Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1939 — Page 15

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939

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Hoosier Vagabond

SILVER CITY, N. M, Dec. 5—Some five years ago, when we first began to know and love the Southwest, we carried around with us a book called "Sky Determines.” It wasn't fiction and it wasn't biography and it wasn't a murder thriller—it was a kind of essay on the sand and air and cactus and white sun of the Southwest. It was practically our Southwestern Bible for a couple of years. ~ It was written by a Dr. Ross Calvin. I had heard that he lived in Silver City, that he was a learned man with a Ph.D, and that he was a minister. For five years I've said that if we ever came to Silver City I wanted to meet Dr. Calvin. And meet him we did. I don’t know what I thought he would be like, but whatever it was, he isn't like that. He is tall and slender and handsome and youngish looking for his nearly 50 years. He wears a gray business suit and clerical collar, and is the kind of almost dashing young rector you read about in English novels. He has none of the slowness of the Southwest. He is a bundle of action. Whatever he's doing, he does with a vim that finally winds him up into a

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Suffers From Insomnia

Probably because of this, he has been for 10 years the victim of a dreadful insomnia. He goes for weeks with almost no sleep at all. The more tired he gets, the less he can sleep. Sometimes he thinks he'll go crazy from desperation. It was a form of this nervousness that brought Dr. Calvin to the Southwest 12 years ago. He yas serving a parish in New York State—and he lost his voice. He thought the climate, and some rest and quiet in this big land out here, might help him. He came intending to stay three months. Today he is pointed to as one of the Southwest's most competent authorities, and he never expects to leave. His voice is all right.

Our Town

MRS. DORIS H. LYTLE of Goodwill Industries, Inc, certainly had me fooled. I went prepared to find an elderly austere lady of the monumental type and discovered a woman decidedly on the alkaline side. She didn't even wear a pair of spectacles. Nor did she betray her Boston training. That's how attractive she is. Someday, maybe, I'll know enough not to carry my precons ceptions around with me. Goodwill Industries was started more than 40 years ago by the Rev. Helms, pastor of a little church in the slums of Boston. That year his parishioners needed food and clothing and so Mr. Helms started out with a gunny sack to beg old clothes and shoes fro.a the housewives of Back Bay. Some of the things he picked up were fit to wear and others needed patching badly. That gave Mr. Helms his big idea. He hired destitute people to do the patching, sold the reconditioned clothes, and turned the money thus obtained back into the pockets of those who had done the mending.

Six Years Old Here

Pretty soon he did the same thing with any and everything people wanted to get rid of like old hats, for instance, and furniture, books and even toys. He sent out so-called Goodwill Bags and asked the housewives all around Boston to stuff them with cast-off things. Behind the pantry door was a good place to hang the bag, he said. The enterprise flourished like everything. In no time at all he needed a wagon to collect his bags. Finally it grew into a fleet of trucks—first in Boston, then in Brooklyn, then in St. Louis and San Francisco—until today there are more than a hundred Goodwill Industries in all parts of the world. Even Shanghai, China (or wherever it is today), has one. Indianapolis got into the picture six years ago. Today it has five Goodwill stations scattered all over town. The only one I know anything about is Head-quarters-——the one located in the old building, 625

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Disgust which has swept the country over Soviet Russia's attack on Finland knocks the Communists completely out of the picture in America. Fellow travelers and left-wingers are busy

now rooting out and shaking off known Communists. They have at last had to under take a purge in self-defense. Morris Ernst, the well-known liberal lawyer, has been working on Rep. Martin Dies to interest him in using his investigation to bring out the differentiation between home-grown American liberalism and alien communism. The argument is that in this way a real service can be rendered to democracy. Liberals who criticize the Dies Committe2 do so largely because they feel it is firing buckshot at liberals and Communists alike, with the effect of bringing into disfavor salutary liberal groups devoted to no more pernicious purpose than to make American democracy function more equitably. Liberal groups on the Pacific Coast are working to clear themselves of Communist infiltration, following the same course that John L. Lewis finally had to take in the C. I. O.

Liberal Groups Useful

Unquestionably, until recently, there has been readv tolerance, to use the mildest word, of Communists among many liberal groups. That has brought them nothing but trouble. It is now clear that they must clean house and stand as strictly American democratic groups. ; These liberal organizations—though pooh-poohed by practical politicians—serve a useful purpose. They are the yeast of democracy. It is largely through such

My Day

WASHINGTON, Monday.—Many years ago, when I was young, I began joining organizations. At that time I gave very small amounts of money, a good deal of work, and my reasons for joining usually were that a friend I trusted asked me to help. As the years have gone on, I have belonged to a great variety of organizations and I have stopped contributing to some and stopped working for some, In the past, the reasons for doing that were usually, first, that I did not think the amount accomplished for the money spent was sufficient. Second, that I came to think the work being done was not necessary because of other organizations in the field. Third, that I came to believe that the organization was functioning primarily for the benefit of one individual who ran the organization and whose interest was purely personal. All of us, in greater or less degree, make up the membership and the financial support of various organizations, but a new element has entered into the question of how we decide on the propriety of joining an organization, whether patriotic, civic or charitable. Any of these organizations may suddenly be declared Communist, or fronts for Communist or Fascist work.

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By Ernie Pyle

Dr. Calvin knows ranchers and miners and trappers and desert rats for scores of miles around. He was a track star in his college days, and he can still walk your head off over a mountain trail. When he’s scouting the country he wears a leather jacket and high boots. The yen to write has never left Dr. Calvin. He is working on another book now. The book “Sky Determines” dealt with the effect of the climate on the land. His new work goes into what man has done to the land. What man has done isn't so nice, either. Dr. Calvin's church is the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. His flock is small. People in a mountainous mining region just don't seem to go to church very much. It worries Dr. Calvin. 8 = ”

Recovers From Accident

His chief hobby is botany, and he is an authority on the plant growth of the whole Southwest. Also, he is a photographer of almost professional ability, And where he finishes, Mrs. Calvin begins. She takes his desert photos and colors them—real oil paintings.

She more than pays for their hobby by selling these paintings all over the Southwest, under the trade name of “Rector Pictures.”

Bach year the Calvins take a long trip. Sometimes it's back east to see Mrs. Calvin's Philadelphia chums, and on to New England for friends of old school days. But usually they go to California or just roam the arid Southwest which they love. This summer came very near being their last trip anywhere. They were out on the California desert, on their way back from the San Francisco Exposition, and a front tire blew out. The car turned over twice. Dr, Calvin was hurled two car lengths through the air and landed in the middle of the pavement on his ear. He lay in the hospital for two weeks, and for six solid weeks he was deaf in that ear. But now his hearing has come back and everything seems all right. The best part about Dr. Calvin I've left to the last. He was born ana raised at Chrisman, Ill, 10 miles west of that well-known metropolis of Dana, Ind.. which also produced a man who is exceptionally good and brave and learned. You just can’t get ahead of us prairie boys.

By Anton Scherrer

Fletcher Ave. which once upon a time housed the Second Baptist Church. It's the unit run by Mrs. Lytle. Her husband, the Rev. Howard G. Lytle, is the executive secretary. He helps her in her work and, in return, she helps him run the Fletcher Place Methodist Church of which he is pastor—as sweet an arrangement as any I know of around here. Goodness only knows how the Lytles find time to run a home besides. It's worth anybody's time to look up Mrs. Lytle and examine her stock of reconditioned merchandise. You'll find everything under the sun, I ran across “My Little White Kitties,” a Currier and Ives print, to say nothing of an 1895 edition of “Trilby” with all of Du Maurier's original illustrations. And, believe it or not, I saw a copy of “Chester Rand,” as good a story as Horatio Alger ever wrote. She even has a shelf of canned goods. The day I was down, a dime would have bought a quart of preserved cherries. ” = 2

An Interesting Find

You can pick up all kinds of furniture, too—even antiques, unless Mrs. Sam Sutphin should beat you to them. Not long ago Mrs. Sutphin telephoned the Goodwill people (Drexel 2725) that she wanted to get rid of a white-painted chest of drawers. The sooner the better. Said she was tired of looking at it. When Frank St. Clair, one of Mrs. Lytle's expert cabient makers, examined it, he decided to peel the paint and, sure enough, he uncovered an antique of solid bird's eye maple. The Goodwill people offered to return Mrs. Sutphin’s gift, but she wouldn't listen to it. She bought it back and paid a handsome price for it, you bet. Thus far this year, the Indianapolis Goodwill Industries has sold over $17,000 worth of reconditioned merchandise. Which is the same as saying that it gave employment to more than 500 needy people. All you have to do to co-operate with Mrs. Lytle is to ask for a Goodwill Bag, put it back of the pantry door and start stuffing it. A filled bag, says Mrs. Lytle, will mean approximately one-half day of honest work for men and women who, because of their age or physical or social handicaps, cannot find employment elsewhere,

By Raymond Clapper

aggressive groups that new ideas are agitated and forced into the national area of discussion. The two established political parties are reluctant, and with reason, to espouse new causes. Direct elections of Senators, women's suffrage, child-labor restrictions, social insurance and prohibition were advocated by small groups long before they were taken up by either major party. With the attack on Finland, the Communist fraud has been exposed and the doctrinaire talk which has infested political discussion in America in recent vears becomes even more hollow than before. We are likely to get rid of most of this talk of ideologies and return to indigenous thinking, to the true American philosophy which is intensely practical—pragmatic is the parlor word. ”

The American Way

The American rule is to find the practical compromise between individual freedom and the requirements of living in close quarters with one another. You don’t need a building code on the farm. But downtown in a big city a man simply can’t erect any kind of building he wishes that might seriously damage his neighbor's property. So you have a building code, a restriction on individual freedom, but a practical restriction. Where private enterprise proves inadequate, we put

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By Robert D. Potter

Science Service Physics Writer

ate atomic particles 50 times as potent as those from radium and which would permit a frontal attack on a colossal scale against the nuclei of the

atoms.

The penetration of the secrets of the mysterious cosmic rays by literally creating them, to some degree, in the laboratory, the possibility of the production of practical atomic power and the transmutation of the elements of the kind that ancient alchemists dreamed about; all these are among the potentialities of the enormous cyclotron which Prof. Lawrence now seeks to build. The youthful University of California professor, only 38 years old, was far from his laboratory even before the Noble Prize recognition to something which scientists everywhere have long realized; that the cyclotron is one of the most versatile devices ever invented for studying the constitution of matter, He was out in the world of big business and finance arguing, explaining and planning for $750,000 to make possible the construction of this 2000 to 3000-ton giant Even while this trip was in progress his laboratory already possessed two other cyclotrons, weigh= ing 85 and 200 tons, the latter the largest in the world today and only just placed in operation

DRY FORGES IN ‘UNITED FRONT

Indiana Society Will Form County Councils and Select Candidates.

A new dry organization has been formed in Indiana and will prepare immediately to organize county councils for the selection of primary and general election Legislature candidates. The organization met yesterday at the Indianapolis Y. W. C. A. and took the name of the Indiana Council of United Dry Forces. Its platform will be the election of a dry Legislature in 1940 and the passage of a township and county local option bill in the 1941 Legislature. Fifteen church, civic and specific temperance bodies were represented at the meeting. They included the Indiana Feder-

the government, local or Federal, to work—as with TVA and as with countless municipally owned util- | ities. Yet if our telephone system works satisfactorily, | and any American who has traveled abroad will agree that it does—it becomes foolish to switch it to public ownership. To say that all things should be owned privately or that all things should be owned publicly is doctrinaire. The American way is to use the method that works best. To talk about socialism versus private capitalism in such matters is to fan the air with meaningless words.

By Eleanor Rooscvelt

Therefore, the question arises—what is our duty when we are simply in sympathy with the apparent ob-

ation of Church Women, the State Y. M. C. A. organization, Indiana Pastors’ Conference, Parent-Teach-ers Congress, Indiana Council of Christian Education, Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. Women's organizations were represented from the following churches: The Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Church of the Brethren, United Brethren, Disciples of Christ and Reformed Churches. Plans are being made for another Council meeting later and a possible state convention early in 1940.

PROFESSOR AT I. U. TEXTBOOK AUTHOR

jectives of an organization and we are asked to make, a small contribution? It seems to me that if we find one or two names of people on the letterhead, we have reason to believe are reputable people, we are! justified in contributing and are not really open to attack as part of a subversive organization if it should develop later that a number of people in the organization have affiliations with undesirable groups. If, on the other hand, we give our names to ap-| pear on the letlerhead of an organization and work | with it actively, we have a more serious obligation. A conscientious person reads all the publications put out by said organizations, attends as many meetings as possible, knows as many peopie working in the! organization as possible. Something which was said many years ago applies in this instance: “By their works ye shall know them.” When an organization stands up under this’ amount of investigation, I fail to see how there can, be hidden either a communistic or fascist program. It is true that there might be a number who might! willingly work for the objectives of an organization and yet belong openly or secretly to subversive groups, | but you cannot fight shadows and you must wait until you find the objectives of an organization are being changed or interfered with. If I remember rightly, even Judas Iscariot was used and in the end he repented! r sid

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Dec. 5— A colloid chemistry textbook has just been written by Dr. Robert J. Hartman, member of the Indiana University chemistry faculty. The textbook, published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., presents the “fundamentals of colloidal phenomena in such a manner that they can be understood not only by students of advanced chemistry, but also by students in allied sciences,” the publishers say. Simultaneous with its publication, the book was adopted by the University of London, Stanford University, Syracuse University and the University of Illinois.

KILLED AT OIL FIELD

NEW HARMONY, Ind, Dec. 5 (U. P.).—Roy Hartman, 43, a Casey, Ill, oii field worker, was killed yesterday when a pole fell from a drilling rig and struck him.

HE most powerful atom smasher ever conceived by the mind of man, that would dwarf present similar devices 10 or 15 times and whose huge electromagnet would weigh between 4,000,000 and 6,000,000 pounds, is the new project on which Prof. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, newest Nobel Prize winner in physics, is now hard at work. This device is an enormous cyclotron that would cre-

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HE huge magnet of a 2000-ton cyclotron would be the size of a small home, 34 feet long, 25 feet high and 13 feet wide. The pole pieces of the electromagnet would be nearly 11 feet across. Some 244 tons of copper would be required in the windings. In tentative plans this giant cyclotron to end all cyclotrons would be buried in a hillside near the Berkeley campus of the University of California to provide better shielding of the surrounding neighborhood from its piercing radiations. What manner of apparatus is a electron that any man has the temerity to ask for $750,000 to construct one? And what worth has such an instrument that makes other men listen with reasonable sympathy to plans calling for research funds exceeded only by those needed to found a great astronomical observatory? The answer to that story goes back to a September day in Berkeley, Cal., in 1930 when young 29-year-old Dr. Lawrence stood up before the nation's top-flight scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences, meeting there, and explained his hopes and dreams for an almost toy-like device for accelerating charged atomic particles. He hoped, Dr. Lawrence said, to build for a small sum a kind of

A new view of the world's largest and newest cyc lotron, the 200-ton giant of the University of California, showing the vacuum chambers down which the atomic particles are speeded with energies as great as 32 million electron volts after they have been accelerated in great spirals in the cyclotron proper,

Nobel Winner Plans Biggest Atom Smasher Yet Built

magnetic and electric slingshot device that would whirl atomic particles around and around in spiral paths and, twice each revoation, speed them up by electrical “kicks.”

His early plans envisicned the attainment of a million electron volts of energy by a series of small electrical “kicks.”

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NOWN first as a resonance accelerator this experimental model shortly gained the name of cyclotron. Based on its success came a larger instrument whose magnet weighed 85 tons. Alpha particles having energies of 16,000,000 electron volts were obtained with this apparatus.

The large electromagnet of this unit was originally built during the World War for use in a huge radio transmitter which the Chinese government planned to construct. Never delivered, the magnet lay unused and eventually— with alterations—went at the task of keeping atomic particles whirling in their spiral paths. Out of the success of the 85-ton unit, which produced artificial radioactivity in a whole host of normally stable elements, came plans for a complete and separate radiation laboratory that would house a still greater 200-ton cyclotron. This new unit, just completed, works so successfully that it immediately created particles having energies of 32,000,000 electron volts. With a few adjustments alpha particles having energies of perhaps 50,000,000 electron volts can probably be secured. Ahead and beyond the range of this newest cyclotron and capable of attack only by a huge 2000ton cyclotron is the problem of attacking the barred domain of nuclei that defies all atomic projectiles having energies less than a hundred million electron volts. Physicists already know that such energetic particles do strange

Poinsettia, From Mexico,

Is Favorite

Local florists began preparing for their biggest season—Christmas— just 11 months ago. Easter runs second as a “flower” holiday. The poinsettia, discovered by a doctor of the same name in the 19th century, has become America's Christmas flower. The good doctor during a trip to Mexico in the 1850s reached the top of a mountain one day and looking down saw a valley of red far below. Taking some of the plants, he brought them back to the “states” and now florists have gone so far as to develop a white poinsettia. Wiegand, Inc., who have some 4000 of the plants, explained that the flower is started from a mother plant in February. The scarlet plants often grow 5 or 8 feet tall and their blossom spreads almost a foot and half wide. Except the blossom really isn’t a blossom— it's leaves that have turned red. The actual blossom is small and forms the hub for the dagger-shaped vermillion leaves. The flowers won't bloom at any time except Christmas.

They are

Yule Flower

very obstinate about this and florists have learned not to change nature very much because ‘she’s set in her ways.” The flowers live about 10 days into the new year. Scotch heather, all of the many greens and berries and center pieces are popular on Christmas also. Gardenias are the most popular for Yule-tide corsages with orchids a close second, according to Wiegands.

Christmas trees are no longer the |exclusive merchandise of the corner grocer, according to local florists. They have them in tubs and they come all sizes up to eight feet.

If trees are purchased early and already cut, placing them in water will help keep them fresh. As to keeping cut flowers fresh, it isn't true what they say about castor oil, aspirin, vinegar, salt, etc. Wiegands naturally heard of all these popular home remedies so they took it upon themselves to go to Purdue and find out. Their conclusion? The best method is to cut the stems every day, change the water once each day and keep in a cool place.

C. OF C. WILL NAME DIRECTORS DEG. 12

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce will elect its directors for 1940 at a special meeting Dec. 12. Seven member of the board will be named to serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1. Meier S. Block, Louis J. Borin-

stein, Henry L. Dithmer, Edward W. Harris, A. J. Hueber, James S. Rogan and Stowell C. Wasson have been nominated. Members of the nominating committee are George S. Olive, chairman; Howard T. Griffith, Guy A. Wainwright, Theodore B. Griffith and James F. Carroll.

BLIND NEWS VENDOR SEEKS LOST DOG

Times Special HAMMOND, Ind. Dec. 5.—Elmer Cresbaum, blind operator of a news stand here, today appealed to residents of Hammond and nearby towns to help find his lost dog. The dog, a tan and white female, part shepherd and part collie, wandered away from home over the week-end. Mr. Cresbaum’s name is

on the dog's collar,

Prisoner Burns Clothes in Cell

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 5.— A 51-year-old man, in jail here on a charge of intoxication, decided his cell was too cold. He divested himself of his clothing and started to burn it, one item at a time, starting with his undershirt. The odor of burning cloth attracted the attention of a jailor, who extinguished the blaze. “The fire within me is out,” the man said by way of explanation.

‘DAMAGE HEAVY FROM PHILIPPINES TYPHOON

MANILA, P. 1, Dec. 5 (U. P).—A typhoon that caused widespread damage to crops, roads and buildings in at least five provinces veered off into the Pacific Ocean today. The Assembly was expected to take quick action on a bill to appropriate 1,500,000 pesos for relief in the stricken provinces. A few launches and fishing boats were reported missing. United States naval ships and commercial craft returned to Manila | Bay from safer anchorages.

An artist's conception of the hillside laboratory which would house the enormous 3000-ton cyclotron which Prof. FE. O. Lawrence, newest Nobel Prize winner in physics, hopes to build at a cost of $750,000. The

cyclotron would be between five and six times as tall as a man.

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half buried laboratory would be 1000 yards from the nearest building which would be the control room shown at the left.

The most powerful beam of energy ever created by man, the 16,500,000-electron volt deuteron beam from the U. of C. 200-ton cyclotron, It projects nearly six feet into the air.

things to other atoms as they collide with them in a battering im=pact. In one place, in the cosmic rays, particles of this energy already exist and fleeting evidence of their capabilities are known, But with a new 2000-ton cyclo= tron such particles could be created at will and be controlled whereas particles found in cosmic rays are rare and completely uncontrolled. ” ” »

ASIC point of attack with a giant 2000-ton cyclotron would be to study the enormous binding energies which link protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei and thus

hold matter together into a stable form which (in much larger amounts than an atom) we recognize as a table, a piece of salt, copper or any element or chemical compe mds. The proton-neutron link ¢an now be attacked only by indirect methods which, so far, have yielded relatively little about its nature other than a rough idea of its magnitude, Prof. Lawrence feels that with a new and greater cyclotron a direct attack on the proton-neutron force vould be affected. If the nuclear forces could be understood they might well be the key to developments of great practical importance. If this nuclear force can be liberated under controllable conditions the day when the energy locked up within atomic nuclei could be released would be at hand. A brief tantalizing hint has just

DENIES BARBER REGIMENTATION

Examining Board Secretary Says Only Minority Fights New Rules.

Charges by some groups over the State that the Indiana Barbers’ Examining Board is attempting to regiment the trade through price fixing were denied today by Frank McKamey, Board secretary. “Regulation of prices and hours for barber shops is entirely a voluntary procedure with the barbers themselves,” Mr. McKamey said. Protests against the administration of the law come from minority groups, he said. Board members pointed out that the recent order fixing prices and hours for Indianapolis shops was done so by petitions signed voluntarily by 92 per cent of the barbers. The law requires that 80 per cent of the barbers in a given community sign such petitions for price and hours fixing. Of 702 barbers in Indianapolis, Mr. McKamey said that 640 of them signed the recent petition. However, the Indepedent Barbers Association of Indiana announced yesterday that it will discuss plans for a campaign to repeal the State Barbers Law at its annual convention here next Sunday. of this Association said they were opposed to price-fixing in their business. “This group represents a very small minority of the barber trade,” Mr. McKamey said.

MOTHER OF LOCAL VICAR DEAD AT 70

Times Special WOLCOTTVILLE, Ind. Dec. 5.— Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Mrs. Ella Yoder, mother of the Rev. J. Willard Yoder, vicar of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. Mrs. Yoder died at her home here yesterday. She was 70. Born near Ft. Wayne, she spent most of her life around Shipshewana and moved to Wolcottville four years ago. Services and burial will be at Shipshewana. Survivors include her husband, James M., four sons and two daughters.

FALL AT HOME FATAL NEW ALBANY, Ind, Dec. 5 (U. P.)—Lydia E. Hottel, 81, of New Albany, died yesterday of injuries received last week when she fell on a stairs at her home. F

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this year been discovered by scientists, in the splitting of uranium atoms with the release of enormous amounts of nuclear energy when bombarded with weakly energetic neutrons. In very recent experiments performed in Prof. Lawrence's radiation Laboratory by Prof. Malcolm Henderson of Princeton University it has been shown that the energy liberated amounts to 175,000,« 000 electron volts per atom of uranium. It takes only a bit of calculation to show that at this rate about eight pounds of uranium would release energy equivalent to the 6300 tons of fuel oil which a trans-Atlantic steam= er like the Queen Mary carries in her bunkers for an Atlantic cross ing. ”

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HE day when atomic power will become a realty is not yet at hand, make no enthusiastic mistake, but the possibilities for it are completely within the realm of reason. By the energetic bom=bardment of commoner substances than uranium with particles accelerated in a 2000-ton cylotron it is reasonable that perhaps other, more common elements likewise could be made to liber= ate their nuclear energy also. Still another research possibility for a 2000-ton cyclotron'is the production of the transmutation of the elements on what would be by present standards, a mass scale. Transmutation is possible now with present cyclotrons and its evidence can be detected by the radioactivity produced in normally stable elements like beryllium, boron and almost all the rest of the familiar 92 elements of the periodic table. But the amounts are most minute. While the alchemists’ dream of transmutation has been technically fulfilled the production of transmutation on a practical scale is far ahead.

And yet the day may not be so far off at that for it is estimated that three years of construction only would be needed to build a new 2000-ton cyclotron. It is much more than pure day-dream-ing to say that such an instrument might not only discover a new, cheap and almost inexhaustible source of power but it might (shall one say as a by-product) turn out to be the long-sought philosopher's stone—a means of transforming base metal into gold.

Work Required Of Able-Bodied

Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind. Dec. 5.— Winter doesn’t mean rest for the able-bodied men on direct relief

in Huntington Township. Mrs. Jessie Renner, township trustee, requires them to cut wood, to be used for fuel for families on relief, for at least 16 hours a week. They must present work slips to receive grocery orders. During the summer, the men worked in a community garden arranged by Mrs. Renner. The produce was canned for winter use.

1937 INJURIES FATAL

BRAZIL, Ind, Dec. 5 (U. P.).— Opal Jane Smith, 13, of Cloverland, died yesterday from injuries received two years ago when a school bus in which she was riding was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad switch engine at a Staunton crossing.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the littoral of a country? 2—In golf, what is the lowest pose sible number of strokes assigned as par on any one hole? 3—Name the State Flower of New York. 4—Which State is represented in Congress by Senator James J, Davis? 5—What is a photometer? 6—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word fistula? T—Name the capital of Bulgaria. 8—What is the chemical symbol for radium?

8 . Answers

1—The coastal region. 2—Three. 3—Wild rose. 4-—Pennsylvania. 5—An instrument for measuring the intensity of light. 6—Fis’-tu-la; not fis-tu’-la. T—Sofia. 6—Ra.

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