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Show 1 J LEHI FRESS PRESS. LEHL UTAH Scientific Age s' 7 1 i ..If-- I y Just Starting, v ' 1 Savants Claim Tomorrow's Farmer Will Guide Tractor From His Front Porch Soapless soap, smokeless powder from cottonseed, iceless ice, fertilizer from the air, wool without benefit of sheep, rubberless rubber, sponges from cotton and wood these miracles are today taking form s and cruin science's test-tube- cibles. A myriad of other developments, equally spectacular, will soon take place in farming, home design, transportation, food distribution and architecture, if we take the word of the world's leading scientists and industrial engineers. Stimulated by wide interest in the "world of tomorrow" these scientific gentlemen are do- ing extensive crystal gazing nowadays and their predictions, based on experience gained in America's efficient industrial laboratories, give kaleidoscopic picture of our civilization a decade or so from now. Factory machinery, for instance, will "eat" more agricultural products than will be consumed as food, officials of leading chemical companies assert. The tremendous demands upon the farm which will be made by manufacturers of plastics, synthetic yarns and similar substitutes, will result in an entirely new concept of agriculture. 'Gasoline' From Potatoes. Alcohol motor fuel will be made from molasses, corn, Irish and sweet potatoes or from artichokes, Dr. W. L. Owen, a Baton Rouge consulting bacteriologist, has predicted. "We can establish," he declared, "an 'agrol motor fuel industry that will enormously enrich the farmer without any imposition whatever on the motorist." All Great Britain's food requirements could be produced on a small part of the sou of the British isles in the light of even today's knowledge, Bertrand Russell, eminent British scientist recently wrote. The Sahara desert, he said, can be made fertile by preventing evaporation of the dew. "In a slightly more distant future," he said, "there is the possibility of synthetic food, which would destroy the necessity for agriculture, and thus transform politics and social life." Picture the comfortable life of tomorrow's farmer, taking things easy on the porch while directing a tractor across his fields by pressing a series of buttons. Such a tractor system is being developed by Robert Mize, of Earlimart, Calif. With another set of buttons the farmer may be able to fertilize his acreage by passing electric currents through the soil. Experiments along these lines by the Boyce Thompson institute have increased yields of corn, strawberries and cabbages by as much as 20 per cent. A 'Glass Age' Ahead. Farm products will be hauled to city markets on glass highways, according to Dr. John F. Caton, director of research engineering for the Chrysler corporation. Glass springs for beds, glass radio sets, glass roof shingles and glass razor blades were also envisioned by Dr. Caton. As a matter of fact, scientists refer to the coming era as the "glass age," particularly in respect to the home and architecture generally. Architects will specify glass walls for American homes walls which may disappear into the floor at the turn of a crank, John D. Biggers, of president glass company last month told a convention of woodwork jobbers. Windows will be lowered and raised by pressing a button, he predicted, and the typical house of tomorrow will have a roof of the new plate glas3, which absorbs infra-re- d rays of the sun. The cult of light and sunshine apparently is spreading to automo- Libbey-Owens-Fo- rd heat-absorbi- Grandpa Was Right! Scientists Maintain Winters Are Warmer Granddad wasn't far wrong when he said winter's weren't what they used to be. Figures of the United States weather bureau bear him out, as do practically all other researches compiled in recent years. Most important researches in this field have been made by Joseph B. Kincer, chief of the division of climate and crop weather for the weather bureau, who analyzed records at New Haven, Conn.; Copenhagen, Denmark, and other points where temperatures have been read daily for many years. Graphed, the records show a constantly rising average temperature during the past 50 years. Several factors are responsible for the change but meteorologists know that weather, like most things in nature, goes by cycles. ing a sedan with a sliding panel in the top of the car. Improvements in J 1 , s I I that KcnheSrfve 'fire NATIONAL AFFAIRS incr. safety glass manufacture, ing even the present high ratio of safety, are in the immediate offing. Flying Palaces Predicted. Airplanes carrying 150 passengers and tons of baggage will zoom through the air at a clip, according to an engineer of Lockheed Airplane company. Passengers will be carried in the wings. Propelled by six engines placed so that traveling mechanics may make repairs at night, these flying palaces will have recreational facilities, promenade decks, and individual state- Reviewed in.portance. the TrHrfentally it is usually . to be followed by a trade war on the totalitarian states . . . Would undersell these states in South American market. . -- M I J fresh-wate- g foreign-owne- d n, m ' -' Cattle Go 'Round and Around And the Milk Comes Out Here .r'V.fo hopeful for world peace. As a matter of fact, the progress of this sort of thing will eventually prevent us frJ fit- The cow will live at a dizzy pace in the world of tomorrow if a unique exhibit planned for next summer's New York fair is any criterion. There, supported by the Borden com- pany, 150 outstanding cattle from all over the North American continent will live in quarters fit for a king. But when milking time rolls around cows must these pasture-trained jump on a veritable known as the "rotolactor," there to be milked mechanically while the public looks on. Designed to be one of the fair's most unusual exhibits, the dairy world of tomorrow will show outstanding specimens from Guernsey, Jersey, Holstein, Ayrshire and Brown-Swis- s herds, each breed represented by 30 cows and a herd bull. Calves and some outstanding champions will also be shown. Each breed association will select its own cattle. While living in comparatively excramped quarters, the cattle pected to thrive under these artificial conditions. A chief herdsman, to be chosen by breeders, will be assisted by experts. Federal and state veterinarians will be in constant attendance and rigid health regulations will be enforced. Cows will be distributed through the barns in units of ten to a breed. Purpose of the exhibit is to educate the public to consume more milk, on the theory that visitors to he fair will be impressed by the favorable conditions under which milk is produced in the dairy world of tomorrow. A second factor is the popularizing of good cattle breeds - Above: The ingenious "rotolactor" on which cattle make a complete circuit during the milking process. Below: A model of the. "dairy world of tomorrow" exhibit. Wi .wwyii, U h ii iiLiuiimiitiiBii s minium,. J . 1 Mntatnis.'-- d merry-go-roun- a;-- e t. iMMTtt ? Mj , among domestic and foreign dairymen attending the fair. Am:-ncommitteemen working on the exhibit are Mark Keeney, manager of the Holstein herd at Essex county hospital, Cedargrove, N. J.; Henry W. Jeffers, president of the farms at Plainsboro, N. J.; and Matthew Suydam, owner of an outstanding herd of Brown-Swis- s cattle at New Brunswick, N. J. Sponsors will pay all expenses of the exhibit, including construction of buildings, feeding and care of the cattle, testing and transporting the animals to and from the farms of the owners. Only expenses required of breed associations will be in selecting animals. Owners will b asked to donate the services of their cattle. Walker-Gordo- n s from either maintaining our standards of living or maintaining peace, no matter how much we may be willing to endure in order to preserve peace. There will come a time when it will be impossible. "So we must buy that Mexican oil, and we must pay for it with goods sold as cheaply or more cheaply than Japan, Italy and Germany can deliver them. "We must do that every time anything of the sort happens. Does any one believe that other big investments in Latin America will continue to be safe when every politician south of Mexico sees that country getting away with it? "But the important thing for us is to prevent that sort of thing threatening our future by preventing the totalitarian states from taking of it. "We should have a thorough understanding with France and Great Britain, and the other democracies, and we should go after world trade with a big stick. To do that we must be armed sufficiently to prevent the possibility of trouble. We must subsidize exports to a slightly greater extent than Germany or Italy or Japan. And we must buy the products of these countries. "It will cost us a lot of money, but it will be cheap in the long run. And the cost will be offset to a surprising extent by the stepping up of production in this country, which will relieve unemployment." Army and ISavy Officers Long Urged Preparedness In demanding more appropriations for preparedness, both and navy officers are merely army voicing publicly what they have known and been saying privately for six yaars. Starvation of the army and navy so far as new material is concerned began in the Hoover administration when poor business cut tax returns and pinched the federal exchequer This has gone on until, with little or no purchasing of new new arms, guns, new ammunition, and even new explosives, there developed a situtition which high officials admit might easily have been tragic had some emergency arisen under which the army and navy would have had to fight. The simplest illustration is that explosives deteriorate. This is true despite the occasional tragic acci dent when some old shell explodes as when it is plowed into on battlefuild. But long range firing a by big guns is a matter of infinite When naval or coast de-- Is Supply oj Explosives Allowed to Groxc Stale differIt would easily make the an or losing winning ence between Present-da- y battle. naval important naval strategy gives the victory to the first fleet to land a salvo on the sutarget. That is the reason the the of instruments perior optical Germans in the World war made their otherwise inferior fleet such a menacewhich made the losses of the British so heavy at Jutland. Not only has the explosives supand ply of the United States army navy been allowed to grow stale and risk its being incalculable for accurate firing in battle, but actualadely to this day there is not an quate factory source for its supply. Machinery is now in preparation for such a supply, and the fact that it is makes an extraordinary revelation of the desperate nature of the picture. About a year ago this machinery was ordered without the sanction of congress and without publicity, at a cost of $3,300,000. The orders were made possible by a private individual, who guaranteed the orders. In short, he "would have been obliged either to take over the machinery himself or to lose his money, if congress should not later legalize the operation. But the amazing part of the whole story is that these needs were realized in 1933, and that certain army officers obtained enactment by congress, in the first $4,400,000,000 relief bill (which included NRA) for the mechanization and motorization of the army. But this effort was wasted. Not a cent of the huge relief fund was so spent. There are those who think there would have been no Munich if it had been. Modification of Cuban Sugar Treaty Raises Stir Maine potatoes seem a far cry from Cuban sugar, but no more remote than some of the ramifications which are combining to make trouble for the reciprocal trade agreement policy of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Half a dozen senators are already clamoring for a full investigation of the proposed modification of the Cuban treaty, which would reduce the rate of duty on Cuban sugar, but not change the quota Cuba is now permitted to ship into the United States. One of the most outspoken critics of the agreement is Rep. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine. Brewster says that of every $50,000,000 that Cuba gets or might get from the United States $49,000,000 goes to Wall ! ill SoftCc By RUTH VYETH SPru. news for pjERE isbeen writing . more rag rug Rug Leaflet has been P're ! you. It will be include il request with your order fj two books offered you already have thee. . ' I books, send 6 cents in JJ the Rug Leaflet. Wooden knitting neediest-idiameter are used for Cut or tear the rags 4.h5fJJ WT This attack by the sugar producing state congressmen, and others interested in knocking out various items in the reciprocal trade agreements, illustrates also the difficulty involved in any sane consideration of loans to Latin America, or for that matter any foreign loans. The trouble is when the time comes to pay, either principal or interest. A foreign country can a debt, or interest on the pay debt only in two ways. It can ship gold, or it can ship goods. We don't want the gold. 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Tin earliest pianos had four slender legs similar to those of the spinet or harpsichord. Palace Long in Use The Spanish governor's palace,! the heart of San Antonio, was used by Spanish viceroys as early as 111! Britain Produces Man Gloria Clay most i- small area Ie Silt ho le la: I industria- mportant a ler, lithe China Next to coal, Britain's natural material lly is china clay, most of M J perhaps earlier. it found in in Cornwall. Our Need My neighbor is the manwhicb needs me, or whom I need, is in the end the same who thing.-Jose- ph Ernest McAfee. Street which RUg!o de;. - Sazi regimes . . . Preparedness cows first in this plan, lrri ex- - not the exp"" yi"Y should that sh 11. It is the charge shell hit the when detonated have an important also its mark. This is but heri it comes charge, of course, batUe it is to hitting the enemy in vital. the propelling charge that is could make a deterioration slight more or difference of a half a mile, landed. shell the where in less, thorities equally as prominent as the ones already quoted are: Window shades or blinds in the of the next generation farmhouse 1 ' liiiff Mr il f 'full Traaniri if Am I may be placed outside instead of inside windows, because this is one A very Reading matter via radio? of the less intricate methods being strong WASH I N G TON Here" the broadcasting appara- studied to cut the cost of home course of action is being urged on tus used by a St. Louis experiPresident Roosevelt with a view to GerWater insulation will become mental facsimile radio station to resisting the aggrandizations of in transmit specially prepared fac- prominent. As insulation against and particularly Italy, cold outdoors a layer of water on many simile newspapers. Latin America, though the course flat roofs will be allowed to freeze recommended would eventually, its in winter, while in summer the laybackers believe, bring about a coler would connect with a spray sysrelapse of the Fascist and Nazi tem cooling the their remove and perpetual gimes, unit. war scare in Europe. The farmer's wife will have an The first essential step of the proeasier life with a host of mechaniprogram is for the United posed cal slaves at her beck and call, be ready to fight if necesto States such as washing machines with two To this part of the program dials, or.e of which will select the sary.President has yielded considerthe proper temperature and the other in his preparedness shown as will regulate the timing of the wash. ably, These machines will give clothes a message to congress. The next step, not to be taken ungood soaking, scrub them, and then TZfS: til after the United States is so r rinse. a A applyTelephone Answers Itself. strong that this next move would messages will be not provoke a war, would be to Telephone "parked" on a magnetized strip of start what would amount to a trade steel until the absent party arrives war on the totalitarian states. This to receive it, when the messages would mean the selling of American will be relayed in chronological orgoods at a loss, when our own wage and labor conditions are considered, der through a loudspeaker. Of course, the rural areas of and it would involve permitting payAmerica will have the advantage ment for these goods by taking the which television will bring. Along exports of the nations to the south of us. with the growth of this marvel, howadOne of the advocates of this plan ever, may occur breath-takinvances in the field of radio itself, so illustrated the idea with Mexican that it may be possible to tele- oil. Is this tomorrow's world? "I think," he said, "that the Mex-- ; while touring in your car. Norman Bel Geddes, designer of phone So overwhelming to the mind are lean government has the right to the "highways and horizons" ex- the scientific accomplishments just take over oil wells. hibit for ISetv York's world fairt around the corner that Dr. E. Weid-lei- That is within their power. Of past president of the American course they should pay us for the ponders a detail of a small metropolitan section of his 300,000 Chemical society recently declared property isso taken. But lettos considhappen that, stacked up against the future, er what probably going square-foo- t future city. the automobile is only 10 per cent unless we do a little strong-arbile manufacturers, since 1939 mod- developed, the radio is only a day work, so to speak. Mexico will have els boast 18 to 30 per cent more win- old and television less than an hour to sell that oil to Germany, Italy dow space. Subsequent changes, it old. Transportation, Dr. Weidlein and Japan. It will take in payis reported, will further increase said, has just begun to benefit from ment for that oil the goods made by driving visibility, with several man- science, and modernization of homes what, according to our labor condiufacturers possibly following the presents a great industrial tions, is virtually slave labor. lead taken by one producer in offer Must Sell Goods Cheaper Than Totalitarian States "Now we simply cannot afford to let that happen. 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