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FRIDAY. FEB. 24. 1933
DRIVING OUT BUSINESS
There is no pretense on the part of its backers
that the proposed increase of taxes on chain stores
is for the purpose of raising revenues. Yet the
measure is almost a law, placing a heavy tax on any
one who owns more than ten distributing places.
The purpose of the law is to drive out the chain
store for the benefit of the independent owners.
Yet the independent owners who are wise have
adopted the measures which made the chains pos
sible. By co-operative buying, they are meeting
the competition. The cost of living decreases. The
fear of monopoly is gone.
Through the passage of the sales tax and other
levies, the take of th e state from business is already
more than heavy. It is back-brcakmg.
All that the passage of this bill will mean is that
the larger chains will probably reduce the number
: of their stores, adding to the number of unemployed,
vacating more buildings and adding to the snowball
of depressing conditions.
The way to beat the chains is not by punitive
laws, but by improving upon their methods. That
. can be done by voluntary co-operatives. In many
states that movement is taking form.
Any method of distribution that eliminates waste
and reduces the living cost is to be welcomed. The
chains merely mean mass distribution to match
mass production. That does not necessarily mean
ownership of the mass distribution in a single cor
poration. The best way to meet the chain store is
in the field of fair competition and voluntary co
operation.
FRANCES PERKINS
No better news has come from cabinet-making
' councils than that indicating Frances Perkins will
be secretary of labor.
As New York state industrial commissioner, and
in the f9urteen years she has held similar offices
under different titles, Miss Perkins’ record in behalf
of workers has been a distinguished one. She has
displayed a rare ability to organize efficiently for
the job on hand and get things done that at the
outset seemed impassible.
These talents have been needed in the labor de
partment for a long time. For years the depart
ment has dragged along with an employment serv
ice not worth even the small amount of money
spent for it. The naturalization service and treat
ment of aliens has been a national disgrace.
Under Secretary Doak, politics further has
clogged the department's inefficient machinery. If
Miss Perkins puts her hand on the throttle, this
condition will change. She is a skilled sociologist,
not a politician.
If there ever was a time when labor needed com
petent, whole-souled help from its government, that
time is here, and for the department from which
it hoped so much and has received so little to be
intrusted again to a person of the caliber of recent
secretaries would be a tragedy.
Every working man and woman in the country
should rejoice if Miss Perkins is included in the
final cabinet list.
GOVERNOR-GENERAL ROOSEVELT
One of the most important jobs in the new ad
ministration will be that of governor-general of the
Philippines. The abortive independence measure
passed by traders in the lame duck congress has
created trouble both for the islands and for the
United States; only statesmanship can find a way
out. Meanwhile, the war in the far east spreads.
It is a bad time to swap horses.
Fortunately, Theodore Roosevelt as governor
general has won the confidence of the Filipinos and
of Americans. By apparently unanimous opinion
he has rendered fine service.
A change at this time might add anew clement
of uncertainty to already dangerously unsettled
conditions in the far cast. To be sure, there are
plenty of minor reasons for sending out anew gov
ernor-general—to the victor belongs the spoils, fear
of possible charges of nepotism, and the like.
But there are luxuries which statesmanship can
not afford in a crisis. President-Elect Roosevelt has
enough problems on his hands already, without
creating new’ ones. He should be in no hurry to dis
place Theodore Rooseveit, who happens to be a Re
publican and a distant cousin—but who also hap
pens to be an exceptionally able governor-general,
much needed in the Philippines at this particular
moment.
AN ARMS EMBARGO
In congress, and in foreign parliaments, the
law-makers are troubled by the hypocrisy involved
In nations having anti-war pacts and at the same
time selling weapons to other nations to break
these treaties.
An enlightening debate on this subject is re
ported from London. The only reply Prime Min
ister Ramsay MacDonald could make to demands
for an embargo on British arms shipments to bel
ligerents in the far east and Latin America was
to say that the British government could not act
alone.
He intimated that the League of Nations could
not act because of the United States.
This excuse has a familiar ring. In Washington,
at the house hearing on the embargo resolution,
the munitions makers opposed action on the ground
of competition—other countries would get the busi
ness if we didn't.
All this is evasion. The argument would sound
absurd if applied to the traffic in slaves or in
women.
The issue is a practical. one. If the nations
want to salvage the peace machinery, they will
have to do something much more effective than
talk about it. An arms embargo against a treaty
breaking belligerent is one of the easiest and most
obvious methods, productive of direct results.
As the state department has pointed out to the
house committee, an arms embargo does not lead
to war. It merely is the lawful refusal by a neutral
to engage in a traffic which its treaties have made
illegal in principle.
To permit munitions profiteers to determine
government policy on the embargo question- is like
calling In a germ-carrier of a physician to
treat a typhoid patient. For the munitions makers
not only keep wars going, they help start wars.
This Is not an unsubstantiated pacifist charge.
It has been demonstrated by many objective investi
gations. To name only one, the conservative League
of Nations commission found that:
’‘Armament firms have been active in foment
ing war scares and in persuading their own coun
tries to adopt warlike policies . . . Have attempted
to bribe government officials . . .• Have dissemi
nated false reports concerning the military and
naval programs of various countries, to stimulate
armament expenditures . . . Have sought to in
fluence public opinion through control of newspa
pers . . . Hava organized international armament
rings, through which the armament race has been
accentuated by playing f off one country against
another.”
As President Hoover told congress last month:
‘ Recent events have emphas.zed the urgent need
of more authority to the executive in control of the
shipment of arms from the United States for mili
tary purposes. There can be no doubt that con
trol of the shipment of arms from the United States
lor military purposes. There can be no doubt that
control of such shipments to areas of prospective
and actual international conflict greatly would aid
the earnest and unceasing efforts which all nations
now make to prevent and lessen the dangers of
such conflicts.”
In our judgment, the President should be given
power in his discretion to apply an embargo in de
fense of treaties, either in co-operation with other
nations, or alone, if the international armament ring
is powerful enough in some countries to block inter
national action.
But, if congress will not grant that complete
power to the President, the least it can do is to pass
the resolution allowing us to join in international
action, as Mr. Hoover requests.
That, at least, would dispose of foreign jibes,
such as that of the British, that the United States
is holding up the peace parade.
In keeping with the modern tempo, a Kentucky
couple, hastily procured a marriage license and
stood on the running board of their automobile
while a minister read the vows. At such a speed,
we suppose the usual probationary period accorded
a bridegroom was waived and that the bride
promptly climbed into the back seat to assist with
the driving. ,
Mt. Ranier park officials gravely warn the
country that unless something is done, Nisqually
glacier will be damaged badly. There, ladies arid
gentlemen, is something to worry about— consid
ering we’ve only 11,000,000 jobless in our midst.
George Bernard Shaw says India should make
public speaking a capital offense. It’s a bit different
around Washington, where we have capital speak
ing at public expense.
Boxing promoters at Ogden, Utah, have adopted
the barter system for fight admissions. Because of
stocks on hand, gatemen probably will have to refuse
cauliflowers and lemons.
Bankers, nowadays, don't get around much, but
they seem to no everybody.
The Wisconsin farm strike was upsetting to
dairymen, but highway pickets didn't cry over
spilled milk. y
Now an economist proposes that the govern
ment issue “dirt dollars,” backed by government
owned farm land. It’s too bad that the term implies
of contamination—just when we’d ceased
to speak of filthy lucre.
In these days of hardships we may draw inspira
tion from the movie stars who must carry on, light
hearted and gay, though their salaries have been
slashed from $1,500 to a paltry SI,OOO a week.
A New York judge has ruled that a woman can
rifle her husband’s pockets without interference as
far as the law is concerned, a sense of fairness,
however, should prevent her coming back to bed
and waking him up to complain of insufficient funds.
Three government departments have collaborated
in determining that a frog can hop five times as far
as a flea. Neither, of course, can approximate the
celerity of a congressional candidate at election time
Just Plain Sense
MRS. WALTER FERGUSON -
'T'HE mail is filled with sad plaints from women
who find men untruthful, undependable, and
slippery as eels in the matrimonial grasp.
Lets, if possible, regard the question from a
cold and practical point of view. It undoubtedly
is tiue that there goes on a terrific competition
among women and men. This is because the num
ber of eligible males has been declining steadily
during the last several years.
Numerically, in a good many other countries,
women far outnumber men. To all practical pur
poses, the same is true in the United States. That
is. we have at least twice as many girls and women
who are willing and wish to marry as there are
men who are in a position to marry them.
Thousands of boys who, under normal condi
tions, would be thinking seriously of a wife and a
home and babies, now are hitch-hiking all over
the country, trying to find work or food.
This undoubtedly contributes to the energetic
efforts of those whom we call “home breakers”
and who in truth only are proving once again that
self-preservation is the first law of nature. If they
can oust a wife and get a home and a husband,
they do it.
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economic situation also augments the mis
demeanors of women. America until recently
was a country of many frontiers. Pioneering was
the rule. Girls who ventured into the middle west
had no fears about getting married. They were
snapped up as soon as they got there.
Wives were a valuable asset. Women were
necessary to the building of permanent settle
ments. They could pick and choose and, at least
until they were married, play the coquette and
flirt and break masculine hearts.
It always has been the potential mother and
not the individual woman that has been the ob
ject of men’s solicitude. When women are scarce,
therefore, this solicitude increases and becomes a
physical and moral protectorate.
But when there is a surplus of women, it is
natural that solicitude should abate. And this
always results in women growing more aggressive.
Our problem today is exactly this: There are
not enough marriageable men to go round. And
there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about
it. It is only another of those unpleasant phases
of modern life from which we seem dooa J to
suffer.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES .
‘When Do We Eat?’
It Seems to Me • • ..by Heywood Broun
YEARS ago I decided that
when repeal got fairly started
on its way I would blow myself
to a big party, ring doorbells and
knock down fences. But when
the victory came I passed the
evening quietly at home, making
denial bids at one-twentieth of a
cent.
It may be that the boy grew
older, or, again, the change could
be less in me than in outside cir
cumstances. I am in favor of
sending the dry amendment back
to the states, but the change in
legislative temper has come be
latedly. There now are so many
other things of more importance.
And yet I trust that this new
deal may be a symbol and a symp
tom of increasing congressional
courage and frank facing of the
facts. Now that one powerful lob
by seems in danger of being rid
den down, there is at least a
chance that senators will begin to
consider their convictions and
constituents and cease to tremble
at the sound of ghostly voices and
the clanking of chains.
Both honesty and imagination
will be needed in the new ad
ministration, and if as much as
one good thing can come out of
a lame duck session there is. the
possibility that the new house may
sweep a good deal cleaner than
most of us have dared to hope.
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Now for Long Pull
IAM well aware that ratification
is not going to be obtained
overnight. It still is possible that
some little group of thirteen
states may tie up the proposal in
definitely. We may, in traditional
American legislative fashion, drift
into forgetting the whole business,
rather than removing it.
But there will remain the fact
that 289 members of the house of
representatives, on a certain Mon
day, did behave after the manner
of rational human beings and
stopped acting like congressmen.
And that’s something!
To be sure, not all the credit
should go to the gentlemen in
Washington. I am of the opinion
that Mrs. Charles Sabin has done
a little more than any other in
dividual to bring about the new
dispensation.
She probably has displayed more
political acumen and effectiveness
than any other member of her
sex. But for her leadership there
would have been no knocking
down of the notion that prohibi
tion must be preserved, good or
bad, because all the women of the
country were behind it.
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News Hits Broadway
A S it happened, I was in a
■L place of solace when the news
of the vote came over the ticker.
I expected to find a woe-begone
expression on the face of the pro
prietor.
“Ater some little while.” I
said, ‘‘this is going to be bad for
profits. The sun has begun to set
on the day of the $1 cocktail.”
‘‘Yes,” he said, "I know that, but
don’t expect me to weep. I think
I still can keep going. In fact, re
peal might put cen years on my
life. Os course, I expect to be
regulated and taxed and super
vised. I expect to get taxed good
==■— ' DAILY HEALTH SERVICE --- -
Beware of Hospital Care Financiers’
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
This is the first of two articles bv Dr.
Fishbein cautioning the public to think
twice before sisnine ud for ‘ hospital in
surance.”
In times of sickness and epidem
ics, charlatans flourish. They know
that a desperate public will grasp
at any scheme that seems to offer
something for nothing, or more
for less than its costs.
The report of the Committee on
the Costs of Medical Care has
served to focus the attention of
the public on this problem.
Many “financiers” who have
found it difficult to operate in
other fields at this time have in
vaded the field of medical care.
We have in this country ap
proximately 7,000 hospitals with
a million beds, many of them de
voted to the care of the tubercu
losis and psychiatric cases. The
country would not seem to be
over-hospitalized.
Nevertheless, the hospitals of
the country are approximately 33
per cent unoccupied.
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AMONG possible causes for this
condition is the government’s
hospitalization of vast numbers
of .veterans suffering from non-
and hard. And I won’t whimper.
Why should I?
“In the first place, I’ll know
what I got to pay and when. I’m
sick to death of ‘assessments.’
Naturally, there’s money in run
ning a speakeasy, but you’ve got
to be a combination of Demos
thenes, Mark Hanna and, if you’ll
pardon my high school education,
Cataline, to get away with it. I’m
just about in a mood not only to
welcome the first tax collector who
comes into my place, but to throw
both arms around his neck.
“You don’t think, do you, that
anybody who’s been in the busi
ness for ten years really likes
prohibition agents?”
His attitude disturbed me not a
little. I went into the bar and
started organizing. I drew a little
group around me and said: “‘ls it
really true that the twilight of
the speakeasy is upon us? If
even the proprietors are going to
welcome the coming of the new
day, upon whom can be put our
trust and confidence?
Every Day Religion
t--'- •. . BY DR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON
A ONE-ACT play, some years
ago, had two characters, a
man who just had been killed in
an auto smash-up, and an angel.
As the man slowly comes to him
self, he wonders where he is, and
calls out, “Is anybody there?” The
mists clear away, and an angel
stands before him and asks, “Can
I do anything for you, sir?” The
man asks what he may have.
“Anything you like,” is thfr
reply.
“Already I have taken thirty
years from your age,” the angel
adds.
“Perpetual youth, eh?” exclaims
the newcomer. “It looks as if I’d
come to a good place, after all.
But what about the golden
crown?”
“You can have one if you like,”
comes the answer, and presto! a
starry golden crown encircles his
brow.
“Exactly a fit,” he says. “And
now, what else have you got
here?”
“Anything you like,” replies the
angel.
“I can have everything I desire?
Absolutely everything?” he asks,
excitedly.
“Subject only to certain re
strictions imposed by the nature
of the place,” is the reply. “There
is neither pain, nor suffering, nor
struggle here. Anything else you
desire I will procure for you.”
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ALL sorts of requests follow,”
the best to eat and drink,
luxurious living rooms, “period”
furniture, lovely women, and the
rest. But all proves insufficient
and finally cloying.
“This everlasting bliss palls,”
says the man, wearily. “I know
what I want! I want some work.”
But as work implies struggle and
effort, it is out of the question.
“I don’t know what to propose,
sir,” says the angel, after he has
ransacked his mind. “But if any-
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hrgeia. the
Health Magazine.
service connected disabilities and
well able to pay for hospital care.
However, it seems certain that
because of the economic strin
gency condition wliich would
otherwise bring people to hospi
tals are being cared for at home
or perhaps postpoued until the
moment when postponement is no
longer necessary.
Even Henry Ford seems to have
postponed his operation for hernia
until the hernia strangulated and
included the appendix.
The publicity promoted by the
committee on the costs of medi
cal care established in the pub
lic consciousness the idea that
hospital care is likely to be an
exceedingly costly matter, and
that the only hope of meeting
hospital costs is some scheme of
insurance whereby the costs will
be distributed over vast numbers
of people.
ana
DURING the past two years the
public has been deluged with
new schemes of insurance against
“Are we men or mice? Must we
tamely submit to coming into dis
pensaries without even the ro
mantic formality of knocking three
times on the door and saying, ‘l’m
a friend of Charlie’s?”
. “No, no!” shouted the crowd
about me, and a man in the rear
of the room said loudly, “A thou
sand times no!” But I can’t do
sums like that in my head.
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Birth of A. O. A. A. S.
A ND so we decided to organize
the Association Opposed to
the Abolition of * the American
Speakeasy. It will be called the
A. O. A. A. S. and pronounced
Ace, for short.
We Aces intend to affiliate with
the W. C. T. U., and, in fact, we
plan to offer Mrs. Ella Boole the
office of honorary vice-president.
None of us trusts legal liquor. We
fear that maybe it won’t have any
kick.
(Copyright. 1933. bv The Times)
thing occurs to you, let me know,”
and he turns to go.
“Hold on!” cries the man, “I’ve
got it! I want some pain; that’s
it!” To which the angel replies,
“I’m sorry, sir, but no one is
allowed to have pain in this place.
You’ll get used to it after a few
thousand years. They all feel as
you do at first.”
“But,” cries the man, “I can’t
stand this everlasting bliss! I’d
rather be in Hell!”
The angel, stepping back and
looking at him in astonishment,
asks, “And where do you think
you are, sir? This is Hell.”
(Copyright, 1933, by United Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
So They Say
The American farmer may
carry the noose to a place where
they are attempting to foreclose
on his neighbor’s farm, but along
with that noose will be Old
Glory.—Alexander C. Davis, for
mer secretary of the National
Farmers’ Union.
There are millions of acres in
this country on which men could
go to work and do something,
only they won’t do it.—The Rt.
Rev. Thomas F. GaiJor, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee.
The ultimate result of the dis
armament conference will be
that people will be destroyed by
ten-inch shells instead of six
teen-inch ones.—George Bernard
Shaw, Irish playwright.
In freight traffic, one ton of
gondola carries three tons of coal;
in the passenger end, which has
been a dead loss for years, two
tons of train carry one pas
senger.—E. J. W. Ragsdale, man
ufacturing executive.
medical costs, but particularly
against the cost of hospital care.
The best piece of advice that
could be given to any ope ap
proached by an agent selling such
a policy is to ask the agent to
bring the policy back with all the
fine print reprinted three times
as large as the largest print in the
policy as offered.
It is in the fine print that the
limitations will be found which
make such policies, in many in
stances, undesirable.
Here are the clauses limiting
the number of conditions covered
by the policy; here are the clauses
limiting the term of stay in the
hospital under the policy; here
are the clauses which make it pos
sible for the insurance company,
when it finds itself pressed by eco
nomic stringency due to wrong
calculations, poor mathematics,
and unfavorable health condi
tions, to wiggle out from under all
responsibility.
NEXT—Getting the most for your
money. 0
M.E. Tracy Says:
HITLER SEEDS SO EX-KAISER
WHAT does a house painter want with a king?
Not that the house painter might fail to
use one if it came in handy, but would he create
or restore one if he could get what he wanted with
out doing so?
We have seen enough in this country to realize
the difference between what a candidate promises
and what he does after being elected to office.
Applying the same rule to Adolph Hitler, much
of his talk as seeker of power should be discounted.
He and some of his supporters toyed with the
thought of a returned kaiser, but why assume that they meant more
than to attract votes?
Politics is the same kind of bunk in Germany as anywhere else.
Your shrewd leader says what he thinks the people want to hear,
especially at the outset. If he is really shrewd, however, he soon forgets it.
Nor should this be interpreted as lack of sincerity, determination, or
willingness to do the right thing.
More often than not. what the people want m the heat of excitement
is far from what they want as a matter of calm, deliberate choice.
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Germany Wants Coherent Economic Setup
THE people of Germany do not want the Hohenzollerns back, even
though some of them have thought so in moments of peculiar
stress and confusion.
What the people of Germany want is a restored nationalism, a co
herent economic structure, and a social order sufficiently well defined to
permit of constructive thinking.
Hitler has made their desire articulate, even though he appeared
to be advocating some other things on occasion. His pro-kaiser and
anti-Jewish attitude was just a pose to catch certain elements of the
crowd.
Now that he has arrived, he will be a different man or pass out of
the picture within a year. It is beyond imagination to suppose that a
country can be rehabilitated or that intelligent people will stand for
such trash as Hitler dealt in during his various campaigns.
By the same token, it is beyond imagination to suppose that he
could have fought his way upward against such odds unless he had
something better in the back of his head.
There are royalists in Germany, of course, just as there are in
France, Spain, Portugal and Russia, but the fashion of establishing
republics is planted too firmly right now for them to make much
headway.
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Passing of Hohenzollerns Helps Nation
THE German people have endured many disappointments and bitter
experiences since the war, but all things considered their lot has
been much easier than it would have been with the Hohenzollerns.
Nothing has done so much to help them regain the confidence of other
nations as the abandonment of kaiserism, and they know *.
When Hindenburg first was elected president of Germany, many
people felt sure that the monarchy soon would be re-established. They
took everything into account except the elemental motives of human
nature, building up a case that rested solely on a stern old man's
willingness to lie and surrender his prestige for the sake of playing
servant to a discredited master.
The same false reasoning is all that warrants a belief that Hitler
will re-enthrone the kaiser.
Like every other ambitious man. Hitler will not divide power
unless he is compelled to do so. He would not be where he is today
if a king had stood in the path.
He has made his way in Germany by building up a following. Tt
is preposterous to suppose that he would give that following up for
the doubtful advantage of being a court favorite.
SCIENCE
Do the Stars Twinkle?
BY DAVID DIETZ
THE sparkling nights of winter
are excellent for study of the
stars. When the air is clear and
crisp, the stars seem to glow r and
twinkle with added vigor. It re
calls to mind the old nursery
rhyme that goes:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
And that, perhaps, will serve to
arouse many serious questions
about the stars. There is, of
course, the question embodied in
the rhyme as to what the stars
are.
Perhaps the rhyme will sug
gest an earlier question by its very
first line. Every one knows that
the stars twinkle. But why do
they twinkle?
The stars actually do not shine
with an unsteady light. Each star
is a great, fiery, self-luminous
globe. Each star is a great sun,
the smallest one about one-third
the size of our sun, the largest one
500 times the diameter of our sun.
It is the earth’s atmosphere
which is responsible for the twin
kling of stars.
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Air Is Unsteady
IF you look out a window which
has a heated radiator beneath
it you will notice that the houses
and trees outdoors seem to be
quivering and trembling. Actually,
of course, they are doing nothing
of the sort.
There is an irregular column of
heated air rising from the radia
tor. The light w aves coming to you
through the pass through
this layer of moving air above
the radiator. ■
The heated air is less dense
than the cold air. As the light
rays enter this layer of different
density, they are bent, or, to use
the exact scientific term, “dif
fracted.”
You may see a somewhat simi
lar phenomenon by placing a
straight stick in a glass of water.
It will look as though the stick
were bent where it enters the
water.
Now the atmosphere of the
earth is in continuous motion.
Heated currents of cold air are
descending. The density of the
air varies from point to point in
an irregular and constantly
changing fashion.
The light of the stars must
make its way to our eyes through
about ten miles of this unsteady
atmosphere.
Diffraction alone, however, is
not sufficient to account for the
twinkling of the stars. More im
portant is the phenomenon known
as “interference.”
If two light waves strike each
other in such a fashion that the
crest or top of one wave falls upon
the trough or bottom of the other,
the result will be darkness, the
two rays neutralizing and cancel
ing out each other. This is what
happens to starlight.
n a
Cancel Each Other
AS the beam of light comes to
our eyes from a star, differ
ent parts of the narrow beam may
strike different thicknesses of air.
If one part of the beam is de
layed enough to throw it a half
wave length behind the other,
then the two parts instead of re
inforcing each other and giving us
the image of the star, cancel each
other out.
Momentarily, therefore, we fail
to see the star and so the star
seems to be twinkling.
A puzzling question always put
to young students of astronomy is
why the stars twinkle, but the
planets do not. The reason is
that the planet, being so much
closer to the earth, gives us a
much larger image than does the
star..
.TEB. 21, 1933
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TRACY
[ The star may be considered as
| a point of light, but the image of
j the planet is a disc.
Consequently, in the case of thr
I planet we receive a great many
! waves of light arising from points
on the disc. Interference as in
| the case of the star’s light may
j occur between waves.
But there are so many of them
that the interference is not suffi
cient to blot out the entire image
and so the' planet continues to
shine with a fairly steady light.
While the unsteadiness of the
earth’s atmosphere undoubtedly
adds to the beauty of the night
sky, it is a great annoyance to the 1
astronomer.
It interferes with his observa
tions of the planets as well as the
stars and makes it particularly
difficult for him to measure the
position of a star with high pre
cision.
Questions and
Answers
Q—How many Chinese and Jap
anese Nationals were admitted to
the United States in 1932 as perm
anent residents, and by what au
thority were they permitted to
land?
A—There were 545 Chinese and
503 Japanese admitted in the fiscal
year 1932. They were wives, hus
! bands, or children of American
| citizens and therefore were en
j titled to legal entry.
Q —ls Kentucky designated of
ficially as a state or common
wealth?
A—Commonwealth.
Q-Do r nuts grow under or
above the ground?
A—Under the ground.
Q —Which fruit has the largest
percentage of fat?
A —Avocado.
Q—Name the winners of the re
cent nation-wide poll to select
the twelve greatest American
| women who will be portrayed on
the frieze in the Social Science
i building at the Chicago exposi
i tion,
A—Mary Baker Eddy, Jane Ad
dams, Clara Barton, Frances E.
Willard, Susan B. Anthony, Helen
A. Keller, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
I Julia Ward Howe, Carrie Chap
j man Catt, Amelia Earhart Put
j nam, Mary Lyon, and Dr. Mary
! E. Woolley.
Q —Give dates of the Boer war.
A—From 1899 to 1902.
Q--How old are Lionel, Ethel,
and John Barrymore?
A—Lionel was born in 1878;
, Ethel in 1879; and John in 1832.
Q—Give the derivation and
meaning c! the name Kimber
ling.
—lt is a British family name de
rived from an occupation, that of
comber of wool. It comes from
the middle English verb “kemben,”
meaning to comb. The suffix—
“ling''—denotes possession, that
is, “little son of.”
Q- —To what year in the Jewish
calendar does 1§33 correspond?
A.—5693-5694.
Daily Thought
Who is among you that feareth
the Lord, that obeyeth the voice
of His servant, that walketh in
darkness, and hath no light? Let.
him trust in the name of the
Lord, and stay upon his God.—
Isiah 50:10.
JUSTICE delayed" is justice de
nied.—Gladstone.