Show THE OAKLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH n Engineer’s Wonderland wonderland modern miracles A SEWING CRCbE of is housed within the TXf HAT are the toughest hardest ' running distances tor man and for horse? We shoved this debate along to a number of trainers who handle both the human and the equine breed “Years ago many years ago” an track coach told us “we figured it was Jhe quarter mile which was all sprint Then we moved it up to the half which now is all sprint But In the last few years we’ve decided that the mile is the hardest test on the system It was different when they were running the mile around 4:18 or Grantland Rice 4:20 But when you turn in a mile at 4:10 or better you are giving out all the system has to ' x L white Lannon stone walls of the Northwestern University’s new Technological Institute at Evanston III There are rooms JA j where it it always raining and taps which deliver the pressure of 3 Niaga ras Right: Physics professor Brentano (center) and two assistants analyse the elements in a piece metal alloy At the institute there is a machine which exerts the pulverizing Ly weight of 5000000 pounds another that sags with the weight of an eyelash One room offer “It is possible to run a mile around four minutes flat But we won’t see that for some time Such miles as Glenn Cunningham ran were largely sprints They were terrific I should say that a fast 4:10 or better mile today is the toughest race on the track” is colder than the North Pole and another three times as hot as the Sahara at midday Left: Crushing thick concrete or gently cracking egg shells is equally easy for this two and a half Same for Horse “This distance goes for a horse too’’ John Partridge the veteran said “The mile is the hardest race I mean a fast mile “You hear people talking about the strain of a mile and a half or even two miles They forget that in these longer distances there is a lot of half loafing Steeplechasers can go two miles or longer carrying 150 pounds taking the jumps without being worn down But when horse a runs a mile around 1:36 he is going all out He can’t be saving anything” This recalls Johnstown’s speed and what it did to him Johnstown in more than one workout beat 1:34 No other horse ever ran that fast “You hear a lot” an observing said “about the fighters and the ball players and the football players and other competitors from years ago outranking present stars Don’t believe it Everything is getAnd I can prove it” ting better “Just how?” I asked “Because everything that can be measured or timed shows a sure and steady improvement over old New records are being set records in every sport from year to year Can’t you remember when 13 feet was a record pole vault? Warmer-dawill make it 16 feet before long They are now close to seven feet in the high jump You’ll see 91 seconds in the 100 soon Look at all the old swimming records Look at practically every competition you can time or measure” Reiiutd ' story 1000000-poun- testing machine which is used to study structural performance of large beams $? m 40 For modern research in chemistry and physics the ancient art of glass blowing shown here is still an essential factor James F Morris prepares many intricate and unusual pieces of apparatus in the new Technological Institute “They talk about ers of the past” he know they were But suppose good Bob Grove or Bob Feller had been allowed to work with a dead or fuzzy ball? Or Dizzy Dean? You’d have seen 20 strikeouts more than once And you’d have seen more than a few you Above: Walter P Murphy railway supply manufacturer whose gift of $6735000 created the Technological Institute Left: T wo budding scientists experiment with chemical reactions s re- member when around 295 was almost sure to win a National Open? Or Today they are shooting at 280 at least 285 I know the clubs and the balls are better and the courses are better but the main point is that year by year they are setting new marks for a target “It’s the pressure of competition that is forcing a faster pace “Certain critics are always talking about the millions who sit and watch the few play” the went on “I wonder if they know how many millions are also playing games? Football and basketball are If you two of our fastest games take the high schools and the colleges and the dubs there are more than a million or two taking active part in these sports “It Is only natural that anyone who plays a game whatever the is Interested in seeing stars game at play in his favorite sport But that doesn’t mean that ail those who or sit and watch don’t in stands sit also play when they get the chance to many is a “Notre Dame university with 40 crack football players Do they know that in one form or another Notre Dame has from 500 to 1000 football students?" several championships Union which United States marines derived greatest pleasure was to fish and to fight He could spend long days on a favorite Wisconsin lake and while he preferred a black bass he did not despise the lowly perch But even better than fishing to Kink was a good scrap Fighting with him is an avocation as well as a vocation He is a “from the ranks” officer and has fought with the marines in France in Nicaragua China Haiti and other places The last time I saw him was at Quantico the marine barracks near Washington where he was unhappy because I there was no prospect of a fight last heard from him at Shanghai He left there for Manila some two weeks before Pearl Harbor I trust he still lives even though he may be a prisoner of the Japs but to be out of the fight would be the greatest hardship that could befall him To me Lieut Col Kink Beecher typifies the United States marine corps GOVERNMENT BONDS IN WAR TIME WE HAVE IN AMERICA today considerably more than twice as much currency in circulation as we I and we had during World War then had some slight inflation but not enough to be ruinous During World War I the public purchased the greater portion of the Liberty bonds issued by the government as a result of special sales drives with a house to house canvass Within the past ten years most of the government 'bonds issued have been sold to the banks with a smaller percentage to the insurance comWhen the panies and the public banks buy they in turn use them as a basis for additional bank note currency and that accounts for our money in circulation Every increase in the amount of our circulating currency increases the The banks candanger of inflation not take up the government issues without turning them into increased bank note currency That is one of the reasons for the effort to sell the bonds to the public instead of to the banks The other reason is to take out of the hands of the public money people would otherwise use in the purchase of commodities We cannot produce a sufficient amount of consumer commodities to meet such a demand When the public has money to buy more commodities than can be produced it pushes the prices up to inflationary levels The only other remedy is fixed prices and fixed prices will leave money in the hands of the people a practical IX’IIAT ’“ idea there is in this cunning small outfit little girls! 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