The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-16
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MUD VOLCANOES: A mud volcano" is not
really volcano but anybody who has been near
one will testify, it certainly is mud Actually it is
fountain of water springing out of the earth,
sometimes heated, discharging mud into the air.
occasionally with rumbling noise, and often form
ing conspicuous cone many feet in height. They
are usually regarded evidences of oil in the
region nearby, though this is not thoroughly
proved. They evidences of natural gas how
ever.
Mud volcanoes occur in the oil regions of Russia
Rumania, india Venezuela, etc At Balu they
have been known for centuries and are reported
to be as much 1900 feet high in some places.
There natural mud volcanoes in the United
States.
THE ASTEROIDS: There are eight planets
revolving around the sun. Everybody knows that.
But it is not generally known that this figure
is correct only if we ignore hundreds of other little
ones that qualify for the title of 'panet" in every
possible way, except that they are so small and
pays them any attention Many of them have in
dividual names but the whole bunch are usually
referred to as ''the asteroids" More than 1000
of them have already been listed; they average
about twenty-five miles in diameter. An auto
mobile could drive completely around such a pea
nut world in about two hours. They are not
scattered throughout the solar system but all lie be-
tween the orbits of Mars and Jupiter This, to-
gether with the fact that there is an unusually
large gap between these two orbits has led to the
speculation that there once a ninth planet
with place in the solar system between Mars and
Jupiter; some catacysm shattered it to pieces and
the asteroids are the pieces
CHEMICAL EXPLOITATION: No. this
doesn't mean exploitation of chemicals by men,
but exploitation of men by chemicals. Soon after
the close of the when the allied (and associa-
ted business and generals were eagerly
exchanging experiences with their German brothers,
one of the first stories of German efficiency to
leak out was the phosphate story. The Germans
had discovered that doing their soldiers with a
small amount of sodium acid phosphate every day
had increased their capacity to do physical work
by as much as 20 per cent Were American bust
ness men interested? What a question! A time
clock with would eject a measured quantity of
phosphate into employees open mouth while
he punches his card would be cinch. And then
20 per cent more profts
However, it seems these hopes are to be dis
appointed. The role of phosphorus in the human
body is not well understood that the idea could
be discredited off hand. The U. S. Public Health
Service however, has recently announced the re-
suit of exhaustive Investigation on the subject.
They report effect whatever from the phosphate
except that it is a laxative and might help some-
what in this way. The dreams of using phosphate
to robotze the workers a little further have thus
gone up in smoke.
Still, it's i'll wind-etc The Health Service
warns that regardless of the test, a large drug
concern is preparing to market the chemical under
fancy name. "At last the real food for the high
powered statesmen and captains of industry. Order
now-at your drugstore"
N SPARKS