New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 21, 1928, Page 6

INDUAN CIRN HAS | PLAYED BiG PART —— New York, Sept. 21.—How entric oran of histeric civilization rose and fell in North America, according | as Indlan corn was available, was| deacribed for the International Con- gress of Americapists here by Ver- nen C. Allison, of Linden, N. J. “Interesting ruins of former| civilizations,” he said, “are widely| scattered over the Americas. The two most striking aspects of these anclent remains are: “3—They are largely located in| districts which are today probably incapable of supporting the popula- tion density which produced them. | “2—They are based upon village | lite dependent upon maize, or In-| dian corn. “A logical deduction is that the rise and decline of these civilizations | in intimately correlated with the rise and decline of conditions favor- | ing the propagation of the maize| plant.” This maize history of North America began at 6,000 to 7000 years before Christ, when, Mr. Alli- | won, said, there is evidence that cul- tivation of the “wild prototype of maize” started. The place where this cultivation began was some- where In southeastern Mexico or 1a Central Americ: Three maize-built civilizations were traced, the Mayan in Yucatan, the Indlan in the American south- west, and the Mound Builders of the Mississippl valley. e agricultural implements of these early peoples were such, said Mr. Allison, that they could cultivate maize only under restricted conditions. Changes in climate, then, occur- ring thousands or hundreds of years apart, made the maize cultivation too difficult, and forced the men who had built it up to scatter in search of food. Mr. Allison set 1220 B. C. as one period when maize civilization prob- ably began to crumble in Central America. That was a period when | the moisture fall ofer most of the | world decreased, to remain com- | paratively scanty until between 400 and 800 A. D. | The Missis valley Mound | Builders Mr. Allison believes, had-a comparatively dry period in which | they wers able to cultivate maize | on a community scale, but a period of increased moisture forced them 1o scatter. MAPLE HILL NEWS The Woman's club of Maple Hill has armnged for a rummage sale | Tuesday, October 2 in the Newing- | ton Congregational chapel. On Wednesday, October 10, the elub will commence its scason with | cafeteria luncheop in the Newing- ton (ongregational chapel at 1 s Rau of Rtolbins ave- Elizabeth Sherman of | n will leave Baturday for | Detroit, Michigan, where they will he guests of Miws Rau's brother, Irving Rau, for two weeks. Miss Agnes Hitchcock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Hitchcock of Bequin street, returned to Boston Wednesday to resume her studies at Boston University, Robert Lienhard, son of Mr. and | ‘Mrs, H. A. Lienhard of Golf street, | {has returned home from Brooklyn .where he spent the summer. Miss Ruth Allen Latham, daugh- doubly pasteur- ized — perfectly filtered— rich ‘and full flavored — ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Latham of Theodore street, resumed her stud- ies at Sea Pines, on Cape Cod this week. Clarence Nordstrom, son of Mrs. Matilda Nordstrom of Robbins ave- nue, left this week to commence his senior year at Wesleyan. Mrs. Everett Hine and infant ron of Frederick street returned home yesterday from the Hartford hos- pital. Mrs. Brown and son, Leroy, of| Frederick strect have returned from a visit with relatives.in Colchester. Sten Flygt, son of Mr. and Mrs. | Flygt of Walnut street entered the freshman class at Wesleyan this| week, ’Turk Shoe Checkers | To Lose Their Jobs| Constantinople, Sept. 21 (P—Two | hundred and fifty more Turks are | soon to be added to the crowded | ranks of the jobless in the on tiourishing queen city of the Bryzan- | tin | hey are the mosque attendants| charged with checking the shoes of the faithful ,and more recently hats as well, since the fez became taboo. It is an ancient tradition that wor- | shippers must enter Moslem places of worship barcfoot so as mnot to| track the unsanctified dust of the streets. With Kemal's order that shoes henceforth be kept on and that pews| replace prayer-rugs, there cventual- ly will be no more checking of headgear ov footgear at the mosque | doors. READ HERALD CI IFIED ADS LTS Quick, safe, sure relief from painful callouses on thefoet At CASH PRICES $37-50 100 PIECE— pure and healthful = it adds new zest to any food! . 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Willis Edwin Hurd of the ma- rine division of the United States weather bureau, who has complet- ¢d an exhaustive study of the wa- terspout, has found, however, that they are often distinctly different. ‘While waterspouts resemble tor- nadoes in most phases of outward appearance and in many other char- acteristics, he says, they are more nearly like the dust whirlls, com- mon in the southwestern part of the country, in origin and behavior, “A tornado,” he explains, “is usu- ally much larger and more destruc- tive and has a longer path than a waterspout in a corresponding state of development, It also, as a rule, is longer-lived. Regardless of its greater energy, however, the tor- nado is much more to be considercd as a fear-provokipg spectacle than the waterspout even at its worst, since the former tionary haunts of men. However formidable the latter may scem to be in its threatenings und roarings, its terrific speedings and plowings through the water, yet is a spectacle more beautiful and awesome than of fear, since rarely does its path take it into places where it becomes a positive threat of disaster to ves- sels.” The true tornado, as described by Dr. W. J. Humphreys, meteoro- logical . physicist of the weather mureau, is “a joint product of cy- HAMILTON, ILLINOIS WALTHAM, ELGIN HOWARD, HAMPDEN invades the sta-| clone and anticyclone™ and in the northern hemisphere invariably ro. tates in & right to left direction— counter-clockwise, It occurs in the southeastern sector of the low pres- sure area which produces the nor- mal cyclonic wind currents. Here the tornado appears in advance of the’ squall line which marks the change from the equatorial winds of that low arca to the polar winds of the high pressure area, which blow in an oppesite or conflicting di- rection. The whirling motion -al- ways originates at or near cloud level. Waterspouts, on th: other hand, develop without regard to high and low pressure conditions in clear, partly cloudy or stormy weather. ‘While some apparently are started by the action of a tornadic wind column reaching down from cloud leveu, & majority perhaps originate at the surface, where a small vol- ume of air warmer than that sur- rounding it begins to expand and rise, rotating under favorable con- ditions either to right or left, like dust whirls. As it rises contact with the cooler air above and the physical action of the expansion and rotation cause condensation of the vapor it contains. That condensed vapor is |the “water” of the waterspouts, al- though in especially violent mani- festations of the phenomenon salt water from the sea has been known to rise into the cloud which usually tops the narrow whirling column of air. 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