Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 74

Members of Exp Search for Food and Shelter Is Made on Greenland's Desolate Shore—Dan- ish Party, After Long Drift on Floes, Faces New Perils — Camping on a Rocky Ledge—Hopeless Search for a Settlement—Reduced to One Meal a Day—Party Is Separated. Then Re- united—A Dreary The gallant ship Teddy, a schooner equipped with an zuxillany engine, had sajled from Denmarxk bearing twenty- one men whose purpose was to establish fur stations on the northeast coast of Greenland. But the vessel had progressed but a little way into the Arctic Circle before' she was beset with ice, which hemmed her in on all sides. There followed a month of soul-searching experiences, dur- ing which the ship was sub- jected to intense pressure of the ice and persistent battering by angry flo Finally, with the ship in danger of sinking, the party jumped to an ice-floe. This was their home for twe; ty-four days, during which they drifted approximately 460 miles, an experience surpassed only by the crew of the German ship Hansa, similarly beset in 1869. At one point, dissatisfaction among the members of the ex: pedition caused Capt. Bistrup to resign the command, which was assumed by Lieutenant Ros- tock-Jensen. All this has been recounted by Mr. Dahl, who accompanied the expedition as & newspaper correspondent, In two previous articles. Having landed on the barren coast of Greenland, the party is, at the beginning of this ar seeking to win its way to a_set tlement and eventually to Den- mark. BY KAI R. DAHL. T a distance Ulgerdlek looked | quite cheerful and we had jollied ourselves in the thought of green sod and small crowberry bushes, but| we were sadly disappointed.* Uiger- dlek consists entirely of stone, mostly gneiss, and I think you would have to hunt hard to find a single blade of grass even in Summer. We sat up our quarters on the ice near several hig bowlders which were snowed and iced together until they afforded a fairly level ground fer the sleeping bags. In contrast to our former night camps, we were now spread out over considerable ground high up on the hill slopes, with quite a picturesque | effect. I need not say how much we enjoyed these firm and rocky sur- roundings, and the realization that at last we could lie down to sleep with no fear of being carried off at express speed into regions of deso- lation. The talk went back and forth in the sleeping bags through the radiant | star-bright night, and we began se.| riously to discuss the jovs that awaited us when we called upon the hospitable East Greenlanders, as we were sure we would do in a very few days. On one of the newest maps of this stretch we had found an Eskimo settle- ment on the little island, Nunakitit, | about eight miles northwest of Ulgerd: | Jek. According to the map, this was the most northerly settlement on the coast. Our idea was, In case the ice was strong enough. to send one of the crews the very next day to ask for | help from these Eskimos. | Although it froze heavily that night, | the party had no luck but turned back | in about an hour after the start, hav- ing been stopped by open water be- tween Itivdlisak and Uigerdlek and having discovered, furthermore, tha* the ice to the northward was very broken and uncertain. So there was nothing to do but to stay where we | were for the time beir | Heavy night frosts had thickened the new ice sufficiently so that ali 21 of us could continue our march next day, November 7. The team which was going to Nunakitit started first, and we had arranged that they should meet the main hody that after- noon on larger Puisak Island. ‘We started at sunrise, and marched Wait for a Ship. Lieutenant Rostock-Jensen decided to send an advance guard as soon as pos- sible to Cape Dan or Angmagsalik. For this rescue party were chosen the hunters Knudsen, Madsen and Tutein, all young active men, experienced in the "Arctic reglons and on sled trips. The main party should follow as soon as_possible. The rescue party was to have start- ed next morning, November 8, but the weather prevented it. It had begun to snow in the course of the night and looked like a storm, so that there was nothing further to do than to pull up the bearskin flap and stay in one's sleeping bag. But around mnoon it cleared again and it was decided to make the start. The snow made sled- ding heavy, but the three were in good spirits and felt that it had been an honor and a great chance for them to be chosen. The weather did not hold what it had promised that noon. Towards evening the wind fréshened, it began to snow again, and we had our first intimation of the fact that our ravine was anything but a comfortable place of sojourn. One avalanche after an- other swooped down on us, shovel- fuls of snow burying both ourselves and our belongings. Our sleeping bags lay picturesquely scattered over a terraced rocky slope but most of us were lying with our faces toward the south that we might not have our feet higher than our heads. It was an unfortunate choice, for the avalanche swept the snow in under the bearskin flaps and piled ‘drifts up over our heads. This night was the coldest that I had ever experienced. Small wonder, then, that we cursed the weather heartily The lieutenant went afleld every day to see if there was any chance for continuing our march. But it seemed quite impossible, for the new ice was now beginning to break up. We had to stay where we were, and this realization sent our s sinking, If we should live this wav much longer, we feared that we might not come oft without fatalities. We all felt our strength going, partiy bhe- cause of the scanty rations and also hecause of the bitter cold in the wet sleeping bags. The prospects for getting away from our ravine were growing worse instead of better, so we knew we must accustom ourselves to the idea that it might take us longer than the three weeks, for which we had pro- visions, to find natives. We had ul- ready gotten down to one cooked meal a day in the attempt to save our ofl. And now we were obliged to cut the rations down half, so that we had but one meal of any kind. We hoped we might hold out two | weeks longer. ‘When the lieutenant came b from his inspection the said there was a faint > that we might get the jolly-boat over to a little islet about .a mile north- west of our ravine. Knowing that something must be done to fight off the inactivity which was oppressing us, we decided that one team should try to get across with the hoat where we would be nearer to Puisak, our temporary goal. Number 1 team, Givskov, Kristensen, and Machinist Hansen, was sent out, while sallors Ole and Erik from No. 2 team went with them to row the boat back. * * FTER about an hour or so, Ola and Erik came back with the empty hoat. They had not got quite as far as the islet, but had reached a little_point on Itivdlisak, where one could easily o forward, partly on old firm ice, which reached as far as the islet. Ole, Erik, and Rostgaard got their sled packed in a hurry and started off. but when the boat came back this time it was o late that we could not get a third team oves Although there was a heavy frost, there was still some open water the next morning, so that the lieutenant sent out the third team, the captain, along past Uigerdlek Skerry with- BOTH OURSELVES AND OUR BELO! out difficulty. About noon, however, ‘when we had gone three or four miles, the ice suddenly began to rock and we could see the waves rolling under the thin surface. The ice was so uncertain all around us that the lieutenant was obliged to make camp on Itivdlisak Island al- though he did not like the idea. When ‘we had dragged the sleds to a place of reasonable safety, he went on ahead to examine the locality. Two men ‘were sent out to meet the crew com- ing from Nunakitit and let them know ‘where we were. It was quite a while before the lieu- tenant returned from his reconnoiter- ing with the information that there ‘were poor prospects for a camp on Itivdlisak, but that he had found a rocky ledge in the center of the island which might be possible. We called it the “Ravine” later, and I can hardly say that we were happy there. ‘The crew that had been sent to Nunakitit came back at sunset saying that they had reached thelr goal quickly, after having left the sled halfway, but to their great disap- pointment they saw no natives. The settlement had been forsaken long since, and none of the house sites showed signg of use within a year r_ or_two. . Now that Mapakitit bad failed us, Svend Hansen, and Alfred. Riis and S, SHOVELFULS OF SNOW BURYIN NGINGS.” I went with them 'to row the boat ck. It was a dificult passage, for the new ice was alreay so hard that two of ug had to sit in the bow and push the floes aside. After four hours of this toil we reached a little point, which, however, was not the one for which we were looking. Before we had come that far we suddenly heard a violent cannonade from the islet which we could now see plainly, Our six men there were gesticulat- ing, pointing, waving their arms and firing until we thought they had quite lost their minds., We could not un- derstand why they should be so madly delighted at seeing us again after the short absence, and we soon discovered that there was something else going on. To the westward, far off on the ice, something living was moving, which at that long distance looked very like a certain insect well known in these regions. It might possibly be a dog sled! Yes, there was no doubt pos- sible, It was. When we had quiéted down after the first involuntary expression of de- light, we bey eagerly to conjecture ere that dog team was coming It might have been that our r¥scue party had met some natives. ‘When the sled came nearer the island, our men called out to us that it was }a Greeland bear hunter and then we knew that luck was with us. The bear hunter now came drving toward us on his narrow East Green. land sled drawn by five thin, active dogs. Nada, this was his name, was A well built chap, alert and graceful in every/ movement, so that we heavier-built men in our thick clothes, felt like a herd of elephants beside a tiger cat. He told us that he was out on the tracks of a beur and that he came from a settlement farther up in the Sermiligak Fjord. He could bring four other sleds in the course of a fews hours, so that he could take us all up there that same day. Rut after a short council we decided not | to accept this kindly invitation, i We arranged, however, that Chief | Engineer Rostgaard, who had suffered much from the hardships, should go back with the Eskimo that he might sleep under a roof. The rest of us| would stay on the island to try to get into communication with our| comrades in the ravine before Nada came back next day with his friends, We could not reach them over land, as we hoped, and the new ice had grown so heavy during the night that we could not help them in that direc- ion. ! ok ok % INJEXT morning about ten Nada re- | turned with four of the other sleds. The new Greenlanders were met with the same heartiness, given lighted pipes even before we intro- duced one another. The most impor- tant of the newcomers was the Nalagak (head man) of the settlement, Halmar, Nada's elder brother: the others were Manasse, a strong young | trapper; and two boys, Emil and Odin. It was arranged that Givskov, one | of our company. and Manaase should try to reach our seven comrades in the ravine. As there was no particu- lar reason for any of us staying on the island, we all drove back in the other sleds to Utarkarmiut, which ‘we reached about 3 that afternoon. Up here in these harsh, desolate re- glons hosphality i= a sacred thing. BEverything that one has belongs to | the stranger. food, house room, sleep- | ing place. Soon we sat around the | mighty goup pot and did full justice to_the seal meat. Between 5 and 6 o'clock Givskov and Manasse came to the settiement after a successful trip over the hilis | to the ravine, where they had told | our comrades of the good luck for all of us. The Greenlanders thought that the | new ice would be strong enough the | tollowing day for them to drive down and bring back our comrades in the ravine, 8o that we would all be to- gether again. It all went off well, and there was only one rift in the lute. What had happened to our res. | cue party that' had gone off to find succor? Had they been successful? That afternoon five bear hunters on sleds came to Utorkarmiut frem a | settlement on the Angmagsalik Fjord, and the captain decided that we would drive back with them the fol- | lowing day to Angmagealik. We be- | lieved that this was also the name of | the district’s chief settlement, while | the original name for the bay, | Tasiueak, was always used here, On "account of our misunderstand. ing regarding Angmagealik and | Tasiusak, the captain with the sailors Ole, Eriff and Alfred, as well as Hunter Kristensen, got no farther ! next morning than the seitlement Kungmitu, on the east side of Ang- magsalik Fjord. The Greenlanders | knew perfectly well that the fiord ice was cupt up by currents, but they thought that the captain wanted to #o only that far. Our comrades from the ravine ar- rived next afternoon thoroughly fre en through. But they soon thawed. ok Kk 3 HEN about 7 or 8 o'clock that eve- ning a tumult arose throughout the settlement. The dogs howled and violent barkings from the distant ice answered, Strange sleds were coming, but it | was. impossible to tell where (hey, came from, as every one was talking | at once. Finally we made out that it was the five Angmagsalik sleds which had turned back because they had been stopped by open water. sleds of other Greenlanders, - with whom' was Knudser, one.of our rescue And closely following them were the , halfway, had on the 13th, the same day we met Nada, come to a little set- tlement, Ikerasak, and then finally ar- rived at Cape Dan. Madsen and Tu- tein were still there with bad frost- bites, and it was from there, that the 14 sleds came which had been sent to fetch us. They had been driving all day, had been at Pulsak and also on Nunakitit to see if we were there. But as it was already dark they stopped in at Utarkarmiut to pass the night. Next day they were to continue their search for us Now we were together again and safe under roof after our long jour- ney. It was a festal evening in Hjal- mar's house. The Cape Dan people were hungry, and for them we dished up the last of our sled provision: Most of us found lodgings in Hjal- mar's house, sleeping hags, out on the loft, which had hbeen laid while the rest of us lay on the floor. Although there were nltogether nearly 20 people in the room, 1 slept like a log that night. As there was danger of a shortage of food in the little settlement of Utarkarmiut, Lieut. Rostock-Jensen decided that we had better set out for Angmagsalik the day after the arrival of the men from Cape Dan Sh on the morning of November 16 the 14 Cape Dan sleds and a couple of teams from Utarkarmiut stood ready to take us to the goal of our desires, We were only. 14 in alk, but they gave us a couple of pack sleds to earry our luggage, which was too heavy for the narrow riding sleds. The going was excellent and’ we dnshed along swiftly. We had already made 11 miles in little ovep two hours and the dogs showed no signs of fa- tigue, although they had held steadily to their pace. .Just about then the Greenlanders noticed a couple of dark spots on the snow, which grew larger €0 quickly that we also could soon see them.and recognize them as sleds. Tt turned out to be Hunter Kristen- sen with a message from Capt. Bis- trup, The captain told us that owing to, the misunderstanding of which I have already spoken, he had come no farther than Kungmiut, where the rest of us would not be particularly welcome, as thé food was scarce. After a lengthy argument with the Greenlanders, the Utarkarmiut folk insisting_we should_turn back with them and the Cape Dan men equally determined that we should go on, the lieutenant arranged a compromise by deciding that we would go Kulusuk. Our leader, Henning, now set his course’to the south, toward Cape Dan. The going was good as long as we Kept hetween the big islands, but when, that afternoon, we got out to the north of Erkiligarlek we passed a belt of pack ice which put our acro- batie ability to the test We had two or three hours of the Qifficult going in the pack ice and then | got out again onto smooth ice with a light covering of snow. Here we started off at a spanking pace, while oyous shouts were exchanged as the sleds passed one another. * xR X F ®moon saw by the behavior of the dogs that we were nearing our journey's end. The entire string stiffened in the traces and dashed ahead at the best speed they could muster. Shortly after we drew up to the house of Curate Abelsen in Kulu- suk. Our two comrades there, Mad- sen and Tutein, could only just hob- ble around with difficul on their poor, frozen feet. At first we werey quartered in the ‘achool and meeting room. where a platform had been huilt. There was room for 16 men there, but for the moment that question did not interest us, at least not when the curate's wife sent in great stacks of white and rye bread with butter and hot tea. We were right hungry after our drive. and then, as during most of our three weeks on Cape Dan, we feit as if our stomachs were hottomless pits which would never, never be filled up again. Later Curate Abelsen arranged that some of us should find lodgings in the native houses. Eight volunteered to move out and did not repent their choice. "'We became better acquainted with these sweet-natured, primitive beings in a month of living at close quarters with them than we could have done by vears in their country under other conditions. On November 22 a north wind drove the ice far enough out of Angmag- salik Fjord to permit the curate to send eight kavak rowers to Tasiusak to announce our coming visit and to bring back provisions. The kayak men. brought ck much food and to- baoco, with a hearty letter of welcome from Adrainistrator Petersen. We had communication with Tasiu- sak by kayak several times before we succeeded in pulling out ourselves. We learned that Capt. Bistrup had reached the colony on November 26, the first of us to get through, and that he was lodging with Pastor Rosing. The four sailors who had been in Kungmiut with the captain were also in Tasiusak. They were domiciled in the so.called *Castle,” the first mis. sion and trade building, which had also housed the pastor and the admin- istrator until separate - homes had been erected for them. ‘We had been told that we could start 80 many times that we had grown a bit skeptical. Our chance came finally on December 13. But as the kind blew briskly we had to use the little sailing boat and four of us remained behind, to follow when the weather permitted the use of the ‘women's boat. Early that morning the other out for Nunakitit Skerry, which was free of ice on its seaward side, so that we' could get the boat into the water, Here we bade farewell to Curate Abel- sen and set our course toward Ang- magsalik Island. We thought we might not be able to sail further than Tastusarsik, where Comdr. Holm’s old Winter quarters were still in a good stute of presérva- tion, But when we had reached the place, we found that' the ice . had arty. He reported that the party, Em. very difficult jnumuy.’flm been obliged to leave the _most of _provisions drifted out and that we could keep on to . Oscar’s Harbor, where we finally on the ot firm Some crept into their ! [ fited by this great jband on the land. ice, & scant mile or so from the colony, Although the dusk was falling, the Greenlanders had already seen us and | swarmed out to help, With so much assistance, it was easy to haul the “TO THE WESTWARD, FAR OFF THE ICE, SOMETHING WAS MOVING—IT MIGHT POSSIBLY BE A DOG-SLED!" heavy oak boat on the ice and then into a little cove. Angmugsalik’s young head priest, Pastor Peter Rosing, and Trade As- sistant Hoegh, both West Greenland- ers, came out on the ice to meet us with a number of ether sled drivers. We went baek with them at & spank- ing pace, and in the “Castle,” which was to be our home, we met our four sailors, who seemed all in good health and spirits. The last four men arrived from Kul- usuk the following day. And now all | 21 of us were together again, safe in this friendly, harbor, and our long troublous Northeast Greenland trip had come to an end. ' Our sojourn in Tasiusak and the fourney back to Denmark should be a new chapter, only indirectly connected with our faithful old Teddy. Our long. term of waiting for a ship was not always amusing. The Winter months passed slowly for these of us who had nothing to do. There was little Tasiusak and our men watching for seal or c fish, often longed for the or northeast Greenland. Naturally our shipwrecked comp looked forward to the Summer tense expectancy. Should there be no ship, as might happen, it would go hard with some of ux. On May 28, much earller than usual, we say a sealer six or eight miles’ off the land and evidently caught in the fce, drifting past Ser- hunting in bored with ching gray- rich game milik. We could not get near her, and | the same was the case with several other vessels, even though they lay but fifteen to thirty miles out in the close-packed ice belt Finally, early on the morning of June 19, we saw a ship working her way in’ toward the coast. It was neither the Gertrud Rask nor the Good Hope, so it must be a Nor- wegian. Probably Schellerup — he edition Are Lost and Starving in a World of Ice rd the And the lay steered so confldently tow: narrow opening of the harbor 80 it proved. At two o'clock Quest, ~ Shackleton's old ship, anchored off the colony. Administrator Petersen, Captain Bistrup, and I went on hoard &t once to greet the Norsemen. On the bridge was a white-haired mam vhom. I at first took for the skipper. But it was the well known Arctic ex- plorer Maj. Isachsen, who ‘wa$ on the Quest as representative of the Norweglan government. Frem him and from the captain we heard news of all the events and the tragedies of that hard fce vear. Capt. Schellerup and Mal. sen, who were hound mnorth to Scoreshy Sound and regions there- abouts to search for the Annle, want- ed to put’to sea again a8 80on 8§ Pos- sible. But it was noon of the jext day hefore we could all be gof to gether, and by that time the ice packed In so close to the we hurdly thought a start sible. But Schellerup wa o and belleved that the stror rent off Cape Dan would get him out fnto open water quickly. I shall not try to describg that day of farewell. Most of us were sorry to leave the colony, where some fu- deed would have gladly staved on. The Greenlanders, who had come in from all the settlements, were equally depressed, We were really almost relieved when the Quest's engine hegan to move ahout 8 o'clock that evening, and we sailed slowly out of the harbor followed by thirfy kayaks. We steamed slowly past the low whera our friends crowded, waving a list good-by and an au ‘revelr And now, aimost ten menths from the time the Teddy was first heset, we were actually on. our way home. (Copyright, 1926.) Trach- One Million Students to Be Enrolled In Big Government Radio University HERE will be opened in Wash- ington on October 1 a new university. Its students will he. drawn from the Nation and it will have within a short time of its establishment an enroll ment, the largest, perhaps, of any known university in the world—over a million students. This university will be known as the National Radio Farm School of the Department of Agriculture, and it will offer in itz first curriculum 24 short courses on farming and kindred subjects of eight lessons each. The farmer himself will be taken care o1, the wife on the farm and the chh dren within the farm fami There will be lessons on live stock—its care and propagation—crops, poultry, gar- dens, flowers—and it is even hinted the care of golf greens! Beginning the 4th of October, with his farm at his back as a labora- tory, Mr. American Farmer will twirl the button on his radio and then pro- ceed to sit back and lirten from the mouth of one of some 100 broadcast- ing stations throughout the United States all about the ins and outs of farming. Perhaps Mr. Farmer is interested in live stock feeding and production. Then, on Monday of each week for eight weeks, he will hear a 15.min; ute discourse on the problems con’ fronting the live stock farmer. He will get a lesson on the best beef breeds, the feeds that will produce the quickest gains, how to select bheef types for the fesding pens, hogs after cattle ad infinitum. As suggested, he will have at hi= back his farm labora- tory, where the hints and suggestions thrown out the night before may be put into practice in the early morn- ing. ere they are lost in the confusion of his everyday work world. If it is poultry that Mr. American Farmer is interested in, then he—or Mrs. American Farmer—may tune in on Wednesday evenings and hear poultry bréeds and poultry care dis- cussed to his—or her—heart's con- tent. ‘There will be talks on selec- tion of breeds for laying purposes, table service, incubation, care of lit- tle chicke and what not else. The is one of the great 1 pursuits of the country, and the lectures are hound to prove Interesting, instructive and eco- nomically worth while. i On Friday evenings the dairymen of the Natlon will assemble around their recelving sets and for 15 minutes will listen to practical talks on dairy- Ing. And no bigger subject than this one exists in agricultural America For dairying. while not only a most profitable farming enterprise—aespe. clally when engaged in nearthe larger population oenters of the country-— from another standpoint is profitable in soil upbullding as well. In truth, A dairy herd is the most valuable farm asset that can be found. It enriches the land constantly through manure fertilization, and at the same time keeps its owner's purse filled with change from butter, cream and milk, not to say anything of offspring sales, One might go on endlessly enumer- ating the advantages that will acerue to the American farmer through this school. Nothing has as yet been sald of the program that will have to do with the grain crops of the great Mis- sissippl Valley, where millions may be saved annually to the growers by timely discourses on insect pests that destroy acres and acres of growing corn, wheat and oats; of the South, where the boll weevil plays havoc with the cotton crop, and the tobacco blight, with that. weed's culture. Then there are the timber lands, soil fer- tility, hillside farming, soll cultiva- tion, ete. Not the least of those to he bene- generous service of the (overnment's is the woman on | the farm. Her lot has not been, alto. gether, as happy as that of her hus- Mechanical inven- tions and. improvements have taken, | to a great extent, out of farm labor the old, old evil of backache. First | came along the riding plow, then its| companion, the riding cultivator, and then the tractor to make of farming— from the labor standpoint—an inviting prospect for the energies of man. But not so with the farm woman. Her burdens, where lightened, have been lightened largely electric power. The trimming and flling of lamps-- which must alw kept ready for instant family use; hot stoves for hot | irons for ironing, hot stoves for hot. ovens for baking, hot stoves for fam- | ily laundering, for canning, preserving | and meals—all these, and other back- breaking and wearisome household du. ties on the farm, have not been light: ened save by electricity; apd how many farms of the Nation have powe! lines by their doors? Not many. So a portion of the Government radio farm school’s tfme will be given over to a discussion of questions of interest to the woman on the farm. There will be timely suggestions to the housewives of the Nation's agri cultural population featured by ex- perts from the Bureau of Home Eco- nomick. The latest methods of fruit preserving will be discussed; new ways to undertake old duties, so as to lessen some of the hackaches and make them more attractive, will he alred; suggestions as to household improvements and.. household ma- chinery for reducing labor, giving to the. women of the farm an oppor- tunity to ‘enjoy the cool of the eve. ning in the family automobile, will e thiked: bints fo sohomes ed; forfet i i tion jon the whole, the best. The farmer's | Rreatest problem today is to fin A KANSAS FAMILY LISTENING-IN ON THE “COLLEGE OF THE AIR.” LEGE FOR HALF AN HOUR FIVE TIMES EACH from Nature's gieat rainbow world, will be broadcast, designed to give new life and a new appearance to the dally home envitonment. “But whence the university queries the iconoclastic spirit. Tt is here. Those who enroll in any one of the 24 courses and who follow through thelr courses, turning in thelr laboratory assignments at the end of the scholastic term, will re- ceive official recognition for thelr work in the form of certificates issued by the Secretary of Agriculture and chiefs of the bureaus sponsoring the courses. In other words, a university in the true sense of the word will be in action throughout the coming Winter. The most highly trained men and women in the United States in the field of agriculture and kindred suhjects will be at the helm of this new school. Each radlo course will be supplemented with printed coples of radio talks and a file for bulletins. Tn other words, research work by the students will be possible. It is but the matter of a postage stamp, a re- quest—and possibly a few cents—to receive from the Government any bulietin or file for home use. Nothing like this has previously come the way of the agricultural population of the country. . But that one may not think all will be work and no play—that the chil- dren of the‘farm will find nothing in the new school to interest them-—— mention i8 made of the “after school™ program. This 1s designed to be light in character as well as informative. It conslsts of special features such as “Weekly Letters to D “Primer for Town Farmers,” “Farm News Digest,” “Autobidgraphies of In- famous Bugs and Rodents,” “House- keaper's Chats,” and “Fifty Farm Flashes.” For the children, definite assign- ments will be made as to gardens and shrubs in season, seed germina- tests throughout the ™ Winter months, etc. Fathers will be asked 1o assign them plots of ground where, following lectures, they may' work out some of the problems, in child- hood's small way, that ywill meet them in a larger way when they grow to man's estate. The economic condition of agricul: ture, for some vears, has not been, 1dea?" full and adequate market for his sur: plus and a’ means of getting his prod. ucts to the. consumer at a.minimum | cost of transfer to himself. s To help sdlve this problem, the De. partment of Agriculture has lent itself nceasingly. A big help in its step in this direction ‘has been the develop- ment of, the radio and. its acceptance by the farmer as a useful farm appli ance. To the farmer the radie has| meant more than can be expressed in words, It has brought the outside world to his door. It has made life on the farm take on one of the swéetest jays of living—companionship with the outside world. The radio brings to the farmer a nightly concert from the theatrical and musical centers of the country. It brings to him dally a market and weather report from the Department of Agriculture—things of Inestimabl value in erop season: makes it possible for him to sell his farm produce on his own judgment of market conditions for the morrow or week end. Through the radio school- that. 18| ow néw being worked out, the farmer will hear the fin of the department and its thelr latest exper THE FAMILY ATTENDS COL- ‘WEEK. activity. In fact, by this small in- strument now in the home of prac- tically a million farmers, agricultural conditions throughout the United States are bound. within a few years, to assume an ordered and prosperous status now undreamed of. Predictions for this National Farm | Radio School are about all that should he in order now. It is not put to- gether. It is going through that process now. The various bureaus of the department are getting together the material that will be used in the lecture coures. Plans for enrollment are under way in the radio bureau, under the direc- tion of Sam Pickard, bureau chief. This enrollment is being handled on a_return post card bearing on one-half of the course to be offered in the #chool. The course desired is checked and the detached card mailéd to the radio bureau. Over a million of these radio cards have heen placed in the hands of county farm agents, radio stations and persons throughout the United States. Farmers are securing these blank cards from one or the other of those sources or from Wash ington. The names that are bei sent Into Washington will he as & malling list for radio lecturers and for bulletine which may from time to time be desired by individual farmers, After a recent radio tour of the country, during which he vikited 600 farms in 20 States having radios and the principal broadeasting stations of the Nation, Mr. Pickard of the bu- reau made the statement that both the college and commercial broad- casters are making every effort to antfeipate the farmer’s interexting, helpful programs, and are | ters, winning large and faithful audiences | American Medic that in | purpose of these centers will be to ¢ as a hody. He peinted out districts 60 miles from railroads farm- ers already were showing increased bank balances from following author- itative agricultural radio talke. In an address to college editors at East Lansing, Mich., recently, Mr. id: on the farm is yielding more dollars and . cents réturn -on the in- vestment, developing & more progper- ous American agriculture and bring- Ing about a moté conténted. hetter understanding class of farmers than any other single contribution of the age. “Until educational institutions value the efféctiveness of radio In&truction highly enough adequately to finance a competent staff, trained in the tech- nlque of broadcasting, they cannot ex- peot successtully to utilize “this new invention, probably the greatest boon to education since thic printing press was invented.” i In touching upon this phase of the school’s” work, it fs pointed out that he Department of Agriculture ' has now a policy of haying feature writers weave timely Information into dialogue materfal for broadeasting purposes. ‘At preseént tha department is sehd- ing out, over some. sixty-odd stations, its feature known as ‘‘Radio Digest.” This is mailed to the ‘varl- ous stationa throyghout - the country that. are. interested in. giving to the arny folks information along the lines of their oocupation, Pebora dull somes around and the rei Winter pro- gram is put into effect. a new list of broadeasting stations . will be . worked At present, the bureau.is aware of the fact , sore_of the stations handling mafgrial are duplicating slightly on - Thi used | | ) | | problems with | ation of marri; { | i | | 18 not | l.lmmfll‘pnx:t. = the labors of certain stations unneces sary burdens. The Radio Bureau of the department was created last February, and has been functioning from that dat The new plan of Nation-wide serviee on the school 1 s been slowly evolved, follow ndy of the field and th i mild e rendered the agricultural portion of America b air. Yet the city man and the subi ite who loves to. garden should read these lines with a scornful eve casj toward his brother in the more opeh spac Fortunately, the lecture courses offered will be of great inter est to him. inasmuch as actical re sults may be gotten from the a tion of ‘the information distr nightly, on an acre of ground as 40 ‘acres. The Radio School will, therefore, serve more than the farming popula- tion. It will serve all those whd love the =of] and who love to d plant sbeds in it. and w spond to cultivation i pac den variety Kind. 1t will be a university for everyhody, for the love-ot. Soik:Ix inbred in mankind and he can nosore escape its appeal in the risine Spring. time of the year than he cun”his des- tiny. It s the toueh of natuve dn heart of wan that makes him loveat growing world e sehiol wi rich that tou nature. ban not “hebid a7 Marriage Centers. H ¥ welfa minister of pubiie -ommended the ere: age consultation .cen to the Journal of, the 1 Association, 4 The sian ® has 1 ording termine by medical examination hether the health of applieants jus tifies marriage. The resuits of aminations will he recorded in a “marriage testimonial.” The present decree does not propose to make ‘the medical examination compulsory, nor are there any medical restrictions on marriage or any requirement that certificates of health shall be ex changed between thé parties to the contract. The ‘consultation centers wil] serve {o establish. suitahility far marriage and to give.advice on.med- ical .matters pertalning to marriage. Professional secrecy imposed on the examiners. The examination will be. conducted accor to the.rules proposed b German. physician Hirsch. The form for the jmar testim Hirsch. It compr four questions: 1. Wh any, are there to the mar exa 2. What dang are 1 for the other party the contract? 8. What dangers,. if any, would eventual offspring Inewr from the marriage? 4, What defects, Af any, does the other parly to the contract, pregent that appenr to s stitute an objection to the marriages Adinenive Pocke(b;)ok. A W pocketbook being put'on the market has a strip of alynsive like leather along one side, savs_I'oj ular Mechanics. The reason?. 8o th | the pocketbook will a of the pocket if a thicf tries to thus attracting the owrer's attentios The purse can be taken out easily any one knowing its construction b fingera ween