The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 16, 1921, Page 2, Image 2
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Volume 30. No. 24
Thursday, June 16,1921.
Patricides, matricides, infanticides,
and many other varieties of "rides"
appear to be popular pastime during
the present age. It has been remarked
that never before in the history of
mankind has there been so much killing
of relatives as is daily reported
from all over the country.
The first reports from Pueblo,
Colo., indicated that 500 persons had
lost their lives in the flood. A specific
instance of 200 deaths was given
in the washing away of two passenger
trains stranded on the tracks. The
official reports, issued Sunday last,
however, gave the number losing
their lives at 49. The imagination of
the reporters covering this catastrophe
must certainly have been great.
The Herald passes along the idea
of poisoning the boll "weevil by using
the molasses method as information
only. There is a wide difference of
opinion, it seems as to the results
obtained. Many farmers in Georgia
state that the method has been productive
of good results, while the
Delta . Laboratory, Tallulah, La.,
states that the molasses method has
nevej produced anything but negative
results. The best idea, it seems
to us, is for the farmers to experiment
with the plan itself. It is
cheap. He can pursue the other
methods of poisoning as well, and the
comparative results can be noted.
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Although the cost of living has
gone down, prices of all commodities
have been lowered, and people are
poorer than they have Deen tor several
years, freight and passenger
rates have recently gone up, and telephone
rates have advanced. Where
are we headed anyway? Freight and
passenger rates are well-nigh prohibitive.
It is fortunate that the
people are no longer absolutely dependent
upon the railroads for transportation.
The high rates are causing^people
to travel by automobile
more than ever before, as it is cheaper
for a party to hire a car than to
pay the passenger rate where the
distance is far.
The government seems to be up in
the air against Admiral Sims because
of his alleged reference to American
sympathizers of the Seinn Feiners.
We hold no brief for Admiral
Sims, but we fail to see that he has
been guilty of any greater offence
than many congressmen and senators,
who have given utterance in the
halls of congress to things as much
out of place, it seems to us, in regard
to the same question, about the
only difference being that his views
are opposite to theirs. It appears
to be the position of congress that as
much may be said as one desires in
defense of the so-called Irish Republic,
hut that nothing must he said on
the other side of the question. As a
matter of fact all the talk about Irish
affairs is out of place on the part of
Americans. Irish propagandists
should never be allowed in America,
and American officials should not be
allowed to dabble in this question. It
is a matter that America has nothing
whatever to do with, and it seems to
us that Admiral Sims has been guilty
of no greater breach in discussing the
matter in London than American officials
in discussing it in America.
The federal court has handed
down a decision restraining the Georgia
railroad commission from interfering
with the Augusta-Aiken Railway
and Electric company from raising
its passenger rate in Augusta to
ten cents. The commission had pren11rvn?
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whereupon the railroad took the case
to the United States court. The
ground for the order is, we believe,
that the company is incorporated under
the laws of another state, although
the property involved in the
increase is in the state of Georgia.Between
the federal courts and the
Interstate Commerce commission, the
states have very few rights left to
them. The people of Augusta are up
in arms, and it appears to be certain
that the railroad is going to lose
heavily, rather than gain, by this procedure.
The city council of Augusta
is considering issuing free license tc
"jitneys" and fixing the fare at five
and ten cents to combat the increased
trolley rate. The railroad and electric
company is a "foreign" corporation,
with its offices and officers in
New York. Charges have been made
that the stock of the company is wat.
ered to make it appear the earning;
are small, and the statement is made
that the value of the company's holdings
is far differently stated in the
application for increase of rates thar
the value stated in the return foi
state taxes. Needless to say. the
company will hereafter have to pay
far more taxes than it has in the past.
The fact that the people of South!
Carolina have been saved, not thous-j
ands of dollars, but hundreds of
thousands of dollars, perhaps, in the
cost of school text books during the
past three years seems to have escaped
the attention of the critics.
When the state loses money through
a contract the woods are literally full
of the fault finders, but the praisers
are few when money is saved. The
present text book contract was entered
into in 1917 for a period of five
years, which ends in 1922. The con
tract was made just before the advance
in price of books, and as a
consequence the people of this state
have bought books at prices which
obtained before the war prices began.
An instance of the present price of
books, the local school depository
was shown a bill Tuesday from an
Atlanta concern for one Haliburton
primer ordered by mail. The price
was 64 cents. This book is sold
through the local depository for 18
cents. Nearly all other books are
priced in proportion, and practically
all prices are from 50 to 400 per cent,
higher than the state contract prices.
The people of this county spend annually
about $5,000 for text books.
It is safe to say that if the state were
not under contract with the publishers
these same books would cost not
less than $10,000. The publishers
have lost heavily, and but for the fact
that their reputation is at stake,
many of them would have long ago
forfeited their bond and broke their
contracts with the state. However,
it may be said, in justice to the publishers,
that not one of them has absolutely
broken a contract, although
deliveries during the past two years
have been very slow on some books,
and a few books have been unobtainable.
One of the popular primers was
not on sale last season at all, but
the publishers have advised that the
hnnk will be distributed this summer.
An enormous loss is sustained by the
publishers on every one of the cheaper
text books, such as readers and
spellers.
According to the latest tabulation,
France has decreased in population
a little over 5 per cent, since 1914.
There are 16 acres of' land for
each person in the United States, or
I 90 acres for the average family. It
is estimated that the population of
the country could reach a billion and
we would still have plenty of room.
WRITING BY AAIRELESS.
Message May Be Transmitted Four
Thousand Miles Instantaneously.
A written message transmitted 4,000
miles instantaneously without
wire or cable is the latest feat of
wireless telegraphy.
The wireless writing machine,
which will make it possible for a
man in the wilds of Alaska to capture
the news of the world in written
form by merely setting a trap
for it, so to speak, and by which all
explorers plight locate his position
on the face of the earth by wireless,
within 33 feet of exact, is the invention
of two government scientists
working in the bureau of standards.
Another government department, the
Coast and Geodetic survey, expects
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mer, three times as much as it cost
to perfect the invention and make
two of the machines. The whole
achievement is one more illustration
of the valu? of scientific research by
the government departments, which
gets mere scanty support.
The machine itself, a simple looking
affair, which weighs about 25
pounds, exclusive of the two storage
batteries and the metal chronograph
drum, is the result of research work
by Dr. E. A. Eckhardt and Dr. J. C.
Karcher. Small in size, light in
weight and eajy to operate, it offers
a solution to many of the vexing
problems now e:. oting in radio operation.
For example, under the present system
of listening for the dots and
dashes wixh a telephone receiver,
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may, by sending signals out simuli
taneously, mix their messages in the
ether, and "jam the air." The man
t at the receiving end, listening for
one particular message, must ad
just his apparatus to "tune" to a
' wave length as nearly as possible
: equal to that of the sender whom he
wishes to catch. The other senders
seriously interfere and often cause
; the receiver to lose or garble parts
> of the message. This new invention
i goes a long way toward eliminating
I that difficulty.
The machine was designed to meet
the need of an autographic wireless
i time recording apparatus to obviate
? the expensive stringing of wires to
- places remote from telegraph lines
> and to eliminate the lag due to reJ
ception by ear, and removing of a
signal by hand.
> How it Works.
i The recording is done roughly in
r the following manner, according to
the semi-technical explanation of the
inventors.
Adjustment is made on a condenser
or the particular wave length desired
to be caught. As the signals sent
out are gathered in by the antennae,
which can be strung on any light
poles reaching about 4 0 feet above
the ground, oscilations are started
j in a local circuit, through an "electron
tube." This local circuit derives
| its power from an ordinary storage
battery such as those used in selfstarters
for automobiles. The starting
of these oscilations releases
enough direct current from the batteries
to operate a small relay, or
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magnets in an ordinary electric door
bell, but capable of more delicate adjustment.
This relay, or magnet set, makes
and breaks power in another circuit
derived from a second storage battery.
This second circuit operates another
magnet set, to which the stylus
is attached.
The stylus in the present apparatus
is an ordinary fountain pen. It is
in contact with a revolving drum
which has a sheet of paper placed on
it. The dots and dashes are recorded
as humps in the otherwise straight
line. Short humps indicate dots, and
long ones dashes.
The action can be readily likened
to that of a machine gun which must
be cocked each time before it is fired,
which action takes place automatically
and rapidly. The first circuit
fires the gun and pushes back the
hammer, ready to fire again, so to
speak. As long as the circuit stays
closed the "hammer" stays back. But
when the circuit is broken, corresponding
to pressing the trigger, then
the secondary circuit is closed and
the hammer or stylus goes on its way
to make a mark.
The action of the mechanism is
verv much more selective than the
receiving action not in use. It absolutely
eliminates any chance of the
message being garbled by wave
lengths even closely approximating
those which it wishes to gather and
record.
Permanent Record.
The record thus made on paper is
permanent, and the message can be
deciphered at leisure. In a recent
test,, signals sent out from Lyons,
France, 4,000 miles away, were
caught in the heart of the residential
district of Washington, and transferred
to a record which even a person
unskilled in the Morse code could
readily translate.
The machine, that morning had
been in the bureau of standards a
few miles away. In the. afternoon
it was installed downtown, the antennae
were run up on light poles,
and the message caught 'n the drawing
room of the house.
With this machine it is possible to
record simultaneously, with the same
pen, the records of local time, as
furnished by the local standard
chronometer, and compare them with
the standard time as sen* out by
wireless from observatories, without
any errors incident to "lag" of the
instruments.
In this way the latitude of a spot
for away from cables or wires, and
out of touch with *he world, can be
determined to with'n two hundreths
of a second of time, or about 33
feet on the earth's surface. This
makes the invention extremely valuable
to geographers and astronomers,
ana surveyors.
A machine deigned :<"? perform
much the same functions has been
turned out in France, but its complexity,
and non-portability, together
with its high cost, and irregular
action, prevented it from being more
than a laboratory experiment. German
scientists tried to work aut the
problem during the last eight years,
but it remained unsolved in any satisfactory
way until our own government
scientists got in the job.
The new instrument will possiblv
play an important part in the lives
of many people living in isolated sections
of the country. Fox* example,
a trading post in Alaska, apart from
civilization, lacking all news of "doin
srs hack home" may be able to buy
one of the machines when they get
the manufacturing perfected, for
about $500. The instrument could be
set up and tuned by a layman, in accordance
with marks indicating sending
stations which could be placed on
the board of the condenser. By setting
the machine for these certain
wave lengths, everything which that
station sent out wrould be recorded,
and the paper drum would mark off
all the news of the day, as it was
flashed from Washington, Paris. London
or Moscow. The record could
then be dec* >hered at leisure.
Prices of farm products in cities
could be collected each afternoon and
sent out bv radio under the supervision
of the department of agriculture.
Newspaper officios will be able to
I catch radiograms direct from distant
lands, transcribe the accurate record
and give you even more rapid service
than under present conditions.
Warships, equipped "with the recorder,
would avoid errors in he
receiving of messages which are now
possible. Should an admiral of the
\
fleet wish to send radiograms to the!
various ships the commanders will j
have a record of what was sent, i
which can be filed away and brought
up in connection with the orders
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