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vork and its Specimens find th the public, Jt was from the Copenhagen 'lock- 'yards ot Burmeister & Wain that the first large Diesel motorboat Selan was launched in 1912, She is still go- ing strong after twenty years of ser- vice, during which she has covered over 1,000,000 miles. The cylinders 'have been replaced once in the last twelve years and the vessel maintains its original average speed of 10.9 to 11.0 knots. A milestone in marine en- gineering, Selandia is the prototype of mg pelled shipping, about half of the world's motorships being equip- ped to-day with Diesel engines of its particular, model. . * - Co-operative Market Hall Co-operation, the corner stone of Denmark's prosperity, continues to bring together small groups of men en- gaged in similar activities, The latest development is the initiative taken by . the Co-operative Agricultural Union of Denmark, the. Co-operative Union of Danish Smallholders, the National Fruit Growers Union and the Central Union of the Twelve Men Societies, Jointly to erect a large central market if Copenhagen to promote the mar- keting of Danish fruit. The fruit is to be uniformly sorted and packed and it is proposed to build the new mar- ket hall close to the existing vegetable market for the convenience of prospec- tiv customers. - * Aviation Aids Explorer The hitherto arduous task of map- ping out arctic regions is greatly sim- plified by the advent of aviation. When Dr. Lange Koch sets out to Greenland next summer to continue his investiga- tion of the outline of Bast Greenland he will be accompanied by two large hydroplanes, aboard which the sur- veyors will be able to do in a few hours what previously would have taken them years. The main point to be ascertained is the distance between the coast and the inland ice. Dr, Koch's expedition two years ago dis- covered an extensive ice-free area north of the Musk Oxe Firth, and two Norwegian explorers who crossed the inland ice last summer also found land where it was supposed that ice reigned supresge, ; * Ld my Building Takes Spurt In the annals of Copenhagen build- ing activities 1931 was a record year which left far behind even the excep- tionally high 1930 record. Out of 8500 residences erected in 1931, 6896 were raised by private builders, 1108 by building societies, and 518 by the muni- cipality, The municipality has also assisted financially-in the construction of 1574 residences. * * * Practical Aquarium An aquarium to-day is no longer a mere dazzling toy revealing unsuspect- ed vistas of strange and fascinating fish and weird seaweed, The Danish Aquarium Society of Copenhagen is planning to equip the city with a large aquarium for the purpose of studying marine botany and fish of the northern seas especially from the point of view of their marketable qualities. At pre sent Gotenborg is the only Scandinav- ian city which can boast of a public - aquarium. -- The Chrisiian Science Moniter. Crows. S Pin Money oF Farm Boys a. farmer boys can Man's Most Inge dia) storms, And yet the Soviet Goy- Poll ogenion oe or Methods 1 there is one subject on which the meteorologists of the world are agreed it is this: It is impossible. to change a climate artificially, to control the. weather, to make rain where it is needed or to divert ernment has apparently established a. Department for the Production of Artificial Rain or Snow Which will boldly attempt to p from the clouds and thus do away with droughts in Itural areas. As goon ag one realizes how rain is produced the utter futility of in- terfering with nature's processes be- comes apparent. When the heay- ens seem to open and a downpour drenches the parched earth we see a tremendous heat-engine at work-- an engine in which the circulating fluid is the atmosphere, with ,its moisture rising from the ocean, and the furnace is the sun. © To produce one inch of rainfall over an acre this engine lifts about 113 tons of mois- ture and then precipitates it. For a square mile--a mere dot on the map of Russia--72,320 tons of mois- ture would be required. When such stupendous figures are produced the rainmakers reply: We are not trying to raise water but only t6 bring it down. This is very much like trying to tap the water in a tank on the top of an apartment house without first pumping it full, Heat-engines work in cycles, and the engine whereby nature evaporates ocean water and forms clouds ig no exception, Possibilities Limited Even if we accept the rainmakers' argument at its face value we get lit- tle rain by trying to squeeze a cloud. Dr. Brooks once read this state ment before the American Meteoro- logical Society to prove the point: "Suppose that the people of the Northern Great Plains wanted rain in a certain July, and suppose that the moisture conditions were those usually found there in that month. It this process could be made so fective that all the vapor over the region could be precipitated to the ground at one time the rainfall would be three-quarters of an inch, But no one would expect by this process to be able to precipitate more than a quarter of the water present, and this would amount to less than twotenths of an inch, which is generally considered as in- sufficient in a drought." Such calculations could have been made at any time within the last half century. Yet in 1892 Congress appropriated $9,000 for the purpose of "enabling R, @. Dyrenforth to bom- bard the air of Texas in the hope of bringing down rain and thus verify- ing the old theory that explosions make the clouds empty themselves. | Actually $17,000" were Dyrenforth--id' vain, The belief that heavy gunfire and terrific explosions produce rain still lives--this despite the proof advanc- ed by Dr. Angot, head of the French Meteorological Service, that in the most favorable circumstances it would take the detonation of 21,750 tons of melinite to produce u single! millimeter of rain (0.03936 'inch) over a square mile, Angot's mathe- matical calculations were amply con- firmed during the world war when spent by hundreds of guns were simultaneous- |. ly firing tons of high explosives without effecting the weather Jn the least. Lowering of Temperatures Realizing the futility of explosions and concussions, the more "Sclen- tific? rainmakers seeks to apply 1 ts Bid in moist air can be lowered under | the saturation pains they reason, ded, +| which it has not, it would take mil. | || youth of the country encouraged to | exercise their minds and blow off ! of our. great business houses, insur- .| ance offices and banks | make themselves corporately respon- physical theory. If the temperature rain will fall. So we find earnest '| men going up in balloons and air- planes and spraying the atmosphere with "liquid air at the cloud level. Even if the process sociation, in a recent speech at Col.' umbia, 8. C. composed of 'excerpts from speech,, deals with ° the progress made in controlling various diseases! and with the major problems sti puzzling medical svience, Although the lengthening of lite is} Jlargely due to lowered mortality in the first year of life (slhce 15 per cent of all deaths each year ara of persons within the first year of lite), nevertheless there is some progress Weing made in later years, lions of dollars of liquid air to sprinkle a few square miles. This theory that condensation or precipitation takes place when the temperature of air has been suffi- ciently lowered: was disproved by Aitken about half acentury ago. He collects on nuclei, liquid or solid, and "that the dust in the atmosphere forms the nuclei on which the water- vapor molecules condense." Then came the sand-sprinkling era or artificial rain; for sand Is clear ly composed of minute particles that will invite the formation of drops. This proving unsuccessful, the sand was electrified and scattered from airplanes, particularly in mountain regions where forest fires are so often started by thunderstorms. Electrification of the sand was sup- W. J. Humphreys of the United States Weather Bureau has calcul- ated that it'would take 15,000 pounds of electrified sand to neutralize one flash of lightning--if the theory is correct. There is no evidence to show that sand, electrified or not, has any effect. | Use of Electrical Apparatus Electricity is becoming increasing- ly popular 'with the rainmakers. In fact the Soviet Department for the Artificial Production of Rain and Snow is so up to date that it will raise electrital apparatus with cap- tive balloons to the cloud level. Just how electricit; ir to bring down the rain is not clear. It must be said on behalf of the Soviet experimenters that fog and rain ean be produced experimentally in the laboratory. But when we apply the principle on the gigantic scale demanded to bring relief to hundréds 'of "withered square miles, we are in the position of a man try- ing to drill a hole in a granite wall with a pin. EARBLNCRY Sama High-Pressure Selling The London Times devotes a column editorial to the menace of sky-writing and suggests that it is a sort of in- decent advertising, and therefore should be forbidden. Some very clever verse has been written on the subject. This extract from a poem in The New Statesman is quite Byronic in its ironic excellence: "Now progress reigns; now dawns that happier day When idle Nature can be made to pay. Lift up your eyes; no more with one accord 'The heavens proclaim the glory of the Lord, But made subservient to man's deeper need Blazon the virtues wed, Instruct us in the brands of pills and gin, Or on what day the Bargain Sales he- gin." ~--Boston Transcript. ES ri lM . On Being Good Sports By the Prince of Wales I am full of admiration for those running voluntary organizations, but it struck me that the older people were to the fore. It is time the younger generation got down to leadership as well, They are doing a lot, but, frankly, I am suggesting that they can do a lot more. It is up to us to see the of the fragrant . steam, and help them to zrow up good sports. It would be a fine thing if all who are associated together for games service. I| wonder, too, it the staffs might not sible for some form of individual '| service that would enlarge the eppor- tunities of boys and girls. We are not here to 'consider how industrial or political action can. help us in our present difficulties. We are here to consider how we our- selves can help each other, and T am sure there is a lot that can be done. -- ti $4 'Right and rot are in the nature of things. They are not words 'phrases. Th showed experimentally that moisture HN posed to neutralize the lightning. Dr. |. of filtered water, | were also associated in some form of | losis formerly caused more deaths than any other disease (1880). By 1024 it had fallen to the fifth cause of death, surpassed by heart disease, pneumonia, cerebral hemor- rhage and cancer. At the recent rate of improvement in a few more years tuberculosis would be a rare disease. Safeguarding 'the milk supply fs most important in any 'consideration of this matter. It is likely that not only tuberculosis but many other In- tectious diseases are spread through the use of milk which contains the causative micro-organisms, Most communities on this continent now have milk supplied to thém in a clean, sanitary manner. This method of supply must be continued. The regulations should be made as mear ly universal as can be and possibly more stringently enforced. A Medical Victory There is nothing so impressive In the annals of medicine as the al- most complete eradication of typhoid fever. This is due mainly to two measures -- vaccination ind clean drinking water, The incidence of typhoid fever and the mortality have been so rapidly decreasing that there is every reason to feel that it will be practically eradicated. Sanita- tion, particularly in the form ol use changed the death rate in one locality from 23.6 to 3.3 in 100,000 population. Other factors ~The following article, 'tl that have been important have been pasteurization of milk and super- vision of food supplies and food handlers. | The antitoxin treatment of diph- theria has reduced the mortality | from 40 per cent of all cases treated | to 10 per cent, The incidence of diphtheria also has been greatly re. duced dug to the use of toxin-anti- toxin and toxiod. When meisures of immunizatoin were carried out in certain communities the death rate was cut 60 per cent in a few years. Scarlet fever and measles have been spoken of as virus diseases. There is now extremely sound basis for the belief that thee diseases are due to distinct organisms. They are apparently not a3 common| or as severe as they formerly were; never- theless they occur sometimes in fair- ly severe epidemics, I dare say that in a comparatively short time the epidemics will disappear as rapidly as have those of typhoid and diphtheria, Outstanding Problems The four great outstanding probe) lems of health of the present day are: (1) heart disease with its asso- clated conditions--apoplexy, cerebral hemorrhage and nephritis, (2) can- cer, (3) pneumonia and (4) mental illness, . In the case of heart disease, if weakness of the heart muscles or] valves or disease of the arteries or the kidneys can be detected in time, the condition can often be cured. This naturally brings up the qgues- tion of periodic health examinations. These investigations require more skill on the part of the diagnostician and more tact on the part of the physician than any other work. In the first place, the physician must realize that. few of us are perfect physically and * functionally He must carefully measure the import- ance of any defect that he finds. He should not arouse suspicion in the individual -on meager or uncertain evidence, because many will be made | absolutely miserable, fearing condi tions which they do not have. "Wd turn to cancer. Unfortunately, the cause of cancer is not known. If this could he found, undoubtedly we should be able to cure many more patients than we do at present, Most investigators feel that can- cers are probably not the result of invasion by bacteria. Nor is cancer similar to inflammatory reaction' in the tissues, Cancer is a new growth. It is composed of cells Which: never mature. ~ 'Unfortunately,' cancer us- toms, and often the only way to re- cognize its presence is to look for it or feel it. . The only treatments the present time are eradi- ually starts without causing symp-: "for cancer that are of any ayail at ' "My age was 48 ~--which every wo- 4 man knows is a critical time of lite ~when I derived "5 benefits from Pills," writes Mrs. rockhank, Hamittoy Ont. "I felt so rod and depressed; could not sleep; 'my appetite was impaired; my skin and lips were pallid. I could not make any headway with my housework. I got discouraged, as tonie after tonic did not better my condition. My sist- ter, a graduate nurse, advised Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. After taking a few boxes my condition greatly improved. My sleep was restful and my natural color and appetite returned." Dr Willlams' Pink Pills rebuild health by creating new blood and in- creasing the red blood cells, which re- store the wasted tissues and revitalize the exhausted system. They remove the cause of run-down or nervous con- ditions. Try them. At your druggist's in the new protective glass containers, 50c a package. Ee Still very dificult to control; We know the cause of pneumonia and yet we do not have an adequate specific vaccing that will be effective against all types, I feel sure, from the progress being made, that in a short time we shall be able to handle this situation much betier than we do now. Not all pneumonia is due to the typical organism of pneumonia. Al- most any organism that becomes ac- tive in the lung may cause pneu- monia. Influenza and pneumonia still remain serious problems. If the specific organism of influenza be found--and there is some evid- ence that it bag been found--much will be accomplished toward control of the disease. Patients who are mentally ill prob. ably suffer more = than any other class, They may be divided into two groups--those who have definite changes in the brain or nerves and those who have functional disturb | ances referable tu the centrai ner- vous system. While it is probable that many functionally nervous people derive their trouble from heredity, never- theless I am inclined to believe that members of the medical profession and those particularly interested in preventive medicine have not done all that they should to help out in the matter, I believe that there is an opportunity during the school life of a child to teach him biology in a better form, so that he will have more of an understanding of biologic principles. As a result, he will be better able to work out for himself conditions ag they arise. If he had definite knowledge regarding some of these matters, he would be able to handle the fear-complex from which so many people suffer. Through the centuries the per- sistent effort to learn the truth about disease has increased our knowledge THE ) STRONGEST AND | bit by bit. be, b Lo plished more in the fleld of medi- ¢ine than had heen dome in the twenty-four centuries since Hippo- erates, The modern developments have given birth to preventive medi- cine, Perhaps the work in this field hag just begun, but its influence on the physical and economic wel-| fare of the tonne of the world is' already incaleulgble. I ee IEPFE his What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Furnished With Every Pattern 2802 higher smart waistline effect in Vionnet styling Here's a new in tied bouice arrangement. It's so distinctly individual, The dropped shoulders are fin- ished with cute puffed sleeves that may be omitted as in miniature view, if you please. The skirt is very smartly de. signed to give graceful height to the figure. A marine blue printed silk is youthfully lovely as the original. 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