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Show TI1E BULLETIN Here Is IIow to Make Your Own Diamonds But They Arc Small Keeping Up W cience Science Service. MORAL: Never Take Your Girl Friend Fishing TUfi Dallas, Texas. How chemistry makes real diamonds in the laboratory, synthetically, was described at the meeting of the American Chemical society here by Lewellyn D. Lloyd of the chemistry department of McPherson college, McPherson, Kansas. WNU Service. Who First Discovered Tiny Pacific Isles Worries Geographers Under the direction of Dr. J. Willard Hershcy at McPherson synthetic diamonds have been prepared by successive groups of graduate students. Here is the simple formula Minute Pacific islands, worthless to any but their inhabitants and a few for making diamonds: Email-scal-e traders until the Mix two parts of chemically pure one part of pure 1 In the spring a young mans fancy may turn to most anything. of the advent transpacific air iron filings with volume. Place in I With Tommy Powers of Ocean county, N. J., its a matter iff teach- carbon, by sugar essential but today service, a graphite crucible and heat to a ing his best girl Mary Lon Powell how to catch a fish. Mary Lou havens for the giant steel and temperature of at least 4,000 degrees doesnt fancy putting that fat, wiggling worm on n hook and we dont Centigrade for a little over an hour. blame her. But she mnst be a good fellow or stay home. alloy clippers that roar through and 'the sky from continent to conti-ine- Then remove the crucible ice of solution a into freezing across the worlds widest plunge and salt brine. Treat the hardened iOcean, are causing geographers maas with hot aqua regia for 300 iand statesmen sleepless nights hours to dissolve the iron and digest ,while their ownership is being the residue as much as possible with New York. two flat flounders over. Beginners luck, that's all. Mary Lon brtagi bite. Maty Lou must, first his for waits still the side while Tommy u bo bad luck, for In the spring a fellow can usually eaten flounders Bamegat bay as fast as he can offer them worms providing be doesnt ! nt disputed. Discovered, many of them, before the invention of the sextant and chronometer, so that their exact location was doubtful, these small i land masses in the watery immensity have been relocated by modem methods. Ownership of the islands depends on who first claimed them. Claims made on the basis of old 'observations are likely to have wrong locations given because of the crudity of the instruments used. The problem now becomes one of determining just what islands were claimed for what nation. Studies of old whale-shi-p logbooks are supplying geographers with d clues to the dismany Pacific of these outposts. Dr. covery S. Wittemore Boggs, State department geographer, writing in the Geographical Review, cites a number of the difficulties encountered in this effort to determine just who discovered and claimed what. Early Mariners Made Errors. Doctor Boggs says, Medana, 'by dead reckoning, underestimated the distance from Peru to his 'Western Isles (Solomon islands) by 2,000 miles. Errors of 1,000 miles in longitude were not uncommon in the Sixteenth century. Today, the pilot of a China Clipper must be able to "hit an island only a mile in diameter by use of navigating instruments. Log books of whaling and trading hips, diaries of captains and seanewspapers, and men, small-tow- n records of bonds deposited by miners of guano on the far off Pacific .islands are all being searched for evidence of discoveries and occupations which will make certain some of the now nebulous claims to the 'Islands once called "American Polynesia. "If the sources are ever adequately studied and reported on, states Doctor Boggs, "an Interesting and significant chapter in American history will have been illuminated. long-wante- Cornstalk Provides Rival for Valuable Coal Tar Dallas Texas. Coal tar, highly valuable raw material by which organic chemists fashion scores of synthetic chemical products, has a new rival in lignin tar obtained from cornstalks, it was indicated in the report to the chemists' meeting here of . Leon Bridger of the chemical engineering department of Iowa State university. Synthetic resins, plastics, drugs, dyes, perfumes and flavors may be manufactured in the future from agricultural materials like By digesting cornstalks with strong alkalis like ordinary lye, in the absence of air, a black tar is produced which is somewhat similar to coal tar. It is, however, far richer in phenols. Moreover, the yield of tar is much greater and as a result about 40 times as much phenols are obtained from a pound of lignin as from a pound of coal. The preparation of phenols from the lignins by destructive distillation was discovered by Dr. Max Phillips of the United States Department of Agriculture. com-stalks- . . Lotus Plants Grown From Seeds Centuries Old Chicago. Oriental lotus plants are being grown from seeds estimated to be from 300 to 500 years old, at the Field Museum of Natural History. The seeds were obtained from soil that had once been a lake bottom in southern Manchuria, near Port Arthur. Records show that the lake was drained some time between 160 and 250 years ago, and since then large willow trees have grown up on the ancient lake bed. The seeds are believed to be the oldest that have ever been made to sprout. Bronze Wall Paint Moscow. A new wall paint prepared from the waste products of mercury plants has been developed here. Cheaper than oil paint, possessing a metal-lik- e gloss reminiscent of silk, the new product is prepared by grinding and mixing mercury waste with adhesives, it is stated. The paint can be applied by brush or spray. bronze-lik- e various acids. Tiny, But Real Diamonds. Finally search the remaining carbon dust for the diamonds. Use a microscope in the search, for any diamonds will be very tiny. But they will be diamonds, which is what you started out to make. But seriously, the simple statements above have required a great amount of research to bring them about. When Dr. Hershey began there was no way in which temperatures of 4,000 degrees could be controlled in a fashion required in the research. And there was the problem of building a fire brick furnace that could withstand the high tem- peratures. The continued research has shown, Mr. Lloyd indicated, that the formation of the diamonds seems to depend on how fast is the cooling of the heated mass of iron and carbon. This cooling, and the tremendous pressures which are built up inside the mass during cooling, seem to turn black carbon into the transparent carbon which man calls a diamond. As white hot molten iron cools to a red solid it expands, Mr. Lloyd said. As it cools from a red solid to room temperature it contracts. Thus the outside of the iron, which cools more rapidly than the inside of the mass, is contracting while the inside is still expanding. The carbon, dissolved in the iron, is thus subjected to a pressure estimated at 180,000 pounds to the square inch. iron-carbo- n - have a woman along. By THORNTON W. BURGESS IT IS strange how fast news trav-- 4 3 Mary Lou learns that stringing fish at the end of the day is different than crocheting. As for Tommy, hell go fishing alone next time! Turn Her Loose With Paint And Shell Accomplish Things By BETTY WELLS UHAT a lady and a can between them, cant of paint, accom- the material for the dressing table skirt. We suggested that she paint the floor a soft gray, then have the dresser and bed painted the yellow of the ceiling. The woodwork wed prefer in the ground white of the wall paper. The dressing table skirt would be nicest in yellow organdy or yellow dotted swiss. Another reader with a paint problem has a wood bed and an old dresser to be used in an attic room. The room is to be repapered, and woodwork and floor will be repainted. What colors? What paper? What should be done about the furniture? Why not gray paper with a small pattern of pink flowers and ribbons, something that can gb over ceiling as well as side wall. Then for woodwork the gray of the paper and for the furniture the lightest pink in the floral. The floor wed paint black, the bedspread and curtains wed like in plain pink voile or h ruffles. dimity made with els. There isnt anything that travels faster. The day after it happened everybody on the Green Meadows and in the Green Forest and around the Smiling Pool knew all about the joke Buster Bear had played on Reddy Fox and Granny Fox and Old Man Coyote. Buster didnt tell it himself, and you may be very sure that Reddy and Granny and Old Man Coyote didnt tell it. Peter Rabbit didnt tell it, because Peter was safe in the dear Old Briar Patch when it happened and didnt know anything about it until the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind came dancing that way and told him about it It must have been Hooty the Owl who told it, for he was the only one who saw it. Anyway, some one told it, and then whoever heard it told the first one they met and so it spread and spread until everybody knew about it. Paddy the Beaver chuckled over it as he swam about in hia private pond deep in the Green Forest. Grandfather Frog chuckled over it d as he sat on his big green in the Smiling Pool, watching for foolish green flies. Danny Meadow Mouse chuckled over it as he scampered along his little paths under the grass on the Green Meadows. So Buster Bear as he prowled about in the Green Forest found that he was no longer lonesome. Every one he met was very polite and said "good morning, and hoped he was feeling very well. It was very pleasant, very pleasant, indeed, to have some one to speak to, and, because he really is one of the best natured fellows in the world, he began to think how he could show his neighbors that he really was their friend and that they had nothing to fear from him. He was studying and studying about this when who should come along but Jimmy Skunk. Now, you know, Jimmy isnt afraid of anybody and when he saw Buster Bear in the path in front of him he didnt even step aside. It was Buster Bear who stepped aside. "Good morning, Jimmy Skunk, said Buster. Morning, er crossly. replied Jimmy, rath- "I hope you are feeling happy, this fine morning, said Buster, who wanted some one to talk to. "Id feel better if I could find some fat beetles, grumbled Jimmy. "Is that all you need to make you happy? asked Buster. "I saw three only a few minutes ago. Where? asked Jimmy eagerly, and his face brightened and his voice didnt sound so grumpy. "They ran under that old log and I guess theyre there now, replied Buster. Jimmys face fell. The log was so big that he knew he couldnt budge it if he fried all day. He was just about to do something unpleasant plish is nobody's business. Right now were interested in Helen Ws plans for her bedroom. Because her own ingenuity with paint is going to be the main expenditure on the room, were betting that it's going to have plenty of charm. e room, just Its a small flowered pain a yellow, repapered per on a white ground. The ceilNMtfHi ing has yellow paper with tiny white dots. The bed is old fashioned, a Jenny Lind type, painted ivory and Death Rate Among Boys Grandfather Frog chuckled over it the dresser is old and oak. The as he sat on hia big green lily pad. use to old washstand shes planning Increased by Use of Bicycles as a dressing table. when Buster walked over to the old But what she's really worried New York. The death rate among about is the paint to choose for the log, hooked his big claws into it and gave a great pull. Over rolled boys as a result of collisions be- floor, woodwork and furniture and the log. A dozen fat beetles started tween bicycles and automobiles has to scurry for another hiding place. doubled within the past three years, In no time at all they had found one. statistics of the Metropolitan Life It was in the stomach of Jimmy Insurance company for its industrial Skunk. He looked up at the twinpolicy holders show. In 1935 the death rate from this kling eyes of Buster Bear. cause among boys from ten to fourIt is a fine morning, said he. She Had Nerve 1 think we are going to be friends. teen years was 14.9 per million, while in 1937 it as 29.2. For the "Of course we are, replied Buster It took as much courage as when age group from fifteen to nineteen "Let's go look for some promptly. 1 cut my hair, drawled Prissy the rate rose from 20 per million in more beetles. Kent when we had exclaimed prop1935 to 42.8 in 1937. 8 T. W. Burma. WNU Service. erly over her living room. The increase, chiefly in the ages We could imagine that it had between thirteen and sixteen years, taken plenty of nerve. Because BEAUTY HINT-is due to increased numbers of boys shed used two marvelous paisley at this age bicycling on the highshawls for draperies at her winways. dows. They were perfect in the The most effective way to prevent room but imagine cutting them up! these accidents would be the proviWell, Ive kept them in moth sion of more cycling paths, the life balls for years, thinking they were insurance companys health authoritoo good to use, Prissy explained. ties point out. Other preventative Then I' decided that I might as measures suggested are laws, strictwell get some pleasure out of them. ly enforced, requiring bicycles to So there they are! at educaand night, carry lights Why not, indeed? Wed probably tion of adolescent boys to the danhave felt the same way. Shes just of on the gers cycling highways. had their house done over, with knotty pine walls in the living room. Their maple furniture was pleasantCortez Mined Sulphur From ly livable here, with its mellow tones and unassuming heartiness. Popoeatepetl in 1519 Wide built-i-n book shelves with book bindings that made a medley of Dallas, Texas. Mexico, whose exdeep glowing colors patterned one of oil foreign properties, propriation wall. Opposite the two windows has centered interest in its mineral seem to need just the tones of a of was itself victim a resources, shawl. paisley 400 more than expropriation "At first, I thought Id get a its conquest by ago, during years paisley print, said Prissy, "but Hernando Cortez and his hardy band the two real paisleys kept tempting of Spaniards. In 1519, it was deme and making the prints look like scribed to the Chemical society reby comparison. So finally nothing cently. Cortez sent his men into the I just up and slashed right into crater of famed Mount Popocatepetl them. Each shawl made a pair of and obtained sulphur with which he draperies. I backed them with a was able to make gunpowder that strong rep made to extend enough to the him conquer country. helped at the top to fasten the rings to, so Donald B. Mason, chemical enwouldn't be strain on the there comof the Freeport Sulphur gineer Then I lined and weighted shawls. pany, told of this episode from hisPresenting a tailored air and yet them and there you are. of review the his world's in tory delightfully cool for warm weather, they were perfect there. sulphur industry for the chemists. this frock worn by Esther Brodelet, AnCertainly old blue sofa and a pair of chairs Cortezs exploit was the first pro- Twentieth Centnry-Fo- x player. Is linen on a dull red ground duction of sulphur in the Western made of navy blue chiffon printed in figured off were set by the pine color of the hemisphere. in red, pale yellow and green. Dain- rug. Blue pottery supplied accesEvery muscle in the body is brought into' by correct gymnastic exercises utilising the "horse shown above. play ty collar and cuffs of white organdie sory accents. Weight is carried on the arms to hoist the body across. Posed by Ann Rutherford. add to its look of freshness. e By Betty WtUi. WNU Service. Used Glass Fabric farm-hous- all-ov-er six-inc- lily-pa- fj -- Jump Your Way to Health Tape as Insulating Material One-Ma- n Glass tape made Pittsburgh. from spun glass fibers is now being used experimentally by engineers of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company here to increase the power and efficiency of electric motors. Improved motor performance is claimed for the glass insulation, which is said to be moisture proof, fireproof and to have improved dielectric and mechanical strength characteristics. Attack On Dreadnaught Stamford, Conn. Lester P. Bar-loaerial munitions expert, says this "diving bomb could destroy a battleship and the pilot could live to tell about it. The bomb would be launched at 10,000 feet, glide to 3.500 feet and then dive on the ship. The pilot would escape with a parachute nnd a rubber boat, carrying enough concentrated food to la.d for days. |