The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, September 01, 1922, Image 3
BIDE PILLION ON MOTORCYCLE
Fair Riders Said to Be Deeertino Saddle
Horses for the FasterGaited
Machine.
Have you seen the "pillion girl"?
Not the demure, coy and. shrinking
maiden of years gone by, who rode
"side-saddle" behind her swnln on
horseback, but the rollicking, daredevil
knlckered girl of today, perched
precariously astride the extra seat on
a motorcycle, bowling along the road
at a 40-mlle-an-hour clip.
Despite the wide dissimilarity in
the style of riding, the name has persisted
In England and the "pillion
girls" have become so numerous In
that country that recently the department
on taxation and regulation of
road vehicles sat In solemn coq?l&df
to decide whether the "pillion glW'WM
a source of danger to the general %up.?- I
He, the New York Sun states.
It Is not clear whether "general pub- |
lie" includes the pillion girl herself,
of whether the term comprises merely
the motorists of the opposite sex
whose eyes are unaccountably distracted
from the road by the sight of a
pretty girl on the rear seat of a motorcycle,
flaunting graceful, sllk-cla#
legs, her hair flying In the wind.
In any event, the committee reports
there Is no appreciable amount of evidence
to Indicate that the practice Is
a source of danger to the general public.
They are of the opinion that no
case has been made out sufficiently
strong to justify the prohibition of the
practice.
On this side of the Atlantic the "pillion
girl" Is apparently safe from molestation.
In fact, each year sees an
Increasing number of women operat*
Ing their own motorcycles.
LOSE INTEREST IN SERENADE
Masculine Spaniards Said to Have
Turned From Romance to the
More Prosaic Football Qame.
Sad, Indeed, to lovers ef the picturesque
Is the news which comes from
Seville, Spain. The serenade, from
time Immemorial the qirfntessence
of romance, Is passing away and will
soon be known no more. Worst of
all. It Is being destroyed by
nothing else than modern and unromantlc
football. This game Is at present
In full vogue In Spain. Everywhere
young men are passionately addicted
to It, In Seville as elsewhere,
ar? that the young Sevllllans have no
longer time as formerly to cultivate
the song, the guitar and the mandolin.
Footbnll engrosses them.
Soon one will not llnd a single lover
capable of playing a serenade under
the balcony of Ills Dulclnon. If Roslna
opens her window Almhvlva will not
be there to declare to her bis passion.
But lately, on Saturdays, the young
Sevllllans assembled and wandered
through the streets of the .town singing
to the stars. Today they go to bed
early so as to be the next morning in
good form for their favorite game.
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Services to Prevent Robberies.
Science, which has rendered us so
fejg . many services, has now attacked a
^r~Pr-" new problem. Inventors are pitilessly
' hunting the burglars of Paris. Many
are now In search of means of defending
the stores and hanks against criminal
attacks.
One of these most curious inventions
consists of a pedal situated In
z the interior of the store. The burglar,
If he watches the hands of the man,
cannot at the same time see where
he puts his feet. Then the pedal
starts an electricnl clockwork and at
the same time an Illuminated plate
calling for the police appears on the
outside of the store. Among the other
Inventions there is an overcoat with
a special pocket for carrying a revolver.
The weapon Is so placed that
when the attacked person facing the
burglar raises his arms, the revolver
Is brought Into position for firing and
the act of raising his hands pulls a
string which discharges it.
Liner Delayed to Save Life.
The "value that we net on human
life today has been dramatically illustrated
by an Incident on the Atlantic
ocean.
An explosion in the engine-room
of a freight ship caused terrible in
Juries to the second engineer, a young
man named O'Neal. There was no doctor
on board, so the captain sent out
wireless calls for assistance.
Seven ships replied. In six cases
doctors told the captain what treatment
would be likely to give the best
results.
But one passenger luier did more
than this; It put 150 miles out of Its
course and sent a lifeboat with the
ship's doctor In It. who attended to
the patient and then hnd him transferred
to his ship. When the liner
reached England he was comfortable
and on the way to recovery.
That's it.
Mr. Wampoodle was trying to explain.
"You know what I mean. It's the
play where they have the witches'
cauldron."
"Witches Cauldron."
"Yeah."
"Oh, yes, I know."
"Yeah.'
"You mean the home brew scene
from Macbeth."?Louisville CourierJournal.
Expect Zeppelin to
Meet All Tests
Berlin, Aug:. SO.?Feeing the fact
that memories of the and Stoma
disasters still ore freshly in mind
throughout the world, Germany's
builders of the new Zeppelin intended
for commercial use in the United I
States are prepared to exhaust every'
resource at their command in pro-1
ducing the "last word" in aircraft. I
The Zeppelin company stands ready
to "stake its reputation" on the project,
according to an American official
who has figured prominently in the
negotiations for the contract recently
signed here.
This official pointed out, hoWever,^
that the undertaking strikes no awe
in the hearts of the constructors,
since they already have built larger
ships than that now under contract,
ir fact, he said, they are equipped
to produce a Zeppelin of 100,000 or
even 120,000 cubic meters, as compared
with the ship of 70,000 which
they have agreed to build for America.
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Yet the builders recognize the'
possibility of elements hitherto uncontrollable
entering into construe-!
tion of "this nature, it is said, and
will endeavor to profit by careful
study of the fate which befell the
two giant airships produced for the
Tnited States the past two years in
Gngland and Italy. Particular attention
will be devoted to the question
of the manifold stresses to which
an airship is subject This problem!
involves multitudinous technicalities
as to design and the extreme testing;
of material. In these departments,
it is felt in American circles here, the
Germans have reached an outstanding
stage of advance.
Reception of the ship having been
delegated to the naval department
of the United States, its design will
be submitted to that division of the
government for approval. In addition,
an officer of the department will
be present at Friedrichhafen as an
inspector throughout the Zeppelin's
construction. This duty has been us-i
signed to First Lieutenant Garland
Fulton, U.* S. N., who is here in con-,
nection with the contract. First
Lieutenant R. G. Pennoyer, U. S. N.,
Iso has been in Berlin during the
negotiations, both of these officers
having been on duty in connection
with the R-38.
It is estimated that 15 months will j
be required for construction of the';
ship. No specific time of delivery,
has been fixed, this being dependent
upon a number of contingencies, not!
the least of which are the weather
conditions. The Zeppelin probably j
will be completed by next fall, mak-;
ing it likely that delivery will follow
during the ensuing summer. Lakehurst,
N. J., has been selected as the
place of delivery.
The contract provides that the ship
will fly to the. United Stateq. entirely. H
uhder German responsibility and
manned by a German crew. It has
not yet been decided, at this early
stage of the project, whether any
American Dersonnpl twill opmmnonv
the Germans on their trans-Atlantic
flight.
The new Zeppelin will require a
crew of about the same number as
that which manned the R-33. In this
connection it is pointed out here that
a large part of the United States naval
department's air personnel was
lost in the accident to the R-38, while
the Roma disaster proved a similar;
loss to the army's aid forces. Thus
American manning of the new ship
will entail training of an almost entirely
new crew.
No provision has been made in the
contract for the United States to
share in the monetary loss, should |
an accident occur to the ship before
delivery. Since the Zeppelin takes I
the place of costs due the United
States in consequence of aerial losses
in the war, it is noted, the fixed
amount remains due until such time
as the ship is actually turned over to
the American government.
Jonesville Route 1
August 31, 1922.
Aien't we having cool weather
now ' It seems just like autumn. The
farmi-rs in this community will soon
be ready to go to work picking cotton
and pulling fodder. Gotton in some
piacet* is opening very fast.
The protracted meeting closed at
Poster's Chapel Sunday night. It had
been going on lor two weeks. It sure
was a grand meeting.
Gary and Boyce White are visiting
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
White.
Mrs. E. D. PalrtieP of Union Route
5 has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Boyd Smith, and father, Mr. T. M.
Tweed.
Mrs. E. T. Johnson of Union Route
3 spent the week-end with her sister,
Mrs. S. W. Vinson.
Misses Ruth and Buena Plexico
spent Sunday 'with Mrs. Hugh Harmon.
Wallace Pickens of Pacolet Route
1 spent Sunday afternoon with his
sister, Mrs. S. W. Vinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Harmon and
small son spent Friday afternoon
with their mother, Mrs. Sallie Harmon,
of Jonesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Fay White are the
proud owners of a baby girl, the little
lady to be called Sara Ellyn White.
"Honey Bee." i
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The occasional discovery of fossil ,
plants and bones in the Arctic regions (
shows that at some period of history
an almost tropical climate once pre- ,
vailed in the far north. I
Bamboo writing-pens are still fa- '
vorcd in Trw*!a, where they have been
in use for over a thousand years. i
Hubby and Wifay.
"I've learned one thin* from thla
Ashing trip."
"What Is that, dour?
"You will wait more patiently for a
cheap /tali tbnn you will for yon'
wife."?Loulsi llle Courier-Journal.
Women and Scout a Plant Crop
Honolulu, August 80.?From a crop
planted during the 1920 strike by Hawaiian
women and Boy Scout volunteers,
Ewa Plantation on this island
has harvested the largest amount of
cane and sugar ever taken from the
field in any country, according to an
announcement by the management.
The field of 140.8 acres yielded 16.31
tons of sugar to the acre, aa compared
with the former world's record
of 16.02 tons, also established by Ewa
plantation in 1902.
CONTRASTS THAT AP.? VIVID I
Good--for Pessimist to Dwell on Difference
of Life Today and
Three Centuries Ago.
Just to learn how far tve have come.
tnk? a look at the present and then
glance backward anywhere fron: three
centuries to times within the tnetnory
of men who are yet scarcely graylicaded.
Take a walk down I.eyden
street and gaze on the model log
cabin of the type which was once one
of the best dwellings In the chief residential
section of the town (Plymouth),
back In 1021 and 1(1122. Imagine
what the Interior would be like on a
winter day with only one fireplace
harnessed to n chimney which needed
a woodlot to feed It, hut was a fine
ventilator. Consider what the furnishings
must have been and having completed
this mental picture drop down
several generations to the time oi your
great grandmother who used a smaller
fireplace to do her cooking, or else
had a brick oven Instead of r Hutch
kitchen or hake kett'e for her bread
and such, and the bathing facilities
were?well, primitive to say the least.
Yes, and she used candles dipped at
home and made her soap In the- backyard,
the sort which took off dirt all
right and seemed to earr.v along cuticle
with It.
Later came wood-burning stoves and
still later some coal was used, hut not
so very much, for wood by the cart
load was brought Into town from the
hack lots and sold dally In town square ,
not no years ago. Lumber was sawed
by band at times and the lumber mlllH
used the old slow single sash saw; '
shingles were rived hy hand and split
laths ran be found In houses about i
here even now, hut they nre old ones. {
Nails were made and window sash j
formed the winter Job for the earpen- *
ter who was building a house. Plenty '
more contrasts will occur if one srops
to think a moment and thinking Is '
Just what the rcnlly successful 1
preacher tries to get his audience to J
do. The foregoing Is only the outline (
of the heads of the sermon about s
houses and their contents and stir- j
roundings.?Old Colony Memorial. j
SEES LACK OF IMAGINATION i
Cleveland Writer Thinks Blunders of I
School Children Are Less c
Funny Than They Were. {
"It doesn't seem to me," says the C
Cleveland observer. "tl\at the blunders |
school children make nowadays are as '
funny as they used to be. And this, '
as the sociologist will tell you, argues t
that the school children haven't the 1
Imagination they used to have. It (
takes Imagination to produce enter- 8
tabling blunders o?' this sort, as any
school teacher will tell you." j
Here nre two related by a Cleveland
teacher. To the question, "What do ^
you know about George Washington?" *a
ten-year-old replied, "George hit the >
tree with his hatchet an' his father
sed, who dun It, an* George sed, 1 r
dun It, and his father sed, enny Araer- y
lean boy can get to be President, an'
he did."
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The other question was, "Who was
WHiunodote Perry ?" This was the c
answer: "He was out on the lake c
lighting an* he said, we have meet the *"
ennymy an' then they turned him into t
fit Aim " /^l/titoln t./I Dlnln
vbviviuiiu a idiii wen in.
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"Dead Nebulae."- j
There has been photographed a i
most singular object In the eonstella* t
tlon Taurus, the appearance of which a
suggests the term "dead nebula." It c
la a long, straggling mass, which
8eems to shut out the stars behind It. c
All round It the atnrs are strewn
thickly, but within Its boundaries (
very few appear and It Is suggested t
that these may lie on this side of It. e
At one point there Is a small, bright c
nebula, which gradually fudes out. r
The feebler portions of the nebula
would almost suggest that a large .
nebula exists here, but that the major
portion of It Is dead or non-luminous. r
In some places the dark object Is (
manifestly darker than the starless a
parts of the sky around It.?Washing- t
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Motor-Car Boat. " }.
A vehicle which Is either a motor* f
car or motor-boat alternately has been t
designed by a Philadelphia company,
the hybrid being known as an automo- "
bile boat. Possessing doors that are v
absolutely watertight, the body of the
"auto-boat" may be screwed up high S
above the axles when required for use e
In surf. Then, when deeper watei n
has been reached, the steering-wheel
which operates the front wheels whll? >
on dry land may be used to work th? ^
rudder which Is In readiness astern.
Seated In such a vehicle, a motorist
need fear nothing In the way of water u
though It be In the form of an lnunda ?
Hon. All that seems needed now Is ar. r
adapted "auto-boat" which Is capable t
of flying. h
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Portable Playhouses. f
Portable playhouses are a very <s
Interesting feature of the Hartford ^
"(Conn.) playgrounds. They have red
canvas roofs and wire netting walls, a
and .each Is furnished with a small c
wooilen table, four chairs and a set of
wooden blocks. So light are these s
houses that they can be picked up (
nnd carried obout to different parts n
of the parks and arranged In different
ways?In a circle, In rows as If facing
the village street or as country places
with spacious yards. In these Llljh a
putlun villages children of the playing- i
house age never tire of acting out t
every phase of community life?play- J
lug store and bank, going to church, j,
going to the theater and just keeping e
\dopt Uniform
Export Trade Mark f
Sydney, N. S. W., Aug. 30.?All the *
itate governments have agreed to *
adopt the federal uniform export c
trade mark scheme which provides '
that all goods for export will bear an *
Australian mark of a distinctive de- 1
sign. Bach manufacturer may use t
his own trade-mark in addition to I
that of the state. f
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Fully 60,000,000 oocoannt trees ~ra t
under cultivation in Ceyion. Sr
Morocco Laugh* As Europe
Disowns Her Fuure ?
Tangier, Morocco* Aug. 81.?Spain <
is torn with emoltlih because Franco
and England are about to 'meet in (
London to discuss ^Tangier and Moroccan
affairs generally, without inviting
Castilian diplomats to participate
in the deliberations* British
and French statesmen are
agitated about the conference, as are
also French and British commercial
concerns with a desire to engage in
development work in backward countries.
But with the true fatalism of Islam,
Tangier restsNpoacefully in its
walled gardens and luughs at the
bickerings of the Christians who have
sen lighting about Morocco for more
than three centuries and still find
themselves in hot water in spite of
the agreements made in the Algeciras
:onference which gave France a pro- ,
tectorate over Central and Southrer.
?nd Eastern Morocco; established a
Spanish zone of influence in the
north, and created an international
sone which comprises Tangier and its
immediate environs.
This international zone has not
neen a great success. It has engeniered
as much ill feeling as have international
settlements in China and
>ther backward countries. Commer:ial
and political jealousies have
lourished, while the Arabs sat calmy
by and watched Europeans squab
jle.
Spain's efforts to maintain herself
n her zone of influence brought
ibout such disastrous military operaions
against the Moroccans that
Spanish governments have fallen a*
short intervals for the last 18
nonths, and British and French poli;icians
have let it bo known that
Spain's inability to keep her zone
juiet makes it imperative that some
steps be taken to protect the rest oT
Morocco against the spread of the
lostile spirit which prevails again t
European domination in northern
Morocco.
When the British gave up Tangier
ate in the 17th century they destroy;d
the mole which protected ship)ing.
Since that date international
iuarrels have always prevented Tar.
jier from having a satisfactory ha
>or. Ships are forced to load and unoad
in the open and wholly unproected
sea. Consequently, Tangier
ins lost its ancient importance as a
ommercial center and serves only
ts the port for the territory immediitely
behind it. Casablanca, in the
'rench territory to the south of Tanricr,
has been extensively developed
>y the French and has become Meocco's
greatest port.
Sultan Mulai Yusef is still nomi:ally
ruler of Morocco and maintains
lis court at Fez with all the pomp
if the ancient Saracens. Over a year
igo he granted a foreign company
lominated by Freiifijt^iterests a conession
to construct for Tangier the
uirbor she has needed for nearly
hree centuries. Other nations obected
to this concession on the
rround that the sultan exceeded nis
lower. But the French government
nsisted that Mulai Yusef is ruler of
he Moroccan Empire, and can make
uch consessions legally if the rights
if the interested parties are protect(1
by proper guarantees.
Tangier is less than 40 miles from
libralta and controls the entrance to
he Mediterranean in such a threat ining
way that England is not inlined
to view the proposed improvenents
with calmness, and out of thh
oncession has grown a general rur.iile
^ from European powers which
nade it necessary for Mr. Lloyo
leorge, the British Premier, to call
i meeting between the French and
he British to*consider the Moroccan
ituation. Spain feels her prestige
s threatened by the failure to invite
lev to participate ig the London con"erenee,
but her unsuccessful miliary
activities in Morocco, and the
:reatly divided opinion in Spain as to
whether King Alphonso should coninue
Spanish efforts to subjugate the
Spanish zone hy force, have weakend
Spanish protests to Great Brit
in nnd France.
With Afghanistan,' Turkey, Indii.
irabia and other Mohammedan counries
in ferment, and Bolshevik
hreats that all Islamic countries wi:l
mite in opposing European control
nd encircle the Mediterranean with
evolt which will finally be extended
o the Far East unrest in Morocco
ias demanded careful attention from
European chancelleries. Every efort
has been made to get the United
Itates interested in the movement to
uiet European differences as to how
ffairs should be handled in northrn
Africa.
The 'Arabs hail the European disention
with great joy and boast that
christian influence will soon end in
iorth Africa. They even predict the
etura of Moors to south Europe
Foreign occupation has made but
. slight impression on Tangier It
s more oriental then many cities
housands of miles to the eastward.
Jor have centuries of international
ntrigue and jealousy greatly changd
the life of this andent city which,
n the Middle Ages, eras one of the
greatest Mohammedan centers of *
earning. Its dominant architectural *
eature today is the mosques, with <
heir numerous white minarets, scat*
ered over the hills cevered with wallid
gardens rich in t subtropical foiage.
The city has goch an ancient
dstory that its residents apparently '
egard a few centuries of retarded
growth as nothinir ill the life of a
dace which was implrtant long be'ore
the Chris^l4^4OTB,|nd scorn the
(Torts of politicians new-born naions
to maintain ^mastery over ,
lorth Africa.
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