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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 3 Aug 1922, p. 3

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"Outsiders" Hay Be Restricted Because of Crowded Condition of Softools. •Mi*.;. - -- foV: P0UT1CAI ECONOMY IN LEAD IC A. Al*° Attract# Greater Numbers , ~ f Than Before, While Medicine and ACr*^Jk?h# "Ku,t«"" e»udi«« SulHi :r? •P-/": Declining Attraction. A • " ---- V t L Berlin, Germany.--Accommodations " moat of Germany's universities and technical high schools have been so severely cramped since the war by ln- '•vj..;1-. creasing enrollments that steps are \ ^ ^ being suggested for stemming . the " rising percentage of foreigners. Students from abroad are estimated to $£* constitute 25 per cent of the registrar fij; ' tlcn. '* A leading professor la the move- *a C:? ment to restrict the foreign ; ^states that in his lecture room he has ;/ # noted from 50 to 100 non-Germans. He |'{v*-declares the preparatory training as ,«W®H a® the conduct of these "out- ^ alders" frequently leaves much to be desired. While emphasizing the need of curtailment of foreigners he objt: v/.7 ^8erves that caution should be exer- • cised to avoid political or diplomatic v<V ii embarrassment. ,'f. , Technical High 8chools Double. Enrollment in German universities •• • whole has shown an increase of , V; * ^er cen' since the war, and that of ~y -" the technical high schools has more than doubled. Just before the war there were 00,000 university students i i- *-; In Germany. At the armistice the agy ', , gregate jumped to 90,000. There has *J 4-J> 8lDce been a slight falling off. Technlcal high schools were handling s 12,000 before the war. In the an* «;^f\j;^tumn of 1920 their students numbered' i v f * 422,976, and last winter 25,556. n*. While the knowledge that the war Vin^* resulted in a greater eagerness for <\ ^learning in the younger generation has 1 ; ^proved gratifying to the Germans, .;there is a disturbing factor in that v /'kultur" studies have suffered decllning fascination. Compared with 1914 y'*V':|the present statistics for the unlver- |>:sltie8 show decreases in the enrollment for theology, philosophy and Hi, ' philology. Medicine, the most poput,; lar In 1914, also has proved less at- ^ ; tractive, although dentistry students Jrnve more than doubled and there bus been a slight increase in chemistry. The would-be plvridiai now number 15,110, whereas in 1914 there were 1&04& Big Increase In Law Students. Political economy heads the list IK the numbers of university students enrolled, snd In percentage of gain over 1914. This branch has 17,714 at work, as compared with 3,836 in the last prewar year. The study of law comes next, with a registration of 16,884, as compared with 8£40. Mathematics and physical science have attracted 8,257, an increase of 1,125. In the technical schools the greatest number have flocked to mechanical engineering, which 8,306 now are studying, as compared with 3,118 in 1914. Electrical science has 5,129 enrolled, against 1,307 befote the war. Mining and smelting have registered a gain. Architecture, alone In the technical schools, has shown a decline. Of 23 universities only four have !•* 8,00ffc ootn miiiiMfjinihMV'M 'OiJkr * rollments of 440f ely. The Isrgeat legtmattrm lstn the University of Be*- lfe, with 12,724, as compared with 8JS38 fb 1914. LONDON LEADS AS SPORT Forty-fieven Tons of Waite Dumped en Residents? Heada In Month, Say Health Officers. • London.--London leads the world In fog, smoke and soot During a single month, according to the department of health, 47 tons of dirt w^re dumped from the air upon the tfnsufr pecting heads of the populace. Of this mass approximately 27 V4 tons were soluble and 19 V4 tons were Insoluble, and consisted of tar, carbon and grit. London is no place for white collars, straw hats. Palm Beach suits or light* colored gowns. These soon assume a black hue which even the laundries find it difficult to remove. Hat mat ers are overcoming the dirt by mak« lng this summer's straw hats a deep black. iff Scientist Some Interesting Paradoxes Are Explained by Dr. Humphreys of ^ Smithsonian InstitutMK/ ' )> Americans Eager to Go to Levees j - *> Bombard Ambassador George Harvey for Cards of Admission to Royai Receptions. OFFER Mi KINDS OF PLEAS u Wife of Washington Diplomat Gives Interesting Picture of One of Theee £eurt Functions--Find*; . Qiieen Beautiful. ' London.--There has been ke«i rivalry among Americans In London to gain entrance to King George and Queen Mary's court levees, which have been revived for the first time In eight years. Colonel Harvey, the American ambassador, has been Inundated with requests, pleas snd prayers from Americans of all ranks "to see what the king and queen look like." Every sort of argument has been advanced by the petitioners, and the ambassador has found it difficult to choose between those legitimately enof die Cabinet Poses Jean AlHs Davis, first cabinet baby, is the tiny little daughter M SIire- " tary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, and the secretary declares site is the most remarkable child he has ever seen. With the new baby, Mrs. Davis has gone to the Davis farm at Moosebeart, 111., to. spend the summer. titled to a bowfng acquaintance with the king and queen, and mere tourists er "social climbers" who want something to write home about or to put in their diariea. , » % Described by Amertoan WenMM. > r Among the favored American women who were permitted to bend their knee before George and Mary was the wife of a Washington diplomat, who has given the following description of the function: , "The dominating and moat lasting ttnpression was the appearance of the queen. I had been led to expect from photographa and published descriptions that she was of a severely matronly type. Instead, she seemed to be perfectly beautiful; in fact, superb lb her regalness, and wearing her magnificent Jewels like flowers. Her face had nothing of the pictured severity, but radiated the kindliest of smiles aa I passed and courtesled. "The court was everything I had Imagined it would be In pomp and grandeur, but throughout it all there was a wonderful human note. The king and queen seemed delighted to welcome us. Of hauteur there was none; in fact, the manner in which the queen and Princess Mary kept chatting and laughing during the intervals seemed to indicate that the members of the royal family were' • "Joying themselves aa much aa we were. "Machinery la Wonderful." "The machinery of the ceremonial was so wonderful, so perfect in Its apparent effortlessness, that there really was no reason to be nervous. White-gloved hands were always ready to arrange our trains, to point the route we were to go, to hold us for a moment, or indicate that we should proceed. It was Impossible to do the wrong thing. The curtsy before the king, then a few steps and another curtsy before the queen, and the presentation . was over before I realised It. "The difference between the court and a presidential receptidn at Washington Is essentially one of background and size. We lack the brilliance of Uniforms and decorations, but we excel, I think, in the beauty of our women and the elegant simplicity and .quiet dignity of the dress of our men.'%-«v HOTTER SDft--COLDER EARTH OW 8ol R|ses pefore He la JUlP and fits Before It Ooes Down Sen?1 . < : Rays of Light Account fof ,j This Paradox. Washington.--A rainstorm dries tits air; more goes up than comes down; as the sun sets the air grows warmer; the hotter the sun grows, the colder the earth becomes; the sun rises before it Is up sad sets after it Is down; these are strong statements and sound like a fairy tale, but they are all true. Dr. W. J. Humphreys, quoted In the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution which has Just been made public, explains all of them. They are perfectly well known to scientists. If not to laymen. As everyone knows. Dr. Humphreys declares, water evaporated and Is taken up In the air as vapor. This action is continuous all over the earth and the atmosphere would soon become very soggy if it weren't dried out. Rain is the collection, or condensation, and precipitation of these moisture particles,' consequently the more it rains the less water there is left in the atmosphere, or the drier the air becomes. Contradicts Old Saying. The second of Dr. Humphrey's paradoxes seems flatly to contradict the o'd saying "whatever goes up must come down." However, as the writer expresses it, vertical circulation In the atmosphere Is only gravitational action, consisting In the sinking of relatively cold f and therefore dense sir, and rising of warm and light air. Contracted air descends, expanded air ascends. Therefore, mass for mass, the volume of ascending air ta:«iwaya larger than that descending. The third paradox is merely a way of stating that the warmest part of the day is not at noon, when the sun Is at meridian or overhead and should seemingly be pouring down greater heat, but several hours later In the afternobn. That is because the surface of the earth and the lower layers of air continue to absorb more heat from the upper layers for some time after the latter have been receiving the maximum amount of heat radiation from the sun. While It is not yet universally conceded that the next putzler, "the hotter the sun, the colder the earth," really Is true, Dr. Humphreys states, the evidence In favor of it la already very strong." Another Paradox Explained. The paradox of the sun rising before it Is actually up and setting after it has actually gone down is explained by the bending of light waves when passing through the air. A stick when placed in clear water seems to bend; a light ray when sent through the air does actually bend. The rays from the rising sun are bent when they strike the air envelope. This angle varies according to well-known laws, but on the average the light from the | Woman Makings Record Killing Wyoming Snakes Gillette, Wyo.--Gillette ranchers have declared open season «n rattlesnakes, and a woman. Miss Betty Carter, Is running the head of the list a neck-and-neck race in disposing of the rattlers. To date she has killed fifty-six in the Pleasant Hill community, which Is a close second to the number reported by Dick Bell and 3111 Jones, who have slain sixty-four from two dens. sun is bent 34% seconds of degree, so thst the upper limb of the sun when first seen is actually half a degree below the horizon. As the angular diameter of either sun, mow or star Is less than this fraction it follows that when the sky is sufficiently clear the whole of either may be seen before even its topmost portion is geometrically above the horizon. Contradlcta Old Saying. While the reverse la not sbsolotety correct astronomically, It Is added, when sun, star or moon set, because of the slight modification of refraction due to earth rotation, nevertheless the difference Is exceedingly slight. Consequently, as the light rays are bent upward by earth's atmosphere the sun Iihs actually gone down before it la seen by a terrestrial observer. Hastings <Neb.) Man Was Pierced? ^'•jby Arrow During FigHI? i - on Homestead. BROTHER ALSO HAS LARGEST ANNUAL INCOME New York State Gets Eighth of Jetal for the Nation. Anatyitt flT Distribution of - Income by States Show# DiversityJn Per Capita Income In Different v*'• ••sStates ti ' r .m it' Vj-rytf-'Af ----i*1-. i-,*' Itetf',Ym*-4few r«rtt mtTt state in the Union with an annual income of $9,074,859,000, or more than one-eighth of the total national Income, according to figures announced by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Nevada brings up the rear of the procession of states with They Call It the Melting Pot A lump of dirt can be neutraL ****** $237,000,000 HAS BEEN CUT IN LOANS Wars Finance Corporation Gives Summary of Operations. fBS.000,000 Used to Finanoe Exports •Nd $310,000,000 for Agricultural :< and Live Stock Purposes •«.-» Since January, 1M1. Wtaihlngton.--Books of thr rite ^ , " finance corporation showed a total of i$237,000,000 in loans outstanding at fiV, the close of the fiscal year June 30, according to a summary of operations issued by Managing Director Eugene v e,er' •v.'V When the corporation resumed oporations in January, 1921, be stated, •:%he loans outstanding totaled $111,- #1000,000, and since that time the corporation has authorized loans aggregating $363,000,000, of which $53,000,- , <)00 \s as to assist in financing exports l-nand $310,000,000 for agricultural and live stock purposes. .Of thq total amounf, he added, $284,000,000 has been actually advanced on June 30, of which $39,000,000 was for export purposes and $246,000,000 for agricultural and live stock purposes. Of the loans approved, he continued, 1289,000,000 represented sdvances authorized to banking and financial institutions, including live stock loan companies, $64,000,000 to co-operative marketing associations and $9,000,000 to exporters. Of the sums actually advanced, he reported, $204,000,000 represented loans to banking and financial Institutions, $54,000,000 to live stock companies, $18,000,000 to cooperative Hssociations, and $7,000,000 to exporters. Repayments of all loans since January, 1911, he declared, amounted to $158,956,291, distributed as follows: $42,531,559 on loans made under the war powers, $35,635,543 on export loans approved prior to resumption of Operations, t33.133.580 on loans approved subsequently to the resomp- Prisoner Slipped From Court to Get a Drink > John Banks, waiting ID a coert In-Brooklyn, N, Y.. to be tried on a charge of disorderly conduct, became nervous snd slipped out in quest of something to sustain him through the ordeal. When the bailiff called his name, Mrs. Banks Informed the court that he hdd Jost stepped out to get a drink. Police officers who went to hunt Banks found he hsd gotten the drit^k. Judge Martin dismissed the disorderly conduct charge, preferred by a neighbor, but sent Banks to Jail for 80 days for Intoxication. tion of operations and $47,085,000 on agricultural and live stock loans. Russian women hare the reputation of being born politicians and diplomats. Hi: French Baby Is First to Be Born in Airplane Madame Georges Breyer, of Lyons, France, achieved the distinction of being the first woman to give birth to a child In an airplane. Madame Breyer was at a remote seashore resort In Southern Italy. She chartered an airplane for Naples, and when 40 miles south of that city, 0 000 feet over the Mediterranean, the child was born. Steadying the plane, the pilot drifted slowly to earth, lsnded near a hotel, and a physician was called. Both the boy and mother are doing nicely. The child will be christened Gu.vnemer, In favor of the famous French war aviator. The mother has purchased the alrpl&ne ** * Mi; souvenir. 5 Norway is investigating the posslblUijtlep Of elect rifvinK Its railways. . - . .; :av,;:v - = SWEDEN OPENS SCHOOLS FOR ALL Social Barriers to Re Removed In Re* organization of Educational System of Sweden. Stockholm.--Sweden's educational system faces reorganization the purpose of which is to place full educational advantages within close reach of every child in the land irrespective of social standing. , Under the new plan all of Sweden's public schools, from the elementary grades to the universities, will be coeducational. At present only the elementary schools and the universities receive both sexes. An important change will be- the elimination of several subjects as compulsory and the concentration of individual students on a smaller group of subjects logically related to the occupation or profession which most interests them. Students will be permitted to start specializing tnuch eafUer than at present. It is now proposed that, virtually the whole educational work of the country, with the exception of a few private schools, be taken over by the state. Tuition fees will be practically eliminated, and students will not be incumbered by the study of nonessential subjects. The estimated cost will be about $1,000,000 a year more <•*»«•» at present. It is proposed also to establish a school, new to the Swedish system of education, to be known as "lyceum" which In seven years will take a pupil directly from the elementary school to matriculation for the universities.. Among the languages offered under the new plsn will be Latin and Greek and three modern languages In add£ tlon to Swedish--namely, Kaglish, French and German. Here is an amusing example of the democracy and cosmopolitanism of America--three Japanese youngsters doing a Dutch dance; wooden shoes all, at a school In Monte Bello, Cal. $65,791,000 as the total lncosae \ celved 'by Its Inhabitants. These figures form part of an exhaustive Investigation of incomes In the United States, msde by the re-, search staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research, led by Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell. The bureau's report on "Distribution of Income by States," prepared by Oswald W. Knauth, shows the extraordinary diversity in the per capita income of people In different parts of the country. While per capita income In the United States as a whole in 1919 was $627, the per capita Income in the region embracing the Pacific states was $796 and In the middle Atlantic states $783. In the south central and east south central states the rate sank to $463 and $364, respectively. New York Stste also heads the list Of per capita Incomes, striking an average of $874. Nevada. California, Wyoming, Massachusetts and Washington are next with per cap!ta Incomes around $800. The people of the middle Atlantic ststes alone received more than one-fourth of the entire Income of the country In 1919, and with the east north central states received nearly one-half of IL On the other hand, the people of the twelve Southern states, comprising more than 21 per cent of the population, received less than 15 per cent of the total national Income. Farmers In the Pscific states In 1919 had an average Income of more than $2,800; In the west north central ststes their average was $2,300. These figures are In excess of the sverage of $1,160 for farmers In New England, $1,340 In south Atlantic states and less than $1,000 la the east south central states. The total Income of the south Is derived largely from farming. The south Atlantic states draw about one-fourth of their income from this source, snd the south central states shout onethird. The only other group of ststes thst Is equally dependent on farming Is the west north central states, which draw about one-third of their Income from this source. New England and the middle states draw less thau 4 per cent of the Income from agriculture. Father Believed Beth Boys were and Fled, but Returned Next , ^ ifrmw, 'j ***» Al,v«- * /t Ttfastfngs,' Neb.--Hastings ti'a distinction of having the only living/; / man on record ever shot clear throogH the body with an Indian arrow th«< arrow passing through his body and,- into the body of his brother, pinning «<,*•$* the two together. He Is Nat Martin*^ ?J§ He is now a retired farmer, living m. Hastings, seventy-four years of age^ r. strong and husky, and rather enJoy^v V'J exhibiting the arrows, showing the*» * wound in his side, and,telling of tint Incident. , '4 He and his brother, Robert, with their parents about 15 milea<'*' northwest of Hastings on a homestead.*," They had been with their father In | field all day making hay. It was toiy-i^^. ward evening when nine Indians rod$,'< , up on ponies, bent on stealing the Mar-j j tin horses. The father, who was odi * '3 one load of hay, began shooting, ancj-^ ts wounded two or three of the braves. " ^ One, slipping behind the wagon, shooting through the hay, the father. Father Wounded First. Thougfi wounded, he kept on lng as best he could as the hors&s ran • ,1} on toward the hqnse. The boys, riding^ together on a horse, started also for.., s home. The Indians tried to head theo| ,m / > off, but failing, began shooting froia, behind. The first arrow lodged In Nat's rlgh^u ' felbow, wedging Its head in hetweeC' the bones of the joint, and the shafl' . ^ was broken off. The second arrow ec|f '.' J tered his back. Just under the shouldei^ blade next to the backbone, passe^ * through the right lung, came out be»^; ; low the right breast, and stuck int|£ k Robert's backbone, pinning tfc$ Jwa*'.* - together. .* v f' Escaped Being Sealpedp^1* ;:'r^ The third arrow grazed hfs making a slight flesh wound, am lodged in Robert's hip. Thus pinne^ together the boys rode on until fatatV* from the wounds and loss of btoo*; f fell from the horse. In falling^ . e arrow was pulled througli Naffc 1 ;|f body. The Indians came up, thovgllt '* they were dead or would soon dle^" , and when one Indian suggested scalp** , - lng them, an old brave replied: "Pa-1$ •' poose scalp no good. No honor to papotve;" *3 Thought Boys Dead. ^ The father, seeing the boys ftttf 1114". supposing them dead, took the othef** -1 members of the family and fled for" safety to Fort Kearney. Meeting train of wagons he came back with' them to recover the bodies of his boys*-j The boys, in the meantime, manage#' to crawl to the barn, where they found next morning snd their 4 a See the world as a whole. Heroes of World War Watch Other Veterans March Pinned together- Rode On. dressed. Robert lived until about 28j< years ago. Nat is still living here in* Hastings. The arrows be proudly e*^.^, hiblts ure the arrows with which h«U-;^T;£ and his brother we«e wounded, and,4 the one that passed through Nat's bodyL^^- still has some of the blood stains la "s the groove of the arrow shaft. Real heroes ol the World war. many of tht-ni nutiiti i-u, group< review the parade of veteran* of the Civil, Spanish-American and tlon of the Disabled Veterans of the World war. " . . ; • ^ * 1" --t-- front 1 wars It'utim Francisco to <f the . ..liven- CUPID LETS DOWN THE U. S. Russian Refugee Stowaway Per- ' initted to Enter Country. Ftlit'Ofnoer of the Manitowoe Falls In Love With Girl He Found in Hid* lng on Ship--Passports •o ^ Are Waved.' -- Canada for 25 years tift* lost $60,000 000 annually through a failure to si gregate platinum from other tneUti f6und in northern Ontario^ . s a " ' r WastilhgtWu.--Love catf# Vivdenko, a Russian refugee stowaway on the high seas, after she and her companion. Evguenia Bonar, had been discovered biding on the American steamship Manitowoc, bound from the Black sea to Baltimore. When John Brakka, first offcer on the Manitowoc, ordered the trembling girls to. emerge from their hiding place, he little thought that before the voyage ended be would have plighted bis troth to Anna. But this is exactly what happened, and the bureau of immigration, Department of Labor, has set aside the recommendation of deportation made by the board of special Inquiry at Baltimore, and admitted them for six months. The State department, "for humanitarian reasons," waved passport requirements. Anna and Evguenia, the former a vocalist and typist, the latter an actress, were employed on tbe dock st Neveresslck, Russia, when the Manitowoc arrived for cargo. They conspired to stowaway en the American vessel and seek fame and fortune in the new land. Two Russian boys, with whom hey had worked, were taken Into the secret, and the four found a black hole big enough to accommodate them all. Two days out they were discovered, and their problem becams the problem of Capt Waldemar Knudsen. The captain decided to put the boys ashore at Messina, Italy, but the girls pleaded so piteousiy to be allowed to remain that his heart softened towards them. So, when soviet soldiers searched his ship at other Russian ports he found s hiding place for the girls and brought them to the United States. The barrier of language did not prevent John Brakke from speaking to Anna in the language of love, and before the ship reached Baltimore she bad. consented to become his wife. Anns sang small parts In Russian grand opera and Evguenia was an actress of ability, their papers show. Anna is nineteen and her companion twenty-one. Brakke is forty-one. When they reached Baltimore the girls' combined wardrobe consisted of three pieces and one bat. ^ . Abandons Three-Headed Krfien. Klkhorn, Wis.--Elkhorn mourns the death of Wyncken, Blinken and Nodd of Dr. L. H. Coulsou's cat family, which promised to make Elkhorn famous. Tbe kittens were born with one body but three heads. Life waa sweet until their mother, who felt disgraced by such odd-looking left for parta unknown. RAGGED MISER LEFT 169,000 Riches Found In Home of Man Wheas Body Almost Went to Potter's Field. * New York.--A ragged oid*mlser, went by the name of Leopold never spent more than 50 cents a day for food, left $69,000 in stocks and bonds and other valuables in his dingy home, in the East side of New York city, when he died. Discovery of the valuables was made when his property was searched in an \ > v*! effort to learn his real name for the^ white headboard on hla grave In the 4 potter's field. t Thirteenth Lightning Bolt K|}te llorseheads, X. Y.-- LiKhtnimt atxfe* lng for the thirteenth time on tifcp phureh property claimed its first tim by killing Newton Edgar, years old, who was playing tm plot where the church once stood. Women Win "Knicker" War. Traverse City, Mich.---The of this city have won s knlck war against Mayor Swanton. cently decreed that the women coold not wear knickers m the streets of

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