The Secret of the Atom Radium, Like a Prestidigitator, Gives Us Glimpses That Onl> Set Vs a-Wondering, but When We Catch the Trie* the World Will Be Revolutionized. BY GARRETT P. SKRVISS A reader asks for the* meaning of the statement that "a comparatively small amount of radium could run a ship." The meaning Is that the atoms of radium are niled with in ternal energy, which, if released un der mechanical control, would do a vastly greater amount of work than we can obtain from any other known source. It is probable that all atoms are similarly charged with energy, but only those of Uie radio-active sub stances spontaneously reveal the ex istence of this energy by giving ott heat, or by hurling forth fragments, or constituent parts, of their atoms. Radium, by virtue of its internal energy, keeps itself continually at a temperature several degrees above that of the air around it. But the heat is given forth so slowly that it cannot be employed for mechanical purposes, to say nothing of the fact that the amount of radium at our command is excessively small. A piece of radium might be liken ed to a gradually oxydizing lump of coal; If its rate of atomic disintegra* tion could be hastened the effect would be like putting the coal Into a furnace and burning it rapidly, THE GLOBE TODAY THE CLOCK SAYS 801 THE GLOBE FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO THE GLOBE'S 0^$ One Thousand Cam^V n 1 i \Uj feji 'rounding towns—not only cloth hhb w'jyl Vlv ing buyers but many merchants j|[ for lowering prices on such high grade stocks as ours but in I 1 W? 1 wMBKwm spite of an upward price trend \• M \ *MMM THE GLOBE ADHERES TO ITS FIXED POLICY of "No goods carried over." The all important thing to be borne in mind is the fact that GLOBE ORIGINAL PRICES are invariably lower than those quoted elsewhere, therefore these REDUCED PRICES mean more in dollars and cents than the sale prices indicate. SIB.OO Suits Reduced to iJQ $28.50 & S3O Suits Reduced to .. - jj}24 50 520.00 Suits Reduced to sl6 50 $32.50 Suits Reduced to <jJ2B 50 $22.50 & $25 Suits Reduced to . SJ9 50 $37.50 Suits Reduced to <jJ32 50 Men's $3.00 Trousers $2.45 Men's $4 and $4.50 Trousers, $3.45 Men's $5.00 Trousers $3.95 Wool Crash Lounge Suits Goodbye Prices On All rn -f rv Straw Hats and Panamas I I S I II a One lot of slightly soiled Straws of every de- Qfl scription—All good styles—values to $3.50, I* Regularly worth $15.00 and at present at market prices considerably more All Straws Panamas at Half Price Smartly styled garments for young men and models $3.00 Straws . $1.50 $7.50 Panamas $3.75 for conservative men to give that "youngish" appearance $4 ()0 Straws . $2.00 $8.50 Panamas $4.25 Comfortable dressy and they wear like iron. t c nnc . COCA tKA T D fnr Strictly all wool—regular and stout sizes are here. JpJ.UU otraws . JpZ.OU Ip4.DU 10y0 1 <UI<UII<IS IpZ.^s We've Broken All Records With Our Great Mid-Summer Shirt Sale All previous high records have been smashed to smithereens. The values offered are to . \ say the least most extraordinary and it is doubtful if ever such values will be equalled for a 1 1 rj I 1 | long time to come. Note the big savings. Buy them by the one-half dozen and dozen lots. \\ \ 1 Owing to the remakably low prices at which these shirts are sold None sent on ap- Pjmßti J proval—None charged. V,' ' 5 i J J Men's Silk Shirts at. C 2 Q $6.50 Silk Shirts $5.00 worth to ss.oo SB.OO Silk Shirts . .$6.95 K*. Shirts at .. . . ...... Shirts at (CI r \ \ Worth to $3.50 M* Regularly $2.00 Shirts at Shirts at <DI le* ' / \ '' Worth to $2.50 Worth $1.75 Jft Bui Savings on Boys' Clothing Now THE GLOBE'S ONE THOUSAND SUIT CAMPAIGN always has a strong appeal for the parents of our boy friends, because they know that the clothes offered are matchless at their regular prices and f ! at the greatly reduced prices are wonderful bargains. Boys' Norfolk Boys' Suits Worth Boys' Suits Worth Boys' Wash Suits IfiWTx Wash Suits at $ 6 - 50 ' s 7 ' so & S B - 50 SIO.OO and $12.50 at $1.50 to $2.50 Value f $ 3 - 89 $5.00 $8.50 $1.29 y&U* |/I White, tan, gray and A special assortment — • % ! I M" L inens * n . d a ' ! sizes .- ldea l nearly all the' famous models ILjJ made gar'ments. 3 gs£ P '™ """" THE GLOBE Military Shop—lst floor FRIDAY EVENING, whereby its energy would become available for mechanical use. • If we could not burn coal, but could, nevertheless perceive by Its wasting away that it had within it a store of energy which only re quired to be delivered faster in or der to become available for our use; then the mechanical utilization of the energy of coal would be as alluring, and apparently as hopeless a problem fof us as that of the utili zation of the energy of radium is at present. The injmensity of the energy thus shown to us in a form in which we cannot grasp It makes its nonposses slon an Irritant, and ought to make it a powerful tonic to human genius. It is as if a tnountain of adamant showed by slight outcrop ping veins that it was stuffed full of Inestimable treasure, which de tied all attempts to gather it because of the impenetrable nature of the enclosing rock. Some time genius will break Into the adamantine prison of the atomic energies and release them as fast as we want them, and then —there will be "a new earth" for man to devel op his powers in. and the old one, the baby's cradle of humanity, will have passed away. Then a few pounds of radium will, indeed, drive a ship, not of the watery sea, but of .the fathomless blue ocean of the atmosphere, around the world, and possibly far ther than that! Then will come upon man anew the pril of pride, thinking himself in truth a god, but not remembering that the gods are Immortal, while radium, with all its hidden energy, is as mortal as man himself. In giving forth its essence of power, radtum perishes though slowly. The •'lifetime" of radium is calculated at several thousand years. It would be for man's interest to shorten it from years to hours or minutes. Thereupon its gigantic en ergy would come forth and tower up like the Irresistible genie from the Arabian tisherman's bottle, and be come his slave. It has been calculated that one pound of radlijm would, in the I course of its life, develop about 18,- 240,000.000.000 calories, or heat units. Now one pound of anthra cite coal, completely burned, can de velop 3.500,000 calories., which is only about one five-millionth of the amount stored in an equal amount of raduim. Then, make the pound of radium develop, or give out its energy, as fast as the burning coal does and look what you would have! But only a small fraction of a pound of pure radium has as yet been extract ed from its ores, in all the labora tories put together, and when it is mingled with substances tl\at are not so radioactive as Itself radium's power is proportionally diluted. Yet, there is. all told, a good deal of radium in the earth, enough, per haps, to help keep it warm, or rather to prolong Its existence as an .unfrozen and life-bearing globe. So, too, it has been thought that radi um in thee sun may be a source of supply for its apparently unlimited energies. But there is reason for thinking that radtum Is not peculiar in pos sessing vast storees of energy locked up in Its atoms. On the contrary, it is probable that all the atom of which the universe of matter is made up are similarly constituted, HABBBuukG TELEGRAPH bo that even the Invisible air la packed with energy that if released could be used to produce mechan ical effects. It has only been actually proved, however, that the atoms of sub stances of great atomic weight are thus endowed. One may get a con ception of them as centers of poten tial energy by likening them to wound up springs which perform no work until the catch Is released. Where did their energy come from? How were they wound up, and who, or what did it? Only speculative answers have been given to these questions. Wo do not know how the mechanism of the solar system, with its revolving and rotating planets, originated, al though it lies all open before us; even less do we know how the sys tem of the atom with its infinitesl mal and unseeable particles, which move with speeds comparable with that of light, was farmed. And, as we cannot yet use the earth for a flywheel, so neither cap we employ the spinning atom to produce me chanical power. FALSE FIRE ALARM A telephone alarm from 2018 North Third street, last night proved to be false, and several uptown tire companies which responded returned after making the run to the ad dress. TO EXAMINE CLERKS "The United States Civil Service Commission announces an examina tion for first grade clerk,' field service, to be held on September 7, in this city. Application papers can be secured from the secretary. Board of Civil Service Examiners, Harrisburg Post Office. MOVING OFFICES NOW UNDER WAY Employment Bureau Now Is Wholly Run From Phila delphia; Others May Go v\\\ Pennsylvania \vs\\q seems to have - t given an oppor tunity Jto people In Philadelphia to transfer more 1 JHSffI&TO? state offices to 1 J accomplish what they were unable to do during the r,. previous decade. ♦ lns yesterday the headquar 'woo • tlle ,. state employment bureau £? .. realit J' moved to Philadelphia hnfiift rep ° r f s wUI Ko to the Finance building which is the headquarters rf„. Coun cll of National De fense in Philadelphia. uJILw" the war work began the limit 2 r ?v Wer ® here and 11 was an " 2? £?& that the State Commission ♦ a Defense would have p'r>n!? iT ln •Harrisburg of course but in a few months it went S i* • The stat e volunteer Police heaefquarters foUowed and rw° U . S co "Ordinated activities of the epartment of Labor and Industry, 'M 1 i CUI i Ure ' A< M ,l tant General and others began to be more or less cen- JL o. ln Philadelphia instead of I .5 St \ t , e CaP'tal- This has caused I considerable complaint from people to travel all the way o Philadelphia instead of being able to transact business in the*official center when here and will likelv be neard from when the Legislature meets again and millions are asked to continue some committees. Issu l Certificates of notification that the Metropolitan Edison Electric Company, of Read ing, has issued $2,200,000 of five per i n irtA t^. enty " year go,(i bonds and $1,200,000 of six per cent, gold notes have been issued by the Public Serv ice Commission. Among other issues announced are Baltimore and Ohio oVo°r a A ln Pennsylvania, bonds ' Fairmont, Morgantown and Pittsburgh railroad, bonds $68,500; W heeling, Pittsburgh and Baltimore railroad, bonds $10,000; Pittsburgh and western railroad, bonds $28,500; Baltimore and Philadelphia railroad, bonds $12,000, these railroad issues .to bo for reimbursement of Balti more and Ohio railroad for additions, alterations, etc., in the last half year; Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company, Lancaster, common stock, $105,650; Edison Electric Company, Lancaster, common stock, $i,500; Beaver County Light Com pany, 'bonds, $96,500; Wyoming Val ley Water Supply Company. Phila delphia, common stock, $118,900. Advisers Busy—State farm advis ers have been asked to speak at over fifty picnics and similar gatherings to be held in farming communities throughout the state, according to statemehts made at the State De partment of Agriculture. The advis ers problems have increased many folds since the stimulation of agri culture due to the war and there have been calls for them to visit hundreds of farms. Now the picnic season is commencing. Bid* Rejected —Highway Commis sioner O'Neil has rejected bids for the construction of the bridge in Washington township, Fayette county, as too high and the state will do the vork. Discus* Routes —Routes for the Sus. quehanna Trail highway in York county were discussed with Commis sioner O'Neil yesterday by a commit tee of the trail association. The marker was also taken up. but not approved. Wardens Busy —Reports indicate that the state game wardens have been working over time in the Car bon county region in rounding up the foreigners who have guns in their possession. Large seizures have been made and many prosecutions started. Carpenter Changed —John Carpen 'ter, of Potter county, has been drop ped from the State Treasury, but will probably land in the State Highway Department. He was formerly in the auditor general's department and later in the treasury. Nothing Filed —State Public Ser vice Commission officials to-day de clared that no new complaints about the Philadelphia transit system had been filed here as stated ln Phila delphia newspapers.. Auto Receipts Fall —For the first time in months auto license receipts show a decrease. The July statement compiled by the Automobile Division of the highway department, shows that there was a falling off In re ceipts of $3,820 as compared with July 1918, they amounted to $147,- 811.50. The report which State High way Commissioner tl. Denny O'Neil has Just made public, shows that there were 22,769 pneumatic-tired motor vehicles registered during tht month; 1,929 solid-tired; 695 tractors; 113 trailers; 2.129 motorcycles; 4,484 paid drivers; 39 tractor drivers; 137 dealers; 7 tractor dealers; 9,730 oper ators; 10 tractor operators; raises In horsepower for pneumatlc-ti*od motor vehicles totaled 452; raises in weight for solid-tired motor vehicles totaled 63; transfers for pneumatic-tired, solid-tired, motorcycles, and tractors totaled 3,860 and 1,797 licenses were reissued, making a grand total of all classes of registration and li censing for July of 48,214. 900 Quarts of Whisky Stolen; Cannot Appeal Hoqulam, Wash.— Rupert Benner ton had 900 quarts of perfectly good whisky burrled fifteen miles out of town and somebody stole it. The whisky would have brought Rupe 9,- 000 at prevailing prohibition prices. Now he is out the $5,500 he expected to get. for it, aa he cannot ask the sheriff to hunt for it. To admit own ership of the stuf would be to pleead guilty to "bootlegging." SCOUTS IN SI MMER CAMP Carlisle. Pa., Aug. 2.—Lead by John S. Byrne, scoutmaster, the Carlisle Boy Scouts, about thirty in number, have opened a summer camp at Laurel. It will be con tinued for several weeks and has been named Pershing, in honor of the head of the American Expedi tionary Forces. YORK ENLISTS 75 The Harrisburg recruiting station yester/lay entrained seventy-five men from York county for Columbus Barracks, Ohio. The men were enlist ed during July. They were accom panied to the city by the Boy Scout band. JUST BEFORE RETIRING Take Hornford'a Acid Pboaphntc Relieves thirst and fatigue, re freshes the system and rests a wearied brain. Non-alcoholic. Buy a bottle. Advertisement. ' EVERY ALLIED PLANE SOON TO CARRY BOMBS British Trainers Liberal in Praise of American Stu dent Aviators By Associated Press With the American Army in Eng land.—Almost every airplane used I by the Allies sooi) will carry bombs. Experts in aerial warfare are con vinced that the general efficiency of the corps will be increased If a bombing device is adcfed to every plane sent out. even though it be of the type once intended only for recognizance work, and Americans now training in England are being as carefully drilled in bombing as in handling a machine gun. Lessons learned during the resist ance offered in the recent offensive have served to increase the already high regard of both British and American officers in the air service for the lowflying, bomb-carrying craft, and, over vhe camps and countryside where aviators are be ing trained, planes are in evidence almost every hour, dipping down from high in the air and skimming the nearby country, barely missing tree tops and houses. It is the new er lesson they are learning, and ob servers back from the front where the allied planes did such remark able work not only in scouting and distracting the enemy but actually in breaking up formations and at points checking tho <>nward move ment have urged concentration on that form of training. British trainers, dutaffed to Amer ican aviation camps, have been lib eral in their praise of the new fliers from overseas, their only criticism being that the Americans are "a bit too keen." Their tendency has been to go in for flying stunts rather too early in training but even this the trainers have admitted is a valuable fault, although one not to be en couraged. Team Work Necessary It has been pointed out to the Americans that team work as well as individual efficiency is a prime requisite and the Americans have steadied themselves to the routine their trainers have found makes for general advancement if not for in dividual applause. Fancy flying, the acrobatic work that once found fa vor and drew heavy rate receipts at aerial exhibitions in the United States, still is taught but the learn ing of that form of flying also has come to be regarded merely as rou tine and wholly incident to the steady, low flying desirable for at tacking camps and troops in forma tion. Accidents have occurred in the camps where the Americans are be ing trained and a few men have been killed, but the records show that the percentage is far less in England than in the United States. Those in tVaining here are inclined to at tribute the difference more to luck than to anything else, although there also is pointed out the proba bility that the average airplane used in England is a better made machine than the average that has been used in the United States. The bombing devices being at tached to virtually every plane is not the contrivance that was used in the earlier days of the war. That used then was little more than a mechanism that released the pro jectile, allowing it to fall at a point approximately near the target. The device now being used is one with which the operator may with much practice become almost as proficient 'in marksmanship as an artillery sisirar THE THE LEAD They Have Nerves of Iron and Real Red Fight ing Blood Vital force is the material from which leaders in all walks of life are made, it is well worth getting and holding. Tha health and nerve of the ath lete is what Nature intended. every man and woman to have. The blood of an athlete is pure and red, a strong heart pumps and drives it throught his body. No won der that every inch of his system is tilled with energy and health, his nerves like Iron, spirits high, hard tasks a pleasure and life one song of Joy. A leading Doctor says, "Everyone should feel this way. That if you are not red blooded, are nervous, all run down and on your last legs, for you to build up your blood and ner ves with exercise, fresh air, nour ishing food and Nature's great pre scription Phosphated Iron a real blood and nerve builder." Then you will be there with vim and push to easily do the work that you now do on your nerves alone. He also says, "Phosphated Iron feeds the blood cells with iron and Nerve force, and that leading spec ialists are now using it successfully all over • the country, .that It has sprung Into almost instant popular ity with the better class of doctors as one of the few remedies they can de pend on to produce results." Special Notice —To insure physi cians and their patients getting the genuine Phosphated Iron we put up in capsules only, so do not allow dealars to substitute any pills or tablets." For sale in Harrisburg by George A. Qorgas, 16 North Third street, and P. K. R. Station. /" V August Clearance Sale Ladles' White Shoes and pxfords—a dj | OQ special lot OImOSJ Ladies' Black Pumps and Oxfords —values up to $6. Special at 51.49 Not all sizes in every style but all low slioeß generously reduced Goho's Shoe Store 1307 Derry Street Bell Phone 2SBU-K AUGUST 2, 1913 maq is with his gun. Almost every lifcht plane will carry bombs of at least twenty-flve pounds and from the heavier types there will be hurled the huge containers of high explosive not materially different from those used by the Germans in some of the more recent raids. zor VfAl-HUT Sir., j Stern s Semi-Annual Gigantic Sale of High Grade Shoes Starts Tomorrow, Saturday, August 3rd, and Continues For One Week Only Talce a glance at these prices and you will readily realize how much to your advantage it is to get here early to morrow morning if you are interested in a good pair of SHOES AT A BIG CUT IN PRICE. Sale Positively Lasts One Week Only Women's fV~~I Sport Shoes /$,: J-jr— > OF FINE WHITE SEAISLE (Hfl * jtlfe * I leather moles or Rood quality rubber W| ' l L MOIeN. Mofit all Mixed to Mtfirt. <%jj* Values up to $3.50. * Jy" * | Sale Price /JL* .$1.98 V Men's White >. ' Jl >r\ CANVAS C I —'~"SL^S C OXFORDS rv j&> J SALE PRICE, • $1.98 C> Women's Fine $3.95 J||i I * 100 PAIRS WOMEN'S $2 heelM. Some like cut. Sale prlee, O QC Women's Dull Kid Two or %S>£d,U%J Three-strap SANDALS Goodyear Welts, 93 Values. Growln* Girls' Dull or k'atcnt KVi'. ViYJ Colt Mary Jane Piimpi. Sale price, ■ >vK,*\<s■< Mk4oo Pairs Women's Pine Patent Colt or Soft Dull Kid Pumps, Oxfords, and Stra P Sandals H^a>'\W'i'i'il®\ Value* up to 94.00. Sale Price, tl AO o„7- Ky * I •"* Strap Comfort Putnpai Mary * Jnf. Ml cut <i> " ..." —A *\ $1.98 DIES AFTER. FALL Frank Yingst, aged 65, died last night from injuries sustained July 28, when ho fell from a scaffold at th new Keystone Motor Car Company building, at Fourth and Kellte* streets. His injuries consisted of lac erations and a ibroken back. 13
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