Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1926, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0., AUGUST ‘f. 1926—PART 3. TR SoAGH ATTAIISG BEAUTY AN P NN 5 .‘ s an angry traffc cop shoved his way through a crowd that threatened to spread from the sidewalk into the street. He found a nestling, appar- ently enjoying his position at the center of things. most anthropologists as being more ancient than the remains of Pithecan- thropus, the so-called aps man of Java, which is dated at about 500,- 000 years. . SPARROW CAUSES JAM OF TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK balming, but its poisonous proclivities are so pronounced that it can be classed as a strong antiseptic. Other good-bad elements are sulphur, lead, phosphorous and potassium., But the BLACK ART TURNE TOMANKIND'S 600D Poisons Now Being Used by Millions of Pounds in War on Insects. New Problems in Continuous Service Evoke Designs What'll we of Impressive Quality—Passengers’ Comfort Closely Studied by Makers, * exterminating insects, fighting. fungi, bacteria, rats, mice and gophers, i incalculable. 5 “‘One recent year more than 14,000, 000 pounds of arsenic was distributed to the country in insecticides and fungicides. Yet search the country over and you will not find an arsenic mine in operation_although the ele- ment is common. It occurs as a con- stituent of 130 minerals, The main supplies of arsenic are.obtained as by-products of American safety engi- do with him?"” Miich craning of necks fafled to dis- cover a nest on any of the high bufld- ings, and the problem was becoming serious when a girl, generously rauged wi many beads, caluse of the trouble. | T o UP the “I'l take him canary just died. :(]l‘gg[_t:f":.ll\leg\t unlll is a alni 'rh'e d;m e — d 1 e e - Angry Policeman Calms Down on States owes to araenic, for £ : R Fat ; I EE UF A[;E Cricket Once & Crime. Learning Reason—Girl Takes |, Hyh!"sald the cop. “Can't arrest Cicket, a popular game in England, was once & crime, due to the act of " By th fated Prew. Edward 1V, who prohiblted it because | ™, ‘1o A%0 et B NEW YORK, July 31—t does not its popularity was interfering, with | s much to cause a traic jam on the practice of archery, then tonsid- | Broadway. Even one of the billions ered necessary as a means of traln- | of sparrows can do it—if he happens ing men for the defense of the coun-|to be a sparrow too small to fly. try. The law was repealed {n 1745. | On the hottest afternoon of the year Nestling for Her Pet. Skull Found in Cave of Taungs Believed Older Than Any of Human Species. low tire’ expense afforded by 36-inch s tires, In this way the center of P gravity was lowered until the inter- city model could be tilted to an angle ‘The *‘ugly, duckling” of motor bus- dom, the motor coach, today can take its place in' beauty and utility beside the proudest products of the industry. “My neering and American mines, Six tons of poison have been dusted from an airplane flying over Peninsula State Park, Wis, according to an announcement from Sturgeon Bay Wis., in an effort to save 500 a of hemlock forest. ' Calcium arsenate avas used in the air attack on worms which are said to have destroved 6,000,000 feet of timber since last Fall. devastated about like stack of a smelter countryside round wrath of God, damages. gineers on the problem and have been invented to make as harmless as a grocery. neers found that in_robbing “There was a time when the smoke the the | Irate property oyners sought protection of the law and won Mining companies put en- devices smelter ‘This point is made by F. R. Fageol, general manager of Fageol Motors ., in discussing the phenomenal evo- Jution inthe motor coach in the July issue ¢f the Journal of the Soclety of Automotive Engineers. e writes: “'The yearly mileage of the motor coach is much higher than anvthing previously contemplated in motor ve- hicle design. Therefore, engines, chassis and bodies that had been de- of 47 degrees before passing the ulti- mate point of stability. The design was laid out so that the wheels were relatively - near sthe corners.of the Joad. “Alded by the 'flexibility of -the springs, the frame is partially able to adapt itself to road irregularities. “This has assisted in securing easy riding. The body is semi-flexible in the same direction as the frame. A Africa, Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, July 31.—The pre- historic ape-child, whose skull was discovered by Prof. Dart in a cave at Taungs, represents a. race of man- apes who were hardy and progressive ploneérs, is the announcement just made by Prof. Dart to the American Museum of > Motors Keep Cool— Lightning Motor Fuel users re- port that their motors keep’cool and Raymond A. South tural History. Prof. Poison has entered the ranks of g business within the last 16 ye: 7t avs a bulletin of the ational «Geographic Society from its headqua ters here. “Poison Is now broadcast, over cotton fields as well as forests. Death-dealing poison is the policeman of orchards and vineyards nd a swatter of insects. It is guardian of water supplies, godfather to the grain crop, first assistant to the doctor and aid to the veterinary. Many agen- cies are booming the poison trade. “On a certain block of Thirteenth ‘Yatreet southwest in V hington there is a three-story brick building. To all appearances it is a small apartment house. There is a herculean task special heavily ribbed oneplece cast aluminum cowl was designed to form tHe whole front end of the body. Comfort Is Requisite. “Body heights may be limited to two types—the full headroom, pay-as- you-enter type for urban or short-haul service, and the semiheadroom ve- hicle for interurban or 16ng-haul service. The baggage problem is bet- ter solved by using the semi-head- room type, which more readily per- mits of putting baggage on the roof. “The motor coach must equal or exceed the comfort and luxury to which the public has become accus- signed for ordinary commereial pur- poses, wherein 15,000 to 20,000 miles per yenr was rarely exceeded, could hardly be expected to answer this new call with requirements up to 100,000 miles per year. This was particularly true of the engines. Ways had to be found to keep the motor coach on the road mord days in the year, which véfyuired sturdler construction’ of all parts subjected to wear or breakage. Must Attract Patronage. “Equipment had to be designed that would attract passengers on account of its_safety and suitability for the purpose and that would render more Dart has spent some time studying the skull and the African surround- ings, in which’ it was found, and his latest conclusions reveal a strange story of early ape struggles toward human_intelligence. The Taungs region is a vast open tract, almost treeless, and much of it barren desert. He believes that some of the apes in the jungle north of this arid country came out from among the trees and ventured into the great openspaces. Instead of being swiftly wiped off the earth by wild beasts and starvation and exposure, some of these Daniel Boones of ‘the ape tribe somehow suryived. smelter smoke of its poisons they col- lected sulphur, arsenic and com- ands which ~éould be marketed, hey feared at first that dumping quantities of arsenic on the market would lower the price to a ruinous level. But about this time the Amer- can farmer began waking up to the usefulness of poison in his age-old fight on insects Cotton Fields Big Market. After 20 years of work Department of Agriculture experts just had found the right adjustment of calcium ar- senate to make the boll weevil turn “do not heat up. This is due to the fact that Lightning eliminates carbon which is the basic reason for over- heated motors. Lightning in addition gives more + power, more pep and a quicker start. 4 Before starting on your next trip ing on In this smug dodging with flap- | 1P 1s toes. Con DO | Ranendable service at lower expense. | tonted in private automobiles. Lim- - ping avwnings. 1t is the task of con | ATAerErt AR Con i o | The first requisite was to lower the fousine type upholstery and interior Learned to Eat Meat. be.sure and fill your tank with Verting the black art into a blessed s le to get rid of the top- | finishes modified to permit of more| They learned to kill and eat meat whole, veh heavy appea sway. To | agriculture and withip the. y May 31—the United States im- ted 12,000,000 pounds of arsenic. Copper sulphate, lime and water mixed together, is death to worms and & boon to the cabbage crop, the berry and current crop, and other crops. It goes under the name of Bordeaux mixture, because its useful- | ness was discovered by an odd freak in a vineyard near the French wine town.« A French vineyardist was exasperated with thieves who stole his grapes. So he made up @ paste of chemicals which he put on the outside vines all around his garden. Insect pests were the real thieves of the Bordeaux grapevines that vear, that is, of most of the grapevines except the vines in the French peasant’s poison ring. A voung sclentist noticed { the phenomenon. It gave him an ide: He experimented with the paste, de- the slim amount of They could no longer avoid their enemies by darting up a tree, because trees were scarce, so they began to run more and more swiftly and expertly on two legs to escape danger or to capture food. In order for the brain to expand, and for these anthropoids to place reliance entirely on the feet, as Prof. Dart says the Taungs man-like ape: did, it was essential that a large ter- ritory should be available, which would make it impossible for them to return to the trees, and just such an environment was made to order in the South African plains. The process of development was & slow one, he explains, saving: “The factors which evoked the thinking and planning powers of the anthro- pold, and with these powers caused the transformation from anthropoid to supplement ready cleaning and maintenance were plant food. the first step. Then came the parlor car type with Individual seats of overstuffed construction, this having proved superlor to any other type for intercity service. The production of individual seat, center aisle motor coaches, finished either in velour or fine grain leather, has,grown with amazing rapidity.” S VILLAGE DEEP IN ARCTIC ZONE FOUND BY RUSSIAN Only 38 Inhabitants in Community Hitherto Unknown—Have Primeval Habits. science. o Will Not Harm K “Occupying the third floor of the Insecticide and Fungicide Bureau are the laboratories which test all the poisons of those two classes used in the United States. Killing compounds must toe the mark of the ‘pure: poi- son’ act passed by Congress in 1910. These laboratories- are®polson’s best friend. They helped develop the % clum arsenate formula which is the hope of the South against the ravages of the boll weevil. More recéntly they have found how to-adapt the powerful poison of a beautiful chrysanthemum for the preparation of a poison gas which is death to pestiferous flies but which will not harm the higher ani- als, including humans. The poison specialists of the Mid- dle Azes would have loved this build- wce and eliminate side accomplish this it was necessary to desigw a totally new chassis. To lower the center of grav- ity the wheels were spread farther apart and a special drop frame was constructed. Using axles 14 inches wider than the standard vehicle tread, the frame rails were spread as far apart as the necessary clearance for steering and brake drums allowed and the springs were placed as far apart as practicable. “This type of construction made possible a floor height of only 24 inches, at the same time retaining the advantages riding and {ing po Lightning Motor Eitcl. nans. T LRk il i of easy Persian powder, renowned for killing bugs of all kinds. Some of it may have reached Russia, but to wesiern ine. Lady Macbeth, twhose homicide |termined the proper proportions, and | g the powdel Jowers were| By the Associated Pres A record Is also conspicuous, might com- [ the world has been using Bordeaux | n17oh® e Duxs (irived bep<i. RIGA. July $1.—A hilherto im. | 10 MK &t (o b imx'gmi not in any plain that it lacked dramatic aspect.|mixture extensively ever since. pily. But about’ 1500 an Armenian |known village in a remote Interior of | ‘¢ T nf’tuz,:s.:r ’[_l’;.:“r;él:: AL the Arctic zone is reported by the Rus- iron with sian officer, S. Popow, in the Russkoje “Paris green, copper arsenate, for years the best known insecticide, is There are no black tongues of flame leaping about Dots named Sumttoff discovered that Per- plasm, but rather in s slan powder was concocted from the teadily and continuously operating environmen- in definance of the ancient tradition of |gradually being displaced by mew and | gt PORCE WIS FOTRHCE o ety of | Wrena. ‘ c i ally e 2 eads of 3 3 tal conditions, which constantly and the poison trade, which considered| better workers. There is calclum [floWer heads © > n his wanderings through northern 3 y an preferred uel Pinon e G chrysanthemum native o the high| On his wanderings threugh nOthert | increasingly demanded the operation Diightning is the motor fuel of ymidnight a proper hour, Government | arsenate and there is lead arsenate. More than 17,000,000 pounds of lead arsenate wad™wnixed last year, chiefly for use in orchards. Pyrethrum Is ¥mported. offices close at 4:30 o'clock. Reduction of the $1,500,000,000 loss which agri- culture suffers every vear from insect wnd fungi js the goal of the bug poisoners’ Black Art ; “Taboratory workers and all stu-| “Simple chemical compounds are |kans. The most successtul attemptlyog. Dart. Other bones found in the cave , dents of chemistry know that certain|not the whole story. The bemevolent | to grow pyrethrm n Tl:e Unitea| Povow, who lived among _the |with the skull are mostly the remains poison trade is still dependent on the of the 95 elements are bad characters. | poison trade is stll B o e | e e e of Jepen. for | piasece far. rs, describes then 7 Most of these elements, which are|plant world, which was probably the y Japar as being almost primeval in their | small animals, and are regard P B O e ko ot i | original producer of atadly drugs.|its supply now, much to Japan's ad-|hgbits and instinots and as having | the anthropologist as the food ot the ore rower Stryehnine is a product of the roynd, Myde existences. Copper, that read hard seeds from the fruit of the nux messenger boy of mankind, gets into Caucasus Mountains. ' His son began the manufacture and export of it in 1818. ; : “Cultivation of pyrethrum flowers, as they are called, spread to the Bal- ates was in California. vantage, because imports have in creased enormiously. Innocent looking of 38 male and female inhabitants who had never seen a stranger before. Their village is thousands of kilo- meters from any human habitation and inclosed on three sides by a vast villagers for two years, describes them but a vague notion that they are Russian. They speak Russian, but so of turtles, cave ape. of choice and cunning.” Other Bones in Cave. That these apes, or manapes, lived in caves, like the caveman of pre- historic times, 1s the opinion of Prof. birds, rodents and other The possibility of human the motorist who. allows results to-dictate hiechoice,’ beings bad company with sulphur. Copper-|vomica tree, which grows in the West | pyrethrum strikes with more power|profusely interspersed with old Slavie | having occupie . o P eulnhma’“ il kill a y'mg i[]fllgr;'\]fly Indies. Then there is pyrethrum. It |than nicoti Through the work of | words as to be almost unrecognizable. | Africa fn E,f’exfl,fl‘nt,"“‘:;;;;,;{ :_r“‘;g FREE Crank Case Service at All hlorine ingratiates itself with man.|sounds like a new, toothpaste. Pyre. [the Government laboratory a method R RN 5 is suggested by Prof, Dart, judging Lightning Motor Fuel Stations Kind in the welcome guise of salt, but | thram swelled American import fig-[of extracting the active agent has The Perennial Que froist ign@ of Kumhes Rebtatns orine has vicious tendencles. ures by $1,461,000 last vear, coming |been discovered so the insecticide in e Y- the caves of the district. But he lan hives this desperado chlorine|from such outlandish places as Kri- | combination with a liquid may now | From the Tulsa Daily World says. that until posttive evidence of to wipe out tribes of microbes in drink- | vel)i and Cittavecchia, in Dalmatia, [ be blown into the air like poison ga There will remain an_Indian ques-| this type is forthcoming, it is logical and Ki-i and Mikawa, Japan. “In old poison lore there is refer- ence now and then to pyrethrum as ing water. In association with mer cury it 18 useful in tanning, presery ing wood, hat manufacture, and em Thus ‘another front line trench h: tion just as long as there remains ah fallen in the perpetual battle against the insect enemies of mankind.” Indian with desirable land or a com- fortable bank account, to assume that the age of the Taungs skull antedates the human perfod. 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