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The Issue President Hoover’s denial that he is a d'fender of the power interests could be accepted more readily if it had not been made a few minutes before Ills secretary of the interior restored Frank E. Bonner to the government pay roll. This sounds like a minor item compared with the major conflict now under way between the senate and the President over the three federal power commissioners. Hoover, no doubt?, would like it to be ignored In the excitement of his wrathy attack upon the senate. But it goes through all the smoke and thunder to the very heart of the matter. There never has been the slightest doubt about Frank E. Bonner. Bonner, whose appointment as executive secretary of the outgoing power commission was made on recommendation of a power company official; Bonner, who recommended that the commission drop regulation of power company securities; Bonner, who tried to break up the commission’s accounting work; Bonner, who tried unsuccessfully to suppress opinions of Solicitor Russell, squeezing the water out of power company accounts, and then tried to have the position of solicitor abolished; Bonner, who, failing again, sent an investigator to Montana to try to smear Solicitor Russell’s reputation; Bonner, who told the senate the power companies “are being persecuted’’; Bonner, who as he saw his tenure of offlee drawing to an end, tried to get the commission to issue a “minor part license” to the Appalachian Electric Power Company, freeing that coiqpany and possibly three-fourths of all power companies from all regulation by the power commission. Bonner was dismissed by the new power commissioners. But so were King and Russell, the men who had tried to enforce the federal water power act over Bonner’s opposition. And now Bonner is welcomed back with open arms into the government service. King and Russell are left to And Jobs where they may. Hoover speaks the truth when he says the people will pass upon all this with unerring Judgment. His phrases about the duty of the executive to resist encroachments of the senate upon his prerogatives will not blind an electorate which showed last November its understanding of the underlying conflict. From the beginning there never has been a real issue In this quarrel except enforcement of the federal water power act. That was the issue when King and Russell refused to acquiesce In Bonner’s attempts to nullify the act. It was the issue when the President picked for his new federal power commission four men who knew nothing whatever about the intricate power law or the difficulties of enforcing it, and—for chairman—a man who had shown himself thoroughly a tractable bureaucrat. It was the issue when the senate reluctantly confirmed these men, failing to find in their undistinguished pasts an affirmative reason for not doing so. It was the issue when Smith, Gaxsaud, and Draper rushed to lake the oath of offlee and to dismiss from the commission King and Russell, who had resisted the power companies. It was the issue when the senate, acting in the only way an honest legislative body could act, reconsidered its confirmation of these men. It was the issue when Hoover elected to defend his three commissioners and defy the senate in its right to refuse to approve them. It was the issue when these self-discredited new “commissioners” secretly began consideration of the iniquitous “minor part license” case while the senate was voting them not fit for office. It was the issue when Hoover’s secretary, Wilbur, found a Job for the repudiated Bonner. And it will be the issue when the voters eventually “pass unerring Judgment’” on this power fight.

Our Slave Colony If Secretary of State Stimson never does anything else to be proud of, he has earned the lasting gratitude of all civilized people and of the black slaves of Africa by his ultimatum to the American protectorate in Liberia. At last the state department has co-operated In uncovering the system of forced labor and slavery operated by high Liberian officials, and has notified that government that continuance of such savagery will end the friendly relations between the two republics. Perhaps the most tragic of. these disclosures Is that Negro descendants of American slaves have been the vicious enslavers of their own race in Liberia, and that black is enslaved by black in Abyssinia. The cruelty of white men exploiting Negroes in backward countries Is somehow less surprising. All that the Liberian representative at the League of Nations can say is that conditions in his country are no worse than in those where white imperialistic governments permit the enslaving of upward of 3,000,000. The report of the mixed commission on forced labor In Liberia absolves the Firestone Rubber Company of responsibility. That American company, however, did permit the Liberian Government virtually to control Its labor supply, thus becoming indirectly a party to forced labor. Certainly this scandal should be a warning not only to the Firestone company, but to all othar American interests operating in Abyssinia and other slave countries,. As for the hypocrisy which has allowed the United States government to wink at Liberian slavery all these years, no condemnation can be too strong. A Financial Goliath That concentration of the money power now is much greater than in 1912, when congress investigated the so-called money trust, is the declaration of Lewis Corey in his new book, "The House of Morgan," recently published by Q. Howard Watt. This is the first time the Morgan power has been measured statistically since the Pujo investigation in 1912. The book, which combines history and economics in a searching study of the House of Morgan in the development of American business, and of the elder Morgan as a personality, ends with an analysis of the stock market crash of 1929 and the present-day power of the Morgans. At the basis of the Morgans’ larger financial power, according to Corey’s book, is the great series of mergers since 1920, which have concentrated industry beyond the pre-war levels. In 1927, 1,042 corporations, one-twentieth of 1 per cent of the total, received 51 per cent of all corporate profits. Industrial concentration, says Corey, is reflected in financial centralization and control. In 1929 twenty great banks and trust companies had combined resources equal to almost 30 per cent of the nations banking resources. Three Morgan banks (First National, Guaranty Trust and Bankers Trust) and two banks allied with

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the Morgana in the community-of-Interest system (National City and Chase National) had combined resources of $7,725,000,000, or 13, per cent of the total. In addition, the Morgan combination held Interlocking directorships In banks with aggregate resources of $20,000,000,000, or 35 per cent of all banking resources. The Morgan combination also held directorships in insurance companies with assets of $12,500,000,000, or 65 per cent of all insurance assets. In 1912 the money trust investigation revealed that J. P. Morgan & Cos. and their affiliated banks, by means of Interlocking directorships, had control or influence over corporations with assets of $22,000,000,000. In 1929 centralization had Increased more than three-fold—J. P. Morgan & Cos, and the five banks under their control or influence, by means of 167 persons, held more than 2,400 directorships in financial, industrial and utility corporations, with assets of $74,000,000,000, or 25 per cent of all corporate assets. Among these 167 directors are included most of Girard’s “Rulers of America.” J. P. Morgan <fc Cos. hold directorships in corporations with assets of $20,000,000,000, including the most important financial, industrial and utility corporations; while the three Morgan banks, Guaranty Trust, Bankers’ Trust and First National bank, hold directorships in corporations with assets of $67,000,300,000, and the Morgan allies, National City and Chase National banks, hold directorships in corporations with assets of $45,000,000,000. The Morgan combination, after eliminating duplications, thus holds directorships In corporations with net assets of $74,000,000,000, according to data in “The House of Morgan.” “J. P. Morgan & Cos.” says Corey, “do not exercise direct control over all the corporations In the system, but act as the balance wheel of the system; nor does J. P. Morgan Jr. possess the dictatorial power of his father. “The sy stem of financial centralization and control now Is more completely institutionalized than In the elder Morgan’s day, the dictatorship was c'igarchlcal. It Is a financial government beyond effective social control.” Nearing the President The time nears again when the President will have the power to say whether the Muscle Shoals Issue shall be settled. Hoover’ predecessor faced the same opportunity. He pocket-vetoed the Norris bill for government '.>pcration of the government’s power plant on the Tennessee river in Alabama. Now Hoover himself faces the problem—not in some remote manner, but directly. He can meet the question in one or two ways: He can order his Republican machine in the house to marshal the lame ducks into line and smother the Norris compromise—now tentatively agreed on in conference; or he can allow the house to exercise its own balanced Judgment and let the bill come to his desk—as it undoubtedly will do, unless there is presidential pressure through the Longworth-Tilson-Snell combination. This latter way is the one Hoover should choose. If the President meets the Norris compromise face to face, he will find that the Nebraskan has departed from his original proposal. He will not find the Norris bill which he has said he never would approve. He will find, instead, a proposal that allows the government to lease the part of the Muscle Shoals plant, and to operate another part. He will have to look long and hard to find convincing reason for a veto. Paul Mellon, son of the treasury secretary’, has decided to give up literature to work in his father’s bank. Certainly he’ll get more credit for whatever notes he writes. In Russia, where they have banished Santa Claus, long-bearded natives are said to find it increasingly difficult to evade suspicion.

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FRANCE has lost her three great war figures within the last few months, Clemenceau, Foch and Joffre, and the passing of the great trio recalls the Jealousy that besets those high in the military world. a a a All three of these men were indispensable to France and in her preservation there was room enough for all, but you wouldn’t think so, according to the strife which has raged about them ever since the armistice. a b b Joffre was hailed as the savior of France when he stopped the Germans within thirty miles of Paris and hurled an attack against them which sent them back, never to return, but before long another was being hailed as the hero of that curcial fight. a a a VITHEN Joffre was given a high-sounding but err. ty assignment and, according to his friends, he was shelved by those who did not want him to climb too high Sure it is that he carried through his later years a sense of outrage and that’s not a very congenial mate for declining years. a a a As for Foch and Clemenceau, they hated each other, and their resentment broke forth in their writings. In fact, it was likely the chief inducement for them to sit down and write their impressions of the great conflict. a r a Such envy seems inseparable from war, ancient as well as modern, for all great conquerors have known and said that those who flattered them in their glory would turn and rend them at the very first opportunity’. t a a a During our American wars the generals have sat up late to hate each other. You still hear the rumblings of the jealousies which existed among the World war leaders, and it was the same during the Spanish war. a a a DURING the Civil war Lincoln was pestered constantly and the cause of the Union was imperiled by the plots and hates among Union generals, and finally when he promoted Hooker to command, Lincoln openly accused him of disloyalty to his former commander. a a a And during the American Revolution, it was a fright. That’s so long ago, it seems as If all was harmony, but Washington was provoked as no other leader of such a cause ever was. There was a foul conspiracy against him and a man of less self-control would have told the colonists to take their old war and run it themselves. a a a But while the generals have been fighting among themselves, the common soldiers have been lighting and dying with undivided loyalty. And whole the generals are quarreling as to who won this or that battle, let us tell them that no blooming general ever won any battle—the private soldiers won them all *

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Theoretically, We Have Three Branches of Government, But in Practice They Constantly Are Colliding With One Another. Albuquerque, n. m., Jan. 12. —The controversy now going on between President Hoover and the senate over three members of the recently appointed power board involves questions which go to the very bottom of our governmental structure, and which have been raised at one time or another ever since its establishment. Theoretically, we have three separate and distinct branches of government—executive, legislative and judicial—but in practice they constantly are colliding or interfering with one another. Generally speaking, the net result has been increased power for the President and the courts, while congress has been driven to waste more and more time criticising, probing and meddling to preserve its prestige. Most European countries have attempted to solve the problem by making other branches responsible to legislative authority. If this controversy had arisen in France or England, the legislature would have had its way, even though it might have been forced to oust the entire cabinet. # * a Mess on Power Board THE underlying cause of this controversy appears to be doubt on the senate’s party that the three members in question, who constitute a majority of the power board, will pursue such policy as it desires. The senate was moved to doubt, and rightly so, I think, by the fact that they began proceedings with the unexpected and apparently uncalled for discharge of two veteran employes. To satisfy Itself on this point, as well as to clear up some others, the senate requested President. Hoover to resubmit their names, so that it could reconsider their confirmation, which the President refuses to do, on the ground that they had been confirmed regularly, that they were constitutionally in office, and that such request represented encroachment on the rights of the executive. The senate, or some of its members at least, now Is toying with the idea of not appropriating money for their salaries, and there you are.

A Futile Row TO a layman, it looks like a rather futile rumpus and one which might easily have been avoided. In the first place, the senate might have been more careful of whom it confirmed. In the second, it might have enacted a law that would leave no doubt as to what it wanted bjr way of a power policy and no room for a power board to misconstrue what it wanted. The fact that it is disappointed with three members whom it approved without much ado, while it is well pleased with the very one whose eligibility it was most inclined to question, suggests that the senate’s own judgment is not altogether reliable. Tho fact that we lack a sufficiently well-defined power policy to know with any precision what the power board is going to do, and are forced to fall back on the individual opinions and attitudes of its members, suggests that neither the senate nor congress has covered itself with glory in endeavoring to solve the problem. nan Policy Is Lacking IF this is going to become a government of boards and bureaus which formulate their own programs, make their own rules, and write their own tickets, then we might as well settle down to the idea that picking men is the most important job. If we still are sold on the original plan to operate this government as one of laws and not of men, the necessity of giving more thought to the kind of laws we make is obvious. It is hard to believe that congress could not have formulated a sound, constructive power policy by this time, if it had tried—a policy that would have permitted only one interpretation and worked only one way, no matter who was on the board. Whether with regard to power, interstate commerce, unemployment or anything else, this idea of delegating legislative authority to boards and bureaus is not only pernicious from the standpoint of the particular task in hand, but because of its effect on the general character of our government.

Daily Thought

For the love of money is the root of all eivL —I Timothy 6:10. The dangersg ather as the treasures rise.—Dr. Johnson. When was solder invented? There are no references to the origin of solder but probably it hes been in use since the discovery of lead and tin. W. H. Pulsifer in his book, "Notes on the History of Lead," quotes Wilkinson as authority for the statement that the only instance of lead in the ruins of ancient Egypt is in its use in soldering. The date of the oldest specimen is uncertain, but it is ascribed "to the time of the Pharoahs." When were the prohibition laws in Maine and Kansas enacted? The first Maine law on prohibition was passed and approved by Governor Hibbard. June 2, 1851. Kansas amended its state Constitution by adopting a prohibition section by popular vote in 1880, and the state legislature, Feb. 17, 1881, passed a prohibition law in harmony with the amendment. What will rid clothing of the odor of gasoline? Hang it in the sun and wind for an hour or more. If the odor does not completely disappear, hang the garment in a heated room until it does. Does the king of Italy have any authority over the Vatican city? No, the pope has full temporal power in the Vatican state. Should the initials M. D. be In capital or small letters after a physician's name? Capitals.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Infected Teeth Lead to Rheumatism

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. T3DAY medical investigators are giving more attention to rheumatism and rheumatic disorders than ever before in the history of medical science. There are clinics in every large medical center for studying and treating this disease. One of the reasons for this attention, as pointed out by Dr. Ralph Pemberton, is the realization of the fact that pain in the joints and in the muscles and many of the other conditions generally classified as rheumatic are responsible for a tremendous amount of disability in industrial workers and that the cost is a great economic problem. In true scientific medicine, the method of attack on the disease is first to discover the cause and then to attempt to eliminate the cause, rather than to treat the symptoms. Os course, a competent physician can relieve the patient of his pain

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

INEVEH, have been among those who pointed the finger of scorn at Calvin Coolidge, the newspaper columnist. It seems to me that he represents a definite point of view and that he expresses the philosophy of this group with a good deal of clarity and, at times, unusual courage. I say “courage” because he often marshals his forces and leads them into a position where they must be exposed to raking fire on either flank. Mr. Coolidge Is, of course, a conservative, and it is an excellent thing that conservatism should have its say. To a large extent we have come to think of the conservative merely as a man who is against something and who has no program of his own. In some minds he is little better than a flagpole sitter. But a Nicholas Murray Butler or a Calvin Coolidge is actually more articulate than a Shipwreck Kelly. a a a Grows Warm FOR instance, in the New York Tribune, Mr. Coolidge w’as quite clear in stating his attitude on public ownership. He wrote: “The government never has shown much aptitude for real business. The congress will not permit it to be conducted by a competent executive, but constantly Intervenes. “The most free, progressive and satisfactory method ever devised for the equitable distribution of property is to permit the people to care for themselves by conducting their own business. They have more wisdom than any government.” This, I take it, is a fair expression

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PESTALOZZI’S BERTH January 12

ON Jan. 12, 1746, Johann Pestalozzi, a Swiss educational reformer and the chief founder of modern pedagogy, was bom at Zurich. He first became interested In the problems of education at the University of Zurich. When he married a few years later, and settled down on his 100-acre estate, he decided to study the child problem at first hand by turning his farm into an asylum for the industrial education of the young. The venture proved a failure. After a period of eighteen years of financial distress and corresponding period of great literary activity, he founded, with governmental support, a school for poor children at Stanz. Later he conducted schools in other cities. The idea which lay at the basis of his method of intellectual instruction was that everything should be treated in a concrete way. Almost all Pestalozzi’s methods now are adopted in the elementary schools of Europe and America. 4

How About It?

and give him back the function of his limbs by the use of appropriate remedies while attempts are being made to discover the exact causes. It already is recognized that a tendency to this disorder may run in families, because certain types of people are more frequently attacked by the disease than others. It is recognized that the condition is not merely inflammation in one joint, but that profound changes take place throughout the human body, affecting the blood, the other fluids in the body, and tissues sometimes far removed from the spot in which the pain is localized. For years it has been understood that infection in the teeth and in the tonsils might be responsible for setting up inflammations far distant. It now is recognized that these factors are of the greatest importance and should be controlled when present, but that infections may exist in other parts of the body and be directly related to pains in the joints.

for conservative opinion. But it seems curious to me how closely it approaches the doctrine of the most radical of all political thought. I refer, of course, not to Communism, but to the philosophy of anarchism. Mr. Coolidge doesn’t meet the prophets of an unfettered Utopia all the way. But he goes a little distance in their direction. It is not quite the same thing to advocate no government it all as it is to say, as the ex-President does, that government is a necessary evil. But this much the conservative and the ultra-radical share. Both make a distinction between the people and the government. Each labors under the impression that government is, in some respects, an alien thing. Thus we find Mr. Coolidge declaring that "they have more wisdom than any government.” a a a Who Are ‘They’? BUT just who are "they?” Isn’t he referring to the men and women w r ho elect aldermen and mayors, representatives and senators and the President himself? If they are so shrewd about operating their own business, why should they be so singularly dumb in selectting executives for local and national affairs? I will be told that one function is personal and the other a delegated matter. Still, even in business on a moderate scale, no single individual handles all the affairs himself. The owner of a corner grocery store must have a clerk to take charge of the shop while he’s out to lunch. And in picking the clerk he takes some pains to get hold of a man who can add figures and handle customers and operateithe cash register. It seems to me that when all the corner grocers go out to vote they might apply somewhat the same process of selectivity in choosing men to frame a tariff. Even Calvin Coolidge is aware of the fact that the government of the United States has engaged in business and must continue to do so. "Our largest government business is the postoffice,” he writes, "in which the receipts rise and fall extensively.” I don’t know whether he is disposed to blame this variability upon government mismanagement. If tlie postoffice were run by a private corporation I have no dcubt that it, too, would have good, years and bad years. I even suspect that under private enterprise there might come a period of inflation in which the concern would turn out so many 2-cent stamps that we should all become stamp poor and have a postoffice panic. There is some logic in the anarchists’ point of view if one accepts the premise upon which he and Mr. Coolidge found their philosophy. If government is largely incompetent to handle vital factors in national life, then, obviously, we should have as little government as possible. Or, better yet, none at all. But the position of Columnist Coolidge 1s compromised by the fact that, in spite of his Tuesday gloom,

Apparently the blood supply in the rheumatic person is net up to normal standard. The fact that there Is decreased blood flow in the parts of the body affected may explain the added discomfort expressed by people with rheumatism when there are changes in the weather. Dr. Pemberton has emphasized for many years the relationship which the food intake of the body bears to rheumatic disorders. If the gastro-intestinal function is improved, and the burden lowered by cutting down the intake of food, particularly substances which are difficult to digest, there comes not infrequently improvement in the rheumatic condition. If thus is obvious that there is no single cure for arthritis to be found in a bottle of any kind of medicine, but that every patient with the disease must be studied as a unit and treated according to the condition which exists in him as an Individual, rather than In all human beings with rheumatism.

Ideal* and opinion* expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most Interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are given over largely to declarations that this is the finest government ever devised by man and probably the best that can be achieved by humankind. (Copyright, 1931, by The Times)

Questions and Answers

Who were selected for the allAmerica football team in 1929? Since the death of Walter Camp, whose annual selection of an allAmerica college football team was generally regarded as official, practically every sports writer has made an annual selection of such a team. This has resulted in scores of such teams being published, but none have ever attained' the recognition accorded the selections of Walter Camp. There was no official allAmerica football team for 1929. How ean Ink stains be removed from wood? Try the following: Put a few drops of spirits of niter (nitric acid) in a teaspoon of water, touch the spot with a feather dipped in the mixture, and when the ink disappears rub the spot immediately with a rag wet in cold water, or it will leave a white mark. It should then be polished. How many colleges, universities and professional schools are there in Ohio? Fifty-seven were reported by the United States office of education in 1927-28. What does the name Geraldine mean? It is a feminine form of the Teutonic name Gerald, and means "strong with the spear.”

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JAN. 12, 1931

SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ—

Einstein Expected to Be in Spotlight of World News Again in 1981. PREDICTIONS always are dangerous. But it seems reasonably safe to hazard the opinion that. Prof. Albert Einstein will furnish the big scientific news of 1931. A review of scientific events for the past year reveals that the German theoretical physicist was the “big news” of 1930, just as he had been in 1929, and ten years before that, in 1919. Einstein’s ability to hold the public eye is perhaps one of the chief marks of his greatness. One read during 1930 with surprise of the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the theory of relativity. The theory seems so new, so ultramodern, and yet it is a quarter century old. It was in 1905 that Einstein first proposed his special theory of relativity, the same year in which, by the way, he published another epoch-making paper which led to the development of the quantum theory, a theory quite as revolutionary as relativity. The quantum theory holds that energy consists of tiny particles and not Waves. It upsets classical notions of mechanics, just as relativity overturns old notions of space, time, ard motion. In 1915, Einstein extended the special theory of relativity into ♦•he general theory of relativity. ; ‘s general theory contained the n-e----diction of the shift of star images on eclipse photos, the verification of which led to Einstein’s fame after the end of the World war. a a a The Field Theory H 'HE year 1929 saw the publicatlon of Einstein’s “field theory* Great crowds in Berlin bought copies of the theory as it was Issued in the form of an eight-page pamphlet bound In a brownish-yellow paper cover Several New York newspapers had sample pages from It sent over the Atlantic by radio It was somewhat difficult to read these radioed pages, but that mattered little, since the mathematical symbols in them were as strange to almost every one as Egyptian hieroglyphics Complete title of the pamphlet, a copy of which reposes in this writer’s library, is “Zur Einheithlichen Feldtheorie.” The theory represented an attempt to show the connection between gravitational and electromagnetic phenomena. Einstein showed how the laws governing both sets of phenomena could be derived from one common mathematical equation. The year 1930 brought forward no new scientific theories from Einstein, but Instead increased public interest in him as a result of the homage paid him by great thinkers of the world and as a result of a number of utterances from the great scientist upon the subjects of religion, philosophy and world affairs. There also was much important scientific work during 1930 which tended to confirm and strengthen the Einstein theory of relativity. Interest also attached to the fact that an effigy of Einstein was carved over the door of the new “Rockefeller” church in New York, along with images of angels, saints, and great figures of the past. # a a a American Visit EINSTEIN’S decision to visit America and his subsequent arrival in New York were the chief items of world gossip as 1930 drew to a close. It Is the fact that Einstein is going to spend his time in America in Pasadena at the California Institute of Technology and the nearby Mt. Wilson observatory that inclines this writer to predict that Einstein again will furnish headlines for the newspapers in 1931. The most important tests of the Einstein theory have been made at Mt. Wilson. It was there that Dr. Charles E. St. John established the existence of the so-called Einstein shift in the spectrum lines of the: sun. , One of the great advances of astronomy in 1930 was the confirmation of the curvature of space predicted by Einstein. This work was a joint venture of the astronomers at Mt. Wilson and the mathematicians at the California Institute of Technology. In Pasadena, Einstein will be in daily conversation with these men. He also will be with Dr. R. A. Millikan, discoverer of the cosmic rays, and with Professor Albert A. Michelson, who devised the experiment upon which the relativity theory was originally predicated. Michelson is at Mt. Wilson to make another determination of the speed of light. An exchange of ideas among such geniuses of the scientific woild is bound to produce results. At Mt. Wilson,, the world’s largest telescope and some of the most skillful astronomers in the world are at Einstein’s service. The California Institute of Technology offers Einstein marvelous laboratory equipment and the cooperation of brilliant physicists and mathematicians. The world will watch the result with interest.