Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-23
The TOPICS
TAKEN Up BY
Century Club
Mrs. Louis Werlich is
Hostess to Organi-
cation on Thursday
Afternoon

Mrs. Louis Werlich was hostess
to the Goth Century Club Thursday
afternoon. Mrs. J. H. Hill lave
as the Presidents address Gorge
Gus Middle Age" by Alice Ames
winter former president of the
Federation of Women's Clubs, but
now contributing editor to the Lac
les Home Journal, a fine article
Miss Ruth Southland continued her
review of Mitchan Piepins auto
biography which follows:
AS a village boy in Serbia not
large enough to give help in the
threshing yields he was required TO
assist in watching, grazing cattle
during summer vacations. To pro-
tect themselves from cattle thieves
hiding in forest like cornfields af-
ter dark the herdsmen devised a
signaling method. By sticking
long knives with wooden handles
which every boy possessed deep
in the hard ground, and, by press
ing the car to the handle when it
was struck, the lads were taught
the distance and direction of sound !,
Sound travelled through hard
ground better than through air or
soft ground. So the herdsmen
were able to learn the distance and
direction of the sound made by
the grazing cattle though the
thieves could hear nothing. With
the stars for a clock this lad learn
ed his first scientific lesson which
led to far greater things. Not
long after this episode he made his
Journey to America-the land OF
opportunities.
Dr.. Pupin's early authority on
electrical science included the
most brilliant men of the time,
Farraday, Maxwell Helmholtz, 10
seph Henry, professor of Princeton
college in it's laboratory made sew
eral splendid discoveries, and in
1882 he constructed and operated
the first electromagnetic telegraph,
long before Morse was heard OF,
and there was Hirtz, whose theory
isithe ancestor from which radio
bfoadcasting has descended. 1t
was between 1S90-94 that the 3rd
historical event of consolidating the
Edison General Electric Co., with
the Thompson Houton Co., of Lynn
Mass, took place, ending a better
controversary over the alternating
current system. The 4th event
was the electrical congress at the
Worlds Exposition in Chicago,
1898.
In 1894 during a tramp through
Switzerland DR.. Pupin worked out
in his head a theory for telephone
sound transmission by introducing
inductance coils, the distance OF a
wave apart. On this theory he OBJ,
tanned a, potent that is known all
over the world as the "Pupin Coil
The new radio art is the offspring
of wireless telegraphy. The broad
casting art perfected by pupils Of
DR.. Pupin surpasses the widest ex
pectations Of few years ago. The
x-ray or Roentgen ray revolution
lied the medical world, DR.. Pupin
obtained the first x-ray photograph
| in America, Jan. 1899. Just two
weeks after the discovery was an
nounced in Germany. The first
surgical operation in America from
an x-ray photograph was Feb. 1896
DR.. Pupin discovered way to shor'
ten the exposure of the diseased
mast from an hour to few sec
onds. He is also responsible FOR
making it possible to determine the
correct wave length for a broad
casting station in radio art by
turning a knob.
He won many gold medals for
his scientific work and he claims
it started from the vibration OF the
knives stuck in the ground while
herding cattle. He says motto
of the allies in the world war was
make the world safe for democ-
racy. But those who are today
associated in the National Research
Council believes it is even more
important to make democracy safe
for the world
The next meeting will take place
Loot. 80 at the home of Mrs. Earl
F. House, 421 Sth Ave.