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U':ithiOR(on, I>. C*. CAS1.1SS SIM* \\ S It begins to look as if gasless Sun days might not f ? so neo ary alt er all ? if ceitam bar -knuckle rc forms in the oil industry ar? put through i ' .v N ? ? ! ..1 Oil Ad ministrator I< k>. . !?*?.? r m stance, tl ?* I tanker system. When an < .i t; r r comes from the Gulf of Mexico up the East coast, it may stop at C.iarh >ten to d:scharu?' part of its oil. then at Rorfoik. t ? . :.t li:iitm:ore. It dis charges certain amount at each port where its company distributes or refines oTl. Simultaneously, a tanker belong ing to on ther company v. ill stop < >:T at exactly the same ports. Thus the tinkers ? f three r even four dif ferent companies ir.ay be feeding the same oita s at th? same time. if. on thBBMUBBund, one com pany ? : . ? I one s> eti< n of the coun try, or :i one tanker delivered oii to all the ci mpar.ies in each port instead < t only to its own, distribu tion would be measurably speeded. A1m>. there are four different types of high octane gasoline hi ing re fined in the United States. All these varieties are not particularly neces sary. one type being sufficient dur ing die emergency. Concentration on oniy cne type of high octane gas also would considerably increase gasoline output and distribution. There is plenty of oil in the U. S A. ; it is only a matter of refining and distribution?^ Note ? The anti-trust laws have prevented the oil companies from cutting competition of this kind, but the government oil administrator should be able to do what the oil companies can't. But LaGuardia, who made his own terms when he look his defense post, is still in charge of national morale. SECRECY OF CONVOYS Most people don't realize it, but the contents of almost every ship leaving the United States for Eng land is known to Nazi Germany. However, learning just when the shipment will reach England and the route it will take, is another matter. Getting information regarding the departure of supply ships to Eng land is relatively simple. All Nazi agents have to do is go down to the waterfront to watch the loading of British ships. The type of goods being loaded cannot be readily con cealed. Or if an American vessel is load ing for the Red Sea, the papers signed by the crew must disclose the port of desiination. This is required by law, so that a seaman may know where he is going, and because ex tra insurance and sometimes extra wages arc paid if the ship enters certain areas. Once a British ship is loaded, how ever, the utmost secrecy is imposed on its route and time of departure. Usually the ship hugs the shore as far north as the Canadian port of Halifax. There it may wait for days or even two or three weeks for a convoy to be made up. When it finally leaves for the haz ardous voyage across the Atlantic, orders are given to the ship's mas ter by hand. Nothing is trusted to radio. A small boat puts out from the commander of the convoy, car rying sealed orders to the master of each vessel. No other orders are given, and no radio messages are exchanged dur ing the trip except in case of at tack. because radio messages might be picked up by Nazi patrol planes. Note ? American ships, on the oth er hand, follow a regular, well-ad vertised course and constantly send out radio messages informing the world of their position. MF.RRY-GO-ROUND Supporting the plan of Chief of Staff Marshall to lower the age of army commanders, war department officials quote the late Justice Oli ver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the Civil war. To Lady Pollock, during the Spanish-American war, he wrote: "A general of 45 and a private of 30 arc old men." The commerce department has set up a separate British empire unit, headed by W. Wal'.on Butter worth, former stale department offi cial in London. His job is to estab lish closer commercial tics with British dominions and colonies. After Gen. Allen Gullion, the army's efficient judge advocate general, appeared in the comic strip "Hap Hopper," he received a let ter from an old boyhood chum say ing: "I have been wondering where you were for 40 years, and now at last I've located you through the funny papers." *~p HE fftc* * tor connected with Joe Louis and his career has received only scant attention. It concerns His weight. When Louis came to the top of the plate.'iu few years ago lie was ngnttng around iiuj pounds. The point was made then, by this writer and many others, that the man to beat Louis would be a fellow named Louis. It was well known .it the time that the Bomber's deep in ward yearning con si -ted largely of two Grantlund !?kc < I e mental details. One was food ? and the other was sleep. Steak, chicken or both together niieu pari s> hi;; sUt> dreams. After that came the deep desire for sleep or repose. This combination seemed to he pointing directly at increasing weight. Many believed that within live years' time Louis would he in the puffy neighborhood of 225 pounds or more. Vet when Louis faced Buddy Bacr in Washington there he was again within a few ounces of 202 In his 17 title defenses ? in prac tically every fight he has known from the start ? Louis hasn't varied his weight seale by as much as two pounds. In most instances he hasn't been a pound away from his start ing displacement. Thr II eight llattle Dempsey weighed 183 pounds when he slaughtered Jess Willard. Against Gene Tunney seven years later Jack was up to 193 pounds. Tunney, starting as a light heavy weight. was always working to pack on a few pounds until he came to a mark between 185 and 190. Jess Willard weighed 240 pounds against Jack Johnson in Havana ? 265 when he met Dempsey at Toledo. The greatest weight shift I've known belonged to Ace Iludkins, who fought at 135 and then sky rocketed after his ring career to 225 when he went in for horse racing. But Louis goes marching along at 202, a number that is now his official landmark. There isn't the slightest change in his physical makeup after seven years. The answer to this is fairly sim ple. Mike Jacobs and the Bomber's managers have kept him too busy for any accumulation to make any headway. In the !ast three years Louis has spent the greater part of his time in some training camp. There is no other champion in ring history, with the money Louis has collect ed, who would have faced such a long grind. Most fighters hate training ? the drudgery of camp life. Louis has | acceplcd the same without a squawk. And this has been the main reason that he has kept his | weight in full control. A Training Angle A few days ago I was talking with one of our best known trainers and condition builders. "The biggest mistake any athlete makes," he told me, "is getting out of condition. By that I mean well out of condition. You can get so far out of condition in two weeks that it might easily take two months to repair the damage. It is so easy to get out of shape and so difficult to get back in again." This is one mistake Joe Louis has never made. I doubt if he has been far away from first-class condition since he first came along the road. Against this method there was the case of Jack Dempsey who was out of the ring and away from action three years between the Firpo and the Tunney campaigns. Dempsey, fighting once or twice a year during that period, at least would have been in far better physical shape later on. The Measure of Health One of the greatest combined coaches and trainers I ever knew was Keene Fitzpatrick who gave nearly 50 years of his life to condi tioning before he retired. After leaving Michigan, Krene came to Princeton, where he trained Tiger entries in football, track and crew. He never missed a day's work in 44 consecutive years. "When I was over 60 yearj old," Fitzpatrick told me, "I was in much better physical shape than many of the young athletes returning to col lege after a summer's vacation. I could actually outrun their.. I tired far less than they did. Some of them returned to college far over weight, facing a long struggle to get I right aeain " Farm Topics FERTILE SOILS AID LIVESTOCK Crops Rich in Minerals Are Valuable as Feed. Bv W. II. 1'II KItK (Head of A economy Department. Iowa State Cotle - ot Agriculture.) When we think of fertile soils we usually think of high crop yields. Soils, however, not only alTect the yield of crops but th? y also affect crop quality composition. From the standpoint of animal feeding the three elements often found in too low quantities in crops are nitrogen, calcium, and phos phorus. For this reason they are often added to animal rations as supplements, nitrogen as protein concentrates, and calcium and phos phorus as mineral supplements. The protein content of all grass or non-leguminous crops is determined i by the available nitrogen in the soil. If the available nitrogen is low. crops make poor growth and con tain low amounts of nitrogen and of | protein. Therefore, the use of manure or nitrogen fertilizers on : such soil often increases both the J yield and feeding value of the crop grown. Legume hays are, of course, much higher in nitrogen and protein than I grass hays. Moreover, legumes when well inoculated, net their ni I trogen from the ciir. They can also furnish nitrogen to non-legume ; crops grown in association. Liming, by promoting the inocula- j tion and growth of legumes, often ! results in an increased nitrogen con- j tent in the crops. Of the elements found in low ! amounts in crops which are impor- j tant in animal nutrition, phosphor- j us is found in all parts of tlie animal body, and together with lime forms the chief constituent of bone. Animals fed a ration deficient in phosphorus have been found to de velop bone diseases. One of the early symptoms of such a disease is bone chewing or the gnawing of wood. This is usually followed by poor physical appearance, poor ap petite, stiffness in the joints and sometimes fragile bones. Deficiency of phosphorus in the ration often exists, however, long before symptoms of extreme phos phorus deficiency are obtained; and in balancing a ration for farm ani mals, phosphorus in the mineral form is often needed in order to pro vide the necessary amount of this element. livestock Find Comfort In Brush-Off Fly Traps Farm animals soon learn to make frequent use of a device for brush ing off and trapping horn flies that are such a pest to livestock in sum mer. It is a cagelike structure that fly-pestered animals pass through, leaving their tormentors behind in traps to be destroyed. The framework of the cage is a structure 7 feet wide, 6 feet high, and 10 feet long with a fly-tight roof. Canvas flaps within the cage brush flies off animals walking through. The device is usually set up at some strategic spot through which the animals must pass several times a day ? in a lane to the pasture, in the entry to a dairy barn, or on the way to the water tank or pond. Livestock soon learn to make for the "brusher-offer" when flies torment them. Any handy man can make such a trap at small expense with the aid of plans and illustrations that the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Washington, D. C., of fers to send in response to a post card request. Some Weed Plants Color, Flavor Eggs Keeping laying hens away from ccrtain plants, and limiting the cottonseed meal in their diet, will prevent off colors and flavors in eggs. Poultry specialists of the bureau of animal industry report that if there is more than 5 per cent cottonseed meal in hens' diet, the yolks of the eggs tend to become mottled after the eggs have been stored several months. The whites may take on a pink tinge. Cheese weed has a simi lar effect on egg white. Shep herds-purse and field pennycress may produce a green color in both the white and the yolk. If chickens eat freely of strong ly flavored feedstuff, it may cause an undesirable flavor in the eggs. Turnips, onions, gar lic and leeks are among the worst offenders. Sometimes papering the ceiling J of rooms in color ? instead of the usual white paper ? adds tu the at- . tractiveness. ? ? ? Never leave czk whites after they have been beaten stifT. If allowed to stand they will flatten and will not beat up again. ? ? ? When a pie shell has to be baked twice to prevent the edges of crust becoming too brown dip a pastry brush in melted shortening the same as dough was made with i and brush around edges. 1 Change water in which cut flow ers arc kept every day and scold roses with hot water if you wish flowers to remain fresh for soti i time. ? * * Tn remove an old calcimine fp.. ish from walls, soak it thoroii-.;! > with hot water applied witW an o'd brush, then remove with t i - A . * * * Home-Wash ? Add a ter-.'-p- X ' f ?; of Vinecar to each pinC of nr water to revive coloi; allow , teaspoonful of salt t?. each pint ? if you want to "set" strong eeVi . Easy Home Shorthand Course ion, buying, advertising? remem ber, shorthand usually opens t'-.e door. ? ? ? Fit yoursclT for well-paid work! Our 32 page shorthand manual Rives 18 rns.v step-by-step lessons, dozens of forms. lips on acquiring profes nal spccQ. Send for your copy to: READER-HOME SERVICE 635 Sixth Avenue New York City Enclosc 10 cents in eoin for your copy of SELF-INSTRUCTION IN SHORTHAND. Symbols I.earned in Spare Time REAMING of a good secrita rial job ? and doing something about it! As shorthand may so easily bo learned at home, no girl need re main unskilled ? at a disadvantage in job-seeking. And if you long to enter some fascinating field ? fash Age of Plains, Animals Plants exceed animals in the length of their lives and, surpris ingly enough, in the shortness of their lives also. Parrots belong to the century group; elephants may attain an age of two centuries. A good record for the animals, but on the plant side we have the Cali fornia Sequoia trees living for 50 centuries. At the other extreme are some bacteria which have a life cycle of only 20 minutes, shorter than any animal's life. Conscience and Passions Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.? Rousseau. Disgusting Brute Ho who beats his beast would beat me if he durst. Self-Denial It is the abnegation of self which has wrought out all that is noble, all that is good, all that is useful, nearly all that is ornamental in the world. ? Whyte-Melville. WATCH the specials "VT'OU can depend on the special sales the merchants of our town announce in the columns of this paper. They mean money saving to our readers. It always pay* to patronize the merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their merchandise or their Drice*.
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