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Oxygen
dndy jndi a complete
20-volume set of the World
Book Encyclopedia to Glynn
Edward Robinson, age 11, 0
Montgomery 3, Hobama, or
his question?
Whit is oxygen made of?
A chemical element is made
from atoms all of one kind.
An atom is too small for our
eyes to see and countless tril
lions of oxygen atoms dance
around in every thimbleful
of invisible air. Oxygen is the
most important and the most
plentiful clement on the sur
face of our teeming planet.
And it is made from oxygen
atoms, every one of them too
small for our eyes to see.
An atom is an orderly ar
rangement of even smaller
particles. It has been com
pared to a solar system with
a central sun and a number
of orbiting planets. The nu
cleus of the atom can be com
pared with the sun. It is a
wad of particles bound to
gether with terrific energy.
This nucleus carries a defi
Quo Vadis? To the
'Modern
WASHINGTON Ancient Ro
man travelers stopped at mo
tels, complained about the food,
bought paperback books, spent
beyond their means, and in gen
eral behaved like 20th-century
Americans on the road.
But the Romans faced a few
exceptional hazards. They ran
the risk of being sold into slav
ery and of practicing cannibal
ism unwittingly.
To Your Good Health
Changing 'Handedness' Not Good Idea
By DR. JOSEPH G. MOLNER
Dear Doctor Molncr: My
question is about a profes
sional ball player, lie is one
of those mixedup people who
are partially right and parti
ally left-handed. When ho was
small he could throw a ball
with cither hand. Neither was
dominant and nothing was
done to influence him.
At about 8 the left arm be
came natural in throwing but
he never could bat that way,
so he is handicapped by being
a "left" thrower and "right"
batter.
What can be done at the
age of 19 to correct this? Is
it possible for mixed "brain
dominance" to affect the abil
ity to learn? That is, to be a
slow reader yet have outstand
ing athletic ability? T.J.T.
I quarrel with the term
"mixed up" people in this case.
Left-handers arc no different
from right-handers and they
aren't mixed up.
Attempts to alter "handed
ness" must be done very early
if at all, and I think the less
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nite charge of positive elec
tricity. Its planets are tiny
electrons. They are charged
with negative electricity and
there are enough of them to
balance the positive electricity
in the nucleus. A normal atom
is electrically neutral.
There are many different
particles in an atom and
more are being discovered.
The most important particles
in the nucleus are protons
and neutrons. Each proton
carries a definite charge of
positive electricity and each
neutron is electrically neutral.
The negative charge of an
electron is equal and opposite
to the positive charge of a
proton.
The oxygen atom has eight
protons in its nucleus plus
eight or more neutrons. You
have guessed by now that
eight negative electrons
swarm around its nucleus.
These arc the basic facts about
the oxygen atom and all the
oxygen in the universe is
mado from oxygen atoms.
Eight is the number for
the oxygen atom and so long
as it keeps eight protons in
Next Motel
Conveniences' Aren't
Roman highways stretched
from Scotland to the Sahara and
from western Spain to the
Euphrates, the National Geo
graphic Society says. Before the
Roman Empire declined and
fell, it had built, 49,633 miles of
first-rate roads.
A Roman rode in the most
luxurious carriage he could af
ford. Tho philosopher Seneca
once took a trip in a compact
done about trying to change a
left-handed child, the better. He
should be allowed to do things
in the way that is natural for
him. Then he will do them best.
Left-handers who, for example,
are forced to learn to write with
the other hand are usually poor
writers. It always seems awk
ward to them.
Except at a very early age
(and 1 even have doubts about
that) attempts to change the
"handedness" confuse young
slers, and I feel sure it is well
that this young man was let
alone.
As to brain dominance having
anything to do with the ability
to learn no. That is purely a
matter of training, plus aptitude
and liking to read. Whether the
writing goes from left to right
or right to left (or even up and
down, as in some languages) is
of no consequence.
There are some truly ambi
dextrous pcoplo who can do such
precise things as firing a pistol
accurately with cither hand. I
know an ambidextrous surgeon
who sutures (sews) skillfully
with either hand , It doesn't
Plentiful
its piK-ion. jt will be oxygen.
But if it could lose a proton
from its nucleus it would be
come an atom of nitrogen
which is chemical element
number seven. If its nucleus
could gain a proton it would
become an atom of the num-.
ber nine element, which is
fluorine. Oxygen behaves the
way it is made. It is one of
the busiest elements, always
eager to combine with other
elements to form molecules.
And . molecules form com
pounds which are different
from the pure elements.
Andy sends a Hammond's
Library World Atlas of
America to Donald Shyman
ski, age 13, of Old Bridge,
New Jersey, for his ques
tion; What is meant by mean
temperature?
' It sounds unbelievable when
we learn that the mean July
temperature of Antarctica is
below zero. This kind of
weather is mean in the nasty
model, but the Stoic had to ad
mit ho felt wretched all the
way.
On the road, Seneca and other
scholars perused the ancient
equivalent of paperbacks
parchment books that were
more convenient to carry than
the ordinary papyrus scrolls.
Some wealthy travelers slept
In their carriages or in tents,
foreshadowing modern campers.
bother their learning ability.
any more than being right
handed or left-handed. Or
mixed.
No, I'd let the young ball
player concentrate on throwing
left-handed as well as he possi
bly can, and batting right
handed ditto. Changing at his
age is out of the question.
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Currents Perilous
The Indian and Pacific
Oceans are divided by the In
donesian archipelago, the Na
tional Geographic Magazine
says. Dangerous currents as
fast as 12 miles an hour
sweep through channels be
tween the islands.
Farmers in Kashmir tend
floating gardens anchored on
lakes, the National Geographic
Magazine says. Kashmiris har
vest from boats, picking toma
toes and pumpkins that grow on
a solid but bouyant mass of
topsoil, grass, and weeds.
Element
sense, but the word mean has
other meanings. When the
meteorologist talks about the
mean temperature he is using
a word which descended to
us from a much older word
for middle. The mean temper
ature is the average temper
ature to be expected in a cer
tain place through a certain
day or month.
A daily mean temperature
is the average temperature
throughout a 24 hour period.
The meteorologist may base
the day's mean temperature
on 24 hourly readings. He is
more likely to take the mid
dle point between the highest
and lowest temperatures of
the period. Daily mean tem
peratures are totaled to give
weekly and monthly mean
temperatures.
Andy award! each day a full let
of the World Book Encyclopedia
for the first question he selecta to
aniwer. When a accond queatlon Is
answered a large world globe or
atlas Is awarded. Questions are
accepted from teen-age or less
than - teen - age readers. They
should be addressed to the Register-Guard,
975 High St., Eugene.
Andy prefers that questions be
written on postcards, rather than
tn letter form.
So New
Others stayed in expensive inns.
Strabo, the well-traveled Greek
geographer, recommended to his
readers several inns where the
food was excellent.
Along the major roads were
mansions, rowdy lodging places
where a Roman could pull up
his chariot and spend the night.
The Roman counterparts of trav
eling salesmen liked these
primitive motels, but for the
more sedate they could be sheer
misery.
Innkeepers watered the wine,
stuffed beds with rushes instead
of feathers, and grossly over
charged. They often were in
league with highwaymen who
seized wayfarers and sold them
into slavery.
One mansio's guest found
what looked like a human fin
ger joint in an otherwise ex
cellent stew. His suspicion was
quickly confirmed by a travel
ing companion, Galen, the great
physician and anatomist.
The Roman poet Horace wrote
waspishly of "knavish publi
cans." On one trip he com
plained of being kept awake by
noisy frogs and the designing
daughter of his donkey driver.
Romans, even as Americans
of today, delighted in visiting
historical landmarks. They
loved to travel to Greece and
western Asia Minor where pro
fessional guides expounded the
history and legends of Athens,
Delphi, Ephesus, and other cen
ters. Greek cities revived the
staged long-dormant festivals
solely to attract Roman tour
ists. Obscure celebrations be
came popular if they offered a
picturesque or startling ritual.
Oddly, promoters ignored such
obvious opportunities as the
SOOth anniversary of the Pelo
ponnesian War.
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