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The Clinton News Record, 1942-03-19, Page 6PAGE ti THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD '' THURS., MAR. 19, 1942 They Have Proved They Can Ho The Job Farmers' daughters, and London de- butantes., 'housewives and shopkeep- ers now work side by side as tele - ,phone engineersfor Britain's Gener nal , Post Office, which runs Britairi''s !telephone systemi, Work far skilled engineers • is in- creasing --telephone lines' must be Maid to gun posts, search -light poets, observer posts and ambulance centers -and manpower to fill these vital jobs is decreasing. So Birtain's wo- men have taken over. Originally the G.P.O. planned mer- ely to have women engineers to re- "' place =Skilled, workmen in jobs re- quiring simple technical knowledge and an ability to learn quickly. But the resnzlts• were so satielfactory that many women are to receive further training to undertake the full duties • of skilled workmen. Twelve types of telephone engin- eering jobs are now open to women. They include the fitting of new in- strumente, work in exchanges re- pairing frayed cords, meter reading and work at repair depot dismant- ling and , cleaning apparaturs, tele- printers and stamp -selling machines. intensive Training Training is short and practical, For the first few days recruits are shown the actual work by skilled of ficems. This is followed by three to five weeks intensive training and, an additional test period. working with a skilled colleague. After ,thin a wo- ,man can work alone as a Grade Two, er unskilled engineer. Further train- ing is necessary for a Grade One, er skilled job. A women engineer's day is from 8 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., but for •some . of them it is Ionger than that. A young London housewife, Lilian Wood, Inas combined the duties' of home and family with her work. She has to don her blue serge overalls at 6:30 a.m. and take her five-year-old daughter to a neighbor's for the day, before she reports at the exchange. Her main difficulty is the problem of shopping. She can eat her Lunch' at the exchange mess room, but the food she needs at hone has to be bought in a couple of rushed hours on Saturday afternoon. Former hobbies are being put: to good use. A. fine neddle woman in an exclusive Bond Street lingerie shop like& "playing with nuts and bolts in her spare tine: Now she's doing it as a war job. . Today 2,350 ' British women , are working- as G.P.O. engineers and there will be 5,000 by January, 1948, be- cause they have proved they can do the job. Britain's 6,000 women doctors now replace men in hospital posts, other public health services and in private practice. Many have joined the med- ical branch of the Royal' Air Force and the Royal Army Service Oor»;s.- Working with them are eight wo- men who were among those answer- ing Britain's appeal in the :summer of 1941 for the assistance of American doetprs. The women are now work- ing in British hospitals under the auspices of the Ministery of Health. One of their number is Dr. Sarah Bowditch, a graduate of Johns Hop- Jcins Medical S,e'hool of Baltimore, • Maryland'. She reached E'ngiend in October and new, tends thirty to sixty civilian eases .in a London hospital. Britain's Royal Army Medical Corps now includes 115 women doc- dura enlisted through the Central Med- ical War Committee. They are ap- pointed as lieutenernts with the same rate of pay as nnen. This starts at $3.95 a day, with variable allowances and they are eligable for promotion to captain after a year's service. Twelve of thein are already majors. Examine Recruits A• general medical officer's duties include sick parades' and treatments, inspection of barracks and cook sh+ouses, supervision of physical training, control of infectious dis- eases and preparation of sick reports to commands, Part of their work is examining the weekly average of 250 new re- cruits for the'Women's, Auxiliary Territorial Service, who may arrive at any hour of the day or night. In addition to the examination, each recruits must be inoculated twice, and vaccinated. This: frequently keeps medical ,offieers attached to A.T.S. training camps on: duty for twenty- four hours a duty. Forty-four women medical officere. serve with the R.A.F. Volunteer Re- serve, looking after R.A.F. and Wo- men's, Auxiliary Air Force person- nel. Gammier,ionedl under the. wo- men's defense forces, they ant with the relative ranks' of•flying officer, flight lieutenant and sgtiadaoivleader. There are already six acting ron leaders. 1 r $ At the headquarters for each coin- inancl--Boinber, Fighter an&. Cpastaf -one woman iiedicaL ,officer con- trols the 'medical 'interest of the WA,AF'S. She must visit all WAAF units in the command; carrying out Hygiene and sanitary- inspection, and lecturing on general and personal hygioone. She , is also available for Pack on Back Prevents Hollow in Your Backbone "The only way to learn to walk. miles without getting very tired is to begin right now—today-to walk at least two miles every day. At the end of the month, resolve to walk three miles a day," a famous beautician says. "All walking should be done on flat heels, with weight on the outside of the feet and toes pointed forward. Take big steps. And do not let the upper .half of the body settle down into hip sockets. Keep chest high, stomach in, with lower ribs pulled up and away from hips." You can push a heavier load with- out danger of straining yourself if you will keep knees slightly bent, base of spine tucked under and cen- ter of the back pushed out—back— as far as possible. When knees are straight and there is a deep hollow in the middle of the backbone, you cannot push as heavy a load. And, even the lighter load that you can push may cause you to strain your back or rupture the abdominal wall. If you want to learn to carry a pack on your back, get out the snap- shots you took last year of .your fishing guide, and study his posture. Notice that when he had a pack on his back there was absolutely no hollow in his backbone. He seemed to lean slightly forward and the cen- ter of his back was pushed out and back until it touched the pack. He never seemed to get tired. And if you straighten out your own spinal column instead of going around with a hollow in the middle of it, you won't, either—whether you have to carry a pack or lift weights or do any of the other hard jobs that are part of the various civilian defense drills, Induc(k)ed to Confess, Prisoner Tells Police A little yellow baby duck that knows the difference' between right and wrong put its master, Lester Malone, Los Angeles, behind bars and on the road to regeneration. Malone walked up to Patrolman Lester Hamilton and confessed that he had stolen en automobile and that he was intoxicated. The sec- ond part of the confession was un- necessary. But the duck, peeping out from under Malone's arm, quacked cor- roboration. "I want to give myself up," Ma- lone told the officer. "This ]]'I duck has shown Inc the error of my ways. I want to make good for its sake." Hamilton was impressed. Ile took Malone to the city jail and booked him for drunkenness with a for the inspectors' bureau so they could check on the stolen car, 1n the morning he appeared be- fore Police Judge Joseph A. Kenne- dy on the drunk charge. True to his pledge to the duck, he pleaded guilty. "And now, what about the stolen car?" the judge asked. "Well, the duck's crazy on that," Malone declared. "I can't imagine how he made me say that. I never stole a car." The duck went to a box, in the desk sergeant's office, but its troubles had only started. It set up an awful fuss. After all, it seemed to be demand- ing, "I helped you guys out by bring- ing this man around, so why should I have to stay in jail?" Hosiery Mending A hosiery mender uses a needle with a latch over the hook which slips into the runner, picks up a loop and knits it back into the stock- ing. Single -thread runs can be re- paired so efficiently an expert couldn't tell the difference. To repair a snag costs 5 cents and runners 10 cents, with average hosiery repairs running from 15 to 25 cents. And here's some advice for saving on stockings: 1 --Rinse your silk or nylon hose daily. Squeeze out, don't rub. 2—Don't hang out to dry. ' Stock- ings hung in the wind get tangled with one another and this breaks threads. 3—Fold stockings and wrap in tis- sue paper before storing away. 4 -Wetting a finger and slapping it on a run gives only temporary relief, and besides, on certain shades of silk the wet spot looms up like a mosquito bite. Powder 'Outs' Magnesium Fires A powder has been developed to extinguish burning magnesium met- al and alloys, incendiary bombs, so- dium,potassium, aluminum, zinc and iron, The usual.extingeishing agents have noextinguishing effect on burning magnesium alloys. Some other materials, such as sand and powdered talc' have been used for handling magnesium fires, but none has been found completely satisfac- tory and effective. The new powder effectively smoth- ers burning magnesium and other metals because it is chemically.inert to metals. It consists of a non- inflammable, nonabrasive powder withwhich isincorporated a small percentage of material which forms a heavy vapor when heated and ex- eludes air. Wash Garden Gloves Weekly washing of canvas garden gloves will .keep them . in good con- dition. Turn them wrong side out, soak an hour or longer in cold water to cover' and then: wash with the rest of the laundry. Three pairs of gloves will last the average home he News in General Substitutes for Gas Can st Be Supplied by Science Among the substitutes that Amer- ican motorists might use in the event of a 'drastic gasoline shortage are liquefied coal, charcoal and wood; alcohol made from molasses and other farm products; ethane, butane and propane gases obtained from natural gas; methane gas from sewage and coal mines—and even water itself. A good many people have had the idea of burning water—extracting the hydrogen by separating the H2 from the 0. It has been tried in this country, South America, Eu- rope and perhaps elsewhere in an ex- perimental way, but it is too ex- pensive to be used in anything ex- cept a few experimental cars. By bacterial processes some Eng- lish cities are extracting methane gas from sewage and using it to gen- erate electric power and as motor fuel. The methane gas is compressed into steel chambers under pressure of 3,000 pounds to the square inch. With some changes in the automo- bile's cylinders and fittings, two 115 - pound tubes filled with methane pro- vide a cruising range of about 85 miles. On the basis of a . gallon of gaso- line, methane produced in Germany costs about 51 cents. Motor vehicles can be converted into gas consuming types for $150 to $300, including installation of racks to hold the cylinder tanks, reg- ulation of valves to control gas flow, and replacement of the regular car- buretor by a special gas -air mixer. Egg Co. Could Repair t* Old `Humpty Dumpty' The trouble with Humpty Dumpty is that he was born too soon. If he had met with his widely publicized accident within, say,the past 10 years, he'd never have turned to such inexperienced people as the king's horses and the king's men to put him together again. He'd have flashed word to a Springfield, Mo., company, and they'd have fixed him up without batting an eye. For. 10 years this cornpany has been breaking eggs, separating them into powdered whites and yolks and then putting them together again—with- out the shells. They've spent more than a million dollars in research, since the indus- try in this country is only about 10 years old, although the Chinese. have been powdering eggs for .un- told centuries. The plant in Spring- field, as well as another in Fort Worth, Texas, have stepped, up their pace recently, working on orders for the government. The department of agriculture is shipping 26,100,000 dozen eggs in powdered form to Britain under terms of the Lend -Lease act, and the army is demanding some, too. After the war, when the product becomes available for home use, this industry will probably be one of the fastest-growing in the coun- try. Unique World Clock The exact time in Tokyo, Moscow, Iceland, Berlin, London, Tahiti and any point on the face of the globe, is told at a glance by the pictorial world clock that was put into opera- tion on the first floor of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Mu seum of Natural History in Boston, it was announced by Prof. William H. Barton Jr., executive curator of the planetarium. This unique clock was presented to the Hayden planetarium by the International Business Machines corporation. Its face is a large 3 - foot by 5 -foot colored and illuminat- ed map of the world. Black ver- tical lines on the map indicate the 24 zones of standard time around the globe. Above the map is a tape indicating the hour of the day or night for each time. zone, The tape moves automatically to the left at the rate of one time zone per hour. A circle at the top electrically' flashes onthe minutes. Mass Production Old Mass production, an American idea, was worked out during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) by 36 -year-old Eli Whitney in manufacture of army muskets, with funds granted by the congress, Jefferson, the young mechanist's pa- tron, with faith in machinery, psi, vote enterprise, and American in- genuity, wrote to James Monroe: "He (Whitney) has invented molds and machines for making all the pieces of his locks (for muskets) so exactly equal that, take 100 locks to pieces and mingle their parts and the 100 locks may be put together by taking the pieces which come to hand." Whitney is better known for the invention of the cotton gin. Ink Dries Instantly Forfast, non -smudge printing, various means have been devised to make ink dry almost instantly when it hits the paper—absorption, evaporation, oxidation, polymeriza- tion:(molecular clustering). In the "flash -dry" process the newly printed paper passes between jets of flame and the liquid part of the ink ignites with a flash, leaving 'a dry residue, Technology Review (M.I.T.) describes a new "frozen" ink for porous papers, like news- print. The ink is solid at room tem- perature. It is fed like lumps of coal into the press, which heats it to fluidity, at 200 degrees F. On reach- ing the paper it rapidly cools and 1:aralsae n Phila. Lawyer Wanted; 4 Girl, 18, Runs Saloon Apparently it is legal for an 18 - year -old girl to operate a saloon in Illinois. Whether such a thing will be permitted by the Illinois liquor control commission or the city in the future awaits the outcome of sev- eral investigations now under way. The 18 -year-old girl' with a saloon license is Jennie Sawadski. William M. Devine, secretary of the Illinois liquor control commission, declared that he had obtained 'no legal opin- ion from Attorney General Barrett on the matter of an 18 -year-old girl's' obtaining, a saloon license, but that "curbstone" opinion had it that this was perfectly legal. Under the state law a girl of 18 "shall be considered, of legal age for all purposes." "The police," Mr. Devine said, "consider girls under 21 minors and we encourage this. But legally a girl over 18 is an adult." The city in issuing licenses follows the state law, according to Deputy City Collector George F. Lohmann. That's why the city license for the Sawadski saloon was issued. Looking further into the legal as- pect of the case, it was learned that the city ordinance forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquor to minors, specifies a minor in this instance as a person 16 years of age. A state law, however, forbids the sale or giving away of liquor to boys under 21 and girls under. 18. Yes, legally, a girl can start drink- ing three years earlier than a boy. Lotta Crabtree Left Three Million Dollars Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, daugh- ter of John Ashworth Crabtree, a bookseller, was born in New York, November 7, 1847. At the time of the gold rush in California the Crab - trees came to the Pacific coast. Lot- ta made her first appearance on the stage iii 'Petaluma, Calif., where, at the age of six, she played the part of Gertrude in "The Loan of a Lover." Her mother was an ac- tress who played in the mining camps of California, and so Lotta, who accompanied her mother, be- came a favored young actress with the early California miners. In 1864 she decided to try her luck in New York, and in that year appeared at old Niblo's Gardens, but she made an unfavorable impression and it was not until three years later when she played the part of Little Nell in Brougham's "Little Nell and the Marchioness" that she received any marked degree of success. Other favorite parts were "The Little De- tective," "Zip," "Musette," and "The Firefly." Critics found little to approve in the pieces in which she appeared and claimed that her suc- cess was entirely due to her per- sonal charm. In London she met with such a cold reception on her first and much heralded visit, that she never returned to the continent. She made a fortune on the stage and then added to her wealth by shrewd real estate investments, and by a string of race horses, which she en- tered ntered successfully at harness meets. She retired in 1891 and made her home in California and New York. Protection Against Grease When a dirty or greasy job is to be done, time will be saved by first coating the hands with something that will keep the dirt from working into the pores of the skin. One good material for this can be made by dissolving two ounces of gum arabic in one pint of water, to be mixed with one pound of soap chips, dis- solved in one pint of water. The liquid is heated in a double boiler, and one ounce of lanolin is then added. The result is a soft paste, to be rubbed well into the skin, and es- pecially Under and around the finger nails. On finishing the job, the hands can be washed with clear water, or with soap and water. It is worth while to make up a . quantity . of the compound, to be stored in tin cans or glass jars until needed. ' Sugar Determines Action Just why man behaves as a hu- man being is an intriguing 'chem- ical, problem, says Dr. Edward Po- dolsky of Brooklyn, New 'York, "and it is now known that there is an intimate tie-up between the way you not and the amount of sugar in your blood. Dr. Podolsky says the criminal has little sugar in his blood and that is one reason why he is a criminal. The clearest -cut cases of what ,people act like when their : blood sugar gets too low are found among people with diabetes. Diabetics take injections of insulin which uses up the excess sugar in their blood. It is an excess of sugar that causes diabetes in the first place, Montana Sapphires The war may yet make Montana the sapphire center of the Western hemisphere. Shipments of the precious gems from the Old world have been steadily decreasing because of the Atlantic blockade, but defense .ac- tivities have brought about an ever- increasing demand. Reason is that the sapphireis,. not only a ,pretty stone to adorn a,, girl's ring or a Tanis stickpin. It, is also a necessity for use as bear- ings in the, manufacture o) scientific instruments. , " The sapphire is second, only to the diamond in hardnessand is; much cheaner Full -Grown Ocean Fisn a Live but Twelve Months In the great world of ocean life, we find animals of almost` every size. They range from whales down to tiny forms of life which can be seen only with the help of a micro- scope. Among the fish, we have extra large sharks which grow to a length of 50 or 60 feet. We also have small fish known as the gobies (pro- nounced go -biz). Most gobies are from two to six inches in length, but certain kinds are shorter than two inches, and oth- ers are more than two feet long. One kind—when full - grown -measures only a half inch from its nose to the tip of its tail. This little goby is found about the shores of the Phil- ippine islands. Although they are called "white," these gobies are not really white. They are almost like window glass; you can see through them. The white goby has perhaps the shortest life of any animal with a backbone. It grows to old age with- in a year after being hatched. Where scientists have been able to study its life history they have found it dies in 12 months or less. The California coast has the -blind goby. This small, pink fish has •a smooth skin. When young, it has eyes which work very well, but these lose their sight as time, goes on. The young one fastens itself to the dark underside of a rock, or slowly moves about dark openings between rocks. I1 has little use for eyesight, and by the time it grows up it is quite blind. Birds Most Skillful of Animals in Nest Building Because their young—at first only eggs—are so utterly helpless, birds have developed a skill in home building that few animals can equal. Except for the excellent bird -like structures built by field mice, kan- garoo rats and gophers, the most pretentious mammalian nest is probably that of the beaver. This symbol of industry not only builds an elaborate home, but equips it with a swimming pool. Yet the home building instinct of the beaver, highly developed as it is, has only incidental, not essential survival value for the species. Some beavers are content with holes dug in a stream bank, and do very well there. The same goes for the beaver's little cousin, the muskrat, which also can teach most birds something about nest building. Some birds build no nests at all, but there is usually a valid reason for such an aberration. The California condor broods in inaccessible places, and finds a nest unnecessary, Many sea birds have no enemies, or they nest together in such vast numbers that no nest building ma- terial is available. Some shore birds brood on bare shore, where a nest structure would be dangerously conspicuous. Other birds dig secure cavities in trees and in the earth and by the time the nest is dug they are apparently too tired to finish it up with a fuzzy lining. Perfumes Best on Skin In the Broadcast, a bulletin pub- lished by the Drycleaning Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State col- lege, the editors make a plea for an educational campaign to be started among American women regarding the proper application of perfume. It seems that perfumes give best results when applied- to the skin rather than to fabrics. When ap- plied to a garment, the fragrance may change to an unpleasant odor and may even resist the dry-clean- ing process. Perfumes are likely to contain substances which stain textile fabrics. The alcohol content may cause dyes to circle and bleed and certain of the essential bases used can actually damage cellulose acetate rayon, It behooves women, therefore, to apply perfume to the skin rather than to their clothing, not only be- cause the effect is "daintier," but to economize on their cleaning budget, and co-operate with the dry cleaner in the performance of his trade, R 'The Navy Conies First' The gray-haired man in civilian clothes told the store clerk he want- ed to buy some trousers. The clerk showed him a pair of trousers that seemed to please, and the customer went intoan alcove to try them on. Then, in came two navy petty of- ficers. The clerk told, the man in the alcove that the house tailor was busy with the, petty officers, would' the customer mind waiting? "The navy conies first," he ex- plained. You know, national de- fense." Smilingly, the customer said he'd watt. Scene time later the clerk re- turned and the trousers were fitted. "Will you charge it?" the cus- tomer asked. • "The name is Kim- mel." _ "Admiral Hiiisband E." fifmmell, the clerk exclaimed. • "That's right," said the com- mander in chief of the United States fleet, smiling again. ' • Butadiene, Combustible Gas Since ' butadiene, - -a cotnbustihle gas, .s,, is ,used in, one process for man-' ufaeturing.synthetic rubber, the Liu- reau'of'mines has published results of tests -,to show industry' the need Important Items for a Maintaining Good Lawn Mowing, watering and weeding are the three most important items in maintaining a good lawn carpet. One mistake so frequently made is the too early mowing of lawns in spring before the grass has become properly established for the year ; another is the too close cutting of grass during ` the hot summer mouths. Actually such procedure increases the problems incident to the estab- lishment of a good lawn. Experts who have had years of experience in dealing with all lawn problems rec- ommend that the height of cut, measured by the distance from the bed knife to the ground, should nev- er be less than 11/2 to 2 inches. Such cutting results in a stronger, deeper rooted turf which is more able to withstand weed competition and the ill effect of heat and drouth as the largergrass blades protect both roots and stems from the burn- ing rays of the sun and conserves soil moisture by reducing surface evaporation. It is easy to replace moisture to that depth, but if the soil is dry much deeper, watering must be more thorough. Soil type and ex- posure naturally vary in different gardens and in different localities so it is not possible to make a hard and fast rule, except that when- ever water is needed it should be supplied with one of the better types of rotating or oscillating sprinklers that supply the water in the form of a fine mist so that it is absorbed as it falls. Never Studied `Double' ' Keyboard, Said Pianist When the celebrated pianist Jos- Lhevinne was making a concert tour of Russia, he was once invited to a lavish party given by the grand duke. Now it was the custom in that part of the country for a new guest to drink the health of everyone else present. This occasion was no exception. Promptly after dinner, a champagne bottle was placed before the musi- cian, and he commenced. with the toasting. This would have been a difficult enough task for a confirmed alcoholic. Lhevinne, who was not a drinking man, found his head whirling after the second drink. By the time he had finished the bottle he could no longer feel his feet touching the ground, and his body seemed to be moving without the slightest mo- tivation. Suddenly from far away he heard the duke asking him to play. With a grand flourish he seated himself at the piano—but the darned thing wouldn't stay still! After striking a few loud chords which had a strangely unfamiliar ring, the pian- ist stared dazedly at the instrument and cocked one eye at the keyboard. Then getting up, he bowed sweeping- ly to the grand duke, and said with drunken solemnity: "Your highness must forgive me, but I never studied on a double key- board," New Wool Labels The words "wool," "new wool," and "Virgin wool" on garments all mean the same. They refer to wool which has been sheared off the sheep, cleaned and spun, and made into the product which you buy. This kind of wool which has never be- fore been woven or felted will have more resiliency and strength than either reprocessed or reused wool of the same original grade. If moth- er plans to wear her new winter coat. for severalyears, it will pay her to bear this fact in mind. Reprocessed wool has been woven once, then unwoven, then rewoven again without ever having been worn or used. To all intents and purposes, it is new wool and, though it may have lost some of its original resiliency and strength through the duplication of processing, it may still be more serviceable than a poor -quality new wool. Unemployment From 1921 to 1931, as employment throughout the U. S. decreased, the number of mental patients ,admitted to mental hospitals showed a "strik- ing"increase. From 77 admissions per 100,000 population in 1921, the rate increased to an al] -time high of 86 in 1931. "A drop to 85 occurs in 1932 and the same rate is held in 1933. . The more substantial in- creases in admission rates had oc- curred between 1923 and 1929 when more than 100,000 workers were laid off. In the period following 1929 nearly twice as many additional workers were laid off, yet only a slight increasein new cases of men- tal disorder is observed." Reason: Widespread relief began after 1931, and relief staved off insanity. Hooking hugs Hooking, drawing -in, pulling -in, looping—you have your choice of at. least four terms to describe the 'spe- cial needlework technique' used in making hooked rugs. Yes, hooking is definitely a type of needlework, designed to cover a basic fabric completely with pulled loops. And the slenderimplement with which you draw the pieces of cloth or strands of Wool through the back- ground is simply a rather elaborate form' of the early embroidery needle, a direct descendant of the tambour' needle of Jacobean England .and of the crochet, or "shepherd's hook," used by 'the colonial women of America for ' making decorative needlework. Steps Necessary Before I Shark Oil IS Produced::'. The hammerhead shark looks like, just what its name says.. It looks:, like you could just pick it up and use the elongated sides of its head to drive a nail in the side of your boat. The porbeagle shark grayish black and usually about six feet: long, and the sleeper shark which will sun about 18 feet are usually found in colder northern waters. This type feeds on the .carcass ,of whales and has been known to at- tack the large mammals. The spinous shark got its name from the spiny scales scattered over its body, is common along the At- lantic coast and will grow to a length of seven or eight feet. What happens to these monsters.; between the time they are caught. and the time they wind up hi your medicine chest? First they stick a fish -head on a big hook and toss it in the drink. Bang. A shark hits the baitand they haul him alongside. They are lifted aboard by a winch and the • fishing continues. When the sharks stop running, or when there is no more room on the • boat, the sharks are taken ashore• where their fins are cut off and placed on wire driers. Next the liver is removed. These • are placed in buckets for removal into the laboratory. Then comes the hide. This is removed and then scraped and salted down until it is ready for shipment to tanneries. High Toll Among `Bike' Riders; Fix Special Law - Fifty per cent of the persons killed in bicycle accidents are children be- tween the ages of 5 and 14, Paul W. Kearney, noted safety expert, points.. out in an issue of the Rotarian magazine. Over 1,000 youngsters have been killed and over 51,000 in- jured in such accidents in the last three years, he reports. The fault is not entirely that of the bicycle rider. The fault is large- ly lack of stress on what Mr. Kear- ney calls "the 'three E's'—enforce- ment, education and engineering." Few cities and towns—only about 150—have studied the "bike prob- lem" at all, and these have been rewarded by an immediate drop in accidents. The third "E," engineering, is of necessity slow and expensive, but enforcement and education can be readily put into practice. Requir- ing registration of bicycles is a help- ful practice, but only if it is used.,. to enforce the laws pertaining to bi- cycles and used to report infrac- tions of the law and common sense. Many towns that require tail lights or reflectors for "bikes" ignore the ordinance and permit bicycle rid- ers iders to pedal after dark with no. sort of light to protect themselves -- or to protect the motorist who cannot easily see a dark object against a dark field. 4 Paper House If you have a lot of old newspaper down cellar, you might get an idea from the Paper House, in Rockport, Mass. During the World war, a Swedish family, the Stenmans, be- gan saving paper. In 1922, they de- cided to prepare the paper to make a house, The newspapers were - pasted, folded, and laid fn layers. The finished wall contains 215 thick- nesses of paper. The furniture is built of rolls of paper, like slim logs, and painted with a liquid that looks like varnish but isn't. The papers can be un- rolled and read anytime, Mr. Sten - map says. Rolled up, only the head- lines are visible. Lying on the cot, for instance, you could read the history of the • World war in headlines. The piano has the story of Byrd's expeditions; Lindbergh's flight covers the writ- ing desk; the radio cabinet de- scribes Hoover's election. Newspa- pers from the capital city of each state decorate the tall grandfather's. clock in one corner. In another cor- ner is the huge fireplace, covered. with brown rotogravure sections. Smell Doesn't Change Jack Waugh's co-operative in Poag, 111., grows from 600,000 to 1,000,000 cantaloupes a season—but. to him they still smell like canta- loupes. "You'd think I'd get used to that smell after all these years but I still hate it," Waugh says. "And as for the cantaloupes on a table I never eat them. I can't stand them. The rest of my family eats them and I ship cantaloupes over a radius of 800 miles but I just can't relish them." Waugh's season is short -four to. six weeks—and ,provides employ- ment for 200 persons. This year is. average, meaning about 500,000 melons compared with 1,000,000 for a peak year such as 1933. Waugh is a member of the third generation of cantaloupe growers who have• lived in the Sand Prairie section of Madison county for 75 years. Elephants Do Heavy Work At Rangoon, in Burma, as each log comes floating down the river from the teak forests it is guided ashore by an elephant. On his back sits a mahout, •or driver. With the end, of his trunk the elephant pushes' the timber to the' land. Then he grasps it in the exact middle, resta,. it on his tusks and carries it to the • sawmill. At the mill he feeds e ds his log into the "sawe dodging dangers - OUR - merhineq ••