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WORK 140 YEARS ON '
MAP; NOT DONE YET
'J. H. Hawley, ib Charge of
Work, Explains Task. -
Washington. Mapmakers have been
busy In the United States for 140 years
under direct Supervision of the govern
ment, -but ttwls Job is far from fin
ished. , "
Commander ' J. H. Hawlev. actlnir
head- of the Commerce department's
coast geodetic ; survey, explains the
task by picking up a pencil and draw
ing lines on his desk to resemble a
"v checkerboard, t i . v .
From cross-hatch to cross-hatch
JfvCommander. Hawley's pencil Jumped.
"You see.?, hesald, the entire Job Is
by no means cpmplete because we
have only begun to round out our
Taslc control project . That is, to di
vide the country Into 100-mile squares
of latitude and longitude, with exact
elevations above sea-level at estab
lished points to allow topographical
mappers to have a basis upon which
to work.
"Many times wo find places which
are not actually where they think they
are. There was, for instance, an Is
land In the Philippines which was 14
miles away from where the charts
4 listed It
Vj Offshore Progress Slow.
"Why, In plenty of our offshore sur
veys we are Just replacing maps used
by the old Spaniards."
Commander Hawley stopped to point
over a bas-rellefmap of a bunch of Is
lands and ocean to a hooknosed bust
that stood upon a bookcase. The bust
looked like an old Roman senator.
"That man," he said, "Is old Ferdi
nand Hassler. He was the first man
to run this bureau and he was started
off by the personal appointment of the
President In 1816. The President called
him Into his office and asked him what
salary he wanted. Hassler said he
wanted $5,000.
"He got the $5,000 and the Job. The
bureau has been surveying ever since."
It's quite a Job. There are 100,000
miles of coastline to be marked and 82,
010 miles of this belong to continental
United States. Most of the rest Is
Alaska's.
Describes Surveyor's Work.
This Is the way they go about It
, Surveyors pick a point on the coast
and fix its latitude and longitude.
Then they figure out its relationship
to the average height of the tide. That
: establishes level above the sea. This
fixes a definite . point from which to
work inland for knowledge of both
vertical and horizontal positions.
Boy Bound Out for 11
Years in Old Document
Blnghamton, N. T. Feudal systems
of a century ago were not limited to
the European nations, but existed In
New Tork state, it was disclosed by
Arthur H. Brown, Whitney Point
printer.
Brown brought to the light of mod
ern times a yellow document, 110 years
old, used to bind out as an apprentice
a ten-year-old boy from a New York
city almshouse.
"This Indenture," the paper begins
In flowery language, "wltnessetb that
Christopher Goodman, aged ten, hath
put himself out with consent of the
! almshouse and Brldewall and doth
voluntarily and of his own free will
and accord put himself to apprentice
lio Joseph Miller of Bedford, West
chester county, a farmer."
; The youngster failed to get much
of a bargain in the light of modern ad
vantages, the paper shows. -
! "... to learn the art, trade, and
j mystery of a farmer for 11 years,"
the Indenture continues, "to keep the
secrets, to serve , . . nor waste-nor
unlawfully lend, nor contract matri
mony nor gambling if It may damage
the master, nor haunt almshouses and 4
taverns,"
i Tearing Down Buildings
to Escape High Tax Bills
; Chicago- Tne tearing .down ef
I buildings here to offset steadily mount
i tng taxes broke all local records during
1035, statistics disclose; with permits
issued for wrecking 1,607 structures In
various parts of the, city. In addition
to this total, there were several bun
dred ' one-story . buildings rated for
which no permits Were necessary,
This WOT total cpnpares with W41
in 1934, 1,000 In 1033 And 919 In 1932, i
Meanwiille, onles taxes reverse
their trend, which after ' dropping ia
1933 began to climb again In the
1934 assessments, it was predicted the
wrecking of buildings to . save -i taxes
.would continue on sn even greater
'scale during 193ft, - t..
,t ADaroumaiBi vuvruuru vi uia uuiiu-
.agi wrecked were torn down at the
instance of the owners In order to re-
1 dace : tares and' overhead, ,"anfl for
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Synthetic Air Is , - '
V .Made by Chemists
nsas City, Mo, Synthetic air
rhlch sustains life even more effee
Ovely than the air we breathe has
been manufactured in the labora
tory, it was revealed at the meet
ing of the American Chemical so
ciety. " "!v 4 "
This latest research, achieved
after 14 years of experimentation,
was reported by a Kansas scien
tist! .X Willard Hershey of Mc
pherson college. ,
. Medical,. ; science , has already
adapted one type of synthetic Sir
to the treatment of pneumonia. ' -
URGE BASIC ENGLISH
PLAN TO AID STUDY
Briton's System Would Reduce
Verbs to 18.
,- Boston. The administration is not
the only alphabet twister. The lin
guists are doing a bit of it, too. Dr.
Frank Cv Laubach, Portland, Ore., has
suggested addition of 13 letters to the
alphabet, claiming foreigners could
learn to speak .English in two weeks if
It were done. :
But a couple of Boston experts are
wedded to another system, which they
consider sure-fire.
Miss' Mary I Guyton, supervisor of
adult 'alien education' In the Massa
chusetts department of education, and
Joseph F. Gould, director of evening
schools, are of the Opinion Doctor
Laubach's system would not work near
ly so well as the one devised by the
English expert. Prof. O. K. Ogden of
Cambridge university.
Professor Ogden's system is to de
crease the number of letters and worda
Miss Guyton explained the Ogden
system of "basic English" has simpli
fied the language. A list of 850 basic
words has been drawn and grouped for
phonetic and spelling purposes In
which, for example, 18 verbs take the
place of 2,500.
The system has been tried In a num
ber of European countries, according
to Miss Guyton, and lias been found
that with Intensive study of several
hours a day for three weeks a student
can learn to speak the English lan
guage perfectly.
Miss Guyton, with Miss Anna Kelley,
supervisor of adult alien education of
Peabody, studied eight weeks with Pro
fessor Ogden at the Oitliologlcal Insti
tute at Cambridge university last sum
mer, and following their return, the
system was introduced here.
Doctor Predicts Adding
7 Years to Span of Life
Washington. Dr. Henry C. Sherman
of Columbia university predicts that
seven years can be added to the aver
age length of human life by a diet
adequate In four essentials.
He cited postponement of senility as
another advantage of what he de
scribed as "optimum" eating of cal
cium, protein, vitamin A, which pro
motes growth, and vitamin G, known
: principally as a preventer of pel-
llagra.
The chemistry professor reported on
experiments which he conducted, chief
ly with rats, as research associate of
the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton, under whose auspices he spoke.
He declared that addition of amounts
of the four essentials above the -level
necessary for normal life and repro
duction had "expedited growth and de
velopment, brought a higher level of
adult vitality, and extended the aver
age length of adult life, or Improved
the life expectation of the adult"
He found that a mixture of flve
' sixths whole wheat and one-sixth dried
Whole milk, plus table salt and dls
, tilled water, was adequate for life and
health. However, the addition of
small amounts of the four essentials
'resulted In increased vitality and
'longevity.
Exploration of Barrier
Reef Reveals New Fish
. Philadelphia. Great Barrier reef
I near Queensland, Australia, has given
up to science more mysteries of ma
rlne life that lie In Its vast undersea
Crevices.
New. rare specimens giant grouper
tflsh, weighing 700 pounds, strange sea
jlice living In gills of large Ash have
been obtained from the vast area,
'some 80,000 square miles ' slong the
' coast of Queensland.
The latest discoveries, of which the
grouper flshf and sea lice were only
a few, were made by George Vender
bllt, twenty-one-year-old New tork ex
plorer, and his wife en their combined
honeymoon andsh collecting expedi
tion for the Academy of Natural Sci
ences here. -., 'vjvvs
Vsnderbjlt notified the academy from
Bombay, India,' that be had completed
the expedition and was returning to
.Philadelphia,' where the specimens
would be added to tbe flab display at
the academy.
..The region where the young socialite-explorer
undertook his expedition Is
one of the world's richest fields for
marine Ufe. I It first was made known
to the world; through the explorations
of Captain Cook, who classed It among
'the wonders of the universe, , -
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Unique Mirror Preaches.
- Tidiness to Motormen
f Salt take. City, FJtah.-i-"A neat man
commands respect? 8alt Lake City pus
and street car operators are told regu
larly by a novel mirror la the city car
bariiBv
. The mirror, , fun-length, quotes the
above 'maximum and then goes Into
details, As the motormaq stands be
fore it he sees, written across the re
flection of his bead, the words "Cap
'NeatFXS?
- As - his gaxe travels downward he
reads- af .'the appropriate '-points
"Shaver ' "Clean Collarr ."Coat and
Vest O, K.T! Trousers Cleaned and
Pressed,!" and, at the bottom of the
mirror.; "Shoes Shlnedl" -
The words are . Written across the
face of i the mirror in such a way that
they fall across the point mentioned
when tie motorman stands a few feet
away from it - '
- "The darned thing sure makes a
fellow feel self-conscious if he doesnt
look bis best," the operators declare.:
THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD.
CAVELL RECALLED
BY PARIS TEACHER
Cell of Martyred English
Nurse Now a Shrine.
Paris. Louise Thullez, French war
heroine who was condemned to death
by the Germans In 1915 for engineer
ing the escape of allied prisoners, Is
living a quiet life as head of a school
for young girls In a Parts suburb.
Tbe colorful days of her past have
been revived recently with the liber
ation from prison of Gaston Qulen,
who was charged with the betrayal
of the English nurse, Edith Cavell,
Mile. Thulles and others who con
ducted an underground railway for the
escape of war prisoners. Qulen has
been freed, due to Insufficient evi
dence against him, after almost 20
years' Imprisonment
Mile. Thullez, who knew Qulen
slightly during the war, refuses to
commit herself as to his guilt. "I
know that Miss Cavell was under sur
veillance by the German secret serv-;
Ice for some time before she was ar
rested, and I am inclined to believe
that my own arrest was an accident,"
said Mile. Thuliest.
Prisoners Are Moved.
"We had all been working in the
same organization, taking war pris
oners by night from one place to an
other -until they escaped over the
Dutch frontier. I spent most of my
time In Brussels and often arranged
for the stop-over of prisoners at Miss
Cavell's home there. One afternoon
I called on a friend, likewise under
surveillance, and we were both ar
rested. "Qulen had been sheltered by Miss
Cavell and although a Frenchman was
said to be in the pay of the German
secret service. When 35 of us were
arrested and five were sentenced to
death, Miss Cavell was not permitted
to defend herself In court She and a
Belgian, Philippe Bancq, were put to
death before the ofllcial notice of the
sentences Imposed was published.
Germans Were Bitter.
"Miss Cavell died because the Ger
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N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 8," 1936.
mans were"partlculariy bTtterTigalnst
the English. They pretended that she
was the head of our organization, but
In reality we were all volunteers work
ing together. Miss Cavell's home was
made Into headquarters In Brussels
and she planned many of the midnight
trips from town to town until the bor
der was reached. She and Baucq
were killed unjustly."
Mile. Thullez and the two other
prisoners condemned to death had
their, sentences commuted after the
intervention of President Wilson, the
Marquis de Vlllal-Lobar, Spanish am
bassador at Brussels, and the pope.
The rest of the band bad been sen
tenced to hard labor. Some worked
in a brick factory, others made but
tons which were marked "Made In
England," and Mile. Thullez was set
to work embroidering clothes to be
sold in .German stores. Three days
before the Armistice was signed, Mile.
Thullez and the others were released
by German revolutionists.
The cell which was occupied by the
English nurse Is no longer used for
the confinement of prisoners. The
prison of St. Giles Is visited as a show
place and the solitary cell, always
filled with fresh flowers and bearing
the portrait of Edith Cavell and the
English flag, Is considered a tourist
attraction.
Dog Saves Young Master
From Freezing to Death
Tiloomlngton, 111. "Ruffian," a shep
herd dog, is the hero of the little farm
ing town of Cooksvllle, eight miles east
of here, because he rescued his ten-year-old
master from freezing to death.
The boy, Harlan Spencer, son of Ed
ward Spencer, tumbled from a hay
mow and cut a doep gnsh In the back
of his head. The blow knocked him
unconscious.
"Ruffian," who was playing with his
master, took the boy's coat between
his teeth and dragged his master home.
The temperature was nearly 15 de
grees below zero.
Second Bett
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Readers who know of any unmark
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diers Union, Confederate, World
War, Spanish-American War, Mexi
can War, or Revolutionary War
should take advantage of the gov
ernment's offer to furnish headstones
for such soldiers free of charge. It
is a gratifying indication of the pass
ing of Civil War prejudice that the
federal government provides such
headstones for Confederate and
DARING ARTISTE. Vera Kimris
below) la her breath-taking act!
Thanks to Camels," she say,"I always
get more enjoyment from njy food."
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w w'sTNl. 8pot even on the most trying
Ja""" days," says Mrs. Frank Smith.
5 kjt W Enjoy Camels for their mild
afitsfrmmm - ness and aid to digestion!
ANNOUNCEMENT
I hereby announce my candidacy for re
nomination to the office of Sheriff of Per
quimans County, subject to the Democratic
Primaries on June 6. Your vote and your
support will be greatly appreciated.
J. Emmett Winslow
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Department, Washington, D. C, for
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wrung out of suds made with a mild
soap. Strong, alkali-containing soaps
and powders and too much water
will damage even good quality
linoleum.
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