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Why Don’t We Have… CRASH-PROOF HIGHWAYS

… with automatic pilots to take the wheel for trip-weary, accident-prone drivers.

By George W. Gibson

IN this age of flying saucers and 600-mph aircraft, automatic pilots are accepted as being very commonplace . . . for airplanes. But why not automatic pilots for autos?

If an inventor should offer the motorist an automatic pilot for his car, consider the tremendous safety value of such a device. The human element would be eliminated from driving. Our highways would become virtually crashproof.
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Getting fitted for these looks very unpleasant.

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Eyeball Glasses

Eventually nearly everyone mill wear their glasses on their eyeball.

ONE of the lesser miracles of science is the contact lens, that invisible eyeglass that fits right on the eyeball to correct imperfect vision. Now science improves on its miracle and makes the lens out of plastic, eliminating glass and its breakage and giving new lightness and improvement in appearance.
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CORONA for XMAS

because:
every child and every student wants and needs this dependable home typewriter

because the 1937 Coronas are the finest, the fastest, the smoothest and easiest-running that we have offered in all our quarter-century of portable pioneering
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Chameleons

25 Cents Each. Shipped By Mail LIVE, SAFE DELIVERY GUARANTEED

Watch it change its color!

Get one of these most wonderful of all creatures. Watch it change Its color. Study its habits. Wear one on the lapel of your coat as a curiosity. Watch it shoot out its tongue as it catches flies and in-sects for food. No trouble to keep. Can go for months without food. Measures about 4 inches in length. Shipped to any address In U. S. A. by mail. We guarantee safe arrival and live delivery. PRICE 25 CENTS.

AMBULANCE RADIO controls traffic

AMBULANCES are supposed to speed people to hospitals— but they can’t speed and they therefore can’t save some lives.

Traffic holds them back. Their average 35 mph is pretty slow.

But they may do 70 before long. A device now being patented by J. R. Schwarzkopf will put a radio transmitter in the ambulance. Traffic lights will contain tuned receivers with relays. The ambulance will streak along, its radio signalling—and all the lights will turn red and all traffic pull over to clear an open speedway.

ALL-PURPOSE aluminum chair, below, extends to 34-inch high chair for Junior come chow time. It was designed by Eddie Peyton of W. Miami, Fla., father of six.

LOW CHAIR arrangement above, converts it to eight-inch-high stroller for sightseeing along the boulevard. Thirteen-pound device is also excellent for TV viewing.

Be sure to check out the awesome cover of this magazine.

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WAR Invades the Stratosphere

WHETHER any region of the earth is to be free from war and rumors of war, predicted for us thousands of years ago, is doubtful. War has been carried into the depths of the sea, to deserts and jungles, and high above the clouds. The scientists have barely succeeded in opening the stratosphere, or highest level of the air, to research exploration, than it is being surveyed as a possible battlefield.
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Freak Boat Can’t Sink or Tip Over

THE latest in freak boats is the non-sink-able and non-tippable craft shown in the photo above, in which a German inven tor will attempt to cross the Atlantic this winter, to prove that his boat can stand up in the roughest weather.

Its hull is divided into six watertight compartments and has mounted on it an equally water tight cabin, which is protected from spray by a shield around the base.

BACKACHES CAUSED BY MOTHERHOOD

Those months before baby comes put such a strain on mother’s muscles, she frequently suffers for years.

Allcock’s Porous Plasters do wonders for such backaches. They draw the blood to the painful spot— whether it be on the back, sides, legs, arms or shoulder. This has a warm, stimulating: effect, and the pain soon vanishes. It takes only 2 seconds to put on an Allcock’s Porous Plaster, and it feels as good as a $2 massage.

Over 5 million people have used Allcock’s, the original porous plaster. Don’t take any plaster but Allcock’s. It brings quickest relief. Lasts longer. Easy to apply and remove. 25c at druggists.

I love the idea that army spotters in patrolling airplanes will fax in hand drawn maps of the enemy positions they find.

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TELEVISION Now Gives Radio Eyes and Ears

TWO way television, whereby two persons at opposite ends of a radio circuit may see images of each other as they talk, has finally become a practical working reality.

Before a group of skeptical witnesses the practical application of television was recently demonstrated by engineers of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company at their laboratories in New York City.

Although television is as yet outside the limits of commercial exploitation and cannot be used in homes as are broadcast receivers, the engineers are confident that this new radio development will be as popular within the next three years as is broadcast music now.
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Boys Turn Bike Into Chimes

BOYS at Weoley Castle School in Birmingham, England, have developed a novel use for old bicycles. Sawing the old bicycle tubing to various lengths and stringing the cut sections on wires hung on a home-built mounting, the boys have created musical chimes featuring a full complement of notes, enabling tunes to be played.

Giant Suction Cups Stimulate Heart Action and Breathing

TO stimulate both heart and lung action in victims of suffocation by gas, smoke, or drowning, Dr. Dewell Gann, Jr., of Little Rock, Ark., has devised novel “rubber lungs.” Two large vacuum cups are placed just below the shoulder blades of the victim and pressure is applied rhythmically to move the diaphragm. In addition to promoting artificial respiration, the rubber lungs are said to maintain blood circulation.