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The Brussels Post, 1952-2-6, Page 9Microphones make Pipe Organs Better Every broadcasting siudfb has at least one so-called "electronic organ," an instrument that has a keyboard with which the performer controls the oscillations of tone - producing electron tubes. Because of the effects that can be produced, the instrument deserves to stand on its own feet as a new creation. It is no organ at all, Nothing can take the place of the church organ. But the church organ has its lhni- tations. There are not only space - consuming pipes large and small but chests, reservoirs and other ap- paratus, all acoustically bad be- cause they weaken overtones, John Nays llantmoud Jr„ inven- tor of scores of devices in which electronic principles are applied, Itas intensely studied this problem in his laboratory. After deciding that there is no substitute for the classic pipe organ, he enlarges its potenti- alities with the aid of electronics. He picics up the tone in each cham- ber with microphones and conducts it electrically to its proper 'place in a bank of outside loudspeakers in the church or auditorium. Lost har- monic intensities are strengthened so that they regain their original quality. The electronic and the ordinary acoustic swell shutter are co-ordinated, so that the instrument can be played by any organist with- out learning a new technique, In this way Hammond unites tha classic organ with what he calls c'e 1 e c t r o n i c modernities." Solo voices and ehsemblbs are remark- ably improved because there are no acoustic losses. It is now pos- sible to use for solo purposes many stops to achieve unprecedented deli- cacy of intonation. The large pipe organ becomes more flexible, and the smaller instrument is able to fill a very large auditorium. It is 110 longer necessary to build great choirs of diapasons to achieve the powerful ensembles wanted by the church or concert 'organist. Upside -Down -Cake — A new angle on beauty is provided by shapely Alice Paul who uses a mirror to reflect the form which won her the title of "Potato Queen." Self -Draining Lakes • There are some self -dumping lakes in Alaska. One of them, Lake George, has drained every year for thirty years. Kirk II. Stone, Geo- . graphy professor and authority on Alaska, spent part of last summer studying such lakes and found that in eight to ten days the water level of Lake George, which is normally about 120 feet deep, drops so that only three small shallow lakes re- main. Before draining, this lake is four teen miles in length and two to five miles wide. It is surrounded by high cliffs and dammed at one end by a huge glacier, When the lake "dumps" the water rushes out through a narrow gorge in the ice. At the lower end of the lake, the point at which the water runs out, tate level dropped by more than 100 Fret. "The thirty or forty old beach lines," says Stone, "indicate that there Inas been less water in the late in recent years, and touch less than thirty years ago." ' Stene studied the lake on the ground and front the air, taking 500 photographs. Afloat on a rubber life raft, he and his assistant tools soundings; nteastiredthe rate of water levei drop, examined depo- sits from the bottom Sod took samples of the water for analysts. Stone hopes to make the first ac- curate map of the lake. Lalce George is at an elevation of 300 feet above sea -level. Accord- ing to Stone, most of the self• dumping lakes are found at low levels and develop in conjunetlon with what he calls "flat -nosed" glaciers. Diamonds Retain Sky -High Prestige . Back in 1884 jest seventeen years after one of the children of Vrouw Jacobs picked up a pretty white pebble on the banks of the Orange River at Hope Towit and thereby started" the South African diamond industry -460s Karl I Iu- ysntans, the French novelist, predic. ted the end of the diamond as a precious stone. They were, he said, becoming "notoriously common," Sixty-seven year later, diamonds are becoming commoner and com- moner. the demand is rising, and so are the prices, In :195(1 the world sales of De Beers Consolidated 111115s, Ltd., the great South Afri- can combine, amounted. -to nearly £51,000,000—an all-time record, The United States alone imported $103,300,000 in rough and cut gent diamonds. Last year De Beers sales and American imports were running well ahead of last, When the De- cember figures are in, all previous records will be topped. Just as a seasonal note, December—not June—is the big month for engage- ment rings. In the jewelry busi- ness, this is ,known as knocking off two occasios with one stone. How is it that, in a world of in- constant fashion and changing val- ues; the diamond continues to be the most sought-after of precious stones and maintains its value un- impaired? How is it that, after pro- ducing over 250,000,000 carats in the last ninety years, the diamond in- dustry today is still flourishing like the green bay tree? -inquires E. W. Kenworthy in The New York Sun- day Times. Meditating on these questions tine other day, a venerable New York diamond merchant, a man of courtly, Old World manners and literary turn of phrase, with over fifty years' experience in the trade here and abroad, said: "I think you can set it down to this: First, the unstated custom of love. Second, the manifold uses of industry. And finally, the sweetest, neatest, tightest montspoly the world has ever seen, In a nutshell, sentiment and industry demand the supply, and the diamond monopoly supplies the demand—np to a point and at controlled prices." To take up these matters in or- der, the business of love and dia- monds can be dispatched quickly, The connection is a mystery, but it's a fact. "Women," said Barney Barnett), one-time head of the great London firm of Barnato Brothers, "are born every day, and men will always buy diamonds for women," The soundness of this observa- tion is lyrically subscribed to by Miss Lorelei Lee, the philosopher of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" On a more prosaic—and less pro- fane—level, it is confirmed by the United States Census Bureau, which solemnly announced the other day that diamond imports bear a direct relation to marriage statistics. Mar- riage may be a "Devonshire lane" or a "noose"—that is a matter of poetic judgement. What is not open to any male judgement is the determination of the female to go down' one or stick her head in the other possessed of a diamond. But in addition to being the pen- ultimate symbol of victory in the war of the sexes, the diamond is also an essential of industry. Since only diamond cut diamond, it fol lotus that it cuts everything else. In oil well drilling, diamond -edged bits chew their way through as much. as 20,500 feet of earth and rock, Set in steel saws, diamonds bite through granite or marble day and night for three and a half months and still are fresh lot re- setting. A diamond die draws 8,000 miles of copper wire without vari- ation in gauge. Diamonds are, used as bearings for the most' delicate - Navy chronometers. And the finest precision tools are trued on wheels impregnated withdiamond dust. The diamonds used in industry are the "uncuttables"—stones of imper- fect crystal structure which will not let the fire through when pol- ished, and stones of brown, gray, green or sickly yellow color—and bort, which is the nano for . low- - grade "industrials" which are often pulverized and lined principally for grinding. Industrials : are really a by- product of .tliatttond mining. Al- though they make ttptwo-thirds of production by weight, they account for only ort fourth of the value, It is the gem tone --the frozenlove philter—thati carries +t,sp industry, And gents stlpPort the Inds, try be- cause the dantand is-hltvays =kept panting behind the suiiltly , tt H This is sere 1irtt itto to'poly comes in, t u Ninety -fin pet tent of the. world's dian onds dofrte from Afri- ca -the Unfij n ob15,otitft Afriea(in- eluding the fot'ther 'mandate of Southwest Africa), the Belgian Congo, Portuguese Angola, French West and - Eque}glial Africa, the British Cola Coast', Sierra• Leohe and Tanganyt6a ,The other 5 per cent conies front South America -- Brazil, Venezuela, British Guiana. in terms of cfitalibtt; ffi .Iielgiannt Congo is the world s,;,largest pro- ducer. In 1949 9yar•9,d�5p,000 carats were tercel' el' (Para alluvial sands of the Kasai RttYertFt1trilifrtary of the Congo. lllitmlfis4VOtluction was. 95 per cent GtuShing bort and worth only $11,800.0,00...1 ' u. In terms of vahtle,. ;South Africa —after pearly a century—still holds undisputed 'leadership. ' Id"•4949` it produced 1,254,000 carats, but theses were worth—in the rough—almost $38,000,000. Most of the high-quality gems from South .Africa conte out of the famous •old "pipe" mines—Wessel- ton, D'utoitspan, Bulfontein,Jagers- fontein and Premier. The shafts of these mitres are driven down beside the blue clay cores of extinct: vol- canoes. . All of the big South African pipe mines are either owned outright, controlled, or leased by the De Betrothal Rumored -Buckingham Palace today kept mum when asked by reporters whether Princess Margaret would marry the Earl of Dalkeith, 28: The London press was convinced a royal betrothal was in the offing despite official silence. The princess is shown attending a recent ball above with the Earl and his mother, left, the Duchess of l3uccleugh, Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and six affiliated companies. De Beers also. holds the rights to dia- mond production along 300 miles of Atlantic coastline in South-west Africa. The only mines in South Africa of any consequence which are not controlled by De Beers are the state mines on the Namaqua- land coast, owned by the Union of South Africa, and the small alluvial diggings of prospectors on state lands in Namaqualand and along the rivers in the Transvaal and Cape Province. The total non -De Beers production amounts to about 300,- 000 carats a year. TABLE T Jar e Andrews A whole dinner on oiie platter is possible when you make a noodle -carrot ring and fill it with creamed tuna, chicken, or any mild leftover meat or fish. To stake this in a hurry, you just combine about a cup of chicken or fish with 1 can cream of mushroom soup, 2 table- spoons cream,., and 3/q can sliced, stuffed olives. -Heat thoroughly in top of double boiler and fill the ring with it. Carrot -Noodle Ring 4 ounces medium noodles 2 eggs 1 oup milk 2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine 34 teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 cup cooked carrots, riced 1 small onion, chopped Cook, drain, and rinse noodles Beat eggs, stir in milk and butter, and add seasonings. Fold in noodles, carrots, and onion and .mix thoroughly. Pour into well greased 8 -inch ring mold. Set in shallow pan of hot water 15 inch deep and bake at 350 degrees F. about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let stand a few minutes. Loosen edges and invert on hotplate. A casserole of spaghetti noodles, or macaroni is given new interest by the addition of olives, and here is a recipe—it's pretty served in in- dividual casseroles — where the settee is made as the dish bakes, be- cause theft the cheese melts and hlends with other ingredients. Olive Noodle Casserole 8 ounces egg noodles 12,4 cups evaporated milk 3 tablespoons grated onion s',4 teaspoon prepared mustard cup chopped ripe olives Vs teaspoon salt ?„4 pound grated Canadian cheese Cook and drain noodles. Com- bine milk, onion, mustard, olives, ��zrus Nun Slain --Sister Anthony, 52 -year-old American nun, was shot through the heart as she stood on the steps of a convent in Ismalla, Egypt. She was born Bridget Ann Timbers at Groton -on - Hudson. The slaying was blamed on Egyptian terrorists, salt and cheese and mix well. Add to noodles and mix well but lightly. Pour into '4 individual casseroles, decorate with additional olives, and bake at 350 degrees F. for 20 minutes, or yntil lightly browned. * * • A spaghetti dish that includes cottage cheese and sour creast offers a variation: Spaghetti Mornay 1 cup elbow spaghetti 1 cup cottage cheese 1 cup sour cream jq cup minced onion 1 clover garlic, minced ?e teaspoon Tobasco sauce 1 teaspoon salt 35 cup nippy cheese Cook, rinse, and drain spaghetti. Combine with all other• ingredi- euts except the nippy cheese, Pour into greased, 2 -quart casserole and sprinkle with the cheese. Bake at 350 degrees F. about 40 minutes. Ap- unusual soffe-'is 'made with noodles and chipped -beef. When served with mustard sauce, this becomes a dish for a special luncheon or Sunday evening supper. - A fruit salad, French-syle green beans, and hot, buttered crusty bread make it festive, Chipped Beef Souffle 4 ounces noodles 3 tablespoons butter or margarine 3 tablespoons flour 1 cup milk 1 tablespoon chopped parsley 1 cup grated cheese 3 eggs, separated 1 cup chipped beef, rinsed Dash pepper Cools, drain, and rinse noodles, Melt butter, add flour and peppci and mix well. Gradually add milk, stirring until thickened and add parsley and cheese. Heat just enough to melt cheese. Pour slowly over egg yolks. Mix well. Add beet and noodles and min. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, Pour into greas- ed casserole; bake at 325 degrees F. for 60 minutes, Sauce is tn0de by combining 1 egg, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 table- spoon prepared mustard, fy cup vinegar, ;q cup water and pinch of salt in top of double boiler and stirring until thickened MERRY MENAGERIE "He's really quite precocious,,, asked fora sandbox on his second birthday!" Getting Ready For That Painting Job It you happen to be planning or re -decorating your home, here are a few "do's" and "don'ts" that will help give the job a professional look. Do be sure the walls are clean and smooth. Soap and water will banish grease. Sandpaper will smooth down bumps. And if there are cracks in the piaster, -by alt means fill then in and cover the patch job with a printer coat in the finish color before applying the final coat. Also add these two items to your list of painting preparations: Remove all hardware tro windows and walls, so they won't he splattered with paint. Or, cover th"e hardware with petroleum jelly and paint splatters will wipe, right off And don't forget to prepare win- dows for painting. Cover the panes with masking tape or a masking liquid which will peel right off when you're finished. In this way, you'll avoid tate boring job of scrap- ing paint ori the window penes, weeks after the painting's dome. Good brushes are important, too. Buy lrxp ones alit bristles 'till Be sure you have the right size brush for the job. A large brush is i cal for olio). surfaces, while smaller size. :,c well for woo•,i- stork and the like. As for painting t clivi iue, don't dip a brush more titan halfway into the paint can. And don't drag a brush against the side of the can to remove excess pzint. This will spoil the brush. Instead, tan the Frush against the can rim. And don't lie in too much of a hurry. Never paint on any surface which isn't dry_ Pain tine the kitchen chairs? Have cracks and wobbling repaired'• before you attack the finish. Loose parts can' be pinned in place with screws. 11 trouble is in brave of chair leg, have husband drill a hole tot -screw shank and use a countersink bit to set the screwhead below the surface. Cover screwhead with wood putty. If joints of chair have just undergone a re -gluing, renumber they shoalO set for about six Ituurs before screws of any type are inserted. Don't be surprised to tind a Gas -Turbine Car The Rover Company of Binning - ham, England, first to produce a EMS turbine automobile, has built an improved model which reduces fuel consumption to about what it would be in a,piston engine of com- parable power. The car runs equal- ly well on gasoline, kerosene and heavy oil. Fuel consumption is reduced by utilizing exhaust gases to heat the air and fuel fed to the engine. loose -fitting rung when you attempt to reset an old joint. Wood shrink- age accounts for this in many in- stances and glue alone can't be ex- pected to ]told joint solidly. To remedy, coat rung with glue, wind on a layer of silk thread, then apply more glue. Tap rung into place, if this still doesn't supply a tight enough fit, apply another layer of silk thread and glue. Application of enamel itself re- quires more patience and care than skill for a durable, washable finish. Before you tackle any finish, , look for splits, ail holes or open joints and use noneshrinking wood putty to butter ]toles slightly more than full. After filler has dried, sand smooth, Unless you repair all such cracks, you'll rind finish will emphasize rather than conceal these imperfections. Surfaces are sanded with No. 0 sandpaper and sharp corners are rounded slightly so not to chip. Sanding, of course, is done with wood's grain; cross -grain sanding scratches. Turpentine -soaked cloth will remove all dust particles. Enamel undercoat is high in hid- ing power so brushrout thoroughly. avoid a heavy, gummy coat. Don't overload brush and brush out runs and sags before they harden. Start painting at the top, with the exception of chairs which are . turned upside •down and painted rungs and legs first. Undercoat should be thoroughly dried, then sanded, very lightly with 000 sand- paper, but care should be taken as it's easy to cut through soft under- coat, Apply enamel in small squares and smooth with light cross brush- ing, working rapidly all the time, but don't overbrush. Brush marks will .show if enamel starts to set before you're finished brushing. Dip only half of brush and apply with light touch using only tip of bristles. Don't Be Reckless With New Drugs At the first sign of )what may bele cold, influenza, grippe or boil on the neck the average citizen is llicely to buy, some antibiotic at the corner drug store and swallow it in hap" hazard doses. Sometimes unexpect- ed complications follow this reek. less practice and cause no end of trouble. This is especially true of aureotnycin, t e r r a m y c e 1 n and cblorontycetin. Dr. Sylvan D. Man- heim discusses these three in the New York State Journal of lcfedi- eine. According to him, self -doctor. ing with the three has brought about "anorectal.. complications which in scree instances were severe enough to require surgical intervcn' tion." His findings confirm those published last year by other physicians. Dr. Mauheim reports that the rectal and anal troubles which in his experience follow the swallowing of aureomycin, terrantyein or chloro- ntycetin constitute a distinct disease entity. There are pains, itching, burning sensations, bleeding, Dr. :tf anheiui's cases included children 6 'years old and Hien over 70. Males were more frequent suffers than females in the hundred: Lases that he has collected and analyzed. In four cases operations had to be performed, Out of the 100 cases, sixty-nine had been treats ed with aureomycin, twenty-one with terramycin, four with chloro- urycetin, four with a combination of aureomycin and .terrantyein; one with aureomycin and chloromycetin and one with terramycin and chloro- urycetin. Of the 100 cases fifty.nine had no history of anorectal troubles before the antibiotics were taken, Why the three antibiotics in ques- tion should do the harm described. is not clear. It may be that the norma, microscopic organisms (flora.) of ' the intestines are ]tilled. Accepting this as a working hypothesis, Dr. - Manheim concluded that if any in. fections resist the antibiotics they were sure to find fertile ground in the anorectal region. Accordingly.. he told his patients to drinlc fer- mented milk and buttermilk—Met- chnikoff's method of correcting bacterial departures from the norm al in the intestinal tract. Real cures. _. were effected. The usual ointments and powders were not so satis- factory. Elephants, Ostriches, Stags, Matched In Mortal Combat Still another big Festival is in the slaking, or Rome now plats to highlight 1900 years of the Colos- seum, dating from the architect's plan. Not that the l,irth,fay si'tow fs likely to equal the inaugural spec- tacle of A.D. $u which lasted 1110 liars and cost the lives of 5,000 wild beasts in front of a constant audience of 100,05)0. 1 et even now t h e crumbling Colosseum has something to celebrate. It's half as large again as the Dome of Dis- covery ut London and twice as high! lo, -lee thousand slaves lashed into forced labor, worked for over twelve years on the building tasks. When the work was completed, in- stead of a bonus, some of them were flung to the lions. • When the spectacle threatened to become monotonous, the arena was flooded to. introduce novelty. Elephants. stags, even •giraffes •and ostriches were matched in combat. Yet time brought revenge, After 500 piers the holes which: disfigure the arcades to this day were.mader. by a minor Hitler in attempting to extract the valuable ltronze bf, , the att•sin.,, supports, "rhe gold leaf Giraffes and silver were chipped away and in A.D. 1000 the Colosseum was being used as a fortress by bandits. People had even forgotten its original name, the Amphitheatre Flavian- An Englishman, the Ven- erable Bede. impressed by its colos- sal size first christened it the Colos- seum. The Colosseum became a hospital, a silversmith factory, and then a quarry. Guardians of Roman Treasure? Thotsatds of workmen carted away its stones to Help build the palaces of Rome and Venice. St. Peter's in Rome incorporated some of the material. In all, two-thirds of the once mighty structure was carted away. ('hat's why some views of the Colosseum .present less than half a building. At one time 400 varieties of wild flowers thrived amid the stone benches, while the grassy arena be- came a weaving still. Later, a tribe of wild cats infested the.;•f•uins anti kept cisitors,jad'ay, Them ru- mor: spread that` the eats siVsre gitardiaps of a unman freasuregand eager fortune-hunters hegkit to t'gll ,up the very fountfaaion4.: Fire, :earthquakes' and hurricanes'increas- ed the 'havoc. Ice -Melting `Derby': LA Gets Cold Cold 'Start , It was a cold (42=¢efrees);'rainy day in Los Angeles, but that city plunged bravely info the ice -melting confest'set up ;by the Chal- lenge of Cgrlsbad, N.M., citizens. St. Petersburg, .Flat, ("the Sun- shine City") and at least six other places also started entries in the race to see which could trek a one -ton block cif tqee iil,tfte shortest, natural time. At' eft, Hallyfrr`ood beauty CorInne`,,iCpalvet and weatherman A. K. Showalter officially"start" Loi, Angeles entry, to melting. Below, Dorothy and ,lean MacAlpine' louhge beside ,St..Petersbwra'S frigid entry.