The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-05-16
Continued from last week.

mere Will De new laws compelling
slow speed where there afe. iceberes OF
fcgs; outlooks to be provided with tele-
scopes and searchlights, boats and
life RATS sufficient to ACCOMMODATES pass
engers and crew and lifeboat drill.
We have treaty with Great Britain
which obliges us to accept the regu-
lations made by the British Board Of
Trade. These regulations are anti
Quated and do not suit present day cor.
ditions. Either the regulations will
have to be changed or new treaty
made. It is also hoped that law
will be passed compelling steamship
companies to employ a sufficient num-
Der Of wireless operators on each ship.
As it Is they are over worked and
| taxed to the utmost
Anything in current events that cor
relates with civil government should
be eagerly seized by the teacher. One
Of the crying needs Of our country is
multitude Of alert and intelligent
voters.
Wonderful things are happening in
the scientific and inventive world. Wire
less telegraphy was responsible for the
lives that were saved on The Titanic.
A commercial wireless" message sent
from Kansas City has been received
at Los Angeles, distance Of about
fifteen hundred miles, without relay
This beats all records for overland,
commercial dispatches.
A modern sky scraper has been de-
fined as "a steel bridge standing on
end, with passenger cars running up
and down within IT,
Liquid air promises to become q
cheap, motive power in propelling ma
chinery. A machine has been con-
structed, which makes liquid air in
large quantities, at small expense. An
engine has been successfully run by
means of liquid air Air becomes H.
quid at 312 degrees below Zero We
live at temperature, which averages
about seventy degrees above zero. We
live in temperature 1872 degrees
warmer than liquid air. Imagine a
race Of people who could live at the
liquid air temperature. They would
shrivel up as quickly as we would in
a baking oven. Liquid air, when ex-
passed. to the heat in which we live,
boils and throws off vapor which ex.
pands and produces power Why may
not this power be used to propel ma.
chinery?
A knowledge of the peculiar proper
ties Of radium promises to solve the
problem Of illumination, when our pres
ent resources in that direction have
become exhausted.
The story of the X Rays, which
p' netrates and photographs thrcugt
almost every known substance, is far
more wonderful than the story OF
iaddins MP The genv of mod.
ern science are bringing miracles tc
pass every day, which we thoughtless
ly pass by because they are so com
} mon.
The resourceful teacher by appeal
ing to the imaginaticns of her pupils
may visit with them the bottom OF
) the ocean in submarine boat or she
may take trip with them through tn.
; air, in flyingmachine.
Under the magic touch of Burbank
brilliant. crimson poppy has been Sc
cured from yellow one, the verbena
has taken the fragrance of the trail
ing arbutus. A combination of the
plum and apricot has produced the
plumcot; trees have been hardened un.
til they are able to withstand colder
climates and fruit trees trained until
their buds and blossoms are net af-
fected by the frost The strange
freak of white blackberry is no less
remarkable than his many other won
derful achievements
The cactus for untold milenniums
has been defiant and stubborn foe of
all animal life. Under Mr.. Burbank s
skillful touch it has been induced to
give up its thorns. 1t is hardy, nut
ritious and great help to the race
It furnishes forage food for cattle and
is an excellent food for man. The
fruit of the cactus brings about the
same price in the market as oranges
This one creation of the thornless
cacti alone promises the reclamation
of the desert regions of the earth, on
a vast scale hitherto undreamed of. It
will provide limitless stores of food for
all climates, desert or arabic. It can
also be made to furnish cheap and in
harFtihla fna', as well % E,aitless
supplies of material for all the many
ways in which crude wood alcohol may
be used.
Pupils can be so guided and their
reading so directed that they will
take lively interest in the great