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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11

! was best for efficiency IL these heads
were changed every four years. Gen.
eral Amos Fries, the red-hunting
chief Of the Chemical Warfare Serv-
Ice. had had that Job nearly 10 years
and would have been glad to have
stayed on. Chemical interests over
the country brought pressure on Good
seeking his retention. But Good
ignored them and turned the job over
TO Colonel Harry l.. Gilchrist.
The critics ought to admit that
Good is at least an extraordinarily
effective politician. He had charge Of
the Republican congressional cam
paign in 1920. worked for Coolidge
officially in 1924 and was western
manager for Hoover i'm 1928. He
always did a workmanlikc job.
And he was far from unprepared
for his cabinet post. Originally he
was lust farm boy in Iowa. When
he entered Coe College he enrolled in
Company G Of the Iowa National
Guard-"just to get the benefit OF
the discipline" he says.
In Congress he was for 10 years
a member OF the appropriations COM
mittec and for more than two years
chairman OF 1t. He was chairman
when the committee had the ire
mendouS war-tinle appropriations and
he had always studied the War De-
partment's needs and problems along
with the others.
Likes Horseback Riding
Good plays golf when he gets the
time, but he reminisces fondly OF old
days when he rode horseback on the
farm.
"A country boy never gets away
from his affection for FARMS" he told
your correspondent. HE develops an
attachment for domestic animals that
always stays with him."
rs there any particular domestic
animal you're especially fond OFF" he
was asked.
mo. I'm fond d all Of them"
Don't you like cows better than
horses. or vice versa?"
mo. just the same-and sheep, too
There's nothing more interesting
than the barnyard!"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11
By RODNEY BUTCHER
(NEA Service Writer)

washington. April 1.-THE Hon
James w. Good. who has sometimes
been called Sunny Jim" and Is now
secretary OF war. has made q good
enough impression during his first
few weeks as . cabinet member to gag
those OF his critics who insisted he
was only q mere politician.
There were some in the War De-
partment who thought 1t would be
fine for the army to have a secretary
who knew congress so well and Hoover
SO we'll. Then there were others who
thought 1t was too bad that the job
should be given as q political reward
and that politicians should be cared
for elsewhere. At this writing. how
ever, both groups seem to agree that
Mr.. Good Is q nice fellow. intelligent
and anxious to work, and quite able.
They say Good has put more per-
sonality into the job, that he is more
given to making his own decisions.
that he answers more letters himself.
that he has given a more personal
touch to routine letters and that be-
fore long he is going to know his
WuOic 0epAT IHleuL lIlSlOe OUT.
Progressives Worried
Good has acted as counsel for one
or two electric power companies and
rs secretary Of war is a member of
the Federal Power Commission, a
combination which worries the pro-
gressives. But unless he gives some
one an opportunity to charge him
with favoritism to the power interests
the growing suspicion is that he will
be "a good secretary of war"
incidentally. there was some ques-
ton In Goods own family as to his
ability to swing the Job. When his
1l-year -old son Robert heard about It
he came running in with a pair of
boxing gloves and demanded: well,
II you're going to be secretary of war,
lets see II you can fight!'
Army officers are impressed with
his promptness In making decisions.
One such decision concerned the
policy Of shifting heads OF branches
In the department. Good decided it
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11

ibid you have . deadly time. poor
darling7" Tony asked sympathetically.
Is the two girls entered their bedroom
to dress for dinner and dancing.
"Far from deadly" Crystal an
svered. quite exciting, in fact.
posed for George for an hour and a
half, with conversational rests in be-
tween"
Hope" Crystal began, as she
lifted her daytime frock over her
head.
"Hopel" Tony interrupted incredu-
lously. Hope that George would"
"Oh, quit kidding me about
0eorse!" Crystal begged. Il meant
Cherry's baby, Hope. Of course. Lena
brought her into the living room
about four O'Clock. all dewy -eyed and
sweet and talcum- powdery from her
nap and, bath. / took her on my lap.
and George began to sketch furiously.
Said he had great idea for a picture,
II he could only get her to sit still
long enough each day. He's going to
ask Cherrys permission at dinner to-
night. That's all-but It was exciting.
Hope Is the most beautiful baby
ever saw in my life. and to have her
sit there so contentedly. cuddling
against me" A slow flush crept
across the pal1or Of her cheeks.
i know" Tony admitted. "I've felt
the same way when I was holding
Faiths baby. Robin. We modern
girls are about as modern as Eve
aren't We. Crys7 I'm afraid I'm going
to find that an anti-marriage COM
pick doesn't mix very we'll with an
old-fashioned maternal instinct"
She darted abruptly into the bath
room. turned on the water and came
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11

, back whistling. Crystal watched her
furtiyely.
And your afternoon. Tony?" Cry
stal asked at last. when that blithe
whistling could be borne no longer.
Good movie?"
"Rotten!' Tony retorted cheerfully.
'Thay not tho, Thuthie!" she imi-
tated obligingly the lisping. nasal
| voice Of the "talkie" by the way
Dick has figured out what that silly
phone call must have meant
"Yes?' Crystal managed q con-
vincing caslalness Was her beauti-
fully worked out theory about Dick
and the mysterious "Callie" to come
to naught?
1T came to him in a flash while
We were driving to Darrow who this
Callie person is Tony went on, as
she stripped for her bath You know
his father owns two or three tearooms
as sort Of recreation from banking.
Takes a deep personal interest in
them. too. Dick says. Well. this Callie
girl-Wait minute till I turn off the
water!" In moment she returned,
but in that moment Crystal had
turned her back and was rummaging
In the big clothes closet. LAS I was
saying. this little Callie person is a
waitress in one of the tearooms.
gather that Dick usually sat at her
table, when he was short of cash, and
ate In the tearoom where he could
sign his check. The last time he ate
there the girl looked pretty sick, he
said. and told him she was afraid she
would be fired"
X \ \
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11
IN NEW YORK

New York, April Ito Mr., Philip
sinnott, manager Of the NEA Service
Pacific Coast bureau, San Francisco.
Calf.
It's been so long since I was in
California, that I've almost forgotten
how to alibi for Z fog and admire the
sunshine. Instead, I've adopted an
old New York custom Of talking about
myself. When you can go down q
street talking to yourself, then YOU
have completed the Manhattan cycle
even Il you are little bit nutty.
Nevertheless, ! haven't forgotten
my Kindergarten lessons in Califor-
niaeSe and can tell the teacher right
OFF the bat the particular state where
''ltfe Is BETTER" In fact I've thought
e. twisting Jim Roarty's slogan to
tit New York. I was going to make
It where life Is bitter but Just then
the policeman arrived with the Easter
peoples which your coast bureau boys
sent 70 Ink . tear from these old
eyes out here they think poppy Is
the name, d . musical show.
But belopging to the land where
everything = bigger and better" you
weren't content 10 send merely q box
q popgaeD. You enclosed in it 4
visiting fireman" Have you heard
the latest one about the man who
found : ~ In his souE7 Well
AnyhaW, when the vile and I opened
tn 6W. ont Slammed = ca,ta 1sttle
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11

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strange 'insult."
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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11

Captain Baker will start out with
one Of his boats within the next ten
days. :
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Science Explains Why Perpetual Motion 2

arranged to pass through an upright water compartment in such a way that at any instant half the floats are in the water and half in air. The idea is that the submerged floats, rising to the top, will keep the chain moving. Another suggestion is for a submerged wheel with hollow spokes and balloon like air compartments at their ends. A bellows Operated by the turning of the wheelD is supposed to pump air continually. into the balloons at one side of the wheel, causing that side to rise continually in the water and keep the wheel whirling.
 Such schemes, Mr. Teale points out, overlook the fact that the energy re- quire to expand the balloons under water, or to open any sort of trapdoor arrangement in the bottom of water compartment to allow chain of floats to enter, would offset the energy cre- ated by buoyancy.
 One of the earliest attempts to build a machine that would run by itself for ever was made, soon after A. D., 1250, by French architect, Wilars de Hon. ecort. His idea was to attach an un- even number of weights around the rim of a wheel by hinged arms, which would allow those on one side to swing inward toward the rim and those on the other to swing outward.
 In the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci the Italian painter, devised similar wheel. A single trial con- vinced him, he wrote, that the search for perpetual motion was the search for a chimera.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

dium, which remains positively charged. The gradual accumulatlons of negative electricity cause two gold leaves to move toward the positively charged radium in the glass tube. When they touch the tube their charge disappears and they return to their former posi- ton. Every three minutes the leaves move, thus keeping perfect time; this is expected to continue as long as the radium lasts.
 Such devices, of course, are not true perpetual motion machines, for they are not creating the energy they need, Fbut are merely using energy al ready in the world. In this same cate gory are ''self-winding clocks" which are kept going by barometric or tenn perature changes, and also the schemes to harness the tides, or, as planned by the noted French physicist, Georges Claude, to produce power by using the difference in temperature of ocean water at the surface and at great depths"
 Pictured on this page is a machine invented by Charles J. Wolfe, of Minneapolis, which, he claims, is the nearest approach to perpetual motion that has yet been devised. This ap- raratus is operated entirely by sys- tenn of balances, consisting of tubes filled with mercury and is controlled by hand lever. Mir. Wolfe says that his machine was suggested by the sight of stalled Ferris wheel at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago thirtysix years ago, and that it took all the years since to perfect it.
 "The secret of failure in all over- balancing devices," Mr. Teale goes on to explain, lis the fundamental law that the work done by any weight fall ing from a given height, irrespective of the path of it's descent, never can exceed the amount of energy required to restore the weight to its original position. Again, if you draw vertical line through, the wheels with swinging weights, you will see that more than half of the weights lie on the rising side, thus counterbalancing the advan- tage in leverage of the other weights and holding the wheel in equilibrium.
 "At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass, there was exhibited two years ago device which seemed to realize the hopes of
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
How Radio Waves Actually
 Get Lost in a Forest

IF you, should make your vacation
 camp in the heart of dense forest
 and the radio receiver on which you depend to keep you in touch with the outside world should remain silent, the trouble may not be due to any fault of the set, but to most sur prising thing.
 As a result of a series of interest ing experiments scientists have made the amazing discovery that when radio goes into dense forest it rarely comes out. Great forests act like screens to the radio-waves. For this reason, as Prof. Albert Nodon, French scientific writer, explains in La Nature, radio is practically useless in the neighborhood of the immense forested regions of the tropics, especially in Africa. It is not sthe trees themselves that are the trouble, Prof. Nodin thinks, but the fact that the space around them is turned into an electric conductor by emissions from the foliage. Such a conducting medium opposes the passage of electromagnetic waves.
 "Forests have a mysterious absorb ent action on electromagnetic waves, explains Prof. Nodkin. Garfield, in England, has undertaken a new in- vestgation of this interesting question and has found that the absorpton is much greater in wooded regions than elsewhere. He has also proved that it Is 30 per cent greater in Summer than in Winter.
 "In southwestern France it is well known that the great forests of pine that cover a large part of the depart -ments of the Landes and the Gironde, act like screens toward the sending stations at Mont t-de-Marsan and Bor- deauX,
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

one per cent is required. The cost of treating the eggs is said to be only a few hundredths of cent per dozen.
 The alkalinity of eggs rises rapidly when they are stored in ordinary air, and this increased alkalinity causes the deterioration and spelling of the eggs. The alkalinity, it was found, can easily be neutralized and con trolled by placing the eggs in atmos- phere containing small amounts of carbon dioXide. The eggs absorb the gas until balance is established be- tween the carbon dioxide inside the eggs and that in the surrounding at mosphere Some of the alkalinity is neutralized by the absorbed gas. An egg can be kept, and even restored to the condition when laid, by proper concentration of carbon dioxide. When thus preserved it will remain more nearly in the condition of fresh egg.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

"The persistence of the foliage in these forests causes the disturbance to be almost as great in Winter as in Summer. In immense tropical forests, particularly in Africa. the effects are still more striking, and radio commu- nication there is practically impossible.
 "The investigations that I have undertaken on the rado-activity of plants" says Prof. Nodin, may furnish satisfactory explanation of these facts. I showed as early as 1923, in researches published by the Paris Acad- emy of Science and the Spanish Royal Academy, and in various scientific re- views, that plants, and in particular the foliage of trees, are the seat of radioelectric manifestations. provoking an abundant emission of ions into the atmosphere.
 ''In Winter, owing to the absence of leaves, these effects are lessened. But ir the immense tropical forests, where the vegetation is eXuberant, the effects of ionlzation, which is naturally much greater than in the northern temperate regions, oppose an almost insurmounta- ble obstacle to the passage of hertzian waves, especially by day.
 "The waves, passing over the for ests, undergo more or less complete reflection, which turns them aside from their original direction. There would seem to be no other practical way to avoid the trouble due to the forests, than to set up in such places the absorbent or refecting action of the conducting layers.
 ''In certain cases, inequalities may be utilized, by erecting the antennas on mountains or hills partially defor- octod D
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
BEAUTY Secret from the BOG

nEAT is now being boomed as
 complexion beautifier, but its
 virtues have been known for generations to the Irish colleens dwell ing among the bogs. That is given as the secret of their lovely complexions. They bathe their pretty faces in peat water, or smear little of the peat itself on their cheeks at night before going to bed, just as their mothers and erandmothers did before them. and wake up refreshed.
 Some thirty years back a similar craze set in for the use of lanolin, or wool grease, for a somewhat similar purpose; and during the war, when girls took to farm work, many of them discovered anew for themselves, when shearing time came round. its supreme value as skin tonic.
 There were no "beauty parlors" in former days, and practically no shops where one could buy creams and pow ders, washes and "elixirs." Conse- quently the country girl had to go out into the fields and hedgerows, and gather herbs which she used to make her own toilet preparations.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
New Inventions
4 LOW-PRICED but efficient paint

4 LOW-PRICED but efficient paint "A spray gun weighs 6la pounds,
 but the sprayer part has been separated from the compressor so that the weight to be handled is only one pound. The compressor, which weighs five pounds and is attached to the gun by 12 F foot air hose, can be placed on the floor or anywhere that the out fit is being used. By means of an cleo tric cord this outfit can be attached to any electric socket and, when the one quart container is filled with paint, it is ready for immediate opera tion. It develops pressure of 25 to 50 pounds and assures an even pres sure at all times. It will spray paint, lacquer, varnish, enamel, bronze, wall finishes, shellac, whitewash, stencil ink, oils, powders. insecticides and dis infectants.
 An electric room cooler, designed for use in homes and offices, sciences latest conquest over the discomforts of nature, has just been announced. In experimental tests this cooler lowered the temperature of an average size room as much as 10 degrees in 30 minutes and brought about 10 per cent reduction in humidity.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Is Impossible


 hours. No claim was made, however, that a perpetual motion machine had been built. The exhibit was arranged by ball-bearing manufacturer to illustrate the extent to which friction can be eliminated. Because friction had been reduced to minimum, the device took longer to run down" after the initial shove. It was not creating the energy that moved it; it just used it economically"
 When the bicycle came into vogue, it suggested an attempt to get some thing for nothing by the use of huge sprocket wheel and heavy endless chain. The chain engaged the teeth on one side of the sprocket, falling away at the bottom and being lifted straight up to be fed back on the sprocket at the top. The inventor figured that leverage of the weight of the chain on the sprocket teeth on one side of the wheel would be sufficient to turn and lift the free half of the chain back to the top! In actual practice, the effect was the same as hanging a bicycle chain over pulley. One half balanced the other. and the wheel remained sta tionary.
 Akin to wheels designed to be turned by gravity is long list of devices seeking perpetual power from the buoyancy of water The favorite in this class is an endless chain of floats
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

Many of them still do so, using recipes that have stood the test of cen. turles, and which have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. An excellent face wash. for example, can be made from the leaves of the common fumitory. boiled in water, milk and whey.
 Wild strawberries are mashed in spring water, and the resultant mix ture is rubbed vigorously into the flesh of the face and neck. It stains, of course, but the stain soon wears off. leaving velvety softness that lasts for many days.
 For sunburn the face is washed with sage tea, and when high winds cause dryness of the skin a remedy is to smear the face with the yolk of an egg before retiring to rest.
 Buttermilk, in which the hard roe of a herring has been macerated, is also used to remove tan and freckles.
 In many rural districts girls gather the roots of the common bracken fern. dry them thoroughly, and pound them in mortar. The result is starchv meal that makes velvety face pow der of creamy color.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
Gassing Eggs Keeps Them Fresh

TGGs are "gassed" to keep them
 fresh in a new method recently
 announced by scientists at Cor nell University. who have discovered that carbon dioxide is one of the most important factors in the preservation of this food.
 Dr. Paul F. Sharp, professor of dairy chemistry, and A. E. Everhart, of the poultry department, found out that carbon dioxide is contained in newly laid eggs, but that it escapes quickly through the shell. Its loss was found to be an important cause of decomposition. Tests showed that the shells would reabsorb the gas as readily as they lost it. Only slight amount of the gas is needed to pre- serve the eggs.
 These scientists found that at room temperatures, ten or twelve per cent of carbon dioxde is sufficient to keep the eggs fresh. while at freezing only
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
The Vain Peacock

of southeastern Asia. It is still found in large numbers in the wild state in the hill country of India and Ceylon. The birds, which belong to the pheas- ant family, roost in trees, but usually nest on the ground. Among certain casteS in India they are protected as sacred birds.
 Peafowls were introduced into Eu-
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

THE peacock has reputation for \ being vain! It has much to be
 vain about. Few fowls attract as much attention as the dazzling pea cock when it's tail is spread out fan wise. This bird seems to court admira- ton.
 Most people, in common parlance,
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

F you are one of the thousands of
 inventors who have been bitten by
 the perpetual motion buzz and have actually designed such device, a model of which you submitted for a patent, you probably would receive from Uncle Sam's Patent Office a form letter, one paragraph of which reads as follows:
 "All such attempts must be utter failures, as it is always impossible to obtain more power out of any machine than is originally put into it."
 Why the United States Patent Office
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

It is designed to run, without being touched by human hands, for thou
 sand years. A speck of radium was placed in small glass tube in a vacu- um bulb. Rays carrying negative cleo trical charges are given off by the ra-
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

O y
 Magnets a Il d liquefied a ir have had their many adher- ents. Only last year, reports of a 'fuelless motor. for air planes which was to be run by tapping the waves of mag netism sweep ing between the Poles, ere ated wide in- terest. But the inventor soon S a n k fro m sight without having given a public dem onstration.
 "The near e st approach to nerDetudl motion prob ably is t h e radium clock d e wis e d b y Lord Rayleigh, of E n 2 l a n d.
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10
''HOt Ice''

(IH CT ICE" is the product of
 an amazing scientific experi-
 ment, the results of which are announced by Prof. Percy w. Bridgman, of Harvard University. With machine that exerts a pressure of 600,000 pounds to the square inch, Professor Bridgman makes "ice" that is as hot as cup of steaming coffee and "boils" eggs by compressing them. In Professor Bridgmans machine, hard ened steel flows like putty under a force that can be visualized by imagin- ing the entire weight of a passenger train-engine, coaches, and all-sup- ported on the area of a single dime. Such pressure, it has been estimated, would raise water in pipe to level 260 miles above the earth!
New Britain herald., 1929-08-10

thus so frankly says that perpetual motion is impossible is explained in Popular Science Monthly by Edwin W. Teale. The record of mans search for this mechanical will-o -the-wisp be- gan in the Middle Ages and is still going on, apparently as merrily as ever What the patent experts say, however, seems to have no effect in discouraging the inventors of perpet- ual motion machires.
 "Usually when a new field of scicn- tifc Investigation is opened" says Mir. Teale, "undiscouraged seekers for per petual motion hail it as the road to