Evening star., 1923-02-07

The human mind is incapable of
| comprehending many of the discov-
cries of science without comparing
atom is a very small unit: 1t was once
supposed to be the most minute unit
in nature: today science tells us that
| each atom is really a universe, in
which planets are encircling a central
sun" as distant therefrom. COM
pared TO size, as is our earths dis
tance from it's sun. Now you under
stand how small is the electron as
1T travels around its orbit in an atom.
If SO, your scientific mind will be
ready to comprehend how big is the
loss sustained by the government in
running the railroads under the
| management of Secretary McAdoo
during the world war. Accountants
| tell us that the net loss was $1,000
100000, but these figures do not mean
, much to laymen. 1t was approx
mately a hundred millions loss a
month--counting eighteen months as
about $3,000,000 a day. How easy it
| is to be great railroad magnate IL
one need not count the $1,000.000 lost
before lunch and the s2,000.000 after
lunch.
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Another way to get the clear COM
prehension is to assume that the
| management had enough silver dol
| lars to throw one into the ocean
every minute, and keep that up day
and night. until the entire $1,800.000,-
| 900 had been cast into the sea. And
suppose the measure of time could
! be taken backward through history,
how far back would the sun carry
US? BY the time we had cast away
a little over half the amount we
would hear the angels sing their
! Christmas greeting to the shephe rds,
| but we would keep on going back.
back, the rise of Rome would pass
! us like way station, Alexander
would conquer the world and die, and
! still we would throw a dollar min
ute of the $500, 900, 900 into the sea.
We would be still at the Job when
| King Tutankhamen was reigning in
| Egypt. 1853 Be. and even when he
was born we would have had between
$50 to 200 coins left to throw away
| a dollar a minute.
For $500. 900, 900. at 81 a min
ute, means 3.424 years and twenty
four days. Yet in the face Of such
! loss, in less than two years, we hear
tUlhs Sllll w tSHlHG lnS' SoNSI ilileHl
would confiscate the railroads of
America and turn them over to the
management of the trainmen and.
shopmen. and the United States
Treasury would guarantee TO make
good whatever was lost by tnexperi-
enced management. and by the graft
ing OF unpatriotic theorists. We
hear il advocated in Congress, but
| still more upon the stump and
among. socialists.
Now come back to earth" and con-
slider the little germ of the Spanish
/ influenza. which has just been dis
covered by the scientists of the
Rock efeller Institute. 1t is so small
! that until it is magnitied 1000 times
/ no eye can see it. yet in less than
| one year il destroyed 100000
| human lives-more than three times
as many as were killed in the four
years battles of the greatest war in
F.: history The discovery OF what this
! bacillus looks like, its habits and
! power is the starting point to a fur
| ther search for its enemy. Every
J bacillus has its own enemies. When
! science discovers how to marshall an
/ army to march against this foe, so
small and so deadly. science will have
accomplished grander victory than
Kaiser Wilhelm ever dreamed of
achieving through his visionary con-
quest of the world.
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The man who made this scientific
victory possible is not a scientist.
While the experts were entering into
a realm of wonder, he was playing
golf under Florida sun. 1t was only
because John l.. Rockefeller had
! gathered together his great fortune
! that science has been able to con-
/ centrate its energies and make it's
great advances.
| The Rockefeller Institute of Scien-
! tific Research may save more human
/ lives during this century than all the
f.! scientific devices of destruction will
annihilate, whether with explosives,
with airplanes guided by wireless
electricity, or with poison gas. The
world of science is fighting so