badin bulletin
Paoi Fin
Seventh, and lastly—They “Wear
Ever.”
For table use, aluminum has found its
place in chafing dishes, sugar bowls,
^J'eam and v^^ater pitchers, trays, soup
tureens, vegetable and meat covers and
Wishes.
'The following list comprises some of
the better known miscellaneous uses of
aluminum:
Cash register and conveyors.
Horse shoes.
Bits, bridles, harness, trappings.
Surgical instruments.
Tracheotomy tubes, suture wire.
Braces, trusses, and supports for all
P^rts of the body.
Metallic parts of trunks and bags.
Watches and compasses.
Cases for cigars, cigarettes, matches,
spectacles, etc.
^rtificial limbs and noses.
Paper cutters.
Pocket rules, seals, levels.
Walking sticks.
Umbrella frames,
icture frames.
lacques for hand paintings,
at and hairpins.
1‘acelets, brooches, rings.
Candlesticks.
Card receivers,
igar holders and pipes, with amber
»»iouthpieces.
Eyeglass frames and chain,
oot trees and lasts in shoe factories,
ades for electric fans.
®dy of ice and roller skates.
Pr;
anies of kodaks and cameras.
^thographic plates.
atch and key chains,
j og chains.
for shoes, to keep out damp-
|hoe horns.
wire, woven into uniforms, flags.
^eys.
handles.
®ething plates for infants,
pencils,
and pencil holders,
ihimbles.
articles (backs of brushes,
Milliard cues.
irror frames.
^«fl>oxes.
®llar and cuff boxes.
®^fume bottles,
baskets,
jj stands.
and molds for metal casting,
s for cigar forming.
^6 tags for flying pigeons.
Connections in rubber hose and clasps
on rubber garments.
Business and visiting cards.
Photographic flashlight powder.
Parts of vacuum cleaners.
When the United States entered the
war, each doughboy sent across was out
fitted with an alummum mess kit. Tons
of alummum were used for this purpose,
and for every ton used nearly two tons
were saved in weight. In other words,
a block of aluminum weighing one thou
sand pounds is as large as a block of
iron weighing 2700 pounds. The famous
Liberty motor was thirty per cent, by
weight of aluminum. Many small parts
of airplanes were aluminum or alumi
num alloy. A captured German plane
was reported to have had wings made
of aluminum sheet instead of cloth. It
is certain that in the “dirigible” almost
everything except the gas bag itself was
made of aluminum or aluminum alloy.
The air-cooling device on a certain type
of machine gun was aluminum.
When the German crews of the war
ships held by the United States decided
to sink their ships, they put aluminum
to a very destructive use. Thermit,
which is a mixture of aluminum powder,
carbon dust, and iron salts, and pro
duces a melting temperature when ig
nited, was placed on the steel hulls and
touched off, of course melting a hole
in the hull and sinking the ship.
The metal part of a gas mask was
made of aluminum, being especially
adapted to this use on account of its
lightness and because it is not easily
corroded.
Aluminum is a constituent of the ex
plosive ammonal. Aluminum powder
was extensively used in all kinds of
pyrotechnics used at the front.
Parts of the delicate timing instru
ments attached to shells and bombs were
made of aluminum.
As tin was very scarce and high priced
during the war, quantities of chewing
gum went abroad wrapped in aluminum
foil. Aluminum was used in a limited
way for food containers, in place of
tin cans.
As in peace times, parts of motor
cars and trucks were made of aluminum.
If the pounds weight saved on each car
by using aluminum instead of iron were
multiplied by the thousands of motors
that were sent over, it would be found
that aluminum played an important part
in the war by the saving of invaluable
shipping tonnage during the time that
we were hardest pressed. It was re
ported unofficially that the famous
“tanks” were partially constructed of an
aluminum alloy. At any rate, it can
truly be said that aluminum helped win
the war.
The future of aluminum is bright. To
quote from a report of the joint meeting
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers and the Society of Automo
tive Engineering, held February 10,
1920: “The production of aluminum is
increasing, and enthusiasts are prophesy
ing that by 1930 aluminum production
will equal, if not surpass, that of cop
per.”
—B. T. H.
Tenth Anniversary of Boy Scouts
{Continued from page 3)
ing. Their plan is to put up a clubhouse
of their own, in the park opposite Wil
low and Holly Streets. The personnel
of the troop consists of Rev. T. G. Tate,
Scoutmaster, Herman Bell, Jr., Assistant
Scoutmaster, Scouts Ernest Arthur, Reu
ben Arthur, Landis Burns, Robert Biz-
zell. Bud Coffman, Wade Curran, Reid
Dorset, Frank Cotton, Zeb Hadley, Ralph
Frazier, Earl Leinster, Pat Monroe,
Lawrence Rockfield, Robert Vann, Al-
phaeus White, William White, George
Coleman, Paul Smith, William Stokes,
Troy Chambers, Joseph Bell, and Thurs
ton Hundley.
Boy Scouts Build Shack
The Boy Scouts of Badin have im
proved the enforced idleness from school
by “flu,” by building a club room in the
park back of the rock crusher, on Pine
Street. It is a substantial building,
planked up outside, and ceiled with
beaver board on the inside. The shack
is fourteen by twenty feet, with a wide
porch in front, and after it is painted
will be very attractive. They intend to
furnish it with rustic furniture, hang
pennants and pictures, making an up-to-
date meeting place. A clubroom has
been a dream of the Scouts for some
time, and funds were raised for this
purpose last fall by the minstrel. When
the shack is finished, the Scouts will
have an Open Night to their parents
and friends in town. Troop No. 2 is a
live organization, which does things.
Joe Leonard received by mail a cocoa-
nut cake and a fried chicken, postmarked
at New York and Statesville. However,
we feel sure it came from Statesville.
Joe is especially fond of country eats.