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~~ modic ventures at fishing, sculpturing, golfing and just sitting in the back yard in the sun, I have been getting in my semii . k . 2 annual session of reading books. : Se now if all you members of the Croy 3 quet, Social and Literary Review Society will just ® give me your attention, I will deliver my little series of thumbnail reviews on the 11 books I have recently
- consumed. I'll bet you never heard of some ‘of them. either, to tell the truth.) PROMENADE DECK--I've forgotten who wrote it. It was about a bunch of people on a world cruise, but I can’t remember how it turned out. Excuse me, please. LISTEN, THE WIND! (By Anne Morrow Lindbergh)—I wish I could write with the feeling that Anne Lindbergh does; and I wish I could feel the warmth for her husband that I do for her. I would like very much to be a friend of Anne * Lindbergh’s. She seems to me to Teveal herself as a great and sensitive and deeply understanding person. : . The book is about their tribulations in getting started from Africa on their flight across the Atlantic a to South America in 1933. They were weeks in getting off—overweight, no wind, failure night after night to. lift the plane from the water. & But finally one .night they made it, and flew ont over ‘the dark Atlantic. It took an hour or so to get all the radio messages sent, their cockpit gear Semen, and thoroughly squared away for the 16-hour grind, er And then, when all the necessary things were ® finished, and there was at last time to relax, Anne Morrow scribbled something out of her heart onto a piece of paper, and slipped it up forward to her husband. The scribblé said: : ‘e + “I think you are wonderful.” I don’t ‘think ‘I have ever read anything more touching or more human than: those five words. . A-TRANSGRESSOR IN THE TROPICS (By Negley:Farson)—He is a famous European correspondent for. Chicago papers. He came into the limelight a few: years ago with his autobiography, “The Way of I ‘ansgressor,” which I -am sorry to. say I never read. ° s : : This new book is the story of a journey Mr. Farson made down the west coast of South America. I liked it, naturally, because I found that his general impression of the west coast Latin countries was about _ the same as mine.
He Ought to See Rio
i A few weeks ago, before I had read the book, a Pan-American pilot and I were talking about it. The ¢ ¢ pilot laughed and said, “Apparently Farson was sO fed up that by the time he got to Buenos Aires he just iid ‘nuts’ and took the first boat back to London.” %*Tt was a good book,” the pilot continued. “Except tiobody should ever leave South America without seeing‘ Rio.” " "And I agree. Going to South America and not see-ing-Rio is like going to New York and not seeing the skyline. Mr. Farson did himself a great disservice by ¢ 4 leaving too soon.
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{ THE JOURNAL OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
(By herself) —Surely one of the direst studies in melghcholy ever penned. You cannot read it without kmg into despair yourself, “Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand. But her adult life was spent in England, and in variols. spots over Europe where she went looking for
To me she is one.of the world’s great writers. Not because of this journal; but because of the other things she wrote. "I-have read many of her short stories. They are superb.
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. . My Diary | By: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
| _ Hoover's Chicago Talk Criticized; "Defends Sale of Planes to France.
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| X 7ASHINGTON, Thursday—You know that it is o W
my policy to make this column primarily a ' chronology of the daily doings of the wife of the | President. | When I leave the White House for trips or go to my own home, it becomes the chronology of & , a woman who leads a life similar to the lives of many | other women except where it retains a tie to the public | position one can never leave completely behind. "As far as possible, I never discuss questions of partisan politics, but now and then it seems to me that ublic questions arise which are of particular interest women and which far transcend any partisan lines. | i AsJread a headline this morning, I could not help thinking of something which happened the day before the second Munich meeting. Today’s headline reads: | “Hoover Says Course Invites War.” Naturally, any | ditizen has a right to state his opinion, but the rest | of the country’s citizens have a right to weigh that « Soision. In Kansas City on the night that the Presi- | dent’s second message was sent to Munich, a speech | was made by this same eminent gentleman of today’s | headline before a gathering of Negroes. On that | dccasion he denounced the foreign policy of this Ad- ¢ © ministration, I suppose because of the same fears | which he now expresses that this policy might lead 4s into war. \ | + Let us, as citizens, examine our present situation. We are the leading democracy of the world. Do our {sympathies lie with the other democracies or do they \Je with the totalitarian states? The present tempest in a teapot is stirred up by the fact a Frenchman flew in a test plane which France quite legally was going . to Puy from an airplane manufacturer in the United :
‘Long Advocate of Peace
¢ This is a new type of plane, but there are no {secrets of Government involved and, any buyer is entitled to test the wares which he is about to buy. Germany is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce 100 planes a month. It seems evident why France would be interested lin buying from us. It is also quite evident that Germany would naturally start a hue and cry that the United States was favoring France. Of course it is delightful to feel that no one anywhere near you can ever defend himself for a day if you decide you wish to do something. There is no real reason, however, why any particular nation should be protected in that ‘amount of supremacy and dictatorship over other nations. This is an open transaction, there is nothing secret about. it, it is neither friendly nor unfriendly, it is pure commerce between two friend nations. I have fought for peace for many years. I want to see all the nations of the world reduce their armaments. Mr. Chamberlain has suggested it, but I have seen no acquiescence on the part of Herr Hitler. Have
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Day-by- cienc Day-by-Day Science By Science Service : CO KIING has achieved wide recognition as a thrilling sport and as one of the ‘most graceful of the kinetic arts; But there is more to it than that. It is a branch of applied physics, and as such it has received serious scientific attention, =
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of the wood-winged feet are Ukitiro Nakaya, Motoiti Tada, Yatdro Sekido and Tamakiti Takano. They are members of the faculty of science at the Hokkaido Imperial University. They conducted their researches in ‘the pearly powder-snow on Mt. Tokati, northern Japan. ; ~ Powder-snow, they found, forms from the tiny, starlike snow. crystals by the double process of sublimation (evaporation without thawing) and redeposition of the vapor as ice on the flat sides of the . They found that even without partial thawing lla, of snow have a lay
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. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3,198 ~~ =~
Tourth of a Series)
By David Dietz
Scripps-Howard Science Editor
HE tall shaft of thé Washington Monument, piercing
the sky of the nation’s capital, is a symbol of American progress as well as a memorial to the great patriot who
founded this nation.
The 550-foot column of stone, although few visitors to Washington ever note the fact, is tipped with a metal whose history is one of the great triumphs of American
industry.
When the monument was finished, 54 years ago, as a suitable crown for the great structure, a special white cap was cast from a gleaming metal. So unusual was this metal that the finished cap was exhibited in the window of Tiffany’s in New York before it was sent to Washington
It would amaze you very much indeed today to see, amid| the fine jewels of Tiffany’s window, an aluminum, frying pan or percolator. But that shining, silvery cap was made of
aluminum. Forty-four years ago, aluminum cost $110 an ounce. And that price was possible only because of im-
provements which ‘had just been made in the methods of extracting aluminum “from its ores. A few years before, that aluminum cap would have cost $35 an ounce. Probably no New Yorker who saw that cap in Tiffany’s window imagined that the price of aluminum would some. day be down to 10 cents an ounce. Aluminum was then regarded as a semiprecious metal and women’s bracelets, combs, rings and the like were made from it. / The Washington Monument was completed in 1884. Two years later the youthful Charles M. Hall of Oberlin, O., discovered his method of separating aluminum from its ores with the aid of electric current. That was the discovery
- to be placed upon the monument. which introduced the modern Age
of Aluminum. : Eventually the price of aluminum came down to less than 2 cents an ounce. 2 8 = N 1929, before the October stock market crash ended the dizzy years of postwar prosperity, aluminum ingots were priced at 23.9 cents per pound. In 1938, ingots were selling at 20 cents a pound. As in many other - fields, the years. of the depression were also years of intensive research in the field of aluminum.
S. K. Colby, vice president of
the Aluminum Co. of America, points to three accomplishments since 1929-—the lowering of prices for products which are essentially unchanged, the production of better products at the same price, and, thirdly, the creation of new products, now in everyday use, that did not even exist in 1929. Here are some of the gains that have been made: Cooking utensils have been improved in design and wearing qualities while the prices of such items as roasters, tea kettles,
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Aluminum, magic metal of the century, light yet strong, daily is being adapted to new uses in scores of virgin fields. Testing ground for the metal is the Aluminum Co. of America’s research laboratory near Pittsbragh. Two testing devices are shown in the photos: at the upper right and in the circle at the leff. :
In vapor form, the metal is to be used to coat the mirror of the . world’s largest telescope, the model of which (above at left) was made from celluloid before
the actual This telescope
construction began. is’ the 200-inch
mirror for the Mt. Palomar, Cal,
Observatory.
double boilers, sauce pans, etc, have declined 25 per cent. Aluminum chairs, like those to be found nightly around many a bridge table in the living rooms of _ America, were expensive in 1929 because methods of mass production had not yet been perfected. Today they are lower in price and better in design. Billions of bottle caps and seals have been made since 1929. Their price has steadily declined. Today they include a number of seals with mechanical devices which discourage tampering. Aluminum cable is stronger and cheaper than it was in 1929. This
is an important item and calls —attention to the fact that progress
in" the aluminum field is not merely the result of thinking up new products and mass production methods for them, but is also due to the improvements in aluminum alloys. ; ” 3 s
HE automobile, the airplane, _ and the streamlined railroad train have all benefited by these improvements. Strangely enough, while aluminum alloys are in competition with stainless steel at many points in these fields, aluminum is at times one of the alloying elements that go into steel. The one-piece turret tops of today’s automobiles are made of steel that can stand deep drawing processes. This steel is made by. the addition of aluminum. Here are some of the new aluminum products that have come into use since 1929: New types of reflectors for automobile lamps and the like, made of an improved aluminum alloy. Many products finished plain
or in color by the alumilite
process. Aluminum window casings for homes and office buildings. Aluminum beer barrels. Aluminum free-cutting alloys which speed -up production and therefore reduce the cost of manufacturing many articles. Behind progress in the aluminum industry is scientific research. Realizing the importance of research, the Aluminum Co. of America built its great- research laboratory at New Kensington, near Pittsburgh, a few years ago. A staff of 150 scientists, engineers and technical assistants is at work in this laboratory. Sur-
rounded by lawns and shrubbery
on a l4-acre traet in the foothills
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of the Allegheny Mountains and overlooking the Allegheny River,
-the laboratory is a monument to
scientific research and to aluminum. 2 8 =» HE conference room is equipped with aluminum furniture upholstered in blue. Throughout the building alum-
inum chairs, light and durable,
are used. : The scientific equipment of the building makes it one of the finest laborafories in the world. Here are instruments of such delicacy that .a generation ago one would have. found them only in the most
* famous universities and research
institutions. There are no researches into the fundamental characteristics of metals and their alloys which cannot be carried out in this laboratory. : 0 In a large room on the ground floor is equipment for experimental melting, casting and rolling of aluminum alloys. Electrically heated furnaces are provided for the study of heat treatments. Special electrical equipment makes it possible to obtain temperatures up to 5400 degrees, Fahrenheit. In the study of alloys today, it is necessary to use high-powered microscopes in the examination of grain size and other structural features. The laboratory has rooms equipped with all the necessary apparatus for preparing samples and for photographing them with the aid of the microscope. Supplementing the microscopes is X-ray equipment with which it is possible to probe into alloys far beyond the ability of the huWith this equipment it is possible to chart the loca-
“tions of the invisible atoms in the complicated lattices that make up .
the crystals of the alloys. 2 &8 8
T is out of such researches that new ideas for aluminum are expected to grow. Such new uses are apt to spring up in unexpected places. Thus, for example, no one would have thought 10 years ago that aluminum would some day increase the efficiency of every reflecting telescope in the world. But that is just what has happened. Astronomers today are seeing deeper . into the universe than ever before~because of the assist-
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ance that aluminum has given. For centuries, the mirrors used in reflecting telescopes were silvered. Today they have a coating of aluminum. Experience has shown thatthe aluminum gives better reflecting service and a more durable one.
* In addition it possesses certain
characteristics which simplify the work of the astronomer, ° The method of applying - the aluminum coat is itself a triumph of modern scientific method. The mirror to be coated is placed ‘in a vacuum tank with a small amount of aluminum. Suitable eléctrical devices céuse the aluminum to become vaporized. The vapor settles in an even layer upon the mirror, giving it a coat such as never could be obtained by the old-fashioned silvering process. When the 82-inch “eye” for the new McDcnald - Cbservatory in Texas was finished a few weeks ago at the Warrer & Swasey Co.’s plant in Cleveland, it was coated by the new aluminium vapor process. Similarly, when the world’s largest astronomical eye, the 200= inch mirror now béing ground at California Institute of Technology, is finished, it will be coated with aluminum. : This huge mirrot will weigh 16 tons. The aluminum coating on its surface will weigh about one ounce. But since the light of the star is collected and concentrated by this aluminum coating, the glass disk itself mey be regarded as only a device to give the aluminum coating the proper shape. The whole telescope will weigh about a million pounds. And as officials of the Aluminum Company of America say, the telescope is actually a million pounds of machinery whose chief duty is ‘to point one ounce of aluminum accurately at the stars. It is interesting to compare this giant mirror with the smallest aluminum coated mirror now in use. This is a mirror no larger than a pin-head which forms part of the oscillograph used by scientists of the Gulf Oil Corp. in oil prospecting. :
NEXT—Progress in the rubber industry.
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I TEST YOUR
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1—Name" the capital of Missis- + sippl. oe 2—-What is another name for .- ‘the: Malay Archipelago?
" 3—How many ceniimeters are
in one meter? 4—-What is the lowest noncoms missioned rank in the U. 8S." Army? 5—Name the large island that lies to the south of Greece. “6—For whom was the State of Washington named? 7—Who invented the rotary printing press? : ‘8—Into what river does the Arkansas River flow? 3 8 8 8
Answers 1—Jackson. 2—Sunda Islands. 3-100. .
6—George Washington. T—Robert Hoe. : 8—Mississippi River. 8 8 8
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Our Town By Anton Scherrer
Have You Discovered Pamphlef Room in City Library? Many Have And Find It Pretty Useful, Too.
JULIAN BAMBERGER was the first one around here to discover the Pamphlet Room in the City Library. The first one, too, to consult Helen Brown, the able librarian in charge. That was a little over a
year ago. Since then, any number of people have dropped in and stayed long enough to get what they were after. Dr. Hadley’s wife, for instance, al« ways consults the pamphlets in Miss Brown's departe ment when she's up against a household problem, Last year when she got her new electric - washing machine, first thing she did was to get Miss Brown to fix her up with a pile of pamphlets on the subject of Home Laundering. And last spring, just after the Pamphlet Room got started, Miss Brown collected a lot of material on the subJect of Moths for Mrs. Hadley. Mrs. Nola Perry is a regular customer, too. She’s interested in pies - and watches the pamphlets like everything for fear of missing a new recipe. Edward Just, a mere boy, watches the pamphlets for material on the stuffing of animals. The other jday he asked Miss Brown to keep her eyes peeled for something on the preparation of rough skeletons. Charles Manwaring, a Manual boy, is interested in the growing of dahlias, and Tom Bair, in the raising of exotic flowers. Milton Kuntz keeps his eyes open for anything new in the line of archery. He’s picked up enough by way of the Pamphlet Room that he can make his own bows and arrows now. os Mr. and ‘Mrs. Conder show up regularly, too, and ask for the latest pamphlets on the care of babies. Seems that they got their first baby last year after waiting 16 years. And Franchon Parsons, a Butler girl, come in every week. Says it’s the only way for a gir. to keep up to date. ; A “pamphlet,” I guess I ought to put you wise, is a name given an ephemeral publication, occasional and not periodical, commonly discussing some question of publi¢ or special interest at the time. There are thus two distinct classes of pamphlets, the one addressed to the general public and discussing some question of immediate though probably of temporary interest, Political pamphlets form the type of this class. The other is addressed to a special class of readers and discusses something connected with their particular interesis or pursuits.
Everything Up to Date | The collection at the City Library consists of both classes and embraces something like 10,000 items filed under 80 headings. As a matter of fact, you can find almost anything you want unless, maybe, it’s some= thing uprto date on the subject of guns or skating, For some reason, there is very little news about guns, despite the number of pamphlets on hunting and the like. Miss Brown doesn’t know why. As for skating, the last thing issued on the subject was by the Spalding people back in 1907. And that’s out of print. Even if you could get it, it wouldn’t be: any good because, to amount to anything, a pamphlet has to be right up to the minute. That's why Miss Brown discards the pamphlets as soon as they are out of date. ; by 5 gms Miss Brown says you have no idea the number of calls she has for the latest dope on amateur photography. On the building of miniature trgins, too. Next in demand are pamphlets on social dancing, and lately there’s been quite a call for articles on the City Man ager form of government. The Chinese-Japanese War is a dud, though. People around here aren't inter ested in it at all, says Miss Brown. On the other hand, there's been a steady demand all winter for pamphlets on gardening and the care of house eit ag
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The Pamphlet Room is immediately to the left as. you enter the City Library. You have to go through it to. get to Luther Dickerson’s office, and that reminds me that, except for Mr. Dickerson and a dream he had a year ago, we wouldn't have a Pamphlet Room
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| Jane Jordan—
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Woman, 40, Assured She Is Right in Not Wanting to Wed Younger Man,
EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a woman 40 years of age, attractive to men younger than myself, But these younger men do not appeal to me. What 1 want is mature love. I seem to vision a dream man. My.friends tell me I am foolish for not accepting of marriage which I received recently from a Well-bred man a few years younger than myself. I can’t make up my mind. What should I do? I am well to do and live alone. Am I just plain fickle? : DESPERATE. ” 8 2 :
Answer—I wonder if you are quite honest with yourself when you say that the younger men do not appeal to you. Perhaps your judgment may be too good to marry a man enough younger to jeopardize the success of your marriage, but that doesn’t mean that he isn’t attractive to you, does it? Usually a woman who attracts younger men is
in search of an easy conquest and is afraid of her
equals. Her experience gives her an advantage over the young man who imagines her to be the embodiment of his mother. If you have no son of your own this dependent attitude may make a powerful
| appeal to, your frustrated maternal instincts, but you are right to suppose that it is not a good basis for a
marriage. : It is always difficult. to part with one’s youth. Although you are obliged to face the unwelcome fact that you are 40, emotionally you may be clinging to a period in your life which is past. Young men are a part of this period. I imagine that mature men aren't so interesting to you and that is why you aren’t so interesting to them. In your visions of a dream man, have you stuck to réality or. departed . from it? To erect an ideal impossible of achievement by mortal man is to court disappointment. Is your
“You are more qualified than your friends to de cide ‘whether or not you want to marry any man, f your good sense warns you against marrying the oung man, respect it. '. JANE JORDAN.
blems in: a letter to Jane Jordan whe will a Your nestions ‘in this column daily. . 1
New Books Today
| Public Library Presents—
Y most Americans the name of John Wilkes Booth | is remembered for only one thing, the assassination of Abraham’Lincoln. It is with condemnation that we, who know of him in this connection only, think of him, forgetting that fo his family and friends who loved him he was not all bad. : At one time his sister, Asia Booth Clarke, kept a...
“| diary—a little squat black book with a lock and key,
This, with all the papers and letters she had concerns ing her brother, she bequeathed to B. L.'Farjeon, sone in-law of Booths fri Joseph, Jefferson, with the stipulation that “he publish them sometime if he sees fit” Now Eleanor Marjeon has edited these writings and published thern under the title THE UNLOCKED BOOK. (Putnam.) ae After the assassination of Lincoln, the name of from the family anhowever, reveals the story of a brother and sister inseparab. Xe
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united by love. She alone