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V. ' :• Centers Keep Boys Out of jpf:* Mischief and Help Them to * V." "Keep Fit" l; flWOERFUL RESULTS SEEN er Activities on Playgrounds Eliminate Swearing, Cheating and Stealing Among Children-- , F,llr Pl*y Prw®11!! -v-'V *-' ^ imt ^o*.--More thanv jfer-' grounds and recreational centefs in tbe United States ere helping to keep boys out of mischief, teaching girls .awlmining and other athletics and •bowing adults how to* benefit themselves. physically and mentally by play. The effect they hare In keeping boys out of trouble with-the police Is emphasized In reports which have come to the Playground and Recreation association from alt over the country as one of the most important results of the establishment of playgrounds In cities. These facts are given in the year book of the assocfa- #tk>n just made public. The chief of police of San Francisco believes the establishment of neighborhood recreation centers Is a constructive measure ' toward suppressing the crime wave; He asked the community service' to extend Its recreation work because he believed that the wrong use of leisure time had , 3 much to do with the increase in crime; Cure for "Bad" Boys. ; Granville Lee, supervisor of the inland (Me.) recreation commission, aays that bad boys behave themselves better during the playground season and also that there are fewer street accidents to children because of playgrounds. The playground directors of Bay City, Mich., have discovered that sumtner activities on the playgrounds have practically eliminated all swearing, cheating and stealing among the children. They note with satisfactibn that tVe spirit of fair play has helped to put the playground bally where be belongs and boast of an appreciable falling off of delinquents. Cases are reported where mothers have been amazed to note that their •children did not catch cold, although they played In the snow; that the youngsters have gained in weight and appetite. In one case a father forbade his daughter to play because It made her eat too much. One thousand children were taught to 'swim in one week at Tncoma, Wash., and it Is estimated that 500, the majority of them girls, have learned to swtm at Seattle. Pageant In Snowstorm. . Pageants, plays and community singing have been fostered throughout the country Id the last year, with good results. One pageant was given at Kalamazoo, Mich., In a snowstorm, but it was attended by several thousands, and the scenes were much enhanced by the snowy setting. Community singing in factories has 4 *lpa among A amp»oyea,and between them and their «aplef«ni aa«l In lessening the popularity of crap shooting. Many different organisations are promoting this work, with the result that a 42 per cent gain Is reported for last year. MANY GERMANS QUIT BATHING Find Hot Water a Luxury Of the Shortage in Supply of Coal. BerUb.-1-The hot bath htm become such a luxury In Germany, owing to the shortage of coal and the manner In which the government regulates tbe distribution of fuel, that many persons have ceased batblng. Others have gathered courage for an Icy sponge dally, but thts is not popular, for the houses are generally cold, and exposure in cold rooms after a chilly tub paves the way for colds and pneumonia. Ordinarily a family cen afford hot water once every two weeks. Public baths, where once a* plunge or a tub was available fer a few pfennigs, have been forced tp close or raise prices beyond the reach of workmen and salaried workers. -s,"•• RIVER PACKET DAYS RECALLED *fte*P to Revive Mississippi Traffic Brings Stories of "Good Old Timet." VOYAGE PLEASANT AFFAIR There Was Qreat Rivalry Between Beat Owners and Crewe and Many Smelting Races Were Pulled --Robert E. Lee FamouSn \ New Ocleans.--Memories of old days on the Mississippi when stately packets plied in the passenger traffic are revived by the resumption of traffic between Pittsburgh, Pa., and this city by way of the Ohio. Barges have carried freight traffic on the great river for many yean since the packets were driven oat by railroad competition. In the days of i«illi»|»HI One of Our New Scout Cruisers An excellent photograph of the launching of tbe U. ,8> 8. itllwavfcee at %aconta, Wash., made from an airplane. The Milwaukee is one of the ten Qcout cruisers authorized or being built for the U. S. navy. She is 550 feet Ipng and will have a speed of 35 knots, combining the speed o| a nnd the flghtlug qualities of a battleship. • Mark Twain the Mississippi pmckets were celebrated for their "eats," their famous races, their pilots and even for their poker games. It used to be no uncommon sight to see from 15 to 80 passenger vessels, from the palatial packet to the weather-beaten tramp, leave the New Orleans landing daily for up-river point*. Voyages Were Pleasant. • river voyage In the olden days was a pleasurable affair If the boilers did not blow up or the vessel hit on^ of tbe shifting sandbars, mndlumps or hidden snags. A comfortable berth, wonderful meals, dancing at night, watermelon parties, well-stocked bars, stud and draw poker games for the patrons of that form of amusement, and last but not least, the antics of tbe negro roustabouts, all combined to make things pleasant for the traveler. Saturday was usually the sailing day for up-river packets from this port. There was great rivalry between boat owners and crews, and usually from one to a dozen boat races were pulled off as tbe vessels chugged up the river. It was then that boilers blew up with marked frequency. The most famous of these races was run by the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee, two of the largest of the river packets. So keen was the rivalry that early In the seventies It was planned to have them race- from New Orleans to St. Louis. No passengers or freight were carried and for weeks the coming race was the chief topic of conversation along the river. The Robert B. Lee was In command of Captain Cannon, while Captain Leathers was master of the Natchea. No stops were made except for fuel. The trip to St Louis was made In just a few hours over three.days, an anheard of record then, with the Robert B. Lee the winner by a small margin. Promoters Are 6urlou«k Promoters now are figuring whether human nature has changed from the olden days, whether a person will be content to idle the time away on long trips which he could make in a fraction of the time by rail; whether they "have time" to take quiet pleasura Freight rates, interstate commerce commission hearings, uniform bills of lading and other prosaic commercial matters figure In the traffic side of the question. The passenger, business Is regarded as a gamble. HUNT CHURCH LOOT .Party Formed to Treasure.of Bandits. Wealth of Gold and Precious Stones Taken From Church in Peru During Revolution and Buried. Papeete, Tahiti (Society Islands).-- Interest has once more been aroused In the treasure reputed to be burled In the island of Plnaki, one of the coral Islands to the eastward of Ta- "Mtl, ant) a new association has been Jprmed in Tahiti to seek for the treasure. The story Is that during a revolution in Peru 60 years ago a church was looted of a rich treasure of .cold and precious stones by four men, who succeeded in getting It to the coast •where they buried it in a safe place, afterward making their way to Pana- ^Having secured a schoonerthat* they returned to Peru, recovered the 4 treasure and sailed to the westward. Intending to make Australia their destination. Without papers, they could not gain entrance to any port. So they determined to bury the treasure on an uninhabited Island until such time as they could get a ship with proper papers and return to the island. They scuttled their schooner on the Australian coast and coming ashore In the guise of shipwrecked sailors, started for Sidney overland. Two only, by name, Killraln and Brown, arrived in Sidney; the other two having been killed In a fight with bush natives. Such is tbe story ^of the burial of the treasurei The tale of the atteaapta for Its recovery begins to 1M2 ,or 191$ when one day on tbe streets of Sidney a man by the name of Thompson was accosted by an elderly beggar seeking alms. On giving the man a small nam Thompson was surprised by the request for his name and address. Some time later he was summoned to one of the hospitals of the city. There he discovered that the one who had asked for him was the beggar whom he had WrlendeS some time before. The old man told him fhst he had sent for him to disclose to 19m the resting place of a great treasure. He said that he, Killraln, beldg the only survivor of the company and about to die, did not wish tbe secret to perish with him. Thus It was that Thompson came into the knowledge of tbe story and sailing directions to locate fhe Island. Being convinced that the( story was founded on truth, he has spent eight years in search of it--so far without siMcess. lately, some people In Tahiti have discovered what they believe to be a new cine and are preparing to fit oat an expedition to go to the Island. COST OF ySJNG, THRACTORS AND , H&t8£S SH6WN Af YEAR'S WORK Rw5? ifC> ' Preparing Seed With Tractor Power. Gjyes Tanlac Credit Athena, the Greek capital, enjoys bright sunshine on an avenge of 300 days of the year. 't. I f H t f f m f f " * Girl Staged Holdup, but Forflot to Rob Her Prey A girl bandit In Chicago let he* prey escape when she forgot her lines. She was accompanied by a male accomplice when she met Barry Baumstein. "Put up your^ands," she demanded, as she pointed a pistol at him. Baumstein put them up. "Now what shall I dot" she asked, turning to her companion. Baumstein didn't wait to see. He told the police he turned the nearest street corner in record time. s Anderson, Ind.--The twenty mcnths' -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jpseph Zimmerman fell to the ground from a ^second-story window of the room of -ihe family home in which she was laying' here the other day and was ly slightly bruised. V , " ! . . v : ; ; - ;•; - :• , . , v ; BRIDE IN DANCE OF DEATH Young Lady Entertains Friends as Poison She Had Taken Ends Her Life. KsAaihasoo, Mich.--While the potawn she had swallowed slowly drove life from her body. Mrs. Neva Fraser, eighteen, a bride of a few weeks, performed a veritable dance of death In the midst of a oarty of guests. She walked over to the phonograph and started playing "Till We Meet Again." explaining It was the piece played at the dance at which she met her husband. Her friends were Ignorant of the tragedy taking place when she began dancing, but before the last strains died away they saw her fall in a crumpled heap. Death sealed her Up* could explain her motive. The Scotch board of agriculture will establish a station for toting seeds and plants and other experimental work. •• Operation Failed to Cure Boy of Mania for Thievery Surgery lost a point in Houston, Tex„ in its fight against crime. Six weeks ago an operation was ordered for a fourteen- year-old bof Fho had a mania for small tfiievery. The operation was attended by a score of important physicians and was declared a success. However, the lad is In jail again with a $30 watch which he neither purchased nor received as a gift. * . , Dog Hunger Strikes. Soldier, Kan.--B. L. Mickel, editor of the Soldier Clipper, has a dog that goes on a hunger strike every time Mickel leaves town. When Doc sees his master's suitcase or grip being packed he quits eating and goes without food until his master returns, even though it be two or these dajra. (PNparcd' by the United States Department of Afrrlculture.) During October and November, 1920, representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture visited 286 tractor-owners In Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. A complete record of all the work done during the year both with tractors and horses was obtained from each farmer. Information from which the cost of using the tractor and the cost of maintaining the workstock could be determined was also obtained. The investigation was made through the co-operative efforts of the bureau of animal industry, office of farm management and farm economics and the bureau of public roads. In accordance with plans outlined at the farm power conference at Chicago, 111., In October, 1919. The object was to obtain information, In addition to that already available in the Department of Agriculture, which would aid In determining advantageous forms of power for different farms and different conditions. Farms Above Average in Size. The average sise of the farms visited was 258 acres. This is considerably above the average else of all farms In these states. Two-plow tractors were owned on 174 of the 288 farms, three-plow tractors on 104, and four-plow tractors on six farms. One farmer owned a oneplow machine, and one farmer owned a five-plow machine. Two-plow machines were found on 75 per cent of the farms with less than 160 crop acres, and on 53 per cent of those with 160 or more crop acres. One hundred and six of the tractors had been in use one year, 100 had been In use one and one-half or two years, 49 had been In use two and onehalf or three years, and 31 had been in use more than three years. On the average the tractors were used for 30.8 full days during the year covered by the investigation. Twentythree and five-tenths days of this was drawbar work on tbe home farm, 2.7 days was belt work, and 4.6 days was custom work. Seventy-three of the 286 tractors did less than 20 days' work during the year and 26 did 50. or more days' work. The number of workstock still owned varied from two head on 11 of the farms to more than 15 on five of the large farms. On the average there were 6.8 head per farm at the time of the survey, and their value was $145 per head. In all there were 1,878 head of workstock on the 286 farms and 111 colts less than one year of age. The average number of fnll days work per year per horse, for all farms was 68.6. On 20 of the farms the workstock did less than 40 full days work and on 27 they did 100 or tgiore days work per year. The tractors did 85 per cent of the plowing on these farms, 73 per cent of the disking, 43 per cent of the harfowing, planting, rolling, and packtog, 41 per cent of the grain cutting, and about 15 per cent of the loading and hauling of hay. Of 267 men who did spring plowing, 142 did it all with tractors, 121 us^d both tractors and horses, and four used horses only. . Of 225 who did fall plowing, 190 did It all with tractors, 27 used both tractors and horses, and eight used horses only. In all, the power for 30 per cent of the drawbar work on these farms, as measured by days of horse labor required for It, was furnished by tractors and the remainder by horses. The average cost per head of keeping workstock on these farms for the year ending November 1, 1920, was $159, and the average cost per farm was $1.76. Costs 45 Cents Daily to Feed Horse. Exclusive of grass and stalk pasture, the average ration per horse consisted of 1.8 tons of hay, 1.2 tons of straw, 0.2 acre of stover, 37.8 bushels of corn, and 22.3 bushels of oats. The total cost of feed per head was $134. Based on present prices (March, 1921), the cost of feed per head would be about 980. The average cost per day of horse labor for the year of the survey was $2.43. Based on present prices the cost on these farms would be not far from $1 .50 per day. The average first coat of the twoplow tractors was $972, of the threeplow tractors $1,354, and of all tractors $1,140. The average amount spent for equipment, mostly plows and disks, for u: e with tractors was about $340. Tbe average value of tne hors&drawn Implements disposed of after fne purchase of the tractors was $12. The average life of these tractors as estimated by their owners Is 6.7 years. The annual depreciation of the two-plow tractors amounted to $164, and of the three-plow $217. The annual cost of repairs, including the value of the owner's time spent In repairing the tractors, was $39 for both the two-plow and three-plow sizes. The fuel consumption per day for the two-plow tractors varied from about 18 gallons for fall plowing*to about 11 gallons for drawing the bay loader. For the three-plow tractors it varied from 23 gallons for plowing to 15 gallons for drawing tbe hay loader. Tfca two-plow tracteva covered 6J acres per day in plowing and three?: plow machines 8.6 acres. The"amount of fuel required per acre by tbe tWo sizes was practically the same, 2.8 gallons for the two-plow and 2.7 gallons for the three-plow tractors. Difference in Plowing Costs. The average cost per acre of power for the plowliig done with two-plow tractors was about $2 and with the three-plow about $2.20. The cost of power for the plowing done with horses on these farms was about $2.90 per acre. Based on the present' costs of keeping workstock, the cost of power for plowing with horses would be about $1.90 per acre. For most of the other operations the cost of power when furnished by horses was slightly less than when furnished by tractors. The cost per acre of power for disking with tractors was $0.67, wlth| horses, $0.64; for cutting grain wltht tractors, $0.67; with horses, $0.59. These figures represent the cost of power only, and do not Include either the cost of man labor, or that of the implements used. The average cost per day of twoplow tractors for drawbar work on the home farm was about $12.65, and of three-plow tractors about $17.75. The total cost of power furnished by the tractors for drawbar work at home during the year averaged $341. This drawbar work on the home farm constituted 76 per cent of the total work done by the tractors, and only 76 per cent of the total annual charge for depreciation, repairs, and Interest on Investment, Is included In it Tractor Reduces Number of Workstock Nseded. On the 172 farms where there had baen no change In acreage the number of workstock had been reduced by 2.2 head, an average reduction of 26 per cent. Forty-four of these 172 men had not reduced the number of workstock, 62 had disposed of one or two head, 43 had disposed of three or four head, and 23 of more than four head. On these 172 farms one horse had been kept for each 28 acres (total acres, not crop acres) before purchase of tractors, and at the time of the survey there was one horse for each 37.7 acres. For all the farms there had been an average of one horse for each 27.6 acres before purchase of tractors, and there was one for each 37.9 acres at the time of the investigation. On the farms where there had been no change In acreage there had been one horse for each 21.5 crop acres before the purchase of tractors, and there was one for each 29 crop acres at the time of the investigation. Operating Costs May Be Reduced. There were great variations on individual farms in the cost of power furnished by both horses and tractors; and by more careful management many farmers could doubtless reduce this cost. Repair costs and fuel consumption of the tractors could in many cases have been reduced by more careful operation. The cost of keeping workstock could have been reduced on many farms by more careful feeding practices. The average annual cost of power for the drawbar work on tbe home farm which was done with tractors was equal to the cost of keeping 2.1 head of workstock and this is practically the average number displaced per farm. On the basis of present prices, however, the cost of keeping workstock has declined considerably more than the coat of operating tractors. Since, during the year covered by the investigation, the cost of power on the average farm was no greater than if it had all been furnished by horses, any saving in man labor costs, any gain due to getting a larger amount of work done in a given time, and any other advantages connected with the use of tractors which cannot be measured directly In dollars and cents, might l>e considered clear profit. It Is doubtful, however, if such gains were great enough to balance the cost of operating the tractors on many of the farms where there was no change In acreage and where no workstock was displaced. T. J. PARKER Street, Seattle, Week. , ^1 used to think all tbe TanUc testimonials were exaggerated, but I have felt thankful a thousand times 1 ever believed In it strong enough to give the medicine a trial," said T. J. Parker, well-known saleman top Gately'g Clothing Store, residing at 4246 Juneau St., Seattle, Wash. "Several years ago I commenced having periodic spells of sickness and a few months ago I had an attack that I thought would finish me. When 1* did finally get up, I was scarcely able to go. I had no appetite and what little I forced myself to eat caused so much gas on my stomach I could hardly get my breath. "At night I was often so bloated I couldn't breathe while lying down and just had to sit up and struggle for air. At times I had cramps so bad I could hardly endure It. FAMOUS OLD CHURCH 00NE "My liver was sluggish and aoiM^ times I got so dizzy I would nearly fall. I felt tired and miserable all tbe time, couldn't even sleep and for days at a time I wasn't able to go to work. "Well, a friend of mine finally got me to try Tanlac, and it certainly done a good job for me. My appetite is fine now and although I eating just anything I want and asmuch as I please, my stomach never gives me the least trouble. 1 have picked up In weight, my strength ha* come back to me, and I am now en- Joying the best of health. "All the men at tbe store know Tanlac put me back on my feet, and I am glad to give this statement for what it may be worth to others." Tanlac Is sold by leading druggiatt. everywhere.--Adv. f Flamee That Consumed Hlatorie Washington Edifloe Also Destroyed': •' Relics That Were Prlceleea. St. Paul's parish church, In Rock Creek cemetery, the oldest church In Washington and one of tbe oldest In the United States, was recently destroyed by fire. The interior of the building, valuable memorial windows, did relics and paintings were burned, and the four walls of the structure, erected In 1776, were all that was left of the historic edifice. Among the historic relics destroyed by the fire was a large folio Bible, which was contained la a glass case near the chancel. The Bible was bought In 1727, was used for many years and was paid for by the congregation with tobacco. With the; Bible, also destroyed, were two large folio common prayer books, the price for whiph, . according to records at the church, was a quantity of tobacco which was to bring not leas than "Id per pound." The first Easter service to be held In the present territory of the District of Columbia took placct at old 8L Paul's church, Rock Creek, tt IT91. Force of Habit. "And how did your love letter affect the pretty teacher?" "She gave me a general percentage of thirty." STRIKE Clara Barton Celebration. The one hundredth anniversary of tbe birth of Clara Barton, organiser of the American Red Cross, will bfr celebrated next Christmas day. TO BUILD FOUNDATION WALLS Concrete Two Feet Above Floor Is Absolute Insurance Against Cold Feet From Floors. When you build that new chicken coop, hoghouse or barn, extend the concrete foundation walls a foot or more above the floor. It is cheaper than lumber, the sills and board ends will not rot from touching the ground and, best of all. the cold breezes cannot chill the chickens, hogs or (rattle. A concrete foundation wall two feet nbove the floor ts absolute Insurance against- cold feet from cold floatfe-^ Be Careful With Refuse. Many poultry enthusiasts are hav- Inb trouble these days because they are taking spoiled vegetables out of the cellar and giving them tie the Chickens. That Is had practice . .. 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