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Real Value in Safety Movement A generation ago the daily get-together of farmers and townspeople around the stove in the country’ grocery store was one of the most typically American meetings that could be imagined. Modern America, which has slowly ’drawn away from that informal gathering, has devised anew meeting which >s quite as typical, although not quite so picturesque—the "safety meeting’’ of the factory hands. Not long ago this sort of meeting generally W'as looked on as the work of faddists; a useless wasting of the time of men who better could be working. In recent years, however, the importance of the safety meeting has become recognized generally. It is hardly exaggerating to say that this movement for safety in industry is one of the most important movements of the day. It represents one of the few organized efforts that mankind is making to understand the nature of this mechanical age of ours. We have called innumerable machines into being, and we have to live with them, for better or for worse;-but we have devoted remarkably little time to the job of finding out just how we can get along with them without getting hurt. In the old days there was little need for a safety movement. The factory hand worked in a small shop and generally used his own tools; if he w T ere not more than ordinarily clumsy—in which case he would not have his job at all—he hardly had a chance of hurting himself. Today, though. It is different. The worker is .urrcunded by a multitude of whirligigs that can grind the life cut of him if he is not careful. A moment’s inattention can cripple him for life; a bit of carelessness can kill him. The effort to keep from being hurt has to be organized—and it is to the credit of American industry that it has been organized. Indeed, the same sort of thing, to a lesser extent, is true outside of the factory as well as in. Mechanized traffic kills 30,000 men, women and children a year. We have to be watchful, even on our more casual errands. Carelessness has become fearfully expensive. All of this has demonstrated pretty clearly that the machine is not an unmixed blessing. It has been a tremendous boon, in some respects, but it has also raised many new problems. The safety movement is a sincere, intelligent attempt to meet some of the worst of the problems that the machine has raised. That is why it deserves country-wide support. Jobs and Campaign Gifts With so much municipal and state graft being exposed around the country, and revelations of excessive senatorial primary expenditures, perhaps it is a little bit old fashioned to carp at the trend of the Republican national committee's financial contributions. Anyway, it is a matter of taste, rather than law. But we can not understand what causes a White House appointee to make a large campaign contribution soon after being given a good job, nor why # the campaign committee should be so ready to seek or accept gifts from such sources. The same applies to capitalists who stand to gain or lose financially by some pending government decision, and who proceed to make campaign contributions. Publication of the list of contributors, which must lie filed with the government under the corrupt practices law, reveals that several men who have received jobs as ministers abroad or who have a direct interest in pending transportation or power decisions by the government recently have given the Republican national committee sums reaching to totals of SIO,OOO each. And those gifts may be increased later. It happens that these men rank high in character estimate in the public mind. Probably no one will question their motives in these transactions. But why should they deliberately put themselves and the Republican committee in such an embarrassing position? Os course this sort of thing happens in all administrations. Democratic as well as Republican.

Europe Is Nervous In Paris the semi-official press speaks openly of ‘ war clouds.” In Belgrade excited patriots call for blood. In Germany the Fascist leader Hitler, incited by his nine-fold gains in the election, testifies in court that his party plans to behead the fathers of the republic and wage war if necessary to overthrow the Versailles peace settlement. In Geneva foreign ministers and premiers attending the League of Nations confess that efforts at armament limitation have been futile and that the general European situation is much worse than a year ago. But perhaps the chief danger point as usual is Italy, with Dictator Mussolini asserting a policy of terrorism at home and Chauvinism abroad. He just has executed a group of Yugo-Slavs for alleged espionage. He just has unseated as his right hand man, the relatively milder Turati, and elevated as head of the all-powerful Fascist party, the notoriously strong-arm Giuriati. He has recalled his foreign minister from the League of Nations meeting suddenly and without explanation. He has broken off the Italian-French naval negotiations, and thereby jeopardized the American-British-Japanese naval treaty, which is dependent on an Italian-French agreement. In adidtion, there are a dozen other danger spots, some of them serious, such as the Hungarian plots for revenge and the German-Polish frontier dispute. All in all, European developments are very disquieting. New York G. 0. P. Goes Wet Now that the New York Republican state convention officially has repudiated the Republican national dry plank of 1928 and the administration policy, perhaps the G. O. P. politicians in Washington will discover that prohibition is an issue. The New York state convention voted 3 to 1 in favor of prohibition repeal and will appeal to the electorate on that wet platform. At the same time the wet candidate, Charles H. Tuttle, was nominate* for Governor. The significance of this is not that it represents a change in actual sentiment. New York long has been known as a wet state in fact. But hitherto the Republican party in that state has submitted to a dry dictatorship which did not represent the actual sentiment of a majority of the party or of the electorate there. So the significance of the convention action yesterday at Albany is that New York Republicans have for the first time a platform on this issue which is representative and politically honest. There is no mystery about the reason for this sud-

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den honesty. As the G. O P. leaders have told President Hoover, a repeal platform repudiating the national Republican platform and the administration's policy was necessary if the Republicans were to have the least chance of winning the November election against the wet Democrat, Franklin Roosevelt. Efforts of the administration to prevent a bolt of its largest state organization on the chief issue in national politics have failed, because evasion no longer is politically expedient in such states as New York. Hoover on Homes Credit Herbert Hoover with words of wisdom on home building. He says, addressing a Washington conference on the -subject; “The financing of home building, especially for second mortgages, is the backward segment of our whole credit system. "It is easier to borrow 85 per cent on an automobile and repay it on the installment plan than to build a home on that basis—and generally the house requires a higher interest rate. “The whole process of purchase and finance involves a ceremony like a treaty between governments, and yet the home certainly is as good collateral as an automobile. It depreciates more slowly, if at all, and its owner will make a harder fight to keep it.” You never will appreciate the full extent of the "ceremony” referred to by the President until you start negotiating for a loan. Babe Ruth soon will open a haberdashery store on Broadway. The sign on the window probably will say something to the effect that the Babe’s stuff is best in the long run. A writer wonders what would become of financial and business experts if it were not for General Trend and Major Turn. He should not forget General Motors. Jim Davis, candidate for senator in Pennsylvania, touted a clarinet in the old home band the other day. On the assumption, perhaps, that, next to promises, music is best to soothe the voter. Pounding of a school of geography at Harvard supplies a long-felt want. It will, at least, enable students to write home that they have covered considerable ground. A “talkie” with dialog entirely in sign language has been filmed for deaf-mutes. At that, we’ll wager it won’t be as dumb as many "talkies” we’ve seen. Opera singers in Stockholm became highly indignant when they were ordered to reduce. One would think it would aid their scale work. Berlin is reported infested with women thugs who have gone so far as to hold up and rob men. They orobably regard this anew method of herr treatment. Tire highest peak in Castle Craigs. Cal., recently was named after a New York tabloid publisher. This is the height of something or other. If you don't think things are booming in Belgium, witness the report that on the birth of the new baby prince a salute of 101 guns was fired. Reports indicate that A1 Capone had an interest in the tombstone racket in Chicago. And this may explain how he has made his lot. The world’s gold supply, it is announced, is disappearing fast. And it is pretty well recognized that the dentists are having their fill. Scientists, we read, are trying to split the atom. After all. this is rather a small matter to fuss about. “Snuff Company Insures Employes for $1,000,000.” Headline. Sneeze that off.

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THE former kaiser should thank the kind fate which placed him upon a German rather than a French throne, for when the French discarded Louis they amputated his dome of thought, but when the Germans put the rollers under Bill, they voted him more than $6,000,000. Very fair compensation for wearing his mustache upside down. a a a Professors continue to run amuck in the corridors of history, their last devastation being the statement that Columbus was not an Italian, but a Spaniard, and that his first trip this way was not in 1492. This ingkes the world's fair at Chicago in 1893 absolutely unconstitutional. ana IT has come to the place where departed heroes have no more peace of mind than a South American president. We are now told that Betsy Ross did not make the first American flag, that Thomas Jefferson did not ride his horse to the White House to be inaugurated and that Captain John Smith was not saved by Pocahontas. tt o a We fast are losing faith in all of them and are prepared- for the worst. Any day we expect to learn that George Washington was not an American, but a citizen of Venezuela and that this nation was in fact founded by the late King Ben Purnell. tt tt tt This White House guard who didn't recognize Admiral Byrd when he called to attend a presidential luncheon would make an ideal juror, for it is evident he hasn't locked at any of the papers. But such things are good for heroes; they keep their feet on the ground. tt tt tt KING GEORGE wants new legislation to determine the cider of succession, the same having been mussed up by the birth of the duke of York's last daughter. Just having gone through this same thing with Mrs. Gann, we are in a position to sympathize with George. ? The American consul at Tangier had a servant ride the official donkey to the bathing beach, which was a violation of local regulations, and the servant was arrested and the donkey put in the pound. We don't care about the servant, but if the Tangerines don't iet our donkey out we should at once vindicate the national honor by dispatching the navy to the scene of the insult In 1898 our battle cry was Remember the Maine" and now it should be Remember the Mule!” e a a Senator Walsh o£ Montana told the convention which renominated him that in six years he might claim the "privilege” of retiring. That's a privilege a senator aSways has, but seldom if ever exercises.

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SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ A New Type of Vacuum Tube Is So Sensitive That It Measures Hundredth of Millionth of Ampere. MAN progresses in two directions in scientific research. One is to. the understanding and control of the gigantic. He measures the distance to stars which are trillions of miles away. He builds huge telescopes capable of revealing these distant giants of the heavens. He : learns to generate and control electric currents which are the equal of lightning bolts. In the other direction, man progresses toward the understanding and control of the infinitely small. He builds microscopes that penetrate the structure of bacteria. He delves into the secrets of the molecule and the atom with apparatus of amazing delicacy. Comparison of an announcement just made by the General Electric Research Laboratories with one made a few weeks ago, serves excellently to illustrate the two trends of scientific research. Some time ago. an announcement from the laboratory described the “impulse generator” designed by Guiseppe Faccioli. who had taken up the “artificial lightning” researches of Steinmetz. Faccioli’s machine delivered a lightning stroke of 10,000 amperes at 2.000,000 volts, a total of 26,000,-000-horse power. tt tt tt Highly Sensitive NOW comes the announcement from the G. E. laboratories of the. invention of anew type of vacuum tube so sensitive that it will measure a hundredth of a millionth of an ampere. The amount of current which flows through this new tube bears the same ratio to the amount of current flowing through an ordinary fifty-watt incandescent light, as two drops of water would to the enormous quantity of water which flows over Niagara Falls in a year's time. An electric current, as modern researches have shown, consists of a stream of the extremely small particles known as electrons. Electrons are the fundamental units of electricity. It 4s estimated that about three quintillion electrons flow through the ordinary fifty-watt incandescent light every second. The new vacuum tube, according to Ellis L. Manning of the G. E. laboratory, is capable of measuring accurately a flow of about sixtythree electrons a second. The new tube is so sensitive to infinitesimal flows of current that astronomers can use it with photoelectric tubes in determining the amount of heat radiated by stars countless miles away—bodies so far away in space that, in spite of their enormous size, they remain simply as points of light, however powerful the telescope through which they are viewed. The current is measured in fractions of quadrillionths of an ampere—the stellar distances in multiples of quadrillions of miles. n tt tt Important Uses THE new tube will replace electrometers, the instruments now in use for measurement of small currents, Manning says. “One of the major applications will be in the laboratory measurement of currents in ionization chambers which are used to* indicate the intensities of X-ray and ultra-violet light beams, Manning says. “Another important application of the tube will be in the photoelectric measurement of stellar intensities. “Professor Joel Stebbins, director of the Washburn Observatory, is using two of the low grid current tubes in conection with a quartz photo-electric tube to indicate the position, intensity and spectrum of even very faint stars. “It is possible, according to Professor Stebbins. to make nearly all astronomical observations photoelectrically, rather than visually or photographically, as has been done in the past, with decided advantages in rapidity and sensitivity.”

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times—Another instance of justice recently was dealt cer- j tain of our north side taxpayers, 1 after sufficient pressure had been i brought to bear by officials of Butler university, which surely justified revolt against conditions as they 1 exist in our “No Mean City.” These officials and financiers opposed zoning a block on Forty-ninth street for business, intimating that such location would have a bad effect on the morals of students, and though their henchmen on the plan commission promised the petitioners to choose a location within sixty days, under these promises Ordinance No. 68 was withdrawn, though signed by the majority in the immediate neighborhood, and a thousand more would have signed gladly. Now here is a peculiar thing. At the last plan commission meeting on Sept. 9, a petition was presented asking that the said plan commission grant petitioners permission to put a miniature golf course at 1 Forty-seventh street and Boulevard place. This site is just two blocks from the one that was to be voted down by the council, if not withdrawn. Avery active member of the plan commission voted for this golf course, or “curse,” to be located in the heart of a residential district. • (It is understood that another Butler official has monetary interests in the latter, which undoubtedly would make a difference.) Our former mayor and a committee from the Butler civic association in 1929 approved the zoning of Forty-ninth street for business, and the city council at that time zoned a portion of Forty-ninth street, but old pressure came for-; ward at that time and the city j council was compelled to rescind, j This zoning had been official and without petition for rezcning. Is there not something wrong somewhere? How could the students of Butler, be harmed morally if a community center were established on the south side of of Forty-ninth street? It is the. college that has made Fortyninth street what it is. not the propei ty owners on the street. Before Butler built its fieldhouse

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Diet Helps Control Blood Pressure

BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN Editor Journal ot the American Medical Association and of Hvsreia. the Health Magazine. AGAIN and again it seems necessary to emphasize the fact that high blood pressure is not in itself a disease, but the representation of physical conditions in the body which may be the result of disease. Most authorities are convinced that it is quite possible to control high blood pressure, if the patient is seen early, by the simple regulation of diet and exercise. One authority asserts that the treatment of the condition can not be carried out successfully in the home, because the patient's mode of life and his mental attitude toward his surroundings must be made over. -- He, therefore, recommends either a sanatorium conducted along the lines of a summer camp, or perhaps a hospital. The sports atmosphere associated with summer camp and exercise can be of help both physically and mentally, and also correct the person's philosophy of life.*

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THROUGH the courtesy of a former pugilistic champion I am in possession of an elastic exerciser and a pair of dumb-bells. With the apparatus is a letter signed by the champion himself. “The difficulties that come to any. man in his laudable endeavors to attain proper physical / condition move me deeply,” he writes. “I want to offer you an opportunity to train in a scientific manner. I am sending you an enrollment blank, the first lesson and my special exercising apparatus. “Please fill out all the questions carefully, so I will know how to handle your case. These patent interlocking dumb-bells will be of great service to you. The hcr.d grip will so increase the strength of your fingers and your wrists that you never will get tired in pasting up contributions to your column.” I don’t believe I will take the on this street the lots on the south side of Forty-ninth street were as good residential lots as those anywhere in the community, but look at them row. Would some of the Butler officials like to build and live on them? I would not think so. In going over the abstract on the lots at Forty-ninth street and Rookwood avenue, I find that those lots have been in the same family for ninety-six years. Were the owners evep-consulted, or did they receive a notice, as required by law, when Butler built its fieldhouse? No. it was very evident that Butle - officials thought it none of their business. Our park board generally demands that a structure or plant like Butler, or its stock company, erected on Forty-ninth street, be erected not closer than 500 feet from the boulevard. I wefnder why, and how? The mental attitude of the people of this community, the people whe signed their names to the petition asking that Forty-ninth street from Rookwood avenue to Hinesley avenue be zoned for business, is not improved by such action on the part of those in authority, be they money-mad real estate financiers, politicians, or others. A SUBSCRIBER.

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feet high issued from the sea, and ashes rose to a height of more than 5,000 feet. This constitutes one of the oldest examples of volcanic activity on record. The Origin of “Hurrah”—Hu Raj ( Hurrah) is Ukrainian in origin. It was in this country, known as Little Russia, that the curious outlaworganization named Cossacks (F r ee Men) came into being in the sixteenth century, and this was their favorite war cry. The literal tanslation of “Hu Raj” is “Paradise.”

The chief obstacle to such treatment is the fact that the patient with high blood pressure in an early stage feels perfectly well and is not likely to submit himself to a regime that in any way restricts his activities. The next difficulty is the fact that a person with high blood pressure is not infrequently a person of little or no means and that sanatorium or hospital treatment over a period of many months is exceedingly costly. Therefore, for the vast majority of people, all that the physician i can recommend is regulation of daily activities and care in the mat- | ter of diet. * It has been suggested that com- ! plete rest in bed even at home ! would be beneficial for patients with i high blood pressure, but most auI thorities are inclined to emphasize i the beneficial effects of moderate ex- ; ercise as compared with complete l rest. I One physician of extensive exj perience advises, first of all, three to ■four weeks in bed under conditions ' of complete relaxation, during which

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course, for there would be no sense in getting thin merely by following the directions supplied by another. The whole po>nt in reducing is the subsequent satisfaction of swaggering around and telling people precisely how you did it. Reduction should be creative effort, and, as such, wholly original. aen What Day Is This? 13ESIDES I can’t answer with complete accuracy ail the sections of the questionnaire. For instance I find. “Is your memory strong or weak?” The blank gives me an opportunity to reply with only just one word. The problem is not as simple as all that. I don t remember all the capitals of the states or the principal cities, but usually I knowhow many cards the dealer drew, and in other sports I generally am right about' the number of trumps which are still out. Things which are ot interest I remember pretty well, but on occasion I have managed to forget the precise afternoon upon which some magazine went to press. Is this strength or weakness? Who can tell this side of Judgment day? I am puzzled, too, by the interrogation, “Any blood pressure?” The proper answer to that, I suppose, is, “I sincerely hope so.” The implications of blood pressure have always been a little mystifying to me. I know that it is bad to have it overhigh and not much better to sink below a certain limit. These limits vary' according to the doctor and the individual. *a a a Living on Margin IWELL remember a jovial friend who was warned to live more carefully on account of mounting pressure, and yet a few days later I saw him in a condition not quite abstemious. “Oh, that's all right,” he said in answer to my protest. "Don’t worry 8 bout my blod pressure. The doctor says it isn’t really bad until it hits 230, and at the last examination I was only 225.” Also I am puzzled by people who speak about then- blood pressure as

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the diet is to be established, all foci of infection are to be removed, and the patient taught the proper mode of existence for his condition, exactly as one takes advantage of sanatorium conditions for teaching the patient with tuberculosis how to conduct his life satisfactorily. Sir Humphrey Rolleston, one of the three physicians in Great Britain known as the king’s physicians, summarizes the whole point of view for the patient with high blood pressure in the following words; “The hard working and hard living man of affairs must relax and reduce the stress and strain of his existence. He must learn to play, to take real holidays and frequent days and week-ends to follow hobbies, and avoid overeating.” There are some authorities who insist that a diet that contains no salt carried out over an extended period of time will control high blood pressure. Unfortunately, the assertion is not supported by sufficient scientific evidence to establish it, and numerous physicians who have repeated the tests have been unable to confirm them.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column arc 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 oaoer. —The Editor.

if it were fixed and constant as the stars. That I know for a delusion. Not so I many months ago I consumed a j physician, who shook his head a little gravely and said: "Too low’.j Oh, much too low.” “What is my pressure?” I in- j quired anxiously. a a tt Higher the Fewer IT’S just 100,” he answers with deep melancholy. I felt that his frightened look was fully justi- ! fied. Many times I had heard that a normal person’s pressure should be his age plus 100. This reading left me zero years of age, and I was really quite a lit- j tie older. Should it by any chance j fall still farther I would be out of j existence entirely and back in Babylon a king or, more likely, a Christian slave. Forthwith I rode crosstown and was examined by another doctor, who caught me at 145, which seemed a shade too high. The next question on the exercise ! chart is searching. “Do you worry?" the maestro wants to know. Well, I imagine that I do, nor have I any faith that the dumbbells and the elastic exerciser will wholly cure me of the habit. I’m not certain that I want to be cured. If I were bereft of the ability to worry I might say to myself: “What’s the point of doing a piece for the paper today? The worst that can happen to me is to get fired. What of that? I’ve been fired before.” And then I would get up from the typewriter and go back to bed, leaving myself and literature just so much poorer. "Mind drowsy or wander?” says the inquiring trainer on ais leaflet. I am inclined to make my affirmation contentious. The only hope any journalist has of turning out satisfactory copy on occasion lies in the blessed chance that upon some certain afternoon his though: s will venture off into unbeaten tracks. Or. at any rate, down some road which is not pocked with the footprints of every newspaper hack, himself included. iCopviiztil, 1930, by TUe Timcjj

SEPT. 27, 1930

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If Science and Industry Could Be Let Alone They y Soon Would Wipe Out Ancient Hates. TORONTO, Ontario. Sept. 27 t By and large. Canada is struggling with the same problems that perplex us—an unemployment situation, a recent boost in tariff rates, a busted wheat market, and an effort on the part of the government to relieve conditions by spending more money on public works. Even prohibition continues to bo a popular topic ot conversation, though the law has been repealed. The peopie of Toronto are excited over just such a salary grab oy city officials as occurred in New York last fall. Also, they are demanding relief from “the smoke nuisance.” which sounds wonderfully familiar, no matter where you come from, but which has a most peculiar background in this instance. According to the “Tourist and Convention Association. Inc.,” Toronto not only possesses the cheapest and most abundant electrical power of any city in the world, but is the focal point of the world’s two greatest railroad systems. These two railroad systems, however, are chiefly responsible for the smoke nuisance. Tire visitor can not help wondering why the railroads have not taken advantage of the low-priced power to electrify their suburban . lines, but it is a strange town thatj can not boast an equally puzzling* mystery. i| tt tt tt Hate Stirs Trouble PEOPLE and politics are much alike, no matter where one goes, and nothing reveals it like this socalled age of materialism. We are at last dealing with universals. A dynamo is the same old thing whether in New York, Toronto or Hongkong. So. too, is a vacuum cleaner, automobile, receiving set. Racial, religious and national traditions, not scientific progress, are chiefly to blame for the differences which still exist, and which are much more imaginary than real. If history, as it has been written, could be destroyed, and if we could start over again, beginning with the nineteenth century, there would not be half as much to fight about as thi re is. European statesmen frankly admit that inherited hate, rather than existing conditions, is their chief j source of trouble. m The absence of old grudges to keep* alive and old scores to settle ha® done more to preserve peace be-1 tween Canada and the United States! than anything else. a a a Peace Reigns THE two countries have not grown up side by side without the tormenting effect of ancient quarrels, but they have been schooled in an age which owes its greatness |to achievements that are worldI "'ide in their appeal and application. Apart from what politicians have ! done in erecting artificial barriers, | there is no frontier between them. If science and industry could be let alone, they soon would wipe it off the map. But we must have our tariffs, our : immigration laws and other excuses for flag-waving, though they do more harm to both countries than they do good to either. If- Americans were forced to read | Canadian newspapers for one year, j and Canadians were forced to reajG j American newspapers, every one j soon would get the point.

Similar to U, S, „ AN unconscionably high tariff bill is having exactly the same effect in Canada as in the United States, and is favored or opposed on precisely similar grounds. Friday morning the Toronto Star came out with an editorial denouncing the increased duty on glass, which it described as neitneir more nor less than a “window tax,” and which it declared would force tha average home owner to pay twice as much for his daylight. Friday afternoon, the Toronto Evening Telegram answered editorially by asserting “the liberal press is busy trying to find weak spots in Premier Bennett’s new tariff schedule,” and that the new duty on glass was designed “to restore an industry that liberal policies brought to the brink of bankruptcy.” Doesn't that sound just like tha Grundyites at home and doesn’t it prove the nonsense of taxing millions of poor people to maintain industries that could not be maintained any other way, that have no excuse for existence, except professional patriotism, and that should be allowed to die in the interest of fair play and economy? - f -r oDAVfib'THlcSAMUEL ADAMS’ BIRTH Sept. 27 ON Sept. 27, 1722, Samuel Adams, or.e of the leading men in promotion of the American Revolution, was born in Boston of an aristocratic family. Like John Adams, the second President, he was desecended from Henry Adams, a Puritan emigrant. After graduation from Havard college in 1740 lie entered a law office. But this work proved distasteful to him and he shortly went to work as a clerk in a counting house. In this occupation he failed, just as he did later, when he went into the brewery business with his father. He made his formal entry into politics at the age of 41. when he was elected clerk of the house, where, as a member of many committee. he wrote many of the most important state documents of the pre-revolutionary period. Through his service here and bv his writings in the press Adams came to be recognized as a leader not only in Massachusetts, but in the other colonies When in June. 1774, the Massachusetts legislature bade defiance to the British and issued a call for the continental congress, it was Adams who directed ihe movement. He will be remembered best as a patriot and advocate of popular rights.