Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15
DRINK LEVINE
AND FLY LIKE
A SONG BIRD
Scientist Discovers a
New Fluid
Declares Wings Are Merely Rudders
for Aerial Administrative stun,
However, Net Vet on The
Market

Special TO The Herald.
CHICAGO, March t4.--1nstead Of
flying machine, Il is a bottle OF 'ievine''
you want for your aerial journey.
Mere mechanical eontrivances are to
be back numbers IN the matter Of aerial
transportation. Aeroplanes, balloons
and all that sort Of thing are to be the
worst sort of junk They all lack the
one necessary thing-"levine.'
"A Chicago scientist, DR.. James r.
Price, 5519 Monroe avenue, is the dis
coverer OF levine" He admits he
hasn't fully discovered It yet, but he
knows 1t exists, and hopes that soon he
will have It isolated and imprisoned In
labeled bottles ready for use.
Levine" is what makes birds hy,
says Dr. Price. It is the lightest known
gas, being sixteen times as light as
hydrogen. To produce 1t and to control
Il win mean the dominion of the air for
man, according to Or. Price, who ex-
Chicago papers.
DR.. Price makes the amazing declara-
ton that birds do not fly with their
wings, but with the aid Of "levine." In
other words, a bird is not really q bird
at all, but q balloon.
Watch the "frst robin Of spring. aB
he balances himself on a gatepost, eye-f
| ing a tree top fifty feet above him. Up
he flies, and he balances himself on the
very tip Of the biggest branch. Did he
| fly up into the tree? No, says Or. Price,
he foated up. He literally thought
himself up-willed himself up. When
he decided to perch on that tree top. he
simply willed 1t, and it was so, Minute
sacs, little cells, at the roots Of his
wing feathers excreted this mysterious
| gas; It clung to his feather, and In an
instant he was lighter than the air, and
up he floated. He used his wings only
to control and direct his flight.
Death Adds to Birds Weight
But try an experiment with Mr.. Rob-
| in, says DR.. Price. The bird Is ball
ancing on the very tip of the branch, on
| q twig so frail that it bends beneath his
weight, though it does not break. Take
q rife and shoot the bird. Down he
/ falls, and the twig breaks and tunbles
with him. Why? Because when he
died the 'levine" went out of his wings
and he became dead weight instead of
la toy balloon. Then the twig broke
under his weight, even before his life
less little body could fall to the ground.
ST first began with the series of OBJ
4 servations and experiments which led
to the discovery Of levine five years
ago." says DR.. Price. "I noticed how
birds are able to light on twigs that
would not bear one-fourth of their
weight--if the weight were dead-andS
can fly away again without breaking
the twig. A tiny branch that will not
hold two ounces of buckshot will easily
support a four ounce bird. I investi-
gated this and experimental till dis
| covered the LEVINE
| 'I found that could put small, ar
| tificial tree on scales and balance it,
and then allow a bird to alight on the
| tree, without disturbing the balance.
Then I killed the bird, and found that
it disturbed the balance, of course, COM
pletely.
what was the cause? I went in
search of some mysterious principle of
nature, and hypothesized-that is, I
simply guessed at the existence Of
mysterious gas which caused the living
bird to weigh nothing at all-that is,
no more than the air. Experiments
proved my hypothesis to be a good one.
found the gas, and named it levine
that is, practically, the essence of
| lightness.
Lighter Than Hydrogen
'I believe that levine consists of the
electrons and iron-that is, the disinte-
grated atoms-of hydrogen.
Hydrogen is sixteen times lighter
than air, but 1 found by calculations
and experiments that levine is sixteen
times as light as hydrogen. have not
yet been able to isolate 1t and test 1t
chemically, for there is no chemical test
delicate enough for it's subtlety, but
hope to, be able to separate it from the
air.
"I have found that birds have certain
organs that secrete levine just as the
digestive organs secrete gastric juices.
The bird can increase or stop the fiow
Of levine into its wings at will. When
it wants to fly, 1t just wills to, starts
the tiny 1evine-cells' in the roots of
its feathers to work, and floats up
ward. Some birds can drop down like
a plummet. That is simply because
when they stop filing their wings with
| levine they cease to be as light as
air. and force OF gravitation gets them.
and they fall straight toward the
earth. You can't explain it any other
way.
lone of my experiments was inter-
esting. 1 took a bird weighing four
ounces and q very delicate, accurate
scalesNand let the bird fly around the
room and light on the scales They did
not novel The bird sat still. It's
weight went up to an ounce, an ounce
and half, two. three and finally four.
This was because 1t had ceased to util-
ize the gas and therefore its weight In
creased.
st believe that have solved the prob
lem of the airship-though the solu-
ton Will not be complete till I have
isolated levine and learned how to
make it,