Show 4 am M rings lowdown low down on deep subject 1 adeep by RING LARDNER KM MK M K to 0 the editor it seems like as it if it was up to me to settle a big argument which has occurred between at al malleaux kamaus and jack kieran keeran it must be exclaimed that mr keeran Is one of the baseball writers on the new york times and a prominent golf player mr 51 r mamaux la Is somewhat ot of a veteran big league baseball pitcher who used to LU us be the best singer in the big leagues the argument was reported by mr harry Sa IsInger ot of the detroit news mr Is a tall skinny handsome brunette who looks not col unlike the writer only he has more hair well it seems like mr mamaux and mr air kieran got into a fishing argument namely mr mamaux claimed that it if you took a bucket the bucket would weigh just the same like as it ir no fish had been dropped into it A live lire fish cant possibly increase the weight eight of 0 atar water said mr mamaux A dead fish that Is different matter because that would be dead weight well they went to lo a laboratory in detroit where this bitter argument started and asted asked the professor of fish which was right and who lie was wrong so the professor said lie he would make a test but he have no live fish on hand that day and mr mamaux would not stand tor for no test being made with a dead fish finely they went to a fish market and they had a tub full of water there weighing 95 pounds and they found a fish named carp who weighed three pounds and they put it to in the tub and then weighed wel glied the total will which weighed elg hed 97 07 pounds so sir mr Alamil mamaux lux claimed that clinched clin ebed his argument because in the first place the carp was dead and in the second place lie he only increased the weight of the tub two pounds whereas Nhe reas the fish man admitted that his weight before bein being 9 dropped into the tub was three pounds that shows how right I 1 am said mr mamaux no it dont retorted mr cleron alt all it proves is that nobody with ith any brains should ought to buy fish from this market well friends the reason I 1 feel called upon to horn into tills this argument Is that all my life I 1 been malting a study of weights and displacements and etc and I 1 will give yon yoa a few facts to prove that it Is a very tricky subject and a person should riot cot ought to get into no argument in regards to same unless they have mastered it if you will go into a restaurant and order a large glass of milk and weigh it before you touch cup to lip you will find that the total weight la Is about one ounce then it if you will wait a few moments till a fly drops into the glass and weigh it again why it if the fly Is just a common fly by and still alive you will find that the weight of the entire project aint increased even one fly weight but it if the fly was dead when it dropped in why siby then will be a increased weight of 10 and no DO hundreds minims a specially if the hy fly was a horse fly on the other hand it if iou take a pall of w ter or beer find and drop a live rat to in same the weight 0 of the pall will III increase exactly as much al a the rat weighed in the first place and it you make it two rats the wel weight lit will increase pro rata but if one or both of the rats happens to get drowned they will come to the surface bool looking ing like drowned rats and at the same time proving that they weigh nothing or they would of sank it Is kind bind of dangerous to make this test to in a pall pail of beer as the rats goes right to it and are libel to reach the sin singing ing stage the most conclusive test I 1 ever made along these lines was one tine time when nhen I 1 took a night boat from N Y to albany on the hudson river first it was necessary to weigh the river and then the boat when it was empty and afterwards when all the passengers got a board then I 1 made all the passengers come into the weighing room and get weighed one by 0 one e when the boat got to albany the next nest morning the river looked just like it did the last time I 1 was up there prof sump of severe university new hampshire once made a experiment which perhaps proves more than the foregoing ue lie weighed all the passengers that was going on a trip frona from new york to cherbourg Cher bourg and then weighed them all again when the ship got to cherbourg Cher bourg they weigh near as much prof sump was much impressed 0 D by abe h bell syndicate inc DC |