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THE SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1938
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© 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.
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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*.
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> physical resistance, thus helps give more
to enjoy life and assist calming
a and disturbing symptoms that
jittery
: symptoms t
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Shot” Vermifuge. 50c a bottle
at druggists or Wright’s Pill
Co., 100 Gold St. .New York, N. Y.
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