Judge — January 19, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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q Auaociate Editor, ¥ Wonders Never Cease S exclusively forecast on this p: of scientists and other. s: s foregathered during the holiday week to show samples of their new lines. y. More sober sheets than ours will review it with the earn . many bodies It was an amazing displa estness that it) really merits. still gre For our part, being vy from much reading of professional popu larization as transmitted thr gh the daily press. we shall just set down a layman's impressions of the year's fashions in’ wisc Man has bounded space; we now conceive that space is not infinite and the universe is closed he temperature of the moon gets up te 265 de grees at noon and down to 196 below zero at night cold enough to freeze alcohol if there were any on the moon; but of course there's prohibition, Human origin on the earth has been dated back beyond the half million years formerly reckoned, perhaps to as much as three million years ago. One million years ago there were men in England, “just outside London.” which suggests that our early an cestors were suburbanites. Paleontol just scratched the surface phrase for it. But the d ing to Dr. Hrdlicka, Vor twenty years not of work has been done at the spot in Pithecanthr where the according to Roy Andrews. has ‘which seems the proper urds, accord lick va wher nd, while at Piltdown lawn man" has been located many. sei ers are la mus Erectus was entists pay visits but only one has been doing any more excavating. It does ok silly, when there is so much argument about evolution, that so little prac tical spade work is going on. Mold, maggots, fungi and bacteria, long regarded 1s enemies, may be put to work by the chemist for the benefit of the farmer, just as the wolf was con verted into the shepherd dog. Heat measurement has become so accurate that the warmth of a candle flame can be detected a hun dred miles away. Four thousand jokes were tried on one hundred Vassar girls, who kept note books about what made them laugh. The best jokes turned out to be those Jon personal superiority. A father of forty-five grasps facts just as quickly as a son of twenty—which is a comforting discovery in these days. Proper study of the ductless glands would explain hard J. Walsh geniuses and, said Dr. Binder of New York Uni- versity, would show up military heroes as “physically and mentally unbalanced individuals.” The difference in athletics between form ing has been charted; the conclusion is th iy something that anyone can lez that theory tried out on certain but timing is also easily fo why the earcers of Weather forecasts cent accuracy by th nd tim- t timing n (we'd like to see Ifers we know), tten, which explains overs end s suddenly. an now be made with 95 per aid of radio. But business forecasting is a’ flop. “We simply cannot hope,” says Professor Ross of Cornell, “to be able to fore- | ast prices, rates of production and profits.” And finally, our outlook having ceased to be an- thropomorphie and geocentric, there is no lo officially any such concept as however, reme us had noticed, In this imperfect surve. in.” Immorality, ns a practical possibility, as some of of vast fields, the intent Far from it. We yield to none 1 even awe for the achievements of Loudly we hail the rather new tendency toward the humanization of knowl We do think that some of the savants come dangerously close to jazzing their stuff, just to see the public’s eyes pop. Craving for publicity may also be the cause for some of the bitter controversies between spokesmen for different schools of thought. But Professor Boring of Harvard, with the tolerance of the psychologist, s. “The greatest scientists are often the most prejudiced in maintaining their personal views. If we could ban all personal prejudice we should prob- ably have no research of value.” The scientist is indeed, as Owen Young has said recently, the poet of our cpoch. As such, he is entitled ‘to his fine frenzies, his passionate espousals and his little annual week of rodomontade. * * * TT astonishing rumor is current that the meeting of the tennis association next month may sanction — | open tournaments. Actually, now, think of ama- s playin inst one another, Of course, golf has got along very nicely with this democratic practice of putting the best players together without regard to their means of livelihood. But golf is only a game for sportsmen, whereas tennis is one of the last strong- holds of the genteel tradition. is not to ridicule. in respect science. teurs and professiot right out in the open! RW. comicbooks.com