Show THE POTENT ATOM THINGS are going to move in such a way that it if once the atom Is split for instance and that Is bound to happen in a certain number of years and may be in III the newspapers tomorrow morning there wu be no need lor for coal gas electric light steam or anything like that says the christian science monitor you will be able to run a train from london to edinburgh for a halfpenny and to light the whole of london for a penny nobody will have to do anything approaching pro aching the amount of work they have to do now and everybody will be provided with ample leisure this cheerful forecast was made by prof percy buck at a gathering of teachers attending the city of london vacation course on education in england it envisages a time when the mechanical discoveries of the past fifty years automo automobiles blies wireless and aviation may be as nothing compared with what may eventually become available to relieve the burden of human labor professor buck Is an optimist but he nases bases his calculations upon already partially ascertained facts the release of the power which the atom Is said to contain may or may riot not prove eventually feasible but school children in britain are arc already being taught that such power Is ie there |