Evening star., 1927-09-11

i ended September 10:
The British Empire. - The
British scientists are a happy tribe.
They know how to mingle grave with
gay and lively with severe" One of
the most successful of the discourses
at the recent annual convention of the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science dealt with the origin
of jazz. The learned speaker ascribed
the pest to certain 'micro-organisms
called "fiagellates," which were doing
business prior to the evolution Of the
primates. Thus black Africa is shorn
Of her chief imputed glory.
The eminent Prof. E. T. Whitaker
of Edinburgh held forth to the conven-
ton on THE Outstanding Problems of
Relatively" He discussed the discov-
cry made during recent eclipses that
light has weight and is attracted by
huge body such as the sun. He showed
that the pull of gravity exercised by
such an enormous body may be power
full enough to capture a ray as though
| it were a meteor, in which case for
ever after the ray would accompany
the captor body in a path approx
mating a circle. Prof. Whitaker
concluded with the statement that,
| "Now that definite connection has
gravitation, the whole electromagnetic
theory must be rewritten"
Those supereminent authorities on
"Cosmic rays" Prof. Millikan Of Cali.
| fornia and Dr. Kolhoerster of Ger.
many, fascinatingly described their
several methods Of measuring the
power of these rays (N1illikan has OBJ
served them to pass through 120 feet
| of water equivalent to II feet Of lead),
but whence they came and precisely to
what purpose, this they could not say.
Other scientists told of the addi-
tional light being constantly thrown
on the behavior of the harmones,
those ultramicroscopic organic chem
ical compoun s the mystery whereof
remains, however, infinitely intrigu.
ing. What do you know about this?
The human body contains 10 milli-
hibition" of milligrams whereof
would kill. The wicked stuff is kept
in storage. Harmones are dispatched
to release 1t as required. One lecturer
told of an experiment to illustrate the
virtue Of thyroid extract. A certain
mouse had shed its hair, was quite
naked. He administered thyroid ex-
tract and the mouse completely re.
covered its former hirsute ''honors."
At about am. Wednesday the
Stinson-Detroiter monoplane Sir John
CARING hoped off from Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland. for London
England. Apparently she suffered the
fate Of Old Glory and the st. Raphael
She did not carry radio equipment
and no ship reports sighting her. She
was fitted with a Wright whirlwind
engine and manned by Capt. Terence
Tully, pilot, and Lieut.. James Medcalf,
navigator, Canadians, who served in
the Royal Flying Corps in the war
and afterward became members Of
the provisional flying corps Of Canada.
The enterprise was financed by the
Carling brewery OF London. Ontario,
the plane being named after the
founder Of the brewery, who some so
years ago was a prominent figure in
Canadian public life. 1t was originally
intended that the flight should be a
nonstop 'London.to-London" one, but
meteorological conditions forced a
descent at Washburn, Me-, whence hop
was made to Harbor Grace.
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France. Il quoted last week from
Jean Callizo's highly colored account
of how he established a new world S
altitude flight record of 1850 feet,
beating his own record Of 40,820 feet,
made in August. 1926, and officially ac-
cepted. But 1t appears that by an in
genious trick (use of invisible ink, etc.
he falsified his barograph record of
the recent flight. The trick was un-
covered by another barograph secretly
installed in the tail of Callizo's ma
chine by the makers of his engine,
which showed an altitude of only
900 meters. 1t will be recalled that
Callizo made a bad landing. That
too, was fakish. 1t was calculated
: to bear out the aviator's lurid story of
/ terrible suffering. The world, he as
! sumed, could not imagine the great
Callizo making bad landing except
| as the result of extreme exhaustion
approaching Inconsistencies. 1t Is
expected that Callizos accepted record
, of 40,820 feet will be repudiated by the
+, Federation Aeronautique Information
| ale. In such case Lieut.. Macready's
altitude mark Of 3S,704 feet. set in