Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 59

D. C. SEPTEMBER 19. 1926—PART 2. 15. | = revolution; there are usually 12 or 16| th':'hAm"l:cln t - . The little pointed sticks are used In of these machines in a battery. e “shaker.” by violent azitation.| many ways 7 t e I thE Dicka. i dtip:| stralehtens the picks Into ‘tin Doxes | Te™ ~-7® a7 Mmany places. Fiorists ping wet, and a blower carries them to | the exact size of the commerc.al tooth- | se millions of them in making pick box. The tin boxes are dumped | wreaths and floral designs: restaurants into the paper b which are seal- | and home Kitchens use them to hold ed, packed in ca 1in. "6 dozen | foget al birds” and “pige in of ‘the little boxes meichan- | blan : men use them to clean their pipes: they have beén used. in dise is ready for ‘n« et The whole manufacturing process | some backwoods resorts, as counters THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, | . l COMPLETES VISIT | 30.000,000,000 Toothpicks Every Year : Is Output of Six Factories in U. S. into long strips, exactly as wide as a toothpick is long. These strips are wound onto a spool and look like a big bolt of ribbon. The spool of veneer. is then run|the drying machine, a huge steel oven. through the toothpick ‘‘chopper,” a From the dryer the picks are blown small, but very strong machine that|to the “polisher,” a steel cylinder 110 runs like lightning—4,500 revolutions | feet in diameter, that revolves very per minute—and as the machine has|slowly, tumbling the picks against D.C. INDIRECT PATH By the Associated Press. bolts, which are shaved of their bark emmmr i mber 18.— |to cylindrical form. Next the frost Is WASSAU, Wis, Septes acquire the | imtil they 0F BRD MIGRATN Sportsmen on Alert for| “Honk” of Passing Geese and Other Small Game. | The conference of sportsmen, game officials and conservationists called by Dr. E. W. Nelson, chief of the Bu- rean of the Biological Survey in Wash- ington, some days ago to discuss the use of sink boxes or batteries, mat blinds and other devices used in hunt- ing migratory wild fowl in the waters Jorth Carolina and Vir- ia. suggests that the season for hird migration is at hand. Sportsmen and naturalists in the District of Co- lumbia and adjacent Maryland and Virg ar the alert for the “henk” of the passing flocks of wild geese and small game <, such as the marstins, blackbirds, black-billed and golden plovers, vellow legs, rail or ortolan that arve seen and heard, especially when there is an overcast | kY. en route to a warmer climate. Naturalists d ornithologisis have lonz since found that the District of Colimbia and the Potoma er Val a in the direct pathway of bird i the Atlantic coast line on the habits feathered tribes have em- phasized the importance of the Au- | tumnal bird mizration as a season of | special interest both to the sportsman and nature students® Why Do Birds Migrate? W00 years, accord itions of the United | urvey. the phenom migration have been scientifically noted. but while the ex- | tent and course of routes traversed | have vears become better | Known. no has heen found to the For more than ing to the investi States Biolog ena _of bid migit he becatise it conclusions n plain words, nz to one migration theory, iy rds eal home s the southland. | Al bird lifs tends to overproduction and o he end of tHe glacial era birds. seeking in all divection: auitable breeding srounds with keen competition thin in their trop 4l Winter home, gradually worked novihw.rd as the reirea of ice made haintable vast reaches of virgin cou . | Ure. But the Winter abiding place was stil the home.and to this they returned as soon as the breeding sea- RN was over. The begining of migration, ages azo. undountedly was intimately con- necied with periodic changes in the food supply. While North America =< enormous Summer supplies d food. the birds must return South for the Winter, or perish, ex peris point out Food Habits Studied. The food hahits of bird life. as studied by the United States Biolog- feal Survey, have developed in recént vears much valuable data, especially on the conservation of game re- <ources for American hunters. In | faci. the activities of the bureau are directed chiefly toward conservation | or protection of hird life in order to best xuide the nature student and the sman to get the most out of this wonderful provision of nature. “'here has been a wonderful devel opment in the study of bird life. the | of their rations, food etc., arising from the sysiem nding”" adopted in comparatively vecent vears. It is generally known | thit some birds follow regular sea- | sonal migrations. that in Winter they £0 South somewhere. It was fully expected that banded birds would be in Central America and the ! West ludies, but there have been some unexpected results, such as the | recovery in West Africa of a common | teal. banded on the New England Coast. Toothpicks, however lowly they may be, are holding their place in the mouths of the people and they are »ne of the few manufactured products that are the same the world over. Thirty billion, the season’s product of: a specialized industry, are produced annually in the United States, H. E. Smith, official of & toothpick manu- facturing firm here, estimates. made of white birch, flat and bevel pointed, and the world’s standard, came into the market about 30 vears ago, he explained. ’ Succeeded Gold Ones. “Prior to that time.” he said “there was the gold-plated, everlasting tooth- pick of grandfather's day—as much a part of his personal equipment as the key to his watch: a little later we had the very insanitary quill 4 ,pick and after that, the rough, un- satisfactory slivers made in Japan. MISS ELLEN REID, 1;1“? bulk "'n:‘h' :Mld': !“l:lfl!; 0{ toothpicks is produced in six principal e e e heir. Home, | factorles in the United States; our of 16 Reamond Yatreet” Chevs Chase, | them are in Maine. in the cities of . . Guilford. Dixfield. Phillips and Strong; e emat o Atlantie CUY | one g in Wausni and one in Cloquet, e Minn." - Toothpicks are not a by-product of TOURISTS IRK THE DUTCH some other industry, but many éther commercial articles” are by-products el ‘ur toothpicks. Thé toothpick takes . the choicest part of a white birch log. Say Americans and what is left is converted into other | things Cheese Carriers With Cameras Impede Work. ALKMAAR, Holland, September 18| (). —Cheese carriers here recently protested to the master of the cheese |ried on only in the cold menths of the ket that American tourists who|vear. Thé ideal season for making o the weekiy Friday market | toothpicks s said by manufacturers to are Impeding their work he from December 1 to April 15. The The Cheese Carriers’ Guild, which |reason is that in cold weather the sap iast year celebrated its three hun. in the log remains frozen. A8 soon dreth anniversary in the ancient A8 WArm weathér sets in the sap be. welzghhouse of Alkmaar in the pres.|ins to stir and stains the wood a to- ence of Queen Wilhemina, has no|baceo brown. ohjection, it vays, to tourists witness- “'o the toothpick manufacturer a ing the spectacle of the sale and|White hirch log is composed of three weighing of the cheeses, but the car. [parts—the bark, which goes for fuel, viers object to belng halted in their | the “white sap.” which is the cream ork hy Americans who purposely | of the log for toothpicks, and the “red in their way in order (o photo-| heart.” which is made up into by- sh them | produets, A pair of cheese carriers move from | The log which is anywhere from 6 10'10 30 tons of cheese in a Anv. | ta 16 feet in length. is cut into 2 foot Made In Winter. 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