The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-28
HOLIDAYS BRING JUMP IN BURGLARIES
SCIENTISTS ARE
 MEETING TODAY
 FOR NEW, THRILLS
There Will Be Many Strange Ideas and Ex- hibits When They Gath- CT at New Orleans

New orleans, Dec 2S--CUP)- X-rays that prove southpaw bal players and left-handed letter writ. CTS are born and not made are or exhibit and birth cries" of new born atoms will be heard during the nations greatest science exhi. bition opening to-day.
 These are only two of hundreds of scientific wonders that will be displayed, or exhibited during the eighty-ninth annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad. vancement of Science.
 Among others are:
 Wires or threats made of water and mercury.
 A chemical that tests the tasters tasters.
 Reproduction of rocks on the face of the moon.
 That X-ray which determines before birth whether child will be left-handed or right handed ii the result of study of 500 babiei in Grand Rapids, Mich, by Dr T o. Menees and Dr l.. E. Holly.
 If the upper ends of the arm and leg bones are heavier on the righi arm or leg, the child will be right handed in cases out of 10, tht doctors found.
 The useful feature of this new x-ray photography is the ability to determine probable weight of ( child which must be born through 0 Caesarean operation. The physi. clan using this x-ray may deter. mine before birth if the child has a chance to survive.
 The "blrth cries" O. K. the new. bern atom, so called by pr Robert A. Millikan, are the "sounds" made by cosmic rays plunging through electrified gas in Q small tube witt q power that would drivc through 20 feet of lead. This plunge set. an electric current in motion which Is amplified until 1t sounds like the ticking of @ watch or the click oi Q telephone receiver.
 These rays come from any al. rection and go through anything including the human body. They have been "in transit through space millions of light years dis tant from the earth.
 The taste test is made with 0 chemical known as phenylthio- carbamide, which some folks can test and some can not. Tests here- tofore have been conducted in re- publican territory. New orleans may be counted in democratic ter ritory. The comparative tasting ability of democrats and rcpubif- cans therefore will be tested.
 Dr Burton E. Livingston of Tah E tVaa Ni UA created in a tube the negative pres- sure In tree. A tree may draw tp water 40 or so feet with greater force than used by suction pump.
 Livingston has taken this pres sure or attraction to make O fine threat or wire of water and mer- cury, the water thread having the tensile strength of q brass wire.
 The rocks from the moon arc res constructed by Dr Fred F. Wright of Carnegie Institute after study of the light emitted from the moon and poloraization of that light.
 Addresses by leading economists will be among the high spots of this weeks program. Dr Irving Fisher, Yale economist, will dis cuss the first principles of booms and depressions.
 And c. F. Hirshfield, director of research for the Detroit Edison company. will discuss the slump under the subject: "Whose Fault?"
 Findings in every field of sclen- tihc research will be placed before t4le 34 societies and 15 sections of the associations in departmental meetings and exhibits.