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SUCH IS LIFE? The Dream? By CHARLES SUGHROE Rice Planters Streamline Methods of Crop Planting Aviators in California Risk Live* for Small Pay. Willows, Calif. ? The "streamline" method of sowing rice, utilizing air planes and ground crews, rapidly is gaining favor with farmers in this huge rice-growing area of central California. Originated by the manager of the local airport, the airplane rice planting idea has developed a profit able, if dangerous sideline for free lance pilots. This year six planes are operating in the vicinity. The task requires flying as low as 20 to 30 feet from the ground, and often trees, in the field present haz ards which have to be flown over or around. Power and telephone lines at field boundaries have wrecked several ships during the last few years, but gradually the men en gaged in the "planting from the air" ^Sre becoming more skilled in their novel task. Fliers get 60 to 75 cents an acre for planting rice, and with 130,000 acres under cultivation there is a potential income of close to $100,000. Speed Depends on Weather. *? A flier plants eight 100-pound sacks of rice in a trifle less than six minutes and it takes him about the same time to get another load. Three to six acres are planted each trip and from 30 to 60 an hour, de AN "M. P." IN INDIA Pretty enough to give most film flueens a run for their money, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pundit is also pos sessed of more than the usual amount of brains. She is the first woman in the political history of In dia to be appointed to a political post. Mrs. Pundit recently won a ?eat in the U. P. cabinet congress, which roughly corresponds to an English member of parliament. pending on weather conditions and the distance to be traveled from the operations base. Farmers, who prefer the modern method to the arduous, longer and more expensive method of hand work, proceed along the following lines: The field to be planted is flooded. Rice experts say that by planting the rice directly into' the water, growth of water grass is retarded. Rice to be used is soaked for two days to make it sprout quickly and thus get the jump on the water grass, a major problem in the busi ness. Each "rice plane" requires a ground crew of eight. Three men carry flags to mark the course to be flown by the plane. One man stands at either side and one in the middle of the field. When the plane has flown over the course outlined, the men move over 25 feet. There is no guesswork. The distance is accurately meas ured with a rope of that length. As the plane approaches him each man waves his white flag to furnish "sights" for the pilot Sows 30-Foot Swath. Other ground crew members re fuel the plane and refill the front cockpit, made over into a hopper, with a new supply of rice. An opening in the hopper, con trolled by the pilot, permits wind from the propellor to release the rice with a downward rush, and as it goes it spreads from two small streams to a 30-foot swath. The pilot openr the hopper just as he reaches the first flagman. Rice whips out in a dust-like tail and when the air sower reaches the sec ond flagman he closes the hopper and zooms upward, finally circles back and starts down the second course. If the field is one mile wide, the flier will have enough rice aboard to plant one strip each way. My Neighbor Says := Cayenne pepper mixed with a lit tle flour and sprinkled over cabbage plants when they are covered with dew will kill cabbage worms. ? ? ? Cut off all the dead blossoms in your flower garden now. The hot weather has left many robbing the garden of its color and beauty. ? ? ? To prevent crumbs of cake mixing in with frosting put thin coating of frosting over cake and let it stand a minute or two before frosting tops and sides. ? ? ? Dip cookie cutter in flour each time before using, to keep dough from sticking and cut them as close together as possible. If this is done you will get more cookies. ? Associated Newspapers. ? WNU Service. AMAZE A MINUTE 8CIENT1FACTS ~ BY ARNOLD n n|l800rEAR V I ; r OLD ROAD J I I London s main r>- street of Roman Mrs MAS BEEN FOUND BY EXCA VATION 16 FEET gftOWTHf ^PRESENT LEVEL. Caterpillar HEARING Caterpillars WAVE BEEN FOUND TO ee ABLE TD WEAR SOUNOS AU DIBLE TO MAM. Scientists have now I SUCCEEDED IN MAKING BOTTV.EO PKUN6 JUICE. WNUtmtc. "How the Other Half Lives" By LEONARD A. BARRETT One of the best sellers of several decades past was a book entitled, "How the Other Half Lives." It was a vivid por trayal of the so cial conditions of a very large pop ulation of the un der-privileged in the large cities. To many, the book was an astounding revelation. Among these was the late Theodore Roose velt who read the book and hastened to the study of the author, at that time living in the slums of New York. The author was not in, but Mr. Roosevelt left his card upon which he wrote these words: "Have read your book and came to help." The real message of the book was a plea for a mutual understanding between the social classes. Understanding is necessary in the solution of every problem. Many, like Mr. Roosevelt, would of fer to help, if they understood the need to know how the other half SETS NEW RECORD Catherine Fellmeth cracked the Central A. A. U. discus throw rec ord at the Central A. A. U. track meet in Chicago with a heave of 115 feet, one and a half inches. It bettered her mark of last year by about two feet. lives. Perhaps those who happen to read these lines, live in a shel tered world, reasonably free from the fear of insecurity and reason ably sure of the necessities of life. Within our reach, if not actually within sight, may dwell others who are literally on the verge of hun ger, and in serious need of courage and a helping hand. It is not the spirit of this message to say we shall exchange places with the oth er half: such vehement expressions but overbalance the social scales: but it is imperative that we under stand the thwarted ambitions of struggling youth, the utter discour agement of men and women who have lost their nerve, and the ach ing void in the lives of little chil dren who go hungry to school. Unlets we know something of the heartache of the world, we our selves are poor indeed. Unless fa vored social classes realize their power U Chang* nnwholetome en vironment and meet that power with adequate action, the light of social progress will remain under the bushel of selfishness. What is our attitude toward this cross section of human experience? Do we. t?ke only a mental photo graph of it all, nook at the picture in our mind daily, and let it go? Or, do we resolve to do something about it? Do we know what it is to say: "I came to help"? We shall never really know how the other half lives until we receive a smile of appre ciation from someone who had al most forgot how to smile; until we are given broken, half ? audible words which tell life's story in let ters of drab. No man can live unto himself. Life is too complex for that This is true in local neighborhoods, in the life of throbbing cities, in na tional and in international affairs. In Kipling's story, "Wee Willie Winkle," a little child leads two warring enemies to face each other and to understand. Peace belongs to mutual understanding: and the beginning of understanding is the fear of social power as well as so cial poverty. Let us seek the incen TV/i ANY a lady looks longingly at i J the pretty, gay and excessively ruffled kitchen curtains in those dream kitchens in advertisements. Then thinks warily of the laundry problem and gives up the idea forth with. We've always liked bright kitchens but we do realize that kitchen curtains that must be laun dered more often than any other window decorations in the house do present a problem. Recently we saw a kitchen win dow problem solved beautifully. Simple wooden valances were made for each of the three windows and for the two small windows over the sink. These were fashioned of ply wood and finished with a simple scalloped border. Instead of paint, the valances were covered with a lovely delphinium blue oilcloth mak ing them very easy to wash and keep shining. The curtains to go with these wooden valances were, of course, plain white voile, full and straight and cool looking ? the sort that will iron like a handkerchief and stand innumerable launderings. Plain, un ruffled tie-backs could be used with the tie-backs made of the same pat ent leather or oil-cloth used on the valance. And if your kitchen is one of those roomy affairs that simply begs for a drop-leaf table and a rocking chair (and has, maybe, a coal range for warm, cozy winter evenings) why not make a "patch-work" va lance. Buy small amounts of dif ferently colored and designed oil clothes, checks, strips, coin dots, in a mad array of color. Cut the strips of oil-cloths in gay, patch-work pat terns and paste these in Raggedy Ann style to your valance. Use black India ink and a lettering pen to out line each "patch" with small lines to imitate stitching. An old-fash ioned red tablecloth and a black cat curled up in a rocker and your kitchen would be thoroughly Ameri cana and, more important, utterly comfortable. A Pleasure. "Twice before you helped with my decorations and I've appreciat ed it deeply as our home has been a great pleasure to the family," writes a lady with a little blond son. "Now I'm coming to you again and hope you can give me more ad vice. "My living room furniture is Eighteenth century English with Chippendale sofa in a light rust (al most a rose) damask, a Queen Anne chair in blue-green velvet, a club chair in gold rep and a Chippendale occasional chair in green and gold brocade. I'm favoring French gray for the walls and woodwork and would like tQ know what kind of draperies, rug, lamps and acces sories would divert attention from the yesteryear's rust-green-gold combination in the furniture. "Also my kitchen is due for some changes. The furniture here is ma ple and I'm tired of the usual red, greens, blues and yellows used mostly with maple and would like some unusual color scheme." tive to help our fellow-man. Let us subdue indifference which deepens the cleavage lines between human beings. Let us set up the words: "I came to help" on every tragic crossroad of life today. C Western Newspaper Union. First we take a bow and say thanks. As for the living room we think that the French gray idea is a good one. Just about the smartest thing you could do would be to use this same tone in taffeta draperies and in the rug. However, perhaps that is a little more of a stylized color plan than you had in mind. If so you could use the French gray taffeta for draperies over cream net glass curtains. Then have a fig The Lady With the Little Blond Son. ured carpet in an all-over sprawl- , tag pattern that repeats one or two' other colors in the room. As ior the kitchen, we'd hesitate to advise you to paint maple . . . after all that's a nice wood finish to cover up. Why not get the fresh effect with walls, windows and floors instead? Red linoleum floor, light peach-pink walls, then add cur tains of a blue and white Japanese printed cotton. Could you bear it! If you could, the effect would be quite different and attractive. If you don't feel quite up to the pink and red combination, think about the idea of brown linoleum floor, light yellow walls and curtains of the blue and white Japanese printed cotton. ? By Betty Wells. ? WNXJ Service. r 1 WHITE BOLERO Mariella Henderson, fourteen year-old student at the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York, was awarded second prize at the re cent school fashion show for design ing this sfJectator sport dress of navy blue linen with white bolero trimmed with blue patch pockets. Mariella wears a blue catalin brace let as costume jewelry. Bicycles for Defense of Japan A collection of worn out bicycles collected from dealers in Tokyo which were sold as scrap iron tor the benefit of a public fund for the national defense. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY I chool Lesson By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST Dean of th? Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. ?> Western Newspaper Unkm. Lesson for September 19 CHOICES AND THEIR CONSE QUENCES IN A NATION'S LIFE LESSON TEXT ? Deuteronomy 11:1-12. at 31. GOLDEN TEXT? Choose you this day whom ye will serve.? Joshoa 24:15. PRIMARY TOPIC? Our Country. JUNIOR TOPIC? Choosing Sides. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC? The Importance of Our Choices. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC? My Part In Making Up the Nation's Mind. Nations as well as individuais are resDonsible before God for the man E?ta which they live. They enjoy the blessings of right hvmg and suffer the penalty of wrong moral choices. While it is true that n* tional leaders may not always re flect the true character of the peo ple, it is generally true that there 1 a sort of national character which over a longer period of time accu rately represents the moral con tion of the people as a whole. Many earnest men and women be lieve that the United States of America stands today at the cross roads of national moral decision. There has been an unquestionable decadence of true religion, of home life, of social purity, and a growth of moral indifference and outright wickedness which causes men who think to cry out for a revival of old fashioned spiritual and moral stand ards ere it be too late. The most effective, and in fact the only reaUy effective way to bring that about, is a revival within the church ol Christ, and a resultant renewal of its service in winning men to Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lora. A 24-page booklet "Lessons in Soul Winning," by Dr. Will H. Houghton, will be sent by the writer without charge to those requesting it. II possible enclose a 3 cent stamp. I. Right Choices Result in Blessing (vv. 8, 9). _ , Making the right choice is in fact a simple matter, for it means only obedience to God's commandments. God is the author of the moral law. He alone can and does deter mine what is right and wrong. Man need not determine, nor is he equipped to decide that question. He can and must relate the details of his life to the law of God. How im portant it is then that he proper y understand that law. and what folly it is to neglect the study of God s Word, where the commandments ol God are made known unto men. Choosing God's way means for both men and the nations which they make up (for my country is in the final analysis myself, and other individuals like me) the assurance of God's blessing and prosperity. II. God Encourages Right Choices (w. 10-12). . Our God is the great and untiring "eiver of every good and perfect gift " We need but to lift up our eyes and look at His handiwork, or stir up our memories to recall his goodness, and we know that he and all his "blessed works encour age us to do right ? to live right. But, alas, all too often God s choicest gifts are perverted and are used to bring the very opposite re sult The most beautiful lakes and naturally delightful surroundings are used for resorts and clubs which aU too often lead men to moral de struction. Parents almost fear that their daughters may be too attrac tive, for the world, the flesh, and the devil are constantly out "scout ing" for beautiful women whose very God-given beauty may be used to glorify sin and lead others into disobedience to God. III. Right and Wrong Are Funda mental and Eternal (w. 26-32). It needs to be repeated over and over again in these callous and in different days that there is laid down in the very constitution of the entire universe a moral distinction between right and wrong. Right is always right, and wrong is defi nitely and eternally wrong. There is no moral twilight zone, where things are neither white nor black, but a neutral gray. Note that the difference between right and wrong was to be the same "on the other side of the Jordan." Time and place have no power to change morq} law. What was right or wrong (or your great-grandfather is right or wrong for you. What was right in your home on the farm is right in the city where you now live, or vice-versa. The passing of th^ .years or a change of residence does not alter that law of God. May God help the people of our nation, and all the countries of the earth, to remember that it is still true that "righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people" (Prov. 14:34). A Season To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, and ? time to die. ? Ecclesiastes 3:1, 2. In tbe Silent Watches While alone and in silence, man can commune with himself. ? Van Am burgh. Flood of Ambition Ambition like a torrent never looks back. , flsk Me Jlnother # A General Quia 1. What state did the Indians give outright to one man? 2. What is intercolonial time? 3. In the early days of railroad building, how much land was do nated to the railroad companies? 4. What writer is said to have aroused the American public to the necessity for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitu tion? 5. What is the total value of all farm machinery manufactured in the United States last year? 6. How much did the late Sir Thomas Lipton spend on Ameri ca's Cup races? 7. How is the word "saith" pro nounced, in one or two syllables? 8. At what age are women most successful? Answers 1. Rhode Island to Roger Wil liams. 2. A standard time, an hour faster than eastern standard, in use in the extreme eastern prov inces of Canada. 3. Approximately 138,000,000 acres of land was donated to the railroads by the federal govern, ment and approximately 40,000, 000 acres by the various states. 4. Thomas Paine's pamphlet, "Common Sense," is said to have had a great influence on the draw ing up of these documents. 5. $487,273,000. 6. From 1899 to 1930 the tea magnate raced five Shamrocks and spent more than $4,000,000. 7. "Saith," the archaic form of the verb "say," in its present tense, a singular number, third person and indicative mood, cor responds to "says," and is cor rectly pronounced "seth," to rhyme with "beth." It is erro neously pronounced in two sylla bles, "say-eth." 8. In the biographies of well known women given in "Ameri can Women," the majority of those listed were bom in 1890l making them forty-seven. Early State Names If President Thomas Jefferson had had his say-so, there would have been more than the present states comprising the Northwest Territory and most of their names would have been tongue twisters. As you know, the Northwest Territory consists of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota, but Jefferson's suggested names were Sylvania, Cheronesus, Michigania, Asseni sipia, Mesopotamia, Illinoia, Sar atoga, Washington, Polypotamia and Pelisipia. These names can be found on the early maps. ? > Cleveland Plain Dealer. GOOD RELIEF of constipation by a GOOD LAXATIVE Many folks get such refreshing relief by talcing Black-Draught for constipation that they prefer It ta other laxatives and urge their friends to try It Black-Draught la made of the leaves and roots of plants. It does not disturb digestion bnt stimu lates the lower bowel so that con stipation Is relieved, BLACK-DRAUGHT purely vegetable UiiAri WOMEN WHO HOLD THEIR MEN NEVER LET THEM KNOW NO matter hoij much your back aches 104 your nerve* ?cream, your husband, because ho Is only a man, can never under* stand why ytru are so bard to H,ve with one week In every month. Too often the honeymoon ex-. press Is wrecked by the nagging tongue of a three-quarter wifla The. wise woman never leteber husband know by outward sign that she la * victim of periodic pain. For three generations one woman has told another how to go "smil ing through" with Lydia E. Pink- * ham's Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessening the discomforts from the functional disorders which women must endure In the three ordeals of Hfe: L Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre paring for motherhood. 3. Ap proaching "middle age" Don't be a three-quarter wifei take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8 VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go "Smiling Through." WNU? 4 37?37 Sentinels of Health Don't Neglect Them ! designed the kidney* to do ft nsrrelou. job. Their usk Is ?> kaptk Sowisi blood strasmfr. of UZk! Uric Impurities. The set af liriof? UJm i fn **??<>?* J* rwf hsslth Is to eodxie. Wtoa Ihs kidneys fsfl to fooetlos m ^arSScttarf s^lrsSSHSSS gold st q Ibn stores. Doans Pills
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