The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-07
Fire in New York Tun- mel How Extin- guishers w York Smothering Classes Not Suitable for Tunnels-Radium- Teacher and Preach er-Not Yet Cheap CT to Burn Water The Creative Will.

Sometimes the factor of safety works the other way. Increases danger. To check fire, extinguish- CTS were invented. Some wer on the cars which blew out a fuse in the Lexington avenue tube. The ex- tinguishers were applied. Scores of passengers were all but suffocated. The principle of most fire extinguish- CTS were invented. Some were on material is poured on the fire. It forms a dense gas which keeps oxy- gen from reaching the flame. It is obvious that the same gas which keeps oxygen from a fire will keep it from the lungs. The thought seems not to have occurred to the manage ment of the railway. We shall now remember that it's not safe to em- ploy smothering gases in a tunnel. Some fire extinguisher materials are poisonous as we'll as smothering. Such extinguishers must be used with care. One chemical much used to put fires Is a non-inflammabIe liquid. which volatiUzes almost as rapidly as gasoline. Perhaps this was the ma terial which did the damage in the New York subway Sometimes it is used in cleaning fluids. It is a derivative Of carbon, the great life element and has a certain relation ship to chloroform.
 Fire is the rapid combination of other elements with oxygen. Human beings run a slow fire, taking in oxy- gen and sending out carbon by-pro- ducts, just as the fireplace does. Wa ter puts out fire by smothering it. If the fire is hot enough, and there is too little water, the water decom- poses into the great fire makers, car bon and hydrogen. The same ele- ments which in one form put the fire out, in the other, make it burn more fiercely.
 The gas in Bridgeport homes Is a product mostly of the decomposition of water. The water is split into its clements and the gas company keeps the hydrogen and sells it. Men have tried to use water to make the fire hotter. They haven't succeeded. The energy is there, but it takes as much energy to get 1t out, as there is in it. which doesn't pay.
 Soreday there may be simple, cheap, direc1 and easy decomposition of water, perhaps by the use of a catalyzer This last is a material which makes other materials active without being much changed itself A sort of a key. that unlocks the com binations, and permits them to change.
 Science has tapped the streams of energy, but only with a gimlet. An ounce of almost any material con- tains enough energy in its atoms to run a steamship from New York to Glasgow. As much force would need to be used as would be obtained. For the present. even if it could be done, it wouldn't pay.
 
 That strange metal radium, of which Bridgeport hospital has a quantity, is doing something of this kind, on it's own account A heavy substance Is slowly shooting out its atoms, producing other combinations in the process. Radium is among the attempted cures for cancer. Its chief use, thus far, is that of teacher It teaches that matter in all it's forms Is built up of differing arrangements of one simple substance.
 
 Radiun1 might be called a preacher as we'll as a teacher. The concep- ton of matter which radium incuI- cates, points strongly to the actuality of the Creative Will. All things are products of one vast. organizing, in finite intellect. The theologians were on the right track before the scien- lists.
 This little discussion is a product of the easy, as opposed to the rigor- ous method of thinking. The easy method is to think of something which will suggest something else
 
 which will be in mind until it sug. gests something else again, and SC on. The easiest form of the easy method is air castle building. The form used here is slightly harder The associations are kept within z certain narrow range of phenomena which requires some trifIing effort,
 
 Some thinker by the rigorous meth cd, like MT. Wells of England, ol our own Dr. Day in Bridgeport. ma! some day deduce for the benefit O the living a picture of the changes that will take place in human societ! by reason of these greater control of energy, and these altered concept of the physical universe. We ma, be sure that the subway fire is small matter compared with fire O