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77* fAeUy Ay C^'feL Cpurfejy Mifi 'iM J+frt'co rmm <3qhA$? 2VWZ&, KOV&rrbZZP tn4 DICKINSON SHERMAN j nVKNWKKl' National Mon ument lias been added to the United States Na- | tional park system anil : Palm Canyon National I Monument lias been well started on its way. Ho vel) weep lies on both sides of the boundary line between Colorado and Utah, near the only spot in the United States where four states touch, and is re served because of its prehistoric tow ers and other impressive masonry structures. Palm Canyon is in south ern California and contains many line specimens i?f native American palms. From now on much .will appear in print about these two national monu ments ? which will be variously de scribed as national parks, national for ests. national reservations and na tional monuments, with indiscrim inate references to their control by the national park service and the for est service. So what follows seems j advisable in order to explain the com- 1 plications which congress neglects to ! straighten out. There are now nineteen national parks with a total of 11,372 square miles. There is one group of twenty six national monuments (including the' two new ones) containing about 1.000 ; square miles. These national parks I and monuments are under control of | the national park service, a bureau of . the Interior department. There are seven "national military f and other" parks ? such as Shiloh, Get tysburg and. Lincoln's Birthplace ? ad ministered by the War department, which also controls two national mon uments ? Big Hole Battlefield and Cabrillo. There are the national forests, with an approximate area of 155,000,000 acres, under the charge of the forest service, a bureau of the Department of Agriculture. There is a group of eleven national monuments containing 510 square miles in charge of the for est sen Ice. The national parks and the national forests are the exact opposite of each other. The national parks are wil derness areas of majestic beauty set aside for purely recreational purposes ?public playgrounds for the people. The national forests are industrial and commercial purely ? areas set apart for scientific lumbering for a profit and for grazing for a profit. Some day, it is hoped, congress will straighten out the tangle by putting the national "military and other parks," and all the national monu ments in charge of' the national park service, leaving the national forests to the forest service. President Harding created the Ho venweep National Monument by proc lamation March 2, under the act of 100(5 for the preservation of American antiquities, and Dr. ^Hubert Work, the new secretary of the interior, has now taken over the area in the name of the federal government. H oven weep is the Indian equivalent for "Deserted Valley," and contains about MOO acres* The Square Tower and the Twin Tow ers, pictured herewith, can be com fortably reached by automobile. Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, head of the bureau of ethnology of the Smithsonian in stitution, recommended the area to the President for a national monu ment. Doctor Fewkes says of the area and Its prehistoric relics: "Hovenweep contains .three groups of structures, the first group called the Sq uare Tower cluster, Some of the finest of all the structures are in this group, the most picturesque of them being Hovenweep east I el the standing walls of which are over fifty feet high. A second group lies three miles to the north, in Holly canyon, and contains some of the most remarkable prehis toric masonry in t lie United States. By JOHN It s $ Queer Bedfellow We slept all winter in the bed with an 18-inch snake inside of the mat tress. In the fall, when we aired the bedding, there was a small hole in the mattress, cut by a rat, and into this hole the snake crawled. I mended this hole before putting the mattress on my bed; of course. I did not know :iny thing had crawled inside. The snake remained perfectly quiet all winter, hut when spring came he began crawling. The third group. situated on Cajon mesa, is more difficult to reach. "The ruins in the Square Tower can yon may he described somewhat as follows: Ruins which have indica tions of inclosed circular kivas. with mural pilasters and banquettes, and closely approximated surrounding rooms. To this class belongs Hoven weep castle, the Hovenweep pueblo and the so-called Unit Type house, the last named belonging to the simplest form of the pure type. Second, there are the ruins, the main feature of which is the absence of a circular kiva. The Twin Towers belong to this second or 'great house' type. "The largest of the ruins In this canyon is Hovenweep house, situated at the head of the South Fork. Al though many of Its walls have fallen, there still remains a semicircular great house with high walls conspicu ous for some distance. The ruin is a pueblo of rectangular form belonging to the pure type, showing circular de pressions identilied as kivas, imbedded in collections of square and rectangu lar rooms, and massive walled build ings on the south side. The standing walls are remains of a conspicuous multi-chambered D-shaped tower. "Hovenweep castle, like Hovenweep I house, has circular kivas compactly imbedded in rectangular rooms ar ranged about them, indicating the pure type of pueblo. The massive walled semicircular towers and great houses are combined with square rooms and kivas, indicating that it is distinguished by two sections, an east ern and a western, which, united, im part to the whole the shape of the let ter L. "Among the most impressive build ings in Square Tower canyon are the Twin towers. They stand on the south side of the canyon on a rock isolated by a cleft from the adjoining cliffs, the larger of the towers having an oval ground plan while the smaller is horseshoe shaped. The pueblo known as Unit Type house is one of t^he most interesting ruins in the Hovenweep. It is situ ated on the very edge of the canyon of the North Fork, not far from where it begins., It is the simplest form ot prehistoric pueblo of a pure type, made up of a centrally-placed circular ceremonial room. "In Holly canyon the towers may be ' approached on foot. The towers in this j canyon show some of the finest ! masonry to be found on the reserva ' tion, one of the finest of them, Holly I tower, built on a great rock, its tip | rising to a height level with the mesa. about in the mattress. During the night this caused us to sleep uncom fortnbly and brought about a search for/the trouble. We cut open the mat tress and tl'ie snake crawled out on the floor. ? Farm Journal. Look for "Easy Money." At least one English village is plan ning to pay its share of the war debt to America and, incidentally to rent a new town hall, by means of the money spent by American tourists. The Cheam parish council recently "The most frequently recurring re marks from cotton farmers in Nortli Carolina are Poor Stands. Much re planting, Cotton dying account of cool weather. Some are plowing up and planting over, Just beginning chopping. Crop, 10 to 30 days late, Cold weather has retarded growth. Crop improving with warm weather, Lots of weevils. No seed for replant ing. Too much rain, Crop needs cul tivating, and Labor scarce. , "Weather conditions, prior to May 25 were too cool for cotton. School Buildings Must Be Made Safe In connection with his campaign to have every school building in North Carolina inspected before the fall term opens, Stacy W. Wade, state insurance commissioner has ad dressed the following letter to each county commission and superintend ent of education: "The panicky feeling which might naturally fol.'ow the recent tragedy !n a Scuth Carolina school has alone deterred me from calling your at tention lucre promptly to the possi bility of a similar catastrophe be cause of unsafe conditions in many of our older school buildings. These conditions must be remedied and 'the law has placed the responsibility up on tne iusurancec orlimission. "We have constructed many fire proof buildings and added safety features td others which has given us a sense of security, but tiie re sponsibility is still there and extend3 to all sections of the state. It is upon you and upon me and effective results depend -upon your co-opera tion. "We must face the issue of old buildings by co-operative measures to eliminate those .which are unsafe. To this end. it is my purpose to in spect every building reported to me as unsafe, and in order that I may first give attention to the most press ing needs, I am asking that .you send me a list of all the. two story school buildings in your district which may not be regarded as.- safe, keeping in mind that every two story building to "be safe must have two- separate and distinct ways - of egress remote from one another, and that two stair ways terminating inside the building form only one exit and is a violation of the law. Please report fully any building which yoti consider needs immediate attention. Governor Explains Operating Cost. Asheville. ? ^'Administration costs in North Carolina are lowpr than in any other State in the Union," Gov ernor Morrison declared in an ad d:ess t<J the graduating class of the Biltmore Hospital, in the All Souls parish house. He was heard by a large audience. "Of every dollar paid for taxes in North Carolina," continued the chief executive, "only three cents are used for administration costs and 97 cents are used for discharging the luties of the state* ' Then there is Holly House, which up- 1 pears to have been a pueblo of reo 1 tangular form. These nre but u few of the historical structures that await the pleasure of the tourist. However, j they are typical of t lie splendid relics that are to be found in the Hoven weep Monument." Palm Canyon National monument was created by act of congress ? with two strings tied to it. The act author izes the secretary of the interior to set aside 1.G00 acres in the county of! IUverside, California, "provided, that i before such reservation and dedica tion as herein authorized shall bcome effective the consent and relinquish ment of the A gun Caliente band of In dians shall first be obtained, covering its right, title, and interest in and to the lands herein described, and pay ment therefor to the members of said band qn a per capita basis, at a price to be agreed upon, when there shall be donated for such purposes to the sec retary of the interior a fund in an amount to be fixed and determined by him as sufficient to compensate the Indians therefor." That's the provision, verbatim et literatim. It certainly means that the promoters must raise the money to pay for the land. It apparently also means that the Indians shall willingly sell. Anyway, Uncle Sam Isn't going to pay anything. It is said that a pur chase fund has been or will be raised. The Indians, however, are reported to be unwilling to sell. Anyway, the area set aside with its strings consists of three canyons with their desert approaches: Andreas, Murray and Palm. The center o 1 things is the village of Palm Springs, which is a flourishing winter and spring resort in "Our Araby" of the Colorado desert of southern Califor nia. The purpose of the monument is to preserve fine growths of a native American palm, the Washingtonian filifera. Palm canyon, most Impressive of the three, Is a pass rather than a canyon, about ten miles long, with Palm creek flowing through it. The palms are in groves. Fifty feet is their average j height, with here and there one reach ing 70 feet. Andreas canyon also has its stream and its palms with their i picturesque "petticoats." Murray can- 1 yon lies between the other two and is ' much like them. In early spring the Colorado desert here blossoms like the well-known rose, only more so ? in sand verbena, desert gold, lupine and primrose. "Keep off the desert" is the proper summer sign. decided to rent as a council chamber a 400-year-old cottage. Opponents of the scheme were silenced hy a mem ber's proposal that the town clerk should charge American tourists a guinea to show them over the building. The council has rented the house and will now lie in wait for such descend ants of the Pilgrim Fathers as ret-ch Cheam next summer. Stray Bits of Wisdom. Poets are like birds: the least thing makes them sing. ? Chateaubri?"rt BOLL WEEVIL HAS NOT FRJGHT ) r ENED THE FARMERS IN THIS SECTION. ACCORDING TO SMfMi Reports 'ndicate That Ninety-Eight Per Cent of Acreage Was Fertilized. Raleigh. . The two per cent increase in the cotton acreage, of Norh Carolina is "good evidences that the advent of 1lie Loll weevil has not frightened the cotton growers away in this state;," ? according to a statement is sued by W. H. Rhodes, of the North Carolina and United States depart ments of agrciulture. "The condition of the crop is 77 per cent of a normal at present as shown by the cotton report released by the United States department of j agriculture released ?June 1." reads the announcement. / "This forecast a yield in this state of 231 pounds of lint cotton to if he acre, and >s seven per cent belnw the condition of last year at this time, hut three per cent above the average condition for the past five years. -The four states showing a higher average than North Carolina were Virginia, 78; Florida, 87; California, 93, and Ari zona, 92 per cent . "Reports indicate that 98 per cent of the cotton acreage in North Caro lina was fertilized, which is above the usual average. The amount used per acre averaged 445 pounds this year as compared with 406 pounds last >ear. This was a much higher <grade of fertilizer than farmers usu ally buy for cotton, and cost, on an average of $30.20 per ton. slightly if fs than the price last year. 'The condition of the nation's crop is 71 per cent compared with 69.6 per cent at this time last year, and 66' per cent the year before, 1921. A re vision in the final estimate of thl 1922 cotton acreage is shown by the June 1 reports, showing the area picked in 1922 as 33 036,000, wilh an average yield of 141.3 pounds of lint per acre. Counties Have Health sTepa^tmenta. With the assistance of the V.'te Board of Health tw^pty-four couniie.i during the past year have maintain .4 health departments. The total ex penditures amounted to $214,831. Of this amount $62,500 was contribut ed by the State, and the remainder of $152,331.35 came from the counties. The program of work together with the cost, varied in the several coun ties. Some ha donly the health offi cer devoting his time and enerjy to ward the protection and promotion of public heaLj. Others had in addi tion to the* health officer one or more nurses a sanitary inspector and in some cases skilled laboratory techni cians. A few had permanent dental clinics for the benefit Of 'heir school children. The budge1 varied from $4200 to $27500. Regardless of personnel or size o I budget, however, in each county the program of work was based upon a carefully calculated basis of costs whereby the relation of expenditures to results achieved might be easily ascertained. For the first time in tne United States it was made possible to 'measure, in a manner fairly accu. ate, the public health ;vo.k in terms of dollars and cents. ? A careful compilation, of the reports of the work accomplished during the ear shows that every county re^eivefl in direct returns more than a dollar for each dollar invested. In some counties higher dividends were paid than in others but there W3?*2 a profit in each. For the total of $*1 1,831. expanded total cost equivalents I-1*0' duced in these twenty four counties were $317,647.74. ' The a -era^e ro ti?rn was $1.48 for each dolijr spent. Here are some of the thing ; accom plished by the health department: 5,209 contagious diseases wero Quar antined by mail and 8,312 additional cases quarantined in person: 46,922. complete typhoid vaccinations were given, 23,628 smallpox vaccinations. 909 whooping cough vaccinations, . and 13,925 little children were rendered immune from diphtheria !>/ the ad ministration of toxin-ant I toxin. A total of 8 560 treatments for venereal diseases in indigent cases were given. Examinations in clinics for the tuber culosis' totaled 1,612, while 2,111 homes where tuberculosis exUtei were visited. These achievements cover the high spots in just on unit of the health officer's work, that oi communicable diseases. Under the general head of hygiene is grouped maternity and infancy* work and school hygiene. Prenatal cases registered totaled 2,120, babies registered ' f,770. homo conferehcn^ with mothers 7,693. office conferences with mothers, 1,546. women coniplet ing standard courses of instruction SO, midwives completing course df in struction 437, children certificated in Little Mothers' League 400. In the school work 2,544 children received operations for tonsils and adenoids, 5, 356 were treated for dental defects. 919 had refractive errors corrected, 57 received orthopedic corrections, 13,302 were enrolled in the Modern Hea'ih Crusade, 93,246 received primary phy sical examinations, and 22 047 receiv ed final examinations. Under sanitation 2,108 new sew;i connections were obtained, and 16,08'j privies were made sanitary. Private water supplies to the number of 122 were protected ggainst surface pollu tion, and 5,779 nuisances were abated. Under the head of food control in spections of dairies totaled 7 580, ab batoirs 146, and hotels, restaurants and markets 13,257. A total of 49, 00S cows were tuberculin tested, and 8,621 examinations of animals offered for sale as food were made. In accomplishing there results a to tal of 152 732 miles were traveled by the health officer, 99,464 by nurses, and 50,417 by sanitary inspectors. The counties in which health de partments were maintained were the following Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Dav idson, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Granville, Halifax, Lenoir. Mecklenburg, North ampton, Pitt, Robeson, Rowan, Samp son, Surry, Vance, Wake, Wayne; Wilkes and Wilson. To Hold Clinics In Many Counties. Before the bells ringing out on the crisp autumnal air against cajl "to books" the State Board of Health will have contributed through its tonsil and adenoid clinics to the physical betterment of close to three thousand children, .thereby enabling them to take the greatest advantage of the State's modern system of schools. Already definite arrangements have been completed for these clinics to be held in twenty counties during the present year. Other counties are ten tatively arranging for this service and the indications are that the demand will be greater than the one hospital until operated by the board will be able to handle. Clinics have been, held during the month of May for Chatham county at Pittsboro, for Beauford county at Bel* haven ^nd Washington, for Martin county as Williamstoir. ? ' New Corporations. The Secretary of State chartered the following corporations to do busi ness in North Carolina: Millis Cotton Mills, Inc., of High Point, with $300,000 authorized capi tal and $70,000 subscribed H. A. Millis, R. R. Ragan, and I. E. Hay worth ,all of High Point. . Great Lakes Drilling Co., of New Bern, with, $200,000 authorized capU tal and $75,000 subscriped by W. P. Aberly, E. C. Armstrong, and W. H. Henderson, all of New Bern. 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You were -<?< n woman yesterday ! I Mr. Wisfi ? I; w ;i < ray had on a hat exactly ii.a' with me and hu\ an ? hat. I don't want t" ! ? again. ? London An-"1'*- H What, did A<lu;t. ' ^ M until he ?<>t ouf Eden?