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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH A PEEK AT TOMORROWS INVENTIONS ... National Resources Committee Recommends Careful Planning to Take Fullest Advantage of Scientific Innovations. .. ADVENTURERS CLUB . , HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! By WILLIAM C. UTLEY might have OUR country a vastly different scene if, at the turn of the present century, the government had been able to foresee the development of the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the motion picture, rayon and radio. Devil in the Dark Famous Headline Hunter girls, is about a for death. Its Harry is who of York New telling this yarn, and it conCity Dennehy cerns the time Harry thought he was about to get an exclusive interview with the Devil. Thats something that newspaper men would look forward to. A lot of them would give their shirts to get Old Nick off in a corner and little tale, boys and TODAYS pleasant a boy who lay in it waiting Likewise, if we today ' can foresee the future development of some inventions we already have and some we probably will have, then we will be equipped to build for . are the influences of the very common automobile matters of past history either. The new scial Nor m photo-electr- ic ht Highways are too narrow, he The metropolitan area contends. could have been planned better ; much crime could have been prevented. Industries could have been located to better advantage. Here, he injected a little of the political philosophy of the present 1 arises is: Will the second third of the Twentieth century see the rise of such great industries based on new inventions as was seen in the first third? There may very well be equally significant inventions during the next phase of our national growth as in the one just concluded. For instance, all are agreed that one such invention is the electron tube, said to be the greatest invention of the Twentieth century. Its most brilliant form is the photoelectric cell, popularly known as the electric eye. This eye sees everything that the human eye can see and more. It is even said to be able to detect certain types of counterfeit money. It will distinguish colors better than human beings can do. When it is joined with another form of the electron tube, the vacuum tube, it becomes able to act on what it sees. Thus it sees a waitress approaching a door with trays in both hands and at once swings the door open for her to pass. Unlike a human being, it does not suffer from fatigue. For instance, in a factory it can watch the tin cans go by on a belt, pick out the defective ones, letting only the good ones go by. This monotonous work can be done without strain for as long hours , as the manager wishes. Find New Uses Constantly. .That it will cause unemployment is obvious, but it will also lighten the tasks of the workmen. Indeed, it brings the automatic factory and the automatic man one step closer. It may be used to regulate automobile traffic," to measure the density of smoke, to time horse racing, to read, to perform mathematical calculations. I Hardly a month passes without some new use of the photoelectric cell being reported. Indeed it .will require decades to learn the many things this versatile instrument can do. There are other such new inventions inventions which will carry the nation on to even - greater achievement during the years to come. The full effects of artificial fibers have not yet been felt. The influence of the airplane has just begun. Even the familiar telephone will have many new and profound effects, when long distance telephoning becomes more widespread, upon the distribution of population between metropolis and smaller city, upon the physical separation of management control from production, upon remote controls in gen! administration. . Century's Most Important Invention. The growing inadequacies of small local governments could have seen foreseen, he said, and the xansfer of some of their functions eral. so a more capable centralized govThe telephone wire may be used ernment would have been facilitat-id-. to record messages,, bulletins, even The question that naturally newspapers, in the home and office . Look here, now, Dev, what do you think of American women? But Harry wasnt looking forward to it. He didnt give a whoop about meeting Old Nick, and he didnt give a whoop about' American women then, either. For this happened in December of 1917, and Harry was just a boy living in Cork county, Ireland. Maybe Harrys dad shouldnt have told him ghost stories. And maybe Harry shouldnt have been prowling around at night when everybody ought to be in bed. Anyway, the facts are these: The Sinn Fein movement was organizing all over Ireland. The Gaelic language had been suppressed in the public schools and the young fellows of the neighborhood were meeting in secret sessions to learn the Irish language as it was spoken in the days of the Irish kings. say, One of the most important inventions which will be developed in the next few years is the mechanical cotton picker, shown at left. Another is television; a broadcast is shown above. ourselves and our posterity a fuller existence. This, according to the federal national resources committee, is the reason for its recent 450,000-wor- d report on the social implications of new inventions. The report, says President Roosevelt, holds out hope that we can anticipate some of the effects of major inventions and make plans to meet new situations that will arise as these new inventions cpme into widespread use. .With this White House benediction, it is expected that the recommendations of the laborious document will become a guidepost for long-terthe planning to prevent or reduce future depressions with their economic maladjustments and social upheavals, that characterizes the New Deal. Cites Thirteen Inventions. To apply its theories, the committee recommends that another committee, to be known as the natural resources board, be created. This would be a sort of technological which would constantly telescope, peer into the future and predict what scientific advances would be made. Its qualified observers would be commissioned to the work of the many special planning boards which exist in 47 states, 400 counties and 1,100 cities. This board and the many other planning boards throughout the nation ought immediately to concern themselves with the study of 13 inventions, the report declares. These are the mechanical cotton picker, equipment, plastics, the cell, artificial cotton and woolen-lik- e fibers made from cellulose, synthetic rubber, prefabricated houses, television, lacsimile transmission, the automobile trailer, gasoline produced from aircraft planes and coal, steep-fligiray agriculture. Dr. William F. Ogburn, director if research for the report, tells a few of the ways in which governments, individuals and industries suffered because they failed to foresee the development of certain ' By FLOYD GIBBONS V and economic unit of population called the metropolitan area, so encouraged by the automobile, is in its infancy, while the trailer may be destined to change the habits of living and working of vast numbers of the people. Dr. Ogburn points out that there is little advantage in planning the use or distribution of our natural resurces unless we know what uses technologists will find for them. We must be able to foresee whether oil will be made from coal, whether plastics will take the place of wood, whether alcohol will be used as a motor fuel, whether more foodstuffs will be produced chemically. The, nation now faces the second third of the Twentieth century, he says. What may be expected of technological' development? How will be the .effects of the mechanical cotton picker? Will the surplus labor of the South flood the northern and western cities? Will the governments plan and act in time, once the spread of this invention is certain? The influence on negroes may be catastrophic. Farm tenancy will be affected. The political system of the southern states may be greatly altered. In another field, science has gone far on the road to producing artificial climate in all its aspects, which may have effects on the distribution of population, upon health, upon production and upon the transformation of the night into day. . Talking Books for Blind. Then again television may become widely distributed, placing theaters into millions of homes and increasing even more the already astounding possibilities of propaganda to be imposed on a none too critical human race. Talking books may come as a boon to the blind, but with revolutionary effects upon libraries and which, together with the talking picture and television, may affect radically schools and the educational process. The variety of alloys gives to metals amazing adaptabilities to the purposes of man. The use of chemistry in the production of new objects in contrast to the use of mechanical fabrication oft the basis of power continues to develop with remarkable rapidity, in the production of oil, of woolen-lik- e fibers, of substitutes for wood, and of agencies of destruction. So the immediate future will see the application of new scientific discoveries that will bring not only enticing prospects but uncertainties and difficulties as. well. ,, Technological Unemployment. The report said that while new inventions often save labor and therefore cut down the number of jobs, their developments often renew quire new industries, creating ' jobs. The question whether there will be a large amount of unemployment during the next period of business prosperity rests only in part on the introduction of new inventions and techmore efficient industrial the says report. niques," For instance, even if industrial techniques remained the same, the volume of production would have to be greater in the future than in 1929 in order to absorb the increase in the working population and keep unemployment to the level of that date. far-reachi- ng Fear of the Devil Was Instilled in Him. man who wanted Harry to be at was an dad Harrys home early of nights, and he used every method he knew to get results. He told him stories about ghosts he had seen in the neighborhood that fairly made Harrys hair stand on end. He told Harry that the Devil haunted the country of nights, waiting to snatch up young boys who stayed out late, and Harry half believed him. But not even the fear of the Devil could keep him away from those Gaelic classes when all the other young lads of spirit in the neighborhood were going. So, on certain nights, Harry slipped out of the house and off through Ovens graveyard to Strelan, whre the class was held. It was all right going but it was the coming back that worried Harry. Coming back in the dark along about 11 oclock. Coming back through the graveyard, with its black and white shadows. ; Thats when Harry used to think of the stories his dad would tell him and run fast so that hed get home all out of breath. And then came the night that the class broke up later than usual, and 11. He walked walk home until half-paHarry didnt start his four-mil- e with a couple of other lads for the first mile and a half. Then they left him to go off in another direction and Harry was alone. He was more reluctant than usual to go through the graveyard, but it would cut half a mile off his. journey, and even if he went the long way hed have to pass along the edge of that graveyard anyhow. So he started right through. ed st It Sure Looked and Sounded Like Satan. It was after he was well in the graveyard that Harry remembered the time. He had left Strelan at 11:30, and now it would be about midnight the hour when, according to his dads stories, the Devil was in the habit of appearing on earth. After that every tombstone looked as if it were grinning at him. Every shadow looked like a specter. And Harry began walking faster than ever. He had just passed the old church that stood in the center of the grounds when suddenly he heard a sound. It was the clanking rattle .of a chain. Harry broke into a dead run and fled for the exit. He says he made it in nothing flat. The gate was locked, but there was a flight of steps leading up over the wall, and in his panic he tried to take them in a flying leap. That leap was nothing short of disaster. Harry missed his footing. His toe stubbed on one step his knee cracked against the edge of another. Down in a heap he went, and then, for an instant, he lost consciousness. When he came to again he was ; lying on the steps, still inside the cemetery, with a sharp pain stabbling through his knee. The pain was so intense that Harry just lay there, unable to move. g Then he thought of that specter, and in a fit of terror he tried to drag himself up the steps. Suddenly he heard that clanking of chains again and the sound was COMING TOWARD HIM! I guess, says he, that you know how a rabbit feels when hes looking into the eye of a snake that is hypnotizing him. Well, thats just how I felt then. I couldnt stir an inch. I could hear slow, rhythmic footfalls on the gravel and the sound of the chain, keeping time with every step. It seemed an eternity that I lay there powerless to help myself waiting for what I was certain must be the end. And just then the moon came up! The light should have reassured Harry but it didnt. Straight ahead of him he could see a dark form coming straight toward him. It was a short, squat form, moving steadily to the clank of its chains, and Harry could see the horns sticking up from the top of its head! chain-clankin- Just a Stray, Friendly Donkey. . Old Nick! Coming to get him! Harry lay there quivering . . with terror as the Devil came forward with slow, steady steps. He wanted to scream, but he couldnt find his voice. And then, all at once, the figure moved right into a beam of moonlight, and Harry let out a low, hysterical laugh instead. The figure came up to him and began rubbing against his leg. But Harry had forgotten his fear now had even forgotten the pain in his knee. For what Harry had seen in that stray beam of moonlight was, not the Devil, but a DONKEY a donkey with ears not horns sticking up from his head, and with a length of broken chain clanking on one of his ; hindlegs. Harry says thats the first time in his life that he ever felt like kissing a jackass. He scrambled up those steps and limped on homeward to nurse a sore knee for a week thereafter. And after that he could listen to his dads ghost stories without turning a hair, for he had a pretty good idea of how such tales get started. In fact, hed have started one himself if it hadnt been for that stray, revealing jray of moonlight - ,,, WNU Service. : ' Western Newspaper Unioa. Much Brass in French Horn - Theres seven feet, four inches of brass tube twisted into the French horn. And it isn't French; it was invented in Italy. Musicians call this instrument a cross between a trumpet and a primitive animal horn. It is one of the most costly (and also one of the most difficult to play) wind instruments in an orchestra. y - Universal General Universal denotes all without exception, general denotes the majority or nearly all, says a writer in Japanese Women in Literature In all periods of Japanese literature the work of women has been notable. It is said that the Ko-Jiand Nihongi were produced jmder the patronage of empresses. In the Eleventh century a woman produced the first novel, a prose epic of real life. To the same cen-!- ?' elongs the Makura no Zoshi ( Pillow Sketches), a realistic ture of social life in Kyoto of picthat time. : ki The Earths Daily Because of the earthsJourney London Exces- ney in its orbit around daily joi Magazine. sun sive greed is universally con- must spin on its axis a the little m man mean a is demned; generally than one complete revolution greedy. Love is a universal emo- fore the same place on its surfa tion. 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