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m-m THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938 Keeping Up cien e ervi © Science Service.—WNU Service. Collecting Insects Is Inexpensive Hobby And Quite Amusing WASHINGTON. — You don’t need to spend a lot of money to have a lot of fun cultivating a scientific hobby, at least in its beginning stages. If the collect ing fever really takes hold, you’ll probably empty your pocketbook on your hobby, any way, but you can take a trial spin at it for next to nothing. If the notion of making a collec tion of insects appeals to you, for example, you don’t even need to buy a butterfly net. If you are handy with tools you can make one for yourself; but in some ways the be ginner at “bug-hunting” may even be better off without a net. Butterflies, for all their attractive ness, are not the best insects to be gin on. They are fragile and hard to handle, and tney take up a lot of room. The same may be said for dragonflies, craneflies and many other insects that require a net for their capture. Beetles Almost Ideal. Beetles are almost an ideal group for starting-out purposes. They can be caught in the fingers as they lumber along the ground or cling to trees and bushes. They can be found by turning over sticks and stones in the woods, or by digging the bark off rotten logs with a stout knife or the point of a trowel. They don’t get messy in handling, and they don’t take up much room in your trays or boxes. Several other groups of insects offer somewhat the same advan tages. You might prefer to try scooping up waterbugs, or nabbing grasshoppers, katydids and crickets, or even capturing the wild cock roaches of the woods, which are quite different animals from the pests that haunt our houses. Killing Bottle Necessary. One piece of equipment is neces sary for any kind of insect collect ing. This is a killing bottle. It is cruel to carry captive insects around alive, and to stick pins through them without first humane ly killing them is not to be thought of. So every collector carries a wide-mouthed bottle with a tight stopper, into which he puts his in sects, along with some chemical whose fumes are quickly lethal to insect life. Common pins aren’t the best things for pinning out insects but they’ll do all right, especially if you try to get thin ones. Don’t pin your beetle exactly in the middle, be tween his two wing-covers, but thrust the pin through one of these hard, shell-like halves; it will hold better there. You don’t need expensive special boxes or trays for your collection. Cigar boxes will do well enough, for a start. Small City Families Likely to Economize by Not Consulting Doctor WASHINGTON.—Families living in small midwestern cities “are more likely to economize by not seeing the dentist, the oculist—or even the doctor—than by not buying supplies for the family medicine chest, when funds run low.” This is the conclusipn of a survey of medical expenditures made un der the direction of Dr. Louise Stan ley, chief of the bureau of home economics of the department of ag riculture. The survey was made of 3,118 native white non-relief families liv ing in the following representative cities: Lincoln, 111.; Boone, Iowa; Columbia and Moberly, Mo.; Mount Vernon and New Philadelphia, Ohio; and Beaver Dam, Wis. Families with low incomes con sult doctors more often than den tists and almost never see oculists. Most of them, however, reported spending some money for medicines and drugs during a 12-month period of 1935-1936. The amounts spent for medicine ranged from $6 to $21 per family per year at the differ ent income levels. Not until the family income reached the $500 per year level did the reports show as many as half the families consulting a physician. Diet for Long Life PHILADELPHIA—The echidna, or Australian spiny anteater, in the Philadelphia zoo, has established a record for longevity among animals of its kind. Keepers ascribe its sur vival for 35 years to two things: a dark box in which to sleep during the daytime, and a steady daily diet of one raw egg, one pint of milk, and one teaspoonful of lime water. Pasteurize Goat s Milk MALTA. — Island authorities at this British Mediterranean naval base have turned to systematic pas teurization of goat’s milk in an ef fort to wipe out Malta fever. ‘Sun Power’ Problem To Be Studied by Scientists of M. I. T. First Baptismal Ceremony Held at Night CAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Meth ods of creating ‘‘sun power” by converting the tremendous amount of solar energy into some form in which man can use it as a source of power will be the goal of a comprehensive program of chemical, electrical and mechanical research to be undertaken at the Massachu setts Institute of Technology. Enabled by a $647,700 gift from Dr. Godfrey L. Cabot of Boston, the research will be devoted specifically to a search for direct means of con verting the sun’s radiant energy into useful power or storing such energy for future use. Under the terms of the gift the income from the fund must be used in these stud ies for at least 50 years, after which it may be diverted to other pur poses at the discretion of the Insti tute’s corporation. While scientists at Technology will concentrate on direct physical and chemical methods of using solar en ergy, research workers at Harvard university, which received a simi lar grant from Dr. Cabot last year, are making a pioneering study of the possibilities of speeding up the growth of trees, and thus "stream lining” the conversion of sunlight into forms suitable for human use. Great Potential Power. In announcing the gift, Dr. Karl T. Compton, M. I. T. president, com mented on the enormous potential power of solar energy, pointing out that heat from the sun reaches the earth in the temperate zones at an average rate of approximately 4,006,000 calories per square yard daily. In the three months of great est sunshine an acre of land, he estimated, receives directly from the sun an amount of heat equiva lent to that which would be pro duced by the burning of about 250 tons of first-class coal. “The store of energy in our famil iar fuels, while great, is not inex haustible,” he continued, in point ing out the importance of such re search. A primary object of the project will be to determine whether use of solar energy is economically feasi ble and practical. Solar energy de vices already proposed and studied elsewhere will be evaluated with this point of view in mind. The second aspect will consider chiefly the fea sibility of developing new conver sion equipment using phenomena now under study which hold prom ise of ultimately being useful in the solution of this problem. Corn’s Vitamin Content May Be Increased by Scientific Breeding ITHACA, N. Y.—Breeding for in creased content is indicated as a definite possibility by experiments on corn reported by Drs. L. F. Randolph and David B. Hand of Cornell university. The vitamin A content of com and other vegetables depends on the amount present of certain yellow pigments, the carotinoids. Amount of the carotinoids in turn depends on the hereditary makeup of the plant; it is a Mendelian trait. Doctors Randolph and Hand bred strains of yellow com to increase the number of chromosomes in each cell, bearing the hereditary units or genes. When they doubled the chromosome numbers (and there with doubled the gene numbers) they obtained marked increases in the vitamin A activity. Giant Race Lived in Swamps of the Coal Age COLOGNE, GERMANY.—A race of giants that lived in the Coal age swamps is described by Dr. P. Gut- horl of the Saarbrucken School of Mines. They were creatures with jointed bodies like the lobsters and insects of today, and apparently were evolutionally midway between the lobster tribe and “thousand-leg- gers” or myriapods. But they were very much bigger than any modem lobster or thou- sand-legger. None of the fossils thus far found is entire, but from the fragmentary remains Dr. Guthorl estimates a three-foot length as not uncommon; and one specimen from a coal bed in the Netherlands ap pears to have been five or six feet long in life. This particular type of fossil has never been found in coal beds out side of Europe. It bears the scientific name Arthropleura, and it lived about 250,000,000 years ago. Air-Conditioned Mine JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRI CA.—Air-conditioning of the Hercu les shaft of the East Rand Propri etary mine, one of the world’s great est sources of gold, has enabled op erators to take 50 per cent more gold ore from this shaft at no in crease in operating cost. Glass Cracks Grow BERLIN.—High speed motion pic tures, taken at the rate of 200,000 exposures a second, have shown that cracks in glass from the in stant of impact grow in all direc tions from the point of impact at the rate of more than 1*500 meters per second. “1 baptize thee, my brother ...” and a moment later Howard McGee became the first man ever to be baptized in open air exercises held under floodlights. The novel baptism climaxed a revival conducted near Gainesville, Ga., under the direction of thirty-three-year-eld Reverend C. E. Vaughn, who is said to have given up a prospering furniture business six years ago to convert souls. A crowd of 500 persons watched the ceremonies. WORLD CROSSROADS Start Moving $1,290,000,000 in Silver Here is the international sign post erected on Treasure island in San Francisco bay, site of the 1939 Gold en Gate exposition, showing dis tances from the world’s far cor ners. Gaila McEntee acts as inter national “traffic cop.” In one of the biggest trucking jobs ever undertaken, $1,290,000,000 worth of bar silver is being moved from Manhattan to the government’s new storage vault at West Point. One truck will move out of Manhattan each day, five days a week, for about ten months before all of the silver is moved to the big reinforced vault. A company of 55 coast guardsmen are assigned to serve as n protective convoy on the 50-mile trips. Photograph shows one of the trucks being loaded with 350 bars of silver. A Gas-Masked Holiday in Switzerland admits Moscow link The Swiss public is becoming so air-raid “precautionized” that strange sights are often to be seen these days at this “home” of the League of Nations. Two gas-masked holiday makers were photographed as they enjoyed a row on Lake Geneva. The Communist party in the Unit ed States is “part and parcel” of the Communist International, Earl Browder, party secretary, admitted during his testimony before a legis lative committee inquiry into law observance. Browder is pictured as he testified during the hearing, held in New York. , Girl Sailors Do Everything but Cook The gaff-rigged schooner Yankee, manned by 14 Girl Scout mariners supervised by four experienced seamen, prepares to sail from New York on the first of eight one-week cruises. Here are six members of the group raising the anchor. The 102-ton schooner will be almost entirely in the hands of the Scouts, all of whom are in their teens, throughout the trip. The girl crew will stand watches, swab decks and assume aB the shipboard duties except the preparation of meals. Frosting a Cake for Judges to Sample A professional cake baker, frosting one of the hundreds of cakes which were made up in the Experimental Kitchen Laboratory, main tained by C. Houston Goudiss in New York City, in the course of selecting the winners in his recent Cake Recipe Contest. By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS N aturally, i am accustomed to seeing exhibits of delicious and interesting foods in the Exper imental Kitchen Laboratory that I maintain in New York City. But in all the years of its existence, it has never been a busier nor a more inviting place than during the last few weeks when the home economists on my staff have been busily testing and judging the many fine cake recipes sub mitted by readers of this paper in our recent Cake Recipe Contest. Imagine, if you can, a big cheer ful and colorful kitchen filled with long tables upon, which row after row of handsome cakes were arranged—proudly testifying to the skill of the homemakers who cherish the recipes from which they were made. Every Type of Cake Entered. A whole tableful of white cakes, with and without icing. Chocolate and cocoa cakes of every possible type. All manner of cakes, fra grant and delicious — spice, ice cream, honey, caramel, maple syrp, nut, date, pineapple, or ange, lemon, butterscotch, jam, banana, raisin, oatmeal, cocoanut and marble cakes. Cakes baked in long sheets, square cakes, round cakes, layer cakes. Old- fashioned cakes from grand mothers’ recipe books. Very mod ern and up-to-date cakes. And even one that was said to have been a favorite with General Rob ert E. Lee. I’ve never seen any thing to compare with the collec tion, even at the biggest State Fair! Do you wonder that the home economists on my staff required several weeks to pick the win ners? For with such a wealth of exceptional cakes from which to choose, selecting those for top honors, was indeed difficult. The cake bakers were trained for their work. They followed the recipes precisely. They measured accurately. They checked oven temperatures. The scoring system was highly scientific. And we can say with conviction that no matter how close the race, the winners defi- nitoly outpointed even their clos est rivals. First Prize Winner. The first prize of $25.00 went to Mrs. D. F. Kelly, 1004 Charles St., Whitewater, Wis. Second Prize Winners. The five second prizes were awarded to Mrs. H. Harshbargen of 2427 Fifth Ave., Altoona, Pa.; R. A. Williams, 12075 Rosemary Ave., Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. C. A. Burns, Box 788, Oakland, Miss.; Miss Sadie Cunningham, Avon- more, Pa.; and Mrs. Laura Mey er, 107 Pleasant St., Plymouth, Wis. Third Prize Winners. Mrs. T. H. Fjone, Flaxville, Mont.; Mrs. Lester Ralston, 127 South Judd St., Sioux City, Iowa; Mrs. Harry A. Kramer, 16 Marin Road, Manor, Calif.; Mrs. F. D. McDonald, Route 1, Amherst, Texas; Vera Tygar, Commodore, Pa.; Mrs. George Ahlborn, R. D. No. 1, Mt. Pleasant, Pa.; Mrs. B. A. Robinson, Box 578, Emmett, For Warn Weather Comfort REDUCE By This Easy, Comfortable Method Offered by C.1 When the temperature mounts, fat hinders heat loss.The body temper ature of the overweight individual is more likely to rise than that of the thin person, and he is therefore more liable to heat prostration. For greater comfort, better appear ance and for improved health, the man or woman who is overweight should sendfor the reducing bulle tin offered free by C Houston Goudiss, and reduceby the safe and sane method of counting calories. Tb* bulletin h complete tvttb s chart, showing the calone value of all the commonly sued foods and st contains sample menus that you can use as a guide to Just send a postcard to G Houston Goudiss at 6 East 39th Street, r, ashing Idaho; Jean Guthrie, 4712 Camp bell St., Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. Walter Richter, Bonduel, Wis.; Mrs. P. C. Blakely, Alden, Mich. Honorable Mention. Emogene Williams, Damon, Texas; Mrs. Simon Moen, Norma, N. D.; Mrs. Dick Collins, Mason- ville, Iowa; Mrs. B. F. Herman, Box 1118, Crosby, Miss.; Mrs. Paul Lorenz, P. O. Box 225, Strathmore, Calif.; Mrs. S. S. Ar- entz, Simpson, Nev.; Mrs. Vida Hilger, Box 257, Rockland, Mich.; Mrs. Grace H. Peterson, Box 335, Amherst, Wis.; Mrs. Cecil Skin ner, Bedford, Wyo.; Mrs. Joe Fur nace, 317 West Twentieth St., South Sioux City, Neb. My thanks and my compliments to every homemaker who submit ted a recipe. I only regret that everyone who submitted a recipe could not win a prize. c How Women in Their 40 v s Can Attract Men Hare’i good advice for a woman during bar change (usually from 18 to 62), who learn she’ll loee her appeal to men, who worries shout hot fleshes, lose of pep, dtacy spells, upset nerves and moody spell*. Get more fresh air. 8 hr*, aleep and If you need a good general system tonic take Lydia K. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made piciaUf for women. 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