Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1933 — Page 10

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—Dietz on Science — DISTANT STAR WILL LIGHT UP CHICAGO FAIR Rays Through Telescope to Operate Switch on Exhibit Grounds. BV DAVID DIETZ Scrlppt-lfouard Science Editor A star, 240 trillion miles away, will open the Chicago world's fair, or "Century of Progress' exposition, on June 1. The star is Arcturus. fourth brightest star in the northern hemisphere. You will find it in the eastern sky in the constellation by Bootes. Arcturus is so far away from the earth that its light, traveling 186,000 miles a second, or six trillion miles a year, takes forty years to reach us. This means that the beams of light which left Arcturus when the Columbian exposition was in session, just now are reaching the earth’s surface. That is why this particular star was chosen to open the exposition. On the night of June 1, astronomers at the Yerkes observatory will turn their 40-inch telescope, the largest refracting telescope in the world, upon Arcturus. Current Is Treated Actually, Arcturus is 100 times as bright as our sun, .but it is so far aw r ay that, the amount of energy reaching from Arcturus is equivalent to that which would be received from a candle flame five miles away. When the big telescope has been focused upon Arcturus, the eyepiece will be replaced with a photo-elec-tric cell. The photo-electric cell is sometimes called the electric eye. It is a glass tube, somewhat like the tubes in your radio set. The inner side of the glass is coated with potassium. When a light, strikes it, electrons are knocked out of the coating. These electrons, traveling to a metallic electrode, or "plate,” at the center of the tube, constitute a tiny electric current. The electrons which the light of Arcturus will be able to dislodge will be a current so feeble that it will be equal to about a millionth of the current flowing in an ordinary electric light bulb. Relayed to Switch But a special amplifying unit built of transformers and radio tubes much like those in an ordinary radio set will build up this current. It then will be sent from the Yerkes observatory over telegraph wires to the hall of science at the fairgrounds on Chicago's lake front. There the current will actuate a relay system which will turn on the switch for the great iight in the Hall of Science. It is appropriate that a scientific stunt be used to open the Chicago

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1. No. The psychological reason is that while a man thinks, in the enthusiasm of love, that all he will have to do is to lean on the woman, he finds, after marriage, he must come from within himself. He soon resents the idea that he can not stand on his own feet, and therefore refuses her counsel. The biological reason is that his unstable tendencies tend to be inherited by his children, or more especially by his grandchildren, and some good woman some day will have to reform them. It is a dangerous experiment, although millions of good, big-hearted women doubtless will continue to try it. 2. Such psychologists as Warden, Avlesworth, Yerkes, Thorndyke and others, have experimented on this with both animals and human beings. The general results seem to show that criticism, or some annoying punishment, does not directly improve work or learning,

fair, since the fair is devoted large--1 ly to celebrating the advances which have been brought about in the world during th<| last 100 years as a result of the march of science. There was no electric light in 1833, no electric motor, no automobile, no telephone and no radio. The things which we regard almost as necessities of life in 1933 were still l waiting to be invented, i Medical science was at a low ebb in 1833. Epidemics of typhoid, malaria and yellow fever \*%re common in many regions. The role of microbes in disease was not understood as it is today. Anesthetics had not yet come into use. Surgii cal methods were crude compared , with those of today. The world has found the dei pression hard to bear. Perhaps | many people have sighed for “the ! good old days.” But a calm com-

whereas praise seems directly to strengthen one’s learning. Criticism seems merely to bring up a picture of distress, and may lead to avoidance of a previous mistake, but praise seems positively to increase the speed and amount of learning. When criticism by a superior causes one to feel inferior, or afraid, it tends to block his mental and nervous processes. 3. Yes. The most recent proof is the study I mentioned recently by Drs. Hartshorne and May of Yale They tested 10,000 school children from 8 to 14 years of age for tendencies to lie, cheat, steal and help others. There was one golden thread that ran through it all; namely, that the higher the intelligence, the more they tended to think right and do their problems better and discover that doing right brings greater happiness. Therefore, cultivating the intelligence seems the surest way to develop character. parison of the present with the "good old days” reveals that they weren’t so good after all. Mankind has much to be thankful for in the progress of the physical and biological sciences. His next job is to see that the social sciences catch up with that progress, but as Mr. Kipling used to say, that is another story. SLAYER GETS 1-10 YEARS Prison Term Imposed on Negro After His Plea of Guilty. Prison term of one to ten years was imposed Thursday on Joe James, 31. Negro, 18264 West North street, on his plea of guilty before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker to the fatal stabbing of Walter Dillon, Negro, 405 West North street, on Oct. 2, 1932. The t.wo men fought as a climax of a quarrel over the affections of a woman. The fatal fight occurred on the canal bank at Indiana avenue, and Dillon fell into the water after being wounded.

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544 JOBLESS I HERE ENLISTED IN FOREST ARMY County Men Agree to Send $25 Monthly to Their Families. (Continued from Page One) istration the recruits will await a call from the United States army to go to recruiting stations in the i county for examinations. Following the examinations the men will be sent to reconditioning ; camps for preparation for their work in rehabilitation of state forects. Camp Knox, Ky„ will serve as Indi- | ana’s first depot for the quota of 6.500 from the state. | Fifty per cent of the youths who ! registered Thursday were between i the ages of 18 and 20, inclusive, i Twenty per cent were between the I ages of 24 and 25 years, inclusive, and 30 per cent of other ages. Two per cent declared they had i college education in questionnaires, i Fifty-two per cent had received high | school tutoring and 36 per cent only ! public school training. Forty-three per cent of the early applicants listed their last jobs as “laborers.” George E. Gill, manager of the Emergency Work Committee, Inc., is in charge of the registration at Tomlinson hall. Youths desiring to receive board and lodging and S3O monthly pay for reforestation work should apply to the headqaurters in Tomlinson hall between 8 and 5 daily, Gill said.

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Alcohol Makes Briton Human, Says Author

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By Timeft Special LONDON, April 21.—Moderate use of alcohol makes for sociability and agreeable companionship. It has a decidedly humanizing effect. That is the verdict of J. R. Priest.ey, British author. In a debate with Margaret Bonfield, who was minister of health in the former Labor government of Great Britain, Priestley ignored all figures of official character and declared that he, had found the average Englishman "much more human after a drink or two.”

DELAY CLOSING OF RUTH JUDD SANITY TRIAL State Fails to Have Last Witness in Court: Rest Is Taken. By Vnitcd Press COURTROOM, FLORENCE. Ariz.. April 21.—Conclusion of the lunacy of hearing of Winnie Ruth Judd, the result of which means death onthe gallows or imprisonment in a state asylum for the blond nurse, was unexpectedly delayed today when the state failed to have its final witness in court. The county attorney asked for a recess until this afternoon, and the court granted it over objections of attorneys for Mrs. Judd, who insisted the state should be forced to rest. "• The two most important of the state’s witnesses, Dr. Joseph Gatton and Dr. Paul Bowers, noted alienists, presented their testimony yesterday. The Judd defense claimed an important point in Dr. Catton’s testimony that Mrs. Judd is "60 per cent insane,” but he qualified this statement by describing types of mental instability and declaring that “by legal definition, I must describe her as sane.” Dr. Catton said he found Mrs. Judd suffering from "neurosis of the condemned,” a mental state often found among persons facing execution. Dr. Catton. resuming his testimony, said he did not believe Mrs. Judd suffered from dementia prae-

cox. and declared there was doubt in his mind as to whether her whole psychotic picture might not be fraudulent. "I firmly believe that the entire

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