New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1928, Page 11

NISTERY OF LIFE UP T0 SCIENTISTS Sovera Report They Have Liltd Part of Cartain Glasgow, Sept. 13 (UP) — The mystery of life occupied the atten- tion of the world's foremost acien- tists today. Discaveries were announced to the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science, in session here, which hinted that several acientists believed they had lifted a corner of the curtain and caught a glimpee of the processes that make an animal different from a stone. « The most startling announcement was the statement of Prof. Freder. ick G. Donnan, of London, that he believed *“the day was nearer when the physiologist will be able to create life.” e Causes Furore The statement caused & furore. It ‘was made to the press in amplifica- tion of last night's lecture in which Donnan explained that he regarded as pevolutionary ' discoveries about life made by Prof. Archibald Vivian Hill, noted physiologist. Donnan qualified his statement by explaining that such ‘creation” could only be in the simplest form and that, although the day was “nearer,” it still might be far off. Nevertheless, the statement by a re- putable scientist that man ever could create animate life was. re- ceived with amazement. ; “The present understanding of th organization of life is such that there is no reason why a living cell should not be constructed. in a lab- oratory,” Donnan told the press. “Neither is there any. reason why the actual creation of life iIn warm oceans should not be observ- €d, but the construction of living cells could only be in the very simplest form." Take a Long Time He admitted that it would take “an infinity of time, in fact, almost unthinkable” to construct a rela- tively complex organism such as an amoeba or a sponge. Donnan’s and Hill's discoveries, based on the mechanistic theory that life is a chemical proccss, were re- celved with reserve by many scien- tists. In nearly all comment there seemed to be the feeling that science might go so far, might penetrate amazingly into hidden secrets, but always beyond there would be some- thing intangible, . and still unex- plained. Not On This Planet There was the repeated sugges- tion, too, that the origin of life was not contained on this planet; that it came from somewhere in spacc. Those views were discussed by Sir Oliver Lodge and by Prof. E. P. Cathcart, Glasgow University regius professor of physiology. Prof. Cathcart said: *'I thiuk this probing into mechan- ism s admirable, but it is no solu- tion. The solution is beyond our ken altogether. 1 am = completely against the mechanistic view. “Professor Hill told me once he was eonfident we could ~xplain most or our mysteries in terms of physica Name Address NEW BRITAIN Tel 3600 and chemistry, but when we made the explanations, we would always find beyond them other things to be explained, and then—always & be- yond.” 8ir Oliver Lodge said: “I do not believe we shall under- stand the mystery of life unless we take the ether into account. Does it possess the potentiality of life so it can crystallize into matter? We do not know, but I think the solu- tion will lie somewhere in that di- rection. “Men of eminence devote their lives to the study of the mechanism of lite and it they are wise, they will say at the end: ““The mechanistic statement fs true as fgr as it goes, but it is not the whole truth. We are not pre- tending to tell that, It lies envelop- ed in mystery.” - Can’t Com| b “We do not get ultimate explana- tions' in science but approximate ones. “We do not yet understand what lige is, but do mot be afraid of the machinery of life. The more we can learn about it the better. We may have ideas of what animates things but we do not know. “Professor Donnan has told us of the possible production of life, a terribly difficult and complicated subject. The explanation in terms of something coming from another planet 8 no explanation, but I do venture to speculate on its being something which crystallizes out of the ether of space.” Oxygen Keeps Cell The essential point of Hill's dis- covery, as explained by Donnan, was that oxygen keeps a cell from dis- integrating—that is, that a living cell not ony ceases functioning when oxygen is cut off, but breaks up. Donnan characterized it as catch- ‘nl the cell at the very moment of ransition from life to death. “We begin, perhaps as yet dimly, to un- derstand the difference between life and death” he said, and, therefore, the very meaning of life itself.” | WOMAN DEFENDS HUSBAND Mrs. Full Replies to Political At- House of Representatives, Boston, Sept. 12 UP—When Mrs. state house of representatives and candidate for republican nomination for lieutenant governor, hears her husband under attack she does not hesitate to go to his defense. She did so last night at a rally under the auspices of the Business and Professional Women's Republi- can club of Massachusetts at which William 8. Youngman, state treas- the lleutenant governorship nomina- tion, took the speaker to task for a vote in favor of 2.75 per cent beer several years ago. Mrs. Hull gained the floor at the conclusion of Mr. marks and defended her husband to his opponent’s address. 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Hull, wife of speaker of the urer and, like Hull, a candidate for Youngman's re- | who had left the meeting just prior accorded prolonged applause as she 15, 1928, BALDWIN TALKS IN BEHALF OF SWITH Former Republican in Pean. Makes Speech Darby, Pa., Sept. 12 UP—Richard J. Baldwin, former: republican speaker of the Pennsylvania house of representatives, made his first speech for Gove. Alfred E. Smith last night at a mass meeting of Del- awape county demoerats in Manoa. ‘When a man who has voted for 50 years as a republican and has cast every- vote in a presidential election for the republican candi- date, changes his party affiliation in 1928, he must have a good reason,” he declared. His Reasons “The reason why I am not sup- porting Hoover or his running mate may be answered by the reason why 1 am at this time following Smith. I believe that the governor of New York stands unique among Ameri- cans; I believe in him because he has the courage to express his con- victions even though the presidency itael? is at stake.” Baldwin said if an honest poll of the American congress could be taken it would show that 90 per cent do not obey the prohibition | law. “I believe that if a similar poll were taken of the jurists, of the dis- trict attorneys and the whole people, a majority would be found violators of the Volstead act. “The prohibition law is the most colossal fallure in the legislative history of this nation. There was not a trainload of delegates that went to either national conventicns that was not filled with bug juice, and yet those delegates dodged. Let us stand with Al Smith because he is true.” PARTY RESULTS IN THREE ARRESTS AS GIRL DIES Nebraskan Killed When She Falls! From Fourteenth Floor in Loop Hotel. Chicago, Sept. 12 (UP)—An early morning party in a loop hotel had resulted today in the death of one girl and arrest of three men, includ- ing the son of a millionaire Indiana manufacturer, pending investigation of her death. Ethel Jo Brown. 22, who came to Chicago from her rarm home near Royal, Neb., to study at a hospital, was killed when she fell from the 14th floor of the hotel. The three men held are W.'W.| Williams, 22, Albert Hines, 65, a varnish salesman, and a man named Stewart from Bloomington, Ind. Willlams is the manufacturer’'s son. Hines told police he had invited Williams to his room to meet Miss Brown. They had dinner and a few drinks were served, he said, before the party ended near midnight. Wil- llams later returned to his room to borrow money and was intoxicated, the salesman said. Williams. said the young womanl had become ill and that he left her | on the fire escape while he went to Hines for money. peared when he returned, according to the story told police, . 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