Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994, May 14, 1942, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextWar at S ; ght Is Not Rule in World of Ant* War at sight is not the rule in the ant world, but rather the exception, despite widespread belief to the con trary, declares Dr. Laurence J. La ficur, according to Science Service. When two stranger ants meet, in stead of instantly beginning battle, they usually merely back off, turn aside a little and go their respective ways, ‘Except when slave-making ants make raids on their neighbors and when spring competition for extra land causes wars, the ants of the Northern states are a peaceful lot, he states in a communication to the American Naturalist. Even the slave-making species are not necessarily murderous in their raids, Dr. Lafleur points out. He cites the observation of the late Prof. William Morton Wheeler of Harvard university, who watched such a raid in progress. Slave making ants in such raids are con cerned only with the pupae, or im mature infants, of the species they kidnap and carry off to be their servants. In the attack described by Dr. Wheeler, the marauders, much bigger and stronger than their victims, nevertheless did not kill them, but only carried the defend ers out of the nest and set them down out de, uninjured. Searchlights of Army Always Ready in Field Mobile 60-inch searchlights of 800,- 000,000 candle power, developed by the corps of engineers, U S.A., and operated by the coast artillery, play a vital role in the nation’s aircraft defense, the war department points out. These searchlights are the re sult of experiments conducted by the corps of engineers over a pe riod of about 20 years. The great lamps and reflectors throw a beam far up into the skies, and of such brilliance that on a fairly clear night, a newspaper can be read by its light five miles away. The searchlights are carried, ready for instant use, on balloon tired trailers, capable of transport ing them over the roughest terrain without damage, while gasoline mo tor-driven electrical generators ac company them on separate trailers. The light is equipped with high in tensity carbons mechanically held ond adjusted as they burn. The lights require five men each to operate. They are also used for general anti-aircraft defense. Soldiers' Identification Tags The two identification tags which every American soldier carries to day contain more information than those used in the World war, much of it medical data which might save the soldier’s life in the event he was wounded and unconscious, the war department revealed today. Instead of the aluminum disc of the World war, which sometimes deteriorated under the action of chemicals and acids encountered on the battlefield, the new tag is made of stainless and rustproof monel metal. It is two inches long, one and one-eighth inches wide, and 0.025 inch thick, with rounded cor ners and smooth edges. The tag carries, besides the sol dier’s name and serial number— the only data of the World war disc —Hie name and address of the per son to be notified in case of an emer gency, his religion and medical data concerning his record of tetanus im munization, the date on which it was completed, and his blood-type. Inland Cities Helping Navy Sixteen western Pennsylvania cit ies are doing their share in helping build a two-ocean navy. Enough steel and iron scrap, in the form of abandoned street car rails, to pro duce a dozen destroyers or two cruisers is being dug out of streets in the 16 cities for use by Pitts burgh district steel plants wording cn defense orders. The scrap is under salvage in con formity with a suggestion by the Office of Production Management that old rails be used to augment dwmdling supplies of scrap for the mills. Hail removal projects now under way or planned in the 16 cit ii ; will recover an estimated 8,800 tons of iron and steel scrap—enough to produce 17,600 tons of open hearth steel. Larg at project will be under taken in Pittsburgh, where the Pittsburgh Railway company has arranged with the WPA to remove 1,800 tons of track. Xrcheologist Completes Job What are:ieulogists might be do ing some day—if Hitler should be allowed to win—in the ashes of War saw, Belgrade, Athens, London, per haps even Chicago, has just been done by an archeologist in the ruins of a 1,000-year old culture in Ecua dor which was shattered by the con quering Incas about A. D, 1450. The Incas used methods which are al most identical with those Hitler em ploys today. Donald Collier, a museum curator of South American ethnology and archeology, returned to his post after five months of rummaging in the ruins of a people known as the Ca nari. They were conquered by the Incas, who slew thousands of them, looted the rest of their property, and shifted the population from its lands and over the mountains to Bo livia more than 1,000 miles to the south. The Incas then moved their own people into the evacuated coun try. Marine Describe* His First ‘Look at Infinity* The earth resembles a relief map from 11V4 miles in the sky, accord ing to Lieut. Col. Chester L. Ford ney of the marine corps. Colonel Fordney, who made a trip into the stratosphere with Com mander T. G. W. Settle, navy bal loonist, in 1983, says that no rivers, lakes or highways were visible but that mountains could be distin guished. “At times we would lose the image of the earth far below us,” said Colonel Fordney. “Clouds looked like a white carpet with blue toward the horizon. “The stratosphere sky is a beau tiful blue as one looks into the space above. It was so inspiring that I later described it as my first look at infinity. It was a sight that gave me my first real conception of space.” Colonel Fordney reports that the radiant energy of the sun is so in tense in the stratosphere that out side temperature at the top of the balloon’s gondola, which was paint ed white, a color that reflects heat, was exactly zero, while at the bot tom of t|>e gondola, which was painted black a color that absorbs heat, the temperature reading was 104.5 degrees above zero. There was no sensation of motion in the stratosphere although the in struments showed the balloon was rising at a speed of 120 miles an hour after passing the 35.000 foot mark, where the stratosphere be gins, the marine corps officer stated. Descent from the peak began as gas in the balloon cooled and con tracted. The balloon dropped from the 50,000 mark to 800 feet in 40 minutes, or at a speed three times as great as that of a modern ex press passenger elevator. Dean Advises Workers Be Given Personality Test Need for new types of personality tests to show why workers are or are not fitted for certain types of employment was pointed out by the dean of the school of education, Pennsylvania State college “A large proportion of workers who are fired from industrial jobs are well trained and fully able to do their work, but they have personali ty difficulties,” Dean Trabue said recently in speaking before the Na tional Vocational Guidance associa tion meeting in San Francisco. Nei ther interviews nor letters of recom mendation give adequate indications of the necessary personality traits, he explained. The interviewer’s own personality often interferes with an objective estimate, and different in terviewers frequently disagree about the applicant’s qualifications. Simi lar objections can be made to rec ommendations While a number of good personali ty tests have been devised, Dean Trabue declared that some of these merely attempt to discover abnor malities and complexes rather than fitness for a particular job. Relia ble tests which give more informa tion about normal workers in cur rent industrial occupations would undoubtedly contribute to greater ef ficiency in our war effort. Army Buys Race Horses Horses which once thrilled the crowds at Santa Anita race track in California, and ponies which thun dered across the polo fields have now joined the army, the war de partment announced. Nine horses, the pick of more than 125 recently inspected at the Santa Anita track by the remount division of the quartermaster corps were pur chased for about $7OO each and will be sent to various depots throughout the country to be used for breeding purposes. Following the outbreak of war, horse racing was abandoned on the West coast, and many own ers offered to sell their stables to the war department. The remount division is planning to purchase more race horses for breeding pur poses. Michigan ‘Building Bees’ Old-fashioned “building bees” to encourage the improvement of rural shelter in the cut-over section of northern Michigan are being encour aged by the U. S. department of agriculture. The idea is to demon strate to low-income farmers how run-down properties can be im proved at small cost when neigh bors work together. A companion plan calls for the finding of part-time employment for those farmers whose land cannot adequately support the family. Farmers will be encouraged to seek outside income through part-time employment in reforestation, in fire control, and in lumbering on public ly or privately owned lands. Whipping Post in Maryland The customary punishment of whipping as a penalty for crime, part of the common law of England, was adopted by Maryland in its first constitution in 1776 and continued through all successive constitutions of the state down to the constitution of 1864, and then it was removed from the statute books, not by direct appeal, but by force of the Consti tutional Amendment abolishing slavery. The only crime for which the whip ping post can be applied in Mary land now is for brutal assault on wife, under the Act of 1882, chapter 120, codified in 1939 code, section 11, article 27» Celebrated Italian Tenor Lived in Two Centuries Giovanni Battista Rubini was a celebrated Italian tenor, born at Ro mano, near Bergamo, Italy, April j 7, 1795. His father, a music pro fessor, was anxious that the boy be a musician, and at the age of eight young Giovanni sang in church choirs and played the violin in an orchestra. He continued concert work, his first important concert being at Naples, but his career prob- 1 ably dates from his first appearance in Paris in 1825. Between 1831 and 1843 he sang cither in England or Paris, and in 1343 he began a tour with Liszt through Holland and Germany. Aft er they separated at Berlin, Rubini went on to St. Petersburg where the Emperor Nicholas made him director of singing in the Russian dominions and conferred on him the rank of colonel. He retired in 1844 to a home he had purchased near , Romano and when he died there on j March 2, 1854, he left a great for- j tune accumulated from his operat- i ic career. Police Shows Courtesy Pays Police officials of Detroit, Mich., believe courtesy on the roads and the absence of traffic cutting and racing reduce accident rates sub stantially, so they are putting into i practice an idea that a ticket of re ward should be given courtesy driv- ! ers—and by the same traffic “cops” ! who ticket their erring ways. During the few days the tickets of reward have been issued, they have been presented to a milkman who stopped his truck to help a confused, elderly lady from the middle of the street; a driver who helped push a stalled automobile to the curb after it had stopped for a red light; and two small boys who got of! their bicycles at busy inter sections and pushed them across the street on the outside of pedestrian traffic. While the plan still is in its in fancy, the police department hopes that a system may be developed for keeping a record of courtesy cita tions, and that eventually windshield stickers will be used to identify care ful and courteous drivers. Decline in Castor Bean Growing The castor bean plant, from which we get castor oil, is not a legume, as many suppose. Although the plant grows wild and is cultivated in trop ical and subtropical countries, it is cultivated also in the warmer parts of temperate zones. The plant has been grown in this country for more than a hundred years but became an important commercial crop only in certain sections of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois in the latter part of the 19th century, from 1860 to 1900. Since that time, how ever, the industry has declined and practically has been abandoned in this country. This decline has been attributed chiefly to the reduction in price caused by the importation of large amounts of cheap castor bean seed from other countries, especial ly from India, China and Brazil. Pershing’s Auto Number Routine disclosure that Army Registration No. 17-561 has- been is sued to a light sedan assigned to the 503rd Parachute battalion at Fort Benning, Georgia, recalls that that was the number of the car used by j Gen. John J, Pershing as command er of the A.E.F. in France almost a quarter of a century ago. The big locomobile limousine which he used in France is now in the museum of the Holabird quarter master depot. After the World war the car turned up in Washington in 1922. Two years later it was at Holabird, then returned to Washing ton where it was used by the quar termaster corps. In 1927 it was again returned to the Holabh'ft de pot, where it stands in the museum. Amazing Policeman (sternly) You were doing sixty miles an hour, miss. Lady Driver —Oh, isn’t that mar velous! And I only learned to drive yesterday. Keeping Up “I wonder why we never manage to save anything?” “It's the neighbors, dear. They’re always doing something we can’t afford.” Reject “Don’t you find writing a thank less job?” “On the contrary, everything I i write is returned to me with | thanks.” How’re Ore Ears? Daddy—Well, you certainly look clean, my boy. Jackie—Sure, Daddy, Ma just gave me a personally conducted bath. More of It Teacher—Now, class, what do wc mean by plural? Bright Pupil—By plural we mean it’s the same thing, only more of it. Improvement James—l want to leave the world better than I found it. , Clarence—Well, it will certainly be better after you are gone. Quite a Gal She wears no costly raiment, No diamonds or pearls— And yet she’s worth a million— A million other girls. sp “Cotton Conscious” PIP nS Thejealities otwarh,,, FOR FIGHTING TRIM ! ||||| penalities of Cotton NATIONAL n ||:| IViAY 15-25 ten Week and Every Week. 1 ' HiT COTTON PRINTS 111 I 1 VH V kStVi* 't? llfll SEERSUCKERS Hill I 11 _II 1 yD IMI IBM INDIAN HEAD J|Ppjbroadcloth chambrays Drapery Material Bedspreads MUSLINS Floral and Striped Jacquards ORGANDY Fabric Variaty of Colors DIMITIES 50” wide $2.50 to $3.95 SUITING 79c yd Tufted LINEN Cretonne In Colors PI QUE 36” wide 93 DOTTED SWISS 19c yd ' EYELET PIQUE Flowered Chintz Sheets EMBROIDERED ORGANDY 39c yd. Foxcroft and Druid McCall Patterns $1.49 & $1.59 Curtains Sheeting Cannon Towels Ruffled Scrim g _ 4 c;o c . 15c to 39c 2 I A yds. length ! " ‘ Sets, $1 & $1.98 69c & $1.49 pr. Bleached, Ssc yd. Scrim Material Pillow Cases , e S 10c, 19c, 25c yd. 65c pr. 15c, 29c, 39c Tobacco Cloth „ ~ , , Dish Toweling 40 „ wide Breakfast Cloths 15c & 19c yd. 10c yd. Pepperell Prints Table Damask Sea Island * ’ 46” wide, 59c yd. 36 wide Bath Cloths Solid White, White with 10c & 15c yd. 10c Colored Borders “MORE FOR YOUR MONEY AT MOORE’S” /[ Phone 140 Perry, Ga. For years Chevrolet deal- FOR “SERVICE THAT SATISFIES ers have had the largest —SERVICE THAT SAVES” number of trade-ins and, , . . . . I 1 Check and Rotate Tires therefore, the widest op portunity to service and 2 Get Regular Lubrication condition all makes and 3 Service Engine-Carburetor-Batter) models. • • . Make sure 4 Test Brakes your car is serviced right 5 Check Steering & Wheel Alignnie” 1 I " mC,ke '* U SerVUed 6 Check Clutch, Transmission, by your Chevrolet dealer! Rear Axle . Originator > Outstanding Leader 7 Check Cooling System L -CMccegaiwiaar | , -nd M UNION MOTOR COMPANY Phone 136 Perry, Ga.