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Show t ? PIITTF. COUNTY NEWS. JUNCTION. UTAH Mass Production of Commercial Airplanes U, S. Marines Ready to Land at Shanghai ; tr Airplanes for the Colonial Air Transport company in the Fokker plant at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.. which ara being rushed to completion for use in a huge network of air lines for passenger, United States mails and which open this spring, linking Montreal and intermediate cities with New York and Chicago. reat Britains New Battleship With an Old Name Use New Rays as Aid to Man I $. Scientists Employ Them in Radio, Surgery and Many Inventions. Washington. The same days news carried a story from London that -violet rays are making the animals of the zoo more contented, and a story from Camden, New Jersey, that seeds proand tubers treated with duce greater yields. These are additional evidences of the worlds debt to rays, many of them little known. A bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the Nationnl Geographic society deals further with this subject. Rays are not abstractions of physmake icists or unusual phenomena to be dealt with only in laboratories," says the bulletin. "They are more truly the mainspring of the earth, making Ilfs in all its forma possible. Make Life Possible. The suns rays are the prerequisite for the world as we know it. But for the warmth and light flowing to us through 9,8,000,000 miles of space, the earth would be a lifeless cinder, without vegetation and without even the lowest animate forms. As it Is, the rays or waves of heat and light flow to us in a mighty stream, for ail practical purposes unending, and in g rays thlSj continual bath of we very truly live and move and have our being. "Our essentia! diet of rays is fresh as well as potent. Because of the almost Inconceivable Rpeed of light and heat waves (186,000 miles per second), the sunbeam which strikes y you this instant left Its source only eight minutes ago. Planta Need Rays. "It is not only by warming us dl- ultra- s i its , i Th new British battleship 11. M. s$. Nelson which is rapidly nearing coropletloh. The craft is expected first trials In April, and will probably be commissioned shortly after that. t Aston Knight, Painter, Honored life-givin- far-awa- Missouri and Kansas Coeds Let Hair Grow . , f , ' . r, - Kansas City, Mo. Coeds at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and the University of Missouri, Columbia, seem to be competing in letting the hitherto popular locks grow long again. Girls at both institutions started to let their hair grow, much to the dlsguat of artists In both towns. A recent check-uon the Missouri campus' revealed that CO per cent of the girls either had long hair or were "expecting to have In the near future. At Kansas the percentage is slightly larger, and exponents of lengthened tresses are gaining new cohorts daily. . When Director General of the BudgAston Knight, distinguished American artist, especially noted for his et-" Lord made a visit to the Smith- onian institution he was greatly sur- - landscapes, has been honored by the French government with the rank of officer of the Legion of Honor, having already received the decoration of ..pri.sed wjijn, .breaking into a conversation General Lord wa,s conducting, a chevalier. He Is seen above In his Paris atelier. voice aked:MIlow about the budget?" si iTaririrfg- - rfnlckiy,- General Lord discov ered It was an Indian Myna, a talking bird In the Smithsonian collection. The story is Vouched for by other oflUflals f- - Alio were, present- This photograph Way land, assistant bird slyws keeper of the' natlopal zoo, with the bird. - Neutral Zones in Nicaragua ton-sorl- - p Q.-X.- .. .HEROINE REWARDED rectly and by keeping our seas and streams from being eternally frozen that the suns rays benefit us. Every good thing that we have, except some of the minerals and ores, can be traced to their beneficent work. The soil upon which obr plants live has been washed from the original cheer less lump of ssh and stone by the rain which the suns rays lifted from the seas and cast down on the land. Plants which grow In the soil can themselves live only when bathed by sunshine. Plants not only exist because of heat and light waves from the sun, but, fortunately for mankind and the animals, they contrived millions of years ago an Ingenious trap for extra energy from the rays which they store away. This trap is a myaterious substance called chlorophyll, the green coloring matter in all plant leaves. When the rays strike chlorophyll they manufacture cellulose, starch, and sugars and on these products the life of the animal world Is built. Every plant, then, Is In renllty a separate factory, operated hy waves of energy from a power house, miles away, through Its chlorophyll motor Each Plant a Factory. "These factories turn out directly various commodities that roun must have: vegetables, fruits, and nuts that muke up a large part of our diet; cotton, flax and other fibers which contribute largely to our clothing and draperies; the woods which help to build our houses and Implements; and many other substances which are necessary In our dally life. Indirectly these factories supply our remaining food and clothing; for our food animals produce our meat from a vegetable diet, and so, too, our wool and silk mohair are the Indirect products of the vegetable world. "It Is not only the rays of the present that contribute to our well being. Sunbeams that millions of years ago built tropical vegetation which was fossilized Into coal today warm our houses and turn the wheels of our factories. The rays that left the sun weeks or months or at most years ago are helping us In still another way. They evaporated water from the aea which fell as rain and was stored up behind dams. When this Imprisoned water la made to turn dynamos the electricity that comes to us over wires to light our homes and toast our bread Is only the beneficent sunbeam In another form. Hsat and Radio Wave. "How we turn heat rays to account is well known. They fly from our radiators to make our homes livable In winter; they cook our food; they produce steam for many of our powerhouses; and In numerous other ways they are harnessed for mans benefit Within recent years we have harnessed another group of waves which g ray-bui- lt BERING SEA ICE FLOES BIG AID IN HUNTING THE POLAR BEAR S Hair Seal la Favorite Food of These silly looking, with a skin that fits badly, the white bear is nevertheless very fleet footed. Often they are not pure white, frequently being killed posSt Michael, Alaska. Heavy weath- sessing yellow, brown, and black spots er, with tremendously large ice floes on hips and back. The flanks aDd legs in Bering sea, promises the natives are covered with hair sometimes twenof Kotsebue sound the most favorable ty inches long. in a polar-hea- r generation. hunting The much sought food of these uqua-tl- c A good market exists this year for animals Is the hair seal, and nature the fine white polar bear skins, and has helped them hunt by providing a these arctic nomads ure so plentiful coat that harmonizes with surrounding a good catch is anticipated. The white king of the Arctic regions landscape. That the bear might not He have an unfair advantage In the quest Is a combined has no fixed habitat, but goes where he has a coal black nose, whith he Eskimos, hides, declare food is most plentiful, coining down cunningly with the ice pad; of the North when when stalking a victim, by placing a uaw over It. seal, walrus and whale move. The heart, often capture seal in the Unlike any other nnimal, the polar bear keeps to the ice and will seek open sea. Detecting a bunch of seal shore only when cut off from open floating on the surface, the hears dive water. It is the best swimmer of the and swim deep under water. Noiseauiraal world. Loose jointed, ungainly, lessly they tome up right under the Animals and Nature Helps Them in Chase. This' map of Nicaragua shows the neutral zones established Latimer and guarded by American marines. . Slow Travel, voyage from London to Quebec in 1812 consumed tipproxlmately three weeks, depending Sailing upon weather conditions. thirteen-year-olships were In use at this period. Six Miss Eileen. Simpson, miles an hour was considered a good Camp Eire girl of Grand Rapids, firs't average speed for these vessels on a the worded Hlkh., who. has. len long oyages ; nine miles was excelnatioikl prize of $LOOO by The fastest trip made lent time. in action fob heroic' First Aid legion Atlantic by a clipper ship the across sating two lives at Ottawa Beach, on 12 days was e Michigan, last summer, The d' - ; the-Juni- ' - - trans-Atlant- ic The Knights form of known by Admiral Knights Templar M grand commandery of the Templar says that the plural the name of the organization as -- Knights Templar" Is Knights Templar, an s' on the first word only. The organization, by order of the grand encampment of Knighra Templar of the United States of America, passed a resolution to the effect that the plural form of the name shall be Knights Templar" Imnter-sailor-hob- J v before this time, since the beginning of the world, went unused by man. These are the Hertzian or radio waves which now all over the world are carrying their burden of music and the spoken word, and even nre transferring photographs. Inventors are seeking to place other burdens on the strong "young shoulders of the radio waves and assert that It is only a question of time until they will carry motion pictures and even power which may turn wheels far from the source of energy. Unshackling the Ultra-Viole- t. "Even the little known waves, shorter than those of light, are now doing their bit to push mnns civilization forward. The ultra-violray h88 for many years played an important part In photography. Now Its value In Improving human and animal health la being recognized. Ordinary window glass does not permit ultra-violrays to puss through; so that .in reality our windows, mude to admit light and warmth, are barriers against one of Natures chief forces. Special glasses which permit ultra-viole- t rays to pnss art coming Into wider use, especially In hospitals where patients may. thus be given the benefit of one more force to help them to health. Since Its discovery a generation haa performed inago, the numerable services, chiefly In permitting photographs to be taken of hones and Internal organs, and In the direct treatment of certain diseased conditions. But the Is so potent that It can tiring linrm ns well ns good, causing tissues to wither away or become Infected when exposed too long to the powerful waves. Man has learned to tame this ray, however, aud Is even finding new uses for It as Is Indicated by recent experiments which show that seeds exposed to produce great ;r yields than those untreated. Tiniest Ray Most Penetrating. "One of the rays to become known most recently is the Gamma-rathrown off by radium. This Is In and has found reality a super-X-ra- y its greatest field in carrying farther the work of its close relative. The most mysterious of the rays is that which has come to light within the last year or so, the MUllken or Cosmic ray, which is the ultimate at the present time In vibratory rate and shortness. It la estimated that there are 635 trillion of these rays to the inch. So far, man does not know the origin of these infinitesimally small rays nor has he been able to utilize them. Apparently they do not come from the sun, because they reach the night aide of the world as well as the day side. One theory Is that they are given off by tojrt away nebulae solar systems In the making. They penetrate so deeply when they strike that It requires eight feet of solid lead to stop them. The boldest hypothesis In regard to their ef fects Is that the life of every animate cell depends upon Its bombardment by these tiny waves from the heavens, and it even has been suggested that life Itself was originated by them." et life-givin- g y flesh-covere- d y X-ra- y Almost 500 varieties of narcissus were Imported into this country last autumn. seal, one of which is sure to be bear meat. iolar henr pelts are of little value In the North. Only the largest and finest colored ones are commercially valued for rugs and furs. From $40 to $75 at Nome, their value Increases to $125 to $250 In Seattle and New York. The Arctic bears ere so greasy that even Eskimos refuse to eut the flesh except in extreme hunger. There Is no scarcity of white bears in n he Frigid zone, because they range an area where men seldom go. Real Realism This must be real renlism. has lost his government job because lie was too extravagant with a picture depicting Moscow. A brilliant film producer American extravagance. Find Stone-Ag- e Village Kuban, Russia. A large village of the Stone age of prehistoric antiquity has been discovered here. Bones of mastodon and many stone implements were unearthed. |