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THIS CURIOUS WORLDAN ELEPHANT C#= THE BRONX ZOO, BECAME A ROGUE AFTER YEARS OF CONFINEMENT, ANlO COULD NO” 6E APPROACHED BY HUMAN BEINGS', ftUT ME WAS VERY FOND0^*A FAMILY OP ROBINS WITHIN k his REACH. HE WOULDrv REACH UP AND TOUCH THETV NEST WITH HIS TRUNK. /-N BELGIUMMUL£S are used to pullpishing NETS UPANO DOWNthrough the coastalWATERS ^THERE WAS NOdfcsmssr z/, /e+sIN THE PHILIPP/NES.THE DAV WAS LEFT OUT TO /MAKE THE PHILIPPINE CALENDAR CONFORM WITHTHOSE OTHER. ASIATIC COUNTRIES.SAMUEL _CinTE^MEH.ONEOFAMERICA'SBEST KNOWNLAWYERS,NEVER.APPEARS INCOURT WITHOUT AFRESHorchid!Samuel Untermyer spends thousands of dollars every year on flowers. His large estate nearYonkers, N. Y.. contains plants from all over the world, about 60.000 varieties being represented.But orchids are his favorites. They appeal to him because they are beautiful, and because they are so difficult to grow.Next: Wh;«onous lizard?protons and two electrons in close association. i *Such a combination would furnishan object like the alpha particle, for the alpha particle is approximately four times as heavy as a proton, but exhibits a positive electrical charge only twice that of the proton.But since we have found a multiplicity of fundamental particles, it may be that the alpha particle alsois funadmcntal.The next particle which scientists think may turn up is a neutral one equivalent to the combination of a positron and an electron.YOUNG 1933 SMALL—TENDERat aSunshineF*or EverMsn Other Choice Poultry FREE DRESSINGPlenty of Purkinir SpaceS LBS•*BlMCHrOACM E-EVANS COCOSTS MORE TO USE -GIVES POOR RESULTSSAUSAGE BOILING BEEFCHUCK ROASTAll PorkE-Z-RAKE FLOUR actually costs LESS to use thanany ' cheap” flour, because E-Z-BAKE gives perfect results every time, whereas cheap” flour gives poor results and often causes complete baking failures. For genuine economy, buy a sack of E-Z-BAKE FLOUR and use it for every baking purpose. Every sack is guaranteed. Your complete satisfaction is assured.BladeCutNeckCutStandingRIB ROASTVEAL STEAKVEAL ROASTBoned and Rolledor CutletCut FromShoulderTHE INDIANATOLIS TIMES—Dietz on Science—ATOM SMASHEDUNDER IMPACTOF COSMIC RATForce Most Destructive Yet Discovered by, Savants.BY DAVID DIETZ ISrrl0fi*H®nard f riitorWhen a cosmic ray makes a direct hit upon the nucleus of a heavyatom, the result is the most destructive event known to the world ofscience.Physicists, to date, have made considerable progress in the dism- 1 tegration of the atom. Originally, radium rays were their only weapon, jLord Rutherford began the work, using the alpha particles released by radium to bombard the atoms ofother substances.More recently, gigantic vacuum jtubes operating at electrical potcn- ; tials of millions of volts, have been used to furnish streams of swiftly ■ moving electrons ‘o bombard atoms.But so far, scientists have succeeded only in knocking a few particles ! out of atomic nuclei. They have not been able to accomplish the sort of wholesale destruction that a cosmic ray can do.Studies within the last few weeks have revealed that when a cosmic ray collides full force with the nucleus of a heavy atom, more thana hundred particles are knocked out of it.Lead Atom Is BrokenThis should not surprise us, since the electrical potential of a cosmic ray is a billion volts, or more. Consequently. the ray possesses a thousand times more energy than the bombarding * forces w hich scient ists have had at their disposal to the present.Undoubtedly much new information about the structure of the atom will come out of the study of these wrecked atoms.As a matter of fact, the most! recent discovery in the field of atomic structure came about as the result of cosmic ray studies. That was the discovery of the positron.Ur Car! i). Anderson of the California Institute Of Technology found the positron while making photographs of cosmic rays. Apparently. they were knocked out of the nuclei of the atoms of a block of lead in the apparatus which lie was using.Many Particles Unknown jScientists have reason today to suspect that there are a number of particles in the atom which are yet unknown. Let us review the knownparticles and see why the existence of others is plausible.First of nil, there is the electron, electrically negative. It is sometimes called the unit of negative electricity. Every atom consists of a nucleus with which is associated one or more electrons.Next, there is the proton. It is electrically positive. It is 1.850 times as heavy as the electron and about as many times smaller. The simplest known atom is that of hydrogen. it, has a nucleus consisting ofone proton around which one electron revolves, ST'*Until last year, it, was supposed that the nuclei of all atoms heavierthan hydrogen were made up ofcombinations of protons and electrons.Combination Is NeutralNow. however, we know’ it is not as simple as all that. Two other constituents of atomic nuclei are known. They are ihe neutron, discovered last year, and the positron, discovered this year.The neutron, as its name suggests, is electrically neutral. It has been suggested that the neutron represents a close combination of a proton and an electron, far closer thanthe mere association which forms the hydrogen atom.Since the proton is positive andthe electron negative, such a combination would be nuetral. Recently, however, many scient is t a havethought it more likcely that the neutron is a distinct particle, as individual in its way as any of the others.The newly discovered positron iselectrically positive. Tt is like theelectron in size and weight but opposite to it in electrical charge.Exhibits Positive (’bargePerhaps we should add the alpha particle to this list. The alpha particle also is the nucleus of the helium atom. It has been supposed that it consisted of fourPAGE ir,
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