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Show AUGUST 26, 1928. THE BULLETIN 1 PLAN FLOOD OUTLET 5w No Housing Problems in the Land of the Eskimo FOR MISSISSIPPI The snow house is generally regarded as the typical Eskimo dwelling, but most Eskimos have never seen one. In Alaska the natives build their houses of driftwood logs and whalebone, sometimes they use finished lumber, brought in by the In Greenland, trading vessels. whalebones and stones are largely used and snow houses are found nowhere except in the northwestern section. Only among the most remote Eskimos of the Canadian Arctic is the snow house generally used, and there are no better snow masons" than the Canadian Copper Eskimos, observes'a writer in the Los Angeles Times. No housing problem arises among these people. They are nomads the year round, with no dwellings save the snow house in winter and in summer the tent made from skins of caribou the deer of that country. In some sections of the Arctic most of the summer clothing is made from the skins of the seal, and in winter bearskin is utilized as well as deerskin. The Copper Eskimos, however, use nothing but deerskin, except for summer footwear, when sealskin replaces the caribou. The clothing consists of two suits outer and inner. The inner is worn with the hair next to the body, underwear," and the top coat and pants have the hair outside. The Copper Eskimos eat everything that runs, or flies or swims. Often the meat and fish are eaten raw, on account of the difficulty of lighting a fire, or from shortage of fuel. As a rule they prefer their meat cooked, but often they like to eat it raw for a change. Three Protective Systems Under Construction. , : , ; ; i I MORGANZA, LA. Some day the Mississippi, now yellow and lazy at its summer low, may go on a ram page, smash down protective levees at Morganza and go roaring down the little Atchafalaya river on a new route to the gulf. Next year, the year after or 20 years from now the river may rise to such a fury, according to engineers. It may hold to its present bed for centuries. But with forests denuded, grass and topsoil blown away by dust storms, experts are studying the possibility of the Atchafalaya becoming the new bed of the Mississippi. However, 200 men from the shore lands of St. Mary parish along Six- -' Mile lake to the Gulf of Mexico, are laboring to bring three protective systems to completion as soon as possible. Projects Are One is the $8,000,000 Wax bay outlet, the second is a system of chan-- : nels and levees along the floodway and the third is a spillway 75 miles to the north through which the flood of the future will spill from the swollen Mississippi into the Atchafalaya. The Morganza and West Atchafalaya floodways run through a desolate swamp southwest of Baton Rouge, La. Some of the flood would be diverted into these emergency channels, relieving the rich valley below and protecting the 500,000 persons in New Orleans. The Wax bay outlet will cross Teche ridge and take the water on a short cut from lake, where "Natural Causes" Seldom the Morganza and West Atchafalaya the Real Cause of Death floodways end, on to the gulf, relievOne of the rarest things in life is ing pressure on the Atchafalaya at death from natural causes," listed Morganza. as senility" on death certificates, Machine Shreds Trees, observes a writer in the Detroit The first big cut between lake and Bayou teche is nearing Free Press. As has been pointed out by medicompletion. Three miles long, 45 feet deep and 150 feet wide, the out- cal men, persons dont often wear let is being cut with a machine that out, they generally are killed, either shreds stumps and tree trunks and by disease or accident. Although a giant suction dredge grinding out senility frequently is found on the mucky earth with agitator blades death certificates, more often than not because of the advanced age and pumping it through a of the deceased, together with lack e to quarter-mila levees build pipe of apparent disease causes or a away. The total length of the outlet, ac- post mortem, the term is used withcording to Fred Voorhies of Lafay- out being the real cause of death. ette, La., secretary of the Louisiana Researchers say that a natural Flood Control and Water Conservadeath is one to be sought after betion commission, will be 15 miles cause after a certain stage in life lake to the Gulf of is reached the instinct of from Mexico, with a depth of 45 feet and gradually is replaced by a width of from 300 to 400 feet. an instinct to die, and death is acWhen the outlet and other parts of cepted calmly and happily. the spillway are complete one tenth True senility is found in persons of the waters of the Mississippi call from the age of seventy upranging be diverted in flood time. on heredity, enwards, depending It would then be possible for a vironment and other factors. Judgflood the size of the one of 1927 to ing by medical records and vital pass on to the Gulf of Mexico almost statistics, the process of wearing unnoticed. out" is a long, arduous one, most of those dying from senility having Beauties Find Something worked hard during a long life. fur-lin- ed Six-Mi- le . i Six-Mi- le 25-in- ch ! Six-Mi- le on ! Else to Do Besides Study BERKELEY, CALIF. A test of s 600 at the University of California has demonstrated that there is a tendency toward lesser intellectual accomplishment when pulchritude is outstanding That is the finding of Dr. Samuel J. Holmes, outstanding authority in the realm of racial behavior, and C. E. Hatch, his associate. The two scientists refuse to admit that the result of their tests justifies the expression of beautiful but dumb," but find rather that too much pulchritude has a tendency d into to d(aw the beautiful too many other lines of distractions to enable her to make the most of her academic career. The report shows that more beaufail to finish college than tiful do their plainer sisters, with matrimony and social distractions luring them to other fields. co-ed- . co-e- co-e- i Chesi Fad Sweeps Town, Pastors Take Up Game 1 Tobaceo a Great Aid In a sense, tobacco built the industrial structure of early America. When in 1612 John Rolfe planted the first acres of commercial tobacco, and the export of tobacco began soon after, the foundation was laid for the export trade of the new country. Tobacco became the backbone of the Colonies foreign trade. Tobacco purchased the machinery and tools abroad that enabled America to begin its early industries. It paid for the educational and cultural facilities that the Colonies imported from the old countries. It was the legal tender that paid the preachers. When a new church was to be built, its cost was estimated in pounds of tobacco. In 1619 quaint as it seems it paid for wives for the Virginia settlers. Ninety agreeable persons, young and incorrupt," sailed from England to be married to Virginia planters at a cost of 120 pounds of tobacco each. In two years, Sanborn, a Dutch settlement of 1,000 Corn Boon to Colonists population, has become a commuThe first Europeans to recognize nity of chess addicts. corns importance were the English It began when W. H. Barker, re- colonists on our Atlantic coast. tired business man and inveterate Wheat tried and it failed they chess player, started inviting playand when the very existence them; towns. ers from neighboring of Determined to uphold the honor ownthe Massachusetts and Jamestsettlements hung in precarious took residents the .of their town, up balance during those first hard wingame seriously. Now both young ters, it was corn that saved them. and old play. John Smith forced every famReverend C. G. Meyer, German Capt. of his little band to plant corn. Lutheran pastor, learned the game ily were rewarded handsomely. because his fellow pastors insisted They on organizing games at conferences Like the sparse crops of the first dawn of civilization, it became a and study meetings. As a result of Barkers vigorous means of exchange, a form of moncorn built up trade and evangelism in behalf of the game, ey. Surplus the growing commerce, encouraged associaChess the Northwest Iowa stream of immigrants crossing the tion was organized here. Atlantic, and opened the gates to wealth and prosperity. ; SANBORN, IOWA. . Autogiro Division To Aid U. S. in War In the event of war the United States will have an autogiro division which will virtually take the place of captive" balloons in observing artillery fire, Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover, chief of the air corps, revealed. The air corps chief disclosed that the war department has purchased a number of autogiros in the past an0 has recently ordered seven more, four of which have been delivered. WASHINGTON. Many Varieties of Honey Hows your taste for honey? Are you one of those fortunate people who has really studied honey, and can identify the many varieties of this sweet by taste? The true over begins to recognize types as soon as he sees it. By its taste he can tell what part of the world it came from; and from which flowers the bees drew the nectar. Red and white clover honey, orange and raspberry blossom flavored honey, Grecian hymettus, Australian and New Zealand honey butter, peanut butter honey these are some of the epicures' favorite varieties. honey-l- i MYSTERY OF LOST AMY JOHNSON WILL QUIT FLYING GAME COLONY RECALLED Ancient Puzzle Touched by Fetes in North Carolina. No More Airways Manteo, N. C. As a fitting tribute to the first English settlement in this country (on Roanoke island. North Carolina, in the year 1587, under the sponsorship of Sir Walter Raleigh), a series of celebrations was held on the island this summer. The idea is to commemorate the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the colony. On August 17 was observed the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birthday of Virginia Dare, the first child born of English parents in America. Thirty-thre- e years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth rock, and 20 years before Jamestown was settled, the 100 men, 12 women, and 9 children who formed the first English colony in America settled on Roanoke island. This was in July, London, England. Amy Johnson, heroine of the first solo flight by a woman from England to Australia, has decided to give up flying. Knowing frit Empire air liners and the royai :vr orce are better able to make record dashes to South Africa and Australia, and seeing the Russians flying over the pole, she believes there is nowhere In the world to fly to and set up new records except with the backing of government finances. "Fly?" she said. It is the last thing I would dream of doing now. If I saw any prospects of doing anything by flying again I would go ahead. 'No, I am just going around now wondering what on earth I am to do with life. But I am not going to fly, I dont know what Im going to do. In the old days it was my business to be photographed and interviewed with Jim, my husband. For me all that terrific publicity is now ended." lias Earned Thousands. Miss Johnson has been a good business woman. In ten years of spectacular flying, with half a dozen great flights to her credit, she has made many thousands of dollars. She has lived in fashionable hotels and saved enough to buy a fine house in London and expensive cars. Ever since that memorable day in 1926 when Amy Johnson first took her young sister, Mollie, for a circus flight over Hull, England, she knew she wanted to fly. Five years later, twenty-seve- n years old and a stenographer in Fleet street, she made a hop from Croydon airport to Port Darwin, Australia. No one dared hope that this inexperienced aviatrix, with not more than 90 hours in the air to her credit, could perform such a feat. A newspaper scoffed when Amy offered to write a story of her trip (if she completed it). Later that same newspaper had to pay Amy, always the business woman, $50,000 to go on a flying tour for it. The next year July, 1931 Amy o set off for a flight with her tutor, C. S. Humphreys. They made this run in the record time of 10ft days. Broke Three Records. In 1936 Miss Johnson succeeded in smashing three records from England to Cape Town, Cape Town to England and for the round trip. On May 7, 1936, she landed in Cape Town, Africa, from England in 3 days 6 hours and 29 minutes, shaving the record set by Tommy Rose by 11 hours 9 minutes. She completed the homeward journey in 4 days 16 hours and 16 minutes. Rose took 6 days 6 hours and 57 minutes to make this trip. Her round-tri- p flight took her 7 days 22 hours and 42 minutes, as against Roses 10 days 34 minutes. Four years ago Amy Johnson and her husband, Capt. James A. made a transatlantic hop from Wales to America. Their plane, Seafarer, was wrecked when they tried to land at Bridgeport, Conn., for fuel. They were within 60 miles of their goal Floyd Bennett airport, when they ran out of gasoline. 1587. Colony Disappears. On August 27, 1587, Gov. John White, who headed the expedition, bade farewell to his companions and to his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, and sailed to England for supplies. Upon his return four years later, the colony had completely disappeared, the only traces left being a few broken pieces of armor and the word Croatoan carved on a tree. What happened to Sir Walter Raleigh's lost colony is a mystery which for centuries has baffied historians. Many explanations and legends have risen. Did the colonists intermarry with the Indians and are their descendants living in North Carolina today? Was the colony exterminated by the Spaniards? Were the settlers massacred by the Indians? No one knows for sure. Governor White himself told the story of his return to the island in 1591. Upon this story are based all accounts of what happened. We returned," he said, round about the north point of the island until we came to the place where I left our colony. In all this way, we saw in the sand the print of the savages feet of two or three sorts trodden in the night, and as we entered upon the sandy banks, upon a tree, the very brow thereof, were curiously carved these fair Roman letters, C. R. O. which letters presently we knew to signify the place where I should find the planters (colonists) seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between them and me at my departure from them; which was that in any way they should not fail to write or carve on a tree or posts of the doors the name of the place where they should be seated, for at my coming they were prepared to remove from Roanoke 50 miles into the main (mainland). Found No Signs. Therefore at my departure from them Anno 1587, I willed them that, if they should happen to be distressed in any of those places, they should carve over the letters or name across in this form. But we found no sign of distress. And having well considered of this, we passed toward the place where they, were left in sundry houses, but we found the houses taken down and the place very strongly enclosed, with a high palisade of great trees, with curtains and flankers and very fortlike, and one of the chief trees or posts at the right side of the entrance had the bark taken off and five feet from the ground in fair capital letters was graven Croatoan, without any cross or sign of distress." A growth of weeds indicated that two seasons had passed since the departure of the colonists. Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched five rescue expeditions, but none was successfuL nine-day-o- ld to Conquer, Declares Aviatrix. 9,900-mil- e London-to-Toky- Peerless Laundry SNOW WHITE CLOTHES Buy Only GOOD COAL Call Hyland 2520 CASTLE GATE BLUE BLAZE ABERDEEN KING COAL Agents for Sentinel Stokers A Prepared Stoker Coal on the Sugar House BEAUTY SALON JOB SUGAR ROUSE COAL CO. 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A large bug which had crawled into the right ear of Jean Monahan, age nine, as she slept emerged in haste when her father, Tony Monahan, city patrolman, puffed cigarette smoke into the ear. The patrolman sought to cure what he believed to be a case earache. QUART 947 Code No. 970 GALLON Code No. GALLON Code No. 977 Smoke as Earache Remedy Routs Insect of (Amber Sweet) QUART 948 Alaska Purchase Paper Located in Washington hard-shell- Paradise MUSCATEL Code No. fcRANO 5 m BIKEGUABROJ.CELIARJ' SWEET ALCOHOL ed WINES 20BV VOLUME St HELENA CAURRN IA WINES DRY 'ALCOHOL 12 BY VOLUME Served with Wild Game, Red Meats or CODE NO. 816 Paradise 818 Paradlm 827 Paradise 828 Paradise 815 825 826 932 940 1057 1058 1035 1043 A present to any Sydney. member of his congregation who can fall asleep during one of his services has been promised by the Rev. A. Norris, Methodist minister in a Sydney suburb. Preaching has become too stereotyped and stolid," he explained. My sermons deal with life. I believe in humor." LOBBS MITCHELLS Mol-liso- n, Washington. General accounting office officials announced the finding of the $7,200,000 warrant with which the United States paid for the Territory of Alaska and faces in the department lost the reddish tinge that had characterized them for the last few days. It all developed when investigation disclosed the warrant a priceless document hadnt been seen in thirty years. Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska introduced a bill in congress Drive Launched to Spur calling for permanent transfer of Use of Fruit in Austria the warrant to a museum at Juneau, Alaska. Treasury department workVienna. An average yearly coners then went to locate the paper, sumption of 200 pounds of fruit by recalled that it was supposed to be every person is declared as a de- transferred to the General Accountsirable goal by Austrian physicians. ing office when that arm of govNow about 80 pounds are being ernment was estaolished in 1921, eaten by the average Austrian in a and asked the G. A. O. for it. year. For two days search was fruitless, Even this amount cannot be furbut finally the warrant was located, nished by Austrias fruit growers, tucked away in a musty filing case. as $3,000,000 worth of fruit is imported from abroad, mostly from Skin of Human Slate Italy. Austria possesses about 20,000,000 Is Sensitive to Writing fruit trees, or three to every inhabiN. J. Stephen Kucinski, Camden, tant. twenty-fou- r years old, doesnt have To increase this number in prohe uses on the cuff it to write portion to the rising demand is the his skin. object of the recently organized Physicians say that Kucinski sufAustrian Fruit Growers' association, from demography. Words fers which advocates tjie importation of on his flesh with a heavy written and from trees suitable healthy instrument remain legible pointed abroad, particularly from Califorfor several minutes. nia and Florida. 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