buckboard’n buggy

IT’S EASY TO BUILD IT YOURSELF for your son’s Christmas

Our detailed plans make it easy to assemble in a few hours. Drives like a real car. Push it … or add power (your old lawn mower motor or any gasoline motor up to 2-1/2 hp.) Strong wood chassis, steel undercarriage, 10″ rubber wheels. Full 66″ long, 17″ wide, enameled orange and black. Holds up to 175 lb. driver.

DO-IT-YOURSELF KIT …………………………..$64.50
Includes everything, painted, drilled, ready to assemble. Drive wheel, clutch, steering wheel, etc.
Complete, assembled ready to run
(no motor)…………………………………….$74.50
Complete with 2 hp Clinton motor ……….$129.50
MAYO BROS.

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You Can Learn Glass Blowing

THE reason that amateur glass blowing is such an interesting hobby is that the work acts as a stimulant to your creative ability. With very simple and inexpensive tools, in a corner of a room or in the attic or basement, you can quickly learn to make dozens of useful and ornamental pieces such as vases, small glasses of different shapes, beverage sippers and other articles of that nature. With further practice and experience you will not find it difficult to make the tiny animal, bird and flower novelties or “whatnots,” which are so popular in the home, and know that the design is original and that a similar article cannot be purchased in the stores.
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BIG NEWS FOR ALL 8MM-16MM HOME MOVIE FANS

Now Own and Show In CASTLE FILMS
Walter Lantz’s Famous Cartoons

WOODY WOODPECKER
IN FOUR GREAT COMEDIES
PANTRY PANIC-Winter catches Woody unprepared! He and Tom Cat both starved! Wild kitchen riot ensues ending in a fun-filled climax.
KNOCK, KNOCK-Woodv drills through Andy’s roof! Andy tries vainly to chase him until Woody falls for beautiful decoy pigeon! Hilarious finish!
THE CRACKED NUT-Daffy Woody carves trees into totem poles with beak! Tries it on marble! OUCH! Sees nutty doctor for treatment! Uproarious ending!
THE SCREWDRIVER-Woody’s crazy driving disrupts traffic! He slugs cop and returns in various disguises until cop goes daffy! Laugh-loaded finish!
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MOBILIZING MATERIALS

By ARTHUR GRAHAME

A TELEPHONE bell rang in the office of Edward R. Stettinius Jr., chief of the National Defense Advisory Commission’s materials division. It was the Chinese Embassy calling.

A sizable quantity of tungsten had just become available in Indo-China. Would the “United States be interested?

It most certainly would. Three calls by Stettinius brought quick results. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation would supply funds for the purchase. The Procurement Division of the Treasury would instruct one of its agents to do the buying. The Maritime Commission would arrange shipment. Next day, the tungsten was aboard an American ship, on its way to the U. S. A.
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Wow, this looks much easier than using a pencil and paper!

Every Small Business Needs this ADDOMETER ADDING MACHINE

No other adding machine can match all its advantages! Adds, subtracts direct, multiplies—quickly, accurately. So easy to operate—no practice necessary. The perfect portable— 11-1/2 x 2-1/2 in. size, weighs only 14 oz. Eight-column ($999,999.99) capacity models also to handle fractions, feet and inches. Over 100,000 in use—praised everywhere. Only $12.95 postage prepaid—10 day money-back guarantee if not fully satisfied. Complete descriptive folder on request—or, send check or money order NOW.

Reliable Typewriter & Adding Machine Co. Dept F-12, 303 W. Monroe St. Chicago 6, III.

I love this ad. Apparently H.C. Lewis is so busy training the masses in electricity that he doesn’t have time for fancy typewriters or “ad men”. Nope, he just writes his ads by hand.

Let me tell you about my Quick Easy Way to train for ELECTRICITY in 12 weeks

If you want a better job – a hob that offers you the opportunity for advancement and a real future, you must prepare yourself to hold it. Electricity offers you your opportunity if you ware between 16 and 40 years of age.

Right here in my big chicago training shops we will giver you a practiced “Learn by Doing” training for your start in this grand fascinating well paid field. My training is not by correspondence or home study – but practical shop training on actual electricity machinery and equipment. You can get my training first then you can pay for it on my “pay after graduation plan”, on easy monthly payments after your training – the first payment will not be due until 60 days after you graduate. You don’t need previous experience or a lot of book learning to take my course.

Mail the coupon today for my free catalog. I’ll also tell you about my plan for part time work to help out with living expenses while training. Also about my employment services after graduation.

H.C. Lewis

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How Science Puts Color to Work

Industry, Business, and Medicine Are Making Use of the Rainbow

By ROBERT E.MARTIN

AT A western hospital, not long ago, attendants wheeled a patient into the psychopathic ward. He was weak, emaciated, hardly able to speak above a whisper. Doctors were afraid he would starve himself to death.

“I won’t eat!” he kept repeating stubbornly.

Nothing was said to change the patient’s mind. He was simply placed in a large room decorated with crimson and scarlet. Twenty-four hours later, he suddenly rang for an attendant and demanded his breakfast. Something in the new, colorful surroundings had stimulated him out of his fit of depression. He was ready to face life again.
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Mission Stairs Conserve Space

Although staggered stairs may sound like an architect’s nightmare, they’re a practical way of reaching a small upstairs room without utilizing too much floor space. Stairs of this type were often used in the old Spanish missions of the Southwest.

Pictured above are the stairs in the Spanish style custodian’s home in a Texas state park. These were made from two logs of 24″ diameter, one red elm and the other hack-berry. After opposite sides were squared off, steps with a 12″ tread and 12″ rise were sawed the length of each log. Then they were installed in an offset manner.

This gives the effect of a stairway with a 6″ rise and 12″ tread. However, the horizontal distance between the first riser and a vertical line from the landing is only half what a normal stairway of these dimensions would require.—Isabella II. Alden.

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ZINC

From brazen helmet and warrior’s shield of the ancient world to the modern flashlight cell and galvan-ized steel plate, zinc has worked in the service of man.

By KENNETH M. SWEZEY

THOUGH it seldom makes headlines, humble zinc ranks with iron, copper, and lead as one of the most widely used metals in the world. Hundreds of thousands of tons of zinc are used annually as a molten dip to coat iron and steel pipes, tanks, and roofing for protection against corrosion. The process is known as galvanizing.

Brass is made of about 30 percent zinc and 70 percent copper. Granular zinc and zinc dust are used in the laboratory to release hydrogen from acids, to recover gold and silver from solutions, and in organic synthesis. More than 500,000,000 zinc cases for use in electrical dry cells are manufactured every year.
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Indoor Ambulance
On duty 24 hours a day, a small ambulance can speed down the aisles of a big factory to pick up any worker who becomes sick or is injured. The ambulance, made from a Crosley station wagon, provides quick pickup service inside the Transformer Division plant of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation at Sharon, Pa. The factory is 3/4 mile long.

Camera Gun Helps to Take Fast Action Shots
In shooting fast action photos, such as birds on the wing, it’s rather difficult to catch the scene quickly through the view finder of a miniature camera because the sighting radius is practically zero. With this contrivance you aim the camera in much the same fashion as you would a shotgun. Pulling the trigger trips the shutter. Be sure that the block supporting the camera is exactly at right angles to the stock. Before you chance any critical shots take a few test photos to make certain that any object which is in the line of sight over the gun is included in the field of the
camera lens.
—Claude W. Clifford, Salem, Ore.

Motor Scooter Burns LPG
Already noted for its gas economy, the motor scooter now has been adapted to burn LPG. Ralph Carlton of Wauchula, Fla., converted his standard scooter into an LPG-burner with a few minor engine changes. Now he carries a bottle of propane lashed to the scooter’s front end.