I Secretary and Senator Tie in Milking Contest .v. . . \ . , 'y .? 7\~Mr'~. i' ? i' ' Scene? Dai^ Bbrri of' tlie TTiifted .States' ^ldl'erii1 home, Washington. Event? Mjlklng match to a finish. Actors? Secretary of Agriculture Wallace left, and Senator Magnus Johnson of Minnesota, right Time ? 9 minutes, 48 seconds. / ? V Besult? Tie ? Each, man milked exactly 4% Inches of milk in his bucket. Referee-General Tasker Bliss, superln tendent of the home. V " ' ?' * - ' ,? " [Si? ? '??* . , ' . ? ? ? . ?? ? 1 . *? ? ..... - ?? ? ?!;# '? ?*. &&&; ? ' . " ? ' -- Professor, - WKo Proposed Trip t6 Moohi Now^Will Test Atmosphere. Cincinnati.? Prof, B. H. Goddard of ' Clark university, whose attempt to build a roclrtt that would makera tflp to the moon attracted wide attention federal, years ago, la still working on i plana for a' high- altitude rocket for the purpose "of - making, scientific rec ords of air condition's C0 miles- above the earth, he told, phyalclatav attend ing the science convention lie^a. ^ BOth the weather bureau and the Smithsonian institution at -Washington are Said tii he Interested In Professor Goddard'* plan, which Is now nearlng completion. He said be had only one more step to make before; h^- could pre pare a model for flight; ' Professor tioddard ' proposed to ?hoot a rocket Into the air at least fifty } \ , miles?perhaps more. It -will be equipped Wltli very delicate apparatus, wblch 'will open and' close , automatlcal r; ;-Iy 'Mien the Tocket reaches a'- certain altitude. The closing of the apparatus will lock Into a chamber a quantity of the sir at that height, and the rocket, in falling tq earth, will carry with It the first sample of air . man has ever . brouglft; down from such a greut . height In space. " t? v May Find Frozen Nitrofcen. Professor Goddard wlK examine this specimen in his laboratory and ex pects to be enabled to supply an an swer for the flifpt time in history as to the constitution of the air at such According to Professor Uoddard's theory, frozen nitrogen may be foiind at a. height of 60 miles from the earth. '? . -That there Is something there which -? ii not common at points close to the earth Is believed to be evidenced by the fact that, the aurora borealls and ' j meteorites appear at this height. In addition to the air trapj Profes sor Qoildfird's, rocket will carry liTstru v,ments for meuirtirlng pressure, electri cal effects and the radiation which occurs at such altitudes, and which is said to be much more powerful even tbnn X-rays. Tha rocket will also carry a machine for taking the tern 1 peratnrer at, certain altitudes and keep .X lng a record of the changes. . 1 ' ',sS'; The rocket will be fired from the ' earth at a speed of six miles a second or (more. This speed, which Is six times fsster than the best speed ever attained by a cannon. ball. It is esti mated would enable the rocket -to free V, Itself from the .attraction of the earth . and keep on traveling for the desired * t distance. "? ?' > Professor Goddard intends to propel ? . ? the rocke; With liquid oxygen, which ' ' gets -energy from evaporation. The rockct will be highly polished and marked ao that the experimenters can keep It under observation long enough to calculate its range and course, and ; { to estimate its landing place. Whst science Is doing to minimize loss from earthquakes woe told by Dr. T. A. J agger, Jr.,' who lived on the ' crater of a volcancr at Hawaii for eight years and recently was sent to Tokyo by the Department of Agricul ture to study the causes and effects of the' Japanese earthquake. According to Doctor Jagger, much of the tarrible loss bf life ln?Japan could have been avoided had the proper pre- , cautions agnlnst earthquakes been taken. Be showed photographic slides of the damage done In Japanese cities. Illustrating that most of the properly built houses withstood the shock. The care with which a building had been put op, and not the material with which It xvas constructed, was chiefly responsible fo? Its ability to remain standing during the disaster, said Doctor Jagger. Congested populstlon Is one of the hlg factors in csuslng heavy loss of llfa In earthquakes, hj said. The 11 great disaster* of this sort In the last ? years bave been progressively more serious because of greater popo Ml* IB the affected areas. k SS i // ? - 3.7. Wmif 1% Doctor Jagger, who la. In the gov ernment service,' urged that more geo logical observatories he. established In various parita of the'Umtcastatest^ prepare for earthquake disasters. He said that New fork, Philadelphia, Washington and other cities on the At lantic seaboard were not Immune from .earthquakes' by any means. He point ed out that New York had had earth quakes In the Eighteenth century, and it and other Eastern cities should be tforned by the precedent of Charles ton. , He said earthquakes might re turn to the Pacific coast, and might even shake cities In the Mississippi valley. ' ? ? Warns of Dense Population. According to Doctor Jagger, condi tions In America are especially bad in tja'se earthquakes should come, be cause of the density of population in ce*aln big cities, . and because we fiave ' more volcanoes than any other country. Organized city planning was urged by -Doctor Jagger as the best meaus of preparing for the' danger. He said all Our cities should provide emergen ,?f means for ; turning off electricity and gas withoutdelay. and for getting immediate police and fire aid, so that 100 'flre? could be fought at once. The streetB should be wide, he said, and partes numerous, so they could be used as places of refuge. He advocated the continuance of ex periments 'to perfect earthquake proof buildings with special .braces and special foundations. He also sug gested compulsory earthquake Insur ance and .other measures. "Experiments with the mercury vapor boiler recently tried out at Hartford. Conn., have been very successful, ac cording to Ernest L. Robinson of the turbine department of the General Electric company. He said this ex perimental unit "appears to have borne out all the things expected of the in vention, both as to increased efficiency and a4 to cheaper power." There was no question, he said, but that "theo retically ' the mercury gnglne Is the thing." ^ Mr. Robinson said he was not pre pared to insist on the present utility of the new engine until the experimental one had been operated long enough to test out the theories on which It was built. ^ , Ante-Columbian Chorus Girls. Dr. J. Walter Fewltes of the bureau of. American ethnology at Washington, in an illustrated lecture on pottery found In the Mlmbres valley In New Mexico, dectared that this region had been Inhabited by a highly civilized race of Indians lot:g before Columbus ?f ... I i I dlscpyereu America., According to Doctor Fewkes' interpretation of the designs on this pottery, pictures of whlijh he 'threw on a screen, various American institutions: of (he present | day? such as poker, dice and chorus girls? originated with the Indians of the Mimbres valleys or 'at least wei^ known to them before Columbus im ported European customs into Amer lch. , /Doctor Fewkes said the Indians whose pottery he had found had lived in complete isolation in their part of. New Mexico! and that their mastery of artistic design was remarkable in an untutored race. - Paintings on sortte of the pottery showed figures of three men, with bows stacked up like poker chips, and with black and white squares dike dice in front of them. According to Doctor Fewkes, the In dians were gambling.' Other pieces of pottery showed what looked like figures of chorus girls, birds, grn88hopperg, turkeys, dancing figures, animals and fish and several others had geometrical designs. , The prediction that designs like those op the Indian npttery might soon fee seen in the Fifth avenue shop win dows was made by Doctor Fewkes. It was thought the Indian designs might rival those of Tut-Ankh-Amen. "As soon as designers saw these re markable patterns," Doctor Fewkes 8a id, "they became eager to reproduce them for the decoration oMabrlcs, and I believe that before long'we will see them In shop windows." Has New Theory. According to Doctor Fewkefe, tlje pottery showed that the Indians' had a theolc^y as well as an art that an-, tlcipated modern life. Several of the_ paintings gn the pottery showed that" they believed In a Virgin birth, and. that this belief Included a Virgin who had bom twins, which had become the gods of war of this Indian tribe. ? A new theory , of the ultimate unit of electricity has been put forward by Frof. A. P. Mathews o? the University of Cincinnati. Scientists generally be lieve that protons and electrons are the primordial elements of the uni verse, and that they are the positive and negative charges of electricity, but Professor Mathews says the etherion Is the ultimate unit of both electricity and light. ? Professor Mathews pictures the etherion as a particle of matter before It becomes an electron, rejecting the IprejdMling theory that light consists | of ether waves. He says that the ether consists of etherlons, minute spheres that revolve at tremendouq speed with a velocity of 180,- 000 jn|les a second, and toat when an etherion gains energy of rotation It becomes a proton, or positive electrical charge, and that a neighboring btherlon, losing the same energy, becomes an electron, or negntlve charge. According to Pro fessor Mathews, light Is the basis of all matter, as the etherlons nre noth ing bat waves of light too small for transmission, and moving aronnd 'and around In one place. Winnipeg Labor Temple Denounced f ? v i ? i ?! nmmr - ? Tbla la t lie Ukrainian Labor temple at Winnipeg, Manitoba. In which It 1i claimed a CommunlM irhool It conducted and more than 250 pupils Instructed dally In the principle* advocated by I.enln and Trotzky. A Judge of the su preme eour. of Ontario recently charged that the building Is a menace to free dom on the continent of North America and that from It bolahevlstlc doctrine la apreod all over the United Statea and Canada. 240 HIGH SCHOOLS ENTER IN CONTEST ? "WI6a? 'feUCGESSFUL Ve^R IN HIS TORY OF THE UNION IS -1"'' EXPECTED. ENTRANCE RULES OUTLINE!) Allied War Debts Will Furnish Topic For the Speakers Thl?. Year. Chapel Hill. ? Exactly 240 high schools have been enrolled so far ti^ia yeaj In the North Carolina High School Debating Union, according to E. K. Rankin, secretary of the High Schbol Debating Union Committee. t Mfi-Py rnore -schools are ^xpected to ienter before the first round of the < debates Is held in March, and the most successful year of the Statewide contests Is predicted by the' secretary. The annual extension circular an nouncing the query and eligibility rules for the contests has been Issued, while the debating bulletin, contain ing a brief and articles pro and con on the State-wide query, will be is sued probably this week, I' The query this year will be, "Re solved, That the lnter-allide war debts should be cancelled.,r Any secondary and any high school in the state U eligible to compete. The schools will be grouped in triangles, a school having to win both affirmative and negative sides of the debates held In March in* order .to win the right to come to Chapel Hill during April and compete here in the' final elimina tion contests for the Aycock Cup. Durham has' been the only school to ^win permanent possession of the ciip. In. 1922 'it won the Aycock Cup for the second successive time and for the third time in a period of four years. Elizabeth City was victorious last year, winning temporarily the new Aycock Cup. _ Beach Ir. Becoming Winter Resort. Wilmington. . ? That Wr'.ghtsvillo beach is slowly but surely, becoming a winter resorf is attested 'to by -the fact that there are more families spending this winter at the popular seashore than during any other win ter in the history of the beach. Approximately 20 families who sum mered *there are remaining there throughout this witner. Four yearB ago "but one family spent the winter at Wrightsville' beach, that being Dr J. D. Hanby and family. The winter following nine families remained! Last winter 18 families spent the cold months j at their summer homes oir the beach and this wlntet last sea son's figures are exceeded toy " ' , ?? ? ? Plsn Activities For Comlno Year. Meeting with Director B. W. Kit gore and the several specialists employ ed by t,Jio Stato College and Depart ment o f Agriculture, the district agenta in charge of the county agent system in North Carolina have just lliilsh'ed, ft five-day conference on ag rlcutural activities for the 'cijty'ing year. This meeting at the ? Oollegl systems with out assistance from the State. No new counties have been added to the list. Three fourths of the equalizing fund has already been distributed by the State Department of Education. The remainder is withheld until the end of the school year, under the pro visions of the statle school law, to in-, sure compliance with the regulation set up by the school code for the ad ministration of the school system. Ap proximately $900,000 has been paid out. ' ' ' Distribution of the equalizing fund is bas?d on the amount of money raised by the cotinties themselves for the support of .the six months term. Counties unwilling, or unable to main tain a school system on the basis of the State standard are provided with assistance not to exceed the per capita cost of maintaining a pupil, in the county as compared with the average cost among the counties. % ? TheState averagefor maintaining a pupil in a standard high Bchool for six months is $33.7o, in {he white ele mentary school, $18.49; In ? negro schools $10.41? State aid stops short when a- county goes beyond that av erage in the cost of Its school. JWhere the local fund -is inadequate, the local fund is supplemented, provided the schools are maintained on the State standard. Only Hyde county^ declines, by special legislation, to conform. Its local tax rate is jNt cents on the $100 valuation. ' i Amounts 'distributed among the counties range from $1,194.66 given to Chowan to $74,397.41 that goes to make up half the school budget in WJlkes. Computation of the amount due each county has required the services of an expert staff of account ants for three months. The work was completed and the results announced by Supterlntendent A. T. Allen. Many Die With Tuberculosis. That more women than men die with tuberculosis in North Carolina, and more negroes than whites, ' and that over one-halt of all the deaths" occur during the proactive period oi life, between 20 and 40 years, are some of the facts brought out in a ' statistical st^dy of tuberculosis in North Carolina by Dr. F. M. Register, deputy State Registrar of yital Statis tics. In North Carolina in 1922 there were 2.586 deaths from tuberculosis, all forms. Of these 1,421 were female and 1,165 were male, or 256 more fe males than males. Another classifica tion shows that 1.240 were whites, 1,336 were colored and 10 were In dians. The annual death rate for whites Is shown to be 66.7; for colored 169.6. Commenting on the meaning of the above figures Dr Register calls atten tion to the fact that 256 more females dying than males makes the situation the "more serious as females have contact. Receive Income Tax Blanks. Abont 60.000 Income taxpayers received returns to be filled out' both the Federal and State . Gov^ ments while each agency has Its arate list due to the fact that ployes of each branch of the Gov^ ment arc exempt from the Income of the other. Comn l&sioner R. A. Dmighton United states Collector Gilliam Gl som are both receWlng retunns the great bulk of taxpayers aro j pected to hold their returns unt few dart orlor to March It Thm BEST Emargtncy Rtmtdy for Man and Beast I Sayi Wm, Blalock, Lyndover, N, C.-"l have uaed Mexican Miutans Liniment for *11 kind* of apralne, brulif*, cut* sna ?ore*. In horaea ?? well a* man, and believe It to be the but linl fnent now In uae. I keep it in . myhoua* all the time and recom-, mend it to all ata th* but linimta far all f>urpo>tt." > Liniment I* compoaed ui aooioing. healing oil* that, I when rtbbtd in. penetrate the I t Isaac* to the bonel Mustang | i contain* no alcohol, acid* or pep. il, and dm not tmart or ding "P StmnJbf $4*c* JUT SPRINGLESS SHADES La?t Longer_l_ook Better Relief v 'coughs ?UMPisofS-dtUi _ relieve* children .and adult*. TOUR BODY NEEDS STRENGTH OF IRON ^T^HIRTY years ago physician* I began' to prescribe (fade's JL Pepto-Mangan because it pro Tided a form 'of iron which was easily digested' and1 did not affect the teeth;'f'Now is the season when you especially need it Your drug-' gist has it, in both liquid and tablets. Free Trial Tablet. , value of Quae's Pepto-^Iangan, writ* today fer fftnerou m Trial Package of Tablet*. Sent no money ? Jtut name and addreee t* ' M. J. BreitenVach Gov, 18 Warren fit,. K. Y. !> Pepto-Mangan Tonic and Blood Enrichet *? ? r? ? : ? ? . : i ? Some Compensation ?' /' ' "Your little brother Is rather bow legged?" ':r ? *' "Y e8, If It wasn't "for the fact that' . he's very cross-eyed, too,' he voaldaH.. be able to keep his balance!" ' . 1 / , MOTHER! Child's Best Laxative is "California Fig Syrup" * . Burry Mother ! Even a fretful, peevish child loves the pleasant taste of "Cali fornia Klg Syrup" and It never falls to open the bowels. A teaspoonful today may prevent a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother I You must '*'? say "California" or you may get an ?* \ Imitation flg syrup. So They Say /ij "Do ksses really contain perms?" i : "Well, you can catch a husband that way, girlie." . wf Avoid & Relieve COLDS INFLUENZA [LABIA