THURSDAY, JULY 11, 135
THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON I AN
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CLOCK a thrill
On the mantel in my farm home
an old clock has been ticking
away for more than 100 years.
Uke most oitl clocks, thre is a
painted decoration on the glass
iloor that conceals the swinging
pctidtilum. The colors are so fad
ed with age that I had never
noticed, until I started to wind
the clock today, just; what this
decoration consisted of. But as I
gianced at it I saw the words
live Constitution." That set me
to. studying this ancient design.
The picture is of a scroll of
paper headed with the words
"The Constitution," and partly
concealing an American flag,
whose lolds peek out from below
the scroll. Across the middle of
the design are" two hands clasped,
in friendship, and a reproduction
of the old Roman fasces, the
bundle of rods tied about the bat
tle ax which was the symbol of
the unity of the Roman Empire.
As I look at the clock from
where ' 1 am writing it gives me
q. jte a patriotic thrill. One hun
dred years ago, or whenever this
old clok was made, the Constitu
tion of the United States was a
living, vital thing in the conscious
ness of every American, something
our forefathers were proud of and
cwoie by. I hope it may always
retain its place as an object of
popular veneration.
PROGRESS . . three headlines
Three headlines on one page of
my morning paper gave me a real
kick.
Two boys in. a home-made air
plane stayed up in the air nearly
700 hours. We have learned more
about airplanes and engines since
Lindbergh flew to Paris than we
had learned jn all ttye 25 years of
aviation before that event.
A plane that can land on eilher
land or water climbed 18,000 feet,
rairying a load of 1,100 pounds.
That is news of the greatest im
portance to a world which will
soon be doing most of its traveling
by air.
An automobile equipped with a
Diesel type engine ran 1,200 miles
at a fuel cost of $2.21. That fore
shadows a revolution in automobile
construction and operation.
All such things mean progress.
VIRUS isolated
Men of science are pretty well
ag.eed that the common cold is
caused, not by a germ, but by a
viri.s which is minute enough to
pass through the finest filter that
cai Le made. Infantile paralysis,
measles, yellow fever, and small
pox are also believed to be caused
oy a virus.
t is important news that Or
W. M. Stanley of the Rockefeller
Institute of Medical Research has
succeeded in isolating a virus, some
thing which nobody has evtr seen
before, even through the most pow
erful microscope. He seems to have
proved . that these disease-carrying
vires are crystals of protein, which
have terrific power of infecting
any living organism into which
they enter.
Thrs seems to me another step,
and a long one, on the road of
human progress. The world is
steadily becoming, from day to day,
a better and safer place in which
to live.
ALASKA human nature
A few weeks ago 1 remarked in
this column that 1 expected to
hear of dissatisfaction among the
farm colonists whom the govern
ment is undertaking to . settle in
the Manpanuska Valley in Alaska.
iht complaints have begun to come
n a Yittie sooner than expected.
I don't pretend , to know the
ight and wrongs of the situation,
but t do know that nobody, indi
vidual, corporation or government,
an do anything for the benefit
of any group of people without
beccgnrrfig the target for criticism
by a high proportion ot the bene
ficiaries. It is human nature to be
dissatisfied.
1 think everybody who has been
around enough to understand peo
ple and their reactions must become
convinced that the best service any
one can render to most people is
to do nothing for them, except to
encourage them to shift for them
selves and- see that nobody else
tries to stop them from going
their own ways. .
BEES . . . . .a lesson
New York City folks afe. learning
a lot about the ways of bees, now
that several hives of honey-makers
have been , placed on one of the
oof gardens in Rockefeller Center,
five hundred feet or more above
the city streets. These bees have
to fly a long way to find honey,
so a supply of syrup is kept where
they can get at it.
6ne of the things that surprises
visitors to the roof is the way in
which the bees will flock out of
their hives ready for a mass at
tack, if anyone gets to6 near them.
Most visitors never heard of the
bees' practice of keeping a sentry
"n guard, fifteen or twenty feet
rom the hive, to sound the alarm
and rally the hive-dwellers to bat
tle, if an intruder gets too near.
Bees long ago learned what the
human race has been very slow to
learn, that eternal vigilance is the
;mce of liberty and security.
Mark Twain Queen
HANNIBAL.. Mo. . . .
Marian Rupp (above) -senior,
is counted on.
tackiest girls. She ha
ed Queen of the I
Pageant of the Twa;
attach is being celel
1935.
r Crushing Dive
FORT WORTH, Tex.-Apparent-ly
the water was plenty deep and
Klmer Murrayr 22, dived boldly
through the inner tube a group or
ins held at a lake near here.
, He came up with a crushed
vetebra in his neck. The girls had
been sitting in shallow water.
Charles L'Enfant, a French en
gineer, planned the lay-out of the
city of Washington.
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THE FAMILY
DOCTOR
0iN JOSEPH GAINES, MJ3.
i'O WEARERS OF SPECTACLES
Do your glasses fit? It would
seem, in these days of superabun
dant service right at our elbows,
that ill-fitting spectacles could sel
lout be found. Pei"sonal experience,
however, leads me to write this
etter on this very important sub
ject. For years 1 struggled with "bi
focal" lenses. Every time I de
fended stairs, or, walked up and
down terraced steps outdoors, I
groped through the reading seg
ment of these lenses, and I can
issure you, it was quite a cross to
oear. . . . Looking at the steps
hrottgh segments of glass that
vere made for a 17-inch reading
distance, converted for me a fitted
ens into a most ill-fittingone.
Ill-fitting spectacles have a mbst
narked effect op the gait and gen
eral comfort of wearers of glasses,
i have seen a chronic dizziness and
;ven severe headaches set up ;by
badly-corrected eyes. These were
n patients who had neglected to
isit the optician, and who had re
orted to all sorts of medical means
or relief.
1 have seen many headaches and
mch other nagging distress re
eved by simple correction of the
enses worn , by the sufferer. I
iften send the dizzy patient to the
tptician, instead of giving him a
acket of liver pills, to possibly i
icken him more. j
If vti are a wearer of glasses,!
try to see that they are perfectly
adapted to your eyes. It will re
pay you in comfort to do so. The
eye is, perhaps, your most delicately-poised
fixture do not neglect it.
And, to older patients do not hur
ry into a pair of "bifocal" lenses;
a pair for distance and one for
reading are better.
If You Wear
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people "appearing In public" like busi
ness men. salespeople, actors, Infers,
musicians should use FASTEETIf to
avoid any possible embarrassment of a
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gooey, pasty taste or feeling, because
FASTEETH is alkaline and" will not
sour or seep away. (Jet FASTEETH to
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IN CAROLINA CLIMATE
Sub-Tropical la The East Milder On The Tableland and Piedmont
Relatively Cool and Stimulating In rle Mountains
An extremely favoralle climate is
one of the most important of the many
advantages of the Carolinas.
It should he borne in mind there is
a vast difference between Climate and
Veather. Climate is a fixed condition,
Reckoned in terms of years, while Weather
is a temporary factor. Climate has a vital
bearing oh permanent things, such as
crops, pleasure and conditions in general
while Weather indicates yesterday's or
today's temperature or whether it will
rain tomorrow.
Annual mean temperature ranges
from 48 degrees in the mountains to 63
on the Coast. Annual mean temperature ;
for the mountain region as a whole is 55
degrees.
This mild and favorable Climate
naturally has an important bearing on
agriculture and the physical comfort of
Carolinians. In the trucking sections the
last killing frost occurs a month earlier
in the Spring and a month later in the
fall than in the high altitudes of the West
Clear skies prevail a great portion of
the time and tornadoes are practically
unknown. Yet rainfall is amply sufficient
for agricultural and power needs and
good crops- abound. Tljese conditions
not only are conducive to agricultural
success but make the Carolinas the
natural and logical playgrounds of
eastern America.
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