The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-31
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Einstein's scientific .theories-that pa- radise of mathematicians and that bug a-boo of plain everyday, ordinary folk like you and me-has just about as much part in any life as Greek has in the diary of a debutante; both are im- possible.
 For instance take this sentence In Chapter Four. entitled, The Special Theory of Relativity," and see how It affects you:
 An appurtenance of the Einstein theories which bears much the same relation to them as does the Lorentz- Fitzgerald contraction, is the idea. first clearly stated by Minl<owski thar time is kind. of space-a fourth di- mension, This the reader will doubt. less find to be the most difficult DOT ton of the theory to picture in his own mind. It is entirely unsupported by experiment or observation, neces- sarily so, and is based wholly on math- ematical and philosophical conceptions Our distinction between space and time seems to be that the direction in which we progress without effort is time; the other directions, in which we have to make an eNertion to move ourselves, or in which we are carried are space. How many dimensions empty space may have, we really have no means of knowing, because we can neither see nor feel it. Matter we know has three, length, breadth and thickness, also that it lies remote from us in three corresponding directions These facts may have given us the err roneous impression that space too has only three dimensions. Now it is claimed that time is fourth, and that there are also others"
 Next comes the "Relativity," theory which asks us to give up our earth bound notions of absolute space and absolute time and the sensation at first is like that which we experienced when we were asked to give up pet ticoats and garters and wear our stockings rolled and our skirts petti- coatlessi
 This, of course, is the 1ayrnans view but upon the scientist the same effect is produced as was experienced by the contemporaries of Columbus when told that the earth rested on nothing
 The remedy too is similar; just as they had to be taught that falling is a local affair, that the earth is self :. contained, and needs no external sup port--sO we must be taught that space and time standards are local affairs. Each moving body carries it's own space and time standards with it; it Is self-contained. It does not need to reach out for eternal support. for all, absolute space and time that can never quite be attained. All we ever need to know is the relation of the other fellows space and time stan dards to our own. This is the first thing relativity teaches us.
 The consequences of Einstein's as- sumptions have led many to reject the theory of relativity, on the ground that it's conclusions are contrary to common sense--as they undoubtedly are. But to the contemporaries of Copernicus and Calico the theory that the earth rotates on it's axis and re- wolves around the sun was contrary to common sense; yet this theory pre- vailed. There is nothing sacred about common sense; in the last analysis it's Judgments are based on the accumu- lated experience of the human race. From the beginning of the world up to the present generation, no bodies were known whose velocities were not extremely small compared with that of light.
 One of, the apt stories which has been written in regard to Professor Einstein and his relativity theory is entitled:
 Professor Einstein's Clock and the Changeable Frog" which says:
 Professor Einstein says that the same kind of a clock on earth and the sun would keep different time. He will prove this or admit that the whole theory of relativity is wrong. It is intensely interesting to the scientific mind, but many on this earth must take it all on faith Some refuse te change old fashioned ideas. A clergy man in the south writes quite often to say he can prove that the earth stands still and the sun goes around it.
 "A French scientist has Succeeded in metamorphosing a male frog into female frog Edmond Perrier who re- ports this event. says it may be possi- ble to change the sex of other animals, even to change a man into a woman or a woman into a man.
 "The change will never be made of course, although Nature plays strange pranks with her human victims. AS matter of fact nobody would want the change. We are all more or less miserable. but all want to remain what we are; another proof of the wisdom of Providence.
 You know the story of the afflicted that piled their troubles in a heap, each selected a different trouble, re- pented and came back to talk of the old trouble again."
 Even Goldberg has had his fling" at the ''Einstein Theory" when he