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How Dry Raids Help Disabled War Veterans
When Washington revenue officers raid an illicit distillery, the copper which composes tiie still is carefully saved
and turned over to disabled veterans at Walter Reed hospital, who use it to make candlesticks, bowls, asli trays
and other novelties. The photo shows one of the boys cutting up a section of a large still while his comrades are
busily turning other parts of it into useful nnd legal articles.
Start of Women’s Balloon Race in France
Scene at St. Cloud, France, at v the start of women's balloon race. The feminine air pilots displayed great
skill in handling the balloons.
When Ford Had to Borrow Two Cents
Henry Ford at Atlantic City buying from Postmaster Alfred Perkins the
first of tiie Thomas Edison commemorative stamps issued for the golden jubilee
of the electric light. Though Mr. Ford is one of the richest men in tiie world,
he had to borrow two cents to make tiie purchase.
Salt Water Swimming for Paralysis
On the theory that child patients suffering from infantile paralysis re ax
muscles while immersed in warm salt water, a tank has been
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le Children’s hospital in Washington. Edith Symes, <
s. Talbert are shown demonstrating the tank treatment with two y
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CLEVELAND' COURIER
WINS HIGH HONOR
B. Kenneth Johnson, a member oi
this year’s graduating class at Yale,
who captured tiie annual award of the
Prix de Rome in architecture. This
is the William Rutherford Mead Fel¬
lowship, and it carries an annual cash
income of $1,500 for three years, with
residence and studio at the academy
in Rome and an allowance for trans¬
portation to and from Rome. It is
estimated to be worth about $8,000
to the winner.
KIPKE IS HEAD COACH
Harry Kipke, one of tiie greatest,
all-around athletes in Michigan foot¬
ball history, will guide the destinies
of the Wolverine gridiron team next
fall. He was named to succeed Elton
E. (“Tad”) Wieman, whose personal
and administrative conflicts with
Athletic Director Fielding H. Yost
resulted in his dismissal.
HEIGHT LIMIT OF
SKYSCRAPER NEAR
Elevator Demands Make Lofty
Towers Unprofitable.
Now York.—Where 100,000 men
once spent 20 years building a pyra¬
mid for tiie Pharaohs, a thousand
men now rear a modern skyscraper
50 stories into the air in a single
year. But where the Pharaohs raised
their monuments to stand for all time,
the life of the modern monument to
commerce is fixed at 25 years. Chil¬
dren who watch these lofty towers
reaching toward the sky today In
New York, Chicago and a score of
other cities wiiV, as middle-aged ad¬
ults, see them leveled again.
Tiie explanation is that the aver¬
age skyscraper is being built compar¬
atively as cheaply as a subdivision
bungalow because tiie builder cannot
afford to take chances on the course
of rapidly changing land values ns
tiie American city changes its course
of growth, points out Silas Bent in
World’s Work. They cannot risk
sinking a fortune in a giant ollice
structure only to find that within 10
or 15 years the district has changed
from n commercial one to a manu¬
facturing center. They also cannot
risk encumbering land that may rise
many times in value with a building
that may be antiquated within a dec¬
ade.
Whether the 75-story skyscraper
soon to be erected in Chicago will
mark tiie ultimate in lofty construc¬
tion, or whether it will he surpassed
by a 110-story tower projected in New
York and hy ottiers still higher, is a
problem interestingly discussed by
Mr. Bent.
While theoretically there is no lim¬
it to which builders may not aspire
today, there is a rigid economic limit
at which such buildings cense to be
profitable, he shows. And tiie limit is
due to one of (he chief factors that
made the skyscraper possible—the
elevator.
“Tiie taller tiie building, tiie great¬
er must he the number of elevators
to accommodate U>e tenants," lie
points out in the World’s Work article.
“Now wtiere ground rentals are
enormous the space given over to ele¬
vators becomes an item of moment.
In cities of a million population il is
calculated Hint the 20 story building
is about as lofty as is consistent with
economic construction. Only whore
land values are abnormal, or where
there is exceptional advertising value
In mere height, are more stories
justified.’'
A building so high that it must
give a third or half of its ground
space over to elevator shafts would
necessarily be far more costly than
one only two-thirds ns high, and not
as profitable, tie shows. So that un¬
less engineers devfse some apparent¬
ly impossible means of indoor trans¬
portation for the tens of thousands
of inhabitants, tiie skyscraper soon
will have readied Its positive limit.
Former Ghost Town
Citizens Hold Reunion
Trnver, Calif.—One of California's
best known “ghost” towns returned
to life here with a population of ap¬
proximately 500 citizens for one day,
when visitors came from as far north
as Sacramento and ns fitr south as
Los Angeles.
“Citizens" is the proper word to
describe the returning population, for
all of the 500 persons were former
residents, gathered in reunion. It was
tiie 45th anniversary of tiie f tending
of Traver, once a 3,000 population cen¬
ter of a great grain and horticultural
area.
Every building in tiie town has dis¬
appeared. The last to go was tiie Del
Znnte hotel, burned to tiie ground last
year, together with a little store.
Alkali was responsible for Traver’s
demise as a municipality. The chem¬
ical came to tiie surface with irriga
tion, killing grain, orchards and vine¬
yards.
Cattle now roam over sparse "salt
grass” where once a prosperous com¬
munity existed. The 500 reuniorilsts
picknicked beneath tiie great eucalyp¬
tus trees that border what once was
the Traver school yard.
Texas Claims Largest
Wheat Field, 6,000 Acres
Heresford, Texas.—This section ot
Texas has issued claim to tiie largest
single wheat field in tiie state, and is
shooting at national honors. The field
of grain is under one fence and com¬
prises 0,000 acres. Production (s ex¬
pected to total about 200.000 bushels
of wheat valued at approximately
$250,000.
Monster Codfish
Provincetown, 'lass.— What was be¬
lieved tiie biggest codfish ever caught
in Massachusetts waters was brought
in by Cnpf. George Brier off Truro re¬
cently. The giant weighed 100 pounds.
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Jjj Racine, Wis.—A radio receiv- ^
* ing system that serves a dual *
purpose has been installed in a *
* Racine school. Aside from mak- *
* ing broadcasted programs avail- *
* able in each schoolroom, a mi- *
J crophone has been installed in * *
* tiie office of ttie principal so
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BIG FOREST PARK ON
BORDER IS PROPOSED
To Preserve Huge Area in
U. S. and Canada.
Minneapolis, Minn.—An area of
lake and forest four times larger than
Yellowstone National park and lying
in tiie heart of the continent among
the border lakes of Ontario and Min¬
nesota will be dedicated for all time
to a mnnyslded and far-reaching pro¬
ject of conservation if the conserva¬
tionists of Canada and tiie United
States have their way. It is proposed
to Sit aside hy treaty under a uniform
policy of balanced forestry administra¬
tion some 10,000,000 acres of forest
lands containing more than 3,000 con¬
nected lakes.
What is known as the Rainy Lake
watershed, lying in tiie two countries,
will be devoted to the maximum pro¬
duction of forest and related crops
hut with all tiie natural features of
its lakelands—tiie rapids, waterfalls,
islands, and wooded shores—kept in¬
violate as in a park. These rock-bound
lakes with their original flora and
fauna, their ancient Indian tribes,
and their historic past will become a
wilderness sanctuary for man and
beast.
Backed by Walton League.
An organization for the purpose of
fostering and achieving such a dedi¬
cation has received tiie enthusiastic
support of distinguished men and wom¬
en from every part of the continent.
It is associated with the Izaak Wal¬
ton League of America and is known
as the Quetico-Superior council, with
headquarters in Minneapolis. Tiie
name merely empha8lz.es its interna¬
tional character, being derived from
tiie two forest preserves established
in the region twenty years ago—tiie
Quetico provincial park in Ontario
and Superior national forest in Minne¬
sota. Tiie council is a temporary in¬
ternational body for mustering the
support and directing tiie efforts of
all individuals and societies in both
countries, who are interested in its
purposes.
Officials Distinguished.
Tiie council announces a list of ten
honorary vice presidents, as follows:
Dan Beard, national scout commis¬
sioner; Anna Botsford Comstock, pro¬
fessor emeritus of nature study, Cor¬
nell university; Dr. Henry van Dyke,
president National Institute of Arts
and Letters; Dr. David Starr Jor¬
dan, president emeritus Leland Stan¬
ford university; Stephen Mather,
founder and former director United
States park service; Jack Miner, Can¬
adian conservationist; Gifford I’inchot,
founder and former chief United
States forest service; Kermit Roose¬
velt, explorer and sportsman; Ernest
Thompson Seton, naturalist, artist,
author; George Sliiras ill, faunal nat¬
uralist and wild game photographer.
In addition tiie council has associ¬
ated with itself a board of advisers,
representing every aspect ol this In¬
ternational project.
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School Class to Study
Insects 55 Years Old
Nebraska City, Neb.—Giant grass¬
hoppers fifty-five years old have been
presented to tiie biology classes of
the local high school for dissection
study.
These same “hoppers,” dead many
years in a bottle of alcohol on the
shelf of a deserted house, wen of the
phenomenal swarms which, like a
great rain cloud, appeared out-of no¬
where in the summer of 1874 and
wrought havoc in several crop-growing
states of tiie Southwest.
With tiie finding of the pickled in¬
sects, revealed when house wreckers
tore down an old home here, pioneers
recalled the grasshopper “clouds” of
’74 which suddenly devastated crops
and all growing tilings.
Billions of them appeared from tiie
skies, stopped momentarily, and passed
on to nobody knows where. Their
appearance was one of tiie mysteries
and tragedies of the pioneer West.
Old timers say they appeared as
suddenly as a thunder storm, settled
down upon growing corn, grain and
pastures and proceeded to devour all
edibles in sight.
Believe it or not, but Nebraska and
northern Kansas grandparents will
tell you the hoppers were in such
numbers that they darkened the sun,
ate so fast that “you could almost
see the corn go down," and when
through with growing things, attacked
tiie curtains on the windows of homes.
Some even claim, in all seriousness,
that the noise of the grasshoppers’
eating could be beard for some dis¬
tance. Others said trains were de¬
layed when locomotive wheels “spun”
over the bodies of “hoppers” gath¬
ered on the tracks.
Unearth Remains of
48 Ancient Villages
Zurich, Switzerland.—One of the
most interesting archeological discov¬
eries of recent years was made when
the remains of 48 villages of lake
dwellers were found on the shores of
Lake Constance. A majority of the
villages were away from the water, In
dicating the lake probably was ten feet
higher ten thousand years ago than It
is now. One village Is believed to
date back to an age when man was
unacquainted with agriculture.
Celt 628 Stitche*
Atlanta, Ga.—Six hundred and twen
ty-eight stitches were taken In the
body of J. W. Sanders, twenty-one,
after he drove his car head-on into a
street car here.
LABORATORIES TO
SHAPE BOYS’ LIVES
School Will Test Aptitudes by
Freedom.
New York.—As a means of testing
the theory, long held by educators,
that if a boy were allowed access to
the paraphernalia of a number of
trades and professions he would
choose the one for which he was best
fitted, $300,(KK) will be spent at Hill
School for Boys, Pottstown, Pa.
This sum, for a new science build¬
ing, was given to tiie institution by
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, who
donated the famous Widener library
to Harvard as a memorial to her son,
drowned on tiie Titanic.
It is tiie hope of tiie authorities
of the school that by placing at the
disposal of the students various lab¬
oratories, work rooms and study halls
in which will be placed all kinds of
apparatus, tiie students, after roam¬
ing through nil of them nnd stopping
to familiarize themselves with each,
will find, by natural processes, the
fields for which they are best fitted.
To tills end the new science build¬
ing will have all sorts of laboratories
in which a student may carry on any
experiments that strike his fancy.
There will he a chemistry group
where boys can claim an individual
room if they are interested in this
line. On the lop Moor will he a minia¬
ture observatory with a telescope.
In the basement of the building
will be all manner of heavy machin¬
ery for boys who are mechanically in¬
clined. Radio and photographic lab¬
oratories also will be provided.
The room about which most interest
doubtless will center will be tiie avia¬
tion room, in this space will be tools,
instructions nnd literature for use in
building model planes which will fly
under their own power.
Michigan Homes Buried
Under Shifting Dunes
Lansing, Mich,—"Blowout” in the
dunes of Michigan are making “walk¬
ing dunes” of them and burying
houses, forests mid fruit farms, and
the state conservation department has
opened an investigation to determine
some means of remedying the situa¬
tion.
Large dunes along tiie shores of the
Great Lakes, heretofore protected by
heavy vegetation, are being literally
transferred to other localities by ac¬
tion of tiie lake winds, it has been
found. This is caused by removal of
forest growth to make way for sum¬
mer homes. Once a “blowout” as
these shiftings are termed, Is started,
nothing has been discovered that will
stop it, and thousands of dollars worth
of property is endangered by tho
movement.
Development along the lakes fur¬
nishes Michigan with one of its most
profitable industries—tourist trade—
and the problem Is being attacked
with tiie Idea in mind that sucii de¬
velopment must not be interfered with.
Co-operation of rlie geological divi¬
sion of the University of Michigan
lias been enlisted in tiie campaign to
prevent tiie dune blowouts.
Kaiser’s Sister Offers
$50,000 for Divorce
Paris. — Attorneys for Alexander
Zoubkolf, youthful husband of Prin¬
cess Victoria, sister of the former Ger¬
man kaiser, asserted here that Zoub
koff had been offered $50,(XX) to agree
to divorce tiie princess.
Zoubkoff, the lawyer, said, believes
tiie offer originated within tiie family
of tiie former kaiser, but fie said a
Berlin attorney bad produced a tetter
over the signature of tiie princess
which accepted the divorce and offered
Zoubkoff a settlement if be agreed.
Zoubkoff, who is still in exile in
Luxembourg, created a sensation in
1027 when he married tiie princess
against Hie protests of her family.
The young adventurer, who has been
banished from France and other coun¬
tries for his wild escapades since his
marriage, is in his early twenties, and
tire princess is sixty-three years old
Lake Constance Gives
Mirage as Spectacle
Lindau.—Dwellers on the northern
shore of Lake Constance have enjoyed
a unique spectacle in the form of a
mirage. Suddenly a clear picture of
Immendstadt, with the Herzberg pal¬
ace, appeared in the heavens and re¬
mained visible for some time.
Joke on Thieve*
Hamilton, Ont.—After carrying &
safe two miles from the store of Wil¬
liam Bridgewood, here, thieves found
tiie safe door opened with a mere
twist of the handle and that It was
empty.
Students Will Tour
8,000 Miles in Bus
Worcester, Mass.—An 8.000
mile trip to California and back
will be part of the regular sum¬
mer school session at Clark uni¬
versity this year. About thirty
students will attend the portable
school, which will be In charge of
Professor Burt Hudgins of the
College of the City of Detroit
Tiie journey will be made in a
motor coach. During the daily
trips of 150 to 250 miles, the pro¬
fessor in charge will direct the
observation and interpretation
of the natural regions through
which the students travel.
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