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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-10-22
Wolfe Now Secretary.

Eunice Wolfe has been elected
secretary OF the Sophomore class
10 take the place of George XIII
sey, who has resigned that he may
give more time to studies and at
the same time keep up his work
as member of the football team.
First Half Holiday Granted.
The first half holiday since school
started came Wednesday afternoon
following the heavy showers of The
morning. All the schools in the
city were dismissed at noon hour,
SCHOOL NO. 1-Woodland Avenue
Mrs. Florence Reinhart, Principal
School No is pleased to report
that Mrs. lisa Ellick, director of :he
w. G.. Il. u. Medal contest, has in
vited some of its seventh and
eigth, grade children to speak il
the w. G. T. U. Hall Friday night,
Oct %, at 7.i5 Any parent inter-
ested in this work is cordially in
vited to attend, and by their pres
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

were being developed underneath the
floor of the Pacific Ocean. They
stretched In long, irregular lines for
thousands of miles, and some of them
passed beneath Mu. Their gases pene-
trated to the lower level of chambers.
which then became overcompresSed.
AS a result, assures opened in the rock;
the gases escaped to the next series of
chambers above, and were forced from
there through the rock again into the
upper level.
Still the enormous pressure kept In
creasing. The gases had only one
means of eXpanding-tO tear through
the earth's topmost crust and rush out
into the open air.
guess to have been about 10000 Be,
Mu was shaken by fearful rumblings.
The southern part of the country was
torn by volcanic upheavals, and along
the sandy shores great tidal waves
rolled in and destroyed many a city.
The volcanoes belched out their fire
and smoke on a fiat country, so the
lava did not run for any distance.
Instead, it piled up around the craters
and cooled in the form of immense
cones, some of which may still be seen
today.
This first escape of the compressed
gases from underground was not
enough to wreck the entire land. The
volcanic workings gradually ceased,
the population resumed their former
pursuits and in a few generations
this ominous warning had been rele-
gated to history.
Then the secopd eruption came, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Carried American Oysters
And Little NeCkS to France

on the half-shell, with a cream and
cheese sauce. Prunier'S has kept to
more 100 per cent Americanism.
The younger Prunier took national
interest in oyster growing in France,
quite apart from his establishment in
Paris having become one of the big
gest sea food centers in the world. He
was honorary president of the General
Syndicate of oyster Culture and vice
president of the Technical and Scien-
tific Office of Sea Fisheries and vice
president of the Association of Oyster
Industries. His government decorated
him for his services to France and her
food He did something else-he sue
ceeded in demonstrating in French
waters the little neck clam of America.
| have called his family establish
ment a "DelmoniCo' for the American
colony at Paris. 1t is like the Italian
Swiss who came long, long ago to
New York and for two generations
taught the uses of good European
cooking. I ought to say that Paris
hotel has now its own restaurant in
the Avenue de IOpera, named Del
monico." Prunier's had 80 years to
become known, and we wonder If the
future will keep up its very genuine
American traditions in a kind of cook
ing which we have made our own.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

turbulent sea the remnants Of
Mus population huddled, waiting for
the terrific quakes to abate. They had
seen their temples and palaces, their
ships and their roads go crashing
down, to be swallowed by the ocean.
Almost all their fellow humans had
been engulfed by this catastrophe.
The few now left, all that remained
of the Motherland of Man, the ruler of
the world, were now destitute. They
had nothing-no tools, no clothing, no
shelter, barely a foothold of land, and
no food. Around them Kissed and
steamed the boiling waters that had
rushed into the fiery pit when the con-
tinent sank.
Only small islands were left. Some
of them we know today as the South
Sea Islands and some of their inhabi-
tantS can claim, as remote ancestors,
the people of Mu.
The destruction of Mu affected q
wide area. Such an immense amount
of water rushed in to fill up the hole
left by the disappearing continent that
the shoreline of the countries border
ing on the Pacific was lowered to a
considerable extent. Much new land
appeared along the coasts when the
waters of the ocean swept away to
fill the gap left by Mu. This can
easily be understood when it is re-
membered that the destroyed CONT
nent had occupied nearly one-half of
the area now covered by the Pacific
The Land of Mu was not the only
part of the earth's surface that col
lapsed during the period of upheavals.
The land bridge over the Bering Sea
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
The Average" Aviator.

4 LII normal adults under As, who
have not lived purely sedentary
life and strained their eyes by close
work and are not unusually nervous,
should succeed in becoming average
aviatorS, according to Wing Comdr.
T. s. Rippon of Great Britain.
The super-aviators are individuals
possessed with what is popularity
says Scientific American. They have
good hands" their refleXes are rapid
and acurate. and they have sort of
instructive foresight.
The crasher class can be detected
by medical examination. and comprise
the erratic lander who suffers from
defective vision the individual who
faints at altitude, those who get dizzy
and lose control in a spin. those whose
vision is dim at night and those who
are unable to stand fatigue.
The British Air Ministry insists on
examination every six months, and
only if in perfect physical condition do
pilots receive the "B' certificate in
which the public and insurance COM
panies have confidence. Nothing will
promote safety in flying as much as a
rigid system of the sort. Pilots may
laugh at tests in which they are re-
quired to lift a small board with an
unstable rod at the end, or where they
are required to stand on one leg with
their eyes shut. But skilfully made
and interpreted these tests are almost
Invaluable in determining the sort of
men to whom ships and passengers
may be safely intrusted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Ey col. JAMES CHURCHwAR ARD.

T HE recent reports from France
that land in the Atlantic Ocean
seems to I've risin" To the sur
Il face. and may he the lost con
tinent of Atlantis reappearing.
bring to mind the terrible Cataclysms
which swallowed not only Atlantis but
the vast continent of Mu, in the Pa
iitic Ocean, and several smaller
stretches of land Far down in the
darkness and cold of the ocean floor
these lost lands now rest. They were
destroyed by gigantic upheaValS of
the earth's crust. which may have
been due to the formation of long gas
belts under ground.
The legendary story of The deStruC-
tiuu Of these lands, especially of Mu,
The motherland OF man, is a strange
one indeed. From II we learn how
the mystery of the white races in the
South Sea islands may be solved, and
how one of the worlds greatest civil
cations flourished in mid Pacific and
Then was completely obliterated in
single night.
4 few decades ago scientists would
have been very doubtful about the
possibility Of the former existence. in
the Pacific Ocean. of a continent such
FS Mu. Eut since then records have
come Ia li@ht and comparisons have
Iecn made which prove that such
WI liii at '''it liill' '\iFN'' Nv I'''i+~
az If several types.
FrSt. there are tho sacred tablets
yruud in an Indian college temple
sud decirhered with the aid of a
searnnd priest. They had been written
~ he NaacalS. in Burma. and they
s"Id how the NaacalS had originally
r'ulle from Mu, the land in the center
az the Pacific. They also told of the
story Of creation which had originated
IL this land; and finally they related
hhc destruction of Mu.
second, there is confirmation of
these accounts in other ancient manu-
scripts. including such a classic as the
.1Iindu epic, "Ramayana. written by
thu great sage and historian Nalmiki.
In one place, for instance, he mentions
the NaaCalS as coming to Burma from
the land of their birth in the east
that is, the direction of the Pacific
ocean. Another document confirming
tie story Of the sacred tablets is the
TTOano Ms. now in the British Mu-
scum. This is an ancient Maya book
written in Yucatan. 1t speaks of the
Lands of the West" using the same
symbols for Mu that we find in Burma
and Egypt, and it describes the de-
.stTuCtion of the continent. Still other
written references to Mu can be found
in the Codex Contestants. a MAYA book
Of about the same date as the
Trnana Ms.
Third. there are existing ruins which
ny their location and the symbols
with which they are decorated tell of
the lost continent of Mu. the mother
land of man. On some of the South
Sea islands. notably the Easter Island.
Raratotga. Maugai Island, the Cook
group, and the Caroline group, there
stand today remains of old stone
temples which take us back to the
slime of Mu. At tXmal, in Yucatan,
Central America. ruined temple
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Strange New Rays.

THE earth is being bombarded from
all directions and at all times,
says Science Service, by rays more
powerful, more penetrating and of
shorter wave length than even the X
rays and gamma rays from radium,
until now the most penetrating radia-
tons known to science.
This amazing discovery of what
might be called super Xrays was
announced to the National Academy
of Sciences meeting by DR.. Robert An
dreWS Milliken.
From out of space, borne evidently
in the great CoSmic reaches of tho
universe, these newly discovered rays
come to earth with a penetration al
least hundred times greater than tho
most penetrating X-rays which can be
produced in our hospitals. Whereas
X-rays cannot go through half an
inch of metallic lead, il takes six feet
Of lead to completely absorb these
cosmiC rays which DR.. Milliken said
are harder and more penetrating
than any which had before even been
imagined"
The wave length Of the shortest of
the penetrating rays" as he calls
them, is but one ten-millionth that Of
ordinary light. And light has a wave
length of about one fifty-thousandths
of an inch, which, so far as every day
measurements 90. seems nearly the
limit Of minuteness.
Whence come these powerful RAYS?
Over five years OF experiments
which took DR.. Milliken and his as
sistants to the top of Pixies Peak
| caused them to probe the upper at
mosphere with marvellous feather
weight instruments lifted by small
balloons, and carry on experiments
60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under
the brow of Mount Whitney, proved
conclusively that these penetrating
| rays do not originate on earth.
They are the result Of transmuta-
| ton of chemical elements taking place
In the vast eNpanSes of space. DR..
Milliken has concluded that nuclear
| changes. that is, tranSmuta tons Of
elements, having an energy perhaps
! 30 times as great as the energy
| changes involved in known radioac-
| tivity on earth, are taking place all
| through space. And the most prob
! able sort of nuclear change is the
| capture of an electron by the positive
! nucleus of an atom. Thus the pene-
! trating rays are signals of these cos.
mic demonstrations sent to earth
To produce here on earth the pene-
| trating rays, DR.. Afilliken estimates
| that 10000 900 volts or more would be
necessary, and he holds out little hope
of such an accomplishment. Conse-
| quently, for the present at least. the
application of the penetrating rays to
medicine and physics cannot be antici-
! pated.
! Fortunately the amount of the pene-
! trating rays reaching the earth is
/ very small. Very delicate gold-leaf
electroscopes We're necessary in order
| to detect the rays in spite of their
! high penetration. The rareness of the
rays is probably the salvation of life
on earth, for if the quantity were
| large the effect might be like being
| treated with very heavy doses Of
| X-rays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Pre.Colunbian TOYS.

TOYS Of the American Indian tribes
never before exhibited have been
placed on exhibition in the division of
ethnology of the United States Ma.
tional Museum. These playthings OF
the papooses from Alaska 10 Mexico
reveal that the redmen were efficient
toymakers and that their children
found delight in the same imitation of
their elders taken into consideration
by the manufacturers of our modern
Christmas amusement devices.
While little Indian girls, the exhibit
shows. could not hug the talking.
walking and sleeping dolls of our me
chanical age, they did have plenty OF
dolls, with miniature tepees instead of
doll houses. and little cradles to carry
on their backs like the ones their
mother carried them In when they
were babies. Among these dolls is one
of the tiny Eskimo which is a real
stuffed wild duck for baby to play
with.
Animal dolls were evidently very
popular among the Indians. An in
genious beaver with a. tail of leather
marked In imitation of the big flat tail
of the real beaver was made by an
Appapaho papa for his papoose. Cute
little woolly buffaloes made out of diff
ferent colored beads are shown. Min
nature elk and targets cut in the shape
of buffaloes for little Indian boys to
shoot at are also shown.
There are horse dolls and one doll is
i tiny horse believed to have been
made from the skin Of an unborn colt
on account of the lack of seams In the
delicate hairy coat covering the little
wooden image. These presents Were
sometimes exchanged when the fam
lilies went visiting. The exhibit in
cluded material from Appapahos, Sho-
shones. Hopi. Utes, Apaches, Chey-
ennes and other Indians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Fuel From Dust.
IF you pump cornstarch with air

IF you pump cornstarch with air into
an inclosed tube and ignite the
mixture with an electric spark it will
explode. Recent government expert
ments have shown in dust great explo-
sive energy going to waste. 1t is this
that is utilized in a new fuel an
nounced recently, according to Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
Fuel made from dust or scourina6
not only will make use of waste ma
terial, but will reduce a big potential
fire hazard in manufacturing plants.
explains w. A. Noel, an engineer of
the bureau of chemistry of the De
partment of Agriculture. 1t would
solve the problem of cheap fuel for
factories, he adds, for it may be used
In steam or gas engines.
Wood. metal, feathers. chemicals.
cork, rubber, sugar, grain. cocoa and
cinnamon are but a few of hundreds
of products from which the inf1amma-
BILE dust may be obtained. Probabl
the most powerful of all dusts is that
of aluminium. while grain dusts are
available in the greatest quantities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Earth's Fate.
THE ultimate fate of the SOAR sy

THE ultimate fate of the SOAR sys,
tenn Of which the earth is a part
is that It will become two stars, one
Of them the sun and the other q new
star made up Of all the planets with
Jupiter as a gas:es7-s1I point.
This IS the prediction of Prof. w. D.
Macmillan of the University Of Chi
cago upon the basis of new mathe-
NAUTICAL studies.
Yet there is no need for immediate
preparations for the Judgment day, for
Prof. Macmillan estimates that It will
probably be some 500, 000. 900 900 years
before Jupiter becomes a star and
swallows the earth in tho process of
doing so.
The reason for this end Of the solar
system and its conversion Into BIZ
nary or twin star Is that the planets
are actually growing, extremely slow
ly, OF course. They are sweeping up
the cesmic dust or nebulosity through
out space somewhat as a SNOWFALL
increases in size, and when the planets
have gathered up enough matter they
will be gobbled up by the largest of
them due to the action Of the laws
Of gravitation. The result Is a star.
A considerable percentage of the
stars in the heavens are binary. and
Prof. Macmillan considers it probable
that many of them 1t one time were
solar Systems.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Mechanical Eve.

bulbs. shielded from the tube above.
When the automatic finger of the ma
chine places the cigar in position with
in this lighted chamber a shutter
opens a slit in the covered tube
chamber above it, and only the light
which is reflected from the wrapper of
the cigar is permitted to act upon the
tube.
Obviously, the darker the color Of
the cigar the less light will be re-
fiected upon the tube, and vice versa
The actual color of the cigar, then, de-
termines the amount of current per-
mitted to flow between the two ter
minals Of the tube. And, since every
color reflects a different amount of
light, 1t is easily seen that the only
limit to the color-sorting abilities of
this machine lies in the minuteness
with which these varying amounts Of
current. sent through the tube, can be
detected and caused to operate the
mechanical sorting apparatus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

THE cigar industry is using a ma
chine which is almost uncanny in
it's power of sight" 1t automatically
sorts cigars according to the color Of
the wrapper, and can distinguish be-
tween 80 different shades of cigar
wrappers, says Scientific American.
This mechanical eye is shaped
like a small x-ray tube, with two
terminals connected to a battery. One
terminal is enlarged within the tube
and heavily coated with potassium.
The entire tube is covered by light
proof case and in the darkness no
current flows between the two terml-
nails. Light, however, activates the
potassium covered terminal, causing
an emission Of electrons which per-
nits current to flow. The eye is
simply an electric switch, opened and
shut by light and darkness.
Below the eve is another chamber
containing four small electric light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
Records Disclose Story of Ancient Lands West of Americ

between Alaska and Asia suffered
similar fate. A narrow strip running
from what is now California down to
the northwest corner of Colombia
South America, also sank The over
land route to Europe in the North At
lantlc Ocean, extending from America
to Norway via Greenland went down
as did likewise a small area Of land
off the east coast of Central America
Then there was the celebrated disap-
pearance of Atlantis, the mid Atlantic
continent, which, at the time of it's de-
struction, had apparently succeeded
the submerged Mu as the center of
the worlds civilization. Like Mu, it
sank beneath the waves when vol
canoes erupted and the land collapsed
into the treacherous gas chambers be-
meath.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

The waters Of the ocean rushed into
the vast hole thus formed and in a
short time nothing was left of this
home of civilization except a few
ridges of land still rising above the
water level. These were the places
that had had the good fortune not to
rest on subterranean gas pockets, so
the emptying of the chambers had not
undermined their foundations
On these islands in the midst of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

this time it was a decisive calamity.
Gases from the chambers underneath
rushed out into the atmosphere
through volcanic spouts with deafenlng
roars and huge tongues of flame. The
chambers, now empty, had nothing to
sustain their roofs, which collapsed
and fell. This occurred throughout
the extent of Mu The whole surface
of the continent collapsed and drop
ped into the empty chambers below.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

hears inscriptions commemorative of
the Lands of the West, whence we
came" And the mysterious Mexican
pyramid southwest of Mexico City was,
according to its inscriptions, raised as
a monument to commemorate the de
struCtion of these same Lands of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

Diaqram illustrating the seo1ogi,
cal condition. Of MI before
the CONTINENT was Sub me- rGed
It's foundations were undsk-
m1Ned by avast series Of z
as-chaN1be1s. ooM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-03
PARIS, December %.

IAflIS, ItVVIIIUtT 20
~ RUNIER has been buried from
the church in the Paris resi-
dence quarter where so many
/ Americans live, and where he
had lust nnened his new res
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-13
new ATTORNEYS
In LEAGUE CASE
Two Co. CounseIs in Action
Brought by GiIliom.

Interest in the controversy be-
tween Attorney General Arthur l..
Gilliom and Indiana Anti-Saloon
League executives was revived to-
day with entrance of the names OF
William H. Thompson and Scion J.
Carter, Indianapolis attorneys. as CO.
counsels for the State in the action
Gilliom brought several weeks ago
against Edward S. Shumaker, dry
league superintendent, and two Of
his associates.
Gilliom requested the Supreme
Court to cite Shumaker and Ethan
A. Miles and Jess Martin, league at
torneys, for contempt because of
criticism of the tribunal in the
leagues annual report.
No action has been taken by
Supreme Court as yet on the re-
quest, although it was rumored that
the court last week considered the
case. Since the request has been
pending certain Republicans, to
prevent alienation of the prohibition
vote, have sought to delay the case
until after the coming primary, it
was said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-13
PROTESTS

City officials have refused to grant
the army permission to maintain a
recruiting truck at Kentucky Ave
and Illinois ST., but allow taxi COM
panies to make a private garage of
the streets, Councilman o. Ray AL
bertson charged today.
Albertson said unless the city
authorities cancel their order con-
corning the army truck, he will in
troduce an ordinance allowing
permanent parking place on a promi-
nent downtown corner for any
United States recruiting vehicle.
Albertson said he also contem-
plated sponsoring an ordinance to
compel taxi companies to provide
their own private storage spaces
off the city streets"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-13
GRAIN PRICES
START HIGHER
Strong Gables Buoy Wheat
at Opening.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, April 13.-Grain prices
opened higher on the Chicago Board
of Trade today.
Wheat opened fractionally higher
in all deliveries. In view of the
much stronger showing of Liverpool
as we'll as advances in the opening
at Buenos Aires, and the further
fact that contract stocks of wheat
here have diminished to $1,000
bushels, made May wheat here ex-
tremely tight. The disposition is be-
coming more prevalent for traders
to get out of May deliveries and into
the deferred futures.
Corn opened fractionally higher
all along the line. The general trend
of this market is in sympathy with
wheat. Oats opened fractionally
higher in all deliveries. Provisions
opened unchanged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-04-13
Don't Pet Your Wife
in Courtroom

Don't pet your wife In the
Criminal Courtroom, even
though you have been in jail
for several weeks without see
ing her. 1t gets on the judges
nerves.
When Judge James A. Col
Inns today was about. to pass
judgment on Rufus Smith Of
Anderson, Ind, Smith began
to cuddle his wife.
LET your wife sit somewhere
else, you tend to your case,
it's a good deal more inn
portant," cried Judge Collins.
However, Judge Collins said the
evidence against Smith Cooked
like a guessing contest" on the
part of the officers and the
prosecuting witness. Therefore
Smith was found not guilty and
discharged. He was charged
with assault with intent to rob.