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Wednesday, May 29, 1946
FASTER ELECTRICAL COOKING
WITH NEW BURNER
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ANEW development designed to end the housewife’s
complaint about the slowness of electrical cook
ing is announced by the Procter Electric Company,
whose engineers have perfected a surface burner that
will heat up as fast as a gas burner and also may
be controlled thermostatically.
Joseph W. Myers, vice president of the Proctor re
search department, reported that the unit consists of
three parts: a heating coii embedded in a heat-conduc
tive cement; a switch arrangement called a “super
charger” that supplies extra current to bring the cold
burner up to red heat within a fraction of a minute;
and a center disc containing a thermostat that makes
it possible to maintain any cooking temperature de
sired.
The burner control switch operates much like the
oven switches on many gas stoves, Mr. Myers ex
plained. It is set at the desired temperature, then
pushed in and .released to start the supercharger
When the proper temperature is reached, the super
charger automatically goes off, allowing the unit
to operate at normal wattage.
Instead of the high, medium and low speeds to which
most electric burners are restricted, this new device
will allow the burner to be set at any speed ranging
from “tepid warm” for keeping food warm without
burning it, to a constant high speed for cooking
French fried potatoes, it was announced.
Since the thermostat is governed by the tempera
ture of the food in the cooking utensil that rests on
it, it will turn the burner off and on as necessary to
assure even cooking.
In addition to its advantages in cooking, several
conveniences in upkeep also have been claimed for
the new burner. It can be cleaned easily by wiping
with a damp cloth. It is not supposed to corrode or
warp, or to crack under extreme changes in tempera
ture.
Since the company makes only the smaller type of
electrical appliance, it does not plan to manufacture
complete stoves incorporating the new surface burner.
But it either will produce the burner unit or make
it available to stove* manufacturers.—Mary Roche in
(The New York Times)
RIPPLE ROCK: AN UNFINISHED
IT IS to be hoped most devoutly that the resolution
adopted by the Pacific Northwest Trade Association
at its convention in Victoria last week, urging the
federal government of Canada to complete the removal
of Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows, will bear fruit.
It will be recalled that, at the start of the war,
the United States government offered to undertake
the task at its own expense. The Canadians rejected
the offer, homever, pointing out that the hazard to
navigation was located in dominion waters and taking
the position that it was, therefore, their responsibility
alone.
They proceeded to attack the underwater rock
with utmost diligence. But after spending a million
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dollars and discovering that it would take two million
dollars more to finish the job, they abandoned the pro
ject when the war was over.
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This was short-sighted in the extreme, because
Ripple Rook constitutes just as serious a menace to
shipping in peacetime as it did during the war. It
might easily cause a single wreck which would cost
many times as much as the necessary blasting opera
tions.
Every ship going to or from Alaska by the in
side passage must skirt the maelstrom which Ripple
Rock creates and many hours are wasted on nearly
every voyage waiting for the right tide conditions, as
the reef is covered by only 10 feet of water at low
tide.
Furthermore, in the interest of continental secur
ity, it is highly desirable that the hazard be removed
in peacetime—as it might be too late if we wait until
America is actually under attack.
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As long as Ripple Rock remains in the narrows,
no capital ship of the navy can use the inside passage.!
This might have jeopardized all of Western Canada!
as well as Alaska and the Pacific Northwest states!
had the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians been pressed
with greater determination in the last war.
In the same connection, the Canadian government
would do well to heed the trade association’s demand
that it participate in the construction of a West Coast
highway to Alaska, by way of Prince George and
Whitehorse, Y. T.
Like the removal of Ripple Rock, this highway
is essential to the peacetime development of the whole
territory as well as to continental defense, and the nec
essary expenditure would prove a sound investment.
The Pacific Northwest Trade Association is to
be commended for the stand it took on these matters.
Its Canadian members, however, must not be con
tent with the mere adoption of the two resolutions.
They should devote their personal energies to the stim
ulation of public interest in both projects until they
have brought the dominion government around to
their point of view.
The Canadian members showed the right kind of
enlightened international cooperation when they voted
to participate in the Parade of Progress Exposition,
to be held in Seattle in June, in conjunction with the
International Maritime Conference.
With the same type of cooperation on both sides
of the border, the Ripple Rock and Alaska Highway
projects can be pressed to a successful conclusion.
. (Seattle Post Intelligencer - May 7, 1946)
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LET’S REVIEW
Education or the lack of it, gets
blamed for about all the world’s i
ills. It is pretty generally agreed
that the peoples of Earth ne^l
teaching, or perhaps re-teaching.
Moreover it is not much trouble
in any company to start a free
for-all discussion about the science#
of education. In fact there are
some who insist that teaching is
an art and not a science at all.
Some commentators crusade for
penetrating study in narrow fields
of learning while other whoop
it-up for wider browsing ranges.
Both philosophies can be run to
extremes. Over done, specializa
tion gets people in ruts while
versatility, gone wild, leads men’s
minds a’ wool-gathering. Surely
there is a happy medium, seeing
that both extremes are selfish
and quite short-sighted.
What to Study
Schooling actually does not
help people much unless it makes 4
better neighbors of them. It
should, by all means, train them
to engage in activities with other
people, for the benefit of alfc
Today this is clearly the most es
sential feature of education be
cause people who don't under
stand cooperation are being led
by the nose straight through col
lectiveism to dictatorship.
George William Curtis once
wrote: “While good men sit ?%'
home, not knowing that there’s
anything to be done, nor caring
to know, half persuaded that this
republic in the contemptible rule
of a mob and secretly longing for
some splendid and vigorous de
spotism, . . . remember that it is
not a government mastered by ig
norance it is a government be
trayed by intelligence.”
Betrayed by What?
We have a sad state of affairs
indeed when intelligent people
realize that things are taking
place which they suspect are
very bad for the country, yet fail
to take a hand in remedying mat
ters. Preserving the personal lib
erty of all people ought to be ev
ery man’s personel duty. Those
who have been without freedom*
consider its safety a high moral
obligation.
Some men have deep learning
in fields that do not embrace his
tory. government or economics.
Others have gained far-flung
knowledge without sensing the
duties of citizenship or any obli
gation toward other people. Cur
tis’ long life ended before this
century began but he saw the
political dangers of this day with
amazing clearness: Betrayed by
intelligence,” he said.
Time Fades Facts
The notion that a nation may
be governed, not by a ruler but
by the people themselves, was not
raw new in Mr. Curtis’ time. Our
own republic was hardly half as
old as now when he began writ
ing for “Harpar’s Monthly.”
Otherwise he had all the examples
we have. One big difference in
his generation and ours is this: