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The Clinton News Record, 1942-08-13, Page 6•PAGE 6 'THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS. AUG. 13,1942 AVIS IS ONE w ' i' TO le ITER YOUR TIRES - SEE YOUR NEAREST DUNLOP DEALER TODAY! L c BRITISH GIRLS TEST SHELLS FOR THE ROYAL ARTILLERY ' This girt of the Auxiliary Territorial Service is reading gauges in the Velocity room of a School of Army Experiments in Britain. When a shell is fieed,eaehofwhith, when severed, releases a gauge in the Velocity room. By eheekhte, the period between the fall of each: gauge, the velocity of the shell can be calculated, These girls, :attached to the Royal Artillery, ale fully qualified and trained tonal with Highly scientific work. They test amantmition tnd are raridly and exncrtly taking men's maces, FAMOUS BRITIS'-I 'REGIMENTS REPLACE AUSTRALIANS AT TOBRUK nUcr a neried of several m-nths the 9th Australian d. ,.::oM was withdrawn from Lip, and sent as reinsfoseemenhs to Malaya.in: reoA- ness foe the attack by Japan. Their place at Tobruk Was taken by 'Limnos British Regiment . . Men of a Homes Counties Yocananmy Regiment getting their 60- nintee aura„ into position ready not immediate action. New Recipe for Use in —Canning Tomato Juice' Directions for canning tomato juice—To preserve the natural fla- vor and color, use stainless steel knives and avoid copper, brass, and iron utensils. Use only .fully ripe, firm tomatoes, preferably ° 'bright red, as fresh from the vines as pos- sible. Wash thoroughly, remove cores, and cut into small pieces. The skins may or may not be re moved, . handle -the tomatoes in quantities of one to two gallons and avoid delay at any stage of the pro- cedure. Precook the tomatoes at. about 170 degrees F. to 180 degrees F„ or if a thermometer is: not avail- able, simmer until softened. Avoid boiling. Put the softened, hot toma- toes at once through a fine sieve, preferably a bowl, or 'cone-shaped sieve because it allows the least air to be incorporated ip the pulp. If the tomato juice is for infant or invalid use, omit salt; otherwise add one-half to one teaspoon salt to each quart. Spines tend to darken the color of tomato juice and change the flavor undesirably;` hence it is bet- ter to add them' at the time of serv- ing. Reheat the juice at once after putting through the sieve. If glass containers are used, heat the juice to 190 degrees F. (or just to boiling), pour into sterilized containers, and seal. No processing is necessary. Invertthe bottles while cooling. English Drink `Porter'; Named for Worker -Porter Deriving its taste, appearance and flavor from the - use of well -dried malt and hops, why should this tonic, full-bodied and not particu- larly intoxicating drink be called porter? The answer harks back to the first half of the Eighteenth century, in London, where, then as now, the popular brews of the day were ale, beer and a concoction known as two -penny. "It was customary," writes one Malone, a researchist of a former generation, "for the drinkers of malt liquors to call for a pint or tankard of half-and-half, and in course of time it became common to call for a tankard of three -thirds, meaning a third of ale, a third of beer, and a third of two -penny. "To avoid the inconvenience of going to three casks for every draft of ale, a brewer conceived the idea of making a liquor which should partake of the united flavors of ale, beer and two penny. "He did so, and succeeded, calling it entire, or entire butt; and as it was a very healthy and nourishing liquor, suitable for porters and other working people, it obtained the name of porter." What's in a name!•?a Gibbons in Siamese Forests If, as some evolutionists think, man came from a remote ancestor whose family also gave rise to the various branches of apes, then the present day Siamese gibbon shows what may have been like the begin- nings d human family life a mil, lion years or more ago.. It is thought possible that the Siamese gibbons have lived about unchanged in their present environ. merit for a minion -years or more. The report was made by C. R. Carpenter, assistant professor of psychology at the Pennsylvania State college. He studied 93 gib- bons, in 21 families, in their native forests. Their substitutes for speech are hear human, comprising sounds and gestures. Gestures of friendliness or the opposite are unmistakable, a sort . of sign language. For exam. ple, in a friendly meeting the hands are held with backs forward in u position unsuitable for striking or punching, Their vocal range is near human:' Sound films, taken of their voices 1t1 the forest, were played back to the same animals. These gibbon audi. ences < seemed to understand the sounds and talked back to the pie - tures. Dangerous Sharks There are many different species and varieties of sharks that are dam gerous, particularly the white shark or man-eater, which is white below and brown on the upper parts. The man-eating shark is probably the best known of the sharks. Most sharks, being extremely am tive and roving, are found widely distributed in the seas of the wOrid There are perhaps not more than five or six different kinds of ,them that are not dangerous, all the oth• ers being noted for their ferocity. Their teeth -filled mouths, as you have often seen in pictures, are usually' on the undersurface of the head, so that in order to bite con- veniently objects on the surface of the water, they are .compelled to turn on their backs. Shark fisheries have been devel- oped in variousparts of the world. Some sharks yield a large quantity of valuable liver oil and other prod- ucts, such as fins and scales used in the manufacture of -purses and other commercial objects. ' Wash Thoroughly ., Flower vases should always be. thoroughly washed with hot soapy water between uses, Fill the flower containers with sudsy water, let' stand about 10 minutes, then wash and rinse with clear water, New bouquets-nWill flourish better in a clean vase, last longer and retain. their perfume: and frelmess for a longer period, Entomologists Compare Nearly One -Half U. S. Wars of Insects, Men .. Nation Has Eye Trouble Entomologists at the Pennsylvania Pians for an air force of 2,000,000 State college are taking a leading men, recently announced by the part in the fight to control insect army, call for the greatest mobilize - pests which annually cost apple tion of eye -power of any nation in growers $30,000,000. all history. "War against' insects," according Pilots' must have eyesight far to Dr. Stuart W. Frost,, professor of above the average. Not only must economic entomology, "are similar tliey have so-called normal visual to wars between men. They are al- acuity, but candidates for pilots ways expensive, and the winner must tion haved excellent eye couordina sometimes loses." anmuscle balance. Up° inti Dr. Frost pointed out that 400 dif recently about one out of every: four ferent _.insects : attack `apple trees, applicants for the air service has, and despite all that is done to com- been rejected because of his eyes. bat them the pests damage trees As the program of selection pro - and fruit to the extent of $13,000,000 gresses, it is: highly' probable that annually. In addition, he said, cost there will be even a larger number. of, control ranges at east $]7000,- of rejections because of faulty vi - 000. - cion. Losses May Run H gher. Good eyes are also needed by the Average loss in commercial air land forces, the regular military chards is loss com12 mr cent or-- forces, and the millions of airplane the fruit cropar, bnt when nothing of and other war workers throughout done to attack the insects, losses the country. Eyesight conservation may run ashigh as 100 per cent. Penn State entomologists point out that other fruits are attacked in a manner similar to apples, but grow- ers are often unable to recognize the insect causing the damage. If a spraying schedule is some- what' ineffective, injuries made by insects to fruits early in the season may be pretty well healed by pick- ing time although the fruit is likely to be deformed. In an effort to aid fruit growers in recognizing the causes of insect damage, Dr, Frost has prepared keys for the identification of the in- juries caused by Pennsylvania fruit insect pests. —the protection of, eyes and the re- habilitation' of eyes so as to im- prove their usefulness—is one of the major problems in the nation's all- out effort for victory. Approximate- ly half :of all adults in the United States have visual defects which call for attention and care. given good eyes need protection in the way of proper illumination, safeguards against excessive dust and irri- tants, and ample supplies of vita- mins in the diet, according to a Better Vision institute bulletin. Millions of men and women are entering upon new jobs in essential industries which involve great visu- al effort. Eyes must be trained and conditioned for their new and dif- ficult tasks, otherwise there will be widespread failures .of vision. Vigilance should ibe exercised to bring eyes up to the necessary ef- ficiency required by the jobs they must perform, and to maintain see- ing conditions up to proper stand- ards. In this way will the nation's eye -power be mobilized effectively for victory. Show How We Can Hear Through Bones of Head A method of hearing by the con- duction of sound through the bone structure of the head instead of through the outer ear was success- fully demonstrated recently at the Engineers club, New York, to a group of widely known men and' women, many of whom are deaf- ened, eafened, when Dr. Hugo Lieber am - flounced the perfection of a new de- vice, known as the bone conduction oscillator. The demonstration was held under the auspices of the Sanzoray club,. an organization of society women who have defective hearing. The principle of bone conduction' of sound vibrations, Dr. Lieber ex -1 piained, has been known to science for decades. Most hearing aids, up to the present time, he said, have! been based on forcing intensified sound waves through the impaired outer ear, usually resulting in ills-; tortion of sound andimposing a' strain on the hearer. The bone conduction oscillator, on the contrary, when held firmly be- hind the ear, detours the sound, around the outer ear directly to the internal hearing organs. Sound heard through bone conduc- tion, he said, is without distortion,! is clear and distinct, and causes no strain Sensitive `Mike'. Contrary to the general impres- sion, a microphone is not just a lit - tie tin gadget shoved in front of a speaker so he'll have something to talk or sing to. It's a very sensitive and very temperamental piece of mechanism. So much so that it shows up vocal defects that your own mother wouldn't recognize. Put a silver-tongued orator before a mike and he's just as apt as not to sound like a bronchial billy -goat; and a stellar soprano may give as perfect an imitation of the Europa backing into midstream as you ever heard. It's all very confusing; but still, it is a fact that a microphone can do strange things to presumably It is often vital to the production first class vocal cords. of a crop that the poison sprays be Some persons are naturals for ra- used tq prevent the attacks of in- dio. ptlaes have defepts, which cqn sects which might otherwise ruin be co rested with a few lessons in the plants before they reach meta - microphone technique. But the ity and produce their harvest, At great majority of those hopefuls who the present time arsenicals are seek auditions are doomed to dis- found to be best against leaf -eating appointment. They forget that that insects, These poisons, however, if little mechanical box in front of used judiciously and at the proper, then picks up every sound, however season may well be out of the way slight, through the wash of ram long before the crops are ready to market. How- ever, where late spraying has been resorted to, it is necessary to wash the product going to market or trim away parts of the vegetable being shipped in order to remove the dan- ger. Lord Byron's Valet Fearful of Ghosts The centennial of the death of William Fletcher, Lord Byron's "perfect valet" during the last ten years of the poet's life, was com- memorated by an item reprinted in the London Times. It relates that Fletcher died "in the deepest state of pecuniary distress" and that "to the last he was a victim of mal de mer," But seasickness was only a part of the faithful valet's martyrdom. He was extremely superstitious; when- ever he met a hunchback he invari- ably touched his hump. In Italy his fingers Were kept busy making the "horns" to keep off the evil eye. When his master, in his wanderings, had the alternative of occupying a palace that was haunted and one that was not, he invariably chose the former, and kept the valet busy "laying the ghost." In the fragments preserved from his journal, Fletchercomplained that he was obliged . to move from one bedroom to another "for the sake of peace, and always found the new one more haunted than the old." Poisonus Sway On Truck 'One of the problems of the fed- eral food inspectors which requires greatest care. is the problem of resi- dues of poisonous sprays left on gar- den truck at .the time it is sent to market. Too frequently truck gar- deners, either through indifference or failure to appreciate the dan- ger, fail to wash off the residue left from spraying arsenicals be- fore sending their product to mar- ket. Natives . of Guiana The great tropical region between the Orinoco and the. Amazon is known as 'Guiana. In little forest clearings beside the rivers, or high- er up on the wide savannahs, dwell the native Indians, leading lives as simple and uncivilized as those of their ancestors. They wear little clothing; pieces of cloth, feathers end bead ornaments suffice. The men are the hunters. The women cook, cultivate the cassava patch, and gather firewood. Cassava roots, from which we get tapioca, are grated and crushed to extract the poisontheycontain, and are then made into flat cakes, cooked an a griddle and eaten as bread. It is their staff of life. Appalling Loss of Life The terrible hurricane of 1928 devastated Marie Galante, Guade- loupe, Montserrat, ,St. Croix, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas and large areas in Florida. The loss of life was appalling and the damage ran into many millions of dollars. Hurricanes seldom ar- + rive without due warning, for the United States maintains a highly ef- ficient weather bureau in the West Indianarea, which signals the.move- ments of approaching storms to the different islands, approaching_ storms Soil Fertility In all the world there is, perhaps, no other country more favorably en- dowed by nature than Cuba. The fertility of the soil is amazing. Pine- apples produce three and four crops a year, and a planting of sugar cane can be cut for five years. Cop- per and iron are plentiful, there are asphalt . and manganese deposits, and every tropical and semi -tropical plant known to man will grow, Orchids and lianas hang in magnifi- cent clusters from mahogany, rose- wood and cedar trees. Fencing Streams Saves Wildlife Farmers who fence streams run- ning through their pastures can help improve game and fish conditions by fencing' the banks, the Missouri conservation commission announces. This permits the growth of food and cover for wildlife, keeps water clear and cool andotherwise improves conditions for fish. In addition, it stabilizes stream banks, Small sec- tions can, of course, be left open as livestock watering holes. • English Pot Hole and 4. Cave District Discovery Although the -pot hole and cave district around Cheddar and Priddy had been sensationally advertised to the -foreign delegations which recent- ly ecently attended the conference of the British Speleological association's. international conference at Bristol, England, a special show was staged. for the visitors by W. F. Rankine, a schoolmaster of :Aldershot, who had guarded his secret until the eleventh hour. Five thousand years ago, when the British cave man emerged from his cavern into the open air—just preceding the age of tents of pelts and huts -he dug holes in the earth of basin shape and covered them with the boughs of trees. Last spring Mr. Rankine discovered a number of these holes in . a field at Farnham., Dr. Graham Clark of Cambridge university was called in and excavations were quietly begun. The doctor soon laid bare what appeared to be the abode of the 'headman of the colony. The earliest type of artificial dwelling in the world, he told theconference at Bristol — an announcement which started a rush for Farnham. At the same timeit was revealed to the News Chronicle of London, that in one of the pits had been found a fire-bi'ackened hearth and many flints which the ancient Britons used in heatingwater and cooking. They obtained water from a near- by spring, which is still in existence, and heated it in skins by dropping hot flints into them. Hundreds of delicately fashioned flint implements used for catching fish and for making spearheads were also found. Land Yield Has Elastic Returns, Says Economist Dr, R. T. Bye in his "Principles of Economics," gives the law of diminishing returns as follows: "In a given state of the arts, after a cer- tain point has been reached in the utilization of land, increasing appli- cations of other productive agents to land will yield progressively smaller increases in product." The amount of yield from any given amount of land is limited, but that limit is an elastic one. Land. offers a certain amount of resist- ance to man, in that labor and such. instruments as fertilizer, •toots, etc., must be applied. Up to a certain point, as more and more labor and instruments are employed, there is' a corresponding increase in product. In this state of increasing returns, such progress cannot' go on in- definitely, for if a certain quantity of producing agents is applied to a giv- en amount of land, additional applica- tions of such agents will yield a progressively smaller increment of product, This is a condition of dim- inishing returns, and the point where this tendency sets in is known as the point of diminishing returns; beyond this, nature opposes increasing °re- sistance to man's efforts. Bronze Aging Secret The process developed by C. Wal- ter Clewell, Canton craftsman, du- plicating nature by aging bronze with a beautiful incrustation of+blue salts will not be lost with his death. The American Federation of Arts has asked to be made trustees of the processes and formulae, of which Clewell is believed to be the sole possessor, so they can perpetuate his work of reproducing the blue effect which nature sometimes gives to bronze exposed under the right con- ditions for a long period. Clewell has been interested in the patination of bronze . for 35 years and in his home workshop has pro- duced many art objects which have been purchased for museum display. Others have been bought for the homes of some of: the country's Wealthiest men, several pieces hav- ing been selected for the home of Edsel Fqrd in Detroit. The Canton craftsman saw a cop - pe vessel which had been cleaned with a chemical solution with a green cloud covering the surface. He at once began experiments to obtain color effects which would show interesting variations and found that shades of green were comparatively easy to obtain. 'Legacy. of Romance' Through the channels of the West Indies have passed many renowned men. Sir Walter Raleigh on his search for treasure, stopped to caulk. his ships with pitch of Trinidad, In many fights among their bays and creeks, Sir Francis Drake acquired skill and seamanship which, later, defeated the Spanish Armada, The Island of Tortuga, off the coast of Haiti, was the first base of the buc- caneers, and at -Port Royal, in Ja- maica, they spent their plundered wealth. There is scarcely an island in the Archipelago which does not recall their adventures. They have left to the Caribbean a "legacy of romance." Paint Reduces Fire Hazards Paint has been recognized by in- surance underwriters as being ef- fective in reducing fire hazards for some woods by as much as 400 per cent. Two coats are more effec- tive than one. The paint tends to seal the surface where ignition. starts. The species of wood, the wood grain exposed, the resin con- tent, and the rate of heating of the wood all affect the flame resistance. Women Now Dominate Our Intellectual Life In the intellectual life of the Unit- ed States man has completely abdi- cated. The French have always ac- cused the English of lacking inter- est in the life of the intellect and in the pursuit of ideas, but it is even • , the Englishman h' if who is struck by the total absence, of ideas among the average college, educated American: The visiting novelist or philoso-- pher oz' scientist has an -audience 80 per cent feminine. Thg lecturer on foreign affairs discovers that men are not interested in anything he might say. The editors of the qual. ity magazines know that their read- ers are mostly feminine, while pub- lishers of highbrow books have long, ago discovered that appealing to. men is a waste of tine. Thea impresarios and musiciana take it for granted that in America they will face an audience of worn - en, while their masculine auditors. come because of the harmony of the - family, rather than the harmony of the music, There is no parallel to the Amerie can in the history of any known peo- ple. Ironically enough, it is a coun- try most enamored of the idea ot progress in which the mental facul- ties of its sons, who have gone through the highest educational in- stitutions, have deteriorated, so that. the guardianship of ideas must be handed over to the women. Swiss Court Says That Glacier Is Hermann's, After years of hearing the evi- dence, the Swiss courts have finally held that the great Rhone glacier; one of the shrines of the world, is. the private property of Dr. Hermann, Seiler, hotel -keeper at Zermatt. • The nature of the title goes far• back into Swiss history. In the be- ginning of the Nineteenth century, Goethe was attracted to the glacier . and his glowing accounts of it began to : draw climbers and naturalists: Gradually the peasantry, -: that had regarded the perpetual river of ice. as a menace, began to realize that the Rhone was a blessing in Ells - guise. In 1830 they erected a small inn. near its base, and cut several beau- tiful grottoes into the ice. The rev- enues received therefrom were die vided among members of an Alpine syndicate according to their pasture rights. The inn was purchased by Alex- ander Seiler in 185t and developed into a fine hotel. Being anxious to assure a supply of milk, cheese and butter for his guests, while keeping, competitors away, Seiler began to. buy out the pasture rights of syndi- cate members, and the practice was continued by his son, Josef. By 1900 the Seilers were sole owners of 215 pasture rights. 1 Eskimo Dogs Adoption The famous Eskimo dogs of the Arctic are adopted into the Eskimo family when puppies by a sort of ceremonial message, each having his legs pulled and stretched so that he may run well, his back kneaded, so that he may be strong to carry a burden. They pull his ears, and whisper into them, to make his hear- ing keen; blow their breath into his nostrils to make him keen -scented and able to follow a trail, and to discover seal holes under the snow. Then a name is given to the puppy, a small harness put on him, and he is tied to a post or some heavy arti- cle so that probably the first thing he learns is how to pull. Pulling will be his main work all his life. If it is winter, the puppy and his mother will have a small snow - house, with dry grass, or an old skin with fur on it, to keep them warm. If it is very cold, they may, be taken into the house for a time. If the family needs to travel, the woman may put a puppy in . her bootleg, which is quite wide, or in the hood of her coat, beside her own baby, to keep- it warm. And always they talk to it as though it were a child. Great Trade Route Since the days when trains of pack mules carried Peruvian silver from Panama City to Porto Bello, the Isthmus of Panama has been one of the world's great trade. routes, After the discovery of gold in California many adventurers: sailed from New York to Panama: and made their way across the isth- mus, instead of going by the over land route in the United States, or sailing around Cape Horn. The. Panama railroad, first coast to coast line in America, was built soon after 1850 to carry these travelers quick- ly through thedense jungles to the• Pacific coast, where they took ship, up the West coast, to the gold fields of California. Michigan Plans for Hunting Arews. Wartime transportation difficul- ties and lack of time available for visiting distanthunting grounds. have raised new problems for the sportsmen employed in war indus- tries. Recognizing this, the Michi- gan department of conservation is mapping and classifying wastelands. in three counties near Detroit with a view : to developing good hunting areas near home. Such develop- ment work will be financed by Pitt- man -Robertson funds—raised by the federal excise tax on sporting arms: and ammunition—after. approval by both state and federal agencies.