ATOMS WITHIN
ATOMS EXPLAINS
LEARNED PROF.
DR. WHITNEY MAKES NEW GEN
ERALIZATIONS FROM WORK
OF SCIENTISTS
LQS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 7. (/p)—
There are probably three more ele
meats to be discovered, was the pre
diction ventured by Dr. Willis R. Whit
ney, of the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y., in an address be
fore the American Chemical Society
recently. Discussing “Matter—Is
There Anything In It?” he said sci
ence now has reached a stage where
a physical picture of the structure of
atoms is more intricate than any earth
ly model, and more perfect geometri
cally than any known celestial sys
tem.
Making new generalizations from
the work of J. J. Thomson and R. A.
Millikan, Dr. Whitney said:
“Matter is at least not merely dry
and hard, nor yet soft and wet. It
is electronic and celestial, whatever
that may mean, and the most we know'
about it is that it is almost entirely
space. It is as empty as the sky. It
is almost as empty as a perfect va
cuum, although it usually contains, a
lot of energy.
All the elements from the smallest
to the largest, the speaker declared,
can be constructed by orderly assem
blies of positive and negative elec
trons. Of the atom, lie said its actual
smallness is impossible to realize, but
so much seems known of its dimen
sions that we must accept it and try
to apply it.
“A molecule of water,” Dr. Whit
ney illustrated, “contains two atoms
of hydrogen. Suppose we start with
one single drop of water and let all
of its hydrogen atoms appear in turn
as drops of water. If these were as
large as raindrops they could cover
the whole world with a foot of water.”
Another illustration which Dr. Whit
ney gave was that if one of these hy
drogen atoms were made so large that
it became a yard in diameter, its elec
tron still would be only a pinhead in
size and its nucleus 2,000 times small
er.
The speaker described the composi
tion of matter as the chemist now sees
it and demonstrated by experiments
the realities of the unimaginably small
particles. He said he wanted to go
as far as he could in pointing out the
vacuity of matter as scientists per
sist in speculating and experimenting
on the atom because everything we
know is made of atoms.
“There are only a very limited num
ber of different kinds,” said Dr. Whit
ney. “These differences explain all
differences we can probably ever know
in our universe. Thus far, the more
we have sought to understand them,
the more we have gained in apprecia
tion of an unexplored territory of in
terest and service.
“From the original atom of our
youth, indivisible by definition, lve
now have a specious and divisible
atom. They differ from one substance
to another. This difference is produc
ed by increasing quantities of some
thing already present in the smallest
ones.
“Every teacher of chemistry used
the discovery of scandium, germanium,
and gallium, anticipated by the period
ic law, to illustrate the value of or
derly conceptions,] even though he
know that good critical data seemed
opposed to accepting any single pro
tyle matter from which to make all
elements.
“The persistent pursuit of this ir
regularity continued, and where blanks
in the periodic system exists we al
ways expected to find new elements.
Three years ago the anticipated ele
ment, halfnium, was discovered by
the X-ray method, in itself new*. Much
more recently -we learned of the dis
covery of two more—masurnium and
rhenium—by the same agent. There
are probably three more to be discov
ered.
“But we have now reached a stage
where a physical picture of the struc
ture of atoms is more intricate than
any earthly model and more perfect
geometrically than any known celes
tial system. The laws of astronomy
have been called into play, and super
cilestial orientations are necessary to
elucidate the complicated but not be
wildering, the novel, but not embar- ■
assing, internals of the atoms.
“The electron has become the ul
tra atom. We cannot claim that ours
is simpler than the atom of our fath
ers. Theirs was harder to compre
hend. The test is that our new atom
has .dope many things for us which
the old atom could not do.”
THE GUTTER SONG FROM
* * HENNESSY”
How well do I remember
It was sometime last September
As I slowly wobbled down the winding
road.
My heart was all a-flutter
As I lay down in the gutter
And a hog came up and laid down by
my side.
A lady passerby
Looked down with a sigh
And this is what she had to say:
“You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses.”
And the hog got up and slowly walked
away.
PAT’S BUSINESS ADVICE
An Irishman wTent into a public
house and called for a glass of beer.
The service was not to Pat’s satisfac
tion, so he quickly asked the barman
how many barrels of beer he sold in
a week.
“Ten,” replied the barman.
“I think,” replied Pat, “if yez stand
me a pint I could put yez on a plan to
sell eleven barrels a week.”
“Agreed,” said the barman, handing
him a pint. “How am I to do it?”
Pat, taking a big drink at his new
pint:
“Always fill your glasses.”
Formation of Seward
Boy Scouts This Eve
The first meeting of the proposed
Seward Boy Scouts organization, will
be held this evening at 7 o’clock in
the Seward Athletic club rooms. All
Seward youths who are desirous of
becoming members of the scouts,
which in turn will be affiliated with
the national-association, are request
ed to be on hand this evening for the
purpose of registering.
E. W. Barnett, secretary and treas
urer of the Alaska Hills Mines Cor
poration, planned departing from Sew
ard this morning on a business trip
to Anchorage. Mr. Barnett is return
ing the latter part of the week and
continue on to Nuka Bay.
BIG COMPANY IN J
INTERIOR REGION
COMPLETE DITCH
REPORT SAYS COMPANY HAS AC
QUIRED SUFFICIENT AMOUNT
GROUND FOR 17 YEARS
Seward arrivals last week from
the Interior district brought word that
according to a Fairbanks report the
Fairbanks Exploration company has
now 80,000,000 cubic yards of gravel
in its possession, which will average
from $1 to $5 a yard. It was stated
this amount of ground is sufficient
for the company to operate on stead
ily for a period of seventeen years.
It was also stated the eighteen mile
ditch, on which construction began
last spring, has been completed. Good
authority has it that next spring pre
liminary work on the construction of
seventy miles of ditch will be inaug
urated.
The report continued to the effect
that the big company have kept drill
ers out in other fields all season, pre
paratory to taking over more ground.
Public Hearing At
Federal Building
Saturday Evening
All fishermen, boat owners and citi
zens who are interested in the propos
shelter harbor in Resurrection bay are
asked to be in attendance at the pub
lic hearing Saturday evening which
will be conducted by Major Oliver of
the War Department. Major Oliver
will arrive in Seward from the Inte
rior Saturday. He has recently com
pleted a survey of harbor and ship
ping facilities in the Nome district.
The regular passenger train from
the Interior is due to arrive in Sew
ard this evening at 7:30 o’clock.
SUITS PRESSED from 15 to 20 min
utes with Sanitary Hoffman Press
er—Phone Madson 103.
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