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Show THE BULLETIN Keping Up Longer Life Is Hope From Study of Age, Scientists Hold WNU Scmua. Twenty Billion Years Is Age of Universe, Scientist Declares Harvard Findings Differ With Dritish Estimate The CAMBRIDGE, MASS. universe is not so old after all! Flatly contradicting Sir James Jeans' figure of ten million times a million years for the age of the universe, Dr. Bart J. Bolt of the Harvard college observatory has found tbat Dumber approximately Bve hundred timet too high. Twenty billion years la the upper illmit of the age of the universe, as jviewed by Doctor IJuk. Jeans' lung .time scale does not fit with the evidence of afar clusters, with the known facta of the rotation of the Milky Way system or with the existing theories of the creation of the spiral nebulae. Nor doea It explain the existence In the same alar cluster or "young" red glaut stars and of "old" dwarf stars. "The giants with their tremendous energy output can hardly hare existed for much longer than lO.OUl.UOti years, unlets we wish to make the as yet unfounded hypothesis that the energy radiated away is being replenished in some unknown fashion from surrounding space," Doctor Bok said. A Stellar Catastrophe. "We found it unlikely." he concluded, "that the observed clusters bare existed for more than twenty billion years as groups of stars. Lemaitre's theory of the expanding universe Indicates tbat a catastrophe took place a few billion years ago, and It Is tempting to place the origins of the atars and stellar systems at the epoch of this catastrophe." Hundreds of star clusters. Including tbe well known Pleiades, Ilyades, and Taurus, would now be on the verge of disintegrating all at once, torn apart by the gravitating forces or the Milky Way, ir they had been In existence as long as Jeans believes, Doctor Bok has found. How Age Is Figured. enemies or an entirely different sort-ca- ncer, heurt and kidney disease. Diseases or the heart and blood vessels which today take first place as cause or death are due not so much to "germs" nnd poisons as to the process or growing old. At Columbia university the problem Is being attacked by a study of the aging process .Itself. An Important first step was taken when one of the Columbia Investigators, Dr. Henry & Sluinis, round that the body cells of aging animals will grow outside the body In what are called tissue cultures Just as rendily as cells from the bodies of very young animals. Study Aging Process. While the cells or aged animals will grow us readily, however, another Columbia sclemlrit round that some of these aged cells do not function at well. It seems to depend on which organs or tbe body the pells came rrom. This seems to parallel the fact that some organs or the body, the heart, for Instance, wear out and are unable to keep going or functioning normally earlier than other organs. The cells from the lymph glands and the liver showed the greatest decrease In functional activity. Long Time Required. "Just how much significance Is to be attached to these observations Is not known at present," Dr. James W. Job-linprofessor of pathology at Columbia College of Physicians and Burgeons, said In describing the studies of aged tissues. "But we hope to expand and continue this phase of the work, for it Is possible that here we may find some clew to tbe answers we are seeking. Studies are also being conducted on cancer and arteriosclerosis." Billion Dollar Loss From Rust Faces galaxy, is much NEW YORK-The- re alarming comment these days on the size of the public debt. It costs about a billion dollars a year . Al BOYS I GIRLS! Read the tirupe Xuia ad lu another column of this paper and learn how to join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes. Adv. ELMO SCOTT WATSON Champion of the Oil Fields any Texas or Oklahoma who's the best In his business and he's pretty certain to answer "Why, Kemp Morgan, of courser Ask him why and he will tell you It's because Kemp had more unusual experiences than any other seeker after "black gold" ever did. For instance there was the time Kemp lost his best drill lie was working in soft ground but he uotlced that the drill kept going slower and slower the farther it went down. Pretty soon It stopped completely. When Kemp tried to pull It out U was stuck fast Come to find out that he bad hit an alum mine and the hole had shrunk up around the drill so tight that even Kemp couldn't budge It Then there was tbe time s Texas "norther" swooped down on Kemp's rig. But it dldnt stop him no sir-reHe Just kept on drilling, and gusher. It was brought In a so cold that the oil froze as It spurted upward so there waa a solid column of frigid olL Kemp Just took out his knife, hacked It off in three-foo- t lengths and shipped It to tbe refinery on flat cars. Tbat was In Texas but Kemp nad a funny experience once In Oklahoma. He drilled a well so deep tbat It tapped a rubber mine 'way down In Brazil She began to gush pure rubber, so Kemp Just blew his hot breath on It to make It solid, cut it off In lengths and shipped It to that place in Ohio where they make solid tires for trucks. When the average driller brings in a "duster," be moves his rig away from there pronto. But not Kemp Morgan I He knew what a tough time the Kansas farmers had digging postholes In the summer when the ground was baked hard. 80 whenever he'd strike a dry. hole, he'd Just take bis two hands, pull it up four feet and two inches at a time and saw It off. Then he'd ship a carload of these lengths across the state line where they always found s market ASK "Federal Triangle" In Washington. Prepared by the National nraaraphlc Society. Washington. D. C.VSV MrvlM. annual spring rush of to Washington Is on. In Nation's Capital even the perennial visitor Is greeted with something new to enjoy. This year new buildings, recently oiiened, In and near the great triangle between the Capitol and the Ellipse, will be a feature of a tour of the city. Gaze down upon the modern Washington from an airplane. As always, the simple grandeur of the White House, the Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, and the towering Washington monument draw the eye and make the heart beat faster. But near them new wouders have appeared. Quietly und ateadily, with so little fuss that residents were hardly aware of It, thousands of carloads of stone and metal whole mountains In the aggregate have been hauled Into the city and reared into monumental buildings. Acres and acres of old, unsightly structures have been razed on Capitol Hill, around Its base, and along broad, historic Pennsylvania avenue. In their place stretch parks, wide boulevards, or long, handsome houses of govern- Tllti ment In the angle formed by the Intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and the new Constitution avenue, beautiful Champs-Elysee- s or Rue de Rlvoll of Washington, rises a mighty wedge of masonry, the famed "Federal Triangle," eight blocks long. In this single group Is the most amazing a collection of government buildings that the world has seen. They make their own weather. In hottest summer the air Inside Is cooled to tbe temperature of a fine spring day. Beneath the roofs of this Triangle work nearly 20,000 government employees, about as many as the entire population of Bntavla, N. T., or Day-ton- a Beach, Fla. Every day doxena of people get lost In Its 20 miles of corridors. Massive and Beautiful. In sheer size the cluster of buildings Is staggering, even from high above. It la as if half a dozen or more of New York's tallest skyscrapers have been laid on their sides, formed Into a blunted arrowhead, and cut and twisted to make courts and wings. One unit the Commerce department Is longer than the Chrysler building is tall. But It Is not merely an Impression of bigness that one has In the wanLong ranks of madering plane. jestic columns, graceful arcades, a wide plaza, and solid rock walls give a beauty and simplicity tbat make these enormous newcomers fit companions for tbe classic White Douse and Capitol. The airplane turns, and far off In the distance, beyond the Capitol dome, appears a gleaming white marble tem ple, comparable In beauty even to the noble Lincoln Memorial. This Is the new United States Supreme Court building, the only real home of its own that tbe nation's highest court has bad. For the first time In American his tory a citizen now might gsse upon the separate, permanent abodes of tbe three branches of his government legislative, the Capitol; executive, the White House, and now, for tbe Judl clal, long sheltered In the old senate chamber, this temple whose dignity and impresslveness match the majesty of the law Itself. Suspended in History. As you cruise about, other splendid white buildings appear, new Jewels in the familiar setting along the The Senate Office building, off there at the left, has bad Its fare lifted and a handsome face It now is, with a long row of Roman Doric columns. A street car line that once marred the scene dips discreetly underground. Be neath a broud lawn Is a subterranean garage In which 270 senatorial cars can be parked. Supreme Court Building. But to look upon the latest crowning glory of Capitol hill one should stand on the front steps of the Capitol, where Presidents are Inaugurated, and see the new Supreme Court building, its beauty heightened by the green of trees and grass. It occupies a historic site. Early patriots In powdered wigs forgathered at a famous old hotel run by William Tunnicllff on this spot before the War of 1812. After the British burned the Capitol In 1814, a building erected here housed congress until the marks of the torch were erased. In Civil war times It was used as a military prison. Everything about the Supreme court's home Is on a majestic scale. Look at those blocks of marble, one nt each side of the steps. Each block weighs 43 tons. They are two of the heaviest marble blocks ever brought Into Washington. The two bronze doors weigh 3,000 pounds apiece. The eight Corinthian columns are 51 feet high. The pediment above them catches the eye, not alone for Its size, but for Its Interesting sculptures In which the features of historic or living men are recognized. Inside the massive bronze portals a main hall lined wltb 30 stately columns each made from one solid piece of stone leads to the courtroom where the nine black-robe- d Justices sit At their own request the room was made only about CO per cent larger in floor area than the old Supreme court room In tbe Capitol. Behind the courtroom are the offices of the Justices, each of whom will have about as much space as all had together In the crowded Capitol Only three had offices there at all, and most of the memliers of the court do much of their work at home. To assure the Justices privacy, the new building's corridors can be closed by big bronze gates. Wonderful Libraries. In the Folger Shakespeare library, down the street, reposes a fine collection of books and Elizabethan treasures, even the supposed corset of Queen Elizabeth, solemnly stowed away In a vault and shown only to a chosen few. Behind the Library of Congress an annex almost to double Its capacity Is being built although already It Is the largest library In the world, with more than 9,840,000 books, pamphlets, pieces of music, and other Items at the latest merely to pay the Interest on this loan. Few people, however, feel vitally concerned about the money lost due to the rusting of their property. Dr. It. M. Burns of tbe Bell Telephone laboratories here points out, however, that this loss due to rust Is approximately as large as the interest on the public debt One of the most widely used rust preventives Is paint, and 120,000,000 gallons are used annually; one gallon for every person In the country. How Metals Corrode. point" In an article In the Ben System Technical Journal, Doctor Burns describes tbe various processes which occur when metals corrode. What finally happens Is, of course, that tbe metal goes Into chemical combination with something else and la rendered useless. count It may seem a far cry from a rusty Down from Capitol hill, post a shinnail to tbe battery In a flashlight But ing new House Office building lately the formation of rust on the reared beside the first one, the trail CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Three actually nail Is, to a large extent a result of of the new Washington leads to Pennstar-dust, tremendous rings of the action of thousands of tiny electric avenue. sylvania hitherto unknown planetary nebu- batteries on the surface of the iron. In some of Its now vanished buildMost school boys know tbat a battery lae, have been found in the Milky ings masses of rubble and ruined walls then the first bricks flew In the Way by Mrs. Muriel M. Seyfert. can be made of an Iron rod anjd a cop"bonus army" riots of 1932. dipped Into a solution of some young research assistant at the per rod or acid. If he has tried It he salt Halfway along "The Avenue," beHarvard college observatory. tween the Capitol and White House, knows also that, as the battery Is used, Each of them la believed to be hun- the Iron Is there stretched off to tbe left In the gradually destroyed. dreds of times larger than onr entire The same process occurs on the surearly days of the city a dreary swamp solar system, yet they are to far dis- face of the metal The metal Itself where Washingtonlans were wont to tant they can be seen only through nnd some speck of Impurity on Its sursboot "rewlblrds." moderately powerful telescopes. Even face are "Immersed" so to speak, In a Later the swamp was filled In, and then, the rings are not visible to the film of moisture taken from tbe air. the old Center Market, dubbed the human eye but can only be detected on The metal and the pieces of Impurity Marsh or "Ma'sh" Market was erectsensitive photographic plates where are, of course, In electrical contact so ed there. Five years ago, the ramthey appear as luminous rings sur- that the microscopic batteries run conshackle market buildings still occurounding brilliant nucleus stars. tinually and tbe Iron la slowly but pied the spot and thousands of rats Inhabited the premises which had long Actually the tremendous nebulae are surely eaten up. Beyond the Lincoln shrine the new been a cornucopia for them. not rings but spheres or balls of exArlington Memorial bridge links north An energetic government hit upon panding gas and tiny particles, some and south. Down the Virginia shore this location as a key point In lta of them probably as fine as molecules. Invisible Fish Line of the winding river a wide Applan building program. Here would rest From their appearance on plates, how- New Threat to Trout way, the Mount Vernon Memorial high the tip of the Federal Triangle. Wreckever, astronomers have named them way leads to the home and tomb of ing operations began. Scientific Pled "ring nebulae." Mrs. Seyfert's discovFather of his Country. the eries were made 'through an examinaWASHINGTON. Fishermen Pipers from the Agricultural departFrom the steps of the Capitol all the ment disposed of the rats, which at tion of plates taken at Harvard's sta- and amateur anglers stand to way down to the river, two and a third first devoured the workmen's lunches. tion at Bloemfonteln, South Africa. benefit from the latest event in the miles away, sweeps a broad stretch On this unlikely site now atands a Billion Mile Diameter. life of tungsten, the metal which of d park land. Gone Is structure In many ways unique the While sufficient data have not yet replaced carbon filaments In electric much of the mushroom growth vf tern National Archives building. been assembled to penult accurate cal- light bulbs. porary wartime structures. Their reHere for the first time Is a worthy, culation of the else and distance of Christian Dantslzen, Schenectady, moval gives new beauty to this MalL safe, and permanent home for the prethe rings, Ilarvard observers believe N. main feature of the grand plan con cious records of the nation, some Inventor, has Just been awardthat like most of the approximately ed a U. S. patent here which describes ceived by the Revolutionary soldier' scrawled In faded Ink on yellowed 130 known plnnetary nebulae, those the use of tungsten wire, aa fine as artist, MaJ. Pierre Charles IEnfant, paper by early patriot hands, others found by Mrs. Seyferi are several hun- human hair. In fishing tackle. He when be laid out this city wltb broad, punched out on modern typewriters, dred light years away from the earth claims It will be nf great value In sweeping, prophetic strokes to be the or even contained In sound motion-picturand have a diameter that Is expressed fishing because It la apparently Invis- capital of a vast country. films which will be preserved and In billions of miles. ible to fish, especially trout Hanging between earth and sky, you shown here. And that his Is not another "fish" seem suspended in history, halfway To guurd against deterioration to At present, astronomers express their size In terms of the angle formed story Is Indicated hy the fact that between the past and the unfalhom keep Father Time at Imy as long as by Imaginary lines drawn from the Ceneral Electric company, which uses able future. How would the city look possible both sunlight and natural air miles nnd mile of tungsten wire In a hundred years hence, or twenty, or 0 are barred from the archive storage observer's eye to the top and bottom sections, which are wlnUowlesa, light bulbs, has tuki-- over bis patent. I thousand! t the stellar body. Astronomer Finds New Star Dust Rings in the Milky Way n FRANK E. IIAGAN and who, if they had been born a generation or two ago, would have fallen victims to smallpox, diphtheria or one of the other great killers of former times. The disease fighters of modern medical science learned to conquer these plagues, only to be confronted with other disease U. S. Every Year but lu spite of this, under we would And them ready to disintegrate, cosmlcally peaking, simultaneously," he sold. "In other words if we were to take our observations at a future epoch removed from the .present by only half a per cent of the total supposed age of our galaxy, no sign of them would be left. "It seems absurd to assume that several hundred clusters, all of which had presumably considerable man and density at the time of their birth, would be observed simultaneously on in a the verge of disintegration galaxy for which the conditions that determine the rate of disintegration will be apt to vary from point to As Told to: fSH&SJl ft I3MT wsy? ENLIGHTENED LAW Turning an automobile uroutid oa any curve or crest or a grade where the car cunnot lie seen by an approaching driver within 2K) feet Is prohibited under California law. SB jVTILLIOXS are alive today "In the course of their development these clusters must have wandered through widely different parts or our Jeans' long time scale TALL TALES O D IT Cells of Aged Animals Found to Crow Rapidly 0 Science Same. T WASHINGTON tree-dotte- I e 9 Start the Day Right Begin the day with a laugh, but better still, begin It ut 7 n. 111. and don't be behindhand nil day. Dr. Pivrce'i IVlIcts are lwi-- t for liver, Uiwrls and Ktomarh. 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Leonard Bailer, once a Nebraska farmer, is sure of It Bain washed away the railroads around his Nebraska lands; tbe drouth hit him squarely; then the dust storms killed every living thing and his land waa dry as tbe Inside of s. grain bin. At this moment the grasshoppers arrived by millions and settled on his farms. Wasn't a thing for the 'hoppers to eat but they were too tired to move on and Leonard almost lost hope. As a last gesture, however he rushed out among the despondent grasshoppers, sitting there In the dust and planted several sets of the strongest and hardiest onions he could buy. To bis surprise the onions matured quickly. The moment their bulbs appeared above ground the grasshoppers pounced on them, ate ravenously and burst Into tears. "And that," Leonard recalls proudly, "is bow my farms were saved. The land was drenched by the tears of the grasshoppers and as soon as they had drowned themselves 1 waa able, of course, to raise a normal crop." ' la Fcnaaytnala. His prescriptions awe cine Private Life of Jonah WASNT a whale which swallowed ITJonah, theorizes Stanley Suchwalko, fish In northern it was a Michigan. His friend, Laddie Hornlk, captured the monster jn IIKIO. Laddie Inspected the fish, which had laid down Its life while being hooked, gaffed and beaten over the head with a pair of oars, and couldn't decide what to do with it The size seemed to destroy the fish's commercial value and Imagine Laddie's surprise, says Stanley, when the first atranger to arrive bid a fabulous price for the fish's scales! Laddie yelled "Soldi" Then he re covered his poise, sheared off tbe scales, counted the money and watched tbe stranger bear tbe scales sway. "What'll you do with 'emr asked Laddie. "I'm a spade manufacturer from Mo-llne, III.," replied the buyer. Tve got material here for 6,400 spades of the best chilled steel." Buyer after buyer paid staggering prices for different parts of the fish and Laddie, says Stanley, dldnt get wise until a tremendous price wan bid and accepted for the fish's stomach. The stomach buyer immediately silt open the fish's belly and revealed the golden throne upon which Jonah had been seated during his long captivity. "It's cheap at half the price," stated the buyer with pardonable satisfaction aa be brushed a stray fin from bis precious purchase. ad Temple Square $1.50 to $3.00 Watea Tba Hotel Trapla Senaaco baa n w highly daalrabla, frlnull will always find It ! ttlato, awpewmrly ram furla bl, ao4 thoroujimy aj(rrtjUt. You can wnilwfnd why thla fcwtrl lai almaa-phra.Y- In-fa- HIGHLY ro RECOMMENDED Yon aan also apprrdata why . Ifs atnwrfc of rffstfnctfoM to atop this oooutiful lleatoJry ERNEST C ROSSITLR. Mgr. |