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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH . i .rt W The Man, the Girl, the Place every meal By JOSEPHINE SHELDON il (Edited by Q. Douglas Wardrop. Editor of Radio Merchandising.) It stimulates (Copyright.) Roosevelt, a Chip of the Old Block Theodore Nooseveit (portrait herewith), whose campaign for the governorship of New York against Al Smith lias interested the whole country, Is described by his intimates as a chip of the old block. Ills career, however, Is full of interest, without any reference to that of his fattier. Roosevelt's tackling a hard fight," said ids supporters at the time of his nomination, but thats quite in keeping with tiie Roosevelt tradition. If he wins, he becomes at once a national factor In politics. Even if lie loses, lie deserves the thanks of Ids party and will have the approval of his own conscience. Roosevelt wus born at Oyster Ray This Diagram Illustrates How the Double Pole, Double Throw Switch Is Emin 1.887; was graduated from Harvard in 100.8 and was married in 1010. lie ployed. Wave Lengths Depend Upon Position of Switching Device. was in business till 1910 when he was of mica and copper foil machine elected to the New York By FRANCIS H. ARMSTRONG assembly. In One of the problems troubling many pressed or firmly damped. JO-lie was made assistant secretary 1 Load Circuit Carefully. radio fans at the present time is the of the navy. Where loading is resorted to great adjustment of their sets to cover the When the war began he went to Ilattsburg. When lie sailed for France higher wave lengths, especially of 192 care must lie exercised to procure re- be was a major; when he returned he was a lieutenant colonel. Much lay beand 520 meters. One method that may generation on the higher wave bands. tween. Late In June, 1018, lie was cited for gallantry for keeping his men in be applied to most receivers In pres- A double pole double tiirow switch (lie trendies of a difficult with them against a rain of shells. sector, standing ent day use, ami particularly those of Is shown In Figure 1. When the po- He was He was hardly back gassed and for several weeks was the two variometer and vnrloeoupler sition of the switdi Is such that It with ids battalion when he was wounded incapacitated. this time In a successful atngain, type, is by the addition of Instruments neither cuts in or out condensers the tack to the southwest of Soissons, In which Iloisy was captured. After the called condensers. Whore such load- set Is standard and will operate nor- armistice Colonel Roosevelt was a In the formation of the American leader ing of eapuclty is resorted to great mally over Its limit of wave length Legion. care must be exercised in securing re- range. Should the condenser switch generation over the wave length bunds be thrown to a position indicated for the desired. stations, then two Most receiving sots embodying radio condensers in series are cut Into the frequency will remain just as they circuit and placed across the grid variare. These Instruments are governed ometer and secondary of coupler. The switch thrown to the position by the range of transformers Included Experiments demonstrating the In the construction of the set, and of 1,000 meters" has a different efpracticability of broadcasting motion the general practice of most manufac- fect. It disconnects all previous conpictures by wireless have been disturers has been to design their radio nections and adds capacity from the closed by Col. E. II. It. Green of South The frequency transformers to cover a plate circuit to the grid circuit. Dartmouth, Mass. President Samuel are connected in wave length range of from 8(H) to 550 two condensers W. Stratton of the Massachusetts Inmeters. There Is no question regardseries, the connection being made stitute of Technology attended a test ing most of the transformers made from the plate back to the filument. at which a motion picture was transmitted GO feet by wireless. He was today, as the majority run as high ns Another connection is then taken from ttie center of both condensers and the new wave length of 520 meters. so impressed that he detailed two exIn some eases where a loop aerial Is placed to a point Just prior to the perts from the institute staff to assist employed in conjunction with a radio grid condenser, but in the grid circuit. Colonel Green in the perfection of the frequency set more turns of wire on Tills then provides for capacitative reMarshall Invention. said Colonel the loop may have to be added in or- generation over the entire wave length Green had established the practicader to secure sufficient added induc- range up to 1,000 meters. bility of the device for sending short The condenser values should avertance in this part of the circuit to distances and was confident that in roach the wave desired. The reason age about .00025 capacity, and, as exanother year he would have a set suitfor tills istlint the loop acts In this plained, should be of the mica and able 'for general broadcasting of case as a tuning inductance. Should copper foil type. Why most of the movies. sets failed to function properly is due the loop aerial lie deficient In its Thus another of the famous Amervalue, then there Is no resi- to the fact that regeneration was not ican fortunes is in process of dissipadent point to work on for the higher available on T he higher wave bands. tion by its heirs. Tike great heap of In Figure 2 a cam switch or wave lengths. Hotter service mny he money piled up by the late Hetty switch arrangement Is Illushad if the original loop Is supplied Green during a lifetime devoted all with a sufficient number of turns on trated, but tills Is merely a method hut exclusively to the task of accumulating wealth has been attacked, almost Its frame, which are then varied by of accomplishing the same result as on a steam shovel scale, by her son, Edward Howland Itohinson Green, who means of a suitable tapping or a the previously mentioned switch. The during tiie past few years is reputed to have spent hundreds of thousands of appearance and arrangement of the dollars on what switching arrangement. began as a hobby and has become a vocation tiie developcam switdi appeals to most radio fans, Tuner. ment of tiie Loading Three-Circui- t of radio. possibilities Under this type of regenerator and therefore Is more often employed. He bus tiie largest private wireless station in the United States, and is comes the two variometer The amateur who is willing to "make now erecting still more buildings for extensive experiments. In mind that for and varicoupler circuit. Tills type of ids own" must bear Is essenresults proper regeneration reapparatus has become the prize tial on the higher wave hands. New ceiver of many a radio fun, since It York Sun. contains the elements which give a set selectivity, hut since some new stations wore Injected into the ether Adjustable Loop Aerial Prof. A. A. Mielieison of the Uniit seems thnt most of the variometer Is Easily Constructed of Chicago, one of the worlds sets fall short of bringing in conversity A loop aerial that is adjustable in most eminent seiclitists, lias announced certs on the longer waves. With tills set an arrangement can tie made to se- length to suit receiving conditions and results of experimentation with the cure shorter waves with their maxi- therefore is especially suitable for sets velocity of light conducted by him type, may be last summer at Mt. Wilson observatory mum signal strength Just ns efficient- of the made easily by the method illustrated. In California. t wave he as when Tiie outcome, he said, ly longer using A frame of conventional design Is was very promising. The problem length hands. by 1 lneli white pine, with was to reduce Tills arrangement consists of em- made of ns to the uncertainty a round or square base. The arms number of miles travels in one ploying a double pole, double throw light glass-heaare studded with pins, such second of time. Doctor Mielieison exswitch, or by the use of an anticn-pneitswitch. The first arrangement plained that thus fur the average would he the better of the two for speed given by various methods of the beginner or novice, since It apmeasurement was 1.8(5, 8(H) miles a second, tiie uncertainty being a matter pears to be much simpler. In the acof 20 or 80 miles, and tiie goal a recompanying diagram (Figure 1) one duction of this uncertainty to one mile, may get an idea how the double pole, double throw switching arrangement lie says the velocity of light is one is employed. The wave lengths deof tiie most fundamental of tiie constants of nature, and this alone would pend entirely upon the position of the switching device. Justify the attempt to measure it with In Figures 1 and 2 the condensers the highest possible precision. are represented by C. These conTwo weeks w'll lie needed by densers may be made at home or they Professors Mielieison and Henry G. can be purchased at any radio simp (bile to test tiie Einstein theory of relativity by means of tl.eir elaborate apat the option of the builder. If purparatus which is nearing completion r.t Clearing, 111. Tiie apparatus consists chased the fixed type condenser is of a rectangle of water pipe 1,800 feet long by 1.2(H) feet wide; an arc light to be preferred. In shopping around which "ill Hash two beams of light around tiie pipe in opposite directions; t lie fan will run into various types of sets of mirrors to relay tiie light bourns around tiie pipe, and an air pump to PosAllows Closest That Arrangement fixed condensers, many of them concreate a vacuum in the pipe. If no difference in the time of tiie rival beams sible Tuning. sisting of paper and tinfoil. Tills type is perceived, it will be apparent that light Is not affected by the earths rotaas photographers use. On these pins of condenser should not lie consldeted. tion; or, in other words, that tiie ether" rotates with the earth. as Its capacity is not uniform. is wound a length of bare, braided In recen tests some of these pacopper wire. One end of the winding Is fastened per condensers gave no fixed reading vhatsoever; capacities varied any- to the pin in the center, und the other where from .0002 to .001 mfd. merely to a binding post on the radio panel, by pressing the condenser together Connect a short piece of flexible wire with the fingers. Due to their loose with the other binding post and sublet Camille Flamnnrion (portrait construct Ion, moisture creeps in and n clip on the loose end, so that It may herewith), the famous French astronvaries the capacity to the same de- lie snapped on the loop at any place. omer, has no doubt that Mars is inWhat the fan This allows the closest possible tuning gree of Inaccuracy. habited. And hes written six books should buy is a condenser constructed of the aerial circuit. on Mars. He snld, the other day: On Mars, in August, can they know in advance for certain what the weather here will be tomorrow, or next week, or next month! Certainly not. Tiie approach of Mars isn't responsible for our had weather. Then lie became serious and added ; It's true no great oceans like ours exist in Mars. Theirs are small seas like the Mediterranean nnd many of them are spotted with dark green, no doubt because of vegetation and marshes, similar to those of the famous Sargasso, where descendants of Columbus lost themselves. As for continents, they are golden and their color changes like flames. Martians are much happier than we are and much more Intelligent. Yes, they are superior to us for they would never commit the folly of war. I cannot say when we will be able to communicate with Mars. Maybe time of the dinosaur and got tired of It and maybe we shall Cam Switch or Switch Arrangement Is Merely a Method of Ao they did try at the succeed this Double-Throjar." Switch. complishing Sams Result as Colonel Green and His Movie Machine anti-capacit- y well-know- Michelsons Experiments With Light super-heterodyn- e d y 1 Mariians Much Happier Than Earthians Anti-Capaci- " WINSTON pointed with a pLISE stick at the animals pictured long on the huge sheet on the wall. Not gat, but cat, Wappl, dear, she corrected. Now, Yuml, whats this?" The stick slid from cat to dog and then to cow and on to horse. Tiie brownskinned little natives wriggled and twisted their slender bodies and wrestled with the English words. As Elise worked with them her mind was not always on what she was doing und at times her thoughts were so far removed from the little island that it was a shock to tier when, at last, she was once more conscious of her surroundings. After a while things became more a habit and she could spend whole hours In the United States and at the same time instruct tiie young In her charge perfectly. Her lips could keep up a steady flow of "No, Ataqullia, don't take off your pinafore, dear, and Wappl, you are not trying to make your letters, and Your mother said, Clelia, she wanted you to learn to wear shoes, so put them hack on And all the time her nght away. mind was saying: I wonder what my crowd would think If they could see me now. I wonder what they are doing and whether the United States really is tiie same old place it was three months ago three months ago! And what it would feel like to dress for dinner again and to go to the theater in the evening. Oh, Lord, what did I ever sign up for a year of this for! I must have been insane." Gala hata santa Gala hata santa! they would chant, which, in their dialect meant golden-hairesaint. Rut with all tiie novelty and fascination of her new life Elise was homesick, and she lived from one week to another for the letters she received from home. Every Thursday a steamer from San Francisco touched the little Island and always great excitement attended its arrival. The natives would get Into litle boats and hurry out to the big steamer, climb aboard and try to sell their wares to the passengers. The faculty always went to the dock In hope of glimpsing an American. Occasionally business brought some one o the island. It was a Thursday in early March that Elise stood out in the dazzling sunshine watching the passengers on deck, when suddenly she saw a man come down tiie gangplank. followed by the usual number of hags and baggage, and suddenly her knees began to tremble and she turned her back on the steamer. John Armistead Iorter, reaching the end of the gangplank, looked up and about him with an air of one eagerly interested in his surroundings. It was then that he spied the familiar back and waved his hat at its unseeing expanse. Elise did not look around, but she kenw somehow that he had seen her and could feel him approaching nearer, nearer. Her heart beat suffocatingly. Stupid idiot, what was the matter with her? He must not see her like this. lie caught her arm American fashion and looked down into her face. I told you Id follow you to the I ends of the earth, he laughed. wish all these people weren't cluttering up the place and Id kiss you, even If I did get my face scratched afterward. Suddenly she was calm and herself again. Her excitement had left her as quickly as it had come. J. A., you dear old silly what did you come down here for?" she asked. Just to get you. Long trip for such a little girl, isnt it? Rut youve had your fling nnd educated enougli savages by now. It's time you came home. I spoke to your mother about It nnd she agrees with me. Rut, hut I wont go back with you you know Iin not in love with you, and appetite aids digestion. It makes your food do yon more good. Note how It relieves that stnlfy feeling alter hearty eating. Vhltens teeth, breath and iwtetem lta the goody LA(that Fast-Movin- Planet g Jupiters diameter is about ten times that of our earth, but so quickly does it spin that a day there lasts onl nine hours and fifty minutes. d J. A." There wore so many men hanging around you, you hadnt a chance to know what you were. Down here its different. To really fall in love you have to be a little lonesome; have that little hollow, empty feeling in your heart. I know, because Ive had it." lie was cheerfully optimistic ns they walked up the beach together, but Elise was silent. That night they walked on the beacli in the dazzling moonlight. The waves swished and slushed softly along the sandy coast, the palm trees stood out against the white background plain ns day, the natives had long before igfHred to their huts. The spell of the place was upon her gripped her as It never had before. The weird charm of It all, the strange loneliness. She caught her breath and looked up at him, her eyes big with a new wonder. Is It you or Is It the place? she asked in a whisper. I think its the combination," he answered. He held her to him a moment, then kissed her, and she unresistingly submitted to his caresses. Suddenly she came back to eartli with a thud and she made a wry face In the moonlight. Rut, oh, John, I forgot. I didnt intend to capitulate so soon. Youll never value me as you should, but when I saw you get off ihat steamer "Dont you worry, dear, lie soothed. A fellow's apt to. value the girl be goes three thousaud miles to get, nnd that after he's hev-- definitely turned down nineteen separate and distinct times. 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