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TodaY's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TTEAVY water, small amounts of which exist in
l. ordinary water, is deadly to plants and animals
in strong concentrations. This has been demon
srated by experiments carried on by Professor Gill
bert N. Lewis, famous chemist of the University of
California.
Life is impossible without water Protoplasm, the
stuff from which the cells of both plants and ami
mails constructed, sonsists of from so to 81 per
cent water
But Professor Lewis experiments showed that life
can not exist on heavy water. 1t kills bacteria,
yeasts molds, plant Seeds tadpoles, fatworms and
other small creatures.
He also tried the effects of heavy water on
mouse. The experiment was not conclusive because
only small amount available, but it produced
an apparent intoxication and other toxic effects.
Heavy water IS one OF TIE most recent discoveries
of science. 1t first isolated by Professor Harold
G. Urey of Columbia.
1t owes its existence to the fact that there are
two hydrogen atoms, one twice heavy as the
other. The heavy hydrogen atom however is COM
parativey scarce compared to the light atom. Con-
sequenty, ordinary sample of water contains very
little heavy water only one molecule in many thou
sands.
DROFEssOR LEWIS first tried the effects OF
heavy water upon tobacco seeds These seeds,
which in ordinary water always terminate within
two days, did not terminate at all in heavy water
Tobacco seeds were then placed in solution
consisting of so per cent ordinary water and so per
cent heavy water. These seeds terminated but de-
veloped at only half the ordinary rate of growth
Experiments were then tried with micro organ
isms. small amount of malt sugar and the neces-
sary inorganic salts were put in tube of heavy
water.
A yeast culture was then added to this solution.
1t failed to grow. The same negative results OBJ
tanned when various bacteria and molds were tried.
Next, Professor Lewis decided to try the effects
of the heavy water on higher organisms and 50
experiments were carried out with fatworms Thess
placed in 80 per cent solution of heavy water
LWIthtp an hour or two, they al seemed dead.
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A Hard Loser

THEY could understand the rage and the sharp
Il edge of McGrawS comment. MattyS silence left
them puzzled A man who made very furnishing
bundeT behind the pitcher or less wished that
he would say something. The failure to grumble or
complain was just little too like a god. The out
fielder who trotted into the bench with his hands
hagrant In their sins against the fielding averages
probably felt that somewhere in a secret cupboard
Matty was storing up his wrath and resentment.
McGraw told YOU right off. He always wanted to
win, and never knew harder loser whether the
issue at stake a worlds series title or a prac-
tice game with Bridgeport.
But he and Matty understood each other Off
the playing field McCraws generosity and kindness
were proverbia No old ball player ever was turned
down In fact, I doubt that anybody ever was
turned down. McGraw handled money in the way
he Scooped up hunts third baSeman with the
Orioles He was chain lightning with throw: no.
body could pay any sort of check. when McCraw
was around. He had just the right hands for a
spender.
When Florida real estate deal in which he was
interested collapsed he paid off over stretch of
years TO every friend whom he had avised to bv the
stock. John had his pride. And when there comes
a great knocking on the gate of heaven and the
announcement that McGraw of the Giants is there
l hope they'll call EN- right for him.
In TACT, pity the archangel who fails to do so
And even more I pity any one of the holy saints
who tries to pull watch and Danish from the celes
tal park John j. NcCraw
Copyright. 1884 by The Tines
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long as their speech did not Of
fend the ear, should not serve the
purpose of a moral at least as well
as its froth- and cream. Nor did
I doubt that there lay fostering
in Saint Giles as good materials
toward the truth as any to be
found lin Saint James And
therefore I did as best I could"
For him." says Leacock, there
were no more rules of art than
there were rules of battle for Ma
poleon." So he continued merely
to do the best he could turning
out prodigious amount of writ
ing. He continued almost unin-
terruptedly until on June 9, 1870,
at the age of So, his health af-
fected by rigorous work, he arose
from the manuscript of the I'M
finished twenty-third chapter of
Edwin Brood" with his last writ
ten words, 'and then falls to with
an appetite" And died.
TN the days between, the man
Il who as a boy had been label
paSter in a warehouse held-with
his writing words-the admiration
of two continents.
He amassed a fortune more
than modest. He had ten chill
dren whom he loved. And it was
not until after twenty-five years
of marriage that his separation
from his wife revealed the in
compatibility which had arisen, a
wall. between them.
Then, at last, disclosing that
although fame long had beaten
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YOUTH IN PATH OF
TROLLEY SAVED BY.
ALERT MOTORMAN

By United Press
CINCINNATI, March IA troll
ley motorman's calm judging of
distance saved a boy coaster from
almost certain death here.
William Hampton, the motor
man, saw Clifford Seig. 7, coast
ing from a driveway toward the
path of the oncoming street car.
Mr.. Hampton kept his head,
sped his car momentarily, then
braked the car to stop. The boy
held grimly to the sled. Passen-
gers and pedestrians screamed as
they saw boy and sled disappear
under the car, but sighed relief
when both reappeared on the
other side. The sled had passed
just to the rear Of the front trucks
Of the car.
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moved ''the strange and stirring
discovery which Dickens made
was this-that having chosen a
fat old man of the middle classes
as a good thing Of which to make
a butt, he found that a fat old
man of the middle classes is the
very best thing of which to make
a romantic adventurer.
Yet even at that time, with i'm
maturity hardly past, Dickens OBJ
viously felt within him that urge
for social reform which later was
to flare into open contempt for
vested interests, Indignation over
the absurdity Of his country'S
courts, and was to light up his
crusade for better breaks for all
the IOwly.
The year after "Pickwick" was
finished, OLIVER Twist" followed
it-assailing abuses of the poor
law and the workhouse system,
and Dickens was on his way to-
ward being realiSt rather than
romancer.
Il HAVE yet to learn" he said,
Il that a lesson of the pureSt
good may not be drawn from the
vilest evil. I have always believed
this to be a recognized and estab-
lished truth, laid down by the
greatest men the world has ever
seen, constantly acted upon by the
greatest and wisest natures, and
confirmed by the reason ard ex-
perience of every thinking mind.
Il saw no reason, when I wrote
this book, why the dregs of life, so
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She's Travelled a Long Way
Since Her Debut on the
New York Stage Back in
the Days of 1924.
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
no you want to meet Claudette
- Colbert?

D1 WALLER ID HlChMAN
II coIbert9 to- - "'''' O'30'''''
Not personally by shaking her
hand, but to know some facts
which has made this woman an
important figure in the films. Bud
Gray is in town in interest of
Columbia's production of ut Hap
pened One Night" and he can tell
you a lot about Miss Colbert.
Clark Gable and Miss Colbert
are the two who carry this story
of what might happen on bus
to an interesting conclusion.
But to go back to Mr.. Gray,
Miss Colbert remembers Grand
pere Chauchoin in Paris while he
tried to sing grand opera while
being a farmer in France.
Claudette was born in Paris
in 1907 in the section of that city
known as Sanite Mande. She re-
members little of her early life
in Paris except with the walks she
had with her mother.
The head of the house was not
too successful in a business way,
so after much discussion, the fam
lily left for America. Claudette
arrived here at the age of 6.
Papa Georges landed a job in
the foreign department of the
First National bank.
The strict discipline Of a French
home kept her even in this coun-
try a girl versed in the French
language.
1t WIS in high school that C1au-
dette took on friends and began
to develop her personality. Shs
even made the basketball team.
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upon the walls of his several
fine homes, it may not have COM
pensated for words spoken within,
he wrote:
81 suppose that no two people,
not vicious themselves, ever were
joined together who had a greater
difficulty in understanding each
other, or who had less in COM
mon"
He was born, the oldest boy of
eight children, son of John and
Elizabeth Dickens, on Feb. 7, 1872,
in Landport, a suburb of Portsea,
and two years afterWard was
taken to Chatham. So always he
called himself a Kentish man,
born and bred, with Kent always
in his blood.
TN David Copperfeld," regarded
l. by many as his greatest novel,
and in part photographed, it
was at Chatham that distraught
little David on his lonely tramp
to Dover, slept "near a cannon,
happy in the society of the Sentry'S
footsteps 1t was there that
many Christmas tale was set.
There Dickens spent most of the
last thirteen years of his life, and
there he died.
He began to write descriptive
sketches of people in his streets
when neighbors still called him "a
very queer little boy" But there
was not much time. When his
father went to debtors prison he
went to Jonathan Warren's black
ing warehouse at Hungerford
Stairs to paste labels on backing
pots.
But when he was % the famous
Wing journal, the Morning Chron-
icle, then in its heydey, hired him
as reporter, and that led him
into fiction.
Sketches by Boz" preceded
"Pickwick, and were indistin-
guished. Yet for a long time they
labeled him. He was known as
Boz and in some of his auto
biographies he is "Bozzed' through
the books.
Two days after the first "Pick-
wick" paper appeared on April 2,
1886, he married Catherine Thorn
son Hogarth. They went to Lon
don, and were happy. In modest
Doughty street there we're not
any shadows; the shadows were
gathering on august Gad's Hill,
where fortune later was to put
them.
D II
FORTUNE, meanwhile, made
L Dickens a citizens almost re-
gal in the eyes of his peers.
There was, indeed, much in his
life which was calculated to turn
his head" wrote his son, Sir Hen
ry F. Dickens, last year, a little
while before his death.
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he will endeavor to preserve the
fine traditions established by
the late Malachi Hogan. Mr..
Hogan was a referee, too, who
could clear his own bar, in a
vault, from behind or in front,
without touching his other
hand to the wood and kept, in
Mr.. Barry's opinion, the most
beautiful saloon in the world.
There were autographed pho
tographS of all the famous pu-
gilists and baseball players and
actors hanging on the walls and
Hogans saloon was the rem
devious of the best people of
the arena, the ball yard and the
stage. Malachi Hogan was the
hero of a song composed by a
comedian named John w. Kelly
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He's Not Going to Be Short

II DO not mean that intend to be short with my
Il rent in this place of mine when I say I wish to
carry on the ideals of Malachi Hogan and revive all
is will try to cater to strictly high-caSS trade of
the most famous fighters of the day and age and all
the theatrical celebrities and writer's.
only young man then, but still have
beautiful memories of Hogan'S and I can see him
yet, with hand the bar, sailing gracefully
the top to stop any little dispute that might
happen between friends in the course Of evening.
have been giving myself little practice and find
that now can go over pretty we'll with two hands"
The principal decoration in Mr.. BarIys window,
aside from the sign reading Regular Dinner, as
Cents" is an old newspaper photograph of Gene
Tunney sitting in limp attitude with his left hand
clingng to the lower rope of the ring at Soldiers
field, as Mr.. Barry turns to shoe Jack Dempsey to
the farthest neutral corner
This incident was Mr. BarryS entire career as
you might say because up to that time he only
retired pugiliSt and only one of many ex-prize-
fighters, although he fought Joe Cans and Jimmy
Clabby and would prefer sometimes to speak of these
matters.
Il suppose Mr.. Barry continues, "they will have
me telling all about it million times before
through and a friend of mine in the music
business wants me to make photograph record Of
the story and just turn it when a customer asks
to tell the true inside dope the long count.
But wish my customers to feel that am their pal
and friends, the order of Malachi Hogan, and
do not mind telling it when they in for littla
refreshment and happen to ask how it all happened.
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Meet Caudette Colbert, the Little
Lady From Gay PGree, Who Made Good
as well as the French Dramatic

as well as the French Dramatic
Club.
A school teacher took an inter-
est in the little girl and soon she
became theatrical minded. The
teacher placed her in an "arty"
theatrical crowd and that was the
way Claudette started to be an
actress.
THE first place that Claudette
4 played in was converted
staple" used as theater.
When she graduated high school
Miss Colbert sought work as a
designer. She finally obtained
work in a department store.
She convinced the manager that
she could draw a design, but She
got into trouble because Of the
design, and she was fired.
She made her debut in 1924 on
the Broadway stage by speaking
several groups of three lines in
THE Wild Westcotts." She was
lGI fOuS, DUC 1udQ6 d. SOOQ impress
sion, which paved the way for her
father and mother to approve a
career as an actress.
In her struggle to become an
"actress" she became a member
of stock companies. Then came
the break. She became a member
of Leah Kleschna." as produced
by the late Jesse BonsteI.
Then she went into other plays,
including The Cat Came Back"
High Stakes, " THE Ghost Train"
and many others.
She was asked to appear in "The
Barker and that started her on
a real career.
= II
HER marriage to Norman Fos-
IL ter was supposed to have
been kept a secret, but it leaked
out.
She would not leave Norman,
although Hollywood was asking
for her. After many strange hook
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Began When Freud Did

DR. SIGMUND FREUD and John McGraw never
l. met as far as I knOw-Whch is pity, since
they might have learned much from each other.
If I remember the case histories of the physician
he began his first work on Vienna cab driver who
was forever falling asleep and tumbling off his
high seat. 1t about that time that McGraw
went to work, quite Independently, on the case of
Fred Merkle. At the time I met Merkle in Marlin
the already was demonstrated
In the little hick towns the fans still cried out
when he came to bat, don't forget to touch Sec
ond basel" and each shouted out the phrase
as if he himself had coined it. But up and down
the long lantern jaw of the ball player there
no sign of any f1ush and he went through no for
mula of muttered curses. He simply waited for one
he liked and took his cut.
Merkle had taken to heart and assimlated Nc
Graws philosophy, which quite short 1t
like this: ITO hell with them!" He taught the
formula to RUDE Marquard "the $1,000 lemon"
and to Ferdie Schupp, the squirrel fancer, who
still holds earned-run record which has never
been touched
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the rolling mill man, called when Hogan pays his
rent"
THE idea of the song" says Mr.. Barry, "wqs that
when Hogan paid his rent it was like Fourth of
July, it happened seldom. He wasn't close but he
was careless. He used to clean out the till closing
time and go out and spend some money with the
other Saoonkeepers around town. They We're pretty
much alike, the saloonkeepers thought so they used
to clean out their tills sometimes and come in and
spend some money with him.
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people born in these later years
can hardly picture to themselves
the extent of his personal popu-
larity. When I walked with him
in the streets of London or else
where it was like royal progress,
the passersby taking off their
hats to him as he passed, as
though he were indeed a royal
parsonage. This was the adula-
ton by the people which he
priced above all"
In his later years, said Sir Hen
ry, Dickens was, as always, eX-
tremely punctual and precise in
daily routine. Breakfast between
and 9; a stroll in the garden,
with a cigar; then work in his
library, usually without luncheon;
down for a walk at 3.
Sometimes he would stroll into
the dining room cat noon) and
take biscuit and a glass of sher-
ry, but generally when he did so
his mind was far away and he
rarely spoke to us on such occa-
sionS."
LIE rarely spoke, either, when
L Il Sir Henry, then a youth,
went with him on late afternoon
jaunts along the picturesque
marshes of the Thames; Sir Henry
said his father was thinking up
more things to write.
Although he was hospitable, and
through many years in ebullient
spirits, he always had, his son
thought, a certain reserve hard to
understand.
When the son received a Cam
bridge scholarship, and told his
father, Dickens said, Capital!
Capital" and nothing more.
The boy disappointed.
''Then half way up the drive to
Gad's Hill" Sir Henry wrote, che
completely broke down. Turning
to me with tears in his eyes he
said, God bless you, my boy!"
and gave me a grip of the hand
which can still almost feel"
1t proved-as the books so often
proved, of course-that Dickens
did see into mems minds and
hearts. Sometimes he caricatured.
Sometimes he satirized. Anyway,
he knew men.
II
LIE studied his countrymen.
IL He glorifed the common
place. He had an eye for detail
like Sinclair Lewis, and a passion
for the oppressed like Upton Sin
clair. He had such command of
characterization that the men and
women of his books have got into,
and have stayed in, the common
speech.
AS we'll try to dwarf the per-
sonality of Queen Victoria as of
Micawber or David Copperf1eld.
Chesterton thinks some of the
'fastidious" feel that Dickens was
not a good writer but a great one.
Che tert ton rounds out the
thought:
whatever the word great
means, Dickens was what it
means"
Observation-Disclosures in America.
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and Merkle.
1 think it was during that
season of 1915 that Larry Doyle
said. Its great to be young
and Giant" 1 suppose it was
an important part of McGraw's
great capacity for leadership
that he could take kids out of coal
mines and wheat fields and
make them walk and talk and
chatter and play ball with the
look Of eagles. McGraw was one
of the first to break down the
reluctance of big and expensive
hotels to cater to ball clubs. His
teams went to places where the
carpets were as soft and thick
as the turf of one of Henry Fa-
bans diamonds. 1t was a part
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A Strange Alliance

DUT John McGraw nodded this ego and that one
ID like an Atlantic City beach sculptor only
one of his creations ever came fully to life far
McGraw was concerned. The potter knew the flaws
in his models, and during a tight game John Nc
Graw had a raging contempt for all the umpireS,
the members of the other club and his players.
And it true that he did think faster. The differ
ence of course, only fractional. But many a
pennant has been won or lost in tenthS of seconds
In his later years as manager it seemed to me
that McCiraw hurt the color of his team somewhat
by the manner in which he handled his pitchers
Even the greenest fan less got the idea that
the manager was calling every shot. Perhaps after
long association with Matty every other pitcher
seemed so dumb and unsatisfactory. The alliance
between Mathewson and McGraw was one of the
ball.
Matty, of course, not only worked on each batter
according to his theories but shifted the team about
in anticipation of the spot where the defense should
concentrate He a field marshal with whom the
little Napoleon never interfered.
don't even remember any fights or harsh words
passing between them in the years when I saw much
of the Giants They both fighters, but accord
ing to a different scheme. McGraw in a rage at a
stupid play would toss salt into the wound the mo-
ment the erring one came back of the plate The
team could fill the bases back of Matty on silly
schoolboy errors, and he would merely call for the
ball, dig his toes in a little deeper and break his
tadeaway into a still more tantalzing sweep And
the curious part of it is that the ball players liked
McGraw better than they liked Matty.
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GALES rose to 10000 each num-
~ Der. Dickens received. be-
sides his fifteen guineas apeace,
$500 pound sterling for the
serial numbers and slice of the
copyright.
In return, he put down on
paper, sometimes in caricature,
sometimes in truthful harshness,
the England of his time, and G.
K. Chesterton, in his Critical
Study" says that as the story
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