NEWS FLASHES

Nation Wide Happenings Briefly Told

Four youthfnfl iroasare seeker*, seed S, 6. 9, and 11 yean of age. weio lost In a row boat oa Lake Erie for 27 hours. They set sail from Lakeside, Mick., and were finally rescued by a passenger steamer. Two men were Instantly killed when they foil through an open door of a New York subway train last week. A third waa seriously Injured. Crooks threw open a railroad switch near Providence, R. I., and derailed a passenger train. There were no'

A Bailor at the Philadelphia Navy Yard chased a baseball along a pier, during the course of a game of “catch.*' Just as he reached the end of the pier he stumbled and fell Into tha water and was drowned. Approximately 1100,000,000 worth of

Twelve hundred rubber workers are leaving Akron. Ohio, factories to work on the farms. It is said that farm hands there are receiving fro $4 to $7 a day with board and lodging. Sale of 4th of July “sparklers" Philadelphia has been forbidden police authorities. The "harmless” sparkler has caused the death of 37 children In the past IS years. Theodore Togwefler, 11, of Philadelphia. was shot end killed by his 13-year-old brother, Edward, last week. 'hen a gun with which they ’ playing soldier went on. A feud broke out between the Pee and Berry families of Esaerrllle, Va., week. Two were killed and wounded In a street battle.

The Long, Long Trail to Your Table

“A line from a popular song— "There's s long, long trail a-winding' —apples to at least one of the many and devious paths which old man H. C. L treads in his effort to make Bring complex and expensive for the

average person.

The particular byway referred W Is that which wholesale shipments of food follow in their costly travel from the railway car to the retailor. A carload of fruit or vegetable* can oe sped half way across the continent ut a dav or two, but on arriving In Lhe'dty where the food Is to be retailed. the shipment starts on a winding trail which too often adds little but unnecessary costs and delay. Eltonlnetlng Expensive Carting This expensive shunting and hr iling of foodstuffs from point to point In the citle* and th > spoilage which the unnecessary hr-idling causes are the big items rcntrallxed wholesale terminals eliminate. The bureau of Markets. United Buies Department of Agriculture, tm* been on this trull, Uc irally. following shipments step by step to determtr . how much expense U added to the cost of the food by unnheoasary handling between the shipper and ibe retailer. The route followed by a carload of peaches en taring a middle western city over a railroad not provided with teem tracks well Illustrate this phase of the distribution problem. This car had to be elwtcbed Irom the railroad on which It entered the ett>, through the owdwd switch yard, to another 'rack which Is accessible to teams. Hare tt stood rmtll the receiving wholesai -rs' teamsters could finish another Job. Af,er this dnlay two wagons were drawn up beside the car In turn, and were loaded with the peach**. Thereupon they sUried for the wholesale honewhich was two miles away. The teamsters’ route lay through the moat congealed pan of the city, the wholesale district being does ic the busy retail section. The wagons were a full hour and a quarter making the trip. Meanwhile, the su:* beat down on the perches and the city's dust and dirt filtered througn the crates so that the fruit was far from Delog as fresh and attractive as when taken from the car. Moreover, the Journey *o Jostled and bruised the fruit thst some o' tt bad to be sold at a discount. Though the wholesalers were particularly anxious to get the peaches

delivered to their salesroom on the day of arrival, because of the favorsble market, only about one-third of the shipment came In by closing time, sad tt was noon the next dey before the remainder was delivered. The long. * lading trail did not end at the wholesalers. Once unloaded, the peaches were put on display for the benefit of various Jobbers, some of whom purchased a few dozen crates and some larger amountii Some of these men were si tasted within two or three squares of wholesaler and their purchases were delivered on head truck*. In the of other Jobbers another wagon transfer was neceasar.. Next In this process which economists call distribution the re o ok over the lota. In me end buying small quantities such as they could sell In a day or two. This, of course, necessitated another handling and carting over the city’s rough

pavements.

Last, hut not least, came the oon *umers, each buying only a small tr. ctiou of a crate and paying a big th xe of the expenses all the handling had entailed. This instance is no exaggeration. A very large pari of tns foodstuffs brought to American cities goee ov some such devious trail. One Washington D. C.. wholesale merchant has ‘ated that he spends 320,000 a year for cartage which could be saved the dty had a wholesale terminal where cars could be unloaded directly Into premise* occupied by the whole salers. Following an investigation In New York City It was estimated by a local organisation that the aai leg In handling coate which would result in adequate term 1 nr. 1 facilities were established would be 32.000.000 annually by the borough of Richmond; 38.000,000 by Queens; 316,000, OOo by the Bronx; 321.000.000 by Brooklyn, and an even vaster sui

Manhattan.

Marketing experts adml' that there are many baffling aspect* to the high cost of living problem, but contend that the remedy for the phase of our costly distribution system Just da scribed is plain. Cities which will provide modern wholesale terminals, where shipments can be delivered | from the railroad cars direct to wholesalers a few feet away, will make possible the saving of Immense sums of money now charged up to the

New Electric Toaster Food experts agree tha, loan' property prepared Is more easily digested, than fresh brer, because In toast the starch is changed Into dextrine (doable sugar). The heat necessary ui d iVlrinlxe starch Is approximately 330 degrees. However, when the bread Is exposed to a hotter fire and the outside is charred, leaving the Inside as moist as ever, the starch I* not transormetd. and the result merely a soggy piece of bread, burnt on The outside. And there Is nothing some dislike mors than a piece of soggy toasted bread, and there Is nothing more delirious than a piece of crisp, tender toast of exactly the right degree, of rich golder brr —nee*, noi burned up dried up hard or tough. The electric broad toaster is the only source, that will make perfect. The uniform electric' boat does tol*. A new electric toaster antomaticaUy timte >hd toast. It is a simple machine, so com irui'led that when slices

of bread are placed In the receiver downward pressure of two small' levers lowers tl-e bread Into the ovsn, turns on the electric current and so engages a timing arrangement that the toasting proceeds without any tention whatever from the attendant. When the toast Is Just right the levr: 1- released by the 'liner, the cum nt ,urned off. and the toas! lifted out of the machine automatically.

The Land of Flanders As night falls In China lantims appear every'heru. . They are hung oui a! the door of every swelling, they swing as pendants to the angles of the ptgoda; they form the firey crown of every shop-front; they clus-t-r round the houses of the rich and light up the hovels of the poor; they are borne with the carriage of th* raveler and they swing from th* yards and masts of vessels. Quickly made friendship* are quirk

Menancing Brown Rot (Controlled by New Teach Fangidde Millions of Peaches Will be Saved by Remedy Perffected by U. S. Department of Agriculture.

fungus resulted In damage t* 1 ** It prohibitive. Finally a simple mixture made by s ding flour of sulphur to slacking lime was found by the department's Investigators to have Just

the right qualities.

The efforts which peach growers of this country are making at this tlm* of the year to forecast the sise of the on's crop call attention to the Immense value of afungiclde developed by the United States Department of Agriculture with which browi rot, ons of the m.wt serious menace* to the peach Industry, can be controlled. But for this simple, effective remedy the ent forecasts would of n have to be made on an altogether different basis. The Bureau c Crop Estimates, United States Depa tment Agriculture, which forecast t the 1930 commerual crop st 29140,000 bushel* (based on conditions. April 5) states that Us reporters eve ywhere regard the fungicide as the bl - factor that prevents a decline of tilt peach industry similar to that from which apple growing baa suffered to parts

of the Middle Wert.

Up to a few years ago the- e waa no satisfactory fungicide wbic could be sprayed on peaches dart .g the tng season without seriovsly Injuring the foliage Everything which

tried to control the bro m-rot benefit correspondingly.

The peach crop of this country, according to 'he 1910 census, wsa valued at approximateir nifiOOfOO. It la production and Increased prices resulting from control of brown rot and other fungus disease*, the present 2*1 peach crop is worth between 350,000,000 and**0,000,000. Of this probably 15 to 20 per cent would oe destroyed annually by brown-rot If

no control m

the other hand, between 35.000.000 and 310.000 is saved to the fruit grower and at the shipping points as a result of the Department's discovery, ttot only Is the growei able to produce an Increased quality of fruit but the t prayed fruit Is much superior to the unsprayed, so that its value is en-

hanced and all

It’s “Milk Cow ’ Not “Milch Cow“

it will be “milk cow” and not “milch cow"—at least so fsr as the United States Department of Agriculture Is concerned. This decision marks the termination of a controversy to which etytbc department have had not a little Interest. Those defending "milch” 'have pointed to Scripture 1 i.ud certain of the classics as establishing precedents, while the opposition has contended that dairymen ranr'mes and fanners in general ah« “milk" Instead of ‘milch" almost universally. The advocates of “milk" also favored that word because, they contended. It was more strictly en English word, while “milch" was skin to German. SU.ce Americanisation of language as well as Ideals is an article every patriot’s creed. It Is thought that this last sally of he “milk" defenders helped as much as any to de ride the question to their favor.

SHARP-BOMBARDMENT

aufcelng result of the lax dis- mind came aboard, and as the gun. of the was leaf yd with a Man!; cartridge, the

sailors used It to fire a salute.

ships briongtig to tropical countries Is related by an American naval offi-

cer.

It appears that one of the Haitian gunboats was lying in the harbor of Fort-an-Prinee. One day a moss cook for some reason cleaned about a peck of knives and forks

toward the towr. and almost pointblank at the Grand Hotel. The guests were assembled on the porch to witness the ceremonies whec they were saluted with a rain of knives and forks

He was suddenly called sway, and so Btock ll|nLln81 ^ wooden

he stuck the mesa pall, full of knives and forks. Into the mutxle of the biggest gun and put the tampion on after It About an hour afterward the ad-

tike porcupine qullD into an unwarydog. Fortunately, no one was hurt, although the “narrow esenpee” wero

Sixty Years in the PuJpit

d red weight. The amount made above '*>*. highest price offered locally, where there waa a local market, amounted to *2(0 per car, or a total saving of more

than 317,500 on all shipments. The season for shipping Arkansas

cattle has not started: but to 1919 cattle shipments from thst State exceeded the co-operative shipments of

hogs and indications this year am that almost all the Arkansas cattle 1 try, the clergyman was forced to op-

Sixty years In the pulpit and 100 years of age Is the record o' ito* Rev. Christian Reeser, pastor of the Apostolic Mennonite Church of neat fcsireka. III. believed to be the oldest clergyman In the United Stales and with an experience of oeMocuti e service longer than any other. TV celeb “tt Ion ot his birthday annlver-

ictable occasion, his

children all assembling and being assisted by the members of the congre ration to making the centenary sn event long to be remembered. The Rev. Reaser was born In Lorand occupied to his younger days a mine, France. September 15. 1319. larm owned by General Bertram, wV was one of the ablest officers under Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of twenty be uune to the United States and uas educated tor the ministry at Cincinnati. As the sect known as the Mennonltes, was a struggUng one coring the pioneer era ol this couj

Prevent Disease Spreading

The cleaning and disinfecting o( railroad stock cars la an 1

of preventing the spread of Infectious disease of Hve stock. Iti

connection with federal control over

the interstate transportation ot live stock, administered by the Bureau ot Animal Industry, It Is required that all such cars or other vehicles whim

have contained animals affected with

« communicable disease, such as tick

fever, scabies of sheep and cattle, bog

cholera, etc, be cleaned and disinfected under bureau supervision before being again used to Interstate

At! live stock received at public stockyards or at official slaughtering itabllahmenu are inspected at tfce time they are received by employes of the Bureau of Antoni Industry. If any animals are found to be affectei with a communicable disease the carrier which brought them to their destination Is at once notified to have tl}e car or other vehicle aet aside and thoroughly cleaned. After that has been accomplished, K Is disinfected under the personal supervision of a federal employe. Various States also have regulatio"s requiring that cars must be cleone-1 and disinfected before being used la tbe transportation of certain classes of live stock. Tbe Bureau of Animal Industry cooperative with such Statso by having Its employes at central markets supervise the cleaning sod disinfection of cars in compliance with the requirements cf the Bute to which any stock may be destined. An idea of the magnitude of this work may be gathered from the fact that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, bureau employes pe*»«.ually supervised the dljlntection of 44,343 cars. In addition, a Urge number of motor trucks were handled In the ss

Co-operative Marketing Successful During the 3rst HO days of 1910. 68 co-operative oarloads uf hogs were shipped from 22 Arkors-.x counties. The 6460 hogs In the cars were owned by 700 different farmers, or an av< rage if more than 10 shippers to each caroad. Returns toUlinr 3127.600.62 were received for cbt-e hog* at th* central market*. The average cost of shipping was only 94.1 cents per bun-

win be shipped co-operativejy. The cooperative shipping of live stock by the method advocated by the United States Department of Agriculture h.-« been found practicable and proflUble in an sections of the country where live stock U produced in connection with general or specialised

systems of farming.

Electric Lights

for the Fish

French fishermen have been experiemtog with the use ot two power ful electric light* wn either end ol the big net width U spread at night and while the hauls have been greater than usual It la not positively drier mined whether the result , are entirely due to the lights or to the plenti-

ful supply of fish.

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crate a farm as a means of livelihood. Since 1858, Doctor Resser has resided near Eureka and preached u>

the Mennonite Church there,

speaks German. French and English with equal fluency but has alway* preached in German, doe to the fac: that most ot his followers are famtl

iar with the Teutonic tongue. Doctor Reeser cast his first vote

for president James K- Polk in 1840,

aas voted at every presidential

Asked to what he ascribed his good health, excellent physical condition and long life, he replied hard work In the open, wholesome food and regular horn of sleep. For the last twenty

yean he has given up actf- s wotk pon the tt. m and has restricted hlm-

n,“ he says "Fn* tbe last tan years. I haven't used s text." Ha ha* never posed for a photograph H« says that it Is against fct* rellgieus

Eleven children, seventy-five grand children and sev enty-nine great-granffv H children assembled at the recent oectennlai of the venerable divine. In one hundred yean of crUtenca. the old man has never known ITnesa.

Mistook Kangaroo lor Bird A naturalist who acoo np&nled Capu Cook on his famous voy»yo cround the world mistook for a bird the first kangaroo he saw. Thia is not likely to surprise anybody who ha* soan kangaroos in tbeto native wilds, for their leaping powers are so wonderful that at full speed they realyy look as if they were firing, a sclentiA. speaking of the matter, said; “I chanced to come acmes two 'old-man’ kangaroos, huge creatures In the Australian bush, und measured the leaps of one of them. Thirty-two bet the tape line showed for each lump, taking it from toeraark to toemark. It is marvelous to see one of these great marsupial* stroaklng across country at immense bounds, literally throwing itself into the air with it* mighty hind limbs, and hardly se-.ro-ing to touch the earth In it* flight."

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