The Wichita Beacon from Wichita, Kansas • Page 55

"THE A 0 ON 0 BEATER SOUTHWEST NUMBER RESPECT FOR ION INDUSTRIAL WORK SOUTH LAWRENCE AVE EXAMPLE The 1. M. C. A. man is brotherly; its doors are universally open to strangers, welcome is written on its lintels and expressed in its service.

In it a man lives in the atmosphere of friendliness. sanitary condition of the home, but it increases the business of dancing instructors, attendance at any place of dancing in tbe academies, at the cafe and hotels. Its' a Joy to humanity in its production of happiness, social pleasure, comfortable and more healthful homes and sanitation in hotels, apartment houses and PUBLIC SCHOOL of 1919. The production of coal for these three months was 156,633,000 tons, an increase of 32,139,000 tons, or 26 per cent, over the first three mouths of the previous year. Thus, the fatalities have remained nearly constant In spite of the great Increase In production.

"The average number of lives lost during March of each year from 1013 to 1919 bns been 213. The production of coal has averaged 48,542,000 short OF HIGH TYPE ROAD FOR COUNTIES represents the average for tbe fir three months of the preceding aevt years." hardy Wlchitan recently pu; chased a supply of 8-ounce canva with which to make himself fac towds that went the famous prin era towel one better. Cover for trucks and stacks, gether with tourist and auto'mobil tents, command an Increasing suppl of canvas. With these, and the car vas cots, many were enabled to bea the H. C.

perceptibly. One awnln company In Wichita makes a epccla ty of renting tents for short periods no hot, stuffy hotel rooms for them Good Hicrhwavs Movement Progresses Ranidlv Since Last Kansas Legislature Progresses Slowly on Account of Weather and shortage of Materials and Labor. tons, showing a fatality rate of 4.39 per million tons aa representative of the month of March for the past seven years. Thus, the rate of 2.83 for March, 1920, shows a decrease of 33.5 per cent when compared with the rate of 4.39, which Is the average rate for March during the seven previous years. "The corresponding rate of 3.11 for tbe first three months of 1020 shows a decrease of 20.82 per cent from the rate of 4.25 per million tons, which OF Brain and Brawn Goes to Make Value of Common Fuel.

When one purchases a ton of plain, black coal, coming with it is a portion of some man's life, according to O. R. Spencer, president of the S. I. C.

O. A. at Pittsburg, Kas. "Hazardous as is the coal mining industry, few people respect the amount and kind of effort that is embodied in a ton of coal," he said. "Many of us operators have put in our lives in efforts to make the industry 6afer and safer, but notwithstand ing our best efforts, men frequently lose their lives in pursuance of their work." V.

S. Report. W. W. Adams, in a monthly statement of coal mine fatalities in the United States issued by the bureau of mines of the department of in terior, says "According to reports received by the Bureau of Mines from the state mine Inspectors of all states except Kentucky, 153 men were killed during March, 1920, in" and about the coal mines of the United States, as compared with 105 in the same states in March, 1919.

Thus, the 1920 figures show a decrease of 12 fatalities, or 7 per cent, from the record of the corresponding month of last year Rased upon a production of 54.096.000 tons In March, 1920, the fatality rate Is 2.83 per million tons. "During January, February, and March, 1920, the number of lives lost was 487, a decrease of 12 from the record of the corresponding months BLACK A If you don't play the game clean you will get kicked out sooner or later. Grab the high one! When you get hold of those clean thoughts, don't let them get away again. MAKE CEDAR CHESTS AND LIBRARY TABLES Local High School Lads Produce Valuable Furniture. by j.

c. WOODIN, Manual Training Instructor In Wichita High. In cabinet making the most popular piece of furniture is the library table, about fifty being turned out each year here. They are made In their own designs, and are valued at about $20, tho some go as high as $00. Cedar chests come next in line, being of tbe latest designs and quite artistic and valuable.

During tbe past year or so, the following articles have been made by students in Wichita high school-phonographs, music cabinets, record cabinets, piano roll cabinets, piano benches, rocking chairs, dining room tables and chairs, couches, leather upholstered chairs and stools, flower stands and ferneries. In wood turning classes, the most popular pieces have been the electric table lamps, about 75 having been made in the last two years. Also a great number of piano and floor lamps, bud vases, candle sticks, nut bowls, collar and cuff button boxes, powder boxes, hair receivers, darning balls, potato mashers and rolling pins. Our long experience in the building business places us in position to help you plan that new home, or the remodeling of the old one. See Ui About It Chastain Lumber Company 115PattieAve.

Wichita, Km. Demands High Quality Oak, Walnut, Gum and Cypress. BT O. B. BADGER, Director of Industrial Education.

Oak is the wood that is most universally used for cabinet work, fur nlture, and Interior finish. There is no other wood that baa so beautiful a figure as oak when quarter-sawed For these reasons oak Is most used in the manual arts department of the Wichita High School and the upper class of the intermediate schools. Black walnut, red gum and mahogany are used to a certain extent by these same students. In the lower grade work, cypress and chestnut is used exclusively. These two woods are soft and take a very good finish Chestnut resembles oak, but is much lighter and more open grain, and Is much softer.

These woods are purchased thru the local lumber dealers, cypress coming from the South Central states; walnut, oak and chestnut from the central states, and mahogany from South America and Africa Ali of these woods have increased in value about 300 per cent and some of them 500 per cent since 1914, which has been due to general war conditions and the lack of production. RAILWAY TIE FACTS PROVE INTERESTING In 1919 Orders for Over 100,000,000 Board Feet of Fir Placed. The normal demand for railroad ties Is somewhere between 100 million and 135 million annually, says the recent United States Forest Service report, compiled In response to a resolution in the Senate. In 1918 purchases were slightly under 77,500,000, according to the report, and in ten months of 1919, were slightly over 84,500,000. During the war and the period of Government supervision of the railroads, extensions could not be made and Improvements were necessarily confined to those of an urgent character.

Lumber purchases were therefore at a minimum. Even under such a policy of retrenchment, railroad purchases of sawed materials, ex cluding hewn railroad tics, telephone poles, aggregated approximately 4y3 billion feet, or 14 per cent of the total lumber cut ot the country lor 1918. the Gulf Coast Lumberman states. That there have been profound changes in the lumber distribution from different regions during tne past year, continues the report, is shown by the Invasion of the Middle Western and Eastern States by Douglas fir ties. These are regions which in the past have been supplied with the standard oak tie- cut Immediately along the rights-of-way or with Southern nine ties from the South.

During 1919 orders amounting to nearly 100.000,000 board feet were placed for Douglas fir ties for eastern roads, because of the uncertainty of securing adequate supplies along their rights-of-way and because of the ex cessive costs of local ties. In other Lwords, oak ties cut within a few miles of tbe right-of-way and bearing practically no charge in. freight and southern pine ties are now being re placed by fir tics hauled overland across the continent or shipped thru the Fanama Canal. THAT MANY? "How many people work in your office?" "Oh! About half of them." Ex change, The T. M.

A. man is physically strong: Over 500,000 men and boys are in its gymnasiums taking directed physical training. SILO IS A HOLE SURROUNDED BY Iff WALL School Boy Yarn Points Out Vital Facts In Farming. BY T. J.

PUTNAM. A silo is a hole, entirely surround ed by a wall, fur storln' cow feed, Sometimes the hole is in the ground sometimes It is up in the air. To build a silo, first select a nice spot fur the hole, then build a wall out side of the hole, if you want to build up, or inside of tbe bole, if you want a pit silo. Either kind is good, but you got to go about it different. If you can't put up a silo, put one down, but don put It off.

All kinds of material is good for the silo bulldin' exccptln' hot air. Good ones is made outen cement, concrete, cement staves, or slabs, holler tile, brick, stone, wooden staves, steel, or two-by-fours. We has 2,000 silos In Kansas made from tbe above materials and about 20,000 outen hot air. Most of the farmers has got the spot fur the bole picked out, but tuey haln nevef be gun to commence to build yet, fur some reasons or others. Some hain't got the money, some cain't decide on the kind of silo, some sez it's too much work to haul the crop In and cut it up, some sez it makes the cows' teeth rail out, and some sez it gives them holler horn and holler tail, some sez it makes the milk turn green, some sez the butter from the silage milk won churn, some sez it makes steers scour, hawgs howl, and lambs limp.

Anything to put off silo buiiuin'. I'm tellln' you folks you better get busy and look into this silo business; it'll mean money fur farmers that wants to make beef, mutton, or milk, and I know of some feeds it to hawgs and lots of it is fed to horses and mules. I wouldn't starve on it myself if I had to eat some green corn 61- lage. Gulf Coast Lumberman. HOURS AFTER SUPPER Most careers are made or marred in the hours after supper.

It may seem that the few hours between "supper and bedtime afford small opportunity for education; but these were, sufficient for Franklin, for Lincoln, and for countless others who, by turning these hours to advantage thru special studies, have advanced themselves above their fellows. These precious hours which so many young men thoughtlessly throw away at the end of every day will, if used right, give priceless results in increased knowledge, efficiency, higher service, and better pay. Ambition. ENGINEERS GODFREY HARTWELL JOHN C. NEELY GENERAL SUPT.

J. E. JONES ARCHITECTS LORENTZ SCHMIDT C. F. BOUCHER H.

G. OVEREND An accident occurred at the Pol grounds several days ago and ore thirty thousand people sat Idly and offered no assistance Bab Ruth failed to get a borne run. 1 1 LORENTZ SCHMIDT CO. ARCHITECTS 1 2 1 North Market Wichita, Kansas By CLARK It. MANDICO, Chief Engineer of Western Paving Urick Manufacturers Association.

Ever lnce the Legislature, meeting In 1017, amended the Kansas Good Itonds Law In order to take advantage of Tedernl aid and make It eauler to finance paved, roads, Kansas bns been progressing very rapidly in hard road construction. The first federal aid rond actually completed In the state of Kansas was the brick road connecting Fort Riley with Junction City in, 1018. Another scrtion of brick was added to this in 1910. Plenty of Projects Kansas has ad no difficulty in filing sufficient projects to take up all of tbe federal aid advisable to the state, which amounts to about and sufficient petitions have been signed up to build as much more rond if federal aid were available Altho more than three years have passed since the present laws went into effect, the time has been well taken up In circulating: petitions, making necessary surveys, plans and1 specifications, and in letting con tracts, Altho these Items sound short on paper, each one of them requires considerable time to and it was not until 1019 that any groat amount of contracts bad been ac tually let and work actually started- This brought the road construction last fall and this year up against a material shortage, due in part to fuel and labor conditions and lack of production, but mostly to the break down of our transportation system and tbe congestion of freight on our railroads which caused a very serious car shortage. Slow Construction Actual Construction work, there- fore, has progressed much more slow ly than was anticipated and con tractors who expected to complete their work in short order and re ceive final payment for the same find their proiitH dwindling, material prices going up, and overhead eating into their costs.

This condition. however, will probably be only tem porary as there are already signs of improved labor conditions, and gen eral production and the railroad tie- np is expected to be relieved. When Kansas goes to the polls in November and votes for tbe Constitutional Amendment which will al low the state to pay for a part of the cost of the main traveled highways, another great Impetus will be given to road work in this state. At the same time there will be scattered example! of the highest type roads In use so that the taxpayers can experience the convenience and Joy of using; a smoothly paved wo aay road. I'se Is Best Teacher While good roads enthusiasts may talk their heads off explaining the advantages of paved roods, actual experience in the use of the same is the best teacher.

It can be safely said that every community Which hns Started the cotiMtriictlon of first class roads will Continue in extending the same. Some of the other counties In Kansas can well look to Reno County, our neighbor, as an example of what enn be accomplished under the present State Road Law. In this county over soventy miles of high type paved roads have been petitioned for and the petitions approved. At the present time 8Vj miles of brick road, 18 feet aide, are under construction. Mckerson-Hutchinson The brick rood from Hutchinson to Nickerson, a distance of twelv miles, contract for which was let last sum mer) Is practically completed and the people of Reno County are planning a barbecue In commemoration or tne opening of this road.

Work Is also under way on an 18 foot brick road from Nickerson Sterling and Rice County has a brick rond under construction running from Sterling toward Lyons, In Reno Courffy contract has been let and the grading nearly completed for an 18-foot brick road from Hutch inion to the western edge of the county at Sylvia. All of this last named road has not been entirely contracted for as it is expected to complete both the east and west ends first, so that material for the center section can be hauled on tne parea road This count seems to hare recog nixed the fact that first cost Is not the only thing to be considered In selecting the type of road to build and no doubt their wise Judgment will par them In the long run In the durability and low maintenance cosi of their high ws ys. On South Lawrente On the South Lawrence road out of Wichita, an 18-foot brick road of the highest type is under construe tlon. Two contracting outfits arc working on this, each one laying a six-mile section-Some of this road is already In use, It would certainly pay the citizen of Sedcwick County to visit this con atrnction work and see the modern roads being built All of these federal aid roads are constructed under the supervision of the State and Federal governments There is no finer piece of paving be ing built In any city In Kansas than that which Is going In on our South Lawrence rond. Every detail has as as Amended the Law Work over the top of the concrete founda tiofl between the six-Inch concrete curbs.

This said cushion, as it is called, is drawn to a perfectly true, even surface and the vitrified paving brick are set directly on it by State inspectors test every car load of brick before it is delivered on the Job and determine whether Its strength, toughness and wearing qualities conform to the state speci flcations. Steam Roller After the brick are laid they are rolled with a steam roller so as to bed them securely in the sand cush ion and bring tbe surface to a true, even plane. Even after this is done you will find Inspectors marking brick to be taken out which do not appear to bo capable of rendering the maximum service. After this wearing surface has been finally passed upon, alt the Joints around tbe brick are filled with pure melted asphalt. This Is poured hot over the sur face of tbe brick and worked back and forth with squeegees until the Joints are filled.

The surplus which remains on tbe surface is taken up by a coating of sand and tbe road is ready for maximum tranic. Traffic Cushions- It Is claimed that this type of road pavement, besides being smooth, easy riding and unaffected by weath er conditions, is especially adapted to high speed automobile and heavy truck traffic. The cushion of sand underneath the brick prevents the rield concrete from breaking up un der the impact of heavily loaded trucks as well as cushioning the brick themselves. The asphalt filler In the Joints pro vlrtes an elastic cushion which not only takes up expansion and contraction due to chnnge in tempera ture, but makes a resilient surface very favorable to sustaining heavy, swiftly moving loads. It would well pay for the time to visit this work under construction, as everyone who sees the class of road being built under state super vision with federal aid will come back and vote for the State Good Roads Amendment at the November election.

FLOOR WOOD LASTS LONGER WITH WAX Honey-comb, Granulated Paste or Liquid Also Saves Labor. BT EDNA Jj. SIIAW. Floor wax has placed the old time Rrussel carpet on the back shelf. Mrs.

Housewife has forgotten nnir hpr Ills of tired back and lame muscles from too-much-npplication of the broom because of the sanitation that goes hand-in-hand with the poi tehy well waxed floor of the twen tieth century home. Floor wax Is a germ chaser just as much at are Old Sol, the daily bath and good thoughts. Those mlrky, ugly miscroscopic- many-legged-bugs, that science tells us exist In dark corners and unswept carpet, simply don't exist any more. Milady baa discarded heavy noor coverings to be replaced on beauti fully polished waxed floors with attractive Indian rugs, oriental-pattern ed costly rugs, or the more plain- center carpets or rugs for dining room, parlor and bedroom. Bees Wanted.

Yea, Miss Queen Bee and her swarms are more popular then ever with the progress of the human race. Eliminating their telling sting, they are wanted. It is their wax that supplies many factories with sub stance for floor wax. Animal rats are also used in large quantities for the making of floor waxes. The making of floor wax, whioh Is now one of the great Industries of the country, Is simple.

With the wax from the bee or from animal fat, is mixed to the desired Tightness, tur pentine, the product being such waxes as the customer purchases over the counter from his local dealer In paints and other such supplies. Sells Well. Great rows of canned floor wax faced me In a Wichita down-town paint and wall paper store the other day. "Xou mutt have a great demand for floor wax," I said. "Indeed we do.

There Is a constant Increase In sale for this article," said the manager. There art three kinds of floor wax liquid, paste and powdered. Just which is the better, liquid or paste floor wax, is a qnestlon as to which magaxine, or wnicn sort or wax Is receiving the most advertise ment at the particular time tbe man who has a Job of floor waxing makes his purchase, according to one dealer. In other words, one finisher of floors finds tbe best nualities in tbe paste while another prefers the liquid wax. I The use of polished floors today places on the market several first class floor polishers and waxing ma chines.

Tbe housewife finds splendid ghoul der development in pushing around the floor waxer and polisher, quite much aa in the former carpet beater. Its not half as much work straggling with a broom, flirting clonds of dust Into every direction. Time and labor are saved thru the waxed-floor-system. Sanitary Floor. Each year will find greater demand for floor wax, for each year the need of the sanitary, beautiful polished floor will be greater.

Powdered floor wax for dancing is used not only In the dance academies, bnt also In tbe homes. Much of this rtlcle is sold In Wichita to be nsed for dancing In private homes on pol- hrd floors. This wax is made from caked parafine. Attractive Dancing. A beautiful mirror-like reflection.

which makes the call of the dance floor more enticing, is the result of snfftclently applied floor wax. polish ng the floor by the feet of many E. C. Hamler President J. E.

Hamilton Treasurer W. E. Hamler Secretary Do You Need Lumber? We Are at Your Service at All Times THEJ. W.METZ LUMBERCO. Headquarters for Arco Sealit Roofing Cement and Cornell Wall Board 401 N.

Main Market 196 Hamler-Hamilton Construction Company General Contractors Builders of Churches Schools Office Buildings Stores and Mill Construction a Years experience -At Your Service- S. S. VOIGT ARCHITECT and ENGINEER 601-602 Fourth National Bank BIdg. Phone Market 752 WICHITA, KANS. PLANS FOR ALL KINDS OF BUILDINGS Wichita, Kansas General Offices Corner East Douglas fit Spruce Streets been carefully worked out.

and ever? Mt of the work being done is the best quality that engineers know-bow to spool fr. Road Building Tbe gronnd is first well graded and ditches for taking the rain water art provided, concrete culvert constructed where necessary and all of tbe details of drainage and grade worked out. The ground Is leveled up nd thoroly compacted with heavy roller. On this la laid a concrete foundation which averages a 'iMle more than six Inches in thickness, mixed in fairly rich proportions of the best quality sand and crnihed stone with Portland cement. This Is finished to a true, even urface and after it has become thorn'- bant, layer- Im-h in i i tfclckuo-" iKlu sand IW itciJriucrtitSX.Iiat bis Increases tit.