FEBRUARY TC, 1928
j THIS WEEK
I By ARTHUR BRISBANE
A Coura^eoOA Irishman
A Hollo v.- Magnet
A Varigatcd Climate
More Airplanes Needed
A teal fighting Irishman has com
to America. William Thomas Cos
grave. president oof the Irish ? re
state. Diffident, keen light bin
eves. s? ft voice, iron will and
lion's courage. That is a picture o
the Irish president, for whom lea
does not exist,, not even the onl;
fear admitted by his relatives, th
Celtic chiefs of Gaul, who ad mi tie <
that they feared one thing, that thsk\
might fall on thern,
Jf you asked, *4Can nothing bi
more powerful than somethin?" yoi
would get no Serious answer.
But how do you explain this fact
announced by German science ant
proved by convincing experiment'
iv nouuw magnet is more power! u
than a solid magnet.
The absence of magnetized mcta
and physics, now that atomic con
struction and the horrible power am
. speed of the tiny electrons have beei
j added to human knowledge. But tha
hollow magnet news is a thing t<
puzzle science.
A. D. Lasker, who ran the ship
ping board, once a young, frightful
ly energetic hoy. sitting in the out
side of Lord & Thomas in Chicago
now even more frightfully energetic
sits in the inside office and owns
the plr.ee.
He and his wife have just given ;
million dollars to Chicago Universi
ty to study the "causes, nature ant
prevention of degenerative dis
eases."
Within three hundred years, the
average life has increased from Unity
to sixt yyears, but a man of fifty
ha3 very little hotter chance of lift
than a man of that age one hundref
years ago.
Lasker wisely gives money to fine
out why it is that human beings aft
er fifty break down so quickly.
If the scientists will let him. Las
ker should use some of his monej
investigating suggestions that modi
cal science would call "all nonsense.*
And nonsense is what the doctor:
called the theories o? Pasteur, whe
taught then? move than they even
knew before.
Michael .1. Hiuch, 18 years old
touched a live wire carrying 5.00i
volts, and according to doctors, was
"dead for half an hour." Quick action
by firemen brought the boj
back to life.
At first his mind wandered. Ther
he recognized friends, knew his o\Vr
name, who he was and what he har
been doing in the previous 18 years
The question arises, does the same
thing happen to all of us, after w<
have been dead a long time* per
haps, as one earnest clergyman sug
grests. as long as a billion years
waiting for the world to end am
Gabriel to summon us?
We have a varigated climate, dbg:
nulling 'sleds over. Alaska's ice. la;
dies and their friends lying half
uaium on toe snnus 01 rioriqa, ' an
iorniu and tin Gulf states.
And the thermometer does r.ot te!
everything about weather. We shive:
and growl at ! > abort -'.em. \vni 1?
Donald McMillan, Artiic explorer
sent .void through radio that he i:
quite comfortable at Bovdoin, Lab
rador, with the temperature 35 be
low zero.
It depends on humidity, elevation
ozone and other things probably o
which wc know nothing.
A dispatch from Nicaragua say:
Sandino, the rebel bandit who kil'.et
some of our marines, has been killet
by a bomb from one of our air
The report was erroneous.' hut i
should teach the Nicnraguan rebel;
that they have 110 more chanci
against United States flying ma
chines than a rabbit has agains
eagles. That is satisfactory so fa
as our Nicaragua fight goes.
But the president, congress am
army and navy departments shouli
remember that several countries' ii
, Europe and at least one in Asia ex
. f* ceed us so greatly in air power tha
' they could do to us, if they chose
what wc have done to Sandino.
We need fighting airplanes, no
merely a sample force of the Niea
rugua size.
The emperor of Japan sets an ex
ample in economy?carries a $
watch, cultivates his own rice field
That wouid surprise his great grea
grandfather. That Mikado, bv lift
ing a finger, could chop off any
body's bead, and he did.
She Wasn't Telling
Conductor: "How old are you, lit
tie girl?"'
Professor's Daughter: "If yo
don't object, "I'll pay my full far
and keep my own statistics."
It always makes me laugh,
So wonderful a treat.
To see an athlete run a mile
And only move two feet.
Bachelor: "Yes, the world's
gloomy old prison."
Amorous Spinster: 'That's beeaus
y'ou're in solitary confinement."
"(spread of chestnut blight'
1 continues in southern area!
i
1 The- chestnut Might is luniiuuiitgj
j its rapul spread i u the sou therat
I siates, the United States depar'cme.n:}
1 of agriculture '.varus. advising own-5
j ors of chestnut timber to consider j
I '-arefuily their salvage operations.!
\ particularly in rugarit to the smaller!
trees suitable for pole's and fori
manufacture of tannic acid. Thej
bureau of plain industry and Us ?.o-!
? operating: reporters made obserya-j
fi lions in 1 * i7 to determine the exten-j
r sion of the blight, and find no rea- j
son to anticipate any abatement oil
the spread and increase of this iuti-i
suns pesc. iz is expected that wit.h,
in the next ten years the blight wii*
kill most of the chestnut timber it*
the Southern Appalachian legion. i
All of the important chestnut-j
r> producing counties of Virginia ex !
J cept. I I in the southwestern corner}
oi the state have 35.0 per cent or]
more of the chestnut trees infected j
j( 01* killed by the blight. Twenty-one,
, j counties of West Virginia, seven of j
"jl North Carolina. 2 of South Carolina]
| and two of Georgia, arc in the same!
i condition. Of the remaining coun-j
11 ties with extensive chestnut growth
_j in the above states and in Tennessee 1
] ! and Kentucky, (JO have from 30 to*
1j 79 per cent of the chestnut trees in-!
j i fected; 62 have 10 to 20 per cent in? 1
, fected. and 23 have less than 10 per j
cent.
At the rate of killing in different j
parts of the same region, the depart-?
ment advises all owners to ascertain }
the present condition of their chest- j
nut, especially if it is suitable for
poles. Some large pole buying com*
J panics discriminate against poles cut
from badly blighted trees, and most
t of them will not accept those cut
from trees killed by the blight. Conj
sequently, many owners have failed
1 fr.r> #*nr hpfm-i. Vi.ii
ly attacked or killed their trees are
suffering considerable losses. At the
. present time many stands suitable
for poles should be cut promptly to
. prevent loss, while others can he left
; for several years without danger,
j Stands of chestnut, for lumber
need trot be marketed so quickly, because
killing does not decrease the
j value of these trees so rapidly as it
. does trees suitable for poles. The
| blight fungus; itself, does not dc-j
I crease the strength of the wood but
-] decay-producing- fungi, which enter
. the wood immediately after the
' death of the I roe, decay the hark and S
51 the sapwood in a few years. Checks.
, j which begin shortly alter the bark
A falls, deepen, and cause considerable
loss in salved products. Chestnut
trees can he used for tannic acid ext
tract wood for 20 years or more
> after death. However, their volume
$ is reduced, within a few years after
. death, by the decay of the bark and
r most of the sapwood. This loss is
especially hfl^avy ii\ chestnut of
, small size.
t As the present low prides or the
1 various chestnut products make it
Unprofitable under some circu.ni?
stances to cut and market chestnut,
v each owner should consider carefully j
. his salvage opetations.
j WOMAN HANGED FOR PART
|| IN PLOT ON LINCOLN!
I /; - y '
A woman was executed as ore of
; t!ic conspirators in the plot to as.
| sassir.ate Abraham Lincoln, accord- j
.j iug to the claim of Lloyd Lewis in]
, tile Liberty Magazine.
'fKver since the United States
I armv hanged Mrs. Mary IC. Surratt
with the three most inioportant male
>; conspirators then alive, 011 July 9,
1X65, the mystery as to her real
; guilt has been abroad," writes Lewis.
. "The evidence against her was eir.
eumstantial.
"Louis ,1. Weiehmann, living in
the lodging house kept by Mrs. Sur[
ratt in Washington, where the Lincoln
conspirators hatched their plot,
came bravely forward at the trial,
5 testifying that Mrs. Surratt had
i aided John Wilkes Looth in his
j scheme and in his escape.
. | "The- boy Weiehmann had told
t| things nit the witness stand that
3 fixed the noose about the woman's
, ue'.'lc. If he had told the truth she
. was as guilty as any of the men who
r died with her. If he lied she was]
r innocent.
"ft was shout this ease t hat j
Yveichmonn wanted :? testify again
i when he lay dying in 1902.
j! "He wtifiod again and died.
i^Kis sister folded up ihe paper and
_j put it away. Their brother had
t wanted silence for himself! Let
, lence keep his last words, too.
"Time, however, eases hurts, and
t the other day, sitting in the room
_ where he had died, out in the wisi
end of Anderson, Irid., these two
- aged women told me their brother's
S story."
1. One of the tilings the author
t learned was that Weiehmann, on his
deathbed, asked his sisters to get.
- a pen and paper and told them to
write: "June 2, 1902. This is to
certify that every word I gave in
evidence of the assassination trial
was absolutely true: and now 1 am
about to die and with love I recom-j
u mend myself to all true-loving pao-1
e pie."
Nell: "Say, does Harold know howto
drive?"
Mell: "Does he? Say, he hit a
deputy sheriff this afternoon that
everybody else has been trying to
hit for months without succeeding."
a "I just cleaned up thirty thousand
bones on mv land."
e "Oil?"
"No; graveyard." -
fSIMilP-1 1' 'IIP; 11*
ran watauga democrat?every Thursday?coone. n. c.
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of
PROCURESS |
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A STATEMENT
by
GENERAL MOTORS
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JBB-l is the policy of Gen- j
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in every one of its car divisions* with no interruption
in production.
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soon as lliey have been thoroughly Jested on the
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l.nSalle, Cadillac, or GM(. Truck, and receive
,
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is an organization so widespread and resourceful
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In the north and south it logs and mills its
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under way and before cold weather sets in.
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ill price ;md the. work cf installing is or. a time basis,
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you before the order is given.
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Telephone 87 Skop 13 Main Street
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OF COURSE YOU WANT A
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BUT
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some future date. '
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BOONE NORTH CAROLINA