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THURSDAY JULY. . -
$2,000,000 A DAY
AN aroused public opinion and the new,
vital tax problem is speeding prohibition
repeal toward final passage this year. Vir
ginias summons for a special legislative ses
sion in August to pass repeal election and
beer laws is a major victory. Oklahoma's
legislature now is in special session, and
Colorado's is expected to meet this month.
These three states, and lour others,
Florida, Missouri, Montana and Utah, which
have provided for repeal elections, 'but with
out fixing dates so far, will decide a major
taxation question for the whole country.
Sixteen states have ratified repeal, and
seventeen others have elections set for this
year. If the seven states listed above hold
elections this year—a total of forty—ratifica
tion by the necessary thirty-six seems cer
tain before Christmas.
If ratification is consummated before
Jan. 1, President Roosevelt, under the law,
will discontinue as of that date the
$227,000,000 re-employment taxes imposed by
the national recovery act. Liquor taxes will
raise double that amount, it is estimated.
Some contend that, repeal will bring in
$2,000,000 a day in taxes.
But if repeal is delayed by the drys’ tac
tics, the taxes—s per cent of every’ dividend
payment, one-half a cent on every gallon of
gasoline, etc.—will under the law be con
tinued through all the calendar year 1934.
This is a major reason why repeal, cer
tain in the long run, should prevail in 1933.
The fundamental rightness of repeal as a
social reform has been demonstrated abund
antly by the sixteen representative states
which already have cast ballots of almost
four to one against national prohibition.
SLUM CONFERENCE
'T'HE national slum clearance conference
opens in Cleveland today.
It is the first meeting of the kind to be
held anywhere since • passage of the national
recovery act. and it is a meeting of tremendous
importance in relation to some aspects of that
legislation.
The federal administration has time and
again demonstrated its conviction that in slum
clearance lies one of the great possibilities of
the times, not only as a means of putting
great numbers of men unemployed to work,
but also of permanently improving the stand
ards of living in this country.
Cleveland hopes to be among the first cities
to embark op a large scale slum clearance and
rehousing project. In the final formulation
of its own plans, it will have the benefit of
direct contact of foremost, thinkers on this
subject from all over the country.
Cleveland, through the real property inven
tory conducted by its real estate board, and
through the leadership and interest of many
prominent citizens, has gone farther than any
other city in building up an enlightened pub
lic opinion on this subject.
The time to face the difficulties and ob
stacles in slum clearance is before work starts,
instead of afterward. Many points of view
will be presented in the conference beginning
there today.
There is reason to hope that, when the
conference closes, great progress will have
been made toward a common agreement on a
comprehensive plan applicable to needs of
all cities of the country.
AN EXAMPLE FOR EUROPE
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S comment on
his arrival at Campobello island, just
across the Canadian border—that Norman
Davis should tell the disarmament delegates
at Geneva Just what an unfortified interna
tional border looks like—is one which all
citizens of the United States and Canada can
indorse.
That long border, when you stop to think
about it. is one of the most remarkable things
in all the world. Not a fort, not a warship,
• not a cavalry patrol from one end of it to
the other: not one citizen in either land who
feels the slightest need for such thing: was
there ever, in all history, an example of in
ternational neighborliness like this?
To be sure, the United States and Canada
have had their differences. They have even,
in the dim past, gone to war with each other.
But they have learned how to settle every
thing peaceably, and their example is a shin
ing light that other nations very profitably
might try to copy.
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MOVING TO DISASTER
A S the world disarmament conference puts
off until October the task of reaching
some sort of agreement. Secretary of the Navy
Swanson announces a plan to build the United
States navy up close to treaty strength, and
once again it becomes painfully evident that
the job of cutting down the world's military
establishments is almost impossibly difficult.
There are more men under arms today
than there were in the spring of 1914. The
world's annual expenditures for national de
fense are far higher today than they were in
1914.
The suspicions, fears, and Jealousies which
’ led up to the war in 1914 are duplicated today
by emotions equally strong and equally
dangerous.
Last winter General Douglas MacArthur,
United States army chief of staff, compiled
some figures on the world's armies He showed
that Europe, Japan, China and the United
States are keeping a total of 6,207,538 men in
uniform.
Ta do this, and to maintain their navies,
air teets and border defenses, these nations
are spending around $4,000,000,000 a year.
* Before the war those armies numberrl
4,063,000, and the total military expenditures
were about $2,500,000,000 annually.
Those facts in themselves are dismaying
enough. But when you contrast them with the
high promises all world statesmen made their
people during and immediately after the war,
the situation becomes even more discouraging.
We were told, then, that the nations of the
world would make a new’ effort to keep the
peace. The League of Nations would help settle
disputes; there would be non-aggression treat
ies, arbitration agreements and what-not to
make war less likely; the frightful sacrifices of
the World war would be justified by the fact
that no such war could ever happen again.
Into the Versailles treaty was written the
pledge that the World w’ar victors would dis
arm Just as soon as they possibly could.
And today disarmament looks farther away
then ever, armies are bigger than ever, and
more gold than ever before is being laid on the
altar of the god of w’ar.
What's the answer? Will w’e stumble blindly
along until at last w’e trip into a worse war
than the last one—or will we finally insist that
statesmen live up to their promises and give
us the disarmament they have promised?
SCIENCE SHOWS ITS MARVELS
SCIENCE that has remade the world in the
last hundred years is glorified at Chi
cago's Century of Progress exposition.
First of all, the very ground upon which
the miles of buildings rest w’as created out
of the shallow water of Lake Michigan by an
engineering operation.
Then for the last three years engineers
worked at designing and rearing the build
ings to serve for six months and then be de
molished, much like the settings of a movie
city. Yet, while it lasts, the Century of Prog
ress city will entertain millions of visitors and
exhibit millions of dollars worth of displays
and treasures. It will serve millions of meals.
Adequate fire protection must be provided and
hundreds of police, guides and other person
nel will inhabit the exhibition city during the
exhibition hours.
Some of the buildings strike new notes in
modern architecture. The bright hues of
many-colored paints are spread over the
pylons, towers and walls, and unusual light
ing effects blaze their contribution to the fair’s
decorative scheme at night.
Within the exhibition buildings and in out
door exhibits, the imprint of science upon
our everyday life is exemplified.
From the hemispherical planetarium at the
northern corner to the gigantic transportation
hall near the southern end of the exposition’s
expanse, there awaits the visitor a liberal edu
cation in science and its effects on human life.
The Hall of Science, to which the cross
bannered court of honor of the principal en
trance leads directly, contains an array of
mechanized, self-operating demonstrations and
exhibits in chemistry, biology, physics, medicine
and the earth sciences.
For nearly three years a corps of scientists
worked at designing, planning, and building
these exhibits, which are arranged in gaily
painted booths upon wide aisles. In some cases
the visitor or attendant pushes a button and
the machine goes through its cycle of demon
strating a basic science principle. In other
cases the exhibit methodically carries out its
demonstration every few minutes without the
prodding of button pushing.
Some of the machines talk their messages
by means of sound film or phonograph at
tachments, while others use more prosaic labels
in ordinary or transparent lettering. Lantern
slides automatically projected are parts of
many demonstrations.
Giant electric machines, automatic tele
phones and switchboards and the thousands of
devices developed by science and used in com
munication or the electrical arts, are displayed
in the great halls of communication and elec
tricity.
Here the large electrical manufacturers, the
telephone and telegraph companies have their
exhibits. Everywhere you turn you see the
wonders of science.
RUSSIAN RECOGNITION NEARS
✓~\NE would not have to be exactly daring
to predict that normal diplomatic rela
tions wall be in existence soon between the
governments of the United States and of
Soviet Russia.
A delicate little hint was given when Presi
dent Roosevelt issued his famous communica
tion to the governments of the world sev
eral w’eeks ago.
Among the world leaders to whom that
communication went was the Russian execu
tive. who never has had any legal existence
as far as our state department is concerned.
On top of that. American delegates at the
London conference were observed in close
communication with Russian delegates.
And a little later it was announced that
the R. F. C. will finance a series of loans by
which American exporters will be able to sell
between 60.000 and 80.000 bales of cotton to
Russia.
One hardly is being rash in anticipating
that formal recognition will logically follow
these steps before very long.
Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Horse
Association of America, declares use of horses
now is increasing rapidly. Evidently that's one
line of business that has been stabilized.
“Early to bed. and early to rise’’—and you
get up in time to play nine holes of golf before
going down to the office.
Delegates to New Thought congress in New
York the other day witnessed demonstration
which proved, to their satisfaction, that music
cures headaches. But we still insist we've
heard a lot of music that causes 'em.
It often is the case that the beauty shop
proprietress lives on the fat of the land.
Now that the sunburn season is here, per
haps that noise you hear at the bathing
beaches is caused by the peeling of the belles.
Wisconsin girl recently fried an egg on the
sidewalk in front of a bank. We doubt, how
ever, if the heat was sufficient to melt out
any of the frozen assets inside.
It is a matter of simple justice, no doubt,
that an autoist who attempts to burn ftp the
road often lands in the cooler.
The man who boasts that 3.2 beer goes to
his head probably overlooks the possibility that
it wants to go where It won’t be crowdA.
THE PRESIDENTS VACATION
SELDOM have the old and the new types
of sea travel been more sharply con
trasted than was the case during President
Roosevelt's recent vacation trip to Campo
bello island.
The northward trip was made by sailboat.
George Washington himself, if he had been
so minded, could have made that trip in al
most exactly the same way.
His schooner wouldn’t have been stocked
with canned goods and it wouldn't have been
trailed by destroyers, but in essentials, it would
have been the same sort of boat, handled in
exactly the same way.
But the homeward trip, made via the
cruiser Indianapolis, was the last word in
modern sea travel. No ship afloat Is kept as
religiously up-to-date as a warship, and
the Indianapolis is the newest of the new.
Had the President come back on the lew
airship Macon itself, his homeward trip
hardly would have differed more from that
leisurely cruise on the Amberjack 11.
Judging by those reports from Hollywood.
"America’s Sweetheart” no longer is Doug's.
Ohio summer resort featured fifty girls in
bathing beauty contest as part of gala July 4
celebration. Doubtless, the cheering was
"Hips, hips, hoo-ray!”
Englishman has invented practice golf ball,
attached to sort of parachute, that is guaran
teed not to travel more than ten yards. We
find that an ordinary golf ball answers our
purpose equally well.
A1 Capone's successor in Chicago has been
indicted for dodging his income tax. Too bad
that he didn’t have Banker Mitchell’s attor
ney to advise him that it wasn’t against the
law.
Announcement of Senator Huey Long’s
daughter that she wears cotton lingerie to aid
south’s cotton farmers causes one to wonder
if the senator now will change from those
pink silk pajamas in which he receives visiting
diplomats. 1
Otto Kahn, Wall street banker, testified fte
paid no income tax for three years. Well, if
J. P. Morgan can get by with that, it is only
reasonable to suppose that Otto can.
Nation’s champion boy saxophonist, who
lives in Lakewood, 0., explains he always shuts
the doors and windows of his home before
practicing, as a matter of courtesy to his
neighbors. Uh, huh—courtesy or safety?
Federal prohibition bureau didn’t even wait
until July 1 economies became effective to fire
Andy Volstead. Maybe Andy feels sorer than
ever now about rushing the can.
"Five Thousand Pocketbook Makers Strike
in New York’’—headline. Too bad that this
should happen just as a lot of people are
finding use for them again.
Self-confidence is commendable, but it Is
not wise to give yourself a pat on the back
during the sunburn season.
Technocrats, meetings in Chicago, declared
a two-hour day is sufficient. How about mak
ing the lunch hour one of them?
Numismatist says collectors of rare coins
are increasing. We’ve noticed that those we
have been able to collect recently have been
very rare.
Cleveland concern has quit the manufac
ture of motor cars and turned to making beer.
It is presumed the customers now will get
more smiles to the gallon.
M.E.TracySays:
FOR more than 150 years, we have been cele
brating the Fourth of July with the assur
ance that it stood for something big and im
portant not only in this country, but throughout
the world.
We have taken it for granted that the Amer
ican Revolution marked the advent of a better
form of government, a better social system, and
a better philosophy of life.
We entered the war hoping, if not believing,
that this form of government, this social system,
and this philosophy of life would be established
on a wider basis. After fifteen years, we find the
world drifting toward dictatorship and industrial
control. We find the right of free speech and
freedom of conscience being restricted in at least
three great countries.
We find the outstanding leaders of political
reform, such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin,
proclaiming that our theories are outmoded,
that parliamentary government is doomed, and
that anew breed of dynasts is required. It is
possible that they are right.
a u n
HUMAN progress seems to be characterized
by a continuous procession of unexpected
changes. Not all the changes have been good,
but that does not mean that they have been
avoidable. Rome gave way to feudalism,
feudalism to kingcraft, and kingcraft to the
democratic revolution.
During the last century civilized life has been
profoundly altered by inventions and discoveries
of an innumerable variety. People not particu
larly old find it hard to recall what life was like
when they were children, with no autos, electric
lights, telephones, or radio.
It is entirely logical to suppose that such
drastic changes as have occurred in methods of
work and living conditions during the last fifty
years will find a more or 4ess definite reflection
in political changes yet to come. Our inability
to predict what these changes will be should
make us cautious, as well as open-minded.
The last two decades have proved nothing so
much as man's incapacity to foresee the conse
quences of his own acts. We have poor ground
for being egotistical or pursuing a blind faith in
our schemes.
The so-called victory has brought us quite as
many surprises as the war out of which it grew.
This is not the kind of world we expected to be
living in fifteen years ago.
nan
WHAT kind of a world will it be fifteen
years hence, or what will the Fourth of
July stand for 150 years hence?
The notion prevails that an era has come to
its end. but what kind of an end? We have
plenty of optimistic dreams and plans, but for
the most part they lack the all-important factor
of conviction.
For the most part, they are intended as tem
porary correctives. For the most part, they seek
the ideals of perfection, while ignoring the less
attractive, but none the less real, vagaries and
limitations of human nature.
The cry is for laws, programs, and systems,
without much regard for man's ability to carry
them out. In other words, people seem more
inclined to put faith in inventions of the hu
man mind, rather than in the mind itself, to
trust mechanical dfvices and to ignore those
emotions which enter into their control. j
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
(Times readers are invited to express
their views in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to 2,~0 words or less.)
By American Civil Libertira Cnlon.
Decision of Governor Ruby Laf
foon of Kentucky, to reinstate Curt
Jones, jailer of Cafdwell County,
Ky., was expected, but disgraceful,
Jones was suspended in May, follow
ing a petition by the A. C. L. U.
contending that when Walter Mer
rick was taken from jail in Prince
ton and lynched June 1, 1932, it be
came mandatory under a state law
for the Governor to remove the
jailer.
The proceedings were conducted
in a manner to indicate that Jones’
reinstatement was a foregone con
clusion. Appointment of Mrs. Lily
Jones to fill her husband’s place,
pending his hearing: failure of At
torney-General Bailey P. Wooton to
prosecute the case, even after it had
been shown to him that Common
wealth Attorney John L. Grayot cf
that district and County Attorney
John O. Hardin were disqualified be
cause of their failure to prosecute
Merrick’s lynchers; and failure of
the attorney-general’s office to pro
vide proper protection for our rep
resentative to make his deposition in
Caldwell county or to permit him to
go to Frankfort at our expense to
make it to the attorney-general, all
pointed to this unfortunate con
clusion of the case.
Under the administration of the
present prosecutor, Grayot, there
have been six lynchings in the
fourth judicial district. During that
time not a single man has been con
victed for participating in any of
these crimes.
By C. S. Garrison.
The “Glorious Fourth" passed with
only 185 persons listed as fatalities,
directly or indirectly, by the news
papers as a result of the celebration.
This is a remarkable record, con
sidering that there are about 125
million in this country who actively
or vicariously celebrate the day—a
point the news hounds seemed to
miss, in comparing the number who
lost their lives to the number of
soldiers killed in the battles of Con
cord and Lexington during the Rev
olutionary war—rather a far
fetched comparison.
There was a mere handful of
soldiers in these battles, huddled in
a few acres of ground, using flint-
This is the second of three articles on
eosmeties.
IN preparing the skin for cosmetic
purposes, women frequently use
creams of various types. The for
mula for cold cream has been known
for hundreds of years. Most cold
creams are merely mixtures of vari
ous fats and water.
The quality of any cold cream
depends on the thoroughness with
which the ingredients are mixed,
and also on their quality.
There was a time when creams
offered to women as cosmetics con
tained lead or mercury, but today
such substances are seldom, if ever,
found in creams sold in ordinary
commerce. ,
In some instances creams are sold
as skin bleaches. These occasionally
contain harmful substances, includ
ing mercury, and ill effects have
been reported following their use.
Dr. Alice Carleton of Oxford
AMERICAN women are entirely
too preoccupied with them
selves. Perhaps this is why so many
of them believe that men also are
continually preoccupied with them.
I've known those who threw per
fect fits every time their husbands
professed a desire to leave home for
an evening. They jumped immedi
ately to the conclusion that there
was a bold hussy in the offing. And
no excuse, no explanation a man
cam make is able to dissuade this
kind of a wife from her pet peeve.
It seems to me that this is a very
pernicious form of selfishness.
Therefore, one of the courses I
would advocate in the education of
young women is study of the nature
of man.
Our civilization, you see, is domi-
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Fisherman’s Luck
Daughters Also
Bv Alvin W’. Johnson.
ON July 3, there appeared the
question in your question
and answer column, "Did Adam
and Eve have daughters?” Answer,
"The Biblical narrative names
only three sons, Cain, Abel, and
Seth. It does not mention any
daughters.”
I wish to refer you to Genesis,
Questions and Answers
Q —What Is a moraine?
A.—The debris of earth and rocks
collected in ridges or heaps by a
glacier.
Q—Name the poet laureate of
England.
A—John Masefield.
Q—What is the normal life span
of dogs?
A—From 7 to 12 years, with a
maximum of about 30 years.
Q —Give the Spanish word for
“crazy.”
A—Loco.
Q —What does the name Arthur
mean?
A—Strong or noble.
Q—How many books are there
in the library of Congress?
A—Approximately 4,000,000.
Q —Which widows of Presidents
of the United States draw a pen
sion from the government?
A—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
lock muskets. Tuesday there were
literally millions who “monkeyed”
with all kinds of fireworks, scattered
over the western hemisphere, mak
ing whoopee. All of which goes to
show the American people are for
getting how to make a noise, or else
they haven’t the “chitlin’s” they
used to have, when Thomas Jeffer
son recommended that the nation
“make a noise” when the Declara
tion of Independence was signed.
One fatality out of about a mil
lion persons engaged looks pretty
sane to me, and makes the “alarm
boys” look silly. Or does it? Maybe
I'm too optimistic.
Editor Journal of the American Medi
cal Association of Hvreia, the
Health Magazine.
points out that some manufacturers
are taking advantage of the current
interest in ultraviolet rays and in
irradiations generally in tie adver
tising of creams which have irradi
ated properties.
There is not the slightest reason
for believing in the special virtues
of these preparations, ff they con
tain enough radium to have any
effect, they are dangerous.,
If they merely are subjected to ir
radiation, the proof is not available
that this accomplishes anv good.
It has been argued that irradiated
creams and greases have special
power in destroying germ? and in
hastening the healing of wounds,
but even this study is in an early
experimental stage, and the evi
dence is not yet sufficient to be con
vincing.
Vanishing creams are made up,
1 nated by the feminine. The adver- ]
j tisements, the shows, the magazines,
the best sellers, the fashions in
houses, furnishings and automobiles,
■; the recreations and amusements—
I are all designed to appeal to women.
Trade is regulated according to
1 our tastes and desires. And all these
1 advertisements and stores and shows
stress the idea most pleasing to us—
the idea that we are very precious
; to men.
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HTHIS is undoubtedly true, in a
A measure. But it is a little silly
to suppose that men have their
thoughts perpetually on women, that
they forever are resisting feminine
charms, or occupied entirely by cog
itations on the fair sex. j
fifth chapter and fourth verse,
which clearly says, "And the days
of Adam after he had begotten
Seth were 800 years and he begat
sons and daughters.”
I feel that for the clarifying of
this answer in the mind of the
questioner, as well as all other
readers of your paper, this correc
tion should be published in your
paper.
Q —Who played the role of
Montgomery in the picture “Is
land of Lost Souls?”
A—Arthur Hohl.
Q —To what family do lions and
tigers belong?
A—Felines.
Q—Where is the island of Alta
Vela?
A—lt is a guano island lying
south of the middle southern
point of Haiti, and southwest of
the island of Veata, from which
it is separated by Alta strait.
Q—Was the motion picture,
“Thunder," in which Lon Chaney
starred, adapted from a story or
book?
A—lt was originally written for
the screen by Byron Morgan.
Q —ls Nazi a German w’ord ?
A—lt is the shortened form for
National Sozialistiche Deutsche
Arbeiter Partei, which, translated
into English, means “National So
cialist German Labor party.”
Q—ls it the duty of the United
States supreme court to advise
congress that an act about to be
passed is unconstitutional?
A—The United States supreme
court has no authority to advise
congress that a proposed act is
unconstitutional. After the act has
been passed any citizen who is
affected by it has the right to
challenge its constitutionality in
the courts, and if the case is final
ly appealed to the supreme court,
that body eventually will render
its decision upon the facts and
arguments in the case.
for the most part, without much
fat. They are chiefly potassium or
sodium stearate and glycerine, to
gether with rosewater and perfume.
Sometimes the fat is replaced by
almond oil, wax or gelatin. The
chief value of many creams of this
type is the fact that they are rubbed
in, which aids circulation of the
blood in the skin, and serves as a
mild form of massage.
Purveyors of cosmetics offer all
sorts of creams with special names
supposed to have specific purposes.
They are know’n as mo;or creams,
outdoor creams, thinning creams
and thickening creams. Actually
these creams possess little if any
special virtues.
It is inadvisable to put strong
medicaments on any kind of skin
without having definite knowledge
as to the nature of the medicament
used and its effects on the skin.
Next—Wrinkle removers.
The tragedy of the modem man
is that he has not preserved a single
retreat to which he can flee from
the encroaching tide of femininity.
He is burdened, bound, buried in the
cult of the boudoir.
Yearly, therefore, he grows more
effeminate. He long since has sold
his birthright for the pottage of ma
terial gain. He is a Samson shorn of
his strength.
Men need each other. They must
gather together and philosophize
and make contacts that will
strengthen the sense of their par
ticular sex.
They must have moments when
they can be themselves, puretpiale
beings, friends, bound together in
a stern masculinity.
.JULY 6, 1933
Science
-BY DAVID DIETZ—
Scriup-Hoirard SHene* Editor
of the most remarkable and
important scientific develop
ments of the last twenty years has
been the increase in our knowledge
of the stars.
Thp average book on astronomy,
written even so late as 1910, was de
voted almost entirely to a discussion
of the solar system, the moon, the
sun, the planets, comets and
meteors. What could be said about
the stars fitted with ease into one
or two chapter at the end of ’the
book.
Now the situation is reversed. The
present-day writer finds that the
stars alone offer sufficient subject
matter for a book.
For many years, Young’s "Manual
of Astronomy” was the standard col
lege text book. Professor Henry
Norris Russell and his associates
at’Princeton university in revising
this book found it necessary to ex
pand it to two volumes.
One is devoted to present-day
knowledge of the solar system, the
other to the stars and certain re
lated subjects such as the nebulae,
the analysts of the sun's light and
the general relations between physi
cal and astronomical theories.
a a a
THE ancients had no true under
standing of the stars. They
imagine that the earth was at the
center of the universe. Surrounding
the earth were a number of concen
tric spheres.
These held the moon, the sun and
the planets. The stars were thought
to be tiny spots of light fixed in the
outermost sphere.
Neither the true nature of a star
nor its distance from the earth was
comprehended by the ancients.
Throughout the middle ages the
comprehension of the stars was no
better.
The great Sir Isaac Newton was
the first to realize how very far away
the stars must be, although even he
did not appreciate the enormous
magnitude of stellar distances.
Sir Isaac Newton by his law of
universal gravitation showed that
the planets revolved around the
sun because of the sun’s gravita
tional pull upon them.
He realized, therefore, that sines
the stars showed no influence of the
sun s gravitational pull, they must
be sufficiently far away to escape
that pull.
It was in 1839 that astronomers
first succeeded in measuring the
distance to a star. The feat was
accomplished independently by two
men, Bessel and Henderson.
00
THESE studies revealed that the
nearest star was 25.000,000,000,-
000 miles away, so far away that its
light, traveling 186.000 miles a sec
ond, took four and a third years to
reach the earth.
All the other stars are, of course,
away than that. More than
half of the stars visible to the un
aided eye are more than 100 times
farther away than the nearest
star. „
One could not have blamed the
astronomers had they despaired of
ever learning much about the stars,
for the stars are all so far away
that no telescope is powerful
enough to reveal them as anything
but points of light.
Nevertheless, the astronomers of
the present century have attacked
the problem and assembled a sur
prising wealth of knowledge.
Harps in Wind
BY MARGARET E. BRUNER
There is a potent power, a spell that
lingers
About old trees with branches frail
and bare;
They are the harps played by the
wind's deft fingers,
Theirs is the music fashioned of a
prayer.
So They Say
Marry’ in haste—and you repent
with alimony.—Dr. Leonard S. Cot
trell Jr., University of Chicago so
ciologist.
It is to those whom we call fanat
ics that w’e owe practically every
step that has been made in our slow
journey toward a better w’orld.—Dr.
J. L. Biggar, Canadian Red Crosa
Society.
Mob rule never has been satisfac
tory for a jury of twelve men or
120,000,000 people—Dr. George Bar
ton Cutten, president of Colgate.
A woman who sits before a mirror
making faces at herself soon dis
covers the signs she fears most, Van
ity is beauty’s worst enemy.—Pro
fessor Frederick P. Woellner, Uni
versity of California. -
The major problem is to get peo
ple back to work. If w’e can do that,
we can get out of the hole we are in.
—General Hugh S. Johnson, indus
tria" recovery administrator.
Prayers won't win this (anti
repeal) battle. It will take cash
and votes.—W. J. Losinger, super
intendent Ohio Anti-Saloon league.
Possibly the silliest sophistry with
which we have deluded ourselves
is that, struggle between species
being the order in nature, war is
inevitable and natural.—President
Alexander Ruthven, University of
Michigan.
The time when farmers were con
sidered citizens of an inferior cate
gory has passed definitely.—Premier
Mussolini of Italy.
The man who enjoys marching
in life to the strains of military
music falls beneath my contempt;
he received his brain by mistake—
the spinal cord would have been
amply sufficient.—Prof Albert Ein
stein.
Half the useful w f ork of the w’orld
consists 'of combating the harmful
work.—Bertrand Russell, philoso
pher.
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Daily Thought
Even a fool, when he holdeth his
peace, is counted wise; and he chat
shutteth his lips is esteemed a man
of understanding.—Proverbs 17:28.
HE is a wise man who does not
grieve for the things that he
has not, but rejoices for those which
he has.—Epictetus.