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NEW ULM ENTERPRISE, NEW ULM. TEXAS
Gy for
smoothness and ease
cially prepared for Infants
can
is a
at
SPIRIN
BAYER ASPIRIN
TAKE
Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for
DOES NOT
AFFECT
-THl
HEART
Mother! Its
Cruel to “Physic
Your Child
CALDWELL
A Remedy for Piles
Darkness acts
radio and other
supply of
frequency
been im-
models of
land-
favor-
five
cent
cent
who
nor-
be-
hls
daytime conditions which en-
me to make my first test,” he
“I am satisfied that the test
out, at last, in part, my theory
general tendency of the de-
of this year’s kits is thor-
to shield the radio, frequency
the set to increase selectivity
con-
and
will
has been added to improve the
ceiver.
Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets. Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid
en-
also
safe-
Heaciache
Toothache
Sciatica
Complete Units,
ago the first tuned
Colds
Neuritis
Pain
Neuralgia
Lumbago
Rheumatism
Ask your Druggist (whom you know) what
he knows about PAZO OINTMENT as a
Remedy for Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro
trading Piles. 60c
Child ren
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor of “HEALTH
To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of
Proven directions on each package. Physicians everywhere recommend it.
Keep Connections Clean
The positive connections of storage
batteries, whether they are “A” or “B”
batteries, should be cleaned occasion-
ally because they acquire a greenish
deposit which makes an imperfect
connection which very often becomes
so bad as to either reduce the voltage
or make the set" noisy with sounds re-
sembling atmospherics
gripes, sickens or upsets the most del-
icate system.' Besides, it is absolute-
ly harmless, and so pleasant that even
a cross, feverish, bilious, sick child
gladly takes it.
Buy a large 60-cent bottle at any
store that sells medicine or write
“Syrup Pepsin,” Monticello, Illinois,
for a FREE SAMPLE BOTTLE and
just see for yourself.
LONG RANGE WEATHER
FORECASTING
FORMER PRINCESS
DOES SCRUBBING
worked ten years and over,
vision in the garment industry
only 22 per cent, or 2 per cent
than after five years, and in the
Was He Profane?
“I beat him, auntie, after deuce had
been calletkffour times.”
“That wasn’t the expression I heard
him using, my dear.”—Passing Show,
London.
Decollete
She (at the opera)—Why don’t you
take your eye off that woman in the
box?
He—Because I think she should
have something on her.
service instead of 73 after five
work.
naturally had a marked influ-
Taklng all the thirty thousand
Helium Valuable
Washington. — Helium, which
ables airships to go up safely,
helps divers to go down farther
ly. Mixed with their oxygen it averts
the “bends.” The bureau of mines
discovered this new utility of the rare
gas.
Z)z? Caldwell's
SYRUP
PEPSIN
DR. W. B.
AT THE AGE OF S3
Dog Star
Professor of Astronomy—Did ■ you
observe Sirius, the dog star, closely
last night?
Movie Fan—Yes, he was great in
“Nomads of the North,” wasn’t he?
(©, 1926. Western Newspaper Union.)
OCCUPATION AND VISION
Limerick Fame
Teacher—Now, Johnny, what do
you know about Crewe?
Pupil—Please, sir, it’s the place
where there once was an old lady
of.—Humorist, London.
Shielded Units, Ready for
Use, Make Construc-
tion Easier.
Likes Housework Better Than
Life at Court.
To Dr. W. B. Caldwell, of Monticel-
lo, Bl., a practicing physician^ for 47
years, it seemed cruel that so many
constipated Infants and children had
to be kept constantly “stirred up” and
half sick by taking cathartic pills, tab-
lets, salts, calomel and nasty oils.
While he knew that constipation
was the cause of nearly all children’s
little ills, he did not believe that a
sickening “purge” or “physic” was
necessary.
In Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin he
discovered -a laxative which helps to
establish natural bowel “regularity”
even if the child is chronically consti-
pated. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin
not only causes gentle, easy bowel
movement but, best of all, it never
WHAT is the relation between a
man’s work and his vision? The
United States public health service
has just completed a ten years’ study
on this point with some interesting
results.
The workmen studied were taken
from ten various occupations. They
are pottery, /post-office, glass, gas,
foundry, steel, chemical, cement, cigar,
and garment' workers. In these ten
lines thirty thousand workers were
examined as to their eyes, ten thou-
sand men and twenty thousand women.
This number naturally Included men
and women of all races and nation-
alities, yet no essential differences
were found in the different races.
They ran about the same proportion
of normal and defective eyes.
But when the different occupations
were compared there were striking
differences. The two groups which
showed the highest percentage of de-
fective vision were the garment work-
ers and the post-office employees.
Not only did
prisingly close
dividual work
of service in
Normal vision
Few Changes Have Been
Made in Radio Circuits
Unlike the various electrical instru-
ments they represent, circuits used in
radio receiver construction have shown
no great basic change since the wire-
less art emerged from the laboratory,
stage.
There have been elaborations and
improvements without end, but a dia-
gram of the modern receiver shows
that it is surprisingly similar to the
earliest models. In fact the method
of coupling the circuit of one tube to
that of another is practically the same
today as it was when tubes were first
devised. Other sections of the hookup
have changed only in keeping with
the increasing number of tubes and
other apparatus.
One of the circuits first to become
popular with the home-building en-
thusiast was the regenerative. It had
numerous variations. It still is in ex-
istence in the modern receiver, al-
though somewhat disguised. It is now
preceded, as a rule, with a step of
tuned radio frequency amplification,
retaining all of its advantages with
added selectivity.
The five-tube tuned radio frequency
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HOW TO KEEP
WELL
the figures show a sur-
relationship to the in-
but also to the length
that particular line,
in both eyes in the
group of workers of less than
years’ service varied from 24 per
in garment workers to 73 per
among founders. But in persons
had
mal
whs
' less ........
foundries ofily 65 per cent after ten
years’
years’
Age
ence.
workers in all industries, it was found
that 77.2 per cent of all under twenty
years old had normal vision. That is
about the percentage one would ex-
pect from any large group of young
people. In persons from thirty to
forty years old, 60 per cent had nor-
mal vision. In those from forty to
forty-four, only 49.5 per .cent had nor-
mal eyes. From fifty to fifty-four, the
normal eyes had gone down to 22 per
cent, while of those over sixty years
of age there were only 5.5 per cent
who had normal vision in both eyes.
This tabulation shows as graphical-
ly as any figures that have ever been
compiled the wear and tear of present-
day industry on vision.
A curious point which developed
rtfai • that" in' iuost'iin<lusiri®8r-oif&
eye was nearly as good for practical
purposes as two. Many workers with
normal vision in only one eye were
entirely unaware that only eye was of
any use to them.
Short Waves Solution
of Chaotic Condition
Short waves are the solution of the
present chaotic condition confronting
broadcasting, says Powel Crosley, Jr.
It will be a matter of only a few
months until many powerful broad-
casting stations will be transmitting
programs on short waves. Some sta-
tions are at present transmitting pro-
grams on the lower wave bands, in ad-
dition to their normal ones, and are
being heard consistently at great dis-
tances. Atmospheric disturbances do
not affect -reception on the lower wave-
lengths, to the same extent as found
in the present band, and it is unques-
tionably true that clearer reception on
the lower wave-lengths is possible
when interference is encountered on
the present band.
The present over-crowded broadcast-
ing wave band is due to the fact that
there are only 88 available wave chan-
nels between 210 and 546 meters, and
it can be readily seen that an enor-
mous expansion can be made when it
is realized that between 10 and 100
meters there are some 2,998 wave-
lengths that can be used, spacing, as
has been the practice, 10 kilocycles
apart. This means that a very large
increase can be made in broadcasting
stations and that each station may
have an individual wave-length.
Broadcasting on a short wave-length,
as well as the present 422.3 meters,
will be a regular feature of the Cros-
ley WLW superpower station in Cin-
cinnati. There will be many more
stations broadcasting on short waves
as the audience increases and real-
izes the clearness of reception on the
lower band.
Realizing the tremendous impor-
tance of this new low-wave transmis-
sion, W. M. Bruce, Jr., consulting en-
gineer of the United States signal
corps, has invented a new unit which
will make it possible to receive low-
wave broadcasting from 40 to 200 me-
ters with any type of vacuum tube re-
ceiver, this making unnecessary the
obsolescence of the 5,000,000 sets now
in use.
give a satisfac-
difference be-'
receiver and its co-models of a great-
er number of tubes, is another that
has shown no revolutionary change. It
consists entirely of a series of circuits
known as the “simple audion” with
various systems of oscillation control.
The simple audion layout was first
used with the development of the
vaccum or audion tube. It provides a
method of connecting the tube to its
batteries and accompanying condensers
and coils. Also it does not show a
great difference from the wiring ar-
rangement of a crystal set.
In analyzing a modern eight-tube
radio frequency amplifier the fact that
it is merely an elaboration of the five-
tuber is quickly apparent. It, too, con-
sists of a series of audion circuits
with changes made to accommodate
added equipment necessary to main-
tain the receiver in balance. ■■ *
The superheterodyne, whiqh sprang
into popularity along with the tuned
radio frequency type, also goes back
to the audion and the regenerative.
These two are combined with long or
short wave radio frequency amplifica-
tion to the point where great selectiv-
ity and volume result. In some cases
tuned radio frequency amplification
) re-
Individual Kits
for Set Builders
several different manu-
find all of the essentials
store was a fortunate
Frequently the experl-
far and wide
e parts that
as those spe-
of the circuit.
CIVILIZED man has learned to do
much to control his surroundings.
He seems almost independent of out-
side conditions. But one thing he as
yet can neither foresee nor Control—
the weather. As Mark Twain said, in
one of his after-dinner speeches,
“Everybody talks about it but nobody
does anything.”
Yet the weather is what determines
our crops and our food. Apparently,
it is the one thing man cannot fore-
see or control. Our weather bureau
can now forecast the weather with
fair accuracy for a day or two in ad-
vance, but cannot alter it in any way.
That, at least, is some advance. A
cousin of mine in Alabama, near Mo-
bile wrote jne a graphic letter after
the recent Florida hurricane, telling
how she and her husband sat for hours
by the radio, listening to the broad-
caster in Pensacola telling of the prog-
ress of that great storm as it swept
across Florida straight toward them,
yet powerless to check it. At least,
they had sufficient warning to get into
another house in a more sheltered lo- i
cation from which they saw their own |
roof blown out to sea. But giving a
few hours’ warning is at present the (
limit of our knowledge of the weather.
At a. convention of the National
League of Commission Merchants of I
America at New York recently, Mr. '
Herbert J. Browne of Washington de-
livered an address on “Long-Range
Weather Forecasting,” in which he
claimed that, by careful study, it might
soon be possible to forecast weather
conditions, not only days but years
ahead.
This new field is only about five
years old. Up to that time, 36 hours
was the weather bureau’s limit. Mr.
Browne bases his whole system on the
fact that weather conditions, the
world over, are controlled by the heat
absorbed by the ocean. In a desert,
the sand is very hot by day but rap-
idly cools off when the sun sets, so
that one needs a blanket to sleep at
night. But water absorbs heat slowly
and gives it off just as slowly. The
ocean in the tropics absorbs heat from
the tropical sun and the heated water
causes the great ocean streams like
the Gulf stream which then control
climate and weather.
«»What determines the amount of
heat which the Gulf stream absorbs?
Sun heat. What controls the amount
of the sun’s heat? Sun spots. And
these, says Mr. Browne, run in cycles.
So the observer can accurately pre-
dict weather months and years in ad-
vance
Berlin.—Scrubbing floors as an avo-
cation is infinitely preferable to sitting
in the princely halls of Potsdam, says
Princess Alexandra Victoria, the di-
vorced wife of Prince August Wilhelm,
the former kaiser’s fourth son.
The princess, who^is now the wife
of former Commander Ruemann of the
Imperial navy, recently was found
cleaning floors by a prominent Berlin
lawyer who unexpectedly called upon
her at her home in Munich.
“No doubt you are surprised to see
me doing housework,” the princess
said, with a smile, “but, believe me, I
am a thousand times happier manag-
ing my own home and supporting my-
self than I ever was when breathing
the muggy air at the Potsdam court.”
Princess Alexandra,- who is a prin-
cess of Schleswig-Holstein by birth
and a niece of the late Empress Au-
gusta Victoria, depends on her artistic
skill for her livelihood, as her hus-
band, who is a simple bourgeois, has
no fortune, but merely his officer’s
pension. During a recent exhibit at a
fashionable Berlin hotel her
scapes and portraits brought
able comment from critics.
The princess’ Munich home
snug, comfortable apartment, in which,
as a typical German hausfrau, she
does her own housework and cooking.
Since her divorce in 1920 and her re-
marriage in 1922 the only cloud that
has marred the happiness of this dem-
ocratic princess, who is almost forty
and is still famed for her beauty, is
a longing for her only son, thirteen-
year-old Prince Alexander.
The boy was awarded to Prince Au-
gust Wilhelm by the court, in accord-
ance with German custom, and is be-
ing raised with the third and fourth
sons of the former crown prince at
Potsdam.
year’s kit. This may take the form
of special circuits, such as the neutro-
dyne or mechanically or manually op-
erated controls. The last-named is
popular and usually takes the form of
a variable high resistance rheostat
in series with the plate
one or more Of the radio
- tubes. This method has
proved somewhat in some
the new kits by addition of a choke
coil and condenser in conjunction with
the rheostat for
of control.
Individual
Several years
radio frequency amplifiers were tuned
by varying the coupling of one or more
oi the transformer primaries in re-
lation to their secondaries. This
trol is coming back this year
several nationally exploited kits
contain this circuit.
Another popular system of R. F.
control is exemplified in many of the*
new kits. A now prominent radio
manufacturer conceived the idea of
placing his radio frequency trans-
former adjacent to the metal and
plates of the variable condensers. His
theory was that the higher frequencies
would suffer greater losses than those
at a higher wave length and that,
fairly uniform amplification would re-
sult over the entire bsoadcast band.
It worked and worked well. This
method is today probably the most
popular of the various oscillation con-
trols mentioned.
Another five-year-old idea being
used today is that of the individu-
ally complete unit type of kit. That
is, it is possible to purchase a com-
plete stage of radio frequency, a de-
tector circuit or an audio amplifier
mounted and ready for wiring. Most
of these units, particularly in the
case of the R. F. units, are completely
shielded. In this case the radio fre-
quency stages may be built up as high
as four in many of the new kits with-
out undesirable oscillation becoming
evident. The advantages of flexibility
and ease of construction of this sys-
tem are obvious.
Find Sand Fly Carries
Deadly Kala-azar Germs
London, England.—The cause of the
spread of kala-azar, a highly fatal
malady of the Orient, similar to
malaria, is being tracked down by a
British commission organized for the
study of this disease.
It is indicated by extensive experi-
ments that a species of sand fly Car-
ries the minute organism that is its
immediate cause. An Indian repre-
sentative of the bedbugs and a mos-
quito of the same family as the one
that transmits malaria have been in-
criminated in the distribution of kala-
azar in previous investigations.
It is of the utmost importance, say
medical authorities, that the ways of
transmission of the fever be known
Without delay, *so that steps can be
tak^n -to check it. It *is< a- -•serious--
menace in both Assarq and India, in
the thickly settled sections where the
population runs over 1,500 individuals
to the square mile;
The real frequency of the disease,
according to the commission, is rarely
apparent until centers for its treat-
ment are opened in rural districts.
;_Accept only “Bayer”
package .which* contains
’’ proven directions.
Believes That Shadow
Is Conductor of Waves
Describing experiments to test his
theory that shadow- is the conductor
of radio waves, Alvin J. Musselman,
radio engineer, says that “ether is sim-
ply an arbitrary name for something
that cannot be seen, weighed or meas-
ured. On the other hand, it is easy
to visualize darkness,
as the real carrier of
waves.”
Ionization does not
tory reason for the
tween day and night reception, he
said.
In airmail fields tests at midnight,
under ideal night conditions, a radio
set was placed in the searchlight tow-
er. Across the field, about 1,000 feet
away, a government radio operator
sent signals steadily for a half-hour.
At given intervals, a searchlight of
450,000,000 candle-power was switched
on and trained on the antenna of the
sending station. An- audibility meter
on Musselman’s radio set registered
the strength of the signals. When
the light was off, the signals were
strong; when it was on, the signals
were weak.
“Of course it must be kept in mind
that the 450,000,000 candle-power
searchlight could not anywhere near
aproximate the power of sunlight, but
in a very small way I was provided
with
abled
said,
bears
that shadow is the conductor of radio
and other electromagnetic waves.”
MOTHER:- Fletcher’s
Castoria is a pleasant, harm-
. less Substitute for Castor Oil,
Paregoric, Teething Drops
and Soothing Syrups, espe-
in arms and Children all ages.
“Last Confederate
Mother” Still Living
Dunn, N. C.—“The last Con-
federate mother” is not dead,
as was reported in a recent dis-
patch from a Virginia city.
Mrs; Julia Anne Pridgen of
near Moore’s Creek Bridge, Pen-
der county, now in her one hun-
dred and third year, is the moth-
er of a Confederate soldier—M.
B. Pridgen, now deceased. He
was her oldest son. Her second
son was within the draft age at
the close of the Civil war and
was about to join the colors
when the war ended.
Mrs. Pridgen still enjoys good
. health, and can walk unaided.
* She is the mother of 12 children,
six of whom are living, the
youngest being sixty. She was
born November 3, 1823. She
was three years old when John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson
died July 4, 1826.
Swiss Citizen’s Sword
His Passport at Polls
Glaris, Switzerland. — The family
sword which he brings with him to
the polls is proof a citizen of the can-
tons of Glaris, Oppenzell, Unterwald
and Lehmetz is entitled to vote.
Where the family sword has been
lost, the voter appears with a bayonet.
His vote is m?ver challenged.
On election days inhabitants of
these cantons meet in the open air
and discuss the event. Bearing the
swords their fathers, grandfathers or
earlier ancestors used in defense of
their country, the gathering resembles
mobilization for war much more-than
a political meeting.
A republic for more than a thousand
years, Switzerland is a country of an-
cient traditions. The electors of these
four cantons meeting to discuss a ref-
erendum on the sale of wines and
beer do so. with all the warlike setting
of their forefathers.
/or
Co/cZs
Two or three years ago most ra-
dio circuits were built from the parts
of many or
factures. To
In one radio
occurrence,
menter had to search
to get even sub'-'
worked nearly as
cified by the designer
This will be the year of complete
kits. No longer does one have to
shop here, there and everywhere
fore he can even start to build
receiver.
Most Kits Now Complete.
Today nine out of ten kits^
be got complete, with each part care-
fully designed and co-ordinated with
every other part for best operation
of the completed receiver. Almost
every kit is accompalned by an ade-
quate instruction booklet. Many of the
manufacturers suggest the wire har-
ness or complete colorcode method of
wiring. In many Instances the cable
is printed in color in the booklet
showing just where each wire goes.
The
signers
oughly
side of
and decrease the local noise pick-up.
Usually the number of tuned radio fre-
quency stages is increased to three.
The slight loss in signal strength
through absorption losses in the
shielding is then more than recovered.
It is obvious, also, that the trap circuit
effect of the additional stage will give
the operator tremendous aid in break-
ing through locals for distance.
The addition of the extra stage of
radio frequency has made some means
of oscillation control necessary in this
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