas and Louisiana formations were begun thousands of years before the first man walked on the globe," said Mr. Williams. "Egyptian artists knew and used sulphur in their pigments 1,600 years before Christ. Gebir, one of the earliest of alchemists, set forth the theory that sulphur was the constituent of all matter." Even the smell we talked about earlier was known as early as 1000 B. C, Mr. Williams disclosed. Color Lares Alchemists. "For," he said, "Homer relates lU-inc- way. But suppose that the electoral college were abolished, and popular voting substituted. Consider what would happen if the entire country outside of the city of Chicago should be decisive. And suppose that the people of the country thought of Chicago politics what they do now, or what they think of the Pender-ga- st machine in Kansas City, or what they thought of the Vare machine in Philadelphia in the old days. And then suppose Chicago, on the of the returns, should roll up a million majority for one of the candidates, with practically every- body in the entire country absolute- -' ly convinced that the machine had sold out! That would not be like California in 1916 or New York in Cleveland's time. That would be like 1876, with no guarantee that there would be any such happy solution! face h steam-heate- solidifies. Where the Frasch process must and this includes virtube used ally all of the sulphur deposits in the United States capital expendihow Odeysscus, having slain the suitare of necessity much greater ors for his wife's hand, cleansed the tures in countries where the deposits air of evil and purified his house than lie near the surface of solid land by burning sulphur." and may be mined in much the And now 26 centuries later we same fashion as iron, copper and still use it as a fumigant! other ores. Weitcra Newspaper Vnion. Pliny, the Roman historian, was n, Til-de- g . Case Wat-terso- Texas-Louisian- the bottom. Finally a 1', pipe is sunk within the pipe and brought to within about 200 feet of the bottom of the deposit. Air Forces Sulphur. Superheated water, forced down the and space between the pipes, penetrates the sulphur deposits through the perforations in the larger pipe. The sulphur, which is of greater specific gravity than water, melts and sinks through the water to the bottom of the well, where the weight of the water forces it up the pipe for several hundred feet. Compressed air, introduced through the pipe forces it the rest of the way to the surface. In a cylindrical tank at a relay station the air is removed from the sulphur, and it is sent along to a concrete and iron reservoir. Centrifugal pumps discharge it from the reservoir through heated pipes into storage vats out of doors. These are often 250 feet long, 500 feet wide and 50 feet deep. They are made of light wood and are taken away after the mineral . In contrast, in 1876, a great Democratic editor, Marse Henry actually appealed for 75,000 volunteers who should march t o n Washington and seat Samuel J. as President. And that proposal was not so futile as most folks are apt to think today. As a matter of fact, it was very potent. The Democrats of the country were thoroughly aroused. The danger of civil war was much greater than most histories reveal. It was avoided only by the promise of the successful candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, to withdraw all federal troops from the South, The point is that most Democrats of that time, and for that matter many historians since, believed firmly that the seating of Hayes after the election was a gross fraud, which is very different from being defeated by the mere fact that a big state with a small majority happens to have more electoral votes than a smaller state which may have a big majority the other work to find a way to extract the mineral from pyrites ore. How Sulphur Is Mined. The United States for a time was in a hard way to produea sulphur at home. Most of its sulphur lies in formations called salt "domes" from 800 to 1,500 feet between swampy, boggy land in an area about 75 miles wide, adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico. Finding it is a gamble for there are no divining rods to tell in advance whether the amount of sulphur in a dome is sufficient for commercial mining purposes. Of the 200 salt domes exa field plored in the only nine have been found commercially practicable. But it was not until 1903 that the means for extracting this sulphur from its deep lair under the bogs was found. A great scientist, Dr. Herman Frasch, who was prominent in the early history of our oil industry, solved the problem. In the Frasch process large quantities of superheated water at 315 - 320 degrees Fahrenheit are pumped into the earth. The water melts the sulphur, which is then drawn off and stored in huge vats, where it is allowed to solidify before being broken up for shipment. Here is a rough outline of the process: With an rig a hole is sunk into the sulphur-bearinrock. A pipe is then placed in the hole, and within this pipe an pipe, with perforations extending about 35 feet from the bot10-in- from the fact that the nation's manufacturers used 1,400,000 tons of It last year. But of rapidly increasing significance is its use in agriculture, which consumed 275,000 tons for fertilizers, in soil treatments and in fighting insects. Sulphur Aids Farming. "Within the past few years, sulphur lias become an important ally to the southern cotton grower in his battle with the cotton flea hopper, an insect which annually ravages thousands of acres of growing cotton if it is not checked," it was reported by Langbourne Williams, Jr., president of the Freeport Sulphur company, the oldest of the producers. "Now by learning to treat the cotton plants with sulphur, we can control the flea hopper and increase the yield as much as 361 pounds an acre. "Western grain growers as well are finding it useful in the fight against mustard, wild radish, ragweed and Russian thistle. Sulphuric acid kills the weeds, but does not harm the grain." Sulphur protects orchards from insects and fungi; sulphur mash has been found the key to control of coccidiosis, dread poultry disease; tulphur, which smells not so pretty, ,ot,.n e came the island's chief industry, employing 250,000 persons. The French were responsible for the spread of sulphur production to other countries. In 1839 they negotiated with the Sicilians and managed to gain control of the island's sulphur, then raised the price from $25 to $75 a ton. Other nations secretly put their greatest scientists to tom. A pipe is placed within the pipe and allowed to extend within a short distance of L,.... v ' i G. O. P. Minus Leaders It is literally amazing that a party which polled nearly 17,000,000 votes should be so utterly starved for available leadership as the Republicans are today. The word "available" is highly important, in this connection, for there are would-b- e leaders and saviors and resusci-tator- s galore. It was the formula of those who ran the campaign for Governor Alf M. Landon that none of the old G. O. P. leaders should be promi-- I nent in the picture. It seemed good strategy then. The mere fact that they were overwhelmingly beaten does not prove now that it was bad strategy. It is perfectly true that the Republican campaign was run by amateurs, but on the other hand the few remaining old guard lead-- I ers have never proved their polit-- j ical ability in any striking way. Quite the contrary. In fact, with the illness this campaign of J. Henry during Rora- oacK, me last of the practical old guardsmen passed from the stage. Charles Dewey Hilles and D. e! Pomeroy of New Jersey are cited! but when these names are mentioned few others still living and potent occur to one's mind. And the truth is that Pomerny has not been in vigorous health, even in was al- this campaign, while Hilles wavs noted not ior prat-uima- a of the or running gar'ization chine, but for other qualifications. He is thought by his admirers though this is bitterly contested by many critics to have great political sagacity. This was scarcely demonstrated when he was secretary to President Taft. so far as sensing popular trends or avoiding political errors is concerned. Hilles did have the confidence of many political leaders, and also of many of what President Roosevelt calls the "economic In short, he had a great facility fur dealing with leaders who did control political organizations, such as Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, Murray Crane of Massachusetts, Dave Mulvane of Kansas, etc. And he was able, once a plan was mapped and candidates were agreed upon with these gentlemen, to con- vmce the 'economic royalists" that it was necessary for them to furnish the wherewithal to make the fight. Tills time the scene shifted amazingly. Whatever may be said of Hilles, there is no doubt whatever that the gentlemen who provided the contact between the big contributors and the practical political organization in the Landon campaign did not have anything remotely approaching Hilles' political sagacity even with a very low appraisal of that sagacity. On the contrary, it was this substitute for Hilles in his normal role which played havoc with the direction of the Landon campaign. roy-hsts- A General Quix Bell Sjndicitt WNU Soviet 1. In court procedure, what do 'in camera" mean? Lincoln's assassinatio 2. Did precede or follow Lee 3 surrerw der? 3. What elements make up th dentist's laughing gas? 4. Where is Faneuil Hal!5. What is the Nibelunger.lied? are the Society "j. 6. Where lands? 7. What relation was Napoleoa III to Napoleon I? 8. Who was William Harvey? 9. Who was the first president of the German Republic? 10. What is "turbid" water? WASHINGTON Talk about bohsh- electoral college will in ail the ing . human probability come to naug-.tfor There re too many reasons selkeeping it, but one of them is dom mentioned. The Founding Fathers either thought of an amazing lot of things which might develop in the luck. future, or they had remarkable One of the samples of this in justiit fying the electoral college is that feeling sectional of a prevents type which might easily lead to civil war. Assume, for example, a very-closelection in fact, the favorite example of those who would like to abolish the electoral college -where all the states except New York and Pennsylvania add up even, both as to popular and electoral votes. It this often used illustration the idea was that New York would go Democratic by 500, or some such trifling majority, but that Pennsylvania should go Republican by a million. Nevertheless, despite this tremendously greater strength of the Republican candidate, the Democrat would be elected, Pennsylvania having less electoral votes than New York. It is perfectly true, of course, that this could happen. It is also true that it has almost happened in our history. For instance, in Cleveland's time. For instance, in the case of California in 1916. But in neither case did it provoke the citizenry of some of the states, which had gone for the losing candidate by big majorities, to think in terms of a mob marching into the offending commonwealth to burn and harrow. There have been bitter words. In fact, in 1916, one of the great papers on the losing side referred to California as "the boob state." But even that paper did not propose the raising of an army to invade California and punish her, or to march on Washington and seat the candidate defeated by California's close vote. u-- . 7m ! it fiL. 6 NATIONAL CAPITAL Field By CarterCORRESPOND Kl Sulphur By WILLIAM O - Answers Not in public court; privately. 2. Lincoln was shot April 14; th, surrender took place April 9, 1865, 1. ." 3. Nitrogen and 4. In Boston. 5. A medieval oxygen. German telling o the Nibelungs, a rnatural race. 6. In the South Pacific. 7. Nephew. 8. An English 9. 10. physician the circulation scovered blood. poem, supe- who dicf th Frederich Ebert. Water cloudy or muddy. No More Brandy Most of the St. Bernard dogs used by the monks living in the Alps for rescue work now carry drinks in vachot, uum flasks attached to their collars instead of brandy. ic How Many Pennies Your Election Aftermath Child's Life? It is not unusual after a landslide for politicians and observers to predict that the party buried is dead are forever that new party line-up- s coming. But this time there seems to be more logic in the prediction than at any time since the Civil Mil fsfif s war. The Republican party and the Democratic party have both suffered terrific defeats. In 1912 President William H. Taft won only the same number of states, two, and the same number of electoral votes, that Governor Alf M. Landon re- ceived this year. In many ways it might have been better if the Republican party had died then. Had it called itself the Progressive party the story might have been different in subsequent campaigns. But now the Republican party has nothing to compare with what the party had in 1912 after Taft's defeat. In the first place, every one knew that the Progressive leaders were really anxious to get back into the Republican party providing they could climb on the driver's seat. In the second place, there was a speedy reaction against the Wilson administration, a reaction which would undoubtedly have swept it out of power four years later had it not been for the "kept us out of war" issue. This time there are no such elements in plain sight. Practically speaking, the tariff issue, which caused the reaction against Wood-roWilson up to 1916, or at least was one of the important factors, does not exist today. w Obviously this election decided, for some time to come, that the tariff policy of this country is the reciprocal treaty plan, including the most tavored nation" clause which is one of its most important features. Republican orators during the campaign reported that the farmers of the were incensed at exhibits of imported farm products. The statement that it would require 30,000,000 acres of good farm land to raise the farm products imported was believed by the Republicans working on that issue in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota to be making votes for Landon by the thousand. Mid-We- Don't Try to "Save" on Home Ask Your Doctor Remedies There is one point, on which practically all doctors agree. That is: Don't give your child unknown remedies without asking your doctor first. All mothers know this. But sometimes the instinct to save a few pennies by buying "something just as good" overcomes caution. When it comes to the widely used "milk of magchildren's remedy nesia" many doctors for over half a century have said "PHILLIPS." For Phillips' Milk of Magnesia is the standard of the world. Safe for children. Keep this in mind, and say "PHIL- LIPS' MILK OF MAGNESIA" when you buy. Comes now, also in tablet form. Get the form you prefer. But see that what you get is labeled "Genuine Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." 25 for a big box of the tablets at drug stores. Each tiny tablet Is the equivalent of a teaspoon-t- ul ot genuine Milk Phillips' oc Magnesia. PHILLIPS' no 1 to come. Some of the friends of John D M Hamilton Republican chairman', thought that maybe Landon would be defeated, but that the personality and magnetism of Hamilton would make him the knight for four years hence. plumed That prospect seems rather remote at the moment. In fact, the only to make an outstandingRepublican race in the entire country is thirty-fou- r year-olHenry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts. So there is at least some basts for the argument that what this country needs is a new party, with a new name, new leade s, and no antipathy in the South, to oppose the dominant party. Bell d !,l,cate.WNi: Srri. MILK OF MAGNESIA DANDRUFF She Uses Glover's! She used to be a victim of Dandruff. But no more! Her J.JV9 secret is remilir usf of Mange Glover's MedicineandGlovct J Medicated Soap tor the shampoo. That s h.tYOIl jhoulJ D3 doingfor YOUR hair. Ask your Hairdresser the knows. Farmers for Roosevelt But the farmers voted heavily for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now some will claim that the farmers voted for Roosevelt despite his tariff policy because of AAA checks. That may or may not be so It is very difficult to be sure about such things. But it is very doubtful indeed if any major party would dare go into a campaign on that assumption. Hence the reasonable probability is that the will continue to be thepresent policy policy of the country, not just the policy of the Democratic party, for some years Ok ALSO IN TABLET FORM : IN UTAH AND ITS THE HOTEL BEN LOMOND Ogden's Finest . . 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