Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1921, Page 73

“I LOVE YOU, EXCLAMATION POINT” BY J. GEORGE FREDERICK. ERE Is Something Brand-new in the Way of Fiction—It Demon- strates That Love Will Find a Way, Even With So Gentle a Soul as Mr. Candler, Who Puts an Office Device to one of the gifls—or a bevy of them —managed, from the time the girl rose until she left the bullding, to be engazed in pouring u long and al sorbing description of doings the night before into Miss Hathaway's bewildered ears, until the confused girl must have imagined she was lis- tening to elght cylinders of dictation at once. The look of distress on Mr. Candler's face was a signboard of suffering for all to see. He was in &« lioness’ den; eight lionesses were in his path and he was apparently helpless. NEW SOURCE OF RUBBER IS DISCOVERED BY CARNEGIE INSTITUTION SCIENTISTS DR. D. T. MacDougal Makes Fir;t Announcement of Important Advance. Riches in Guayule, a Mexican Plant—Years of Experimentation Bring Suc- | cess—Possibility of Rubber Pavements—No Shortage of Natural Resources— and smooth one, set it snugly on the machine with a delicate pat of his slender fingers and settled back in his chair. Slowly the same far- away look came into his eyes and hie head assumed the famillar slant and his volce started off in the familiar monotone: “One copy no carbon special white vellum bond paper folded Salutation dearest girl in all this troubled sphere Paragraph I love you ex- clamation point paragraph As I sit here comma day after day comma talking into this machine comma it | | Wild Plants to be Domesticated. : , ms a joy Jjust because I know you alone will listen all day long to my words period paragraph quote love’s apostrophe s wireless quote comma as the poet Dowson capital d-o-w-5-0-n put It comma is the In a tight situation we all use the weapons and the tools we are familiar with, because they are the only ones we know how to use. Mr. Candler’s delicate, slender fingers hadn’t famil- farly grasped any weapon or tool, not even a pen, for most of his adult a Use Undreamed of by the Inveutor. than ever and more papers, but no more room. S Mr. Candler was a mystery, first be- BY EDWARD MARSHALL. ter and the famine of essen- ial things are croaking, it is New York, December 10, 1921. S THE prophets of evil, disas- T was a crasy office—so everybody a comfort o with real wisdom. Are our natural| sald who had ever worked in it. You couldn’'t call an office and have been of such great interest that sclentists from all parts of the world have ceme to study them. With myself the: men have been deeply fascinated this thrilling chapter of the domesti- cation ¢f a wild plant—a thing not cause you simply could not get ac- quainted with him. If you talked with him he appeared to agree self- consclously with everything you said, and as soon as you stopped talking he appeared to think the conversa- tion was at an end and moved on. But what he wrote when he sat in anything but crazy which had Mo office hours, no boss that you could notice, and boasting a little china closet In a corner from which dainty teacups came out promptly at 4 every afternoon when Miss Madden, the manager of the Mercury Publicity Agency, served tea to all, even to the eMce boy. Some people, including Mrs. Hag- garty, the cleaner for that floor, who looked in at some late hour of night, would have sald that the craziness of this office consisted of the feroclous and cheerful manner with which the employes worked overtime, unmindful of the clock, and centent with a mere mess of sandwiches for a meal. Cer- tainly that did need some explaining, as you could note by the way thej other tenants peered in the door curlously. Others were sure that the office must be & crazy office because of the ‘ncredibly unsystematic way it was kept, from the efficiency engineering point of view. There weren't twelve square inches of clear space on any desk in the place, and every room was literally bursting with bulging, exploding letter files—overhead, un- derfoot, to the rear of you, to the Zront of you, to the side of you. There was always a blizzard of papers, and nobody ever stopped to shovel a path. Poor Mrs. Haggarty w at first in nightly fear that she had destroved preclous documents after she had made a feeble onslaught upon them, with no more success than the New York snow-cleaning commissioner in the blizzard of 1920. But after a while she got calloused to ft—just like the snow-cleaning commissioner —and she scratched away what she could and called it a night. About once & week they came to her and asked anxiously about some paper or other that had been lost, but she turned them a deaf ear. Again, there were others who knew Mr. Armetrong Strayer, the owner of the business, who would have said|} his private Iittle office—which became the office was crazy because Mr.{Crowded the moment he sat in it, for Strayer was a genius or & fool, ac- | 4ll his slenderness—was like the fine- cording to whom it was you talked|SPun web of deft spider. He could with. turn out weighty economic articles, ‘Sarcastic critics who kept ono ear | Stories, advertisements, editorfals, in- cocked for scandal sometimes put it| terviews and speeches—with which os their guess that it was a crazy | MOT® than one politiclan made his office because, with one exception, Mr. Strayer had only woman employes —all types and kinds, short, tall, fat,} Jean, beautiful and homely—and ap- parently did not control them; and; vet they all gpenly admitted they adored him! voice as he sat holding the tube of the dictating machine with his slim hands, and looking absently one sentence In five hundred. ERE EE R HE girls of the office made them- selves 5o at home in it that they dominated it. It was a parlor and not at all a man's haven like most offices. Mr. Strayer was out most of the time, and even when he was there he wes so adaptable a person that he never felt out of place. But poor Mr. Can- dler feit more or less constanly like 2 man who stays at home and gets in his wife’'s way and feels in danger of being compelled to do small talk at his wife’s tea. Which is precisely what occurred In this crazy place every day, for although Mr. Candler had for three years refused every day without fail—except on the few days when Mr. Strayer insisted—to join the girls at tea. nevertheless each day they asked him !ga{n. 1t was like a ceremony. Miss Mad- den, who had bobbed hair and wore a smock and could have snepped Mr. Candler’s thin arms in two with her athletic arms, would say each day with the same particularly graceful smile, “Won't you join us at tea, Mr. Candler?™ and the office would it BUT tke emploves themselves had | their'own ideas as to why it was such a crazy office—and you could tell from the way they said it that they loved it. For one thing, no Kirl had ever come into that office who didn’t get engaged or married fnside of six mopths. And what's more, three of those who had ma ried came back to work agzin as soon as they were married. and one of them was working afternoons andq Jooking after housework and baby in the morning. One of them got up from her typewriter twice during the day to go home and see if the baby was all right! One of them was snarried to a man another girl in the ofice had divorced! Yes, it was a crazy office. For one thing there was such a never-ending stream of excitement in the Mercury Publicity Agency. Ro- smance, “big business” and politics vocused there, in 2 way which made any other office seem like a country town because of the publicity work | . being done and the visitors of all| for Mr. Chandler's faint tone, :. Xinds who came. Ethel Barclay, one| thank you.” It wa: like a gdllma o: of the brightest of the staff, one day | try to “gmoke out” Mr. Candler, ke decided that she could do better with | to try to marry him off to some n r company. Of course, she | girl in the office or to make advances Anybody could have told her| to him on a dare. Yet in "h}a own that! So she went with the blessings [ way Mr. Candler was very light on of the office and of the head of the|his feet,” for he could retreat in a v d manners weeks she was | greater variety of ways an :):‘:::“" e from the combined onslaughts of the “I never was so bored in my life,” | staff than they could think up ways whe svowed frankly. “There I sat! to trip him. ull day long on this great floor with 2| But one day shortly after a new dic- hundred other executives, and only | tation-machine operator, in the per- ofice boys, mail carriers, pretty|gon of & particularly sad-eyed and clerks and stenographers visited me. | gentle-mannered girl, had been hired, I was in the organization, but I was| the girls were dumfounded to see Mr. the smallest, most God-forsaken cog| Candler sharpening a pencil for her. you could imagine! Once or twice a | Eight feminine eyebrows rose almost week I went in to ses my chief, and as one and gazed at Mr. Candler, who, ne was like steel trap. I Jjust|observing, blushed as he had nev.ir couldg't stand it. Me for less money | been known to blush and fled preclpi- and & job under a man with some| tately to his little corner."l( was ‘brains and a personality, even if I'm | what is D jpularly termed “a dead palf worked to death! gave away”; utterly unpreedented, That afternoon, to celebrate Bar-|strange, exogamous and revolution- clay's return to the staff, the boss | ary. It was rich gravy for th: ul;: sent for some ice cream and then like | principled female brigands of the o’ the brilliant devil he was, told such | fice, this sudden flowering, right ln an unceasing string of good stories| their midst, of & violet of rom‘Anca n and so deliclously teased the esthetic,| the barren heart of Mr. Cn;d elr. 2 sby Mr. Candler, his assistant, in the| Having been thwarted in r;e r ¢:lw pregence of & client—a public official | efforts to marry off Mr. Candler, they who had come in and joined in the|were out to thwart him. A ub-.: w:a fun—that it was only with difficulty |instantly formed to place obstacles : that they got their plates emptied!|love's path. Every device, fair lnl And that night .they worked until|foul, was used to prevent the gir] pearly midnight getting some rush|from talking to Mr. Candler, or from atuff into the malls. Nor was it by [meeting him coming or going, at the he boss® orders, elther. They knew |office. It then watched in deliclous the situation, and acted on their own |anticipation for Mr. Candler’s pussy- snitiative as a matter of courso. You|foot moves to accomplish even such a besin perhaps to ses why the office | pathetically modest tryst as carry- was so ‘sndeniably crazy. ing to the girl's desk a cylinder of ¥ Mr. Candler was the mystery of the | dictation to obtain a moment of per- affice. He no more belonged in that | functory conversation. Cruelly was he nest of bright girls than he belonged |denied even this by the seemingly ac- in the Zoo amonsg the grizzlies; and cidental, but never failing nearness of apparently he knew it and took onjsome one with a rude interruption. wrhat the Neo-Freudians call a self-|The smoke screen on Mr. Candler's protective coloration. He clung ta|face became less and less inscrutable, his little cubby-hole, rarely venturing | as he obviously showeéd his disap- out, and when forced to do so, walked : pointment. Also he became more bold with & nervous, rapid stride, wearing |and callous in his plannings to talk & smeke-screen look of low visibility, |to her. and stepping s bit daintily among the| He appeared with his hat always {nevitable litter both of papers and [about the time she left, with a studied #f girls; for with the scarcity of of- |air of accident, entirely inconsistent fles space, high rents and sudden on- | with his previous habit of staying in nfldwfi.flmmw&dfl- 'his office until the girls had gone, But i lifetime. The livelong day he sat clutching the tube and mouth-plece of a dictation machine. He hated pens or pencils or typewriter keys, and on such occasions when his dicta- tion machine was out of order tem- porarily, he stood up idly and dis- ‘consolately, look'ng out of the win- THE LOOK OF DISTRESS ON MR. CANDLER’S FACE WAS A SIGNBOARD OF SUFFERING FOR ALL TO SEE. dow with a sense of bereavement, like a shoemaker deprived of his awl. EE i PBUT what he could do with his machine and the magia cylinders of it was as artistic a series of per- formances as one could well imagine. { hit—without changing the tone of his | He would start In of a morning, let| pleading for a candidate comma but ue say, to prepare, in behalf of the! Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association, a 2 Into | jearned disquisition to be offered for | Woman I ever cared about perfod If space. Nor would he miss a punctua- | prplication to the farmers' journals|I could only hear your voice in re- tion point n his dictation. or miX UP | ¢ the country; and this is what his|turn exclamation polnt smooth, cultivated voice. would say into the glass mouthpiece “Seven copies on onlonskin single space line close to top released for publication June twenty eight head- line in capitals Cottonseed Mash De- clared Coming Cattle Flood paragraph Scientists have been giving con- siderable time to the problem of cheaper cattle food dash a problem very closely related to the H C of L capltalize period Among these scien- tists professor Frazer f-r-a-z-e-r has comma it 18 now announced comma arived at a highly important con- clusion semicolon so important comma indeed comma that the quote buga- boo b-u-g-a-b-o0-0 end quote of por- terhouse steaks as a luxury for the rich only may now be averted period” Then would follow detalls of protein content, and a great deal of techni- cality with which, to hear Mr. Candler, you would swear he had been familiar for years; whereas the cotton seed crushers had only several weeks ago called on Mr. Strayer to plead that he do something to help them, and had little or no data to offer. And Mr. Candler never mis- handled a fact or propagated a lie; he was one of thosé rare publicity men who could make unhoticed truth blossom ltke a rosé.’ He did not use either lies or adjectives to win his publicity battles; he used well dressed fact. Lifting deftly the cylinder from the machine after half an hour of this, he would put another on and, with the same easy nonchalance and the same far-away look in his eyes, he would then say—in behalf of the democratic political campaign: “Two copies white and carbon double-spaced line close to top sug- gested editorial headline in caitals The League of Nations as a Great Business Enterprise Paragraph World affairs are business affairs in the main period Disraell capital a-f ra-a-e-1-1 once sald comma in a burst of temper to parliament capi- tal comma that world business was being left in the hands of pirates and pack peddlers {nstead of atates- men period” And then Mr. Candler would ex- pound gently, until the end of the cylinder, the thesis that we owed it to the greatness of the nation to take up our world responsibilities. Slipping off the cylinder and In a trice putting another on, he would proceed to prepare for the hardware trade papers some hews items about 2 newly patented double boiler for ‘housewives or a veiy imposingly couched communication to the medi- cal journals aboyt modern practices in anesthetics, or notices about a Salvation Army fund “drive.” Sitting, mouthpiece in hand, Mr. Candler, however, one morning seemed unable to continue his dic- tation; a thought seemed to obsess him. His eyes quite distinctly did not have a far-away look in them; they seemed particularly shining and real. Perhaps the noticeabls flush on his face set them off to advantage. Flfteen minutes before he had once more beenn checkmated in a very in- nocent-looking effort to say a few words to ths dictaphone operator. * ¥ * *x CUDDENLY he léaned. over to thé rack of fresh oylinders and ex- amined one after another ef them. He selected finally a particularly new . |likely to be ceen more than once in « lifetime. i | “But now all has been accomplished and therc are maturing in these figlds growing rows of shrubs containing rubber which are evenly matured. It is now belicved that they are ripe. The determination of the esact hyr- vest time has not been made, byt it ie near at hand. It !ssafe to say that &n immense achievement i= about to be announced. “Guayule rubber i= not exactly ke that known as ‘Para’ It has special usefulness in the manufacture of most rubber articles, including tircs. This cuitivation of guayule will be of mighty moment to the industry, and will tend greatly to extend the us»~ of rubber. “Rubber, orce it is produced in quantities sufficient, will be available for thousands of purposes vet ur- dreamed of. At the outset of our talk I mentioned street paving. Wild as that statement may seem now, it may not seem so later on. Copper new is in surplus because its previous gear- city hezs limited its uses. Soon mew uses will make it scarce again. The same is true of rubber. It is safe to say at present that neither the motor industry nor any other will suffer in the future for the lack of it, but that for it many uses now unknown will be discovered.” eed we actually fear exhaustion of any really essential natural mate- rial?” 1T asked Dr. MacDougal. “I think not” he answered. “The study of nature's ways and human effort shows that when man's sup- plies of raw materials run low need and rising prices loose hundreds of inquiring spirits to the study of ways and means for the increase of the supply or for the satisfaction of the needs with other materfal. Such & state of affairs now exists with re- gard to the liquid fuel supply.” “Then you do not feur exhaustion for that, either?" I inquired. “I do not fear it in the least. The number of trained scientists now en- | 8aged in researches designed to keep {at hand a full supply of fuel for the ! world's motor vehicles would amaze the layman. “The general thought that I sheuld wish to convey to the public is that the fear that civilized and developed man will slip on any of these prob- lems is a pessimism not in the least justified by any probability, With the facilities for research now avail- | able, it is impossible for me to be- lteve that mankind ean be halted in his quick advance by any problem. “If our trained scientists should find themselves in the, to me, un- | thinkable extremity of being unable ito unlock the necessary stores of en- ergy for heat and light, for Instance— in other words, if coal and ofl should fail us, and if we could not utilize accompanied by various un. | €lectricity supplied by our vast unde- {veloped hydraulic powers—we still have streaming down on us every day unlimited power wealth in form of sunlight, the capture and utilization of which is not to be regarded as a task impossible to human ingenuity. “I would be the last man in the world to argue against conservation of natural resources. Nothing can justify their waste as we unlock them. “But at the same time 1 have com- plete confidence in the ability of na- ture to supply us in future, and in- creasingly in accordance with the de- mands created by our own develop- ment, as she has done in the past.” (Copyright, 1921, by Edward Marshall.) Work of Acetylene. PULAR as acetylene has become during the past two decades as a gas, the uses of the medium are really in their infancy. About eighteen years ago calcium carbide—the prin- cipal source of acetylene—was pre- pared for general use. Necvertheless, the gas has as yet been employed mainly for lighting. Englneers throughout the world have applicd themselves of late years to the prob- lem of extending the application of the gas, with results that seem likely to revolutionize industries requiring a high degree of heat. ; Instances of these wonders been given by means of motion pic- ture films. “No more rivets,” was the title of one picture. It revealed a workman welding together two plcces of steel by means of an acetylene blower. The heat generated was 6,300 degrees at least, and by its means the two pieces of steel were simply welded together. There followed a picture showing a workman cutting out designs in steel by means of an acetylene blower as easily as cutting paper, with the advantage that he mechanically followed the draftsman’s plan. The draftsman’s design on pa- per is lald on & machine. Over it the workman simply runs a wheel, fol- lowing the drawing. By a mechani- cal arrangement the blower moves exactly with the wheel, but over u sheet of steel. With almost incon- ceivable ease, fantastic designs are cut out of the solid steel. The most intense heat with the blower is se- cured when oxygen is mixed with the acetylene. An example of the uses to which this combination can be put was shown in the cutting of a solid block of armor plate sixtesn inches thick. The actual cutting took four min- utes. Cutting boiler tubes was an- other of the uses to which acetylenc was applied. By means of the com- pass torch, the holes were seen to be cut with absolute exactitude. This resources on the verge of their ex- haustion? They are not. Especially, the metorist need fear exnaustion neither of rubber for his tires nor| fuel for his engine. Read and learn from the words of Dr. D. T. Mac- Dougal, one of the world’s most dis-| tinguished sclentists, upon the uuh-i Ject. Especially this eminent student in the world of plant life says we need not worry about rubber, that product Wwhich the pessimists have been de- claring soon would be so scarce with- out immense expenditure the auto- motive industry would perish from the earth; that is, we need not worry if we work. “We shall have rubber in sufficient quantities to meet our needs,” he eaid, without the slightest hesitation. “and I belleve that in the days to come our needs will be ten times—a hun- .dred times—as great as they are now. “If it should be decided in the cities, for example, that rubber pavements for the streets, which can be taken up when worn, as blankets might be moved, and replaced by new ones be- tween midnight and daylight, will be worth the effort, I believe that we shall find the rubber out of which to make them. And such is my In- structed faith in nature that I feel sure that reasonable wisdom will sup- ply our other future needs as gener- ously.” It {8 to rubber and its production from plants other than the generally known caoutchouc that Prof. Mac- Dougal has been giving his attention recently under the entirely non-com- mercial auspices of the Carnegie Foundation. W | pRwATC DR. DAVID T. MACDOUGAL OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION, WHO MAKES THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW SOURCE OF RUBBER., ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— lies In his ability to overcome (hosgldu(‘e a food or fiber available for use which are adverse. Today Steffansson | Within a year or at most two, and of is raising reindeer for meat up in the|such a nature that its product can be arctic. Man is the only animal which | eXtracted cheaply. It must mature in ean live in all environments. Exactly|Such a way that there will be a gen- that man does. eral harvest time. 1f wheat matured “And now the challenge of the|lirresularly, each head would need to desert may be sald to have been an.|be collectcd separately. Most wild swered. Man steadily has advanced.|Plants do mature irregularly, but Coal and oil were known at first sim- | thers are many species now wild ply as fuel materials. Now a mere|Which might be grown to serve very list of the many different articles|n€0€ssary food purposes and to ma- manufactured from these raw mate- lu:‘ in restricted harvesting periods. itz iwonid Alllhurareds o pages It we should destroy all our pres- « “When I was born coal was coal ent starch producing plants, science and oil went into lamps. Now, passed | WOUld suggest a thousand others along through the laboratories of the [ Which might be developed to replace chemists, both influence in many ways | B¢ BUPPIY. This might take time, the dafly lives of all of us. When the which would be serious, but it could white man came to America the In- be done, fo the disaster would not be dians were rateing com and cating|fatal. The same would be true if our 1t when boiled or rcasted. Todus corn | Present textile plants should all die may be Loiled or roasted, but it is| uddenly. The Colorado river valley prepared as food in many other ways, | TP plant is an example of unde- and, besides, produces ofl and a great | }€I°P%d VeECtable possibilities. Which number of cther useful by-products. | IV RS US 10 the newly discovered or an coal. ofl, | developed source of rubber. ‘All these new uses for coal, oil, & corn and a thousand other things| * k% % have b;en due to the work of the (T \HE expanding use of rubber fol- research man. lowing ;the discovy “The utilization of the desert for|ments of tha saw merinr ] the production of rubber and for|made it availa S ade it available for many useful many other things will come from | purposes threatened the suppiy of gt similar effort. That Is what will save available wild prants. o us from disasters of exhausted Te-| “Cultivation in plantations sources. i began in the Far Ei “We can find more than one thing|clsewhere, and the box avallable for any given use. A COM-|thix wa plete list of the plants from which | gesir. we derive our foods and textiles must | which newspa i per readers a seem pitifully small to any botanist | re familtar. “Bu s » with even a limited expert knowledge | jjitie :ox::}n“rd f»‘.':b.:fiuxifl‘na:?".hflf of the flora of the world. He knows.‘ regions which, through their aridity, that there are hundreds other than|were unavallable for other things, those on which man now dependsiThis meant that rubber was demand- principally for his support Whichiing Jand which might be utilized for could be made available If all or any |other purposes—a fact not serious, of these, through tragic magic, should | byt not an ideal circumstance. That. become extinct. however, bids fair goon not to be the * % % E case. Rubber, like other staples, now {1s known to be available vi 2 J i n a variety MESTICATION of wild plants i3/ o¢ climates, and perhaps hundreds of «D° not a stmple or quick matter,|plane species. but is possible. Our principal €rob| “One of these c: plants have reached their present|gsuavyle V'L.:li; ‘;;];fhiifi'.;“fl;:'? stage of development after thousands| ;atum) of the Chihuahua desert, its of years of guidance. It is only re-|jabitat extending into the Pecos re- cently that this work has been sure gion of Texas. This plant contains a and even reasonably fast. With man's|caoutchouc which long has been advancing knowledge of heredity and|marketed in limited quantities as evolution in plant life, we now should | taken from the wild plant, be able to take a wild plant (a8 We| Byt there is no purely wild plant should be and are able to take almost | :n the world producing any general any new mineral) and in a decade|,rticle of commerce which, if left in make more advance with it than pre- | ;g wilq state, eventually will not be viously would have been possible In|.xnausted by the demands of trade. a thousand years. Use of wild plants means their ex- “In his conquest of the desert oneyinetion; continued use necessitates of man’s most notable achievementsinejr cultivation. And the cultiva. is progressing. ~In this conquered|jon of guayulo never was attempted Jand man is able to control many | yneil recently. things which elsewhere are subject{ .pr . B. MacCullum, @ scientist to climatic uncertainties, for uPON||igely known for his skill in manip- irrigated land' there is a certainty ofy ja¢ion with living plants, selected | cropping which was unknown to old-| ., experimental location, comprising time farmers. Thus plants which may | coveral hundred acres, on the arid be grown {n irrigated desert land are |, ;5 near the sea and Santiago, Calif. of especial certainty. That is & fa- mpe first important result was the vorable circumstance with regard to|jetection of several hundred varieties the new source of rubber supply. of the wild plant. Then selection for “Cultivation up to now has been|,;, post began, a task of magnitude, principaliy of those plants which have| ¢ . svoce <aricties were as wide in been handed down as useful by our| ;.. gifference as are different va- ancestors. Now a keener scientific| joyioq for instance, of apples, the attitude and deeper comprehension|giy. onceq pertaining not only to the has led in two new directions—agrl-| .y orior appearance of the plants, but cultural exploration and development|, , yo quantity and quality of rubber of that which is discovered. yield. “The principal ctvilized countries|™ wpy, next step, with the methods have sent sbientific men to the re-| 0 oy ancestors or their lack of otest reglons of the earth to ex-| ., 45 might have occupied a thou- ‘amine native agricultural practices in| o0 "o LB 0 T D modern the effort to bring to light new plants| ;. ¢;q. guidance and devotion it has of possible use. Especlally such ef-| ., o1y 5 short time. The selee- fort has been devoted to the search|, .. ~"o¢ 4 gmall number of varleties, for plants which might prosper in promising, by reason of the quantity spite of & restricted water supply. and quality of their product, from the “Results considered important have |, . tnousands of plants grown from been accomplished. From dry regions | oY 1Pt el B LR et neces- of western Asia have been obtained| " Yoy FUCCr Loy gevelopment strains of alfalfa needing less water| o o4¢ of cultivation which would than the varieties usually known bring plants simultaneously to ma- here. To some extent, similar accom-| .y “naying the establishment of plishments have been achieved with | V% 8. oot by, wheat and corn. But we are begin- * % %% ning to realize that while we may get something from a search of the uTHE stage for this second act was world for cultivated plants, it will set on a great ranching prop- not be enough nor good enough. So|erty near Tucson, Ariz, where the modern agricultural experiment more ' desert laboratory of the Carnegie and more is basing itself on the tech- | Institution is located. There the field expert conducted his experiments in nique of increasing efficlency by studying wild plants with the thought | collecting and ripening seeds, their germination and transplantation and of their domestication. “A plant to be of any agricultural | cultivation in flelds, all of which had use must be capable of being grown|to be worked out through the ex-|operation can be mastered, it is sald, penditure of an enormous effort and|by any intelligent workman in & few densely in flelds of restricted, area, must mature not toe slowly, and pro- | much time. Detalls at this stage ) hours, so atmple is 1¢. * & % 7THE man whko owns a flivver, the other chap who rides in a big car, as well as the innumerable and grow- ing host who have come to depend on automotive vehicles for the expansion of their business, will be cheered and fascinated by his optimistic views and epecial information. Moreover, he is certain now, because of recent ex- periments, that the world's supply of rubber can be drawn from lands which now lie waste, thus actually 2dding this vast new asset to the world's total twealth, and, if neces- sary, releasing such rich lands as now are used in rubber cultivation for other purposes. This first announcement of these facts gives this amasing interview much added interest. Danicl Trembly MacDougal is one of the most distin- guished of American scientists. In- dfana claims him for a son, but his usefulness has been world wide. He began his distinctive career as assist- ant director of the New York Botani- this oylinder and put it on my desk |cal Gardens, but In 1906 was called 80 I can put it on my machine and |t Washington to tako charge of the listen to vour volce interrogation |researches of the Carnegie Institution point It will be wonderful period |in the fleld of botanical science. Please belleve me to be sincerely in| For this work the Desert Labora- earnest period” jtory had been established at Tucson Gravely Mr. Candler lifted the wax |in 1902. Later a coastal laboratory cylinder trom the machine—having was set up at Carmel, Calif, and ar- used up not quite half of the surface | rangements were made for full col- —and placed it on the tray with the {laboration with researchers in varl- five or six other cylinders. The half- | ous parts of America and Europe. asleep office boy came in after a bit| In all this work Dr. MacDougal has and took them out—rather roughly [played a part which is found to be handling the tray to the exquisite|of paramount importance when an- pain of Mr. Candler. other tells of it, but which is sure to That evening the girls in the office {seem oxtremely modest when de- a5 usual bustled off with Miss Hatha- [scribed by him himself. With his way in their midst, but Mr. Candler|staff, he has carried out desert re- made no move to see her. search work wherever desert areas As he walked with his light step to | 0ccur in America, and also in Algeria, his office the next morning no one|E&ypt, Australia and South Africa. saw* any difference in Mr. Candler's| ‘“When the English settlers came to demeanor. But when he saw on his|What is now this nation,” said Dr. desk a lone cylinder his eyes apark- | MacDougal, “they found temperature led, and slipping it on his machine | #nd soil that would produce corn and and reversing its levers for listening |§ame, and these were all the natural instead of dictating he held the|resources that they looked for be- mouthpiece to his ear, his eyelids|yond the spreading forests' which fluttering, as with a scraping whirr | Would give them wood and fuel and the needle found the right place, sub- | shelter. The Spaniards came here to joining his own dictation, where a|find gold, and found it. Each new new dictation had been put on the|Succeeding generation has demanded oylinder. A very small voice said: of America new things. None ever “No copy no carbon use only mem- |has been disappointed. I think none ory no salutation. I do like you|ever will be. 5 comma and T must admire you period | ¢ “Treasures have developed in exact I could not help that semicolon your! accordance with the meaning at the work compels it period Sometimes I|time of the word ‘treasure.’ Now we have thought four asterisks and won- | have new ideas of the meaning of that dered five asterisks I wish dash but|word. Some there are who talk of then again comma you may really|the exhaustion of our natural re- only be amusing yourself period” sources, which are our greatest treas- Twice, three times, four times Mr. |ures, but we whose fleld is science are Candler listened to this cylinder, un- | beginning to feel sure that this need til the wax began to wear down.}not occur, that new sources of supply ‘There was still plenty of room on the | continually are to be found by those cylinder, so he placed it for dictation.|who realize and search and under- In the same workaday voice he said: |stand. “One copy no carbon special white| “This is absolutely true in the flelds vellum bond Salutation My Precious|of agriculture and engineering—the Girl Paragraph I knew your voice|one being that of raw material pro- would be like that dash like a Colum- | duction and the other that of its bine capital C-o-1-u-m-b-i-n-e in|ytilization. some far hyphen off garden of the moon period I wish you had kept on talking until you quote ran off the[¢‘\]/HEN I was & boy about one- oylinder ena quote period What did fonrthSSEitEeBiUntad Beases you wish interrogation point and why | ¥as shown in school geographies as did you wonder interrogation point I[desert. Four-fitths of ail that area repeat comma I love you exclamation since then has been proved to be suitable for human habitation and the establishment of various kinds of industries. point.” “We have developed lands once known as desert until they are at present more productive than that land which then was known as the nation's very best. In irrigated coun- try water is directed to a selected area, and then the greatest possible effort follows to make that area &s productive as may be. The result has been extraordinary. 'The so-called ert areas’ of the United States which have been put into production are more efficient, acre for acre, than any other in the world except the truck gardens of Holland, Belgium, the eastern edge of the United States and the market gardens of China, where the apotheosis of soil utiliza- tion has been reached. “Natural conditions? Man's glory, * term that might be applied to this dictation machine comma don’t you think so interrogation point I seem to have no other way of reaching you perfod I may be discoursing about cotton mash semi-colon urg- ing to contribute to the doughnut d-o-u-g-h-n-u-t fund comma or my irner volce scems always aware that I'm really talking to the only 1 almost fear to )k you whether you care for me comma because perhaps you have not heard anything in my voice but cotton mash or candidates period If you do like me a little comma won't you tomorrow before the girls come in dictate a little answer on then Mexico and om following w able financial developments with I have * % * % *x x 3 ¥ R several weeks there were many more cylinders shaved than the ordinary work of the office called for, but, watchful as were the clevercor- dons of females in the office, they saw only “business as usual” and not a single move on Mr. Candler's part. “He's getting over it” grinned Ethel Bardlay to the other girls one day. “He's diotating work like mad these days. Nothing like hard work to nip romance!” Now it happens in a crazy office ltke that of the Mercury Publicity Service that all sorts of sudden emer- gencies arise, and one evening, when Mr. Armstrong Strayer, the head of the business, was at dinner, he was appealed to by a prominent woman ~ . (Continued on SIXth Fage)