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BICYCLES peril
There are more bicycles in use
in the Ifnited States today than
ever before. That is the report
of the lowa Director of Motor Ve
hicles; and he is talking about
ordinary foot-propelled "bikes,"
not motorcycles. Trade statistics
bear out his assertion, and every
motorist must have noticed the
increased number of bicycle riders
who add to the perils of motor
ing on the highways.
I remember when bicycles were
a rare novelty. I rode one of the
old-style high-wheel bikes in my
boyhood. The present type of
bicycle, with pneumatic tires, did
not come into use until I was
through high school. There were
no automobiles in those days, but
cyclists scared horses and farm
ers used to set their dogs on us.
Around the cities and suburbs
special "cycle paths" used to be
built to keep the wheelmen off
both sidewalks and the main
thoroughfares.
If bicycles continue to multiply
it would seem like good sense to
go back to the old practice of
putting a narrow strip exclusive
ly for cyclists' use along each new
road built.
DUTCH misnomer
The government of the King
dom of Holland is trying to get
the word "Dutch" out of the
English language. It sounds too
much like "Deutsch," which
means "German." Indeed, it was
first applied to the people of the
Low Countries when the line be
tween them and the lower Ger
man Rhineland was not sharply
drawn.
The proper name for Holland
now is "The Netherlands," and
the official name of the little
colony in South America which
used to be called "Dutch Guiana"
has been changed to "Surinam."
There are no more "Dutch West
Indies." The new name for those
islands in the lower Caribbean is
"Curacao." The great Nether
colonial islands of Borneo, Suma
tra, Java, Bali and numsrous
smaller ones, which we used to
call the Dutch East Indies, are
now the Netherlands Indies.
Americans will doubtless con
tinue to refer to the early
"Dutch" settlers of New York,
New Jersey, and to confuse them
with the "Pennsylvania Dutch"
who are not of Netherlands stock
but pure German. But if you
address a letter to any of the
Netherlands colonies under its
old name, your postmaster will
"get in Dutch" if he forwards it.
EDUCATION . . ..' practical
One of the most practical ed
ucational experiments I have
heard of has lately been made at
Netcong, New Jersey, where 25
children from New York City
schools have been spending the
summer vacation in a "work
camp." They are learning how
the work of the world is done
by doing it themselves.
Boys and girls alike dress in
overalls and not only do a variety
of farm chores but have under
taken to repair and put in mod
ern condition an abandoned
farmhouse more than 100 years
old. They have taken to that
task with enthusiasm, and are
doing a creditable job as carpen
ters, stone-masons, plasterers,
painters, plumbers and electri
cians.
The only education of real val
ue that the young can get is in
doing things for themseleves. if
they pass school age without
knowing anything about the real
work of the world their educa
tion has only just begun.
FARMING .... progress
Prom all I read and hear about
new methods and processes in
farming, it seems as if agricul
ture. or many phases of it, were
entering upon revolutionary de
velopments.
The latest is the successful at
tempt of a northern New York
farmer to get his tomatoes ripe
before the normal crop flooded
the market and forced prices
down. He put in a hot-water
heater and carried pipes under
ground to warm the tomato roots.
The result was larger plants with
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more fruit, ready to pick ten
days before his "neighbors' crops.
In California and elsewhere
commercial production of many
kinds of vegetables Is being car
ried on successfully without any
soil at all. The plants, support
ed by wire netting or other
means, send their roots down into
tanks of warm, chemically-treat
ed water. Production is reported
as very high, the labor of culti
vating and weeding is entirely
eliminated, and picking and har
vesting becomes a simple opera
tion. That's progress.
TOMORROW • . . prophets
It is an Interesting occupation
to predict what the world will be
like in the future, and if you set
your dates far enough ahead you
won't be around, or your readers
either, to be laughed at when
your predictions turn out wrong.
The best that an honest pro
phet can do is not to be too spe
cific as to when things are going
to happen, nor go into too many
details as to Just what they will
be like when they do come off,
and by what means. He can only
point to the trends apparent in
his own time.
I have no hesitation in predict
ing that in the course of time the
economic waste of war will have
become so apparent to the people
of the world that they will real
ize how silly it is to set up bar
riers between nations. That will
be a long time from now; but it
will be hastened by the increasing
ease of communications between
peoples of all parts of the world.
It will not be politicians or dic
tators who will make the world
over. It will be the scientists
and technologists with new dis
coveries and inventions.
Foreign Bodies
I doubt if there has ever lived
a doctor, who at some time or
other in his professional career,
was not called upon to remove a
foreign body from the interior of
a human being.
It is most common to have
children of all ages resort to the
practice of inserting peas, beans,
tacks, nails, pieces of stone, and
dirt into their nostrils and ears
or else swallowing them.
Among girls, hundreds, when
they wore their hair long, bit off
the ends and swallowed them, in
time to have these bits of hair
form into a ball shaped mass in
the stomach, which often re
quired a surgical operation to re
move.
General Robert G. Dyrenforth
carried a bullet he received in a
Civil War engagement in his body
for more than thirty years. He
was wounded in the chest and I
removed the bullet from the calf
of his leg.
An elderly murderer, recently
executed at Sing Sing, for years
had been swallowing pins and
needles. X-ray pictures showed
a great many of these dressmak
ers' accessories scattered about
various portions of his anatomy
and the strange thing was that
none of them had in the least
inconvenienced him during the
twenty-five years he had been
following this practice. Such
cases are relatively common in
medical history and seldom do
they prove fatal.
About six months ago, however,
a man walked into one of the
large New York hospitals and
stated that while he was sleeping
in a bed, at the head of which
hung a pin cushion, he was
aroused by a sharp pain in the
anterior portion of the left side
Of his chest, and told the interne
he believed a needle had stuck
in his body. The pain increased
materially in intensity and was
aggravated by deep breathing.
His heart sounds were obscured
by a coarse, grating murmur.
1 A diagnosis of needle in the
heart was made and the X-ray
pictures taken confirmed this.
An operation exposing the heart
was performed and a needle two
inches long was removed from
that organ, the eye portion of the
needle being visible to the op
erating surgeon. The needle had
passed through the tip of the
upper lobe of the left lijng and
into the heart.
The man survived the operation
and seemed to be on the road to
recovery, when he suddenly died.
An autopsy showed that the
needle had punctured the left
ventricle of the heart.
Poultry Problem
Jeany: Black hens are smarter
than white hens, aren't they,
mummy?
Mother: Why, Jeany, whsr ask
such a silly question?
Jeany: Well, black hens can lay
white eggs, but white hens can't
lay black fegfcs, can they?
The greatest science in the
world is that which liberates a
human being from the hovel of
darkness and restores him to light
and knowledge.
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The Cotton Picker Goes Into Action
MEMPHIS, Tenn. . . . This mechanical cotton picker, harvesting the
South's money crop, is no longer in the experimental stage. It will
pick-one bale, or about 1500 pounds of lint cotton and seed an hour
at an approximate cost of 24 cents per 100 pounds. Hand pickers
are paid from 75 cents to one dollar per 100 pounds.
When a good man falls in a
community, he is like a great oak
that falls in the forest—it is hard
to replace him.
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fly his car, the patrolmen should
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starts. /
Scratched Oat
vyarden Lewis E. Lawes relates
that the late Judge Oakley, a
man held In reverence by the
bench and bar of New York, was
rigid In requiring the attendance
of persons summoned as jurors.
Excuses, unless very good, were of
no avail. On one occasion sev
eral whose names had been call
ed stood before the bench.
Among them was an insignifi
cant, frowsy-looking little fellow,
who said, "Judge, I wish you'd
let me off."
"For what reason?" Inquired
the judge.
"Well, Judge, I don't want to
say."
"You must say or serve."
"But Judge, I don't think the
other jurors would like to have
me serve with them."
"Why not? Out with it?"
"Well, Judge," pausing.
"Go on!"
"I've got the itch."
"Mr. Clerk, scratch that man
out," was the prompt order from
the bench and the courtroom was
emptied immediately.
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