New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 10, 1926, Page 32

Nassau Plans Rousing ‘ Greeting for New Chief Nassau, Bahamas, Dec. 10 (A— Nassau, as the seat of Bahaman gov- ernment, has planned a rousing re- ception for its new colonfal govern- or and commander-in-chief, Major | Charles Willlam James Orr, C. M. | G., upon his arrival. Major Orr is a veteran 1in the service of Great Britaln, his |€L§L‘ Here's How It Got on the| Difliflg Table | post having been at Gibraltar, where | he has served since 1919 as colon- .._| ial secretary. Borm in 1870, he was | . Dec. 10—Mil- . Washington, D. C., Dec. 10—Mil-} '\ 004"t Bath College and the | y il el: fore the ] Mons of years will elapse before the | o "yjjitary Academy, Woolwich. LT SHAKER 1t " UNIQUE HISTORY BRITAIN ADOPTS AFRICAN PYGMIES Heikum Bushmen Come Under John Bull's Protection By A Service is about to adopt a new baby, or he Cape Town, Dec. 1. — John !‘null“ Americans under Dr. C. anthropologist of Denver unive returned to Cape Town after s | months in the interior. They brought | out nearly 100,000 feet of moving | picture film showing that the hush- man is a first cousin of the missing | link. Weeks were spent in gaining the confidence of the desert people. Each night, offerings of sugar and | tobacco were placed in conspicuous | places along the trails, and cach , they disappeared as If by The next few days brought y member of the vanishing race ess than 200 of them—to live off United States will suffer a shortage of salt such as that reported re- cently at Cuenca, Ecuador. It is estimated that thirty thou- sand billion tons of salt, which would last for two million years at the present rate of consumption, are contained in a single deposit under- lying an area 650 miles long ar about 200 miles wide, in portions of Xansas, Oklahoma, northwestern exas and New Mexico. This is by far the largest known deposit in the world, and has scarcely been touched except in Kansas, where an exten- sive industry has b developed. The disturbance at Cuenca recalls the importance of salt in ancient times. The Germ: believed the presence of salt in the soll gave it a peculiarly sacred character, for salty streams they would wage war. For centuries before the Christian era blocks of salt were 1 by dis- tricts of China bordering the ocean to pay revenue to the Chinese rul- ers. In China and Tibet the min- eral vied with goid as a medium of exchange. Salt is a luxury to some of the native tribes of Central Africa, par- tlcularly among the Pygmies. Gifts of salt have made it possible for the whits man to approach and study these jungle dwellers. Even the tusks of clepbants Pygmies kill, which are their prized possessions, are burled in the ground until they are traded for salt and tobacco. While some salt is produted by evaporation of sea water in local- ities along the ceaboard and in the vleinity of salt streams and lakes, most of our supply is extracted from deposits In the earth. This is done either by forcing water down holes reaching to the salt beds, and evap- orating the brine which is forced up and withdrawn, or by the system- atic mining of the deposit. The most famous mines are the ‘Wieliczka mines in Galacla. They virtually constitute an underground city with their .5 miles of galleries, traversed by more than 30 miles of raliroads, and their monuments, houses, churches, restaurants and rallroad stations—all carved out of | solld salt rock. Even the massive, artistically patterned chandeliers in numerous chapels and ballrooms, are salt. There are subterranean rivers and lakex One of the sixteen lakes is navigable anl a boat is provided ‘which visitors may hire. The mines have been in operation since the thirteenth century and a depth of 12,000 feet has been reached. They Justity their classification among the lesser wonders of the world. Michigan Our Largest Producer Of more than seven million tons of salt produced annually in_the United States, Michigan, New Yorl Ohio, Kansas and Louisiana rank foremost. Michigan is slightly in the lead, with New York close on her Theels. All of *hese states have depos its which show no indication of ¢ haustion. The New York deposit alone will supply the demand of this country for thousands of years, al- though extensive operations have been carried on for a century. The deposit underlies an area of 2,000 square miles in the central part of the State and is from 3 to 318 feet thick. Although salt is used principally for cooking and seasoning, it plays an important part in the great world industries. Large quantities are con- | sumed in meat packing, fish curing, dafrying, baking, refrigerating, pot- tery glazing, In the enamel and pipe ‘works, in the silk and textile indus- tries, in salting cattle, curing and tanning hides, making pickles, and in many other industries. In the form ot brine, it is used in all chemicals containing a sodium base. These in- clude many of the “ides,” ‘“ites,” and “ates." Every living thing would perish ‘without salt, and a sufficient quanti- ty is necessary to good health. Every tissue of the body has a small con- tent of fodine, which may be supplied or renewed by the consumption of #alt. The body requires from 16 to 18 pounds annually. Before the invention of the cook- pot and the establishment of kitchen, our primitive ancestors ate raw meat in which was ample salt. The animals consumed salt th instinct directed them to salt water areas and out-cropping But the cooking proc a large percentage of the salt in meat and it became necessary for human consumers to make up the deficiency, | Thus the salt chaker found Its way to the dining tabl OREGON'S JADE DEPOSITS Portland, Ore., Dec. 10, (A—Jade deposits have been uncovered i eastern Oregon. Plans for mining the jade commercially have been made by Maximilian Joseph Reuz, a Beattle chemist, who made the d covery. The deposit is in a larg hill about nine miles southwest of Durkes, in Special Notice The Daughters of hold their annual € Bale of aprons, food cles at 49 West Ma Bldg., Saturday, Decr ad Tsabella as Charity 1 fancy arti- St., Raphael mber 11th.— ORDER OF NOTICE District December & Estate of of the town deceancd Upon the Phillips, may be sell and sald de fila mora Ordered, heard & omee, 1n on the15th d at 9 o'clock motice be given of application and OF HEARING Berlin, ss; P e A. D. 192 t Be alstrict, irder on the p the town of New Brital trict, and by glving notle in interest, elther personully or by ma h one, prepald postage, A co and return make to th D F. GAFFNEY, Judg and | the | to all parties | | In 1889 he entered the Royal Artil- |lery, In 1899 being clevated to a | captaincy and in 1904 receiving the | rank of major. He since has seen | military and economic service many parts of the world FLASHES TAKEN IN HOVIELAND | Sidelights on the Great Picture ? Tndustry Soap, the enemy of dirt in real life, is dirt’s best counterfeit in the {movies. Washing powder files as |dust before the camera. It was ex- © [plained at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer " |studlo that when a dusty cloth is lshnkvn before the camera, the dust |is never seen. But rubbing polished | furniture with soap gives a real ef- fect of dirt. Scattering washing powder on a white cloth from which |dust is to be shaken gives a white cloud which films and scttles as dust. Director Fred Niblo has no mis- |givings for the motion picture pro- fesson. He says he wants his | daughter, Loris, who is 5 years old, [to become a film actress because he believes that acting is an unselfish profession and that her work will keep her clear of temptation. Norma Talmadge's blond Pomer- lanian, named Dinky, compare traveling experiences with |any other canine. He has scen much |having made a complete tour of |America and visited France, Ttaly, |Germany, Austria, Russta and Al gerla during his nine years. A set a mile long and a half mile wide is being erected for a new ple- ture, “Sunrise,” at the Fox studios. It represents a section of a city, with clevated trains, street cars and other objects of cl ched the cast of “For Wives | a the front bumper of Marle | Prevost's automobile. Miss Howard |became & protege of the star after Ishe had been struck near the De- |Mille studio several months ago. The extremes of costumes, one of \e Russian uniforms worn' by Rod aRocque fn “Resurrection,” weighs | thirty-five pounds. Dolores Del |playing Katusha Maslova in the me piece, wears a peasant costume |weighing exactl: one pound. | Two of the latest movie recrults come from musical comedy. |lle Chaplin and his wife visited a |Tos Angeles theater where they saw Mrs. Chaplin’s friend, seventeen- year-old Merna Kennedy, in a musi- | cal comedy, “All for You,” and Char- |lie signed her to a contract as his |leading lady in “The Circus.” Gloria Swanson saw John Bow musical comedy, “Kit ses” In New York, and he ed as leading man in “Sunya, Swanson's first independent | JAPANESE ALSO FISHERMEN | Tokyo, Dec. 9. (—The people of | Japan generally are regarded as silk | growers or rice farmers, but, as a | | matter of fact, a large proportion of |the population is fishermen. It fs estimated that more than 2,000,000 | Japanese gain thelr livelihood from fishing. The value of marine pro- ducts harvested yearly is in the | neighborhood of 215,000,000 yen. |= || Give Glasses At Christmas FRANK E. GOODWIN IGAT SPECIALIST 327 MAIN ST. TEL. 1905 in | Paula Howard, Hollywood i::‘honlz | will if the baby can be .caught, | tamed and impressed with the idea that its new daddy really means well | and is anxious to see it grow. | This probable addition to | polyglot family now under B | protection is the race of | Bushmen, most primitive | people in the world | Untold centuries ago, no- | | madic pygmies probably formed the | largest of African tribes. Now y | are so few that science 1 pro-| nounced them extinct until a party of American explorers discovered a few remnants of the lost race in the | Goodwin says, “has no religion, al- Kalahari desert. { most no 1 tradition, no sort of | A semi-official relief party under | n and scarcely any lan- | Harold Eedes, British explorer, fs { headed into the waste lands of the | north, bent on rescuing all the bush- | men who will consent to be rescued. | and also 1o ob! i | ther record of the oldes | in turn, studied and photographed :m. Dr. Cadle, on his return to Cape Town, pronounced the bushmen the ywest living anthropological —type. ot only in physical formation but n lack of culture, the pygmy is thousands of years behind the most backward of other tribes. This was corroborated by Dr. A. J. H. Good anthropologist of the Univers ty of Cape Town, who accompanied wer expedition. Heikum bushman,” Dr. and timid these Travel in Bunches “They wander neither in tribes or families, yuch They have no permanent homes and are not even advanced enough to i build themselves a shelter.” | tribes. Brihes | Armed with such white masic as sugar, tobacco, matches and af by t phonograph, Eedes hopes to win the | Denver party aroused humanitarian | friendship of the Pygmies and lead |and scientific interest to such an ex- | them to a reservation where thuy no | tent that the dritish foreign secre- | longer will fear starvation and the | tary authorized the relief measur | spears of their melghbors. at now are being carried out. |7 Proof that the people of the Kala-| “The bushmen are a people whose hari still lived came when the Den- | only aim in life from birth to death | ver African Expedition, a party of |is to obtain nourishment,” Doctor ts willing to | jof the world with Miss Talmadge, | MEN’'S | N SUITS and OVERCOATS o, | Char- | WOMEN'S COATS and DRESSES $19.50 CLOTHES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS 138 MAIN STREET Opp. Strand Theater he bounty of the Americans, who, but in indiscriminate | A bow and arrow and loin | skin are all the individual possesses. | Goodwin says. “They devour mice, lizards, ant cggs, snakes, and flying ants. The women dig roots and the men follow the lions in the hope | of robbing the jackals and vultures of the remains of the kills. “Cold night find all sexes .nd | ages huddied together for warmth, | And on the hottest days, if their hunger has been satistied, they will dig into the sand and lie all day long with only thelr faces exposed.” | Life of Lelsure ‘Whatever the bushman may be, he is not cowardly. For untold cen- | turies, over central Africal, he car- ried on war with his more powerful | neighbors, with but one possible re- { sult—his own defeat. Beaten, and hunted like an animal, he fled into | German Southwest Africa, there to he massacred by the white men and Bantu tribes. So he was driven ito the Kalahari desert to die—and he very nearly did. | | Perhaps a few more months will | ! see the Hefkum pygmies established | in some safe haven where they can |hunt and feast and dance to the ! monotonous hand-clapping of their | multitudinous wi | But white men who know them, | remembering that centuries of per- secution have never brought submi sion, believe that the little people | { will choose to go on living in the | {o14 gaig only some revived inter | great Kalahari, following the lon | yie ™\ ha" v ™ im ™ go |in their search for food or Iylng in \rona Ruth Webb, his sweetheart, | the sand all day long. got a minister and appeared outside the window of the sickroom. stantinople has dedicated a minister married the two, via the new Widows' Home, the firét instl- | open window—and Dickson prompt tutlon of its kind in Turkey. i ly began to recover. b e Hugh Diclison was dying ol diph- theria at Ardmore, Okla. 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