Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1928, Page 27

“LAWS OF GROWTH" RESULTS ARE GIVEN Social Agencies, Humans, Animals and Plant Develop- ment Called Similar. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—New @vidence of the power of the laws of growth, heredity and instinct was pre- sented today to the American Associa- tlon for the Advancement of Science ®nd affiliated soct Indications t human beix ®re subject to sihil which gov s of develop- ment, maturity_s line, were ad- wanced by Dr. F. Stuart Chapin of the “University of Minnesota. ;. He suggested that if such a “law’ #ould be cstablished for social institu- tions, it would become possible to predict ®nd control their future development. s findings, described as “prelimi- were based on a study of changes | the commission plan of gov-| social institutions, Is and plants ali ws of growth,” affectir ernment, the city manager plan, the er and the city ch he compared occur in animals be- ath. y " he said, “that the | fotal changes four political institu- | tions for a period of years may be de- | scribed as a growth tendency not unlike | the growth principle of organisms. Heredity Instinct. Prof. Austin Ralph Middleton of ‘.hei Uni of Louisville demm‘ls\rat(‘di that an hereditary tendency lasts at| least as long as the time required to breed it. His experiments were made’ with a #ingle-celled creature called paramecium. After three sets of these animals were fed on different diets for about a month, they developed different rates of “birth.” | A paramecium really has no “birth.” | in the ordinary sense, but about once a | day divides into two cells, each of which | is an adult. After changing these nor- mal periods of cell division into periods of different length, Prof. Middleton took 8 the special diets which brought this about and returned all three groups to their normal diet. The newly acquired birth rates, however, persisted in each group “as long as or longer than” the time required to develop the traits. Virginians Tell of Tests. Two other investigators, Prof. Wil- fiam A. Kepner and J. W. Nittycombe of the University of Virginia, showed that a basic instinct can live on through generation after generation even though son for its existence has been v experimented with a complex Instinct involving both theft and self- protection in a species of worm. This| creature normally kilis and eats smail | animals known as hydra, which fave stin, substances in’ their bodies for n After the worm has eaten the hydra, | | 1t appropriates the protective stingers, | which appear on its own body. For 21 | generations, however, worms of this species were kept without need of hydra- eating, either for food or self-protection, but when members of the twenty-second meration were given a chance, they tinctively ate the hydra and took ession of its protective stingers in e normal fashion. Attempts to destroy the instinct were made by cutting a worm in two and allowing the ‘tail half to grow into a new worm, and by keeping the worms from mating, causing them to reproduce only by dividing into two worms. The instinct to consume hydra, however, survived even this test, the University of Virginia scientists asserted. COL. DWYER TO RETIRE. Military Attache at Chile to Be Re- lieved of Duty January 186. Col. Thomas F. Dwyer, Coast Artil- fery Corps, stationed at Santiago, Chile, military attache at the United tates embassy, has been relieved from that duty, effective January 16, and ordered to his home in the United Btates to await retirement. Born in Ireland March 25, 1874, he was graduated from the West Point Military Academy in June, 1895, and subsequently served in the Infantry, Coast Artillery and Quartermaster Corps. He received a silver star cita- tion for gallantry in action during the ‘World War and was promoted to the grade of colonel in July, 1920. ‘The government of the Federated Malay States is now operating all railroads in the Malay Peninsula south of Siam. lS > animal | 3 WYOMING HILLS RELATED TO BAHAMA MUD BANKS Princeton Paleontologist Traces Similarity as Based on Present Mangrove Shoots. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—The mountains of Wyoming and the mud banks of the Bahamas are probably geological cousins, in the opinion of Maurice Black of Princeton. Similarities between the chalky mud banks and the 2,000,000-year-old lime- stones near Thermopoli, Wyo., he re- ported to the Paleontological Society of America today, have been studied by a party of Princeton geologists who have visited both places. In the Wyoming rocks, he related, they found fossil roots which they | could account for only by comparing | them with mangrove shoots now flour- | ishing in the Bahama mud banks. Since | mangroves didn’t exist 2,000,000 years | ago, so far as paleontologists have been able to discover, the fossil roots of ‘Wyoming were accounted for as extinct | forerunners of the present-day horse- tails. 'PHARAOH SOLAR DOGMA ATTESTED BY EDUCATOR “Children of the Sun” Seen as Link of Kinship Uniting Man, Animal and Inanimate Matter. By the Associated Press EW YORK, December 27.—Thy aohs of Egypt were right when aid they were “children of the s Dr. Bailley Willls of Stanford University told the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science last night. “In the Pharachs’' day he alone was of that majestic lineage,” said Dr. Wil- lis, “but today we all are. “It is no longer a distinction. We share it with all races of men, with the beasts of the field, with the ser- pents that crawl, the fishes that swim and the microbes that multiply—even the rocks are our kin. From them to you and me runs the heritage of sub- tance and energy, all of which come from the sun by virtue of which we are children of the sun.” HESS FUNERAL TODAY. Veteran Police Officer Is Buried at Frederick. Funeral services for Lieut. William P. Hess of the Metropolitan police, who died at his home, 1809 Thirty-fifth street, Monday, were conducted at the residence at 9 o'clock. Interment was at_Frederick, Md. Lieut. Hess, who was 62 years old, was on duty at the harbor precinct and had served on the police force for about 35 years, during which time he was everal times commended for bravery n connection with arress. _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, EARTH CRUST SHIFT SEEN AS POSSIBLE Action of Inelastic Inner Core May Change Terrain, Educator Asserts. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—The earth’s crust Embably 15 not “dead” and finished in shape, the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science was told last night by Dr. Bailey Willis of Stanford University. Instead, even the stable bottom of | the Atlantic Ocean now may be heat- |ing up preparatory to causing land shifts, The theory is that scores of miles down in the rocks that form the skin of mother earth, great blisters form, as big as whole States, and that as they melt the rocks, the resulting upthrusts make the earth's surface what it is, and whatever it may change to. But there was nothing of possible human catastrophe in Dr. Willis’ pic- ture, for he spoke in the new time concept of science, his changes requir- ing millions of years. He comfortingly named well known places where on the slow time scale such shifts actually seem now under way. Inner Earth Structure. “We know the kind of rock that underlies the sea,” he said, ‘“from | seismographs, with ald of earthquakes | we can sink our plummets more than | half way to the center of the earth. We know the velocity at which shocks travel, the depths at which they pass | through or around the earth, and the kind of rock they pass through. We know that the earth is enveloped about 2,000 miles thick with elastic rock, be- low which is a core about 2,000 miles in radius, apparently inelastic, very heavy, probably iron, which may be melted.” ‘The heat that causes blisters, he said, probably does not emanate from the ea:th's inner core. “Compression by gravity,” he added, “is capable of producing all the heat of which we have evidence, as rocks heat, the melting tends to extend laterally faster than upward, thus form- ing blisters—asthenoliths, we call them. asthenoliths appear likely to develop in those layers thirty to six hundred miles below the earth’s surface, and probably only those ‘within less’ than one_ hundred miles of the surface di- rectly affect it. “A blister may grow several hundred miles across, and be 10 to 20 miles deep, containing one or more million cubic miles. 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Conditions favorable to formation of | with the multiplicity of actions required by the theory. . “Is the earth dead? Are the ocean basins and continents made and finish- ed? . Are there no active astehno- lllh;f;‘ “There is a great deep off Japan, and the chain of volcanoes dominated by Fujisan. There is the deep of the Aleutian Islands, with Katmal and many other volcanoes. ‘There is the Atacana deep, off Central Chile, and the volcanoes that rise in the Andes. There are. many others in the Pacific and ‘West Indies. “Only the Atlantic region now ap- ars to be relatively cold, though per- aps warming up to become active some millions of years hence. “Why do continents stand high? Be- cause they are relatively light. “Why are continents compressed and mountain chains pushed up? Because the cover of an expanding asthenolith as it recrystallizes crowds against an adjacent continental mass, shears off a marginal section and pushes it up to form a cordillera, while in the interior a plateau is raised. _“Why are the continents all on one side of the globe and the Pacific on the other? Those are inheritances from the sun or from the earlier stages of the growth of earth.” |LEAVES TO GET PRISONER Detective Goes to Virginia to Get Man Charged With Murder. Headquarters Detective George E. Darnall left Washington for Char- lottesville, Va., this morning with a warrant charging murder, to bring back Andrew J. Hawkins, colored, 31 years old, of the 1500 block of Twenty-sixth street, who was arrested yesterday in the Virginia city in connection with the killing Saturday night of Ruth Watkins, colored, 21 years old, of 2221 F street. A telegram from Charlottesville | authorities informing the police of the | arrest of the man was received last night. 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The ring, she said, disappeared from a desk in her home the past two weeks. George Morris, 937 T street, reported the loss of an overcoat valued at $20. The coat was stolen from Dunbar High School, he stated. ‘The theft of seven gallons of gaso- line and automobile tools from the garage of Sidney E. Perham, - 4406 Chesapeake street, Monday night was|| reported. YOUR PIAND WOREHS 1110 G EST. 1879 928. 27 King Attends Opera Opening. ROME, December 27 (#).—The Win- ter seasch of the Royal Opera in Rome was formally inaugurated last evening in the presence of the King. Victor Emmanuel, clad in evening clothes, like most of his opera-loving subjects, was given a friendly demonstration. Claudia NEW GRAIN ACT STUDIED. Canada May Improve Existing Sys- | tem of Grading. OTTAWA, Ontario, December 27 (#). —Amendment of the Canada grain act, as & means of improving the existing system of grading, is under consider- ation by the Dominion government, it was learned today. Based on investigations being con- ducted in the Western provinces by the commission on ‘grain grading, it is be- lieved the government will recommend the redrafting of the act to overcome dissatisfaction among growers and en- able farmers to determine the grade they might expect for their wheat. Re- duction of the number of varieties in contract grades also has been sug- gested. @he Foening Htar g T Three Young Skaters Drown. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass., De- cember 27 (#).—Two girls and a boy, children of Mrs. Anna Gromelski of B o Housatonic. were drowned in the Housa- tonic River here yesterday when they broke through the ice while skating. Two bodies were recovered. 781“';, the Nose and Throat Prevent Attacks of Colds and "Flu" NOZOL To Keep the Nostrils Clear and Healthy “Spray the nostrils and throat with an oi? to keep them lubricant. ‘Flu” and grippe germs cannot take hold in membranes that are well lubricated” ...such is the advice being given out by leading health autharities. 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