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Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
MAKES NEW USE OF ECHOES
inventors Idea May Do Away With
the Old Practice Known as
"Heavina the Lead"

An inventor in Oakland, CAL, has
found a new and practical use for
echoes, and as a result the time may
come when the practice of 'heaving
the lead" at sea will be known only
in historical novels and old maritime
history. The marimeter, as the new
device is called, sends a sound from
the keel of the ship to the bottom Of
the sea the sound comes back as an
echo, and the journey, automatically
recorded on a diaphragm, is translated
into terms of length. The report shows
the depth of water between keel and
bottom, calculated from the. known
speed of the sound-wave in salt water,
and the knowledge may be acquired at
the rate of four s%oundings a minute,
which is very much faster than by the
older methods. The marimeter, to be
sure, has only recently gone to sea,
If indeed the steamer Governor, which
will carry the first of them, has yet
left dry dock in Seattle, Wash. But
the instrument promises to add ma
terially to the security of ocean traf-
ic.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
PAYS TO MAKE USE OF PAINT
Apart From Adding to Appearance oi
Structure It ALSO Tends to Re.
tard Deterioration.

The foundation reason for. painting
Is protection Of the thing painted.
The owner Of property should never
forget that. No n can look upon
painting rs an expense If he is con
vinced that it prevents a greater ex.
pense.
There is, however, another great rea-
son for painting and that is the appeal
of pride in appearance. This Is quite
human. 1t is seen in the matter of
clothes. Primarily clothes are to keep
us warm, but a suit is. discarded while
it is still warm because it is shiny, out
of shape, or slightly faded. In other
words, n feels that it would com
promise their standing were they to
wear it.
So it is with the painting of houses;
both without and within.
In progressive, proud communities,
houses are painted every three or four
years through pride in appearance.
Progressive citizens are not satisfied
with the looks Of their houses after
three or four years exposure to
weather.
AS good citizens we should not only
e that every person knows that
structures will deteriorate If unpaint-
ed, but. we should also try to make
people as proud Of the appearance of
their homes as their more progressive
neighbUrs. We should deliberately
set out to make them ashamed of their
dingy homes which are q reflection up
on the whole community.
This work Is peculiarly one for local
example and community cooperation.
Everyone knows that a newly-painted
house is likely to start the whole neigh
b0rhood to Sticking up. It becomes
contagious.
livery person who wants to see his
community prosper win join In such
q movement.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Boosters and Boosters.

The difference between the effective
booster and the rooster is that the lat
ter has no responsibility and the for
mer must make good. There was a
time when the boosters from. a, town
would go on a visit asserting that they
lived in the biggest city, had the tall
est buildings, the largest stores, the
wealthiest people, and SO on, using
words without stint simply because
they wished to say something favor
able about home. They would. be
placed in the rooster class now unless
they could show by facts and figures
that their assertions were true.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Landscape GARDENING.

The great mistake made by most
novices is that they study gardens too
much and nature too little. Now gar
dens in general are stiff and grace
less, except just SO far as nature, ever
free and flowing, reasserts her, rights,
In spite of mans want Of taste, or
helps him when he has endeavored to
work in her OWL spirit. But, the fields
and woods are full of instruction, and
In such features Of our richest and
most smiling and diversified country
must the best hints for the embellish-
ment of rural homes always be de-
rived.-Andrew jackson Downing.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
aolNG THINGS BY WHOLESALE
Easy 70 See Many Advantages In New
Methods Rapidly Being Brought
TO Perfection.

Heretofore we have bought medical
service at retail. Now Glasgow is try
ng out a plan to sell medical service
Wholesale {, :
What Glasgow Is striving to do Is
his Divide the city in districts and
provide. free dispensaries and free doc
tors to all who need medical attention.
It'll claimed that such a scheme will
reduce the death rate, because many
poor people now skimp thefrafamilies
In the matter Of health precautions.
And the doctors like 1t, also. They
work fewer hours and a standard pay
IS guaranteed.
Withal, the Glasgow plan Of whole
sale .doctoring is said to be cheaper
than our old-fashioned retail method.
"Girard" writes in the Philadelphia
Press.
American cities have made half q
step toward such doctoring Of the peo-
pie in wholesale lots.
We have boards Of health and health
bureaus. They administer in a gen
eral way and they administer in whole
sale doses,
An order goes out and it goes for
all the people. 1t is economical and
wise, as every n knows, during such
an epidemic as the "fu" was last
year. 4g:. 4s IT..
Doctoring by wholesale saved mil
lions of lives In, that one calamity.
Uncle Sam did the insuring, Of his
own soldiers by wholesale in the last
war.
Public schools supply education In
wholesale quantities.
Our spiritual wants are supplied in
a fashion wholesale through the
churches.
So wholesale doctoring is only an
other days march in the general di-
rection Of a socialistic empire.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
IDEALS CANNOT BE IMPRISONED

No one knows or can even crudely
estimate how many men and women
have lost their lives, in the centuries
past, because of their opinions; nor
do we know how many more have
been jailel.. and tortured.
The ruling classes. of all ages have
~endeavored to crush new ideas, espe-
cially if their position was threatened
by them, thinking that driving fear
into the hearts of the unfortunate in
%dividuals SO prosecuted would ulti-
mately paralyze their brains and
cause others to take %precaution.
Brave men and women do not fear
jails, they do not fear persecution,
they do not fear even death, for they
realize that they are fighting for
truth, liberty and the freedom of the
masses.
L:berators from Christ down to the
martyr, all who bore testimony
for truth, liberty and freedom, pre-
ferred death and prison, rather than
forsake the truth as they saw it. To
them the gloom of prisons had no ter
ror, nor did they hesitate to give up
their lives. Their bodies are de-
strpyed, but their ideals and souls
live On.
The ruling class of our time may
.%persecute courageous human beings,
but a curse will come upon them in
turn. Slowly the producers Of the
worlds goods are realizing that char
ty is no longer a solution for the ills
of society. They will demand what is
theirs and what nature intended them
to enjoy they viii come to realize
that they, too, have human rights and
should live their lives In fulls--Ex-
change.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08

Grand Forks.-Frank Morris. of. this
city has been making a practice Of
calling police headquarters and asking
for IN officer to be sent to a certain
number where there, was no evidence
of trouble. He found, however, that
his joke was reacting seriously when
he faced a local police magistrate and
was given a option Of paying a fine
Of $50 or serving 30 days in8jail.
observation-disclosures state taxes be-
came delinquent on March 1, only 60
per cent Of the amount levied has
been received by the state auditor.
Counties in the eastern part of the
state find little difficulty in paying
their 1919 taxes, but the western coun-
ties are finding the situation different.
All taxes delinquent March 1smust pay
$ per cent interest the first month and
an additional amount for each subse-
quent month.
Starkweather.-A special election on
a proposed $4,000 school house was
held here last week.
Sheypnne.-Ray Jones of this city
is dead ms the result of a self-inflicted
wound from a .3S-caliber revolver
Jones committed suicide Sunday after
a visit at the home of Miss Harriet
Carlson with, whom he had been keep
ing company for some time. AS he
was about to leave her he drew a
revolver and aimed 1t at her, in the
struggle the gun was discharged,
weanding the young lady In the arm.
Jones then turned the weapon upon
himself and fired.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Insures crusoe,s Musket.

The musket said to have been given
to Alexander Selkirk when he was put
ashore on the Island of Juan Fernan-
dez, 400 miles off the Chilean coast,
has been going the rounds of British
museums.
It was Selkirk's adventures upon
which was based De Foes famous
story, Robinson Crusoe." The musket
is inscribed with the name of "a. Sell
kirk Largo, 1771." It was purchased
by Randolph Berens for $6.25. but the
owner has insured it for $4,000.
Selkirk owned a tavern near Clap
ham, England. but died in 1923 at sea
as a lieutenant aboard q naval vessel.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08

States, by an amazing amount OF SELF
study by individual cities, towns, and
even villages. He foresees Intensive
study undertaken by every municipal
ity to determine what can be manufac-
tured in that place." Within limits he
Is probably right, but there will be
many who will honestly hope that the
limits will not be too widely extended,
and who will believe in all seriousness
that an occasional municipality with
out manufactures has its place in the
scheme Of things for a well-balanced
nation. Business first may be a
good slogan, but business all the
time" and business everywhere"
might weaken enthusiasm for desir-
able industry by Overemphasizing it.
One Is reminded that since somebody
gave current meaning to the term
business efficiency" about 1000 books
on the subject have been written and
printed in English Christian Science
Monitor.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Science and Soap Bubbles.

Sir James Dewar, the English pro-
lessor of chemistry, who has made
soap bubbles which he kept intact for
more than a year, says that when a
soap bubble becomes very old. say in
three or four days, it offers the only
possible example of the molecule Wis.,
ible to the naked eye. In the soap
bubble ordinarily there are about 100
layers Of molecules, but scientific treat
ment has produced black spots in
which there. is only a single layer, SO
thin that Sir James estimates that it
would take one and one-third mill
lion like it superimposed to make an
inch.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Pointed Advice.

"Oh, doctor" cried a wild-eyed man.
i am dreadfully afflicted The ghosts
OF my departed relatives come and
perch on the tops Of the fence posts
oil around my yard when dusk Is fall
Ing. ! can look out into the gloaming
any evening and see a couple OF dozen
spooks solemnly sitting on top Of that
many posts, waiting, waiting, waiting.
oh, doctor, what shall I do2s
sharpen the tops OF the posts
briskly replied the physician. Five
dollars, please.p--Judge
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Mennonites Make trouble.

The Mennonites in Canada are fight
ing the compulsory school law, insist
ing on sending their children to their
w parochial schools. AS a result, q
little schoolma'am has sat at her desk
in a schoolroom in central Saskatche-
wan daily since September 1, waiting
in vain for pupils to come to occupy
the empty benches.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
Put over.

"The gentleman disclaims any
knowledge Of a huge slush fund spent
in his behalf"
And you will observe he does so
without rancor."
"Quite so. also observe that the
gentleman was elected, which may ex-
plain the absence of rancor."
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
salt in Holland.

Holland has begun to produce salt
from wells drilled experimentally In
two provinces and may be able to OBJ
tain enough for all of it's needs.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
HOME CITIES ALSO NEEDED
Well to Remember That There Are
Other Thinss In Life Hesides
"BusIness.H

If a writer on present-day industrial
economics ID right. the next few dec
AIDES WIN. he, marked. In the United
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08
New Metal I.adle Inxsnted.

For workers with melted metals n
ladle has been invented that pours
from the bottom, leaving the dross ana
Impurities behind.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08

Nine v. S. Aces still in Service.
Nine of the 60 faces" developed
by the United States air service In
the world war still are connected
with the army. according to nm official
report.
Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1920-07-08

LangdoIl, n. D. July 27-8-9
The twelfth annual fair will be the last big event be-
fore harvest. Liberal special premiums, good races and full
afternoon and evening programs will make this the best
show in the history of the fair.
Tuesday, July 81, is Entry Day. Entries close at six
p. m No charge for hay or stalls or for any entries except
a fee of 81 in the live stock department.
Wednesday,, July %, the "Big Day." Judging begins
at ten O'Clock. Afternoon program of races and five big free
acts begins at two o'clock. Evening program of all free acts
and special races at 7:3O o'clock.
Thursday, July %. Live stock parade at one O'Clock.
Full afternoon program Of races and free acts at 2:30 o'clock.
Meals will be served at the dining hall and there will be
lunch and refreshment stands on the grounds. AS these
cannot serve all, "Picnic Dinners are advised.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Implement and automobile dealers desiring to exhibit
at the fair are requested to meet at the fair grounds at two
o'clock on Monday, July 18th. The grounds will be staked
and lots drawn by all present at that time. No charge for
space in this department.
Cavalier county parties desiring stands are requested
to meet at the fair grounds at 10 o'clock on Tuesday, July
13, and select locations. After that date space will be sold
to all as applications are made.
See big posters for Midway Attractions and Special
features. Admission: Adults and automobiles SO cents;
children under IL free.
D. MCLAUGHLIN, Pres. : j. D. Milne, Treas.
B. E. Groom, Secretary
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20

&. c, Marquis and sister, Miss
Mary, of Independence, arrived
Wednesday, being called here
by the illness of their sister,
Mrs, James Terhune.
Mrs. Walter Shinn and Mrs.
Ernest Hoffman went to Kansas
CityTuesday morning for a few
days visit with friends.
Mrs. Pete LaNoach of San
Francisco, California, arrived
Tuesday for an extended visit
here with relatives.
Chas. Weber went to Kansas
City Tuesday to spend the dav
on business.
b. T. Stier went to Wellington
yesterday on business.
Mrs, c. H. Swift who has been
seriously i'll at her home es5
Highland Ave, is slowly improy-
ing.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20
ALLOW FREEDOM TO INSkNe
ch.nese Do Not Believe In confinino
Those Afflicted With Dis
eased Minds.

In all Of China's 400 100000 pop
ulation there is but one insane asy-
hum. This is because the Chinese
still believe that an insane person is
but possessed of the devil and not
subject to medical cure.
This is the disclosure brought to
this country by DR.. Charles G.. Sell
den Of Erie, Pa, who has returned
from the Orient after % years serv-
ice there. He was superintendent
OF the John &. Kerr Hospital for In
sane at Canton, where some 600 per-
sons ara continually being treated
for insanity.
Doctor Selden will direct a cam
paign in this country with a view of
returning to the Orient and estab-
fishing another hospital. Doctor
Kerr, who founded the present insti-
tuition. died in 1898 and turned over
his work before that time to Doctor
Selden.
"There are but few cases of in
sanity caused by alcohol" said Doe
tor Seldcn. MANY women become
insane through jealousy and cruel
treatment in their home life.
"lnsane people, not violent. are al
lowed at large through China. If
violent, the families hold them pris-
oners, sometimes claiming them.
One woman was chained to a post
for II years
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20
AFRICA HAS MODEL VILLAGE
Founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1899, Near
Kimberley, and Is Called
kenilworth.

A model village. giving better
housing conditions to some of the
white employees Of the DeBeers
trust, is in sharp contrast to the ma
tives' Tin Can town." on the oppo-
site edge Of Kimberley,
The village, called Wentworth,
has 1875 houses, with low rents, wa
ter supply and electric lights.
Houses are low brick bungalows,
housing two families separately.
They are well kept, with white. spa
cious porchcs, trellised with flowers
and vines, each with IA prim, white
fence incIosing a garden.
There are wide sidewalks and
streets each side baping double rows
of evergreen trees. In addition there
are rows Of g~rapeyines on Siege ave-
nue., which is mile long.
The model village was founded by
Cecil Rhodes in 1889. 1t has cleo
tric tram service to Kimberley and
the mines, a school, church, recrea-
ton club, tennis and athletic
grounds. a rife club, nurseries, a
public orchard and vegetable garden.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20
Wanted: 1000 Signatures.

The citizen of Lexington will
be asked Monday to sign a pc
tition to be sent to the State
Board of Equalization asking
that board to give an increased
Valuation of the property of the
state this year so that sufficient
revenue may be available for the
adequate support of the public
schools. This is a part of the
campaign of the State Teachers
Association which is being con-
Quoted in every county in the
state.
Recent Investigations made by
committees of the State Teach
ers' Association show that Mis-
souri, has been losing many of
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20
CHINESE WORRY OVER FOOD
High Cost Of Rice Is Beginning to
Arouse Discomfort Among the
Poorer Glasses.

China is a backward nation, so its
working classes" do not strike, But.
being human, they get uneasy over
the thing which disturbs us greatly,
namely the high cost of living. Chi
nese coolies, as we suppose, live
chiefly on rice. The list Of their
price increases is brief, but it is suf-
ticient, remarks the Hartford Cou-
rant. The dreadful tale is soon told
that whereas the price of rice in 1913
was $3.50 Mexican per picul (about
1873 l-3 pounds), now it is 1920 per
picul. And whereas at the former
date a Mexican dollar was worth
about half a gold dollar, today the
two are nearly at a parity. And if
that is not bad enough, one may
search back in the market quotations
and find that in 17l9 rice sold in
Shanghai for S? Mexican per picul
Whether we consider rice at ) 2-9
cents a pound or at a little less than
Z cents, or at the | l-2 cents it was
200 years ago, the figure, compared
with what we pay, seems a ridiculous
one over which to be alarmed. But
things than the absolute price
have to be considered. In Japan.
where wage rates rule higher than in
a cooIie gets 80 cents a day.
The highest paid taiIors get $l.?5
a day and bricklayers Sill? -. The
average for labor there is 81 cents a
day.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20

her best teachers to other states
"0ne-fourth of all the teachers
trained by the University anC
teachers colleges last year went
to neighboring states because
better salaries were paid there
Teachers going out of the state
received an average of thirty.
four per cent more salary than
those who remained in Missouri.
Iowa now has an adequate min
mum salary law and, during the
month of January, Kansas pro-
vided for fifty per cent raise in
taxation for school purposes"
What means Of relief are there
for Missouri schools? % A new
constitution or meeting of the
legislature. The legislature how
ever, does not meet until Jan
uary, 1921. Evidently a new
constitution or a meeting of the
legislature as solutions do not
meet the emergency situation
for the school year 1920-21.
~ Voting a building and re-
pair tax and transferring the
to the teacher fund,
(3) Petitioning the State
Board of Equalization for an in
crease in the valuation of prop
in Missouri sufficient to put
the schools on a sound basis.
The Missouri State Teachers
Association stands squarely
back of the third program. No
question Of constitutionality is
in this measure, and it
offers an immediate solution.
The petitions to the State
Board Of Equalization, it is be-
ieved, will show that the people
Of Lexington and in the state
are overwhelmingly in favor of
obtaining more competent teach
ers by increasing the salaries of
he force throughout the state.
n Columbia, seven out of eight
persons approached by the can
'assers signed the petition. Kan
City has reported signatures
Ilready exceeding in number
5000. Surely the citizens of
lexington, too, will show that
hey believe their boys and girls
0 be entitled to as efficient in
truction as the boys and girls
I Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and
illinois.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20
The Fifty.Cort nor--

Springfield, Mo-, Feb( l8.-
A ffty-cent dollar is all that
the school teachers have beer
getting for their services in the
public interest during the last
four years.
That's all the dollars they are
being paid with now are worth
when the teachers take them in
10 the stores and markets to buy
the necessities of life.
The discovery is not new to
the teachers. They've been try
ing to find a way to make the
dollars go the full distance, but
the dollars will not do it.
1--WE teachers know the lini-
tations of the dollar we are re-
celving," a well known teacher
remarked, "but the public, our
master, if you please, doesn't
seem to know it.
Teachers salaries have not
been raised materially for more
than four years. We are living
now on substantially the same
pay we had four years ago, and
that was when the high cost of
living first became noticeable.
II we were being paid now on
the same basis as in pre-war
days, we would be receiving
twice as much as we were get
ting in 1915"
A movement is on foot to get
the Old Dollar back through a
general increase of salaries for
teachers in the state for the
school year of 192O-1921. The
appeal first will be made to the
State Board of Equalization.
and a constitutional amendment
will be asked for when the leg
stature meets in 1921.
In the meantime, the hope of
the school teachers can only lie
IN the possibility of food, cloth
ing, and necessity prices coming
down.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1920-02-20
SAWDUST INSTEAD or CLAY
Bricks Made of the Former Material
Said to Give Satisfaction, and
Are Cheap.

The extravaganza and the romano
ing Of Yesterday are the sober facts
of today. Jules Verne has been es-
tablishod as a prophet, and men
like him that have trusted the future
see their trust justified. II the in
yention Of +. II. Orr of Seattle.
Wash, proves to be all that is hoped,
then the sawdust brick will soon
have reyolutionized the work of
bEilding, Stated briefly. the bricks
are made Of highly compressed saw
dust that has been treated with fire
and cold-reslsting chemicals. Not
only do they have the qualities that
such chemicals give, but they can
withstand a pressure Of $500 pounds
to the square inch. 1t does not take
much Imagination to figure the pos
sIbilities of such material in build
ing. and there is an added economic
significance in the fact that direct
and profitable use is thus made of a
"by-product" of the sawmills and
forests that. notwithstanding the
many devices for utilizing it, has
none the less been a visible waste.
When it is added that the bricks can
be turned out in something less than
"a hours. their use in rcconstruc-
ton work is apparent.