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Has Eccn Battlefield Period
j ically for 2,000 Year, ' ,
Washington. The cedent tread -of
! flatiilano; Kam sal t t I '
i:eadXitfae t C.i' I
eavy Nan army boots on the cob-.
lea of picturesque towns in the Bhjne-
recently echoed around the world
use of Ita effect upon International
Uons. But to many residents of
lose towns, history was merely re-
ting Itselt Periodically for 2,000
ra the Bhineland has been a battle-
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"The fehlnelawl'S location, Its pro-
Moctlve son, Its mines, and above all
: jits : Rhine, bare made It Germany's
ratal Street' and 'Promised tend'
trolled tip Into one 10,000 square miles,"
ays the National Geographic society.
"Small wonder that many have eov
;eted It Caesar crossed the Rhine as
Sell as the Bublcon. AtOIa the Bnn
aturbed Its peace, and GIotIs fought
long Its banks. ' Charlemagne estab
lished the capital of his empire at
V&achen In the Bhineland. : Napoleon's
regiments swept triumphantly through,
Pursuing the double eagles of the Ho
henzollerns went the French Tricolor
In 1918. And now the Swastika waves
icrom bridges, fortresses, medieval
town halls, and dormer windows of
quaint peaked houses.
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arnvoneu oy Americans, s
of the flairs which have flown
ln the Bhineland would not be com
i plete without the Stars and Stripes.
For four years a garrison of Amerl
Scana kept the 'Wacht am Bheln' at
" Germany's Gibraltar, the old fortress
- tot Ehrenbreltstein opposite Koblens
CCobtenz). . -wssrt'.'s i!
-The Bhineland, now transformed
"from a demilitarized Into a danger
gone, embraces the territory west of
the Rhine up to the boundaries of
France, Belgium, and the Netherlands,
and a 60-ktIometer (31-mlle) strip
along the east bank. This Is an Im
portant slice of Germany. The Bhlne
band, Indeed, has been the dominant
factor In the commerce, history, legend,
music, and literature of the German
people.
; "Although it rises in Switzerland,
empties through the Netherlands, and
has lost part of its west bank to
France, the Rhine is essentially a Ger
jnan river. It winds 800 miles from
(Alps to ocean, creating picturesque
scenes and prosperous activity wher
iever it goes. From Bingen to Koblenz
jit pours through a steep gorge of
rocky crags crowned with robber
jbarons' ruined castles, blown up by
(the French more than a century ago.
"Thereafter It broadens, bearing
an increasing horde of steamers and
itugs, and flows into the Netherlands as
spreading belt of greenish water al
most a mile wide. Probably no other
jtiver in the world has been made to
iserve .man .more efficiently, for a sys
!tem of canals and dredged channels
jenables it to carry a tremendous
traffic of tourist steamers and barges
iburdened with coal, ore, and bulky
'freight.
Famous Towns and Cities.
'"Some of Germany's greatest cities
and illustrious towns are strung along
the Bhlne like jewels of a necklace.
They Include Mains, 'the Golden,' mar
ket for. sparkling Bhenish wine: Kob
lenz, with Its riverside shaded prom
enade so familiar to many American
,oldlers; 'Koln (Cologne), Bblneland's
metropolis, with Germany's finest
Gothic cathedral which was 600 years
-a-bulldlng; and Dusseldorf where art
flourishes beside Iron, Steel, and chem
ical works.
, -"One of the most famous towns of
flta sice In the world is Heidelberg,
4 with the .oldest college in Germany.
'This city bow is an Important medical
center, although patients are outnum
Cfcered by visitors who come to see the
-Mimlversity and the restored ruins of
elaborate Heidelberg castle.
"Many medieval ruins have been re
paired sufficiently to serve as youth
tttostela for the numerous students on
"walking tours through the Bhineland.
"The Bhineland was for centuries
the stronghold of the Franks, the virile
Teutonic tribe which furnished the
name and much of the population of
;France. Now a southern segment of
the . Bhineland Is Trench, territory, In
cluding the ;BhIncsIde city, Stras
bourg." c :
Prevention of Paralysis
Is Hoped For in Test
Washington. With disclosures of de
tails of the recently discovered nasal
spray to be .used for the prevention
of infantile paralysis, ' thousands - of
parents today looked to the United
States public health service for Initia
tion of tests on human beings.
A result of two years experimental
work by Dr. Charles Armstrong, med
leal sciehtlsf of the public health
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(Service, tne new solution coniaius pic
Tic add, water and a pinch of salt
"Thus far efficacy of the' nasal spray
lias been tried only on monkeys.
j Doctor Armstrong announced tests
soon would begin on human beings.
" it Is known the solution Is harmless,
r jbttt Its power against infantile paralysis
' germs has not yet been tested. - ,-
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made known recently, Doctor Arm-
etrong reveaiee ne naa inea me soiu-
ai. VtmaAlft ainlft fMinA AA lit cxttnntm
no warned parents against concocting
' homemade solution of the Ingredients.
- 1 Armstrong's theory Is based on scb
""y-ice's definite knowledge that Infan
p:e paralysis forms make their way
taW ths human body through the nasal
bassagesand the mouth. Picric add, a
twwerful astringent, closes tightly the
:ir mam a tha tiaqftl nnllflffttr j-
An amateur photographer-entomoloalst had furt maklno this picture of a
"Qrasahopper Night Club" (note the fan dancer). He used amateur equip
ment Ifwae a time, exposure with a 25-cent floodlight for illumination.
HAVE you another "hobby besides
your camera? If so, why not ln-
. troduce them to each other and
double the pleasure? Why hot make
photographic souvenirs of the
changes In your garden, your an-
-tique collection, the growth of your
miniature railroad, your new ship
models, or what have you?
We know a man whose other
kobby is entomology bug-hunting
to hia friends. He gets a tremendous
lot of fun photographing Ms insect
specimens. :
- Some of his pictures of these tiny
subjects are remarkable. The most
surprising thing about them is that
they were made with the simple ap
paratus used by the amateur photog
rapher. Not only does he make seri
ous "portraits" of individual in
sects, but having a flare for the
dramatic and the amusing, he photo
graphs groups of them theatrically
posed to represent the goings on of
human beings, as In the picture of
the grasshopper night club above;
or it may be a June-bug wedding, a
tumble-bug football game, spider
spooks haunting a graveyard, grass
hoppers playing leapfrog he finds
the subject possibilities are endless.
The pictures he displays are, of
course, enlargements.
Tou don't have to be an entomolo
gist to make pictures like this your
self, if you, or some one for you, will
but collect the insects. Here's what
he does:
He builds a "set" a to Hollywood,
Wisconsin Seed
Exhibit in
One of Country's Largest
Producers Describes Sofl
Building Methods
Tobacco growers of this sec
tion who include corn in their
rotation will be interested In the
cultural methods of W. J. Jacques
of Prescott Wis., one
of the largest field seed corn
growers of the country. Sam
ples of his crop have just reached
the offices of The American Agri
cultural Chemical ' Company at .
Greensboro, N. C. Aside from,
the outstanding yields obtained
by Mr. Jacques, as high as 106
bushels an acre, hia methods
built up soil fertility instead of
sapping It.
A 75-bushel per acre corn crop
takes 70 pounds of nitrogen, 80
pounds of phosphate and 20
pounds of potash from the soil,
l'rtrmtng methods in this section
provide onry soda, or nitrogen,
to replace the plant foods used
up by the corn crop, thus leaving
the soil in less fertile condition
for tobacco, a heavy feeder on
phosphate and potash. Obvi
ously, a balanced fertilizer such
a 3-12-0, which ct3ta no more
tiwn soda, will protlnco more aud
b Iter corn and v.-ill bu'.ld up the
soil for a following lofcficco crop.
Jlr. Jacques has becu growing
P"cl com all hia life, ami has
s'.il).trd to South Amorlca, South
Afra n;irt Iatlia. Most c2 his
0,000 bushel trap was fertilised
with AkvH:o for Corar :k1 camo
't'jronsh auoci'ssfully I- i3te of
031 " 'of the1 imwt t'ittsfr.ws',"soft
"corn" ycara In the Corn Belt.
"Oa a..10()-.".ore. -field of corn
jrrov.-n ltt.t season with Agrlco,"
Mr. ifnoqn'n writesV "the yield
.-.vcr.-vil 80 bushel of seed corn.
The quality was so good that less
Teach Soil Conservation
Through Motion Picture
Washington. Motion pictures - will
be used b part of the administra
tion's program for educating the fann
ers of America to the need of soil con
servation, . keystone of the substitute
for the Invalidated AAA. An appro
priation bill : carries $79,000 for the
preparation' and distribution of; mo
tion pictures dealing with the Depart
ment of .Agriculture's scientific work.
This 'sum will enable ths department
to operate its movie laboratories, draft
its scenarios, and edit and prepare Its
pictures on son conservation,
. The soil conservation service, put of
its own appropriation, may . be asked
to earmark additional funds for edu
cational pictures on soil conservation,
showing approved methods for protect
ing:' and conserving the nation's soli
fertility. " ' ' '
In Its -extension work ;the Depart
ment of Agriculture has long mad
effective use of the motion picture.
Its Washington studio Is up to date
though smalL .. d V" V
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to lit into an-Imaginary box 15
inches long, 10 wide and 12 high,
sometimes using fine, grass, small
stones, twigs, etc, for scenery. Ad
mitting that he has not yet been
able to persuade his Insect actors to
play leapfrog or otherwise perform
at his bidding, he has them chloro
formed by the druggist from whom
he buys his films; then with quick
drying household cement he mounts
them on his Btage In the poses he
wants.
To light the scene" he finds a sin
gle floodlight bulb in a reflector is
effective. The light should be about
two feet from the set placed high
for simulating daylight or low ia
front for a dramatic effect Stop the
camera lens down to f.8, put on a
portrait attachment and then photo
graph your 15 by 10 by 12-lnch
scene close up, according to instruc
tions with the attachment. Fine
grained panchromatic film is to be
preferred for sparkling results in en
larging. Exposures will vary with
the scene; so, until experience has
been gained, three or four exposures
(say, 2, 4 and 8 seconds) had better
be made and the best one chosen for
enlargement
Our entomologist -camerist says
you will have so mucb tun making
these pictures that oven it you
don't care to become an entomolo
gist an ambition to become a theat
rical producer will surely have to
be curbed.
JOHN VAN GUILDER
Corn on
North Carolina
than one-half percent of the corn
as harvested out of 1 the field was
unfit for seed. Seventeen cousccu
th e hills harvested 0T perfect seed ,
ears and only one nubbin. - The ,
ecru .from the seventeen : hills .
yielded at the rate of lOObuahels -i
per ncrc. figuring 77 pwinds of
corn to the bushel. - j
- ..We j,ftV0 f0ul that tula zer
tillzcr reduces .moisture .con tout
of sewl corn by about UO per
cent. We insist that nil our op
orators use Agrlco because the
difference in the iunlityj ot the
corn alone pays for the cost of
the fertilizer." -
HAIRCUT OR SHAVE?
r "Can yen tell me how to restore lvoi
to Its proper tintr
: Ton should get a shampoo.1. . -
' BatUese Two' Years' .
' Tou remember when you' cored me
of rheumatism two years ago. Doe?
Ton told me then to avoid all damp
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""Well, Doc, I was Just wosoorisi
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old-time 4 Sixes Ranch cowboy, as he
left Dallas to ride to the Democratic
National Convention June 23. Outfitted"
gy the Texas Centennial Exposition,
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which opens In Dallas June VYelr
an' ny expects to reach Philadelphia
riding the burro "General Democracy,'
the entire 155S miles fat time for th
June 23 opening of the convention.
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