Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-12-26

Thus Hertzian waves discovered through pure
search, have become radio; Pasteur's bacili have
brought about the end of yellow fever; Faraday's
electromagnetic have become dynamos and tele-
graphs
The New Year is therefore full of promise. We
may see on the market a French device which will
bring about the death and funeral of the gear
shift and dferential in automobiles. The radio
has been set at work exploring underground
for oil, gas, water and gold. The financial world
Is Just bit disturbed over the announcement of
German scientist that he has made gold from
quicksilver, although at prohbitve cost
The astronomers have discovered new planet
closer to the earth than is Mars. They also an
nounce that the spiral nebulae in the heavens are
In reality stellar systems, distant that their
light travelling at 10000 miles second takes
million years to reach us. new microscope has
been made that magnlfies 600000,000 times, es
compared with the 100000 times of present instru-
ments; If tennis ball could be viewed through
the new microscope it would appear about mile
and half In diameter.
And sometime during the New Year, according
to the Berlin inventor, Anton Flettner the new
rotarship under power furnished by Its wind-drv-
en- revolving tunnels will come triumphantly into
New York harbor.
TN THE United States 1925 will see new Pres
dent new house and changed senate. To
be sure the President is the Calvin Coolidge.
But he Will be PRESIDENT IN his own rlSnL-WHlcn
Is likely to make difference.
OF course Mr.. Coolidge is not going to rock the
boat because of that And there will be new pre-
siding officer of the senate-"Hell Maria" Dawes,
who can be as suave and parliamentary and dip
lomatc as anyone, when he wants to be. And 1t
will be fun to see him and Senator Smith Wildman
Brookhart of Iowa-if the latter succeeds in hold
ing his seat against the contest to be made by
Steck The house will see a new speaker; Mad
.ofT ts an
and at this writing Longworth of Ohio a receptive
candidate The familiar figure of Henry Cabot
Lodge will be missing from the senate; the new
Republican leader may be Butler Of Massachu-
setts, Curtis Of Kansas, Watson Of Indiana or
Borah of Idaho.
keep him in the Republican party or will 1t read
him out? That's what nobody say at this writ
Ing But the new congress Is quite likely to let
tho railroads alone. And one thing is sureit will
be- an economical congress If it pays attention to
tfe man in the White House.
TF THE lot of the farmer is not made happier
i In 1925, 1t will not be because we do not know
what as him. The administration Is putting ag
rfeulture first in its program of constructive eff
fIrt The President has appointed a commission
On capable men and has told them to get the facts
in the situation If 1t takes all winter. They'll
get the facts And with our brains and our re-
sources it'll be queer If the agricultural complica-
tions are not Strengthened out
II looks also as If may have an adequate
forestry policy. The National Conference of IT'LL
ization of Forest Products, thousand delegates
strong has been getting the facts in our forestry
situation. They were told by the President that
745000OOO0OO cubic feet of timber is still stand
ing, with an annual cut If 25.000000O0O and an an
nual growth of 6000,000,000 He also told them
that we hold the natural resources as a trust to
be used for the benefit of the present generation
but neither wasted nor destroyed The coming
generations also have vested interest in the for.
ests. So it's up to the experts to devise ways and
means to bridge the fatal gap between cut and
growth. And 1t looks as if the people were scared
enough the situation to Insist that 1t be done
In any event the timber shortage Is already acute
enough to force competition In better methods.