Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rr-, PAG* OX. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, JULY, 2TTH, ItM Blackville Officer Citadel Commandant Lieutenint Colonel Jesse Gaston, U. S. Army, Retired, Succeeds ^ Colonel L^* n K- ALASKA AVIATORS. RISK LIVES DAILY Dangerous Flights Just ‘An other Job.' Lieutenant Colonel Jesse Gaston, tlnited States army, retired, of Blaek- viflle, was appointed commandant of cadets at The Citadel yesterday to succeed Lieutenant Colonel John W. Lang, it was announced by General Charles P. Summerall. Colonel Gas ton was commandant of cadets at The Citadel from 1912 until 1915. Colonel Gaston will assume his new duties formally September 9th, when The Citadel reopens for its next sea- - sion. He is Expected, however, to re port prior to that time. Colonel Lang will remain at The Citadel as professor of military science and tactics and head of the military department. He resigned as com mandant last May, after the board of visitors had failed to uphold him in a recommendation .for the expulsion of a cadet. He said that he felt his use fulness as commandant had been im paired by the board’s action. Colonel Gaston is a native of South Carolina. He was graduated from West Point in 1903, and was retired from the army in 1922- He lived for a time in Atlanta. Colonel Gaston saw active duty in the lines during the World War and' was wounded once. He was awarded the Silver Star citation for hr* ser vices. The new commandant is well known in Charleston and has many friends here. He and Colonel Oliver J. Bond, dean of The Citadel, are close friends. There are other members . of The Citadel faculty, some of whom were cadets when he served ss command ant, who know Colrnel Gaston. A son of the colonel, Crane Gas’on. now is a cadet at The Citadel.—News and Courier. ADVERTISE IN The People- Sentinel. Sea ttle, Wash.—Da ring Alaska fly^ efs risk^ fhetr lives dally In weather most aviators would not attempt to fly In and dismiss their heroic feats with a bashful smile. Flying airplanes in 35 to 60 degrees below aero, ferrying food, making emergency flights, bringing sick and dying \out of the North and rush ing diphtheria toxin to dying Eski mos are some of the duties the flyers perform. In cases of threatened death, where time Is the Important factor, Alaskan flyers do not hesitate at weather con- dltlons. A life Is at stakeandthelr only aim is to save It. Regardless of who or what the victim may be, the pilot gives orders to his mechanic to ‘‘warm her up.” Many of the flyers are government trained. Some flew during the war, others were graduated from army and navy schools, with commissions. Their government training Is ad vantageous In the north country. Bliz zards, heavy rainstorms, fogs and night flying are part of their lives. Blind flying, one of the hardest accom plishments, Is necessary in Alaska, especially when snowstorms last for days. Revenues of flyers and the com panies that employ them are derived from flying passengers of "states” boats over beautiful : snow-capped peaks, ferrying miners And equipment from towns to their claims and trans porting foodstuffs Into the hills. Where It would take a miner more than two weeks by dog team to get Into town for supplies, a plane makes the trip In a few hours, with none of the rigore of mushing over Ice floee or frozen lakes. Miners pay weli for their transpor tation. Around Ketchikan and vicinity they pay from fft.’i to 160 an hour. The farther north one goee the more money he pays. Around Nome and Point Barrow miners pay f 100 an hour. Open cockpit planes have been re placed almost exclusively by cabin Jobs. The ships are Insured against crash. Are and other losses, and each passenger usually Is Insured. Gold transportation from mines far back In the mountains to larger Alas kan cities mostly Is done by plane. Cockatoos Not EasOy Trained to Speak Words The cockatoo's native home is in Australia, where a number of varieties of his kind exist, all of them strik ing In appearance. His plumage is entirely white except for his lemon- colored crest and more of this color \Jghts of o J WALTER NEW YORK trumbuu A subway express banged past a lan In dirty overalls with a red and Hewas eyes are a brilliant black and his beak, like his feet and legs, are dark gray. Although cockatoos may be tanght to do many tricks, they are not eas ily trained to talk. * In an office, a bird by the name of Cocky Is kept as a pet. Cocky does say what might be interpreted as “rub my head,” occassionally. He also has a number of shrill call notes typical of some song birds. Cocky Is not kept in a cage nor even chained to his standard, yet rarely leaves his perch except when encouraged to do so by persons In the room. Should he be out In the room when the Jady in the office starts to open her lunch he speedily makes for his perch,, for he.knows she wi|l not give him a bite v If he is elsewhere In the room. His pet aversion is a bunch of keys. If these are left on a desk he will go after them and throw them to the floor, repeating the process as soon as they are replaced on the desk. Cocky’s diet, for the most part, con sists of mockingbird food, bread and fruit. * * — ■ "y" ~ - - Giraffe Tallest, Also One of Oddest Animals The giraffe is the tallest and one of the queerest animals known to man. It has the bead of a horse, tbe neck and hoof of a stag, the callous breast of tbe camel, and the spotted skin of tbe leopard. On ita forehead are two born excrescence which have no par ticular use at all. Fully grown, a giraffe Is about 18 feet tall It lives In the wooded plains of central Africa, generally In small groups, and fesds mainly on the leaves of treea Despite Its ungainly shape. It Is graceful and can make remark able speed. Even the agile Arabian horse csnoot overtake 1L I Jon*, however, are more than a match for it They are the worst enemies of the glrtffe. They lie in ' wait for the long necked beast near 1 streams and springs where they come j to drink.—PathAoder Magazine. standing beneath a ventilator and a shaft of sunlight revealed bis pallid features. He was a trackwalker—one of the hundreds who spend their work ing hours tramping along vthe long, dark tubes alert for loose bolts, broken rails or anything else that might cause disaster or delay. Here and there they flash their white lights, the red showing toward the rear, being a warning to approaching trains. On them is heavy responsibility. Over the steel which they inspect, millions ride each day. \ v Advertise in Tbe feople-Sentinel j Build Roads! /j THAT GIVE MEN WORK-THAT GIVE YOU DRIVIHG SAFETY, CONVENIENCE COMFORT AND LOW DRIVING COST V ■ * The United States Government has sounded the call, by giving a direct grant to the States, of at least four hundred million dollars for highway improvement. This is part of a vast program of public works to spread national employment and to stimulate business. This work will be done through your own State Highway Department. The Federal Government asks no return except that the money be expended wisely— that the improvements he permanent, substan tially built and of a type that gives men work. concrete ROADS meet every specification. They are permanent. Maintenance cost is much less than that of any other type. They give you the greatest driving safety, convenience and comfort. They cost less to drive over-saving you gas, tires, repairs and depreciation. They will give work to men now on doles in your community. Money will flow across the counters of home stores. Insist on concrete for your roads — get the most and the best road for the money — and the maximum employment for labor! Has pulled America cut cl the mud! Remember the roads of 1910? Narrow strips of dirt —ani.le- deep dust—quagmires of mud— The cost of moving goods was terrific! The engineers have built, with , cement, a network of concwcte highways throughout the nation that is nearly one hun dred thousand miles, in length. Cement spanned great rivers and broad valleys with concrete. Cement made the modem motor vehicle practical; made motor ing a part of our daily life. Boys Raise Bees to Pay for College Education Alma, Mich.—A sweet way to get an education Is by the production of honey, according to Howard Potter and Barker Brown. Both have paid their way through Alma college by raising bees. Last summer the two handled 150 swarms of bees, which yielded 15,000 pounds of honey. In a generous mood, the bees furnished two crops of honey. for furthtr infor mation write the Cement Service Man, care of: PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION Hurt Building ATLANTA, GA. 85 | B / 0 of the money Spent on Concrete Construction Goes to Labor ! Operates on Mother to Save Her Life Sudbury, Ont.—Mrs. Mike Smee- gle, thirty years old. owes her life to the courage and resourceful ness of her Welve-yenr-old son Steve. Without funds to obtain medical attention, Steve performed an emergency operation on his moth er, who was suffering from pleur isy. For two days the boy had peti tioned doctors in Sudbury to visit his mother, who lives In a small cottage six miles north of Sudbury. He failed In his efforts, however, because he lacked • the necessary $10 fee. When his last effort failed he took a razor, made an incision in his mother’s back and. drained out more than a quart of fluid. Provincial police visited Mrs. Snieegl* and found her doing well. They said that there was no 4ouht but that she owed her life it her There are thousands of underground toilers in New York. The subways ac count for an varmy. Dispatchers’ of fices are little boxes down beneeth the street leveL- .Hundreds of station agents work in small platform booths. At the larger stations, there are guards who assist in loading and un loading freight. They are the ones who, when a car seems full to burst ing, pack In a few more sardines. Porters get more sunlight than others as they sweep the stairways—usually when the stairways are greatly crowd ed and sweeping is extra difficult a • a Subway track repair men make re pairs In bright light It is artificial Illumination, however, of such Inten sity that they actually toll In the spot light Between trains,, they are In furious activity. They don’t have to be on the alert for danger. A lookout equipped with a red flag, red light and a whistle keeps watch for them. At the approach of a train, he shrills the whistle and the workers hop. Though they move quickly, they have due regard for the deadly third rail, of course. • • • Train crews In the subway seldom see daylight, except for brief flashes, eicept when they are off duty. Motor- men, before they are accepted, must undergo strict- physical examinations. Then they are put through a long course of training before they are al lowed to handle the controller. Yet In the operation of subway trains, the human factor has been eliminated to a great extent. On the controller handle la what la known as "the dead man’s button." Should the motormon relax pressure on that button, the train atop*. And maintenance men have to be called to get It In motion again. • • • It la Impooalble for a motorman to run past a station. If be falls to shut off power and apply the brake*, a trip does It for him. Nor can he pass a red signal, that carrying with It an antomaflc stop also. A train can he "keyed" past a signal but that prac tice is In dlsfarnr becanoe of the dan ger attached. A motorman can pa*a a danger signal, or "red hall." as It ta called, by getting ont of his compart ment and throwing a lever. But he moat hare an excellent reason ami know that the ntlee of safety are not being violated, ronoiderlng tbs num ber of persons carried dally, the safety average la extremely high. • • • Many other New York worker* see little of tbe city In the daylight. There are those who are employed la r»ndulta and tunnels. Or they go down In man holes and do not come op until quit ting time. Railroad men work under ground In and about terminals. There are underground business centers also ami the underground galleries of Grand Central have a number of men who call them home. There are others also who do not see daylight while they art working though they are not under ground. 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