The Independent . atom shaped like acaltrop he can handle, but what is he going to do withan atom that looks like a pumpkin in the middle of aten acre lot with half a dozen peas scattered over thisarea or flying around like mosquitoes in the air above?Then again the chemist is disconcerted at being told byone of these new fangled physicists that the atomicweights which he has been laboring to establish are notfixt but determined by the past history of the particu-lar piece of element in question; that two different ele-ments may have the same atomic weights or the sameelement have different we
The Independent . atom shaped like acaltrop he can handle, but what is he going to do withan atom that looks like a pumpkin in the middle of aten acre lot with half a dozen peas scattered over thisarea or flying around like mosquitoes in the air above?Then again the chemist is disconcerted at being told byone of these new fangled physicists that the atomicweights which he has been laboring to establish are notfixt but determined by the past history of the particu-lar piece of element in question; that two different ele-ments may have the same atomic weights or the sameelement have different weights; that lead for instancemay weigh if it can trace its ancestry back tothorium, or 206 if it is descended from radium. Thechemist feels a repugnance against introducing hered-ity into his science and being obliged to look into thepast of elements that he has hitherto accepted at theirface value. This in brief is the cause of the controversy, tho ofcourse no reputable scientist could approve of our loose. © Brotcn & Dawson NEW NEPHEWS OF UNCLE SAM THEY LIVE IN CHAELOTTE AMALIA, THE CHIEF CITY OF THE DANISH WEST INDIES, JUST PURCHASED BY THE UNITED STATES. THE CITY IS BANKED ON A SEMICIRCLE OF HILLS ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL BAY AND THE RADIATING STREETS RUN DOWN TO THE SEA LIKE THE AISLES OF AN AMPHITHEATER January 29, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 169 language and frivolous way of stating the case. Bothsides are certainly somehow right, tho nobody can justsee how. Each side can prove its theory in the only waythat anything can be proved, that is, by how it chemist finds his static atom helps him in explain-ing the constitution of compounds. The physicist findshis dynamic atom helps him in explaining the day they will find that they are really talking thesame language, tho now they are in a sad state of Babel-ment. GERMANYS MOVE NEXT GERMANY first proposed peace. For that she re-ceived just acclaim. The neutrals transmitted heroffer to the Allies. The Allies
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