The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 18

TUESDAY, Su PTEMBER 23, 1919 “Girk Who Gets Married As Means of Support Picks Out Hardest Job” Disintegrate One Gram of Hydrogen— Lift 10 Woolworth Buildings 300, Feet THIS IS THE “ATOMIC FORCE” WE HAVE BEEN READING ABOUT Radium on Your Watch Dial, Disintegrated in One Hour, Would TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1919 Mothered Many Doughboys Mended Broken Hearts, Nursed ‘‘Like Ma” — MRS. ADJUTANT CROSBY OF SALVATION ARMY FOUND TIME TO RUN BUSY CLUB HOUSE AND STILL CARE FOR OWN FAMILY. Copyright, 1 amet SHE COULD EARN HER LIVING EASIER ANY OTHER WAY, SAYS DR. ADA POTTER Wife Works at Three Jobs: Home Maker, Manager| and Houseworker— Woman Needs to Be Three| Times as Strong and Well to Be Married as in by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), p A SK the average mother of two healthy, playful children of schook~* age how much time she devotes to interesta outside the home, . ° ° Ps and she will be overcom ith it.. “Why, looki aft Any Other Occupation—If She Marries for Love, Drive Your Railroad Train Home—One Ounce Would Liberate sy Ween 250 FaMRhy takek Overy ‘hlntite of my Uma,” she will Lal SoG Satisf y "se - : y “Then, how?” ask scores of people of Mrs, Adjutant Edwin Crosby, Her Love Makes it Possible for Her to Satisfy Energy Sufficient to Propel 189 Mauretanias Across the Atlantic aid you aver manage to care for two pretty children, « little boy and All the Complicated Requirements. : girl of your own, and find time to ‘mother’ 100,000 young warriors trom = * oo ba = . cane a pers = all parts of the country?" By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | coun: Mrs. Crosby herself has never been able to satisfy any one with @ reply to this question. For how she did it, she couldn't,tell herself, She Just did it, that’s all. And from almost every State in the Union and from the wide plains of Canada and the far flung homes of Australian and New Zealand troops, who passed through her club en route home, there qpnstantly filter through the mails little notes of appreciation from the boys themselves or some- times their families to Mrs, Crosby | for some small service she rendered these young strangers in this Baby- | lontan city, as the boys themselves referred to little old New York, Since a year ago this month, when | Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont decided to | turn over her dhffrage headquarters | in East dist Street to the Salvation | Army for a club house for the fight- ing men, there hasn't been a busier | place or @ happier centre in all New York Mrs, Crosby's duttes as head of this . club covered a wide range—from | binding up accident wounds and car- | ing for boys that became ill while | stopping at the club to healing brok- 7) i can't do anything else, she can always marry.” With that placid if slightly contemptuous formula the social wiseacres and the fathers, uncles and brothers overburdened with domestic responsibility have sctticd the feminine fate, The girl without enough physical strength to be an efficient parlor maid, without the mental development of the average telephone operator, nevertheless has been thought a} suitable candidate for matrimony—particularly if a pretty face or a sweet disposition camouflaged her physical or mental weaknesses. Women themselves, with the exception of the oceasione! heretic Ike Cicely Hamilton, have con- sidered matrimony as a sort of all comers’ event in the fleld day of life—a sure and comparatively easy way of obtaining support. Yet this widely held, tra- @itional view of marriage as a “foolproof” job, for which any woman is good enough and which any woman can perform, does not stand the .~ analysis of the experts in woman's physiology and psychology. I discussed the question yesterday) « with one of these exper‘s, Dr, Ada + Potter, Hollafd'’s distingu.shed dele . gate to the Internatiopal Conference of Women Physicians now meeting at © the ¥. W. C..A. headquarters, No, 600 © Lexington Avenue. In her home city * Dr. Potter is leader of the Neurolog!- . ENERGY LIBERATED'IN Five DAYS BY ATOMIC DISINTEGRATION OF 102. OF RADIUM wouLD PROPEL 189 "MAURETANIAS® | ACROSS “THE ATLANTIC OCEAN | for a girl to marry for any other rea- son than love, When she weds in order to obtain an easy means of sup- port Whe is making a great mistake She would find it leas of an effort to earn her living in any other way. |She could get a living wage in any number of occupations with less phys- x IF ONE GRAM OF HYDROGEN COULD BE DISINTEGRATED INSTANTLY - IT WOULD rs “KOSOUANT ceosey daily demand, No room to-night!” jen hearts. drawled a weary looking hero of the {cal and menta] wear-and-tear than LIBERATE ENERGY | These boys who had received | Meuse, draping himself over the littio N she undergoes ta & loveleas marriages, SUPEICIENT ‘TO LIFT wounds that cut deeper than any | office counter upon which she has entered for pure- | TENT WooLwoRrTH | ij “Tm ly economic reasons.” mn they had experienced in the melee in| just in from camp. Don't “ ife loves her bus- BUILDINGS CTOTAL.OF France were not allowed to brood| know your town, Don't know where tag agudlele pdt daha 1,000,000-T0NS) over their misfortunes if once Mrs, | to band, can she manage marriage to- 300.FT, Crosby heard of it. Since the war made it a smart thing to be identified with the work of the Salvation Army, many girls of high soclal standing took an interest in its affairs. And on the Wednes- | day night weekly entertainments at| the club house, many young daugh- | ters of millionaires helped to act as “Well, make yourself at home,” ad. vised Mrs. Crosby as strains of papu lar phonograph music floated down from the club rooms above, “and L will see what can be don In this case as in hundred8 of similar tn stances, Mrs. Crosby always seemed to be able to find an extracot. From buttons to cots Mrs, Crosby day without excessive nervous strain?” I asked the doctgr. “I do not know how tt is tn Holland, but in this country we have so many rest- less wives, so many divorces ending unions which certainly began as love affairs.” “In my country our divorces are the idle married women, what you ‘ very few," declarea Dr. Potter. “I . hostesses, and it was this way that|had a genius for locating them. think the reason 1s thie—and it ts! THE ELECTRON AND ATOMIC FamiLy TREE they were introduced by Mrs, Crosby| “Here son, let me do that. I can the secret of happy marriage, after jto the heart-broken youths. |see that you were never taught to love—that our wives, almost all of: Dinner invitations to their homes | sew on buttons,” and much to the joy them, work. We have very fow. of | C) arias and drives about the city|of the struggling corporal, who had * ELECTRON? tre parties, and this new so-| been cited for bravery for a fist to a ‘ ¢ 7 - | fist encounter with the enemy in the call th risites, If our women do = mo! tad 7 ATOM ATOMIC cial diversion helped to divert atten | py maker: ea they manage their own | seulib (HvoRoGen) Werenr tion. from their troubles, and finally| Argonne, he gracefully yielded his : “eoo to set the young men thinking that| buttonless coat to the ever useful plot tetany Me pal OF A.M there were other girls in the world,| Mrs, Crosby, who seemed lieve we average larger families in |* er , | Mrs. Crosby ed to possess and perhaps just as attractive ones too. | “What's the matter, son?” asked Mrs, Crosby one day recently, as a an almost psychic knowledge of the needs of her young guests, No mother ever cared more tenderly for those of her family who claimed Holland than you do here, although physicians in good standing are le- gally permitted to prescribe family | limitation when the health of the, COMPARATIVE SIZE OF Atom AND @) Dispensary of the University of} Utrecht. i ELECTR dejected youngster sat in solitary | her greatest sympathy and attention, a ; ragga ~ ree Armee oe mother demands it. 424 gloom in the corner of the writing| than did Mrs. Cresby care for tho 4 Gatete to - ties spt trong] “then many of our women con- room, boys who became ill while staying at. a =n6 well to y tinue after marriage the business or “Somebody's stolen my blouse,” he | her chub. ~ eater: se in efficient, happy |PTfeasional work in which they had answered. Not infrequently it has happencd previously engaged. Almost all our t aM emanates from| we pc sed the secret of creati ir Oliver Lodge, the famous b weeps PCF . r ° ose 7 Fcourts ot » husband who complained | {ten that the unions are most likely | SIP liver Leases ihe Retna | particles of matter. ‘The basis of all| Your watch dial is nothing less than|such a condition. People a hundred | cross the ocean. ‘Think of the eny-|inclosed within the atom system . Of bis wife's simple-mindedness and | gower ‘youth, If a SOAR aabie the first ‘utilisation of atothio proper: matter—a stone, a loaf of bread, even | the disintegration of the atoms of| years hence will undoubtedly wonder |!9& of space resulting from the sub- | vA i y the whole ot this spa } when asked tf be had not known | till shots twenty-olght or thirty, her| try ‘ot cos F ators Drepnt: | your body—1s supposed now to be of|fadkum composing it The smalll why wo, of this age, could not solve| stitution of a small radium boller for) Mitt ty empty to an electron going die Mout It before marriage, replied |M4rriage probably is a matter of| tee of matter wan in minal Ahk” | cictromie formation, Hut, aske the| Pinch of radio-active satt mixed with | tho simple problem of causing atomic| the 150 massive steam polars new: ia ty We. enendcha ADO OC 8 i Maively, ‘I thought tt was her aweet |e ane ingrnor sove. When eels aaa aarnit matte could La, reader if that t9 6 what makes the| pulverized zinc sulphide with which | disintegration whenever and where-| US. aid which we are Bleaged to}radium particlo,” ‘The number of e / a un, or could be ; pepe eleecrons ounding th 5 Y and yielding disposition. have better children “and a 'bettey | wate fr erauld be sufficient to raine| Wference between a piece of coaland| the numerals and hands are coated. ever we desired. think are efficient! 8 surrounding the atomic Pgs > tasks demand more than the mere mittimg at a desk in an office or stand- ing at a machine in a factory. “Only the women who attain a bigh standard of fitness, physically and mentally, should be allowed to Marty. Of course this applies to men, 460, yut just now you have asked me te talk about women and marriage. ‘The physically unfit woman often Giaqualifies herself for being chosen a8 a wife by obvious and unattractive Wife of whom we have to be careful. ‘For she may readily be chosen by the man who knows no better. I femember a case in the New York “That simply proves," commented the wittiest married woman I know, “*what I have always suspected—a 9 deal wife is @ moron, a per- with a twelve-year-old mind.’ “Is normal married life a healthy _ life tor women?” I asked Dr, Potter, *¥ou doctors in this conference have Deen telling us so much about the | for love, chooses the ideal life,” de- glared Dr. Potter. “It is the most America who think It @ reproach for their wives to work,” IT remarked. “thon those men ought not to be married,” replied Dr. Potter, serene- ly, “No young woman ought to be- ‘come the wife of a man who would force idleness upon her." Perhaps another reason why one out of every nine of our marriages ends in divorce ts that we marry to» late, for economic and other causes. AS & conservator of health and hap- piness, Dr. Potter says the early mar- ry, physically, romantically and so- clally,” she told me, “is eighteen. In Holland we are trying to bring about more marriages of the young, It is chance of happiness, fo: together with the yea: Here's the doctor's prescription, then, for a healthy, happy marriage— start right, love right, work right. they grow ‘Pompletely rounded and satisfying @ereer she can undertake, Her love f it possible for her to satisty © ail tho complicated requirements. Her od and understanding of ber chil- f simplifies the strain on her as a levertheless, she must work hard, ane that is why I think it so foolish |~-Boston Transcript, ‘“c ELL, why don't you something?” asked the gry Woman after her long harangue. “My dear,” replied her husband, meekly, “nothing remains to be said,” the chase of the elusive and as yet brother, the “electron,” than tn all th ‘True, the wonderful years ago to a limited degree. mo one knew. That is why we find Lodge and Rutherford constantly studying and Investigating the struc- ture of matter, To-day we are just beginning to scratch away the outside surface of the wall that has hidden these important secrets of nature for able enprgy, involved in breaking up a particle of matter was forcibly brought to the attention of thinking men and women the other day, the German ships sunk in the Scapa Flow, and pile them on top of the Bc tish mountains.” He said, however, that he hoped the human race would not discover how to use this energy unt# ft had brains and morality enough to use it properly, because if the discovery were made before its above. First we have the compara- tively large “molecule.” ‘The molecule \s composed of “atoms,” as every high school student knows, Then we go a step further and find, as Millikan and other scientists have demonstrated, that the atom is in turn made up of a series of vibrating particles calle “electrons.” And now jt is thought by some investigators that a further sub: division would yield an extremely ‘gmall, almost incepceivable, speck of effecta of electricity were known several But just why these certain effects ocourred when | not very well known “atom” and its © hundreds of years that went before. hundred such eminent ecientists as Millikan, vibrating energy—an “ether whirl" or “ether particle.” And this ether par- cle may be weightless, it is surmised. ‘The solution of this problem would ex- plain the force of gravitation. Prof, F, E. Nipher has already demon- The “atom” is composed of a post- tively charged “nucleus” or hub, around which there revolves a series |of “electrons” or negatively charged @ lump of sugar? There is a differ- enee, but it is thought to be due to & different grouping of the electrons about the nuclous, algo due to the different numbers of electrons mak- ing up the atomic structure. These conditions or final results in the atom of sugar or coal are undoubtedly brought about or created by @ partio- If we could create an electrical con- | dition, due to an electrical charge of @ certain nature for example, capa- ble of destroying this arrangement of the cleetron formation or atomic structure, we could, as Sir Oliver Lodge states, wreck the world, A push of the button on the “atomic diaintegrator,” and the greatest navy on earth would be shattered and sunk \ wi The vast amount of en REPRESENTS ELECTRON 30,000,000,000,000 ELECTRONS IN 14 INCH under proper control would reduce our earthly labors to a few hours & week instead of six days. If you own a radium dia! watch, apparatuses ever given to mankind. Beautiful in its everyday applications, and wonderful in its scientific aspect For the glow tNat forms a veritable “vest pocket power plant.” The iNumines@ee pro- duced by some of the radium par- ticles being ejected and impinging against the zinc sulphide. If the zinc sulphide would Jast that long the waten dial would keep on glowing for 2,500 years, Radium loses one-half is its energy tion up for 2,500 years and you get the enormous total of 2,900,.00,000 calories, But to-day we are Loo un- skilled in sclentific matters to break up the radium atomically and realize this tremendous force in a ghort time —not even in our lifetime, There is epough energy concentrated in your radium watch dial to run the engine hauling the railroad train taking You homeward, if we could only liberat loppe ang if|it im say one hour, instead of baving 4 PULITZER BUILDIN, to wait 2,500 years, until the radium, of its own free will, decides to give us this nearly 3,000,000,000 calories. to change finally into lead. Let us now see just what “atomic disintegration” could accomplish, it Incredible as it may seem yet it is a fact, as shown by J. J, Thompson, that if we could disintegrate instantly, as by exploding in a closed cylinder fitted with @ piston, but one gram of hydrogen (about one-twenty-elghth ounce) we would have sufficient en- ergy to lift ten Woolworth Buildings this gigantic feat of sub-atomle en- ergy all created by a mere speck of matter! Tt would take but a pinch of radium under disintegration to run the largest ocean greyhound, such as tic Mauretania, across the ocean. Cal- culation shows that but 16-100 of a ‘flannel blouse outstretched to the un ' formed by the 6,000 tons of coal re- gram of radium would accomplish it, f wo could hurry up the disintegra- | 0 yerrs down to a peri ¢ of five days, In other words, 15- &* £ Just then a smiling doughboy paws- after a long, hard day's work that : any W d Secor ; \ marriage, sho is working at three |P raey eee eee narried, Whether y Na infel ec PULITZER BUILDING, ———> ing through the room overheard the| Mrs. Crovby was aroused by one of ] fobs: She is tho homemaker, tho| Somen Mclivs alt the home or out. Associate Editor of the Electrical Experimenter, 200 FT SQUARE, emacs | the boys, asking her to “come #e Manager and worker in her house- side it, they WORK—and that does __ (Written Kepressig for The Evening World.) 350 FT. HIGH, (J “You can have mine,” he said. 'm| what js the matter with Johnny, or ] held. Sho is the wife, the beloved . yw od Caprese 100, be sap Rees Puatiahing On. (she Mest stare. Wonté.) REPRESENTS ATOM going into civies to-day, Waitamin-| Fred or Lewis.” / Memrade of her husband. And she ie| "uch for their nerves thelr gen- TOMIC FORCE what a world of as yet undreamed of energy and ava sap ace ara nh heave BA) alta TAG Wise a : ‘the loving, understanding mother of gpirllic die RAS Roe Ree power that signifies to the scientist, as well as the layman! In the MILLETYSEED Satoe stope Bt a tiem he jumped: ana | his ownimnciber cared for hime in al her children, Surely these three past 100 years more research has been successfully culminated in youth, many boys suffering from a, recurrence of trouble caused from « gas attack, or some other phase of lingering iliness of the life over thera, has had cause to remember fine qual- ities of nurse they found in Mri Crosby. Not only in this country, but other parts of the world to-day 100,00 mothers of boys who wore the khaki and the blue speak of Mrs. Crosby with something of a sisterly under standing. Stories retated by their returning satis have Introduced Mrs, Crosby, 3+ vation Army officer and friend of tho less than five minutes later he re- | appeared in his civies, with the brown | fortunate youth, He hesitated to actept it, “Give it to me; I will wash it for you first,” said the practical Mrs, Crosby, and that settled it, and late that after: noon the blouseless doughboy had been fitted out anew. While this hospitable club had had sleaping accommodations for more than two hundred, it seemed to in The total life of radium is about soldier and Sailor, to more than 100,- ries. .: 2 h Si weakness or deformity, It ts he) tage ie advisable, centuries gous, almost tnconceiv-| *tPated that gravity can be neutralizca| then you poswess, unconsciously pet- |22,000 years, before all atomic disin-| Never be auite enough to MAllaly Tht Obl motiire of the world, ~ Woman mentally unfit to become a “The best age for a woman tb mar- by electric charges. haps, one of the greatest scientific| tegration ceases. Radium is thought 100 gram, a small fraction of an “Laboratory tests show conclusively ounce, would do the work now per- that the electronic or other constitu- ents of atoms can occupy but an ex quired by such a ship for one trip|ceedingly small fraction of the space nucleus varies with the different ele- jments, and jt is thought that for one thing the nature of the element, 4. e., |whether it is gold, silver, a/@minum, | &e., depends upon'the number of the free el ns or negative charges in wh atom, which revolve about the ‘coup of positive chagges making up the nucleus. | Solve the problem of breaking up the configuration .of electrons in an Just to show that Sir Oliver Lodge means what he says when he speaks of one ounce ofamatter disintegrated 3 representing sufficient energy to raise a fleet of warships atop th Scottish mountains, a simple calcu- lation proves that we could, by com- parison, perform an equally mirac- ulous feat with an equal amount of | atom of lead, for example, and change ‘train of modem industrial life for time, and by the wrong people, this) ular get of electrical or other forces |in that time, Radium produces heat |5 feet in the alr; or this would mean) matter, One ounce of radium, if dis- /{t to correspond to the. arrangement | Women. What about the strain of Lar xed we —_ . the atomio| “°t2s Upon the elemental ether par-|at the rate of 133 calories per hour, Lone ane ee 300 foot, as the integrated in five days, could drive |°f electrons in an atom of gold, and marriage?” \ oe ee & °F aawG| ticles in tho beginning: So—we begin| continuously, for every gram of th: BONS a Sh ding weighs 100,000) early 200 Mauretanias (or 189, to be| {ream of the alchemists of old—the cai EER SE world is shown in the diagram drawn| to see the light. substance. igure thie heat produc, {t02% Imagine such a spectacle and exact) across the Atlantic Ocean at ! lead, tron, | platinum. lof note te |transmutation of metals, or changing silver, é&¢ into gold and Practically every scientist jay has intimated gt one ther that the possibility of ng this atomic change is auite ble if we once master the physics of the atom. When that day arrives, as Sir Oliver Lodge says, the world will tremble! For our mone- tary standards will totter, Gold and [piatiaum would become go cheap that ry Sere # _|we would think nothing of them—no plenty of space between them, ac-| nore than we do to-day of tin, lead rding to the researches of Millikan joy tron, Naval and militey arma. and others, and this authority states:' ments would count for naugut, ney tull speed A relative comparison of the size of atoms and electrons shows us th we consider a building, such as 1 World Building, measuring 200 feet square and 350 high, as represent- ing,an atom, then the size of an ele tron would be represented by a millet or a hay seed, The electrons ha