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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
lControI of the Bullets.

In the gun which Mr.. Moore has in
vented complete control is obtained
over the dispersion of the bullets by a
special patented timing device which
feeds the balls into the gun barrel at
a regular rate and elects them at reg
ular intervals and from the same
opening. According to Mr.. Moore, the
tests have shown that his gun is capa-
BILE of firing q ball a mile and a half
and killing a man at that distance !;
also that a ball fired from the muZzle
of the gun a short distance away has
penetrated seven thicknesses of heavy
planking, which he says is n thick
ness more than a bullet from any
army As Colt will penetrate.
Centrifugal force is nothing more
thar the tendency which objects have
to. fly off in a straight line when rap
idly revolved about a fixed center. The
most common utilization of centrifu-
gal force is in the modern cream
separator.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
STRANGE FISH STORY
Angler Makes a Snake the Hero of
the Tale.

~ 49,
Frank Williamson, angler of Chico,
Col, has startled Chicoans with the
narration of a new kind of fish story
in which a snake stars as the hero.
According to Williamson, while fish
ing with Capt. Allison Ware, former
president of the State Normal school
here. on the Feather river east of
here, he saw a water snake make a
sudden lunge at a passing trout, catch
it by the gills in its mouth, and after
a fierce struggle under water leap out
of the stream to the bank, landing on
a broad boulder. Here the snake beat
its prey against the rock until it was
stunned. Taking no chance that 1t
might revive, the snake Topped into
the water again, WILLIAMSON AYERS, and
held the fish under water until 1t was
drowned.
Williamson says he has seen this
snake perform on two successive Sat
urdays and believes the reptile makes
it a regular weekly event. He offers
to direct the dubiout to the exact spot
on the river where the marvellous
snake makes its home.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
III SC6lBES new
NaCHlNE Gun
Inventor Uses Centrifugal Force
Instead of Explosive.
SAY WEAPON IS NOISELESS

In Test Machine Cur Hurls Balls at
Rate Of 1000 a Minute With Ter.
= rifle Velocity-Wiil XIII a Man at a
Distance of a Mile and a Half
Submitted to the war Department
Just Before Armistice Was Signed.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
CATARRH CANNoI BE CURED

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they can
not reach the seat Of the disease. Catarrh
is a local disease. greatly Influenced by con-
stitutional conditions, and in order to cure
it you must take an internal remedy Halls
Catarrh Medicine Is taken internally and
acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces
of the system. Halls Catarrh Medicine was
prescribed by one of the best physicians In
this country for years. 1t is composed of
some of the best tonics known, combined with
some Of the best blood purifiers. The per-
feet combination of the ingredients In Halls
Catarrh Medicine is what produces such Won
derful results in catarrhal conditions. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props. Toledo. o.
All Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Advertisement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
sraln 70 Reward Mothers.

Madrid.-Mest Of the Spanish prov
inces are organizing fetes for the in
auguratlon Of "Morlers' day" a fea-
ture of which viii be the awarding of
prizes TO eonspiciOusly m%eritoriouS
mothers. Tie government and the To-
cal authorities are providing funds to
organize and promote the movement,
which aims at the encouragement of
large families.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12

The Workingmen's Building and
Loan Association of P|IeasantVilie will
open it's seventeenth series of stock on
Monday, March ii. The series is
open to public subscription; shares so
cents per month each; no entrance
fee. Subscriptions are 10Y being re-
ceived by the secretary, J. o. Herr,
and the treasurer, d. S. LeCompte, at
the P%leasantyille Trust Co. building
advertisement.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
Have You Seen Anything
of a Lost Indian Tribe?

Washington, D. C.-Has any
body seen anything lately of the
Montauk Indians? At last ac-
counts they We're living on Long
Island, but they seem to have
drifted away and now the gov
crnment is asked to pick up the
trail. Chairman Snyder of the
house Indian committee, intro
duced a resolution to direct the
secretary of the interior to in
vestigate and report.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-03-12
Time Accounts

An account with The At
lantic Safe Deposit and
Trust Company is the best
protection forr anYftime
when you need money
quickly. It is an incentive
to make prompt, regular
deposits where your funds
are SECURE and WILL
INCREASE at interest.
We Pay 3 per cent Interest
Compounded Semi-annually
Bank of Personal Service
ATLANTIC SAFE DEPOSIT
& TRUST COMPANY
of Atlantic City,.N. J.
S. w. Cor. New York
and Atlantic AYES.
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DISTANCE OF d Mile ana a ndlT-
Submitted to the war Department
Just Before Armistice Was Signed.
Ever since the publication of a brief
dis Itch from Washington a few days
ago 10 the effect that the war depart
ment was experimenting with a new
type of nOiSelesS machine gun that.
substituted centrifugal force for pow
der as a propelling power Edward
Thomas Moore, an attorney of New
York. has been receiving letters from
friends asking him If the gun which is
being experimental with now isn't the
same one that he invented and SUBJ
mitted to the war department a few
weeks before the armistice was signed.
To a World reporter Mr.. Moore not
only admitted that the gun was his in
ventiOn. but offered to explain its prin-
ciple. For several years prior to the
var Mr.. Moore. who lives in Passaic.
N. j.. was a major and judge advocate
in the New Jersey National Guard by
appointment of Woodrow Wilson as
governor of New Jersey. When the
United States entered the wal Major
Moore was pressed into service by the
war department and assigned to New
Jersey as inspector of the draft in
that state. His invention Of the
"Moore centrifugal gum" for which
he and Saul Singer of C~edarsburg, l..
l.. obtained patents. was offered to the
war department shortly before the
signing of the armistice. The cessa-
tion of hostilities DELAYED experiments
with the gun. but Major Moore left the
invention with the bureau of stand
ards for further tests.
"David Up to Date"
Mr.. Moore says that the Biblical
story of David Staying Goliath with a
stone which he whirled around his
head in a sling gave him the idea OF
applying centrifugal force to the op.
Grafton of a machine gun. bringing
David up to date" is the way he de-
scribed It.
There have been other attempts to
invent a centrifugal gun. Mr.. Moore
does not claim TO have originated the
idea. He says the French. the Rus
slams and the Japanese have expert
mented with centrifugal guns from
tire to time. but were never success
full because of their failure to control
the dispersion of the bullets. From
the tests which Mr.. Moore conducted
for the wal department and those now
being conducted, it would seem that
Mr.. Moore's claim tn fame lies in hay
ing invented the first practical centrif-
u@aI CUR.
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Several Problems.

In seeking to apply centrifugal force
to a machine gun, however, Mr.. Moore
was confronted with several prob
lens. In the first place, In order to
get sufficient force to propel q ball
$50 feet a second, which is the speed
of a bullet from a Colt automatic, sew
eral thousand revolutions of the gun
barrel a second had to be obtained.
This necessitated the construction of
a special type of electric motor TO pro-
vide the requisite revolutions. Then
the tensile strength of the metals en-
tering into the composition of the gun,
and particularly of the barrel, had to
be considered. Mr.. Moore's knowledge
of electric motors, tensile strength of
metals and of ballistics being limited.
he consulted experts in those various
lines. and assembled the information
collected from these various sources
before starting to construct the CEN
trifugal gun.
The main parts of the gun as de-
signed by Mr.. Moore consist of an up
right shaft attached to a powerful
electric motor capable of giving it a
rotation of 10000 revolutions a min
ute. Attached to the shaft, and at
right angles to it, is a hollow steel arm
eight inches long which serves as the
gun barrel. Balls instead of bullets
are used, and are half an inch in di-
ameter or 80 caliber.
The Timing Device.
In Mr.. Moore's opinion the most es-
sential part of the gun is the timing
device, which lets the balls into the
barrel at just the proper time and in
terval TO insure their emerging from
the end of the barrel the instant ii
reaches the opening In the stationary
gun covering or casing which incloses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-17

rapturousIy and saw all the irritation
in his face disappear before a great
wave of joy.
Scarcely could she taste the soda
for the excitement she felt. And when
they were once outside the store and
she felt Bill take her arm tightly, she
knew that the most wonderful thing in
the world had happened to her.
IT say, Mr.. Hetrick and Mrs Het-
rick" said Bill suddenly. '1mogene
has just said she'll marry me. We'd
like to get married soon. May we?'
Imogene saw her parents stop on
the sidewalk, which was fortunately
clear of people for the moment, and
gaze at them curiously.
ffWhy-Why, yes, of course said
Mr.. Hetrick in a rather amazed voice.
But how-when-you say you just
fixed it up?"
Eyes" laughed Bill joyously. st
asked her if she would by pointing to
the name of a sundae on the menu"
THE name of a sundae?" repeated
Mr.. Hetrick blankIy.
Yes cried Imogene. at was
called Marry me Sundae.' And when
Bill pointed to it and asked me if /
would I said yes!''
OF course it was all commonplace
enough to outsiders. But to Imogene
it was romance, heart-warzning, soul
stirring romance.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-17

the years I shut myself away from
human companionship. Mrs. Wal
ters is older than I, yet she seems
years younger because she keeps in
touch with life and people I am
sure she is doing right, that I have
been wrong not to have lived a diff
ferent life. But it isn't too late.
You won't feel old at So. I shouldn't,
vet I do. You see I have let myself
get old. A mother only 20 years
older than a child, when married as
young as I was should be a COM
panion as well as a mother to that
child. But
you have always gone everywhere
with me-
yes. dear. But I have gone as an
older person-one thruswith pleasure,
a locker on at the happiness, the
amuusements of others I dent want
to live like than any longer. I want to
share your amusements, your pleas
ures."
There flashed thru Margarets mind
a picture of herself at Joan's birthday
party when she was IA. A lonely
youngold woman sitting on a log
watching the children toasting marsh
mallows, longing to be with them, one
OF them. She saw also the rose col
ored sweater she wore, and which, be-
cause of Joan's remark that she was
too old to wear such things, she had
sheepishly taken off and warmed her
fingers-and her hearth its folds as
it lay unobseryed in her lap. Now
she waited Joan's reply to her revolt
against being considered too old to
play, to enjoy, to dress.
Perhaps, Mumsie. I haven't quite
understood about the clothes. 1 have
thought so many times since we have
known Mrs. Walters. Yet-som etimes
I think I have been right not to want
you to make yourself young. Having
a daughter is different than having
a SON."
''Well, dear, from now on I shall
try to enjoy life. I cannot accept
invitations, make social engagements
unless 1 have appropriate clothes. We
will not discuss the matter again, but
I am finished with drab ugly clothes,
just as I am fiRished-in as far as [
can control it-With lonely life while
you are with your young friends
lTomorroY-Joan decides to be fair
to Margaret.)
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little BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
By LEE PARE.

Pop played tennis with Mr.. Jones
today, coming home looking as if he
felt crate, saying, Well, I beet Jones
today, he was playing at the top of
his form, but I beet him.
Good for you, think Ill drop In at
the Joneses after suppir and tell Mrs.
Jones about it, sed ma, how did you
happin to beet him?
Happin to? sed pop, I dident happin
to, beet him by superior playing, he
was good but 1 was better, that's the
hole story.
And he mentioned it some more
vile we was eating suppir and he kepp
on mentioning it after suppir and all
of a suddin the bell rang and 1t was
Mr.. Jones wawking with a cane on
account of something being the matter
with one foot, saying to pop, Well
Potts it don't look as if Id be able to
play tomorro, [ can hardly move on
this foot and I haff to move a little
bit, even to beet you, haw haW.
1 don't know, you played pritty
good game this afternoon, considering,
sed pop.
Yes, considering that a munths old
baby could of beet me, sed Mr.. Jones,
had a sprained ankle and severe
cold, and not only that but I had to
play with my left hand because my
rite rist went back on me, and to make
matters verse strings broak in my
raolkit as soon as We started to play.
Not that I wish to take away from
your glory or enything but Jacks are
facks weather they come from East or
West, as Kipling says.
And he went home agen. and ma
sed, I don't think III drop in and see
Mrs. Jones after all.
1 never asked you to, I'm sure, sed
pop.
And he opened the paper and stayed
behind it and ma started to darn holes
out of socks, saying every once in
vile, Broken rist, no wonder. broken
leg, no wonder enybody could beet a
cripple, no wonder Pop not saying
enythias.
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observation-disclosures

o. Please tell me how to prepare self
A. Mix pounds of flour, 4 cup ~ oz.)
coEnstareh, ounce salt, onnees baking
can closely covered, in a dry place
Q. How much does balsa wood weigh?
A: Balsa wood weighs 61z pounds per
q. What food adds lime to the body? ?
F. H. L.
Lime is used especially in the bones and
teeth, but is also found in other tissues,
and in the blood. Lack Of lime in the diet
causes soft teeth and poor bones.
Q. Is there a Mohammedan Mosque in
this country2 W. z. G.
a. The first Mohammedan Mosque. in
the United States was recently built in
@, Was there ever real "Diek Tur-
PIN? E. G.
A Rich1rd Furpin, commonly called
Dick Turpin, was a real English highway
man who lived from 1868. However, his
reputation as a hero, man of courage and
generosity, and the account Of his marvel
Gus ride from London to York, have no
foundation in fact.
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know when rain is approaching by
special sensitiyeness.
These are short range predictions.
Human beings cannot be relied upon
to gauge the weather more than a
day or two ahead SO, the meteorolo-
gists insist. And the same is true of
the creatures of the animal world.
The squirrel IN the autumn hides
as many nuts as he can find, not as
many as he figures he will need for a
long or short winter. Unusual activity
of bees does not necessarily mean that
they anticipate a long winter, either,
In southern California bees collect
honey all year round as busi1y as if
a dong, cold winter was about to set
in any minute.
More credible is the statement that
cattle are restless just before a storm.
Human beings are similarly sensitive
to the electricity in the air and the
unusual wind either hot or chilling
which often precedes storms.
But as far as the coming winter, or
any winter is concerned, one prophet
or sign is as good as another. If you
take the advice of the government ex-
perts, you won't buy your coal or your
winter overeoat on the strength of the
squirrels antics or the strangely signif-
icant acorn crop.
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THE NEW
GENERATION
d. TAkTE DuEFnc
AGAIN MARGARET EXPLAINS
THINGS To JOAN.
By JANE PHELPS
Chapter 4

Mrs. Walter was not content with
telling Margaret she should dress in
more youthful fashion; she helped
her select materials and styles becom-
ing to her. This necessitAted many
shopping excursions, from which Joan
was barred, both because Mrs. Walters
realized after talking matters over
with Margaret that it was Joans idea
her mother was too old to wear
fashionable clothes, and because she
had Ted as house guest on her hands
Don't let her make a monkey of
you, Mumsie," Joan said after her
mother explained that Mrs. Walters
was to help her select some new
''You admire her the way she
dresses, why do you think she might
make a monkey out of me?'f
oh, she's different! She's always
worn young things. But you look
SO much nicer in the kind you always
have worn then when yeu dress up
around you'll" Margaret knew Joan
had Craig Forester in mind, perhaps
also men in general, as when visiting
Mrs. Walters at holiday time Joan
had been Jealous of the slight atten-
tons her mother received from guests
of her hostess.
Margaret Hayden smiled at Joan's
remark, then her eyes grew somber,
reminiscent. Had she been fair to
herself? she had let Joan grow up
thinking her life was ended in all save
motherhood. To Joan she was Joan's
nnother-nothing more Not that her
daughter did not love her, she did,
devotedly. But she loved the mother
in Margaret, not the woman.
you see. dear" Margaret started.
when you were little you needed all
my time and care. had no time to
think of how 1 looked save only to
be neat. Then, too, I had lest my
mother and your father / had no
one belonging to me but you, and
you were helpless. It is no wonder
that I gave all my time and thought
to you instead of clothes. was
heavy hearted, lonely"
But wasn't always little and help
less" Joan interrupted.
mo dear, but as you grew older
I had become Indifferent, in a rut.
But I feel that~pow I owe something
to myself, to Margaret Hayden as
well as to Joan Hayden. 1 feel you
do not need me as you did. You are
a very capable young girl, have your
friends, your studies. your amuse-
ments. I am again becoming lonely.
Often wish to also have my friends
of both sexes just IS you do; TO get
some pleasure out of life. some of
the things I have missed because OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-17

The effect that the high rail freight
rates from coast to coast have on
lumber transportation is graphically
shown by the American Lumberman'
in its reports from one concern on the
Pacific coast. Records of this COM
pany show that for the first eight
months in 1920 it shipped to the At
iantic coast 22,590.672 feet of lumber,
all of which went by rail. For the
first eight months of 1921 under the
existing high freight rates this concern
shipped to the Atlantic coast 1907
GIT feet by rail while by water it
shipped 21,O96 S6S feet. For the
week ended October 1, it is pointed
out, fir manufacturers on the Pacific
coast booked more orders than for any
other week for nearly two years. OF
this total of business placed 80 per
cent was for cargo delivery. slightly
more than half of it being for delivery
by vessel either to California or to the
Atlantic coast A significant feature
OF the situation on the Pacific coast
is that lumber from that section is
being sold in rapidly increasing guam
titles in the eastern market but this
increase is largely taken care of thru
water shipments via the Panama ca
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-17
THE THREATENED STRIKE.

Five years ago the railroad broth
erhoods threatened to paralyze the
transportation business of the country,
unless certain of their demands were
granted. They threw so great a scare
into the country and the government
that at the urgent request of the pres
ident,, who was a candidate for re-
election, congress passed a law COM
pelling the railroad managers to grant
the demands of their employees. The
result was the Adamson act.
1t is extremely doubtful that this
program can be repeated in 1921.
House and one who is not yet running
for a second term; the public is wiser
than it was in 1915 and the railway
managers are more determined than
ever to- resist further exactions Ct
their employees.
If congress and the president again
deem it necessary to take a hand in
the controversy they will do so in a
manner much less favorable to the
plans of the brotherhoods.
If there be one thing more certain
than another it is that the Transport
tation business will not be permitted
to stop. Either the owners of the
roads will operate them or the gov
eminent will do so, but in neither case
Will they be operated on terms laid
down by the employees. The. old bluff
cannot be made to work a second
time.
But there is one thing that the rail-
road managers must do and that is re-
duce their charges for service. If they
had done so earlier the existing situa-
ton might not have developed.
Railroad employees already are over
paid in comparison with wages re-
ceived in other lines Of industry, not
to mention their important perquisite
in the form of free rides for them
selves and their families and the ad-
vantage of such working rules as do
not obtain in any other line of bust
ness. They have chosen a bad true
to insist on a continuance of the ex-
is4ing arrangement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-10-17
THE CUT IN IRON RATES.

The railroads have made yolun-
tary reduction of % per cent in iron
rates in central classification territory,
effective October 20. No single event
of the readjustment period has been
received with greater satisfaction by
the iron and steel industry. declares
the Iron Trade Review.
While the reduction in itself is not
material as a cost factor. it's impor-
lance is derived from the acceptance
that it represents the entering wedge
commodity and class rates in iron and
steel. This means that the industry is
to receive much needed relief from
the sitting effects of the excessive
transportation costs, the increase in
which has totaled more than 100 per
cent in the past four years. That the
reduction will be of far-reachiug ef-
feet in fastening the recovery of the
iron and steel industry there can be
no doubt, in the opinion of the Re-
view. Reductions in the rates on
other raw materials entering into the
manufacture of iron and steel are
foreshadowed.
The most significant feature of the
action by the railroad executives, IS
the fact that the reduction was not
forced by the interstate commerce COM
mission. This indicates clearly that
the railroads are aware of the fact
that they must reduce their rates gen
orally before they can obtain business.
A voluntary reduction of this kind,
therefore, denotes a Willingness to CO.
operate and indicates that the present
reduction is only a forerunner of
others.
1.-THE mine operators" continues
the Review, still are contending for
reduction on upper lake rates. They
want rates reduced to a point where
the railroads will be netted 6 per cent
on their investment, and no more.
Would it not be to the advantage of
these railroads to follow the action of
the eastern roads, cut their rates and
enable the mine operators to reduce
their prices? Then instead of 2,O00,-
600 tons of ore being handled over
these roads, as in the present year.
they might expect to see the figure
advanced again to 100000 or co.
100000 tons. The interlocking reIa-
tons Of various branches of the iron
and steel industry and the railroads
are such that no one studying the %
per cent reduction will mistake its
Importance. and the possibilities of
events which may follow"