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From Lincoln to Limbo

More than ordinary gall will be needed by the leaders of the Republican party in thia state to read, two days hence, tfye immortal address of Lincoln. So far has this leadership led its organ, ization away from the ideals of the man who believed in a government of, by and for the people, that it now proposes to set aside the right of even representative government. One of the duties of the present legislature is to provide anew geography for congressional elections. The state will have one less member two years hence. The change is necessary if the intent of the founders of this government that the people should choose members of congress from small districts and thus keep the government close at all times to the people is to be preserved. Now, under the advice of party leaders, the Republican caucus of legislative members declare against any law, no matter what provisions it makes. In essence, the declaration is against our present form of government. In practice, it means that the government is to be removed from the people and made so remote as to be unreal. Here, in the final analysis, is the same sort of anarchistic thinking that produced a Jackson and a Robinson under the regime of Stephensonism and Cofflnism. Here is tangible evidence that the leadership of that party has not changed in its attitude, even though state and federal prisons have made necessary some changes in personnel The birthday of Lincoln would be a mighty fine time for voters of the Republican party to journey back to Lincoln and away from the limbo of forgotten ideals. Annoying Children Why do children annoy their parent*? Dr. Mandel Sherman, director of the chUd research center, says there are 3,134 ways in which children annoy their parents, and that the greatest number of annoyances were caused by disobedience. Some are annoyed because their children are too slow, some because they are too quick or alert, some because their children were not neat. Other parents were annoyed by too much primping. All that, however, can be laid to disobedience. That Is, children annoy their parents because they don’t accept their parents as infallible. Many parents have what might be called the God complex. Having much power over the lives of their children, many parents measure the Intelligence of their children by their own. But for biological and other reasons, ignorant parents don’t understand some children are smarter whan their parents and can’t accept parental wisdom as infallible. This leads to rebellion—and rebellion often Is rational. The easiest way for a parent to "make children mind" fa to spank them, whip them and even beat them. Unless there is an appeal to the child’s reason, whipping is worse than useless. Some children grow up without ever forgiving Ignorant parents for punishing them for intelligent disobedtenoe. Many boys are sent to reform schools because they are smarter than their parents, their school teachers and railroad detectives who want to get rid of boys who play around railroad cars. The dumb bells never are sent to reform schools; they obey orders. Boys who are smart always annoy parents, teachers and others who can't handle them because they haven’t brains enough. Idiots are easy to handle and seldom annoy anybody. Whipping children to make them mind Is Ignorant brutality. The rising tide of intelligence is taking away from teachers the right to punish children who are more intelligent than their teachers—the children who annoy both ignorant parents and ignorant teachers. If children don’t like their home and don’t like their school, it Is safe to assume that there is something the matter with both parents and teachers. But it generally Is assumed that there is something the matter with the children—and In many cases that is an ignorant assumption. One hope of this country may be found in children who annoy both their parents and their school teachers. There is little hope in morons who are obedient to physical force. That’s the trouble with Hoover—he wants to make everybody mind. George Otk Smith Whether President Hoover wins or loses in the court proceedings over his power commis*lc.i chairman, George Otis Smith, he is certain to win a temporary victory, at least, on the wider issue involved, the existence of which he is pleased to deny. So far as enforcement of the federal water power act is concerned —and we still believe this Is the only factor of Importance in the whole matterpresident Hoover has the upper hand. If Smith Is removed from the commission, he will not be removed for months, perhaps for a year. In the meantime, he can exercise all the functions of chairman, and his acts will be binding, in spite of his repudiation by the senate. If he is removed from office by the courts, it still will be Hoover’s privilege to name his successor. And if the President picks a man whose views on power and enforcement are similar to thoee of Smith—or Hoover’s first choice for the place, Edgar Jadwln —there Is little the senate can do about it, provided the man's past record does not clearly reveal circumstances unfitting him for offioe. If Smith should be ousted during the recess of congress, Hoover would be able to make a recess appointment and turn over administration of the power act to his new choice for a time, at least But even If the tramp cards are all In the hands of the President, th# senate is correct in demanding that Smith be removed from office. In the first pithe senate Is clearly in the right la this matter, and that alone is reason for fighting. It has taken tbs only way open to it to register the people’s edict at th# polls last November—an edict la behalf of public regulation of power companies. When Smith took Mie lead In dismissing from pffir* th* two members of the power commission staff who had performed the obvious duty of enforcing the

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water power set, he disclosed his point of view more clearly than he could have done in any other way. His attempt to label the proceedings against him a recall will not cloud this fact. Neither will Hoover's denials that there is any power Issue Involved hero. In the second place, the senate’s determined stand has done something to educate the four other members of the commission about the water power act, of which they frankly knew nothing when they came to Washington. If Smith stays in office, he will stay with the senate’s repudiatior always standing against him. if he goes, we can hope, at least, that Hoover, aware of aroused public opinion, will not make a third Inept selection for this chairmanship. , In 2,250 Years Persons of long memory may recall the higher tariff law passed last summer, which was pledged to "revive prosperity within thirty days.” One of the chief reasons it has not revived prosperity, but has increased depression—as this newspaper warned it would—is Its destruction of our foreign trade. Official trade statistics for 1330, just issued by the commerce department, reveal a drop In exports from $5,240,995,000 to $3,843,391,000, a decline of $1,397,604,000. The higher tariff, which prevents the normal exchange of goods, Is not the only cause, but a major cause, of that export lose. If those lost foreign orders, amounting to $1,397,604,000, could be dumped into our laps today, hundreds of closed factories could be opened and hundreds of thousands of hungry men could be given Jobs. It was promised that the tariff commission would rectify any tariff wrongs in the new law. That was more than eight months ago. Now we have the first action of the commission. It has recommended and the President has agreed on the status of seven commodities. One rate is increased, two allowed to stand, and four decreased. But of the seven rates handled, only one—and that an unimportant commodity, linoleumflour—was reduced bek'T the high level of the old Fordney tariff law. At this rate of speed, the 3,000 tariff rates can be reformed in 2,350 years. What a consolation for the factory owner who has shut down, for the merchant whose customers can’t buy, and for the man who can’t get a job!

A Contrast At the age of 12, T. L Mardy Jones worked In a mine in South Wales. His station was an humble one. But he was an ambitious lad. He yearned to know things. He wanted to be somebody. He studied hard at odd times. Finally he was admitted to Oxford, from which he was graduated In due season. Twenty years ago he was married. So successful was his domestic life that it brought an award to the Joneses as the happiest married couple in Essex. Other honors came to him. He was elected to the Royal Society of Economists. He became parliamentary agent for the South Wales miners’ federation. In 1923 he was elected to the house of commons. It took a long time to do all this climbing. The other day Jones gave his wife a non-transfer-able railroad pass. She used it. That is against the English law. Jones was arrested. He explained he had wanted an Important document brought from hls home to London. He did not want to trust it to the malls, so he asked hls wife to bring It to him. She did, using the railroad pass. But the law In England Is inexorable. Jones was fined S3O. With this disgrace hanging over him, he resigned hls seat In parliament. Hls salary of $3,000 a year in the house of commons was hls only income. He may hare to return to the mines in which he spent hls boyhood. And he Is 52. Let’s ship A1 Capone to England, where the law appears to be the law. President Gates recently made some drastic football changes at the University of Pennsylvania. He is said to have taken Penn In hand with considerable effect. A sports writer says that brains are no asset to an athlete. Maybe this is a sly dig at the number of college men who have gone in for professional wrestling.

REASON

GENERAL 6MEDLEY BUTLER made a mistake. He should have plotted Us cheat his country out of its oil reserves instead of telling stories about Mussolini. It’s a great country, particularly in its law-en-forcing department. Mam If the navy wishes to serve notice that everybody in it who talks about Mussolini will be reprimanded or worse, we can see right now where all enlistments will cease and the navy will have to resort to conscription. mam It’s a little funny for Mussolini to get so hot under the collar about what Butler said, for Mussolini had blown the lid off m&re frequently than any other inhabitant of our local planet. But then lid bi jwers, as a class, are very jealous of each other. am a m WHILE we are in the apology business, if Mussolini still is engaged in the business of organising his Fascist societies In this country, contrary to international comity, he should be invited to back up and tender us some delicious regrets on the half shell. aa a % TT'ORMER MAYOR DUVALL of Indianapolis was JT sent to jail recently to serve the thirty-day term to which he was sentenced three yean and five mentis? ago. A fellow charged with crime in this country has to have an iron constitution in order to live until the case is over. a a a President Hoover states that the proposition to have congress help the starving strikes at the roots of self-government. We’ve heard statesmen say the same thing at least 50.000 times, but the roots an still doing business at the same ok! stand. a a a FRANCE and Italy are both wearing chips on their shoulders and talking about expensive navies. And yet when the matter of paying what they owed the United States was before the house both of them played the baby act and Uncle Stun cut it away down. They'll build their navies with the money owed us, a a a The Red Cross money is about half raised, and if the victims can hold out a month or so longer R will be all right, except that it won't begin to go around. Down at New Britain, Conn., Arthur Sullivan, a blind newspaper reporter who recently rescued his Mind wife from death by fin. Is undergoing a skingrafting operation in an effort to save her life. And yet a k>t of us in perfect health compir'i.

R FREDERICK LANDIS

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M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Plenty of Money Is Available and at Cheap Rates of Interest, but Those Who Need It Most Can’t Get It, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10—You’ve read all about the Oakland fire, of course—the poor, erased horses, screaming and kicking la a hopeless struggle for life, the trapped human beings, deeds of heroism, stupendous money loss, and possibility of arson. Like most other people, you’ve probrhly exclaimed, "what a pity.” Then you’ve gritted your teeth and declared, "they ought to do thus and so with the son of a gun who set it,” if It was set and they ever catch him. Four men and a half million dollars’ worth of horse flesh gone up In smoke, for no reason in the world, except somebody didn’t take time to think. A case of putting the horse before the stable, which Is no better than putting the cart before the hone, and the show before everything else. mmm Be Wary of Secrets THE trouble with the Butler case seems to have originated in putting the show before everything else.’ . Couldn’t think of anything but a grand stand play when Mussolini bellowed. An abject apology wasn’t enough. Only a court-martial would satisfy the situation. A night’s sleep and there didn’t seem to be much sense In a courtmartial, just as there wasn’t In the first place. General Butler merely made the mistake of passing on some Information which had been given him with the "I'll tell you, but you mustn’t tell" proviso. That kind of information always is dangerous, even If true. Never repeat anything which comes to you with the warning that it won’t stand daylight. If the fellow who got it first doesn’t dare spill it, rest assured that It Is unsafe. m m m

Uncle Seems Grasping AN Arkansas bonk e registers what appears to be a rather serious complaint against one method of government relief work. He says that bankers in hls section are refusing to loon farmers money because Uncle Run Is gobbling up all the security to cover seed loans. It stems that when the good old uncle makes a seed loan, no matter for how much, or how little, he demands a first mortgage on the crop. That leaves nothing but a second mortgage for bankers, and you know how bankers feel about second mortgages. You can’t blame Uncle Sam for wanting to get his money back, but doesn’t it strike you as pretty rough to demand the whole crop as security for the seed. m m n A Money Mixup AAEANWHILE, President Hoover IyJL has succeeded in re-enlisting the good offices of Senator Robinson in his efforts to get around that $25,000,000 relief fund bill. Instead of $25,000,000, it now looks as though the boys would take $30,000,000, and that, Instead of being given away, it also would be loaned. If the seed department has gobbled up all the security to cover its advances, what will Uncle Sam ask for to protect him in this case? Will he take a second mortgage, or borrow an idea from the bankers and refuse to make any loans? Denial of credit, or the extension of credit under impossible conditions, appears to be one of our worst difficulties. / Plenty of money available, and at cheap rates of interest, yet those who need it most can’t get it. mu m

Thinking in Ruts THE obsession continues that the one sure remedy for our economic ills is to slow down. That comes from thinking in ruts. For some curious reason, we can’t get away from the notion that basic Industry and routine trade so must be arranged as to provide work for everybody, and probably never will. Alexander Hamilton said that four persons could provide the necessities of life for 100 In hls day. The chances are that it requires a larger percentage now, but, even so, we must look to other lines if every one is to be kept at work. Man is blessed with a capacity beyond hls immediate needs, no matter how simple or complex the age in which he lives. It #as so In the jungle, and It is so in twentieth century America. The only way he ever has been able to keep busy Is by doing something else, something he just likes, something that appeals to hls curiosity br imagination. Why not give that side of the picture a little attention? Why not consider art, culture, sport and recreation as work producers? Golf has put a lot of men at work and kept them at work during the last twenty years. Who knows what we could do In other fields of diversion along the *same line If we were to put our minds on it?

People’s Voice

Editor Times—ls our city wishes to get rid ot crime and lawlessness, get a copy of Corner’s Weekly of Dec. 13, 1930, and read the article "Gunmen Dodge This City," meaning Milwaukee, and try their remedy and we will soon have a city as much to be proud of as Milwaukee. We have a beautiful city but It’s We are not’safe at home_nor on the street. I think it is time the citizens were waking up and doing something. All they do here Is pass th* buck. And crime goes on. We surely couldn’t get along without The Times. Hit them and hit them hard. They need it. LAURA A. ALLEN.

Daily Thought

O five thanks ante the Lord; fer he Is feed: tar his merer enteritis forever.—Pasha 1M:1 Our whole life should speak forth our thankfulness.—B. Libbes. What gives the earth Ms heats The earth** heat is obtained from the sun.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ———————- Hookworm Feeds Largely on Blood

Thto h the lot of two articles by Or. Flshbein ea bookworm disease. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEEN E4jtr. Jmrasl of the Amerlean Medical Association and of Hrreia. the Health Maraalns. YY7TTHIN the last twenty-five ’ years much has been accomplished In control of hookworm. There seems to be no doubt that hookworm disease has existed for thousands of years. However, it first was described scientifically In 1838 by a physician who found the worms in the body and named the disease ankylostomiasis, because the worm has a bent mouth. Today hookworm disease is found throughout the world, mostly in warm countries, but wherever there Is a warm climate and plenty of rain. The disease is not nearly so frequently seen in the cities as in the small towns and among the rural population. The story of the hookworm’s entrance into the human body Is almost romantic. When excretions containing the eggs of the hook-

IT SEEMS TO ME >v -S8B"

'T'HE most familiar complaint A made to a New York columnist by hls friends and readers, if any, runs: "The trouble with you Is that you hang around too much in the same neighborhood and visit the same speakeasies. Why don’t you go away and learn the rest of America and write about It?" This Is the most familiar complaint, aside from mere sweeping statements such as,* "You certainly have turned sour," "Do they really pay you money for writing that stuff?" After great deliberation I decided to meet the first complaint by taking the advice of well wishers and planning a short trip. So I am starting for the open spaces. After a brief stay in Arizona I intend to make Hollywood or bust. Please don’t worry, if you are worrying. Nobody has Invited me to write for talking pictures or to wrestle with John Gilbert for the sheikhood of the silver screen. My function will be wholly that of a rapidly passing tourist. m m m

Whatl No Travelogs? AND yet I find already that thumbs are down upon the project. The same friendly wellwishers who advised me to cultivate a broader horizon now lift their eyebrows in scorn and remark. “So you’re going to turn travelog on us!" And one or two were unkind enough to be reminded of the fact that Robert Louis Stevenson once did a book called "Travels With a Donkey.’’ I have no means of knowing just how the rarefied air of the great southwest will affect what I am pleased to call "my '.aspiration.” Yet this much I can promise already. From my two typewriting fingers there will drip no pen portrait of the great Pointed Desert. Nor will I endeavor to convey to the inhabitants of our local canyons some vision of the larger one called "Grand." This will not be the first time that scenery and I have met In headon collision. It Is quite true that at an earlier age I moved no mountains. I am thinking specifically of the Alps. Yet I claim a good draw. They didn't move me—much. Best of all, I remember a particular trip to the coast where it was my assignment to sit in on the Democratic convention which eventually nominated Cox with no great good to Itself or the gentleman in question. My companions were New York newspaper men, and the poker game began shortly after we quit the One hundred and twenty-fifth street station and began the great trek through the wilder portions of Morris heights and Tarrytown. With very brief interruptions that game continued, preventing me from doing anything about "The/ West Through a Car Window.’' a a a The Gorge and Losers MANY days later, when we were traveling through Colorado or some dber of the far-flung states,

Taking His Last Fling

worm are deposited on the ground they are acted on by various conditions of moisture and temperature. In from twenty-four to seventytwo hours embryos hatch out and In about five days these larvae become capable of Infecting man. Under natural conditions they rapidly die out In from six days to two weeks. When mud containing these larvae come In contact with the skin of man, the larvae pass through the skin by way of the hair follicles or sweat glands. They then burrow through the tissues and enter the small blood vessels. They then are picked up by the blood, carried through the heart, and to the lungs. Burrowing again, they may reach the bronchial tubes and be expectorated or they may be swallowed and pass Into the stomach and the Intestines. Six to eight weeks after the time when they have entered the skin, they begin to lay eggs In the bowel, and these are passed out with the excretions. This Is the cycle of the life of the hookworm.

the conductor opened the door without ceremony to announce in an awed voice that we were about to pass through the gorge of some river whose name I can not remember. All the winners turned nature lovers on the instant and manifested an eagerness to shove the chips and cards aside to view the wonders which Providence had created. Up then spoke Bill McNutt, who sat nearest the door and weighed far more than anybody else in the party. Luck had not been with Mr. McNutt and he exclaimed savagely “To hell with the gorge I" My seat was right-hand man to him, and he topped me only a IK tie in gross tonnage. It was the bad side of the table. I hadn’t filled any flushes, either. So with just as much vehemence, but less profanity, I added, "Let’s not bother about the gorge.” Between us we squarely blocked the exit, so no one in that party was able to catch more than a passing window glimpse of the high rocks and the raging torrent. We made them keep on dealing while the world wondered. And so I have no faith that now, at my age, I will turn descriptive. But I have an interest in people and how they work from inside. And if 1 find that human beings are very different In Tucson or San

ATTACK ON LANCASTER Feb. 10 ON Feb. 10, 1076, one of the bloodiest assaults of King Philip’s war took place when Philip, in company with his allies, the Nipmueks, attacked Lancaster, Mass. Fisks, the historian, vividly describes the assault: "On the 10th of that month, at sunrise, the Indians came swarming into the lovely village. "Danger already had been apprehended, the pastor, Joseph Rowlandson, the only Harvard graduate of 1652, had gone to Boston to solicit aid, and Captain Wadsworth’s company was making its way from Marlborough, but the Indians were beforehand. "Several houses at once were surrounded and set on firs, and men, women and children began falling under the tomahawk. The minister’s house was large and strongly built and more than forty people found shelter there until at length It took fire and they were driven out by the flames. ' "Only one escaped, a dozen or more were slain, and the rest, chiefly women and children, taken captive. ...” At the end of the month the Indians followed this assault with a shocking massacre at Medfleld and made murderous assaults on several other western Massachusetts towns.

The head glands of the worm secrete the substances which Interferes with coagulation of the blood. The aorm feeds largely on blood, and altnough any one worm may not take very much, hundreds and thousands, taking small quantities over a long period of time, produce a severe anemia, Interfere with nutrition and growth, and delay both the physical and mental development of the individual who may be Infested. Hence, when hookworm disease first was given publicity, it was called the condition that produced laziness. In practically every case of hookworm disease, the person concerned has been going around barefoot and has developed the condition called ground Itch. „ If there have been many worms to Invade the feet, the worms will be found covered with little blisters which are broken by scratching and rubbing. The serious symptoms of the disease are all the result of the anemia from loss of blood.

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Diego, I’ll mention that. It Is jay hope to be able to report favorably, upo their doings and didos I realize that if the great moving picture colony bites an author that’s no longer news, a great many dozens of commentators have gone to plctureland and reported that this was only a carbon copy of Ceylon’s Isle, "where every prospect pleases and only man Is vile." If I find that, HI simply keep the peace. There’s no point In kicking an industry when it's down. But I have a strong suspicion that Hollywood may be fun for a tourist. After all, the mere prospect of being able to lie in bed and not report on any lot at 9a. m.—or is it 8? sounds to me like a pleasing role. (Copyright, IMI, by Th* Timet)

Questions and Answers

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

Astronomers Wait Coming oj Celestial I Messenger' to In crease Their Knowledge, ASTRONOMERS expect to get Important news of the solar system and the outer universe during the next few weeks. They now are In communication with a cosmic “ship” which bean news of outer space. Our earth Is a lonely voyager in a great ocean of space. Its one companion Is the moon, which circle* around the earth at a distance of 340,000 miles. No celestial object approaches closer except an occasional comet and the meteors, tiny chunks of rock which pay for their rashnest by being consumed by friction against the earth’s atmosphere. From the earth to the sun Is 91,000,000 miles. Our nearest planetary neighbors are Venus and Man. Venus and the earth are the closest to each other on an average of every two years. The distance separating them at that time may have a minimum value of about 20,000,000 miles. Mars does not approach that dose to the earth. At its nearest, it is still 35,000,000 miles away. But there is a cosmic ‘‘ship’’ whicb occasionally swings nearer to the earth, as it is doing now. It Is the tiny asteroid, Eroe. Astronomers in all parte of the world are training their telescopes on Xros these days for news of the solar system.

A Tiny Object r[E asteroids are tiny planet T Uke bodies, about 1,500 in number, revolving In an orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Their origin Is a mystery. They may be the remnants of a planet which exploded, or the debris of a planet that was “spoiled In the making.” Eroe, which Is one of them, has so eccentric an orbit, however, that it periodically approaches closer to the earth than does Mars. At present; It Is approximately 16,000,000 ifllles from the earth to Eros. Eros is a tiny object about fifteen miles in diameter. It Is like a mountain broken loose. Astronomers are certain that it Is not spherical in shape, but very irregular. It Is just too faint to be seen with the unaided eye, but appear* as a little orange disk in the telescope. Astronomers seek the answer to two Important questions from this little cosmic ship. The first is: How far is It to the sun? The second is: How heavy are the earth and the moon? The first question Is particular!!; Important. The distance from the earth to the sun Is known as the astronomical unit. From the observed positions and motions of planets and comets, their orbits can be computed and diagrams drawn without knowing the actual distances in miles. Relative distances to the stars can be fixed In the same way. But before 1 these relative distances can be turned into actual distances, we must know one distance In miles. When we have one such measurement, we have a scale for determining the others. a m m By Triangulation THE simplest method of measuring some distance Is by the method used in surveying and known as triangulation. We can use the distance between two observatories as the base of our triangle. The two telescopes then are pointed at the same object and the settings of the telescopes give us the base angles of the triangle. It then Is possible by trigonometry to calculate the distance to the object. But accurate measurements can not be made by this method on the sun. They can not even be made with sufficient accuracy on Mari or Venus. The large size of .the disks of theeplanets and their brightness make high accuracy Impossible. Eros, however, or, its close approach to the earth, is an ideal object for such determination. Once the distance from the earth to Eros is determined acctlFately, it is merely a matter of calculations to make a more accurate determination of the distance from the earth to the sun. The weight of the earth and khemoon, or to speak more accurately, the mass of those objects, can be calculated from their gravitational effect on Eros. A* a result of the pull of the earth-moon system, Eros will swerve from its normal orbit. Astronon&ers will measure carefully this occurrence. . % Astronomers are hoping that "the present close approach of Eros Mil yield better figures for the distance from the earth to the sun and for the mass of the earth and mcon than any now available. Hew eaa the namber of eombtna tioas possible from 16 aambere be determined? ; By multiplying 16xl5xl4xl3i£3x 11x10x9x8x7x6x8x4x3x3x1