The Washington times., 1921-07-08

Does Radium Kick Back?
The New Flying Machine.
How Much for an Eye?
When Asia Marches West.
BY ARTHUR BRISBAN
Copyright. 1891.

model Of the gun expected to shoot
a ten-thousand-pound shell three
hundred miles, sent bullet from
his little gun through steel plate
held against the muzzle. Appar-
emily there was no "kick" in the
gun. Scientists say Impossible,
action and reaction must be
equal" Power forward, they say,
must be accompanied by power
backward. The little boy diving
must kick back against the bank
whence he dives.
VIII scientists. with their action
and reaction, answer these ques-
tions: What about radium? Does
1T kick back, as it shoots its parti-
cles into space 5000 miles to the
second? There, certainly, appears
to be action without reaction. Or
does every ultra-microscopic ra-
dium particle give a kick back, as
1t starts off
The expected new thing in fly
ing machines appears to have been
found. It is the invention of a
German named Hanschk, an i'm
provement of the helicopter. The
construction enables it to rise
straight in the air, with no slant.
The German machine, now tested
at The Hague, is said to travel 312
miles per hour. 1t would cross the
Atlantic Ocean comfortably by
daylight in one day, and go around
the world by daylight in about
eight days. That will not seem
very fast, in years to come, but it
sounds rapid now.
Inevitably the present clumsy
type of flying machine, wide, fiat
sails resting on the air, will be
done away with. Men do not imi-
tate nature, they improve on
nature.
The locomotive is far different
from the running deer. and faster.
The screw that moves our boats
is a great improvement on the
fins and tail of the fish. The real
flying machine, when it comes, will
be as different from birds with
clumsy, outstretched wings, as the
locomotive from the galloping
horses.
How much would a man charge
Tor one eye, how much for both
You may soon know.
Prof. Kolmer, of Vienna, has
successfully transplanted in blind
animals good eyes taken from liv-
ing fish and rats. And the blind
animals see, with eyes transplant
ed.
The work is now done without
the use of silk stitches, which
formerly destroyed the nerves.
Prof. Kolmer will next experiment
with rabbits, then with monkeys.
If eyes can be successfully trans
planted in apes, which seems
doubtful, the same thing undoubt-
edly could be done with human be-
ings.
A rich blind man, of New York,
for years offered a million to any
body that could restore his sight.
The method probably would be to
buy one eye from one man and
another eye from another man.
In China, in old days at least,
q man condemned to death could
easily hire as substitute some duti-
ful son who would give the money
TO his mother, then go out to be be-
headed.
1t is conceivable that many eyes
would be for sale at a price. Many
eyes, legs, and arms also were
given free to Uncle Sam, in the
war, and he hasn't as yet shown
any striking gratitude.
The world is not tired of fight
ing, apparently. More war is ex-
pected between Germans and
Poles. How the Poles manage it,
with their paper money, worth
about as much as the imprinted
paper, is hard to understand
More serious is the situation at
Constantinople. The British fleet
has been sent to the Dardanelles,
in expectation of an Asiatic at
tack, backed up by Russian Boil
shevism, which, as the allies have
learned, is not easily handled.
Russia once stood, like a gVeat
unconquerable feather bed, be-
tween Asia and western Europe.
And Germany, a wall of steel bayo-
nets, once stood between Russia
and the thin, strip of civilization
along the European Atlantic coast.
Now, since the armistice the
German wall of steel has been torn
down. The allies endeavoring TO
collect debts from Russia, have
made her a bitter enemy.
When next the hordes of the
East come marching West, as they
have done at intervals through
out history, Russia will welcome
the Asiatics and help them on to
fight what Lenin calls "capitalistic
Europe" And Germany, not being
able to say anything else, will saw,
"March on THROUGH, the roads are
open. l am disarmed and for
bidden to fight you or anybody" /"