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Show I THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH congestion is not a major problem. Until a few years ago horse were unknown to the Islanders. One story has It that when an old woman saw an Englishman ride one up the hills, she dropped dead from the shock of what she believed was a supernatural Votes Repairs For Helgoland German Returns Mascot Flag creature. Most of Helgolands few more than two thousand Inhabitants live In two little towns, Unterlaml, located on the of Versailles, Helgoland again preGermany Still Considers Its sents beach at the southeastern end ihe appearance of a peaceful sandy One-Tim- e of the Oberland, nearly Gibraltar little island rather than a heavily 200 feet island, and above, oft the edge of the armored North Gibrultar.' sea And Valuable Asset. cliffs. The two villages are connected I again the old verse of ancient uiarl-uey- s tiy more than 170 wooden stairs and aptly describes it: a lift. Fairies were once supposed to Washington. That Helgoland, Germanys northwestern outpost of de- Gron lurk above the great staircase thut Is flat Land, fense during the World war, is still Hood (green) mounted the rocky heights. When a (red) la do Kant (rock), Witt (white) is de Sand. considered a valuable asset, Is indiwas horn Its feet were buttered baby cated by .the recent appropriation of Dat la de Flugg vun't hllliga Land. promptly so thut the child would $000,000 for the construction of breakslip through the fingers of a fairy From its predominant natural colwaters to protect tlie Island at its ors, took the red, white and who might try to exchange It for the Helgoland most exposed parts, says a bulletin for Its flag and for its curious fairys babe. from the Washington headquarters of green Helgolands principal time con postage stamps. The colors were also the National Geographic society. exploited In house painting and even sumers are fishing and accommodatContinual North sea storms and In womens ing bathers who flock to the sand wearing apparel. An American flag taken from I lie Pass ot lialmahu when it was seized tidal waves have been slowly tearing by the Germans, eventually to becoUM "In the Fifteenth and Sixteenth cen- dunes just off the island. Thousands the mascot for Count Luckners raider, was returned to the owner recently In New York by Count Luekner. uway large stretches of the rocky turies Helgoland was a center of of people from the continent visit cliffs, the bulletin continues. LateNorth sea herring fisheries. Then the Helgoland during the summer months ly the destruction has been so proveered hack to Scotlands to bathe In the cool North sea nounced that the electric power plant herring coast and the Islanders handed down end water works have been removed a tale of the impiety by which they ? , I farther inland for safety. P forfeited the boon. Yearly they would : FOREST WEEK SET i ii i "Passed around from one nation to form a procession to march about the another ever, since It lost its dis- island to Invoke the coming of the tinction In the Fourteenth century as fisli. One spring when they had gone one of the tiniest European republics, but half the route, the herring were came Helgoland under 'the German Sighted. They abandoned the' rite and flag in 1800 after Kaiser Wilhelm II look to their boats. The herring left, handed the Island of Zanzibar, off the and never returned. cast coast of Africa, to England. No Traffic Problem. Zanzibar is more than three thou eand times larger than Helgoland and One can walk around the edge of far more productive. The German peo-- . Helgoland in half en hour, therefore I,(t branded the transaction as a there is little need for modern trans trade of a whole suit of clothing for portalion facilities. Although many a button. They knew Helgoland was of the streets are only from six to merely a flat rock, shaped like a pork twelve feet wide, this is one of the few places in the world that traffic chop, jutting out of the North sea about forty miles off the mouth of ihp Elbe and Weser rivers and tlmt noth1 I 1 H-l- -l ing grew there but a little gross, a 'M l D few potatoes, fewer sheep, and a race 1! Enforce Politeness Prominent officials of the Amerlcuu Legion called on the President recently to outline plans for the pilgrimage f people who would not voluntarily in to France. In the group are General Pershing, National Commander assimilate with any other race. They Savage, President Coolidge and officials of Manila Traffic Force ; the army and Legion. also knew that as a taxable entity, Manila. Traffic policemen the Island was a failure. Even the 1 here do not razz offending mo- fisheries, Helgoland's main source of torists. existence, had fallen off. Dorc.hy Brail, of the American Tree They are instructed by Chief association, with one of the forestry Resented by Natives. of Iolice John Green, an Ameriprimers distributed by the association. can, that it is their duty to keep "The Island had not been German The week of April 24 has been set as traffic moving, but that beratvery long before forts -- were under American Forest week. The associaing offending autoists is not 'one construction. The Ilelgolanders didn't tion lias distributed 800,000 copies of of their functions. Consequent.like that, nor did they like the enthe booklet, written by Charles ly, minor offenders are halted forced military service of their sons'. Pack, among the schools of the and given a short, kindly talk." They felt that Germanys fights were country. More serious offenders say not theirs. German police and German "good mornlug to a judge. regulations were also unpopular, but Wood With Two Wooden Traffic moves more by precegreatest of all offenses against the dent than by regulation, but it dignity of this handful of humanity Legs Fined for Speeding is only the new arrival, usually was the 'crumbling of the beloved Calif. The crooked man Ukiah, an American, who becomes Imcliffs of their world by the explosion Mother of Goose fame found a worthy Is of large guns during target practice. Precedent based on patient. second in a man named Wood, who custom and, in turn, custom is The peaceful fisher folk showed to the stepped on the gas on a wooden 'world their dislike for German millargely based on the laws of nanear Hoplnnd and, although he bridge ture. itaristic domination in 1921 when they had two wooden legs, was making 51 Hut the natives are not impasent u petition to the League of Namiles an hour when overhauled by tient and the nattily dressed tions asking for neutralization or reOfficer When taken before Ryder. : traffic officers annexation to Great Britain. keep things movClendenln at Hopland he gave Judge with a seldom traffic the ing Jam. enforced removal of The only automatic radio receiving set In the world has been designed mid .... .SIne his name as E. A. Wood and his resiput into operation at the United the fortifications under the Treaty -dence as Oakland. He paid a $10 fine. States bureau of standards In Washington. It operates without aid of human hands and Is capable of tuning I 'H twelve different stations, some of them being European stations. Dr. L. W. Austin,- head of the special radio transmission research laboratory. I shown In the photograph. Legion Officials See President f v 'p kiLi . 1 1 Automatic Radio Receiving Set 1 I -- La-thr- . mi n n New York State Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt H-l-I- -M - NEW ENVOY ARRIVES First Lady Opens Flower Show An especially posed portrait of I)r. Mrs. Coolidge recently opened the Washington II. Van Itoyen, the newly appointed amaryllis show at the minister from the Netherlands to the Department of Agriculture. With her Is Mrs.' Jardlne, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture. United States. lirJ aJJ,n WesriUrvemySSJ 1,16 Ae?C RED BUG PROVES TO BE MOST ANNOYING TO U. S. MARINES - Leathernecks and of their time smothered from head to foot with kerosene, which not only kills the red bugsbut keeps the mosquitoes away. When a red bug alights on the skin P.ragmans Bluff. Nicaragua. The tropical cootie, the red bug, Is fifty It Is Invisible. But It soon bores Its times more annoying than the cootie way In. sucking blood while it does with which the United States troops so and becoming red and visible. By had to contend while overseas dur- this time the skin Itches vigorously ing the World war. according to the and there Is a large lump' visible, marines and bluejackets who are enwith the red bug at the bottom of camped here enforcing the neutral it Scratching is the only way to zone. get the little pest out, and, even were The red bug Is a tiny species of he not In there, the victim cu!d not tick, about the size of a pin head. It resist scratching, the itching being is colorless and lives In the grass. worse than smallpox. Scratching reWhole nests of the pests attach themmoves I he parasite, but leaves an itchselves to human beings who are so ing, bleeding sore that Is bothersome unfortunate as to brush against them. for several days. The wind, too, which blows in strong While the marines do not hesitate gushes here, carries them. to curse the red bugs, they take them Marines here are bothered by red good uaturedly, as they do everything hugs during the daytime and by moselse. On the bulletin board outside quitoes at night, so they spend most one of the tents where the marines Bluejackets Nicaragua Fight Tropical Cooties With Kerosene. In NEWEST DIPLOMAT Centra. are encamped appeared a sign announcing that a five dollar prize would be given for the best limerick on the red bug. The more literary marines at once got busy with pencil and paper. Thl3 is the limerick that won the prize: Capitalizing a Handicap . j Mary Welser of Newark, who Is working at a machine for testing radio tuhes at the rate of 30,000 a day. At this machine a girl Is forced to work and when Mary was found, she was given the Job. left-hande- ' detestable bug I the fed Far more esteemed as fe deadbug. bug. He alights on your skin And bores his way In, Not remaining ouislde lika the bed bug A Eats Forty-thre- e Eggs at One Sitting ; Butler, Pa. A new claimant for the championship was announced in the pet son of Claude Kennedy, twenty seven. of Butler, an employee of a cur- building company. Kennedy claims to have eaten 43 eggs at one sitting the other night, the eggs being supplied by a .South ; ; j egg-eatin- Main " ! 11 11 i 1 M-i-- T mi H-H- 'P 1 Harold i). McKenzie of Trenton, has been appointed minister to Slam. N. street market. ij J who SlSl8i! |