Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1928, Page 21

HKERSETS OUT TOPARIY FOOT 0. C. Eastman, Salem, Mass., Plans to Cross Bering Strait on Ice. Correspondence of the Assaciated’ Pross. SALEM, Mass.—Owen C. Eastman is out for a long. long walk—from Salem to Paris. fter a couple of practice jaunts from Salem to San Francis Eastman yearned for new worlds to conquer. So he conceived the idea of walking to Paris, in spite of the fact that about lles of salt water separates ssachusef at obstancle | It's longer " has just been concluded under the di- but the w man_has for Cape Pr Alaska Canada bound . at the tip of even an called Be wide. de of the E expects that Berir be frozen over so he can walk across. 5.000 Miles to Siberia. That walk should land him in the Union of Socialistic Soviet Republics formerly s Russia, by which time his pedometer, if it k roken. shy d show a reading of 5,000 miles e more thousands of cross the dreary European Russia East hell walk back. TR SR FUEL SAVING METHOD FOUND BY ENGINEER Cutting Down Grate Surface in Mild Weather Conserves Coal, Tests Show. Correspondence of the Associated Press. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark—A simple method by which American coal con- sumers may reduce their annual fuel bill 19 percent has been discovered by L. C. Price, research engineer of the University of Arkansas, he announces. Extensive tests reveal, he says, that the savings may be made by cutting down the grate surface of a coal burn- er in mild weather. The actual in- dicated savings run from 13 per cent in Chicago to more than 35 per cent in New Orleans In the course of his investigations the engineer found that in larger cities the average season fuel cost for homes baving 1.150 square feet of steam radia- tion were as follows: New York, $574 for oil and $418 for coal; Washington. $519 for oil and $375 for coal; New Orleans, $207 for oil and $133 for coal: Chicago, $542 for oil and $470 for coal: Atlanta, $373 for oil and $265 for coal COLOMBIA CONSIDERS MODEL FARM COLONY Project Is Suggested in Nation's Campaign to Increase Agri- cultural Interest. Correspondence of the Assoctated Press BOGOUTA, Colombia—A model farm eolony is suggested as the first accom- plishment in Colombia’s bid for more farmers, and a proposal for its founda- tion is being considered by the ministry of industries According % Dr. Cortazar Toledo, in charge of the ministry's department of information, a committee is studying conditions in various sections of the country with a view to selecting a loca- tion for the proposed colony, Which would be in the nature of a central farm with supply stores, small farm houses and good roads. Each male colonist over 16 years of age would be granted free about 60 acres of land, and provision would be made for long credits on purchases of houses and equipment INGTON. 4 LOCKJAW AFTER VACCINATION IS LAID TO USE OF SHIELDS| | Health Service Inquiry De-i velops Cause of Ailment | Among Many. iDressings to Cover Wounds‘ Found to Be Breeders of Infection. By the Associated Press Many difficulties, including the de- velopment of lockjaw, have been traced by Public Health vice research work- ers to the use of shields at the time of THE FVENING STAR. WA PROJECTOR SHOWS SLIDES IN DAYLIGHT Away With Viewed New Device Does Screens—Pictures by Peering Into Cabinet. | Correspondence of the Assoclated Pross URBANA, Ill.—A machine that will Quirke of the department of geology of the Unversity of Tilinofs. The machine is complete in ftself. No screen is needed and the teacher may operate it as he lectures, Dissatisfled with the difficulty of pro- viding visual education lectures, ' ro- quiring the erection of a screen in the classroom and_an assistant to operate the machine, Dr. Quirke hit upon the idea for his daylight projector in 1922 He has then and three of the projectors are now in use in classrooms here. or shortly after vaccination against smallpox | | Their investigation, undertaken rs ago when a number of o jaw following a vaceination were § reported in various parts of the country. DR. CHARLES ARMSTRON rection of Dr. Charles Armstrong, bac- | | teriologist of the health vaceination wounds from the outside | As a result of his findings |Hugh S Cumming is among health officers & warning use of dress cine. Examination of his records showed that in every case | other form of dressing had been used to cover the wound after vaccination. | That information, linked with the Concern over the development of | knowledge that tetanus germs do mot lockjaw in connection with vaccination SfoW and become virulent unless they Was first aroused in 1920, when several |are shut qff from the air, sent him to cases were reported. and an investiga- | his laboratory to confirm his opinion. tion was immediately begun. The heaith | Gets Definite Results. vice was particularly in: d in : Utilizing monkeys and other lab iy sort of vaccination shield or Investigation Continued. uation because all vaccine must | be examined and approved in its labora- | tory animals in a series of experiment tories before it can be sold. Fewer than | he obtained definite Its. Vacc 100 cases have been reported in the last | nating monkeys with smallpox vir eight yvears. but the investigation has|into which tetanus germs had been de- { not been aliowed to lag. |liberately placed, he established that Local and State health officers |none of \them developed lockjaw when throughout the country were asked to, the wound was left open to the air to notify the health service by wire im- |heal in a normal manner. All of those mediately whenever a case might come lon which shiclds were used, on the to their attention. and Dr. Armstrong other hand, did develop the disease, was given authority to travel anywhere | repeated tests producing identical evi- in the United States to make a personal ' dence. study of every case reported. After sev- | | In his announcement of the findings | eral years of this kind of investi n | Srg. Gen. Cumming emphasized that he was convinced that the tetanus, or in_addition to the danger of lock lockjaw germs. which are found in the | “shiclds or dressings applied to a va soil and_particularly in the vicinity of | cination are hoi had been introduced into the and dek | | | —are eagerly anticipated by those who like to indulge their liking for flowers with economy. Baskets of Spring a shield or some | se of severe ‘takes’ A wooden cabinet 80 iy 32 inches wide, houses the projection machine. A series of mirrors reflect he view shown on the slide from one o another, finally casting it from the | interior on a glass screen built into | the cabinet. No light can enter the box and a full focus is obtained, despite the fact nd not through the injection of vac- | that the room is not darkened ! Let Us i Demonstrate 1 The “AMERICAN” RADIANT | HEATER Termx | | | | | Desired ¢ MUDDIMANZ 709 13th St. NW. Main 140-6436 project stercopticon slides In broad day- 1 light has been perfected by Dr. T. T. perfected the machine since | inches high and | D. (.. THURSDAY. TANUARY 26, 1928, New Zealand Seeks Long-Hairerd Variety for Export Trade. Correspondence of the Associated Press. WELLINGTON.—New Zealand busi- ness men, who once regarded the rab- bit @s a pest, fit only for extinction, are planning to introduce Angora rabbit strains in an effort to lengthen | the_hair of the domestic bunnies, The one-time pests, whom sacrificed their skins last year to ald New Zealand's export business, brought ahout $4,000,000 to the island dominion. "TREE TRIAL POSTPONED. Special Dispatch to The Star. 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