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Show FRIDAY SEPTEMBER THE BULLETIN Puerto Rico Has Color and Cliarm Colonial Post Plan in Use Before Revolution Picturesque Spanish Isle Under American Flag Is Odd Mixture. - WASHINGTON. Another Columbus Park" joined the long list of similar place names in the Western world when Puerto Rico recently opened its Parque Colon, near Aguadilla on the northwest coast of the island. Marking the site where Columbus himself is believed to have stopped in 1493, to replenish his failing water supply, a simple cross (to be replaced later by a more imposing monument) calls attention to the fact that Puerto Rico is the only U. S. territory which can lay claim to having sheltered the great explorer. From the standpoint of historic .association and scenic beauty," points out the National Geographic society Puerto Rico has charm as well as many more tangible attractions for the visitor. Drowned Mountain Top. "A fragment of a drowned mountain chain, that may once have been part of the South American mainland, the island has been called the Switzerland of the West Indies. Nearly 4,000 feet up, at the summit of its highest peaks, one may see both the Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean sea, with a hint of the' Virgin islands to the east. Good motor roads wind easily over the hills, along which travelers look down on a panorama of wild breadfruit and mango trees, of palms and West Indian cottonwoods, of thatched huts in little clearings, pineapple plantations, fields of grazing herds, and smokmills that stretch brick ing sugar fingers to the sky. In Puerto Rico nature splashes color with a lavish hand. Rows of flamboyant trees make a scarlet archway of certain roads, white blossoms of coffee plantations send faint perfume on the tropic breeze, and everywhere there is the lush forests. green of Delicate orchids found in Puerto ' Rican mountains delight the botanist. For the adventurous there is ' a challenge in the mountains unexplored caves, almost concealed by overhanging Jungle growth. Sun-- I worshipers find Puerto Rico another Medicinal i winter playground. .springs at Coamo are praised by .health seekers as a Fountain of Youth,' missed by Ponce de Leon. Rather ironically, it was Ponce de Leon who, in 1508, following the . discovery of the island by Columbus more than a decade before, ' founded its first settlement near San Juan. From there he later sailed on a search for his squandered youth. San Juan Odd Mixture VToday, under the Stars and Stripes, Puerto Ricos capital at San Juan is an odd mixture of life. and A walled city of the she still preserves many of the old fortifications. There is San Cristobal fort, with its ghost stories, and Morro Castle, that attack from English, Dutch, French, and American fleets, as well as from pirates and buccaneers. Under Fortaleza, built in 1639 and used since as the ruling governors mansion, Spanish doubloons and other plunder were once stored. Ancient churches, before whose air tars mailed soldiers of the Spanish king once knelt, yet hear the prayers of the faithful. Grilled windows, open plazas, and stiff Spanish conventions and Spanish amusements (including the cockfight) remind the visitor that it was only 40 years ago, at the close of the war, that Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States. Yet Yankee influence steadily gains ground. American jazz fills the air, and American automobiles, trucks and buses ride the streets. As a matter of bookkeeping, however, the record shows that Uncle Sam has paid well for his place in Puerto Rico. Millions of American dollars have been spent in sanitation, education, relief, and other public works for this land which has been harassed by many e problems. natural and island had a bad the For years reputation among economists, despite natural wealth. There are far too many people to support nearly 1,800,000 in an area only about 100 miles long and 35 miles across. By decreasing the death rate, the United States has intensified the prob-- : lem of feeding them. On the other hand, according to Governor Winships official report ' for 1937, that year saw considerable progress and improvement." semi-jung- le . rain-drench- , : ; heart-breakin- g early-Spani- sh late-Americ- an es, an man-mad- Mass Production Used for Houses MISSISSIPPI PLAN FLOOD OUTLET FOR Long before the Revolution, a colonial post system had been established. According to Old Post Bags by A. F. Harlow, in the early settlements, acquaintservants, ances, merchants, peddlers, friendly Indians and ship captains were the casual postmen, some making a charge for their services, some carrying letters free. Shipmasters about to sail from either England or America often hung up a bag in some tavern, in which letters for the other side were to be deposited. When a vessel arrived, some member of the family would be sent on board to inquire for mail. The letters not thus delivered would be taken by the captain to a coffeehouse on the wharf. Hence the habit grew of depositing at the e wharf letters also going by land to and from other parts of the country, these being carried by whatever means the landlord found available. It became customary to address ones correspondent at the leading tavern of the community. Thus several years before there was post office or post rider in the colonies, a rude, slow, unsafe but neighborly system of letter delivery had sprung up.. The first legislative action was taken by Massachusetts in 1639, appointing Richard Fairbanks house in Boston as the place for depositing letters to be sent overseas or brought from there. The Continental congress in 1775 made Benjamin Franklin the first postmaster general and the following year he was succeeded by his Richard Bache. Three Protective Systems Under Construction. MORGANZA, LA. Some day the Mississippi, now yellow and lazy at its summer low, may go on a rampage, smash down protective levees down at Morganza and 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 lake to the Gulf of Mexico, are laboring to bring three protective systems to completion as soon as possible. coffee-hous- Six-Mi- le Projects Are One is the $8,000,000 Wax bay outlet, the second is a system of channels 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 Atcha- falaya. 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. Friction Matches Were The Wax bay outlet will cross Invention of Druggist Teche ridge and take the water on a The friction match was invented short cut from lake, where in 1827 by John Walker, a druggist the Morganza and West Atchafalaya in Durfloodways end, on to the gulf, relieve living at Stockton-on-Tee- s ham, England. His matches were ing pressure on the Atchafalaya at made of a compound of chlorate Morganza. of potash and sugar mixed with Machine Shreds Trees. The first big cut between powdered gum arabic to make it adhesive when applied to a splinter lake and Bayou teche is nearing of wood. They were ignited by completion. Three 'miles long, 45 drawing them rapidly and under feet deep and 150 feet wide, the outconsiderable pressure through a let is being cut with a machine that piece of folded sandpaper. Such shreds stumps and tree trunks and matches were first sold in London a giant suction dredge grinding out under the name of lucifers. Luci- the mucky earth with agitator blades fer, often used as a general name and pumping it through a for matches, is one of the names of pipe to build levees a quarter-milSatan and is derived from Latin away. The total length of the outlet, ac(to fero, lux," (light), and bring). cording to Fred Voorhies of LafayAn Englishman named Isaac Holette, La., secretary of the Louisiana den made crude sulphur matches Flood Control and Water Conservaabout 1833.' A French ' physician tion commission, will be 15 miles and chemist named Saugrain, who from lake to the Gulf of settled in St. Louis about 1800, Mexico, with a depth of 45 feet and showed William Clark and Meri- a width of from 300 to 400 feet. wether Lewis how to make matches When the outlet and other parts of before they started on their long the spillway are complete one tenth journey up the Missouri river in of the waters of the Mississippi can 1804. The Frenchman dipped sulphbe diverted in fldod time. ur-tipped It would then be possible for a splinters of wood into phosphorus and produced flames flood the size of the one of 1927 to without difficulty. He then sealed pass on to the Gulf of Mexico almost a supply of phosphorus in tin boxes unnoticed. for safety and showed the explorers how to make their own sulphur-tippe- d Beauties Find Something sticks. These, of course, Else to Do Besides Study were not true friction matches. BERKELEY, CALIF. A test of 600 at the University of California has demonstrated that there Ransom Note is a tendency toward lesser intellecSome inhabitants of New Amstertual kindred and children accomplishment when pulchriwhose dam, were held by the Indians, petitioned tude is outstanding That is the the city court, on March 20, that finding of Dr. Samuel J. Holmes, means be raised by a general col- outstanding authority in the realm lection or otherwise" for ransoming of racial behavior, and C. E. Hatch, the captives. The court at the time his associate. The two scientists refuse to adapproved and recommended the mit that the result of their tests matter for speedy action to Stuyve-saand the council. The latter now justifies the expression of beauts order a contribution in cloth to be ful but dumb, but find rather that made by each merchant of the city too much pulchritude has a tendency d into for this purpose. From Stokes's to draw the beautiful of distractions too lines other many of Manhattan Island, Iconography to enable her to make the most of dealing with the year 1656. her academic career. The report shows that more beaufail to finish college than tiful Humble Pie do their sisters, with matriplainer To eat humble pie is an expression and social distractions luring mony setsuffer a' who to those applied them to other fields. back or submit to humiliation. It probably comes from the word applied to the heart, liver and Chess Fad Sweeps Town, entrails of the deer. In olden times Pastors Take Up Game these were the perquisites of the IOWA. In two years, SANBORN, huntsman, and they would be made into a pie, which would be served Sanborn, a Dutch settlement of 1,000 to the huntsmen, humble retainers, population, has become a commuand their poor dependants, while the nity of chess addicts. H. It began when W. Barker, relord and his guests ate venison joints and man business inveterate tired and pasties. Thus to eat humble pie was to take a back seat at the feast. chess player, started inviting players from neighboring towns. Determined to uphold the honor of their town, residents took up the Cause of Tornadoes game seriously. Now both young Tornadoes are caused by the sudand old play. den rise of very hot air. Other air Reverend C. G. Meyer, German rushes in to fill the vacuum Lutheran pastor, learned the game to The whirl. air begins rising because his fellow pastors insisted d is cooled, forming the on organizing games at conferences clouds which identify tornadoes. The and study meetings. winds whirl with the speed of a rifle As a result of Barkers bullet-f- ast enough to really shoot a evangelism in behalf of thevigorous game, wooden a straw through plank. the Northwest Iowa Chess associaWhen the vacuum inside the funnel tion was organized here. passes over buildings, they literally of the tornado explode. The home is our southern states, Africa and Australia. Autogiro Division son-in-la- f Six-Mi- le Six-Mi- le 25-in- ch e Six-Mi- le co-e- ds nt co-e- co-e- um-ble-," ore-ate- d, funnel-shape- To Aid U. S. in War Foghorn Record Set, 61 Consecutive Hours BOSTON. A ld rec- ord has been broken. During recent storms, Keeper Maurice Babcock of Boston light, at the entrance to the harbor, had to sound his foghorn for 61 consecutive hours the longest period in the light's history. The continuous noise got on our nerves and almost drove us crazy, said Babcock. Black Tulip Mania Three hundred years ago, tulips which previously had been brought from Constantinople via Vienna and France, became a mania in the Netherlands. Dumas the Elder describes this tulip craze in his novel, The Black Tulip." Dutchmen lost their usually sensible heads over the new flower, speculated wildly, and sometimes spent their frugal savings for a single bulb, some of which cost 13,000 florins apiece, or about $5,000 in American money. National Geographic Society, 4.1 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 and has recently ordered seven more, four of which have been delivered. WASHINGTON. Federal Agency Turns Out Homes for $1,050. WASHINGTON. By applying the teche automobile factory nique to housing construction, the Farm Security administration is now turning out rural homes on a FSA resettlement project near LaForge, Mo., at an average cost of $1,050 each, including all field overhead1. Pictures of some of the 100 units being built show them to be simple, d cottages concrete resting on termite-proo- f pile foundations, and much more attractive than adjoining unpainted shacks from which the beneficiary families are being moved. The agency also builds bams and other outbuildings for the projects by the same prefabrication method. Advantages of System. Under this system sidewalls, gables, foundation piers and other units are fabricated at a central plant. Usually all of the requirements for a house can be transported in a single truck load to the construction site, where the house can be completed in a week, while such buildings as poultry or smokehouses can be put up in less than an hour. Cutting and fabricating at the sawmill, the FSA says, takes only about a sixth the time which would be required for hand cutting at the site. It also assures absolute precision of sections, necessary for fitting them together on the rite, simplifies the selection of stock and makes possible the use of odds and ends of lumber which under the old construction methods would go on the scrap heap. Standardization of the units also permits use of relatively unskilled rural 'relief labor. The simplest types Of interior finish are used. belt-lin- one-stor- y, white-painte- Wireless Phone Carries Voices Through Walls A vest pocket telewhich it is possible to with phone speak through the walls of a room without connecting has been perfected in a British laboratory. It consists of earphones and a box which, without special seats or plugging in, will enable the deaf to hear talkies and at the same time move Concealed microphones, about. automatically adjusting themselves as the actors move about the stage, will enable galleryites" to hear as clearly as those in the front stalls. In a car, conversation could be established with a car in front. The invention is being taken up with the home office in connection with air raid precautions. A tiny microphone and earphone equipment in a gas mask makes it possible for the person inside to carry on normal conversation. Another use is in mines. With these instruments trapped miners could talk to their rescuers through a wall of rock. A West End store is having the device installed so that the night watchman patrolling the top floors can hear a burglar ransacking the bargain basement. LONDON. Bibles Got Their Names From Errors of Printers Bibles Several curiously-name- d which have become famous received their names from typographical errors or archaic words which they contain, or from some special circumstance in connection with them, says Pearson's London Weekly. There is, for instance, the Bug Bible. This Bible, Coverdale's, of the year 1535, is so named because Thou Psalm 18 is translated: shalt not nede to be strayed for eny bugges by night." The Authorized and Revised Versions both read terror" in place of bugges." The Discharge Bible, an edition printed in 1806, contains the word discharge for charge" in I Timothy 5:21: "I discharge thee before ." God . . The Murderers1 Bible was an edition of 1801 in which the misprint for murmurers" "murderers makes Jude 16 read: These are murderers, complainers, walking after their own lusts The misprint of the Parable of the Vinegar," instead of the Vineyard, gives tiie name to the Vinegar Bible is Bible; and the an edition of 1810 in which the word life" in Luke 14: 26, is printed ..." Wife-hat- er "wife." There is a more generally known work the Breeches Bible, which has been the cause of more queries to editors of newspapers than most other subjects of intriguing argubement. This Bible was cause a passage in Genesis was rendered: The eyes of them bothe were opened . . . and they sowed together, and made themselves breeches." This occurs n every edition of the Genevan Bible, but not in any other version. blanket of ice. They must have a blanket of sand, too, one inch thick atop the ice, to settle gently but firmly around vines in spring when the ice goes out to absorb heat and help keep frost away; to discourage, weed growth; to give old runners a1, chance to reroot and thus renew thef , bog. Marshes are drained in the spring' and from short mother vines new. shoots creep. Buds swell and send, out a short shoot upon which pink waxen blossoms bloom. When petals fall, tiny berries emerge to grow and plumpen. Slowly their color fades from green to creamy white; to coral pink, while the rare and vigorous flavor develops within. Gathered, dried and boxed, cooler; weather turns the berries full vored and a rich, ruby red Falls Ten Stories, Offers Apologies Chester FRESNO, CALIF. Wagner, 27, a window washer, interrupted five women in the midst of a beauty treatment when he crashed through the skylight into a beauty parlor after falling from the tenth story of the building next door. The abashed Wagner mumbled his apologies and scurried out the front door to the emergency hospital, where he was treated for minor lacerations. so-call- flgge-leav- 23. 1033 Buy Only GOOD COAL es Call Hyland 2520 CASTLE GATE Cranberry Thrives Best in Acid Peat, Muck Soil r. CLEAR CREEK ABERDEEN KING COAL . The cheery little cranberry, once called craneberry because its blossoms resemble a cranes head and neck, is not modest in its requirements. g land satuIt demands rated with water; prefers acid peat or muck soil. There must be reservoirs to constantly, feed thirsty fields through miles of radiating canals to flood marshes quickly against kiting frosts and as a measure of insect control, states a writer in ?rairie Farmer. It must have winter protection. Just before heavy frost, reservoirs are opened and vines covered; they ie snug through winter beneath a Agents for Sentinel Stokers Prrnsred Stoker Coni I,ORBS low-lyin- .inn" SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. 1191 Ily. 2520 Highland Drive fast-traveli- 2044 WHITE PORT Paradise MUSCATEL QUART (Amber Sweet) Code No. QUART 947 History May Be Read in Collection of Firearms Code No. 970 GALLON Code No. GALLON 948 IOWA FALLS, IOWA. The history of the United States from, the Revolution to the World war may be collection of read in the 1,200-gu-n Matt Kickles, for 26 years chief of the Iowa Falls fire department. from There are muzzle-loadeRevolutionary days, Civil War musn war carkets and bines in Kickles collection, which he believes is the largest privately owned one of its kind in the United States. Kickles has duplicates of the weapons used to assassinate Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley. But he is proudest of his Kentucky rifle display than of all the rest. Those Kentucky rifles made more history than all the others," he said. "They were the ones the pioneers used when they blazed the trails from the East all over the Western country. They helped make this country." For years Kickles collection decorated the walls of the ticket lobby of the Metropolitan theater here, but about six years ago he built a white stucco building in his back yard devoted entirely to firearm collection and various other antiques. Hyland 364 South 11th East Code No. 977 Oi, rs d4 w' & f S; , s . Spanish-America- ban Os' SWEET ALCOHOL one-sto- ry f William ALDEBURGH, ENG. Barber, general millwright of Iken Cliff, near here, has announced that he can make stones grow, and that he has been doing so for 15 years. of They grow about an inch a year, he claims. Barber has found that they do so only in the spring and fall, that they grow only slightly at first, that they need water like vegetation. He grows" them in an rid oil drurn or can filled with earth within about six inches of the top. To make them absolutely round they must be turned over at regular periods. Barber says he treated an ole stone used as a step for horsemen mounting to the saddle. Today it is too large to put into the biggest three-sixteenth- farm wagon. s, WINES 20BY ' VOLUME DRVWINES ALCOHOL 11 BY VOLUME Served with Wild Game, Red Meats or Lamb CODE NO. 818 Paradise Burgundy (Red Dry) Fifth 818 Paradise Burgundy (Red Dry) Gallon 827 Paradise Zinfandel (Red Dry) Gallon 828 Paradise Zinfandel (Red Dry) Fifth Served with Fish, Fowl or Eggs 815 Paradise Riesling (White Dry) Fifth 825 Paradlse-Sautern- s Gallon (White Dry) 826 'Growing of Stones Is Accomplished by Briton StHELENA OiUrowil'A BIKEGUAMOJ.CELIAK 932 (White Dry) Fifth Served for AH Occasions Psradlse Port (Red Sweet) Quart Faradlse-Sautera- n Paradise Port (Red Sweet) 1057 Paradise Angelica (Amber Sweet) 1058 Paradise Angelica (Amber Sweet) Served as a Cocktail or with Soup or Any Time of Day 1035 Paradise Sherry (Amber Dry) 1043 Paradise Sherry (Amber Dry) FAMOUS BEAULIEU BRANDS The King of All Occasions Beaulieu Burgundy (Red Dry) Beaulieu llaute Sauterne (McL W.) Beaulieu Muscatel (Sacramental W.) Beaulieu Sparkling Moselle (Champagne Type) 917 Beaulieu (Fink) Sparkling Burgundy 940 Gallon Quart Gallon Quart Gallon Fifth Fifth Gallon Fifth Fifth |