Brworaie Walp
Bellefonte, Pa., September 30, 1927.
Poet’s Glider Almost
Too Eager in Action
Long ago, in Algeria, a French poet,
contributed unknowingly to the ad-
vancement of aerial conquest, says the
Alr Station News, biweekly publication
of the naval air station at Pensacola,
Fla. Mouillard was his name and he
constructed his glider from the study
of birds.
Starting early, as is the custom of
later-day pilots, he buckled on his
wings and started down the road wait-
ing for a favorable breeze. The road
down which he “took off” was raised
five or six feet above the surrounding
plains and was bordered on both sides
by ditches some ten feet wide. His
wings felt light. Running forward te
test their life, he thought to amuse
himself by jumping ore of the ditches.
The result is told in his own words:
“So I took a good run across the
road and jumped. My feet did not
come down to earth. I was gliding on
the air and making vain efforts to
land, for my airplane had set out on a
cruise. I dangled only a few feet from
the soil, but do what I could I could
not reach it, and I was skimming
along without the power to stop. At
last, my feet touched the earth. I
fell forward on my head and broke my
wings and all was over, but goodness,
how frightened I had been.”
Bones May Be Those
of Famous Drunkards
Human remains, buried under two
or three yards of debris which had
fallen from the ceiling of a great un-
derground grotto,. were discovered,
seven miles north of Jerusalem by
Prof. William Bade, head of the Amer-
fcan archeological expedition which
unearthed the huge city wall, greater
than that of Jerusalem itself, Pierre
Van Paassen writes, in the Atlanta
Constitution. It has been suggested
that Tel el Nasbeth is the site of the
treasure city of Solomon. Professor
Bade discovered a natural limestone
eave artificially enlarged to a great
underground chamber. The entrance
to the grotto was found in the base-
ment of a large building. From the
entrance stone steps led to the bowels
of the earth and to the cave. The hu-
man remains were apparently buried
by ancient earthquakes. Beneath the
debris was found a number of great
wine jars of the Seventh century B.
C., indicating that the chamber, above
which was a wine press, was a store
for the reputed drunkards of Ephraim.
(“Woe to the crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim,” Isaiah 28:1).
Antiquity of “Gent”
A Croxley Green reader is at a loss
fo know why a learned judge should
have taken exception to the abbrevia-
tion “Gent” in legal documents, “It
#8,” he writes, “time honored, even
theugh nowadays it may appear to be
a vulgar. cockneyism. Upon many
monumental inscriptions it may be
found in place of ‘man,’” and he
quotes one of 1564 in a Shropshire
ehurch, which refers to ‘Ye body of ye
worthy gent,” ete.
“The word ‘gent’ here is not in-
«ended to indicate his social status, as
it is followed by ‘Esquire,’ which does
place him.” Nevertheless the abbre-
viation has come to be regarded as not
only colloquial but vulgar. Was it not
0. W. Holmes who solemnly warned
his countrymen against using such ex-
pressions as ‘a gent in a flowered
west” ?—London Morning Post.
Old Hawaiian Custom
fhe custom of casting chelo ber-
wes into the crater of the Kilauea vol-
gano is a very ancient one in Hawaii.
The object is to propitiate the god-
dess Pele. The goddess Pele appears
in various guises. [Formerly it was
believed that she would never allow
the volcano to harm any individuals
but the recent flows of lava have
shown this to be not true. Red flags
are often placed to mark the bounda-
ries of the village and a live pig is
tied in front as a sacrifice to the god-
dess. Kilauea is merely a crater on
the eastern slope of Mauna Loa, which
is the largest volcano in the world,
though not the loftiest.
Children at Play
Fhe noises of children, playing their
own fancies—as I now hearken to
them by fits, sporting on the green
before by window, while I am en-
gaged in these grave speculations at
my neat suburban retreat at Shackle-
well—by distance made more sweet—
inexpressibly take from the labor of
my task. It is like writing to music.
They seem to modulate my periods.
They ought at least to do so—for in
the voice of that tender age there is a
kind of poetry, far unlike the harsh
prose-accents of man’s conversation.—
Charles Lamb, in Essays of Elia.
Many-Legged Optimist
Several belated examination papers
tell! us that “posters are sheets of
paper pasted on blackguards;” that
“gn optimist is a thing with a lot of
Hittle legs;” that “an aqueduct does
marvelous things at a circus;” and
that “Ali Baba means away when the
erime was committed.” Also that “R.
8 V. P.* means “received same very
prompt.” Too many students get their
Jearning by ear and net very well then,
--Capper’s Weekly,
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
FIELD ILLUMINATED
BY AIRPLANE'S HUM
Ingenious Electric Device
That Aids Night Flying
Pittsburgh, Pa.—A formidabie en-
emy of night ftying—the unillumi-
nated landing fleld—was conquered
automatically by the modern wizardy
of electricity. at Bettis field, McKees-
port, the other night. At a public
demonstration there the hum of a
plane, iione - thousand. feet in the air,
closed a switch on the landing field.
A bank of airport floodlights was
turned on, and an instant later the
pilot was gliding safely along a path
of illumination that was called into
being by the voice of his own plane.
Thousands witnessed the successful
exhibition of the sound-sensitive au-
tomatic lighting agency developed by
T. Spooner, research engineer of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing company,
Merle Moltrup, chief of the air mail
pilots at Bettis field, made the land-
ing which opens a new volume in the
annals of aviation,
Essentially the function of the de-
vice is to use the drone of an air-
plane to control electrical energy. At
first this controlled energy is a tiny
weakling, but it is nursed along by
a corps of amplifiers, and finally
emerges as a husky child capable of
closing a good-sized lighting switch.
This switch locks automatically and
the lights remain on until turned off
by the field attendant.
Loud Speaker Reversed.
A loud speaker constitutes the “ear”
of the mechanism. It works in re-
verse order, inhaling rather than ex-
haling sound., The loud speaker laid
on its back gives the apparatus a di-
rective effect with reference to noises
‘from ‘above. A microphone completes
the auditory section. - After passing
through the initial amplifier the im-
pulse is received by a resonant cir-
cuit set, tuned to the dominant fre-
quency of the airplane drone, Here
a second amplifier does its work and
then the thread is picked up by a
device which has an amplifying power
of 100,000,000.
The electrical impulse, which a
split second before was awakened by
the hum of the plane, is now ready
for the time-limit relay—the last step
in the process before the long arm of
electricity reaches out to close the
power switch. :
The time-limit relay is a vital unit
in the Spooner sound-selective switch,
Without this feature the automatic
lighting mechanism might be operated
by sporadic transient noises. With
the time-limit feature nothing less
than the continuous hum, character-
istic of the moving plane, will op-
erate the apparatus and light the
field: Lacking this unit the appara-
tus would be like a nerve frazzled
watchman, who, startled by the
slightest disturbance, jumps to the
lighting switch, not knowing whether
the noise he heard cdife from the
air or the earth. The time-limit
agency gives the Spooner device the
advantage’ bf the self-possessed watch-
man who knows what he is about te
do before he acts.
New Type of Projector.
The lights that went into action
automatically came from a new type
of airport projector developed by the
Westinghouse company,
The new unit is designed to fur:
nish sufficient illumination over an
uneven field, at the same time keep-
ing the source of light low and elimi-
nating objectionable glare in the eyes
of the aviator. It consists essentially
of a steel drum 25 inches in diameter
and 19 inches deep, mounted on a 21
inch pipe standard. Mounted within
the drum are a lamp socket with ver-
tical, lateral and in-and-out focusing
adjustments, a 23-inch parabolic
metal reflector of such focal length
that all reflected rays come apnroxi-
mately within a 3 degree diverg-
ence, and a system of louvers to ab-
sorb all those rays of direct light
the upward tilt of which exceeds 115
degrees. A spread lens mounted in
front of the shell gives a horizontal
spread of 45 degrees to the beam.
The unit is so mounted on the pipe
standard that it may be rotated hori-
zontally, or tilted vertically two de-
grees above and six degrees below
the horizontal. It is dust and rain
proof.
When equipped with a 1,500-watt
projection lamp and spread lens, the
unit gives a maximum intensity of
250,000 C. P., with an estimated in-
tensity with plain lens of 3,000,000
C. P. The projector may be accu-
rately focused by the use of a day-
light lamp-setter developed for the
purpose.
Eskimos Like to
Have Teeth Pulled
New York.—Eskimos like to have
their teeth pulled, says Dr. Leuman
M. Waugh, professor of orthodontia
at the Columbia School of Dental
and Oral Surgery, In a report sent
from the Labrador coast, and made
public at Columbia university.
He left New York June 28 to carry
on researches with the Eskimo tribes
in northern Labrador and the Un-
gava bay region.
Extraction brings smiles instead of
wry faces, according to Doctor Waugh
who sailed on the Nanu, a thirty-four-
foot sea skiff, with a crew of two
sailors and his young son, Donald,
to disprove the theory advanced by
Howard Mummery of Birmingham,
England, in 1890 that the teeth of
Eskimos were stronger than those of
any other primitive peoples.
TASTE TEST BEST
ICE CREAM GUIDE
Tongue Precise Instrument in
Gauging Quality.
Washington.—The human tongue is
a better scientific instrument than it
is usually credited with being, at least
so far as the great American dish,
ice cream, is concerned. Recent ex-
periments made by the United States
Department of Agriculture indicate
a rather close correspondence between
the “taste test” of a large number of
persons and the more precise deter-
minations of quality made by instrv-
mental means.
The first test involved three ice
creams of varying butterfat content.
These, containing 18, 15 and 12 per
cent, were fed to fifty dairy pur-
chasers for a period of ten days. In
each instance freezing and hardening
conditions were alike, the consumer
changing his choice at will. The re-
sult was that 82 per cent of the sam-
plers favored the ice cream of 18 per
cent butterfat content. :
The second test proposed to show
whether or not sugar strongly af-
fects the palatability of ice cream. An
experiment was made with mixes con-
- taining 19, 16 and 13 per cent of cane
sugar. About 90 per cent of the con-
sumers preferred the 16 per cent com-
position.
The third experiment tested the ef
cect of nonfat milk solids on the pal-
atability of ice cream. For a period
of six weeks three mixes of 12, 9 and
6 per cent nonfat milk solids were
sold. More than 80 per cent of the
1,185 sales showed a preference for a
9 per cent nonfat milk solid rather
than the commercial ice cream with
but 6 per cent.
A debated point among ice cream
magnates concerns the popularity of
sice cream containing gelatin.’ or
years it was used as a stabilizer, that
is, to prevent the ready formation of
ice crystals. Nowadays iceless refrig-
eration eliminates that possibility, so
many manufacturers do without gel-
atin altogether.
Yet some persons prefer the smooth
taste gelatin gives to ice cream. In-
deed, experiment 4 showed that some
63 per cent of 394 purchasers pre-
ferred ice cream with 1 per cent geia-
tin. Twenty-three per cent wanted ice
cream entirely without it and the
others insisted on a content of 0.5 per
cent,
England Has Biggest
Flying Boat in World
Hull, England.—England’s newest
ailitary airplane is a veritable bat-
tleship of the air.
it is the largest flying ship in the
world, one of the wings alone being
almost large enough to provide a
landing place for a light airplase.
The hull is of duralumin and stafn-
less steel.
Christened the Iris II, the huge fly-
ing boat takes off from the water at
a speed of.50 knots. In its hull are
ample quarters and sleeping accom:
modations for ‘a crew of five. Bunks
can be folded up when not in use.
The radio operator's room is a sep-
arate noise-proof compartment.
fhe dreadnought of the skies Is
equipped with large fresh-water stor-
cooking apparatus. It can remain in
rhe air 14 hours and can cruise in
the air or remain at her moorings
nine months out of the year.
Fair and Warmer
(ape May, N. J.-—Miss Dolores Dor-
man, 20, is known as “little fair and
warmer,” She is an official weather
observer for the United States, and
when not making observations and
deductions, finds time to play the vio-
lin, ride horseback, dance and swim.
German, Jailed, Says
He Was French Spy
Detroit.—A tale of a native
bern German, that he served as
a French spy during the World
war, was before authorities
here, with the arrest of Carl H.
Eifles, confessed impersonator
of a Seattle (Wash.) physician,
and his arraignment on a
charge of practicing medicine
without a license.
Eifles, who is sald to have
performed 30 major operations
here, was held in the county
jail in default of $2,000 bond:
after pleading guilty. Arrested
under the name of Dr. Ernest
Flehme, graduate of a German
? university, Eifies confessed that
he came to Detroit and assumed
the name after leaving North
Dakota, where he practiced in
towns under the names of Dr.
Maximilian N. Schneller, Dr, V.
D. Whepon, Dr. William Sauer,
Dr. John L. Refferty, Dr. S.
Tersiel and Dr. Rudolph Young.
Eifles, who claims he was
graduated from a Berlin med
ical school, told James A.
Chenot, chiet assistant prose
cuting attorney, that at the out-
break of the World war he of-
fered his services to the French
secret service, since he was not
in sympathy with the German
military system. During the
conflict, he added, he spent
some time behind the German
lines, serving as an agitator,
and on one occasion caused a
near mutiny in two regiments
by his propaganda.
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below. Neo letters geo im the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words,
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quence 8—Ceremony 6—Three-toed sloth
10—Preposition 11—Like 6—Heavenly body
13—Note of scale T—A falsehood 9—foa eagle
14—Land measure 16—A decree 12—To stick with a knife
17—Fruit of the oak
,19—Card game
:21—F'rozen beverages
22—Device for shooting an arrow
‘34—Insect * 26—Practical joke
127T—Own (Scot.)
{28—To hone a razor
130—Exclamation of disgust
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36—8mall ball of medicine
;38—Method of preparing eggs
40—Egyptian city
{48—Middlewestern state (abbr.)
144—To exist 46—Printing measure
i46—Indefinite article
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13—A certainty
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18—Bone 30—Boy’s plaything
21—Writing fluid 23—Anger
24—To irritate 26—Atmosphere
28—Gloomy
39—Soft drink
80—To drill
32—Exact
33—Eastern state (abbr.)
34—Earth’s path around sun.
36—A javelin
37—Long Island (abbr.)
38—To occupy a chair
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Electric “Fish Ladders” Save Salmon.
Transportation for fish is now an
established fact. By means of “fish
railroads” and the longest “fish lad-
ders” in the world, milions of salmon
have been enabled to climb upstream
past a 265-foot dam to reach their
spawning grounds in the spring, says
the Pennsylvania Public Service In-
tformation Committee.
These same fish, together with the
millions of young salmon, later leap
safely down that same dam on their
way to the sea. The electric power
companies in the American Northwest
have made this possible. The North-
{ west needed the electric ' power pro-
{duced by the falling water, so that
ithe dams were necessary. The sal-
{mon fishing industry, however, would
have been dealt a severe blow if the
! fish had been unable to reach their
! { usual spawning beds.
age tanks and carries an electrical :
The plan was worked out success-
: fully on the Baker River, one of the
‘two main salmon rivers in the State
i of Washington, where engineers con-
i structed a series of flumes and fish
i ladders with low jumps and resting
| pools, each with a gate to prevent the
| fish from turning back from their trip
upstream. The last stage of the
journey is a train railroad with a tank
car pulled by a cable.
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new system would work until this
year’s run of salmon began, but it
soon proved successful. When the
downward run of young salmon start-
ed, five and six-inch fish went over
the dam at the rate of 10,000 an hour,
dropping with the falling water into
be deep pools below and swimming
off.
——Don’t borrow your neighbor’s
paper to see what is going on. Sub-
scribe for the Watchman.
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