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One Necessary Law More than ever, since the state senate killed a proposal to regulate holding companies for utilities, is it necessary that cities obtain the right to own their utilities. As long as many of these holding companies prey upon the public through exorbitant charges for unnecessary services in management and finance, the people will have no real chance for prosperous living. The right to tax is the right to rule, and the holding companies levy tribute as rigidly as does the state itself. There can be no question as to the greedy practices of many of these companies and the usefulness of any may be doubted. The utility lobby argued that the present law is strong enough to permit the public service commission to stop any looting. The fact remains that the present commission has shown no Interest in these holding company charges, and there is little likelihood that it ever will take any real action to prevent outrageous charges. Since there is an apparent attitude by the utilities as a group of dodging regulation, the one alternative for the people is to own their utilities. In this city, the first step should be to take over the transportation system and establish bus lines. Will the same influences that defeated 15 the one bill be able to shackle the people of this city and stifle the proposed enabling act which is designed to open the door to freedom ? Susan B. Anthony The right of women to vote has been accepted as so inherent and natural a right that Susan B. Anthony’s birthday passes without the attention usually accorded emancipators. Asa matter of gratitude, Feb. 15, the birthday of this woman who pioneered the long fight, should be honored perpetually, by women at least. It Is her fate to receive only limited homage, because her political victory is so complete that tew remember how bitterly It was won. This school teacher devoted most of her life to winning suffrage for women. She began in 1848. when she was young, and when she died, an old woman, victory still was thirteen years away. But in 1875 she drafted the federal suffrage amendment in the form in which it finally was added to the Conrfitution. Voting women have accomplished no great reforms. It was not intelligent to expect they would. With the same limited knowledge, the same motives and emotions as men. they are subject to the same errors and faults. That was no reason for holding them as a subject class, and masculine as well as feminine selfrespect demanded that they be treated as adults. But only half of Susan B. Anthony’s light has been won. Political equality has not brought women civil equality. There still are states where a father may will a child away from its mother; wire re a wife’s earnings and clothing and jew-elry all belong to her husband; and where countless other law r s deprive women of privileges enjoyed by men. Some day these discriminations, too, will exist only in memories. Susan B. Anthony’s motto w'as “no compromise’’ and her spirit lives on, as all great spirits do. Withdraw the Marines There is no excuse for keeping United States marines in Nicaragua until after the 1932 elections there, the policy announced by Secretary of State Stimson Friday. Stimson’s plan to keep 1,200 marines there until next June, after which 500 are to remain until the 1932 election, is another example of the hot-and-cold tactics of the state department which makes us so unpopular throughout Latin America. The state department’s alibi for sending the marines to Nicaragua in 1927 was to protect American lives and property and to break up an alleged Mexican Bolshevik plot. It later was proved that American lives and property were not In danger, and that there never had been any Mexican Bolshevik plot. Later the state department invented anew alibi for keeping the marines there—they had to supervise a fair election in 1928 and train a native constabulary. After the 1928 election, they were supposed to get out, but they didn’t. Since then they have been fighting the Nicaraguan rebels, which is no more the business of American marines than to fight the rebels of Mesopotamia or the Hitlerites of Germany. The marines already have supervised elections, and have had four years in which to train a native constabulary. There was no legitimate reason to use American troops for those two jobs in the first place. There is even less justification for prolonging the mistake by keeping them there. Nicaragua is an independent sovereign nation. Our militaristic and imperialistic invasion should be ended at once. The Pittsburgh Plan The Pittsburgh plan to give Jobs to the jobless is an interesting and important experiment. Dr. Clyde L. King, chairman of the Pennsylvania statewide unemployment committee, characterizes it as the best plan of the sort announced anywhere. It gives work rather than charity. The labor will be useful, the projects proposed are all real projects, and not mere subterfuges to keep men occupied. The plan also seems adequate to raise the funds needed. Briefly, it is proposed to create an emergency working fund, which is expected to approximate a million dollars. Applications for work will be cleared through a central bureau, which also will pass upon the projects to be carried out. First and most important of these will be city and county projects which otherwise would not be budgeted this year. Those obtaining labor must pay the cost of materials. Secondly, semi-public institutions, such as churches and charities, will be given labor for new building and reconstruction, provided they wil? supply the materials. Other projects may be added later. The funds are to be raised, first by 3.000 contributing Allegheny county employes, each to give the equivalent of a day’s pay roll as of 1929; second, by people who now are at work at full time,

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and third, from any public-spirited dtlaens who wish to contribute. Several large organisations, among them Gulf Oil, already have contributed,their quota. The plan should stimulate the materials and construction markets. It will Increase the spending power of those employed. It provides for relief in cases where employment can not be given at once, but the predominant aim will be to give Jobs. Heads of families will be first to be employed. Edgar Kaufmann, leading merchant, sponsored the Pittsburgh plan. R. A. Hunt, president of the Aluminum Company of America, is treasurer, and Frank R. Phillips Sr., vice-president of the Philadelphia company, dominant public utility organization of the Pittsburgh district, heads the operating committee. The Pittsburgh plan is worthy of careful study by other cities. Chile Ahead of U. S.? * While the United States government is denying relief to unemployed workers in cities, it is interesting to observe what has been done by Chile. All workers there have been brought under protection of Chilean laws applying to public and civil employes. Laws protecting manual workers have been passed, covering housing, trade unions, accidents, insurance against sickness, maternity, invalidism, old-age, the eight-hour day, Sunday rest, night work, Industrial hygiene protection of destitute children, and so on. Lawn relating to compulsory Insurance against sickness, maternity and old age have been particularly helpful, according to Dr. Isauro Torres, a distinguished Chilean physician now in this country. Employers contribute 3 per cent of the wage paid the workers 2 per cent and the state 1 per cent. Babbitts in Europe Europe may have given Sinclair lewis the Nobel prize because his “Babbitt” gave them grounds to laugh at us. But as America slowly outgrows Babbittry Europe seems to be succumbing to It. What Is it but Babbittry when the Chamber of Commerce of Brest (yes, they have them over there, too) starts a movement to become the port at which Americans shall disembark for Paris, and Paris itself Invites the mayors of all the American towns called Paris to gather at the Colonial exposition—all expenses paid—as a press agent booster stunt? A girl In Peru walked twenty-five miles to see the prince of Wales. It isn’t reported, however, whether or not he saw the girl home. Italy has adopted baseball as one of its national sports. It seems impossible that Mussolini ■will be able to umpire ALL the games. If baseball takes hold in Italy, It will be easy to answer the popular query, “what do they do in Italy when it rains?” Give rain chedks, of course. Prohibition agents who found liquor in fraternity houses at a midwest university recently concede that the students there knew how to cut other things besides classes. You have to step carefully, says the office sage, to make your footprints in the sands of time. Film producers who revise stage successes for the talkies apparently believe in making amendments to a good many acts. To folks in Boston, of course, a “yes-man” is a fellow with a broad aye. Travel, they say, broadens a man. But when a man returns from a European jaunt he usually finds himself flat. “There’s a hitch here somewhere,” as the thumbjerking hiker said confidently. A crime expert says women are not as expert in highway holdups as men. A woman’s place, after all, is in the home. Then there was the ball player who never once thought about holding out for a higher salary. “The important things In life,” says a writer, “are said in whispers, not shouts.” That is, if you consider introducing yourself to a speakeasy Important. At least, the Tully-Gilbert, Keaton-Keys altercations have given certain Hollywood stars opportunity to view brighter constellations.

REASON

WE notice that Lindbergh usually speaks through his lawyer and now young Cornelius Vanderbilt does the same thing and it’s quite effective. 11 we could get a lawyer on time, we would like to speak through him in this column. a a u This distance devouring car in which Captain Malcolm Campbell made more than 245 miles an hour ought to appeal powerfully to bootleggers. a a a We are not lor the whipping post as a steady diet, but there ought to be at least fifty lashes lor each of these Chicago smart alecks who tied the crippled victim to that cross in the cemetery. a a a JUDGE CHAMBERS of Indianapolis decides that a man is entitled to the fruits of his wife's toil, but we should like to see him get it from the wife of 1931. And if Chambers runs for re-election, it will be interesting to see what the ladies will do to him. U tt tt ' Sheriff Hawkins of Birmingham, Ala., is listed as jobless under the last census, which is right. Under prohibition, the sheriff hasn’t a job; he has a snap! a a a The trouble with the sterilization bill before the Indiana legislature is that it does not propose to sterilize grafters, lobbyists and bell hops of privilege, the three greatest enemies of the American people. a a a WHEN you go to a legislature, just to give it a glance and see the same old fixers walking up and down the same old cor.-4dv.TS, it makes you feel that the national defense we leed is not against foreign countries, but domestic pirates. a a a When John D. Rockefeller 111 appeared for jury duty in New York, the sheriff asked him if he didn't want to be excused, which is a charming commentary on the ancient fiction that in this country all men are equal before the law. a a a An old man in St. Louis relates how he served as a guard when Lincoln stepped off the train at Louisville, Ky., on his way to be inaugurated in 1861, and how the crowd threatened Lincoln As we recall Lincoln didn’t go to Louisville on his way to Washington. Aside from this, It’s a good story.

RY FREDERICK LANDIS

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy

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California Is a Great State , Chiefly Because of the Men and Women Who Occupy It LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14.-An-other arthquake in New Zealand, another oil well running wild in Oklahoma City and another rainy day in prospect for Los Angeles. It is not far fetched to speak of rain in Los Angeles the way you speak of cataclysm, or threatened disaster In most other places. An eighth inch fell here Thursday night and some of the streets ran over. Few cities in this country, or the whole world, for that matter, need rain so badly, or can stand so little of it. Just one more example of relativity, Einstein probably would say, though it is or_ of the few riddles he has not been asked to solve. a a a Tough on Einstein EVEN Einstein has been stumped by the mysteries of this region. He tried to eat a raw olive the other ; day, and couldn’t spit for an hour. He tried to take a sun bath, only to be interrupted by a lady of the press, who fled in dismay. He tried to explain the unified field theory, not for the glory he might get as its discoverer, but for the good it would do science, only to be called a plagiarist and threatened with law suits. Now Einstein says that many of his calculations have been upset by the drifting away of a red nebula. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York should know how to sympathize with Einotein in this particular misfortune- No human being ever suffered more because a red nebula drifted away than has Mr. Fish. an a It's a Great State IN spite of wouid-be litigants, women reporters and raw olives, Einstein probably has had a good time, as do most people wi,c visit California. It’s a great state, but chiefly because of the men and women who occupy it. And that brings up a curious point, Californians do a great deal of bragging, but they don’t brag so much about the one thing you’d expect them to. They will tell you all about the sunshine, big trees, Mt. Whitney, Death Valley Scotty and other natural wonders, but they have surprisingly little to say about what they have done themselves. Yet that’s the most interesting part of it. an a Stupendous Feat OUTSIDERS think of California as a green, luxuriant land, in which there is little to do but pick the luscious fruit, or, better still, hire a japanese to pick it, and live happily ever after. That’s all wrong. In its natural state, California largely was desert, and still would be but for irrigation. The vineyards, orange groves, prune orchards, forests of walnut trees and all the other productive acreage about which we hear so much were brought into being by such a stupendous amount of engineering work and such vast outlays of money for reclamation projects as no other state in the Union can claim. Though California is the second largest state, it contains a comparatively small area of land which would be fit for farming under any circumstances, and practically none which can be worked profitably without an artificial water supply. tt tt Something to Show ALL told, California has about 18,000,000 acres of land which could be put into cultivation, or an area about equal to that of Maine, but it has been able to put water on only 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 acres. With that 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 acres, California not only has met most of its domestic needs, but has grown great quantities of fruit and truck for far-away markets. Making every allowance for the part played by soil and climate, this still is a remarkable achievement. Some other states could have dene as much, if not more, with less effort. We laugh at Californians for their enthusiasm, their optimistic outlook on life, their never say die spirit, but they have something to show for it. tt tt u Keep on Growing RIGHT now California is preparing to spend $350,000,000 for more reservoirs, more aqueducts, more canals and more drainage ditches with which to put more land In cultivation, while land is being abandoned in many other states for lack of decent roads and decent marketing facilities. That’s one reason why California continues to grow* at the expense of many other states, why she will gain at least eight congressmen in the next reapportionment, why her cities keep on increasing, and why she enjoys such prestige.,. Her rapid advance has not been due to natural advantages so much as to the spirit of enterprise and co-operation. Such spirit can do the same thing for any other state, or section.

Questions and Answers

Were thorium, uranium, actinium and polonium all discovered in pitch blende? Uranium was discovered in 1789, In a mineral which had been long known and called pitch-blende, but which was supposed to be an ore of either zinc or iron. Thorium was discovered in 1828, in a mineral from Norway, to which the name “thorite” is now given, and which consists essentially of the silicate of thorium. Actinium was discovered in pitch-blende in 1898, and polonium was found as a sulphate in pitch-blende in the same year. How many American ambassadors and ministers are there? What are their salaries and who appoints them? Do they have official residences provided by the government? There are fifteen ambassadors and thirty-nine ministers. Ambassadors receive $17,50C a year and ministers SIO,OOO to $12,000 a year. In some countries the United States owns residences for its diplomats, but in most cases the American representative provides his own. Ambassadors and ministers are appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the senate.

Millions of Children Have Defects

This is the second ot four articles br Dr. Fishbein on child welfare problems. BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. IN opening the White House conference on child welfare, held in Washington in November, President Hoover listed briefly some of the deficiencies that need to be corrected among the 10,000,000 children who can, by aid of preventive medicine and proper social and economic study, be made more happy and of greater value to the state. Os the 45,000,000 children in the United States today, only 35,000,000 are normal in the reasonable interpretation of that word. It is estimated that at least 6,000,000 have defective speech; 1,000,000 have weak or damaged hearts; 382,000 are tuberculous; 342,000 are crippled; 50,000 are partially blind, and 14,000 are totally blind; moreover, 675,000 demand psychological study because of the problems in bahavior which they

IT SEEMS TO ME

T'M glad to see the New York legislature has made a joke of the preposition to throw all married women out of jobs. I’ve had a number of letters on that theme myself. All of them from men, of course. But there never was much sense in the scheme. It depended on a very old notion that if a woman has e husband she must be getting supported in a style to which she would like to be accustomed. Legislation has had very little to do with the advance of women in industry, in spite of the fact that certain laws have given women specific protection. I don’t want at the moment to get into the involved problem of whether that has been on the whole for the welfare of women or not. I merely am trying to state that women have come into business through economic necessity and not out of any desire for a lark. And this holds true of all but a tiny proportion of married women. Sometimes the husband hasn’t got a job, and more often than that it’s a job on which two people can’t live. Sometimes it’s a job on which one person can’t live. an ft The Hiring Line I HAVE seen women come to the front in the business which I know best. Os course, women have been in newspaper work a long time. But in the dark ages, ’way back in 1908, when I first began as a reporter, women were comparatively rare and they were almost unknown competitors in the gathering of regular news. Quite possibly the woman baseball reporter exists here or there, but she is not the rule. And I’ve yet to hear of a female fight expert at the big million-dollar bouts. It is the custom of metropolitan journals to send a girl reporter, but her assignment is a wholly specialized one. She is asked to comment on the number of women present, what they wear and their emotional reaction to blood and brutality. There is no sound reason why a woman might not qualify as a competent boxing reporter, and I would be even more interested in hearing some lively young girl broadcast a fight over the radio. As I understand it, the chief function of the fight broadcaster is to create the impression of great excitement upon the part of the narrator. He doesn’t have to make much sense. The poorer the fight, the more excited he is supposed to become, and surely nobody will deny the genius of woman in growing excited over a boxing match. m m n Some Walls Go BUT if the citadel of sports holds out most of the rest of journalism has succumbed to the feminine invasion. Years ago, when I asked a city editor about the restricted sphere of woman in reporting, I was told this was necessary. “You wouldn't send an innocent girl out to get the grisly details of a murder, would you?" asked my hard-boiled boss. I hung my head

Can’t Make It Reach!

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

present; 450,000 are mentally defective or mentally retarded; 200,000 are delinquent, and 500,000 are dependent. If the figures are added, it will be found that this list totals far more than the 10,000,000 children that it represents. It-does this because of the intimate relationships that exist between physical defects, mental defects and psychological and sociological problems. The dependent child is itself a great problem. When the dependent child is mentally retarded, it is even more of a problem. When it is malnourished it is almost a hopeless problem, and when to this is added some gross defect, such as blindness, hardness of hearing, or a damaged heart, the community has a catastrophe to consider. ' The vast majority of children in these groups that can be characterized grossly as abnormal are practically all subject to several of the defects that have been listed. To assign them to any special

in shame and admitted that this might be a horrid ordeal. Both of us—the city editor and I —still live somewhat under the tradition of Sweet Alice Ben Bolt. In the eyes of the modern miss, Sweet Alice was a sap. And the girl reporter follows the modern murder from morgue to the deathhouse It is not my intention to say that this is necessarily all for the best. I merely state that it has happened. I was reading a speech by a famous psychologist the other day, and he began with one of those rhetorical questions. He said; “What does a husband want when he comes home from a busy day? A wife who has a mature understanding of life because she has gone through the mill? No! “He wants to come home to a wife who is fresh and charming and restful in a pleasant, well-ordered and beautiful home that she has created. If she hasn’t enough to do during the day, she at least can sleep so that she’ll be fresh anid radiant in the evening.” a a a The Parlor THAT sounds perfectly terrible to me. I’d hate to come home, all worn out with writing or broadcasting, and meet somebody who was fresh and radiant and charming because she’d been loafing all day. That would annoy me considerably. It is much more clubby when

People’s Voice

Editor Times—While the gentlemen are meeting at the legislature to make our laws, why not let the citizens do a little suggesting? I would suggest that some member introduce for the people of Indianapolis a bill which would affect Indianapolis only, that would place all our judges on a fedeml court basis, or, in other words, make all judges in this county and city, life term judges, except when they are crooked, thereby ending politics. The prosecutors should be included in that law also and all employes working in and for said courts. I also suggest a law where certain officials of the state meet with the two federal judges of Indiana and pick a police chief for Indianapolis-, this chief to hold his job for life, providing he performs his duty. The committee should consist of the governor, secretary of state, and a representative of the senate and house. I believe there should be a law to discontinue an organization which to my belief, is no credit to Indianapolis, the Community Fund. There are too many business men who tell their employes to donate or else. There should be a law to limit a4id control the revolver and ammunition question, and a recommendation from house and senate to congress asking a national law that would put gun control upon the federal government, that means manufacturing, sale, and permission to carry them. JAMES J. CULLINGS,

group of investigators, to any special department of the state, or to any single source of assistance is merely to attack one phase of a problem which must be considered as a whole if any real progress is to be made. No doubt, with these considerations in mind, the President of the United States, w'ho has had great experience in humanitarian activities for the child, called the conference in which all the specialists concerned with such matters met to exchange the knowledge that they had accumulated in their special fields. Any group of fathers and mothers may believe that these problems of abnormality do not greatly concern them. This would be a form of unreasoning and ignorant conceit not warranted by the actual evidence. There is hardly a home in the United States today in which there are children where there is not also a problem in behaviorism, in nutrition, in development and in character study.

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both the husband and the wife have had their business troubles during the day. Then they can sit down and swap complaints and grievances. That’s the sort of companionship which brings people closer together. And I certainly disagree with the eminent psychologist when he says that no man wants a wife with whom he can discuss his business intelligently. Os course, he does. All people I’ve ever known like to talk shop. (Copyright, 1931, by The Times)

BIRTH OF MALTHUS Feb. 14

ON Feb. 14, 1766, Thomas R. Malthus, famed English economist, was born in Surrey, England. After private tutoring at home, Malthus entered Cambridge, from which he was graduated in 1788. Just ten years later he published his celebrated “Essay on the Principle of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society,” a publication on which his feme largely rests. * In this essay Malthus contended that population tends to increase out of proportion to the increase of means of subsistence. He predicted a period of overpopulation on the earth and ad/ocated moral restraint to check the birth rate. Beginning in 1807, Malthus held, throughout the remainder of his life, the professorship of history and political economy in the East India Company’s college at Haileybury. Is there a state tax for bringing an automobile purchased in another state into Indiana? The only charge Is fee for Indiana license plates.

Nothing More Important The health and well-being of your children undoubtedly is the most important single thing In life to you as a parent. Our Washington Bureau has ready for you a comprehensive and authoritative bulletin, drawn from United States government sources, on CHILD HEALTH. It gives in understandable language general rules for finding and recognizing common ailments and physical defects in children, so that competent medical assistance can be called In before such defects or ailments have time to do permanent and perhaps irreparable damage. If you have a child or children, this bulletin may mean a great deal to you. Fill out the coupon below and send for it. CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 114, Washington Bureau The Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue. Washington. D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin CHILD HEALTH, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME STREET AND NO # CITY STATE lam a dally reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most inter' eating writers and are presented without retard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

TEB. 14, 1931 '

SCIENCE

-BY DAVID DIETZ—-

Next to Einstein, Lord Rutherford Probably Has Had the Greatest Influence on the Development of Modem Physics. ,T TENCEFORTH it is to be Lord XX Rutherford. Great Britain has seen fit to honor one of the world's greatest scientists. Sir ETnest Rutherford. president of the Royal Society. by elevating him to the peerage with the rank of baron. Rutherford is one of the men who helped usher in the new view of the universe. Next to Einstein, he has, perhaps, had the greatest influence upon the development of modem physics. The two outstanding facts of the recent revolution in scientific knowl-. edge are relativity and the inter-, nal structure of the atom. Einstein developed relativity. Many authorities would accord Rutherford the place of major honor in the story of the development ofknowledge of the interior of the atom. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, physicists were confident that all the important facts of nature had been discovered. The atom was regarded as the smallest particle of matter in existence. It was assumed that theatom was indivisible. And then, on Christmas eve, 1895, at a meeting of the German Physical Society, Professor William Kon-, rad Rontgen ushered in the new era in science with his announcement of the discovery of X-rays. tt tt a Analyzed Radium RONTGEN’S discovery of X-rays. the mysterious rays capable of penetrating solid matter, led in 1896 to the discovery by Professor Antoine Henri Becquerel that similar rays were given off by uranium. Working in Becquerel's laboratory at the time were Pierre Curie, a young instructor in physics, and his wife, Marie Curie. Becquerel's discovery started them on the research which ended in the discovery of ra--dium in 1898. It is at this point that Rutherford enters our story. Thomson and the Dutch physicist, Lorentz, had suggested that perhaps the atom was not the smallest particle in exist-; ence, but that atoms were composed „ of units of electricity to which the" name electrons was given. Rutherford, who had been a stu- . dent of Thomson's, undertook to analyze the rays of radium. In addition to succeeding with that task... he developed the nuclear theory of the atom, the theory that an atom - consisted of a central nucleus witha positive electric charge, around w’hich negative electrons revolved. He showed that radium gave off three kinds of rays, alpha rays.' which really were particles, namely the nuclei of helium atoms; beta rays, which also were particles, namely, electrons; and gamma rays, which were like X-rays, but very; much shorter. Rutherford’s suggestion that the atom consisted of a central nucleus surrounded by electrons paved the way for the Bohr theory of the atom. Both Dr. Nells Bohr and Henry G.. J. Moseley, whose discovery of~ atomic numbers laid the foundation for many of our present beliefs, were students in Rutherford’s laboratory. a a a In New Zealand Rutherford was bom in New Zealand and educated at the University of New Zealand and Cambridge university. As already mentioned, he was a student of the_ great Thomson at Cambridge. From 1898 to 1907 he was professor of physics at McGill university in Montreal. From 1907 to 1919 he was professor of physics at the University of Manchester. When Thomson retired in 1919,; Rutherford succeeded him to the' honored position of director of the’’ Cavendish laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He has been president, since 1925, of the Royal Society, England’s old--esfc and most important scientific society. He also has served aspresident of the British Associationfor the Advancement of Science. He has been awarded the Nobel prize and other important honors.He lectures with great brilliance. (It was this writer’s pleasure to; hear him at both the Liverpool and the Toronto meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of** Science.) Rutherford's career in many ways sums up the way in which scientific progress is made. He was trained” by a teacher who did great w’ork in.: science. He himself has done great work’ and in addition trained others tocarry on. Bohr now is head of the Copenhagen Institute of Physics. Othersof his students hold important posts. Moseley, unfortunately, was killed in the World war. One writer has called his death England’s greatest loss In the war.

Daily Thought

The Lord Is my portion, salth my soul; therefore will I hope in him. —Lamentations 3:24. Hope is a light diet, but verv stimulating—Balzac.