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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
Mysterious Rays of Space
By GARRETT p. SERVISS

struments, one 10 height Of about
ten miles. These experiments proved
conclusively" that the strange radia-
ton was stronger aloft than below.
In 1923 the experiments were trans
ferred to Pixies Peak, and there
soft" rays of local origin were en-
countered, which were twice as in
tense as near sea level at Pasadena.
The problem then was to account for
the increased abundance Of the soft"
rays while trying to settle definitely
the question of the existence of "a
small, very penetrating radiation OF
cosmic origin"
The upshot was that the increase
Of the soft" rays on the Peak was
ascribed TO a partial transformation
Of the mysterious cosmic rays on
striking the mountain, no other cause
being apparent.
The method used to determine the
penetrating power of the strange rays
involved measurement Of their Absorb
ton by water, and for this purpose
it was necessary to have water I'M
contaminated By seepage through
radioactive material in the surround
ing ground and rocks. The deep,
snow-fed Muir Lake at an elevation
Of 1850 feet, near the summit OF
Mount Whitney, Cal, afforded the de-
sired security, and in its clear cold
water electroscopes were lowered TO
depths Of as much as 60 feet.
They gave "unambiguous' evidence
that the cosmic rays penetrated the
water TO a depth Of IS feet. The
absoTptiye power OF the thickness OF
atmosphere above the lake was es-
timated as equal TO that Of % feet
Of water, making the whole penetra'
ton Of the rays GS feet Of water,
equivalent Of six feet Of lead.
As already said, DR.. Millikan's idea
Of the source Of origin, Of the mys.
FERROUS rays is that they arise from
transformation Of the nuclei Of atoms
out in space. The intensity Of the
energy concerned becomes almost ap'
palling when it is reckoned to be ~
times as great as fIat Of the most
intense radioactive transformation
known on the earth. DIR. Millikan
il said to have estimated that an
energy OF ten million volts would be
needed 10 produce such rays in labo-
TatOry.
The new field Of speculation opened
is almost limitless. 1t covers the
fundamental problems Of radio action
and perhaps the whole subject Of the
birth. development, and continued life
OF the universe.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
Queens Counsel
Rv MAPLE OIIEEN Of ROIJMANIA
An Official Queens Day.
Registered United States Patent office.

who must be always the same. But
We are being cheered and stared at
by different people all the time"
The procession through the town
generally leads first to the church
for TIE Deum.
After that, a visit to schools, Or
phanages, museums, institutions, aim
houses. hospitals, factories, workshops,
barracks, ad minimum.
There is usually a military review
and added to that a march-past of
all the population and schools-this
last sometimes for hours.
This march-past is probably follow
ed by an endless official meal. seated
of course, beside the principal, gem
eral, mayor, bishop or minister!
All the time new faces-and al
ways you are expected to say some-
thing clever to each! After lunch, 1t
begins all over again until dinner
time-and you must dress in ten min
utes, which are generally torn from
you for private audiences and the re-
ceiving Of petitioners Of all kinds, till
ones smile stiffens and ones throat
dries up.
Copyright. 1896. BY Famous Features
Syndicate, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
Freaks Of Nature
Organ-pipe Coral.

Perhaps some of the queer sounds
that are heard on the ocean come
from the organ-pipe coral, an organism
found ut the bottom Of the Pacific.
in structure it is not unlike a church
organ, being composed Of many layers
OF small tubes resembling pipes.
Adorned with tints Of red and purple,
the organ-pipe coral is one OF the
most beautiful OF marine organisms.
But beneath the beautiful exterior are
numerous tentacles, with which the
creature Crasps its prey. When a
more powerful enemy appears the ten
tacles are drawn in and the coral
shuts up ike a clam.
Copyright, 1926, King Features sya.. Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07

Few have any idea what hard work
an official Queens day is.
Suppose We must make journey :
1t is generally arranged that the ar
rival Qet US say at q provincial town.
shall be at nine IN the morning.
Great reception ut the station.
Music, flowers, garlands, guard of
honour, speeches, scboolchildren turned
out and everybody crushing forward to
be presented. Noise, cheering; and
all my smiles needed, as there is much
too much noise to make ones self
heard.
The station reception is followed by
a slow professional drive through
streets thronged with people from all
the villages around, generally in
bright, attractive costumes. They
cheer and wave handkerchiefs and
flags, throw flowers-and one must
acknowledge the attention ell the time,
never getting absent-minded for a sin
gle instant.
In former days when at the end
of a long official day. my children
were tired and bored, / would say to
them:
children, remember it is only we
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07

The paths on which youngsters set
their feet in their first steps toward
business success often lead only indi-
rectly to the field in hich they finally
achieve that success.
For instance, one Of the most widely
known steel manufacturers IN western
Pennsylvania was more than 30 years
Of age before be got into the steel bust
ness at all. Up 10 that time he was
a railroad man.
After a preliminary training he got
his first job with the Delaware &
Hudson Railroad rs a telegraph OPP
orator.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
NOn-fictiOn Reading

q TATISTICS compiled in France show out Of nine
- thousand new books published in that country in
~ 1924 only little thousand were novels.
Such subjects as history, sociology economics and
teaching each produced almost many volumes as
fiction
Novels are valuable in many ways, but it is always
sign of healthful intellectual conditions when fiction
does not constitute the whole diet balanced ration
including heavy" non-fiction volumes is always sign
Of serious thinking as well as serious reading.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07

Perhaps the most extraordinary of
the many recent discoveries in the
physics Of the earth and the universe
is that announced by DR.. r. A. Mill
kan concerning the existence OF mys-
FERROUS rays of astonishing penetra-
tive power which come in upon the
earth equally by night and by day,
from all directions, and which seem to
originate from atomic transformations
going on throughout surrounding
space.
The energy involved in the forma-
ton of these strange rays is believed
to be fifty times greater than that
which produces the most intense
radioactive transformations hitherto
known.
These rays do not come from the
sun; they are not visible: they are
only detected by their electric action ;
they consist Of waves probably ten
million times shorter than those Of
light; and their frequency of vibra-
ton is SO enormous that they are
capable of passing through six feet OF
solid lead, while "the most penetrating
rays that we produce in our hospitals
can not 20 through half an inch o.
lead"
They come upon the earth from all
sides, certainly not a whit more
plentifully from the direction Of the
sun than from that Numerically or
posite to It."
How do they effect us: We do not
know-they have only Just been dis
covered. Evidently, then, they have
not been doing us any harm Of whicf
we were aware. The story Of theII
discovery has the fascination OF al
sudden glimpses into the unknown ant
mysterious. As long as twenty year
ago physicists became aware OF wha
was called penetrating radiation,
which caused electricity to leak iron
charged electroscopes enclosed il
metallic chambers. IL was though
that this came from radioactive sub
stances in the earth.
But a year or TWO before the va
some German physicists found by bal
loon experiments that the "penetra
ling radiation was more abundant o
high attitudes than at the surface C
the earth. The discovery languishe'
during the war, but in 1922 DIR. Mill
kan sent up sounding-balloons II
Texas carrying delicate recording in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
THEIR FIRST JOBS

By PHILIP NOWLAN

Slowly, through the course Of some
80 odd years, be rose from one post
TO another until b. had become traffic
manager Of the road.
1t was at this period that he broke
away from railroading, and organizing
the West Penn Steel Company, became
its head and chairman of its board.
In addition he became n director IN
tine National Railway Publications
Company and in the Bank Of Pitts
burgh.
He is joel NJ. Burdick Of Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Copyright. 1926. King Features Syn, Inc.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
Heart Disease
BY Royal S. Copeland


1t as not many years ago that we
spoke of tuberculosis as the chief
cause of death. Thanks to the educa-
ton Of the public in the ways OF
avoiding tuberculosis and the impor-
tanee of early treatment, tuberculosis
has steadily declined as 4 deadly
factor.
During our successful campaign
against the wbito plague we have
overlooked another enemy Of the hui
man race. 1 refer to heart disease.
This has become more and more
menacing.
Not only is heart disease factor
in producing disability and death in
adults, but also it impairs the we'll
being of the young. Out Of the mil
lion children in the public schools Of
New York City, 10000 are said TO
have ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hearts.
We take great pride in the lowered
death rate. 1t makes US happy TO
know that in the last hall century
IL years have been added to the nor
nal expectancy Of life. But most Of
what has been accomplished is in the
extremes Of life. The infants chance
Of living is tremendously increased.
The diseases Of old age have been con-
trolled. But the middle-age group is
about as badly off as ever.
We hear too much now Of the So
called northumberland disease
And what is the disease with the
terrible name:
In plain language this term means
hCart-blood yessel-kldnev disease.
Disease Of these three portions Of the
anatomy is a common mixture of all
ments. Unfortunately. it is a combi-
nation which is demanding a sad toll
Of human life.
II is difficult 10 explain exactly
why these troubles should be incrcas.
ingly common. OF course our man
ner Of living is a great factor. The
old time simplicity is gone. Eco
uomics and social pressure have made
living more complex and its problems
more difficult.
Were l 70 be asked what one thing
is more responsible than all the rest
for the change, 1 should mention
food. In the old days eating was not
the elaborate ceremony it is today.
\ city-bred person, accustomed all
his life 10 the course dinner" ac-
ccpts it as an everyday affair. Let
the country cousin come to town and
he is bewildercd at the display Of sil-
yer. glass and china and the painful
variety Of foods offered at the dinner
hour. HOrs-d'ocuyre, soup. fish, en-.
tree, roast, vegetables, ice, salad, des.
sert. nuts and raisiHs and coffee
enough food is served 10 feed three
husky persons,
Let no man think he can eat a din
ucr Of this description every day in
the year and live as long as nature
sired him TO do. II can't bed one,
On the contrary there is a larger
percentage now Of persons who do
not get enough 20 eat, or at least
enough Of the right SOFT Of food. This
is just rs bad q condition az oycrcat,
ing is. Poverty has its. drawbacks
TOO.
There are many other causes fOI
heart diseasc. Some Of these we vii
discuss at another time.
Copyright. 1895. BY Newspaper
Feature soryco, Ine.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-07
BucoEc Press

The second quarter was filled with
various field generalships manuyers to
catch opposing sides unawares. \
buck thru the line would be tried and
Immediately followe By pass; then
the end runs were tried which were
stopped before they had fully started.
Toward the last part Of the second
quarter a putting duel was staged
having the edge.-Grafton (Ohio)
Citizen.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
WHOLE NO. 1880
QUALIFY PERMANENT VOTERS
Steps Taken For the Registration of
all Qualified Voters This Year to
a Permanent Registration List

The permanent registration act
passed by the last State Legislature
goes into effect this year. Sometime
during the month of May, Sylvester
D. Townsend, Jr., Secretary of State,
will have prepared the books and
forms to be distributed to the various
registration officers. After the books
and forms are prepared, bids on them
will be asked by the State Board of
Supplies, Mr.. Townsend said Satur-
day. The act provides that sometime
during the month of June in each year
in which a general election is held,
the Governor shall appoint in each
election district of the state, outside
of Wilmington, three voters who
shall be the registration officers of the
election district for which they are
appointed. One Of these officers shall
be designated as registrar, while the
other two will be assistants. Not more
than two shall be of the same politi-
cal faith. The registration officers
will serve for two years from July l.
The act provides further that the
Governor shall also appoint an alter
nate aegistrar to serve in the event
of the registrar being unable to serve.
Registration officers for Wilmington
are appointed by the Department of
Elections. During the present year
the act sets forth, there shall be a
general registration of all the quail
fled voters resident in each election
district of the state, and in every
year thereafter in which a general
election is held there shall be a regis
tration of all the qualified voters.
Section Z Of the act provides that for
the purpose of registering persons
who are qualified to vote at the gen
eral election this year, the registra-
ton officers shall sit from o'clock
in the morning until 7 o'clock at night
with an inteTmission between noon
and 1 o'clock, on the third Saturday
in July the first and second Satur-
days in August; the third Saturday in
September, and on the third Saturday
next preceding the day of the cleo
ton. After this year the registra-
tlOn officers will sit each year to
register all persons qualified to vote,
whose names do not appear on the
registers containing the general regis
tration for this year. Any person who
registers this year need not register
during any year following. If he or
she removes from the district in
which they were registered, they may
be transferred.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
MILFORD REHOBOTH ROAD
Small Section to Be Built Will Com
plete New Road and Shorten Distance

Small Section to Be Built Will Com
plete New Road and Shorten Distance
Graders have begun work on the
road leading from Milton to Waples'
Mill, beginning at the mill end. AS
soon as the graders get far enough
along the pouring of concrete will be-
gin, which it is thought, will be about.
April 1. This road, about three miles
in length, conects Milton with the
MilfOrd-RehOboth Road at NAPLES
Mill and will greatly shorten the dis
tance between Milton and northern
points. The road leads through Mil
ton to HarbesOn where it connects
with the Georgetown-Lewes and Re
hObOth roads. A delegation of Mil
ton and Glendale citizens met the
State Highway Commission at Dover
last week asking for a road between
these towns and it is thought the road
will be built at some near future date.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
MUSERAT SEASON NOT UP TO
EXPECTATION, TRAPPERS SAY
MOST ALONG DELAWARE RIVER
MARSH REPORT SMALL CATCHES
Ice Has Interfered With Catch and
Season Just Closed Reported Poor
est in Years-Marshes Valuable


The trapping season for muskrats
in this state which has just closed has
been the least profitable one for over
ten years as evidenced by reports
from trappers throughout Delaware.
Many owners of marsh land have
caught but a few hundred so-called
marsh rabbits where in past years
they caught thousands. This condi-
ton is chiefly due to the frozen
marshes that prevented successful
trapping throughout the past winter
months. A number of trappers in
this section have not caught enough
of the fur-bearing animals during the
whole season to much more than pay
their expenses. A Taylor's Bridge
trapper who usually takes several
thousand of the animals in the course
of a season, has so far this year
caught 81. The same condition is said
to prevail in all the trapping districts
of the State. Two men of this part
of the State discontinued their trap
ping on March 1st, having found their
work in the marshes was a poor ven
ture financially, although the opening
of the season looked very favorable
according to the experts here and
elsewhere. The most profitable marsh
lands in the State are located between
Delaware City and Woodland Beach.
In this section numerous trappers
have realized in the past several years
quite admirable profits. Thousands
of muskrats having been caught an
nually on the marsh lands. The re-
markable feature about this relatively
new business in the locality is the
fact that these marsh lands were con-
sidered practically useless prior to
the advance in the price of muskrat
hides. Previous to this time, these
valuable trapping lands were called
wild marshes" and were only assess
ed at fifty cents per acre, while to-
day they are in great demand and are
selling at prices far in excess of oul
tillable soil. One of the best paying
marshes near Port Penn was bought
about fifteen years ago, together with
numerous tillable acres, for less than
$4,000, and the owner has recently re-
fused $4,000 for the property. Nearly
$4,000 has been realized on that
farm in one year. With the small
number of pelts caught this season
all indications point to another profit
able catch next winter providing the
weather remains open.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
"MUSIC DAY"AT CENTURY CLUB
Program Was in Charge of Mrs. E.
S. Dwight and Was Very Interesting

Mrs. E. S. Dwight, under the direc-
tiOn of Mrs. Marion Coverdale, gave
ain interesting musical day at the
club Friday, March 10Th. Mrs. Cow
erdale gave a talk on "MuSic, the JOY
of the WOrld"-then, divided into six
section, the nations music was de-
scribed and portions played and sung.
First, the American Indian, Thurlow
Lleurance, composer; piano solo, "By
the Weeping Water" Mrs. Coverdale.
Miss Mary Hynson,in Indian Costume
sang "By the Waters of Minnetonka";
Violin obligata, Miss Elizabeth Hill.
Second-Spanish, "Habanera," from
Opera of Carmen, Miss Rebecca Will
liams; Spanish "GOya," danced by
Adelaide Landicina. Third-Ameri-
can, composer, Louis Morean Colts
chalk-Piano solo, "The Last Hope"
Miss Mary HynsOn; "Jazz," played by
Miss Rebecca Williams and danced bv
Katie Felintin, Emma Scott, Anna
Bartlett, Adelaide Landicina. Fourth
Tschaikowski, composer:
Duet, "Marche Slave" Miss Rebecca
Williams and Mrs. Coverdale; Russian
dance, Adelaide Landicina in costume.
Fifth-ltalian, Folk Songs, "a Sweet
Scene" Miss Elizabeth Hill, in cos
tune violin street musician; children
sang, Santa Lucia" Sixth-Negro
Spiritualists. Samuel Coleridge Tay-
lor, composer; Piano solo, pilgrims
Song" Mrs. Coverdale; the whole cast
sang "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" :"
Friday next, Mr.. Welseh will talk on
the situation in Italy. The meeting
will be at $50, an open meeting. Men
are especially invited.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
ST. PETERS CHURCH. NOTES
Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Rector, An
nOunces Services for Next Sunday

Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Rector, An
nOunces Services for Next Sunday
The new furnace has arrived and is
being installed, and will be ready for
use by Sunday next. There will be
EvensOng at the Rectory this,Wednes-
day, evening at half-past seven ac-
cording to announcement. The choir
rehearsal will follow. There will also
be the regular weekly meeting of the
Woman's Auxiliary. The regular
monthly meeting of st. Peters VeStrv
will be held tomorrow, Thursday. ev-
ening at half-past eight. Services for
Palm Sunday will be Holy Commun-
ion at 7.30 a. m.; Church School at 10
a. M; Morning prayer and sermon at
IL a. m. and EvenSong with sermon
at 7.30 p. m. The Rev. Benz. F.
Thompson, Rector of Christ Church.
Dover, viii be the preacher at the ev-
ening services. Tuesday, March SOth,
Tuesday in Holy Week, there will be
service with address at Ais D. m.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
KENT EDUCATORS MEET, DOVER
Miss Anna B. Beckett, Smyrna, Heads
Executive Committee - Attendance
Records of School Makes Showing

Executive Committee - Attendance
Records of School Makes Showing
At the fifth annual meeting of the
Kent County Education Association
held at Dover Saturday, officers for
the year were elected .as follows:
President, J. Layton Moore, Dover;
vice-president, Mary R. Moss, Fred
erica; secretary, Elizabeth Taylor,
Wyoming; treasurer, Mrs. C. Ross
Numbers, Cheswold; executive COM
mittee, Miss Anna B. Beckett, Smyrna
three years; Millard Fitzgerald, Har-
ringtOn, two years; V. B. Wiley, one
year. Addresses were made by DR..
H. V. Holloway, state superintendent
of public instruction on "Discipline;"
"What is a Teacher Worth?" DR..
Charles H. Gordinier, principal of the
Millersville State Normal School, also
an address by DR.. Gordinier in the af-
ternoon on "Word Demons" Other
addresses included those by Miss Lucy
Lee Wilson, principal of the South
Philadelphia High School for. Girls,
on the dalton Plan," its origin and
progress, and by DIR. Ida B.Earhart,
of Washington, D. c., on Something
to Die For" Miss Leila Thomas, su-
perintendent of attendance depart
ment of schools, made a report on the
Kent county attendance contests and
exhibition of banners to be awarded
the successful schools who have at
tained high averages in their attend
ance contests. For the graded schools
the SUCCESSFUL ones with their aver
ages and the months were as follows:
September 1925, Cheswold, 95.4 per
cent; October, Clayton, 94.6 per cent.
November, Magnolia, 95 per cent; De
cember, FELTON,, 94.6 per cent; Janu-
ary, 1926, Magnolia, 94.2 per cent;
February, CheswOld, 876 per cent.
Kent county special districts-Sep-
tember, Milford, 95.3 per cent; Octo-
Der, Milford, 94.5 per cent; November
Smyrna, 93.4 per cent; December,
Caesar Rodney, 92 per cent; January
1926, Harrington and Milford, both
93.3 per cent. Kent County Rural
Schools - September, 1925, Black
Swamp, SO per cent; October, Cedar
Grove, SO per cent; November, Whit
leys, 100 per cent; December, Whit
leys, 1872 per cent; January, 1926,
Potash, 99.4 per cent; February,
Church Hill, 97.1 per cent. Endorse
ment of a teachers home was also
included in one of the resolutions, the
same to be brought to the attention of
the Naional Education Association
which meets in Philadelphia, in July.
At the luncheon, DR.. H. V. Holloway
acted as POSTMASTER. Short address
/ es were made by Messrs. King, of Do
yer; Robert Shilling, of Milford; Prof.
Wiley, of FELTON,; E. R. Helm, of Do
yer. Prof. R. w. Helm, of Univers-
ity of Delaware, had charge of the
music at the dinner.
Smyrna times., 1926-03-24
HOLD YOUTH AS GARAGE THIEF
f. E. Walls Accused of Taking SO
From Odessa Station Safe


Earl E. Walls, aged 19 years, of
Lewes, charged with the larceny of
SO from the cash register in the
Ennis Garage, Odessa, about o'clock
Saturday morning, was held under
5000 bail for the Court of General
Sessions, by Magistrate Stradley.
Wallis is said to have asked truck
driver for a ride Friday night and
when they stopped at the Ennis Gar
age to buy oil, is said to have gone
into the office and opening the cash
register, took SO. The loss was dis
covered when the man in charge of
the garage noticed that a one-cent
sale had been rung up, and making
an investigation, found that the
amount of cash was short SO. AS
Walls was the only one seen in the
office he was detained while State
Policemen Elderkin and Knecht were
summoned. One dollar was found in
the possession of Walls, although a
search of the truck where Walls had
gone after leaving the office, result
ed in the find of So in the toe of a
rubber shoe in the truck. Walls de
MED the theft.