Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 December 1922 — Page 3

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ELECTRICITY AND THE COAL PROBLEM

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5.000 PERSONS TO LIVE IN WORLD’S DE LUXE APARTMENT GROUP

the greatest amount of heat. This is governed *to some extent by the size of the copper bowl which should

Electricity May Be Important Factor j glow evenly when the current is on

Engineer Points Out What Can and What Cannot Be Done in the Home

As Coal Problems Grow Greater

By F. W. HEWITT. One of America’s Leading Engineers and Authorities

Editor’s Note—F: W. Hewitt is a well known engineer and authority

oil heating problems. In the follow- ^^1 ing he takes up the question of elec- medium, whether or not it directs the tricity as an agent for heating the greatest arnouht of heat generated home. So far its Use has been al- hrst to the bowl, and then radiate

If it is not full of even color it is n,pt a scientifically made sun-bowl. There is virtually no difference between the various makes in the amount of current consumed. What the user should assure himself of is the maximum amount of heat from the current he consumes, and this is mainly governed by the shape of the heating

most experimental, certainly not universal although the general public is apt to carry a vague idea that electric heaters can heat a home as successfully as steam. Why it cannot is explained herewith.

Just at this time the American people are thinking of the coal shortage and of the’ possible lack of heat during the coming cold months. Yet the coal situation, and the question of‘heat are not necessarily the same. All experts have urged the use of substitutes for anthracite as far as may be possible in order to conserve the limited supply. The public mind has naturally turned to bituminous coal or to the possible use of oil, wood or gas. That is because we are accustomed to think of heat in terms of combustion exclusively; whereas, we actually’get two kinds of heat— convected and radiant. The former is the kind of heat we get from the steam or hot water radiator. The latter is the heat we get from the sun. The steam or hot water radiator warms the surrounding air which rises, drawing cooler air into its place, and thus gradually lifts the entire surrounding temperature. In the case of the sun’s rays, whatever they fall upon is instantly warmed, even though the surrounding temperature “in the shade” may remain lower and be gradually affected only as the earth, upon which the sun’s rays have faller, produces convected

heat.

Something very similar to this radiated heat from the sun we now obtain through electricity and is available for the household in the present fuel famine. In large units, however, electricity is not available for the householder since its use in that way calls for heavy currents and special wires for its supply. The only practical value of electricity to the average consumer in his home is in that

in the direction desired in the great-

est quantity. ,

ALASKAN BOOM IN ALL LINES IS SEEN

General Industrial Spurt is Predicted by LI. S. Forester

Washington—Considerable improve-1 ment in business in Alaska is fore- ! seen by Associate Forester E. "A. ! Sherman of the department of agriculture, who recently visited that territory. Exports of fish, for the last ten or twelve years the great source of cash returns, will be surprisingly heavy this year, he reports, while a mining revival is in evidence, and exports of high grade lumber, cut from the Tongass national forest, show a

promising beginning.

“The people of southern Alaska are particularly pleased with the efforts of the forest service to .establish a pulp and paper industry there, and with the roads built by the service and by the bureau of public roads,” Mr. Sherman says. “The road problem ! in Alaska is unlike that encountered | elsewhere. In the States, travel and ; traffic exist before the government j begins building roads; in Alaska we have had to anticipate the demand.” 1 The completion, probably next Jan- 1 nary, of the government railroad from ' Seward to Fairbanks — a distance | almost as great as from Wash- ’ iegton to Boston—will greatly benefit the mining industry in the interior, in the opinion of Mr. Sherman, who predicts cheaper fuel for the mines,”

MOTHER’S LOVE FOR SON DIDN’T DIE AT GALLOWS

New Months Record

Saves Body from Potter’s Field; Coffin Banked with Flowers

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Kansas City, Mo.—Mother love never dies. . • ,\\ 1 Witnesses tlie case of Mrs. Ha N. i Pavey of this city, whose son, Ira N. 1

Ohio Livestock Producers .Seud Large Number of Floors to Terminal Markets 5 ’ - - ' r

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Pavey, was hanged recently at fort coopei . atively dliring the nionth of Madison, la., for the murder of a October than during any month since grocer. ’ ‘ the beginning of the movement, fav-

Femtentiary authorities^ had plan- 0 ring this method of niarkeiing, acJt. Potter.9>.grave a £ a a De< L 0I: cording to tabulations’just made in

quicklime as Pavey s final Assting od \ ce 0 f the Ohio Farm Bureau P , ac ^: , But, resting in a cofiin, bank- | Federation. The report from more ed hign with flowers, his body was , than 50 county cooperatives ; shqvys removed from a local undertaker s . that the record exceeded former parior to a grave in one of the city’s ] months> both in number of shippers long established cemeteries. His mo- . and j n total value of stock to market

ther was responsible for that. through this channel.

Pavey’s mother was beside him during his last hours. She made a fast automobile trip to Iowa to comfort her condemned son. Grief stricken, she followed his casket to its final intermsnt. Pavey’s father and three sisters accompanied her. His career of crime began in 1906, when he was sentenced to a state reformatory for a minor infraction

of the law’.

“The stigma’has passed,” said Rev. M. D. Paddock, who officiated at the funeral services. “He is in God’s care now. We have all done wrong!”

AIRPLANE RADIO MEN TRAINED BY NATION

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12'Week Course Given at Two Schools

TWO-STORYllvrNGROOM^rSMf OF 50 ENTRANCES AT MORELAND COURTT

Cleveland is holding the eyes of the building ind architectural world on what is declared to be the greatest apartment house development ever attempted. Construction is in progress on a project which calls for an expenditure of thirty million dollars Two of six monster units have oeen started hi Shaker Heights, an exclusive suburb nineteen minut.s from Cleveland’s Public Square. The development lies on the city's only rapid transit line, which

will be even more enhanced with the completion of the new $(>0,000,000 union depot in the Snu.-.re. When this is finished the rapid transit cars will move mostly underground. This development, of ‘.he Moreland Courts Company will >e a complete city in i’self. It is America’s first “Ganl-Ti CAv" de !mv' The apartment? will hoi.^e » mm munity of 5.00i> per':..ns -m’ w! include theaters. «T..r.^ o f . varieties and res»:<*••

the a. :hiteeture 1? of the Georgian and Elizabethian type. While a high standard is maintai. jd throughout, there will be a long range in size and .~nta!s cf the homes, prices ranging all the way from $60 a month for small suites to $(>()(' for a dozen rooms with three or four baths. Colonel Alfm.t r 7. Fr.rris. of i •m . •’••r-t. sop two •' plans and m trave’a

Training of radio operators especially for airplane work is being carried out by both the United States Army and Navy. The Naval Bureau of Aeronautics at Pensacola, Fla., and the Army Air Service at Rantoul, 111., so far have trained 60 men for aerial service! who now are in active flying

duty.

DISEASED POTATOES MAY ROT IN STORAGE Potatoes, because of the prevalence of diseases, should be carefully sorted and properly stored in order to go through the winter in prime

condition.

Botanists of the Experiment Sta-

Interest in Automobiles Growing in United States

form which may be utilized from an j lion say, that all tubers showing dis- Buying is Sustained Late in the Sea-

ordinary lamp socket, and this takes the form of the well-named sun-bowl

type of heater.

As to the B. T. U. The phenomena of heat is change of temperature, and the higher temperature is always the source of heat, as it is fundamental that heat will travel from a hot to a cold body. Temperature alone will not always suffice as • a source of heat. There must be quality as well. A burning match will develop a very high temperature, but it will not heat a room as the quantity of heat is. lacking. Quantity is measured in heat units, and in technical language the measure of heat is the British Thermal Unit, or B. T. U. Coal is desirable as a fuel because it develops a great number of the B. T. U. in a small mass or weight. Oil, wood and various other fuels develop B. T. U.’s in quantities as they burn, and their relative value as fuel is in the same relation as their B. T. U.’s per pound. Electricity is not measured by the pound but by the kilowatt hour, and every such kilowatt hour contains 3412 B. T. U. The development of heat from electricity necessarily comes through the lamp socket into the home, these having been designed for lamps and not for heaters. The metal parts within are not substantial enough to carry an amount of electricity sufficient to heat a room. The wires are also inadequate for this purpose and it becomes necessary, therefore, to limit the amount of heat that can be obtained through a lamp socket. Consequently it has been determined that from 600 to 660 watts is the maximum for home electric heaters, which means that they will dissipate into the room from 2047 to 2252 B. T. U. for every hour they are run. To Avoid Waste It is as hopeless to expect to heat a room of any size with this number B. .T. U. as it is to do it with a burning match. Consequently, the heat thus developed must be utilized without waste and to the best advantage, concentrating it where it is most wanted. That is upon things or persons, not on the insensate walls. The essence of the household electric heater is, therefore, direction and concentration of a very hlg»h degree

of temperature.

The electric heater of the highest and most efficient type, therefore, follows the same laws as light. Heat can be radiated and passed through space with little lo'ss. The sun’s rays come to us that .way. By making a heater that will operate at a very high temperature within the capacity of a lamp socket and mounting this in the focus of a highly polished copper reflector, the highest degree of heat efficiency has been obtained. Such a radiator will take a small quantity of electricity and turn every bit of it into heat which can then be delivered with the least possible loss at the exact point to be heated. Brings Comfort While such a heater will not materially' raise the general temperature of a room of considerable size, as has been explained, it will deliver a delightful heat to any given place. It will make it possible to sit in a room in comfort that is not otherwise heated to an agreeable temperature* just as one may sit in the sun with comfort when it would be too cool

in the shade.

Many makes of heaters of this general Sun-bowl type are on the market, ranging downward in price from eleven dollars for the best. In selecting a heater the best test is to stand about five feet in front of several and to choose that which radiates

coloration or a slight depression at the stem end are infected as well as those showing more pronounced rot,

and should not be stored.

Stem-end rots have been prevalent the past season. These are caused by fungi whose growth and spread are favored by moisture and moderate temperature, conditions

likely to be present in storage.

Potato production was given a great impetus this year through successful and concerted disease con-

trol

son and li is Believed All Sales Records f°r the Fall Will be Shattered; Industry Makes Progress.

By FRED E. KINGSBURY Never, Jn the histofy of the auto-

motive industry'has buying been sustained so late in the season by the driving public, and the entire winter probably wilt see more business cnan

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cars, although 'they may not expect to purchase for,,at least another year. One of the things that has tended to create the. i large volume cf sustained business is the great progress the industry has made in the last year and a hijf in reducing manufacturing cosj*s., | This is especially true of incIoSfcd mbdoK.

ever before. • ' This is the confident

and the wide-spread planting of j prediction of practically every autocertified seed. This resulted in a j mobile manufacturer and dealer, yield in excess of the demand which J Many authorities in the trade bepccounts for the low price_ It is j ]jeve this is due directly to the great important, therefore, that only sound, popularity of inclosed cars. In a

potatoes be stored.

BADGER IN BEDROOM Jamestown, N. D.—A badger hiding under her bed bit Miss Zelma Pendleton on the leg while she w r as undressing. NINE-YEAR-OLD PICKPOCKET St. Louis, Mo.—Nine-year-old Henry Maby was sentenced to reform school for picking pockets. Three watches were found on him.

measure, this may be true. The one reason, however, is that the buying public, believes the prices are right, and in this matter they are correct. Interest in automobiles has been growing by leaps, and bounds and already great interest is being shown in the coming automobile shows in Cleveland, New York and Chicago. People are constantly inquiring about new models and, when these are shown in the various salesrooms, they do not hesitate to inspect the

will be fair to both the motorist and the pedestrian. The motorists and the general public are getting along fairly well with present laws and nothing will be changed unless the automobile organizations believe it will work an improvement, if they have anything to say about it.

The total market value of; the cooperatively marketed livestock*, was $1,385,529,02, bringing the, total for the past 12 months to more thdn $12,000,000. Upward -of 7,000 livestock producers joined in ’forwarding 1051 floors of livestock tq .the, termi-

nals.

Particular emohasls ha^ been given to the cooperative livtstbek nlarketing idea in Ohio during the past month since the first farmers’ commission firm of interest to Ohio producers open at the Buffalo market November 1. This ris the first cooperative organization of the kind to open on an Eastern market:, and . with the backing of farmers of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, handled as high as 50Vc of the hogs on the market in a single day during the third week of operation. It is expected that , a similar firm will start operation at Cleveland in a short time, and others will follow at Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

TROUSERS TRAP SLAYER

Berlin—AVhen Carl Lenz wore his employer’s trousers, friends of the latter suspected something’ was

The men are selected from lists of , wrong. Investigation showed Lenz

promising radio students at the Naval Great Lakes Training Station, and are transferred to the new school. The course lasts for 12 weeks, the last three of which are spent with

an air squadron.

The Army's course is somewhat similar, 'and is given at Chanute

Field, Rantoul, 111.

had murdered the trousers’ owner.

SIXTEEN-YEAR RETRIBUTION

Chicago—Mrs. Elizabeth Mason met’her husband bn a trolly sixteen years after he deserted her and had him in a cell in sixteen minutes.

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Sheffield, Eng.--Elizabeth Spencer, 84 and a spinster, was married here to Thomas Dayton, 83-year-old bachelor.

SLAIN 1 YEARS AFTER WAR BY BAYONET OF HIS ENEMY

Christmas Seals Support Crusade of Double-Barred Cross.

pHRISTMAS SEALS

crusade of the

cross ' in thg United States

seal is issued each year, but the dou-ble-barred cross stands as the per-

support the' the emblem of the National Tubercu-

double-barred losis Association—the double-barred

A new

Through the annual sale of the Christmas Seals, millions of people have learned of the nature and pre-

manent emblem under which is car- 'vention of tuberculosis; hundreds of ried on the warfare against tubercu- tuberculosis hospitals have been

losis the year around by voluntary

health organizations.

Until three years ago the seals bore the emblem of the American Red Cross. At that time the Red Cross withdrew its emblem, and since then the seale have been marked only by

built; clinics, nursing service, open air schools and fresh air camps have been provided, and the state and national organizations have been enabled to keep before the public the menace of the disease and means of resisting it.

Men, who, a Tew years ago laughed at the idea of owning, two. cars now believe they could, not get along with one. Two cars are considered essential in a great many families and in a great many cases this is true economy. .... . 1 Reports have been received from Detroit during the last week that the demand for inclosed cars exceeds production and. th^t dealers,. in general, have not, made any move to stock open models for th,e spring demand. This indicates that we may look for steady sales of closed cars i all next summer. Automobiles in Europe Although the automobile business in Europe at the present time is not what it should be, considerable improvement is expected during the 1 coming year, according to several Americans who have recently returned, after making a thorough investi- ! gation of business on the continent. According to the United. Stated commerce reports, Lithuania is one | of the bright spots where American made cars are in demand. It is said that approximately 50 per cent of the passenger cars being operated in I Lithuania are of American manufac-

ture.

The tendency of passenger car trade in the Netherlands is in the direction of the family car of medium price, power and capacity, according to reports. It is reported that at the London motor car show there were a large number of small models displayed. There is said to be an increase in the number of overhead valve engines. The Speed Traps Considerable pressure has been j brought to bear during the last year i on those small towns, and some of i the larger places, who have been in j the habit of establishing speed traps ! and stationing “speed cops” in unex- j pected places for the unwa jjymotor- I ist who may be traveling at a rate j of speed in excess of the local or- j dinance, although the rate at which ! he may be traveling is not excessive. ! Automobile organizations are of j the opinion that the number of ar- ; rests and fines imposed on motorists ! for the sole purpose of enriching the ! funds of the village and city are di- j minishing that there is a tendency towards sane regulation as regards speed and that the old-time speed traps will soon- be a thing of the

past.

-Considerable has been heard recently about, uniform traffic laws. While uniform laws may be desirable, authorities do not believe that the country is ready for any such move at the present time, although action may be expected in future years. There are too many municipalties who believe they have conditions of their own to meet and they do not like to join with other municipalities in making uniform regulations, prefering to set the pace themselves as to what a motorist may do and what he may not do, “The man on-the right has the right of way” movement, seems to be gathering considerable headway in New England and, isome of the eastern states, but ip.Las not been adopted in Ohio. Safe, and sane legislation is the one thing uppermost in the minds of j al! good motorists. Legislation thal

Warsaw—When Dr. Thaddeus Kalmans .told a patient he could never recover, the sick man shot him dead.

SNORE CURE SWINDLE

Paris—A shrewd swindler who advertised a cure for snoring answered each paid inquiry as follows: “Sleep with your mouth closed.” The authorities declined to prosecute him.

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