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An Amazing Document 1* there no limit to the insolence of the power trust? First there were official revelations of attempts by power companies to propagandize public 'schools, buy newspapers, either directly or Indirectly, and browbeat congress. Now a memorandum has been made public in Washington, which, if authentic, shows a power company official advising his associates generally, that the arm of the government charged with protecting the government and the people in dealing with the power companies must be crippled. The federal power commission, in granting power rights on our rivers to private companies, has been acting under a law which provides that the government may recapture the power sites at the end of fifty years, by paying the companies the actual cost of development. Thus the government must keep a check on expenditures cf the companies. Such a check was impossible. because congress so starved the commission that it was unable to recruit a competent accounting force. In the last year or so. however, money has been granted and such a force has been organized under William V. King, an able accountant and executive. King apparently lorces the power companies to report under a system of accounting which they do not like. It would require them to set aside retirement funds out of earnings, thereby lessening paper profits, lowering inflated stock values, and hampering manipulation. Also King requires the “management” concerns, which run large numbers of smaller companies, to tell just what they do for the charges they make. Both these requirements, of course, are in the public interest. There is still another phase of this governmental activity. It would, if carried out faithfully, prevent watering the rate-base upon which the companies charge the public. So this power company memorandum suggests that they bring pressure on the commission to adopt their own accounting standards, which are not so embarrassingly rigid; and that the accountinng check be scattered among the war, interior and agriculture departments. “It is believed these departments will not have men specially trained for this work,” the memorandum says. “At least they will be removed from the direct supervision of Mr. King.” An even more astounding suggestion follows: That the secretary-commissioner “may be persuaded to appoint as his successor some engineer who may quite naturally be sympathetic toward the development of the accounting force and its activity as previously outlined.” The federal trade commission or congress should investigate this amazing document thoroughly.

Children Die by Thousands If a dozen small children were to be killed at once in some automobile accident, a cry of horror would go up from all parts of the country, and every law enforcement agency in the neighborhood would begin to investigate the why and how of it, to punish any negligence that might be discovered and to make sure that such tragedy would not happen again. In other words, when tragedy is brought to a sharp, dramatic focus, we notice it and do something about it. But when it is spread out we fail to notice it. Thus, while the death of twelve children in a single accident would stir us profoundly, we do not even realize that that many youngsters are killed every day of the year by traffic accidents in the United States. During the last year, nearly 5,000 children under 15 years of age were killed in traffic. In addition, children under that age -were injured at the rate of more than 400 a day. And yet the nation accepts the situation placidly. There isn’t much of an outcry about it. We don't have city and state commissions holding meetings to see where the blame lies. At the very most, we only caution our youngsters not to play in the streets and to be careful at crossings. Perhaps if we could see the details of these accidents more closely we would be more aroused by them. Picture your own lad, for instance. He’s playing with a ball. It rolls out into the street; and, wtih a laugh, he darts out after it. Os course, being just a kid, he doesn’t stop to look; so he doesn’t see the auto that is coming too fast to stop. And that’s the end of him. Or perhaps he’s going to the corner store to get a package of groceries; clutching his money tightly in a grubby fist, his face serious and proud because he has been given a grown-up job to do. He gets to a corner. It looks safe, and he starts out. But out of nowhere comes a truck he didn’t see—and, after one frightened little scream, it’s all over. Picture that; then stop and consider that it happens, on an average, more than twelve times every day of the year in this country that prides itself on being good to its children. Add to it the fact that 400 more children are hit each day and sent to the hospitalsome of them never to walk and play again. And then ask yourself if it isn’t time something very drastic was done. It may be that we shall have to spend many millions of dollars to remake all our residence districts, so that traffic can be routed around them. It is certain we shall have to spend millions to provide more play spaces for the kids, so that they won't ever have to play on or beside the streets. It may be that we shall have to put unheard of restrictions on traffic in residential neighborhoods. Whatever the solution may be, it is past time that we found out. Here is a problem that must be tackled without any further delay. And the causes must be removed, no matter how much it may cost. The lives of 5,000 children a year are too high a price to pay for •he use of automobiles. . \ The Chinese Gesture Negotiations between Russia and China over the Chinese Eastern railway dispute seem to be getting nowhere. , It is not enough that these governments have skated over the original war danger. The war danger remains. And it will remain until the disputant reach an agreement. The entire Manchurian situation is dynamite. Whatever may be the merits and demerits of the conflicting charges and claims of China and Russia,

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it has become rather clear during the last week that China is assuming a stiff-necked attitude. There are two sides to nationalism in China, as elsewhere. Chinese nationalism has been the hope of the Chinese people. It has brought them nearer national unification and freedom from the encroachment of foreign powers. In this it has had the support of enlightened public opinion in the United States and Europe. But the belligerent and provocative side of nationalism is a thing which the Chinese must restrain. for their own self-interest. They can not afford a war in Manchuria, for the very good reason that both Russia and Japan have greater war strength than the Chinese have. Regardless of the outcome of a Manchurian war, the chances are overwhelming that China in one way or another would be the chief loser either to Japan or to Russia, or to both. China is confusing two separate issues: The ultimate ownership and management of the disputed railroad and its present status. Its status is regulated by the treaty of 1924, providing joint Chinese-Russian control. That status, broken by Chinese seizure of the road, must be re-established. China can obtain proper safeguards against alleged Russian abuses. But China must respect the treaty. She can not be permitted to overthrow that treaty by force. With the treaty of joint control in effect again, then China, in orderly and peaceful manner, can proceed with her efforts to persuade Moscow to sell or trade Russia’s rights in the railroad. Meanwhile, China is the last country in the world able to risk military decision of a diplomatic dispute. She is not strong enough now. She would get hurt badly. We Still Need Cavalry While the army general staff goes over its budget, to see where army expenses can be pruned without hurting the efficiency of the army as a whole, a number of people are suggesting that one way of saving money would be to wipe out the cavalry branch. On the surface, this looks like a good argument. Cavalrymen can’t fight in trenches, and trench warfare seems to be the thing nowadays. Yet the cavalry still has its uses. In mountainous or arid country it is still a valuable arm of the service. Moreover, there ait competent military men who assert the allies could have won the late war much sooner if they had had enough cavalry troops to throw into action at the right moment. It is too soon to disband this ancient organization. If we maintain an army on a modern basis, it still must include cavalry.

The custodian of a safety deposit vault in a Chicago bank says that spooners are invading the cool vault in increasing numbers. Probably they have a feeling of security there. Ambassador Dawes persists in refusing to wear those knee breeches. In a verbal way, however, he would be a perfect success on any golf course. While Florida had the fruit fly to fight, several other states have been waging war on the fly-by-night promoter. Mr. Edge has been named ambassador to France. He’ll have to be pretty sharp to put anything over on those foreign diplomats. Minnesota has discovered several cases of rumrunning by airplane. Aviation certainly is making great strides in American commerce. George Bernard Shaw postponed his 73rd birthday. But you can’t beat the income tax that way, George.

David Dietz on Science Water Balance Needed No. 426

THE healthy life of a growing plant depends in large part upon what is known technically as the water balance. A plant absorbs water through its roots. It loses water, by transpiration, that is, by evaporation from its leaves. The amount of water in the cells of the plants is determined by the balance between the rate of absorbtion and the rate of transpiration. This is

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and few in numbers. The plant may even wilt and die. Wilting is merely the result of the cells of the plant losing water by transpiration faster than it can be replaced by absorption. Growing plants adjust themselves to their environment in many ways to insure a favorable water balance. The accompanying illustration (after one by E. S. Clements) shows the appearance under the microscope of two sections of leaves of the same type of plant. The sections are vertical, that is, they ishow a section through the leaf from the upper to the lower surface. At the top Is the section of a leaf growing in a moist, shaded place. The leaf is thin, the cuticle is thin, the spaces between cells in the mesophyll or interior of the leaf, are large. At the bottom is the section of a leaf growing in a dry, intensely lighted place. The leaf is very thick. The cuticle is thick. There are several layers of palisade cells to protect the mesbphyll cells. These cells in turn are most compact with smaller air spaces. In other words, the leaf, growing in the dry place, has developed a structure designed to cut transpiration to a minimum. The water balance has much to do with deciding whether a plant will grow in a certain locality. The natural locality in which a plant grows is known as its habitat. Thus, the desert is the nabita* of the cactus, whereas a wet stream bank is the habitat of the willow. Plants grow in the habitat favorable to them.

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Youth Has Learned to Believe in Itself, to Visualize a Future That It Can Help Shape. IT was my father's wish,” says young Huston, winner of the Edison contest, “that I should pursue classical studies, but somehow the idea did not appeal to me as a vocation. When I looked around for the thing which made life most intersting, I realized that science was the solution for me.” Who supposes that young Huston speaks for himself alone, or that the sentiment he expresses is not practically universal. Science not only represents achievment, but romance and adventure. In that, lies its appeal to youth. The fairy tale is dead, the poetic instinct runs to action, virility is no ! longer content with mere imagination and the idea that can not be translated into comfort, or improvement fails to challenge ambitious minds. a a a Graf Zeppelin Arrives SuimuAY night, just as the sun went down against a cool sky banked with clouds in the west, the Graf Zeppelin nosed her way up New York harbor, four days out from Friedrichshafen, Germany, with sixty human beings, two apes and several tons of freight on board. Millions of people gathered on roofs, along sidewalks or in the parks to view the spectacle. They neither were awed nor bewildered by it. To them it was just one more triumph of human mind—a triumph in which they felt that they or their children would one day participate. a a a Flying Records A FEW months ago, after careful preparations, two United States army fliers set an endurance record of 150 hours. Shortly afterward two civilian fliers from Texas raised it to 172 hours. Then two Cleveland fliers raised it to 174 hours, and a little later two California fliers raised it to 246 hours. A week ago two St. Louis fliers capped the climax by raising it to 420 hours. Now two Chicago fliers start out with the idea of raising it to 700.

Flivver Airplane HENRY FORD and the General Motors corporation -were thought to have reached the limit in the manufacture of low priced automobiles, but James V, Martin of the Martin airplane factory, Garden City, Long Island, announces he has perfected one which can be sold for S2OO, in a water proof packing case than can be used for a garage, which weighs only 600 pounds and which will make fifty miles on a gallon of gasoline. a a a Castles in Air THE poet's dream has come to earth, finding its way to the place where real people live, holding real promise for anxious mothers and big-eyed children. It no longer is necessary for us to build air castles in order to sustain hope. We can now project them on the background of our fancy with the idea of actually occupying them some day. Youth's Belief in Self Education should heed the warning. Youth is no longer interested in the dry rot of visionaries. It dreams as it always has, but with a far different purpose. The once glorious pastime of supposing, guessing, speculating and wising has grown dull. For the first time in human history, youth has learned to believe in itself, to visuahze a future that it can help to shape and to discard those werfd imaginings that leave it out of the picture. ts n tt Education Wrong MUCH of the trouble we are experiencing can be traced to misguided efforts to interest youth in things for which it has no stomach. The formal side of education leaves our boys and girls cold because it does not reflect life as they know it, does not conform to their interpretation and does not harmonize with the march of events. Some of them flee to jazz for relief. some are discouraged and some sink to the gutter. a a a

known as the water balance. Plants attain their maximum growth in height and the largest and greatest number of leaves only if the rate of the absorption is higher than that of transpiration. When transpiration exceeds absorption, the plant is stunted. The leaves are small

Too Many Misfits Dr. HARRY DEXTER KITSON, professor of education at Columbia University, believes that at least 50 per cent of the working population of this country are misfits at their jobs. Results of this maladjustment, he declares, are poverty for the worker, a low industrial output, a general raising of the cost of living and crime. No one can observe the enormous turn-over in employment, the continuous changing from job to job, the chronic dissatisfaction of employer and employe without realizing What a disagreeable amount of truth there Is in Dr. Kitson’s observations. In an obviously mechanical age, we have an educational system which functions on the theory that its most sacred mission is to flood the universe with preachers and poets.

Daily Thought

Thou shalt do no murder, Thou 'halt not commit adultery, Thou r halt not steal. Thou shalt not bear *alse witness.—St. Matthew 19:18. n an rHE things which belong to other! please us more, and tha: which Is ours, is more pleasing to others.—Syrus,

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This is the fourth of six articles in which Dr. Morris Fishbein, the nation's foremost writer on health topics, tells how the various reducing diets that are so popular now look in the eyes of medical science. By BR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygcia, the Health Magarine. THE 18-day or Hollywood diet has a strange psychological appeal. In the first place it has the magic of numbers —the appeal of doing something for a certain definite time working toward a certain definite goal. But what are you going to do when it is ended? I asked the question of my favorite bookseller, who answered that he was going to begin to eat again and to watch his weight. As soon as it begins to increase he is going back on the diet again. It will increase just as certainly

THERE is a tradition that fine game flutters across the path when the hunter walks without his gun. And I have found it much the same when taking a vacation from the job of columning. Next week, and after that another, I shall be fancy free. In the year and a half of unremitting and uninterrupted toil which is coming to a close, the reader may have detected now and then that I was up against it for a subject. One writes of cats and fishes and horned toads out of desperation. At times it is as hard to pull out a column as a tooth, and far more painful all around. a a tt Plenty of Themes BUT just let my vacation begin and the news of this day will teem with suitable themes. Within 24 hours after I have pushed my typewriter into the corner, Canon Chase will make some sort of fool speech and Clarence True Wilson will do a humdinger for the magazines. Somewhere in the United States, persons in authority grossly will violate the principles of free speech. The kittens will turn out much more attractive than could possibly be expected. A man named Glass will marry a girl called House. There will be shark scare along the Jersey coast. You see, if there was a shark scare I could repeat my favorite newspaper story about my first managing editor, Shep Friedman. Some local correspondent at Navesink sent a query reading: “Shark seen off the beach. Can send 1000 words.” Friedman telegraphed back: “Swim out half mile. If shark bites you, might use 100.” O tS tt It Seems Easy WHAT I mean to suggest is that all sorts of subjects of a fasci- ! nating nature will keep cropping up t as soon as any columnist gets on the temporary retired list. Columnists do get fired, and occasionally they die, but none resigns. The lure lies in the fact that the job seems so singularly easy when you’re not actually enagaged upon it. With my toes and some bacon on a hook, dangling in Hale Lake, I can think up half a dozen columns in as many minutes, and since there is no necessity of actually setting them down on paper, they seem like brilliant inventions. Not one of them is ever put to the test. By the time I get back to work all these notions have been forgotten. The unwritten novel, the play which the dramatist is going to do some day and the columns which are invented on vacation time all attain to heights which the written word can never reach. Naturally I am going to spend my ?ntire vacation pining over the fact that there is at the moment no space for me to filL Quite a lot of time will be spent

Men Treated Like Beasts May Act Like Beasts

THE TRUTH ABOUT REDUCING DIETS—No. U

Mob Appeal Spurs Diet Fad

IT SEEMS TO ME

as he increases his amount of caloric intake beyond the needs of his body for routine physiologic wear and tear. But he won’t stay on the diet. He will get tired of it. The 18-day diet has the psychological appeal of mob action. There is the desire to be doing what everybody else is doing. There is the thrill of competition. One hears them going about and asking each other: “What day are you on?” And the answer comes ringingly: “I'm on the tenth day and I've lost five pounds.” That answer is met by the challenge: “I'm on the twelfth day and I’ve lost eight pounds.” But when the period is over the diet fanatics will find themselves craving chocolates or malted milks, or juicy steaks with French fried potatoes, and sugared ham dripping with brown gravy, and back will come the pounds again. It all seems

n HEYWOOD By 3 BROUN

I with the newspapers. When there’s ! no work to be done, it's great fun i to turn to the various editorial pages and read the columns of the many talented young men engaged in this racket. tt tt B Love of Nature YEAR after year I have planned a vacation which should take place entirely beyond the borders of j the New York district. But it never works out that way. Connecticut is very lovely in August. Even a dry spell, such as the one which rages now, can not rob the woods of their bright gaiety. I know a lake set down among white birches, and from its shore you cannot see house, barn-or filling | station. I like to sit on the rocks beside Diana’s cove and watch the big fish jump and listen to crows circling overhead. I could spend hours listening to : the crows circulating above Hale Lake. I could, but generally I don’t. ; The first twelve and a half minutes |is stirring, but when you’ve heard one crow you’ve heard them all. And though I know no fairer sight

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ENGLAND DECLARES WAR —Aug. 5 FIFTEEN years ago today, on Aug. 5, 1914, England declared war upon Germany for violation of Belgium’s neutrality. On Aug. 2, Germany informed the I Belgian government of its intention, provoked by alleged French activites, to enter Belgian territory and to advance up the Meuse valley to attack France. The following day, Belgium reached its heroic decision to defend its own neutrality and responded to | the German ultimatum with the declaration she purpose to defend her soil against German violation. Belgium also asserted that she | had at all times been equally pre- ; pared to defend herself against France or Britain, and thus demolished the whole German edifice of allegation that France was planning ! to attack Germany through Belgium. The crisis was reached Aug. 4. when King Albert, in presence of actual invasion, appealed to Great Britain, Russia and France, to help him defend his country. Great Britain sent an ultimatum to Germany, which expired at midnight, demanding that satisfactory j assurances be furnished of German j determination to respect Belgium : neutality. Admitting the invasion of Bel- j gium was in violation of interna- ' tional law, German officials declared there could be no drawing back. Accordingly with expiration of the \ time-limit of the ultimatum at midnight, Aug. 4. Great Britain declared war on Germany.

so useless to one who knows how to eat intelligently. The 18-day diet has the appeal of the word Hollywood—America's land of fantasy and mystery with the appeal of beauty and adventure and youth. True, even the 18-day diet will not make the billowy lady of Lake Shore drive, who never does a stroke of work and who buys her color in the beauty shop, either a figure or a complexion like that of Garbo, Gloria Swanson or Mary Pickford, but for 18 days she will have the thrill of thinking that it might do so. Last of all, the 18-day diet has the appeal of false advertising, glorified and exaggerated as gossip always is in the retelling. It has the claim that it was worked out over five years by French and American physicians and that they said it was safe. Those claims are, briefly and succinctly—just HOOEY!

•deals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement w-ith the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

than looking up uie lake, where it bends round pickerel point, there does come a time when I get a little restless. I want to get on the telephone to find out how United States Steel is behaving. tt a a Poker Calls AND I have missed many a glorious moonlight night along the ridge because of my obligation to attend the weekly poker game. This is a duty from which I feel that no man in good health has a right to take a vacation. It isn’t fair to the other players. It isn’t fair to myself. They might get the idea that I am afraid of them because things have been going none too well of late. Possibly with a little rest to freshen me I can show them something different. At any rate, I will not let the matter of some fifty miles come between us. Indeed, my secret wish always has been to commute. I’d like to spend my days out in the open spaces and then return to town for the city’s pleasant night call. Once I selected the ideal job for myself, and I still want it. I would like to be the shepherd of the sheep in Central park. (Copyright. 1929. by The Times)

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Atro. 5, 1929

REASON -Ey Frederick Ijindis—-

How Does a Fellow Who Never Does Anything Know When His Vacation Starts? EDISON was right when he said. “I'm not going to retire; it’s unhealthy.” Your head Is where you live. When you padlock that and throw away the key, you begin to notice all the marble yards you pass, while the obituary notices loom into sudden prominence in the papers. You sit around, waiting for the gentleman with the flowing beard who rides a horse and carries a scythe. ana Mr. Jackson and Mr. O'Brine should eat all the berries of their endurance achievement with all possible haste, lor somewhere in this broad land two husky young Americans now are putting the finishing touches upon the machine which is to snap its fingers at the law of gravity for months. a a a It was unpardonable for those prohibition agents to board that private yacht near Detroit and point their guns at ladies who were drinking tea. for no form of animal life could be more obviously harmless. a a a ENGLAND doubtless has visions of Germany’s rapid return to her pre-war sea prominence as the Bremen clips s’s hours off the previous eastward Atlantic record, thus breaking records both ways on her maiden voyage, taking the laurels in both cases from the British ship Mauretania a a a It seems like the death of an old friend to have the Youth’s Companion absorbed by another publication, for the Companion is what all of us used to read until we became sufficiently hard boiled to crawl up into the haymow and read “The Life of Frank and Jesse James.” 808 Most of the spectators attending the Snook murder trial at Columbus, 0., are young girls and the judge should hand them a line of conversation that would penetrate their facial armament of shellac and paint and drive them home.

Bulletins from London announce that King George is better, but not well enough to leave for his vacation. How does a fellow who never does anything know when his vacation starts. a u WITH all the shooting there's been in Chicago, they have not learned when to shoot, as shown by the fact that there have been no casualties among the gentlemen who wear pajamas on the street. a a a This riot in the New York penitentiary is said to be due to more severe criminal laws, but we thought it might be due to static in their radio reception. o a tt New York City is waging trench warfare against mosquitoes along a 650-mile line and the plan is to launch a gas attack before the mosquitoes can put on their masks. a a a A starving student sank from hunger on Broadway in New York and the crowd gave him SIOO and a lady drove up and took him to her home. The only question is whether it will be Mendelssohn or Lohengrin.

Questions and Answers

What is philomath? One who loves learning, especially mathematics. It is from the Greek. Where and when was Corinne Griffith born? At Texarkana, Tex., Nov. 25, 1897. What is the derivation and meaning of the name Damaris? It is an English feminine name ta.cen from the Greek, that means a cow. Was the question of the social status of the Negro one of the causes of the Civil war? The two great issues of the Civil war were the economic question of slavery, and the political question of the right of a state to secede from the Union. Both issues were settled by the outcome of the war.