News of the Churches
and Religious Topics
Directory.
Baptist—
Mt. Moriah—Twenty-sixth and Sew
ard streets. The Rev. W. B. M. Scott,
pastor. Services: Sunday School, 9:30
a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. in.;
B. Y. P. U. at 6 p. m.
Zion — Twenty-sixth and Franklin
(temporary location). The Rev. W. F.
Botts, pastor; residence, 2522 Grant
street. Telephone Webster 5838. Ser
vices: Devotional hour, 10:30 a. m.;
preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday School,
1 to 2 p. m.; pastor’s Bible class, 2 to
3 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m.; choir
devotion, 7:30 p. m.; preaching 8 p. m.
Episcopal—
Church of St. Philip the Deacon—
Twenty-first neiar Paul street. The
Rev. John Albert Williams, rector.
Residence, 1119 North Twenty-first
street. Telephone Webster 4243. Ser
vices daily at 7 a. m. and 9 a. m. Fri
days at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 a.
m., 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday
School at 12:45 p. m.
Methodist—
St. John’s A. M. E.—Eighteenth and
Webster streets. The Rev. W. T. Os
borne, pastor. Residence, 613 North
Eighteenth street. Telephone Doug
las 5914. Services: Sunday, 11 a. m.
and 8 p. m., preaching; 12 noon, class;
1:15 p. m., Sunday School; 7 p. m.,
Endeavor; Wednesday, 8 p. m., pray
er and class meetings. Everybody
made welcome at all of these meet
ings.
Grove M. E.—Twenty-second and
Seward streets. The Rev. G. G. Logan,
pastor. Residence, 1628 North Twen
ty-second street.
News of St. John’s A. M. E. Church.
Rev. E. R. Vaughn, instructor of
theology in Western university, will
preach at St. John’s African Method
ist Episcopal church Sunday evening.
Rev. W. T. Osborne is closing up
his third conference year and urges
all members and friends to pay in
their dollar money now.
The Willing Workers gave a private
outing at Riverview park, being en
tertained by Mesdames Evelyn Raj
and Cora Davis. A delightful after
noon was spent.
The annual Sunday school picnic
will be held at Lake Manawa August
5. A special invitation is given to
the public.
The Missionary Society met at the
parsonage Friday afternoon.
Science Notes
BY WILLIAM G. HAYNES.
Radium in Medicine and Agriculture.
Like every other newly discover
ed substance radium has had its share
of fanciful tales woven into its his
tory. It is quite true that the prop
erties of radium are wonderful; and
popular description of these proper
ties have led to the growth of a mass
of misconceptions, in the mind of the
average reader. One of the newest
of these is the mistaken idea that
radium is a “sure cure” for cancer.
The true relation of radium to the
treatment of concer is shown by the
following abstract from the Scientific
American, and is on the authority of
the American Society for the Control
of Cancer:
“The curative effects of radium are
practically limited today to superficial
cancers of the skin, to superficial
growths of mucous membrane which
are not true cancers, and to some
deeper lying tumors or bone, etc.,
which are not very malignant. The
problem of the constitutional treat
ment of advanced inoperable cancer
is still untouched by any method yet
devised or likely to be devised for ad
ministering radium. Even among
the so-called radium cures, it still re
mains to be determined in many cases
whether the favorable result is per
manent or is to be followed sooner or
later by the usual recurrence. The
most competent surgeons do not dare
to pronounce a case cured until five
years have elapsed after an apparent
ly successful operation. The same
test must be applied before we can
finally determine the real value of ra
dium.
"It should be emphasized especially
that radium cannot at present esert
any permanent benefit on generalized
cancer, and since cancer, in a very
large proportion of cases, is widely
disseminated in the body early in the
course of the disease, this entire
group of cases can expect no import
ant relief from radium. Another large
group of cancers is comparatively in
accessible to the application of radium
so that the ultimate course of the dis
ease is not effected, although certain
portions of the tumor may be reduced
in size. Again, many forms of cancer,
although localized and accessible to
radium, grow very rapidly and resist
the curative action of this agent, sa
that no real benefit can be expected
from its use.”
On the other hand, experiment
shows that radium and radio-active
compounds have established their use
fulness In agriculture. At the present
time there is upon the market a brand
of fertilizer composed of a mixture of
the constituents usually found in a
high grade fertilizer, and a certain
percentage of radio-active material.
Kxtensive research and experiment
on a large scale both in America and
abroad show that in every cases there
was an increase in the crop growth on
soil treated with the new fertilizer.
The average increase for thirty differ
ent crops, including beans, melons,
peas, corn, etc., was 37.9 per cent, in
favor of the radio-active fertilizer.
The effect of radium in vegetable
life is to increase the hardiness of the
plant and thus make it less suscepti
ble to injury by weather or by insects;
to hasten and increase the growth of
potted plants; to cause a larger starch
content in grains and vegetables; and
finally to improve the flavor and pal
atability of grain and vegetables.
One of the tricks of the recent hail
storm in this city was the installation
of a temporary arc light in front of
St. Phillip’s church, to the great con
sternation of the worshipers there. A
limb from one of the trees had fallen
across the electric wires and caused
the current to be deflected, or conduct
or into the ground. The heat due to
the passage of the- current resulted in
the burning away of the limb, and
thus an ever increasing gap occurred
between the wire and the limb. Now
the arc lamp is based on just that
principle —that there is a slowly in
creasing gap between the two carbon
rods. It is easily seen that an arc was
readily formed between the wire and
the limb of the tree. A very brilliant
arc with fhe customary humming
sound furnished ample illumination
and excitement for the evening church
goers.
To the observant ones, this is no
strange phenomenon, for small sparks
or arcs may be seen almost any night
where electric light wirgs came into
close proximity to trees. Incidentally,
there is the tangible evidence of cur
rent going to waste, for current so di
verted is a dead loss as far as light
ing efficiency is concerned.
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