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Zurich Herald, 1930-07-31, Page 3Woean,'s Victories Challenge to Men The male population of the world roust have gasped when the news was fasted from laisley Camp, England, that a woman had won 'the Iciag'$ Prize, ' Their first thought would be: What happened to the mon? Nothing, except that tlieY found they were not quite good enough. And the finest of the marksmen were there, doing the best they could, One hundred • crack shots from all parts of the Em- pire, among them six former winners. of the trophy, tools their places at the historic ranges. Enough to break the nerve of any man, but not the cool, keen -eyed, steady -handed woman who battled her way through to vic- tory. lIats off to Miss Marjorie Foster! There appears to be no limit to the' achievements of woman in the fields of activity hitherto regarded as the. exclusive domain of man. Iu busi- ness, in the professions and in the arts she is f rnily established, and in the realm of lighter sports she is challenging the supremacy of male contenders. Some weeks ago an English girl, absolutely alone, piloted an aeroplane through the• vast space that separates the British Isles and Australia, thus establishing herself as a worthy classmate of the wonderful Lindbergh. Later another young English woman showed the way to the most famous aviators of the day -in a flight of several hours' duration. And now another daughter of the little Island, in competition with the great marksmen of the Empire, cap- •:tures the King's Prize, the most cov- eted trophy .hat can be won at the ranges. It all is very amazing, and gives notice to mere man that he can no longer regard himself as the lord of creation. A. few humiliations of this fins] may do him good. W orkl's X-argest . liter d{A?W k»ii Yc, F!YBxsDszrs .e.0>.89SB: <ls44.** *440 ...... •vlteale.:.4i. aaamaaastaaaaaa New 27,000 -ton White Star motorship, Britannic, world's largest • New Process Will Double Gas Output Standard Oil and German Company Organize to Control Rights New York—Oil companies represent- ing about SO per cent, of the refining capacity in the United States have become associated in a new organiza- tion, the Hydro -Patents Company, to control and develop 'a process believ- ed to be capable of doubling the amount of gasoline now yielded from fuel oil, according to a recent state- ment made by the Standard Oil Com- pany of New Jersey. The new process, which is known as hydrogenation, consists of the ad- dition of gaseous hydrogen at high pressures and temperatures, in the presence of chemical agents known as catalysts, to crude oil or heavy fuel oil, building it chemically into thinner oil or gasoline. The operat- ing conditions may be varied, it was said, to obtain the particular product desired. The process has been developed dur- ing the past three years, the an- nouncement said, by the Standard Oil Company's research engineers in col- laboration with the I. G. Farbenin- dustrie Aktiengesellschaft of Germany and is owned by the two organiza- tions. The importance of the process in the oil industry was indicated by ex- perimental data already obtained by the Standard 011 Company's research engineers on the multiplication of the •Yield from Venezuelan crude oil, it was said. As Venezuela is one of the largest producers of crude oil in the world, the increase of gasoline from this source alone will make the control of the new process oue of the most important factors in meeting the overproduction of crude oil and price cutting of the last few years. As an example of the value of the new method; Standard 011 Company's research engineers explained that at present half a barrel of heavy fuel oil is left overrom every barrel of G.S. Bored While Editing Own Works London—George Bernard Shaw, who will shortly be 74 has begun edit- ing his whole literary output, not car- ing to leave the task to posterity. Air edition of 30 volumes, now in prepara- tion, is limited to 1,000 sets. He has laid aside all creative work for this purpose. But be is bored with the job. "It looks as if .:I shall spend the rest of my life at this job," he com- plained the other day. "It won't do; it's holding up my other work and it's a worrying task." It took a woman to outwit the Irish sage. She wrote asking Shaw for a free copy of his latest book for a newly- organized woman society. Shaw wrote across her letters: "Damn it, no; a woman's society that can- not afford to pay 15 shillings for a copy of my book has no right to 'exist." He signed the note and returned it to the woman. A. fortnight later she again wrote Shaw to inform him that a bookseller had traded her a copy of the book for the letter bearing Shaw's autograph. Shaw had'the last word, however. Across the bottom of the woman's sec- ond letter he scrawled: "What fools women are! If you had taken :t to the right place you would have got $150 for it." And he signed that, too, and sent it back. He once rejected au offer of one million dollars for his cinema rights and when the Nobel prize for litera- ture -was awarded him for his play, "Saint Joan," he gave. the $32,000 award away to further Anglo -Swedish literary relations. Again, when a wealthy American woman offered Shaw a fee of $25,000 just to ('cr'oss the Atlantic, dine with her, talk a little to her guests and 'catch the next boat home," he prompt- iy declined. When London becomes to sooty and foggy, Shaw hies off to his country home, a substantial, ivy -clad, brick house at Ayot St. Lawrence, in Hert- fordshire. His house stands at one end of the village of about 100 inhabitants. It commands a wide view, has much window space' and is enclosed by a well trimmed hedge fence. Barbed wire around the extreme limits of the estate keeps out Intruders. cabin liner, as she arrived at New York after maiden westward transatlantic voyage. ` Air Water, Soil and Sunlight Will SupplyOklahoma Oil Well Power to the Future Generations Has Gushing Rival Beautyin Clover Has Been Ignored Summer is the time to study the clovers. 'rills plant' suffers injustice;: it has for centuries been a most valu- able torage .crop, but its beauty is much overlooked, Tills, however, is no loss to the clover, for it does not. bloom for people, but for the bees' and butterflies. Emily Dickinson said: "The pedigree of honey does not con. cern the bee, • A. clover, any time, to him is arts-. toeracy." A field of red clover in bloom, sway- ing -in the wind, is a beautiful sight, but we do not need landscapes to. teach us its beauty. Just one clover., blossom studied carefully, and looked` at with clear -seeing eyes, reveals each floweret beautiful in color, in- teresting in form, and perfect in its mechanism for securing cross poliena- tion. The clover is especially renowned for its partnerships with menbers of, the animal kingdom. It readily forms a partnership with man, gladly grow- ing in hie pastures and meadows, while he distributes its seed. For many years clover was regard- ed as a crop helpful to the soli, and the reason given was the great length of the roots. Thus the roots of the•red clover often reach to the depth of several feet, even in heavy soil, but it was also learned that little "nodules" on the roots of clovers are' able to free nitrogen of the air, and make it available for plant food. The red clover came to us from Eu- rope, but is a native of Asia. It is the clover most widely cultivated in America and a great friend of bumble- bees. Bumblebees had to be import- ed into Australia before clover seed could be produced there. The white clover is the most beauti- ful of all. Its leaves make •a rug for our feet in every possible place and is known to all. It is the best beloved by honey -bees; and the per- son who does not know the •distinct flavor of white clover honey has missed something. It is probably a native of North America, yet it is truly cosmopolitan and may be found in almost all regions of the temper- ate zones. It even cheers Siberia with its presence. The yellow or hop clover is a friend- ly little plant, filling waste places with brilliant green leaves, dotted with small yellow flower heads, and is got recognized as a clover by those who are not observant. The rabbit foot or stone clover is not easily recognized. Here the flow- erets occcr in long, dense heads. The calyx is very silky, and the lobes are longer than the white corollas, thus giving the flower head a soft, hairy look, something like the early stages of the blossom of the pussy willow. Alfalfa is the veteran of all the clovers, for it has been under culta vation, for twenty centuries. It is a native of the valleys of western Asia. In America it was first introduced into Mexico by the Spaniards. It was brought from Chile to California in 1554, where it has been since that time a most important crop. In fact, there is no better hay than alfalfa. There are numerous cther clovers, but sweet clover must not be over- looked. In driving through country roads we find ourselves suddenly im- mersecl in a wave of delightful fra- grance, and if we look for the source we may find there in the most forbid- ding and hardest soils of the road- sides this friendly plant, that, grow- ing as a weed. diffuses sweet perfume, When the soil is generous the sweet Clover often grown very tall, some- times ten feet high. It is a cheer- ful, adaptable and beneficial plant. No wonder Andrew Lang wrote: "Hush, ah hush, lite scythes are say'. ing, Hush, and heed not, and fall asleep; Hush, they say to the grasses sway- ing, Hush, they sing to the clover deep." Emigrants to the number of 3,473 were helped to go to the overseas Do- minions last year by the British Le- gion. London.—The passing of the coal age and the approach of a, new era when:the people of the world will har- ness the air, water, soil, and sun to, provide all their requirements, was dis- cussed by Dr. Herbert Levinsteiu in his presidential address at the recent forty-ninth annual meeting of the So- ciety of Chemical Industry in Birming- ham • "Chemical science has now reached a stage when it can obtain direct ac- cess to new sources of coal -tar pro- ducts by a synthetic process, instead of being confined to geological forma- tions," ]Jr. Levinstein said: "A com- plete reduction of carbonic acid ob- tained from the air, to methane or coal gas, has been accomplished, which in turn can be almost completely con- verted in an. arc oven, into acetylene or changed into tar, half of which consists o'1 benzine. The world's avail- able raw material has thus become inexhaustible, as carbonic acid exists in the atmosphere in unlimited quanti- ties. `About 15 generations will see the exhaustion of the world's priucipal coal deposits, and as the human race is learning how to use air, soil and sun to the best advantage, and make the earth more productive of food and raw materials by using atmos- pheric nitrogen, sothe next stop must be the extraction of carbonic acid it has been making Rumanian history, Bucharest, Rumania.—While letters continue to arrive' telling of the Okla- homa City giant gusher Rumania's fa- mous gusher enters its twelfth month of brilliantly illuminating the coun- try's greatest oid field. The well, be- longing to the Standard Oil Company, came in with a terrific and unexpect- ed bang May 28 last year, and fric- tion of stones did the rest. Since then from the air to obtain raw materials now produced from coal. "Britain's wealth depends on fossil wealth, namely coal for power, instead of on tides, water, the wind and the sun's radiation. The coal age, when passed, will have lasted a shorter period than the Moorish occupation of Spain, 'which then seemed so import- ant to Christendom, but vanished, leav- ing a palace or two and a few roman- tic tales. As the losses of the Na- poleonic wars were made good by de- velopment of steam and coal, so the last war's losses must be made good by a more effectual use of natural forces for industrial work." fixed and running royalty to the' two organizations which have developed and own it. N.Y. Hears Aviator 5,800 Miles Away New York.—Capt . Lewis Yancey, transatlantic flier on a good will tour of South America, talked from an air- plane 4500 feet over Buenos Aires, with .several persons in the United States recently. Although his -voice and that of his radio operator, Mr. Bouck, ' ere being transmitted over a distance of Mare than 5800 miles, they were heard in New York as plainly as though the conversation were being carried on f over a local telephone line. crude oil after the distillation of gaso- Fred E. Meinholtz, manager of the line. Under proper operating con- New York Times radio station, was ditions the new process may be masse notified that a call was coming to yield 100 gallons of gasoline from though from the Argentine and five every 100 gallons of crude oil. The minutes later Yanperatoey atr Buenos Production of gasoline in the United `Stand by, Captain States, having risen gradually froth Aires wishes to speak with you." 20 000 900 barrels a year to almost Almost immediately the aviator's 500,000,000 barrels at present, the amount of fuel oil produced in its manufacture far exceeds all demand for it. Shares in the Hydro Patents Com- pany are held by the various users of the line. ale said the a•:plane's voice the process in proportion to their I transmitter was operating on the 34 - crude Ml -running capacities, the au- meter wave. nouncement said, "' with . a minimum I The conversations wereintercepted of e holding of 500 shares. In return for I by radiophone station LS in - control of the Process in the Unitedlternational Telephone and Telegraph States, the new company will pay a Company in Buenos Aires, where the voice was clearly distinguished. Cap- tain Yancey said he was flying above Buenos Aires and that the weather was very cold. When he had talked for six minutes, Mr. Bouck came on and probably world history in the an- nals of oil well fires. The well was oue of the first to en- ter the Meotic or deep strata, the two other layers of sand having been ex- hausted. Altbougli, the eruption has been one of the most powerful yet en-, countered in Rumania, estimates of escaping crude oil have never reached more than 10,000 barrels a day. Method after method for extinguish- ing oil well fires has been tried, but of no avail. Foreign experts have come and they have failed. The sudden shock from a field cannon has been known to succeed in making the blaze of an oil well disappear, Recently the writer spent two days with au engineer friend who lives within a mile of the well. During the long evenings there was no need of turning on. electric lights, but for the stranger it was very difficult to sleep, due to the glare aud the thundering noise. Those living there have be- come accustomed to the great light and avow that they will regret the day when it disappears. A lot of men can read their wives like a book, but they can't shut 'em up like one. voice was reradiocast to New York on a 14 -meter wave. The short waves front South America were iuterecepted it the Netcong (NJ.) American Tele- phone & Telegraph Company short wave receiving station and carried by wire to the New York Telephone Sys- tem in Walker Street. "The cheap car is here to stay," writes a motoring correspondent. But we prefer the car that will go. Old Gardner (10 his boss, on being offered a refreshment). "Thank ye, sir." (Receives the drink) : "Did ye put in the whiskey or water fust, sir?" "The whisky." "Thanks. I'll maybe come to it by and by." Youthful Princess Goes Shopping Forfar, Scotland—Little Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Dttl1e c1 York, went shopping here recently carrying her own purse and paying her own bills. She is staying with her mother, the Duchess of York, at Glamis Castle near here and came to town escorted. by her maternal grandmother, the Counter: 01 Strathmore, to buy a book. Several were shown to her Which, after much examination, she rejected, saying: "I've seen that al- ready!' Finally she found. one that was new to her and asked. the price. Then she said, "I will take that," and Pro- duced her purse with dignified Self - Possession and paid for it. "Divorce ought to be so easy that it could be got at 'Woolworth's for five cents." ---Cosmo Hamilton. "Why so depressed; old nail?" "The Horrible Cost of living; constant bills for materials, paint and shingling." "VVItat, your house4" "No, my lough, i lere." • :- "Whenever you see a quitter," said Uncle "Eben, "yon's liable to see a man dat was'n' much of a beginner in de Rist place." Long -Winded Speakers Warned by Lights Not everyone can start a speech. Even fewer can bring one to a timely conclusion. An orators' club in 'Wor- cester, Mass., has made a novel pro- vision for the latter class by installing at the chairman's elbow a series of signal lights—yellow, green and red• When the speaker draws near his time limit, the yellow light warns him to hasten toward his close. The green light tells him his time is about ex- hausted. The red light means "sit down." But why should such a provision be necessary? Do speakers, once having the body of their address well in hand, neglect the conclusion, thinking it of Three of a Kind! lesser importance? Or do they feel that, having with some trepidation made the initial plunge, they have earned the privilege of long-winded- ness? Almost anyone who has sat through several after-dinner oratorical bouts ]oust have remarked with what seem- ing relnctauee sonic speakers begin a most interesting oration and with what persistence they ramble on and on to a verbose and sometimes tact- less conclusion. How nice it would be if such worthy, but wordy, brethren should remember the red light of the Worcester Speaker's' Club and men- tally switch it on when tempted to ex- cessive loquaciousness. Of the 80,000 toes of blended butter sold in England every year, 60,000 tons contain a proportion of inferior butter from abroad. • Striking view of itoial. Air Force seaplanie squadron as theY aPbeared recently at annual pageant at Ieldan aerodrome, Landon,