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Le Roo TON 3 GERI i A St 5 STN E CAPR EIS ATER Noise--The Great Modern Curse Milkman Robert Thompson whistled cheerfully to. himself as he walked briskly up and down the empty streefs of the -sleeping town of Omaha, Ne- braska. Jangling his crates of bot- tles, he swung through garden gates, letting them slam behind him, and his shoes echoed on the flagstones in the stillness of the . early morning. By seven o'clock he had work- ed through the outskirts and was in the city itself--and in trouble. Here a sleepy-eyed policeman saw--and heard--him, and the next day the milkman found himself in court charged with breaking a by-law which protects sleepers from the clatter of milk bottles. He was fined one dollar. To-day governments, with the help of scientists, are waging an all-out war on one of the great- est curses of civilization--NOISE. Doctors are worried that the ever-increasing din of modern life may be responsible for the postwar outcrop of neurotics, for loud noise is a physical assault-- an attack on the nervous system. It can seriously affect digestion, thicken the ear drums, stiffen the small bones of the body and make a person thoroughly ex< hausted. A doctor reports that in cases of pneumonia or early con- wvalescence the back-firineg of a car or frequent sounding of a car horn may be sufficient to cause a relapse. Indeed, horn-blowing was re- cently outlawed in one American city, except for occasional toots in cases of emergency. But you can make as much noise as you like--and hardly hear yourself--in a uniaue "room of silence" recently built at the University of California. The entire room has been cov- ered with sound-absorbing spikes of glass-fibre and will be used this autumn for experiments in measuring the noise produced by motors and various electrical de- vices. The noises will be recorded on instruments outside. Criminologists are now investi- gating a link between city noise and city crime, and New York's "Committee for a Quiet City" is experimenting with plastic gar- bage cans, following a report that clanging metal cans are-the last straw for some highly-strung New Yorkers. MATADOR TEEN JEANS -- The matador touch comes to teen- agers' jeans in this colorful out- fit modeled by Claire Gordon at a.parade of original spring- summer fashions in London, England. Blouse and jeans are topped by a contrasting poplin skirt in a button-through style, Cotton three-piece ensemble Is by Debut. In July this year, Ramsgate's council voted to petition the Prime Minister to banish scream- ing American jet aircraft from near-by Manston air base. "Intolerable, unbearable, fright- ful," shouted council members, protesting that'the noise was kill- ing the town's holiday trade and forcing some. residents to the brink of nervous breakdowns, . Complained one alderman: "The other day my little grand-daugh- ter, aged five, fell on the ground with her hands over her ears, absolutely terrific' The simple truth, which is understandably alarming people who are unfortunate enough to live near airfields, is that practi- cally nothing can be done to tame the ear-splitting roar of jets. If 8,000,000 people roared together thev would make less noise than a single jet engine. Scientists are to be congratu- lated, certainly, on the successful development of ground "muff- lers" which effectively reduce jet noise to a bearable level while 'planes are warming up prior to take-off, but in the air adequate silencing 'is impossible. Noise-in blocks of flats is an- other nuisance which is receiving close attention. For years experts believed that the clatter heard clearly. around. buildings -- ard from deck to deck in ships -- was carried through air. Now it has been discovered that the reason the noise of, for example, an all- night burning fire being raked can be heard several flats away is because it is transmitted through the walls and floors. Tests show that glass-fibre "carpets" laid over concrete floors, together with suspended ceilings for the rooms below, effectively insulate against most of the bumps.and bangs that plague flat-dwellers. If you live in a flat and as a hobby play a musical instrument, you're pretty certain to have had the neighbours banging on your door. Harry Mills, sixty-two- year-old porter at a block of flats: in Earls Court, London, has solved the problem by buying a sound-proof telephone booth. He fixed it up in a spare bed- room at his home and practises his accordion for hours without annoying anybody. Even his wife, sitting in the lounge, cannot hear a thing. ; : "It's a very good idea," says Harry of his kiosk, "but I'm near- ly deafened now!" Researchers into the causes and control of noise say that one of their biggest problems is that few people can agree- about what is noisy and what isn't. Some very lound noises are welcome; the - rasp of exhaust of a grand prix racing car is music to the en- thusiast, but murder to someone not interested; hep-cats can jive all night in absolute bedlam, without ill effects, but neighbours go crazy. Some very quiet noises, --on the other hard-can-be-deva= . steating; like a dripping tap, or a fly buzzing on the ceiling. Noise has been proved to cause physical pain, and if big enough, can kill. Scienti#s have killed mice and rats with high-pitched sound vibration. In one experi- ment, cockroaches died in about three seconds and mosquitoes in ten seconds. Utra-sonic vibrations can kill bacteria and even bore holes in our teeth for the dentist. Doctors say that most people suffer from noise, but not every- one is aware of it. Noise takes its toll on nerves, producing ir- ritability which is often just put down to bad temper. SLEEPLESS The longest period of insomnia on record is claimed by Fabiana Geonzon, of Manila, the Philip- pine Islands, who, for 30 years, hasn't slept. Troubled with headaches as a child Geonzon found it increas- ingly difficult to get to sleep un- til, at the age of six, he couldn't sleép at all, Although admitting to feeling tired on occasions, he states that his sleeplessness hasn't affected his health. DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU -- Death fla ot gged down the train for Phillip Watkins, 21-year-old. He lost the race with a speeding train, and paid for it with his life, as the engine ragged his car a half mile down the track. Play it safe, and avoid being the body they have to carry away from the wreckage, 2) / Frogman--Crook Swims To Loot For months a daring series of robberies at factories puzzled the police of Turin, Italy. Until one day recently a sharp-eyed police officer saw a man emerge from a manhole in a quiet street just before dawn. He proved to be the thief--a frogman-burglar who confessed that, with the ald of underwater 'equipment, he had swum into the buildings through the city's drains! ' $ . It proves once again that the modern crook will take Immense trouble and stop at nothing once he has made up his mind to crack a valuable "crib." Look at the vast effort that resulted in a $300,000 haul at a Warsaw bank by painstaking thieves who entered the building by means of a tunnel sitxy-three yards long which they had con- structed under a roadway. They had great technical knowledge, for the tunnel was built on the most up-to-date system applied in mines. It was even supplied with an electrle light and telephone service con- nected with the cellars of an innocent - looking toyshop op- posite the bank premises. In this shop the thieves esta- blished their headquarters and spent nearly a fortnight pre- paring for their raid. Police after- wards calculated that it had cost them more than $3,000 to con- struct the underground corridor, They were not entirely success- ful in their raid. They apparently overlooked the fact that the use of chemicals necessary to open the various bank safes would produce asphyxiating gases. The poisonous fumes compelled them to withdraw before they could open the principal safe, a giant whose contents would have doubled the value of the raiders' loot. Those thicves were never caught. Others who devised a method of fishing for the con- tents of a safe in Pennsylvania ended in jail. the door of the vault, failed, and tried the roof where they were more successful. They then bored a hole in the safe big enough to put a hand through. They floodéd the safe with water from a canal running alongside 'the building and carefully fished out $75,000 worth of securities that floated up within their reach. They got away from the city, but were arrested" by mobile police as they sped' along a country road. A thief in Ohio successfully fished out $450 from a bank's all- night safe, using string and a hook. ) A clever trick practised on a Toulouse jeweller cost him jewels ago. The thief knew that every "night the jeweller was in the habit of taking a small handbag of jewels home with him, and that every morning he took it back 'to-the shop and laid it on the counter while he raised the iron shutters. : ~ One morning the jeweller was raising the shutters as usual, when a man, walking in front of the shop with a large basket of eggs, apparently slipped and fell down, breaking the eggs all ovér the doorstep--like an enormous omelette. The man was very apologetic and offered to help the jeweller clean up the mess of broken eggs. A passer-by offered his assist- ance. , "Haven't you got a broom?" asked the passer-by. Suspecting nothing, the jewel- ler rushed to the back o! the shop to look for one. When he returned the man who had . broken the eggs and the generous passer-by, his accomplice, had both disappeared. So had the bag of jewels. They first tried to force open . WHO'S CONFUSED? -- West Fourth not only meets but bl- sects West Sixth -- that's what these street signs, In Michigan City, Ind., say. Out-of-towners aren't the only victims of con- fusion; residents still don't know whatever happened to West Fifth Street, TWO MOUTHS TO FEED--Apparently belie -- Issur & - oA ving that two heads are better than one, this Hereford calf sticks them both in a feeding trough and chomps contentedly. Its owner, 'Arnold Raybuck, bought the freak animal in North Carolina and plans to put it on exhibition. - THEFARM FRONT ohn Russell The day of air-conditioning in barns, farrowing houses, laying houses and other livestock build- ings is just dawning but experl- ments with stock kept at varying temperatures seem to indicate that air-conditioning may be technology's next major contri- bution to the farm scene. In Canada little has been done so far with farm air-conditioning, but in the United States cooling farm buildings with air-condi- tloners has proved worthwhile in a variety of cases. At the University of Missourl "climate laboratory," for instance, It was found that cows produce better at 50 to 60 degrees Fahren- heit than at higher temperatures. Even In the not-too-hot 75 to 80 degrees range, they ate less and gave less milk. . . . . 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And Illinois broilers ralsed in air-conditioned houses gained extra weight in less time than others without artificial cooling on the same farm. A Georgia hog breeder reported that two air-conditioners in his farrowing house saved him two or more fall pigs a litter. Not only was there less crushing of pigs when sows were comfort- able, he said, but the pigs gained weight faster, : "le . JP Ee--" Kentucky tests showed that summer breeding for fall lambs was more successful if rams were kept in air-conditioned rooms. A North Carolina artificial in- semination. association found the vitality of bulls' semen was higher when animals were kept in cooled barns. * * LJ Greenhouses offer another ex- ample. They have been operating for centuries with a normal out- pu} of 40 to 50 tons of fruit an acre. © Scientists calculate that average yields of 160 tons to the acre can_ be expected through proper air-conditioning. ----Air-=--conditioned greenhouses are essential, too, as laboratories for further investigation of plant behaviour in relation to environ- ment. By such means the effects of climate on 'all crops can be measured. This could bring about breeding of many plants, to adjust to growing con- ditions, and the development of methods of modifying field con- ditions to increase production. . L . Experiments with livestock kept at varying temperatures in -air-conditioned barns seem to indicate that investment in "com- fort cooling" equipment might pay dividends to farmers. LJ Ld * In the Unjted States an appara- tus which automatically heats, cools, dehumidifies and ventilates is in farm use on an experimental basis. Called a "heat pump" it operates on the same principle en washtub and for as a refrigerator, using refriger- ant for both heating and cooling air. . . . Harvesting over, Canadian farmers now are turning to the painter - carpenter - plasterer - plumber-interlor decora¥r roles that thelr ingenlousness fits them for -- and necessity often re- quires them to fill, The farm home frequently is planned and built by the farmer himself, Even the lumber used "in its construction may well originate: on the land he farms. New farm buildings are constant- ly required for new operations and old buildings need remodel- ling to incorporate labor-saving devices and to take advantage of new farming techniques. Whether the job on hand in- volves the building of a new farm home, or the laying of a concrete floor in the stable, poly- thene sheeting can be a time- saving and valuable helpmate. In the variable Canadian climate; moisture seeps through the walls, ceilings and floors of buildings. Polythene sheets set between in- sulation and plasterboard or gyp- rock, or placed over wall_sheath- ing prevents the transmission of this moisture. When applying the film to walls, it can be stapled vertically to two-by-four studding on 16- inch centres with a full lap on alternate studs. It can also be applied horizontally to the stud- ding or directly over interior sheathing under the lath or plaster board. On ceilings it should be applied to the warm side of the joists by stapling the film lengthwise to the joists, overlapping the full width of the joists. : . * LJ Used in floors, polythene film reduces the passage of moisture vapor, dust and air currents. This can be particularly important in the floor of a hay mow located above a dairy barn. The layer of plastic film will prevent dust and seeds from falling through the floor and interfering with the production of clean, healthful milk. p "FLY" FISHERMAN New lures, baits and tackle are in constant demand by keen anglers in their attempt to land a big 'un, but Walter G. Austin, of Maysville, has devised a novel means of pursuing his finny op- ponents. to their out-of-the-way and diflicult-to-get-at hiding places. - He does his angling in a wood- buoyancy the tub is encircled by a huge inner tube. Having made him- self comfortable in this unortho- dox craft, Austin allows it to float along the stream gently propelled by the current. + ~ SOME PARTY = ~~ "I hear you went to Bill's party last night. Have 'a good time?" "A smashing time." "Stay long?" "Well, we left when the cork- screw got too hot to use!" BY REV. R BARCLAY ° WARREN, "B.A. B.D: The Prodigal Son Luke 15: 11-24 Memory Selection: He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according te our Iniquities. For as the hea- ven Is high above the earth, se great Is his mercy toward them that fear him. Psalm 103: 10-11, The, story of the Prodigal Son has been called the heart of the Gospel. That is because ft teaches that God forgives sin- ners. How thrilled the publicans and sinners must have been when they learned how the boy who had wasted his substance on riotous living was joyfully welcomed by his father. Thera was hope for them too. World Conquest tells of a col-= porteur selling a New Testament to a French woman named Jeanne. Her husband, Jacques, reproved her for spending hee money in that fashion and de- manded the: book. "But," she said, "the money is not all yours, I brought my dowry when we married." * "Alright," said Jacques. "The money was half yours and half mine, The book is the same." He tore it in two and gave her half. Some days later as he sat by his charcoal fires in 'the for- est, he felt lonely. He thought of the book. Taking it out of his blouse he read from the be- ginning. It began, "And will say unto him, Father, I- have sinned against heaven and be- fore thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son." He read to the enc of the story. Then he wondered: what had the poor lost son done? Where had he been? The questions haunted him. "I wish I had the beginning of the story," he sighed. Meanwhile Jeanne had read the first portion of the New Testament and came to the point where the son said "I will rise and go to my father." She wondered what happened. the father welcome him? That night he asked Jeanne for her halt of the torn book. Together they read the whole of the beautiful parable and the Spirit of God, who had been working in both their hearts, caused fits 'meaning to dawn on them, Both yielded their hearts and lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. -w "The word of God. is quick," and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged piercing even to the dividing asunder of sdul-and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrew 4: 12: We should study God's Word each day. fiend PIRITUA L yi RENGTH oc FOR Published by Thomas $2 at your bookstore or send $2 for The Ideal Gift SPIRITUAL STRENGTH FOR TODAY by R. Barclay Warren Columnist to 85 newspapers Nelson & Sons postpald autographed copy to R. B. WARREN 105 Eglinton Ave, E, TORONTO, 12, Ont. DROUGHT IS ALL IT'S CRA LS BPS. Sop bat Tn. 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