Evening star., 1923-12-29
PROPOSES WORLD
TRADE LANGUAGE
Science Delegate Favors
Use of SimpIified Form
of English.
ny the Associated Press.

Inerce and International intercourse
was urged upon the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of
Science today by J. w. Hamilton of
St Paul, Mimi, who has spent much
time in the development of a pro-
posed universal language. DR.. ]. Nc
Keen Catteu Of New York city was
elected president, succeeding Prof. G.
ID. Walcott, secretary of the Smith
sonian Institute, Washington.
"Cosmo English" as the new lam
guase would be known, would in no
way interfere with standard Eng
lIsh now existent in literature, but
" Nould serve as IL sort of secondary
language and be used only for inter
Rational communication. The plan
has been indorsed by a number of
prominent men and nations, Mr..
Hamilton declared.
Peculiarities of the human body also
We're discussed by the scientists.
Prof. r. q. Hoskins of Ohio State
University declared that the pIneal
gland in the human body, represented
in extinct reptiles by the third eye,"
causes severe arrangements Of the
body. Other glands also play an
important part in human existence,
he said.
Most Distinctive Insect.
EntomoIogIsts, discussing plant life,
were told by DR.. n. h. AlcIndoo thaL
the cotton boil weevil is DOING more
damage than any other insect in the
world. Feeding upon the leaves and
Eoung buds OF the cotton plant the
insects do almost ImmeaSurable dam
age. So far they have outwItted man
III his attempt to control them, he
declared.
hf. n ri %
physical chemistry at Chicago Uni
Nersity, announced that he had dis
covered the zeta- ray, expected to
nave a broad enect III the field of
physics, and DR.. Willis Whitney of
Schenectady, n. Y, demonstrated the
possibility of transmitting electrical
current by wireless. DIR. Harkins
said that he had found the new ray
III his attempt to break up atoms in
gases by directing the energy of
radium into them, and had succeeded
III isolating it. 1t comes from the
alpha particles of radium, he said.
and may revolutionize science by per-
] mitting the liberation of atomic
energy and permitting its introduce
tlon into practical use. DR.. Whitney
in demonstration conducted to show
The various uses of vacuum, trans
lnitted through a short space of air
sufficient high frequency current to
Light an incandescent lamp.
Analytical Research.
Scientific. analytical research should
be applied to the labor problem to
bring about it's solution, DIR. Francis
II. Bird. director Of the department of
research of the United Typothetae of
America, declared in an address to-
day befort the social and economic
sociation for the Advancement of
Science. Groups directly concerned
often fail to grasp the basic factors
in Industrial controversies which
would be apparent to scientific in
vestigatorS. he said.
Constructive research work is
being done by both open and closed
shop printers and by employing
standing of their problems, he de-
clared.
The employing printer has not
solved solved his labor problem, but is
gently" DR.. Bird declared. adding
that the Typothetae is contributing
: TO the work by doing research in the
labor problem and maintaining, an
extensive service on labor informa-
tion and counsel for its members.
"Man Only Cousin of Ape,
Man, although the product of evo-
luton, did not descend directly from
the ape of today and had his origin
!. in Europe, hundred thousand
years ago. instead of Asia, as gen
of the National Museum, Washing
ton, ID. c., declared yesterday.
The relationship of the existent ape
10 man probably is that of a cousin"
Dr. Hrdlicka said, the two having
sprung from branches of the same
family hundreds of thousands of
years ago. IF we went far enough
back however, both probably would
be found to have had their origin
In the state of a simple, double
molecule," he added
The development of the human race
ne pictured as similar to that of a
tree, all of which is the product of
n central trunk. Man, he said. might
be compared to the top, which had
grown and developed to the supreme
point, while all the branches and Off
shoots could be considered as the
lower animals-aH originating from
d common source, but developing
along different lines.
While some sort of anthropoid or
manl1ke ape probably was the pre-
cursor of the present human race, Dr.
Hrdlicka said, there must have been
a. transition period during which man
existed in various grades down to the
animal state. "The distance between
the lowest form of man and the
highest form of ape. however, is too
great even to be passed by mutation"
he declared.
Microstoma LowIy Creature.
The microstoma. a IowIy worm. so
simple in construction that it has only
Two minute nerve centers, but which
Is wonderfully equipped by nature
10 defend itself, was cited as one of
the marvels of the animate world by
DR.. William a. kepner and John +.
Barker of the University of Virginia.
Colored lights given off by plants.
presumably in their food-making
processes. have finally been seen
through new achievement in pho
tographic science.
This announcement was made by
Frof Francis e. Lloyd of McGill Uni
yersity, retiring vice president of the
botanical section of the association,
discoverer of the process He de-
clared that a "fuorescent" property
of plants caused them to give off
light of color peculiar to the SUBJ
stance. after having been exposed to
white light. The green coloring mat
ter gives off red light, while other
substances produce yellow orange or
green fiuorescent light, Prof Lloyd
said.
Louisiana Health Fight.
The battle of the state of Louisiana
to free itself from yellow fever. ma
laria and cholera, probably the great
est drawbacks to its early progress,
stands as brilliant example of
of environment and disease" DIR.
Oscar Bowling, president of the
Louisiana state board of health, told
the convention yesterday.
The low-lying terrain of Louisiana,
ofttimes beneath the level of the
Mississippi and only a few feet higher
than the waters of Lake Pontchar-
train, offered apparently insurmount-
able health difficulties, he said.