The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-02-21
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL r. PARTON


NEW YORK.-For four or five
years now, DR.. j. Enrique
Zanetti, professor of chemistry in
Columbia university, has been pooh
Lists Fire Bomb e expiosise
As Head Devil of bombs and
Destructive Might gas, ana aha put sr-
ger on the incendiary bomb as the
head devil of the hosts of destruc-
ton. Just out is his book, "The
ABC of Incendiaries, in which he
insists that current European bomb
ing forays are pretty clumsy busi-
ness, since the high explosives con-
stitute defense against the spread
of fire started by the incendiaries.
Remembering how they blew up
buildings to check the spread OF
the big San Francisco fire, one finds
the professors idea plausible.
DR.. Zanetti was a lieutenant colo
mel of the chemical warfare service
in World war No. /, and from 1922
to 1926 was a consulting expert OF
the League of Nations in studies of
chemical warfare. Supplementing
this experience with academic and
industrial studies of many years, he
has become a world authority on
bombs and what to do about them
if anything.
His main idea is that gas dis
sipates and fire proliferates-
therefore look out for incendiary
bombs. In January, 1886, he
wrote in a university publication
that fire bombs would be the
worst peril of the next big war.
Two-pound fire bombs could be
sprayed over a city and one ef-
fective hit out of 200 dropped
might start 200 fires in widely
separated places. He cries
down alarmists about gas. He
thinks it would be just as well
to do away with slums, as de-
tense measure because of their
vulnerability to fire.
DIR. Zanetti was born in Santo Do
mingo in 1885, came to the U.S.A.
in 1900, was naturalized in 1905 and
in 1907 took his doctorate from Har-
ward university. He joined the Co
lumbia university faculty in 1918,
and has held a full professorship
since 1929.
A PLEASANT change of subject,
"A from fire bombs, is Tom Smith,
q ball of fire in his way, but one
everybody likes. Seabiscuit day
Seabiscuit Dues celebrated at
Alto This Horse the Santa Ami
Psyche Analyst "a Track IN
honor the greatest money-winning
horse Of all time. His trainer, the
silver-haired Tom Smith, probably
was inconspicuous, as usual, but
without him there would have been
no Seabiscuit saga of speed, dollars
and romance.
"Silent Tom," as they call him
around the tracks, was rodeo rid
er, cowhand, prospector and black
smith in Colorado, Wyoming, and
Montana. About four years ago,
Charles S. Howard, later owner of
Seabiscuit, hired him to train the
Howard stable, then unknown to
fame. The new trainer discovered
Seabiscuit on an out-of-the-way New
England track and persuaded Mr.
Howard to buy him for $1,000. The
horse has earned $437, $50.
MIR. Smith Is probably the only
horse psych0-analyst i'm the
world. He was about three
years old when he started being
q hOrse-wrangler and learned
things about horses that nobody
else ever suspected. Naturally,
he became an amateur veteri-
marian, but psychology helped q
lot In bringing through Seabis-
cult. The nag was fussy and
given TO bro0ding. Long before,
Tom had learned that pleasant
companionship is necessary for
horse well-being. After few ex-
periments, he picked for Seabis-
cults stablemate an amiable
old swaybacked roam named
Pete. They niCkered and muz-
xIed each other happily and Sea-
biscuit began to pick on purses.
OF course what happened was
that Seabiscuit's ego was buckcd
up by having somebody around
he knew he could beat.
.u.
''Silent Tom is SO years old. |
Among other winners he has trained
for the Howard stable are Midland
and the wild-eyed Kayak II, brought
from the Argentine by Mr.. Smiths
son, Lin. He has about 200 horses
20 handle and study.
TT ERE'S 4 clever Russian. scien-