Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-19
The Golf Ball.


The Golf Ball.
fpB the San Lsf. Tfibua.
Announcement that an indestructible golf
ball has been perfected has caused no little ex.
element among golfers Hitherto golf balls
have suffered tremendously under the vicious
assaults OF gentlemen nffictcd with what IN
athletlcally known as a .pecve." Golf balls have
been hammered with relentless fury. Sometimes
they have been hammered straight down into
the ground and sometimes they have been ham,
mered on among trees and sandbanks and
morasses and other undesirable places. At any
rate. they have been hammered.
Since the rubbercored innovation various at.
tempts have been made with success to increase
the length Of flight and the truencss OF roll
by changing the core and the hardness and
toughness OF the cover. In some cases the wind
ing was about n small bag OF water, while In
others the central sack was filled with a heavy
acid. tho latter plan proving disastrous to the
eyes Of several inquisitive boys who dissected
the globule.
Another plan for increasing the efficiency OF
the golf ball was the application OF an everlast
ing paint made Of some rubber composition
which lasted well enough, but gathered up the
dust. which could not be washed off. Heretofore
resilency and durability have proved somewhat
proves to be both lively and lifelong, the future
golfer will need nothing but a self.retrieving at
tachment to make one golf ball last him forever.
Developing Boys.
From the Sioux Falls Argus
Where two or three boys are gathered to-
gether there is the start of a ball game. 1t mat.
tsrs not that an alley street backward, is all
that Is available. The rules are adjusted to suit
the conditions. The American boy holds mas
ters degree in accommodating himself to circum.
stances.
One who observes the efforts of small boys
in playing ball amid such restricted surroundings
can not repress regret that better facilities for
play are not afforded. Yet those who make the
best OF what they have are learning valuable
lesson, though they may not be aware of it. The
small boy who is able to play In the confines of
an alley and get a lot Of fun out Of 1t is imbib-
ing instruction in the philosophy. of getting
something out Of life wherever life finds him.
He should have a better place to play but
wider space might make less demand on his in
genuity. Thus there are lessons to be learned
in cramped quarters for the boy who is alert.
And the right kind Of boy who learns to
make NAL the best OF an alley will be the kind who
life and he is not likely to be satisfied with an
alley when he gets old enough to work for him
self in the most serious game Of life.
Fads and Taxation.
From the Rock Island Argus.
Those who protest against high taxes may
have had more to do with making them high
than they imagine. This Is age Of fads and
reform. We are anxious to do SO many things
to correct our neighbors and to elevate the race
that we advocate this and that without any
thought Of the cost. We meet and solemnly re-
solve that the life of the community demands
that this or that be done until we find the cost
of maintaining city and national government has
with astonishment Then there goes up wall
which reaches high heaven and every one for
gets all about the things deemed necessary a
short time before, and the whole community
spends its time denouncing public officials for
making taxes so high. II we paid more attention
to the conduct of government from day to day
we would have less occasion to spend our time
wailing because we have to pay for the very
things we are responsible for.
Silences Radio Buzz.
Chicago--Another device for eliminating the
buzzing in radio and Of operating the wireless
sets by attaching them directly to lighting wires
through an ordinary socket instead of using ex-
pensve storage batteries, has been perfected
by B. #. Mieffner, government expert during
the war, he announced the other day,
The radio Is attached to any 110-volt al
ternating current through the ordinary light
socket, Mr.. Meffner said. In place Of rectiflers
and filters now used in attempts to eliminate
the hum, Mr.. Meiffner uses balancing devices
The electric current in the light wires is stepped
down to six volts.
Mr.. Mieffner formerly was connected with the
army and navy aircraft department and assisted
John Hays Hammond in perfecting radio tor.
pedo during the war. Devices which are said to
obtain the same result as Mr.. Mieffners are said
to have been perfected by the government re-
Gently but details have not been made public