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The Record Not very nattering to the intelligence of the voters of this state Is the appeal by leading candidates on the Republican ticket for re-election on the basis of their official records. In the record of the more prominent candidates is every reason why they should be defeated, not elected. It is true that some of the nonpoiitlcal offices have been well administered. The clerk of the supreme court ha* served well. So have the two appellate judges, whose decisions have been singularly free from political considerations. But in every other department, economy has been sacrificed to politics, inefficiency has been promoted, there has been a thorough disregard of the public welfare. The secretary of state would find it difficult to select a specific act of importance which commands public respect. The limit was reached when thousands of dollars were paid a* a copyright on drivers' licenses whose preparation, under the law, was the duty of the secretary of state himself. The state police have been purely political, and always under suspicion. His administration of the blue sky law leaves much to be desired. The auditor of state has failed to collect thousands cf dollars of gasoline fees. No exposure was made by this department Whatever has been reclaimed from the gasoline bootleggers—and it is a small percentage of what has been stolen—has been due to newspapers or volunteer organizations. The records of the departments under the Governor are such as to demand the election of a Democratic house, which may check some of the wild expenditures and Investigate the conduct of the state highway department. These candidates must have thorough contempt for the voters If they believe that citizens will be deluded by an appeal to such a record. On their records, these candidates should be defeated unanimously. Seven Gallons Did your baby get his seven gallons of liquor, wines and beer last year? And did mom get hers? And did little Johnny get his? How about sister Sue? Did she imbibe her full quota? If not, there has been skullduggery somewhere along the line, and someone drank more than his share. For r.o less a person that Prohibition Director Woodcock has revealed that the people of this country consumed 876,320,718 gallons of distilled liquors, wines, and malt liquors in the twelve months ended June 30, 1930. That is equal to seven gallons for every man. woman and child In the United States, or thirty-five gallons for a family of five. The term “liquor'’ must be defined broadly, of course, it must include Jamaica ginger, which paralyzes consumers; poison alcohol, which makes them blind; and “white mule,” which brings forth menageries when no circus is near. Also it means taking into account that alcohol which has been poisoned deliberately through governmental decree and which later has joined the flood of Illicit liquor. We have a feeling that the baby's colic required something less than seven gallons, We do not for a giHgjpnt believe that either Clarence True Wilson or H&jually arid Scott Mcßride called even once for a File of the same.” We feel justified in checking out a good many of the boys and girls of the grammar schools; likewise, e goodly number of students in high schools- -and some in colleges. So, after having eliminated those who were too young to fight for their share, and those who ride the wagon from choice, there must have been considerable more than seven gallons aniece for the imbibers. A host of wettlsh ones depart for Europe, Asia, and Africa every year. Who drinks the share due them in this country in their absence? Seven gallons. That's C 8 quarts, 56 pints, 112 half pints. It’s your fair share, sir—or madam. If, however, you are one of those who spend their money for food and clothing, rent and payments on the radio, while there is not a single gallon of liquor in the house, the fault is yours. We’ve told you what is coining to you in this land of equal opportunity and equal rights. It has been said that man is the architect of his own fortune, by which is meant that it is quite possible in this country to be a seven-gallon man, if one only tries hard enough. Think of the humiliation that may be heaped upon you by an acquaintance, who, pointing a finger at you in a crowd, might exclaim: “Out of my sight, you half-pint piker.” Unemployment Insurance It seems strange to find President Hoover discussing the unemployment problem without including unemployment insurance relief. But that is what he did Monday in addressing the American Federation of Labor convention in Boston. The President, of course, is aware that economists jind social engineers generally regard unemployment insurance as a more humane method than letting workers and their families starve, and a more efficient *■ ithod than charity. It generally is also recognized ,iat society owes jobs to all: that the right to work Is inalienable. At this moment there are between four and six jrmllion heads of families in this country who can not get jobs. By their labor in the past they have helped to make our country prosperous, they have helped to build our industries. Are they not today a legitimate charge upon their country and their industries, and haven't they the right *o demand the wherewithal to live until they can get back the jobs they lost through an inflation and depression which they did hot cause? These, self-respecting and hard-working American citizens do not want charity—which is the only thing that keeps many alive now. They want insurance, the same kind of insurance which their employer has in boom times when he sets aside part of the profits to tide him over hard times. Just as an industry, if efficiently managed, will hrovide protection against depression for the employer, eo that industry can insure its own workers. That Insurance can be provided at an exceedingly low cost fend without injuring the industry. This has been demonstrated by the unionized tnen’s clothing Industry, and is being introduced in other industries by leading companies such as Dennison and General Electric. Dr. Leo Wolman, labor expert of the Hoover commission on recent economic changes, in a Washington address last week said the record of these American experiments proves: *Tt P possible to provide general unemployment insurance in the United States without imposing excessive burdens on industry and without encountering the evils of the European systems. “An American plan of unemployment insurance which imposes on industry the obligation to lay aside [ 'reserves for relief of the unemployed, and jSaces on

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management and labor the joint task of administering these reserves, can solve those problems of political control and administration, of which we Americans stand In such genuine fear.” - - The Titanic of the Air The wrecking of the British dirigible R-101, with loss of forty-seven lives, gives America an opportunity to contribute to the world something more useful than mere formal condolences over a great tragedy. - It appears from news reports that a structural failure—the breaking of a fin—sent the big airship to the ground. That might not have been disastrous. But then her hydrogen-filled gas cells exploded, and instantaneous flames cremated forty-seven of her fifty-four passengers and crew. The United States has the only supply of helium gas In the world. Helium is nonexplosive, and is used in our own dirigibles. But we won’t let other countries have any. Surely this catastrophe of the air is sufficient excuse, if we must have one, to cause us to open our supply of helium to the world. The dirigible’s greatest value Is as a carrier in peaceful commerce. Its value as a wartime instrument is questionable. So surely the military leaders can not object to us sharing our helium, Admiral Moffett does not object. In fact, he urges it. It is up to congress to throw down the bars.

The Twilight of Missions Have our efforts to convert the “heathen Chinese’* come to an inglorious end? Must the pagans be allowed to perish according to their own sweet wishes in the "outer darkness”? Such is the view of Hallett Abend, an eminent foreign journalist resident in Peking. He presents his opinions in an interesting article on “The Crisis of Christian Missions in China,” in Current History. The Catholics have been trying to convert these .stubborn orientals since the middle ages. The Protestants have been at It from the end of the eighteenth century. The Protestant converts in China today number about 500,000. The Catholic converts run to 2,500,000, by counting in the families of the converts. The high cost of conversion in China is becoming more and more acute. In 1928 the Catholics and Protestants spent at least $15,000,000 for missionary work in China. The British found that it cost their missionaries approximately SBOO to convert a Chinese to Christianity. Robert E. Speer, an eminent American authority, admitted early this year that it takes on the average three paid missionaries to make one yearly convert. This is discouraging enough, but the lot of Christian missionaries is bound to grow worse in China. The developing nationalism stimulates the already vigorous anti-foreign feeling. The missionaries have not dared to oppose Chinese nationalism; rather, they have been compelled to give it their approbation. Chinese nationalism is increasing the obstacles to Christian missions. Christian doctrines can no longer be taught as a. compulsory course even in mission colleges. Yet courses in Chinese nationalistic philosophy are made compulsory. In some provinces any type of religious instruction, except in the higher grades, is forbidden by law. Anti-missionary slogans, like the following, are taught: “The cross of Christ is a tool of imperialism to crush the Chinese people. . . . “The aim of Christian education is to propagate slavery, to destroy the heart of society by means of the education and intoxication of the minds of the young. Therefore, the thing to do is to attack Christian schools.” The number of missionaries murdered is large and is on the increase. An even more serious menace to the future of Christian missions than Chinese nationalism is, of course, the decline of Christianity in western lands. Orthodoxy is collapsing at home, especially with the coming generation. Secular work of the missionaries in education, hygiene and the like can be done far better by strictly secular agencies. It would seem that we indeed are in the “twilight of foreign missions.” The least you can say for that woman who offered to buy the Eiffel tower from the French government is that her hopes were high. What’s become of the old-timer who used to refer to the cigaret as a “coffin nail?” As the expert writing his views on the world series told his scrivening aid, “Whither thou ghost, I will go.”

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Up in Chicago there was a lawyer named Joseph Sarley. He was an income tax expert who showed the rich how to avoid handing Uncle Sam co much money that he would become foolish. He was very successful, according to our market place standards. tt 8 8 When one day, having accumulated all the money he needed, he indulged in the American dissipation of trembling for his health. He went to see a doctor and the doctor X-rayed him, took his latitude and longitude and listened to his insides through the garden hose. 8 8 8 WHEN the doctor up and said to Joseph Sarley, the Chicago lawyer: “You are up against it; you can’t get well; you're a goner; you won’t live over five years; you can't.” Being a lawyer. Joseph Sarley had a profound regard for precedent and when he heard this decision, he thought it was all off. 8 8 8 So he got ready to die in five years. He quit working, pulled down his roll top desk, threw a kiss to the bust of Daniel Webster, frowning at him from a corner of his office, walked out of the “active practice” and got a room in a hotel and sat down to die on-echeduled time—five years away—and he just has done it. 8 8 8 You know you can do that, if that kind of indoor sport appeals to you. If you sit around, studying tombstone catalogs and committing to memory the last words of great statesmen and wearing a calla lily in your Prince Albert you can take the elevator almost any time that strikes you as being appropriate. 8 8 8 LOTS of fellows are dying on schedule time every week just because Dr. Bozo or the great sanitarium conducted by the Bazoopsis Brothers told them to do so, and this article is written in the hope that those doctors who hand out death penalties as nonchalantly as if they were Saratoga potatoes will think it over and decide to be a little diplomatic. tt n n You can warn a fellow that he’s in bad shape, but you don’t have to hit him on the head with a grave digger’s spade; you can warn him that he must watch his step and that it’s up to him to make his stay long or short, but you don’t have to shut the door of hope and nail a skull and crossbones on It.

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ-

Clovd-Hopping With Gliders Is Becoming a Popular Pastime. THE newest sport is “cloud flying.” Aeronautical experts expect to become exceedingly popular in the next decade. It is carried on by means of a glider or motorless plane. The pioneer work in the field was done on the other side of the ocean by Robert Kronfeld, Austrian ace. Edwin W. Heale describes cloud flying in his excellent new book, “The Book of Gliders.” He writes: “The suction which lifts motored planes when they pass below cumulus clouds was familiar to aviators for years before the soaring pilots began to make use of it. “Such cumulus clouds always crown powerful columns’of rring air. The great cauliflower-shaped masses seem to boil, an effect caused by the warm air piling up from below. This air bears moisture evaporated from water or damp earth. When it meets a cold layer of air or when it has risen high enough to cool itself, the moisture is condensed into tiny droplets and the cloud mass is formed. “The speed of the warm air in the ascending columns increases as it approaches the cloud. Sometimes it is rising at 15 feet a second, sufficient to carry aloft a soaring plane.”

a a a A Popular Trick / “|-'HE trick is for the glider pilot A to get into the rising column of air at the base of the cumulus cloud and permit it to carry his craft up into the air. When that column has carried the glider as high as it will go, the pilot glides toward another cloud, repeating the process once more. The trick is particularly popular in Germany, where such tactics have been christened “cloud hopping.” Teale writes: “During some of their flights, German cloud-hoppers have made long journeys across the sky, gliding from one up-column to another under cumulus clouds. “Because of the height at which a take-off must be made, the only place where much success has been attained in cloud flying has been at the Wasserkuppe in the Rhoen mountains of Germany, where pilots are able to start at 2,000 feet. “For experimental purposes, soaring ships may be towed high Into the air by motored planes and cut loose in the neighborhood of cumulus clouds.” Cloud flying still is in the experimental stage. Undoubtedly there is much to be learned yet about it. nun Picking the Cloud THE difficulty in cloud flying, writes Teale, is to find the right cloud to hitch to. “On hot summer afternoons, cumulus clouds form and disappear rapidly,” he writes. “Their life often is very short. Their shape is altering all the time. “Frequently a pilot steers his machine beneath a cloud and arrives just as it begins to dissolve. Then he has to swoop back to earth again. Or, a pilot may head for a cloud and by the time he arrives,, find that it has disappeared, “Just about the only rule that helps in the selection is: The upcurrents are strongest just as the cloud is forming. “Outside of getting to a cloud as soon as possible after it begins to take shape, the rules for finding the right cloud are few. It still is largely guesswork. “Even after a pilot has found a strong rising column of air beneath a cumulus cloud, he must be closely on his guard. “If he becomes interested in something else and fails to watch the cloud, it may change its shape suddenly so that the finds himself dropping outside the area of rising air.” Sailplanes, designed especially for clcud flying, are being constructed in Germany, Teale said.

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BATTLE KINGS MOUNTAIN October 7 ON Oct. 7. 1780, a little force of Americans, calling itself the “Army of the West,” attacked the British at Kings mountain, a high ridge on the boundary line between North and South Carolina, and scored a memorable victory, one of the most heartening of the Revolutionary war, the 150th anniversary of which will be celebrated on the old battlefield this year. Just before this triumph the Colonists were passing through what historians called the darkest period of the Revolution. The British had been ’ victorious in the south, the republic bankrupt and our soldiers grumbled because of poor pay and threatening to revolt. To lower further the morale of the American troops, Benedict Arnold, an able general, turned traitor and joined the British. It was at this time that the British Major Ferguson was sent with 1,100 men to cut off a body of patriots then retreating from Georgia to the highlands of North Carolina. Ferguson penetrated too far into the mountains and was met by a swarm of backwoodsmen. In the ensuing battle of Kings mountain, Ferguson was killed and those of his men who were not killed or wounded were taken prisoners. This victory proved to -be the turning point of the war in the south. Anew army soon was raised for the south and placed under the command of Nathaniel Greene.

Daily Thought

Then saith the damsel that kept the door unto Peter, Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith’, I am not.—St. John 18:17. It is the just decree of heaven that a traitor never sees his danger until his ruin is at hand.—Metastasio.

Where is the geographic center of continental United States.. It is in the eastern part of Smith county, Kansas.

Children Grow More in Summer, Fall

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tte American Medical Association and of Hyeeia, the Health. Magazine. f’T'HE average person is likely to take it for granted that a child grows constantly from birth to maturity at a fairly even rate and to be little concerned with the factors concerning growth at any given time. Actually, childreh, like plants, grow much more during some seasons than during others. Their rate of growth seems influenced by the weather, the sunlight, exercise, diet, and many other factors. For at least a quarter century it has been known that children tend to grow more during the summer than during the winter, the fact being emphasized by German investigators who made a special study of the subject. Thus, one German investigator

IT SEEMS TO ME BY H BROUN D

IFEEL sorry about the death of Jack Donahue, 38, because he was a man of great charm and a superb actor. His performance was too short by many years. And the poignant part of such a passing is the fact that this gay comedian carries his tricks away with him. It would be entirely impossible for me, or even those who knew him better, 'to describe in any precise words the spirit and mood of Donahue's dancing. When actors die the*word “genius” is often plucked and offered as a last tribute. We hail too many geniuses. I've never known the boundaries of the noun. But I must say that Donahue did something in dancing unlike anybody I ever have seen. For my taste there was a person who could make a step or a posture so hilariously funny, but, of course, Jack Donahue was not the only comic dancer. It was the combination of burlesque and pure beauty of line and movement which distinguished Donahue, 8 8 8 •Dancing instance, lie professed to find A 1 the so-called interpretative dancing of the Duncanites sheer folly. Many of his most successful numbers were based upon mocking parodies of the hop-skip-and-a-jump style winch has been seen by all of us under dim lights in Carnegie hall. He had his own version of “Spring Song” ballets. And yet the curious part of this was that Donahue derived much of his art from this school which he parodied so boisterously and successfully. In spirit he was a grand-nephew even of Isadora herself. I mean there was nothing merely grotesque in Donahue’s version of line and rhythm as he spoofed the modern dancers. Given a leopard skin and a symphony orchestra, and he could have made even the esthetes watch him in pop-eyed wonder. 8 8 8 Rhapsody AND once I saw him do one of the most extraordinary pieces of interpretative dancing the stage has known. It was at a Lambs’ Gambol. He undertook to translate Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” from sound Into visual movement. Os course, the object was one of mockery. The stunt, I imagine, was largely impromptu. But as he warmed up to the task, the music took hold of him. He was sensitive to music from the tip of his ears down to his toes. You could set your watch by his taps. I’ve always thought that the “Rhapsody” was a swell piece. I believe it has about as good a chance as any modern American composition to survive. And Donahue wa* up to it. He was with it neck and neck. When I hear the Gershwin lament (it always makes me feel mournful) again I’ll see Donahue gliding and twisting across the little Lambs’ Club stage. He was adorned by the music as if each note had been a vine leaf. 8 8 8 More Funny AND when I say he was a 6uperb actor I mean quite a bit more than calling him a funny fellow. Os course, he was that. I’m glad I saw

Right Under His Nose!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

who examined 1,000 German infants found the increase in weight much greater during the late summer and autumn than in the spring and early summer or in the winter. An American physician who studied several .thousand children in Boston during the period of their school life noted a seasonal difference in the weight increase, the September to January period averaging 3.4 pounds in boys, whereas the February to June period averaged .82 pounds. He found, in general, a loss of weight in April, May and June. An increase in height is found to take place rapidly from April to June, slowing down in the hot summer months and still more in the winter months. The figures recently were checked for 650 children, aged 7 to 9, in four Scottish towns. All these children had an increase in height in the three months from March to the

“Sons o’ Guns” many times last season. Donahue acted as master of ceremonies for a benefit we gave at his theater last spring. I had a chance to watch him work from front and back. There was a scene in that show which seems to me almost the high spot in inventive foolery. My impression is that Donahue was the originator of the notion. The audience saw him in “No Man’s Land” bringing back three German prisoners. By some Alice in Wonderland sort of magic, they all turned out to be acrobats, and while resting between shell holes they undertook to teach Donahue a pyramid trick.

Times Readers Voice Views

Editor Times —There can be no question that all people would be better off morally, physically and politically if the habit of using intoxicants as a beverage would be eliminated. Every day, every newspaper, contains proof of the fact, yet The Times editorials and its columnists all knock the eighteenth amendment. It may be admitted that the amendment is not the very best plan that can be devised, but a second best plan for the accomplishment of any purpose is better, if backed up, than even a better plan if unsupported. With a different attitude of newspapers, politicians and. other people of influence during the last ten years, the conditions would be vastly better now. Newspapers are largely the leaders of public opinion, and therefore, are largely responsible for the trend of public sentiment on all policies of public interest—moral, social and political. A long pull, a strong pull, with The Times and other influential newspapers as wheelhorses could and would pull the country out of the present mire. Should you do so, your conscience would sing with approval, “Happy man.” Happy man: Conscious of having shared in a work that will be a great blessing to husbands, wives, mothers and children, public welfare the country over. “ ’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.” I read and like The Times for its vigor in many things, but I don t like its stand on the eighteenth amendment. SOL M. GLICK. Columbus, Ind. Editor Times—ln an open letter to the press of the state, among other things, a leading politician said: “The conservation department has served the state marvelously and made the revenues more than pay the cost. It has not cost the taxpayers of Indiana one cent. ’ Surely the newspapers of the state will not sit idly by and let this statement go unanswered. We know that it has served the sportsmen of the state marvelously, by not giving us anything for our money—not even a pair of quail, a pair of squirrel or a fur-bearing animal. The hunters and fishermen have donated and donated, only to see our fish and game rapidly disappearing. We know that some parts of the department have added to the burden of the taxpayers, and that thf legislature of 1929 appropriated

end of June, more so than in any other period. The smallest increase in height took place in October, November and December, the greatest increase in weight took place in July, August and September, and the second greatest in October, November and December. In the early part of the summer, namely, April, May and June, 25 per cent of the boys actually lost weight, although they increased in height. Such studies as these emphasize the importance of a study of normal conditions before attempting to draw any conclusions as to loss of weight or height in relationship to diet and disease.’ Unless one knows the normal curve of growth and of height, it is not possible to venture any opinion as to the significance of sunlight and ultra-violet rays on increases in weight or height at any given period.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without retrard to their agreement or disaareement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

Gladly enough he volunteered to be the top of the heap, but when the pose was set machine guns from both sides began to zip away at them. Os course, it was an insane idea, but the burlesque had a pleasant, healthy bite. I have no desire to dig too deeply under surfaces, but I felt that the strange and zestful comradeship of the mixed group between the lines contained at least an implied satire of the tragic farcicality of war. To say we are all acrobats under the skin Is merely another way of saying we are all brothers. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times!

nearly $1,000,000 out of the general fund for the department of conservation. We know that that department has become a political football at the expense of the sportsmen and the taxpayers of the state. In a claim we made that the Brown county reservation for a park was purchased by fish and game funds, and that it was not a place where sportsmen could participate or even enjoy, the politicians reared up and howled and said our statement was at fault. I call your attention to the speech of Governor Ed Jackson before the general assembly of Indiana, Jan. 11, 1929, viz.: “To do this the conservation department has purchased 12,000 acres in Brown county with fish and game earnings/’ We thought then and we believe now that Governor Jackson knew what he was talking about. Those “earnings” were from sale of hunting and fishing licenses, of course. The sportsmen of the state believe In speaking the truth relative the things we love In the great out of doors, and these recent observations by our politicians have been as obnoxious as they have been misleading. H. H. EVANS. Newcastle, Ind.

Questions and Answers

How should cork floors be cleaned? They may be kept clean by sweeping with an ordinary broom or floor brush. If washing is necessary, use a warm solution of a small amount of neutral soap in water. Sandpaper or steel wool is sometimes used to remove stains. What is a herbivorous animal? One that feeds only on vegetable natter. How many Hungarians of the Magyar race are tfcere in the United States? According to the 1920 census there were 459,449. How Jong did the great Chicago fire last? What amount of damage was done? It began Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, and was one of the most destructive Ares in the history of the United States. Breaking out in a barn on De Kovan street, and fanned by a gale, it spread rapidly and raged uncontrolled for almost twenty-four hours, sweeping over 2,100 acres, destroying 17,450 buildings, waustng

.OCT. 7, '1930

M. E. Tracy — SAYS:

Selfishness of the United States Was Partly Responsible for the R-101 Disaster. 1 WONDER how many American; realize just what part their government played in the R-101 disaster, net deliberately, of course, but by the pursuit of a narrow, shortsighted, selfish policy. Admitting that the ship would have cracked up anyway, either because of structural defects, or poor piloting, there seems little doubt s hat many more, If not all. of her passengers and crew would have escaped but for the fire. Hydrogen, and hydrogen alone, is responsible for the more horrifying aspects of this tragedy, and hydrogen would not have been used, except as our own government has made It necessary for foreign countries to do so bv forbidding the exportation of helium. a a a U, S, Has Monopoly TTELIUM is a noninflammable, ■*- nonexplosive gas, and the only one of Its kind light enough to be practical for airships. It is the byproduct of a certain variety of natural gas, and was discovered through experiment* intended to determine why that gas would not burn. Thus far, no appreciable supply of helium has been discovered outfit 6 the United States, which means that our government enjoys a natural monopoly of it, and can deny us use to the rest of ths world by the simple process of passing a law. That is exactly what our government has done, in spite of all it has had to say about international cooperation and fair play. nun Bad Policy r l ’’HE idea of establishing an iron bt of heliura can soni °, nly by one of two rea - T irst ’ gain a military adntage m time of war; second tagf^TTim 6 * COmm ercial advanLge in time of peace. No matter how such an idea mav appeal to us from a purelv patriot ic standpoint. it L, Ttupidiy ‘“i 2,'"* a humanitarian standpoint, and equally short-sighted from an economic standpoint . Besides, it is contrary to about everything we claim to stand for with regard to international trade and exchange. How can we make f<£ e th Pe ° Ple b6lieVe that we are for the common good, the interests of humanity, and ininroveri conditions throughout the "X if t™ deny . V“ m “of '"only knovn safe gas for airships? 8 8 8 Moffett Is Flight TF the supply were small we might A have seme excuse for such a Sardl, p„u c ;. but as Ad " * sys si 5 ° ut * *3! n,7H e <u iS l ster undoubtedly was hydrogen ” 01 bein ? inflated with “The Un,7.rf Admiral Moffet. f / ne . u mted fatates Is the only nan in the world possessing helium m umimited quantities. The presVZ Us “Wtation I would urge the repeal of that law and allow it to be exported m th S R f FT 6 t 0 aU nations, SpSalll P e . Britlsh and Germans, who have had the vision and courage to S? d°f V th rigid *ships. Respite disasters and the handicap and danger of hydrogen.” 8 8 8 Talks Good Sense jfF that were a professional pacA ifist talking, you might find some excuse for dismissing it as a mere outburst of sentimentality, but bv no stretch of the imagination can Admiral Moffett be catalogued as such. He is a hard-boiled old seadog, schooled to the art of war. and he is interested particularly in aeronautics. When he says we are wrong in trying to bottle up helium and gain a temporary advantage by exposing other people to death and disaster, you can rest assured that it is from good sense, not emotionalism. Like all other intelligent men, Admiral Moffett realizes that aviation belongs to no one if not the whole world, and that It, holds no promise of constructive value, save to humanity in general. Further than that, he realizes that it represents too big and risky a venture, especially where dirigibles are concerned, to be carried on successfully, without, the co-operation and support of all civilized governments. tt tt tt Blow at Aviation Destruction of the r-ioi represents something worse than the loss of so many dollars to Great Britain, or even the loss of so many lives. It represents a setback to aviation in the dirigible field, no matter how hard we try to pretend it does not, a shock to public confidence, an excuse for capital not to invest, and chiefly because of the revolting circumstances under which its forty-odd victims met death. We Americans have reason to feel peculiarly humiliated over that phase of the tragedy, because we could have prevented it, or a large part of it, at least by permitting the sale of helium, by permitting other people to share in a treasure which God Almighty gave us.

two hundred deaths besides great suffering and destitution. Out of a population of 324,000 more than 70,000 were rendered homeless, and almost one-third of the property of the city, $190,000,000 was destroyed. The fire was not extinguished until rain fell about 10 o’clock at night, Monday, Oct 9. Who Is the king of Albania? Zogu I. What is the value of a Maine centennial half-dollar dated 1920? It is catalogued at 75 cents. Who was the American ambassador to Cuba during the PanAmerican conference In Havana in 1328? Noble Brandon Judah. Wbat is the nationality and meaning of the name Anid? It is a Norse-Teutoric name of very ancient origin, meaning “eagle of the wood.” Where and when was the movie star. O. P. Heggie, born? In South Australia, Sept. 17, 1879.