Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-12


and American fruits and vegetables
in all their native richness for the
workmen on the Panama canal or the
hunter in Africa. In other words,
every variety of vegetable, meat,
fish and fruit from even the most
remote parts of the earth may be
served in any other part of th5
world in practically their fresh state
and at any season of the year
These are claims so startling that
they would seem to belong in the
realm of magic. But scientist,
with all of scientists years of pa
tience and cold, hard, calculating
tests, stands sponsor for the state
ment that discovery more far
reaching in its consequences for
good to the human family than any
heretofore given to the world has
been made. Professor w. II. SWEET.
of 1914 East Seventh street North
Portland, Oregon, is the man to
whom credit is given by a large
number of practical and intelligent
people for this discovery 1t Is said
that Newton discovered the law OF
gravitation, yet every child OF sound
intellect throughout all of the aeons
of time preceding Newton knew, be-
fore 1t had attained the age of four
years, that II 1t stubbed its toe or II
1t dropped its phythings, fall to
earth was inevitable. Every monkey
in the bough of a tree knows that to
loosen his hold on a cocoanut means
its precipitation to the ground.
What Newton did do was to analyze
one of the most universally-known
laws. Another law which is Just az
common, so common, in fact, that
we forget to look for a cause Gust
as the pre-Newtonites failed to look
for a cause for gravitation), is that
of disintegration. We accept as an
immutable law the fact that all ami
NAL and vegetable life, after having
fulfilled its function, must go back
"earth to earth and dust to dust;
but in accepting this we have failed
to apply the great truth that "thers
is no effect without a cause" and to
search for that cause.
The Cause of Decay.
Professor SWEET had noticed that
the aborigines and frontiersman
placed their outlets OF venison or
other game on high poles to dry, and
that by so doing they obtained a pro-
duct vastly superior in taste and al
80 superior by chemical analysis TO
the same effect, like the apple strlli-
ing Newton, awakened his curiosity, |
with the result that he began care |
full experiments and tests, which he
mas carried on for 15 years, and IN
which he has labored from Yucatan |
and Ecuador in the south far north
ward into British Columbia and |
from tidewater to a elevation OF
1850 feet. He has established the
fact that there emanates from the
earth in all attitudes and latltudes.
a heretofore underlined heat ray,
which rises vertically to a height OF
about 90 feet from the surface and
that the function of this ray is TO
cause disintegration of all cellular
structures, both in the animal and
vegetable kingdoms. This ray oper-
ates only in conjunction with water.
To construct an apparatus whereby
he could eliminate the moisture and
at the same time bafiie or defect the
Detrimental" ray Gas he has named
it) then became his object and to
perfect which he has worked over
10 years.
The Device and It's Possibilities
Professor Swett's apparatus for
the water from products
for preservation consists OF
an oblong case in which, by passing
the heat ray horizontally about and
through the fruit or product being
evaporated, he evolves the wonders
with which he is credited.
Simple as the apparatus is, Prof,
swett's achievement is by no means
a small one Perhaps no other dis
eovery heretofore given 10 the world
viii have such far-reaching effects
upon the human family. That the
OF food products be-
tween the different nations OF the
earth both civilized and uncivlllzed,
must become, as result of his
work, marvelously accelerated is
certain. The Hottentot and the uni
Versity professor; the Eskimo dame
and the most exclusive member OF
our -Four Hundred all alike have ap-
petites 10 be served and whose good
health and length OF life depends
more on what reaches the stomach
han on any other one thing; hence
the ability TO serve the Siberian with
perfectly ripened bananas, oranges
and pineapple and to place fresh,
Iweet string beans and corn on the
,ob on the table of the equatorial
resident; TO serve ourselves with
sranberries In July and strawberries