The Washington times., 1928-12-28
Tells HOW
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n JAMES Q. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, Dec. 2s G.N.sAs
Scientists assembled here at ''thd
greatest scientific congress eveg
held in this country were told
today by DIR. Harold D. Larsen, %
the University of wisconsin. that
tuberculosis causes more than 1z9A
900 deaths every year in th@
United states and that IL the di@
ease could be wiped out the aveE&
age length Of life would be I'm
creased about two years. That Isl
the life expectancy OF the average
person would be raised from 81
years to 81 years.
DIR. Larsen was one Of scores O1
speakers at various meetings being
held simultaneously at the S5th
convention OF the American Assoc
ciation for the Advancement %
Science. About 5000 learned meH
and women are attending the sess
sions, which win continue unit
January 2. Among those presels
are the country's foremost authors
ties on m edicine, psychology
geology. geography. physics, soQ
ology, education, engineering, agT
culture, zoology, botany and oth4
branches Of science.
Takes Best Years
saThe effect OF tuberculosis on tl1
life expectancy, or average futur
lifetime. is OF supreme Importance,
said DR.. Larsen. s'The expectati0@
OF life at birth among white male
for instance, would be increased
from 1885 years to 57.317 years i1
tuberculosis were completely eradk
Gated. The 1881 years are loae
between the ages of 20 and 20, tn
important wealth-producing ages in
mans life.
Lives destroyed annually by tus
berculosis represent q tremendous
economic loss to the United EtaAess
Estimating the monetary loss as
sumed conservativeIy that the
neutrality-suspicious. capacity OF males
| FROM the age OF 20 to 20 was $400.
The annual loss from deaths due to
| tuberculosis on this basis Is at least
| 17s million dollars"
COurtship Of Wasps
Love making of wasps was entelk
tainingly discussed at another seG
| tional meeting by DR.. Grace h
Griswold. of Cornell Universit0s
Ithaca, N. Y. She said:
"The habits of wasps make
| fascinating study. Before mating
occurs a distinct courtship often
takes place. In one species the
male stands in front of the females
l LIT ssa~s eli Ia IN cid
while he rapidly taps her antenna9
with his. Then he stops these at
| tentions and quickly runs around
her, returning to his former position
DR.. Seth b. Nicholson, of M
Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, CAL
discussed the temperatures of tllM
moon at another session.
ga body like the moon or a planes
emits two kinds of radiation-ligh&
| reflected from its surface and he19
radiated principally at long wav&
| lengths" he declared. I'VE car
separate these two by means Of 8
microscope cover-glass.
Always Boiling Hot
"The temperature of a point o.
| the moon where the sun is directly
overhead in the lunar sky comes oue
higher than boiling water, 265 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Sulphur and los
dine would be in a molten state
| Oyer one-eighth of the entire area
| of the moon, an area about l,6O@
miles in diameter in the middle ok
| the illuminated side, the temper&
ture is always above the boiling
! point of water-212 degrees Fahrer4
heit.'
Prof. Charles SchucheHt, Of Yale
made the rather startling statemen4
! in another address that millions d
years ago there was no gulf q
Mexico. He was discussing thu
geological history OF the Antilleaa
region.
Central America and the AntilleaF
Islands, in their present form are
the result of long continued geo.
logical processes, he said-mainly
mountain making and uplift, along
with the downwarping and fractur-
ing into the depths of the seas, and
plus much volcanic activity.
First Much Bigger
'"There was no Gulf of Mexico
100 million years ago" Prof, Schu-
ebert declared This deep water
basin came with the cretaceous,
when the gulf was at least three
times as large as it is now Then
the area of the Gulf Of Mexico,
Northern Central America, most of
the Greater Antilles. all of Eastern
Mexico. and all of the Gulf States
from Texas north to Illinois and
east to Florida was submerged by
this greater gulf OF marine waters.
This condition endured for some
tens of millions of years, and then
In miocene time began to elevatfng
movements that have continued in-
termittently to the present, bring
ing on the geography as we know