The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, April 23, 1936, Image 7
The Barnwell People-Sentinel, Barnwell, S. C„ Thursday, April 23, 1936
LIFE—Them
r
Rocket Ship Soars
700 Miles an Hour
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Expert Work* on Plane to
“Send to Moon.”
Washington.—Jules.Verne's fantastic
story of a trip to the moon by rocket
may be nearer reality than many be
lieved.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who has
worked 15 years on a liquid propellant
rocket, reported that his experiment
al ships had reached a top speed of
700 miles an hour and that be hoped
soon to surpass this record.
Ills work was so exceptional In this
previously neglected field that three
years ago Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
helped the Clark university physicist
obtain a grant from the Guggenheim
foundation. After experiments In a
specially-constructed laboratory at Ros
well, New Mexico. Doctor Goddard
broke a self-imposed silence to discuss
his process to date and the problems
yet to be solved.
Beats Plane Record.
Already Doctor Goddard has attained
a speed which Is more than double
that breath taking record set by Sir
Malcolm Campbell when he blurred
•cross the flats near Salt I.ake City.
Utah, at slightly better than :500 miles
an hour. The fastest seaplanes,
stripped down to tremendous power
house motors with gnat-like win^s,
still have to streak along at 500 miles
an hour.
Yet fellow scientists are not certain
that this extraordinary speed of TOO
mile's an hnuncan be maintained long
enough to throw a rocket out into space
where the earth’s gravitation would
not pull It back again.
The “motor” used by Doctor God
dard is powered by a combination of
liquid oxygen and gasoline.
Discussing the chamber or “motor”
oT the Socket ship, Doctor Goddard
COACH FOR CORNELL
said the one decided upon was 5\
inches In diameter and weighed five
pounds. The maximum lift obtained
was 289 pounds and the period of com
bustion usually exceeded 20 seconds.
The lifting force was found to be
steady.
Problems which still have to be con
quered' before Jules Verne’s fantasy
can come true Include stabili/.ation
and construction of a ship that Is
lighter than the present experimental
rockets which weigh from 58 to 85
pounds.
Use Small Gyroscope.
Rest results so far have been hb
tained by inserting a small gyroscope
In the rocket. This is the same de
vice that Is seen In some children’s
mechanical toys or on •'ocean liners
which attempt to overcome the rolling
motion.
“Inasmuch as the rockets started
slowly, the first few’ hundred feet of
the flight reminded one of a fish swim
ming in a vertical direction,” wrote
Doctor Goddard In a section describ
ing actual test flights.
“The continually increasing speed
of the rockets, with the accompany
ing steady roar, make the flights very
impressive. In two flights the rocket
left a smoke trail and had a small.
Intensely white flame issuing from the
nozzle, which at times nearly disap
peared with no decrease in roar or pro
pelling force.”
The white flashes below the ro<ket,
he said, were explosions of the gaso
line vapor in the air.
Doctor Goddard said that the great
est height obtained in any of the tests
was 7,500 feet. Me said he wanted
to work, out certain fundamental con
struction problems before attempting
a ceiling record.
Resides the Guggenheim foundation.
Doctor Goddard's experimental work
Itas been supported by (’lark univer
oity. the Carnegie institution of Wash
ington and the Smithsonian institution.
t'art Suavely, former football coach
at the University of North Carolina,
has been appointed to take Gil Dobie’s
place as head football coach at Cor-
lieil university.
Lip* and Not Teeth What
"Make Music Go 'Round
San Francisco.—Lips and not teeth
are what make the “music go round
and around.” according to Dr. Charles
J. Lamp, director of instrumental rnu
sic in San Francisco schools.
After eight years of scientific re
search, Doctor Lamp decided that it
is lip texture that qualifies every hand
irstnimentalist from tuba player to
the saxophonist. He lias taken sharp
i issue with the old school on this sub
ject.
According to the old time authori
ties, “tlie truni|M‘t player must have
thin lips and regular teeth; the bari
tone and bass players thick lips and
irregular teeth; the piccolo, clarinet
and saxophone players, overlapping
teeth, and the cornet and trombone
players, good and even teeth.”
Doctor Lamp experimented for four
years and found that anyone with the
proper lip texture need not worry about
the teeth in his ambitions to become
proficient with brass instruments.
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIEWTIFACTS ~ BY ARNOLD
ESCAPING
REALITY
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
An English poet who died about a
century ago wrote, “Life is but
thought:” so—
Let the ratn fall, and the flood descend
And drown Reality—
I'll sail away tn the ark Pretend,
I in the ark Pretend
On my Alpine ecstasy.
Very interesting and perhaps fasci
nating. but scarcely possible. It just
will not work. No
one can escape real
ity. Imagination
may create the ark
Pretend in which
we may sail away
to ecstatic reveries,
but sooner or later,
we must land some
where. We get some-
tlilng of a shock
when we realize that
the landing place is
not an Elysium par
adise but rather the
stern cold -world of
reality. We can no
more escape conditions involved in the
cross purposes of a social order than
we can escape the unalterable facts
of the cosmic universe. In spite of
tiiis truth, however, many persons
earnestly endeavor to live in the world
of unreality which Is expressed in the
little poem, and “sail away in the ark
Pretend to some Alpine ecstasy.”
Very interesting is a study of the
methods used by some persons to es
cape reality, to. get away from the
world of facts and hard knocks. The
most, common method is creating a
wbdi world, living a life of make-be-
liexe; constructing a dream world sev
ered from ordinary and common rela
tions. This is the most dangerous meth
od of “trying to escape,” and not in
frequently results in mental disorder.
Another method of escape is drowning
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Ltjdia Le Baron Walker
W .\U *er\ Ivc.
SPIRIT OF SPRING
This is the time of the year when the
Santa (Mara valley. Just south of San
Francisco, fnvites the rest of the world
to join in its annual spring blossom
festival. Dainty little Kitty Kirk,
charmingly framed in plum blossoms,
is a “spirit of spring'’ as she extends
the valley's welcome.
all sense of reality by the use of,opi
ates which lull one to sleep, or those
soporific drugs which only stupefy.
Others more sensitively organized, seek
refuge tn complete isolation, like the
mystics of long ago.
The effort to escape reality is neither
unnatu~al. nor particularly dangerous.
It Is the methods used to effect that
escape that are harmful. Every, per
son wants to get away at times. The
pressure of meeting life’s problems gets
too intense, and our “nerves” cry aloud
for relaxation and rest. Some physi
cians advise a complete change in
one's environment as a remedy for (lie
effect of over-strain. Travel may bring
jhis result. Music, art, and even the
development of one’s hobbies have a
most salutary effect.. The fact re-
nialna^- there Is only one way to es
cape, and that is to march straight up
to the problem of reality and master
It. Any condition, however grievous,
may he altered hy our mental attitude
toward it.
A problem is solved not by running
^way from it but by staying with it.
Because men and women stayed with
their problems and mastered them, we
have our finest music, best literature,
and noblest art. Not trying to escape
reality but mastering it, develops a
type of character upon which the future
security of our civilization depends.
C W’Micrn N>w*pn,«-r t.’nion.
VITMTHOUT being In the least selfish,
» * there are some ways In which a
person should consider himself or her
self first. This would seem on the face
of it to he practically impossible, but
on further consideration, the truth of
the statement becomes apparent. Time
to do the work of your particular job.
Is one of these Items of unselfish con
sideration of yourself first. Those w ho
have definite hours
of work or business
hours that are spe
cific, do nof have
this consideration
come into their
problems. It Is set
tled by the firm or
person who engages
them.
Often to Insure
no deviations from
the prescribed
hours, time clocks
have to Ik> punched.
Rut even when no
such mechanical
timekeeper enters
Into the case, the
•hat keeping
strictly to opening
and closing times,
and luncheon pe
riods, is essential " to a task makes
those engaged in It realize that failure
to conform to regulations may cost
them their Jobs.
Keep Faith With Time.
It is when you are master of your
own time, as is the case with home
makers, artists, many professional per
sons, and those in various forms of
business, that keeping faith with time
frequently lias to hear the brunt of
seeming selfishness. Everyone who
has been ever-persuaded to let a task
of -importance remain undone in orde:
to fill in a table of bridge, or do some
other interesting tiling to gratify and
satisfy an importuning friend, knows
it would have not have been selfish to
refuse, however it might have ap
pea red.
It Is fortunate for a homemaker,
that so much of her work is flexible,
that she does not have to he as
adamant in apportioning her time as
do those who are in the business world
that is business for themselves whether
at home, at a studio, or in rooms taken
in the hopes of seclusion from inter
ruplion.
Another matter in which an asper
sion of over consideration of yourself
may lie claipjj’d wrongfully, is when
you refuse to tax your strength be
yond the limits of good 11(0)1(1) by keep
ing late hours Pleasures within rea
son are a necessity of lien It li and
should not he neglected. Rut when a
person tlnds that continued late hours
make a ditVerence in efficiency (lie next
day, curtailing the length of them, or
cutting down on the frequency of such
evenings, is most certainly legitimate
You must “keep fit" or eventually lose
out in your work. It is imperative to
think of yourself first in this matter,
hut it is not selfish to do so.
Home Manugrn.rnt.
Scientific housekeeping can he car
ried to such an extent that It con
flicts with home comforts. This Is
Self After Befog Sent to Bed
Glenn Balberg, th!rteen-year-«M
farm boy. of South Rend Ind., ha-
lleved to have become despondent
over being sent to bed for bis re
fusal to wash dishes, hanged himself.
Sheriff’s officers said the body was
found suspended from rafters in the
upper story of a neighbor's bonae
where the youth had been staying
while his parents visited In Chicago.
The boy had become morose over bl*
parents' absence.
To keep clean and healthy take D*.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach.—Aav.
nothing new, although mi nine budget
ing enters Into the complications now
ns it did not do in bygone days. Or
if It did it was under v tlie name of good
management, not cold Inexorable fig
ures. In good management was In
cluded the manipulation of funds on
hand to include such tilings as were
of significance at the time with an eye
to further manipulations when other
pressing items of cost loomed up. In
budgeting, there is the original sched
ule to he followed, come what will. So
for home comfort a mixture of modi
fied budgeting and old-time good man
agement is a combination to be recom
mended.
Apart from things monetary, a fea
ture that is better today than in the
past Is the relaxing of the bi-yearly
house cleaning. Vacuum cleaners and
modern improvements In home equip
ment enter into, this equation. It is
not necessary to have rooms torn up
as they were when carpets were taken
up, and furniture left in disarray for
days while the entire house was
scoured and scrubbed preparatory to
putting down tlie beaten carpets and
restoring the rooms to order. Th*
next generation may not know any
thing about these discomfiting expe
riences. ,
Satisfying Experience
However, there was a satisfaction In
the knowledge that everything in the
whole house was in “apple p e order,”
according to reports of the older gen
eration, Greater still must have been
(lie appreciation that tills particular
household cataclysm was done for six
months at least. It was a period
especially dreaded hy tlie men of the
house, who were robbed of their com
forts during the episode.
While we are freeing ourselves from
these tilings, we can have others in
trude the home to Interfere with com
forts. If there is one thing that a
home means it Is sanctuary, where
mental and bodily comforts combine
to give it the right atmosphere.
e b. II Syndicate.—WNU S«rvlc#. »
Penalty of Famo
When one achieves fame, one loses
privacy.
FRECKLES
DISAPPEAR
!M § TO iO OAYg
FELT SPORTS HAT
Maria Guy buttons.together the two
sections of her new felt sports hat.
It is shown here in rust color with
buttons and button holes of navy bine.
The smart hag Is of Itodler'a new
iiiiiiiilyl with xiii cellulose film.
They Kept the Pigs in the Parlor
... 1 ■ — ■
The florals which brought death and destruction to many parts of the Ens«.
Iliad many curious after-elTects, hut few as strange as this. Anxious to save his
livestock from the raging waters, farmer Dnka, near Mountain View. N. J..
“invited” the animals to share ids home with him. Madam Sow and her litter
of little porkers were welcomed to tlie guest bedroom by Doku's young sou,
Joseph. So it was “Pigs in the Parlor,’’ until tlie waters subsided.
WONDER (REAM WIPES AWAY
RIACKHEADS—DUU, DMGYSUS
All you do is this: (1) At bertti—
8 read a thin film of NADINOLA
earn over your face—no uiii|iin_
no rubbing. (2) Leave on while you
sleep. (3) Watch daily improvemesit—
usually in 5 to 10 daya you will aaa a
marvelous transformation. Freeklea
blackheads disappear; dull coaneiMa
•kin becomes creamy-white, mtin-
amooth, lovely! Fine results positively
guaranteed with NADINOLA—teetee
and trusted for nearly two generational
At ell toilet counters, only Me. Or
write NADINOLA, Box 41, Paris, Tena.
AJlelpmqHatut
Conrtprtn
Sufferers
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Bad Elimination Make*
It Easier to Catch a Cold
With the right sort ot food and
proper exercise, constipation might
be rare, but in actual living condi
tions, how few. ihanage to escape itf
Mr. Clyde Martin, of Ona, W. Va,
recently wrote;
“If I let myself get constipated,"
he explains, “and my svstem filled
with impure matter, I feel bloated,
take cold easily, and feel out of sorts
in a lot of ways. I will take abont
two good doses of Black-Draught.
It seems to cleanse my whole systwm
and I feel like doing my work."
BLACK-DRAUGHT
ASHAMED OF
PIMPLY SKIN
Burnmd and Itchad Until
Cutleura Rallavadl
Y,
Victims of external skin outbreak*
use Cutleura for blessed, quick re
lief. Read this sincere tribute:
“I was ashamed to show myaelf
anywhere with the ugly pimple* I,
had. They were caused by some cur-
face condition and were very large
and red, and also hard. The Itching
and burning made me scratch so that
they bled:
“I sent for a free sample of CuO-
cura Soap and Ointment. A few pim
ples disappeared and I bought some
of the Soap and Ointment. It ooly
took Cutleura a month to relieve me
fully.” Miss It. Zebrowski, 18 Alder
St., Bristol, Conn.
Prove Cutleura today—and keep It
always near you. Use for rashes,
ringworms, burning and Itching of
eczema and other externally caused
skin Irritations. Soap 25c. Ointment
25c. Samples FREE. Write to “CutF
cura,” Dept 17, Malden, Mass.—Adv.
WNU—7
17-3*
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Kidney Poisons
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too frequent urination; backache,
headache, dizziness, loss of energy,
leg pains, swellings end puffinesa
under the eyes? Are you tired, nerv
ous—fed ell unstrung end don't
know what is wrong?
Then give some thought to your
kidneys. Be sure they function proper
ly for functional kidney disorder per
mits excess waste to stay in the blood,
and to poison end upset the wbofo
system.
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kidneys only. They are re comm an dad
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