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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-02-20
MINNESOTA WOMAN
HAS CHARGE OF HUT

Miss Eva Sorensen, Of Virginia,
Mimi. who is with the American Red
Cross in France, is in charge ola hut
hospital center of the A. E. F.
THE hut is a great success re-
ports Miss Sorensen, "and it Is ex-
ceedingly popular. There is much to
do in running an enormous canteen
and counter service. providing amuse-
ments n giving treats to the SOL
diers at this center. One Of our
treats, for instance, is serving the
convalescents free chocolate or coffee,
with our little Red Cross cakes, and
how they do enjoy and appreciate
what We do for them.
For the shows that we give ]
planned designed and cut out cos
tunes, and Miss Hurley, my assistant,
and a French dressmaker turned
them out. Now we have a splendid
set for general shows. in all about
twenty-five costumes for end men, In
~terlocutor. chorus and special parts.
"At various stores in neighboring
towns" continues Miss Sorensen. II
have bought, bit by bit, with consid-
cradle disappointment at times and
much necessary adjusting of plans,
everything for the interior Of the Red
Cross hut. Many things we couldn't
get at all, and some only at e%xorbitant
prices. But l can really bargain In
great shape now! The hut is In
shades of green and gold. The cell
ing and walls are a warm cream-col-
ored whitewash; the curtains of the
windows and stage gold orange
sateen, the woodwork almost a Mile
green; lamp shades green and gold;
and pictures-suggesting anything
but a
This hut's big family of boys is
continually commenting on its at
Effectiveness, n it is a great sight
each afternoon to see 700 or 500 boys
in bandages of every description
reading. writing. singing. playing
games"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-02-20
LAKES MAY OPEN EARLY.

Duluth, MIMI. Feb. ao.-An early
opening Of navigation on the upper
lakes this year is expected by marine
and iron mining men. The lake is
free Of ice and marine men say it is
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-02-20
HERE N THERE.

-. e %
The national women's council meet
ing held in st. Louis, Mo-, has decided
to have a world peace celebration the
W days before Good Friday.
Over 1000 women were placed in
positions by the women's bureau of
the United States employment service
while the war was in progress.
Mrs. William Ish Of Findlay, Ohio,
is a world beater as a beet topper,
having recently pulled and topped
thirty-two tons, which she had in
sugar refinery in two weeks.
Accompanied by ladies Of Unionist,
Nationalist and Sim Fein; convictions,
Mrs. Elizabeth Haslam, aged 90 and
tdescrtbed as the oldest sufrragette in
Ireland, drove to a polling station at
the recent election and lie said to have
recorded her vote for the Unionist
party. = <5.s
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-02-20

The Presbyterian Red Cross circle
will meet tomorrow afternoon at the
court house. A large attendance is
desired. Sewing hours will be from
2 to 5.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Germs Un6
Sharing
Brushes
\ OLD infection, come into
new prominence, is anthrax,
= the frequent cases Of which

during the war led to an in-
vestigation that discovered the
source of the disease in defective
shaving brushes. In "The Boston
Transcript" writer says:
anthrax, which has come into prom
inence during the war, has been re-
ceiving a good deal Of attention on
both sides Of the Atlantic. Bacteria
logical Investigations here have shown
the danger that exists in the use Of
shaving brushes that do not bear the
mark Of reputable manufacturers, willis
in England recent researches have
been made by governmental commit
tee toward the best methods OF dis
injecting hair and wool.
"Disinfection Of wool was formerly
a very active industry at the ports OF
entry in the northern states of this
country On Gallup's Island the most
spacious structures under the old city
management of the quarantine were
the wool sheds, but better control OF
the wool at the ports OF sM pment and
in the districts where it is packed has
taken away the need of disinfecticr
here.
with the war, however, with the
enormous demand for raw materials,
sources Of supply we're drawn upon
which were new and less under control.
so that anthrax was presently OBJ
served among the soldiers at the frone
and in the camps in England ana
France, and traces of it later in thia
country. The source of the infection
was traced to the bristles Of shaving
brushes.
''The English egg rn;tssee has gone
scientifically into the investigation Of
methods of disinfecting raw materials
capable Of carrying the anthrax spores.
There is the difficulty in process OF
disinfection that it will injure the raw
material, and this must be avoided. The
problem proved to be quite difficult, in
that the spores themselves are resistans
and they were very frequently i'm
bedded in hard, dried blood-ciots, which
gave them a further degree of protec-
ton. Commercial quantities were
handled, passed to manufacturers and
worked up into finished products. 1t
was found that fourfold process was
successful. First, mechanical and chem
ical washing; next, treatment with a 2
to pa per cent solution of formalde-
hyde for twenty minutes at a tempera-
ture Of 102 degrees Fahrenheit; next,
air drying at 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
and finally, standing for some days
1.-TWO potential dangers were guarded
against in these experiments-the risk
Of infection Of employees, which was
avoided by mechanical processes of
opening bales, and the risk due to in
fected waste liquors, which was met by
sterilizing them before discharging
them
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

variety Of applications. The stellate
types, repeated with their extremities
in contact, or nearly in contact, de-
velop into allover patterns applicable
to book covers, oilcloths, wallpaper or
textile designs. Some Of tho more
delicately branching forms are strong
ly suggestive Of jowelry designs, as
applied to brooches and pendants,
either as settings for stones or
enamelled. The designer Of stained
glass rose windows may find in some
Of the compound tabular forms inspira-
ton for unique patterns.
Lace and drawn work. rosettes in
fresco, tailpieces for books and mag
azines and medallions for the centres
Of china plates are some Of the sug-
gested uses which might be made of
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

mediately introduced on the stage Of
q low power microscope fitted with a
Photographic apparatus. In order to
secure the best results the photo
graphing Of the snow crystals should
be conducted In the open air while
the snow is falling. Snow crystals
have, for many years past, been sue
cessfully photographed and studied by
W. A. Bentley, Of Jericho, VT, and the
photographs here reproduced have
been selected from extensive collec-
ton.
"As basis for art motives it would
seem that the range of uses to which
these natural geometric forms could
be applied Is fairly comprehensive.
Many Of them suggest designs for
cut and engraved glass and great
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Science and Znventi0n

can spirit in new designs. Manufact-
urers have voiced tho opinion that
an added impulse to applied art in
this period Of reconstruction Of trade
will como with the Introduction of
art motives which are not only strik-
ing but novel.
"The forms of the inorganic king
doms have as yet played little part
in the development of art motives,
which have, up to how, been dependent
mainly upon geomctric patterns and
upon moro or less conventionally
treated plant or animal forms. And
yet it would seem that at least some
of the mineral forms could be sub
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

stituted for those moro stiAHy geo
metric patterns which have been handed
down through the centuries as part
Of our art heritage.
"Snow crystals, combining, as they
do, wonderful symmetry Of form
with practically ineXhaustible variety
OF six symmetric outlines, offer fer
tilo field for the designer. The snow
crystals illustrated are only few
examples-chosen from many hun
drcds-of tho intricacy and beauty OF
natures geometrical designs as OK
pressed in these tiny jewels of the air.
The magnifcd photographs, enlarged
about fifteen or twenty diameters,
were obtained by the simple method
Of catching the fallino snowflake on
a black screen, which could be inn
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

animal will thrive upon one and
starve upon the other One would
like to see this assertion tested by
q carefully guarded experiment
If it is true, it is very significant.
We do know that two substances,
alcohol and ether, for example,
may be exactly alike in their
chemical composition, and yet differ
widely in their properties and uses.
Chemistry gives no hint as TO tha
arrangement of the molecules in
the different articles Of food, which
arrangement accounts for the dif-
ferences in their food value. Az
least. there seems to be no other
explanation. The analogy is seen
in the letters Of word: arranged
i'll one order, they spell one word,
in another order, another; God
and dog are made up Of the same
word elements.
To meet the objection that car
nivorous animals thrive upon meat
alone, Dr. McCollum asserts that
the lion, for instance, first sucks
the blood Of its victim and
then tears open the abdomen and
devours the liver, the kidneys and
the other soft parts, and thus gets
the indispensable fat soluble. One
would like to know what proof he
has that lions proceed in this man.
ner. Lions in confinement ara
fed entirely on red meat usually
attached to the bone, to give them
something to gnaw and to supply
lime and other mineral clements.
Eagles, condors, buzzards and
vultures in captivity are fed upon
red meat alone, SO far as | have
been able to ascertain We know
that underfed animals do not grow
we'll nor breed well; underfed hers
lay few eggs. But We know that
the underfed human is quite likely
to be very prolific.
To be kept in normal state of
health and efficiency, Of course,
both man and beast need a well
balanced ration, yet men do their
work and beasts thrive and multiply
on deficient ratons.
There are, no doubt, valuable
suggestions in DR.. McCoilum's
treatise. We have always known
what valuable foods milk and eggs
are to those who can use them.
which, unfortunately, all persons
cannot do, but that among all
civilized peoples bread his really
the staff Of life is proved to ma
lbeyond question.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

nutrition founded upon what he calls
the biological tests of food values
as opposed to the results of chemi-
cal analysis. The new food values
which he claims to have discovered
are quite beyond the reach of chem
istry and a~e altogether mythical.
He Experimental upon rats and
mice and other rodents and reached
the conclusion that what is true Of
thcm is true of men, which, it seems
to me, is like gauging the mental
capacity OF men by that of mice.
Man is the most adaptive Of ami
mails, and his mind plays a part in
all that he does, even in his eating
He carries a talisman which no
other animal possesses. Man adapts
himself to all climes and conditions
as no other animal does. He is at
home in all parts of the earth. Rats
and mice and guinea pigs are not,
unless they accompany man. At the
equator and at the poles man
thrivcs because he is an omnivorous
feeder and adapts himself to the
kinds of food the regions afford
fats and oils in the Arctics and
fruits and nuts in the tropics. l
knew Of man in the Klondike who
lived for months OH beans alone.
When one first reads Or. McCol-
lum's volume one feels like rushing
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

snow crystal motives. In sact, the
user Of geometric designs in any Of
the decorative arts could we'll profit
by the consideration Of these varied
and beautiful combinations Of six-sided
symmetry turned out OF natures
studios.
"Nor is there any limit to tho sup
ply of new motives derivable from
this source. With every fall Of snow,
in temperate and boreal regions, under
the right conditions, more combina-
tions are being added to the thou
sands already photographed, constitut-
ing an ever growing portfolio of de-
signs and presenting every degree of
complexity. from simple hexagonal
outline to intricate branching forms
Of the compound stcllate type"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

reed? The world has seemed to re-
volve around bread. Give us
bread, breadw comes the cry from
all parts of the world. Hungry hu-
manity thinks only Of bread, and
yet we are now told that bread
alone will not save them, nor pota-
toes, nor beans, nor meat, nor nuts,
nor vegetable oils!
l think Of John Muir starting eff
on his 100 or 200 mile walk around
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

Mount Shasta, or to spend weeks in
exploring the Sierras, with no food
supplies but white bread and tea.
In preparing for such an expedition
his custom was to go to the bakery
and get dozen or more loaves of
bread, split them in half, stand them
around his campfire and thoroughly
dry them. ("I could not afford to
carry water" he said.) Then he
would put them in gunny sack,
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Now a 'SFirelcss
Locomotive

\HE 'tireless locomotive" is
German wartime invention.s
IL 1t has a large hot water tank
which is filled to capacity
with high pressure steam from q
'eatlonary boiler. Naturally, the
Soant,ty and pressure of the
Sumped-in steam limit also the run
Jung capacity and time of the en-
s'ne. AS compensation, the en-
s'ae Is OF an extremely simple con-
''ructlon and perfectly safe in op-
ssat'on. All delicate boiler parts
are eliminated; there is no firing,
ana therefore no smoke, SCOT and
'oai dust; explosions are out of the
question. The fireless engine, there
1ore' Is employed chiefly in munition
Snd chemical plants. also in factory
ssos where they can be kept under
san without any stteudancA
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

sling it over his shoulder and be off.
The bread soon got thoroughly pull
verized and when he was hungry he
would build fire, brew his tea, un-
tie the string Of his bread sack and
his dinner was ready. And he lived
to be seventy-six years old He GER
tainly was undernourished on bread
and tea alone. He said he carried
with him something which enabled
him to extract more nutriment from
bread than did other persons, by
which, I fancy, he meant his love of
the wild beauty of the mountains
What he really carried was the
power of adaptation OF his own
body. He never carried a gun, but
always availed himself Of the wild
fruit of the season. One night a
grizzly bear came and carried off
his bread sack which was lying by
his side while he slept--not worth
her trouble, had the old beast known
it, for there was none Of the un-
known fat soluble A in it.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Ne,c Medium,

ut is hoped that in course of time
ayistiors viii be able to throw u food
Of light upon this obscure but intensely
interesting branch Of ornithology. AL
ready number OF observations have
lacking in detail, and no very definite
conclusion can as yet be formed. Up
TO the present l believe the greatest
height at which a bird has been seen
from an airplane is $4,000 feet, when
Lieutenant j. S. Risen, Of the 57th
Squadron, observed two large birds
over st. Omer in August, 1917"
Like an airplane, a bird may seek
the stratum Of air in which it is
most convenient to fly, as the writer
goes on to say:
Probably the majority Of species
seldom travel under normal conditions
above 10000 or 1900 feet, but, Of
course, the height at which they fly on
any given day depends very largely
upon the weather. When the air is
thick or heavily charged with moisture,
II birds are migrating at all under such
conditions, they are inclined to keep
low, and 7 think it is only in clear
atmosphere that they rise TO the higher
strata. Wind Is another and 3 very
important factor What appears to be
contrary wind on the ground will al
most certainly veer to shoulder wind
az 2,oOo or 5000 feet; while if it hap
pens to be blowing from the east, IL
complete reversal of direction may oc-
cur before $1,000 feet is reached.
There is every reason to believe
mat tho power OF birds flight is re-
auced IS it ascends to moro rarefed
S'mospheres, on account of, among
other things, a loss Of buoyancy, an in-
'uincient supply of oxygen. and too
'nin, unresisting medium for wing pro-
pulsion.
From the few records available,
'aink 1t may be assumed that the ma
'0nty Of high flying day migrants
'uch as plovers, ducks, geese. cranes,
e~.-prefer to travel between 4,000 and
''VVo feet, but. as already stated. moro
aata and precise information are re-
quired before any definite conclusions
can be arrived at"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

~HEY have been observed by
an aviator at an altitude Of
l. $4,000 feet, but this is un-
usual. IN an article on the
fight of birds a writer in "The
Toronto Globe" says:
"On the night OF September 8, 1887.
while an American scientist, F. NJ.
Chapman, was observing the moon
through an astronomical telescope, he
suddenly became aware Of a number Of
birds passing In front Of the lens, sil
houetted against the glaring light Of
the moons face. For more than two
aud half hours-from ?. m. to 1850
D. m, to be precise-an intermittent
stream OF migrants flowed southwark
across his field of view, and among
these Mr.. Chapman was able to recog-
nirs the outlined forms of Carolina
rails, grackle, snipe and ducks. These,
roughly estimated. were travelling at
elevations varying from 5000 to $4,000
feet
Until the advent of airplanes, nearly
quarter OF century later, this OBJ
servation formed practically the sum
total Of our knowledge of the height
at which birds travelled to and from
their summer quarters. 1t was realized.
Of course, that certain passerine spe-
cies--e. g., swallows, wagtails, pipits,
larks, rocks, etc.--usually migrated at
q comparatively low height; but Of
many birds and especially Of the larger
species, we knew next to nothing
True, we occasionally obtained a dis
tant view OF slleiu Of geese moving
in orderly formation across the gray
background Of an autumn sky, but it
was always difficult to compute their
height, and one could only guess at the
direction and force Of the upper air
currents through which they were
passing
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

bert p. Whitlock in
Natural History" published by the
American Museum of Natural His
tory.
In illustrating the uses to which
these designs may be put the writer
says:
with the resumption Of manufact-
uro upon peace basis growing
demand is being felt throughout the
United States for American products
which will express a distinctly Ameri-
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

off to his friends and neighbors to
tell them Of the important new dis
covery and put them on their guard,
lest they die OF inanition before
they know what is wrong with them.
According to DR.. McCollum one
may have his house filed from attic
to cellar with all the seeds and
grains the world could produce, with
all the nut foods and other foods
that Or. Kellogg has ever invented
and all the variety Of meats that
Armour packs, and yet starve to
death unless one has certain foods
that contain mysterious, unidenti-
fled substance which he has named
the "fat soluble A." which is
found in butter, milk, eggs and in
green vegetables, and the "water
soluble b." which is found in the
coating Of rice.
The Staff Of Life
One marvels how the world has
survived all these centuries without
this precious bit Of knowledge. But
ter, milk and eggs and green things
are, Of course, on the dietary of
most persons in this country, but
miners, explorers, seafaring men
and the very Door everywhere are
generally without these prime neces-
saries. Not only man but also all
the lower orders must have this
mythical fat soluble A, and among
rice eating races tho water soluble
B, or they quickly deteriorate in
health and strength. Is our tradi-
tional staff of life, then, a broken
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
On the Plains

One cannot help rejecting how
long the world has thrived without
this special knowledge Roosevelt,
in his Ranch Life" SAL s the plains
men and cowboys felt we'll provi-
stoned if they had bread, bacon and
tea or coffee-not VI estige of the
fat soluble A in any of their kits
and packs. And undef this regime
they faced incredible hardships, es-
pecially in winter, when the bliz-
yards swept over the Dakota and
Montana plains.
When Roosevelt and his men pur-
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

The utrieae ond branching forms Of this group
peby designs gold enamel aud patterns lace
e e1n1rodey These smoc crystals prob
ably o9ued IN intense cold such fod IN the high aItude
ton chcb the als daiag general drng
storms IN rcoher The central usuaLy heNagonc Scc
tols act ce for tie intricate branches whose ribs
the nost part holo tubes The eftand crystal shoc
imperfect aymmecoI grQch from Imperfect nNcleu
From Natwai History Magazine
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

sued the boat thieves over three
hundred miles down the Little Mis-
souri, River the only food they had
during the last week was wheat
flour, which they made into a loaf
by using the muddy water of the
river, and which they baked in the
ashes.
The only Inference to be drawn
from these and similar experiences
is that though the men may not
have been ideally nourished, they
were sufficiently we'll fed to keep up
their strength and enable them to
do their work, which is, in the main,
true Of the mass of mankind every-
where. In America, in Africa, in
Europe, in Asia, in Australia, the
races find what they have to have
to continue the struggle for exist
ence, though how much their eff
cheney would be augmented by the
addition of these unknown quaint
ties is something to be seriously
considered
Travellers and explorers in the
Arctic regions live mainly on bis
cuit and pemmican and tea. The
pemmican is made Of dried meat and
beef suet, with at times oatmeal or
little dried fruit added. But dogs
and men are fed upon it and under
go incredible hardships. When the
dogs are fed exclusively upon meat
or fish diet they thrive we'll, if they
only have enough of it,
As to Elements
DR.. McCollum says that two
foods may be exactly alike so far
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

The rations OF these weamig time eracIy
alike the character Of tie tat chch they contained
Dr. iicCol" The the W wes given per cent Of
seed oil The the right 5 cent
butter tat Butter to y0 jas and the leeues Of plants
dietary essential the chemical mature Whch still
s<oun whch the growth the mantenamce
of heah This knopn soluble A. and
oils Of vegetable origin lack Of this sub
the said the Development of peculiar
eue disease known eerophthaams1
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

This 9ictvc illustrates the emaced appearance of q middle
cged being abou iur onths diet onssting
boed fo, dogermNatcd ea( saych pork fa
moosss soet cabbage Such diet has been reported
by Goaberger hare produced pedg9u fue and
half nons This diet affords acde variety and consists of
acoesone products fus maintain normal nutrition
the euty vegetables. (F7rom McCollams book
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
By John Burroughs

PROFESSOR at John S
Hopkins, DR.. McCollum,
has lately brought out
some new theories about
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21

The rotions Of these tro according Dr. McCoum had
se same eopositon, shoMn By chemical analysis. They
differed only the Of protein then contained
The rat the right Of poteins from
kernel and sVhedt gluten; that
rotess end gelatin The difference IN size ad remarkable
difference ppearGnce solely tho
the quality Of the proteins tho proens and
0enn DO not supplement each others anoacM deficiencies
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Mobilize the Snowflake, Urges Scientist

* a RT Motives in Snow
"A Crystals is the sub
ject of a sketch bv Her
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
As to Elements

DR.. McCollum says that two
foods may be exactly alike so far
as chemistry can reveal, and yet an
New-York tribune., 1919-09-21
Ho,U High
Do Birds
Fly?

>-HEY have been observed by
an aviator at an altitude Of
i $4,000 feet, but this is un-