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__"In' alyr--eonfidence 1 declare that day is not far distant when aci-- : may place at the disposal of wan 'forces so stromg, that a hostile irmy or any «xemy city may be an-- by ~the, touchk »of a button, the age is coming when the mo-- omerotthovald.vfllhth 1 ted forges of the atom. « _ "Belence has reason to believe that euble inch of this energy. will con-- _ iget into a bank, blackjack the watch-- _ (Inghn, blow the vault and help himself, -- |But a pandit, tolling in the watches _ 'let the night, is touchy about waking _' .[people up, and knowing that nowadays _ 'lan' 1# inch alarm bell will ring for -- .. y minutes the moment he mo'ves px" more congenial work. The mes who _._ meanufact and install burglar alarm ~-- _ layat know this, and their efforts \ (lha¥e been best upon perfecting, with _« "Ahe dry battery as a nucious, a system \ \have been bert upon Q'f'w battery as & a g enough motive power to propel rmlhnhmmam the A half a dozen times. .' "Suppose any nation had control of. Ahis © tremendous ebergy," declared Bir Richard, "It might use It to impose its power upon other na MHoms, and not for the benefit of the haman race.. That would be mis-- wse Af 'gcience and all wrong. That is <what 1 mean when 1 say that sci¢ntific discovery may ul-- Umately destroy® civilization unless it in : acco ammbytloumco of . ethical to higher planes. ' _""It is for the Aemocratie commun-- to decide whether those powtrs te controlled for mastery or ter the rebullding of the s#ocial -- GOOD OR ILL IN E_llénrd Gregory, famous Brit-- weientist and astronpmer, utterea ) warning against the increasing b.{» "cheapening science" in address to assembled scientists | th, in the course of "he prophesied amazing ad-- ~In -- scientific knowledge in We cannot prevent progress. -- _ we can insist mt*u.boi ompanied by increased happl-- s Theattiture of civilized man ':.:h'um;::mfi hifa piay: p> that of & C y« gwith fire, and it is mecessary' t-- wwore than ever to teach him . danger ofagu element in bis ds and to cultivyate' the desire to ke the most . nobl¢ use Oof the asures which BHave been , given m%huwy- | _ 'Wight Work New Dangereus~ ~ with daylight mmmum trowblesome for the night There was a time when a bandit cou)d of Civilization Seen if Man 'Ever Wrongly Uses -- lon, March 11.--*"The world is playing with fire in its in-- t search after scientific knowl g years. + ever man's vast knowledgo of 6 is misused,' 'continued. Sir rd, "It is "R'm within _ the s of. poss y that. he. will sear from the . face of the lunger hits a wire. 'The dry bat-- '..gu..uum.o'd'n to the siarm box on the outside VP' bank, and a bell that !m.mmufl-m . Police whistles start to blow. HOLDS GREAT POWER ?' into so much trouble that Board can get himout. b bark protected by clectricity, begins for the bandit with his rst move toward cashing one of ix--shooter checks--the kind that 'drawn for enough money' to All ht tnto the bands of the Receir-- wu-wmum..- g',qmnmm batteries which can run a toy Can't Stay Progress sase and two handbags. For on ;_a_y"flmmflmwfl' an a plunger, handy to his foot. , CROOK, the bank robber, f.pcanhthm *"'"md ' enashing by gun instead of by 'the shape of an annoying Httle f that has goue on duty as & Ethices® Necessary ard contended that ack no <more. responsible for | af the world war than ce Uses Electricity to Foil Modern Bandit and also throw Bill and his conditions introduced by the indus-- trisl revolution. %"d::i nothing directly to do with na conquest, with com-- mercial exploitation or the uphold-- ing of the rights of dynasties}; its oh!&t is the revealing of patural tru Whether or not the world is any bappler through these advances of discovery is not the responmsibility of science," he added. W. 1. LYON HASN'T ANYTHING ON THIS : BANDER OF BIRDS ~William L Lyon, of Waukegan, a member of the National Bird Band-- ing Association, traps hugdreds of birds every year --and places tags on .their feet so that other bird banders who happen to trap them later can assist in studying their habits, travels and mode of living. From Fort Morgan, Colo., comes & story of bird banding, which beats that of the Waukegan Toan. A novel method of "spreading the #ospel" : has been ~revealed in 'the Colorado town, where E. M. Tamsen, Morgan county farmer, found a mal-- lard duck bearing a tag inscribed with scriptural verses and carrying a postoffice bor number in Kings-- Here's a Man Who Can Give Waukegan Bird Bander SPREADS GOSPEL TEACHING . Am ggm of correspondence be-- tween i and 'Jack Miner g ; has. disclosed a tery of a man's love for wild fowl, and bis unusual means of mh:: the goupel thru tags on his feathe zna. as they fly annually from eir munmer bhome in Canada south to warmer clies. h uo e 1 Miner wrote Tamsen that be has m' hundreds of wild geeso and and that be has hbhad tags re-- turned from $3 states--sowe as far gttb a6 Louisiana. ~Eskimos in the udson bay country also hbave re moved his tags and turned thom over to agents, who returned them to Miner, he wrote. . L' --"To see some of my. pets return to me year after year for food and pro-- tection, after evidently having e# caped thousands of hunters hiding in ambush, is very pathetic," Miner wrote. ® "Putting the verse of Scripture on the tags is just an idea of min« for pasnsing along the Word of (4o08," he told Tam®en. More Pow 4n Kings. -- In a republic |t | --ometimes claimed tho vaters winy . «o as they <please, Kren n king camt d~ that. * i _ % Cracodites® Stemachs, -- African . erosodilens freqiiwntiy carty mt nesortment of braceiets and un their --»toma®Bb®, o 0) .. * which will defy the most.expert of the Walls Also Safe 4 To the bank robber the most irr+ tating quality of the dry battery is its versatility. Being a power plant in itself, it depends upon no outside cutr-- rent. The bank robbér can't cut it of walle. ~ This is _a. Aedions, . irksome the only one possible.. With a mesh of fpe wire runnisg over e¥ery inch of foor, walls, and celling, between steel snd concrete, the bandit's drill will hit one of these wires as unerring-- iy as a dentist strikes a nerve. _ _ ~ That part of the systém is so ar ranged that the first breaking of the insulation ' and contact --with the wire beneath is Rashed 19 the dry cells, in their case just insice the vault door. shock through to the outside wall of the bank, and into a'shuttered box where the alarm bell rests. Instantly .Mwuvmmmg of whirring hammer blows. A Hight voltage is used because it renders the system more sensitive. -- | mmm"usml piston, which is in place when. the door is shnt, but which slides out and breaks the circuit when the door. is whether it is a touch on the mesh wirés surrounding the safe, the moye-- las: o¢ the plston in the oventes , 6r the touch of the teller's foot on the plunger in his cage, the.mes-- MB bY uow at once to We marm veit ' at once 1 wn-omb)xjumio hooked up into a bome burglar alarm system, where, it they are _ not pr0-- tecting millions, they are taking care '.»CQWNMM\ more than money. ; t AW"I:_&,M'W h -- a member of 1 bandit gang recently appreached an electrical expert who a NewIdea. Dry--Cell--Prison--Cell Circuit Puts End uo Bank Robbery c hy f L/ _# W Akeya uns piyr ae,-- Ket. Biologists Say Some Parts: of Animals and Plants Have RUNTING A USk FOR EVERYTHING son he had Gifficulity in getting an {Mcnthh,m might be that there was not answer to get. . For it the Investigator lived seiveral genera-- tions back, in the agoe of the Bridge-- treaties, he assumed that & liv-- TAKE UP USELESSNESS "What's the use of it?" was the question that used to be asked by an investigator when he found a strange structure or substance in a plant or animal, says a Washington dispatch by Edward E. Sliosson to. the Boston Transcript. He then set-- himself~ to fAnding out the use of it, and somtre-- times when he could not find out for sure what it was good for he invented a more or less plausible reason for Its existence udm:tdhflflot It never occurred to that the rea-- Ing creature was constructed--like a machine, where every part has a pur-- pose, : If he lived . one . gemeration back ho assumed that all parts and peculiarities of plant or animal, were developed from the gccumulation of minute; -- favorable _ variations -- and, therefore, ware, Of at léast had been, Mvahou,th'c&nhlmm- gle for life."" This was the theory. of pure Darwlanism," but wo must re-- member that Darwin himself was not a pure Darwinian, just as Karl Marx :.l:!w to be classed as Marx-- But the biologist of the present gen-- eration have given up the expectation of fAinding a use for everything, for they do not now:--assume that every-- }mu is useful in the sense of being a benefit to the autn.(:"ponm 4. The characteristle u: constdera-- tion may be an accidental or :flt- able acctompaniment of its general de-- velopment. AIt may be.a mere by--pro-- duct of its life process. Britisher Explaine View. This modern point of view was ox-- pressed by 'A. G., Tansloy, president of the botanical section of the British Association for the Advancement of BScience at the recent Iiverpool meet-- ing, when hbe sald: L "An organiam may produce parts which are useless=--or even barmful to it, provided that the whole is still able to carry on and reproduce itself in its actual aondition of Hte.. _ _ im r"&:d"i; : a.?:utm a mrovt acteriatics there is no proo but not the smallest r&l to sup pose that they have now or ever did have any survial value at all." _ _ This view will relieve the zoolog-- ogiats and bontanists of a lot of the bother they have had in trying to natch up reasons for everything. For-- merly, whon a plant was found to con« tatn soméething polsonions or bad tast» ing the botanist "explained" It by an suming that the noxlous compound un ty l t a an l P t c . : "We are," replied the expert, with No Purpose. AY, was put there or developed there be-- cause it kept the plant from being eaten. But the compound is formed by the chemical reactions of. the plant's vital processes, and it may not be a protection to it. | '~_---- Animais' Offensive Odors. Bo, too, when the old school ento-- mologist found an insect that looked hideous to human eyes--or that gave off un odor that was --disagreeable to buman noses--he assumed that the bug appeared or smelied as horribly to the birds that prey upon it as it did to him, and, therefore, its ene-- mies avoided it. Perhaps that was so--and perhaps it wasn't.. A skunk undoubtediy makes use of its pollo_- gas as a weapon of defense, and it certainly is an offensive weapon. But many. a poor bug may exude an odor quite as bad in proportion to his size and yet not get any benefit from 1t. Doubtliess he has become so used to _A séientist from Mars studying our earthly anthill would be quite puz-- zled to understand why the automo-- his odorous aura as to be quite un-- conscious of it, and often wonders why he is not more popular in society. biles shot out jets of i1 . smelling smoke until the happy thought occur-- red to him that it was for the purpose of preventing pedestrians from ap-- proaching too close and m climbing on behind. He would why heaps of shale were stacked up around our coal mines. But he would consider the question solved when he surmised . that they could serve as ramparts in case the mine . mouth were'attacked by a mob of strikers, as Protagoras said, but he is Mable _ MaKn may be "the measure of alil things," as Protagoras said, but he is linble to mistiead himself when he at-- tempg HALEF DAY--FARMER PUT UNDER BONDS wus placed under a peasce bond Of $300 . today in Justice Harry Hoyt's. court at the complaint of Mrs. John Storch. The warrant for arrest had been signed by her son--in--law, Rob-- ert Hildred, Jackeon, they charged, struck the woman during the course of an argument. L t * The Ninsteenth Hole, At an Knglish inn a group of golf en« thusiasts were discussing over the Arinks their wonderful performances OH the greens that afternoon, when the Jolly . proprietor . satd : "I'm sorry; gete ttemen, but itis time to prat up the shutters, so we'll have to shut up the putters."--Boston Transoript. Fish Not Brain Feed. It used to be belleved that certain food®, expecially f&h and 6t--er foods eontaining phogphorus, were,expecially valuable for the gray matler of the brain. 'Fhle is not bolieved any more, Brain cefis appazonily use tho sam® kinds of food andteriats as all other lving cells do.: The best way to fteed the brain well Ig to keep the body im good ioull}. Joe Jackson, a Half Day farmer, Li% to put his own meaning ints F3, HEAVY TRUCKS BARRED FROM Order COosiat:,g 715 Miles Heavy Machines Issued in Kane County. Kane County highway officials have furnished an example to Lake Coun-- ty in the matter of protecting unpay-- ed roads during the spring season by prohibiting heavy trucks from using them. The lcd«t is explained by the Aurora Beacon as follows: . _ Plans for closing 775 miles of un-- paved Kane county highways--to heavy motor trucks fok a period of not more than 45 days until the 'frost is out of the ground, were completed at a meeting .of township highway com-- missioners with the road and bridge committee of the board of superyi-- MAY USE THE HARD ROADS sors at Geneva .yesterday afternoon,. Signs were being placed on the high-- ways this morning notifying drivers of trucks over. a #pecified weight to keep off until: further notice Of pay a fine of $100--and costs. _ Ps At the conference it was decided to baer trucks weight~ over 6,000 pounds from the roads west of the Hiver. ©East of the river the limit will be $,000 pounds to conform with the weight agreed upon by the puPage county highway commissioners, The roads in the latter county, saiso in Kendall and Will, have already beon --_--.*The lllinois road and bridge law authorizes the highway commissioner : bar heary trucks from the mo' # in hls district at that in the year when the frost is coming out of the ground," Cloude Hansen, coun-- ty superinterndent of highways said Mng '"The roads cannot be closed for more than 45. days, it being fig-- ured that this period is long enough. In thik section the frost will probably ¥e out of the ground within 30 days. t wouLD cuTt UP ROADS _ _"This action is taken to proteet the dirt roads of the county. If heavy trucks were permitted to use them in the spring of the year when the frost Is coming out they would be cut up #o badly that they would be impasy Able the remainder of the year, After the heary trucks get Thru with the roads it would be impossible for a pleasure car to get thru. Rute a foot deep would not 'be uncommon were heavy trucks permitted on these high-- ways during the thawing perlod, We have approximately 776 miles of un paved roads in Kane county and 80 miles of paving. The trucks will be permitted to nse the nrl'm'l. "Ttucks are also barred from the unpaved roads which have been das-- ignated as state aid roads. One, of thene i# the east river roud from Au-- rora to Kigin, from which -- trucks with a tolial weight of _more than 8,000 pound# ars barred. Those And-- ing 1t mw use the hbeavier truoks must the hard roads. 2 COUNTY ROADS ichk : trucks | of more than | 6t 'Those And--] al the heavier | m hard roads. | «l i 6 W Jns dn ¥+ mitted to call them. So he replied re-- gretfully that the system being in-- stalled was too far along to make any The caller expressed chagrin that they couldn't do business and boped there 'were no hard feelings. Being A gang of bank robbers not long ago received a tip that a $50,000 payroll was made up every ¥Friday in a trust company at Randoiph, Mass. 'They assured that there were none, he walked out of the office door and dis-- @ t w Li hnsc «» % L Dh CE a-g C Anzew a.v>' * » #A clug s **** "-A ® SW w-f"' 4 J A' *# 4 _ rnihve * *Wiee. i; .# ~'\ s k e "e is K« "4'- nc F / " w § * " n ~ U 'fi---u & '/'-- P t __/'4 tm« 1 * l -- me * e -- # /d 2 34 / ~ C m & h h ./ * The highway commissioners an-- nounced at their meeting yesterday that the order will be enforced more strictly than ever this year, because of the increased number of ~ hea trucks. They are to place the .u';f in conspicuous places so that there will be no excuse for those who vio late the order, they say. ILLINOISFRE _ _ LOSSES WERE _ LESS LAST YEAR The lighter trucks do not do so much harm to the dirt highways." * x4 The Box That Changed Plans Reduction of About Two and a Half. Million Dollars Less ~ Than in 1922, Report. ENCOURAGING REDUCTION. proximately $2,500,000 less than the loss in 1922, according to John G. Gamber, state fire marshal, who says that he figures show a poot encourag-- ing decrease since 1920. The total loss in 1023 was $17,414,837. _ -- . IMlMinois' loss for the last five years &# shown by the state fire marshal's records have been : 1030--poitsarn. P 1921--918,850,550. ©1922--319,732,832. § <1923--$§17 2814,837. © Encouraging Reduction. '**The substantial reduction in 1923 is encouraging," Mr, Gamber stated. "It is the most encouraging decrease ;:.hvthu since the enormous peak reached in 1920. January this year started off with a $1,000,000 loss at the Pekin plant of the Corn Pro-- \fih Refihing compavny, but we hope will be offset Juring the rest oft the year and that the downward trend #ill continue." The report shrows that stoves, tur-- naces and hbeating equipment caused the largest loss in 19238, a total loss of $1,174,243. Sparks on wooden shingle roofs was next with $1,086,272, Other causes of largest losses were: Klectricity, $1,035,780; spontaneous combustion, $1,000,061; defective or or-- etheated fines, $774,984; _ exposure, $7186,540; lightning $5¢0,050; _ explo-- slons $552,205; matches and amoking, but gained the additional distinction of causing the most fires. Out of 13, 478 fires reported from . all causes sparks of roofs were responsible for 3,694, which is at the rate of one in every four Ares. _ & $461,203. Classes Halvng Biggest Losses,. Classes . of b\mdlnss auffering the largest lossos woere: dwellings, 'C.M- $84; stores, $3,1149,986; factories, $2, 616,0132: barns and stables, $1,531,126. Automobiles numbering 676 and val-- wed at $87,579 woere burned during the year. * * Chilcago ts credited with $8,50%2,110 of the year's loss and the--rest of the ¥tate $13,812,487, The state Are marah-- al's Aguressare compiled from reports made by fire chiefs, mayors and town «lerks of the state. & Fire loss in llinois for 193 was ap-- drove up to the doors of the bank. Two of them got out, witnesses said afterward,. < They gave the place one long look. From above the doore & amall shuttered box projected. --The men knew that inside that box was contained more nolze than is compati-- ble with the nerves of high--strung artists like themselves, so they turn-- ed away. But scross the streot stood ancother solid little bank which looked as though it contained treasure. There was no shuttered box above the doors to indicate its faith in dry batteries. So the bandits drove up the street and turned around and drove down on the other side, stopping in front of this other bank. Two of the men went in. A little later they came out. In & handbag they carried $25,000 of the bank's cash. The banker in-- this highiy electr{-- fhed age may leave his ofice with full confidence that all the money will be safe in the morning. If an attack of hmnheu-uon.homdov'oum the sleepless hours to. loan matters.' Dry batteries are taking care ot the cash on hand. -- | ~ They are, as a matter of fact, daily ln' nightly, guarding more than $850,-- 000,000: in cash in the banks of the Dies Following an iHliness of '--~More than Three Years BORN IN LAKE COUNKTY PARALYSIS FATAL on *L -- CAMPREz® 7°0AY Mrs, Wilber A. Campbell, 65 years old, of 322 Hickory street, gied at 12%:20 'o'clock this afterncon after an illness of three years. Death was due to paralysis. n 1A The maiden name oft the deceased was Miss Jennle French. She was born and raized near Wadsworth and received her education in the Wau kegan schools. a She was a member of the Presby-- terlan. church' and the women's or-- ganizations 'connected with it,. and had been active in the Waukegan Woman's Club untilt--illness prevent-- ed her attending meetings. 4 Mer iiiness dated from three 'years ago in February when she suffered a stroke of paralysis. While not confined to hbWer home all the time sashe was practically an invalld. * Besides her Lusband she leaves & sister, Mrs.--Thomas E. Gray, and a halt sister, Mra. J. DeMuth of Los Al"ltl. who made her home until a few years ago on Sherman Place, Waukegan. COOLIDGE VOTERS. BEAT SEN. MOSES Manchestéer, N. H. Mar, 12.--Failk uro to pledge himself for President Coolidge was today given by political observers as the causoe--for the de teat of U. 8. Senator George H. Moses, of Coucord, in the state--wide primary for the elestion of delegates to the 1924 Republican National comn-- vention. The Republicans elected eleven candidates pledged for President Coolidge while Demotrats setected 12 uninstructed delegates for their com-- vention. -- SBenator Moses had frequently an-- nounced himselt a OOOW ter but declined to pledge SUE FRUIT C0. T ON BROKEN LEASE _ --"Che Waukegan Finance g::.yfldmtlflh" the it company q the Finance : ¢ them in reat from a the building at 210 ® Funeral notice jater P af <L hah At