New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 27

Here’s a Toy That’s Useful v The Duck Floats in the Child's Rath. BATH thermometer, for use in A the ablutions of small childen, is the clever idea of a New Yorker, Arthur Zadek. It takes the form of a suitably painted duckling, cut out of a flat piece of wood and mortised in a slot in the circular wooden base. A ther- mometer tube is fastemed to it with staples and its bulb extends downward through a hole alongside the slot, When placed in the tub, the duckling floats, but its disc sugport is sub- merged sufficiently to bring the ther motm:-ter bulb below the surface of the water, Camera in POLICEMAN'S CLUB that holds A a camera, which, while conve- nient to cprry, may be secretly used, is the invention of a New Yorker, Frederick J. Lord. Rene Bache, Long an_Authority on Curious New laventions, Snapped Out for a Stroll in Washing- Noted Science Writer Explains Recent Patents man and former editor of the Boston Herald, has gained a wide reputation as a writer on new inven- tions and on advances in all divisions of the scientific world. He is gener- ally credited with huving made “popu- lar” science interesting to the man in the street. Many years ago Mr. Bache decided there was an element of drama in the march of science just as compelling as that contained in murders, elections and love tangles. He began to keep track of new devices for saving time and labor and promoting the comfort of mankind. “Saving time is length- ening life,” says * Mr. Bache. He watched the work of scientific expedi- tions far aficld. When ingenious inven- RENE BACHE, veteran newspaper How I:ife Masks Are Made N former days the making of a life I mask of a person was attended with much discomfort to the “subject”. George Washington submitted to the process on two occasions; Abraham Lincoln, once. Thus the Father of his Country was obliged to lie flat on his back, with two straws inserted in his nostrils, while Police Club Diagram “ Showing How the Camera’s Eye Is Concealed in One It is made in two sections that screw together, the shorter section, which serves as the handle of the club, con- taining the camera and mechanism associated with it. Inside the handle section is a film- holder which contains two rollers, one receiving from the other the film as the latter is unwound. End of the “Billy”. The butt end of the club has a threaded cap, which, on being un- screwed, exposes the lens, which is provided with a shutter. The user, by turning a key on the outside of the club handle, adjusts the film for each fresh exposure. With a second key, adjacent to the other one, he snaps the shutter and takes the picture, *“Stay On the Job—Work Hard™ —Ketcham's Recipe for Success Be & one-job man Live it and learn it, Mal t your vocation—not a vacation, Make that jub grow bigger— And grow bigger with it. {ESE are the salient points in the business philosophy of Frank A. Ketcham, recently elected president of the Graybar Electric Compang. Constant application and loyalty to one job and one organiza- tion has been his credo. For 28 years he has been an em- ployee of the Graybar Electric Com- pany, having started as a clerk. A month ago he received from his fellow workers the highest office within their power to give—that of president. He has climbed from the bottom to the top of one job—by growing big- ger with it. “Stay on the job and work hard. nce has taught me that this formula for suc he way. You can der igent less you have prepared to b through a rigorous period of ints and thorough apprenticeship.” 5 Mr. Ketcham knows the other side of the story—the life and possibilities of the job shifter, for in his early outh he was forced to go into the Kusinvss world and seek a livelihood with little to choose from. Circum- stances shifted him rapidly, during these younger days, from one job to another until he discovered his nat- ural place in the commercial world. s At 15 years of age, he was a rising young capitalist with §500 earned and saved raising and selling pigs. One year later he was the disillusioned and penniless owner of a ‘“‘salted” gold mine, that produced nothing but a world of experience. Before he was 18 years old, he had been, in rapid succession, farm hand, rancher, eailor and stock raiser. Two summers had been spent as an oiler aboard a freight steamer on the Great Lakes in order to pay his tuition in college. A degree in mechanical en- flneering from. the University of ichigan was almost attained when other financial demands forced him to €0 again into the business world. At the age when most youths were Lun beginning to leave their school- 00ks behind, Mr. Ketcham already was @ man of the world. From his kaleido- scopic view of life, his youthful mind evolved the basic principle upon which per tions of that day taught him, “is the best argument in favor of sticking to one job and giving it your best.” In 1900 Mr. Ketcham joined the an@m Electric Company, as an ap- prentice clerk. He has remained with organization, and what was, un- FRANK A. KETCHAM President of the Graybar Company of New York. Electric til recently its subsidiary, the Gray- bar Electric Company, for the ensu- Company startled the economic world ing 28 years. When the Graybar January 1 by becoming the largest employce-owned organization in the world, separating itself at the same time from the Western Electric Com- pany, Mr. Ketcham was chosen by his fellow employees to become their leader. What other lessons has Frank A. Ketcham learned? First, that perserverance is a much underrated virtue with the average young man. Without it, he says, suc- cess is no more certain than is the re- sult of the throw of the dice. Second, that failure in one line, or at one specific job, does not mean that a man is unfitted for success. “Fail- ure to the man of courage and fore- sight acts merely as a spur, and steels the character for future problems. Having met failure and learned from it, he is one step further along the road to success. the unavoidable rever: be adds. Mr Ketcham’s dicta are not based upon theory—each has been evolved from an experience of his own life. fluid plaster was spread ower his august countenance—a most unpleasant pro- cedure. One of the life masks of Washing- ton was made by the famous French sculptor Houdon, who was fetched to this country for that purpose by Ben- jamin Franklin. While here, he made a mask of Franklin himself; and those two are represented by the Houdon busts of the statesman and sage. Nowadays the process is much more skilfully performed and with com- paratively little inconvenience to the subject. The latter is placed in a com- fortable chair, half reclining, with his head thrown back on a pillow. His face is then thoroughly sreased and a silk thread is extended (stuck by the grease) from the middle of the top of the forehead to the throat. tions were patented he examined them and described them; when a new prehistoric dinosaur was unearthed he wrote it up for a rapidly growing audience. Today the science story is popular everywhere. Rene Bache, the man who did a great deal to start this sort of iournalism, lives in Washington, D. C. uU.s.J Dunbar, the Sculptor, at Work on a Mask of Clara Barton, Famed Nurse. He ls Using the “Thread Method” Described Here. In Lincoln’s case a glass tube, in- serted in one nostril, was used in place of the old-fashioned straws. But, ac- cording to the modern method, no such device is necessary. The plaster, when spread over the face in a series of coats, i3 simply smoothed around the nostrils, leaving them open for breath- ing. When the plaster has nearly hard- The ABC’s of General Knowledge Where Millionaires Gave or Bequeathed tlonel ons Fortunes in 1928 Based on 351 Large Benefactions Which Were Made Last Year by 249 Rich Men and Women and Which Totaled $194.702.000. Source:New York City newspapers Chart by FRELING FOSTER 38 of every $100 given or willed to organi zations last year went to a university, college, academy, school or other kind of educational institution, Edueational Institutions . (. ty Organizations CA'MY.W.CA By Clare Murray, MARY AND JOE (On the River-bank) NCE more we meet at the friendly monument. 0 aughing a little, chatting a little, Telling of the day’s affairs And wonderinng what tomorrow holds, We follow the familiar paths. Our love moves down a well-known pathway, too, Intent upon itself, Too well content To look for mischief from the shrubbery. Tomorrow and tomorrow We shall pass this way again Each day a new link In the chain that decorates, Not binds us. Some have said our love is stagnant, Motionless. Have you ever witnessed a race And seen how motionless a jockey seems When his horse is running its swiftest? That is how our love stands still. L W ened, the silk thread is pulled out, dividing the mask into two length- wise halvevs. The latter, when re- moved form a mould from which the cast that is a reproduction of the features is made. Death masks are made in exactly the same way. There is one of Lincoln in the National Museum and another of the murdered President McKinley. Such masks, of living and dead per- sons, are commonly made nowadays and the making of them was an im- portant part of the business of U. 8. J. Dunbar, a Washington sculptor, who died recently. . New Airplane . . Wind-Driven DEVICE whereby the wind, pro- A ducing an artificial tornado, may be made to propel and lift an airplane is the invention of Marcus A. Richards, of Zanesville, Ohio. Secured by brackets to the front end of the plane is a big cap of con- oidal shape, through the middle of which passes a shaft. A similar cap, with shaft, is fastened on top of the plane by like means, just forward of the cockpit. Each cap is a shell fastened to a cir- cular base, but open all around be- tween the base and the edge of the shell. Also it is open at its top. The shaft in each case has anti-friction bearings, in order that it may rotate with great sp. From a col secured to the shaft radiate upward and outward arms that carry the conoidal shell, inside of which are several spiral tubes that diminish graduelly in diameter from their outer ends below to their inner ends in the top of the shell. When the airplane is moving for- ward, the air, opposing it, flows into the tubes through the open bottom of the shell at the front. Inasmuch as their diameter lessens toward their in- ner and upper ends, the air thus taken into them attains great velocity as it reaches the upper ends, creating a pro- pelling force of great power. When the plane starts to rise, air currents, entering the tubes of the shell on top of the machine exert a powerful upward effect of a tornado in minia- ture, serving to propel the ship, to sup- port it in flight, and even to enable it to vertically. The driving pro- peller or the lifting propeller is used as it is desired to move forward or to rise. The device is shown at right. INVENTIONand SCIENCE NEWS Filter Purifies Schoolroom Air OR use in connection with the F ventilation of schoolhouses and other buildings, there was in- vented recently an air-filter that oper- ates automatically. It cleans the air by taking the dust out of it. The apparatus, driven by a motor of one-fourth horsepower, has a series of demountable cells arranged in an end- less chain. A tank in the lower part contains one gallon of a& sticky fluid called “viscosine.” : The cells, carried by a chain, pass successively through the tank beneath, and thus are constantly recoated with the sticky stuff that catches every dust particle. Hence the air, as it goes through the cells, is perfectly cleansed of impuritics, including the disease germs which commonly float in the at- mosphere. Children Now May Be Protected frem Hosts of the Disease Germs Suspended in the Air of Schools—A Surprisingly Simple Self-Regulating “Cabinet’ That “‘Breathes”” Out Pure Aiy A Drawing of the Newly Patented Motorless Plane, with One of the Revolving Wind Wheels to Furiish Power, Shown Directly Belew. New Girl Poet-Artist “Our love moves down a well-worn pathway, too, intent upon itself.” Qopyrigat, 1920, Internations) Festure Servics, (na. Grest Britais Rights Resorved.