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" ? o r L'tnraay Evening, July 21, 1923. THE EUGENE-DAT-LY OTJARk tal go Seven B DO NOT IEVE THE T ifl DEPENDABLE eTr claims the Wt may make nolaaiuie. criminologists here do Le that the drug-tliat-mnkpa .the-truth has yet been found, hiaca have been thrust upon a , ,nd unwilling world, but not Fine for fiction, perhaps, but comes to fact there is another Carried when, after it was ad- ipd. one ni" ." , . - , F' . umiJ admitted I lidT third revealed his identity. iight not happen aner iuai it seems the police' depart V, not a black magic in Beopolu' which they will be able to de . "l - mnn In innnwnt ol I .crime of which he has been Li and accuseu j. ."j f1 ..wl whev will ntill have . triek whiskers and false !i leave to Sherlock the needle! were scopolamine nil that it is fto be, in uie iimiji vHu,io w .l.ih.fnl wliprhpr- ft mn Jig yery uw'"' aduced by seopolainina would be - ,ln. itrnwRia of law. lontrary. say tho authorities, it lore likely e viewru a u mrm be and as a violution -of the l rient 01 a uwu not 10 ue fbcnr witness against himself Nothing New In It. finur nhntir. aMinnl. t byoscine, which is just about I" said i'r. iwuuo . viicBui,v, '...hlatrist of Bellevue. "We t.rfi twenty years ngo, not to ients talkative and to get state oni them in that 'Way, taut to hem. A heavy dose and I that perhaps l-25tu of a grain effect as if the patient bad ck on the bead. It knocks him tiler doses produce sleep and a ium. That is an easy way to hut It In tint irAnil fnr Int. The' next day he retains the poison ot tne uny Deiore. mine produces a cloudiness of fcegS, a IWlUgUT or. COIlBUIUUB- fou will, or a disorientation of I as we call it. The patient lues'' very - impressionable and I ... u j: i t. XTlie, lit) UUKiil uivuige when under the influence of ink, but, on the other hand, rging. threatening might bring statements. ; 4 an charged with '.crime' is usn emotionoU. condition. ; If inno i greatly disturbed lest his be not proved and if guilty itljr distrrbed lest his guilt be ;. Indeed, the giuilty always alibi, either physical or men Rex Shows Wednesday and Thursday Viola Dana In "A Noise In Newborn" tna'oVr for a moment the attl- kit detectives on the district Tkey believe tne suspected tuiltv. They are more or nerd of it in their minds'. 'You did it.' they shout, nnd, some- le rid of it all the prisoner will I did it. That is his escape, the effects of scopolamine the r or may not mr -nnrninea. made under the influence of in mv nninion should Hot be s conclusive evidence." They lilizatian Must Slop W Aided by the best screen vehicle she hns ever had, dainty little Viola Dnnn provides the most delightful eutertniu inent seen-in manr a dm in if , picture, "X Noise in Newborn." which cornea Wednesday and Tuursriav nt the 1 lp nr-vt vo,.L' Thi. ....... I.. I drama proves a happy comlwuation of. swiftly moving plot, laughs, mid excellent acting, with just i'H.iiil'Ii fiiu. .oil, ... i.. spice it. Alias Dana is more winsome nnd de-1 liplltfnl tlin,. Ml.- .U the picture with lovely grace, interpret-, ing each situation with incomparable skill. And she has untold opportunities to reveal her versntiliiv- Thix talented little star interprets both pathos utul light comedy with deep sincerity. She plays the role of a girl who was neglected in her hnme towu because she was pour. Martha resents the littleness of Newboro nnd resolves that some day she is going to rouse these worthy citi zens frnin their small-tuwu complacency. After she bcnmics n famous artist in ?ew urk, she goes back to Newbnrr and she is more than successful in mak ing a noise. What u wonderful big noise it is! And Newborn won't forget it soon. may have some value if corroborative of known facts ,but otherwise such state ments are not to be relied upon." No more convinced than Dr. Gregory is Dr. Cnrleton Simon, assistant Deputy Police t Commissioner ' in charge of the narcotic work and lecturer on c-rimin. ology at the new school for detectives. scopolamine," said Dr. Simon, "is of the belladonna irrourj and is bracketed with atrophine, hyoscynminei hyoscine, daturine, salnuine. and duboisine. It is very poisonous, affects the hearing, and spenking offhand, I would say that about l-20rh of a grain will kill. "There is nothing new about it,' Its first effects are the same as the first effects of a number of drugs nnd opiates. .uen oecome taiKative under nyoscine, in the first stages of chloroform and ether rambling talk and they say things under alcohol that ordinarily they would not sny. But there is no reason believ- that is the truth, the whole truth, and nqthing but the truth. "My observation and our experience here arc that the drug addict does not tell the truth. You can't believe him in anything. His moral sense is rone and trutn t muon a mnttcr or morals." But there is one other point, nnd it worthy of emphasis, because it comes from Dr. Simon. "I believe a great deal of harm will be done by the publication of the claim that scopolamine will make persons tell the truth," he said. "I venture the nredic- tion thnt jealous wives, husbands, ani lovers will be trying it von each other. They will administer it in the belief that there is n ready way to discover tho troth.-?.-But it-will have fatal cffeersV Scopolamine is a very poisonous drujr. You mark my word, we shall havo a wholesale series of deaths from it." MIRAGES STARTLE REVENUE PATROLS Washington, July 21. With phnntom like rum runners dashing wildly about, coast guard cutters giving chase, boot leggers plying back and forth, an occa sional aspiring author looking over the ground for atmosphere, and things booming f;eneaHj- arouUiJ the three mile limit, lots of queer -happenings are being reported to the navy's Hydrograph- ic Lnuce. As nn instance, a peacnble, lawnbiding skipper saw recently, off Block Island southeast light, a collier with engines aft and with "Tray" in white letters on' a black funnel. The hull 'suddenly appeared to double in height with only the tons of the mast j risible; then nfter ten minutes, the for- ward part lifted clear of the actual hull and remnined like a cloud nt masthead height, quavering a bit and disappearing, Ionly to reappear again, resolve itself into a distorted shape and disappear. Soon afterwards the skipper saw in I the same wnters a long line of stakes I rising slowly out of the water, and ! ehnnging in annearnnco to that of a breakwater, biding the beach entirely. It might have been likened to a fence nt the three-mile limit. But both the skipper nnd tho IO'lrogrnphic Office agreed that both the shin and the fence were unusually clear iiuruges. CENSORSHIP FUTILE By LOUIS FISHER Moscow. May III. Censorships are futile. U was perhaps me realization of this winch brought Hie ovut liov erumtMit recently to modify the eeusor ship imposed on all foreisu nouspiipci'' men here residing. - Muxim Utviujif, Assistant CommiHsar of Foreij;n. Af fairs, "assured a delegation of American journalists that henceforth views "and opinions will not louRer be subjected t.i the censor's black -pencil.-- His will be merely the, duty pf deletiug items, tbat are not established facts. This new regulation comes simult.i-m'f-usly with the appointment, of a 'fifth member to thuuKureign, 'Office ' whose duty it will be? tor BuiK'rvise thp. Tress Bureiii'.i. Mr. Kpths'tein, himself a writ er, a graduate -of Oxford, and ex-Soviet Ambassador to. Persia, introduced his rvpiine by a "tea 'and friendly talk" ifh the correspondents winch, immediately eased relations, ' . - This new , policy bad been preceded by. months of travail. ,. Always was Censorship. There nlwnyR hns been n c- nsorsMp in Uussiar When Ienhi felt ill it W en me more severe. This was-the middle of March. At that time not even Lenin's physicians had a correct notion as to the cause of his illness, and the sup positions of journalist) were therefore barred from their telegrams. H'he censor's activities, however, wore not limited to deleting; he retarded 1ele-31-um.M. Thus when Trelate Hutkcvitrh was executed the dispatches covering the item were delayed here for nt least twenty-four hours with the result thnt instend of printing a reasonably correct i description of the event "emanating from1 Moscow, most of the newspapers abroad1 first hsed the biuaed accounts of the Po lish Legations, winch were certainly less favorable to thp Soviet cause than the accounts of the newpaper men. This was on excellent illustration of how censorship .defeated its own purpose, ( , Now that old policy has been for' safctn. If only a news item is true, the censor will have to pass it whether or not the view expressed conforms with tho official view.' One newspnper man stated that ho found mioh a censorship an advantage, for it acted as a chfek on the veracity and correctness of his cables and mado it impossible for him to pass along mis-1 nformation t his readers. This recalls the famous story in connection with the death of the late Pope Benedict. He was fatally ill, and it was commonly accepted ' that his death was a matter of day. I One American correspondent in Home conceived a brilliant idea of being tho first to ffft the news of the death to j his paper. ' 'Every night he filed a cable reading: "Pope died today." Each time , the censor, knowing that the Popo had not yet died, stopped tho cable. But when the Pope finally breathed hiH last there was the usual message by the American journalist on . the censor's iesk, . Tli is time he passed it, and the three words were dashed across the At lantic before any other newspaper man had been able, to get the news and wire it. TO SURVEY SEASONAL OPERATION IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES Savings, not only to th building in-j dustry nnd its workers, but to the pub Mc generally are expected to result from, the, activities of a committee on season- il operations in construction Industries, ! the appointment ''of which by Herbert Hoovtr, chairman of the President's ABE MARTIN On Topics o' th' Day TJl' ONLY KKMilClt WK KNOW Ob" THAT'S M.VK1N' AN Y Km HIT T GIT ALONG WITHOUT A CAR. "Well, sir this is an age o fast trav lin," said Tell Itinkley, tMny. "Simct1, roads, or lh' weather don't mean uothin' no more if we git th' notion in our head we want t go up t' liulynoplus t see a ball game, or out I' Monterey, I'nliforny. fur supper. YV; used t' look nt our watches an' say, 'We don't Ixlieve we kin make It.' but t'day it's only a (inostiou a' gnsoliuc. Why we kin git up in th' nioriun' , an' dress, nn' worry down an' gg. nil sKiui over tn imper. nn lion in a cur an' wherever we're goin' we ullus git Iher too soon. Th' ipicstioll has beou raised us t' whether or not all this hurryin' hain't shorteniu' life. Wo ent too fast an ride too fust an' some of us look like we'd dressed too fast. WVirk an' pay-in' hills me th' only two tilings we do leisurely any more. Th' things thnt nro weurin' on vitality, th' things that are agin' an' decayin', nre th' ; things we do in pursuit, o fHid, pleasure au' excitement. Wo kin remember for ty years ago th' average expectation o' I life wux about seventy-five years, hut t day wr re tickled to death if we git across th' street, t' sny nothin' o' gittin' home agin nfter a little Sunday spiu o' "hi-ee or four .hundred miles. Hut all this crar.e fee speed has fluitht us t' lie cautious an' foot sure. Tber wu a time when we got run down by drnys, nil' it wuz no uncommon thing fer a runaway hers'- t' wreck both sides o' th' street fer six blocks, finally leaviii' til' buggy tangled up in a tree. Auto own ers iiuiy driv.- loo fust, but if it wuan' fer auto drives tlier'd be forty people killed, ever' day, fer most pedestrians j have "yet t' learn enough t' look both i ways. Why pick wit one direction t' look an atick to it ia more'n we kin comprehend. An' by what reason ' do Ihey arrive at th' conclusion thnt. be cause th.r hain't no Ford conuV from th' west ther won't be none comin' from Hi' fust? lint we hain't worrjln' about Hi' pedest linns fer they'll all own cam in a year or two an' then th' ngony'H be over, llight t'day in th' United States Iher's :i.."iO( men an' women who have passed 1 li' lOd-uin rk. but they'd already got a good start before niltoin an flyiu' ' nn' eatin' uuick wu thouiv'it of. We be lieve iht re's somHiliin' about bciu' a lictnoernt thnt works hand nn' glove with longevity. We don't knnw-whnt It is. lietnorrnts seem t' own vara an' lota o' them are pedestrians, an' many o them have caught th' spirit o fast eat in', but we meet so many ole Democrats an' it's an undisputed fact they have til' longest nn' whitest whiskers. Conference on Unemployment, hns just been announced by the Department of Commerce. This saving should bo to flicteil in lower relative cost of dwell ings and other buildings. Tho members of the committee nre: Krncst T. Trigg, manufacturer, of PhilndclpJiiu, l'a., Chairman; John W. Wodgett manufacturer of Grand Uupids, Mich.; John Dunlin, 1'resid.nt, Huilding Trades Dept. American Federation ot I.,nbor, Washington, 1. C; U F. Kppich, I'residcnt, National Assn. of Ileal Estate Hoards. Denver, Col.; A. 1'. Oreensfel iler, contrncior, St. l-smis, Mo.; John M. Uries, Depnriiu.ut of (Joniinerce, Wnsh iugton, D. C; O.to T. Mattery, public works expert, of Philadelphia, Pa.; llu dolph P. Miller, engineer, of New York; James P. Noonan. President. Urotbcr hnoil of Klectrical Workers, 1aahington, D. C; Wlliatn Stanley Parker, archi tect, of Boston, Mass.; and Edward Eyre Hunt, secretary, Mr, Trigg, aa chairman, has called a meeting of the committee for July 10 nnd 11 to lay out plana for a thorough study of tho facts. Previous surveys havo indicated that most construction activity ia concentrat ed in seven to ten months of tho year, which means that building trades work era can not find work in their trades during acvernl months, nud that contrite tors' organizations nnd equipment, ar chitects, engineers, building material producers, nnd others connected with construction, must uwtinlly remain idle for similar periods. This idle time rep resents waste, and direct losses to the construction industries themselves, their workers, and tJie public. The committee was formed In the hop that by exnmining the facts nud pro posed remedies, it might be nblc tn sug gest sound solutions, nnd obtain general co-operation in effecting thein. It is the general impression that ncnsoiial building has been due perhaps more to custom than to weatlor. and it is ex pected that the investigation will Uirow light ou this and other important points. Lightening's Heat Tested By Germans Herliu, .Tune til. )I.ly tho Associated l'rrss.) The question of the- degree of heat generated by lightning lias been agituted recently in (irriimny scientific circles because oi uie eiierr, onserveu after electrical storms, of lightning on tJie tips of lightning rods. It was found that a platinum tip melt ed on behig struck. Since the melting point of platinum is variously fixed at 1.7tM) to 1.MM) degrees ccntogradc. It was clear that the lightning's heat exceeded that temperature. Later an instance de veloped in which an iridium tip was melted by a stroke. The melting point of this metal is said to be 2,000 degrees centigrade. Six Trans-Pacific Yachts Are Ready Snntn Hnrbara, Cal., July 21. (Jueens of all nmnteur craft in the Pacific const wnters, six transpacific yachts are in readiness for the slnrter's cunnnn which nt noon today will send them off over the 2100 mile course to llonnlul'u, the long ost sailing racu ever attempted by the sptrlsmen. Tho entries' are tho Poinsett la, ' the scratch bond, and the Mariner, Idulln. Spindrift, Diablo, ami Viking, which will be given time allowances ranging from one to till Hours. T MIES ARE ; TO BE OPENEU Paris. July 21. (By Universal Ser vi( c.) The oldest mines in the world, ahnndnncd 2,000 years ago, are to be exploited by .an Anglo-French magaslnt "Sciences at Voyages." ' These are the copper mines of Sinai, ltecent tailings taken .have shown a sur prising percentage of mineral, the pa per says, and the recent construction of a railroad within 100 miles of the mines makes commercial exploitation, again feasible. Kxplorers who have descended In the mines say thnt the subterranean gaiter jes, built more than 7.000 years ago, are still largely intact and need only a rela tively small amount of timbering to make them safe, due to the solidity of the rock and absence of moisture. NEW FORD RECORD MADE . Detroit, July 21. Ford motor No. 8.000.000 went off tho assembly line at tho Ford company plant here July 11, It became known today, establishing a new million production record. The last million motors were produced In just six days less than six months, motor number 7,000,000 having been turned nut January 17 this year. Pro' duction at tho start of the last million , whs approximately '1800 motors a day and on the increased schedule in effect since has been brought to more than' 7000. Sun Energy is Boundless if Used by Mankind Intelligently. ,.-'MV.- Charles Proteus Steinmetz, one of the great gen iuses of the world, came to America an immigrant in the steerahe, 34 years ago. He was a cripple from birth, al his father had been before him, but he brought from Breslau, Germany, a splendid ed ucation, and a mind trained to hard application. SteinmeT laid the foundations upon which the marvelous development of modern electricity has been built. Every great electrical power plant in America is a monument to his genius. He has invented literally hundreds of improvements and adaptations in the use of the electric current, but the thing that has made bis fame world wide is his Penetrating knowledge of the fundamentals, his philosophy of civilisation, and his sympathy with the needs of humanity. ' ,.- .. . . By CHARLES P. STEINMETZ IT IS POSSIBLE for us to heat our houses, cook our food, run our great industries, recharge our automobile batteries, and give energy to our radio sets by sun energy. The great source of life on earth sun power will be used more fully as mankind is forced by. necessity to seek new means of generating heat More than one way may be found. Crops of new and rapidly growing plants, for instance, may be developed by our botanists and grown on vast acreage by the farmers, to be burned and turned into energy. ' It only needs someone to find the proper electro-magnetic wave nd we will drive our factories by power transmitted by radio. Picture a great power plant, fed by some scientific and inexpensive fuel, hurling immense waves of electric power into the air, tuned to follow maffnetir uavrH round the world. Ni wh're.T Aere were receiving uimi ma equipped to tap tnai "" uil power would be tram tted to commerce and induitry at t point Such a development would "quire international agreement but ra pricticl development would quick- tion, : r v In . . . . . . ' .. . .L. , . e poraniit couia cut b' of the nation until not ""'T the necessities but the luxurie, of were witMn .i - i 1 1 c , raio distribution of wr Bower ilso not merely a,ari Ti,ion bu, 0r become an actuality. Tie wid development and use of biraon ,nd itt broader distri ct. -i mt about in a few ld"tr!L,,a,e.of New Vork "lone fPurLtT WH for industrial Iwilitie. . e .UM ot Publ,r tloiff oy using water lliot V .w,,hou "dio. tmlsmii. V,WMo"S " ""'le'in.th.t.rtate a. living tons of 34,000,000 tons of coal annually, for you must remember, coal js a very wasteful commodity.. A great deal of its heat goes up the chimney and a great deal more radiates from boilers and pipes aftd never serves any useful purpose. At present the consumption of fuel In New York is 54,000,000 tons yearly. Recent strikes in coal fields and on railroads have shown that neither of them can be relied upon and that the only real solution of the matter is to become independent of them both. Water power developing 1,300,000 horse power is now being used in New York, saving annually 10,000,000 tons of coal. The United .States uses innnnnnn hnr.e eower eenerited by watof, a saving of 80.000,000 '(pns of coal annually, ana -mere, is a laiem horse nower fcf 0.9.000 msre or a saving of 400.600.00 tons. " It "would 11 II UDj lift . "' ' SB t ton tcoala year forohe-ttSfcg; Great electrical inventor sees sun-power and water-power broadcasted by Radio, Humanity must have food at lower cost by more intelligent delivery methods. use of coal. But it behooves us to make the best and fullest use of such things as electricity has to offer in the present. It is possible that the future of the world lies in the hands of the botan ists who will, sooner or later, tell the farmers what crops to grow to get the most out of the sun's energy. But the present of the world, nitd particularly America, lies in the intelligent eco nomical use of what we already have. There is no ultimate benefit to the consumer if the great factory turns out gtfods Brian economical price and then the delivery charges added to I i y j 3 Wizflsliiiifl Duf oresent form of government is ap parently successful for the main reason that United States is a rich country full of great natural resources and we have been able to use tbem wastefully for many years. The time is coming when we cannot longer use them so recklessly. We must make the best use of what we have. We must do things. bigger and better things than we have ever done before, but we must do them by using intelligence. , go backward, or else we must adopt the same methods in the field of distri- One of the most wasteful melhcxTroution that are already beifig used in we have now tor instance and one that is responsible for part of our high prices is the way we have of deliver ing goods. Some even think that the small retailer will in time awake to find himself passed in the race and that there will be no place in the com mercial fabric of the nation for him any more. I do not believe that is exactly true. There is certainy a frightful In efficiency amoryg the individual small scale tjistribiitors and a great loss in tije high .prices that they pass down to ue cons&nei "And I do tftliev. that eitjierour iriMuitrial progress will corne to t staad still and we will begin the field of production. 1 here is a possibility that efficient distribution on a large scale will wipe out the mass of small distributors unless they, become efficient. The elimination of the conservative middle class would spell disaster. So the small distributor must give earnest attention to keeping down costs. He cannot afford to deliver by old fashioned methods. He must take ad vantage of the power of electricity, not alone in the proper lighting of his place of business, bat In deliveries! well. The electric delivery truck will cut the costs of the distributor, and that will ultimately cut the cons tpjhc consumer. - f It is foolish to merely psdict ferjril things for the future Of elfcctricjfy while there are so many ways flf solving our sjroblems by0 it now. Wj arc on our way to great (discoveries as to new and simpler means of creating electrical carfey without the them make them so costly that only a few can possess them. , Heat and the ability to move rapidly from plasc to place are the two great necessities of process in this climajte. fBut muchif rbe pfoblem In SeliveV or.agooas u tne nousc srwnr iict not i ....I 1? In ..-. I ...n.ll --' 1 y-- scost and avith She minhryjn of repairs.. i see in ineowincEpuse or uk cicvjtic .. Oo . : . oenveio arctl. a very kimii si-w iiioiie i riuht direction, llvits ase.tli CSuaJI 2 i':b3wr mifco.JhP. withe tHe l times and cut his costs to minimum. Through its use price, to the ultimate purchaser will drop. We are nearing the edge ol a new geological era. Coal and oil Bra not going to last forever in quantities that ... .. I. . !..! n . .... I . I . " 1 " uiGu p i vov 1 1 . ,. ii .i u , a uu nus VBirnnt um tMM.ihlf,. Kr-n miw nnwa i. nn- mn nlnntifnl n. m nu .i I .... ."I'l-uov.) wnen an ine water power ot then; United States is put to work from thai smallest static head to th greatest cataract, the horse power producedf- : il ! , .i . i . . will uuij ojuai ilia . uow priKJUCCa Dyl the 900,000,000 tons of coal consumed! in ,Vi Ilnit-A Kf .... - U.J .... 1.1... ,twcd 'power alone will never give us enough) '87(wi uiaiuiam our present IDdua-t trial Ufa and lea v. mnv mm, , " v4 growth. . - j ' " - I We have got to make the fullest andl best UB0 sf Sh IwrW u. . command wh i In I ....... .-r.niHil(UIK wild , new ways of producing more. Onl of the first .tn. .n I ..I i ! eCOOomv In rlia-r,ki. . ' I I- 7 , ..tf J I T love America,' says Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, the great scientist and philosopher , of Sche nectady. , "It took' me, a crip- pled . boy, and gave me a chance. I have faith in it and, through my electrical inven tions, I want to help the America of the future. . "We will succeed soonest by giving everyone a chance. Prices must be lower, he waste of industri al lite must be less. We must do things in tfye most economical ..1.1 "1 vt '. t .k. ; -l,itt ii