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tion by a Government Department. There Aro various methods of securing some measure of public control, examples of which already exist in the case, amongst others. of the B.B.C., the Port of London Authority, the Central Electricity Board, the Anglo-Persian Oil Com- pany, the Suez Canal, the Imperial Airways, the railways, and the coal and gas industries. These methods vary from operation by a public corporation, financial (and there- fore directive) participation by the

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COSMIC RIDDLE

By DR. R. A. MILLIKAN

(This article acts out the main motest exteriors of stars they points in investigations of the would be mixed appreciably with

the stars.

between

Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter left for cosmic rays, the study of which the magnetically detectables beta in the terminative influence upon all case is another proof that the rays Japan by the Asama Maru yesterday, may exert a profound if not a de-rays. That the contrary Dr. Ma Luk returned to the Colony theories of the evolution of the originate in the spaces

universe.) by the Empress of Asia after an excursion trip to the Philippines.

Electricity in the atmosphere

A Balloon Test electroscope. Be- Arrivals yesterday from Home by discharges an

The third fact is that not all the the s.. Carthage included Mr. and fore 1909 rays were known which cosmic rays are equally penetra-

took an

Was

space.

the

TAYS

Cameron, and 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 went up to 16 kilometres, After taking a dose of Jeyes fluid radio-active emanations from the through 92 per cent, by weight, in mistake for Chinese wine, Lenrth. In 1009 Gockel Loung-shi, aged 50 of 29, Belchern electroscope up in a balloon to af of the atmosphere, found that the Street, was removed to the Govern-height of 44 kilometres and found rate of increase of electric quality ment Civil Hospital by

in the atmosphere na wo went up yesterday. Her condition, however, that its rate of discharge is not serious,

greater at that height than on was not maintained in the upper earth. This showed that there regions: there are "soft" cosmic The local branch of the Chartered were rays whoso origin was out-rays, which do not penetrate all try's main industries are privatelyBank has received the following tele-side the earth either in the upper the way into our atmosphere. This shows that they enter the aimos- Kram dated 7th instant from the atmosphere or in outer

Office:-"Directors London

have Several other scientists besides phore as pure photons, a photon declared an interim dividend for the BUMPERS TIRE COVERS

past half-year at the

rate of 14% myself have made investigations being a fragment of the energy of sibilities, and I think that to-day with the velocity of light. The TRUNK RACK & TRUNK

UPARE TIRES & TUBES

per annum, aubject to Income Tax." to decide between these two pesan atom discharged through space The Lincolns are coming to Hong-the cosmic origin has been gen-rays that penetrate the farthent finally settle down" in equili. brium with the secondary......rays kang from Shanghai a month earlier crally conceded. than expected and will arrive in the

points which they, so to speak, pick up There are three main con-li Colony on October 3rd. In

which within the earth's atmosphere. »

хаун sequence of their earlier arrival, the about these cosmic rayı 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

the rays is practically, uniform total energy of the cosmie October.

It varies slightly which enter the atmosphere. The Early this morning an Indian canday and night.

as a result fact that the rays enter as pure atable, who was on duty in Kennedy with the barometer Rond, was attracted to house No. 27 of slight variations in the atmosphotons and need some distance by the blowing of police whistles. He pheric blanket induced by the al-to "settle down" in another proof, noticed a man, evidently a thief, ternate heating and cooling of the I think, that they arginate in in- drop from the window to the ground gaseous matter through which theterstellar space. and disappear among the

bushes rays reach the earth. But the in-l

These "soft" cosmic rays have tensity of the rays is quite inde Nothing, however

pendent of the position of the sun, energy of 26,000,000 volte, be- During last week, eight sex of the Milky Way or other celestial ing ten times as intense as the

radio-active and two objects.

gamma thorium; and they will pasa cholera, six from Victorin 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

An Einstein Equation hendth authorities. Death from

What is the source of all this ulmonary tuberculosis totalled 67 they would be strongest when the

I do not see how it can There was a clean bill of health on Sun was strongest; if from the

Milky Way they would be strong-energy? Tuesday.

st when the Milky Way was over-b, as some think, due to the an- Convicted of receiving a quantity head; but we find that they are nihilation of the matter of the of brass stolen from the Tung Taequally as strong at the morning stars, because I have shown that conclude the rays do not seem to have any

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PUBLIC CONTROL OF INDUSTRIES

owned, publicly owned, or a com- 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 body of this kind, whether constituted precisely on the basid suggested by that Conference or on some other basis, would, it is felt, not merely provide an imoprtant piece of ma chinery for the consideration of the general problems of industry, but would also be able to exercise a powerful influence on the general direction of the nation's economic and industrial policy.

Clause. By signing this clause of its Statutes, countries pledge them selves in advance to have recourse to the Court whenever they are en- gaged in a legal dispute with an other country which has also signed

the Clause. This is the first time

was stolen.

Origin of the Rays

If the rays came from the san

workshop at Shaukiwan, an elderly or evening twilight. I hawker WAH sentenced to three that they do not come from the relation to the stars.

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of

If one as-

to

states

Law Not War.

Among the several cases now be fore the Permanent Court of Inter- national Justice at the Hague, there is one between Norway and Den- mark of more than ordinary impor-months' hari labour by Mr. Schols misses of matter in the universe, sumes, as others do, cosmic elec- Lance. In the first place it has at the Central Police Court this but from the interstellar spaces. tric fields, ono will have, in order

was statori that morning. It

the heen raised as a result of the ap metal, which was worth $20, was This is not so unlikely a place of to account for the uniformity of langht by the hawker for $2.60, the origin as it might have seemed intensity of the rays on the earth. plication of the so-called Option!ity in values being held against] few years ago, before Bowen at to assume uniformity of distribu- the defendant as denoting guilty the Norman Bridge Laboratory tion of the fields with respect to universe. knowledge. The police proved three proved that the common elements, the earth, .c., practically a geo- previous convictions against the dehydrogen, oxygen. nitrogen, car-centric theory of the fendant, the last one dating as far

bon, and sulphur, well as which has been repugnant as 1911,

hellum, exist out there, giving rise science since 1500 ˆs.d. to radiations in regions which may For an explanation I turn to an be many light-years away from the Einstein equation which stars from which the radiations with entire definiteness that there start.

is по atomic transformation The second important fact about which can furnish the necessary I take it that the cosmic rays cosmic rays is that they are not energy except an atom-building pro- of the influenced at all by the earth's "es. taking very careful and very ex-building in interstellar space of at net readings with the same sensi-least some of the heavier elements tive electroscope. first at Pan-out of the lighter. We have abun- diena, lat, 340 deg. N., and then at dant evidence that all elements Churchill, Manitoba, lat. 59 deg. are built from hydrogen and N., the nearest settlement on earth helium; the atom of helium is to the north magnetic pole. From built out of the four atome of 80 the building of the fact that there was no dif-hydrogen;

from hydrogen is the ference in the readings I conclud- helium 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 I pl. not traversed any amount of mat-tion and other data to be 25,000,- March 1933 1.08 down I jt. ter which is comparable in thick-000 volts. which is at leant a re- May 1 1.11 down 3 pt.

ness with that atmosphere: if they markable coincidence. July 1933 1.17 no change had they would necessarily be

If this theory of atom-building Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 1.18 no mixed with secundary beta rays in the spaces between the stars

SUGAR MARKET

THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS The following cable at the cluse It will be remembered that been received by Messrs. Pen-magnetic field. This I proved by lare the wireless signals

of the sugar market yesterday has freath and Co.

One of the resolutions passed by the Trade Unions Congress now sitting at Newcastle urges, amongst other things, the public control This is of monopoly industries. in line with the study which the trade union movement has been that a case has ever come to fruit- giving to methods for securing the ion as the result of its application, transition from unregulated pri- though there have been several oc- vate enterprise to public ownership casions on which it has been in- and control of essential industriea, voked. In other words, the iden aimed at is what is termed "socialisation" of industry, and it is worth noting that the methods HOW favoured Idiffer very greatly from the older ideas of the farm which this social isation should take. The chango in outlook is largely the result of experience gained in the United Kingdom and abroad.

The Economic Committee of the T.U.C. has long had this question under consideration, and in a re-

the various League members whin,

the British are also members of Commonwealth have also signed and ratified this particular clause, 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. Ip the second place the Danish-Nor- importance in virtue of the fact wegian dispute is of considerable

that it deals with the right of pos-

London Terminals. December 1932 6/3 down 10 March 1933 6/6 down Id May 1933 6/7 down 1%20 August 1939 G/D down d Buyers at above prices, sellers asking d-d more

change,

PUNISH THE PUNNIES

By Edward Kelly, Penter,

This insidious punning habit has got to cease.

Let us organise a pun-itive,¤%- pedition for the pun-ishment of pun-пerя. (Sorry!)

There is only one thing be beat them with-brains. Deat them out with pick handles.

We have a friend who sa maon

which would be directed into the London (7/9/32)-Cuban Raws earth most abundantly along the proves, correct, it will obviously purt which it has submitted to the session in uninhabited portions of 96% pol, September shipment, earth's magnetic lines and would have the strongest influence on Congress an attempt is made to re- the Arctic-and, by analogy, of refiners have bought 10,000 tons at therefore enter it in the neigh-all future views of the origin and define the aims of the movement, in the Antarctic-regions.

6/3 per ewt., C.I.F. United King-bourhood of the magnetic poles, destiny of the universe. The dom.

If they came even from the re-ent 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 lost year organisation-that is, an under over certain portions of Eastern Greenland. Denmark claims the taking controlled by a body ap-

whole of Greenland, inhabited or pointed by the Government or

uninhabited, as her own. The other public authority ander Norwegians 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 cane before the mental regulation leading to operasion given by the Court which is Permanent Court. On the deci-

tion by public corporations. . It

the only place in the world where has to be remembered, in this con-ination can sue nation just as in- nexion, that essentin! industries |dividuals sue individuals in the and services upon which the very national courts of justice, turus a existence of the community depends great deal of interest of Britain. are 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, New Zea- power supply, and coal mining are land and South Africa claim all and lying between themselves to some extent regulated by Acts

and the Polo as their own pro- of Parliament: the supply of gasperty. In virtue of this claim and water is also subject to super they levy toll upon the whalers vision; whilst communication ser- in the Weddell or the Ross Seas, vices are State-owned. Other in They also try to restrlet whaling dustries which, though not in the within appropriate limits so an to same senso 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 last League Assembly there was unregulated, although Rome of i

passed special international them fell under a large measure convention for the protection of public control during the war. whales. Unfortunately, this has

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It does not follow, of course, that boon ratised, so. far, only by Industriass

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"Never mind his pedigree. Will he go for a stick?"

as he sees us, becomes a general riuisance. We hone m mental razor every time we meet him, for we know he is going to pow. Ho was vaccinated with a ro- phone needle. ·

lects

All panners have weak intel- toenails. and ingrowing That's why we don't like them

Therefore, they (punners, we maan) must be ruthlessly exter- minated. Ali punners aro skinny, wizened men. It shall be a ques- tion of the survival of the fattest.

We met one yesterday. He greeted us with, "What's the Mata, Hari7 Haven't you seem "Working Girls' yet?" We were a bit haughty.

We said, "Our name is not Harry. We are a married man and, besides, we are a journalist, not a sailor."

Here's one coming now. He looks determined. Wo can feel it coming on. So it's time te, get; Tout

Abyssinia

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