1932-02-01 — Page 7

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932

SALT FOR THE SCIENTIST'S

TAIL

A WORLD CHANGED.

Something Which Baffles our Understanding.

The Rev. J. C. Hardwick, it, since everything, ourselves in M.A.B.Sc., formerly Chaplain of eluded, would grow or shrink Ripon Hall, Oxford, writes as fol- in proportion. If the stellar

galaxy lows in the Evening News,

to which we belong in pre-scientific days the human were to shrink to the size race lived in a homely world which of an oyster, the buses would waa comprehensible in its nature still continue to run along the and behaviour, and was, in fact, Strand, and you would still be able what it seemed. There was, as the to read the print of your evening conjururs say, no deception. When newspaper.

you set your foot down you might

feel sure that the ground was solid

Time ..

Then there is another considera. underneath, and then you look-tion. From one point of view-

you from that of Sirius, or of the nebula not of Orion--a human being is an in- they finitesimal creature. But what

ed

at up

the atars, knew that they were 80 fur off but that might be reached in a balloon. As does a man look like to a microbe, or for the moon,

when that gentle to an atom, er to an electron? If luminary shed her allver beams over an electron

to an atom,

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the world, lovers looked up at her as 3 fly is to St. Paul's, and were conscious of a benediction. and If an atom is itself True, life in those days was hard. so small as to be out of range There were no automobiles, no cen-jof the most powerful microscópe, a tral heating, no cinemas, and. human being becomes of astronomi- what WILS worke, there were cal dimensions by comparison. As по dentists. A living had Mr. Robert Graves has pointed out

DEATH ON HONEYMOON. somehow wrung

from in a poem called "Midway," the was human species is poised between

ex-two immensities which cancel eachments of the L. M. and S. Railway, Railway officials of several depart-

Lancaster and Carlisle section, gathered in Penrith Cemetery re-

be

the stubborn suil, which ill-drained, pest-ridden, and hausted. When crops failed there other out.

was no other source of supply, and But if Space need not terrify us, you sirved. But though Efe was what about Time? Its endless re- bitter and hard, it was lived in

CHINA MAIL.

LEADING SAVANTS OF EUROPE BAFFLED

MULTI-COLOURED LIGHTS

- FROM BODY,

A mian, whose power to emit various coloured lights from his body has baffled Europe's leading scientists and investigators, is at present in London. He is Pasquale Erto, a 36-year-old Neopolitan, and he is to be scientifically examined by officials of the National Labora- tory of Psychical Research special seances.

It

For years Italian scientists have tried, in vain to explain the investigatory seances phenomena. Before each series of in Paris, Signor Erto was hathed, washed and thoroughly examined in A nude state, but scientists, conjurors and chemists were alike baffled when called upon for an explana-f attion of the mysterious Hghts.

was at the request of Professor Emanuele Sorgo, the prominant Italian scientist, that the National Laboratory of Paychical Research undertook the examination of Signor Erto. "Erto goes in to a self-induced hypnotic-state, and it is while in this condition that, it is When in a dark room, his body said, the different coloured lights was surrounded by multi-coloured | emanate from his body," Mr. Harry lights. Beams of blue, orange, Price, secretary of the National red and yellow lights emanated Laboratory of Psychical Research, from all parts of his body, and said: "Apart from his travelling sometimes reached to a distance of and hotel expenses. Erto will get more than six yards.

nothing for his trip."

Signor Erto is of good family, and is a chemist and druggist in Naples. Ten years ago, when handling sealed, photographic plates In his business, he discovered that the imprint of his hand, had been reproduced on the plates.

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HIS TWO DAYS OF CROWDED LIFE.

Unemployed Youth Who "Lodged" at Cinema.

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RUSSIAN BARON DIES AT HIS SUSSEX HOME.

Gave Music Lessons at 77.

agression into the past, and endless cently at the funeral of a colleague, Roxy Cinema Theatre in New York of the Royal courts of Europe, a

race сате

youngest son of the late Mr. John Harrison, coal merchant, Penrith, Mr. Harrison died at Brighton after contracting pneumonia. He was married on November 19 to Miss Madge Thompson, daughter of Mr. George Thompson, of Penrith, and because the day after his arrival at Brighton on his honeymoon.

homely world and against a compre-progression into the future-both Mr. Frederick Herbert Harrison, hensible background. Man tolled before the human and suffered, but he did inte existence, and long not despair, because he felt after its

place will know at home, und lived in a lit no more-seem equally ter- world which he could believe in rifying. But when all is said and and comprehend. Even though he done, time can only exist for con- could not master it, he did not feel scious beings who are aware of its it was altogether alien to him. የ 73,535 $ 30, The coal you put on the

The Terrifying World.

fire before sitting down to read has We have changed all that. The been coal for I know not how many old solid, homely comprehensible tens of thousands of years; but the world has disappeared. The men coal is not conscious of the fact; of science have conjured it away.for it, the centuries have passed in- In its place they have put something (stantaneously. The profoundest vast and inhuman which baffles our and deepest sleep you have ever en understanding. There is, I be-joyed can give but a poor idea of the lieve, a species of nightmare from sleep which the coal has enjoyed which children Buffer, when the fail those years. room in which they lie suddenly That which has no consciousness begins to swell. The floor of time is outside time: for it, time grows wider, the walls re-simply does not exist. And when treat further and further, and people talk of the long neons of the ceiling mounta upward. time which elapsed before life ap- Soon the room has become apeared, they seem to be talking of big as a church, as big as Olympia, something very like the smile with- and it is still growing when the un-jout the Cheshire cat. Until consci- happy child, with a shudder, divesļous minds have come into exist under the bed-clothes. The human ence? I do not see how time can race Ands itself in a similar posi-exist. Even for animals time can tion. Its homely world has sud-hardly be said to exist, they do not denly swollen to vast proportions, "look before and after," as men do and has become terrifying and into their sorrow. comprehensible.

It is

ed.

A 17-year-old-youth, John Me- Donald, "lodged" at the fafous

for two days before being discover He is one of New York's unem ployed, and stood outside the Roxy and begged passers-by for "the price of a cup of coffee" When the place opened he had enough money for a stail. He bought one.

Inside he was warm and comfort- able; but, after watching the con- tinuous show for 12 hours, he be came slightly reative..

What They Thought. He wandered about in the vast theatre and found his way down

to a particular presentation of it- namely to those observers who are travelling with the same velocity as the earth.... Space and time, in the form in which we commonly re-into the basement. Officials he en- present them, cannot belong to the countered thought he was one of the I stage "turns." Actors and actresses imagined he was somebody connect- ed with the management. He even- tually discovered the staff restaur- ant-and ordered મ substantial supper.

external world."

The picture of the universe which is drawn by the man of science would appear to owe a good deal to the artist.

Then, much refreshed, he saw the rest of the programme.

When the audience went home he crept down to the basement and found a snug corner.

The whole of the next day he spent between long spells of watch ing the show and visits to the base- ment. He was served with more meals--and spent another night,

And the fact that we can draw a plcture of the universe at all seems to raise us to its level or bring it down to our level (It amounts to the same thing): What dismayed, us was the thought of being lost in an infinite and alien universe. But we must not forget that if the universe has grown, this has only been because our minds have been Thank the Artist.

able to grasp a larger conception of some compensation, of And besides the above there is it; ner can a universe be called allen (below. course, that life meanwhile has be- Relativity, which I spell with a which can be probed by the human come so much easier; we have our capital because it is a mysterious mind. Humility is doubtless a central heating, luxury liners, and word. If understand the idea virtue, but it should not be over- Bright and early "he" rose the 50 ОП. But what is it all worth aright, it means that the observer done. We should not be too self- following morning, hoping, no when the human race

and which is you and I-enters into the effacing. If we are dependent upon the universe, perhaps it, in a certain sense, is also dependent upon us. Where would it be if we were not here to know it? Even Mr. Edgar Wallace would be nowhere unless there were, a public to admire his

the life which it Ilves are make-up of the Universe and con- dwarfed into insignificance by tributes something to it. "The the vast background of the detailed frame of space and time," stellar universe? What is the writes Professor Eddington, "in use of being so comfortable, so which we are accustomed to locate pampered, if our life has lost its the events happening around us be dignity-if we are only insigni-longs not to the external world but | writings. ·

ficant insects after all? The child

in the expanding room will not be made happy by the thought of the stocking filled by Father Christmas and hanging at the foot of the bed. What the child wants is to have its

the door to say Good-night.

There Was A Change.

A friend of Mme. Schumann and a former singing master, at many music professor, who carried on his teaching up to the end, has died at Stfying (Sussex) at the age of 77. He is Baron Raimund von Zur Muhlen, and he has been living in Britain for 30 years.

Many well-known singers of to- day were his pupils,

Just before he came to Britain, during the first revolution in Rus- sla, he saw his house, and posses- sions destroyed by fire.

Last year the Baron-who pre- ferred not to use his title-sat withi a blanket round his shoulders on the lawn of Wiston Old Rectory, his British home, and watched the house being badly damaged by a fire.

Pupils Kiak Their Lives.

His pupils risked their lives to save his possessions, among which was a stained-glass window from his Russian home.

In spite of his age, he supervised the rebuilding of his home and con- tinued teaching.

Born in Esthonin, the Baron be- came a Russian. He learned sing- ing at Frankfurt and in Paris. He made a speciality of the songs of Schumann and of Schubert.

He sang Arat in London in 1882, and when he settled down in Britain to teach singing his pupils came from all over the world.

LESSON-SERMON,

First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.

doubt, that there would be some- thing fresh on the programme. But one of the ushers eyed him sus- piciously. He was taken to the ofice and questioned.

"Love" was the subject of the They are good-natured" people at Lesson-Bermon in all Churches of the Roxy, John was given £1, a Christ, Scientist, on Sunday Jana- suit of clothes and shown the exit.

ary 31...

ABOUT BONES GOOD AND BAD

The Golden Text wis."Be per- fect, be of good comfort, be of one) mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you,""] (II Cor. 18; 11.)

Among the citations which com- Homely little room back at its In our early days of dog-keeping, same way, When it is given its about too much for the dog to be prised the Lesson-Sermon

was the normal size, with Mother opening there was an unfortunate incident first bone we wait until it is getting content. It is better to put a mat following from the Bible."Belov

over its first ravenotie excitement, a door-mat is excellent-in a cored, let us love one another; for love The fact is that the men, of which taught us a lesson not com- and then, talking to it all the time, ner out of the draught. It gives is of God; and every one that loveth science have made things physically monly learned. We had an Afrewe gently pick the bone up for a a "grip" to any bone, and the dog is born of God, and imoweth God. far more easy for us, but spiritually dale, a powerful fellow with a second and then return It This can soon be taught to stay on it He that loveth not knoweth not God; far more difficult. And if we charge them with this, and beg them amiable disposition. One of his invariably makes the puppy furl happily until the bone is falshed. for God is love." (1 John 4; 7, 8.)

ous, but as time goes on it get less It is generally unwise to let a dog The Lesson-Sermon also included to help us out of our difficulties, they admirers was a little girl next door, suspicious, and lets us handle the have his bone among straw. Quite the following passage from the will say that this is no business of who used to come through the bone as much as and when we like, long pieces of straw are apt to be Christian Science textbook, "Science theirs. They will not raise an eye garden gate and blay with him on

until perfect confidence is establish- swallowed, and we have had trouble and Health, with Key to the Serip- from their microscope or test-tube

the lawn, They were on excellented.

́on several occasions as a result, or galvanometer to look at us. We terms, and on sunny days made a

pures," by Mary Baker Eddy, "Peo- The secret is, of course, never While most people (but not the ple go into edstasies over the sense and our nightmare phoblas are less pretty sight as they rolled to tease the dog and never to fall kitchen staffs of hotels and of a corporeal Jehovah, though with interesting to the scientist (unless about on the grass, writes L. L. H. to return the bone. One of our restaurante) realise that the bones scarcely a spark of love in their he happens to be a paychologist). In the Manchester Guardian.. setters become so used to it that of poultry and game are exceeding-hearts; yet God is Love, and with- than the square root of minus one. One day the dog was given a fine the "bone game" grew from a habit ly dangerous, it fe not always be out Love God, immortality.cannot The scientists are far to absorbed big bone, which he took out on to to a pleasure. Whenever cookieved that chop bones are almost appear. Mortals belleve in a finite to notice what they have done, and the lawn. A few minutes later the gave him a bone he sought out his as bed. Some experts maintain personal God; while God is Infinite how they liave robbed us of that quiet of the afternoon was shat master and took the bone to him that a dog's special digestive organs Love, which must be unlimited. (p. nursery universe where we felt so tered by a piercing scream, follow to be held up and admired a trick need the rough treatment which (312) much at home. The thought of an ed by agonised sobs. We rushed which gave him much satisfaction splintery, crumbly bones" Inhuman universe does not worry out and found the little girl badly and delighted visitors. Even a doubtedly give. The f them; perhaps they themse yes have bitten on the wrist and leg. The stranger could have approach that chop bones have never falled become just a trifle inhumas.. dog was guiltily guarding the bone ed that bone without dan to upset our dog's stomach, and we

Buses, Still,

Niger. He was an extreme have barred them, Big buckle- Well, if the scientiaf will not What had happened was obvioùa, example, ......... Bat even with dogs of, hones are the basta... They last", "a help us, 193 must try what we can and it was hard to blame doggy na- less individuality we did at least long time and they are good for the do for

take the ture. But we made up our minds safeguard thoughtless and Junior teeth, Tuyou mit any marvo Space, the Infinity of that in fature no dog of ours should members of the family fat bones, you will receive, much

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When dog is kept in a flat, or gratitude by digging out the maz relative but mischievous, person tried to

house without garden or yard row with the handle of a spoon the take the bone away. We discover bones are messy things. A sheet. APART bled or ed that it was not a difficult mat We treat every puppy in the

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