The Carbon County news., 1930-04-17


Good. simple food, with variety
from day to day. That costs trouble,
principally.
While designating a child health
day the government might think of
the mothers health, also, and the dis
graceful fact that this nation leads all
others, civilized, in the number of
mothers that die in childbirth for lack
of competent attention.
If SOW is about to have litter,
or COW calf, the government
stands ready to advise and help
through the Agricultural department.
For the expectant human mother
there is no such help.
Uranium, heaviest of all metals, is
now produced for $500 a pound. Some
of it was shown to chemists at At
lanta. The present price is low. Re-
Gently the stuff was priceless.
1t weighs twice as much as lead,
but, cosmically considered, that is not
heavy. Learn from science that the
substance of certain stars, because of
terrific gravity and compression,
weighs two thousand pounds to the
cubic inch. Imagine the outer joint of
your thumb weighing ton.
The suns radiation, heat and pow
er are supposed to come from the
stripping of atoms" The electrons,
revolving around the nuclei, are
stripped off and shot into space. The
nuclei, left alone, are packed one
against another, with no space sep
arating them from their electrons and
from each other. 1t is as though you
stripped away the planets from suns
In space and packed the suns solidly
together in a lump. That would be
heavy.
An electron, in proportion to It's
size, is as far from its central nucleus
as the sun is from the earth.
Each atom is little solar system,
SO small you do not notice million
of those systems in the corner of
| your eye. Our universe is really too
complicated at least for our feeble
minds.
Important to city governments. Ber-
lin, which makes city rule a science,
not graft, is gradually rounding off
corners on streets with heavy traffic.
Big omnibuses can turn rounded cor
ners without pulling out into the
street, interfering with other vehicles.
The used airplane problem already
causes anxiety. With constant i'm
provement, passenger planes become
obsolete while still in safe working
order. Highly expensive machines, they
have little secondhand value. The
problem is to use, profitably, the flying
life remaining in them.
Among others of our great indus
trialists, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., head of
General Motors, appropriates millions
each year for scientific research
Thanks to this wise and profitable
course, followed by the nations great.
est corporations, Steel, Standard Oil
etc., important discoveries are made
in many directions.
A General Motors laboratory, de.
voted to improving artificial refrigera
ton, the mechanical ice box, has pro.
duced new substance called fiuor
inc, combination Of fluorine, chlor
inc and methane. Poured into a re
ceptacle, the fiuorine boiled" at 8
temperature Is degrees below zero.
Doctor Midgley, whose research worl
is sponsored and financed by Mr.
Sloan, placed his face above the flu
orine, allowing it's fumes to enter his
mouth. He then breathed gently upor
a flame and it was instantly extin
guished.
What would be the value of flu
orine agency down below?
Scorpions near Durango, Mexico
are unusually yenemous. Their poi
son makes serum to counteract theil
sting.
Entire families of Durango ar,
hunting scorpions for the Mexican
health department, which pays 21
cents (American) for each live NAL,
scorpion, cents for each female, th,
lady scorpion being far more poison
Gus than her husband. This fact il
natural history will appeal to somt
prosperous American ex-husbands
now paying alimony.
Mussolini forbids intoxication, which
means more in Italy than forty con
stitutional amendments would meal
here. But Mussolini allows his leg
islature to decide that the mild ant
rare drunkenness caused by drinkin,
natural Italian wines does not count
Only hard liquor drunkenness is to b,
punished.
g, 1880. by King Features Syndicate, Incl