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Clock in Market Place at Los.Angetei
an Ornament and Convenience
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A nanusuuie -
hlrh constructed of .re-enforced con
crete has been erected in the center
of the Los Angeles Terminal market
The four six-foot dials of the big
timepiece are illuminated from within
at night, and above each is a panel
containing advertisement space foi
the association which provided and
maintain it. The ; works 'an
wound by electrical means, and anj
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ni is Spreading like
-Fire All Over The
Cotton Belt
Reports
A 35-Foot Pedettal Clock of Distinc
tive Design Which Has Been Erect
ed in the Center of the Los Angelet
Terminal Market.
variation in their operation is auto
matically corrected. :- The turning - on
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is also automatic.
The single column supporting th
clock proper is adorned with sculp
tured fruits, and on the four sides of
it hang ornamental lights. Popular
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Ornamental Lamp Posts.
There is no feature In municipal
equipment that adds more to the at
tractiveness of a citys. appearance
than do ornamental street lamp posts
of artistic and appropriate design. Just
as the effectiveness of interior decora
tions and furnishings 'depend in a
large measure upon lighting fixtures,
so the beauty of the street can be en
hanced or marred by its lights. la
each case a satisfactory solution of
the lighting problem consists not only
in supplying sufficient illumination but
also in providing lighting equipment
that harmonizes with its surround
ings and possesses a beauty of its
own. The old-time lamp post in
vogue before the days of electricity
fulfilled the second of these condi
tions, but not the first; for, although
the post itself was often a work of
firt, its feeble oil or gas flame seldom
as equal to the task of illuminating
the street On the otfier hand, the
modern overhead arc lamp gives a fair
ly satisfactory light,, but the unsightly
Poles, ropes, wires and ether equip
ment for raising and lowering the lamp
can scarcely be called beautiful. Now
comes the ornamental street lamp post,
which combines the beauty of one of
Its predecessors and the utility of the
other. Thomas J. Davis in The House
Beautiful.
Plant Trees.
Let us. plant trees as memorials to
our fallen heroes. Let'us plant trees
fcot only along the great transconti
nental highways, as the American
.Forestry association so opportunely
suggests, but let each community
plant trees for its own dead in addi
tion. JQ Mohammedan "countries it is re
earded as an act peculiarly phasing to
and man to erect drinking places
r; IIlomorials foe the dead. These.
jununnS) with their supply of water
rl. lan(,s nelP sreatly to beautify
a,ds' "ehten the burden of life
and refresh bodies and souls, while
brinV , y ln memorials of st0
uuu marble to beloved dead,
us plant trees as memorials
tfcniiT- ,)elov dead, .whose deed!
1 Uve 80 long as the world Itieu. .
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s jusf h Tf Ifsing association
in Chill its sixtn annua: , sessiws
tnat tw ' at Which U 'wa showE
tot'MthSfre.erlons Problems to b
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Matter of tZ tho very important
ouses we Uve t a f
received at tt
Quarters, Raleigh, of the North Caro
lina Cotton Association during the
past few days indicate that the move-'
ment inaugurated at the' recent coun
ty conventions Held in practically ev
ery county in the state last week to
hold the unsold balance of the pres
ent crop and to reduce the acreage
for the coming crop by one-third as
wiMPflTd4 Wih U1S is treading like
wild-fire in all parts of .North Caro
lina. The bankers, .merchants and
farmers who attended these conven
tions last week let no grass grow
under their feet upon 'their return to
their homes. The New Orleans, Hous
ton,, Galveston. Dallas, Memphis,
Montgomery, Atlanta, Little Rock,
Charleston, Savannah and Birming
ham newspapers have been publish
ing daily reports of county and State
meetings held in these States to ratify
and put into practical effect the work
outlined by the general convention re
cently helS in New Orleans. . In fact,
it would seem as if every Southern
State and every county in the cotton
belt were vieing with one another to
see which will make the best record
in the matter of reducing the cotton
acreage in 1919 and holding the cot
ton now on hand for remunerative
prices.
Alarmed over this movement, which
threatens to break the strangle-hold
which the spinning interests of the
country, aided and abetted by the bear
speculators in the New York market,
have had on the cotton market for
some weeks past, the Northern press
is attempting to throw ridicule on the
movement and to belittle it. A typical
instance of this bear propaganda to
offset the cotton acreage reduction
movement is furnished by an article
published in a recent issue 'of ' the
Journal of Commerce. Some suppos
ed correspondent from the South is
quoted in that Journal, which has al
ways been very friendly to the New
England spinning interests, as saying:
"I take little stock in resolutions
to decrease acreage,as such attempts
at reduction are economic heresy. .Too
well do many of us . remember the
days of four and five cent ' cotton In
the nineties. Conventions were held
In Memphis and elsewhere" to reduce
acreage. Solemn oaths were signed,
but always the result was the - same,,
an Increase of acreage, because each
went home with the same determina
tion to increase his own acreage as
he believed his neighbor was going
to decrease.
Such articles as these, full of mis
statements of facts, are calculated to
have just the opposite effect in the
South from that intended by the au
thors. Much water, in an economic
way, has passed under the mill since
the early nineties. The cotton grow
ers" of the South have learned by sad
experience that a small crop with
good prices pays better than a large
crop with low prices. If they had any.
doubt on this score Secretary Hes
ter's annual reports, showing the total
Talue of the various crops produced
by the South, state the facts only' too
plainly. The Journal of Commerce
statement to the contrary, no signed
pledges were required by the cotton
convention previously held in the
South, and it was this very lack of
signed pledges that foredoomed the
acreage production movements of pre-
vious year3 to practical failure. There
never was a year in which a conven
tion of this sort was held , that the
acreage was not materially decreased,
although the .cut in acreage did not
always come up to what the conven
tion had planned. Lack of proper or
ganizations by States and counties,
the failure sto get signed pledges to
carry out f the objects of the conven
tion . and the fact that no subsequent
convention was held later in the sea
son to receive reports as to the prog
ress made by the different cotton
growing States in effecting a reduc
tion in acreage were some of the rea
sons that the 1 former conventions
proved a failure in so far as accom
plishment went. All these loopholes
have been closed by the recent con
vention, and, in additiona resolution
was adopted by the convention to
brand any man in the cotton beltho
refuses to co-operate as "so lacking
in public spirit as to forfeit the confi
dence of the community in which he
lives."
The "economic heresy" of reducing
the cotton acreage, to which the
Journal of Commerce refers, is a fine
sounding phrase, but cotton men say
it will not deceive anybody in the
South who stops to think. The New
fhern . mills, .when
Strange-; Sources : From Which'
Pigments Used by Modern 5 '
Painters Are Derived.
PRESERVATION OF SURFACES.
Crude but Effective Processes Employ
ed by the Egyptians and Greeks of
Pliny's Day Noah Prudently .
Waterproofed the Ark.
Whether paint was invented in an
swer to a" need fo a preservative or to
meet a jlesire for beauty is a question
fully as knotty as the ancient one about
the relative time of nrrivnl of th
chicken or the egg. It was Invented,
though, and it serves both purposes
equally ; so whether it is an offspring
of mother necessity or an adopted son
of beauty remains forever a disputed
question. .
The first men, cowering under the
fierce and glaring suns of the biblical
countries, constructed rude huts of
wood to shelter them. The perishable
nature of these structures caused rapid
decay, and It Is probable that. the oc
cupants, seeking some artificial means
of preservation, hit upon the pigments
of the earth In their search. It Is per
haps natural to suppose that it was
the instinct of preservation that led
men to the search, although the glories
of the sunsets and the beauties of the
rainbow may have created a desire to
imitate those wonders in their own
dwellings. -
The earliest record of the applica
tion of a preservative to a wooden
structure dates from the ark, which
was, according to the Bible, "pitched
within and without." The pitch was a
triumph of preservation whatever it
lacked as a thing of beauty.
Decoration applied p buildings first
comes to .light with ancient Babyjon,
whose walls were covered with repre
sentations' of hunting scenes and of
combat "These were done in red and
the method followed was to, paint the
scene on .the. bricks at the time of
manufacture, assuring permanence! by
baking. Strictly speaking, this was
not painting so much as It was the
earliest manifestation of our own fa
miliar kalsomining.
The first Hebrew to mention paint
ing Is Moses. In the thirty-third chap
ter of the book of Numbers he in
structs the, Israelites, "When ye have
passed over the Jordan into the land
of Canaan, then shall ye drive out all
the inhabitants of the land from ' be
fore you and destroy all their pic
tures. ..." ' - ---y.. -
At later periods the Jews adopted
many customs of the peoples who suc
cessively obtained power over them
and In the apocryphal book of the
Maccabees is found this allusion to
the art of decorating, "For as the mas
ter buildef of a new house must care
for he -whole building, but he that
undertaketh to set it out and paint It,
must seek: out things for the adorning
thereof." , : y
Although Homer gives credit to a
Greek for the discovery of paint, the
allusions tor It in the books of Moses,
the painted mummy cases of the Egyp
tians and the decorated walls of Baby
lon find Thebes fix. its origirj at a
period long antecedent to the Grecian
era. The walls of Thebes were1 paint
ed 1,S00 years before the coming of
Christ and 996 years before " 'Omer
smote his bloomin lyre."
The Greeks recognized the value of
paint as a preservative and made use
of something akin to It on their ships.
Pliny writes of the mode of boiling
wax and painting ships with it, after
which,; he continues, "neither .the sea,
nor Jhe wind, nor the sun can destroy
the wood thus protected."
The Romans, being essentially a
warlike pedple, never brought the dec
oration of buildings to the high plane
It had reached with the Greeks. For
all that the ruins of Pompeii show
many structures whose mural decora
tions are in fair shape today. The
colors used' were glaring. A black
background was the usual one and the
combinations worked thereon red, yel
low and blue.
In the early Christian era the use of
mosaics for churches somewhat sup
planted mural painting. StIH, during
the reign of Justinian the Church of
Saint Sophia was built at Constantino
ple and Its walls were adorned with
paintings.
In modern times the uses of paint
save come to be as numerous as its
wyrlad shades and tints.' Paint Is
nhjue in that its name. jas no syno
nym and for It there is no substitute
material. Bread is the staff of life, but
paint is the life of the staff.
No one thinks of the exterior of a
wooden building now except in terms
of paint coated. Interiors, too, from
painted .waUs and stained furniture
down to the lowliest kitchen utensil,
all receive their protective covering.
Steel, so often associated with cement
re-enforcing, Is -painted belore it goes
thev find a stock of geods accumulaVj to giVe solidity to the manufactured
irwr ind no buyers coming ; into the
dr? goods market at once take steps
to reduce their output. It
therefore; ihat if Jt 'eoodvthing
foAhe mills to reduce their output t
th manufactured goods, in orderto
stimulate demand, why should it n
also be a good thing for the cotton
growers in thLSouthwhb produce the
rW that the cotton Interests X
Soutir tak
stone. The huge girders of the sky
"scrapers are daubed an ugly hut ef3
cient red underneath the sarface coal
of black; Perhaps .the best example
of the value of paint on steel Is found
In the venerable Brbokjyn bridge, -on
which a gang of painters Is kept go
ing continually. It'fs scarce-possible
to think of at SSle; maniufauredr-
tide which" does not, meet paint, some-.,
where la M course of "its construc
tion. So has paint gyown into rtbe
very marraof our Uvea.
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casing even before inflation.
Other tubes, freingr amaiier lit diameter thatt Micbelins, mti$t be stretehed
by inflation to fill the casing. Hie flexing: of these stretched tubes under
constant tension when inflated causes destructive heating which Sills sill
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on Michelins-the full-sized inner tubes.
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