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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
A CHAT ON ELECTRICITY
Continued from page one

| water runs out SLOWLY Wnen re
leased. But if the tube were roc
long, the friction Of the water on the
sides of the tube, would make II
stand almost still and it would drain
out very slowly. Take a pipe hall
an inch in diameter and make the
same experiment, and the water
would slip out quickly because the
volume Of water and the friction on
the pipe would not be so nearly
balanced. But if you take a hall
inch pipe mile long and stand it up
on the side of a mountain and try to
run water thru it, the small size OF
the pipe, the great length and the
accumulated friction (resistence)
would balance things so that the
water would scarcely move in the
pipe. There would be no current.
The friction would overcome it or
nearly so.
Increase the size of the pipe to a
couple of inches and have the
length and slope the same as the
other pipe and the water will rush
thru it with a strong current. The
movement of the water will endow
it with force in addition to what it's
dead weight or gravity would give
it.
Copper is good conductor of
electricity. Glass is a nonconductor
and electricity will not pass thru It..
Aluminium is a poor conductor, and
electricity will pass thru it, but it
balks-it resists. When an electri-
cal current is going thru something
and resisting, it makes heat. If it
makes sufficient resistance, it makes
so much heat that it become a flame
of light. When they wish to oper-
ate an electrical heating apparatus,
they arrange for enough resistance
to make something red hot. When
they wish to make light, they ar
range for such fierce resistance that
1t becomes flame. When they want
to transmit electricity from one
place to another, say from Pocatello
to Blackfoot, they use the best cheap
conductor there stopper wire, SO
there will be as little resistance as
possible. If they used an iron wire,
the greater resistance would make
heat, the wire would be warm or
hot, and as heat is produced, electri-
city is exhausted. If they used a
copper wire and overloaded it, that
would make heat, and the amount
OF heat produced would be the
measure of loss Of electricity in
transit. (travel.) If they try to pass
a large load Of electricity over a
small wire, there is, besides the
transmission loss, more rapid de-
struction of the wire itself.
If we try to pipe a quantity of
water down a mountain thru the
half-inch pipe a mile long, we can
get the water thru, but it takes
more time. If it is force we want
FOR fighting fire, then we defeat our
purpose, because the friction has
used up the thing we wanted to de-
liver at the lower end of the pipe
force. If we use the two-inch pipe,
We get more force and greater vol
lme Of water, but If there is only
limited supply Of water to bring
Town, we exhaust it sooner or must
nave q means Of getting water in !
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greater volume into the upper end
of the pipe to keep up the service.
A Funny Difference

When you transport water thru &
pipe, the pipe must be continuous
If you saw out section of the pipe
even the thickness of the hack saw
the water loses out there; it does
not jump across and 60 on. When
you send electricity thru a wire, you
can saw out piece Of the wire and
the current will jump across it. You
have an example of 1t in the spark
plugs on your car. But when the
current jumps across thru the air
there is resistance and it springs
into (spark) flame. That flame
lights the gasoline to propel your
| car.
When you. bring water down the
mountain thru the two-inch pipe,
you can tap it with pipe leading
out on the side and run part of the
stream to the man who lives by the
side Of the pipe line. But when you
bring electricity across the country
on cable, if you tap it with small
line and connect that line with
something that line will burn off or
shoot something to pieces. You
can't guage the amount Of current
in that direction by the size of the
wire. Things have to balance, and
the only way to draw off part Of the
current on the small line is to put in
transformer to split it up. This
splitting up process is described by
electricians by using the words,
"step it up" and "step it down." It
1t just about as impossible of ex-
PLANTATION as death and the resurrec-
ton. Electricians can wind the
wires and put in the shellac and
metals in such a way that it gets
thread of the big electric current off
by itself and in form to go out on
the small wire and behave iself, but
whenever you ask them to explain,
they will tell you about the windings
and the magnetic field and the half
as many wires Of twice the size and
then reversing the process with
twice as many wires or half the size,
changing it from ITO volts to 1900
and back again with some loss and
will then finish by saying they do
not understand it very we'll them
selves, tho If supplied with enough
materials and all the time they want
they can take any current there is |
and step it up and then step it down. |
and while it is reversed they can
lead a small quantity away on a
properly insulated wire without be-
ing shot.
Eight years ago I went to Poca-
tello and asked Manager Hughes Of
the Pocatello electrical office, why
It was that the settlers along the
Aberdeen canal could not have
electric light and power when there
was cable carrying plenty Of it
right by their doors. l thought that
an electrician could 60 out and
throw a line over the cable and
lead off a lineful to each settler. Mr..
Hughes told me all he could about
electricity and great deal more
Than could comprehend. While
we were talking, he took me in his
)ltney and went to American Falls
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SPARKS

The "Totemites," a society of
radio fans at Seattle, decided
that receiving code signals dur
ing broadcast programs is in
evitable, and instead of regis
tering complaints, opened a free
school to its members for in
struction in the code.
People living in isolated Sec
tons are getting great satisfac-
ton from radio, as it is cure
for loneliness. They not only
feel that they have friends with
in speaking distance" but that
entertainers Of the highest grade
are next door neighbors.
Major General Squire, chief
signal officer, U. S. A., told the
graduates Of the Camp Vail sig
nal school there had been great
err developments in radio in the
past decade than in any other
science. Also that in future wars
barrages and bombardments
would be laid down by radio.
The British have developed a
two-purpOse vacuum tube for
use in conjunction with radio.
The new tube, or valve, as 1t is
called in England, is the Null
lard Ora. The plate voltage is
given as 80, aad the tilament
voltage at 3.6 10 4. The base
of the tube is of the four
prong type. 1t is said to COM
bine efficiently the qualities of
the rectifier and amplifier.
which make it possible to usp
one tube for al purposes.
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through the plate circuit, there will
be a voltage drop across the resistance
II equal in value to r times I, where
] is the plate current in amperes. If
the internal impedance of the tube be
denoted by 2, then the drop in voltage
from the plate to the filament inside
of the tube is III. The sum of these
two voltage drops, III plus RI, is al
ways equal to the applied voltage of
the "B" or plate circuit battery. The
voltage OF the "B" battery is constant.
AS the plate current increases, the
value of RI increases because r, the
external plate resistance, does not
change in value. So if the sum Of III
plus RI is always equal to a constant
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
SENATOR NEwBERRY RESIGNS

Senator Truman H. Newberry of
Michigan. has resigned his seat in
the United States senate, as he says,
on account OF the recent defeat Of
his colleague, Senator Townsend.
He also mentions the prosecution
that has been showered upon him
during his term and the uselessness
Of trying to serve the country under
such handicap.
Senator Newebrry's was the
strangest case In the history of
American politics. Nominated while
away from his home in the service
of his country, he was prosecuted
and villified from the day of his
nomination, down thru the period Of
election, the contests growing out of
the election, and after all contests
were settled In his favor. II was
charged that money was spent to
secure his election, and it was
shown that Newberry went on with
his work and that the organization
and friends all over Michigan went
out and voluntarily worked and
spent money in his behalf. The
persecution and villiflcation pro-
voked men to take up his fight. and
it did not devolve upon him to 60
about trying to stop them from cam
paigning In his behalf. After the
contested points were all decided in
his favor, he and many Of his politi-
cal associates were indicted and
stood trial. and were cleared and ex-
onerated, but still the Newberry
case has been an issue in politics.
It raises new point In that 1t seems
tina THE people opposing him take
the view that a man nominated for
public Office must 60 about and keep
people from giving him their sup
port IL there is any considerable
number of them SO that the total
amounts which they all expehd in
campaign activities would amount
to more than the law says that q
candidate may expend to secure his
own nomination or election.
1t bears some resemblance to the
Leo Frank case in Atlanta, Ca, ten
years ago. A girl was murdered,
seemingly by negro janitor, but
there was not evidence at hand to |
convict him, and Leo Frank, who
was the employer and a Jew, ad- |
mitted having been in the building,
in his private office at the time, so |
he was charged with the crime and
convicted on public opinion and ex-
element, whooped up by an excited
public who were determined that |
somebody should die. 1t was clear |
that the girl had met an awful death |
and that was the only thing the pub
lie were sure of, excepting, perhaps,
that Leo Frank was a. Jew. People
hounded the prosecuting attorney
and threatened his life If he did not
convict the Jew, and he bent to his
task and allowed anybody and
everybody who wanted to, to testify
in the case and the jury sat and /,
listened to impossible stuff about
the case, all against him largely on
the fact that the prosecution "had
more witnesses than the defense
had"
Mr.. Frank was convicted, assas-
sinated, recovered, appealed to the
higher courts, and was taken out
and hanged while his case was pend
ing.
Senator Newberry has gone thru
about the same kind of treatment in
his political fight, or rather, the
fight made by his friends, and after
four years of persecution he quits.
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read the plate current. A "C' bat
terry is connected In the grid circuit
t. maintain the grid at the positive
potential GA in order to have the
tube operate at the point A on the
characteristic curve. To TT will be
connected the alternating difference
Of potential having maximum pos
tive value equal to 40 and a max
lmum negative value equal to ALB.
The resulting variation in plate
current is shown in Fig. XIV. In
sorting the tube functioning as an
ampliiier, with an application fac
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
ENTERTAINED TEACHERS

On Saturday afternoon Mrs. M. N.
Austin assisted by Miss Anna Doyle,
entertained the. teachers of the Irv-
ing school, where Mrs. Austin is
principal.
The house was beautifully deco
rated and refreshments were served
and entertainment features includ-
ing some fine music delighted the
guests.
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the plate circuit flows through the
resistance r there is drop, In POI
tential across r between the points
X and Y that will be proportional to
the current flowing. If the value Of
r and the plate potential are high
enough this potential variation be-
tween X and Y will be exactly pro-
portional to and X times that applied
to the grid of the tube at TT.
To amplify a signal from radio
receiver then, it is only necessary to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
REEsE-GETTY WEDDING

Miss Susan Reese and A. W. Getty
were quietly married at Idaho Falls
on October 81.
The bride is the daughter of Mrs.
Leah Reese and the groom has been
for some time employed by the
Bistline company.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
MRS. BELLAMY ENTERTAINED

On Saturday afternoon Mrs.
Charles Bellamy entertained the
900" club at her home in the
Younie addition. Mrs. J. J. Quillin
won the high prize and Mrs. George
Miltenberger the all-cut prize.
The house was decorated with
chrisanthemums and .two-course
luncheon was served.
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ALL ABOUT VACUUM
TUBE AS AMPLIFIER
Connected Up to Furnish Rated
FiIament Current and Main
tain Plate Potential.

Figure XIV shows a threeelec-
trode vacuum tube connected with the
"A" battery to furnish the rated fl.
ament current and a 'B" battery to
maintain rated plate potential. In
the plate circuit Is current meter to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23
BUNDLE SHOWER

On Tuesday evening Miss Amelia
Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Dalstrom gave
bundle shower for Mrs. Roland
Baldwin. Many useful gifts were
received. About fifteen guests were
present. Delicious refreshments
were served.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-11-23

have a circuit whose output is to be
amplified connected to TT and the
amplified output taken off at X and
Y. If greater amplification is de-
sired the output from X and Y is run
through another circuit similar to
that shown in Fig. XVII.
The Washington times., 1922-11-30
EERIE VISIONS
In .COSMIC
DRAMA
Love, Hunger. Money and Fate
In the Play Of Fourth
Dimension.

Cosmio drama. the Einstein the
ory applied to the theater. an. at
tempt to show human life in the
fourth dimension; such IL to be
the play Of tho future. according
to that modernistic German play
wright, Walter Hasenclever.
The author explains his idea In
q preface he. has provided for a
special edition Of one of his pro-
ductions exemphfying the theory,
Die Menschen" c'Human Be-
ings'D, which 10 again under con-
sideration for the stage after hav-
ing been tried out and proved
something of q sensation in
Prague two years ago.
A murdered man rises from his
grave. In the cemetery he is met
by his murderer, who presents him
with a sack containing his head.
Shouldering the gruesome burden,
Alexander, the murdered man,
goes to do penance in the mur.
derer's stead. After q fantastic
existence In q world strange as a
madmap.s dream, ne returns to
his grave. releases the murderer,
who has taken his place there, and
lies down to eternal rest.
Such In bare outline Is the
story of this weirdest of plays.
that seeks to do away with the
barriers that hem in the ordinary
appeal to reasonable understand-
ing.
It Is a queer. horrible life in
which we see Alexander, q gro
tesque hell. In II devilish magic
plays. Accompanied by broken
spasmodfc dialogue, where a
phrase, an exclamation, a shrek.
Is thrown out as a mere sug-
gestive clue to q world Of meaning
behind: shadowy scenes Tit by
through which the ghastly head.
less man and his burden pass as
the center OF interest that con-
meets scene with scene.
In swift gesticulation-mock
human actions in awful grimace-
there appear a pair of lovers. pros
titutes. gamblers. a stock specu-
lator who deals in shares in the
moon. a fortune teller, a physi-
clan. a waiter. a beggar.
In q terrific series of visions
the drama gives glimpses of the
great powers Of money, sickness,
hunger. love. and madness, play.
ing with human lives.
We stand upon the threshold
OF the fourth dimension" saws
Hasenclever. THE end Of New
ton In mechanics means the end
Of Aristotle in the drama. II
physical bodies are not absolute,
but only relative phenomena, then
recognition Of a similar truth must
hold for the realm Of tragedy.
The dramatist Is forced to recog-
nize the relativity Of events in
his sphere also.
This play makes the attempt
to bring the new dimension upon
the stage. The individual human
being has no separate fate. The
fate Of all prescribes the fate of
one. Along an invisible curve,
between word and deed. light and
shadow, time and space. moves the
action Of souls that are knitted
together into a common life, gath
cred in a magic show"
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BIG SUM SPENT
ON NEW POLL
THEATER
Rsopsning on Monday Night
!, Justified Interest Of
! Patrons.

T Spic and span from the inside
out. Polls Theatre on Monday
might. made quite an eventful de-
but to the throng which. for the
entire summer and fall, could only
guess Of the magic wrought in
side while the house was closed.
The finished theater represents
work Of a night and day force of
workmen. going steadily for the
past six months and a total outlay
in money of over 100000. About
the only things left of the old
house is the stage. roof. and the
four auditorium walls. A new ex-
tension has been added to the
lobby and now the audience en-
ters at rear Of the auditorium in
stead Of at the side as formerly.
The balcony entrance 10 from
the main lobby. .
There are over 1900 seats on the
first floor and although the top
gallery has been dispensed with,
the same 6paclousneSs Will Dc
found in the size of seats and
spaces between same as in the old
house.
New exits and fire escapes have
been installed throughout. At the
present time. Washington's build
Ing and fire regulations for
theatres are very stringent and
this operation has been followed
most carefully by the District
authorities, who have expressed
themselves In the highest terms of
the finished work.
Thomas w. Lamb, of New York,
II the architect and Fuller Con-
struction Company the contrac-
tors. Mr.. Poll has constructed
five theatres this year. this being
the fourth to open, all of the others
being located in New England.
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Seized Liquor Stored
In Church by.Dry
Agent

BALTIMORE, Nov. So
Raymond M. Glacken last night
assumed whatever blame at
taches to allowing a prohibition
officer to store seized whisky
in the Sunday school room Of
First Methodist Episcopal
Church, St. Paul and Twenty
second streets.
Glacken is a member Of the
church and he said he gave
space in his locker for the two
bottles Of ''hooch" brought
there by Charles D. Ritten-
house, former dry agent, the
night of November 22. He
said that the Rev. Godfrey w.
Stafford, associate pastor, knew
the liquor was there.
Information that the church
basement had been utilized as
a cache for seized liquor came
to light yesterday in a hearing
before j. Frank Supplee, jr.,
United States Commissioner, in
the. case against Thomas M.
Archer, proprietor of saloon,
raided a week ago.
The Washington times., 1922-11-30
FARM AID b|LL'S
PASSAGE
URGED
Losses on Crops Pointed Out
by Representatives to
House Committee.

Support for the Norris-Sinclair
bill to eliminate speculation in farm
products, by direct sales to con-
sumers through the medium of q
Government agency operating with
q 500. 100000 treasury revolving
fund was given yesterday before the
House Agriculture Committee by
representatives of farmer organiza.
tons.
A. r. Bentley, Of Paoli, Indiana,
said the farmer is making demands
ito avert destruction" He is chang
ing his voting .methods to enforce
his demands, Bentley continued. I'm
my county in Indiana two years ago
there were not over 8 per cent Of
split ballots in the elections. This
year there were 25 per cent. Some
point to overproduction to explain
the postwar evils Of farmers.
"They argued that prices favor
able to farm profit will appear as
quickly as the ruined farmers are
driven to town, the best boys attract
ed away, and farm acreage cut.
Manufacturers and merchants are
suffering now from the farm situa-
ton. They would suffer much more
II the cure came in this drastic and
painful way.
1--WE stand for home ownership,
and that means farmers have got
to receive better cash prices for
their products and not get more
credit merely to load them up with
heavier debts" said ]. Lee Tarpley,
Of Texas, Farm-Labor union repre.
sentative. I'VE heartily endorse
the provisions Of this bill. and ask
that 1t be enacted into legislation
before March 4, 80 the farmers
can get some relief promptly.
George B. Terrell. commissioners
Of Agriculture of Texas, said II
costs 26k cents per pound on tho
average to produce cotton in Texas
this year. This does not include
any profit. Farmers have been
getting from Is cents to 26 cents
and 26 cents does not afford any
profit. Peanuts have been bring
ing SO cents per bushel and the cost
of production runs about $1.20.
Herbert f.. Baker, Of Weadock,
The Washington times., 1922-11-30
ALLEGED DOPE PEDDLERs
HELD At PARKERSBURC

FAfRMONT. w. Va. Nov. 30
As the result OF a series Of raids
conducted here by Lloyd M. Graves,
Federal narcotic enforcement
agent, fourteen persons are now In
the Harrison county Jail awaiting
Federal action. Three Of those ar.
rested - Carlyle Shelton, Claude
brennan, and Clyde Morris-were
held for the action of the United
States court at the Parkersburg
term.
Others win be arraigned as fol.
lows: Alberta Venton. Villa Dunlap,
Mary Lee Peter Fisher, Elihu Sat.
terfield. Stephen Hostetter, Charles
Smith. tr.. and George Davis.
All the bonds except Fishers
were fixed at $1,000 each. His has
been made $4,000. as he Is alleged
to be at the head Of the Fairmont
dope ring"
button of mail.
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Mich, president of the Earmers
National sOssseil- sRO.A- Annna- 11seu1y
button OF food - n much 0oyA
ernmental function - = IL 1lDey3'
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LATIN AND GREEK LOSE
POPULARITY At PRINCETON

PRINCETON. N. J.. Nov. 80
Are classics declining in favor
among college students7 This
question was brought forward ut
Princeton yesterday when II was
announced that the number of
students choosing Latin and Greek
this year has. decreased more than
10 per cent. despite an increase In
enrolment.
At the same time II was found
that modern languages and sci.
ence courses are more popular this
year than ever before. In 1921
there were 730 men in the uni
versity taking either Greek or
Latin. At present the number has
decreased to $50. The number OF
men taking either chemistry. phys
les. biology or geology has in
creased 130.
The Washington times., 1922-11-30
PAPER COATS MADE IN
GERMANY WORN IN U. s

BOSTON. Nov. 30.-Officers and
enlisted men at the Army Base.
South Boston. are wearing paper
coats sold in Germany for 20 cents,
United States money.
These coats are of different COL
Drs. the predominating color being
blue, and worn over sweater.
They make good smoking jackets.
Col. II. G. Doyle brought q num-
bcr of them from Germany and
pronounces them warmer than wool.
en- coats.
The Washington times., 1922-11-30
DOUG AND MARY
RETURN HOME
HAPPY
Second Honeymoon Gives Way
to Work-Monte Blue Di-
vorced-HoIIywood Topics.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3o.-Doug.
las Pickford and Mary Fairbanks
arrived yesterday from their honey
moon CNo. p jaunt through the
East. or course they were glad to
be back and they said they didn't
ever want to go away again. The
mayor and president Of the cham
ber OF commerce were within hear
ing distance. And they were sur
prised to hear that Charlie and
Pola were to be married-and really
so much has happened in Holly.
wood since they left. Both stars
win start new productions shortly.
Monte Blue. well known romantic
star. Is steering his love course
alone. His wife has Just obtained
divorce. Apparently settlement
was reached out of court.
Corinne Griffith is financing her.
self. She recently broke away from
Vitagraph. Corinne isn't 50 well
known in the West but she has q
large following east Of the rockies.
A well-known moving picture
actress, reading that the california
Industrial commission finds that a
woman can dress on $117.30 a year."
remarked: Maybe she can, but
she'l look like the last two fig
ures."
Rumor. mind you, only rumor.
has 1t that William Desmond will
be selected to portray Ben Hur In