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DAY
BY DAY
DE BE SMART IN APPEARANCE,
BERVICE, BUT BE EFFICIENT IN HUMBLE OF HEART.
18
an
COSMIC RIDDLE
By DR. R. A. MILLIKAN
atmosphere
wan
wont
to up
between
of stars they (This article acts out the main motest exteriors points in investigations of the would be mixed appreciably with cosmic rays, the study of which the magnetically deflectable beta Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter left for may exert a profound if not a de- rays. That the contrary in the influence upon all case is another proof that the rays Airways, the railways, and the coal Japan by the Aaama Maru yesterday. terminative and gas industries. These methods Dr. Ma Luk returned to the Colony theories of the evolution of the originate in the spaces
the stars. aftor universe.) excursion trip to Philippines. vary from operation by a public by the Empresa of Asia
A Balloon Test LO TRO
Electricity in the
Be- corporation, ânancial (and there-
on electroscope.
The third fact is that not all the fore directive) participation by the the Bn. Carthage included Mr.
Arrivals yesterday from Home by discharges
and fore 1909 rays were known which
tive. My colleague, Cameron, Government in private enterprise, Mrs. Prismall, Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith would discharge an electroscope cosmic rays are equally penetra- und regulation by the establish- and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Overy, through metal walls inches thick, and I, in a balloon flight which
but these rays were taken to bo
15% kilometres, After taking a dose of Jeyes Buid radio-active emanations from the through 92 per cent., by weight,
wine, Learth. In 1009 Gockel took an in mistake for Chinese Lung-shi, aged 50, of 20, Belchers electroscope up in a balloon to a of the atmosphere, found that the Street, was removed to the Govern
in the atmosphere as we went up ment Civil Hospital by relatives eight of 44 kilometres and found rate of increase of electric quality.
was not maintained in the upper yesterday. Her condition, however, that its rate of discharge
on greater at that height than not serious.
showed that there regions: there are "soft" coamic earth. This The local branch of the Chartered were rays whose origin was out-rays, which do not penetrate all the way into our atmosphere. This Bank has received the following tele-side the earth either in the upper shows that they enter the atmos- gram dated 7th instant from
or in outer the atmosphere London Offee: "Directori have Several other scientists besides phere as pure photons, a photon declared an interim dividend for the myself have made investigation being a fragment of the energy or an atom discharged through space past half-year at the per annum, subject to Income Tax. to decide between these two pod with the velocity of light. Tho sibilities, and I think that to-day The Lincolns are coming to Hong the cosmic origin has been gen- rays that penetrate the farthest
finally "settle down" in "equili brium with the secondary rays kong from Shanghai a month earlier erally conceded. than expected and will arrive in the
There are three main points which they, so to speak, pick up Colony October 3rd. In con-
which within the earth's atmosphere. Таук sequence of their earlier arrival, the about these cosmic rays Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders now seem to be well established. The soft, less penetrative, will leave for Shanghai early in The first is that the intensity of carry about 90 per cent, of October.
the rays is practically uniform total energy of the cosmic day and night. It varies slightly which enter the atmosphere. The Early this morning an Indian con stable, who was on duty in Kennedy with the barometer as a result fact that the rays enter as pure Rond, was attracted to house No. 27of slight variations in the atmos-photona and need some distance by the blowing of police whistles. He pheric blanket induced by the al- to "settle down" is another proof. noticed a man, evidently a thief ternate heating and cooling of the think, that they orginate in in- drop from the window to the ground gaseous matter through which thefterstellar space.
bushes rays reach the earth. But the in- and disappear among the Nothing, however was stolen.
Whether, in the future, the coun try's main industries are privately owned, publicly owned, or a cont
bination of the two, the general interest of the producers of goods and services will exist. The T.U.C. has already, by its endorsement of the proposals of the Melchett T.U.C. Conference, indicated its support of the project for a Na tional Industrial Council. A hot of this kind, whether constituted precisely on the basis suggested by that Conference or on some other basis, would, it is felt. not merely provide an imoprtant piece of mh- chinery for the consideration of the general problems of industry, but
Mr. Suen Sut Tuen and family
express their best thanks to all would also be able to exercise a relatives and friends for cun-
clolences their attendance at the funeral.
and wreaths, also for
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1932.
powerful influence on the general direction of the nation's economic tand industrial policy.
Law Not War.
Among the several cases now be fore the Permanent Court of Inter-
i
rate of 145%
Origin of the Rays
space.
If the rays came from the sun
the
rays
An Einstein Equation What is the source of all this
These "soft" cosmic rays have tensity of the rays is quite inde pendent of the position of the sun, an energy of 25,000,000 volte, be- During last week, eight cases of the Milky Way or other celeatining ten times as intense as the radio-active gamma rayu Ol thorium; and they wi pass cholern, six from Victoria and twa objects. from Kowloon, with five deaths, (one imported); one case of typhoid with
through five times as much water. one death (imported); and two cases of meningitis, were reported to the health
Buthorities. Deaths fromthey would be strongest when the pulmonary tuberculosis totalled There was a clean bill of health on Sun was strongest; if from the energy? I do not see how it can Milky Way they would be strong- Tuesday.
est when the Milky Way was over, as some think, duo to the an- nihilation of the matter of the Convicted of receiving a quantity head; but we find that they are stars, because I have shown that national Justice at the Hague, there of brass stolen from the Tung Tailequally as strong at the morning the rays do not seem to have any is one between Norway and Den-Workshop at Shaukiwan, an elderly or evening twilight, I conclude
was Rentenced to three
masses of matter in the univerac, umas, as others do, cosmic elec mark of more than ordinary impor-months' hard labour by Mr. Schofield that they do not come from the relation to the stars. If one as- tance. In the first place it as at the Central Police Court this but from the interstellar apaces.trie fields, one will have, in order
was stated that the the morning. It
worth
$20, was rigid as it might have seemed intensity of the rays on the earth. been raised as a result of the ap-metal, which was
This is not so palikely a place of to necount for the uniformity of plication of the so-called Optional bought by the hawker for $2.50,
disparity in values being held against few years ago, before Bowen at to assume uniformity of distribu- Clause. By signing this clause of the defendant as denoting guilty the Norman Bridge
Laboratory tion of the fields with respect to its Statutes, countries pledge them- knowledge. The police proved three proved that the common elenients, the earth, ie, practically a geo- previous convictions against the de-hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, car-centric theory of the universe.
which has been repugnant selves in advance to have recourse
fendant, the last one dating as for bon, and sulphur, as
well ጊዜ ns 1911 to the Court whenever they are en-
hellum, exist out there, giving rise science since 1500 a.d. This is gaged in a legal dispute with aa-
to radiations in regions which may
For an explanation I turn, to an other country which has also signed
be many light-years away from the Einstein equation which states in line with the study which the the Clause. This is the first time
stars from which the radiations with entire definiteness that there union movement has been that a case has ever come to fruit-
start. traile
is no atomic transformation giving to methods for securing the ion ns the result of its application. transition from unregulated pri- though there have been several oc-
PUBLIC CONTROL ·
OF INDUSTRIES
Ope of the resolutions passed by the Trade Unions Congress now sitting at Newcastle urges, amongst other things, the public control of monopoly industries.
voked. It will be remembered that the various League members who the British are also members of Commonwealth have also signed and ratified this
particular clause.
SUGAR MARKET
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS The following cable at the close been received by Messrs Pen treath and Co.
London Terminals. December 1932 6/3 down 11⁄2d March 19:33 6/6 down 1d May 1933 6/7 down 1%d August 193 6/9. down d
to
I take it that the cosmic rays
The second important fact about which can furnish the necessary cosmic rays is that they are not energy except an atom-building pro- magnetic field. This proved by are the wireless signals of the taking very careful and very ex building in interstellar space of at act readings with the same sensi- least some of the heavier elements out of the lighter. We have abon- tive electroscope, first dera, lat. 340 deg. N., and then at dant evidence that all elements built from hydrogen and Churchill, Manitoba, lat. 59 deg.
atom of helium N., the nearest settlement on earth helium: the to the north magnetic pole. From built out of the four atoms
80 the building of the fact that there was no dif-hydrogen;
at Pasa-
are
vate enterprise to public ownership casions on which it has been in of the sugar market yesterday has influenced at all by the earth's cc38. and control of essential industries. In other words, the idea aimed at is what is termed "socialisation" of industry, and it is worth noting that the methods now favoured differ very greatly from the older ideas of the form which this social isation should take. The chango in outlook is largely the result of experience gained in the United Kingdom and abroad.
asking id-d more
Buyers at above prices, sellers
be
is
of
the
ference in the readings I conclud-helium from hydrogen is New York Terminals, ed that before the rays entered commonest atombuilding process. September 1932
the earth's atmosphere they have The energy of this trang forma- December 1932 1.12 down 1 pt. not traversed any amount of mat-tion and other data to be 25,000,- March 1933 1.08 down, 1 pt. ter which is comparable in thick- 000 volts, which is at least a re- May 1933 1.11 down 3 pl ness with that atmosphere: if they markable coincidence. July 1933 1.17 no change And they would necessarily
If this theory of atom-building Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 1.18 no mixed with secondary beta rays in the spaces between the stars change.
which would be directed into the proves correct, it will obviously London (7/9/32)-Cuban Raws earth most abundantly along the have the strongest influence on 96% pol., September shipment, caril's magnetic lines and would all future views of the origin and refiners have bought 10,000 tons at therefore enter it in the neigh-destiny of the universe. 6/3 per cwt., C.L.F. United King-bourhood of the magnetic poles, The dom.
If they came even from the re-
They have done so, however, with the reservation that inter-Imperial disputes are not to come to the Court in the first instance. It is for this reason that Great Britain's present dispute with Ireland has not been referred to the Court. In The Economic Committee of the the second place the Danish-Nor- T.U.C. has long had this question wegian dispute is of considerable importance in virtue of the fact under consideration, and in a re-that it deals with the right of pos- port which it has submitted to the session in uninhabited portions of Congress an attempt is made to re-the Arctic-and, by analogy, of define the aims of the movement, in the Antarctic-regions. the light of modern conditions. cause of the dispute was the Particular consideration is given raising of the Norwegian flag to the public corporation type of by some trappers last year organisation-that is, an under over certain portions of Eastern taking controlled by 2 body ap-whole of Greenland, inhabited or Greenland. Denmark claims the pointed by the Government or uninhabited, as her own.
other
The
In the
public authority underNorwegians on the other hand, statute: The report anticipates who want to use the inlets on the that the change from undiluted pri- eastern coast as bases for hunt- vate enterprise in many industriesing, fishing and trapping, do not will be by way of general govern-agree. Hence the case before the Permanent Court. On the deci- mental regulation leading to opera-
sion given by tho Court which is tion by public' corporations. It has to be remembered, in this connation can sue nation just as in- the only place in the world where nexion, that essential industries dividunia pue individuals and services upon which the very national courts of justice, turns a existence of the community depends great deal of interest of Britain. Bre already largely unified and The ownership of different sectors subjected to a certain measure of of the Antarctic. continent is far public regulation. Rail, transport, from clear. Australia, Now Zen- power supply, and coal mining areland and South Africa claim all to some extent regulated by Acts land lying between themselves and the Pole as their own pro- of Parliament; the supply of gasperty. In virtue
claim of this and water is also subject to super- they lovy toll upon the whalers vision; whilat communication ser in the Woddoll or the Roas Sens. vices are State-owned. Other In They also try to restrict whaling dustries which, though not in the within appropriate limits so as to same sense vital to the existence prevent its extinction. That they of the community are nevertheless are right in this last contention is shown by the fact that at the Important, are for the most part Inst League Assembly there was unregulated, although some of
passed a special international them fall under a large measure convention for the protection of of public control during the war, whales. Unfortunately, this haa It does not follow, of course, that been ratified, so far, only.... by, the Andan.
PUNISH THE PUNNERS
By Edward Kelly, Puator.
This insidious punning habit has got to ccase.
Let us organise a pun-itive ex- pedition for the pun-Ishment of pun-ners. (Sorryl)
There is only one thing to beat them with-brains. Bent them out with pick handles.
We have a friend who as soon jas he sees us, becomes a general
nuisance.
Wo
hone mental razor every time we meet him, for we know he is going to pun. He WAB vaccinated with a gramo- phone needle.
บ
'All punners have wank intel- lects and growing toenails. That's why we don't like them.
Therefore, they (punners, we mean) must be ruthlessly extor- minated. All punners are skinny, wizoned mon. It shall be a ques- tion of the survival of the fattest.
We met ono yesterday. He greeted us with, "What's the Mato, Hari? Haven't you seen. 'Working Girls' yet?" We were a bit haughty.
We said, "Our name ia not: Harry. We are a married man and, besides, we are a journalist, not a sailor"
Horo'a ono coming -- now. He looks determined. Wo can fool it coming on. So it's dime, tomat