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Navigation of Ships Latest Lighthouse Equipment Proves Efficient Washington, D. C.—"Self-announc ing” lighthouses and lightships that tell the mariner just how close he ,is approaching them, even when a pea-soup fog shuts them from view, make up the latest equipment of the United States lighthouse service in its fight for greater safety at sea. "The vital element of this recent contribution to safer navigation, now coming into wide use, is a combination of signals which tells the navigator his distance from dangerous reefs or shoals," says the National Geographic society. '‘Twenty • nine stations sending such signals, scattered along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine, to the Southwest pass of the Mis sissippi river, recently participated in the most elaborate demonstration of their use ever arranged. They operated continuously during day light hours to give all passing ships the opportunity to test out the new method, and judge of its accuracy. Danger ia Peg. "In the stress of making harbor In a fog. shipmasters are too con cerned to rely oo an unfamiliar method The tests by distance-find ing observations were made in good weather and in daylight because it was realised that, when the oc cur soy of the new method was im mediately revealed by bearings taken from visible landmarks, manners would gam enough co ftdence in the signals to rely on RIDING THE RIDER A remarkable spill photographed during the Hunters' Centenary plate event at Adelaide, Australia. "Re form" is shown a moment after he had fallen with his rider. The horse apparently is taking a seat on the jockey. The latter was not seriously injured. them later when fog would obscure the station sending them. When approaching land in fog, it is often possible to hear sound fog signals from a lighthouse or light ship; yet, because of the vagaries of sound traveling through fog, the hearer may be unable to determine with any accuracy his distance from the sending station. This difficulty, which has caused many sea dis asters, is greatly reduced by the new ‘distance-finding’ signals, which really are ‘distance-telling’ signals. "Two signals are sent simul taneously—-a radio beacon signal and another by sound. The mariner notes the time that elapses between arrival of the radio signal, which comes in first, and reception of the sound signal. By calculations based on this lapse of time, he can de termine how many miles he is from the sending station. The signals can be picked up by all ships fitted with radio direction finders or even simple radio broadcast receivers, if they can be tuned to the proper wave lengths. Sound signals are sent, of course, by the usual fog horn or siren. First Use of Signals. "This method of distance-telling was first tried out by the United States lighthouse service in 1929, at Cape Henry lighthouse. Virginia, and Poe Reef lighthouse in the up per end of Lake Huron. "The following year seven addi tional stations were placed in open tion on the Great Lakes, where mariners already were making fre quent use of radio-beacon signals for calculating their positions. The use of distance-telling facilities an but another step. In 1991 ten more stations were given the new equn t. Inc hiding two on the Pacific the Blunts Reef lightship, ' California, and Grays Harbor light- | house. Washington. "Blunts Reef lightship Use a short way off Cape Mendocino, a promon tory which must be rounded by a9 ships bound up or down the const Because of reefs extending seaward from the cope, stupe must keep wot offshore. Calculation of distance was formerly difficult when fog obarurod everything With the nee signals, manners can compute ec curately their distance from the lightship and reefs, and avoid steer ing too cloee to shore. "At Grays Harbor lighthouse. Washington, vessels entering the bay from the open Pacific must pass through a narrow entrance formed by two jetties. When fog conceals the shore, ships seeking the entrance are in danger of run ning aground The new signals, sent from the light^puse cloee to the jetties, will enable ships to ap proach them with greater safety. "In 1935. nineteen lighthouses and lightships were given the new dis tance-telling equipment in addition to those already in operation. By the end of 1936 at least 27 other stations will be so equipped, bring ing the total to 73." LEONARD A. BARRETT A study of the origin of a word is always interesting. A word seldom used is fane from the Latin fanum meaning temple, sanctua ry. The prefix pro, also of Latin origin, means be fore. The word profanity there fore, etymologi cally, means be fore the temple, outside of the sa cred enclosure in which a temple is located irreli gious. unconse crated, blasphemous. Profanity is, of course, the state of being profane, either in speech or action. This origin of the word gives us a vivid picture of the primary cause of profanity. A person who feels no sense of reverence or who speaks or acts in a profane manner when he ia in a sacred temple or sanctu ary indicates by his actions a cer- JUST LIKE HIS DAD . ou Btj Lqdta Le Baron Walker 'T'ODAY we hear very little about A plain sewing, ,a term once in common usage, to define the usual run of hand stitchery. Where were dressmakers who cut and fitted, and often designed clothes, and seam stresses who did the plain sewing. When sewing machines came into use, the seamstresses were expected to use them satisfactorily as well as to do beautiful hand sewing. In this era of ready made gar- m e n t s, neither the seamstress nor the dress maker are as es sential a s for merly. What with up • to - date pat terns, with eleo t r i c machines, and simple • to- make styles in lingerie and dresses, the woman at home maneges to do such sewing as is needed apart from the clothing she purchases ready to wear The necessity for her to know how to mend, and do plain sewing In the best way la easy to realise, especially as this means saving of that precious quantity—time. basket la the wan A splendid action picture of Knute Rockne. Jr., son of the late conch of Notre Dame Young Rockne m a star on the Miami Military acad emy learn. He hopes to enter Notre Dame upon graduation and wtn a place on the team his father helped make famous. tain type of mental or moral dete rioration. Even hardened criminals have been known to remove their hats in a reverent manner when they entered a church. The profane person who lacks a sense of rev erence has the roots of his unmoral norms planted somewhere outside or before the sacred enclosure of the temple of moral values. We wonder sometimes how it is possible for some crimes to be com mitted. We are shocked as well as surprised at the calloused conscience which feels no sense of responsibility for the crimes. The explanation is simple when we remember that the spirit which is reverent, devout, or spiritual must find the source of its existence withn the enclosure of sacred realities. One of the most serious conditions that Imperil the social order today is this very lack of reverence for the past from which has come our present civilization. An irreverent attitude toward sacred things very soon paralyzes the individual re sponse to idealism. The profane habit which consigns all history to the junk heap is suicid al to progress. A profane attitude toward truth makes the liar. A crim inal justifies his theft not because he is immoral but rather because ne is unmoral. He has no conscience in the matter. The more serious menace of irreverence is that profane attitude toward person ality which is prevalent to an alarm ing extent today. Any person who possesses a normal reverence for personality will avoid all acts of violence which work injury to an other person. A profane person will exploit personality in order to ob tain a personal desire. As impor tant as is the reverence for human personality, of supreme importance is a proper reverence for the Divine Personality. Taking in vain the name of the Infinite is profanity in its worst form. Swearing has become so common that it has become a vicious habit with many persons. To rid ourselves of the low spell of irreverence, we must get on sacred ground. Plant ourselvaa solidly with in the sneiaeure of the temple of high aaoral value and apmtual ideals First A well equipped « first essential. It la alt down to Is no silk or cotton la the needed, or In the right numbers. This matter of the numbers In white thread la sometimes not fully appreciated The sue moat < required to 70 But this le not enough tor aumeroua uses, end it le too fine lor others. tO is s number that Is coarse enough lor moot hand needs If a woman has of numbers from 90 to 40 she Is reedy lor moot sewing re quirements in the matter of white cotton. The expert home seamstreoo has a wider range including 100. and also extra coarse cotton such aa 20 and even 12. In stitches, running la the one In most use Hemming is a good and. with felling, bock * stitching darning. stitching, following closely after. Darning stockings la not included In the term plain sewing, but •days, with stockings of filmy fine ness. mending hosiery la one of the important forma of sewing The ex pert In mending these stockings knows that not only runs can bo overcast, but small holes can be best mended In this stitch. Slip covers for books are as use ful as those for furniture. The for mer are much easier to make, and can be as attractive in their way as the latter. They may be wanted but within that sublime and sacred realm of truth in all its purity, in all its beauty of expression do we find the cure for the evil malady of profanity. Speech and actions that are the marks of inner beauty and refinement are sorely needed in this age of free speech and independent action. © Western Newspaper Union. to protect handsome bindings or to conceal poor ones. They may lend decoration to volumes, or be purely utilitarian. Ornamental ones add touches of beauty to library tables and to shelves in bookcases. Since the quantity of material required to make book slip covers is trifling, the cost can also be small. Consequently there seems to be every point of advantage of fine ones. The handsomest of these book slip covers are made of fine tooled leather, rich in ornament and choice in colorings. Many have outlines of gold or touches of the precious metal introduced into the design. The per sons who can make such covers know the effectiveness of the work. Such covers in Italian workmanship can be bought without taxing the purse strings. The covers are not difficult to fashion by one skilled in leather handicraft. Materials. While no article on book slip cov ers would be complete without men tion of leather ones. It is not these that the average person would be likely to make. Silk, or other suitable textiles such as glazed chintz, table oilcloth, etc., or paper, plain or fancy, would be the materials moat frequently used. Moire silk covers are choice and conservative. Fig ured textiles are Table oilcloth la for kitchen such i bold printed peper per* vie with artistry for purely practical. Cut to allow * Mrs. FranUm D. RoossvsH Cheese Pie 1 cup cottage cheese. % cup sugar. 2 eggs. cups milk. % cup cream (sweet or sour). 1 teaspoon salt. Line a pan with light pastry; brush the lower crust with white of egg. Rub the cheese and cream into fine mixture; add salt. Beat eggs and sugar together and add to cheese mixture. Then add milk and mix well. Fill crust and dot with seeded raisins. Bake, first fifteen minutes in fast oven (400), then slow down (375) until just set. Serve slightly warm. Copyright.—WNU Bcrvlco. Bank of France The Bank of France is a unique Institution, probably the most ex clusive organization in the world. It is privately owned with 40,000 stockholders, yet it completely controls French finances. It owns all the gold in France, the nation al treasury having not one franc in its vaults. It alone issues bank notes. It lends money to the government. It may shut off credit at any time—and it has done so frequent ly. Unlike our own Federal Re serve system. It also does a com mercial business with more than six hundred branch offices in the nation. —St Louie Globe-Demo crat. 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The cabin has been restored to its original site st ML Pleasant, Ohio, after an absence of more than fifty years, and has been furnished as far ss possible with household belongings of the Grant family. Jesse Grant and his young wife were in poor circumstances st the time their son. Ulysses, was bora. Some time later they moved to Georgetown ia on adjoining county. Thera they proopered and ware able to build a comfortable two-story home at "Quotations" A Nation* muat depend for economic aalvation on individual effort*.— Eamon dm Vmlmrm. Fiction ia truth with ita face lifted. —Rex Reach. Jt is women rather than men, who are unfair to women.—Fannie Hunt. Immorality, like war, la a slate af abnormality. Slowly bat aardy wo hark la aaimalbj once ami mw be?—Jaffa D.