Show WHO'S NEWS w THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW YORK YORK Dr Dr Robert IL It Goddard Goddard God God- dard experimenting with rockets rock rock- ets for the last Jast 24 years and steadily steadily stead stead- steadily ily making progress has had had as his goal the pene pene- n r jj j Dr Dt Goddard of the Hat Ha Both Feet higher atmos atmos- On This Thi World phere the possible ble catapulting of messages across the ocean and sundry scientific inquiries to tG which he has thought his unique gunnery gunne might supply the answer Although much Jules Vernish stuff has been written about his bIs rockets to the moon and about shooting people across the Atlantic in a few minutes min utes he has been an aloof and pa pa- patient tient scientist intent on seeing only what he sees and not making any handsome promises So tar far as this courier knows the suggestion by MaJ 1 James JamesR R R. Randolph that rockets may replace heavy beavy artillery for tong long lonrance range rance bombardment of cities Is the first official recognition of their possible use In warfare lie specifically cites the work of Doctor Goddard at a time when Doctor Goddard is piling up new patents and getting some of 01 his biggest under con conn trot It Is also the time when the tiny motored plane evolvIng evolving evoly ing from the toy and controlled by radio Is absorbing the interest Interest interest Inter inter- est of the army experimenters as a possible bomb At Roswell N. N M M. financed by the Daniel Guggenheim foundation Doctor Goddard has bas a unique desert laboratory with plenty of elbowroom elbow elbowroom room and sky room He now has a gyro steering mechanism on his rockets by which they may be accurately accurately ac ac- aimed He has gained 30 SO SOper per cent in range over his best shots of two years ago and is now forcing his rockets to a speed of miles per hour Ills most valuable contribution to noted by Major 1 Randolph Is his continuous flow of power Instead of the single initial explosion Gasoline and oxygen mixing and exploding as they Issue from a taU tan nozzle nonIe give steady propulsion Doctor Goddard an amiable unassuming unassuming un un- assuming baldish man began his rocket experiments at Clark university university sity in 1914 He Heis is a physicist absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- in pure science admitting that we might hit the moon with a rocket if It we wanted to spend that much power but so far he keeps down to earth on immediate and specific problems problems and and makes ress res IT DOES begin to look as 81 though scientists will be the loudest of all aU when Beulah Deulah Land rings out at atthe atthe atthe the next Once upon a time religionists Church and looked warily Test Ted Tubes Tube Are whenever a man Teaming Up 0 ot of f s science clence c 1 e nee opened his hh mouth because so go many of them were arguing against a hereafter But Dut Sir Richard Gregory with his It is Just as permissible to assume that another world awaits habitation habitation tion of an exalted type of humanity as it is to believe in the eternal existence existence ex ex- of individuality is onI only the latest of many to hit the sawdust trail Emeritus professor of astronomy astronomy astron astron- omy Queens college collece London Is Isone Isone isone one of ot his present distinctions and he Is also a former editor of ot the magazine marazine Nature The stars have been his chief guide Ulde for lor most of the years since he was born in 1861 How Bow much their lessons helped him to 0 hi his hi knighthood 1919 and his baronetcy baronetcy baron baron- etcy 1931 Is a question But certainly along with his acknowledged acknowledged acknowledged ac ac- ac- ac Interest In heaven they must take lake responsibility for his chief books The uThe Vault of f Heaven and Discovery or the Spirit of Service of Science P PROF DROP WALTER B. B CANNON of Harvard avoided a mistake made by Howard Scott When Mr Scott appeared as the John the Baptist of technocracy he Cannon Cure started alerted taking Not Crammed our measure for Down Throats Us Its immediate a application a When Professor Cannon put ou out several leveral years ago as a acure acure for the tits ills of the cure body politic poli poU- tic he made it clear that we could take it or leave it Hence while bi tol- is ts still in is the suspense file me Professor Cannon finds honor and advancement as the newly elected president of the American Association Association tion lion for the Advancement of Science which body is b driving for some grand Irand scale cale rationalization of science Id- Id ence once and society That's the m main ln idea of ot a lacy lacy-a a society which U ia s snot not at war with the life force Ho Ild is ia one of the most distinguished physiologists physiologist in America given to novel research lie He is 11 the discoverer discover discover- er en of a method by which we ma may hear bear our brains ticking O 0 Consolidated New Features Feat Service |