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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH e,?p,ng Up cience 0 v? oderi'cc jtn i t u, Homer's Story of Trojan W ar Found Historically True tagenil of Achillas lla.I Foundation in Fact Shelter Kelt Idea Mav lie leived Keeau.-- c of Drouth SOMEBODY h$7ltanJlfhoo6 Traditions from America Political Hucory FxjifrifiKT of 'roves Value of Trees IO Efforts bring about a of planting in 1 that Greek So Miss Winifred Lamb, arche ologist of the Fitwiiliam Museum, Cambridge university, is inclined to think after excavating the ancient town of Therml, on the island of Lesbos. Hesitantly advancing this roman tic theory in a sober and technical Miss report of her excavations. 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. Kvldrnce Is Convincing. Pottery the townsfolk used Is identified as archeological evidence that the fiie 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 ma;, as Professor Myres points out, have been a necessary strategic prelude to the capture of Troy. This event also is believed to have occurred abuut 1200 B. C. Readers may press the attractive concidence or point out its weakness according to their taste. Whether the latest discoveries uphold Homer or not, they have revealed a town not far across the water from Troy, that came under the influence of powerful Troy and acquired its styles and ideas of culture. Largest Cyclotron Being Constructed at U. of Michigan story in that country. They were begun extensively during the days of the czari.st government, and have been continued and greatly enlarged Reduce Evaporation. V. Ilodorov, chief collaborator of the shelterbelt department, Insitute of Forest Culture and Forest of the U. S. S It , has made a quantitative study of the cilects of shelter belts on evaporation rates, of which a translation has been made for the Journal of Forestry by T. Muskwichewa. In the steppe region. Mr. Bodorov states, the influence of shelterbelts In reducing extends evaporation 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-reducinellect 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 its lee to distances up to about a mile. Russian shelterbelts are built with windows" in them, Mr. Bodorov states. These are openings at experimentally determined intervals. Without them, temperature differ-ence- s on the leeward side would tend to be too great, and there would also be a downflow of upper and drier masses of air. Melio-latm- Japs Find Noise tons Raises Life Span Ann Arbor. Ninety-fivof iron and copper form the gi- of Bats in Test e ant which is the electro-magn- foundation of the worlds largTokyo. In tlie midst of camest cyclotron, now under con- paigns against noise, two Tokyo 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 farther with the Michigan apparatus. sheltered from abnormal sound. Dr. Yoshitomo Fujimaki and Dr. It will have practical application in e salts the preparation of 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 infield ever developed, tegrated 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-vol- t impact 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 an 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 the desired target. radio-activ- School Boy Discovers Traces of Dinosaur 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 the 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. keen-minde- d cal association here. For 18 months scientists of the Ohio Agricultural Experimental sta- tion and Ohio State university have been shooting" the stomach interiors of five steers through special openings in their sides. Plugs kept the openings closed normally and Science. the animals lived normal lives, The discovery, report the Univerfinally being sold on the market in sity of California scientists, was good condition. made in an Upper Cretaceous rock Food and water, in the movie formation near Patterson, Calif., film, are seen to enter the stomach. and consisted of over 00 bone frag- Gradually the food is broken down ments which seem to have once to the proper consistency for passbeen the hind quarters of the gigan- age on the digestive through tic, reptile. system. meat-eatin- g for the Rainbow Room In Rockefeller Center one of the nicest and smartest of New York's night clubs. She went right on from there. Recently she was tested for the movies, and it was said to be one of the most successful ever made. So she, like many otiiers, will switch from radio to the movies. When Ginger Rogers went east on a vacation recently she made it very clear to RKO'a publicity depart-rnen- t that she was going for fun, not to all her time Interviewed being and posing for photographs, Her last trip east was that kind of trip. So this tune she has been having fun, going to theaters and dancing Gingrr Rogers (wouldn't you think she'd have had enough dancing to hold her for a while, when she got through with "Swing Time" with Fred Astaire?) sjx-ii- k s Joan Fontaine, Olivia de younger sister. Is headed for llavi-land- success. Jesse I.asky has signed her, and she will make her first picture in England, unless plans are changed. You girls who want to go into pictures might take a lesson from Olivia, by the way. Although she grew up in California, not so awfully far from Hollywood, she did not tackle the movie studios. She stayed home and went to high school and woiked hard with the school dramatic club and it was as a result of that dramatic club and its performances that she broke into the movies without the slightest difficulty. Do see "To Mary with Love," especially if you like Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter, the team that made such a success of "Broadway Bill. This i6 quite a different sort of picture, one of those ones where disaster threatens the course of true love. It is very well done. young-marrie- It's a great relief to ever) body that Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond have announced their enFor years and years gagement. Kunitaro Arimoto, both of the Tokyo people have expected her to marry Hygienic Laboratory, would doubt her manager. Bob Ritchie, who has whether silence, after all, is good certainly guided her affairs very Berkeley, Calif. To a California high school student goes the honor of finding the first evidence that dinosaurs once lived on the West coast. West- Steers Stomach Made ern scientists have for years searched for remains of these Subject of Movie Film great prehistoric reptiles, which Motion Columbus, Ohio. lived in the Cretaceous period of geological time some 65 pictures of the interior of a steers stomach as the animal million years ago. digests its food were shown to stuThe high school the American Veterinary Mediwas dent Allan Bennison, who re- ported 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 AT I tlie Great I'lains slicltcrbdt area, suspended through the action of the hi't congress, may he made as a result of the present drouth, which is the very great imporamateur who made good. tance of evaporation rates in a Howes When she sang on his program land where water often passes months and months ago somebody from earth to air three times as of importance heard her, and first fast as it falls from air to earth. thing she knew she was signed up When Imc r santf In this connection tlie experience warrior Achilles raided the Ule of Lesbos at the of Russia, which hus extensive shelter belt plantings in regions comstart of the Trojan war. he was parable to our West, may be of repeating history, not legend. interest. Shelterbelts are an old London. Mill Hitched to the Moon TYEMK.MHHlt AN. 0 III time when this is being written no general announcement lias been made Brother-- . about bv Warner Doris Wester, but watch for a Rood of stories about her. She, youll recall, is the Major 'I well. They mond looks whom she was on the the movies say the blond like a young was in love stage, before a thought. By Elmo Scott Watson I fly VIRGINIA VALE t Curiosa Americana Tales and 1 KNOWS Mr. Ray- man with when she she gave k When you see Reunion, the second feature picture made by the famous quintuplets, youll also hear them talking. Its being made now, with some of the same actors who appeared In "The Country Doctor. And did you see that delightful news reel of the babies, All WalThere has never been a king? more delightful scene than the one in which four of them dance, while the fifth persistently tries to stand on her head. k By the time you read this the wedding bells may have rung for Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, though she is denying, just now, that she is going to marry him. But he has reserved rooms on a boat sailing for New under the York, names of "Mr. and Mrs. Dick Powell. beHer divorce comes final before then. And she has been making plans to go to New York. For some reason or other Hollywoodites like to deny that theyre going to be married right up to the very instant when tlie ceremony takes place. CROWN The Thing in the Dark" By FLOYD GIBBONS A IE you all set for the inning party ? Well, let me warn you in advance that this is going to be about tlie house warming; party y..u ever saw. As a matter of fact, its a one man house warming or maybe I A lone-some- should say a of Trenton, one-bo- N. J. house-warmin- y I st The boy was Arland L. Gray, because Arland has grown up In the party I'm going to tell you about was say "was meantime. This thrown on the night of January 19, 101 2 As a house warming, It was a terrible flop. It not only didn't warm the house any, but It cooled the boy off considerably by As the an adventure, system. though, it was a whooping success and well worth that check for ten bucks that Im sending Arland right now. In the spring of 1910 Arland's mother and dad moved from Cats-kil- l, N. Y., to Orlando, Fla. That w.is in tlie days before the Florida boom, and Orlando was just a sleepy little country town. one-bo- Arland Decides to Do a Solo House Warming Act. Arland's dad bought a piece of pirtiy cleared ground about three miles out of town and started to bu.IJ a house on it. That's where the housewarming part of it came in. Arland was just eight years old then and you know how kids sometimes get funny ideas. Arland somehow or other got it into his head that he wanted to be the first one to sleep in the new home. The house wasnt finished yet. The sides were up and the roof was on, but there were no sashes in the windows, and none of the floors had been laid. But just the same young Arland began pestering his folks to let Inin go out there and spend the night. His ma didn't like tlie idea. She said an eight year-olboy had no business sleeping in an unfinished house half a mile away from the nearest neighbor. But his dad said it wouldn't hurt him to spend a night alone, and finally his mother gave her consent, too. Arland took a blanket, his .22 rifle and his dog. and u.I l.e went, headed for the house on the outskirts of the town. Strange Animal Terrifies Lonesome Boy. Darkness had fallen before he got there. It was a warm, tropical night, and the late moon had not yet risen. Arland crept into the building, walking carefilly on the uncovered beams of the ground floor. He He Realized That Some Sort of Animal Was Standing Over Him. gathered together some loose boards and lay them across the beams under a low window. Then he spread his blanket and lay down with his rule beside him. The bare boards were hard. Arlands makeshift bed was uncomfortable. It was a long time before he managed to get to sleep, and when he did he slept fitfully. He awoke again, hours later, with the strange feeling that something was wrong. The moon had risen but it was behind a cloud hank. But what was that queer, crunching noise that sounded so close to his ear? As he came wider awake he realized with a sickening feeling in the pit of his stomach that some sort of an animal was standing over him. Dog Whines With Terror Over Strange Visitation. Arland lay still. He didn't dare move couldn't if he'd wanted to, fear. Over in a corner he could for his whole body had gone stiff hear his dog growling and whimpering. The dog had crawled away as far as he could was cowering on the far side of the room, whining with a terror that was as great as Arland's own. "I have no idea how long I lay there, Arland says. "It seemed like hours, but it might have been only a few minutes. The beast the thing whatever it was seemed to be standing right over me. I could feel its hot, fetid breath on my face hear the regular crunch crunch crunch of its moving jaws. Every now and then a splotch of slimy froth would fall on me. I had a wild impulse to get up to run out of that house as fast as I could go. Then I remembered that I couldnt run that if I moved at all I would have to go slowly, picking my way over the bare joists. I didnt even have a floor under me. Intruder Turns Out to Be Broken-Dow- n Nag. Thought of the uncovered floor gave Arland another idea. If he could roll from the boards on which he was lying he could fall through between the joists and land safely on the ground only a couple feet below. He had just about decided on that course of action when he remembered something else. His .22 rifle! He began moving his hand cautiously toward it. Inch by inch his hand crept toward that rifle. His groping fingers found it at last. With his thumb he cocked the hammer. It gave out a resounding click and that startled the beast. In the dim light he could see its huge, blurry head raise stay poised motionless as if it were listening. Arland moved the gun around silently. At length he had its muzzle pointed at the beasts head. His finger tightened on the trigger. And then, suddenly, the moon came out from behind the clouds. Bright yellow light streamed into the house, and in its glow Arland saw, thrust through the window above him the pointed ears and the long narrow head of an old horse! The rifle was never fired. The moon had come out Just in time to save that poor old nags life. And just in time, too, says Arland, to save me from heart failure. I spent the rest of the was night in the middle of the floor far from any window, and it a very sleepy and very chastened little boy who trailed along home the next morning as soon as it was light. OF THORNS rOUBTS of the identity of the Presidential candileading dates, so thoroughly dispelled early in 1936, sometimes have held on to the midst of the nominating convention of one of the major political parties. So it was that the Democratic gathering of 1896 provided a tremendous upset, giving the party William Jennings Bryan, a leader who literally was to wear a "crown of thorns through three unsuccessful campaigns for the presidency. Young and magnetic, Bryan was virtually unknown when the convention assembled. When it ended the West, as represented by the Nebraskan, had won its first victory over the eastern faction of the Democratic party and Bryan was his party's nominee. No less than 13 candidates for tlie Democratic nomination were regarded seriously in 1896 and the usual stableful of dark horses was present. "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman of South Carolina, whose hat was definitely in the ring, prodded the delegates unmercifully and the wordy battles from tlie platform spread to one fist fight after another on the floor. Then Bryan was recognized. And In oratorical style matched by few figures of American history, quieted the tumult. 'We are fighting in defense of our homes, our families, and posterity." he declaimed. "We have petitioned and our petitions have been scorned. We have entreated and our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have mocked us when our calamity came. We beg no more, we entreat no longer, we petition no more we defy them! His remarks were on the financial plank of the Democratic platform and Bryan fired them directly at the delegation from New York. Then he closed with the defiance which still rings down the corridors of time: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. He stopped the show. The delegates went wild. When the business of the convention could be resumed the day following, Bryan was nominated. His defeat by McKinley, two succeeding failures for the presidency. in truth settled a crown of thorns upon the brow of Bryan which he was doomed to wear un-- ! til the last public act of his life participation in the famous mon- key trial down in Dayton, Tennes-- i see. He held, and he swayed, mul-- i titudes with the power of his oratory, blit on election day he could not mark their ballots for them. THE FIRST PLATFORM of the essentials of i political convention is the adoption of a "platform upon which the Presidential nominee is to "take his stand during the Whether or not he campaign. stays on it is quite another matter but few candidates would think of going before the peepul without one. The first platform appeared during the campaign of 1840. In that year the Democrats, holding their convention in Baltimore, set forth what they considered the fundamental principles of their party. Asserting that the federal government was one of strictly limited powers and that all grants not expressly made to it were reserved to the states, this platform Declared against a policy of internal improvements at the expense of the national treasury. Declared against the assumption of state debts, contracted for local improvements, by the federal ONE government Denied the power of the federal government to foster one industry, or section, to the detriment of another. Asserted that the federal government exceeded its authority when it raised more revenue than was required to defray the ordinrry expenses of administration. Denied the power of congress to interfere with or control the institution of slavery. Declared against the handling of public funds by private banks. WNU Service. Denounced restrictions upon the privileges of citizenship and of ownership of land with respect to time in England when bulldogs apHas Bulldog, Sour-Mupeared headed for oblivion. Early foreign Immigrants. They then unanimously renomiChanged From Old Habits in the 17th century the barbarious h Martin Van Buren for the nated enof of test a bull apmost the baiting, "sport pugnacious Probably ODDS AMD ESDS . . . Mae Clark, and got ready to fight presidency a a and bulb between durance amiamost of the one dog who has appeared in loo few pictures pearing, but ballots along the lines of battle the folks was frowned is possessupon by ble members of the dog family of policy they had laid down. But lately, replaces Dorothy ff ilson as kindness to dumb animals. dour the is He ing ITild the looking bulldog. in Kont" Brian ... leading lady if they expected their opponents Bulldogs used for this cruel pracface, the Ann Sothems grandmother, who is fellow with the mashed-ito meet them on that ground they , had her first permanent wrinkled brow, bowed front legs and tice were naturally more massive were grievously disappointed. The wave the other day: Ann had a studio the pronounced turned - up lower than those of the later type. The not only failed to adopt a Whigs hairdresser do it, and supervised the of in sportsmen gallery gathered jaw. but they failed to put platform operation . . . Charlie Kuggles is goto a veritable watch a "arena Because of the bulldogs expresforth any statement of principles ing to play a straight dramatic role in nose. bull the the by sion he has been nicknamed the bulldog grab Exclusive , and Mary Boland is goreason that they death for the very good "sour-muobserves a writer in It was a tugging battle to have any. They disregarding to do on in A Son Comes Home" didnt for either animal. and then theyll join forces again and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In reviewed issues entirely and launched The dogs were trained to hang on thdir whirlwind do comedy . . . Josephine Hutchinson ing the history of this breed it is Tippecanoe and is spending her vacation at her home noticed the dog has changed from a to their prey, to tug and pull un- Tyler, Too! campaign. to would in Connecticut, far from the excitefall the bull the til to earth of bulls tugging, vicious baiter The bewildered Democrats stood ment of Hollywood . . . Dolores Del one that is a perfect exhausted. Invariably, the dog was firm on their platform and watched Rio, Richard Dix and Chester Morris batin this bloody companion and intelligent despite gored the procession go past a triumphal will be in Columbia's tle. There were exceptions when his facial contour. procession for the Whigs! Depths Below W eslcrn the bulldog triumphd, and money This dog's past was one of Newspaper Union. 9 Western Newspaper Union. dark shade. In fact, there was a changed hands. g, n eighty-three- P-- e peace-lovin- one-side- d star? the old admonition juur Caleb Ilodgdon did better than that lie hitched his mill to the moon aud for 111 years the moon has been running the mill for lilm and Ills descendants. It was back In 181 that Caleb, sailing down the coast of Maine, "You're the sweetest girl I ever reached the mouth of the Danmrls-cottmet. river and saw a 40 acre nat"How do you know? You never ural pond which opened Into the kissed me." river through a very narrow Inlet. "Jim told me about you." Ttila perfect tidal basin was filled and emptied twice a day by the LONG, LONG AGO sea, and since the moon controls the tide. It Is literally true that he hitched his mill to the moon. Caleb built a dam and a bridge which are still In use today. lie Installed the old type undershot waterwheel to run his mill and used it as power for grinding grain as well us sawing lumber. Next he added a shipyard and began building ships. Later generations of llodgdons continued to operate the mill and shipyard, and one of the products of the latter was the schooner, Iiowdoln, which Commander Donald It. MacMillun used In his Arctic explorations. Later llodgdons also replaced the undershot waterwheel with a turbine, but the prinis losing his memory. ciple of operation of the mill Is the Its"Percy been going on now for two same with It as with the l. months." When the tide rises. It forces "So long as that? The poor boy In the dam which open the gates have forgotten all he ever must Culeb built and fills the pond. knew by this time. When the tide is on the ebb tlie doors automatically close and the SOMETHING water Is prevented from flowing out of the pond except through the turbines of the mllL Go to East Bootlibay, Maine, to3 day, and you can see the mill which Caleb Ilodgdon built and hitched to the moon. p water-whee- Double Meaning i TT FIRST appeared in a Ihliadel- phla newspaper In 1776 thus: Hark! hark! the trumpet sounds, the din of war's alarms, Oer seas and solid grounds, doth call us all to arms; Who for King George doth stand, their honors soon shall shine; Their ruin Is at hand, who with the Congress Join. The sets of Parliament, In them I much delight, I hate their cursed Intent, who for the Congress fight, The Tones of the day, they are my daily toast, They soon will sneak away, who Independence boast; Who hold, they have my hand and heart. May they for slaves be sold, who act a Whiggish part; On Mansfield, North, and Bute, may dally blessings pour. Confusion and dispute, on Congress evermore; To North and British lord, may honors still be done, 1 wish a block or cord, to General Washington. It was reprinted In many other Colonial newspapers. Thats finer' said British army officers and Tory officials. The man who wrote that Is certainly loyal to His Majesty. If any Patriot heard one of them say that, he must have smiled to himself. For if he was in the know," he didnt read the poem as it Is printed above. He read each line as far as the comma in tlie middle, then he read the next line the same way and so on. Or he began reading at the comma in the first line, then dropped down to the comma in the next and so on. That gave the poem a very different meaning indeed. Try it and see for yourself why the Patriots read it that way! Weary I at de age read de odder day dat a man has taken in 95 tons of feed. Dat would be a Happy Ah! grand life's work to point ter. of sixty-fiv- e SLOW COLLECTIONS "Im sick and tired of running after you with this bill. Try walking, old chap. GOOD JUDGMENT Mad Poet of the most beautiful passages in all American literature is these lines : ONE often-quote- d Now twilight lets her curtain down, And pins it with a star. They were written by McDonald who died Clarke, the "Mad-Poe- t in the lunatic asylum on Blackwells Island, New York city. Characteristic of his gift of combining the ridiculous with the sublime was the poem which he wrote about George Washington; Sunday School Teacher Do you love your enemies, Jimmy? Jimmy I try to, when they are bigger than I am. INFORMATION Eternity give him elbow room; A spirit like his Is large; Earth, fence with artillery his tomb. And fire a double charge To the memory of Americas greatest man; Match him, posterity. If you can. Western Newspaper Union. Mushrooms and Toadstools There is an ancient fallacy that a toadstool Is a poisonous mushroom. All mushrooms that have an nmbrella-likcap are roughly classed as toadstools. Another old rule was to eat the mushroom; if it caused death it was poisonons. Outdoor Indiana warns that it never is safe to collect mushrooms in the button stage because until they have opened It is not always possible to classify them. Other advice Is: Never use specimens that are decomposed in the slightest degree. Never use those In which insects have burrowed. Never use fungi with swollen bases surrounded by sacllke or scaly envelopes. Never use fungi with milky Juice unless the juice has a red color. Never use for food fungi in which the flesh changes color when cut or broken, nor those with red tubes. Indianapolis Newt. e tube-bearin-g "I see you took the pretty girl i to the conservatory. Did you pr pose? "No; we both kind of got co feet. There was a married coup in there having a family talk. POWDER PUFFING Mary (boasting) My complexion Is my own. Helen Where do you get that stuff! |