Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 111, 10 May 1922 — Page 2
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1922.
REPUBLICANS HOPE TOlPASa SHIR-BiLt-1: DURING THIS TERM y ' (By Associated Press.) ; WASHINGTON, May 10. Plans to obtala passage at the present session
If possible of the. administration ship subsidy bill -were being laid today by Republican, members of the senate commerce and: house merchant marine committee."'" informal agreement to work to this end" -was1 reached! by the Republican committeemen at the urging of President Harding in a -white house conference last night Under the plan the hearings on the bill which the two committees have been conducting jointly for the past five weeks would be concluded this week and the measure taken up by the house next week. If possible, with the Intention of sending it to the senate for action immediately after, its dls posal of the tariff bill. The president In declaring that the administration was wholeheartedly and unreservedly behind the bill was said to nave expressed! the view at the
conference! that if necessary the mea-
sure should be bandied In congress as a party matter.
Ancient and Modern Alchemy By FREDERIC J. HASKIN "
Incorporation Completed By Local Radio Shop Formal incorporation of the Quality Radio shop, a concern organized1 for the manufacture of radio apparatus and located; at 610 National Road west was completed at a meeting of the stockholders of . the concern, held Tuesday evening. , C.1 O. Snyder Is president andi general manager. Harry Personett, vice president, and Fred Tllton secretary, and1 treasurer of the concern. ' - ' . v.; ' ... Transformers, loud speakers, condensers and other equipment for the building of receiving sets will be turned out at the shop.
Circuit Court
SUES MERCURIOS Frank P. Loschiavo is plaintiff !n a suit aginst Phillip Mercurio and William A. Mercurio, in which he asks for an accounting and division of the property on the business in which they were engaged from July 1920 to "May 6, 1923. The suit was filed in circuit court Wednesday. RETURN INMATE Ralph Shipley, an escaped inmate of Easthaven, was returned to that instuatlon by Sheriff Carl Wadmann, Tuesday. Shipley was captured in Indianapolis. He had escaped about two weeks ago. FINE VOSMEIER August Vosmeier, arrested late Tuesday afternoon on a charge of violation of the liquor laws, was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to 60 days on the penal farm in police cotfrt Wednesday. Vosmeier made no defense. He is proprietor of a soft drink saloon on South Sixth street FOUND WITHOUT LIGHTS Charles Shelley, arrested at 11:15 o'clock Tuesday night for driving a machine without lights, was fined $1 and costs. BROWN FINED $1
' Ralph Brown, for driving past a street car while it was discharging
passengers, was fined $1 and costs.
' WASHINGTON, D. C May 10, The theory that modern man can do anything is leading some ambitious experimenters toward the long deserted alms of the alchemists.
For several centuries now, the pop
ular attitude toward the medieval al
chemists has been ridicule. The philosophers stone and the elixir of life were "Jokes." Transmutation of base metals into gold was pronounced a legerdemain trick which some alchemists dexterously managed to put over In the presence of gullible kings whose knowledge of chemistry was historian explained that the medieval scholar could produce a con
vincing illusion "by mixing in the presence of witnesses some compound in which gold was secretly placed or
held invisible in solution, and then
bringing it forth by a process simple enough to the operator but profoundly
mysterious to the bystanders.
The bearded old alchemists were
relegated to a sorry place in history and formulas were glibly quoted to show how far off were the theories of the early philosophers from the facts of scientific chemistry. But now, we have come round to a
more credulous era. So many mira
cles have become commonplace; so many mysteries have been explained; and so , many modern explanations have to be periodically revised that most learned men hesitate to scoff at the seemingly impossible. Thus, some scientists listened with respectful interest to the reports that German chemists wer8 making syn thetic gold. To be sure, the reports were later emphatically denied, and there is no reason to believe that the Germans have solved the problem that intrigued and baffled the philosophers of Europe for a thousand years. Still, it is. interesting - to consider that it gold were to be made synthetically, the discovery would certainly be kept secret as long as possible, because only by keeping the process secret could the inventor hope to proHr. As soon as the process became public property, gold would sink in value to the level of lead. The economic fact explains why philosophers searched through ten centuries for the secret of transmutation of metals, without losing interest or hope. The mystery which surrounded the experiments of each black robed philosopher wa3 supposed to safeguard all sorts of important discoveries. Generally, the philosopher died . without ever contributing his magnum opus to science. He preferred to bury his secret with him. Torture Revealed Nothing Any number of wise men were supposed to have found the philosopher's
stone which would dissolve the for
eign substance in base metals leaving pure gold. Alchemists were toX-
tured by poverty stricken kings of
Europe in vain efforts to force them to reveal the secret they claimed to have or were accused of having.
Rack and wheel left the Bages mute. Either they had no secret or it stayed with them.
Alexander Seton, a Scottish al
chemist was thrown into prison by the duke of Saxony who demanded of him the secret of the philosopher's stone. Seton refused to produce a
fortune" in transmuted gold, which the duke asked for his ransom, and even under torture he told nothing. But when a fellow alchemist Sendlvogtus offered to help him escape in return for a little information about alchemy Seton agreed. He regained his freedom but, with
the caution of the Scot be refused to
tell his secret to his deliverer. In
stead, be gave Sendivogius an ounce
of transmutation powder. This pow
der was used to such good effect that Sendivogius was credited with cures
of diseases and production of gold;.
But eventually the ounce was used up. Seton was dead by that time and the less skillful friend married his
widow hoping that the Scot had left
her the secret of mixing the powder.
If she knew, however, she never told
ner second nusoana. Some of the alchemists did entrust their theories regarding the philosopher's stone to friends, and some
wrote books explaining their discoveries, but needless to say, these published secrets were worthless. Eveji when a philosopher was exposed as a fake, the public, from king to peasants, merely transferred its
reverence to some other sage and trustingly waited for him to dazzle them with his erudition. The birth of modern science was the death of alchemy as the medieval wise men practised it. But lately science has begun to see something more than humbug and wild guessing in some of . the ideas of the philosophers. Back to Alchemy One scientist has pointed out that the medieval theory that Invlsiblo creatures inhabit the elements, for instance, is not so outlandish as to call for ridicule. The alchemists said that
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office, because 35,000 cases were received from the central office of the bureau at Washington last week. The seventh district office passes upon the claims of all World war veterans
who are residents of Indiana, Ohio,
and Kentucky.
The cases which were forwarded
last week to the seventh district of
fice were ones which had been filled
In the Washington office of the bu
reau prior to the completion of plans
for the decentralization of the Vet
cran's bureau, provided under a law enacted last year. Under this law the
country-is divided into 14 districts
each district with branch office of the
bureau. To Supervise Work. The Washington office of the bureau will supervise the work of the district offices and pass upon the casos which are appealed. For several months the large force of clerks in the Washington office have been kept busy compiling and sending out records on all cases to the district of. fices which have jurisdiction over them. Tho forwarding of 35,000 compensation claims of former service men livins in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky to Cincinnati last week almost swamped the seventh district office and Captuin Coffin, the district manager, estimates it will take three weeks for his force of clerks to consolidate and file these cases.
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salamanders lived in the fire,- gnomes in the earth, sylphs in the air 4 nymphs in the water. Whether they were guessing, prophesying or divining, this scientist thinks that the alchemists have given a pretty good description of the micro-organisms that are so tiny as to be truly invisible to the naked eye. So far, however, science finds nothing to justify the alchemists' idea of the salamander. If the alchimista were on the right track about one natural mystery, per
haps they were not altogether wrong
about other things, this scientist adds.
There is a theory considered today that all metals evolved from one origin, which is precisely the theory on which the philosophers based the possibility of transmuting metals and bringing base metals to gold which they considered the perfect state. Another "interesting if true" theory which is super-modern and yet smacks of alchemy at its most fantastic has to do with the substance of which ghosts are made. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle says that ghosts are composed of ectoplasm, a mysterious substance, thick, vapory, and slightly luminous. The stuff that Sir Arthur's ghost? are made of can be felt bo says. It ha3 never been analyzed because no
chemist has been able to capture a
bottle full for laboratory experiment
Some kind of self protective instinct seems to cause ghostly emanations to depart hastily when science gets too familiar.
Ectoplasm la the latest sensation of parlor science, and yet the philosophers of Prague and Cologne observed
this same elusive substance. They re
garded it as a clue to perpetual life if it could only be identified and ren
dered sufficiently durable, for prac
tical use. Modern science has not tried to hot
tie ectoplasm as a handy prescription
for rejuvenating purposes. Even if
it is decided that man's ultimate des
tiny is to turn Into ectoplasm, most people will be willing to wait until
the appointed time to change sut
stances. The spirit world may be the
state of perpetual youth which the
alchemists were vaguely seeking. If so if Seton and the rest are now wearing ectoplasm then the alchemists achieved one of their requests.
HARDING TAKE8 TO SADDLE WASHINGTON. May 10. President Harding plans to take up horseback
riding more actively, it was learned today, in order to obtain more open-air exercise. The president's advisors are
urging him to use every opportunity go into the open.
other classes. The world-wide reac tion which followed the abnormal activities of the early post-war period had a serious effect on the business
of wholesale merchants, but It is grati
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