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Show FrlJiy, December S, 1957 THE BULLETIN Highland Stake Basketball Thursday,' Egdehill Gym The Highland Stake M" Men will December 23 play each Thursday evening as pre7:30 Wasatch vs. Highland Park viously announced at the Fxlgehlll 8.30 Emerson vs. Parleys Oyiu, 15th East and Blaine Avenuo. 9:30 Stratford vs. Sugar House The following is a complete schedule Bye Edgehill of the first half. December B Junuary 6 vs. Parleys 7:30 Parleys v. Edgehill 8:30 Highland Park vs. Edgehill 8:30 Wasatch vs. Sugar House 9:30 Emerson vs. Wasatch 9:30 Emerson vs. Highland Park Bye Stratford Bye Sugar House 7:30-Stratfo- rd t December 10 There will also be a game at 6:30 7.30 Stratford vs. Emerson each week. The teams playing this 8:30 Sugar House vs. Edgehill 9:30 Highland Park vs. Parleys game will be announced the week before. Bye Wasatch (Continued from beautiful 1938 Western Air Patrol radios for the home, which have alst aliments. The articles thus chosen ready proved to be sensational radio will be set aside so that the pur- values and the nationally famous chaser may call for them the day be- Motorola car radio, the latest in mo- Pago 1) fore Christmas.'' A particular advantage of the y plan, Ur. Hallldgy points out, Is that gifts may be chosen before the heavy shopping season reduces the wide selection that Is now available. Another feature of Western Auto's Plan la that one's problems will be practically solved If he gives something for the car, according to the Western Auto o an, for In the wide choice of articles offered by this Plan ere articles which will please the whole family. i a "Among these," he adds, are the Lay-Awa- Lay-Aw- ay what-to-gi- Lay-Aw- ve ay Early Use ot Osage Orange In the early days farmers turned to osage orange for wood to make fellowea (or rims) of wagon wheels. Pioneer wives used to make a yellow dye from the wood of the tree, while a tanning mixture can be made from the bark. Indians used the osage as wood for their bows. The tree was called Bois dArc (wood of the bow) by the French in the South. So valuable was an osage bow that sometimes a horse and a blanket represented the price of a good one of excellent grain and finish. ! Historic Nyon Nyon is picturesquely situated on the lake of Geneva, Switzerland. It is a very ancient little town, for it was founded by the Romans in 46 B. C. The chateau, which forms Nyons crowning diadem, was first heard of in 1289, but the main part of the building dates from the end of the Sixteenth century. Ambergris for Tea Much of the worlds ambergris is washed up on the Tanaland coast of Kenya Protectorate, Africa. It is ejected by the Cachalot whale, whose habitat is far from here. Its value in perfume is very high, averaging $25 per ounce. The wealthy Arabs of Morocco use it to flavor their tea. "Grapevine Telegraph The "grapevine telegraph is, in origin, a picturesque brother of the "underground railway. According to the dictionary the phrase was coined during the Civil war. As the underground railway was a secret and guarded means of sending slaves from the South to freedom, so the grapevine telegraph was any devious or covered means by which rews or rumor traveled by private letter, by word of mouth, and so on. Communication was not well organised, and there were many false war reports afloat, reports not to be easily and speedily silenced. Tales and canards of mysterious origin were said to have come "by The dictiongrapevine telegraph. ary still seeks to limit the use of the term to mysterious rumors and fabricated reports. But by extension "the grapevine route is any means of communication which is not easily detected or which is able to smuggle its messages past barriers intended to keep them out. Zoo Calendar If you ask a Kirghiz his age he may reply, "I was born In the yc;r of the Dog, rounds, and have lived five for lhe:e i.un.ad tribes of r Cerecr.t know rentiof our Western calendar. They have a system of Ikoir cwn, dividing time into "rounds, consisting of 12 of our years. Each round is Mongol-Ta- rt ng subdivided into 12 parts named after an animal. Hence you will hear of "the year of the Snake, "the year of the Horse, or "the yeas of the Bear. '.Marten Steals Its Nest According to Louis Figuier, the naturalist, the pine marten, now rare in most sections, lives in the densest of orests. When the female is on the point of giving birth to her young, she looks out for a squirrel's nest, and having surprised and devoured the proprietor, installs herself therein. toring entertainment, with controls to fit the instrument panels of even the new 1938 cars. Other articles which make delightful gifts such as automobile tires and bicycles are Included In this convenient plan for buying Christmas gifts. Investigation of the Purchase Plan la Invited by the Western Auto manager, who adds that courteous salesman will be glad to xplaln the plan and make Immediate arrangements for 'the Installment payments. gifts at Western Auto and make a small initial payment, the balance being spread out in convenient ln- Lay-Aw- "Mow rwi URGE RESEARCH TO Lights of New York by L. L. STEVENSON Old Is Ann?' Gave Puzzle Sharks a Problem The question, "How old is Ann? refers to an old mathematical problem which had a wide vogue at the beginning of the Twentieth century. On October 12, 1903, the New York Press, in its column "On the Tip of the Tongue, printed the following letter submitted by a correspondent who signed himself John Mahon and gave his residence as Brooklyn: years old. "Mary is twenty-fou- r She isa twice as old as Ann was when she was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann now? A says the answer is sixteen; B says twelve. Which is correct? Mark Sullivan, in Our Times, says that this letter started people sharpening pencils over the entire country, and for half a dozen years remained a subject of dispute and The imperfect means of pastime. manner in which the problem was stated (both the answers given were incorrect) not only confused those attempting to solve it, but also contributed to the fascination of the task. Several persons, it was reported, went insane trying to find out how old Ann was. All sorts of Ann problems (some of them entirely new and some of them merely modifications of the original) were published for the amusement of the public. From what source the writer of the letter printed in the New York Press obtained the original problem is not known. That it antedates 1903, in one form or another, is probable. Some people have attributed the original Ann problem to Sam Loyd, an inventor of puzbut there is zles and no evidence to support the claim. The problem as stated in the paper presents no particular mathematical difficulties and is readily solved by algebra. The answer is that Ann is eighteen years of age, says a writer in the Indianapolis News. brain-twister- s, CUREJMARINE ILLS Hope to Recapture Glories of n The new vehicular tunnel under the Hudson, which wjll link New York and Weehawken, N. J., and is to be opened just before Christmas, is 8,218 feet frqm entrance to entrance. Four thousand six hundred feet of its length are under the river, and in the center the tube is 75 feet below the river bottom. There will be twin traffic lanes on a roadway 22 Vi feet in width. For four years men have been toiling on the ground and beneath the surface of the river. Experience gained in building the Holland tunnel, and pioneer vehicular Hudson river bore, has proved of great value. Accidents have been comparatively few and construction has proceeded steadily. Three years from now, the second tube, lying north of the one almost ready, will be completed. Then each tube, as is the case in the Holland tunnel, y will carry traffic. The total cost of the project is estimated at In addition, $10,000,000 $74,800,000. has been expended on the Jersey side to build a depressed connecting highway through the Palisades. ay AMERICA LEADS IN Clipper Era. mid-tow- one-wa- Another great aid to traffic was the recent opening of the West Side Express highway continuation from Seventy-secon- d almost to Dyckman street. It is now possible to travel from Canal street to Dyckman with no cross traffic and at a higher and safer rate, of speed than ever before was possible. The new highway, really a second and high speed Riverside drive, connects with the Hendrik Hudson highway, opened last year, which in turn connects with the Westchester parkway system. And thats a boon for New York motorists who, under the stop and go system, have grown gray hairs before getting out of town. The new highway is part ot the general improvement of the Hudson river waterfront which was begun several years ago and is rapidly nearing completion. Under the new plan, land worth many millions has been created by fills, and this new land has been turned into parks and playgrounds. The tracks of the New York Central railroad have- been roofed over and access to the river front made much easier. Also various unsightly commercial phases of the river front have been eliminated. In time, possibly, adequate measures will be taken to eliminate the pollution of the Hudson. Then residents of New York will get full enjoyment of the majestic river. - Wilmington, Del. Development of new materials for use in ship construction will make today's modern liners appear hopelessly antiquated in a tew years, according to Dr. Ernest B. Benger, research chemist "It is inevitable that the revolution under way in land transportation, precipitated by superior structural metals and power units will not stop where the land meets water, he said. "The elements of change that introduced the faster, lighter, rustless, streamlined train that are relegating standard car to the the scrap, that changed the automobile from a rich .man's equipage to the average mans necessity, and today are causing aviation engineers to think in terms of continents and oceans and toads these elements of change are also going to give us ships faster, lighter, stronger, safer and infinitely more economical in operation. Dr. Benger said that if three per cent of the gross revenues of the United States merchant marine from foreign trade estimated at $200,000,000 by the maritime commission were spent for research by chemical industry, a battery of laboratories could be established, for research on a scale now unknown in shipping. "Intelligently applied research, on a scale justified by the size and importance of our foreign shipping industry, would provide the cure for the ills of our merchant marine, the research chemist said. Dr. Benger recalled that for more than a generation before the Civil war the American clipper ship was supreme on the world's trade routes, with 90 per cent of Americas ocean commerce carried in American vessels. He pictured a possible return to that supremacy with the aid of science. "Among the more than 10,000 new metal alloys, the new plating procand the esses of the host of other materials of chemical origin now available, plus the newest developments in power units surely in this vast field of new things, as yet largely unexplored, can be found the stuff out of which commercial supremacy at sea mry be fashioned, he said. so-call- 100-to- n electro-chemi- st Missing Link Found in Cave Near Salt Lake Washington. The discovery of an American missing link in a cave near Great Salt lake was announced recently by Dr. Julian H. Stewart, Smithsonian institution archeologist. The skeleton may be the oldest ever found on this continent. Dr. Stewart said. The remains were those of an infant whose body was buried in the cave from 5,000 to years ago, he said. The skeleton is a true "missing link in that it fills a blank in the history of America about which archeologists previously have always had to guess. It represents a culture between the basket makers, the last peoples of which science has a fairly complete picture, and Folsom men. the Folsom men; the oldest known Americans, are noted for their d arrow heads. unique These early Americans lived near the Great Salt lake where the last Ice age cut caves ir. the banks. The cave in which the skeleton was found is now 384 feet above the . lake level. This gave scientists their Going back to traffic. The open- most valid clues in computing the ing of the new tunnel, which starts age of the child. at Tenth avenue and Thirty-nint- h street on the New York side and goes over to Weehawken, N. J., will Survey Reveals Mental throw a heavily augmented traffic Gains Made in Teens section. burden on the Mo. Mental growth of St. Louis, is That problem highly complicated by parked cars. Just what to do children proceeds without diminun is some- tion until the individual is fifteen or about parking in then continues at thing that is worrying experts. sixteen years old, to the age of twenty rate a lesser up been have meters suggestParking according to a sured not only as a means of revenue, or twenty-one- , but as a means of lessening the vey of several hundred children number of parked cars. Nothing made by Dr. Frank N. Freeman, has been done about the matter professor of educational psychology of yet. Maybe with the new officials at the University in aChicago. lecture here, Dr. Freeman, something will happen to bring about said the results of the survey, in some relief. which he gave each child an intelliC Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. gence test annually on his birthday over a period of nine years, conBones of Mastodon May tradicted the theory generally acSend Boy to University cepted among psychologists that Ann Arbor, Mich.1 The bones of mental growth ceases at about thira prehistoric mastodon, dead at teen and years. least 25,000 years, may help to send Dr. Freeman pointed out that farm lad to the Univer- mental growth, as understood by an next year. of Michigan sity psychologists, is not to be confused Fossil remains of what Dr. George with educational advancement in M. Ehlers of the university mu- the individual. seum of paleontology considers the oldest mastodon specimen ever disFortress ; covered in this state were found Buys Flying for.a Luxury Airplane near the Hughes farm at Assyria Center, 20 miles northeast of Battle San Francisco, Calif. Captain Creek. Because the bones were George Whittell, Woodside millionfound close to an adjoining farm, aire sportsman, soon will fly one Mr. Hughes called a lawyer from of the largest privately owned airHastings to establish ownership. Tiie planes in the world. lawyer in turn notified University of He has ordered the Boeing AirMichigan experts, who unearthed plane company of Seattle to build and wired the bones. him one of their huge When the members of the musemonoplanes, similar to the um stall reached the scene, a sign "flying fortress recently completed ten cents a for the United States army. Mastodon reading had been erected by Mr. look 0 The plane will cost between Hughes. One days receipts had aland $400,000. Instead of maready totaled $73. chine guns and bomb racks, it will Mr. Hughes hopes to sell the fos- contain luxurious lounges, bedsil to a musrum and send his son rooms, a kitchen .'and dining room Robert to tl i' iversity next year as well as sleeping quarters for a with the proceeds. crew of five. Since Grants tomb is a prominent feature of Riverside drive, something concerning that great structure at the Drive and One Hundred Twenty-thir- d street, may not be out of place at this point. Grant's tomb was dedicated April 27, 1897. It was not entirely completed, but that date marked the seventy-fift- h anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant. So work was stopped and the ceremonies held. The suspended work was never resumed. Now comes word that after 40 years, the original plans will be carried out and completed in time for the Worlds fair. With world conditions as they are today, the words over the portico have much significance. They are, Let us have peace. They were the conclusion of General Grants letter of May 29, 1868, in which Jie accepted the nomination for the presidency and expressed his earnest desire for reconciliation between North and South. 12,-0- 00 so-call- . double-chippe- mid-tow- n mid-tow- Sir Edmund Andros Was Able Colonial Governor Sir Edmund Andros was born on the island of Guernsey, in the Channel islands, on December 6, 1637, and died in London in February, 1714. His family belonged to the feudal aristocracy of that island. As a friend of the duke of York, he came to New York as governor in 1674, remaining there until 1681. Five years later, says a writer in the Detroit News, he returned to the colonies, to carry out James IPs idea of consolidating the New England colonies into one royal province. When they heard of the landing of William of Orange in England irt 1689, the people of Boston rose and seized the royal officers, including Andros himself. He was returned to England for trial but acquitted, and in 1092 was appointed governor of Virginia, where for five years he had considerable success. From 1704 to 1708 he was lieutenant-governo- r of Guernsey. "The Dictionary of American Biography states that "Though not popular with advocates of democratic government, nevertheless, he was one of the ablest English colonial governors of the Seventeenth century. He was essentially a soldier, and where soldierly qualities were needed his rule was excellent ; but he lacked understanding of business aflairs and of Puritan psychology. That England valued his services is shown by his long years in office and his appointment to difficult posts. , one-ha- lf up-sta- te four-motor- $300,-00- . "SINGING TOWERS" Has More Carillons in Service Than Any Other Country. Critzy Belle Frocks -- Washington, D. C. Add "memory bells to Poe's poetic list of sleigh bells, wedding bells, funeral bells, in Sugarhouse alarum bells, and assorted tintinnabulations. Completion of the Now Sold At Northcott Memorial singing tower in inone more add will Va., Luray, stance of a memorial function in the United States for mass which all began back irt the Netherlands as alarm and time signals. "The Luray carillon is the second In Virginia, the other being a World 1105C E. 21st So. Hy. 5051 war memorial in. Richmond. It starts the New world on the second a half of a hundred of these Old world singing towers whose voices arebells," says the National Geographic society. "Now the United States has more complete carillons in use than any other country. In Belgium and the Presents g Netherlands, where medieval on a large scale grew up to be the worlds weightiest musical instrument, the carillon, a number of singing towers have tost their voices because of war, lightning, or age. " Chris tmas-car- d style of riotously swinging bells has no place in these modern carillons. Each bell hangs dead,' bolted motionless in place. We Make the World Brighter Its tethered tongue is poised by For Xmas bell lip, wires near the ready to bong forth its one musical note in response to the cariltoneur's tug on the wires via a keyboard. Largest Singing Bell. "All American carillons, as opposed to that more primitive form of bell music, the chimes, have at least 23 bells of graduated size. Chimes may have from four to a dozen tones, and lack the more precise tuning of carillon bells. Small ..Wo have a large assortbells, sometimes in pairs for double volume, take care of high tinkling of rebuilt bicycles, ment notes; and large ones running into neatly painted. real tonnage took after the heavy booming. Of Lurays 47 bells, the smallest soprano weighs 10 pounds, and Up the big bass four tons. A real gibass in ant, however, is the New York city, probably the largVelocidedes and Toys est 'singing bell in the world. "The United States now has the Repaired largest carillons in the world. Average number in the battalion of bells composing the American carillon is about 42. But the Riverside church in New York city has 72 bells to shower their ringing notes down into the nearby canyons of 1113 E. 21st So. Hy. 8596 apartment houses whenever traffic lulls permit audibility. The same number of bells peal across the campus of the University of Chicago. One less is contained in the bell GYPSIES NOW ROAM chorus of the Bok singing tower of Mountain Lake, Fla., where conIN CARS, TRAILERS certs float down from the sky to drown out bird songs of the sursanctuary. rounding wild-lif- e Old Customs of Nomads "Next in number to these three Otherwise Unchanged. mammoth bell regiments is the Richmond carillon, with 68 bronze St. Louis, Mo. Gypsies travel in throats to join in the mechanical but resong. Also numbering over 60 bells modem cars and trailers, and cusheirlooms their tain tribal are the carillons of Cranbrook, Mich.; the Methodist church tower toms, according to William Farley, of Philadelphia; the Scottish Rite eighteen, who has. returned home cathedral of Indianapolis; and the after two years of wandering with Trinity church of Springfield, Mass. a band of English gypsies. Farley became acquainted with Massachusetts Leads. Joe Stanley of a typsy family while "Massachusetts is the 'ringingest working in Springfield, Mo. The state in the Union, with seven caril- youth joined the tribe and followed lons, according to the most comit for two years. plete bell census. The first in the "The gypsies in this country are nation, the singing tower of the divided into Inchurch of Our Lady of Good Voyage clude the four families. They Irish Rumanians, Turks, in Gloucester, still rings out the deand the English. The people I lived parting fisherman and rings in his with belonged the English. All return. In addition to the giant members of thistotribe have the surcarillon, Springfield has a smaller name , Farley explained. Stanley of bells Hillcrest. The at platoon The band of Stanleys with which academic air of Andover resounds with the chiming melodies of Phil- Farley was associated numberede, John Stanley, seventy-fivtwenty-fivlips academy carillon. Cohasset, was the leader and his word, and Norwood also have Wellesley, was law. singing towers. . Fortune Telling Is "Dukkering. "Like Andover, which had the The gypsies traveled from town first school carillon, and Wellesley, some of the other institutions with to town, stopping two or three days bell songs to speed the parting study in each. The women earned what hour are Princeton, the University money they could by dukkering, of Michigan, and the University of that is, telling fortunes. The men went from house to house repairing Wisconsin; Duke university at Durham, N. C.; the Mercersburg acad- furnaces and stoves. emy of Mercersburg, Pa.; Trinity The average "take for each of college, in Hartford, Conn.; and the older men was $15 a day. The the school in Nash- women brought in slightly less. ville, Tenn. The Iowa State AgriThe cars in which travel are cultural college of Ames, Iowa, has paid for outright. they converted an old set of chimes into Washington, D. C., is the site of a carillon. Small Alfred university, the annual family gathering. All of Alfred, N. Y., has assembled a branches of the tribe there set of fine old bells from Seven- every fall and spend gather two weeks teenth and Eighteenth century carilgames, gossiping and inlons of the Netherlands. The State playing dulging in general amusement. Agricultural college in Storrs, Conn., In the. event that a branch of the has a cariltoni housed in a local family has had n bad year financhurch spire. cially, each division of the family A carillon in a hospital is an unwill contribute to its relief. usual feature of Rochester, Minn. Like Gangster Movies. They follow the birds south in the most of them heading for Texfall, Hint to Housewives: as. Playing cards and attending gangster movies are the usual diverDoggy Dish for Dad sions during the winter months. West Orange, N. J. The board Ancient heirlooms such as rugs, of health calmed the fears of a and jewelry are kept by each shawls housewife who called for help of the family and are handbranch after giving her husband their down ed from generation to gendogs breakfast. "I gave our dog chopped meat, eration as wedding gifts. Gypsies have so strong a liking which I was going to make into for gold that they often paid $11 for exfor she my husband, patties A $10 gold piece when the yellow plained, "and gave my husband was in circulation. The wommoney made of canned dog patties en take care of the money, and it food. is not an uncommon sight to see Told that no harm had been coins of many different nations gold she was done, relieved, and said in their possession. that neither her husband nor the The favorite outdoor sports of gypdog seemed to have noticed the sies are high jumping and broad error. jumping. f Formerly Made bell-ringin- Aftons Gift g Shop THE PAINT POT clock-strikin- Practical Gifts For All Hy. 8739 out-curvi- Give Him a BICYCLE 20-to- $1000 n Phil & Joes e. . Ward-Belmo- nt - |
