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Thij department is definite- of her home and family seems
to have definitely become an
old-fashioned idea. However, it
is not fair to blame the husband
for this. In the majority of cases
it is the wife who wants to cling
Time Left for Life on Earth
Declared To Be Growing Short
,
Br DELOS SMITH
United Pros Science Editor
New York (U.R) We hu
man beings can be of good cheer
according to Dr. Allen Sandage
astronomer and astrophysicist.
Even if we don t destroy our
selves with our own "follv."
icieTice makes "It appear quite
likely that human life is doom
ed by natural processes."
Xhe natural processes he re
ferred to are those of the sun.
The way the science of astrophy
sics Iigures it, the sun is now
near or close to its middle age
That is. it has been going for"
six billiott years and has about
six billion years to go.
Although it is not news io
astrophysicists, it will be news
to many that science can calcu
late the time remaining for life
on earth with what seems to be
unassailable logic. Dr. Sandage,
In a recent lecture to the trust
ees and staff of the Carnegie
institute gave a remarkably easy
to understand account of this
logic.
Mttr of Time
O The sun. like all other stars
Owe know about is converting hy
droge atoms into nuclei of he
lium and thatis the source of
its radiant energy.
O Knowing its mass, you can
calculate how many hydrogen
atoms it has and had to work
with. Knowing its light inten
sities, you can approximate the
rate at which this converting is
(?ng on.
But these created helium at
omg are waste products which
more and more threaten the in
ternal chemical stability of the
star. To compensate for these
changes, the star increases in
size and increases the intensity
of its radiations.
All this is very slow and grad
ual up to a certain point, the
point where the star has con
sumed 12 per cent of its hydro
gen atoms. -
At this point "the star can no
longer compensate for its in
creased helium content by small
changes, but must drastically in
crease in radius," said Dr. San
dage. "At this point, the star is near
the end of its life, because it
swiftly increases in luminosity,
6onsumes its remaining fuel at
a tremendous rate, and finally
sinks into obscurity and death
as its fuel is depleted.
Right now, astrophysics fig
ures, the sun has consumed 6
per cent of its fuel. Six billion
years from now it will enter
death throes that will last 500
million years. As it increases
in radius, the temperature of
the earth's surface will shoot
up at a frightful rate.
The expanding sun "will drive
the temperature first above the
boiling point of water and then
to the melting point of lead. Life
will have, ceased, the oceans will
have boiled away, and condi
tions will be miserable," he con
tinued. Dr. Sandage is a staff mem
ber of the Mount Wilson and
Palomar observatories of the
California Institute of Technology.
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Is That So?
Let's consider some early
Americana particularly as it ap
plies to the outdoors:
Cowhide hinges were used
mainly by early colonists. Hand
made iron strap hinges were
added later, but because of the
king's tax on metal hardware,
most barn doors swung on
leather until the end of the 18th
century.
Most of our early orchards
were planted from seeds. A typi
cal example is recorded by Mrs.
Narcissa Whitman in her diary
written at Fort Vancouver, Ore
gon Territory (now in the state
3
of Washington), 1836. She wrote:
"Here we find fruit of every des
cription apples, grapes, pears,
plums, figs ... all grown from
'seeds. A gentleman 12 years ago,
1 while at a party in London, put
seeds of the grapes and apples
: in his pocket. Soon afterward
' he took a voyage to America
; These seeds have now greatly
! multiplied.
' Incidentally, it was an old
j colonial custom to "pepper old
fruit trees" meaning, to blast
away with a shotgun at close
range to make an old tree bear
I again, writes Eric Sloane in his
book. Eric Sloane's Almanac
I and Weather Forecaster (Duell,
I Sloane & Pearce, N. Y.). This
i custom, he says, was brought
over from Europe where some
CONSTIPATED?
new laxative discovery
un-Iocks bbwel blocks
without gag, bloat or gripe
Constipation is caused by
what doctors call a "thrifty"
colon. A "thrifty" colon is one
that, instead of retaining
moisture as it should, does the
opposite: robs the colon of so
much moisture that its con
tents become dehydrated, so
dry "that they block the bowel;
so shrunken that they fail to
excite or stimulate the urge
to purge that propels and ex
pels waste from your body.
TO REGAIN NORMAL REGU
LARITY two things are neces
sary. First, the dry, shrunken
contents of your colon which
now block your bowel must be
re-moistened. Second, bulk
must be brought to your colon
to S-T-R-E-T-C-H STIMULATE it
and so, excite its muscles to
action; to a normal urge to
purge.
AND, OF ALL LAXATIVES, only
Colonaid, the amazing new
laxative discovery possesses
Colon aid's great moisturising
capacity plus Coloxaid's
stretch-stimulating bulk that
activates normal colonic
reflexes. So effective that it
relieves even chronic consti
pation overnight, Colonaid is
yet so smooth, so gentle it has
been proved safe even for
women in the most critical
stages of pregnancy.
SUPERIOR TO OLD STYLE
bulk, salt or drug laxatives,
Colonaid neither gags, bloats
nor gripes; does not interfere
with your absorption of vita
mins and other valuable food
nutrients; and in clinical
tests, did not cause rash or
other side reactions.
IT'S A PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTi
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And Colonaid exercises your
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By EUGENE BURNS
Ringer-Naturalist
farm folk still "shoot barren
trees." Possibly the shock to the
health of a tree by a trunk
wound and its effort to fight
back and recover, spurred the
yield of the fruit. Or, perhaps
it is just another old supersti
tion. Smooth Surface Blemished
Speaking of apple trees, have
you heard this one on xankee
salesmanship? The story goes
that an apple orchard in Con
necticut was struck badly by
hail and the usually smooth sur
face of most of the apples were
blemished by calloused spots
Not to be ruined by a little thing
like that, the farmer wrapped
each apple in a 'fine tissue paper
that bore the legend "HAIL-
KISSED APPLES, the Fruit
With a Heavenly Taste." Then
he doubled the price of his
apples and is said to have made
a killing.
The same kind of salesman
ship, apparently,- which makes
brown eggs cost more in Boston
and white eggs cost more in
New York.
Incidentally, in pioneer days.
farmers used to settle their
accounts once a year, usually in
December.
In colonial days, the farmer
bought only indigo for paints
and dyes: the other colors were
taken from the trees and berries
about him or "raised" right
along with the crops. Clothing
and cloth were dyed with but
ternut (brown), hickory (yellow),
maple (gray), sumac (red), sassa
fras (orange), and pokeweed
(purple).
The history of purple Is a
most interesting one. The dye
was handed down from ancient
days. The royal purple was
made from the purple shell, a
snail, several thousands of years
before Christ. In fact, the pros
perity of the ancient city of
Tyre was founded on this dye
trade. Roman emperors wore
purple robes. And, the expres
sion "born in the purple" comes
from the Byzantine custom of
having pregnant empresses con
fined in a royal apartment lined
with purple. Now purple is
largely made of coal tar.
The common wood-screw had
no point on it before 1856.
(Copyright, 1957.
by Eugene Burns)
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Newspaper Syndicate)
ly not conducting a campaign
against tipping taxicab dirivers
or persons engaged in any other
activity. What we are opposed to
is having people dependent on
tips to acquire a living income.
We would like to see those en
gaged in all activities in which
tips are involved paid a living
wage. The tips could then be
considered a bonus for unusual
services. Also to be considered Is
the angle of the customer paying
a high price for accommodations,
food service, etc., and then in
addition be expected to help the
management take care of its pay
roll by extra payments in the
form of tips.
Get It Right
Why do people who should
know better include Kelly on
lists of "Irish names?" Kelly is
not an Irish name. It is an Manx
name. Take the hero of that im
mortal song titled "Has Any
body Here Seen Kelly?" Was
Kelly an Irishman? Certainly
not. You will recall that he was
described in the orginal version
of the song as 'Kelly From The
Isle of Man.
Among lhe Married
Now is the time for all good
men to consider how their wives
are going to look in bathing
suits next summer. It takes just
about six months to properly
streamline a plump wife. First
thing to do is to decrease the
lady's intake of food. No seconds
of course. Then give a thought i
to Ty Cobb's suggestion for !
weight reduction. That is, have
the person being streamlined j
drink a glass of buttermilk be
fore the meal. That will decrease
the appetite. I
Dividends
The Pennsylvania Railroad
has been paying consecutive
cash dividends on its stock since
1848. That is, for 108 years. This
however, is not the record. The
Equitable Security Trust Com
pany of Wilmington, Del., has
paid dividends without interrup
tion since 1798. That is 158
years. Also the National New
ark and Essex Banking Com
pany, Newark, N. J., has been
paying consecutive dividends
for 152 years.
Horses and Women
Women make up one-third
of the working force in the
United States. More married wo
men are in that force than ever
before in history. That a wo
man, after marriage, . should
give up her job and devote her
self exclusively to taking care
Wednesday, February 13. 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
to her job and a paycheck of her
own. It gives her a glorious feel
ing of independence and also
provides the money for more
clothes, cosmetics, beauty treat
ments, etc., than she would be
able to afford if the family had
only one paycheck.
The six stage plays having the
longest Broadway runs are: 1.
"Life With Father." 2. "Tobacco
Road." 3. "Abie's Irish Rose." 4.
"Oklahoma." 5. "South Pacific."
6. "Harvey." All of these plays
were produced and presented at
comparatively recent dates. Yet
it not be assumed that there
were no really long runs in New
York before "this. For example,
that classic of the yesteryear
titled "The Old Homestead."
starring Denman Thompson, ran
for three years at the Academy
of Music on East 14th St.
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Washington (U.R) Attorney
General Herbert Brownell Jr.
defended the Middle East Emer
gency Committee against con
gressional charges that the steps
it has taken to supply Western
Europe with oil violate the anti
trust laws.
Roadbuilders Will
Discuss Freeways
Corvallis City parking prob
lems and freeway construction
will be among topics discussed
at the 1957 northwest conference
on roadbuilding at Oregon State
college Feb. 20 to 22.
Other topics will be asphalt
tests, method of -, classifying
county roads, right-of-way and
practical and legal aspects of
drainage along and across roads
and streets.
Ben F. Ostergren, Washington,
D.C., AmericanVRoad Builders'
association, will speak on "The
Effect of Freeway Construction
on Local Roads and Street
Systems."
More than 125 engineers will
attend the three-day session
sponsored by the state highway
dapartment and Oregon State
college. W. C. Williams, state
highway engineer, will open the
session. Martin P. Coopey, OSC
civil engineering professor, is
chairman.
Another Marine Corps
Instructor Investigated
Parris Island, S.C. (U.R)
The Marine Corps said today
another drill instructor at the
Parris Island Recruit Depot was
under investigation for alleged
maltreatment of recruits.
Maltreatment charges have
been brought against more than
20 drill instructors here since
the April 8, 1956 "death march"
in which six recruits were
drowned during an unscheduled
night disciplinary march into a
creek on the base. No details
of the new investigation were released.
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