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Show Thursday, November Keeping Up r f w Mjijciene Electric Furnace Is Responsible for Host of Products Started With Experiment of Humphrey Davy FALLS. N. Y. NIAGARA the original research of old Sir Humphrey Davy lack in 1800 has grown into a major industry of the United States, and the largest Cosmic Ray's Life May Be Short but Full of Action single user of electric power, was described before a meeting of the Electrochemical society here. Sir Humphrey took one of the electric batteries then by Volta and tried to create an German Scientist TJls What Happens to It SWARTHMORE, THK 1936 19. PA. electric arc between two charcoal electrodes. He had little success, but the principle was the forerunner of the modern electric furnace without which modern civilization might not have such things as cheap motor cars, low - cost gasoline, synthetic silk stockings, stainless steel, modern airliners and airships and a host of other products. Since this power became stronger Some of Its Products. and stronger as one went higher Aluminum is one metal whose and higher above the earth. It was production in pure form on a comassumed to be caused by some- mercial scale is intimately bound thing coming from outer space. This up with the electric furnace. It touches the average man through something was given the name cose mic radiation. cooking utensils, paints, Geiger Tells About Them. power transmission lines, airOne of the pioneers in this coscraft construction, food wrappers, mic ray field was Prof. H. Geiger and furniture. of the Physical Institute at Chromium, also a product of the electric furnace, appears in the avGermany. Recently, in Germany, Professor erage man's life through stainless plating on Geiger gave his interpretation of cutlery, the what scientists have learned about his automobile headlights and trim, cosmic rays during the 30 odd years and in electric heating elements. As since their discovery. Research has an adjunct to iron-bas- e alloys the shown that many of the rays are metal appears in many places under g electrically charged par- the blanket grouping of stainless ticles, and the German scientist steels whose fabrication, in 1936, is tells what happens to such particle estimated as a $50,000,000 a year rays after they enter the earth's industry. atmosphere. Through the production of tungThe cosmic ray's life may be ex- sten the value of the electric furceedingly short, but is indeed a nace appears in the filaments of complicated one. The original ray, electric lights and in radio tubes. Combining aluminum, chromium tearing through the air, with nearly the speed of light, occasionally col- and tungsten with iron, copper and lides with the nucleus of an air other base metals results in the new atom. alloys which enter vitally into the Photons Are Light Bullets. construction of airplanes. When this occurs a photon is creVital In Modern Industry. ated. A photon is a kind of Through the electric furnace are similar to or produced tungsten carbide and silica carbide which have a hardness comThese photons likewise may col- parable with the diamond. Much of lide with other air molecules and modern industry's mass production sort depends in part on the use of such atoms. By a of alchemy taking place in the powabrasive and cutting tools to insure erful electric field about the core accurate fitting of intricate parts. of an atom, the photon or part of The cheap automobile is one direct super-har- d one becomes transformed into two result of electric-furnac- e electrons. Thus electrically charged alloys. product of the Primary particles of matter, one negative and one positive, are created by this electric furnace is calcium carbide collision. which will create acetylene gas Such particles also may suffer when mixed with water. The s weld and cutting torch is collisions and generate an application of the use of this sufficiently powerful to eject negative electrons from other atoms of gas. the atmosphere. Acetylene, in turn, can be made into acetic acid and the latter can be turned into cellulose acetate tor use in the synthetic fiber industry, as in celanese for hosiery. century scientists noticed that a subtle electrical influence pervaded the earth's atmosphere. Ordinary air wa3 found to possess the power of conducting electricity to an extent unexplainable by any facts known at that time. ami 11 ;.fcrv Mil light-pack- fn Club 7 super-X-ray- April to July Is Best Birth Period for Boy Babies CHICAGO. If it's a boy Fond Parents, plan want, you his birth date for some time between April and July. American birth statistics support the view that conception occurring Starvation Diets For Diabetics Are Now Passe BOSTON. Starvation diets in diabetes, which once were an important subject for discussion at meetings of an American Dietetic association, are now gone and almost forgotten, members of the association happily realized as they listened at their meeting here to Dr. Elliot P. Joslin of Boston. from July to September is "favorable to increased masculinity," according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. English investigators find that rural areas produce more boy babies than do the cities, and from statistics available in the United States the same seems to be true here. Doctor Joslin described the modMore Boys After War. methods of treating the disease ern to Social upheavals seem bring with insulin and the newer protamore boy babies. During the World mine insulin which has a more lastwar and immediately thereafter, effect than insulin itself. the ratio of male births increased ingFull trays are now in order for in the war countries. Neutral nathe dietitians know, altions experienced the same phenom- diabetics,weighing and measuring though to not such an appreciable must still go on. Insulin controls enon but degree. the allowing the patients In England and Wales the upper to eatdisease, comparison with heartily classes give birth to more boys in the old days. by Carbohydrates, the to lower than classes. the proportion sugar and starch foods, are no In Greece the masculinity of longer forbidden or reduced to a is births In minimum. exceptionally high. Japan and Italy it is low. What Dietitian Must Do. r W. T. Russell, the investigator The modern diet in diabetes quoted by the medical journal, finds strikes a fine balance between the no conclusive evidence that the sex disordered s ratio is related to the age of the patient's mechanism, his insulin dosage, but any relationship that and the fats and carbohydrates in parents, may exist is with the age of the bis food. Devised palatable food father rather than with the age of combinations that meet the requirethe mother. ments of each diabetic patient are "The biologic fact of preonly part of the dietitian's job in ponderance of male births in the diabetes today. human race is an established one," Education of the patient Is ansays the medical Journal, "but its other important part of her Job, a is still matter of debate." and education is also an important purpose feature of the patient's treatment sugar-regulatin- g v.- Chinese Making Paper From Swamp Reeds at Doctor Joslin' s clinic. After his diet and Insulin requirements have been determined, the patient is taught how to live with bis disease and keep it controlled Tientsin. China, the world's first paper making country, is now so with the aid of periodic check-up- s short on wood pulp that swamp with his physician. In this way, reeds and grasses are being tried even small children learn to give as paper materials. themselves Insulin, to weigh or Despite political disturbances, ex- measure their food for each meal, periments with these materials are and to select the proper foods for themselves from the family menu. going forward here at Nankal University. One paper mill has obtained Other, measures, such a patent on making paper from as prevention of infections and reeds. fatigue, are also taught Delightful, Modish Models New Italian Italiy lly lYrmifxiiiu of I'nion Some Tilings We Do Well Throw inj; Out Kin" Italy expects a now r to the throne in January. If it is a boy. and lives, and noth- jsiui ing happens to: prevent, it will VJ succeed in time 11 its grandfather, f p .. v'N i, V l'le present King. tv-i- H "Darkness Means Death" By FLOYD GIBBONS, Famous Headline Hunter W hi chars to 8uari d t i antee the succes city of Phoenix, Ariz., CIRCUS day! The hot, Brothers' sion is uncertain. g show is in agog. Christy big Mussolini's rise town. See the parade. Count the elephants. Then climb up extreme from on the board seats under the big top and watch the clowns. the socialism, See the performing bears; see the aerial gymnasts from trenches and the main. hospital Hungary and the acrobatic tumblers from Japan. Hot dogs the HoUS red lemonade peanuts five a bag. And above all, don't Ar.kur UrLI- m- t;lintd of Savoy in nomg miss Captain Bob Bailie and his dangerous, inal power. "After Mussolini what?" feat of bearding eight untamed African lions in their is one of many European questions. cage. - . sun-bake- , five-rin- death-defyin- It's half an hour before show time, and here comes Joe Foley, one of the aerial gymnasts from Hungary, in his spangled tights, over to where Captain Bob is inspecting the steel arena in which he is to put his big cats through their paces before long. Joe wants to know If he can string his trapeze over Captain Bob's arena for an act that goes on later in the show. Captain Bob says it will be O. K. with him, as long as Joe sees to II that his rigging Is pulled op out of bis way while he works his cats. Joe nods his head, but that isn't the end of it. You'll remember that trapeze later on in the story. Captain Bob and His Big Cats. And now we're all ready for the big thrill of the day the big excitement in which Capt Robert J. Bailie of Flushing, N. Y., earns himself the degree of Distinguished Adventurer to add to the other laurels he has won in a lifetime of daring deeds in the circus. The show goes on. Strike up the band. Blow the "spec" and let's jump right into the middle of the main attraction. The big cats are in the open cage in the middle of the steel arena. So is Captain Bob. It's a hot day and cat animals get lazy in hot weather. They don't want to work, and when Captain Bob tries to make them, they get sulky. They're sulky'now. See how they snarl and switch their tails as Captain Bob tries to herd them into their Mr. Hull, Secretary of State, sailed for South America six hours late, to help bring rcuce to the world, or at least help set a good example on these two continents. He left a pier the strike tied up his ship, which seahad to bring six men out to the secretary's boat, waiting patiently near the Statue of Liberty. After peace is brought to the world, the next step will be to bring peace to United States industry. Vou may read some day: "The House, Senate and Supreme Court could not meet; the President has moved over to the New Willard; the Amalgamated Order ol Furnace Tenders let all the fires go out, while, in sympathy, the Electric union turned off all lights and the elevator men said sympathetically, 'No elevators.' 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Send 15 cents (in coins) for your copy. Send your order, to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Price of patterns, 15 cents trans-Atlanti- Sultan the largest and ugliest of them all crouches and Captain Bob pushes him back with his steel prod. The "ats are all in their places now, but it's going to be a tough performance. The act goes. on. The cats paw at one another and balk at the jumps. The tension in that cage is terrific. Now look, quick! Sultan has kicked over his pedestal. He's SPRINGING AT CAPTAIN BOB, and his ominous snarl shows that he means business. Captain Bob knows what's coming. He It is said the royal tombs rewhips up his long, sharp, metal-tippe- d prod gets it between served for Spanish kings have been himself and the lion. He checks the leap. Sultan Is back on his violated, some or all of the bodies hannches, ripping at the prod with both forepaws, trying to get thrown out. It would be a pity to it at and past Captain Bob. offer insult to what remains of the All Right If He Kept on His Feet. truly great King, afraid of mice and Let's go Inside the cage with Captain Bob and see how he's feeling spicers, but not of any man-Cha- rles the Fifth if he also was about all this. He's keeping his head he knows he'll be all right as long as he can stay on his feet, and provided none of the other cats join entombed in the Escurial Pantheon. Of the others, many would be in the fray. Luckily, the other cats are still keeping their distance milling back and forth at the other side of the cage, growling in sullen more useful as fertilizer on some rage. If they'll only keep away another minute if only Captain Bob Spanish field than they ever were on the Spanish throne, and it is can KEEP HIS FEET he'll get the situation back in hand again. It begins to look as if he's going to do it, too. Sultan is getting tired not necessary to weep over them. of trying to chew off the iron tip of the prod. Slowly, Captain Bob's London, with the biggest floating snapping whip is forcing him back on the pedestal. He raises his whip again. A feeling of satisraction wells up in Captain Bob's chest. fleet on earth, is striving to "humanize submarine warfare." He's licked that cat again. He snaps the whip. That is like trying to humanize Lord! What was that? Something has ripped across Captain rat poison. Look at Spain and you Bob's eyes both of them. He's blinded by agonizing pain. Spots see what will happen in the next dance before them THEN BLACKNESS. The whip drois to the war; everybody will kill as many floor as he covers his face with his hand. What was it? He feels as he can, as brutally as possible; no blood no torn flesh. It couldn't have been the lions. They you remember the Lusitania? were too far away. Bat no time to speculate now! No time to yield to the unbearable pains that are shooting across bis eyes! The biggest crowd seen in WashSnap out of it, Captain Bob, yon're in a fine fix. Tour whip is ington greeted the President on his gone. Tour prod is hanging useless in your hand. triumphant return to Washington, At the Mercy of Eight Lions. the White House and his job. For YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY BLIND, IN AN ARENA WITH EIGHT eleven days he will see only execuUGLY LIONS, AND ONE OF THEM JUST WAITING FOR A CHANCE tive assistants and rewind the big TO NAIL YOU1 machine. Those willing to serve Sultan's growls bring him back to his senses. Blind though he is, their country for a consideration, or his mind pictures Sultan getting ready to spring. He holds the prod up tell the President, free of charge, in front of him reaches for his revolver. It's loaded with blanks, how it could be run better, must but the lions are afraid of it He starts firing slowly on either side of wait, probably until his return from him. That will keep them away for a minute, but six shots is all he has. the trip to South America. Captain Bob starts backing toward the side of the cage. It's the Voltaire's learned Dr. Pangloss best he can do. Blinded, he can't find the door. His eyes still feel as iron has been drawn across them. He fires his last was wrong; it is not true that "all though a red-hshot and waits to be torn to pieces. Outside he hears the shouts of is for the best in the best possible the cage men the rasp of a gate being pulled up. He feels something of worlds." In spite of all our wealth and prosrub against his side and strikes out at it with his prod. The thing is hard; it gives out a wooden sound. He hears one of the cage men yelling to perity, more mothers die in childhim to stay as he is. Then he realizes what's happening. Two of his birth, in this country, than in any men have gotten behind him. They're sliding prods through the bars to other "civilized" country in the world. keep the cats away. You know that better conditions Other men are running the cats out of the arena. There's a are needed in America when you stir In the seats. Spectators who have been holding their breath see photographs of the wretched are letting it out now in a big, rippling sigh of relief. Someone two-roolog cabin in the swamp helps Captain Bob out of the cage into a car off to the hospital. bottomlands where Mrs. James Half an hour later he can see again, although his eyes still hurt Bridges gave birth to quadruplets. like the devil when he opens them. One of the cage men tells him what happened. It was Joe Foley's trapeze. It had slipped down on its rigging just low enough to be in According to Science Service, 11 the way of the whip when Captain Bob crt eked it It sent the whip lash whisky is subjected for seven hours bouncing back, right Into Captain Bob's eyes. "It all happened a long to "Intense sound vibrations," which time ago," says Captain Bob, "but I still remember too clearly how means "a loud noise," the seven it feels to find yourself suddenly blind in a cage with a bunch ol pretty noisy hours will age the whisky as much as "four years in the wood." tough cats." WNU Service. Think what noise can do to the delicate nervous system of the human being if in seven hours it can Sammte" Dog Earliest Bookplates The "Sammie" dog is mistaken The earliest known bookplate is add four years to the age of raw repeatedly for a breed known as the from a clay tablet and reads: whisky. Mussolini's order forbidding auSpitz, which is much smaller than "Property of AssurbanipaL King of tomobile drivers to blow their horns coat of the pure-breThe the World, King Samoyede. 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