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History of National Devel
opment Qutlined.
Washington.—A general realignment
of state boundaries, including the
creation of new states and, perhaps,
the disappearance of some, is a possi
bility. Whether or not the consolida
tions would equal the divisions is un
certain, but any such plan would be
more likely to add stars to the blue
field ¢f the American flag and mem
bers to the United States senate.
No nation grows according to pre
conceived plan. At one time in the
early history of America, Charleston,
S. C,, was as important a port as New
York city. and even Alexandria, Va.,
was nearly so. Yorktown, Va., now a
town of only 500 inhabitants, was an
important port of entry. Benjamin
Franklin, in his autobiography, tells
of a contemporary of his who refused
to buy a dwelling and instead rented
a house or lodgings because -of - his
firm conviction, lasting throughout
his life, that Philadelphia could not
possibly increase in size but would
dwindle away and investors in real
estate would lose.
Growth Is Problematical.
It must be remembered that these
cities were in existence under the
British crown for about the same
length of time they have been under
the American flag and yet the new
republic was several decades old be
fore it became a certainty that New
York was to be the metropolis of the
Western world.
It took more than two centuries for
New York to reach an undisputed
place in the front rank of American
cities. It is possible that, with the
development of air transportation,
some other city, Chicago, perhaps, or
St. Louis might yet outdistance her.
So state lines laid down generations
ago do not fit as well now as they did
originally and there is occasional agi
tation for drastic changes. That other
people in the world besides Americans
are interested is revealed by the fact
that the proposal to make New York
city and its environs a sgparate state
was the subject of a paper read before
a recent meeting of the British Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Science.
The erection of New York into a
new state would be the most impor
tant of state-line changes. The idea
Is by no means new. Fernando Wood,
elected mayor of New York ecity in
1861, in the course of his inaugural
address, declared his belief that the
city should be separated from the
state of New York or, perhaps, even
from the United States itself, becom
{lng a free city under no sovereignty
save its own, as were the famous free
cities ,of Europe in earlier times.
Causes Disharmony.
The reasons are hoth political and
economic. New York city is Demo
cratic and because of its huge popula
tion often elects a Democratic gover
nor and state officers. The rest of
the state is normally Republican, usu:
ally returning a Republican legisla
ture. This means a certain amount of
disharmony. New York city pays an
enormous proportion of the total tax
bili of the state and citizens of the
metropolis pay for improvements,
roads, public works and the like, in
other parts of the state which they
pever use or even see,
A similar suggestion has been made
in respect to St. Louis and its en
virons, It, too, is a great port and
commercial center, In fact, St. Louis
manufacturers and other business
men, in their national advertising, al
ready use the slogan, “The Forty-
Ninth State.”
Chicago has been proposed as an
other new state. Here, again, 18 a
case in which there is a great me
tropolis paying a large share of the
taxes of the state within which it
yles. It is a lake port and, by way of
the Wellund canal, a seaport. It is
the greatest railway center in the
country. It is often of different polit
feal complexion from the remainder of
the state.
It has been proposed to divide the
vast state of Texas, which formerly
was an Independent republie, into
four states. The area is so extensive
that the type of people and the type
of industry and agriculture In scine
parts is greatly different from that
of others.
Persian Women Reach
for Greater Liberty
Ispatan, Persia.—Equal rights for
Persian women has become the domi
nant question of public interest, with
bewildering suduenness,
Reform projects are said to be
~ ready for presentation at the next ses
‘mlon of the Perslan parliament here.
' There Is evidence that public opinion
* would welcorme a change.
Persia, moreover, a 8 the greatest
All-Mosle.n state, would stimulate the
movemert toward the emancipation of
_women in all eountries of the Orlent.
The chunge has gained great momen
~ tum In Teheran, where it Is no longer
~_an uncommon thing for women to at
_tend theatrical performances und enter
¢ nhn.
~ Machine Kills Weevils
- RLaredv, Texus.—Martin Sanchez, a
Meglean blacksmith, has invented »
ma that, driven down a cotton
;jE:a’ brush boll weevils, red spi
~ @brs and other vermin Into pans of
f ofl nnd exterminate them. He
~ bas recelved orders for 150 of the Im
DREAD LEPROSY
LOSING TERROR
Evidence Malady Is Under
Control in U. S.
Carville, La.—Science is taking the
terror out of one of the world’s most
dreaded diseases,
Regarded since the dawn of history
as a living death, leprosy apparently
is beirg brought within the list of
curable maladies, and the leper is be
ing given firm ground for hope;
“Unclean!” the cry of fear, horror
and revulsion has come down the cen
turies. The fear has always been ex
aggerated to a greater or less degree,
but has been none-the-less real in the
minds of victims and those about
them. d
Within the last few weeks, eight pa
tients have been released on proba
tion from the National Leprosarium
here, sent back to their homes no
longer a menace to the public health.
Since the institution was established
by the United States public health
service seven years ago, 37 have been
released, and only one has suffered
a relapse. Those released recently
had been under treatment from two to
seven years, and about 400 others re
main. ! r $
Many of the bacteriological, chem
ical, pathological and eclinical studies
which have contributed to the ad
vances made in treatment of the dis
ease in recent years have been con
ducted by health service workers in
Hawaii. Their principal achievement
has been the development of chemical
derivatives from chaulmoogra oil ob
tained from an Oriental tree which
have increased its effectiveness in
combating the leprosy germ.
The scientific studies also have es
tablished that the disease is commu
nicated only by direct and usually pro
longed contact with a victim, Casual
contact, the investigators found, is
not dangerous as it has been regard
ed, and they suspect that nasal secre
tions probably have most to do with
transmission of the germs.
Statistical studies conducted in con
nection with the scientific work indi
cate that the number of cases of lep
rosy in the United States exceeds
1,000,
Office Carbon Used
for Scientific Work
New York.—How a piece of ordinary
carbon paper, such as every office
stenographer uses for duplicate letters,
solved -an exacting scientific problem
is recorded in the metallography de
partment of the Bell Telephone labora
tories here, : : &
The problem was to focus the ultra
violet microscope, which uses the rays
at .the blue end of the spectrum.
These rays are invisible to the eye,
but register on a photographic plate.
The delicacy of the adjustment is in
dicated by the fact that the micro
scope phctogiaphs objects as small in
diameter as two hundred or three
hundred atoms, which is the closest
to nothing that visibility has yet ap
proached.
Francis F. Lucas, in charge of the
work, observed that carbon complete
ly absorbed the ultraviolet light, which
meant that if a line of carbon saffi
ciently thir could be laid across the
surface under the microscope, if would
form an object of sufficient contrast to
make focus possible. How to get such
a line was solved, after considerable
experiment, simply by laying a sheet
of ordinary carbon paper face down
on the specimen and drawing a line
with a pencil on the back of the car
bon.
Russia Sends Coats
to Moslem Women
Tiflis, Caucasus.—One hundred thou
sand rubles worth of heavy overcoats
have been rushed by the Soviet gov
ernme..t (0o the Caucasus to provide
Mohammedan women of ‘the rumerous
mountaineer tribes with wirm eloth
ing. “The wearing of ' overcoats by
women was formerly forbigden by, the
law of the prophet. The wo.nen of
the mountains are offered the over
conts on long term credit and at pro
duction price. .
Steals Dummy Ham
Loulsville, Ky.—A grocer used a
wooden Imitation of a tempting ham
in a window display, and as a result
must pay for a new glass for the show
case. A passerby saw the advertise
ment after midnight, shattered the
window and seized the ham, He soon
dropped it, however,
:
Holds Dry Throats 1
Stop Birds’ Singing |
Washington,~Do oirds stop :
2 singing because their throats |
ure dry? |
% The possibllity of something |
of the sort being the case Is i
suggested by Dr, H, 8. Reed of |
the citrus experiment station, !
Riverside, Calif,, In a note to |
Sclence Service. He states that |
the Californin meadow lark |
sings occaslonally In winter, and :
that such outbursts of song nl
most always come In damp |
weather, just before or after u
raln, :
Doctor Reed nlso calls atten |
tlon to a supporting observation :
made by Dr. Willlam E. Ritter
of the University of Californiu. |
who has heard mendow larks |
singing all winter through at |
La Jolla, where the sen alr is |
ulwanys humid, :
CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD
IN U. S. IMPROVING
Own Property Valued at
Billion and Half.
Washington.—American Indians are
no longer a vanishing race. They own
propefty of all kinds valued at more
than a billion and a half dollars and
those who are competent to handle
their affairs are free from jurisdiction
of the United States bureau of Indian
affairs. Only 15 per cent of the mem
bers of the five eivilized tribes of, Ok
lahoma come under the jurisdiction of
this bureau. Altogether about one
third of the Indians in this country
are free (o dispose of their lands as
they see fit.
The Indians. have made more rapid
progress during the last 50 years than
any other Jependent people in the his
tory of the world. In their efforts
they have been aided by the govern
ment. In their ambition to be self
supporting they have gone a.long way
toward success. Actual figures show
that the death rate of the redmen
has 'decreased from 35.55 per 1,000 in
1911 to 21.8 per 1,000 in 1927 and that
the birth cate increased to exceed the
death rate. In 1900 there were about
270,000 Indians and the population for
1928 is approximately 356,000.
Citicenship Is Conferred.
Citizenship has been conferred upon
all Indians in the United States. Prior
to 1924 or two thirds of them were
citizens. The United States Supreme
court holds that *“‘citizenship is not in
compatible with tribal existence or
continued guardianship and so may be
conferred without completely emanci
pating the Indians or placing them be
yond the reach of congressional regu
lations adopted for their protection.”
Social 'fe for the Indian is broad
ening with his interests in education
and industry.. The fact that more In
dian children than ever before are at
tending public schools indicates the
advance that has been made. On many
reservations the government schools
have been displaced entirely by the
public schools. But there is still an
obvious need for Indian schools, for
there are 200 reservations with almost
that many tribes and 58 languages.
Less than half the population can
speak English. :
The federal government wundertook
the education of the Indian children
after the reservation system had de
stroyed their old system of primitive
education, which was suited to the
needs of the early Indians. Difliculties
have arisen in educating them because
they learned English as a foreign lan
guage, if they learned it at all. Also
the Indian parents were antagonistic
to the movement. However, there are
at this time over 75,000 Indian chil
dren eligible to attend school. The
government schools care for a third of
this number, and the mission schools
have enrolled about 5,000. Several
thousand do not go to schoo! and the
others are pupils at publie schools.
Government Schools.
. Government schools include 27 non
reservation bhoarding schools, 51 reser
vation boarding schools, and 129 res
ervation day schools. The nonreser
vation schools ecarry .instruction be
yond elementary grades for pupils
who have the desire and ability to
learn. - The " larger nonreservation
schools su~h as Haskell institute at
Lawrence, Kan.; Phoenix Indian
gchool at Phoenix, Ariz.; Salem Indian
school in Chemawa, Ore., and Sher
man institute at Riverside, Calif., are
well known. These schools offer in
dustrial and vocational instruction in
addition to six elementary grades.
Most of the reservation day and
boarding schools offer only the ele
mentary grades. In the fourth, fifth,
and sixth grades such subjects as agri
culture, stock raising and trades are
taught boys, and the girls study home
training, cooking, plain sewing, laun
dering, and poultry raising. Academic
instruction i given in subjects essen
tial to vocational sdvancement,
3,833 Seek Admission
to Army Air Corps
Washington.—An increased interest
In aviation is reflected in applications
for training received by the army alr
corps. During the fiseal year, which
ended last June 30, there were 3823
such applications as ecompared with
1,063 in the previous year. However,
but 506 G applicants qualified.
Maj. Gen, James E. Fechet, chlet of
the air corps, In his annual report to
Seeretary Davls, sald that lack of
funds to permit the Immediate com
missioning of the alr school gradu
ates Is hampering the fulfillment of
the air corps’ five-year program,
The number of enlisted pllots has
steadlly decreased, the report sald,
primurily beenuse of the increased
conunercial Mying activities which of
fer these men hetter pay than gov
ernmental agencles,
“It the alr corps 18 to retaln Its
small number of enlisted pilots,” the
report continued, “It is belleved that
sultable grades should he set aslde
for the exclusive use of men xo rated
or that a separate and distinet grade
bhe secured.”
Tax Book in Braille
Nushvllle, Tenn —Because Overton
county, Tennessee, elected a blind
trustee, Its tax bhook 1s heing tran
scribed by the Brallle system, #o that
the official may rend the records with
his finger tips,
“F" as in Phone
Salem, Muks.—A Salem uthlete who
wore the letter “F* on his swenter wis
asked what It stood for. “Philudel
phia,” he replied.
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L 01l from peat might be producedsat
Tregaron bog, a vast stretch of valu
able peat land between Aberystwyth
and Lampeter, West Wales. Engineers
and experts have surveyed the area
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Cuba has turned much of its former
forest land over to the growing of
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assoclation. The coast line of Sauto
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eleared of tree growth than 1s ever
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