Evening star., 1924-04-23

haps next year other rays coming
from 30 times 100000 years away.
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Matter is like all space--infnite in
| its atoms--in its own stellar systems.
Does any scientist boast himself as
having reached the "end Of larnin' ~?
Let him go out under the starry heav-
ems and note the solar systems and
the Milky Way Of uncountable
| solar systems and the great beyond
Then let him consider the grain or
dust, made up Of atoms, each with its
J planets and their endless orbits, held
there by a divine power whose
| majesty he cannot even dream: What
humility must a scientist feel! The
greater the knowledge, the more
humble the heart! Yet what pride
that he has gIimpsed the forever un-
seeable!
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What hampers science is its an
| chorage in the sea OF the past. II
swings out and pretends to sail on
| ward. but too often 1t goes no farther
than it's cable will let il. The great
discoveries have all been made 'by
| layrnen who were not anchored IN
the mire Of dogma and tradition ana
| therefore could and did rush IN
where doctors of science feared 70
tread, knowing from their books that
they would be hooted by thelr Iello"
| experts"
| Faraday was not n scientist. Maybe
he would not have been adfiilt,ou sa,o ~
| many learned societies or tooay-.
| bookbinder's clerk. n boy VINO hau
| been set to turn a cock ana SO run
steam into the reverse OF Il csiInu csiitn.
| and keep u steam engine W., :, E;
| grew tired of the monotony Oh ms
task and tied a string to part OF
the machine in such way that
would turn the cock; he mace the
| first automatic engine. A phyeiC II u
made the telephone. n c!Vli ehsIneeI
made the first triplane "hlcn end pteu y.
| Prof. Langley to make a nyihS ma
chine which flew. Two bicycle re-
pair men named Wright maze lhe
airplane. which won the "orid war.
Who are making the really clever
| improvements on the wireless rauio
Not Marconi, but the thousands OF
boys who are not hampereu win
| intimate knowledge of electric waves
Right here in Washington stenog-
rapher named jenkins mas louhu
way to beat parcel post 10y seholhS
pictures by radio, and tomorrow
he is going to throw upon the stere-
opticon screen the moving pictur e
of a battle while the hGnt IS IN
progress at the antipodes. some oh {
| will Synchronize SOUND win Slgnl
and make a stereoscopic move. We
shall travel round the world, hear
the roar of the jungle and the splash
of waves and the crash or cataracts
while we sit at home. The greatest
scientist of our day was jules Verne
he was not hampered.
| Not until every repeated act of
labor is made by automatic machinery
will science have proved its mission.
| In Belgium today men are building
glass-roofed farms, gigantic circular
| domes of glass Within them the
! soil will be deep and fertile No
pestiferous insects will enter. Ihe
| temperature, the moisture, the light
| the gases which vegetable growth
requires will all be regulated
| In New Jersey there is an auto
/ matte farm machine attached to a
long wire which ties 1t to a center
post. The machiQe-plow or seeder
! or cultivator-StartS automatlcai!S
around a circle, the wire winds as the
machine travels around the center
post and so guides it in a spiral until
| the wire is wound up and the travel
| ing ."mechanical farmer stops at the
center, its task completed. Such an
outfit will do all the farming needed
| in the glass-covered farms of Bel
gium. Laborious farming by hand is
! past Four crops year Will come
| from those automatic farms, with
never a crop OF failure, for all haz-
ards are eliminated by science.
That is type of conditions in 1850
| or 1940-or why not in 1890? So
says 4 scientist. 1t depends on how
| much science gives the world =
| x x * x
Then what brain will incumber it
! self with knowledge? Some sys-
! tom OF filing knowledge and indexing g
it where it will be instantly available
when needed will relieve the brain of
| the misuse now given it. We have
! cold storage for meats and vegetables.
THE scientist proposes to have storage
! for knowledge outside of our brains.
| We index finger prints; why not in
deX facts of all kinds"
| Copyright. 1924. by Paul V. Collins.l