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{1ts atmosphere. Other details are' i R TS | brought out or eliminated by use! A of the intermediate yellow and green rays. BEIN[i lEARNEI]‘_idenufluflou of the brightest lines I3 Physicists Doing Much to Solve Problems | Washington, May 11 UP — The| secrets of the stars are becoming | fewer and fewer as the astronomers, with exacting curiosity and con- stantly increasing resources, pry tirclessly into the infinite flield oY mystery which embraces them. Probably the grcatest contribu- tions to the equipment of astrono- | mers in recent years have come out of the work of physicists, whose | primary interest lies in the struc- | ture, behavior and primordial | sources of light and matter, Much of the mystery of the| nebulae, those vast, luminous ('lu\x‘lsi which hover millions and even bil- NEW LOITALN DALY MiiALD, CRIDAY, MAY 11, 1928, thinking they have business at the lite House or with the president and who get ticketed and sorted in the west wing. Dr. Bowen's achtevement was the in the spectra of the nebulae with | oxygen and nitrogen. HAND MADE NALS STIL IN MARKET Are Used Especially for Making “01d Furniture” Worcester, England, May 11 (#— Nails are still made Ly hand in parts of England. Some are turned out by order from manufacturers of furniture after old patterns and others from various parts of the | world where special types of hand wrought iron nalls are required. A BY ALLENE SUMNER (NEA Service Writer) Washingtor, May 11.—A eensider- | 2nq.86 has been to the White House, able portion of America’s 110,000,000 read the newspapers, Ninc times out of ten the fitem spects at the White House today” merely means that So-and-80 was WHITE HOUSE EASY (605 2 But It Is Decidedly Hard t0 S6¢|ca e entered the west ing: ok He stated his name and errand to a fourth or fifth secretary—perhaps got as far as Fverett Saunders, the president’s own sccretary—but didn’t even get a glimpse of the president. \ It means, though, that Mr. So- just as any Tom, Dick or Harrlet of nearly |all.American do—and docs—elther every night most of them run across |,y just walking {n the an item to the effect that “Sir und | lady So-and-8o were visitors at the | Room in the main buflding by pre- | White House today.” The plain garden variety of Mr.|man. Ang there's the laugh! Said and Mrs. American who reads that|.nngressmen hi the great ones have been west whg door or by visiting the famous East senting a card from one's congress- stacks of these ] 10 the | iris that they issue to tourists White House thinks that it must be | rro), the old home town. | wonderful to be 80 Anybody mous and 0 {can walk right in—no card is needed to such nice places. And doubtless | .yt that fact is not generally thinks, too, that he or she has just |jpown, about as much chance of getting | issy.. White House cards, Hence, the congressmen Votes! lions of miles away and have puz- zled astronomers for genewations, has been cleared away by Dr. I. 8. | Bowen of the Cal ia lnslnulu‘”"’ of Technology. He is closely a ciated with Dr. R. A. Millikan, dis- | pang bellows of the forge. eoverer of the clectron and. more | recently, the cosmic ray, which he | than 50 persons now lving ! South America. recent foreign order came from |into the White House as into heaven | The best known worker of this |almost lost craft is Mrs. Nellie Dret- who lives at Lye, being assisted - | by a young nieco who operates the It is calculated that there are less has been able to account for as th energy released in the process of |making by hand of iron wrought | continuous creation of common ele- |nails was carrled extensively in ments by the building up of heavier pearly cvery home at Lye and other | out of lighter atoms. |villages in the “Black Country” dis- | Similarly, the discovery and | trict. Most of them are too old to analysis of the absorption effects of ¢ | dilferent substances on light, which | Quite a number of families, how produce the bands of a spectrum, |ever, have kept the litt has provided the means employed {where thelr fathers and mothers by Dr. Walter §. Adams of the Mt. {used to work at the forge, the anvil, Wilson observatory at Pasadena, |furnace, hammers and chisels being and Dr. Henry Norris Russell of |kept as sort of curiositics. The ad- Princeton, in thelr study of plane- |vent of machine methods had grad- tary atmospheres by comparing |ually wrested nearly all the business these lines. laway from them. But among the Use of a large and powerful | “Black Country” folk, it fs said the spectroscope with the 100-inch tele- | hand wrought nail is the best in the scope at Mt. Wilson, Dr. Russell |world, especially for shoeing horses. explains, has madc it feasible to photograph the spectra of the stars, | FINESSED PARTNER numbering hundreds, sometimes thousands of lines, on a larger scale and greater detail than pre- ; viously was possible. As a result, it | Then Trouble Started Which Finally has been determined that, among| pnds With Court Allowing $300 the lines due to the absorption of light by iron vapor, for example, some are caused by the action of undisturbed atoms and others by For Being Scratched, Los Angeles, May 11 UP—Bridge these bibulous days. But jt's as easy to walk into the White Touse as to prance into a cash-and-carry store and come out with three bars of soap and a can of beans. The tall fron gates to spacious| ‘grounds are unguarded. Nobody | were adept at this work when the tries to stop you as you walk #ght | (ions | in. | Visitors Are Sorted The west wing is the secret. Tt/ is the office wing, containing Mr. 1ge's office. It is also a sort real or fancied mission who descend upon Washington yearly, | One may approach the ex®cutive mansion, expecting to have to pass ard of soldiers; cxpecting, once to be questioned as to an- reflexes, lemon or cream with | tc. But all these fears are for naught An army of cameramen, keeping watch for visiting barber deles: thing beauties, fathers and mothicrs of largest familics, may begin to look professional and mur- mur, “Who is she2” But the tu- wmult soon is stilled. On the right is the room for the fattempt to apply their trade today. |of recciving ward for the thousands 'newspaper correspordents and on i sorted tourists and persons | the dor is a card announcing the | president’s appointiments for that day. Lucky is the man, even congressman, who gets more than five minutes of Mr. Coolidge's care- fully-scheduled time. Even they are ushered in and ushered out of the private offfte. Occasionally, the president goes out on the lawn to pose with some visiting delegation. This happens several times & week to the most photographed man in the United States. A strip of green carpet leads from the marble lobby, down a narrow corridor, to that “holy of holies"— | the president’s private office. In this outer hallway stande Pat Mc- Kenna, of the secret service, who has guarded presidents since 1903 'Women are the worst nuisances, says Pat, commenting on the gate- crashers whom he must halt, and munching an apple. i Three youngish men with heavy muscles sit in chairs, all in a row, i in this hallway. Reading. Secret | service men. One wonders how hard they could hit, {f— “There’s Mrs. Coolidg 1 look out a window and there she is, strid- ing along and talking animatedly to her own secret service man. She has no need to leave home for a walk, for the spacious White House grounds give her plenty of hiking space, The First Lady waves gafly to a | group of school girls at the gate, Cabinet Files Out The cabinet members, who have | been conferring with the president in the big cabinet room adjoining his rivate office, are filing out now. he cameramen zet busy. ‘rank Billings Kellogg, secretary ate, com out first. White- A little shrunken rand shriveled. Wears a morning cout. 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