Show BABSON'S AUTHENTIC r STATEMENT fENT am w ebe Baba Special to THE EXPRESS I Babson Babson Discusses Unnecessary Airplane Accidents Killing Leading Atlanta Citizens B Babson Park Mass My first investment was in the stock ol of the Niagara Power Company I was astounded by bythe bythe I the tremendous power of gravity which had been going to waste over Niagara Falls for lor thousands of years When I was later connected with MIT I became Interested In Sir Isaac Newton and his bis stu- stu studies studies dies ot of Gravity The Babson Institute now has the second largest Newton Gravity Lib Lib- Library in the world Gravity Research Foundation I I When the Gravity Research Foundation was established and endowed at New Boston New Hampshire I was glad to help My first interest was aroused by Harry of Babson Park FlorIda who flew lew the first giant dirigible from Berlin to New York I Iwas Iwas was then even taught that it was impossible to make hea- hea than vier machines fly and not fall to the earth I further found lound that Clar ence the discoverer of quick freezing and Igor the lather father of the helicopter and Dr Howard Stearns of at Simmons College were members of the Board Doard of Trustees I gladly promised them my help Up to that time no serious accidents had happened on commercial air lines Unes then the original idea of the was to harness gravity The pre sent purpose is to make an airplane temporarily float In cast of trouble and drop slow ly to the ground so the pas can safely get off Different Methods of Accomplishing This Feat Feal Most 1 of the studies have bave thus far been along develop develop- developing Ing a semi Insulator of gray grav ity which could cover corn com airplanes This would require the development of some new metal with the molecules arranged differ than exists ire in any pre pre- sent metal l I understand that the Gravity Research tion will wUl send details of this proposed new metal to any any- anyone one wh writes them at New Boston New Hampshire A young inventor named Norman DEan of Washington D C has invented a machine to be put Into an automobile which will raise the automo automo- automobile bile when the machine is op crating This Idea has been discarded under the the- theory that it is pulling oneself up Hence by ones one's bootstraps the the- idea has not been adopted d dby by helicopters or Individual airplanes However there is no objection to this for an emergency purpose If Lord Howes Howe's friends friend's invention had been such that the en en- en engines gines of the fatal French air air- airplane plane could could have suddenly been used t to prevent this anti anti- antigravity gravity fall it night have saves the lives of these Atlan Atlan- Atlanta ta people Other Work Of The Gravity Research Foundation The Foundation makes no experiments and has no labor atones of its own but it is endeavoring to Interest title departments of colleges in the problem Up to the pre sent time four colleges have erected monuments near their science building with these words thereon This monument ment has been erected to reo re- remind mind students of th blessings forthcoming when a scientific breakthrough discovers what Gravity Is how it works and how it may be controlled to prevent airplane accidents Another hopeful feature is the offering of Annual Awards of 1000 for lor essays on the subject of gravity Last week awards were made to the f following five persons Dr G M Clemence of the theU theU U S Naval Observatory in Washington D C R L Forward of Hughes Laboratory Malibu Califor D W Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Cam Cam- Cambridge bridge England F J Dyson The Institute for lor Advanced Study Prince Prince- Princeton ton New Jersey C Y Wang Harvard Uni Cambridge Mass I advise those who travel much in commercial planes to take an Interest in this non non- nonprofit profit Foundation about I am week |