The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Monday, July 3, 1922 Page: 3 of 8
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THE LEXINGTON LEADER
EXPERIMENTAL HIGHWAY WORK AT
ARLINGTON WILL BE CONTINUED
228SSK
HOME
TOWN
HELPS
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Device for Testing and Measuring the Smoothness of Roads.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
A comprehensive program of road-
building research and investigation
during the coming season at the Ar-
lington Experimental station near
Washington, D. C., Is announced by
the bureau of public roads of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture. Impact tests on pavements,
subgrade studies and other experi-
ments, which last year aroused much
interest among engineers, will be con-
tinued as well as several other lines
of work underway last year and new
ones to be started.
Bituminous wearing surfaces are to
be investigated to determine the rea-
son for the formation of waves and
irregularities and to settle mooted
questions concerning the proper mix-
ture and the proper mineral aggregates
to be used in bituminous roads. More
than 30 sections of different types of
bituminous construction will be built.
These will Include mixtures of differ-
ent mechanical grading and with
different percentages of bitumen of
several degrees of hardness. Sections
are being constructed on a circular
i rack about 600 feet in circumference,
the roadway being 13 feet wide. On
tills roadway will be operated a 5-
ton army truck equipped with solid
tires. The truck will be operated in a
varying path so as to cover practically
the entire width of the roadway and
will travel at a speed of from 12 to
15 miles an hour for five or six
months, or until some results are ob-
tained leading to the solution of the
problems Involved.
Resistance to Wear.
There is considerable discussion us
to what is tiie proper criterion to be
used In selecting and Judging concrete
aggregates that will offer the great
est amount of resistance to wear. At
the present time judgment is based
<m wear tests made In the laboratory
and upon the compressive strength of
concrete, also upon the structural
strength of concrete beams constructed
and broken in the laboratory. The com-
parison of the wear of concrete in
actual use on road surfaces with
the indications obtained in laboratory
experiments is not wholly satisfac-
tory.
To throw more light on this sub-
ject a wear test is to be made with
the conditions approximating those
actually found on the road. This test
will include about 05 sections of con-
crete wearing surface, each section
being of a different quality of con-
crete, the qualities being varied by
virtue of the different aggregates used,
different proportions in the mixture
and amount of mixing water. These
sections are to be constructed on a
circular runway about 650 feet in cir-
cumference, the runway being 4 feet
wide.
On this runway will be operated a
specially constructed car with two
truck wheels equipped with, solid
rubber tires and loaded to represent
a truck. The car will be guided by
small railroad rails to hold it in posi-
tion, the power being applied by means
of an electric motor to the rear wheel.
This apparatus will be operated around
the circular runway at a speed of
probably 20 miles an hour. The test
will involve the use of truck wheels
equipped with different kinds of tires
and will include the use of non-skid
chains. A steel-tired wheel will
probably also he used to get the effect
of an accelerate^ wear test.
The object of this experiment Is to
determine the relative wear of the
different concrete sections when sub-
jected to traffic equipped with differ-
ent types of wheel, also to furnish a
comparison between actual service
conditions and laboratory tests. This
test will be in operation continuously
beginning some time In June.
Impact on Roads Studied.
In a rather elaborate series of ex-
periments, the bureau has studied Im-
pact of trucks on roads, and has de-
termined approximately the magnitude
of Impact force under different truck
and road conditions. The effect of
such impact on concrete pavements
and several types of road on concrete
base was studied and reported on last
year. This series of experiments Is
to be continued and enlarged. Over
120 road sections or slabs have been
constructed In duplicate series. One
series is on a carefully drained dry
subgrade; the other series Is on the
same kind of subgrade except that It
is kept wet and as nearly saturated
as possible by means of an underlying
drain tile and side ditches filledNwith
water.
The testing of these slabs will be-
gin some time during the month of
May and will, he by means of a new
impact machine now being constructed
which simulates the action of the rear
wheel of a truck. On this machine
may be mounted truck wheels of differ-
ent sizes and weights carrying differ-
ent kinds of truck tires. This ap-
paratus may be so operated as to re-
produce the different loading and
STAND UP FOR THE TOWN
Here Is a Little Argument in Verse
by Writer Who Has Proper
Idea of the Matter.
t know my town, and I love my town.
And I want to help It t>e
Ah great a town to every one
As It seems to be to me!
I praise my town and I cheer my town, (
And I try to spread Its fame,
And I know what a splendid thing ;
'twould be
If^you would do the same!
I trust my town and I boost my town,
And I want to do my part
To make It a town that all may praise
From the depths of every heart!
I like my town and I sIhk my town,
And I want my town to grow;
If I knocked my town or I blocked my
town,
That wouldn't be nl<e, you know!
1 think my town Is the very best town
Tn all the world—to me!
Or If It's not. I want to get out
And try to make It be!
I talk my town and I prea< h my town.
As I think a fellow should
Who has more at stake than to win or
make
For the love of the common good!
I bet on my town, and I bank on my
town, .
And I think It fine to feel-
When you know your town and you love
your town—
That It's part of your honest zeal
I'm proud of my town, I love my town,
And 1 want to help It rise-
And that's the way to help a town—
Not curse It and despise.
—Baltimore Sun.
"Made Ma Well and Strong"
ANOTHER WOMAN WHO IS THANKFUL FOR
PE-RU-NA
"I h Tt taken tereral bottle* of Pe-mna
and flud it • t lu-iieLt. 1 bad pal us in
my stomach and bowels, but by tlie us*of
Pe-ri-ua and Man-u-lin. 1 am well and
■trting again. 1 alway ki'epafewbottie$
10UlV IU)UW),N xiri*n.« n«. v
Mas. Osoa* (JBAY.
1., F L> No. 3. Box 19,
MchoU, Iowa
I Mr<. Gray's experience is just more evidence that Pe-ru-na
n IS quite as Rood a remedy for catarrh of theatomach, bowels or
Ik other organs as it is for roughs, colds and nasal catarrh.
LPe-ru-na is a wonderfully flne medicine to bava lu the houae
for everyday ilia.
Send to the Peruaa Company, Columbia, Ohio tor tram
booklet mad medical advice.
Tablets or Liquid
Sold Everywhere
anS
UPHELD THE FAMILY DIGNITY WHY SOME MEN GO INSANE
Kind of Office "Help" With Which
Most of Us Are More or Less
Familiar.
Small Town of Infinitely More Impor.
tance Than the Crowded and Fre-
quently Thoughtless Cities.
More and more the Importance of
the small town In the great systems ot
government and civilization Is being
realized. President Harding merely
gave fitting voice to this realization
when he referred to the small town
as the "one everlasting anchorage." It
is this, and more—a great balance
equipment conditions of a large variety I wheel that is forever In motion to keep
of trucks. The slabs will be hammered the s0(.|a| nnd other pendulums of na
by means of this thachinu. In the center, |
on the corners, and on the sides so '
as to obtain the relative strength un- I
der these different conditions. be found "Sn,ai|.t0wn Ideas," which
Subsoil investigations are being con- dre not always progressive, but which
, °' le llase of studying and j are conceived In second thoughts—and
Investigating relative stability, mote- | bleSRedi lmlee(li ls that nntl(,n whose
remark of her little daught
her out to play.
After the minister had left, the
child was taken to task and asked why
she had said there were seven children,
h'lhel replied:
"Because I didn't want that strange
REAL BACKBONE OF NATION j gentleman to know that you were so
| poor that you didn't have but one
child."—Everybody's Magazine.
Little Ethel's Brave Attempt to Con-
ceal What She Felt Must Be
Matter of Poverty.
Little Ktl.el was an only child and j The Colorado building boasts the
■n. day, when the minister called she "dumbest" girl in all Washington, as
was told to entertain him In the par- serts the Post of that city She's n
lor until her mother could see him. nectarine, a pippin' and a peach. He
A few minutes later the mother, cently her boss, who Is a very busy,
on her way downstairs, heard the vis-1 bellowing sort of man, told her to get
itor ask Kthel how many brothers and Agriculture on the telephone. She
Sisters She had. and. t.. her surprise juinped for a phone directorv.
and alternation, the little miss an-1 Time wmv on , n|e aftwnoon !
"I'Y' ,w" | came. The boss had been engrossed j
Although somewhat perturbed, the „f importance, and
other made no comment upon the it was nearly 4:30 before he suddenly
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is still to be had on easy terms
Fertile Land at SIS to $30 an Acre
—land similar to that which through many
yeais has yielded from 20 to 45 bushels
of wheat to the acre-oats, barley and flax
also in great abundance, while raising
horses, cattle, sheep and hogs is equally
profitable. Hundreds of farmers in Western
Canada have raised crops in a single season
worth more than the whole cost of their land.
Healthful climate, good neighbors, churches,
schools, rural telephone, excellent markets
and shipping facilities. The climate and soil
offer inducements for almost every branch of
agriculture. The advantages for
Dairying, Mixed Farming
and Stock Raising
make a tremendous appeal to industrious
settlers wishing to improve their circum-
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to reduced railway rates, illustrated
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2012 Main Streel
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111H
but sent
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORLA, tliat famous old remedy
for infants and children, and see that It
Bears the ———iw
recalled that Annie hadn't reported |
on his morning phone call.
"Annie," he thundered, "Where's my
Agriculture call?"
"Why, I'm sorry, sir, bat he hasn't }
Rot n phone."
"Who hasn't got a phone?"
"Why, Mr. Culture, sir. I looked
through all the C's and all the K's,
sir. and I couldn't find Mr. Agra Cul-
ture's name In either list, sir."
KING PIN
PLUG TOBACCO
Known as
"that good kind"
cIrif it-andyou
will know why
REST YOUR TIRED FEET
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powder to he shaken Into the ahneii. atopa
the pain of corn and bunions, and gives
quick relief to sweating, callous, tired, ach-
ing, tender feet, blisters and sore spots It
rest® the feet, keeps them cool and comfort-
. t-m.ii r\ able Shoes and stockings wear twice us !<<ng
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Signature of
In Use for Over 30 Years
Turning It Loose.
"Heavens, woman! You've turned
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Opens HK1*T. ff. Write for new Illustrated
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Would you pay from $23 to $40 per acre fot
rich, fertile lands that produce from $250 to
$500 per acre! Wonderful climate the year
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, _ for free literature, telling the FACTS first hand.
Increased i yourself into a veritable talking ma- ! T s- Ne"^ B^g., San Antonio, Texas
tional life from swinging too far in
extreme directions.
National salvation sometimes is to
Electricity's March.
In less than 20 years the electricity
produced in America has
more than 15 times, until it is now [ "bine. Why, all through our long en j ~
five times greater than the energy that ; -agenient you had hardly a word to j W. N. U., Oklahoma City, No. 26-1922,
every man in the nation could put forth j sa.v-" i ■■■ —
in 11 year, working eight hours a day. | '<n"w It, hut all the time I was
Obeisance to the real "bear for work!" I thinking of things to say after we
NOT WHOLLY LOVE MATCH
condition, and supporting value. I
people are moved to action only after
Different methods of determining the ■ , , . v,, , >
, „ ,, ' ™ second thoughts have established
hearing value of soils are also bein* I ,
1 tii..+ «« 1 .. uieiuheives.
studied, that is, as to whether small
or large areas should be useti in de-
termining the relative bearing value.
The warping effect of temperature
and moisture conditions on concrete
pavements Is also being Investigated.
Temperatures anil movement are being
recorded graphically on continuous
charts. In addition to these tempera-
ture and movement' measurements the
pressures on the subgrade under the
concrete slab are obtained by means
of soil pressure cells. This tnvestiga
tion will give some definite Information
concerning the support offered by sub-
grades to rigid concrete roads. This
Investigation has been under way for
some time and will continue probably
for a year or more.
The transmission of loads through
different types of pavements to the
subgrade is being Investigated by
means of soil pressure cells placed on
the subgrade under the pavements.
This test will also serve to show the
relative support offered to brick anil
other types of block pavement by con-
crete bases and broken stone bases.
This investigation has been under way
for about one year and will continue
for some time to come.
A large number of prominent engi-
neers and others interested in, road
work have visited the Arlington Ex-
perimental station to witness the prep-
aration and conduct of these experi-
ments. It is intended to have all these
projects in full operation by the mid-
dle of June. \ isitors are always wel-
come and those In charge of the work
are always glad to give any informa-
tion desired about the experiments.
The small town thinks
before it acts. Sometimes this is not
true of the city, where contributing
factors to serious consideration are
more complicated, more bound up in
the hurrying movement of life. No
nation is greater than its average
small town.—Florida Metropolis.
That Swat!
Yesterday's newspaper still has
tfreat potential value. Boiled Into the
i shape of a bludgeon, it can do power-
ful execution and wonderful work in
the decimation of the common, low-
lived house fly. A dead fly Is the only
i good fly—and its good is infinitesimal
even in that condition. So swat the
1 Hies right now.—Barre (Vt.) Times.
RAT PEST IS MOST SERIOUS I GREAT VALUE OF BUCKWHEAT
Cause of Considerable Loss to Farmer Excellent as Chicken Feed anH m
and Poultryman—Plan tn FraH. r,. . ^nlcKen Feed and May
and Poultryman—Plan to Erad-
icate Them.
Rats are multiplying in numbers ev-
ery year in spite of all of our rat-
killing campaigns and propaganda.
This pest is one of the most serious
sources of loss to the farmer and poul-
tryman. Every effort should be made
to free the premises of them, and the
fact that they seem to hold their own
should only be the sigi.al for redoub-
ling our efforts against them.
SHADE NEEDED FOR POULTRY
Old Burlap Bags Stretched on Wire
Netting Will Afford Satlifactory
Protection.
They all need it—chicks, ducks,
geese, poults, everything in the poul-
try line from old hens to old turkey
gobblers need some shade. The shade
of bushes and shrubs, of orchard and
grove, is the most attractive, but the
shade of old burlap bags stretched on
poultry netting tacked across a frame
Is a pleasant shelter from the Intense
rays of the sun to the feathered (lock.
Fresh water Is another essential.
Sun-warmed water Is a breeder of
cholera.
Be Fed to Hogs and Other Stock
to Advantage.
Buckwheat is an excellent chicken
feed. Small patches may be sown to
buckwheat and poultry allowed to bar-
vest it. It may also be fed to hogs
and other live stock to good advan-
tage. The straw Is about equal to oat
straw. Another important use for
buckwheat is for improving the land.
It grows readily on poor land and adds
a great deal of humus If plowed
under.
REMEDY FOR SUCKING PESTS
Nicotine Sulphate Taking Place ot
Kerosene Emulsion in Destroy-
ing Many Insects.
Kerosene emulsion ls a remedy for
most sucking insects, but nicotine sul-
phate has largely taken Its place in
fighting the melon louse and squash
bug. Both are contact poisons and
must actually touch the body of the
insect In order to destroy It. For that
reason it is best applied with a spray
of some stjle so that both sides of the
lenves are touched. These solutions
are not poisonous when taken into the
stomach.
Utilities Injure Trees.
The tree growth 011 the streets of
the average American town or city ls
ragged and unkempt In appearance, I
while that of the suburb or small vil-
lage often is not much better unless
the planting has been done under mu-
nicipal control, and the plantings on a
street have been confined to a single
kind of tree. The telegraph, the tele- j
phone, the electric light and the trolley '
car have added their share toward th«
mutilation or destruction of the good
trees that were in existence at the j
time of their coming.
Faulty methods of pruning have
caused disfigurement nnd ruin. "Sue- !
cess follows the careful planting of
good trees which are given adequate
protection nnd timely attention," says
Farmers' Bulletin 1209, "Planting and
Care of Street Trees," just Issued by !
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture. "Every tree should be
trained to Its proper form while young, '
so that severe pruning will not he ne<- ;
essnry later.
"7 o the mutilation of severe pruning '
has been added the destruction of
many trees In centers of business be-
cause they excluded a little light, or
made the store less prominent, or were
somewhat In the way of using the side-
walk for merchandise."
Sometimes There.
"They kissed when the judge grant-
ed their divorce decree?"
"Yes."*
"There's nothing like parting
friends."
"But Is It proper for a man nnd
woman to kiss in such a public way
when they are no longer married?"
"1 see no objection to it, provided
their future mates are not in court."
were married."—Judge.
Want Library for Every Ship.
During the recent war the American
Library association placed for the use
of the men of tlie merchant marine
ships a total of 200,000 books. These
books were made up into libraries and
shifted from one vessel to another.
Recently the American Merchant Ma-
rine Library association has been or-
ganized for the purpose of carrying on
this work, under the slogan, "A Li-
brary for Every Ship."—The Class-
mate.
Misunderstanding.
A man from the backwoods of west
ern America visited New York for the
first time and went into a restaurant
to have dinner. All went well until
the waiter brought him n napkin. The
eyes of the backwoods man flamed,
and -pulling a six-shooter from his
pocket he gave the waiter a piece of
his mind.
"You take that blamed thing away
nt once," he said evenly. "1 reckon
I have a handkerchief If I want one,
without having them darned hints
thrown out."
Kings Lead Easy Lives.
"What are my engagements for to-
day?"
"Your majesty, you are scheduled
to confer the order of the Golden Lem-
on on the premier of Choko-Sluvia
and grant an audience of 15 minutes
to the Rajah of Slambnng. In the
afternoon It is announced that you will
show yourself at the race course."
"Any other affairs of state to come
tip?"
"The heavyweight champion desires
the pleasure of your acquaintance, but
the introduction can be arranged
later."
"Admit the premier. 1 have a busy
day before me."—Birmingham Age-
Herald.
Mrs. McIntosh Had Other Reason
Than Affection for Making Second
Matrimonial Venture.
She was a comely widow, and, more-
over, she was Scotch. She mourned
Macintosh, her late husband, for eight-
een months, and then from a flock ot
suitors chose honest, homely Macln-
tyre for her second.
"I'm no guid enough for ye, dear!"
he whispered. "What for did ye
choose me oot o' sae mony?"
"Ah, well, ye see, your name's Mac.
Intyre."
"Yes, but—" began the bewildered
suitor.
"An' ye ken," finished the widow,
"all my linen is marked 'Mel,' that's
why, Donald."
Shocking?
"There will have to be some new
rules made here or else 1 shall give
notice," said the girl in the telephone
oflice to the chief clerk.
"Why, what's the matter?"
"Well, some of the things said over
the wire are not fit for me to hear."
"Oh, that's all right," was the flip-
pant answer. "You can't expect to
work round electricity and not get
shocked."
If a man makes ten cents earn a
quarter, people will begin bringing their
dollars to him to Invest.
Service Is Thing That Counts.
A merchant should not be a leach
on his community. The way to pros-
per is to realize that what helps the |
trade territory helps you. Mere gain I
on the part of a member or business
institution is not an asset—it is the
service that each one renders to his
fellow-men, business associates and
the community that counts.
If you are going to practice nelgh-
borllness try and help your neigh-
bor—be a good neighbor. It is good
business. 1 always figure that if the
productiveness of my community is
increased my business will pick up.
I don't care If my competitor gets
a bigger share—all I want is my
share.—Kansas City Star.
The Old
Carriage Maker
Had an
Important Truth
Boasts of Dancing Cat.
A little boy in New Brunswick had
an old cat that he trained to dance
when the boy would whistle. The lad
would choose the time when the cat
was sleeping at the back of the stove
for the performance. Then he would
commence to whistle. When the eat
heard the whistling she would com-
mence to move as though something
irresistible was drawing her and then
she would jump on his knee and step,
keeping time to the whistling. She
would dance until she grew weary If
the boy kept on whistling.
X O make each pari as strong as the rest," was his way of "building
• wonderful, one-horse chaise that wouldn't wear out till judgment day.
This illustrates a fact that is keeping many doctors busy these days
human bodies, like chaises, break down because some part isn't as
strong as the others.
Very often it's becajse of ill-balanced food, lacking in some impor-
tant element of nutrition. This is especially true of ills developed in
childhood, and carried on through life.
C rape-Nuts, that world-famous, ready-to-eat cereal, brings the plan
of building each part as strong as the rest—to serve human need. Grape-
Nuts contains all the nutriment of those best of the field grains, wheat
and barley, including the vital mineral elements, and it is a wonderful
food for building and sustaining health and strength.
The delicious flavor and crispness of Grape-Nuts make it a wel-
come dish whenever you're hungry.
Grape=Nuts
THE BODY BUILDER
"There's a Reason"
Made by Postum Cereal Co., Inc., Battle Creek, Mioh.'
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