THE PATTON COURIER : (0 wr Nass LN == UN ie ill i ih ne «tf gsrnay \ y gif Use of Wave Trap for Good Results Part Is Serviceable Even in Loop Receiver, Radio Expert Says. By JAMES H. CARROLL, Associate, Institute of Radlo Engineers, in Radio World. From all quarters of the compass come Inquiries as to wave traps and their uses and as to what Is the best type of trap to use for good results, Hvidently there is a great interest in this handy little apparatus, especially under present conditions; and even when the air Is eventually cleared a wave trap still will be a good thing to have around, Take as an example the solenoid wave trap, as represented by the “WEB" model, There are two main reasons theo- retically for the success of this kind of trap and one Is because of the solenoid winding which enables the electrical currents flowing through it to establish a more evenly balanced set of lines of force which concentrate themselves in the center of the tubing and upon the concentration point of the variable condenser. In this type of wave trap it has been discovered that this makes for efficiency and has a great deal to do with tuning. Micrometer adjustment of Interfer- ence elimination 1s necessary for re- Jector clircults. Therefore, when using a wave trap of this variety the con- denser plates will be pressed very slowly or the operator will not trap out the unwanted station. This is a point in favor of such a trap. Wave traps of this type can be ef- fectively used In many different places. If you have been unfortunate in obtaining good results with a wave trap you may not have used it in the right place. In other words, you may have Inserted it in your aerial circuit when it would give you the best re- sults in your ground circuit or some other place, instead, In the Aerial Circuit. Iet us first try the aerial circuit. Disconnect the aerial from your set and connect it to one of the posts on your wave trap. With a short wire connect the other post of the trap to the aerial post of. your set from whence you previously removed the aerial. This Is the simplest and most usual use of a wave trap, and it is a good one, but under certain conditions it will not prove the most effective. If by this method we do not succeed In perfectly eliminating an offending station on the lower wave lengths let us try Inserting our trap in the ground circuit. This Is done in the same way except that we substitute the ground wire for the aerial wire. This means Is especlally recommend- ed for efficlent low wave elimination but reports show that it also works equally well with the highest wave lengths and that also by this method additional stations have been tuned with a wave trap of the design we are discussing, Now, if we are working with a loop, we can connect our trap In the grid circuit, the most approved method of eliminating interference in such a case and the only way of using a wave trap with a loop set. First lo- cate your grid wire that goes to the tuning device In yomur set, either coil or condenser, Disconnect this wire at the point of contact with the grid post of the socket. Connect it to one end of a flexible wire about two feet long. Connect another piece of flex- ible wire of the same length at the place from which you disconnected the other wire and run these two wires outside. your set to your wave trap, attaching one wire to one post of the trap and the other to the other post of the trap. You are now ready to eliminate interference, This meth- od, even if it is a little more trouble- some to try out, {8 well worth while, because it will make any set selec- tive. Another Means May Be Used. Another means we may use Is the aerial and ground shunt, which Is one of the oldest methods known and among the most popular. All that need to be done to use this method of insulation Is to run a wire from the aerial post of the set without discon- necting the aerial wire to one of the posts of the wave trap. Then run another wire from the ground post of the set to the wave trap. Although no tuning can be done with a wave trap used in this way it functions as an excellent trapping system and sta- tiens in the vicinity of the set can be dominated by this means. Do not confuse a wave trap of thig type with an apparatus such as the centralab short wave selector, which is what the name implies and not a wave trap. It fills a very definite function of its own and can be used very satisfactorily In conjunction with a trap of the type we have selected as the best, While our testing was being done and before this article was completed, a letter came to hand from a fan sign- ing himself a Junior Radlo Bug ask- ing for practically the Information given In this text, and among other things Inquiring as to what became of the trapped station when it was cap- tured, probably figuring that It re- mained in the trap ramping around and beating its waves against the walls In a futile effort to escape. Well, Junior, you have staggered us here us we haven't the slightest idea as to what becomes of the invading station; our idea is that perhaps, get- ting Its nose or its tail pifiched In the trap, it tears away on the trail of other prey in the form of sets not protected by a beneficent wave trap. The earliest form of trap of any kind known to history was a pit dug in the ground by the caveman in front of his cave apartment, This was covered by twigs, branches and grasses so that it looked like a solid surface, Along came the marauding mammoth, in search of meat to vary his vegetarian diet, and tumbled in with a crash that shook the row of caves and dis- located every aerial in miles. Then, all that remained for Mr. Caveman and his tribe was to squat around the trap and sing and howl in chorus un- til they sang the threshing behemoth to death, In which case they became the partakers of meat. It is evident, then, that the inventor of the wave trap modeled it upon this efficient de- vice, taking a hole, or a pit, as it were, enclosing it in bakelite, dis- gulsing it with a solenoid winding and adding the pinching condenser that squeezes the Invading station until it howls for mercy. An Easily Made Coil, Cheap and Efficient Quite often in his experimenting a radlo fan needs a coll that Is easlly made, cheap and efficient. The mate- rlals needed for this coll are an ordl- nary drinking glass, some No. 24 D. 8. O. wire, a roll of tape, four Fahne- stock clips and a plece of thin wood. such as may be obtained from a cigar box. The wood should be cut to 134 by 41% inches and middle of the open end of the tumbler. Double a plece of the tape and wrap it TIT then placed across the] INGHAM, most versatile of fab- rics, has come into popular use for interiors as well as for the ward- robe. With the present peasant mode In interiors now sweeping the coun- try, decorators are turning more and more to gingham, Some are even using it as a wall covering in place of paper with great success. It is shel- lacked and can be kept clean with soap and water, From the dresser drape to the table- cloth and napkins there is scarcely any interior decoration that lends it- self to fabric that cannot be made from gingham. The dresser drape in the sketch may be made from any of the many beautiful colorful designs, and trimmed with plain gingham. The Coll Wound on Tumbler Will Greatly Reduce Losses. [ tightly across the glass and obliquely | over the wood. Then double another | piece of tape and place it over the glass and wood, so that it divides them | into four equal parts. Bend the clips in the middle and round them a little | so that they will fit against the curve of the glass. Slip the ends of the clips under the tape and to their end solder | the wire. The coil can then be mount: | ed by means of holes drilled in the wooden base. If the wire is wrapped | tightly around the glass and tape | there will be no danger of its slipping off, and the coil will-be found to be an efficient one.—Radlo News. Used Aerial Lead Fish to Pick Up the Message When the two-way radio apparatus falled, observers on the ground were perplexed as to how they could give instructions to occupants of an air- plane during army maneuvers, says Papular Mechanics Magazine, The problem was solved by tying the dis- patch in a tobacco sack weighted with small stones and attaching that to a string about twenty feet long, which was held taut by two men. The pilot, Informed by the panel signal to stand by for Instructions, descended close enough to see what was going on, then returned presently with the ra- dio antenna unreeled. As he ap- proached the men holding the string. he throttled the engine, allowing the lead “fish” at the end of the aerlal to hang more nearly vertical. Tt caught the cord and the message was hauled into the cockpit. This method Is now in general use for commmnnication in the air corps when the radio sets do not work and the panel signal will not glve sufficient data. Air Speeches Act as Tests for Receivers It may be annoying to listen to an uninteresting lecture, but there are certain definite dividends to be de- rived from tuning-in on one. One of the best ways to check up on the effi- clency of the set is to listen-in to some speaker and note how well the words come through, Do not feel satisfied if the announe- er's speech comes through in good shape. Announcers have a radio voice to begin with. They may be making an effort to speak plainly, no matter how unconscious this may be. The casual speaker, however, gives just a norinal broadcast, thus enabling the radioist to make an “average” test, If the words sound “mushy” and In- distinct, the chances are that the bat- terles are not up to par. Much of this mushiness is not so often noted in picking up music. Many just assume | gingham and three-fourths of a yard | signed material and an eighth of a that it is seme new orchestral effect plains come in colors to match the predominating shade in the design. It will require about seven yards with three yards for trim. The “lazy pad,” as it is called, sketched just under the dresser, is for the beach, yachting, lawn or picnic, where one may like to take a siesta in the open. It is simply made from two strips of gingham of the width re- quired. All ginghams come in 32-inch widths. To make the tablecloth will require one yard and a quarter of the designed of the plain for a five-inch border. The cloth will be about forty-one inches when finished. Each napkin requires one-fourth of a yard of de- yard of the plain. The lamp shades are made from parchment with designed gingham pasted on with rubber cement. Rub- a matter of fitting the chair. Some women pin paper to the chair and then cover a pattern for the gingham. For the chair shown, which is a falr- sized wing chair, it required nine yards of gingham, From skull caps to brims of tre- mendous width—'tis the latest ca- price of the millinery mode. Broad brims and short skirts, never!—so said some of our fashionists at some time or other in the past. In present- day modes, behold the theory dis- SOME USES FOR GINGHAM proved! Smart women of fashion are at this moment looking their smartest in short-jacketed, short-skirted tail- leurs topped with plain-banded straw hats of enormous dimensions. That's the interesting part of these big- brimmed hats (some quite floppy)— they are not confined to dressy modes. Rather do they compete with entranc- ing so-thin-you-can-see-through-them picture types. For that matter many of the large tailor-banded black hats are themselves transparent, but these are not as frequent as are the very elegant milans, with their velvet bows and bands. Modishly banded, with either gros- grain or velvet ribbon, this is the regu- lation trim adopted by fashion for huge straw hats, such as the one pie- tured to the left in this group. If it isn’t a milan which milady wears then it's a leghorn wide of brim or very likely one of the new paillassin straws. Leghorns which measure up to the mode's requirements as to width of brim are either au naturelle, or else dyed black or some lovely pastel shade. Black velvet ribbon bands are the rule for natural or black leghorns, HATS OF THE DRESSY TYPE ber cement is better than glue, as it is not so apt to come through, and will permit the gingham to peel off easily in case of a mistake. The light shining through the parchment and gingham is beautifully softened and very effective. For a large lamp shade of about sixteen inches in depth it will require two and a quarter yards of gingham and a yard and a quarter of parchment. The strip of parch- ment and gingham when ready to plait is four and a half yards long. The slip cover for the winged chair is a more difficult proposition. Still there are any number of women who make thelr own slip covers without the aid of an upholsterer. It is simply but if the leghorn be colorful, its tall- ored trim is cither a perfect match or a perfect contrast, The same ap- plies to the lovely large crin capelines, so favored with sheer frocks. The leghorn hat first in this aroup maintains a tailored aspect, although it hus been intricately worked with velvet. The hat below introduces a pastel-colored silk facing. At the top to the right in this collection of de- lectable summer millinery, is one of those sheer transparent affairs, which lends itself so consistently to the dressy midsummer costume. A tulle flange adds to the width and grace of the brim. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (@, 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.) JUST HUMANS By GENE CARR Ey @Re , id © McClure Newspaper Syndicate “SO | HEARD—IT’S SMITH.” “NO, HE'S NOT A GENIUS, BUT HIS NAME WILL LIVE!* A DAY WITH SAUCES If you'd make life worth [ivin’ Try these big things worth while: They're three, I'll sum ‘em up ag'in— Jest love an’ work an’ smile. SAUCE as an accompaniment to a dish is as essential as the ordi- nary seasoning is indispensable to make a dish appetizing. A very ordi- nary dish with an appropriate sauce has made many a chef famous and gone down in history as a worth-while achievement. Certain foods are best with certain sauces. The flavor of the sauce en- hances the flavor of the dish. A lamb roast with mint sauce is taken out of the ordinary class. Pork roast needs apple sauce to make the pork more tasty and digestible. We like turkey and cranberry, mutton with capers, veal with tomato or onion, and so on ad infinitum. Venison, a choice dish at all times, is greatly improved with a spiced grape jelly; duck with sliced oranges or a tart jelly. Fish of any kind is always better served with a sauce, usually of some acid variety. Oyster sauce is a great favorite with fish. Bechamel and brown sauces are also good sauces as sauce tartare and tartar sauce. Wildfowl is especially good with— Ripe Olive Sauce. Melt four tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, add one sliced onion and cook until slightly brown. Add five and one-half tablespoonfuls of flour, a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Stir to a smooth paste. Add two cupfuls of brown stock gradually and continue cooking, stirring con- stantly, Cut the meat from a dozen ripe olives, cover with boiling water and cook seven minutes, then add to the sauce. Green Pepper Butter. Cut a slice from the stem ends of three or four green peppers, remove the seeds and all the white portion. Cook in boiling water until soft. Drain and chop fine, rub through a sieve; there should be two tablespoonfuls of the pulp. Cream one-half cupful ef butter and add the pulp, stirring until even- ly mixed. Spread over planked fish, steaks or chops—it will enhance the flavor. Lemon Butter. Cream one-half cupful of butter, add lemon juice—about two tablespoon- fuls, drop by drop—stirring constantly. This is fine for any fish mixture, lob- ster or crab meat. This is a delicious sauce spread over a broiled fish, planked fish or cooked hot lobster. (©, 1927, by Western Newspaper Union.) metas { J tasiceniotes Boies : gests oo “ * What Does Your Child Want to Know 9 Answered by * BARBARA BOURJAILY @ @ Gove oad (We WHY DOES STARCH MAKE CLOTHES STIFF? The molecules which form the starch Are very large and thick, And so they can't escape, but cling All through the cloth, and stick. (Copyright.) SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT By F. A. WALKER GROWING OLD WO things the human mind dreads —Old Age and Death, Both of these we battle against and put off as long as possible—one be- cause of the weaknesses and depend- ency which it entails, the other be- cause we know not what is beyond. The result of this is that very few of us grow old gracefully and attrac- tively. We strive to be young when we should be willing to be old. We ape the tastes and fashions of youth when we have long been un- suited to them and make ourselves ridiculous when we might at least be interesting. It is truer, perhaps, of women than of men that the appearance of a gray hair and the permanent establishment of a wrinkle is looked upon as a sort of individual disgrace, an indication that something has been left undone that should have been done or some- thing done which should not have been done, As a matter of fact, there is noth- ing more beautiful and nothing more interesting than attractive old age. Wisdom, which comes only with years, should then reach its highest development. Judgment which in youth is neither sound nor trustworthy, should then be dependable and worth while con- sulting. The time to prepare for old age is before it arrives. The time to prepare for the harvest is in the seed time, and youth is the seed time of our lives. If every young man and young wom- an would keep the future in mind, plan for it, think for it, study for it, old age would lose half its dread and terror and we should look forward to it as the time when wg should enjoy the results of a well-arranged prep- aration. It is the old age which follows a lack of this preparation that is hollow and sad, the old age which has no memories but regrets, its future goue, its past a failure. Addison, great poet and essayist, wrote: “He who would pass the de- clining years of his life with honor and comfort, should when young, be- come old, AND REMEMBER WHEN HE IS OLD THAT HE HAS ONCE BEEN YOUNG.” We have not yet learned to keep the body from growing old. The fair- ness of the skin will die. The hair will whiten and the wrinkles come. The knee will crook less willingly to the will and the back may bend with increasing years. But the heart, kept young. The soul never grows old else the hereafter would lose its chiefest glory. Grow old happily. Grow old grace- fully, accepting nature's decrees with a willing compliance to their require- ments. But think, as young thoughts. Continue to progress. in old age that is beautiful, your eyes to what is not. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) 10} School Courses The “6-3-3 plan” in schools is a plan of organization consisting of six grades above the kindergarten, consti- tuting the elementary school, followed by a three-year junlor high school, both the junior and the senior high school being considered in the field of secondary education. Completion of the high school in any one of these plans is marked by the granting of a diploma of graduation. the spirit, can be long as you may, Continue to learn. There is much Shut \ WE GET AS WE GIVE By EVELYN GAGE BROWNE ii — IF YOU would be happy, make some- somebody glad, And the joy you are giving away, The sunshine you bring to hearts that are sad, Will shine in your heart some day, If you would be rich, then give of your store, ’ Freely and joyfully, too, And all that you give—with even more— Will surely come back to you. If you would climb to life's higher things, Then help some unsatisfled soul To reach the heights, and you'll find it brings Your heart to its chosen goal. If you would be loved, then love all men, As your Brothers upon the earth, And the love you give will come back again To the earth that gave it birth, We get as we give—in equal amount—= Of love and everything true; So give and give without measure or count, And it ALL you! will eome back to (Copyright.) O- WHEN I WAS TWENTY-ONE BY JOSEPH KAYE At 21 Arthur D. Little Got the Hard- est Job of His Life, AZ 21 I got the hardest job I ever had. A company in Rhode Is- land had set up a mill to make paper by the sulphur process, a process which had been taken over and devel- oped commercially by the Swedes and the Germans, This mill was the first to use this process commercially in the United States, and was in charge of a Swede inventor and a German engineer. The officers and board of directors knew nothing about paper making or chemistry. They ought to employ some one who knew a little about chemistry, and when I applied for the job the pres- ident offered me two dollars a day. He would not so far commit himself as to hire me by the week, Almost coincidentally with my ar- rival the German engineer got into a row with the president and left the place flat. The board of directors held a solemn meeting and as I seemed to be their only resource, they called me in. I was only twenty-one and the youngest man in the plant.— Arthur D. Little. TODAY :—Arthur D. Little is one of the most celebrated chemical en- gineers in the country and is the head of the largest private laboratory in the world, located at Cambridge, Mass. He left the mill referred to above soon after he became the su- perintendent and, after a long strug- gle, established himself with a large clientele. He is an expert in Iindus- trial chemistry, and a pioneer in pa- per making by the wood pulp process. (© by McClure Nefoarer Syndicate.) How It Started By JEAN NEWTON CALLING HIM THE “PASTOR” piston” is a prosaic sounding word, and one in whose story we would look for the severe flavor of early religion rather than the element of poetry. Yet such is the persever- ance of language. We rarely find what we expect. And in the origin of this term as it is used today as another name for the minister, we find no “thou shalt nots,” theology but a po- etic metaphor, “Pastor” is derived from the Latin “pastor,” which comes from “pastum,” meaning to pasture or to feed. And who would not find poetry in the term which describes the minister as one who will feed us if we will but go to him? One may presume that it is hardly necessary to explain the meta- phorical reference as spiritual feeding of his flock, (Copyright) y= Do YouKnow 22 [ hat; ~?? és HITE FEATHER” or to “show the white feather” is an expres- slon meaning to betray timidity or to back down or out; a sign of yielding. Some years ago a bloody fight was raging between the Indians and the settlers of the backwoeds of our coun- try. A Quaker who refused to flee saw one day a horde of Indians rushing down toward his house. Thinking to pacify them, he hurriedly set food be- fore the savage horde, and when they had eaten the chief fastened a white feather over the door as a symbol of peace and friendship. Though many bands passed that house, none ever violated the covenant,by injuring any of its Inmates or property.—Anne 8. Turnquist, (@, 1927, by Western Newspaper "nion.) SE SERS ESE SERRE ee LLERELT? Sevrtesy Dticw | By ELMO S( NE hundre( summer t frontier o most hotly A American flr rt battle of C where a f 1 led by ( marching | ler, won a victory ove Indians, commanded by great Mohawk chief, J later out in the wildern battle was fought betw: frontiersmen, led by ( Trigg and Daniel Boone, and Indians, commande well, who had with him McKee, Mathew Elliott was the battle of Blue as “The last battle of t August 19, 1782, Although there is nr tween the two engagem Ing parallel of the cire them about that is wor notice. In both cases subordinates overruled the commanders, there selves the disaster whicl The battle of Orisk: campaign which center on the present site of R stirring events of that ye summer in a series of tions which will be held Mohawk valley. Chief Oriskany celebration wl men who fought in th engagement will be honc and hundreds of visitor country. The events lea Oriskany were these: plan to score a decisive mer of 1777 and to cr Barry St. Leger had bee the Mohawk valley to / join the army of General ing down from the nor obstacle to St. Leger's Schuyler, held by a fore the command of Col, Pe Marinus Willett. On Aug before Ft. Schuyler witl British regulars, Hessian John Johnson, John B; notorious Walter Butle Colonel Gansevoort had mittee of Safety in Try the chairman of this cc kimer—*“0Old Honikol He tionate nickname for appointed a brigadier ge: immediately raised the and set out for the reli kimer’s army, a force men, was divided into first was led by Col. Eber the district of Canajoh: ’alatine was commande the third from Mohawk w Visscher, and the fourth, Kingsland, was command fnger. This force assemt the mouth of West Canac 4 started out, crossed present site of the city Whitestown on August 5. At this point Herkim Colonel Gansevoort to arr moving against the enen fire three cannon shots a from the fort was ready t upon Herkimer was to a He was then about eight and it would be easy to big guns at that distanc were delayed in getting th fort and Herkimer's men the sound of the cannon. delay, they demanded to b Herkimer steadfastly refu officers, notably Colonels ( reproach him and even w him of being a coward an old commander resisted t became unbearable, Final their unjust accusations, to advance, It was more of a disord that streamed out of the kany creek the road led : way of logs over a mars
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