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Show brisbane THIS WEEK Land IIo! The Changing Ocean Safety and Speed Much for Science On Board Steamship Normandie. Four nights from New York and the ship is at South-f""" South-f""" "tv 1 ampton. The - ' ; Isle of Wight Is - on your right. . r4 ? r ' Passengers are v 4Vo. V landing for Eng- Innd. On jour V!1 le" 1 France, " t. L across the wa- )' l 1-1 ter. You land there later- n s t old crossings ' V passengers 'ir'JCW matched eagerly X.lpS for the first I fc fA land. Nowcross- . , . Ing and landing Arthur Brlnbane ... are as exciting as a trip by rail from Chicago to Lake Forest, or from Wall street to Forty-Second street by tsub-way. tsub-way. . You are In Europe before you realize that you have started. start-ed. The poetry of travel has departed depart-ed with fast ships on the ocean and automobiles Instead of camels on the desert No matter how often you cross this Atlantic ocean, or the North American continent, the crossing Is always different and Interesting. The ocean, like the wide plains, is forever changing. Two days ago the waves looked like playthings for children. Last night the ocean changed Its mind and rolled the waves up high with a shrieking wind. The steward said, "We shall have to fasten the arm chairs tomorrow," but the heavy ship paid no attention to the waves. The ocean changed its mind again and calmed down. A speedometer telling how fast the ship moves Is operated by a mechanism below the keel that records the 6peed of the rushing water. Burning oil produces steam; steam power Is converted Into electric elec-tric power, and that drives the ship. The captain always knows how deep the ocean Is beneath him; an electric contrivance sends a sound wave down through the water wa-ter to the bottom, which sends back an echo. Knowing the speed at which sound travels through water, it Is easy to calculate the depth. The machine does it for you. It Is a feeble sound one hundred and sixty six-ty thousand vibrations to the second. sec-ond. No hnmun ear could pick It up. but the machine records It. Twenty-five thousand vibrations per second Is the limit of your ear, and that is not bad for a primitive contrivance con-trivance like a human being. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war In the "big" war, tells graduating graduat-ing students of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology It is their duty to "carry science into politics." Scientists, Mr. Baker thought, must seek for "the solution of world problems when the great International Interna-tional crisis comes, as it surely will come." A sufficient "great crisis" seems to be here now, with many countries coun-tries wanting to light each other, different classes already fighting each other, and In this richest country coun-try in the world ten million human bpinjjs living practically on charity. If that is not a reul cr!sl3, few would care to see one. George Bernard Shaw, not yet eighty, says, "I must give up public speaking, I am tor old." That surprises sur-prises you from a Celt and an Irishman. Irish-man. At eighty many men have been vigorous In thought and body; for Instance, Pope 1-eo. Von Moltke, Gladstone, Michelangelo. Not one of those, however, suffered suf-fered from handicaps that have aged George Bernard Shaw prematurely; he is a vegetarian and a teetotaler. In spite of England's pitifully weak and belated backdown on sanctions, sanc-tions, due to London's fear of Mussolini's Mus-solini's air fleet; a backdown denounced de-nounced as cowardice by Lloyd George, Britain, for face-saving purposes, pur-poses, will maintain a great fleet in the Mediterranean. Mussolini will welcome such convenient air and submarine targets near home as a sort of British hostages to fortune. M. Aurlol announces that France will not devalue the franc any further. fur-ther. It has already been reduced by 80 per cent, as though our dollar had been knocked down to twenty cents Instead of fifty-nine cents. Prime Minister Blum knows that it does not pay to scare capital out of Its wits, something thut our best Washington minds have still to learn. The French workmen will huve their forty-hour week aud the strikes are about over. Returning to the real American Interest, the defeat of Joe Louis, young gentlemen and old will ob-erve ob-erve that it is most Important In All undertakings not to be ufrald, orn out or cowurdly. Fighters that Louis hud encountered saw before tin-in "an Invincible conqueror of men." S Kin K-iituro Snillciiic, luo. WNIJ Borvlcu. |