&
Illinois' pride, the now Centennial Memorial building at Springfield. t ? ? commemorate the one hundredth anniversary
of the admittance of t lie state to the union, is completed at a cost of $2,(HH),(kM), and is destined to occupy a place of
prominence among the most notable public structures of the nation.
French Chemists Experimenting
to Find Cheap Substitute
for Gasoline.
Paris. ? French chemists are carry
ing out a number of interesting ex
periments with a view of substituting
the use of alcohol made from sugar
beets, grapes and other by-products
of French industries for imported gas
oline.
Various interests in France have
long attempted to render their coun
try independent of the United States,
Great Britain and Holland in the sui>
plying of fuel for motors. This inde
pendence is considered so pressing
that suggestions are made that a state
produced gasoline substitute may be
made and its use In automobiles be
made compulsory. It Is proposed to
call the accepted fuel the "carburant
national." The propaganda in favor of
this national fuel has compelled the
government and numerous sclent ihc
bodies to carry out many extensive and
expensive experiments. The results
of these tests were recently summa
rized in a valuable technical mono
graph prepared for the Association de>
Chemist es de Sucrerie et de Pistillerie
de France by M. Masfaraud. who
showed that the:*e results were ob
tained :
Efficiency Is Increased. ? 1
Alcohol motors are about 'Jo per cent
more efficient than petrol motors.
The combustion of alcohol gas "is
perfect and the escaping gases are
quite inodorous.
The general use of alcohol for fuel
in motors is perfectly feasible and is
to be strongly recommended.
No ditlicuities would be experienced
in placing on the market motors built
to operate with alcohol.
The necessity for the adoption of
alcohol as a source of power was clear
ly demonstrated in France during the j
war. Hut there was such a demand
for alcohol for the manufacture of mu
nitions that means had to be devised
to conserve the supplies of alcohol in
France and ration them.
An official commission was appoint
ed In February, 1922, by the ministry
of finance to fix the price of alcohol
derived from the current beet crop.
It recommended the enforced use of
alcohol as fuel, or as an adulterant of
gasoline, as an expedient for pro
viding a regular market for the by
products of tlio agricultural Industries.
Iieziers, in the department of Ilie
rault, was the scene last summer of
extensive tests of automobile fuels
made from mixtures of alcohol, gaso
line and other substances. The re
sults of these tests attracted consid
erable attention, not only in France,
but throughout the world. Many mix
tures proved valuable. The most ef
fective results were obtained from a
mixture suggested by M. Godchot,
dean of the department of science of
the University of Montpeller, which
consisted of about 90 per cent gaso
Hne, 9 per cent alcohol and small
quantities of cyclohexanol and phenol.
The committee in charge of the Be
ziers fuel tests was so impressed with
the results obtained that it advocated
legislation to compel the substitution
of the Godchot mixture in place of
gasoline for all purposes in France.
* Notwithstanding the strong advocacy
of a national fuel for France, the gov
ernment has not yet taker a pro
nounced stand on. this question be
cause of the numerous economic prob
lems Involved. It would like to make
France independent of imported fuels,
cheapen the cost of automobile fuel
and develop steady markets for the by
products of factories producing sugar,
fruit, grape pulp, eiders and sherry,
starch, wine, beer, brandy and sim
ilar articles. But difficulties arise
from the fact that the price of al
hohol is usually higher than that of
gasoline and therefore the manufac
ture of the Godchot fuel would be ex
pensive.
National Project Urged.
To overcome these economic prob
lems It Is proposed to establish a na
tional alcohol office to control a mo
nopoly of alcohol In France and to
control the monopoly of manufacture
of the "carhurant national.1' In order
that the alcohol fuel might be sold
below the price of gasoline the excess
cost would be offset by taxes on wines,
ciders and otht> alcoholic beverages.
The French experiments instigated
a series of similar tests in England.
The Empire Motor Fuels committee
had tests made with pure alcohol over
the complete available range of mix
ture strength, with open throttle at
piston speeds ranging from 8(H) to 2,000
per minute, and at compression ratios
between 3.8 to 1 and 7 to 1. The re
sults were very favorable to the use of
pure alcohol.
The Germans have not neglected ex
perimenting with alcohol as a motor
fuel. There Is an annual production
of about 100, 000, (KM) gallons of alcohol
from potatoes In Germany, and some
of this has long been used either in
a pure state or mixed with petrol as
an automobile fuel. It is found that
a too of potatoes, carrying about 10
per cent of starch, which promotes the
fermentation, will yield iif> gallons of
alcohol. As potato crops can he
cheaply grown, they may in the fu
ture become important factors in the
world's fuel sifpply.
Relief Offered by Corn.
In countries like the United States,
I which are favored with large corn
growing areas, maize might be used 1
instead of potatoes. It is easy to raise, I
transport and store, and presents no
! difficulties In Its conversion into al
I cohol.
Wood waste has been made to yield
large quantities of alcohol. There are
| possibilities of using sawdust and the
timber felled in clearing agricultural
lands, as well as used lumber, for oil
fuel. Hut practical difficulties will
prevent the use of wood as a source
of alcohol in all but a few favored
localities. Distilleries using wood
as a source of alcohol could rarely
compete with those using farm prod
ucts. Farmers have it in their power
to produce a large number of crops
suited to the manufacture of alcohol.
The farmers of the United States
alone could raise enough maize, pota
toes, beets, and other crops to en
able the world's motorists to sub
stitute pure alcohol for petrol in all
oil motors.
The Cubans make motor alcohol
from the lowest grades of molasses
and from bagasse, or spent cane liber.
Industrial alcohol has b^en made from
these substailces at a cost as low as
five cents per gallon.
Throughout Central and South Amer
ica alcohol has been used as a fuel,
I either in a pure state or admixed with
i petrol or kerosene. The results have
Builds Scaffold for
Sister and Himself f
t :
Despondency over ill health {
1 caused the double suicide at j
j Louisville, K>\, a few days ago, j
of George Schneider, fifty years I
| old, and his sister, Anna.
Schneider built a scaffold in a
I room of their home, and when !
I his sister had hanged herself \
j upon it, he ended his own life in j
I the same way. I
1 !
ffim? minium . .niiimiiw-ii.i.u..
been satisfactory. Naturally, when a
new fuel is used in a petrol motor
without proper adjustments being
made for it, smooth running cannot
be expected. But when intelligence Is
employed in substituting alcohol for
petrol in motors there are few grounds
for complaint.
Tests in South Africa.
M. Masfaraud, In his address to the
French Chemical association, drew at
t(*ntion to the experiments carried out
in South Africa during the war and
subsequently with alcohol-ether admix
ture fuels. Great success appears to
have been met with in using a mix
ture called natalite, which is com
posed of about 54 per cent of alcohol,
43 per cent of ether and a little am
monia. " "
M. LIndet, a prominent French In
dustrial chemist, has suggested the
use of a motor fuel composed of an j
admixture of alcohol and acetylene.
Many authorities look upon the sug
guest ion favorably and in the near fu- I
ture it is proposed to test such mix- j
tures on an extensive scale.
Among other' mixtures tried In j
France those composed of alcohol, j
ether, benzol and pyridine, alcohol f
toluene and xylene and alcohol, benzol j
and petrol have given satisfactory re
sults.
It senilis probable, from a survey of >
the present state of the motor fuel
problem in France, that It is only a
question of time when alcohol pro
duced from French agricultural prod
ucts will be substituted for imported
gasoline. This substitution will not
be made directly, but by degrees. Mix
tures of alcohol, petrol and other sub
stances will be used and later, when
the price of alcohol can be greatly re
duced, It will replace the petrol mix
tures.
The problem which at present con
fronts French chemists is how to pro
duce a national fuel cheaply, and they
realize, as one has cleverly remarked,
that they must study the matter not
only with present conditions in view,
but with an eye to the future, or, as
M. Masfaraud says: "Dans un avenir
prochaln."
Judge Bans "Cheek" Dancing.
Long Beach, Cal. ? In what he an
nounced from the bench as a deter
mined effort to abolish cheek-to-cheek
dancing. in local places of amusement.
Police Judge M. O. Hawkins ordered
an offending couple to abstain from
fox-trottjing in Long Beach for one
year.
Moved the Houses Across the River
s
The houses which stood on r lie ground recently secured for the site of tht
new West Virginia state capitol in Wheeling have been removed to a new loca
tion across the Kanawha river. The photograph shows one of the houses bclnj
taken on a barge across the river.
PUU IH HOTELS
TOURISTS ADVISED OF ROAD CON.
DITIONS AND' GIVES CHOICE
OF ROADS.
mm issued monthly
.'his is New Service of State High
/
*vay Commission Which Became
Effective With July Detours.
Tlie state h
:he
placed in the hj
large maps o
service of the
came effective
The purpose
town to town
Raleigh.
*hway commission, for
convenience cf motorists, has
Jotel lobbies of the state,
_ I lie detours in effect
during each iponth. This is a new
commission which be
with the July detours,
of the maps, it is said,
is to indicate o a traveler going from
where he will have to
detour. A man at Greensboro travel
ing to Raleigh, for example, would
only have to glance at the map in
Greensboro and see if any detours are
marked up on the Greensboro-Raleigh
road. He would then be in a position
to choose his road so as to avoid de
touring or, if two roads were not
available, he would at least be advis
ed of road conditions before he com
menced the trip.
This service, it is believed, ,jvill be
of great assistance to motorists pass
ing through the state as, because of
the great amount of road construction
now in progress, many, many road9
are being replaccfl temporarily by de
tours.
The detour reports of the commis
sion which are issued monthly may
be found in all public libraries of the
state and will supplement the map
so far as giving the exact mileage and
location of all detours is concerned.
Large maps of the entire highway
system of the state, it is stated, have
been furnished to such hotels as
would agree to display them promin
ently in their lobbies.* These maps
give the route number and are plain
ly marked so that a trip through the
state may be made by, route numbers
taken from the map, aided by the
route number signs which are along
the roads at frequent intervals.
I Expecting Great Farm Convention.
A pood crowd of representative
farmers and their wives will be pres
ent at the Farmers' and Farm Wo
men's Convention at the State College
on July 31 and August 1 and 2 accord
ing to reports that are now being re
ceived by James M. Gray, secretary
of the convention. Mr. Gray thinks
! that this is because of the pood pro
I pram which has been arranged an<*
because of the outstanding speakers
which he has secured. The fact is,
however, that North Carolina farmers
have become accustomed to attending
the convention and those who want to
swap experiences with their neigh
bors are almost sure to come again.
The college, as usual, is going to fur
nish free lodging but the guests are
expected to bring their toilet articles
and bed linen.
New Bern Labor Office Closed.
Temporary discontinuance of the
State Employment office at New Bern
was announced by M. L. Shipman,
director of the Employment Service.
Withdrawal of the appropriation made
by the American Red Cross imme
diately after the disastrous fire in
New Bern last December is given as
the reason for abandoning the office.
Assistance from the county or city
will ensure its reopening.
New Bern is omitted from~the list
of offices reporting placements dur
ing the week, and the aggregate to
tals announced are appreciably small
er than the placement sfor the preced
ing week. A totU of 618 men and
women applied for work, 575 employ
ers asked for help, ami 398 nfen ana
81 women were found employment
"uring the week, according to the re
port.
More than half the number placed
during the week were classed as un
skilled labor, the figures being given
at 311. The demand for unskilled
labor is still great, but tha number
available during the week is taken
as an indication that the exodus of
negro laborers to the north has been
checked, and that more of them are
seeking work at home.
Skilled labor maintains its second
place in the line, and domestic help
third, and clerical and professional a
bad fourth. Not an office in the state
has a skilled or unskilled laborer list
ed for more than 24 hours at the
time.
Prohibition Director Makes Report.
Salisbury. ? North Carolina moon
shiners lost exactly 111 illicit distiller
ies; 1,234 gallons of rum; 67,925 gal
lons of malt liquor; 17 automobiles
and property valued at $30,000 during
the month of June, according to the
report of activities of federal prohibi
tion agents in the state, issued by
State Director R. t). Coltrane, who
headquarters here.
Sixty arrests were made and 133
prosecutions recommended. . The mix
ture of liquor and property during
June was smaller than ApriJ or May.
Cotton Crop Is Most Promising.
"The cotton crop of North Caro
lina is unusually promising consider
ing the planting seasons and is th?
largest in its history," according to a
statement issued here by Frank Par
ker, statistician of the co-operative
reporting service of the United States
and North Carolina departments of
agriculture. The report is based ou
information recived from 26 countiei
of the state.
"With .the acreage at 103 per cent,"
says the report, "North Carolina
shows the least increase of any state.
The average for the cotton belt is 12
per cent increase. It is reported that
the increase would have been more
had the April report not been given
publicity. That report showed the
same acreage per cent according to
the planting intentions of several
thousand cotton farmers. It is fur
ther recognized that it was the specu
lator who suffered most by that 'in
tentions' report, which indicated
prospective planting.
"The present condition of SO por
cent of a normal or full crop pros
pect for 256 pounds per acre, if ap
plied to the 1.703.4C0 acres, moans
that the crop might be over 910,000
bales if the state conditions remain
favorable. The boll weevil and ad
verse weather conditions must be
reckoned with before early frost gets
its share. These figures are based
on conditions now and do n^t in
clude any but favorable influences to
follow. The last crop made 350
pounds per acre and 851,000 bales.
"There are estimated to have been
planted in the United States the
greatest acreage of any year, 38,287,
000 acres with a prospective yield of
11,412,000 bales or 17 per cent in
crease over the 1922 production. The
present condition prospects are 1.3
per cent below last year's report and
six per cent below the 10 year aver
age.
"The weather conditions in North'
Carolina have been unusually favor
able for cotton during June. The re
cent rains have helped to relieve the
drought that might soo'n have be
come serious, even on cotton. The
boll weevil has not become notice
ably bad but its presence and activi
ties are now claiming the attention
of the southren cotton counties of
the satte.
Weevil Declared Not Poisonous.
Inquiries received by the state
board of health from widely separat
ed sections of the state indicate a fear
of the boll weevil that Is entirely un
founded. The state board of health
is advised that this pest of the cotton
plant is without danger other than
the damage which it does to one of
the state's leading farm products.
The boll weevil is not poisonous.
It does not infest fruits or berries, '
nor any of the garden vegetables, |
such as corn, beans, cabbage, lettuce, j
okra, tomatoes, or the like. The .
only food that satisfies the appetite '
of this insect is the cotton boll, and
it eats this preferably when young
and tender, when the squares are
just forming.
Popular superstition has enlarged i
the field of activity of this insect !
which is having a revolution in the
agricultural habits of the entire 1
south. In some sections the weevil j
is reported in the blackberries. From i
another comes the - report of having |
found it in the okra. A far eastern j
county attributed a serious illness to
the weevil having been cooked along :
with some sanp beans. ? A Piedmont
county thought it was infesting the j
cabbage. In all instances a consum- j
ing fear seems to have taken posses
sion of some of the people lest the
boll weevil take their lives.
In answering such inquiries the
state board of health has endeavor
ed to reassure those unduly fearful
with the definite statement that there
is nothing to fear from the boll weev
il except the partial destruction of
the cotton crop. The insect is not
poisonous and infests only the cotton
plant.
N. C. Leading in Building.
For the first time since March, 1922,
the number of permits issued for new
work in twenty-four of the leading
cities of the Fifth district was lower
in May than the number issued dur
ing the corresponding month of the
previous year, but several North
Carolina cities were among those fig
uring In increases of newwork, ac
cording to a study of the Monthly
Review of the Richmond Federal
Reserve Bank just made public here.
May, 1922, permits totaled 2,272 in
comparison with 2,4'f5 issued in May,
1922. In the estimated cost of the
work also, May of this year dropped
below May of last year ,the totals be
ing $11,443,583 and $12,548,712 re
spectively, it is stated. The combin
ed valuation for both' new work and
alterations or repairs totaled $13,461,
852 in May, 1923, in comparison with
$14,451,569 in May, 1922, a decrease
during the current month of 6.8 per
cent, according to the Review.
Mall Checks to Growers.
Checks aggregating more than two
million dollars went out to the thirty
odd thousand members of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative
Association, one day from the Raleigh
headquarters. General Manager U. B.
Blalock announced. >
These checks represent the fourth
distribution made to members, bring
ing the total advances up to 22 cents
a pound, basis middling, and making
a grand total of fifteen million dollars
that has been paid out on the 135,000
bales of cotton..
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"When my i
teeth he was s,, f>ft7?a '<
I couldn't do r, 'M:,
took all my j ? , . : ? s
T '' Dl'lfc.
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I couldn t look rr,v
writes Mrs. Anns*- .
Roswell, da., "hut
giving him Tt-i-rir.na h*
ting and has !:
since."
Teethina Is far
ing syrups and
' for quieting a f-.
tains no opiate . \.\ -v ,, -
fectly harmh? .
dren thrive on ar.<
mend it.
Teethina <?: r.
store or ? ,
oratories < 'ol
a iarjro paH =
Motfett's 111':-'
vertisement. i
Speakir.'j
"Hiiwrll
"Yi'S. U? ? if..- :?
Income."
y I'.
need svm
Thousand* of v.-orr.c-n '.at?
bladder trouble and n<ner
Women's complaints often
nothing else but !ney tro^'I*
result of kidney or bladder c.^
If the kidneys ara not in a '^Vj,
dition, they may cause the otic"!
to become diseased. ^
Pain in the back, headacte, 1c* ^
bition, nervousness, are often tiaj i
toms of kidney trouble. '
Don't delay starting treatment.
Kilmer'a Swamp-Root, a pbyr.c;u', ?
scription, obtained at any drug not
be just the remedy needed to c*cj
such conditions.
Get a medium or large iia bcti
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to tir
great preparation send lien ce&ti ti
Kilmer & Co., Binghamtjm, X. Yd
?ample bottle. When wnting be ibi
mention this paper.? ?Adjrervjeict
Hard to Locate.
"Borrowing from ivttr top?j|
is bad business." "It \< forme,!;
such a hard time findinc IVv'
Cuticura Soothes Itching Sci^|
On retiring gently rub spots of |
druff aDd itching with Cutlcnntl
ment. Next morning shampoo
Cuticura Snap and hot water,
them your everyday toilet prepsuj
and have a dear skin and soft,
hands. ? A d vert i seme nt.
Many pooplr don't ? s<i
liberty. They "illy wm.t t?> in
there to be had.
Tells How Lydia E.PinkkBj
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Healtb
Worcester, Mass. - "I w
trouble caused by a female
" and got so rz*
and weak fn:
that I couli
stand or wj
the floor. The
g av? me
pills, but
helped we. 1
pened to 3
' friendvhote'
Lydi a E.
j Vegeta^Jj
?hp ? .? pound, so Iaj
Li *v ' ? Jjwould trj&M
taking it a week I began toz? f
and now I feel fine and am doty1 J
my housework, including irasbintj
ing and house cleaning. I have^l
mended your medicine to my &!j
and I am willing" for you to use
as a testimonial, as I wouldB^J
any one suffering the way I didfn?!
a weakness. "?Mrs. Delia
S. Ludlow St., Worcester, Ma& J
Lydia E. Pinkho.m'3 Private- TejjJ
opon "Ailments Peculiar toK?|
will be sent you free upofl ^
Write to The Lydia E. PinkhVj
cine Co., Lynn, Mass. This^T
tains valuable information X
ALLEN'S FM
FOB THE Ffflf
Sprinkle one or two AJleo s
ders in the Foot-ifath ami K's , j'JI
feet. It takes the >t;nHf out _oi_ ^
~ ? ?? In. r. AcilUg
light. Always u.^e it lur Udu<..~v -
to break in neiv s-hcts. 0>f
Five Hundred Thousand pounds
the Ftel weie usi-d by our Arz.'M
during tiie war. Trial jP
Ease Walkijjj,- Doli s?-nt post rr?^ 2
Allen's Foot-Ease? L?
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