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One Needed Law Most surprising is the fact that in the present legislature there has been no effort to curb utility greed by more effective regulation. Almost it would appear that the absence of utility lobbyists had produced an apathy on this question, for in other years when the paid agents swarmed the corridors and entertained the lawmakers, there were many measures on this subject. It is just possible that the lobbyists inspired the hostile bilis in order to make business good for themseives. Two years ago a fight was made to place the holding companies under state control. The lobby won and the measure was defeated. But sentiment of the people for such a law was overwhelming and unmistakable. Two years have made that law even more desirable, for the greed of some of these concerns has become outrageous and apparently limitless. The public service commission does not get the facts and, as a result, utility charges are higher than ever before while all other basic prices are reduced. The two utilities whose exactions through the holding company device is the largest and most onerous are the telephone and electric concerns. A legislative committee, empowered to take evidence, could easily discover just how much is being taken from the public with no return. The telephone company has long been an offender along this line. The light company in this city has become an apt pupil since the merger. Holding companies must be regulated or they will soon wreck industry and business. A legislative probe would help. Another Prohibition Mystery Out of all the confusion regarding the Wickersham report and the President’s message, there was only one point upon which every one agreed. It was that Hoover’s message opposed modification or revision, thus placing the President at last on the side of the professional dry extremists. A misleading summary in the President's message of the commission’s report succeeded further in obscuring the wetness of the report. Hence the widespread conflict of interpretations of the report in congress, in the press and on the street. But there was no disagreement whatever on the President’s personal attitude. Much was said and written regarding the courage shown by the President in coming down flatly on the dry side after straddling the issue for three years. After making so many unclear statements about prohibition, now finally he had made one which was unequivocal. He had informed congress in an official message: “I do, however, see serious objections to, and therefore must not be understood as recommending, the commission’s proposed revisions of the eighteenth amendment, which is suggested by them for possible consideration at some future time if the continued effort at enforcement should not prove successful. “My own duty and that of all executive officials is clear— to enforce the law with all the means at our disposal, without equivocation or reservation.” Why the President should refuse to accept the recommendation— which he misstated, by the way—of his own commission was not clear. But that he had refused, and that he specifically had objected to even a mild form of revision, was clear to all. That was the trouble —it was too clear for the politicians. If Hoover was going to be drier than the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League, what chance had the Republican party of winning the 1932 election in such essential states as New York and Illinois, not to mention many smaller wet states? Obviously there was no chance, said the Republican politicians. So. Just forty-eight hours after the President’s dry-hard message to congress, the Republican politicians began to put out inspired stories that the President had been misunderstood by every one—he had not intended to oppose possible revision: oh, no. quite the contrary; indeed, he was preserving a very open mind on the subject. To make sure that this denial got wide circulation, the same denial was allowed to leak out of the White House itsell— unofficially, of course. With good luck, and sufficient stupidity on the part of the public and the press, apparently the political manipulators hope to get the country running around in a fog again trying to solve the great mystery: “Is Hoover wet or dry?" Win at difference does it make? What Hoover thinks or doesn't think may be important for Republican election prospects; but it hardly can stay the forthcoming wet tide. Hoover wet or Hoover,dry has not checked the national growth of wet sentiment during the last two years. That wet tide will continue to rise, Hoover wet. Hoover dry, or Hoover wet-and-dry. That Next War? Another world war is in the making. It can not be prevented by the military preparedness advocates, by the emotional pacifists, by the League of Nations, nor by anti-war treaties, such as the Kellogg pact. It, can be prevented only by labor, organized internationally to stop production in such an emergency. This is the major thesis of “That Next War?" a challenging book by a Swedish military expert. Major K. A. Bratt, published by Harcourt, Brace. His second proposal is for an international military force to be used against an aggressor nation. Like most international writers today. Bratt presents facts to prove the probability of another world war in the not distant future. He handles his political material as ably as the technical military data. Indeed, this is one of the few books which combine an adequate presentation of both political and military elements in the dangerous world situation. The explosive situation created by the enforced and unjuat Versailles peace settlement is understood pretty generally by this time everywhere. But Bratt demonstrates with new force that “the present French system of security is not one to preserve a decent peace, but one to secure victory in anew war.” 4 On the military side he shows that the nOrt war

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will be won by aircraft and high explosives, and that in the process whole industrial regions with their civilian populations will be wiped out. It is a ghastly picture. ‘‘For the present, the whole Idea of a rational organization for peace stands or falls by the international force, which must in the last resort be an international military force,” he argues. But no international military force can do much good, Indeed it can do much harm, unless there is some sure check on the selfish governments which control world organisation. Hence the importance of Bratt’s main contention that “it is the international labor movement, preferably in conjunction with ‘peace capital’ which will bring about the historic change”—if there is to be a change from war to’ peace organization. He adds, significantly, that only such a world labor organization can prevent social revolution as well as aggressive war. We Are Blind? There is a lovely little village In Mexico in which all the residents are blind. The village is on a mountain side and beneath it stretches a vista of rapturous beauty. But the village Is Infected with a fly, the bite of which causes blindness. Its children, born with normal eyesight, can not see after a few years. The beauty of their home does not exist for them. Perhaps something of the sort has happened in this country. Hungry men and women riot in Arkansas. Hungry men and women riot in Oklahoma. Hungry men and women gather in front of the city hall in New York. Hungry men and women march in Los Angeles. Hungry men and women stand in soup lines in nearly every city 'i the country. Yet we behave for the most part as if nothing were happening ... as only blind men could behave; men blind to suffering, blind to the wealth about us, which could end the suffering if we would fearlessly and intelligently require it to do so. Scientists are working to eradicate the sight-de-stroying insect in Mexico. Can nothing be done for our blindness? Red Hunts in the Past The persons who will have the most cause for sorrow if Congressman Fish's proposals for outlawing Communism are not adopted will be the Communists themselves. Any wise Communist knows that nothing would help his cause more than the reign of terror which would follow the adoption of Fish’s program. The history of the country affords ample proof of this. We have had two famous periods of red hunting. These were the alien and sedition laws of 1798-99 and the Palmer inquisition after the World war. In the first instance, Jefferson, the leader of the “reds” of that period, saw clearly enough that the Federalists had sowed the seeds of their own ruin by these laws. He understood that the inquisition would end in the confusion of the Federalists, who passed the laws, and in the increased pov'er and prestige of the persecuted. Therefore, in famous letters to Archibald Stuart and Edmund Pendleton, he urged that everything possible be done to prevent retaliatory violence on the part of the Democrat-Renublic<ns who were being hunted down. His argument was that his party should give the Federalists plenty of rope to hang themselves. The results were just what he predicted. The persecution failed. The failure helped to put the Federalists out of the running as a major political power. Jefferson, Burr and the Democrat-Republicans won the election of 1800 by a great majority. The red hunt collapsed in ignominous failure, carrying down its authors to a joint oblivion. Wilson, Palmer, the election of 1920, and the eclipse of Palmer are close enough to us so that, no extended historical discourse on the moral of that crusade is necessary. Let Mr. Fish study his history and the bill may never get out of committee. If he wants to give the reds real strength and respectability, let him persist. Book production is reported increasing in England and Dorothy wants to know if Lord Reading has had anything to do with it. Harvard is to give a series of thirty-nine radio talks on dentistry. Talk about your boring programs! “There’s no rest for the wicket.’’ as those cricket fellows in England might say. Maybe those schoolboys in Missouri found playing marbles with gold nuggets could answer the popular query, “What’s all the shooting for?”

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WHEN the leading powers of the world ratified the Kellogg treaty and thereby promised that they would not go to war any more to settle their disputes, the more optimistic friends of peace hailed it as the dawn of a better day. a a a But as the months have gone past and the nations that gave their solemn pledges never to .go to war again have continued to arm themselves with more destructive weapons than ever before, common sense has told the world that tho Kellogg treaty was not enough to avert warfare. a a a AND now the League of Nations is to call a worldwide disarmament conference, and if it fails, many foreign statesmen say it means another world war. If by this they mean that nations must make themselves absolutely defenseless against their neighbors, of course the conference must fail. a a a It is not in human nature for Europe's closely packed nations, plot-ridden and shot through with hatreds, to take another’s promises of good behavior at one hundred cents on the dollar. It would take a special dispensation of Providence to bring this about. a a a Under universal disarmament, Russia would be the overwhelming force of the continent, and the man who thinks the Soviet government would use such power as a mild-mannered gentleman is too innocent for this wicked world. Rumania knows what Russia would do to her and so do Poland and Finland. a a a AND France has a flickering notion of what Germary would do, as regards Alsace-Lorraine, if the respective power of the two nations were reduced to their relative numbers. And Poland knows what Germany would do to her, as regards the corridor which reaches to the Baltic. a a a How can the world hope for disarmament when it means not only that small nations shall trust great nations, but that the great nations must surrender their foreign possessions? When you resolve it into its ultimate conclusions, disarmament vanishes as an emptw dream. ./ ..... ... 1 > . .

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M. E. Tracy SAYS; Who Shall Say That Our Social System Played No Part in. Alma. Rubens ’ Sad Fate. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 23.—Pneumonia withdraws Alma Rubens from the greatest drama of them all, just as a grand jury Is preparing to indict her for illegal possession of narcotics. Will St. Pete go on with the case, or make due allowance for the way she tried, the way she suffered, and the way she failed? Three years ago. hers was an attractive, hopeful face. Three weeks ago, when snapped by a San Diego Sun photographer, it was one of the saddest you could care tb see. We ascribe here unhappy fate as due entirely to drugs, but who shall say that the social system which first tempted, and then cast her aside, played no part? If few have been able to break the grip of morphine, equally few have been able to withstand the subtly vicious effect of sudden popularity and wealth. tt tt tt Sense Big Things AT first thought, it may seem a curious coincident that Einstein should be more than dividing honors with Hollywood’s best in this movie-mad spot, yet it goes back to that very law of unity which he just has announced. This age not only was produced by sensational discoveries, but feeds on them, enjoys them, waits for them and stands ready to applaud them. Between whiles, it is content to satisfy its appatite with the unrealities of Filmland, but when a Lindbergh flies, or an Einstein appears, it is more than glad to cheer the sterner stuff. Most amazing of all, this age seems to have endowed even its plainest people with anew and uncanny intuition for sensing the advent of big things. St St u He Is Genuine A FEW years ago, Dr. Albert Einstein, of whom very few ever had heard, came out with his theory of relativity, which he admitted not more than twelve men in all the world could understand, yet the plain people from Warsaw to San Francisco accepted it without question. His praises were being sung by men in the street everywhere before trained mathematicians could check up his equations, or scientists could verify his experiments. It wasn’t the man’s genius, but his genuineness, that the people felt, and they felt it by means of an agency which we yet have to discover. Skeptics will tell you that it was just another case of the sucker complex, such as opened the door for Ponzi, 520 Per Cent Miller, and Luck Box Barker, that it was no more than a hunch, and that for all the crowd knew, Einstein was just as likely to be a fake as the real thing. The only answer to that is, he wasn’t a fake, and neither was Lindbergh nor Byrd. n tt a Crowd Usually Right THE crowd has made mistakes in picking its heroes and making its choices, but if you trace them down, you will find that they were mostly due to carefully managed campaigns, to the subtle influences of propaganda, or to the effect of some deep-seated prejudice. Wherever and whenever the crowd has been left free to do its own choosing, it has been right much more often than it has been wrong. And this has been especially true in sensing the basic * qualities of character. With respect to Einstein, it was the man, not his work, that the crowd trusted. The crowd couldn’t read his books, or work out his equations. What does the crowd know about problems with ten unknown quantities, four of which are assumed? Nothing, of course. But the crowd does have a way of telling an honest man from a mountebank, and usually you can depend on it. n tt a Grapes for Faker THE crowd can be sold tin razors, 10 -cent diamond rings, but more because it likes to play at being fooled than because it is fooled. The greatest fakes in history were not put over on the crowd, but on the highbrows, the upper crust, the intelligentzia. Look at the Mississippji bubble, or Cagliostro. People are most apt to be bunked after they have built up some elaborate system on a false premise, and those at the top usually prove the easiest victims. A king calling in astrologers, because vanity persuades him to believe he Is the child of heaven and that his destiny must be written in the stars; a cardinal wanting gold so he may impress the queen with whom he is in love; a bunch of capitalists hungering for more power, or a bunch of public officials striving to prevent change, to keep their jobs—all these and others like them, make the fakers’ best clover patch.

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HANCOCK S BIRTH January 23 ON Jan. 23. 1737, John Hancock, an American patriot of the Revolution, president of the Continental congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Governor of Massachusetts, was born in Braintree, Mass. A graduate of Harvard, Hancock served for many years as one of the selectmen of Boston. He first attracted wide attention when he delivered a bold and eloquent address on the fourth anniversary of the Boston massacre. Appointed a representive of his state in the first Continental ingress, Hancock became its chairman and then president. He resigned this position in 1777, but remained a member of congress. In 1780 he was a member of the constitutional convention of Massachusetts and upon the adoption of the Constitution there was elected first Governor of the state, in which position he was retained by annual elections until 1785. After an interval of two years, he was again Governor from 1787 until his death.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Tuberculosis Infects Many Children

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. ■X TEARS ago a German investiX gator, basing his opinion on a tremendous number of post-mor-tem examinations, issued a statement that practically every child became infected with tuberculosis before reaching the age of adolescence. Modem methods of hygiene, the use of preventoriums in which malnutrition is controlled, and similar methods of study unquestionably have lowered the incidence of tuberculosis among children in most communities. The San Francisco Tuberculosis Association, through Drs. L. B. Dickey and R. P. Seitz, just has made available the results of an

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“T’M worried,” writes Clarissa K., X “because I find that I am much more interested in the men in books and plays and motion pictures than the ones who take me out to supper. • “We haven’t any Barrymores or Colmans in our office. I find a greater thrill in reading about the king’s musketeers than in dancing with our third vice-president. What am I to do?” I doubt that there is anything that Clarissa K. can do. In fact, I don’t think she should blame herself. The fault, if any, lies with the third vice-president. And yet I have a feeling that in time she will escape from the world of gallant ghosts and find that even a vice-president may have his romantic moments. tt tt it 'Blug’ THE cosmic scheme of things attends to all this. The “life force,” as Mr. Shaw is fbnd of calling it, will see to it that the world becomes full of Barrymores and Ronald Colmans, if there is no other way in which to promote the romantic urge by which the world carries on. It .may be that at the moment life has not quite caught up with art. But I will back it to do so. It always has.

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Editor Times—l learn from the papers and the board of safety that our police are but poorly equipped for the battle raging between them and the bandits. And now the brilliant and timely "suggestion originates with our board of safety that coats or vests of mail should be provided for the police department. The suggestion has a medieval sound. It smacks of the dark ages, feudalism, jousts, tournaments, star chambers and dungeons. Let me suggest this in addition: That with the coats of mail we get a good supply of racks and thumb screws and other primitive instruments for human torture, and the local bastile and the “bull pen” being thus equipped with all the accessories, our police will be all the better qualified to extort confessions under torture from bandits and other miscreants and suspects. History does repeat itself. We are progressing backward fast. We are reviving some of the fine old customs of the good old times. We are making bonfires of the public enemy in the grand old state of Missouri, and applying the rack and dungeon torture in the great Hoosier commonwealth of Indiana. THOMAS D. M’GEE. Editor Times —Asa regular reader of your paper, I note a story about the veterans' bonus certificates, which seems to intimate that a veteran wouldn't know enough to use his cash as he should. I suppose each of them would need a corporal or a sergeant over him if he were lucky enough to get some cash out of his bonus certificate, to tell him what to do and what not to do. The soldiers should be allowed to vote on this question, not someone who never€rved or who by some

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examination of 3,500 children in that city, in an attempt to find out how prevalent tuberculosis is among boys and girls in that community. The method used was the tuberculin test, in which small amounts of the sensitive substance is injected into the skin. Os the 3,500 children tested, 824, or 23.5 per cent, reacted positively. It is the general belief that infection in childhood is probably acquired in large part by contact with cases of tuberculosis in other members of the family. Girls still spend a larger part of their time than boys in the house. They thus are exposed to more intimate contact with members of the family who suffer with tuberculosis. Doctor Seitz believes that boys probably have just as much of a chance, because they circulate

The imagination of the story writer or of the casting director never moves on much beyond the potentialities of humankind. Man has only to create something and presently nature will imitate it to perfection. Goethe wrote of Werther and presently young Germans of his day were shooting themselves all over the place just because they had caught the habit. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written and twenty years later there wasn’t a bloodhound In the country which could look a cake of ice in the face without on it and beginning to bay. Even the artists who make our comic strips seriously have affected conduct. In the beginning, I believe, it was a mere fiction that anybody hit on the head with a dull, blunt, object ejaculated “Blug!” and saw stars. But the other day I met an actor upon whom a sandbag from the flies had fallen during rehearsal. He assured me that he most distinctly exclaimed “Blug!” and that before his eyes there danced planets at play. tt tt tt Stars That Talk AND a similar process will occur in the case of the glamorous talking picture heroes who make

minor fault escaped military service during the war. Some of the ex-soldiers can read and write. Some of them could take a few dollars cash and start themseives in business, where they could make honest livings for themselves and their families. So give them a little cash, and let them have a little say-sc as to how they spend it. REGULAR READER. Editor Times—•£!!. the members of the American Legion to whom I have talked declare that this government is the only government that participated in the World war that has refused to compensate its soldiers. Is that true? Also they state and declare the only compensation was S6O pay to each soldier upon discharge as I understood. The complaints come from all classes of the American Legion, regardless of whether they were in action or only “vacationed” on this side. The ones who stayed here are ssseemingly the ones most insistent for help from the government, and pensions and compensation, as I understood them from their talk. Kindly inform me concerning the actual relief that has been accorded to the soldiers of the great war and those who never left these shores. A statement from one of the legion men was that Andrew Mellon and President Hoover are the greatest enemies of the soldier. W. A. POE. Who takes the roles of Bob and Mary in the radio feature of that name? Mary is played by Nora Stirling and Bob by Bill Bran ton.

more and are more likely to come in contact with a number of people than are girls. Similar studies made by other investigators throughout the world show an incidence of tuberculosis in children varying from 31 per cent in lowa, to 46 per cent in Philadelphia, 50 per cent in Minneapolis, 43 per cent in New York, 75 per cent in Buenos Aires and 94 per cent in Vienna. The authors are convinced that the 'most plausible explanation of the lessened amount of infection among children throughout the world is early recognition of cases of tuberculosis in adults as sources of infection and their early removal from the environment, so that they no longer serve as permanent sources of infection to children in the same family.

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

the rest of us seem too dull and ordinary to liven the pulse of any lady. By dint of longing and wishing to be like these men we shall attain it. Almost any morning now I am expecting somebody to remark on my resemblance to John Gilbert. But it may be that it is not well for the stage or the screen to turn the attention of our generation back to a day when the romance of existence was more palpable. Rudyard Kipling considered the dangers of this retrogression in one of his best tales, called “The Finest Story in the World.” Kipling told of an author who happened upon a weedy young clerk who under certain stimulus could remember previous existences. With the hypnosis of firelight the man would begin to tell of days when he rowed in a Grecian galley, and there was another tale of a trip to the long beaches across the ocean in a ship manned by Norsemen. tt n tt * Watch and Wait IT was the author’s intention to note down all this material and then present it as a full, complete and authentic picture of the past. But one day the weedy little clerk came into his apartment with a sappy look upon his face. He confessed that he had fallen in love with the girl in the tobacco store around the corner. So, in all sincerity, I advise Clarissa K. not to worry. These dreams of hers will find in time an airport. Perhaps it never will be the third vice-president. But I am told that when the moon is in the proper quarter any pleasant young bond salesman may become, almost without warning, D’Artagnan himself. It has been done. (Copyright. 1931. by The Time*)

Season for Entertaining I From now until the flowers bloom in the spring is the sea&on when hostesses entertain. Valentine’s day, Washington’s birthday, St Patrick’s day are the high spots. And all in between times are party times. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a packet of its interesting and helpful bulletins—indispensable to the hostess who is planning a party. Here are the titles: 1. Bridge Parties. 6. Shower Parties. 2. Party Menus, Prizes, Favors. 7. Tea Cakes and Party Pm3. Valentine’s Day Parties. tries.. 4. St Patrick’s Day Parties. 8. Dainty Delicacies. 5. Wedding Anniversary Parties. 9. Chafing Dish Recipes. If you want this packet of bulletins, fill out the coupon below and mail as directed: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. A-7, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times. 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want the packet of bulletins on PARTIES, and inclose herewith 30 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 reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

.JAN. 23, 1981

SCIENCE —BY DAV ID DIETZ——

Bell Telephone Laboratories t Devise Special Radio Apparatus for Airplanes. SPECIAL radio apparatus for use in airplanes has been developed by the Bell Telephone laboratories. The new apparatus described by Francis M. Ryan, In charge of the development of aircraft apparatus for the laboratories, in a report to the Engineering Foundation, New York. “The high speed of airplanes and their great dependence on weather make it necessary for pilots to have reliable communication with the ground stations,” Ryan says. “Radio installations in airplanes present many difficulties not met elsewhere. “First, it is necessary to reduce generators, transmitters, receivers, antennas, and other apparatus to light weight, small volume, and minimum interference with the plane’s operating meters and controls. The apparatus must be absolutely reliable, as it is usually out of reach of the pilot, and repairs during flight are out of the question. “Due to the noise on most planes, mouthpieces of special design are necessary. In the hand-type microphone developed for this use, the rubber mouthpiece is held tightly over the lips, and practically all noise is excluded from the transmitter. The closed cavity into which the speaker talks is so shaped as to avoid serious distortion of speech. In some planes it is possible to employ transmitters with much less shielding.” tt e tt Special Receivers THE experimenters have also succeeded in designing special types of receivers for aviators. “Head telephone receivers similar to those worn by telephone and radio operators may be used in airplanes,” Ryan says. “A more satisfactory headset lias been developed, however, employing a phonetic type of receiver originally devised for the hard-of-hearing. “These receivers, which weigh less than an-ounce, are connected with small ear molds fitted to the ear of the individual pilot. “Another feature of the headset, is required for occasions when it becomes necessary for the pilot to leave the plane in a hurry. It would be quite embarrassing to be dangling by the cord of his telephone headset. “This cord consequently is attached by means of a plug, which will pull out at any sudden jerk, and yet will provide good electrical contact “Power for both filament and plate supply of the radio receiver is produced by a tiny wind-driven generator only three inches in diameter, weighing seven pounds complete with propeller. “This generator in a streamlined casing is mounted on a wing or strut. To generate sufficient power, the propeller must revolve 100 times a second.” tt tt tt Shielding Set A PARTICULARLY important problem was to protect the radio set from “static” caused by the. ignition system of the airplane engine. “Any one who has heard the noise caused in a radio receiver by a vacuum cleaner or a violet-ray machine will appreciate how necessary it is to shield the Ignition system of the plane’s motor,” Ryan continues. “Shielding should include the magneto, the low-tension magneto circuits, the high-tension leads and the spark plugs. “In addition to the shielding, it is also necessary to bond electrically all metal parts of the plans to avoid noises in the receiving equipment from intermittent contacts between metal parts of the plane. If transmitting equipment is installed, bonding is necessary to protect against possibility of high voltages between adjacent parts producing sparks or arcs. “Two types of radio apparatus are used in planes: A long-wave receiver for the weather and radiobeacon signals sent out by government stations on the band between 285 and 350 kilocycles; and a shortwave two-way radio telephone system for use in the short-wave region betw r een 1,500 and 6,000 kilocycles. “The transmitter developed by the laboratories is rated at fifty watts and weighs thirty-tw’o pounds, while the long and short wave receivers weigh about thirteen pounds apiece. “In both receivers remote control is accomplished by means of small units within reach of the pilot. This permits the receiver to be as much as forty feet away.”

Daily Thought

Blessed is the nation whose God is the and tba people whom he hath chosen far his own In* heritance.—Psalm 33:12. And let me tell you that every misery I miss is anew blessing. —lzaak Walton.