Show I L BOOKS I III II USE OF DIRECTIVITY Ir IrI i In I have seen sen c cn the word directivity magazines of late Please explain T T. W. W P. P P. P Springfield neld Ill III What Is tho the meaning meaning- of ot the tho new new- word directivity It A. A. 1 A. A W. W El EI Paso Tc Texas Is tho ho word directivity scientific Please reply P P T. T S S. Honolulu HawaII Ha Ha- Is directivity based on scientific discovery dis dis- Mobile Ala covery C. cover C. C T. T 1 P P. And man ninny many others 1 i Ity I IDy By Dy Professor Edgar L L. Larkin I Directivity is 18 one of or the most Im Impressive impressive Im- Im words over oer written or spoken ell Science Is scarcely years of age and anti Its Us higher highet branches wherein the most accurate and careful re rc researches researches re- re searches are arc made arc ale about tort forty years young oung a few studies are arc five years vears young oung and anel some five e months in In vi view w of these facts I wish to be careful In this reply for Cor tho the subject Is startling Indeed I Directivity lt means this That corpuscles cor cor- or electrons atoms and molecules molecules molecules mole mole- cules of ot all matter know what to do where to go and when Some unutterably unutterably abl ably mysterious and unknown Inherent force impels them to separate and unite again These Inconceivable minute bodies small beyond any Imn imagining act as ns though something within told told or forced them to act That Is they go goof goof goot of ot their own accord of or their own free will vill The vast subject Is profound profound pro pro- found beyond all computation The beginning of life lite is approached approached ap ap- ap- ap I when we study electricity under the head of oC directivity for tho the trend of science everywhere is along the lie electric way Professor 0 O. Leamann in Stuttgart I Germany has delivered a remarkable able lecture before the German congress I of oC Physicists Ho He has shown that there is no rigid barrier between crystals crys crys- tais and the most elementary living 11 animals Animals have soft bodies I containing liquids and antI everybody e I thought that crystals arc aie solid But nut the professor proCessor made liquid crystals and antI fifty OCty varieties of these are arc now known Some of oC the types look like Wee vegetable forms for long known InIce Inice in inice ice but now In metals Dr developed crystals that move Incessantly like lao lae In a drop of water Two of these on contact unite lIl like e two drops of water Professor Gattermann has produced produced pro pro- a n liquid appearing In drops but each has a like crystal structure Compress Compress Com Corn press one of these cr crystal stal drops and It will resume its shape like an any primitive primi tire tive organic being These wonderful things go through with the process o of like amoebae and anel species or r types ma may be crossed like Uin living liv U lv- lv in ing creatures and they coalesce into strings or chains like living lI bacteria Thus science cannot now tell where inorganic existence ends and life be begins be- be gins The rhe latest out Is There Is no barrier but all life Ire is actuated by inherent mind which two words may maybe maybe maybe be consolidated into one one directivity Now what mind Is may never neer be bo discovered ered or It II may The theory Is advanced ad that these new nOw crystals ma may have as as great a no of oC mind whatever that is Is a ill as a a. a IRing ng being of regular organic form of about same samo microscopic dimensions The rho incessant discoveries in electricity elec olee- are arc opening up UI the most wonderful wonderful won won- corridors and ami lanes lanos In nature nature- so that tho the ablest men In th world are arc astonished and Impressed with iUt the complexity of all existing things The ancients for Cor centuries asserted that all matter Is alive all But the they did not know ono one law of nature so must have guessed but we now know perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps as many as ns a hundred laws And it would be bo strange Indeed I If accurate science should discover er that this prehistoric prehistoric pre pro historic and anti persistent assertion is true I do not sn say that corpuscles corpuscles corpus corpus- cles des know what to do but hut will say that the they behave under tho ho microScope microscope microscope micro micro- scope and In electro-chemical electro laboratories laboratories labora labora- tories as though they do Couldn't Reach the time Port loit Mr r. 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A McCormick president of the Indianapolis Star believes profoundly profoundly pro pro- in Iii the duty of or getting fun out of or life On the clay la in o of publication of Meredith Nicholsons Nicholson's story The lort Port of Missing Men Ien Mr Ir McCormick boarded board board- ed cd a train for Chicago with a u copy of or orthe the new nc book hook und tinder r Iii hl lilo arm 11 Hr He took toole a a. seat scat In tho the l smoking section of th the parlor car beside a prosperous farmer who Immediately evinced great Interest In the novel Mr 11 McCormick was read read- Ing InA Ills His Impatience soon Mon expressed It Itself Itself It- It self Relf In speech With an abruptness s that somehow was not discourteous he said said- Sa Say I certain certainly wish you'd that story tor before wo we get set to Chicago and give It to me rue when wo we arrive arrive- I meant to buy a n. copy COP before wo we left In Indianapolis hut I didn't Rot get time and I wont won't have time In Chicago Mr r McCormick considerably considerably considerably con con- amus amused sa said he thought he would manage It It Three times during the five hours' hours run the time farmer caine around to Inquire what progress he was making Ten minutes before the tho train pulled In In Mr 11 McCormick turned the thelast thelast last page image and then sent the volume to his eager cajer acquaintance Back camo the porter with a two two dollar ollar bill which Mr 11 McCormick of course refused This brought tho ho farmer running cunning to expostulate expostulate expostulate late that his request had been misunderstood stood Ho lie was so persistent that Mr lr McCormick finally compromised by hy accepting ac ac- ac- ac a dollar and arid presenting it to tho the Interested porter to the tho great creat amazement amaze amaze- ment of the tho farmer farmer- The Tho Incident was not yet over Just as the train reached the yards the porter came back hack with The Port of or Missing Men That gentleman gen gen- he said to the newspaper man wants to know If you OU wont won't to lo write vm-ite your name In this book Certainly said Mr 11 McCormIck but on one condition He Ho must agree not to I look at nt It un until I r ha have va left the lie train Then with Ith a grand flourish nourish he wrote across the l Ily-l leaf fly nr With Hh tho ho compliments of the author Meredith Nicholson Joseph Lined ns n's New StOl Story Mr Ir Joseph C Lincoln Is a luck lucky iian man lIe He has made another hit Two yc years yeun r rago ago everybody c was delighted with the quaint Down East sayings of Capit ErI Erl to today a they are lau laughing over Mr Ir Lincoln's Lincoln's Lin Lin- coln's coins new v story Mr Ir Pratt which Is brImful of or genuine fun tun from cover er to cover coY cov er or It Is la the story of two keen Wall street men who have gone one to Capo Cape Cod for o an outing and anti to seek sock the tho natural tor I life fe They arc are assisted In their helm search by Skipper Skip Skip- per ler Sol Pratt to whom they arc as much milchor of or a novelty as an ho Is Ig to them and antI th the funn funny things they do and tho the funny tunny things they say produce one of ot the cleanest and brightest little books that will be found on the sellers booksellers counters this year Of or course the love element clement Is ia not neg neg- If you know of or any anyone one looking for a good book to read be sure to recommend recommend acorn i-acorn- mend Mr r Pratt With Captain l Charles Edward Rich Is la writing A Voyage Voyage Voy Voy- age se With Captain Dynamite A A. 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