The Alamance gleaner
VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1931. NO. 4.
U. S. S. Pennsylvania Is Modernized
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The battleship Pennsylvania has been completely modernized at the Phil
adelphia navy yard. As the photograph shows, the old cage masts have been
stipplanted by massive tripod masts. The turret guns have been elevated,
heavier armor put on, new fire control Installed and many other changes
made.
Ruins Tell of
Viking Empire
V
Explorations in Present Bal
tic States Reveal Inter
esting Historic Facts.
Stockholm.?Archeological research
in the Baltic states continues to add
supporting evidence to the theory that
I powerful "Viking empire" was In
process of forming In these regions
more than a thousand years ago. It
grows Increasingly apparent that the
whole Baltic littoral was more closely
knit together hy trade and communi
cation than Indicated by history as
written In the past.
Important facts are also being st|p
plied regarding the period of the great
migrations and the southward wan
lerlngs of the Cloths In the Fifth and
Sixth centuries In all the excavations
specialists are stressing the need for
ro-operntlon. This Idea was empha
sized ut itigu. nt the Baltic archeo
logical congress, near the close of the
summer, the first congress of the kind
to assemble since 1012. And the Idea
will dominate in all accomplishment
oefore the next congress, which is to
be held In Kiel In 1004.
Tells of Burled Treasure.
In Sweden the two seemingly Inex
haustible reserves of soil awaiting the
spade and the measuring rod are the
Islands of Gothland, nearly midway In
the Baltic seu, and Gland, just off the
Swedish mainland on the southeast
const. Not that the horizontal area
is so wide reaching. But on the Islund
pf Gothland, for Instance, the excava
tion of the foundation of some an
cient house or fort or cathedral muy
reveal traces of an earlier foundation
oeneuth it and one still earlier beneath
the second. Such Is the case, as dis
closed by this summers work on the
southern tip of the Island, where Dr.
John Nihlen, with a corps of workers,
excavated un old "homestead,'* which
.egend attributed to Stavar the Great,
i heroic figure dating approximately
from the Second century of our era.
Rumors of burled treasure are being
substantiated on a small scale as the
foundations of the huge hall, sixty
meters In length, are investigated.
There are remains of glassware from
Ute Roman empire, ceramics with clns
(fcal ornamentation, and numerous sil
ver coins Identified by their Images of
Trajanus, Hadrlanus, Marcus Aurellus.
Crispins, or other Roman rulens or
consorts. Arabian coins bear a later
date and suggest that the enormous
house may have been desolate and
deserted during a part of the age of
migrations, 400-700, tp be utilised again
by the Vikings and their associates.
These finds therefore seem to sub
stantiate certain hypotheses about
other Interesting sections of the Is
land.
The Swedish Island of Oland. with
Its sixteen known sites of ancient for
tifications, has recently been surveyed
for archeoiogical purposes from the
sir by Dr. Morten Stenberger on this
his seventh year of Intensive study of
the region, somewhat barren but also
picturesque with Its steppesllke vege
tation. Here again there are traces of
devastation and some forceful evacua
tion of populations In the nine peri
od?the centuries before and after 800
A. D.
Views Taken From Air.
The largest fortification, Graborgen.
was probably constructed at this time
Another, ismanstorp, enclosed no leas
than eighty-eight bouses. An Inter
estlng fact disclosed by the recent
aerial survey wus that the houses
were built around a rectangle or
square, a type of building heretofore
identified with the Middle Ages.
This work is supplemented with
equally Important work on the conti
nent to the south nnd southeast. Prof,
liirger Herman, Swedish archeologlst,
has concentrated on Grohin in I.at via.
He has Identified Grohin as the See
burg of legend, where King Olnf came
In the middle of the Ninth century,
plundering first Seehurg and later
Apulln. now Identified with the sec
tion called Apuole.
Hedehy, nn old Viking center near
Schleswig. Is nhout to be made the
subject of special study and will there
with become the first Viking town to
be excavated on a comprehensive
scale.
The connections between Iledeby
and liirka. a Viking town once flour
ishing on the Island of BJorko?the'
picturesque and Idyllic Swedish "Is
land of birches"?are being stressed
and various theories are offered as
to the relation betwepn the two. Either
Iledeby was a transit port, established
for the trade of Rlrkn, or, according
to one speculation, Rlrkn wns a far
northern outpost of Danish trade.
I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I 1 I I I I I I
;; Holds Pygmy Court;
Inspired by Golf!
II Pittsburgh.?Judge George V.
- > Moore has set up a miniature ? ?
!! criminal court here, railing It a
? ? "plea room," where he presides ? ?
at a small desk with nn assist
; ? ant district ntlorney to receive
pleas of guilty. .
?' He borrowed the principle "
.. from pygmy golf.
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
;; Lost Dog Answers ! |
Blast of Horn
j[ New Orleans.?A nibbit dog ! |,
belonging to Fmnk Audlbert Jr
j| and 1'uul Geory was lost' for
three months hut returned be
cause of the blast of a hunting
horn. $
Mrs. Audibert thought she saw
the dog near Hayo St. John. X
Adihert took a hunting horn to y
which the dog. Ren. has an- X
swered. and went horning. Ho 4 ?
commandeered a skiff, started X
blowing the horn as he rowed t
and finally found the dog In p??s- y
session of two boys on an is- X
!! land.
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Skeleton of Ancient
Man Is Found in Lava
Redding, Calif.?Hurled beneath 12
feet of lava, a good part of a human
skeleton was uncovered by a high
way construction crew four miles east
of Mc Arthur.
The find wus made on a plateau
called the Reach, and 20 feet from the
edge of the wave of lava.
The skull Is well preserved. The
teeth are Intact, the cheek bones
high. The receding forehead Indi
cates It was that of a prehistoric
man, one who perished In the geo
logical past when Mount Lassen was
sending its great lava flow to the
northwest.
It was presumed the man was run
ning to gel out of the way of the
oncoming wave of lava. He lost In
the race by only 20 feet, to he given
burial that was not to be disturbed
for hundreds of years.
Other human bones were found
about the skull, b* t not so well pre
served. The front teetli are all in
place, but they are peculiar In being
set edgewise instead of presenting a
flat front as In modern man.
The skull is kept In the highway
headquarters camp at McArthur by
Frank Russell, chief engineer. He
may send It to the state university
for examination.
He Waited 46 Year#
to Get Varsity Letter
Lynn, Mass.?Rev. Charles Little
field, former pastor of First Methodist
Episcopal church here, and a candi
date for congress and it delegate to
the National Republican convention
j which nominated Calvin Coolidge for
President, recently was convinced that
the old adage "everything comes to
him who waits" is true.
Mr. Littlefleld attended Wesley an
university at Middletown, Conn., In
1884, 'So and '86 and while there
played third base on the varsity ball
team. According to the record he
was a good ball player, for today he
received a communication from the
college notifying him he had been
awarded the varsity letter for his per
formances od the team during those
years.
Explosion of Moon
Rocket Hurts Three
Vienna.?A large rocket designed by
an American physicist to reach the
moon exploded atop Mt. Redorta, near
Milan, Italy, resulting In serious in
Jury to a mechanic and slight hurts
to two others. The rocket was de
signed by Dr. Darwin Lyon, who was
said to have been in Milan when the
rocket exploded.
New Thing in Medical Treatment
Rndonasal renex tnerapy, me inim comnuuuuu iu mtunai ?? ?rnvr, ???
discovery of ,t?o eminent South American doctors. Is now being demonstrated
In New York city by Dr. Sslvatore Carldl and Dr. Rmnnuel A. Manslnelll
The treatment Is administered by the stimulating of the nerve renters tbroogb
the channels of the nose without the use of any medlctnea.
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By ELMO 8COTT WATSON
YOU want to get In the
I news pictures, be a twin I
Many schools have won
temporary fame because a
^ picture has gooe ont bear
^Ke Ing this familiar caption
jjflE " Sets of Twins In
One School l'uzzle Teach
era" and the number which
vT? la Inserted In that blank
^M|| space varies from Ave to
seventeen. A few years
ago Stephens college at
Colombia, Mo., already famous as "the
Vassar of the West," won even more
renown from the fact that It had In Its
enrollment oo less than 18 pairs of
twins, and that they had formed a
unique organization, named the "Du
plex club."
In St. Louis a year or so ago the
press agent for a pair of "Siamese
twins" who were appearing at A local
theater had the happy Inspiration to
give a "twin party" to which all twins
were Invited. Sixty-five pairs, rang
ing Id age from two months to forty
five years, were on hand with the re
sult of an Interesting group photo
graph?and much good publicity for
the "Slnmese twins." In New York
city twin daughters of a lawyer at
tended the Fordham law school to
gether. were graduated together,
passed the state examinations togeth
er, were admitted to the bar together
and the news photographers rushed to
picture them together 1 Among the
most publicized candidates for admis
sion to West Point In recent years
I were the seventeen-yenr-old twin sons
of a Pennsylvania soldier, killed near 1
Chateuu Thierry during the World |
war. When President Hoover nomi
nated them for admission lo the Unit
ed States Military academy, news sto
les (and a news picture, of course),
recorded the fnct that "their appoint
ment Is believed to he the first deslg
; nation of twins ever so made."
But are twins such a rarity after
1 all? Science gives an answer which
you can Interpret as you wish. It
says that of every 1,000 bnhles bom
| there are ten pairs of twins. That's
2 per cent. If you want to base your
calculations on some of the much pub
licized "twins In schools." you will find
the percentage somewhat higher. A
California school a year or so ngo
broadcast the fact that It had nine
sets of twins In an enrollment of .800
?that's 0 per cent. Similarly l^ignn.
Iowa, reported 12 pairs of twins In
an enrollment of 273?a little over 8
per cent
But whether you consider these fig
ures as evidence that twins are or are
not such rarities, the fnct remains that
the study of twins has challenged the
attention of scientists for many years,
and some definite results to explain
them have been accomplished, al
though the scientists are not entirely
lo accord In all conclusions Two
kinds of twins are generally recog
nized?the "fraternal" and the "Iden
tical."
"Fraternal" twins are children bom
at almost the same time, but the prod
uct of two life cells They may be
the same or opposite sexes and fre
quently bear no more resemblance to
one another than any brother and
sister. They are simply a biological
coincidence.
But In the case of "Identical" twins.
It la a far different matter; for they
are produced by the splitting of a sin
gle life celL They are Invariably of
the same sex and, furthermore, resem
ble eacb other amazingly, not only
facially. In coloring and olber phys
ical details but In mental processes,
emotional reactions and In other sub
tle ways They are literally two
halves of a single, personality.
Instances of remarkable resem
blanrca between twlm usually refer to
the "Identical" type, although It la gen
erally conceded tlmt there was no safe
criterion for distinguishing between
the "Identical" and the "fraternal" un
til a Japanese scientist, Taku Kouinl
of the Imperial university at Kyoto,
Japan, annunred his discovery of a
method. Of It he (ays:
"In the course of study on my collec
tion of fingerprints and hand and sole
prints of some twins, I have come to
realize that, generally speaking, the
same hands or feet of the Identical
twins resemble each other more close
ly In their patterns than the two hands
or feet of the same Individual.
"Tills statement holds good In prin
ciple also for several Identlcul twins
studied by others; while such a con
dition can never be found In twins of
different sexes nor In twins of the
same sex bearing evidence for their
being fraternal twins. Thus, we seem
to be justified by saying: 'Such twins
are Identical twins In which the same
hands or feet of different Individuals
are mors alike than the different
hands or feet of the same individual."
"But this statement must not be
taken as Involving tbe notion also that,
If the former resemblance Is less than
the latter resemblance, the given twins
are fraternal, since there are some
twins which are apparently Identical
and yet do not show the condition
mentioned above. Anyway, this will
probably serve as ? criterion for Ideo
tifylng some Identical twins.
"Some writers on twins and twin
nlng seem to bold tbe view that tbe
Identical twins are comparable with
the right and left halves of the body
of one person. The view could not be
quite correct, should It Imply that the 1
resemblance between the identical
twins Is In principle equqnl to the re- 1
semblance between the right nnd left
halves of one person. As a matter of
fnct, speaking generally, the resem
blance between the Identical twins Is
more than that between the halves of
one person. Aside from the fact that
the viscera shows a marked asyin
tnetry even among identical twins,
there are several cases known where
such twins have tlie same defect or
abnormality on the same side of the
body. Moreover, as mentioned above,
the hands or feet of the same side of
different twins show closer resem
blance than the two hands or feet of
the same Individual."
Hut how does science account for j
tw? s, anyway? No one has veutured !
a positive answer, but It Is generally (
believed that the process which fakes j
place to produce twins Is as follows:
The ovum, a single cell. Is fertilized,
and thereupon begins to divide?al
ways by twos?Into many cells. Grad
ualiy these are differentiated Into
three types and form themselves Into
layers In the form of a sphere, the
middle of which is hollow, called the
blastosphere. L'p to this point the
process Is normal. For some reason
not known, however, the blastosphere
next begins to split. It Is thought
that this Is possibly due to the faci
that the cells on the Inner layer ex
pand much more rapidly than those
on the outer and. naturally, the outer
layer bursts, as does a football blad
der when it is blown up too tightly.
When the split Is complete the sides
of the two split portions are Joined
together and we have two dlstihct
blnstopheres. which proceed to form
Identical Individuals.
Since the division Is always by twos
and It is the opinion of Dean Horatio H.
Newman of the University of Chicago,
author of "The I'hyalology of Twin
ning" and "The Biology of Twins,"
which are regarded as standard refer
ence works on the subject, that It It
thus obvious that triplets can never
be Identical. Two of the children may
be duplicates and the third merely a ;
fraternal type, the result of the ferti
lization of a second ovum. It Is fu
sible, however, for quadruplets to be
two sets of Identical twins. Doctor
Newman holds. In such Instances the
two blastospheres. that resulted from
the orlgnol split. In their turn divided.
The famous German case of the
woman who gave birth to eight chil
dren at one time. Is also recalled. In
this Instance the four blastospheres
again divided to form eight
I
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1. To this Council Bluffs, Iowa, fam
ily goes the distinction of being Amer
ica's "F. F. T.w (Finest Family of
Twins). They are Mr. and Mrs. An
drew Kroger and their ten children
five sets of twins. The twins are
Clyde and Claude, born in 1912; Addie
and Abbie, born in 1914; Floyd and
Lloyd, born in 1919; Jean and Jean
nette, born In 1923; and the babies.
Donald Dean and Norma Jean, born
In 1930.
2. Leo and Theo Bogant of Corvallis,
Ore., have a double (no pun intended!)
distinction. Not only are they twins
but they are leap-year twins, having
been born February 29, 1916. Al
though they are fifteen years old, they
have been able to celebrate their birth
day only three times! They are shown
above holding the cup which they won
at a recent "Twins' Round-Up." held
at Albany. Ore., in which 208 sets of
twins took part.
DADDY'S I
EVENING i
FAIRYTALE
& Mary Graham Bonner j
I arrmnrr rnrwLnnumjiHiaMmr
I 1
STRONG WINGS
"I'm sorry ,H said young Edgar
Eagle, "to be late at the party, but
I'm glad I can stay iater."
He enjoyed the party Immensely?It
was being given for a young eagle ol
two jears of age.
His mother had a fine white head
and tail, and the young eagle was
looking forward to the day when he
would be bald?or rather that is what
they call It.
A bald eagle is not really bald, and
when that word is used It means that
the eagle has white feathers on his
head.
The young eagle would have a white
tail and white feathers on bis bead In
one more year?when he would be
three years of age.
But now the party was over and
young Edgar Eagle was talking to the
birthday eagle.
"What a fine white head and tall
you have," said the two-year-old eagle
to Edgar Eagle.
"Yes." said young Edgar Eagle. "I
am three years old. But we most be
friends, and we will be friends."
"Good," said the young eagle. He
was very prond to have a friend *
whole year older than himself.
"Do you know," said young Edgar
Eagle, "that we are very much hon
ored?
"Lots, and lota, and lots of people,
who call themselves 'Americans* have
I ? idM 11 ill II I
"We Are Very Much Honored."
taken oar family for their emblem.*
"What's an emblem T* asked the
two-year-old eagle.
"It means." said young Edgar Eagle,
"that they wish to be like us.
"They want to be free and brare
and independent. And it's very fine
to have lots and lots of people say
they want to copy you. isn't it?"
"Yes." said the two-year-old eagle.
He was very much impressed and was
feeling very solemn through young
Edgar Eagle's talk.
"So I'm going to teach you how
to make your wings very, very strong
?so you'll be free and independent?
and so no one can be finer than you.
"Then, when It's your third birthday
and your bald head is covered with
white feathers?then, ah, then, you'll
be gfad and proud that you are as
eagle.
"You know, too, that our pictures
are all over the world, and as they
call us such fine names we surely,
surely, must live up to them."
"Yes. Indeed " said the two-year-old
eagle, "but can't we have an extra
piece of left-over birthday cake first,
before we start off on our lessons la
how to be so very strong?"
"We'll have the birthday cake right
away and eat It as we go." said Edgar
Eagle.
So off went young Edgar Eagle and
the two-year-old eagle, and they had
many flying adventures.
Edgar taught him splendid lessons
about flying and It certainly was fine
for the young eagle to have such a
superior and wise eagle teacher.
Just think, he was being so friendly
and he was a whole year older and
was really a full-grown eagles
RIDDLES
These teasers will be good ones to
remember and ask your friends, bat
don't forget the answer, yourself.
1. Why is a mirror like a rery on
grateful person?
2. What words may be made quicker
and shorter by adding another syllable
lo them?
S. What relation la a child to It*
own father when It la not It, own fa
ther's son?
4. Why la an unbound book like a
person In bed?
5. Why Is a pulled tooth like a thing
that Is forgotten?
Answers.
1. Because even though you load bis
back with sllrer. he will always reflect
co you. 2. The words quick and short.
B. A daughter. 4. Because It la la
sheets. 5. Both are out of the bead,