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Show Keeping Up Wllncienle 1 e Science Service. Scenes and Persons in the Current News Woman Auto Drivei Good as the Man in the Essentials . w r Results of Tests Made in Towns of Iowa Sew WNU Service. Animals Will Be Big Aid to the Scientist Germ-Fre- e How They Are Reared by Notre Dame Biologist !s ri yy Adventurers 'V: . 9 I .. K I f, SCIENCE has come to the of the woman driver. If she is not so efficient as are the men, it is not because of her sex or innate abilities but merely because-shlacks the driving experience necessary for greatest skill. Club y ,?i .. I MAI S wr sta tl not Th Saw That Cliche d o -- ur of-the- post-strik- e Aviatrix Studies World Air Route e. e, e, pre-birt- h , - germ-tree.-Duri- Women Are Warned of Health Hazard in Eye Shading globe-circlin- tinctly undesired and dow. non-glamoro- us In this operating , cylinder he reddening and opens the body of the mother ani- swelling of her lids. mal by standard cesarean surgery, The danger of inflammation of and removes the young through a the eyelids, with reports of actual a second into tube connecting is pointed out by Dr. Henry cases, cylinder, the rearing cage, which is C. Semon, physician to the dermaalso rigidly sterilized. tological departments of the Royal To test for possible contaminaNorthern, Hampstead and King tions, an animal from each group George General hospitals, London. killed and its is instantaneously In the old days, eye shading was whole body ground to hamburger in confined to actors and actresses and a meat - grinder operating under the only cosmetics used were black sterile conditions in a third cylinder. or degrees of it, made from varying Tarts of the ground-uguinea pig lampblack, vegetable and animal are transferred to tubes containing charcoal and other sources of cara large number of difTercnt culture bon. In these there was probably no fluids for the encouragement of bacharm, Dr. Semon says in his report terial growth if any kind that may to The Lancet. be present. If no growth occurs, and Risk In Aniline Dyes. if microscopic tests are negative, Modern vogue for green, blue, asit is considered reasonably well silver and other shades of eye shadsured that the young animals are ow cosmetics to match costumes really germ free. and for various occasions brings a new hazard that of the aniline dyes which must be used to achieve these desired shades for the eye- Lots of Hemoglobin Is Necessary for Mountain Climbing It takes Washington. men and jome animals to stand high altitudes without getting mountainsick or experiencing other unpleasant symptoms when they first reach the heights, it appears from studies carried out as part of the program of the International High Altitude expedition. red-blood- ed Lack of oxygen in the atmosphere on a mountain top is responsible for most .of the unpleasant symptoms. Persons who ean enjoy their meals and be in a cheerful frame of mind when first climbing to oxygen-rarhigh altitudes owe this e ability to the stuff which gives the red color to their blood, hemoglobin. Hemoglobin Carries Oxygen. Hemoglobin besides coloring blood red plays the vital role of oxygen carrier between lungs and the rest of the body. Everyone has hemoglobin In his blood, but apparently some kinds of hemoglobin are more efficient at grasping oxygen from the air as it is breathed into the lungs. Evidence for this was obtained In studies of mountain animals, such as the viscacha, the llama and the vicuna of the Andean highlands, and reported by Drs. F. (J. Hall of Duke university, D B Dill of Harvard university, and E. S. Guzman Barron of the University of Chicago to the Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology. These animals all had hemoglobin which ipas more avid for oxygen, and also had more hcmoglobir in each red blood cell, than did animals that live at sea IcveL t - ' bowling viate the risk of their producing inflammation. Dr. Semon aays. Changes In the perspiration and skin secretions and the effects of sunlight, temperature changes and the sulphur in city air cannot be taken into account In the chemists calculations, and these may alter even the most carefully prepared compound. The skin of the eyelid la perhaps the most delicate of all the skin on the body. Dr. Semon points out, which increases the chance of it being irritated. Diatomite Deposit Found in Nevada PHtfNOM Queen of Dogdom and Her Trophies Fumu Hcahae Baxter Russell Nelsoa of Dorchester with a k AND here's adventure to telL It was right in the middlJ the depression, and Russ had been out of work enih while. jiing si But one day In December he met an old boss of his oa thi gJ The boss said he had a job for Russ, and it hed show up at ths phg next day he could start right In working. It felfgreaf lo be back at work again, but maybe Run have felt to swell about it if he'd known what plenty of faduttrid surance men could have told him namely that an unusual numb' accidents happen to men on their first day at work after a tong hj. Somehow or ether men forget little things daring a that theyd ordinarily remember. They slip ap on something, and then, first thing yoa kaw, theyre In a Jam. g Russ job was in the mill room, or the p shop Thats where they turn out such finished parts of houses as tbs afc. sashes, the doors, and the newel po.ts they put in atair railings, iwe-in- idlines. wood-workin- j He Was Operating a Band Saw. All during that day Rusi was busy, running one machine ifc other. He and the boss were alone In that room, but along towirl end of the afternoon, the boss went out to do a special Job aad i was left alone. A band stv, At that time Russ was operating a band saw. says, is a large machine about six feet tad. It has two wheels ii three feet in diameter, placed one above the o'her. Around these X. runs a flexible saw blade, narrow, but about 18 feet long, the a welded together to make it in the form of a belt. ' ; j This machine Is used for cutting scrolls and for making hr work of various patterns. Thats the sort of contraption Russ was working with. The sivi humming away, driven by another wheel from which a leather bet i to the main power shaft. As Russ worked, the machine began te give out rapid tick of a sort that he had never noticed before. And ordinarily, Russ would have (topped to find out what I clicks meant BUT REMEMBER WHAT I SAID A WHILE AGO ABOUT A MIT FIRST DAY AT WORK AFTER A LONG LAY-OFRuss hadnt worked In a long time. And his mind wasnt wnk so well for that very reason. Wrapped Up in a Saw-Blad- e. Russ heard those clicks, but be paid no attention to then. THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN THINGS HAPPENED, AND WAS RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT1 e That .long, flexible SNAPPED snapped at the that had caused all those dicks. IT LEAPED FROM THE MACHINE, TWISTING AND SQ1 LIKE AN ANGRY SNAKE. steel shot oat and wrapped Eighteen feet of sharp, Itself around Ross around his body and his arms and arsnd his neck. And the ends of that blade were wrapped up in a lot of whft machinery. Russ just stood there bolding his breath, while his heart stopped i his legs seemed to freeze. Pol saw-blad- ey at :w ou icre was saw-tooth- led e he p I'lble i h it, m by Iibody sville worm i schc Saved by Lucky Accident. . ,. 4 ) Collecting 31 of a possible 36 strikes in a regulation three-gam- e performance, Harvey league rate Braatz, clerk in a Cleveland railroad office, for banged out games of the outstanding total of 864, to smash the former world record. Flornell Spicypiece of Hallcston, best dog of the recent Westminster Kennel club dog show in New Yofk, poses with her trophies. This white cleaned up quite a bit of silk and silver during the event, and was finally chosen best dog of the show. wire-haire- fox-terri- d Architects Plan U. S. Pavilion for 1937 Paris Fair NU Sea Lima Use Sente of Smell by Touching Noses Sea lions, like dogs, use their sense of smell by touching noses to identify one another at close range, but fail to react to distant odors. They are adept at spotting moving objects from considerable distance. Except when off on fishing excursions, they are gregarious by nature, collecting In large group on favorite rocks or rookeries and generally making a big fuss and noise over nothing. About the only time they ever become hostile is when their pet place in the sunshine is challenged. The cows have only one pup a year. If anything happens to the mother the pup will die, because no other mother would adopt it They are not like dogs or cats or other animals in this respect, says' a writer in the Los Angeles Times. A peculiar habit of the cows approaching pupping time is to form Carson City, Nev. Diato-mita useful earthly minhas been found in a eral, large deposit in Nevada. The bed is nearly 100 acres in extent afid in some places more than 50 feet thick. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of sight. e, tonsren Formerly much used as a carfor nitroglycerine In making dynamite, this mineral has yielded explace to other materials in the plosives industry, and ha- itseU found a number of other employ-nunl- rier s. "rafts j. - ' NT-v- '. V v - w j e v l k r1 w. - v imn wnnn -i Ml d i., Above is an artists conception of how the United States pavilion at the Paris 1937 International exposition will look. Built of stone, steel and glass, the American building will rise near the new Twin Museums of Art op the banks of the Seine and will be one of the largest national pavilions at the exposition. by lying belly-sidup in the water with their flipper protruding above the surface. From a distance a string of eight or ten cows floating end to end this way resembles the charred remains of a boat that has burned to the; waters edge, with--onstubs of fhe rib left ihowing. This is probably a means of absorbing beneficial rays from the sun. e ly tl im :ugh i ance. had tt some ate'r-- :escue e thr re ma r b.i' . the bench in front of him were some large pieces of If he could only reach one of them. Rust found he could movei arm without moving the saw blade. He stretched that arm the nearest piece of board. His arm was just half an inch too short He'd have to take a and move his body a little. Holding his breath he bent ever te slightly and picked V the wooden stick. The wheel spnn around, perilously close Is k saw blade but the Made didnt catch. Russ was bringing his arm back with the stick In It when he 4w, It It fell to the ground with a clatter, and again he held his brea. I BUT DROPPING THAT STICK WAS THE LUCKIEST THING! EVER DID IN HIS LIFE. For the stick fell on the leather belt! ran the machine. It jammed in between the belt and the puGC f ran on AND THREW THE BELT CFF THAT PULLEY. The machine, with no power to drive it, alowed down and cam stop. Boy, says Russ, I got out from under that blade task." and it was a few hours before I was able to work again. 1 hP think this Is an adventure, but whether you do or not I still do!" On n ?s to es ha Russ Didnt Dare to Move. Is Diatomite comes in two varieties: a coarse grained yellow form good also for filters and for heat insulawhite form tion, and a used in making toilet preparations, jewelry polishes, and as an Inert lA "carrier salves, ointments, et.. The Nevada bed Is an excejv, tionally fine grade of the white form' case! 1 I Gre: I ;! Still, Russ didn't dare to move. One end of that blade was rattling against the spokes of the Is wheel If the wheel ever picked it up he was a gone chicken. And the slightest move on his part might send that blade kb wheel and start it SAWING AWAY AT HIS BODY AND NECI Russ didn't dare move and at the same time he didn't dart still and do nothing. I couldn't stand there and wait for (he boss (e come back, he says, for the end of the saw looked as if it might catck k the wheel at any moment. I looked at the switch that shut off the motor. It was way on the other side of the room. I looked all around me, thinking that there MUST be someth 1 could do to help myself. And there was. lids. Nothing the chemist can do In the way of treating these dyes for use in eyeshades will entirely ob- tually itore tl 8 ur tfc tfasn ds of By FLOYD GIBBONS This la shown by tests of mors i NS than 2,000 persons on vision, reacNotre Dame, Ind. Ani tion time and other essential abil- mala that never have a germ ities- for - the automobile"" drfverT in their bodies, from birth to made by Dr. A. R. Lauer, associate professor of psychology at Iowa death, are being produced at State college. Notre Dame university, in the Only In strength of grip was there laboratories of Prof. J. A. any difference between the sexes. the-yoger persons tesV Reyniers biologydes Among men the were somewhat better ed. is This partment. something than the women in Judging disreally new under the sun ; for tance. Women were aom'ewhat Inevery animal body that ferior in testa of performance of 1 Senator Key Pittman (left) and Senator Pat Harrison (center) confer with R. Walton Moore, assistant resembling auto driving, due walks, from that of man him- skills tested. secretary of state as the senate foreign relations com mittee plans neutrality legislation. 2 Workmen punch self down to the lowliest to lack of experience of those Best Drivers at 22. auto production mounts. 3 Dr. Charles Seymour, newly the time clock in General Motors plants as ameba. Is the unwitting, often Best drivers are those twenty-tw- o elected president of Yale university, who will succeed Dr. James Rowland Angell at the end of 1937. unwilling host to swarms of years old. Dr. Luer reported to the American Association for the bacteria and other micro-organism- s. Advancement of Science. This Is YOUNGEST U. S. JUDGE Production of really germ - free true of both men and women. In animals is a matter of very great complex mechanical skills, boys and girls are about equal up to the practical importance. age of fifteen. After that boys are Animals Kept Germ-Fresuperior, but this difference disapThe problem is two-folthe aniagain in later age. mals must be brought into the world pears Keenness of vision drops off rathand they must be kept in er germ-fresharply for both sexes after the a germ-fre- e world once they have of forty to forty-fivand after age been born. fifty-fiv- e the loss is still greater. The first step is partly taken care Ability to stand glare begins to of by the nature of existlessen at the age of twenty, and ence itself. The unborn young of the A , drop is much sharper after any mammal, wrapped in their fetal forty. membranes, are normally In making these tests. Dr. Lauer and after the process transported his driving clinic about of birth they receive their first inlike a circus making two-da- y stands oculations. In each town and Inviting the pubProfessor therefore lic to come and be measured. Reynlers takes the prospective mothers of his experimental animals (usually guinea pigs), shaves them, bathes them in antiseptic fluid, covers them with a sterilized envelope. Then he ' puts the animals into a closed horizontal cylinder that looks like a small steam boiler, known as the operating cage. Its interior has been London. The woman who rendered absolutely sterile, and only Alfred P. Murrah of Oklahoma turns to exotic shades for her air is admitted. germ-fre- e City, who has been named federal Kubber Gloves Used eyelids in the quest for adAmelia Earhart, noted aviatrix as she studied charts at Newark, district judge in Oklahoma by PresA pair of long rubber gloves are ditional g and glamor N. J., preparatory to a ident Roosevelt. Only thirty-threflight in her flying laboratory. beauty sealed into two openings in the side Miss Earhart is shown with Capt. Harry Manning who was to accomMurrah will be the youngest judge some wake morning may up of the cylinder. A third, glassed, on the federal bench in the U. S. as to from her Australia. Calif., Oakland, Darwin, pany navigator a dis to with find herself opening serves as an observing win- 1 on'y hosp h to die a irou: short xe imun me wei iy :S Of tims Hoc Service. Bond Street of London Named After Specuk During (he Seventeenth, the eenth and the first half d Nineteenth centuries the BoodP" of New York and the Bond sh London had a similar aspect-- 1 were lined with the resides Here those ef the ers and merchants, there the kF of the landed nobility. Later b atreet merchandising prevsik The origin of the New York Is obvious; that of the Londoa came from Sir Thomas a Seventeenth century courts t ached to Queen Henriet who was always persona F&t the Court of Whitehall in th i of Charles JI, to whom she to have advanced large tan money. According to Arthur Dan' ing' in the Daily Telegraph Ch . don, toward the end of to reign Sir Thomas began late in London real estate, P larly In the West End, In the c well-to-d- J of St Martin-in-th- e Field- Hnj transaction as recorded Inth Rate Eook was when he m 1683 Claredon House In from General Monk son the end Duke of Albermsrle, down and laid out both Alb and Bond streets through lb erty before be rebuilt j dridt oolh art w the 'J 'Ppec itegu itiom KVZ car ns ti lent the : floe Hetii as; tioni Uetn rrcij |
