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Death Traps and Waste perhaps when Governor Leslie returns from his vacation, full of vigor and fighting spirit, he may find time to investigate the bridge over Cypress creek in southern Indiana, built by the highway commission and condemned by the public service commission as a death trap. Something is wrong when one state body can find even the semblance of an excuse for denouncing the work of another as inviting death to citizens through dangerous highway improvements. As the matter stands, the bridge has been built at a cast of about $86,000 and can not be used until the public service commission changes its mind about the danger and gives permission to cross railway tracks at an angle which it has determined is sure to result in loss of many lives. Either the highway commission blundered in a most inexcusable manner or the public service commission is incompetent. Protests from the portion of the state where the bridge is located suggests that the public service commission merely reflects the local judgment. Someone n Ist have been very much interested in the building of a bridge which invites such official criticism. That is the point which should interest the Governor. If he discovers an interest which • prompted the use of state funds to build death traps for citif.ens, he could do worse than rpmove those responsible ann appoint officials who will neither waste money nor create menaces to human life. With twenty millions of dollars to spend each year, the highway commission becomes the most important part of the state government—and worthy of the best management and the best brains in the state. Picayune minds or careless selfishness have no place upon it. Ships That Pass Most Americans, not being greatly interested in matters of the sea. probably forget the processes whereby the United States government sought to get Itself out of the shipping business during the Coolidge regime. Suffice it to recall that, as President, he bent him•elf to this task with greater energy than marked most any other undertaking of his administration. He became positively rough with the United States shipping board when that body failed to share his urge for great haste in unloading the government s merchant marine. His attitude had the cheerful support of all those who are accustomed to decry anything that resembles government in business. Well, before Mr. Coolidge himself had retired to private business, he had Jhe satisfaction of seeing eleven of his country's finest ships sold. The Leviathan. the President Harding and all the rest were lumped together and knocked down to P. W. Chapman & Cos.. Chicago bankers, for $16,000,000—0f which only $4,000,000 was cash. Remembering that the Leviathan alone cost several times this amount, it was apparent Jpat the Chicago bankers had obtained a great bargain. However, there was little complaint at the time, save from those persons who had hoped the government might keep the fleet which the people's money had paid for, and operate it in the interest of American commerce. And the administration was not listening to complaints from people possessing odd notions of that kind. But now the matter has landed on the front porch of the Hoover administration and in a most interesting manner. The new shipowners have asked for a mail subsidy and this has brought a cry of pain from the new postmaster general. Walter E. Brown. Brown had been reading some of the stock-selling literature of the banker-shippers and he had found set down therein a ‘most convincing prospectus of profits to be earned by buyers of this stock. The United States lines, he read, in effect, because of the • peculiarly favorable basis of purchase, were going to make money aplenty. Not only that, but he was able to learn that the bankers, through the simple process of selling the stock, had made certain their own profit on the whole transaction. So the demand for a subsidy rather Jolted the P. M. G. Brown has drawn his cabinet colleagues into the case and it threatens to become a major matter for a little while. Long enough, maybe, for the people to have Another thought on the question of “getting the government out of the shipping business.” Fairness Is Good Business Some little time ago the famous Rocky Mountain Fuel Company sought to insure industrial peace in its coal mines by introducing more liberal wage scales, working rules and methods of dealing with its employes. A recent report from the president of the concern indicates that the effort has been highly successful. After citing increased sales tonnage and production under the new regime, his report says: , “The men employed in and around the mines of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company . . . received an average wage of s7.9ri a day during the first quarter of 1929. While the wage contract increased the earnings of the men, as we desired it should, it has not resulted in increased production costs because of the co-operation and increased efficiency which have characterized the tw relationship. "The effecthe working of the contract is further shown by the fact that the pit committees and mine superintendents are satisfactorily settling complaints. Only two cases in eleven months have been appealed from the decisions of the pit committees and superintendents.” This is extremely gratifying news. It is becoming Increasingly evident that a humanitarian policy is. after all. only good business. Button. Button ! Agate buttons come from abroad. The*: are an Insignificant article of commerce, aoc are used chiefly on the clothing of those who work in the factory and on the farm. But they are not too insignificant to escape the eye of the tariff makers, and the pending tariff bill, according to the Rawleigh tariff bureau, rasises the tariff on them from 15 to 446 per cent. In other words, the bureau says, the makers of work shirts and overalls either must pay five times as much for these buttons as they are worth, the tariff alone being 32 cents a grass, while the import value of the buttons is 7.6 cents a gross—and pass the boost along to the Workman and farmers—or use Inferior buttons, made from the waste products of American button factories. The tart! was designed to make them do the lat-

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ter, according to the representatives of American button manufacturers at the hearings. The bureau compares this tariff to the proposed tariff on bananas to make people eat more apples, which was so ridiculous that congress would not entertain it. Around the World The Graf Zeppelin has done it. Its globe-encircling journey of more than 20,000 miles was accomplished in less than three weeks. Following it in the newspapers, the flight has seemed almost an easy thing, it has been accomplished so quickly. From Lakehurst out over the Atlantic and across to Friederichshafen, Germany, in 55 hours and 23 minutes. Across Europe and Asia to Tokio, a distance of 6,880 miles, in 101 hours and 50 minutes. Over the Pacific and into Los Angeles, another 6,000mile hop, in three and a quarter days. Then across our own country and back to Lakehurst. The flight is an outstanding aviation achievement. The Zeppelin has carried passengers round the world and straight across the two largest oceans in a singlejourney. Dr. Eckener and his associates deserve all the glory that will be heaped upon them. f At a recent convention in Seattle of old-timers who took part in the gol drush of ’9B, one of the dance hall girls told of the hardships of the hike across the mountains with all her dance hall costumes strapped on her back. She could carry it all In her pocket nowadays. Once upon a time a newspaper published a scathing denunciation of city council because the ladies were catching their skirts on loose nails in the sidewalks. A California woman mayor has ruled against the sale of liquor to minors. That's a good measure; wonder how she happened to think of it. Chairs have been provided now in the library at Sing Sing so the prisoners can read sitting down. Still, that’s not such A great inducement. Maybe the size of the currency was reduced to match the quality and quantity of what it buys these days. After-vacation thought: Some of the people go down to the sea in slips. What this country needs is some method of increasing the price of everything without adding to the cost of living. A slice will not pare your golf score.

Mercury to Give Power

BY DAVID DIETZ Scripps-Howard Science Editor MERCURY power will turn the wheels of industry in the n?ar future, according to Alfred D. Flinn, director of the Engineering Foundation, New York. Engines and turbines now operated on steam obtained by heating water will be replaced by ones operated on steam obtained by heating mercury. The second mercury vapor power unit has just been installed by the Hartford Electric Light Company. This company installed the first one of its kind in the world a few years ago. It has worked so successfully that the second one recently was decided upon. The mercury steam, or mercury vapor installation, as it usually is called, is more efficient than the ordinary steam turbine, according to Flinn. One of the chief problems of the engineering profession has been to get the maximum energy out of coal. This problern becomes more important every year for two reasons. One is that expansion of the world's industries means the consumption of more coal. The second is that there is just, so much coal in the mines of the world. Every ton of coal used is gone forever. The more efficiently the coal Is used the longer the supply will last. a a a High Piisssure The first, steam engines were terribly inefficient. Most of the energy developed by the burning of the coal under the boiler was wasted. Only a little of it was converted into power. The science of modern heat engineering was founded by a brilliant young French engineer in 1824 who established what is now known as Carnot’s principle. He showed that the amount of motive power to be gotten out of a steam engine depended upon the change of the steam from a high temperature to a low temperature. As the technical ramifications of Carnot's principle became known, it became apparent that the higher the temperature of the steam the more efficiently the engine. To increase the temperature of steam, it is necessary to increase the pressure in the boiler. High pressure boilers came into existence. Where seven pounds once was the average pressure in boilers, plants use pressure todav which reach their maximum In one using a pressure of 3.200 pounds. Further gains were made by devising methods of super-heating, that is. of heating the steam beyond the normal temperature for a given pressure. Fifteen years ago, an engineer named W. L. R. Emmet, conceived the idea that further gains could be made by using some vapor which could be heated still higher than the steam from water. Water boils at 212 degrees under normal conditions. But mercury does not begin to boil, that is to change from a liquid to a steam or vapor, until a temperature at 675 degrees. At a pressure of 180 pounds, mercury vapor can be heated to a temnerature of 1,000 degrees. Accordingly. Emmet decided to use mercury. a a a Combination Hartford installations are really combinations of mercury’ vapor and ordinary steam turbines. The mercury vapor at a very high temperature i# used to run one turbine. The exhaust mercury vapor leaves the turbine at a temperature of about 435 de^es. This fT rcury is used then as a heating agent to turn water into steam. This steam, in turn, runs a second turbine. Asa result, even greater efficiency is obtained for the plant than if only a mercury Installation was used. The development of the mercury unit represents a triumph of engineering according to Flinn. _ Manv difficulties had to be overcome, not the least of which was the fact that mer-ury vapor is highly poisonous. Additional difficulties were Introduced by the higher temperatures involved. “Construction of a satisfactory mercury boiler proved particularly difficult.” Flinn says. “The boiling conditions of mercury are peculiar and very different from those of water. "Theories concerning its action were tested bycirculating mercury with compressed air in glass structures and by boiling it in single tubes of various shapes."

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

While This Wo fid Has Not Been Made Safe for Democracy Soive Progress Has Been Made Along This Line. THE horizon does not look half as black as it did a few days age Manchuria practically has disappeared from the front page, The Hague conference seems to have been saved, and enough British troops have arrived in Palestine to warrant the hope that the rampageous Arabs soon will be brought under control. Say what you will, but men are developing a greater ability to reconcile their differences, or, if that is impossible, to co-operate quickly and effectively for maintenance of order. a u u Times Have Changed FIFTY years ago the trouble in Manchuria would have led to war. The Hague conference would have gone to smash, and Palestine would have become a shambles before help could have arrived. Fifty years ago, Europe was content to let the Turkish empire survive, regardless of what happpened to its Greek and Armenian inhabitants. Fifty years ago, a massacre in the east was accepted as just one more appeal for charity. Fifty years ago, diplomacy was far more interested in securing political advantage than in doing justice to oppressed minorities. it an Some Progress Made W'HILE this world has not been made safe for democracy, or much of anything else, some progress has been made along that line. As Senator Norris says. “Christ himself might be ineligible for American citizenship because of a recent decision by the supreme court.’* For all that, the majority of people, especially in Europe and America, are far better off than they were even a generation ago. They are far better- off not only in a financial and political way, but in their outlook on life. aa ' a Coxey Proves It TO cite only one example, General Coxey. leading his third march on Washington, proves how distinctly things ha.ve changed for the better. Thirty years ago he led a footsore brigade of unemployed, only to land in jail. Today, he rides a limousine w r ith a fleet of trucks to carry the tent and portable lighting plant for his meetings. What General Coxey wants now is to have the government issue noninterest bearing bonds, and provide money at cost. Where Is Market? Non-interest bearing bonds would be fine if a market could be found for them, and money at cost would be even better. No less a philosopher than Aristotle bewailed the idea of interest. Still those who have money to loan or to buy bonds seem determined on a rental for its use. Even the government can’t get it, without promising to pay them a stipulated amount. If money brought in no return, who would want it; if no onfe wanted it, who would have it, and if no one had it, where could we get it? The theory that the government produces money by stamping metal or paper is beautiful, but dumb. Asa matter of fact, the government has nothing but credit, and that credit is determined by the government’s ability to pay. a a a It Sounds Simple SPEAKING of money, a French alchemist claims that he has discovered the secret of making gold All that is necessary is to take six grams of tin, two grams of sulphur and antimony, one gram of orpiment, and one gram of tin, subject the mixture to a heat of 1,100 degrees centigrade and then bathe it in nitric acid and acqua regia. The French alchemist not only claims to have produced ten miligrams of gold by this process, but challenges the world to try it. No doubt, some of the credulous will. a a a More Wonderful Results THE alchemy of progress produces more wonderful results than the manufacture of gold from baser metals. Men are getting rich today out of trades and industries that their grandfathers never knew. Other men face damage, if not disaster, through the change. Every one knows how the automobile has replaced the horse. What every one does not know is how the wild horse has multiplied in the west, making life miserable for ranchmen and shepherd. Wild Horses Galore THERE are said to be no fewer than a million wild horses roaming the free range country between the Rock Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas, and consuming enough grass to feed 800,000 cattle and 2.000,000 sheep. How to handle them or what to do with them has become a vexing problem. State authorities, not to mention cattle and sheep raisers, are worried and. while they worry, the herd Increases.

Questions and Answers

What is a half cousin? The child of a half aunt or half uncle (half sister or half brother of one's parents). The term is used bv some to mean second cousin. The children of first cousins are second cousins. Who was the President of the United States in 1837 How many states were there in the Union then? * In 1837 the President of the United States was Andrew eon until March 4. Martin Yah

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Viosterol Does Cod Liver Oil’s Work

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of th* American Medical Association and of Hygeia., the Health Magazine. OUT of all the research and trial of cod liver oil and of sunshine in relationship to human health there has come a product which physicians will use widely in the coming years, under the name of viosterol. When a human body is exposed to sunshine, changes take place in the tissues to produce vitamin D. The substance that is changed by sunlight to vitamin D is called ergosterol. ___ Hence the new substance is known as irradiated ergcsterol or viosterol. the latter name given because it is a vitamin developed from a sterol. This substance is tremendously potent as compared to cod liver oil. In fact it is so potent that manufacturers have decided not to put it on the market in its pure form, but to standardize it so that it will be just 100 times as strong as cod liver oil in vitamin D content. Thus the infant who needs vitamin D for the prevention of rickets

IT SEEMS TO ME

DON JUAN is dead and Casanova out of favor. The roost is ruled by Rudy Vallee. I am not speaking of Vallee himself, in person, but of the radio wraith much better known by millions. The name of this young man suggests some street in the older quarter of Paris. Surely so great a city must contain within its borders a thoroughfare called the Due De Vallee. Nevertheless, the bandmaster is a Yankee, and at the moment the most prominent alumnus of Yale university. More than that, he 4s the answer to the preacher's prayer. We all have heard pulpit denunciation ot that jazz which drives men mad and makes our women wanton. Young Vallee is the conquering leader of a mighty revolt Hitherto students of public taste had believed that orchestral music for the masses must be hot. Paul Whiteman is a seething caldron. Ben Beraie gives out a blue flame in action. But Ruddy Vallee is not hot at all. He is as soothing as your grandmother’s Sunday bonnet. a a a Night Slumber A FEW of the commentators have railed against, the new Prince Charming and cried out through clinched teeth. “There s not an ounce of excitement, in the fellow.” But such criticism comes from those who are quite blind to Rudy Vallee’s function in an age of Zeppelins and rapid transit. His name leads them astray, and they believe that here is still another come to sheik it in competition with the rest. Vallee cares not who makes the flappers flap if only he may croon a nation’s lullabies. To be sure, he uses some of the same numbers as the lads who heat the blood and set the feet to twitching Upon his farewell radio program Sunday there was included “I Kiss Your Hand, Madame,’ which under other auspices has been made to sound erotic. Not so when Rudy sings. , , A The mechanics of his interpretation are simply enough. The tempo

Buren succeeded him for the balance of that year. There were twenty-six states in the Union >at that time, Michigan coming in Jan. 26, 1837. Why does the son not revolve around the earth? Because the earth and all Its seven sister planets revolve around the sun. Who was national commander of . the American Legion in 1923? —John R, Quinn.

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or for the cure of that disorder, the person with diseases of the bone or teeth who should have vitamin D can now obtain all that he needs in preparations of drop dosage w r ithout the smell and the taste an<? the other disagreeable qualities of cod liver oil. It should be remembered Incidentally that cod liver oil contains other factors of value besides the vitamin D. Cod liver oil is one of the richest substances known in vitamin A which is also important for the prevention of certain deficiency diseases. Cod liver oil is a highly nutritious fat and has been, used therefore as a constituent of special dietsfor overcoming malnutrition. Indeed, the manufacturers, recognizing th*se additional virtues of cold liver oil, now- are providing, also prescription by physicians, special preparations of cod liver oil, to which the viosterol or irradiated ergosterol is added in extra amounts to bring up their strength in vitamin D. There are of course other ways by which vitamin D may be had besides the ways that have been mentioned. By irradiation vitamin D

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of every number rendered by him is retarded radically. Take even the most rousing melody and do it in half time, with a minimum of vocal color, and the most aident eyelids will begin to droop. Rudy does not sing of a gallant torn by carnal desire, but, rather, of a tired gentleman intent upon eight hours of unbroken slumber. By the strict standards of musicianship Vallee is no singer at all, but the technicians overlook some valuable human qualities. Rudy, though young, is beyond voting age, I believe, and yet his voice is that of Tarkington’s Penrod. It is sweet and more than a. little happy. a a a Never a Wound AND when he sings of love there is no pulsation in the palm trees. Never does he evoke memories of Antonio in Egypt or Romeo under the balcony. Instead, the mind pictures a nice American boy asking the girl next door to stroll around the corner for a walnut sundae. And if they go under the auspices of Rudy Vallee you may be sure they will not lack for sirup. Vallee Is either a .shrewd artist or an inspired accident. I suspect he falls under the latter label. Only a profound psychologist could figure out the fact that the world is weary of the tumult and the shouting. The

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MELBOURNE FOUNDED Aug. 29.

ON Aug. 29. 1835. British settlers founded Melbourne, Australia, which is today the capital of the state of Victoria, on Hobson’s bay in the harbor of Port Philip, the entrance of which is forty miles south of the city. The city was first given the native name of Dootigola, but was afterward changed to Melbourne in honor of Viscount Melbourne, premier of Great Britain. In 1841 the population had leaped to 11,000 and scarcely more than a decade later the discovery of the Ballarat gold field brought such an influx of adventurers that the town increased rapidly in size and had a population of 100,000 in 1842. Today it has the largest population of any Australian city (about 743,000 in 1919) and occupies a high rank among British overseas ports Melbourne is an important manufacturing town and commercial center. Almost the entire commerce of the state is carried on there, the chief exports being wool, hides, cattle, gold, silver and sheep.

may be produced in milk products, in cereals and in other food substances. Since the potency of the irradiated ergosterol is so high, authorities are (inclined to think it will be better to rely on these potent preparations for the treatment and prevention of rickets and not to take chances with the smaller doses that are to be had in irradiated foods. *The adult who wishes merely to keep vitamin D balance at a high level may be willing to use the irradiated foods, or may produce his vitamin D by getting plenty of sunlight, or by using one of the ultra-violet producing lamps. Investigations made both in Europe and in this country indicate that, as usual for ali potent remedies, too much may be as dangerous as not enough. The viosterol or irradiated ergosterol is a highly potent remedy. An overdose may throw too much calcium into the blood and may produce calcification of the tissues. Obviously, the dbsage of such a potent remedy must be regulated by a physician familiar with the condition "for which the remedy is being used. 4

Ideals and opinion* expressed in this eolnmn are those of one of America’s most interesting writers, and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

inhibitions which were so lightly thrown out the window a little while ago meow around the doorstep. We want-them back. Vallee’s light baritone croons us ba,ck to the placidity of fettered contentment. No man has ever made a pass at a young lady while Rudy’s band was playing. Os course, there is need of definition. If a young man pats a young lady on the hand and says, “You remind me of my mother,” I would not call it a pass. aa a , Miss Your Aunt? MY theory that Rudy's fortunate choice of a mood is accidental rests upon his experience wHen he appeared at a big department store to sing his records. The store was jammed with eager worshipers, but, according to the legend, Vallee expressed great surprise to see so few young people in the crowd. It was made up for the most part of dear little old ladles in poke bonnets. If Rudy understood the nature of his appeal he would not have been startled. He is the victim, or the darling, as you choose, of the suppressed maternal Instinct. When he is on the air there comes a murmur which Is not static. Bo here’s to the Vallee of contentment. rCopyrlght. 1929, by The Time?

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.'AUG. 29, 1929

REASON

By Frederick Landis

Ford’s Great Opportunity Is Offered Him—The Rebuilding of Nero Salem. Lincoln's Old Home. WE sec where Henry Ford has bought an old court house in Illinois which Abraham IJncoln once practiced law, but if Ml*. Ford desires to show his regard for the rail splitter, we will tell him of a real opportunity to do it. u n n THIS opportunity lies over In Menard county, Illinois, on the banks of the historic Sangamon. It is the site of the vanished village of New Salem into which Lincoln floated as a piece of driftwood after the family left Indiana and after the future President had helped his father clear a piece of Illinois land. ft an ONE HUNDRED years ago New Salem with its twenty-five or thirty log buildings was an ambitious settlement, dreaming of becoming a metropolis, but when the railroad passed it by, New Salem returned to the dust. Its settlers sleep on the bluff beside the river their sons and daughters are scattered and until a little while ago nothing remained of the place but the memories of Lincoln, ana r T''HEN the state of Illinois look JL over the high plateau which once was New Salem and built a house for Lincoln relics and restored a few of the log houses of a century ago, but the work has lagged and here’s an opportunity for Mr. Ford to step in and finish the job. The information is on file to enable the restoration to be accurate and the whole thing would cost less than $50,000. a a a NEW SALEM was where Lincoln spent his most colorful years. There he won the wrestling championship by throwing Armstrong, the bad man. who then became his lifetime champion and whose son Lincoln later saved from the gallows. There Lincoln became postmaster so that he might read the papers that came to the office. a a a IT was there he clerked in Offut’s store and licked the bully who insulted the customers; there he was elected captain in the Black Hawk war, an honor which he said in later years pleavsed him more than his election to the presidency. It was in New Salem that he met Jack Kelso, the picturesque vagabond with whom he read Shakespeare and Robert Burns. a a a IN that old town he bought the barrel “sight unseen” from the passing traveler and on emptying it was delighted to find among the rubbish a set of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, a book which he devoured, unconsciously laying the foundation of a career which was to amaze and charm the world.

IN New Safem he debated religion, politics, the comet, everything, meeting all comers in the village store; there he became the peerless story teller of the prairies; there he went into business and failed, calling his debt the "national debt,” but paying every dollar of it, though it took many years; there he met Ann Rutledge, the only woman he ever loved. M M M SOMEHOW we feel that if Lincoln could select his own memorial he would turn aside from the classic pile of white marble in Washington and ask that the old town be restored. We believe he would ask that New Salem rise again; we believe he would rather look down upon Rutledge’s mill, as it used to be, and Offcut’s store and the home of Greene and Graham—the old village up and down whose dusty streets he strolled. Here’s an opportunity for you, Mr. Ford.

Daily Thought

Thou, therefore, which teax-heat, another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, does thou steal?—Roman 2:21. a a a MEN trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is, therefore, slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.—Seneca. How many motion picture theaters are there in the United States? Approximately 25,000.