The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1904. NOTE AND COMMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 278, 28 November 1904, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1904. NOTE AND COMMENT.

In the Toronto Daily Mail of September 24th is an PROFESSOR interesting reference RUTHERFORD to Professor Rutherford, about whom we had something to say the other day. It is in the form of a telegram from St. Louis, dated September 23rd, and reads as follows :

"This was Canadian Day at the congress. Three of the leading speakers were Canadians, awl one of these, Professor Ernest Rutherford, of McGill, made the speech of the day. The chairman of the section 'Physics of the Electron' introduced him as fcho man who had done mora successful experimenting along the line of radio-activity than any other man in -the past, and as one, he was sure, who would do most in the future. Such men as Hamsay, Langevin, and Moissan, themselves world authorities, had quoted him freely as authority for their statements in the course of their papers iat this congress. The young scholar was received enthusiastically and frequently interrupted with applause. Some of his statements were epochmaking, though everyone was carefully backed by a weight of indisputable evidence. He proved conclusively that the alpha rays emitted by radium are composed of helium, that helium was the product of radium, and frojn these facts he showed how the agio of any heliumbearing rocks could be computed by analysis, thus forming an absolute test of the age of the earth's crust. Another feature of the paper, monumental in importance, was the death blow the professor dealt to the theory that accounts for the iconstr.nt outpouring of energy from I radium by supposing that it ex- : liausts energy from the air, and gives it off again. He substituted and established in its place the hypothesis that the energy was due to the breaking up of the atoms."

The Vienna correspondent of the Standard quotes

A REMARK- a remarkable aiABLE TRIBUTE, ticle from the Al-

lgemeine Zeitung written just after the battle of Liaoyang, which, he believes, contains the first fiat denial by a Continental paper of Russia's power to retrieve her fortunes in the war with Japan. From the following extract it will be seen what o remarkable impression the victor ies cfthe Japanese havo made upon this journal "The Japanese combine the ferocity and the fanaticism of Redskins with the high intelligence of the most advanced of European armies ; and no army would have done 'better than the Russian, whose valour has been extreme during the past few days. There is, indeed, an essential difference between Japanese valour and that of a European force, and, combined with the most modern tactics, that Japaneso valour is simply irresistible. All the armies Russia relied upon are defeated ; all the men who, bedecked with orders and pictures of the saints, wont out to hammer into the heathen and Buddhist respect for tiro Russian God, as the Russian newspapers said, have, at the decisive moment, failed. Lucky those who, like MakarofT and Keller, found honourable death in 'battle. Worse off is General ICuropatkin, the Chief Commander, now beaten, like his predecessors, at the hands of the terrible Japanese. lie will be deposed 'before long, because a 'beaten general is always regarded as a bad general. Hut who remains to command the armies of next year ? Who to vaMjuish the Japanese in another campaign ? .\'o, all is over with Russian predominance in Eastern Asia. The paramount Power there is now Japan. The idea of power- in Asia which dominated modern Russian policy has come to naught in the trenches .of Lflaoyan'g, awl that it is which gives such immense importance to the murderous lights of which the world has tan the pitying and horrified witness during the last few days."

Some years ago bitter complaints were heard in

CRIME 01'' America 'because ■GETTING OLD. employers of (bookkeepers and clerks were letting men over forty-live years of age go und were putting young men in their places. To-day a more restricted employment line is being drawn, and working men are the sufferers. The Carnegie Steel Company have given notice on the re-opening of their plant that in certain departments no man over thirty-five shall lie employed in future. The I'eimsylvanian Railroad has gone a step further by discharging a numlijer of road men and shop men and station men because they had reached the age of thirty-live years. The Labour leaders see in this action a blow at, the unions, and are apprehensive lesL other great employers of labour will adopt the same policy. Then wlvut will be- | come of the middle-aged men, who usually have families dependent upon them ? Writing on the subject an American correspondent says there can be 110 mistaking that the general trend is in favour of the young men. If a large employer were to announce when ho began business that ho would employ none but young men, because lie desired to train them to do his work as he wanted it to We done, und desired them to remain in his employ, if they chose to do so, until they were quite worn out, tbero would bo nt

just cause for complaint. sThat is tlio policy now ol' banks and largo merouililo houses. ICwn the churches are not now calling old men to their pulpits. The perplexing question among the churches to-day is : What .shall we do with our old mor,, the veterans of the Cross, who have spent the fruiU'ul port of their lives in preparation for .service, while in i service are paid meagre salaries, and when they -arrive at the dcatl I line are found toi have made 'no provision for the rainy day ? Could it he otherwise V This action on the part 01 large employers is, adds the correspondent, certain to provoke a spirit of fierce resentment among all who have crossed the "(tead lim\" as well as among those who arc nearing it and see live day fast approaching 1 when they will be thrown aside contemptuously, like a squeezed lemon. The whole community woukl rebel against such an infamous edict. ON TIII3 FOURTH PAGE. Literature. Ordered to Marry. Deadly Molar Kace.