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Negroes have fought ably in every U.S. war since the Revolution. In the Civil War, the Union had 170,000 black soldiers under arms. But when the first Negro leader, Frederick Bailey Douglass, asked why they were paid less than white soldiers, President Lincoln temporized. Negroes should be glad they could serve at all, said Mr. Lincoln. They had more to fight for than any white...
...Lakes; in two out of three races; on the Sound, off Larchmont, N.Y. Strange to the Sound skippers were the boats; strange to the Lake skippers were the waters. Tied for individual honors with 18 points each were New York's Corny Shields and Ohio's Gordon Douglass...
Systematic study of rings, so that old wood can be dated by its growth patterns, was begun in 1904 by Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who was interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian pueblo, date it exactly as far back as 11 A.D. Sequoia wood from the High Sierra can now be dated back to 1305 B.C. Since the weather, and therefore tree growth, varies from place to place, master tree-ring charts must be worked out for different districts...
...problems in harnessing a great watershed. Federal entomologists were interested because weather cycles affect the number of insect pests which they may have to fight. Meteorologists welcome the tree-ring studies because weather forecasts derive in part from elaborate past data. And archeologists can read history in tree rings: Douglass, for example, showed that the dreadful drought which started the decline of the high culture of the Pueblo Indians began in 1276, ended...
Last week Dr. Douglass announced that his rainfall calendar had been carried back to the lifetime of Christ, specifically to the year...