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What Science
is Doing
'SGROditTM SUGAR
IA Method of getting ee much
Smear from sorghum as front av
erage. Louisiana one, with vl
'cable by.produets as well, is RIO
inventioe of two U.S. Department
of Agriculture chemists, who have
useigned their rights to, the Sec-
retaxy of Agrieulture, without
payment of royalties to them
selVes,
Syrup and a sweet silage have
been obtained from sorghum for
years, Science Service explains,
but the sugar contained could,not
he efficiently and economically
mymallized out by the usual Me-
thods of boiling in a vacutun pan
and 'then eentrifugiug, because of
the formation of 'tuns'.
These gtuns, the inventors
found, were composed principally
of march and alkaline earth salts,
the latter principally calcium with '
same magnesium. They made the
syrup tee viscous when boiled
dime; The inventors' process re-
anovei these iMpUrities and re-
covers starch and calcium 'Mid ac-
teeitiiitt.ic acid as valuable by -prod -
The syrup can then be
reduced to sugar by the usual
processes.
• Sugar cane requires two years
to :nature and needs therefore a
oliniete free from killing frosts
in the winter, Sorghum, on the
other hand, can be planted in
the spring and harvested in the
autumn. It grows Over large sec-
tions of the country and does well
M the dry areas,
New War Plant
To Dwarf Others.
Chrysler Co. Plans Largest
industrial 'BelIding In The
World,
Adolf Hitler, who long boasted
of Germany's war production fa-
eilities, may feel a twinge of pain
in his heart, head or both when he
bears of the Chrysler Corpora-
tions plans for building a new
war plant that will utterly dwarf
the largest industrial building in
the world, according to The Buf-
falo Courier -Express.
The new plant is important, not
only for the mass of war mater -
de that will come out of it when
it gets into production, but also
for the large amount of vital
materials that will not go into
its construction.
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Chrysler engineers, together
with Albert Kahn, industrial arch-
itect, have evolved a revolution-
ary type of factory design which
requires only 2,7 ounds of steel
per square foot of floor area in-
stead of five to twelve pounds
generally used in conventional
structures.
"The saving on steel will be
enough to build fourteen des-
troyers or six 10,00040n eaigo
ships," the announcement said.
Production potentialities of
the new plant may be gauged
Isom the statement that the plant
will be big enough to put the
Vera. Willow Run bomber plant
inside and still leave enough room
for twenty hall diamonds around
the edge. The fence around the
plant will be almost four miles
!..•ong.
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.Apparently it • Was the steel-
erving features of the new plant
that enabled the corporation to
get the green light from the gov-
ernment for its building. Work
an the plant, to be located in the
Middle West, will be begun in a
few days. But its exact location
end the type of war materials to
be produced were not announced.
The construction of this plant
should help to quell the fears of
theee, who believed that America's
large existing, production facili-
ties are not sufficient to com-
pete with those of the Reich. And
the announcement eggs en the
imagination to wonder what the
dimensions of futurewar 'plants
are likely to be. , • /
There are four birds whose
wings are too small for flying:
eaeaoway, emu, kiwi and ostrich.
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The magnaflex crack detector is a vital piece of machinery for
the checking of engine parts. Miss Marjorie Sutton operates the „
machine•which pours a flow of oll and iron filings over the magne-
tized engine part. Where the material has for any reason cracked
or is faulty, the magnetism will draw the iron fillings into a line.
Thus many a faulty part with cracks' too small for the human eye
to see has been discarded. Had the faulty part been used it might
have given way in flight causing a crash and perhaps death. Miss
• Sutton was a clerk in a department store before she carne to the
aircraft engine overhaul plant operated by the Canadian Pacific Air-
lines.
Mapy of the Canadian women
who have stepped into the places
of men in the factories and plants
throughout Canada have come
straight from' school and many
others have left jobs in offices
and stores to exchange typewrit-
ers, filing cabinets and cash regis-
ters for wrenches, screwdrivers
and gauges of various kinds in
their desire to be of more use in
Canada's war effort. They have
thus been able to release able-
bodied men for service in the
forces in ever-increasing numbers.
Gun plants, explosive factories
and aircraft plants have all found
many tasks to which their nimble
fingers are adapted. Several of
the aircraft plants operated by
the Canadian Pacific Airlines
have girls, many of them in their
late teens. and early twenties,
sewing fabric on wings, painting
• superstructures, doaping wings,
installing instruments, building
the fusilage and doing the thou-
sand and ono thins that have to
be done in constructing the air -
even that one (ley will drive Hit-
ler and his gang from the face
of the earth.
Even in the aircraft engine
overhaul planta Which the Cana-
dian Pacific Airlines operate, wo-
men find their place. Girls are
testing spring .tension, checking
eLgine parts, dismantling, and
cleaning carburetors, cleaning and
testing spark plugs and doing
many of the jobs, under the eye
of experts, which men formerly
did.
The 'strange part of it • .611 is
that' they like it. Eeai of them
want to go, bat* to selling hats,
office work, or dispensing "Pink
Pills" over a drug store counter,
and all are heart and soul in 'their
work doing their best to help in
the best way they can to beat the
Rome:4lerlin-Tokyo gangsters.
Lucky Shot
All available arms were put into
use (at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7).
A, country lad from the west had
a standard rifle shoved in his
band, says Blake Clark in "Re-
member Pearl Harbor."
"Get out and shoot!" was the
command.
The boy had not been trained
to handle a heavy rifle, but he
had done lots of hunting in his
day, He drew a bead on a small
dive bomber coming'in, and fired.
One of 'the freak accidents of
the war occurred.
Apparently his bullet bit the
detonator -of the bomb the Japan-
ese was about to drop, for the
'plane burst in mid-air.
The boy fainted.
HOW CAN I?
Q. How can I paint on glass
surfaces?
A. Be sure that the glass is
absolutely clean of grease. This
is accomplished 'by washing with
benzine or alcohol, Allow to dry
thoroughly before applying first
coat of paint. A straight white
lead -linseed oil paint containing
some turpentine is a satisfactory
first coat. Over this may be
applied the desired color of paint.
Q. How can I prepare a good
summer fruit drink?
A. Use the following ingredi.
entS: sliced ripe bananas, canned
grapefruit and juice, white "pil-
low" candy mints, slightly crush-
ed. Pile in sherbet glasses. Chill.
Garnish with a sprig of mint or
• green cherry.
Q. How can I mend a leaky
vase?
A. Take some molted paraffin
and pour it into the vase and at -
low to harden over the spot where
the leak occurs. It will not leak
gain.
Q,
Q. How can I remove light
scratches on furniture?
A. By rubbing over thane with
boiled linseed oil, turpentine and
white vinegar, mixed in equal
proportions. For the deeper
scratches, use a paste made et
thick mucilage mixed with etdor-
• tag :natter to blend with the furzt.
iture. ror oak, use 'burnt umber
stnd raw sientsi; for mahogany.
Venetian red; for walnut, burnt
umber and Vandyke brown.
Modern Etiquette
1. What is something one
should always avoid saying in a
letter?
2. Is it the duty of everyone
who was invited to a wedding to
call on the bride after she re-
turns from her honeymoon?
3. When there is some item on
the menu which one does not un-
derstand, is it all right to ask the
waiter what it is?
4. Should one ever sip coffee,
tea or water at the table while
food is in the mouth?
5. If a man offes' to shake
hands with a woman upon being
intoduced, does she ignore the
gesture?
G. Is it proper for one to use
a telephone to acknowledge re-
ceipt of a gift?
ANSWERS
1. Avoid writing "There isn't
any news; everything is going
along in just about the usual fa-
shion." This is very dull, stupid,
and uninteresting and is a waste
of both the writer's and the read-
er's time and energy. There is
always something about which to
write, and the observant person
with an active mind has no trou-
ble in this respect.
2. Yes.
3. Yes, Only a timid person
would hesitate to do so,
4. No, the food should be swal-
lowed before taking the liquid,
5. While the woman is within
her social rights to ignore the
man's attempt to shake hands,
still, no one with the least spark
of good breeding would wish to
do anthing to hurt the feelinge
of another, She should, there-
fore, respond to the man's offer
to hake hands.
6. No, it is not good form.
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HavYea Heard?,
The instructor Walk seeking re.
Wits for the reglimmatal b411d:
end approaching Private Brown btl
o
*paired t
"Do yoU play e mualeal inatrivi
Inet10"
replied Brown, "but
only et home."
lineally," said the inatruetor
«and what instrument do you
ploy ?"
"Second fiddle," retorted Pte,
Brown.
' "Some Ini4body has told
my wife that I took you to a
dance the other night," said
the manager to his secretary.
"Well, what about it?"
asked the girl.
"That makes you any for,
mer secretary."
Two bTegoes were discussing
their chances of being drafted,
• "Taint gwine to do 'inn no good
to pick u me," said Sam, "cause
1 ain't gwine to do no fightin't
Ah p,in't lost nothing in dem
countries, an' dey can't make me
fight."
"You may be right," replied
Mose, "Uncle Sam can't make you
alt fight but he can take yo' where
de fightini is an' den yo' use yo'
own judgment."
The young reporter was
told over and over again to
cut his story to the bare es.
sentials. So his next story
came out this way:
".1, Smith looked up the
shaft at the Wallick Hotel
this morning to see if the lift
was on its way down. It was.
Aged 45."
The lorry driver was unfortun-
ate enough to run his vehicle into
a house where a woman stood
baking. Having lost his nerve,
he did not know what to say, and
blurted out:
"Can you tell me the way to
Birmingham?"
can," replied the woman.
"Straight past that sideboard and
their turn left at the pianq."
' "I'm not half good enough
for you."
"Why, Bill, you talk just
like one of Iny own family."
Laborer: "I dug this hole where
I was told to, and .began to put
the dirt back like 1 was supposed
to. But all the dirt won't go in.
What'll I do?"
The supervisor pondered, and
•:then said: "I have it. There's
only one thing to do. You'll hive
to dig the hole deeper."
Seeing her former suitor at a
InirtY, a girl decided to snub him.
"So sorry," she murmured
when the hostess introduced him,
"but I didn't get your name."
"I know you didn't," said the'
unabashed man, "but you certain-
ly tried hard enough."
King Of Belgium
Lives As Prisoner
King Leopold of the Belgians
is still a voluntary prisoner in
his castle of Laeken. Travelers
from Brussels say Leopold has
made his life as simple as he can.
He respects the rationing strictly,
using food tickets like the rest
of his subjects. He virtually ne-
ver 'receives visitors,
as he insists
that he considers himself as a
prisoner of war.
C.N.R. Can Handl.
Increased Traffic
, Although the Canadian reit-
weye are moving the largest Ya-
wn* of traffic in their history,
they Can handle more freight
business without diffieulty, stated
R. C. Veughan, President, Cana -
titan National Railways, recently,
Using the yardstick of the Cana.
dian National increase In beat -
new, Mr. Vaughan stated .that the
general increase in the volume of
business now being handled is ap-
proximately 20 per cent, more
then in she peak year of 1928,
and more than 75 per cent,
greater than Oust handled by the
railways during the peak year of
the last world War. "Not only
can we take more traffic and
move It quickly and efficiently to-
day," he added, "but we can do
it with proportionately less ex-
pense than .we did in 1928."
Freight Traffic
Mr. Vaughan pointed out that
never before had the railways
been se effectively organized to
move large volumes of traffic.
"We are doing a tremendous thing
as Canada's biggest war industry,"
he said, "and we are geared to the
highest of speed." He pointed
out that new yards had sprung up
throughout the system, special
treffie centre's, and storage yards,
where goods are assembled to
await telegraphic orders to be
loaded and rushed to whatever
sea -port determined. "These are
but a few of the improvements in
the science of modern railroad-
ing," he added. "Heavier motive
power has made it possible to op-
erate fast, through freight trains
and to increase the size of the
loads carried. In fact, it might
be suis that today we virtually
begin the number of freight cars
hauled, where in the last war the
peak of loads finiehed. In 1918,
a long freight train was between
-50 and GO cars; in this war, our
trains frequently begin at GO cars
and run as high as 90 loaded cars,
or more; and there has been no
evidence whatever of congestion
in our operation to the seaboards."
Passenger Traffic
Passenger traffic, Mr. Vaughan
stated, was proportionally heavy.
He said that not only were there
heavy demands made upon the,
railways for troop movements of
the various services, but apart
from that there were "induatrial"
chartered trains, operated daily,
to carry munitions workers to
plants located outside aide' and
towlis. He intimated that at
present, the National System had
more than 100 coaches assigned
solely to this service. Apart from
these special demands upon the
railways, there was a tremendous
increase in general passenger
traffic.
C.N.R. War Effort
Mr. Vaughan added that the
Canadian National Railways were
doing a fine work in the produc-
tion of war materials, as well ats
in the moving of them. He point-
ed out that Canadian National
shops were making naval guns and
other war devices of which he
could not speak. Several mine
sweepers had been built, as well
as a number of 10,000 -ton cargo
boats. The company also had
charge of operation for the Gov-
ernment, a fleet of merchant
ships, which had been acquired
from time to time from other
powers, both neutral and other-
wise. Many. key -men have been
loaned to various government ser-
vices, and more than 7,000 rail-
way men were on active service
with the Canadian forces.
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iftOtti \\
,
20,000,000 Mexicans
Join United Nations
Mexico's entry into the war will
line up nearly 20,000,000 more
persons against the Axis and
boost the Western Hemisphere
total to 179,936,874, according to
figures in the 1942 World Al-
manac.
The Mexican population-19,-
478,791—is second only to the
United States total of 131,669,-
275 among the twelve New World
nations warring against Germany,
Italy and japan.
The *there and their papule -
Rens are: Canada, 11,422,004;
Cuba, 4,228,000; Guatemala, 8,-
246,000; Haiti, 3,000,000; Nicar-
agua, 1,380,287; Panama, 467,-
459; Costa Rica, 616,000; EL Sal-
vador, 1,704,497; Honduras, 1,-
106,534 and Dominican Republie,
1,616,561.
There are about 8,000 :nen In
United States camps for consci-
entious objectors.
Employer (interviewing au
applicant for job): "Know
anything about electricity?"
"Yes, sir."
"What's an armature?"
"A chap who boxes for
nothin'."
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