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BYRD RISHEDALL N BUND FUIGHT “Climb and Pray,” June Said as Plane Dodged in Icy Gorge of Peaks. (Continued From First Page) being seen through breaks in the ram. part around them. “I looked around at Mac and he w fighting that camera all over the plac grinned Balchen. The commander, who had been busily watching the course and making notes of the mountain ter- rain about them, went forward and &tood in the doorway of the pilot’s cock~ pit so that he could confer with Balchen and make quick decisions upon which depended the lives of his men. The walls of stone were closing in aroun them and still the plane labored up: ward, ahead a fringe of clouds lay over the edge of the plateau where the glacier ended. On one side a little knoll stood up above them. on the east was a higher slope of mountain ending in the cloud below, but far above the plane. Everything hinged on those next few minutes. There was no room to turn, no assurance that there was a gap where that fringe of clouds lay and the plane staggering at its maximum ceiling with the load it then carried, squashed along sluggishly. Perhaps it would make the grade with two or three hundred feet to spare. Hole Opens in Cloud. Bernt headed for the knoll to the west, in the hope that an up current there would help them over, while Byrd beside him, and listened to the smoothly running motor: If one of them had stopped then. ‘Then, even as they watched. a tiny hole opened in the cloud and the sur- face of the glacier could be seen. The plane could just make it. With its final effort, riding up the current from the side of the knoll “it just ballooned over,” as Balchen put it. He shook his head and smiled at the recollection of that moment. But the end of that long effort at maximum height was not yet over, for fiying at 11,500 feet or 12.000, the plateau stretching flat under them and only a short distance below, they still had to flop along.- June still was cmptying gasoline and taking movies and Mac lugging his big camera, weigh- | ing 50 pounds, back and forth. Their movement made the flying more difficult, | for with every change in distribution of weight at that height that stabilizer had to be adjusted and it was stiff from the cold. Balchen was winding it with one hand and pumping with the other alternatively, shifting hands on the controls. Sweat Streams From Brows. ‘The others begin to feel the effects of their rapid movements at such an altitude and, emptying the gas tanks, ade fumes in the cabin which were almost overpowering. off them and Mac frequently wiped his | forehead with his arm. | “I could feel my heart pumping away | and was gasping for breath,” he said, “and wondered what was the matier with me= till I looked at Harold and saw him with his mouth wide open | like a catfish gulping air.” It was| warm in the plane all the time, so| warm that Balchen flew with bare hands the entire trip, and the others only put on gloves when they worksd near an open window. Clouds Hang Over Horizon. ‘The plateau stretching ahead of them was covered in spots by drift snow, and in the Southeast and for a time in the South clouds hung on the horizon. Again things did not look so good. If the weather changed too soon, and it undoubtedly was changing, they were again out of luck. June relieved Balchen at the controls for a while and Bernt dumped seven more cans of gasoline into the fusclage tank, so it could be pumped to the wings or dumped if necessary. Ahead was still another hump which had to be crossed, although the plane was holding its | altitude and climbing a little. The mo- | tors hummed st>adily, “like three cats purring,” said Balche! ‘The weather and this hour of strain | on the engines made another anxious | time. It is difficult to guess weather | over an 800-mile course without weather stations. That is as far as from New York to Chicago on the mail run, where there are emergency land- | ing flelds on the way and weather bul- | letins for a guide and wher> pilots still crash when caught in fog or storms. Ride Back on Storm. Not only were there no weather sta- | tions here but half the route was at a | tremendous el-vation. The radio from | the geologic party near the foot of the ! mountains that the weather was clear there was the decisive report which, | checking with the observations of the | SPECIAL_NOTICE. | CHANGE OF NAME GF CORPORATION. . | The undersigned hereby” certifies that at | 8 meeting of the Stockhiolders of LAMBERT | TRUBLPRUF TIRE COMPANY: heid at the | office of the company. Washington, D. C.. at | which all the stockholders were bresent in person."on the 14th day of October. 1929, pursuant’ to a_resol Trustees t i ¥as unanimousiy 7 the name of said_corporation should be | gchanged to DRAPER TIRE SALES COM- PANY. INC In festimony whereof T have hereunto set my hand this 1ith day of November. 1920. CHARLES W_DRAPER. President. 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Byrd had th> problem of drift to contend with then and was constantly busy at the indicator, catch- | ing glimpses of sastrugi as they moved by underneath, sometimes interrupted | by the drifting snow on the surface.| | When he had an opportunity he took a . sight, and as reports of the gas con- sumption came back to him, he esti- mated the probable length of time they could run so. There was some wind against the plane and the gasoline | problem loomed more and more criti- cal as the time went on. If it would only last! The sky ahead began to clear and the | | light, fluffy clouds which began to| form over the Pole drifted away and eft clear skies. Th> sun compass would work anyway and sights could pe obtained. That was one comfort. “But that last hour was a strain,” said June. “It seemed as_though we would never get there. Finally the commander, after taking observations with his sextant, gave word to turn {and fly his courses to on> side and | the other and then to circle, and when | the dead reckoning of all of us agreed hat we had gone past the Pole, we wer2 satisficd. i “I remember Bernt leaned back and | stuck his hand out and we shook | hands.” i Guided Home by Compass. Then the route home was chosen, and the precision with which tha sun compass guided them down a meridian so that they struck Axel Heiberg Glacier in the middle was the subject of favorable comment. “We couldn’t have done that if we had.not taken departure accurately from the Pole,” said June, “and I think it was a re- markable landfall and showed the ac- curacy of the navigatio It had been lonely wand:ring around over that limitless plateau. All the mountains had sunk below the horizon, and there was a fringe of cloud there. a hazy horizon that did not augur good weather. On and on.they flew toward this shadowy lin> and slowly the mountains began to lift out of the distance, their heads circling the rim of that white world over which they were flying. At the Pole, June had estimated that they had 250 gallons of gas left. That ought to be enough if | everything went well, and they could see the snow slipping by under the skis | much more rapidly than before. They think they made 10 miles an hour better time coming back over the | plateau than going out. But they were iglad to see the mountains again, even { though at first it was difficult to recog- nize them. | | Get Over Being Lonesome, “They were just like company arriv- | | ing,” laughed June. “We got over being ! { lonesome right away.” | _As they approached the mountains, | they could see clouds forming and the | wind picked up more drift snow and | whirled it thicker below them. It sift- | ed off the sides of the mountains and drifted over the glacier. When they | reached the Axel Heiberg Glacier, they had risen to about 13,000 feet and en- tered the great canyon at that height and began to slide down it. Even sg | the mountains towered above them and some of them to the east seemed 20,000 | feet high. They were thrown up and down by violent currents as they slid down the mountain pass over the glacier, some times the plane being tossed to one side | as if 1t were a chip. “I skidded around like I was on | skates,” laughed Mac, “and finally sat on a blow torch. I had to move around. But I shot out of every window in that plane and some of those pictures are just going to be blurs of rock walls shooting past.” Byrd Again Goes Forward. Byrd again went forward on the down trip, standing beside Balchen. The glacier gorge was full of peaks sticking up through the ice and little clouds were the mountains which lined the way. Ascending currents flowed from the bare rock heated by the sun and cold down drafts dropped them as they passed over precipices of ice and snow. There was one great hole. the side of it nearly | 6,000 feet, where the plane went down like & rock for 500 feet. Every one in- side was skidding and hanging on and Mac was struggling again with his camera, “There was something which hit me harder than the bumps at times though,” he said. “That was when Harold came charging up and down over that pile of stuff and ramming | us” June weighs 190 pounds, and he is not tall. When he launches his weight it arrives in a compact form. The plane slid on fast, however, the motor _throttled down and presently came out over the barrier to the east of the depot placed on the former flight. Byrd turned east for a time to see something of the country over that way, but the vanishing gas caused him to turn back after a short time and head for the depot. And it was hard to find at first because the moun- tains looked so different at this new | angle. But they changed to a more familiar aspect as they neared the base and “they looked like old friends,” said Mac. “When we got down to the base of | the mountains or even half way down.” | said June, “I thought, well we can home from here. That was a relief. “Yes,” laughed Mac, “and I thought the same thing. only I thought I could run that 400 miles.” June Takes Controls. June climbed into the cockpit and| took the controls as he had been there on the former flight, and after smoke bombs had been dropped by the com- mander to get the wind direction, June picked a fairly smooth landing 'place. Fortunately the wind was such that he could land parallel to the snow ridges, or sastrugi, and by the time the plane hit the bumps the speed had de- | creased by half. Then he taxied around to get the plane in position so that good pictures could be taken of it there on the snow with the base and moun tains in the background. And ground | the last of his movie film. They noticed | that since the former landing much | | more ice had formed by melting the | foot of Livs Glacier. It was like look- | N ing at a big pool of water shining in | N the sun. The heat radiated from the i rocks warms that part of the Barrier | and melts the snow. At the base the commander took| - | more sights and then buried more food | | for the Geological. w; | this Balchen and Mac were opening Star | gasoline tins left at the base and pass- 3*_ 'ing them up to June on top of the wing Py where he stood in the cold wind of the idling motors. He has put a lot of gasoline in the plane that way now and {1t is not pleasant. 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B Explorer’s - Achievement in Little America Brings Felici- | tations on Success. Man Who Conceived Mooring | Most Tells of Earlier Ven- tures Into Northern Wastes. News of the triumphal airplane flight of Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd over the South Pole on Friday brought memories. of rigorous polar pioneer- ing days to another explorer of the icy wastes. Evelyn B. Baldwin, now on| duty in the World War historical sec- | tion of the Navy Department, was in | polar exploration work when men lacked the comparative comforts of | modern invention and in common with | other Americans tendered his felicita- tions to Comdr. Byrd. One of the questions uppermost in the mind of Mr. Baldwin, who went North with Peary and -later led his own _expedition into the Arctic, is whether the Byrd aerial party saw Amundsen’s tent in their spectacular dash and whether any records left by Capt. Robert Scott, the noted Britisher, were discerned by the newest explorers. Mooring Mast Inventor. Mr. Baldwin is credited with being | the first man to evolve the idea of the | airship mooring mast and giving it to | the United States Navy. He has an-| other claim to fame, in addition to his | exploration, by being the pioneer motion picture cameraman in the Arctic. Personally acquainted with the out- standing Polar explorers of his time— Andree. Amundsen, Scott and Shackle- ton—Mr. Baldwin has not met Comdr. Byrd, but is a student of his work. In- augurating “the first airmail” by in- stituting it in his Polar activities, Mr. Baldwin explained yesterday that he utilized . pigeons, on one occasion “scooping” & stowaway newspaper man with the aid of the birds. His pigeon plans were doomed to failure when he started to train them on the ice, he said, for ‘the keen-eyed gerfalcons | swooped down and made short shrift | for his treasured birds. Further Speculations. Mr. Baldwin wonders if Comdr. Byrd encountered gerfalcons—the feathered rivals of his swift airplane—in his Antarctic flight. He has never heard explorers in that region speak of them. Mr. Baldwin, who is one of Washing- ton’s trio of noted Polar explorers, said he feels the present cold snap here more than he did the frozen tempera- tures of the northland. The other | members of this trio are Gen. A. W. Greeley and Brig. Gen. David L. Brain- | ::rld. ho lives at the Army and Nnvyi u Interest in Polar exploration was awakened for Mr. Baldwin when at 10 years of age he began to pursue geog- raphy and noted the blank spo's on| the globe. The uncharted coast lines | prompted the inquiry as to why they had not been completed and a longing to know why and eventually to assist in completing some of them awoke the urge to explore. | Family of Army Men. Born in Springfield, Mo., July 22,/ 1862, Mr. Baldwin came of a family | noted for its service with the Army.| He was graduated from Northwestern College, in Naperville, Ill, in 1885, | taught 'school in Illinois and Kansas and from 1892 to 1900 was an observer in the Weather Bureau. Later he was inspector-at-large for the Signal Corps. In 1893-4, Mr. Baldwin was the meteorologist with the second Peary North Greenland Expedition. His next interest in polar exploration was when he went as a volunteer to the Andree balloon station, expecting to join Andree in his flight in 1897 over the Arctic in the old-fashioned globe-shaped balloon, but as a southerly wind came up a few | hours before his arrival at the station, Andree embraced the supposedly favor- able opportunity and he was left be- hind. It 'was well he was, for the dis- appearance of the Andree balloon is one of the world's mysteries. Mr. Baldwin has the theory that it fell in the icy waters, weighted down with snow and moisture, similarly to the recent Italian expedition that met defeat in like manner. Reason for Descent. ‘The balloon, being 80 feet in diameter and 100 feet longitudinally, had such a large practically-flat area on top, he | explained, that perhaps it was driven to the surface by the accumulation of snow and moisture. This, together with the weight of four-and-a-half tons in the basket, would have forced the balloon immediately into the open spa between the ice floes and brought tively easy, although Byrd had to navi- gate all the way. They went somewhat to the east and when they came back did not see the dog trail at all. They first hit it at the crevasses about 160 miles out, making & perfect landfall there and then following the compass course, for the trail was completely in- visible at this time, they came straight on to camp. The commander flew part of the way and Mac also took the con- trols on the latter part of the flight. ‘They did not see a landmark until a few milés from camp and then sighted the radio towers dead ahea “And didn’t those radio towers look " they said. The flight was over and mnone too soon, for the sky began to cloud up a short time after landing and in a few hours there was a high wind blowing so much drift snow that the house win- | dows were buried this morning. (Copyright, 1920, by the New Yori Co."and the 8t Louls Post-Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) Interstate Express Service | Old Dominion Stages THE BLUE BUSSES De Luxe Parlor Coaches Leave Washington Daily for Winchester, Har:isonburg, \Staunton, Lexington, Roanoke | and Way Stations 10:30 AM. 10:00 P.M. N 93 at. 94 9th & Pa. Ave. 1421 Pa. Ave. TONIGHT Inside Story McPherson Case R. J. ALLEN Washington Auditorium, 8P.M. Admission, 25¢ to $1 A. A. A. Ticket Bureau. Cannot Be Broadcast | to ‘The Mr. | means of illustration. C., DECEMBER 1, . BALDWIN HERE EVELYN B. BALDWI the expedition to an unfortunate end, to the north of Franz Josef Land, Mr. Baldwin pointed out. Mr. Baldwin was second in command of the Wellman expedition to Franz Josef Land in 1898-9, which resulted in the discovery and exploration of Graham Bell Land and numerous other uncharted islands and coast lines of the archipelago. He was the organizer and commander of the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition, backed financially by Wil- am_Ziegler, New York business man, which went in 1901-2 from Franz Josef Land, where he continued the explora tion of the archipelago and built large depots, at which were deposited equip- ment for & final dash to the pole. Sends First Alrmail. During the first year's work of this expedition, Mr. Baldwin asserted, the “dispatch of the first airmail” was ac- complished. The explorer declared that his suggestion of the mooring mast to the Navy grew out of an idea conceived while engaged in Arctic work and he was planning the use of aircraft as early as 1907. Mr. Baldwin said that he got his idea of aircraft, not from the Wright brothers, but from the early English explorer, Sir John Franklin, whose expedition carried a gas bag, de- signed to transmit messages, through being inflated with heated air. Mr. Baldwin, on his own expedition, put_this thought into practical use, he said, by dispatching 15 balloons, in- flated with hydrogen gas, manufactured on the spot of his headquarters in Franz Josef Land, in 1902. These bal loons were sent bearing messages, in closed in cork buoy: which were the northward of Franz Land. These were borne southward into the open waters of the North At- lantic, where many were picked up by sealing vessels and by them delivered to United States consuls in Norway, who in turn forwarded them to the State Department here. nstitute the first airmail in in the belief of Mr. Bald- Ponies Assist Dogs. On the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition, too, he added, the priceless value of the Siberian pony as a helpmate to the dogs in sledge work was demonstrated. This, he said, led Capt. Scott and Comdr. Ernest Shackleton to use them the following year in their Antarctic work. There were more than 400 dogs in the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition, Mr. | Baldwin recalled, and the man who gathered dogs for him purchased 100 in Siberia for Scott's use at the same | time. Scott, with Shackleton the sec- ond in command. sailed from the same port as Mr. Baldwin did—Dundee, Scotland. The English expedition was going into the Antarctic, establishing head- quarters on the west coast of Ross Bay (on the opposite side from the later expeditions of Amundsen and Byrd). Britons advanced their work southward bv the use of dogs alone. Baldwin's _fellow-explorers not thinking highly of the use of ponies at that time. 1t so happened, Mr. Baldwin pointed out, that Shackleton, having some dif- ferences with Scott, severed his con- nection with the expedition and re- turned to England by way of the United States. Shackleton Won Over. Again, Mr. Baldwin met Shackleton, in New York, upon his return from Franz Josef Land. He had demon- strated the serviceability of Siberian ponies in Arctic work and also the use of the motion picture machine as a Shackleton was converted to the use of both. Thereupon, Shackleton immediately set about organizing an expedition for the South Pole, taking with him ponles and a movie outfit. 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The Antarctic is the one extensive region in the world, the bulletin says, where man has been unable to support himself—a barren waste, void of food. “Much of the information in regard to North Polar conditions assembled through several centuries of exploration is useless in attacking the problems of life, travel and observation in the Ant- arctic,” says the bulletin. “As soon as the explorer penetrates a few miles in- land from the edge of the ice, he finds that the great southern continent is a seemingly endless waste. -Summer in the North means the opening of water leads, grass exposure of soil, the growth of grass and flowers, the renewed activity of animal life. Summer brings none of these changes in the South. It brings only a relatively slight rise in tempera- ture—a mere slackening of Winter. But it is still bitter cold, snow and ice still mask all of the earth except the peaks of the wountain ranges. Conditions Are Reversed. “The contrast betwen the polar weather conditions in the North and in versal in land and water conditions. The North Polar region consists of & sea surrounded by land masses—con- tinents and large and small islands. The South Polar region comprises a great mass of land surrounded by seas. This southern land mass, with its a cumulated ice and snow of centuries, is a great reservoir of cold. Although the exact area of the Antarctic continent is not known, it is estimated to be in ex- cess of 50000000 square miles—more than one and a quarter times the size of Europe. “The covering of ice makes it difi- cult to learn anything about the geologi: cal make-up of the southern continent except in a few favored places. It is not even known how thick the ice | sheet is. In general, the topography | of the land between Comdr. Byrd's| base and the Pole has been known since the expeditions of Amundsen and | Scott. In reaching the Pole it was ef | necessary for the plane to rise over| tall mountains, and then to traverse a lofty pleateau, which, at the Pole, is about 9,000 feet above sea level, “An outstanding and depressing fact in regard to the Antarctic is the com- plete absence of all forms of life in the interior. It is the one extensive | region in the world where man has| been unable to support himself. There | are no animals that he can kill for| food. No carniverous animals exist | because there is no prey for them. No herbiverous animals exist because noth- | salt for the ponies and the animals had | licked the sal* sand on the beach and | taken some of the sand into their stomachs, causing death. Mr. Baldwin is glad that Comdr. Byrd has succeeded, where his friend Shackleton failed. | “I am always glad to know of the | success of any of our American ex- | plorers,” he said. “I hope to convince | the public and, if I may add, our Gov- ernment, that there are other ex- plorers, not including myself, who are | entitled to consideration in the way of | financial support, in a work which to | my mind should not be confined to the purse strings of a few individuals who | happen to be more fortunate, financially speaking, than the most of us. | 1929—PART ONE. McKinley Follows Pioneer Ancestors By Antarctic Feat ‘The glad tidings that Comdr. Byrd had flown over the South Pole brought particular joy to Mrs. Ashley McKinley of 1882 Columbia road, for Capt. Ashley C. McKinley, the aerial photog- rapher with the famous naval air- man is her grandson. Capt. McKinley's ancestors were associated with the early history of the National Capital, she said last night. His great great-grand- father, Justice John Mckinley, was appointed to the: Supreme Court by President Van Buren, and his maternal great great- grandmother was Mrs. John J. Crittenden. He is a namesake of Gen. Wil- liam Ashley, who was the first white man to discover Salt Lake, Utah. Accordingly, his family e plains, the pioneer aerial camer: man of the Antarctic is following the exploring proclivities of his ancestors, ing grows on which they might feed. The sea surrounding Antarctica swarms with life, and there large numbers of girds congregate. But they venture only a few miles inland. Maps to Be Valuable. “Data gathered by the Byrd expedi- tion doubtless will fill in many blank spots in regard to the southern con- tinent. This will be most evident, per- haps, cartographically. From the mosaic maps made photographically from the plane during the dash to the Pole it will be possible to prepare maps in con- siderable detail, definitely tying the previously known areas of the Southern Hemisphere to the South Pole. “To aeronautics, the expedition a ready has added much needed data| in regard to the operation of airplanes | and the behavior of metals and lubri- cants under conditions of extreme nat- ural cold. Additional data in this con- nection werg obtained on the final dash to and Irom the Pole. “Careful meteorological observations have been carried on by the expedition | during its long stay at Little America, its sled and supplemental flights and on the Polar flight itself. Antarctica has been looked upon as a ‘weather breeder” for South America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia and in a sense for the entire Southern Hemisphere, “The detailed meteorological data to be brought back by the expedition may make possible more accurate weather forecasting for the whole world, Makes Radio History. “In the radio field Comdr. Byrd has made history. He is the only man to have sent radio messages from both the North and the South Poles. 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Byrd was aided in this selection by the sun compasses designed for him by Albert H. Bumstead, head of the map depart- ment of the National Geographic So- clety.” Sty AIR-ARCTIC SECRETARY IN BERLIN LAUDS BYRD Scientists of World Expect to Gain Invaluable Data by Pole Flight, Says Brouns, By the Associated Press. ter Bruns, secretary of the Air-Arctic Soctety which has projected a north polar flight for the Dirigible Grat Zep. pelin next Spring, tbday characterized the flight of Comdr. Byrd to the South Pole as “a history-making achieve- ment from which the scientists of the world expect to gain most invalu- able scientific data.” By radio he sent to the American aviator the felicitations of the soclety and best wishes for his future success Near the | | BERLIN, November 30.—Capt. Wal- | in his Antarctic exploration: pointed out that the flight once agal demonstrated the practicability of air- craft as a means of Arctic exploration. Park Film‘ to Be Shown. Motion picture scenes of national parks in the West will be shown tomor- | row night at 8 o'clock at a meeting of the League of American Civil Service in the auditorium of the Interior De- partment. Miss Elizabeth M. Haney will lecture. )7” Apartments In Perfect Order Only a Few Left 3 12] 1 closet. . 30. o b Mgr., Dist. 8548 . W. Groomes 1416 F St. . b T I 1321 Connecticut Avenue To Discriminating Home Seekers Attention Is Called to THE ALTAMONT 1901 Wyoming Avenue at 20th Street 1E very best is offered here in an apartment home. suites in this building have recently been remodeled into smaller ones to meet the demand. The large | There are available at present apartments of from two rooms and bath to five rooms, kitchem, reception hall and three baths. Open Fireplaces—Electric Refrigeration Soundproof Walls—Very Large Clothes Closets Telephone Switchboard—Excellent Service Randall H. Hagner & Co. | INCORPORATED Phone Decatur 3600 IF my daughter went to work, I would try to protect z her health by getting her to take Scott’s Emulsion regularly. It is the easy way to take cod-liver oil. Tastes good. Easily digested. A food and a tonic both. Start tonight—every day counts. TTS EMULSION WINTER HEALTH PROTECTOR ONLY ONE OF TH At $2,000 Less Than Regular Price You Can Buy This Home for the Rent You Are Now Paying. Why Not Come Out? $100 CASH Balance $75 Monthly, Including Interest 753 Princeton St. N.W. JUST EAST OF GA. AVE. N.W. 8 Rooms and Bath—Hot-water Heat Electric Lights—Big Porches Very Large Lots to Wide Alley Fine Built-in Garage Inspect Today Open and Lighted Until 9 O’Clock P.M. TEIN (0 INCORPORATED 13)] H STREET NORTHWEST LR The SUPERIOR QUALITY Of oUR DAIRY PRODUCTS HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME founded february first Chestnut Farms Milk—produced under the most ideal conditions on the most select farms of Maryland and Virginia—contains all the neces- sary elements so requisite for the building up of growing children. Start in tomorrow giving your child liberal quantities of this body- building food—convince yourself of the merits to our claim— The Highest Quality Dairy Products Chestrut Farms Dais JSelected as the WORLDS MODEL PAIRY PLANT and Rated Columbia 100% by the District of Fealth Department.