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POPULAR CARTOONIST
IN LIMELIGHT
Summary by Bruce Morris
INTERPRETER OP THE
TIMID SOUL, by Jerome Beat
ty in National Home Monthly —
This is the story of H. T. Web
ster. When he was a boy in
Tomahawk, Wis , he bet a har
ness maker a million dollars he
would draw cartoons a million
people would see. He never re
ceived the million dollars but he
drew many famous cartoons.
Webster is the drawer of “The
Timid Soul” with Caspar Mil
quetoast;.
All of t.he bosses wanted him
to draw political cartoons but
he insisted upon funny ones.
He soon found that he was
right.
Webster got writer’s cramp
and he can barely sign his
name. But he was not discour
aged for he learned to draw
with his left hand.*
VIEWPOINT ON MEXICAN
ECONOMIC SITUATION
Summary by Frank Morris
THE MEXICAN CHALLENGE
by Carleton Beals in Current
History --According to this
article, before 1910 tl e foreign
ers in Mexico could do almost
anything short of murder and
get away with it. The Diaz dic
tatorship gave them big gobs of
land. The author says that the
tourists would ask whootrned
all the resources and would be
answered that the foieigriers
did. They would thtn ask what
the Mexicans did and they would
get a reply that the Mexicans
stood on street corners and
shouted “Viva Mexico!”
Now it is just the opposite.
The Mexicans say that the for
eigners >. ot the land for a song
and in shady ways. The Mexi
can government started to take
over the oil industry 23 yeais
ago, and, say8 Mr. Beals, almost
all of the foreign owners became
supporters of bandits and revo
lutionists to keep their so-called
property and avoid taxes.
STRATOSPHERE FLYING
COMING SOON
Summary by Frank Morris
AVIATION IS GOING UP
STAIRS, by Donald C. Keyhoe
in Cosmopolitan —Within six or
seven months, it is predicted,
five leading airlines will begin
joint experiments in stratos
phere flying.
The British have built a spe
cial plane to fly in the stratos
phere. It attains heights of 50,
000 feet and pilots have suits
that can go to 80,000 feet safely.
Italy has a division in which
pilots are being trained for mili
tary operations up in the strato
sphere.
According to the article,
speed has almost reached its
limits at lower levels and dan
ger has increased, for fast air
planes can go from good to bad
weather in a few minutes.
First to explore the stratos
phere was Maj. Ralph Shroeder.
While testing planes to find
their ‘‘ceilings” he discovered
quite an increase in speed at 26,
000 fee1. Each day he
climbed higher. When about
eight miles high the plane
stopped bump n£ around and
flew very steadily. He had
passed into the stratospheie.
His oxygen became low. As he
lifted his double goggles to look
for his reserve flasks he knocked
the oxygen tube from his
mouth. He got diz'/y. His eyes
froze and turned up in their
sockets. He automatically dived
down and recovered conscious
ness, pulled his eyes down and
saw the ground coming at him
at 600 feet a second. He pulled
out at 1800 and landed, still al
most blind. That was in 1920.
The future ship that will be
completd inside of *ix or Seven
months will have a double cabin
to hold in the air. The air is
forced into the cabin with super
chargers and cooled in wing
radiators after being compress
ed. The temperature is 69 be
low* at 25.000 feet and the plane
travels 300 miles per hour. The
cruising level will be 50,000 feet
Alaska Motes
(By William Humpheries. 4th.)
They are building a new tun
nel at the Nukalaska mine at
Nuka bay. The gold mine is go
ing to run all year round
Oil geologists are looking for
oil on the Alaska penninsula.
Some big coinpaties are taking
over the oil hunt.
The Evans Jones mine is busy
mining good coal.
The M. S. Polar Bear was
stranded on a beach in Red Pox
bay. it was found that way by
the TT.S.CG.C. Morris. The
crew was found safe and
sou nd.
Lots of newcomers are with
out jobs in Fairbanks. Some
have found jobs though.
In a trip this summer, five
Outside collegians and a profes
sor are going to find the route
of the Indians from Asia into
Alaska.
The people of Juneau voted
for public ownership in a straw
vote. Pome other towns voted
against it.
The Alaska railroad is going
to get $200,000 from PER A
funds.
The steamers Nenana and A
lice are going to have a lot of
work out of Nenana.
They are going to build a new
hospital at Pt. Barrow. It is
to be constructed by Chas. D.
Brower, It will hold more than
25 patients.
The Eska mine is going to
close down.
and the speed over 400 miles
per hour. The plane will have
to start gliding when 200 miles
away from the landing field.
In the future, airline officials
expect cruising speed of from
800 to 1,000 miles per hour,
keeping pace with the sun. lu
relation to the sun, the plane
will stand still, and will hang in
space as the earth rotates, wag
ing for the landing field to come
around.
Science
MOON AND WEATHER
The moon Is a small world,
somewhat like our own. It has
mountains and craters, but no
water or air. The craters are
sometimes hundreds of miles a
cross. The smallest are bigger
than the biggest of ours.
It was once thought- there
were rivers and seas on the
moon, but it was later proven
that there are none. Since
there* is no atmosphere, there
is nothing to wear away the
mountains, and they stay sharp
and rugged. '
Approximately once each
month the moon travel all the
way around the earth. When
the moon is located somewhere
between the earth and the sun,
we have what is called new
moon. Then the moon cannot be
seen because the side of the
moon facing us is having night,
and the side away from us is be
ing lit up by the sun. When
the moon has traveled around
the earth so that we are on the
same side of it as the sun, it is
full, because we can see the side
on which the sun is shining.
When the moon is half way a
round between new and full, we
see quarter moon, because the
sun is shining on only half of
the half that we see, and the rest
of the sunlight is falling on th<*
part of the moon that we can’t
see.
The moon always presents
the same side to us as it goes a
round the earth. Therefore no
body on this world knows what
is on the opposite side of the
moon
You can easily understand
how all of these things are if you
take a light to represent the sun
and two other objects for the
earth and moon. Place your
earth at some distance from the
sun, and your moon a short wav
from the earth. Then make the
moon travel around the earth,
keeping the same face toward it.
and you will see how the moon
changes its appearance to us as
the light falls on different parts
of it.
Some people think that they
can prediet the weather by the
phases of the moon. But the
moon is gradually changing its
appearance all the time. It just
happens that quarters and
hal ves are noted on the calen
dar. Therefore there is no rea
son to expect the weather to get
a sudden jolt when the moon
reaches a new phase. There is
nothing about phases to change
the weather anyhow. —FM