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Show ! Britain Will Help Citizens to Combat Poison Gas Attacks Every English Home May lie Gas-Proof Dugout GAS-ATTACK by air. the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse of modern war, is at last disturbing Great Britain, whose people hitherto have displayed dis-played characteristic native phlegm in the face of feverish preparations In continental cities for civilian protection during possible possi-ble air raids. Every Englishman's house, traditionally his castle, may now have to become his gas-proof dugout. Detailed suggestions for rendering render-ing rooms in ordinary dwellings gas-proof have been drawn up by a trained professional, C. E. Bower, Bow-er, who is styled Air Raid Precautions Pre-cautions Officer to the Commissary Commis-sary of No. 1 District, St. John Ambulance Am-bulance Brieade. Keeping Up iene Science Service.- WNU Service. Stone Age Secrets Are Revealed by Musty Flint Dagger Neolithic Men Kept Cows, Sheep and Horses SCIENTISTS , poring over weapons in modern "crime laboratories" are able to extract many secrets that the layman, and certainly not the criminal himself, would ever imagine possible. But a group of German Ger-man museum workers have "mined" a single weapon for information in-formation never before obtained about the way of people in northwestern north-western Europe ten or fifteen thousand thou-sand years ago. The weapon is a flint dagger about eight inches long, dating from the earlier part of the New Stone age. It was found during the digging of a ditch through a moor in northern Germany. There is nothing remarkable about the weapon itself. Scientists Turn Sleuths Exceedingly remarkable, however, how-ever, is the fact that this dagger was still in its leather sheath, with a long leather carrying strap still wrapped around it, just as the owner own-er left or perhaps lost it, those many centuries ago. Also, part of the wooden handle was still in place, and between the wood and the stone a layer of cloth which had been inserted to improve the grip of the wood on the stone. A group of scientists immediately went to work, each identifying some special part of the find. The leather of the sheath was sheepskin; sheep-skin; an outer sheath decorated with shallow cuts in a sewed spruce-needle pattern, and an inner in-ner lining of softer sheepskin. The carrying strap was of cowhide. The cloth fragment proved to be highly interesting. The warp was almost wholly decayed, through the action of acid water. A tiny fragment, frag-ment, unidentifiable by ordinary methods, proved to be linen when subjected to a new type ultra-violet analysis. The wool was a mixture of sheep wool, goat wool, horsehair and cow-hair. Adding all these fragments together, to-gether, it was possible to conclude that the people of this region, very early in the New Stone age, were herdsmen keeping sheep, goats, horses and cattle. To get his directions widest possible pos-sible publicity, with graphic pictures pic-tures of important details which might bo overlooked if given only in print, they have been published in the Illustrated London News. An ofllckil booklet is announced for publication shortly, by the home office. How to Figlit Gai The ordinary English urban or suburban villa presents a rather difficult problem. Its one floor, at ground level, lies within the expected ex-pected "zone of saturation," if a gas raid conies. It has no basement, base-ment, and there are numerous openings through which gas might enter notably the open fireplaces which are features of almost every ev-ery room in an ordinary English house. Yet the problem can be solved, Mr. Bower declares. Select one or more rooms, enough to give each occupant 20 square feet of floor space, with a ceiling height of about nine feet. Putty all window ' joints, paste paper on the inside of j the windows, and board up the outside. out-side. Finally, fasten a wet blanket inside the window. Do the same for the doors, and seal up the fireplace, and all other openings. See that the room is always pro-, visioned with food and water, and furnished with folding camp beds and bedding in addition to necessary neces-sary chairs and tables. Have fire extinguishers and a first-aid kit available. Provide means for passing pass-ing the time books, radio, phonograph, phono-graph, playing cards. Ancient Syrian God Found on Euphrates NEW HAVEN, CONN. The calm, bearded face of an ancient Syrian god Hadad the Thunderer and an elaborate temple built for his worship, have been discovered in ruins of Dura on the Euphrates. Yale scientists, pronouncing latest lat-est buildings uncovered at Dura "sensational finds," said that the temple of Hadad contains a high altar built like a miniature Tower of Babel. The high altar, standing within a court, is about 17 feet square and 16 feet tall, and is approached ap-proached by a flight of steps. An altar of burnt offerings in the principal prin-cipal sanctuary and the throne of the high-priest before it have been preserved through the centuries. Hadad was a god of storms, whose name is familiar to Bible students stu-dents because three kings in the Bible had names in which this heathen god's name formed a part. The discoveries at Dura include the headquarters of the governor or duke of the Euphrates frontier in Roman empire days. The vast complex of the building included offices, of-fices, barracks for body-guard, and living quarters with elaborately painted walls and ceilings. Household House-hold attendants included a troupe of actors. In one guard room, the archeol-ogists archeol-ogists have found on the wall the opening lines of Virgil's Aeneld scrawled by a Roman soldier. A living room has yielded a magnificent magnifi-cent oval brooch of gold four inches across, ornamented in filigree and set with garnets and emeralds. The palace of the hereditary mayors may-ors of the city, also revealed, contains con-tains over 40 rooms and two great courtyards. Children's Fear of Darkness Is Removed by Novel Training NEW YORK. The horrible fear that many little children suffer from when they must enter en-ter an unfamiliar dark room can, in many cases, be overcome by a method of training worked out by Dr. Frances B. Holmes of the Child Development institute, teachers college, Columbia university, univer-sity, here. The scheme worked out by Doctor Doc-tor Holmes was one which enlisted enlist-ed the active co-operation of the child in doing something himself about the terrifying situation. Learns by Play In the case of the dark room fear,' this is what was done to remove re-move it in a group of nursery school children: While the child was playing a game with the experimenter, the ball was rolled into the dark room and the child was sent in after it. When he refused to go into the dark room alone, the adult would go with him. At the same time the adult would encourage the child and tell him how to feel his way and how to search for the phosphorescent, phos-phorescent, glowing pendant which had been attached to the end of the long light pull-cord. When the light had been found, the child was allowed al-lowed to pull it on, but then was encouraged to pull it off again and watch its dim glow in the dark. Odor of New Cut Wood May Be Made Perfume LONDON. Perfumes of a rustic tang, bearing such rural names as "Odor of Earth," "New-Cut Wood," or perhaps going across tho Channel into 'Terre sillonee," are made a possibility pos-sibility by the discovery of special micro-organisms that are responsible respon-sible for the characteristic scents of fresh-plowed fields In spring, of earth after strong rain in summer, or of freshly felled trees. The micro-organisms were discovered by Dr. Dr. A. Raistrick, working at the Rothamsted Experimental station sta-tion at Harpenden. A distinct field of "costume perfumes" per-fumes" is suggested by the possibility possi-bility of propagating these organisms organ-isms in pure culture and making use of their scent. ' Helium Suggested as Preventive of "Bends" WASHINGTON. Helium, now used to lift men into the air, may find a new use in treating those who go underground under-ground or under the sea and who, working under compressed air, contract caisson disease, it appears ap-pears from recent investigations on helium's solubility in the blood, reported by Drs. J. A. Hawkins and C. W. Shilling of the experimental experi-mental diving unit at the United States navy yard here. The "bends," an exquisitely painful malady which affects workers who are exposed to air at high pressure, is caused by the blood's taking up a great deal of nitrogen from the air. |