HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THUR SDAY, AUG. 21, 1930.
PAGE THREE
WISE MEN
I spent a day In the research lab
oratories of the largest electrical
company in the world. If two hun
dred years ago anybody had predict
ed the marvels that can be seen
there today; the God-fearing citi
zens of the time would have burned
him as a witch.
For example, as you know, the
metal radium is constantly giving
off little particles which are called
electrons. The electron is Infinitely
smaller than the atom. Indeed, the
atom is a comparatively big propo
sition, a sort of universe with lots
of electrons flying around inside it.
Of course, neither the electron
nor the atom can be seen by any
Instruments which we have yet de
vised. But listen to this: The sci
entists in that laboratory have rig
ged up a radio apparatus, attached
to a loud speaker, which is so deli
cate that it can detect the flight of
electrons through the ether.
I held the dial of my wrist watch
against the microphone. The fig
ures on the dial are radium coated.
And I could hear the electrons
pounding Into the loud speaker like
a shower of hailstones on a tin rdof.
On another floor I sat in front of a
motion picture screen and saw talk
ing movies of three great scientists
of England, Sir Ernest Rutherford,
Sir William Henry Bragg, and Sir
Oliver Lodge.
Each one of them was photo
graphed in his own laboratory.
Each proceeded to perform certain
experiments and explain them. It
was thrilling to sit In the living pre
sence of such men and to think how
valuable those pictures will be to
future generations. Suppose there
had been a talking movie of Archi
medes demonstrating the lever, or
of Newton explaining the discovery
of gravitation!
But what stirred me most was
not the experiments which these
men performed but the spirit of
their talk.
Sir Oliver Lodge, for example,
picked up a little weight from his
laboratory table and let it drop with
a thud. "That experiment," he said,
"is the simplest that one could pos
sibly perform and yet there is hard
ly an experiment about which we
know less than we do about that."
And, he added, "You are not to
suppose that you understand things
because you call them names."
He proceeded to talk about the
mysterious properties of "empty
space," and he concluded with this
paragraph.
"If ever we find, as I think we
are beginning to find, that life and
mind need not be associated with
matter but can inhabit empty space,
then life will not be subject to the
troubles of a material organism and
existence will be perpetual."
As contrasted with many of our
smartest wise-crackers who know
everything, these wise men of sci
ence admitted frankly that we are
only on the furthermost borderland
of knowledge. And that anything
is possible even eternal life.
W. C. T. U. NOTES.
MARY A. NOTSON, Reporter.
The Literary Digest poll showed
a combined vote for repeal and
modification of prohibition of 53,537
and 38,624 for enforcement, in the
state of Iowa, thus placing Iowa in
the wet column. In the recent Re
, publican primary in Iowa, two can
didates for governor, Dan W. Tur
ner and Ed M. Smith, who were ap
proved by the drys, polled a total
of 342,228 votes, while State Senator
Otto Lange, who ran on a plat
form opposing the 18th amendment
polled only 22,445. Turner's vote
was 228,488, and Smith's vote was
113,740. The Digest poll showed
Florida wet by a vote of 34,782 for
repeal and modification and 15,921
for enforcement. Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, outspoken dry, daughter of
the great dry leader, William Jen
nings Bryan, received 39,960 votes
in the Democratic congressional
primary, to 10,590 votes for DeWitt
T. Deen who ran as a wet. The Di
gest poll showed Pennsylvania wet
by a vote of 379,296 to 147,557, more
than two and a half to one; yet. In
the primary election, Pinchot and
Davis, pronounced drys, won by big
majorities for governor and sena
tor, respectively.
The dairymen and Ice cream deal
ers seem to have good reason to
.thank prohibition for part of the
increase in the consumption of ice
cmam. The Industrial Bulletin
states that the people of the United
States eat almost $1,000,000 worth
of ice cream a day, a total of $350,
000,000 per year.
The Senate committee investigat
ing lobbies and lobbying took a look
in on the activities of the Associa
tion .Against the Prohibition
Amendment, which had proclaimed
a "nation-wide revolt" against pro
hibition. It developed that the
membership of this; organization
from whom no membership dues or
fees were required amounted to
only 150,000. The Association had
raised by c'ontributions the sum of
$424,091.30 to carry on their work
of defeating prohibition. Of this
great sum, $321,260, more than 75
per cent, was contributed by 52 men.
The investigation revealed that
these 52 men were millionaires and
multimillionaires, and that they
hoped to be relieved of paying in
come taxes by repealing prohibi
tion and having the Government
again tax liquors, thus making the
poor fellows with a thirst pay the
taxes for them. A nice bunch of
patriots they are.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE SAID
AID TO ENGLISH STUDY
Foreign languages, either modern
or dead, may be irksome to the
high school student but they prove
valuable in his mastery of English,
a survey of results of placement
tests in English at Oregon State
college indicates.
Records of 310 entering freshmen
have been studied, showing that 133
were deficient in English, 117 were
average and 60 superior. Of the
first group 44 per cent had had no
foreign language study, in the sec
ond group 21 per cent were without
it, while in the superior group all
but 5 per cent had taken at least
one foreign language course.
S. E. Graves, north Lexington
wheatraiser, was transacting bus
iness in the city Tuesday. He re
ports harvest well over with, and
was evidencing no gloom over the
showers.
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ACCIDENTS
The most dangerous occupation,
according to an industrial survey of
New York, is window-cleaning. The
chance of an accident to a window-
cleaner is nearly nine times as great
as that which the artisan making
fine machinery and instruments
runs, the latter being the least haz
ardous occupation.
Everybody who has ever watched
the window-cleaners at work on the
outside of a skyscraper has shud
dered at the thought of what would
happen If the worker's safety-belt
broke while he was cleaning the
thirtieth-story windows. The belts
do break, occasionally, or the clean
er's foot slips and he falls to his
death.
Window sash made wtih a pivot
ed interior frame which can be ro
tated so that both sides of the glass
can be cleaned from the inside are
use in a very few buildings. They
cost a little more than the ordinary
kind, but in a completely civilized
world their use will be compulsory.
FINGERPRINTS
Every reader of detective stories
knows that two individuals never
leave the same sort of fingerprints,
and that the fingerprint records of
the great police departments are or
ganized so that the Imprint of any
known criminal can be referred to
at once.
Few realize that in the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington is
maintained the largest internation
al collection of fingerprint records
in the world, comprising photo
graphs of the fingermarks of more
than 2,100,000 persons who have
been accused or suspected of crime.
Some have proposed that every
child's fingerprints be taken when
he first enters school, and preserv
ed as a permanent record of his
identity. There are many cases In
which such recrods would be inval
uable, but we are lax about such
things. Half of the states do not
even keep a record of births.
BOOKS
No more than three or four per
fect copies are known of the first
book printed from movable type,
Gutenberg's Bible. The United
States of America now owns the
finest example of this precious vol
ume. The last session of Congress
appropriated J1,000,000 with which
to buy the Vollbehr collection of
rare books, for the Library of Con
gress, which contains not only this
famous Bible but more than 3,000
other splendid examples of the work
of the earliest printers. It has been
estimated that it would cost more
than $5,000,000 to duplicate this col
lection, if duplication were possible.
A thousand years from now men
will point to these books and say:
"Here are the seeds of our civiliza
tion. It began when man learned
how to duplicatet knowledge by
printing and made it free to ail sorts
and conditions of men."
RADIUM
The world's most precious metal,
worth $2,000,000 an ounce,' now
comes exclusvely from the Belgian
Congo, in Africa. Originally dis
covered in pitchblende ores in the
Joachimstahl, Austria, radium was
for a while mined commercially in
Utah, but the discovery of a bed of
very rich uranium ore in Africa
has put the other producers out of
business and enriched the prospec
tors who made the lucky strike.
The cost of radium is due to the
difficulty of extracting It from the
ore and the danger in handling it
Radium's value is due to the fact
that it is constantly changing Into
other substances, and in the process
gives off rays and emanations.
These have effects upon the human
system similar to those of the x-ray.
Its use In medicine is still in its In
fancy, but commercially, as the ba
sis of luminous paint for the hands
of watches and clocks, air naviga
tion instruments and the like, the
demand is large. A single ounce is
enough to supply this industrial de
mand for several years, but no
amount of radium as large as one
ounce has ever been assembled in
one place.
COLOR
In the Middle Ages the rich mer
chants of Venice spent so much
money in painting their gondolas in
brilliant colors, trying to outshine
each other, that an edict was pass
ed by the Council of Ten that no
other color but black might be used
on these floating vehicles of the
Venetian canals. And alt gondolas
have been painted black for five
hundred years.
Some have wondered whether
there might not be a revival of the
old Venetian rivalry in the gaudy
colors of modern automobiles.
The matter is one of personal
taste.. Conservative people and
those who do not court attention
will always prefer black or plain
blue, while the spirit of youth and
modernity will continue to express
itself in gay green, yellow and red
cars.
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