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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
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THE MEASLES EPIDEMIC

Not since 1920 have measles been
so prevalent in Washington as at the
present time. The old fallacy that
a child might just as we'll have meas
les first as last" and "get 1t over
with" is fast disappearing. What was
once believed harmless disease Is
now known to have killed more chill
dren in the State of Washington dur
ing the last ten years than has
diphtheria and more than twice as
many as scarlet fever. 1t is no more
necessary for child to have meas
les than to have smallpox and to de-
liberately expose children to measles
is little short Of crime.
Measles is one of the most con-
tagious diseases of childhood; and 1t
is unfortunate that its most contag-
ious stage is before the eruption ap-
pears. Usually about Ia days after
exposure, and several days of cold
in-the-head symptoms, the eruption
is noticed on the inside Of the mouth
and on the skin. The skin rash then
appears, in small dark red spots, and
spreads rapidly all over the skin
and the mucous membranes as we'll.
The rash fades within week, but
leaves fine scaling not always no
ticed. The patient should remain in
bed and be kept warm for at least
week. Good ventilation is import
ant Children who have symptoms
of cold, running nose, watery eyes,
sneezing, should not be permitted to
mingle with other children until the
nature of the ailment Is determined.
All disch rges from the eyes, nose,
throat and mouth should be. received
on pieces of soft cloth and immedi-
ately burned.
| A large number of deaths result
indirectly from measles, that is,
deaths attributed to after-effects of
measles, such as broncho-pneumonia,
eye and middle-ear infections, dis
eases Of the kidneys, etc. An at
tack Of measles SO lowers child's
resistance that he is rendered more
susceptible to other diseases.
Measles is serious. and frequently
q fatal disease.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

automobile accident Insurance put
into effect in January by the Ma
tional Bureau of Casualty and Surety
Underwriters.
The new schedule shows an aver
age reduction Of 6 per cent in the
rates for public liability insurance for
the country as whole and reduce
lions as high as 20 per cent in some
cities.
Heretofore many automobile own
ers, in order to secure the lowest
possible rates for accident insurance,
have agreed to use their cars for.
pleasure only, and to see that no
one else drove their cars; thus the
wife, grown sons and daughters, and
other relatives were restrained from
driving the family car. Under the
new rules, one policy gives insurance
protection to all the persons who
may at different times drive any one
car, and the same rate applies wheth-
er the car is used for business pur-
poses or for pleasure only.
In making the new rates public,
Jesse S. Phillips, general manager Of
the National Bureau, said:
For the first time the insurance
companies are able to base the rates
for automobile accident insurance in
each city on the actual accident ex-
perience of automobiles in that par
ticular city. Heretofore rates were
based on the accident experience Of
groups of cities of similar size. The
new plan makes it possible for each
city to benefit directly from any eff
feotive safety work that it may have
done. Before determining the new
schedule of rates, a staff Of experts
at the headquarters of the National
Bureau and in the home offices OF
the insurance companies, studied the
three-year accident experience Of
more than 100000 automobiles in ISL
cities and territories.
zone of the most significant reve
lations of this study was the fact
that the automobile owner is not
the most careful automobile driver,
the assumption on which reduced
rates were given the automobile
owner who specified that no other
person would drive his car. This
discovery is interpreted by many in
surance men as indicating that the
wife is just as careful driver as
her husband, if not more careful.
'"The greatest reductions in rates
are made in cities of medium size
and in the rural districts of the South
and Far West, as these territories
show the greatest reduction in motor
vehicle accidents in recent years."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
M AkING LIQUID AIR

Radio and liquid air at first glance
to the other. Very few, If any, Of
those who sit so placidly before their
radio receiving sets in the evenings
realize what an important part liquid
air plays in radio. In its manufac
ture of vacuum tubes, the Bell Sys-
TEN Laboratories of the Western
Electric Company use $50 quarts Of
liquid air daily, which makes neces-
sary the largest liquefying plant in
New York City.
To make good vacuum tube 1t Is
necessary to draw out as much of the
gas as possible-the more that Is
pumped out the better the tube. Re-
moving all but very small amount Of
gas prevents the electrons released
from the filament from coming In
contact with particles of gas, thereby
upsetting the neat calculations of the
radio engineers and wrecking the dis
position of the user.
The pumping of vacuum tube. Is
a very delicate process and employs
what might seem to the untutored OBJ
server a labyrinth Of glass tubing.
But every inch and every crook has
it's purpose. A part of this system is
composed Of type of glass pump
using mercury vapor as pumping
agent. 1t is also provided with mer-
curry trap inserted in the system be-
tween the mercury pump and the
tubes being exhausted. This trap is
surrounded by liquid air which con-
denses the mercury vapor, freezing 1t
to the walls of the trap as moisture
is frozen on our window panes in
winter time.
Liquid air is one of the coolest
things known. 1t never gets warmer
than --312 degrees Fahrenheit below
zero. If you put beaker full on a
cake of ice, the liquid air would boil
briskly because the ice, being at say
80 degrees, is quite hot as compared
with the liquid air at 312 degrees. On
the other hand, a piece Of steel wool,
saturated with liquid air, will burn
briskly if lighted with match. A
piece of carbon If heated to red
heat and placed in a vessel containing
liquid air will become white hot about
5000 degrees Fahrenheit, while the
outside of the vessel will be too cold
to hold in the hand. If wool were to
be saturated with liquid air and con-
fined it would prove a more powerful
explosive than dynamite.
In their liquid air plant the air is
first compressed to 5000 pounds pres
sure per square inch by four-stage air
compressors. The pressure Of the
successive stages is so, It's, $40 and
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

through the courts who is respon-
sible for operation and maintenance
of the bridge. The State of Wash
ington, Cowlitz County and Kelso,
who Jointly built the bridge, all re-
fuse to assume the responsibility Of
operation. The chambers action fol-
lows word from Major R. Park, U. S.
engineer, that he will have the
bridge location license revoked un.
less a responsible party assumes con-
troll of the bridge.
SEATTLE.-Mr. and Mrs. F. d.
HUMPHREYS, Washington pioneers, eel
ebrated their golden wedding dav re-
Gently in Seattle, surrounded by all
their Is descendants. Two-year-old
Melvin George Auburn, great grand
child, was the youngest member OF
the family present. The HUMPHREYS
were born in 1852, and were married
in st. Louis in January, 1874. Twelve
years later they came to Washington
and were among the first settlers in
what is now the city of Bellingham
Travelling from Seattle in side
wheel Sound steamer, they were un.
loaded into a flat-bottomed rowboat
in Bellingham Bay, but stuck on a
mud-flat many rods from shore. The
husband and wife discarded their
shoes and stockings and waded
ashore, where they staked out claim
on the shore of Lake Samish, and
homesteaded. Mr.. HUMPHREYS was
elected county commissioner Of
Whatcom County. The couple have
been residents Of Seattle since 1909
where Mr.. HUMPHREYS is now engi
neer with the Puget Sound Light &
Power Company.
LONGVIEW.-To arouse sentiment
in proposed project to provide q
road through Wahkiakum and Pacific
counties, representatives of various
communities in Southwest Washing
ton have been invited to attend {
jubilee at Longview, January Is, by
the Longview Chamber Of Commerce
This project should be of great in
terest to all the people Of Southwes
Washington" said a statement from
the Longview Chamber.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
BRING LIGHT
OUT OF DARKNESS


Every commercial use Of electricity
in the United States is dependent on
cur import trade, says the National
Foreign Trade Council.
How? By insulation materials.
made Of rubber
Take away rubber and our cities,
our homes, would be dark. We could
not use the telephone nor the radio
nor the cable, nor the telegraph.
OF the worlds production of crude
rubber rs per cent of the plantation
acreage is British owned, and Sc per
cent sowned by American capital,
consisting Of $4,000 cultivated acres
and 10000 acres undeveloped, in SUI
matra. Within the dominion Of the
United States there is a limited acre
age in Mindanao, Philippine Islands.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
annual Holster, Meeting
al Mt. Vernon, Feb. As

The board of directors Of the
Washington State Holstein Associa-
ton have decided upon Mount Yer
non as the place for the next annual
meeting. Instead of having only a
business session this year, they have
decided to set aside Monday, Febru-
airy 4, as a day for a big educational
dairy meeting at which the most
prominent authorities in the North
west Will speak. All dairymen Of
the state are cordially invited to
meet at Mount Vernon on that day.
The program is not yet completed,
but among the most prominent speak
ers who have already consented to
appear are the following:
r. d. Shepherd, Jerome, Idaho,
president Western States Reclama-
ton Association; subject, "Dairying
on Irrigated Tracts in Idaho"
e. q. Faville, editor Western Far
mer, Portland, Ore; subject, "Busi-
ness and Farming"
Dr. S. B. Nelson, Washington State
College; subject, Bringing the Col
lege to the Livestock Men"
Professor e. V. Ellington, Wash.
ington State College; subject, Dairy.
ing in Washington"
o. M. Plummer, manager Pacific In
ternational Livestock Exposition;
subject, "Show Cattle, Showmen
Shows and Show Management"
George "A. Cue, our genial auc
tioneer; subject, "The Forward
March of the Purebred."
Following the educational day, the
regular annual business meeting and
election of officers of the State Hol
stein Association will be held Tues
day morning, February 5, at 10 Am
1t is planned also, If possible, that
the delegates may make tour o.
Skagit County Holstein herds Tues
day afternoon. The Skagit County
folks are making elaborate plans fol-
a big two days in Mount Vernon
Every dairyman should be on hant
for Mondays program and every Hol
stein breeder in the state is ex
pected to attend the annual con
vention on Tuesday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

With an average yearly produc-
ton Of 1,04O pounds Of butterfat
for three consecutive years, Anna
Lenox De Kol I'd of the Harry
Yates herd at Orchard Park, New
York, becomes one Of the leading
producing COWS Of the Holstein breed.
She is also the fifth Holstein cow
to hold two yearly butterfat records
each over 1000 pounds. Her latest
test period was completed recently
with 2S,643.3 pounds of milk and
1,094.07 pounds of butterfat-equal
to 1901 pounds of butter. All
three of these records were made
since she became 9 years of age.
AT the present time 70 Holstein COWS
in the United States have produced
in excess of 1000 pounds of butter.
fat in one year. The number to
produce 10000 pounds of milk in
365 consecutive days is now 46.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
india Wants a Elect

India wants an Indian merchant
marine, says the Nations Business,
or at least there is enough discussion
among the people Of India to give the
subject some Importance. The ar
gument seems to proceed pretty
largely upon the theory that every
well-regulated and proud nation with
its feet on salt water should have a
merchant marine. In other words,
merchant marine is an indispensable
demonstration of sovereignty if
nation wishes to maintain place in
high society.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
WENATcHEE GOLF CLUB
EXPECTED TO AID TOW

WENATCHEE.-W M. Anderson,
manager of the Farmers Telephone &
Telegraph Company here, and also a
golf enthusiast, who was instrumen-
tai in getting the local club started,
says in looking into the new year: Il
believe one real boom for the com
munity this year will be the golf
course. 1t will make work for num-
Der of people while being built. 1t
will be the means of keeping many
transients here over the week-ends.
1t will give the right kind Of boys a
chance to earn money and teach them
good, clean craftsmanship. 1t will
promote closer relationship between
our neighboring cities, and, in fact,
will put Wenatchee on the golf map"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
Can Need Not Be Emptled

A buga-boo in connection with
canned foods is that the contents of
the can must be Immediately emp
tied This has been proven untrue,
inasmuch as any deterioration Is due
to bacterial action, and cannot be
affected by the kind of container In
which the food is kept. 1t will spoil
no more quickly in can than any
other container.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

PACKING BUSINESS is
SOUND, SAYS WILSON

The packing business, says Thomas
e. Wilson, the packer, is In funda-
mentally sound position and the COM
panies should end 1923 with fair earn
ings. There are some problems in the
packing business today just as in
other industries, but they are being
solved in satisfactory manner. The
fundamental condition of the packing
companies is stable, and that is the
main thing to be considered.
Raw material costs are much lower
and selling price levels which show
declines from peak prices ranging
from 20 to more than 10 per cent,
has resulted in an increased con-
sumptive demand, especially because
of the full employment of labor in all
industrial centers. Labor shortage
is not serious factor in the packing
industry.
Meat production during the year
was the greatest in the history of the
nation and will exceed the year 1922
probably by one and one-half billion
|
of pork production through the buy
ing and handling Of nearly ten million
more hogs than last year. There has
been a little oyerproduction of hogs
and cattle but the demand for meat
products has been we'll maintained
despite the vast numbers Of livestock
that have come to market and the
production is moving rapidly into
trade and consumptive channels both
here and in Europe.
Foreign trade has been good. Eu
rope will have bought this year from
| 80 to SO per cent more meats and fats
than in 1922. Germany has been 8
heavy buyer of lard, fats and Other
pork products and England has beer
pretty fair buyer both for lard aht
meats. Considerable activity has
been shown on the Continent, so tha
despite unsettled and unfavorablt
conditions, export trade has beer
showing improvement and we look fol-
it to be sustained during 1924.
The meat industry is a fair baron
eter of general business conditions
When wages are good and labor wei
employed the effect is very noticeable
4 in the sale of our products. The in
creasing demand today, therefore, in
dioates that the prosperity of thu
country will be maintained during thu
coming year.
The wealth Of this country empha
sizes that America herself can enjo.
exceptional prosperity, notwithstand
ing the unsettled conditions in Eu
rope, which affairs, l think, will worl
out ultimately. Not only is labo
more efficient, but modernized meth
DDS Of manufacture and agricultur,
tell of business strides this countr.
enjoys. Agriculture, transportation
and industry can prosper together Blu
not at each others expense. We al
realize today more than ever before
that good prices, good wages ant
profitable business can only exis
where there Is a square deal for all
The wholesomeness of general con
ditions throughout the country wa
never better and in my opinion, wal
rants continued steady and orderl
activity in all industrial pursuits 70
the coming year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
Worlds News

FRANCE.-In the senatorial cleo
lions lately Premier Poincare was re-
elected senator from the Mouse dis
trict. He received 1914 votes out Of
the $40 polled.
WASHINGTON D. C.-The illness
of the late President Harding cost
$4,000, and the private funeral
$500, it was disclosed recently by a
letter from President Coolidge to
Speaker Gillett, asking an appropria-
ton to pay the bills.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y.-The Amerl-
can Superrace Foundation Congress
Of Superior Caucasians is the name
of new organization founded here
by DR.. Alazamon Ira Lucas, with a
superrace as its purpose.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are to be fit
ted up in the historic houses of par
lament for the use of women mem
bers. There has hitherto been only
one small room which was assigned
to Lady Aston upon her election and
which she has since shared with
Mrs. Wintringham. But as there are
now eight women members, they will
be provided with a sitting room and
dressing room, the latter to be fit
ted with mirrors, dressing tables and
wardrobes. Both rooms will be fitted
to suit the tastes of members.
ST. LOUIS. - Damage of slightly
more than $1,5OO,OoO was caused by
a spectacular fire in the downtown
district business houses of st. Louis,
Transforming the entire district into
a spectacle Of glistening ice. For IA
hours the firemen fought the, flames,
pouring a deluge of water on the
smouldering ruins. Owing to the low
temperature the water froze into
packs of ice. Four feet Of ice buried
some Of the streets. Fire vehicles
had to be chopped loose from the
ice.
PLYMOUTH, Eng.-A signal honor
is to be paid Lady Astor, Conserva-
tive member of the house Of com
mons for the Sutton division Of Ply
mouth since 1919, according to Wis
count Aston, former member for this
constituency and now sitting in the
house Of lords. He announced that
a painting is to be placed in parlla-
ment concentrating the arrival of
the first woman member of the house
Of commons, Lady Astor. The pic
ture will be hung on the wall of the
main staircase.
CHERBOURG, France.-Brig. Gen.
Charles G.. Dawes and Owen D.
Young, the American members of the
expert committees of the PREPARATIONS
commission which will inquire into
Germany's financial condition and re
sources, have arrived here.
CHICAGo.-The totally deaf may
hear by touch, announces Prof. Rob
ert H. Gault Of Northwestern Uni
versity. He has been working or
this line for several years, and has
almost perfected mechanism b,
which sound waves are conveyed te
the brain through the flngertips
Much more experimenting Is to be
done. Deaf people must wait before
becoming too hopeful. But ever.
problem has its solution. Ever,
handicap can be overcome.
WASHINGTON. The railroad
and merchants OF the United States
could save more than $1,000, 900, 00'
in the next five years through remov
al of freight terminals from con
gested city areas to cheaper outly
ing property and the use of motto
trucking service for the delivery o
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

5000 pounds per square inch. AS the
temperature of the air is increased
considerably in compression it is then
passed through two cooling tanks in
which the air passes through small
copper coils which are water-cooled.
The air must be purified before it
passes through the liquifier, as i'm
purities would CONCEAL in that proc
ess at much higher temperatures than
the liquid air, thereby stopping up
the passages. The air is accordingly
passed through a series of purifying
bottles. The first contains a filter
which removes any oil or other for
eign matter which may be suspended
in the air. 1t then flows through two
bottles containing caustic soda, which
eliminates carbon dioxide. The next
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
MILK DELIVERY COSTS
CUT BY HARD ROADS
Bureau of Public, Roads Publishes
Statistics

The Bureau of Public Roads, De
partment of Agriculture, has made q
study eof the effect of highways on
milk distribution, the results OF
which emphasize that good roads
lower milk hauling costs, that with
the spread of good roads, milk haul
ing by truck becomes larger each
year, and that the motor trucks adds
yearly a greater proportion of dairy
products to the total hauling done
by it in behalf of farmers.
Studies in the Baltimore milk
shed" show that farmers on i'm
proved highways in this area pay !
cents gallon for hauling milk, or
the average haul, while the farmer
on the unimproved road pays half
cent more.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

bottle contains water-free granular
calcium chloride and this removes
moisture from the air. Having
reached the proper state Of purifica-
ton it then passes into the liquefier
which is contained in tank packed
with sheeps-wool as an insulator to
keep the heat of the ROOM The air
then passes through number Of
coils Of copper tubing and finally is
let out into the tank where 1t is d.
rected against the coils through which
it has just come. This reduces the
temperature of the incoming air until
1t finally gets down to liquefying tenn
perature.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25
NEW AUTO INSURANCE
RATES APE ANNOYING

NEW YORK. - Owners of private
passenger automobiles throughout the
country will save several millions Of
dollars yearly and will al the same
time get broader insurance protec-
ton than ever before, as result of
a revision of the rates and rules for
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

Appert, the Frenchman, invented
canning a hundred years ago, but he
never dreamed at that time that,
leading the world, the United States
alone would reach a production OF
from four to five billion cans OF food
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

favorably known to the powder
puff brigade, the lipsticlSers, ana
the perfume fans Moreover M.
Wertheimer made heavy inroads
into feminine. hearts by his grace
full au revoir statement on sailing
for France, that there were sixty
eight types of American beauty,
where there was but one typo of
French beauty, and that the fiNal
supremacy of the American woman
was in her infinite variety.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

Pierre wertheimer, millionaire
French sportsman, owner OF the
famous horse Epinard and the
equally famous perfume house OF
Bourjois, says the American wo-
man has nothing to learn from her
FRENCH sisters in the art of beauty.
ON the contrary, AYERS M. Werth-
elmer, the French woman can go
70 school in the classroom OF the
American boudoir. On his recent
visit to America, the Frenchman
discovered sixty eight types OF Am
erican beauty. The final supre-
macy OF the American woman, he
declared on sailing for France, -
In her innate variety.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

Traffic policemen are employed in
Tokyo, Japan, with up-to-date soma
phones. The stop" and go" signs
are in both Japanese and English.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

Churches throughout the world OBJ
served the week from January to
IL as a week OF united prayer. The
Federal Council Of Churches spon-
sored the call in America,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-25

r. PtNARD, the French. wonder
Es, horse, scheduled to race
mere in the Fall is heavy
favorite with the women. who APP
prove of his views on makeup. If
Ep.nsrd wins by a nose, that nose
is sure to be well powdered, for
E1'aa d's owner, Pierre Werthci-
mcr tineetO is the head of the
famous Frea III perfume and pow
der house Of Bourjcis, well and