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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1919)
NEW MOTOR GAR TO BE BUILT BY D,M'C ALL WHITE Designer of Cadillac Resigns : ; and Enters New flrgani : zation With Factory at Indianapolis. ; Indianapolis has been announced as the location of the automobile 'organization of D. McCall White and E. C Howard, who are prepar ' ing to market a high grade of car. - Within a few days, the new com pany, the name of which is not yet known, will move from Detroit to Indianapolis and begin operations in a large modern plant, which was 1 recently purchased from the bond- holders of the Stenotype Co. ' With more than 150,000 square feet of floor space immediately available, the company is prepared to go ahead very rapidly, after the design of the car has been thor oughly tested and approved. Ample acreage has been provided for ex pansion. Ever since their resignation from important positions in a Detroit motor car factory, the movements of Messrs. Howard and White have been the source of great interest in the trade, Mr. White designed the NaDier. Daimler and eight cylinder Cadilla With this background and with tne benefit of war experiences behind him, hi latest product promises some rather advanced features in a sound chassis design. Mr. Howard recently resigned as sales manager of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. Statistics show that the average death age among bachelors and spinsters is much earlier than among married men and women. Coal Is Not' a N ecessity When Scientists Release Energy Locked in Atom of Matter During Time Taken by a Bullet to Fly Without Resistance From the s Muzzle of a Rifle to a Target 800 Yards Away, a Particle Shot From Radium Would Have Traveled the 3,000 Miles From London to New YorkThe Time Needed Is Only a Quarter of a Second; ; ..Y -;y y v ;! ' . ; ; ; -T, - Sir .Oliver Lodge, doyen of British scientist and one of the most powerful thinkers in the world, pre dicts chemistry will soon produce an energy of such concentrated' power and explosive violence that the very existence of the planet will be endangered. , ' : $ir Oliver points out that a chemical element known as niton is so spontaneously active that a single pound radiates an energy of 10,000 horsepower. He expresses the hope that the enterprising nation whose In ventive genius perfects this all powerful energy wilt prove so humanely civilized as to hold its destructive power in check. . ' - ' ' ' . ' ' . ' ' ." " ' . - . ; By SIK OLIVBK LODGE. London, Sept. J. -A pinch of coal dustvor a thimbleful of oil represents at present the most portable form of power. If the whole of the energy resulting from these, when com bined with oxygen, could be really utilized they would yield quite' a con siderable store. An ounce of oil completely burnt would heat between "six and seven pounds of water from freezing to boiling point, which is the equiva lent of 410 foot-tons. A ton falling a height of 410 feet would generate the same amount of heat ; An ounce of coal completely burnt would yield slightly less energy. A spoonful of nitro-glycerine, again, represents a considerable store of enenrgy, though of rather a violent and intractable kind. Tlnm Hatter finaSn T-?n r m? But is there- any kind of energy locked up not in the molecule nor in the interaction between molecules but in the actual structure of each atom? Does a single atom of matter contain energy by reason of its con stitution? And, if so, is there any means of getting at it? ; Previous , to the discovery of tadium the question could hardly have been asked. The answer is now known. In radioactive sub stances ' there certainly is a store of atomic energy, and some of the energy is liberated by the emission of flying, ,, particles flung ' off from time to time whenever the atom is degenerating or passing' from more complex to a more simple form. . - And this emission of energy i very great When it was first, ob served that a few grains of radium was continually giving off a great deai of energy and yet not disap- rsaring, some scientific men, even ord Kelvin himself, spoke of it as sort of miracle. The stuff burned, as it were, and yet was not consumed. It soon became clear, however,, that there was no flaw in the law of conservation of energy. The stuff certainly possesses and certainly loses all the energy It emits, but it loses very little weight. The disap pearance of a single grain of matter out of, say, a pound is only detach able by careful weighing, but the power emitted during the disap pearance of a grain would be enough to raise the temperature of a ton of water from freezing to boiling point. We must remember, however, that no such effect would be produced even by a pound of radium in any reasonable time, for it would take a year to lose a grain. And so the power is diluted down; there is nothing violent about it, and we know no means of hasten ing it, nor indeed of retarding it, either. . " It is a' remarkable fact that wheth er the bit of radium be made red hot in a furnace or cooled hundreds of degrees below zero by liquid air, its rate of disintegration remains practically constant People some times speak of radium as if it were unique. Not so; it ts a striking member of a class, and it serves well to illustrate the properties of that class. , , Every now and then, an atom of radium explodes or fires off a pro jectile what is called an "A" par ticle. The projectile bears to the residue of the atom something of the same proportion that a shot bears to a gun. It is like a two-ton gun firing a 100-pound shot! Qnly now and then does a radium atom get to this explosive stage. For every one that thus exerts itself in the course of a year there are about, 3,000 which remain quiescent for that period. But directly one shot has been fired, the rest of that particular atom does not settle down into quiesence again till it has fired off four more, converting itself each time into a different element. , Some of these shots follow each other quite quickly, barely giving ; t4 Mf M n : -y . 1 ' ,. fl Motor Trucks v' ' - (p .''- IN CALIFORNIA v '.-,.. v. . v , .. The First Load of Wheat Hauled to market this year was hauled on a Patriot. A Patriot 2-ton Truck hauled eight loads of wheat a day, from Holman Brothers' Ranch; near Farminton, Cal., ,to the warehouse, four miles away, carrying aload of four and a half tons of wheat each trip. The perf orm anceofthat truck, handling almost 100 overload, V,,'" .'- made a great many friends for it in the community, as 1 it lias everywhere else that the Patriot has been given ' atrial. ' '.V'". ' " ' -.y. ' i'' ALL OVER AMERICA Patriot Trucks aredemon . strating the same unusual service. . . -;'. Write for Information and Prices Mebb Motors Manufacturers Comp any LINCOLN NEBRASKA (Kote: Thti to No. 5 of rlei of iht Imiob 1b tho ur of solid track tirei praparad bj TH ts. r.sooanca vo.( Auron, unio.f Injuries resulting from running solid tires in car tracks are serious and readily apparent. Their con struction does not permit of ready distribution of a part of the load to the lower flange of the rail, so the major part of the load is carried upon the upper section of the car rail. This throws the entire load on one-half of the tire tread with the result that it Is quickly worn or broken away at that side, event ually leaving the tire, reduced by one-half to carry tne iuu ioaa. , ' , , Aside from the premature destruction of solid tires subjected to car track abuse there is the ele ment of danger. from skids when the moving tire comes in contact with frogs and switches. Injury irom car iracx riQing is not conxinea to one or a few spots on the tire, but the rubber is worn down in a line following the entire circumference of the tire. " It is obvious that the best tire will fail under such treatment. i 1 CAR TRACK ABUSI time to the experimenter to examine the properties of the intervening substances. Yet these substances are real elements, with chemical reac tions of their own, and with a char acteristic spectrum. Their peculari ty is that they are short-lived. The greatest energy per unit weight of i combustible material is burning of hydrogen, in oxygen. This emits heat to the value of 4,000 units of heat for every gramme of water formed by the combination. But by the time a gram of radium has gone through its changes, a million times this quantity of energy would have been emitted. Let it not be supposed however, that only the atoms of radio-active substances possess this atomic1 energy. It is pretty certain that every kind of material atom must possess it, some more, some less; but for most atoms the energy is all locked up in their intimate structure, and is quite inaccessible. Reveals Energy Secret The radio-active elements are those which do not keep the energy completely locked up. Once an hour one out of 30,000.000 atoms goes off with violence, and continues to $re at known though not quite regular intervals five times, till it becomes quiescent again. It thus gives away the secret of a vast store of energy. . Every atom is ) a complicated structure, a region of law and order, and in all probability no element is permanent Disintegration is prob ably only a question of degree. The unstable ones attract atten tion and enable measurements to be made. Some of these are fairly se date, and like uranium, last millions of years. Radium lasts at most a few thousand years; but other ele ments are so prodigiously violent that they last only a few minutes. Thes?, therefore, make themselves conspicuous even in small quantities, but naturally are extremely scarce. An Abundant Store, he point for present considera tion, however, is not the rate at which different elements choose to give out their store of energy, but existence of this store and its mar velous abundance. The particles shot off from radium are shot with a speed quite amazing about 1-15 that of light To get some notion of this speed we may compare it with the highest speed of a bullet During the time taken a rifle bullet to fly without resist ance from the muzzle of a rifle to a target 300 yards away the "a" par ticle simultaneously shot off from radium would have traveled the 3,000 miles from London to New York. The time needed is only a quarter of a second. And as to the energy of 'such a proiectile il is not much in itself. because its mass is so minute, but i u ... i i f . wcigui ii is iuur nun drea million times more energetic than a bullet. V Limitless Atoms. But, it may tie said, radium fires them off so seldom. Each projectile is violent enough, uly, but you say there is only one out of 3,000 which explodes in the course of a year. That is so; but think how many there are in any visible speck of substance. Take a milligram of radium that is, take 1-17 of a grain and ask how many projectiles such as we have been describing are fired off by each second. The number is no less than 30 000,000, even from the radium itself; and the number of projectiles is really five times as great as this if the products of dis integration are not allowed to es cape. Thirty million projectiles, each with 1-15 of the speed of light, come away from a milligram of radium every second, yet t'-.e speck will last a thousand years before it is half exhausted. Chemical combination is "not in it" with energies such as this. And this is the kind of energy which is locked up, and at present inaccess ible, in every atom of matter. A little arithmetic would enable us to paraphrase the late Sir William Crookes and say that if all the energy in an ounce of . matter could be extracted and fully utilized it would be enough to lift the Ger man navy and pile it on top of Ben Nevis. Sir Ernest Rutherford reckons that the gaseous emanation primarily given off from radium after-firing its first shot this emanation being itself a chemical element called Niton is 'so spontaneously active that it actually does radiate energy at the rate of 10,000 horsepower per pound. . Undoubtedly, if 'the progress of discovery enables us to get at and utilize the energy locked up in a ton of ordinary matter per diem, no further motive power ould be needed. And if. furthur, we found our selves able to liberate any consider able portion of such energy in a short period of time, the explosive violence would be such that the very planet would be unsafe.," It is to be hoped that no such facilities willy fall to the lot of an enterprising scientific nation until it is really and humanely civilised, and is both willing and able to keep its destructive power in check. Hu-, manity is not ripe'fcr every discov ery, but in due time, arid when it can ends, doubt not some such power as that here foreshadowed will be : attained. . ' ., ; Asleep in Alley if J'Oleaned" St Louis, Sept 20In the days days of old the vale of Philistia was a path of peril to strangers, but, ac cording to to Edward Hertrich, of Alton, 111., it had nothing on St. Louis. When Edward arrived here he thought his $250 tuckid away in his pockets, would show him some of the 'sights. Two girls met Edward. Flo, the blonde, introduced him to May the brunette, and the three wallrrf intn thm rahart DriflltS were ordered, and when Edward, awoke the girls and $60 of his money were gone. - ' Y OU would be amazed If. you knew in how short a time the . average sale of a Liberty is closed. As a rule, prospective buyers come to us strongly attracted by the -beauty of the car, and the high favor in which it is held by the owners: With that preference to go on, we leave them largely to their own de vices merely asking that they ob serve, for themselves, the beautiful steadiness of Liberty performance. The first delightful ten minutes in which the superior difference In . the way the Liberty rides . and drives reveals Itself is enough to clinch the matter. ' Won't you let us show you how true are the kindly things you con stantly hear said of the Liberty? Liberty Sedan and Coup nave beini delivered. , Omaha Liberty Auto Co. Wm. McCoIlum, Gen. Mgr. 1914-16 Dbuglas St. Douglas 3483. LIBERTY SIX 10 f&. JOHN Rp6 BINS Announcement We wish in this manner to announce that we have purchased in its entirety all the holdings of the Prince Auto Company, and that we will continue the business at the same address as heretofore. , , "' ' " - On behalf of the Prince Auto Company we tfrish to thank our many customers and friends for courtesies extended in the past and in continuing under our new arrangement we earnestly solicit your further patronage and friendship. Fulton Trucks Elcar Automobiles . Tel. Tyler 218 Sincerely yours, JOHN M. ROBBINS MOTOR COMPANY 2054 Farnam Street OMAHA