The Holly chieftain., 1924-03-27

None of the great inventions in common use by
the public is without drawbacks more or less seri-
Gus. 1t is well known what the automobile has
zone Tor u.s. Per contra. the loss of life Is appal-
ing Los Angeles has just figured out that the
economic loss to the city from motor vehicle ac-
cidents In 1923 was nearly $4,OOOOOO
The moving picture has come to be the chief
amusement Of millions Says Ray o. Wyland of
New York, boy scout national educational director:
Our attachment to weak. sloppy and sentimental
art and literature and the false ideals of life
sented to millions Of people every day by the
movies constitutes menace to our national life in
that 1t creates friction between the. classes
warps the young PERSONS conception OF what is
noble.
Yet 1t is unthinkable-the idea of fltering sci--
enIfc research. As Prof. ]. Arthur Thomson elo-
quentIy says
The story of the triumphs of modern science
one OF which man may we'll be proud Science
reads the of the distant star and anatomizes
the atom foreteils the date of the comets return.
and predicts the kinds of chickens that will hatch
from a dozen eggs: discovers the laws Of the wind
that bloweth where it Nsteth and reduces order
the disorder of disease Science is always setting
forth Columbus voyages. discovering new
worlds and conauering them by understanding. For
power.
The pictures used herewith give glimpse-a
hint--a mere suggestion to set the Imagination
working-of the manifold activities of our Twenti-
eth century science. The cartoon-like photograph
represents skyrocket airplane Invented and pat
ented away back in 1910 by Charles Golighuy an
Engshman well named, who confident he
could. by the use of compressed air reach the
moon. An American scientist has announced that
he VIII start Il rocket toward the moon this year.
Its Initial momentum is maintained by successive
discharges.
Dr. Phillips Thomas, Westinghouse research en-
gneer Is shown using his new ultra audible
mcrophone" BY Its sounds inaudlbIe to the
human be studied. He is 'lstening" to u
caterpillar.
Maude Adams, the famous American actress.
has been in retirement for five years, during
which she has been working In laboratories of
the General Electric company and the Eastman
Kodak company She now announces the dlscov-
cry Of n light ray by which she can show
motion pictures in theater fully Illuminated 1t
Will be used in the production Of Aladdin" the
scenario or which is partly her work.
The duke Of Sutherland secretary of air for
Great Britain, recently visited the United States
in search of information. He is looking at n new
highnltitude camera invented by Sherman NJ
Fairchild in cooperation with the Photographic
division of the United States army. This Instru-
ment will take clear photographs from height of
five miles
DIR. Francis c. Wood director of the Crocl;er
Institute of Cancer Research at Columbia uni
vcrslty, Is shown with n new X-ray tube which
radihtes more curative rays and by Its use treat
ment of patients is reduced from two hours to
twenty minutes. II constructed by Dr. c. r.
ulrey' research engineer for the Westinghouse
Lamp company
Elizabeth Mackay of New York wanted n Palm
Beach coat of tan in February and found it in
convenient to so to Florida. So Karl Weaver a
Westinghouse expert, put her under the rays of a
2o.OO-candle-power electric lamp.
There Is no activity Of life. apparently, which
science does not touch. Five OF the most pro,n-
nent women of the United States have sent ont a
message TO the housewives Of America asking
them to promote In every possible way the study
of chemistry for in the home
The General Federation of Women's Clubs with
nationwide membership OF 2.sOOD0O, is conduct
ing campaign, in charge of Mrs John D. Sher-
man. chairman of the department of applied edu-
cation, for the teaching of natural science and
nature study in the public schools so that the r!s
ing generation may be fitted to deal with prob-
lens OF conservaton-which means use without
abuse--of our natural resources