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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1914.
ITS CHIEF FUNCTION.
The chief function of the new cur
rency law, says an exchange, is to
make it easier for men engaged in
current business to get the legili
mate accommodations necessary for
their business. The law makes a bank
panic impossible because it will al
ways be possible to get money on
good assets.
There is no magical money- produc
ing machine in the new laV. It will
not help men in selling blue sky or
floating wildcat undertakings. But
there are periods of stringency every
year, particularly when money is
needed in crop transactions, when
the legitimate needs of business suf
fer. The new law provides the rem
edy fo rtliis by making it possible for
a business man to borrow money at
all times on good commercial paper.
It places a tangible, negotiable val
ue on a business man’s sound assets,
instead of depreciating them because
of real or imaginary currency short
ages.
Incidentally, the law will prevent
the concentration of the country’s re
serves in New York and so is design
ed to favor the commercial business
of the country instead of the specu
lative business of the New York Stock
Exchange where a large share of
these funds have been used.
For the existing unrelated banking
units it will substitute a system. In
stead of fierce competition of the past
among the banks in times of stress
it proposes co-operation and pooling
of reserves which will permit of their
being directed to where they will do
most good.
Under the new system we should
never again see perfectly solvent
banks obliged to close their doors be
cause of inability to make their as
sets available to meet the demands
of depositors, nor should we ever
again see business men, as in the
past, compelled to pay—in certified
checks on clearing house institutions
—a high premium for currency of any
kind to meet their payrolls and ready
money obligations.
Orville Wright’s ‘Tool-proof stabil
izer” for aeroplanes is a much-need
ed invention, but will the foolhardy
consent to use it? If dips and loops
and somersaults are made perfectly
safe, what attraction will they have
for the crowd?
The English courts have ruled that
a Norwegian sprat does not become
a sardine’ by being soaked in oil.
The decision will not help the sprat
any, so long as it persists in tasting
like a real s.'rdine.
An eminent French scientist r com
mends wagging the.ears as the surest
cure for deafness. Sounds reasonable,
but some of us refuse to admit that
we do not possess that great accom
plishment.
Uncle Bill' says: ‘‘Somehow there
is not much kickin’ about the white
slave traffic in so far as it relates to
the buyin’ and sellin’ of baseball play
ers.”
“Hens need to be amused,” says
a farm expert in the St. Paul Pio
neer Press. All right. Let them read
the stories of the egg boycotts.
Widow Barred aa Traffic Menace.
Adelaide L. Bosford, a wealthy wid
ow, aged 80, was ordered today by
Police Judge McDonald not to drive
her electric automobile Inside the
business district of Pasadena, as she
was a menace to public safety.
Chinese Chop Suey and Noodles at
the Valdez Cafe, after 7 p. m. t!
Suits pressed for 91.00 at Silver
man’s, the tailor. Telephone 198.
The Valdez Electric Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 67.
The Valdes Elec trio Co. sells Mazda
lamps. Telephone 67.
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EGGS NOW AT THE HUNG POINT;
NOT ALLTNEYI CRACKED UP TO BE
Experts Affront the Famous Woman Offers High Price
Hen—Cheaper Foods Just Solution — Remarkable
as Nourishing. Discovery Reported.
FOlt some time past tile hen’s egg
has had a prominent place in
the news along with the trouble
in Mexico and other important
topics of the day. Boycotts have been
' started in various parts of the country
, to banish the egg from the home until
■ its price cume down. Even women of
! tlie cabinet in Washington have align
i ed themselves In the fight. And now
j come three interesting announcements
, —one that the food value of eggs Is
overrated, another that the uso of dried
eggs by the American housewife is
the best way to hold down the cost of
"strictly fresh” and a third that a new
process of preserving eggs has been
discovered which is said to excel the
cold storage method.
Chicago women who have refused to
! join the egg boycott because of their
regard for the food value of the egg
have Just been presented with food
figures prepared by the state food com
mission, which show that the product
of the hen is overrated. After a con
ference between Mrs. John C. Bley and
John B. Newman, assistant state food
commissioner, and Dr. J. C. Johnstone,
state analyst, a chart was prepared
showing that the consumer must pay
more for the food value of eggs than
of twenty other common foods.
gressional inquiry into tlie methods of
the "cold storage trust,” was present
at the hearing and said the testimony
of the woman expert of the depart
ment of agriculture showed the neces
sity of tlie enactment of his bill to
regulate cold storage.
Result of Cold Storage Inquiry.
After several weeks of Investigation
over (he United States, officials of the
department of justice have reached
tlie conclusion that there is little
ground for belief that a nation wide
cold storage trust exists. Every Unit- !
ed States attorney in the country
was pressed Into service for n quick
survey of the cold storage field, and
the reports' of all to Washington indi
cated that, while combinations have
been formed In a few of the largo cit
ies, there is no reason to believe that
there is a cold storage trust controlling
tlie price of eggs and other products
in all parts of the country.
Sufficient evidence has been forth
coming, however, to show that in some
of the cities such combinations do ex
ist, and the department already has
turned its attention to a more careful
scrutiny of the operations of cold stor
age men there.
Lescarde Preservation Method.
! Tim imiv 11,'..,....-.' .ir nrauAn'Iiin
Cheaper and Just as Good.
According to the chart, the nutrition
in eggs is more expensive than in
cream or cottage cheese, white, whole
wheat or corn bread, oatmeal, milk,
bacon, pork chops, lamb chops, round
steak, rice, potatoes, parsnips, navy
beans, apples, bananas, prunes and
raisins.
“With eggs at 45 cents a dozen,"
said Mr. Mewman, “a woman can save
20 cents if she substitutes lamb chops,
round steak or oatmeal. She will save
40 cents if she buys beans. Six cents’
worth of rice, potatoes, corn or white
bread will furnish the same amount of
food value as a dozen eggs.”
The chart showed also that 14 cents'
worth of bacon, prunes, bananas or
pork chops would do the work of 45
cents' worth of eggs; 7 cents’ worth
of raisins or whole wheat bread, 17
cents’ worth of cream cheese and 27
cents’ worth of cottage cheese; 1C
cents’ worth of milk or parsnips and
i 25 cents’ worth of apples,
i “Our computations are from prices
i on the open market,” said Dr. John
j stone.
Woman's Plan to Cut Price.
, That the American housewife may
combat the "egg trust" by using fro
zen and dried eggs Is the suggestion
that lias been offered before the house
committee on agriculture by Dr. M. 13.
Pennington, tlie woman egg expert of
the department of agriculture. Dr.
Pennington, who is in charge of the
food research work of the department,
is stationed in Philadelphia. Site has
I furnished the committee with her ex
planation of Hie prevailing high prices
on eggs.
“Imperfect transportation methods,
poor packing, undeveloped casings and
failure of farmers to market properly
their eggs are causes of the present
high prices," she declares. "Frozen
and dried eggs soon will be marketed
in small quantities available to the
average household, instead of only to
linkers."
Dr. Pennington says eggs should not
be kept more than ten months in cold
storage. “Hard frozen eggs will keep
a year," she continues, "and they will
be made eventually more available.
Dried eggs are now sold 111 small cans,
and the dried and frozen kinds will
supplant in time the cold storage va
riety. The dried and frozen eggs can
he used by families, and they do hot
lose any of their nutritive value.
There is no deterioration in quality of
frozen and dried eggs, which are now
packed under scrupulous care."
The packing of frozen and dried
eggs, says Dr. Pennington, saves mil
lions of eggs annually and helps to
keep down the price of the storage
and "strictly fresh” product.
Representative XlcKellur of Tennes
see. who is leading the fight for a eou
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FUTURISTS TO PAINT SOUNDS.
"Screaming" Reds, Green* and Yellow*
Will Be Employed.
Tbe "painting of souuds, noises and
smells” is the latest ambition of tbe
most advanced school of Paris futurist
avtist8. Sounds, noises and smells, they
affirm, "are incorporated in the ex
pressions of lines, volumes and colors
just as lines and colors are incorporat
ed in tbe architecture of musical work.
From the point of view of form there
are sounds, noises and smells which
are concave or convex, triangular, el
lipsoidal, oblong, conical, spherical,
etc. From tbe point of view of color
they are yellow, red. Indigo, sky blue
and violet”
In the world of sport and mechanics
che sounds arc almost always red. In
-afes, restaurants or saloons they are
dlverlsb, yellow and violet. As fur
• he sounds, noises and smells of ani
.nals, they ate yellow and Wue; of wom
en. green, eky Wue and violet
which is said to ho better tJmu cold
storage, Is aunomiced by M. Lescarde,
a Frenchman. The process lias readi
ed the manufacturing stage, and
plants are starting operations, ono in
France mid ono in Belgium. As every
one knows, the ordinary methods of
cold storage for eggs are far from
perfect, partly perhaps because cer
tain microbes withstand freezing tom
perature without serious hurt. More
over, eggs as ordinarily handled are
affected by the surrounding air through
the effects of evaporation. For these
reasons prolonged cold storage mark
edly impairs the value of eggs.
It Is found that by the Lescarde
process eggs may lie kept as long as
ten mouths, while the limit for the
customary process is about four
months, says the Scientific American.
The eggs are set up upon a piece of
cardboard provided witli suitable per
forations. There are 100 holes in each
slab, which forms the-cover of a tin
lined wooden box containing two in
candescent lamps, so arranged that
flie light passes through Hie eggs and
is viewed by the operator. It is thus
easy to detect any spoiled eggs, and
it takes but a few seconds to examine
tile entire 100 eggs.
The next stage consists in packing
tile eggs in special metal boxes, in
which they are treated with carbonic
I acid gas and nitrogen.
Eggs Immune From Gas.
Tlio boxes lire then ready to lie tak
en to (lie sterilizer, which consists of
a large cylindrical tank. The boxes
are stacked upon roller trucks, which
arc then run upon rails to the tank.
The tank is tirst of all exhausted to
extract the gases or air from the air
pocket of the eggs and also the gases
dissolved in the albumen. Then car
bonic acid gas is sent into the appa
ratus from steel bottles containing
compressed or liquefied gas.
After admitting a certain amount
the gas Is shut off for a time, while it
continues to be absorbed by the albu
men of (lie eggs, fresh gas is then
let in. when the pressure is seen to fall,
and this is kept up until the eggs ab
sorb no more gas.
When the proper point in this oper
ation is readied the carbonic acid gas
is shut olf. anil a portion of it is then
again extracted by pumping, to lie re
placed by a certain amount of nitro
gen fed from compressed gas cylin
ders.
The eggs are now ready to lie taken
t i tin* cold storage quarters, where
they can lie kept for a long period of
time. These storage rooms need no
special precautions as to the state of
the air or the amount of dampness, as
tills can have no effect upon the eggs.
Accordingly the storage chambers are
cooled by a simple brine circulation,
and the temperature is kept about at
the freezing point.
RADIUM TO PROPEL SHIPS.
Possibility' Pointed Out by Scientist.
8ays Ocean Holds 20.000 Tons of It.
The possibility of driving ships by
radium was suggested recently by C.
E. S. Phillips at the Cancer hospital in
London. He said radium In solution
decomposes water, giving off an ex
plosive mixture of gas.
The lecturer produced this gas, which,
fused by an electric spark, exploded
and drove a small ftin.
He said there were 20.000 tons of
radium in the ocean and thnt the
world's eoul supply will be exhausted
200 years hence.
Goes u|Moar Heaven" to Dio.
"1 want to get just as near heaven
as I can," said Joseph Richter to an
acquaintance at Oreat Notch, near
Passaic. N J. He was told that the ,
nearest be could get to heaven about
lliere war on top of Oreat Notch
mountain. He went there dud,shot j
himself
n~he Home of
Hart Schafrner
Marx
g Clothes g
TWENTY-FIVE dollars isn’t much
money to spend for a suit of
clothes; when you come to know what
first-class quality of materials and
tailoring, and what restfulness of
mind as to style that price commands,
you will almost think it isn’t enough
to pay. We carry a large line. 1
Boy Scouts and the Gangs.
A Kansas City juvenile judge makes
this statement: “If every boy in the
city would jo!n the Boy Scouts the
gangs would disappear, the Juvenile
court soon would be a stranger to
the youth, and we would rear a gen
eration of men that would not re
quire much police protection. I have
never had a Boy Scout in my court,
and there 1,200 of them in Kansas
City.” This splendid tribute to an
organization scarcely four years old
is a well-merited one. Boys are small
bundles of corked up enthusiasm.
This enthusiasm must have a vent.
If there be no other outlet the gang
is the result. The Boy Scout organ
ization teaches outdoor life, self-reli
ability, a love of nature and a desire
to help rather than hinder those in
need. The first aid to the injured is
one of the first accomplishments.
There is nothing miBtary about the
organization and yet the boys are
taught a wholesome discipline- and
a respect for the rights of others.
Cook wanted by Mrs. Carleton tit
fort Llscum; call or phone Mrs. Car
leton.
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