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PACE SIX THE FRANKLIN PRESS AND THE HIGHLANDS MACONI^ Masons To Observe Feast Of Triangle at Waynesville J. ,E. Allen, of Warrenton, Scheduled To Speak At Meeting (Special to The Press-Maooniian) WAYNESVILLE, Dec. 9.—Three hundred Masons from Buncombe and the counties west are expected to assem'bl'C in the Masonic temple in Waynesville Tuesday, December 15, for the outstanding Masonic event of the year—the observance of the, mystic feast of the triangle, which will be held for the first time in the western part of the state. This special ceremony will be given in honor of the visit of J. Edward Alkn, of Warrenton, grand commander of Knights Templar of North Carolina and junior grand warden of the grand lodge of Mas ons. The distinguished visitor is also grand reviewer and foreign correspondent for all of the state Masonic bodies, as well as author of several texts on Masonic sub jects. Last summer he attended conventions of the grand lodge of Scotland and the grand lodge of England, and he will therefore have a .message of special interest to a.11 members of the fraternity. He will be accompanied by several high Masonic officials of the state, in cluding William Ritchie Smith, of Raleigh, grand recorder of the York Rite Masonic bodies of North Carolina, who is also scheduled to address the meeting. While the district assembly will ibc held under the auspices of the ninth division of Knights Templar, consisting of Cyrene Commandery No. 5 of Asheville and Waynes ville Commandery No. 31 of Waynesville, the meeting is intend ed for all Masons, according to an announcement by T. Troy Wyche, divisional commander, and large delegations are expected from all the lodges of the several districts in this part of the state. The program will open at 6:30 p. m. wi!h ;:n official reception of the distin.'^uisl 'd guests, followed at 7 '■k W'th an oyster supper scr\’'e''' ' 'le Masonic Temple by ladi>’■ ■ u Ttern Star. The as- semb’" v.-i;! rpen at 8 o’clock in the lodge room followed at 8:45 with the solemn ceremonies of th.e mystic feast of the trhngle. , A number of Mf,=' ns from Franklin, Highlands, Bn-',on City and Andrews are ex]>ecte 1 to at tend. G-MEN TO TRJUN lOCALipCERS Sheriffs and Policemen Invited to Training School |OI>AV nUMK PARKER BR1D6E The police, sheriff and deputies of P'ranklin and Macon county have been invited to send repre sentatives to the ten-day training school which the institute of Gov- ernm'ent will hold for officers in Chapel Hill beginning January S. This is the first 10-day police school held in the state and will have one of the strongest instruc tional staffs of any school in the country. The federal bureau of in- vtstigation is supplying six in structors from the staff of the National Police academy headed by Director Hugh H. Clegg. The “G- Men” will be supplemented as to local phases by officials of the state highway patrol, experienced North Carolina officers, and the Institute of Government staff. The 10-day state-wide school is part of the institute’s expanded system of state, district, and local police schools. The main divisions of the train ing course will be criminal law, criminal investigation and appre hension, scientific aids in crime de tection, patrol work, traffic, crime prevention, co-operative measures, firearms instruction, first aid and police administration and records. All lectures and demonstrations will be held in Chapel Hill except for the firearms instruction and prac tice, which will 'be at Fort Bragg. PATENTS celebration cele- The “lie detector” has bc. n used in court. Reindeer were imported Alaska 44 years ago. mto George Washington was a strong advocate of vaccination. Maximinus, Roman empero-r, third century, who was eight feet tall, could eat 30 to 40 pounds of meat daily. Winter Weather Helps Farmer Till the Soil “In winter, the weather will help cultivate your soil if you give it half a chance,” according to E. C. Blair, extension agronomist of State college, Raleigh. “The alternate freezing and ttawing in cold weather will do more to make a good seed bed than all the tilling you can do in the spring. “But if your land is to get the full benefit of this freezing and thawing, it must be broken in the late fall or early winter. Plow now for land to be planted to corn. This is especially important on red clay soils and on fields where there is vegetation to be turned under. “A rough, freshly plowed surface also absorbs and retains more mois ture for next spring’s crops than does land with .a hard compact surface.” Blair also pointed out that winter freezes kill insects in great numb ers. The killing action is more ef fective in freshly plowed land, as the insects are more exposed. They have been holding a bration in Washington for the cen tennial of the Am'crican patent sys tem. I wished I could take time out to attend, for the U. S. Patent Office was one of my playgrounds when I was a boy and my .uncle was Commissioner of Patents, learned more, I think, from the ex hibits of models of early inventions than 1 ever learned in school. Many folks have a wrong idea about patents. They think they are intended to create monopolies. The exact opposite is true. The word “patent” means “to make public. In return for disclosing the secret of his device or process so that anyone can use it, Uncle Sam gives the inventor the sole right to use it for seventeen years. After that it is public property. America is one of the few coun tries where the owner of a patent does not have to pay an annual tax on it. That is one of the reasons why we are the most inventive peojile in the world. 'The other is that we had to invent machines to do our work because we wanted more work done than there were men to do it, INVENTIONS . . . the puMic In 1844 Henry L. Ellsworth, then Commissioner of Patents, in his an nual report to Congress said that the Patent Office would soon be unnecessary, since there was noth ing much left to invent! Just a few of the inventions since then are the telephone, electric light, gas engine, phonograph, airplane, photographic dry plate, motion pictures, radio, and about a million and a half other devices for which patents have been issued since Mr, Ellsworth’s time. For years the Patent Office re fused to consider applications for patents on flying machines on the ground that it was impossible for men to fly. They still refuse ap plications for “perpetual motion” machines unless accompanied by a « THE FAMILY DOCTOR JOIN JOSEPH GAINES. MJJ. TRY AND BE CONVINCED I am not prone to giving recipes in my newspaper work. Rarely do I actually prescribe in front of your physician. But, here is a rec ipe for .a physical exercise that should have free publicity, because of its genuine worth in practice. ,I am not the originator of this sort of self-treatment. 1 do not know who is. And the advice here in is not copyrighted—it’s yours for the using. I believe the “laziest” muscles of the human body are those of the abdomen and colon. Especially ,so in cases of corpulency, very com mon in middle-age and beyond— those “bay-windows,” if you get what I mean. Those unwelcome hammocks, hanging-baskets which make us look and feel ponderous, as if we were carrying dead weight, too much iballast for the ship; not actual disease—just laziness in bel lies. Try it when in bed. On retiring and on awakening in morning. Lie flat on back. Place a hand on the abdomen. See how high you can lift the hand with the abdominal muscles, then, how low you can let the hand settle by the same mus cles. Up—down, —up, dow'n, twelve times! that’s all for each treatment Continue a month, night and morn ing, in bed. The lungs need not enter into this exercise. You will note beneficial results in constipation and in the increased activity of these sagging muscles, which leads to a better feeling all over; your waist-band will actually become too loose in due time—if you keep up your treatment faith fully, You get a nice degree of voluntary control of muscles in this old hangingnbasket of yours that may have caused you back aches in the past from only mod erate use. Learn the benefits of “belly-breathing.” “Kissing a horseshoe is said to bring luck, states a playright. Provided of course one doesn’t at tempt this w'hen the horse is still w^earing it. working model. No inventor has yet produced a model that works. A patent, however, is no proof that an invention is valuable. The value of any invention depends en tirely upon whether it meets a pub lic demand. SUN ■ power From time immemorial inventors have been trying to find some way of storing the energy of sun heat. In sunshiny countries it is easy to heat tanks of water by the sun’s rays, and many patents have been granted on solar engines. Most of these, however, cost so much in porportion to the'power generated that it doesn’t pay to build them. Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, however, thinks-he has solved the problem. At the Patent Centennial he showed an engine run by sunpower which may point the way toward conservation of fuel when the earth’s supplies of coal and oil are exhausted. Nothing could be more useful than costless power. I hope Dr. Abbott is on the right track. GLARE . . ■ under control One of the most promising of the new inventions shown at the Patent Centennial is a method of taking the glare out of automobile head lights. Scientists have long known that light can be “polarized”—that is, so reflected that the light beams are jiarallel and go in one direction only. 15ut all previous methods of doing this have been too expensive and cumbersome for general use. The new device is the result of years of work in two great indus trial research laboratories. It is a simple transparent sheet of a new kind of material which can be used instead of glass in motor headlights, and will project their beams in a straight line ahead instead of into the eyes of approaching drivers. This one invention alone, w'hen it comes into general use, will ibe worth untold money for its value as a preventer of motoring acci dents. SOUND death' ray Another amazing new thing is a device which produces sound waves at a pitch too high for the human ear to detect. These vibrations, or “.ultrasonic” sounds have remark able powers of penetration and can even cause death.. Dr. R, W. Wood of Johns Hopkins laboratory, who developed them, showed how pass- mg these ultrasoniTTT^ a tank of ^ater ' f fish in the water, possible use in killin'^ of mosquitoes i„ places. br p-TS. Oil caTL and powdcc ' suspended in water j, ? into a solid Inmi) K,/ new vibrations ' vention. ^ i Production Credit Ow To Meet Jan. 26 - The annual meeting of viJle Productio.n Crd, held in Ashti?: courthouse on Tuesday n, January 26, 1937. at li"c J' cording to an announce^' John A, Hudgens, president association, who stated that member ot the associate i pected to be present this vea Cornplete and detailed'rei will be^ made .by officers, association on its operations year, directors will be ekctej plans made for tontini,i»' short-term credit service it sociation has been offerini- farmers of this section, : If there is any questifu j] the operations of the associa or any information aboat short-term credit service *li association offers that is fc by anyone it will be supplia the annual meeting of the as tion, according to Mr, Hi%i) The Asheville Production C association serves .\very, Bunco Burke, Cherokee; Clay, Grj Haywood, Henderson, Jack ilacon, Madison, Mitchell, Dowell, Swain, Transylvania, Yancey counties and this year 282 loans for a total of $i9,17; F^art'hworms lay eggs. 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