anaheim-gazette 1917-10-04

ENGINE OF DEATH DESCRIBED BY WRITER Newspaper Man Tells His Experience In a Tank New devices invented for the slaughter of men are numerous since the present war began, but one of the least understood is that English Juggernaut, the "Tank," which is doing such effective service and striking terror in the ranks of the Kaiser's army. It may have been designed by an Englishman, but it is made in Peoria, Illinois, mostly, some of the parts, perhaps, being turned out in other manufacturing towns of the United States. A newspaper man who was taken aboard as a passenger in one of them a few days ago, has cabled the following account of his experience to the Los Angeles Times: The vibrations of the heavy motor increased to a convulsive fury until the outlines of the barrel big cylinders jumped and jiggled before my eyes. The rasping and grating of the straining gears made an inferno of sound in our steel shell. Lurch left—jerk right—a jolt forward—a dip downward—and I was launched on my maiden trip in His Majesty's land ship, the Tank. The interior observations of the operation of the tank had been unanimously delegated to me. The exhibition was staged in a specially prepared testing tarl back of the British lines in France. This parade ground of tanks would bring joy to the heart of a hippopotamus. It was a gigantic hog wallow in which these dripping, bespattered monsters, with their riveted scales waddled and frolicked through pits of bottomless mud and slime, down into and up out of water filled shell craters and over trenches and gullets. Such terrain is as native to the tank as the plains were for the buffers for the uninitiated. To grasp one of them for support means to be bitten, burnt or spiked. I say this in tender memory of a hot exhaust pipe I embraced when the tank dove. But its embrace and its consequent burns saved me from the yawning maw of some devouring gears in whose direction I had been jolted. Bill seemed to derive much poorly concealed mirth over the sizzling imprint of my blistered fingers on the pipe. I though that the noise inside the tank was deafening. At the conclusion of the trip Bill told me I was wrong. "We don't mind the noise," he said. "You see, when she goes into real action the rattle of our machine guns drowns our noise of operation. You can't hear a sound of it." It must be admitted that there is sound and then again there is noise. But inside the tank—its impressions on the senses of sight, hearing and feeling are not for description. Only the imagination can comprehend a place where the horns of the well known dilemma are spiked and redhot, where metal dogs and cats growl and snap at you, where every hole and aperture is a mouthpiece for groans and hisses, where the air is heated to fumigation and the light is of that place where Moses stood in deshabille, where coqs grind and pistons bulge and steel teeth grip like the green apple cramps. The inside of a tank is not real. There is no such thing. It's only a bad dream. DEFENSE COUNCIL KNOCKS DELIVERY SYSTEM Says it is Not Necessary to Make Several Calls at One House During the Day Declaring that "we cannot endure the economic waste at this time in county indicated that issue would never two-thirds vote. However, the one have recognized that deeply interested in river bank, that abode capital and county faction formed that whenceived that the river section would be capable would expend sums tinuing the protection westward to a point farm. That much, by could and would. The big problem on the west bank of the Newbert protec still to be solved by that might as well as later. Control at tri-counties' action importance, and will toward solving these does not now and with the necessity channel must be kept and wingdams make. The disincorporation heim-Yorba Storm not going to solve the section of the counto get rid of the Santa Ana river to make the turn a newed courage, for spots raised in the Anaheim and Yorba get a new hold on wrestle with it conquered. ALLEGED SLAM Albert C. Lantz, a wealthy Orange charged with being discharged by Union sloner D. M. Hammond that he is 32 years This parade ground of tanks would bring joy to the heart of a hippopotamus. It was a gigantic hog wallow in which these dripping, bespattered monsters, with their riveted scales waddled and frolicked through pits of bottomless mud and slime, down into and up out of water filled shell craters and over trenches and gulleys. Such terrain is as native to the tank as the plains were for the buffalo. The tank is a cross between an armadillo and a steel jail. A glacier moves a little bit slower, but with no greater intention of getting where it's going than does this modern Moloch of might. There is a German compliment to the effect that a can opener hasn't yet been invented that can force an entrance. Hindenburg's motive experts may stimulate the movements of the tank's entry by lowering themselves through a sidewalk coal hole or crawling up the chimney of an open fireplace. After that a sensation of occupancy may be experienced by a trip through a linen mangle or a few minutes repose in the industrious innards of a busy threshing machine. I can see no future for pleasure travel in these tanks after the war. I doubt whether it will ever enter the lists of peace time sports. Dragging behind me two mud anchors that had been my boots, I had wormed my way into the gaseous interior of "the busy beetle," which name amply described this armor-plated reptile. The operating crew, among whom was Bill the commander, were each one niched in a mechanical cranny criss crossed with levels and studded with switch boxes. On all sides, above and below, right and left, in front and behind, were wheels and cogs, pulleys, belts and gear chains. What available open wall space there was taken up with drawers containing folded belts of machine gun ammunition resembling the looped hose of an emergency fire apparatus. The busy beetle had the steady stride of a stone crusher. Her forward movement is as relentless as time, but not as flighty. She is a one idea animal, concerned only with the accomplishment of getting there and not bothered about any time element. Through a machine gun slit I peered out on the sea of mud on which we were sailing; slowly the horizon visible from the aperture began to tip real. There is no such thing. It's only a bad dream. DEFENSE COUNCIL KNOCKS DELIVERY SYSTEM Says it is Not Necessary to Make Several Calls at One House During the Day Declaring that "we cannot endure the economic waste at this time in having men employed in making deliveries to one house as many as five or six times a day," the state council of defense insists that every city of the country at once adopt the plan of the national council of defense in organizing the merchants in a more economic system of delivery of goods. As secretary of the Orange county council of defense, L. A. West advised the state council that labor conditions were good here and that there was no apparent need of disturbing existing conditions with reference to deliveries. The state council comes back at West with the statement that while conditions at this time may be satisfactory here it does not prove that they are in other sections of the United States. "It is not unreasonable to suppose that before next spring, 2,000,000 men will be withdrawn from their usual occupations, for service in the army, and since it is estimated that it requires seven men at home to sustain one man at the front, this would mean 14,000,000 people employed in war industry," writes A. H. Naftzger, vice president of the state council. PROBLEM IS STILL THERE The signal defeat of the proponents of the Anaheim-Yorba Storm Water District in Friday's election probably means the early disincorporation of the district, and the placing of the flood control problem about where it was months ago. If the opponents of the dirstrict as formed present really propose to go ahead now and make the district larger, something will be accomplished. If they are going to sit back and say that there is no danger and that, anyhow, the county ought to take care of the river for them, they will be responsible for the continuance of a situation that threatens damage to no small amount of property, says the Santa Ana Register. Much of the opposition to the Ana- Anaheim and York get a new hold on wrestle with it then conquered. ALLEGED SLAM Albert C. Lantz, a wealthy Orange charged with being discharged by Union sioner D. M. Hammond that he is 32 years old of Lantz's arrest, he in a divorce action Judge J. P. Wood since been transferred in this county. KEENE GOOD Fred W. Keene, who was arrested in times because of his ability to secure the drug tions when under his same, who broke it went to Los Angeles was caught Thursdays local sheriff's circlet A hundred day seper opium in his posses by the Los Angeles he was turne dover which sentenced KK to fifteen years intiary for breaking it. Keene promised he was given "another two months ago, that to the judge whenever for the drug He failed also broke all of his West concerning his WASTE PAPER AND Since tuberculosis of cases, is contra hood, the policy o available preventive ren cannot be overly tuberculous parents undernourished are need of recreation envision. The Alam for the study and piculosis is interested of such preventive recently conducted for the purpose of fthe Santa Cruz movt drop of the patients ic and others. The funds for th through a machine gun slit I peered out on the sea of mud on which we were sailing; slowly the horizon visible from the aperture began to tip up on one end and the illusion was puzzling until dispelled by a realization that the busy beetle was on the dive. Over, forward or downward progress was slow and easy until the machine poised on the lip of a large crater, with its dripping prow projected far over the edge. Slowly our center of gravity advanced over a bridge and then silently the bulk of unmentionable tons toppled into the pit. With a splash and a grunt that sounded like the snort of a seal she landed almost on her nose, which as quickly became her new ground base. Traction started at once as moving perimeters of giant parallelograms slip under the hidden cogs. While the motor quivered with an attack of the jumps, the gears shrieked and groaned as though locked in a death grip with one another, the tank crossed the marshy bottom of the crater and pushed the opposite side. She took the ascent easily. Pushing her muzzle high out of the hole she gained the brink, balanced there a moment and lowered her nose for a straightaway or the next hazard. Aviators who looped the loop are strapped to their seats, but the extra passenger in a tank is privileged to roll about like dice in a box, with permission to steady himself with whatever he can lay his hands on. All available grips, however, are snares The funds for this cure through the per. The boys of ment of the Oakland lected most of the sale of which enable fortunate youngster vacation in the moor. Plenty of good free eggs and fruit were streams near Boulc, the happy youngster vaded daily. There mimic battles and cursions and there and sleepy heads even end of the vacations pier, healthier, sturdien, and undoubted outing helped to cure health. DUCKS ARE The early flights to record breakers in distribution of the in noticeably great al in the late summily ducks are plentiful have come to the Mission of ducks from hitherto immune from All the club ponds been black with spiteal. During the last flight of the greenw Anaheim Gazette county indicated that a county bond issue would never get the necessary two-thirds vote. However, the county authorities have recognized that the county was deeply interested in a portion of the river bank, that above the county hospital and county farm, and we are informed that when assurance was received that the river bank above this section would be cared for, the county would expend sums of money in continuing the protective works southwestward to a point below the county farm. That much, at least, the county could and would do. The big problem of protection work on the west bank of the river, above the Newbert protection district, is still to be solved by special districts. That might as well be recognized now as later. Control at the source through tri-counties' action is of great importance, and will go a long way toward solving the problem, but that does not now and can never do away with the necessity of local districts. A channel must be kept open and dikes and wingdams maintained. The disincorporation of the Anaheim-Yorba Storm Water District is not going to solve the problem for that section of the county. It is not going to get rid of the possibility that the Santa Ana river may sometime fail to make the turn at Olive. With renewed courage, forgetting the sore spots raised in the controversy, the Anaheim and Yorba sections should get a new hold on their problem and wrestle with it till the problem is conquered. ALLEGED SLACKER FREED Albert C. Lantz, son of W. E. Lantz, a wealthy Orange county rancher, charged with being a slacker has been discharged by United States Commissioner D. M. Hammack, it being shown that he is 32 years of age. On the day peared. Wherever there has been fresh water, the same story of having all the ducks in the world has come. Close students of game see in the heavy early flight the final and convincing proof that protection by wise laws well enforced pays the biggest kind of dividends, as shooting at mating birds in the spring, first forbidden by California on the Pacific coast, has now been stopped by federal enactment through the migratory bird regulations, founded upon the Weeks-McLean law, and promulgated by the biological survey under the department of agriculture. This wise prohibition permitted ducks to breed within the national boundaries by exempting them from the previous persecution all along the line until they reached the wilderness of the north where men are too scarce to bother them much. As a result, thousands of ducks have bred much farther south, earlier, and the young have come on that much earlier, thus making their first flight several weeks ahead of the usual time. This is undoubtedly the explanation of the present plenty of ducks, whose wonderful procreative powers have needed only opportunity to maintain the species against the greater interest of shooters, particularly keen now because of the food supply situation placing a premium upon such fine, large fowl, a pair of which will feed a family luxuriously. Economic experts may take considerable pleasure in pointing to this one instance of forethought in wisely building up an enormous wild food supply in advance of the time of national need as ducks in their present plenty bid fair to figure prominently in the dietary of Pacific coast people for the next three and a half months following October 16th. The legal limit for 25 ducks allows sportsmen the privilege of supplying his friends to a degree impossible with the lower limits leg measures 11 inches. (6½ inches of plain knitting). Take half the number of stitches (25) on first needle for the heel (leaving 12 and 13 stitches on the second and third needles for the instep) add on the 25 stitches knit 1 row, purl 1 row alternately for 26 times (or 3 inches), always slipping the first stitch. Begin to turn heel on the wrong side, slip 1, purl 13, purl 2 together, purl 1. Turn work over, slip 1, knit 4, slip 1, knit 1, and pass it over slipped stitch, knit 1. Turn, slip 1, purl 5, purl 2 together, purl one. Turn, slip 1, knit 6, slip 1, knit 1, and pass it over slipped stitch, knit 1. Continue working toward the sides of the heel in this manner, leaving 1 more stitch between decreases on every row until all the stitches are worked in. There should then be 15 stitches on the needle. Pick up 13 stitches on side of heel; now knit the 25 stitches on 2nd and 3rd needle on to one needle, which becomes your 2nd needle; with you 3rd needle pick up the 13 stitches on other side of heel, and knit 7 stitches off your 1st needle so that you will now have 21 stitches on the 1st needle, 25 stitches on the 2nd needle, and 20 stitches on 3rd needle. 1st needle (a) knit to within 3 inches of end, knit together, knit 1. 2nd needle (b) knit plain. 3rd needle (c) knit 1, slip one, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over, knit plain to end of needle. Knit around plain (d). Repeat a, b, c and d until you have 13 stitches on 1st needle—25 stitches on 2nd, 12 stitches on 3rd. Knit plain for 4½ inches. 1st needle (e) knit 10 stitches—knit 2 together, knit 1. 2nd needle (f) (knit 1, slip 1 knit 1 pass slipped stitch over, knit 10 stitches. Knit 2 together, knit 1. 3rd needle (g) knit 1, slip 1 knit 1, pass slipped stitch over, knit 9 stitches, knit 2 rows plain (h). Repeat e, f, g, and h 5 times, then narrow every other row until you have Anaheim and Yorba sections should get a new hold on their problem and wrestle with it till the problem is conquered. ALLEGED SLACKER FREED Albert C. Lantz, son of W. E. Lantz, a wealthy Orange county rancher, charged with being a slacker has been discharged by United States Commissioner D. M. Hammack, it being shown that he is 32 years of age. On the day of Lantz's arrest, he was a defendant in a divorce action set for trial in Judge J. P. Wood's court, that has since been transferred to the courts in this county. KEENE GOES TO PEN Fred W. Keene, alleged dope fiend who was arrested in this county three times because of burglarous attempts to secure the drug and because of actions when under the influence of the same, who broke his probation and went to Los Angeles a few weeks ago, was caught Thursday by one of the local sheriff's circulars in that city. A hundred day sentence for having opium in his possession was dismissed by the Los Angeles authorities when he was turne dover to the local court which sentenced Keene to from one to fifteen years in the state penitentiary for breaking his probation. Keene promised Judge West, when he was given "another chance" about two months ago, that he would report to the judge whenever he felt the need for the drug. He failed to do this, and also broke all of his promises to Judge West concerning his behavior. WASTE PAPER AND A VACATION Since tuberculosis, in the majority of cases, is contracted during childhood, the policy of extending every available preventive measure to children cannot be overlooked. Children of tuberculous parents and those who are undernourished are particularly in need of recreation under careful supervision. The Alameda county society for the study and prevention of tuberculosis is interested in the application of such preventive measures and has recently conducted a novel campaign for the purpose of giving an outing in the Santa Cruz mountains to the children of the patients attending its clinic and others. The funds for the outing were se- Economic experts may take considerable pleasure in pointing to this one instance of forethought in wisely building up an enormous wild food supply in advance of the time of national need as ducks in their present plenty bid fair to figure prominently in the dietary of Pacific coast people for the next three and a half months following October 16th. The legal limit for 25 ducks allows sportsmen the privilege of supplying his friends to a degree impossible with the lower limits upon the smaller resident birds, found essential to their conservation. That an enormous interest will attend the plenty of ducks seems to be forecasted by a record breaking hunting license sale by the Fish and Game commission. The "coming event casts its shadow before" in an unusual effort on the part of those with duck shooting to offer, directed toward the hunter who is unable to belong to duck clubs. Even in Imperial valley and around Buena Vista Lake, camps are being established where unattached sportsmen may pay a small fee and get a day's duck shooting under favorable conditions. While some view with alarm, anything approaching "corraling" the wild shooting in these big open places, others feel that inasmuch as there is plenty of open ground left, the man with a few days' time is apt to fare much better under these arrangements than when going into a new country without experience or the necessary equipment to deal successfully with the local conditions, which vary much in different places. EXPENSIVE INSURANCE, BUT IS NECESSARY There are 10,000 grade crossings over the railroads in California and President Max Thelan, of the railroad commission, says they must go, although the expense is estimated at the enormous sum of $300,000,000. The cast might seem prohibitive, but when Mr. Thelan stated the reason for his declaration, no one will argue against his decision. For in four years, 400 people have been killed and 1400 injured in grade crossing accidents. At first blush, one is moved to say that it may be feasible to put the ban on grade crossings in the cities, but the truth is that the fatal accidents do not seem to be reported from the cities, but it is the country road Repeat a, b, c and d until you have 13 stitches on 1st needle—25 stitches on 2nd, 12 stitches on 3rd. Knit plain for 4½ inches. 1st needle (e) knit 10 stitches—knit 2 together, knit 1. 2nd needle (f) knit 1, slip 1 knit 1 pass slipped stitch over, knit 10 stitches. Knit 2 together, knit 1. 3rd needle (g) knit 1, slip 1, knit 1, pass slipped stitch over, knit 9 stitches, knit 2 rows plain (h). Repeat e, f, g, and h 5 times, then narrow every other row until you have 5 stitches on your 1st needle, 9 stitches on your 2nd needle and 4 stitches on your 3rd needle. Knit the 5 stitches on your 1st needle on to your 3rd. Your work is now all on 2 needles opposite each other. Break off yarn leaving 12-inch end. Thread into worsted needle and proceed to weave the front and back together as follows: Pass worsted needle through 1st stitch* of front knitting needle as if knitting and slip stitch of—pass through 2nd stitch as if purling—leave stitch on, pull thread through 1st stitch of back needle as if purling, slip stitch off, purl thread through 2nd stitch back of needle as if knitting, elave stitch on. Repeat from * until all the stitches are off the needle. Sock when finished should measure: Foot from tip of heel to tip of toe, 11 inches. Leg, from tip of heel to tip of leg, 14 inches. Sleeveless Sweater Cast on 80 stitches. Knit 2, purl 2 stitches for 4 inches. Knit plain until sweater measures 25 inches. Knit 28 stitches, bind off 24 stitches for neck, loose. Knit 28 stitches. Knit 7 ridges on each shoulder, cast on 24 stitches. Knit plain for 21 inches. Purl 2, knit 2 stitches for 4 inches. Sew up sides, leaving 9 inches for arm holes. Two rows single crochet around neck and 1 row single crochet around the arm holes. Wristlets No.1. Cast on 48 stitches, knit 2 and purl 2 for 12 inches, and sew up leaving 2 inches open space for thumb 2 in from the edge. Wristlets No.2 Cast on 52 stitches on 3 needles: 16—16—20. Knit 2, purl 2 for 8 inches. To make opening for thumb, knit 2, purl 2 to end of 3rd needle, turn; knit and purl back to end of 1st needle; always slipping first stitch; turn. Continue knitting back and forth for 2 inches. From this point continue as at first for 4 inches for the hand. Bind off loosely and button hole thumb off. Honestly methodically applied fuse tool bitte jubured thru rope to pitils for consumption free discharge these colors most difficult Tethelin's sludge ture to cure. Not olin beer found thru years once your new dress. In the coverlet profiled that she discovers research provided should ed his pen be conti life time discovered his wife above tute of research research and pati Medic are to tortors who control are to The cha director the fac DUCKS ARE PLENTIFUL The early flights this year have been record breakers in the unusually wide distribution of the birds, which came in noticeably greater force than usual in the late summer, when normally ducks are plentiful enough. Reports have come to the Fish & Game Commission of ducks from many sections hitherto immune from such visitations. All the club ponds have for a month, been black with sprigs and cinnamon teal. During the last ten days quite a flight of the greenwinged teal has appeared but when Mr. Thelan stated the reason for his declaration, no one will argue against his decision. For in four years, 400 people have been killed and 1400 injured in grade crossing accidents. At first blush, one is moved to say that it may be feasible to put the ban on grade crossings in the cities, but the truth is that the fatal accidents do not seem to be reported from the cities, but it is the country road crossings, where reckless drivers take reckless chances, that record a large percentage of the fatalities. Wigwags and flagmen have not served to prevent the tragedies. There are crossings on the boulevards between here and Los Angeles where the railroad track is in open sight for hundreds of feet and automatic alarms also caution the traveler, yet in spite of these conditions, people drive in front of the speeding trains, and pay the death penalty. The separation of the crossings by means of overhead or tunneled passageways furnishes the only actual and absolute solution, according to this expert who has served on the state railroad commission for six years, and conditions seem to justify this verdict. LEARN TO KNIT The following instructions in knitting are taken from the official Red Cross instruction book, and all articles knitted by these directions will be standard. Medium Sized Man's Sock Set up 60 stitches, 20 on each of three needles. Knit 2 plain and 2 purl for 35 rows (4½ inches). 36th row knit 4 plain stitches, knit 2 together; repeat this until the round is completed. There are now 50 stitches on the needles. Knit 50 rows plain until but when Mr. Thelan stated the reason for his declaration, no one will argue against his decision. For in four years, 400 people have been killed and 1400 injured in grade crossing accidents. At first blush, one is moved to say that it may be feasible to put the ban on grade crossings in the cities, but the truth is that the fatal accidents do not seem to be reported from the cities, but it is the country road crossings, where reckless drivers take reckless chances, that record a large percentage of the fatalities. Wigwags and flagmen have not served to prevent the tragedies. There are crossings on the boulevards between here and Los Angeles where the railroad track is in open sight for hundreds of feet and automatic alarms also caution the traveler, yet in spite of these conditions, people drive in front of the speeding trains, and pay the death penalty. The separation of the crossings by means of overhead or tunneled passageways furnishes the only actual and absolute solution, according to this expert who has served on the state railroad commission for six years, and conditions seem to justify this verdict. GIVES WOUND HEALING DISCOVERY TO ENDOW MEDICAL RESEARCH Having discovered a chemical substance which has proved remarkably successful in curing wounds and in causing wounds to heal at once which for months, or even years, had refused to yield to treatment, Dr. T. Brailsford Robertson, professor of biochemistry in the University of California has just executed a deed donating to the University all his patent rights in this valuable new substance, "Tethelin." All profits resulting from the discovery are to constitute an endowment, the income to be applied to medical research. Tests of this new substance, made in army hospitals in Europe and in civil hospitals in America, have proved the great value of the discovery. The appalling number of men wounded in the present war makes the discovery of especial timeliness and value. Several new substances and new methods have been found by the medical investigators of the world since the war began which are extremely useful in combating infections in wounds. This new substance, however, has a field of usefulness all its own, after For Your Unused Fireplace! The Radiantfire Harmonizes with the furniture of any home. It burns like a huge, ever-changing opal, with rich, cheerful fire light effects. It throws out heat waves that warm you twenty feet away. The RADIANTFIRE is strikingly handsome in appearance, an ornament for the large home, yet inexpensive and appropriate in the small California bungalow. Science's answer to the home heating problem. Built in various sizes and styles. See the new RADIANTFIRE display. SOUTHERN COUNTIES GAS COMPANY Home 614 220 E. Center St. Pacific 116 methods have rendered the tissues as-aptic, and wounds still sometimes refuse to heal—especially where frostbite, burns, or varicose veins have in-terest in Southern California, as the date industry is becoming very im-portant in this section. For some time there has been on the methods have rendered the tissues asceptic, and wounds still sometimes refuse to heal—especially where frostbite, burns, or varicose veins have injured the vitality of the tissues. There are thousands of such cases in Europe today and they occupy the hospitals for an exceptionally long time, consuming drugs, time, space and food, and frequently such cases have to be discharged unhealed. It is precisely these cases—the most expensive and most disabling types of wounds, which Tethelin will cure, since it stimulates the sluggish tissues and enables nature to work its own repair. Not only in old wounds has Tethelin been found valuable. It has been found that often open sores which for years have refused to heal have at once yielded to treatment with this new drug. In the past, the scientific man's discoveries have usually been left for the profiteer to grow rich from. Wishing that the large prospective profits from the discovery of Tethelin should be devoted not to private profit, but to stimulation and support of further discoveries for the further benefit of mankind, Prof. Robertson has relinquished all personal profit from his discovery of this growth promoting substance. In the agreement by which the Regents of the university have now accepted the trusteeship of this endowment for medical research it is provided that in case Prof. Robertson should ever become physically disabled his present university salary should be continued to him throughout his life time, from the proceeds of the discovery, or in case of his death, to his wife for her lifetime. All income above this will go to endow an institute of medical research, devoted to research in medicine and especially to research in the physiology, chemistry and pathology of growth. Medical investigators of distinction are to constitute the board of directors which, under the supervision and control of the regents of the university are to direct these future researches. The charter members of this board of directors are to be five members of the faculty of the university: Dr. E. interest in Southern California, as the date industry is becoming very important in this section. For some time there has been on the statute books of the state a law restricting the movement of date palms from one locality to another, because of the danger of spreading the "parlatoria" and the marlatt scales—the two worst pests of the date palm. Now comes a report from the government that these pests can be controlled and that strict watch will be kept over importations in the future. Mr. Swingle's letter says in part: "You will be interested to know that Mr. Shamblin, working for the federal horticultural board in cooperation with me, reports very gratifying progress in the eradication of "parlatoria blanchardi" from the date palms in California. It is highly probable that this scale will be entirely eradicated within the next year or two, provided strict control is exercised on importations. I am contemplating recommending to the federal horticultural board that in future importations of date offshoots from abroad be held in permanent quarantine and never released for distribution in small lots. In other words that they be planted on a tract and kept there and only clean offshoots grown on these imported trees, when declared free from scale, can be sold for general planting. "I feel that unless some such modification is made of the regulations of the feedral board immediately after the close of the war un-principled importers may import large numbers of dats offhouts of inferior varieties and sell them at retail all over Imperial county and the eastern half of River-side county. The present regulations are not sufficient to guarantee that such offshoots are entirely free from scale insects, and experience has shown that the work of inspection is rendered very costly by small plantings, in dooryards, etc. It is, therefore, my intention to suggest that in future imported offshoots be planted only in large blocks where they can be held permanently in quarantine and observed easily by the inspectors." No. 2 ons on 3 needles: curl 2 for 8 inches. thumb, knit 2, needle, turn; knit and of 1st needle; stitch; turn. Cond and forth for 2 point continue as for the hand. Bind hole thumb off. ALING DISCOVN MEDICAL ARCH a chemical suboved remarkably wounds and in final at once which years, had refusent, Dr. T. Brailssessor of biochemcity of California deed donating to patent rights in substance, "Tetheculting from the institute an endowe applied to medsubstance, made in Europe and in America, have provof the discovery. of men wounded makes the discovness and value. ness and new metby the medical world since the extremely usetions in wounds. however, has a all its own, after DATE PALM SCALES ERADICATED Horticultural Commissioner G. H. Hecke is in receipt of a communication from Walter T. Swingle of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, that the government experts have solved the problem of controlling the troblesome scales which infest the date palm. This news is received with especial county and the eastern half of Riverside county. The present regulations are not sufficient to guarantee that such offshoots are entirely free from scale insects, and experience has shown that the work of inspection is rendered very costly by small plantings, in dooryards, etc. It is, therefore, my intention to suggest that in future imported offshoots be planted only in large blocks where they can be held permanently in quarantine and observed easily by the inspectors. "Mr. Shamblin also finds he is making great progress in controlling the "Phoenicococcus marlatti" and thinks it may be possible to grow Marlat scale, free offshoots from infested trees, provided they are sprayed in proper manner. Every effort is being made to prevent the spread of this scale to seedling palms in Riverside county and I believe successfully, thanks to the cooperation of Horticultural Commissioner D. D. Sharp and his agents. I feel that we will have accomplished a most gratifying result if we are able to eradicate and control these scales." SUGAR EATERS The consumption of sugar per capita is in Denmark 95.57 pounds; in England, 93.37; in the United States, 84.20; in Switzerland, 73.55; in Sweden, 57.73; in The Netherlands, 50.09; in Norway, 46.64; in Germany, 45.13; in France, 43.85; in Belgium, 36.08; in Russia, 25.43; in Turkey, 21.93; in Spain, 14.19 and in Italy, 11.08. Can any scientist explain why Spaniards and Italians should be satisfied with from one-eighth to one-sixth of the quantity of sugar consumed by Englishmen and Americans? Perhaps they haven't the price.