Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1922 — Page 3

s p° rt W— ~ — I M any OPI* ttllng featUre ’' that “ “ F’ into America's biggest' I The rM |r0 ° *" me also and one of them was H'TtX few days ago by "Brnie” National League umpire and, H thepron-ment gridiron referees U t« known about football and, ' part of the game than any I lo 8 r OU American sport, it is ra | tr surprising to think sometimes " . such Immense crowds will turn ,h *‘ see a game that the majority, w Httle about,” Quigley said Tak( . baseball for instance. The, runn. r is b.-lng run d.o. ■. be

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(tween two bases. He evades one of the basemen and gets safely to the bag, but Is eulled out by the umpire. Practically every spectator knows that lie was out for running out of the line. "Boxing rules are known to the letter by the youngest fan. When one contestant in the ring Is disqualified the majority are able to tell the reason without a moment’s thought. i One the tootball field, however, a forward pass can be thrown and the I play apparently successfully executed. The whistle of the referee is blown, the ball is brought back and the team in possession is penalized a down. It is safe to say that not three per cent of the spectators are able to quote the rule that was violated. "When the time comes that t'.o football rules are familiar to the ordinary

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layman and when the fine points of the game are known, it will be impossible to accommodate the crowds." Football In Its tine points Is more or less mysterious not because It Is a highly complicated game, but because the rules are so huzily worded and so many changes are made from year to year thut it almost takes a corporation lawyer to get clear on the rule book. Quigley terns in his umpire work with Charley Moran, the Centre College coach, and they claim that they spend most of their summer evenings, many times until the wee hours of the morning, going over the changes In the rules and figuring out just what they mean. When two football experts have to go to all the time and trouble to get straight on the legal end of tire game, it Is no puzzle why the ordinary fan who sees football once a week —from a great distance —is satisfied with a ru dimentary knowledge of what is taking place on the field. After all, however, the fans knows that the main idea is to get the ball I ----- tho goal line and that's where the I interesting work comes. | The same holds good for polo, which has the most complicated rules of all sports. It’s a safe bet that not a dozen spectators who see the big international matches next months will know what It is all about except that the main idea is to knock the ball betweei the goal posts. i It might be argued that that Is sufficient. SCREEN CLOSE-UPS Marie Prevost and Kenneth Harlan will play the leading roles in the War ner Brothers screen version of F. . Scott Fitzgerald's novel, “The Beautiful and Damned.” E. Mason Hopper will direct the picture. Wesley Barry plays the part of a . policeman’s son in "Heroes of the Street.” Will R. Walling lias been cast as the bluecoat, and Mrs. Aggie Herring plays the role of the freckled youngster's mother. , Fifteen hundred species of wild animals are said to have been used in the Warner Brothers wild animal picture, "A Dangerous Adventure," featuring Grace Darmond. Any number of directors have enjoyed the novelty of directiny their wives, but few have had the opportunity of directing their sons. William Beaudine, directing “Heroes of the ' Street." a Harry Raps production for Warner Brothers, is just discovering that the youngest member of his family. William Beaudine, Jr., has a mind of his own. “Pob” is hafing some job persuading him to act. —— • Questionaires Mailed To All Candidates The trend of the woman vote in Indiana this fall probably will be influenced by answers of candidates to a questionnaire which has been sent out by the Indiana League of Women Voters to all Republican and Democratic candidates for state and nation al offices. Welfare legislation for women and children is the main concern of the League. Os the candidates for the national Congress the League j asks for an attitude on the question of I adequate financial support for the I Children’s Bureau, for the Women’s bureau in the Department of Labor, ‘ and for the Home Demonstration work in the Department of Agriculture. Federal provision for the removal of illiteracy, and activity on the part of the United States toward international co-operation to prevent war also are planks in the national League’s platform, and the candidates are ask ed for their attitude in these matters. Answers will be published in the “Woman Voter," the official League publication, without comment. The League indorses no candidates, but spreads as much information as possible in order to encourage intelligent voting, explains the letter which accompanies the questionnaires, and which is signed by Mrs. Walter S. Greenough of Indianapolis, state president. Os the approximately 250 candidates for the state legislature the League asks for expressions of favor or disfavor on five proposed legislative measures which were endorsed at the last state convention. They include an eight hour law for women in industry, establishment of citizenship classes in public schools, an appropriation by Indiana to match federal aid on the Sheppard-Towner act, and better care of orphans and juvenile delinquents. Informally, the League asks for the candidate's attitudes on a direct primary law. The questionnaires, when filled out, are to be returned to headquarters of the State league, 705 National City Bank building, Indianapolis. London —Aug. 24. —A retired dealer who made his living out of buying up old false teeth and selling the gold left $125,000.

& =— ; ITpi B 111 ' _____ ALL ABOUT VACUUM, TUBE AS AMPLIFIER! Connected Up to Furnish Rabid Filament Current and Main* tain Plate Potential. Figure XXIV shows a three-elec-trode vacuum tube connected with the “A" battery to furnish the rated filament current and a "B” battery to maintain rated plate potential. In the plate circuit is a current meter to fl f .0- . I — Xzjpi xx/P read the plate current A “C” battery Is connected in the grid circuit to maintain the grid iat the positive potential O-A In order to have the tube operate at the point A on the characteristic curve. To T-T will be connected the alternating difference of potential having a maximum positive value equal to A-0 and a maximum negative value equal to A-B. The resulting variation in plate current is shown In Fig. XXV. Inserting the tube functioning as an amplifier, with an amplification sac-

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tor of K, between the supply of alternating difference of potential at T-T, was just K times what It actually is. All these considerations have been based on the assumption that the total Impedance (resistance to the flow of an alternating current) of the entire plate circuit existed internally in the tube between the filament and the plate, and that the external electrical circuit from the plate to the filament had zero impedance. Os course, this condition never exists In practice. The external plate circuit always has Impedance in U in the form of telephone receivers, resistance choke colls, or transformer primaries, depending upon the means that is employed to couple the successive tubes together. It is only where the external plate circuit of a vacuum tube has zero Impedance that the plate voltage is equal to that of the "B” battery. As soon as an Impedance is introduced Into the external plate circuit, part of the total potential of the “B” exists as a drop across the external Impedance, s<> that only a portion of the total "B” battery is available at the plate. Fig. XXVI represents the characteristic curve of the tube as we have been discussing it, wlth. no impedance in the external plate circuit. This curve is called the “static” characteristic cugve, to differentiate from the others. Suppose that we introduce into the external plate circuit an impedance in the form of a resistance as shown by R in Fig. XXVII. When the current flows around I • ■ i Z—— 3 —f - ' ' I ■ through the plate circuit, there will be a voltage flrop across the resistance R equal in value to R times I, where I Is the plate current in amperes. If the internal Impedance of the tube be denoted by Z, then the drop in voltage from the plate to the filament inside of the tube is ZI. The sum of these two voltage drops, ZI plus RI, is always equal to the applied voltage of the “B” or plate circuit battery. The voltage of the *‘B” battery is constant. As the plate current increases, the value of RI increases because R, the external plate resistance, doe? not change In value. So if the sum ,of ZI plus RI is always equal to a constant

whsn RI Increases, ZI must decrease. This means that when a constant "B" ( battery potential Is applied to the j ilaie circuit of a vacuum tube, con- . siffiPng external resistance, <an Inn plate current causes a do " drhaau In the potential oxlstfhg be{wtah the plate and the filament. •static" characteristic curve 1 wd#. Grawn on the assumption that in potential between thq-iplate and the filament remained fibiuttant, obviously then, when the external plate circuit has other than ■/.erd Impedance, the static character‘silo curve no longer bolds true. ’The characteristic curve of a tube having other than zero impedance In the external plate circuit is the "dynamic** characteristic. The greater the variations in plate current, the greater the variation in the voltage existing between the plate and the ( filament. If the value of K, the external plate Impedance, Is Increased, the greater will be tiip variation in the plate to filament voltage for the same variation In plate current In Fig. XXVI (2) is represented the dynamic characteristic of a tube with a certain definite value of R in the plate circuit Curve (3) represents the dynamic characteristic of the same tube with a larger value of R in the plate circuit. Finally the ex-1 treme condition is reached, in which | It is made infinitely high and the | dynamic characteristic becomes par-1 allel to the grid voltage axis as in j (4). This shows that variations of j grid potential would produce no var-, iation of plate current, but maxi- I mum variations of plate variations of plate potential. These would be amplified variations of grid potential variations. This last condition of having the I variations of plate potential amplified I variations of grid potential variations is the ideal condition sought for in vacuum tube amplifiers. In Fig. XXVII as the current of I

the plate circuit flows through the resistance R there is a drop in potential across R between the points j . X and Y that will be proportional to the current flowing. If the value of R and the plate potential are high enough this potential variation between X and Y will be exactly pro- [ portlonal to and K times that applied to the grid of the tube at T-T. To amplify a signal from a radio receiver then, it is only necessary to 111 1 -_L—J i.-w —i....——... . ry \ | * VV r P > - e I > I x ’ vxvn ! have a circuit whose output is to be amplified connected to T-T and the i amplified output taken off at X and Y. If greater amplification is desired the output from X and Y is run through another circuit similar to that shown In Fig. XXVII. SPARKS The “Totemitos,” a society of radio fans at Seattle, decided that receiving code signals during broadcast programs is inevitable, and instead of registering complaints, opened a free school to its members for instruction in the code. People living In isolated sections are getting great satisfaction from radio, as It Is a cure for loneliness. They not only feel that they have friends with- , in “speaking distance" but that entertainers of the highest grade Are next door neighbors. Major General Squire, chief signal officer, U. S. A., told tTie graduates of the Camp Vail signal school there had been greater developments in radio in the past decade than In any other science. Also that in future wars barrages and bombardments would be laid down by radio. The British have developed a two-purpose -vacuum tube for I use in conjunction with radio. ! The new tube, or valve, as it is called in England, is the Mullard Ora. The plate voltage is given ns 30, and the filament ■ voltage at 3.6 to 4. The base of the tube is of the fourprong type. It is said to combine efficiently the qualities of the rectifier and amplifier, which make It possible to use one tube for all purposes. k--.--.--. — —.—«

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