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Dijj Mountain Pealo in
Colombia; R'Le 3 Miles
The mighty Andes mountains
stretch from the extreme north of
South America down to the southern
end.
The northern parts of the Andes
are mainly in Colombia. They rise
to great heights. Some of the peaks
arc more than 3U miles high! They
arc higher than Pike’s peak. Mount
Whitney or any other peak in North
America except Mount McKinley,
Alaska, and Mount Logan in north
western Canada.
Mount McKinley rises to a height
of almost four miles. It is higher
than any peak in Colombia, but
some other high parts of the Andes
go up a bit farther. In northern
Argentine there is a peak 4 */a miles
high.
The foothills, valleys and lower
slopes of Colombia’s mountains are
covered with a rich growth of trees
and other plant life.
The forests of Colombia contain
trees which provide part of the
world’s supply of vanilla, the flavor
ing so widely used in making ice
cream and cake.
Ollier plant products of this South
American republic are sarsaparilla,
rubber and quinine. Quinine is of
great importance in fighting the
dread disease known as malaria.
On mountain slopes of Colombia
and in valleys at heights of from
one to two miles, it is possible to
grow almost any crop to be found
in the United States. Wheat, corn
and potatoes are among the things
raised by Colombian farmers.
Humus Is Important in
Restoration of Soil
Just 10 years ago a brilliant
young scientist made known in Eng
land his discovery of the manner in
which plants obtain from the soil
and air the elements required for
growth.
It was simply a matter of giving
back to the soil that which had been
taken away—a new idea, then, but
one which is now generally accept
ed as the basis of all scientific agri
culture, whether it be the cultiva
tion of grain by the hundred acres
or garden flowers by the few square
feet.
“But it is not enough merely to
return to the soil those elements of
which it has been depleted by culti
vation,” declares Charles A. Monoo
gian, noted chemist of California. ]
“These elements, essential to the
health and growth of plant life, must
be restored in a form which as
nearly approximates humus as pos
sible; that is why any fertilizer, to
be really effective, must be manu
factured through the utilization of
those same principles that made vir
gin soil fertile."
Humus, as most of us know, is the
dark brown or black residue that
remains after decay in the soil.
Its presence is so important that
neither field crops nor garden flow- i
ers can grow without it. i
Humus provides a large quantity;
of plant food; it also serves as a
reservoir of moisture required by j
growing plants.
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Five Civilized Tribes
The five civilized tribes of In- 1
dians were the Cherokee, Chicka- 1
saw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole
tribes. They were given this col
lective name because of their ad
vance toward civilized life and cus
toms.
The name appears in the reports
of the United States olllce of Indian
affairs as early as 1876 when an
agent reported that each tribe “had i
a constitutional government, with!
[legislative, judicial and executive]
departments, conducted upon the
same plan as our state govern
ments, the entire expenses of which
are paid out of their own funds.”
These tribes differed from most
othei-s in that their lands were held
not on the same basis as reserva
tions, but by patents or deeds in
fee simple, with certain restric-!
tions as to alienation and reversion.
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Father's Day
Father’s day origin is a subject
of dispute. According to one state-]
ment it was first celebrated in the ]
United States in June, 1910. Mrs. j
John Bruce Dodd, Spokane, Wash.,
begun a movement in 1909 to honor'
fathers; Mrs. Walter Hamlet Bur
gess of Virginia, now Cheltenham,!
had a National Father’s Day, Inc.,,
registered in the U. S. Patent Office
in 1921. Other claimants to honor of
found.ng day include Mrs. Charlotte
L. Kirkbride and Mrs. Carrie Stern- i
berg, of Philadelphia, and Harry C.
Meek, of Chicago. Father’s day is
now celebrated the third Sunday in,
June. Another authority says Fa-i
ther’s day was first celebrated in
Philadelphia on June 18, 1911, "and!
had its origin from the celebration i
of Mother's day, inaugurated by
Miss Anna Jarvis of that city.”
Badge of Father’s day is the rose.
Republic of Uruguay
Uruguay is the smallest of the
South American republics. Its in
habitants joined Argentina in the re
volt against Spain in 1810. How
ever, weakened by their efforts to
drive out the Spaniards, the Uru
guayans were easily conquered by
the Portuguese of Brazil in 1817.
In 1828, after fierce fighting by Uru
guayan patriots, the country won its
present independence. The beauti-1
ful Montevideo public square was
named Plaza de la Independencia
to keep green the memory of that
event.
Explosion of Sun Would
Destroy Life on Earth
A scattered few celestial “fire
cracker stars” which exploded in
space many million years ago were
described recently by Dr. Edwin
Hubble of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington.
Should the sun ever pass through
this explosive stage, he said, all life
on earth would be wiped out within
a few minutes "and then evolution
would have to start all over again.”
Dr. Hubble, astronomer at the Mt.
Wilson observatory in California, de
scribed stars which would make the
brightness of the sun appear like a
penny candle in contrast.
These are the novae and super
novae, stars which suddenly flame
into brilliance, apparently because
of some internal disturbance, and
then dwindle back into celestial
obscurity within a few weeks or
months.
Ordinary novae, or new stars,
which are the penny firecrackers of
the universes outside the milky way,
“blow up” with the force of about
1,000 miles per second, he reported
and attain a brilliance approxi
mately 300,000 times that of the sun.
The super-novae flame into a bril
liance greater than 100,000,000 suns
and during their brief life can be
seen with the naked eye in broad
daylight.
These super “firecrackers” are
extremely rare, Dr. Hubble said.
Only 37 have ever been observed.
‘Super-Insect’ Perils
Crops, Warns Scientist
Efforts of American agriculture
to control harmful insects, which
cost the industry millions annually, 1
may boomerang and lead to the
emergency of a super-race of in- 1
sect pests.
This is the belief of Dr. Harry S. |
Smith of the University of California !
1 citrus experiment station.
Paradoxically, the scientist de
clared, it will be the most intelli-!
gent grower, “the one who is the
most painstaking and conscientious
in the control of his pests,” that will
be confronted first with the problem
of the new super-pests.
“Insect species,” Dr. Smith ex
plained, “apparently have the abil
ity to produce more resistant races
if conditions are favorable. Isolat
ed individuals of these races may
appear at any time but will become
dominant only if some favorable al
teration in environment occurs.
“The regular application of in
secticides,” he pointed out, “may
cause such an alteration and allow
new races more resistance to thesfe
insecticides and replace those
races less able to survive.
' “Thus, continued, intense pest con
trol operations may result in devcl- ]
opment of insect races which bc
; come harder and harder to kill.”
Coronagraph Simple Device
The principle of the coronagraph
(which resembles an anti-aircraft
gun) is simple, A metal disc is
placed at the focus of the telescope
1 lens to cut out the bright sun image.
[ A second lens focuses on photo
| graphic film the black disc and flar
ing corona, and a powerful spectro
graph breaks up coronal radiation
into its component cokirs. A mov
ing picture camera can also be at
tached to the telescope,
Coronagraph recordings may have
great practical value.
Coronal observations may furnish
an index that statisticians can use,;
or perhaps misuse, in attempts tej
correlate solar activity with ter
ritorial affairs, such as the amount j
of ozone in the atmosphere, occur-[
1 rence of aurorae, biological effects;
of radiation, meteorological phe- j
nomena, and perhaps some day,
long-range weather forecasting.
New Noses
People whose ears are slashed off!
in auto accidents, or whose noses |
are eaten away by cancer, cannot al-;
ways have new ones made of flesh i
and blood grafts. At the Mayo clin
ic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a
trained sculptor, molds artificial
noses and ears so rctsy and translu
cent that only an eagle eye can spot
them as fakes. Dr. Bulbulian uses
] “prevulcanized liquid latex," a
creamy rubber compound, which
I can be tinted delicately before it
i hardens.
! Dr. Bulbulian takes pride in
i matching flesh tints, in decorating
his noses with tiny pores and wrin
kles. Both noses and ears are
glued on with a liquid adhesive
j made of mastic gum dissolved in
chloroform or benzene. Like false
teeth, false noses and ears can be
i doffed at night,
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Arithmetic Before Mathematics
1 Although the Guatemala of today
; is a most charming country, it is as
the home of the Mayas during the
1 first 1,000 years of the Christian era
that the now modern republic cap
tures and holds our interest. The
Mayas, the first civilized people in
the Western hemisphere, developed
a calendar and had a system of
arithmetic 2,000 years before math
ematics came into general use in
Europe, They erected magnificent
cities and joined them with well
built roads. The culture they creat
ed proves them to have been the
“most brilliant aboriginal people on
the planet.” For reasons unknown,
I in about 1000 A. D. they emigrated
to Yucatan. There and in Guate
mala the ruins of their massive tem
ples and handsome cities are today
coming to light in the jungle.
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SPECIALIST
In a southern village a small
darky boy fell desperately ill with j
meningitis, and the village doctor t
sent for a specialist from the city.
The victim was placed on the table
for a spinal injection, and as the
city man made ready the needle,
other Negroes crowded the doorway
of the little cabin. As the plunger
was pressed home, the child gave
one last quiver and died.
There was a deep silence among
the onlookers until one of them in !
an awe-stricken voice, whispered, 1
“Good Lord, he do kill ’em quick, |
don’t he?”
True Enough
| “Sound,” said the schoolmaster,
“is something that a person can |
hear, but neither see nor feel.”
“Oh! I don’t know,” said the boy
at the foot of the class. “I think |
; I can prove that you are wrong in
j your theory.”
The man of learning tartly sug
gested the lad give them an ex
ample.
“Very well,” said the young man.
“Yesterday you gave me a sound
thrashing, the other pupils saw it,
and don’t you think for a minute I
j didn’t feel it.”
CORRECT
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“Do you go in for outdoor sports
much, Miss Pert?”
“No, I go out for them.”
Quick Thinker
“Where are you going, Smith?”
“To the doctor. I have a split
ting headache and feel terrible.”
“Well, when I feel that way my
| wife just strokes my forehead lor
j about twenty minutes, with a few
I kisses thrown in for good measure,
and soon all the pain is gone. Jolly
nice treatment. Why don’t you try
it and save a doctor bill?”
“I will, thanks old man. Think
your wife would mind if I came over
now?”
Tough
“Don’t you know that the Edin
burgh express is passing here di
rectly at 60 miles an hour?” said
the station master. “Come back,
come back!”
The other slowly turned his head,
and taking the pipe out of his mouth,
replied: “You’re awfy feered for
] your train!”
Making Sure
“There’s an ifnexploded bomb
buried here,” said the British air
raid chief, as ha posted a warden.
“Just keep an eye on things and
j ;blow your whistle if anything hap
pens.”
“0 K,” replied the warden. “But
j do I blow it going up or coming
i down?”
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Fickle
’ In summer time I think we’d prize
| A snowbank clear up to our eyes,
But when we get it, I’m afraid
We sigh for ninety in the shade.
Motherly Advice
What did the mother pig say to
the butcher?
“I didn’t raise my boy to be a
shoulder.”
SLID IN
| “Hey, Joe, hungry?”
i “No, why?”
■, “See you’re eating off the home
i plate.”
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Go-Between
First Maid—How did you like
working for that college professor?
1 Second Maid—Aw, it was a tough
job. He was all the time quarreling
with his wife, and they kept me
busy running between the keyhole
and the dictionary.
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j Secretive
' “My husband traces his ancestry
back to Edward the Confessor.”
1 “I guess mine must come from
William the Silent; I can never get
] him to own up to anything,”
Training Dog Easy When !
Confidence Is Gained
All dogs are blessed with natural
intelligence and are not hard to
1 train. Of course, as m everything
I else, the would-be trainer must
start the right way. This unfor- ;
tunately is not always done and the
result is that the puppy is thrown to
i one side and labeled “brainless,” j
whereas, if a trainer would only
take the trouble first to gain the con- i
fidence of a puppy before attempt
ing any method of teaching, there
would not be so many so-called
dumbbells.
Gaining the puppy’s confidence is
i the first and most important step
in the training. The timid and nerv
ous type requires great care. One
1 must understand a puppy of this na
ture much more thoroughly than
that of the more aggressive and
fearless type, and a wrong move
during the training of a timid puppy
may result in complete and per
manent failure. After all, dogs are
| very human, more human than
many people will admit. If the
trainer would lose sight of the fact
that he is training an animal and
train it more as a child, he would
I meet with satisfactory results be
i cause the two methods of training
j are more or less identical.
One must first gain the confidence
■ of a child if the best results are to
be obtained. Dog training is based
on this same principle. Of course,
many people lack the necessary
I qualifications to become trainers,
such qualifications as proper under
standing and sympathy. These are
most important factors. Without j
them one would only meet failure |
and ruin what might have been a
really high-class trained dog, and
it is not so much what we teach |
but the manner in which we teach j
it that counts.
Mercury Most Elusive
Planet; Gains on Earth
The planet Mercury is about
36,000,000 miles from the sun, as
compared with the earth’s distance
of 93,000,000 miles. It moves around
the sun four times during one of our
years, and so it gains three laps
jon the earth each year. Three
times it swings out to the east of
the sun to be visible in our evening
sky, and three times it swings out
to the west of the sun to be visible
in our morning sky.
Because of its nearness to the sun,
Mercury receives about six times
as much heat as we do. Also it
appears to turn the same face
always toward the sun, in the same
way that the “man in the moon”
keeps his face always toward the
earth. The result is that the sun
ward side of Mercury is hot enough
to melt lead, while the part where
eternal night prevails is intensely
cold. These extremes of tempera
ture combined with its lack of at
mosphere make it certain that our j
kind of life could not exist in this !
world. |
American Indian Origination
Anthropologists they are the
men who study man—have estab
lished “beyond reasonable doubt”
that the American Indian originated
in Siberia, where practically the
same types exist today. He mi
grated here, trickling down through
out our continent, byway of Alaska.
The time of the Indians’ coming
was around 5,000 years ago. How
is he faring today? The once van
ishing Indian population of the
United States is now over 361,500,
a gain of nearly 100,000 since 1900.
Furthermore, the Indians are
steadily moving toward a wholly
self-supporting existence. And our
red brothers have the proud satis
faction of knowing that they con
tributed to our love of the out-of
doors, gave us corn and tomatoes,
potatoes and squash, added to our
store of words, and founded the first
real American art with their fine
handicrafts.
Indian Princess
Pocahontas, the warm-hearted In
dian princess who saved the life ol
Capt. John Smith, was the daughter
of the great Powhatan, head of tha
strong Virginia Confederation,
whose rule extended over 40 tribes
from the James to the Potomac
rivers. Captain Smith, a gallant
soldier of fortune, organized the
first English settlement in what is
now the United States, at James
town in 1607. One day the daring
captain ventured into the dangerous
Virginia country and was captured
by Powhatan’s braves. They were
preparing to “beat out his brains,”
! as Smith himself wrote in a third
} person account of the adventure,
I when Pocahontas, “the King’s dear
est daughter ... got his head in
her arms and laid her own against
his to save him from death.” The
soldier’s life was spared and Pow
hatan and he smoked the pipe of
| peace.
Chimney Swift Fastest
The chimney swift has been
( clocked at more than a hundred
miles an hour. Excepting the duck
hawk, he is the swiftest bird that
flies. And the unique thing about
this speedster is that his wings beat
; alternately rather than in unison.
He catches his food, bathes and
drinks while on the wing. From the
time he leaves his chimney until he
returns to it, he is never known to
light. It has been estimated that
individuals may cover a thousand
miles in a single day in search of
food. A
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—A: OVER GEORGIA, this Committee
works hand in hand with the constituted authorities to see that whole- I
some conditions are maintained at retail beer outlets and that im- I
properly conducted places are “cleaned up or closed up.” Sheriff Me- I
Gown’s letter cites a specific example of such effective cooperation ... I
it is also a typical expression of the appreciation with which Georgia’s ■
alert, conscientious law enforcement officers—state, county and city— I
welcome this additional shoulder to the wheel. I
You—the public—can help in two ways. (1) Tell I
your officers that you approve the Clean Up ■
or Close Up effort. (2) If you buy beer, buy it I
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