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Show Science, Like Law, Has Own Bureau of Missing Persons 25,000 Boy Scouts Have '.ace Spread That 2,000,000 Camp Party Reflects Good Taste' Hunt Is On Kow for Long Lost Parents of Actinium Seeking Contentment. I Rochester, N. Y. The police may have their missing persons bureaus who hunt for the Charley Rosses and Judge Craters of the world but science too has similar mysteries and none so famous as the missing parents of the element actinium. bcience Service. WNU Service. Great Corn Lack on Heat Hurts Iore Than of Moisture ' )wni Meteorologist Explains ata 4 the, Ths re ra MrJ D. Charles Reed of the United States seather bureau station at Des Moines, Iowa, told the third Dearborn conference of Meteorologist in the hypothesis of animal , i things on remote, small homesteads. ' ' -- X (8, 'A 9 4 i f lf t 1 . A ;;K$ I I 4 J I 1 I V 1 Gathered from all parts of the world, 25,000 Boy Scouts attended the National Scout jamboree at Washington, D. C. Above, Scouts from Albany and Abilene, Texas, are shown erecting their division sign at the camp close by the Potomac river. The cost of the camp and the expenses of the Scouts en route and back home were estimated at more than $2,000,000. Musli 4,000 Miles to Bright Lights Eleven Peaches on One Cluster Is Farm Record Its a good year for peaches at the home of G. F. Trotter near Wright City, Mo. They come in 9 won-nst- sur-rassi- an-ar- Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Carroll of British Columbia the far northern part of the province near Alaska with their team of Alaskan dogs after their arrival in New Yoik city, recently, by dog sled. Their sled is equipped with both wheels and runners. They have been traveling this way for one year and three months, picking up data for a book they hope to finish soon. large clusters on his trees, instead of the usual twos and threes. Miss Madeline Sode of St. Louis is shown with a cluster of eleven. Ready for Action in Mediterranean fe. V VALUE $1,600 V "J A InT'-- 5 gunners aboard H. M. S. Furious, one of Great Britains r during recent powerful battleships, are shown operating a range-findebattle practice in the Mediterranean. Threats of open intervention by Italy and Germany in the Spanish imbroglio resulted in a concentration of British naval craft in the Mediterranean. Gas-maske- d Robert A. Urian, Jr., of St. Louis with one of the chinchillas he brought back from Chile. Urian spent seven months in South Amer ica acquiring five of the animals whose fur, because of their rarity, is extremely valuable. He hopes to raise them commercially and esti mates their value at $3,200 per pair, Construction Speeded on Grand Coulee Dam heg radio-element- s. ilitant, .je American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Salmons Homing Instinct ernmg Sunlight can kill idicite micro-organism- s "'hen its ultra-violand infra-- l e(i rays are filtered out, Mr. Den-- e other The rays of car- - rm2ton explained. 'l0r,-,'wavelengths, from 2,537 ang- made id file. iroms down, are the most effective ven below Subject of Dispute Stanford University, Calif. Salmons alleged homing Jt instinct, or tendency to retuch rays harnessed in a lamp turn at maturity to spawn in has an extremely thin the waters where they were window or glass bubble are hatched, has become a point ready being used, Mr. Denning-of debate among marine zosaid, by phystcians to destroy e At ologists. germs of skin infections. e germ-killin- ebm-ha- t in-a- a much confln-n- n k and ays is that ;y may ich are have - he s vio-- y opposite extreme of medical use the eight sterilizing lamps over the operating table at hke university hospital to steri-?- e air during surgical operations '4 thus prevent wound infections, for keeping meat safe by g mold growth during the e pre-e"hi- bead "lerizing storage period, and for cPng mold out of bakery prod firore is the tubular lamp made special glass and resembling the neon s.gn tube. point, out for - - In Science, Dr. Willis H. Rich of Stanford university takes issue on the subject with Dr. A. G. Huntsman of the University of Toronto. Dr. Huntsman has declared that salmon do not go home, but Dr. Rich points to the existence of many distinct strains of Pacific coast salmon as evidence that they do. If salmon went up just any old river the distinctions between varieties would disappear through hybridization. he believes. v f A M1 -- ' v'4- - "V --Lm ; ... . & 1:11 : ' 'O? V;'- - -- V -- j Tattern 1443 dresser or table scarf, or perchance a cloth could also be your choice. It may be done in one or a combination of colors. Pattern 1443 contains detailed directions for making the 83A inch medallion shown and joining it for a variety of articles; illustrations of it and of all .stitches used; material requirements; color suggestions. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. Idea for Tunnels Ancient Egyptians, observing streams enter one side of a hill and come out the other, got the idea for tunnels. They built them into tombs. Builders after them bored tunnels to carry or drain water. One people, the Babylonians, more daring than the rest, tunneled beneath the Euphrates river. Thus began the story, according to a correspondent in the Washington Post, of the most fascinating and dangerous of all tunneling operations, subaqueous-underw- ater. IN UTAH AND iL. fol-:iat- Decay With Rays of the Sun The Return of Frosperity. CANT help gloating over what appeared in this space when I predicted that the temperamental and fickle bird of passage known as prosperity was winging its way back. Because the Better Business bureau reports that sellers of nogood stocks are showing increased activity. Moreover, I hear that for the first time in years practically all the are off relief. veteran bunco-steer- s The lean times when the locusts of depression gnawed away our substance must indeed be over if the customers begin to nibble more freely at the same dependable old baits. So, as he thumbs his copy of the sucker list against the morrows campaign, I seem to hear Mr. Henry J. Slickguy (late of Leavenworth but now opening offices in the Wall street district) murmuring to himself: Happy days are here again! Drouth may kill the corn, Rust rots the wheat. Boll weevils destroy the cotton. But, thanks he, theres one crop in America which never fails!" Have you a little gold brick in your home, dear reader? Well, dont worry, nobodys going to be slighted. Ere long youll get your chance to invest in one. I Un-ste- m rComljHtiiig Disease y On little ranches, on reservation trading posts, they are educating their children by resolute keeping in touch with the world through through books and magazinesandand alnewspapers; most invariably content with their lives and proud of their struggles and living yes, comfortably and happily within their means, however meager. Then I come back to crowded cities where wealth seems only to make the inmates dissatisfied because somebody with greater wealth puts on a guadier show of ostentation and extravagance. And I see the man who feverishly is striving after riches so that when he breaks down he may afford the most expensive nerve specialist. And the spoiled woman who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but judging by her expression the spoon must have been full of castor oil and the flavor lasts. And the poor little rich children who have everything now and so will have nothing except maybe dollars when they grow up. Curious, isnt it, that so little buys such a lot for some people and such a lot buys so little for tire others? radio, i evolu- tion between the apes and modern man so too is there a theoretical stone out of place in the structure res, which welds the whole of radioactivity theory into a compact unit agriculture, industry and flow Lost Are Traced. i science session here. In a report to the American Physles- ical society. Prof. T. R. Wilkins and Ir. support of his thesis, Mr. Reed ipon Dr. W. M. Rayton of the University cited recent drouth history in his lack of Rochester present new evidence iwn state: ;nce which helps make clearer the oriIn 1934, summer precipitation a paraveraged 2 08 inches greater than in gins of the missing long-live- d ents of the actinium series of radio933 in Iowa, yet there was a bump-- r and ibitJ crop in 1933 and nearly a corn elements. Scientific happenings which make ires-- 1 'ailure in the southern counties in it possible to throw light on the 934, because of the excessive and ump itive missing persons problem prolonged heat, with an average of atomic will. 7 days with temperatures 100 de- are that sometimes the change from one element to another is accom10W- grees or higher, the greatest of recolere- rd up to that time. This cut the panied by a loss of weight and sometimes merely by a loss of electrical 934 corn yield to 21.6 bushels as ump only charge without the weight loss. lompared with 14 in 1894. The loss of weight occurs when irity Lost 235 Million Bushels. the nucleus of a helium atom, Then came the calamitous sum-ne- r known as an alpha particle, Is libiof 1936. The heat of July and erated in the radioactive disintegratugust averaged 81.3 degrees, tion. Then, the parent atom drops e by 3.2 degrees the record down two whole numbers in the hot July and August, 1901, with an numerical scale which rates chemrern-i- r average of 25.6 days 100 degrees or ical element from hydrogen, at higher. one, to uranium at 92. During the last half of July, 1936, When electricity is given off by mdle d lo- - the Iowa corn crop was reduced the emission of an electron the 235,000,000 bushels to an average exatomic number of the element own yield per acre of about 17 bushels. . . jumps back up the scale by one In small areas the destruction was unit Thus Uranium I (92) gives off only even more complete than in 1894. . an alpha particle and becomes UraWhole townships in the south part nium X, (90). But Uranium X, of thou-joPlymouth and the central part of gives off an electron and becomes Woodbury counties, report only two Uranium X with atomic number or three wagon loads of com. 'ami-lon- g 91. We used to say, It cant happen Radium Best Known. ash-- in Iowa, but like the Californians, Thus in fashion, but we must reluctantly admit that we sometimes stepwise up and sometimes down had some unusual weather. the scale of atomic numbers, go the Deprecates Cycle Theory. disintegrations of the heavy radioactive elements, of which the best Discussing the much - debated question of weather cycles, Mr. known is, perhaps, radium with Reed found some difficulties, but atomic number 88. Common, gray also offered sweltering humanity and soft lead are the final offspring of all these spontaneous changes promise of some relief: Considerable has been said about and there are four different kinds of lead; radium lead, thorium lead, precipitation cycles but since precipitation is a resultant of many comactinium lead and just lead. The plex factors of which temperature radium, thorium and actinium here is the major one, the search for mean that it is lead which had each precipitation cycles is not likely to of these specific origins. Plain lead be very fruitful. There is, however, merely means that scientists cana rough rhythm to the temperature not specifically fix its origin. The ability of the radioactive graph for the state of Iowa which can, with a little imagination, be atoms to lose or take on weight at bvided into cycles or periods after various stages means that there will , hings eliminating volcanic and other in- frequently be two or more varieties all having the same chemical propfront, fluences. There is little doubt that we have erties but slightly different masses ig his jator Just passed a historic peak in the even though they may have the chief temperature cycle that must be same atomic number rating. Thus iowed by a summer in 1937 much Uranium X, and its three isotopes Com- - cooler than recent summers and (as they are known) all have atomic ation. probably averaging near or slightly weight of 234. One has an atomic de up below the long time summer aver-elve- s, number of 90, another is number age. And the cycles that have gone 92 and two are number 91. ent of before lead one to believe that there While chemical methods are not will be a tendency for the next 2 or sufficiently exact to permit distinbeen summers to grow cooler. guishing between all these varieties, other methods, and in particular, jvem- the range with which alpha particles are emitted, serve as experimental checks. , they, Drs. Wilkins and Rayton have more1,and studied the alpha particle ranges as ie their method in seeking actiniums lost parent. The investigation alamentso throws much needed light on the The day when way alpha particles are emitted ilfget Toronto. from the nucleus of atoms; a probch afnan will fight and conquer lem which has bearing on the much-studie- d of disease i and field of the aketsand decay with the suns constitution ofimportant the inner cores of atoms. 1 or their laboratory-mad- e th the rays Details of the used will rvice.eclulvalent seems to be draw- - interest scientists methods but need not necnear. Steps already taken essarily be presented for the layuat in or- - in this direction were de- - man. Suffice it to say that a s scribed by A. R. Dennington isotope of uranium has been at least tentaindicated, the Westinghouse Lamp mpt a tively, which might well serve as would company at the meeting here the parent for the seions m of the Canadian section of ries of actinium 'At When you dress up your bed for company, you seek distinction the purpose of this lacy spread. A true reflection of your own good taste is this stunning openwork design, one easily achieved by crocheting simple, single medallions of string. A stunning far-awa- X Drouth Cuts Crop From heaviest of all elements, uranium, down through radium to Detroit. Excessive heat in lead, the atoms undergo a step by step disintegration and begat ordrouth years is a more potder that reads like a scientific old ent cause of corn crop failtestament ure than lack of water, Senior Just as there is a missing link tma - CALIF. SANTA MONICA, the desert country I met kindly, hospitable folk sravely making the best of s v' How re1 V J ' . - . . - In the state of Washington, which Work Is being speeded on the Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia river on the opposite will eventually cost more than $113,000,000. The giant concrete mixer at left and the second a on trestle. which to cars concrete operate deliver of river the side Making Mental Slips. Incredible thing has THE most to pass. Here I go along, year after year, building up a reputation for invariably being right, the same as George Bernard Shaw and Mme. Secretary Perkins. Then bango! I make one little slip and the trusting reader is shocked from pit to dome. The other day I suggested taxing emof salaries governmental ployees. Now from all sides Im told federal employees are subject to income taxes; only the vast majority of them, and probably the hardest-workeones, draw such small wages that they owe Uncle Sam nothing when March 15 rolls around. So far as I recall, this is the second time in my life Ive been wrong. I cant cite what the other Instance was some very trifling matter, no doubt but it must have occurred because I remember the nation-wid- e excitement which ensued, with people going around In a daze mutterCan it be possible? ing: I now admit that early error and the recent one, too, and humbly beg pardon of my devoted public all eight of them. 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