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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. G, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1940 Jlsk Me Another A General Quiz The Questions 1. What city is thought to be the oldest in the world that is still inhabited? 2. What American statesman was known as “the Great Pacifi cator”? 3. Buonarotti is the surname of what great Italian artist? 4. What is meant by the French phrase “Je suis pret”? 5. With what is the science of metrology concerned — weather, rocks and their formation, or weights and measures? 6. What is an eon? 7. What is meant by the Penta teuch? 8. Which of these colors has the highest light-reflecting quality: canary yellow, silver gray or white? 9. Who were Aramis, Porthos and Athos? 10. In speaking of a woman in charge of a post office, which is the correct title to use, “postmis tress” or “postmaster”? The Inswers 1. Damascus. 2. Henry Clay was known as the Great Pacificator.” 3. Michelangelo. 4. I am ready. 5. Weights and measures. 6. An immeasurable period of time. 7. The first five books of the Old Testament. 8. White. 9. The Three Musketeers in Du mas’ novel “The Three Musket eers.” 10. Either is correct, but “post mistress” is not official. The post office department recognizes only one title—postmaster. To Check Constipation Get at Its Cause! If constipation has you down so you feel heavy, tired and dopey, it’s time you did something aoout it. And something more than just taking a physic! You should get at the cause of the trouble. If you eat the super-refined food most people eat, the chances are the difficulty is simple—you don’t get enough "bulk.” And “bulk" doesn’t mean heavy food. It’s a kind of food that isn’t con sumed in the body, but leaves a soft “bulky "mass in the intestines. If this common form of con stipation is your t; cubic, eat Kellogg’s All-Bran regularly, and drink plenty of water. All-Bran isn’t a medicine—it’s a crunchy, toasted cereal. And it will help you net only to get regular but to keep regular. Made by Kellogg’s in Battle Creek. If your condition Is chronic, it is wise to consult a physician. The Low-Down Stingo—I fell off a 32-foot ladder yesterday. Bingo—And you were not killed? Stingo—I fell off the third step. if RHEUMATIC PAIN Our Patience How patiently you hear him groan, how glad the case is not your own. TO CHECK h IN 7DAYS ^666 ~ LIQUID OR TABLET? Refuge in Foe When fails our dearest friend, there may be refuge with our dir est foe. "Baukis RHEUM ATI SPECIAL BARGAINS TATHEN you see the specials of * * our merchants announced in the columns of this paper you can depend on them. They mean bargains for you. • They are offered by merchants who are not afraid to announce their prices or the quality of the merchandise they offer. Wise Old Indian Saves Cash for U. S. Locates Old River Ford, Saves Time, Haulage 1 For Government. WASHINGTON.—This is a story of : how a wise old Indian kept the fed eral debt from rising a bit more. Daniel B. Sanford, a road engi neer of the Indian service, told of the episode in a report to the Wash ington office. The story: “The road engineer at the Flat- head agency in Montana recently was faced with the problem of mov ing a steam shovel weighing more than 40 tons from the Indian service road project to the Indian irrigation project, a distance of about 35 miles by the shortest route, which neces sitated crossing the Flathead river at Perma. “The capacity of the bridge, how ever, was only 10 tons. The alter nate route required crossing the river at Polston, which would in crease the distance 140 miles for the trip. Old Ford Remembered. “It was then that one of the old Indians who had been working on the job saved the day by telling the engineer that many years ago the Indians had forded the Flathead river at a point about 400 feet be low the present Perma bridge. He described the ford, pointing out that its route was in the shape of a letter “U.” The bottom of the "U” was downstream. “With the Indian serving as guide, the ford was surveyed and sound ings made. Buoys were anchored alcyig the route, which was found to be little changed with the passing years. The deepest point was 5% feet, which just brought the water into the cab of the shovel. New Fire and Tourist Lookout in Yellowstone YELLOWSTONE PARK, WYO.—A monumental structure of reinforced concrete is nearing completion atop the rugged, wind torn summit of Mount Wfishburn, in Yellowstone national park. When the last form is poured and the shavings swept from the floor, this three-story fort ress will stand as one of the largest and finest lookouts in any national park—a vital cog in the protection of the 1,500,000 acres of virgin for est which mantle Yellowstone. For practical purposes in locat ing fires the new lookout commands a radius of 15 miles. Although nat ural hazes make it difficult to see a small column of smoke at any great er distance, the Teton mountains, more than 80 miles away, are easily observed on a clear day. The elevation of Mount Washburn is 10,- 317 feet. Built by the national park serv ice at a cost of approximately $15,- 000, the new structure replaces the inadequate stone lookout erected on Mount Washburn in 1921. Construc tion of a road to the top of the peak has made it increasingly popular as a side trip for tourists in Yellow stone park. The lookout proper on the third floor of the new building, encased on all four sides with glass, has already been opened. The sec ond floor of the new structure will be devoted to living quarters, with rest rooms on the ground floor. “Permission was obtained to ford the river to save the added hauling distance. Since the Montana Power company had just completed the Kerr dam across the Flathead river sooth of Polston it was decided as an extra precaution to request the company to raise the gates at the dam for a time and thus lower the river at the ford, a distance of 65 miles below the dam. The company agreed to raise the gates at 10 p. m. on a given date, lowering them again the next morn ing at eight o’clock. Our calcula tions showed that the lowest water would occur at Perma at about 2 p. m., and all preparations were made to cross at that time. "The water began to drop at 9 a. m. and at 2 p. m. the crossing was started. The river is 90(1 feet wide at that point, but the route taken was 1,750 feet and the cross ing was made without incident in 35 minutes. “Thanks to this old In dian, the Indian ford that had not been used in 50 years reduced the distance of moving the shovel by 105 miles with a saving to the In dian service of a considerable sum.” Hitler and Churchill Meet at Last -MaMMWWflageBR 7$ t , *15 If * -B Two world-famous names belong to 2 of the 100,000 V. S. army troops encamped at Ogdensbnrg and Lisbon, N. Y. They are Warrant Officer Thomas P. Churchill (left) and Staff Sergeant Paul Hitler (right). Church ill is with the Second corps area, regularly stationed at Governors’ is land, and Hitler is attached to the Seventy-first infantry of New York. REDDY FOX HAS A BAD DREAM TT WAS a long time since Reddy 4 Fox had been near Farmer Brown’s henyard. Very wisely lie had been content to hunt for his liv ing on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest. So it was also a long time since he had heard the voice of Bowser the Hound on his trail. Once in a while he would hear Bowser barking far away in He started for the Green Forest as fast as he could run. Farmer Brown’s dooryard, but oth erwise he would hardly know that Bowser was still alive. Reddy had had good living all summer, and now he was fat and lazy. He was in no condition for a hard run and he had no desire for one. This particular morning Reddy was very sleepy. He had been out all night, his stomach was full, the rays of jolly, round, r4F Mr. Sun were warm and comforting, and he could think of nothing so good as a nap on his special sunning bank. So he curled up there and without a single uneasy thought h .> dropped off to sleep. After a little he began to dream. At first it was a very pleasant dream. An endless pro cession of mice and chickens and ducks and grouse were marching be fore him, and they were all for him to the very last one. All he had to do was to help himself. He was trying to decide whether he would begin his dinner with a fat mouse and follow this with a plump chick en, or begin with a chicken and top off with a mouse, when he heard a faint sound and stopped to listen while the ducks and the chickens and the mice and the grouse con tinued to march past. All this was a dream, you know, and to Reddy a very pleasant dream, until that faint sound began to g: jw louder and louder. And, as the sound grew louder, the chickens and ducks and the mice and the grouse seemed to fade away. At last not one was left, and his ears rang with a great roaring, which filled him with a great fear. His beautiful dream was becoming a bad one. He wanted to run away, but somehow he couldn’t. All the time that terrible roaring came nearer and nearer. He gave a frightened little yelp, and then— why, then, his eyes flew wide open I He was right on his private sunning bank. The rays of jolly, round, bright Mr. Sun were pouring down on him, the blue sky was over him, and all was as it should be, except one thing—that dreadful roaring seemed to have come out of his dream with him. For just a minute Reddy Fox couldn’t understand it. Then sud denly he recognized the voice of Bowser the Hound, and he knew that it was no dream. Bowser was on his trail and very, very near. Spring ing to his feet Reddy glanced hastily behind him. Sure enough there was Bowser and he saw Reddy. He sprang forward and his voice seemed Power for America’s Defense Preparedness to grow twice as loud. Reddy didn’t wait. He started for the Green For est as fast as he could run. And as he ran he muttered to himself: "I wonder how he came to find my track. It must be that Farmer Brown’s boy is out hunting again with that dreadful gun. I must watch out for him. Oh, dear, I’m too fat to run well! I’ve got to throw that dog off my track somehow. It isn’t fair to hunt me when I haven’t been near that old chickenyard. Some things are dreadfully unjust in this world. Farmer Brown’s boy ought to keep that bothersome dog chained up when I keep away from the ducks and chickens. It isn’t fair. No, sir, it isn’t fair. My goodness, how short of breath I am getting! I certainly am in no condition for a long run.” And all the time Old Man Coyote was trotting to his home in the far corner of the Green Meadows with a wicked grin on his face, as he listened to the voice of Bowser the Hound as Reddy ran for his life. You see. Bowser had found the tracks of Old Man Coyote that mqrn- ing and started to follow them. Old Man Coyote, knowing just where Reddy Fox was, had led Bowser straight there, and when Bowser had seen Reddy he had straightway forgotten all about Old Man Coyote. And that was just as Old Man Coy ote had planned. No wonder that he chuckled as he trotted off home. 0 T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. Ups By V.V. Wilson dam, one of the great hydro-electric power producers of the Tennessee valley, is an important unit of the 10 that can produce 1,700,000 horsepower of electricity for America’s defense. As the lakes Vbove the TVA dams are completed, speedboat racing has become a fad. Seven regattas have already been held this summer. Pretty Pat Poore, shown, will be “Miss TVA” in Chattanooga’s Labor day celebration. Two hundred cities in the seven states of the valley area will unite for the four-day program. 'T'HE newest autumn coiffure will probably have long, wide curls at the ’ ape of the neck to go with the new bonnet. The front and the side hair is usually short and done in larger, wavier curls. There is a definite trend away from the small tight curl. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) o Build Portable Steel Dam For Use of Panama Canal PITTSBURGH.—A portable steel dam, largest of its kind ever built, is being rushed to completion here so that it may implement defense machinery at the Panama canal. The floating caisson, being built by the Dravo corporation, at its Neville Island works here, is re signed to be rushed to any place in the canal and act as an auxiliary dam should the regular locks be damaged—through sabotage or ac cident. The dam was ordered by the navy department, under the national de fense program, at a cost of about $500,000. It is similar to a portable dam constructed in 1914 when the canal was completed and which has been employed frequently during repairs to other locks. The new portable dam, it is un derstood, will be stationed at Gatun lake. SCIENTISTS DEFLATE MYTH THAT WARFARE CAUSES RAIN ANN ARBOR, MICH.—A popular superstition current during the World war that bombs and heavy artillery fire in Europe caused rains in the United States has been de bunked by University of Michigan scientists. Profs. Daniel L. Rich and Ernest F. Barker of the department of physics issued statements to correct the misconception which, they said, has been revived during the current bitter conflict in Europe. The scientists pointed out that rain is caused when water vapor at tached to dust particles cools suf ficiently to concentrate into drops heavy enough to be pulled to the ground by gravitation. The scientists pointed out that there has not been enough rain on the battlefields to stop Germany’s war machine and mire tanks in mud. If the belief were true, they said, I perhaps the lightning advance of the German army into France would have been slowed. While dust particles might be ac cumulated through heavy bombings, they pointed out that without pres ence of sufficient water vapor there could be no rain. In this respect, the physicists com pared the battlefields of Europe to industrial Pittsburgh. Dense clouds j of dust particles hang over the city. they said, but precipitation charts reveal no excess rain for Pittsburgh. At any rate, rain would fall on the battlefields and not in the United States. Street Scene Every Broadway stage producer turned down Elmer Rice's “Street Scene,” which coined $2,000,000 when William A. Brady took a chance. AROUND THE HOUSE Potatoes that are to be French fried should stand in cold water at least an hour before cooking. • • • One soon learns by handling pots when managing house plants that if pots are light the plants are dry; if heavy they may be left without water for a time. * * • Dogs having access to the house should be kept thoroughly clean and free from fleas. Serious dam- tage may be done if fleas enter rugs or upholstered furniture. • • • It is a good plan to disinfect sinks and other drains once each ‘week. • • • A teaspoon of salt and dessert spoon of lemon juice answer the same purpose as “salts of Lemon” for removing iron mold from linen. ‘It is not a poison and will not prove injurious to the linen. Deliciously vim-making ... quick... easy to prepare.. i saves kitchen time and trouble ... economical... order; today; from your grocer. Van (amp's Porkond BEANS Feast-for-the - Least i i Suspicion’s Tongue See what a ready tongue suspi cion hath!—Shakespeare. Discriminate Reading I is much better to trust yourself to It does not matter how many, a few good authors than to wan- but how good, books you have. It I der through several.—Seneca. PHILC0 Farm Radio farm &aef/b Msfory/ Yes, this amazing Philco Farm Radio costs less to buy . . . less to operate. No wet batteries to pay for and recharge ... no wind chargers. 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