The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1931, Page 6

& sees THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1981 I didn’t hesitate, I caught him New Methods of Using Cellulose Are Revolutionizing Wood Industry WOOD NOW USED FOR MANUFACTURE OF AT LEAST 4,000 ITEMS Prophesy That Wood Will Be Poured Instead of Sawed in Near Future CONSERVATION NECESSARY Lumber Industry in U. S. Ranks Eighth in Value of Prod- ucts Turned Out By Frederic J. Haskin Washington, D. C., Jan. 22—New methods of using cellulose, that fun- ciamental structural part of plants and trees, is revolutionizing wood utiliza- tion, and it is said that the “Cellulose Age” is at hand. According to those who know, wood utilization is already taking a place in the chemical as well as in the mechanical field, and this change will be accelerated because the product of forests is an inexhaustible resource. ‘The prophesy is made that wood will be poured instead of sawed, ‘women's daintiest lingerie, substitutes for steel, and even sugar will be made from it—in fact, they are made from it now—and young forests will be cut in swathes by gargantuan harvesters which are more nearly real than they are imaginary. Boards of the future will be poured and moulded instead of cut and nailed. Wood will be reduced to cellu- lose, poured into a hopper, and com- pleted door frames will emerge from the mould. It will be blown through holes and come out in infinitesimal threads to be spun into rayon. In fact, one of these long looks into the future, which brings up weird, mod- ernistic visions, pictures the plastics— materials based on cellulose—fighting a life and death battle with that synonym for strength—steel—for amazing strength can be blended in these new products. It envisions tree crops harvested by fantastically gi- gantic machines which operate like the harvesters and reapers in the wheat fields today. It goes without saying that science will turn to the one natural resource which can be always at its service to supply industry. Other natural re- sources, such as coal, ore, and other minerals may eventually become de- pleted, an improbable but not impos- sible happening, but wood always can be restored and its future uses need have no limitation other than ingenu- it ed out that with the ce and invention, indus- is fair to be an incalculably & ig market for wood products and that the uses of wood are being mulsiplied far more rapidly than the production of trees is being increased. Myriad Uses For Wood ‘There are even now 4,000 uses for wood. The lumber and secondary woodworking industries of the United States are third in the list of 16 in- dustrial groups in number of wage earners, fourth in amount of wages paid, and eighth in value of products. | ‘They represent $10,000,000,000 of cap- ita!, $3,500,000,000 in value of annual products, and 1,000,000 in number of employees. Moreover, when lumber prices were at their highest the lumber on the woodlot alone has been worth $400,- - 000,000 to the iarmer who used and; sold large quantities, consuming about 40 per cent of the total output of the country annualiy. His bill for forest products in one year has amounted| to more than $165,000,000 and this amount does not include what he has used from his own formerly neglect- ed woodlot which supplies him with fuel, fence posts, and other timber. One large daily newspaper now uses in one year the spruce growth of a century on 7,500 acres of forest. Pulp- wood used in the manufacture of paper amounted to 7,160,000 cords in a single year. Railroad ties, furni- ture, joists and millwork, and other lumber used in construction, use vast quantities of wood. The wood box and crate industries also drain the forests. The wooden lead pencils used in this country in one year number one billion. Telegraph and telephone lines are maintained with the help of five million trees which are converted every year from growing things to inanimate poles. Mines consume 260 million cubic feet of wood, and the cooperage industry uses 250 million cubic feet annually. Other industries that use vast quantities of forest prod- ucts include the building, railroad, automobile, furniture, veneer, and Planing mill. As much as 46 billion feet of lumber has been produced in one year and the amount now varies between 30 and 40 billion. When unemployment became pro- nounced, forests in the United States supplied some relief for that condi- tion. Massachusetts forests em- ployed men who had been without a means of livelihood for months and work for untrained men was found. Moreover, it was distributed in var- ious parts of the state so that more than one section was benefited. One of the southern states has proposed to undertake a large refor- STICKER, SYNOPSIS—Jack Stone, an airmail pilot, who made good in the movies, is in love with Pearl Dare. Her father disapproves of the match, and sends Pear! around the world in a Zeppelin. Jack, follows, and after many adventures meets Bert forces with him. Together they make many plans Hill, another pilot, who joins to rescue Pearl, but each time they are defeated by an unknown Seu Silent Menace. They suspect that this may be Thornton, a spy by Kasumigaura Flyin; he can communicat supposedly from a Jal certain place, to meet earl's father, or Mrs. Richards, Pearl's chapcron. Jack and Mrs. Richards after the latter has lured Jack away from Pearl, and the two are stranded in the wilderness. Jack rushes to ced on the Zeppelin Bert rescues Field, where the Zeppelin is due to dock. Before with the skyshij nese offic’ john the Strangler. however, he is handed a note, ig that Jack report at a HAT was behind this mysterious suramons of Toko, the crack Japanese air officer, to a rendezvous at the Joss House of the Eleven Wise Men in the Koshawari, where I was to ask for John. the Strangler? What had Toko to say in secrecy which could not have been whispered in my ear on Kasumigaura Flying Field? Why had he not officially appeared there with Mrs. Richards and turned her over to Capt. Goodmaster and Pearl on the Queen of the Skies which, by this time, had docked? Although I had left Bert Hill) @——————_ behind to explain my sudden ab- sence, had I acted too hastily in running off with a guide to keep the strange a) tment? Pearl had imperatively implored me to irsue the Queen of the Skies to io. I done so. imas- ter had dispatched a private mes- sage requesting me to meet him there. Should I have seen him ps Pearl first? Toko had writ- n:— “GET IN TOUCH WITH ME BEFORE YOU TALK WITH ANY ONE ON THE ZEPPELIN. VITAL!” Tr was now too late to turn back. y this hour Goodmaster, Pearl and all the chief officers and passengers of the it trans- oceanic Zeppelin on its extended world cruise were en route from the field to the state reception at the Emperor’s igen recep- tion at which, it struck me on reconsideration, Toko’s attendance should have been compulsory. I was soon to learn. The Koshawari, I found, was a crooked, forked boundary where the European and Asiatic sections rubbed shoulders with the native juarter of the Mikado’s metropo- We entered the district under an imposing arch, on whose pil- lars were carved hideous, unin- telligible figures. The entrance was guarded by city police. At once I sensed we were in a segregated neighborhood of legal- ized vice, a region of tea houses. dance halls, saki dens un- eS. We reached the Joss House. I told the guide to wait and en- tered. Up a long flight of semi-dark- ened, shaky steps I went, not without misgivings, and down a long and more forbidding hall to a circular stairs, which I descend- ed cautiously." The final step faced a heavily bolted door of teakwood. I knocked. After a long wait the door opened several inches. A horrible Malay face, pitted with smallpox marks, with dull, ferocious eyes, peered through the crack. “I am looking for John, the Strangler,” I said, forcing a ring into my voice which was not real, regretting I had come unarmed. “who sent for you?” the man inguired in English, Toko.” [THE door swung open and I ob- tained a full view of him. His hair was wildly disheveled. He was short and squat, with enor- mous shoulders, upper arms and thighs and emaciated forearms and calves. His feet’ were bare and his hands were hairy claws. If appearances meant anything John the Strangler deserved his name. He Jed me through a short passage and tapped on a panel The panel flew open from some invisible spring.. He gave me a shove. I shot across the threshold. The panel closed swiftly. I heard the spring click, At ‘irst I thought I was alone in a gallery bare of all furnishings except a center table surrounded by eleven vacant chairs. What form of Oriental trickery and plotting were created in those throne seats of the wise men ] could not even fancy. As my eyes accustomed them- selves to the gloom, I discovered a figure ten feet away. “Good God!" I broke out after a paralyzing second or two. “You!” It was Mrs. Richards! “Where's Toko?” She stepped forward several paces, impetuously. “Jack,” she began. “Answer me!” I roared. Her eyes flashed sharply. “The man Weng Wu and Bert Hill nat- urally mistook for Toko on forged credentials was, of course, not detained by regrettable but neces- sary circumstances. The su} Toko explained it all on the it. I clear?” “Who was that fake?” “Toko's double, naturally. His name and identity cannot interest 01 Oh, can’t it! Did be lure me here?” Bo you know. wh id you know where you are’ “Certainly. Iam in the Kosha- wari with you.” “You have marked yourself for the rest of your life. Do you know you cannot leave the wari ever? Don’t you know the kind of women who live here? They’re damned, I he phot Once in they can never get out.” The guide had explained the terrible meaning of the carved figures on the entrance pillars, “Youre wrong, Jack. You're only partly right. I can go out— to marry.” ‘This was true, as the guide had further said. “Whom are you planning to marry?” “You!” I stepped back, flabbergasted. She had deliberately set a trap. “If I refuse?” “You won't ! You haven't the heart to doom me to such # ghastly hell.” Toko, Jack It was all prear- She had staked everything on & ranged——" bold, an incredible experiment in “By whom? The Silent Menace? human nature. Pearl Dare's father?” “AS a sporting position, “So far as I know. Toko is in Jack,” she went on, her tones the mountains. Detained, Jack, wheedling. She rushed up and gras] my hands. “Don’t you I flamed wildest fury. [io ace T cout her spinning _Y'neachoo hiss in ea & rage I se! er I reacl a I across the room. Yet, violent- Together we went cod 4 SS ee coe ee G @ tiger. I was com- was stupefied, too, with amaze- out of my head. Bey Sons, ment, I Obsessing urge was to kill ad known she was de- termined, but I had not dreamed r that there lived @ woman who would go beyond every limit of foiled my attempts with dexterity. Saban tear to gain her ‘stubborn needs. It was Spellings it was disconcerting. was shameless, but, in a way, she was glorious. I felt neither revulsion nor repugnance. Only hatred and —pity. Would Pearl have taken this gamble with fate? I sank into one of the chairs. “Tl not marry you, but, somehow,” Til get_you safely out of this place,” I said, dully. She, too, sat down, heavily. A tide of reaction swept upon her and an avalanche of self-horror. She bowed her head on the table and sobbed tempestuously. Without a moment's warning, the panel through which I had ony teaped 10 my feet with jeay y fee an oath and a groan of dismay. Frank Thornton had stepped in. Mrs, Richards, also. had risen. She was white. ‘Thornton uttered a dry, cutting sound. “I thought so.” he said in @ voice that sounded like a chise! scraping bone. “An assignation! You're a pair of sneaking hypo- crites!” He wheeled on his heel to go. I had been stricken dumb, but “Good God” I broke ont after a paralizing second or two. % “You" fists, blinded by pain. I pulled {unawares with the toughest blow 8g 5 E Z is : with eee tg ager bangs 3 ki cul off | Hy g z answer Aor hed Bert =o swung to the running board ant jumped to the curb, ‘He did not understand my lan- guage, but he int em- phasis. And Kasumigaura was one word which the whole world was trying to spell that day. He stepped on it! Luck held, When I bounded up to the airdr and officers on guard threatened to have me ar- rested, I asked for the name of the Queen of the Skies’ officer in char, “Ci Sur ‘ge of the watch, ol, Shannon!” welll Shannon appeared on he bridge. “Up there, you old Devil Dog!” pe waving like a crazy pro- peller. He stared. mighty snort, . Then he gave @ I crashed the gate without any further I had quite hold-ups. Forgotten that ap-/ him’ partly upright and sent my pearances must surely have been right into his open mouth, - a it me. ive you the ing out some teeth and kn dope on all that later,” I said him full length on his back. hurriedly. “Where's aster Goodm: stopping in this land of perfumed tarnquillity?” “Rope!” I wheezed to Mrs. qu ri ei nee was crouching, “american Embassy, of course.” teehe did’ not seem to_compre- naturally. ‘sy rar have hend, I glared about, still fee Euratom teeeee: murderous. Not a piece of twine in sight. I took hold of Thornton, yanked him out of his coat and vest and began to shred his shirt into strips. irs. aide potas made if choking noise. She was staring a! x2 straight over my With a premonition, I whirled around. le sevel “Young man, what mad eee . Woman’s body’ you run away with her , and where have you enor misguided later. You haven't “That's more dope to be told answered my question.” “She's headed for ‘Frisco.” “What?” hasn't gone yet, but ell, she she's going. I have a hunch you've There was the Strangler. He lost out there, Jack. This crazy had stolen into the room and was _stunt of a joy ride with Mrs, Rich- reaching toward me. ards just about finished you.” estation program at this time which | will afford employment as well as provide a source of profit in dollars and cents, Moreover, it is shown that income from these trees 50 years from now will more than pay off the bonds floated to pay for their planting. Young Trees Used However, it has been established that for many of the new uses of wood it will not be necessary to have the 50 to 100 year old tree—an argu- ment always used against planting trees—for the youngsters will produce cellulose and there will be from three to five crops in a lifetime. It is esti- mated also that 30-year-old common slash pine of the South will produce 2.93 tons per acre of cellulose every year when properly cropped, thus Putting tree crops in the continuous Production class. In the new era, Production will be greater from the young trees than from the trees growing to patriarchial dignity; and small areas, adjuncts to other pro- jects, such as grain or cotton fields, can be used. If consumption of industrial pro- ducts, among which wood is classed, is practically limitless, if lumber utilization bids to provide an incal- culably growing market because of the depletion of other natural re- tions: Appro; tes $1,219,171.60 for cperation of state university at Grand | Forks. S. B. 49—Committee on Appropria- 8. B. 50—Commiitee on Appropria- tions: Approvriates $900,740 for oper- lation of state agricultural college at Fargo. 8. B. 51—Brostuen of Williams—Mc- Kenzie: Requires specific labeling of | tee: livestock remedies, and compels sellers \to obtain licenses. i} tee: Appropriates $2,000 for care of | feeble minded at large. |tee: Appropriates $90,000 for care of | insane patients in state at large. tee: Appropriates $50,000 for wolf, |coyote and magpie bounties. ;tee: Appropriates $2,000 for boys’ and Senate Bills Introduced Biils Passed By Senate 8. B. 14—Appropriations commit- 8. B. 16—Appropriations commit- S. B. 17—Appropriations commit- 8. B. 18—Appropriations commit-! deficit in general maintenance fund of agricultural college. | tee: | contingency fund. tee: tenance of state capitol grounds. tee: state workmen's compensation bureau. tee: [highway deaartment. tee: |credited to general fund. sources and because of the transfor- | mation of forest products from a me- chanical industry to a chemical one | _ which will devise more and more uses for cellulose—what a future there is for the wood grower. There is yet another way in which forests are to be profitable and that is by their beauty and the spiritual uplift they bring to human lives. Not only is life enriched by the presence of magnificent trees and the streams ‘ i | and forest life that they foster, but! this contribution to human well-be- ing is also convertible into hard dol- lars and cents. With the advent of the automobile, the increasing network of good roads, the pressure of city life, and the shorter working day, more and more People are turning to the woods for relaxation, recreation, and regenera- tion. Where they go, they spend money. visited in one year the National For- ests which are not even near to the Population centers of the United States. 000,000 has been spent in Wisconsin alone in one year by tourists and others in search of recreation. It is only too well-known that it does not take American people long to do things thoroughly—indeed, along agricultural lines, to produce not wisely but too well—but because the world demand for wood products 4s now increasing, according to those who study markets, and the use of cellulese is going to enlarge it many times, it is the conclusion of sound economists that the farmer can grow too much wheat, he can grow too much corn, he can grow too much cotton, but he can’t grow too man; # gro many MINNESOTA MAN KIDNAPED Center City, Minn. Jan. 22—(#)— Kidnaped while alone in his home in Minneapolis, Donald It is estimated that $100,-; More than 31,000,000 people | 8. B. 33—Fowler of Cass: Appro- Heuse Bilis introduced H. B. 59—Appropriations commit- ; Provides $40,000 for the state | H. B. 60—Appropriations commit- Appropriates $138,580 for mmain- H. B. 61—Appropriations commit- Appropriates $139,990 for game and fish department. H. B 6 —Approprictions commit- Appropriates $130,058 for the H. B. 63—Appropriation commit- - Apropriates $371,600 for state H. B. 64—Appropriations commit- |tee: Appropriates $153,280 for motor | vehicle registration bureau FLYERS REACH CHICAGO Chicago, Jan. 22.—(4)—Four scout- | girls’ club work at state fairs. jing planes assigned to the cruiser S. B. 20—Appropriations commit- Appropriates $4,000 for refund- ing money erroneously paid into or Chicago at San Francisco arrived aft- ler flying from Cleveland. The planes, under command of Lieutenant Com- {mander H. E. Halland, U. S. N., Far: go, priates $113,035.75 for payment of flight to San Francisco Thursday. N. .D., were to continue thei NEW GROUP WOULD BOOST NON-RESIDENT HIGH SCHOOL TUITION North Dakota School Officers| Association Organizes Here pensation was favored. Under the Present law, elected and the village fathers have no authority to appoint and pay as-| | sistants. village marshals are The question of what should be done with fees collected by court clerks in naturalization proceedings was referred to the attorney general. | A survey showed that some clerks are keeping the fees, others are turning them over to the counties and in one case the clerk is keeping half and giving the county half. Chief Justice A. M. Christianson , proposal to authorize village boards to | efficiency of dairy cattlé through appoint policemen and fix their com- breeding, it is believed that the only sure way to establish a high and profitable level of production is through the use of proved bulls. EAD COLDS ‘Melt in boiling water and inhale vapors; also snuff up. nose. Wednesday — ot the state judicial council. With legislation permitting higher tuition fees from non-resident stu- dents in standardized high schools as its main object, the North Dakota School Officers association was or-| ganized Wednesday afternoon at a| his successor. meeting in the Bismarck Association | of Commerce rooms. E. W. Gilbertson, Devils Lake, was ‘named president of the new organiza- addressed the attorneys on the work | SOUTH DAKOTAN QUITS Pierre, S. D., Jan. 22.—(P)—Fred R. Smith, state superintendent of banks, | resigned and E. A. Ruden was named | i eS | After 12 years of careful study of | the problem of raising the production | tion. F. P. Bergman, Williston, was made vice president, and Noel Tharal- Modern White Gold Frames |son, Devils Lake, secretary. Only members of school boards in the state and legislators attended the | organization meeting, 125 being pres- | J. W. Calnan, Berthold, was hairman. soft and smooth Only $4.50 Expert Eye Service at Greatly Reduced Prices With comfortable pearl pads | Charging that the average cost of| teaching a high school student for one school year is $104 in North Da- kota, leaders of the new organization declare that the presen’ law, which allows school districts to charge non- resident high school students only $54 each year, should be revised. DR. MacLACHLAN’S Nature Cure Clinic DR. A. S. ANDERSON Optometrist—Hye Specialist ere DISTRICT CONTESTS TOBBHELD AT MOTT Music, Declamation and Com- mercial Tests to Determine Entries in Final Mott, N. D., Jan. 22.—High school contests of all counties in the tenth district will be held in Mott April 16 The contest is sponsored by the ex- tension division of the University ot North Dakota and includes music, declamation, and commercial subjects. District 10 comprises the counties of Bowman, Adams, Grant, Hettinger, and Slope. ‘The winners of first place in the district music contests are eligible to enter the state contest at the univer- sity, and first and second place win- ners in the declamatory and commer- cial contests are eligible to enter the final contest at Grand Forks. The district contest will be judged by Prof. Hywel C. Rowland, of the university music department. The contest at Mott is in charge of Super- intendent Browning of the Mott high school. ‘The Mott Lions’ club will award a loving cup to the school winning the highest number of points in the con- test. The events follow: Girl's solo, high voice; girl's solo, low voice. Boy's solo, high voice; boy’s solo, low Voice. Boys’ small vocal groups (duets to sextets). Girls‘ small vocal groups (duets to sextets). Mixed sextets). Jano solo. jo duet; two pianos, four hands jolin solo. } inet solo. Saxophone solo. Brass instrument solos—Cornet: or trumpet, trombone, French horn, and tuba or baritone. Other orchestral instrumental solos —Viola, cello, flute, marimba, xylo- phone. Small groups of orchestral instru- ments (three to six instrumentalists). Boys’ glee club; two divisions, Girls’ glee club; two divisions, Mixed chorus; two divisions, Orchestra; two divisions. Band; two divisions. Declamatory Contest 1. Oration—Boys. 2. Reading contest—Girls’ declam- mall yocal groups (duets te atory. 8. Reading contest—Boys’ declam- atory. Commercial Contest 1, Typewriting—Novice class. 2. Typewriting—Amateur class. 3. Shorthand—Novice class. 4. Shorthand—Amateur class. Look for the Sign C. C. C. on Main Avenue The Capital Commercial College 31413 Main Ave. Phone 121 Bismarck, North Dakota We do PUBLIC STENOG- RAPHY, MIMEOGRAPHING, TYPING, CARBON COPY WORK, etc. at a nominal cost in order to give our students practical experience. And we do it right. We have enrolled many new students since the holidays. One came from the South High school, Minneapolis; one from the Inter-State Business college of Fargo; another from the Da- kota Business college of Fargo; another from the State Agricul- tural college of Fargo; another from Madison, Wis. Which Proves what? Well, we have a pretty good Commercial College here in Bismarck. Better times are coming. We have hed two years of “Depres- sion” and it. seldom lasts longer than that. We will have a num- ber of bright, well-trained sec- retaries and stenographers to go out to positions early in the spring. A few days ago Miss Gladys Ellison passed. a fair test of 160 words a minute in original dictation without an error. This is the highest test we have had passed. Miss Ellison has the abil- ity to make one of the fastest shorthand writers in the north- west, and an excellent reporter. Miss Florence Dohaney of Bis- | They recommended that the tu- | ition charge permitted be raised from $1.50 to $2.50 a week. This tuition is! paid by the district in which the stu- dent is a resident. Six members of the new group were appointed to a committee to consider ways and means of getting the de- ; Sired legislation at this session of the North Dakota legislature. They are Mr. Gilbertson, Mr. Calnan, Mr. Bergman; A. C. Torgerson, Berthold; J. F. Bohnhoff, Valley City; and Mrs. B.S. Nickerson, Mandan. Eight legislative members, four from the senate and a like number from the house. were appointed to help the, association's committee in. drawing! up a bill for presentation. They are Senators P. W. Eddy, Jamestown; Fred Aandahl, Litchville; George | Hoople, Hoople; and Frank H. Hy- and, Devils Lake; and Representa- | tives Minnie D. Craig, Esmond; Hal- vor L,’ Halverson, Minot; Traynor, Starkweather; | McManus, St. John. | Attorneys Advocate Proposal by Morris Recommendation by Attorney Gen- . ral James Morris that the state bu- veau of criminal identification be en- larged by the addition of two men so it it can assist in the apprehension as well as the identification of crim- ‘inals was approved by North Dako- , 1a state’s attorneys at the clasing session of their convention here Wed- |° A bill to reduce the mileage fees’ j flowed to sheriffs was opposed and a; Edwin and James Phone 687 We offer vur modern home suitable for large or small fu- nerals at no additional cost. # W. E. PERRY Funeral Director marck is almost as rapid. Call us {f you will need office help. We have DAY and EVENING classes all the year round. Come to @ school where you get the closest personal attention and the most individual help. 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