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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH 9 feasgit- Chemists Strengthen Low Grade Lumber, Promise Profitable New Field for Farmers - Allies, Holding Offensive, Veritas Famed British Military Expert, Sees Nazis Handicapped by Being Pinned Inside Defense Circle. By Nr Mi BAUKIIAGE Amilyst and Commentator. Service, Union Trut Building Washington, I). C. the coiled What happens when In released are of action springs the cataclysm of invasion? Europe is enveloped in the smoke and confusion of battle and only occasionally does this fog lift "showing the swaying forms of vast armies amid the screaming clatter of (VNU all of Europe to Murmansk or alt around Africa to the Middle East. But interior lines become a weakness when a nation goes on the defensive. As a matter of fact. General von Clausewitz, who wrote one of the most authoritative books on strategy, said: When you have to go on the defensive, it is too late to go on the It descends defensive. mechanized combat. When you do so, interior lines out the view and sgain "blotting make it all the worse. leaving us uncertain as to the Veritas comments on the position of the plan." shape situa- That is the observation of one of of the enemy in the present follows: as tion the keenest British miliary experts, ". . . the fact that he is Inside a "Veritas," whose privately circulat- circumference which he must main- counto this ed analyses are cabled a deadly disadvantage beis tain try and eagerly scanned by persons cause he is pinned down at every most interested in the conflict now whereas his op- on the circle, point going on. to are free exploit their la- pononts And Veritas reminds us that we of lines by tent exterior advantages can only maintain our sense of if they once at everywhere hitting we if perspective and proportion choose. keep carefully in mind certain funTherefore in viewing the present damental aspects of the military sitin Europe we must bear situation uation from the German standpoint. these two factors in mind: Mils, likewise, applies to the politiFirst, the Nazis can hold down the cal aspects. revolution within until the Germans Dr. A psychologist, seNorman Maier of the University of realize that their last myth of is exploded. But second, the curity who failure the predicted Michigan cou- of the Munich appeasement program strategic position of the Allies, manin with their superiority by demonstrating in advance that pled air power and amount of power, to principsychological according them a decided adples, it could not succeed, recently equipment, gives vantage. made some interesting observations. Through the fog of the battle, the He said that Hitler would be liquioccasional glimpse we catch must would take dated and a revolution be interpreted in the light of these place in Germany as soon as the last of the "myths created by the fundamentals. . German propagandists for the purpose of lulling the Germans into a Training for Farmers false sense of security were explodRecently, the Office of Defense ed. The Germans, he explains, be- Transportation announced that public vocational training schools in 190 long to a "frustrated society. Hitler cured their frustration with ag- cities throughout the country were gression, when aggression is frus- turning over to the automotive intrated, nothing else will be left. dustry a "constantly increasing number of workers trained in one or Revised Propaganda more phases of automotive indusThis type of "security" propagantry. da being fed to the German people The United States Office of Eduhad to be revised recently. So much cation is sponsoring the automotive had been said about the strength of maintenance program. training Nazi fortifications that the leaders They are trying to help fill the gap realized the people had developed in automotive maintenance personwhat they called a Maginot mind. nel caused by the war. In other words, they had become But what many people do not reassured to the point of compla- realize is that it is also conducting cency. Therefore, the more recent courses that directly touch the farm. propaganda foreshadowed success- Congress appropriated $12,500,000 ful landings by the Allies and played for the food production war training up the second line of defense. program which the Office of EducaFor instance, it was stated that tion administers. the city of Lyons was fortified to reThe minimum age limits for both sist operations in case it became and persons the center of the conflict (Lyons is have now been removed and all 200 miles inland). courses are now offered to urban as was made te pre- well as rural Thus, the effort persons. serve the myth of security up to the Twenty-tw- o courses are being oflast moment. As to the possibility of revolution before desperation fered in which the farmer is interseizes the Germans, that is slight. ested, and they run all the way from It is probable that the Germans the operation, care and repair of trucks and automobiles to might oust tiie Nazis now if they tractors, dared; but it is doubtful if anything soil and water conservation. And short of the sheer desperation fol- besides the various handiworks in mechanical line around the farm lowing defeat will turn them against tfie such as machinery repair, woodthe guns of the black shirts. working, elementary electricity and A Swiss who returned from Berlin Just before the day and night bomb- construction of farm machinery and equipment, there are special courses ing of Germany began, said: "There can be no thought of revo- in milk production, poultry produclution. The Gestapo and the SS tion, eggs, pork, beef, mutton, lamb, wool, soybeans, peanuts and various are too powerful. commercial vegetable production. He recited this incident: There is general training for farm An Italian worker who was passworkers, production of fruit and ing through the Friederiehstrasse was Just about to pick up (after the nuts, vegetable gardening and pretbombing of a cigarette factory) one ty nearly everything that one has to know how to do around a farm. of the many boxes of cigarettes lyThese courses are conducted ing around on the ground. Nearby was a young SS man armed with an through the cooperation of the pubautomatic pistol . . . without any lic schools and are responsible to previous warning, he took aim and the state board for vocational education. shot the Italian down. William T. Spanton, chief of the This is said to be a typical incident and the Swiss declared that a division for vocational agriculture, r German woman who drops her k says he believes that on a does not dare to stoop over basis, no appropriations made and pick it up. by congress to stimulate increased food production have contributed The Military Aspects more to this end than has been true The military aspects are a very of the appropriations already made different matter. The great strength to the U. S. Office of Education for of German strategy built on in these specific vocational training terior lines has been turned to a programs. weakness. A nation on the offensive "Practically all of our 8,000 local which can strike overpowering blows departments of vocational agriculat any point it chooses along the ture, scattered widely throughout perimeter of the territory it con- the entire country. says Mr. Span-totrols has a great advantage. "have available on the local Its lines are short, they are pro- school ground a farm tected, they move from the center shop building where courses in farm outward like the radii of a circle. machinery repair are given to farmThe opposing power must laboriousers and where, at the same time, ly follow the circumference witness their farm machinery tee supply lines from the' Allies to and equipment can and is being acRussia which have to sweep around tually overhauled and repaired. ' j well-know- n dollar-for-dolla- pock-etboo- n, much-neede- west, and New Jersey, Pennyslvania sary vacuum and pressure in which and New York on the east. Three the wood is placed. A steam jet f and million acres are con- ejector is an effective, simple mean sidered desirable for shelter belts." of producing the vacuum. The chamThe soil conservation district prober should be equipped with a presgram, under which the farmers sure door or removable head, and LYONS BARROW By themselves decide what lands are with a source of vacuum and (WNU Washington Correspondent suitable for woodlands, today offers pressure. A tank for preparing the of modern The alchemy a practical opportunity for giving solution, an auxiliary overflow tank, chemistry suddenly has pre- the Du Pont process a real tryout. and means for drying the wood are By means of the process, wood also needed. Mild steel equipment pared a new field of profit for farmers. By the use of rela- can be made for the manufacture of may be used. windows and drawers that The chemicals are no more cortively inexpensive equipment doors, and by the application of cer- will not swell and stick, or contract rosive than water, and are neither and become loose. Wood can be flammable nor poisonous. To pretain cheap chemicals, ordi- made strong enough to substitute vent rusting, it is desirable to apply transbe can woods soft nary for even steel in certain machinery a waterproof finish to the exposed formed into material of al- parts. In a few days woods harder surfaces of the equipment. This type most any desired hardness than ebony, which take a century to of could be. set up and equipment and color. grow, can be made at small In almost any lumber operated Not only does this multiply the expense. concern throughout the handling uses for which wood may be used in Poplar becomes harder than hard building and furniture manufacture, maple, which in turn can be made country. A chemical change takes place in but opens possibilities for its use the actual fibers of the wood under conditions of pressure, under treatment. Methylolurea in solution humidity and moisture that formerly enters the wood structure. In the only metals and plastics could course of drying it gradually reacts value decorative the satisfy. Also, with itself and with the components of many woods can be vastly enof the wood, first to form insoluble hanced. And fast growing species of but fusible products. Given sufficient trees, use of which was formerly' time or heat, the reaction is comlimited, can now be grown like crops pleted and an infusible product reto replace the slower growing varisults. If the wood is subjected to eties. sufficient heat and pressure while These facts were revealed rethe resin is still in the fusible stage, T. of Dr. Berliner F. J. by cently the resin will melt, flow and allow the ammonia department of E. I. du the wood to compress. This treatPont de Nemours and company, who ment converts the resin to the final of scientists told a group recently infusible form, maintaining the wood the about writers and development of the chemical called methylolurea, the reagent which transforms the inner structure of wood into new substances. Tht chemicals used in this process cost only 34 cents to 4(4 cents per board foot treated, although the cost of equipment and labor will add to that figure In producing the new product. For the average veneer the cost of chemicals used amounts to s of a cent per less than square foot. This development assumes unusual significance in view of recent efforts of the department of agriculImpregnating apparatus in the Du Pont experimental laboratories is ture to bring about a new realizarather simple. The wood is placed in the horizontal cylinder. The overtion of the potential importance of the woodlot to the farmer. John F. head tank contains the solution of methylolurea, which flows down and the fibers of the wood. A vacuum is first created in the Preston, U. S. soil conservation impregnates then cylinder, pressure. service, estimated a few weeks ago that the income to farftiers from harder than the hardest tropical in the dimension resulting from the farm woodlands could be increased woods. The compressive strength of press. to $500,000,000 a year, or more. The wood is so Thus, treated wood may be comincreased, and other discovery of the Du Pont chemists properties imparted, that in fact a pressed to produce a stable, exmay considerably raise this estinew material is created, which can tremely hard, dense product with a mate. be called "transmuted wood. By consolidated closed surface requirIncome from Woodlot. d this process, species ing no filling, sanding or polishing. "Farmers are interested in wood- of woods that grow on your own It is possible to apply moderate lands not only as sources of income woodlot can be made as useful as pressures sufficient to compress and with which to pay taxes, buy seed. the costlier, scarcer varieties, many consolidate only the surface or outer of which are imported from distant zone of the treated wood to produce a hard finish. If polished or emlands. Wont Warp or Shrink. bossed platens are used, these Furniture made from the trans- finishes can be reproduced on the muted wood can be shipped through- surface of the wood. As far as is out the world to humid tropics or now known, the treatment does not dry areas with assurance that it will have any adverse effect on the not warp, swell or shrink. A built-igluing and finishing characteristics finish is imparted so that scratches of the wood. Flame resistance is may be removed by simply smoothimproved, and the wood is also more ing and rubbing. By mixing dyes resistant to fungi, rot and pest inwith the impregnating chemicals, festation. But from experiments made in Du pine may be given the color of cherry, mahogany or Pont laboratories, it appears certain ebony; or the wood may be made that a process has been developed green, purple or any bright color which will give new value to the trees standing on every farm wood-lo- t. throughout. Veneers sufficiently treated beThat should give an impetus to come requiring no reforestation of many marginal adhesive to be formed into ply- farms, bringing back a woodland woods, since heat and pressure fuse Top Compressed treated wood the product into a hard, dense subbecomes very hard and dense. The stance. Even sawdust, shavings and three balsa blocks in the picture similar woodwastes may be moulded were all originally the same size, into articles with dyes incorporated. but the second and third from the Methylolurea pronounced is compounded by addleft have been subjected to heavy pressure. The thinnest, at the right. ing urea to dimethylolurea. Both maIs now harder than any known wood, terials are white and soluble in water. They are produced from amand 10 times as heavy as the original balsa. Balsa is one of the softmonia, carbon dioxide and methest and lightest woods known. anol, which are synthesized from Below Remarkable resistance of coal, air and water. Urea results treated wood to warping is shown from the reaction of ammonia and dioxide. by this test, the result of which is carbon Formaldehyde, pictured. Two strips of veneer, one which is derived from methanol, treated and one untreated, were condenses with urea to form Treated wood doesnt swell while placed on wet towel. The untreated dimethylolurea. wet, or shrink when dry. Ia this These chemicals are being pro- test, two dowels of exactly the same atrip curled up, while the impregnated remained fiat. duced cheaply on a large scale, but diameter were fitted with brass are under allocation by the war pro- rings that would just slip off. Then shoes, clothes and put up buildings, duction board. Small quantities for the dowels were soaked for about Mr. Preston said, "but also as investigation and preliminary tests, 24 hours. It was found that the means of building up wood re- however, can be obtained without ring on the treated dowel would slip serves to create an income balance formal allocation. After the war off as easily as before, but the unwheel. We might call it an large quantities can be obtained. treated dowel was so swollen that woodbin. Farm forestry has The equipment required may be the ring could not be removed. long served such a purpose in Euroquite simple. In fact, most of the pean countries. apparatus now used in impregnating cover to the soil that wilh conserve "Originally there were 913 million wood with various substances, such rainfall and lessen the danger of acres of forest land in this country, as creosote and flameproofing floods. but 60 per cent of this was converted chemicals, can be adapted with The scientists who perfected this Into farms, and farms now occupy minor alterations. process say there are in the United Because of shorter treating pe- States some fifty species of tree now fully half of the land area of the United States. The move now is riods, however, smaller scale equipused for industrial purposes, and to reconvert much of this cleared ment can be used. An ingenious nearly 1,000 types for which no pracland to farm woodlands. mechanic who understood the prin- tical use has been found, largely be"On farms today, 12,500,000 acres ciples of the new process could rig cause of their softness. With this new mostly abandoned fields and gulup equipment from elements on magic applied to the very soft lies are suitable only for refores- hand m most plants, the chemists woods, all can now be added to the tation. Of this large acreage, only declare resources which will help to make 15 per cent is in the south. Sixty a victorious postwar America someEquipment Simple. All that is required is a chamber thing like the dream which the tech-- I per cent is in the central region between Iowa and Missouri on the capable of withstanding the neces- - nicians have envisaged. Treated Wood Almost Hard as Metal. Have Invasion Advantage d one-hal- two-tenth- near-at-han- n light-colore- d a ever-norm- al Two pieces of wood, one Impreg- BRIEFS by Iiaukhage Of the 20,000 Australian civilians cow employed by the U. S. army in the Southwest Pacific, about 30 per cent are women, as reported by a Melbourne broadcast to the U. S. The Tokio government has organized home guard corps in 13 key centers of Japan in preparation for Allied air raids. The rice produced in China's Japanese-occupied Kiansu and Chekiang districts can be bought only by the Japanese at a fixed price, to be sent to Japan for military use. British and American airmen have been dropping copies of a e weekly newspaper and a monthly magazine over occupied Holland since last May, it was disclosed in London recently. Dutch-languag- i nated with methylolurea and the other untreated, were exposed to the flame of an alcohol burner. The untreated wood soon took flame, while the impregnated merely chars. At right Is shown a demonstration of hardness. Two Mocks of wood, one treated, the other untreated, but otherwise exactly the same, were squeezed with a "C" clamp to the same extent. Untreated wood shows a deep depression, while treated wood was scarcely dented. Washington, D. C. PRESIDENTS HEALTH When congressional leaders called at the White House for the first legislative conference following the President's return from South Carolina, he looked fit as a fiddle. However, Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley popped the question that has had the capital worried because of those wild rumors about the Com- mander-in-Chie- f a health. How do you feel?" asked the Kentuckian. Great, replied Roosevelt. He added that he had got in 12 hours of sleep a night and plenty of sunshine. He was brown as a berry and buoyant as ever. However, congres- sional leaders noted that his face was a little thinner. Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the Presidents physi- cian, accepts responsibility for this, Roosevelt has knocked off 10 pounds under Mclntires orders. He is still five pounds overweight according to his physicians standards, but Mclntire figures that this can be corrected by proper dieting. Talk about different angles: Julia Hayden, the actress, is doing a book, which she illustrates as well. Ita about her dog. The theme: One day in its life . . . She studied its every move and emotion for a day and Every Dog Has night. The title: Its Day" . . . The recent tribute to Eddie Cantor (by over 1,500 admirers) was the first sincere testi- monial in a long spell on Broadway It commemorated his 35th anny in show business. Flowers to the living . . . Joan Crawford and her husband, P. Terry, are doing a Hayworth - Welles. Wearing suits made from the same material. ... j NAZI CHANNEL DEFENSES Of all the variegated defenses Hitler has conceived to block the Secto ond Front from rocket-gun- s flame on the Channel the one which the Allies are worried most about is the plain, relatively nest. The Nazis have developed a new nest, tried it out type of machine-guat Cassino, and it was one reason for our failure to advance. This pillbox is of very heavy concrete, quite small, extends only a foot or so above the ground and is extremely difficult to see from the air. The pillbox usually houses two machine guns, hitched together so that one man can fire both. One Nazi is in each pillbox so that if he is hit only one man is lost. But it takes almost a direct bomb hit to knock him out, so air pounding of them from overhead is not too effective. These pillboxes, buried in the mountains at Cassino, were terrifically effective, and more of them are reported lying in wait behind the shore along the coast of western Europe. machine-gu- n n Bigtown Vignette: On the George Washington bridge, the other Sunday afternoon, flocks of young girls in their colorful summer dresses were decorating the scene . . . Far below was a grey war-lik- e freighter at anchor . . . The sailors on guard by the stern gun were like little toys. They were waving to the girls . . . They shouted and called back and forth but no one could hear what they were saying . . . The wind was blowing and the distance was too much . . . Then a sailor came on He had a trumpet . . . deck And pointing to the distant span he played some beautiful horn music . . . He must have been a professional in civilian life . . . One of his renditions was: Come to Me, My He looked Melancholy Baby" like a little toy on the deck of the ship . . . His trumpet looked like a toy, too . . . His music came up through the air, thin and clear, like music from a toy horn . . . And down the Hudson you could see the bay and the open sea . . . Where the freighter would sail soon for the fighting . . . The trumpeter really sent the girls . . . There sure was a lot of youthful yearning on the breeze. ... ... We Hadnt Heard It Before: Abouv the fat whale and the skinny whale. The fat whale said: My goodness, youre thin! What's wrong with you? Ive Replied the skinny whale: been having bad luck, been in bad waters and no food. said the fat Tell you what, whale, why not swim to the Eng- lish channel? The Allies are exploding a lot of Nazis into the air there. DISCHARGE BUTTONS So the skinny whale swam and With more than a million men now and six weeks later, skinnier swam, the from honorably discharged swam back to his fat than ever, for or the health wounds, age, army friend. question of honorable discharge but"Well, puffed Fatso, why didnt tons becomes more and more Imdo as I told you? you portant. I did, said the skinny whale, It took the army some time to "but when those Nazis came down design a discharge button, but into the water they all had marks now that it is designed, men and on their chests saying they were officers have a hard time getting supermen and I just couldnt swalit unbroken. The buttons are low that baloney!" made of plastic and when mailed to veterans, usually arHitler was never either a house-paintrive in broken pieces. or a paper-hange(He was One discharged air force captain a artist who at one time poor very got his discharge button all right used to put his paintings in an oven in .an envelope from Maj. Jesse C. to He has antique" them.) Hicks, assistant quartermaster. Hill had a longer life than Napoleon (52) Field, Ogden, Utah. But there was and Alexander the Great (32), but no packing around it and it was in Caesar died at 56 and Genghis several pieces. When he wrote back Khan at 65 . . . Although Adolfs for a new button. Major Hicks re- father was named Schicklgruber, der plied: who became der fuehrer was rat There are no provisions for re- never called that . . . Hitlers father placing broken buttons. Therefore, was a who died in the l, we are unable to comply with your belief his son was a zero . . . The request. old man wed three times. At 27 he Note Some of the boys think that married a woman 41; at 48 he with all the gold we have buried at married a 25 At the end of Fort Knox, we could spare some World War girl I Adolf trimmed his von for those discharged. mustache to the Hindenburg-typ- e he wears today. ridiculous STATE DEPARTMENT r. ... neer-do-wel- ... h HARANGUE delightful British Ambassador Lord Halifax called on Undersecretary of State Stettinius some time ago on a secret matter. While they were closeted together. Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle. diminutive and precocious, joined them. Soon, scolding voices came from Stettinius' office. Callers in his anteroom could not help overhearing the harangue as it reverberated even through the heavy mahogany doors of the state department. Finally, Lord Halifax was ushered out. Later Stettinius came out, followed by Berle, who looked a bit agitated. Was I too tough with him? asked Berle. No, said Stettinius, you were just right. "I felt, said Berle, with the air of a parent who has just delivered a good spanking, "that it simply had to be done. What it was all about was not divulged, but Berle has been carrying on long discussions and arguments with the British regarding the future air routes of the world. Dignified, high-pitche- d JEEP INVESTIGATION Government bureaucrats were taken for a sleigh ride behind closed doors when they attempted to Justify budget requests for investigating" jeeps, during hearings on the supplemental national defense bill. Engineering experts of the department of agriculture sprang the jeep scheme, claiming that they needed $15,000 to determine the value of the jeep for farm work as a substitute for tractor power. It was noted that the current tractor shortage might get worse after the war. Himmler 19 the only one to get der fuehrers away with imitating mustache, and even that is an un- reasonable whacksimile . . . Robert Ley, creator of the German labor front, quaffs a pint of brandy before breakfast . . . Fritz von Papen became military attache to Washington on the strength of his wife's money. He twice failed the entrance exams to the War academy, yet he wore the insignia of the General Staff . . . Von Ribbentrop got rid of Koerster and von Hoesch (German ambassadors to France and England respectively) with shots in the arm which produced air embolus. Goebbels attended six universities and entered Heidelberg on the strength of a scholarship from a Jewish professor named Gundolf . . . When Hitler spent his early dayfn a Viennese flophouse, the only man who befriended and helped him was a Jew named Neumann . . . Nazi street fighting tactics originated at the world premiere of "Ail Quiet on the Western Front," the most pacifists of all German pictures. The Hitler gang objected to Remarque's theories. Goering dotes on caviar, regardless of his aversion to other things Russian (such as the Red army), and gobbles it by the spoonful . . Mussolini never liked him because his outthrust chin and affected swagger were too much like Finito's . . . When he has time for it, Goering goes hunting on his estate for animals that are delivered to his home regularly . . . Speaking of animals. His Brownshirt gorillas, in the early days, wore rings which held two sharp blades conveniently released by a spring |