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UNCLE PANTHER’S MAIL BOX
The Business of Living
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Today’s Birthday
ASK THE PRESS
NO STOPPING OF CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
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By RODNEY DUTCHER
REA Servlet Writer
DIETZ
On Science
Q. What is the Value of a
United States SO-cent piece dat-
ed 1833?
A. it is catalogued at 50 to 55
cents.
TRACY
SAYS-
Excusable as it may
be to forget a law, we re-
ward it as a deadly sin to
ignore one that has been
exhumed.
"TEAR Jack: I have been in
Nashville since June 8. Dad-
dy and mother are attending
Peabody College and I am going
to the Demonstration School.
TF you would be prepared for a deluge of
1 pithy comment on weather condition in
South America, it is well to be advised that it
nowed in Chile the other day.
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NEEDS
COME one of these days a tennis star is go-
D Ing to be embarrassed by being photo
raphed holding only one tennis racket.
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MAYBE the linotyper who called them radio
I production statictics had good grounds for
the spelling.
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says that no flower is absolutely black.
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agents and investigators," he says.
So Woodcock proposes that the federal ma-
chine be geared and the personnel be trained
so as to eliminate the sensational and lawless ,
methods used in the past. That, certainly, is
all to the good. The violations of constitution-
al rights limiting search and seizure, and the
murder of innocent motorists by prohibition
agents has become a national menace.
There would be more enthusiasm for the
-new—reform pledges, perhaps,if they —were
really new.—They are-not.—Periedleallyunder-
the Coolidge administration, and even more
frequently under the Hoover administration,
such promises have been made without results.
Therefore, the public, while wishing Wood-
cock luck in his latest revival of reform plans,
cannot be blamed if it reserves its cheers for
something more effective than easy promises.
In any case, there is no reason to believe
that the most perfect enforcement system possi-
ble would stop the steady swing of American
public opinion to prohibition repeal.
"THE United States govern-
1 ment is the most inefficient
big business organization in op-
eration today."—Thomas A. Ed-
ison,
* * *
“It is impossible for men to
Indulge In drink without involv-
* ing the whole community in the
habit."—Evangeline Booth.
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Two Perjurers Vs. Two Clocks
TVHE virtual retrial of Warren K. Billings
1. before the California supreme judges, sit-
ting as a fact-finding advisory pardon body, is
grinding out new perjury evidence in startling
fashion.
As the matter now stands the justices have
the voluble testimony of two self-confessed per-
jurers against the silent evidence of two street
clocks on Market Street. The former are John
= MacDonald,—whose—earlyporjuries—have—beon— -
multiplied by his newest tales, and Estelle
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
A ND God looked upon the earth and, behold,
it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth.—Genesis 6:12.
I have seen corruption boil and bubble till
it o'errun the stew.—Shakespeare.
If he were addressing the
house instead of merely his
stenographer. % Reading into
the stuff will give anyone an
Q. To what country does Bo-
hemia belong? What is the der-
----ivation of the word ?---------.
By JACK MAXWELL
ONE hot, sultry afternoon last
U summer, just when the sun
was dropping behind the west-
ern borderline, L. A. Wilke, city
editor of the Press, four Boy
Scouts and myself stood beside
a little lake near my home
town.
My friend Wilke was scouting
for a picture of the Scouts, with
me teaching them how to cast
a fly, and secure a merit badge
in angling. The photo was got-,
ten, and time has rolled on.
Today comes a letter from
one of the Scouts, age 13, visit-
ing and going to school in Nash-
ville, Tenn. I’m' filling in with
his letter.
LAMMAS DAY
ON August I Lammas Day, an
U old English holiday, was
celebrated in commemoration of
the harvest. Loaves of bread
from the first ripe grain were
consecrated at mass as an of-
fering of the first fruits or new
bread. In Italy, landowners were
in the custom of bringing lambs
to mass on this occasion and
this is how Lammas Day is be-
lieved to have derived its name.
Lammas Day is full of anti-
que survivals, but the one great
custom which marks it as a
link with the very remote past
is the removal of the fences
from many lands thruout the
country and the throwing open
to common pastorage of pri-
vately owned property.
"Whenever we find Lammas
customs In England," says a
writer of that country, "we may
take it for granted that it is
the last remaining link of a -
whole group of customs which
together make up the history of
the primitive village commu-
nity."
of congress and the Hoover
administration, both quite fa-
vorably. Tilson also inserted
a speech which he actually de-
livered at the sesquicentennial
founding of Jonesboro, Tenn.
Congressman George M.
Pritchard, running for the sen-
ate as a Republican in North
Carolina, undertakes to sell
the protective tariff to his
folks.
TN the future the fellow who says, "Let’s sit
1 this one out,” may be asked to produce
credentials on his tree-sitting record.
A RUMANIAN girl, says a news item, is near-
A ly seven feet tall and Is still growing. If
she is depressed now, she's in for a circus
lay--
WASHINGTON — Congress
YY may adjourn definitely . ...
and unmistakably but there’s idea of the type of material
ano there s — that will.be fed to the voters
no stopping the Congressional
Yesterday was my first day out
for fishing here. And my first
time to catch a bass. It weighed
1% pounds. We were fishing
near Little Harper. 1 had no
trouble in landing it. And the
boarding house lady is going to
cook it for my dinner.
* • •
"T HAVE gotten much pleasure
1 out of fishing . . . and to
YOU belongs the CREDIT, for
my knowledge of fishing, and
especially how to use the rod
and reel. I wish you were here,
so we could go together. I am
sure you would enjoy the scen-
ery and the mountain streams.
“I have seen quite a few his-
torical places. And while this
is one of the warm spots on the
earth, it is very beautiful. We
will be home about Sept. 1.
Hoping you are enjoying the
summer, I am your frield, Elone
Dunn.”
A prize of $25,000 Is being offered for the
A inventor of a new use for mercury. It
must have lost a lot of prestige in the recent
heat spell.
this year.
Plenty of Republicans are
found defending the new tar-
iff act, undertaking to explain
just how its results will be
very beneficial. , Such leaders
as Congressman Tilson and
Will Wood review the records
ment by stating that the rent
law was in effect several years
before the county knocked it out
on a technicality.
Tracy had better talk to some
of the renters in the black land
.belt If he thinks it was never
in effect.
The writer has just talked to
a man who paid 15 bales of.cot- '
ton, one-fourth in rent, the first
year the law was in effect. The
year before the landlord charged
one-third of all the cotton.
If the one-third had been
paid the year mentioned he
would have paid 20 bales, as he
produced 60 bales.
This man, like hundreds of
other renters, knows Jim has
helped him. Your paper pretty
good circulation in this terri-
tory—lots of the renters take it
by mail and a correction of
Tracy’s statement would be ap-
preciated.—Ted Douglas, Al-
varado, Texas.
HODITOR THE PRESS: I am in
A favor of the anti-noise ordi-
nance and hope we get it before
some of us have a nervous bust
down. I am sure the late golf
players will never know the un-
pleasantness they deal to the
person next door.—Mrs. A.
Q. What do the words "ef-
flux” and "Influx” mean?
A. Efflux is flowing out; Influx is
flowing In.
Q. When and by -whom was
the city of Lima, Peru, founded?
A. By Pizarro in 1535.
A CHICAGO sword swallower nearly croked
A on a dime.—And the dime-is considered
such a small tip, too.
number of peace officers on the
public pay roll, but the way ar-
rests are increasing offers much
encouragement.
According to a report cover-
ing 88 of our principal cities,
just received by the Travelers'
Insurance Company, no less than
2,000,000 people ran afoul of
the law last year, tho the total
population was only 25,000,000.
Arrests for theft and kindred,
offenses more than doubled,
those for Intoxications more
than trebled, and those for traf-
fic violations more than quad-
rupled.
A. t is a province of Czechoslovak-
la. The early history of Bohemia is
very obscure, but It is probable that
the name is derived from a tribe of
uncertain origin, the Boll, who were
conquered by the Teutonic Marcomanni
about 12 B. C.
You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or information by
writing to Frederick M. Kerby, Question Editor, The Fort Worth Press, Washing-
ton Bureau, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C., enclosing two cents In
stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice can not be given, nor can extended
research be made. All letters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make
use of this free service as often as you please.- EDITOR.
* * *
Prince Camille de Rohan rose is con-
sidered a black rose by many grow-
ers.
—AUG: 1930
Record.
The editions of the Record
make a sizeable pile for the
period since either house has
been in regular session, con-
taining hundreds of thousands
of words in "speeches” which
never were spoken, Most of
this tripe is campaign mate-
rial, Once it is printed in the
Record as an "extension of re-
marks” the congressman can
buy thousands of copies of
his outburst at a nominal sum
and mail them without paying
postage to as many voters as
he wants to reach.
In each ease the member
begins "Mr. Speaker,’’ just as
more than 18 large pages to a
study of the effect of the new
tariff. Louis C. Cramton of
Michigan exults because less
than 10 per—cent of house
members signed a 2.75 per cent
beer petition.
They go on and on, feeding
into the Record everything
they think will look good to
the voters. Quite a few just
frankly review their own rec-
ords, more or less boastfully,
in ‘'speeches” which no one
could ever get away with on
the floor.
Through the summer and in
the fall little girls will be
sweltering in the house and
senate office buildings, addres-
sing, sealing and mailing,
that the people of this country
may know of the profound
wisdom and noble efforts of
their elected public servants.
A Woman’s Viewpoint
By MBS. WALTER FERGUSON
"T WISH you would say something in your
1 column about the problem of raising
children," writes a “distracted mother.” "I
have done everything I can, and have kept
myself informed upon the subject, and yet my
children often behave as 'if they had had no ,
- training at all. What is the matter with the
children of this age?”
Well, offhand, dear lady, I ahould say that
the main thing wrong with them is distracted
mothers. Being one myself, I realize that my
children are always worse on those days when
I concentrate on bringing them up than they
are at any other time.
The modern child suffers from too much
theoretical training. The opinion is widespread
that the modern woman who has servants to
help her with her work and money to pro-,
vide advantages for her children should be
j able to give her entire time to the important
task of child rearing and turn out something
extra fine in that line. As a general thing,
however, she does not.
TT seems to me that the harder we try the
1 worse we fail. Which is a sad thing for
serious-minded mothers to contemplate. How-
ever, the facts have a way of speaking for
themselves. And I should like to beg all
mothers to give up being serious minded.
Take your children now and then as a joke
and the whole family will be happier.
The modern mother is so easily alarmed.
Having often too little hard work to occupy
her time, sher gets hysterical about traits in
her children that the old-fashioned parent
would hardly notice.
The first thing to cultivate is optimism.
The chances are that, altho your youngsters
may behave like little Comanches, they will
— grow into nice conforming Rotarians: And H1 =
all distracted mothers took time off"to look
after themselves for a spell they would find
out one fact: A mother is often a child’s
worst handicap. Anyway, I'm completely sold
to the idea that we should stop training the
children for a while and train ourselves. For-
get your theories, even forget the children.
Leave off being distracted over them. They'll
come out all right. You did.
--------- IN NEW YORK —________
Dinty Moore’s Predicament
. Another Dry Pledge
NO one is apt to get very excited over the
I latest plan for prohibition enforcement, an-
nounced by Federal Director 'Woodcock.
Long and arduous experiment has proved
rather conclusively that this law cannot be
strictly enforced. There is nothing surprising
about that. It is always true of laws that
lack the respect and moral support of a large
part of the population. Only those laws which
are voluntarily and freely accepted and obeyed
by an overwhelming majority of citizens can
be forced upon the minority.
Basically prohibition enforcement has failed
because the law itself has failed to hold or
win the consent of a sufficiently large majority.
In addition, the methods of enforcement In
themselves have alienated increasing numbers
of citizens from respect for the law. This Is
recognized by Woodcock. "I think much of
the criticism of prohibition in the United
States Is due to blunders and misconduct of
Smith, surprise witness put on the stand today
to seek to protect the officers of the law in
1916 from charges of Improper Identifications.
The latter are the two clocks that tell the irre-
futable story of where Tom Mooney and his
wife were and where Billings was not.
Like all the unfortunate humans who
emerge from the half-world on the occasions
W every great crime where a reward is of-
fered. MacDonald and Estelle Smith have over-
talked themselves. MacDonald has told the
judges he was at Steuart and Market Streets,
and there saw Billings, of someone he says
now was not Billings, plant the lethal suitcase.
about 1 50 or 2 o'clock.
Estelle Smith on Wednesday said that at
that time she was at 721 Market Street nearly
a mile away and saw. Billings leaving that
place to meet the Mooneys. She sets the time
as when the head of the preparedness parade
was passing her office, from which she leaned
out to wave a towel at Mayor Rolph.
Aside from the fact that Billings could not
have been at both places, and that hence the
judges must choose as between two perjurers’
stories, the clocks tell tl real truth.
The clock in front of the dental office
where Estelle Smith worked showed the time
when Rolph passed as 1:51. Of course, Bill-
ings could not have been there,, as she says,
and at the same time have been nearly a mile
away planting a suitcase where MacDonald
“seen him” at the same time.
The other clock presents a perfect alibi for
the Mooneys. Here on top Of the Eller Bulld-
ing. 6000 feet from the explosion scene, the
two are plainly shown by three pictures also
showing a street clock below, the last one
pointing the time as 2:01, only 5 minutes be-
fore the explosion occurred.
One by one the sorry witnesses have come
upon the stage and gone. Oxman, Crowley,
theEdeaus, MacDonald and now Estelle Smith
with her absurd curtain call—Estelle Smith
who a year ago swore she was "a morphine
addict" and was never sure it was Billings she
saw, and who -ow would implicate Billings.
Which will the supreme judges believe, the
two self-confessed perjurers or the two clocks?
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member of the house to make
in this way some mention of
his labors” and proceeds to
do so in a very large way in-
deed, with no unfair reflec-
tions on Mr. Thatcher. Fred
Zihlman of Maryland argues
for old age pensions and Ar-
thur H. Greenwood of Indiana
holds forth on the “break-
down of the administration's
farm relief program.”
Charles J. Esterly of Penn-
sylvania remembers one of the
most important industries back
home and speaks up for more
tariff protection on full-fash-
ioned hosiery. Senator Park
Trammell of Florida does a
chore for Senator William J.
Harris of Georgia by sticking
in four pages on the Georgia
senator’s record. C. William
Ramseyer of Iowa devotee
“No one knows how far I
have gone.”—Albert Einstein.
• * ♦
"The witnesses look more
scared than I feel."—Ballard E.
Ratcliffe, before being executed
at Eddyville, Ky „
* * -
"The army’s purpose is not
to create militarists. It does
aim to create leaders who will
maintain the peace and safety
of the nation.” — Secretary of
War Patrick Henry.
• • •
"The modern idea of home
has been well expressed as the
place one goes to from the ga-
rage"—George Wickersham.
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---“Responsibility—for—Chicago
can be traced to illicit liquor
traffic."—Colonel Robert I.
Randolph, of the Chicago crime
prevention committee.
H’DITOR THE PRESS: I think
D the proposed ordinance re-
garding the muffling of radios
is all wrong.
A person ought to have the
right to listen to his radio as
long as he wishes.
There are a lot of working
men, of which I am one, who
can only listen in late in,the
evening. I enjoy radio music as
much as any radio fan and I
don’t think city hall has the
right to tell me when I can lis-
ten to It.
Concerning miniature golf
after 10 p. m., I think if the
owner of the course can stand
up to it and the golfers hold
out, there’s no one else to worry
about it.
I cannot figure out where
there’s a nuisance in this line
or where anyone is hurt.
I am going to play my radio
whenever I feel like doing so,
be It early morning or late at
night.—A. J. Mengel, 300 Para-
dise St.
EDITOR THE PRESS: In your
a issue of July 29. "Tracy
Says, The rent law never has
been put into effect, but Farmer
Jim won out on it.”
I wish to correct that state-
By M. E. TRACT
SOVIET Russia should not be
P alarmed. The decision to
ban pulpwood is not the result
of a deep, dark plot. The Amer-
ican genius for law enforcement
is merely going to bat 10 years
late.
No doubt the genius would
have gotten around earlier if
some one had thought to set the
alarm clock. Then, again, It
might not have gotten around
at all.
It is a badly overworked ge-
nius, confronted with three
times as much as it can do, and
not knowing where to turn
next.
Too much should not be ex-
pected of it.
If They Knew •
TF Soviet Russia only knew
L the number of laws our of-
ficials have to keep in mind,
she would be quick to pardon
them for forgetting this one so
long, and if she realized how
enthusiastic we get whenever
some one digs up an old one. -
she would understand what all. 5,
the shooting in about.
It is unfortunate, of course,
that this particular statute
should have been brought to
light so soon after the Fish
committee got to work, but
Congressman Clay Stone
■ Briggs of Texas ′ gets right
down to brass tacks and
boasts of his success in ob-
taining federal highway aid in
his—district.--------Congressman
William A. Ayers of Kansas
makes a lengthy plea for the
farmer and Congressman Rob-
ert A. Crosser calls attention
to the need of doing something
about unemployment.
′ The Hon. Clarence Cannon
of Missouri bemoans the fact
that war veterans have such a
tough time getting legislative
relief. Democratic Leader
Jack Garner discusses “Hoo-
ver prosperity” at length and
Will Wood is found again on
the defensive, explaining that
the economic depression is
world-wide and not just con-
fined to the United States.
Maurice H. Thatcher of Ken-
tucky announces that "It may
By GILBERT SWAN
NEW YORK.—For the most amusing predica-
I ment of the week, I nominate the case of
"Dinty” Moore.
Dinty has been a corned-beef-and-cabbage
maestro in the mid-Forties for many a year,
but a number of his theatrical-belt patrons de-
manded more than mustard with their meals.
Wherefore Dinty was continuously getting into
arguments with the revenue officers.
The other day they finally hung a pad-
lock on his cafe. Which, by itself, is nothing
to write about in New York. But It so hap-
pened that Dinty’s living quarters are just over
his place were locked and guarded he couldn't
go home, since the outer doorways of the
restaurant also led to his domicile.
And, according to the court ruling, he could
not enter his former business place, nor could
anyone else who didn’t have a key to the gov-
ernment padlock.
A solution has finally been reached, and
most odd it is. A wooden grill affair has been,
constructed at a side door and a passageway
is arranged by which Dinty can go upstairs
to his living quarters, while keeping the cafe
completely blocked off.
• • »
BICYCLING threatens to return to vogue this
D summer. Not only are good old-fashioned
bikes to be observed preening their colors in
the windows of the biggest Manhattan stores,
but cyclers are to be seen of afternoons pedal-
ing thru the Central Park pathways.
Of Rundays, so the scouts report, the coun-
try roads hereabouts are beholding vacation-
ers, pumping away at pedals instead of motor-
ing, while the swanky beach resorts tell of
fashionable maids who arrive at the shore on
bikes.
If the fad catches on, here at last will be a
vogue that gives me a break. For when last I
mounted a sturdy tandem, I could do such
tricks as riding on one pedal, balancing on
one wheel and “standing still.”
However, my legs have grown a few feet
longer since those days.
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NOTES on this and that . . . Marie Dress-
I ler refers to those Carrollesque shows as
"navel pageants” . . . Rich Byrd's South Pole
films Indicate how much more thrilling true
life experiences can be than all the manufac-
. tured thrillers of Hollywood, tho I agree with
most of Manhattan's critics that the picture
could have done very nicely without the hoorah
recitation of Floyd Gibbons.
Sime, the Broadway domo of "Variety,” the
theatrical magazine, after a few months in
Hollywood, sends this message back to his
main stem brigade: "Stay out of Hollywood,
unless you have a contract.” Well, Sime
hasn’t been around Broadway lately. But that
street isn't so hot Just now, either, unless
you're prepared for what Wall Street calls ‘‘a
long pull.”
Sime, by the way, Is credited with being
one of Manhattan's best “poeket writers” . . .
He carries a pad of papers in his right hand
coat pocket He also carries a number
of pencil stumps . . . After years of practice
he ft able to make copious notes while seem-
ing to be doing nothing more than Jiggling a
few pennies in his pocket , . . This bit of
dexterity has enabled him to jot down many
an item without being caught at it,
Manhattan speakeasies are no respectors
of neighborhoods . . . Within a stone's throw
of J. Pierpont Morgan’s elegantly aristocratic
old Murray Hill Manse is a block so thickly
populated with whisper-lows that some land-
lords have found the rental problem a difficult
one . . ". While racketeers, just the other
night, struck at a club that sits in neighbor-
ly. relationship to John D. Rockefeller’s famous
mansion in the Fifties. Some of New York's
most sacrosanct property now has reason to
suspect the brownstone or the iron—grilled
basement just a few doors away.
that should be put down as a
mere coincidence.
Only the ( most suspicious
minds will think that the row
over Amtorg and Mr. Whalen's
documents had anything to do
with the discovery that convicts
were loading pulpwood at Arch-
angel and that there was a law
by which Its entry could be
stopped on that account.
So, too, only the most suspi-
cious minds will associate the
threatened embargo with po-
litical bias.
* * *
Is Good Buyer
THO repugnance toward Com-
A munism might inspire us
to bust up a street parade now
and then, or burn up a cartload
of pamphlets, we would never
think of letting it hurt trade,
especially with a nation which
buys more than It sells:
We are a legally-minded folk?
If you please, ready to immolate
ourselves for a statute when-
ever someone reminds us that
it is on the books, but quite as
ready to let things rock along
if no one calls it to our atten-
tion.
Excusable as it may be to
forget a law, we regard ft as a
deadly sin to ignore one that
has been exhumed.
* * *
Can’t Read All
OUTSIDERS, and especially
U Russians, should under-
stand that the United States
has become the greatest law-
producing machine on earth,
and that tho we drive four
times as many automobiles as
all other nations put together,
there is nothing In which we
excel so completely as in the
multitude, variety, and incon-
sistence of our statutes.
We have so many that our
officials don't live long enough
to read them thru, much less
execute them.
But we are making headways
in what seems to have become
the great American objective,
of a statute to cover,every con-
ceivable situation.
Arrests Encouraging.
THE only question that both-
A ers us right now is wheth-
er we can build prisons fast
enough and get a sufficient
per copy and 10 cents per week.
Telephone Exchange Dial 2-5151
itember of United Press, Seripps-Howard News Alliance,
Newspaper Enterprise Association, Newspaper information
—Eervice and Audit Bureau of Circulation.________
"Che List and the People win Find Their own way”
TOM EDISON is not the
i only genius in this coun-
try who picks proteges an-
nually and the sooner he finds
it out the bet-
ter off he’ll
be.
I have been
—doing this
very thing for
years. He
. beat me to It
1 this year, but
I’ll not let
DR CONNER him run me
out of the field.
I have sent out a question-
naire to several thousands of
youngsters over the country.
While I do not care to make
public all the questions I
have asked, I will let the
public in on these few:
How high is up and wwhy?
Why did the Governor of
North Carolina and the Gov-
ernor of South Carolina wait
so long between drinks? -
If three kicks of white
mule will floor a person, how
long will It take one to get
on his feet after a half gallon
wallop?
If the King of Siam wants
to visit the King of Borneo
whose business would it be? .
If you saw a man half
buried in a whole, what would
you do to finish the job for
him?
Whose brand is better than?
Conner's. Famous Corn Com-
pound, and how do you know?
Who gets the rakeoff from
the speakeasies, how, when
and why?
That's enough for this time.
If I go much further some of
the grownups might start
answering
DR. B. U. L. CONNER.
Q. Is 'the moon a planet?
A. No, it is a satellite of the
ea th.
________________♦ • •.....
—Q. Are there any absolutely
black flowers?
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Two Heidelberg pro-
fessors solved the riddle
of dark lines in the solar
spectrum.
By DAVID DIETZ
Scripps-Howard Science Editor
Wo professors at the Univer-
. sity of Heidelberg in Ger-
many gave the world the key to
secrets of the universe. -
By reading the meaning of
the dark lines in the spectrum
of the sun, they accelerated the
progress of science and so hast-4
ened the march of our civiliza-
tion which today rests in large
part upon a foundation of sci-
entific achievement.
Joseph Fraunhofer, famous
instrument maker of Munich,
had shown in 1814 that when
sunlight was passed thru a
prism and the resulting rainbow
or spectrum examined with a
telescope, the magnified spec-
trum was seen to be crossed
with hundreds of black lines of
varying thicknesses and in-
tensities. He found these same
black lines in the spectrim of
moonlight and the light of the
planets, light which of course
is reflected sunlight.
Many astronomers and phys-
icists Immediately took up the
study of spectra of the heavenly
objects, but the, spectra of
—flames, electric arcs, and other
sources of light.
But for almost half a century
the mystery of the dark lines In
the spectrum of the sun con-
tinued to elude the grasp of
those studying it.
Then, In 1859. the two Hei-
delberg professors solved the
mystery. Their names were Kir-
choff and Bunsen.
FIRST of all, Kirchoff and
Bunsen demonstrated that
when the light from a solid
source, as for example that from
a slowing piece of iron, was ex-
amined with a spectroscope, as
the combination of prism and
little telescopes was named, the
resulting spectrum was a con-
tinuous band of colors.
They also showed that a sim-
ilar band, known as a continu-
ous spectrum, was obtained
when the source of light was a
glowing liquid, for example,
molten iron, or a glowing gas
under very high pressure.
They next showed that when
the source of light was a vapor
at low pressure, as for example
the vapor formed by putting a
little sodium into a gas flame,
the resulting spectrum was a
series of isolated bright lines.
This type of spectrum is known
as the bright line spectrum.
They showed further that
each chemical element had a
distinctive bright line spectrum
which always served as a posi-
tive means of identifying it.
Here was a tool of immense
value to the chemist. Amounts
of a chemical element too small
to he identified by ordinary
chemical means, could be traced
instantly with the spectroscope.
Kirchoff and Bunsen pre-
dicted that the spectroscope
would be used to discover chem-
ical elements then still un-
known and in subsequent years
this prediction came true.
And finally, the two profes-
sors revealed the riddle of the
dark lines in the spectrum of
the sun.
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