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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JUNE . 24, 1921.
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. The Bee's Platform
1. New Union Passenger Station.
2. Continued improTomont of tha Ne
braska Highways, including tho pava
ment of Main Thoroughfare loading
into Omaha with a Brick Surface.
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Ireland and World Conscience.
Determination of the British .government to
swamp the revolution in Ireland under a tidal
wave of soldiery does not presage an early dis
posal of the question of Irish independence. The
world has lost some of its faith in the efficacy
of brute force in conflict with a fixed idea, and
may well ask if every resource of reason, media
tion and arbitration should not be tried before
bloodshed turns the Emerald Isle ruby-red, '
, A sinister suggestion is found in the report
of Lord Birkenhead's speech which is inter
preted as threatening a military campaign .such
at that used against the Boers unless the south
era parliament functions. This body has sent
a memorial to Premier Lloyd George requesting
alterations in the present act to give more popu
lar power, and much may depend on the reply
of the government
r In many ways the struggle of the Irish revo
lutionists resembles that of the Boers which
lasted from 1899 to 1902. Resistance in South
Africa was kept up through hope of foreign in
tervention and lasted longer because of the
sentiment of opposition to the war that prevailed
among a large section of the British people,
Lloyd George himself being an outspoken op
ponent of his country's campaign. Altogether
the British used 450,000 troops, while the Boer
force, depending to a large extent on guerilla
warfare, numbered only 75,000. While the Brit
ish lost 22,000 men, their opponents suffered only
3,700 killed, but 32,000 were taken prisoner.
The policy of attrition, with its weeding out
of the rebel leaders and separation of their forces
ended finally in surrender. . All noncombatants
had been gathered into concentration camps, and
the high death rate among the women and Chil
dren so confined aroused bitter criticism of Brit
ish methods that filled the foreign press,
There may be some of the present Irish lead
ers who saw this campaign themselves, for syia-
"pathy there lay with the Dutch settlers and more
than one Irish, lad volunteered under Oom Paul
-Kruger, the Boer president. .While the Union of
. South Africa is now a faithful part of the empire,
and such former rebels as General Smuts are
not only reconciled but actually favorable to
British rule, there are still many British people
and many in all other nations who feel that the,
.conflict was shameful and should have been
avoided.
Whatever the fate of Ireland in the new war,
Great Britain is sure to feel more keenly than
;,$vcr the disapproval of any methods lacking hu
manity. The people's conscience has been stimu
lated by the ideals so widely advertised in the
world war, and those at the head of public af
fairs can not safely countervene the new sense
of morality.
Psychology and the rarmers.
- leoresslon. contributes this oaraeraon:
' Iia heen nsvrholod'c The moment orders
lin.fA da.. tfant1..4 er n.iiAO litrA AvfrrA
: certain oroducers have Erowrt nanickv.
t-'t . . . i
, inc tuumiciii ia iiui uriginai; it lias wuic
r t e ,
irom many sources, rarmers or rne western
states are inclined to believe that it is true, too
' true, aitnuuKii nut iu tuc way uic cdsicm wrucis
mean it As the iarmer sees it, there was no
:, psychology and too much loss last fall; since
then there has been too much psychology and
too little action.
The prices of farm products took a decided
" flrop last fall. That, as the farmer sees it, was
' anything but psychology or any other "high-
- taiutin inmg. it was piain aownngnt loss.
'."Then the depression spread to other industries.
" In some of these losses were taken and deflation
"accomplished, as with the farmer. But in many
Cases, the depression was mere psychology and
" still Is. It didn't produce lower prices. That is
why the farmer today still is rubbing an aching
head.
Business Men and War.
;" Commercial intercourse between nations may
do much to bring . them into close understanding
'with each other, but there is always danger of
rivalry in trade creating antagonism that makes
other differences between governments difficult
" to settle' peaceably. Cognizance of these oppor
tunities and dangers was taken by a resolution
"at the international meeting of Rotary clubs re
" cently held in Edinburgh, Scotland. This pledge
' of business men to counteract the growth of un
friendly feeling was introduced by the nalitax
club. It asserted that the race for foreign trade
-promises tne active prosecution oi a commercial
' war as keen and merciless as a struggle in arms."
This economic warfare, it was stated, "contains
the seeds of contention that may lead to a more
terrible and disastrous war than the one recently
terminated."
International friendship will be rendered more
K- om a Aaae oaMPinil AN H hrteti Ttta
ftCVUl LJ til? VvU ItVVgUHiUll ma. atvawiatj
rOver trade has real perils.' The Kiwanis club,
another organization of business men, at , Us
national convention in Cleveland, went on record
as favoring an international conference on limit
ing armament and specifically expressed its sup
port of continued amicable relations with Can
ada. .Thesewo examples, frank and perhaps un
diplomatic in their admissions, show a high sense
of citizenship that is willing to put patriotism
before profit and not mix them up in one hys
terical jumble as they have been at times.
' Back on a Basis of Service.
A speaker before the bankers of Nebraska in
their convention in Omaha was outspoken in
his denunciation of the members of that profes
sion whose policies had resulted in failure and in
hardship on their community. Welcome signs
of a similar positive stand by the honorable and
responsible members of business and trade or
ganizations against malpractice are noticeable on
many sides. It is but fair to say that in every
association of this kind the overwhelming ma
jority are scrupulous and high-principled, How
ever, it often occurs that they have been less
active in the control of their organization's af
fairs than were the minority who represent bad
practice.
The building investigations in New York and
Chicago have revealed complicity between the
corrupt elements among employers, material con
cerns and union labor to plunder the public and
share the spoils. In some instances improved
appliances were not permitted to be introduced
in competition with the supplies of old estab
lished, firms without the payment of graft; con
spiracy after conspiracy has been upturned in
these probes."
In Chicago eight indictments have just been
returned, one of them against a lawyer, another
against a builder's and architect's superintendent
and the others against ' labor leaders, all
on charges of extortion. At the same time two
leaders of the street cleaners' union were indicted
on charges of robbing the mails of $350,000. It
can not be alleged that this reflects oh the rank
and file of the labor unions any more than the
arrest and conviction of members of New York
building companies reflects on the honesty - of
their associates.
In reality the process of justice is aiding in
the cleanup of bad conditions in industry. Hon
est men are now getting their opportunity; a re
organization of labor affairs and leadership has
resulted both in Chicago and New York, and
the business men's organizations are beginning
to show a new spirit of competition rather than
combination. The question is not only one of
ethics, but of efficiency and service. New em
phasis must be put on production, and that agree
ment to this end is possible through honorable
understanding between the better elements on
both sides and the driving out or ignoring of the
men have been misp'd, is the fervent hope of the
public.
Organizer of Economy.
In Charles G. Dawes the federal budget sys
tem will have a director who is not afraid to
use the pruning knife on government expendi
tures. Under the new law he will prepare a com
plete estimate of expenditures and revenue, being
free to cut the estimates submitted by the heads
of the various departments. He will be responsi
ble only to the president, who may revise the
schedule or submit it unchanged for the consid
eration of congress.
' The fiscal training of Mr. Dawes is such as
to give assurance of new economy in adminis
tration. He is chairman of the Central Trust
company of Chicago, was controller of the cur
rency under McKinley, and during the world
war was a brigadier general in charge of pur
chases for the American expeditionary forces.
The outspoken character which he displayed not
long ago in discussing war costs before congress
has made him a favorite in'the public eye, and
the appointment is bound to be a popular one as
well as wise.
A Request From the Ladies.
Fifty-fifty, says the national woman's party.
Such is the meaning of the proposed 20th
amendment to the constitution of the United
States. Equal representation by women in con
gress, on the supreme court and on all federal
and state tribunals and commissions is the goal
of this militant organization.
,The measure which it is announced will .be
presented to congress as the first step toward
amending the constitution is declared to be
designed to "revolutionize the legal tradition of
eleven centuries of common law subjugation of
women and substitute a new principle of legal
equality.".
In regard to one of the aims of the amend
ment there will be little disagreement This is
the provision nullifying the old law under which
an American woman who married a foreigner
lost her citizenship and assumed the nationality
of her husband. The late war, with its restric
tions on wives of enemy aliens undoubtedly
worked some hardships that were not altogether
just
Woman suffrage is no longer on trial; al
though it has not brought in the millenium, its
success and justice is unquestioned. Having won
this much, it is but natural that the suffragists
should seek further equality. The amendment
they propose is called "woman's bill of rights,"
and with the sex competing with men in in
dustry and every line of activity, they could not
fairly ask any special immunity nor could they
be expected to accept any inequality of oppor
tunity. The whole fabric of the law of domestic
relations would be altered by this simple little
amendment. Probably husbands could no longer
be held liable for the actions of their wives,
married wbmen could not be barred from teach
ing, property rights would be extended and many
other technical matters of which few except law
yers are cognizant would be altered.
This may have a new appearance, but as a
matter of fact it is only the sudden flowering
forth of a project outlined by the first woman's
rights convention at Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848,
when the movement for securing social, educa
tional, political, legal and economic freedom for
women was begun. There is a difference now,
however while 70 years ago only a few women
gave thought to these problems, now millions
will not only give them their attention, but. prob
ably their indorsement as well.
If Representative Johnson, who has intro
duced a bill forbidding women in the District of
Columbia from smoking, were not himself free
from the habit, it might be suspected that he was
afraid there was not enough tobacco to go around.
Opposition to the proposed investigation of
the disorders in the West Virginia mine country
will serve to convince many that conditions there
must be pretty rotten..
Now that it is announced that John T. Adams,'
republican national chairman, has a say on all
matters of patronage, Iowa may rival Ohio as a
recipient of plums.
Tactics of the Next War
Civilization and Humanity
Might Perisk, Writer Says
Will Irwin, in "The Next War."
Here is a projectile the bomb-carrying air
plane of unprecedented size and almost un
limited range; here is a killing instrument gas
of a power beyond the dream of a madman;
here is a scheme of warfare which Inevitably
draws those who were hitherto regarded as non
combatants into the category of fair game. Wc
need but combine these three factors in our
imaginations, and we have a probability of "the
next war" between civilized and prepared na
tions. It will be, in one phase, a wir of tero
plancs loaded with gas shells. And professional
military men in all lands are remarking among
themselves that the new warfare may some say
must strike not only at armies but at the heart
of the matter peoples.
A Prussian officer of the old school said to
his American captors in 1918, "France is the
sheepfold and Germany is the wolf. The French
army is the shepherd's dog. The wolf fights the
dog only in order to get at the sheep. It is the
sheepfold we want." Upon such sentiments the
allied world looked with some horror then.
Even the Germans somewhat withheld their
hands. I can not find that gas bombardment
was ever used on the cities behind the lines. Yet
the Germans were preparing in 1918 a step to
ward the method.
Had the war continued, Paris . would have
been attacked from the air on a new plan. A
first wave of airplanes would have dropped on
the city roofs tons of small bombs which re
leased burning prosphorus that flame can not
be extinguished by water. It would have started
a conflagration against which the fire department
would have been almost powerless, in a hundred
quarters of the city. Into the light furnished by
this general fire, the Germans proposed to send
second and third waves of airplanes loaded
with the heaviest bombs; they could pick their
objectives in the vital parts of the city as they
could not during an ordinary moonlight raid.
From that the gas bombardment would have
been but a step. I have shown what we might
have done to Berlin in 1919 with giant bombs
carrying Lewisite gas. The allies, I can testify
personally, did not intend to use this method
"unless they had to." But the elimination of
civilians by the hundreds of thousands, perhaps
by the millions, through gas bombardments, was
a possibility had the war continued until 1920.
In "the next war" this gas bombardment of
capitals and great towns is not only a possibility
but a strong probability almost a certainty.
Military staffs have had time to think, to carry
out the changes and discoveries of the great war
to their logical conclusion. They see that even
with the known gases, the existing airplanes,
Paris, Rome or London could in one night be
changed from metropolis to a necropolis. If any
military man hesitates to apply this method
and being human, and having a professional dis
like of killing civilians, he must hestate the
thought of what the enemy might do drives him
on to consideration of this plan of warfare, and
to preparation. There are at this moment at
least two elements in the world quite capable
of turning this trick had they the means and
control. The ,method is so effective that if you
do not use it, some one else will. You must be
prepared to counter, to reply in kind.
Brigadier General Mitchell of the United
States army, pleading with the house committee
on appropriations for' more defensive airplanes,
said that "a few planes could visit New York
as the central point of a territory 100 miles
square every eight days and drop enough gas to
keep the entire area inundated. -'. , . Two
hundred tons of phosgene gas could be laid every
eight days and would be enough to kill every
inhabitant."
Let us take testimony again from the public
and official remarks of General Swinton: ". . .
ray warfare. I imagine from the progress that
has been made in the past that in the future we
will not have recourse to gas alone, but will em
ploy every force of nature that we can; and
there is a tendency at present for progress in
the development of the different forms of rays
that can be turned to lethal purposes. We have
X-rays, we have light rays, we have heat
rays. . . . We may not be so very
far from the development of some kinds
of lethal ray which will shrivel up or
paralyze or poison human beings. . . . The
final form of human strife, as I regard it, is germ
warfare. I think it will come to that; and so
far as I can see there is no reason why it should
not, if you mean to fight . . . prepare now
. . . we must envisage these new forms of
warfare, and as far as possibte expend energy,
time and money in encouraging our inventors
and scientists to study the waging of war on a
wholesale scale instead of . . . thinking
so much about methods which will kill a few
individuals only at a time."
In the war just finished according to neu
tral and scientifically dispassionate Danish his
toriansnearly 10,000.000 soldiers died in battle
or of wounds; probably 2.000,000 or 3,000,000 sol
diers were permanently disabled. Yet we were
killing only by retail, where'vin "the next war"
we shall kill bv wholesale.
In the same fate war, according to those same
Danish statisticians, cost 30,000.000 more human
beings mere civilians "who might be living to
day. Yet taking Armageddon by and large, the
weapons were deliberately turned against civil
ians with comparative infrequency. Declining
birth rates account for a part of those 30,000,000.
The rest, for the most part died of the "acci
dents, of such warfare a- we w9o,H
Unless some general staff in Europe is hug
ging a deep and sinister secret, we have not yet
found the killing ray. That lies beyond the pres
ent frontiers of science; its discovery involves
pioneer work. If it comes, it may change and in
tensify warfare in many ways we cannot at pres
ent conceive. But warfare by disease-bearing
bacilli is already preparing in the laboratories.
Here, for example, is one method which I have
heard suggested and which, I learn from men
of science, seems quite possible: Find some
rather rare disease, preferably one which flour
ishes in a far corner of the world, sq that people
of yourown region have no natural immunity
against it, just as the American Indians have no
immunity against measles.
Experiment until you find a good, oractical
serum which may be manufactured on a whole
sale scale. Cultivate the bacilli until they are
strengthened to that malignant state with which
r .v. imiuenza epiaemic made us fam liar
that can be done with some species of bacilli.
Innoculate your army; if necessary your own
civilian population. Then by night-flying air
planes, by spies, by infected insects, vermin or
water, by any other means which ingenuity may
suggest, scatter the germs among the - enemy
forces. In a few days you will have a sick
enemy, easily conquered. It takes time to dis
cover a specific or a serum for a new disease.
I he mischief would be done long before the
laboratories of the enemy could find a defense
ex. , esPec'a,,y romantic and valorous form
of battle. As germ warfare is at present con
ceived, it would be directed against armies alone.
But anv one who followed the late war knows
what human chains bind the troops in the
trenches to the general population. With almost
every one ministering in some capacity to the
army, soldiers and civilians are inextricably
mixed. Annies simply could not be quarantined.
Among the possibilities of the next war is a gen
eral blighting epidemic, like the black plague of
the middle ; ages a sudden, mysterious, indis
criminating rush of death from which a man can
save himself only by fleeing his fellow man.
Then there are easily cultivated, easily
spread diseases of plants. What about a rust
which will ruin your enemy's grain crop and
starve him out? That method of warfare has
been suggested 'and is now bt'ma inventiarated.
Zffie&oes
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' Who for Senator?
Minden, Neb., June 21. To the
Editor of The Bee: Much is said
already about the prospective candi
dates for United States senator to
succeed Senator Hitchcock, and sev
eral names have been proposed, all
of whom are well qualified and
would make most excellent senators.
It is only with a view of brinslnsr
out the best timber thnt the sug
gestion is herein made. In the past
the political map has been largely
divided according to the North
Platte and South I'latte divisions.
There is no reason for the existence
of this division, but it has become
liirsrely the unwritten political law
of the state.
It is fully recognized that Omaha,
the metropolis of Nebraska, contains
ono-firth ot the population of the
state, naturally it is the doorway in
and out of Nebraska, and the state
as a whole is proud of its great
growth and proaierity, it has inter
ests peculiar to Omaha and in com
mon with the state of Nebraska.
The prospective candidate who, by
his environment and training may
think in terms only as they affect
Omaha, or the prospective candi
date who may think in terms and
represent interests out of Omaha
only is not bigr enough for the po
sition of United States senator. He
should know the interest of Omaha
as well as the interests of the state
at large. The man who has had
training in both these parts of Ne
braska is the man who should be
nominated by the people of this
state.
If Senator Hitchcock becomes a
candidate he will have the advan
tage of experience in the Vnited
States senate, and the candidate op
posing him should, if possible, have
experience to set off that asset In
Senator Hitchock's candidacy.
The writer of this letter is an out-of-the-state
citizen. He has never
been a resident nor interested in
either of the two places, Kearney or
Omaha, and can therefore speak
from the vantage point of.nonpreju
dice. The man who the writer has
in mind. as the logical candidate for
the office to succeed Senator Hitch
cock Is ex-United State Senator
Norris Brown of Omaha, formerly of
Kearney.
Mr. Brown's early training was In
the western half of Nebraska. He
knows its needs as completely as
anyone. He has practised law in
Omaha since he left the United
States senate and in now fully con
versant with the needs of the me
tropolis of Nebraska. He has had
six years' experience In the United
States senate, which offsets any
experience t(-at Senator Hitchcock
may claim for himself over a candi
date who has had no experience.
Senator Brown is a republican and
if elected will have the advantage
over Senator Hitchcock in that ho
will be with the riillns party in con
gress. The writer Is not informed, nor
has he heard of any rumors that
Senator Brown Is a candidate, re
ceptive or. active. If he can be in
duced to become a candidate his
experience and qualifications will
more completely and fully represent
all the interests of the state of Ne
braska, in or out of Omaha, than
any. other candidate thus far men
tioned in the republican fold and
all of them are indeed men of high
qualifications.
OUT-OF-THE-STATE CITIZEN.
How to Keep Well
By DR. W. A. EVANS
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to Dr. Evana by taadara at Tha Bea, will ba aaiwerad panoaally, ) o
prepar limitation, whara stamped addraaaad anvolopa ia ancloaod. Dr Ena
will not maka dlagnoais ar praacriba far Individual diaaaaaa. Addraia lattars
la care at Tha Baa. , . .
, Copyright 121, by Dr. W. A. Evana
WONDERS OF RADIUM.
Minneapolis writes: Please ex
plain what radium Is and for what
it is used.
REPLY.
To answer your letter in BOO words
Is somewhat of a task. Radium was
discovered In pitchblende in 1898 by
Mme. Curie and her husband. At
present nearly all the radium manu
factured comes from carnotite ores
mined in southwestern Colorado and
nearby seotlons of surrounding
Stftt3
In 1901 the medical properties of
radium began to be discovered. Na
turally those who read thiR column
are interested in the medical uses of
radium. These uses may be divided
into two great groups medical and
surgical. The surgeons use radium
in the treatment of superficial can
cers. It is supposed to destroy the
cancer cells and leave other cells
unharmed, or rather unharmed to a
far lesser degree. It has been
claimed that cancer cells troated by
diathermy (heat) are changed into
ordinary cells, and the suggestion is
made that radium acts in the same
way. So far as science has gone now
it is held that radium In the treat
ment does not take the place of sur
gery but is used as an aid. .It is
sometimes used before operation
and sometimes after to reach cells
that cannot be removed.
Radium is used to treat papil
loma of the bladder. It is used for
uterine fibroids. It stops excessive
hemorrhage not due to fibroids. It
is used in the treatment of goiters.
It has a considerable surgical field.
Investigations along this line were
pretty well stopped temporarily by
the world war. It is supposed to be
a valuable Ingredient in baths used
In the treatment of rheumatisms
and neuralgias. In accordance-with
this belief the government has de
termned the radium content of the
water from ' many ot the mineral
springs. t
Even more promising Is the sub
ject of the physics of radium. This
study threatens to revolutionize
everything we know about the earth
below and the heavens above. In
the light of the revelations made by
radium we may have to scrap our
works on astronomy, on physics, and
WHY-
Mutual. My Dear Sir.
Omaha, June 21. To the Editor
of Tha Bee: I feel that I must ex
press my appreciation and thanks
for your artiolo in this morning's
issue -of The Bee, about A Bright
Spot In Europe," the Czecho-Slovak
republic. I am sure that our pea
pie (over 10,000 of them)"in .Omaha
as well as in the state (over 50,000)
will feci as warmly toward you for
your kind words as I do. And may
I be permitted to be so bold as to
wish "many returns?"
STANLEY SERPAN.
Consul Czecho-Slovak Republic,
Questioning Prohibition.
. Ingleside, Neb., June 22. To tho
Editor of The Bee: I have been a
reader of The Bee for some years
because I like your paper and your
editorials, politically, coincide with
my views. But I cannot refrain
from making an observation with
respect to the much discussed prohi
bition question. Personally, prohl
bltion does not affect me one way or
tne other as I settled that matter
for myself several years ago. I ad
mire the man who is a total ab
stainer from inclination and desire.
but the prohibitionist, the profes
sional reformer and fanatic, I have
no use lor whatever.
Your reference in an editorial to
day to selfish Interests endeavoring
to wrap themselves in the American
flag applies more antlv to the pro
hibitionlsts than the people y'ou
nave in mind, for they have done
tnat very thine.
What I desired to suggest more
particularly is this:
Dry writers are continually clalm
lng that the eighteenth amendment
represents the will of the majority
of our people. How they arrive at
this conclusion is a mystery. If you,
dear editor, or any other dry writer,
can present any real argument or au
thentic figures substantiating this
theory you will do more good for
tne prohibition cause than all the
enforcement officers in the country,
It Is the very opposite belief of mil
lions of good citizens that causes so
much disrespect for the dry law,
These citizens are all good Ameri
cans and it you can satisfy them on
this very particular point that the
minority does not rule, you can save
the taxpayers a lot of money. While
they are law-abiding citizens they
ao not believe the dry law is const!
tutlonal or that It represents the
will of the majority. Satisfy them
cn this point, beyond all doubt, and
you will be agreeably surprised at
the results.
I believe thousands of your read
ers would appreciate an editorial
explaining this question.
R. B. EISENBERG.
Obstructive Vision.
Omaha, June 19. To the Editor
of The Bee:' A repressive regime
of enlightened opinion is, indeed, a
most obstructive vision of democ
racy. The accursed sequence of so
negative a tenet is the refuge of
the incongruous elements of the
social order. For here are the dark
ened councils of conspiracy whose
voice is in eternal protest against
the dissemination of truth. While
civilization is weighed in the ap
palling balance of an utter catas
trophe Admiral Sims spoke against
the machinations of this refuge, of
these councils. How logical then
is the voice of protest that terrorizes
thousands into Ignominious silence.
The brave and noble admiral can
drink the political hemlock without
tragedy to the republic, for its
foundations were laid in security
against the foes of American free
dom. Foes that plead for a free
dom whose politics ara exotic, and
whose authority is not local.
I hope the future will bring a
civilisation of America, whose great
est glory will be an Individual hon-est-to-God
opinion fearlessly de
clared. Then, and not until then,
will the men against whom Admiral
Sims spoke call to the mountains
to fall on them in lieu of the in
dignant wrath of America. In the
historical words of American free
dom, "Give me liberty, or give me
death;" "Liberty of opinion and all
of its Inherent realltl"." ,
J. BRAXTON GARLAND. 1
Does a Bicycle Stay Upright?
In considering this question we of
course understand it to mean "Why
does a bicycle remain upright while
it is being ridden," for a bicycle at
rest will fall over as quickly as any
other object which is balanced upon a
very narrow support, and owing to
the ease with which the wheels turn
sideways, it is extremely difficult to
cause a machine of this type to
stand up straight unless balanced
from above.
Newton, in considering the entire
question . of motion, made a large
number of experiments with a hoop
which is nothing more than one
wheel of a bicycle and answers to
the same' laws which govern the two
wheeled species. He found that any
moving object -will continue on a
constant speed in the same straight
line for an indefinite length of time
theoretically forever unless it is
acted upon by some other force.
Friction, of course, is always at work
upon all moving objects, so that this
law is extremely finite in its practical
application but it explains the prin
ciple of the bicycle which, being bal
anced upright at the start, remains
in this position continuously when in
motion, unless an excess of weight on
one side or the other tends to over
turn it The onlv real friction is
that caused by the wheels upon the
road, for the friction between the air
and the person who is riding the
bicycle is negligible and is also bal
anced equally on either side. The
rider, therefore, is entirely safe as
long as he balances himself proper
ly at the start and docs not mater
ially alter this balance while he is
moving.
(Copyright, 1(21, Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.)
on chemistry and begin again as
naked as a new born babe. Our
boasted materialistic philosophy
founded, as we thought, on the
solid ground of established fact, ws
may come in time to regard as
fanciful as Greek mythology.
In the first place, these new dis
coveries may teach us that the old
alchemists may have been right. Tha
elements are not elements at all.
Maybe we can convert a baser metal
iron into a higher metal gold.
Slosson says in his fascinating
creative chemistry: "Uranium lived
E, 000, 000, 000 years and begot Urani
um XI. which lived 246 days and
begot Uranium X2, which lived
2,000,000 years and begot Ionium,
which lived 200,000 years and be
got radium, which lived 1,860 years
and begot niton, which lived S.85
days and begot radium A, which
lived S minutes and begot radium B,
which lived 26.8 minutes and begot
radium C, which lived 19.6 minutes
and begot radium D, which lived 6
days and begot polonium, which
lived 136 days and begot lead."
The elements uranium, ionium,
radium, polonium, and lead arc all
one element If we go back far
enough. Radium produces heat and
light far more efficiently than does
ordinary oxidation and with infinite
ly less waste. Some day scientists
may cheapen radium and thus per
mit us to use it in place of coal and
wood. Just now it finds but few uses
in the arts. We llllmuinate our
watch and clock dials at night by
bombarding the figures made' of
zinc with radiations from a small
store of radium. Thus we see that
the present practical uses of radium
are few. It has a well established
field in surgery. No one disputs its
value there. Its field in medicine
remains to be determined. The great
industrial field offers posslblities
which stagger the imagination once
the basic discoveries have been
made.
Change the Diet.
Mrs. P. C. C. writes: "My baby
Is 14 months bid and weighs 27
pounds. Ever since the hot weather
began a week ago his bowels have
been very bad. Ho has diarrhoea
constantly. Ha has nothing but
boiled milk (48 ounces) each day.
Since this condition began ha has
cut on tooth (having five in all
now). The upper gums are swollen
and one day bled a little, although
nothing to speak of. Is this diar
rhoea caused by the teething and hot
weather, or lack of proper food?
I have diluted the milk recently to
two parts milk and one of water,
but he Is losing weight. What can
I do to stop the diarrhoea sud what
else can be done to nourish him
without causing him to get worse?"
RETLY.
The trouble is wirn the foos. tv -s
food entirely for 21 hours. During
this period give water plentifully
unless it causes vomiting. When vou
start feeding do not give wholo nuin
Some feed cereal gruels for a. d-y
or two. Some give some form of
albumin milk of which there are
several on the market. Do not go
back to milk for several days. If
the condition shows any tendency to
persist get a physician. When the
baby has fully recovered from this
spell give some cereals, bread, Boui'S.
vegetables, and fruit Juices. Milk
is not enough for a baby 14 months
old.
Too Much Sweots Bnd.
H. P. writes: "Is much sweet stuff
harmful?"
REPLY.
Yes. It leads to pimples, obesity,
and diabetes.
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