The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 186, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 12, 1937 Page: 2 of 4
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ing the win-
the United
odified 4n the North Pacific
n the Atlantic. The trade
are generally weaker and
rsistent in the Pacific, and
•evening belt of equatorial
piobile heating units,
1 'the airports. These
dn’t try in your own parlor. They must need money mighty
you tell your neighbor.
eddy always was a runt. That's why he was a wing walker. You
sd as little weight as possible moving around out there on the fabric-
Almost all the modem improve-
ments in heating equipment which
make life not only- possible but com-
fortable in the temperate tone, stem
from experiments conducted not by
isolated research experts, but by
scientists working in the labora-
tories of one of the country's largest
electrical companies that present
day Americans are indebted for
improvements that have come from
the amazing discovery that there
are essentially two kinds of heat:
radiant and converted. \
A PROMINENT lawyer was
going down hill physically.
He was seventy years of age
but had always been able to
look after his legal work despite
attacks of indigestion and an
irritation which caused painful
and frequent emptying of the
urine.
The indigestion gave him loss of
appetite, sour
Converted heat—the kind given off
by open fires and hot air furnaces
—produces warmth by heating the
air. On the other hand, it was found
that radiant heat consists of rays
which warm the body without nec-
essarily having much effect on the
surrounding air.
As the result of this research, and
investigations by scientists connect-
ed with other industrial concerns,
engineers have found the answer to
widely-varying problems in heating
brought about by changed condi-
tions of modern living. They have
conquered the difficulties of install-
ing 65 miles of steam conduits be-
neath the swarming arteries of traf-
fic in New York to pipe warmth
from central heating plants to 2,000
office and residence buildings. On
the opposite end of the scale is
the successful installation of a sep-
arate heating system in 'a bird
house.
Provision if
change of air
evfcry four minu
mosphere does
for it
the k«
ment,
no loi
Then
with
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start
looke
settli
Removal of
Gall Bladder
According to statistics compiled
by the authoritative Heating and
Ventilating magazine, the volume of
business in the automatic heating
industry has jumped more than 250.
per cent in the past five years. In
1932, it is estimated that the sale of
automatic heating equipment
amounted to only $41,711,000. By
1936 this figure had increased to
$108,990,000.
Mean while,, fire losses in the Unit-
ed States in 1936 totaled >263,259,746,
according to estimates of the Na-
tional Board of Fire Underwriters,
showing a decrease of 34- per cent
from the 1932 figure of $400,859,000.
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—into
Unles
Dr. C. G. Abbot, head of the
Smithsonian Institution, has recent-
ly developed a solar heater that is
the most efficient yet produced. Uti-
lizing the hot rays of the sun, re-
flected by a bright metal sheet, he
has succeeded in heating a black
liquid called arodor to a tempera-
ture at which it can be used for
turning water into steam. Experts
declare that solar rays available for
heat are at least 1,000 times as
powerful as all the coal. Oil and
hydro-electric power now used. Al-
though the conversion of sun rays
into heat is still too costly to cotn-
pete with the cheaper and better
known fuels, scientists say the day
may come when these are all ex-
hausted, and when we will turn to
the sun for heat and power, and
the business of keeping warm will
literally be done with mirrors.
With Old Man Winter Wetting His Chilly Whistle, Americans Get
Ready to Spend $2,000,000,000 Keeping Warm.
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about
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Inspi
the r,
apart
.The Pacific ocean is leas subject
to storms than the Atlantic. This
is due to various reasons, partly on
which super-heated steam is
pumped into the cars, effectively
thawing out the ore so that it can
be handled quickly and efficiently
and shipped to the steel mills as
the "food" to keep industry hum-
Maria
right.'
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DR. MMES W. BARTON
• Bvtt Syndic*!*.—WNU ScrrtM.
cases
“Getting hot”—1937 style—in-
volves not only coal miners and
wood choppers, but scientists delv-
ing into the mysteries of new kinds
of heat, architects poring over blue-
prints for automatically/ heated
homes, and engineers supervising
the operation of huge machines that
work with machine-gun rapidity,
stamping out the parts for boilers,
burners and electric stoves.
In the first place, there is the
matter of supplying enough fuel to
heat the 12,000,000 homes and 2,-
000,000 commercial structures that
require artificial heat when the
mercury slides down towards the
freezing point.
had d
spirat
and w
the hJ
both s
had failed to figure what effect the air resistance of his body
have upon the tubing. Hanging below the
dies an hour, the drag of the air on Teddy ai
ounds to the weight of that big rubber band.
hat tube started stretching and stretching,” says Teddy, “and it
The steam-heated bird house,
probably the only one in existence,
is the property of a California wom-
an. In training canaries , to sing,
she found it most effective to keep
them shut up in large outdoor
houses, completely insulated against
outside noises so that the birds would
hear nothing but the sound of phono-
graph records being played. This
brought on the problem of air-condi-
tioning the bird house, and a com-
plete ventilating and steam heating
system was installed, with steam
heat pipes enclosed in the walls.
Managers of the nation’s trans-
continental airwaA. faced with the
difficulties of passenger comfort on
winter flights, took their problem to
heating engineers, who have devel-
oped a unique system for warming
the huge passenger planes that now
roar across the sky trails.
As the result of scientific research
and experiments, cross-country
planes this winter will be warmed
by “flying steam heat,” designed to
maintain a temperature in the cab-
ins of at least 70 degrees even dur-
ing. the coldest weather. The flying
heaters, which weigh only 140
pounds, produce enough steam to
heat a five-room house on the
ground. Using only eight quarts of
waters the miniature boilers are
heated by exhaust gases from the
engines, and the temperature is reg-
ulated either by thermostats, or by
controls in the pilot’s compartment,
lade for a complete
I the transport planes
so that the at-
beconre “stuf-
tovta,
meet
When the fly came down to earth, Teddy introduced himself, invited
him to supper. Maybe they hoisted a couple. Anyway, the fly warmed
up enough to tell Teddy how it worked.
Before he went to bed that night, the wing walker bought himself
a couple of brand new inner tubes. The next day, out at the flying field,
he rigged them as he had been instructed. High up on a wall he fastened
an end of one. Then, climbing on a chair, he took the ether end in
his teeth and kicked the chair away.
The dam thing stretched so far his feet touched the floor. He moved
the tube a couple feet higher and everything was fine.
Day after day Teddy religiously practiced hanging from that tube to
strengthen the muscles of his jaws and nock. It was a heavy strain to
put on the front upper teeth that were bridgework, but they held. And
six weeks later Teddy was prepared to strut his stuff.
Before we go any further I had better tell you Teddy is Theodore
Davidson of Galesburg, Ill. They still call him “Dare Devil" Davidson.
He was all of that on a sunny afternoon, in September, 1919, in Mo-
line, HL, where the flying circus was putting on its show, making those
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■ Nevertheless, there are still
enough defective chimneys and flues
left in the country so that it is
estimated that about $10,000,000
worth of property will go up in
smoke this coming winter, and a
similar amount will be lost because
of imperfect stoves, furnaces and
boilers. .
As scientists attack this problem,
as well as others, there is a hint
that the future might see great
changes not only in the type of heat-
ers used, but in the kind of fuel, for
recent experiments point to a time
when we may get all or most of our
heat from the sun.
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out
woi
All, during the summer and fall,
more than 600,000 men have been
working with pick and shovel in
mines throughout the country, piling
up mountains of coal for protection
against the arctic blasts to come.
Coal dealers estimate that be-
tween 50 and 60 per cent of the coal
bought for heating
eled into furnaces
ter months, brinj
States* coal bill for this season of
the year alone to about $400,000,000.
In the oil and gas fields of Okla-
homa, Texas, California and Penn-
sylvania, an army of 100,000 labor-
ers is kept busy extracting gas and
fuel oil to aid in the business of
keeping warm. So rapidly has the
heating of houses and buildings With
fuel oil and gas increased in the
past few years, that it is estimated
35,000,000 barrels of fuel oil will be
needed this winter to keep modem
furnaces roaring, and the bill will
reach the staggering total of more
than $150,000,000.
Shivering house owners will dig
down into .their pockets for another
$350,000,000 for gas, and additional
thousands of dollars for electricity
to run the most modern of all heat-
ing equipment.
Such tremendous expenditures for
fuel were unheard of a generation
or two ago, and in fact the mod-
em trend towards automatic heat-
ing which is now sweeping the coun-
try, and piling up huge fuel and
equipment bills, did not begin in
earnest until after the World war.
een Mm and the landing gear.
had never stretched to more than three!
relax as the plane circled fifteen hundred feet above
His aching arms were folded, resting for that long
le wasn't sure ho could do it. But he was not permit-
► idea for long. There was a wrench, a crunch, a shoot
k that was Teddy’s front uppers had crushed!
e mouthpiece, however, were tucked away back where
by molars on both sides. Still gripping it, Teddy be-
Dieting Daughters.
of the unfortunate things
prescribing reducing diets,
particularly for women, is that so
many young women of normal
weight, or even below normal
weight, believe that they will have
a better appearance, will look
“slim,’’ if they follow the general
rule of reducing weight, which, after
all, is “just to eat less food."
Intelligent young women, college
and business girls, who would not
think of using a drug such as thy-
roid extract to reduce weight, will
deliberately "starve” themselves to
get the slim boyish figure.
“Of all the conditions found on
examination of large groups of
young women, underweight is about
the most universal and likewise the
most likely to prove dangerous.” I
am quoting Jane Foster, R. N., in
Hygeia. Miss Foster is assistant
director of health, Sarah Lawrence
college.
“There is then the problem of the
girl of eighteen or nineteen con-
sciously controlling her own weight
at a standard below that for good
health. Now the greatest cause for
death in this age group is tuber-
culosis. the predisposing factor of
which is malnutrition—underweight.
“The greatest cause of illness in
college health records is found to
be infections of the nose, throat and
chest and these, too, go with pro-
nounced underweight. Other com-
panions of underweight may be ir-
ritable dispositions and a loss of
the natural mental ability or alert-
ness. Those who work with this
sge group are frequently impressed
with the large number who com-
plain of fatigue and general dissatis-
faction with'life."
Of course the cause Of this fa-
tigue, irritability, dissatisfaction
with life, is that these young wom-
en, who should be eating more food
at this age than at any other age in
their lifetime, are actually eating
less than the body needs just to
keep it working, aside tram the
extra food needed for growth in
height and width. And the foods
that should be eaten for growth and
strength—meat, eggs and milk—are
not included to any extent in the
diet of these slim-mad girls.
What these girls of normal weight
forget is that underweight means
undernourishment, and undernour-
ishment means that a reduction of
the “energy reserves” of the body
occurs when not enough food is
eaten and the body is below normal
weight
The energy reserves of the body—
the reserves needed to promote
health and growth, and prevent or
lessen the effects of illnesses—can
only be maintained by a generous
>11 round diet at this important age
in a woman's life.
Thawing Out Iron Ore.
Before the take-off of each flight,
and before the exhaust from the en-
gines has had a piance to start the
steam heater in operation, the inte-
riors of the huge planes are warmed
by special **-
maintained ~ MH .
units, mounted on small trucks,
pump warmed air into the cabins,
thus bringing the temperature to
the desired level before passengers
enter the ship.
Not only is human comfort in the
wintertime dependent on scientific
developments, but the business life
of the nation as well, for industrial
schedules must be maintained de-
spite weather conditions. Here
again, research experts in one in-
dustry came to the rescue of an-
other when engineers of the B. F.
Goodrich company solved a stub-
born problem at the root of all in-
dustry by making it possible to ship
iron ore in zero weather from the
Great Lakes district.
On the shores of Lake Superior,
where snow and ice close in while
the big ore boats are still running,
carloads of wet iron ore freeze into
solid chunks before they can be un-
loaded. To meet this emergency,
the engineers devised a hose of spe-
cially compounded rubber through
ming.
While the ravenous demands of
the steel mills are being satisfied,
heating engineers have also had the
problem of keeping food for the din-
ner tables moving to the markets in
winter.
Tropical fruits, for instance, are
brought into this country green, and
then ripened in specially construct-
ed heating rooms. Bananas are put
in rooms to ripen, with the temper-
ature carefully regulated between 56
and 70 degrees. By controlling the
temperature of the ripening rooms,
marketers can delay or hasten the
ripening process and,so adjust the
supply of bananas to reach consum-
ers in a steady stream. Grapefruit
is ripened in specially-heated rooms
at a temperature of 75 degrees and
“air-conditioned lemons'* are kept
at a temperature of from 54 to 59
degrees until they are ready to be
sold to the public.
Despite the emphasis on heat for
food, industries and homes, the busi-
ness of keeping warm has as one of
the most troublesome problems the
difficulty of keeping a nation com-
fortable during the winter, while re-
ducing fire hazards to the lowest
possible point. The extent to which
this is being accomplished can be
easily seen from the fact that while
the volume of business increased
34 per cent in the automatic heat-
ing industry from 1935 to 1936, fire
losses increased only 11.9 per cent.
Keeping warm in winter has its problems for the poor fellow in the cartoon, who, like 12,906 other Amer-
icans, wears red flannels in the winter. The airlines have their warmth problem licked, for the same mo-
bile unit (left) which pomps cold air into the planes in summer fills them with warm air in winter; after
they take off, a steam heating unit goes into operation. Some scientists predict that one day most of
our heat will come from the sun via the solar machine, such as Dr. C. G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, Is demonstrating (right).
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY
SHORTS may come and un-
dershirts may go, but with
the first twinge of frosty weath-
er there are still 12,000 men in
the United States who are walk-
ing up to store counters and de-
manding red flannel underwear,
adding one hundred thousand
dollars to the $2,000,000,000 fund
which this country spends every
year in the business of keeping
warm.
Gone, however, are the days when
digging ear-muffs out of a trunk
in the attic and chopping enough
stove wood to fill the back yard con-
stituted the average man's prepa-
rations for the winter months. Then
he was not. troubled with the knowl-
edge that has now coma to light
through medical research that the
temperature of the human body can
not drop more than five degrees
without causing death in most
taste in the mouth,
• bloated feeling,,
gas on the stomach,
and in the intestine,,
fullness after eating,
and either constipa-
tion or diarrhoea.
He didn't want to
go to a doctor as he,-
was afraid that an
operation, perhaps
two op erations,
might be necessary,
and at seventy years
of age he was “tak-
ing no chances.”
The symptoms however—terrific at-
tacks of indigestion, and the fre-
quent desire to pass urine—made
him decide that life wasn’t worth
the living with this pain and dis-
tress so he consulted his physician.
Some months later friends meet-
ing him on the street stopped him
and congratulated him on his splen-
did appearance—good color, brisk
walk, calm, serene face.
Don’t Put Off Operation.
To the inquiry as to the cause of
the change in his appesrance, he
quite casually remarked, “Oh, they
found some gall stones and removed
my gall bladder, and then a little
later I had them remove the gland
at the neck of the bladder, so with
these two annoyances removed I’m
feeling young again.”
The point here is that while op-
eration can never be treated .lightly
and operation on one past seventy
wpuld seem somewhat of a serious
risk, nevertheless when gall stones
are present it is not the age of the
patient that matters from the stand-
point of a good recovery after op-
eration, but the lehgth of time the
patient has allowed the symptoms
to be present before undergoing the
operation. '
So if your doctor advises removal
of the gall bladder, don’t put it off
too long. If it should come out, the
sooner the better.
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