The Washington times., 1919-09-29

little dog laughed TO such
And the dish away with the spoon.
We're you thinking too much about things less impOr-
tnt TO be impressed by three items which have been
printed within the past few days?
you were, here they are, reprinted to Let you know
there is something more significant happening than the
Preparations for the worlds series:
Sir Oliver Lodge eminent English scientist
that there is power enough concealed in Of matter
% Instantly wreck modern city or, used COnsTuCvey, to
rIn It's industries for months.
Garrett p Servss who writes so earnedy on scientific
matters told Of the progress which is being made by
American scientist toward nUly the force Of gravity
An American aviator who made record fight for alt
tuds brought back word from the heavenly regions that
after reaching certain point he passed what he graphically
described the temperature lid" and found that the
higher be went beyond that point the warmer temperature
he encountered.
Each Of these news items is most important II TRUE
lof they deny theories Of natural science upon which we
have been proceeding and around which have planned
our existence.
The cheapest source Of power now available is the
natural fan Of water whose descending force harness to
turbines and 50 make useful
But water power is not everywhere svailabe, that
tie great majority Of the worlds machinery Is driven by
power gained from the burning Of fuel
The best record that we can make is to apply about ten
ninety per cent goes of IN smoke, wasted heat friction In
the transmission Of power, and other leakage.
That is pretty poor showing Il proves that know
very little about the conservation Of power.
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when produces light without heat and without the inter
venon Of pueys and belts and boilers and engines and
shaftng and dynamos
It is past estimation the amount Of money that could
be saved could light the world easily and simply as
the insect Want0nly crush under our foot
Enormous investments In plants and machinery and
wires and fixtures would be made free to accomplish some
thing else.
Sir Oliver Lodge is right and we can discover some
way to loose the power locked up in matter the whole life
Of the world will be changed.
This has been done to come extent.
II you should take bit Of radum big as pin point
and put it in dark box and arrange some lenses in the
right position you would stream Of sparks flying of
that radim that would look like the trail Of fire that fol-
lows q rocket
Every one Of those sparks represents power and what
happens in the Of radium Sir Oliver says would hap
pen In the case Of all matter we only knew the KEY that
would unlock the sparks
that discovery shall ever be made, good-by to some
and perhaps all the trusts We would need gasO-
line or coal
Every form Of manufacturing would be made infinitely
cheaper The cost Of transportation would be nothing
Tor the power locked up in matter would do the work
which man has to labor TO accomplish.
If after we had found that power was so easily obtain
able, what remarkable thing would be if Mr. Servss'
scientist should announce that he had really found way to
he has already given technical explanations of his
claim that BY the Of electricity he has easuaby less
sned the earth's power Of attraction.
We know very little about electricity We do not know
what it is, where it FROM how It originates
We rub piece Of vucanzed rubber on the fur side of
the skin Of dead cat and hold pth ball. and it
attracts the ball violently.
We hold it another pith ball which looks just the
and repss the ball We do not know the real reason
in either case.
We talk leanedy about the positive and the negative
but they only names for things do understand
and they do not in the least explain Why one ball jumps
toward the rubber and the other flies away
Ur. Ssrviss savant has theory that gravitaton is
demonstration Of form Of electrical force and that we
can get the right things ia the places Of the cat fur and the
rubber create power that viii make gravitation