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Hit Banwtll PtopIc-SeniintU BtnwcIL 8. CL Thnnday, March 4» 1937 SUCH IS LIFE—Beaten “Buddy 99 mr* m »I * Fort Peck Dam Project Is About Half Finisbed Largest River Control Un dertaking in United States. Fort Peck, Mont.—Work on the nation’s largest river control proj ect, the Fort Peck dam, is about half completed and army engineers Relieve that water may be started backing up behind its four-milerwide barrier in 1938 to form a reser voir 180 miles long. The .gigantic New Deal project, begun in October, 1933, probably will be completed in 1939, its build ers believe. A total of 889,000,000 already has been appropriated toward its esti mated construction cost of $108,600,- 000. The recent report of the board of army engineers recommended to the present congress that $8,706,000 be provided for current construc tion costs. Because of this tremendous ex penditure of federal funds, the plains country of northeastern Mon tana has found the Fort Peck dam a bonanza far exceeding the boom days of gold discovery. Peak pe riods such as last summer, when the pay roll numbered 10,546 per sons, involved an estimated monthly Larry Kelley, captain and bril liant end of the 1936 Yale football team, who has laid his moleskins to play guard on the Yale basket ball team. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS — BY ARNOLD /Fastest in COLDER WATER Steamships have heater speed in the Northern Atlantic THAN IN THE TROPICS, COLD WATER CONDENSING THE STEAM FASTER, TO GIVE iMORE POWER. kH Continental fence- Telephone poles in THE r 'J.S. WOULD MAKE A SOLID fence from New York to [San Francisco. Mosquito pest- WORST OF MAN'S ENEMIES IN THE INSECT WORLD IS THE M0S9urrq commonest and MOST WIDELY FOUND OF BLOODSUCKING FLIES, T\ \ By Charles Sughroe Difficult Speaking Among man’s greatest triumphal VVUEN \ME WERE OUT WITH THAT TRAILER, HE BURIED A SOME UMPER THE TRAILER EVKV NIRWT ’n you „ MOVED JS 0 5i) EVRV " DAVM HENB/ERki -^ouKO TYIEM again! VVeeJ \&i! ever physical disability are the! ’addresses” made by deaf, dumb' and blind individuals to audiences of deaf, dumb or blind persons. <)n such occasions the ’’speaker'' transmits his message by the pressure of his hand to an inter preter who, using the sign lan guage, conveys it to the deaf- mutes in the audience and they in turn slate it through hand pressure to their blind neighbors >eside them.—Collier’s Weekly. Keep your body free of accumulat ed waste, take Dr. Pierce’s Pleas ant Pellets. 60 Pellets 30 cents. Adv. pay roll of $1,000,000. Even during winter shutdowns the pay roll has not fallen below 4,000 workers. These pay rolls explain why de partment of commerce retail bus iness surveys showed Valley coun ty to have a 474 per cent spurt in two years. Flood Control Secondary Most New Deal river projects are for irrigation or power devel opment. Not so at Fort Peck, where these objectives are only secondary. The prime purpose of the Fort Peck dam is to improve navigation on the Missouri river, with flood con trol a secondary objective. For more than a century army engineers have wrestled with the problem of controlling the turbulent Missouri river to provide a safe and adequate channel for navigation. The great Fort Peck dam, driven into the hills of Montana's desolate badlands, is the foundation of the present program of developing an eight or nine foot channel from the mouth of the Missouri near St. Louis to Sioux City, Iowa. The channel already is open to Kansas City and work is progressing to the Iowa point. The rate of flow in the Missouri river varies greatly. From the great reservoir formed by the dam, with its shoreline of 1,600 miles, water will be available for release when needed during the autumn months. The dahn tgill store water during June "rises” when melting snow water cascades down from moun tains into this twisting, picturesque basin. Not to Affect Mississippi. Army engineers emphasize the explanation that the Fort Peck dam will have little effect on Mis sissippi river flood control and was not designed to keep that river in check. The dam, of earth All, is being built with the effort of four gigantic dredges which pump earth and wa ter from the river valley through long pipelines. The desired solids settle out to form the All for the dam. By the end of the dredging season, 50,000,000 cubic yards, half of the estimated required All, were in place. Work will center on the dam it self in the next two years. Lining of almost five miles of diversion tunnels has been completed, with some work remaining to be done on control apparatus and portals. A large flood spillway will be com pleted this summer. About July 1, 1937, the river will be diverted through the four-mile long tunnels around the dam. Then the channel section of the dam will be closed. SCIENCE-PERIL OR PROGRESS? By LEONARD A. BARRETT A cursory review of the results of scientific research gives the impres sion that prog ress :md not peril is the con tribution which science has made to civilization. We should re member, howev er, that the prod uct of many lab oratories cannot be accredited with effecting economic or so cial progress for the reason that the results are of no practical value. Granted that it would be a scientific achievement to split the atom, if the split atom can not in some way be translated into forces which will benefit our daily life, the experiment must remain in CHARMING ENSEMBLE Owe Much to Ancestors "No man,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "can fail to respect our ancestors if he will but re member that to them we owe some of our noblest thoughts and the memory of brave deeds.” WJUL By BETTY WELLS I T ALL started with a pair of blue Wedgewood vases. They were wedding gifts—heavenly ones —and the bride said, "Let’s have our living room in blue!” Many a beautiful room starts, just that way. Maybe the nucleus will be a Ming vase or a good Hitchcock chair or a family sampler, as the case may be. This particular bride has her blue living room now and ev eryone is happy, including those who visit her there. This charming ensemble is by Milgrim of New York. The gown is of velvet and lace. Interesting features are the little square neck line with its use of heavy white Viennese lace, and the matching cuffs. The hat is of black velvet with a veil of aheer caballero. the realm of the abetract. Not un til the Roentgen rays were applied to photographing the shadows of bones and foreign particles through the fleshy parts of the body did they make any contribution to the welfare of humanity. When the Hertzian waves became the medium of wireless telegraphy, the world enthusiastically acclaimed the plaudits of the scientist. Science has made tremendous strides in the in vestigation of diseases. In the dis covery of anti-toxins, human life has been safeguarded and rein forced in a miraculous manner. In the field of therapeutics and in sur gery, great progress to humanity has resulted from the expansion of scientific research. The value of such research is beyond evaluation and worthy of sincere gratitude. But, there is another side to the picture. Science is largely responsible for having made this a machine age. The machine has displaced human labor, not because the machine could make a better article but be cause it could make a cheaper one with greater speed. Has this fact made for social retrogression or progress? What of the vast army of the unemployed? Science has given us the airplane. In spite of occasional casualties due to wrecks, the airplane marks a distinct ad vance in the field of aeronautics. But what about the use of aircraft in times of war? Has it not been used for destruction as well as for construction? To what extent are these balanced in their relation to the progress of society? It seems that the results of scien tific research face the alternatives of becoming either a peril or a blessing. Certainly it is no blessing when poisoned gases are made for the purpose of demolishing entire cities, or armaments are manufac tured for the exclusive purpose of killing people. We all recognize the fact that pure science takes no cognizance of the moral element. Science deals with facts and not with motives. But the citizenship of the country holding the balance of 4>ower as vested in the ballot, does have the right to determine whether our culture, science and T=r k> w It all started with a pair of bine Wedgewood vases. The walls of the rather large, square room are oyster white and the floor is covered with a Chinese rug in beige with blue figures. A sofa (1) and an easy chair (2) form the main furniture group and go beneath three windows with oc casional tables (5) conveniently by. The sofa is covered in blue frieze and the chair in sand colored frieze. A new type spinet piano (3) stands in an opposite wall with the sec retary (10) near. Two more easy chairs (6 and 7) stand in front of the fireplace—one is in dulled ap ricot velvet, the other is old gold. A long low table (8) stands in front of the fireplace and two small cabinets (9) hold lamps at either side. The three windows together are treated as one with straight window curtains of fine net and to-the-floor draperies finished at the top with a curving swag drapery. The drap eries are of English chintz with a dark blue ground and a mellowed floral design. , A pair of crystal lamps, a marine painting over the fireplace, acces sories in brass, two Currier and Ives prints in blond wood frames —and the room is complete. Well, no, it isn’t complete. For these are very newly-weds and their idea has been to create as happy and home-like i living room as they can afford now, but it will be an ever-growing, ever-changing room. The Wedgewood vases? Oh, they stand on the mantel proud as pea cocks I • • • A “Fixing Fold.” Lights out Fuse blown. Hey, where’s a candle? Got any fuses? Oh, heavens I run over to the Browns and see if they have any. It is just such crises as these that can make a pleasant home into rather a hectic one. We remember moments of sheer chaos resulting from blown fuses in the middle of a party. Other small but impor tant details in the gentle art of keeping a home often can cause mo mentary headaches that seem pret ty silly since a little planning might avert them. We-vyre strongly in favor of a ‘fixing fold” somewhere in the house. We have in mind a simple compact cabinet, preferably on the first floor, with such things as ex tra fuses, an electric torch, a screw driver and an assortment of nails and screws all ready to hand. You might even find space for it on the wall of the kitchen and we’re cer tain that you could find the right size cabinet for such a purpose in the array of steel ones that most stores have now. This cabinet would be inviolate —hands off except for emergencies. You might include strong twine and furniture glue in your list of "fix- its”—thumb tacks, mending tape, good sharp scissors (woe unto little Margaret if caught using them for paper dolls). We have a hunch that most hus bands who hate to work around the house are that way mainly be cause they never can find any tools. Flash a "fixing fold” on your own best half when he comes home this Saturday afternoon before you bring up that mile long list of Keep Health One would rather lose wealth than health, it requires as much wisdom to keep one as the other. When You Want to Alkalize Stomach Fast patriotism shall become a curse or a blessing. Art we unselfish enough to sub ordinate the released power of our modern culture to s high spiritual and ethical ideal? Upon the an swer depends the security or the fall of our western civilisation. c Western Newspaper Union. Lights Out, Fuse Blown. little "please-fix-thisee”. First thing you know he’ll be looking for some thing to tear up and rebuild! Ant he'll end up with a great deal more leisure time if the materials for mending end repairing househok necessities are easy to find ant ready to use. And one more addition—a group of duplicate keys for ell impor tant doors in the house can be kept in this closet to smooth life’s way. • By Betty Well* — WNU Service. My Neighbor Says:= Plan for an earlier and longer sea son of bloom by planting indoors or in flats ageratum, salvia and aster seeds. • • • Clean the sides where the soot has collected In a wood-burning fire place with a weak mixture of salt and vinegar. • • • When preparing early rhubarb for pies it is not necessary to peel it Just cut it into very thin slices about a quarter of an inch thick. • • • Water in which woolen blankets are washed should be tepid and the rinsing water the same tempera ture, if you wish to prevent their shrinking and becoming stiff. • • » Always hold a pastry bag in the left hand with the tube close to the spot on which the mixture is to be spread. Press the bag lightly with the right hand to force the mixture through. No Flying Tackles in Mongolia & < mm ■ mm .... 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