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Only One Course Announcement by Samuel Insull Jr. that the interest® he represents will make no further effort to take over the bankrupt transportation system of this city leaves but one course open to the public. There must be public ownership. It may be suggested that Mr. Insull is wrong when he states that the city government refused to adopt a policy of “service at cost.” It was because they did not believe that the Insull plan would furnish service at anywhere near cost that city officials rejected the proposal. Representatives of the security holders, in their campaign to put over the Insull bargain, told the people that the present lines are in a bad state of repair, the cars unfit for service and the system generally decrepit. If that be true and the Insulls are out of the picture permanently, the city must plan for its own transportation system. The people have been told that only the Insull interests would furnish any money for rehabilitation. If that be true the security holders will wisely look to the one possible purchaser of the system, the city of Indianapolis, and make overtures for a fair price. This city must have and will have a real transportation system that will not only be sufficient for needs, but so comfortable and convenient as to make people wish to patronize it. The demands of business require this. In this situation the suggestion of George Marott for a bus system with widened streets should command more attention and consideration. He estimates that such a system would not only cost less than the Insull proposal but result in a greatly beautified city. The Insulls are out. They are the best operators in the private field. There is no half-way station between their control and public ownership, now inevitable and necessary. Feed the Hungry A federal grant to the Red Cross for unemployment relief Is needed urgently. This is clear from the figures on unemployment and distress gathered by the Hoover emergency committee and by the replies of 303 mayors in forty-one states to questionnaires sent out by Senators La Follette and Walsh. Colonel Arthur Woods, head of the Hoover committee, has told the senate that there are upward of 5,000,000 “totally unemployed,” or about twice the number when the census was taken last April. The number of men laid off generally is estimated as equal to, or larger, than the so-called totally unemployed, making a total of unemployed of all kinds upward of 10,000,000—exclusive of part-time workers. That is about 18 or 20 per cent of the employable population, a figure which checks with the careful A. F. of L. unemployment figures for union labor. This figure also checks with the reports of the 303 mayors made to Senators La Follette and Walsh. These reports, covering a population of 16,024.000, show an average unemployment of about 16 per cent of the employable population. Since most of the cities and towns represented were under 50.030 population, and since several of the largest cities of the country where unemployment is greatest were not included, it is evident that this 16 per cent unemployment is lower than the average for the nation as a whole. Even these figures, given by Colonel Woods and the mayors, do not show the full extent of suffering. They do not cover the millions of men on part-time, whose earnings have been cut too low to support their families. One other thing is emphasized by most of the mayors. They point out that the so-called middle class, which in former emergencies has furnished most of the private relief funds, is so hard hit by the stock deflation and general depression that many private charitable funds are smaller this year, when the need is tripled. Inadequacy of private relief funds is demonstrated by the New York City private relief committee, which has raised $8,000,000 and now reports that it needs $10,000,000 more, which it can not raise from private sources. That is in the largest center of wealth in all the world. But the problem in New York and other large' cities, where private fortunes aVe concentrated, is easy compared with smaller and poorer communities. In small towns and in one-industry cities, the private relief agencies are at the end of their rope; there is no more money to be had. In many cases there is no chance of getting the necessary relief funds from city treasuries, which arc empty because of slow tax payments. All this is stressed by the mayors. Os the 303, some form of federal relief was requested definitely by 216. This widespread appeal for federal aid from responsible town fnd city officials will come as a surprise to persons with the mistaken notion that the Hoover committee or the Red Cross already is furnishing relief. Colonel Woods jus f has testified that the Hoover committee merely is helping to organize local committees and is not supplying any relief funds, directly or indirectly. Both Colonel Woods and John Barton Payne, head "of the Red Cross, testified that the Red Cross is helping only in rural districts and is not distributing relief in citie*. The total Red Cross emergency fund is only $4,5u0,000, according to Payne. That is not enough to care for the 250,000 which the Red Cross expects to help this winter in the state of Arkansas alone. The dire need for federal help can not be denied In the face of these facts. And there can be no legitimate objection to sued federal aid in a country whose government has a long and honorable record of furnishing direct food and clothing relief in scores of emergencies in the United States and abroad. Os course, such federal help is no solution for the unemployment problem, any more than food for flood victims was a solution for flood control. Th% government must go on with its construction program and overy other possible method to provide employment,

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but meanwhile there is an immediate emergency which only quick and dirct federal relief can meet. There is sound opposition to a federal dole system, setting up a self-perpetuating political machinery and distributing funds automatically to all communities. We share that opposition. But there is no reasonable objection to an adequate federal grant to the semi-official Red Cross, for distribution by it in these c 4 ty communities and rural districts where private rel.ef funds are insufficent. The food riots in western farm states and eastern cities are as disgraceful to America as they are dangerous. The federal government can not afford to let any Americans starve. A Revolution in Penology It is difficult to appreciate the truly momentous nature of the report just submitted by the New York state commission to investigate prison administration and construction. While embodying nothing which has not been accepted by experts in criminology and enology for a quarter century, its practical application would work a veritable revolution. It would be comparable to moving the field of medicine and surgery a century ahead in a year. The gap which today separates Auburn prison from the system contemplated in the report is as great as the gulf which divides the ancient blood-letting barbers from George Orile and Harvey Cushing. We have been beguiled by over attention to minor advances, like abolishing stripes and lock-steps, Into believing that truly significant progress has been made in practical prison administration. This is not true. Cur prison system in all essentials is just what it was when the Auburn prifeon was built in 1819. Indeed, the famous eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia, opened in 1829, was far more roomy and habitable than 95 per cent of the new prisons of today. Our prisons still are vast walled-in fortresses, designed to herd as many men as possible under one roof and concerned only with keeping them safely under lock and key. All are treated alike, which is fully as sensible as prescribing blood-letting for pneumonia, gout, gall stones and neuritis. The report of the New York commission would bring us really up to date. All new prisons would be small units, to house around 500 prisoners, without absurd walls and forbidding cells. Each man would be put in a. separate room, comfortable and capable of being given a human touch by the inmate. The pupulation of the old fortress at Auburn, Dannemora, Sing Sing, Elmira and the like would be reduced, and these old bastiles ultimately abandoned except for segregation of incorrigibles and intractable types. Even more important than a revolution in the architecture of our prisons is the full and frank recognition that a thorough-going classification of prisaners must be the corner stone of any sane system of prison discipline. Instead of treating first offender and hardened crook, genius and subnormal, docile and intractable absoslutely alike, institution and treatment will be adjusted to the type of man dealt with. The present type of prison and discipline will be retained only for the small minority of intractable types. Psychiatric service is admitted to be necessary for at least one of every six inmates. s Boston is said to be the cleanest city atmospherically in the country. And the fellow who has been censoring the books and plays there probably will take credit for this. Then there was the Scotch visitor in Paris who carefully examined all his coins when he was warned to beware of the Latin quarter. A New Jersey man has invented an electrical revice to shock mosquitoes to death. And many of them, no doubt, will bite for this. This is the season when hunting dogs start out with anew lash on life. Once there was a paragrapher who never once razzed a statement in Cal Coolidge's daily article.

REASON

THE country has heard for weeks that the Wickersham crime commission is going to report this and that, but the truth is it makes little difference what it reports, for it will not change anybody's idea one way or other. So far as the public is concerned right now. it is chiefly interested in the 1931 automobile models. x a Commissions amount to little or nothing anyhow. They are just a makeshift for passing the buck on certain issues and delaying the necessity for taking a positive stand on a matter which statesmen wish to put off u ’! after the next election. 8 8 8 We’ve . . commissions for this and for that, but if anybody .-ver paid any attention to what they said, the same nas escaped our attention. We’ve just had several of them in Indiana and. according to the latest report, their findings are to be disregarded. 8 8 8 ABOUT the only good these commisisons do 'is to give recognition to fellow’s who want to trot around with some martindales on. It’s an easy and a harmless way to give happiness to gentlemen w’ho want to feel that they are carrying the burdens of the world. 8 8 8 Right now when the Indiana legislature is beginning its -abors we want to emphasize what we’ve said several times before and it is that we should take a lot of fellows out of our penal institutions and work them on the roads. 8 8 8 Some time ago Warders Daly of the northern prison said that he would ask the legislature to appropriate $4,000,000 for anew cellhouse, the same being necessary to take care of the increased prison population. 8 8 8 Four mililon berries are a lot of fruit to waste on this kind df architecture, particularly when it can be avoided, and it can be by following the example of other states and taking a lot of these prisoners out and working them on state roads. 8 8 8 THIS will not cut down the employment of free labor; it will simply let Indiana construct roads which she otherwise would not construct. And the prisoners in other states have been so glad to get away from walls and bars that the problem of preventing escapes has been made negligible. 8 8 8 Taxes are high enough now without spending $4,000,000 this winter for anew cellhouse and if you feel that the boys should be &ken out doors and made to do something for the benefit of Indiana, then you sit down and write your state senator and state representative about it.

FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIAN.

M. E. Tracy

SAYS: Whatever We Do About Prohibition, We Should Confine Drunkenness to Walking or the Back Seat. \ LBUQUERQUE, N. M„ Jan. 10. From El Paso to Albuquerque, you ride over what now is cataloged as “U. S. Highway 85,” but what the old Spaniards used to call "Jomado Del Muerto,” or, “Journey of the ! Dead.” Though safe and easy for the most part, there are places in this 300-mile trail up the valley of the Rio Grande which cause you to reg:.rd the lattei description as too realistic. One such place is Nogal canyon, a treeless, rugged gulch, 500 to 600 feet deep, with the road winding down one precipitous wall and then up the other. As per usual, we met a big Packard on the very first hairpin curve. There might have been six inches between our off whel and eternity as we edged around it. Two men were killed near Pecos, N. M., Thursday night, and a third seriously injured, when the car in which they were riding was crowded off a curve by another with a presumably drunken driver at the wheel. One can not travel such roads and read such items, without recalling a sign which stands just outside El Paso, reading: “Drive cai’efully, you may meet a fool.” Whatever we do about prohibition, we should confine drunkenness to walking, or the back seat. tt tt u No Job Problem Here Albuquerque is without an unemploymnet problem, which may be partially accounted for by fact that it is a health resort and that work just has been started on an $850,000 federal building, with a veterans’ hospital in prospect for! next spring. Beyond that, it is a comparatively small city, dominated by no single industry, with most of the people owning their own homes and running their own affairs. Even so, Albuquerque is a notable exception. We have visited no other place since leaving New York, whether large or small, which appeared to have been so little hurt by the depression, or so well able to take care of itself. According to the best information available, there are only 3,000 or 4,000 out of work in the entire state of New Mexico. tt tt n Contributes to Romance OUT in this section, people have -a happy way of mingling romance and improvement. Maybe that is one reason why they have such a healthy outlook on life. At all events, they can take an interest in the past, without becoming mossback, or in the present without narrowing their perspective. They have furnished not only themselves, but the rest of the country', a lot of good material in both lines. Whether it’s anew note in music borrowed from the Indians, anew style in architecture borrowed from the old padres, or a new theme in literature borrowed from some outlaw, the west, and particularly the southwest, has contributed its full quota. Speaking of .anew theme in literature, you probably have read “The Saga of Billy the Kid,” or seen it as worked over for the movies. If you haven't, you have missed something worth while, though that was not what I started out to say. What I started out to say was that Mrs. Susan Barber, who died in Albuquerque the other day, after having been a resident of the city for some fifty years, was the identical lady who played the piano while the McSween faction, to which “Billy the Kid” belonged, waged a desperate battle with the Murphy faction, which besieged and finally destroyed it. Mrs. Barber was Mrs. McSween at the time, and not only went through the tragic affair, but lost her first husband a? the result of it. nan Glamor in Past THE southwest has a longer past than goes with the bad man, or two-gun sheriff, and a wider present than goes with the price of loti on Main street. When you go up to Albuquerque from El Paso, you not only pass Elephant Butte dam, which impounds one of the largest artificial lakes on earth, but the Pueblo of Isleta, where families have occupied the same house for 500 yeras. What is more, you pass towns, the very names of whici are rooted in a romantic age—Las Cruces, so called from a group of crosses erected above ? party of slain Spaniards: and Socorro, so designated by a Spanish governor because its friendly Indians had lent him succor in an hour of desperate need. What should be the height and weight of a mature Airedale terrier? No standard height has been adopted for the Airedale, but mature specimens stand approximately 22 to 24 inches. Mature males should weigh from-forty to fortyfive pounds: females slightly less. Weight is one of the important: points of ’the Airedale standard, most good individuals topping the forty-five-pound limit slightly. What are the titles of the rulers of Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands? King Albert of Belgium, King Christian X of Denmark and Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Does an ordinary punt that goes over the bar between the goal posts in football count as a field goal and score three points? A field goal, counting three points, in football, may be scored by a drop kick or a place kick, but an ordinary punt that gees over the bar between the goal posts has no scoring value. What are the duties of the United States bureau of insular affairs, and under what executive department of the government is it? It is under the immediate direction of the secretary of war, aqd has assigned to it all matters pertaining to civil government in the island possessions of the United States that arc subject to the jurisdiction of the war department, the Philippine islands and Porto Rico. How many Negroes have held the position of United States register of the treasury? Four—Blanche K. Bruce. J. C. Napier, W. G. Vernon and Judson W. Lyons.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Cold May Cause Kidney Inflammation

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygela, the Health Magazine. IT is recognized generally that the most frequent causes of acute inflammation of the kidneys are Infections of the upper portions of the respiratory tract, including the nose, throat, and the bronchial tubes, and particularly the common cold and tonsilitis. Thereafter come infections of the sinuses and the teeth; then the conditions that develop following diphtheria, pneumonia, erysipelas, scarlet fever, and measles. Sometimes the poisons that develop in the body during pregnancy are associated with acute inflammations of the kidneys and sometimes infections associated w’ith the delivery of the child are followed by inflammations of the organs. Obviously, prevention of attacks of inflammation of the kidneys involves the attack on the diseases that have been mentioned. Since it is exceedingly important to determine the presence of infection at the earliest possible stage, it is quite common in hospitals for infectious disease to examine the urine of the patient each day to determine whether the organs of

IT SEEMS TO ME by H a oD

IT was the custom once upon a time to fling a challenge by flapping somebody across the face with a glove or an open hand. But that has given way to the open letter. Obviously, when you write anybody an open letter, you are not asking for information or truly seeking to make a convert. Your object is to irritate and bedevil your adversary. Tlie latest victim of the open letter slap is Miss Ethel Barrymore. A missive addressed to her appears in the Theater Guild magazine, and several of our New York reviewers have commented on it favorably. To my mind, the suggestions in this challenge arc ill-advised, and I trust that Ethel Barrymore will give them no heed. After speaking slightingly of the plays in which Ethel Barrymore has appeared in recent seasons, the writer goes on to say: “You retort, of course: ‘You don’t like my plays? Well, show me better ones. Where are they to be found?’ They are to be found, dear lady, in the library. On the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second street there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of plays worthy of your distinguished abilities. There you will find forgive me for reminding you) Ibsen and Haptman and Hebbel. There you also will find Shakespeare and Sophocles and Euripides. And when did ycu last play Lady Teazle?” U Classics Sleep I CAN imagine no more dreary career for a live and vital American actress than a series of revivals. This is particularly true of Miss Barrymore. For, to my mind, she is not well suited in Shakespearean roles. Possibly, under the pressure of public demand that every actress must essay Juliet sooner or later, she tided and did badly with it. It is probably true that there are other Shakespearean roles in which she would appear to better advantage. And yet to me the famous Barrymore voice, the Barrymore manner and personality do not fit readily into poetic drama of any kind. I don’t know whether Ethel Barrymore is the first lady of our stage, as so many have asserted. My own impression is that, though her range is wide, there are definite things which she can not do effectively. > And in saying this I do not mean to offer her dispraise. The notion that a great actor must be one capable of playing any sort of part never has appealed to me. I would have little interest in a farce written by Eugene O’Neill. I doubt he could write a good mystery melodrama. And yet, even if these particular phases of dramatic writing are not

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excretion are functioning satisfactorily. Should albumin be found, or excessive amounts of casts, indicating destruction of the kidney tissue, the patient is put at once on a rigid diet or perhaps caused to go without food for a considerable period. The attempt may also be made to relieve the stress on the kidney by the use of sweat baths which aid excretion through the skin. The person who is ill with an infectious disease is, of course, at rest in bed. However, some patients get up much too soon after an infection. In such cases, the first appearance of involvement of the kidney should cause immediate return of the patient to bed. In most instances when acute inflammations of the kidneys are handled in this manner the patient undergoes a prompt recovery. In some instances, however, the condition proceeds to what is called a subacute form and finally to the chronic form known as Bright’s disease. There are other instances in which Bright’s disease begins insidiously without the person having undergone any infectious disease. Os this type, particularly, are the cases coming on after middle life,

easily within his scope, he still may remain a master dramatist. tt tt a Share of Tears IT isn’t a limitation upon the emotional reaction of which I am speaking in the case of Ethel Barrymore. She has a gift for comedy and banter and romance. And upon several occasions I have wept my share of buckets when she touched tragedy. It always has seemed to me that hers is one of the most beautiful voices in the theater. But her own curiously broken rhythm does not fit readily, to my ear, into verse plays or stately and cadenced prose. I hope she leaves Euripides in the library on the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-second street. As far as I am concerned, I have no eagerness to see any of the Greek tragedies taken down from the shelf. I suspect a certain amount of snobbery in the cry that we must get back to the ancients if our theater is to preserve Its savor. Euripides and Sophocles, too, wrote for an utterly alien dramatic convention, which can not be readily reproduced in our own theater. To a lesser extent the same thing is true of Shakespeare. The mere acting length of “Hamlet” in its entirety makes it cumbersome for an audience which has among it commuters bound for Larchmont and New Rochelle. “If Mr. Shakespeare were alive today, I haven’t the slightest doubt

ETHAN ALLEN’S BIRTH Jan. 10 ON Jan. 10. 1737, Ethan Allen, famous American soldier, was bom at Litchfield, Conn. He moved ( to Vermont in 17C ; 9 and took an active part in tha; state’s controversy with New York over land grant:. At the outbreak of the Revolution. Allen organized an expedition against Ticonderoga. On the morning of May 10, 1775, he surprised the British garrison and forced its commander to surrender “in the name of the great Jehovah and the continental congress." Allen later was sent on secret missions to Canada and did good service in Mongomery’s expedition. He was captured near Montreal and sent to England. Some months later he was sent back to this country’ and. after beJng held prisoner in Halifax and Ifcw York, was exchanged. Oil Ak* return tcjVermont he was lieutenant-colonel by conjpbecame a brigadiergeiJ§ ah Vermont militia.

representing the beginning of the breakdown of the tissues of the body. For this reason physicians and insurance companies suggest regular physical examinations, including examination of the urine in order to ascertain the state of the kidney. The only way to control the insidious onset of chronic nephritis is by making such periodic examinations. Such chronic forms of inflammation of the kidney usually are associated with involvement of blood vessels, including hardening of the arteries, and sometimes high blood pressure. It has been alleged that the feeding of excessive amounts of protein may be responsible for the beginning of chronic nephritis when it is not associated with an infection. The proof of this is not established, but there is plenty of evidence that a well-balanced diet with the proper proportions of protein, carbohydrates and fat is more conducive to a healthful existence and to freedom from breakdown of the kidney than one that is excessive in protein. It generally is pointed out that the present high speed of living throws excess effort on all organs of the body, but particularly on those associated with elimination.

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

that he would be not only willing, but eager, to sponsor yany revisiofis even in his favorite works. Naturally I'm not contending that our theater should never look back ot the glories of the past. But I might point • out that in the socalled golden age, when all the great ones of the theater devoted their energies largely to Shakespeare, we had a current drama which was weak, feeble and imitative. Thus American plays of the middle nineteenth century, which were written after the manner of Shakespeare. probably marked the lowest ebb of American dramaturgy'. (Copyright. 1931. by The Times)

Questions and Answers

On what dates were the 1929 and the 1930 English Derbies run, and who were the winners: June 5, 1929, won by Trigo, and June 4, 1930, won by Blenheim. What soliloquy did John Barrymore recite in “The Show of Shows?” The soliloquy from “Henry VI,” by Shakespeare. When was Admiral Henry B. Wilson superintendent of the United States naval academy? From July 5, 1921, until Feb. 23, 1925. What Is the derivation of the word agnostic? From the Greek word “agnostos,” which means “want of knowledge.”

Modern Science Wonders Ancient civilization had its seven wonders; in the Middle Ages the skill of man achieved seven more wonders; but science today has created or discovered seven modem scientific wonders that the ancients or the people of the middle ages would have regarded as miraculous. The Telephone—Radio—the Aeroplane—Radium—Antiseptics and Antitoxins—X Rays—Spectrum Analysis—What do you know about these seven wonders of modem science? Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a bulletin covering in brief, but intelligible form the history and the accomplishments of science in the creating of these Seven Modem Wonders. Fill out the coupon below and rend for the oulletin. CLIP COUPON HERE Department 109, Washington Bureau, The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York Avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin SEVEN MODERN WONDERS, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin, or loose, uncancelled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs. Name Street and No * City State ¥ ! I am a daily reader ■■■■

.JAN. 10, 1931'

SCIENCE

BY DAVID DIETZ We Twist, Slip, Whirl and Fly Through Space tv an Amazing Manner. ONE of the most dramatic and significant facts of modem science is that it has been possible to trace a scheme of organization from the electron, so small that several million could be placed upon the period at the end of this sentence, to the Milkv Way, an aggregation of 40.000,000.000 stars, mainof them more than a million times larger than the earth. It is even more slgnmcant from the study of the electron the scientist learns the laws which go\em the behavior of stars. The story of the organization of the universe is told by Dr. Harlow Shapley, world-famous astronomer and director of the Harvard observatory, In an excellent book just published by Whittlesey House under the title of “Flights From Chaos.” (The price is $2.50.) The book is an interesting one from the standpoint of the bookmaker’s art as well as that of the layman seeking an easily read explanation of modern scientific views by a great authority. As befits a book of modern science. Whittlesey House has given the book a modem dress. Illustrations have been fitted into the book not in the usual way. but as decorations in the text. Initial letters are made out of constellations and astronomical instruments Nebulae, planet and comets arp used as chapter subdivisions and tail-pieces. tt n n Motion in Space SHAPLEY begins his book with a consideration of the earths motion through space as an indication of the difficulties of exploring the universe from such an unstable vantage point. He writes: “It is fortunate that we are customarily unaware of our twisting, slipping, whirling, flying motion through space: we otherwise might lack the courage to explore and analyze the surrounding world. “The planet on which we arc established, where we record and contemplate celestial phenomena, is remarkably flighty and unstable. Its crust apparently slips relative to the terrestrial core, and perhaps it also pulses irregularly, to the confusion of accurate time keeping. “The axis of the planet does not hold fast, and its unsteadiness produces complicated latitude variations that become involved in our attempts to determine the accurate positions of stars. “The rotation of the earth slows down and the day lengthens flnevenly because of the moon's attraction and the changing form of the earth itself. “Intricate motions arise from lunar and solar drags on the bulged equator of the planet. “Many of these minor motions, sometimes irregular and obscure, contribute to ,the observer's knowledge of the stars. “In general surveys, however, as in ordinary terrestrial life, the small irregularities are pretty well ignored and wc concern ourselves mainly with the major motions of the planet. “Os these principal movements we certainly should not remain unaware, ncr can we, in our studies of planets and stars, ignore them, even though they, too, are unrecognized or of little concern to any but the astronomical technician.” a a Earth’s Gyrations AMONG the planet's most conspicuous drifts and gryrations which contribute confusion *to the picture, Dr. Shapley says wc may list: 1. “Daily rotation—a thousand miles an hour at the equator, and three-fourths as fast in the latitude of New York City and Rome. 2. “Monthly revolution about the earth-moon center thirty miles an hour. 3. "Annual revolution around the sun—twenty miles a second. 4. “Solar system’s motion with respect to neighboring stars—thirteen miles a second. 5. “Motion of local star system with respect to other star clouds and the globular star clusters—approximately 200 miles a second. 6. “Drift of Milky Way system with respect to remote external galaxies—perhaps 100 miles a second.” Shapley’s book is authoritative, interesting and within the intellectual grasp of the non-technical reader. This writer recommends it.

Daily Thought

But be forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.—ll Chronicles 10:8. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself.—Seneca. Where is the Hopkins railway library? It is a part of the library of Stanford university. Timothy Hopkins willed his library of books on railways to the university with the provision that it was to be specially administered as a part of the university library specializing in transportation.