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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1925, Page 4

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" -■ WIFE'S RIGHT To SHARE SALARY. AX INSULT TO A MAX'. LONDON, January 3. “So long a.s no portion of her husl>anil’s salary is a wife’s by right, a omen will strive lor independence, it is insulting a man to marry him to be kept.” These observations were made bv -V*rs Tidswell (London j in support of a resolution of the National Union of Wodvii Teachers at their conference rc Birmingham yesterday. The resolution protested against the dismissal of married women teachers on grounds other than those of inefficiency. “Roys and girls,” said .Mrs Tidswell. “grow up with the idea that a wife is always dependent on somebody. It is dreadful that men and women cannot marry because there is not sullicent money on one side to ksep both.” Speaking of her own marriage, Mrs Tidswell said : “It would not have been such a line state if I had not had my independence. I don’t care how good |i mail is ; the very fact that you go your own way and live your own life engenders respect.” Miss Titleboam (London) described kinema performances as a dragon’s head that rises up in the path of education and shows the extraordinary ignorance about the minds of children. What man would take his child to see a burglar, a murder, or the other degrading things shown on the films? The Hoard of Censors appeared to think any film was suitable for a child. “I have forbidden children to go to tlie pictures, and many of the parents have thanked me for it,” added Miss 'I itlehoanl. Miss Wood i.London) described a film she had seen at a children’s performance which included a mother’s horrible death-bed scene, the bringing up of a girl as a hoy among a fast set by a drunken father, and an appalling scene where the girl killed her former lover and hid the' body under a sofa. BREAKING UR THE ATOM. PROFESSOR’S SECRET DISCOVERT. LONDON, January 3. Professor E. Whiddiiigtoii, Professor of Physics at Leeds University, announced yesterday, during a lecture on the trend of modern physics given in connection with the conference of the Science Masters’ Association at Leeds, that he has separated the positive charge of electricity which is now

known to form the miclues of the atom from the electrons surrounding it. Professor Whiddiiigtoii had kept his discovery secret until then, and tli;i science masters who had crowded into the room, probably attracted by the details of the young professor’s experiments with the atom applauded the announcement loudly. Professor Whiddiiigtoii explained how after months of patient experiment, lie had obtained photographs showing that a charge of electricity passed through the gas argon (the colourless, odourless inert gas occurring in the air and in volcanic gases) in a tube was carried in positive' ions (small electrified particles into which gas molecules are broken up by an electric current) or the centre particles of atoms. Mr ('. !.. Reynolds, of Rugby .School, said that these discoveries were rather liey.unl schoolboys, hot science masters must now modify their methods of teaching elementary principles according to the new discoveries. THE MICRO-BALANCE. 'l’lie neighing to the two hundred and eighty thousand millionth part of an ounce was explained by Professor It. W. Whyllaw-Gray in demonstrating the lnicru-liahiiice. The balance is like an .ordnairy scientific balance, hut much smaller, and made of silica. It is enclosed in a glass case from which the air is exhausted before the balance is used. Professor Whiddiiigtoii, who, in his research laboratory at Leeds University. has been bombarding tlie atom with X-rays, recently told a “ Daily Mail” reporter that .he had been splitting up atoms every day in his task on which he has been working for some years, to find the exact position of the electrons in the atom. ■‘•When we know sufficient about-the electrons.” he said, “ the changing of lead into gold will he simple. When we know everything about the atom everything will he possible.” ORGANISERS OR BUG LAK.IES. LONDON, January 3. A remarkable story has been told by a “cat” Imghir who was arrested recently. If true, it provides an explanation of the case with which burglars seem to he able to roll private houses and get away without leaving clues. There is little doubt that these thieves have accurate inside formation about houses they attack. According to the story told by this man the information comes by way ol the receiver who buys the plunder after the robbery. It is provided by a soc.et organisation, whose members comprise domestic servants, past ami prose ut. This information is sold at a flat late he said, to the receivers, who use it to instruct the thieves in the host way of obtaining an entry to the houses to he robbed. Tlie members of the organisation themselves are safe, as no proceeds of the robberies pass through their hands and they do not know how the information they give will be used.