The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1925, Page 2

PAGE TWO BISMARCK BOY SAVES CITRUS CROP BY WORK ing Cold Spell, Enabling Them to Protect Fruit , WORK I DESCRIBED 2 zs s Albert W. Cook, graduate of the © University of North Dakota in 192 i was 4 din the following extract L from the Dec, 26 Los Angeles ‘Times 1 for w piece of weather — prediction ¥ work by which he saved farmers of i California thousands of dollars by t warning them of coming frost. Mr.) t Cook is the son of Mrs. A. W. Cook of E rek, (The clipping follows: q Redlands, Dec, 25, -Although t night produced the lowest: temp ! tures of the season thus far, a hur- 1 ried rvey over the citrus-growing t districts indicated that orange grow ers probably escaped to their crop not smudge fered some damage. With cool ther prevailing to- day, growers were warned to be pre pared for another cold night tonight. It was not expected, however, th the te ture would drop to night's low level The lowest temperature in southland was reported from Santa Barbara district, with 28 ees, the heaviest damage orange crop being done there, the San Gabriel valley the tempera- ture ranged from 24 degrees to 39 degrees, with the general average running around the 25 degree mark for the heaviest orange growing dis- triets. Smudge pots lighted Lemon growers who did are thought to have suf. we ' per the the nd orchard heaters y arly in the evening, re the growers having ample warning A. from the government forecasters, W. Cook, government frost prot tion man with headquarters at Red- lands, predicted temperatures as low us 24 and 25 degrees late Wednesday afternoon. His prediction proved ac- rate and saved the growers hun- of thousands of dollars, for dred. the citrus men gave Jack Frost liter- a warm reception in the or- ds. The heaters and smudge pots were kept going all night long. ally Estimate Delayed Up on the heights the temperature dropped only to 26 degrees and little or no damage was reported. In the lower levels, what damage may have been done was confined to the out- er rows of trees. The damage is ex- pected to be kept down to the mini- mum because today was a cool day} and the buds and fruit did not have to run the ‘d of being cooked by a hot sun after the cold night. A few days will have to elapse before anything like an urate estimate can be made of possible damage. Reports from Pomona state that little if any damage was done to the oranges in that district. According to H, E. Walcott, manager of the Po- mona Fruit Growers’ exchange, the damage was very slight, if any. Oc- casional and vagrant bree: which blew throughout the night were a great aid in the fight against the cold. have been foothill districts. done to lemons in the The lowest tem. 4 perature on the government gauge a f; the J, E, Adamson ranch was 25 de- grees. si Some Damage. i] Ontario reported a minimum tem- it} perature of 25.2 degrees. Harry B. co Harlow, manager of the Ontario- cc Cucamonga Fruit exchange, expre lm ed the opinion that some damage is la expected to lemon trees that were fa not smudged, adding, however, that lw, most of the lemon growers smudged is their groves. His opinion was sup- ti: ported by the opinions of other se prominent growers, in San Bernardino reported a min- imum of 23 degrees, Highland 24, lac Rialto 32 and Alta Loma 23. P Santa Ana reported no damage. Orange reported no frost, a good wind helping the growers. Fullerton growers smudged heavily, La Habra gave its lowest temperature at 30 de- grees, with little smudging. Placen- tia reported 37.5 degrees at 2 a. m. The Yorba Linda avacado district showed 39 degrees. ee Santa Barbara The Santa Barbara district was re- ported to have been touched for a $100,000 loss by Jack Frost, the tem- t] perature of 23 degrees being the low- it in the history of that district. ] The heavy frost that accompanied the low. temperature nipped the growers for about 10 per cent of their crop, according to a rough estimate. This estimate is expected to be cut down considerably, however, by proper treatment of the trees, as was prac- ticed after the freeze of last year. Flower gardens suffered heavily from the frost. Oxnard reported its lowest tem- perature at 84 degrees. A heavy wind of the day before which calm- ed down to a breeze during the mght _ was of great aid to the growers. The Wind, it is reported, picked up again yesterday. Telephone wires from | Oxnard to Hueneme was reported to be still down, ; One automobile was reported to Have been blown off a highway into N= eight-foot ditch, landing right ; Side up. No one was hurt in the car. Southern Pacific track workers were = kept busy all night shoveling sand dif the roadbed. Ice a quarter of an itich thick ‘was reported at Daly’s | retich near Camarillo. 3 ce in Paris. M. Chantille, expert kbs : has’ closed hi downtown j op and is confining his business te visits to the homes of meticulous & BOB. HOUSE-TO-HOUSE “Paris, Jan. 6—The house-to-house ir bobber has made his appear- city. He’ probably is sought. fter barber in ae rns Ranchers of Approach- | Some damage was thought to 2s | | i | | | I*Do, re, me, fa | disguised by the v | BY ¢ COHN NEA Service Writer | New York, Jan. 6.—If your neigh- |bors don’t like your singing, run to lthe nearest spirometer or voscillo- ' graph. | They may be right. ICAN’T sing! | But, thanks Perhaps you to scientific experi- iments under way at New York Uni | vers ity, it is becoming y to test good and bad voices as test good and bad eyesight. Just what is the matter with a given voice and what can be done about it, is being determined with scientific accuracy by means of a jseries of intricate mechanisms from t jeneral Electrie and Western \Electric experimental laborator | Tests which already threaten revolutionize the field of voc ing and to upset well- almost |to | | s to 1 train- ablished theories are being made by Prof. H. H. Sheldon and Douglas M. S., prominent voice expert physicist. It is estimated that millions ie spent annually persons who be- lieve they can become fine, or even great, singers. * “Heretofore, testing a voice ha been largely a matter of guess work, even to the trained musician and Stanley, and teacher,” explains Prof. Stanley “But the physicist’s laboratory is an impersonal place and a scientific mechanism has reither opinion nor prejudice. It can register only what it finds. The question of the exist- ence of a voice becomes, then, a matter of exact diagnose, just atistics and we can a doctor ean with -ray. | “Within |time a sing. few moments of the has been tested, he, or a she, can see photographs of the voice, and from these can be deduced the whole story. Literally s . we are photographing the human voice. “And what we re discovering is [revolutionary. — P- the most sensational conclusion is that the ~|world is all wrong on the theory jthat the jlies in th of vocal development control of breathing. The breathing idea has gained almost universal usage and practically every © school of voice employs it. From laboratorial studies it now ap- pears that the development of muscles of the vocal cord are all important. “The tests show that a well-train- ed voice does not rely upon a great breath output for production of a loud sound. Quite the opposite was * Miss Ruth Thoma tthe case .linto one SINGING THRU A GAS MASK & Vocalist, is shown well ing device. oice-te Soft tones required more breath. And so it would seem time- honored theories will have to be dis- carded “Thus voi the falsetto tones in a man’s e were not to be considered and d chest voice of a woman was used for only a few lower notes. The experiments indicate that now we will have to start with the fal- etto and build dowi or begin with a chest voice and build up. | “Just as an athlete develops his |echest and arm | When developed the two tone.regis- ters of the voice will be co-ordina- ted. THE BISMARCK MOLLIE WOULDN'T KISS, SCIENTISTS TRACE COURSE OF SUN SHADOW |Past Experience Teaches Them Pretty Well What The Sun Will Do INCIDENTS ‘UNUSUAL | Washington, Jan. 5.-Seientists be- thered from |pe ience a good idea of some of the junus things that will take place jin connection with the total eclipse lof the sun Jan, 24, | Prof. George H. Peters of the naval Observatory, who has been on ntimate terms with Old Sol for 28 ears, related recently some of the {developments that may be looked for jin the “shadow path,” with favorable i her, on the morning of lieve they have gs ex: le: include a fall of a few de- jgrees in temperature. Animals are |likely to become perplexed, and birds go to roost. Looking toward the Iwest, just before the eclipse becomes jtotal, one may observe the shadow jof the moon coming toward the |observer as if a thunderstorm were |imminent. | The sun has just passed its mini- mum period of spots, and will pro- ably have some spots in January ipse time, [turbance of the be seen during total solar eclipse. The sun is 400 times farth- er away from the. earth than is the moon. The ideal spot to observe ‘the {eclipse would be far out in North jAtlantic Ocean, for the central line, passing over Montauk Point, N. Y., jtraverses the sea for the rest of length, until north of the British , the total eclipse becomes visible nset. At sunrise, just east of Red Lake, Minnesota, the eclipse will be total. In the eastern section of the United States, the eclipse will be visible early in the forenoon, and in -the far west, not at all, for it will still be dark there. Over the North Atlantic Ocean, it will be noon and afternoon, at eclipse time. The best position for observations in the United States will be along the line causing “It is easy te understand how|from Buffalo to Montauk Point. In paradoxical theories _originated.| Minnesota, the “shadow’ path” will fone who with the subject|be about 85 miles broad, growing |were not sei s. They founded | gradually wider to the eastward, un- itheir ide ations felt jinitil in the region of the Hudson singing. is no test. River, it becomes 110 miles broad. “What is happening in the throat|At Martha’: Vineyard and Nan- and larynx during singing must be/tucket, Mass., which will not be on |deduced and not guessed at. Thelits central line, the “s path” only worthwhile data is that to be|will measure 120 miles across. Until obtained through following known|the eclipse reaches Buffalo, how- jlaws of physics and making fool-|eyer, the sun will be low on the | proof tests.” horizon. | The way the voice tester works is} If at the equator, the moon’s this: the singer dons gas-mask | shadow, blotting out the sun’s rays with a telephone transmitter fitted) from the earth, would sweep across ye-piece. It is connected to a long rubber tube and this tube connects with a water-filled tank on which rests an air-tight box called a spirometer. All outgoing air pass- es through the tube into the spiro- meter and an accurate measure of the person's breath expulsion can be made by the rising of the box in the ; Water. | At the 1e time the sound made by the voice in singing is carried by |\the phone transmitter through an jamplifier to an oscillograph which jrecords on a moving’ photographic |film the exact intensity and form of the sound waves. Two records are secured: first, a |curve showing the breath emitted; second, a photographie record from which can be read the loudness, and OWNS Hull, spirit EROCIOUS CAT ind, Jan, 6.—Not even nine fun do the dogs district of Hull in ntha Walters, a wi- are told in the t of how the cat seen chasing several dogs 8 t at the same time. call Angela the “grinning cat.” Wild ain House has been down the The taking its AM’S LATEST FIGHTER ‘The U. 8. 8. V-2, Uncle Sam's latest and largest « ‘peen launched at the Portsmouth (N. H.) Nav: ubmarine hes just 'y Yard, where it is shown initial trip, something of the quality of the tone. | ferocious cat own- | this body at the rate of 1,000 miles an hour. In the eastern part of the United States, this rate will be greater, as the shadow will have the benefit’ of the earth's most rapid rotation in miles, owing to the short- er circumference encountered nearer the earth’s northern axis. Another phase of the eclipse will be the possible revival of the weath- er insurance feature. Scientific sending out parties, and with un- favorable weather, their work goes \for naught. Scientists will conduct further tests of the Einstein theory, and will also observe the solar corona and make spectroscopic observations, if |the weather is clear. It has been {suggested that efforts be made to experiment with radio signals to as- certain if they increase markedly while the eclipse is in progress, and decrease sharply near its conclusion. Federal Farm : Facts Uncle Sam nas bought 2,346,354 acres of land for new national for- ests in the south and east. These are, distributed in 19 units in 11 states. The price paid averaged a little less than $5 an acre. aera Mexican cotton will be permitted entry hereafter, under permit and adequate safeguards. Regulations governing the entry of foreign cot- ton have been amended to this ef- fect. The Department of Agriculture has collected more than 3000 local or colloquial names given game birds in this country. One species of wild duck, the ruddy, has only 92 local names. President Coolidge’s agricultural conference is in the market for sug- gestions of any agricultural nature from farmers’ organizations, It’s all for the good of the farmer, Only 23 per cent of the corn crop is deemed fit for seed, as against an average of about 60 per cent. But even this low amount, it is said, is more than enough: for that purpose. Research work abroad is included in plans of the Department of Agri- culture to safeguard the livestock industry against another outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease. carer Growing lettuce in greenhouses is increasing in popularity, reports the Department of Agriculture. Destruction of weevils in stored beans is looked upon by federal ex- perts as a means of stopping the ad- vance of the bean weevil. It hds been found that innumerable of these pests are held over from sea- son to season in -surplus stock. eee | Chestnut blight has stricken the trees of the Appalachian region to such an extent that control is prac- tically impossible, reports the Bu- reau of. Plant Industry. Indications point to rapid spread of the blight. the | some dis- j corona, which can bodies are put to much expense in| E ——————————————. EVEN an M. Davis, Kansas’ | jJohnath | That Out at Dance Ei i | \ i Port Scott, Kas., Jan. 6,—Mollie Purdon wouldn’t be kissed, even un- der the mistletoe at Christmas party. Jonathan M. Davis, Kansas “log cabin governor” of the future, found |that out at a holiday dance in Bour- jbon county, Kansas, in the year /1886, eight years before she became jhis wife. Jonathan a 16 and terful. Most girls ed easily under the mistletoe, he had learned. This one was a new species, fore he took her home from ty in a snug cutter, with a clanging of sleigh bells over the } snowy Kansas cornfields, | “By the time we pulled up with a flourish in front of her father’s jfarm, I was re many | s for her ved for Rachel,” he wasn’t Two years later, Jonathan went to the University of Kansas, while Mollie Purdon stayed at home and learned to bake a white loaf and sew a fine seam. She admits that she wept a little because Jonathan, was | going to meet bold co-eds at” the} university. i To make matters worse, his let-| ters were few and short. not know that he live up to his mas love affairs At last, however, he broke his re-| sclve and asked her to wait for him. | In 1893, the death of his father | brought him home from the Univer- | sity of Nebraska, where he was do- | ing his senior work. He found al heritage of $50,000 in debts and an} unimproved farm. It was then that Dovis turned “dirt farmer” in earnest. help” and shouldered loads of work himself. He fought Kansas tornadoes and Kansas grass-} hoppers and Kansas draughts. He married Mollie Purdon on Dec. 26, 1894, just eight years after the mistletoe incident. She rolled up| her sleeves and set her shoulder to the broom and the churn and even to Mollie did struggling to | m, “No money, no He dismissed all the “hired | Herculean | | | MOTHER Clean Child's Bowels. “Caiifornia Fig Syrup” is Dependable Laxative foi Sick Children Hurry Mother! A teaspoonful of “California Fig Syrup” now wilh sweeten the stomach and thoroughly clean the little bowels and in a few hours you have a well, playful child again. Even if cross, feverish, bil- ious, constipated or full of cold, chil- dren love its pleasant taste. It never cramps or overacts. Contains no narcotics or soothing drugs. Tell your druggist: you want ohly the genuine “California Fig Syrup” which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bot- tle. Mother, you must say “Califar- Became His Wife RECLAMATION - IS URGED FOR ARID REGIONS | |Program of Reclamation and Power Development Urged Upon Congress + UNDER MISTLETOE “Log Cabin Governor,” Found ight Years Before She | | | “Pape’s Cold Compound” ke two tablets every three hour until three doses arc taken, The first dos $s give relic The second and thi doses ~ complete! break up the co. Pleasant and take. Cont quinine or © Millions use “Pape Cold Compoun Price, thir cents, Druggi | guarantee it, y CITE PRESEN’ JCCESS Washington, Jan Recommend tions for Congressional action to pe mit a thorough inve: tion of po- tential agricultural resources of the west, and for the working out of @! program of reclamation and pow development for the benefit of id regians, were made in the 3 report today of Dr. Elwood} ‘ommissioner of reclamation. ng the conclusion of the| dvisory committee on re nual ‘duced in Scotland cont a single spike with 17 orange scarlet blo the Senate, Dr. Mead nd about a dozen buds ready attention to a dawning realization! to open. Another novelty that development requires a study of | mammoth salmon-pink agricultural and economic problems,'mum. A) rose resembling and the perfection of settlement and! face was another feature. evelopment plans, if lands are to| be brought under cultivation without disastrous delays and Waste of money and effort. | All the changes urged by the com- mittee would be helpful, Dr. Mead asserted, “but if legislation stops with there, the amended reclamation | the direction of the food dictator, re- act will not provide a working plan, established in Bulgaria six years for the development of new projects.' after the war, the black bread is a The reason for this is the fact that! mixture of wheat, rye and corn. many of the best opportunities for| The scarcity of wheat is due in a future reclamation are where the large measure to the large amount land tély owned.” of wheat turned over to Jugoslavia Discussing the committee's coordi-|under the recent agreement to pay ated plan of settlement, under which to that country 300,000 leva in the government would be able to pur- «ddition to the Jugoslavian share in chase or control all privately owned /the general reparations for military nds in of homestead units,! requisitions. When it «ppeared, a Commissioner Mead asserted that if| few weeks ago, that Bulgaria would control of settlement were made pos-| be unable to pay haif of that amount sible his bureau could go ahead with|in kind without running the risk of sed the House and is pen soms a LACK OF WHEAT PRODUCES WAR BREAD IN BULGARIA Sofia, Jan. 6.--Owing to the shor. tage of wheat, war bread is the rule 4 in Bulga White is al- most prohibitive in Under & pope ant 50th the plow when necessary. The birth , of a son and two daughters com- | developnient, “certain that the future | depriving her own population of th plicated the problem of living. settler could get his farm at its ac-!necessary amount of bread Jugo- . Today Davis has paid the $50,000] tual value. It could proceed to sub- Slavia consented to accept half of debt and has increased the farm to cattle ranch of 1700 eres. He es in a modern country house on into farms of{that amount in kind in currency. The feeding of the cities is placed under the charge of a food dictator i subordinate food divide excess ani proper size, could adjust the prices of land to agree with productive values, the site of the log cabin where he]and could give long-time payments | in Sofia, who has ina was born, near he with low interest.” |administrators in all the cities. After D: entrance into poli-| Touching on the future need for| Under an order just published, the tics in 1901, he served 12 years in| state cooperation and state aid in the| Subordinate food udministators are the us legislature. The next; settlement and agricultural develop-| instructed to provide for the feeding step election to the governor-| ment of projects, the report recites} 0f their respective cities, even if ship in 1923, after a crushing defeat | that the state has an even greater in-| they are obliged to purchase grain in 1920, j terest than the nation in the charac-| Supplies at a price fixed by them, But the pinnacle of his political! ter of the people who make homes on | esbecilly in eases where the dealers land, since “the foundation of|?efuse to sell at the market prices. career thus far came last summer, | this es ; when at the national Democratic | the state’s future civ lnid | Pekan t Hea tea ary convention he stayed in the run-|in these new communities.” SELLE IEE EAE ASO Chee present government came into power. ing the year the bureau irrigat- ,700 acres of land covered by for nomination to the presiden- until the 50th ballot, ders of the National Farmers’ | project census statist On the SMART NOVELTIES Union and William Jennings Bryan | cropped 4 of 1,179,870 aeres,! Collar and cuff sets, tassel, ure responsible for the prediction| tops were grown having a gross |), sand belts and hat bands that ultra-conservative Democrats} Value of more than $65,000,000 or | come in the novelty colored leathers cropped, as and Wall Street henchman are going e compared | , and are used most charmingly with to find in this “Lincoln of the west””| With a gross value of $50,000,000 and rapper styles. a formidable enemy. in 1928), $43 an acre in the preceding year. AG OOM Es vis, the White| Including land furnished in whole or in part with water from works of the bureau, the gross value of crops pro- duced in 1923 amounted to more than | $102,000,000, compared with .$8! 0,000 in 19 Irrigation works ited by the bureau included 100 House would mean us little to her the governor’s mansion at Topeka has meant, She is one woman who actually igh p d would not lift to gain social pre- As “CASCARETS” 10c IF DIZZY, BILIOUS CONSTIPATED cedenc 5 { = Her appropriate setting is the} Storage and diversion dams, — more To clean yeur large living room of her than, 10,000) miles of canals, ditches bowels without lfarmhouse, with its fire tnd depins;. 660-miles of vine line, cramping or ov- wood throwing gleams over the old, “74 thousands of structures incident take walnut chairs and the tea table,| +, the carriage and disttibution of “Cascareta.” \ where she will serve tea, as soon as | Water, Co ensevon prai sctsiwere Sick head- p , 4 she reaches the end of the row in ache, dizziness, : es bridges, and the eS ii BOs ST A Aaa nearly 235,000,000 cubi eae een . POPULAR SWEATERS vane a tion, sour up- High-necked sweaters are quite SEE NEW FLOWERS set stomach and all such distress the rage, some of them have a]. London, Jan. 6—Many remarkable|®07¢ by morning. Nicest laxative and cathartic on earth for grown-/ jups and children, 10c, 25e and 50c boxes—-any drugstore.—Adv. new flowers were introduced at the autumn show of the Royal Horticul- Society. One gladiolus pro- | shoulder opening, but more often there is a double ribbed collar, rib- bed cuffs and border. Thousands of People ‘Suppose that you have something to sell, or a spare room to | rent, or that you have a service to offer; or that you wish to buy. some used article at a bargain. Think what it would cost you to call personally or hire ‘an agent to visit each of these homes even once in.a week or month. THE TRIBUNE WANT ADS MAKES THIS TRIP DAILY. Just Phone 32 _ AND ASK FOR THE WANT-AD DEPT. TRIBUNE WANT ADS BRINGS RESULTS. nik.” Refuse any imitation —Ady. DN DW AwiaV A TAVAY AAA NET