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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-08-07, Page 7THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941 A The Secrets o Good Looks by eseei yi • THE SEAFORTH NEWS PAGE SEVEN SUNSHINE AND BEAUTY We all like sunshine and, taken reasonably; it is very good for us, But it isn't always so good for our skin! It has a tendency to dry out the skit, draw out some of the nat- ural oils that are in the shin, and the loss of which tends to cause wrinkles. If you are going sun-bathing, use a non -oily suntan lotion. This gives a smoother tan whilst preventing burning and undue dryness. Two steps you should take to help protect your skin against the drying tendencies of the sun are: (1) cleanse your shin regularly with pal - motive soap, which is a beauty treat- meat by itself, because it gets its goodness from those age-old beauty aid -olive and palm oils; (2) mass- age the skin at night with three - purpose cream, taking particular care about the wrinkle areas around the eyes, mouth and throat. If you are over 35, be doubly care- ful not to overdo sun -tanning. As we grow older, the skin is more apt to dry out and wrinkle. Freckles are a bane of sun -time ! To eradicate them, try bathing the face in buttermilk. If stronger meas- ures are needed, get this solution made up: two ounces of witch hazel, one ounce peroxide, one ounce Col- ogne water, one ounce glycerine, four ounces rose water. Shake well, pat on lightly with clean absorbent cotton. Allow to dry on the face. Write for personal advice, enclos- ing four one -cent stamps for my booklet, Beauty Care. Address: Miss Barbara Lynn, Box 75, Station B., Montreal, Que. iMr. anti Mrs. Thomas 'Walker, Brussels, announce the, engagement of their daughter, "Catherine fRailiday (Toddy), to Haugh John IMidtlleton, ,on of Mr, and !Mrs. Charles (Middle- ton, 'Clinton, the marriage to take Place the ,middle of August. A NEW ENGINE Deep inside a mountain cave near the 911y of Neuchatel in Switzerland there is running today a machine that promises to turn the oil and coal industries tapsylurvy. It is the world's first practical gas turbine. It is so different to anything we have today that the soldiers twit Junior Leaguers who are finding out what makes mechanized units run will S0011 have to learn all over again, says 11. Dyson Carter in Saturday Night: The Swiss have given the world a new Prince Mover. Any machine that converts energy into motion is a prince mover: steam engines, gas- oline engines, diesel oil engines, electric motors and so on. There are very few all told, because prime movers are distinguished not by de- tails of design but by fundamental opera ling principles. A flash outline of modern prime plovers employing heat energy would start vv-ith the simple steam engine. Here fuel is burned to pro- duce steam under pressure.' The steam pushes the moving piston of a cylinder ono full stroke, alter which the piston comes back for the next push. A veriety of mechanical de- vices transforms the push -pall into useful motion. When we come to steam turbines we find the steam forcing continuously from jets' against the blades of a wheel spin- ning at high speed. In both eases, however, the steam and the fuel used t0 produce it are entirely separate Maids the engines. The internal combustion engine changed this pic- ture. In a gasoline motor the fuel is burned explosively right inside the cylinder, and pushes directly on the piston. The same applies to diesels, except that here the spark plugs are eliminated by compressing air so hot that it explodes the injected fuel at contact. The logical step from here is our gas turbine. This machine has really been a hundred years on the way from idea to working model. In theory it would consist of an explo- sion chamber burning fuel and air, and blasting the hot gases against the vanes of a turbine. The Patent Offices of every country have thick files on such engines, none of them "practical" for the main reason that prejudice turned them down. Now the Swiss engine not only works but drives a 4,000 -kilowatt electric gen- erator, This engine is far simpler than any steam, gasoline or diesel motor. Duplicate Monthly tat» ments We c:,n save you money on Bill and Cees;;() Forme. i,tautlard sizes to tit Ledgere, white or color?. It will pay you to see our samples Also best quality Metal Hinged Sec- tional Post Binders and Index The Seaforth News PHONE 84 .•," "e-: `,'--. :w- • The World's News Seen Through THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR. An International Daily Newspsher is Truthful—Constructive—Unbiased—Free from Sensational - ISM — Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Featured, Together with the Weekly Magazine :Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts Price $12.00 Yearly, or 61.00 a Month, Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, 62.60 a Year. lairoductery Offer. 6 Issues 25 Cents Name • Address SAMPLE COPY ON REQUEST It consists of a single combustion chamber, cylindrical in shape. I3e- neath this is mounted an air com- pressor, an electric generator. and the turbine, all in lice on one rotat- ing shaft. At one end there is a small electric starting motor, Oper- ation is beautifully simplified The starter whirls the rotating air com- pressor (really a blower ran), the hot compressed air enters the ewe bustion chamber where it steadily ignites the oil, and the burned gases Pass clown to spin the turbine. Once started the engine rapidly reaches top speed. The simplification of this design roust he clear to anyone who had seen the innards of a big diesel or steam plant. With the gas turbine there is only one revolving shaft. No moving parts come into contact with the combustion chamber. There is absolutely no reciprocating notion. and no valves, cams, pumps, pistons. crankshatls, conrods, oil reservoir or cooling system. No cooling sys- tem! Here, indeed, we have the remark• able feature of the neve prime mover. Not only is there no water used for propellant (steam) but not even any water to prevent overheating. The gas turbine is completely enclosed. Apart from its exhaust, it gives out no heat. This is the secret of its mechanical appeal. The new engine al lastbrings our machine age close to the theromdynamie ideal of per- fect efficiency. The maxiumum amount of work which can be done by a heat engine for a given amount of fuel burned, depends upon two things: the high- est and the lowest temperatures at which the engine operates. In other words the hotter the steam going into the engine, and the cooler the steam passing out its exhaust, the more work that engine will do per ton of fuel burned. Similarly with an automobile motor; the hotter we can run it without ruining valves and pistons, and the cooler the wasted exhaust gases, the more miles per gallon for the family bus. In the last quarter century engin- eers have steadily tried to reach the ideal. Today steam turbines are run as hot as dull red heat, compared to old locomotives whose boilers would hardly fry an egg. Air plane motors are veritable infernos. But neither these nor the best diesels even ap- proach prefection. Why? Simply be- cause the perfect engine must oper- ate et a temperature no less than the heat of the flame supplying its energy. Obviously, steam is not nearly so hot as the roaring temperature of the boiler. And no gasoline engine could endure the searing heat of its fuel explosions, if the cylinder walls were not rapidly cooled by water or air streams. But the new gas turbine' is different. In it the exploding pass directly to the working turbine and ! so are almost at flame temperature.I The gases are cooled only in tae process of doing work by pushing the turbine around.. Hence the de- vice scoret the highest efficiency figure yet recorded. In actual practice the steam tur- bine has by no means reached its limit. The difficulty lies in the fact that above three thousand degrees 1 Fahrenheit) the present working temperature. turbine blades tend te expand and clip the steed shell. As soon tis alloys are developed for tate new- engine its temperature tee be raised toward; eight thousand de- grees. Title is the theoretical limit for meet fuels. Ir ie unlikely for many years that turbines will he built to stand evert fire thousand. which is hotter than bright white heat. A most interesting feature of the gas turbine is that it depends upon . explosion volume rather than press- ure. In to -day's gasoline motors the great pressure developed by the ex- . plosion forces the piston down. But in the gas turbine tate "explosion" is centin nous. The pressure never rises. 'When the hot compressed air burns with the fuel oil there is an increase in volume of gas. The es- cape of this bulky mixture whirls the turbine, Checking back over the Swiss in- vention, we see that the new engine is very compact. Its construction is simple and foolproof, with few parts. I its motion is completely rotary. It needs not water for steam or cooling. It delivers more power for fuel con- sumed than any heat engine yet de- vised,• And it is operating a full-sized commercial electric plant. But this is not all the story. The Neuchatel turbine burns the crudest! cheapest fuel oil. It can easily,, be adapeea to burn powdered coal, the I moat economic fuel known. For years designers have been trying for, a diesel motor that could burn coal j dust. Coal duet is explosive. It will' even drive a gasoline motor, with proper cattachments. But theflinty residue from the burning coal soon ruins the cylinders and gets into the lube oil. No .such difficulty exists with the gas turbine. Low grade coal dust can be burned in its combustion Broadcasting Carries On In the Blitz—Here are !.xclueive pictures portraying the work of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in conjunction with the British Broadcasting Corporation, in war-t.ime England. Loca- tions of course are secret, but these pictures serve to shoe the extent of the damage. Upper right shows anti. ah•ct•aft tire. Lower right Is a view of a BBC engineer in an emergency shelter, chamber. Thus the world's cheapest fuel is made available for operating the most efficient engine -a rernark- able combination. This speels sudden death for the diesel engine. If the planned gas tur- bine locomotives are a success on Switzerland's terrific Alpine grades, thea America's crack streamliners will soon change over from oil to powdered coal, from diesel to turb- ine. A prolonged air war, with its drain no oil reserves, may mean swift extension of the turbine for marine use. It is clear, too, that an aero gas turbine is on the way. The possible efficiency of the new engine, its simplicity, low cost, and the cheap fuels used, promise a power revolution. What if transport planes could burn crude oil from Canada's Athabaska reserve, the world's greatest petroleum store? The refining industry would collapse. But Canada would gain almost a continent ,in her northwest and sub- arctic. And if the gas turbine is ap- plied to bombers. in this war, a new era In land and sea and air motion is only half a decade away. Want and For Sate Ads, 3 weeks 51e. At The Wireless Sshool.— Pro;dress being nv le at the new R..•\.: . Radio '1'ecinici•ns' School near IClinton justifies early predict- ions that there will be upwards of two thousand airmen housed there when the school is finished. The minimum number is .placed at fifteen hundred. There -will not olily be more buildings than at Port Albert, hut nearly all are larger and -of two-story construct- ion, The instructional staff, which ar- rived on July 20, is now settled down to the Ibusiness of ressenribling equip- ment'brought from England This is being set ep as -fact a. the btnidptg, are ready, A number of airoplane covered with burlap await the conn- pletion of the hangar before +being as- sembled. Scrapers are at work on the landing strip at the -south end of the field. The hangar now has a roof, but still lacks doors. Trusses are now up for the recreation hall. Hydro gangs have completed most of the heavy wank, including the erection of transformers. Many of -the newly - arrived airmen have paidvisits to Goderich and have ort with their fel low-countryanen at Port Albert. There was one reunion of brothers. Squadron Leader Warrington it the officer commanding at the Clinton sclrail. Edward Muegge, Waterloo— Edward Muegge, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Muegge, Logan Township, died Saturday afternoon at his Waterloo home. He was born near Brodhagen 56 years ago and lived there for some years, later go- ing to Western Canada for a few years and then.esettliug in Waterloo. His wife, three children, Eldon, Dor. othy and Lloyd at home; one bro- ther, John Muegge, Stratford, and three sisters, Mrs. Louis Eickmeier, Stratford; Mrs. Chas. Querengesser, Brussels, and Mrs. Wm. Wolfe, Med- icine Hat, survive. The funeral was held in St. John's Lutheran Church, Waterloo, with interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener. BRUNETTES HAVE THEIR OWN TROUBLES Dr. Donald A. Laird, famous pay - etiologist... writing in The American Weekly with the August 10 issue of The Detroit Sunday Times...will point out that brunettes are much more likely to have high blood press- ure, grow bald sooner, and also are much more subject to other annoy. antes. Be sure to get The Detroit Sunday Times this week and every week. French River and Devil's Gap Lure Visitors A cottage on the shore of a 2'A tree -lined lake with oppor- tunities for fishing, boating, swimming s,ud other warm - weather recreation provides the kind of summer holiday which is. essentially Canadian, But lire in a cottage sometimes means; a lot of work owing to the lack of city conveniences, which is the reason for the groat popularity of such resorts as Devil's - Gap and French River where visitors live in cottages which are as well ser- viced as hotel suites. The simple life, with all the informality and ease which the expression implies, is the watch- word at these two'famoue Cana- dian Pacific resorts. Mother is relieved of the cooking, daughter of the dish -washing and sonny of the lawn -mowing, While father dresses in his oldest and most comfortable clothes to pursue his own peculiar ideas of summer life. There is a strong family re- semblance between Devil's Gap Lodge, near Kenora, and French River Chalet Bungalow Camp, on the Canadian Pacific Toronto- Sudbury line. In a beautiful section of lakes and forests, they offer endless possibilities for re- creation, No part of Canada has better fishing, and there are facilities for tennis, golf and similar sports. Great expanses of water and wooded country make exploring a pleasure, by canoe, motorboat, automobile, horse or on foot. Individual bungalows or cot- tages, self-contained and cosily furnished, ,have electric lights,. running, water and maid service, The central chalet or lodge is the nerve centre of the community because it Is there that visitors have their meals and enjoy dan- cing and other amusements in the evenings. Although there are amuse meats for every member of the family, the most popular sport at these resorts is fishing. That ie because the fishing is so good.' Pickerel, pike, sturgeon, plua those scrappiest game -fish of the Canadian water -world, the mus- calunge and the - small -mouth. black bass are found in abundan- ce. Both districts have produced record fish, the most outstanding of which was, the sixty and -one- half pound muscalunge caught by J. J. Coleman, of Evansville, Indiana, in Eagle Lake, east ,of' Devil's Gap„ ¢n x009. „That. ozlo holds the world's record,