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THE MARVELS OF TELEPHONY. IN THE BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES,
Working with millions of thin wires, electrical engineers of the Bell Telephone laboratories are shown here In ông step of the development of the dial tekphone system which
dispenses with the services of thousands of operators.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MARCH 30th, 1929.
ocean liners at a far distance awaiting their "pasongers and freight for the next trip neross the Atlantic. Inside, I had to peer | through a highly sensitive micro- scope to see the tiny crystals that make up the sleel of those ships. Here, It is no uncommon practico to cul a piece of soft melal or wood less than one len-thousandch of an incl in thickness, or tu measure the grains in hard steel. to a thickness of a quarter- millionth of an inch,
For in this Fairyland scientists have devised apparatus so highly sensitive that it can measure down Lo one-billionth of an inch, or a million of a degres in tempera- ture. It is the finest variationman has ever measured, yet it appearo in the motion of a spot of light that can be noticed in an instant,
Here, as in many other labora- torles, men and, women play with extremes. They count the in- visible atoms in nutter, so tiny that 100,000,000 of them side. by alde would take up only an inch of space. They work with ‘air no thin that it is almost a vacuum- almost nothing at all. The santo air, condensed into such a heavy state that it become a liquid more than 350 degrees below freezing temperature, is to these scientists na commonplace as the milk that is left on our doorsteps each morning. Into that extremely cold Hquid, the ruters of this selentifie fairy- land can plunge a red-hot carbon pencil and make it glow with an intense heat. A drop of this cold liquid on the xklu would make it blister as if scalded by the spark of a white-hot malten metal.
LIFE IN SALVADOR.
BULL FIGHTING AND OPERA,
Bull fighting and heavy opera are the favourite public entertainments in Salvador. Here is a bull fighter in action
before a crowd of thousanlä.
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ORIGIN OF MAN.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
THE BEGINNING OR LIFE ON EARTH
The age-long controversy re- garding the origin of man has been
revived hero in a violent form an tho, rosult of n lately published book by Dr. George Montandon, the well-known French anthropologist and traveller" (says a correspondent of the Daily News and Westminster Gazett), *
In his work, called "Human Ologenesis," Dr. Montandon re- formulates a theory about the beginning of life on the carin which Professor Daniele Rosa, óf Modena, has advanced, and with Professor Rosa's approval, he applies it specifically to min.
Some of Dr. Montandon's con- clusions run counter to accepted scientific opinion, and they are now being sharply challenged by French men of science.
For one thing he calls a "will- o'-the-wisp" the hope which an- thropologists still entertain of being able to ascertain approxi mately the spot on the earth's aurface where nanor, rather, man's ancestors-first appeared. Mankind, he declares, bluntly, has had no "cradle"; humanly never had a specific birthplace on the
The bacteria which ultimately- after long ages in which "evolu- tionary jerks" occurred-developed into man, appeared spontaneously on the earth, he declares, as the
of rosilt
climatic conditions
(By Rodney Butcher.) Brilain and Germany have alump-globe. Launión, El Salvador.-El Sal-ed from 27 to 16 per cent, and 10 vador, though much the smallest to 8 per cent, respectively. Ger- in area, is one of the two most many's present export trade to modern of the Central American Salvador, of course, has all been republics. It has of the regained since the war. denisest populations in the world Salvador probably will never and is intensely cultivated. One have any skyscrapers because of These are representative of the
Is told that in San Salvador, the her frequent earthquakes, but her wonders experienced in this fairy-capital, are 25 or 30 millionaire tendency in recent years towards land of melonce, all produced. from
Grent wealth, is in the hands of earthquake-proof steel and cement cold, logical formulas. Men and wonten pientists here seek the few, but the land is owned by the structures has opened up a
many. Eighty per cent. of it is American foreign market for these facts of our existence and try to accommodate them to our every- dny lives.
lavisible Light, We want a mach light an possible to see things. They shut off this Hght and search for things in a form of light that la invisible and harmful to the eye What is invisible to us they see. What we cannot hear, What we can't do, they do.
(By Israel Klein),, ] chémicals and the ham of motors, New York. The land of throb-1 experienced wonders actually bing life and nervous reality, that performes greater than were the we are prone to think of as New mental caprices of a Grim or an York, contains an island of dreams Anderson. and of magic of which few travel- Isaw my voice-saw it, not just lers are aware.
heard it-tangning up and down His Pairyland 'self, a moderajatross a screen, as I spoke into an But not a single wonder they fairyland, under the reign not of winary transmitter. Then I saw performs is done for fun. Theirs Invisible fairies bat of stern, my words recarkud by the trace of is the business of improving our 'reasoning men and women. It is light on a photo film, for, refined means of communication-by tele a fafryland, nevertheless, whure] dady by experts in phonetics. phone, by telegraph and cable, by I watched millions on Billlions wireless. What appears as a mar- the unsen is seen, the unheard
I
under cultivation.
materials.
New
There are 60 or 60,radio sets in
Salvador's foreign trade varien in extent. It all depends on the Salvador and there will be more. coffee crop, which supplies 90 per There would be more now if it cent. of the little nation's exports didn't take such an expensive set with a large crop at big prices to pick up stations in New York. Salvador is happy and prosperous. As it is, many Salvadoreans claim With reverse conditions, money is to have heard most of the Hoover relatively scarce. There was and Smith campaign speeches.
good crop for 1028,
Coming here from Honduras, vae Ands more shous and fewer:
bare feet. The native girls of Le Union, at least, wear American shoes and many of them wenri imitation silk stockings.
Bull Fight and Üpera. Bull nghing and heavy opera
in season, are Salvador's cipai amusements. Famous artists come to jab the bull and cranb to the high notes. The
seasona
the Teatro
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There's an efficient-looking army pera with natty uniforms and a hand-Nacional at San Salvador have to son artifletal park in the centre be sort, however, as the country
cannol support many perform anets in a stretch: Finish Big Paving Job,
of this town of 3,000 persona.
“Jazz and the fox-lrot are the
which are never likely to recur.
The apparition of life, he says, was simultaneous, and occurred all
over the earth, although he concedes that there may have been strips of mainland, on which no mountain taps, Islands, and even
such apparition was witnessed.
"Half-Humans.”
Dr. Montandon in this connexion Ands proof for the theory of the
ubiquity of the first form ances in the "formidable distances" primitive man unearthed in re- which separate the remains of
cent years.
His evident, he declares, that alf-humans" inhabited Buch widely separated spots as Gibral-
tar, South-West France, Central Germany, the Crimea, Southern England, the Caucasus, Rhodesia and the Cape.
Never again, he asserts, will the
be
becomes a thunder-crash and the of invisible electrons those tiniest vel to us is merely an experiment impossible is accomplished,. articles of matter forming grace towards perfecting our telephone,
conditions recur which will lead to the spontaneous appearance of This is the Magie City, strange juh blue curves of light on the end or speeding up the transmission of
Fife, and he doubts whether even to relate, od one of the greatest if a vacuum bulb,
messages, or clearing up the air scientide institutions in the coun-] Outside the brick building con- for radio communication.
1. W. Heard of New York and
In the laboratory (unless the Rene Keilhauer have just com-only customs we have taken from atmospheric conditions which try-Bell Telophone Laboratories, faining these wonders, horge- Every one of the wonders 1 anw
Outdé Fables.
trawn trucks clattered over the at these laboratories was part of pleted a $5,000,000 paying and the United States, a Salvadorean prevailed during the early stages
sewer job in San Salvador, which assured me rather proudly.
of the earth's history can That seems like a cold, harsh wide cobblestore streat to the the great experimental and re-
But our country, has not yet artificially reproduced) will men drop from the visions of a Fairy Jocks of beran iners along the search equipment seeded for this Salvadorenns insist is the only city
of the great batin of science be able to produce the City of our younger days to what Hudson waterfront across the way, work. Many of the men here do in Central America to compare taken any
genius Jor music. living from Inert matter. is just a matter-of-fact workshop Taxis fooled and ships sirens not seem to be gelling anywhere, with a modern American munici- American
When The Sun Was Larger. for scientific research. But no ricked inside. I locked myself Day after day, year in and year pality of similar size. The money Franklin Adams, equnsellor of the Joaned by the Chatham-Pan-American Union in Washing- fairy of our childhood dreams ever behind triple-steel doors in out, they appear to be playing was
How life once "happened" he
follows: The waved her wand over such start- sound-proof quiet room, where the with freakish devices that show Phoenix National Bank of Newton, has been raving for the last explains as
York.
years to this writer aboutmospheric and perhaps the cosmile Bing wonders as are neramplished trop of a pin could be detected by hardly any, relationship to tele-
Salvador has her own sugar re-the inborn musical sixth sense of conditions were such, at a certain Ju an orderly, spicatife way by sensitive instrument and shot phony or radio, the men and women in these out, like the boomy of a gun.
Daily Discoveries.
fineries and has factories to make our Spanish-speaking brethren, period during the cooling of the inboratories,
But every day discoveries are outerwent and underwear for here wins. The note-perfect band earth's surface, that life could and For here, mislst the odours of Outside, 1 could see massive' made-und from them follow people, though she imports horifrom San Salvado, playing piece must be produced over the entire yarn and cotton cloth continues to after piece without a single sheet surface during a specific interval be her largest import. from the of music, is not likely to be for-
of time. Those conditions occur- United States.
gotten unless one confuses it with red only once during the existence The mayor of La Union told me other Latin-American bands just of the earth, namely, at Its be that there had been no revolutions as good.
gigning.
Contrusts,
DOWN AT THE SOUTH
These remarkable pictures show what life Is Ilke in the grim and fey Antarctic, where Commander Byrd, and his men aro waging their South Polo quest. 1—A closeup of a penguin; these bh, man-like walking birds inhabit the polar continent
in flocks of thousands. 2-
This remarkable photo, re-
POLE.
produced by courtesy of H. G. Panting, is the only one ever taken exactly at the South Pole. It shows Captain Scott (centre, standing) and his four companions at the pole on Jan. 18, 1912, as they arrived to find that Captain Amundsen had beat them there by 34 days. 3 and Glimpses of the Antarctic landscape, showing the dimeulties that Commander Byrd will face if his plane is forced down. 4-A bull sed elephant, a huge animal found in the waters phat form the outposts" of the Antarctic.
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In his country for the last 30 years) All around, the band as the because of its excellent system of Houver party arrived at the port communications.
of La Union were piles of coiled
nt-
Young Han, enjoying a dainty morsel at Yaumati. (Photo: W. Stone).
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It is possible (he goes on) to be VEGETABLES more precise regarding the origin of life. The gun, when, this phenomenon occurred, was
ini-
Salvadorean trade developmentjbarbed wire from the United has been distinctly advantageous Stites. It lay all over the land-mensely larger and hotter than to the United States.. Although 80)scape, waiting to be taken to the "middle-aged yellow star" It in per cent, of her coffee crop goes farms in the interior.
to-day, and it emitted blue, violet, to Germany, more than 50 American business men eneous and ultra-violet raya more chemi-
par cent. of her imports come from theitered were highly optimistic.cally active than those to-day. United States. It is more or less One, representing office appliance These immensely powerful solar interesting to observe that her firms, said that he was able to rays, he declares, transformed importa from our country have figure on a yearly increase in his inorganic chemical combinations rison since 1913 from 40 per cent. Salvadorean business of from 25 into living matter, into granules, of her total to 51 per cent. while to 50 per cent; the country is de-comparable with monocellular the proportions of imports fromveloping so rapidly.
BUNYAN'S WIFE'S
BOOK.
Hidden away in a drawer with worthless lamber there has been] found in a Cheshire cottage an
Jago, and there Is only one known book of the first issue of "The Plaine Mun's Pathway to Heaven"
algae, into bacteria of the first simplicity.
"Evolution by Jerks."
After consultation with Pro- fessor Roan, Dr. Montanden formu-
in existence. It is in the Britishlates the following "postulates" of the theory of Pológenesis" Museum.
which he has applied to man's origli
Bound in Leather.
·
The book found is bound in
old book that promises to be of strong, leather, and is well pre- great value (says The Daily served. Only the edges of the leaves of the earlier pages are Chronicle correspondent,)
It is a 320-years-old copy of "The slightly damaged.
The Plaine Man's Pathway to Plaine Man's Pathway to Heaven," which, with another book, "The Heaven" was written by Arthur Practice of Picly," was the only Dent, and its quaint dedication by
him begins maxrlage portion which John "Your worships to command in
There was ubiquity in the appearance of life on the earth.
or
Billions of individuals belonging all to one and the same species (the Aral living chemical combina- tios) appeared on the earth, and from these have been derived all Hving organisms, animals and plants alike-the sycamore tree, Bunyan's wife took to him.
Bunyan was a roldier in the the Lord. To the Right Worship-the elephant and man.
Each of those first living Parliamentary Army when, at the ful Sir Julius Caesar, Knight, one age of 20, he married, and, bi of Ministries to the King Majesty,ganisms, which were certainly the High Court of ultra-microschpic, possessed the conversion is attributed largely to Judge of
Muster of St. same properties and possibilities. his readings of the books his wife Admiralty,
Katherine, A. D. wisheth all good Each type reproduced itself dur- bought him.
Ing a certain time until "matura- Both books disappeared long things in Jesus Christ."
The printer's note states that tion" was reached, when it threw. tremendous improvements in tele- the edition is printed from Soats off abruptly more highly develop- ed types, the process of "evolution phone, cable and radlo transmis- Shonbery, Essex, April 10th, 1601
Years In the Family. by Jerks" continuing until the sion. A development may take
The owner, who does not at perfected type was thrown off, weeks or years of intensive labour until the final reward comnes.
present wish to reveal his lentily, As regards man, Dr. Montaudon Thus was television accomplish-told me the book had been in his argues that, from the first living cells which the sun's rays produe- elin these same laboratories, family for generations, Thus were cable messages speeded. "It has been in my possession," ed down to civilised man, sudden up to 2600 letters a minute. Thus be sald, "for 50 years. It has Jain changes when "maturation" of was the dial system of telephony in a drawer with other things, and type was reached, and not slow developed, And In the same might have burnt it if I had evolution, marked man's upward serious and patient way were many not rend an account of Bunyan's trend. other improvements made that celebration, and a statement that havo saved, the people of the one of the two coples of "The United States millions of dollars Plaine Man's Pathway to Heaven" and many precious seconds in had boon lost. telephoning.
"I went straight to the drawer, These material wonders are remembering that I had ouch a what the fairies in this magic' city book, and among a lot of things I have brought us,
lat last found it."
If spiritual attributes have been conferred on man "extra terres- trially," such conferment, he says, could be most easily conceived to have taken place either when the semi-human stage or the finished slago in his development had been reached.
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