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bility that Lovell, so far from over-estimating the density, had perhaps oven under-estimated it. Professor Wright now finds that photographs taken through violet coloured screens give Mars a diameter 240 miles larger than do similar photographs
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A little more of the wealth that taken flows into the great casinos at We can now give some necount through red screens. Now, since French holiday and health resorts of the work done last year during the violet photographs portray will no doubt shortly find its way the exceptionally close approach the atmospheric envelope of the into the national treasury, for of. Mars to the carth, writes the planet and the red photographs the astronomical correspondent of the its solid surface, this result must nuring the discussion of the Chamber of Deputies "Morning Post." To us probably mean that Mars atmosphere has Finance Bill the most interesting of these in- an appreciable density to a height 380 votes to 142 a proposal that accepted by vestigations were those dealing above its surface of at least 120 a super-tax of 20 per cont. should with the surface temperature of miles (ie, half of 240 miles). the planet and with the state of
be levied on the larger casinos, Mi DENSITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE. its atmosphere; for until this
Garrat, who proposed that mea- It is interesting to note, first, sure, said that, although only time our knowledge on these two that a column of air 120 miles casinos whose receipts were more subjects was inferred merely, high on Mars would, if transport-than 1,500,000f would be affected, and, moreover, inferred in 11 ed to the earth, be compressed the Treasury would benefit to the somewhat round-about way.
by the greater gravitation) to a extent of about 20,000,000f. OF The temperature of Murs was height of about 50 miles and, 134 casinos only twenty would measured independently at Mount secondly, that there is evidence have to pay this super-tax From Wilson with the 100-inch telescope that our own atmosphere has un 1913 to 1923 the net profits of by Messrs. Nicholson and Pettit, appreciable density to this. very casinos had been 152000,000f of and at the Lowell Observatory same height. (50 miles), andwich the State took 63,000,000!, with the 40-inch "telescope by above that falls off in density municipalities 22,000,000f and the Moskrs. Coblentz and Lampland. very rapidly. Now, if we could proprietors 65,000,000f. With a The results from Mount Wilson assume that the density of Mars' super-tax of 20 per cent. Imposed show that the midday tempern atmosphere at 120 miles was the the proprietors would, still have ture at midsummer in the Martian same as that, of our own at 60 had about 45.000 005f. The Blar tropical regions is about 10 miles it would follow (for physi-ritz Casino, for instance, said M. degrees Centigrade above freezeal reasons) that the densities at Garrat, had yielded 20.000.000f to ing: the results from the Lowellthe surfaces of the two planets August 16 to October 19 last year Its owners from 1920 to 1924. From Observatory are slightly higher. were practically the same. apparatus consists of the box, viz., 20 degrees Centigrade above. But since our criteria for the the proprietors rerived 4000,000f. It had yielded 9,000,000f, of which which contains two earthed elec freezing. If we take into ac-upper limit. trodes, and on which the specimen count how enormous are the density"" are different in the two amounted to 2,200,000f, of which of appreciable In some years the pool of tips to be dealt with is placed. In the difficulties of the investigationenses, Hid of a box is a third electrode. not only the practical difficulties assumption, and we must realize which would pay for all necessary make that the proprietors took 50 per cent This box is connected with three in the actual measurements, but that the density for their upper repairs and leave 4.000.000f as net Few more curious legacies have resistance boxes, the first known the theoretical difficulties in the init of the earth's atmosphere profits. M. Maurice Simon, Con- been left to the medical worlds the amplifier, the second, and interpretation of the measure may be appreciably greater than roller General of the Treasury, than that popularly known as
third as reflexophones. From the ments-this degree of accord- that, for this upper limit of Mars' replied that, according to regula- Abrams's box. So much publicity last of these a wire passes to an ance is remarkably good; and tatnisphere. has been given to its claims and other electrode, which is held to will be seen to he even more re fairly surely conclude that Pro- staff, and they had not received We may, however, tions, all tips went entirely to the the methods of treatment that have the forehead of a normal person markable if we realize that many fussor beef founded upon. it. that the known as the subject. This subject
Wright's investigations any complaints on this subject. preliminary findings of the very stands on earthed plates and faces
Another Deputy. opposing M. able investigating committee West, that is, at a right-angle to the
Garra's proposal, said It amounted working under Sir Thomas Hor. horizontal component of, the local
to killing the grose that laid the der are of deep interest. These field of magnetism. His abdomen
golden egg, but, on being put to have recently been communicated is then percussed, and the first of
the vote, the imposition of the zo to a joint meeting of the Sertions the two reflexophones is adjusarch
percent super, tax was carried by of Medicine and Electro-Thera until the moral percussion note
the suberantia majority already peutics of the Royal Society of beconies dull. This adjustment is
indianed: Medicine, and embody the must read and has been interpreted by expert, serious, and dispassionate practitioners of the method in Survey of the
well know terms of the condition represented "Abrams Rays that has pro- by the specinien-blood or sputan bably yet been de Sire there or drug, as may he contained in i are already various practitioners the box. This apparus bis un in England buaily engaged in dergone sundry modak atjons; bur employing this treatment or the underlying "principle" is sub- variations of it, and a far larger
İstantially the saine, and the number in America, the report is investigations have been carried! worthy of the widest attention out on what is called an ein- And for the benefit of
anometer, constructed by Dr whose knowledge is necessarily W. E. Boyd, of Glasgow.. vagne it may be well to recapi inlate briefly its origin and claims.
RAYS"
many
the
MARS.
that the highest temperature on astronomers have held the opinion Mars was never above 100-degrees Ceutigrade below freezing.
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MOUNT WILSON.
we cannot
COSTLY. JOKE."
COMMUNIST GETS THREE. YEARS.
Percy Gibson, miner, said to be. long to Fifeshire and a member of the Communist Party, was found Feuilly and sentenced to three ¿years' penal servitude at Newcastle Assizes for being in, possession of explosives in such circumstances as to give rise to the reasonable. suspicion of possessing them for Can unlawful objeci.
Mr C. F. Löwenthal, K.C., said | that Gibson was a member of the Communist Party, and in his room at Queen Anne Street were found Gonist documents, many of which defended violence as being Justified to carry out certain Ideas. Counsel recounted how two nemployed men named Shutt and Lewis had become acquainted with Gibson, and how his talk of blow- ing up the Town Hall and power
saw all this literature and a home- taken seriously by them until they station, and so on, had not been,
made apparatus containing gun- powder and pit cartridges.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS The details of the various tests Dr. Abrams, who died last year, technical to be dealt with here. undertaken are too long und was born in 1863. took a medical But the chief results may be sum- degree at Heidleberg in 1882, and marized as follows: In September,! practised for the greater portion of 1923, six specimens of sputum, or his life in San Francisc. Here he spittle. on filter papers were pre- founded a system of treatment in pared, two being provided by Dr, i 1910, which he described as Heald and two by Dr. C. H S. spondylotherapy, and in 1916 a Taylor, of Cambridge. The pro- further development known as blem set was the correct pairing; electrotonic reactions. With this of these sputa, and the demonstra was associated the famous box by tor, who was in ignorance of their means of which he first claimed to source, did this successfully. Later, be able to determine from a drop after testing known specimens, he of blood or sputum the sex of the correctly stated which of patient from whoni came, and unknown specimens came from Dr. the degree in which the patient Heald and which from Dr. Taylor.
the Martian atmos here is cer demonstrate that the density of might be suffering from a variety Further experiments under the of diseases, such as cancer and strictest test conditions were then
tainly taberculosis. Later he claimed to undertaken in Dr. Boyd's tabora
greater than Lowell be able to tell the patient's racetory in Glasgow, In the first ex-
believed. religion, and the actual site of the periment two drugs of similar
The movements of Martian
Later Shutt was entrusted with malady, and finally he announced
At Mount Wilson the morning clouds were studied by M.this apparatus, which he took to that a specimen of the patient's appearance in similar bottles were and evening temperatures in the Antonindi with the 23-inch teles- the police, and the police instructed handwriting was equally valid in "active" and the other neutral" about 10 degrees Centigrade cutive nights he was able to From that point Shutt acted on the tested one being alleged to be tropical regions came out at cope at 'Meudon, On four conse-him to take it back to Gibson, these respects. Ultimately he It was impossible for the operator below freezing, mid the tempera- measure the positions of the instructions of the police till arrived at such assertions as that
ture of the snow-bound poles at highest point of "a great cloud Gibson was arrested on the quay- both numbers and letters were pos. or subject to see which hottle was sessed of sexual characteristics, being used, but the operator, by 70 degrees Centigrade below that hung, about the middle of side at Newcastle, when he said he From diagnosis the system pro- the subject, was correct in his Lowell Observatory were that the Hellas.
percussing the abdominal wall of freezing. Other results at the October, over the desert called was going to dispose of a tin of ceeded to treatment, and in the description in each of the twenty-maximum daily temperature was forming a spiral movement under
He found it was per-powder. United States his practising dis-
Shutt said that Gibson was five trials. Further tests, in- reuched, as ciples are now to be numbered, it cluded the selection and iden- hours after Martian noon. that exactly similar to those on earth. Communist Party, and was always on the earth, some the influence of an anticyclone known as a "live spark" in the is said, by hundreds.
tification of one specific drug the temperatures of the dark re- This and other observations have wanting workers to rise in their from a number of others, and gions of vegetation were some-led him to the conclusion that millions against the capitalists. under similar test conditions what higher than those of the Mars, like the earth, has its trade said he took the tinful of powder Gibson, giving evidence on oath, the operator was again completely orange-coloured deserts, and that and anti-trade winds. Naturally such claims met with the successful. The whole series of there was a marked rise in the profoundest scepticism in seriosus tests were again repeated later in temperatures generally as Marmarkable changes in the colour of handed it to the witness Shutt be- to drop it in the river, and first scientific circles both in Britain the presence of Mr. Dingwall, Sirtian midsummer approached. and in America, and a large num Thomas Horder, Dr Heald, and
the dusky markings on the cause he said he was going to sea, ber of inquiries were undertaken. Mr. Whiteley Smith with similar conclusion that the average con- the greens and blues were slowly need powde
The Lowell observers draw the planet during the early autumn: and accused asked him to drop it And it cannot be said that Dr. results, and later, when acting as ditions in the tropics are similar replaced by browns and reds. He he needed more powder than they Abrams's own attitude was con-subjects, both Sir Thomas Horder to those "of a bright cecl day on lays great stress on the similarity were given when working_at ducive to scientific confidence. and Dr. Heald were able to feel carth" and that occasionally the of this metamorphosis to that abnormal places in the mine. The His claims were based on very an alteration in their abdominal temperature on the planet may which occurs at the same season talk of blowing up buildings was slender evidence. And his ter- muscles, as specimens were ex- minology was, to say the least, hibited for test without their rise even higher than the highest in our terrestrial vegetation.only "boastful joking."
BRITISH EXPERTS' IN- VESTIGATIONS.
M. Antoniadi also observed re-
terrestrial temperatures. Yet This is an important corrobora- even the lower figures from tion of Lowell's observations of Mount Wilson indicate that the colour changes, and gives con- midday tropical temperatures are siderable support to the generally at least comparable with those of accepted theory that these mark- our English winter..
ings represent regions of vegeta- Some interesting results as to tion..
He had powder at home because
extremely suspicious of pure char knowledge. latanry. Therefore, while various! It thus seems clear, as the com- honest observers were to a cermittee point out, that certain sub- tain degree impressed by the stances, when placed in proper results that Dr. Abrams achieved relation to the apparatus, do effect for them, the bulk of scientific changes in the abdominal wall, opinion was definitely against him. which may be detected by percus Meanwhile, Dr C. B. Heald, the sion; and though at present, as the Martian atmosphere were get The question of the Canali is medical adviser to the Director of they say, it would be premature to by Professor Wright at the Lick as much as ever "in the air." for Civil Aviation, bad become in-hazard even the most tentative Observatory. More than twenty not only was the Martian season terested, and ultimately it was.de-hypothesis as to the mature years ago Lowell concluded from unfavourable for their observa- cided to undertake a fresh and deof the phenomena, it is obvious his observations of Martian tion but the northern hemisphere, novo Inquiry. With Dr. Heald werely possible that some new order clouds that the density of Mars' in which most of them are situat- associated Lieut.-Colonel Lefroy, of physical reactions may thus atmosphere Was about the head of the Wireless Re- accidentally have been stumbl seventh the density of our own. [ earth.
one-ed, was tilted away from the HEALTHY CHİLDREN MAKE search Department at the Aired upon.
HAPPY PARENTS. Meanwhile, there is That estimation was generally. In conclusion, the year's obser Ministry Mr. M. D. Hart, who as yet, of course, so far as the held to be too high, but during vations seem to show that the just what to do when the little ones Parents are often worried to kuow was engaged in physical research research has gone, absolutely no recent years similar observations conditions on Mars more closelyddenly tall sins, are feverish restlos for the War Office, and Mr. W. evidence connecting these pheno by other astronomers have point-resemble those on earth than wast to meet these times of emergency Whateley Smith, who was doing mena with the diagnosis and treated more and more to the proba- generally supposed. similar work for the Air Ministry, ment of disease, And, as the
That Raby's Own Tableta bave, bean Ultimately Sir Thomas Horder be-investigators are careful to point
devined. Rept roady at. hand in the came chairman of the committee out with the utmost emphasis,
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