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Tough Meat Made Tender, Bacteria Is Destroyed Tough beef can be made as tender and fr$sh as new mown hay, scientists say. All one needs is u violet iuy machine. The Food Foundation of Mellon Institute has announced that fresh beef, if exposed to ultra-violet rays for three duys, will be us tender us meat hung in a refrigerating plant for eight weeks. It was only after years of experimentation that this tenderizing process was discovered the Food foundation has announced. Until now the general public wondared why it could get juicier and more tender steaks at restaurants than at home. The reason was that the better restaurants paid the higher price for seasoned meat which the lady of the house would not or could not pay. Only 3 per c'cnt of the meat formerly was "hung." Now it is possible for all meat to he treated by ultra-violet ray and then everyone can buy restaurantgrade moat at a comparatively low prico. If so, there will be no more shouting about "this tough steak by the head of the house when he starts to carve it. The new method can be applied also to mutton and to fowls, for there is tough mutton and tough chicken under present conditions and these, too, can be made more palatable. Another advantage of this violet ray treatment on meat is that it actually k>U? any bacteria which might have been in the beef, the scientists say. The duy may soon come when the ultra-violet ray treatment may be enlarged to in?elude many othee foods -in whiohthe growth of bacteria is suspected or possible. R. R. Retires Cowboy and Horse From N. Y. Streets For many years, visitors to New York have been startled to see freight trains running on one street of the nation's largest city. They have been flabbergasted even more to see each such train preceded by a curious figure astride a horse, deoked in a ten-gallon hat and waving a red flag (or a red lantern If the sun had set). What they saw was a Tenth avenue cowboy fulfilling an 1850 law which permitted the New York Central to run freight trains on the open street along that thoroughfare, provided they traveled not more than six miles an hour and employed "a proper person to precede the trains on horseback, to give the necessary warning *in a suitable manner of their approach." This anachronism was brought to an end recently when the Manhattan vaqueros, represented by 21year-old George Hayde on his faithful nag Cyclone, escorting a Dieselelectric-powered freight, made their last roundup. As part of the mod ernization program nearly completed to bring the West Side highway up to date, the trains will in the future run above and below ground, the horses will go to a riding academy, and the cowboys will take more prosaic jobs with the company. Brazil's 'Dictator' The spotlight is on Brazil and the undeveloped wealth of Brazil s mines, forests and fields rs a prize to tempt aggressor nations. But Brazilians are aware of the danger of attack and are, quietly strengthening army and navy. Most important, Brazil is whole-heartedly supporting the "Good Neighbor" policy of the Western hemisphere. Brazil is ruled bv a dictator ? President C.etulio Vargas?but be does not follow the pattern of IB.t'e: and Mussolini. There is uo regimentation, r.o persecution, no mill tansm in Brazil Only political j controversies are banned. Vargas has unlimited power. Congress has been suspended, political parties abolished. 1 ho president controls army and navy, determines diplomatic, economic and social courses. Censorship governs radio and the press. The dictatorsiup will end, umiei a constitution written in 1987. when the president calls a national p:eb | iscite. But Vargas is a benevolent , dictator and Brazil is pro-pel .ng j under h.s guidance. . . ( Improving Human It arc Abuse of alcohol, faulty >y-tern j of schooling and the narrowing of I three great problems that challenge j medicine, psychiatry and modern i science today, Dr. C. C harles BurImgame of Connecticut, one of the pioneers in mental treatment, re-, centlv said The mental weakness < f nun and women, according to Dr. Burling-t anio, is contributed i v "m.s education" which permits a colli go edu- . cation for all who wis.a it, even . though they may not have the brain ; for white collar 'raining: the con- j trol of alcohol and its removal from j the category of soe.al and health , problems, and t- fact t1 ,.t men past 4r> a re .n a gs or, ti.e inuusti ial ( market. j Vatican Currency Ur.it: 'mm- <: a ' k -.uncial convent.i r. r .' ' ed bet wet r the Vatican and Ita.v in J.muasy, 1(J31. | the Vatican Mate issues currency. Recently, new coins bonr.ng the head and armorial markings of Pope Pius X!I were put into circulation. The Vatican coins are of the same value. materia! and dimensions as the Italian coins, the only difference being in the minting. I I I Right Heating Important; D^?cribe Variou* Types Proper heating of the home is be-j coming more ami more an essential consideration of the prospective home purchasei or builder, believes one heating authority. In planning a new home or looking for one to buy investigate the heating fac ilities as carefully as you do the plumbing or the lighting fixtures, the expert advises. He sure that the heating unit is properly suited to your needs and is sufficiently large enough and capable of heating a home comfortably nnct nnt Just of The minimum requirement to meet local ordinances or regulations, be said. House heating may be divided roughly into three classifications: (1) Direct radiated heat as furnished by an individual radiant ilre, wall heater or radiator; (2) Circulated beat as derived from a circulator, floor furnace or a gravity warm-air furnace, and (3) Winter air conditioning or forced warm-air heating. The term "air-conditioning" is many times confused with air heating .equipment. True air-conditioning is available for residential installation and such a system furnishes circulation, cleansing, huiriidiflcation and temperature control of warm air during the winter or heating season, and temperature control, cooling, dehumidified or humidified, filtered air in summer. This type of equipment requires a cooling agent such as refrigeration or evaporated cooling. The usual" forced air unit or winter air conditioner is capable in the summer time of only circulating fresh, filtered air through the home and does not actually lower the temperature of the air passing through the unit. Ostracized Animal Is Used as New Guinea Pig Although the mongoose is barred from the United States because of its bent for slaying other small animals, it has played a beneficent, though unwilling, rule in efforts to check the epidemic of pneumonitis which has been prevalent in Minneapolis and generally over the country, it was revealed. The story was told in the leading article of the Journal of the American Medical Association, describing investigations by Drs. John M. Wier and Frank L. Horsfall Jr. of New York, which led to discovery that the disorder is virus-carried. Penumonitis, long a puzzle to science, is neither pneumonia nor influenza, ulthough it has some of the superficial symptoms of both. Efforts of the two doctors to transfer the disease to laboratory animals were fruitless. When they decided to try the mongoose, they had to take their specimens to the British tuberculosis research static#! at Kingston, Jamaica, because its importation into the United States is forbidden. There, using frozen and vacuum dried throat washings from New York pneumonitis patients, they inoculated 90 mongooses, 64 per cent of which developed the disease. The sick mongooses then were used to transfer tne disease to normal animals. "The work may long serve as a model in research and an inspiring example of preparedness for future epidemiologic emergencies." the medical journal said. Snakes Are Pleasant Companions Snakes are pleasant companions when you understand their attitude toward life, according to Miss Annette Loving, a snake-charmer with one of the leading circuses in the country. She say that a python is quite gentle as long as it is well fed. She allows them a single coil around her body and always keeps a hold on their tails, "because a double coil is an invitation to disaster, and if they start tightening up on me, I twist their tails buck and that makes them relax." Miss Loving said that it takes a snake about nun1 Jays to digest a meal and at tluit time she doesn't work with them, because they are as limp as a rope. Smell That Bacon Fryin'! If you are one of the countless homemakers who like old-fashioned flavor combined with modern convenience you'll sing a song of joy when you learn that it is now possible to buy bacon bn the rind in ' breakfast si/.e packages of approxi- i matcly one pound each. This new l bacon.* recently introduced on the , market, is sliced in thin even slices to the rind. All the housewife needs to do is to run a sharp knife blade along the top of the rind, then remove the number of slices re- * quired for immediate serving. 1 Steal Dead Lion's Tooth The "most original" thief has been found. He was last heard of ' m Oakland. Mich. The crime, ac- ' cording to police, is unique m the ! annals of criminology. Someone with an ire pick recently ( extracted the gold tooth from a dead t hen that pad been mounted. A dentist had gum the lion one of the largest gold teeth ever made, when the animal wore away the tooth, du.'ng a role in a picture. 1 The gold tooth has been located t in a local pawnshop, but poiice are stiil looking for the "most original" thief. j UJwHintin I [ ML [ conGwe/jman j - p'rIchctwdjf -1 i Navy Day Washington, I). October 24?On Monday, Oeiboer 27?11*? birthday of former Fresident Theodore Koosevolt the United St at oh will again celebrate Navy Day. I am sure If our former President could he here today Ills heart would he warmed by the tremendous progress made by our Naval establishment since Franklin D Koosvelt became President of the Putted States In March. 61933. For our Nayv Is beginning to assume strong defense protection proportions and is well on its way toward becom Ing the superior of that of any other nation in the world. At no time since Its incpetion in 1903, when the birthday of Theot^oFo Roosevelt was chosen as a fitting occasion for the annual celebration of Navy Day, has the attention of the American people been so centered ou. the paramount need ou sea power as our first lino of defense. War events In Fprope have brought vividly home to uh the need of a two-ocean Navy, and the United States is going ahead with amazing speed in turning out the linest of ships. Man's mastery of the waves through the construction and operaton of ships is so full of romance and adventure that It Is a part of the life of popolo the world over. And to the United States goes the honor of having sent thd first steamboat across the At. lantlc. This 100-foot ship, the Savannah, sailed out of the Port of Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 1819, and when sighted In an Irish port, some one exclaimed that the ship was on fire, not having before seen a vessel sailing under stoam. On August 17, 1807, Robert Fulton sailed the Clermont, the world's first successful steamboat, up the Hudson IUver, and following this, the use of steam in propelling vessels came | into use along the Atlantic Coast. But It remained for the Savannah to be the first steamship to reach European shores. It was many years, hoVever, after that first voyage of the Savannah before steamships began to cross the ocean frequently. Another Important chapter in American shipping is connected with the lire of Donald McKay, a 16-year-old Nova Scotia lad who landed in New York in 1826. He had a great love of ships and of the sea, so he apprenticed himself to a shipbuilder in New York. After McKay had learned the trade, he entered the Brooklyn, NVvy Yaad, where he was selceted from a thousand men to be foreman, but because he was not a citizen of the United States, men refused to work under him and finally he le^t. Yet McKay was destined to perform an important task for his adopted country, for withing a few years he had become head of his own shipyard. Although McKay was the man most responsible for clipper ships, fate In the oiid denied the rewards due him. 1 tilling tlu1 Confederate war, many of tHi-t Country's ships were destroyed and commerce suffered severely. At the close- of the war people turned their energies to tho development of the West, constructing railroads, building cities and encouraging Inland activities, which reunited in the neglect of shipping. American ships gradually disappeared from the s-as, and Mi Kay. w ith all the glory of ac-| cotnplishment to his credit, died in1 Ismi. an old man. broken-hearted and! in poverty. Even the models of his ships, which had been stored in a barn, were destroyed. Gradually shipping of the Unit-d Stati s declined, until a short tini" lielot" the first World War onlv onei tenth of the commerce ol this couti'ry was tarried under the Amereiau Fl,.g. But another great chapter in Aneriian shipping was soon to lie written. Shortly ^i-f h" the United States: jitered the first World War many of the world's greatest ships lay at the bottom of the seas as a result of submarine attacks by Germany. European nations were on the brink of >t.ir\atnin. This country entered the xar 3.000 miles from the battlefields tnd without a merchant marine. It nas necessary to build quickly a bridge of ships to France, but the miracle was performed in record itm . < Mi .Inly I. 1918. 90 great Am- roan ships slid down to the sea at one itne, the world's greatest aocnmp'1 linear in shlp-bnlidlnjrf* Today we have the finest N'aw in hir history and new ships are b- :t.g t aunched ahead of s? hedule. bringing )ur seapower to a commanding p< siion. ; Navy Day is an ideal hour in which o renew tho Nation's high resolve o possess a two-ocean line of defense ?snporior to any In the entire world. Yes. America looks ahead?and is jreparing' CHECK UP TODAY ON YOUR NEEDS JN? PRINTING 1 V. " ^ \y We Are Prepared To Serve , -Your Needs In Any Job ? Large or Small. j " * a Letterheads Envelopes Cards Placards Circulars , Statements Programs. Ruled Forms All Types Commercial PRINTING ft | ^ The Camden Chronicle Telephone 29