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but whose picture has spurred him on
to seek her in the East. His success
is bound to please his audience very
nearly as much as it does himself.

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Helium Gas Discoveries Open Up
Large Possibilities In S ci e ni c e

AT THE ARCADE

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War has been the indirect cause of
signal advances in scientific fields of


Whitney-"Come On, Dad."
Majestlc-"Venus in° the East."
Arcade-"Fighting Destiny."

Wuerth-"Long Lanes
ing."
Orpheum-"The Sealed
ope."

Turn-
Envel-

Shubert-Garrick, Detroit-
Boy."

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Detroit Opera House-on-the-Cam-
pus-"Twin Beds."

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"Fighting Destiny," will be the at-
tration at the Arcade Saturday withE
Harry Morey in the leading role. The
added attraction will be a Big-V com-
edy, "Beauty and Booty.'
"Pals First," featuring Harold Lock-
wood, will be shown Sunday and Mon-
day. This picture is bound to meet 1
with real success, according to indi-
cations in other cities. It follows the
stage version to a considerable ex-
tent and none of the rare situations{
are lost or underplayed. A fascinating
thread of mystery runs through the
story'and it is not until the last few
minutes that the audience is let in on
the secret.
No Football at Princeton This Spring
Spring football practice is to be
done away with at Princeton, but the
squad will start work early in the
fall. W. W. Roper, the coach, be-
lieves that the regular training table
will ;also be abolished the next sea-
son.
GIRLS ATTENTION
Get your hair washed and rinsed
with rain water. No softened city
water used. Try our celebrated egg
shampoo. Face and scalp treatments.
Mrs. J. R. Trojanowski. 1110 S. Univ-
Side entrance. Phone 696-W.-Adv.
PHONE 1300
for your taxi for the J-Hop. To insure
best service orders should be placed at
once. Our cars are first class and our
service the most dependable. Ann Ar-
bor Taxi Co.-Adv.

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AT THE MAJESTIC

Bryant Washburn is drawing well
at the Majestic in his breezy photoplay
'Venus inmte East." The story is by
Wallace Irwin and appeared some'
nonths ago in the Saturday Evening
Post. It concerns the story of a young
man who becomes enamoured to a
young lady whom he has never seen,
W yUERTH
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endeavor. Among other things, it has
made possible large scale manufac-
ture of the rare gas helium. Whether
this fact is of significance or not, the
future alone will tell. It may be small,
but there is good reason to believe
that it may be great.
"Before the ,war," said Prof. F. E.
Bartell, of the chemistry department,
recently, "helium was known as one
of the several gases present in very
minute quantities in the atmosphere
surrounding the earth. It was also
known to be present in certain natural
gases in the earth, and the spectro-
scope had revealed that fact that it
was present to some extent in the at-
mosphere surrounding the sun.
Process Costly
"I venture to say that there was not
over two hundred cubic feet of the
manufactured gas in existence before
the coming of the war. Owing to the
fact that there is but one-thousandth
of a volume of the gas to be found in
one thousandvvolumes of air, that hel-
iumn had never had a known commer-
cial value; no attempt had been made
to isolate it in any considerable quant-
ities. The process of isolation, more-
over, was a costly one, entailing
roughly about $1,700 expenditure for
every cubic foot of gas obtained.
War Brings Use
"The war, and the extensive use of
the gas ballon in its different forms,
however; brought about conditions
which made helium valuable.
"The story is interesting. It may or
may not be commonly known that the
lifting agent used in war balloons is
hydrogen. Hydrogen, like helium, is
a constituent of the atmosphere. Be-
ing present in large quantities, it is
comparatively easy to isolate and can
be quite inexpensively prepared. It
has, however, its bad features. It is
highly active, volatile; which is to
say, it combines easily with other
chemical elements. An explosive bul-
let, a fragment from an exploded.
bomb, is all that is needed to send a
hydogen inflated balloon flaming to
earth. Indeed, hydrogen is so volatile
that several German zeppelins were
destroyed by nothing more nor less
than static electricity. The nature of
the zeppelin framework is admirably
suited to increase the hazard caused
by the presence of this electricity in
the air.

To Replace Nitrogen
"That, is the story. And now that
the war is over; what use will we
have for helium? The answer is al-
ready being formulated. Helium has
already found a potential commercial
use. It is very likely that it will re-
place nitrogen in the electric bulb. It
is the ideal gas for the purpose. Its
use meajis brighter light and less con-
sumption of electric current. What
other uses will be made of the gas?
Well, we do not know, but the thing
that seems very certain is that uses
will be found."
ANN ARBOR BOT SCOUTS
PROVED HARD WORKERS
SOL) TENTH OF LIBERTY BO I
AND STAMP QUOTAS FOR
CITY

cubic foot, a figure almost as low as
that for the production of the gas hy-
drogen. As the war came to an end,
there was upon the docks at New
York, packed in metal containers, no
less than 147,000 cubic feet of helium
gas ready for shipment to the war
zone.

MATH TALK GIVEN
BY ARNE FISHER
"The Theory of Probability" was
the subject of the talk given by Arne
Fisher Friday afternoon in. Mason
hall. The "theory of probability" is
the doctrine of chance, the likelihood
of the occurrence or recurrence of
any particular form of an event.
Mr. Fisher first gave the history of
statistics from the time of Babylon
and Ancient Greece to the 20th cen-
tury. He told how a few people from
time to time used statistics greatly to
their advantage while the rest of the
people were not farsighted enough to
use them, and how after statistics had
come into use, people tried to cal-
culate the population of a city from
the number of fireplaces, or from the
number of paces in its circumference.
In conclusion Mr. Fisher laid stress
on the fact that it is difficult to intro-
duce statistics into general life and
that they are sometimes foolishly
used.
MISS NORA HUNT TO SING AT
TWILIGHT CONCERT SUNDAY

Sat--29-Harry Morey in "Fighting Des-
tiny" and Big-V Comedy, "Beauty and
Booty."
Sun-Mon-30-3 1-Harold Lockwood In
"Pals First," and "Smiling Bill" Par-
sons in "The Big Idea:'-25c.

MAJESTIC
MAJESTIC ORCHESTRA Nightly-All Sws Sunday
LAST TIMES TODAY
Bryant Washburn in
VENUS OF THE EAST
SUNDAY-S DAYS
"Little Women"
ARCADEi

Miss Nora Crane Hunt will sing
Stevenson's Arioso "Salutation of the
Dawn" with viloin obligato by Bert-
ram Bronson, at the twilight concert
in the regular faculty concert series
at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon in Hill
auditorium.
Use the Daily to reach the students.
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Shows at 3:00; 7:00; 8:30
Phones.:
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Henry B. Walthall
Henry B. Walthall
in
Lou Lae's Turnilg
NEWS COMEDY
SUNDAY, MNDAY, TUESDAY
Mrs. Charlie Chaplin
in 'Borrowed Clothes'
and SCENIC end COMEDY
ORP H EUM
TODAY
Fritzi Brunette in
The Sealed Envelope
NEWS COMEDY
SUNDAY ONLY
JOHN BARRYMORE In
HereComes the217ride
AlsoG'THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS'
Episode No.11

TODAY
HARRY MOREY
and BETTY BLYTHE in
"FIGHTING
DESTINY"
Adapten from Stanley Shaw's
"Jungle Heart"
This Production has been
called A Young Serial,
Because it contains Fast
Action, Mystery and
Suspense
Tomorrow-Monday
Harold
Lockwood in
"Pals, Fir11st"
One of this Star's
Latest Pictures
Does a Man Lose His Pal
when he Marries?

Ann Arbor Boy Scouts of America
proved their worth as a useful organ-
ization in time of war as well as in
time of peace when they sold close to
one-tenth of the liberty bonds, thrift
stamps, and war savings stamps dis-
posed of in the city during -the first
three Liberty Loan campaigns.
Troop Has Developed Rapidly
Starting with 90 boys in February,
1917, there is now a well-developed
organization of about 130 scouts divid-
ed into six patrols. The scout masters
in charge of these patrols are: Troop
2, G. W. MacTaggart; Troop 3, Charles
Webb; Troop 4, Roy Jacobson; Troop
5, E. H. Walker, '22; Troop 6, Henry
Balser; and troop 7, William Bell,
'19M. The second patrol meets in the
Y. M. C. A., the third in Harris hall,
the, fourth and seventh in the Meth-
odist church, and the fifth and sixth
in the Church of Christ.
Mr. Ray Bassett, '13, city forester,
is the scout commissioner, with G. M.
Taggart of the Y. M. C. A., his assist-
ant in direct charge of the troop work.
Summer Camp on Silver Lake
Every summer the Y. M. C. A. has
a summer camp at Camp Berkett on
Silver lake which is run on the prin-
ciples of scouting. It is in reality a
scout camp as woodcraft and nature
study are part of the program.
Mr. MacTaggart desires all fresh-
man and sophomore University stu-
dents who are interested in scouting
and who would devote a little time to
it, in helping conduct first-aid classes,
meetings, knot-tying, in accompanying
scouts on short trips to the country
and overnight hikes, to communicate
with him at the Y. M: C. A.

WUERTH THEATRE
2:00, 3:30,7:00, 8: 30 10:00
Sat'-29-HENRY WALTHALL in "Long
Lanes Turning." Also Scenic and
Comedy.t
Sun-Mon-Tues-30-31- 1- MRS. CHAR-
LIE CHAPLIN in "Borrowed Clothes."
Also a Scenic and Mutt and Jeff Com-
edy.
Coming-Hearts of Humanly
The Unpardenable Sin
ORPHEUM THEATRE
2:00, 3:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00
Sat-29-FRITZI BRUNETTE in "The
Sealed Envelope." Also News and Com-
edy, "She Wasn't Hungry But."
Sat-29-FRITZI BRUNETTE in "The
Sealedy Envelope.' Also News and
Cornedy, "She Wasn't Hungry, But."

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Government Aids
"As soon as America became involv-
ed in the war, the government set
aside large appropriations for the pur-
pose of discovering a way for procur-
ing a gas more suitable than, hydrogen
for balloon work.
"Itrwas known that helium was ex-
tremely inert, that it did not combine
easily with other chemicals. It was
known further, that it was second only
to hydrogen in lightness. Its lifting
power was but eight per cent less than
that of hydrogen. The inevitable con-
clusion which experts came to was
that helium would be the perfect gas
for aeronautical work. But a gas ob-
tainable in minute quantities only and
at a cost of $1,700 per cubic feet will
not fill many army balloons.-
"And so the problem, how to man-
ufacture the gas on a large scale and
how to obtain it at a cost that would
'not be prohibitive, arose.
Experiments Made

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Last Times Today
Bryant Washburn
from the Saturday Evening Post 'Story

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CHOCOLATE SODA?

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"Gases are generally isolated by a
process of liquefaction. All gases
when subjected to a high enough pres-
sure and a low enough temperature
will liquify. Nitrogen is a gas used in
great quantity in commercial ways
and indirectly in the manufacture of
explosives. There are three patented
methods for obtaining nitrogen and
three machines of different nature arm.
used by the three respective patentees
in procuring it from the air. The
government took over some of the
machines of each of the three patent-
ees and set experts to work upon the
perfection of a machine for the manu-
facture of helium. Mr. Cottrell, of the
bureau of mines, was placed at the
head of the work.
Analytic Discoveries
"As has been stated, helium was
found, not only in the atmosphere, but
also in natural gases of the earth;
those safpe gases which are frequent-
ly used for illuminating purposes in
the regions in which they occur. An-
alysis showed that helium was pre-
sent in great degree in certain of these
gases, notably so in gases coming to
the surface of the earth in a 'certain
region in Texas. These gases have
averaged as high as 1.89 per cent of
helium.
"Well, it was the old story. Am-
erican ingenuity won out. A process
of manufacturing helium was evolved
and the resulting figures were almost
unbelievable. At the present day,
helium may be manufactured in great
quantities at a cost of ten cents per

DETROIT SOLDIERS
TO RECEIVE RINGS
Every soldier from Detroit will be
presented with a silver ring by that
city as a token of gratitude.
The mayor's secretary has placed an
order with a local jeweler for 25,000
rings, the largest single order ever
contracted for in the history of man-
ufacturing. It is expected that the
total number will be nearer 75,000
when the complete list of Detroit
fighters has been compiled.
V. A. Ricci, of New York, made the
model for the rings in clay. The cen-
tral part of the design is a modifica-
tion of the city's seal. Several other
cities have been interested in this
novel' method for showing gratitude
to returning men and are figuring on
a similar plan.
BACK PAY GRANTED
AVIATION CADETS
Brigadier General Lord, director of
army finance, has created a new divi-
sion of accounts to take care of the
back pay due flying cadets of the
army. This is due to the decision of
the comptroller of the treasuty stat-
ing that there was no authority for
the War Department to cut the cad-
ets' pay to less than $100 a month
from April 1 to June 30, 1918.
The decision entitles the cadets to
back pay if they did not receive $100
a month during the above stated time.
After this time they are entitled to
only the pay of a first-class private
plus 50 per cent for flying.
Those who have back pay due
should communicate with the Director
of Finance, Munitions building, Wash-
ington, D. C.


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