New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1928, Page 12

Water and Woather Washington, Sept. 14 UP—A suc- cessful end to an 18 months' cam- | paign to plant a lighthouse on Tub- | bataha reef in the Philippine Is- lands, marked by a bitter and cease less struggle against elements, has| been reported by the lighthouse service of the department of com- 1aerce. A low coral reef set in the midst of a nest of rock shoals, sun-baked and hurricane-swept, has beru crowned with a 120-foot tower to | carry the light that will warn mar iners. Presently the reef will be covered with soil behind a sea wall | to make a tiny park under the tower. | Work began on the construction in November, 1926, and was stopped | repeatedly by hurricanes which swept the barren, low islet. Many days the sun, beating on the while| coral, made labor impossible during | normal working hours. | Water had to be distilled out of | the sea to supply the gangs strus- gling with the concrete and steel. Sickness forced retirement of a high percentage of the working force, but the erection of the light has been proven a necessity to safe- guard the sea traffic between Manila 4 and Honk Kong and Australia, and | the Philippine government kept its forces at the task. Now, there is a 5,000 candle pow- er lantern atop a concrete tower buttressed by wide, flaring columns, cross-braced with steel internally and judged fit to stand the stress of tropic winds that in these seas rise often to typhoon velocity. The last step will be transportation of the soil to fill in behind the sea| wall, that the lighthouse keeper may { have some tiny spot of green and shade to break the searing white of the coral and ‘the burning blue of the sea that makes up the only horizon. U, 5. GIVES AID T0 | CHINESE BUSINESS Signing of New Treaty is Great 5 Boon 7 — Washington, Sept. 14.—(M—With the signing of the new tariff treaty ‘with the Chinese nationalist govern- ment as representative of all of China, Secretary Kellogg has given effect to & policy of triendly aid to Chinese nationalists aspirations that survived grave perils in the days when Russian Soviet advisers domin- ated the Nationalist movement. The elimination of those advisers by the Chinese themselves changed the whole situation for the Wash- ington government. While American policy has never departed from | Bave held the actual power. strict neutrality as between the war- ring factions, it would have been & far more vexing business had a Soviet controfled Nationali®t regime scored the final success. In moments of greatest stress in American-Chinese, relations, Wash- ington has largely been guided by the deep knowledge two of its per- manent corps of advisers have of Chinese history and Chinese char- acter. They have stood unshaken in their beliets that the inherently Chinese traits, which explains the dislike of “foreign devils” among China’s masses, must come to the surface in the Young Cliina move- ment itself sooner or later and sweep aside influences cropping from without. Those two men, whose cool judg- ment operated despite the cross-fire of diplomatic pressure, even in such critical moments as the thrust at ‘Shanhai and the attack on Ameriéan Nationals st Nanking, are John Van Antwerp MacMurray, minister to Peking, and Nelson Trusler Johnson, assistant secretary of state in charge of Far Eastern policy questions. They are widely different in ap- pearance and manner. MacMurray is dark, thin, nervously energetic— even temperamental, to a degree. Johnson, s little portly of build, with thinning sandy halr, is, by habit, & philosopher, with a kindly, tolerant view of men and their affairs, what- ever their race or color. Both are of long experience in the external bus- iness of government. With MacMurray in Peking and to the secretary when the problem of China was to the fore, American policy has been held rigidly to that attitude of open friendliness with Young China's dreams of modern government which has characterized it since the revolution of 1911 overthrew the Manchu dynasty and created what has proved to be up to now a republic on paper only. So far, the masterful war lords It is too soon yet, as friends of China like MacMurray and Johnson see it, to say that China—the com- mon people of China—at last are coming nto their own under the Nationalist sway; there are still to be reckoned with a trio or more of menacing war lords. But MacMurray and Johnson | have had, too abiding faith in the | ultimate destiny of the Chinese peo- | ple. And every word of advice they | speak is and has been tinctured with that faith, It is written into the| undamentals of American-Chinese policy of today and is a sure guide to the deepest motives of the Wash- ington government in any Chinese crisis. | Growing Reindeer Herd Trek to New Pasture Edmonton, Alberta, Sept. 14 (P— Eleven thousand six hundred rein- | deer are going on a long trek from their Alaskan range to ier—(‘lng‘ grounds on the shore of Hudson's Bay. ‘The herd was gathered 30 years ago with 1,240 animals as its nu- | cleus. Natural increase H”?oun!si for the expansion in numbers and | also for the movement to new | fields for grazing. The shortest and easiest route across country will be sought. Even so, the journey is expected to consume 18 months. Progress of 10 miles daily is planned, with long halts whenever necessary for rest and grazing. A complete stop will be made during the breeding sea- sons. Prefers Horse Cab Ride To Subways He Builds Paris, Sept. 14.—(P—Monsieur | Bienvenue, engineer and father of | the Paris subway system, prefers comfort to speed, and his own little habits to progress. “Old Man” Bienvenue, as he s familiarly known to Paris disdains his own subways. He also spurns all other forms ot rapid locomotion. | Speed for others. “Old Man" Bien- venue sticks to his horse. For his personal use, Mr. Bien- venue keeps an old-style coupe and a horse. The abettor of progress is driven about Paris by an ancient coachman with an old-time stove- | nouncements | afford before the beaker and | its pipe hat. HOSIERY NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPYEMBER ¥00D PULP CLOTH ADORNS EVE TODAY Woodlands Furnish Raw Ma- terial for Many Objects Chicago, Sept. 14 (P—As Mother Eve plucked her first attire from the torest, modern woman may also take her garb from the woodland. Synthetic silk produced from wood is common, women’s shoes of artificial material are available, and even hats and cloaks are pulp pro- duets. All because chemistry found that the uses of celluloise—an important element of plant life—are almost limitless. The authorities for these were elen, a consulting _engineer of Boston, and Dr. G. L. Wendt, dean of chemistry and physics at Penn- svivania State colleze, both speak- ers before the Institute of the American Chemical society at North- western university Dr. Wendt said that the girl of today may cheaply attire herself in garments that only a queen could the bunsen burner showed science the short cut to artificial silk. Because so many artificially made commodities can be found in wood pulp. Dr. Wendt believes use of wood for structural purposes should end. The day for wood fuel is past and for building purposes many other materials are available. Synthetic houses were forecast. with composi- tion walls, lacquer finished; drap- eries of wood. and furniture and floors which appear to be wood but are not. salen traced the advancement of civilizatien, linking each phase of evolution with newly found usages for celluloise Man first cut the chains of dis- an- tance when he made cloth for sails. | Paper was discovered as another step upward. The airplane today rides on cellulose in the wings, Esselen sald, while other derivatives of cellulose bave further advanced civilization. Belgian Railway Works With Aut Freighters Bussels, Sept, 14 (A —Competition between railways and automobile traffic, which has been steadily growing in Belgium, is to be turned into an intimate co-operation of both transport systems by Maurice LINGERIE And \So To School! and College! Johnson at home with his wide knowledge and experience available 95 WEST MAIN ST. Gustavus J. | Lippens, the Belgian minister of transportation. Numerous automobile services have been inaugurated this season providing easy and quick transport iin districts where regular transpor- tation was either lacking or insuf- ficient for the growing tourist | traftic. i | Picturesque out-of-the-way sites in Luxemburg and Flanders are now | accessible. The new motorbus serv- | ices had such an immediate success that the minister is working out the grouping under the auspices of the railway ministry of all existing and future autocar services throughout the country. Such lines are to work according to railway schedule time. TRAPPERS AID "IN FLEA SEARGH ‘Mo Parasite From Muskrat Is in Gollections Ithaca, N. Y.. Sept. 14 (P—The muskrat hunters of Louisiana have | an indirect opportunity to serve sci- ence and human health, What this opportunity is, Dr. Karl | Jordan of the Zoological Museum, Tring, Herts, England, described in & paper presented here before the | fourth international congress of entomology. | Discussing “Problems of Distribu- {tion and Variation of North Ameri- | can Fleas,” Dr. Jordan observed that in a number of states little has been done to identify the numerous species. In Louisiana, he said” some years 'ago about four million muskrats were killed for their pelts, but not a single flea of this rodent is in the | collections at Washington and Tring. It scems that insects must first be- come dangerous before they arouse interest, except with a limited num- | ber of unselfish friends of nature i !all its aspects, he said, “Perhaps this appeal will bear i truit; perhaps we shall have to wait | for the outbreak of some flea-carried disease,” he said in urging efforts towards collection and identification | of the insects. | Not more than one-third of the flea species In all countries are | known, Dr. Jordan estimated. In | 1804, in America north of Mexico, only 48 flea species were known as | compared to 131 now, and he be- | lieves the total species in this re- | gion to exceed 200. READ EE?R.\Lfi CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS ‘5£ and up Callahan-Lagosh Suddenly—the eminence of autumn wardrobes overwhelms us. We make our list — and then our eye brightens—Certainly, there will be — hats!! . Durable hats to be sure—but pert, little creations with color and dash of youth, the very sort of hats we are noted for. 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To the traveler in search of antiquities it has been a despoiler, for ancient Catania of Greek, Ro- man, Saracen and Norman days is buried, save for a Greek theater, a Roman amphitheater, some baths and a few unimportant monuments. “Catania is more interested in its wide thoroughfares, public squares and ‘parks, and in honoring her il- lustrions sons than in digging up ancient relics of a restless past. Bellini the composer was born there in 1802 and Castanians are not al- lowed to forget it. A statue of the composer adorns Villa Bellini, one of the city's finest parks where on summer evenings one can sit and listen to Italian melodies played by a fine Sicillan band. The vine-clad slopes and the white head of Mount M (P ! 'v\\ Values ! kings' monuments in from 1221014% ay 43' down 16 Weeks 10 p3y Etns forming & magnificent back- ground. American President Homored “Another statue of the composer adorns the Plassa Stesicoro through which runs the Via Etnae, Catania’s main street from the southern part of the city to the foot of the great mountain. A third statue tands among those of kings and great "tal- fan and Sicilian patriots in the cathedral. There is also a Bellini theater, once the finest in Italy, and the Catania guides point with pride to the tablet which marks the house in which the composer was born. “American tourists are impressed with this loyalty but they are thrill- ed when they learn that their mod- ern hotel faces the Via Lincoln, the main thoroughfare from the rail- road station and one of the three principal arteries of the city leading from the sea to its western extrem- ity. The others honor Garibaldi, the patriot, and Victor Emanuel, the king. “The cathedral. and a lava ele- phant atop a tall marble base at ifs front door, are two of the most popular monuments of early Cata- nia. The elephant's origin is un- known but the cathedral is credited to the prosperous reign of the Nor- man King Roger. Built in 1091, it was badly damaged by successive earthquakes and eruptions of Mount Etna but each time it has been re- stored and used. | Tribute to Patron Saint “More honored than even the the cathedral is that of St. Agatha, Catania's pa- tron saint. The head of her statue is said to contain the head of the saint who in defense of her virtue was tortured by a Roman Praetor in the third century. Among her relics is a veil which is said to have miraculously diverted a lava stream that menaced Catania in 1669, “Once a year, in February, The status, poles, is borne through trbm church to church and in nearly every window a candle or two throws feeble beams. 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