Bellefonte, Pa., October 17, 1930.
[MPURE RADIUM
ONLY LUMINOUS TYPE.
Only impure radium is luminous,
according to a report made by Paul
M. Tyler, chief engineer of the rare
metals and non-metals division of
the Bureau of Mines, Department of
Commerce. The fact that a faint
glow often comes from tubes of
radium salts is explained by the
faint glow that sometimes is exhib-
ties, Mr. Tyler said.
«Radium alone is not luminous,”
Mr. Tyler's statement reads. “The
faint glow that sometimes is exhib-
ited by tubes of radium salts is
owing to impurities. By mixing
radioactive material with zinc sul-
phide, a paint that will glow in the
dark may be produced.
According to one authority, it was
a shoemaker of Bologna who noted,
more than 300 years ago, that heavy
spar heated in charcoal possessed
the property of glowing in the dark
after it had been exposed to light.
Other phosphorescent powders, most-
ly blends of zinc sulphide and alkali
sulphide, were discovered subse-
quently, and were used for produc-
ing temporary stage effects, for ex-
ample, long before the discovery of
radium made it possible to maintain
the phosphorescent glow for an in-
definite period.”
Mr. Tyler said that the ingredients
and formulas for producing luminous
plants change from time to time.
In the United States, he said, paint
used on watch dials has consisted
mainly of crystalline zinc sulphide
mixed with various proportions of
radium, mesothorium and radioth-
orium to obtain the greatest de-
gree of luminosity. At first zinc
sulphide was made luminous by
radium alone, but later cheaper
methods were found by using meso-
thorium and radiothorium.
“As reported by Dr. Martland,
the paint used by girls in a New
Jersey factory contained chiefly zinc
sulphide, rendered luminous by ac-
tivation with about 20 to 30 per
cent radium and from 70 to 80 per
cent mesothorium containing radio-
thorium. He quotes other author-
ities to the effect that these paints
may contain all the way from 7 to
3 and even 4 millograms of radium
element to 100 grams of zinc sul-
phide. Impurities may be added to
the zinc sulphide as follows:
mium, .05 per cent; copper, .001 per
cent; manganese, .0002 per cent.”
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CATCHNG INSECTS WITH TRAPS
Experiments to catch insects with
light traps are being undertaken on
a large scale by Dr. P. J. Parrott,
of the New York state agricultural
experiment station. Though the
basic is old, no definitely quantita-
tive work has ever been done to see
just how helpful this mode of at-
tracting insects can be to harassed
fruit growers.
The work, which was started in
1927 with the co-operation of the
Empire State Gas & Electric Co.
showed a catch of close to 50,000
during the first season for the traps
set in orchards, a goodly proportion
of the haul being winged adult
forms of destructive pests. More
codling moths were found in the
traps set in cold storage plants
stored than
an interesting
where fruit had been
out in ithe orchards,
point that shows the liabilities as
well as advantages of modern facil-
ities in fruit distribution.
The most striking results were
obtained with traps placed in dairies
and designed to kill house and sta-
ple flies by contact with electrical
current.
“Operating for a period of 60
days, one trap destroyed approxi-
mately 100,000 flies,” said Dr. Par-
rott, “and during favorable condi-
tions of weather a day's catch
would sometimes exceed 2,500 spec-
imens. Future studies directed to
determining the efficiency and cost
of operation of the contrivances un-
der conditions different from those
that obtained in (the experiments
described are worth serious con-
sideration.”
In general the strongest bulbs at-
tracted the most insects, though
some preferred frosted bulbs. Where
colored bulbs were used, light yel-
low, light blue-green and daylight
shades seemed to be most favored.
PEE———
FOUR SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR AMBITIOUS BOYS.
Fred Fisher, head of the famous
Detroit family, perfected himself as
a builder of carriages by selecting
different plants to work in almost
every year when he was a young
man. He wanted to learn all that
was known about the art— to him
it was nota commonplace trade but
an art affording scope for the most
scientific and artistic skill. when
still a young fellow, he rose to be
general manager of the
mous carriage building concern in the
country.
That party explains why the Fisher
‘Body Corporation, now a devision of
General Motors, has organized the
Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild and
is offering four University scholar-
ships of $5,000 each and more than
900 other awards totaling fully $50-
000 to the boys who build the best
miniature of a Napoleonic coach.
Any one of General Motors’ car
dealers can supply boys and youths
with particulars.
The aim is to foster “that spirit
of fine workmanship which per-
meated the craft guilds of bygone
centuries.” The Fisher brothers
believe that boys taking part who
will soon be entering their life
work, soon will be “better equipped
through training received as Guild
members to achieve greater heights.”
Anything calculated to induce
boys and youths to fit themselves
to succeed in the world is to be ap-
plauded. Only compentent workers
are happy workers,
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FARM NOTES.
Fallen leaves should be raked
and piled for use as a mulch, pro-
tection for perennial beds, or for
manure for next year's garden.
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made by another. Feed each cow
according to her production. A high
producing cow needs much more
grain than a low producer.
If green feed is not available
for the chickens, germinated oats
will give satisfactory results, say
State College poultry specialists.
__Members of Pennsylvania co-
operatives will meet at State Col-
lege, November 20, 21, and 22, for
their fifth annual conference.
— Spring flowering bulbs may be
planted now. Bulbs planted in
clumps of five are far more at-
tractive than those planted in single
, TOWS.
__It is estimated that the Ameri-
can farmer is at least four times
as efficient as any other farmer in
the world. Increased efficiency
brings greater volume and, unfor-
tunately, sometimes unwieldy sur-
pluses of some commodities result.
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ficient stores of good quality for
the winter should be fed sugar Syr-
up before cold weather comes.
—A foal makes more than half : RIGID
of its entire growth during the first
ear. If stunted during this time,
the colt will never fully recover.
Proper feed and care are important.
—Grease is better
protecting plowshares from rust
when they are stored for the win-
ey, as the grease stays where it is
put.
— The heat waves this summer
were responsible for damaging the
grape crop of J. E. Angle, although
in an indirect manner.
Honey bees took to Angle's arbors
when the dry weather interfered
with their regular food supply from
the flowers.
Angle, however, saved some of the
grapes.
, —Potted roses, planted now in
a bed which has been well pre-
pared, should give a greater amount
of bloom next spring. Water well
after planting and protect them
during the long winter months.
‘often the only remedy for bad out-
i breaks of cannibalism in confined
flocks of pullets.
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__Do not waste time and money
in raising heifer calves unless they
are from cows with high milk pro-
duction records and from a sire which
also is from a high producing cow.
Cows are good or poor milk pro-
ducers according to their blood in-
heritance, say State College dairy
specialists.
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__Cost of production is just as
important on the farm as in the
factory. Profitable agriculture de-
mands, however, that effecient and
economical distribution must follow
closely upon the heels of low cost
production.
__Qladioli, dahlias, cannas, and
tuberoses should be lifted after the
first heavy frost. They should be
cleaned and stored ina clean cellar.
__The birds selected for breeders
need arest during October, Novem-
ber and December. Give them free
range if possible.
__Packing cases protect the bees
in hives from the winter cold and
reduce the amount of labor required
to maintain the cluster temperature.
Get plans and instructions for build-
ing and use of the cases from your
county agent.
_ From now until Christmas or
later, lettuce, spinach, endive, and
celery, in the order named, will
furnish greens and salads for the
family diet.
_ Recent discussions as to the
relative merits of New York apples
and those from ithe West may go on
indefinitely, for the choice of the
prize apple depends on the judge's
ate. But on one point all ap-
| ple-eaters are agreed. The results
‘of a world-wide census, made known
at the recent International Horti-
cultural Congress in London, show
that a Red Apple is the general
preference. Regardless of flavor,
texture or food value, a red apple
will sell better anywhere on earth
than a yellow, green or. brown one.
* Perhaps this is due to the attrac-
tion to bright colors. Or it may
be that literary allusions have made
us regard good apples as always
red. Yet gold apples abound in
fiction as far back as the Hesperides.
| And it might be supposed that such
' goodly apples as the Grimes Golden
{or the Yellow Bellflower might have
inherited some of their glamour.
But they, along with greenings and
| russets, cannot compete with even
‘a mediocre red apple.
| Apple-eaters are generally agreed
| that the best flavor is a subtle
blend of sweetness and tartness, As
to the best kind of flesh for an
apple, tastes differ, some preferring
a firm, crisp type and others de-
manding just the opposite, a soft,
melting, mellow flesh, even though
the flavor is inferior.
If there be any to rise up and
refute these findings he will doubt-
less come from the ranks of the
cooks. There are large and luscious
looking red apples which no amount
of cooking can reduce to the con-
sistency of smooth apple sauce.
There are some green ones that need
only to be heated thoroughly to melt
deliciously. It waquld be safe to
bet “one little red apple,’ that cooks
prefer good “cookers,” regardless of
color.
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1924 Studebaker Sedan ........ $ 35.00 1928 Mazwell Sem $ 150.00
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TESTS WILL
MARK AUTO INSPECTION.
law Pennsylvania's bu-
vehicles may not burn
destroy automobiles
Under the
reau of motor
or otherwise
operation, as is being done in New
Jersey, but it has authority to re-
voke or refuse registration for such
vehicles.
«If during the inspection period
which began September 15 any car
or truck is returned to us as being
mechanically beyond redemption,”
revoke its registration,
Commissioner Benjamin G.
Eynon. “In my travels recently I
have seen cars which I believe will
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PRAYERS FOR RAIN FUTILE
LEADING PREACHERS AGREE
Prayers for rain are futile, in the
opinion of a majority of prominent
American clergymen who took part
in a symposium conducted by the
magazine Christian Century.
One fundamentalist leader, how-
ever, Dr. Mark Mathews, of Seattle,
declared that God had answered
prayers for rain in Biblical days and
that he could do it again if he so
desired.
Another answer on the positive
side came from Dr. James M. Gray,
| president of the Moody Bible Insti-
tute of Chicago. He upheld the pos-
have a difficult time procuring 0. K.
stickers.
inspectors will check the inspection
The numbers of such cars |
have been recorded and when the
$ . q : $ u’s ?
inspection period ends this bureau's oo" voile
could change it.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick,
led the doubters,
of
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ticket and the car’s condition. If ; scoffed at prayer as a means of
it is found that the machine has
been ‘eased by by
mechanics registration will be re-
voked and the mechanic or repair
shop placed on the bureau's black-
list. :
“During the inspection periods of
the last two years advantage was
taken of the Commonwealth by
money-hungry repairmen who used
approved stickers merely to drum
up trade in gasoline, tires or acces-
sories. So far as it has been pos-
sible to uncover them, these of-
fenders will examine no vehicles in
the future.”
Pennsylvania’s motor vehicle in-
spection period began September 15
and continues to midnight of Octo-
per 31. Applications from me-
chanics and repair shops are now be-
ing filed, Against these applica-
tions are being checked complaints
lodged by citizens who charge me-
chanical gyppery or incompetence on
the part of repairmen. If Com-
missioner Eynon can prevent,
no station will be authorized to in-
spect vehicles unless its mechanics
are capable men of long experience.
«All motor cars must be inspect-
ed,” said Commissioner Eynoon, “but
if their_owners will report bad work-
manship or unskilled inspection we
shall see to it that incapables are
not on our list of examiners.
OUR MARRYING MUDDLE
There are more ways of getting
married in America than in any
other country on earth.
In fact, there are forty-eight
ways, and if Texas ever exercises
its right to subdivide into smaller
States there may be just that many
more,
So many States, so many mar-
riage laws and methods of getting
a license.
About the only way in which they
| resemble is that in almost all it is
lenient '
getting rain,
“No imaginable connection exists
between a man’s inward, spiritual
attitude and a rainstorm,” said Dr.
Fosdick. He pleaded for an aban-
donment of “crude, obsolete super-
naturalism in this benighted and un-
civilized country.”
Dr. W. P. Lemon, of Minneapolis,
called prayer for rain an attempt to
involve God in “a co-operative
scheme to maintain present Ameri-
can living standards.” It is, he said,
too much like asking God to send
an earthquake to aid an excava-
tion or a hurricane to complete a
wrecking job.
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PERSHING 70, STILL AT WORK.
General John J. Pershing is 70
years old and putting in the usual
eight hours of work on projects in
which he 1s engaged. 2
These projects are a symbol of
the A. E. F. commander's disbelief
that the biblical “three score years
and ten” should be a signal for a
man to retire, and he feels other
people should continue to work as
long as they are able and no mat-
ter what their age.
“I hold that any active man or
woman, of whatever age, always
can find something useful to do,”
he said in reply to a query con-
cerning reurement at 70.
On Sept. 13, 1924, Pershing was
compelled to retire from the mili-
tary service because of the Army
regulation which asserts a military
man is no longer useful after he
is 64. But since then Pershing has
been busy.
He has been directing the con-
struction of war memorials on the
principal battlefields of France, and
this work has taken him overseas
at least once a year for three or
four months at a time.
Pershing has been similarly oc-
cupied in the United States. He
easier to geta marriage license than!
a driving license, though a little
more difficult than to get a fishing |
permit or a dog license.
According to a survey conducted
for the Russell Sage Foundation,
only two States—Florida and New
Mexico— have no statutory disquali-
fications.
Feeble-mindedness is the most
common bar in the other forty-six
States, but insanity is not a speci-
fied disqualification in Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Con-
necticut and Louisiana.
Medical certificates are required
of male candidates for matrimony in
Alabama, Louisiana, North Dakota,
Oregon, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Personal application for a mar-
riage license is not required in
thirty-six States, and in five of
these it is expressly provided that
neither candidate need apply.
Five States call for personal ap-
plications by one of the parties,
and seven require both to apply in
person.
: And so on and so on down the
line to the matter of residential
qualifications.
But whatever the comedy of var-
iations in the matter of obtaining
a marriage license, it is mildly
amusing as compared with the con-
tradictions in regard to divorce. As
each State unites, so does it sep-
arate in its own sweet way.
U. S. FOURTH IN FORESTRY
Russia has the most extensive
forests. Next comes the British
Empire, third Brazil, and fourth,
the United States, says the Ameri-
can Tree Association. These four
countries together have within their
borders nearly two-thirds of the
forest land in the world. The re-
maining third is divided among more
than 50 nations.
has been supervising the collection
of funds for the National Cathedral
in Washington.
And the General has been work-
ing on his book on his World War
experiences,
Even in personal affairs Pershing
is no less active at 70 than he was
at 64. He walks a great deal. He
also enjoys horseback riding and
many of his evenings are spent at
formal social affairs.
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TOM THUMB GOLF.
Miniature golf is not only a pop-
ular sport; it has become the dress
parade of ithe democracy.
Players are dressing for it as so-
ciety once dressed for the races and
as it still does for the opening night
of a grand opera season.
Fine feathers may not make fine
players, but what does the score
card matter if ithe sporting outfit
shows to full advantage?
Decoration is older than dress and
to strut is a human instinct.
Men and women painted their
bodies long before they thought of
clothing them. Of late years they
have been wearing less and less,
but moralists need not be alarmed.
What may not be preserved for
modesty will still be preserved for
decoration.
And the decorated human loves to
be admired; loves to attract atten-
tion, and there is no better oppor-
tunity thanithe brightly lighed stage-
like setting of the miniature golf
course:
It is an all too-conservative esti-
mate that gives $125,000,000 as
the total expenditure on the new
sport. That is not the half of it. A
far greater amount has been spent
in dressing for the game,
That is good for business. The
sport takes young and old into the
open. That is good for health.
sibility of divine intervention in me-'
teorological affairs by declaring that
since God made the weather he also |
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ome people regard the making of a Will as
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last moment.
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will save your heirs a lot of trouble; it will
dispose of your estate as you wish; it will
relieve your mind.
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