Show V P ac PIN E lor for newsprint ne nen sprint since wood pulp paper was first made in my home town of stockbridge mass sixty years ago it has been belaev believed d that only spruce fir and hemlock fibers were sil siX table pins pine had too much pitch in it ons one result of that belief was to send the big paper mills that make newsprint or ordinary newspaper paper farther and farther into the canadian forests as the more southerly supplies ol of spruce were cx exhausted hausted all the time there were millions of acres of fast growing slash pine on the sandy lards lar ds of 1 I georgia alabama and florida going to waste my friend dr charles A herty famous chemist began some years ago to do some experimenting peri and he discovered that this southern pine contains no pitch until it Is fifteen years old he made some paper from young pines and it looked good last month lie he shipped three carloads of wood pulp made from young pines secretly to a big canadian paper mill it fabricated perfectly on the fast machines and seven georgia dallies dailies printed their entire editions of one day on it POWER roan man made people think of bou bounder dam and muscle shoals as the great sources of enormous power but the other day there was completed in brooklyn the largest single power unit in the world except niagara falls that Is the new steam plant of the brooklyn edison company which can generate more power trian than anybody ever dreamed of getting arora a the colorado river elver or the tennessee it Is a false notion that Is either plentiful or cheap C P 1 metz great electrical engineer once said to me that it if every drop of that falls on the surface of the unite states were to generate power all the vay from the mountain tops to the total power produced would not be as much as was then being produced by steam any water power project except the very largest and few of those takes so much capital investment that the interest I 1 on the capital 1 alone amounts often i to more than fuel would nave have east cost I 1 tor for a steam plant 0 equal power but I 1 suppose osil politicians trying to get appropriations tor for local projects will keep on making the public believe that it will benefit by developing water powers ill automobiles I 1 some of ct the new 1931 1934 automobiles will have a new sort of front wheel suspension which Ah ich some blight press agent has basl described as putting knees in the cars front legs instead of a front axle each wheel will be independently supported with its own spring arrangement to tak take up the shock the idea Is that bur bumps will not be transmitted through the frame to the whole chassis there Is no doubt it will work lor for several european manufacturers have been using the same idea for years in deed most of our new automobile ideas come from europe they had four wheel brakes high speed small email bore bora engines and streamline bodies long before we ve did abe reason tor for that Is that european ears cars are made in small quantities as a 8 rule and the makers are free to experiment with new engineering ideas and designs they get enough tor for their cars so they can take a chance |