The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 270, Ed. 1 Friday, January 21, 1938 Page: 2 of 4
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ADVENTURERS CLUB
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
Dr. Barton
Pelar Eskimos Fnrndly
Polar Eskimos are a friendly,
All we need, then, la greater
transmission distance, cheaper
John Dunker9 Jump”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
transmission and receiving equip*
ment. Whether these developments
are Just around the corner or a few
miles ahead, we can’t say for cer-
tain. But this much is true—no one
is scoffing at the scientific infant.
Some day it will grew up and sock
us right in the eyes! . *
plus 15, or 100 minus 15 as within
normal limits.
center, officials say the area is ba-
ting the location of artillery fire..
Another British accomplishment
is the televising of color. Early in
December John C. Baird, one of
England’s pioneers in the field, an-
nounced he had transmitted a cob
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The essential oil of many flowers
and plants has a germicidal effect
on several kinds of disease-produc-
ing organisms. Air impregnated
with oil of lavender, says Collier’s
Weekly, will kill the bacilli of tu-
berculosis in 12 hours and oil of
cinnamon will destroy typhoid
germs in 45 minutes.
Ship Route Is “Inside Passage’’
For about a thousand miles along
the coast of British Columbia and
Alaska there is a remarkable steam-
er route known as the “Inside Pas-
sage’* or “safe way.** A great sys-
tem of islands, the exposed summits
of the insular mountain range par-
alleling the coast, gives shelter from
the main ocean.
television include the Columbia
Broadcasting system with a $2,500,-
000 experimentation program under
Gilbert Seldes, former newspaper
man, and the Doh Lee-Mutual net-
work on the Pacific coast. A prom-
inent radio concern plans a trans-
mitting station in Chicago.
Great Britain at Work.
Although Germany claims a radio
television record of 300 miles, Great
Britain readily admits she leads
the world in experimentation with
this amazing new child of science.
For more than a year the British
Broadcasting company has been
televising daily programs to an
audience of some 8,000 receivers in
the London area.
Headquarters are at Alexandria
palace and although television cov-
ers but a 50-mile radius from that
Americans -are natural gadabouts,
unwilling to devote all their recrea-
tion time to one given entertain-
ment. Television's biggest audience
will come from oar present radio
listeners. The amount of time spent
at receivers will be comparable to
Treatment of
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of coaxial cable at $5,000 a mile.
Total cost would be almost $500,-
000,000.
Besides RCA and Bell Telephone,
other American experimenters with
At Radio City televised
broadcasts are guided
through the control room
(right), out over the
mammoth antenna far
above Manhattan’s
streets, and into receivers
such as that at the left,
where the image is re-
produced on a 7 by 10-inch
screen.
By JOSEPH W. LaBINE ..
In Manhattan’s Radio City a few weeks ago fashion manne-
quins paraded before a strange new camera. In a neighboring
building a distinguished audience saw these young women on a
miniature motion picture screen, meanwhile hearing their
gowns described by a commentator.
In London a movie audience witnessed a program being
enacted at Alexandria palace. 30 miles away.
In Philadelphia each day regular motion picture news reels
are “fed” to a mysterious new cable. In New York, 90 miles
distant, the news reels are viewed on a 7 by 10-inch screen.
Such is the magic of television, a powerful new com-
munication medium whose possibilities are being explored
in America by broadcasting and telephone interests, in Eng-
land by the British Broadcasting* _ 1 ..........................—........—
Your Shape and Weight.
Just as no two faces in the whole
world are exactly alike so also no
two bodies are exactly alike. ' For-
tunately, however, the different
kinds of bodies are not large in
number so that it is possible to put
them into three main types.
Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston,
in an address delivered to the Hos-
pital for Joint Diseases, New York
city, some time ago, stated that
there were three types, the text-
book (normal or average type), the
slender type, and the stocky or
thick-set type.
The slender type has a small skel-
eton or bony frame, with flexible
joints, small muscles and a highly ,
organized nervous mechanism or
make-up. This type, adjusted for
quick moving as well as quick think-
ing, should weigh as its normal fif-
teen to twenty pounds less than the
so-called normal.
The stocky or thick-set type has
a heavy skeleton or bones, joints
less flexible, muscles large with
coarser fibers. This type should
weigh from fifteen to twenty pounds
more than the normal or text-book
type.
I believe by studying these two
types described by Dr. Goldthwait
we can get a fair idea of why some
are overweight, and others under-
weight.
For instance, a small intestine
that is only ten fleet long (in the
slender type) will naturally be less
able to absorb all of the food values*
than one of forty feet—some justifi-
cation for the individual easily
growing fat, or the one remaining
thin.
Further," "the slender, quick-act-
ing individual should have a more
rapidly responsive physiological
mechanism (nerves and muscles re-
sponding to, impulse—acting more
quickly) than would be required for
the slower-moving, heavier type.
This being the case, the slender
should be expected to be able to
liberate the energy more rapidly,
and is, therefore, the hyper (more
than normal) glandular individual.
In this type the basal metabolism
(rate at which the body processes
work) would be fifteen points above
*he zero as its normal.”
The slower-moving or stocky type
should have as its normal a basal
metabolism of fifteen points below
normal. Physiologists consider 100
already adopted coaxial cable in
Great Britain; BBC’s programs are
now “piped'' from London to Bir-
mingham and the cable is being ex-
tended to Manchester, Leeds and
Newcastle.
Like the radio, television is ex-
pected eventually to be kivuluable
for military use. Secret experiments
are already being made with a
French lightweight transmitter to
be mounted in an airplana for spot
■ t
Another wiephone-teievwofi pos-
sibility lies in a home-theater serv-
ice by wire, paid for just as we pay
our monthly telephone bill tqday.
The eoaxial cable’s feasibility to
exceeded only by its expense. Un-
der radio television’s present dis-
tance handicap, it would require
2,000 transmitters to cover the Unit-
ed States, necessitating 90.000 miles
ored image of the Union Jack.
Baird’s television system to one of
two now in use across the sea, hav-
ing been started in 1926. BBC be-
gan its transmissions in '1932 and
three years later the government
provided for a research commission
to pave the way for general broad-
casts.
Movies See Possibilities.
The projection of televised en-
tertainment to a movie theater
screen to one of BBC’s greatest ac-
complishments to date. A British
motion picture concern to already
seeking permission to televise vari-
ety programs exclusively to a group
of theaters.
Television may eventually fall di-
rectly into the motion picture indus-
try’s lap, simply because no other
entertainment field has perfected a
studio technique comparable to that
required for successful staging of
"shows." Several Hollywood studios
And what was that thing John had mistaken for the tree trunk?
Well, that’s what gave him the shock of his life. When he turned to look
from the top of the bank, the first thing he noticed was that that tree
trunk had started odt of the water after him. It had its jaws wide open,
that tree trunk did, and it had a couple of beady little eyes that seemed to
be registering disappointment over the fact that it had just missed as
juicy a morsel as had ever jumped right smack at it.
Yep—you’re right. That tree trunk was a full-grown, MAN-
EATING CROCODILE!
“How did I feel then?” says John. "Well, at that moment, every
experience I’d ever had in my life faded right into insignificance.”
Copyrifht.—WNU Service.
are already said to be investigating
the possibilities. Government con-
trol in England has placed a stum-
bling block in the path of such de-
velopments. BBC has a monopoly
on television broadcasts and public
exhibition of television programs to
barred.
America’s most popular television
question today is: “When do we
get it?”
Scientists claim the United States
leads Great Britain in this develop-
ment, but that does not make com-
mercial television practical. Though
RCA has adopted a 441-line image,
Bell Telephone will soon offer 480
lines. Receivers capable of handling
one of thess images cannot accom-
modate the other. In other words,
definite transmission standards
must be established by all partici-
pants before television will become
practical. Sending and receiving
equipment must dovetail in every
respect.
America Proceeds Cautiously.
though Americans may envy the
British their commercial television,
the wise scientists guiding Amer-
ican experiments have saved us mil-
lions of dollars. Admitting the em-
bryonic status of their plaything,
these men have refused to sponsor
receiving sets that would become
obsolete almost immediately. Not
a single receiver available 1$
months ago could be used today!
America’s second most popular
television question to: “How will it
affect the newspapers, magazines,
motion pictures and other informa-
tion-entertainment media ? "
Since telavtoion requires eye at-
tention as well as ear attention, it
cannot hope—generally speaking—
to win nation-wide audiences except
in the evening recreation hours.
When people watch and listen to
news events their reactions will be
much the same as under the present
form of radio news coverage. Tele-
vision win give only the highlights,
as much as the ordinary person
would see today when watching a
big fire. And, ab in the case of the
fire, the average person will eagerly
await his newspaper for complete
details. If anything, television to
apt to stimulate an interest in news-
papers.
Magazine, motion pictures and
legitimate stage performances win
continue in popularity because
Here’s the inside of an NBC tele-
vision camera showing (center) the
Iconoscope or "eye” of television.
The camera’s work to to transform
a pattern of lights and shadows to
Hello, everybody:
Well, by golly, today we have with us a guy who has
chased old lady Adventure in some of the farthest corners of the
globe. His chase ended after he had followed her all over South
Africa, and finally ijan her to earth in Gwelo, in Matabeleland,
way up in the middle of southern Rhodesia. This guy’s name is
John Dunker, and today he lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. But along
about the turn of the century, he was fighting with the South
African Colonial cavalry in the Boer war.
John didn’t class the Boer war as an adventure, though. The yam
ha crashes into the Adventurers* club with happened after that mixup
was all over. After John’s regiment was paid,off and disbanded, he
went^Sp to Bulawayo—went broke there and, hearing of a job up in
Gwelo; » hundred and fifteen miles to the north, trekked up there on foot
The old timers in that district thought he was erasy to attempt
such a thing. They figured it must be at least a ten-million dollar
diamond mine that Induced him to take such risks. But all John
was after was a job—and all he got out of his trip was a good sock
from that old adventure lady he’d been chasing.
* John says that that adventure was the biggest single thrill of his
life, and I believe him. He says: "I had nice curly hair back in 1902, and
every kink of it stood at attention when the thing happened—or rather,
after it happened. For actually I did not know I was having an adven-
. tore until some two and a half seconds after it was all over.”
John landed his job in Gwelo, and went right to work. It was a job
that called for a lot of horseback riding—but that didn’t bother a guy who
had walked more than a hundred miles just to get the doggone job.
Also, it was a job that called for crossing the Gwelo river at frequent
intervals. And it was the river that put John in the way of adventure.
He Would Jump Across the River.
The Gwelo river was one of those streams you just couldn’t figure
out. In the rainy season it could be a rushing, raging torrent. But at
other times of the year, it was nothing but a dry bed, cut through by a
Television, Science’s Youngster,
Starts Wearing Long Trousers
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United States and Great ’Britain Battle Transmission
Obstacles, Pave Way for Successful Staging
of “See-and-Hear” Radio Shows
Needle-Shedding Conifers
The larch to the only tree in the
North, and the cypress the only tree
in the South among our native con-
ifers which drop all of their needles
Tsrtr year? Most-toniferr lose only
a fractional part of their needles
during the fall season. Brown col-
oration and falling off of the white
pine needles on last year’s twigs to
a well known ^example of this par-
tial defoliation by natural habit. The
larches produce an entirely new sup
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spring. ----------.—■■■
The "Tree Trunk” Had Its Jaws Wide Open.
little trickle of water that a man could jump over. It ran down to the
Zambesi, one of the biggest rivers in Africa, and it was usually full of
crocodiles, and queer fish, and other strange and awesome denizens of
the African waters.
---The place where Jnhn worked was on one side of the Gwelo——
and the eorral where the horses were kept was on the other. In
the rainy season, when the river was high, you had to go the long -
way, over the bridge, to get to the horses, but in the dry season,
John used to save time by going straight across. That was easy,
because the river was narrow enough so that you could make it
with a good leap. And John always made his crossing at a cer- -
tain spot where the bank was steep and there was a dead tree
trunk* lying on the other side.
He would get up speed by running down the high-sided bank, take a
broad jump across the water, and land on the tree trunk on the opposite
side. He did it again and again, and never thought that there might be
any danger in such a simple stunt. But that’s the thing about danger.
You never know where it’s liable to be lurking.
Well, sir, one day John had a job to do that took him to a mine over
at Selukwe, and he had to have his horse to make the trip. He started out
for the river, turning over in his mind the things he had to do that day,
and yas deep in thought when he reached the top of the bank.
It Felt Wrong, and It Was.
e raced down the bank, made his running jump, and landed on the
dead.tree as usual, but there was something about that tree trunk that
wasrft as it should be. It felt peculiar when John landed on it. And it
seemed to him that the doggone thing moved a bit when he lit. It was
only for a fraction of a second that the feeling went through him—a lot
shorter time than it takes to tell it—but it was enough to make him
move faster than usual, getting off that log.
.The bank in front of him was as- high and as steep as the one he had
run down on the other side. Usually, he took his time about climbing
to the top. But this time, impelled by his hunch that something was
wrong, he gave a leap that sent him half-way to the top, and^had scram-
bled the rest of the way before he stopped to look back.
What John saw from the top of tbe bank sort of amazed him,
at first. But his amazement soon gave way to another sort of
feeling altogether. The first thing he noticed was that he hadn’t
crossed the river in his usual place at all. The tree trunk he usu-
ally stepped on was lying near the bank ten or fifteen yards
downstream. In his preoccupation, he had crossed the river in
The Deer’s Leap
The National Bureau of Standards
says that if the deer started his
leap with sufficient force to com-
plete it, he would complete the leap,
alive or dead; that is, unless some
force, such as a bullet striking him,
decreased his speed, or he changed
his” position in such a way as to
strike the far side in landing. ,
company, and in Germany by the
state. Each has accomplished
something; massed together these
accomplishments are tremendous.
In the Western hemisphere great-
est television experiments have
been made by the Radio Corpora-
tion of America and its subsidiary,
the* National Broadcasting com-
pany. Each day in Radio City ex-
perimental programs are televised
to whoever might be "watching”
within the 25 to 35-mile radius that
present day television covers.
Tbe "Bugs” Are Gone.
Actually, RCA’s engineers ..have
already ironed out most of the
"hugs" in transmission and devel-
oped several great improvements in
reception. A studio technique has
been devised for handling the icon-
oscope, or televising camera. A
larger cathode ray tube has been
perfected to show a 7 by 10-inch
image. Another tube projects it to
a 3 by 4-foot screen. The sickly
than any othel human beings. They
rove the Arctic from Greenland to
-------fiJttka7 -Skm tents are—ttreir ■habi-
tation during the brief summer;
snow igloos their winter homes.
r Their food, save for a few birds’
eggs and"* berries, to exclusively
I flesh—the seal, bear, fox, whale,
walrus and reindeer being the prov-
ender. They are prodigious,eaters,
hence their plumpness and perhaps ply of bright green needles each
green color that characterized ear-
ly television receiving screens has
been eliminated and changed to
black and white.
Today RCA is experimenting with
portable transmitters which "shoot"
street scenes, flash them by ultra
short wave to the main transmitter
in Radio City and thence by re-
broadcast to the receiving sets. Ul-
timately, portable transmitters will
be the heart of successful television,
bringing all sorts of public events
to the waiting world.
RCA receivers now show an
image clear as that of the average
home movie projector, carrying 441
lines compared with last year’s 343.
Characters move without jerky mo-
tions, more smoothly in fact than
motion pictures, for the scene is tele-
vised 30 times a second compared
with 24 on the movie screen.
RCA’s chief obstacle is distance.
Radio television carries from 25 to
35 miles, depending on the trans-
mitter’s height. No commercial
sponsor will use television when it
covers such a small audience, but
RCA to confident its engineers will
eventually conquer distance. An
equally likely development is that
television will eventually be "piped”
over the country just as today’s
chain radio broadcasts are carried
to key points by wire.
Telephone and Television.
Working on that assumption Bell
Telephone company engineers are
experimenting with the "coaxial”
cable, already laid between New
York and Philadelphia at a cost of
$5,000 a mile. The resultant trans-
mission to even clearer than that
of radio television, according to Bell
engineers. "Fog’.’ and “static"
marks characterizing radio pictures
are missing in the coaxial version,
and a 480-line image to being per-
fected to exceed RCA’s 441-line re-
production.
The possibilities of television via
telephone are tremendous. It may
develop into a two-way telephone
conversation in which the speakers
actually look at each other. The
two-way stunt was tried success-
TUtty w tin raaro ifftvv tstvn in ixjn-
don, when two men seven miles
apart saw and heard each other.
HERE was a time when a
patient with ulcer of the
stomach or small intestine (pep-
tic ulcer) who finally got tired
of “the same old diet and alkali
powders” and decided to undec?
go an operation, expected to ba
thus “cured” of all ulcer symp-
toms.
Today both patients and physi-
cians know that it to not the ulcer
that has to undergb
treatment but the
patient himself. The
fact to that the par
tient to just the right
kind of an individual
to grow or develop
peptic ulcer, and un-
less he makes him-
self over (changes
his habits of tense-
ness, worry or anxi-
ety, nervousness,
__________________ rapid eating, tend-
. .ency to argue or
quarrel) he is going to continue to
develop ulcers. , ^. ...
As many of these ulcer patients
just can’t chaage their habits and
disposition, they are given the kind
of food the stomach or small intes-
tine cm handle easiest, together
with alkaline powders to overcome
the high degree of acidity in the
digestive juice in the stomach.
Hence the "medical” treatment of
peptic ulcer has been for years and
still Is "soft, bland diet and alkaline
powders."
Use of Histidine.
Now just as an overweight individ-
ual will grasp for a "quick” method
of reducing weight—a drug or gland
extract—■so are many ulcer patients
now taking injections of histidine
which in addition to relieving the
pain of ulcer also allows them to .'
eat almost anything they wish. And
reports from physicians using these
injections certainly prove that this
method to much more pleasant than
the “diet and alkali” treatment and
much to be preferred to operation. -
However, what about the results
obtained from the histidine injec-
tions? i
The reports continue to show that
while relief from pain and other
symptoms are obtained by this
method, nevertheless the ulcer often
remains and would give trouble
were the histidine injections discon-
tinued.
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