The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, October 09, 1919, Image 12
EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY
American Genius Quickly Produced
Precision Blocks Accurate to
Millionth Part cf Inch.
One of America's little-known frar
romances is revealed by John H. Van
I?eventer in his story of precision
.gauges, which appears in Everybody's.
Virtually all of our munitions had to
be made to limit gauges which had to
be corrected by means of precision
blocks to within a few millionths of
an inch. "Twenty years ago," writes
Mr. Van Deventor, "a Swedish toolmaker
named Johansson made up his
mind that the millionth of an inch was
the coming thing?hunted during bine
years for a practical way to get it
and got it How? Nobody knows except
Johansson, and he won't tell.
For over nine years he kept everybody ,
guessing. Our best shops imported
his blocks and used them for check- ^
ing the gauges. I
"Then came the war. with its won- (
derful stimulation of American ge- : j
nius. With It came also the need of ' j
being independent of tne 010 worm i
In the matter of guuges. j
"The war took E. C. Peek away
from his job of running a great factory
in Cleveland and brought him
to Washington to take charge of the
ganging of ordnance products. It
tfrougbt William E. Hoke of St. Louis
to the bureau wfr*?taDdards, with an
Idea of how to produce precision
blocks. Colonel Peck and Major Hoke
got together, and in six months were
turning oOt precision blocks accurate
4a the "Millionth part of an inch." |
IS LARGEST OF INDUSTRIES
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Statisticians Figure in Billions When
They Make Computations of
Live Stock Business.
The live stock industry is the larg- ^
est and, in more than one sense,
the most important industry in the
United States. Its extent, measured
by the value of live animals, amounts
to more than $8,000,000,000. Its im- 1
porta nee rests in the necessity for I
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lire stock to consume me prouucia ui
farms and ranges, 80 per cent of which,
according to census reports, Is fed to
live stock; In the maintenance of soil
fertility, which cannot be kept up continuously
and economically without a
considerable number of animals as a i
part of the farm system; In the In- 1 1
dispensable place which animal food
ccnpies in the American diet, of
which It makes up 38 per cent, based
on the average consumer's food-ex-'
pense account; and finally, in the far^
reaching influence which the growing,
fattening and marketing of live stock
has upon the social and economic welllare
of all classes of people, Including
producers, distributors, and the meateonsurolng
public.
The slaughtering and meat packIn*
business is the largest mannfac- . 1
taring industry In the United States, '
according to the United States census '
of manufacturers. The sales of live
atock In the Chicago market alone totaled
nearly $1,000,000,000 In 1918, or
over $3,000,000 a day, and the dally
aales at all of the centralized live stock
markets of this country total close to .
920,000,000. i
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England Harbor* Ex-Queen*. J
England will soon be the land of five
qaeens, a potential and powerful group
cither in politics or poker. The figure
resembles a misdeal, but it Is explained
by the fact that England has
queen and a queen piother, while
" there are in England the onetime
queens of two other countries. They
re soon to be Joined by another, Erapress
Marie of Russia. She and the
two other foreign ladles are deep In
nnhapplness ? three of the saddest
queens, as an observer has remarked,
in modern history. The two whom
Empress Marie will Join are Empress
Eugenie and the queen mother of Portugal
These three women plainly tell the ' j
ctor^ of greatness. One of them was (
driven from her throne and her son
tras killed fighting for another country;
another was exiled after having
been robbed of her husband and son, j
and her other son driven from the (
throne; the last was widowed and her ,
on, her grandson and her grand- ]
daughters brutally murdered. (
Breeding Make* No Difference. <
It has been claimed by lovers of do- 1
aoestic cats that highly bred members
?f the species do not engage In hunt- '
tog Insectivorous and song birds. A 1
lew days ago a city gardener captured
handsome cat in the act of killing a
young robiiv which had Just left its
seat near his house. He did not, kill
the bird hunter, under the authority
recently granted by the Conservation
Commission, but took the animal and
Its victim to the home of the cat's
owner. There he learned that the cut
was a highly prized ribboi-taker; and
the owner was Indignant at its capture.?Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
Get Revenue From Pests.
Rabbit skins from Australia and
New Zealand were among the largest
offerings in the recent international
fur auction at St. Louis. Half u million
pounds of Australian rabbit and
50,000 pounds of New Zealand were
sold for a total of $335,000. Tlie largest
lots went to hatters and felt manufacturers.
Nothing Doirg.
Fisherman?Is this public water?
Native?Y es.
Fisherman?it won't be a
ctlme if I land a fish?
Native?No; it'll be a miracle I
Hie...
GOAT MEM GOOD AS MUTTON
It It Said Only Experts Are Able
to Tell the Difference Between
the Two.
. There Is a growing disposition to
give the goat his doe. Heretofore this
rubbish-eating animal has been regarded
pretty much as a joke, but he
hn^ Continued to eat tin ?cnns and
thrive until now his race has acquired
census-lifting proportions and
a market has been established in a
middle-western city where surplus
goats will he converted into "spring
lamb" for the benefit of our non-vegetarians.
As an additlop to the poor
man's meat perhaps the goat will he
welcome, especially if his advent tends
to lower the present high prices.
moot tactoc miieh the snmp ns
mutton, it is claimed, and that the difference
cannot be told save by an expert.
Perhaps that is just as well.
Our imagination has much to do with
ohr taste. Many people are eating
horse meat in this country under the
Impression that It is beef, for horses
are slaughtered, but almost nowhere
!s their meat exposed for sale under
Its true name. No doubt the easiest
way for us to get used to goat ment Is
to camouflage It as mutton. It is anather
case of ignorance being bliss. i
But, as we are assured by the experts
that It Is wholesome, a name
will not make much difference in the
?nd. Mutton, the world over, has been
he poor man's meat. If goat meat
?an add to the supply, so much the
letter. The meat of goats was a
'avorite in the days of tha patriarchs,
it is still highly prized in the East.
L'here seems to be no reason why it :
ihould not ultimately hold a respectible
place on our menus.
>HE UTTERED NO CRITICISM
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3ut Many Will See Deep Significance
in That Kiss Bestowed by *
Minister's Wife.
Now, everyone knows that the mln
ster's wife must not say harsh things
ibout anyone, no matter how she
hinks. Also that though she be forced
o listen to criticism she herself must
lot give any. The other evening an
ndlanapolis parsonage woman was siting
on her front porch, when one of
he young girls of her husband's congregation
came to call. Hardly had
ihe settled herself comfortably before
he youug miss began to condemn vigirously
a very parsimonious member
if the church.
"He wouldn't give a cent to recar>eting
the parsonage," stormed the
visitor, "yet he had plenty of money
o buy himself a new seven-passenger
ourlng car. I Just hope that every
lme he starts out in it he'll have a
juncture."
The minister's wife had only that
norning spent three hard hours mendng
the old carpet She didn't say a
vord of reproof?merely looked at the
roung girl a minute and then went
icross the veranda and kissed her
:heek.?Indianapolis News.
Ticklish Bit of Tunneling.
A very interesting bit of tunneling
vas recently done on the Fourteenth
itreet tube under the East river, New
fork. The heading was being run in
ock and at one point test holes
ihowed a thickness of only eight
nghes of sound dry rock above the
ine along which the top of the tunnel
vas to ran. As the tunnel was being
lriven without the use of compressed
lir It was decided to drop the upper
leading four feet until this thin cover
jf rock was passed. The cast iron
ining was set in place at each side
if this section and then the rock was
emoved very carefully by hsing a
jreat many holes each loaded with
lbort one-eighth of a stick of dyna- '
nite. As each bit of rock was removed ]
:he arch of the tunnel lining waf set j
In place. By this uiaans the dangerous
section was tunneled without breaking
:hrough the thin shell.?Scientific
American.
His Desire.
Last autumn Roland was much in
love with his new teacher, and tried to
[irove his affection by doing many errands
for her. One of them was the
hauling of the fertilizer from his father's
barn to her flower garden.
This spring Roland became Interested
In a victory garden and started one.
One day he journeyed to the home of
his last term teacher, told her of his
garden and then ended the conversation
with, "Do you remember that fertilizer
I gave you last fall? Well, I'd
like to have it back now for my own
garden."
Ingenious Automobile Thief.
An automobile owner at Hnllowell,
leaving his car, hitched it to a tree by
winding a chain around one of the
wheels of the machine and fastening
the end of the chain around a tree.
An automobile thief jacked up the car,
loosened the wheel which was chalued
to the tree, took it off, and then removing
the extra wheel from the rear
of the car put it on In the place of the
wheel which had been dropped off and
drove away, leaving the single wheel
chained to the tree.
Big Game Hunters Protest.
A proposal that Canada incrense its
meat supply by using airplanes to drive
the great herds of caribou from the
barrens of the northern provinces into
corrals on the shore of Hudson bay for
slaughter has called forth loud protests
from the big game hunters of Africa.
They foresee an extension of the practice
to the wholesale slaughter of elephants
!!ons. zebras, giraffes, and various
kinds of deer which abound In the
no-longer dark continent.?Oregonian.
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1 rOUNG HEROES'' AT OXFORD f
Many Customs and Traditions of the
University Are Likely to Seem
Tame to Them.
The returning hero, fresh f#r>m buttle i
fields, will no longer rush to the
! cricket fields and the river at Oxford
with the zest of young barbarians at
their play, observes a writer In tiie
Nation (London). To one who may
wear the ribbon of the Military Cross
or the I>. S. O.. the position of ids college
boat in the "eights can no longer
. seem the one matter of life and death,
^nnd even the halo of a goal shines
' with diminished glory.
So, too, in lesser pursuits. How c
shali he dwell upon the squabbles of I
nntnrmrfmontc in nnnipn't fJpPfPP whOH MI
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he himself has motored from Saloniki j
to* Athens in' a day, and on to Sparta
i in the next? Or what will he feel j
when questioned on his fading memories
of the irregular verbs? Probably
most public school boys are haunted
to old age by a dream?a terrible
nightmare?of being "put on" by the
old headmaster when they have not;
taken the trouble to prepare a line of
the passage. It makes no difference
that they are more than 50 and fhe
headmaster has long been dead. The
horror of the' situation remains appalling,
and the dream Is far more
frequent than any of Freud's imaginary
perversions.
The feeling of the soldier returning
to the class and lecture room will b'ej
much the same, with a sense of futll- !
ity added. For, indeed, it is impossible
to go back In life and second childhood
is not like the first. Little victims
play regardless of their doom,
but not men who have known what;
doonl can do. . >
PATRIOTS GET POOR REWARD
British Soldiers Who Won High Distinction
Have a Right to Com- j
nlsin of Inaratitude.
Attention has been directed to the
hard case of men who won distinction
In the great war, and seem to have
been forgotten, by two dramatic incidents.
One Is the public statement by
Sir Douglas Halg that a demobilized
officer who won the V. C., D. S. O., '
and M. C., is at present trudging the
streets of Londonf in search of work. J
The other is the' announcement that
Mr. Arthur Richings has rejoined the
Cardiff police force as an ordinary i
constable, notwithstanding the fact
that he has Just relinquished the army j
rank of lieutenant colonel. |
The latter's record is an astounding
one. He \#as promoted second lieutenant
on the field, and hfs subsequent
promotions were astonishingly rapid.
Mentioned in dispatches three times,
he wears six wound stripes, the Mons
Star, the Croix de Guerre (with
palms), the Military Cross, and is also |
a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
Perhaps one may be pardoned for
questioning whether there is1 not something
wrong with an army administration
which allows a man with an
active service record like that to disappear
into the decent obscurity of a
police- constable's tunic. ? Montreal
Family Herald.
Doing Htm ? Favor.
When my cousin, newly commla- ;
stoned, was sent to Camp Grant he
found himself in command of a lot of
draft men drawn mainly from our j
slum district One in particular took j
Quite a fancy to him and never lost a |
chance of doinp him a favor.
One day after the man had been '
in camp only a week or so he ran |
breathlessly up to ray cousin, who was
I in the far end of a trench. He remembered
to salute after a fashion,!
then stood plainly trying to think what
to do next. Finally he burst out,
"Beat it, mister, while de goin's good.
De boss is after youse, and gosh, he's
sore 1"
The colonel was at the other end of
the trench^ calling for the officer in
charge.?Chicago Tribune.
Paid a War Bet.
War bets are now being paid by the
people who were wont to say, "You
can't beat Germany." Morgan J.
O'Brien, former Judge of the Supreme
court of New York, recently gave "the
best dinner that money could buy" to
Gen. Coleman Dupont and 25 of the
latter's friends, because of a difference
of opinion as to German prowess. The
justice thought the allies could not get
into Solssons last year by a certain
date; tne general was sure uiey cuuiu.
They did; and the outcome for which
Judge O'Brien paid a heavy bill, was
called the "Soissons dinner."?The
j Outlook.
Chicago's Oldest 8aloon.
When the dry law went into effect
and Chicago's 6,000 saloons went out
of business, it ended the career of
Chicago's oldest saloon which was established
in 1837, the same year Chicago
was incorporated as a city. Since
that time the business has passed
through the hands of a family of four
generafions. Indian camps were a
common sight In Chicago in those I
days. The city had about 5,000 inhabitants;
to-day there are nearly 3,000,-'
i 000 persons. E
Preparedness. *
"By the way, Mary, did you put my I
! cooking outfit in that basket? I'll want I
J to fry some fish for lunch." '/
"Yes, dear, and you'll find a tin of ft
i sardines in th?:re; too."?Life.
Ssys Uncle Eben.
"Dat kaiser man," said Uncle Eben. ft
j/'woc'd '.inve been tried an' sentenced fl
! long ago for sliootin' craps or llourisli-j|
; in' a razor."
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