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feet logic, from the structure of the uni
verse.
This. says Washington mathematical
physicists. is all that can be said. until
the Prussian Academy of Sciences pub
fishes the actual equations upon which
the man whom many of them consider
the supermentality of the age has la
bored for the past 10 years
The standing of the relatively theory,
says DR.. Henry D. Hubbard, assistant
director OF the Bureau of Standards, has
Deen especially curious since last fall
when Prof. Nicholson of the University
OF Chicago told the American Optical
Society in Washington of the results of
the repetition of his experiment on the
DRIFT OF ether upon which the whole
theory was built up.
The field equation" says DR.. Hub
Dard, have not been satisfied, but the
theory of relatively, which resulted from
them, appears to be more confirmed
than ever"
DR.. Nicholson himself was unwilling
70 admit the Einstein contention that
there was no ether. but only a four di-
menSional space. To explain the phe-
nomena Of light, Dr. Hubbard believes.
IL still is necessary to assume the exist
ence OF hypothetical ether-something
f1ll1ng all space, the nature of which is
unpicturable. but which is far more ten
uous than the most tenuous of gases.
lar more elastic than rubber and far
more rigid than steel But this. he saws.
need not disturb the validity of Elm
STEMS relatively.
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some mystical force inherent in mat
ter. 1t simply acted that way.
Obscure Phenomena Observed.
The Newtonian law seemed to ex-
plain everything at first. But as the
years went on certain obscure phe-
nomena were observed which didn't fit.
They challenged the physicists until
Einstein in 1915 advanced the picture
of fourth dimensional structure of the
universe into which these anomalies,
gravitation, would fit perfectly. The
new theory was capable of vertical
ton by exact observation and stood up
well under tests.
1t demanded universe which nobody
ever had seen or ever coud hope to
visualize in the widest flights of mag
ination. It was way out beyond the
clrcumScribed circle in which human
beings live. But that didn't worry the
mathematical physicists. They simply
admitted its existence without any eff
forts to visualize it. They gave it a
symbol and put 1t in equations and
then worked ahead to other symbols
and other equations.
OF course, all of them didn't accept it.
From the first certain incongruouS fea-
lures were pointed out. Similar to
gravitation in some respects is another
mysterious force - electro magnetism.
This also Einstein sought to explain
by the structure of his four dimensional
universe itself rather than by any in
herent force in matter. He didn't sue
coed very convincingly. Then he him.
self was puzzled when he found errors
in his own equations.
Other mathematicians stepped to the
rescue with universe constructed mathe-
matically so that they would fit both
the facts of gravitation and electro
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magnetism. Notable among these we're
two European mathematicianS, Weyl
and De Sitter, who provided five-dimen-
sional universes. Still there were OBJ
scurities and Einstein was not satisfied
He set to work himself behind locked
doors with his formulate, his violin and
his piano. Other men all over the
world went to work at the same time to
construct mathematical universes from
the structure of which the observed
facts of gravitation and electro
magnetiSm-the two architects of the
universe-would naturally follow. Some
OF this work was done in Washington.
Five -dimensional and even siX-dimen-
sional universes were proposed.
Once the mathematician has crossed
the boundaries of the dimensions
OF human experience the sky is the
limit. He can have 20 dimensions if the
exact calculations in mathematical
symbols lead that far before coming to
logical conclusion.
Einstein on Gravitation.
Einstein had described the phenom-
enon of gravitation as due to the fact
that mass distorted four dimensional
space-time continuum and that all other
masses coming into that vicinity. since
they must keep on going through space
time, must follow the curved surfaces
into which space time had been dis
torted. 1t was like rolling down hills
of space rather than being attracted
by any mystical force.
In the new theory Einstein provides
for space-time structure which will
explain electro magnetism also in terms
of natural relationships. 1t identifies
gravitation and electro magnetism as
different aspects of one central phenom-
enon-Space-time itself. Everything
else in the universe proceeds, with per-
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minute into assuming that the wall has
no thickness simply because we do not
see the thickness. That, ordinarily,
is as far as We go-although we may
recognize a fourth dimension to the
wall, its continuance in time We can
visualize the thickness of the wall with
certainty without any sensual evidence
that such thickness exists. We simply
take 1t for granted because our minds
are constituted that way.
Yet, as DR.. Snow explains, we have
very good evidence that, even with the
assumption of depth which is not up
held by our eyes, our actual picture is
inadequate. We assume thi, depth
without questioning because our ex-
perience has taught lis it is there, even
when we do not see it, The only rea-
son why we do not assume other di-
mansions is because we have had no ex-
perience with other dimensions. We
have no possible way of imaging what
they would be like. This merely illus
trates the inability of our own minds
Life in the world has gotten along very
we'll for millions of years in three di-
mansions and has had no incentive to
evolve a mind capable of four dimen-
sional experience.
Einstein found that certain natural
phenomena could be explained more
Simoly and with fewer hiatuseS in the
explanations if they could be con-
ceived of as happening in a four-di-
mensional world. There was, for in
stance, the phenomenon of gravita-
ton. Newton had expressed it very
neatly-that every particle of matter in
the universe was attracted to every
other particle by force proportional to
the masses and inversely proportional
to the square of the distances apart.
What this attraction was he didn't
know. He had to assume that it was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
SCIENTISTS HERE EAGERLY WAIT
FOR NEW EINSTEIN PAMPHLET
Standards Bureau Physicist
Says 5000 Now Able to
Grasp Theory.
Prussian Academy to Release
Three-Page Work in Next
Few Days.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Approximately dozen men in Wash
| ington are awaiting nervously the thrill
that comes once in a lifetime.
1t will be realized in the next few
days when the Prussian Academy of
Sciences releases a three-page pamph-
let of mathematical symbols.
For at least 80 per cent of the world,
these obscure equations will have no
meaning whatever. For the few. the
Greek letters and slgebraic signs will
be like chords of celestial music SWELL
ing and diminishing through the cor
ridors of the stars.
1t is with decidedly aecthetic an
ticipation that these dozen men in
Washington await the publication of
"a unified field theory" by Alfred Elm
stein.
Contribution Hailed.
"Einstein," said one of them, already
has rendered a distinguished service to
humanity even if there never is any
way to make practical use of his
theories. He has made great aesthetic
contribution. The world will never be
SO dull again for the intellectual man.
The new theory will be beautiful"
Friends of Einstein have described
Tie new CneOry as reducing all physics
to one law, from which everything else
can be derived" y
In 1915 when Einstein published Ills
first theory, which disproved the New
tonian law Of gravity and contained
revolutionary implications regarding the
structure of the universe, the German
physicist is quoted as saying that
there are only 10 men in the world
capable of understanding this"
But since then, says DR.. Chester
Snow, mathematical physicist of the
Bureau of Standards, there has been
IAN Einstein renaissance" He be-
lieves there are about 5000 persons
now in the world who can follow every
step of the mathematical reasoning and
great many others who can grasp the
general trend of it,
Both the old and new theories re-
quire one to grasp the idea of four
or five dimensional world. Such
step is possible only to one endowed
with a mathematical Imagination. A
world of more than thret dimensions
cannot be visualiZed because it is so
utterly outside the possible experience
OF any human being with the limited
human endowment of sense organs.
Such world never can have any real
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
WALES MINE TOUR
PLANS ARE HAILED
Prince viii See Distress
Among 100000 Iob!ess
for Himself.
BY HARRY b. WELLS.
q Gin "a The Cfa~

LONDON, January 26.-With the
Prince of Wales decision to make an
informal automobile tour of the prin-
cipal coal fields, in order to observe for
himself the distress among the 100000
JoblesS miners and their families. the
heir to the throne. in the consensus
here, Is again to set record for his
instinct for doing the right thing"
The news of the Princes forthcoming
visit has been received with the deep
est satisfaction by the population of the
stricken areas, who from both an
economic and the human viewpoint
constitutes one of the stiffest postwar
problems this country has to face.
The Prince plans to visit the people
In their homes, to view the derelict
collerieS and to observe the whole
sale Stagnation into which the whole
industrial areas have sunk, and then
TO use his personal knowledge of the
situation in a further effort to con-
centrate the national sympathy on the
miners plight. Ever since the Prince
made his memorable dash from the
heart OF Africa. at the critical stage
OF King georges illness, he has
been deeply concerned about the people
IN the long silent mining valleys in
South Wales and North England.
and it isn't to much to say that since
his return to England no single man
has done more to bring home to the
nation the sufferings of the unem-
ployed miners and to stimulate practi-
cal expression of public sympathy.
In the message broadcast nation
wide on Christmas day he made elo-
quent appeal in behalf of the Lord
Mayor of London's miners distress fund
with the result that the total fund has
now reached more than $4,000 600
with the government granting a pound
sterling from the national excheouer
Tor every pound contributed by the
public.
The Prince of Wales has always shown
deep personal interest in the coal
mining industry. In 1919 he made
tour of the Rhondda Valley of South
Wales and went down to the cymmer
pit, where he saw every phase of the
miners life. Here in one of the tunnels
miner had written in chalk on the
wall. Welcome to our soldier-prince-
long may he live" The Prince. asking
for piece of chalk, immediately wrote
underneath, Thank you, Edward,
prince"
Copyright. 1929
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ity for men and women because they
cannot experience it.
Lead In One Direction.
Attempts to visualize a Impeachment
sional concept, says DR.. Snow, ARE
futile and lead only in one direction
to insanity" The mathematician
plungeS into this world in sealed car
of formulate and doesn't try to look
out CT the windows during the trip. He
rides across vast, weird distances with
out the slightest idea of the scenery
outside.
We live in a world of three dimen-
sions, DR.. Snow explained. with a vague
possibility of realizing fourth dimen-
sion. Yet these three, or even four.
dimensions are not inherent in nature
itself but in the structure of our own
minds. We look, for instance, at the
wall of a building and we see a plane
having only two dimensionS-length
and breadth. Yet, although we do not
see it, we sense a third dimension,
thickness. We are not fooled for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
TWO AMERICANS ESCAPE
IN CORFU PLANE CRASH
U. s. Banker of Paris and Daugh-
ter Safe-Two Killed, Two Hurt
as Machine Hits Rocks. J
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS, January IS. - Charles
Holder. an American banker of Paris
and his daughter escaped injury when
an Italian hydro-airplane of the
Piraeus-Brindisi Service hit rocks on
the northwest coast of Corfu before
dawn today. Two other persons on the
plane were killed and two were injured,
the second pilot and the telegraph OPP
orator being the victims.
Mr.. Holder and his daughter were at
hotel In Corfu tonight and they ex-
pected to embark on a steamer for
Brindisi tomorrow. He had been adj
vised by friends not to take the air trim.
but had insisted upon going. !
The accident was ascribed to a dense
fog which led the pilot to descend. He
was unable to pick out suitable land
ing place and the machine hit the rocks
instead of open water The accident
occurred near the famous Monastery of
Palaiokastrizza.
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Two Soldiers Are Retired.

Sergt. Chow Big. an Indian scout at
Fort Huachuca, Ariz., and Master Serrt
George w. Murrow, Tank School, Fort
Leonard Wood, Md. have been placed
on the Army retired list on their own
applications. Each of these soldiers has
had more than 80 years active military
service.
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In England, it is said, Sc per cent of
all traffic accidents occur when the
autos involved are being driven at a
rate o. 10 miles an hour or less.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-18
LARGE APPLE CROP
IN NEARBY STATES
Output of Shenandoah Cumberland
District Is of Good
Quality.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, october 18.-
The annual apple harvest in CONNER
cial orchards of the Shenandoah Cum
berland district of Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland and Southern Penn
sylvania is about to close The peak
was passed this week In the Winches-
ter area, where a crop Of approximately
$4,000 barrels was picked and packed,
mostly in barrels, and next week is
expected to see growers winding up
the marketing of apples that fell on
the ground. Prices have been we'll
maintained, and the tendency con-
tinues upward for good fruit.
York Imperials, the chief output of
the Winchester district, are selling
better than $3.50 per barrel in some
markets. Most of the cold-storage
plants in Winchester and other cities
and towns are well filled with apples.
Up to this time only about 100000
barrels have been sent from the United
States to British markets, against
1,275 900 barrels for the same period
last year. Cold-storage plants operat-
ing in Winchester have capacity for
approximately 100000 barrels, and
they are receiving fruit from mary
sections of the Shenandoah-C umber-
land district, as well as from the Pa
cif1c Northwest.
Apples from the latter section are
received and held under the storage
in-transia rule of the Interstate Com
merce~ Commission. Most Of the fruit
now in storage Is of good quality, while
a year ago much Of q rather inferior
character was placed in storage.
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Economies (sales to jobbers except
where otherwise notedD, says:
Apples-Supplies moderate; demand
light. market dull; bushel baskets,
Pennsylvania, U. s. No. /, 2A inches
up, Grimes, ruSseted, few sales, $50;
Virginia, u. s. No. /, az inches up
Grimes, 2.00a2.25; YorkS, Its; Stay
mans, 1.75a2.00; 8 inches up, Staymans
2.25; unclasSified, wide range quality
and condition, Yorks, LOCAL rs; Stay
mans, LOCAL. rs; few lower.
Cabbage-Supplies moderate; demand
light, market about steady; New York
90-pound sacks, Danish type, 1.60a1.75;
New York and Pennsylvania, 100-pound
sacks, Danish type, 1.T5a200.
Celery-Supplies light; demand mod
crate, market steady; New York, 2-3
crates, early varieties, best, 2.25; fair
quality and condition, 200.
Grapes-EaStern stock; supplies light;
demand light, market steady; New York
l2-quart climax baskets, Concords, U. S.
No. /, 55a60; Pennsylvania, cartons
containing IL 2-quart climax baskets
Concords, 225a2.50; mostly $50.
Lettuce-Supplies moderate; demand
moderate, market weaker; Western
stock, California, crates, Iceberg type
Onions-Supplies moderate; demand
slow, market steady: New York, Mich
igan and Ohio, 100-pound sacks, vel
lows, U. S. No. 1, medium to large size,
| 2.00a2.25.
Potatoes-Supplies liberal; demand
moderate, market slightly stronger
New York. 150-pound sacks, round
whites, u. S. No. /, 4.50a4.65.
Sweet potatoes-Supplies liberal; de-
mand slow, market dull; East Shore
va, cloth-top barrels, yellows, No. l.
3.00a3.25, mostly 500; North Carolina
cloth-top barrels, yellows, No. !, 2.75a
800.
String beans-Supplies moderate; de-
mand moderate, market about steady;
South Carolina, bushel hampers, green
best, 2.25a2.50; fair quality and condi-
ton, 200; Norfolk section, Va, bushel
hampers, green, 225a2.50.
Lima beans-Supplies light; demand
moderate, market about steady; East
Shore. Md, buShel hampers, best. $50;
fair quality and condition, 3.25; poorer,
800.
Tomatoes-Supplies moderate: de-
mand slow, market dull; nearby Mary
land, 1a-bushel hampers, best, 75a1 90;
poorer, so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-18
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION
WORK SHOWS INCREASE

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 18.-Heavy
construction operations that reached the
proposal stage in the United States in
the past week showed IL per cent in
crease in money value over the figure
announced in the same week a year
ago, Construction Daily reports. OF the
total, $68, 673 900, slightly less than q
third, was under the public work claSsifi-
cation. Apartment house and hotel
construction projects for which plans
are being made also showed sustained
activity.
Divided into the various groups, the
sums involved in proposed work for the
week follow: Apartment house and
hotels, $I9,850, 900; educational build
ings, $6,565 900; commercial buildings,
which include stores, warehouses, ga
RACES, etc, 1880, 900; public work, 500
669, 900; hospitals, $945, 900; Industrial
buildings, $4,000, 900; railway improve
ments, $1,813,000; airports, $4,000 900,
and unclassified jobs, $4,671, 900.
The largest undertaking announced
during the week involves the expendi-
ture of $1,000, 900 by the City of Jack
sonville, Fla, on the construction Of q
bridge, two ferries and two roads. APP
proximately 100000 will be spent in
Cleveland in the next year on sewage
disposal works, sewers and pavements. .
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nanas and persimmons. Few parayas
also were offered the retail trade.
Show pumpkins continued to attract
attention of the buyers, the large show
fruit being wanted for the Halloween
trade, while sugar and other varieties
of the smaller vegetable we're in de-
mand for table uses. Prices ranged
from IS cents to SIS.
Tomatoes, both homegrown and
shipped-in stock from the West, were
plentiful, the former selling from so
cents to 81 for 2-peck baskets. Prices
of the California product depended upon
size and quality of the vegetable. Most
Of the shipped-in receipts were in splen-
did condition, dealers reported, and
were cheap enough to lessen the demand
for the homegrown product.
Liberal receipts of string beans and
light receipts of lima beans were re-
ported. The former, according TO
quality, sold from 81 to $3.50 for bushel
hampers, the latter selling mostly at
$3.50, few choice beans selling slightly
higher.
Dealers reported liberal supplies of
both varieties of potatoes, 150-pound
sacks Round whites selling around
$3.50. Sweet potatoes, chiefly from the
Eastern Shore of Virginia and North
Carolina, sold from SITS to 1925 a
barrel
There were plentiful supplies of
numerous varieties of small vegetables
and green's offered on the farmers line
at prices dealers termed cheap. De-
mands this morning were reported only
fairly brisk, quantities of products being
in excess of demands. Prices we're
about the same as prices quoted yester-
day.
TOday'S Wholesale Prices. JObbers'
Prices Slightly Higher.
Butter-One-pound prints, 471aa4sH ;
tub, 46Aa47A; store packed, sOa32.
Eggs-Hennery, IS; fresh selected,
48a50; current receipts, 43a45.
Poultry, alive-TurkeyS, hens, IS;
toms, SO; Spring chickens, large, 27a28;
broilers, 80; Leghorns, 24a25; fowls,
27a28; Leghorns, fowls, 20a21; ROSTERS,
18a20; ducks, 15a20; keats, young, 40a
so; old, 80. Dressed-Turkeys, 40a45 !;
Spring chickens, large, 37a38; medium,
35a36; broilers, 37a38; Leghorns, IS !;
ROSTERS, 24a25; ducks, 28a30; keats,
79a9O.
Meats-Beef, 2oa2s; veal, 24a2s:
lamb, 26a27; pork loins, 40; fresh ham,
22a25; fresh shoulders, 20a23; smoked
hams, 26a28; smoked shoulders, l8a20;
bacon, 20; lard, in bulk, "a; in pack
Live stock-calves. 141a; lambs,
12ha13.
Fruit and Vegetable Review.
The daily market report on fruits
and vegetables, compiled by the Market
News Service Bureau of Agricultural
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-18
MEMORIAL GROUP
OF ELEVEN NAMED
viii Supervise Plans for
Building Here as Tribute
to CoIored People.

A commission of IL has been ap-
pointed by President Hoover to super
wise plans for the erection of q
national memorial building in this city
as a tribute to the Negroes contribution
to America.
Ferdinand D. Lee, founder and presi-
cent OF the National Memorial Asso-
citation, incorporated In 1916 for the
purpose of promoting the project, heads
the list. Other names are as follows
John r. Hawkins, washington, D. c.,
president of the Prudential Bank; Mrs.
Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. c.,
civic worker and lecturer; Rev. j. r.
Ransom, Topeka, Kans., presiding min
lister of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church; Webster L. Porter, Knoxville,
Tenn, publisher and editor of the East
Tennessee News; Rev. H. Clay Weeden,
Louisville, KY, general secretary of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church; Judge william c. Hueston,
Gary. Ind, commissioner of education
for the Colored Elks of the World; Rev.
l.. K Williams Chicago, Ill, president
of the National Baptist Convention,
Inc; Paul williams, Los Angeles, Calf,
registered architect; william G. Pear
son, Durham, N. c., banker and insur-
ance broker, and Mrs. Mary Mcleod
Bethune, Daytona, Fla, president of
the Bethune-C Goodman College.
The commissioners will meet soon to
organize and formulate plans for carry
ing out provisions of the act of Con-
gress of March T., 1929, creating the
commission, and authorizing an appro-
priation of $4,000, to defray expenses
The building is not to cost less than
$500, 900, and from present plans, in
Guiding campaign for raising funds,
the structure will probably cost nearer
$2,000,0 900. While the site has not as
vet been selected, 1t is considered likely
it viii be in the vicinity of Howard Uni
versity.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director
Of Public Buildings and Public Parks
Of the National Capital, with David
Lynn, the architect of the Capitol, and
James E. Wetmore, supervising archi-
tect of the United States Treasury, will
serve as ex-ofi1cio members of the
commission. The site and plans are to
be approved by the National Commits
sion Of Fine Arts. The governors of
the several States have appointed State
commissioners to cooperate with the
association.