Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 54, Decatur, Adams County, 4 March 1929 — Page 6

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Monsignor borgongini Duca. Secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Affairs, left. Cardinal Gaspard, Pajail Secretary, center, and Premier Mussolini, left, reading the Papal pact which retinned to the Pope tin 1

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4 Lightning as you need it is the latest wrinkle used by electrical engineers in their study of the effect of highvoltage surges. Left- is shown the portable equipment

Portable Generators Aid Man’s Knowledge Os High Voltages . I Pittsfield, Mass.—A low hum that . rapidly grows louder—a flash of intense blue lietween two shining brass spheres—a quick, sharp report —a . moment of silence. Back from the mountain sides, the echoes bound an.l rebound. A stroke of lightning, man- j controlled, has hit the high-voltage | e.lectric transmission linos that span , the valleys and mountain tops be-; twssn a hydroelectric generating sta-1 t.ion northeast cf the mountains end ] a city near the western edge of the range. The scene is in the Berkshire I Mountains of northwestern Massachusetts, on a Sunday morning. A I siftall wooden building in automobile i wheels stands in a clearing at the base of a high steel tower that supper ,s the wires overhead. Outside this portable building is a stand supporting two brass spheres, and a | number of wires leading to the over head spans—the first field lightning] generator. The engineers who oper-1

171 SCOUTS PASS SWIMMING TEST Large Number Os Boys In Anthony Wayne Area Learn To Swim % One hundred and seventy-one Boy Scouts in the Anthony Wayne area successfully passed the first-class swimming tests during the oast year. This was the report made today by scout executive, John, L. Anguish. This means that not only 171 boys learned to swim the past year, but became proficient enough to pass certain tests, such as jumping in, feet first, swimming 25 yards, turning around and coming back to the starting point. Forty-eight boys advanced still further, passing the swimming merit badge tests. Thirty-six boys developed the swimming art to a sufficiently expert stage to pass the Junior Red Cross life-saving tests.

sovereign powers which were taken away over 50 years ago. Th:-- hist ric ceremony took pace at the Eateran Palace at Rome. (International Newsreel Photo)

attached to the high voltage lines and lower right is close-up of the Lghtning generator while, lower left, is the oscillograph which photographs the flashes.

ate the switches by means of long I sticks so that they can remain a safe dis'ance from the high voltage. Lightning, enemy of electric transI mi; sion, has been studied by electrical engineers ever since man started |to transmit power over wires. Today lightning is still the major source of interruption on our transmission lines, but the chances of designing a | ligh'.ning-proof line became better each year. Artificial lightning generators capable of producing a half million volts were made years ago, but the work necessarily was confined within the I j laboratory. Work with actual lightning on highvoltagts transmission lines was started last year, and. during a thunders’orm in the foothills of the [Allegheny Mountains last July engi-j Sneers obtained a cathode-ray oscillo-1 | gram or picture with its high speed ] camera, showing the effects of a 1 natural stroke of approximately ; 2,500,000 volts on the transmission’' wires. Having obtained one record of an ' actual Ugh .ning bolt and its effect ]on a transmission system, it became I poss'ble i r engineers to duplicate

Mr. Anguish expressed himself asj weil pleased with these results, stating that a large number of these boys 1 developed their swimming proficiency at camp during the past season. He said that the past year was the most successful swimming season in the history of.the Boy Scout movement in the Anthony Wayne area. The figures on swimming for Boy Scouts of the entire country are interesting. National Figures A total of 21,743 boys were taught to swim in Boy Scout camps during ’ the swimming season of 1928, accord- • ing to the report of Fred C. Mills, or- ' iginator of the “Buddy System” and • director of swimming and water 3 safety for the Boy Scouts of America, t The report made public through the - national offices of the Boy Scouts of t America in New York City states that - the group is the largest number of - boys taught to swim In one season in the history of the movement. 1 The report is based on a survey of t all camps conducted by local councils ol the Boy Scouts but does not ini’ elude the number of boys who learnI ed to swim in troop camps or patrol units. The first record in mass in-

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the performance at will. Construction of a protable impulse generator then made its possible to | apply surge voltages at different places. The impulse genera'ior is so constructed that the engineers have available short or long waves, and either high ' r (lower voiltage. It can be moved to various disconnecting switches along the line so that the engineers operating the mil-1 lion'jh-of-a-eecond camera, or portable cathode-ray oscillograph, can obtain records showing what happens at the end of the line when highvoltage surges occur at varying distances from there. In the early days of electricity it I was customary for generating stallions to t,e crippled during thunder- ! storm 1 -', and most houses had combination gas and electric fixtures. ' Such provisions are hardly necesI sary today, for engineering investigations have shown how to build lightning arresters that will protect 'equipment against the surges caused by lightning, bringing nearer that day when interruptions will be even more infrequent.

I struction in swimming and individual teaching of Scouts through the “Buddy System” was established in 1926 when the announcement of 14,649 new swimmers as a result of instruction in Boy Scout camps won national acclaim and was hailed as an unbeatable record by swimming instruction authorities. That record was surpassed in 1927 when 20.000 boys were taught to swim and the record this year is still greater. Strict Supervision Strict supervision is maintained over water activities at all scout camps by qualified life guards, many of whom are* scouts. The “Buddy System” pairs off ail boys in camp and makes each responsible for his buddy while they are in the water. The “Buddy System” was originated and put into practice by Mr. Fred C. Mills. The boy at camp, who is already a swimmer, is instructed in the life saving requirements necessary for the Life Saving Merit Badge of the Boy Scouts of America. It is an interesting fact to note that most of the life savers, now acting as expert instructors and supervisors of water safety in Boy Scout camps, are swimmers who learned life saving as Boy Scouts,

Televoy Answers Plane’s >,i,Call for Field Lights —— — ~ ng] G] I 1 e n E 8 J®*' &*•*.<«■.<!> | /. S' V'l' W - Wn» ral K 4 ■ / i MK*3®W [ rfr k 1 ■ — LrtfL . '4» ▼ r r- ■* V: -a « —~——- The plane approaching Newark, N. J., airport blows the siren, lower right, which is carried on the side ot the fuselage, to command “Televox.” the electric watchman, rigged on the platfcrm in the foreground, to light the landing lights when flying at right.

Electric Watchman Floods Airport With Light At Siren Call A watchman who neither sleeps, eats nor takes a day off switched on the 14,000,000 candie power foodlights on the Newark Metropolitan airport. High above the field a plane approached in the darkness. Only Newark 1 street lights were visible, but somewhere in that blackness below the ' pilot knew there was a landing field. ] He reached out of the cockpit and pulled a cord. A siren on his plane screamed louder and louder, its pitch ' cons antly rising. Suddenly the lights of the field out- 1 lined it clearly, showing plainly its 1 runways and liangars. On the ground no one had turned the light switch. An instrument which resembled a loud speaker, on the roof of a hangar, picked up the sounds of the siren and the impulse set up was amplified through relays until it was sufficient to operate the

British Rubber Monopoly Broken By One Man

Backward Country Made Modern Through Enterprise Efforts to break the British monopoly and produce an independent rubber supply has transformed Liberia, a backward country in West Africa, into a modern, progressive nation, with a real future. This remarkable achievement, one of the biggest industrial developments ever undertaken, was the idea of Harvey S. Firestone. “There wasn’t a bath tub or an electric light in Liberia a few years ago,” said Mr. Firestone. “There was only one automobile in the country, owned by the President, and it wouldn’t run. The little independent Negro republic w r as very backward and becoming more so. 20,000 Employed “Today there are between 18,000 and 20,000 men on our payrolls in Liberia, Roads have been built through jungle country. A power plant has been erected and stores put up. Many automobiles are in operation there. We have a radio plant at Du Diver Plantation which com municates wi’h our main factory at Akron, Ohio, five thousand miles away.” Mr. Firestone explained how in 1922 Great Britain restricted the rubber-growing area in the East Indies and caused the price of rubber to jump to $1.23 a pound in America. "I trad four men go all over the world to find the right place,” and the American rubber maghate. They taped trees and investigated conditions ail over the Far East. Finally, upon the advice of my son, Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., we decided that Liberia was the place, and in December, 1925, we obtained a million-acre concession from Liberia for the planting of rubber trees. Harvey made the deal. "We have cleared 50,000 acres and have planted 30,000 acres. AU told about 6,000,000 trees have been plant-

switch. The lights were switched off and the plana disappeared again in the darkness. This time the pilot sounded his siren at the height of 3.000 fee*, and again the field lights blazed forth in the darkness. The device is called a “televox." When the pitch of the siren reaches a certain height the length of that particular wave stimulates the sensitive instrument on the ground. Its use will make night landing possible on fields not in charge of attendants and will make human vigilants on fields at night unnecessary. On landing after testing the instrument from several points of the compass and varying elevations, the pilot taxied his plane to the far corners of the field, and there sdunded the siren. Each time the lights flashed on. o What We’re Waiting For Eventually, says the Hamilton Specator, Zeppelins will he of such size they will be carrying ocean liners as ifeboats — Boston Transcript

- * V ‘W B ibt -J MB; *8 A* V” guinea A F RIC A r ''j IVOftY / j Gulf"#' HARVEY S. FIRESTONE ed. “Now* the United States is assured of an independent rubber supply. We the no longer dependent on any other country, which is an important thing in the event of a national emergency.” $625,000,000 “Tax” The American people had paid $625,000,000 more than it should have paid during the six years the British Restriction Act was in effect. After Mr. Firestone had fought the restriction it was lifted and is not now in effect. Mr. Firestone said he sees a great future for the rubber industry, which he rates “about third or fourth.” Great Britain has lost her monopoly. Now 50 per cent comes from the Dutch East Indies, and little Liberia is doing its share in giving America an independent rubber supply.

FIRESTONE

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Among Last Acts as First Lady of Land .. * .. . 1 • 11 ' '"''l tI ' " • Vs. I .< r . & \f^i' < I/ S’ t > . % WMB f ... :W:: W ® MPb/ 5 JOS O’aSfr■; .Wf-S I t ’ . X : 4>-. 4 6 Following a custom established by other wives of President 5 . Mrs. Cah n Coolidge planted an oak tree at the Chevy Chase playground at Washing D. C. A large gathering of school children attended the services, which we - sponsored by the Women's Civic Clubs Commi’sioner Sidney E accepted the tree on behalf of the District of Columbia, and sP*‘ JC eulogizing Mrs. Coolidge's work in the Capital were part of the exercises. OEMOCMTIm¥FET BEStIITS CLOSING OUT At Public Auction—% mile cast of Pleasant Mills, 5 mi.es south east Decatur. 4 miles north of Salem, on what is known as the old V ager a TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1929 Beginning at 12:30 p. m., the following property: 2—HEAD OF HORSES—2 , , wll | 1 gray mare and 1 black gelding, weighing about 1500 pounds ea ■. work any place. I—JERSEY COW—I Three-year-old cow, giving milk and will be fresh first of Ma: 9—HEAD OF HOGS—9 . „ o>v One black sow, will farrow middle of April; 2 spotted sows, vi in May; 6 spotted shoats, weighing 150 pounds each. 18—HEAD OF SHEEP—IB Shropshire ewes, two, three and four years old. — IMPLEMENTS— ower; One Deering binder, 7 ft. cut, does first class work; 1 eerin ? nt h bar--1 Osborne disc; 1 steel roller; 1 Black Hawk corn planter; 1 spike row; 1 Oliver walking plow; 1 double shovel plow; 1 good 3% in. 1 wagon; 1 light Moline wagon, 1 Turnbull triple wagon box; 1 s t° ne . set farm harness; 2 sets single harness; 1 Vega cream separator in ' • condition; 1 platform scale; 1 grass seeder; 1 hay rape; 2 oil ' . " sUC h with pump; 1 Kalamazoo heating stove; liarrels; log chains ai small articles. FEED AND GRAIN , . &ns of About 50 bushel of Johnson oats; about 5 tpns of hay; abott •> bright oats straw. TERMS—AII sums of $lO or under cash. All sums over U° credit will be given, purchaser giving bankable note bearing ln reJnoVlast 3 months. 4% oft for cash on sums over $lO. No property to oe ed until settled for. WILL D. EVANS, Owner Harry Daniels, auctioneer.