| Show o Scientific Age Just Starting Savants Claim CJ Tomorrows Tomorrow's Farmer Will Guide Tractor From His Front Porch Son pless soap smokeless powder from cottonseed ice- ice less ice fertilizer from the theair air tir wool without benefit of sheep rubber sponges from cotton and andwood wood wood these these miracles ore arc to to- today today today day taking form in sciences science's tubes test-tubes and crucibles A myriad of other develop develop- developments developments developments ments equally spectacular E will soon take place in farm- farm farming farming farming ing home design transportation J tion food distribution and andl l architecture if we take the i word of the worlds world's leading lending c scientists and industrial engi engl J. J y I Stimulated by wide interest tomorrow In the world of these scientific gentlemen are do Ing extensive crystal gazing gating nowa nowa- nowadays days and their predictions based on experience gained In Americas America's ef d. f. f Industria laboratories give a kaleidoscopic picture of ot our civi civilization a decade or so o from now Factory machinery for Instance will eat cat more agricultural prod prod- products products than will be consumed as a food tood officials of ot leading chemical com corn companies panics assert The tremendous demands de do- moods mands upon the farm which will willbe willbe willbe be made by manufacturers of ot plas plan plastics tics synthetic yarns yams and similar substitutes will result In an entirely new concept of ot agriculture Gasoline From Irom rotators n. n Alcohol motor fuel tuel will wUl bo be made from molasses corn Irish and sweet potatoes or from artichokes Dr Th W. W V. V L. L Owen a Baton Daton Rouge consulting bacteriologist has pre pro predicted We can establish he de declared dared an motor fuel In Industry In in- industry that tha t will enormously enrich the farmer without any Imposition whatever on the motorist All AU Great Britain food tood requirements require require- requirements ments could be produced on a small mall part of the soil soli of ot the British Isles in inthe Inthe Inthe the light of even today's t ays ay's knowledge Bertrand Russell eminent British scientist recently wrote The Tho Sa Sahara hara hera desert he said can be made fertile by preventing evaporation Uon o of ofia ia L the dew In a m sit e. e itA t t ald there is the pass of ot synthetic food which would destroy the necessity for tor eg- eg J and an thus transform poll poll- s.- s. tics tics and social life lite Picture the comfortable life of ot to tomorrows tomorrow's tomorrows morrows morrow's farmer taking things v easy on the porch while directing a c tractor across his fields by pressing a B series of ot buttons Such a tractor L system is being developed by Robert Mize of Calif With another set of ot buttons the farmer may be able to fertilize his acreage by passing electric currents r through the soil Experiments along these lines by the tle Boyce Doyce Thompson institute have increased yields of k corn com strawberries and cabbages by byas byas as much as 20 per cent Farm products will be hauled to city markets on glass highways nc ac ac- ac according cording to Dr John F Caton director director tor br of research engineering for the Chrysler corporation Glass Class springs for beds glass radio sets glass roof root shingles and glass razor blades blad s were also envisioned by Dr Caton As a matter of ot fact scientists re reo refer re- re I fer for to the tile coming era as the glass glassie age ege particularly in respect to the home and architecture generally Architects will specify glass walls for American homes walls homes walls which may disappear into the floor at the turn of 01 a 8 crank John D. D Diggers president of ot of Owens Ford glass company last month told a convention of ot woodwork jobbers Windows will be lowered and raised by pressing a button he predicted and the typical house of ot tomorrow will have a roof root of ot the new heat heat-ab heat ab- ab absorbing plate glass which absorbs absorb red infra rays of the sun The cult of ot light and sunshine apparently is spreading to automo automobile bile manufacturers m since 1939 mod models els boast 18 to SO 30 per cent more win win- Rending mailer mt via viti radio Heres Here's the f broadcasting ap up apparatus used by ly a n Si S Louis Loui oi ex experimental x radio nl clI to 0 transmit specially prepared facsimile Jars bib pen pers t I U It Is I this 1 tomorrows tomorrow's world Norman Ceddes designer of oj tho 0 highways and anil lion hart sons exhibit Jar for New Neo York York's world fair ponders pondra a detail oj of ofa oja a 0 small metropolitan section of oj his 11 square oct fu In future ture Ire city dow space Subsequent changes it itis ItIs itis is reported will further increase driving visibility with several everal man manufacturers possibly following the lead taken by b one producer in otTer offer ing a sedan with a sliding panel in Inthe the top of the car Improvements Improvement In safety glass glau manufacture increasing ing even the present high ratio of cl are in the immediate offing Airplanes carrying passengers and tons of ot baggage will zoom through the air all at a per mlle hour clip cUp according to an engineer of Lockheed ne company Passengers will win be carried in the wings wins Propelled by six Ix 2500 horse power engines placed so 0 that travel traveling I ing mechanics mechanIc may make repairs at night these flying palaces palace will wUl I have recreational facilities facUlties proms promenade nade decks deck and individual state tato rooms room Other developments in store for forthe forthe forthe the next decade described by au su authorities su- su es equally as 81 prominent as the ones already quoted are Window shades hade or blinds in the I farmhouse of ot the next generation may nay be placed outside instead of inside windows because this is one ono I of the less Intricate methods being studied to cut the cost cot ot of home borne air air- conditioning I Water Waler insulation will become prominent As insulation against I cold outdoors outdoor a layer of ot water wa ter on flat fin t roofs will be allowed to te tc freeze I in winter while In summer the tho lay layer 1 er Cr would connect with a R spray IY system tem tern cooling the conditioning air unit I The farmers farmer's wife wile will have an easier life lite with a host of mechanical I cal slaves at her beck and call cal such us as washing machines machine with two dials one of ot which will select the I proper temperature and the other I will regulate the timing of tho the wash I These machines will give clothes clothe a good soaking scrub them and then apply a freshwater water rinse Telephone Answers Itself I Telephone messages will be parked on a magnetized strip of steel until the Die absent party arrives to receive It it when the messages will be relayed in chronological or or- order order der through a loudspeaker Of course the tho rural areas of America will have the advantage which television will bring Along with the growth of ol this marvel how how- however however ever may occur taking breathtaking ad ad- advances vances In the field of radio itself so 10 that it may be possible to tele telo telephone phone while touring in your car So overwhelming overwhelm in to the mind are the scientific accomplishments just around the corner that Dr 12 E. E Weld Weld- lein past president of ot the American Chemical society recently declared that stacked up against aC the future the automobile is only 10 per cent developed the radio is Is i only a day old and television less than an hour I old Transportation Dr said ald has just begun to benefit from science dence and modernization of ot homes presents present a great industrial opportunity C o Western Newspaper Union |
