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Evening star., 1923-07-26
Judge Says Wife
Shares Guilt If
Still Is in Home
ky the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MUSHROOM, Mich, July EFF
you live in Muskegon county and
operate a still in the house, your
wife is equally guilty with you in
violating the liquor law, Judge
Nanderwerp decided in circuit
court yesterday.
Judge Vanderwerp announced
that in future cases of home liquor
making wives must suffer the same
penalty as their husbands.
mo married man can break the
law in his own home unless his
wife consents" he said.
Evening star., 1923-07-26
WILL SPEAK FOR LEAGUE.

OTTAWA, July 26.-Sir George
Fosters forthcoming tour of western
Canadian cities, making addresses on
behalf of the League of Nations So
ciety in Canada, is to be preceded by
an address in Lake Side, Ohio. on
August II, during international
week" of the summer chautauuua
Evening star., 1923-07-26

American women have opened a
clubhouse in London, where they can
discuss politics without moleStation.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07
Dr. ]. H. Romig

Has arranged to come to Nenana every Tuesday in connection with his professional duties. He will come down from Fairbanks on the regular train Tuesday morning and return to the upper town on the afternoon train, which will give him more than five hours in Nenana. ...
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Aviator Ben Eileson, whose air plane stunting was one of the big features of the Nenana celebration. also returned home well pleased with his visit. He made the flight back to Fairbanks on Thursday ev- ening, covering the distance in B minutes. Dick Wood returned with him and declares he enjoyed the flight to and from Nenana immense lY
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Robert E. Sheldon, pioneer auto stage man of the Richardson high way. has been designated by Col. C. Gotwals, vice chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission and Alaska Road Commission, to take general charge of automobile service during the stay of the Pres idential party and on the return trip to the coast by way of the Richardson highway. He will be as sisted by Axel Carlsten. All gaso- line and oil used during the stay of the party and on the trip over the trail will be paid for by the Alaska Road Commission.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Operator Brown, of the Donnelly station of the Signal Corps, is un- der treatment at the local hospital for an injured ankle. the result of the accidental discharge of a revol- yer in the hands of the injured man. Dr. J. A. Sutherland met Brown at Richardson and administered first aid treatment, after which he was brought to the hospital in town.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07
News :: FAIRBANKS Notes
Peter Steii, Correspondent

Fairbanksans who journeyed to Nenana for the Fourth of July eel ebration report having had a most enjoyable time during their brief stay in the railroad town They arrived home at an early hour yes terday morning.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

stage betwewen Fairbanks and Richardson, has inaugurated a daily auto service between those points to accomodate the steadily increasing traffic He has a new car on the run and is giving the best of service. -
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Fr. Alexander Vashon. brother of Peter Vashon. is recent arrival in Fairbanks and is the guest of Fr. Monroe during his stay here. He is engaged in educational work in Quebec.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Aviator Ben Eileson made several flights with passengers yesterday, the list of aerial travellers including W. F. Thompson and son Dick, Charles L. Thompson and Billy Bris- lin.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Fred Struthers, manager of Waechter Brothers Company, has lately received a new Buick sport model, one of the most costly cars far received in Fairbanks
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Leo Rogge, prominent Goldstream mining man, returned from the States on the last train to resume mining operations on his property. MT. Rogge joined the ranks of the benedicts while Outside.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07
FAIRBANKS NOTES

District Judge Cecil H. Clegg left for Chitina yesterday in the new Winton Six which was brought in recently for the use of President Harding during his stay in the h. terior.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Miss Mathilde Johnson, of St. Paul, arrived in Fairbanks on the last train, having accompanied Miss Louise Pinska on the long Journey 10 Interior Alaska. .-c-.-.: ...>=...
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Misses Smiles Martin, of Wash ington, and Nits Walker, of Michi- gan, are recent arrivals in Fair banks having mushed all the way from the coast by way of the Alaska Railroad grade, being three weeks on the road. They started from Sew ard with packs on their backs but finding good accomodationz at con- venient distances they frightened their burdens before they had walk ed far. They ''siwashed" it one night in the Canyon district, more for the the fun of the thing than because it was necessary, and re port most enjoyable outing all the way. They will return to Ne mana on Tuesday and will take the first boat for Dawson, 1t being their intention to return 10 the coast by way of the upper Yukon.
 Roy Lund, who operates a mail
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Mrs. David Fairburn, who has been teaching school at Mckinley Park during the last several months left for the States yesterday to visit her son OrviIle.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Buster Anderson, who has been working with one of the road gangs at Richardson, also was brought to town by Dr. Sutherland. for treat ment for a swollen face, the result of poisoning.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Reports received in Fairbanks state than an insane patient who was being taken from Cnrdoya to the States, escaped from his guards on the way down the coast and jumped overheard, being drowned before aid could reach him.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Tom Gibson and Lawrence John son, who were hurt during the Fourth of July auto race, are get ting along nicely at the hospital and it is thought both men will soon be entirely recovered.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Steadily increased business has necessitated the installation of ad- ditional bread-making machinery at the Tanana bakery and that estab- hshment is now one of the most modern in the North. .. J. L. Fitch, a Seattle attorney, is recent arrival in Fairbanks on a sightseeing trip. He will return to the coast on Tuesday.
 Mr and Mrs. Romeo Hoyt were among yesterdays arrivals from the States.
 Andrew Nerland has been award ed the contract to paint the federal courthouse and has several men now at work on the building.
 Mrs. A. B. Phillips, of Nenana, and her sister, Mrs. R. J. Sommers, of Juneau, are paying Fairbanks a brief visit, having arrived from the railroad town on yesterdays train.
 Clarence Dorflinger has return ed from a trip to the Tolovana dis trict.
 Frank Tondro well known old timer of the Interior, who arrived from the coast recently, was mar ried this week to Mrs Brown, a re- cent arrival in Alaska from the States. The newlyweds went to Richardson on a honeymoon trip.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07
SPRING WORK FOR MEN

Cleaning, pressing, repair work Bring me coats, suits, shirts, any thing that needs renovating.
 D'ORSAY TAILOR SHOP
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Benjamin Smith. father of Ors. John Kelly, left for his home in the States yesterday after spendin. q year in Fairbanks as the guest cf his daughter and son-in-law.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Mir. and Mrs. Charles Krafting returned to their home in Seward yesterday after a brief visit in the Interior.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Minnie Johnson, colored, an old time resident of the Fairbanks re- stricted district, was found dead in her cabin on Fifth street this morn ing. An inquest will be held this afternoon to ascertain the cause of death. The deceased had been in i'll health for sometime. =:-*
 Miss Leota Scott, daughter of MT. and Mrs. J. H, Scot formerly of Nenana is distinguishing herself at Pullman, where she is attending Washington States college. Advices recently received in Fairbanks state that the clever young lady has recently written a very successful senario and composed dance used in connection with college activities. Miss Scott is dancer of much abil- ity herself.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Mrs. Clarence Crites was among the celebration visitors from Fair banks creek.
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Mir. and Mrs. Austin Gibbs ana son returned to Dunbar yesterda! after stay of several days in towr
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

sey Writing paper at The News
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Roy Lund, who operates a mail
The Nenana news., 1923-07-07

Clarence Dorflinger has return ed from a trip to the Tolovana dis trict.
Evening star., 1923-08-26

the quality and quantity of fine
grasses constantly on the upgrade.
The government specialists are rum
ming tests where some grass plots
are topdressed in the fall, others in
the spring and still others every two
weeks throughout the golf season.
in order to ascertain which is the
preferable fertilization practice.
Many and varied are the controver-
sizes which annually arise among
members of the goling fraternity
relative to the care and management
of golf grasses of every description.
Uncle Sam is carrying on detailed
search and research which Will be
fruitful of tangible data which once
and for all time will end these argu-
ments.
For example, some experts contend
that sprinkling lawn during the
middle of the day. when the sunshine
is maximum, spells sure death to the
grass. There are no definite scientific
data to support such contentious.
The federal agriculturists are now
Evening star., 1923-08-26

cess to any magical wishing lamp like
Aladdin's.
They have to wheedle information
out of the mute, dumb grasses and
grains with which they experiment
by time-consuming and laborious
methods. They have to check and re-
check results and repeat doubtful
tests many times. Uncle Sans eX-
perimental policy is to make haste
slowly and never to speak eXtrava-
Eantly until he has convincing evil
dencc and data to support each
scientific statement. That is why
some OF the very technical soil, animal
and crop studies that he conducts are
continued for periods as long as
twenty to thirty years and sometimes
even longer before irrefutable results
are obtained.
The grass-testing grounds at Ar
lington farm are not large. They do
not encompass broad acreages of
1uXuriant greensward, such as you
will see In the region of thousand
dollar-an-acre land in the heart Of
the Kentucky bluegrass. In fact each
Thumb dimensions, being either eight
feet square or else eight feet wide
and eight rods long.
Small though it be, each little area
OF grass has remarkable scientific
story to tell One series of grass
plots may present infallible evidence
that certain fertilizers are outstand-
ingly superior to others. Adjoining
strips of grass may prove the eff
cheney of certain control measures in
circumventing obnoxious diseases.
Yet others give dumb evidence of the
efficacy of certain systems of rolling,
raking. sprinlSling, tonicking and top
dressing the grasses.
Some of the grass plots look for
all the world like a dog with the
mango. The tufts and smatterings
Of grass occur in regular. isolated
ratehes. You ask one of the sci
sntists what happened to these grass
areas and he will reply:
Those plots are typical examples
Of yegetative repropagation-a system
nf reproduction now favored for the
development and perfection of the
best golf green's The idea is that
Evening star., 1923-08-26

soy bean. one variety of which be-
gins to flower in June, another yari-
ETY. comes forth in July, and still an-
other makes it's appearance in August.
One cannot explain why this condition
obtains, despite the fact that there
are practically no temperature
changes, SO we must recognize that
Internal causes alone cannot be ac-
cepted as furnishing satisfactory
explanation. The only remaining
theory is that some external factor
other than temperature must be re-
sponsible.
Let us return to the cosmos and see
what. two Of the government experts.
w. w. Garner and II. A. !tlIard, have
to say:
The ordinary variety of cosmos
regularly flower i'm the fall in north
ern latitudes, if they are planted in
the spring or summer. If grown in
q warm greenhouse during the winter
months. the plants also flower readily,
SO that. the cooler weather of fall is
not a necessary condition. If Sue
cessiye paintings of cosmos are made
in The greenhouses during the late
Evening star., 1923-08-26
BY GEORGE II. DACY.

V-ST across the Potomac from the
Lincoln Memorial and the Wash
ington Monument is Arlington
~ experimental farm, the best agri-
cultural fruit and crop testing
grounds in the world. At present.
versatile Uncle Samuel, in co-opera-
tion there with the United States Golf
Association. is testing out every type
and variety of golf grass known 10
the science of plant industry, in ef-
forts to learn all the SeoretS of these
fine turf grasses and potentially to
apply the information obtained for
tho Improvement and perpctuation of
the many thousand American golf
courses.
Arlington farm is famous. not alone
because it is the finest national prov
ing ground and testing factory for
fruit, vegetable, cereal and forage
crops. but also because it was once
a part of the notable Park Custis es-
tate owned by George Washington.
The farm covers 400 acres and con-
tains much reclaimed and remade
ground It's productivity is a strik-
ing example of the effectiveness of
VI SoHlESu SSlettCc pldStiSdliS appiicu
to the salvation of waterlogged low
lands and to the Improvement of thin
and impoverished highlands.
Approximately 700 varieties Of
apple trees, 800 different species Of
grapes. 400 types OF peach trees, 1900
classes of unrelated vegetables. and
thousands of grain and forage-crop
srectmens. introduced from every
country. are now being carefully
stGdied under Virginia environments
To determine their adaptability to
An ,rican conditions of soil and CHI
mat.
Along the most interesting of
tarse Investigations in fruit. grain.
forage and grass growing are the
ny:,l tests that are being made OF
G.. epins Eent. velvet bent, redtop.
r,d tescue. sheep fescue. crescent dog
ta". Bermuda grass, bolbous blue
grass, Kentucky and Canadian blue
glass and the hundred and one other
turf grasses which are suitable for
cultivation on greens, fairways, tees
ard the rough of our premier golf
links
If, perchance, you are one of those
hidebound city residents whose most
intimate knowledge of the country
and growing things is gained from
the window of a limited train or from
speeding automobile. YOU may be
amszed to know that there are as
many intricate and complicated Sci
ontitic riddles associated with the pro-
duction and maintenance OF match
less fairways as in the inception Of
new theory OF life or plant growth.
The problems of the expert lawn
maker or adept greenskecper are as
varied and mul;itudinous as any that
ever confront our leading captains of
industry and commerce.
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IF the go little plots OF turfland
i over Arlington way could but talk
and tell intimately about all their
special likes and dislikes. Uncle Sam
would be able to take the guess out
of the golf grass conundrum in the
twinllling of an eye. Unfortunately.
however national scientists who
study growing crops do not have ac-
Evening star., 1923-08-26
Secrets of Grass for Golf Courses
Discovered at Farm Across Potomac

manent well-being of the grass is
being painstakingly investigated.
X I: 's y t..
IF you are golf player, at some
i time or other, YOU may have no.
ticed the funny brown spots and
patches which develop on the greens
and fairways during the height of the
playing season. At some clubs, pos
gibly, you may have noticed that the
green's have been busted with ma
terial like powdered bluestone or
copper sulphate. And thereby hangs
an interesting tale of one great sci
cntifc accomplishment which Messrs.
Piper and Oakley and their assistants
have already consummated for the
good of golf.
Away back in 1914, the Merton Golf
Club. near Philadelphia. initially re-
uuested the advice and assistance of
the government experts in studying
and identifying a peculiar grass dis
case which was ravaging the greens
at that establishment. After de-
tailed Investigations, these scientists
Evening star., 1923-08-26

! identified the disease as big brown
patch fungus" depredations. The
scientific name of the fungus that
! caused the disease was "Rhizoctonia
solani," and il soon proved it was as
formidable as it's eiaht-cylinier name
by extending it's ravages to golf clubs
in the vicinity Of Chicago and Wash
! ington.
Like many OF our human criminals
the brown patch freebooter gets in its
! mot effective destruction during the
night and very early morning. wher
moisture conditions are ideal for its
activities 1T is a pest that was para
site on heetS, potatoes and allied
truck crops. but which had never been
known to attach grasses previous {"
its mar audirg expeditions of nine
years ago.
Ultimately. more than half hum
dred different strains Of grasses being
grown at Arlington farm were ex-
posed to brown ratCh fungus infec-
ton. Some OF the grasses. such as
Bermuda. kentucky bluegrass. white
clover and crab grass. Immediately
showed their immunity to dana ge by
the pest. on the other hand. the
creeping bents. fescues and fine turf
grasses, which so universally are useI
in the seeding or planting of north
ern golf greens. suffered seriously
from the disease.
At the Columbia Country Club.
where the disease was rampant about
seven years ago, Bordeaux mixture.
q a m mi a Il
! known to modern agriculture. was
used as a control. A green forty by
eighty feet in size was drenched 18th
800 gallons of half-strength Bordeaux
mixture. a small portion of the turf
being left uncreated as a check. The
treated area improved and. subse-
quently. medieated shower baths
finally restored the infected green to
normal condition by routing the pes
tiferouS invaders.
As a result OF these experiments.
practical control measures for the big
! brown latch disease in the form of
applications of Bordeaux mixture,
either in powder or soluble forms,
We're adopted. The development OF
resistant strains of the bent and fes-
throwing the big brown patch fungus.
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a MORE destructive variation of the
/ scodrse is known as little brown
patch disease. 1t takes the form OF
grass blemishes which attain the size
of a silver dollar and sometimes get
I, to be as large as a tennis ball. AL
though Uncle Sam has devoted much
energy of his scientific organizations
to the control of this piratica1 gra SIS
destroyer. as yet his agents have dis
civered no effective control method.
They are still continuing their re-
searches.
The best time to plant seed on golf
greens or anywhere else on the course
is during the late summer and early
fall. Seed planting never will be a
catch -as-catch-ca will the -wisp
affair. The successful greenskeeper
will have to abide by the decisions of
the calendar and extensive experience
CONTINUED OH Fourth Page)
Evening star., 1923-08-26

tracks was provided. and. on these,
trucks were mounted so that if the
scientists desired to give the plants
eight hours of daylight the plants were
removed. in their containers. out of
the dark room and given the desired
period OF light.
Those in charge OF the work. in
order TO be sure of their data. pro-
vided second lot of plants which
We're known as control plants" and
these were grown under exactly the
same conditions as those to which
the darkened plants We're exposed.
except that the control plants were
exposed to the light throughout the
day.
The response of the plants to this
artificial shortening OF the daylight
period was prompt and clean cut.
y striking example of this effect
was shown in the Biloxi soy beans,
which terminated on May J.. They
were allowed to receive seven hours
of light daily, beginning May 90.
This particular variety of SOY beans.
which. if exposed to the normal
amount of light, would have required
10 days to flower, were in blossom
in twenty-six days. =.
In order to make sure that it was
not something i'll this particular
Evening star., 1923-08-26

section of the United States Golf AS
socia ation. are studying the problems
OF grass-clipping disposal. raking and
rolling the greensward and sprinkling
the grass most effectively so as Ito
expedite rapid and desirable growth.
Some of the grass plots are being
exposed to excessively heavy rolling
once week. Others are moved and
raked with spike rakes. wooden-tooth
rakes and all other varieties of avail
able hand tools suitable for such pur-
poses.
In each instance, accurate informa-
tion and records are kept Oh the daily
responses of each grass plot to these
different methods of treatment. The
greens are coated and groomed,
rubbed and massaged as though they
were the best racehorses in the land.
The best methods of giving them
their weekly or semi-weekly haircuts
are also being observed. In fact.
every operation which in any way
could influence even slightly the per-
Evening star., 1923-08-26

from nearly fifteen hours in the lat
ter part of June to about nine and
q half hours at Christmas
A series of experiments was made
in which several plants were dark
ened for a portion of the day during
the long days of summer. The re-
suits obtained were remarkable. The
plants no longer persisted in their
usual habit of deferring the towering
period till particular time of the
year The experiments included
large variety of plants, both wild
and cultivated. and it was found that
the reaction TO differences in the
length of day is OF very wide occur
renee.
To many these experiments appear
to be of complicated character, but
such a belief is erroneous for they
were really most simple. They were
the result of great care and study.
room that was called "a dark
house" was constructed. and ii was
so designed as 10 admit air freely at
the bottom and allow its. escape at
the top, without the admission of a
single ray of light. 4 series of steel
Evening star., 1923-08-26
Growing Foot a Day.

Turing long drought in spring
- in Mauritius a singular spectacle.
amid the stretches Of dying and
desiccated plants. was presented by
the white flowers of giant aloe stems
which sprang up on the mountains
and over the waste lands with amaZ-
ing speed. At the time of Towering
shafts as thick as a mans arm shot
up from the heart Of the plants. grew
from twelve TO eighteen inches in
twenty-four hours, and reached a
height Of thirty feet. A cluster OF
aloes before the flowers appear re-
sembles a gigantic asparagus plant.
Evening star., 1923-08-26

winter and early spring months.
maintaining a uniform temperature
throughout. the planting made after
a certain date will fail to blossom
promptly, but, on the contrary, will
continue to grow till the following
fall. thus Towering at the usual sea-
son. This curious reversal of be-
havior with advance of the season
cannot be attributed 20 change in
temperature. Some other factor is
responsible for the failure of the
cosmos to blossom during the summer
months. In this respect the behavior
of the cosmos is just the opposite Of
that observed in iris
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TIANING observed the manner in
J. i which flowers and fruits come
into their perfected state there is but
one conclusion that can be drawn. for
it is clear that the time of Towering
and fruiting is linked in some way
with the advance of the season, and
there must of necessity be some eX-
ternal factor which maintains this
relationship.
We are in position to eliminate the
matter of temperature as far a g it
affects plants, and we find, taking
Washington as a basis, that the time
between sunrise and sunset ranges
Evening star., 1923-08-26

Arlington farm and which extends in
a beltlike formation from New York
10 Florida. Some of the grasses.
however. are being tested on artificial
soils which have been compounded at
Arlington farm to simulate soil con-
ditions in different parts of the United
States where the greensward game is
rapidly developing as one of the most
popular forms of sport and recreation.
Expert greenskeepcrs have to top
dress their greens regularly to keep