The Washington herald., 1920-05-02

Friend public, as never before,
sat in with science at last weeks
holiday romp in Washington by
the National Academy of Sciences
The cream of the country's lat
est scientific notions were pre-
scnted before this, the command
ing organization and "thirty-secoud
degree" of science in America.
Its discussions ranged from a
brilliant revolution in ocean cables
TO an amazing theory of the uni
verse-"everything that is"
A perfect chaos of different pos
sibilities on the program meant
something for all.
Public Interested In Food.
vitamines caused a lively discus
sion.
vitamines put pep" and "wel-
fare" into people, so somebody
asked IL they weren't in beer.
Beer is terminated from barley,
and. personally. I think vitamines
ought to be there. too." was DR..
Osborne'S daring response to the
"wets" =
OF all things, food was very close
to the public's heart.
The specially rapid rise into pop
ularity of oranges and grape fruit
was given startling support. In
these citrus fruits, DR.. Osborne and
DIR. Mendell discovered water
soluble Yitamines-the mysterious
elements that make children grow
and keep adults healthy. Small
white rats. lacking them, went
down hill toward death, but sepa-
rate doses of orange juice set them
growing fast.
As Effective as Milk.
Orange juice. ounce for ounce, is
as effective as cows milk, declared
DR.. Osborne. THE same striking
potency held for the grapefruit and
the lemon"
This discovery not only places
Importance of the public's almost
instructive likes and it's willingness
to pay so high a price"
Apples and pears he found less
effective.
Stefanson, the North Pole ex-
plorer. has declared that vitamines
In raw meat alone kept his men
healthy. DIR. Osborne believes this
% likely true il they included such
tidbits as the liver.
Then there was weather that, as
everybody knows, has been so hard
to control this winter.
Plans to study the Air.
A high efficiency rocket that is
TO shoot in twenty seconds up seven
miles was described by DR.. Goddard.
In a steel chamber five separate
charges. firing one after the other,
will keep the rocket travelling.
Once in this upper layer of the
air, he expects to make a great
new weather map of conditions up
there" that will tell us what is go
ing to happen lower down.
The. instruments Of the weather
men will drop quietly back to the
different stations on parachutes.
This is not all.
He expects to map the ups and
downs of this second layer of air.
where the wind blows 100 miles an
hour toward San Francisco. for
daring aviators. Eventually. he
plans to explore the far air reaches
and even space.
SUMS Rays Hot I'm Winter.
There was another side to the
weather. DR.. Charles G. Abbott de-
clared the suns rays were hotter
this winter than at any time in the
past ten months
But the weather was so unusual
that all this extra heat was reflect
ed away by clouds. leaving very
cold winter. Suddenly, in the mid
die of March, he said, just before
a great magnetic storm on the sun,
its heat dropped way down to per
cent below, indicating eXtraordi-
nary changes.
Our sun, he owned. varies with
speriodic regularity" in its emitting
light and heat.
There is another fact about warm
spring weather that upsets popu-
lar notion.
Cold Helps the Shrubs.
The chilling of the cold winter
and not the spring warmth starts
the trees and shrubs into bloom. in
b the opinion of DR.. Frederick v.
Coville.
They don't even start until
chilled, he said. Blueberry and
crabapple kept warm all winter did
not open up. The half of one little