THE MICHIGAN DAILY rIRDAY, eCToB9ER 10, 1924 2J0 YEARS ESTIMATE Of U. S. COAL SUPPLY E _ I Observatory Seismograph Used To Record "Tremors Of Earth" Chicago, Oct., 8 (By A. P.)-The is enough unmined coal in midd Western fields to last at least 20 years, according to estimates by Pr( fessor Adolf Carl Noe of the Univei sity of Chicago. Professor Noe, di coverer of "coal balls" (fossilize life found in coal seams) has jus completed a study of coal reserve in middle western coal states. In Iowa Professor Noe estabuishe the fact of the iarine origin of cos seams'there, a result which he sai is of importance both scientificall and commercially. The professo explained: "It appears that in a very \earl; period there took place vast inun dations from the sea, which cause the coal bearing formations of Iows stretching from the northwest to th southeast, covering an area approx Imately from Boone, in the norther part of the state, to the Missour boundary. There is a formation nea: 'Muscatine which corresponds to tha in the vicinity of Rock Island, Ill I have become convinced, also, tha these deposits both in Iowa and i the Rock Island district of Illinois are many thousands of years young er than they have been assume to be" Professor Noe was convinced in hi theory of the marine origin by dis covering in the coal seams of Iowa numerous fossilized remains of an imal life. These remains found in th "coal balls" of Illinois and other re gions, tend to prove that the Iow coal deposits resulted from salt wat er inundations, whereas those of Illi- nois suggest in many instances fresi water conditions, he said. The prediction of an almost inex- haustible store of virgin coal in the middle west was based by Professor Noe on the fact that in one field, for example, only ten percent of the de- posits had been worked at all, leav- ing 90 percent untouched. Elsewherb, he said, it was apparent that the un- worked seams are tremendous. "Whereas at one time it was the custom to take out only 40 to 50 per cent of the coal in a field," the pro- fessor said, "leaving large quantities untouched and incapable of ever being mined again, now the methods used are approaching a hundred percent basis of production." XPETS EPORT ON TRAFFIC CONGESTION Atlantic City, Oct., 8 (By A. P.)- City traffic congestion cannot con- tinue at its present rate, and tax- payers must decide whether they wili prohibit downtown parking and keep traffic moving or uild new thorough- fares. This was the crux of a report on traffic, made after a detailed countrywide study, by a committee of experts today to the American Elec tric Railway Association convention. The cost of street widening is al most prohibitive and is unnecessary, it w.as declared; enforcing anti-park- ing laws and speeding up traffic were indorsed as preferable.- "The most important means of in- creasing the street flow is the elimina- tion of the standing vehicle during at least peak hour periods," the report said. "The capacity of any channel is measured by its narrowest point. A street may be 50 feet from curb to curb throughout the entire congestect district, but if it is called upon t carry a 50-foot t0raflc capacity, a single automobile standing at any point within the congested district makes it but little better than a 4 foot street in that block and dams up consequently nearly 20 percent of the traffic flow behind it . To all intents and purposes, a single vehicle stand- ing in a 50-foot street is equivalent to the destruction of from seven to ten feet of street width from that point to the end of the congested area flow.". "All of us who drive our own ma- chines appreciate the inconvenience of not being allowed to stop in the congested area, or anywhere else, for the city cannot be operated for the convenience. of the few to the incon- venience of the mass. There is no more reason why the individual cus- tomer of the tradesmen should be l allowed to destroy a portion of the street width at a time when the com- munity needs the entire street width! for immediate use, than there is rea- son for ,permitting the tradesman himself to use the same amount of space for the storage of goods or dis- play of his wares." Ithaca, Oct., 9-Cornell oarsmen have dedicated a new boat, the "'23 Shell," and have had their first drill- ing of the season. Located in the basement of the Uni- WhonI versity Observatory is a machine the site which' few people know anything which is about. It is the seismograph, a piece the obser of delicate apparatus which records mograph every little tremor or movement of the di An the earth. When these tremors be- inches.I come marked astronomers tell us that cording a there has been an earthquake. for seve This machine is set up on a con- coming t crete foundation which is built upon drum aga the rock bed of the earth. Between Even th this foundation and the floor of the }'by a train buildin'g itself is a space of six inches, graph. I which makes the machine entirely in- atory is dependent of the building. which cr Upon a drum. operated by a clock- gan Cent work arrangement is placed a sheet to the ea of chemically treated paper. A steel I train lea point resembling a pen point is sus- the penc pended from an arm, allowing it to flected by swing freely at the least vibration. pen ceas The point is lowered so that it just as the tra touches the surface of the paper on tory for the drum and the clockwork set in soon as t motion. The paper is marked at reg- of a quart ular intervals which denote the pas- pen again sage of one hour of time. Every for anoth twelve hours the paper is changed. caused by There are three of thes drums in op- easily dis eration. One records the north and ness. Iti south movements of the earth, an- ly whatt other the east and west, and the third have pass set up diagonally on the foundation of theser serves as a check upon the other twos Astrono This machine is so sensitive that it tances to records the least disturbances of the ances byt earth. There are slight "earth trem- tions. E ors" occurring through-out the day, from four but which are not great enough to be been reco called earthquakes by the astrono- mograph. mers. The intensity of these tremors throughout vary, some days are very quiet while mographs others are "rough." A sweep of the observator pen which records anything over a Each year quarter of an inch from the center University of the drum is considered large wich Obs enough so that astronomers tell us ated in th that there has been an earthquake. that insti wo ;iamen were blasting on of the new nurses h-me, situated about 50 yards from rvatory, the pen of the seis- vibrated from the center of a distance of more than 3 It swung back and forth, re- sweep of from 4 to 5 inches ral minutes before finally o rest at the center of the ain. he slight disturbances caused n is recorded by the seismo- i is thought that the observ- situated upon rock strata oss the tracks of the Michi- ral railroad to the west and st of the observatory. As a ves the Ann Arbor station of the seismograph is de- y slight disturbances. The es to record any vibrations I "ain approaches the observa- a minute and a half, but as he train reaches a distance ter of a mile to the east, the a records slight disturbances er minute. These vibrations the trains are peculiar and tinguished by their uneven- is possible to tell at exact- times during the day trains ed the observatory by means records. mers can estimate the dis- the center of the disturb- the variations in the vibra- Earthquakes at distances to five thousand miles have rded by the University seis- Other large observatories ut the country where seis- are situated wire to this ry to verify their records. x reports are sent from the y observatory to the Green- ervatory and are incorpor- he official annual reports of tution. nrijllII such valuable books especially in the r m BOOKSfII powdered sulphur as sprinkled up; Sh T itudy ofhitor iad Eniglish Ilitera- "U ' UU IV * 9 1en the surtace of the concrete and a . Totairlast directed upon it until iwhich Mii-.ixrsssmelting took place. The molten sul- matitude fr the college, and in nphun in permeating the cement ren- ARE . ACtKitNOWLEDthe colege an inSUPH10UR DLLU0 .agis dsnegainfo whi h it appears that the o?. tbu dered it waterproof and provided in- t ion fo h nvest f ingan srneaantdsnertofo Those members of the faculty, and has gone to replenish the library iyf Sulphur as a waterproofing agent, the action of moisture,in addition o others who contributed last winter Tsuda college. Last year at this time., when applied to paper and concrete creating a very durable surface. ".A when a collection of books was sent thehcollege cssctl rot a sinl£I( has proven its worth, according to the test road is now being built in New to Tokyo will be happy to hear of a 2135 volumes, which is considered a results of experiments conducted by York. The process of mining used communication recently received by appreciable increase for a >overty the Texas Gulf Sulphur company and by the firm in their Texas mines is comnctoIeetyreevdb prcal ices o oet one of forcing steam into the vein William Warner Bishop, librarian of stricken center of learning to make in ,recently communicated to Prof. A. E. and pumping out the molten sulphur. the University. It is to be remem- a year. White of the department of Engineer- bered that a large number of books ing Research. German Lu ber were gathered from varied sources Clef's Wives Veil When papier mache is treated with L n. supua durable waterproof ma-Re o td W s d and sent to Japan to assist in re- A Lo d s terial resulted, which has been used Reported W asted establishing some of, the university OSfor milk bottles and acid containers libraries which were destroyed byheu successfully. The paper resisted the Stuttgart, Germany, Oct., 7 (By fire anti earthquake in September London, Oct., 8-The Emir of Kat- action of all acids except nitric. (A. P.) -A German interested in thl 1923. Several faculty members con- sina, who governs a district of Nigeria Common concrete building blocks lumber trade, Ernst Wiche, of Bremen, tributed copies of their own publi- many times larger than England, at- such as are used in the foundations has published In a local paper a note cations as well as such books as tended a moving picture show the of buildings, showed a quadrupled of warning. He says Europe is wast- could be spared from their private other night in London for the first strength when treated with molten ing its lumber supplies in meeting the libraries. The University library t, sulphur. The treatment, in addition enormously increased demand since made extensive contributions from its time in his life. to increasing the strength of tl4e I the war. store of duplicates. The books were The emir was enthusiastic about the blocks made them waterproof which All the wooded areas of Europe, in- sent to the Imperial university lib movies. He was accompanied by his insured them against disintegration, cluding Russia and Scandinavia, rary at Toyko for distribution by a two favorite wives, who remained due to the presence of moisture. amount to 158,000,000 acres, and these committee. The# letter is quoted here. closely veiled throughout the perform- Used for Roads are being cleared so rapidly, accord- "After an unreasonably long delay lance. Upon their arrival at the The use of the process in the treat- ing to Mr. Wiche, that in the years to the one hundred and forty-five books theatre the wives were escorted into ment of concrete roads is perhaps come Europe will have to import wood sent from your library arrived at our the manager's office to wait until the the most important application dis- from America. college on the tenth of September, lights went down so that they should covered by the manufacturer. Tests We are very happy indeed to get not be seen by vulgar eyes. were conducted in New York, in which READ THE MICHIGAN DAILY J \j Wool Production Hits $4,000,000 Mark In Canada Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 9.-Canada's wool clip will total 13,000,000 pounds with a value to sheepmen of $4,000,- 000, according to a bulletin issued by the Dominion Department of Agricul- ture. The quality of the product is said to be the highest in recent years. Approximately half the wool clip, the bulletin estimates, will remain in Canada for manufacture. Last year the dominion exported 6,009,079 pounds of wool, of which the United States purchased 5,261,899 pounds and Great Britain 706,028 pounds.! Government wool grading and sys- tematic marketing by the Coopera- tive Wool Growers, which handles 90 per cent of the clip, have raised the quality of Canadian wool, the de- partment said. APPOINTMENT BUEU 511_S GOOD RESULTS Placements made by the Bureau, of Appointments for 1924 show an increase over the number for the , previous year, according to figures just compiled by Miss Margaret Cameron, secretary of the bureau. There was also an increase in the number of students and teachers enrolled together with a notable decrease in the number of calls made upon the bureau for high school teachers. The falling off is the result. of the committee's success in placing candidates after only one call, Miss Cameron says. Total enrollment in 1924 amounted to 890, with a new enrollment of 527 to which must be added 363 appli- cations from teachers in the field. The- 1923 records show a slightly larger new enrollment of 567, with the total figure at 874. Calls in 1924 were only 983 as against 1088 for 1923. Last year 27 enrollments which were listed were never completed and so were necessarily dropped by the bureau. Students after making application should remember to se- cure the required recommendations from their professors in order to make the enrollments valid, Miss Cameron states.- Berkley, Cal. Oct., 9-Work has be- gun on the construction of a series of crew sheds at the University of California, which are to provide stor- age space for racing shells, oars, and other equipment. The plan calls for a structure fifty feet wide and three .hundred feet long. i FEDRLOFFICIAL URGES RESPECT FOR DRYHLA Los Angeles, Oct., 9-Nothing is more alarming than that phase of law- lessness in which citizens choose which laws they shall obey and which they shall disregard, said Mabel Wal- ker Willebrandt, assistant United States attorney general, in a recent address in this city. Speaking of the prohibition law, Mrs. Willebrandt said: "Repeal it or respect it. The man who does not believe in the dry law," she continued, "and who seeks to repealit by proper and orderly processes, at the same time obeying it himself, is just as good a citizen as anyone else. "The man who is blind to the duties of citizenship is the opponent of the dry law who tries to justify his dis- obedience to it by saying that it can't be enforced and ought to be repealed. "Trying to enforce the prohibition law by spending too much time hunt- ing out the little violator, is like try- ing to cut down a tree by picking off the leaves. The way to accomplish it is by putting an 'ax to the root, by getting the big men who are support- ed by big men." As an example of the moral effect of "catching the big ones," Mrs. Wille- brandt cited a Georgia case in which 5 convicted violators, including 60 millionaires, went to the penitentiary. After that public sentiment in Georgia, heretofore hostile, was open-.I ly that "the Federal government meant business and should be sup- ported." MULTIPLE STETHOSCOPE SICURE FOR MEDICSc A multiple stethoscope on a very large scale has been installed in the medical sclhool of this University. This delicate instrument is operated on the same principle of amplifica tion as the radio loud speaker. Each of the possible 90 listeners wear small discs which are connected to the instrument. By simply at- taching the individual stethescope to the disc the different sounds of the heart may be heard by all, and at the same time. Another added fea- ture is that all but one sound or beat of the heart may be eliminated. This instrument will greatly aid in exam- ination of clinical patients and in class explanations. It is the only in- strument of its kind in the state. Austin, Texas, Oct., 9-Oil wells owned by the University of Texas brought in a revenue of $14,000 last month. t Y es 0 jr oun men A1W Ah who can"appreCiate the pride,thejoy and the de- light of agoodappearance ~ Presented in KUppenhcitner GOOD CLOTHES with qualifr in fabric and tailoring to sustain Ike s/yle N. F., ALLEN CO. The House of Kuppenheimer Good Clothes 211 SOUTH MAIN ST. i 11 li'i rwl.r + wrrwwr i w wr o ir rr IiIII IIIU IMOMM1 Mlpl . uun r I See The Game Every Play In Detail jill ICHIGA vs. m Am c. Vs . -A. C