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Show J Keeping Up i ood Products Are Assigned New Jobs in the Industries By WATSON DAVIS New York. Wood is just plain lumber, a building material, ma-terial, to most people, although al-though they have heard that both the paper upon which t newspapers are printed and rayon underthings are made from wood. Utilization of wood has many ram- Ifications In modern industry today. gut the editors of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering In a survey sur-vey discover that wood and its products prod-ucts will have many more uses in Industry's tomorrow. Take the troublesome liquids that J result from the sulphite pulping - process, first step toward newsprint ' and rayon. Sulphite waste liquor 'I contains lignin, partner to cellulose l in wood. Chemists are looking for y jobs for lignin, confident that eventually even-tually it will be found to be as tal-" tal-" ented chemically and industrially as a cellulose. In Washington state the a sulphite liquor is used instead of oil for dressing the dirt roads, sta-" sta-" bilizing the soil and giving a hard, 9 dust-free crust There is also re-g re-g search looking towards its use as fertilizer. I Gas From Wood Waste. II In Europe wood-working plants y make gas from wood waste for power pow-er purposes and automobiles are 5' fueled by wood-producer gas, made II as you ride, with 25 pounds of wood U the reported equivalent of a gallon of gasoline. " Germany makes sugar actual, II sweet stuff and alcohol from wood 1 1 by two different processes, but it is - concluded that this would not be 'J done profitably in the United States. j Then it is possible to squeeze j ground sawdust and mill waste into j bard dense products that are strong- ( er than the wood that nature made. Inferior softwood lumber can be I pressed into hard, dense attractive I "bardwoods" and the lumber indus- ( try is looking into the commercial j psibilities of this transformation. i Awake to the fact that they are not limited to the form of wood as i produced by the tree, useful as that j is, lumber companies are installing j their own research staffs and scien- i tists are now helping lumberjacks j and millhands in one of the oldest j of American industries. Brain Wave Studies of Sleep Process j New York. Different parts of the f brain apparently go to sleep sep- i arately and to different degrees, j Drs. H. Davis and P. A. Davis of i Harvard Medical school and Drs. I L. Loomis, E. N. Harvey and G. J Hobart of the Loomis laboratory at Tuxedo, N. Y., have found in brain ! "ave studies reported to the jour- f nal, Science. Their studies also ! suggest that clues to the cause of 5 many mental diseases or abnormal- i Hies may be found in studies of ? the normal falling asleep process. ! Four kinds of brain waves or 5 electrical patterns appear during ? the going to sleep process, they found. First there is the state when the person is at rest but awake. j Next follow different kinds of waves J 10 the drowsy "floating" state. A second intermediate state is char- j acterized by a still different brain j wave pattern, and this merges , Into the fourth pattern found in j real sleep. J Of practical importance, they S Point out, is the fact that the pat- terns of early sleep in normal per- i sons are strikingly like those seen ui some mentally sick or otherwise J abnormal persons. Scientists mak- (, H brain wave studies should not J be misled by the pattern of an un- suspected dozing or "floating" state into diagnosing a state of mental abnormality. j This similarity suggests that many abnormal mental conditions J jy depend on general modifica- i, 'Ms of brain function which are S '"ndamentally like those of normal S 5 Big Trees Survived Because &High Winds Prevailed J Carmel, Calif. Survival of "Gen- rl Sherman," largest of the West , wast Big Trees in Sequoia Nation- j ,Park and believed to be the oldest j, Vlng thing, appears partially at i eas' to be a result of long peace. S GNo high wind has disturbed the S weral and its brother Big Trees i in th8 &e Iast 3'000 or 4'000 years j we secluded valleys where they J p OW' Dr- D. T. MacDougal of the S m"16816 institutin of Washington J "les- For if these monarchs S j Jfe 'orest had been exposed to J slr .. wind. they would not be ? Ming today. Their huge bulks t bm an.chored 0n root disks that are S the feet thick and onlv twice J, oiameter of the base of the tree. s People in Love Not Nearly So Happy as They Should Be ew York.-In love, mar-r mar-r age, business and other close human relations, the social machinery functions with only 25 per cent effi-ciency effi-ciency Dr. John Levy of the Brooklyn Child Guidance Centre clinic told the Psychologists' Psy-chologists' League forum here. Even men and women in love do ,! n,al0ng t0Sether as they should. The joys from human contacts con-tacts are only about a third as great as they might be. due to the backward back-ward development of human emotions, emo-tions, Dr. Levy said. "In varying degrees, the two people peo-ple in contact have a heck of a time," he said. "They are either sitting down hard on their feelings or they are worrying, bickering, or just plain scrapping. I know no two people, married or unmarried, who come anywhere near realizing the full richness of personal relationships." Heavy Loss to Business. The financial loss to business from this emotional abrasive in the machinery ma-chinery of personal contacts is tremendous. tre-mendous. Dr. Levy told his audience. audi-ence. "Business tries to be 100 per cent perfect in its impersonal activities, but accepts a 25 per cent standard in its methods of handling human beings. "Millions of dollars are spent by the automotive industry to keep its bookkeeping system up to date, but hardly a penny to understand and modernize the human machinery upon which all other aspects of its operations depend for success." The backwardness of business In this respect is due largely to lack of understanding of the emotional satisfactions men get from their jobs, Dr. Levy believes. It is as difficult for the business executive to see his own status as "stern father" fath-er" in his strict dealings with his striking employees as it is for the employees to see their protesting behavior as a resentment against an authoritative parent. The eternal triangle is seen in a new light as a nervous disease affecting af-fecting not one individual but three in their relationships to each other through the new science of "Soci-ometry," "Soci-ometry," described to the meeting by Dr. J. L. Moreno, of Beacon, N. Y. The function of this new science is to break down gradually the misunderstandings and fears of the groups studied. Infant Death Rate hy Accident High New York. Two thousand infants less than a year old are killed each year in accidents, a survey reported report-ed in the statistical bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company compa-ny reveals. Mechanical suffocation suffocation suffo-cation in too-heavy bedclothes or in a too-soft pillow is responsible for the deaths of nearly two-fifths of the babies who are killed accidentally, accident-ally, the report declares. The 2,000 deaths work out to 97 accidental deaths for every 100,000 babies born alive in the United States. Canada reports also a high rate although their rate is comparatively compara-tively lower, 76 per 100,000. High accidental death rates among negro babies act to boost the total for the United States as a whole. The high accidental death rate for infants has been overlooked in the past because of the higher mortality mortal-ity from disease, the report points out. "Accidents to infants should be a matter of national concern," It is argued, "for every year more than 2,000 babies are killed in accidents of one kind or another more than die in an average year from measles, mea-sles, scarlet fever and diphtheria combined." Other accidents involving infants include suffocation from swallowisg foreign objects such as safety pins; burns and scalds; falls from cribs; and poisonous substances and fire. No significant improvement in this rate has been recorded during the past 15 years, the survey concludes. Synthetic Perfume Is Cheap and Good Rochester, N. Y. The synthetic perfumes of modern ten-cent stores excel those for which perilous sea voyages and hazardous caravans probed the Orient in the Middle ages, Dr. Charles F. H. Allen of the Eastman Kodak company declared de-clared at a meeUng of the American Chemical society here. America's beauty bill, he added, annually runs to over $200,000,000 even when a most conservative estimate esti-mate is taken. Much of this is profit- for, said the scientist, the jar containing the cosmetic may well be the most expensive part or example: Jar-six cents; contents-two contents-two cents. .... Synthetic perfumes duplicate natural nat-ural perfumes in everythme but cost Natural oil of rose costs $175 a pound while the same product, made in the laboratory, costs only $22.50 a pound. |