CAPE VINCENT EAGLE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 19315
One Million Teachers
NEW MEXICO'S GYPSUM
There are approximately 1,063,000 teachers in all types of schools
in the United States. About 7.00,000
of these are in elementary schools,
250,000 in secondary schools, and
90,000 in colleges.
Approximately one-fourth of the
nation's total population attends
school daily during the school
year. Considerably more than 30,000,000 pupils are enrolled in fulltime day schools. Of this number
about 24,000,000 children attend
elementary schools. Secondary
school enrollment is- aboUt 6,000,000 and about 1,500,000 young men
and women are attending colleges.
There are m o r e than 276,555
school's of different types throughout the United States. — Chicago
Tribune.
Ideas of Luxury
It. is interesting to. collect people's ideas of Babylonian luxury.
One man's notion is to afford to
eat only the heart of dead ripe
watermelons; another's is to be
able to sleep calmly through a
night thunderstorrt, leaving t h e
windows open to let in rain upon
whatever rugs and furniture are
exposed. Ours is to own a private
projection room with a sound projector and a collection of all the
filmed exploits of Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck and Pluto.— Kansas
City Star.
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On all sides, people are learning that
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quick relief, from stomach condition
arising from overacidity, is to alkalize the stomach quickly with Phillips' Milk of Magnesia.
You take either two teaspoons of
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two Phillips' Milk of Magnesia T a b lets. Almost instantly "acid indigestion" goes, gas from hyperacidity,
"acid - headaches" — from over-indulgence in food or smoking — and
nausea are relieved.
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any acid stomach upsets. You will be
surprised a t results. Get either the
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Foreign Words ^ ^
and Phrases
Inward Beauty
HO has not experienced
W
how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beauti-
Amour propre. (F.) Self-love;
self-esteem.
. .
Billet doux. (F.) A love letter.
Dum spiro, spero. (L.) White
I live I hope. (Part of motto of
South Carolina.)
En bon train. (F.) In a fair
way, on the road to success.
Flagrante delicto. (L.) While
committing the crime; caught in
the act.
Gosse. (F.) Street slang for
"child," "infant."
Compare
"kid," "kiddie," and the Irish
"gossoon."
Iterum. (L.) Again.
Multum in parvo. (L.) Much
in little.
fied and beauty loses its
charm, exactly according to the
quality of the heart and mind?
And from this cause a m I of
opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a
noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It
never can prevent people from
being amiable and beloved in
the highest degree.
Justice consists in doing no
injury to men; decency, in giving them no offence.—Cicero.
The
White
Sands
Prepared by the National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C.-WND Service.
S ONE stands upon t h e
heights of the San Andres
mountains in the neighborhood of Rhodes Pass, New
Mexico, one looks out upon an ocean
of white. South and east stretches a
vast see on which the glint of whitecaps appears as real as the rocky
shores. The view is a startling
mirage. Closer inspection reveals
that the billowing snowy expanse is
the White Sands of Alamogordo.
The windrowlike dunes seem velvety in their softness, yet many of
them are firm enough to permit
n.otorists to roll their cars from one
crest to the next in roller-coaster
fashion. Some of the hills have attained a height of 100 feet, but 50
feet probably represents the average.
Curious stories of the origin of the
sands have circulated since they
have been known to Americans, but
the truth is not less interesting than
the fanciful explanations. The processes of making are .going on constantly.
Underlying the Tularosa basin are
beds of Permian limestone and
sandstone, between the layers of
which are interspersed thick beds
O'' gypsum. Borings made in recent
years reveal that the gypsum is
hundreds of feet below the present
valley floor and that water is encountered at depths of a thousand
feet or less.
The nature of the sedimentary
rocks above the water-bearing sands
is favorable to upward seepage. As
the water on its upward course
passes through the gypsum deposits, it dissolves that material and
carries a rather full load to the
surface. The limestone through
which the solution passes is not
readily soluble; very little in addition to gypsum is carried by the
rising water. When evaporation
takes place at the surface a fairly
pure crust of gypsum is deposited,
which, under action of the atmosphere, crumbles to form crystalline
grains.
The prevailing southwest wind
sweeps these crystals from the surface upon which they were formed
and piles them in huge drifts to the
north and east of the point of origin.
The wind erosion excavates basins,
the flat floors of which may be 10
to 30 feet below the surface of the
plain and 50 feet or more below the
tops of the dunes.
Basins of Moist Sands.
Nearly everywhere in the basin
floors moist sands are encountered
at a depth of a few inches. Ordinarily sand erosion does not develop
flat surfaces, but the flatness of
these floors is manifestly caused by
the water table which limits the
depth to which the sand erosion can
go.
The largest of the basins from
which the sands are blown is a
boggy lake bed at the south end of
the dune area, but many of the
smaller flat-floored depressions are
scattered through the area. The size
of the depression appparently affects the height of the sand piles
built up to the lee of it.
Hills and mountains surrounding
the Tularosa basin contain gypsum,
and it is evident that some of the
deposit is brought from this source
by surface waters that feed it to the
large natural evaporation p a i at the
south end of the sands. Whether
the source is the deeply buried beds
or the visible deposits in the mountains, the processes of evaporation,
crumbling, and drifting with the
wind are the same. The end product
is invariably beautiful, white, winnowed, and clean.
The picture afforded in this expanse of white sand is unlike anything known. The white environment has produced a notable effect
upon the limited animal life
of the
sands, and zoologists loo1* to this
natural laboratory for possible answers to questions bearing upon
adaptation.
In places large Cottonwood trees
nearly covered up with sand live a
strange existence, producing roots
where upper branches once grew.
When the sand drifts and exposes
their modified anatomy, they still
stand, amazing specimens, with
roots interspersed with
dead
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of
Alamogordo.
branches along trunks that have
been changed as a result of long
burial.
"Red Lakes" Come and Go.
Disinterred specimens of the
yucca are to be seen that have
struggled in an effort to keep their
heads above the shifting sands until
their stems have elongated to some
thirty feet.
For several years the appearance
and disappearance of "red lakes"
in the sands have caused conjecture among biologists and chemists.
Studies made during the last few
months have tentatively identified
an organism which may be responsible for the strange color hanges
that take place in the waters .of
certain ponds and pools. Apparently the vermilion "lakes" can exist
only when the water has evaporated to a condition of high salt content, for the organism is known to
grow only in salt water of high
concentration.
Sites once occupied by an ancient
people are well known to the present
residents of the region, and obscure
reminders of early Spanish activity
are to be seen in many places
throughout the valley.
Three centuries ago Spanish explorers and missionaries fiequented
the Tularosa desert and wondered
at its white sands. They noted the
unusual chemical properties of the
nearly 300 square miles of drifting
gypsum and, quite likely, wished
for means of transporting this
abundant supply of pure alabaster
to the settlements and churches a
hundred miles to the north.
Recently, at the mouth of Deadm a n canyon in'the San Andres, just
west of the White Sands, a prominent son of the state of New Mexico
uncovered unmistakable evidences
that the Spanish Americans of a
generation long dead had entered
the Tularosa desert area with vehicles. Divulgence of this forgotten
travel came in the form of two massive wooden wheels from an early
Mexican oxcart.
If an authentic story could be
woven about those relics, perhaps
the period of the bullwhacker who
abandoned his conveyance would be
established as no earlier than the
Nineteenth century. However, maps
of the padres and dons definitely
point to Eighteenth century routes
east and west across the Tularosa
as well as north and south, where
the trails parallel the mountain
boundaries of its basin.
Many Uses for Gypsum.
The value of these sands for
plaster of paris and flreproofing material is well recognized, and repeated attempts have been made to
make commercial use of them.
Gypsum finds a multitude of uses
in commerce and industry. As a
fertilizer and soil conditioner it is
distributed as "agricultural gypsum." As "mineral white" it finds
use as a filler in paper, paint and
fabrics. The makers of Portland
cement require it as a retarder. In
sculpture and the making of decorative devices in architecture and
building it is known as "alabaster."
Even the school boys' crayons
utilize much gypsum.
When natural gypsum is dehydrated by heat, it becomes the
quick - setting cement known as
"plaster of paris." About four million tons of this calcined gypsum
are used each year for wall plaster
or stucco. Plate - glass makers
imbed their glass in plaster of paris
preparatory to polishing.
Plasterboard, wallboard and gypsum lath all require much gypsum each year. "Gypsum blocks"
and tile are used in partitions, roof
construction, and flooring, where
flreproofing and sound insulation a r e
important. Surgeons, dentists, and
artists demand the finer grades of
calcined gypsum for making casting
plaster.
It appears on first thought that
here in the nearly pure gypsum of
White Sands is a veritable fortune
in plaster. But Tularosa is far removed from large markets.
Old settlers of the region have
watched, feared, and hated the White
Sands for half a century This, one
of the world's greatest deposits of
pure gypsum, has grown before
their eyes, threatening homes and
.land that might be useful.
Colorful Rugs to Crochet
them and of all stitches needed;
material requirements; color suggestions.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft
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