Indiana Boys' School Herald, vol. 35 no. 15, April 11, 1936

              PAGE ONE. VOLUME 35, NUMBER 15. PLAINFIELD, INDIANA. SATURDAY, APRIL, 11 1936. 52 ISSUES FOR ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF. SIDELINES. By Paul Bergevin. EASTER. Easter is one of the most pleasant days in the calendar of the Christian holidays. Perhaps the signs of spring, the awakening of nature coupled with the occasion of Christ's resurrection lends an atmosphere to Easter that is wanting in the other holidays celebrated by the Christian world. The Easter holiday has been celebrated, in a somewhat different fashion, before the introduction of Christianity. A goddess name Eastre was the object of a festival which came in April in the pagan world. After Christianity became the dominant religion in Europe the feast of Easter was set to fall on the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or next after the 21st day of March. Technicalities, however, are not of great significance. The purpose of Easter is to awaken in the minds of many who are likely to forget the significance of a great philosophy. A philosophy which has a deep and penetrating insight into human nature and the affairs of men. A philosophy which if it were followed today is as logical and as modern as the day it was originally conceived. Christianity embraces some of the best thoughts of men about men that has ever been assembled. Christianity is often charged with being unoriginal in its ideas. That it borrowed some from the ancient religions of India, some from the paganism of Greece and Rome and some from the religion of Egypt.  Here again we face technicalities which, if not properly approached, are likely to obscure the facts. Does it matter so much where doctrines originate so long as they have a meaning which, if properly interpreted, will benefit humanity? It seems of little consequence whether this man or that man made an original statement which makes humanity's lot easier.  Men have spent a good part of their lives arguing about trivial things in religion that cause confusion in the minds of the listeners. People who are absorbed in insignificant details arc painfully poor speakers and whether preachers or atheists they both do an equally infinite amount of harm. Christ taught a doctrine of brotherly love. He made that doctrine simple and to the point. There is little room for argument regarding the actual meaning and application of His principles. There is no denying what is meant by His simple, yet profound, philosophy. Anyone, irrespective of his degree of intelligence, can comprehend the doctrine of Christianity. There is no need of complex and long-winded issues that distort the real meanine of Christian life. Fear is not necessary to insure salvation. It is resorted to only by people who lack the understanding of the genuine principles. The beautiful simplicity of Christianity has been, in many instances, lost by an entanglement of doctrines which subjugate the real issue for selfish purposes, therefore making a mockery of intelligence. So at Easter we can reflect and do just reverence to an honest man who believed and who died for his belief. SEND IN YOUR REPORT, PLEASE. Reporters for the Herald are requested to make a special effort to get their reports in more regularly than they have been. Please take your report either to the Herald Box in the Principals office or bring it to the Print Shop line or bring it to the print shop itself. Reporters will have until Tuerday to write their reports. These reports will appear in the paper the following Saturday. Any report  put in the Herald Box later than Tuesday afternoon will not be printed until the next week. Paper upon which to write the reports has been printed and reporters are asked to read the instructions at the top page carefully. LIP SERVICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR CHRIST. By Dewayne Mathias. Back in the time of Julius Caesar, if one would stand outside of the Roman gates, you would see generals coming home in the most highly arrayed splendor, after defeating a barbarian tribe. 	Each general tried to out do the one before him. By this, it is meant that the general tried to capture the ruler of the barbarian domain, without killing as many men as the general before had done. In fact, they only killed barbarians on necessary occasions. As the procession came in, the soldiers led the way, then officers on horses, met a chariot carrying the general, the the many slaves that were captured, followed by a number of Roman guards. So many were the slaves brought back by the generals that each family in Rome had six or seven slaves apiece. These generals were demonstrating their power and the power of Rome. The procession of Jesus is altogether different. There are no generals, no soldiers, only those who are trying to follow Christ, and the only armaments are character, personality and truth. When Jesus came to Jerusalem, everyone shouted with joy, shouting, "Hosanna to God in the highest. It is He that comes in the name of the Lord." They made way for him, strewing palms and cloaks all along the way and preparing a place for Him to walk. These were signals of peace and royalty. He made His way to the temple, the crowd still following and exalting His name. Coming out of the evil temple, he went to Mount of Olives, then to Bethany to stay all night with His disciples. At daybreak He returned to the temple to rout out the evils therein. He overthrew the tables of the money changers. Jews exchanging coins with Hebrews illegally. Next, he drove the high priests and the scribes out of the temple, also those who were worshiping false gods. Jesus' followers still hailed Him shouting, "Hosanna," but the old priests and scribes pleaded with the people saying, "He may have power to raise the dead, heal the sick and blind, but it is the devil in Him. Have it your way, but if you follow Him your name will be taken out of the church." Instantly the mob changed. Instead of shouting. "Hosanna", they were shouting, "Crucify Him!" What were they giving to Jesus? They had given Him lip-service, and their lives had betrayed Him. Do we issue lip-service ourselves? Did not the soldiers give the generals lip-service? Don't we believe what we say? If you go back again to the time of the generals, think of the generals and Christ, and there is a striking triumph in contrast. There is a contrast in their good done. One lives, the other is dead. The general is gone because force does not rule. Jesus won this great battle with character, personality and truth, trying to win others for God. May the lip-service and fruits of our lives be so outstanding that they will show day by day that we belong to the Master. LIFE AND THEORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN. By Glen Scott. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Wittenberg, of Jewish parents. He was educated in Germany and Switzerland and eventually became a Swiss citizen. It was as he was employed in the patent office at Berne that he published, the special theory of relativity. Subsequently he became full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich where he had previously taken the degree of Ph.D. and in 1914 was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Science in Berlin, provisions having been made to enable him to carry on researches without teaching. Meanwhile he had been laboring on an extension of the special theory and in the second year of the World War he published the general theory. The verifications of the predictions mentioned in this article won him world-wide fame and honorary degrees from many universities. He has written on various of the other physical problems, notably the Quantum theory of radiation, In politics he is a moderate socialist. EINSTEIN'S THEORY. This theory which was developed by Albert Einstein in a series of remarkable papers published between 1905-1917 consists of two parts, the special or restricted theory and the general theory. The special theory of relativity makes two assumptions, that all motion is relative and that the velocity of light in a vacuum is constant and independent of the velocity of its space, but also that it is a limiting velocity which may be approached but never expected by any material body. In other words it is the maximutn velocity attainable by any mass. One of the striking successes of the special theory was its explanation of the failure of Michelson and Morly's experiment to detect relative motion between the earth and the ether. The ether is assumed to be the medium filling all space by means of which light in the form of wave motion comes to us from the sun and the distant stars. The earth rushes through the medium at the enormous speed of 18 1/2 miles per second, and some would expect that some evidence of relative motion could easily be detected. Michelson and Morley however, form no evidence of this motion, and other experiments, using apparatus of the highest precision have had a similar result. It was suggested by Fitzgerald and others that the negative result of the Michelson and Morley experiment could be accounted for by assuming that the apparatus was shortened in the direction of the earth's motion, the shortening being just enough to compensate for the change expected. The relativity principle of Einstein's asserts that this contraction is just exactly what happens. In other, words all bodies are shortened in earth's motions or contracted the same way. A yardstick is therefore shorter when held parallel to the direction of the earth's motion in space than when at right angles to that motion. This contraction cannot be detected on the earth, but it is evident to the observer located on a body at rest relative to the earth. Stated in another way, the relativity principle that it is impossible for an observer to detect the motion of a body by observations which are confined to the moving body itself, just as one in a railway car, which is moving quietly without change of pace or direction cannot detect his motions by observation confined to the car. The special or restricted principle of relativity may be stated thus. The velocity of light is constant for all observers, and is independent of their system of reference. Space and time are variable dependent on relative translation of system. The general theory of relativity extends the principle to all the laws of nature and does not rest upon defined test experiments, as in the case of the special relativity, but upon the successful application of the principle to the formulation of a new law of gravitation. Einstein was able to predict that light rays coming to us from the distant stars would be deflected as they pass by the sun. The same prediction will result from the Newtonian theory. The magnitude of the deflection for a ray of light just grazing the sun is .87 seconds, where the Einstein theory calls for a deflection of 1.74 seconds. The truth of the Einstein theory was verified by the eclipse of 1919. A third deduction from this theory which has also been proved is the spectral analysis of the light coming to us from the sun and from the large stars, compared with a similar analysis of light on the earth, would show a shifting of the spectral lines toward the red end of the spectrum. It was a difficult matter to disentangle this effect from a number of similar effects that are present in the sun and in the stars, but in 1923, the predicted shifting was completely verified. The general theory of relativity makes a valuable contribution to the philosophical side also, because in it we raise with ourselves the question of how we are to regard the universe as a whole. We find many difficulties with the Newtonian point of view. The Newtonian theory requires that the universe should have a kind of center in which the density of the stars is a maximum and as we proceed ' outward from this center the star density diminishes until finally at great distances it is succeeded by an indefinite region of emptiness. This conception in itself is not very satisfactory and becomes still less so when it is noted that it leads to the view that light emitted from the stars is perpetually pouring into infinite space, never to return. Such a finite material universe would be destined to be gradually improved, a dilemma which men had sought to escape in various ways. According to the general theory of relativity the geometrical properties of space are not independent, but are determined by matter. These considerations lead us to the point of view of a finite yet unbounded universe, that is, a universe that is finite yet has no limits. Such a universe though difficult to comprehend at first sight, is certainly more rational and gets in a much better view with a principle of the conservation of energy and the facts of observation. In 1929 Einstein extended his ideas of space-time, otherwise known as the field theory of relativity, to what he called the unitary field theory. In this theory he had developed a mathmatical that the force of inertia, gravitatation and electromagnetism in a single formula. It thus appeared that the force of inertia, gravitation and electromagnetism are different manifestations of a single force. TWO SPEAKERS ON SUNDAY PROGRAM. By Robert Hey. Mr. E. Wright, teacher, had charge of the Sunday morning program for April 5. Mr. Ridley also shared in the honors of preparing the splendid entertainment having been responsible for the appearance of two of its participants. As usual, the initial number was a march by the band. Sunday was the first time this particular march, "Pride of Arizona," has been played on any of the Sunday morning entertainments. Next the customary two numbers, the pledge and a selected canticle. The ensuing feature was the presentation of three vocal selections by Miss Orma Fern Weber, accompanied by Miss Marjorie Dean Gaston, both from the Music Department of Central Normal College, Danville, Indiana. "Saskatchewan," the contest overture, was then presented by the band.
Mr. Wright then introduced Dean Leslie Steinbach, of Central Normal College. The subject of Prof. Steinbach's creation was "Building." Mr. Steinbach enumerated the many kinds of building manifested in this world. Some examples of these are: habitations of man: trees, flowers: etc., the result of God's work; and the home of small rodents, birds, and so forth. But most of all he stressed the point of building characters: of helping your fellow man to be raised from his present low depths in life to the position he was meant to occupy. Mr. Ridley then presented Mr. Virgil Riddle, the center for the runners-up in the annual state basketball tournament. Mr. Riddle started his talk by the enumeration of the seven victories and one defeat of his team, giving the margins by which Ft. Wayne won or lost. Getting up into the finals Riddle said Frankfort could not help but win. Riddle was the largest man on his five, while if on Frankfort's quintet, he would have been the smallest. Frankfort's center was six feet six and a half inches, while Riddle was only six feet two. The stature of the smallest man on Frankfort's team was equal to that of Riddle. Mr. Ridley also introduced Mr. Buggs, who spoke a few words. The finale was "Red Rover," a selection by the band. "TIMOTHY'S QUEST" PORTRAYS CHILD'S SEARCH FOR LOVE.'"Timothy's Quest," which comes April 16 to the Chapel Theatre, is the story of a youngster with the faith of a child and the courage of a man, who goes in search of love and finds it in the heart of a sour spinster aunt in a remote village. It is a tenderly conceived story well off the beaten track of screen entertainment. In the title role, nine-year-old Dickie Moore gives a superb performance. He faces the world bravely, and with a wisdom beyond his years, helps futher a romance that has not been going well. Eleanore Whitney, who made her screen debut in "Millions in the Air,"
plays opposite Tom Keene. Screen fans who know her only as a tap-dancing sensation have a pleasant surprise in store for them in her first straight dramatic role. "Timothy's Quest" deals with a lad and his younger sister who escape from a couple trading in homeless children. The youngsters find a home with a grim spinster in a small village. Timothy, wise beyond his years, proves instrumental in furthering a shaky romance between the spinster's niece and her sweetheart. Besides Dickie Moore, Virginia Weidler, Sally Martin and Bennie Bartlett, aged seven, four and nine respectively, have featured parts. SMUT DISEASE HELD IN CHECK BY TREATMENT. Seed oats be treated at least ones every three years to hold the smut disease in check. There are now available either wet or dry treatments which are equally effective in killing smut and both are very cheap. The old standard formaldehyde so well known to most farmers is still as effective as any method. It consists in diluting one pint of formaldehyde in five gallons of water and then applying this mixture to forty or fifty bushels of seed oats with a sprinkling can. The solution is slowly sprinkled over the oats as they are being shoveled from one pile to another. After the treatment the oats are either covered for at least five hours and then sacked or may be sacked immediately. Plant when ready. The newer treatment is with one of the organic mercury compounds. This is for seed stores, and possible other places, such as at elevators. Use this dust at the rate of one-half ounce per bushel of seed. Mix it with the oats in some sort of a closed revolving container for about two minutes. Do not try to mix the seed and dust with a shovel because this method is not effective. While working with the dust keep the nose and mouth covered with a damp cloth, or a damp sponge to prevent inhaling the dust. It will cause considerable discomfort and may possibly be more injurious. After the oats are treated sack them immediately and plant when ready. Do not feed the treated oats since the dust is poisonous if taken internally.