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:f- > 4* 1 Ik e. .-to 7- •a >• Enmeshed â€" This ship looks as if it's caught in a gigantic spider web â€" and that's not far from the truth. The ship is a brass scale model miniature "long hull" destroyer, whose topside structures are precisely scaled counterparts of those on full- sized naval vessels. The "web" in which it is apparently caught is a mesh of hardware cloth, mounted on a turntable. The set-up is used in investigating radiation characteristics of shipboard radio antennas. The hardware cloth simulates the conductivity of the ocean at regular communication frequencies '%â- ' ''S^M.SiJ:Jk2r % "â-  V^U ^34.;^<;Si-^ M^a .SHomShfFV .'%â- '*.'-; 3 He-Man's Code By Richard HUI Wilkinson Andy had sensitiv* eyeg and dell- •at« hands, but Leonie, born and bred a westerner of pioneer stock, was human. She loved him. It wasn't until after they were mar- ried that she discovered he was a physical coward. She found out the nig^ht of Serena Boone's engagement party. Tony Swift was there. As usual, he was 4runk. He was a handsome devil, this Tony, tall and bronzed and reckless. He had been Leonie's •hildhood sweetheart. Folks said she would. have married him if it were Bot for his drinking. "If I ever see your gly face -around here again, I'll kill you!" The first thing Tony saw when he came through the door wag Le- onie and Andy dancing together. A scowl crossed his face. Then he laughed. When they whirled past him, he stepped up and whacked Andy on the back. "Tony's cut." he grinned, "make way for a man." Leonie flushed. Andy hesitated, looked at Tony, then gave way smiling. "Sure thing," he said, "your dance, Tony." As soon as she could, without ap- pearing too obvious, she asked Andy to take her home. ' There she accused: "Why did you let him insult you? Oh, ihe shame of it!" Andy was startled and bewilder- ed. "Let who insult me, honey?" "Who?" She stared at him. "Tony Swiit, of course! I was never so humiliated in my Hfe." "Tony? Oh, you mean because of wViat he said? Shucks, honey, Tony didn't mean anything. He was drunk. " The appalling truth flashed across Leonie's brain in that moment. Aml> was a coward! He'd beea •fraid of Tony, which was why he evaded the issue! With a Uttl« whimpering cry, she turned and r»ii •obbing from the room. \ week later, on Saturday night, And\ stopped by at Seth Lanoey'e ' storo to see Seth on a matter ol business. A couple of boyi from his mine were there, dfinking at the bar. Minutes later, talking with Seth, he heard a rumpus out front, lavestigating, he discovered that two boys were engaged in a brawl with three men from the Bar V cattle raneh. Andy stood by and watched a while. Others jomed in. It began to look as though the place would be wrecked. Andy got out of there. Leonie heard about it the next day. That settled things for her. Andy was bewildered and unhap- py. The next day he found himself brooding over the situation. By mid-afternoon, he could stand it.^0 longer. Leaving Noah Tait in charge of operations, he drove home. As he strode up the walk he heard a cry. He burst open the door and found Tony Swift trying to kiss his wife. Tony wasn't drunk. He was babbling something about Leonie really loving him. Tony whirled at the sound Andy made His lip curled. "Ohol The sissy from Bos " Andy strode across the floor. His face was black. "I guess," he said bitterly, "you're dumb, after all. You need teaching." He struck out. Tony tried to dodge, but Andy's fist clipped him on the chin so hard that he went down. "Damn you!" He lunged, but Andy wasn't where he expected. Andy's fist flashed out again, and again Tony went down. Andy jerked him to his feet and hit him again. He hit him a third time and a fourth. Blood covered Tony's face. Tony whimpered for mercy. Andy dragged him to the door and threw him out. "Andy!" Leonie fled into his arms. "Oh, my darling, you were woinlerfull Oh, precious, forgive me for what I said/ Andy, why didn't you do that before â€" that night at the dance?" Andy frowned. "Why, shucks, honey, I don't like to fight. Don't you see? He was drunk then. There was no need." Leonie laid her head on his shoul- der. "I see, darling. Of course I see." But she didn't. MMMFBONT lokiv12itsML A friend of mint who lives south of the border has sent me an article, written by an Iowa poultry expert, which deals with the important question of which is the better plao â€" to buy your chicken feed all ready mixed, or to do your own mixing. » ♦ • As I believe a lot of readers of 'this column will be interested, I'm passing it along to jou "without prejudice," as the lawyers put it. That is to say, the views expressed are not, necessarily, those that I happen to hold. So here goes. « « * Snail I buy my mixed poultry feed in the bag, or would it be bet- ter to mix niy own? The ^nswer to this question de- pends upon the circumstances. But if you're an average flock owner, there's little reason why you should mix your own mash or concentrate today. ; » » ♦ There's a difference between now and several years „go, when mix- tures were less complex. Then, some of- the ingredients were not used in such small quantities as they are now. They make mixing difficult. * • * In general, flock owners should buy chick starters in the bag unless they have large quantities of skim- milk. The amount of each nutrient required is exact, and there's a risk of not getting them mixed properly. » • * Not being able to get the right in- gredients is another thing that point!: to the wisdom of buying baby chick feed in the bag. * « * Flock owners who have devel- oped large poultry projects are the exception in feed mixing. Large- scale broiler plant ov.ners may be justified in putting in a mixer, buy- ing in quantity and mixing their own feeds. * « ♦ But even big operators have found that there are more and bigger problems than they had expected. Most of them now depend upon re- liable feed-mixing companies for all of their supplies for growing birds. * « * It sjiould be further pointed out that a good chick ration, up to the salable age of the cockerels (about 12 weeks) is rich in minerals, vita- mins and protein feeds the farmer does not have in dependable supply. Too, the chicks can be fed most conveniently by grinding and mix- ing all their feeds together. Wanted Company He got out of bed at 2 a.m., threw a dressing-gown over hia py- jamas, and galloped down two flights of stairs to the landlord'! flat. He rapped sharply. No answer. He knocked again, and again, Fin- ally the door opened. A sleepy-eyed landlord stuck his head out. "Well," he demanded, "what do you want?" The other took a deep breath. "I just want to inform you," he said, "that I won't be able to pay the rent this tnonth." "Is that why you woke me in the middle of the night? Couldn't you tell me that in the morning?" The other nodded. "Certainly," he admitted. "But why should I worry alone?" Small Cog In Bi|[ MaohiiM â€" 8ttph«ii Sivy is dwarfed amid the ug« gears of this vertioal la/ar machine in a cabla plant, but he's the guy who makes it go. Tb« 10-ton machine is braiding 20 miles of wire rop« for •levators la the UN Seoretariat Buifajf ing. llie elevators will transport SA estimated 40,000 pereone 'daily in the J0-etorf straetura. The small amount of farm-growa feeda contained in the chick ration doesn't justify all the detail work of mixing, balancing and studying the cheapest or best combinations for producing the chick mash. * » « The laying ration presents an- other problem, although the princi- ple is the same. Instead of the hens requiring a high-protein ration, as do chicks or turkey poults, they need a protien level of about 15' to lSjt4 per cent prjtein. Also in con- trast with the chicks, the hens can eat larg quantities of whole grain. * * * Since farmers usually have their own grains, it is most practical to feed a high-protein concentrate (about 26 per cent). Together, they will give you about the IS per cent protein ration your hens need. * * « So the farm flock owner needs only to buy a properly balanced ready-mix of protein, mineral and vitamins to use hia grains economic- ally. * • * Experience with flock owners who mix their own chick mash or concentrate feada from reliable formulae leads to the npinion that, too often, they try to change them. » • • They, make substitutions, leave out certain feeds that, are not avail- able, or continue to use formulas long after better ones have been dis- covered through controlled experi- ments. « • * - All this doesn't mean that flock owners should not know the secrets of nutrition in poultry feeding. On the contrary, they ought to be able to interpret the faults of malnutri- tion in abnormal birds. * * * They should take keener interest in knowing when- to start grain feeding, or when to change to a concentrated growing feed from the baby chick mash. ^ * ♦ ""• But the poultryman is like the farmer who wisely has turned over the building of a! machinery to skilled manufacturers. He can be compared to his wife, who has wisely given the task o» making her husband's overalls to the quantity expert in clothing. Not So Easy At It Looks Believe me, must beginning auth- ors have had to write their books in the time left over from an eight- hour job. Robert Frost, the poet, worked as a mill hand, as a farmer, and a school teacher; Walter de la Mare held a job as a bookkeepei for nearly eighteen years; Ring Lard- ner reported over fourteen hundred baseball games before he ever had time to write the short stories that made him famous, Thomas Mann sold fire insurance Liefore his books won the Nobel i'rizc: Sinclaii Lewis typed out his first two novels . by night after spending his day as a publicity man for a New York publisher. An editor sees this fight going on at close quarters and, naturally, he wants to see his writers nial<e enough from their books so that they will not have to rent themselves out to Hollywood or sfiend their entire year writing short stories for the pulp magazines. â€" From "The Care and Feeding of Authors." by Edward Weeks. Comeback Mrs. Browne rebuked her inaid: "1 wrote your name with my [ingei in the dust this nuining." "1 know yon did. mum," replied the girl, "and you spelt it wrong." The BLACK HORSE "Do You Know" Advisory Panel TED REEVE w*ll-known •parti writtr LOUIS BOURDON IKDtninwit radio lingvr ami maitar of c RICHARD PENNINGTON Univanity Ubrorian, McGill Un OREGORY CURK dtatlnguIthMl •olumoiAl Despite popular belief It has been proved thai lightning can and does strike In the same ploca more than once. An/ substance or building which attracts a discharge of lightning once will prob- abl/ attract it again and again. The Empire Stat* Building, for example, has been 'struck' b/ lightning scores of times â€" sometlmee more than once in the same storm. Do You Know . . . that each flash of lightning Is not necessarily followed by a crash of thunder? Silent lightning is not unusual. Do You Know . . . that lightning often comes up from the earth? This happens when charges of electricity shoot up from the ground, meet discharges from the clouds and cause lightning flashes. Do You Know . . . that lightning does not zigzag, OS it is popularly believed? 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