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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.
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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,
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By Charles Sughroe Difficult Speaking
Among man’s greatest triumphal
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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
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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.
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Glaring at each other like a pair of fighting cocks about to spring,
two Mongolian wrestlers are pictured meeting in combat at the recent
peoples' holiday of the Mongolian Peoples* Republic. Note the uniforms
of the wrestlers.
Try This Amazing Fast Way
—Th* “PhUttps” Way
Millions Are Adopting
it dsodIc are beina
urged to dJcaliu theirstomech. And
thus ease symptoms of "add indigee-
tioo,” aaeaea and upsets.
To gain quick alkalisation, just do
this: Take two teaspoons of PHIL
LIPS’ MILK OFMACMBSIA 90
minutaa after eating. OR—taka two
Phillips' Milk nf tugn—u TaUets.
Belief cornea almost at once —
usually In n few minuter Nausea,
"gas” — fullness after eating and
"add indigestion” pains leave. Yob
fed like e new'person.
Try this way. Get dtbar the liquid
"Phillips” or the remarkable, nos
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Tablets.
Each one equals n teaspoon of the
liquid. Only 25/ • box at all drug
stores.
PHILLIPS’
Waste Brian Want,
Hundreds 'would never have
known went if they had sot first
known waste.—Spurgeon.
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Carry the radiance of your aoul
in your face; let the world have
the benefit of it.—Fox.
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Essence of Genius
Genius does its best. The es
sence of genius is not to shirk.
WhMi You Fool SkiggMi
(Constipated)
Take a dose or two of Black-
Draught Feel fresh for a good
day’s work.
Work seems easier, life pleasanter,
when you are really well—free from
the bad feelings and dullness often
attendlhg constipation.
For nearly a century, Black-
Draught has helped to bring prompt,
refreshing relief from constipation.
Thonsands of men and women rely
on it
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