page increase
must continue
declares labor
Only Way To Create
Market to Maintain
Production
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WASHINGTON. Dec. l.-(/P)-D«
57S.Ooo workers in lour large
-tnes paid below “'today’s
lnlBUm health wage." the Ameri
Sderation of Labor said today
" increases "must not stop.”
*0 ,y bv large and continuing
can we create a market
L enough for capacity produc
and full employment," the Fed
jion's monthly survey of business
manned.
•To create a 'capacity production’
level at today's prices would
an income of $3,623 for
“rV family in the United States.
‘ r the vast majority, we must count
steady upward progress, striving
L to lift the minimum health
7h# federation said statistics on
aScs in the cigaret, paper box,
immobile and steel industries
bowed that, 63 per cent of all work
in these fields receive the 73
„its an hour which is considers
Idays minimum health wage."
in these industries, it said, are
tt adequate records available.
Referring to wage increases re
#Iied in the newspapers during
iovember. the federation said:
It » too early to tell whether
,y *re widespread enough to have
Kh effect on buying power. Cer
niy those cited have been far less
total amount than the dividends
siired in November."
HOW Sifdui
HEALTH
Inin Sin- And Brain Performance
The impression has long been
widespread that the intellectual
man has of necessity a large head,
ind-by implication—that a large
head contains a large brain.
The ossification of a large head
nth a large brain and with excep
tional intellectual abilities is not
warranted. Some of the world’s
most illustrious men were found to
have had brains that weighed lese
than average. Conversely, It Is also
true that certain of the world’s
leading intellects were resident In
Inins of extraordinary siee.
It is not, therefore possible to
lodge intellectual competence by
nd sire. A small-bodied tndivid
il may have a small but entirely
female brain. A large Individual
dll have » larger brain, but not
BeuariK a better brain than the
miller person. Purthermore, we
lodge intellect by performance, and
it*!]-organised, well-trained brain
anally can achieve more than one
anther a <“11-organized nor well
lnined.
This consideration holds valid
wily for normal individuals. When
K contrast the brains of normal
Individuals with those of mental
defectives and of idiots, we find
that there is a definite size differ
ence The brains of mental deffec
lives and idiot are appreciably
®»Uer than those of normal in
dividuals. The normal human brain
sppears to attain its adult dimen
sions between the eighth and el
mnth years of life. The bony por
tion of the head, however, con
tinues to grow.
In a study of a number of brains
denved from defective individuals,
It was found that they were about
* per rent smaller than those of
normal individuals. The mental de
fective over lo years of age ranks,
In brain size, at the level of an 18
!o24 month normal infant. On the
t*sis of this finding, mental de
cency may be defined as the per
feence of an ihfant’s brain In the
*unted body of an adult. Among
ta mental defectives those known
Mongolian idiots were found to
*the most lacking in brain size,
in a microscopic and structural
toby of the formation of the
tains of idiots, it has been found
tat in most instances the defect
**■' germinal and not due to some
“dh or after-birth Injury.
Skull or head siie bears a rela
tanahip to the brain size. This re
Monship can be expressed as 35:48.
,r|rmula allows for a rough
^imation of brain growth by
fifarvs of head measurements from
to the age of 8 to 11, when
5® *,s noted above, brain growth
tactically ceases.
<J/» MfNTHO'MUlSION
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°UiH DUE TO COLDS ASK FOR
:ou« MONEY BACK „%t 75 f
Inventors Pull Marvelous
‘Rabbits’ From Science Hats
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — Elec
tric wires whose short-circuiting
blows no fuse and does no harm,
a solar “power house” using the
sun s rays to run a steam engine,
sound of such high frequency that
water is vaporized by it and glas:
melted, rubber made from chemi
cally treated coal and limestone
and glass as strong as steel and
softer than silk—constitute some ol
the spectacular “rabbits" pulled
from modern inventors’ hats at the
centennial celebrations of the Unit
ed States patent system.
The occasion might very well
have been mistaken for a meeting
of the world's leading magicians
exhibiting their latest stock-in
trade were it not for the distinguish
ed performers, many of whom held
several college degrees and a rec
ord of previous successful patents.
Even to the "rabbit” act the show
was complete, for in order to illus
trate growth experiments in mice,
Dr. Arthur Steinberg of Philadel
phia concluded his talk by pulling
pairs of white mice from several
pockets.
Control of Electrical Current
Dr. Albert W. Hull of General
Electric demonstrated thpratron
tubes. These are giant vacuum
tubes for turning alternating cur
rent into direct or vice versa, so
that it can be transmitted econ
omically over long distances as di
rect current and then be changed
back to alternating current for lo
cal distribution.
Seen a system is already in op
eration experimentally in Schenec
tady, N. Y., carrying a load of 15,
IKE’S TALE
The very fust start of hit wuz
when we got to arguying over what
day hit wus that Thanksgiving came
on last year. I say hit come on Sat
urday. Sal sed hit come on Thurs
day. You know how hit couldnt
come on the same day of the week
every year fur jist look at Xmas,
how hit comes on different days and
everybody knows that Xmas is a
heap bigger day than Thankzsgiv
ing ever wus.
But thats Jist like ’em tu be stub
born and contrary when they know
all the time that they air wrong.
And the rule 1s that they git wuss
the older they git by the time they
air forty, you have plum lost con
trol of ’em—and atter forty the
best thing you can do is tu stay out
of their way. Sal is over forty fur
X looked in a Sears Roebuck Book
where her age is sat down. But what
I want tu ax about this time is how
tu keep from being so forgetful.
You mite say that from the time I
got married. I haint hardly had no
mind at all. Gus Richards thinks
hit wus caused by Sal a hitting me
over the head with an old step run
ner one nite when me and him cum
home drunk. She aimed the next
lick at Gus, but he dodged around
me and I got both favors. Thar is
sum things I can remember as good
as I ever could—like when thar is
to be some kind of gathering with
dinner on the grounds—I never for
get the date nor place. But, like a
lot of other men, jist let me owe a
debt and I'm jist shore to furget all
about it, and most of the time I
don't even know the man I owe.
8omehow I have bin whore this fall
than I use to be to not remember.
Years ago I like to a got into the
worst sort of trouble but by not be
ing right bright they got me out of
it, like they do Singletary and Plato
when they git ketched up in sum
of their devilment. The scrape I
got into wuz that I forgot I wus
married and went and puz a stay
ing with another woman who lived
putry fur from any church or school
houses. We wuz a gittin on fine to
gether. She had patched up my
overalls and tuck out all the shin
gle nails and sowed buttons on till
yould wouldn’t hardly know me. I
had burnt off the broomsage and
cut the briars offen a patch down
thar whar we aimed tu try to raise
sum com and rosineers the next
summer. I wood a bin thar yit I
reckon if it hadn’t a bin fur whis
key. While I wuz helpless she hook
ed a forked limb under by chin and
snaked me off down in the holler
and kivered me up with oak leaves.
When I woke up the first thing I
though of wuz my two hound pups
and my little bull calf that wuz
over thar at home whar Sals lives.
I walked purty fast, fur I want
ed tu see my calf again—to see
how much he had growed while I
wuz gone. When I got tu the top
of the ridge and, turned tu go down
tu the house, I heard a sound as
of music and dancing and sum fell
er picking a banjo. I sat down tu
listen tu see if I could ketch on tu
what hit meant for I thought
shorely they hadn’t set up no gold
en calf and wus a worshipping hit
like the Israelites did back in the
time of Moses. Hit weren’t long till
I begin to see what hit all meant.
Out of the tumult I heard voices
that sounded familiar to my ear,
Prom way over on the South Porks
some had come from Belwood and
from Fallston they had gathered
Lawndale down on the otherside,
sent ambasadors. Prom Polkvtlle
came Johnson Bridges end Tom
Stamey. AH of Casar wuz thar. Hit
wuz all music and motion and no
control. Hit wuz a big celebration
and not a thing to celebrate. As I
000 volts. Only direct current need
be transmitted over power lines In
this system, and as the electric load
Is increased or decreased, the volt
age rises or falls while the current
remains constant. Thus short cir
cuits, the arch enemies of high
voltage, alternating current sys
tems, become harmless.
Dr. Charles Q. Abbot, of Smith
sonian Institution demonstrated his
latest solar englhe, actually a pow
■ er house and engine combined. It
represents man’s most practical ap
proach to obtaining energy directly
from the sun.
Inasmuch as all energy on earth
Is derived originally from the sun,
Dr. Abbot does not hold hts discov
eries unusual—Just a little more
. direct, he says, than the cumber
| some processes necessary to form
; coal beds and make use of them,
: or call on the cycle of evaporation
to redistribute rainfall In order to
have water power available.
The State of New Mexico alone,
according to him, receives 100 times
as much energy each year from the
sun as Is bound up In all the coal,
oil and water power used annually
In the United States. The new sol Sir
power system Is not quite ready for
exhibition, but Dr. Abbot hopes to
have it completed In time to exhibit
late in December when the re
searchists gather again in Atlantic
City.
The peculiar property of light to
travel sometimes in only one direc
tion, a property called polarisation,
has been known for 300 years, but
until now has always been a labo
ratory curiosity.
Rabbit Hunting
Favorite Sport
For Thousands
By LARRY BAUER
A little dabbling in statistics
shows that rabbit hunting, next to
Ashing, has more devotees than
any other form of outdoor sport.
And it is in the big money, too.
The cost of guns, clothing, ammu
nition, licensee, etc., runs up. It
has been said that more shotgun
shells are exploded annually in
pursuit of rabbits than are Ared at
all the traps in the country.
To thousands the lowly cotton
tail affords (he only shooting avail
able. The little animals are found
near large cities and in populous
countrysides after all other game
has fled.
They are prolific and a reason
ably dry spring always assures a
good crop. Excessive rain during
the breeding season drowns many
young in the nests. Like ruffed
grouse, rabbits are subject to cyc
lic declines.
Much has been said about tula
remia, or "rabbit fever,” which is
a plague-like disease of rodents.
All hunters should be cautious af
ter killing rabbits that are sluggish
and do not try to make the cus
tomary quick get-away. Only a sick
rabbit will refuse to run when dan
ger approaches.
Prevention calls for the wearing j
of rubber gloves while handling
rabbits, and washing the hands
with a strong antiseptic solution
after handling. If there is a skint
eruption or small cut on the hands
do not handle the rabbits at all.
A great many men and boys
shoot rabbits with small rifles when
they And the animals sitting.’’
Such methods may lead to infec
tion unless preventive measures are
followed, as "sitters” are likely to
be sick.
The better way, and the sport
ing way, is to kick the cottontails
out, and if they scud through the
weeds like a gray streak there is
not much wrong with ’em.
If you haven’t spend a day afield
with a pair of beagles you’ve miss
ed something in the way of rabbit
hunting. The way these little
hounds give tongue on a frosty
tongue on a frosty morning thrills
any sportsman’s heart.
However, we’ve enjoyed many a
rabbit hunt with farmer boy
friends and their pot-hounds, some
of which seemed to hunt by sight
from the way they would Jump
into the air above the weeds and
brusn.
Out in the plains country, where
the big Jacks look like antelope, a
favorite sport is shooting them
with rifles from automobiles. Hit
ting a running Jack with a 35-30
from a moving car is not easy—
but it is a lot of fun trying.
listened to break in on me that Sal
had killed my fat calf and that this
wuz a kind of home coming and
that all who were in good standing
were present. I never lamed when
hit begun nor I dont know how hit
ended, but if the history of Casar
is ever told on the printed page,
this event ought to have a prom
inent place.
AUTO REPAIRS
On All Make Cars
- Rogers Motors -
ALL-SOUTHERN FOOTBALL SELECTIONS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
^ .._ v... ,4- • 1
— —
Duka University, headed by Clarence “Aot” Parker, placed five pi ay see on Mm 19M AH •Southern Conference football team selected for the Associated Press by coaches, aoouta and
sports editors of the conference area. The spectacular Parker was lie unanimous choice of the experts for quarterback and la designated captain of tha mythical eleven. Ho woe
also a member of the 1934 and 193S teams. Parker’s running mates are fill Q'uekeyaon of Maryland and Klmore “Haney” Haokney of Ouke, halfbacks; and Jim Hutohlna of North
Carolina, fullback. The llne'men are Andy Barshak rff North Cqrollha and Bob Kino of Puirjnan, enda; Joe Cardwell of Ouke and Joe Brunaneky of Duke, tackles; Jim Parley Of Virginia
Military Institute and Dick Johnson of Davidson,'guards, and Dan HIM, Jr. of Duke, center. Ouokeyson and Farley were named on last year’s eleven. (Associated Press Photos)
EVERYDAY
LIVING
AN EXPLOSION!
By JOSEPH PORT NEWTON
“Ours is a cock-eyed, crack-pot
country," a reader tells me. “It’s
the land of dimwits and weasewlts.
They crowd the theaters, flood
the boardwalks, and multiply like
microbes.
"Tinpot leaders. Stuffed shirts.
Cheap desperadoes. A few pioneers.
Myriads of misfit nincompoops.
Greedy-eyed, beady-eyed go-getter*
What we need is a real Nut-Reduc
tion Act.
"For generations the ships have
brought the garbage of the woeid
to our shores. Good blood, good
brains do not migrate, only a snivel
ing motley crew of somethlng-for
nothing seekers.
"From the rock-bound coast of
Maine to the sun-kissed shores of
California their progeny has spawn
ed, littering the land. The melting
pot has turned out to be a cesspool,
and stinks.
"They do not want system. They
do not want sense. They do not
want universal and co-operative
construction. They concern them
selves never with helping — only
with getting, getting I
"Aid, Aid. Help the farmers. Re
scue the bankers. Destroy the in
sect pest. Support the unemployed.
Make our municipal bonds good.
Help us to get profit from pigs and
oil. Pay our bonus.
"Rverywhere It la hands out for
a hand-out. Or a racket and Its
shakedown. Or pull « trick in po
litics, and win a wad. Turn bunk
shooter—anything to dodge respon
sibility and work,
“There Is nothing line left but a
few individuals, and the sensitive
minority cannot even agree on the
time of day. They could not con
vene to plan a circus or an oyster
•tew.
"If* a hornless, horrible mees.
The odor of It goes out over the
radio. Its smudge Inks the rollers of
the press. No leader can lead It. No
prophet can evangelise It; no saint
save it."
What an explosion! No doubt my
reader feels better now, after get
ting all that off his mind. It is a
case of indigestion, and the result
is a dark nightmare, a distorted
dcam.
(Copyright, 1036, by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
Newcastle, New South Wales, is
the chief port of the north coast
and exports wool and coal.
Trwt
ASHEVILLE, Dec. 1.—
reau of fisheries figures show lBOv*
ooo trout released in Smoky Mound
tain park streams during the past
season.
Opyifbt t*J*. Lnaarr It Mnu Tomcco Cob ‘
"W^ien I’m for a thing I'm all for it!
I like Chesterfields.. .1 like 'em a lot
.. .we all go for 'em around here.
Chesterfields are milder...and when
it comes to taste—they're SWELL!
for the good things
smoking can give you..
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