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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Exhaust Stack Blamed
for Plane Disasters

Army air experts believe that in
the exhaust stack they have found
the frebug largely responsible for
the tendency of crashed planes to
burst into flames and which has cost
many lives. The much repeated
sfaming collins" designation of
certain old types of army planes
by Col. William Mitchell arose from
this tendency.
An air service report said that
80 crash tests were conducted on
obsolete airplanes. It was discov-
cred that the exhaust stack was a
very serious source of fire, and that
if it were possible to SO design an
exhaust stack that it would be cool
enough to prevent the self-ignition
of gasoline or oil sprayed into the
stack, the number of fires would
be very greatly reduced.
preliminary designs of standard
length, water-cooled exhaust mani
folds and short, air cooled mani
folds have shown that it is entire
ly possible to prevent fires from this
source" said the report.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
How Long Fishes Live

How long does a fish live? Not out
out of water. Any boy can tell that
from observation. But with proper
food-everything it needs?
According to Popular Science Month
ly, Major F. S. Fowler of England,
who has been conducting a special
study to find cut, reports that cat
fish, with which he is acquainted, is
now fifty years old and is still lively.
An electric eel in the London zoo, he
found, lived IL years. Other fish age
figures, as given by Major Fowler,
are as follows: Carp, thirteen years ;
goldfish, twelve years; herring, four
years; salmon, three years; brown
trout, six years. A bullfrog's recorded
age was fifteen years; toad, eleven
years, and the giant salamander, fifty
two years.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Hew Scientists Learned
Secrets of the Plants

To discover how flowers feed
starve them; if you would learn why
most plants grow upwards-pin them
along the ground.
These are among the experiments
conducted by students In the recently
opened Sargant Laboratory for Plant
Physiology. They study plants as liv-
ing organisms, and become acquainted
with the problems and dangers that
beset the life of the commonest dan
delion.
How plants breathe, how their food
is obtained, and how they respond to
imposed conditions are questions that
can be answered only by experiments.
The effect Of supplying and withhold
ing various floods" is investigated /;
the rates at which the various plant
organisms grow are measured under
different conditions; so, too, is the
rate of breathing.
Certain plants that require light for
normal growth are placed in completes
darkness, while others are bathed In
light from colored arcs. Water sup.
plies are varied and temperatures reg
ulated. A geranium that has curved
stem is subjected to electrical treat
ment and made to incline a different
way. In It's struggles to resume its
normal growth 1t reveals its various
organs and their functions.
The Sargant laboratory is set In a
small but well-stocked garden where
plants are reared for experiments un-
der almost perfect conditions.-Lon-
don Mail.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Why Dreams Are of Value

dreams" said a doctor, "are not
only useful symptoms to the psyche
analyst-they are useful to us doctors.
too.
"For many maladies have their own
peculiar kind Of dreams, and just as
jaundice is denoted by d yellow skin.
SO heart trouble is denoted by dreams
Of floating and flying high above the
earth. ~
"The neurasthenic dream Of trou-
bles. anxieties, death and failure. The
consumptive have very happy dreams
afflicted with liver complaint dream.
on the other hand. Of funerals. and
the rheumatic dream of burns and
blows and hard knocks"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
How to Pack China

Line your packing case with good
layer of straw, sprinkle 1t well with
water before putting in each article
filed and wrapped in SOFT paper and
wound round with straw, and put a
good layer of well-sprinkled straw
between each layer of glass or CHINA.
The water makes the straw expand
so that each article is firmly wedged
in place.
For special treasures small cardboard
or wooden boxes may be provided, into
which they are tightly packed before
being embedded In water-sprinkled
straw.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
WHY
Milk Is q Health Giver and
= Pod& Ru;lder

Every boy should have quart of
milk a day until he has attained his
growth; and every girl Should have
quart of milk day until she has
weaned her last baby" Quoting one
of the worlds greatest scientists In
nutrition, II. G. Sherman of Columbia
university.
Further, we are told, If we wish to
remain young and have the best health,
we may well follow the practice of
using a quart of milk day through
out our adult life. Using it, mind you
not necessarily drinking it. Made
into cream soups, bread, custards, pud-
dings, scalloped with other foods. IN
cocoa-who cares in what way, just
20 long as the daily quart Is there.
Occasionally, but very occasionally.
indeed, we find person who cannot
take milk, even when it is cooked into
or with foods. These persons are ex-
empt, but we cannot help feeling sorry
that they go through life additionally
crippled in this way.
Why milk and why SO much milk?
It is the cheapest source of the
needed animal muscle-building food
1t is the richest Of all foods in bone
building substances; lime and phos-
phorus.
It. contains all three-Or four, If
there are four-vitamins, If the milk
Is produced by healthy, rightly fed
and cared-for cows.
Milk il not a ''cure ALL" although
when 1t IL used to replace a part Of
our modern white bread, meat and po-
tate dietary. It is cure for much"
Not every wrong can be righted by
using more milk, but many Of them
may.
The neral Of our story is to use
milk If you wish the happiness Of good
health. Give it to children In the
abundance needed to make them
strong. Take daily quart yourself.
Drink 1t raw If 1t is clean and agrees
with you and you like it. : Boil 1t. II
you need to. Learn to make 1t into
attractive dishes. Spread the good
news Of its value.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Church to Haze Clinic

DR.. Thomas w. Jeffrey, pastor Of
the Central Methodist church of Spo-
kane, Wash, plans to install clinic
for the physically ailing in his church,
and If possible arrange for the issu-
ance of weekly newspaper to tell his
members what is going on. The idea
il to make Of church a practical so
cial agency. Dsctsrs who have mem
bership in the church will be asked
to operate the clinic as their special
contribution to the work Of the church
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Fox in Hard Luck

Frozen helplessly by its tail in ice
that had formed in a small pool OF
water where it had lain down to
sleep, a large red fox was shot and
killed on the farm of ivinehell
Smith, playwright, at Pennington.
Conn. An employee was walking
through field when he saw the fox
struggling to free itself from its icy
bonds. He ran back to the house
and returned with gun.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Inherit by Right

In Louisiana children cannot be
disinherited by will except for the
causes specified by law. A fixed por-
ton of the estate is theirs of right
and may not be denied them. In
the code civil of that state they are
designated as forced heirs" and
their inheritance is known as their
'legitime," according to a publica-
ton by the Brooklyn Trust COM
pany.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
SUCH A WASTE

1key, vot is, dot book you vos read
in'?
About Chulius Caesar, fader."
"Und vot business vas he in?'
He was soldier, und ven he Won
great battle he sent de message home,
Vent, vidi, vici.'"
"Only three words? Oy, vot extrav-
agance! He could have sent seven
more words for de same money"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Where Do Cent-Pieces Go?

United States minis have turned
out more than 1900, 600, 900 of one
cent pieces in the last 131 years,
but only about ~ per cent of these
coppers have ever returned. Prob.
ably you have never seen a bronze
2-cent piece. Yet 20,000,o00 of
them are in circulation or have dis
appeared. They were coined more
than so years ago.-Capper's
Weekly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
These Ladies

"Henry. don't you want to go with
me?"
"If you insist"
Il knew you wanted to CO."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
HOW.
MONTHS OF THE CALENDAR

MONTHS OF THE CALENDAR
GOT UNEQUAL DIVISION
Perhaps not every one is famil-
!: lar with the reason why all
months Of the year have not the
; same number of days. Month
really means Moon" and orig
inally stood for the time from
one full moon to the next. A.
man progressed 9 little, he be-
gan to take account OF the year
and to divide this second stand
ard Of reckoning into so many
months. Since, however, the
moon goes round the earth in -
days, so many hours, minutes
and seconds, while the true year
consists Of about 1856 days and
q bit, the sum wouldn't exactly
divide properly, and the caIen-
dar got into hopeless confusion
To put this right, julius Caesar
SOhSutCu viii tuC uOSG tCdIuCu
men Of his day, and devised a
new calendar giving the II
months alternatively 81 days
and 80 days apiece with spe-
cial arrangement for February
In Leap year. This plan, how
ever, was upset by the vanity
of Augustus. the next emperor,
who thought that the month
called after him should have
81 instead of 80 days, and to get
at this result rearranged the
program in our present system
: of uneven months. Even so, the
division Of sun years by moon
months wasn't exact, and so
about a century and a half ago
we had again to recast cur cal
endar to meet the problem Of
what is really an attempt to
divide. a sum which won't divide
exactly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
How Steering Wheel Works

The most recent Improvement over
the time-honered steering wheel for
ships, says Popular Science Monthly,
In an electric controller that closely
resembles those used on street cars.
A slight turn Of the control handle by
the helmsman causes the rudder to
respond instantly.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
How to Soften Fur Rug

If a fur rug has stiffened after be-
ing washed. it can be softened by ap-
plying the following mixture to the
wrong side of the rug: Three table
spoonfuls of castor oil. one of glyceriR
and one Of turpentine. This must re
main on for q week, when the rug,
still on the wrong side, should be well
rubbed with q smooth stone or block
of wood.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
WHY Snakes "Rattle,

The vibrating of the snakes tail
was a common characteristic Of most
snakes before the rattlesnake evolved
from the common ancestral stock OF
Pr vipers. The habit Of vibrating the
tip Of the tail at high rate Of speed
is believed to be an escape of nervous
force brought about by immediate con
dftfons
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
The Useful Cat

"But, dear, your cat has very
strange markingsr
Eyes, my husband is writing new
book in a hurry aud he doesn't look
where he wipes his pen !"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27

Ingenuity

Willis-What An armless man
running for Office? What a terrible
handicap!
Nillis-Frightful. but they say he's
learning to shake hands with his feet
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
DRIED UP

"Most of the planets have many
moons"
eyes ?"
eyes; but astronomers have failed
to find moonshine on single one"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
After Kipling

Singleton-What's that Kipling said
about the female of the species?
Wedmore-DOn't remember; but he
might well have said that she spends
more specie than the male.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Repdrtee

"Why do you punch that hole in my
hcket?" asked the man of the railway
official.
$50 that you can pass through" was
the reply.-GOod Hardware.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27

Johnson-My son-in-law can just
about keep my daughter in gloves. J
pay for everything else.
Thompson-Then he deceived you al
to his circumstances?
Johnson-Oh, no. He only asked me
for her hand
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
One Consolation

"Are you really fond Of classical
music?"
"Well. the numbers are longer and
interruptions fewer"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Unnecessary

Miss-I'n bet you hundred dollars
that I'll never marry.
Mr.--I1l take you. -
Miss-Will you really? Then I
won't bet after all.-Flamingo.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Desire

I'd love to be million things,
Like any other geeZer;
But most of all I'd love, by jinga
To be graceful sneezer.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Both

"Shall buy flowers for my girl or
q meal for myself?"
"Buy the flowers. She'll invite you
to dinner"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
Education
Looln

The lessons taught me in the schools
I lost away back yonder.
II can learn the traffic rules
I'll think I am q wender!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27
The First
e nv first love I

"You are my first 'love!"
81 believe your
"You are also the first to believe
mel"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-27

$50 your brother is engaged to
Swiss girl? What does he think Of
herr" &c.,.
"He thinks she's the whole cheese"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
Three Structures Already
Completed; $500, 900
Available Soon.

Further progress on the new In
diana School for the Blind will not
be made until Oct. /, when another
100000 will be available to continue
the building program, Superintend-
ent George S. Wilson announces.
The three buildings already finished
are the power house, laundry and
garage.
The new buildings are located on
a sixty-acre tract purchased from
the MCGOWAN estate on Seventy
fifth st. and College Ave-, at cost
Of $4,000. This money was taken
from the first legislative appropria-
ton of 100000.
The 1927 Legislature appropriated
100000, payable at the rate of $780,
600 at the end of each fiscal year.
The original 100000 appropriation
has been exhausted and work has
ceased.
Next units will be dormitory and
main building. How long before the
entire plant will be completed and
equipped depends upon the approp-
ration of the next Legislature, VIII
son declared.
The 1927 session was asked TO ap-
propriate $797,725> to complete the
building program.
The school now is housed In the
block which was given for the In
diana Memorial Plaza. The main
building there was eyected in 1850
and the total cost Of all buildings
was $4,000. The site first was
purchased for $4,000, but at the time
of the gift for the Plaza 1t was
valued at 100000.
The school is intended to give
common and high school education
as well as special education to blind
children of the state. 1t is divided
into four departments: Physical
culture, manual and industrial train
ing, school of music and the COM
mon and high school branches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
TEACH SCHOOL J.
MUSIC PUPILS
HOW TO LISTEN
Aim Is for Appreciation of
Better Classes of
Composition.

A program to make better listen
ers" out of children and as well as
performers is to be the schedule of
the public school music department.
under the direction Of Ernest G.
Hesser.
"We believe that music should be
taught with the idea of making chill
dren appreciate what they hear and
to teach them to listen as well as
perform" Director Hesser said.
Plans are being made to give mu-
steal programs, regularly at the
schools as means of educating
elementary and grade school chill
dren to listen to good music intelli-
gently.
In connection with this listening"
program, the Indianapolis Fedora
ton of Public School Teachers has
employed the Orloff Trio, local
chamber music organization, to visit
the schools and give regular pro-
grams throughout the year.
I'm this way we hope to counter
act some of the Jazz they hear
constantly" the director explained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
KNOW THEIR DUTIES
Arsenal Students Down to
Business First Day.

When the electric bell tinkled
through the buildings OF Arsenal
Technical High School Tuesday
morning, upper classmen and
"freshies" alike knew where to go
and what to do.
Monday morning was devoted to
lining up the old students. All
freshmen were signed up and resdy
to begin work Monday afternoon.
School started with its usual
briskness,' said Milo H. Stuart,
principal. Anyone visiting Tues
day would have thought we had
been at work for three months"
Opening of the new Cathedral
High School, the Crispus Attacks
High School (negro), and the
Washington High School has not
noticeably thinned the crowds on
Techs" campus. Only 1913 stu
dents have gone to the West Side
school and 319 to Crispus Attucks.
No new departments have been
introduced, because Of crowded
conditions, stuart said. Work on
the new gymnasium and the audi
forum is expected to start early in
the fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
1878 ENROLL
IN HIGH SCHOOLS
Increase Of 1900 Is Shown
in City.

Increase OF 1900 pupils in Indian
apolis high school enrolment is res
vealed by figures ANNOUNCED today
by school officials.
Enrolment figures given were:
Shortridge high school, 878 boys,
1890 girls, 2,158 total; Arsenal Tech
meal, 2,491 boys, 2,074 girls, 4,565
total; Emmerich Manual Training,
757 boys, 948 girls, 1,705 total; Broad
Ripple, 1853 boys, lit girls. $40 total;
Washington, ITO total; Crispus At
tucks, approximately 1900, making
a grand total of 1878.
opening enrolment figures for
the four old high schools last year
we're: Arsenal Technical, 1884;
Shortridge, 2,13O; Manual Training.
2,305, and Broad Ripple. 223; total.
$3.50.
Broad Ripple showed a gain OF
1T. Shortridge gain of twenty, AR
senal loss Of 279 and Manual Train
ing loss Of 600.
Losses were mainly due to trans
fers to the two new high Schools
washington and Crispus Attacks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
DUKE UNIVERSITY TO
BE PRIDE OF NATION
Tobacco Kings Millions Make Big
Institution Possible.

Institution Possible.
BIZ United Press
DURHAM, N. c., Sept. 16--The
rnetamorphosis Of millions made
from tobacco into one of the finest
educational plants in the country is
due to start here this month.
Construction will start on the new
buildings of Duke University, the
seat OK learning made possible
through the will of James b. Duke,
the tobacco king.
Over $20,000,000 will be expended.
The project will take years to COM
plete and when finished one Of the
most beautiful college campuses in
America win nestle in this Carolina
town.
The new buildings will cover over
100 acres, centering in the 5,000-acre
Forest and field area owned by the
university. Forty buildings will be
constructed to house schools of en-
cheering, medicine, chemistry, for
estry and religion.
The main group will be the school
of medicine, which it is estimated
will cost 100000, and which will
be endowed for $10,000,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
HOME-MAK|NC
INTEREST GAINS
Schoolgirls Are Taught How
to Assist Mothers.

DO girls take as much interest in
home-making as they used to?
They take much more interest"
is the answer given by Mrs. Ida
Langerwisch and Miss Lucy Mont
gomery, directors of the department
of home economics of public schools.
1--WE have had no cases of dis
interest" said Mrs. Langerwisch,
who has charge of the food and
cooking department. Our plan for
the coming year is to make them
more interested and appreciative of
the art of being efficient helpers at
home and good home-makers later
on.
I'VE do not intend to prepare
them to keep homes of their own,
but to know how to help their
mothers now. The course will be
a part of their general education"
Miss Montgomery has, the same
plans for the clothing and textile
department Girls will be taught
how to buy clothing and materials
as we'll as make them. The courses
in cooking will include the study of
food in relation to health, sanitation,
marketing, thrift and appreciation
of their present home problems.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
UPBU|LDING OF
BODIES AIM IN
CITY SCHOOLS
Physical Training Regarded
as One of important
Duties of System.

In the days of the little brick
schoolhouse, when indianapolis was
but village, the three RS, to train
the minds of the children, was the
only task of the toiling pedagogs.
But today, following the modern
advancement in teaching, the up
building of the bodies of the pupils
is one of the principal aims of the
city school system.
Educators have learned that weak
bodies often mean weak minds and
dozens of things are done in the
city schools to develop the bodies
of the pupils.
All pupils are given physical
training, exercises and drills, each
day.
Crippled Children Aided.
Crippled children have a school
of their own, where specially trained
teachers give correctional physical,
as we'll as mental, training.
Children threatened with tuber-
CulOolo 4ldNC ilCoh-di oOAAoOAj
where rest periods are provided.
In schools where there is a de-
mand, milk and waters are served
each morning at slight cost, and
without cost to pupils unable to
pay.
Sightseeing classes are to be
fol med this year for children whose
defective vision otherwise could pre-
vent school attendance, are prevent
them from getting the most from
their class work.
Health Is Guarded.
A staff of about five physicians,
three dentists and thirty or more
nurses, detailed by the city health
board, guards health conditions
among all, pupils.
Where necessary, dietetic classes
are held, undernourished and weak
ly children being given frequent
medical examinations with free adj
vice to parents for their care.
Many of these physical safeguards
for pupils have been an indirect re-
suit Of poor physical condition of
young men revealed by World War
army tests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-16
SCHOOLS OFFER
MANY COURSES
IN MECHANICS
Vocational Training Part of
Curriculum Is Being
Modernized.

Training boys to take up the
vocation of mechanics or building
is only one part of our plans in
the manual training department
this year." says Harry Wood, head
of the department in public schools.
I'VE have outlined three types
of work so we can fit most of the
individual needs.
IF a boy wants the machine
shop training for his general edu-
cation, he can get it.
Technical Training.
HE can also get preparatory
training tc enter any engineer
school.
THE third type of training we
will give is strictly vocational. This
will prepare him for definite occu-
patton"
THE way the school industrial
program is working now, a boy can
either fit' himself to do some one
thing or he>can get enough general
information to fix a chair leg or
paint his own automobile if he needs
to-" Wood said further.
Make Work Interesting.
The need for making the work
attractive to combat the lure of
collar and tie jobs has helped to
forward new plans for interesting
shop work in metal and concrete.
Less wood will be used, the depart
ment director said.
Fourteen printing shops, costing
around $4,000 each, are now in
stalled in city grade schools. The first
school print shop was put together
by Director Wood about twenty
years ago.