Lipscomb Lime Light and Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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DUST CLOUDS ENDANGER FLYING MEN
UNTIL CITY OFFIQALS SOLVE PROBLEM
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Spectators Can See Takeoff* Without Peril and Authorities
Breathe Easier—In Every Sense—Since Experts .
% Come to Aid of Aviators at Boston. ^
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The Spirit of St. Louis Landing at Boston Airport, South Boston, Mass. Insert
Shows "Lindy" and His Famous Smile. i
WHILE Col. Charles A. Lind-
bergh. fresh from his tri-
umphs in Central America
and the West Indies, is now looking
" tor new worlds to conquer aeronau-
tlcally, city and aviation officials are
planning new ways to make airports
safer.
Flyers are interested in the dust
problem not because they meet dust
aloft, but because they must reckou
with the proble.m when they are land
fng. .Officials are interested because
fbey are watchful over the ¥*fety of
ib&tisaiHit; of spectators filled Vith a
new zeal for aviation because of Col.
Lindbergh's prowess.
So seriously have the officials of the
Boston. Airport at South Boston real-
ized that question that they have con-
ducted special experiments with dust
laying apparatus and chemicals to de-
termine which are most effective.
The problem has arisen only in re-
cent years—one might say months—
with the Increase in "galleries" at the
big aviation fields. Public luterest
has become so aroused to flying that
It is no uncommon sight to see bun
dreds and even thousands of persons
— —..
gathered on the more popular fields
to see the takeoff in any one of the
big races.
Meu. women and children trample
over the fields before the start of the
fliers, tearing up the turf and earth
so that it may become quite dusty.
When the pilots are ready to take
off and the crowds pushed back be-
hind the ropes, the aviators may find
the field coveted with tine ciu1.
As the plane starts down the- run
way, the propeller whirring, great
clouds of dust arise, setting into the
eyes of airmen and spectators alike,
and creating a dangerous situation, j
To reduce that danger so far as
may be humanly possible, officials of
the South Boston Airport are using
calcium chloride, a chemical that be-
cause of Its affinity for moisture acts
as a perfect dust layer, much in the
same manner of a moist blanket over
the field.
Since that action was taken soma
months ago the officials have breanied
easier—in every sense of that expreB-
sion—and have made it possible for
spectators to observe takeotis without
peril to themselves or to the fliers.
FORCE ■ .ft E8; -
Uncommon Sense
By John blake
MENTAL INTOXICATION
Excitement is stimulating.
Ill tin- lives of most people
. there is little enough nf.it.
To do more work to get more money
to buy more food to gel more strength
to do more wink, etc., is not stlinu-
lating.
Into tb? lives of |!h* majority "£
people there eiitei-> little real exiife-
'jnelit. i
That explains why a whole factor?
full of girls will ru«-h to the windows
ut the sound of h police whistle of u
automobile crash in the street.
It explains why fires always draw a
crowd—why the sight of a crowd will
bring hundreds of other people to try
to wedge into It to see what caused
It to collect.
• • •
The passion for violent me'odr.imn
on lhe stage and the film causey wou-
der only in people who know vei y
little of the lives of others.
The little shop girl to whom on a
day is exactly like another, who goej
the same round of duties, with per-
hnp h dance on e or twice a
needs some sort of excitement.
Without it her life would be hardly
worth living.
• • •
There is drama and tragedy and
comedy ill life—and when It faith-
fully mirrored on the stage, or de-
scribed in the newspapers it has abun-
dant "spectators and readers.
For this reason the motion picture,
which is more easily brought o the
people than any other form of drama,
ought to confine lt tlf to ah attempt
to portray the exciting things in life,
without tawdry claptrap, and wildly
imagined situations.
It Is true that I hjs may not he at
present necessary in order to gvf au-
diences.
There are millions of people in the
world who.will go to see auy sort of
a picture that comes to the nearest
.(heater, for tiie lack of anything
In-lter.
Hut if there were less imitation of
life and more reflection of life the
crowds would come just the same, and
they Would be far more unlikely to
«^et weary of what they see.
The world is a little intoxicated
' wiih the "movies" now. and by and
i by It will wake up with a headache..
Perhaps the producers are aware
of this.
In any event they seem to be trying
to make picture* which are more
truly representative of human condi-
tions.
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Set Training Table*
; for Fighting Crickets
The sporting element in China has
been training tighiing crickets for
hundreds of years. Huge sums are
still bet on cricket fights and the own-
ers of champiou crickets are nation-
ally known. In his booklet, "Cricket
Champions of China," Dr. Bert hold
Laufer, famous sinologist of the Fieli;
Museum of Natural History, discloses
the interesting methods used by the
Chinese in trainiug these scrapping in
setts. Even in ancient times the train
: ers prescribed strict diets for the.i
i battlers. The usual diet consist of a
dish of rice mixed with fresh cucum
bers. boiled chestnuts, lotus seeds and
mosquitoes. Some of the owners and
fanciers allow themselves to be bit-
ten my mosquitoes, and when the mos-
quitoes are full of blood they are
given to their favorite crickets.
The fighting crickets are kept In
specially devised Jars, which 4re mad*
to serve as both summer and win
ter homes, - The Jars are furnished
with tiny beds and water Jars. The
champion crickets are transported in
finely wrought cages, some of which
are filigree gold.—Pathfinder Maga'
zlne.
Movie Star
Five year old Ethel had never at-
tended a picture show, but had heard
her brothers and sisters talk a great
deal about the "movie stais." One
cvetiing Ethel was out riding with her
parents after dark. It was a new e?
perience to Kthel to he Out driving
lute enough to see the stars, and she
*a* very much interested in watching
them. <>ne bright star In particular
attracted her 'attention:, and as the
iiuo i.;i e moved Ethel thou-id the star
was n:o\nig and said. "Mjiniina, that
must be a movie star."
One Thing Missing
Mrs. Newlywed rushed In from the
kitchen, a, smoking pie dish In tier
hands. J'he placed It on the tabl* la
fi t ut irf her huslibtid.
••There, dear," slve cooed "that's •
cottage pie."
•I'd have known It was cottage pie.''
he remarked after the fir?! few mouth-
. fuls.
"You would?" ahe asked, delighted.
"Yes." he replied. "I can 'taste tlia
! ibatched roof aaft the craiy paving.
But what did yon do with the £rfck«r
Now Cast Doubt on t:
My let Standish Tale
Cupt. MyleS' Standish may have
asked John Aldeu to propose to I'ris-
cilia Mullens for him, as Longfell. \*
wrote (there is historical doubt < n
the point), but 4£splte the means lie
may have taken the redoubtable sol-
dier was married twice and left uianj
children.
Proof of this has been foum?
through tweniy-one years' record
searching by Or. Myles Strmdi^h ol
Boston, eighth lineal descendant ol
the soldier.
"The legend about which Longfel-
low wrote 'The Courtship of Miie-
Standish' Is not very convincing." sui j
Doctor Standish. "Before coming f>'
America, CapLaln Standisli was lu
Holland and there he married his tirsf
wife, Ko^e. Hose died the first win-
ter in America. Later the soldiei
married Barbara, who Is said to 1mve
been a first cousin of Kose. 'J'hoj
bad several children. It Is between
the death of Rose and his marriage to
Barbara that the captain Is sitpp >se<t
to have courted Prlscilla. It is a
;>reity s tory."—Miami I>aU3 News.
SHARP DUST PARTICLES 'HOOK' THEIR WAY
INTO MEMBRANES AND DISEASE RESULTS
Science Tells Why Some Trades, Dry Sweeping and Mo-
toring on Certain Highways Are Dangerous to Health
in Bringing on Respiratory Maladies.
Cross-Section of Human Head Snowing Mucous
Membrane of Nose and Throat.
SCIENTIFIC research Is gradual
ly finding out why dust kills
one out of every seven persons.
The Harvard Medical School, the
United Stales Public Health Service,
various insurance companies and the
great labor organizations of the coun
txv are all interested iu the problem.
For example, according to Dr. L. R.
Thompson, of the United States Pub
lie Health Service, 'be sickness record
of granite workers shows that the
greatef part of illness proceeds from
respiratory conditions and that respir-
atory diseases are three t'm.es as prer
.ilent among granite workers a3 amoui:
• inkers In general Industry.
"Ir Is clear," said Dr. Thompson.
:.b«3 wherever there is a great
«t:n'.uni of granite dust there Is a dan
iron's hazard, a mortality which'
r-eeii'is inevitable, anj^ which is rising
ill tbe time."
Incident ally, acroi diu^ to Federal
Matistlcs, from 4,500,t)fl<l to G.^O'OlOf"
ernons are employed in tiie d;:st\
rade, bji! everyone, from the man
■a ho fears -dry- sweeping" by house-
wives ou front steps to the tuo
mrist who m i-' rind Ills wa> thrOugli
• loud-- of d'.i-t om j he highway. Is at'
ff-Cted b\ • !i * no'i4.j. e of ntie.pur'i '
in the air.
\'arl ut-.tli'-or.i-es have Vieetr piuposed
•o e.x|p;ti|] w.hv dust should be s'n i.i a
ianger io iie.ilrii, Tiie usual explatta
■:oii > •••!.< 1 he. . .inse In the lenderness
1 f the m.. - membrane iMiiiuv o:
:7he tliroif ami n«>se.
Hfcflithv thnuits and noses se< rete
■' i!d, tt-o mlk 11s, which Is juv. itfi
Brotherly Love
A large crowd was wulting 1 reath
lessly on ihe bt-ach. In lb« distatoe ai
small black object could he seen bob
tdng up and down on the crest of r 11 e ,
waves. It was a bottle and in-id-
was a message !
A party or brave men veiilund "tM
In a row boat to see what tragic new?
It contained. After fo'.iie difficulty ,tht
j bottle was picksd up and brought
i back to shore. With shaking fttigers
the leader of the party pulled oct rhe
meesage.
"The finder of this bottle." he '-ead
"might please send h to my brothei
in Aberdeen and t«U him to take 1( _r/vlir. Ll.wrtu
to the Plf and There 1* tyvo >OLIl IIUIllC IC« J/t
(>enc« on Answers. ^
dent to take care of.ordinary dust la
the air. If that amount should ba ex-
ceeded, the dust becomes too great
to be handled by* the mucus and the
dust penetrates into the deeper parts ,
of the body lining. ^
Dust is of various kinds, but wheth-1
er :jt is organic or Inorganic In origin
ihatTes no difference. V^hat makes
the' dust particles dangeroul Is tkal^j
shape. Particles that have sharp oor*;
nets, such, as duit from marble, metal,!
wood:or stiine, cut Into the membrane 1
very mi!< h as au old-fashioned knitting
needle cuts into worsted and thera
the dust particles become fastened.
The mucus fiuid referred to passes
over those particles, moving them to
and fro. and causing the membrane;
*o heroine tender and then Inflamed.
Should the prof ss become contlna-1
..us. as. so.nften happens, serious simisi
oini.it ions result and In aggraTatedj
i uses, tuberculosis may be their term!*
nal-kmi Tliat. ln brief, is what happens.
s..'icii- ><•? have tried with all |he
t-.-oincrs at their command to_eom*i
■bat dust iu the air, but SO far, with!
:i lev. excepMohs, the results baTe not,
he, j] fruitful. As & means of preten-V
■ :i, susgestfons have been made In
various quarters that the dnst ml^ht
ke laid w ith-some sort of physical or j
■•h'emlc'i' means and In many sections
of t!:e Cnlted States munlclpsutlsil
ha.v,« been laying the dust with SSl-'
•-.■'•mm ..chloi'lde. That Is a chemical j
■ -.pahle of absorbing a high degree of;
tiu.j'tui'e from.ihe air. hygroscopic, ltf
• •ailed..' wh'ch acts as a binder of J
Just on the highways. It alSo has
j.great: gexniicidal value.
LIME LIGHT a $1.50 a Year--tak«
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Skaggs, Ethel. Lipscomb Lime Light and Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1928, newspaper, May 31, 1928; Follett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth389621/m1/3/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Higgins Public Library.