Show I Ii i I I With the aid of an airplane the time across the ocean of a ship Is 13 to tobe tobe tobe be cut a number num r of hours As demonstrated by Clarence D. D Chamberlin on his Journey home when a ship is within a few hundred miles of New York the time of land- land landIng landIng landing Ing of ot anyone anone in a hurry can be re reduced re- re reduced reduced several hours by the to ship shore borc air service On this first trial only the mail mall was carried earned but the aviator said he could have hac taken passengers 1 Undoubtedly It will become a regu regu- regular regular regular lar thing to hasten the end of ol a voy voy- voyage voyage age by taking flight on to the coast coasto two o or three hundred miles That will be the beginning of an anair anair anair air service which e wilt will ex extend ex- ex extend tend across the ocean Here we are In the year ear 1927 at the threshold of a great departure In ocean travel a el The first ships to cross the ocean were directed by Columbus in 1492 and anti weeks were consumed In the sail- sail sailIng sailIng sailing Ing of the mighty deep The quickest trip of a clipper ship across the Atlantic was made from New York to Ireland in June 1859 In twelve days The first steamer to cross the At At- Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic lantic was the Savannah In In 1819 which passed from Savannah annah Ga to Liverpool in 26 days using steam and sails p The The Great Western In April 1838 proceeded from Bristol to New York In 15 IS days das What was accepted as a remark remark- remarkable remarkable able record was made in 1856 by the Persia which crossed In 9 II days In 1869 the year eu the first trans trans- transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental continental was completed the City of Brussels made the trip in ina Ina Ina a little over oyer a week Then the time was cut until the In 1910 made from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to In 4 days das and 10 hours When the the- airplanes al are arc In regular service they will go from New York to Queenstown in 30 hours and may cut the time to 24 hours Then the ocean will cease to be the barrier banter which In past gave ga America the security of Isolation With airplane and radio the na na- nations iia- iia of the world are arc being brought nearer to each other The Prince of Wales who Is ular wherever he goes is adding to his hI social conquests In Quebec Great Grut Britain Is proud of the young man and rejoices that with all the honors heaped upon him he keeps his hb head With Lindbergh's g experience also In tn mind Jt it Is evident the world delights in a full IWI measure of modesty Who other than the people an anchored an- an anchored anchored there all 1 their lives would want to live on the edge of the val valley valley ley Icy of hell which is on the side of 01 Mt Vesuvius At present the valley is a stream of lava Java with a lake of o molten mat mat- matter matter matter ter 2000 feet broad The Inhabitants of num num- numbering numbering bering are are In Jn flight toward Naples The Tho average a would say ny goodbye to all that region after wit wit- witnessing witnessing one of those awful eruptions of Vesuvius Having Ha discovered that hat arsenate ot 01 lead used in spraying apples Is not removed by wiping the federal gov gov- government government has ordered all alt apples to be placed on en the market and which have Ve been sprayed be treated to a bath 01 ot hydrochloric acid Last year the th British government linding that ee ce the small Email quantities quantities ties lies of arsenate of lead left on apples after wiping had a poisonous effect placed an embargo against all Amer Anser- American ican Jean apples apples The Amerl American a government reco rec- l- l Continued on Page Pare Three NEWS AND YE JS Continued From Page Pae One the justice of or the embargo proceeded to enforce a clean cleanup As a result LeRoy Marsh agricultural tural expert In this district is notify notify- notifyIng notifyIng ing apple appie growers they must conform to the latest requirements The government go has pointed out that in wiping an apple the bloom which is natures nature's method of ot preserving preservIng ing log the fruit Is removed The bloom bloomIs Is a wax like substance covering erin co-erin the skin A bath In hydrochloric acid does not affect the bloom Mr Marsh states slates thai that he Is experimenting experimenting with oils in an effort to find finda a spray which will protect the apples from bugs and yet jet be not poisonous There was a time when the small amount of ot arsenate of lead remaining on an apple after It H was Wa wiped was wu not thought to be harmful but post postmortems postmortems mortems have proved the contrary the poison polson taken into the system being cumulative An American who has ha traveled ex- ex In Brazil says ays that country countr offers great trade possibilities for the manufacturers of the United States tates He points out that Brazil In area is larger than the United States Few Americans get a correct Idea of the relative size of America and other countries for the maps of the United States Invariably are out of ot proportion proportion tion lion to the rest of the world Brazil has a population of 30 COO which equals the population of the United States In 1860 living In great part along the coastal plain and the country just back of it it from the mouth of the Amazon to Uruguay That part of Brazil which Is ls In ln the Amazon valley alley makes up 40 per cent of ot the country's area arcs but has few In- In habitants It is a region reelon of dense tropical forests Some day when hen the white man has conquered tropical dis dis- disease disease dis- dis I 1 ease and insect posts pests the Amazon will willbe willbe be a n vast empire of food supply II A feature re of Brazilian ute life is Is' Is that less than 25 per cent of the people can read and write mite This Is a percentage In illiteracy not much better than that of China which Is viewed as a benighted land The people are arc the descendants cf of Portuguese Spaniards and Italians with a big Dig mixture of ot blacks the off off- offspring offspring of f spring of slaves sla and brown men the descendants of the original Inhabit Inhabit- ants There are large German colonies colones In Inthe inthe the he state of Rio Grande Grands do Sul Sui In the south of Brazil Of Or late years the Japanese have been settling in the region where rice rices Is s grown Rio de Janeiro the capital has a population copulation of and is one of the he most beautiful cities clUes in the world All of Brazil has not much more railroad mileage than the state of Texas Nearly all the locomotives burn wood because ery very little coal Is b found in that country Brazil produces 75 per cent of ot all coffee consumed In the world and Americas America's coffee bill with Brazil runs Into nto millions of dollars Last year the American people consumed COO pounds of coffee Prior to the World war Brazil pro pro- produced produced produced nearly all the rubber of com com- commerce commerce commerce merce but since then has lost the trade to the 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