The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-09-27
WHO'S
NEWS
\ THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON

country needs a good alchemist
more than good five-cent cigar.
aY-r. Possibly we
oOO0 fAecse have one in
Might Be Our DR.. Samuel
c NJ Colville Lind,
Gredfesr Need who offers
what appears to this department to
be the first soundly conservative
sanction for the possible availability
Of atomic power-power In our time.
At the Detroit meeting Of the
American Chemical society,
starting its national defense in
ventory of chemical skills and
resources, DR.. Lind reports
startling advance toward the
power riches Of the metal ura-
MUM 235. Hit few atoms Of
U-235 with so electron volts and
you draw off 200, 000, 900 electron
volts. 1t looks like power mill
lenium, which this country could
use just now. DR.. Lind says
there is plenty of uranium and
that the seizure Of its power il
a practical possibility, not null
lifted by high costs Of the proc
ess. Cutting the power atom out
of the herd of slightly different
atoms is the one great remaining
obstacle.
DR.. Lind has been an ace atom
nucleus bomber for many years.
His field of radioactivity has been
zone of wizardry in chemistry and
he has turned in much basic re-
search, including his ionization the
DRY of the chemical effect Of radium
rays. He has written extensively
on subjects in his field.
From his native McMinnville,
Tenn, where he was born in 1879,
he went to Washington and Lee uni
versity and the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, with an educa-
tional chaser at the University of
Leipzig and later at the University
of Paris. He taught at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, served as chief
chemist of the U. S. bureau of mines
and is now dean of the institute of
technology of the University of Min
nesota.
M ILLIONS by the hundreds are
Iva just about an irresistible tar
get, and perhaps Sunday supplement
writer's can be forgiven for trying
Field Humps at to ~ AXE
Keeping English playboy out
Children Moving Of %, Marshall
though in his heyday his chief sins
have been no more than an under
standable- interest in hunting and
horses, and dogs, mainly retrievers.
Now, however, even these trot
into the background as he gears
up the National Child Refugee
committee Of which he is chair
man. His job is to keep well
oiled the wheels that roll Eng
lish children by the thousands
out of the reach of Nazi dive
bOmbers. 1t must keep him
whacking away long after the
latest fox has taken cover.
Just the same the supplementers
were right on one point. He really
has hundreds of millions. They pour
down from the original Marshall
Fields of Chicago.
In his middle forties now, Chair
man Field is sturdily handsome,
with grayish pompadour and big
gish, sharp nose. He dresses well.
as he was taught at Elton and Cam
bridge where he got his schooling,
though conservatively. His pants
have no cuffs at all.
THREE Americans talk up the
L war with King George and one
is Major General Emmons of the
United States air corps. He is one
Maj. Gen. Emmons est the efi young.
Still Puzzled as picked by
To Why of sDelos' IRE e : s,s a ens
while back to give the country's sew
eral military arms extra socko.
Fifty-two years old, he has been in
the army since 1909; with the infan-
try until 1916, when he was switched
to the signal corps. That made him
a fiier because in those dark and
stumbling days the signal corps was
all the flying service the United
States had.
At birth his parents named him
'Delos." Mostly, the Deloses lack
adequate explanation of their par
ents' curious preference, and the
general belongs to this forever-puz-
zled fry.
In full his name is Del0s
Carleton Emmons. In many
given names there is little sense
indeed, but In ''Delos' there can
be no rhyme or reason. This
commentator knows one ssDeI0s''
who explains feebly that his Civ
en- name stems from French
cook In q Wisconsin lumber
camp where his father was fore
man. No more! Not even that
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