The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-05-26

i ecAs' ana Jake car 10 Sredt
Falls that leaves nearest 20 .
O'Clock. Walk to Black Pond.
~sendinE Movies By Radio, will be
the subject Of an address by e.
Francis Jenkins at the meeting
OF the Federal Photographic So
ciety. 1919 Connecticut avenue.
tonight, 8 o'clock.
"Mexico and Its OLA motion
picture showing the oil resources
Of Mexico. will be shown BY
courtesy OF the Bureau ~ Mines
at the meeting OF the Washing
! ton section Of the American So
/ ciety OF Mechanical Engineers,
Cosmos Club Hall. tonight. s
o'clock
SMITHSONIAN REPORT
is JUST ISSUED.
Other planets. viamins. soils.
a great horned dinossur. oiris. IL
sects and Indians are just a few
I OF the many subjects cover II oy
article in tEs SrnUsl report e she
Smithsonian Institution for 1921
which has just been issued.
Venus is picked a. the only pos
sible planet that may support life
similar to that on our own earth
4 by DR.. C. C. Abbot. assistant seCre-
tary. in an article discussing the
! Availability Of Venus, Mars and
other worlds.
The moon. our nearest neiEhbor.
is a wsterless. sirleSs. mountainous
desert, and there is no proba hility
Of intelligent beings there: the
nrnha hF1fHx- f9
4 whose intense heat would not al
low any living being 10 exist there.
This leaves as possible abodes OF
! life in our solar system the seven
great planets Mars. Venus, Jupiter.
1 Saturn, Uranus. Neptune and Mer-
( curry. The outer four Of these
planets. Jupiter. Saturn. Uranus and
: Neptune, are, as shown by their low
density. mainly in a gaseous state.
This fact. coupled with their very
low temperatures owing to their
immense solar distances. makes IL
very unlikely that there are living
4 beings on these four planets. Mer-
curry, like the moon. is an air
less, waterless waste. besides being
baked with a terrific heat, so that
this planet also is out Of the run
! ming. The probable average tenn
peratUre of Mars is 50 degrees be
low zero. and its climate is dryer
that the Sahara desert. so that here
7, also conditions seem unsuitable for
{ life, leaving only Venus as a pos
sibility. Here conditions are most.
favorable. Venus rejects light as
IL IL were all cloudy and 50 prob
ably il contains plenty Of moisture
( Its temperature is about the samsI
as that of the earth, and all othe 4
D conditions are apparently compst HI
with The existence OF intelliceu
life. Or Abbot concludes that m
only practicable method q con-
munication with any possible plan
tsry neighbors is by wireless VIII
may be possible. although the co
would be immense. Among the sta
there may he very p-ohs bly, tho
sands Of dark habitable globes. b
owing to the inconcelvahIy gre
distances We cannot know abo
them.
An article on vitsmius by DR.
3 d. Halliburton describes what.
known TO date on this new disco
cry relating to foods and Jh'lr
. trltlonal value. In comparing
building Of the body 10 the build.
OF house, the well-kncwu e erloH
NJ our food. prnreius. Eats "a
bohydrates salts and water cor-
spond to tho bricks which arc as
less unless held together with md
tar, to which the vitanlins are col
pared. when the chemically puI
( fed elements above mentioned
given to young animals. grow
ceases. and can only be induced
adding 10 the diet natural foods ~
J in the accessory factors or vitamit
The author cites three known kin
of vitamins. with the "defcieu
diseases" which a lack Of cd
brings on.
/ Or. Edgar T. wherry Describes
experiments in determining the
lation OF soil acidity to the dist--s
tion OF various kinds Of plants, a
gives in detail a field method viii
can be used by anyone for dete
mining the acidity Of any desir
soil. Through his researches d
I Wherry has shown that certain n
tive plants which have been co
sidered impossible to cultivate
some localities can be made to gro
by giving the soil the SPECIFIC acid
ity which has been found TO be n
best fo- this particular plant d
show the possibilities in this re
the author planted in neutral soil
specimen OF Shortia galactfclI
where II grew for one year wsts
cut increasing in size. II was tho
transplanted to an acid soil and
the end OF one year the plant h
increased in size five-fold.
Upper Cretaceous geological peri
/ are described and illustrated
c. W. Gilmore. Fossil remains
these prehistoric reptiles have
far been found only in AmerIi
The striking feature Of the horn
dinosaurs is the enormous he
armed with horns and a bony cre
projecting backward over the ned
the skull in old individuals som
times reaching a length Of fe
although the brain is in proporti
: the smallest in any animal. bel
only the size OF a mans fist.
w. l. McAtee describes actual
stances IN which many differs
! species OF birds have greatly
( duced and sometimes suppress
entirely agricultural insect pes
The instances relate to thirty-t
different insect pests. and inclu
! more than seventy cases in VIII
these pests were e1terminated
cally. In many OF these cases
saving Of a crop from certain
struction from insects seems VIII
to be the work Of birds. and al
Is no doubt that birds have d
OF great value to American a