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What Science Is Doing SORCHUM SUGAR A mecluxl of getting an mueh *ug*r from sorghum as from av- erage Louisiana cane, with val- uabie by-products as well, is tha invention of two U.S. Department of Agriculture chemists, who have assigned their rights to the Sec- retary of Agriculture, without payment of royalties to them- telves. Syrup and a sweet silage have been obtained from sorghum for years, Science Service explains, but the sugar contained could not be efficiently and economically crystallized out by the usual me- thocie of boiling in a vacuum pan arkl then centrifuging, because of the- formation of "gums". These gums, the inventors found, were composed principally of starch and alkaline earth salts, the iatter principally calcium with gome magnesium. They made the syrup too viscous when boiled dowr. The inventors' process re- moves these impurities and re- covers starch and calcium and ac- tonitic acid as valuable by-prod- uct?. Tne syrup can then be easily reduced to sugar by the usual pr r -cesses. Sugar cane requires two years to mature and needs therefore a c;.-!.--iate free from killing frosts in the winter. Sorghum, on the otr.tr hand, can be planted in the spring- and harvested in the autumn. It grows over large sec- tion* of the country and docs well in the drv areas. New War Plant To Dwarf Others Chrysler Co. Plans Largest Industrial Building In The World. Adolf Hitler, who long boasted of Germany's war production fa- cii'ties, may feel a twinge of pain in his heart, head or both when he hears of the Chrysler Corpora- tion's plans for building a new war plant that will utterly dwarf the largest industrial building in the world, according to The Buf- fs ;o Courier-Express. The new plant is important, not only for the mass of war mater- ial that will come out of it when it gets into production, but also for the large amount of vital materials that will not go into its construction. * * Chrysler engineers, together with Albert Kahn, industrial arch- itect, have evolved a revolution- ary type of factory design which requires only 2.7 ounds of steel per square foot of floor area in- stead of fiv to twelve pounds generally used in conventional structures. "The saving on steal will be enough to build fourteen, des- troyers or six 10,000-ton cargo ships," the announcement said. Production potentialities of u> new plant may be gauged from the statement that the plant will b big enough to -put the Ford Willow Run bomber plant inside and still leave enough room for twenty ball diamonds around the edge. The fence around the plant will be almost four miles long. * * Apparently it was the steel- saving features of the -new plant that enabled the corporation to get the green light from the gov- ernment for its building. Work on the plant, to be located In the Middle West, will be begun in a few days. But its exact location and the type of war materials to be produced were not announced. The construction of this plant should help to quell the fears of those who believed that America's large existing production facili- ties are not sufficient to com- pete with those of the Reich. And the announcement eggs on the imagination to wonder what the dimensions of future war plants art likely to be. There are four birds whoso wings are too small for flying: cassoway, emu, kiwi and ostrich. BELTS Abdominal Supports For Al! Deformities Write For Catalogue To S. J. Dew 149 Church St., Toronto 25 Year* EttablUKed TRUSSES CLERK GRADUATES TO C. P. AIRLINES The magnaflux crack detector is a vital piece of machinery for the checking of engine parts. Miss Marjorie Sutton operates the machine which pours a flow of oil and iron filings over the magne- tized engine part. Where the material has for any reason cracked or is faulty, the magnetism will draw the iron fillings into a line. Thus many a faulty part with cracks too small for the human eye to see has been discarded. Had the faulty part been used it might have given way in flight causing a crash and perhaps death. Miss Sutton was a clerk in a department store before she came to the aircraft engine overhaul plant operated by the Canadian Pacific Air- lines. Many of the Canadian women who have stepped into the places of men in the factories and plants throughout Canada have come straight from school and many others have left jobs in offices and stores to exchange typewrit- ers, filing cabinets and cash regis- ters for wrenches, screwdrivers and gauges of various kinds in their desire to be of more use in Canada's war effort. They have thus been able to release able- bodied men for service in the forces in ever-increasing numbers. Gun plants, explosive factories and aircraft plants have all found many tasks to which their nimble fingers are adapted. Several of the aircraft plants operated by the Canadian Pacific Airlines have girls, many of them in their late teens and early twenties, sewing fabric on wings, painting superstructures, doaping wings, installing instruments, building the fusilage and doing the thou- sand and one things that have to be done in constructing the air- craft that one day will drive Hit- ler and his gang from the fai-a of the earth. Even in the aircraft engine overhaul plant.s which the Cana- dian Pacific Airlines operate, wo- men find their place. Girls are testing spring tension, checking ei.ginc parts, dismantling and cleaning carburetors, cleaning and testing spark plugs and doing many of t!ie jobs, under the eye of experts, which men formerly did. The strange part of it all is that they like it. Few of them want to go back to selling hats, office work, or dispensing "Pink Pills" over a drug store counter, and all are heart and soul in their work doing their best to help in the best way they can to beat the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo gangsters. Have You Heard?. Lucky Shot All available arms were put into use (at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7). A country lad from the west bad a standard rifle shoved in his hand, says Blake Clark in "Re- member Pearl Harbor." "Get out and shoot!" was the command. The boy had not been trained to handle a heavy rifle, but he had done lots of hunting in his day. He drew a bead on a small dive bomber coming in, and fired. One of the freak accidents of the war occurred. Apparently his bullet hit the detonator of the bomb the Japan- ese was about to drop, for the 'plane burst in mid-air. The boy fainted. HOW CAN I? Q. How can I paint: on glass surfaces? A. Be sure that the glass is absolutely clean of grease. This is accomplished by washing with benzine or alcohol. Allow to dry thoroughly before applying first coat of paint. A straight white lead-linseed oil paint containing some turpentine is a satisfactory first coat. Over this may be applied the desired color of paint. Q. How can I prepare a ;ood summer fruit drink? A. Use the following ingredi- ents: sliced ripe bananas, canned grapefruit and juice, white "pil- low" candy mints, slightly crush- ed. Pile in sherbet glasses. Chill. Garnish with a sprig of mint or green cherry. Q. How can I mend a leaky vase? A. Take some melted paraffin and pour it into the vase and al- low to harden over the spot where the leak occurs. It will not leak again. Q. How can I remove lifht scratches on furniture? A. By rubbing over them with boiled linseed ofl, turpentine and whita vinegar, mixed in qoal proportions. For the deeper scratches, use a paste mad* of thick mucilage mixed with color- ing matter to blend with the furn- iture. For oak, ue burnt umber and raw sienna; for mahogany, Venetian red; for walnut, burnt umber and Vandyke brown. Modern Etiquette 1. What is something one should always avoid saying in a letter? 2. Is it the duty of everyone who was invited to a wedding to call on the bride after she re- turns from her honeymoon? 3. When there is some item on the menu which one does not un- derstand, is it all right to ask the waiter what it is? 4. Should one ever sip coffee, tea or water at the table while food is in the mouth? 5. If a man offes to shake hands with a woman upon being intoduoed, does she ignore the gesture ? 0. Is it proper for one to use a telephone to acknowledge re- ceipt of a gift? ANSWERS 1. Avoid writing "There isn't any news; everything is going along in just about the usual fa- shion." This is very dull, stupid, and uninteresting and .- a waste of both the writer's and the read- er's time and energy. There is always something abouc which to write, and the observant person with an active mind has no trou- ble in this respect. 2. Yes. 3. Yes. Only a timid person would hesitate to do so. 4. No, the food should be swal- lowed before taking the liquid. 5. While the woman is within her social rights to ignore the man's attempt to shake hands, still, no one with the least spark of good breeding would wish to do anthing to hurt the feelings of another. She should, there- fore, respond to the man's offer to shake hands. 6. No, It is not good form. .You GIRLS WHO SUFFER. It you under monthly cramps, back- nche, distress of "trregularltlea," nervousness due to functional monthly disturbances try Lydla B. pinkhum's Vegetable Compound Tablets (with ndded Iron). Made especially for women. They also help iiiiiicl up red blood. Made In Canada. iittttrucfeor wa> seeking r- emit* for th regimental band, MM! approaching Private Brown h* inquired : "Do you play musical ir.atru- mnt?" "Yes," repKsd Brown, "1>t only at home." "Really," said tihe ititruloi- "and what Instrument do you play?" "Second fkWle," retorted Pt. Brown. "Somo Ijinybody kae toU my wife that I took you to dance tho other night," aid the manager to his secretary. "Well, what about it?" asked the girl. "That makei you my for- mer iccretary." Two Negoea were discuaeing their chances of being drafted. "Taint gwine to do 'em no good to pick on me," said Sam, "cauaa I ain't gwine to do no fig-htin'l Ah ain't loat nothing in dem countries, an' dey can't make me fight." "You may be right," replied Mose, "Uncle Sam can't make you all fight but he can take yo' where d fightin' u an' den yo' use yo' own judgment." The young reporter wa* told over and over again to cut hi* story to the bar* es- sentials. So his next story came out this way: "J. Smith looked up the shaft at the Wallick Hotel this morning to see if tho lift was on its way down. It was. Aged 45." The lorry driver was unfortun- ate enough to run his vehicle into a house where a woman stood baking. Having lost his nerve, he did not know what to say, and blurted out: "Can you tell me the way to Birmingham?" "I can," replied the woman. "Straight pasl that sideboard and then turn left at the piano." "I'm not half good enough for you." "Why. Bill, you talk just like one of my own family." Laborer: "I dug this hole where I wa.s told to, and began to put the dirt back like I was supposed to. But all the dirt won't go in. What'H 1 do?" The supervisor pondered, and then said : "I have it. There's only one thing to do. You'll have to dig the hole deeper." Seeing her former suitor at a parly, a girl decided to snub him. "So sorry," she murmured when the hostess introduced him, "but I didn't get your name." "I know you didn't," said the unabashed man, "but you certain- ly tried hard enough." King Of Belgium Lives As Prisoner King Leopold of the Belgians i still a voluntary prisoner in his ca.stle of Laeken, Travelers from Brussels say Leopold has made his life as simple as he can. He respects tlia rationing strictly, using food tickets like the rest of his subjects. He virtually ne- ver receives visitors, as he insists that he considers himself as a prisoner of war. C.N.R. Can Handle Increased Traffic Although the Canadian mil w*ya are moving the largest vol- ume of traffic in their history, they can handle more freight business without diffi ulty, stated R. C. Vaughan, President, Cana- dian National Railways, recently. Using the yardstick of the Cana- dian National increase in busi- ness, Mr. Vaughan stated that the general increase in the volume of business now being handled ig ap- proximately 20 per cent, more than in the peak year of 1928, and more than 75 per cent, greater than that handled by the railways during the peak year of the last world war. "Not only can we take more traffic and move it quickly and efficiently to- day," he added, "but we can do it with proportionately less ex- pense than we did in 1928." Freight Traffic Mr. Vaughan pointed out that never before had the railways been so effectively organized to move large volumes of traffic. "We are doing a tremendous thing as Canada's biggest war industry," he said, "and we are geared to the highest of speed." He pointed out that new yards had sprung up throughout the system, special traffic controls, and storage yards, where goods are assembled to await telegraphic orders to be loaded and rushed to whatever sea-port determined. "These are but a few of the improvements in the science of modern railroad- ing," he added. "Heavier motive power has made it possible to op- erate fast, through freight trains and to increase the size of the loads carried. In fact, it might be suiu that today we virtually begin the number of freight cars hauled, where in the last war the peak of loads finished. In 1918, a long freight train was between 50 and 60 cars; in this war, our trains frequently begin at 60 cars and run as high as 90 loaded cars, or more; and there has been no evidence whatever of congestion in our operation to the seaboards." Passenger Traffic Passenger traffic, Mr. Vaughan stated, was proportionally heavy. He said that not only were there heavy demands made upon the< railways for troop movements of the various services, but apart from that there were "industrial" chartered trains, operated daily, to carry munitions worker* to plants located outside citiM and towns. He intimated that at present, the National System had more than 100 coaches assigned solely to this service. Apart from these special demands upon the railways, there was a tremendous increase in general passenger traffic. C.N.R. War Effort Mr. Vaughan added that tho Canadian National Railways were doing a fine work in the produc- tion of war materials, as well as in the moving of them. He point- ed out that Canadian National shops were making naval guns and other war devices of which he could not speak. Several mine sweepers had been built, as well as a number of 10, 000-ton cargo boats. The company also had charge of operation for the Gov- ernment, a fleet of merchant ships, which had been acquired from time to time from other powers, both neutral and other- wise. Many key-men have been loaned to various government ser- vices, and more than 7,000 rail- way men were on active service with the Canadian forces. 20,000,000 Mexicans Join United Nations Mexico's entry into the war will line up nearly 20,000,000 mor persons against the Axis and boost the Western Hemisphere total to 179,936,374, according to figures in the 1942 World Al- manac. The Mexican population 19,- 478,791 is second only to th United States total of 131,669,- 275 among the twelve New World nations warring against Germany. Italy and Japan. The others and their popula- tions are: Canada, 11,422,000) Cuba, 4,228,000; Guatemala, 3,- 248,000; Haiti, 3,000,000; Nicar- agua, 1,380,287; Panama, 467,- 459; Costa Rica. 616,000; El Sal- vador, 1,704,497; Honduras, 1,- 105,534 and Dominican Republic, 1,016,561. There are about 3,000 men n United States catnpn for consci- entious objectors. Employer (interviewing an applicant for job): "Know anything about electricity?" "Ye, sir." "What's an armature?" "A chap who boxes for nothin'." .CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS. HVBI (.HICKS NUUUDY KVKl: MADE A PROFIT out of "dud" chicks rhicUs of clniihltiil origin and livcabllity. They are apt to lay late and scl- d'tin and not develop Into prof- itable meat birds. But oh boy limv they cun put away the feed. 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