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...Christmas address to his College of Cardinals, His Holiness Pope Pius XI hurled from Vatican City a potent reaffirmation of his 1931 Encyclical against sterilization: "That pernicious practice must be condemned. . . . Men are begotten not for earth and time but for heaven and eternity. . . . Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. . . [to] tamper with the integrity of the body, either for reasons of eugenics or for any other reason...
...Peace on earth, free trade among nations and equality between the sexes were three noble ideals of which the Seventh Pan-American Conference in Montevideo last week nobly voted approval (with reservations...
...whites which quickly swelled to 2.000 visitors per day. He now operates "Kingdoms" in New York, Newark, Baltimore, Washington, Bridgeport. Most of his followers, "of high as well as of low intellectual capacity," believe him to be God or a "resurrected Christ" who has come to dwell on earth. Divine denies that he teaches he is God, but the Newark committee finds that he suffers his flock to "pay him divine honors" in violation of the New Jersey statute. "Father" Divine owns several automobiles and an airplane. In New York alone his "Kingdom" costs $30.000 a year to operate. Most...
...news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination at the same instant...
...light could no longer be regarded as a constant. "The observed irregularities," they said, "are unexplained and their elucidation apparently will require more sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw no need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship of earth, sun and moon movements, pointed out that the 14¾-day fluctuation was roughly equal...