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To Fight Enemy Bombers!
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Would Steer 11 s e 1 f
Automatically By
Sound, Attacking
Bomber, Dropping
Sound - Directing
Bombs on Its Victim.
New York?Plans for a flying
bumblebee, a tiny robot airplane of
a new type for defense against bom
bers, were announced recently by
Edward F. Chandler, 1 well-known
marine engineer.
The bumblebee plane would steer
itslf automatically by the sound of
the attacking bomber and then' buzz
along with it dropping sound-directed
bombs on its victim.
This is not merely a clever idea.
For Chandler is a recognized expert
in automatic steering controls for
torpedoes, aircraft and marine ves
sels. In the World War he was dis
tinguished as the inventor of a
gyroscopic control system for accur
ately aiming submarine torpedoes.
He assisted in developing the Swedish
navy's sound-controlled torpedo.
The bumblebee design calls for a
plane which would be launched by
the fire control officers at a bomb
ing defense station. When the course
of a flight of attacking bombers had
been charted with fair certainty, and
while the planes were still some miles
distant these officers would launch
some of the flying bumblebees.
The automatic gyroscopes already
in use on planes would keep these
little robots on the course fired to
intercept the bombers until they were
well within the range of the noise of
the big ships.
At that point a sound control de
vice would take over the steering
and guide the little ships to the in
vaders. The bumblebees, however,
would not strike tiiese ships, as is
planned for the flying torpedoes
about which much has been written
recently.
The reason, Chandler said, is that
not more than one hit in a thousand
is likely for a flying torpedo .with
present available sound steering con
trols. There is, he explained, a lag
of a fraction of a second at least in
these controls. This lag, at the high
speed of airplanes, would permit a
human flown ship, under attack, to
avoid its robot enemy.
Chandler plans a set of four sound J
controls which should lead his bum
blebees to wheel into line above a
bomber and slightly ahead of it. The
controls would also tend to keep the
little bee at a pretermined distance
above the ship it pestered.
Either the sound waves from the
bomber or certain normal electro
magnetic radiations from the big ship
could be used to trip from time to
time an automatic bomb release in the
bumblebee. These bombs, Chandler
said, need not necessarily have to
make a direct hit to explode. They
could carry devices which would ex
plode them whenever they reached an
effective distance from the bomber.
These detonating devices would be set
off by, sound waves or normal radia
tions from the large ship.
Chandler said that while these
ideas may appear theoretical at first
sight, they are no more so than sub
j marines, torpedoes , and airplanes
themselves were before becoming
practical and that he is confident
that something like his can be done.
He said the robots should be manu
factured inexpensively and be trans
portable on trucks to the firing areas.
The objective, he added, would be'
not only to destroy attacking ships,
but what might be more important, to
disrupt the order of a large forma
tion flying under the direction of a
leader. ,
He said the bumblebees could be
readily shielded against interference,
either that which would lead them
off their course or cause their own
sounds and radiations to Interfere
wih their bombing. ' |
Under his plans the^ robots would
make their attack before the arrival
of defending combat planes.
"
I He's Just Himself! The
I Secret of Eddie Guest,
I Bard of Common Men
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I The hold which Eddie Guest has
I on the common man is no mystery,
I says Maloolm W. Bingay, of the De
I troit Free Press, who "knew him
when." "There's only one Eddie
Guest, not two, or three, or four. He
is Eddie Guest to himself and he
is Eddie Guest to his closet and most
intimate friends, and he is Eddie
I Guest to all the world," Bingay
writes in the current Rotarian Maga
zine.
"Eddie - is always true to himself.
When he writes a poem on Mother's
Day, he doesn't just 'dash something
off to fit the occasion. To him
is Mother's Day, with all that it
moans to everyone who has ever lov
ed a mother, His poems are lived
by him before they are written. He
once remarked: The only person I
have to live with 24 hours a day and
865 days in the year is myself. 4??l
I never want to be ashamed of the
company I keep. So I try to do that
which is right that I may always
feel exportable with myself.' He's
Thank God For A Dull
Life/ Muses Pollock
Who Can't Enjoy One!
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Is your life "ordinary" and "doll?"
Then count your blessings and be
thankful! This is the admonition of
Channing Pollock, distinguished play
wright and lecturer, who draws upon
his own hectic routine to describe
the "gold-fish bowl lives" of celebri
ties, in the cufrent Rotarian maga
zine.
"Celebrities?even those ? not so
celebrated, except in the advertising
?don't lead dull lives," Pollock as
serts. "They merely hop from one
of Irvin Cobb's metaphoric fishbowls
Into another. . . I think a few years
of it cures all but the most chronic
cases. Take it from me, for people
who 'do things'?even second-rate
things in a third-rate fashion?even
we bush-league celebrities?life isn't
a grand, sweet song; it's going to bed
in a greenhouse next to a billard
parlor or a jazz band.
"When all's said and done, we
Who's Whosers pay a high price.
Fame is a full-time job, and the most 1
avid celebrity must grow weary of
living in a zoo and having people
throw peanuts at him. Even ap
plause comes to be all in the day's
work." -
County Progress
To Be Exhibited
Again At Fair
v Only about six weeks remain before
the 1940 N. C. State Fair opens in
Raleigh on October 8, and counties
are being urged to begin preparation
of their progress exhibits which again
will be one of the features of the fair.
F. H. Jeter, agricultural editor of
N. C. State College, is chairman of
this department of the fair, and he
announces that premiums totaling,
$2,000 are being offered for the 10
best county progress exhibits. The
first prize in $650, and second prize
$500, third prize $300, fourth $200,
fifth $100, and sixth through tenth
prizes $50 each.
Dare and Alamance Counties al
ready have signified their intentions
of entering exhibits. Caldwell County
had the best exhibit last year.
Jeter saitl that, as in-the past,
county farm and home agents will
take the lead. in arranging the ex
hibits. However, he said it is desired
that vocational teachers, school super
intendents and principals, boards of
trade and chambers of commerce,
manufacturers, civic clubs and wom
en's organizations have a part In
planning and preparing the exhibits
displayed.
The exhibit should be prepared to
cover 30 running feet of 'space. It
will be judged, 35 percent on the at
tractiveness of the exhibit, 30 per
cent on the balance of the display,
20 per cent on how representative it
is of the county, and 15 per cent on
the quality of the materials.
"These exhibits are being encour
aged that the great resources of
North Carolina?agricultural, indus
trial and educational?may be brought
| to the forefront in a fitting and com
I prehensive manner," Jeter said. "The
premium money is divided so that ex
hibitors are assured down to tenth
place of a prize which will in part
help to defray the expense of bring
ing the exhibit to the Fair."
South Lags In Using
Cotton By-Products
Prof. Earl H. Hostetler of the State
College Animal Husbandry Depart
ment says that one of the reasons for
the eroded and gullied fields that
are so common throughout the cotton
belt is that the South has lagged in
recognizing the value of by-products
of the cotton crop as a livestock feed.
"Livestock feeders in other parts of
the United States and in Europe have
long recognized the importance of
cottonseed products as food for both
plants and animals, and they have
prospered through the purchase of
by-products of the South's so-called
'king'," Prof. Hostetler declared.
"The present change^, in Southern
agriculture and the universal recog
nition of the necessity of livestock
for the conservation and improvement
of soil fertility has emphasized the
need of retaining toe by-products of
the cotton crop on he farm. Experi
ments and farm experiences have
shown conclusively that cottonseed
meal is a satisfactory protein supple
ment for horses, mules, cattle, sheep
and swine. It has also been found that
cottonseed meal id a very definite aid
in the production of firm pork.
"It is encouraging to see," the ani
mal husbandman ' continued, "the
present trend in the South, toward
livestock, which means a greater use
of cottonseed meal ajid and other
high protein feeds as well as more
and better pastures and hay crops.
This tread will mean a mora prosper
ous and contented rural population in
the cotton belt."
Prof. Hostetler invites livestock
feeders to write him for detailed in
formation on the use of cottonseed
; meal and cake in livestock feeds.
I Year of 3,500,000 automobiles is
predicted by Buick head.
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