SUCH IS LIFE ? Poor Grampaw! it r By CHARLES SUGHROE Montana Dam Noted for Grandeur of Its Setting Stores Water From Glaciers, Melting Snows Red Lodge, Mont. ? In the gnarled hinterland of the towering Beartooth mountains man has taken a seven league step fn his age-old feud against drouth, the perennial liber tine of crops. Glacier lake dam, the highest and most isolated structure of its kind in America, located 24^4 miles by road and foot trail south of here, has been completed and accepted by the Montana water conservation board. Built as a supplemental reservoir to supply water to 54,000 acres of rich farm land in Rock creek valley from Red Lodge to Silesia, Glacier lake dam is notable for the spec tacular grandeur of its setting and its extreme isolation. Solid Rock Foundation. Carved from a rock-ribbed pali sade, unfathomed Glacier lake is nourished by everlasting glaciers and melting snows. At an elevation of 9,750 feet the lake is surrounded by peaks from 11,000 to 12,000 feet high. The dam is a rock-filled project with a maximum height of 52 feet GASSING 'EM UP The hands that used to pump them down the alley in the baseball season, now serve Dizzy Dean in get ting the "go fluid" down the tanks of cars that pull up at his filling sta tion at Bradenton, Fla., where the Cardinals have established their training camp. The colorful pitch er, it seems, has got wise to himself because he's selling gas in liquid form now, where formerly he dis pensed freely of the airy variety. (5 feet freeboard), with a crest of 730 feet and a top width of ten feet. The upstream slope is 1:1; down stream slope, 1H:I, and foundation and abutments are in solid rock. The back or downstream part of the dam is composed of rock fill. Most of the rock varied from two to ten cubic feet while being loaded by hand. After the shovel came on the job the rocks averaged one cubic yard in size. Voids were well filled with rock which graded down to three inches. On the upstream face is a hand placed rock rubble wall which var ries from four to six feet in thick ness. The face was grouted. On the grouted face was placed a con crete slab, reinforced with electric welded fabric, varying from six to twelve inches in thickness. Tunnel Taps Lake. Across and beneath the present outlet of the lake a tunnel 6 by 4V4 feet wide and 115 feet long was drilled. The tunnel taps the lake about six feet below the normal August level and forms a perma nent outlet for the reservoir. A vertical shaft from the top of the dam into the tunnel provides for the gate. A cutoff trench was excavated 18 inches int osolid rock. The dam, costing $82,731, was built as an auxiliary to the $450,000 Cooney dam, which is located on Red lodge creek. A four-mile approach road was bulldozed, linking a CCC trail lead ing to the outside world with a point on the rim of Rock creek gorge 4,000 feet from the dam site and about 1,700 feet lower in elevation. From the end of the haul road to the dam site the world literally stands on end. A cableway about 3,500 feel long was constructed. The shovel used for excavation of the dam was dismantled, transported to and from the site by cable as were the 3%-ton trucks which were used. Student Invents Machine to Speed Mathematics Sydney, N. S. W.? A machine that promises to be of great value to the world's scientists and engineers 1 has been invented by a young re- ' search physicist at Sydney univer- ' sity. Simply by tracing curves on a sheet of paper, it reduces to a mat ter of hours complicated mathemat- ' ical solutions that by ordinary meth ods would take perhaps as many weeks. The machine can be adapted to solve rapidly problems of railway engineering and bridge construc- ; tion, range tables for heavy artil lery, statistical and economic in vestigations, physics, bacteriology, or electrical research. It can add up the total of three quantities (numbers) which are con tinuously varying, so that the total itself keeps changing. By ordinary ! mathematical methods this might i require weeks of tedious labor ' AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENT1FACTS -> BY ARNOLD Reaching the suns heaf An instrument which (vm CONC?KTRATS THE SUN* ENERGY 200,000 TIMES AND wtacrvE TEMPERATURES EOUAL TO TME WN S 10,000? IS BEING INSTALLED IN California. ik v. v. Islands of the hibiscus Hawaii has ifioo VA?IETM OP HIBISCUS. , a Tij A LANGUAGE FROM A LANGUAGE Am 85O-WCW0 6ASK VOCAB ULARY OF EnOLISH ADEOUAJE FORO* UNARY COMMUNICATION HAS MEN PRtPARCP FOB mm OF FOPtKjWEP WNU Service. STANDARDS OF LIVING By LEONARD A. BARRETT One of the problems involved in the recent depression was the main American stand ard of living. Those whose liv i n g standards were not affect ed, suffered very little during the trying years. He suffered most whose reduced in come forced a re duction in the an nual budget. A cheaper rent meant a less de sirable residen uai section; me dismissal ol ser vants gave rise to a less orderly house and, in some cases, to a very irritating environment. Less expen sive raiment meant cheaper mate rial with a depreciated value. In almost every condition of luxury HE KNOWS CALORIES Harold Ha we s, shown here men uring the ingredients for mashed po tatoes, is the only man ever to enroll as a regular student in the school of economics at Purdue university. He is planning to become a dietitian. curtailment was necessary. Many persons felt that the standard of living was greatly lowered, com pared with former times when "our living standards were incomparably better than those of other times and places because we had learned how to build immense factories and transportation systems and to un dertake efficient mass production." What are these so-called stand ards? Who creates them and by whose authority are they main tained? Do they express luxury or necessity, satisfied needs or ap peased desires? Are they original expressions of culture or standard commodities? Who shall say on which street I shall live or to what social group I shall belong? True, the dictates of society may be re sponsible for acknowledged stand ards, but are not the standards which elevate personality the prod uct of a silent monitor residing with in that personality? Has not the time arrived when, in order to have i more equitable standard, we may lave to shuffle off the superficial Irom our patterns of living? Who urill have the courage to do this? rhe answer is not difficult if we lave a correct appreciation of true aristocracy. We should no longer :hink of aristocracy as an exclusive 'privileged class superior to all oth er classes," simply because of wealth. Wealth does not necessar Jy mean culture. "Those may hold ?ho can" has proved itself a vicious philosophy, as the revolutions of hia .ory attest. Real culture is always o i the spir t, and may be found wherever the ndividnal is larger in human aspect .han he is hi aeenmnlatlon, whether Jut aeenmnlatlon be manners or noney. Standards of living should ?xpress more high thinking and less vasteful living. How shall we evaluate the present itandards and preserve the best? democracy points to the individual, rhe question is, what standards nake me sensitive to aspirations, tound in thinking, honest and sin :ere in achieving? Larger econom c privileges with increased finan :ial income will not in themselves lecure inner culture. That must ?ome from the quality of the spirit if the individual. External stimuli cannot be substituted for human tympathy, simple justice, and