The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, May 02, 1934, Image 2
Many Perils and Thrills
Faced in Postal Service
Adventures Are Not Con
fined to Air Mail Alone.
Washington. ? A vivid picture of the
dangers and thrills of flying the air
mall has been Impressed upon the
American public during the past
month. This picture Is only one of a
long series illustrating the history of
the postal service.
"The winter struggle against storm
and ice, driving snow and sub-zero
weather Is shared alike 1)y the uiall
pilot aloft, the Alaskan musher with
his plodding dog team, and countless
carriers on rural routes in western
and middle- west em states." says a
bulletin from the National Geo;
graphic Boclety.
"In Alaska there is as yet no fed
eral air mall service. Through pri
vate enterprise some mall Is carried
by plane, but the winter service still
relies mainly upon dogs and sleds.
One of the longest dog mall routes is
the GT>0-mlle run from Kotzbue to
Point Harrow ? Uncle Sam's northern
most post office. The mail team
leaves l'olnt Harrow early In Novem
ber, as soon as there is snow enough
for travel, and Is expected to com
plete the round trip of 1,300 miles by
Christmas. So regular Is the arrival
of the north-bound Christmas mall
thut It rarely disappoints the children
of Point Harrow.
Supply Own Dog Team.
"On one of the more southerly
routes, from Nenana to Idltarod. a
distance of about 350 miles, a weekly
service Is maintained. For each
round trip, requiring 35 days, the pay
Is $804. Over IKK) pounds of mall and
supplies are carried, so the driver
seldom has the luxury of riding. He
must, of course, supply his own dog
teaiu, equipment, ami food for the
trip.
"Some of the most dangerous and
difficult routes are much nearer
home than the barren lands of Alaska.
Records of the Post Olllce department
shows one of the worst to be from
Sandusky, Ohio, to the nearby Islands
In Lake Erie. Winter storms In this
district are severe, and Ice conditions
singularly treacherous. The best craft
for tlje Job Is a combination sailboat,
rowboat, ice yacht and sled. When
water Is open, or the ice strong and
smooth, the sail con be used, but more
often progress Is discouraging ?
dragging slowly over rou^h Ice cakes,
or breaking inch by Inch through
'young' Ice.
."A similar route In Lake Michigan,
known as Death's Door, runs from
Ellison ? bay to Detroit horbor, Wis
consin. Then there Is the Idaho route
from Rocky Par to Atlanta. Carriers
there make the winter trips on snow
shoes, packing F>0 pounds of mall.
"The smooth speed of city delivery
Is In sharp contrast to these tales of
persistent and courageous effort. One
of most efllclent systems Is New
Yo^ftclty's 'blow-gun mall' which han
dles letters received In the
metropoll8.^''"T*wqath the streets of
Manhattan are 27 miles of parallel,
pneumatic tubes. Through these tubes
nt Intervals of ten seconds, shoot car
riers, each holding 400 letters, and
traveling at a rate of 30 miles an
hour. They are propelled by com
pressed air. .
World's Biggest Business.
"The United States postal service
today Is the biggest business In the
world, employing over 232,000 work
ers; but Its purpose has not changed
since the pre-revolutlonary days
when stoge-conch mall took six weeks
to ko from Hoston to Philadelphia.
An Inspector, reporting on the efficien
cy of the colonlul service at that time,
remarked that the public good was
'the sole Inducement for taking so
much trouble as we do.'
"When Renjamln Franklin was
made deputy postmaster general of
the Hrltlsh colonies In 1753, conditions
were promptly Improved. Weekly
trips between Philadelphia and Hos
ton were started, the time was cut In
half, and new routes were opened.
The postage rnte, however, remained
hlffh ? forty dollars ($40) for three
letters from Falmouth, Maine, to Hos
ton ! In 1775 the continental con
gress appointed Frnnklln postmaster
general of the thirteen American col
onies. lie had previously franked his
letters 'Free. B. Fronklln,' but now
he changed this to 'II. Free Franklin.'
"Through the years following the
Ifovoltltlon the history of the Post
followed closely the history of tho
pioneers. Less than I0<> years ago
there was still no overland mall to
California. The Mormons In Utah
had a messenger system of their own.
and there were a few 'post ofTlces'
like the one at Ash ('reek, Neb. This
was a trapper's cabin where letters
were left to be carried on by the next
Farmer Finds Mill
After 150-Mile Hunt
Orantshurg, Wis,? -Frank Ander
son, Frederic (Wis.) farmer, re
cently completed a MO-mlle trip In
search of a grlrtt mill where he
might have a load of grain ground
Into flour.
The circuit embraced nine towns
and two states. He found that In
each case mills either were con
verted Into power plants, fish
hatcheries and other projects or
were out of operation. Despairing
ly, he started the long trek home
ward, only to discover a mill suit
able to his purpose In a village 2r>
mljes away.
nt?ll I I ?
9
tr^vefer who came along, often let
ters were stuck In notched sticks be
side the trail on the -chttjice that they
would be picked up by sbme one re
turning eastward. ?
"With the excitement of the great
gold rush In 1849 everything moved
rapidly. Including the mall. There
was soon a regular service, run by
Feramorz Little and^ls wagon train,
between Fort Laramie, Wyo., and Salt
Lake City. Even as late as 1858, Fort
Laramie was Denver's 'neurest post
otllce,' and the men who staked out
claims near Pike's peak had to send
200 miles for news from home. In
1800 the daring riders of the Pony Ex
press reduced the distance between
San Francisco and St. Joseph, Mo., to
the amazing time of eight days; and
nine years later the silver spike was
driven which completed the first trans
continental railroad."
Squinting Is Corrected
by Use of Stereoscope
Birmingham, England. ? A novel
method of curing children born with a
squint has been adopted by a hospital.
The patients are given a sort of stereo
scope. A model is placed in each lens
and the children have to place a loon
In a cage, a baby in a bath or a sheep
In the exact center of a field. The
eyesight of hundreds of children have
been cured in this way.
A REAL CHAMPION
In his hand a modal, emblematic of
his new honor; In his pocket, a check
for the sum of $1,(>00. and on his
face a proper smile, Ilcnry IMcard,
twenty-seven-year-old pro of Charles
ton. S. C.. looks every inch a champion.
Henry had Just showed the way to
the country's best pro and amateur
golfers, with a score of "2X3, In the an
nual North ?nd South Open Golf tour
nament at Plnehurst, N. C.
New Robot Sleuth May Read Human Mind
Electric Device Will Open New
Era, Scientists Say.
Milwaukee. ? Inquisitive science has
developed an electric detective that Is
so sensitive that after It hus^ been
studied for a while it will undoubtedly
be able to tell you what you are think
ing about.
It was designed to tell the resistance
of matter under observation to an elec
tric current. It la what is known as
the Wheatstone bridge, and several of
the devices are In use In Milwaukee
now. Marquette university has them
In the physiology department and. in
the college of engineering. The col
lege of engineering uses^them In Its
electrical classes.
The United States bureau of fish
eries at Gloucester, Mass., has been
able to tell, with this device, Just how
fresh a fresh fish really Is. It can
be used to determine spurious coins
from real ones ? because a stanuard
coin, which Is an alloy, has n standard
resistance to electricity, and any other
alloy will vary from that.
Holding one of these .devices In his
Buck Rabbit Inspiration
for Jugoslav Industry
Belgrade. ? A buck rabbit by the
name of "Magnus" has proved the in
spiration of a new Industry for Jugo
slavia. Two years ago his owner.
Professor Lebedev, a lecturer on the
technical faculty of the Belgrade uni
versity, purchased him from Britain
for the purpose of starting an Angora
rabbit farm.
Professor I^ebedev had a few other
rabbits at that time, but he attributes
most of his success to this prize win
ner, who has brought the population of
his farm up to 1,500 In two years. Due
to the success of this first venture in
the Angora wool business, Professor
Lebedev expects to open other rabbit
centers in Jugosalvia.
Part of his success he attributes to
the inexponsl veness of rabbit nourish
ment here, and labor In caring for
them. High prices are obtainable for
first-class rabbits both from Britain
and the United States,
Kach rabbit is clipped approximate
ly four times a year and his food bill
averages not more than about 02 cents
In 12 months. The average wool re
turn per rabbit is over $3.20 and the
upkeep is negligible. A flourishing In
dustry is predicted for Belgrade and
vicinity.
hand, Oscar D. Werwath, president of
the Milwaukee School of Engineering,
said :
"This little Instrument Is capable of
measuring ol&m resistance with as wide
a variation as 10,fxx4 ohms, it can
pick out a resistance of one ten-thou
sandth of an ohm. This makes Its
practical application unlimited."
He went on to say that each person
Is more or less magnetic. The brain
especially, he said, Is an enormous cre
ator of electricity, inasmuch as each
particle is In Itself a sort of electric
cell.
"Why," he said, "it might be possible
with such a delicate device, after years
of research, to be able to read a per
son's mind, through the amount of
current that one can send off in the
process of thinking."
Night Motor Racing Is
Growing in Popularity
Washington. ? Night automobile rac
ing Is rapidly becoming popular the
country over, It was indicated In a sur
vey by the contest board of the Amer
ican Automobile association.
Introduced three years ago at the
Ascot speedway in Los Angeles, before
the Idea of after dark competition
gripped baseball and football fans,
night races drew record attendances.
However, not until recently have the
lucrative possibilities of "illuminated"
races become apparent to eastern and
midwestern speedway operators.
Now race operators In these sections
have made extensive, hurried arrange
ments to Install Ullumlnatlng facilities
In their speedways In time for the sea
son openings In late May. Track pro
moters at Long Island, N. Y. ; Reading,
Pa, ; Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Cincinnati, and
Detroit all plan to feature the com
paratively new after dusk sport.
Mammoth Thermometer Is
Placed on Eiffel Tower
I'arls. ? With the Installation of a
mammoth thermometer on the Rlffel
tower. Parisians and other Paris dwell
ers can tell exactly when to shiver and
sink deeper Into their mufflers and
when to emerge and breathe a few
breaths of fresh air. Shortly before
Ills death, the Italian Jacopor.zl, expert
electrician and father of electrical dis
plays on store fronts during the Christ
mas holidays, submitted tl.e design (or
the huge thermometer. It was ap
proved as a pennnnent fixture to the
Citroen display and has been erected.
Ancient and Modern on High Seas
A gllinptte of n century Ionic (>nnt In afforded iih by thin photogriiph of a I
large Milling fthtp being tow?*l through the North Ren hound for the ICngllah
chnnncl. '
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
No Cash for Uncle Sam j
The Wirt Myetery
The Tiger's Immortality
Poor Old Trotzky
Mr. Chamberlain, In charge of Brit
ish finances, tells happy fellow coun
trymen that conditions are good In
England : "The past fiscal year has
shown a profit of $200,000,000," and
"The atmosphere Is distinctly brighter."
It Is not brighter for your Uncle
Sam. Mr. Chamberlain also announced
that "he did not propose to make any
provision for the payment of war
debts to America," and the statement
was loudly cheered. It Is to be hoped j
that President Roosevelt will, In his
own time, make a reply that will bo
"loudly cheered" on this side of the
water. i
Money can be collected from Eng
land and other countries by a tax on !
all shipping entering our ports.
We still own the ports and the docks
? at least that Is the popular theory. j
They could not well retaliate, since
we own little shipping. The United
States would like to hear President ]
Roosevelt say to the British, the j
French and the others. "There are ?
several ways of skinning a cat, and I
propose to show you one or two of ;
them."
Young ladles attending the fateful ;
Virginia dinner at which Doctor Wirt
thought he heard somebody call Presl- i
dent Roosevelt "only the Kerensky In
the revolution, soon to be replaced
with a genuine Stalin," testify that
nothing of the Kind was said.
In fact, the young Indies agree that
the dinner started with a monologue
by Doctor Wirt which outlasted the
dinner. Nobody else could say a word. I
The clrcns kept a big striped tiger
named "Boss" locked In a strong cage, 1
strong enough to keep the tiger In, j
not strong enough to keep death out
Death entered, and "within ten rain- .
ntes the tiger was on his way to be
made into a rug." That will be for
the tiger a sort of Immortality. Fire
and moths permitting, his beauty may |
survive for 50 years, made perfect by
artificial eyes, teeth and tongue, grow
ing gradually dimmer. Man has no
such certainty of eternity, apart from
faith, except In his children. They do
supply whajt might be semi-eternal
representation on earth.
Parents of certain modern children,
however, might well say, "I should
rather be mude into a rug and get my
eternity that way."
You feel sorry for poor old Trotzky,
despite the color of his politics. Fate
put him In the Russian revolution,
raising him to the heights. Stalin
threw him out, Into Turkey. He wnn- !
deped to France and guilelessly start
ed organizing a "fourth Internationale" ,
to "put an end to all organized gov- !
ernment." The French government '
puts him out of France, and he doesn't I
know where to go.
Fie thinks of the United States, but j
what with Professor Wirt and one
thing and another he can hardly hope
to get In here. England used* to re
ceive all revolutionaries, but some
other countries may reject Trotzky to
avoid offending the younger, more
powerful Stalin.
Cheer up, If your house Is mort
gaged. Uncle Sam discovers, after
158 years of nntional life since 1770,
that he has a pocketbook and mean?
to use It for you. Some of his hun
dreds of millions will he used carrying
along your mortgage until you have j
had time to pay it off. Even If it If ?
not a "distress" mortgage, he may help I
yon. The mortgage holder will be ;
QKked to reduce his Interest rate nnd '
to extend the mortgage to ton or even j
fifteen years. In return he will have
the government's guarantee that the
mortgage will be paid.
Mortgaged home owners will ask,
"Am I dreaming?"
Some real estaters will say, "Let me
get my real estate mortgaged to my
brother-ln-lnw quickly, and let him get
a government gnnrantoe."
Thus far the government In Its re
covery experiments has spent five
thousand million dollars for relief of
various kinds. It could spend ten thou
sand millions. It would not cost a
cent more of expense If It would print
and pay out the money Instead of In
filling bonds that are fictitious, since
bankers do not rea'ly pay for them,
the Interest doubling the amount paid
out
New York city has 07,000 tenement
bonnes In which 2,000.000 people live,
because there Is no other place for
them to live. Of the 2,000,000, 90 per
cent live In Ore trnps, according to i
official report. 'ITiere Is, however, a
iillver lining tx> this cloud, from one
point of view. When tenement house*
burn down, and tenants* burn up, the
landlord gets his Insurance. If th?
Jaw forbade Insurance on flretraps, an
It ?h on Id do, the owner would be on
tl.e spet night and day to prevent fire.
Ami there would be less arson.
In a new treatment for pneumonia
fresh air Is pumped Into the pleural
cavity ?f the patient, "giving the af
fected lung a chance to rest and reslat
Infection."
Also It brings on the "crisis" 48
hours sooner before the disease hn?
made the patient too weak to fight.
Kin* Fontiiro* SynitlMit*, I?o.
WNU
TAX MEASURE PASSED
BY THE SENATE
It Provides for Revenues of
$480,000,000.
Washington. ? The senate passed the
new tax bill, amended to Increase
levies on the rich and to provide mil
lions of dollars In revenue in excess of
administration demands.
The vote was 53 to 7.
The measure, threatened with a
White House veto because of a tax on
Philippine coconut oil, went to con
ference with the house, where admin
istration leaders were to attempt to
eliminate some of the more drastic
amendments approved by the senate.
The seven senators who voted
against the measure were all Repub
licans: Harbour, New Jersey; Dickin
son, Iowa; Hale. Maine; Hastings, Del
aware; Hebert, lthode Island; Keyes,
New Hampshire, and Townsend, Dela
ware.
Designed originally by the honse to
plug up holes in the Income tax law
through which J. P. Morgan and other
wealthy citizens avoided payment, the
bill called fur revenues of only $2.r>8,
00(1, 000 when It reached the senate.
A small band nf liberals led by Sen
ator Robert M. I. a Toilette, Republic
an, Wisconsin, leaped upon the meas
ure and virtually rewrote It before the
final vote. As revised the bill provides
for potential revenues of $480,000,000.
Striking changes tiwde by the son
ate Include:
A Hat 10 per cent extra "recovery
tax" on all lO.'M Incomes.
A sharp Increase in taxes on )arg?i
Inheritances.
Increase in gift taxes to correspond
with the Increase In estate taxes.
Elimination of the privilege under
the present law which permits corpov
atlons to file consolidated returns for
aftllates or subsidiaries.
Provision fur opening all Income tax
returns to public Inspection.
President Roosevelt, back from ms
fishing trip, conferred with loaders of
congress and told them what logisia- j
tlon he desired enacted. Speaker Ralney
and Majority Lender Byrns Indicated
that the house could wind up the leg- I
Islntive program sketched by the Pres- |
ident by May l.r>.
Roth lenders, however, were dubious
about the senate's ability to get
through that soon. It was thought
probable that the President. In urging
the May 1"> date, was hoping for a
June 1 adjournment.
Representative Ryrns Indicated that ?
the President was anxious that the |
tariff bill he passed first and then the j
stock market control act. Speaker 1
Ralney said various amendments to ,
the securities net would be voted.
WASHINGTON BRIEFS
Contracts for more than $8,000,000 [
worth of work on the gigantic Fort J
Peck project In Montana wore let by j
army engineers.
A house bill to authorize payment !
for purchase of or to reimburse
states or districts fnr the cost of
rights-of-way for flood control work in j
the Mississippi valley was passed by 1
the senate without a record vote.
Or. Leverett S Lyon, executive vice
president of the Brookings institution,
Joined NRA as deputy assistant ad
ministrator to have charge of policies
governing trade practice problems,
price stabilization, costs, and consum
er protection.
President Roosevelt transmitted to
congress an executive order abolish
ing the geographic board and trans
ferring Its functions to the Depart
ment of the Interior. The board was
created In 1KOO. Its chief duty hns
been to settle questions regarding
names of plnees such as disputes over
the correct spelling of the nnmes of
mountains and creeks.
50,000 Dress Workers
Locked Out in N. Y.
New York. ? A lockout of fiO.OOO
dress workers of the city was an
nounced by the National Association of
Dress Manufacturers, an organization I
of 2,r>(K) contractors, as a result of dis- !
putes with Jobbers over observing the
industrial code.
The contractors allege they have
been victimized by "nil kinds of kick
backs" and nre unable to p'?y the la
bor wage until the Jobbers pay them
enough to cover both labor and over
head.
Woman Is Slain by
Shot Through Kerchief
Leon, Iowa. ? Mrs. Klin (leorge was
found shot to death In the bedroom of
a house where she was staying here.
A pistol was found under the bed.
A red bandanna handkerchief had
been plneed over tlx* woman's henrt.
It had been pierced by the bullet which
killed her.
Badger Congressman Is
in an Automobile Wreck
Washington, Representative Ray*
mond J. Cnnnon, Wisconsin Democrat,
told police he was the dr'ver of n enr
which struck a taxlenb In which three
members of the New York Stock ex
change were riding. One was pnln
fully injured.
Cannon told Lieut. J. II. Lee he had
given Ids name to a pollcemnn nt the
scene of the Accident, and had not re
ported It because they already "knew
who I waR."
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
(Dy REV P B. FITZWaTEH, L>. D,
ilombcr of Faculty, Moody liibl#
Institute of Chicago.)
?, 1914, Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 6
JESUS ACCLAIMED AS KINQ
LESSON TEXT? Matthew 21:1-46
GOLDEN TEXT ? Wherefore God al
so hath highly exalted hltn, and given
him a name which la above every
name. ? Phil. 8 9.
PRIMARY TOPIC? When Children
Sang to Jesus.
JUNIOR TOPIC ? Jesus the Savlour
Klng.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC ? Ix>yalty to Jesus, Our King.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADL'LT TOP
IC ? Acknowledging the Lordship of
Jesus.
The picture presented In this chap
ter Is a very dark one. The common
designation "Triumphal Kntry" Is most
unfortunate, for It was only such In '
appearance. Back of the cry "Ho
sanna" was being formed the awful
cry "Cruclfj Him." It may he pos
sible that tho awful word "Crucify"
was uttered by some of the same per
sons who cried "Ilosannu."
1. The Preparation (vv, 1-0). <
. 1. The sending of the disciples for
the nss (vv. 1-3). Jesus told them
Just where to go to find It and how to
Answer the Inquiry of the one who
owned It. This shows how perfectly
Jesus knows our ways,
2. The fulfillment of prophecy (vv.
4, 6). Some five hundred years before,
Zecharlnh made this prediction (Zech.
9:9), Christ's coming in this way was
in exact fulfillment of this prediction.
This Is highly Instructive to those who
would understand as yet unfulfilled
prophecies. The prediction of Zecha
riah 14:3-11 will he Just as literally
fulfilled as that of Zecharlnh 9:9.
3. The obedience of the disciples
(v. G). The request may have seemed
unreasonable, but they obeyed.
II. The Entrance of the Klna (vv
7-11).
1. The disciples put tlvelr garments
upon the ass and sot the Lord there
upon (v. 7). This act showed their
recognition of him as their kins (II
Kings 9:13).
2. The action of the multitude (vv.
8, 9). Some spread their garments In
the way; others who had no garments
to spare cut down branches and did ^
the same with them.
3. The city awakened (vv. 10. It).
It was a stirring time In Jerusalem,
but a more stirring time awaits that
city. 1 his will take place when the
Lord returns to the earth in power.
III. The King Rejected (vv. 12 10).
The Immediate occasion of this re
jection was the cleansing of the tem
ple. A similar cleansing had been
made some two years before (John
2:13-17), but the worldlings had gone
back to their, old trade. Exchange
was n' t in itsolf wrong, but doing it
for >?;;ln was wrong.
IV. The Nation Rejected by the
King (vv. 17-40).
Having shown their unwillingness to
receive Christ as their king when offi
cially presented to them, the king now
tnrns from them and makes known
their awful condition in parables.
1. The barren fig tree cursed (vv.
17-22). It was on the morning after
his official presentation as he was re
turning from Jerusalem that Jesus
observed the unfruitful fig tree. Be
cause of hunger ho sought tor figs and
finding none, he caused to fall upon
tho tree a withering curse. The bar
ren fig tree Is a type of Israel. With
its leaves it guve a show of life, but
being destitute of fruit It had no right
to cumber tho ground. The nation
thus stood as a mountain in the way
of the gospel. Jesus encouraged the
disciples by showing that If they had
faith even this great mountain could
not stand In their way.
2. The parable of the two sons (vv,
28-.'52). Both sons nro told by the
father to work In his vineyard. The
one, like the profligate publican, re
fused outright to obey but afterwards
repented and went; the other pro
tended a willingness to obey but In
reality did riot. The first one repre
sents the publicans and harlots; tho
second, the proud and self-righteous
Pharisees, the prlrsts, arid elders.
Jesus declared the publicans and hnr
lots would go Into the kingdom before
them.
3. I he parable of the householder
(vv. 33-40).
a. The householder. This was Ciod^B
himself.
b. The vineyard. This means Israel
(Isa. 5:1-7; Jer. 2:21; Ps. 80:0).
c. The husbandmen. These were
the spiritual guides, the rulers and
teachers of Israel.
d. Tho servants sent for the fruit
of the vineyard. These worn the vari
ous prophets whom Ood sent.
e. The son sent by tho householder.
This was the !x>rd Jesus Christ. They
knew him to be the eon, but they did
not show him reverence. They cast
him out of the vineyard and slew jlm.
VmIiia of SiUnrs ^
devotional value of sllonre Is
recognized In a retreat, which nmy be
described ns a period of silence np^nt
with Ooi. broken only hv vocnl nu?dl
tatlon and prayer preparing for and
arising out of tho sllonce.
Serving God
"Let us s?*rve <}o<l In the sunshine
while he makes the sun shine, \V4i
shall then serve h|m all the better In
the dark when he sends the darkness.
The darkness la sure to come."