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i ed » ~ ERY SMT $8 + ch REITER 3 ' * i Cre . "a PAA grep ATS Let EB] 8 Tg El : F I ' sat ' » + ' . 3 « ' [pa Ay ONT - & a a RE SY eS! Luba t aS Adi, 5 Tish Bex' of WE Ls Td po rE 5 * a aS East = Fifty-Mile Trip Without Stopping! Boston was a happier place"in those days. You drove the car up to the Parker House, left it at the curb, had a leisurely meal, and then drove it off again from the front entrance. No fuss, ticulty -- it was 1902. "I frequently run into Boston just for lunch," reported Robin Damon, "for as the distance is but 16 miles and the roads level 1 usually cover the trip in an hour; just time enough to add tone to the appetite." Mr. Damon tells about it in the "Experience & Comments" col- umn, page 208, of the Jan, 22, issue of The Horseless Carriage. "After arriving at whatever hotel is selected there is no trouble to care for the machine, [ simply leave it in the street and when ready to go home just turn the crank and fly away. No one ever expects to drive a horse 16 miles in an hour and then go home within an hour or two. Besides, a horse is a bother, because it must be put in a stable and fed. In emergencies I have been able to get away in less than one minute, and be two 'miles away in ten minutes. It is the quickness of operation that recommends the horseless vehi- cle.", If Mr. Damon could get two miles out of Boston in 10 min- utes he did better than we can, Of course as he pop-popped into sight he had a clear path -- all the horses tried to climb lamp- posts. . You can't blame Mr. Damon for being a bit smug. "I have fre- quently started on 50 mile trips," he reports, "and made the dis- tance without once stopping the carriage." "In those -days-you bought a - horseless carriage and it was de- livered by freight train. Then a man from the factory came "in about three days" to tell you hew to run it. But often, as in Mr. Dambp's experience, he didn't come. Then you hired a local machinist, read the meager in- structions,- and launched the palpitating craft yourself, Mr. Damon and his local mechanic "worked for three - hours before we could get a single snort from the engine. One difficulty was that it took about 37 horsepower to turn the en- gine over the compression, for there was nothing said about the release cock. It:was a hot day, too." But victory at the end! "At last with a pound, and a tremen- BERLIN BISHOP -- Pope John XXII has appointed 'Most Rev. Alfred Bengsch to be Bishop of Berlin. Rev. Bengsch, who lives in East Berlin, will be cut off "from visits to West Berlin, He | "succeeds Julius Cardinal Doepf-- ner, who becomes Catholic Archbishop -of Munich, no paring bother, The only dif- i v dous rush of black smoke, the motor commenced to mote." Who doesn't feel a thrill at this crisis? Mr, Damon's - first trip round was entirely in low gear, two hours without stop- ping, '"when'the machine sud- denly collapsed" at this tough treatment. "The chain had stretched ahd jumped a tooth" and the "low speed driving shaft was red hot." What to do? -- "the machinist fixed the chain and we poured water on the shaft." Mr, Damon was no fool, writes Richard: L. Strout in the Chris- tion Science Monitor. Nobody could say the machine wasn't sturdy, he observed, because it still ran after all this abuse. The next trip round he had learned about his "high speed clutch." Then "there was perfect bliss." Mr. Damon had no trouble after that for two weeks except that the muffler exploded. Also the engine began pounding as though hit with a sledge hammer and it occurred to him after a while that the 'cooling tank was empty." Wonderful cars were the motors of old! -- they contended with incredible roads and with drivers ignorant as Indians. All tredit to the pioneers also who would spend two hours in the hot sun cranking the mysterious contraptions without knowing Mr. Damon summed it all up: About everything had happen- ed to him, he said simply, that could happen-to a beginner, "and ' I now know almost everything came from inexperience in operating." A gay recklessness ruled. Driv- ing with a second beginner, Mr. Damon reported, "the latter suddenly shouted, 'how do you stop the thing?' Before I could ----tell-him we-bumped into the rear of the other automobile. "I told him always to select a wagon to stop against, for it had more spring than a tree or post." 4. Expensive Way Of Catching Mice You know the fellow who talked about better mousetraps and a beaten path to your door? "Well, he was wrong. Who says so? Paul Zinkann of Akron, Ohio, says so. What's more, he has 4,000 better mousetraps and $60,000 worth of red ink to prove it. 3 As_president and 'sole owner of the Pioneer Tool & Die' Co, Zinkann was first ensnared four years ago when he signed a con- tract with a Cleveland firm call- | ed the Self Sett Mouse Trap Co. to manufacture a Rube Gold- berg-style device which leads mice through a complicated one= way maze, up a tiny ladder, eventually dropping them : into a water tank to 'drown, Under the arrangement, each would put up half the cost of making the 1%-foot-long baited steel traps. : As it turned "out, the traps "worked fine; but at $29.95 each, | there were few takers, Three years and- $60,000 later, Self Sett went - bankrupt, and Zin- kann took over. By knocking the price down to $15, he man- aged to unload 1,000 traps and 'still hopes to regain some of his | investment. As proof of his faith in the gadget, Zinkann still keeps two on duty arould.'his plant, One has caught 108 mice in eight hours. Zinkann_ looks | back on the whole affair calmly. "You might say," he said last month, -- "that 'I simply got mousetrapped." "Why do employers always _dictate letters?" asks a corre- spondent. . Well, one reason is that they can use a lot of words they. don't know: how to spell. -about-the "release-cock:"===--| CROSSWORD 3 peaan Jaley 27. Verse of three . Balt of titan © 50 et : - acld 3! Lisindee ~ . atus- 10. Spray 33. First fidale 4 11. Unit of light 40. Portion 3 Ry iensiiy i. Soothe - 14. Hydraulio 44. District in ACROSS ~~ DOWN pumps ~~ London 1. Matron 1, Half (prefix) 18. Tapestry 46. Degrading § Crisp cookie 3 Solar dlsk 21. Sleeveless 47. Gaelic Spigot Fath p wra 48, Require 12. Short jacket 8 Fashion 22, Pere 49. Floor Hy Booed 4 Wheedlo - 3 Bard } covering 15. Thaw i Soot cake 6. En 8 ame, . e Catn on . Peer Gynt's py Zoi one ! 'Sh Beverage 26. Healthful mother Bg 1. American ! redman [{19. Mohammedan wr priest -- or -- 0. Salad plant 3. cut off 5 Flower 8. 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NOTE: The following article is taken from the wide- ly-circulated British weekly "Tit-Bits". We reproduce -it here- for what it is worth. * * * Modern chemistry has pro- duced many poisons of incredi- ble power which help the farm- er in his battle against insects. Some of them are "selective" - -and- will kill -one class -of-crea- - ture but not another. But some are deadly poison to man. New insecticides are invented every year and are put on the market after short-term tests. But only now are we discover- ing the dreadful long-term ef- fects they may have on the peo- ple who constantly handle them. Years later they may develop skin cancer or suffer from ob- scure- nervous disorders. Users of one class of insecticide intro- duced fifteen years ago are now going temporarily mad. A few have died. The, "organophosphorus" -in- secticides, or organic phosphates, used to spray fruit trees and greenhouse plants, are the dead- ly agents, They are applied to the leaves and branches before the frult appears. They destroy Insects by -put- "ting "their nerves--out-of--action. - They are not swallowed, but absorbed through the softer parts of the insects' skin and through their breathing-holes. They also readily penetrate the human skin. A minute quantity may be | enough to kill an insect. The same amount has no noticeable effect on man, but repeated doses mount up and may reach dangerous levels after some ~months- of constant handling or splashing, A year or more may pass-be- fore a man is known to be poi- soned by his own insecticide. ST. Jo eB i A One worker began handling these poisons in 1956, without wearing protective clothing or gloves, as advised by the manu- facturers. After one year he complained of nausea and pains in the chest, but this was attributed to indi- gestion, in 1959 he suffered from cramp in the limbs and his sight was affected. "In 1960 he was .admitted to hospital -with---severe - migraine and® general mental disturbance. He suffered from insomnia, irritability and a feeling of anx- jety, and strange ideas began fo enter his head. They took the form of religious mania, and he _ thought he was urgently needed in Rome to replace the Pope." Nothing could be done for him, He was sent home and began to lose his memory. He mis- placed his feet when trying to walk and failed to focus his eyes properly when looking at any- . thing. He found himself doing peculiar things, This man gradually recover- ed, and a study of his and other cases showed how the poison works in the human body, It affects the central nervous sys- tem, causing damage that can be permanent if it is not checked in time, . The phosphorus atoms are re- sponsible. Phosphorus is essential to hu- MUSHROOM HEAD -- Danny Shaffer is hidden by the giant ten-pound mushroom he found while hunting. Although he is hidden, he is not ashamed of his find. In fact, he Is proud of the mushroom -- which measures 17 inches across and nine Inches high. TER man life. It is an important constitutent of bone and we take inorganic phosphates as nerve tonics. But the phosphorus in the in- secticides ig not available for the body's use and there is far too little of it to cause ordina 'phosphorus poisoning." A - works in a far more dangerous way. The body's private "tele- graph," that controls the beating .of. the heart and other vital motions, and that enables us to |" "give orders" to our limbs when we wish to move, is the nervous system, Here and there, but especially .in the spinal cord, there are au- tomatic switchboards. The phosphorus insecticides jam these, so that some messages fail to get through. Experiments with animals have proved this by producing paralysis in the legs of dogs and hens, and shows how dangerous these insecticides can be on farms where livestock is kept. These poisons work in the same way as the deadly "nerve gases" developed--but fortunately nev- 'er used--for chemical warfare, Ld . N The most powerful poison known--cause of food-poisoning cases known as "botulism" -- works in a similar way. It is produced by a bacterium in air- sealed canned vegetables that have not been properly steril- ISSUE 38 -- 1961 ized. Cases of botulism to-day are extremely rare, Many of these drugs cause hallucinations, and are used for this purpose by witch-doctors. The new insecticides, in which phosphorus atoms do the dan- gerous work, have similar men- tal effects. LJ * * The patients fall into two main classes--depressives and schizo- phrenics. Schizophrenia is com- monly known as "split person- ality" and sufferers aig liable to behave like two differegg people. A man of thirty was @pisoned by an insecticide spray and - shortly afterwards became- con- vinced that some of his col- leagues intended to shoot him. When alone he heard "voices" discussing it. He switched on the radio and imagined he heard the announ- cer talking about it! His behaviour became s0 strange that people in the street stared at him, and this convinced him that he was a marked man. He became terrified and was eventually admitted to a mental hospital. . " Paranoid schizophrenia was diagnosed, and after a course of treatment he was discharged as apparently well. His recovery was due to the slow elimination . of the poison from his body. Altogether about sixtgen cases of insecticide polsoning have been intensively studied. In seven of them the first diagnosis was made by psychiatrists. There insect sprays, eight workers in greenhouses and five farm workers. A third of them showed tend- _ency to. split personality and the others suffered from severe de- pression or were liable to lose consciousness at odd times. In nearly all cases the memory was impaired and some had dif- ficulty in speaking clearly. The final solution liés with the chemists. They are busy devising super-insecticides that --like D.D.T.--distinguish be- tween insects and man. There is no doubt that this is possible. A nerve poison has been found already that distinguishes--not | very usefully, perhaps--between dogs and toads. It kills cattle but is one hundred times less poisonous to rats and 10,000 times less effective for toads. Unfortunately it is dangerous to man, but any day may bring the news of a safe insecticide that is really harmless to men and animals. Lis By Rev. R. B. Warren, BA, B.D. Gaius, a Christian Laymang Third John Memory Selection: I have no greater joy than fo hear that my children walk in truth, Third John, verse 4. In today's lesson we have the portrait of three men, Gaius, -- Diotrephes and - Demetrius. Let - us consider them In the reverse order. Demetrius had a good report of all men and of the truth. of all men. He represented the Christian faith well. Some pro- fessed Christians strive to please their associates but do not com- mend themselves to those out- side the faith. Some are Phara- siacal and adopt a "holier than thou" attitude. Some, while ap- pearing kind to their own, appear surly to others and evidence covetous traits. How are sinners likely to want to know Jesus Christ it His professed followers "do not show forth His Spirit, tion of church boss. It is a sad state when one man rules the church, Much power tends to corrupt. He even talked against John and he decided who of the brethren would be admitted to the church. The editor of a church paper once wrote an edi- torial on Diotrephes, the church boss. Thirty men wrote in can- celling their subscription for what thes rmed. "the personal attack on"me". What makes fer- tile soil for the development of a church boss, is the utter indif- ference of so many members, when it comes to caring for the business of the church. Indiffer- ence of voters in a democracy paves the way for a dictator ship.' Gaius was well-beloved. He was given to hospitality. In the early days in this country, the travelling missionary on com- ing to a community to hold meetings would be entertained for a week or two in one home and then he would go-to anothel, Today he would be sent to the hotel. The prophet's room (see 2 Kings 4) isn't in many homes. Twenty-six years ago today, (August 31), I married a girl from a home that was noted for Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking dF APWA IF . SEAL vi Ww Z{w{wiql v 1 1 SiC Ed v iv] M 5 H FT 3 F] FY] [ F] 2 Fl 1 ¥ afoul MASE ERE <0 He did things honest in the sight, Diotrephes assumed the posi- its hospitality. Ministers and thelr families, as well as others, knew they would recelve & hearty welcome at any time, Three of the daughters married ministers. John wished Gaius prosperity and health, even as his soul pros. pered. There is more connéctlos here than many realize. What would be the state of your health {it it depended entirely on youf spiritual condition? Dating Mankind $till Further Back The most exciting news of the Tenth Pacific Science Congress in Honolulu last month came from the great Niah Cave in the British crown colony of Sara- wak. There, a biologist-adven- turer named Thomas Harrisson has uncovered the skull of a 14- year-old boy of undeniable Ho- mo Sapiens origin. Radiocarbon dating showed the skull to be more than 40,000 years old, mak- ing it the oldest representative of modern man ever discovered and an important bit of evidence that Homo Sapiens got around a great deal at quite an early date. ("We already knew," says Eggan, "that Homo Sapiens en- tered Europe from the East some 35,000 years ago. This new find makes him Pan Eurasian.) Harrisson, a ruddy, rotund, exuberant, unorthodox, Harrow- Cambridge man ("It might have been worse," he said, "Eton-Ox- ford"), parachuted into Borneo during World War II and organ- ized a 5,000-man force to harass the Japanese. After the war, he says, he spent a year trying to get the rifles back from his troops. For the past seven years he and his associates at the Sara- wak Museum in Kuching have been excavating at Niah, a laby- rinthine network of caves that have sheltered ancient men since the pre-stone age some 100,000 years ago. - "There are about 27 acres of caves," Harrisson said. "Incre- dible place. They lived there, died there, buried the dead there. This skull is no fossil -- it is the actual bone preserved in the layers of dirt and human excrement from the settlement. It was so-friable- we -were- afraid to touch it for a week, then we lifted it with a scalpel. "I' didn't know for certain what it was, Neanderthal or what. Then I showed the photo- graphs to Prof. G. H. R. Van Koenigswald, the Java man. He told me what it was. That's why you come to these meetings, you see." ' THIRD HAND FOR LADIES To help women who have _ trouble juggling mirror, make- up kit, and applicator when put- ting on mascara, a New York outfit is marketing its Eye-See. It's a magnifying mirror held in place by eyeglass frames and a strut {rom the bridge of the nose. It thus leaves both hands free to manipulate the make-up. "were "three scientific -otfieer® | -- » studying A operated lift. DUMPED TRUCK -- looking as though It were about to blast off for a space orbit, this truck is emptied of its load of wood chips at a pulp mill. The truek, Is tilted by means of a hydraulic- I LAST MONTH = acks airliner fo Havano; it Lopplles IN HISTORY "Newfoundland aclares emergency at height ¢ ~ of raging forest fires. l) Frenchman [.. ssengers and plane a To eased, } Father-son team fall | oe \ Ae n attempt to hijack airliner |= to Havana, are captured in 1 Paso, [ ris rs 7 BI School integration gins peacefully in Atlanta, into Eu Common Roy EREnE TET mmr SIN 6ritoin | 34 vacationing] odmission | ritish schoolboys killed |. fopegn | in plana crash in Norway, | ob [i aid En Te eds : crossings to halt flow of |i A refugees ond begin erecting | brick and barbed wire | barricade; tension grows os Allies protest. | shut down city's border l a 7 vy ofman J. 1 Sip ia Eost G t will resume nuclear testing. | frei er fred Lor Russia announces tov-orbits earth in = ollite; lands after 17 trips, 435,000 miles. sat » CRASS 5 Maj. Gherman ------ : eventually rescued. 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