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SPRING CROCUSES Pretty Elsie Duncan doesn't | really need that magnifying glass to see the crocuses springing up | Spin, Of Elections 'Manitoba Wilderness To Be Tested For Vegetable, Grain Production in a Vancouver park, Mild weather on the west coast has htmosphere while the rest of Can- ada shivers (CP Photo) Within Atoms 'Believed Factor in Magnet's Secrets Scientists still cannot explain precisely why toy magnets pick up nails, Recently, however, they an- nounced the results of studies that have brought the answer one step nearer, relates Scientific Amer: ican Bulletin Magnetic attraction, it appears, has to do with the way electrons spin inside certain atoms and how atoms group themselves, To en- gineers the new knowledge will mean smaller, more powerful mag. nets, To laymen it will mean trick fer eggbeaters, jet planes, garbage disposers and improved electrical gadgetry of many kinds BASIC IDEAL In announcing the new theore- tical advance, Dr, Richard M. Bo- torth, physicist of Bell Telephone hboratories sald, "Our whole pectrical technology is based on iMagnestism. Without magnets we vould have no electric power gen. erators, no electric motors, no radio, radar or television, no tele graph or telephone, none of the countles other creations that de. = pend on electricity, | "Yet magnetism itself is still full of mystery, Only In the last| decade have we learned enough | about the basic nature of this| strange property to begin to have | some idea of why just a certain few materials, notable iron, are magnetic and what happens to such a material when it Is magnetized, "Magnetism in matter, it now| appears, stems basically from the | "Physicists sprinkle very fine powder over a magnet and look- ed at it under a microscope. The first experiments failed to show anything signifeant, But by sub- stifuting particles of iron oxide suspended in a liquid for the pow der, we have at last been able to | see what goes on inside a magnet, "As a result, we can now calcu. late the magnetic behavior of al loys made by mixing the various magnetic materials = iron, cobalt, nickle, gadolinium and compounds containing these elements as well | a5 manganese, chromium and others, The practical results lived up to theoretical predictions, and | we now make magnets which in | dome respects are a million times | better than those of 20 years ago. As answers come to the many still unanswered question about | the nature of magnestism, it may soon he possible to make magnets of still undreamed of properties.' RECLAIM LAND LONDON (AP)-~Moscow radio sald Thursday night the Young C t League (K I) 1s sending 112,000 of its members to work in Siberia and Soviet Asia on reclaimed lands, The broad: cast sald last year 100,000 young people of both sexes volunteered to labor in the new land areas and that 200,000 more "were di- rected into animal hushandry." of electrons. Each sp is a tiny permanent mag: net, electronic magnets com- monly neutralize each other be. | cause electrons in atoms tend to] in pairs, spinning in opposite | irections, The atom as a whole | can become a magnet only when there is an imbalance of electronic | spins, This is the case, of course, whenever the atom has an odd number of electrons, and it also | occurs when groups of electrons spin the same way instead of pair- | ing off in opposite directions | SELF-NEUTRALIZING "The fact that a piece of mat-| ter contains atomic magnets does | not necessarily make the material itsell magnetic. The little atom magnets tend to neutralize each other, To make the material' mag- netic the atoms must be lined up s0 groups of them point in a com mon direction JITTERS IN SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO (AP ~~ The eerie wall of an air raid siren awakened thousands of residents early today and sent hundreds rushing into the streets to scan the dark sky, Police, swamped by telephone calls, reported a short elrcuit had set off the huge siren, It wailed for 40 minutes until re: paired, RELIEVED INA JIFFY or money hack Very first use of soothing, cooling, liquid n.0.n Prescription positively relieves raw od Itch --caum hy ecrema, rashes, scalp | eritation, ehafing--other itch troubles, Grease: oss, stainless, 4c trial bottle must satis(y | oud hack. Ask your druggist for D.D.D, PRESCRIFTION, | is oceeding roject and final nown for a few Field experi-| estimate that of this mcreage, |that the province ope | $2,000,000 acres should he suitable cautiously on the he creation of a huge for cultivation, | results won't be The handful of railroad workers | years, in the Northern Manitoba wilder-| and missionaries in the area have | Vor the last four years Mr, Barr ness, will begin this spring, | already proven that crops can be |and Dr. W, A, Ehrl ich of the Mani T roject will bel grown during the comparatively toba soils survey branch have been launched at Wabowden, on the) short season. For Joars Roman | conducting an extensive aerial and Hudson Bay Railroad, 200 miles| Catholic priests at the Cross lake ground examination of the ares, 0 Th fi d fi d helt of clay north of Winnipeg, Thirty acres of | Indian miss on have reape ne gg Billi bushland have been cleared for the | crops of p ec toma first plantings, (toes, pats, barley and other vege:|8nd bisected by the Hudson Bay If experiments during the next! tebles and grains, Railroad, : few years prove successful, some | Arnold Barr, soils engineer at-| Mv, Barr sald the soll, its tex 12,000,000 acres of virgin lake and | tached to the fands branch of the ture predominantly clay, Is low in bughland may be thrown open for | department of mines and natural | organic matter and would require colonization, Agriculture officials | resources, said in an interview the use of commercial fertilizers WINNIPEG (CP) ments, which agronomists will lead to { vegetable and cereal grain garden| It is an egg-sha) tending north | to achieve the best degree of pro. ductivity The clay belt was leit by the receding Lake Agassiz, gigantic glacia) lake that covered central Manitoba during the ice age, " The soll experts discovered some clay depoists that reached a thick- { ness of from 25 to 0 feet and in certain aress silty sediments 50 feet thick, "It would appear that the well suitable for development," Mr, Barr, Weather will be the most im tant factor in the project, North- by Hudson bay to the east, The crop-killing frosts are a hazard, The growing season lasts only from June to August, Meteorologists say the area has 61 more hours of summer daylight than Winnipeg, | drained soils would be the most | said | POF | shies for adult ehoirs, and female | ern Manitoba climate is affected | "K' Vocal Trophy ( __ TME DAILY TIMES.GAZETTY, Monday, rama 3 'To Vocal Trophy oe 10 HIGH SCHOOL "beens DIPLOMA You son study of homs in TORONTO (CP) ~ John Boyden Soho Seehamen! ond Bulidine Automotive PROGRESS RAPIDLY ~ LOW PAYMENTS © x ond sstually sen a Wigh of Stratford won the final competi tion for the men's vocal trophy in the Kiwanis Music Festival Satur. ne day night he Graduates will ressive the Wigh Plo shit ings | SPIRE SEND NOW FOR FREE BOOK AND COMPLETE INFORMATION wd American School 165 Colborne 51, Kingston, Wg Please send me free 156 page book end complete Information about » Migh School . o Business Met. 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