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"Well, Frobshaw, and what are the inarticulate masses thinking about this morning?"
The last testimony of an odd general
Y opinion
by....SKENE CATLING
NEW YORK.
OU have already read the of America's glamorous General George Patton that Field-Marshal Montgomery kept him from winning the war all on his little
ownsome.
General
Patton's book of memoirs, "War As I Knew It." is now published two years after the general's death in a car accident in Germany.
Apart from sneers at Mont- gomery-his dislike of him was obviously unbounded-the book is, chiefly amusing for Patton's views on himself.
In the 'Bulge'
He is never happier than when he touches on the subject of his own excellence. Here are his self- some examples esteem:
of
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During the Battle of the Bulge the Third Army moved farther and faster and engaged more divi- sions in less time than any other army of the United States—pos- sibly in the history of the world.
Perhaps some day I shall figure out the number of miles I drove, and flew trying to direct the cam- paigns.of the Third Army. I'll bet it was about a million,
As usual on the verge of action,
everyone fell full of doubt, except
"THE TEARS OF YANGTZE" myself.
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It always made me mad to have to beg for opportunities to win batiten,
GENERAL PATTON
The hopes of the world rest on drab build- ings such as those near
Chicago
A
Here's what an atom pile is like
government
BY ALFRED LEECH
reservation
which the laboratories
on When the rods are removed, green lights opposite the controlling but- tons flash to red, and the pile begins
aro
situated is only 20 ncres in to build up power, or neutron In-
TOP, a snow-covered hill area.
about 20 miles southwest of Chicago is a brick build- ing which looks at first glance like a country school. But it houses mankind's most challeng ing scientific development.
Inside the building, two mas sive machines
are at work. They make no sound, and some of their products cannot be seen leven with a microscope. but some day they may change the face of the world.
They already have changed
the face of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
arc atomic
The machines piles. Housed in the unimpos- ing building with them are man- kind's fears of devastation and
hopes for a world beyond the philosopher's dreams.
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tensity." With the aid of other con- trols the operator can set a pilont The red brick building is sur- whatever power level he needs for rounded by shops, a mess hall. Once the power level has been
the experiment at hand. and living quarters, reminiscent established, the operator can switch of the type of construction seen to control. It in army camps. The whole pro- will operate itself, maintaining, a during the war. ject was thrown up hastily consistent kilowatt power rating, in-
definitely,
We watched as the cadmium con- trol rods were slid from the graphite Surrounding it is a wire pile. The only sound is the hum fence, topped with barbed wire of the electric motors that move the Uniformed guards are stationed rods. The pile itself is silent when at the only entrance. They are operating. deputy sheriff's provided by Federal Government has leased Cook County, from which the
the land.
MAKESHIFT ROD WORKS
The cadmium rods really are thin strip of cadmium mounted on steel. One of them was nailed none too The few visitore must present neatly to a long wooden two-by-four their credentials.
instead of to steel. Scientists ex- given tags and objects similar hurry, and the chunk of wood was They are plained that "we built the pile in a to fountain pens which can be right at hand." It works as well as clipped into the breast pocket, the other rods, and never has been Actually, they are ionised cham- replaced. most ambitious
bers for detecting the presence heat equivalent to the amount put The heavy water pile generates of dangerous radiation.
out by 10 automoblie engines--no more. The uranlum within the piles The piles themselves are en does not burn up" and will last in- cased in thick concrete, to pre- definitely. vent the radiation from escap make the calculations necessary for The piles originally were used to ing. One of the piles is about the construction of the big plutonium one-story high and has six sides, plant at Hanford, Washington. They The other is rectangular and is are too small to be used directly in about twice as large.
the manufacture of atomic bombs, A little more than two years
Now, they are being used to pro- duce radioactive research materials, jago I learned first-hand of the
HEAVY WATER
for further studies in nuclear atom's fury when I walked
Inside the smaller pile are physles, and for basle calculations on torn through the
the problema streets of
of building atomic blocks of uranium, botween power houses. Nagasaki. The USS Wichita, which flows heavy water, a rare aboard which I was a communi chemical. Inside the larger pile
A few years ago these atomic niles were at work to build a bomb. Today they are being used in research which may lead to a cure for cancer and to an age of atomic power.
of uranium are blocks blocka
with
.
“RABBIT" DOES TRICK . cations officer, had led the first
Radioactive materials are produced American task group to the
of graphite between simply by placing the materiais stricken city, and I was among them. This was the first pile within the pile, or by opening the first to view the destruc- tion. »
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ever to produce a sustained hole in the concrete wall and allow- ing the material to be bombarded chain reaction. And I was among the first was built under Stagg Field on the pile.
It originally by a
beam of neutrons from within group of newsmen ever to be
the University of Chicago Materials which
can be
made shown the chain-reacting piles, campus, and it was moved to radioactive very quickly are intro- which are the source of the
duced into the pile by a device the scientists call a One of the great defects in our bomb. The silent bulk of the its present site in May, 1944.
"rabbit," because it
The military establishment is the giving piles seemed ominous
"rabbit" is Each pile can be operated by works so fast.
similar of weak sentences for military when I recalled the destruction one man, although a standby to the pneumatic tubes used in big department stores to send offences.. I am convinced of Nagasaki.
always is present. The opera- bills and smail change 10 that, in justice to other men, sol- The newsmen were shown the tor sits at a control panel much cashier's desk, diers who go to sleep on post, who chain reactors at the Argonne simpler than the visitor might Materials which must be left with- go absent for an unreasonable time National Laboratories during a expect. It is equipped with lowered through an opening in the plle for long periods are
to me
during combat, who ahirk in tour conducted by the Atomic buttons, diala and red and green battle, should be executed,
officers
are
Energy Commission, whose lights.
It is utterly stupid to say that chairman, David Lilienthal, has general
not instituted a policy to inform the capable of knowing how to re-public about atomic power. move the life of one nilserable poltroon.
Prayer-by-order-
Even Patton's faith in God echoed with the sounds of the parade ground.
A couple of weeks before the fateful Christmas of 1944, Pat- ton recalls, "The weather was If this book should ever be so bad that I directed all Army the only record read by some chaplains to pray for dry wea- student of the future, the con- ther."
that General Patton's army was
clusion might well be reached He called Chaplain O'Neill of the only opponent with whom the Third Army into his office, Ilitler had to deal during the and the conversation went along concluding year of World War these lines:- Two.
Patton was obviously sure of his own rightness.
He had no sympathy for cowards. Most "battle fatigue" cases, he believed, were "really using an easy way out."
General Patton: Chaplain, I want you to publish a prayer for good weather. I'm ired of these soldiers having to fight mud and floods as well as Germana. See If you can't get God to work on our side.
Chaplain O'Neill: Sir, It's going to take a pretty thick prayer rug for that kind of praying.
HASTILY BUILT
GG
the
in the
lop
of the pile. They are brought
out again by a grappling device. During the entire process the opera- for is protected from the deadly rays pushes six buttons. That staris elee- by heavy lead container placed
the
operator
To start the pile,
tric motors which pull from the pile
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long strips of cadmium, a metal that over the opening in the pile. captures neutrons. When the strips
SENT TO OAK RIDGE The road-to-the-top-of-the or control rods are inserted in the
plle, no chain reaction-la-possible-Radioactive materials for which hill where the piles are situated because neutrons emitted by uranium the scientists have no further use are is winding and narrow. The 235 are captured in the strips. pinced in lead containers and ship- ped to the Clinton laboratories, at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where there are concrete facilities for storing them until they become harmless.
Few people understand what hap- pens within the pile, but there no longer is any secrét about it. The fundamentals of the process are as simple to understand as putting together, or more aptly, split- ting them apart. apart.
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
THE debate which her
blocks
When
an atom of uranium 235
is raging the Administrational Report" of 1885 (Vol. VII., PP. 928- 334). Also P. L. Walker's "Journal game in Africa brings up once the Entomological Society of emits or throws off a noutron, the more the question of the huge Jammu and Chamba" of March 1881 stray neutron or "bullet" may hit the nucleus of another uranium 235 Kashmir beetles, which Keating (Vel, XXIV., pp. 16-19 et seq.) and atom. When that happens, the bom
Ahaha-barded nucleus splits. That called small game and Speke big Mrs Margelson's "Whither.
land?" (ch. IV.).
known as fisalon.
game.
When the tourmente blows these Ploo sar shonge... beetles come from Kashmir, and es there has never been any question Amor loco; amor loco
The bombarded nucleus in turn throws of three of its own neutrons, which in turn may split other nuclel, thus creating a chain reaction. of admitting them to the game pre- Yo por vos, v vos por otro.......... serves in Boyce Province, Ulamja O runs an old Castilian poem,
NEUTRONS HARMLESS or Tenetomi, they settle at will, in written nearly four hundred clouds, all over everything.
Their years ago, and echoing today in the
Neutrons themselves are not dan- little teeth are so sharp that in 1928 heart of the man who said, accord-gerous unless exposure is constant.
sheathing-platca of two schooners my shabby hat, and went on with a beam coming from a hole in the flying carpet. I want the praying in the Menzies expedition to Van Cheer up, cully, you haven't inlased
lying on Lake Kurail in readiness friend of mine, who was richer concrete wall. It didn't even tickle. The neutrons, however, can make many materials radioactive. Sucht materials capture the neutrons and throw off in turn gamma and beta rays, which are dangerous.
In a demonstration of this pheno- menon, D Dr
I ping incidents. Of the time, in Patton: I don't. enro if it takes the gnawed their way through the ing to my paper, "She laughed at I held my hand in front of a neutron
Honce those notorious slap-
Sicily in 1943, when he hit a man across the face with his glove because he thought he was malingering, Patton writes: "I am convinced that my action in this case was entirely correct. and that, had other officers had the courage to do likewise, the shameful use of 'buttle fatigue' as an excuse for cowardice would have been infinitely re- duced,"
In another' part of his book, he writes:--
NANCY
NANCY --- IT'S BITTER COLD
OUT---
It's a Cold Fact
done.
for
he
Diemen's Lond. The natives of much, as the actress said when the O'Neill: Yes, sir. May
because say, Ahahaland shoot them with little stock-broker sulked General, that it usually Isn't arrows steeped in the deadly julco hadn't ordered crab salad. customary thing among men of my of the valul-treo. profession to pray for clear wen- ther to kill fellow men.
Their rocky home
In passing
me theology or are you the chaTLE home of these beetles is onEARING anoged nurse call annuclear Wom H. Zinn, noted.
Patton: Chaplain, are you teaching
lain of the Third Army? I want a prayer. O'Neill: Yes, sir.
The prayer was issued to the troops. And the next day, the weather cleared.'"
WEAR YOUR HEAVY COAT, TWO SWEATERS, GALOSRES, SCARE GLOVES, LEGGINGS AND
BAR MUFFS
physics an
and director of the -Olderly gentleman "Master Argonne laboratories, held a thin the Upper Jhelum. 1.000 feet Harry." I thought low little old strip of silver in the path of a up, in the great palaeozole foldy of nurses change throughout the cen-neutron beam. Wit
Within
three seconds tertiary and quaternary zoolite. turies. For what did Euryciela call the silver becamo radioactive and They were discovered in 1874 by Odysseus when he at last came to turned to cadmium.
called him "My Zinn said gold could be made in the pile, but it would be more ex- And she wan right, for such things pensive than digging it, out of the
ground.--United Press. warm the hearts of men.
two Davarian doctors. Schist and his home?.. She
that all the child."
Gneiss, who noticed
herbage in the valleys had been gnawed to bits..
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