Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1932, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MOnNDAY. JL 4,3 (T 1982 A7 TASTE OF SUGAR | AFFECTS FLOWERS LOST TOWNS OF ATLANTIC COUNTY STILL STIR WONDER IN NEW JERSEY HISTORY T0 JUDGE Opening and Closing of Blos- soms Governed by Many External Factors. BY THOMAS R. HENRY Are flowers fond of sugar? Some of them, at least, show decided reactions to this substance, experiments | Jjust reported by Carnegie Institution of Washington show The blossom, of course, is not aware of liking or disliking anything, but it} sometimes acts s if it did. G. W.! Goldsmith and A. L. Hafenrichter of the | Carnegie Institution staff, found this out in a long series of experiments to discover the mechanism of the semi- rythmic opening and closing of flowers. When a_tulip blossom was placed in pure distilled water the effect to | make it close ih approximately one| hour. Then a closed blossom was placed | in the same distilled water with a very small amount of sugar in solution, but at the same time constant temperature, | and exactly the opposite effect was ob- served. The blossom opened, but almost twice as long was required for it to open as to close. The more sugar was added the faster and fuller the opening. Dandelion Similar. A similar effect was observed in the dandelion, but in the epposite direction. Water caused the blossoms to open, but the addition of a sugar solution caused them to close, the greater the amount | of sugar the greater the cldsing in a given time. The same effects, either in one direction or another, was cbserved in many other flowers studied under laboratery conditions. Because the nerveless blossom can have no sensory awareness, a purely mechanical explanation of its response 1o stimulation of any kind is necessary. The opening and closing of blossoms, it is explained in the Carnegie report, is due to bending of the bracts, sepals and petals. The experiments show this occurs mainly in a very limited region near the base of these regions which, because of its structure, becomes a site | of extreme sensitivity. The explanation is probably to be found, it is explained, in the water con- tent of the cells in this region. ‘Some plants are so constituted that when these cells are turgid with water there will be a bending effect which will tend | to open the blossom. In others the | bending effect will tend to close the blossom. When the flower is immersed | in water this turgidity is effected and | movement results in one way of an-| other. But when sugar is added the! effect may be to draw the water out of | the tissues, it is explained. causing the | opposite effect. It is considered im- possibe for the sugar to permeate the | cells themselves. | Responses Delicate. As a rule, it is stated, movements of this kind can be caused repeated]: They also can be produced by artifi- | cial manipulation af the cells in the sensitive area. Delicate responses | were found to light, temperature and humidity of the surroundings, the blos- som movements varying according to | species and some flowers showing even | individual differences Cutting, they found, rarely produces any change in the behavior of a blos- som for 24 Is or more, indicating | that the mechenism involved is largely | confined to the flower and has no tie- | up with the general structure of the plant. Flowers cut immediately before | opening and left in the field without any water supply, the experimenters | found, frequently opened at the usual| time. Studies of the water content of | the flowers indicated a general decrease | with age, but no nge which could be | directly correlated with the mo\'cmems.]‘ ments upoi vironment was shown by obs in the field. Tulips, for instance, open regularly in the morning and close at night, but on_exceptlonally cool days the flowers may remain closed all the periods—that is, when the drying-out time, while curing hot and windy | process would be more rapid—they may | close early in the forenoon instead of | waiting for darkness | Plant Matches Weather. | The dandelion, they found, may be an early or late riser. Under favorable conditions its blossom will open as early as 5 am., but on a bad day—that a bad day for dandelions—it may re-| main asleep until 10 o'clock. And it| may quit its day's work of looking pret ny time from 9 am. to 6 p.m. Dande §ions in the shade, or protected from the wind, show quite different blos- som movements from those in less favorable positions -l They conclude that closing or open- | ing, according to the nature of the| plant, is likely to occur, not according | %o any mysterious inner rythm of be- | havior, but whenever the rate of trans- piration of water from the tissues con- cerned in movement equals or exceeds| the water conduction to the tissues. ‘Temperature, light and humidity all contribute to this result | The opening and closing of flowers, the experimenters explain, may teem to be independent of these factors in their environment because they must | yeach a critical intensity or be pro- | Jonged over long periods before they will produce easily noted chang i TEACHERS TURN DOWN | OFFER OF HALF SALARY | Public School Faculties in Mont- gomery, Ala., Willing to Work Only as Long as Money Lasts. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (#).—Teachers in public schools in Montgomery city | and county systems will not teach for | balf pay next vear. 1 They sre willing to teach “as long as | the money holds out” and quit. but re- ! belled at the proposal of the Board of | Education that they sign contracts for | next vear which would guarantee only‘ half their present salaries. | The plan was offered teachers at a mass mecting by school officials, who asserted that the school fund available | for the next term would not be more | than about 50 per cent of present costs. “Then let the schools be operated on | the former schedule as long as the| money holds out—and then close,” was the counter proposal of teachers. ‘ ‘Wholesale commodity prices in Egypt are rising. H BUY or RENT Office - Furniture i i H. Baum & Son Nat. 9136 : Information MEtropolitan 1512 moxe| Nkt ional L9836 GREYHOU POT, . N.W. N D Poet o et Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening and Sunday morning at 1l2c per day and 5c Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. 616 E St. N.W. | construction of new ships, By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J—Where are the lost towns of Atlantic County— Ticktown, Toadtown and Hell Neck— rotted by the earth's juices, buried under the wild growths of the woods, probably. The names live to agitate the old- timers of the county, and round them has come down to this day the usual stories accounting for the odd labels. Ticktown, earthiest of the lot, reveals in the legend woven around its name the woes of picnickers making holiday in the pine needles outside of Smith- town. Ticks are tiny parasites which fasten in the flesh, swell with blood and offer no end of annoyance. ‘The name of Toadtown offers no clue. Hell Neck, on the other hand, may be derived from the unsavory glamour the pine robbers who infested the woods around Pleasant Mills gave to the dis- trict in Revolutionary days. They carried on their raids in Atlantic and| Again it has been Burlington Counties. suggested that the name sprang from an experience on Peters Beach, where a hotel owner and his family were nearly engulfed by the rising tide in a storm. They sat in the parlor singing old- fashioned hymns, “We Are All Sur- rounded” and “Throw Out the Life Line,” while the wind rattled the clap- boards and shrieked in the chimney. The family’s cow was swept away by the water and carried back under the house, and they raised her so that she | was able to come into the parlor. “And the owner,” says the story, “had such a time with her that he had to lead her by the neck into the kitchen, | where she belonged.” | _ And from that day Peters Beach was dubbed “Hell Neck.” Lastly, there is Bargaintown, a name severance of a woman slave of James Somers who carried stones in her apron to build a road through the swamp and thereby won her freedom. HUGE SUMS SENT HOME BY ALIENS International Money Order Business Proved Profitable Last Year. The international money order busi-| NEW YORK (N.AN.A).—Forty-two, ness proved profitable last year when foreigners residing in the United States sent approximately $173,000,000 in money orders back to their native homes, the Commerce Department said recently. This total, however, slumped 13 per cent under the figures for 1930, and was 30 per cent lower than the estimate for 1929. The department attributed the decline to the large number of aliens who left the country last vear, many of whom carried their bank savings with them to aid in support of friends and rela- tives in cistress abroad. The sharp depreciation of certain foreign curren- cies during the latter part of the year, which increased foreign values of the American dollar in those countries, and the marked increase in remittances to Soviet Russia were also said by the department to have bsen important factors for the decline. Italy received the largest share of the immigrant remittance during the year, Bet about $26,500,000 of the total, while Greek immigrants sent approximately $25,000,000 to their mative homes. A total of $15,000,000 was sent abroad by Russians living in the United States, and Japanese resi- dents sent approximately $12,500,000 back home. The department's records how that almost évery country received some share of the remittances from this country in 1931. The department pointed out that duricg the 1931 fiscal year nearly 62,000 emigrant aliens left the country, making an excess of departure over admissions for the first time in the history of the country. By the second half of the calendar year 1931, the rate of these departures had fallen consid- erably, however, with the result that the number of emigrant aliens who left the country during the calendar year, the depariment estimated. was ~ not much more than 50 per cent of tne fiscal year departures. GETS ALIMONY IN FOOD 'vallons | Divorced Wife of Delicatessen Man | Is Awarded Supplies. Bologna may_constitute part of the payment of alimony to Mrs. Prances Jablonsky of Newark, N. J. When her hLusband William was cited for contempt on failure to pay the stipulated cash alimony, his counsel told Judge Brennan that Jablonsky ran a delicatessen store and business was bad. “Does your client get his own food from the store?” counsel was asked. Tne answer was affirmative “Then let Mrs. Jablonsky do likewise.” Scot Shipbreaking Active. Shipbreaking has superseded ship- building as an active indusiry in Scot- land. While building on the Clyde has decayed, shipbreaking yards are spring- ing up along the banks of the Forth, LIVES STRANGELY - TURNED BY TICKET Incident of 42 Years Ago In- volving Love and Millions Is Recalled. years ago the price of a steamship ticket separated Frederick Brown, re- | cently one of the depression’s most sensational casualties, from this coun- try and a $20,000.000 fortune. The story of how he got the ticket has just come | to light. | It was stumbled upon by one who visited Dr, Arman Breitner on the Neu- baugasse, in the seventh district of Vienna, to ease a toothache. In 1890 Dr. Breitner was a dentist’s assistant in Carlsbad and a friend of the 22- year-old Friederich Braun. To both young men a steamship ticket to the United States seemed a passport to Paradise and about as difficult to ob- ain, In the Summer of that year, accord- ing to Dr. Breitner a Mrs. Levy of Paterson, N. J.. anu her daughter, Rose, then 18, ‘met the young dentist and of- fered him a ticket and some money, explaining he could easily repay the debt after his arrival in the land of unlimited promises, = It did not take Dr. Breitner more than a moment to accept, but the Aus- trian Army intervened, and while pre- paring for departure he received the call to serve three years. The ticket was good for only two years, and Dr. Breitner, arguing that a friend of his should be a friend of the Levys, and that Priederich Braun could repay the money as rapidly as he, gave the ticket and his blessing to his young friend. Friederich Braun became Prederick Brown, married Rose Levy, the daugh- ter of Dr. Breitner's benefactress, amassed a great fortune, gave $3,000,000 to charity in the last seven years and a few days ago filed a petition in volun- tarv bankruptey. Dr. Breitner has spent his life in modest circumstances, but once again the friends meet on a common economic level, “with no personal debts owing.” Mr. Brown has behind him a total real estate turnover of approximately $2.- 000,000.000. Dr. Breitner has the me: | ory'of a steamship ticket. (Copyright. 1932 by Nor'h American News- Alliance, Inc.) LIKE KELLY WILL! Court Just Won't Let Him Change His Name. Because a hat is called a Kelly, and for similar reasons. including Kelly pool, shide-Kelly-slide, Edwin Manuel Kelly of Brooklyn, N. Y., wanted to change his name to Kellet. Justice Russell denied the application and called the reasons “frivolous.” “Such an application finds no favor with me,” said the justice, “though it well may be that Kellys who rejoice in the name might welcome the granting of this petition | "THEY LANDED THE FISH where battleships which cost millions | Friend Helps Out When Tuck]e&f are meeting the same fate as small tramp steamers. Estimators say that more battleships have been destroyed there than were sunk during the World War. Much of the steel is used in the tons are sold to manufacturers of razor blades. New Low | Fisherman Breaks. | Dale Dotson of Kelso, Wash., lost a big one when his tackle broke. A few and many | Seconds later, his friend, Day Parkhill, | hauled in the fish. » His hook had | caught in the broken tackle. PRICES ON GENUINE G-E WASHERS See Them . . . Then Compare Values— rouIPPED WITI ®This is a price year! 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NATIONAL ELECTRICAL SuppLY Co. “A Washington-Owned Firm Working for the Best Interests of Washington” 1328-1330 New York Ave. N.W.—| born, according to the story, by the per-| Ticktown, Toadtown and Hell Neck Probably Lie Buried| GABY D_ESEY_S’ Rm.E Under Wild Growths in Woods. {Death of King Manuel Recalls Charges of His Gifts to French Actress. By the Assoclated Press. Former King Manuel's passing 22 years after he was forced from Portu- gal's throne closes the tragedy which centered about this youthful King and leaves to historians the task of decid- ing how great a part his infatuation for Mlle. Gaby Deslys plaved in the overthrow of the House of Braganza. Manuel held the throne only two vears after his father and brother had been killed by a bomb He inherited an upset political and economic situa- tion which even an older king could not have remedied, perhaps. Republican regime which was set up when he fled has had a rough road. Actress Profited. » the Parisian music hall entertainer, and the report that he gave her jewels worth half a million dollars, doubtless hastened the revolt, in which the army and nevy joined Gaby Deslys denied that the Portu- guese King gave her expensive gifts. The stories may have been the crea- tions of press agnts. but the French actress profited by the notriety, made triumphal tours of the United States death left a larg> fortune to Marseille, her native ciir. Rightly or wrongly, ¥.e public has given her a place with Pompadour. and other women who have rocked and upset_thrones Unlike most women who have been in the limelight through their affairs guillotine, poverty and distress which have been the lot of so many royal favorites. Almost Forgotten. Lola Montez, gotten in a Brooklyn cemetery, had a very different fate. As leading dancer in the Munich Opera, she dominated King Ludwig and interfered with Bava- demonstrated against her and she was compelled to flee. Embittered by her Aefeat. she failed to acHieve success in London. Paris and New York. For a time she at- tracted attention because of the notoriety which attached to her affair with King Ludwig. But when audiences failed to applaud her performfances she turned on them in anger. much after the manner of the late Isadora Dun- can. She made an unsuccessful tour of Mexico, danced in the gold camps of the Far West and died broken-hearted and in poverty in.New York 60 years ago. PRINTS GREEK BOOKS Amherst Professor Has Small Plant to Copy Classics. Prof. Francis H. Forbes of Amherst College, Mass.. has a small Greek print- ing plant in the basement of Pratt Hall He used it Tecently to reprint a num- ber of copies of the “Life of Plato,” by | Olympiodorus. YCED OUT WHERE THE SUNSET BECKONS— A VACATION PARADISE It’s Yours —This Summer Lowest Round Trip Fares In Years! Toward the sunset, lies Vacationland for you—the Golden West! Denver, Yellowstone Park, Los Angeles, Seattle. 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Clark, just issued by the Smithsonian Institution. Notable, he finds, is the fragrance of the common orange-and-black regal fritillary—a strong, sweet, spicy odor resembling that of sandalwood. It is| | easily detected by smelling the upper surfaces of the fore wings of the male. ©Odor Comes From Pouch. i The common milkweed butterfly of District roadsides, Clark finds, emits an odor like the faint, sweet fragrance of | red clover blossomb or the flowers of |the common milkweed. This comes from the scales within a little pouch on each hind wing of the male, together with a faint, cockroach-like odor. The little blue butterfly of District | fields, Clark reports, has an exceedingly | | delicate odor comparable to that of newly stirred earth in Spring or of | crushed_violet stems. This insect, he | finds, shows a decided preference for | white flowers. The tiny lesser sulphur | butterfly exudes a pronounced fra- grance suggesting that of dried sweet grass or of sweet hay. It is one of the | smallest of local butterfiles, yet its odor is easy to detect. The closely related | orange clover butterfly, which he found | in abundance about Washington parks, | has a constant and very uniform odor suggesting heliotrope. A closely related species is the cloud- less sulphur, whose males emit a very pronounced odor which can be com- pared with that of violets and musk. It shows a decided preference for yel- | low flowers and easily can be decoyed by imitation butterflies made out of yellow paper and set up in muddy spots. Is Aggressive Insect. Perhaps the most common species in this part of the country, Clark says, is the cabbage butterfly. The males emit | a faint odor, difficult to detect, but comparable to_that of mignonette and sweet briar. This butterfly, he points out, is the subject of some well-known superstitions because of its occasional appearance in houses in Midwinter. | This is because its caterpillars oft pupate on firewood and when this piled near the stove the warmth brings about the metamorphosis. The great family of swallowtails pre- sent a different range of odors. The blue swallowtail, especially common about local flower gardens. exudes an odor suggestive of carrot flowers. It is one of the most aggressive of all but- FRANKLIN Cane Sugars for every need TEA Your Vacation THE GEORGE WASHINGTON The Most Wonderful Train in the World COMPLETELY AIR-CONDITIONED LV. WASHINGTON. Ar. Cincinnati. .. Ar. Lexington (csT) 8:24 A. M. Ar. 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