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Show Friday, April THE BULLETIN 29. 1938 ADOPTED AS FATHER VESUVIUS STILL BY INDIAN PRIEST IS' TREES SHOOTING UP MENACE TO POMPEII IN ARID SECTION Laundry - Volcano May Undo cf Archeologists. Evanston, 111. Although he is years old, Dr. Wionly thiuy-on- e llard Z. Park, of the department of and anthropology t at sociology Northwestern university, is the adopted father of a Colombian Indian priest. Dr. Park spent last summer on a Washington, D. C. Mount Vesuvius has been in eruption again, and although the outburst did no damage to the surrounding counlava and illumitryside, its red-hnation of the sky served as a reminder that the volcano is still a potential menace. It may yet undo all the work of archeologists at Pompeii. "Destroyed by Vesuvius on August 24, 79 A. D., and covered more deeply by subsequent eruptions, Pompeii remained buried and forgotten for centuries," says the National Geographic society. "Its ruins were discovered by accident in 1594 during the tunneling for an aqueduct. Life in First Century. "Extensive digging was begun in 1748, but chiefly to recover and sell art objects. Not until 1860 was any attempt made to preserve for the future tl;e citys valuable revelations of life in the First century. In the newer excavations, pieces of furniture, sculpture, and household utensils are being left for exhibition jn the houses where they were found. "Formerly such treasures' were carried off to the National museum in Naples. This museum furnishes for the exan excellent cavations themselves. It presents a fascinating picture of the daily life of Pompeii nearly 1,900 years ago a city destroyed, but at the same time preserved by ashes and cinders from flaming Vesuvius. On display are charred loaves of bread, wine and oil jars, and surgical instruments in use among Pompeians when the eruption stopped them in their tracks. "Fifteen miles from Naples, Pompeii lies about a mile from the foot vold of the smoking, cano. Visitors usually receive two surprises. Expecting to sae only a few ruined houses, they are unprepared for the many . buildings which are closely built for block after city block. Pompeii is almost two miles in circumference. At the time of its burial, it was not only a flourishing commercial center, but a fashionable resort for wealthy Romans. Cicero had a villa there. It had a population of between twenty and thirty thousand. Approximately 2,000 Pompeians perished in the catastrophe. Lived Mueh in Publie. "Most of the houses are roofless, their roofs having been crushed in by the weight of the volcanic stones, or having been salvaged as building material by returning survivors soon after the eruption of 79 A. D. Many of the walls are still standing, however. Frescoes on some of them, are almost as fresh as if painted yesterday instead of nineteen centuries ago. "The second surprise one receives is that the houses seem so small. That is because Pompeians lived the greater part of their lives in public: out of doors, in gardens and open air theaters, indoors in temples and baths. Preferring the public baths, few people had private ones in their homes. "A typical home had only one story, or rarely, a low second story in which slaves slept. Its small bedrooms, store rooms, and larger reception rooms opened from a central hall, which provided light and air through an opening in its roof. At the back of the house, colonnaded rooms enclosed a garden. One of the best .'preserved Pompeian homes is the house cf the Vettii. Its red and black frescoes include the famous cupids at work and play, reproduced on th: postcards usually sent from Tom-pei- ld THEY DO BREAK! Heavy winds, hoys hast-lmnce in a while craiJi the win low. Dont Worry! Just Call Hyland 928 SUGAR GLASS COMPANY 2023 South 11th East reconnaissance expedition among the primitive Kagaba villages in the Santa Marta mountains in northern Colombia, laying the groundwork for a year of intensive study of the social, political and economic organization of the Kagaba. IPs trip was sponsored and financed by the social science research council of the university. While in the Santa Marta mountains, the anthropologist visited Mocotama, a sacred place, where alonly priests of the Kagaba are lowed to live. Arriving on mule-bacDr. Park discovered one of the high priests in great agony with stomach ache after having eaten too much raw plantain, a native food of the banana family. Priest Is Grateful. The ranking priest of Mocotama had already tried several times to effect a cure for his ailing colleague, with no success. The Northwestern university anthropologist was prepared to meet the situation. He offered the priest a good stiff dose of k, Buy Only GOOD COAL Call Hyland 2520 CASTLE GATE B BLUE BLAZE B ABERDEEN D KING COAL long-sufferi- castor oil. Agents for Sentinel Stukera & Prepared Stoker Coal LOBB'S on the JOB SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. Highland Drive C101 Ily, 2,120 So grateful was the relieved pripst that he asked for the privilege of adopting Dr. Park into his family. "But," he explained in Spanish, "I cannot adopt you as my son, since we can only adopt as son those You have whom we can teach. will adopt I me. Therefore taught you as father." The priest, whose adopted father he is now, will be a valuable friend. Dr. Park explained, when he returns to Colombia for intensive field The work among the Kagaba. priest has already prepared a house for Dr. and Mrs. Park to live in, and his wife is hard at work sewd bags which will ing be presented to the anthropologist. Treacherous Going. Dr. Parks expedition last summer was made for the purpose of establishing contacts in the villages, and beginning an intensive historical study of the area. Most of the Kagaba villages are thousands of feet above sea level and can be reached only by pack train through narrow mountain passes and across swift, treacherous rivers. Archeological remains along the northern coast of Colombia have suggested that before the Spanish conquest in the Sixteenth century, a complex, highly organized civilization existed there. The ancient people possessing this culture are known from early Spanish documents as the Tairona. It is believed that the Kagaba people, who live further inland in the mountains, inhabited the area between the Tairona civilization on the coast and another high civilization along the range of the Andes mountains, even before the Spanish invasion. The purpose of Dr. Park's field work in northern Colombia is to study some of the relationships between the primitive Kagaba and tiie lv.-- ancient civilizations, one to the north and the other to the south. richly-patterne- SPECIAL FOR One Week Only This advertisement and 50c will get your car washed, also complete Grease Job 75c. POLISHING and SIMONIZING Drive Out and Save STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS SERVICE STATION BERNARD II. COOPER, Lessee and Operator 17th South and Main St. Hyland 8323 ,; -- ! Kangaroos Tail Enables Them to Make Lon; Leap If the animal held athletic meets, the kangaioo, that queer native of Australia, would probably hold the titles fur the broad jump, racing and boxing. So unusual is the kangaroo that he really can't be compared with any other animal, asserts a writer in the St. Louis With hind legs over twice the size of his front lugs and a stiff, thick tail almost ns long as his body, he Links very clumsy, but it is these powerful legs and tail that enable the kangaroo to jump from 20 to 20 feet in one bound and to travel so quickly that the fastest hunting dogs can't overtake him. Except occasionally when feeding, the kangaroo doesn't use his front legs for support. He holds an upright position, and when he's resting he curls his stout tail under him and sits on it. He never looks for trouble and will not fight unless he is cornered. His only means of defense is the very long sharp claw in each of his hind feet. When he is in danger of attack he will speed away with springing leaps, but if cornered he will turn and fight desperately. Resting on his tail, he will allow the enemy to attack and then will box with his front paws or hold him while, with swift strokes, he wnmds or kills his victim with his terrible t harp claws. In Austra':i the kangaroos ere constantly banted because they destroy the grazing fields needed for cattle and sheep. Their skins are valuable, and the natives use the tail to make soup. GloLe-Democra- t. ; The Roly Alliance The Holy Alliance was an alliance ostensibly for conserving religion, justice, and peace in F.urope, but used for repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria, and Frederick William III of Prussia, at Paris, on September 20, !15, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns Ct Europe except the I'opc- and the king of Great Britain. It ended after the revolution of 1S3U in France. - Vcrk Increase Rapidly Sc'entist Cures Stomach Ache; Wins Gratitude. Shark Fishing Revived by Medicinal Demands Vancouver, B. C. With further development of the medicinal qualities of sharks' liver oil, a renewed interest has been created in shark fishing on the Pacific coast. Experiments to ascertain definitely the commercial possibilities of this industry on the coast have been conducted by a local fishing firm. A shark fishery was operated here several years ago, and fish were caught for their leather and fertilizer qualities. Sharks brought here weighed as much as two tons and measured from 35 to 50 feet in length. They are comparatively gentle, fishermen said, and reside in the depths, usually burrowing for food in the silt and mud of the bottom 100 to 150 fathoms deep. Pony Express Terminal Offered City as Museum Now that Sacramento, Calif. wires flash messages across the nation in a few seconds, a telegraph company has decided it has no more use for the historic Pony Express terminal here. It has offered the building to the city, of Sacramento as a landmark and museum. Elephants Live on Vegetable Matter Elephants are herbivorous, living on vegetable matter exclusively. The African elephant takes to such coarse stuff as bark, saplings, and tree branches; the Asiatic prefers succulent bamboos, plantains, and figs. They drink by lucking up water in the trunk, then blowing it out into the mouth. Grain is eaten this way also. In the case of baby elephants taking milk, however, they suckle directly into the mouth. The babies are born about three feet tall and weighing several hundred pounds. They are covered with woolly hair like the coat of the preElehistoric woolly mammoth. phants almost never have twins. in Size With Little Care. ot pre-vie- w saddle-shape- i. The buildings may soon be thronged with visitors at night as well as by day. Experiments in floodlighting the ruins are in progress. This illumination is part of Italys program for bringing the 'dead city to life." Tomb Unsealed 60 Days to Humor Man's Phobia Williamsport, Pa. An unsealed tomb in a near-b- y Wildwood cemetery is the silent witness to an amazing story of a man who lived in fear of being buried alive. Inside the weird stone mausoleum, covered only by a blanket, is the body of Thomas Pursell, Williamsport fireman, who passed eighteen months building his tomb so he could escape should he awake after burial. Beside the body is a hammer and two boards, the implements which Pursell will use to gain freedom ii he revives in the next two months. Air circulates thiough the vault by a series of ventilators. If he does not arise within the next sixty days, however, the tomb will be sealed permanently. Rapid Delivery Systems Turn Into a Bomerang Binghamton, N. Y. Trying to save a few steps may cost Harold Unell $1,000. Uncll purchased a can of coffee from a neighborhood store, but instead of carrying it up to an apartment above the grocery, lie threw it up. When it ca- - e Jown, Mrs. Anna was under it. Zazuliak, a p...jci-by- , She brought suit fur $1,000, Dalhart, Texas. Tree planting on the Great Plains should result in a decline in the ravages from wind and dust, Charles van Gorder believes. Van Gorder is forester for an exfor perimental project near DalhartDurthe oil conservation service. ing the three years since the project was originated, at the height of the dust plague, tiny trees have saplings. Of grown into 13,000 trees planted and receiving "minimum care for test purposes, 80 per cent have survived. Survivals range downward from the 94 per cent of the thorny honey locust. One Russian mulberry has grown since 1935 from 18 inches to 11 feet in height. Little Care Required. The high percentages of survivals indicates that trees will live in this semiarid area with a minimum It has of care, said Van Gorder. been shown that trees can be grown into excellent windbreaks within a short time. Suitable planting and a few timely cultivations each year furnish the keynote to successful tree planting in what once was the center of the Dust Bowl." Principal experiments iq use of trees on the plains have been with farmstead and field border windbreaks. The farmstead type usually consists of three rows of trees planted on the north and west sides of a farm home and other buildings to break some saving on fuel in addition to lessening the winds force. Such windbreaks for farm animals also increase their value and make their feeding more profitable. Single Row Breaks Wind. The field border windbreaks are a single row of trees, planted around the edge of a field to reduce drifting of the top soil. Since most wind erosion on the plains is started by loose earth on the fields' edge, the border trees reduce such damage materially. Van Gorder also revealed that the row of trees disrupted the force of straight winds and directed the force upward past the vulnerable portions of the field. Minimum care given the trees consists of digging diversion ditches to concentrate and hold the water from rainfall. Sometimes the water is diverted from roadside ditches. Van Gorder also recommends occasional cultivation of the trees. 12-fo- ot American Rural Women Sew Less, Survey Shows Modern rural Ames, Iowa. America apparently is forsaking the sewing machine as a means of making clothing, just as another generation abandoned the spinning wheel, according to a survey of 1,031 Iowa farm women. The survey, reported by Miss Elizabeth Peterson, clothing specialist, disclosed that 80 per cent of the clothing worn by the farm women was ready-madOnly 40 per cent of all dresses worn were made on the family sewing machine and most of these were cotton house dresses, Miss Peterson said. Only 6 per cent of the coats and 11 per cent of the underwear were homemade, according to the survey. The clothing specialist reported that 62 per cent of all dresses worn were cotton. The same was true for hose, indicating that farm women do not risk hazards of runners and save silk hose for special occasions. The women averaged seven pairs of hose a year, spending only $4 on tiiem. Of an average expenditure of $64 for each of the 1,031 women, $17 was spent for dresses and the same amount for coats. They averaged two or three silk or rayon dresses each, six cotton and one e. wool. An average of $2.33 was allotted annually by each of the women for their "beauty budgets, which in- cluded such items as permanent waves, haircuts and cosmetics. Men Make the Best Tea, Canadian Expert Says Vancouver. F. E. B. Gourlay, chief Canadian commissioner of the market expansion bureau, questions housewives supremacy as tea mak- ers. Gourlay, who was a tea planter in Ceylon before coming to Canada to direct empire marketing operations in the dominion, said that men are more conservative and therefore more likely to follow directions. "They buy differently, too," said As a rule a man doesnt Gourlay. shop. He knows what he wants, buys it and that's that. Iced tea, so popular in North America, is rapidly taking hold in England, he said. SNOW WHITE CLOTHES 1184 East 21st So. AUTO LOANS HANLENS 1185 and INSURANCE South Main St. CONOCO PRODUCTS TRAILERS now on display, the latest in house trailers; also a few used trailers. 1988 ELCAR GOODTEAR TIRES 8 All Cars Greased by System rt MOTOR FINANCE CO. MORGAN We Vulcanize Your Tubes Check-Cha- 2182-218- 3 2Sk START FROM 702 So. Main St. Cars Called For and Delivered Free. Hyland 8457 Was. 6105 Grant Morgan, Mgr. Another gem of Australian legendGreat Horned Owl Named lore was exploded with the true ary The Tiger of the Air. story of how Govetts Leap received Sometimes called the tiger of the air" and the "evil genius of the woods," the great horned own is by nature sullen and savage. If placed in captivity, it never forgives its cap-tor-s and may even be treacherous. In the wild, its food consists of rats, mice and gophers, fish, birds, and even an occasional skunk, it likes to feed oh chickens in settled areas.' To offset this damaging evidence as far as man is concerned, the great horned owl is an avowed enemy of crows and grackles. The crows themselves recoghize this by ganging up on an owl whenever they find one in the woods. The young of this bird sometimes feed on insects. Since the young are said to begin hooting when they are about four months g owls will utold, the ter a screaming cry. When this is heard in the dark, the cry is often puzzling to listeners. disfavor Despite its general among men, the owls deserve high praise in their devotion to eggs and young at nesting time, asserts a writer in the Detroit Free Press. Sometimes, they begin nesting as early as February, when they may be exposed to fierce storms and low temperatures, often for days at a time. It is a marvel how the eggs are kept from freezing in a nest exposed, as it usually is, in the top of a tall, bare tree. Only the most devoted, unswerving attention to duty can save them. In defense of their young, these owls will attack almost any intruders. After spending about a month in the nest, the young begin to fly, but accompany their parents for a time only until they learn to forage for themselves. night-flyin- g insect-hawkin- i Experts to Bend Birds to 'Solve Gulf Mystery Gulfport, Miss. Banding of bam swallows inhabiting Ship island, near here in the Gulf nf Mexico, may solve a "mysteiT, according to Thomas J. Burleigh, associate biologist of the United States of biological survey. Why it is that these birds rest on Ship island and other outlying islands, but do not live on the main GulJ land along the Mississippi coast, is what puzzles Burleigh. He pointed out that they might be the same type that nest in Northern Arkansas, nearest known winter nesting place of barn swallows. The barn swallcws in Arkansas are known to go north to Labrador, where they hive definite breeding places. Banding of the birds was decided on to determine whether the Ship eland barn swakowj also join the others in their northward flight. bu-reu- u Plane Forced Down by One Grasshopper Dolgevillc, N. Y. A grasshop- per caused a forced landing of an airplane here. While the plane was being refueled the insect became lodged in the feed pipe, and shortly after taking off the motor stalled. The pilot landed his craft in a field without serious damage, Station W-A-N- Change Road Markers to Town's Confusion Churubusco, Ind. Perplexed Chumbiisco citizens are saving the mapmaker's face but get nothing in return except a daily horde of "lost'' motorists. Since markers along Indiana State Hoad No. 2 have been replaced with signs designating the route as U. S. Highway No. 33, puzzled motorists have stopped here to inquire their whereabouts. Hyland its name, says a writer in the New York Herald Tribune. William Romaine Govett was sup- -' posed to be a bushranger of the Sixties who roamed the hills ' and valleys, murdered police and trackers in the bush, plundered on the highways and robbed banks and taverns in the townships. His career supposedly ended when he was cornered near the falls by the police, and, preferring death to surrender, he jumped over the falls. But that is not the true story. Govett joined the surveying staff in New South Wales under the surveyor general in 1827: He surveyed much of the wild terrain lying between the Grose and the junction of the Capertee and Colo rivers, and from Springwood to Mount York. While he was attached to a working party in the Blue mountains jumped across one of the ravines or chasms. When he related his experience to Sir Thomas Mitchell he was complimented on his pluck and told that the spot would be called ovetts Leap. After serving several years on the surveyor general's staff. Govett returned to England, where he died in 1848. Popular imagination readily takes in a tale so full of spirit and adventure as that woven around Govett Leap, and so the bushranger epic was evolved. A visitor to the falls is struck by the wild beauty of the place. Situated near Blackheath .on the saddle of the Kanimba and Grose valleys, the falls are in rough and barren country surrounded by a rugged tangle of gorges, ridges and unfathomable chasms, with precipitous and craggy sides in every direction. Utah Was First Settled by Company of Mormons Utah was first settled permanently by a company of Mormons wor Latter-Da- y Saints under the leadership of Brigham Young in 1847. The migration began in April from what is now Florence, Neb., and there were 148 persons in the first company. In the following year the land became part of the United States and was organized as the Territory of Utah. Immigration from the East was systematically carried on by the Mormons with wagon trains, before the opening of the Union Pacific railroad in 1869, says the Detroit News. The attitude of the Mormon church to polygamy delayed admission of Utah to statehood until 1896, some years after that church had abandoned polygamy. The state is tenth in area and was fortieth in population in 1930. The Latter-Da- y Saints form a large part of the population. Utah is rich in mineral resources; in 1935 her gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc production exceeded Chief farm crogs are wheat, oats, potatoes, alfalfa, sugar beets, while there is also a large livestock industry, with a big wool production. The state has a low percentage of illiteracy; the Mormon church maintains the Brigham Young university at Provo, while the state University of Utah is in Salt Lake City. $32,-000,0- -T If you have anything to Sell, Trade, Exchange or Rent; or rent a place, buy a place, or need anything, let the public know in this Department. W-A-N- -T PHONE THE BULLETIN" Hyland 364 m |