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? . All Out for Defense i 1 Engaged in the most gigantic armament program in world history, the V. S. expects to spend approximately 128,480,000,000 on ships, tanks, planes, munitions, training camps and other defense needs during the next two years. While factories, ammunition plants and shipyards hum feverishly with production, the nation's inventive genius works behind locked doors to develop new types of mechanised equipment. With an appropriation of SI 1 ?87,000,000 for a hco ocean navy, marine ma chine ihipt like the new SI4,000,000 Vulcan, recent ly launched, are necessary to service the mechanical needs of the country's bat tleships and cruisers at sea. Right: The V. S. is spend ing several millions of dol lars on anti-aircraft guns , similar to this one. Shells i travel miles into the air. f Germany's highest reach is said to be 7 miles. Above: Amphibian lank, designed for quick and safe landing of men and materials under gunfire. Belotv: This "quatf car can travel over rough ter rain at 60 miles an hour. Knou-n as "jeeps," the ears are being produced by the WiUys-Overland Co. Above: This chocolate bar it known at "Ration D." It packt 600 calories. Left: New types of aerial combat, such at mine and torpedo laying, require ammunition of thit type?Mid to be the costliest in the world. Additional billion* are being tpent to build purtuit plant* of thit typo?Lockheed's 500 m.p.k. speed marvel. ||istorical II ighhfits if Clmc Scott WaUoH OUluaad by wraurn Newspaper UnloaJ A Modern Columbus C*OR more than three and a half ' centuries communication be tween Europe and America was a matter of weeks. Then on a July day 73 years ago it became a matter of split seconds. The man who brought about that miracle was an American whom a famous British statesman called the "Columbus of modern times, who, by his cable, has moored the New world along side the Old." For this man was Cyrus W. Field, "Father at the At lantic Cable." Born in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1319, Field went to New York at the age of 15 to work for the famous merchant, Alexander T. Stewart. By the time he was 21 he had his own business and was able to retire at the age of 34. About this time one of his brothers suggested to him the project of building a telegraph line across the Atlantic and young Field immediate ly took the matter up with a group of New York business men who agreed to contribute $20,000 each. The enterprise was organized under thf title of the New York, Newfound land & London Telegraph and a committee was sent to Newfound CYRUS W. FIELD land to get exclusive rights for 90 years to establish a telegraph line from the continent of America to Newfoundland to England. The first efforts to lay the cable were unsuccessful. But Field's com pany persisted until finally in July, 1898, a Britishjhip and an Ameri can ship, meeting in mid-Atlantic, spliced together two lengths of ca ble which they had on board and then started for opposite shores. On the same date, August 6, they ar rived at their respective destinations. For the first time in history the two continents were linked together with a means of quick communication. The first message sent over the ca ble was a greeting from Queen Vic toria to President James Buchanan on August 16. On September 1 a great celebra tion, attended by more than 190,000 persons, was held in New York city . The Great Ealtera l>rh| the Atlantic cable. In honor of Field. But their jubila tion, in which the whole nation shared, was ehort-lived for art thin lees than tiro months the cable ceased to function. As the threat of Civil war grew, Americans forgot the trans-Atlantic cable project. Field tried to keep interest in it alive during the War Between the States. After the war was over the project was revived and the famous steamer, the Great Eastern, was chartered to lay a new cable twice as thick as the original line, with double the breaking strain. On July 23, IMS, the Great East ern left Ireland for Newfoundland. On August 2, when 1,1M miles had been laid, the cable suddenly parted and sank in 2,000 fathoms of water. Numerous attempts were made to retrieve the cable but they were un successful. But Field would not give up. The next year another attempt was made and on July 27, ISM, the Great Eastern steamed into Trinity Bay, Ireland, amid the ringing of bells and the booming of cannon, and landed the end of the cable she had been laying. For the first time the two continents were permanent ly linked together and that link of communication has never been bro ken. ? ? ? Field's persistence won him tfas nyisim of the whole world. Con gress unanimously voted to present him with a gold medal and the thanks of the nation, and the prime minister of England declared that only the fact that he was a citizen of another country prevented his re ceiving high honors from the Brit ish government It was the famous English statesman, John Bright, who called him the "Columbus at modern times." In 1M7 the Paris exposition gave him the grand med al, the highest prize it could bestow. Solar Periods Rule Forecasts Weather Predictions Based By Scientist on Sun's Radiation. WASHINGTON. ? There are 10 long periods-in the radiation of the sun, each with directly observable effects on the temperature and rain fall of earth. These effects, however, vary with place and season and there is some as yet unknown factor that compli cates long-range weather forecast ing. These most recent conclusions from the work of the Astrophysical observatory of the Smithsonian in stitution were announced by Secre tary Charles G. Abbot. They may bring a step nearer the day when useful weather forecasts may be made for several years ahead based upon solar observations. The sun's radiation also varies ir regularly from day to day/ These variations attend the sun's 27-day rotation, for the sun's surface has hot spots as well as cold spots upon it. Columns of finely divided mat ter shot from sun-spot regions ap pear to bombard the earth and veil the sun slightly when such sunspots are exactly central. Thus both in creases and decreases of the sun's radiation affect us as the sun ro tates. Cloudiness Is ? Factor. An increase in the output of the sun, especially if of short duration, does not necessarily mean an in crease in the temperature of the earth as a whole. Local conditions, such as cloudiness and location with respect to prevailing winds, have profound effects. In the past Dr. Abbot has been puzzled by appar ent "changes of phase" in the weath er effects of the long periods in so lar variation. Almost precisely op posite weather results would some times ensue from the same solar phenomenon. Recent work has convinced him, however, that this is explainable. It depends on the season of the year. For example, he says, take an 8tt month period?one which he actu ally has found in the solar varia tions. Every time it recurs in the same season it will have the same effects at a given station, so far as itself is concerned. Other simulta neously operating solar variations may, of course, partially modify the effects. Lists Solar Periods. The solar periods now listed by Dr. Abbot range from 8tt to 273 months. The latter, about 23 years, appears to be the major period in which all the others repeat them selves and the most successful long range forecasts to date have been based upon it. They have been rea sonably accurate for two or three years in advance. Dr. Abbot has analyzed tempera ture and precipitation records for Copenhagen, Vienna and New Ha ven for the past 140 years and found that solar periodicities continued with unaltered phase throughout this period. They were sufficient to ac count for all departures from nor mal temperatures. Dr. Abbot gives examples of fairly successful weather forecasts five years in advance. These are made by finding the average effect of each of the 10 long solar periods on weather for 90 years back. These separate effects are then combined for the five years to come. Sees Fanners Prepared For Bif Role in Defense WASHINGTON.?The nation re ceived assurance from R. M. Evans, agricultural adjustment administra tor, that American farmers would produce enough food and fiber sup plies for use as "a weapon for de fense and later in the peace negotia tions to use as an instrument for building a decent world." Evans told the annual national AAA conference here that the triple A farm-control program was so ar ranged that It could handle adjust ments upward or downward as required for defense, thus making agriculture better prepared for the present emergency than any other industry. Change* in Street Names Make* Life Confusing BUFFALO?Life is all rather con fusing to Roland T. Bessel?and the local police ia forced to agree. Appearing in court for failing to report a change in address on his driver's license, Bessel told the court that he hadn't moved at all? only that the street's name had been changed twice. *1 couldn't keep up with the changes in the street name," the defendant said. "Even now there is another change pending." "Case dismissed," sympathised the court. Scholars Must Salute Flag or Be Expelled AUGUSTA, GA.?"Salute the flag at be expelled" is the substance at the measure adopted by the Rich mond county board of education, fol lowing refusal by three pupils, mem bers of one family, to salute the flag. In support of the measure Super intendent S. D. Cope land advised that a court decision in a similar case hi Atlanta had made the act of expulsion legal. Industries Expand Research Rapidly 2,350 Companies Use 70,033 Persons in This Work. WASHINGTON. ? Industrial re search has now become one of the major activities of business in this country, with 2,350 companies em ploying 70,033 persons exclusively in research work. The annual cost of these activities exceeds $300,000,000 and absorbs about 6 per cent of the net income of industry, according to a report of the national research council and the national resources planning board. Professionally trained persons now engaged in industrial research include 15,700 chemists, 14,980 engi neers, 2,030 physicists, 1,955 metal lurgists, and about an equal number of bacteriologists and biologists. An additional 33,480 persons are em ployed in technical, administrative and clerical positions. In 1920 only about 300 laboratories wei* engaged in research activities, and the personnel was about 9,300. In addition to industrial plants, the federal government maintains many research laboratories which co-operate in industrial activities that promise to redound to the pub lic good, among them the labora tories of the bureau of agricultural chemistry and engineering. The de partment of agriculture is now build ing four new regional research laboratories which will give co operative assistance to industrial re search plants. The bureau of stand ards is also frequently called upon to assist in trade association re search activities. Latest statistics show that the chemical and allied industries em ploy the greatest number of re search workers. Next come the petroleum, electrical communication and electrical machinery, and, the rubber industries. B.V.D. Is Air Industry's Own Alphabetical Agency WASHINGTON. ? America's air craft industry, it was disclosed by P. G. Johnson, president of the Boe ing Aircraft company of Seattle, has taken a leaf from the government's book of alphabetical agencies and created one of. its own?the B.V.D. committee?as part of the country's national defense and aid-to-Britain program. The committee, consisting of 60 engineers and other technicians, de rived its designation from the three West coast plants which supplied its personnel?Boeing, Vega and Douglas. It was organized when the war department and the Office of Production Management decided to speed up the production of long range, four-engine bombers, in the President's new production goal of 500 such ships a month in the de fense and aid-to-Britain program, by having Boeing "flying fortresses" built not only in Seattle but also by the Vega Airplane company, a Lock heed subsidiary, and the Douglas Aircraft company, in the Los An geles area. Infant Mortality Cut Heavily in 20 Year* TORONTO.?Infant mortality in the United States has declined by 46 per cent over a period of 20 years, and the death rate among children from 1 to 14 years old has decreased by 60 per cent, Dr. Louis I. Dublin told the annual meeting of the American Institute of Actuaries here. Dr. Dublin, who is vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, presented the figures in a study of infant mor tality made jointly with Mortimer Spie?elman of the same company. The improvement has been accel erated in the past decade, the report stated, pointing out that in the years 1920-'29 infant mortality declined 23 per cent, while in the years 1930 39 it declined 30 per cent. "Equally important, there is no sign of slackening in the rate of improvement," the report said. It added that such extraordinarily low mortality rates have been reached by some of the ages within the 1 to 14-year group that further appreci able reduction appears difficult Overly Cautious Driver Called Safety Hazard; ANN ARBOR. MICH.?The mental and physical incompetents aren't the only hazards to highway traffic safety, in the opinion of Dr. Lowell S. Selling. Dr. Selling, attached to Detroit recorder's court psychopathic clinic, finds equally potentially harmful the indifferent the indolent, the overly cautious and the irritable motorists. Also dangerous, he thinks, are farmers, who, after the slow tempo of die country, find metropolitan traffic bewildering and drive around as on open roads. Girls Now Sailors On Russian Vessels MOSCOW. ? Girls an being taken aboard Soviet vessels to serve as sailors and navigators. Klmsomol Pravda, paper of the Communist youth organization, announced. It said the White Sea Onega Steamship line had given Jobs to SI girls, some of them veterans of the rinnish war. 'iflwirrt-iil ?iKi J'~i "t ?*. WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features?WlfU Service.) NEW YORK.?a few years ago, Anita Loos' maid used to de liver to her every day a dash of gopher dust from Harlem. Wa _ haven't Strang Manuscript heard wheth A cross Continent; er this still Her Net, $600,000 fg seems to be still working. All goes well as "Blossoms in the Dust" gets warm, almost fulsome from the crit ics. Miss Loos did the screen play for Ralph Wheelwright's story. It taps deep founts of tears and ranges far from Miss Loos' "Gen tlemen Prefer Blondes," and its Lorelei Lee, the alluring and un abashed golddigger of 1925. It's one of those "where are they noWT" stories, with Miss Loos sitting pretty, literally and figuratively, as a deft, swift, workmahlike story adapter, scenarist and remodeler in Hollywood?one of the best. The pint-siae girl with bangs? weight 97 pounds, height four feet, eleven inches?was riding on the train from California to New York in 1925, considerably bored. She started writing op this goiddigger Lorelei, with a soft-stab pencil, in big, round letters. The manuscript strong along clear through Kansas and Indiana and en to New York, and was almost as big as Miss Loos, what with those big rope trick letters, when she landed here. It brought her something over 1600,000. It was translated into vir tually every language except Es kimo and pigeon-talk, and in Eng land its sales passed those of any other American book. She later wrote "Bat Gentlemen Marry Bru nettes." Her talent for humor may have been inherited from her father, a country newspaper publisher and humorist of the BUI Nye school, of Mssons. Calif., where Miss Loos was born. She was a shy, quaint little thing, hanging around the newspaper shop, helping polish np a gag or feed the flatbed. When she was M, she sent a story to the New York Morning Telegraph. They printed it. A year later David Grifllth sent for a girl who had sent a scenario which had set his assistants to whooping Joyously. "What can I do lor you, my child?" he asked when the tiny girl with bangs and pigtails came in. The Loos girl showed him her sum mons to Hollywood. There she was and is. In the years between she had become a pretty good actress, appearing in San Francisco and oth er California cities. ? JUST a year ago, Roger L. Put J nam, go-getting mayor of Spring field, Mass., was much in the news with the Putnam plan to break bot _ tlenecks in Management, Over industry. He Finance, Rapidly caught the Forging Into Lead -??& ? his success in achieving co-opera tion among the city, industry and labor, the most important detail of his formula being the training at la bor by the city, to fit specific needs. He's in the Dews as Springfield's defense director with some snappy suggestions about the swift and ef fective integration ef civilians and officials, and private and public facilities. His successful battles with two floods and a hurricane give weight to his words. He's Harvard, ISIS, did a P.O. stretch at MJ.T., worked at engineering and was in the navy in the World war. In the navy ha learned to eraehet cord belts, an art which he still practices, and Pntnaa-autde belts are in great demand among his friends. He Is the father of three bays and three girts, U years old, stocky In build, but quick-moving both hi person and speech. Be Is president of the Package Machinery Co. More and more manafement, aa above, ia coming to the top, aa againat finance. Note Jamea Burn ham'a new book, "The Managerial Revolution,"?malign over there rtill benign over here. ??? A WIZARD in electrometallurgy ia Dr. Francie C. Fury, who nplaina the exact oaaa to which aluminum pota and pane may be put in expediting defense. Since MIS be has been director of the rw search laboratories of the Aluminum Company of America at Keystone, Pa. His work made possible over 1,000 uses at aluminum. He was schooled at the University of Minnesota and the University of Berlin. He then taught for seven years and became an indurtrial re search worker in MM. Mistakes to Be Avoided In Summer Care of Dogi ??r\OG DAYS" are coming, but s-' they needn't bother your dog. With simple, right summer care he'll be healthy and cool as a cucumber! Do not clip him, for he sheds his undercoat, leaving his outer coat to protect him against the Baths, Clipping Can Be Harmful. hot sun, flies and mosquitoes. Comb and brush him regularly? but do not give him too many baths, as this removes the oil he needs to keep his coat healthy. ? ? ? Our 32-p?ge booklet gives the simple all year-round care that keeps a dog healthy. Tells how to choose your pet, feed, house break and groom him; how to train him to do clever tricks. Advises on dog sick nesses; has information on rabies. For your copy send order to: READER-HOME SERVICE US Sixth Avense New York City Enclose 10 cents in coin for your copy of HOW TO CHOOSE AND CARE FOR YOUR DOG. Name ??????????? Address Three-Day Sabbath The Khevzurs of the Caucasus mountains of Russia are the only people who observe a three-day sabbath, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, reports Collier's. Their only liquor is a beer brewed and served by the church at religious festivals and whose women are forbidden to have children during the first three years of their mar ried life. INDIGESTION ?ap aftct ti? HmH Oee tmv*d la the stemeeH ?r gelUl mey set ttt* ? b&U-tilgtv am the been. it Um fint ilfn o( distress ?Ht MM Md MM a?M< 00 BtO ui Tobiou to MnlM. No Uxgtlve but mm* at Um futaat Two Power* There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is al ways beaten by the mind.?Napo leon L /MIDDLE-AGES WOMEN &KS] HEED THIS ADVICE 11 ?Thoumnds at woman an helped to go smil ing thru distress pecul br this period In life? with Lrdla B. 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