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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1952-07-10, Page 7T ..p Earth's Depths For Steam Power "We need water, minerals and power, and if we were half as Interested in exploring tlae depths of the earth as we are in exploring outer space we might be able to obtain adequate amount of fresh water and salts from the sea and minerals from the earth as by- products of power production, and all three for little or nothing after first costs are paid," writes Ira S. Martin, of Upland, Calif,, to the New York Times, Since shafts and tunnels two miles deep have already been made and operated successfully he sug- gests that we direct the big rockets required for exploring the atmos- phere down at the earth after which we can dig holes only a mile or two deeper. A small rocket, e.g., one weighing forty pounds, containing a mixture of explosives and quartz sand, land- ing at a velocity of 1,000 feet per second, releases 20,000,000 foot- pounds of energy plus the energy of the explosives. The rocket deep- ens and enlarges the 'hole, shatters and pulverizes and heats surround- ing materials, and lines it with quartz glass, Martin reasons. From depths already attained or from the surface, steel casing could be driven , through this pulverized material to any required depths by methods used in tunnelling under rivers and harbors, but with less effort and risk. Removing muck with clamshells operated from old shaft bottom levels would not be difficult, After twin shafts have been com- pleted and joined by fluid connec- tion at the bottoms, water fills the pressure well by gravity alone and boils under its own gravity pressure with heat, the temperature increas- ing at the rate of 0.2 degrees F. per foot of depth. The water re- ,. wJ ix72 E;t»NA 1%W.ES RAVE you taken a good inapal,•- tial look at your bedroom suite lately? The chances are very good that it's become a bit shabby with the passing years, But the chances are also good that the "budget Won't take a big bite for a new suite. Even it you can't afford to toss out the old furniture, you can work magie with what you've got. Just as you'd buy a new hat to dress up an old suit, so you can turn a shabby, out-of-date dresser into a handsome, modern piece through the use of mirror magic. If your dresser is the old- fashioned type with mirror at- tached, the first step is to -strip it of gingerbread. Using a screw- driver, remove the mirror and its moorings. Use putty to plug up the holes and a coat of shellac or varnish to smooth the surface. Then you're ready to remove the legs. To get a close -to -the -floor -ef- fect, in keeping with modern de- sign trends, use a saw to take off the high, spindly legs. Now, you can apply decorator's magic. Pick a new mirror, one in good design, chosen to blend with the style of your bedroom furni- ture. Hang it flat on the wall over the dresser, placing it vertically at eye level and centering it so that �6e 001511 EN Goxaon Sluitb. With the aid of a saw, putty and a new mirror this out-of-date dresser becomes .. a fmodern west, giving gam entirely new feeling to an said room at a budget price. not more than three inches of side. That's all there is to the I worked wonders for your bedrooms dresser extends beyond it on either I face-lifting. But you'll find you've on mere pin -money. turns to sea level as super -heated water and steam. In this process salts and minerals are deposited as steam rises. to turn machinery which generates electrical power. The greater the depths attained, the'hotter the water and steam, and the higher the superheated steam will rise through vacuum -insulated pipes to turbines which niay be located anywhere above sea level. At a certain dairy farm visited recently the owner was much dis- tressed because most of his cows were affected with a watery brown diarrhea, They were not too sick, but were gaunt and more or less off feed. The owner was chiefly concerned over the decreased milk production, This was really serious, for the cows were down to about a third of what they were giving before the scouring started, * * Trouble had started with -a single old cow. When she became "loose" the owner blamed the trouble on frozen or moldy silage that she might have eaten, However, as more aninrals became affected, he began to think that maybe the scouring represented some kind of a "catching" disease. It turned out that this was correct, for the diarr- hea was shown to be so-called "win- ter dysentery." * s: . It may appear almost anywhere, and generally shows up between December and March, thus ex- plaining its name. The disease is also known as "black scours" and vibronie enteritis, It spreads rapid- ly in a herd and is caused by a germ called Vibro jejuni. The germs are given off in the watery manure, and infect other animals that swallow them with c•ontatttin- sted food or water. The germs may be carried on shoes or by animals like cats and dogs. We knew of one outbreak • Wheel of Torture—At a speed of 135 -miles -per -hour a new high- speed tiredeveloped by Good- rich engineers pulls away from the simulated road faster than inside pressure can restore the rubber to its original shape. The grueling test would tear an ordinary tire apart, but the new one is said to be able to with- stand hundreds of miles of sus. twined high speed driving, Photo was anode at 1/10,000th of a Second. that followed the route of a certain milk hauler, and appeared in every barn where he stopped for milk. In the case of the farmer mention- ed earlier, be evidently caused his own trouble by bringing the germs hone on his overshoes after visit- ing d neighbor's herd that was in- fected, * * * It usually -takes about four days for scouring to start after animals have swallowed the germs. Symp- toms of the disease are about as already described, with the prin- cipal one being that stinking thin diarrhea. Deaths seldom occur, but extremely lowered milk production make winter dysentery a pretty ex- pensive disease on a dairy farm, * * * Nor is it limited to milk cows .for it may break loose in calves or beef animals. CaIves may be seriously set back and fattening stock may suffer through heavy losses in weight and condition. Scouring usually ends without treatment after about three days, but it may take much longer for normal milk yields to be regained. There is no more definite pattern for the disease, since a diarrhea may persist for weeks, and the severity varies. Sometimes it is ex- tremely mild, while again it is so bad that the manure is bloody anti contains strings -of nmcus. Scouring is sometimes caused by spoiled feeds like the silage first suspected by our farmer friend, Shipping fever, changes of feed, co- ccidiosis, and various kinds of poi- soning may also cause severe scour- ing that might be mistaken for winter dysentery. if you're in doubt at any time, it'll probably pay you to get a veterinarian on the job to snake a definite diagnosis, l'ou'il want to get started with treatment as soon as possible, and there's no need of doctoring something be- fore you know what it is. in case it really does break nut, there are several effective .remedies. An ounce or two daily of weak chlo- rine or copper sulfate solutions are often helpful. Four veterinarian will have ne•t't'cr and more effective drugs not generally available on farms, so you may want him to treat the annuals. * * His call may he an economical. one, for the quickest way to stop the scouring is the quickest way to stop losses of milk or weight that can run into stoney pretty fast. \•VI:ether you do the treating or have a veterinarian do it for you, both affected and healthy animals had better be. treated, since treatment may prevent infection before it actually occurs. * Along with medication of stock, you'd better not track manure in feedrvays, or alloy, dogs and cats and visitors to do it Remember that the dirty stuff is loaded with dangerous germs, so BECARI.- VtYLI Enzymes Regulate Our Lives Oxford University has been granted thirty thousand dollars for research into certain branches of bio -chemistry, including those con- cerning enzymes and proteins. Bio -chemistry is the study of the chemical processes which take place in living plants and animals, and at present much research is being concentrated on the compli- cated protein compounds• called en- zymes which regulate our "breathing and digestion and other activities. Without enzymes even the lowest forms of life would be impossible. It has been estimated that a single cell from a plant or animal contains approximately one thousand differ- ent enzymes, The commonest enzyme is the one in the yeast cell, which pro- duces alcohol and carbon dioxide from sugar and is used in making cheese, fermenting beer and other alcoholic beverages, and in clarify- ing wines and fruit juices. Other enzymes enable us to di-. gest food. Digestion begins with the secretion of saliva. In this saliva we -find an enzyme called "pytalin," which breaks up compli- cated molecules found in starch. The oxidation or burning of our food must proceed at body tem- perature, and it is the remarkable enzymes that accomplish this. Kills Pain They enable us to use the oxy- gen we breathe in for burning the food at low temperature. Out of the thousands of different "varieties" of enzymes, the scien- tists have isolated one which is likely to prove a boon to mankind. It is called the "hyaluronidase" enzyme, and has the remarkable faculty of breaking down barriers between living cells. Because of this, dentists have seized upon it. In the old days, before extracting a tooth, the den- tist would jab a needleful of the drug, novocaine, into the gum to deaden the pain., He could not always be certain 'that he had jabbed it into the proper tiny nerve, and the proce- dure often had to be repeated until the needle itself was more painful than the extraction. Now, when the hyaluronidase enzyme is mixed with the novo- caine, ti causes a rapid spreading of the pain -killer. But what may prove to be the most important discovery is that influenza and peneumonia germs carry the hyaluronidase enzinte around with them. This may result one day in the front-page headlines we all want to see: "SCIENCE CONQUERS COLD AND 'FLU!" �iY SO 01 lif,SS tN By Rev. R...B Warren, B.A., B.D ..e.,The Sin of Greed Exodus 20: 17; Luke •12: 13-21-29-34 Memory S'election: Thou shalt not covet. Exodus 20: 17. It is significant that the last of the ten commandments is the one that deals with a heart condition. Thus it is a key to the understand- ing of thein all. If the heart is right we will keep the other com- mandments. In our next lesson we shall see that Christ's new com- mandment calls fot% a heart of love. Man needs new heart. There was quarrelling over the division of the inheritance in our Lord's day, too. He refuse'd to be a judge in such disputes. Instead, he told the story of the foolish rich man who thought his soul could be satisfied with material goods. When looking for barns for his great crop he never thought of the bosoms of the needy, the houses of the widows, the mouths of the orphans, and infants. He thought only of himself. Thousands of people are in hos- pitals for the physically and mental- ly ill, who wouldn't be there if they had obeyed the shnple formula of Jesus, "Rather seek ye the king- dom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you." But men take their own way and worry and contention about the things which shall pass away take their heavy toll of mental and physical health. How foolish are we mor- tals! Put God first and all our needs will be met. And happy is the man whose wants are not greater than his needs. Earthly treasures wil dissolve when the elements shall melt with fervent heat but treasures in heaven will abide. The Christian way is the best way for two worlds. ALLY'S SAIUES "I'd like to change my lunch hour from 2 to 3, sir. Then the after- noon won't seem to be so long," Support With some tall things it is an excellent plan to provide support. This may be in the form of short stakes or even twigs and it may be necessary to tie the stems of the plant to the same loosely with soft raffia, twine or the special twisting material sold by seed stores. With busy plants such as peonies, most experienced garden- ers place a wooden or wire hoop around the plant fairly early in the spring. This will provide effective support and even hold up the heavy blooms. In the famous Kew Gardens near London, they have an excellent trick for supporting big shrub -like flowers such as delphiniums and even climbers like sweet peas. Be- fore these plants have grown more than a few inches high, some old branches or brush are firmly stuck into the ground close about them. Prunings off fruit trees or shrubs are ideal. As the plants develop they will grow alt around and hide these dead branches and be firmly supported. * * * Working It Will Help Behind some of the new houses completed since fall will be sonic pretty unpromising garden mater- ial. Nowadays, it is true, builders are a little more considerate and sometimes make an attempt to save and put back the rich top soil after grading has been completed. No matter what it looks like now, it is amazing what a difference there will be in a few months and still more in a few years. Quickest results with the new garden, of course, will be obtained where a few loads of rich loam are brought in and spread over the whole Iot. This applies to lawn, and flower and vegetable gardens. Where this is not possible or is ton expensive, one can go at things more gradually. Thorough and fre- quent cultivation will work wonders and also digging in all sorts of green materials, like grass clip- pings, leaves or special crops. The latter are usually oats, peas or rye, which are sown, allowed to grow and then dug in. These things sup- ply humus and that is the big need of both heavy and light soils. * Never Too Late Even where the first planting could have been done weeks ago 'there is still time to have a good garden. In most sections of the country one can go on planting seeds, both flower and vegetables, right up to the end of June, and in some places up to mid-July. With standard vegetables like beets, carrots, beans, lettuce, etc., the experts advise spreading plant- ings regularly tip to about mid- June in any case so that the har- vest will be likewise spread over many weeks: To hurry along the late plant- ings, one can take several short cuts. The ground should be extra well prepared and some quick -act- ing commercial fertilizer applied to push growth. Watering, if pos- sible, will also help. This growth with vegetables is especially de- sirable and particularly with those of which the roots are eaten. Cy BRUCE WEST In The Globe and Mail, Toronto While sitting reading the Huntsville Forester the other day, it occurred to me how vastly important was the weekly news- paper in the national scheme of things, And what a powerful voice is represented by the combined efforts of these hundreds of small community papers spread across the length and breadth of the land. Every now and then, on the metropolitan dailies, some of us get illusions of grandeur. We see our giant presses rumbling out hundreds of thousands of copies of our papers, see the teletypes and the telegraphs chattering madly, the big trucks tearing off to all points of the compass, hear the newsboys shouting on the streets. And the mammoth size of the operation sometimes dazzles us into the idea that we're fairly large potatoes in the journalistic world. In a sense, I suppose, the size and circulation of a news- paper is important. But i. often wonder whether our very size is not a handicap, occasionally, in getting close to the people we serve and whose feelings we are supposed fo reflect accurately, The best newspaper brains on the largest dailies in the United States, for instance, wrote off Harry Truman with great assurance before the last U.S. elections. But Harry proved they were wrong. If they had been reflecting accurately the mood of their country, they would have been right. I don't know, but it seems to me that you wouldn't catch a weekly newspaper editor being wrong very often about the win- ner of an election in his community. And it strikes me that it's more important to be right about a few people than wrong about a lot of people. The weekly newspaper editor usually has time to light up his pipe, stretch out his feet and have a talk with the subscribers. It's not a daily newspaper editor's fault that he can't do this. A big daily has a way of chewing ravenously at his time. But in the case of the weekly editor, he may often, in one day, exchange opinions with a farmer, a welder, the mayor, a housewife and the president of the town's largest industry. These exchanges of thought need, by no means, be formal. The chances are, if the editor has been in his chair for some time, that he recorded the birth, high school graduation•and marriage of one or all of these subscribers, in which case Subscriber William Jones becomes merely Tom Jones' boy. And an editor who might be focled a bit concerning the attitude of William Jones is not likely to be misled very far by Tom Jones' boy. Out of this intimate and friendly relationship there must surely grow that most magic of all journalistic ingredients, some- times called the ability to "keep a finger on the public pulse." If this bond has been well and truly forged, no newspaper can fail to be important, even though ifs entire list of subscribers could be mustered in a small community hall. All of us go through fife, to some extent, trying to make our lone, small voices heard 'midst the clamor of the multitude which sounds all around us. Whenever some publication is close enough to us to reflect our thoughts and the things we want to say, we feel that we have become articulate and our loneliness is alleviated in some degree. In this respect the weekly editor occupies a golden chair, a chair of great dignity and great responsibility. He has been given the opportunity of acting as the voice and, in many ways, the conscience, of the place in which he lives. And this small town or village, multiplied, is Canada. The golden chair, of course, is not without its lumps. It is a little difficult to throw the book at a local political candidate and then be confronted with his injured and reproachful countenance the very next day, or even on the same day. In the case of the weekly newspaper, the so-called man on the street can cease being one by merely taking a half dozen steps into the editor's office. Not only that, but the weekly editor may have to interrupt his written discourse on the complicated world situation to help a customer compose a classified ctd offering a washing machine for sale. This may be awkward at times, but I can't help thinking it is educational. Sometimes the problem of the lady who wants to sell her washing machine can bring the world situation into a little clearer perspective. Such incidents can serve as a sort of decompression chamber for those who have been prowling around rather deeply in the world's affairs, Perhaps the daily newspaper, Trying to keep pace with the events of a fast moving world, is a victim of the atmosphere in which it serves. Readers who in a few short years may forget Stalin's first name are not likely to forget the day Aunt Maggie won the prize for the best cake at the fall fair. Or that Elmer Smith's hound trotted out the sideroad one day an0 turned up three weeks later 30 miles away in Jackson's Junction. And I'll be hanged if l can say for sure which is the more important. Stalin is getting a lot of publicity these days, but, for all 1 know, Elmer Smith may have had a pretty good hound,