Zurich Herald, 1942-06-18, Page 3What Science
Is l oing
SOleGailUal $uaAR
A method of getting as much
sugar from aorhttm as from av-
erago Louisiana cane, with va1-
liable by-products as well, is the
invention of two U.S. Department
of t• a.s-.'riculture chemists, who have
assigned their rights to the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, without
payment of royalties to them-
selves,
Syrap and a sweet silage have
been obtained from sorghum for
yeare. Science Service explains,
but the sugar contained could not
be efficiently and economically
'crystallized out by the usual me-
thods of boiling in a vacuum pan
.inid then centrifuging, because of
the i'orinatiten of "gums".
Those gum, the inventors
fount;, were composed principally
of starch and alkaline earth salts,
the latter principally calcium with
sonic magnesium. They made the
swop too viscous when boiled
eiovm. The inventors' process re-
moves these impurities and re-
covers starch and calcium and ace
tonitie acid as valuable by-prod-
ucts.
The syrup can then be easily
rodaced to sugar by the usual
processes.
Sugar cane requires two years
to mature and needs therefore a
climate free from killing frosts
in the winter. Sorghum, on the
other hand, can be planted in
the spring and harvested in the
autatnn, It grows over large sec-
tions of the country and does well
in the dry areas.
CLERK GRADUATES C. P. AIRL11 ES
Have You Heard?
The instructor was seeking re,
oruits for the regimental hand,
and approaching Private Brown he
inquired:
"Do you play a musical instru-
i out?" "lint
replied Brown,
only at home:"
"Really," said the. instructor
"and what instrument do you
play?„
"Second fiddle," retorted Pte.
Brown.
"Soma busybody has told
my wife that 1 took you to a
dance the other night," said
the manager to his. secretary.
"Well, what about it?"
asked the girl.
"'chat makes you aiy for-
mer secretary."
New War Plant
To Dwarf Others
Two Negoes were discussing
their chances of being drafted.
"Taint gwine to do 'em no good
to pick on me," said Sam, "cause
I ain't gwine to do no fightin' 1
Alt ain't lost nothing in dem
countries, an' dey can't make me
fight."
"You may be right," replied
Mose, "Uncle Sam can't make you
all fight but he can take yo' where
de fightin' is an' den yo' use yo'
own judgment."
Chrysler Co. Plans Largest
industrial Building In The
World.,
Adolf Hitler,, who long boasted
of Germany's war production fa-
cilities, may feel a twinge of pain
in his heart, head or both when he
hears of the Chrysler Corpora-
tion`s plans for building a new
war plant that will utterly 'dwarf
the largest industrial building in
the -world, according to The Buf-
falo Courier; Express.
The new plant is important, not
only for the plass of war neater-
,iais that will collie out of it when
it gets into production, 'but also
for the large amount of vital
materials that will not go into
its construction.
* *
Chrysler . engineers, , together
with Albert -Kahn; industrial arch-
itect. have evolved a revolution-
ary type of factory design which
requires only 2.7 minds of set el.
per square foot of floor area in-
stead of five to twelve pounds
generally used in conventional
structures.
"The saving on steel will be
enough to build fourteen des-
troyers or six 10,000 -ton cargo
ships," the announcement said.
Production potentialities of
the new plant may be gauged
from the statement, that thefplant
will be big enough to putthe
Ford Willow Run bomber plant
inside arid stili leave enough room
for twenty ball diamonds around
the edge. The fence around •the
plant will be almost four miles
long.
Apparently it was the steel -
seeing features of the new .plant
that enabled the corporation to
get the green light from the gov-
ernment 'for its building. Work
on .;he plant, to be located in the
Middle West, will be. begun in a
few days. But its exact location
and the type of war materials to
be produced were not announced,
The construction of this plant
should help to quell the fears of
those who believed that America's
large existing production facili-
ties :are not sufficient to coins
Pete' with those of the Reich. And
the announcement eggs on the
imagination to wonder what the
dimensions of future war plants
are likely to be.
There 'are four birds whose
wings are too shall for flying:
cassoway, emu, kiwi and ostrich.
The magnaflux crack detector is a vital piece of machinery lot
the checking of engine parts. Miss Marjorie Sutton operates the
tmac'hnei ed tengiiNne cpahih rt.ut Whers a le theow f material has for oil and iron nany reasos over n c a magne-
tized
ed
or is faulty, the magnetism will draw the iron fillings into aline.
Thus many a faulty part with cracks too smallall beenuhumita, mighte
to see has been discarded. Had the faulty part
have
sya cin lerk l t •a departt menta lstore h and
beforelshe came tos death. the
aircraft engine overhaul plant operated by the• Canadian Pacific Air-
lines.
irlines.
Many of the Canadian women
who have stepped into the places
of men in the factories and plants
throughout Canada have come
straight from school and many
others have left jobs in offices
and stores to exchange typewrit-
ers, filing cabinets and cash regis-
ters for • wrenches, screwdrivers
and gauges of various kinds in
their desire to be of more use in
Canada's war effort. They have
thus been able to release able-
bodied men for service in the
forces in ever-increasing numbers.
Gun plants, explosive factories
and aircraft plants have all found
many tasks to which their nimble
fingers are adapted. Several of.
the aircraft plants operated by
the Canadian Pacific Airlines
have girls, many of them in their
late teens and • early twenties,
sewing fabric on wings, painting
superstructures, doaping wings,
installing instruments, building
the fusilage and doing the thou-
sand and one things that have to
be done in constructing' the air-
craft -that one day will drive Hit-
ler and his gang from the face
of the earth.
Even in the aircraft engine
overhaul plants which the Cana-
dian Pacific Airlines operate, wo-
men find their place. Girlsare
testing spring tension, checking
engine parts, dismantling and
cleaning carburetors, cleaning and
testing spark plugs and doing
many of the jobs, under the eye
of experts, which Hien formerly
did.
The strange part of it all •is
that they like it. Few of 'thein
want to go back to selling hats,
office work, or dispensing "Pink
Pills" over a drug store counter,
and all .are heart and soul in their
work doing their best to• help in
the best way they can to beat the
Rome -Berlin -Tokyo gangsters.
Lucky Shot
All available arms were put into
use (at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7).
A country lad from the west had
a standar& rifle shoved in his
band, says flake Clark in "Re-
member Pearl Harbor."
"Get out and shoot!" was the
command.
The boy had not been trained
to handle a heavy rifle, but he
had done lots of hunting in his
day. He drew a bead on a small
dive bomber coming in, and fired.
One of the freak accidents of
the war occurred.
• Apparently his bullet hit the
detonator of the bomb the Japll -
ese was about to drop, f
'plane burst in mid-air.
The boy fainted.
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Q. How . can I paint on glass
surfaces?
A. Be sure that the glass is
absolutely clean of grease. This
is accomplished by washing with
benzine or alcohol, Allow to dry
thoroughly before applying first
coat of paint. A straight white
lead -linseed oil paint containing
some turpentine is a satisfactory
first coat. Over this may be
applied the desired color of paint.
Q. How can I prepare a good
summer fruit drink? redi-
A. Use the following• ingredi-
ents: sliced ripe bananas, canned
grapefruit and juice, white "pil-
low" candy mints, slightly crush-
ed. ' Pile in sherbet glasses. Chill.
Garnish with a sprig of mint or
green cherry,
Q. How can I mend a leaky
vase? alaffln
A.some Take soe melted p
and pour it into the vase and al-
low to harden over the spot where
the leak occurs. it will not leak
Ltigain.
Q. Row can I remove light
scratches on furniture?
A. By rubbing over them with
boiled linseed oil, turpentine and
White vinegar, mixed in equal
proportions. For, the deeper
scratches, use a paste made of
thick mucilage mixed with color-
ing matter to blend with the furn-
iture. For oak, nee btirnt umber
and raw sienna; for mahogany,
Venetian red; for walnut, burnt
timber and Vandyke brown,
Modern Etiquette
1. What is something one
should always avoid saying 'iii rat
letter?
2. Is it the duty of everyone
who was invited to a wedding to
call on the bride after she re-
turns from her honeymoon?
3. When there is sone item. on
the menu which one• does not un-
derstand, is it all right to ask the
waiter what it is?
4. Should one ever sip coffee,
tea or water at the table while
food is in the mouth?
5. If a man :offer' to shake
hands with a .wo'una 11Pon being
intoduced, does she- :ignore the
gesture?
6. Is it proper for one to use
a telephone to acknowledge re-
ceipt of a gift?
ANSWERS
1. Avoid writing "There isn't
any news; everything is going
along in just about the usual fa-
shion." This is very dull, stupid,
and uninteresting and is a waste
of both the writer's and the reads
er's time and energy. There hi
always something about which to
write, and the observant person
with an active mind has no trou-
ble in this respect.
2. Yes.
3. Yes. Only a timid person
would hesitate to do ao.
4, No, the food should be 'swat-
lowed before taking the liquid.
5. While the woman is within
her social rights to ignore the
MAWS attempt to shake hands,
Mill, uo one with the least spark
of good breeding would wish to
do antlling to hurt the feelings
of another. She should, there-
fore, respond to the man's offer
to shake hands.
6. No, It is not good fotm.
The young reporter was
told over and over again to
cut his story to the bare es-
sentials. So his next story
came out this way:
'J. Smith looked up the
shaft at the Wallick Hotel
this morning to see if the lift
was on its way down, It was.
Aged 45."
C.N.R. Can Handle
Increased Traffic
Although the Canadian rail-
ways are moving the largest vol-
ume of traffic in their history,
they can handle more freight
business without diffi •ulty, stated
CanR. a-
dian. National seta lwa3 President,, cently
Using the yardstielc of the Caner
dian National increase in bust -
tees, Mr. Vaughan stated that the
general increase in the volume of
business now being handled nt. i care
, ape
proximately 20 per
than in the peak year of928,
and more than 75 per
greater than that handled by the
railways during the peak year of
the last world war. "Not only
can we take more traffic and
move it quickly and efficiently to-
day," he added, "but we can do
it with proportionately less ex-
pense than we did in 1928;"
Freight Traffic
Mr. Vaughan pointed out that
never before had the railways
been so effectively organized to
move large volumes of traffic.
"We are doing a tremendous thing
as Canada's biggest war industry,"
he said, "and we are geared to
the
highest of speed." He pointed
out that new yards had sprung up
throughout the system, special
traffic controls, and storage yards,
where goods are assembled to
await telegraphic orders to be
loaded and rushed to whatever
sea -port determined. "These are
but a few of the improvements in
the science of modern railroad-
ing," he added. "Heavier motive
power has made it possible to op-
erate fast, through freight trains
and to increase the size of the
loads carried. In fact, it might
be said that today we virtually
begin the number of freight ears
hauled, where in the last war the
peak of loads finished, Its. 1918,
a long freight train •was between
50 and 60 cars; in this war, our
trains frequently begin at 60 ears
and run as high as 90 loaded care,
or more; and there has been no
evidence whatever of congestion
in. our operation to the seaboards."
Passenger Traffic
Passenger traffic, Mr. Vaughan
stated, was proportionally heavy.
He said that not only were there
heavy demands made upon the
railways for troop movements of
the various services, but apart
from that there were "industrlil"
'chartered trains, operated daily,
to carry munitions workers to
plants 'located, outside cities and
towns. He intiinated that at
present, the National System had
more than 100 coaches assigned
solely to this service. Apart from
these special demande upon the
railways, there was a tremendous
increase in general passeitger
traffic.
C.N.R. War Effort
Mr. Vaughan added that the
Canadian National Railways were
doing a fine work in the produc-
tion of war materials, as well as
in the moving of them. He point-
ed out that Canadian National
shops were leaking naval guns and
other war devices of which he
could not speak. Several mine
sweepers had been built, as well
as a number of 10,0004on cargo
boats. The company also had
charge of operation for the Gov-
ernment, a fleet of merchant
ships, which had been acquired
from time to time from other
powers, both neutral and other-
wise. Many key -men have been
loaned to various government ser-
vices, and snore than 7,000 rail-
way men were on active service
with the Canadian forces.
The lorry driver was unfortun-
ate enough to Tun his vehicle into
a house where a woman stood
baking. Having lost his nerve,d
he did not know what to say,
blurted out:
"Can you tell me the way to
Birmingham?"
"I can," replied the woman.
"Straight past that sideboard and
then turn• left at the piano."
"1'm not half good enough
for you."
"Why, Bill, you talk just
like one of my own family."
Laborer: "I dug this hole where
I was told to, and began to put
the dirt back like I was supposed
to. But all the dirt won't vein.
What'll I do?"
The supervisor ' pondered, and
then said: "I have it. There's
only one thing to do. You'll have
to dig the hole deeper."
•
You GIRLS WHO SUFFER
If you suffer: monthly cramps, back-
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distress of "Irregularities."
i n
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fu
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ct o
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build up red, brood. blade inCam
Seeing her former suitor at a
party, a girl decided to snub him.
"So sorry," she murmured
when the hostess introduced him,
"but I didn't get your name."
"I know you didn't," said the
unabashed man, "but you certain-
ly tried hard enough."
King Of Belgium
Lives As Prisoner
King Leopold of the Belgians
is still a voluntary prisoner in
his castle of Laeken. Travelers
'frons Brussels say Leopold has
Made his life as simple as he can.
He respects the rationing strictly,
using food tickets like the rest
of his subjects. He virtually ne-
ver receives visitors, as he insists
that he considers himself as a
prisoner of war.
20,000,000 Mexicans
Join United Nations
Mexico's entry into the war wiled
Iine up nearly 20,000,000 more
persons against the Axis and
boost the Western Hemisphere
total to 179,936,374, according to
figures in the 1942 World Al-
manac..
The Mexican population-19,-
478,791—is second only to the
United States total of 131,669a-
276
31,639,276 among the twelve New World
nations warring against Germany,
Italy and Japan.
The ethers and their papule,
tions are: Canada, 11,422,000$
Cuba, 4,228,000; Guatemala, 3,-
248,000;
,248,000; Haiti, 3,000,000; Nicer -
ague, 1,380,287; Panama, 467,-
459; Costa Rica, 616,000; El Sal-
vador, 1,704,497; Honduras, 1,•
105,534 and Dominican Repubite,
1,616,561.
There are about 8,000 Wren be
United States camps for conset-
entious objectors.
Employer (interviewing an
applicant for job): "Know
anything about electricity?"
"Yes, sir."
"What's an armature?"
"A chap who boxes for
nothin'. '
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