The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 59, Ed. 1 Monday, May 14, 1934 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Mysterious Isles Are
Puzzle to Map-Makers
[Play “Hide and Seek’
Elude Charting.
and
Washington. — Despite numerous
| Bteamer lanes and the even more nu-
merous tracks of wandering freighters
(that crisscross the oceans of the world,
i there are still many islands seen only
at intervals of years, and others that
) seem to elude the closest search. Some
| typical examples of these elusive is-
' lands are dealt with in a bulletin from
the National Geographic society.
“The world’s newest mystery island
has been discovered by an Eskimo cap-
tain, Takpuk, of Point Barrow, Alas-
ka,” says the bulletin. “In 1931 he
beached his small whaling sloop on
an islet northeast of Point Barrow, a
bit of land unmarked on any of the
charts of that region. He was armed
with a camera, and the photographs
which he took show slightly rolling,
moss-covered land dotted with many
small ponds. Few heard of his dis-
covery until the explorer, Stefansson,
recently announced his belief in it.
The island is too large to be ice, cov-
ered with rocks and soil, as some have
suggested.
Annexed Mythical Land.
“Another island which has long baf-
fled explorers received a visit the other
day from the British sloop, Milford,
bound for the Antarctic. Bouvet is-
land, which the Milford reached after
a stormy voyage, is an icy point of
rock in the South Atlantic. It was
first sighted in 1739, by a French na-
val officer who thought it a part of the
Antarctic continent. Capt. James Cook
later looked for it in vain, but proved,
by sailing far to the south, that if it
existed at all it must be an island.
“Whaling captains in the early
eighties reported finding not only Bou-
vet, but two other islands. These
were named Lindsay and Thompson,
and were marked on very recent maps.
In fact, when Norway annexed Bouvet
in 1927, Thompson was included in the
claim. However, when the exploring
steamer, Discovery II searched the re-
gion carefully in 1931, no trace was
found of either Thompson or Lindsay,
and they have since been erased from
all charts.
“Although the polar regions have
their share, the Pacific ocean is the
real home of elusive islands. There
islands come and go with a sudden-
ness that is the despair of mapmakers
and empire" builders. For instance,
there is little Sarah Ann, an incon-
spicuous dot in mid-Pacific. No one
paid any attention to Sarah Ann until
it was discovered from charts that she
will be the only land in the path of the
eclipse of the sun that will occur in
1937. An eclipse of the sun cannot
be observed with accuracy from a boat,
so astronofners were delighted to find
Sarah Ann in such a convenient spot.
What was their dismay to discover
that the island does not appear on the
latest charts, and has not been seen
for over a decade.
Bobs Up and Down.
“And there is Falcon island in the
Tonga group. Falcon has appeared
and disappeared twice within the last
century. The island is alternately cre-
ated by the eruption of a submarine
volcano, and worn away by the ac-
tion of sea and weather. Each time
Falcon appears, an official party puts
out in a boat, plants a flag on the new-
born land, and claims it in the name
of the ruler of Tonga.
“The arbitrary behavior of these is-
lands has its tragic side. When the
Island of Tuanaki, in the Cook group,
disappeared in 1836 more than 13,000
inhabitants, it is estimated, lost their
lives. Men who had left the island on
fishing trips returned to find an un-
broken expanse of water where their
homes had been.
“A glance at a present-day map of
the Pacific reveals no land between
Hawaii and Panama, yet earlier charts
show a group of islands roughly half-
way between these two points. In
1860 a U. S. sloop-of-war, the Levant,
sailed from Honolulu for Panama and
disappeared. Months later a broken
spar and bits of a vessel identified as
the Levant were washed up on the
Hawaiian shore. This would indicate
that the ship had been wrecked, yet
no land was known to exist on the
course she sailed. Wild stories circu-
lated. Perhaps the survivors were
still living on some unknown island.
It was on the Levant that Edward
Hale had placed his hero, the Man
Without a Country; and some even
suggested that Philip Nolan might
still be found. In 1904 the U. S. cruis-
er Tacoma made a careful search In
the region where the island was sup-
posed to exist, but discovered noth-
ing.”
HE SEEKS A TOGA
In Indiana where politics is rated
as important as eating or sleeping, the
Hoosiers are looking forward to the
most heated senatorial race in many
a year. Prof. Clarence Manion, who
is head of Notre Dame's law college,
is the seventh candidate to put his hat
in the ring for the Democratic nomi-
nation for junior United States sen-
ator. He is considered one of the
state’s ablest orators and has been the
patronage director for northern Indi-
ana for the McNutt administration.
Will Test Device to Detect Earthquakes
California Scientists to Try Jap
Invention.
Berkeley, Calif.—Earthquake pre-
dicting devices, which, it is hoped, may
enable scientists to foretell earth
movements hours before they occur,
are being tested at the University of
California.
Patterned after a Japanese invention,
the Instruments are designed to meas-
ure infinitesimal tilting of the earth’s
surface, which Japanese seismologists
claim they have noted before earth-
quakes.
The devices have been installed near
the Hayward fault line along the
lower slope of the Berkeley hills.
Since the instruments were installed
there have been no movements of any
magnitude along the fault, Prof. Byer-
ly, United States seismologist, said,
and even if it should be proved that
tilting is a precursor of earthquakes,
years might be required to work out a
Influx of Twins Stirs
Up Indian Medicine Men
Gallup, N. M.—Two pairs of Navajo
twins in as many days on the Navajo
reservation has set medicine men
chanting and shaking rattles as they
foresee an early end of the world.
Ancient Naski Nayah, survivor of
the Mexican captivity and venerable
medicine man of the tribesmen, ex-
plained that “all babies must be born
before the end of the world. Now
I .. the births are coming in pairs and the
|jf end is near.”
Until recently, Navajo twins have
been exceedingly rare. Twin boys are
held sacred and girls born in pairs
are distinguished. Four sets of Nav-
ajo twins have been born at the Reho-
both Mission hospital east of here
within the last year. Ten sets of
twins have arrived at the mission with-
in the last six and one-half years.
The belief of Na.sk; Nayah that the
world is facing an early end is shared
by other medicine men of the tribe.
Old men of the tribe all ready set to
muttering prayers at the arrival of
twin boys to the Charles Mannings
were thrown into confusion and fear
when the squaw of -Simon Demons
gave birth to a pair of daughters 48
hours later.
Giant Thermometer Now
Adorns the Eiffel Tower
Paris.—With the installation of a
mammoth thermometer on the Eiffel
tower, Parisians and other Paris
dwellers can tell exactly when to shiv-
er and sink deeper into their mufflers
and when to emerge and breathe a
few breaths of fresh air. Shortly be-
fore his death, the Italian, Jacopozzi,
expert electrician and father of elec-
trical displays on store fronts during
the Christmas holidays, submitted the
design for the huge thermometer. It
was approved as a permanent fixture
to the Citroen display and has been
erected.
Takes Picture of Child
3 Minutes After Birth
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.—Walter
Materna received double congratula-
tions recently. He is not only a proud
father but the world’s champion new
baby photographer.
Materna, a commercial photographer,
took a picture of his daughter three
minutes after she was born.
This time, he says, betters the world
record of twelve minutes established
by E. Stanley Martin, Terre Haute,
Ind.
Kaiser Remembers Guardi
Riley, Kan.—Henry Swart, a farmer
near here who served as Kaiser Wil-
helm’s bodyguard 30 years ago, re-
cently received a picture card from the
emperor. “My thanks for faithful mem-
ories,” a message on the card read.
technique of forecasting, he believes.
Some tilting has been observed on
the instruments, but it has been at-
tributed to rains and consequent
swelling and movement of the surface.
The instruments were designed by
George E. Merritt, formerly of the
United States bureau of standards,
and were installed by the United
States geodetic survey. Tilting is de-
tected by observing the movement of
oil held in a bowl over which a plate
of glass is suspended parallel to the
oil’s surface.
If tilting occurs the surface of the
oil is no longer parallel to the plate of
glass. Even though this change may
be too slight to be observed by the
naked eye, it can be determined by
reflecting a beam of light simultane-
ously from the lower surface of the
glass and the top surface of the oil.
When the two surfaces are exactly
parallel the light is reflected without
interference, but if the oil has moved
in relation to the glass some of the
light waves interfere with each, other
and a pattern is formed.
Catfish May Tell Quake
Secrets to Japanese
Osaka, Japan.—Officials of the Osa-
ka weather bureau are engaged in the
admitted difficult task of making some
50 catfish tell what they know about
earthquakes.
For several years scientists at the
Tohoku Imperial university have no-
ticed that catfish are disturbed at
other times also. Chief Ohashi, direc-
tor of the bureau, hopes to learn by
Close observation whether the catfish
gives a reaction sufficiently distinct to
enable him to forecast earthquakes ac-
curately. He has installed the catfish
in a tank at his home, where toe will
study their sign language.
Old Gallows Condemned
Beise, Idaho.—Idaho’s gallows at
Nama, used to hang the state’s mur-
derers for the last quarter century, has
been condemned by Warden Ira Tay-
lor as a “bad influence” on younger
prisoners. The last time it was used
was in 1926 when John Jurko of Twin
Falls was hanged. A new one will be
constructed when the need arises, the
warden said.
Can Sing 118 Ballads
Atlanta, Ga.—A Georgia mountain-
eer known as “Fiddlin’ John” Carson
can sing 118 mountain folk ballads
from memory and play the accompani-
ments on his violin. He won first prize
at the Georgia fiddlers’ convention for
eight consecutive years.
Makes Photos of Stomach’s Interior
Farmer Sleepwalks
and Does Milking
Three Forks, Mont.—A farmer,
whose name the sheriff obligingly
is keeping secret, registered a com-
plaint that his dairy herd was be-
ing milked by marauders nearly
every night.
Deputies kept wqitch for several
nights before they Saw the farmer
himself, in nightgown and carpet
slippers, walk in his sleep to the
barn, milk the cows, pour the milk
into his pig-sty, and somnambulate
hack to bed.
HAS NATION TO
LEARN TO PLAY?
Leisure Problem From New
Point of View.
The use of leisure, as most of us
nre aware, is the final test of civil-
ization. When, therefore, a gentle-
man like John W. Davis expresses
the fear, as he did a short time ago,
that less than eight hours of work a
day will lead to the demoralization
of the American people he is im-
pugning their capacity in the mass
to pass this test. Perhaps he is
right. It is an old aristocratic view,
supported by philosophers from Plato
to Nietzsche, that only a small mi-
nority of any race is equipped to
loaf and at the same time invite the
soul. But the very convenience of
this theory to those who enunciate
it renders it suspect. Where in his-
tory has it ever had adequate dem-
onstration?
However, there can be no question
that the NRA program substantially
to reduce the hours of toil for an
entire population while providing
every one with a living wage, will,
if successful, present an immediate
problem. It is perfectly true that
the American people, considered as a
whole, do not now know how to play.
With the pressure on them during
three centuries to subdue a conti-
nent they have never had a proper
chance to learn. Their idea of justi-
fication by work has been so in
ingrained that with the manipulation
of labor-saving inventions they have
merely increased the tempo of their
efforts to keep pace with their ma-
chines. The result has been the sub-
stitution of excitement frr leisure in
the few hours they have allowed them-
selves away from their jobs. Their
pleasure-seeking is hectic, intemper-
ate, the reverse of relaxing. They
need education in the art of idleness.
We much prefer the latter phrase
to “self-improvement.” The two may
be basically synonymous, but self-im-
provement suggests a too conscious
cultivation of the good life which is
more than likely to fail of its object.
And it is on this point that we would
warn the committee of eminent citi-
zens, including Mr. Davis, appointed
by Mr. Whalen to tackle the prob-
lem. Their precepts will do more
harm than good if they are aimed
at teaching the wmrkers of New
York how they may avoid loafing in
their spare time. Their pupils will
resent the pious “uplift” implied.
On the other hand, should this com-
mittee—and others of its kind which
no doubt will soon be springing up
over the country—devote itself to
celebrating the joys of real loafing
as distinct from excitement chasing,
it may in the end get somewhere and
do America an enormous service—
no less a one than that of helping
it to become truly civilized.—New
York Herald Tribune.
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