Bnowden. Chancellor; of the British taken as he left hie home’ on April House of Commons. The manu- on hi- lflriii? overcoat pocket. Prove. Relative- Value. of Roads (Unltod'Pr6sI.) .-\.\ii-‘.S, iowa, IAiprit 2B.-—A man thine which measures accurately the pull oxcrtcd by u loam of hors- i-s, n-hii-h. in theopinlon of export ize the iii-aft trons breeding hustli- ess} has" been lliliflllfill ‘BY 1'4‘; v- c?!‘ iins or rho agricultural enflinaaring department of news State college ill coopeitlllflll Wllil the Home As sociutiou oi America.‘ in appearance the machine is ninth like a wagon and make use of the principle oi’ hydraulics. Weights the nninlvar oi which can be chang- ed ill will are suspended 1i Iir-d air while the homes are pulling. are raised. n valve is opened, the vrhet-Is are unlocked mid the wagon HIOYU!‘ toward. The load which the team pulls m always constant. who. titer on a pavement, a plowed field or going np or down hill. Tens already conducted show that duel rails cite,- the least re- lifllniivt- to-aT-rosds with level gran- iie hint-kn, well laid in cement, a closi- second. otsplsalt- offers twice the ivSlSlBilCB ofiatesi rails, and k Plukcd the iowestfTbe tests show that the heavier the hone. the grew- ter his capacity to pull. Much do- D€ililx m1 mg handling his [snug _.\ ti-arn of -.Naw gYork horse! 1.451» pounds-w toot in six asoondn. T“ "Yvriige pull exerted by a team l’ 3"" illlillldl. showing that teams fllvt- n reserve power muss. greater than is required in ordinary pulling. liuistlilfll. promises 1,10 revcllltlillh: When the hora-as pull. the iveights‘ driver's method of’ .h°“l,~' the world's‘ record‘ for pulling- .__.4__...._..... CLAIMANT TO A $4,000,000 CANADIAN ESTATE Councillor Curtis of Bridllngton, rorkshlre, ‘England, who is press- iog a claim for the estate of the late John Curtis, computed to be worth ovsr one million pounds stor- ,- ling. The property ls said to be in ' the Province of Manitoba and To- ronto, und to include silver mines. ..____._¢0->-i_.. T0 “Transmit Ultra Violet Rays for Di- sease Treatment (Canadian Press) LYNN, iliass, May 22.—A hither- to nnrevealed process for making fused quartz WhlCil the inventor sold would offer "marvellous poa- sibllities" for medical and scien- tific research was announced re- cently by the inventor, Edward R. Berry. director of the Thomson Research Laboratory oi the Gener- al Electric Company. The in- vention, he said. was the fruit of euro yecrs of labor and a great ex- pgnqittlre or money. ~ ‘_ moat-valuable features ‘o; tile product. he explained. ‘were ill’ ability to transmit ultra violet rays for the treatment of. disease and scientific research and its resist- ance to heat, far above that oi platinum. copper or any other known substance. "For about 100 years." ho said. "attempts have been made to Jnake clear fused quartz but little has been (iOill, due to the difficul- t-ics oi the process. it will now he possible to make perfectly transparent quartz oi any desired length and to a. diameter of eleven inches." its invuinerubility to heat. he said. rendered the product hlshlv valuable for use in telescopic mir- rors. optical lenses and mirro- scopes nnd other solentfic work where a slight amount of heat might result in inaccuracy of re- Ilectioll. . The inventor showed n group of newspaper men how clear rock crystal importetl from Brazil or Morlagoscar- was; fused in a spec- lavy prepared electric vacuum and transformed into the finished jronluot in 18 minutes. "To demonstrate itsresistance to Mat ad assistant heated a section or quarts tubing to 3200 degrees. Fahrenheit nnd plunged it into cold water. 1t underwent no change. TWomen Polioellilill A " Gilflriliiiolivetifiiion“? From Adventurers. - NEWYORK. May 22.-—A cam- paign keynote song. a women's motor transport corps and a faalr. ion show for men are a few of the features women will introduce in New York during the National The innovations are products of the ‘Committee of Nine which, - under the direction of Miss Eliza- beth Marbury, national Democratic " committeewoman irdm NowYork, has been charged with the duty of visitors. hits. has undertaken toinsiiion u Deuiccra-tic song which truly will voice the nims, ambitions and ideals of the party. The motor transport corps will be composed o! approximately 1,000 privately owned automobiles which will be at the disposal of women convention delegates and visitors. Negotiations are under way by which Salvation ‘Army Corps laasies will drive the cars. in any event. they will be chauifer- ed by women. i One of the women's most spect- acular contributions to the string of convention- iestures is expected to be the fashion show. It will be staged the night of June 23, As liiisa Marbury describes it, tbs show will be presented in tableaux, garden parties, recep- tions, formal dinners, and so on, with chorus girls picked from sev- eral Broadway revues serving gas mannequins. Ag-‘for the men: “We're going to have some male models in the show ‘too, wearing the latest. and most correct in men's attire." said Miss Mlrbury. "For what is more true than that the better a woman politician is dressed the better she represents her party, and that. next to being well-clothed herself, it is a wmoarfs duty to see that her lea." . a ‘Numerous tlub-iconihifltees have been. named, by the‘ Commit-tee o for ths convention women. Dr. Laura Reigoinianbeakls the phy- sicians and nurses group which will conduct the . visitors through the city's hospitals and welfare in- stitutions; Mrs. Charles Tiffany heads a social clubs group which will give the visitors tn-tree to many exclusive local clubs for women; Jean H. Marsh, an actor. n67, heads a court subcommittee that will conduct. visiting women lawyers through the city's many institutions of jurlspi deuce; Mrs. Grover Whalen. wife of the com missioner of plant and structure, heads the schools groups; Mrs Anne Oilagen Shinn ls chairmen of the women news writers sub committee; Mrs. Helen Nanghiton will supervise the sights and excursions group._ , A women's preconvontion in formation bureau. opened at the (Iotnmodore Hotel early. in May under the direction of Mrs. George Wnmen‘s National Cinb. will be moved vto the party convention. headquarters at the Waldorf. Astoria on June 20. Then there is nu All Ghurclusub- special all denominational union. services at the principal churches on the Sunday prior to the conven ition opening. i‘. o r v .. . --~‘; ‘W w as f l * Democratic Convention next month . » city buildings and " entertaining women delegates" and Irving Berlin, contposcr of- song‘ husband's attire is equally fauitf- Nine to develop other innovations t f H. Chiida. iormer president of the l. Democratic . committee which is, arranging for . DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER - Who will take the question of prohibition sniorcemcnt before thc Republican National Convention to be held in Qlevslond next month, in an endeavor to make it the do- minnting domestic issue of the forthcoming notional campaign. on. WILHELM MARX Chancellor of Germany, whose recommendation that. the German; looopt the plans of the allied ox- psrts, received the support ol tho majority of the voters at the na- tlonel,‘ elections just held“ Walsh», ~~ A ' 0-“ HONORED BV GLASGOW UNIVERSITV Rev. R. Bruce Taylor, D. ..D., L.L.D., principal and vlco-chancol-i lor of Queen's University, had the honorary degree of Doctor of Div-l lnity conferred on Mn’. by the Uni- versity oi Glasgow. RT- REV. W. C. WHITE Anglican Bishop of Honan, Ci-ina vwhoi is in Brantford, Ontario. at- tending the World Mission Con- fol-once. ary wo world an. attending once. Many prominent mislon- nltep from oil parts of the the confer- tioitnshnpnssn o!‘ \. , .._..a\_ @4135. “us-MM. .~ w. _ b, __.__,r .___~.._. .-_ _._ . aJ‘.- - GM; - .-<