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pie, which means that they have not de-
veloped one kind of bold initiative nor &C
quired that which intercourse with the peo-
Piles who dwell on the shores of the Seven
Seas has made part of the Nordics' intell-
gence and equipment
"And so the argument runs that the over
whelming of the Nordic stock in Germany
by the Alpine invasion has resulted in in
tellectual and moral deterioration, while
there has been military development along
lines of unparalleled brutality. Thus the
otherwise incxplicable barbarity of the Ger
man armies finds a plausible explanation.
"A few hundred years ago the so-caled
Germanic peoples were preponderantly Teu-
tonic, but the Alpine stock has steadily
crowded northward, supplanting the Nordic
stock as it underwent decmation in the
course of interracial strife in pre-empire
days and during the terrible slaughter Of
the Thirty Years. War. To-day the ma
jority of the Wurttembergers, Bavarians,
Austrians and Tyrolese are merely Teuton-
ICED Alpines who have exerted but little
influence upon European culture. The
rank and file Of the Prussians are nothing
more less than Teutonized Wends and
Poles of Alpine extraction. Their round,
broad heads betray their origin.
"The revolution Of 1S48, viewed ethni-
cally, was really a revolt against the in
tellectual insolvency and moral bankruptcy
Of government brutalized by the decadent
influence Of the race substitution that we
have outlined. The revoutionists were
liberty-loving Teutons of the old Nordc
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might be employed, the first worning on the
principle that the rotating disk be driven in
an opposite direction to that of the aero
plane, which will in this case tend to quick
ly decelerate and come to stop. The sec
ond arrangement would be to use large
electromagnetic, as shown herewith, and in
this case the revolving disk could be driven
IN the same direction as that followed by
the allghting plane, and by applying the
current to the magnets gradually, and thus
increasing their strength, the speed of the
alightlng plane and its attached iron arma-
ture would be reduced by co-action with
the electromagnetic in such way as to
simulate mechanical friction of gradually
increasing magnitude.
1T thus becomes evident that those in
charge of the plant, and stationed in an OBJ
servation tower on the roof, may readily
exert perfect control over the accelerator
both as regards the speed Of the electric
driving motor, the direction in which the
disk is rotated, the strength of the electro
magnets, tho moment of breaking their
circuit, etc. storage platform for extra
or disabled planes is arranged at one side
Of the accelerating machine, and this can be
supplied with electromagnetic for holding
the plane securely, as shown in the illus
tration. 1t is possible that the device NAV
be soon tried out"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
The Horizon Series

THE third instalment of the French
Il manuals of military surgery, pict-
uresquely termed the "horizon" series
after the horizon blue uniform of the
French soldier, contains some interest
ing sidelights on surgery just back of
the battle lines to-day 1t is discussed
by writer in "The London Times" in
the following way:
"Abadie's manual on Wounds of the Abb
domen,' edited by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane,
is excellent, good as good can be; in
deed, one might call it faultless book
AS its editor says, 1T demonstrates the
highest standard of efficiency that has yet
been reached 1t keeps close to its theme,
the special exigencies Of these cases in
military surgery; it gives long chapter,
every page valuable, to the conditions and
surroundings of abdominal operations dur
ing trench warfare; the peril, the fearful
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Subs and Subs

NUBMARINES, as classified by the
average person unfamiliar with
~ them, would be simply German
and others. But there is more
technical subdivision of the species, ac-
cording to S. w. Clatworthy, who writes
in "The London Graphic" as follows:
underwater vessels fall, structurally and
tactically, into two main heads-subma-
rines proper and submersibles Structural
ly, the difference lies chiefly in the dispo-
sitlon and amount OF the water ballast,
which, as everybody knows, is admitted into
special tanks, forming a large proportion
OF the total bulk, to effect submergence.
The submarine proper has a single cigar
shaped hull, of approximately circular Sec
tlon, within which these tanks are placed
at the sides and bottom amidships, and oc-
cupying both ends. They are necessarily
limited in size and give when empty only
a small surplus buoyancy. In a submersi-
Bile the tanks are exterior to this hull, and
between 1t and an outer hull Of boat shaped
form, nightly built, as it has not to with
stand underwater pressure, this being taken
when the tanks are full by their inner wall
the circular hull. The tanks may thus be
enlarged indefinitely, but are limited by
strategic considerations, the handling of
too large volume of water prolonging un-
duly the critical period of diving.
Upon these structural distinctions FOL
low, more less, the tactical differences
and the two resultant phases have been
clearly instanced in the naval war All
U-boats are submersibles; and the U-boat
campaign illustrates, neglecting for the
moment It's peculiarly brutal side, some
thing Of their tactics. Because of their
large surplus, or reserve of buoyancy
they ride high in the water, allowing the
crews to spend a considerable time in the
open air; the decks form reasonably good
gun platforms, and the shipshape hulls.
resembling those of torpedo boats, make
them seaworthy and comfortable and give
them fair surface speed. The submarine
proper is Ill at ease upon the surface, her
bad behavior limiting seriously the endur-
ance of her crew; she rarely carries a gun.
is slower and rides low in the water. She
is the better boat submerged, diving more
quickly and having greater speed, due to
the superior stream-lining of her hull, to-
gether with greater man9uvring power.
The U. S. coastal minelayers, similarly con-
dltloned, are also submarines proper
France, the pioneer country. has built
most of her fine boats to the designs of
NJ. Laubeuf, who, with the instructive fac
ulty of the true engineer, long ago made
the distinction between submersble and sub
marine, and, indeed, designed the first
double-hull boat, the Narval. The Hun U-1
was built in imitation of his later type, the
Algrette, but two years afterward, and when
France, America and England all possessed
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many underwater boats. The Austro-Hun.
also INITIATIVE has departed but little from
the American Holland type in his White
head. The Holland is the most famous of
submarines proper.
British boats have been evolved from
the original Holland, but developed =. dis
tlnctlve form, neat workmanlike and sea
worthy design typical of English naval con-
strucNon. In all these types a non-water-
.isht superstructure, which does not, there
lore, affect submergence, runs almost from
end to end, supporting the deck and
covering various excrescences of the huIl
such as matches, capstans, engine exhaust.
Ventilation pipes, etc, and. upon occasion.
disappearing guns. In the Italian laurent
submersible, however the upper portion of
the outer hull is cut off and the boat en-
tlreiy covered over by watertight super-
structure, which carries a fine broad deck.
almost as wide as the vessel itself
The vessels already mentioned do not
exhaust the list of successful submarine
craft, yet, despite this multiplicity, the sub
marine, 1t must be conceded is still primi-
tive, and will remain so until q single mi,
system of propulsion has been successfully
developed. The earliest practical subma-
rines were driven solely by an electric en-
CINE Just the petrol engine realized
flight for the aeroplane so the electric
motor, not dependent upon life-givng oxy-
gen and subject to no working change in
weight, made submarine navigation posi-
ble But mark the further complication.
The latter obtained its current from heavy
batteries, which soon became exhausted.
and the resultant tiny radius of action
forced designers to install a second motor.
the oil engine, for emerged propulsion. Civ
ing large surface radius.
Despite many improvements. the situa-
tion is fundamentally the same to-day. and
the submarine is still essentially slow
boat"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

Pennsylvania Terminal. Several aero
plane concerns have measured the roof
and reported that it was entirely suitable
Tor planes to alight on and start from.
They propose building an aeroplane ac-
celebrating and decelerating machine for
starting and stopping the planes at
cost of something like $4,000.
"The Electric Experimenter" for Au-
gust presents drawing to show Just how
the whirling disk would speed the planes
on their way by centrifugal force, and
would slow up the planes that alight on
the roof. The device it describes as fol-
lows:
at resembles in general carrousel or
merry -go-round, by which means the aero
planes are supposed to be spun around in
starting until their propellers have attained
sufficient speed and then be suddenly re-
leased, when they will be thrown of the
disk tangentially by centrifugal force by
means of quick acting release clutch or,
better still, by the utilization of powerful
electro-magnets arranged around the cleo
trio motor-driven disk as proposed by Mr..
II. Gernsback in the June issue of The
Electrical Experimental
"This remarkable apparatus is also SUD-
posed to prove efiicacious in decelerating or
gradually stopping aeropanes as they alight
from the air.
In this case there are two schemes which
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overcrowding of urgent cases. the strain of
the work.
In June and July, 1915 says Abadie).
when ! was the only surgeon in our am
bulance, was able, with the help of my
confreres, to examine 943 wounded in =
month, and to operate personally on 627,
an average of twenty a day, with on
three occasions maximum of sixty
two and sixty day. We were only deal
ing with grave cases.
"Abadie believes that preferable treatm eut
OF abdominal wounds in war is by operation,
not by abstention from operation. This
Is tragical book; no wonder that Profes-
SOP Faure, of Paris, writes in his intro
ductory note:
May this little book, so alert and vivid.
so easy and attractive to read. bring con-
vlction to the minds Of those who are still
hesitating, and help to preserve for
France the life of some of her precious
children"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Popcorn Candy

TN VIEW of the decreased sugar "a.
Il ton, which threatens, among othe,
things, the bonbon supply, it is con.
sollng to read of the lusciousness and
1000 value OF candy substitutes. Taks
popcorn, for instance. That form of con.
1ectlonery, which, by the way, is al
typically American as chewing o1,m i.
now made in the most delicious forms
sKlifully blended with selected molasse.
syrups and carefully chosen peanuts
says The International Confectioner
And further:
ut is made by specially designed r..
chinery and handled under most san;t.-,
and healthful conditions. It is packed in ain
tight, dust-proof and moisture-rroof nack.
ages, and can be obtained everywhere at 4
minimum price. The best grades of non
corn confectionery now sold in packages
that run into millions in the course of each
year are very high in food value as corn.
pared with other foods.
The calories per pound approximate
about 1000, as compared with 1,13O calories
IN pound OF beefsteak and 1,72o calories
IN pound OF rice. Popcorn candy is also
very high in protein. containing, as mat.
70. Va A@e'' ooout lhree times as much pros
tein as potatoes. 1t is also very high in
carbohydrates and contains about twice ~
much carbohydrates as whole wheat bread
and about five times as much az an equal
weight of potatoes.
popcorn confectionery is in every way 4
Hoover product. for it calls for the utilizss
ton OF very little sugar, and the other in
gradients which are used in its manufact
ure, consisting of corn, molasses and cor1
syrup, are plentiful.
There are probably more packages Of
various brands of popcorn confectionery
sold during the course of year in th(
United States than any other six-cen. pack
ages Of confectionery"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
- The Great Workshop of Science -
There Is Another War

CUBMARINE operations on the At.
lantic Coast have inspired COM
~ parison between mans and nat
ure's methods of warfare. In a
communication to the National Geo
graphical Society John Oliver La Gorce
describes our Atlantic seaboard as one of
natures greatest backgrounds between
the forces of the sea and the fortified
areas of the land. The society has issued
the following extracts as a part of it's
war geography series
"The operations of the sea assassins of
Prussia on our Eastern coast in futile
effort to stay the mighty blow America is
beginning to strike against despotism,
brings into bold relief that ever changing
stretch of coastline we so proudly call our
Atlantic seaboard
"As the crow flies it is some sixteen hun
dred miles from the outharbor waters of
Eastport, Me, to the key-guarded shadows
of Cards Sounds, Fla, but as the shore
stretches southwark miles leagthen into
leagues, rocky citadels give way to shifting
sands, and both yield place to coral reefs.
"He who would follow the foreshore from
northern Campobello Island to southern
Largo Key has journey that while taxing
his legs would certainly stir his soul, for
in doing so he would traverse the length of
battlefront in the most ancient, the most
farfung, the most unremtting, uncompro-
missing war ever staged between puissant
forces OF nature-the war between land and
water, with the wind as shifting ally.
"This warfare, harsh in it's local results,
is yet one that by its analogies has comfort
for suffering humanity in the present hours
Of stress and crisis, for the final results,
however serious the momentary aspects, are
beneficial to mankind.
Before visiting the various sectors of
the seaboard battlefront to study the more
intimate details of the war between the sea
and the soil let US endeavor to get BIRDS
eye view of the great conflict that started
long before man appeared upon the face of
the earth and which can only end long
after ths planet is no longer fit for his
habtation
Every coas,line on the globe, be it that
OF great continent or a tiny island is
theatre Of natures struggle, in which the
warning forces are marshalled; every rain
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Flying Through Clouds

WHEN flying in cloud which which OBJ ),
w scures the horizon. says Flight,
it is very difficult for a pilot to tell
whether or not his machine is on an
even keel.
at is true that he will be able to tell
from his speed indicator whether he is
flying level along sloping path but II
at the same time the machine is making
turn this is difficult TO feel, as it may be
very slight. The compass should, theoreti-
ealy indicate turn, but what frequently
happens is this: A machine enters cloud,
and the pilot watches his compass and
speed indicator TO see If he is keeping
MS course. He then notices that the com
pass needle begins TO move, and rudders in
The opposite direction TO check the turn.
"As he can see nothing except his ma
chine, the horizon being Invisible through
the clouds, he is very apt TO overcorrect,
With the result that the machine begins to
turn the other way The rudder is then
put over in the opposite direction, and very
iksly overcorrecton again occurs. In this
way the machine swerycs from side to side,
each turn being accompanied by bank
IL this bank becomes steep the machine viii
probably get her nose down and the speed
Indicator will register high velocity. AS
the pilot may not be aware OF the amount
Of bank, he will instnctively pull his con
tro! lever toward him in order to pull the
machine out Of the nose dive. II the
machine fs steepIy banked the elevators will
not fatten out the machine, since they are
in position somewhere near the vertical
and therefore act as ruddera. The COM
pass continues to swing, and before long
the pilot may not have the slightest idea
Of what Is really happening TO his machine
until hs spass9ss from the cloud"
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ing along at sixty y-nie clip, or eighty
seven feet q second
How does this system operate?
AT the receiving door of the car is 3
gathering arm, or cradle that swoops past
the pouches suspended from the station
cranes, picks them off nimbly and deposits
them gently within the car. If there is anv
mail to be thrown off at the station it is
discharged from special delivery chute
that empties the pouches on long. wooden
trough. When the station is passed. the
gathering arm and the delivery chute take
tneir original positions, the gathering arm
folding up closely against the side of the
car within the protection of an anele-iron
pocket, and the delivery chute returning
safely within the car"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18
Tossing Eggs Without Mishap

TNHE handling OF eggs, which used
to be a problem for the grocer's
Il boy and his horse and wagon
transportation, has been solved for the
mile-a minute clip Of the fast mail
Quick as the fast mail travels, yet as
fresh as the old hen laid them, they come
to the urban dweller by means of the
device described as follows by George F.
Paul in est Nicholas":
GLOW to pick fresh eggs out of the air
and land them safe within a malcar flying
along the tracks at the rate of ffty-eight
feet every second-forty miles an hour--is
enough of problem to make any parcel
post enthusiast cudgel his brains.
"If the fast mail has to stop at every little
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

station and puff around while the mail bags
are being loaded, then it is no longer a fast
malt has slipped back dangerously near
the slow freight class.
"At Shirley, Ill.,. in the corn belt sec
tion of the state, an automatic mail hand
ling system has been installed which
handles eggs so gently that. out of carton
of fourteen that were shot into a car that
was going at the rate of ffty-eight miles
an hour not single one was broken. In
fact, eight eggs out of the fourteen hatched
when placed in an incubator. Other tests
have been made with mail pouches contain
ing glass jars, fruit jars, pasteboard boxes
and other fragile articles. The pouches
have been both received and delivered in
perfect safety even when the train was fly
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

haired and blue-eyed This group includes
the Scandinavian and Teutonic peoples.
1.-THE Mediterranean or Iberian peoples
are long -skulled and have dark eyes, hair
and skin. This sub species is short in
"The Alpines occupy all central and east
ern Europe, extending through to Asia
Minor. They are round -skulled, sturdy and
of medium height. Their hair and eyes
were originally very dark.
"The people of the British Isles are made
up of u fusion of the long headed Nordc
and Mediterranean races. There no
round headed Alpines. This fact, according
to Grant, makes the desire of the Irish to
separate themselves from their English
brothers rather absurd on ethnic grounds,
for the Irish belong to the Nordic group
and are only Celtic speaking people. The
true Celts were of Alpine stock
"The rank and file of the German army
is largely composed of pure or admixed
Alpine type of soldier The officers are
everywhere recruited from the Nordic
upper class. At least six -sevenths Of the
German people are not of Nordc or Teu-
tonic stock.
sin comparison with the other white
races, the intellectual qualities of the Al
pine race have always been mediocre. While
the Nordic race has furnished brilliant
succession of military leaders, statesmen,
explorers, organizers, aristocrats and In
vsntors throughout it's entire history, the
Alpine race has consisted always of peas
ants. and has nsvsr been q seafaring peo-
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and with little or no Imagination, for he
is of round headed Alpins extraction.
"The truth of the matter is that the So
called Germanic race has been ethnically
bankrupt for over one hundred years. The
present military outbreak is but the evil
dence of this intellectual insolvency and
moral bankruptcy, and the time has arrived
for the whole world to sit as a solemn
court of judgment and appoint civilized
receiver to either wind up or reorganize the
national Germanic military establishment"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

"a n ALL sent by airplane post really
N/B does not fly all the way from
a H. postofice to postoffice in the
present terminals in Wash
ington and New York. In fact, airplane
post at "a cents an ounce starts on it's
way via the same mail trucks that carry
the plebeian railroad mail at three cents
an ounce.
Aerial mail service, while operating
daily between Americas capital and
metropolis, is still in it's infancy. I'm
provements are being worked, and event
ually there may be an all air route from
postoffice to postoffice.
In New York, because of the absence
of flying ground near the postofIice, it has
become necessary to carry the main sacks
fifteen miles to Belmont Park, where the
mail planes can get their running start
Although E. M. Norris, superintendent
of mails, believes it entirely feasible for
aeroplane mail to be dropped on the roof
Of the new main postoffice at the Penn
sylvania Station, the mail at present is
carried on to Belmont Park
1t has been suggested that some device
for starting and stopping the postal air
planes might be placed on the roof of the
great new postoffice building which ex-
tends along Eighth Avenue behind the
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seem to be the trouble with
M "a the German people, according
to recent observation in "The
Medical Times" The comment, which is
in the form of an editorial, calls atten-
ton to the congratulations made upon
European peoples by writer's such as
Henry Fairfield Osborn, the we'll known
pal9ontologist, and Madison Grant, New
York zoologist and explorer. The
brachycephalic German, round headed,
it is declared, owes his origin to the
Alpine invasion The editorial continues
skulls with an index Of rs or less
that is, when the width is only little more
than three-fourths Of the length, or less,
are considered dolichocephalic, or long
skulls Skulls Of an index Of 30 or over
are round skulls, or brachyccphalic (broad).
The cephalc index is computed by multi
plying the width by 100 and dividing by
tho length. The European populations are
divided into three distinct sub-speces, one
northern and one southern, bosh dolicho-
cephalic or characterized by long skull.
and central sub-specics which is brachy-
cephalic, or characterized by round skull,
"Grant remarks that While the inhab
tants OF Europe bctray as whole their
mixed origin, nevertheless the three main
sub-species are each found In large num-
bers and in great purity
1.-THE Nordic or Baltic sub-species is a
lons-skulied race tAlls Asir-sklaasd, light
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strain, representing the vigor, valor and
manhood of chivalrous progenitors
I'VE are at war with hordes of round
headed Apines led by Nordic stock which
has rejected all the ideals and sentiments
which have characterized intellectually the
Teutonic peoples for centuries. Viewed in
this light, the distinction between the Ger
man people and the German government
seems worse than academic
"Hindenburg himself personifes domi-
nant and brutal force, devoid of idealism
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

rom The Electrical
svaniS
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

rz7HEY home from foundation o he
buildings that house American in France
which here shown being American
shipped separately together
the other SIDE
Public information from Underwood Underyood
New-York tribune., 1918-08-18

ALL sent by airplane post really
does not fly all the way from
postoffice to postoffice in the
present terminals in Wash
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Because Their Heads Are Round

n OUND heads and Alpine blood
R seem to be the trouble with
N "a the German people, according