Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-05-20
Something New
Every So Often

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;EverySo Often
Apparently the maj who said "ain't
Nature Wonderful?'' was not far from
right We have a new exploitation of
it every day and Old Mr.. Solomon,
with his dittum that there is moth.
ing new under the SUM- sinks further
and further into what Mr.. Cleveland
called "innocuous desuetude.'' News
papers every day point out the won
new things-andi prove
The latest Of these is a dispatch
from Pittsburgh stating that music
good enough for dancing was trans
mitted half a mile by radio by ex-
perts q the Carnegie Institute OF
Technology and enjoyed by students
Of the University of Pittsburgh. who
fitted 1t to the latest thing in Jazz
steps.
Just the other day. when the fleet
arrived In New >York's North river,
an apparatus was installed by which
Secretary of the Navy Daniels voice
was carried from sthe flagship Penn
sylXania to transmitting megaphones
uptown and"to the men on the other
ships of the fleet. A couple of weeks
ago the~Prince of Wales spoke under
similar circumstances in San Diego to
a throng of several Thousand persons,
A generation g the telephone was
a similar marvel and shortly before
that the telegraph was hailed as rev
dictionary.
. Plane "Gliders'' I'm EOS. ,
1T was only back in the 'sOs that
'"gliders" were dragging the Wright
brothers over the sand dunes OF
North Carolina and bruising the aged
bones of Prof. Chanute on the sand
hills along Lake Michigan. Yetatoday
we talk in expert terms of this and
that make Of airplane, which is vir-
tlally the same as the old F"glider'
with the addition of the gasoline. 'en-
CINE. Prof. Langley is said to have
died Of a broken heart because the
which congress had given
him moneyIto experiment-with would
not run. Yet that same machine was
dragged out of a cellar Of the Smith
sonlan Institution, equipped with a
modern engine and flew like a bird
shortly after his death.
Gunpowder was considered a great
invention once. We are told that
humane generals forbade the use of
structive qualities. Yet INT has
made gunpowder seem puny and in
significant. sSsf.
The war developed many things.
1t made h airplane a safe CONNER
cha proposition. 1t developed medical
science in many angles. 1t had a
lasting effect upon the little known
science OF psychology and among it's
most recent disclosures is the state
men< recently by Major General
Squires, head of the United States
Signal Corps, that our old system Of
Insulating wires for electrical COM
munication is all wrong and useless;
that hundreds of miles of u~ninsulated
wire were laid and used during the
war, and that ocean messages can be
sent from America to Europe through
bare copper wire instead Of over ex-
pensive cables. =.
Dsproof of the statement. that.
there is nothing new under the sun
multiplication of It's examples leads
to mystification. It is already be-
coming father trite to refer to Elm
stein, but now we have Dr.. Lang
muirwith a theory which overturns
the dream of Sir Oliver Lodge. Lodge
a pointed out that the energy of
the world in the future will come
through the discovery Of some power
which will distntegrate the atom.
AAaiISiAu11 says Tie atom lS a StXaDl0
body, and that we must in future
reckon with the force energy"
nature "matter''-or what o will
he terms a "quahtel."
Like a Humming Bird. Maybe. :
But when Lang,n1rir or SOME one
else discovers the way t~osrelease the
prisoned and potent energy in a
"quantel." some of the few scientists
who will talk IN words, of one syllable
tell US, there will bel no such thing
as mystification Abobt the undis-
facts of nature. The wire
less telephone will have been forgot
ten, the motion picture will have
faded out, the phonograph will be
In the same category al the Babylon
ian brick, n the tear gas of the e
cent war will be used as snuff.
Fol by that time, 1t isSsaid, we will
have communication by felepathy. q
regular postal service with the spirit
world, food by pleasant Inhalation, i.
community which knows no need Of
money and. perhaps, q form Of society
modelled somewhat after the fashion
OF the humming bird.
The colored elevator girl eazed
c~uriously at the service pin on the
waist of her passenger.
Is 10 husband in france, lady?''
she finally inquired.
Z Passenger (~blushing furiously)-No.
This is foE. my sweetheart over there.
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